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- Jul 2:
- Santa Clara County same-sex couples celebrate marriages on Monday
- Jun 30:
- San Francisco Pride Parade: Downtown packed as marchers make their way up Market Street
- Gay marriage: Justice Kennedy denies request to stop California weddings
- San Francisco: Gay Pride parade turns into celebration on an epic scale
- Gay marriage opponents ask Supreme Court to halt same-sex weddings
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- Supreme Court rulings on same-sex unions place spotlight on the weathered institution of marriage
- Jun 28:
- Prop. 8 stay lifted, same-sex weddings can resume immediately
- San Francisco: Huge crowds expected for this weekend's gay pride parade, festivities
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- July 28 Readers' letters: The Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage
- Prop. 8 case was once seen as a Supreme Court long shot
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- Same-sex marriage: Evening rallies unleash jubilation after court rulings
- Prop. 8: Bay Area's gay rights advocates celebrate same-sex marriage rulings
- Gay marriage: Proposition 8 appears doomed in California after Supreme Court ruling
- Cassidy: Twitter moved us toward the Supreme Court's DOMA and Proposition 8 rulings on same-sex marriage
- Prop. 8 ruling: Bay Area marriage license officials eager to serve same-sex couples
- Gay marriage: How TV helped nudge society on the issue
- Biz Break: Google, Apple celebrate Supreme Court's same-sex marriage rulings, markets rise again
- Prop. 8, DOMA: Q-and-A
- Bay Area lawmakers' reactions to marriage rulings
- Timeline: Key dates in the American gay rights movement
- Bay Area rallies planned for DOMA, Prop. 8 decisions
- Prop. 8: Supreme Court ends California ban on gay marriage but fight remains
- Obama on DOMA: 'Supreme Court has righted a wrong'
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- Document: California Attorney General Kamala Harris addresses marriage licenses
- Document: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act
- Raw Video: Prop 8 Supreme Court decision reactions
- Document: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8 and gay marriage
- Prop. 8 and DOMA: Bay Area greets gay marriage rulings with joy
SAN FRANCISCO -- As same-sex couples continued to make their way to San Francisco City Hall to exchange wedding vows Saturday, lawyers for the sponsors of the gay marriage ban filed an emergency petition, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and stop the weddings.
Attorneys with the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom claim in the petition that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted prematurely and unfairly Friday when it allowed gay marriage to resume by lifting a stay on same-sex marriages in California while a lawsuit challenging the ban made its way to and through the Supreme Court.
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Austin Nimocks said the Supreme Court's consideration of the case is not done yet because his clients still have 22 days to ask the justices to reconsider their decision holding that Proposition 8's backers did not have legal authority to defend the ban.
Andy Pugno, attorney for the ProtectMarriage.com Coalition, the official proponents of Proposition 8, said: "People on both sides of this debate should at least agree that the courts must follow their own rules. This kind of lawlessness just further weakens the public's confidence in the legitimacy of our legal system. We hope the Supreme Court will step in and restore some order here."
Despite the latest legal manueverings by the proponents of Proposition 8, same-sex nuptials went on -- blissfully.
At the top of the grand staircase at San Francisco City Hall stood Oakland residents Jeff Small and John Hauser with a marriage commissioner and six friends, scanning the vast rotunda for a quiet spot to hold their wedding ceremony.
Hauser, 56, suggested the mayor's balcony on the other side of the room, and all heads turned in that direction.
"I am totally fine with it," said Small, 45. "Let's start our marriage off right. I'll do whatever you like."
About 10 minutes later, they were pronounced "spouses for life."
Less than 24 hours after the 9th Circuit's ruling, more than 100 couples had already married by noon Saturday, with dozens more expected before the closure of City Hall on Saturday evening. Weddings will also be held there 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Oakland men, as fate would have it, met 17 years ago Sunday at a San Francisco Pride celebration and have been together since.
"It's a great coincidence,'' said Small. "It's a very special Pride. Never in my lifetime did I think we'd be getting married."
Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties did not open their clerk's offices for same-same marriage this weekend, so many couples went to San Francisco.
But many were there already for the annual San Francisco Pride celebration and parade, which is expected to draw between 1 million and 1.5 million to the heart of the city Sunday.
That was the case with Jessica Revell, 25, and Madden Revell, 21, both of Long Beach. They met through friends two years ago at the San Francisco Pride celebration, and last weekend the women held a commitment ceremony in San Diego.
They were back in San Francisco Friday for Pride. After the surprise court decision came down, the two women quickly made plans to legalize their union Saturday. "We've talked about getting married for a very long time, and now we can,'' said Madden Revell.
Jessica Revell said before the legalization of same-sex marriage she felt marginalized. "Now we are the same as everyone. We matter,'' she said. "Now that the law is cool with it, I don't care what (people's) personal opinions are. When you don't have a law backing you, you're the different one."
Both women wore white to marry. A white T-shirt, that is, with the word "Bride" emblazoned on the front. People sold white and red roses in the rotunda, there were spectators, a crush of media, and lots of hugs, tears, cheers of joy and cellphone camera pictures.
Couples came in all types of attire Saturday, from the same orange and white Hawaiian shirts to formal off-white dresses for women to guys with matching wicker fedoras. The rainbow pride flag adorned bracelets, earrings, scarves, socks and even a few tutus.
The first couple to exchange vows at San Francisco City Hall on Friday were Kris Perry, 48, and Sandy Stier, the Berkeley couple whose case brought down the Proposition 8 ban.
Carmen Chu, San Francisco's assessor-recorder, said at least 60 people have been trained as deputy marriage commissioners, with at least 20 on duty this weekend.
Another 40 volunteers and a handful of staff members helped greet and direct people, process paperwork and handout cupcakes to couples. "We have so much outpouring of support from volunteers and so many people who want to help," said Chu. "What drives all of us is (getting married) is such a wonderful moment. People have been waiting way too long to get married, and, understanding the struggle that has happened, we are not interested in making people wait any longer."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Kristin J. Bender at Twitter.com/kjbender.


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UWA men, women host Shorter tonight
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 11:40 p.m.
LIVINGSTON | The University of West Alabama men's and women's basketball teams begin the second half of the Gulf South Conference round-robin schedule tonight, hosting Shorter.
Tickets are $5 at the door, $3 for students.
The UWA women are looking to snap a four-game losing streak against a Lady Hawks team that defeated the Tigers, 56-53, Nov. 29 in Rome, Ga. Injuries have limited West Alabama, with coach Craig Roden's top eight players missing a combined total of 34 games.
After missing three games in January with a foot injury, forward Brittany Weathers is slowly returning to being a force in the UWA lineup. Weathers leads the Gulf South and is fourth in the nation in scoring at 21.4 points per game.
Shorter comes to Pruitt Hall on a five-game winning streak.
Six of the UWA men's seven wins have come at home. Shorter defeated UWA, 100-83, Nov. 29.
Guard Steven Samuels scored 25 points last Thursday in a loss to Union before scoring 18 and grabbing 12 rebounds in a loss at North Alabama on Saturday.
Shorter has won seven of its last 10.
In its first year of league play, Shorter is inelegible for the conference tournament, but games played against the Hawks count in league standings.
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The show will go on for Company C Contemporary Ballet next year, but not as a repertory dance troupe with a regular season of performances at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts and other Bay Area venues, the company's artistic director, Charles Anderson, announced this week.
The 12-year-old professional chamber company, which has won local and national accolades for presenting diverse, contemporary works, is undertaking a "shift" in its performance model that will focus on single projects, such as a Halloween ballet, slated to premiere in October 2015, and a one-day dance carnival in San Francisco in the summer of 2015. Anderson announced the changes, which include not renewing the contracts of its 14 dancers when the season ends in May, at its winter program "Edge and Entertainment" at the Lesher Center Thursday to Saturday. The program, which included two world premieres, repeats next weekend at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
Anderson, who co-founded the company, wouldn't describe this shift as scaling back operations, but he acknowledged that the decision to give up a regular performance season in 2015 is in part due to ongoing funding challenges.
Other factors also dictated this new direction, Anderson said. The company's co-founder and executive director, Elizabeth Reed, recently announced her retirement, effective June 30. And Anderson, a former member of the New York City Ballet, said he has long wanted to pursue other artistic and choreographic projects and collaborations without being tied to specific seasonal dates or venues.
"We're revising and changing, we're not ending anything," Anderson said. "We hope people will come along with us. I'm extremely proud of our dancers and the works we've put up. I think we've built up enough trust for 12 years that people will support these new ventures."
In a news release, Reed said her retirement "has been a difficult and long-contemplated decision." Anderson added that he, the company's board of directors and artistic collaborators, believe that a project-based model makes sense for the company. "This will allow me, the board of directors, our artists and collaborators the greatest flexibility in creating offerings that are artistically satisfying and serve our audiences while maintaining the standards we have established in 12 years of successful operations."
Anderson said the Halloween ballet and the dance carnival are enormous undertakings, but he hopes they will become popular annual events that will help the company offset costs of any other future projects. He describes the strategy as similar to the way dance companies often rely on their annual "Nutcracker" productions to support the rest of their seasons.
Since its launch in 2002, the company has licensed works from such contemporary masters as Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp, Daniel Ezralow and Lar Lubovitch, while also commissioning more than 40 world premieres. Performing at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center and in other Bay Area venues, the company in 2010 was named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine and has been nominated for seven Isadora Duncan Awards, which honor Bay Area dance artists.
The company program this weekend at the Lesher Center included what this newspaper's critic, Ann Murphy, called the "musically stormy" and athletic "Weather One," a world premiere by former American Ballet Theatre ballerina Susan Jaffe, and the "brooding and often beautiful" "Railroad Joint" by Yuri Zhukov. The company will repeat the program Feb. 13 to 16 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and plans a spring program, "Adjusting the Lens," to be performed at the ODC Theater in San Francisco April 25 to May 3 and at the Lesher Center May 5 to 11.
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There are different types of surgery used in the treatment of lung cancer. Your doctor may recommend one of the following procedures in the treatment of your lung cancer.
This surgery may be done by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Using this procedure, several small incisions are made to remove a portion of a lung. Occasionally the operation cannot be done by VATS and a larger incision has to be made in the chest to remove the tumor and lung. This is called a thoracotomy.
Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells and/or keep cancer cells from growing where the radiation is provided. Radiation therapy is aimed from a machine outside the body targeting the tumor. This is often used with lung cancer and performed by a radiation oncologist. The radiation therapy is calculated so you receive a high enough dose of radiation aimed at the tumor while sparing normal tissue. Radiation therapy can also be provided internally with a radiation device placed inside the body by the tumor. This is not used as often with lung cancer.
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Chemotherapy is often given through a vein in an IV (intravenous) catheter, or through a large catheter, called a port, that is implanted in the chest. This will prevent you from having a needle inserted in a vein each time you need medicine. Chemotherapy is less irritating when it is placed in a large vein through a port. The chemotherapy then moves throughout the body to kill cancer cells. This is systemic treatment. Some newer chemotherapy medications may be given as a pill.
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Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 8:07 a.m.
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BOILING SPRINGS, SC- Raymond E. "Tootsie" Edwards, 76, of Spartanburg, SC, died Saturday, November 17, 2012, at his home. Born November 25, 1935, in Spartanburg, he was the son of the late Clain and Eva Leonard Edwards. He was the husband of Mary Jackson Edwards. He retired from Butte Knit and was a member of Rock Falls Church. Mr. Edwards was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are two daughters, Penny Eubanks and husband Chuck and Teresa Henderson and husband Steve; two sons, Steven Edwards and wife Debbie and Todd Edwards and wife Stacy; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and honorary daughter, Pam Baker.
Visitation will be 7:00-9:00 PM Monday, November 19, 2012, at Floyd's Boiling Springs Chapel. Funeral services will be at 2:00 PM Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at Floyd's Boiling Springs Chapel. Burial with military honors will be in Good Shepherd Memorial Park.
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A cosmopolitan city, London is an epicenter of global finance and politics where cultures intertwine, neighborhoods hold secrets whispered through time, and famous events like London Fashion Week take place on an annual basis. The metropolitan area draws millions of visitors each year to attractions such as the Houses of Parliament, which features the 16-story clock tower Big Ben, and Buckingham Palace. Set on the banks of the River Thames, London offers a fantastic mix of history, food, shopping and museums. The pageantry of the Changing of the Guard and Trooping the Colour create spectacles adored by all, while modern marvels include one of the world's biggest observation wheels.
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Cultural attractions
Exhibits at institutions such as the Royal Museum, the National Gallery, and the Imperial War Museum provide insightful perspectives of the country. From the First World War Galleries to the history of "Jack the Ripper", and artworks dating back to medieval times, enjoy a window on the past by visiting any of these attractions.
City buildings that have stood for hundreds of years include Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and the Royal Albert Hall where you can catch a concert in the evenings. The Tower of London is guarded by the legendary Beefeaters, while inside the diamond-studded Crown Jewels glitter for guests throughout the day.
Stroll along historic footpaths in colorful Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, or enjoy a spectacular bird's-eye view of the city from atop the London Eye.
London' districts are attractions in their own right, and if you take a trip through the East End you will discover the setting for numerous films and television shows. View the ancient street layout and medieval churches in The City, the earliest Roman settlement, or visit Greenwich, home of the Prime Meridian. The Leicester Square neighborhood houses famous Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, and city tours are a great way to scale the geography of sprawling London.
Shopping and dining
Power shoppers will discover the haute couture boutiques and trendy designer stores of Knightsbridge, Bond Street and Covent Garden, as well as Oxford and Regent Streets. In addition to high-end clothes, you can also find vintage apparel in quirky local establishments.
Once known for its ubiquitous fish and chips, bangers and mash, and even eels, London has since emerged as a center of gastronomic delights. This melting pot of cultures creates a restaurant scene that thrives on fusion and international cuisine. Foodies can enjoy high tea and Anglo-Indian dishes like chicken tikka masala, Turkish kebabs and Mexican-style burritos.
Nightlife and entertainment
When the sun sets after a day of sightseeing, guests can visit local pubs and live music venues featuring internationally-acclaimed DJs and bands. Tracing its origins to Shakespeare, London's West End Theatre district presents musicals and plays starring famous actors from screen and stage. You can also enjoy performances in the Opera House, where the Royal Symphony, Opera and Ballet companies are showcased.
This English capital hosts a series of yearly celebrations that include Wimbledon and other major sporting events, the Notting Hill Carnival, the Lord Mayor's Show and the Totally Thames Festival.
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Spring is one of the best times to visit London. In addition to mild temperatures, the city's parks and gardens begin to bloom. Humidity levels tend to be higher in the summer months, but those looking to sample strawberries and cream, or Pimm's at the tennis should book a stay in late June or early July.
Travel and hotels are more likely to be reasonably priced and readily available in the fall and winter monthsalthough visitors should be aware that London is popular for Christmas gift shopping in December.
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From Bayswater and Paddington to Knightsbridge, the West End and Camden, the neighborhood where you choose to vacation in London will depend very much upon what you want to do on your trip. Historic hotels like Flemings Mayfairthe second oldest in the capitalhave a Georgian flair that harks back to the days when carriages rolled through the streets while contemporary accommodations include the K West and the Apex. Prices range quite dramatically, so it's best to search around online before you go.
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Visitors can reach London through one of six airports, including Gatwick (LGW), Heathrow (LHR) and Stansted (STN). Traveling between these aviation gateways and London's major attractions is easy due to the city's comprehensive public transportation network. Options include the iconic red double-decker buses, Docklands Light Railway and the Underground, as well as Thames River commuter boats and pleasure cruises. Consider using an Oyster Card, a contactless smartcard, instead of individual paper tickets, to save time and money. Another option for traveling within the English city is taking one of London's world-famous black cabs.
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SACRAMENTO -- GOP uber-strategist Karl Rove on Saturday told California Republicans they need to modernize their message while holding tight to their party principles.
But absent from his lunchtime address Saturday to delegates of the California Republican Party's spring convention was the kind of blistering criticism he'd earlier aimed at tea party and ultra-conservative activists, whom he blamed for widespread GOP losses across the country in November.
Rove's appearance was nearly eclipsed by a controversy stirred up by Celeste Greig, the head of the conservative California Republican Assembly, a grass-roots group that Ronald Reagan once called "the conscience of the Republican Party." Greig made national news when she told this newspaper on the eve of the convention that pregnancies from rape were rare "because it's an act of violence, because the body is traumatized."
Ironically, Greig made the comment while she was criticizing former U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, who in August told an interviewer that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." It was a remark that many believe led not only to his November defeat by Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill but also helped tarnish the Republican brand around the country.
It wasn't what Republicans had in mind as they gathered over the weekend to try to create an environment of embracing broader views. Tom Del Beccaro, the California GOP's outgoing chairman, refused to address the issue.
Greig's remark seemed to stem from the debate over abortion and whether exceptions on limits to women's right to abortions such as rape or incest should be allowed, said Stephen Frank, a GOP political consultant, conservative talk-show host and fellow member of the California Republican Assembly.
Many Republicans share the belief that neither rape nor incest should be exceptions to bans on abortions, he said.
"Regardless of the method of conception, a human life has been created," Frank said. "Do you kill a human life because of the method that conceived it? It's about conception and innocent life. It's about what do you do with an innocent life that is conceived. I don't want to commit a second crime ending the life of a fetus."
Greig, however, told this newspaper Saturday night that she supports the right of a woman to choose abortion in the case of rape or incest. And she acknowledged that she didn't have the medical background to know what percentage of rapes result in pregnancies. She said that her Facebook page has been bombarded by "people who've been saying terrible things about me."
Rove, who was President George W. Bush's chief political adviser, urged the conservative GOP activists assembled at the Hyatt Regency and Sacramento Convention Center to be open to new candidates and new ideas.
"We're going to have to have a little forbearance in listening to the ideas and suggestions of other people in our party about how we modernize ourselves and get ready for the next contests in the future," Rove said, "because we don't own all the answers right now. I don't want to snuff out the next Jack Kemp by saying well, don't worry, he's not a principled person."
Rove was referring to the former NFL quarterback-turned-congressman from New York state who was one of the first politicians to embrace the so-called Laffer curve, the supply-side economic theory behind President Ronald Reagan's historic tax cuts in 1981. Kemp, who died in 2009, was seen as a moderate on social issues while pursuing conservative economic policies.
"Ronald Reagan, who was smart as hell, said this is a great way to modernize the Republican Party and (the) Kemp-Roth (tax cut) became a key element of the 1980 presidential campaign," Rove said. "It changed America."
Rove's appearance had little to do with California's importance on the national level for the Republican Party. He said he was "summoned" by longtime friend Jim Brulte, the presumed incoming party chairman, whose task is to dig the California Republican Party out of the deep hole it finds themselves, in because of the state is becoming bluer and bluer as it becomes more Latino and Asian American.
The state party is still reeling from humiliating defeats in November that gave Democrats two-thirds majorities in the Assembly and state Senate. It's $500,000 in debt and doesn't even have offices for its staff, which has dwindled to a handful of employees who work from home.
The California GOP's only gubernatorial prospect for 2014 is a conservative assemblyman who was once a border vigilante and was once caught with a loaded gun at an airport. And Republican voter registration in the state is at an all-time low of 29.3 percent.
"Losing has one great benefit to it," Rove said. "It gives you the chance to start fresh to look everything anew and start rebuilding from the ground up in innovative and thoughtful ways that will expand our reach and expand our members."
Rove said the party would not improve its brand simply by tweaking "tactical stuff" such as walking precincts.
"We've got a strategic issue," he said. "We have great principles, but we sometimes talk about those principles in a way that makes it sound like it's in 1968 or 1980 or 2000 -- and it's not. It's 2012 on its way to 2014.
Republicans, he said, need to take their "timeless principles and apply them to the new circumstances that the country finds itself in. And we need to talk about our principles in a way that people can get their hands around them."
Rove saved his sharpest barbs for President Barack Obama, who he said is more "concerned with beating his Republican opposition, breaking us apart, putting it at war with each other, creating a civil war among Republicans, making us dispirited, disorganized and on the sidelines."
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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BOEMRE Preparing Assessment for Offshore Wind in the mid-Atlantic
February 16, 2011
Public comment for use in the environmental assessment (EA) of mid-Atlantic offshore wind development is being accepted through March 11, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced on February 8. The EA will analyze the impacts of leasing as well as associated site characterization surveys and assessments for the areas identified for priority commercial wind development. Analyses will be initiated for designated "wind energy areas" off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. On February 7, DOE and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), which oversees BOEMRE, announced coordinated efforts to speed development of U.S. offshore wind energy resources.
The EA is part of DOI's "Smart from the Start" renewable energy initiative that will facilitate environmentally responsible leasing of designated wind energy areas on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf that are most suitable for potential development. See the BOEMRE press release and the notice in the Federal Register.


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DOE and DOT Release Fuel Cell Transit Bus Targets RFI
June 1, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation have issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from stakeholders and the research community on proposed technical and cost targets for fuel cell transit buses.
DOE and DOT are currently working to identify appropriate technical and cost targets for fuel cell transit buses. The targets represent values required to make fuel cell transit buses competitive with conventional transit buses. They are driven by market requirements and are not based on the operating parameters or constraints of specific technologies. Targets are generally set with industry and market input and help drive the research and development required for improvements in materials, designs, and systems. The proposed targets included in this RFI were developed in a preliminary round of stakeholder input, and further stakeholder input, including input from manufacturers and end users, is requested to refine the targets.
For details, see the RFI announcement for DE-FOA-0000542 or e-mail questions concerning the RFI. All responses must be e-mailed no later than 04:59 PM MT on July 1, 2011.


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STANFORD -- A Stanford mathematician became the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the mathematician's Nobel Prize.
Maryam Mirzakhani -- who studies the symmetry of curved surfaces and other theoretical concepts known as "pure mathematics" -- also is the first Stanford professor to be awarded the medal since 1966, according to the university.
The award is given every four years to no more than four mathematicians, all of whom are 40 or younger. She will received it Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea.
"This is a great honor. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians," she said in a news release from Stanford. "I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years."
Born and raised in Iran, Mirzakhani won gold medals at two International Math Olympiads competitions as a teenager, with a perfect score in the second one. She came to the United States in 1999 for her graduate work, studying under Harvard professor and Fields Medal recipient Curtis McMullen.
She joined the Stanford faculty in 2008 and lives in Palo Alto with her husband and 3-year-old daughter.
"I don't have any particular recipe," Mirzakhani said of her approach to problem-solving in the news release. "It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out."
News of the award spread quickly on social media. Fellow mathematician Izabella Laba of the University of British Columbia celebrated the achievement in a blog post Tuesday titled, "Maryam Mirzakhani makes history."
"Mirzakhani's selection does exactly nothing to convince me that women are capable of doing mathematical research at the same level as men. I have never had any doubt about that in the first place," she wrote. "What I take from it instead is that we as a society, men and women alike, are becoming better at encouraging and nurturing mathematical talent in women, and more capable of recognizing excellence in women's work.
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Yarn Profile:
Buffalo Gold #11
First Impressions
Cecil Miskin and his son Ron may not be knitters (although Ron admits to casting on a pair of Maine Morning Mitts once), but they are genuinely passionate about making the very best possible yarn they can out of American bison fiber.
A lawyer by trade, Cecil moved to Texas some 30 years ago and bought a ranch. After raising all sorts of animals, Cecil became particularly intrigued by the American bison (commonly but unofficially called "buffalo"—true buffalo are from Africa or India and produce no usable fiber). Every spring, these animals naturally shed their heavy winter coats, and Cecil began collecting the fibers. On a whim, he posted a four-pound batch of those fibers on eBay and they sold for $240. And that's when his real fiber journey began.
Bison were long a keystone species of the Great Plains before being hunted to near extinction by the 1870s. Careful preservation and reintroduction efforts have brought the American bison population back to near 400,000 today—of which some 55,000 animals per year are slaughtered for the thriving bison meat industry.
Cecil noticed that the bison meat industry was not as interested in the hides. In fact, those hides (with their delicate down fibers) were often simply destroyed.
He made it his mission to transform that waste into gold, consulting everyone from research scientists to leather experts as he developed a gentle and effective way to remove hairs from the hides. Once he had the fiber extraction part figured out, he started consulting yarn experts, slowly and steadily experimenting with different processors and mills, twists and plies, in his quest for a perfect yarn.
Every time I'd run into Cecil or Ron at a festival, they'd pull me aside and show me their latest experiment. With each skein, I could see clear improvements. And although I admired their perseverance, I still held back on a review. Finally, I touched their Buffalo Gold #11, an ethereal two-ply lace-weight that was dehaired and carded by the only equipment on the planet that's delicate enough to do the job right, and I knew they'd made it. The yarn is not only ready for a review, it is leaping off the shelf and begging for a run on my needles.
The chocolate brown color you see in the above photographs is exactly as the animal grows it. This yarn has not been dyed or bleached and is not available in any other colors.
Knitting Up
But this is the first time I have encountered a skein that didn't even have tied ends—they just wrapped the ends around the hank a few times and then tucked them underneath. (They did add a few cross-ties that were easily popped off.)
The fiber in this yarn has been processed with great care. In only a few cases did I spot a slightly longer, more unruly hair sticking out. The yarn had no qualms about being asked to knit stockinette, producing even stitches with nary a snag to be found. But it really wanted to work lace, which it did with absolute ease. (Sorry, I can't tell you what I'm knitting—it's a surprise!)
Blocking / Washing
My swatches blocked back to a perfect shape, with no change in gauge whatsoever. And best of all, the fibers had bloomed beautifully without overpowering or concealing the stitches underneath—which is ideal for lacework where you want a halo but you don't want to lose the open architecture of your stitches.
Since most of us don't use lace in rugged, high-wear projects, I don't see this as much of a show-stopper. But it's something to keep in mind if you happen to be wearing your Buffalo Gold shawl and accidentally brush up against a splintered fence post while out checking on your bison herd.
In terms of touch, this yarn is extremely soft and lightweight, with excellent insulating qualities.
The yarn's high price—$84 per 400-yard skein—reflects its best-of-breed processing choices. After skirting and scouring the fibers themselves in Texas, they send the fibers to Peru to be dehaired and carded at the same facility that processes qiviut, guanaco, and vicuna fibers for Jacques Cartier. From there, the fibers go to Italy to be spun, and are then returned to Texas for final inspection before making their way out to stores.
All that travel does leave a bit of a carbon footprint that may concern some knitters. Buffalo Gold #11 has more stamps on its passport (and costs more) than the other Buffalo Gold yarns, which are produced in Canada (Buffalo Gold #5), Michigan (Buffalo Gold #4 and #7s), and Connecticut (Buffalo Gold #6).
While far less than qiviut, Buffalo Gold #11 is still a bit more expensive than, say, your average cashmere lace-weight yarn, but cashmere processing is much more streamlined, which reduces costs. In terms of American bison fiber, Cecil and Ron—and another person I'll introduce next week—are pretty much figuring it out as they go along.
I'm willing to pay a little more for the experience of knitting with such a skillfully created yarn—even if for just one truly memorable shawl. I also like being able to put faces to the people who harvested the fibers I'm knitting—and to know that they really do care whether or not I'm happy with the results. But ultimately I admire the ongoing commitment and persistence that Cecil and Ron have demonstrated in striving to make a better product. It makes me wonder where they'll take us next.
Yarn name
Buffalo Gold #11
Buffalo Gold
Fiber content
100% American Bison down
Average retail price
Where to buy online
Dreamweaver Yarns
Weight/yardage per skein
50g / 400 yards (365m)
Country of origin
American fibers skirted and scoured in Texas, dehaired and carded in Peru, and spun in Italy. Whew!
Manufacturer's suggested wash method
Wash like fine delicates.
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Color used in review
n/a (the color is natural)
Wholesale distributor
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Wednesday October 20, 2010
Grovetown, Ga--A year ago D.J. Tyson was doing damage on the field for Greenbrier. But with his dad now a coach at Grovetown, he wanted to be with him. It's paying off in wins as Tyson is a big part of the Warrior offense. This week, we honor the senior as our Operation Football Live/Augusta Chronicle player of the week.
Against Josey, Tyson's second half was a big reason the Warriors won. 162 yards and two scores in that half alone helped them pull away for the win. Grovetown has some big time play makers and speed and Tyson fits in perfectly with the working man attitude the team has.
"You want your seniors to be there and doing what they're suppose to do and that's what D.J. is doing right now." said coach Rodney Holder "He comes to work everyday, he practices hard and punches that time clock and he appreciates his linemen and he's just doing it the right way and when you do things like that, its funny how things just work out for you."
"We've all been out here working hard every day." said DJ Tyson "I give all my credit to the O-line because they played great on Friday night and that's why I give all the credit to and this award to."
Warriors have a big test this week taking on ARC. The winner will likely be the two seed in the region playoffs and Tyson should be in the midst of the defensive focus again.


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End of Year - 2015
Another year has gone by and I guess it is time to review the things I set out to do and grade myself on how well (or poorly) I fared. Here are some of my goals for 2015:
Read 70 Books
Grade: PASS
Even though I had a very, very busy year at work, with many releases of Red Hat Satellite 5 and Red Hat Satellite 6 shipped to our customers, I managed to surpass my goal of reading 70 books, finishing the year with a whopping 79 books read! You can see the books I read here: Year in Books
This year I also spent a good chunk of my time looking at old, used books, and my personal book collection increased considerably. At one point I had so many piles of books lying around the house that I had to buy 4 new book cases to store them. At first I wanted to have them custom made, but the estimates I got from 3-4 different people were way out of my budget. In the end I went with 4 Billy Bookcases from Ikea, which cost me about 10 times less!
If you want to see what I'm reading or want to recommend a book which you think I might enjoy reading, please feel free to add me on GoodReads.more ...
Books - September 2015
Books - August 2015
This August 2015 I took a break from work and spent about 6 days enjoying some R&R down the North Carolina shore with my family. I managed to get through some of the books that were waiting for a long time for me to get to them, as well as try some new authors.
The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
I forgot where I read about how the short story "The Sentinel" was the inspiration for "2001: A Space Odyssey", but being that I have always considered the latter a great book and movie, I managed to grab a copy of the anthology "The Sentinel" just so that I could read the short story by the same name and see what else Arthur C. Clarke "had to offer." Interestingly enough (to me), most if not all the other short stories included in this collection could easily be published today and still feel just as futuristic as they probably were back when they were first published! This was yet another one of the books that I read by the beach this Summer and though it didn't blow me away, it was still a very relaxing read.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
This last June I got from my family for my birthday "John Carter of Mars" containing the complete series and I was just itching for a good opportunity to start reading it. That chance came up this week as I started reading some of Melville's short stories and found that I needed a bit of a "break". First off, I have never read Edgar Rice Burroughs before but I do have a copy of "Tarzan of the Apes" also awaiting for a chance, so I had an idea about what to expect from his style. Sure enough, reading "A Princess of Mars" felt like a taking a trip down memory's lane, back when it was easy to tell who the good and the bad guys were, and there was always a damsel in distress somewhere waiting to be rescued. I have to confess that it took me a few chapters to get re-acclimated with this style, but once I got into it, it was easy reading, which is exactly what I was looking for any how.
John Carter, the main character, shows all the expected, cliché virtues one would expect from a "hero" but one thing that bothered me a bit was the language he used to describe those who were different from him (which was mostly everyone in the story, since they were all Martians) and the way he treated them. It felt a bit abusive and even a but racist? I don't know if someone could get away with writing in the same style today, but then again I remembered that back then people were not as politically correct as we are today... or maybe I was reading too much into it? Anyhow, it was a fun read and I think I will try to add the next 4 books of the series in the coming months so that I can hopefully get a better opinion formed about the author.
Books - July 2015
This July 2015 I travelled to the Red Hat office in Brno, Czech Republic to spend some time with my teammates there, and I managed to get a lot of reading done between long plane rides and being jet lagged for many nights :) So I finally managed to finish up some of the books that had been lingering on my ToDo list and even managed to finally read a few of the books that together make up the Chronicles of Narnia, since I had never read them as a kid.
- Armada by Ernest Cline
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
- The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The October Country by Ray Bradbury
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe por C. S. Lewis
Out of all the books I read this month, I feel that All Quiet on the Western Front and The October Country were the ones I enjoyed reading the most, closely followed by Cryptonomicon, which took me a while to get through. The other books, with the exception of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, helped me pass the time when I only wanted to be entertained.
All Quiet on the Western Front takes the prize for being one of the best books I have ever read! I felt that the way WWI was presented through the eyes of the main character was a great way to represent all the pain, angst and suffering that all sides of conflict went through, without catering for any particular side or having an agenda. Erich Maria Remarque's style had me some times breathless, some times with a knot on the pit of my stomach I as 'endured' the many life changing events that took place in the book. Is this an action-packed book about WWI? Will it read like a thriller? In my opinion, even though there are many chapters with gory details about killings and battles, the answer is a very bland 'maybe'. I think that the real 'star' of this book is its philosophical view of the war and how the main characters, all around 19-20 years of age, learn to deal with its life lasting effects.
Now, I have been a huge fan of Ray Bradbury for a while now, and when I got The October Country for my birthday last month, I just knew that it would be time well spent reading it. For those of you who are more acquainted his science fiction works, this book will surprise you as it shows you a bit of his 'darker' side. All of the short stories included in this collection deal with death, mysterious apparitions, inexplicable endings and are sure to spook you a little bit.
Cryptonomicon was at times slow, some other times funny and, especially toward the end, a very entertaining book. Weighing in at a hefty 1000 pages (depending on the edition you have, plus/minus 50 odd pages), this book covers two different periods in the lives of a number of different characters, past (around WWII) and present, all different threads eventually leading to a great finale. Alternating between past and present, the story takes us to the early days of how cryptology was 'officially invented' and used during the war, and how many of the events that took place back then were affecting the lives of some of the direct descendants of the main characters in our present day. As you go through the back and forth you start to gather bits and pieces of information that eventually connects all the dots of an interesting puzzle. It definitely requires a long term commitment to go though it, but it was enjoyable and, as I mention before, it made me laugh at many places.more ...
Books - June 2015
Those of you who know me know that I am a huge book reader and spend most of my free time reading several books at the same time. One could say that reading is one of my passions, and having wasted so many years after high school completely ignoring this passion (in exchange for spending most of my time trying to learn about Linux, get an education, a job and, let's be frank, chasing after girls), I decided that something had to be done about it, and starting around 2008 I 'forced' myself to dedicate at least one solid hour of reading for fun every day.
I find it funny to say that I had to force myself, but this statement is very much true. Being so used to spending all of my time sitting in front of a computer and getting flooded with information every single minute of the day (IRC, Twitter, Facebook, commit emails, RSS feeds, etc), I found it difficult to 'unplug' and spend time doing nothing but focusing on only one thing. I was so used to multitasking and being constantly bombarded with lots of information that sitting quietly and reading didn't feel very productive to me... sad but true.
Anyhow, after several 'agonizing' months of getting up from my desk and making a point of turning off my cel phone and finding a quiet place somewhere in the building (or at home during the weekends), I finally got into the habit of reading for pleasure. I actually looked forward to these reading periods (imagine that, huh?) and eventually I realized that if I skipped this 'ritual' even one day, my days felt like they got longer and I felt stressed out and irritable for the remaining of the day. Reading became not only a good habit but my mechanism for relaxing and recharging my energies during the day!
Well, this passion and appetite for reading has only gotten bigger, and with time I have to say that it has become a pretty big part of who I am today! In a way I am happy that it took me this long to get back into the habit of reading... I mean, I feel that getting older was an important part of preparing myself so that I could really appreciate John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury and the likes of them! Would I have truly appreciated The Grapes of Wrath when I was younger? Perhaps... but it took me around 40 years to get to it and I'm happy that when it did I was able to appreciate this amazing piece of art!
These last few months I decided that I wanted to start tracking all the books that I read, buy or receive as a gift every month (see my reading progress on GoodReads and add me as a friend), and jot down some of my impressions and motives for reading or buying them. Those familiar with Nick Hornby will probably associate this post (and hopefully others that will surely come) with the work he has done writing for the Believer Magazine ... and this would be correct. My intention is not to copy his style or anything like that, but I thought that the format he chose to report on his own reading 'adventures' would fit in quite nicely with what I wanted to get across to my readers... and I'm sticking with the format as long as it works for me :)more ...
2014 in Book Covers
For my last post of 2014 I wanted to show, with pictures, the books I read and spent so much time with this year.
Back in January of 2014 I set out to read 30 books as part of my Reading Challenge. I wanted to focus on reading Brazilian authors early on as I felt that I really needed to learn more about Brazilian literature and this time, read books for fun and not because I was told to back when I was much younger.
Three Years and Counting!
Making a quick pit stop to mark this milestone in my professional career: today is my 3-year anniversary at Red Hat! Time has certainly flown by and I really cannot believe that it has been three years since I joined this company.
I know it is sort of cliche to say "I can not believe that it has been this long..." and so on and so forth, but it is so true. Back then I joined a relatively new project with very high ambitions, and the first few months had me swimming way out in the deepest part of the pool, trying to learn all 'Red Hat-things' and Clojure for the existing automation framework (now we are fully using Python).more ...
Woke up this morning and, as usual, sat down to read the Books section of The New York Times while drinking my coffee. This has become sort of a 'tradition' for me and because of it I have been able to learn about many interesting books, some of which I would not have found out on my own. I also 'blame' this activity to turning my nightstand into a mini-library on its own.
Currently I have the following books waiting for me:
- The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
- The New Yorker Stories
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- Doctor Zhivago
- Redshirts
- Dubliners
- The House of Seven Gables
- Lolita
The End For Pylyglot
It was around 2005 when I started doing translations for Free and Open-Source Software. Back then I was warmly welcomed to the Ubuntu family and quickly learned all there was to know about using their Rosetta online tool to translate and/or review existing translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language. I spent so much time doing it, even during working hours, that eventually I sort of "made a name for myself" and made my way up to the upper layers of the Ubuntu Community echelon.
Then I "graduated" and started doing translations for the upstream projects, such as GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and Openbox. I took on more responsabilities, learned to use Git and make commits for myself as well as for other contributors, and strived to unify all Brazilian Portuguese translations across as many different projects as possible. Many discussions were had, (literally) hundreds of hours were spent going though also hundreds of thoundands of translations for hundreds of different applications, none of it bringing me any monetary of financial advantage, but all done for the simple pleasure of knowing that I was helping make FOSS applications "speak" Brazilian Portuguese.more ...


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The Maricopa Unified School District is planning a big celebration on Saturday to mark the opening of its new swimming pool and gymnasium.
The event starts at 1 p.m. with a ribbon cutting, followed by tours of the gym and pool, free swimming and use of the gym.
A barbecue will be served from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. by the Maricopa PTO with a choice of hot dog or hamburger dinner for just $4.
The district broke ground on the 15,325 square foot complex in May 2012, several years after the voters in the MUSD passed a school bond.
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A friend was allowed to tape the second set off the board this night. Unfortunately the signal was crap and the board is low level and has much hiss on it Bummer..this show is fun to listen to! Great FOAM!!!!
Saturday, 05/09/1992
The Syracuse Armory, Syracuse, NY
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Sparkle, SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, GuelahGuelah Papyrus[1], Rift, Fee > Maze, CoilThe Squirming Coil > IDKI Didn't Know[2], AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Set 2: SuzySuzy Greenberg > DividedDivided Sky, Tela > Tweezer, Harpua[3], Llama, Cold as Ice > Cracklin' Rosie > HYHUHold Your Head Up, GolgiGolgi Apparatus
Encore: Poor Heart > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] All Fall Down and Simpsons signals.
[2] Mimi Fishman on vacuum.
[3] Two Simpsons signals.
· Theme from Popeye tease in Suzy Greenberg
· Dave's Energy Guide tease in Tweezer
· Smells Like Teen Spirit tease in Harpua
· Possum tease
Noteworthy Jams: Split Open and Melt, Tweezer (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 2.7
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Mimi Fishman (Guest)
Notes: During the pause in Guelah Papyrus, a fan jumped on stage and hugged Mike. Security removed her and Trey commented "that was Mike's mother coming up so he could wish her a Happy Mother's Day." Mike responded with "Happy Mother's Day Mom." Guelah subsequently included All Fall Down and Simpsons signals. Mimi Fishman joined Henrietta for a vacuum duet during I Didn't Know. Suzy contained a Popeye theme tease from Trey, Tweezer contained DEG teases, and Harpua contained two Simpsons signals and included a brief Smells Like Teen Spirit tease. Possum was teased prior to Golgi.
Song Distribution:
5 A Picture of Nectar
4 Junta
3 Rift
3 Lawn Boy
2 Stash
2 The White Tape
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "1992 Spring Tour."
A friend was allowed to tape the second set off the board this night. Unfortunately the signal was crap and the board is low level and has much hiss on it Bummer..this show is fun to listen to! Great FOAM!!!!
This show starts off very good with a solid Jim and Foam. Sparkle is ok. Melt is pretty solid as well. Guelah is where the night starts to get loose and funny. Trey comments about Mike's mom coming up and seeing him after the Asse Festival section, which takes them into the All Fall Down and Simpson's. Rift is a little rough getting into Page's solo. Fee is ok, leading into a very loose Maze intro. Trey is a little too anxious. Coil is good. Keeping with the Mother's Day theme, IDK features Mimi Fishman, who comes up and starts in on stories of Jon's youth, gets a vac solo, and gets to asks, "Is this a picture of Otis Redding?" Antelope has a sloppy intro, but rocks out the end of the set.
Nice Suzy to start the second set. Trey has tuning problems during Suzy and throughout the begining of Divided Sky. Sounds like he fixed it in the middle hold part. Tela is loose and mellow. Tweezer gets out there tonight, maybe the first one of this kind. Hard to judge a Harpua, they are all good. Great story tonight. Llama rocks as usual. Cold as Ice leads us into one of mom's favorites. Fish blows the lyrics to Rosie. Strangely, for a second time, HYHU ends the Henrietta segment. Golgi is a little sloppy, but a good closer.
The Poor Heart encore also has blown lyrics before the cactus breakdown. Tweeprise is expected, nothing special.
Ok show tonight, fun for sure, but not a lot of wow factor for me. Very loose. I give them a pass because of the Mother's Day antics.
We were 'smoking' right there, right in front, the whole, whole show, unashamedly, no prob, exhaling with pride (we were 17...I cant even fathom this today!)
The young girl who climbed on stage to hug Mike during the pause in Guelah used me as a ladder, without permission or warning. It was so, so, un-Rock-Star though, everyone just stood there all calmly as she calmly walked up to Mike, calmly hugged him, and security calmly walked her off stage. That's when Trey says "That was Mike's mother, coming up to wish him a happy Mother's Day" and Mike responds "Happy Mother's Day Mom!"
The 1st set was really really fun, with Mimi coming up to play vacuum and tell some stories about young Jon (or try!) (PS, this is mentioned in an old Phish Newsletter I still have from Fall 92, and there is a pic of her and Jon onstage this night).
The 2nd set is when things got goin. And I mean...goin. Trey's guitar went out of tune during Divided, and he used a pause in the song to quickly tune up.
I swear, to my dying day: the solo in this Divided Sky was a personal exchange between Trey and my buddy standing next to me. Trey stared him in the eyes, in the eyes, the whole solo and my buddy stared right back. I was observing this. Trey was divining energy from my buddy's energy and vice-versa. Yep, that was what it was all about.
Tela was just beautiful.
Harpua topped off the magic, and personal vibe. It was a big party; and four of the partiers happened to be playing instruments.
Something weird happened for the encore though:
Mike walks out with a bag of black plastic ties, the kind that lock and you'd tie a bundle of cords with, takes one out and wraps it around his bass neck, and for some reason played Poor Heart with this black tie under his left hand almost like a slide. I never saw anything like it, before or since.
I don't recall if he kept the weird plastic tie on his bass neck for Tweezer Reprise but........
At the end of Tweezer Reprise, Mike grabs the bag of remaining ties off his amp, runs right up to ME and pours them on my head!!! Of course we all scrambled to grab a tie to bring home, I ended up with two, my buddy had one. Mine are both lost now, but my buddy still has his.
What a time, what a time....5 stars indeed.


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U.S. cannot go off 'fiscal cliff'
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 2:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 2:52 p.m.
United States voters and our elected officials have just emerged from one of the most-partisan campaigns and elections in recent years.
With each passing election, it seems our nation becomes more-rigidly divided between the two major political parties.
As the rigidity of party affiliation increases, our leaders' ability to work with one another suffers.
Being able to push partisanship aside to find a way to the larger good is no longer considered admirable or even desirable by some.
Unfortunately, that ideal is catching on.
In the coming weeks, the nation faces a potential crisis that will demand the best from these officials. It will demand that they put the nation before their petty alliances and their party allegiances.
This will come as something new to some of them, but it is necessary.
The federal government faces what has come to be called a "fiscal cliff," the deadline in January for Congress to pass a budget deal. If it fails to do so, a host of spending reductions and tax increases will automatically take effect.
The Tax Policy Center has estimated that middle-income families would be forced to pay $2,000 more in taxes next year under that scenario. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that unemployment would climb from the current rate of 7.9 percent to more than 9 percent. In addition, defense and domestic spending would undergo hundreds of billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts.
Both the president, newly elected to a second term, and congressional Republicans, who still control the House of Representatives, have indicated they are willing to work with the other side to reach an agreement and put off the fiscal cliff.
While that is good to hear and certainly a welcome sign of possible compromise, their actions in the coming days and weeks will speak much more loudly and give us a much better indication of how likely the cliff scenario is.
There is likely to be a lot of partisan puffery from both sides between now and whenever the dilemma is resolved.
There will be recriminations, with each side accusing the other of being unwilling to make sensible compromises.
Our officials must rise above and place the interests of the nation and its people first.
Too often, what should be common-sense national priorities take a backseat to the partisan bickering that turn off so many moderate voters.
We cannot afford for that short-sighted thinking to continue. Americans deserve a government that responds to the interests of the people and businesses of this great nation without being beholden above all to political parties.
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Teaching Areas: Social work practice in health settings; Impact of physical illness, disability, or injury; Integrative social work practice seminars; Interprofessional practice seminars
Education History: MSW, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
Community and Professional Service: Allocation Panel, United Way of Greater St. Louis
Professor Banks is a Field Education Liaison for students in the Health & Mental Health Concentration and is chair of the Health & Mental Health Concentration Curriculum Committee. She teaches Social Work Practice in the Health Field and the Health Integrative Practice Seminar.
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The application, called CopLogic, allows people to report harassing phone calls, identity theft, lost property, vandalism, and theft that doesn't involve burglary or robbery. Police previously had an online reporting system but it was difficult to navigate, said San Jose police Sgt. Jason Dwyer.
"The old system wasn't user friendly," said Dwyer. "Your average person will be able to make it through this one -- it's a lot simpler."
Dwyer said the CopLogic application also helps "data-driven policing" because information about where crimes happen is instantly available and easier to track with the automated system.
"We can look for hotspots in a geographic area," he said. "It helps paint a picture of where crimes occur. That's a big thing."
Dwyer said other agencies have been using CopLogic with success and "we're very lucky to have it."
"It's the new wave of the future," he said. "With low staffing levels, anything we can do to streamline the crime reporting process is a welcome addition."
The online crime reporting system can be found at www.sjpd.org/ReportingCrime/OnlineReport.
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Area briefs: USC's Mitchell named SEC Freshman of the Week
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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South Carolina guard Tiffany Mitchell was named SEC Freshman of the Week, the league office announced on Monday. It is the second time this season she had collected the honor and came thanks to her 9.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game, which helped the Gamecocks to a pair of league wins last week.
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