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Jeff, our volume isn't what we anticipated for tomorrow so we aren't going to need you to come into work." That's the call I received from a product salesperson from a Colorado ski resort that I work for part time. My services aren't needed yet because there are not enough people in town to warrant having me on the hill.
"Go enjoy some personal skiing," she said.
But why, if the snow is pretty good and the holiday is close are bookings lower than expected?
Last year, in case you weren't around, was a lousy snow year. The year before it puked, a record amount in fact. One would expect a correlation between snowfall amounts and bookings that look something like this:
Lots of snow = lots of bookings
Little snow = little bookings
However, as the latter part of this week and last year shows this in not always the case. In fact, it is often the opposite. Skiers from around the country heard about last year's dismal snow fall and failed to book a trip to Colorado for this year.
Yet, last year, despite the snow drought gripping the High Country, bookings were high because people heard about or experienced the winter 2010-2011 and its 500+ inches and booked a trip for 2011-2012. They ended up sad skiers and snowboarders as some resorts received less than 180" of snowfall leaving locals feeling compelled to apologize for not producing the exceptional snowfall from the previous year.
We were not being punished by the Weather Maker.
The ignorant gapers who showed up last year expecting a repeat of the previous year's snow totals and who aren't here now despite much better early season conditions are guilty of a planning fallacy and ignoring the statistical concept of "regression to the mean".
Take a look at the average annual snowfall from three of our state's ski resorts.
Breckenridge - 300"
Copper Mountain - 282"
Steamboat - 335"
These are annual averages. Mean is a fancy statistical way of saying average over time. So, if 300" is average then it logically follows that some years we will have more than 300" like in 2010-2011 when we received around 550" depending on where you measured. And in some years you will have less than 300" like last year's underwhelming 160" give or take a few inches.
Regression to the mean is an explanation without a cause where a variable, in this case snowfall, is measured as extreme in the first year tending closer to the average in the second year.
Daniel Kahneman's wonderful book "Thinking Fast and Slow," Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011 does an excellent job of showing the many incorrect ways our minds look at things. In it he writes, "the more extreme the score," (or snowfall) "the more regression we expect." In other words, 550" of snow is bound to be followed by less snow the next year. Conversely, if it snowed 160" last year then this year we should expect. . . well . . . "the regression prediction is reasonable but not guaranteed," writes Kahneman.
People shouldn't be avoiding Colorado after a bad year they should be flocking here.
We're human of course and not machines. We like a good story to provide our causal explanations over "mere statistics". El Nino or La Nina, shifting jet streams or global warming, anything so long as we don't have to hear our local weatherman tell us that the reason we are getting more snow this year is because we didn't get much snow last year. Even if this explanation is at least as true as the La Nina bit, it lacks the compelling narrative that we love so much.
I would like to see that lovely lady in product sales try just once to see if it works.
"Yes Mr. Overstreet, last year was as bad a snow year as I can remember but have you heard about the regression to the mean?"
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Definition of pair in English:
- Skaters whizzed by in the rink behind them, but nobody moved to put on a pair of four-wheelers and join the throng.
- There are four main landing gear units fitted in tandem pairs.
- Whilst I was out, I also bought a couple of pairs of stockings.
- She went to join Caleb who had donned a pair of jeans and a sweater and was in the kitchen making breakfast.
- Pair a basic pair of jeans with a shirt you really like, or a cool belt or shoes.
- Take the necessary only… some underwear, a couple of T shirts, a pair of sneakers, a pair of jeans and maybe two pairs of shorts.
- One of my opponents had a pair of aces in her hand.
- The lowest winning hand can be a single pair, an ace and king, or even a single high card.
- Well, fate seemed to deny him any runs, pairs or face cards and even any metal implement to do some damage.
- Sometimes Eileen will work with the children on a one to one basis, other times she will host a session with the children in pairs, so that they can speak and relate to each.
- In this race everybody goes in pairs and each pair had to get a board and paddle out to a buoy about 10 meters out and back.
- Players are invited to enter in pairs, although individuals can enter and be paired up on the day.
- So singletons out there, don't give up hope, your pair is out there somewhere!
- The same questionnaire asks you to indicate the qualities you would want your dating pair to possess.
- Spring is when many songbirds are most active, busy competing for mates, establishing breeding pairs, setting up territories.
- On May 1, 1999, five birds (two breeding pairs and a solitary male) remained on the plantation.
- Brian, a keen ornithologist, also informed me that there's a breeding pair of herons right there in the harbour.
- A neatly dressed footman in navy blue livery stood, alert, by its side and a pair of gleaming chestnut horses were in harness.
- In the distance, a pair of horses cantered cheerfully by, one of them supporting a red flag in his teeth and the other neighing joyfully at him.
- The driver tied the long reins that controlled a pair of black horses to a post by his seat and then proceeded to open the door of the carriage.
- Voting by proxy is not allowed in Parliament but a similar effect is achieved through the practice known as 'pairs'.
- The arrangement of pairs is left in the hands of the 'Party Whips'.
verb[with object]
- Twelve months ago, the two teams were paired together in the quarter-finals.
- This was designed to protect the integrity of the championship because of the possibility of leading contenders being paired together in the first round.
- 'Clarke and I were paired together to present a documentary on that year's Festival,' says Bakewell.
- White plumage may be critical for attracting a mate, but even after pairing with a female during the breeding season, a male that keeps a clean profile may have an advantage.
- In many species pairs are stable for at least three years, and some butterflyfishes may pair for life.
- These fish stay paired for at least a year and sometimes for their entire lifetime. They spawn year-round, usually near the full moon.
- Match-makers Jane Gledhill and Chris Cunningham had hoped to be swamped with single people wanting to be paired off - but their romantic speed-dating notion has had so few admirers that they have had to call the whole thing off.
- In one deft sequence, Carrington sits outside Ham Spray House, draped in a blanket, watching the loves of her life pair off into new relationships.
- It wasn't until he became a teenager and everyone in his circle of friends began to pair off and have relationships did he come to understand what it was he felt for his long lost friend.
- When they agree to pair themselves they indicate their respective positions on the issue and the fact that their absences did not effect the outcome.
- Notwithstanding the newly formalized way of arranging pairs, House of Commons Speaker John Fraser noted in a 1992 ruling that agreements to pair still are private arrangements between Members and not matters in which House or the Speaker can intervene.
pair of hands
- A person seen in terms of their participation in a task: we can always do with an extra pair of handsMore example sentences
- So even if you are just someone who needs an extra pair of hands around the house for a day here is your chance to get all those jobs done that never seem to get done!
- Home-Start York needs volunteers to visit young families at home, to offer a listening ear and an extra pair of hands.
- They will provide an extra pair of hands to allow the pre-school staff and volunteers to spend more time with all the children in the group.
pairwiseadjective& adverb
- Example sentences
- Additional tests were performed until all pairwise combinations of markers were examined for each trait.
- The distribution of pairwise differences in a set of sequences plays a major role in molecular evolution studies.
- Because the algorithm uses pairwise relationships the final number of clusters is identical in both species.
Middle English: from Old French paire, from Latin paria 'equal things', neuter plural of par 'equal'. Formerly phrases such as a pair of gloves were expressed without of, as in a pair gloves (compare with German ein Paar Handschuhe).
Pair comes from Latin paria 'equal things', formed from par 'equal'. Latin par also lies behind compare (Late Middle English) 'to pair with, bring together'; disparage (Middle English) originally 'a mis-pairing especially in marriage', later 'to discredit'; nonpareil (Late Middle English) 'not equalled' (taken directly from the French); par (late 16th century) 'equal', a golfing term from L19th; parity [L16] 'equalness'; peer (Middle English) 'equal'; and umpire (Middle English) originally noumpere, from the same source as nonpareil, because an umpire is above all the players. A noumpere was later re-interpreted as 'an umpire' and the initial 'n' was lost.
Words that rhyme with pairaffair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah
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The Redwood Area Hospital Foundation is hosting its sixth annual dinner theatre event for the opening night of Redwood Area Theatre's production of "Arsenic and Old Lace."The fundraiser, held July 19, begins with a social hour at 5 p.m. and dinner being served at 6 p.m.The evening activities include a gourmet meal and dinner conversation with a RAT director. The fundraiser takes place in the Redwood Area Community Center. After dinner, guests are escorted to special seating reserved in the Performing Arts Center."Guests have such a wonderful time at this event," said Karen Melges, Redwood Area Hospital Foundation director. "The conversation with the play's director before the show makes the whole evening much more meaningful for our guests."The cost of dinner-theatre tickets are $50, which includes show seating.Tickets can be purchased starting July 5 by calling Karen Melges at (507) 637-4668. All proceeds of the event go toward the purchase of two Smart PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) pumps.Everyone is invited to attend the fundraiser and support the Redwood Area Hospital Foundation.For more info, contact Melges or visit the hospital Web site at www.redwoodareahospital.org.
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Roger in semis after |five-set thriller
A challenging, thrilling, brilliant shot making, cliff hanger of a match that saw our Roger come through 7-6,4-6,7-6,3-6,6-3. "The whole match was tough. Any set could have gone either way," he said. "You never know what Jo's going to come up with. It was a pleasure to come through.I felt like I played some great tennis but Jo played great tennis too." There were times when Roger was imperious and times when Tsonga's shot making made our champ look pedestrian. Tsonga had unleashed a series of brilliant shots to level the match at 2 sets all. He made 17 winners to Roger's 7 in the 4th set to take it in style and set up a thrilling finish. In the end Roger's experience, but even more his court craft, brought our champ through to a hard earned victory. The match was a stunner with no quarter given on either side – it took Roger 4 match points to close out Tsonga and win the final set 6-3 with a superb overhead smash at the 5th attempt. Our champ had been composure personified in this set and took the decisive break at 2-1 to set up an advantage he did not relinquish. This is Roger's 10th straight semi-final in the Australian Open in his bid for an 24th Grand Slam final.
Roger has now set up the possibility of an electrifying semi-final match against the Scot Andy Murray – at the moment Murray leads 10-9 in career head to head matches.
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You guys all know Novak and Andy's draw and Roger's draw.
Love you Roger no matter a win or a lose. Your fan, Kemna
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GDL17921 wrote:claring wrote:GDL17921 wrote:Here's some mensuration for you Clue - how far is it from Newton to Mt. Pleasant?
about 120miles
You're not the state coordinator. I want to address the issue with somebody that can actually do something about it. I mean, we elect a SC for something, right?
Now, that being said, if they're within the PDGA set limits, the limits need to be increased. These are the types of issues I would like to see addressed with the PDGA. The PDGA has decreased (all in the name of collecting fees) the mileage limits to where they're practically irrelevant. Second, IMO, the State Coordinator should have the power to get an event UN-sanctioned if somebody chooses to not go through the proper chanels like EVERYBODY else does.
1. I am directed by the PDGA to represent their interests and simply help coordinate according to their directives. It's clear that they don't care about the individual success of tournaments, but would rather have several tournaments which would maximize the total number of players playing as well as increase overall sanctioning money. Their budget is dependent on this system and there's likely no way they would ever sacrifice short term money for long term success of the tournament model.
2. As I stated before, I do not feel comfortable infringing on someone else's business. If you owned Proflight and I told you couldn't do Newton because Mt Pleasant was a higher tiered tournament I'm guessing you'd be furious. As much as I'd love to do something, there's really very little I can do. However, I am not against trying. If you have suggestions I'm all ears. Believe me when I say I've thought of many things to consolidate tournament fields and it's just too hard.


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Firefighters finally began to get a handle on the massive Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, but not before the blaze destroyed one popular Bay Area family camp and damaged another.
Berkeley officials said the fire incinerated the city's popular high Sierra camp on Sunday while San Jose canceled the rest of its season just miles away, after the blaze scorched about a dozen cabins.
For generations of Bay Area campgoers, news of the destruction brought the fire home.
"Our family is feeling pretty devastated because we have so many happy memories there, and it was a place we always look forward to returning," said David Kojan, one of many Berkeley natives who cherished visits with his wife and two young sons to the Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp just west of Yosemite.
Overnight into Tuesday, the fire grew to about 180,000 acres, or 280 square miles, after gobbling up another 20,000 acres compared to late Monday. The fire containment on Monday tripled to 20 percent but remained steady overnight into Tuesday.
The Rim Fire finally hit the source of the Hetch Hetchy water system in Yosemite, though water quality was not immediately harmed. However, the one encouraging sign is that the blaze was spreading twice as slowly compared to last week.
Still, the stubborn fire became the largest active wildfire in the United States and the 7th-largest in the state's recorded history dating back 81 years.
As the cost of the fire topped $27 million, President Barack Obama pledged federal resources in a call to Gov. Jerry Brown, who on Monday visited with some of the firefighters battling the biggest of California's nearly dozen major wildfires burning from Eureka to Los Angeles, stretching resources amid peak wildfire season. Brown said "the firefighters have a real challenge on their hands" but promised to "get it done" with the money and manpower available.
"Whatever it takes, I'm going to make sure the resources are deployed," Brown said at a news conference in Tuolumne.
On Monday, the Rim Fire moved within a mile of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite, the source of water for 2.6 million Bay Area residents and businesses. Though most of the infrastructure is fire-resistant, such as underground steel pipes and the concrete O'Shaughnessy Dam, officials remain concerned that ash will dirty the water.
But the reservoir is already just about full, and crews have built up several months of back-up water supply, said Charles Sheehan, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The utility also sped up by 10 percent its transfer of water from Yosemite to 302 million gallons a day to other reservoirs in hopes of building up an even bigger supply.
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Though the fire has not affected water quality yet, Sheehan said if it does get contaminated and the back-up supply is exhausted, the utility can buy water from other agencies such as the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the East Bay Municipal Utility District.
"There would be no change in water quality and no interruption in service," under any of those scenarios, Sheehan said. It's unclear how buying extra water could affect customers' water bills, he said.
Containment of the Rim Fire surged as the dirt lines dug by firefighters around the perimeter and constant air drops of water and retardant finally started to pay off.
"Slowly but surely, we are making progress," said Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.
But it was too late to save the city-run Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp just west of Yosemite, which first opened 91 years ago for $1 a day and 60 cents for children. Famed architect Bernard Maybeck was one of the locals dispatched to the area to finalize the site, news reports at the time said.
The fire burned most of the 80 buildings, including 72 tent cabins, city spokesman Matthai Chakko said.
Crews were able to save many historical items such as documents and photographs, but it was of little solace to local families.
Stephanie Agnew, a Berkeley resident who started going to the camp six years ago when her son was 3, said her family is "heartbroken."
"How do you ever get back what you had there?" Agnew said Monday. "It was in the most beautiful setting."
The San Jose-run Family Camp east of Groveland, neighbors to the Berkeley camp, also saw 14 of its 67 tents destroyed. On Monday, the city canceled the rest of its camping season, which was set to last through October. Two ATVs, water well infrastructure and one out-building were also reduced to ashes.
Last week, crews evacuated 110 Berkeley high school students and staff who were staying at the 47-acre San Jose camp. The fire approached so quickly that students had to leave food they were preparing on kitchen counters.
But crews expect to rebuild and open in time for the next season in April, said San Jose Parks Superintendent Art Catbagan -- as long as the fire cooperates. He said workers are constantly dousing spot fires there, some of which have reignited 20 minutes after being extinguished.
"We believe that the worst of it is done because the fire has moved away," Catbagan said.
Over the last week, the San Francisco-based Jewish summer camp, Camp Tawonga, and the city of San Francisco-run Camp Mather also evacuated.
The Rim Fire now threatens 5,506 structures -- including 4,500 homes, 1,000 outbuildings and six commercial buildings -- in rural Tuolumne County after destroying 111 structures -- 31 homes and 80 outbuildings -- since the fire started on Aug. 17. A small section of the Yosemite back country on the western edge of the park has also burned, but tourist destinations remain open.
About 3,800 firefighters, including crews from the Bay Area, are battling the blaze, which has resulted in two injuries and has prompted smoke to drift as far away as Lake Tahoe and Reno. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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STOCKTON - San Joaquin County officials took time out Tuesday afternoon to recognize dozens of long-serving employees.
The county recognized 62 employees who have worked in county government for at least 20 years. The employees reached their milestones from June to September. In addition, another 38 employees retired over the same June-September time period.
Many were at the Tuesday meeting, where employees picked up service pins and framed historical pictures of San Joaquin County while family, colleagues and bosses applauded.
Three times a year, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors tips its hat to employees at service award ceremonies for employees of county government.
Doing the math, board Chairman Steve Bestolarides noted that the retirees took with them a combined 752 years of experience. The active members being recognized represented 1,580 years of service, he said.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is beyond happy that Election Day is finally here, and where we're breaking written law about discussing politics in this here fair column. We promise to only sound off for a few moments. Bare with us. You don't realize all the election-y stuff we've been dealing with here at the SU Corporate Suites.
Over the last few months, maybe longer, we've dealt with people on the right and we've dealt with people on the left. We've even dealt with people, who after ad after nauseating ad still aren't quite sure who they're voting for. After today we can go back to calling our mountain-dwelling brethren Summit Countians instead of Summit Dems or Summit Republican and that's how it should be. We're all up here because we love it right? Get out there and let your ballot be heard.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is still searching for something witty to say.
It seems we've run a little dry in the inspiration department. If it wasn't for the Internet we'd probably be completely bored at work. But even the great Web of whatever it is that makes up the 'net has its limits. It seems that when you google "What's cool on the Internet?" you mostly get things that really aren't all that cool.
Perhaps it is us that is the real problem. Maybe we've become too cynical and jaded in our old age.
MILLIONS OF SUMMIT UP: Quit being such a grumpy Gus. You're bringing us down.
SUMMIT UP: You do have a point there. Never fear, we'll only endeavor to conjure happy thoughts from here on out today.
Well, with that we'll move onto something that is sure to bring a smile to even the most stone-hearted individuals. It seems that during this fine holiday season, for just $10 you can go out into the woods and get your own Charlie Brown-esque Christmas tree.
It so happens that this morning we trudged out into the great abyss (really just the area between the interstate and the rez) and felled a mighty pine. It really was quite the sight to behold. The golden rays of sunshine cascading over our shoulders as we laid the tree asunder with our mighty blows ...
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Solar canning
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Note: Only fruits should be canned in a solar cooker! All other foods must be canned using pressure.
"Almost half of the food produced in the world goes to waste due to lack of a means to preserve it." - Dr. Dieter Seifert
"If I could use my SBC for only one thing, it would be for canning," says Eleanor Shimeall. "Processing in a solar cooker is much simpler than conventional methods. It takes me about 10 minutes of preparation time starting from a bowl of fresh fruit to placing the jar in the cooker. An added bonus is that the benign heat of the sun does not destroy the jewel-like colors of the fruit."
Eleanor is such an advocate of solar canning that she has been giving demonstrations in the field without benefit of kitchen facilities. She has also included a chapter on this subject in her book, Eleanor's Solar Cookbook.
She says she uses canning jars or jars such as those used by commercially prepared spaghetti sauce, which have a rubber ring bonded into the inside of the screw-on cap.
Eleanor uses the "terminal sterilization" method: begin with clean glass jars and lids, add the fruit or tomatoes (Microbiologist Dr. Bob Metcalf recommends adding lemon juice to tomatoes when they are canned to make the contents more acid), dry sugar or salt, and water to fill up to the neck of the jar. You must leave space for expansion of the contents during cooking. Screw lids onto the jars as tightly as you can and place them into the solar cooker. Once the contents of the jar boils out from under the lid, the jar and contents are sterilized.
Lids with a rubber ring are made to release steam during canning. Once the correct temperature has been reached, the contents of the jar will boil and flow under the tightly screwed-on lid. Remove the jars one-by-one as each one boils over. Wipe clean, set aside away from drafts to cool down slowly. As the jar cools, the lid is pulled downward to form a vacuum seal. Check each cool jar to make sure it is sealed properly by hitting it with a spoon and listening for a clear ringing note, or gently press down on the lid making sure it doesn't move up and down. If a jar did not seal, add more liquid or another tomato and reprocess. The quality will not be impaired.
Solar canning is safe for acid foods only. Acid foods are fruits and tomatoes, or their juice, jams, jellies. DO NOT CAN MEATS OR VEGETABLES IN YOUR SOLAR COOKER!!! Don't even add a sprig of parsley as botulism can grow on any non-acid food!
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- Everthing Under the Sun (Food Storage for the Solar Oven) - Wendy DeWitt
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- French: Faire des conserves de fruits dans un four solaire à caisson
- German: Früchte mit einem solaren Kistenkocher einwecken
- Russian: Консервирования Фруктов в Коробочной Солнечной Плите
- Spanish: Envasando Frutas en una Cocina Solar
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SAN JOSE -- Peggy Ganson had never seen anything like it in her more than three decades living in San Jose's Almaden Valley. A herd of more than a dozen wild pigs, some a couple hundred pounds, assembled on her front lawn to root for grub under the grass.
When the pigs departed, it looked like her lawn had been tilled with industrial farm equipment. Ganson tried to repair her ripped up lawn, but the pigs kept coming back. She's since given up, leaving bare dirt in her front yard while she hopes for some help from City Hall.
"It's devastated," Ganson said sadly. "They've been back almost every day."
Ganson is hardly the pigs' only unwitting host. They have left their mark on plenty of neighbors' lawns as well. The Almaden Golf and Country Club has had $10,000 worth of damage from pig herds rooting up the greens and fairways in recent weeks, and has hired a trapper.
On Tuesday, the San Jose City Council is expected to take up an urgency ordinance that might offer some relief. It would allow a state-licensed trapper with a permit from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to euthanize a captured wild pig on site with a gunshot. San Jose, like many cities, doesn't generally allow gunfire within the city limits except by law enforcement officers or in designated firing ranges.
That means that under existing law, a trapper must either euthanize a captured pig with a fatal drug overdose or transport it outside the city limits, where it can legally be shot. Those options are problematic, explained Councilman Johnny Khamis, who represents Almaden Valley and has had his own lawn dug up by the pigs as well.
The euthanasia drugs, similar to those used to execute condemned inmates, are expensive, tightly regulated and difficult to administer to an angry, 300-pound, tusk-wielding captive boar, a creature that also is impractical and dangerous to move, Khamis said. A professional trapper can cost $100 an hour, with the bill determined by the number of animals and traps needed, said Dick Seever of Castro Valley's Rural Pig Management. If the animals have to be transported to be euthanized, he said, the cost can triple.
"Given the imminent threat to life, safety and property posed in this situation," Khamis and Councilman Pete Constant wrote in a joint proposal for the urgency ordinance, "it is necessary for the City Council to take action."
It's unclear who if anyone might oppose tweaking the city's gun rules to make an exception for licensed pig trappers. While residents with dug-up lawns and the golf course's managers are squarely for it, similar proposals have in the past drawn critics who argued the wildlife control is unnecessary.
Nine years ago, former Vice Mayor Pat Dando, who also represented the Almaden area, lost a council vote to allow coyote trapping in response to residents' complaints that the wolf-like predators had stalked them or killed their house cats.
More recently, San Jose officials a year ago allowed a similar gunfire exception to the one sought for pig trappers in order to let game officials shoot birds at Mineta San Jose International Airport to control populations that threaten jet aircraft. The airport has seen a sharp increase in the population of gulls. Birds can destroy jet engines if they collide with them, endangering the passengers and crew during critical takeoffs and landings. The council approved that exception unanimously, though some wildlife advocates objected. It remains an issue at the airport, where a jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing in Oakland last month after a bird struck an engine.
The urgency ordinance for pig shooting would require eight of the 11 council members' votes, including the mayor's, to pass and would become effective immediately afterward. Khamis and Constant also have offered a regular ordinance, which can pass with six votes but requires a second reading two weeks later and would not become effective until 30 days after that.
Wild pigs have been a persistent problem along coastal California over the years. They descended from livestock brought by European settlers and boars that hunters introduced. They are still hunted in rural areas but are more difficult to control when they roam into cities.
Residents in San Ramon have also seen a recent invasion of wild pigs and have hired trappers to control them.
Local officials aren't sure why the pigs have been such a problem this fall. They speculate it may be due to unusually dry weather and lack of food in the neighboring hills. Santa Clara County a few years ago cut back funding for its wild pig control program, though it is unclear whether that had any effect on the population in South San Jose. Khamis said what used to be an occasional neighborhood visit by one or two pigs is now dozens.
"It's increased dramatically," Khamis said. "They tore up my grass, my mother's grass, my brother-in-law's grass, my neighbors'..."
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.
If You Go
The San Jose City Council will consider an urgency ordinance to help control wild pigs at its Tuesday meeting.
The meeting begins at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St. Meetings also can be viewed online at www.sanjoseca.gov


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A Mind to Murder by P.D. James
Book Description
When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder.
With "discernment, depth, and craftsmanship," wrote the Chicago Daily News, A Mind to Murder "is a superbly satisfying mystery."
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: A mind to murder, May 23, 2003 Reviewer: Shimmy from CT USA The book I read was A mind to murder by P.D. James. It was about a lady who was found murdered in a record room, with a chisel in her heart and a werid wooden symbol in her arm. This book takes place in a Clinic where all employees are trying to find the murderer. They are calling people and asking them to come and help. At the end of the book, they find out who did it. I would recommend this book to kids 13 and up, because it might scare children younger then that.


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Anyone who shops at Costco and likes salad has probably purchased their spring lettuce mix, a heaping tub of baby greens. My absolute favorite way to eat it is with this simple method of dressing the salad from my friend Mary. What's essential is the combination of lime with just the barest hint of red wine vinegar, combined with absolutely top quality olive oil. This is something I never get tired of eating.
Mary's Perfect Salad
(one serving)
Best quality olive oil, enough to cover greens
(I'd say about 1 T. for a large serving of salad. Be sure the olive oil says *Extra Virgin* and *First Cold Pressed* on the label if you want the best flavor.)
Juice of 1/2 lime (you can use lemon, but the lime is really great)
About 4 drops of red wine vinegar
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nps. edu03/23/2008By M. Ashraf Haidari
Afghan women have now regained most of the freedoms that they lost under the Talibans gender apartheid, which ended seven years ago. Women have played a constructive role in each political process from the Bonn conference (2001) to the emergency and constitutional Loya Jirgas (2002-2004) to the presidential and parliamentary elections (2004-2005). Their participation in these historic processes has not only helped Afghanistan to establish its key state institutions but also has ensured that women secure equality to men in leading these institutions in the future.
The Afghan government is committed to womens constitutional rights and their implementation as evidenced by various mechanisms established in the government so far. The Afghan ministry of womens affairs was created to manage the formulation of government-wide gender policies and their execution through line ministries. Headed by a woman, the ministry currently has about 1,200 staff in Kabul and across 28 of its provincial directorates.
In January 2002, President Karzai surprised womens rights advocates by signing the declaration of the essential rights of Afghan women, which some 300 Afghan women from various exile countries had drafted in the capital of Tajikistan in June 2000. The declaration encouraged Afghan women from across the country to gather symbolically in Kandahar provincethe birthplace of the Talibanto adopt the Afghan womens bill of rights in September 2003.
At that historic gathering, Afghan women resolved to strive towards not only including the bills provisions in the new Afghan constitution but also ensuring their implementation afterwards. They did succeed, as article 22 of the constitution affirms womens equality to men before the law, and article 83 guarantees women 27 percent of the seats in the lower house and 17 percent of the seats in the upper house of the Afghan parliament.
Beyond the constitutional guarantees, Afghan women set out to participate and campaign hard in the national elections. More than 40% of the registered Afghan women turned out to vote in the presidential elections in 2004 and more than 50% of women risked their lives to vote in the parliamentary elections in 2005.
In spite of their continued landmark achievements, however, Afghan women still constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan, along with Afghan children and the disabled. Worsening security and violence threaten the many gains that Afghan women have painfully made over the past seven years. The Taliban have been able to regroup and expand their presence in the countryside where 80% of women live and where the terrorists daily carry out suicide attacks against military and soft targets. Taliban fighters have killed female teachers and burned down hundreds of schools, depriving more than 300,000 girls of education in the south and east of Afghanistan. The extremists will continue their campaign of terror in Afghanistan so long as their leadership remains intact in the border regions of Pakistan where they find easy sanctuary, arms, and ideological support.
Insecurity in Afghanistan is also due to a lack of international financial assistance, a problem that has resulted in weak state institutions. For example, of the overall $35 billion in international pledged assistance, $14.5 billion has been actually disbursedout of which only $4.2 billion has been channeled through the Afghan government with the rest delivered via donor-related NGOs and private contractors.
Therefore, without capacity and resources, most of Afghanistans state institutions including those focused on womenare unable to enforce the adopted legal framework, provide basic public services, and generate employment for the people.
The justice sector, for instance, remains severely under-reformed and lacks capacity to provide legal protection for women under Afghanistans progressive laws. In Afghanistan, a country of roughly 25 million people where more than half of citizens are women and children, there are only 60 female judges, 35 female prosecutors, 70 female attorneys, and no female defense attorneys. Less than half of these women hold a four-year degree, which may not be in a legal field. And those women who do show up to work lack a physical office with proper equipment. In the Western province of Herat, for example, female attorneys take great personal risk to work out of grocery stores to help provide legal protection and services to women.
It is important to keep in mind that women are the pillars of any society, including Afghanistan. No nation has ever rebuilt or fully developed without the participation of women. Through enhanced attention to womens needs, more than half of the Afghan population can be empowered to make a significant contribution to Afghanistans rebuilding and long-term development. Afghan women have made considerable progress since the end of the Talibans unforgiving gender apartheid seven years ago. They will continue to do so as long as the international community stands by them to ensure gender equality in Afghan society over the long term.
M. Ashraf Haidari is the Political Counselor at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com
1. The above article is based on the authors remarks in the U.S.-Afghan Womens Council meeting attended by First Lady Laura Bush and chaired by Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky on January 18, 2008 at Georgetown University.


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Is Neuro-Conservation the New Hope for Environmental Messages?
Big wads of plastic in the ocean that stretch for miles and disintegrating polar ice caps are the kind of news stories that tend to make us feel hopeless regarding conservation efforts. Why bother to change our light bulbs to compact fluorescents if our planet's imminent demise is a speeding train that can't be stopped?
The reason we have these feelings is probably the work of environmentalists themselves. They're sending the wrong messages, if you ascribe to the new field of neuro-conservation.
Instead of focusing the spotlight on results of scientific studies that prove our planet is rapidly warming, or on statistics about alarming species extinction rates, they should be talking about how an ocean view will make us feel happy or standing among trees will arouse our feelings of peacefulness.
After all, selling us emotions is what marketing professionals have been doing for decades. They know that we don't just buy a car; we buy how that car makes us feel — wealthier, greener or more in control. Using the tenets of neuro-conservation may just be the boost that environmentalists need to gain support for their causes in a world that's overrun with more scientific data than we know what to do with — or pay attention to.


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"Guns, guns and guns" by Will Durst is a great example of why news papers are dying. Durst tries to be funny and fails - miserably. He succeeds at not making a point one way or the other about guns. Does any body read this drivel before you print?
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5|25: Celebrating Five Years of Autism Science Day 2: Autism "Costs" Society
In honor of the anniversary of Autism Speaks' founding on Feb 25, for the next 25 days we will be sharing stories about the many significant scientific advances that have occurred during our first five years together. Our second item, Autism "Costs" Society, is from Autism Speaks' Top 10 Autism Research Events of 2007.
Researchers in 2007 made several strides in forcing the community-at-large to face the magnitude of managing the disorder. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the first nationwide prevalence survey and the first state-wide epidemiological record- based surveys using standardized approaches, making the whole country shockingly aware that 1:150 children in America has an autism diagnosis. These studies confirmed that autism can no longer be thought of as a disorder that touches only a few people.
The suffering this causes is not easy to comprehend nor to quantify. Nonetheless, a Harvard economist managed to calculate that each year autism costs society a staggering $35 billion, and that it costs more than $3 million to care for an individual with autism over their lifetime due to their special needs. Surprisingly, adult care, not child care or early intervention and treatment, accounts for most of the costs.
As families continue to struggle to gain insurance coverage, documentation of the severity of this financial burden across the lifespan will go a long way to making our voices heard, informing policy-makers, and assisting families in planning for their future. Because of data such as this, insurance reform bills are now under way or under development in 14 states.
Update since this story was first run: Through Autism Speaks' efforts, fifteen states – Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin – have enacted autism insurance reform laws. Several other state legislatures are considering measures in 2010 to end the discrimination people with autism and their families have long endured. Visit AutismVotes.org to find out about action being taken in your state.
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Linux tracing with LTTng
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Adventures with CloudStack and OpenDaylight
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Combining the power of Valgrind and GDB
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BoF: Valgrind and GDB integration
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NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report
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MirageOS: compiling functional library operating systems
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Reviews almost always piss people off.
Reviewers often seek to find one improvement area because otherwise they feel like they didn't give any feedback to the person being reviewed. This always backfires because people hear criticism more acutely then they hear praise.
My goal as a manager is to give feedback throughout the year. I use the review as an opportunity to ask the person about how they are doing against the goals and feedback I have been giving. If I hear them talk about the items I have brought up with them then I know that I am communicating well.
If I don't? Then I need to try harder.
I use the review as a means for providing myself feedback on how I am communicating.
What else have I observed about the review process over the years?
The one thing everyone wants to know during a review? "Am I going to be terminated?" Even top performers have this in the back of their minds. The reason for this is that the top performers are often perfectionists so they see the warts in their work.
The second thing employees want to know? "What am I getting for a raise?"
If you can't give an answer on number 2 then don't bother doing the review since it makes people think about "am I being fired" during the lead up time to the review.
Hi Netgear!
According to the documentation I should be able to type:
copy usb://filename image1
I get an error with "schema not supported". My switch is loaded with 8.1.36.
What is up?
(Anyone want to make any bets on whether or not Netgear actually resolves this to my satisfaction?)
Hi Netgear!
The GSM7248v2 has never had well working firmware (just google and you will find many issues, in particular the DHCP just flat out doesn't seem to work). You now have a M4100-50G which appears to be identical hardware but with a newer firmware. When will you release that firmware for your existing GSM7248 customers?
The basics:
- Added gearman_task_is_finished()
- Improved SSL support.
- Exceptions are now supported.
- gearmand excepts its root CA via the environmental variable GEARMAND_PORT.
- libgearman will now except GEARMAND_CA_CERTIFICATE, GEARMAN_CLIENT_PEM, and GEARMAN_CLIENT_KEY
From the feedback I am getting the SSL appears to be working. If you are interested in learning about how the SSL works, you can find out more about it on the docs website.
I am curious to see how many people get tripped up over the fact that an SSL setup requires that you not use self signed certificates (I may support these later, but I wanted to get it right in the beginning).
Unless something major comes up the next version will be a release candidate and the version after will be the formal release🙂
Tonight I went to compare the usual suspects for a set of slides I was doing and thought I would share the results.
I do not believe anyone should be surprised by the results. MySQL became less interesting once it was acquired, and the number of Postgres deployments is greater than what all of the NoSQL market combined adds up to. When looking at emerging technologies, press time given to a single software product has no relation to what its actual market share is (which isn't as obvious as one might think to everyone).
When I get asked what my current opinion about NoSQL vs SQL is, I say that I continue to see NoSQL as a spotlight highlighting the failures in the design of the current relational database software vendors(*). Which should not damn the concept of the relational database, but somehow it happens anyways.
The two biggest issues that stand out to me are that current leading relational databases never solved scale out very well, and online operations are too expensive.
Would a document model really matter if schemas could be altered online? You would still have the weak vs strongly typed arguments that can exist in schema/table design, but if the operation to add additional characteristics to a table (object) was online or automatic I believe a lot of the arguments you see for schema less design would go away.
The other giant failure was that the vendors didn't approach scale out as a strong requirement for future designs. Going back a few years you can see where the vendors would talk about shared nothing designs, but only in the scope of support handful of nodes in a cluster. A hundred or so at best, which is small potatoes for where some of the NoSQL vendors who focus on scale out shoot for.
Its funny to think about how much has been written on this topic that has focused on the SQL language, when no new language has emerged from the NoSQL market that has any size-able adoption. At this point most of the NoSQL vendors now talk about how they have, or are, adding a SQL interface to their products.
The innovation hasn't been in the language, but in the design of database engines themselves.
The other bit of humor in this, is that if you take apart how most of the major vendors have implemented their storage engines, you would find that in the inner design few are strongly typed, and few track relationships in the core of their design. Most of the major vendors could do more operational changes online if they were willing to put reasonable scoping on what can be altered. The Innodb row format is inflexible, but the addition of some version information and a catalog documenting the versions would fix that.
To sum this up, the need to preserve backwards compatibility is what has kept the relational database vendors from solving the needs that caused the NoSQL solutions to come to market. I don't see any of them tackling this anytime soon; the margins on their current products doesn't dictate the need for them to do this.
A final thought about the state of the current nosql databases.
One of the "hard things" that almost(?) none of the current NoSQL vendors has tackled is the JOIN, i.e. the fundamental feature which is required to do anything beyond simple key/pair or basic search. Join optimizers are hard to write(*). Network aware join optimizers are particularly difficult to write mainly because direct attached storage, AKA a hard drive, is a lot more reliable on a second to second basis than the network.
*) I also get asked which one I would pick if I had to pick one. Currently I suggest Cassandra, though more often then not a table with a key and a blob would work as well.
*) One of the nice things about MySQL's design was that someone designing a new engine could focus on the datastore and punt on the rest (well, sort of,… the pluggable storage engine interface never matured to the point of really playing nicely with other people's designs).
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Graduate School of Theology - Doctor of Ministry
Charles Siburt, Director
ACU Box 29405, Abilene, Texas 79699-9405
Biblical Studies Building, Room 297
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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.acu.edu/dmin
The Doctor of Ministry is an advanced program oriented toward ministerial leadership. Its purpose is to enhance the practice of ministry for persons who hold the Master of Divinity degree and have engaged in ministerial leadership. It is a 30-hour program that requires a project/thesis which includes effective ministry intervention in a specific setting, a thesis which demonstrates the integration of theology and practice, and an oral examination. Distinguished from academic research programs such as the PhD or ThD, the primary emphasis of the Doctor of Ministry program is on excellence in the practice of ministry and is not intended to be an academic teaching degree.
The program is designed for those whose ministry will focus in the area of public proclamation of the Word and the development of churches, both domestic and foreign. This program includes biblical interpretation, theological reflection, applied leadership theory and congregational studies.
The format of the DMin program is built around a series of eight one-week intensive short courses taken in residence on the ACU campus or at the ACU Education Center at DFW in Irving, Texas. After the initial two-week period, students may take up to three courses per year, which are offered one week in January and three weeks in June. Each course consists of (1) advanced readings assigned several weeks before the first class meeting, (2) five days of class meetings on campus and (3) a project paper(s) to be submitted several weeks after the class meetings. All requirements for a course must be completed before a student is permitted to enroll in an additional course. A minimum of three years and a maximum of six years are allowed for completion of the degree.
In-Progress (IP) grades are assigned to all students at the conclusion of each course. After assignment deadlines are met and work is graded, the IP is changed to a letter grade. The student is expected to maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.25 during the program. A grade of "C" in a course automatically puts the student on academic probation; the project/thesis must have a grade of "B" or above to graduate.
Transfer of credits from other accredited programs must be approved by the DMin Admission and Procedures Committee. No more than two courses may be transferred.
The Doctor of Ministry has a program fee instead of standard tuition. Contact the advisor for more complete information regarding scholarships, financial aid, housing and admission.
Admission Requirements
An application for admission may be obtained from the Doctor of Ministry office. A student may be granted admission to the program in a given year if the following requirements are met by January 31:
- The applicant is in full-time ministry and has at least three years of experience post-master's degree as a full-time minister;
- The applicant has submitted to the Doctor of Ministry Office a completed application form and $40 application fee;
- Recommendation forms from four persons knowledgeable of the applicant's personal character and performance in ministry;
- The student has taken the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) within the past five years and has earned a satisfactory score;
- The applicant has submitted to the Doctor of Ministry office official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work, with degrees posted;
- The student has a minimum GPA in prior graduate work of 3.2 (on a 4.0 scale);
- The Doctor of Ministry office has received a letter from the applicant's elders or supervisors acknowledging their approval of the minister's participation in the program and letters of recommendation from four persons familiar with the applicant's personal character and performance in ministry;
- The student has filed a four- to six-page, typed, double spaced, self-reflection statement describing the applicant's values, needs and objectives for growth as a Christian minister; and
- The applicant has had a personal interview with the Doctor of Ministry director.
Upon completion of all the above requirements, the applicant's file is reviewed by the Doctor of Ministry Admissions and Procedures Committee for official action. Students are informed by letter of their admission as soon as a decision is reached.
Upon admission to the program, new students must complete a battery of psychological tests. A fee for this testing is assessed.
Course work in the program begins in June of each year. If an applicant does not enter at the first June residency period after being accepted into the program, the admission will be honored for one additional June residency period. The Doctor of Ministry program is composed of eight courses and the project/thesis.
Candidacy Process
The Doctor of Ministry is a formational degree that requires students to make progress in their academic, personal, and professional development. Therefore, students will be required to apply for candidacy after the first nine hours. Students should submit the Application for Candidacy Status form to the Doctor of Ministry Office. Students must be approved prior to beginning second-year studies.
A Master of Divinity degree, or its educational equivalent, from an institution accredited by a nationally recognized regional accrediting agency or by the Association of Theological Schools is required for admission to the program.
Ministers who hold an accredited master's degree in religion, other than the Master of Divinity, will be required to complete graduate courses equivalent to the standard requirements for the Master of Divinity degree at Abilene Christian University. An equivalency application may be obtained from the Doctor of Ministry office.
Return the application, $20 application fee, and transcript(s) of all masters level work to the Doctor of Ministry Office for review and development of an equivalency degree plan.
Major Code: BIBM
Requirements for the DMin are:
- BIBM 701 Orientation
- Core courses, 9 hours:
BIBM 702 Biblical and Theological Foundations for Ministry
BIBM 706 Christian Leadership Development
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- Electives, 15 hours: consult with advisor.
- Project/Thesis, 6 hours: consult with advisor.
- Oral exam: consult with advisor.
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The Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board will meet in a special-called meeting on Tuesday to discuss a lease agreement in connection to the Alexander Inn.
The IDB will meet at 5 p.m. in the city manager's Conference Room at the Municipal Building.
Members will discuss the Alexander Senior Living LLC lease and fees associated with the tax abatement.
IDB Chairman David Wilson said the IDB received the lease agreement at its last meeting but wanted more time to look at it.
"The meeting (Tuesday) will probably be just a formality on signing the lease," he said.
The Oak Ridge City Council in October approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement for the Family Pride Corp. of Loudon and InSite Development Corp. of Knoxville, the two companies that plan to turn the Alexander Inn into an assisted living facility. IDB had recommended the PILOT.
The city will correct a sewer line issue, make a new road and assist on environmental cleanup. The total private investment for the Alexander Inn is about $4.8 million.
The next regular meeting of the IDB will be at 4 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Municipal Building Training Room.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.
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Panasonic may be better known for 3D TVs and cameras than smartphones, but here at Mobile World Congress 2012, the company is showing off the Eluga, a thin new smartphone with some of the same rugged attributes as its bulletproof ToughBook laptops. No, you can't drop it on pavement, but Panasonic has safeguarded the Eluga against another type of common smartphone accident: Dropping it in water. At 7.8 mm thin at 103 grams, it's also super thin and lightweight. Unfortunately, as we found in our hands-on demo, it also seems a little sluggish for having a 1GHz dual-core processor, and it's still running Android Gingerbread. Panasonic plans to launch the phone at a price to be determined in April, but only in Europe for the time being.


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DRAFTED: STL: 1995-101 overall
|Traded to Phoenix by St. Louis with Ladislav Nagy, Jeff Taffe and St. Louis' 1st round choice (Ben Eager) in 2002 Entry Draft for Keith Tkachuk, March 13, 2001. Traded to Philadelphia by Phoenix with Robert Esche for Brian Boucher and Nashville's 3rd round choice (previously acquired, Phoenix selected Joe Callahan) in 2002 Entry Draft, June 12, 2002. Signed as a free agent by Zvolen (Slovakia), October 27, 2004. Traded to Chicago by Philadelphia for Kyle Calder, August 4, 2006. Missed remainder of 2006-07 due to knee injury vs. St. Louis, October 21, 2006. Signed as a free agent by Los Angeles, July 2, 2007. Signed as a free agent by San Jose, July 1, 2011. Signed as a free agent by Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), November 13, 2012. Traded to Chicago by San Jose for Anaheim's 4th round choice (previously acquired, San Jose selected Fredrik Bergvik) in 2013 Entry Draft, April 2, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), December 9, 2014.
|2011-12: 10th on the team in points (7-17=24)…5th on the team in plus/minus at home (+9)…Posted an assist on March 26 vs. Colorado…Scored his fourth goal of the season on Jan. 31 vs. Columbus…Recorded an assist and the shootout deciding goal on Jan. 17 vs. Calgary…Registered his first assist as a Shark on Nov. 3 vs. Pittsburgh...Playoffs: Appeared in two games...World Championships: Seven points in eight games helping Slovakia to a second-place finish...Scored a power play, game-winning goal with 2:28 left to play in the quarterfinal game vs. Canada.
CAREER 2010-11: One of six Kings to play in all 82 regular season games…T-10th in NHL in game-deciding shootout goals (two)…Scored game-winning goal with 21 seconds left March 13 at Dallas...Played in his 800th NHL game on Jan. 1 vs. San Jose...Scored the shootout-deciding goal on Nov. 20 at Boston.
2009-10: T-10th in NHL with six game-winning goals…Selected as the Kings Best Defensive Player and Unsung Hero…Led Kings (T-3rd in NHL among players with at least five attempts) in shootout percentage (5-for-8, 62.5)…Played in 245 consecutive games (out of a possible 246 games since signing with Kings) from Sept. 29, 2007 to April 10, 2010 before being a healthy scratch April 11, 2010 at Colorado (final game of season)…Reached 20-goal mark for first time (fourth overall) since 2003-04…Earned 400th NHL point and 100th Kings point March 8 vs. Columbus...Played in 700th NHL game Nov. 11 at Carolina...Playoffs: T-3rd on club in scoring and shared Kings lead in goals (all on power play)…Three points (two goals) in WCQF Game 3 vs. Vancouver (both on power play in second period). The two power-play goals in one game (happened six other times) and two power-play goals in one period (happened three other times) both tied Kings playoff records.
2008-09: Selected as the Kings Best Defensive Player and Unsung Hero...Kings nominee for the 2009 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy...One of five Kings to play in all 82 games...Tied for second on Kings with four game-winning goals...Led Kings with two OT goals (T-3rd in NHL)...Second on Kings with 12.6 shooting percentage...Second career hat trick (and OT game-winner) March 5 vs. Dallas...Earned 200th NHL assist and played in 600th NHL game on Oct. 11 at San Jose.
2007-08: Tied Kings lead with three short-handed goals…Appeared in all 82 games.
2006-07: Earned 300th NHL point Oct. 21 vs. St. Louis…Tied career high with three assists Oct. 7 vs. Columbus.
2005-06: Led Philadelphia with a 53.2 faceoff percentage…T-2nd on club in assists…Played in 500th NHL game April 1 vs. New Jersey…Consecutive games played streak snapped at 256 games on March 1 at New Jersey…Playoffs: Two assists in six games.
2003-04: Ranked second on Philadelphia with career-high 38 assists and 58 points…T-2nd on club with plus-18…One of two Flyers to play in all 82 games…Reached the 20-goal mark for second consecutive season (third time in career)…Earned 100th goal April 1 at Montreal…Played in 400th game Jan. 16 vs. Toronto…Earned 200th point Nov. 13 vs. Vancouver…Playoffs: Helped Flyers advance to ECF before losing to Tampa Bay in Game 7.
2002-03: Led Philadelphia with nine game-winning goals (T-4th in NHL)…Second on team in goals…One of two players to play in all 82 games with Philadelphia…Reached 20-goal mark for second time in career…Career-high four points (three assists) Feb. 27 vs. Chicago…Scored OT game-winning goal on penalty shot (first time in Flyers history and second time in NHL history a penalty shot goal was scored in a regular season overtime session) on Dec. 5 vs. Rangers…Playoffs: Helped Flyers advance to ECSF before losing to Ottawa.
2001-02: Second on Phoenix with a 16.0 shooting percentage and a 48.7 faceoff percentage…Playoffs: Zero points in five games.
2000-01: Earned 100th NHL point April 6 at Anaheim…Recorded first hat trick Dec. 23 vs. Anaheim.
1999-00: Second in voting for the Frank J. Selke Trophy…T-3rd in NHL with four short-handed goals and six short-handed points…Set career high in goals and led St. Louis in games played…Second player in St. Louis history to score two short-handed goals in one game: Feb. 15 vs. Atlanta…Playoffs: Three assists in seven games.
1998-99: Tied for St. Louis lead in points among rookies and led rookies in assists.
PERSONAL: "Zeus" lists these as his favorites: Elan (band from Slovakia); "Friends" (TV Show); Pittsburgh (NHL team as a youth); Philadelphia (road city); SSC Neapol, a Slovakian soccer team (professional sports team); tennis (sport other than hockey); Sicily (vacation spot)…first job was a hockey player…most memorable moment in the NHL was his first game, played with the St. Louis Blues in the 1998-99 season…hockey idol growing up was Dusan Pasek…favorite professional athlete is Roger Federer….hidden talent is that he is good at any sport he plays…if he could meet anyone in history it would be Alexander Dubcek, the former leader of Czechoslovakia who was kidnapped when the Russians invaded Czechslovakia ("I'd love to hear his story and how everything happened")….Speaks Russian, Slovak, and English….most famous person in his cell phone contact list is Marek Hamsik, the captain of the Slovakia national soccer team….is learning to play golf…started skating at age four and playing organized hockey at age six…if he didn't play hockey for a living he would play another sport…wears CCM skates, size 9.75.


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MINERAL WELLS - A wrong-way driver was involved in a fatal crash early Sunday morning in Wood County, officials said.
Heath D. Buck, 26, of Mineral Wells, was killed when his 2001 Jeep Cherokee struck a hillside, said Sgt. Brett Pickens with the Wood County Sheriff's Office. Pickens said two deputies responded to the 159 milepost of Interstate 77 when Wood County dispatchers advised them of calls about a car traveling northbound in the southbound lane of I-77.
There were conflicting stories on the description of the vehicle, he said. "They ranged from a pickup truck, car, silver, white," Pickens said.
When deputies were dispatched to the scene about 2 a.m., there was no sign of the driver or vehicle, Pickens said.
"We actually got at 3:39 in the morning that there was a crash," said Pickens.
The call came in after a driver saw the vehicle on the hillside, he said. According to the accident report, Buck died from multiple traumatic injuries from the crash at Mineral Wells.
Before Buck crashed, still traveling northbound in the southbound lane, he traveled in the median for about 1,900 feet, officials said. Pickens said when the driver got to the Wolf Run Road overpass he went airborne, crossing both lanes of Wolf Run Road and hitting the hillside.
Pickens said deputies were confident Buck's vehicle was the one callers described as the wrong-way driver, because the Jeep Cherokee was white with darker spots on it and there was a winch on the vehicle.
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12-12-12 Sandy Benefit Serves Up Rock and Roll Surprises
A concert that began with Bruce Springsteen professing deep love for New Jersey in "My City of Ruins" ended with Alicia Keys delivering an emotional tribute to New York with "Empire State of Mind (Part II)."
"I was born and raised in New York City," Keys said. "I still live right down the street in New York City. This is our city. This is everybody's city…I love my city."
In between, a dizzying array of the world's top performers pranced across the red carpet, blared their most renowned songs, told raunchy jokes, made subtle political statements and urged those watching to give. The event — a star-studded fete even by New York standards — sold out Madison Square Garden and was available to nearly two billion people across the world, organizers said.
The "12-12-12″ Sandy relief concert raised more than $30 million before the concert, said David Saltzman, executive director of the Robin Hood Foundation. Final figures weren't available, but he said "tens of thousands" more donated during the concert.
Saltzman said every performer volunteered their time, and corporate sponsors picked up the event's tab.
"That means every single penny … will go directly to the Robin Hood Relief Fund," Saltzman said.
There were moments you'd expect from such an event: Billy Joel soulfully blasted ballads, The Rolling Stones rocked their greatest hits and Eric Clapton crooned.
Other scenes were more unorthodox. Kanye West wore a kilt. Adam Sandler delivered a spoof on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," rhyming the word with "Sandy screw ya." R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Coldplay's Chris Martin appeared together for a version of "Losing My Religion." Garden State rockers Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen joined forces. And Paul McCartney reunited a Kurt Cobain-less Nirvana with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear.
Humor tinged much of the night. Many of the performers were aging rockers, leading Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones to say "this has got to be the largest collection of old English musicians ever assembled in Madison Square Garden." Chris Rock introduced West as humble, drawing a loud chorus of laughter. Stephen Colbert joked that that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon got his name because he was paid in diamonds.
As for Mr. Dimon? He was in the audience "rocking out to The Who," Saltzman said.
Like other celebrity-studded events, stars paraded across the red carpet in the press room, posing for paparazzi and answering questions. A celebrity phone bank was nearby, and many, like Jimmy Fallon, answered calls. Chelsea Clinton stopped by. So did Amare Stoudemire. And Jesse Jackson. And Martha Stewart.
By the end of the concert six hours later, the question seemed to be: who wasn't at Madison Square Garden?
Many gave heaping and unsolicited praise to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Billy Crystal said the governor threw "politics and Mitt Romney aside" to do well by his state. Steve Van Zandt, of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, called him a good leader and friend.
Between certain acts, there were vignettes, which incorporated victims whose homes and lives were ravaged by Sandy. Some victims and volunteers appeared live at the concert, but many others were filmed beforehand.
"I wanna go home, I wanna go home," one woman wailed in a video. Later, cameras showed the devastation of Staten Island, where muddied sofas and piles of debris sat in the street weeks after the storm.
Richie Sambora, the lead guitarist for Bon Jovi, said his mother now lives with him because the storm wrecked her home.
Now, the boardwalk where he played music as a teenager is gone.


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The Sims 3 Late Night for the PC is a further expansion to the series and lets Sims experience life after dark in the fictional city of Bridgeport.
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The Sims 3 for PC allows players to build virtual worlds and populate them with virtual people, called Sims. With The Sims 3 Late Night expansion pack, players can take their Sims to a new, urban world. The expansion pack features a new neighborhood, called Bridgeport, which is a buzzing metropolis where Sims can work and play.
New items and features with The Sims 3 Late Night include:
Apartments: Now Sims can live in high-rise apartments in the city. To make things easier, most high-rise buildings have elevators. Most of the buildings in downtown Bridgeport are skyscrapers, but there are a number of single and two-story homes in the suburban area across the river bridge.
Vampires: After dark, the cityÂ's population seems to increase as the mysterious residents who stay indoors during the day take to the streets. Vampires are generally friendly, but if they get too friendly they may be tempted to bite. Being a vampire means a Sim will need to stay indoors as much as possible during the day, but they will have extra energy and a few special abilities after dark. Vampires can survive on a special fruit if they prefer not to attack their fellow Sims.
Celebrities: If a regular Sim meets a celebrity, theyÂ'll have to try to impress them before they can become friends. Talented Sims can become celebrities by performing in public, or by becoming friends with other celebrities. Celebrity Sims get certain perks, like free gifts or reduced prices at clubs and stores. They can also have their reputations ruined by rumors and scandals, so they may have to do some explaining or even file a lawsuit if the rumors are simply not true.
Butlers: If a Sim can afford it, they can hire a butler to take care of the house and even cook meals.
Film Career: Sims can get a job at the new film studio in town and work their way to the top. Midway through their career, theyÂ'll have to make a choice of whether to shoot for the stars as an actor or go behind the camera for glory as a director.
Bars and Mixology: Sims can order drinks and food at bars around town, or learn mixology to make drinks at home. Some drinks have certain side effects, like boosting energy or brain power.
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You can join the fight against influenza (flu) by volunteering to participate in a clinical study. There is no charge for study-related medical care, including study visits, medications, treatments, and procedures. Volunteers may be compensated for time and travel.
The following are selected studies being conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The links lead to full study titles and descriptions.
Combination Therapy Study (NCT01227967)This study is enrolling people 18 years of age and older who are sick with influenza and have medical conditions or other risk factors that increase their risk of getting severe flu. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if combination therapy will help symptoms resolve faster and with fewer complications.
H1N1 Plasma Therapy Study (NCT01052480)This study is enrolling people of any age who have been hospitalized with influenza A and are at risk for severe disease. The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, effectiveness, and lab results of H1N1 plasma in people with influenza A.
Influenza in People With Normal or Weakened Immune Systems (NCT00533182)This study is enrolling people 3 years of age and older who were clinically diagnosed with the flu within the past two months and are able to safely undergo blood draws and nasal washes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how the immune system responds to influenza infection and compare how the infection differs in patients with a weakened immune system versus those with a healthy immune system.
Viral Infections in Non-immunocompromised Patients (NCT01011712)This study is enrolling people of any age who are thought to have normal immune systems but who have been diagnosed with a viral infection that is unusually severe, prolonged, or persistent. This study will evaluate the participants' immune systems to determine why the infection developed.
Screening Volunteers for Influenza Challenge Studies (NCT01386424)This study is screening healthy volunteers ages 18 to 50 for potential participation in future influenza challenge studies that will help researchers find better ways to prevent and treat the flu.
Intranasal AD4-H5-VTN as an Adenovirus Vaccine (NCT01806909)This study is enrolling healthy volunteers to study the immune response of the AD4-H5-VTN vaccine and to see if the adenovirus in the vaccine is contagious or spreads to others.
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Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County at odds over road repair responsibility
Published: Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 12:29 a.m.
Day Lake Drive, part of the Twin Lakes Estates neighborhood in Brookwood, is failing. It's got a crack across the road bed on top of a neighborhood dam. If it's not fixed, area residents are worried that it could be dangerous.
"It's scary to me to think what might happen if a bus was going across that road when the dam gave way," said Kenneth Ramay, who lives in the neighborhood.
The dam hasn't been damaged yet, but if the road isn't fixed, it could lead to the dam being compromised, County Engineer Bobby Hagler told the Tuscaloosa County Commission on Wednesday. Problem is, the neighborhood is in the town of Brookwood, so it's Brookwood's responsibility to fix the road, Hagler said.
But Brookwood never accepted the road and will not accept it for maintenance until the road has been fixed and been maintained for one year, Ramay said.
Part of the problem is that the neighborhood was under construction in 1993, when the county was originally responsible for road maintenance. The developer placed a bond, which later expired, with the county guaranteeing that the road would be built to county standards. But it appears that never happened. In 1995, a state law was enacted, passing on responsibility to the towns if they are located within a town or city's jurisdiction.
On two different occasions in 1995, the Tuscaloosa County Commission stated that the roads were not a responsibility of the county since they were in the town of Brookwood. Ultimately, it's Brookwood's responsibility to fix the road, Hagler said.
Something needs to happen, and soon, Ramay said.
"I want to get this ball rolling before it gets even more serious," Ramay said.
Commissioner Jerry Tingle, who represents the area, said he would try to talk to Brookwood officials and get something done.
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Boy Scouts receive religious emblems at cathedral
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More than 100 Catholiuc Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Webelos received a religious emblem Sunday.
The ceremony took place at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Cincinnati.
The scouts have been studying the Catholic faith for more than a year.
They had to complete several requirements in order to receive the award.
Bishop Joseph Benzer awarded the emblems to the scouts in front of their family, friends and troops.
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Rick Smith Testified Before Congress Today About Why Part D Works
Rick Smith Testified Before Congress Today About Why Part D Works
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PhRMA's Rick Smith, Executive Vice President of Policy and Research, testified today in a hearing called, "10 Years Later: A Look at the Medicare Prescription Drug Program," hosted by the Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
In talking about Part D's success, such as costing 45 percent less than CBO initially projected and a 94 satisfaction rate with beneficiaries, Rick conveyed medicine's crucial role in fighting disease and keeping people healthy. This in turn helps reduce other health care costs.
Research has also shown that Part D has helped reduce other health costs in Medicare. In 2011, a Harvard study found that the implementation of Part D was associated with a $1,200 average reduction in nondrug spending for Medicare beneficiaries with limited prior drug coverage in each of the first two years of the program. In fact, last November CBO announced that they would credit policies that increase the use of medicines with savings on other Medicare services.
Much of the program's high performance is also because of its competitive structure, which allows for savings negotiated by large powerful private plans—the same plans used by private employers and insurers—on behalf of seniors and taxpayers.
Rick also delved into the prescription drug lifecycle. As we've talked about before on the Catalyst, the prescription drug lifecycle allows for brand companies to develop medicines that later are copied and widely used as generic medicines. Four out of five prescription medicines are now filled with a generic. This lifecycle system helps contain costs and reallocates resources from older to newer medicines that are the source of medical advances. New research suggests that better use of medicines can result in even larger savings for patients with chronic disease - for instance, over the next decade improved adherence to medicines for congestive heart failure alone could yield $22 billion in Medicare savings.
If you have a chance it's definitely worth checking out Rick's full testimony. It's filled with much more detail about Part D and potential threats to the program.


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The following is an excerpt from our 2011 Annual Report, which featured examples of Gifford employees helping in their community post-Irene.
Dr. Bill Minsinger, and his son Kris, followed Stu Standish of Gifford's Maintenance Department and internal medicine physician Dr. Mark Jewett into Rochester in their van. Stu hooked up the generator, getting the Rochester clinic up and running, and left Dr. Jewett to begin seeing patients.
Dr. Minsinger and Kris then climbed in the truck with Stu and continued on to the isolated towns of Stockbridge and Pittsfield to answer medical calls. At times they had to abandon the truck, climb down a fallen section of road and borrow a vehicle on the other side in order to continue.
One sick patient was brought to the Rochester clinic for medical tests and then back to Randolph for hospital care. The Minsingers made other trips to the isolated communities, bringing medications and medical supplies.


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Monica Chavez-Silva has served as Director of Community Enhancement & Engagement for Grinnell College since 1999, when the office was established. As Director, Monica is responsible for the college's local grants and investments, as well as stewardship of other college programs, policies, and partnerships to enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in Grinnell. To integrate the college with broader community planning, Monica serves on several community boards including: the Grinnell Area Arts Council and Tiger Packs. Statewide, Monica serves on the Board of the Iowa Council of Foundations and on the awards committee for the American Planning Association's Small Town and Rural Planning Division. Prior to her work at Grinnell College, Monica worked as a consumer researcher and brand strategist at Leo Burnett Chicago and launched a research office for Leo Burnett's office in Santiago, Chile. A 1989 graduate of Harvard University, she volunteers as a Harvard local alumni interviewer.
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