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Sela Ward has written a book titled "Homesick", about life growing up in Meridian and her career. She came home for a book signing at Wal-Mart.
Ward also sat for an interview with a film crew from the syndicated television show, Extra. She told them about her hometown and Hope Village for Children, a shelter for abused and neglected children, that she was instrumental in creating.
Ward told the producers about her love for being home.
"Take a deep breath of that Southern air, smell how sweet the earth smells," said Ward. "You can't smell that in Los Angeles. It's very relaxing."
Later she explained to us why she wrote the book.
"We're so fragmented today," said Ward. "A lot of us moving off to pursue our dreams and careers, leaving our community and our families. And I kept thinking I can't be the only one who feels this yearning to go back to my roots. And the second reason was I thought well, maybe this would be a great fundraising opportunity for Hope Village because it's hard to raise money, as you know."
A large portion of the proceeds of her book will be going to Hope Village for Children and it will be to help open two other cottages so that they can increase capacity of children there. She signed over 800 copies of the book in Birmingham Monday.
"I hope people will get pleasure out of reading the book and also know now at the same time that they're helping Hope Village kids," Ward said. "It's a slow process. It's a very daunting thing to pull together. It's a slow process and then it's hard to get the funding to have it to full capacity. We have 30 something kids now in the shelter. We could have 60 something."
Later Sela took the visiting camera crew on a tour of her hometown, including the Grand Opera House, another project that has been close to her heart.
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A man has died while scuba diving near Vergas.
The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office says the man was diving Saturday afternoon with a friend on Lake Seven when he went missing. His friend called for help and the man was found about 20 minutes after authorities arrived.
His name wasn't immediately released.
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The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Nov. 30 at Nicholls State University.
The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Mary M. Danos Theater on the Thibodaux campus.
German conductor Markus Huber will lead the orchestra in Nielson Symphony No. 4 and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2.
Tickets are $20 and may be purchased online at http://www.lpomusic.com/nicholls-brahms.
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STOCKTON – John Martin Newton, 22, of Stockton was identified by the San Joaquin County Coroner's Office as the man found dead by police Friday afternoon in an apartment in the 1400 block of Marco Polo Drive.
Police were called to the apartment complex at 12:13 p.m. Friday on reports of a disturbance. They did not disclose how Newton died.
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases)
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Genetics
Liver Research Center, Department of Medicine,
Fundamental mechanisms of microRNA regulation of gene expression and cell fate.
The overall mission of the Charles E. Rogler laboratory is to obtain a fundamental understanding of miRNA action as it pertains to aspects of liver development, growth and disease. In this quest we have focused on three major areas of research where new understanding is critically needed. These three areas are listed below.
1. Studies on the roles of miRNAs in hepatocarcinogenesis.
A major question remaining in cancer biology is understanding how oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes interact along common pathways involved in controlling malignant traits such as independence from growth factors, immortalization, avoiding apoptosis, angiogenesis, and metastatic capacity. miRNAs are a relatively new class of genes that impact on virtually all aspects of mammalian development and malignant conversion of cells.
Our laboratory has pioneered studies in which miRNAs have been shown to have oncogenic roles in hepatocarcinogenesis. After determining the miRNA profiles of Hepatocelllular Carcinoma's (HCC),( Pub #3) we identified a specific miRNA polycistron, designated the miR-17-92 locus, in which miRNA are up-regulated in virtually all primary HCCs. We also showed that knockdown of the miR 17-92 locus miRNAs partially reverses the malignant phenotype (Pub #5)
Recently we have shown that the oncogenic microRNA, miR-21, specifically targets a tumor suppressor, RHOB. We showed that blocking miR-21 reduces the metastatic properties of HCC (Pub # 9). Studies are ongoing to identify new targets of the oncogenic miRNAs in order to understand how oncogenic pathways may be linked through miRNAs and to uncover new pathways involved in hepatocarcinogenesis.
2. Studies on the roles of miRNAs in liver stem cell differentiation.
During chronic disease the liver often utilizes its stem cell compartment, in addition to hepatocyte regeneration, to restore liver mass. However, our understanding of mechanisms controlling differentiation of liver stem cells is fragmentary. microRNAs play important roles in cellular differentiation and provide an entirely new framework to understand molecular control of cellular differentiation.
Our laboratory has recently discovered that a a specific set of three miRNAs from the miR-23b polycistron, (namely miRs-23b,27b, and 24) regulate one of the most important signal transduction networks in mammalian biology, namely the TGFbeta signaling pathway (Pub #7). We reported that all three miRNAs listed above specifically target a critical set of genes in the pathway, namely Smads 3,4, and 5. Our laboratory is actively pursuing investigations to understand the specific mechanisms of the interactions and the wide ranging biological effects of the miRNA regulatory actions.
3. Development of a biochemically based protocol for the global identification of miRNAs and miRNA targets involved in liver stem cell biology and liver disease.
The field of miRNA biology is currently limited by our knowledge of authentic miRNA targets. Without such information our understanding of roles of miRNAs will remain fragmentary. Our laboratory has developed a novel and specific biochemically based protocol for the isolation and identification of miRNAs and their targets from liver (unpublished data, manuscript in preparation).
Using deep sequencing we have now identified thousands of miRNA targets. This approach has, for the first time directly shown the importance of miRNAs in targeting large non-coding RNAs in the cell, such as H19. The approach has also identified functionally related genes that are targeted by miRNAs from the miR-23b polycistron.
We are continuing to develop and test exciting new hypotheses on miRNA action in the liver based on the deep set of data we have obtained. This approach is confirming our overall model that miRNAs will be shown to have very wide ranging effects on liver cell biology and differentiation as research proceeds in the coming years.
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Representative Recent Publications (for complete list refer to pubmed)
1. Daqian Sun, Margherita Melegari, Sunandini Sridhar, Charles E. Rogler, and Ling Zhu. Multi-miRNA hairpin method that improves gene knockdown efficiency and provides linked multi-gene knockdown. BioTechniques 41: doi10.2144/000112203, 2006.
2. Zhou, H.C., Rogler, L.E., Tepperman, L., Morgan, G., and Charles E. Rogler. Identification of hepatocytic and bile ductular cell lineages and candidate stem cells in bipolar ductular reactions in cirrhotic human liver. Hepatology 45: 716-724, 2007.
3. Landgraf, P., Sewer, A., Sheridan, R., Iovino, N., Aravin, A., Rice, A., Silva, A., Pfeffer, S., Landthaler, M. et.al. A Mammalian microRNA Expression Atlas Based on Small RNA Library Sequencing. Cell 129:1401-1414, 2007.
4. Rogler, L.E., Zhou, H.C., LeVoci, L. and Rogler, C.E. Clonal, cultured, murine fetal liver hepatoblasts maintain their liver specification in chimeric mice. Hepatology, 46: 1971-1978, 2007.
5. Connolly, E, Melegari, M., Landgraf, P., Tchaikovskaya, T., Tennant, B.C., Slagle, B.L., Rogler, L., Zavolan, M., Tuschl, T. and Rogler, C.E. Elevated expression of the miR-17-92 polycistron and miR-21 in hepatocellular carcinoma contributes to the malignant phenotype. American Journal of Pathology 173:856-864: DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.080096, 2008.
6. Rogler, C.E. MicroRNAs make inroads into liver development. Gastroenterology 136:770-772, 2009.
7. Rogler, C.E., Levoci, L., Tchaikovskaya, T. and Rogler, L.E. MiR-23b cluster miRNAs regulate TGFβ/BMP signaling and differentiation of liver stem cells by targeting Smads. Hepatology 50: 575-584, 2009.
8. Rogler CE and Rogler LE. MicroRNAs and Liver Biology in THE LIVER, Biology and Pathobiology, Editor Win Arias, Nov. 2009.
9. Erin C. Connolly, Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Leslie Rogler, and Charles E. Rogler. , Over-expression of micoRNA-21 promotes a metastatic phenotype by targeting the tumor suppressor, RHOB Molecular Cancer Research; 8: 691-700, 2010
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September 13, 2006
First it was Commissioner Keith Brown, then mayoral candidate Ronnie Few...now it's Augusta mayor Deke Copenhaver whose residency is being challenged.
The Board of Elections received a written note today challenging Copenhaver's eligibility to run in the November election.
And the mayor is not happy about it...because of the cost.
It will cost up to $5000 for this challenge to be heard, and the mayor wants the woman who wrote it to pay...not taxpayers.
Copenhaver insists he has lived in Augusta's Connifer subdivision for seven years.
"More people than I care to know, know where I live," he told News 12.
The challenge was issued by a Hephzibah woman named Diane Moss.
She claims Copenhaver held a previous residence in Aiken County's North Augusta in 2005, which would have made him ineligible for the mayoral seat last year as well as this year.
"If it weren't such a serious miscarriage of the election process, it would be laughable," Copenhaver said.
The mayor says he has never lived in Aiken County. He says he grew up in Columbia County and bought his current home in 1999.
He showed us his Georgia license as well as his voter registration card.
"If you're going to challenge somebody, make sure you've got the facts behind you," Dr. Lowell Greenbaum, chairman of the Augusta Democratic Party, told News 12.
Dr. Greenbaum warns these challenges cost taxpayers money: "The city has to provide legal service to the Board of Elections which costs quite a bit of money."
"I fully intend to pursue every means necessary," said Copenhaver, "creating a situation where the person who has brought this challenge with no valid evidence comes forth, they should be the ones to have to pay the fees on this--which I understand is in the range of $5,000."
$5000 for one handwritten paragraph...a sum Augusta's mayor refuses to turn his back on.
We spoke with Diane Moss at her Hephzibah home.
Off camera, she says it is her right to question any candidate's eligibility and that it's not fair for the mayor to force her to pay legal fees.
Ms. Moss could not tell us the address in North Augusta at which she thinks Deke Copenhaver has lived. Her complaint simply states North Augusta.
This is the third residency challenge the Board of Elections has gotten so far for this upcoming election.
The first was by Alvin Mason. Mason claimed Keith Brown had not lived in Augusta long enough to serve as the Richmond County commissioner for District 4.
Mason's challenge was successful. The Board of Elections found Brown could not run for the seat this November.
The second challenge is currently ongoing. Political watchdog "Woody" Merry and Melanie Roy both filed residency challenges against Ronnie Few. They say a homestead exemption form Few signed in Columbia County proves he has not lived in Augusta long enough to run for mayor.
A formal hearing is set for next Thursday, September 21. At that hearing, the board will decide if Few is qualified to run for Augusta mayor.
And just today, Moss filed her residency challenge against Deke Copenhaver. The Board of Elections will hold a meeting at which Moss can present her evidence, and then the board will decide if they will hold a formal hearing.


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Roger upset by Berdych
Roger had to admit a defeat against Czech Tomas Berdych in Miami on Tuesday, losing a tight match 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-7(6).
"It's no secret that I struggled the last five matches I played in the States," Roger said. "I fought, and tried everything I could, but my game is lacking something right now. I'm lacking timing. I had so many chances, but I never felt great all night. When I don't play my best, it's hard to judge my opponent, but I knew the danger. This only fuels my desire to go to the practice courts and figure out what's wrong, and get better."
Roger had beaten Berdych in eight of their previous nine encounters but paid the penalty for an error-strewn display in which he could only convert two of 12 break point opportunities. After a rather unspectacular first set which Berdych eventually won, Roger could only close the second in the tie-break after having failed to make use of his nine break points. The two players met on the same level once again, breaking and re-breaking, with Roger eventually facing the first match-point of the match at 6-5 in the decider. After a successful challenge on the side of the Czech and another match-point for Roger in the tie-break, our champ eventually had to face the three-set defeat.
Roger will now head back to Europe, where the Internazionali BNL d'Italia start towards the end of April.
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sustantivo (plural carinae /-ˌnē/ or carinas)chiefly Biology
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- Adcarinal ridges flank the carina on the platform and tend to have relatively short anterior extensions with only slight anterior flaring.
1.1 Zoology The ridge of a bird's breastbone, to which the main flight muscles are attached.
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- Denticles on both anterior and posterior carinae are approximately equivalent in size.
- However, one of the crests seems to merge with the carina while the other simply peters out. On the image at left, that would be just below the humeral facet and on the hidden, reverse face of the bone.
- The extent and prominence of the carinae, the carina on the central node, reticulation, and posterior node are characteristic of the species.
1.2 Anatomy Cartilage situated at the point where the trachea divides into the two bronchi.
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- They are concentrated in the carina and primary bronchi, and are also believed to be cough receptors.
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- Loven illustrated considerable variation in carinal pattern among rays in the same specimen, and what appear to be new carinals forming several plates proximal from the terminal.
- Species are diagnosed on the basis of carinal height and the nature (height, symmetry, completeness) and number (zero, one, or two) of flanking rows or parapets.
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1A southern constellation (the Keel) partly in the Milky Way, originally part of Argo. It contains the second brightest star in the sky, Canopus.
1.1 (as genitive Carinaekəˈrīnē) Used with a preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation: the star Beta Carinae
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Over the past 20 years, Ghana's political stability and economic growth have made it one of Africa's success stories. Despite this success, Ghana still faces a number of obstacles when exporting its products and these must be overcome in order to consolidate the country's gains and ensure continuous, inclusive and sustainable growth.
The country needs to continue adding value to its agricultural products and, to do this, it must guarantee the quality of these products, in particular those destined for export markets. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), with funding from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), is providing important assistance in the form of a trade-capacity building programme. The formula is simple: strengthen national institutions so that they can supply quality-related services; help local companies to adopt quality standards; establish a national traceability system for export products; and upgrade, as well as prepare, product-testing laboratories.
"Developing countries and economies in transition like Ghana need to comply with international trade requirements if they want to export their products. Together with SECO, we have developed this project to strengthen the national quality infrastructure, which will not only improve access to markets but also contribute to the overall improvement of the quality, safety, health and consumer protection", said Juan Pablo Davila, Project Manager at UNIDO.
The results of the project are promising. Local producers now have standards that govern both the quality and safety of their agricultural products, while consumers can trace the origin of the products back to the farms and know that the products they buy meet the highest international standards.
"Practicing traceability is a global standards requirement," says Diana Nsiah-Gyabquah, Project Officer at the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), the national trade support institution responsible for the facilitation of local exports. "Most of our exports go to the European Union, so our exporters need to conform to be more competitive. This is why, together with UNIDO, we developed a local traceability system."
Companies implementing the system are enthusiastic. Michael Nyarko-Ampem, General Manager at the food retailer, Elssy Kess, Ltd., reports, "We now advertise our products using traceability as part of our dealings. We can even publish the traceability report and add it to the documents so that the buyers can really see where the raw materials came from, the stages of processing that the product went through and how it was packed and shipped to them, so they are now given the confidence that our products are qualitative."
"UNIDO realized how heavily both Ghana and the rest of West Africa needed a National Certification Body," states Abena Safoa Osei, Document Control Officer at the Ghana Standards Authority, "so they sponsored the establishment of this department here at the Ghana Standards Authority and helped more than 10 companies to prepare their documentation and systems to receive this certification from us."
Local companies are indeed benefitting from this initiative. Ama Nyame Mogyabun, Quality Manager at Commodities Processing Industries, an enterprise specializing in processing cocoa paste, compared the before and after scenarios, "In the past, we did not have working knowledge of the ISO 22000 and the ISO 9000 standards, so we could not reach out to the big manufacturers. After acquiring international certification, we are now able to sell to them. We are now more competitive."
Ghana's newly strengthened quality infrastructure draws on the best international methods to test food, beverages and drinking water for toxins and pesticides. This, together with recently introduced legislation, marks a major step towards ensuring food safety.
An added bonus is the low cost of testing products locally. Exporters can now avoid the expensive re-testing to comply with standards previously required by importing countries. West Africa can now use the accredited labs in Ghana instead of sending their products to accredited labs in other countries like South Africa, for example.
Now that the national quality infrastructure has been strengthened, the next stage is to sensitize and raise awareness of the existence of these facilities and services to farmers, traders and exporters. This will be done in the second phase of the project, due to start shortly.
Hans-Peter Egler, Head of Trade Promotion at SECO, said, "Our assessment is very positive. We have witnessed the development of a wide array of activities that greatly support the areas of norms, standards and conformity assessments. We hope that Ghana is now able to implement these and we are trying, in a second phase, to support the development of new areas where we can team up and join forces with UNIDO."


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Long Live China's Boom
After three decades of 9.8 percent average annual GDP growth, China's economic expansion has been slowing for 13 consecutive quarters — the first such extended period of deceleration since the "reform and opening up" policy was launched in 1979. Real GDP grew at an annual rate of only 7.5 percent in the second quarter of this year (equal to the target actually set by the Chinese government at the beginning of this year). Many indicators point to further economic deceleration, and there is a growing bearishness among investors about the outlook for China. Will China crash?
In fact, many other rapidly growing emerging economies have suffered — and worse than China — from the drop in global demand resulting from ongoing retrenchment in high-income economies since the 2008 financial crisis. For example, GDP growth in Brazil has slowed sharply, from 7.5 percent in 2010 to 2.7 percent in 2011 and to just 0.9 percent in 2012, while India's growth rate slowed from 10.5 percent to 3.2 percent over the same period.
Moreover, many high-income newly industrialized economies (NIEs) with few structural problems were not spared the effects of the 2008 crisis. South Korea's GDP growth slowed from 6.3 percent in 2010 to 3.7 percent in 2011 and to 2 percent in 2012; Taiwan's fell from 10.7 percent to 1.3 percent over this period; and Singapore's plummeted from 14.8 percent to 1.3 percent.
Given this, China's economic slowdown since the first quarter of 2010 has apparently been caused mainly by external and cyclical factors. Facing an external shock, the Chinese government should and can maintain a 7.5 percent growth rate by taking counter-cyclical and proactive fiscal-policy measures, while maintaining a prudent monetary policy. After all, China has high private and public savings, foreign reserves exceeding $3.3 trillion, and great potential for industrial upgrading and infrastructure improvement.
Indeed, China can maintain an 8 percent annual GDP growth rate for many years to come, because modern economic growth is a process of continuous technological innovation and industrial upgrading. Of course, this is true for developed and developing countries alike. But developed countries differ from developing countries in an important way. Since the Industrial Revolution, developed countries have always been on the global frontier of technologies and industries, which has required them to invest in costly and risky indigenous research and development.
By contrast, technologies and existing industries in developing countries are in general well within the global frontier. As a result, they benefit from the latecomer's advantage: technological innovation and industrial upgrading can be achieved by imitation, import, and/or integration of existing technologies and industries, all of which implies much lower R&D costs.
In theory, any developing country that can harness its latecomer's advantage to achieve technological and industrial upgrading can grow faster than developed countries. How much faster is an empirical question. According to the Growth Commission [an independent body chaired by Nobel laureate Michael Spence that brought together 22 policy-makers, academics, and business leaders to examine various aspects of economic growth and development], 13 economies took full advantage of their latecomer status after World War II and achieved annual GDP growth rates of 7 percent or higher — at least twice as high as developed countries' growth rates — for 25 years or longer.
China became one of the 13 economies after 1979. Because the country's latecomer status explains its 33 years of rapid economic growth, the key to understanding its potential for further rapid growth in the future lies in estimating how large those advantages still are.
Per capita GDP, which reflects a country's average labor productivity and its overall technological and industrial achievement, is a useful proxy to estimate latecomer's advantage. That is, the per capita GDP gap between China and developed countries essentially reflects the gap between them in terms of overall technological and industrial achievement.
According to the most up-to-date estimate by the late economic historian Angus Maddison, China's per capita GDP in 2008 was $6,725 in 1990 dollars, which was 21 percent of per capita GDP in the United States. That is roughly the same gap that existed between the United States and Japan in 1951, Singapore in 1967, Taiwan in 1975, and South Korea in 1977 — four economies that are also among the 13 successful economies studied by the Growth Commission. Harnessing their latecomer's advantage, Japan's average annual growth rate soared to 9.2 percent over the subsequent 20 years, compared to 8.6 percent in Singapore, 8.3 percent in Taiwan, and 7.6 percent in South Korea.
If the latecomer's advantage implied by the income gap between the four NIEs and the US enabled the NIEs to realize average annual GDP growth rates of 7.6 percent to 9.2 percent for 20 years, China's annual growth potential should be a similar 8 percent for the 2008–2028 period. To realize its potential growth as a latecomer, China needs, above all, to deepen its market-oriented reforms, address various structural problems, and develop its economy according to its comparative advantages.
Justin Yifu Lin, a former chief economist and senior vice president at the World Bank, is Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development, Peking University, and the founding director of the China Center for Economic Research. He was a featured speaker at the NT Wang Distinguished Lecture series, sponsored by the Chazen Institute.
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Talking for the first time publicly about why he bought $600 worth of groceries for a group of strangers at a Concord store recently, Michael Simas said his reason for doing it was simple.
"Really, I was just trying to take a lousy day and make it a good day," Simas said Monday, in an exclusive interview with this newspaper. And, he said, "It worked."
Simas, 33, known by the people touched by his generosity as the "Mystery Man" of Concord, acknowledged that he loves to give. In this case, though, what he gave away was a big chunk of money from his final paycheck after being laid off.
"People," he said, "might think it's madness."
Or goodness.
"His is a beautiful giving soul," said Rena Landaker, of Benicia, a friend of Simas' who tipped this newspaper to his identity.
"Everything he does, he does for others, and he never wants recognition. Well, I knew he might be mad at me, but I figured it was time."
It was around 4 p.m. on July 8 when Simas walked into the Grocery Outlet on Willow Pass Road and asked a store manager if it would OK for him to stand near the aisles and buy groceries for customers. Convinced Simas was sincere, the manager allowed it. In all, he spent about $600, contributing to the store's food drive along the way.
"I definitely don't let money dictate what I do," he said. "I think that what's most important is to be able to give to your community, and you know, to see the look on some of the faces of the customers when I did it, you can't buy that feeling with all of the money in the world."
That alone may have warranted attention. But, as Landaker said, "there's so much more to this."
Simas said the story really begins with his father's decision to send the wayward teen from his childhood home in Concord to Portland, Oregon, in 1997.
Simas said he was "getting into trouble, doing things you shouldn't be doing, going down the wrong path.
In Oregon, his family sent him to a faith-based camp that changed his outlook. He spent 10 years there, eventually becoming a counselor for at-risk children. He also pursued a career in filmmaking, one he says "is still developing."
Three years ago, he returned to the Bay Area to care for his father, who had became ill. He took a variety of jobs, the most recent one in the sales department for a startup company in Concord.
But funding problems for the company eliminated his job. His final paycheck arrived a couple days before his trip to the grocer. He paid bills with some of it. The rest, he gave away in an attempt to feel better about the turn of events in his life.
"To go through the experience at the store, it made me realize that I've got air in my lungs, I've got spring in my legs," he said. "I can go out and look and find a job. Others can't. So I have it great."
Simas, who reluctantly agreed to be interviewed about his generosity, lives with roommates not far from the market. He said he has opportunities for a new job. He also wants to establish a nonprofit to provide off-campus college housing -- called CHANCE -- College Housing and New Creative Experience -- that and would be similar to a dormitory, at a discount.
"We'll look at what we can do to make a difference there, and see what happens," he said. "Hopefully."
Though the giving that garnered him all the attention was at the grocery store, he was hit with the same spirit earlier in the day.
As he was en route to buying groceries, Simas stopped at a Taco Bell. He said the cashier's happy spirit prompted him to tip her $100.
"To see the smile on her face," Simas said, "That really cheered me up."
Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rderh.


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NEW YORK — Authorities say former Clemson standout Da'Quan Bowers was arrested at a New York airport after police found a loaded handgun in his luggage.
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Bowers was arrested at LaGuardia Airport as he was about to board a US Airways flight to Raleigh, N.C. Authorities say the loaded .40-caliber weapon was found during a search of his carry-on bag.
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Ashland Historic Railroad Museum invites the community to come see the award-winning new film by Portland filmmaker Tom Olsen, "The Crime of the D'Autremont Brothers," at the Gresham Room of the Ashland library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd.
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The "Crime of the d'Autremont Brothers" premiered at the 39th Northwest Filmmakers Festival last year and was a recipient of a 2012 Oregon Film Award. It is a new telling of the story of the D'Autremont train robbery that happened in Ashland on Oct. 11, 1923. The story is told by their lawyer Noreen McGraw, who fought for their parole, and filmaker Jerry Schneider, who made a film about the D'Autremonts in 1973.
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Twist Stepper Workout Machineby Sunny Health Fitness
ITEM#: 11132476Put a new twist into your workout regimen with this twist stepper machine from Sunny Health Fitness. This machine uses an adjustable stepping height and twist action to tone the buttock and thigh area without exerting pressure on your joints. Work out in the comfort of your home without the hassle of going to the gym.
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I was looking for an exercise option that would not take up much space in my home, would give me a walking/jogging and elliptical movement that was not terribly expensive. Definitely found it in the twist stepper machine. It arrived quickly, was easy to assemble, and does exactly what I expected it would. If I could change one thing it would be allowing the resistance to be loosened a bit, still pretty resistant on the lowest setting, not enough to worry about, I would not return it for this. Very happy with my purchase.Read More
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Quiet, great value, nice stepper
Very nice product overall. Thank goodness it is QUIET, unlike many other inexpensive, at-home exercise gadgets or machines I've tried over the years. Also, it is very sturdy and doesn't shift around when you use it like other inexpensive machines often do. It is pretty heavy, but still easy enough to move around your house. Definitely a great value for the money spent on Overstock. If I have any nitpick, it is that even on the lowest tension setting, the steps still don't move as quickly and easily as I would like. I'm about 150 lbs, and I wonder how a 120lb or lighter person would feel about the heavy resistance. Perhaps it will loosen over time. It is still perfectly usable for me, but I can't do the really fast "sprint" stepping like I might do sometimes on a gym machine with very light resistance. I have to do the more slow, heavy "pushing" stepping if that makes sense. Still a great workout, but a different type of workout than I expected. I only rated 4 stars for durability, just because I've only started using it and am just guessing, but it seems it will be very durable.Read More
Great Value
I bought this stepper to use during times I don't feel like going to the gym and I am glad I did. I wear a heart rate monitor during my routine to make sure I am getting the same intensity I do at the gym and it hasn't let me down yet, especially when I turn up the resistance. Other steppers didn't seem to have the resistance option and I can only imagine that you'd develop endurance and lose the benefit - but not this one! Also, the armbands offer a great option for an upper body workout as well. I only gave it a 3 for durability because I've had the machine just a few weeks and can't accurately rate it. I was a little put off by the "twist" in the description imagining my knees twisting in ways they shouldn't but the twist offers a more natural movement and is a plus. This is a great price and definitely worth the money! I have already recommended it to my sister who has plantar faciaitis and she can use it without problems. Love it!Read More
use it all the time..indoors outdoors,no cord/power required! no noise i watch tv while using it.this is my second one,got one for me and my parents home,while i'm visitingRead More
Solid as a rock!
I love that my twist stepper doesn't move around when I use it. I am currently using it 6 to 7 days a week for an hour each session after stretching, and I can already feel and see the effects of my workout. I really like that I can use the arm bands that came along with it, and am also planning to purchase 2 lb Heavy Hands weights in the near future to add some variety to my routine. The transaction was smooth and delivery was prompt. The stepper is really smooth and quiet; way better than the Stairmaster I owned for the past 12 years. I did quite a bit of research on indoor exercise equipment before finally settling on this. I had originally intended to buy a treadmill, but am not crazy about the potential damage running on one can cause my knees in the long run. All in all, a good buy.Read More
Good Cardio
Of my entire exercise regimen, this piece of equipment makes me work the hardest. I'm 70 years old, and have a creaky, arthritic knee and hip, but I can use the twist stepper with no discomfort. I've been using it for 8 weeks, and I'm up to only 16 minutes a day on it; however, I started out at less than 2 minutes a day, so I'm way more than just pleased. It is a sturdy, durable piece of exercise equipment, and I actually enjoy using it. I also have COPD, but I hate to walk for exercise, the very thing the doctors recommended I do. But this is every bit as good, if not better, and my doctor is really pleased that I have it. I had a breathing test at the clinic yesterday, and my oxygen retention is better than it was before I started my exercise program, which also includes a mini-cycle and a resistance chair, all of it purchased through Overstock.Read More
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Hello vtsportsmom, I hope your day is going well. There is no height requirement or limitation. The stepper should not be used by an individual over 250 pounds. Thank you for shopping with us.
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for heath benefits
taking this to work- looks like a great product for the price
I enjoy working out but I'm working from home 50 hours a week and want to stay motivated and in shape. It looks durable and effective.
great numerous user reviews - compact size
I have retired and need to maintain exercise while living in hot, humid Dallas area. Have limited space at home. Like the compact size and impressed with the customer service reviews. Even if this item is a total bust, at the price, I am not losing anything.
The rating and I need compact equipment because I have a small place.
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a home workout for when I don't want to go to the gym.
this stepper is incredible!!!!! Im shocked at how sturdy it is. Im getting my second one for work!!
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It takes up little space and my daughter will use it more frequently.
How does the computer count the calories? By a #of steps/ calories ratio ? Does it consider body weight? Like: 100 steps (multiplied or divided by weight? or some weight quotient? ) equals ...# of calories?c I'll greatly appreciate an explanation. j.t.
Hello Telocvikar, the instructions manuals gives us the following information. The function button selects functions of time, count, total count and calories. It will automatically accumulates workout counts when starting exercise. We hope this helps. Thank you for shopping with us.
weight capacity
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Is this quiet enough to be used in my office cubicle?
Hello icespyin3, Thank you for your inquiry! This Twist Stepper Workout Machine has been reviewed to be quite enough to be used in the work place. Hope this helps. Happy shopping!
Can I use this without the 'twist' part? I would like to use it when working on my computer
Hello icespyin3, Thank you for your inquiry! This item is made to used with the twist. However, item number 14754308 might be of help since it is without the twist. I hope this helps. Happy shopping!
Does it go in reverse?
Thank you for contacting us foxvic. This is a twist stepper; there are not reverse functions on it, it is a stepper not a bike or elliptical. Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Can I order rplacement resistance bands? My dog ate one of theme.
Unfortunately, we do not sell parts to this item. Check with the manufacturer.
Does it have adjustable tension settings?
It does not have adjustable tension setting. It has one adjustment knob that adjusts the step height/stride length.
What is the weight limit on this machine?
The weight limit is 250 pounds.
I am 5 4' and 230 lbs. Seemed to take the weight with no problems
Some steppers can only be used for 15 minutes before they start to overheat. What about this one? How long is it recommended that you use it before taking a break. I am looking for a stepper I can use for 40 - 60 minutes.
This could be used for 40 to 60 minutes.
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Get a great workout without putting pressure on your joints with this Twist Stepper from Sunny Health Fitness. This workout machine has an adjustable stepping height and twist action to tone your buttocks and thighs. This is going to be a step machine with the feature of having the resistance bands.
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It was the Sublime hit song "Wrong Way" that helped Rome Ramirez find his way in life.
The song, released after the band's original lead singer Bradley Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996, inspired Ramirez to pick up the guitar. At that point, Ramirez was 11 years old and living in the Bay Area. His uncle introduced him to the ska/reggae/punk band and when Ramirez heard "Wrong Way," his musical trigger tripped.
"That was the first song I ever wanted to learn," Ramirez said during a phone interview this week.
The now 24-year-old musician is in Vail today for the first time, playing a free show tonight with his band, Sublime with Rome.
"I've never even been to Vail so I think it'll be really fun," he said. "I'm excited to wake up early, do all the tourist stuff and then go out and jam."
If you're going to tonight's Spring Back to Vail concert, expect to hear all the classic Sublime songs - "Santeria," "What I Got," and "Wrong Way," the song that eventually led Ramirez to his place on stage tonight.
"We'll play of course all the classics, the favorites, but then we incorporate some of the new album, a lot of jams and some cool covers," Ramirez said. "We'll just go whereever the night takes us."
'Not something anyone can grasp over night'
Rome began singing and writing songs as a teenager and was playing solo gigs around the Bay Area when he met Sublime bass player Eric Wilson. (After Nowell's death, Wilson and Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh, childhood friends, formed the Long Beach Dub Allstars in 1997, which disbanded in 2002 and reformed a decade later.)
Wilson and Ramirez were recording at the same studio and bonded pretty much immediately, even though Ramirez is nearly two decades younger than Wilson. Ramirez was born the same year Sublime got its start: 1988.
But that didn't matter to Wilson, who said this about Ramirez: "This kid could play guitar like a mofo and he's got a platinum voice."
And that, in a nutshell, is how Ramirez ended up as the lead singer of Sublime with Rome.
"I was just talking to a friend about how, even four years later, it's still as much of a shock now," Ramirez said about his frontman status. "I still haven't gotten used to it, the fact that 'hey, this is my f---ing job, it's what I do in life.' It's not something anyone can grasp over night."
When the band first took the stage in 2009, Rome was just 20 years old and Gaugh was part of the group as well. At first the group billed itself as Sublime, but a Los Angeles judge put a stop to that after Nowell's family filed suit. Nowell had registered the band name under his own name before his death and because of that, the estate owned the rights. Thus the name Sublime with Rome was born.
Sublime with Rome released its debut album "Yours Truly" in 2011, which produced the hits "Panic" and "Take It or Leave It." Shortly after its release, Gaugh left the band but that didn't stop the momentum. As an aside session drummer Josh Freese (Devo, The Offspring, Weezer) will join Ramirez and Wilson on stage tonight. The group has toured extensively since and recently returned from performing shows in Brazil and Costa Rica in March.
"It was crazy," Ramirez said. "The fans there are very explosive and responsive to the music, even with the new music, which is pretty f---ing awesome. We did about 10 shows and were gone for around three weeks. I'm still recovering."
Sharing Sublime with the younger generation
In the four years that Sublime with Rome has been around, Ramirez said the band members have "proven ourselves."
"When you come to see us, you know it'll sound good," he said. "That's what people expect now, they expect us to sound awesome. We take pride in the fact that it's super true to the original sound of Sublime."
For Eagle resident David Dempsey, without Nowell at the helm, the band will never reach Sublime status. Dempsey responded to a Vail Daily Facebook post asking about the differences between the two bands.
"Love Sublime," he wrote. "No comparison to (the) original though. More like a good tribute band with some original members."
Either way, no one can argue that Ramirez is bringing Sublime songs to a new generation of fans.
"We have everyone in the audience - moms who are 45 with a daughter who is 21 who is holding her own kid ... I'm grateful I have the opportunity to be the face of the music for the younger generation," Ramirez said.
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Hi. When playing HD content the bitrate skyrockets to about 60 Mbps and studders on the PS3. I find it studders at any level around 15 so I am trying to drop it to this level. SD contect plays fine, and is in fact at 1 Mbps or less. I am using a Intel Quad Core Q9550 @ 3.2 Ghz with 4 GBs of ram so I feel it is safe to assume it is not an issue on the computer side. I am running on wireless put the whole point is to be able to wirelessly send the video to my tv in the basement. I am using Avisynth/FFmpeg using the CoreAVC codec for HD playback.
For program settings I have the transcoder set to keyint=25:vqmax=8:vqmin=3 and the bandwidth limited to 15 though, as many people have said, this doesn't affect a limit at all. I am asking if anyone has gotten any luck condensing the stream. I don't mind making the CPU work harder as it can take it so if there is a way I can transfer the strain from streaming a large amount to the PS3 to a small condensed stream that is exactly what I want. Thanks for any advice.


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The European Central Bank's Governing Council faces a tough call at its interest rate meeting on Thursday. While factories in the euro-zone are humming and borrowing costs falling for countries previously perceived to be risky, the soggy pace at which prices are rising is fanning concerns that consumers may start delaying purchases and companies may defer expansion plans.
That could be bad news for the region's economic recovery. The rates at which banks borrow from each other have also nudged up.
The ECB's options include cutting rates, although the wiggle room here may be limited. Its key interest rate, the one it charges commercial banks for its regular loans, is at a record low of 0.25%. The rate it pays on overnight deposits is zero. Other possible measures may include steps to increase the amount of surplus cash in the financial system to keep a lid on money market rates.
So what does everyone think? Here's what investors and analysts are saying ahead of the meeting:
Sandra Holdsworth, fixed income investment manager at Kames Capital:
"The difficulty that the ECB faces is that interest rates are already very low. Cutting the deposit rate below zero would be a big leap while there are also doubts over the efficacy of certain non-standard measures. If you look at recent economic data in the euro-zone, there has been more improvement so the ECB may decide to keep interest rates unchanged for now. Liquidity in money markets has been a concern and the ECB may take steps to address this issue rather than cutting interest rates."
Nick Hayes, senior fund manager, fixed income at AXA Investment Managers:
"Markets are increasingly moving towards pricing some form of policy action by the European Central Bank as concerns over possible deflation in the euro-zone have risen but I am not so convinced that the ECB will act on Thursday. We're still in an environment of economic improvement in the euro-zone and countries have also found it easy to refinance their debts."
Thomas Harjes, economist at Barclays:
"We forecast a 15bps cut in the main refinancing rate to 0.1% combined with a 10 basis points cut to -0.1% in the deposit rate, implying that the ECB could effectively start to charge banks for holding excess liquidity. A negative deposit rate would have a very strong signaling effect, besides its effect on the euro exchange rate, demonstrating that the ECB was ready to explore uncharted territory, but it would come at a heavy political cost in Germany and other core countries shortly before EU elections and Germany's constitutional court ruling on the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions."
Harvinder Sian, interest rate strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland:
"We think the ECB will ease the refi rate to 10 basis points. Even if the ECB does not ease – Draghi is likely to be super-aggressive on the language, in order to make it clear that the ECB is ready willing and able to react. We do not expect the depo rate to be cut. The costs versus benefits are not seen as so persuasive as yet – and perhaps one of the messages from Draghi's interview in Davos is that the deflation fight is done via quantitative easing rather than negative rates."
Beat Siegenthaler, strategist at UBS:
"The market chatter on imminent ECB action this week appears misguided. Admittedly, monetary developments have been poor with credit contraction accelerating in December and inflation matching the post-crisis low of 0.7% in January. However, more forward-looking indicators such as Eurozone PMI have been painting a much more upbeat picture. In addition, money market tensions have most recently eased significantly while the euro is at roughly similar levels as in the run-up to the ECB December inflation forecasts."
Strategists at Danske Bank:
"We think the most likely scenario is that the ECB chooses to bring the refi rate down to 0.1%. This could have a positive impact on inflation and, at the same time, help to push short-term money market rates down. We think the ECB will keep the deposit rate on hold on Thursday. The Governing Council may also consider using non-standard measures. The most plausible instrument would be to stop sterilising SMP bond purchases. This would add almost €180 billion ($244.8 billion) to excess liquidity and should thus reduce money-market tensions and help to lift inflation."
Interest rate strategists at RBC Capital Markets:
"Our call is – and remains – for a March announcement, but the ECB Governing Council under President Draghi's tutelage has shown a remarkable alacrity for acting sooner rather than later. Consequently, there has to be a considerable risk that the rate cut we have in place for March instead comes as soon as this Thursday. We look for a dovish press conference with a Q&A that is likely to see a wider-than-usual range of questions – spanning not only the euro area's economic outlook, but also how policymakers view money market conditions, recent volatility in emerging markets, and the details of the looming bank stress tests."
Interest rate strategists at J.P. Morgan:
"We continue to believe that the ECB will remain on hold in the short term as: 1) soft inflation prints were already expected in the first part of the year, and the downside surprise remains limited; 2) recent volatility of EONIA (euro overnight index average rate) fixings has proven to be temporary thereby reducing the need of an ECB response; 3) emerging market spillover is expected to remain modest on developed markets' macro outlook."


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"One of the main challenges we faced kind of post Arab Spring, post 2011, is simply a lack of stability in the Middle East," said UAB's Sarah Parcak, Ph.D. "Many archeological sites that would have been well guarded have actually been affected by looting."
Health experts have identified some key factors for patients to survive different kinds of cancer. In a new U.S. study, experts have pointed out that income and educational background could be identified as factors to consider patients' survival against bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma.
UAB's Collat School of Business is now offering a new bachelor's degree option in human resource management.
UAB Advanced Nurse Coordinator Freda Centor recommends room sharing, not bed sharing. She suggests bringing a bassinet, crib or even a pack 'n play in the bedroom and placing beside the parent's bed.
The Addiction Recovery Program at UAB is adding beds and staff to better handle an influx of patients struggling with addiction to opioids and other IV drugs.
On May 21, 2017, Itzhak Perlman, who has garnered 16 Grammy awards, four Emmys and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, returns to celebrate ASC's 20th anniversary season. The featured artist on the May 17 Viva Health Starlight Gala, Perlman is one of a star-studded lineup, which brings some of the center's most renowned acts from the past 20 years, as well as first-time performers.


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- Safeway sold for $9.4 billion, merges with Albertsons
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- Pleasanton-based Safeway in discussions to sell company
Kroger, the largest U.S. supermarket chain, recently approached Safeway about buying part of its operations, people with knowledge of the matter said. The shares of both companies rose.
Kroger also has contacted Cerberus Capital Management, the private-equity firm that is the lead bidder for Safeway, about buying some stores that Cerberus may not want, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Safeway, the nation's second-largest grocery chain, would prefer to be sold as a whole, people familiar have said.
A sale to either Cerberus, which owns the Albertsons chain, or Kroger may raise objections from antitrust regulators in select markets, and splitting off some of Safeway's assets could help address those concerns. Kroger and Cerberus may be able to reach agreement on any of Safeway's assets that would have to be sold in that case, said one of the people.
A spokesman for Kroger declined to comment. Brian Dowling, a spokesman for Safeway, and Peter Duda, a spokesman for Cerberus, didn't immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
Shares of Pleasanton-based Safeway climbed 1.5 percent to $38.02 at the close in New York, giving the company a market value of $8.8 billion. Kroger, based in Cincinnati, increased less than 1 percent to $41.99, for a market value of $21.7 billion.
Cerberus led an investor group last year that acquired Supervalu's Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's and Star Market grocery stores in a transaction valued at about $3.3 billion. The New York-based buyout firm wants to add Safeway to its portfolio to gain economies of scale and market presence, people familiar with the situation have said.
Private-equity firms CVC Capital Partners and Leonard Green & Partners also have expressed interest in buying parts of Safeway, people familiar with the matter said last month. Leonard Green and CVC, which jointly own big-box wholesale chain BJ's Wholesale Club, could team up to do a deal, one of the people said then.
KKR & Co. bought Safeway in 1986 for about $4.3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The retailer went public in 1990.
Safeway has been simplifying its operations and recently sold its 72 Dominick's stores in the Chicago area after divesting its Canadian business and conducting an initial public offering of gift-card unit Blackhawk Network Holdings.


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Remains found in Scurry County identified as being missing West Texas girl
Human remains found last month Scurry County have been identified as belonging to a 13-year-old West Texas girl who disappeared in late 2010, authorities said Friday.
The remains of Hailey Dunn were found on March 16 near Lake J.B. Thomas. Her mother had reported Hailey missing to the Colorado City police department on Dec. 28, 2010.
The missing girl's remains were identified through DNA testing conducted by the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and death is ongoing, officials said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Scurry County Sheriff's Office at 325-573-3551, the FBI Dallas Division at 972-559-5000, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-252-8477 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.


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40 years of food in NYC SEP 29 2008
As part of their monster 40th anniversary celebration, New York magazine has some notes from the past four decades of food and dining in NYC. Gael Greene remembers her favorite meal as a restaurant critic and also lists the 14 most important NYC restaurants over the past 40 years. No Union Square Cafe? Meyer deserves some credit for taking the stuffiness out of NYC dining.
Legendary chef André Soltner and David Chang share a conversation about the state of food in the city. When Soltner was asked if he did interviews, he replied:
If they came to Lutèce, if they came to my kitchen, yes. I would not go out. If they asked me to go to Chicago to do a fund-raising dinner, it was, "No." If they asked me to come to give me a prize or whatever, I said, "Only on Sundays, when I'm not in the kitchen." I was sort of a slave to my restaurant. And my wife too. I don't say it was right. Today, I maybe say it was wrong. Years ago, in Paris, we had no money. But when we were more comfortable, maybe twenty years later, I said, "Simone, you know, you've paid your dues and everything, I buy you whatever you wish." I was thinking to buy her a ring or a necklace or something like that. "Whatever you wish, tell me." She looked at me and said, "Take me to a movie." For twenty years, I hadn't taken her to a movie. I woke up. I said, "Oh my God, what did I do to my wife?"
And finally but wonderfully, a timeline of food in NYC. The first McDonald's opened here in 1972 and Starbucks in 1994. Hanger steak was big in 1990.


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Third Madrid title!
Roger captured a third title in Madrid after defeating Tomas Berdych 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the final. It is Roger's 74th title overall on the ATP Tour!
"It is amazing to win here again," said Roger. "It has been a tough tournament. Tough to move, but you've got to try to make the most of it. Here there was some good tennis and some bad tennis, but you see that in all tournaments."
It was a rough, windy road to Roger's fourth title of the 2012 season. After ups and downs in the first two set, Roger had to save himself from 0:30 down several times, but eventually breaking Berdych to take a 5-3 lead. But the Czech came back with a break right away and Roger made use of the very last chance for a break to wrap up the match after 2 hours 36.
Roger now counts 20 career Masters titles, tying him with Rafael Nadal for the most all-time. Furthermore, our champ will overtake Nadal for No. 2 in the world as of tomorrow.
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Christine knew she wanted to attend Emmanuel starting her sophomore year in high school. She became interested in biochemistry and genetics and then read about Emmanuel's partnership with Merck Research Laboratories - and knew the College was the right place for her.
"My professors at Emmanuel have really helped me focus my career path, from introducing me to genetic counseling, a field of science with which I was previously unfamiliar, to helping me define and set my career goals," she said. "Emmanuel's reputation in the sciences and its partnerships with the institutions in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area make studying here a unique, challenging and rewarding experience. I've been offered many opportunities that aren't readily available to undergraduates, even at larger schools."
Christine's first internship in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University revolved around research working with proteins and was all lab-based and very hands on. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, she spent 10 weeks working in bioformatics, which was computer-based and very different from the lab-based study that she had been doing. The latter internship gave her valuable experience, but reinforced her passion for research and hands-on lab work. Afterward, Christine went back to her mentor at Harvard and explained that she was enthusiastic about the work she'd done in his department. He asked her to return for another yearlong internship.
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There's no "fun" in "fund-raiser" for Judith McMonigle Flynn when she donates an overnight stay at Hillside Manor, dinner included, to the parish school's annual auction—especially when the winning bid goes to the persnickety Paine family. She'll have her hands full sorting through the painfully picky Paines' endless allergies and aversions. Then hubby Joe lands in jail after his latest surveillance job abruptly ends with an insurance fraud suspect being blown away by a .38 Smith & Wesson . . . that just happens to belong to Joe.
But finding the real killer and dealing with the Paines' pain are just the tip of the iceberg—what with Judith's cantankerous mother, Gertrude, agreeing to let a wealthy parishioner stable a horse in her toolshed apartment; cousin Renie trying to force-feed her loathsome Shrimp Dump recipe to the parish cookbook fund-raising committee; and a number of parish school kids falling sick after their weekly hamburger lunch.
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Moped driver in critical condition after wreck in East Flat Rock
Published: Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 4:20 p.m.
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A 24-year-old man was in critical condition at Mission Hospital Thursday afternoon, one day after he was hit by a car that a Highway Patrol trooper estimates was traveling 80 mph.
Mary Geouge, 61, was driving a Lincoln westbound on Highway 176 Wednesday morning when she struck a moped, lost control of her vehicle and ran into a utility pole in front of the General Electric plant in East Flat Rock.
The moped driver, Christopher "Adam" Jackson, of Saluda, was launched into the air upon impact.
Trooper Joshua Henderson said Jackson, who had been wearing a helmet, suffered a head injury.
Henderson said the moped hit a parked car, caught fire and damaged three other vehicles in the parking lot, while the Lincoln struck one vehicle after hitting the utility pole.
The accident, which occurred at 8:51 a.m. Wednesday, shut down the road for hours. The speed limit for that stretch of road is 45 mph.
Thursday afternoon, Blue Ridge Fire and Rescue Chief Gary Brown described the scene as chaotic.
"Normally when we go to a wreck, we can work off of one truck, but this accident was spread out like 300 yards apart," he said. "We were worried about power lines being down; worried about the fire, but basically, the fire became a secondary concern of ours. We had injuries we had to take care of."
Jackson was airlifted to Mission Hospital for medical treatment. Geogue, of East Flat Rock, was taken to Pardee Hospital via ambulance and later released.
The accident is still under investigation, and charges are pending.
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As some of you more creatively minded types know, November is something called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – frequently shortened to the even shorter NaNo).
NaNo happens every November and is an experiment in writing a novel (or at least 50,000 words of one) that novelists everywhere (both professional and amateur alike) participate in. There's a whole official website where you can register and track your progress, and find like-minded friends, and even get a certificate of completion (if you meet the 50k word count goal).
I'm not much of a joiner, so I don't ever officially join up, but I've done NaNo three times unofficially. Twice I failed miserably (in 2010 and 2012), for both legit and non-legit reasons. In 2011 I freaking killed it. Writing more than 90k in just over five weeks.
So why are we talking about this on She Has No Head!? Well, mostly because I'm doing NaNo (unofficially) again this year and thus it's what I'm consumed with right now and what I'm spending most of my "free" time doing/trying to do.
But since I have an audience here, and you guys have been receptive in the past to opening a dialogue (cough>sometimes more receptive than other times<cough) I thought I'd ask you some questions about what it is for you – in any media – be it comics, prose, movies, television, music, or even sports – that gets you to devote yourself so entirely to something.
What is that elusive THING that gets you to start a Tumblr about a "ship" you like, or gets you hunting down hard to find copies of a comic book, or make fan videos for youtube, memorizing stats, staying up all night watching and re-watching something, or re-reading the same books over and over again?
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Bill Wilkes, coining the term "umbrellagate," says he is surprised that Mountains to Molehills gave space to John Albree's "whining comments" about a Marine holding an umbrella over President Barack Obama at an outdoor news conference. "A few moments on the Internet reveal photos of other presidents who are benefiting from military members holding umbrellas over their heads," says Mr. Wilkes. "The flap about this is nothing more than another example of some people in our society who will take any and every opportunity to malign our president. The facts don't mean a thing to these folks. Would you publish a letter which says that I am disturbed that so many Americans are fools who are being deliberately misled by FOX 'news' and other right-wing critics? The video clips of FOX's talking heads contradicting themselves or slinging mud instead of behaving as reputable reporters of the news are legion. So, too, are photos, videos and recordings that present facts that are in contradiction to the right-wing propaganda."
'LACKEYS': Noting what President Barack Obama said about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, specifically what he said about such acts not being tolerated in any agency, Dick Roberts of Mountain Home says it's more of his lying. "It's been tolerated in nearly every agency in his administration," says Mr. Roberts. "The Department of Human Services, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Department of Justice ... just pick any of them. It's the same with the military. Obama got rid of any brass with guts and integrity to speak up and replaced them with a bunch of lackeys who will say anything they're told to say."
'WHERE'S THE MAGIC?': Bubba and Billy Bob entered a chocolate store. As they were looking at the candy, Billy Bob stole three chocolate bars. When they left the store, Billy Bob bragged to Bubba, saying, "I'm the best thief. I stole three chocolate bars, and no one saw me put them in my pocket. You can't beat that." Bubba said, "You want to see something better? Let's go back to the shop, and I'll show you real stealing. I'll steal while the shopkeeper is watching me and he won't even know." So they went to the counter and Bubba said to the shopkeeper, "Do you want to see a great magic trick?" The shopkeeper replied, "Yes." Bubba said, "Give me three chocolate bars." The shopkeeper gave him three chocolate bars, and Bubba ate all three. The shopkeeper asked: "But where's the magic?" Bubba replied: "Look in Billy Bob's pocket."
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