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The Differences Between Bacteria and Viruses continued...
Viruses are tinier: the largest of them are smaller than the smallest bacteria. All they have is a protein coat and a core of genetic material, either RNA or DNA. Unlike bacteria, viruses can't survive without a host. They can only reproduce by attaching themselves to cells. In most cases, they reprogram the cells to make new viruses until the cells burst and die. In other cases, they turn normal cells into malignant or cancerous cells.
Also unlike bacteria, most viruses do cause disease, and they're quite specific about the cells they attack. For example, certain viruses attack cells in the liver, respiratory system, or blood. In some cases, viruses target bacteria.
Diagnosis of Bacterial and Viral Infections
You should consult your doctor if you think you have a bacterial or viral infection. Exceptions include the common cold, which is usually not life-threatening.
In some cases, it's difficult to determine the origin of an infection because many ailments -- including pneumonia, meningitis, and diarrhea -- can be caused by either bacteria or viruses. But your doctor often can pinpoint the cause by listening to your medical history and doing a physical exam.
If necessary, he or she also can order a blood or urine test to help confirm a diagnosis, or a "culture test" of tissue to identify bacteria or viruses. Occasionally, a biopsy of affected tissue may be required.
Treatment of Bacterial and Viral Infections
The discovery of antibiotics for bacterial infections is considered one of the most important breakthroughs in medical history. Unfortunately, bacteria are very adaptable, and the overuse of antibiotics has made many of them resistant to antibiotics. This has created serious problems, especially in hospital settings.
Antibiotics are not effective against viruses, and many leading organizations now recommend against using antibiotics unless there is clear evidence of a bacterial infection.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, vaccines have been developed. Vaccines have drastically reduced the number of new cases of viral diseases such as polio, measles, and chickenpox. In addition, vaccines can prevent such infections such as the flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus (HPV), and others.
But the treatment of viral infections has proved more challenging, primarily because viruses are relatively tiny and reproduce inside cells. For some viral diseases, such as herpes simplex virus infections, HIV/AIDS, and influenza, antiviral medications have become available. But the use of antiviral medications has been associated with the development of drug-resistant microbes.
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Obedience class for dog teaches some new tricks
"The best defense is an offense," says my friend, who is prone to speak in aphorisms.
What my dog needs is to be desensitized, she tells me. Calvin needs to know that friends, relatives and wastebaskets are not writhing, omnivorous beasts, poised to rip out his jugular, but neutral, even loving, ear-scratching machines.
"Let's get Calvin in a dog training class," says my friend.
"Will it help?" I say.
"You don't know until you try," she says.
In dog obedience class, I experience a level of shame I haven't felt since seventh-grade shop, when I inadvertently pushed Cheryl Osborne's bird house through the band saw. It is not so much that Calvin behaves like a feral Tasmanian devil just untethered from the eucalyptus scrub. It is that I, with 25 years of patently useless weight training behind me, cannot control this convulsive, belligerent mutt. I shout. I pull. I bellow, beckon, bribe and beg, but Calvin is resolute in his determination to humiliate me in front of a room full of sweet-tempered shelties, complaisant collies and obliging Labradors.
"Hi. I'm Pete," says a bald-headed, barrel-chested, black-booted fireplug of a man dressed in a motorcycle shirt. "I work with problem dogs."
Great. I think. Powerful Pete has already profiled my dog.
"Give me the lead," Pete says. "Calvin, heel." And Calvin, like the bully in school being walked down the hall by the vice principal, suddenly behaves like the canine version of the Marine honor guard. He cleaves to Pete's thigh. He walks past other dogs, barely registering an upturned ear. Pete talks softly to him, making 'Ssst" and duck noises, as Calvin trots merrily, benignly along. How does he do it?
Just to prove what sort of an Alpha dog he is, Pete does it again, and again, until I think that Calvin has either lost his peripheral vision or prefers exacting Pete with his duck noises than imploring Mommy with her useless pleas for mercy.
"It's attitude," says Pete, handing me the leash, whereupon I go flying horizontally through the gymnasium like a Looney Tunes character exiting the TV screen in streaks.
I learn from our chief instructor Bob that a confident attitude, coupled with thunderous commands, are the key to controlling a dog, which is why Bruce howls repeatedly in a roar that sounds like a mix between Fred Flintstone and Sherrill Milnes.
"PEOPLE. PEOPLE," shouts Bob. Bob is middle-aged and paunchy and carries a damp paper towel to capture his profuse sweating. Amid the caterwauling of 20 dogs that would rather be ripping out one another's throats or humping the dog in front of them, Bob soldiers through the room, scrupulously correcting our miserable excuses at walking our dogs at heel.
"PEOPLE. Have we PRACTICED? People. CORRECT YOUR DOGS." Eventually, he will take some hapless, enervated mutt and zap him with a leash pull. "Baxter, HEEL." Baxter will wag merrily, sniffing deliciously about, his snout open in a big, hungry smile, prancing in every direction but the one the instructor wants. "BAXTER. NO! SHAME! PHOOEY! Pay ATTENTION." Zap! Goes the leash. Zoinks goes Baxter's neck. Snap goes the lead.
"That's a PUPPY. That's a bay-by," says Bob. Baxter gasps for breath. Bob turns to the quivering crowd, a bunch of desperate suburbanites clutching at their leashes as their dogs pant sloppily away. "THAT's a correction."
Needless to say, Calvin is not the star pupil. Several times he has turned from a frollicksome mutt into Cerebus, frothing at the mouth and hungry for blood. I tell myself that no matter how bad it gets, I will not shout "SHAME! PHOOEY" like the Mother Superior at the Magdalene Convent.
What converts me, alas, are the dogs from the advanced class. The advanced class comes in after ours to show us how it can be done. This is like the cast of Cirque de Soleil performing before the Tumbling Toddler class. These dogs can do anything. With the right hand signal these dogs will set your laundry on spin and program your thermostat.
One of the dogs is named (no kidding), Angel. Angel is a 4-pound puff ball who reminds me of Ann Schumann, a girl I went to grammar school with who wore a lace slip under her skirt and was forever chastising us to "play fair." No one liked Ann, but I hear she now owns her own biotech firm. Angel can inspire more hatred from me than any other dog in the class. Angel could make me swear off heaven altogether. Second to Angel on my loathed dogs list is a square-shouldered Rottweiler who looks like he spends his free time doing push ups in his crate. I think he does bicep curls with Angel. I call him Benito.
I crawl hopelessly home and call my trainer. "I can't do this any more," I say.
"There's no such word as 'can't.'" she says.
And so out I go, walking around the neighborhood bawling, "HEEL, HEEL, HEEL," like Oral Roberts at a revival meeting. "Calvin, HALT," I say and I see a curtain close from the house of a neighbor who likely worries I am planning a military coup.
The sound of "SHAME" you hear outside your window at night is not a mom chucking her kids' toys in the Dumpster, but one wretched dog owner trying mightily to turn her little devil into an Angel.
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The Harlem Legends, a professional group of athletes made up of former Harlem Globetrotters, as well as professionals from the NBA, NFL and past Olympics, will play the Oak Ridge All-Stars, a local group comprised of city officials, educators and former Oak Ridge High School "Wildcats" in a friendly game of hoops — Globetrotter style — at 5 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Funds will benefit the Regina Kirk Foundation and the Scarboro Community Alumni Association. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door and a VIP meet-and-greet with the All-Stars is $25, according to local information provided by Tatia Harris.
Additional information can be obtained by calling:
• Regina Kirk at (423) 320-8699;
• Julie Holloway Fletcher at (615) 823-0571; or
• Michael Douglas at (678) 630-8843.
Saturday's event at Oak Ridge High School is being promoted as "an evening of family fun" that includes prizes and entertainment.
Harlem Legends include Michael Douglas, who made a surprise visit to Oak Ridge's Emory Valley Center on Wednesday; Tyrone "Hollywood Brown", Larry "Shorty" Coleman; Robert Wallace; Tree Gordon; Mike Glenn; Jimmy Bolden; Kevin Sowell; L.T. Trahan; and Regina Kirk.
Call now for your tickets to this special community fundraising event or come to Oak Ridge High School with your family, friends, church group, Scout group, etc. for the 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, tipoff of the Harlem Legends vs. the Oak Ridge All-Stars.
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I've mentioned that I will be having to raise the pricing on this kit when the new stock arrives. At the moment we're holding longer than expected for the felt components to show from India and because of the amount of requests for the product I've decided to extend the sale price during this time.
We're listing the kits for sale at the old pricing if backordered.
Delivery shouuld be 2-3 weeks - tops.
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Battle at the Bridge
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Forest City DGC, Forest City, IA
Third stop on the 2011 North Iowa Tour!
Check In - 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Player Meeting - 9:45 a.m.
Tee Off - 10:00 a.m.
Limited to first 105 paid entries
1 Hour Lunch Break between rounds
2 Rounds of 21 holes
Men will be Flighted after the 1st Round
Tournament Entry Fees:
All Men - $20
All Women - $10
Ace Fund (Optional) - $2
*Current Ace Fund is at $74 before this tournament.
*Ace Fund will carry forward to next N.I.T. event if there are no Aces at this tournament.
All of the Tournaments will be FLIGHTED this year.
Instead of having Divisions for people to sign up to play in.
The Men will be Flighted into 3 Flights - Open, Advanced, & Intermediate.
The Women will just be in 1 Flight.
Flight Payouts:
Trophy for the Winner of each Flight!
Men's Flight Payouts - 40%/30%/25% of total Men's Entry Fees with 5% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
Women's Flight Payout - 90% of total Women's Entry Fees with 10% (or $1 per entry) going towards N.I.T. Fees
*Cash Payout for Men's Open Flight, Wak Pak Funny Money Payout for all other Flights.
*With this system the Men's Open Flight will actually have "Added-Cash" into their payout.
*We will payout the Top 40-45% of each Flight.
Tee Assignments:
1st Round
All Men - White Tees
All Women - Red Tees
2nd Round
Open Men - Blue Tees
Advanced Men - White Tees
Intermediate Men - White Tees
All Women - Red Tees
More info about the 2011 North Iowa Tour.
FYI - If you plan to attend the tournament, you can let me know and I can save you a spot. I doubt we will fill the tournament to the max, but it is nice to know who is coming ahead of time, so we can get a jump start on registrations.


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Mylatest blog entry began with this paragraph:
Messing with MP3 files is, for some people, a synonym for illegal use of copyrighted music. Well, actually it's not.
The reason I wrote that incipit remained unclear to many, that didn't seeany link between this first phrase and the rest of the article. I therefore decided towrite a few blog entries on the subject. This time I'll talk about theMP3 format in itself.
MP3 is a popular lossy audio compression format. In some ways, MP3 is for audiofiles what JPEG is for still images. JPEG, as you may know, is a lossyimage compression format; it's effectiveness builds on the fact that JPEGremoves information that the human eye cares less for. Similarly, MP3s removeinformation that are less audible to human hears.
A JPEG compressed image is different from the original one, and differencesare quickly spotted by a watchful eye; similarly, if you listen carefullyto an MP3 file you can feel that there are sounds somewhat degraded.
MP3 as a format owes its success to a couple of factors. The first is a very goodcompression/quality ratio; the second is our old beloved Napster, whichin 2000 made itvery easy to search for and exchange MP3 audio files;it also made peer-to-peer programs so popular that someone thought wewere at the beginning of a new frontier in internet services, despite the fact thatthe P2P paradigm in itself was quite old instead (think about theold
talk UNIX utility to get an idea).
But success came at a cost: a lot of the files shared with Napster wereillegally shared copyrighted music. So, for some, MP3 became synonymous with "illegal audio files". My latest blog entry came from here: having anMP3 file doesn't mean that you have something illegal in your hands.
I could stop here telling the story of MP3, but since this isFree Software Magazine there something more that's worth saying.To cut a long story short, MP3 is not a free format, despite its widespreaduse and its being a de facto standard.Thomson holds the patents on theformat and it's actively trying to enforce those patents all over theworld.
But wait, there is more. TheFraunhofer Institutewas involved in the creation of the format since the beginning, andcreated the first MP3 encoder. Well, it holds a license that allows itto require a licensing fee for all programs that use the MP3 format(both encoders and decoders); Thomson manages all the licensingprocedures on their behalf. For more information you can have a lookat Fraunhofer'sFAQ onMP3 and at themp3licensing.com web site.
All these licensing and patent issues made the free software communitydevelop a new audio file format that's now known asOgg Vorbis. Let's cut a longstory short again, and say that Ogg is sort of a multimedia containerfile format, that is a specification for files that may contain audio and/orvideo tracks. Vorbis, in turn, it's an audio encodingformat. As you may now have guessed, Ogg Vorbis files are Vorbis audiostreams contained in Ogg containers. Ogg Vorbis combines both the advantagesof MP3 (a high compression ratio and high quality for audio files) andbeing a patent-free, open file format, something that FSM readers mayappreciate. It hasn't the same popularity of MP3, nevertheless it's supportedby many media players, both free (like XMMS) and non free (like WinAMP).It's also supported by a number ofportable audioplayers.
And that's all for this post. Next time I'll talk about legal issuesconnected to the use of MP3 files, and in particular about thelegal issues related tomyprevious post. I'll be helped in this effort byMassimo Farina, an Italianlawyer and a dear friend of mine, who's specializing in legal issuesrelated to new technologies. Until then, enjoy FSM!
Ogg versus MP3
The biggest problem with Ogg format is that not many portable/embedded players support it. This means that if you store your compressed audio in Ogg format, and you want to listen to it on cheap embedded players, you will have to transcode the data to MP3 anyway.
Which is a pain. So many people choose to just keep their music in MP3 format.
This isn't much of an issue for me, because I just don't have any embedded compressed-music players! But every time I think about buying one, I agonize over the process of finding a good one that supports Ogg (not much luck at the Walmart -- I'd have to buy something online, probably).
Obviously, one reason for MP3's success over Ogg is that it's been around longer. But of course, WMA is newer than either, and many new players support it, but not Ogg. One might suspect a conspiracy!
However, I have learned that at least part of the problem is (or at least was) technical: Ogg apparently uses a floating-point based algorithm to do its compression, whereas both MP3 and WMA use integer-based math. This has a significant impact on the CPU requirements for hardware that processes them. The Ogg format was designed, I believe, with Intel-based PCs in mind, as the most efficient way to use that hardware for compression (and many people seem to think that Ogg files produce better fidelity/compression performance than MP3), but they didn't really accomodate the needs of embedded devices.
Thus many devices just don't have the CPU cycles needed to process Ogg.
IIRC, however, there were some improvements in this direction (an integer-based algorithm for Ogg files), but I haven't kept up with that.
Vorbis and foating point
Vorbis does indeed use a floating point encoding process - and so do WMA and MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3). Encoding the files is one thing; decoding them is another, and you can actually decompress MP3 files with integer based processes. But so can you Vorbis! The 16-bit integer based decoder is free and is called Tremor. In matters of CPU cycles, Vorbis demand isn't as high as you'd think. Hovever, and contrary to mp3, it requires a few more kilobytes of fast RAM (32kb if I'm not mistaken) for the actual decompression - something which can actually be hard to allocate on embedded devices (mp3 requires 4kb if I'm not mistaken).
mp3 starts with cutting off the higher frequency range and muffles the sound the higher the compression ratio is; it is bitrate-based, although an abuse of its format definition allows it to work in a quality based (variable bitrate) compression scheme (see LAME). It includes several filter passes so as to remain audible (though eventually muffled) in high compression.
WMA 'simplifies' the sound wave 'appearance' until it reaches the required bitrate. It is extremely fast due to almost no filters being applied - which provokes ringing, metallic noises and general nasty harmonics to be generated in, say, 64k/sec compression (while an MP3 compressed at this rate will be automatically downsampled to 22 kHz and muffled, but much easier on the ear)
Vorbis won't reach 64 k/sec if you require quality to remain high (it is a variable bitrate encodig process) but on comparable sound quality it'll beat WMA by 10-15% and variable bitrate MP3 by 20%. It won't encode non stereo, lower-than-CD quality efficiently though.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
Wow, thanks
Wow. Thanks for coming up with the facts on Ogg/WMA/MP3. I feel greatly enlightened! :-)
Pirates! *harr, harr*
I'm looking forward to your next blog post! Maybe you'll also want to write something about so called 'piracy', legal issues and what 'intelectual property' does to creative works.
Please have a look at the political Pirate Party which formed in Sweden around the worlds largest BitTorrent Tracker The Pirate Bay and the anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran.
This is a movement which aims to reform todays restrictive copyright system with ideas of for example Lawrence Lessigs Free Culture in mind. A lot of the ideas of the Free Culture Movement are actually derived from the ideals of the free software movement.
Ogg and FLAC
Well, I guess the very nature of Ogg, i.e. open, is the hindrance to adoption. Since it is open, I dread to see a DRM slapped on it so that recording companies can make sure that their music is difficult to pirate. The reason why AAC with Apple's Fairplay and WMV of Microsoft with their own DRM are gaining advantage over open formats.
Another file format that I have encountered is FLAC, which uses lossless compression. Although I have yet to see a device supporting it, it may also be a good alternative to other proprietary file formats.
As it stands...
...there are players that support Vorbis and/or FLAC. The problem with the latter is the much longer encoding process required, and the lower compression ratio (highest compression will yeld a file that is around 60-80% smaller than uncompressed, while Vorbis will result in 90% smaller files that still sound extremely good in a fraction of the time).
FLAC is an excellent compressor for sound archival, Vorbis is much better at consumer playback.
DRM isn't really a concern, as a matter of fact: MP3 doesn't support it, and no players these days can do without MP3 playback; Vorbis is a MP3 replacement that happens to have much better quality than WMA or AAC, but which is not commercially enforced. It all comes down to marketing.
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Members of Strom Thurmond High School's mock trial team are headed to nationals. (WRDW-TV / April 19, 2012)
News 12 at 11 o'clock / Wednesday, April 19, 2012
JOHNSTON, S.C. -- Ten students from Strom Thurmond High School are heading to New Mexico to compete in the National Mock Trial Competition. They won the state championship just a few weeks ago and now they're getting ready to face some of the best teams in the world.
These students have been working hard and they have a good bit of help. They're coached by State Sen. Shane Massey and even a federal judge came in to help them out.
"It's really very encouraging for the future because when you watch these students, these high school students, perform as well as they are, it really gives you hope that we're gonna be OK," Massey said.
They're preparing to go up against some of the best mock trial teams around the country and even some from around the world.
"It's amazing," said senior Megan Rudd. "This is the best experience that I can possibly imagine. Ever since I got on the team, we've been working towards this so to finally make it, it's incredible."
It's been 25 years since Strom Thurmond last won a state championship in mock trial.
"Last year we were one team away, we came in second place and it was a huge crush for us," said junior Jacob Harding.
But that didn't stop them and this year they made it all the way to nationals.
"They work very hard, they're smart, they do good in school, they're involved in their community," Massey said. "These are the people who we really need to be cultivating. These are the ones who we want to step forward later on."
Now, they're counting the days before they represent South Carolina in New Mexico.
"What we normally do in five months to prepare for state, we're preparing for nationals in three weeks," Harding said.
They still have a lot of work to do to get ready for the competition. They practice after school Monday through Thursday and on Sundays.
"We have quite a bit of a ways to go," said junior Ashley Bodiford. "We're just kinda getting our feet wet with the case and it's a really complex case, but I think we're definitely gonna get it."
A complex federal case, but they are learning from the best. Federal Judge Joe Anderson volunteered to help.
"He's a judge at the federal courthouse in Columbia now and for him to come back here is just an amazing thing," said Mock Trial coach Denise Jackson. "We are kind in awe of him."
Massey says these kids are the future
"I think you've got some future attorneys in there, but I also think you've got some future engineers. I think you've got some future doctors and people who are gonna be involved in all sorts of the community," Massey said.
And some are dreaming even bigger.
"People on TV are gonna laugh at me, but I wanna be the president of the United States of America," said junior Miller Thompson.
The competition is May 4 and 5 in Albuquerque. We wish them all the best and will keep everyone updated as to how they do.


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Health Care Ethics | Doctor of Philosophy Degree
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FREMONT -- The Planning Commission on Thursday will consider allowing a former quarry to be converted into a 91-acre regional park, but some environmentalists question whether the quarry company will deliver, given that its first plan to transform the site into a lake fell by the wayside.
Dumbarton Quarry Associates, a company that operated a crushed rock aggregate quarry at the Ardenwood neighborhood site, cut a deal with Fremont in 1996 that called for the city to allow the company to continue quarry operations for another decade. But there was one condition: the company had to pay all costs to fill the quarry pit with as much as 6 million cubic yards of soil and transform it into a regional park.
Once operations ceased in 2007, the company's first proposal to construct a 20-acre fishing lake hit a wall, as regulatory agencies found there was no feasible way for lake water to flow into the bay, making it inhospitable for fish. That failure led some to lose trust in the company, as even park district officials two years ago wrote a letter to Fremont, questioning the company's willingness to honor its deal with the city.
East Bay Regional Park District officials say the company since has addressed their concerns.
"I think we've gotten past that," said Mike Anderson, assistant general manager for the park district. "Now, we've got specific plans in place that show they're committed to setting up a nice park in the area."
Anderson said there is no set budget for the project, which will be funded by the quarry company.
"There is simply a set of plans that they have to build, which include roads, sewer lines and other utilities," he said. "We have the specifications they have to meet. The cost is their issue."
Phone messages left this week for a Dumbarton Quarry Associates representative were not returned.
The park would be built in two phases, lasting up to 15 years, according to a Fremont staff report.
The first phase would involve filling the eastern side of the pit, which was about 300 feet deep at the peak of the quarry's 40 years of operation. Plans then call for construction of overnight camping facilities with dozens of sites for recreational vehicles, automobiles and walk-in campers, as well as meadows, hiking trails, picnic areas with barbecue pits, a children's playground, a 13,000-square-foot event center, a 150-person outdoor amphitheater with a campfire pit, restrooms, parking spaces and a half-acre corporation and maintenance yard.
If built, the park land then would be added to adjacent Coyote Hills Regional Park, nearly 978 acres of marshland and rolling hills managed by the East Bay Regional Park District.
Dan Ondrasek, member of Friends of Coyote Hills, an environmental group, said he is concerned what exactly might get dumped into the pit, noting that contaminated soil from the nearby Patterson Ranch development is awaiting approval for disposal at the former quarry.
"It's unclear where and how the monitoring of that will be done," Ondrasek said. "When we brought that up at the last public meeting, we got a bunch of blank stares. I don't want that area to become a toilet."
Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison said that any materials deposited in the quarry must meet the thresholds set by the state's Regional Water Quality Water Board.
"We have a lot of restrictions," Harrison said. "Also, it will be encapsulated by more than 50 feet of solid, clean dirt when the project's done."
The Planning Commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 3300 Capitol Ave.
If the commission's seven members approve the park proposal, the City Council then will consider it for final approval at one of its meetings scheduled in September, Fremont officials said.
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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TAHOE CITY, Calif. — The Tahoe Transportation District has been awarded $25.5 million in federal funds for the Fanny Bridge overhaul project in Tahoe City.
Some of the money through the Federal Lands Access Program will also go toward the Meeks Bay Bike Path and Dollar Creek Shared Use Path projects, TTD officials said Friday.
Improvements to Highway 89 and the 84-year-old Fanny Bridge — which has structural deficiencies and experiences heavy congestion, particularly during peak season — are expected to cost about $22 million, according to previous reports.
TTD will coordinate with local, state, and federal partners to secure remaining funds for the project, estimated at $7.5 million.
Currently, a draft environmental review report is being developed, with an expected release date of roughly a year from now, with release of a draft environmental document in winter 2014.
Project construction could start as early as 2015, according to TTD, with work likely taking two years to complete.
The project area includes Highway 89 into Tahoe City from the West Shore, the Truckee River Bridge and associated intersections and along Highway 89 entering into Tahoe City from Truckee and Highway 28 from Kings Beach.
Project goals include improving pedestrian, cyclist and driver safety; and making public transportation more effective with long-term strategic connectivity, reliability and travel times, according to a press release.
It will also provide two viable emergency evacuation routes from the West Shore; lessen environmental impacts by reducing vehicle emissions and improving storm water treatment.
"The two viable emergency evacuation routes from the West Shore are of key interest, as it will allow our communities alternatives during large scale evacuations," said John Pang, chief of the Meeks Bay Fire Protection District. "This new project will also afford emergency equipment access to the West Shore without creating massive gridlocks."
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OAKLAND -- The A's aren't used to having one of their own booed at home, and when it happened to Jim Johnson, they didn't much care for it.
"You can't let it get to you," Josh Donaldson told this newspaper. "No one likes to hear it."
The third baseman expanded on that with mlb.com, saying his opinion on A's fans had been altered.
"I think it got out hand early, and now it's just almost like the cool thing to do," Donaldson went on. "I don't know. It's tough. It makes everyone feel awkward. I don't know how it helps anything.
"I get that these guys paid for their seats. I don't care what they do. At the same time, I know it makes me think different of our fans. There was a time when we were all kind of one, which made it so special. We fed off them, they fed off us. Now what?"
Johnson, pitching in the seventh inning Thursday with the A's down by one run, gave up two singles and a two-run double in a 5-4 loss to Detroit. After earning 50 saves in each of the last two seasons with the Orioles, he has allowed nine earned runs in his last 81/3 innings, a 9.72 ERA. For the year he is 3-2 with a 6.55 ERA and just two saves.
Fellow reliever Sean Doolittle also chimed in on the subject. MLB.com tweeted Doolittle as saying, "You have every right to boo over lack of hustle, lack of effort, preparation, stuff like that. None of that's going on here."
A major league scout who asked not to be named, told this newspaper on Friday that Johnson "still has good stuff."
"But he'll go out there and throw a curve that drops a foot, and then he throw another and it hangs," the scout said. "And he's hanging his sinker too much. But the velocity and stuff still seems to be there."
Manager Bob Melvin, asked about what he was going to do with Johnson, said he won't have him pitching with a lead. But the manager's goal is to get Johnson back on his game.
"We're trying to get him through a tough period. The ability is there. The track record is there," Melvin said.
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I adore the Lowell Farms Organic Jasmine Rice. You cook that rice and it has the most incredible aroma and texture and sweetness. The grains are all perfect.Marie Simmons
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I think they've done a good job of picking (varieties)... praises the black rice for its tenderness and the red rice for its pleasantly grainy taste. And you're talking to a person whose fundamental bias is to eat white rice.Naomi Duguid
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My favorites include that black stuff like the one often labeled 'forbidden' rice. It is really quite amazing; it turns deep purple when cooked (and stains, so look out) and, with nothing more than salt, is among the best-tasting grains... Of the so-called red rices (they're reddish, not really red), I like Bhutanese best; the rest, I think, are overpriced.Mark Bittman
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To get you started, here's a healthy-food expert's list of 12 must haves. #1/ Kalijira not only looks like a miniature version of aromatic basmati, it tastes like it, too. Grown in Bangladesh, this unique heirloom variety is treasured for its delicate flavor, aroma, and texture. In its whole grain form, it contains some nutrients not typically found in contemporary rice hybrids. An extra bonus is its short cooking time: 25 minutes for brown rice and a mere 10 minutes for white.Margaret Wittenberg
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There's a Bhutanese Red Rice that's grown up in the Himalayas. It's got a really buttery, delicious flavor. There's also something that's called Forbidden Rice® because it was used in China only for members of the emperor's court. It's deep purple...with a woody, straw, nutty flavor that goes great with delicate poultry.Charlie Trotter
The Wall Street Journal
Not long ago, the only rice most Americans knew came in fluffy, long grains that were as white as Uncle Ben's hair and as boring as instant mashed potatoes. But exotic rices such as black forbidden rice from China, red rice from the Camargue in France, and black- and mahongany-speckled Japonica rice from California are 'awakening American palates,' says Caryl Levine, co-owner of Lotus Foods in El Cerrito, Calif. Since 1995, Lotus has been working with small farmers to preserve and expand production of heirloom varieties such as gobindavog (Lotus sells it as Kalijira) from Bangladesh. And they can be bought for a mere $4 to $6 a pound.
The rice selections in gourmet stores across the country are expanding. With such exotic varieties as Forbidden Black Rice of China and Bhutanese Red Rice... plenty of new products are available to invigorate your department. Many retailers say that rice is selling like never before... The Forbidden Rice and the Bhutanese Red Rice are whole-grain rices, but with significantly higher nutritional value than ordinary brown rice. Plus, the red rice cooks up in 20 minutes, the same amount of time as for white rice, and the Forbidden Rice®, even though it's black and therefore, unhulled, cooks in 30 minutes. Move over pasta—this just may be the era of specialty rice. A plethora of good cookbooks devoted to the subject stand ready to support it, such as Rice: The Amazing Grain by Marie Simmons.James Mellgren
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Bhutanese Red Rice, the new darling of the culinary world...Florence Fabricant
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I became intrigued with the new red rice from Bhutan and prepared it with tiny clams and chorizo sausage. Using seafood and pork together, kind of Portugese style, seemed right. It's an assertive rice that calls for spice.Ed Brown
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I made a fabulous confetti vegetable salad by combining the cooked black rice with diced seasonal vegetables, orange zest and walnut oil.Steve Petusevsky
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For a gorgeous risotto: Kalijira Rice (or "baby basmati"), saffron-enhanced stock, thyme and pepper. Pan toast different sorts of rice - the fragrant Kalijira from Bangladesh as well as the short grained red rice from Bhutan before adding hot water or broth, and each grain will wear its distinction proudly, with the dish as a whole achieving a full nutty fragrance.Molly O'Neil
New York Times Magazine
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The nutty flavors and raven tones of forbidden rice were once reserved for Chinese emperors...David Myers of Sona in Los Angeles fully embraces the dark side by serving black chicken and forbidden rice, and black limes show up unexpectedly in a tart ice cream.Lisa McLaughlin
The rice cooks faster than most kinds of brown rice, in less than 30 minutes, and emerges as a fluffy pilaf with a light hazelnut flavor, making it a brown rice that is more Blahnik than Birkenstock.Florence Fabricant
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I did my first triathlon this morning. I'm not the strongest swimmer, but I have been swimming for a year now. I could easily do the distance (250 yards) in the pool with reasonable technique. I was confident about being able to do the distance, I just never swam in a lake before. When I ran into the water and started to swim, it's like I forgot how. I couldn't get the rhythm of my breath at all, it was like I never swam before. I don't know if it was nerves, adrenaline or what. I ended up doing the side stroke or backstroke the whole time and feeling like I was flapping around. I was exhausted because I was using so much extra energy. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. My husband said it looked like most people were struggling.
Has this happened to anybody else? What do I do in my training to prevent this from happening again?
it is very common. next time try warming up before the race so there is no cold water shock.
goals for 2011:
break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
I have my first tri on the 27th with an ocean swim. i'm not a swimmer by any means, but have been in the pool 3-4 days a week since i signed up a month and a half ago (i know, not a long time). I've seen the total immersion videos and have improved my technique quite a bit, but i still have no endurance. i struggle to do back to back lengths in a 25m pool. i'm afraid once i get into the open water i'll lose all technique and start freaking out. i did a mini sprint 3 weeks ago (only a 200m pool swim) and when i got out of the pool i was exhausted.
any advice, other than to just try to remain calm and go easy?
When I swim in the pool, I take my time and start when I'm good and ready. I think what did me in was I didn't have that pre-swim zen moment. You rush in when they say to. The lake is so much different - it was a complete unknown fo rme. It's dark, there's seaweed plus there's tons of people all around you. It's easy to lose focus. If I had to do it again, I'd spend the few minutes before the race getting focused and concentrating. Try to block everyone else out. I was too busy chatting it up. The mental preparedness is extremely important.
Just in case you do struggle, be sure to have some other strokes you can do. The side stroke & backstroke is easier because you don't need to worry about coordinating your breathing.
If you can get to the ocean to practice swimming before that, I'd highly recommend it. I think if I could have done a lake swim before this, it would have eliminated a lot of the unknowns for me and I would have done better.
Good luck!!!
thanks for the advice. the waves have really been picking up here lately, so i'm not getting much opportunity to practice there. i know that will help me if the race waters are choppy, but i'm really hesitant about going out too far to get past the break by myself, and i haven't found a good spot in the intracoastal yet. i've been using a pull bouy lately to simulate the extra bouancy of the salt water, plus it helps me not rely on my legs so much, in order to conserve energy for the bike/run.
i just need to focus that my only goal for this 1st tri is to finish, and times don't matter, and relax relax relax!
yesterday i did get to the intracostal instead of the pool and i was able to do close to 20 mins without really stopping (except to clear my goggles). much different swim than the pool. i was able to float easier, so that translated to much less kicking, and therefore not out of breath at all. i was able to get into a good rythym with breathing, and think i may be over the hump. of course the intracoastal isn't quite the same as the wavy ocean, but its a step in the right direction. it really helped my confidence.
Very common -- happened to me on my first (and second!) open water tris.
In addition to practicing in open water, other advise given to me was to count to 10 after the gun goes off before starting. Walk into the water and let everyone else sprint in as they scramble for a patch of water. Let the crush go. I tried this on my third and got the identical time as my second, but wasn't exhausted, didn't swallow any water and swam freestyle the whole way. Alternatively, start wide to avoid the crowds. Finally, don't worry about using other strokes if you need to -- I still use breaststroke intermittently to catch extra O2 and sight the buoys.
I just did my first tri the other day as well, and although I am an extremely strong swimmer,( I was the captain of my high school team) I found it difficult to find a good rhythm. I think maybe the nerves of my first multi sport event played a big part in this. I found it harder to control my breathing, heart rate, pace, etc. I'm thinking maybe more open water swimming, and more block workouts,( swim, then bike) will help to get me more used to the feeling. Also, I think that having that many people around you while you're already kind of hyped up makes it a little nerve racking. anyway, good luck, and at least you kept moving forward!
The best thing I have found is to "practice like you play". Even if you can't get out to do open water swims when you swim in the pool be sure to take slow even strokes concentrating on having your thumb come up and touch your thigh before you bring it out of the water. You don't want much leg kick and overall you just want to relax. The best thing that i have found for staying on course is to go to the opposite side that you breath on. For example if you breath on your right side than go to the left of the course. This will let you look at other swimmers and you won't need to look up for the buoys so often. Warmups are a great thing because they allow you to get used to the murky water etc. Another thing that you can do in the pool is to swim with your eyes closed. First find out how many strokes it takes you to get accross the pool, then on your next lap close your eyes and swim 2-3 stroke short of that and for those last 2-3 strokes don't put your face back in the water, instead pick your head up and look at the end of the pool. this simulates you not being able to see and looking for the buoys. It also helps get you psychologically used to not being able to see while you swim. Another thing to practice is to breath from your non natural side, because sometimes you are getting hit in the face with waves from one side and being able to breathe from the other is a lifesaver. The biggest thing is to relax.
As far as being able to extend your swim workouts you have to just keep doing one stroke after another.
as an update, did my 1st tri today with ocean swim. happened to be against the current, and everyone there (including exp triathletes) seemed to think the course was much longer than the 1/4 mi advertised. but the ocean was perfectly flat, thankfully. unfortunatly, dispite following the advice of staying back to avoid the rush, and swimming to the outsides, and the perfectly clear water, I still managed to "freak out". I couldn't seem to do anything to get into a rythym and looking around, neither could anyone else near me. everyone around me seemed to be swimming freestyle-like, but with their heads up looking ahead. even that wouldn't work for me and i ended up taking 25 mins to backstroke the whole thing (felt like that was the only way i could breathe). even still, 40+ swimmers finished after me, so i can take solice in knowing i wasn't the only one who struggled.
not sure if it was just first time jitters, general fear of open water (not being able to touch the bottom in the wide open sea is an issue for me), or just still not a good enough swimmer in general (prob all 3). i'm considering my options for another race, maybe just a run, bike, run duathlon until my swim gets better?
anyways, i finished with a respectable 1:45, 38th out of 57, so i'm happy overall.
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The stars of the show are every bit as impressive as promised in "DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular."
Too bad the rest of the production isn't quite as thrilling as the fire-breathing, high-flying dragons, which truly rank as the most lifelike-looking animatronic creations I've ever laid eyes on. Of course, I've never seen a real dragon but, after witnessing this show Wednesday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, I feel like I have.
That's why this production, despite its flaws, is worth recommending. Sure, it's too long, some jokes fall flat and the performances from the supporting cast (i.e., the humans) are often uninspired. Yet the creators absolutely nailed the most important aspect of the show -- they got the dragons right.
That had to be the No. 1 concern for the many dedicated fans of the source material, DreamWorks' 2010 smash animated film "How to Train Your Dragon." If the dragons in this live adaptation didn't resemble the ones in the film both in terms of appearance and personality then the real critics -- the young fans of the movie who've watched it dozens of times -- surely wouldn't be happy.
Fortunately, the kids decked out in dragon gear Wednesday night seemed delighted with the flying creatures. They might have known that the dragons weren't real but, if so, they also appeared more than willing to suspend disbelief for two hours and some change.
The script takes some liberties with the film's storyline, which might not please some fans, but it still basically spins the same tall tale. The two-legged star of the show is once again the good-natured, but bumbling Hiccup, and the action takes place on the island of Berk, a Viking outpost with more than its share of annoying "pests."
"Most people have mice or mosquitoes," Hiccup explains at the start of the show. "We have dragons. Most people would leave, but not us. We're Vikings."
As Vikings, they have a commonly agreed upon method of dealing with these pests -- they kill them. That makes Hiccup's world a dangerous place where beefy men with shields and swords regularly do battle with deadly gargantuan creatures. Hiccup wants to do his part but his fellow Vikings -- especially dear old Dad, Stoick, the chieftain of the tribe -- feel he's not cut out to be a dragon slayer.
Hiccup sets out to prove them wrong and ends up capturing one of the most dreaded dragons of all. Hiccup can't bring himself to kill the beast and ends up helping it instead. The bond that forms between the would-be slayer and the dragon called Toothless is the storyline's heart and soul -- at least it is in the film. It's not nearly as convincing, or as touching, on the live stage.
That relationship is overshadowed, both figuratively and literally, by the dragons themselves. It's hard to really care about "a boy and his dog story," which is how DreamWorks' Eric Stevens summed up the essence of the tale, when you're so distracted by those magnificent flying machines.
And there is plenty to marvel over. The production features 13 dragons, representing nine different "species." Each one is enormous, weighing as much as 2.6 tons and featuring wingspans that reach up to 46 feet. It takes several individuals -- or puppeteers, if you will -- to operate each creation.
They also fly at speeds reaching 15 to 20 mph, and fight, with fire and other special effects. Yet, perhaps the most impressive aspect of the creatures is the detail work -- the eyes move, the facial expressions change.
These dragons are nothing less than a crowning achievement for Australia's Global Creatures, the company that made its name with the 2010 blockbuster "Walking With Dinosaurs" arena tour.
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Wind Power in China Sees Enormous Growth, Immense Challenges
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By Herman K. Trabish
"For the Chinese wind industry as a whole, 2012 appears to be another year combining elements of the best of times and the worst of times," reports a new quarterly assessment from GTM Research and Azure International.
Though 3Q financials from China's biggest turbine manufacturers like Sinovel, Goldwind, and Mingyang (NYSE:MY) confirm a sharp fall in revenues, the Chinese wind industry installed 2.9 gigawatts of grid-connected and non-grid-connected capacity, bringing China to a cumulative 71 gigawatts at the end of the quarter. It is on track to pass the 50-gigawatt cumulative grid-connected capacity mark in 2012 and reach its highest annual installation number, approaching eighteen gigawatts for the year.
According to the GTM Research-Azure International report, China's wind industry is on track for a cumulative 80 gigawatts by the end of 2012 and 150 gigawatts of installed capacity by the end of 2015. That would dramatically exceed the 100-gigawatt 2015 target set by China's 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011.
China wind, however, faces "immense challenges," according to the report, "from ongoing problems with grid connection, ever-growing amounts of curtailed wind generation, new restrictions from State Grid on who can connect, and, perhaps most importantly, uncertainty about whether policymakers will do as they have done in the past to ensure the sector continues its rapid growth."
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Apparently this little weekend gathering has taken off. We are about 6 weeks into this and what started as a group of 10 has grown to 18 at big creek last week and 27 made it up to Ames this weekend. I plan on running this up to tournament season.
Anyone is invited to join us going forward.
For those of you that don't know......
Random doubles........
Buy in: one disc (champion or better new or used and no worse than a 7/10)
Payout: everyone takes home 1 disc, lowest score gets first choice from the stack high score gets last choice.
Saturday or Sunday will vary based on many factors
Time: normaly its a noon(ish) tee
Ace fund: optional $2
Where: varies, but we try not to play des moines courses.
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- Her hands were tied together so tightly that the ligature was cutting into the skin.
- He had been strangled with a ligature and his wrists were tied.
- A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'Paramedics were called to the prison and there were no signs of a ligature.'
1.1A cord or thread used in surgery, especially to tie up a bleeding artery.
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- The ligatures on his splenic artery and vein had slipped.
- Suture ligatures and electrocoagulation are the two most common techniques for hemostasis.
- The alternative of tying the damaged vessel with a ligature had been employed by various surgeons dating back to Celsus, a Roman medical author in the first century ad.
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3 Printing A character consisting of two or more joined letters, e.g. æ, fl.
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Re/Max Holdings Inc. will be fortunate if the market for homes turns out to be as hot as the market for its stock.
In Re/Max's first day of trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange, the company's stock opened at $26.25, well above its $22 offer price. It finished the day at $27, up roughly 23%, in 4 p.m. composite trading on the NYSE.
Re/Max's first-day results indicate that investors are optimistic about the housing recovery and stocks tied to it. It might also be that Re/Max and its underwriters underestimated the price the shares would fetch. Re/Max intends to use its estimated $194.2 million in proceeds from the initial public offering to acquire two of its regional franchises and to pay its 2010 equity investors, private-equity firm Weston Presidio.
"What this tells me is that we've been a well-kept secret for some time," said Margaret Kelly, Re/Max's chief executive officer, in an interview Wednesday. "Now that we're in the public market, and our investors understand the Re/Max model, it's obviously showing in the stock price."
Re/Max, based in Denver, is a franchisor for real-estate brokerages. Its franchises span 92,500 agents in 6,380 offices across 96 countries. The franchisor logged revenue last year of $143.7 million and net income of $33.3 million.
Still, some market watchers were a bit surprised by Re/Max's rise on Wednesday. The stock of Re/Max peer Realogy Holdings Corp., owner of brokerage brands including Coldwell Banker and Century 21, now is trading 62.8% above its October 2012 offering price. But Realogy and other stocks closely tied to the housing market generally have faltered since May, when interest rates began to rise on concerns about the Federal Reserve tapering its bond-buying program.
"Seeing Re/Max up 27% is surprising, given that Realogy has lagged over the past couple of months and housing companies haven't done well," said James Krapfel, a Morningstar Co. analyst, said Wednesday afternoon before the stock fell back to a 23% gain. "I'm guessing that there was some underpricing of the offering going on."
In an emailed statement, Re/Max chairman and co-founder Dave Liniger said, "We think we priced it just right. We listened to the advice of a very knowledgeable group of advisers and priced it at a level that provided room for the kind of serious, long-term investors we were hoping to attract. We're ecstatic about today's outcome."
Leading the offering were Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Even if Re/Max might have raised more capital by pricing the offering higher, it's better to underprice an offering than to overprice it and anger investors who bought at the offer price. That's according to David Menlow, president of IPO-research firm IPOfinancial.com in Green Brook, N.J.
Mr. Menlow sees Re/Max's first-day rise as evidence that investors are betting on the housing recovery. "Certainly, there is a perceived value that has yet to be realized with the compression of real-estate activity that seems to have been tucked away in the corner for the past several years," he said. "And the unwinding of that coiled spring is going to show positive impact for stocks such as Re/Max."


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Both start promptly at 8am but there are 2 different start lines. Be sure you are in the correct area to ensure you are on the right course. If you are a 5 Mile participant but you line up at the 2 Mile start line you will end up on the 2 mile course and will not be chip timed. Strollers and slower participants are asked to line up at the back of their respective group. DOGS have their own wave- see below for more info.
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In the first part of this series, I described the measuring process for having a first pair of bespoke shoes made at GJ Cleverley. The second step, though of course it takes place in the same session, is deciding which material and model of shoe you would like.
Unless a client wants something very extraordinary, the design options are presented around the racks of Cleverley's ready-to-wear and semi-bespoke shoes. Everything from a whole cut to a toe cap to a wing tip (not to mention casual, monk or derby), with every fraction of brogue in between. Here a quarter brogue is a toe cap with brogueing on almost every seam, but no medallion on the toe. A medallion makes it a half brogue and a wing-tip into a full brogue.
Clients of George Glasgow's at Cleverley have even requested one or two thistles to be brogued onto the heel of the shoe in the past, in order to make it more individual. But that's a lot of holes in one shoe.
Most important in designing a brogue is to keep the patterns balanced. Don't insist on broguing on the vamp and the counters, perhaps with a thistle, yet nothing across the toe.
I already knew I was going with a deep-brown shoe, as I wear that colour more than black and I want these shoes to be as adaptable as possible. My other pair of dark-brown shoes are half brogues, so this design will be cleaner.
I asked Mr Glasgow if he could think of any combination of lines, medallions and brogued seams that have never been commissioned before. (These are bespoke shoes after all.) He looked through the window briefly, as if running each permutation through his head. Then said no.
In the end I went for a clean toe and one brogued seam, running below the laces and finishing at the welt just in the middle of the waist. As you would have on a brogue, but without any decoration at toe or heel. It was the same design as a Cleverley balmoral on display, except with the seam pulled down half way. I've never been a fan of balmoral shoes (boots are a different story) – the horizontal line lacks movement to my eye.
Next, the choice of leather. Two bunches "of the brown family" were brought out, including kudu (as a general terrm for deer), hogskin and crocodile, as well as calf in a variety of grains. There were two dark browns, one of them cordovan. While I've never had cordovan shoes, Mr Glasgow was against the choice, suggesting that ungrained cordovan can look a little plastic and believing its thickness was more suited to country shoes.
On to soles. How thick do I want the sole? I have no idea – just like I had no idea how long the rise was on my trousers until I had bespoke suits made. Here having models on display is crucial. I pointed and George nodded.
The size of the welt? It can be cut very tight against the upper, leave a little room or be wide enough that it is invisible from a top-view, visible elsewhere. I went for the latter. Apparently people also vary the size of the welt around the shoe, with some preferring it to jut out slightly more at the toe – perhaps to give an impression of length. I skipped that.
Then finally there is the lining. Cleverley has quite a selection of different colours and this strikes me as a nice way to make a bespoke shoe your own, while keeping the outside conservative. I've never been a fan of bright suit linings, but then no one will see the inside of your shoes. Except your wife and the airport security guard.
The most popular lining options are red on a black shoe and racing green on a brown. The book was elsewhere so I'll decide at a later stage. But bright yellow looks good in my head…
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Area briefs: Limestone women's lacrosse ranked No. 6
Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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With just more than a week before they kick off the season, Limestone women's lacrosse has been ranked No. 6 in the nation in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Preseason Poll.
... The women's basketball team held fast at No. 16 in the latest USA TODAY Sports Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll.
... Men's and women's volleyball head coach Rick Banis and current men's volleyball player Scott Warren were both inducted into the Newman University Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the 2004 volleyball team.
... The men's volleyball team defeated Emmanuel 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-10). Chris Mineo led the Saints with 30 assists.
... The baseball team defeated Anderson 9-7. Chad Balderman led the Saints with a pair of doubles and three RBIs.
... The wrestling team fell 27-13 to UNC Pembroke.
USC UPSTATE: In Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Brian Horton (Boiling Springs) turned in a 75 in the final round of the SeaBest Seafood Invitational at the TPC Sawgrass to finish as the top Spartan as the men's golf team claimed a tie for 13th in the tournament.
WOFFORD: The men's tennis team defeated UNC Asheville 4-3 to earn its first victory of the season.
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1 cup chopped onion
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
1 pound pickled pork, diced
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1/2 gallon oysters with water
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1/2 cup chopped green onions
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Add onion and cook until browned about 10 minutes.
Add garlic and cook two more minutes.
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A group of parents is demanding major reform in the Brentwood Union School District, including the removal of Brentwood Superintendent Merrill Grant and details from an outside investigation into a recent child abuse settlement.
BUSD Concerned Parents and Teachers formed a little more than a week ago, and it has already garnered nearly 300 "likes" on a Facebook page. Last week, the parents started gathering online signatures from local residents on a petition calling for the dismissal of Grant by the Brentwood school board.
Many local parents have expressed outrage over the district's handling of Brentwood special education teacher Dina Holder, who was convicted of child abuse for throwing a 5-year-old autistic child onto a classroom floor and kicking him in front of witnesses two years ago. The victim's family was awarded a $950,000 settlement from the district.
"The parents see this issue with clarity. It is a black-and-white issue," Loma Vista Elementary School parent Christina Bell said. "(District personnel) have lost their way."
This growing parent group includes those whose children were students in Holder's classroom at Loma Vista, which is where the incident happened. As they continue to learn about more incidents surrounding Holder's class, the parents said they want answers and action to remove Grant by Feb. 15 or they will protest and host sick-outs by keeping their children home from school in large numbers.
"We were betrayed on so many levels," Bell said. "There needs to be change. We are not going anywhere. It is my impression that our community is united in the belief that Merrill Grant needs to go."
The group noted that there are many teachers and staff in the district who are caring and dedicated educators, and they are also deeply affected by this situation.
"The school district is hurting right now," said Stephanie Stewart, whose son spent two years in Holder's class.
Grant issued a public statement on Jan. 29 but refused to comment for this story.
"It is my hope that by listening to each other and understanding the issues that lie beneath this case, we may be able to work together toward better protecting our children," he wrote.
Brentwood school board member Heather Partida said it may appear that the board is not resolving these issues quickly enough, but it is working to get all of the details in order to make informed decisions and ensure that this never happens again. Last week, they met with an independent counsel for the first time, Partida said, noting that she thinks about what happened every day.
"Transparency is going to be a big part of this," Partida said. "This community has lost trust with the board and administration. I am going to do everything I can to earn it back."
Loma Vista parent Jana Aubert said she has had many positive experiences with Brentwood teachers, but those involved in this matter did not advocate for children by not firing Holder sooner and not putting in better safeguards immediately.
"You just failed at the most basic level," she said. "I'm disappointed in their ethics and morals."
The vocal parents are also calling for a stronger parent notification system and a special needs advocate to sit on the school board as a nonvoting member.
School board President Carlos Sanabria said that there will be a report from the independent counsel at the Feb. 13 board meeting and that the counsel is working for the board and not for Grant.
"If we have lost sight of some things, we need to look across the district," Sanabria said. "We have worked to keep our special ed local. We have to ramp up a lot of our efforts. There are a wide range of needs."
Reach Paula King at 925-779-7174.
The next Brentwood school board meeting will bet at 6 p.m. on Feb. 13 in the District Service Center, 255 Guthrie Lane, Brentwood. To check out BUSD Concerned Parents and Teachers on Facebook, go to www.facebook.com/busdconcernedparentsandteachers.


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Einhorn Toys With Market Again; Still No Herbalife Disclosure
David Einhorn still isn't disclosing anything about Herbalife
In his fourth quarter letter to clients, the Greenlight Capital hedge fund manager said the firm's funds fell 4.9% in the quarter ended Dec. 31, after taking a hit from Apple declining stock price and a short bet on Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that backfired as the stock climbed throughout much of the quarter. The firm finished the year up 7.9%, below the S&P 500′s 13% 2012 gain.
"Our coffee was too hot, our apple was bruised and our iron supplements didn't go down smoothly," Einhorn said in the letter.
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CNBC and other media outlets initially interpreted the last part of that sentence as essentially a confirmation that Einhorn had been short Herbalife, a nutritional-supplement maker that has drawn plenty of scrutiny from several hedge fund titans. Einhorn himself asked pointed questions on a Herbalife earnings call last year, prompting speculation that he may have been short the stock.
But he has yet to confirm any of that speculation, and later in the letter, it becomes clear Einhorn's reference to iron supplements instead refers to his bearish bet on "iron ore" stocks that went bad at the end of the year. From the letter:
"Our bearish thesis on iron ore is new, and we have shorted a number of stocks in the sector. Our view is that after a decade-long bull market, supply is now exceeding demand. On the supply side, the miners have spent billions preparing to expand supply, which is poised to grow about 15% in each of the next couple of years. At the same time, iron ore is used to make steel, and global demand for steel is currently growing at just a couple percent per year. The marginal cost of the new iron ore supply coming on line is very low. We expect that some of the large investments the miners have made will yield disappointing results as the price of iron ore falls. In the fourth quarter the price of iron ore and the related stocks rallied sharply. Given the considerable downside in the stocks, we are willing to be patient here."
Herbalife shares fell as much as 3.6% in early afternoon trading before recently trimming those losses.
In the letter, Einhorn offered a bit of a mea culpa about Greenlight's fourth-quarter performance:
"The disappointing fourth quarter result reduced our year from good to pedestrian. While it is hard to view our performance last year as a catastrophe, it nonetheless falls short of our goals. The S&P 500 advanced in the teens and the market differentiated winners from losers. We think that we should have had much better performance in this kind of investing climate."
After cutting his stake in Apple in the third quarter, Einhorn said he repurchased those shares as Apple's stock price tumbled. Greenlight also boosted its Vodafone holdings.
General Motors was a big winner in the firm's long portfolio, while Marvell Technology was its biggest loser, according to the letter.
From Einhorn:
"One tough quarter to end a year isn't reason to change what we are doing. In fact, it's surprising that we haven't had more quarters like this over time. As always, we continue to reexamine our positions. Some we have kept, some we have added to, and some we have reduced or eliminated. The net effect has been a modest reduction in our short exposure at the end of the year."
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