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We strongly encourage culinary interest in the men in our lives. I am delighted to say that my husband has continued his run of taking over the kitchen on Sundays.
Poor guy. He's the one who is forever missing specialty dishes at home when he travels for business. Then he comes home on a weekend and volunteers to take on Sunday dinner. He favors hearty, manly foods like stews, braises, and lotsa meat. Last week, he pulled out his trusty Beef Stew recipe, courtesy of epicurious, and made a generous tub in advance of Hurricane Sandy's arrival.
Now, I know better than to make unsolicited suggestions to someone who is willing to cook dinner for me. At least not to his face. But I have to say that the beauty of a stew is that all of the ingredients are tossed in together, simmered to tenderness and spooned out later. This version requires a lot of different pots, many steps, at least one massive strain of hot ingredients through a colander, two versions of cooked vegetables (one for the stock, which is discarded, and one to simmer during the final hour of cooking and eat.) In sum, an awful lot of fuss for a meal that, in my mind, should be simple.
However–and this is a biggie–you can't argue with the results. The stew is delicious, and I am spared both the cooking and the cleanup. I am also given another night off, because this recipe makes enough for about 10 people, so I normally freeze half and save it for a(nother) rainy day.
He started by searing the meat, removing it from the pot, setting it aside,
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plans a road-expansion project at the intersection of routes 209 and 715 in Brodheadsville to eliminate the bottlenecks there.
The project, which has been given the go-ahead by almost all parties involved, would begin in early 2014 and include the addition of three new turning lanes at and near the intersection, probably the most notorious traffic chokepoint in the West End.
The project would take about a year to complete and would cost up to $2 million, said Brian Graver, a PennDOT engineer and the project's manager.
Traffic would only be mildly disrupted around the intersection during certain points in the construction, he said.
PennDOT has long been aware of the problem at this intersection, where cars can wait up to 10 minutes to get through the traffic light and area around it.
"There's been a bottleneck problem at this intersection for years now. I'm sure that the widening project will be popular with many people," Graver said.
PennDOT will display blueprints and other diagrams for the project at the Chestnuthill Township municipal building starting next week. But until then, here is what is in store if everything goes as planned:
- A new left-turn lane would be added to Route 209 north at the 715 intersection. This turning lane would begin near the William H. Kresge Funeral Home, about 160 feet from the actual intersection.
- A small, new northbound lane would be added to Route 715, at and near the Route 209 intersection. The new northbound lane would run 160 feet from the intersection and ultimately merge into Route 715's current northbound lane.
- A new left-turn lane would be added to Route 209 south at the Route 715 intersection. This lane would give southbound traffic the ability to easily make a left turn onto a street that hooks into the parking lot of RW Altemose & Son's True Value.
- A new traffic light would be installed at the intersection of routes 209 and 715. The new light would have turning arrows and would also be timed to handle the new traffic pattern.
"We really think that this project will nicely tie the homes and the businesses in the area together," Graver said.
PennDOT still must acquire rights of way from several property owners near the intersection in order to start the project. Graver said the project does not require a drastic reshaping of the terrain. For example, it does not require any demolition, any acquisition of property or the use of hazardous materials.
The public may inspect the blueprints and plans for the project from Dec. 12 to Dec. 21 at the Chestnuthill Township municipal building. Comment cards will be located near the blueprints. Comments and suggestions will be considered by PennDOT officials.
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In this Sunday May 5, 2013 photo, Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson takes to the touchline before his team's English Premier League soccer match against Chelsea at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England. Ferguson will step down as Manchester United manager at the end of the season after 26 years in charge. (AP Photo/Jon Super)


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ASPEN - The body of a skier, presumably that of Jeff Walker, who has been missing since March 7, was discovered by a snowboarder in an out-of-bounds section of the Northwoods area of Aspen Highlands on Wednesday afternoon, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said.
Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said deputies, the Pitkin County coroner and members of the Aspen Highlands ski patrol will investigate the death and likely recover the body Thursday. They will begin efforts at 7 a.m., he said.
"It was too late in the day to get up there today," DiSalvo said Wednesday night. "We want to do it the right way, not the fast way. This community has a right to get the correct answer about what happened."
The snowboarder notified ski patrol about the body, the sheriff said. Ski patrollers confirmed that a body was in the location -"not too far out of bounds and near a tree," DiSalvo said - but did not come closer than within 20 to 30 yards of it.
The Sheriff's Office had an agreement that ski patrol would not have contact with the body if it was discovered and would notify law enforcement immediately, DiSalvo said.
The body has not been identified, but DiSalvo said the person was wearing a blue ski jacket, like the one Walker was last seen wearing.
Undersheriff Ron Ryan said, "The ski patrol did confirm that they found a deceased male, but they kept their distance until we are able to get there and investigate the scene."
Both DiSalvo and Ryan said that there is no confirmation that it is Walker whose body was found. The sheriff, however, said that he notified Walker's mother that a body had been located.
Walker, 55, a wine consultant and salesman and Aspen resident was seen last at Aspen Highlands on March 7. His pass was scanned at the Exhibition chairlift at 12:04 p.m. Friends said he is an expert skier who skied Highland Bowl every day.
While Walker last was seen March 7, he was not reported missing until March 9.
Massive searches by authorities, Aspen Highlands ski patrol and public volunteers ensued. The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office and Mountain Rescue Aspen suspended their search after Monday. The ski patrol and volunteers continued looking.
The Sheriff's Office also conducted a so-called "rest of the world" investigation, speaking to Walker's friends and relatives and collecting financial and personal information about him. Walker has lived at Hunter Creek Condominiums in Aspen.


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SANTA CLARA — Coach Jim Harbaugh laughed off any notion that Colin Kaepernick might become complacent after last season's breakthrough as the 49ers starting quarterback.
Speaking to the NFL network at the owners meetings in Arizona, Harbaugh was asked what leads him to believe Kaepernick has 'that fire not to be satisfied.'
"Ha, because I know him," Harbaugh said, followed by another under-his-breath chuckle. "I know him. Satisfied is a word that confuses him, that confuses us, just knowing who he is."
Kaepernick went 7-3 upon replacing Alex Smith as the 49ers' starter last season, including their playoff run that ended with a 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII.
About a week after that defeat, Kaepernick headed to Duluth, Ga., to work out at CES Performance, which is also where he did conditioning before the 49ers' selected him in the second round of the 2011 draft.
"The neat thing about Colin is he loves the game and wants to be great, and he wants to be great and it's not self-centered. It's about the team," Harbaugh said. "Everything when you watch him train, work out or study the game, you see that love of the game driving him, and it makes him better."


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NEW YORK -- While 15-year-old Atherton resident CiCi Bellis was in the process of stunning a Grand Slam finalist to become the youngest player to win a U.S. Open match since 1996, her father did his best to conceal his emotions courtside.
Like many a teen, CiCi has strict rules for Dad in public -- even if his 1,208th-ranked daughter is pulling out a back-and-forth 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory Tuesday over 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in the first round at Flushing Meadows.
"I'm told I cannot sigh and I cannot move or say anything (because) that distracts her, so I just have to sit there like a Sphinx and just smile and pray," the elder Bellis, Gordon, explained with a deadpan delivery. "She hears me when I sigh. So I can't sigh."
Ah, yes, the joys of raising kids. And make no mistake, Bellis is a kid. She is home-schooled and about to start 10th grade. Her first memory of the U.S. Open is watching on TV while Maria Sharapova played. She likes to hang out at the mall with friends at home. Asked whether she's a fan of pop star Justin Bieber, Bellis answered, "I used to like him when I was younger, a couple years ago."
Her victory was the most surprising of the afternoon session on Day 2 of the year's last Grand Slam tournament.
Aside from the Williams sisters, American tennis fans have not had much reason to cheer for their own in the latter stages of major tournaments in recent years. That's why the occasional run by a young U.S. player -- think Melanie Oudin, wearing "Believe" on her sneakers in 2009 -- stirs interest at Flushing Meadows.
"Believing was the No. 1 thing that I had to do today," said Bellis, whose nickname CiCi is derived from the initials of her first and middle names, Catherine Cartan. "That's what my coach told me before the match also: Just go out there and believe that you can win."
Bellis is still young enough that she plans on playing in the junior tournament in New York. She lost in the third round of that event a year ago; she lost in the first round of the Wimbledon girls' tournament last month.
But on Tuesday, there she was in front of a supportive, overflowing crowd on Court 6 at Flushing Meadows, taking it to Cibulkova, the runner-up at the Australian Open in January and the 2013 Bank of the West champion at Stanford.
"I went into the match thinking it was going to be such a great experience," said Bellis, "but I never thought I would come out on top winning." Bellis, the No. 2-ranked junior in the world, still plans to compete in the U.S. Open junior tournament.
Neither did her parents. Her mother, Lori, didn't attend the match because she gets too nervous watching in person, Gordon Bellis said. So Lori stayed at their hotel, getting updates via text from Gordon.
"She asked how bad it was going in the first set. And so I told her (CiCi) actually won the first set. She couldn't believe that," Gordon said. "We were just thankful that she didn't get double-bageled. That was the first objective."
After trailing 3-1 in the third set -- "kind of a bummer," Bellis would say later -- she came back to even things, then broke the 25-year-old Cibulkova in the final game. When it ended, Bellis crouched at the baseline and pumped her fists, then ran over to the stands for congratulatory hugs.
"I didn't expect her to play so aggressive today. I thought she's kind of a player who's just putting the ball back and running around," Cibulkova said. "That didn't happen today. She was really aggressive on the court and that maybe surprised me in the first set."
Bellis was making her main-draw tour-level debut, having earned a wild-card invitation from the U.S. Tennis Association by winning the USTA Girls' 18s National Championship, the youngest to do since Lindsay Davenport also won it at 15 in 1991.
Not since Anna Kournikova was 15 in 1996 had someone so young won a match at the U.S. Open. And not since Mary Joe Fernandez was that age in 1986 had an American done it.
"Now it's time for her to refocus, not get too excited about this first round. Just get back to business," said Fernandez, an ESPN analyst.
Next up for Bellis is a second-round match against 48th-ranked Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan. And Gordon Bellis said Lori might decide to attend that one. No word on what sort of rules Mom will have to follow.
Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova fared far better than the last time she came to New York after winning at the All England Club. In 2011, she lost in the first round; on Tuesday, she beat Kristina Mladenovic 6-1, 6-0.
The player Kvitova defeated in the Wimbledon final, Eugenie Bouchard, was back to her winning ways in her return to the Grand Slam stage.
The seventh-seeded Bouchard routed Olga Govortsova 6-2, 6-1. The last time she played at a major tournament, the 20-year-old made history: the first Canadian to reach a Grand Slam final.
In the Wimbledon title match, though, she was swept away by Kvitova 6-3, 6-0, and things didn't go much better in her three hard-court tuneups for the U.S. Open. Bouchard won just one of her four matches, including an upset loss in her opener in her home tournament in Montreal.
But against the 117th-ranked Govortsova, she had little trouble. Govortsova, who has been ranked as high as 35th, had won just two main draw WTA matches this year.
Ana Ivanovic was feeling good about her game coming into the U.S. Open, and it showed Tuesday. The eighth-seeded Serb beat American Alison Riske 6-3, 6-0. Ivanovic has won 48 matches this year, more than anyone else on tour.
The 2008 French Open champion has struggled to get back to that level but finally seems to be inching closer. She returned to the top 10 this month for the first time in more than five years.
The 24-year-old Riske made a breakthrough at last year's U.S. Open, reaching the fourth round after an upset of Petra Kvitova. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 40 this summer.
Samantha Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champ, also quickly dispatched a young American, beating Lauren Davis 6-1, 6-4. The 49th-ranked Davis fell to 0-3 at her home Grand Slam event.
Svetlana Kuznetsova lost her first-round U.S. Open match for the first time since 2005, the year she was the tournament's defending champion. Kuznetsova, seeded 20th this time, was beaten 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3) by 82nd-ranked Marina Erakovic of New Zealand.
Roger Federer and Serena Williams play the night session at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams faces American teen Taylor Townsend, who's making her U.S. Open debut.
John Isner, a former top American college player, beat this year's top American college player. The 13th-seeded Isner won 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (2) against Marcos Giron, who earned his first spot in a Grand Slam tournament when he won the NCAA title for UCLA in May.
Fellow American Sam Querrey improved to 3-9 in five-set matches with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Argentina's Maximo Gonzalez.
Another American, Jack Sock, retired from his match because of a right calf injury. Sock was trailing 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to Pablo Andujar of Spain when he decided he couldn't continue.
Fourth-seeded David Ferrer beat Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.
Tenth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan cruised to a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory over American Wayne Odesnik, showing no apparent effects from a toe injury that hampered his preparations. The 176th-ranked Odesnik earned a wild card into the U.S. Open, his first appearance in five years. He served a yearlong ban after pleading guilty for importing human growth hormone into Australia. Victor Estrella of the Dominican Republic earned his first Grand Slam victory at age 34, beating Igor Sijsling 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. Estrella hadn't played in a major tournament until this year.


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1. Call for participation: 2006 International Symposium on Wikis
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This is totally, totally, totally sweet. I _must_ get into this. Personal information management with wikis?
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2006 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2006) August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark Co-located with ACM Hypertext 2006 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB See http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006 Research paper submission deadline: April 15, 2006 OVERVIEW The 2006 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2006! To learn more about the Wiki Symposium, feel free to browse last year's program (http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/program.html), the proceedings (http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings), and its wiki (http://ws2005.wikisym.org). Information about the 2006 program will be available at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006. We are seeking submissions for - research papers - practitioner reports - demonstrations - workshops - panels Research paper and practitioner report submissions as well as workshop proposals are due - April 15, 2006 Panel and demonstration submissions are due - May 1, 2006 Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to: - wikis as social software - wiki user behavior, user dynamics - wiki user experiences, usability - information dynamics in wikis - work group processes, wiki-based collaboration - reputation systems, quality assurance processes - wiki implementation experiences and technology - wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse - wiki scalability, social and technical - wikis and the semantic web/ontologies, semantic wikis - domain-specific/special-purpose wikis - wikis in education SUBMISSION DETAILS Research papers will be reviewed by the committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research or novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience or experimentation. They are reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis. At the symposium, the presenter will be given a 25min + 5min Q&A presentation slot. Research papers should not be longer than 10000 words and 20 pages and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Practitioner reports will be reviewed for suitability of presentation to the community. The primary evaluation criterion is the interest to the community. Practitioner reports will be provided as part of the conference proceedings handed out at the symposium and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis as well. Practitioner reports should not be longer than 6000 words and 12 pages and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. Demonstration, workshop, and panel submissions will be reviewed for their interest to the community. A submission should consist of two pages describing what you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. It should include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the submission. Demonstrations will be presented in a joint demonstration session, workshops will get a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own (depending on your request), and panels will get a 90min slot at the symposium. Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective deadline through our submission system, which will be available through the WikiSym website. Questions should be directed respectively at [email protected] (research papers and practitioner reports), [email protected] (workshops), [email protected] (panels), or [email protected] (demonstrations). SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS The 2006 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Radisson SAS H.C. Andersen Hotel in Odense, Denmark, August 21-23, 2006. A special (reduced) hotel rate has been negotiated. WikiSym 2006 will be co-located with the ACM Hypertext 2006 conference (back-to-back), and participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly register for WikiSym and Hypertext 2006. Registration is handled through the ACM Hypertext website. If you have any questions, please contact Dirk Riehle through [email protected] SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany (Symposium Chair) Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, U.S.A. Kouichirou Eto, AIST, Japan (Publicity Co-Chair) Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A. Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern Switzerland (Workshop Chair) Matthias L. Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany (Panel Chair) Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A. Helmut Leitner, HLS Software, Austria (Publicity Co-Chair) James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair) Sebastien Paquet, Socialtext, U.S.A. (Demonstrations Chair) Sunir Shah, University of Toronto, Canada (Publicity Co-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair) Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. 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2. CookOrDie: Champorado cheating and arroz-caldo antics
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I prepared champorado and arroz-caldo today, from the mixes. Arroz-caldo is probably too light for a packed lunch unless I pack three or so regular servings, but it's good for merienda. The dried ginger used in the instant arroz caldo was pretty strong!
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- While there was a lot of good news to talk about at the presidential address, there were some topics Dr. Ricardo Azziz would not discuss. He kept quiet on an investigation by the Georgia Board of Regents that started on Tuesday.
They're actually calling it a review. The Board of Regents will look into whether he misused school resources for a wedding at his state-funded home.
"I think he covered a lot of points in his speech about all the things that have gotten done in the last 100 days," said Mayor Deke Copenhaver.
Azziz talked for more than 40 minutes on good things but kept quiet on everything else.
News 12 wanted to know why he asked for the Board of Regents to come and investigate the wedding situation.
"We're actually not going to answer that. We are awaiting on an assessment. Those questions I'm not going to answer today," Azziz said.
In the past 100 days, ASU's logos were erased from school brochures, plans were made but not approved for a $75,000 update to the president's garage and an investigation was launched into a weekend wedding on school property. We're told school resources like officers and a shuttle bus were used.
"We're talking about today's talk. Any other discussion?" Azziz said.
If it wasn't in his speech, you better believe it was off limits.
News 12 also asked why school resources were used to pick up his children around two years ago.
"Anything else?" Azziz said.
News 12 had more questions like: Whose idea was it to erase ASU's logo from the pamphlet?
"Any other questions about today's talk?" Azziz said.
He went on to say using the Mills for expansion was a game-changer. Really just about the only question he answered came from a News 12 viewer's Facebook post.
The viewer wanted to know if he feels this community has accepted him.
"We are achieving great things at this university. It's an amazing experience for all of us involved," Azziz said.


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Brittney Griner is Gay — Can the WNBA finally move on?
TOP PICK–Phoenix Mercury's Brittney Griner, the No. 1 overall pick the WNBA draft, speaks during a news conference April 20, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York) by Jason Johnson Last Wednesday during a press conference the #1 Draft pick in the WNBA, Brittney Griner did the unspeakable. She casually, matter of factly and openly came out as gay in her first press conference as a professional basketball player.


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This year, the Grants Committee will distribute $40,000 in youth development and $10,000 divided among services for women and children, seniors, and physical and mental health. Women's Fund El Dorado is a philanthropic organization based on the principal of collective giving and operates under the umbrella of the El Dorado Community Foundation. The organization's Grants Committee researches various nonprofit and educational requests to fund specific programs and then determines which will appear on each year's ballot.
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The Queen City Orchestra played to a full house at Marietta College's Ban Johnson Field House. Two-thousand concert-goers were entertained as a part of Marietta's bicentennial celebration year.
North Hills Lanes and the Marietta Teen Center have teamed up to sponsor a bowling event for Washington County and Williamstown students. From noon to 5 p.m. on March 29, students can bowl for the discounted price of 75 cents.
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Former Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback Mike Kafka will work out for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, according to a report on ESPN's halftime show from Monday night.
Kafka was a bit of a surprise cut this summer by the Eagles, who released him in favor of rookie Nick Foles as Michael Vick's backup.
The Steelers are in need of a quarterback as they now turn to third-stringer and long-time backup Charlie Batch to start this week against Cleveland. Ben Roethlisberger suffered a fractured rib and separated shoulder against Kansas City.
Then, Byron Leftwich broke two ribs in Sunday night's loss to the Baltimore Ravens, leaving Batch as the Steelers only healthy QB.
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I have been having left knee pain since July. I went to the doctors and got a cortizone shot in Sept. It helped slightly for a few weeks. I then started Euflexxa injections. Since the shots ( 2 weeks) my knee is worse than before. Constant pain and feels like it will lock and buckle. Running has basically stopped at this point. My doctor is pushing for a knee replacement. I have looked into a brace but $540.00 is a big check to write if it doesn't help. Any thoughts?
I have some thoughts, but a lot more questions. Missing from your account is an explanation of exactly what is wrong with your knee other than the perception of pain there. I'm looking for physical evidence that something is actually wrong with your knee that is a proven cause of pain. Otherwise, I would have to draw the conclusion that something is wrong with the muscles and/or associated fascia controlling the knee, which are the most common source of knee pain.
Buckling and locking of the knee, as well as knee pain, are symptoms associated with Quadriceps muscles. The only tie-in with the knee itself would be a flaw in the joint that the muscles are attempting to control for, possibly due to a reflex from the spinal cord based on sensory input, or minute muscle damage. Since a lot can be mechanically wrong with the knee joint without producing such input, I am inclined to think the muscles are acting of their own accord, possibly due to damage in the muscles having little or nothing to do with the knee itself. Location of the resulting perception of pain is less relevant than most people (including too many medical professionals) think.
It is possible, and all too common, for patients to be tested for signs of knee dysfunction without evaluating for myofascial disorders that present as knee pain. Turns out a lot of doctors don't even wash their hands between patients, so you can expect them too miss things less fundamental than simple hygiene. Even if muscular problems have been tested for, they are a frequent cause of actual knee damage, whether initial or chronic, and need to be treated concurrently, if not first. I see no evidence that this has been done before the rush to (possibly unnecessary) surgery.
Regarding the brace, you already have one in the form of the muscles controlling your knee, and it sounds like they are working overtime. You need to find out why and how the splinting of your knee by these muscles is related to your symptoms. A brace can appear to work when it allows overworked muscles to rest, recover, and become asymptomatic, but this effect can be achieved without a brace by working directly with the muscles themselves. In some cases there is no knee problem other than this, and in others a mechanical problem can be controlled successfully without symptoms. There may be an underlying structural/biomechanical issue that is congenital and requires special training or orthotic support, in order to address your obvious muscular dysfunction and the pain that is likely to be caused by it.
There is a tendency in medicine to focus too closely on symptoms, and to look too closely for suspects while ignoring the 800-pound gorilla in the room. If a gorilla is standing on my foot, I can call in a host of experts armed with microscopes to analyze my foot pain and any resulting problems there, or I can ask the gorilla to stop standing on my foot and let the problem heal itself. Even if there is evidence of knee joint damage, the question remains as to why. You would remember sudden trauma, but absent this, there is usually a biomechanical cause that is to blame for the damage, with which pain may or may not (as is frequently the case) be directly associated. In many cases, mechanical flaws found near the site of pain are irrelevant to pain and the real motivation for this medical inquest is, has been, and will remain muscular.
If you are a runner with any biomechanical flaws, you will eventually experience pain, often before mechanical damage is done. If this pain is new to you, do not allow anyone to leapfrog to any conclusions of relevant physical damage until myofascial symptoms of biomechanical deficits have been thoroughly explored. Most professional athletes who compete over time, have substantial mechanical damage to show for it. In many cases, they have no associated pain. There are lots of weekend warriors out there with plenty of pain, and little or no mechanical damage. These folks are a godsend to enterprising medical personnel looking to make a quick buck on the burgeoning fitness crowd. Don't be one of them.
Thanks for your response. Here is a bit more information on my knee. I tore my ACL in 1990 playing hoop. I had 3 scopes and the reconstruction. The reason for the 3 scopes was due to an infection. I had lost alot of range of motion over the years. I couldn't completely straighten the knee or flex it all the way. In July I did a trail run and also ran on some very crowned roads in northern NH. The pain started then but didn't become to bad until mid August. I have another appointment with my doc tomorrow. Based on your thoughts it sounds like I may have to visit Planet Fitness more often.
I wonder how much material was removed due to the infection, how much was reconstructed, and how much healthy tissue is left. There are neuromuscular interactions between what is going on under the knee cap and tone/behavior of the supporting quadriceps. All well and good, but I hope the suggestion of a replacement isn't to cover up a botched job with the initial surgery. If they were repairing a torn ACL, introduced an infection, and had to clean it up, there is some question as to what was clearly explained to you (you felt you could run on it), and how complete the rehab protocols were. Recovery from torn ACL should not be left to chance.
I'm going to take a wild guess that there is still something wrong under there that the cortisone can't control. However, there is an outside chance the pain is generated by the supporting muscles because of the way they behave.Splinting/buckling concurrent with pain is not normal behavior, generally speaking, but the rest of us can experience this temporarily after over-training. It has happened to me after really long runs leading up to the marathon, or during the marathon itself. That being the case, there is hope that a break, coupled with proper conditioning of these muscles, could solve everything you are experiencing now.
You mentioned further training - no doubt that is in the cards - but the knowledge gap between the average pt (personal trainer) and a PT (physical therapist) can be huge, regardless of experience. I did not hear what post-op rehab you underwent, but I am hoping it included a lot of carefully targeted quad strengthening and ROM exercises. Pre-op PT is also recommended. Even if that was the case, protecting the reconstructed ACL during a run might tire this muscle group, resulting in splinting and pain during use. You can see how this effect, though related to the initial damage, can mislead as to the actual cause of pain at this time. While the response can be complicated, I've seen evidence that suggests buckling to be more indicative of under-knee problems than splinting, but these problems can be interrelated and self-perpetuating. It is something of a chicken or egg question.
As stated earlier, please evaluate for myofascial pain syndromes so they can be treated first. This can reduce pain that does not respond to anti-inflammatory treatments such as cortisone, and can reduce pressure on the joint itself. Make sure the subsequent strength training is professionally prescribed and monitored. You can over-train into this set of symptoms, as well as under-train. This post-op ACL scenario requires real know-how, especially if there is relapse long after the initial problem or surgery. In the business this is called neuromuscular re-education. There is un-learning and re-learning to take place. It's not simply a question of raw strength. You've seen so-called "muscle-bound" athletes, and your splinting and loss of ROM suggests some form of overuse. You don't want to add to this, but want to de-construct and re-educate your supporting muscles and their behavior. I am hoping the internals of your knee joint allow for this, so normal re-growth can occur.
It's possible you can beat this if you get serious about rehab. Joint replacement is not the end of the story, but the beginning of another. It may seem like a panacea to the sedentary, but is not the key to a long running career. It can be a near guarantee you will introduce further muscular problems, and may look forward to yet another replacement in the future. Artificial joints do not self-maintain like real joints, and their limited lifespan will be further reduced by a repetitive high-impact sport like running. Find out if there is anything wrong with the mating surfaces of the joint itself, and why. Replacement has to have a better rationale than pain alone.
There is also controversy about whether and when a brace can help to rehab this injury. You want to rest the joint and muscles enough to prevent further damage, and to protect the repair, but there also needs to be enough challenge to recoup tone and function. Beneath a safe threshold, tissue grows to adapt to the stresses placed on it. My money is on rehabilitation, not replacement or prosthetics. Stay on it, and don't get up-sold.
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There is also controversy about whether and when a brace can help to rehab this injury. You want to rest the joint and muscles enough to prevent further damage, and to protect the repair, but there also needs to be enough challenge to recoup tone and function. Beneath a safe threshold, tissue grows to adapt to the stresses placed on it. My money is on rehabilitation, not replacement or prosthetics. Stay on it, and don't get up-sold.
I've always had a gut feeling this was the case but I've never seen/read/heard anything which supported my feeling; thanks for that.
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Texas A&M - Corpus Christi baseball head coach Scott Malone talks about the continuing improvements around the program, with the focus being the renovations of Chapman Field.
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libumem to detect modify-after-free corruptions.
By Hema on Nov 19, 2007
Here is another example of how libumem can help us detect memory corruption..
The problem reported by the customer was that the Sun Web Server 6.1 protected by Sun's Access Manager Policy Agent running in production was crashing. This problem was not showing up in their staging environment, it was only the servers in production that were crashing.
Customer sent in several core files for us to analyze. The stack trace in the first core file that I looked at showed that we were aborting in libmtmalloc.so.1.
=>[1] libc.so.1:__lwp_kill(0x0, 0x6, 0x0, 0xfe0bc000, 0x5, 0xaf295c8), at 0xfe0a0218
[2] libc.so.1:raise(0x6, 0x0, 0xe1efba50, 0xffffffff, 0x74ab0, 0xaf02900), at 0xfe050c80
[3] libc.so.1:abort(0x0, 0x0, 0x88, 0xffffffff, 0x74ab0, 0xaf02870), at 0xfe06e98
[4] libmtmalloc.so.1:free(0xaf28060, 0xfffb, 0xaf02800, 0xaf02828, 0x74ab0, 0xaf02828),
I vaguely remembered that there was a bug in mtmalloc that returned an already freed pointer. I searched our bug database and found the bug . As I read through the synopsis of the bug it became clear that we were NOT running into this bug. The bug was about : libmtmalloc's realloc() returning an already freed pointer. I don't think, we were doing a realloc here. I ruled out that bug and just to be sure, I checked the mtmalloc patch level on the system and found that they were running the latest mtmalloc patch.
I looked at the other core files sent by the customer, and this time, the crash was somewhere else. As I analyzed the core files and pstack output I noticed that the crashes were random in nature. The randomness of the crash indicated memory corruption. I initially suspected that this could be double-free type of an error.
fe0a0218 _lwp_kill (6, 0, e1ffba50, ffffffff, 74620, 2969700) + 18
fe036e98 addsev (0, 0, 88, ffffffff, 74620, 2969670)
ff390bcc free (3e0d188, fffb, 2969600, 2969628, 74620, 2969628) + 1e0
fd726f08 void\*__Crun::vector_del(void\*,unsigned,void(\*)(void\*)) (3e0d188, 0, 0, ffffffff, 0,
fd70e934 std::vector<bool>::iterator&std::vector<bool>::iterator::operator++()
I requested the customer to use libumem , the customer obliged (BIG Thank you) and sent us three corefiles generated with libumem enabled.
I opened the corefile in mdb, ran ::umem_verify and to my surprise, the integrity of all the caches came up as clean. Where do I go from here ?
Okay, I ran ::umem_status command and that printed the exact nature of corruption, including the stacktrace of the thread that last freed this buffer and the offset at which someone wrote to this buffer after it was being freed.
This information was sufficient for Sun Access Manager engineering team to come up with a fix and release hotpatch 2.2-01 against Policy agent.
How good is that ! I told you, libumem is so powerful yet so simple and easy to use.
Status: ready and active
Concurrency: 8
Logs: transaction=256k content=256k fail=256k (inactive)
Message buffer:
umem allocator: buffer modified after being freed modification occurred at offset 0x20 (0xdeadbeefdeadbeef replaced by 0xdeadbeeedeadbeef)
buffer=a7a0708 bufctl=a813f68 cache: umem_alloc_96
previous transaction on buffer a7a0708:
thread=28 time=T-284.970780700 slab=a5dede0 cache: umem_alloc_96
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the sky is BLUE over manchester.
well done guys the road was long and hard but your dedication to the blue side brought victory.HULL CITY TIGER.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Well that shows how little you know, dedication to the blue you must be joking for seasons since getting the middleastlands they have been begging people to take tickets in an attempt fill their small stadium, they still didn't sell all their season tickets this season. The fans they do have spend no time on there own board but all their time being bitter on the United board, there are stupid comments from supposed other club supporters on here congratulating city and hoping city win again next season so that Fergie goes which only goes to show how good he is and how jealous of him that they are. and if you care to look at all the boozers round middleastlands that the area is red owned otherwise the utd slogans wouldn't be there
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Season tickets were all sold City unlike your swamp where they were not.
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And they call us "bitters".... Most successful team of the last 20 years but their fans are still just as jealous and hateful of anyone else's occasional success as usual. And they wonder why the fans of every other team (except the poor gooners who resent being our feeder team, and the red scouse who just don't matter to anyone except Utd) still hate Utd and were dancing with joy (QPR, Sunderland, probably everyone else) when we won the title. This fellow is apparently 56 years of age but is still throwing his toys out of the pram when life doesn't go his way. Very, very sad old bitter red rag.
hahahahahah 2 in 2 hahahahaha
8pts clear and you #$%$ it up
1 nil in your cup final
6-1 at your cess pit
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The Mad Myths of the Irish
Sept. 22, 2012
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7:30 p.m.
Clare takes you on a dark and ferocious journey, where warriors leap with blinding frenzy, one-eyed monsters hunt the shores and shape-shifters blur the line from this world to the ever-so-close other world. Learn how the fairies came from fallen gods, how broken promises can change the fate of a nation and how great battles shaped the very earth itself. Born in Dublin, Clare has lived in Spain and America, and currently resides in London. Her physical style, dynamism and passion bring ancient stories alive. A hit at the 2011 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., Clare has also performed at the Globe Theatre and the Toronto International Storytelling Festival. For more information, visit www.claremurphy.org.
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Altbier, or "old beer" as it translates to, is one of Dusseldorf's greatest traditions. Altbier has been around since the 17th Century and has its roots in the region of Westphalia. Its top fermentation brewing process is what makes it unique. In fact, I've written about this special beer once before here on the Capella Blog.
Well, I am excited to announce the new Breidenbacher Hof, A Capella Hotel, Dusseldorf Altbier Brewery Tour! Exclusive to hotel guests, this experience introduces the participant to five of Dusseldorf's oldest breweries with special behind-the-scenes tours and tastings, perfect for both the beer aficionado and the novice alike.
According to Breidenbacher Hof Personal Assistant, Malte, this activity is an absolute favorite among guests. Intrigued, I decided to schedule my own Dusseldorf Altbier Brewery Tour, after all, this is a tradition I already love and wanted to learn more about.
The tour began before we even left the hotel, with a tasting of the hotel's signature Breidenbach meatballs served with ABB mustard (the Dusseldorf mustard!) and, of course, an Altbier. Delicious – and the perfect way to start things off!
Our first stop was Schumacher brewery, which opened its doors in 1838, making it the oldest Dusseldorf brewery still in operation. From there we made our way to four other quintessential Altbier breweries, Schlüssel, Kürzer, Füchschen and Uerige breweries. At each brewery I was able to meet the Brewmaster, who shared secrets of their individual brewing processes. Of course the highlights were the delicious tastings of each location's signature brew.
Things weren't all technical! I also got a taste for the history and culture of Altbier. At Füchschen brewery I learned an Altbier Song (definitely best sung after a day of beer tasting!), which of course was the source of much laughter. And at Uerige I learned the funny history of the brewery's name. It seems the original owner, Wilhelm Cürten, was known for his unhappy disposition. As a result locals began referring to the brewery as uerig, which means grumpy. Ironically, these days people flock to Uerige in the afternoon for the good beer and great cheer.
The tour was truly a fun experience and by the end I felt like a true Altbier expert. Be sure to schedule your own Dusseldorf Altbier Brewery Tour experience with your Breidenbacher Hof Personal Assistant during your next visit and discover one of the city's greatest institutions.


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Having updated the java system (automatic download)my Ps3 media server no longer works no green pointer at bottom of screen.I tried system restore but still will not work tried uninstalling both the server and the Java update then reinstalling ps3 server still will not work Ps3 says needs java will get java starts to install but then states Unable to complete installation due to JAVA (TM) 6 missing Java platform etc.
Return to Twonky until I can solve problem.
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'Gardening in These Mountains' lunch & learn planned
Published: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
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Historic Johnson Farm, at 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, will hold a "Gardening in These Mountains" lunch and learn at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Volunteer gardeners will lead a tour of the farm's gardens. At noon, participants will have time to eat lunch and enjoy free beverages and dessert. The gardeners will then discuss the best methods of preparing soil for a successful home garden, the perennials best suited to this area, how to divide perennials and the perennials you should always avoid.
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Old classic arch-tops are always coming into the shop here needing repair. Many of them have high action. Their bridges have been filed all the way down and yet they still have high action. This is a sure sign that the neck of the guitar is tilting and the guitar is in need of a neck-reset. But once in a while I get an old archtop that has super LOW action and the bridge is jacked all the way UP; the exact opposite situation. I find myself thinking "wow, no neck reset needed and we got tons of room to lower the action just in case the neck does decide to tilt!"
However, I've learned to look again when I see that happening. What that usually
means is a brace is either cracking or coming loose from the top. This is a very hard fix since the braces are almost impossible to get to. Most repair people would opt to take the back off the guitar, exposing the entire interior of the guitar. I don't like this option very much. It tends to be a gruesome and expensive job which always ends in a major re-fin. I try to think outside the box and since I've never really had any formal guitar repair training, I've been able to create lots of new ways of getting at old problems.
The latest patient I just worked on was an old 50's Gibson ES-125 with low, low action and a bridge set as high as it could go. With my dental mirror I found what looked to be a crack in the brace on the bass side near the bridge. I decided I might be able to reach the crack with one of my U-clamps that I use for acoustic bridge resets. Even though these clamps are super long, it still wasn't long enough to reach the crack through the F-hole. I was able to extend the clamp by taping an open ended wrench to the underside of the clamp and this work perfectly to put the pressure exactly where I need it.
My next problem was getting a better view of the crack and what my clamp was actually doing. The dental mirror is a useful tool but was not giving the optimal view needed to give me the confidence to start gluing. I decided to slip the edge of my super-slim iPhone 5 into the F-hole. The iPhone 5 has the camera lens and flash mounted right on the upper left hand corner so I didn't have to drop it in too deep into the F-hole. I was able to get a perfect shots of the crack (see pic 1).
In this picture you can see a long dark line running perpendicular across the brace. This is a "perforation" line that Gibson cut into the brace to help it bend and fit to the top. This
perforation point probably made installation easier but it proved to be a weak point for the brace. The crack extends past on either side of the perforation. I set the clamp in place with no glue to be sure the crack was closing up and the iPhone got another great shot (pic 2). The pictures are so detailed, its almost like being inside the guitar! At this point I was confident I could glue this brace back together…I just need to get the glue into the crack!
I decided that the tool for the job was a glue syringe with a tube mounted to the end…something I did not possess, however. I ended up buying something on eBay that shipped direct from China for a relatively low price. When it showed up it had the words "FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY" written on it. I guess it was some sort of medical device!
Whatever it was made for, it did the trick getting the glue into the crack. I cut the tube down to about 12″ and taped it to a piece of fret wire so I could direct the end of the tube to the area where the crack was. At this point, I just loaded the whole area up with wood glue and let it drip down into the crack. I took another pic to be sure I was hitting the right area (pic 3). Since there was no way of knowing if the glue was actually going into the crack I had to take a leap of faith. I waited a few minutes and then tightened the clamp. I cleaned of the excess glue with the end of the tube.
All I could do at this point was wait 24hrs and hope I did it right. I came in the next day, took off the clamp and took another pic (pic 4). The crack was almost invisible. I strung it up and it played like a dream. The customer was very pleased since the repair cost a fraction of what it would have cost if the back had to come off. Thank you little iPhone!


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All About Antarctica
Antarctica is truly an unusual place given to dramatic extremes that can seem other-worldly: It is the southernmost continent and the coldest; parts are so dry that precipitation has never been recorded; it has more ice than any other place on Earth. In short, it is the coldest, windiest, highest, and driest of all continents. It is also the hardest continent to get to and live on.
Despite the inhospitable nature of the vast Antarctic wilderness, it has long drawn explorers, adventurers and scientists with its siren song. There have been permanent settlements and research stations in Antarctica for a number of years, and a hardy breed of people have managed to figure out ways to cope with and work in the extreme conditions. Part of the excitement we are feeling as we prepare to go is the knowledge that we will be part of a special tradition and will be "walking in the footsteps of giants."
Viewed from above, Antarctica resembles a stingray completely surrounded by water, with its tail pointing toward South America and its head toward the Indian Ocean. With an area of about 14.2 million square kilometers, Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, smaller than South America but larger than Europe. If it were a country, it would be the world's largest after Russia.
Because of its polar location, high elevation, permanent ice and snow cover that reflects about 80 percent of incident solar energy, and absence of humid atmosphere, Antarctica is the coldest continent. Average winter temperatures range from -70 ° C to -50 ° C in the frigid interior, while summer averages reach a "balmy" -5 ° C to +5 ° C on its perimeter.
Antarctica's average elevation is a little over 2,200 meters, making it, on average, the world's highest continent. It is divided into two major regions—East (or "Greater") Antarctica and West (or "Lesser") Antarctica—by the Transantarctic Mountains of which Mt. Vinson is the highest point (4,900 meters). Despite being ice-covered, the interior rain-shadow valleys of this dividing range are some of the driest places on our planet.
About 99.5 percent of Antarctica is covered by ice. In some places the ice sheet is so thick (up to 4,800 meters thick) that its weight has depressed the underlying landmass. The ice sheet that covers Antarctica is very dynamic, at least at its edges. During the Antarctic winter the ice sheet expands into the ocean creating an ice cover than can be more than twice the area of that in summer. more
Antarctica's rocks are some of the planet's oldest, and some of its newest—those of East Antarctica are at least three billion years old while the volcanic rocks of West Antarctica are a youthful 700 million years old. Between about 600 million and 100 million years ago, Antarctica was connected to landmasses that have since become Africa, South America, India, and Australia in a vast super-continent called Gondwanaland. At times during this period, Antarctica's location was much farther from the South Pole and its climate much more moderate.
Plant and Animal Life
Fossil plants and animals—including ferns, petrified wood and fossil dinosaurs and marsupials—have been found in Antarctica that indicate its climate supported floral and faunal elements similar to those of other southern continents.
There are no trees and shrubs on the Antarctic continent and only two species of vascular plants ("higher" plant species) are found there—a species of grass and the Antarctic pearlwort. There are, however, about 350 species of lichens, more than 100 species of mosses, and possibly hundreds of species of algae, all living a very low-profile existence mostly near the continent's wetter and warmer perimeter.
Antarctica's native animals—those that live entirely on land—are all invertebrates and are small, most of them near-microscopic. Most eke out their existence in patches of exposed soil or rock crevices, but some are parasites of the birds and mammals that live on the ice sheet. There are no native terrestrial vertebrates on the Antarctic continent, but the ice sheet supports several species—and large numbers—of seabirds, penguins, and seals, including the Weddell seal, the focus of our research.
The Antarctic continent supports so little plant and animal life largely because due of its low temperature and lack of moisture. How then can the Antarctic ice sheet support so many birds and mammals? The answer is that while the continent itself is generally unsupportive of life, the surrounding waters are incredibly rich in nutrients and all the vertebrates living on the ice depend, to one degree or another, on plentiful resources derived from these oceans.


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You may not know his name, but Jordan Kivelstadt wants to change the way you drink wine.
Kivelstadt, 31, is CEO of the country's largest wine-kegging business, Free Flow Wines. An engineer by training, Kivelstadt launched the Sonoma company in 2009 with two clients and 80 kegs in chairman Dan Donahoe's garage. Now, they have 13 employees and provide kegging services for seven of the world's top 10 grossing wine companies, including Gallo and Constellation Brands.
Kivelstadt has two goals. The first is to make wine fun again. "The whole snooty thing isn't working for most Americans," he says. "I want wine to be fun like craft beer is."
He also wants to save the planet. He's off to a good start. Each Free Flow keg lasts 30 years, the equivalent of taking a car off the road for almost two and a half years, according to a life cycle study by UC Berkeley consultants. Each keg eliminates 26 bottles from our landfills along with their corks, labels, foils and cardboard shipping boxes. By partnering with Free Flow Wines, Caesars Palace in Las Vegas saves four tons of trash per year.
But it's not Big Wine that is going to bring Kivelstadt closer to his dream. It is small, boutique winery clients. "When someone sees an Au Bon Climat pinot noir on tap, it reinforces to everybody that kegging is not jug wine," says Kivelstadt, one of 11 young wine leaders featured in Chelsea Prince's new book, "Rock and Vine: Next Generation Changemakers in America's Wine Industry" (Prince; $28.95). "This is about fine wine."
And drinking them this way is not only better for the planet, it's better for the wine, he says. Winemakers know this. They keep their fine wines in the same stainless steel kegs to be used as "topping wine" -- to top off wines as they age in and evaporate from porous oak barrels. The wines in the kegs never evaporate and stay fresh indefinitely, as the winemaker uses inert gases to preserve the wine.
Kegging also eliminates the possibility of cork taint while a pressurized closure mechanism helps prevents oxygen from entering the wine, keeping it fresh for six weeks from the day it is tapped. Temperature is equally critical. So in 2011, Free Flow hired Micro Matic to introduce a dual-zone kegerator that would house red and white wines side by side at their optimal temperatures. It is based on 30 prototypes that Kivelstadt built by hand.
"I went into full engineer mode for eight weeks," recalls Kivelstadt, whose experiments included putting a heater inside a refrigerator. Micro Matic's version is now used in hundreds of bars and restaurants.
Despite his technical prowess, Kivelstadt says he didn't start Free Flow to build equipment (or become the next Mark Zuckerberg, though his young startup has raised $3 million in three rounds of angel-backed funding). He's in the business of kegging logistics. Here's how it works: When a restaurant returns an empty keg, Free Flow is responsible for cleaning, storing, filling, and redistributing it. They fill the kegs with wines from stainless steel tanks that have been supplied by their winery clients. Before the kegs are shipped off, Free Flow also adjusts the sulfur and pH levels of the wines to make sure they are at their best.
"That's the unromantic part of the business," he says.
It's not the only one. When I track down Kivelstadt for a chat, he's in Tallahassee, Fla., working with the state Legislature to overturn an 80-year-old law, which inadvertently prevents wine from being served from a tap.
"This is what you get for being innovative," he says, frustrated. "You have to be willing to debate with lawmakers."
He's used to wearing multiple hats: Kivelstadt is a winemaker, too, making syrah and other Rhone-style wines from his parents' Sonoma vineyard under the label Qualia.
Eventually, Kivelstadt would like to devote himself to Qualia full time, while retaining a seat on the board of Free Flow. But not until he meets those goals.
"My personal one is to take 10 million bottles out of United States landfills every year," he says. "Currently, we're at over 1 million. I can get there."
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"If you're a skeptic (on Wichita State), then that's on you".
---Drake coach and former Gonzaga assistant Ray Giacolleti , who called the current Shocker team "much better" than the one which beat Gonzaga in last year's third round of the NCAA's.
Coming together?
If you were going to split hairs on the Shockers, you would have pointed to some of their shooting performances over the past few weeks---not any more. Wichita State is averaging better than 83 points over its last five games, combine that with the way they generally defend and rebound and you've got…well, an unbeaten team. More than that, you've got an unbeaten team which stands a fair chance to stay that way.
Lock down---
Tekele Cotton's seven steals against Drake ties a program record and helped the Shockers score 31 points off of 20 Bulldog turnovers. Add eight blocks to the equation and it's a wonder that Drake managed to score 54 points, which, by the way, is their season low. Wichita State has held 7 opponents to their lowest scoring total of the season (Western Kentucky, Tulsa, Illinois St., Indiana St., Bradley, Loyola and Drake) and has held two others (BYU and UNI) to their second lowest point totals of the season.
Better than a year ago?
---Giacolleti thinks so, but Gregg Marshall is a little more hesitant to make the comparison. He does allow that this is a better offensive unit and at the same juncture of the season they've accomplished more than a year ago. What he doesn't need to point out is that the league was a lot better a year ago. What everyone needs to remember is that this can be a better team than a year ago and not win games in the NCAA, you only have to go back to the year before last(in Portland) for confirmation.
Stolen thunder---
Not like there was a lot of doubt, but Indiana State's loss at Missouri State earlier in the day delivered the MVC title to Wichita State before they even came to the gym Saturday night. Cutting down nets never gets old, but Fred Van Vleet told me that it was more for the fans than it was the team. In his words: "This is over tonight and then we get back to work for Bradley(next Tuesday)". That attitude is typical of every player in the Shocker locker room.
Best moments---
---other than about seven or eight Shocker throw downs after Drake turnovers: Evan Wessel hitting both of his three points attempts, produced the biggest smiles on the Shocker bench. The sophomore out of Heights has hit three of his last four from deep after missing his first 21 triple attempts of the season. The great thing about Evan is that his shooting struggles never affected the way he competed defensively or on the glass---with a little offensive confidence, he becomes a much more important piece of the puzzle in March.
John Robert Simon wasn't even counting on playing; the freshman out of Oklahoma City had been suffering over the death of his best friend and was in a sweat suit on the bench in the second half when his teammates cajoled him into going back and getting dressed. They wanted to lift him up by being a part of a championship moment on the floor, those are the precious times within a team that can make sports so compelling. I hope it helps him in the healing process.
Good night to have them there---
The Shockers were hosting a handful of recruits and, according to Gregg Marshall, they were blown away by the atmosphere---how couldn't they be. One of the youngsters they're courting is Shake Milton, a 6'3" guard out of Owasso, Oklahoma. It's the same high school which produced the Bluma brothers for Shocker baseball and the young man is a dynamic offensive talent.
I saw him score 36 in a losing cause last week. He scored in every way imaginable-- from deep, in transition, with the pull up jumper, taking it all the way to the hole in traffic. Even though he's slight of frame he took contact extremely well producing three or four 'and ones'. Like a lot of high school juniors the rest of his game needs attention or urgency—but he's an incredible scorer.


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"Lindenwood University's School of Communication is unlike any other program I've ever experienced. It prepared me for my job in a way that I could have never imagined it would. The broad scope of in depth and hands on classes coupled with the carefully considered lectures was everything I could possibly ask for in a Communications Program. The resources for learning were vast and facilities were accommodating but the true treasure of graduating from this program was the individualized, specific and helpful teaching methods applied by our Professors. It is my highest compliment that i truly learned here. My hidden fear of facing the real world without the proper training was not substantiated. I found a career job after only a month and a half of moving back home after graduation. The School of Communications at Lindenwood University prepared me for my career in almost every imaginable way."


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- About the College
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
We are committed to improving global health and eliminating health disparities through our teaching, research and service.
In the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health (EOH) at the College for Public Health & Social Justice, we are committed to improving global health and eliminating health disparities through our teaching, research and service.
Studying environmental and occupational health prepares students to gather and then interpret information on exposures from biological, chemical, and physical agents for determination and control of risks to human health. Human health hazards exist in homes, at work, and in communities.
The diverse backgrounds and interests of our students provide a rich learning environment, and we teach science as a "team sport" with many opportunities for students to demonstrate leadership skills. Small classes give our students opportunities to contribute to the learning environment, and our faculty act as mentors and catalysts for learning in addition to their teaching roles.
Students who graduate with this degree are well prepared for professional roles in environmental consulting, corporate industrial hygiene and safety, product stewardship, research, and policy. Many of our graduates work at the CDC, NIOSH, EPA, and at state and local health departments. Other students choose to pursue further graduate study in toxicology, industrial hygiene, or medicine.
In addition to its academic programs, our department has three units where students can learn or serve: the Institute for Biosecurity, the Center for Environmental Education & Training, and the Environmental Health Research Laboratory. All of these units work together to address hazards in St. Louis, as well as nationally and around the world.
Our Faculty
Students will be taught by professionals with many years of experience in the field. Our faculty members are trained and certified in industrial hygiene, occupational safety, toxicology, hazardous materials, environmental health, and epidemiology. Additionally, the research track record of our faculty puts our department on the cutting edge of Environmental and Occupational Health.
Our department offers a wide variety of research opportunities for students in a number of fields, including occupational safety and health, aerosols, bioaerosols, lead, asthma, global health, water filtration, chemosensors, community environmental studies, and geographic information systems.
Students are given the opportunity to find internships designed specifically to fit their career aspirations.
Some of our faculty conduct research by working with partners in our own backyard, like St. Louis County. Drs. Zelicoff and Rebmann work to improve pertussis vaccination among adults by working with the St. Louis County Department of Health.
One of our newest faculty members, Dr. Carole Baskin, has conducted research in animals to understand the immune response to influenza.
Dr. Fernando Serrano continues to receive national and international recognition for determining children's exposure to lead in mining communities in Peru.
Dr. Kee Hean Ong has done research to identify the best ways to control mold and other allergens in our homes while Dr. Brett Emo has conducted research that will help us rapidly detect lead in dust, crucial to controlling lead exposure at home and at work.
Dr. Chris King and Dr. Roger Lewis have worked with communities in the Dominican Republic to obtain sustainable solutions to drinking water while measuring the impact on diarrheal disease.
Students are prepared to understand the theory and practice for addressing health hazards both in the context of modern and developing countries. The Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, as well as the entire college, is committed to improving global health and eliminating health disparities, in keeping with Saint Louis University's Jesuit mission of social justice.
- Master of Public Health in Environmental and Occupational Health
- Master of Public Health in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness
- Master of Public Health in Public Health Practice
- Master of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health
- PhD in Public Health Studies with a concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health
- PhD in Public Health Studies with a concentration in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness
- Certificate in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness
Dual Degree
- MPH/Medicine (MD)
- Institute for Biosecurity
- Center for Environmental Education & Training (CEET)


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Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films (Reservoir Dogs…); top five Elvis Costello songs ("Alison"…); top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly…). Rob tries dating a singer whose rendition of "Baby, I Love Your Way" makes him cry. But maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think (awful as it sounds) that life as an episode of thirtysomething, with all the kids and marriages and barbecues and k.d. lang CD's that this implies, might not be so bad.
"One of the top ten books of the year."—Entertainment Weekly
"It is rare that a book so hilarious is also so sharp about sex and manliness, memory and music."—The New Yorker
"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling. High Fidelity fills you with the same sensation that you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve and depth than anything you can recall."—The New York Times Book Review
"Hornby's seamless prose and offhand humor make for one hilarious set piece after another, as suffering, self-centered Rob ruminates on women, sex, and Abbey Road. But then he's forced to consider loneliness, fitting-in, death, and failure—and that is what lingers."—Spin
"Keep this book away from your girlfriend—it contains too many of your secrets to let it fall into the wrong hands."—Details


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Radio Woodstock Presents
The author will be reading from her book followed by a book signing. This daring compilation of humor columns and illustrations has been described as the love child of Robert Fulgum [All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten] and Erma Bombeck [If Life is a bowl of Cherries, What am I doing in the Pits?]. A sarcastically witty, yet endearing look at relationships, work and family life as she takes on such topics as a drunk Santa, giving the homeless heartburn, Scooby Doo, Black Friday, bad interviews, three fiances, the apron strings of motherhood, and death by powered sugar. No matter what age or background you are from you will find yourself laughing out loud (or at the very least – smirking).


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The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said travel exposure history is key to determining whether you're suffering from a mysterious form of pneumonia that has killed nine people.
CDC Director Doctor Julie Gerberding said if you haven't traveled to Asia, it's unlikely you will develop the illness.
Travelers entering the United States after visiting any of the Asian areas affected by a deadly, new flu-like illness are being given cards alerting them to watch for symptoms.
Gerberding said another clue is that a person's symptoms of coughing, fever or difficulty breathing quickly develop into pneumonia.
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Thirteen members of the Tuesday Study Club were present at the Oct. 16 meeting at Brandt Ridge.
Kathy Eiden presented the program for the afternoon based on her recent trip to Florida. She first read a humorous newspaper article about grits, commonly served in the South. She then described the Edison/Ford Winter Estates in Ft. Myers where both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had winter homes.
Thomas Edison's laboratory is on display. He was an amazing man and had 1093 patents on his inventions. He was also a horticulturist, evidenced by the many gardens.
Edison, Ford, and Firestone were good friends and worked together to grow a plant that would be a source of rubber.
Kathy next spoke about the author, Patrick Smith, who wrote an excellent history of Florida called "A Land Remembered."
Florida was the first frontier, and is also one of the last. Ranches covered vast areas of the state. The cowboys were called "crackers" because of the way they cracked their whips.
Kathy also showed a video, "A Sense of Place," in which Patrick Smith told about Florida. Florida is the "salad bowl" of the country, raising a large percentage of the fruits and vegetables that we eat.
Smith also wrote several novels, the first of which was "Forever Island," in which he told about the Seminole Indians.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the home of Linda Beam. Jo Yock will be the hostess and Barb Hahnfeldt will present the program.
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Appointments are being accepted for early childhood screening which will be held on Thursday, March 7. Appointments begin at 8:30 a.m. and it is hoped everyone will be able to find a time to participate by 12 noon. It takes about one hour to complete the stations. Children who will be four by the end of May have been invited to participate in this spring event plus anyone older who has not been able to come in the past.
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A series of workshops entitled "Tipping the Scales: Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity" for parents and child care providers will start on Monday, Feb. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Sleepy Eye School Lindahl Room. Learn how to help children develop a healthy lifestyle. The series continues on Monday, March 11 and Monday, April 8. CEU's will be available.
On Monday, March 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Trent Weicherding, kindergarten instructor, will be presenting information on Smart Room Activities that can be adapted to a private day care setting using things already available.
It is requested that advance registration be made in order to have printed material available for everyone who attends. Call 794-7873.
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A number of events have been planned for Saturday, Feb. 23. Included are All Day Quilting, Babies class, Electronic E Books and More workshop and Mt. Kato Ski Trip.
Upcoming 55 Alive renewal classes are scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1-5 p.m. and Monday, March 18, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
The "Say Yes to No" book discussion is planned for Tuesdays, Feb. 19 and 26 and March 5, 6-7:30 p.m.
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The Community Education office is located in room 109 of the Sleepy Eye High School. School day office hours are generally 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Since staff is part-time, they may not always be in the building. You can call and leave a message on voicemail, 507-794-7873, and we will get back to you with more information. Another option is to e-mail staff with questions and to sign-up. Addresses are on the school website.
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When sleeping in the outback during freezing weather, indigenous Australians often relied upon the body heat of wild dogs to get them through the night. The coldest conditions were referred to as a "three dog night." Using the dingo metric, California has just emerged from a one Chihuahua winter -- its hottest in history.
The state broke its warm winter record by a whopping eight-tenths of a degree, which, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is nothing to yap at.
Leave it to weather-data crunchers to find a way of calculating a record high that produces what seems like a middling number. The historic new high is 48.0 degrees, which is a mean temperature for months that weren't very. The previous record of 47.2 degrees was set during December, January and February of 1980-81, which was Morning in America but apparently felt like Mid-Afternoon in Milpitas.
That's not exactly the kind of historic heat-up you'd need to fry an egg on the sidewalks of San Jose, but it was statistically significant.
"When we talk about differences across a state by seasons, we're usually talking about tenths of a degree," said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. "So the fact that California beat its record by almost one entire degree is a pretty large jump."
When you couch it in terms with which the public is more familiar -- average high temperatures by month -- the warmth of the winter just ending comes into even sharper relief. Even with an early cold snap last December, the average high in San Jose this winter was 60.3 degrees, compared to 58.5 degrees normally. January averaged highs of 65.9 degrees, versus 58.1 normally; February was 62.6 this year, compared to a 30-year average of 61.9.
It was California's third-driest winter on record -- meteorologists ignore equinoxes and solstices, dividing seasons into neat three-month blocks -- which also had an impact on the warm winter sun.
"When the atmosphere is drier it tends to be warmer during the day," said Crouch. "It takes more energy to warm moist air than it does to warm dry air." Basically, dry days warm up more quickly than wet ones.
With the passage of the Ides of March on Saturday, the likelihood of Northern California catching up on the rainfall needed to avoid severe drought conditions this summer continued to fade.
On Sunday, when the thermometer registered a high of 80 in San Jose, people flocked to parks, trails and outdoor markets. Gilroy, at 86 degrees, set a record high for the day.
"I think it's sweating," Nicolas Ojeda, 8, said about the weather, as he tossed a baseball with his dad at Backesto Park, north of downtown San Jose. "That means it's good!"
Dad Willie Ojeda agreed: "It's awesome," although his wife Priscilla reminded both that we should worry about the drought.
Nearby, Zaria Owens, 9, was tossing a football with dad Raymond Owens. And that's what's good about balmy weather: "I get to play with my dad," Zaria said, "and we get to play outside at school."
They probably can look forward to a lot more park-play days.
"We're getting to the time of year when the systems are typically weaker, so the hopes for a Miracle March are pretty well gone," said meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services. "To put this in historic context, in April 1880, San Francisco got 10 inches of rain in the month of April. So it's possible to have big Aprils, but they are few and far between. We're still in 'anything's possible' mode, but the chances of us making significant inroads against normal for the rest of the year are now fairly low."
Null said a storm was possible by next weekend, but its bark may be worse than its bite.
Staff Writer Sharon Noguchi contributed to this report. Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004. Follow him at Twitter.com/BruceNewmanTwit.
Winter: 60.3 degrees vs. 58.5 degrees normally
January: 65.9 degrees, vs. 58.1 normally
February: 62.6, vs. 30-year average of 61.9