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2012 Annual Society for Leukocyte Biology Meeting: Inflammation in Innate and Adaptive Immune Mechanisms—Oct. 28–30, 2012, Maui, Hawaii
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Public Meeting - Regulatory Science Considerations for Medical Countermeasure Radiation Biodosimetry Devices—Sept. 27–28, 2012, FDA White Oak Campus, Silver Spring, Maryland
Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society—San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sept. 30–Oct. 3, 2012.
HFM-223 Symposium: Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Countermeasures: Current Status and Future Perspectives—Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct. 8–10, 2012.
5th International Systems Radiation Biology Workshop—St. Anne's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, Sept. 2–6, 2012.
10th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response—Columbia University, New York, March 15–17, 2012.
AFRRI Seminar by Dr. Mark Whitnall: Gottingen Minipig Model of the Acute Radiation Syndrome—AFRRI Conference Room, March 16, 2012.
Military Medical Operations Symposium: U.S. Response to the Fukushima Daiichi Incident—Uniformed Services University, Building B, Sanford Auditorium, March 27–29, 2012.
AFRRI Seminar by Dr. Thomas B. Elliott: Procalcitonin as a Biomarker to Detect Radiation-Induced Sepsis in Mice and to Monitor Therapy—AFRRI Conference Room, March 30, 2012.
AFRRI Symposium on Radiation Combined Injury: Models, Mechanisms, and Countermeasures— Uniformed Services University, Building C, Lecture Room E (C-1027), April 5, 2012.
AFRRI Seminar by Dr. Maria Moroni: Administration of Neupogen to Irradiated Minipigs—AFRRI Conference Room, June 1, 2012.
10th Annual Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium - Tracking Radiation from Medical Diagnostics—Dec. 8–9, 2011, Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC.
5th International REAC/TS Symposium on the Medical Basis for Radiation Accident Preparedness—Sept. 27–29, 2011, Miami, Florida
10th International LOWRAD Conference: The Effects of Low Doses and Very Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation on Human Health and Biotopes—Kiev, Ukraine
NIAID/NCI/NIST Radiation Dosimetry Standardization for Radiobiology Workshop—Sept. 15–16, 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Health Physics Society 56th Annual Meeting—June 26–30, 2011, Palm Beach, Florida
Scientific Advances in Radiobiology and Radiation Epidemiology, Implications for Radiation Exposure Regulations: Ninth Annual Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium—Dec. 1, 2010, National Academies, Washington, DC
56th Annual Radiation Research Society Meeting—Sept. 25–29, 2010, Maui, Hawaii
Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—Sept. 30, 2009, Bethesda, Maryland
Public Workshop (FDA/NIAID): Animal Models for the Treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome—Sept. 17–18, 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Partial-Body Radiation Diagnostic Biomarkers and Medical Management of Radiation Injury Workshop—March 5–6, 2008, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Bethesda, Maryland
Radiation Epidemiology Course—Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)—May 14–17, 2007, Bethesda, Maryland
Radiological Science in the Context of Radiological Terrorism—Lecture Series. Center for High-Throughput Minimally Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry, Columbia University, New York City
Terrorism and Disaster—What Clinicians Need to Know: Radiation Attack: Rush University Medical Center and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences faculty authored a case series to provide continuing medical education for terrorism preparedness and other public health emergencies. The series of 14 case studies was developed to provide opportunities for health professionals to problem-solve issues related to terrorism or other public health emergencies.
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Animal Model and Countermeasures Development for Radiation-Induced Skin Injury, June 14, 2010
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Platelet Regeneration after Radiation Exposure Meeting, March 22–23, 2010.
2010 Annual Centers for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation (CMCR) Meeting, Feb. 22–23, 2010.
Advanced Radiation Therapeutics — Radiation Injury Mitigation, Jan. 25, 2010.
55th Annual Meeting of Radiation Research Society, Oct. 3–7, 2009.
Studies of Immunosenescence and Other Late Effects of Acute Ionizing Radiation Exposure in A-Bomb Survivors Kick-off Meeting, Dec. 9, 2009
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40th Annual Meeting of Environmental Mutagen Society, Oct. 24-29, 2009.
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Indo-US Workshop on Medical Countermeasures for Radiation Injury: Current and Evolving Technologies, Aug. 17–20, 2008.
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program Workshop on Aging & Immunosenescence, June 17–20, 2008.
Predicting Individual Radiation Sensitivity - Current and Evolving Technologies, March 17–18, 2008.
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2007 Annual Centers for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation (CMCR) Meeting, June 18–19, 2007.
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Animal Models for Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) with a Focus on Models of Gastrointestinal Toxicity, Sept. 21, 2006.
Centers for Medical Countermeasures (CMCR) Workshop on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Regulatory Process: Applications to Technologies for Radiation Biodosimetry after a Large-Scale, Radiological Incident, March 27, 2006.
Centers for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation (CMCR) 2006 Annual Meeting, June 7–8, 2006.
Centers for Medical Countermeasures (CMCR) Workshop on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Regulatory Process: Applications to Radiation Countermeasures After a Large-Scale, Radiological Incident, June 9, 2006
2nd International Conference on Biodosimetry and 7th International Symposium on EPR Dosimetry and Applications, July 10–13, 2006.
Centers for Medical Countermeasures (CMCR) Kickoff Meeting, Nov. 7–8, 2005.
Biodosimetry: Current and Evolving Technologies Workshop, Feb. 28–March 1, 2005.
Blue Ribbon Panel for NIH Strategic Plan and Research Agenda for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats, Oct. 14, 2004.
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Why Aren't YOU Angrier?
I don't understand it.
We now know WHAT they did, HOW they did it, and of course WHY……and yet people are still arguing about the most illegitimate issues, while people CONTINUE to pay for what has to be considered one of the most heinous non-violent (though not victimless by any measure) criminal acts in recorded history.
How can YOU not be furious?
Do YOU not agree about the facts? Do YOU think that what happened is some accident? Are YOU so afraid that your precious ideas of "free markets", (no such thing, only protection of monopolistic markets by government), will be refuted (when even Greenspan himself has admitted that he was wrong), and that there will HAVE to be regulation in order for these things to function correctly, and that will mean you were WRONG!?!?
Is that why you're not MADDENED by what is going on?
Is it just a right -wing idea that ANY government involvement in ANYTHING is somehow "BAD"?
What the hell?
Again, we're seeing the effects, we're all feeling them as well and MANY people's lives are being absolutely destroyed, (in many cases even lost) by these scum, and yet still we don't have even the most basic official responses to this thing that even a child would suggest. And no one is SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER ABOUT THIS!!
AND…..the same people that engineered this fiasco, profited from it, and made sure that the one person who COULD have done something about it was hamstrung, those same people are STILL in power, and in some cases are even more powerful, richer and closer to the decision making center than they were BEFORE?!?!??
And you think that Obama is your friend?
It's completely insane.
Watch this, please! Really WATCH it, and research it if you don't believe the information reported. You will see how the people that tried to stop this thing were stifled and pushed out of the process, which led to what we have now.
You will see the same players being rewarded, and the same players continuing to run the GAME?!?!?!?
It's insanity, how can YOU continue to sit still for it?

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While Washington County ballots will be void of any county-wide issues this November, neighboring residents in both Morgan and Noble counties will be deciding whether or not to renew a longstanding mental health and recovery services levy.
The levy, which is administered through the six-county Muskingum Area Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, varies from county to county in millage and annual revenue. But in every case, all of the funding generated by a particular county goes back toward services in that county, said Rod Hollingsworth, director of the board.
"The philosophy we started with was each county should have their own decision," he said.
In addition to Morgan and Noble counties, the board oversees services in Coshocton, Guernsey and Perry counties. All but Guernsey County have levies in effect. Services in Guernsey County are funded through state and federal dollars, not through funding generated in other counties, said Hollingsworth.
In Morgan County, residents have continually passed the 0.8-mill levy since 1994.
In Noble County, the 0.7-mill levy has been in effect since 1989.
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Noble County mental health and recovery services levy
Asking for a 10-year renewal of a 0.7-mill levy.
Generates $138,257 annually.
Costs $13.04 a year for the owner of a property valued at $100,000.
First approved in 1989 and went into effect that same year.
Source: Noble County Auditor.
Morgan County mental health and recovery services levy
Asking for a 10-year renewal of a 0.8-mill levy.
Generates $127,496 annually.
Costs $9.74 a year for the owner of a property valued at $100,000.
First approved in 1985 and went into effect that same year.
Source: Morgan County Auditor.
Typically renewed every 10 years, the levy was put on the 2008 Noble County ballot as a five-year levy with the hope of reintroducing a 2013 replacement levy instead of a renewal.
However, the board did not feel the economy was strong enough to introduce a replacement, which would have negated state rollbacks and increased the price for residents.
"We did another renewal. So it's no more dollars to the taxpayer than what they are currently paying," said Hollingsworth.
In Morgan County, the owner of a property valued at $100,000 will pay $10.71 annually. The same Noble County property owner will pay $13.04 annually.
The levy funds mental health and addiction counseling services in both counties, as well as school outreach and prevention programs.
At Morgan Behavioral Health Choices, the levy supplements the substance abuse education and counseling services used by individuals, families and groups, said Director Elaine Shuster.
"We've been serving Morgan Countians for over 30 years. We feel we make a difference and everybody here is here because they want to help people," she said.
In addition to the counseling services offered at the outpatient facilities, the levy helps fund several prevention programs for children, including the Student Assistance Services program in Morgan Local elementary schools.
"We have two student consultants in those schools that work with kids who are acting out, having social problems, academically underachieving," Shuster said.
The Morgan Behavioral Health Choices board also partners with the Morgan County Sheriff's Office and American Electric Power for its annual Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs program.
Around 800 people typically participate in the giant fishing event, aimed at encouraging parents to spend time with children.
Noble Behavioral Health Choices offers similar programming for Noble County residents. In addition, the levy funds a Six County Inc. counseling center and a Thompkins Child and Adolescent Services, Inc. office in both Morgan and Noble counties.


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PhRMA Highlights Cervical Cancer Partnership at PAHO
02.08.13 | By Mark Grayson
Cervical cancer took center stage this week in Washington. One of PhRMA's best and brightest made an important speech this week on what the pharmaceutical industry, alongside plenty of other stakeholders, is doing to combat cancer in Sub-Sarahan Africa and Latin America.
Andrew Rudman, PhRMA's Deputy VP for the Western Hemisphere, delivered remarks this week at the opening of a three day seminar to launch a Women's Cancer Initiative on February 5. The opening panel included remarks by new Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa Etienne; her first public event as Director General. Dr. Etienne has stressed the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches in addressing the healthcare challenges facing the Americas.
In his comments Andrew highlighted initiatives such as"Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon" where industry and other stakeholders are working to combat cervical and breast cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. An interview about Andrew's insightful comments can be seen here.


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February 7, 2006
Dozens of families in an apartment complex in Wrens may be homeless in a month. They got eviction notices Monday saying they have to move out in 30 days. News 12 is on your side with a closer look at why they're being tossed out.
Those people in Wrens tell News 12 the memo they got explains the Pine Valley Apartments is under new management. And with the notice, comes the surprising news that dozens of families will have to leave.
"This is your official notice to vacate property no later than March 8, 2006," said Tangela Jackson, resident.
Tangela Jackson can't believe what she's reading. It's an eviction notice she and her neighbors at Pine Valley Apartments got on Monday.
"We think they was crazy because I think we got families we don't have money to go to another city," Jackson said.
They live in housing subsidized by HUD. They say they were given the option in November of last year to either stay or go when their section eight subsidy ended on January 31 of this year. Many of them chose to stay.
"I believe they knew in November they were gonna close and didn't tell us," Jackson said.
Under Georgia state law a renter must provide at least 60 days notice to the lessee before they can evict someone but these people say they only got 30.
The new management gave them a list of other places in the county they can go that will accept their vouchers. But Tangela claims she's went through the entire list already and most of them either don't accept them or don't have any space.
"This community is so small no one will take the vouchers so we thought they'd at least put us in a place or give us enough time," Jackson said.
"You can't put these people on the streets, where they gonna go?" one resident said.
And to make matters worse they say now they don't even know who to contact about their problems.
"If anything happens now they say to call the police, what police gonna do to our apartment if there is a busted pipe?" Jackson said.


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Dorothy Brown, 73, of Clarkfield, died Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Chippewa County-Montevideo Hospital. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, March 18, at Clarkfield Lutheran Church with the Rev. Chris Zuraff officiating. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Cemetery.
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Efforts to add a base to the James Brown statue in downtown Augusta have now fallen into the hands of two local music producers.
The statue was unveiled last year.
Many thought it was too low.
Last week, commissioners approved raising the statue for better visibility, but they are leaving it up to Augusta residents to come up with the money.
It's hard to spot the statue of entertainer James Brown when passing by on Broad Street.
"What we are looking at is put maybe 18-20 inch stage area with some lights around it to make it look like a stage," says Commissioner Marion Williams.
Commissioners voted to raise the statue, but say they don't have the money to make it happen.
That's where local music producers Nelson Curry and Sam Bussey come in.
"The city did not have the funds to make it happen, so as a producer myself and a fan of Mr. Brown I took it upon myself," says Bussey.
Bussey and Curry have already started fundraising with a $5,000 check.
"That's what we want to present to the commission on Tuesday is the funding to get it going and get it started," says Curry.
The statue will be elevated on a stage with lights, at an estimated cost of $17,000.
Williams says perhaps selling bricks with contributors' names will help raise money. Those bricks could be placed around the statue.
"We can put James Brown and the person's name on it and the year and the date," Williams says.
A community effort to raise James Brown to greater heights.
"Anybody can write a check, but we're getting the community involved in the statue raising because we initially wanted to call it 'Lend a Hand and Raise a Man'," says Bussey.
When the statue is elevated, people who visit will still be able to get up close to the statue and take pictures.
If you would like to donate money for the stage of the James Brown statue, call 706-836-8529.


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Dumb The Jewels (and run them from the dumb)
Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:50 pm
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you are taking this too far, its kanye you should be bashing not run the jewels
i completely disagree with you too, the album is really good and if you liked C4C and RAP music its a DIRECT continuation of those albums, the rapping , lyrics, and production go right along with them and are just as good if not better
Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:39 pm
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I know neuro. I know. I'm not mad at anyone for enjoying it. I certainly don't HATE it. It just falls short for me in so many ways. Maybe I'm too old. (Says the guy younger than both of these guys).
I must say though, I don't know what you get out of C4C if you think RTJ is on that same level. And RAP Music already hasn't aged well for me. :/
Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:43 am
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Kanye is way too easy of a target. Yes his music is garbage but his whole character demands garbage music which makes it forgivable and fun to watch from a distance.
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Limbs wrote:
Dumb The Jewels (and run them from the dumb)
They fooled you. It's ok. They've fooled me to. That's why my post here is a good post. There was a time I would've just responded with quoting myself here. I'm growing.
Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:47 am
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Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:33 pm
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el-p's production is as good if not better than it's ever been. the same goes for his flows. killer mike is fantastic as ever. run the jewels is floor-to-ceiling solid.
Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:48 pm
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damn right
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run the jewels sounds like a monster, for me its the perfect length for a record of loud bangers like that, im getting old.. i dont think i could take an hour of em, but 30 mins of that on full volume and im running into my garden naked pouring boiling water down ant holes. awesome record.. last track is prob my fav for now
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Since this has become the "Yeezus Grail Jewels" thread, I think it's important to mention how much better the production is on Run the Jewels and R.A.P. Music than Cancer 4 Cure. Don't get me wrong: I like the latter record, but I don't love it. I'm blown away that El would put out bangers for others or in collaboration, but not for himself. Matter of fact, the only really hard track is "The Full Retard," followed by maybe "Tougher, Colder, Killer." The rest are great in terms of production quality and savvy, but not what I listen for in a beat that I want to, say, ride or workout to. I see Cancer 4 Cure more a kind of background record, for the most, part, which is a continuation from the direction ISWYD moved toward. Those two albums get dusted off from time to time, whereas Fantastic Damage always remains in steady rotation. All of that is to say that Run the Jewels is, production-wise, everything I want to hear in an El-P beat.
Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:16 pm
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have you played c4c anywhere besides your computer, that shit sounds amazing, definitely not background music, it sounds like a razor sharp adamantium chainsaw pulsing into your domepiece, give it another try on some good loud speakers, really loud in your delorean , or with a nice set of headphones really loud, play it Loud and listen to the details, and make sure you have a legit copy of the album and not some shitty rip
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I've listened to it with headphones and through my car's speakers, which aren't top end but still have a nice sound. But the problem is that I don't want to listen to the full album. There is no compulsion or craving there like there is with Fan Dam and RTJ. I respect C4C for being something El obviously wanted to do, but it just doesn't appeal to my listening sensibilities. I felt much the same about Aesop Rock's None Shall Pass. Thankfully Skelethon brought back the boom bap. I'm hoping El-P's next album does the same, since I'll likely get it no matter what.
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Man. For my money ISWYD is El's masterpiece. That's a bit of an aside. But I'm really not into this rapping for the sake of rapping or banging beats for the sake of banging beats. As a consumer of music I need much more happening. Don't get me wrong, rappers and producers who just "rip it", for lack of a better term, have it's place. And I can enjoy it for what it is when the mood is right but it doesn't sit in my head longer than that moment. It's not something I go back to with any regularity. Maybe it's that I rarely listen to music with other people or I don't go running or something but it doesn't give me those butterflies and brain curls that a real, beautiful executed song/album gives me. I need mood changes and a journey to go on. Sometimes a moment demands that "boom bap" (whatever that even means anymore) and when it's placed thoughtfully next to another mood it is much more memorable to me than 30-60 minutes of the same tempo and same concept over and over again. I honestly don't see the point of listening to RTJ more than a handful of times. Take me on a journey. Surprise me. Excite me. Don't beat a dead fucking horse. I guess I'm just not into work out music.
With all that said, FHSC does everything I need an album to do while staying relentlessly banging. It takes a lot of care to pull something like that off. Yes FanDam is on that level but I love that El took it to the next level with ISWYD. I'm glad RTJ happened. I'm glad he got it out of his system. Hopefully he'll get super sad and sappy next. I'm a marshmallow.
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And on that note, anyone else mighty curious what B and Sage have brewing? I'm a super fan and pay close attention. I have a feeling we're gonna get punched in the face soon. I'm pumped. Working Man is creeping it's way back in my head. I love it it's just tough competing with Kendrick and the weather.
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any of you check out illogic and blockhead - capture the sun?
great stuff
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PLEASANTON -- Talbott Roche recalls meetings in the early days of her company to explain to high-profile stores such as Nordstrom the benefits of putting the retailers' gift cards on supermarket aisles.
"They weren't sure about the idea that we were going to put their brand next to the canned peas," said Roche, the 48-year-old co-founder and president of Blackhawk Network, now a billion-dollar company. "It was tough. We had to convince really great brands like Nordstrom, Macy's and Starbucks to put their brands in a grocery environment. They had these cards in their own stores but not in supermarkets."
Retail skeptics weren't the only challenge facing the fledgling Blackhawk, which Roche co-founded in 2001 with serial entrepreneur Donald Kingsborough as a tiny subsidiary of grocery giant Safeway. Consumers had a dim view of giving plastic cards as presents.
But Pleasanton-based Blackhawk convinced retailer after retailer to embrace the concept of gift cards in grocery stores such as Safeway, and in November, Blackhawk went public through a $230 million IPO.
A relentless focus, a strong work ethic and a drive to innovate have bolstered Roche as she helped transform Blackhawk into a worldwide network for prepaid cards with $1.24 billion in yearly revenue.
"Gift cards were just becoming popular when we started," she said in an interview with this newspaper at the Blackhawk's bustling head offices across the street from Stoneridge Mall. "There was a stigma associated with a gift card. Cards were seen as impersonal."
Now gift cards supported by the Blackhawk retail and technology network are ubiquitous in grocery stores and elsewhere, including digital platforms.
"We really revolutionized the way people use gift cards and prepaid products," Roche said. "Today it's more than gift cards, it's also prepaid telecom and financial services cards."
Blackhawk also became one of the fastest-growing units of Safeway, a welcome financial boost for the supermarket chain, which last week finalized its sale to Albertsons.
"When we started, we never thought prepaid cards would be the success that they have become," Roche said.
Several business partners of Blackhawk credit Talbott's leadership for pioneering the new role of gift cards.
"Talbott has a great vision for what the prepaid card industry could be," said Brian Triplett, a senior vice president for North American products with San Francisco-based Visa, one of Blackhawk's partners. "She is a real leader of the industry."
A parent of two children, ages 14 and 12, Roche, who lives in Lafayette, also is seen as successful in balancing family life with her executive role in today's go-go world of mobile communications and swift digital access.
"She is very driven and efficient; she really knows her clients and her customer base," said Kirsten Trusko, president of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, a trade group. "She is an entrepreneur and an innovator to spot the opportunities in gift cards that no one else saw."
Roche reminds Steve Kane, group vice president of New York City-based Spafinder Wellness, of a great athlete.
"Talbott makes it look so easy," he said. "And she handles the tough moments with a great deal of grace."
Veteran business leader William Tauscher took over the post of Blackhawk chief executive officer in 2010, and said he is grooming Roche to be his heir.
"I saw Talbott as a huge talent when I first got to know her," Tauscher said. "She is quick and smart. She is enormously productive. She knows the products, the marketing, and was very involved in the IPO and all the financial decisions."
Tauscher said Roche, who also heads the company's engineering and technology efforts, is fiercely competitive.
"She can't stand to lose," he said. "In any kind of a fight, she is very tenacious. She combines that with a great sense of humor. The only thing I worry about with Talbott is she is such an intense competitor that we have to get her to pace herself now and then."
Roche recalls that the company started with a handful of employees. Now Blackhawk has 1,300 employees and provides its services in 22 countries. In its first year, it offered seven brands of gift cards and had one retailer as a partner. Now it has 600-plus brands and numerous online sites as it pushes into the digital world.
"We know we are having an impact," Roche said. "We are inventing solutions for consumers to make their life easier. And we're not just doing it in a vacuum. We're doing it with a team. That is very satisfying."
Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.
Talbott Roche
Age: 48
Claim to Fame: President, Blackhawk Network
Quote: "I am honored to be an advocate for this industry because I've seen how prepaid products can improve people's lives. I'm passionate about what Blackhawk Network products mean to consumers and retailers right now, and I look forward to innovations in the years to come."


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Hey guys,
I'm trying to find the best solution to stream movies to my Pioneer BDP-450 from my PC.
So far the best solution is to use the PS3 Media Server...although there is a Universal Media Server. This doesn't run. It seems to die in a loop and only when I close UMS the Pio comes back to life.
I'm trying to find a solution for streaming mkvs with Dolby True HD sound in it. Do you have any suggestions ?
I thought the Oppo 93 conf might be a good solution to start but not any of the files I've trying to run (mkv,avis), run.
The pioneer supports many formats found here:
http://www.pioneer.eu/uk/products/42/84 ... specs.html
I'm willing to help all the pioneer guys but gimme a good starting point !
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Tuesday, April 16, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- An Atlanta developer is getting ready to start building near the Comcast on River Watch Parkway.
Commissioners approved rezoning the area, but everybody is not on board with the new development.
"I don't want to take a St. Petersburg boat ride up the canal and see apartments to my left," said Augusta Canal lover Kevin Flerty.
He says he plans to stop any development along the Augusta Canal and even had a bumper sticker made.
Flerty says he was part of a group in the 90s credited with stopping a golf course and other developments from being built in the area.
"Progress means preservation, not development," Flerty said. "The only concern that I have heard about was the amount of traffic," said Commissioner Donnie Smith.
Smith says he voted for it because of the good it will do for the area. but Flerty is concerned the wildlife will slowly disappear.
"I think it's just going to open it up for more development," Flerty said.
City leaders say other companies are interested in building there.
Jeff Carter works for the developer who will build the apartment complex.
"I'm born and raised in Augusta, and I'm excited for this. I'm happy to go build something that's nice enough for people to live in," said Development Manager Jeff Carter.
"It's going to be an uphill fight. I'm ready," Flerty said.


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AT&T Shows Mobile Ads Can Be A Hard Dollar
By Thomas Gryta and Suzanne Vranica
So the mobile ad business is booming. That doesn't mean it's easy territory.
AT&T has made that clear by shutting down large parts of its AdWorks advertising division after the business failed to gain traction placing mobile ads. The carrier is dumping the online and mobile avertising networks and laying off an unspecified amount of staff.
The plan was to use its trove of customer data to help guide ad placements and offer a one-stop shop for television, online and mobile ads. But the carrier wasn't able to figure out how to use that data effectively, people familiar with the matter said.
The climbdown highlights long running difficulties carriers have had developing new services to avoid being just "dumb pipes." It also is a reminder that in the mobile ad business, much of the wealth is accruing to Google and Facebook, which are capturing a lot of users' mobile time.
Mark Strecker, president and chief operating officer of mobile ad company Amobee, a unit of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and at times a customer of AdWorks, said AT&T just couldn't compete with its more established rivals.
"They were trying to go out and beat Google in its backyard," Mr. Strecker said. "That is very difficult to do."
An AT&T spokeswoman said the company is "refocusing" the AdWorks business, confirming the move away from the online and mobile ad networks. The company will fulfill existing ad network campaigns through the end of the year, she said.
As we wrote this week, mobile-ad spending in the U.S. soared to $3 billion in the first half frm $1.2 billion a year earlier, according to a recent estimate from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. But rivals for that business are competing over what remains a relatively small piece of the overall advertising pie.
In August, mobile ad network Millennial Media Inc. cited stiff competition for slower than expected revenue growth and agreed to buy rival Jumptap Inc. in an effort to gain more scale.
AT&T is still trying to sell marketing and analytics reports based on anonymous data collected from its more than 100 million wireless subscribers.
It will also continue to sell ads on its U-verse pay television service, as well as on its own Web and mobile sites.


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Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you all a warm and blessed Christmas. Thank you for your friendship and patronage throughout this past year. My love to you all!
Christmas hugs and kisses,
Christmas hugs and kisses,
9 comments:
- Tony said...
Thanks for the inspiration and wonderful recipes!
Health, love and a lot of heat in our hearts!
Merry Christmas!
- December 25, 2010 at 1:17 AM
- Lady P said...
I have been sooo remiss in not visiting recently, but Mags, you rock! and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
- December 25, 2010 at 3:18 AM
- Shelby said...
Merry Christmas Mags! I love your ornament....and Rudy probably would too. I have found several of mine on the floor, under beds....and even in his food dish!
- December 25, 2010 at 5:16 AM
- Nanan said...
Merry Christmas, my friend!
- December 25, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- Pam said...
Merry Christmas, Mags!
- December 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- The Mom Chef said...
I hope your Christmas was wonderful. Thanks for the well wishes in our directions. He is born!
- December 26, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- Megan said...
Merry Christmas!
- December 26, 2010 at 11:13 AM
- Jane said...
A little late, but merry Christmas to you too, Mags. Every visit here is a pleasure and a joy. Warm wishes for the New Year to you and yours!
- December 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Sue said...
Looking forward to a new year with you, Mags!
- December 27, 2010 at 8:36 PM
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It didn't take Jarrett Jack long to explain why he and fellow first-year Warrior Carl Landry hit it off so well.
"Nothing was handed to either one of us," said Jack, a backup point guard who is playing his third consecutive season with Landry. "We bring that workhorse, that blue-collar mentality. He's the kind of guy you want to take with you into a dark alley. He's a tough kid. Just how he is. He's built that way."
There is no doubt that Landry, a forward in his sixth NBA season, has injected toughness into the Warriors' lineup. Years of being doubted, setbacks and grinding through adversity have birthed the relentlessness on which the Warriors are relying.
"He knows who he is and why he's had success," NBA TV analyst Greg Anthony said. "He plays to his strengths. He knows what he can do out on the floor. ... He doesn't let his ego get in the way of his game. He's wise beyond his years."
Landry, 29, earns his money because of his ability to score inside. At 6-foot-9, and without being the most explosive athlete, he has developed into a reliable low-post scorer. A key Warriors reserve, Landry is averaging 12.9 points on 55 percent shooting with 6.7 rebounds in 25.6 minutes.
He said his post game was polished during his first two-plus seasons in the league with the Houston Rockets. In practice, he went up against 7-6 center Yao Ming, legendary shot-blocker Dikembe Mutombo and defensive specialist Chuck Hayes, an East Bay native who became a good friend.
"He didn't take it easy on me, and I didn't take it easy on him," said Hayes, now with the Sacramento Kings. "He's skilled. To be honest with you, Carl has gotten stronger over the years. And by him getting stronger, he's actually become a better defender.
"Carl's got great hands, man. For an undersized player down there, he swallows those basketballs. If he gets his hands on that ball, he grabs it and he's going to finish."
Landry's low-post game wasn't the only reason the Warriors wanted him.
The Warriors needed the type of guy who took a gunshot to the calf (in an incident after a car accident in Houston in March 2009) and was back in the lineup 21 days later. The type of guy who nine months later got three front teeth knocked out by an elbow and missed only one game.
"You can say you're tough, but not a lot of people have stories like that to back it up," Warriors general manager Bob Myers said. "That guy's tough. He's so tough, he doesn't have to say it. Everybody just knows it."
Myers flew Landry to Las Vegas during the summer league to express his interest. In August, Landry signed a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option for the next season.
Landry credits his path, which wasn't the typical route to the NBA.
At Vincent High in Milwaukee, he was cut from his freshman team and survived the final cuts for the junior-varsity squad as a sophomore. He spent his two years on the varsity riding the bench. After not being recruited, Landry gave junior college a shot. He went to Vincennes University in Indiana, the same school Shawn Marion attended before UNLV.
There, he dominated enough that he finally was recruited after his sophomore season. He chose Purdue over Oklahoma.
With the Boilermakers, Landry averaged 18.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He sat out most of his senior season after suffering a torn right anterior cruciate ligament, but he received a medical redshirt to play one more season and led Purdue to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Still, when the first round of the 2007 NBA draft concluded, Landry's name had not been called. He was taken as the first pick in the second round by Seattle, just shy of the respect, security and money he thought he deserved. On top of that, the SuperSonics traded him to a frontcourt heavy Houston squad.
"I thought I was going overseas," Landry said. "All I could do is go into training camp and work my tail off. I went out there and played well, landed a one-year deal, non-guaranteed contract. And it was still a hurdle."
Landry became a key contributor off the bench for Houston, including in the playoffs his first two seasons.
He was having a breakout year in his third season, averaging 16.1 points and 5.5 rebounds in 52 games, when the Rockets traded him to Sacramento for Kevin Martin in a three-team deal. After 81 games with the Kings, Landry was dealt to New Orleans for guard Marcus Thornton and cash.
Landry's stint with New Orleans lasted 64 games. Last season was a down one by his standards: 12.5 points and 5.2 rebounds off the bench. He missed 25 games, mostly because of a sprained left medial collateral ligament. The Hornets decided not to re-sign him, which left him looking for a home this summer.
The grind Landry has endured is paying dividends for the Warriors. It figures to show in games such as the one Wednesday, against a Utah Jazz team that normally dominates the interior.
Now the Warriors have a player to dump the ball to inside. They have a guy who can draw a foul, who embraces contact.
They also have a player with the characteristics they want to define them as a team: grit, hustle, resilience.
"Nothing has ever come easy," Landry said. "But anything worth having, you've got to work for it. You have to beat everybody out for whatever you want. It's not going to land in your lap."
Wednesday's game
Warriors (18-10) at Utah (15-14), 6 p.m., CSNBA


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Student who collapsed on Plant High track thanks staff who saved him05/08/14K12
TAMPA — The last thing Charlie Curtis remembers from that day is roll call.
It was the start of gym class one morning last week. The Plant High School freshman was preparing to do a 1-mile fitness test on the track.
Hours later, he awoke in the hospital — recovering from sudden cardiac arrest. Curtis, 15, had collapsed as he rounded the first corner of his third lap.
On Thursday, with his arm in a sling to protect his new pacemaker, he returned to school and thanked those who saved his life....
Derby hats05/02/14 Blog
It's monsooning outside my office windows, but my mind is dreaming of beautiful hats.
Why? Because tomorrow is the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby.
While I know almost nothing about horse races, I do know that this is one of the only occassions where Americans religiously break out our faniciest headgear.
Fascinators! Top hats! Wide-brimmed Pretty Woman style chapeaus!
Take a spin through the photo gallery above with me and leave your weather woes behind....
Medical marijuana entrepreneurs explore business opportunities04/26/14Business
TAMPA — Thomas Quigley doesn't have all the answers.
He doesn't know whether Floridians will vote to legalize medical marijuana in November. And there's no guarantee of what the law will look like if passed.
But, that doesn't mean he can't start doling out advice now.
Earlier this year, Quigley founded the Florida Cannabis Coalition, a Tampa-based consulting group aimed at educating entrepreneurs interested in the medical marijuana industry....
Music festival fashion04/24/14 Blog
We may not have Coachella but Tampa Bay is home to its fair share of music festivals. And they all seem to take place in May.
There's the new Big Guava Music Festival (May 2-4), WMNF's annual Tropical Heatwave (May 9-10) and the Sunset Music Festival (May 24-25).
So what does this have to do with Deal Divas, you ask. Everything....
Test driving UberX and Lyft04/18/14Transportation
TAMPA — On a recent Tuesday evening, I set out on a mission.
Travel from the University of South Florida to Ybor City and back by the end of the night — without using my car.
Sure, I could have called a cab or taken public transportation. But this was an opportunity to test two ride-sharing services new to Tampa Bay, Lyft and UberX.
Launched here in the last two weeks, Lyft and UberX use smartphone apps to connect passengers with drivers who use their own vehicles. The services, both from San Francisco tech startups, have come under fire for their refusal to comply with the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission, which regulates taxis....
Shelley's Desert Island Product: Sunscreen04/18/14 Blog
As I was typing the headline to this post, I added an extra s to desert and got really excited about the possibilities of a dessert island. Chocolate volcanoes! Crushed graham cracker sand! Key lime pie palm fronds!
But, I digress...this is Desert Island Week. Still exciting, though not as delicious.
Choosing my product was a no-brainer for me. Fair-skinned with red hair, I would burn to a crisp without sunscreen. Even a trip in my car with the window down can cause my skin to turn red. Plus, there's the risk of skin cancer....
Hillsborough taxis cry foul over new ride-sharing services04/16/14Transportation
TAMPA — Despite repeated warnings from the county's taxi-regulating agency, two ride-sharing services continue to operate in Hillsborough County with no regard for its rules.
California-based companies Lyft and Uber, which use smartphone applications to connect passengers with drivers who use their own vehicles, launched services here in the last two weeks without proper certification....
In search of perfect brows04/11/14 Blog
Do you ever look in the mirror and realize with horror that there are two caterpillars crawling across your forehead? It's like one day your eyebrows are totally fine, shaped just the way you like them and then BAM! they are out of control.
I had one of those realizations the other day and needed a fix fast.
Tweezing was an option. But, besides cleaning up a few strays, my brows also needed some shape, something I'm not comfortable doing myself. I fear I'll get too zealous and be left with nothing....
Kevin Bacon draws a crowd of hundreds to USF04/09/14Events
TAMPA — Tara Hartman waited in line for more than eight hours Tuesday, clutching a worn copy of Footloose in her hands.
"I think I've owned this DVD for 15 years," said the 21-year-old University of South Florida student. "Kevin Bacon is timeless."
She brought along the movie just in case an opportunity for an autograph arose.
After all, she was about to spend an evening sitting mere feet from the man....
Kevin Bacon makes surprise visit to Tampa Bay fundraisers04/08/14 Human Interest
TAMPA — As the final free training session began Tuesday at the Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay, the teacher made an announcement.
"We have a special guest," Sara Leonard told a class of two dozen.
In walked a slim man dressed in a black leather jacket and dark jeans.
The room erupted in screams.
"I'm your teacher for the day," said actor Kevin Bacon, who currently stars in the television show The Following and is perhaps best known for appearing in movies including Animal House, A Few Good Men and Footloose....
Witness recalls Port Richey crash that killed teenager, injured three others04/05/14Accidents
PORT RICHEY — Jennifer Paige heard the squeal of tires first. Then, a loud boom.
By the time she got to the end of her driveway, flames were visible. A van had hit a tree dead on, branches sprouting out where the windshield should have been.
Inside, four teenagers screamed for help.
Paige's father, Jim Dowd, grabbed a crowbar and called 911. Paige began smashing windows. One by one, she pulled the three passengers out, dragging them away from the flames....
Ride-sharing service Lyft launches in Tampa despite PTC warning04/04/14Transportation
TAMPA — Lyft is going rogue. The ride-sharing service, which uses a smartphone application to connect passengers with drivers who use their personal vehicles, began accepting passengers in Tampa on Friday evening.
That happened despite a letter sent last month to Lyft by the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission that made it clear the San Francisco-based company does not meet the requirements to operate legally here....
Holocaust survivor and USF professor team up for documentary04/04/14 Human Interest
TAMPA — For many years after the Holocaust ended, Jerry Rawicki remained silent.
A survivor of Poland's Warsaw Ghetto, Rawicki didn't want to relive the difficult experience or burden his children with the memories.
Now, he takes the opposite approach.
As the subject of a documentary produced by University of South Florida professor Carolyn Ellis, Rawicki returns to Poland for the first time since he escaped as a teenager and shares the memories the trip evokes....
The skort that got away04/04/14 Blog
While shopping at TJ Maxx recently, I came across a blue asymmetrical skort.
My first reaction was to question whether adults are allowed to wear skorts. My second was to try it on. I mean, what's not to like? There's freedom in wearing shorts but a ladylike appeal to a skirt. Combining both seems genious.
I remember wearing them in my youth. In fact, I wore a skort for my senior portraits, a light tan corduroy pair that blended with the sand on the beach....
Bail set for mother Tampa police say starved, tortured her children03/29/14Crime
TAMPA — A Hillsborough County circuit judge set bail at $120,000 Saturday morning for the mother who police say starved and tortured her eight children.
Arrested Thursday, Jamie Marie Hicks, 43, is charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of child neglect.
Over eight years, Hicks hit the children with various objects, choked them to the point of unconsciousness, held their heads under water, fed them spoiled food and withheld food from them for as long as three days, Tampa police said....


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The Tennessee Valley Authority is working to move large volumes of water "" as much as 1 million gallons per second in some places – along the Tennessee River system to reduce potentially damaging flooding from record rainfall.
TVA prepared for this event by lowering reservoir levels on the main channel of the Tennessee River beginning the last week of June, leaving some areas below normal for this time of year.
However, extreme rainfall and runoff in the middle and eastern portions of the Tennessee Valley over the past week are now forcing TVA to spill or release excess water from 10 of 20 tributary dams and all nine main channel dams along the 652-mile Tennessee River.
"TVA's management of the river system is working," said Chuck Bach, general manager of TVA River Operations. "TVA will spill only when all available hydroelectric-generating turbines are operating at full capacity and additional water still needs to be moved."
Spilling along the dams is expected to last one to two weeks. As this water moves through the system, agricultural crops planted in floodplain areas along the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama and West Tennessee will be impacted by higher than normal water elevations.
"Some crop fields near the banks of the Tennessee River will see up to six to eight feet of water," Bach said. "Crops along the Tennessee River on Kentucky Reservoir will be impacted the most."
Because of flooding and high water flows on the Ohio and upper Mississippi rivers, water releases out of the Tennessee River system into the Ohio River at Kentucky Dam have been reduced. TVA is in close contact with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and when flood stages there drop, more will be allowed to be discharged from Kentucky Dam.
Within the Tennessee River system, there have been reports of flooding in Chattanooga; Whitesburg and Florence, Ala.; and Savannah, Tenn., near Pickwick Reservoir.
Some recreational areas along the Tennessee River have been temporarily closed because of high water. Recreation areas on Douglas and Watauga reservoirs in Tennessee and Wilson reservoir near Florence, Ala., are among those most impacted.
"We advise using extreme caution when near the dams, rivers and tributaries," Bach said. "Safety is the No. 1 priority, and river currents and speed are unpredictable."
Watauga Reservoir, near Elizabethton Tenn., set a record lake elevation on Monday at 1,967 feet above sea level "" about a foot higher than the previous record set last May.
A forecast of additional rain later in the week could add one or two more inches of water into the already-flooded system.
The Tennessee River watershed has one of the highest annual rainfall totals of any watershed in the United States, averaging 51 inches a year. So far in 2013, more than 40 inches of rain has fallen in the Valley.
TVA manages the Tennessee River and its many tributaries to meet vital public needs in six key areas: navigation, flood damage reduction, power production, water quality and supply, recreation and land use.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power distributors serving 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. TVA receives no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually all of its revenues from sales of electricity. In addition to operating and investing its revenues in its electric system, TVA provides flood control, navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system and assists local power companies and state and local governments with economic development and job creation.
Media Contact
Travis Brickey, Knoxville, 865-632-6263
TVA Public Relations, Knoxville, 865-632-6000
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Elliot Schneider couldn't think straight.
The San Lorenzo resident's extensive chemotherapy, part of his treatment for breast cancer, had left him feeling so discombobulated he knew he had to leave his longtime post as a philosophy and history teacher at San Lorenzo High School.
"I got 'chemo brain,'" Schneider says of the condition formally known as post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment. "I couldn't teach. I wasn't going to be mediocre, so I retired."
When one door closes, however, another opens. In Schneider's case, it led to a career he dabbled in once before: rock 'n' roll.
Before he embarked on a 15-year teaching stint at San Lorenzo High in 1990, Schneider was a singer-songwriter-musician who fronted bands in New York and San Francisco. And with teaching no longer possible, Schneider decided to give music another shot and started writing songs again.
And a funny thing happened: The "chemo brain" fog lifted and his thinking improved. Now, at an age when many are thinking about retirement, the 65-year-old looks to be a full-time rocker.
"I love singing," says the self-professed former hippie. "It's like making love to the universe."
New music
Schneider just released his second album, "If Looks Could Kill, I'd Wear Mirror Sunglasses." You could call it the long-overdue follow-up to his 1986 debut, "Surreal Survivor." The record has received good reviews and Schneider says it has gotten airplay on more than 100 college radio stations and in, of all places, Scotland. (Welcome to the Internet age!)
He is also lining up live shows again, having performed in San Francisco in the fall at Cafe du Nord and on Friday at the Hotel Utah.
Schneider originally set off on quite a different course.
The New York native, whose mother died from breast cancer when he was just 2 years old, showed talent in a wide range of artistic pursuits from a young age. And that might have worked against him.
He was a novelist who had a shot at a book contract, a playwright who came close to having one of his works mounted onstage, and a singer who reportedly came within a hair of landing a contract with the mighty Elektra Records.
Schneider says he had an uncanny -- and, some would say, unfathomable -- knack for sabotaging himself during the most critical points in his music/arts career.
"I blew myself up in many ways, in many fields," he says. "Maybe I didn't want to compromise. Maybe I was afraid of success."
Bay Area club scene
In 1982, he moved to San Francisco and found some success in the local club scene -- with the bands Elliot Schneider and the Pitts and, later, Elliot Schneider and the Banned. Near decade's end, however, he concluded he wasn't going to make it big in rock and gave it up.
"I couldn't even listen to music for a few years. It was just too painful," he says. "So I threw myself into research."
He enrolled at San Francisco State and earned a teaching credential. In 1990, he was hired at San Lorenzo High.
"I got my first 'straight' job at 43 when I became a teacher," Schneider says. "Nobody even thought I could get up in the morning, because I kept vampire hours (as a musician)."
Yet, the teaching gig turned out to be a perfect fit.
"I loved kids, because most of them haven't given up on life yet," Schneider says.
He says he brought some of the theatrics of a rock 'n' roll performer into the classroom. "My philosophy course was kind of a cross between Socrates and Groucho Marx."
Not surprisingly, Schneider quickly became one of the more popular teachers on campus.
"Students used to fight to get in his class," says Carmen Castro, who met Schneider as a mother who had three children in his classes. The relationship has evolved considerably -- Castro and Schneider are engaged to be married, and she plays keyboards in the singer's band.
Things changed suddenly for Schneider in 2005 when he noticed a lump in his chest. What doctors found was that the disease that had taken his mother was now in him. About 1 percent of breast cancer patients are men, according to the American Cancer Society, and Schneider was one of them.
On to music
Schneider eventually treated the cancer through a combination of surgery and chemotherapy, and he rewired his life in the process.
"If not for that (cancer), I probably wouldn't have a music career and I'd still be teaching," Schneider says.
He found immense joy in songwriting, something that seems to come easily to him.
"He can write a song every night if he wanted to," Castro says.
With a new batch of tunes in hand, as well as some revived nuggets from his past catalog, Schneider went searching for collaborators and found out that some musicians still remembered him from his local club dates in the 1980s. Enter the Elliot Schneider Band.
"Elliot Schneider is a great, eclectic pop songwriter -- amazing lyrics and melodies that lure in the listener to his world," says Schneider's drummer, Phil Sollar, who describes the bandleader as "Elvis Costello meets Graham Parker via Mick Jagger."
Schneider's album was recently named one of the top CDs of 2012 by one radio station. Schneider likes to point out that the list was given "in no particular order."
"So," he says, "I guess, we were all tied for first."
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Age: 65
Residence: San Lorenzo
Occupation: Recently retired from teaching; currently fronting a rock band
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Definition of source in English:
1A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained: mackerel is a good source of fish oil
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- Fish is a key source of omega 3 oils which have health benefits particularly for the heart.
- These products are obtained from fairly traded sources, where producers are paid a fair price that covers production costs and a basic living wage.
- Best results will be obtained when two protein sources are used in combination.
origin, birthplace, spring, fountainhead, fount, starting point, ground zero;
history, provenance, derivation, root, beginning, genesis, start, rise;
author, originator, initiator, inventor
1.1A spring or fountainhead from which a river or stream issues: the source of the Nile
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- We could follow the entire sweep of the river, from the lower meanders upwards to the source of the tiny stream high in the glaciated peaks of the cordillera.
- They have issued a five-point plan for managing rivers from source to estuary in an integrated and sustainable way.
- The terrace is watered by one of the sources of the River Jordan, a spring from a cool cave.
spring, origin, headspring, headwater(s)
literary wellspring
1.2A person who provides information: military sources announced a reduction in strategic nuclear weapons
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- Beaver, who says he was passed the information by reliable military sources, says the equipment simply did not arrive in time.
- It was also alleged that he had been asked to provide information from police sources by senior activists.
- I had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the story or the information provided by my sources.
1.3A book or document used to provide evidence in research.
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- A new emphasis will be placed on using primary documents as the source for research and discussion.
- While researching a book, Barker goes straight to primary sources, favouring public records, diaries, letters.
- These estimates are based on a massive and meticulous use of primary and secondary sources that are well documented in the volume.
reference, authority, material, document, informant
1.4 technical A body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. The opposite of sink2.
1.5 Electronics A part of a field-effect transistor from which carriers flow into the inter-electrode channel.
Example sentences
- In one embodiment, the output of the buffer is at the source of the input transistor.
verb[with object]
1Obtain from a particular source: each type of coffee is sourced from one country
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- The shop sources some of its most sought after items from remote villages across the South.
- All purchased forage and bedding should be sourced from suppliers operating to recognised quality control standards.
- Medication had to be sourced from district health facilities, private nursing homes and pharmacies for newborns.
1.1Find out where (something) can be obtained: she was called upon to source a supply of carpet
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- They all have complex supply chains, sourcing materials from across the industry and making them vulnerable to the big drug companies.
- I use my e-mail nearly as much as the phone now and I find the internet a great tool for sourcing information for our shows.
- It would be a great help if they could source a regular supply.
at source
- chiefly British At the point of origin or issue: reduction of pollution at sourceMore example sentences
- By preventing pollution at source, conserving water and restoring valuable nutrients to nature's lifecycle, the WCT's virtues are attracting converts around the world.
- While industrial pollution can be controlled at source, automobile emissions can become uncontrollable.
- The reduction of refuse at source is vital and the council must challenge those responsible to achieve acceptable levels.
- 1.1Used to show that an amount is deducted from earnings or other payments before they are made: your pension contribution will be deducted at sourceMore example sentences
- Mortgage interest relief has gone and non-taxpayers can no longer reclaim the tax deducted at source on dividend payments on shares or unit trusts.
- The landlord is then entitled to claim a credit for the income tax deducted at source from the rental income.
- However, anyone with benefits or other sources of income, for example bank interest or dividend income, is likely to have additional tax to pay as any tax deducted at source is unlikely to cover the full tax liability.
sourceless adjective
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- The lady's features were illuminated by the sourceless light.
- Yet, the room has a pleasant quality to it also: a sourceless radiance that makes the temperature outside a distant memory.
- As an unreported case, it enters law as a ghostly, sourceless illustration of circumstances that law will not recognize.
Late Middle English: from Old French sours(e), past participle of sourdre 'to rise', from Latin surgere.
fountain from Middle English:
A fountain was originally used to mean a natural spring of water rather than an artificial one, and comes from Latin fontana 'spring'. Fount 'source' (the French for 'spring', in English from the Late Middle Ages) was formed in English in the late 16th century. The baptismal font (Old English) comes from the same root, although the printing font (late 16th century), made from melted and cast metal, comes from fondre ( see found).
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Seniors Andrew Ely and Kathalyn Maxson were crowned Mr. and Miss Red Devil 2012 during half-times ceremoneis for last Friday Homecoming football game at Flinn Field. "Game Shows" Homecoming Parade winners included: 1) Senior Class "WipeOut the Eages"; 1) Ravenswood FFA "Deal or No Deal Eagles"; and 3) CIA "Survivor: Vote the Eagles Off.
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Stockton, CA
Patricia Irene McNinch (Nelson)
July 19, 1938 - February 16, 2013
Pat leaves behind her husband Hank McNinch, brother Bill
(Cindy) Nelson, sister Carol
(Ernie) Rubottom, children, Donna (Eugene)
Freeman and Hank (Lee) McNinch; grandchildren, Donna, Rhonda, Mikey,
Joseph, Megan, Daniel, Ashlee, and numerous great grandchildren, cousins, nieces, and
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I recently picked up a Bay Area newspaper, and the headline shouted: "Layoffs Despite Recovery." An uneasy smile crossed my face as I realized we have been talking about this in public schools for almost three years now. Although Oakdale has had the benefit of a stable school population with a slight growth and excellent planning, we still will look at major cuts in the next six to 18 months.
The Oakdale Police Department has a proven record of providing superior services to the community by blending professionalism and compassion. The Department's Mission Statement is "Working to protect and safeguard those we serve." Now that Oakdale's population has grown beyond 20,000, the men and women of the Oakdale Police Department continue to work even harder to fulfill this mission.
The Oakdale Police Department has a proven record of providing superior services to the community by blending professionalism and compassion. The Department's Mission Statement is "Working to protect and safeguard those we serve." Now that Oakdale's population has grown beyond 20,000, the men and women of the Oakdale Police Department continue to work even harder to fulfill this mission.
OJUSD Superintendent
Throughout my years as a police officer, I have dealt with numerous parents who have wondered if their child was using or experimenting with drugs, but were not knowledgeable enough to see the symptoms and find the truth. Many times, I have arrested juveniles for being under the influence, contacted their parents and were immediately faced with the statement, "I had no idea."
September Is National Preparedness Month
I had the opportunity to meet with the Board of Directors of the Oakdale Sports Boosters on Sept. 8 to ask for their help with funding transportation for our Oakdale athletes. The meeting was very cordial and it was very apparent why this group of dedicated citizens was in attendance. They were all there for one reason: their sole purpose was to make Oakdale schools' sports programs a great experience for the students of Oakdale High and Oakdale Junior High.
Crime is an unfortunate reality of daily life. When law enforcement investigates crimes, it is often a good witness that can make or break a case. What does it mean to be a good witness?
In July of 2008, California passed California Vehicle Code section 23123(a) that prohibits a driver from talking on a cell phone without the use of a hands free device in a motor vehicle on a highway (Roadway). This California Vehicle Code section was written in an attempt to reduce the number of traffic collisions on the roadway by allowing the driver to keep both hands on the steering wheel and focus his/her attention on the roadway. There are of course, several exceptions to this law that allow you to use your cell phone while driving, calling 911, emergency ...
Early in June the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a Biological Opinion (BO) on the impacts of the State Water Project and Federal Water Project (Projects) on endangered salmon and steelhead fish populations. Both Projects pump water out of the Delta to send to the South part of the State and it is these actions that the BO addressed. The BO stated that in no uncertain terms, both salmon and steelhead were being harmed and immediate and long-term actions were necessary to protect them.
It was the same old speech I'd heard a thousand times before. Something positive and uplifting, but nothing really authentic or new. So instead of listening to the speaker, I was reading some sort of graduation guideline handout and daydreaming about something more interesting. Now it's been almost two years since I didn't hear that speech.
So we have finally, officially, caught up to the rest of the online world and we now have a few certified bloggers on staff at The Oakdale Leader.
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I spent Saturday evening at a "Pay It Forward" party, pondering a friend's kitchen casseroles and photo frames, her DVDs and music CDs and ...
With various social, economic and political problems swirling around us, details of long-term federal budgets are probably not where many people are focused. In corporate ...
I looked at my friend who had a 3-month-old baby and couldn't stop myself from blurting, "Oh my gosh, you look so good!"
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Bob Costas's Pink Eye and Sochi's Brown Water (Olympic Poetry)
Throughout the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day's action.
In this installment, our poet looks at Bob Costas's pink eye infection, among other things.
Costas' eyes have stayed pink, the jokes
too easy since pinko is old as eras are old
and Putin's pink is the color of his steak,
though his connections to the sewers
and pipes plumb old depths and Costas
can't be blamed for passing on the shower,
and going for the rag to wipe his eyes.
Americans are losing everything—this is
the march of almost arrivals and who can
blame them when whole villages of pain
impervious Norway folks hurtle over snow
as if born to this red-faced miracle of power,
while the normal Americans lose everything—
golds slipping away, silvers, bronzes—you know
their names, the parade of painful loss.
There is salt in the snow at the foothills
where the Jamaican bobsledders are shirtless
leading a limbo line through the subtropical
steam pot of Sochi of global warming.
The water is brown, it is not rum.
Everyone is a rainbow child, and on Sunday
the rainbow curved over the mountain,
and someone said, Hallelujah! then thought,
how ironic, how emptily ironic.
Luge sliders travel at eighty miles per hour—
they can die on these fragile bits of fiber glass
and this is why we howl with relief
at their arrival intact at the end of the run.
And in Raleigh the pile up is not a joke.
And on CNN, the Paul guy is making jokes.
And in Syria, remember, in Syria
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I had enjoyed the first 'grown in water' Amaryllis in pink so, so much and kind of regretted that I had not purchased the red one. I had no idea what kind of markings the red ones might have and what shade of red they would be. One can never go by the generic pictures on the box in which the bulb/vase came.
I was delighted to have found it as a post-Christmas sale at less than half of the original price. (I happened to see one yesterday for $17.99 at another place ).
There was already a little water in the glass vase and I added more water to it. So far, I have not had to change the water.
Two flower stems emerged just a few weeks later, much earlier than I had expected.
The first blossom was recorded more than a week ago,
.. followed by one or two more each day.
All 8 (4 from each stem) were in bloom within a week,.
The flowers have no white markings at all. The color was bright, vibrant red.
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Navigating the Perilous Patent Path
Part of the Patents, Registered Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright For Dummies Cheat Sheet (UK Edition)
Because a patent is the most expensive and complex type of IP (intellectual property) right, first analyse whether you can protect your IP with copyright, a trademark, or a service mark, or by keeping it under wraps as a trade secret.
If you and your IP professional decide that a patent is the way to go, and you have the time and money to see the process through to the conclusion, here's the patent process in a nutshell:
Make sure the invention is really yours and doesn't belong to your boss, your spouse, or your business partner.
Do a patent search to make sure that no one else has already come up with your formula, process or invention.
Check that your invention passes the test – it's new, and wouldn't be obvious to someone knowledgeable in the field.
Prepare a patent application, including:
A short abstract of the invention
The claims
A description and accompanying drawings, if applicable
A brief description of each figure of the drawing
A brief discussion of the general field, background and circumstances of the invention
A summary of the invention
References to any prior applications
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September 12, 2005
Only on 12…about 100 members of Fort Gordon's 93rd Signal Brigade are across the Gulf Coast restoring communications. News 12 explains how they're making the entire military operation on the Gulf work.
Right next to a tree ripped out of the ground by Hurricane Katrina's force, one of the most important parts of the Gulf Coast restoration is underway.
"The mission that we have here is to support the Joint Task Force Katrina," said Captain Pete Peterson.
Fort Gordon's 67th Signal Battalion was called to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, hours after Katrina hit to restore communications for FEMA and the military.
The quick call to action means one of these soldiers is missing his vacation to the Jersey Shore and another cancelled his trip home to Oklahoma. But their expertise was needed to restore phone lines, Internet and teleconferencing in days.
Captain Pete Peterson and First Sergeant Donald Wilson run Fort Gordon's operation at Camp Shelby. In the last week, they've each slept about eight hours altogether. There's lots of work to do because communication is one of the first things needed to coordinate the entire restoration of the Gulf Coast.
"We've been able to help command and control so that can get organized, so when the units are coming here we can control exactly where they're going," Wilson said.
While the logistics of this operations are worked out inside, the engineering side is right out here. Members of the 235th Signal Company work shifts around the clock to make sure these satellites are always working.
Specialist Bryan Vicente makes sure the satellite link stays clear.
"We take all the data that's coming in from the inside and we just put it over the satellite, make sure that it's a clear link that we have no errors, nothing like that," Vicente said.
Specialist Vicente spent a year setting up the same kind of communications in Iraq with some of this same equipment. Vicente says when he arrived at Camp Shelby communications were almost as bad as the Middle East.
"There was nothing here. They didn't have DSN. They didn't have commercial phones. They didn't have power. They didn't have anything," Vicente said.
Now phone lines and the Internet are at full speed. A few days ago President Bush used Fort Gordon's satellite to hold a teleconference at Camp Shelby. But the work's not done yet. The 67th has extra equipment here. They expect to set up satellites in Gulfport or Baton Rouge.
"It looks like we're gonna be here for awhile, but I'm not sure," Vicente said.
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Bitcoins, which exist as software and aren't regulated by any country or banking authority, surged to a record $744 on Bitstamp, an active Web-based exchange where they trade for dollars, euros and other currencies, after the remarks during a Nov. 18 hearing by the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The gains extended an advance that has seen the price of Bitcoins quadruple in the past two months and climb 45-fold so far this year.
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Recent from Denver Water that the agency is OK with human contact with water in Dillon reservoir has everyone wondering whether we'll soon see people doing the backstroke in Heaton Bay.
Not so fast, we say. Even in mid-summer, Dillon Reservoir is a cold, dark and deep alpine lake that's not very forgiving. Sudden storms can whip up, dropping the air temperature 20 degrees in minutes, while wild winds and unpredictable currents make Dillon a real challenge for sailors. Imagine, then, what those conditions would mean for a little kid caught in a sudden tempest. Baby steps seems the way to go, which is, thankfully, exactly what's taking place on the board of the Dillon Reservoir Recreation Area Committee. Some things have already been thrown out, such as water skiing and jet skis. There's no doubt such uses would drastically alter the character of our mostly peaceful reservoir. Special uses, such as a swimming leg to a triathlon, make a lot more sense. Perhaps some test cases will help clarify the viability of swimming in Dillon Reservoir, but ultimately we're looking at what the sheriff has to say, since it's his office that'll be in charge of policing such activity, rescuing those in trouble and, god forbid, recovering the bodies of those who weren't up to the extreme conditions in the reservoir.