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Project Pinterest: Cool Drink Coasters
I REVEALED MY LOVE OF THE VISUAL BOOKMARKING SITE CALLED PINTEREST RECENTLY. Initially I was drawn to the graphic feel of the site. You can browse images for hours looking at all kinds of crafting ideas, home design and organization, gorgeous outfits and even shoes. It's a type of shopping…only no buying. (My husband should appreciate that fact, right?)
The real strength of Pinterest is it's ability to organize ideas and line up projects for special occasions like birthdays or Christmas. Pinboards filled with ideas for a kitchen makeover or laundry room reorganization are easily kept together for you as you pin them. I used this board:
to keep ideas for Grace's 7th birthday together.
And I keep all the craft ideas I want to try on one board:
When the holidays came around I began to put some of those idea finds to work. I needed teacher and hostess gifts and I didn't want to buy the usual items. I remembered a project for tile drink coasters which was posted on my friend Ashley's awesome blog, The Handmade Home. I've been following Ashley's art and design work for years – not to mention laughing along with her growing family's antics. Not too long ago she was on the Nate Berkus Show and rocked that fame big time. She's an Auburn girl like me, so you know we have the best in design training. {War Eagle to all the Auburn design geeks out there!) Anyway, I used my handy dandy Pinterest link to find the tutorial.
So I set about to buy all the items necessary:
- Mod Podge
- Cotton Fabric
- Ceramic Tiles
- Felt "feet"
- Brushes
- Scissors
As usual, I started the project after kid bedtime. It didn't take me long to get in the crafting zone. So relaxing and satisfying. The step-by-step directions worked perfectly and I can honestly say that the options are endless with this idea. You can take it and put your own spin on it. I used cotton quilting fabric because it was the right weight and price, but you may want to use a favorite shirt or a pretty napkin you find. That's the beauty of Mod Podge and the technique combined with your ideas. Here are three of the sets I created:
and they've gotten good reviews thus far from the teachers and friends I've gifted. In fact, I plan on having some of these on hand regularly as hostess gifts.
Head on over to my friend Meghan's blog, JaMonkey, and look at the other Project Pinterest ideas shared there. Add yours to the linky or use her Project Pinterest Facebook page to share. Time to put those Pinterest ideas to work!
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BATON ROUGE — A new study finds Louisiana ranks next to last in the South and nationally when it comes to public high school seniors earning early college credit.
The study by the Southern Regional Education Board says just over 4 percent of Louisiana students passed at least one Advanced Placement exam last year compared to 16 percent both regionally and nationally.
That puts Louisiana just ahead of Mississippi in the 16-state region, as well as nationally.
Nancy Beben, director of curriculum standards for the state Department of Education, tells The Advocate that plans to expand AP classes in the state were a part of the state's bid for "Race To The Top" federal funds.
However, Louisiana failed to qualify for any of those dollars.
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Cooking Up Some Fun with Disney Junior AppsBrooke McLay
Ever had that moment that happens around 5 p.m, when you're frantically trying to pull dinner together, and you happen to catch a glimpse of your little Peter Pan? Those lovely little lashes sitting on his cheeks. That wisp of hair being blown away from her nose. That tot of yours sitting bored, waiting for your attention, and all you can do is chop tomatoes a little faster, promising you'll take your little one out for an adventure soon enough?
Well now there's a way to let your kiddos experience the ultimate age-appropriate adventures without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. Disney Junior has two fantastic new apps—Mickey Mouse Club House Road Rally & Jake's Never Land Pirate School—and they make the perfect fifteen-minute distraction for your toddlers and preschoolers while you get dinner on the table. How perfect is that? You cook, and they cook up adventure!
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News 12 at 6 o' clock / Saturday, June 16, 2012
LANGLEY, S.C. -- We are learning more about a shooting and hostage situation in Langley last week.
Kevin Claeys was arrested and accused of shooting a man in the face, then running a few houses down and holding a woman and her daughter hostage in her Jackson Street home.
Two separate 911 calls played a huge role in putting the gunman behind bars. The 911 tapes are giving us a better glimpse into those women's brave actions.
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The first call came in from the gunman's own home.
Dispatch: "Aiken 911, where's your emergency?"
Caller: "Augusta Road."
Dispatch: "What's going on there, sir? "
Caller: "There's been shots fired."
Caller: "Somebody just shot a gun -- I think he's tripping out, I think he's on some dope, I need somebody here now!"
This call came in from the gunman's home on Augusta Road. Dispatchers were able to warn deputies that the suspect was armed and dangerous, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans.
Dispatch: "Aiken County 911, where's your emergency?"
Victim: "I need 911 right now, Jackson Street, a man just broke into our house; he's got a gun!"
The woman frantically calling 911 is Linda Holley's daughter.
Hostage victim (daughter): "Mama, stop -- Mama!
He said don't call the cops. And she wouldn't stop calling."
Hostage victim (daughter): "My mama's trying to get him -- please!
Dispatcher: "Do you know him?"
But Holley wasn't waiting on the cops. She took matters into her own hands.
Hostage victim: "I'm going to kill you."
Gunman: "I've got my hands in the air -- I surrender. I surrender!"
That surrender in her home on Jackson Street led to Claeys' arrest, marking the end of a terrifying experience for a small Langley community.
"I had walked him all the way out, and he was standing at the top of the ramp. And saw the cops taping off, and three of them started running this way. And he just laid down on his stomach, put his hands behind his head," Holley said.
Claeys is facing several charges, including kidnapping, burglary, attempted murder and possession of a weapon.


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Korean car maker Kia Motors Corp. revealed sketches of its coming large flagship sedan. The company said it will launch the rear-wheel-drive luxury car in the Korean market in the first half of this year.
Known for now as the KH, the new model is Kia's first-ever sedan with rear drive and its front grille shape and other design features link it clearly with current mass-market models like the Optima and Rio. The KH reflects a desire at Kia to move into upscale markets as other car makers including Volkswagen and Toyota.
Kia said its designers paid special attention to the car's side view, which shows a "simple side character line to give a feeling of spaciousness while emphasizing the new model's bold and dynamic image."
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London—April 11, 2011— Themillions of Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version video game players around the world can expand their game play experience online with the launch of the Pokémon Global Link on April 13 th. For the first time ever, a Pokémon™ video game incorporates dynamic, customisable, Web-only content and online options that make it even easier to communicate with fellow Pokémon Trainers anytime, anywhere. The Pokémon Global Link also provides fun new ways to interact with Pokémon and introduces battling features found online and in your Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version video game for any system in the Nintendo DS™ family. Starting April 13 th, players can use Game Sync—a feature of the C-Gear in the Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version games—to seamlessly sync their game play to the Pokémon Global Link via the Internet at www.pokemon-gl.com. A computer with broadband Internet access and a Pokémon Trainer Club account (which can be easily obtained for free at www.pokemon.co.uk ) are required to log in to the Pokémon Global Link.
The Pokémon Global Link launches with two main features to enhance the game play of Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version, with more exciting content to come. The Pokémon Dream World allows players to interact with their favourite Pokémon characters and other Trainers in a customisable Web-only setting that comes alive with minigames and other fun activities. At the Global Battle Union, players can check weekly ratings online and access to-be-announced battle features in the Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version games.
After a player "tucks in" a Pokémon using Game Sync, he or she can enter that Pokémon's dreams online in the Pokémon Dream World—a brand-new Pokémon destination with a unique watercolour look. While visiting the Pokémon Dream World, players can befriend various Pokémon not found in the Unova region by successfully completing various minigames. These newly befriended Pokémon can be transferred into Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version andtrained for battle! The Pokémon you've tucked in will have a home in the Pokémon Dream World that you can customize and decorate as you like, plus a garden where you can grow Berries. Berries and other items discovered in the Pokémon Dream World will be kept in your Treasure Chest and can be transferred into Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version. The Pokémon Dream World also allows for easy interaction with other Pokémon Trainers. Visit fellow Trainers' homes, help them grow Berries, and share items with other players exploring the Pokémon Dream World!
After syncing with the Pokémon Global Link, players can also visit the Global Battle Union to view online battle content and unlock new battle features in Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version. At the Global Battle Union, players can check their worldwide match Rankings and Ratings. In order for a player's match Rankings and Ratings to appear in the Global Battle Union, that player must first gain access to Random Matchup Rating Mode in his or her copy of Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version, available only after a player creates a Pokémon Trainer Club account and logs in to the Pokémon Global Link. Results from Random Matchups played in the video games will also appear in the Global Battle Union.
The Pokémon Company International will offer special Pokémon character and item distributions via the Pokémon Global Link throughout the year, allowing players to easily transfer limited-time-only Pokémon and items into their copy of Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version. Right now, players with a Pokémon Trainer Club account can visit www.pokemon.co.uk and try out the Play to Befriend a Pokémon game in the Pokémon Fun Zone for a chance to meet one of Eevee's seven evolutions in the Pokémon Dream World later this spring! And just as with any other Pokémon befriended in the Pokémon Dream World, players will be able to transfer it into their copy of Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version.
"The PokémonGlobal Link further expands the world of Pokémon and enhances the global connectivity of Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version," said J.C. Smith, director of Consumer Marketing for The Pokémon Company International."Pokémon has always been about communicating and battling with others, and the Pokémon Global Link has taken that philosophy to a new and exciting level."
To begin exploring the Pokémon Global Link, please visit www.pokemon-gl.com.
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About Pokémon
The Pokémon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children's entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visit www.pokemon.co.uk.
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The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 billion video games and more than 577 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi™XL, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64® and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was established in 1990 and serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in Europe.
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these are more pieces from my collection. the green bowl has great color to it. the two small cranberry glasses in the front are very rare and originally from a set of four glasses and a small miniture pitcher. i have not ever seen a complete set. i found each glass at a different time, thats why one is taller than the other. in the third pic is a great purple and white slag shoe. it is a very interesting piece and is hard to find. it was made in the 1980's and was made for a very limited time period. thanks


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This is a natural phenomenon which occurs when warm water from the river meets the cold winter air, forming ice crystals on the trees. Jilin Province is very cold in winter. The climate there is below -25C/-13F at this time of year.In 1937, Chinese built a hydroelectric dam at Songhua Lake. Water coming out from the hydroelectric station is above freezing even in the coldest days. That big difference in temperature creat the natural phenomenon of ice-rimmed trees in winter.
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Currently, being a student comes with a whole new package of benefits that help them get a couple of things free. There is no limit to what they can get and at no cost at all. So, if you are a student who has been wondering where you would get cash to buy a computer, then worry no more because there are various ways in which you can get free students computers. All that you have to do is know where you are supposed to be and at what time and how to go about ensuring you benefit from free offers for students.
To get free students computers, while in school, you should always stay on the alert and you will be lucky to locate some flyers or advertisements on school boards and administrative areas about people who are willing to give out free computers to students. While most people are privy to ignoring such advertisements those who do not, often end up benefiting from such offers. This will be a great opportunity for you to find out more information about the offer and ensure that you benefit from it. Alternatively, some schools have draws for the same, participating in such events can get you a free computer.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Friday, Oct. 6, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Jacqueline Burke imagined herself rolling in the dough when she took a seasonal job with Dark Horse Limousine Company during Masters week.
"You can make almost a thousand dollars in tips a week," she said.
Burke drove visitors around town in style all week. Her boss gave her a check for $560 for her work.
"A couple weeks after that check was written and cashed, I started to get phone calls," she said.
The calls came from the check cashing place where Burke where cashed her paycheck. Come to find out, the check was bad and the lady on the phone told her that she was responsible.
"I was going to have to pay the whole amount back," Burke said.
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This wastewater treatment plant is turning food into fuel to heat New York homes.
According to the EPA, the 35 million tons of food waste produced each year in the United States make up the largest percentage of landfill waste. If 50 percent of this waste was anaerobically digested, 2.5 million homes could be powered by the resulting electricity for a year. In 2015, New York restaurants, who take in over a millions tons of organic waste each year, will be required to stop sending their food waste to landfills. Instead, the Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn is offering to take in the excess waste.
The largest of New York City's 14 wastewater treatment plants, Newton Creek boasts eight digester eggs that process as much as 1.5 million gallons of sewer sludge every day, using trillions of bacteria to break down the sludge into water and other usable materials. Now, the plant is being used to digest a new type of waste—table scraps. The hope is that the plant will be able to absorb the organic waste from residences across New York, converting the trash that would otherwise fill landmines into methane gas to heat houses and apartments. Although Newton Creek is too small to handle all the waste produced by restaurants, the industry is hoping to open more plants and increase their capacity.
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The Mid-Autumn Day is also named "qiu xi". It is also a tradition of Korean to present gifts to relatives and friends on this festival. Therefore, it is named "Thanksgiving Day" as well. On their holiday table, the festival is marked as "Thanksgiving Day" in English. The Mid-Autumn is a general festival in Korea, and there would be a three days' holiday. During these days, they would come back to their hometown to visit their relatives. Thus, it is the season for sale one month before the festival. The major companies would give big discounts to attract people to give gifts to each other. On this day, Korean would have a kind of traditional snack, which resembles the Chinese dumpling.
An important festival for harvest thanksgiving in South Korea, the Mid-Autumn Festival is even more ceremonious than their Spring Festival. South Koreans have a three-day holiday from the 14th to the 16th of the eighth lunar month.
It is a festival for family members to get together. The eldest son worships their deceased ancestors first, and then all the family dance together and appreciate the moon. Young girls wear colorful traditional clothes and play springboard games.
As the ancestor worship ceremony starts, all men stand reverently before the altar. The eldest son opens the front door first, symbolizing "inviting" his ancestors to come in. Then he offers flowers, wine, and snacks, and burns incense while bowing together with other family members.
While his ancestors "enjoy" the offerings, the eldest son relates the glorious deeds of his ancestors. When the ceremony is over, he and other family members start to eat together.
Each household prepares newly-harvested grains and fruits, taro soup, and muffins in the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The muffins are the highlight and have a similar significance to mooncakes for the Chinese. The semi-moon-shaped muffins are made from rice flour, with pork and dates as fillings, and are usually sent as gifts among friends and relatives.
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Dr. Katherine Welch is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2004.
She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School and completed her residency at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a member of the Missouri State Medical Association and the Boone County Medical Association.
She entered private practice in North Carolina and returned to Missouri four years later to be close to family and friends. She joined Women's Health Associates upon returning to the Midwest.
Dr. Welch met and married her spouse during residency. They are blessed with a remarkable daughter. Dr. Welch enjoys family activities in hiking, biking, board games, and travel. She is actively involved with her daughter in school and extracurricular activities. Dr. Welch is an avid DIYer and always has a home remodeling project in the works.
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I've been saying all along that total capacitance is the sole contribution to the "sound" of an instrument cable. My last article on the subject left me wondering, though, how an "insignificant" difference in capacitance could produce a clearly identifiable difference in a blind test.
My argument was that it should take a significant shift in the resonant frequency of the guitar (caused by the change in capacitance between different cables) to cause a detectable difference in sound. I realized the error in my reasoning while reading some articles on mastering.
The issue is all about what constitutes a detectable difference. Listening to pure tones in isolation is different from evaluating subtle shifts in tonal balance in a musical context. Mastering engineers routinely make EQ changes of less than 1 dB at specific frequencies. So if a fractional-dB EQ difference is detectable in a mix, could it also be detectable while playing your guitar? I'd argue that it is. Every note has overtones. You normally play multiple notes at once. There are body resonances. In other words, a guitar does not produce a pure tone; it should be possible to detect small changes in EQ.
Accordingly, a small shift in the resonant frequency of a guitar's pickups - caused by a change from one cable to another that doesn't have the exact same total capacitance - should be detectable in a listening test.
What does this mean in a practical sense? The chances that you'll pick up two cables having exactly the same capacitance are slim; you'll hear a difference and you'll almost certainly prefer one over the other.
The rest is marketing and wish-fulfillment. You make a choice based upon your careful consideration of advertising copy and peer reviews. You need to believe that your choice was not ill-advised, so you either live with your choice or find something "better" in a different model or brand.


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Obama Won. So Did Election Forecasters.
My print column this week notes the impressive accuracy of pre-election state polls in the presidential election, and the equally impressive performance of poll aggregators that combine all the disparate polling numbers into aggregate forecasts.
Fivethirtyeight.com, the forecasting site created by baseball researcher Nate Silver, gained special prominence thanks to its cool-headed commentary, impressive graphics and rich data source. And Silver's forecasts beat just about every pollster active in many states on Tuesday — the notable exception was Zogby International — while also stacking up well against competitors that were also aggregating polls back in the 2004 election, Real Clear Politics and Pollster.com, which provides polling data to WSJ.com.
I asked Silver if all the focus on numbers distracts from election issues. "Maybe we cater too much to aficionados of the horse race and polls," Silver said. "But I do think we're able to teach people not to focus too much on an outlier poll." He added of his site, "It's a more efficient way to direct people to numbers, and it may put some pressure on pollsters to do things differently."
Silver said he expects traffic to drop off after the election, but he'll seek new ways to crunch political numbers: "Why do certain senators vote for certain bills? Which senators might be under the gun when they come up for re-election? There's still some inside-baseball stuff to look at there," said the Baseball Prospectus writer.
Other forecasters who used election polls — and some pundits who used a more qualitative approach — did quite well. Every one of the few dozen forecasts collected by 3BlueDudes showed an Obama win. The median forecast was for Obama to win 367 electoral votes. Obama has won 349, according to the news media, and is likely to pick up 15 more from North Carolina, while falling just short of Missouri's 11 electoral votes.
Brian Adams, a statistician at Franklin & Marshall College, predicted Obama would win 364 electoral votes in an email to me. I asked Adams and a dozen other forecasters to share their predictions with me. Because the election unfolded as expected, there wasn't much variation in the picks, or any big misses. Everyone predicted Obama would win between 338 and 393 electoral votes, and would win the national popular vote by between five and 10 percentage points (he appears to have won by six points). The Senate forecasts put the Democrats' share at between 55 and 57, not counting independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders; with several races not yet called, the number stands at between 54 and 58.
Perhaps the most interesting variable in the contest was among the hardest to predict: Voter turnout. While the popular-vote total so far has barely cleared the 2004 turnout of 122 million, several forecasters estimate that, once all ballots are counted, turnout will be between 125 million and 136.6 million. Adams and Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist and poll watcher, forecast turnout of 133 million and 135 million, respectively. Allan Keiter, of the forecasting site 270 to Win, may also have come close. (Thanks to Adams, Wang, Keiter, Jay Leve, J. Ann Selzer, William Arnone, Sheldon Jacobson, Andrea Moro, David Rabjohns, David Shor and Scott Elliott for participating and answering my questions.)
I wrote Tuesday about an unusually specific forecast: At what time CNN would call the election for Barack Obama. Bruce Nash was on the money, predicting CNN would call Virginia for Obama at 10:53 p.m. EST, and the election for the Illinois Senator at 11:01 p.m. Both happened at 11 p.m. Still, as expected, Nash's model — based in part on 2004 election results — appears to have understated Obama's support in swing states. "Obama significantly outperformed the model's expectations in two states, Ohio and Florida, which I think is testament to his ground game in those two states," Nash said.
Other forecasters, ranging from political scientists to a weighted average of all other forecasts that I covered last month to a system based on newspaper endorsements, all did well, too.
What do you think? Which forecasts did you consult before the election? Which would you trust most in 2012? What's the future of political forecasting? Please let me know in the comments.
Further reading: Others who have conducted preliminary analyses of pollsters' performance include Pollster.com, Huffington Post, the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder and a Fordham University political scientist. In 2004, the Wall Street Journal profiled election forecasters on the front page, then I followed up to check on their accuracy after the results were in. In 2006, I evaluated the accuracy of pollsters in the midterm elections. Since then I've written print columns about several of the challenges facing pollsters, including turnout, cellphones, the methodology of polling aggregation and interactive voice response.


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are they all kept outside/
we are protected from them/or
are they protected from us.
I am abraham levy
della seta.
I am a jew.
My name tells that to all.
I am "of the silk" – della seta.
We have lived here
over three hundred years.
I leave every morning
and yet I must hurry back at the end of each day.
My fabrics are fine
enough for the pope's raiment,
And yet I must live behind gates – away from civ dea.
Perhaps some day,
before the closing of my gates, I shall
Walk where I want/
when I want
and be like them.
Perhaps the time
has come.
The gates are open.
We can live where we want.
We can come and go as we please.
I am samuele
pontecorvo della seta.
I am a jew.
They all come to buy their silk from me.
The store is still
where it was, but that is all right.
We can only keep our stores in the ghetto.
I will open another store.
At least we can now live outside.
Everything takes time.
They are like us
and we are like them.
They are my countrymen.
Was it so long ago
that we lived here.
The gates are open. We live at via paula.
castel sant'angelo fills our window.
Our balcony looks over san pietro.
I am
giacomo pontecorvo della seta
I am a jew.
I am the first jew to attend the law faculty in rome.
My children … they
shall be what they want.
They shall be like the others.
They shall go where they want and do as they wish.
Where will we go
we cannot stay here.
Perhaps mother Xavier will take us in.
We must be in doors before sundown/behind gates
I am Giovanni della
I am an Italian.
I am a member of the fascist party. We all are. We all were.
We were like all the others.
The stairs/they're
coming up the stairs/
Run/leave everything/
Laura and gian carlo are up stairs/
Run/ we cannot warn
them/they will hear
I am a jew.
We are alone, together. Together/alone.
The railcar door
have opened
We're being pushed out/being sorted out/
Where are we going.
I am alone.
Mama was taken with the women.
Papa was taken with the men.
I am Giovanni gian
carlo della seta
I am a jew.
I am a student.
I am an Italian.
Where are did they
take my parents/
Were are they taking me.
It is sundown.
The gate is closing/for me/
For the last time.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. � Former Maryland women's basketball guard Katie Rutan has signed to play with the Romanian professional team Phoenix Galati this fall.
The Big Ten champion Maryland women's basketball team will travel to Italy the end of this week for an eight-day foreign excursion. The Terrapins will visit Rome, Florence, Milan and Lake Como on the trip, playing two exhibition games along the way.
Former Terrapin Tierney Pfirman has signed on to play professionally with the Romanian club, Sepsi-SIC, in Sf�ntu Gheorghe, Romania.
The Big Ten champion Maryland women's basketball team released its non-conference slate for the 2016-17 season Thursday, which includes contests against Connecticut, Louisville and Arizona State.
The Maryland women's basketball team began its summer practices this month to prepare for the upcoming foreign trip to Italy in August.
The Big Ten Conference announced on Wednesday that 31 Maryland students competing in intercollegiate athletics have earned the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award.
Maryland women's basketball head coach Brenda Frese has welcomed Lanie Deppe and Sean Ehlbeck to her staff this week. Deppe has been named Assistant Director of Basketball Performance and Ehlbeck as the Director of Video.
Graduating seniors Taylor Cummings (women's lacrosse) and Malina Howard (women's basketball) were selected as nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
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Ignited by recent discussions on -arch about shrinking the binary
footprint for small systems I searched around in my forest of devel
tree's and found a branch where I've split up ATA's chipset code into
vendor specific modules. This is usefull in many ways, so I'm planning
on committing this soonish, but lets have a round of testing first:
It can be found on [url]http://deepcore.dk/pub/ATA[/url] as two files, ata-
modules-diff that contains a diff for /sys/conf/files and ata-
modules.tgz that is a replacement for /sys/dev/ata.
This turns the chipset parts into a module for each vendor, and they
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I havn't written all the /sys/modules/ata/*/Makefiles that it would
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GO! Arts & Entertainment for Dec. 4-10
Sunday, Dec. 4
"Like There's No Tomorrow" ---- Warren Miller's latest ski and snowboarding film will be presented at two North County theaters this week. Narrated by Olympic gold medalist Jonny Mosely, the film features footage shot on five continents, including the slopes of Squaw Valley, Calif., Gulmarg, India and Portillo, Chile; 4 and 7 p.m. today at Carlsbad Village Theatre, 2822 State St., Carlsbad; 760-729-0089; and at 6 and 9 p.m. Saturday at 471 S. Coast Highway, Encinitas; 760-436-7469.
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful: Black Nativity the Musical" ---- Common Ground Theatre presents its annual holiday production of the Nativity story told through gospel and hip-hop music; runs through Dec. 13; call for showtimes; Educational Cultural Complex, 4343 Ocean View Blvd., San Diego; 619-263-7911.
Coastal Communities Concert Band's holiday concert ---- 17th annual event benefits Meals-on-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc.; 2 p.m.; California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido; $15, general; $12.50, seniors and children; www.meals-on-wheels.org, 800-573-6467 or 760-736-9900.
Fallbrook Music Society's Christmas concert ---- Program features medieval chant and Renaissance vocal music sung by Schola Pacifica and traditional Christmas pieces by Westwind Brass; 2 p.m.; Bob Burton Center for the Performing Arts, 2400 S. Stage Coach Lane, Fallbrook; $30, adults; $10, full-time students with ID; fallbrookmusicsociety.org or 760-451-8644.
Dean Ratzman ---- Sinatra-style sound in performing classics and holiday music; 2 p.m.; Georgina Cole Library, 1250 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad; free; carlsbadlibrary.org or 760-602-2012.
La Jolla Renaissance Singers ---- Dressed in period costumes, ensemble performs Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols," followed by traditional English and Spanish carols; 2:30 p.m. (post-concert reception follows); Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center, 10301 Scripps Lake Drive, San Diego; free but donations accepted; www.srfol.org or 858-538-8158.
"Messiah Sing-Along and Play-Along" ---- Four soloists accompanied by the Greater San Diego Community Orchestra, along with opportunities for community vocal and and instrumental participation; 2:30 p.m.; the Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins, La Jolla; $10; fanfairefoundation.org or 760-666-1810.
"Back to the Future" ---- MiraCosta College Guitar Ensemble performs "Electric Counterpoint" by Steve Reich, traditional music arranged for guitar ensembles and new music written for the ensemble; 3 p.m.; Concert Hall (Building 2400), MiraCosta College, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside; $10, general; $8, students/seniors; www.miracosta.edu/buytix or 760-795-6815.
Holiday brass ---- The Palomar College Brass Ensemble presents a holiday concert; 3 p.m.; San Marcos Lutheran Church, 3419 Grand Ave., San Marcos; free; 760-727-1509.
San Diego Gay Men's Chorus: Yule Tube ---- Traditional and new takes on holiday tunes; 3 p.m.; Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., San Diego; $26-$43; ticketmaster.com or 619-570-1100.
"Come to Bethlehem" ----- Bethlehem Lutheran Church's annual Christmas concert features adult and children's choirs and handbells in a program of Christmas favorites and selections from Handel's "Messiah"; 4 p.m.; 925 Balour Drive, Encinitas; freewill offering; 760-753-1026.
Handel's "Messiah" ---- The 50-voice Coventry Choir sings the first section of the oratorio, including the "Hallelujah" chorus, accompanied by the Camerata Strings of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church; 4 p.m. (gala reception follows); St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 16275 Pomerado Road, Poway; stbartschurch.org or 858-487-2159.
Johnny Mathis Christmas show ---- Crooner has all of your favorites covered ---- well, maybe not all of them; 6:30 p.m.; Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa; $52-$110; scfta.org or 714-556-2787.
Sophie Milman ---- Russian-Canadian jazz singer; 7 p.m.; Anthology, 1337 India St., San Diego; $10-$39; 1337 India St., San Diego; anthologysd.com or 619-595-0300.
Pomerado Community Band's holiday concert ---- 7 p.m.; Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway; $12, general; $10, seniors, $5, children 12 and under; www.pomeradoband.org or 858-748-0505.
"Welcome Home Sonny Boy" ---- Patio Playhouse presents a staged reading of Joe Powers' new play; 7 p.m.; Patio Playhouse, 201 E. Grand Ave., Suite 1D, Escondido; $10; patioplayhouse.org or 760-746-6669.
Nipsey Hussle ---- As with some other MCs, the L.A.-based rapper has found success with mixtapes (although there is very little tape involved, at least for listeners). His proper debut is due out next year; 8 p.m.; Porter's Pub, UC San Diego, 105 Eucalyptus Grove, La Jolla; $20; porterspub.com .
Monday, Dec. 5
"Free the Girls" exhibition ---- An art exhibit to benefit the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (to end the child sex trade) runs through Dec. 18 at La Jolla Art Association Gallery; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; 8100 Paseo del Ocaso, La Jolla; 858-459-1196.
"Almost Maine" ---- Carlsbad Playreaders presents John Cariani's winter love story about the strange romantic entanglements that occur in a mythical Maine town one moonless night; 7:30 p.m.; Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad; $5, adults; $1, students; carlsbadplayreaders.com or 760-602-2012.
Camera Lucida chamber music series ---- Members of the San Diego Symphony and UC San Diego music faculty perform works by Mahler, Wagner and Strauss; 7:30 p.m.; Prebys Hall, UCSD, La Jolla; $25; sandiegosymphony.org or 619-235-0804.
Mickey Hart Band ---- The former Dead drummer brings the rhythms of the cosmos to the Belly Up; 8 p.m.; 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach; $25-$27; bellyup.com or 858-481-4040.
Local reggae and ska ---- Unsteady, the Amalgamated and Mike Pinto on the docket; 8:30 p.m.; the Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., San Diego; $5; casbahmusic.com or 619-232-4355.
Tuesday, Dec. 6
Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas concert ---- 7:30 p.m.; San Diego Civic Theatre, Third Avenue and B Street, San Diego; $32.50-$89.50; broadwaysd.com, ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
"Moby-Dick" Community Conversation ---- San Diego Opera hosts a lecture by Jake Heggie, composer of the company's 2012 production of "Moby-Dick," and San Diego Opera general director Ian Campbell, about the new opera based on the classic novel. The event will be supplemented with images and excerpts from the opera, with Heggie on piano; 7:30 p.m.; Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla; free but reservations required, 619-533-7000.
Peter Murphy ---- The former Bauhaus member is out with a new release, "Ninth." She Wants Revenge and the Hussle Club are also on the bill; 8 p.m.; 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach; bellyup.com or 858-481-4040.
Royal Dive celebrates fourth anniversary ---- Australian metal band As Silence Breaks headlines the show (opening is Metatonic); 9 p.m.; 2949 San Luis Rey Road, Oceanside; 21 and up; 760-722-1911.
Wednesday, Dec. 7
"The Aristocats" ---- Rancho Buena Vista High School drama department presents a stage adaptation of the Disney animated film about a group of alley cats who rescue a kidnapped Parisian kitty; 6:30 p.m. (also 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday); RBV Auditorium, 1601 Longhorn Drive, Vista; $12, adults; $10, students; $8, children and seniors; 760-727-7284.
Frequency winter concerts ---- MiraCosta College's vocal jazz program ensemble performs selections from the Great American Songbook a cappella or with student rhythm section; 7:30 p.m. (also Thursday); MiraCosta College Theatre, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside; $10, general; $8, students/seniors; www.miracosta.edu/buytix or 760-795-6815.
Sea and Cake ---- Post-rock at the Casbah. Lia Ices opens; 8:30 p.m.; the Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., San Diego; $15; casbahmusic.com or 619-232-4355.
Thursday, Dec. 8
Palomar Music Students Recital ---- 12:30 p.m.; Performance Lab (Room D-10), Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos; free; palomarperforms.com or 760-744-1150, ext. 2317.
Izzy Chait jazz at OMA ---- Oceanside Museum of Art hosts the singer in a holiday jazz program as part of its 333's Jazz program, with gourmet appetizers, desserts and wines; 7 p.m.; Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside; $25; 760-435-3721.
Smartphones as fine art viewers ---- "The QRt Show," an art exhibit featuring hundreds of portfolios by artists around the world whose work can be viewed via smartphone by scanning the QR codes on the walls; opening reception, 6 p.m.; Twin Oaks Gallery, 757 Twin Oaks Valley Road, #3, San Marcos; 760-703-3889.
"The Messiah: A Musical Drama" ---- Community Actors Theatre presents this stage play that tells the story of the birth of Jesus; 7 p.m. (also 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Dec. 11); runs through Dec. 18; 2957 54th St., San Diego; $12-$14; communityactorstheatre.com or 619-264-3391.
"Christmas in Italy" ---- Singer Cristina Fontanelli sings a program of Italian songs, arias, and Neapolitan and Christmas classics; 7:30 p.m.; the Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla; $38-$48; brownpapertickets.com/event/203626 or 800-838-3006
Orchestra Nova: "Masterpiece Messiah" ---- The orchestra and the 24-voice Sacra/Profana chorus presents a series of baroque-style performances of Handel's holiday oratorio, complemented by images of visual-arts masterpieces selected with the assistance of James Grebl of the San Diego Museum of Art; 7:30 p.m.; Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church, 17010 Pomerado Road, Rancho Bernardo; $15-$75; also 7:30 p.m. Friday; St. James by-the-Sea Church, 743 Prospect St., La Jolla; $30-$75; and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Solana Beach Presbyterian Church, 120 Stevens Ave., Solana Beach; $30-$75; orchestranova.org or 858-350-0290.
"Mistletoe, Music and Mayhem" ---- North Coast Repertory Theatre presents this kooky 80-minute holiday cabaret show by Phil Johnson, Matt Thompson and Rayme Sciaroni with funny scenes and songs in the holiday spirit; runs through Dec. 18; 8 p.m. (also 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 11); North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach; $20-$25; northcoastrep.org. or 858-581-1055.
Friday, Dec. 9
"Summation 2011" ---- Escondido Municipal Gallery's year-capping show runs through Dec. 31; regular hours, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; opening reception, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday; Escondido Municipal Gallery, 262 E. Grand Ave., Escondido; 760-480-4101.
San Diego Civic Youth Ballet : "The Nutcracker" ---- San Diego's oldest ballet school presents its annual holiday ballet, directed by artistic chief Danika Pramik-Holdaway and featuring nearly 200 young dancers; 7 p.m. (also 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Dec. 11); runs through Dec. 18; Casa del Prado Theatre, Balboa Park, San Diego; $10-$15; sdcyb.org or 619-233-3060.
CAST Productions: "The Nutcracker" ---- The Fallbrook theater company presents the holiday ballet with California Ballet principals Chie Kudo and Vitaliy Nechay and local young ballet artists; 7 p.m. (also 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Dec. 11; Bob Burton Center, Fallbrook High School, 2400 S. Stage Coach Lane, Fallbrook; $12-$15; fallbrooktickets.com or 760-731-2278.
MiraCosta Jazz Collective and MiraCosta Latin Jazz Orchestra ---- Original arrangements of Latin, funk and soul jazz; 7:30 p.m. (also Saturday); MiraCosta College Theatre, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside; $10, general; $8, students/seniors; www.miracosta.edu/buytix or 760-795-6815.
City Ballet: "The Nutcracker" ---- The company presents Elizabeth Wistritch's annual production of the classic holiday ballet featuring music by Tchaikovsky; 7:30 p.m. (also 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Dec. 11); runs through Dec. 21; Spreckels Theatre, 121 Broadway, San Diego; $29-$590; cityballet.org or or 858-272-8663.
"An Irish Christmas" ---- This Irish-themed holiday show features Riverdance star Darren McGuire in an evening of Irish dancing, Christmas carols, storytelling and music, featuring Riverdance stars Darren Maguire, Ciaran Maguire and Collette Dunn, the Kerry Dance Troupe, accordionist David Munnelly, musician Kieran Munnelly and the Kerry Trad Orchestra; 8 p.m.; Center Theater, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido; $35-$39; artcenter.org or 800-988-4253.
"The Gifts Women Bring" ---- Palomar Women's Chorus presents a program of music and poetry written by female composers for female singers; 8 p.m.; Performance Lab (Room D-10), Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos; $5; palomarperforms.com or 760-744-1150, ext. 2453.
Dave Koz and Friends' Smooth Jazz Christmas ---- Those friends are Rick Braun, Jonathan Butler and Candy Dulfer; 8 p.m.; Pechanga Theater, Pechanga Resort & Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, Temecula; $50-$65; pechanga.com/entertainment or 877-711-2946.
Lee "Scratch" Perry ---- Shoreline Rootz opens; 8 p.m.; 4th & B, 345 B St., San Diego; $25-$30; 4thandbevents.com or 619-231-4343.
Carols by Candlelight ---- Clay Walker, Whitney Duncan, Buck Howdy, Mary James and Eve Selis perform in 22nd annual benefit for Rady Children's Hospital; 8 p.m. (also Saturday); California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido; $40-$60; starsconcert.com or 800-988-4253.
San Diego Symphony: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ---- Symphony joined by San Diego Master Chorale, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer, tenor Robert Breault and baritone Richard Zeller; 8 p.m. (also 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Dec. 11); Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., San Diego; $20-$85; sandiegosymphony.org or 619-235-0804.
Saturday, Dec. 10
Southern California Ballet: "The Nutcracker" ---- The dance company for Black Mountain Dance Center presents a student production featuring dancers ages 14 to 19; 1 and 7 p.m. Dec. 10; (also 1 p.m. Dec. 11); Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway; $15-$28; socalballet.org or 858-748-0505.
Performing Arts Workshop: "The Nutcracker" ---- Performing Arts Workshop presents a performance of the holiday ballet featuring its Jr. Ballet Ensemble and students; 2 and 6 p.m. (also 2 p.m. Dec. 11); Sunshine Brooks Theatre, 217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside; $17, adults; $12, children ($3 more at the door); dancepaw.com or o 760-753-2671.
Courtly Noyse's holiday concert ---- Renaissance music group performs with a variety of ancient instruments; 3 p.m.; Turrentine Room, Escondido Public Library, 239 S. Kalmia St., Escondido; free; library.escondido.org or 760-839-4839.
"Urbana" photos ---- "Urbana," photographs by Major Morris, runs through Jan. 7 at ArtHatch Gallery; opening reception, 6 to 10 p.m.; regular hours, noon to 5 p.m.; 317 E. Grand Ave., Escondido; 760-781-5779.
Paul Revere and the Raiders ---- With Chuck Negron, former lead singer of Three Dog Night; 6 and 8:30 p.m.; Live & Up Close, Sycuan Casino, 5469 Casino Way, El Cajon; $35-$45; sycuan.com or 800-279-2826.
91X's Wrex the Halls ---- The alt-rock radio station's two-day holiday extravaganza may not in fact showcase a bunch of holiday fare. Day One stars Florence and the Machine, Death Cab for Cutie, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Cage the Elephant, the Airborne Toxic Event and the Naked and Famous. Day Two stars blink-182, Social Distortion, Pennywise, DMC, Switchfoot, Everlast and Mute Math; 6:15 p.m. (also Saturday); Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego; $19.91-$49.91; ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
The Holiday Masquerade Steampunk Ball ---- Steampunk aficionados are invited to a holiday costume ball featuring live music by L'Heure Verte and Steam Powered Giraffe. Light refreshments will be served; 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Balboa Park Club, 2150 Pan American Road West, San Diego; $20-$35; waltznsuch.org or 619-318-0234.
San Diego Women's Chorus: "Heaven & Earth" ---- Winter-themed musical pieces ranging from Christmas and Buddhist-inspired themes, to a Carole King medley and selections by Katy Perry, Melissa Etheridge and Annie Lennox; 7 p.m. (also 3 p.m. Dec. 11); Mission Hills United Church of Christ, 4070 Jackdaw St., San Diego; $15, general; free, children 12 and under; sdwc.org or 619-291-3366.
The Adolescents and Youth Brigade ---- Old-school punk night; 8 p.m.; Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave., San Diego; $18; brickbybrick.com or 619-275-5483.
"Bells, Bells, Bells!" ---- Palomar/Pacific Coast Concert Band and director Ken Bell present a holiday concert with an emphasis on Russian tradition, featuring the French horn ensemble Hornswoggle; 8 p.m.; California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido; $12, general; $10, seniors; $8, students; palomarperforms.com or 760-744-1150, ext. 2453.
The Motels ---- Playing for less than rack rate at 4th & B; 8 p.m.; 345 B St., San Diego; $20-$30; 4thandbevents.com or 619-231-4343.
Straight No Chaser ---- Men's pop a cappella harmony dectet; 8 p.m.; Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., San Diego; $29.50-$37.50; 619-570-1100.
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real ---- Fundraiser for Jobs for Autism; 8:30 p.m.; Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave., San Diego; $31.50-$35; jobsforautism.com, birchnorthparktheatre.net or 619-239-8836.
Chris Robinson Brotherhood ---- The former Black Crowe does not in fact play with a brother in this band; 9 p.m.; Belly Up Tavern, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach; $20-$22; bellyup.com or 858-481-8140.


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The arrival of spring calving season in western South Dakota is bringing hope to livestock ranchers whose herds were decimated by last fall's unexpected blizzard.
Rancher Chuck O'Connor lost 45 cows and 50 calves in the two-day October storm, which first brought rain and then dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some places. It killed more than 40,000 cattle, sheep and horses.
Cattle experts say recovery could take years to a decade for ranchers who lost high percentages of their herds.
O'Connor brought in about 200 replacement females to rebuild and expand his herd. His first calf was born in early March and his ranch has since welcomed about 75 new member of the herd. He estimates he'll have 500 new cows by early May.
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Efficacy of romiplostim in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a double-blind randomised controlled trial.
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Chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is characterised by accelerated platelet destruction and decreased platelet production. Short-term administration of the thrombopoiesis-stimulating protein, romiplostim, has been shown to increase platelet counts in most patients with chronic ITP. We assessed the long-term administration of romiplostim in splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients with ITP.
In two parallel trials, 63 splenectomised and 62 non-splenectomised patients with ITP and a mean of three platelet counts 30x10(9)/L or less were randomly assigned 2:1 to subcutaneous injections of romiplostim (n=42 in splenectomised study and n=41 in non-splenectomised study) or placebo (n=21 in both studies) every week for 24 weeks. Doses of study drug were adjusted to maintain platelet counts of 50x10(9)/L to 200x10(9)/L. The primary objectives were to assess the efficacy of romiplostim as measured by a durable platelet response (platelet count > or =50x10(9)/L during 6 or more of the last 8 weeks of treatment) and treatment safety. Analysis was per protocol. These studies are registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, numbers NCT00102323 and NCT00102336.
A durable platelet response was achieved by 16 of 42 splenectomised patients given romplostim versus none of 21 given placebo (difference in proportion of patients responding 38% [95% CI 23.4-52.8], p=0.0013), and by 25 of 41 non-splenectomised patients given romplostim versus one of 21 given placebo (56% [38.7-73.7], p<0.0001). The overall platelet response rate (either durable or transient platelet response) was noted in 88% (36/41) of non-splenectomised and 79% (33/42) of splenectomised patients given romiplostim compared with 14% (three of 21) of non-splenectomised and no splenectomised patients given placebo (p<0.0001). Patients given romiplostim achieved platelet counts of 50x10(9)/L or more on a mean of 13.8 (SE 0.9) weeks (mean 12.3 [1.2] weeks in splenectomised group vs 15.2 [1.2] weeks in non-splenectomised group) compared with 0.8 (0.4) weeks for those given placebo (0.2 [0.1] weeks vs 1.3 [0.8] weeks). 87% (20/23) of patients given romiplostim (12/12 splenectomised and eight of 11 non-splenectomised patients) reduced or discontinued concurrent therapy compared with 38% (six of 16) of those given placebo (one of six splenectomised and five of ten non-splenectomised patients). Adverse events were much the same in patients given romiplostim and placebo. No antibodies against romiplostim or thrombopoietin were detected.
Romiplostim was well tolerated, and increased and maintained platelet counts in splenectomised and non-splenectomised patients with ITP. Many patients were able to reduce or discontinue other ITP medications. Stimulation of platelet production by romiplostim may provide a new therapeutic option for patients with ITP.
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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
by Robert Browning
Stanza 1 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 1-2
Gr-r-r--there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flower-pots, do!
- Chalk this up as one of the strangest openings to a poem ever. It starts not with a word but a sound: "G-r-r-r."
- The speaker is so angry, he can't even make words – he just growls.
- He sees someone passing and calls him his "heart's abhorrence" – abhorrence is a strong word for hatred. He must really hate this guy.
- But why does he hate him? The guy is just watering his flowers, minding his own business.
Lines 3-4
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God's blood, would not mine kill you!
- The speaker names the object of his "abhorrence": it's Brother Lawrence.
- "Brother" is a title for monks in the Catholic tradition, so this must be set in a monastery.
- Basically, the speaker is using a version of the old, "If looks could kill, he'd be dead" expression. He says that if hate could kill, Brother Lawrence would be dead.
- "God's blood" is an archaic oath, like "I swear."
Lines 5-6
What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming?
Oh, that rose has prior claims--
- Here it seems like the speaker is actually answering something that Brother Lawrence has said to him ("What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming?"), or maybe he's just imagining what he'd like to say.
- So Brother Lawrence needs to trim his myrtle-bush (a kind of flowering shrub), but the speaker says that a rose bush should be done first – it has the "prior claims."
Lines 7-8
Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?
Hell dry you up with its flames!
- The speaker again responds sarcastically to a request by Brother Lawrence to fill a "leaden vase" of flowers with more water.
- Again, though, we must assume that the speaker is only imagining what he'd like to say, because in the next line he says he'd like to see Brother Lawrence burn in hell.
- Jeez. What's with this speaker? Brother Lawrence is just watering his flowers!


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M.B.A. Not Required
Think you need an M.B.A. to set up shop in the c-suite? Probably not, according to a new report from Crist|Kolder Associates LLC, an executive search firm.
Just 40.1% of CEOs at the nation's top companies hold M.B.A.s, with fewer than one-quarter of retail industry CEOs (23%) holding the graduate business degree. You're most likely to find M.B.A.s in the top spot of finance firms, but even there only about 55% of CEOs are M.B.A.s.
The report is based on a survey of more than 600 companies, including the Fortune 500 and S&P 500. (Read more findings from the study here.)
Given the fact that the core curricula of most business schools include finance and accounting, it's not too surprising that there are more M.B.A.s among the CFO ranks. Just over half – 51.1% — of current CFOs hold the degree. Retail CFOs are the most likely to have M.B.A.s, at 55.8%, while they're least common among consumer-industry CFOs, at 44.4%.
Not only do you not need an M.B.A. to add "chief" to your title, but you may not even need a college degree: 6.7% of consumer-industry CEOs didn't graduate from college. (Across all sectors, that figure is 2.4% and while there is the occasional Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates out there, most people still won't make it to the top without college credentials.)
Of those with undergraduate degrees, here's a snapshot of where c-suiters went to college:
Ivy League undergraduate schools trained 74 sitting CEOs, while the Big Ten and foreign schools educated another 67 apiece. The New England Small College Athletic Conference – whose members include Amherst College, Colby College, Wesleyan University and other elite private institutions – were well-represented with 15.
In terms of undergraduate alma maters, the five biggest contributors to the c-suite include Harvard University with 17, Stanford University with 14, Cornell University and University of Texas, Austin tied with 13 and University of Notre Dame with 12.
On the CFO front, Indiana University, Bloomington tied with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for the lead, with 13 CFOs; Notre Dame and University of Texas, Austin each had 11; and University of Michigan and Stanford each had 10.
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HEROCLIX "New Guy Night" to feature FREE ultra-cool Armored Spider-man figure!
I just wanted to let everyone know that this year's HEROCLIX "New Guy Night" will feature this utra-cool Armored Spider-man as the giveaway piece. Anyone who comes in to check out the game will receive the piece ABSOLUTELY FREE while supplies last!
Dates and times are:
Saturday, June 10th @ 2:00PM (York)
Monday, June 12th @ 5:00PM (Mechanicsburg)
Heroclix New Guy Night is a perfect opprtunity for new players to come and get the free Armored Spider-man figure and learn the game. C'mon in and get yours!


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113,557 words (≈ about 8 hours)
After fleeing under a cloud of salacious scandal, Shelby Tyree has returned to the sleepy tourist community of Sarasota, Florida with a mysterious woman at his side and a strange new devotion to horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in his head. His childhood friends Rick and Conrad scarcely recognize Shelby, who has been transformed from a rakish dilettante into a zealous guru devoted to his own pseudo-religion.
Rick and Conrad take it upon themselves to discover the truth… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2010
Published: 2010-04-30
Word count: 113,557 words (≈ about 8 hours)
Tags: horror, Cthulhu, Lovecraft, sarasota, Belief, Skepticism, dakan, rick dakan


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Sun shaded SketchUp Models in Google Earth
Playing around some more with SketchUp shadows and shading in Google Earth.
In this example I took an overhead screenshot from SketchUp of a simple model of the Pyramids of Giza. Then mapped this image back onto the same model as a texture. This means that when the model was exported to Google Earth, render effects were included.
The Google Earth timeline uses a sequence of these models, with baked-in shading, to display a 'sundial animation', covering an eight and a half hour period.
Pyramids of Giza
Viewing tips:
- Terrain and 3D Buildings, under Layers, should to be switched off.
- This is one of those Google Earth files where once opened it's a good idea to maximize the width of the time slider to load in all the files.
- Then minimize this once the green load icons (under Places) have disappeared
- Click the play button to view the animation.
- Repeat mode and playback speed can be altered in the time control options dialog via the white clock button
- Animated London Eye with shadow
- Bouncing Google Earth
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If Keith Smart is shown the door sometime in the next few weeks, he won't be shocked. Rather, he will understand.
Smart so badly wanted to coach the Warriors he signed a deal -- one year, with an option for another, authorized by an ambitious new owner -- that was inherently raw.
Essentially summoned to the doorstep of a franchise ablaze for 15 years, handed a bucket of water and given 15 minutes to put out the fire, Smart took his chances.
Barring the miraculous, however, failure was predestined.
And when this Warriors season ends Wednesday night, it will be five or six wins short of the 41 wins that would have represented a miracle.
But because he craved the opportunity to become a head coach in the NBA, Smart grabbed the bucket, sprinted into the building and sprayed water in all directions. Maybe too many. When the bucket emptied after 10 minutes, he started using his hands and feet and anything else he might find.
Smart will soon learn whether his efforts and very evident commitment to the task were enough to adequately impress the man who handed him the bucket.
New owner Joe Lacob's evaluation of Smart's season might consider whether the coach could have done better or worse. It might touch on whether Lacob thought Smart was too patient with Andris Biedrins and not patient enough with Stephen Curry, whether the coach overworked Monta Ellis or underutilized Jeremy Lin. Or whether he was too inconsistent with his playing rotation and should have discerned a way to cut diamonds from a bench of wet clay.
Lacob's review also could reflect on the five-month sidelining, including summer league and training camp, of rookie big man Ekpe Udoh, who missed the first 23 games of the season. It might take into account losing 14 of 16 games when power forward David Lee was absent or ineffective after sustaining a nasty elbow injury.
Indeed, it's conceivable that Lacob, aware that the Warriors were one of the NBA's six most improved teams, will conclude his coach did a commendable and perhaps acceptable job.
And still, in the end, he could decide not to pick up Smart's option.
That's because Smart's fate will be decided less by what he did over the last six months than what Lacob wants to do over the next six years. Ultimately, any decision made will more directly reflect on Lacob's vision than Smart's competence.
For Lacob desperately wants to smother the same blaze he sent Smart in to extinguish. Lacob has a far greater financial investment and knows he ultimately will be held to a far greater standard of accountability.
Lacob wants action. He wants nothing more than to sweep away the ashes and memories of the Chris Cohan era to build something more to his liking.
And the quickest route to action, to a new owner generating the perception that he means business, is by replacing faces readily associated with the old regime with faces that signify a new beginning.
In the NBA, that means replacing the most disposable man in the building. The head coach. Unless you're Phil Jackson or Doc Rivers or Gregg Popovich, unless you're flashing jewelry, your seat never cools.
And, more to the point, a new coach always sends some kind of message of change, that it is going to get better. Wasn't that Cohan's intended message as his Warriors went shopping for coaches more often than Hummers pull in for gas?
You and I and general manager Larry Riley all know the Warriors shortcomings are less related to coaching deficiencies than to a roster without a bona fide All-Star or a productive bench or a defensive mentality or a frontcourt player who could immediately start for any of the eight Western Conference playoff teams.
We have to assume that Lacob, a lifelong fan with an idea of how the league works, also knows this.
Getting the Warriors to 41 wins and a .500 record would have been miraculous, but getting them to the 46 required for the playoffs would have been enough to make Smart the league's Coach of the Year.
Getting them to 35 or 36, though, leaves Smart on the bubble, a dangerous place insofar as merit is only one part of the equation.
Smart began the season with a fraction of a chance to be invited back for another year. He knew it. The players knew it. The owner practically stated as much.
Should Wednesday's game be Smart's last as Warriors coach, it will be less indicative of his failing than of being victimized by circumstances the new coach won't have to face.
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In Thailand's Turmoil, AIA Sees Opportunity
For insurance giant AIA, Thailand's political turmoil could pose an opportunity.
That's according to chief executive Mark Tucker who on Friday said the unrest that has gripped Bangkok could be enough to flush out weaker-willed insurance companies and throw up assets to buy.
"We are very confident in Thailand's future," Mr. Tucker told reporters after releasing full-year earnings. "Others may not be and that may create opportunity, it may not, but we are always alive to this."
Rival political factions have been clashing in the Thai capital as antigovernment protestors lead a charge against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government, accusing the administration of corruption. Government buildings have been occupied and barricaded, and protestors have clashed with Thai security forces in gun battles.
Signs of the unrest hurting the economy are emerging with major investors such as Toyota Motor warning that future investments may be at risk if the turmoil continues.
The National Economic and Social Development Board, a government agency, said that the months of protests will limit growth in the first half of this year. The unrest has also dented consumer confidence and hurt spending, according to the agency. Private consumption contracted 4.5% in the fourth quarter, a level not seen since the Asian financial crisis in 1997, according to Rahul Bajoria, a regional economist with Barclays.
AIA's Mr. Tucker doesn't believe the crisis is an economic one and pointed to the nation's low inflation rate, current account surplus and healthy reserves.
His bullish views came after the insurer released full year earnings showing that Thailand grew more slowly compared with its peers, recording 11% growth in new-business value. That compares with 22% for Singapore and 74% in Malaysia.
"We've been in Thailand for 75 years, we have been through many cycles and 17 changes of government," Mr. Tucker said.
In recent years South East Asia's fast-growing insurance sector has attracted investor interest from companies such as Canada's Sun Life Financial and Prudential Last year Prudential bought Thanachart Life Assurance Co while Richard Li, a Hong Kong tycoon, bought the Thai operations of ING Groep, the Dutch financial services company.
–Warangkana Chomchuen contributed to this article.


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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Stater Bros. Markets here said it will donate $716,400 to California state parks, beaches and other natural areas through its Preserve Our Parks campaign in partnership with Coca-Cola. The retailer said the public-private partnership reflects "one solution" as the state plans to shutter 70 state parks in a cost-reducing effort. Stater Bros. said it would make the donation at a special ceremony July 14 at California Citrus State Historic Park in Riverside. In the ...
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Meeting and talking with other cancer survivors can be a powerful part of your cancer journey. We offer a variety of different support groups in a unique, caring environment where survivors and caregivers can share their experiences. All groups are facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker with special training in oncology, and individual and family counseling sessions are available if you prefer more private support.
All groups are open to family and friends except for the breast cancer support groups, which are designed for breast cancer patients only. Our staff works in close collaboration with the Novant Health volunteer office, chaplain's office, community care services, community therapists, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the American Cancer Society to provide the most comprehensive cancer support program in the region.
Following are a few of the cancer support groups we offer. These support groups can very from location to location so be sure to check with your Novant Health location to see which support groups they provide.
All of these support groups are offered free to you and your family and are available to everyone, regardless of hospital affiliation.