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Sophisticated and stylish. Beautifully crafted from rose gold, this ring boasts a large morganite center stone and split shanks accented by demure white zircon and scrollwork. Treat yourself today!
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Zircon often suffers for its name's similarity to "cubic zirconia," the simulated diamond. The stone zircon, however, is actually a beautiful natural gemstone. It is named from the Persian word "zargun," meaning "gold-colored." This is despite the fact that it comes in a wide range of rainbow colors. The majority of zircons are brown or yellow-brown, while pure red and green are the most valuable colors. The yellow-red to reddish-brown variety is called "hyacinth."
For many years, the most popular type of zircon was the colorless variety. More than any other natural stone, colorless zircons produce a brilliant sparkle similar to diamonds. The most popular color today tends to be the bright pastel blue variety. Sometimes called "starlite," blue zircon has recently become considered an alternative birthstone for December.
Zircon is one of the heaviest gemstones, meaning that it will look smaller than other varieties of the same weight. It ranks a hardness between 6.5-7.5 on the Mohs Scale and is mined in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar and Australia.
Travelers during the 11th century wore zircon amulets for protection and to encourage welcome greetings on their journeys. In the Middle Ages, the stone was said to bring wisdom and prosperity to its owner. Hindu mythology even mentions the gem when referencing the Kalpa Tree, which was a glowing tree covered with gemstone fruit and leaves of zircon.
Morganite is the soft pink, sometimes peach or lavender colored, variety of beryl. Often referred to as "pink beryl," morganite has been called "pink emerald" and "pink aquamarine" to emphasize the kinship to its popular cousins. The pastel gem is colored by trace amounts of manganese in the crystal structure. It has excellent fire and is dichroic, meaning it shows pink hues when viewed from one angle and near colorless properties from another. Almost all morganite is heat-treated to produce or enhance the pink color. Lower quality morganite occurs in colors ranging from a peach-orange to a pinkish-yellow, but once it's heat-treated, the color changes to a beautiful soft pink.
First discovered in Madagascar in 1911, morganite was named after the American banker and gem enthusiast, John Pierpont Morgan. Legend says that he went down with the Titanic, but Morgan actually missed the doomed maiden voyage and died the following year in Rome, just shy of his 76th birthday. While morganite can be found in Mozambique, Namibia, Afghanistan, Russia and the United States, the finest morganites come from Madagascar and Brazil. In fact, the largest faceted morganite came from Madagascar. It is a 598.70ct cushion-shaped stone residing in the British Museum.
Morganite's hardness ranks 7.5-8.0 on the Mohs Scale. With its dazzling luster, exquisite color and sufficient hardness, the stone is especially suitable for jewelry. Unfortunately, morganite is relatively rare. This fact alone prevents it from achieving greater popularity as a jewelry gem.


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GOP Leadership Scramble: Six Lawmakers to Watch
Updated at 6 p.m. Wednesday
House Republican leaders are jockeying for position after Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary upset to college professor David Brat in Virginia and Mr. Cantor's subsequent decision to leave his leadership post on July 31. Cantor had been seen as a potential successor to Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), so his departure shakes things up in several ways. Whoever succeeds him in a June 18 election will serve under Boehner for the remainder of the 113th Congress, then a replay of the leadership races will occur again after the November elections. Here's how the lineup looked as of late Wednesday.
The second-highest ranking officer in the House, the majority leader handles the floor schedule and oversees the business of the House and its committees, so he or she can have significant influence over the direction of the chamber. Here are some people to watch in this race.
Kevin McCarthy
Currently House Majority Whip, Mr. McCarthy is expected by many GOP aides to look to fill the majority leader role. While popular among the rank-and-file whose votes he corrals, Mr. McCarthy's spot in the current leadership constellation could work against him if more conservative members are hankering to elevate one of their own. The Californian has long been close to Mr. Cantor, who backed him for the spot on Wednesday. Along with the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the two founded the party's "Young Guns" program, aimed at attracting a younger generation of Republicans to the party.
Pete Sessions
The nine-term Texan has already begun asking colleagues to support him for leader. He has overseen the party's campaign operation, the National Republican Congressional Committee during two cycles, 2010 when the GOP took control of the House and 2012. He touts that majority making role in explaining why he should be leader. He has also been part of the GOP leadership team as chairman of the House Rules Committee, which is the arm of the leadership that controls the flow of legislation to the House floor.
Jeb Hensarling
The former Republican Study Committee chairman, Hensarling, also from Texas, is currently chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. The conservative firebrand has shown no qualms about bucking Wall Street or other business interests in favor of his free-market principles. Mr. Hensarling has already staked out conservative ground this year on flood insurance, terrorism risk insurance and the Export-Import Bank, offering him a policy platform on which to make his case.
If Mr. McCarthy were to move up, his current job of whip, which rounds up members and counts heads during close votes, would become open. While House Republicans often are unified on votes, the whip job can be difficult when the conference threatens to fracture, as it did on controversial votes such as raising the debt ceiling. Two men have suggested they might raise their hand for the job.
Peter Roskam
Well-connected within current GOP leadership, the Illinois Republican and his staff have been preparing for a leadership fight for some time, prompting Mr. Roskam to already start angling for the House Majority Whip position through listening sessions and outreach to fellow Republicans. But like Mr. McCarthy of California, the Illinois Republican stands at a disadvantage hailing from a state that leans Democratic at a time when the party's right wing wants an expanded role among leadership.
Steve Scalise
Mr. Scalise, from Louisiana, is the current Republican Study Committee chairman and has used his post leading the group of the House's most conservative lawmakers to try to push the GOP conference to the right on policy issues including fighting the Affordable Care Act and encouraging offshore drilling. If Mr. McCarthy vacates the post of whip, Mr. Scalise will vie to replace him, according to GOP aides.
Rep. Tom Price (R. Ga.): Mr. Price is another former RSC chairman who has sought a place in GOP leadership previously and could again, given the right conditions. An orthopedic surgeon, Mr. Price narrowly lost a 2012 race to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) to serve as the GOP Conference chairman. An outspoken opponent of the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Price has plenty of credibility in conservative circles and has previously called for more Republicans from "red states" to be included in the ranks of leadership.
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"Leah Stewart's brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it you will laugh, you will cry, you will recognize others, you will recognize yourself." — Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Castaways and Barefoot
From the highly acclaimed author of The Myth of You and Me comes a new novel about a young mother who finds her identity rocked to the core when her writer-husband reveals his next novel about infidelity isn't entirely fiction. Fans of Meg Wolitzer, Ayelet Waldman, and Marisa de los Santos, as well as memoirs like Happens Every Day and Perfection, will love Leah Stewart's Husband and Wife.
Sarah Price has never regretted trading her MFA for a steady job so that her husband, Nathan, could write fiction. But at age thirty-five, her world is turned upside-down by a shocking revelation: Nathan's upcoming novel, Infidelity, is based on fact. Reeling from his betrayal, Sarah is plagued by dark questions. How well does she really know her husband? More important, how well does she know herself?
For answers, Sarah looks back to her artistic twentysomething self to try to understand what exactly has happened to her dreams. And so begins her quest to discover which version of herself is the essential one—the artist, wife, mother, or someone else entirely—an eye-opening journey that leads Sarah hundreds of miles away from her marriage and back to herself.
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"Stewart's book does what real life doesn't always allow: It gives the woman a voice." — Raleigh News & Observer
"Stewart creates a crisis of faith where adult reality collides with youthful dreams. The writing is tactile, elemental, even comical, providing readers with a situation that could so easily be their own." — Library Journal (starred review)
"Heartbreaking and darkly humorous. . . . [Stewart] is an acute social observer." — BookPage.com
"Leah Stewart's brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it you will laugh, you will cry, you will recognize others, you will recognize yourself." — Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Castaways and Barefoot
"Hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise, Husband and Wife is a novel to savor. Stewart's bright heroine is faced with an impossible choice—and I couldn't put the book down until I'd followed her story to the end." — Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Love Stories in This Town
"This narrative voice is so alive and specific that it moves past the idea of 'narrative voice' to become a human woman speaking to you. . . . I cherish this wry, funny, aching, intelligent character and this book!" — Marisa de los Santos, author of Belong to Me and Love Walked In
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- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 04/19/2011
- Trimsize: 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.793 in (d)
- Pages: 352
- List Price: 13.99 USD
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Loving the summer shred at the Camp of Champions! Trevor progresses from throwing the double into the air bag to landing it in the pipe! He's looking pretty comfortable getting inverted 2 times in one air! Congrats Trevor!


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I honestly don't care whether you believe me Kaska because you are a known ddosing wintrader and all around scumbag. I can't understand why anyone acknowledges anything you say. I guess it's because you're "funny" in your troll statements? Apparently that overrides any underhanded or scrupulous actions you conduct yourself in. Believe it or not some people are actually legit and have moral standards even though they're playing a game.
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grodney wrote:At first look, this Masters app for Android looks pretty awesome.
Like_Water wrote:Congrats to Phil!
his take-home will fall closer to 30%
Like_Water wrote:his take-home will fall closer to 30%
I think the point is lost that he doesn't get even close to HALF of what HE earned. I'd be pissed too. the us government does less for him than my aunt who never works and gets a check in the mail. Where is the incentive to get a job? She's never hungry, thanks Phil!
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An array of required and elective courses on legal ethics and the legal profession are offered at the Law College. All students are required to take Professional Responsibility during their second or third year. Effective fall 2011, the Law College implemented an innovative new 1L curriculum which includes a seven-week course, Lawyers & Ethics. This required mini-course exposes students to the ethical philosophy necessary for making decisions in life, law school, and law practice. Elective course options currently include Professor Knake's seminar on The First Amendment and Regulation of Lawyers' Speech and Professor Brenner's seminars Global Perspectives on Women in Law and Gender, Power, Law & Leadership. Students who desire to focus on a particular topic related to legal ethics and the legal profession have the opportunity to do so as a Directed Study.
Lawyers & Ethics. The course is taught in the first-year and supplements the required upper-level required Professional Responsibility course. The course exposes first-year students to the ethical philosophy necessary for making decisions in life, law school, and law practice.
Professional Responsibility. A course designed to acquaint the law student with many of the obligations owed by the lawyer, both individually and as a member of the legal profession, to the society in which he/she lives. In addition to a discussion of ethical problems involved in the practice of law, an overview of all phases of the profession will be undertaken, including disciplinary proceedings, the functions of Bar organizations and unauthorized practice.
Gender, Power, Law & Leadership. This seminar was initially inspired by the glaring omission of women from positions of power and leadership in the legal profession and beyond. While women continue to enter law school and the legal profession in relatively equal numbers as men, they remain outside of the structures of power---in the judiciary, law firms, the corporate world and even law school. A great deal of time, energy and resources are devoted to trying to change this landscape, yet very little attention is paid to the site where it all begins: law school and legal education. This seminar attempts to bridge this divide by exposing students to various theories of leadership and how leadership intersects with gender, power and law. It will focus on dynamics of the profession in which students will soon enter, exploring complexities of leadership, considering intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Questions will be considered like: What is leadership? Power? What do leaders look like...in law, politics, other professions? Who holds positions of power? What accounts for the gendered dynamics of leadership? We will identify some of the traits and characteristics associated with leadership and power, and observe leadership across all sectors of the legal profession, politics and related professions. In addition to readings and class discussions, students will read biographies written by and about various leaders. They will also have an opportunity to lead class discussions, present their research projects, engage in collaborative projects, and routinely offer critiques of their peers.
Global Perspectives on Women in Law. This seminar considers international dimensions of gender and the legal profession, providing students with a framework for increasingly global profession of law in which they will soon be a part. The seminar will include an exploration of history, employment trends, practices and demographics within all sectors of the profession (the judiciary, private practice, the corporate world, academia and public service). The seminar explores explanations of inequality - like bias and stereotypes - and considers other obstacles that have impeded the advancement of women in the profession across the globe. The seminar will explore these issues in selected countries, the European Union and United Nations and International Courts. In addition to completing an extensive research project on a related theme, students individually write a biographical essay on a transformative woman lawyer and as a class create an annotated bibliography.
Topics in Professional Responsibility: The First Amendment and Regulation of Lawyers' Speech. The First Amendment protection afforded to the speech of lawyers is a critically important aspect of professional responsibility and legal ethics.This seminar provides an opportunity for students to conduct an intensive study of Supreme Court cases, lower court decisions, legal scholarship, and other materials addressing the regulation of attorney speech. The topics to be explored in this seminar include attorney licensing requirements, regulation of professional advice, advertising/solicitation restrictions, legal blogs/websites, criticism of the judiciary, civility rules, courtroom decorum, pre-trial publicity/statements to the media, mandatory reporting/whistle-blowing, confidentiality duties, and judicial speech. It is recommended, but not required, that students take Constitutional Law II prior to enrolling in this seminar.
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This one is so easy to put together folks. The prep time is under ten minutes and then the oven does the rest of the work. While your veggies are slowly getting caramelized in the oven, you can be off watching your DVR of last night's Biggest Loser. (I have an early guess of who's going to win.)
Creamy Tomato-Balsamic Soup
1 cup beef broth, divided
1 TBSP Splenda or sugar
3 TBSP balsamic vinegar
1 TBSP reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 TBSP olive oil
5 garlic cloves
1 onion, coarsely chopped
2 (28 oz) cans whole peeled tomatoes, drained
1 (5 oz) can fat-free evaporated milk
salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Spray 13x9 baking pan with cooking spray.
Whisk together 1/2 cup of the beef broth, Splenda, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and olive oil.
Place garlic cloves, onion and tomatoes in baking pan and cover with the beef broth mixture. Season with salt and pepper.
Working in batches, transfer mixture to a blender, add remaining beef broth and blend until smooth. Return soup to heat and warm through. Stir in evaporated milk. Serve with parmesan crisps (optional, recipe following)
To make parmesan crisps:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. Grate about a cup of parmesan cheese. Place about 2 TBSP of cheese in piles three inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake in oven for 5-6 minutes until melted and bubbly. Let cool before removing from baking sheet.


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First in the Trinity is APPLE CIDER VINEGAR. It's great for their immune systems, guards against bad bacteria and maintains digestive health in the intestines by lowering the pH levels and is an overall health booster.
It increases calcium (as well as other minerals) absorption so your chickens will get more 'bang for the buck' from the layer feed and eggshells or oyster shell you provide them. ACV also acts as an antiseptic by killing the germs that cause respiratory problems - which chickens are extremely susceptible to - in the throat and promotes healthy mucous flow.
Second in the Trinity is GARLIC. Garlic boosts immune systems, increases respiratory health and it is also thought that mites, lice, ticks and other parasites are not as attracted to the blood of animals who eat a lot of garlic. Garlic is also a natural wormer and reduces the smell of chicken manure in flocks fed garlic regularly. I don't find that the garlic taints the taste of our eggs in the least bit.
A small dose of onions can be toxic to animals due to their high concentrations of thiosulphate, and even though garlic is in the onion family it simply does not have the same levels of thiosulphate, in fact it has 1/15 the level, and this is in it's raw, whole form. When garlic is further processed for consumption as a powder supplement, mixed with other supplements and minerals (as in the case of Brewer's Yeast and Garlic), and given at appropriate doses, then the thiosulphates are negligible at best. The fact is that garlic is not toxic when taken at low levels and is often included as an ingredient in many commercially available natural pet foods. As with anything in life the levels or doses you take of something is the deciding factor on how toxic it will be. No one would doubt the fact that taking a once a day multi-vitamin is a good thing for your body, but what if you took that once a day vitamin 50 times a day, you would end up with toxic levels of vitamins in your body.
Specific to our product Brewers Yeast & Garlic, there is 400mg of garlic per teaspoon, which equates to about 5% total ingredient in the mix, or approx .4 percent per teaspoon. This level is on par with levels that are added to commercially available animal feed. I know your forte is chickens and such, but there is little research for dosing in birds. You practical experience and excellent results will have to be the testimony for how well it works and how non toxic it is in your application."
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A wiki is a series of searchable web pages that many people can edit. This works well for Wikipedia because people will search for a particular topic in an encyclopedia. This also works for Wiktionary because people search for definitions of words, but what about other Wikimedia projects such as Wikibooks? Is a wiki the appropriate software for these projects? Are these projects doomed to fail?
Having worked on Wikipedia, I decided to take the plunge and make a Wikibook. OK maybe it's a bit arrogant of me to think that I could write anything so comprehensive as a book, but I figured that since it's a wiki, I can get help if I need it, right?
So I began to write. As I wrote my book, it acquired more and more of my personality. I began to feel a certain possessiveness toward it. Not to say that I wanted to revoke the open license. What I meant was that I was afraid that someone else would come in and change the style of the book. Wikipedia has content guidelines that require neutrality which for the most part means "make it boring". Boring is good in an encyclopedia article where you want "Just the facts, Maam"; but boring books are not fun to read.
The next thing that I had a problem with is navigation. A book is something that has a definite order. You read one page, then the next, then the next. A wiki can be read in any order. The recommended wikibook structure has navigation that starts and ends at the table of contents. But do you read a book by reading a chapter and then going back to a table of contents to figure out what other chapters to read? No! that ruins the flow of the book.
Now you can add navigation arrows as long as they are text arrows like this ">". You can't use images as arrows, because in Wikimedia, an image always points to its contribution page. (The better to understand the license it is under.) This makes many of the HTML tricks that you are used to using with webpages not work.
Even if you add arrows, you have to add all of the links yourself from each page to the next, and if you insert new pages, you need to change the links to point to these new pages, or no one will see them. You may say, "but you have to do that with HTML too, don't you?", and that is true; but there are lots of content management programs that automatically change links for you when you insert new information. And this makes me think, is wiki software what you should use for free content books? It seems that the kind of books made by this software will be entirely different from the kind of free licensed book carried by other open projects such as Project Gutenburg. Is this good or bad?
So when I look at the empire that is wikimedia I begin to wonder if some of their energy is misplaced. Just because Wikipedia was successful, does that mean that everything should be made into a wiki? For example, there is a new project to put documents into a wiki. This is called Wikisource. Scans of old books and documents are placed online and people can improve on the OCR software by personally checking the texts when they have time. This is a great idea, and I absolutely love it having thought up something similar years ago, but should Wikisource be a wiki?Once you have the data typed in, you don't want to change it. It isn't appropriate to edit the document once it is faithfully transcribed. The text should be fixed into something permanent. It is history, and should not be altered arbitrarily. Is a wiki the right software to use to store finished documents?
And this makes me wonder about other Wikimedia projects. Will a wiki make good educational software? (Wikiversity) or a good news server (Wikinews) or a good media database (Wikimedia commons)? What is a wiki really good for?
But to be fair, there are a diversity of wikis on the web being used for all sorts of purposes. Who can say what will succeed. Only time will tell.
(Post the web address of your favorite wiki here. Show me what wikis are good for.)
Not a wiki recommendation but...
The next thing that I had a problem with is navigation. A book is something that has a definite order. You read one page, then the next, then the next. A wiki can be read in any order. The recommended wikibook structure has navigation that starts and ends at the table of contents. But do you read a book by reading a chapter and then going back to a table of contents to figure out what other chapters to read? No! that ruins the flow of the book.
Whilst this applies to some books, others - mostly reference books - lend themselves very well to the dip-in format. For example the Nutshell books published by O'Reilly are designed that you can read on part and then flip to another - seemingly unrelated - part because that's the next bit you wanted to read about. Not all books are meant to be read in a flowing style.
But - to take your point - I too wondered whether a Wiki was the best production tool for a book. The thing is I'm still not sure either way and I think it's going to depend on the publication. Documentation and reference books will work quite well I think but (non-fiction) books that discuss or explore a topic may not lend themselves as well to a Wiki for some of the reasons you give.
Wikisource seems a bit odd - I am assuming they are scanning books beyond copyright restrictions - as there are very good projects that do this is a very structured way (Project Gutenberg for example) and sometimes it is this structure which assist in the integrity of the project's data.
Having said all that I think the idea of Wikibooks - for reference books - is excellent. A book which is live and dynamic and is updated almost immediately upon the discovery or development of new techniques and information is a great idea and potentially yet another "killer-app" for the web.
As for your comments on possessiveness towards your work - how would you feel about a Wikinovel ? :o)
To tell the truth, Wikinovella looks like performance art.
To tell the truth, Wikinovella looks like performance art.
It looks like what happens when people take turns making up the punch-line of a joke. Sometimes you come up with something good, but most of the time the joke falls flat.
I've gone to sites with forums or comment forms where someone has their work in progress online and people can read it and make comments on it. I feel that this is a better collaborative environment than one where others can edit it themselves.
If they used the discussion pages so that readers could give page by page comments, I think that that would also be helpful to a writer with a strong sense of purpose. I also liked the idea of linking a character's name to his description page. Otherwise I found the links random and distracting.
I have contributed to a BBC run writing project that was a MUD. The problem there was that very few people would read all of the works, so it was hard to get comments on each work while you were writing it. Also, those who did comment tended to say "That was very good" to encourage while not giving any useful comments.
What a writer needs is critical commentary from interested readers and talented writing instructors. He doesn't need them to change the text directly. Take the case of J.R.R. Tolkien. His copy editors kept correcting the term "Dwarves" to "Dwarfs". "Dwarfs" is the plural of "Dwarf" a very short human. This word was in the dictionary but"Dwarves" was not. Tolkien, however, was defining the term.
A novella, a novel, a short-story each is an individual vision. Others can help shape it, but if others write it, it isn't the same and most likely will lose its structure. Not to say that there aren't collaborations that work, or shared worlds that are interesting, but I don't believe that the Wiki will be the best thing for novel writing.
What Wikis are good for
I can't post a link to it here, because it is only available on our internal network, but one of the best uses I have found for a Wiki is project/team documentation.
I work as part of a small team that supports a banking system. We have enhanced this system in numerous ways using it's own scripting language. This makes the whole system something of a nightmare to document conventionally, as scripts depend upon other scripts, the configuration of the underlying system and the system's own API. However, this is an ideal area for a Wiki, as a document can easily be written refering to many other topics - including ones that haven't been written yet. Also, it is possible to start with a bare-bones description of a script and add to it later.
We use a package called vqwiki, which I have found very easy to set up and administer. As a plus, this package makes it very easy to insert links to the documentation supplied with our banking system.


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Misplaced Blame at Hostess
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 12:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 12:15 a.m.
What is wrong with this picture? Gregory F. Rayburn, Hostess Brands' chief executive, was in charge of restructuring Hostess.
I worked for Hostess for 12 years. Rayburn gets paid $125,00 a month. It took me three years to make that much. But it is my fault that Hostess closed down ["Hostess to Close, Cites Nationwide Worker Strike," Nov. 16]. You do the math on that one.
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Entrepreneur Finds Rebirth Through Advocacy
Published: Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 2:27 a.m.
Karen Kovach can remind us that even tragedy can give birth to new joys.
Karen McNally Kovach
Age: 63.
Birthdate: April 16, 1949.
Birthplace: Mineola, N.Y. Raised in Port Washington, N.Y., on Long Island.
Job: Founding partner, Third Wing Business Strategies LLC.
Education: 1971, bachelor's degree in English, Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y.; master's degree in journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Family: Married to Gap Kovach, CEO of Waverly-based HESCO, an agricultural and industrial supplies company; son, Theodore Wagenknecht, 35, a hedge-fund manager in Boston, by her first marriage; and stepsons Matt Kovach, 37, a biomechanical engineer in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Drew Kovach, 35, owner of a Pensacola construction company.
Greatest accomplishment: Raising an awesome son.
Car: 1977 pink Volkwagen Beetle convertible.
Hobbies and interests: Travel and reading books.
Favorite beverage: Rombauer Chardonnay.
Last books read: "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern and "I, Elizabeth" by Rosalind Miles.
Favorite movie: "Gone With the Wind."
Bad habit: Keeping stacks of papers (things I need to file) on desk.
Pet peeve: Stacks of paper on desk.
Words to live by: Keep all doors open.
Quote: "I love working with people who are creative and really smart. I also love seeing something grow from the beginning."
"Because I felt so lucky in life, I never felt that would happen to me," said Kovach, 63, of Lakeland, a partner in Third Wing Business Strategies LLC, a business consulting firm. "I had never lost anyone before."
Kovach was referring to the August 1987 death of her second husband, Gene Yovetich, at age 40, just six months into their marriage and a couple years into their relationship.
His accidental death came during a white-water rafting trip sponsored by his company, DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., a Chicago-based advertising firm, as a team-building exercise.
Her sister, Susan Brakeley, 58, of Boston, was visiting Kovach in Chicago when the news of his death arrived.
"She threw up. She became hysterical," Brakeley recalled. "I had to throw her in a cold shower to calm her down."
Within a decade from the ashes of tragedy, the tireless Kovach would create two successful new companies (later a third) and build another happy marriage to Gap Kovach, CEO of HESCO, an agricultural and industrial supplier in Waverly.
Kovach was born on April 16, 1949, to Charles and Betty Geiger McNally in Mineola, N.Y., near Port Washington, where she grew up, the first of their three daughters. Both cities are on Long Island.
Charles McNally was a teacher, later a principal, at a local high school. Betty McNally gave up her job as a registered nurse for her young daughters, but she later returned to college for a teaching degree to become a school nurse and health teacher.
Their teachers' salaries forced the McNallys to live frugally.
What money they saved went mostly to summer vacations because both parents enjoyed traveling, a passion they passed to their eldest daughter.
Owning her own business gives Kovach the ability to schedule at least several trips a year, and she has visited every continent except Australia and the Antarctic. Africa is a favorite, she said.
"She's been to places we never dreamed of going," said Charles McNally, 87, who added the annual vacations had more to do with the parents' stress on education. The couple now live in Lakeland.
"We were a family of learning. We constantly encouraged learning and reading," he said. "We wanted them to see as much of the country as we could."
Kovach is an avid reader and was a top student through college.
The family also travelled frugally, usually by car and preparing their own meals instead of eating out at restaurants. That routine backfired during a cross-country trip, when bears invaded their cookout at Yellowstone National Park, eating all the food while the McNallys retreated to their locked car.
Despite its location, Port Washington was a quiet enclave mostly divorced from New York City's woes.
"It was the perfect little suburban town. We had a very happy, Donna Reed-type home," Brakeley said.
Her sister was also one of the most popular girls in town and had many male and female friends, she said.
"She was a very confident girl," the sister recalled. "She was definitely in charge. She was the alpha gal of the family."
Kovach agreed she had a happy childhood, but she added also feeling like a fish out of water because the McNallys were one of the few Irish Catholic families in a town dominated by richer Jewish and WASP lineages.
That's perhaps why she has always had a keen interest in fighting for the underdog, Kovach said. In her very first job, she successfully organized the women against their employer, who did not always pay the female staff on time.
That kind of advocacy continues today as she serves on the board of directors for the 10th Judicial Circuit Court's Guardian ad Litem program, which advocates for children in Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties whose families have come under court supervision because of abuse or neglect problems.
"What I love and appreciate about Karen is she brings so much passion about the children," said Cookie Mooney, the program's director. "She's relentless in her advocacy of these children."
Board members are advised not to get directly involved in cases, Mooney said, but that has not prevented Kovach from working quietly behind the scenes, as when she paid for a prom dress for a girl who could not afford one.
Kovach has also served on the boards for the Polk Museum of Art, the Central Florida Speech and Hearing Center and the Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce.
Kovach married Jon Wagenknecht before her senior year at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., but still graduated there with a bachelor's degree in English. Subsequently both pursued graduate degrees: Wagenknecht at the University of Chicago and she in journalism at Northwestern University.
After graduating, Kovach decided a career in advertising would be more lucrative than writing for a newspaper or magazine, she said. She worked at several Chicago ad agencies, including DDB, where she met two important people in her life — second husband Yovetich and Nancy Bernstein, who would become her partner in two startup companies.
Her fortunate life to that point, highlighted by the birth of her only child, Teddy Wagenknecht, in 1977, did little to prepare Kovach for Yovetich's sudden death, she said. Months of grief and depression followed.
Kovach recalled coming home one night and sitting in a funk until Teddy, 10, plaintively asked, "Mom, are we ever going to have dinner?"
She had no interest in eating at the time, Kovach said.
"It was the low point of my life," she said.
The turnaround came when she cried to her therapist, "I just want my real life back," Kovach said.
The therapist replied: "Karen, this is your real life, and you've got to start living it."
Kovach took that counselling with a vengeance. Realizing she needed to devote more time to Teddy, she quit her ad agency job in 1990 to start her own company representing film directors who shoot commer-cials.
In 1997, that led to creating an even more successful company called eCreative Search with Bernstein, also her Third Wing partner.
When the Internet was still young, the women hit on the idea of creating an online database of TV commercials that an ad agency can use when searching for the right director for a new commercial, Bernstein said.
Before eCreative, Kovach and other agents sold directors to ad agencies by carting around samples of their work in film canisters, she said. The database made their work readily accessible to prospective new employers.
eCreative took off in the advertising world when Kovach came up with the idea of putting all the 2001 Super Bowl commercials on the website at a time when the ads had become as popular as the football game itself, Bernstein said. Within a day, the site got more than 1 million hits.
Although she and Gap Kovach, who met on a blind date, married in 1993, their business commitments forced them to maintain a commuting relationship. After Kovach and Bernstein sold eCreative to a national media company in 2003, she moved to Lakeland the following year.
In 2005, the partners reunited to start Third Wing, a consulting firm that works mostly with startup and small companies nationwide to expand their brands through the Internet and traditional media.
Like a modern web company, Third Wing has no central office. Kovach works out of her Lakeland home office, Bernstein in Chicago and others in Tampa and Boston.
Among the few regrets Kovach has in her life, it's that it took a tragedy to force her to become an entrepreneur.
"I should have started my own business sooner," Kovach said. "I think I got too comfortable with getting a paycheck every two weeks."
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SAN JOSE -- Attendance has always been a hot-button topic at San Jose State, and it's something the Spartans are working to improve.
Season ticket sales are up 15 percent this season, with a base of about 2,600 -- still less than 10 percent of Spartan Stadium's capacity. In an attempt to boost the numbers, the Spartans will have postgame fireworks shows after Thursday's season opener against Sacramento State and the Sept. 27 game against Utah State.
Despite an 11-2 season last year, SJSU averaged just 10,789 fans per game. It was a large decrease from the 2011 average of 18,214, although the actual difference might not have been that dramatic.
Athletic director Gene Bleymaier, hired in May 2012, decided last year that the Spartans would report actual attendance -- the number of people in the stands. Schools often report paid attendance or tickets distributed, which can lead to inflated numbers.
"I just think we need to understand where we are and work to improve it," Bleymaier said. "I'm not one to just make up a number. That doesn't make any sense. I don't know what purpose that serves, and I don't think that makes us look better."
This year's home schedule, with games against San Diego State, Navy and Fresno State, should lead to better numbers, but Bleymaier isn't banking on simply a better team and better schedule leading to improvements.
"We've got to roll up our sleeves, and we've got to go out there and pound the pavement," Bleymaier said.
Coach Ron Caragher views the attendance issues as a challenge that "excites" him.
"Where there's challenges, there's so much room to grow and develop," Caragher said.
He said his preference is to have at least six home games every year -- the Spartans will have only five in 2014 -- and prefers home and home arrangements such as the ones with Oregon State and BYU.
"If we can't do those things, then I'm going to look for a guarantee game that can help our budget," Bleymaier said.
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Sandy Impact Is Blowing Around Consumer Outlook
After she blew in, Sandy took some wind out of consumers' sails. But the impact should be temporary.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal income was flat in October versus the previous month and nominal spending fell 0.2%. The report noted there were effects from Sandy but Commerce could not quantify the total impact. The largest adjustment was an $18 billion drop in wages and salaries because of work interruptions.
After accounting for price changes, real consumer spending began this quarter slightly down from its average in the third quarter, when real spending increased at an annual rate of only 1.4%.
Households aren't the only sector that looked peaked this quarter. The latest reports on factory activity also were lackluster, even in places not hit by the storm. On Friday, the Chicago chapter of the Institute for Supply Management said area factory activity is barely expanding this month, and new orders are contracting.
"Combined with national anecdotes from the Beige Book and Fed manufacturing surveys from other regions of the country, this release suggests a fairly tepid baseline of manufacturing activity in November," said economists at Goldman Sachs in a research note.
Of course, economists don't expect consumer spending to stay in the red through the quarter. Replacing items lost in the storm will drive a lot of spending.
Jared Franz, economist at T. Rowe Price, will be watching next Monday's report on November light vehicles sales as "an important metric to judge the extent of rebuilding efforts." T. Rowe Price expects a 4.9% increase to an annual rate of 14.9 million as consumers replace flooded vehicles.
In addition, shoppers should recover ground during the holiday season, although solid gains seen in early shopping doesn't mean spending will be strong for the rest of the year.
After that, however, the outlook is muddied by the uncertainty of tax reform.
Most fiscal-cliff watchers expect any compromise to include higher taxes: either the social security levee or the rate on high-income earners.
How will people react? The answer for high earners is especially important to the outlook in both the short and long term.
Faced with higher taxes, upper-income households could choose to spend less, which would have an immediate drag on growth since their spending accounts for the bulk of total purchases, especially discretionary items.
Or they could choose to save less to offset the income lost to taxes. That option could slow growth later on since the economy would have less funds available for investment now.


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News Archive
Usually, results from a new study help scientists inch their way toward an answer whether they are battling a health problem or are on the verge of a technological breakthrough. Once in a while, those results give them a giant leap forward. In a preliminary study in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), University of Missouri scientists showed exactly such a leap using gene therapy to treat muscular dystrophy.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 16:49
Scientists at The University of Manchester have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration.
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 12:33
Apparent stem cell transplant success in mice may hold promise for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Friday, January 11, 2013 - 16:54
Most people might see cockroaches as good-for-nothing pests, but this germ-ridden insect could be an indirect source of new antibiotics for humans. Cockroaches host the larvae of a parasitic type of wasp, which spend their formative days eating the bacteria-laden body of the cockroach from the inside out. Researchers have discovered the wasp larva secretes chemicals that sanitize the decidedly unsanitary guts of the cockroach. These germ-killing chemicals could eventually be developed for human uses.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 15:43
Scientists have used a drug injected into the inner ears of mice deafened by loud noise to induce the regeneration of sound-sensing hair cells and partially restore hearing in the animals, according to a paper published this week (January 9) in Neuron.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 12:07
Giant pandas may be the source of a new antibiotic, according to scientists at Nanjing Agricultural University in China.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 10:23
For several years, neurologists at UCLA have been building a case that a link exists between pesticides and Parkinson's disease. To date, paraquat, maneb and ziram — common chemicals sprayed in California's Central Valley and elsewhere — have been tied to increases in the disease, not only among farmworkers but in individuals who simply lived or worked near fields and likely inhaled drifting particles. Now, UCLA researchers have discovered a link - using zebrafish - between Parkinson's and another pesticide, benomyl, whose toxicological effects still linger some 10 years after the chemical was banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 16:48
A British woman has become one of the first to benefit from pioneering surgery that uses tissue taken from a cow's heart to rebuild the liver.
The operation brings the possibility of whole donor organs being taken from animals – known as xenotransplantation – ever closer.
Monday, December 31, 2012 - 15:26
Just about everyone has thought about it at least once. What if there were a pill or a shot that could safely burn body fat without any effort?
Besides making some researchers and pharmaceutical companies very rich, it could potentially do a lot for the health of the millions of Americans who are overweight or obese.
A team at Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center is one step closer to that reality, after its fat-burning shot eliminated 20 percent of belly fat in lab mice over an 80-day period in a recent study.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 15:47
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have pinpointed a molecular mechanism needed to unleash the heart's ability to regenerate, a critical step toward developing eventual therapies for damage suffered following a heart attack.
Friday, December 21, 2012 - 16:15
Before the advent of refrigeration, Russians had a neat trick for keeping their milk from spoiling. They'd drop a live frog in the milk bucket.
The Russians weren't sure how this amphibian dairy treatment worked, but they were convinced it did.
Since then, researchers have discovered that the goo some frogs secrete through their skin has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
One group of scientists led by a Russian chemist is trying to break down this frog goo at a molecular level. The researchers have found compounds they hope will lead to new medicines.
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 15:29
Their reputations were attacked. Their homes were damaged. Their lives were threatened. But these UCLA scientists refused to back down in the face of assaults by anti-animal-research extremists.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 11:18
In guinea pigs, inserting a single gene can convert regular heart cells into pacemaker cells that regulate cardiac rhythm, hinting at the possibility of a biological alternative to artificial pacemakers for humans with failing hearts.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 12:53
A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations each year. Their study is published online this week in Nature.
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 16:26
Rare brain tumors emerging among raccoons in Northern California and Oregon may be linked to a previously unidentified virus discovered by a team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of California, Davis. Their findings, published today in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, could lead to a better understanding of how viruses can cause cancer in animals and humans.
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 15:38
New discoveries by University researchers might mean it's time for your dog to take you to the doctor — not the other way around.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 16:40
The tip of a single quill on a North American porcupine holds as many as 700 backwards-facing barbs that can lodge into the flesh of any animal that wanders too close. For the first time, scientists have figured out how those barbs work together to make it is so easy for quills to penetrate tissue but so hard to pull them out.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 14:49
In a government lab where scientists slice open dead animals to study the exotic diseases that killed them, Carol Meteyer peered through a microscope at hundreds of little bats and started to notice something very weird.
The bats had managed to survive the white-nose fungus that had killed millions of other bats hibernating in caves, mostly in the Northeast. But they had succumbed to something else that had left their tiny corpses in tatters, their wings scorched and pocked with holes.
Meteyer finally realized what had happened: In the struggle to fight off the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, the bats were killed by their own hyperaggressive immune systems.
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 17:21
Yes, maggots are creepy, crawly, and slimy. But that slime is a remarkable healing balm, used by battlefield surgeons for centuries to close wounds. Now, researchers say they've figured out how the fly larvae work their magic: They suppress our immune system.
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 15:23
University of Illinois researchers have developed a model that uses neonatal piglets for studying infant brain development and its effect on learning and memory. To determine if the model is nutrient-sensitive, they have done some research on the effects of iron-deficient diets.
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- Jan 14:
- Target details free credit monitoring service
- JPMorgan's Dimon: Target breach is a wake-up call
- Jan 10:
- Target now says up to 110 million customers victimized in breach
- Target hack: Tips for worried consumers
- Dec 27:
- Target admits customers' encrypted PIN info was stolen
- Dec 26:
- U.S. a laggard in adopting more secure credit cards
- Dec 25:
- Target seen losing customer loyalty in wake of data breach
- Dec 24:
- Target: Beware of scam emails related to card theft
- Dec 23:
- Justice Department steps in on Target data breach
- Target hack could become class action suit
- Dec 22:
- Weak credit card security made Target a juicy target
- Dec 21:
- Target's huge data breach likely to be followed by more, experts warn
- Dec 20:
- Target hack: How did they do it?
- Target hack: Customers' fury, frustration mount
- Dec 19:
- Target data breach: What you should know
- How to know if your card was affected by Target's data breach
- Target hack: 40 million card accounts may have been breached
NEW YORK -- An email sent to the roughly 70 million Target customers who may have been affected by a pre-Christmas data breach is causing panic among those who fear it could be an attempt to victimize them again.
Target says the email, which offers free credit monitoring services to potential victims of the breach, is legitimate. But the company has identified a handful of scammers who are trying to take advantage of the public's fear and confusion.
Consumers have been on edge since news of the data breach broke last month. And they've been warned to be on alert for possible follow-up attacks that could come in the form of phishing emails, electronic messages designed to implant malicious software on their computers or draw them to websites that prompt them to enter personal information.
So when Target's email began circulating earlier this week, many recipients questioned its authenticity. The email was especially suspicious to people who say they haven't set foot in a Target store in years.
Jim Reid, 60, of Minneapolis says he was a little nervous about clicking on the link in the email and he questioned whether it was a good idea to send Target even more personal information when they were unable to protect it in the first place.
"There's too much uncertainty," Reid says. "They keep changing what they're saying about how many people were affected, about what kinds of information were stolen. It's obvious that they really don't know."
According to Target, hackers stole data related to 40 million credit and debit card accounts and also pilfered personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses and names of as many as 70 million customers.
Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder says it's those 70 million people that Target contacted by email. And while Target believes the theft of the roughly 40 million debit and credit card numbers only affected cards swiped between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, the 70 million people whose personal information was stolen could have last shopped at a Target store months, or even years, ago.
Meanwhile, consumers are right to be wary of emails purportedly sent by Target. Snyder says that in recent weeks the retailer has stopped more than a dozen operations that sought to scam breach victims by way of email, phone calls, and text messages.
Target says all of the letters it's sending to shoppers are posted on the company's website, along with information about what customers need to do to sign up for Target's free credit monitoring.
Snyder confirmed that the information gathered for the free service won't be used for marketing purposes. While shoppers are being offered the option of continuing the monitoring service after a year, they won't be automatically re-enrolled in the service or receive a bill.
The retail giant wasn't the only company to get hit with a data breach over the holidays. Last week, Neiman Marcus said thieves stole some of its customers' payment information and made unauthorized charges over the holidays. The Dallas-based luxury retailer is also offering its customers free credit monitoring for a year and plans to post sign-up instructions on its website by the end of next week.
Target's credit monitoring is being provided by Experian. Company officials wouldn't disclose details about how many Target customers have signed up for the free services.
Shawn Blakeman, 42 of Raleigh, N.C., said he was immediately skeptical when he saw the email from Target on Friday morning. He says he didn't click on the link just in case in contained a virus or sent him to a destructive website.
Blakeman says that after the news broke a few weeks ago, his bank automatically sent him a new debit card, so he's not worried about his bank account. And while he remains concerned about identity theft, he probably won't sign up for Target's free credit monitoring.
"I know there's always a chance it could happen to me," he said. "I can't win the Powerball, but watch me get hit with identity theft."


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SAN LEANDRO -- Some $2.65 million in personnel and program cuts are off the table in the San Leandro Unified School District after the November passage of Gov. Jerry Brown's statewide Proposition 30 tax initiative.
The school board had tentatively approved various ongoing budget cuts that would have taken effect had the proposition failed, including cuts that would have eliminated or reduced the hours for up to 25 employees and eliminated funding for the entire athletic program, district officials said.
Other tentative cuts no longer on the chopping block this school year:
Proposition 30 will increase personal income tax for seven years on high-income taxpayers statewide and increases sales tax for four years.
With Prop. 30 approved, the San Leandro district's funding from the state will remain the same this year as last year, still about $12 million lower than funding levels five years ago, staff said.
It is still unclear how Brown's budget proposal and his new funding formula will affect next school year's budget if enacted, said Song Chin-Bendib, assistant superintendent of business and operations.
Last spring, the school board made $1.43 million in ongoing cuts to next year's budget. On deck: class size increases in kindergarten through third grade from 28 to 32 students, elimination of middle school counselors, elimination of two campus supervisors, and reductions to vice principal positions.
The state budget isn't the district's only budgetary concern. District officials are keeping an eye on a nearby court case being fought by the Alameda Unified School District.
The First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled last month that Alameda Unified's parcel tax passed in 2008 was illegal because it taxed residential and commercial parcels at different rates, something San Leandro Unified's recently approved Measure L parcel tax will also do.
Alameda Unified was ordered to return nearly all of the $18 million it had collected since 2008. The district is appealing the decision, and Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, introduced legislation this month that would make the varied taxing legal so long as "rational classifications" are used.
Approved by San Leandro voters in November, Measure L is a five-year parcel tax expected to raise $2.4 million annually for the district by taxing multifamily lots with five or more units $19 per year, vacant and unimproved parcels $39 per year, and businesses 2 cents per square foot of lot size.
"The appellate court wanting to rehear the case; that's good news, so we are proceeding, and the (San Leandro Unified) tax would show up in December 2013 ... Our tax structure is not the same as Alameda, so at this point it is a wait and see for us," Superintendent Cindy Cathey said. "With the passage of Prop. 30, it is certainly a brighter day for us, but we still have a long way to go."
Ashly McGlone covers San Leandro, San Lorenzo and the Washington Township Health Care District. Contact her at 510-293-2463. Follow her at Twitter.com/AshlyReports.


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Thursday August 11, 2011
Hephzibah, Ga--When you talk Hephzibah football this year, one word comes to mind, leadership. Talk to all the players and the coaches. This is what the Rebels have been lacking on the field, and it's been a big point of focus this season.
With a 4-6 record, Coach John Bowen felt his team was lacking in that department. Part of it was the youth, part of it was kids not stepping forward.
This year they need a couple of guys to take the initiative and be in charge on the field. One of those guys will be quarterback Terry Robinson. Robinson had an underrated year and knows he and others have to take the bull by the horns.
"This year we're looking to have better leadership and come out strong," Robinson says. "We've been practicing hard and just looking to tighten everything up. Last year we did pretty good, but this year everybody is looking to win and put it together."
"We didn't have any distinct leaders. Everybody kind of tried to lead themselves. But this year we're trying to have some set leaders to help lead everybody to the promised land."
It looks like it's going to be running back by committee behind Robinson. While they have skill, they don't have a lot of playing time. They're still looking for some balance that could take some pressure off a work in progress on the defensive side of the ball.
"We're planning on getting back to a more balanced system of run and pass which is where we were in like '08 and '09. Getting in those shootouts can make for long nights," says Bowen.
The Rebels have changed a lot of the terminology so it's taking some time for the players to pick up the scheme. If they get there quick, this could be a dangerous team to play on Friday nights.


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DNA hypomethylation makes humans prone to diseases
22.05.2012 - A Polish-US research team has found that hypomethylation destablises DNA and boosts the risk of neurological diseases.
Warsaw/Houston –Bioinformaticians from Warsaw University and the Baylor College of Medicine have provided an explanation for how disease-associated mutation hotspots may arise. According to results of the group under Aleksandar Milosavljevic and Tomasz Gambin, regions on human chromosomes that carry only few so-called methylation marks show a tenfold higher number of structural mutations than the genome-wide average. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, developmental delay, and autism had a significant higher amount of such predetermined breaking points, (PloS Genetics 8(5): e1002692).
The researchers suggest that the amount of methylation might mediate genomic stability. They compared methylome maps from human sperm cell samples with publicly available structural variation data. Their results points to a strong association of germline hypomethylation and genomic instability which might lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. "We have found that these rare and de novo structural variants, as well as changes of the human genome that have accumulated the fastest since the branching chimpanzee, are significantly concentrated within methylation deserts," senior author Aleksandar Milosavljevic, a molecular and human genetics researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, said in a statement.
Lack of methylation of genomic DNA has been previously associated with high structural mutability in gibbons and in human cancer cells, but the association with structural mutability in the human germline has not been explored prior to this study.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/dna-hypomethylation-makes-humans-prone-to-diseases.html


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If Gretchen Bleiler wasn't fighting back from the eye injury she suffered during the summer, it would be uncharacteristic for the pro snowboarder who has made her mark on the industry by breaking the rules.
She chose not to believe her surgeon, who told her she'd never fully regain her vision.
Limitations? What limitations? The woman likes to fly, so let her go.
And now, the same woman who said that snowboarding wasn't worth the pain of a fractured eye socket that left her eye drooping into her skull is now yearning to get back into the halfpipe.
Bleiler ranks the injury as the worst in the spectrum of injuries she's experienced. A busted knee left her out of the game for awhile, but the recovery from such a tried-and-true surgery wasn't nearly as frightening as having a reconstructed eye socket followed by double vision - and the question of whether that would be the card dealt to her for life.
True to Bleiler's nature, though, she fought back.
"It was so serious, I had to do everything and listen to my body. To this day, I have my eye exercise papers around. It's a part of my life every day now. It has to be, because this is my life for the rest of my life. This is the vision I'll be dealt with," said Bleiler, who spent the majority of the early season in Frisco, where she's had ready access to pipes at both Copper Mountain and Breckenridge Ski Resort - places she calls the two best Northern Hemisphere early season training grounds.
Bleiler, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, had been practicing a double backflip in June at the Center of Excellence in Utah when she over-rotated, bouncing wrong and connecting her knee with her face. It shattered her right eye socket, broke her nose, split open her eyebrow and gave her a serious concussion.
The Center of Excellence is in Park City, which is also where the snowboard world has suffered its share of tragic accidents - Sarah Burke died there while training in the halfpipe a few years after Kevin Pearce incurred a traumatic brain injury in the same location.
"Park City has had a rough go. ... It's tough. We need to get a big piece of sage and clean that place out, clean out the energy," Bleiler said, adding that it's also not surprising that a place where the most elite athletes in the United States come to train and learn new tricks would see such horrible accidents. Bleiler boycotted the Park City halfpipe following the Sarah Burke incident, but should she return to competition at the end of January at the X Games, as planned, she'll also be heading to the site of the accident to compete at the next U.S. Grand Prix stop.
"You have to just let it go. It's not the place - Park City is a beautiful town and an awesome place to ride," she said.
Which is what she's trying to do with the psychological part of her own injury - and the confusing bout with double vision.
After taking on a "wild style" of physical therapy - there's not really a method to the madness of bringing vision back - Bleiler says she no longer has double vision in the halfpipe. Now, it only happens when she looks straight up or straight down without moving her head. So, she just adjusts to make it go away.
"What was going on in my eye is similar to any surgery" she said. "The first year after a surgery is really important to get that moving all the time and range of motion. If you don't, the scar tissue from the surgery and injury can hold it in place and it's unable to move in the way it should be able to move."
After two months, the "progress was unreal," Bleiler said. She came to Copper Mountain to test her abilities after being frightened in New Zealand, and "was blown away with the difference."
Still, there's remnants of fear for the 31-year-old.
"This was so different from any injury I've ever had. Any surgery is scary because surgery is scary. This was something on a whole other level. When your vision is compromised, it changes everything. It's scary and on that level of possibly changing your life. A knee, you can have surgery and do enough therapy where you're back to normal. This was totally different," she said.
One thing helping Bleiler is her training in meditation, which she gleaned from a summer stop at the Chopra Center, where she found balance, clarity and meaning in everyday life - and the ability to hit the reset button. She's working toward getting her certificate in meditation teaching.
"I want to never be happy with where I am. I want to continue to grow and change and learn," she said.
She would be lying if she said she didn't think of her snowboarding colleagues when she considers her accident - even though she's been relatively lucky in her career. And though many wonder if the model-snowboarder-aspiring meditation instructor will retire soon, Bleiler says she hopes not.
"I want to come back because there's still more I want to do and more I can do," she said. "It's so inspiring. I get a lot of fan mail my mom helps me with. That stuff, it makes this whole world that I live in feel really good. It shows me it's not just about me going out there ... It's about inspiring others to do the same."
Bleiler had the Grand Prix stop at Copper on her radar for a possible return to the competition field, but skipped it, citing not being quite ready. She's now eyeing the Winter X Games in Aspen at the end of January, which takes place in her hometown. But Bleiler says she's taking it one day at a time, even amidst her own pressure to get back and the outside pressure to get back on track for the Winter Olympic Games at Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
"I can't say I'm going to compete, I can't say I'm not going to compete. For me, the most important thing is to just get my confidence back and get my riding back," she said. "It's been a little harder than I thought it would be. Especially at the beginning of December, I hopped back into the pipe and was so excited to get back. I was riding at such a high level last year and I wanted to get back to that."
But, she added, such a traumatic injury means "You have to pay your dues and be on snow every day, and push yourself and every day work toward that day."
That said, she recently left Frisco for Mammoth Mountain, where there has an opportunity to hop back on a trampoline. It's where Bleiler has learned to do her cork 720s and 900s. She's ready to get back, but she's taking it one step at a time to get there.
"As much as I want to put a time frame on that ... it's not helping to do that. It's counterproductive," she said, adding that she's not worried about Sochi.
"I have so much time for that. ... It's all in there, I know how to do it all, it's just believing I can. It comes with time when it wants to. I can't force it, I can only keep pushing it every day."


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Whether you want to visit the glitzy Manhattan skyscrapers that thread New York's skyline or Washington's monument-studded National Mall, holidays in the USA are always a thrill. In San Francisco, take the rattly cable car to Fisherman's Wharf to dine on fresh seafood with sourdough bread, or get into the hot Latino rhythm at Miami's coral coast.
New York City; famed for the Empire State Building, Times Square and the Statue of Liberty. It's the City that never sleeps. Yet just one and a half hours away, the popular seaside resort of The Hamptons is a welcome contrast from the bustling streets of The Big Apple.Read more about holidays to New York
Los Angeles; diverse, multi-cultural and iconic. Combine the glitz of Hollywood and the glamour of Beverly Hills with the beauty that is Santa Monica. Just minutes from the Hollywood hills is LA's very own beachside city. With beautiful beaches and a world famous pier, Santa Monica has a unique style of its own.Read more about holidays to LA
Las Vegas; another city that never sleeps. With all night casinos, luxurious resorts, award winning restaurants, headliner shows and top clubs, Las Vegas can be as wild as you like. Yet just a few hours away is the tranquillity of the Grand Canyon, take a helicopter ride to the base for a champagne breakfast, a world away from Vegas.Read more about holidays to Las Vegas
San Francisco; the city by the bay. Iconic streets with trundling cable cars. San Francisco, is a small city, big on food, shopping and full of history. A stark contrast from this cosmopolitan city is Yosemite. Take a stunning drive through Napa Valley to Yosemite where you can hike the trails and explore the picturesque valleys and waterfalls.Read more about holidays to San Francisco
Boston; the "little big city". Discover the charm of Boston. Follow the historic Freedom Trail, catch a ball game at Fenway Park or shop on Newbury Street. Within a 2 hr drive you'll find Newport, a thriving waterfront town. Explore miles of unspoiled beaches, scenic trails, distinctive shops and renowned restaurants, a lovely contrast to the city of Boston.Read more about holidays to Boston
Miami Beach is home to glamorous South Beach, known for its white sand, trendy nightclubs and art deco buildings. But venture to Little Havana to see this vibrant City's Cuban influence, where you can experience the sights, sounds and smells of classic Miami.
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Chicago promises an exciting blend of history, sightseeing and nightlife; famed for its bold architecture, museums, and deep-dish pizza, this city blends walks along the Navy Pier with stunning views from the 103rd floor of the Skydeck at the Willis Tower.Read more about holidays to Chicago
Holidays in Washington, D.C offer a real contrast from the politics and history the city is synonymous with, to the outstanding cuisine and beautiful parks and gardens. Discover the hidden gems that the US capital city has to offer; from the Lincoln memorial to Woodley park.
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San Diego boasts a diverse culture; cool and calm, with year-round temperatures and sandy beaches. This bustling metropolis is known for its beaches, parks and world-famous Zoo, as well as its art galleries, artists' studios, museums and gardens. Holidays here offer pretty much everything.Read more about holidays to San Diego
Seattle, nicknamed "Emerald City", is surrounded by water, mountains and evergreen forests, and encompasses thousands of acres of parkland. It's an edgy city, home to Nirvana grunge, organic stores and desirable suburbs. Bursting with energy, hire a car and see what this City has to offer. It won't disappoint.Read more about holidays to Seattle
It might be known as the capital of Silicon Valley, but San Jose is perfectly placed as a gateway to the stunning Californian Coastal landscape. Hire a car and visit the surf-friendly Santa Cruz, then head further down to Monterey Bay and simply take in that view.
Read more about holidays to San Jose
If a laidback lifestyle, attractions galore and the freedom of the open road sounds like your kind of holiday, head for the USA. America's main highways are easy to navigate and cruising in your car is the best way to get around and explore. With a fly drive you can discover stunning coastal views from Los Angeles up to the vineyards near San Francisco or through the vast deserts to Las Vegas. Or escape to the beautiful beaches in Florida or the natural bays of New England when you hire a car from Boston. Explore the spectacular Rocky Mountain range with a fly-drive from Denver, Colorado.
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Join locals for live jazz and blues in earthy Chicago bars, with a cold beer in hand. The world's best divas grace the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera: take a seat under the crystal chandeliers to watch them perform. Sports fans will love a high-octane American football game at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.Or check out Denver's fantastic foodie scene as you discover the 'Mile High City's' renowned cultural highlights.
Florida's Orlando is the theme park capital of the world: the family will adore the magical show at Cinderella's Castle at Walt Disney World. Whizz up the 605-foot-high Space Needle in Seattle to see snow-capped Mt. Rainier. In glitzy Los Angeles watch fire jugglers on Venice Beach or explore movie sets at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Soft, sandy beaches and bright blue waters combine with a sophisticated ambience and cultural vibe in the USA. Enjoy the best of both when you choose stylish beach cities like Miami, where buff, tanned bodies are as prevalent as palm trees. Or relax on the stunning California coastline, hanging out in Santa Monica – Los Angeles' oldest beach resort.
If the mood strikes, whisk your partner off to a Las Vegas wedding chapel to say I do, Elvis suits optional. Inside the glass globe Mapparium in colonial Boston, whisper sweet nothings to your loved-one and hear them echo back even louder. Lovers can seek solitude and find the perfect palm-fringed beach while island hopping the tropical Florida Keys, scattered off the south coast.
Being such a vast country, America has a hugely varied landscape. Florida will appeal to everyone – it is the home of leisure. Fly to Orlando to sample the golfing delights of the Sunshine State. On the Pacific coast, California offers golfers temperate conditions and dramatic scenery, alongside world-famous courses.
The United States has many different ski resorts all with their own pulling power, from the East Coast peaks across to the majestic Rockies and along the West Coast. You'll find big mountains, some of the best snow conditions in the world, and outstanding hotels – with that all-American service and a smile.
Explore one of California's most thrilling cities… Los Angeles. See the Beverly Hills mansions of the movie stars and have your photograph taken by the famous Hollywood sign. Make magical family memories at Universal Studios Hollywood and Disneyland Resort. Or relax on the sun-drenched sands of Santa Monica Beach. Fly to Honolulu, Hawaii, from LA. Unwind on the stunning shores of Oahu's Waikiki Beach, then experience its vibrant scene after dark. Or escape to Maui, with its unspoilt greenery and tumbling waterfalls.Customise your trip
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Shawnee police responded to a possible burglary in progress at a Shawnee home on a busy residential street Thursday morning, where they detained several people at the scene before making one arrest involving a stolen vehicle.
Chief Russell Frantz said day shift officers responded to the home at 1016 N. Broadway about 8:20 a.m. The occupant of that home, who was watching his home from a distance, called police to report a burglary in progress and indicated several people were trying to get into his home, call notes show.
Police arrived at the scene and detained many as they sorted out details at the scene.
Frantz said one suspect, Montiel Edmondson, 31, was arrested on an outstanding warrant out of Seminole County along with a new complaint.
As officers worked the scene, Frantz said police recovered a stolen vehicle that was traced back to the suspect so he was arrested on a complaint of possession of stolen vehicle. Formal charges have not been filed.
Edmondson was being held Thursday night in the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center and is expected to make a court appearance for setting of bond today.
Along with having the outstanding warrant, Edmondson is currently on probation for an Oklahoma County criminal case, Frantz said.
A police report outlining the incident wasn't yet completed for release late Thursday, but officers indicated no other arrests were made.
The reported burglary in progress was the second similar call in two days.
In an unrelated case Wednesday, day shift officers responded to a burglary in progress call at 624 S. Broadway.
In that incident, the homeowner reported a vagrant had broken into his home and was sleeping in a bedroom. The homeowner confronted the suspect, who fled.
When police responded, the fleeing suspect was tracked down and taken into custody for breaking and entering.
According to the report, a relative of the suspect may have formerly lived in that home, which has been under new ownership for about six months.
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