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In Part I, we discussed the Senate Armed Services Committee (SACS)'s attempt to hobble the open source Accumulo project in the DOD. They directed the Department's CIO to jump through a number of reporting hoops before Accumulo would be allowed inside the DOD, and directed the Accumulo team to... Read more
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Thousands of displaced people have surged towards already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar, the UN said on Saturday, after vicious new communal violence that has left dozens dead.
Seething resentment between Buddhists and Muslims erupted this week in a wave of fresh unrest in Rakhine state, prompting international warnings the unrest imperils the nation's nascent reform process.
The official death toll stood at 67, about half of whom were women, according to a state spokesman.
Tens of thousands of mainly Muslim Rohingya are already crammed into squalid camps around the state capital, Sittwe, after deadly violence in June and the UN on Saturday said the latest fighting had caused a further 3200 to make their way towards the shelters.
"An additional 2500 are reportedly on their way," said Vivian Tan, spokeswoman for the UN's refugee agency.
Rakhine government spokesman Win Myaing on Friday conceded authorities were struggling to provide relief to an estimated 3000 Rohingya who had escaped in boats as violence engulfed their townships and had docked on an island near Sittwe.
"The displaced are still on the island," he told AFP on Saturday.
He said troops were "taking control" of potential hotspots, adding the situation was now "calm" after security forces were deployed to the affected areas on October 21.
More than 150 people have been killed in the state since June, according to the authorities, who have imposed emergency rule in the face of continued tension in the region.
President Thein Sein has been widely praised for overseeing sweeping reforms in the former junta-ruled nation, including the release of hundreds of political prisoners and the election of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament.
But the fighting has posed a threat to the reforms.
"The vigilante attacks, targeted threats and extremist rhetoric must be stopped," a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Friday.
"If this is not done... the reform and opening-up process being currently pursued by the government is likely to be jeopardised."
Myanmar's 800,000 Rohingya are seen as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh by the government and many Burmese who call them "Bengalis".
The stateless Rohingya have long been considered by the UN as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

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Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge - 1st Round FIM Cross Country Rally World Championship
April 12, 2013 - The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge drew to a close on Thursday April 12th after six days of racing, concluding the first round of the FIM Cross Country Rally world championship.
Sam Sunderland (UK, 24 years old) took a spectacular third final place in the rally on his Honda CRF450 Rally, proving himself to be both quick and highly-skilled at navigation. Sunderland won two of the rally's five stages, and remained on top of the leader board throughout most of the competition. Sam won his third stage victory in the penultimate stage and could have increased his lead over Marc Coma, his most immediate rival in the overall standings, were it not for a ten minute penalty that forced him back into third place.
Sunderland picked up the penalty after failing to pass through the limit flags at the end of the special test, on his return to the bivouac on the transfer section.Nevertheless, it turned out to be a positive rally for TEAM HRC and for the Honda CRF 450 Rally which showed its highly competitive edge. The team thus proved themselves to be one of the main protagonists in the first round of the Cross Country Rally.
On the other hand, TEAM HRC's other rider, Portuguese Helder Rodrigues, was less fortunate, having fallen in the second stage of the race. This resulted in a damaged bike and a long delay in getting to the end of the special. Helder finished the rally in twenty-ninth position, making the podium twice, once in the special and then in the final stage.
Sam Sunderland commented after the race: "It was a shame about the ten minute penalty imposed in yesterday's stage. If it hadn't been for those ten minutes I'd have won this race. I did a mistake that I will never do again! Anyway I'm happy with my performance though. I'd trained really hard for this race and I showed that I'm fast and able to navigate. My Honda CRF 450 Rally ran like a dream and we are making great progress with every race. "
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text: In Grand Prairie tonight the Lemurs were one win shy of tying their all-time mark for most wins in a row, searching for their 11th straight victory. Sadly for the franchise it was not to be as they fall 4-2 to the Air Hogs on this Tuesday night. After falling behind briefly one to nothing, Laredo would take a lead in the top of the sixth plating a pair of runs but it was short lived as Grand Prairie answered with two of their own in the bottom of the frame. The Air Hogs played add on baseball with another run in the seventh to give you the final. Laredo will now go for the rubber match of their three game series with Grand Prairie tomorrow night.


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Morning Song
by Sylvia Plath
Analysis: Setting
Where It All Goes Down
You've seen it all before. Heck, chances are you once played the starring role in this little drama. See, "Morning Song" follows a newborn baby from the sterile, silent rooms of a hospital to its brand-new home. The poem draws us into both worlds, comparing the hospital to a "drafty museum" and taking care to point out the "flat pink roses" covering the walls of the baby's bedroom (5, 11).
We're guessing that the setting of this poem actually influences the way that the mother (the speaker) interacts with her baby. Here's what we mean: if you've ever visited the baby ward of a hospital, you know it's a lot like the windows of a department store. Pretty, interesting things are set behind plate glass. In this case, though, instead of fabulous new shoes, the things behind the glass are fabulous new babies. Whether they're babies or shoes, though, putting things behind glass means that you're setting them on display. You can't interact with the babies (or, um, the shoes). You can just watch them from afar. Maybe that's OK when the things you're looking at are clothes or shoes or toys. After all, you don't own those clothes or shoes or toys. But when the thing is your very own baby, it might create a bit of cognitive dissonance. Why should your flesh and blood be put on display like a new toy? And, more disturbingly, how can you relate to something that seems to be presented to you as if it's a new toy? (Or, as the poet says, a new statue?)
Things change, though, once the baby is set against the backdrop of the speaker's home. See, the speaker knows how to engage with things in her own place. The "flat pink roses" are in the background of her daily activities –and that makes it all the easier to incorporate her baby into those daily activities.
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Frantic, the full moon at her back,
She tore through the briars,
Sharp pinpricks piercing tender flesh
As her eyes peered into the night
For a flash of silver fur.
The scarlet drops, trail of tears and blood,
Led her ever deeper into the forest,
And she trembled when she heard
His maddened roar of despair,
Form shifting despite his deepest groans.
Red and silver, colors of despiar, colors of his night
Of outrage at the Soul-less gods
Who so shaped him.
Weeping, she thrashed further inside
The tangled briars and branches,
Searching, longing, wanting oh, so much more
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington's strongest pro-Israel lobby, circulated a letter through Congress late Tuesday pressing for more vigorous implementation of sanctions laws involving Iran. The move came after Ingersoll-Rand PLC said it has barred its subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran – part of an accelerating trend among major Western companies to reduce their business exposure to Iran.
Here is the text of the letter AIPAC sent to Congress:
Dear Congressman XXXX,
We are writing to every member of Congress to express outrage at the U.S. government's continuing relationship with dozens of companies doing business with Iran. These ongoing financial dealings undermine longstanding American efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.
As the New York Times reported on Sunday, the federal government during the past decade has awarded $107 billion in contracts and grants to more than 70 companies that are doing business in Iran. More than two-thirds of these contracts have gone to companies involved in Iran's energy industry despite American law to discourage such involvement.
The time has long since passed this policy to change. Unfortunately, as the Times points out, three successive American administrations have failed to enforce the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, which mandates U.S. sanctions on firms investing more than $20 million in Iran's energy sector. While Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama may have discouraged some investment in Iran through their rhetoric, the United States has sent the American and international business community a contradictory message by failing to enforce the law.
Despite publicly acknowledged investments by several companies of hundreds of millions of dollars in Iran's energy sector, the U.S. Government has inexplicably failed to make even one determination of an investment of $20 million during the course of the past decade. Yet, throughout this entire time, Iran has pursued a nuclear weapons capability, flouting its international obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and presenting the international community with a growing, and now urgent, threat.
As Iran continues to reject U.S.-European engagement efforts and to defy U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring that it halt its illicit uranium enrichment efforts, the United States must take action now.
We call on Congress to:
1. Investigate why successive administrations have failed to implement the law by failing to determine what companies have invested in the Iranian energy sector;
2. Enact—without delay—the Iran sanctions legislation currently before Congress, which, inter alia, contains provisions barring federal contracts to companies which are investing in Iran's energy sector or providing sensitive technology, and their parents or subsidiaries who are engaged in such activity;
3. Demand that the U.S. Government enforce existing sanctions law and impose crippling new sanctions on Iran.
In addition to these actions, we hope you will join with us in urging the administration to impose tough new multilateral sanctions with like-minded states without delay while continuing to pursue the widest possible sanctions through the U.N. Security Council.
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Zhang Ziyi Prepares for U.S. Release of 'The Grandmaster'
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi visited the WSJ to discuss her latest film, "The Grandmaster," directed by Wong Kar-wai and co-starring Tony Leung.
In "The Grandmaster," Ms. Zhang, 34 years old, plays Gong Er, the daughter of a kung fu grandmaster. Gong Er breaks with tradition and as a young female, trains in the Bagua style of kung fu, including the "64 Hands" fighting technique.
Ms. Zhang, like Mr. Leung and the other actors in the film, performed her own fight scenes, and had trained in kung fu for six months before the start of shooting. Compared with her previous martial-arts films ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "The House of Flying Daggers" and "Hero"), this was a whole different level of training.
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Making Climate Sexy: 350 is the new 450
Al Gore is spending $300 million on an ad campaign to raise awareness of global warming. He apparently picked the wrong number. That would be 350.
That, to the uninitiated, is parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's become a rallying cry and a mantra among climate campaigners. It stems from the latest paper by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who says the world has to radically scale back emissions of carbon dioxide to preserve life on earth. His target—350 ppm of CO2—is actually below current atmospheric concentrations.
Thus far, climate campaigners from the United Nations on down have called for slashing emissions enough to prevent atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from rising much beyond their current levels. (This is a mind-bender: Even a fairly big cut in the current rate of annual emissions wouldn't reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations for many decades. Like water in a sink, CO2 emitted over the past several decades still will continue piling up.) So Mr. Hansen suggests going further: whacking current emission levels so much that the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere actually will decline, to 350 ppm from the current level of approximately 385 ppm.
The latest incarnation of the 350 gospel? A new grassroots website, 350.org. In its words:
We want every human, if they know nothing else about global warming, to know that 350 represents safety…If we do, it will help move the international negotiations in that direction—just the way that our insistence on 80% cuts by 2050 last spring found its way into the platforms of all the Democratic presidential candidates within days of our demonstrations. This time our target is the international community, which is spending the next 18 months negotiating a follow-up to Kyoto. It may be our last real bite at the apple, so those 18 months need to be well spent.
Dr. Hansen's paper already spilled plenty of virtual ink in the blogosphere. Climate Progress flagged the paper and sparked a debate throughout the blogosphere: How realistic is that target?
After all, China tacks on a coal-powered France to its electricity grid every year. India is desperate for power for rural regions. Global economic growth means more emissions from aviation, shipping, industry, and more. Rich countries that did sign Kyoto haven't really complied.
The folks behind 350.org know they are modern-day Quixotes. Last December, in the Washington Post, 350 honcho Bill McKibben—who describes himself as "scholar in residence in environmental studies at Middlebury College"—admitted it's a daunting task:
Maybe too huge. The problems of global equity alone may be too much — the Chinese aren't going to stop burning coal unless we give them some other way to pull people out of poverty. And we simply may have waited too long.
The group suggests enthusiasts donate $350 of their tax rebates to the organization to spread the good word. The mission would be easier if the group settled on the IPCC's more-moderate target of 450 ppm. Come to think of it, the fundraising checks would be bigger too.


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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre Volume 2, Chapter 2 Summary
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- For a week, Jane doesn't hear anything about what Rochester's doing; she tries to discipline herself and stop thinking about it, but she can't. She starts wondering if she should quit her job as Adèle's governess and get a new one somewhere else.
- After another week (so now two weeks have gone by since the fire and Rochester's sudden departure), Mrs. Fairfax receives a letter from Rochester telling her that he's coming back to Thornfield in a few days with a bunch of friends.
- Everyone spends the three days making frantic preparations for all the guests—except Adèle, who is an absolute pest and keeps getting underfoot.
- Jane is also helping Mr. Fairfax get the house ready for everyone, which is why Adèle has nothing better to do than flounce around being obnoxious.
- When Jane isn't busy working, she wonders what's going on with Grace Poole, who spends almost all her time alone on the third floor and doesn't help anyone with anything.
- Jane overhears a conversation between one of the maids, Leah, and another servant, a charwoman (house cleaner). Apparently Grace Poole gets paid more than anyone else at Thornfield, and Leah thinks that what Grace does for Mr. Rochester is well worth the money. Jane doesn't learn any more than that, because they notice her listening and stop talking. The charwoman is surprised that Jane doesn't know Thornfield's secret, but nobody seems to want to tell her.
- Finally it's Thursday, the day Mr. Rochester said he would arrive with his guests. Everyone puts on their nicest clothes and sits around waiting for them to arrive. When they finally ride up, some in carriages and some on horses, a beautiful woman in a purple dress is riding beside Rochester. It's Blanche Ingram!
- The visitors enter, and Jane sits with Adèle, half-listening to their noise and trying to keep Adèle from running down and bothering them.
- The women come upstairs to change their clothes after the trip, and Jane sneaks downstairs to get something that she and Adèle can eat for dinner. She's not sneaking because she isn't supposed to have dinner—she's sneaking because she doesn't want anyone to see her.
- Unfortunately, Jane doesn't make it back upstairs before the ladies start coming down, so she has to stand still at the end of a dark hallway and hope they don't notice her.
- The women pass, and Jane and Adèle both feel pretty awed by their fancy clothes and even fancier attitudes. Jane, Adèle, and Adèle's nurse, Sophie, eat the food Jane's scrounged up in the kitchen, forgotten by pretty much everyone and listening a little to the bustle downstairs.
- Adèle can't sleep for all the noise and excitement, so Jane sits with her at the top of the stairs listening to the women play on the piano and to Blanche and Mr. Rochester singing duets. Eventually Adèle falls asleep and Jane puts her to bed.
- The party doesn't break up until one in the morning, and Jane still hasn't seen Rochester at all. He seems to have forgotten her completely.
- The next day, Rochester and his guests take advantage of the nice weather and go out riding to see something or other nearby, Jane doesn't know what. Jane watches them leave and come back from her window, noticing how Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram are riding together on their own, apart from everyone else.
- Mrs. Fairfax tells Jane that Mr. Rochester wants Adèle and Jane to come and socialize with everyone after dinner this evening. Jane tries to make an excuse, but Mrs. Fairfax tells her that Rochester insisted she come and that he said he would fetch her if she refused.
- Adèle shows her true prissy-princess colors and goes crazy getting herself ready when she hears that she's going to make an appearance at the party. She keeps Jane and Sophie busy getting her ready, and then Jane and Adèle go and wait in a the drawing room for the guests to finish their dinner.
- The guests finish eating and the ladies enter the drawing room; Jane curtseys to them, and some of them nod to her, while others pretty much ignore her. (The men are still in the dining room; it was traditional at formal Victorian dinner parties for the women to leave the table first, go to another room, and chat or read; the men stayed behind, drinking and talking separately. Then, when the men felt ready, they came and joined the women.)
- Jane explains who the different women are. There are eight of them, four older women and four younger: Mrs. Eshton and her daughters Amy and Louisa; the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters Blanche and Mary; Lady Lynn; and Mrs. Colonel Dent. "Dowager" means that Lady Ingram is a widow, and "Mrs. Colonel" means that Mrs. Dent's husband is, you guessed it, a Colonel.
- We'll tell you now that most of these women are minor characters and aren't too important to the plot of the novel. Important points to notice:
- The Dowager Lady Ingram reminds Jane of Mrs. Reed, which probably means she's just as spiteful and malicious.
- Blanche is incredibly beautiful, and she looks just the way Mrs. Fairfax described her to Jane—which means that she looks like the portrait Jane drew of her without having seen her yet. Creepy.
- Blanche is also really clever, but in a nasty, Mean Girls way instead of a quiet, dorky, Jane Eyre way.
- Jane decides that Blanche is "majestic" but possibly not Rochester's type.
- Adèle, in her usual bratty way, starts demanding attention from the ladies. A few of them start spoiling her and petting her and she's as happy as a pig in… um, let's just say she's being a little princess and loving it.
- After a little while, the gentlemen come in to join the ladies and everyone drinks coffee. There are six men, including Mr. Rochester; the others are Henry and Frederick Lynn, Colonel Dent, Mr. Eshton, and Lord Ingram. Henry and Frederick are Lady Lynn's sons; Colonel Dent, obviously, is Mrs. Colonel Dent's husband; Mr. Eshton is Mrs. Eshton's husband and the father of Amy and Louisa; and Lord Ingram is the Dowager Lady Ingram's son and the brother of Blanche and Mary.
- Got all that? Don't worry, it's not super-important. Just focus on Blanche and her mom. And Jane and Rochester, of course.
- As Mr. Rochester comes in, Jane tries to focus on her knitting (she's making a beaded silk purse). She remembers the last moment she saw him, where he didn't want to let go of her hand and they were alone together, and wonders what's happened to change everything and make him so distant.
- When Jane's sure that Mr. Rochester isn't looking at her, she lets herself look up and stare at him. Even though he's not handsome in the usual way, she realizes that to her he's waaay hot. She also figures out something we've known for a few chapters now: despite her best efforts, she's in love with him.
- Jane compares Rochester to the other men in the room; even though most people would probably think they're more handsome than he is, she has different taste.
- Jane decides that she and Rochester are alike; they have more in common with each other than he does with anyone else in the room. They're kindred spirits. Still, she doesn't think he'll ever be interested in her—she's too far beneath him.
- Everyone pairs off to chat, and Blanche flirts with Rochester. Unfortunately, Blanche's idea of flirting is to talk about how "detestable" and "ridiculous" governesses are, basically insulting Jane right to her face (although she's talking to Rochester, not Jane).
- Blanche and her brother tell stories about how they (and, to a small extent, their sister Mary) used to torment their previous governesses. Let's see, who do they sound like? Where else in this novel have we seen a brother, two sisters, and a widowed mother who are all vicious and selfish? Hmm, sounds like John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed and their mother, doesn't it?
- Some of the other women start talking about their experiences with their governesses, and Blanche changes the subject; she doesn't want anyone else to have a chance to say something clever. She asks Rochester to sing a duet with her.
- Before Blanche and Rochester begin singing, they banter about what sort of man Rochester is and Blanche hints that he's just the type of man she wants for a husband: an ugly guy who worships her, instead of someone as handsome as she is.
- Blanche and Rochester sing, and Jane wants to leave, but she's mesmerized by Rochester's voice. As soon as he finishes, she slips out into the hallway, but she has to stop and retie her sandal.
- Rochester comes out after Jane and asks why she didn't come and talk to him in the drawing room. He wants her to come back, but he can tell she's about to cry, so he lets her go—but first he insists that she join the party every night while they're there. He stops just short of calling her by some term of endearment—and then leaves.
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Wild Man
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She's about to walk on the wild side . . .
While filling the display case in her bakery, the bell over the door sounds and Tessa O'Hara looks up to see the man of her dreams. Within thirty seconds he asks her out for a beer. But after four months of dating, she discovers he's an undercover DEA agent-and he's investigating her possible role in her ex-husband's drug business. For Tess, this means their relationship is over.
Brock disagrees. He's committed to his anti-drug mission, but he's fallen in love with the beautiful woman who's as sweet as her cupcakes-and he'll do anything to win her back. Standing between Tess and Brock are their own exes, one of them a drug lord who's determined to get what he wants. Now as danger threatens, can Brock break the rules he's lived by and let loose his wild side to protect the woman he loves?
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Declining Cities in an Emerging Economy - The Case of Varanasi
Saswat Badopadhyay, CEPT University (Center for Environmental Planning and Technology), India
Wednesday 22nd May 2013 - 12:00pm
Room 1.65, Glamorgan Building
Public lecture hosted by the Spatial Planning and City Environments Research Group.
Saswat Bandyopadhyay is a Professor of Environmental Planning at the CEPT University (Center for Environmental Planning and Technology), Ahmedabad, India and spearheading research and professional activities related to Urban Planning, governance and urban capacity challenges.
Varanasi, situated on the banks of river Ganga, stands among the India's most significant historic urban landscapes. It has recorded continuity of settlements and culture since 1000 BCE. Officially known as Varanasi, the city is known to its patrons with many names such as Kashi for the pilgrims and Benares to foreign visitors. The city is also one of the major destinations for International visitors and Buddhist pilgrims from South-East Asia.
In spite of this significance and importance, Varanasi, today, is an ordinary Indian city- struggling with basic service delivery issues, decaying of urban core and housing stocks, lack of opportunities for city youth and unsustainable tourism activities. In the last national sanitation survey conducted among 423 Indian cities, Varanasi ranked at 331st, falling under the RED category-indicating urgent attention required towards environmental public health issues. With urban service delivery and management responsibilities fragmented among several state and local actors, abysmally low local financial status, Varanasi, today, truly represents a declining Indian city.


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Rise, Raft & Relax
Visitors from across the globe visit Jackson Hole to enjoy the whitewater adventures on the legendary Snake River. This summer, our Rise, Raft & Relax package invites you to combine the legendary luxury of Hotel Terra with the scenic surroundings of the Snake.
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- 2 Nights at Hotel Terra Jackson Hole
- Half Day (4 hours) Guided River Adventure for Two
- $100 Chill Spa Credit
*Restrictions apply, including black-out dates. Valid for stays between May 27 - Sept. 30, 2016.
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Whitewater, wildlife and Western hospitality combine with one of the best lodging deals in Jackson Hole with Hotel Terra's Summer Savings offering 15% off your stay. Our Teton Village location, only 1 mile to Grand Teton National Park, means you enjoy easy access to outdoor adventures and evenings where the local's voted "Jackson's Best Hotel" for the last four years.
This package includes:
- 2 Night Stay
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- Valid for any Room Type
*Valid for 2-night consecutive stays Monday - Thursday. Offer valid through September 30, 2016. Restrictions apply, including black-out dates.
Chill Out at Hotel Terra
Renew and recharge after your Teton adventures at our award-winning Chill Spa. Here, our eco-luxe spa welcomes you with leading edge therapies featuring organic products along with amazing amenities like our rooftop hot tub offering spectacular views. Our Chill Out at Hotel Terra package combines accommodations with a soothing spa experience to treat you to the very best of Jackson Hole.
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- 3 Night Stay at Hotel Terra Jackson Hole
- $100 Spa Credit
- Welcome Spa Amenitiy
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Jackson Hole is host to a plethora of races. Whether you are running the Grand Teton Half Marathon or racing from Logon to Jackson in the LOTOJOA classic, we know you'll be pushing yourself on the course. That's why we want to ensure your stay is extra relaxing.
Book our race package and enjoy ice packs and arnica to soothe sore muscles as well as a recovery juice from Healthy Being Juicery specifically formulated to help repair and restore amino acids and electrolytes. With 10% savings off your room rate, you can put that towards your entry fee. We'll see you at the starting line.
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The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) Suffering Quotes
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Quote #4
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm; (23)
Given the first twenty-two lines of the poem, this line has to be ironic, right? How could Tom be "happy and warm" when the life of a chimney sweeper is full of so much suffering? "Warm" rhymes imperfectly with "harm," which tells us that there is something fishy going on here.
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So if all do their duty they need not fear harm. (24)
The lines suggest that children should just suffer, if that is their lot, and nothing bad will happen to them. Wait. What? That doesn't sound right. Frankly, it's hard not to read these lines ironically, as if they were a parody of the kinds of advice we usually give children (things like, "stay in school," or "follow the rules").


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|Knit Your Own Jewelry
Who says you can only knit with yarn? The truth is, if you can wrap it around your needles and make stitches with it, you can knit with just about anything -- from recycled grocery bags to licorice.
Knitting your own jewelry can be lots of fun, and the results don't have to look like a summer camp project. You begin with gold wire, metallic thread, fine string, or any other unusual threadlike material.
Then you add color, texture, depth, and visual interest by sliding beads in between your stitches. The results can be as elegant and professional as anything you'd find in a boutique.
In this tutorial, we'll cover knitted bracelets and necklaces, although these are by no means your only options.
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The Planning Stage
Your first decision is what kind of drape you want your jewelry to have. Would you like it to rest against your skin like a strand of pearls, or do you want a more solid standalone item?
Wire will produce the most rigid fabric, although you can vary the rigidity by choosing a thicker or thinner wire.
Thicker wire tends to be more difficult to manipulate with needles. Fine wire, on the other hand, has a delicate appeal but will easily bend out of shape. If you're looking to create a bracelet for everyday wear, keep this in mind.
Tip: The smaller your needles, the harder it can be to manipulate wire. Consider using a fine crochet hook (whose circumference matches your needle size as closely as possible) for your working needle. The hook makes it much easier to secure loops and draw them through stitches.
Moderately Firm
If you'd like to go for a semi-rigid effect, you can choose from different types of metallic and nylon thread. This can be a good compromise if you want drape but can't sacrifice wearability.
If you want an entirely fluid piece of jewelry, choose a more malleable string, thread, or floss. Many yarn stores also carry fine crochet string, which you'll see in an example below.
Other Options
You can also use fine elastic thread (often available in yarn shops) to create a relaxed yet form-fitting item.
Choosing Your Bead Combinations
Now that you have a general idea of what you want, it's time to focus on the visuals: your beads and stitches.
As you'll see in the photos below, the same strand of beads will look very different depending on how you knit it.
The first image shows the pre-strung beads. (For more details about stringing beads, read the beaded knitting overview.) Next, you see how they knit up with one stitch per row using garter stitch.
And finally, you see how they knit up if you use three stitches per row instead of one. Each row begins by slipping the first stitch. Then you slide one bead over, knit the next stitch, slide over another bead, and knit your final stitch. Slipping the first stitch causes the strand to curl, which can be an attractive effect.
Pre-strung beads, prior to knitting.
One-stitch row in garter stitch.
Three-stitch row in garter stitch, slipping first stitch.
While the large pearl looks elegant as a central highlight for the single-stitch necklace, notice how lumpy and awkward it looks on the multi-stitch one.
That's why it's best to use multiples of any larger beads if you're knitting several stitches per row. This helps ensure that the overall size changes are evenly distributed across the entire strand rather than just one side of it.
The necklace at right was created using this same stitch repeat and larger numbers of each size and color of bead. The beads and thread came from a Deanna's Vintage Styles kit.
Such kits can be excellent introductions to the world of knitted bead jewelry. Rarely will you use up all the supplies in your first try, which leaves you a stash of extras for follow-up experiments.
For this necklace I chose not to darn the ends together. Instead, I added a clasp closure attached via two strands of single beads on each end.
Alternative Stitch Options
If you prefer the more elegant pendant effect, try knitting a simple i-cord to the center of your work, then incorporating a few, select beads, and finishing the necklace with an equal length of i-cord on the other side.
(An i-cord is created using double-pointed needles and just a few stitches per row. Instead of turning your work at the end of each row, as you normally would, you slide the work to the other end of your needle and begin knitting again. The result is more tubular than flat stockinette stitches.)
We've just begun to scratch the surface of what's possible. For me, knitting beaded jewelry is as fun and mind-opening as dyeing yarn with Kool Aid. But unlike Kool-Aid's limited flavor selection, the world of beads is truly limitless.
Have fun!


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Malaria-stricken cheryl cole advised to take up yoga
They have also suggested that she should take up relaxing yoga and Pilates to reduce her stress levels, reports the Sun. The estranged wife of footballer Ashley Cole was following a blood-type diet - but doctors have recommended she scrap it.
Cole has said she won't perform at all for the rest of the year - but she will be back as a judge on X Factor in time for boot camp.


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Emotional Intelligence and Social Problem Solving:. Edition No. 1
- March 2010
- 80 Pages
- VDM Publishing House
The conception of emotional intelligence (EI) was first put forward by Ibnu Khaldun, an Arab writer who lived in the 14th century in his book Al- Muqaddimah. Later, Leuner (1966) published his work in a German language journal and followed by Payne (1984) who wrote about EI in his unpublished dissertation. The term was made popular by Goleman in 1995. Since gaining its popularity, EI became a topic of interest in education, psychology, human resource management and organizational development. However, less attention was given to social problem solving. This monograph explored the relationship between EI and Social Problem Solving and discussed the findings from the cultural perspectives.
Rizal, Abu Bakar.
Rizal Abu Bakar comes from a background in psychology. He is now a practicing clinical psychologist and tertiary educator. He has an interest in researching on multicultural aspects of mental health, emotional intelligence, sleep disorders, psychopathology and religious based psychotherapy.


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Invitation: Microsoft Systems Centre 2012 Deep Dive Technical Seminar – Thursday 31st May 2012April 18th, 2012
Come along to our next seminar and hear about what's new and exciting in Microsoft's latest release of System Center 2012.
Microsoft System Center 2012 provides comprehensive management from the desktop to the datacenter, helping you to manage your physical and virtual IT environments across datacenters, client computers and devices.
Date: Thursday 31st May 2012
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Venue: Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading, RG6 1WG
The seminar will provide a deep dive technical session on the new Microsoft System Center 2012 release and will include:
- What's new in System Center 2012
- A technical demonstration and preview of each component
- A deep dive discussion of each System Center component
Microsoft and Medhurst experts will demonstrate the new features and benefits of each of the System Centre 2012 components including Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator, Endpoint Protection and App Controller.
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Report: Peter Dinklage Is Main Villain in 'X-MEN: DAYS'
by Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer
Date: 13 February 2013 Time: 10:42 PM ET
Update Feb. 14: X-Men fans getting their hopes up to see Peter Dinklage play Puck in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past may have to reset - Variety is reporting Thursday afternoon the Game of Thrones actor is playing a villain. Citing unnamed sources the Hollywood trade doesn't identify the villain by name, but describes him as the film's "main antagonist."Ahab and Nimrod come immediately to mind of comic book fans familiar with the original comic book story, but we'll wait to see if any of the other Hollywood trades or Singer follow up with any new insight. Ahab really didn't have much to do in the original storyline, rather his character was followed up on in later stories. Nimrod might surprise viewers - while a Sentinel (and thus, a robot), the character can shapeshift and often takes human form. With Dinklage playing the ultimate mutant hunter (Nimrod actually means Hunter), we could see a very cold, creepy take. Singer announced Dinklage's addition to the cast Wednesday evening.


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What Does Aimless Movement Mean?
Raising your hand or reaching forward to open a door — these are movements that you do on purpose. However, some people move their bodies in a way that doesn't have a purpose. These are known as aimless movements. Another name for aimless movements is purposeless movements.
Aimless movements can be voluntary or involuntary. Many brain-related conditions can cause aimless movements.
What Are the Physical Signs of Aimless Movement?
Aimless movements can have many physical signs. Most of these signs depend on the underlying medical cause.
Here are some examples of the different types of aimless movements:
- athetosis, or writhing movements, most often in the arms and hands
- ballism, or flinging or flailing movements, usually of the arms
- chorea, which are involuntary dance-like movements that lack any specific pattern
- dystonia, or prolonged muscular contractions that lead to repetitive motions or abnormal postures
- myoclonus, or involuntary twitching or jerking movements of certain muscles
- tics, or sudden muscle contractions that look like twitches that a person may be able to stop or slow
- tremors, or uncontrollable muscle contractions
Someone with aimless movements may have one or more of these symptoms.
What Are the Causes of Aimless Movement?
Many causes of aimless movements exist. Examples of common causes include:
- Alzheimer's disease
- autism
- blepharospasm (eye twitching)
- brain damage after cardiac arrest
- brain tumors
- cervical dystonia
- cerebral palsy
- encephalopathy (brain swelling)
- epilepsy
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Huntington's disease
- kidney failure
- liver failure
- multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
- rheumatic fever
- spinal cord injuries
- Tourette syndrome
Taking certain medications or illegal substances can also cause aimless movements. Examples of these medications and drugs include:
- amphetamines
- antipsychotics
- buspirone
- carbamazepine
- cimetidine
- cocaine
- digoxin
- fentanyl
- fluoxetine
- lithium
- methadone
- methylphenidate
- oral contraceptives (birth control pills)
- phenytoin
- tricyclic antidepressants
Even if you suspect your medications are causing your aimless movements, don't stop taking your prescriptions unless your doctor tells you it's OK.
When Should I Get Medical Help?
You should seek medical treatment immediately if the aimless movements come on suddenly and without any explanation. This is especially true if the movements are violent and could cause a person to harm themself.
Make an appointment to see your doctor if you have a medical condition that's known to cause aimless movements and your movements seem to be getting worse or more noticeable.
How Is Aimless Movement Diagnosed?
A doctor will ask about your medical history and the medications you are taking. The doctor will also watch to observe the movements.
A doctor will review all the medications you're currently taking. These include prescription medications, supplements, and herbs.
Several tests are available that may help a doctor diagnose the cause of aimless movements. Examples include:
- blood tests to identify excess medications in the blood or electrolyte imbalances
- electroencephalogram (EEG)
- electromyography
- imaging studies, such as CT or MRI scans, or positron emission tomography (PET)
How Is Aimless Movement Treated?
Treatments for aimless movements depend on the underlying cause or causes. Your doctor will consider changing medication or dosage amounts if medications are causing the movements. In some instances, taking the medication and having aimless movements may be preferred to symptoms without the medication.
If a brain disorder is causing the aimless movements, it may be treated in a variety of ways, from new medications to surgeries.


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The countdown is on.
The transition to digital at WILX-TV happens in just one week, on Feb. 17.
"Hang in there," says Karole White, president and CEO of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. "It's going to be great."
"There's going to be more channels, and there's going to be better pictures," White says. "Everybody in the end, I think, will be glad for the switch."
To be glad, you first need to be ready. If you have cable or satellite TV, you're all set.
"Remember to check all the televisions in your home," cautions White. "Just because you have cable on the main TV, don't forget about the TV that's in the garage."
If you use an antenna to get your TV over the air, you have a few options: You can buy a new TV, subscribe to cable or satellite, or buy a digital converter.
Converter boxes may be flying off the shelves at Radio Shack, but they are still available. Don't forget, though, you need an antenna to make it all work.
"The digital signals are a little weaker, so your old rabbit ears might not pull in as many channels anymore," says Christine Kolb, a Radio Shack sales associate. "So you might have to bump it up to an amplified antenna."
Starting Wednesday, WILX-TV will be running more crawls throughout regular programming, to make viewers aware the transition is fast approaching.
"The F.C.C. mandates an increase," explains White.
The F.C.C. decides how many messages, and how often. Though it may interfere with your favorite show, there's good reason.
"Television is not only entertainment, television is also emergency information," White says. "And we do not want one person left behind, not knowing where to get their information in case of an emergency."
It's so you're not left in the dark.


text: agriculture With Less Rain Than Phoenix, Washington Faces Challenging Drought By Anna King • Jul 17, 2015 Listen Listening... / Washington is getting less rain than Phoenix, Arizona, state Ecology Danager Maia Bellon said during a press conference in Lacey Friday. Washington Lawmaker Warns Of Noxious Weed After Death Of 'One-In-A-Million' Horse By Austin Jenkins • Jul 15, 2015 Listen Listening... / The death of his prized horse has a Washington state lawmaker warning about a noxious weed that's spreading in the Northwest. That weed is toxic to horses and can have a gruesome effect on their hooves. Northwest Farmers Anxiously Await Overdue Guest Workers By Liz Jones • Jun 30, 2015 KUOW Photo/Liz Jones Listen Listening... / 1:45 Hundreds of farm workers from Mexico are now making their way to the Northwest after a major delay. A computer glitch crippled the U.S. visa system, including a guest worker program that Northwest farmers increasingly rely on. Washington Cherry Growers Grapple With Drought, Labor Issues By Kate O'Connell & Kim Malcolm • Jun 24, 2015 Flickr Photo/Jay Inslee (CC BY ND 2.0) Listen Listening... / 4:03 Kim Malcolm speaks with Northwest News Network's Anna King about Washington's cherry industry. Water restrictions and labor shortages have thrown up some hurdles for local producers, but this year's crop is still expected to produce about 15 million boxes of cherries. Some Washington Cherry Orchards Short Of Labor This Year By Anna King • Jun 19, 2015 Listen Listening... / Northwest sweet cherry experts are reporting that some orchards are having a hard time getting their fruit picked this year. Oregon Bill Would Increase Incentives To Mediate Farming Disputes By Chris Lehman • Jun 18, 2015 Listen Listening... / Oregon farmers could soon be more likely to use a mediator to help settle their disputes with neighboring farmers. Can Labor Changes Bring Peace At Sakuma Brothers Berry Farm? By Liz Jones • Jun 11, 2015 KUOW Photo/Liz Jones Listen Listening... / 6:13 BURLINGTON, Wash. – On a recent morning at Sakuma Brothers Farm, eight Latino workers sat on a bench seat behind a tractor, planting strawberry roots that will bear fruit in a few years. Dust masks and goggles covered their faces. There's a good chance these field workers have joined, or work side by side, with a group calling for a union contract here. Monsanto, Angling For Global Pesticide Dominance, Woos Syngenta By Dan Charles • Jun 9, 2015 Selling seeds and pesticides used to be a sleepy, slow-moving business. That was, until about 20 years ago, when the chemical company Monsanto introduced genetically modified crops and started buying up seed companies. Ever since, companies in this industry have been maneuvering like hungry fish in a pond, occasionally dining on pieces of each other, hoping to survive through size and speed. Washington Apple Orchard To Pay Record Fine For Immigration Violations By Liz Jones • Jun 4, 2015 Anna King/Northwest News Network Immigration officials have busted an Eastern Washington farm for major violations. Now, the farm is set to pay the largest fine ever in the state for illegally hiring workers. Drought Forces Large Group Of Yakima Valley Farmers To Turn Off The Spigot By Anna King • May 12, 2015 Listen Listening... / The Roza Irrigation District in Eastern Washington's Yakima Valley is shutting off the water for two weeks because of drought. About a billion dollars in crops are on the line. Washington Farmers Turn Off The Tap To Lessen Water Woes By Bill Radke & Jason Pagano • May 12, 2015 KUOW PHOTO/ANNA KING Listen Listening... / 5:51 Bill Radke talks with reporter Anna King of the Northwest News Network about how farmers in Central Washington are struggling to save water during an extended drought. Why Did USDA Respond So Slowly To Washington Salmonella Cases? 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But rancher Len McIrvin of Diamond M Ranch doesn't see why state conservationists are patting themselves on the back. And he finds it baffling that people are so fond of wolves. To him, they're bloodthirsty predators. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »


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This is for the Gaymers.
It's not uncommon to see those none too keen on PlayStation refer to the console at the 'GayStation' and now there is an actual system which does indeed merit that name.
The system is being auctioned off to mark Stockholm Pride this week and the top bid is closing in on the €1,500/$2,000 mark at the time of writing. All proceeds will go to support group RFSL.


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This was during the Christmas Nor'easter of 2010, better known as snowicane, snowpocolypse, and other crazy slang you can throw out of the box. What you see in the video is 150th Street in Queens, NY., one of the many, many, many local streets in New York City without a single plow going through since the fall of the first snowflake.
Now not only was the snow storm one of the record worst to hit the Northeast, but also under the management of our beloved Mayor Mike Bloomberg, decided to lay off lots of sanitation workers and cut off a load of budget from the department. After the storm, he blamed the sanitation workers "unacceptable" when the workers were outnumbered by the enormous tasks of clearing the streets of New York as well as a few "rogue" workers who decided to use this as an opportunity to carry out a protest by not clearing the snow!
Regardless of the conflict between the NYC department of sanitation and the mayor's office, guess who end up paying the price? US! The middle-class working New Yorkers' who are paying more and more taxes in the midst of the unemployment rate and more service cuts. Several people died from emergencies throughout the week, as ambulances, police, and fire trucks got stuck right outside of their station! So who's really to blame, you be the judge! (In my video, you can see a volunteer paramedic trying to free his vehicle.)
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In all honesty, if I lived in NYC I would move immediately. I have been there and it is beautiful and I had a blast, but what Bloomberg and your other city leaders are doing is a crying shame.
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OAKLAND -- Councilwoman Libby Schaaf leads the money chase in a crowded mayoral field, while two of her top rivals dipping deep into their savings to stay competitive, campaign filings show.
Schaaf raised $225,883 in monetary contributions during the first half of the year and has raised $349,030 since kicking off her campaign late last year.
Mayor Jean Quan is in third place behind Schaaf and Port Commissioner Bryan Parker. She raised $86,700 in monetary contributions during the first six months of this year and $216,194 overall.
Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who started campaigning in June, raised $101,470 in just three weeks of fundraising, but that includes $60,000 of Kaplan's own money.
Attorney Dan Siegel is also taking a big financial risk on the race. He loaned his campaign $100,000, which he got from liquidating one of his retirement accounts.
"I told my wife if I lose the election, I'll try to work an extra two years and make it back," he said.
The top seven candidates raised more than $600,000 in monetary contributions between January and June, records show. That's nearly double the amount raised during the same period four years ago.
Schaaf's haul is only about $40,000 less than former State Senator Don Perata, a notoriously skilled fundraiser, had at the same point of his 2010 mayoral bid.
"It's a pretty extraordinary showing for someone who's running against a tough field," Schaaf's campaign consultant Ace Smith said.
Asked about Schaaf sprinting out to a six-figure fundraising lead, Quan's campaign co-chairman Michael Colbruno said the mayor's campaign "is based on people power, not powerful pocketbooks."
Parker raised $62,765 in the first six months of this year for a total of $237,847. However, Parker has also spent considerable sums trying to raise his profile. He entered July with only $107,146, which is less than half of Schaaf's war chest.
San Francisco State professor Joe Tuman raised $47,506 in monetary contributions from January through June for a total of $192,856.
City Auditor Courtney Ruby, who entered the race early this year, raised $84,132 through June. Siegel raised $44,051.
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Be sure to add those finishing touches to your outdoor space with accessories. Lights, curtain panels, and cushions and throw pillows should not only be considered for inside your home. Outdoor versions of these accessories can have a major visual impact outside the home as well. And by incorporating other quirky and interesting details, such as an LED patio lazy susan or a Mexican thatch umbrella cover, you can be sure that your friends and family will want to enjoy your amazing outdoor space all season long.


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Prominent San Francisco Republican killed in crash
FORESTVILLE, Calif. Prominent San Francisco area Republican leader Donald Casper has been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging in California wine country.
Investigators tell the San Francisco Chronicle that the 63-year-old Casper was struck by a pickup truck Sunday night in Forestville, a central Sonoma County community about 60 miles north of San Francisco.
The California Highway Patrol says the pickup driver drove away.
Casper, an attorney, is vice president of the San Francisco Civil Service Commission. He's the son of former San Francisco Fire Chief Andrew Casper and his mother Dorothy was a member of the city library commission.
Casper was a prominent voice in the moderate wing of the Republican Party.
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Sales tax revenue returning to 'normal' levels in 2011
NEW MADRID - Having a little less class can save money.
Effective Jan. 1, New Madrid County is once again be a third-class county, like most counties across Missouri. As a third-class entity, New Madrid County no longer is required to have an auditor.
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Shrimp with Tomatoes, White Beans and Spinach
Today's recipe comes from Pamela Salzman, a cooking instructor in the Los Angeles area who focuses on whole, seasonal, and locally-grown organic foods ... and earned certification as a holistic health counselor from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Pamela focuses on recipes taught in her classes, as well as nutrition education. As she says, The motivation behind my cooking classes and this site is to encourage and inspire people to get back in the kitchen and cook real food.
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2 Tablespoons organic extra virgin olive oil
6 medium cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 pound fresh tomatoes, peeled, seeded and diced (or canned, drained)
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 Tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Sea salt
1/2 cup dry white wine
1-1/2 pounds large shrimp or prawns, peeled and deveined
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Tuscaloosa with free breakfast and outdoor pool
Located in the heart of Tuscaloosa, this hotel is within 2 mi (3 km) of Alabama Museum of Natural History, Paul W. Bryant Museum, and Denny Chimes. University of Alabama and Coleman Coliseum are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center, a 24-hour front desk, and express check-out.
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Hampton Inn Tuscaloosa-University features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
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At sunset this Saturday evening, (June 30), Missouri's annual bullfrog and green frog season will begin, the only hunting or fishing season to start at that odd time. In Chillicothe, sunset will be 8:46 PM, but if you live more than 13.5 miles east or west of Chillicothe, you'll need to adjust the time a smidgeon. Check out Missouri hunting regulations for details on how to do this.
Frog hunting used to be a very popular summertime outdoor activity, and when my son Brett was young, we spent many enjoyable days and nights catching frogs and cleaning them for a gourmet dinner.
We came home hot, muddy, tired and mosquito-bitten, but we had fun. All youngsters seem to have more fun when they're getting dirty, and frog hunting was a great excuse to come home a mess. I don't think froggin' is quite as popular as it used to be, but there are still lots of folks that try to get enough frogs for a great dinner once or twice a summer.
"Froggin's" popularity seems to have waned, and a major reason may be a decline in frog populations.
Back when son Brett was 8 years old (he's 47 now) frogs were abundant wherever there was water, in creeks, rivers, and especially in ponds and lakes. You could usually find an eight frog limit in the first pond you visited, and it didn't take much driving around to locate one full of big frogs. It's not like that now, as frogs seem to be much harder to find.
The daily limit on frogs (only bullfrogs and green frogs are legal to hunt to eat, although some other frogs may be taken alive for bait) is still 8, with a possession limit of 16 and these limits haven't changed for 40 years. Eight big frogs (only take the really big ones and let the little ones grow up) will give you 16 legs almost chicken-size, more than enough for a great dinner for 4 people, and frog legs are some of the best eating you'll ever enjoy.
In addition to the quirky season opening time, frogs are also unique in that they may be taken by hunting or fishing methods, and you must possess the proper license for the method you're using. You can hunt frogs with a .22 or smaller (smaller includes the .17's) rimfire rifle or pistol, pellet gun, bow, crossbow, atlatl, or by hand or hand net. You may take frogs with a fishing permit by using your hands, a hand net, atlatl, gig, bow, trotline, limb line, bank line, jug line, snagging, snaring, grabbing or pole and line. While hunting or fishing for frogs, you may use an artificial light.
Only the daily limit may be possessed while you're on the waters or banks of waters being hunted, so hunting past midnight may require a trip to remove the first day's limit before proceeding.
Page 2 of 2 - A regulations change this year will allow froggin' on MDC conservation areas using firearms, previously not permitted. If you're to do some hiking, many of these CA's have remote ponds that are so far from a parking lot that no one ever bothers to check them out. Some of these will have a good population of bullfrogs that are really big. I've hiked in to some of them in the past with a fishing rod (a method previously allowed) and caught some dandy frogs. It's worth some time and effort to find an unhunted area where there are still lots of big ones.
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More Aftershocks Out of Backdating's Epicenter
In today's Recorder, Justin Scheck pinpoints five companies with questionable timing in their past stock-options grants that have yet to be ensnared by the scandal. At all five, reports Scheck in two separate stories (here and here), Silicon Valley corporate lawyers sat on boards that doled out questionable grants. Here are the five companies, and the lawyers who sat on their boards:
- Amylin Pharmaceuticals: James Gaither, Cooley Godward
- Heartport Inc.: Robert Gunderson, Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian
- LSI Logic: Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Lattice Semiconductor: Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Echelon Corp.: Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
All the lawyers either declined to comment through a spokeswoman or didn't return repeated phone calls and e-mails. Representatives of LSI Logic and Lattice Semi said it had investigated its past options-timing and found no improprieties or irregularities. Amylin and Echelon had no comment.


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Health Blog Q&A: Talking Hand Transplants With a Surgeon
We were fascinated to read a Boston Globe article about the brand-new hand transplant program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is now screening candidates. Hand transplants — taking a hand from a deceased donor and attaching it to a living recipient, who will need to take anti-rejection drugs for a lifetime — are still rare; just three sites in the country have performed the operation. (UCLA and the Brigham have new programs but haven't yet done any surgeries.)
To learn more, we chatted with Matthew Carty, a reconstructive plastic surgeon who is surgical lead for the Brigham's program, which is considered experimental since all patients will be part of a research study. Here are edited excerpts:
Why a hand transplant?
Traditionally there have been two options: reconstruction, using other parts of the body to build something functional, or a prosthesis. A transplant gives a person something that is truly a hand — reconstructions don't provide a normal-looking limb. And functionally, looking at most long-term outcomes, a transplant performs at least as well as a prosthesis. It also give you sensation, once the nerves grow back. That's a huge, huge advance.
This is a rare procedure — only about 40 or 50 have been done worldwide. Why is it so hard?
Composite tissue transplants like the hand and the face — which involve multiple types of tissue, such as skin, fat, muscle, bone, veins and arteries – are distinct from solid organ transplants. We've actually had the technical prowess to do this for 35 or 36 years, since the advent of microsurgery. But what's advanced in leaps and bounds is the medical technology in terms of the medications to give people to prevent rejection. Medical knowledge has caught up with surgical knowledge.
Is preventing rejection tougher because of the multiple tissues involved?
Initially people thought that the incremental amount of immunosuppression would be so far above solid organ transplants that it would create problems, such as a risk of cancer and infection. But that doesn't seem to be the case, though we're not sure why that is. A couple of studies ironically suggest that the combined immunological burden of a bunch of different tissues is less than any one of those tissues. We're still figuring it out.
Who's an appropriate candidate?
At the Brigham, we've decided [to screen] people who have lost a dominant hand or lost both hands. We tend not to screen people younger than 18 or older than 65. On the older end, we have some concerns about the side effects of medication. My guess is that over time the protocol will be widened. In general, most people who have had transplants tried prostheses in the past and haven't been able to achieve satisfactory function. The majority tend to be pretty young and very motivated. Obviously [taking anti-rejection drugs] is probably the biggest thing long-term; it requires lifelong adherence. But there's also very aggressive hand therapy for six to eight hours a day for the month following the transplant, then several times a week for up to a year. The continued commitment to hand therapy could last up to three or four years after surgery.
Who's paying for it?
Brigham has agreed to support the first several transplants; our hope is that then we'll secure some kind of outside funding. Because patients will need to be on immunosuppressive drugs [which carry a significant cost], their insurance company has to be on board.
If I die in Boston and have the donor box checked on my license, could I donate a hand?
The criteria now are a bit in flux — we're working with the New England Organ Bank to define them. Right now, donors who would meet any kind of requirement for a solid organ transplant are identified by the NEOB and then the family would be approached on an individual basis. Right now we aren't assuming that if someone is willing to be a solid organ donor he's also willing to be a composite tissue donor.
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BOSTON (AP) -- Consumers have environmentally friendlier plastics, patients in clinical trials have a new device to treat clogged arteries and we all might get disease-treating nanoparticles inside our bodies thanks in part to the work of one man, the winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Prize.
The $500,000 prize to chemistry professor Joseph DeSimone was to be announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prize recognizes people who turn their ideas into inventions that help change the world.
"The breadth of his inventions, and his ability to leverage his expertise across all these disciplines is really amazing," said Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT program.
DeSimone, 44, has appointments as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina State University.
He said in a telephone interview that his interest in chemistry blossomed during his childhood in suburban Philadelphia, in part because of a chemistry set. It belonged to his younger sister.
"Maybe it was just jealousy in wanting to have something she had that made me move in that direction," DeSimone said.
He said he was drawn in the 1990s to the emerging field of "green" chemistry and the search for environmentally friendly ways to make plastics.
That interest helped him develop a process to reduce pollutants left over from manufacturing high-performance plastics with applications such as nonstick cookware and insulation for wires and cables.
DeSimone's process involves substituting carbon dioxide for an acid normally used in the manufacturing process. This eliminated a chemical that can linger in the bloodstream and the broader environment, creating a potential human health risk.
DuPont Co. has licensed DeSimone's technology and built a $40 million plant that uses the technique in Fayetteville, N.C.; it went online in 2002.
DeSimone also teamed up with a Duke University cardiologist, Dr. Richard Stack, to craft an alternative to the metal that's normally used in coronary stents - tiny mesh tubes that have been implanted in millions of people worldwide to hold arteries open after doctors push back the fatty deposits clogging them.
The stents can help prevent heart attacks and avoid the need for open-heart surgery. Doctors, however, have become increasingly worried over data showing that newer model metal stents coated with drugs can slightly increase the risk of potentially fatal blood clots forming months or years after the devices are inserted.
DeSimone and Stack developed so-called bioabsorbable stents made of a polymer that can hold arteries open while the body slowly heals. After about two years, the stent dissolves in the body, potentially reducing the risk of clotting.
After artery-clearing surgery, "the artery needs to stay open, but the body needs to heal itself," DeSimone said. "So why have a permanent stent inserted?"
The technology is now in clinical trials, but has yet to receive regulatory clearance.
DeSimone also has waded into the field of nanotechnology - creating materials at the atomic or molecular scale.
His research team formed templates from synthetic material to mass-produce minuscule engineered particles that can be released in the body. Scientists hope to someday use the templates to custom-design and manufacture nanoparticles to aid in disease diagnosis and treat conditions such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and cancer.
"We're taking a technique from the semiconductor industry, and morphing it so it's useful in nanomedicine," said DeSimone, who plans to use the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT award to support additional scientific ventures.
The prolific inventor Jerome H. Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy, founded the nonprofit Lemelson-MIT Program in 1994.


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SILVERTHORNE - High Country Conservation Center director Carly Wier doesn't accept the term "nonrecyclable" easily. So when bike tires were dropped off before the center had the resources to recycle them, her mind went to work ... and the result was fashion.Wier, along with several other designers, created outfits with materials destined for the trash or recycling bin for the Recycled Fashion Show, a highlight of the Earth Day Action Fair Saturday."I was thinking, what sort of dress would have a long hoop skirt at the bottom," Wier said of her process after realizing a hoop skirt would fit nicely on a bike tire. The title of the piece, "Bike to Work," came together when Wier worked into the outfit nylons with runs in them she had been saving.
Another of her fashions is made of black trash bags and grocery store plastic bags. Wier described the style as reminiscent of a 1980s prom dress. And since the bags are made of recycled plastic, the outfit has another layer of meaning."It helps close the loop and support recycling locally to be making stuff out of recycled products," Wier said.During the fashion show, an announcer will talk about what each model is wearing, along with a message about sustainability from the director.Lake County High School student Ilea Dempsey has been working on her design with a friend since before Christmas break - and the Earth Day fair won't be the last place she'll wear it. After modeling in Silverthorne, she'll wear it in Leadville for her senior prom.
"I have an obsession with pop tops," said Dempsey, whose dress is made of the soda can tabs and string. The senior was pulling together the final touches on her dress this week.Another outfit to be modeled Saturday is titled, "Vote for Reuse," and is made from Amendment 37 campaign signs. It is designed with a cheerleader theme with a short skirt and little vest. Wier said she'd been thinking of the outfit ever since she saw the turquoise and blue colors of the signs campaigning for renewable energy in Colorado.Beth Orstad, who works part-time at the High Country Conservation Center and in the winter works at the Keystone ticket office, first thought up her Earth-friendly design for a Halloween costume. She said one of the ticket offices was still using the old school, sticky back tickets, but were discontinuing use at the end of the season."I don't want to waste stuff, so I started peeling (stickers) off and sticking them together in narrow strips," Orstad said. Soon, a vest and skirt were born and lanyards added to the style.
"It looks fancy and it was easy," she said.The Recycled Fashion Show begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Silverthorne Pavilion. The Earth Day Action Fair will have workshops and demonstrations throughout the day, which show little things people can do in their everyday lives to "walk a little lighter on the earth," according to Wier. The Green Scene Awards will be presented at noon.Leslie Brefeld can be reached at (970) 668-3998, ext. 13622, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hey Gale~
My 15-year-old just got his first road bike and is already a good swimmer. He's swam competitively for five years and will swim on the high school team. He's a good, strong rider too. He beat me last year in a mountain bike race.
What tips/suggestions would you have for a teen triathlete? I've never done one as I suck at running. ~ A.S.
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I'm working with a 14-year-old right now. My main goal is to make "workouts" as fun as possible.
Your son has an advantage with swim team and track in his back pocket. When he is doing his primary sport for school, minimize or eliminate the other two sports. Any time spent doing other sports during the competitive season of his school sport, should be completely aerobic and relatively short. Foundation technique skills and drills is always a good pick during this time.
When he's out of his school sport responsibilities you can add the other sports back into the mix. For the fellow I'm coaching, I had him do two workouts in each sport each week and he had good results. I rotated which sport had intervals or higher intensity segments and generally all the intervals were well under 5 minutes. If he did longer intensity segments, it was usually related to a hill climb and learning about pacing.
Hope that helps ~ Gale
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