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Students who plan to pursue a program to meet requirements for admission to a school of pharmacy can do so at this University. Applicants with a baccalaureate degree are far more competitive for admission to a Doctor of Pharmacy degree program. Pre-pharmacy students may major in biology with a chemistry minor or major in chemistry with a biology minor. In addition to the required coursework, admission to a school of pharmacy requires high scholastic achievement and acceptable scores on the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT).
Since each pharmacy school requires different supporting coursework,students interested in this field should make contact with the pre-pharmacy advisor for assistance in scheduling the appropriate coursework and for information regarding other application requirements.
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MUMBAI: Real estate sector witnessed seven private equity investments (amounting to $162 million) during the quarter ended June 2012, according to the data from Venture Intelligence.
The volume of investments was lower compared to investments in the same period last year. The January - March 2012 quarter 17 investments, as per data collated by Venture Intelligence.

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Water rate changesGOLDEN STATE WATER COMPANY
(includes the cities of Claremont and Barstow)
24.54 percent rate increase proposed on residences in 2013
23 percent rate increase on commercial businesses in 2013
22.5 percent rate increase for industrial and public authority facilities in 2013
2 percent rate increases for all users in 2014 and 2015
21.4 percent rate increase proposed in 2013
2.7 percent rate increase in 2014
3.2 percent rate increase in 2015
12 percent rate increase in January
5.5 percent water rate increase in May
5 percent wastewater rate increase in May
6 percent water rate increase in 2012 and 2013
5 percent wastewater rate increase in 2012
6 percent wastewater rate increase in 2013
12.5 percent rate increase this year
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16 percent to 60 percent sewer treatment rate increase to commercial customers this year
86 percent rate increase proposed for January 2012
1.6 percent rate increase in 2012
1.3 percent rate increase in 2013
Residents in Claremont and Barstow are facing proposed hikes from the privately run Golden State Water Company, while residents on the east side of the San Bernardino Valley have already been hit with increases.
The reason for the hikes boils down to one major issue - aging infrastructure, according to Susan Longville, director of Cal State San Bernardino's Water Resources Institute.
"That's why San Bernardino had to raise its rates, which in turn forced East Valley Water District to raise their rates," Longville said. "It's why the private municipal water did the same thing. And that's where we're at. It's a terrible time for the consumer, no doubt about it."
As the state's resources dried up, so did grant money for water companies that was typically used for infrastructure repairs, so water companies are looking to customers to foot the bill, Longville said.
"You're paying for the power, the pump, to treat and to move that water from the ground or from the reservoir, from everywhere to your home," Longville said. "You're paying for those carrying costs and the infrastructure that delivers it, and water agencies just find themselves in the place where the rate the consumer is going to pay is the only place to turn. There's no other alternatives."
The city of San Bernardino in January raised its waste water treatment water rates by 12.5 percent, which resulted in several other cities increasing their rates, including Redlands, Loma Linda and Mentone.
Also, East Valley Water District board of directors last month agreed to increase sewer treatment charges between 16 percent and 60 percent for some commercial customers.
Golden State Water Co. is proposing to increase water rates in its cities by 24.54 percent in 2013.
According to the water company officials, the proposed increases are to pay for infrastructure repairs over the next 30 years including the replacement of a well and a seismic retrofit to a reservoir.
However, members of the group Claremonters Against Outrageous Water Rates view it differently.
"I really think if you were to ask me, it's corporate greed," said Claremont resident Hal Hargrave, a member of the group.
"They have posed profits of an increase of 77 percent over the last year. That's published. Their president is making over $1.1 million. Their senior vice president is making $754,000 and their CFO is making $728,000."
The group is also angry over the Water Revenue Adjustment Mechanism, which charges residents for using less water. It reimburses the company for revenue lost by water conservation.
"We're in a down economy so you've got a company that has a monopoly and it gets back to charging for conservation, increasing rates with the salaries they've got for their executives, and their profits are going through the roof," Hargrave said.
"To me it's just unfathomable that they can even be serious about putting forward these additional rate increases."
Golden State also serves Barstow.
Barstow Mayor Joe Gomez has sent a letter to state Attorney General Kamala Harris requesting her office investigate the increases.
"The city of Barstow believes that GSWC has the right to achieve a fair, just, and reasonable level of profits as allowed by California law," Gomez said in his letter. "However, GSWC also has a legal obligation to adhere to a standard of reasonable care in the operation of their business."
The water company in November was awarded a 20.7 percent increase between 2011-12 by the state Public Utilities Commission.
"It is astounding that less than two years ago after such a significant increase was granted, the CPUC would be considering yet another rate enhancement for GSWC, this one installing 27.3 percent over three years," Gomez said in a news release.
Customers of privately owned water companies tend to pay higher rates than customers of public water agencies, said Ken Willis, Upland councilman and San Antonio Water Co. board member. The city of Upland is the majority shareholder for San Antonio Water Co.
"Claremont pays twice as much for a glass of water as we do in Upland," Willis said.
For a public agency to raise rates, they have to go "more than an extra mile," or face possible legal action, Willis said. Whereas a private agency needs to request approval from the CPUC.
"For example in Upland, which is what I'm most familiar with, if we want to have a rate increase on water we would have to show the public first of all that we wanted to do that, but we would have to be able to demonstrate to the public that this was necessary," Willis said.
Private agencies are guaranteed a profit of up to 10 percent, but public agencies can only use their funds for water-related purposes, he said.
A rate hike by a privately owned water agency could mean a need to increase its profits or infrastructure repairs, Willis said.
"Well, it could be they just feel the rates were at a particular level for too long and want to make more money, if they want to fix something or expand something," Willis said. "They don't have to prove anything to the public, but they do have to file with the PUC."
Reach Sandra via email, call her at 909-483-8555, or find her on Twitter @UplandNow .


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Vick to Plead Guilty
Today Michael Vick will plead guilty to federal dogfighting charges.
In Vick's written plea agreement, he admitted to helping to kill six to eight pit bulls and supplying money for gambling on the fights.
A judge will now have to decide how much time Vick will spend in prison.
The plea agreement calls for a sentencing range of 12 to 18 months, but Vick could spend as many as five years in prison.
Teacher Passes Away
This morning, students, friends, and family are mourning the loss of a Warren County music teacher.
The McDuffie County Coroner says Marilyn Betty Campbell died at MCG Sunday morning.
She passed away after being involved in an accident this past week while she was on her way to work at ME Freeman Elementary School in Warrenton.
Drag Strip Meeting
Tonight, the controversey around a proposed drag strip is revving up again.
People who live in the part of South Augusta who would be most affected by it will have a chance to speak out tonight.
A meeting starts at 7:00 at the McBean Community Center.
Commissioners Don Grantham and Jimmy Smith are both expected to be there.
Commission Qualifying Period
This morning kicks off the qualifying period for those who want to be your next commissioner.
This period includes Augusta Commission Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Candidates can officially qualify starting at 8:30 this morning.
They have until Friday, August 31st at 4:30 pm to get all the paperwork filed.
The election is November 6th.
New Ellenton Special Election
Voters in New Ellenton head to the polls tomorrow to choose a new member.
Seat one of the New Ellenton City Council is open after Mark Key stepped down.
The candidates are democrat Prestic Faulk and republican David Felder.
Blood Drive
You can save as many as 3 lives just by rolling up your sleeve.
Tuesday, the Shepeard Community Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 8 am to 8 pm.
Once again this year, the Time to Care Blood Drive will be at the First Baptist Church on Walton Way.


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Yet, even though we assume or "know" we're free, the philosophical problem of freedom has troubled mankind for millennia. Are we fated, or free? Or both?
Fear not, armchair philosophers - to start exploring this philosophical problem, we don't have to venture much further than Netflix.
There is an extensive list of films online that deal with the problem of free will, such as Gattaca, A Clockwork Orange, etc. However, for the sake of brevity, we'll constrain our tour to just a few films.
First, a conversation from the the 2001 cult thriller-horror-sci-fi Donnie Darko, in which the troubled young protagonist questions his teacher, Monnitoff:
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Monnitoff: I'm not following you.
Donnie: Every living thing follows along a set path. And if you could see your path or channel, then you could see into the future, right? Like… that's a form of time travel.
Monnitoff: Well, you're contradicting yourself Donnie. If we were able to see out destines manifest themselves visually, then we would be given a choice to betray our chosen destinies.
This conversation illustrates the problem of free will through the traditional theistic conception of the world (we'll call this problem "problem A"). If God is eternal, and knows everything that you're going to do in advance of your doing it, doesn't that mean that you're not free to do it? That you have to do it because God already knows you will?
In addressing problem A in the fourth century, Augustine of Hippo essentially answered yes - a view that marginalized free will, and found its fulfillment in the notorious Calvinist doctrine of predestination centuries later. However, many theologians, including Thomas Aquinas, have since fought to reconcile free will and an all-knowing God. (We'll come back to that).
With the advent of Newtonian physics, the problem of free will was compounded, whether or not God is in the picture at all (we'll call this problem "problem B"). The world as we know it operates according to fundamental physical laws of motion, mechanics, and chemistry. We, too, are part of the physical, chemical universe. So if a "choice" is just brain activity, and the brain is just physical, and the physical world is determined by laws - isn't a choice determined, and not free? Aren't we all just as locked into our choices as Newton's apple is locked into falling?
Both problems A and B are summarized in a wonderful scene from Richard Linklater's animated head-trip Waking Life:
This scene dramatizes the idea that everything, including our choices, are locked into an unfolding, predetermined chain of events. If this is the case - that we're all just on our own collision course set up by initial conditions of the big bang - there are huge implications for personal responsibility.
For example, if problem B means that everything I do is determined entirely by my biology and chemistry, how can I be held responsible for lying, stealing, or hurting others? How can we say a heinous mass murderer like Hitler is guilty of anything if he didn't "choose" anything at all?
This idea is explored, in part, by the film Minority Report, a story about "pre-crime." In the film, oracles called "pre-cogs" are able to see whatever crime a person is on a "collision course" to commit.
In the world of Minority Report, people are, like Oedipus Rex, cemented into their criminal fate - yet, the pre-crime fighters intervene and lock them up anyway. Although there is an apparent lack of free will, society still has to function by punishing criminals.
This sci-fi scenario mirrors the ethics of atheist Sam Harris. Harris has posited that the notion of free will has been "torpedoed" by modern science and physics; that our neurons make our decisions for us before we're even conscious of making a choice at all; that choice is, at root, an illusion. Still, he argues that we "don't need" free will to have a conception of moral truths. We should still lock up those who do evil, Harris argues - even though they are not the source of their own choices.
Of course, most people can't and won't take such a stance of predestination and hard determinism - either from the theism of John Calvin, or the atheism of Sam Harris. It seems that we all, to some degree, are free; even when we're sitting and talking with other people about how free will is an illusion, we behave like we're quite certain that free will is real.
But how can it be real, given what we've learned from these films?
First, there have been good (but insufficient) attempts at solving problem B (the Newtonian problem). Some have argued that quantum physics ends the free will debate by introducing the idea of "the wild card" with the uncertainty principle. But, as noted in Waking Life, quantum physics seems to be insufficient, and compounds the problem even further by introducing randomness into our choices. Sure, quantum physics puts determinism into question - but not exactly in a way that respects free choice.
|Santa Claus
...er, I mean, Daniel Dennett
Perhaps the best solution to problem B comes from the Judeo-Christian world view. For Christians, human beings are not locked into a Newtonian or quantum universe - we are not locked into the universe at all. Whatever the universe is and does, we transcend it. We are both material and immaterial creatures, both body and soul - and though we have bodily extension, and are undoubtedly physical beings, our immaterial "form," our "soul," the part of us that chooses, is supernatural - it isn't bound by a chain of causality. The "wild card" in a physical universe is not randomness, but soul.
Yet, for the theist, problem A - the problem of free will with regard to God's "fore-knowledge" - remains. How is this problem solved?
Augustine did have a strict view of God's grace that seemed to box out free will. However, other early Christian thinkers, knowing how essential free will is to the Christian worldview, dove deeper into the riddle.
|Thomas Aquinas
No. As one blogger puts it: "secondary causes [human free will] act concomitantly with the first cause [God's will]." Or, as stated in one reader's guide to the Catechism: "there is a kind of interplay, or synergy, between human freedom and divine grace."
Regarding God's "fore-knowledge," Peter Kreeft notes that God is not "pre or post anything." He doesn't "foresee" our actions - rather, he is "present to everything." Thus, by remembering that God is outside of time, his knowledge ceases to conflict with our free choice - the two are in interplay in the present moment.
In the end, problem A and problem B are entirely different - because, in the former, we are dealing with two wills in cooperation; in the latter, we are dealing with a large physical gear in direct conflict with free choice.
For a world that is increasingly convinced that there is no God and no soul, that relies instead on the findings of science to reveal all of reality, Daniel Dennett may have provided us with the best answer to problem A that we have.
The question is: is it good enough? Can we really say with confidence that we're free, accountable agents?


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The Islanders score five goals to defeat the Washington Capitals 5-3
Saturday, 11.5.2011 / 11:19 PM ET / News
By Dyan LeBourdais
A 5-3 win over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night is a step forward from the Islanders recent offensive woes.
"We had four even strength goals tonight," Matt Martin said. "That's something that hasn't come easy for us lately and we have to build off that. We just have to keep throwing pucks on net, keep crashing the net. If you look at almost every goal except (Rolston's) they were pretty close to the crease. That's something we have to continue to work on."
In that six-game span, the Islanders players were frustrated that they were unable to get on the score sheet and as coaches often do, Islanders Head Coach Jack Capuano knew precisely what would turn the tide. He never pressured the players and instead, lightened the mood at Thursday's practice with music blasting over the loud speakers.
|Brian Rolston celebrates his goal with teammates in a game against the Washington Capitals at Nassau Coliseum on November 5, 2011. (Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images)
"We had to do something over the last few games and they saw that coming, that something had to be done," Capuano said. "We did the right things, we did a lot of good things that we have been doing the last few games, we just hadn't put the puck in the back of the net."
To earn the win, the Isles came back from a two-goal deficit to tie the score in the second. Martin scored the go-ahead goal before Brooks Laich evened the score at three with a power play goal. PA Parenteau and John Tavares completed the Islanders three-goal third period for the Islanders 5-3 win.
"It was a character win," said Brian Rolston. "When we go up 3-2, they come back, get a power play goal and we stuck with it. That's what strong teams are made of. I think that's the most important thing about this game is that they tied it up and we came back and get another goal with a minute to go.
Rolston continued, "That's what good hockey teams can do, win late in games, and just stick with it, stick with it, stick with it. That's what we did tonight."
Without even one practice with together, Rolston, Parenteau and Frans Nielsen set out to make an impact, sharing seven points on the night. Nielsen's goal was the first goal the Isles scored in 110:13 of play, sparking the confidence and powering the momentum in the Islanders favor. Before the end of the second, Rolston's goal tied the score at two and then in the third, Parenteau scored the game-winner.
|John Tavares celebrates his empty net goal with teammate Milan Jurcina in a game against the Washington Capitals at Nassau Coliseum on November 5, 2011. (Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images)
Parenteau's goal was the kind of gritty goal around the paint that the Isles have been searching for. Milan Jurcina fired a shot from the point which trickled through Vokoun five-hole; Parenteau dove to the crease to tap the puck in the empty net.
Trying to tie the score, the Capitals pulled Vokoun with 1:44 to remaining in the third, but a pass from Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro to center Tavares in the neutral zone led to an empty net goal at 18:59, capping the Islanders 5-3 win.
"The way we stayed with it all night, our game plan, we battled through some adversity," Tavares said. "That's a good hockey team. They've had a lot of success in recent years and has been in a lot of these games. For us to come back after being down a couple (goals) and then tying it, that's the way we want to play. That's the identity we want to have and it's time for us to build off of it."
Notes: In the first period, the Capitals took a two-goal lead with goals from Joel Ward and Alex Ovechkin. At the end of regulation, the Islanders outshot the Capitals 35-28 and DiPietro made 25 saves to earn his first win of the 2011-12 season.
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What do kids call Lego pieces? Nov 04 2009
Giles Turnbull convened a kiddie focus group and asked them what they call all the different Lego pieces.
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. "Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?" No. In our house, it'll always be: "Dad, please could you pass me that four-er?"
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Bronchiolitis obliterans, also known as popcorn lung disease, is caused by inhalation of Diacetyl, a chemical used for butter flavoring. It is commonly known to affect employees of popcorn factories who are exposed to the toxicity of the airborne compound. There also have been reported cases of the disease in heavy consumers of microwave popcorn. More about the disease.
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This is my collection of duck recipes, primarily for wild ducks as well as geese. While most wild ducks enjoy a good reputation, geese are undeservedly maligned as greasy, livery and tough. Yes, they can be all these things, but properly done, a wild goose (or a domestic, for that matter) is essentially a large duck. A normal wild goose, such as a Canada, snow or whitefront will feed four, while a small goose (cackler, Aleutian or Ross') will serve two heartily. A domestic goose or a giant Canada (really any Canada larger than 10 pounds) can serve as many as six.
Don't overcook waterfowl breasts or they will be livery. Rare-to-medium is the mantra. As for the legs, thighs and wings, slow cook them to make them tender. Duck and goose legs are not nearly as tough as pheasant legs because waterfowl don't do as much walking around. But their wings can be very tough.
If you find yourself with diving ducks, such as scaup, ringnecks, red-heads, buffleheads, goldeneyes, ruddy ducks, oldsquaw or eiders (or brant, for that matter) You may need to brine them to soften any possible fishy taste. One easy way to tell is to cut off the "Pope's Nose," or tail of the duck, and render out the fat in a small frying pan. If the fat smells icky, brine the duck with salt, sugar and garlic, plus any aromatic herbs that strike your fancy.
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A note on all recipes: If you use domestic geese or ducks for any of them, it is vital that after you thaw them out, you remove all of the body cavity fat and then prick the skin all around with the point of a filet knife or something else narrow and pointy. Domestic geese are flying pigs, raised for their delicious fat as much as their meat.
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With the downfall of the PED era, Major League Baseball has become more of a pitcher's league.
From starters to relievers, there are multiple pitchers who can make hitters look like fools.
However, each hurler has his own special way of doing so—a go-to pitch that generates far more whiffs than wallops.
Using insight from Bleacher Report MLB featured columnists Joel Reuter, Adam Wells and Joe Giglio, here's a look at the best strikeout pitches in baseball.
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The goal of improving poultry sperm cryopreservation through lipid manipulation will be addressed by the following Specific Aims (SA): SA 1. Characterize the lipid and cholesterol profile of spermatozoa before and after cryopreservation from chicken and turkey lines with known (good or poor) cryosurvival. SA 2. Evaluate the efficiency of diets enriched with n-3 or n-6 PUFAs to modify the lipid composition of chicken and turkey sperm membranes and improve sperm cryosurvival. SA 3. Determine the ability of cyclodextrins to alter the C:P ratio in chicken and turkey sperm membranes and improve sperm cryosurvival. SA 4. Test for a synergistic effect of diet and in vitro manipulation of sperm membranes on poultry sperm cryosurvival. All of the pre-freeze sperm quality/function analyses and semen cryopreservation activities for Years 1 and 2 will be conducted at Ohio State University, where the males from the 4 turkey and 3 chicken lines will be maintained. All of the lipid and cholesterol analyses for Years 1 and 2 will be conducted at Colorado State University. All of the post-thaw sperm quality/function analyses and fertility trials for Years 1 and 2 will be conducted at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.


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In this Saturday, June 23, 2012 photo provided by Darrell Spangler, a firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo. (AP Photo/Darrell Spangler)
KOLN Reporters Bridget Fargen and Tony DeGrand are in Colorado Springs helping our sister station KKTV cover the massive wildfires.
"I know how tiring covering large-scale breaking news can be; I'm happy to be able to help in any way I can," said Fargen. "Viewers there are trying to evacuate and need essential information, but the reporters at KKTV are also dealing with exhaustion, trying to evacuate their own homes and need a break."
"Even though we forecast for Nebraska, we've got our eyes on our neighbors to the west," said DeGrand. "The wildfires have been a concern for a long time because of the warm and dry pattern we've been in. I just hope to provide relief to the KKTV weather team who've been covering the situation non-stop.
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Obama will tour Colorado fires, thank firefighters
The White House says President Barack Obama will tour the scene of devastating wildfires in Colorado on Friday, and thank firefighters battling some of the worst fires to hit the
American West in decades.
Obama called Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday, along with the mayor of Colorado Springs, where a raging wildfire destroyed dozens of houses and charred land on the edges of the
U.S. Air Force Academy.
The White House says Obama expressed his concern about the extent of damage to homes in the Colorado Springs area, and underscored that the administration is bringing "all resources to
bear to assist local responders" in Colorado and other Western states affected by fires.
More than 8,400 personnel, 578 fire engines and 79 helicopters are operating on wildfires around the U.S.


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- Central Eurasian Studies >> Courses >> Course List
- Altaic Linguistics
- Catalog number CEUS-R 695
- György Kara
The history and state of the study of the Altaic languages. The nature of their relations; classification of the relevant languages, their common features and differences. Sources and methods. Evaluation of the monuments written in various writing systems. The question of affinity. The Altaic theories. Common origin or imminence (divergent or convergent structures). Internal and external relations. Lexical and morphological evidence.
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After many years of being an avid netizen, I have come across fanart that is truly out of this world, stuff that consistently blows my mind. So, with the idea of creating some art of my own, I set off with my Dad's help — I wanted to bring several video game characters to life by my own hands. These are the culmination of our work from several years ago.
The very first one we made was of Armos, from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. We used the in-game figure viewing gallery to be able to get a 360 degree view so that we could make all the parts. Unfortunately, the spikes don't stay on particularly well, but I have to say this is probably my favorite of all of my sculptures.
Shy Guy
The second one we made was Shy Guy of Super Mario Bros. fame. Of all of my creations, this one is easily the sturdiest one. It doesn't have a whole lot of parts that can break off, since it's generally all in one piece.
Probably the most personal of all of my creations, is my very own Mii! While editing the Mii's in the Mii channel, you have the options to zoom up on the face, and rotate the Mii around, which was crucial to creation of this sculpture.
These two Pikmin were built in tandem, with my father working more on one, while I worked more on the other. Since Chapstick is an actual treasure in game, it made sense to have it in the picture. Unfortunately we never got around to making the Yellow Pikmin or Captain Olimar like I had originally wanted.
SO I HERD U LIEK MUDKIPZ?! Indeed, I do. Mudkip is actually my favorite of the little creatures from the Pokémon franchise. So, it should come as little surprise that I would want to bring it to life. Mudkip also holds the special designation of being the only quadrupedal sculpture we made.
There was one more sculpture that we made, but for some reason never got put online, as well as others that never quite made it to completion. We haven't made a sculpture in several years, but personally, I am up for restarting the trend!
If you want to check out more pictures of our creations, plus one completely different one, that I didn't post on here, check out the source link!
Source: Cyclone's Creations


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Staff Sergeant Adams interdicted three Anti-Iraqi Forces, and his efforts resulted in the confiscation of numerous small arms and explosive ordinance...
It was fortunate for John Adams that Hillsboro, Illinois, had a lot of wide-open spaces. The woods and fields outside of town became his boyhood playground. Fishing, hunting, camping and playing with his friends kept him busy throughout the year, and the many nearby lakes provided cool fun in the summer.
So it was somewhat surprising that John wasn't more upset when his parents decided to move to Florida before he started high school. Sure, he was sad to leave his friends behind in Hillsboro, but he also was filled with positive anticipation.
I've never minded change, and I was always looking for some new adventure, some new excitement.
John Adams attended Milton High School, near Pensacola. He quickly became a Florida State Seminoles fan and was determined to study Forestry there. But he was disappointed when the scholarships he had hoped for were not offered. Not wanting to assume a huge student loan debt, Adams considered the military. He could go to college and have a career. And there was always the aspect of adventure. Between his uncle Dennis, a Navy Recruiter who often talked to his nephew about his experiences, and the nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station, Adams was well versed in the opportunities of the Navy. But the Navy didn't seem like the appropriate fit. As a high school senior in 1994, Adams decided to join the Marines. He set up a meeting with a Marine Corps Recruiter. But on the day of his scheduled appointment, Adams waited alone outside the Marine Corps recruiting office. The Recruiter was a no-show.
As fate would have it, an Army recruiting off was next door to the Marine Corps recruiting center. An Army Recruiter watched the eager young Adams pacing outside. He then approached Adams and gave him his card. The Recruiter never pressured him. He told Adams to go and do some research on the Army and come back if he had any questions.
In the Army, there are two people you will always remember: one is your Recruiter and the other is your Drill Sergeant.
A week later, Adams was sitting in the Army Recruiter's office. Not yet 18 years old, he would have to get his parents' written consent to join the Army as part of the Delayed Entry Program. After taking the assessment tests, the Recruiter spoke to Adams at length about the different opportunities available to him in the Army. At one point he looked at the wide-eyed young Recruit and asked, "Would you like to carry your weapon into battle or would you like your weapon to carry you?" That's when Adams knew he wanted to be part of an Armored Division, with the potential to someday command his own tank.
Adams was sent to Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Fort Knox, Kentucky. BCT was the toughest thing he had ever done, but he welcomed the physical and mental challenge. It wasn't long before he began training on an M1 Abrams Tank. He learned how to drive it, how to load the massive gun rounds and how to shoot. He would spend most of the next decade atop or inside one of these $3.5 million technological marvels.
Adams was sent to Schweinfurt, Germany, to join the 2nd Battalion of the 64th Armor Regiment in the 3rd Infantry Division. He loved the adventure of being overseas and training with his unit. On his time off he explored the German countryside. The next few years would take him back to the States for intensive tank training in Colorado, and to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he studied leadership and learned the value of teamwork. Proud of his gunnery skills, Adams and his tank crew registered several perfect scores during field training exercises. To Adams, there was nothing more exhilarating than firing the 120mm cannon from a 68-ton vehicle while it barreled over the range at 30 mph.
It was an overwhelming feeling to achieve several perfect scores with zero discrepancies. We were good!
John Adams met his wife, Jodi, at a wedding in her Indiana hometown. John and Jodi married on July 15, 2000, and, shortly thereafter, Adams received orders to depart Fort Knox for Camp Casey, South Korea. He took his new bride with him on this next adventure. It was Jodi's first time on an airplane, but it certainly would not be her last. John trained in armor tactics in the rugged terrain of the Korean Peninsula, and then was selected to attend the Basic Noncommissioned Officers' Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, the Adams' welcomed their beautiful daughter, Emma to the Army family.
Upon graduation, SSG Adams received orders to Vilseck, Germany. He settled his family into the lovely German countryside and joined his unit in Kosovo for a two-month deployment as part of a NATO peacekeeping mission. After returning from the Balkans, John received word his unit was deploying to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They immediately began preparations. It was hard to leave his family, but Adams knew the mission was important and his team was well-equipped and well-prepared.
It was Valentine's Day, 2004. That's when I said goodbye to my girls. It was a tough day for all of us.
In Iraq, Staff Sergeant Adams commanded his own tank. Adams' unit immediately began conducting wartime operations that included convoy escorts, search missions, main supply route overwatch and quick reaction force missions. There was always action and excitement, but as a Commander of an M1 Abrams, Adams sometimes saw it differently.
We would move into battle and oftentimes just sit there. Something happens to the enemy when they see the Abrams roll in. They just leave the tanks alone and run.
At other times, Adams conducted operations outside the formidable M1. His unit often conducted missions at night, patrolling supply routes in HMMWVs in an attempt to keep them clear of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and ambush points.
Throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, insurgents bury IEDs on roadways and supply routes in an attempt to disrupt Coalition transportation and mobility. IEDs are the single greatest cause of casualties to Coalition forces.
IEDs can be made out of anything. A soda can, a water container, even a shoebox can be used to create explosives. Often the insurgent bomb makers used smuggled or stolen artillery ordinance. It's simple: bury the bomb in the road or near it (usually under the cover of darkness), attach a triggering device such as an alarm clock, and wait. The bombs can be detonated remotely with a cell phone. Staff Sergeant Adams and his men were constantly on the lookout for these deadly devices.
On the night of October 13, 2004, Staff Sergeant Adams was in the rear HMMWV of a four-vehicle patrol on Alternate Supply Route (ASR) Bismark, a well-traveled highway near the village of Salman Pak, 30 miles south of Baghdad. It was a moonless night with only a few lights in the distant village. It had been a quiet, routine evening. As the patrol was heading back to base, Adams received a radio transmission from his Platoon Leader in the lead HMMWV, alerting him to a civilian vehicle parked on the side of the road with an individual crouched near the rear of the vehicle. "Looks like he's got a flat tire or something," said the Platoon Leader. "Check him out." Up ahead, now visible in the headlights of Adams' HMMWV, was the vehicle.
I could see the guy on the passenger side of the vehicle. He was crouched or kneeling and wearing a white dishdasha, the traditional ankle-length robe. It looked like he was changing a tire.
Adams ordered his driver to stop about 30 meters behind the vehicle. As the HMMWV rolled to a stop, Staff Sergeant Adams jumped out, his M9 Pistol drawn.
As a Tank Commander, Adams always carried a sidearm. Shortly after he arrived in Iraq he had put an attachment on the grip of his pistol that shone a red laser beam on the target when the grip was squeezed. In the course of combat operations he had used the laser grip a number of times. It was a successful non-lethal way of "getting people's attention." Adams recalls, "When they saw the red spot on them, or on someone near them, they would usually freeze." As Adams hit the ground running, he expected that the red laser beam would unnerve the man changing the tire. Adams would then do a quick check of the car and the patrol would be on its way.
"Do not move!" he yelled, as the man squinted into the headlights, and the red spot flickered on his head. That's when Staff Sergeant Adams saw muzzle flashes. Rounds whizzed and snapped past him. He realized he was running directly into automatic weapons fire. Two figures had popped up from the front of the vehicle with their weapons blazing. The crouching man jumped up just as Adams began squeezing off rounds from his M9 Pistol. Backing toward the cover of his vehicle, Adams emptied the pistol's magazine. The man by the car fell where he had been kneeling.
Bullets pinged off the HMMWV as Adams retrieved his M4 Rifle and began returning fire. Two insurgents, firing on the run, fled into the shadows of the adjacent field. Adams' driver dismounted and engaged the insurgents. Adams radioed his Platoon Leader just as a bullet penetrated the window a few inches from Adams' head. "Exchanging fire with enemy. One AIF [Anti-Iraqi Force] down!"
It happened so fast. I honestly don't know how we didn't get hit at such close range."
Adams slowly approached the downed insurgent, his M4 Rifle at the ready. What he discovered next was a sobering reminder of the enemy's lethal capabilities.
Within moments the rest of the patrol returned and began suppressing enemy in the field. A cease fire was given and Adams led an eight-man patrol to search for the two enemy insurgents. After returning, Adams' men began a search of the fallen enemy, the vehicle, and the surrounding area.
The headlights from the three other vehicles in the patrol illuminated what had previously been in the shadows. Next to the car was a shovel. The vehicle's tires were fine. Adams had interrupted the emplacement of an IED. In a shallow hole lay two 130mm artillery rounds. Small wires led to a digital clock next to the bomb. But Adams noticed another set of wires attached to the clock disappearing under the soil in the direction of his HMMWV. He carefully retraced his steps and made a disturbing discovery. About 15 meters apart were two additional, freshly covered IEDs-a potentially devastating "daisy chain" of six high explosives. Adams had probably run right over the mounds when he exited the vehicle. It was clear that the insurgents were moments away from covering up the last of the massive bombs and disappearing into the night.
Staff Sergeant Adams' actions prevented the Anti-Iraqi Forces from placing a complex-and potentially devastating-remote controlled chain of IEDs. Hidden in the shallow holes were one 155mm artillery round and two 130mm artillery rounds. Also recovered from the vehicle: an AK-47 with 10 full magazines, a PKC machine gun with two hundred rounds and seven hand grenades. Adams' personal courage and calm under fire had prevented catastrophic loss. For his heroic actions, Staff Sergeant Adams was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor.
Staff Sergeant Adams relishes his experience in the U.S. Army. "It has given me everything: excitement, a chance to see the world and a good life for my family." Back home in the United States, Adams and his family have found their way back to his Midwestern roots. Adams realizes that after combat in Iraq, his Army career has come full circle. Having had his weapon carry him into battle, this Bronze Star recipient is now an Army Recruiter. Like the earnest Recruiter who approached him on that fateful day in 1993, Adams provides young men and women in Indiana the same straightforward and honest explanation of the benefits to an Army career.
This is by far the toughest but most satisfying time of my career in the Army. I'm challenged every day as a Recruiter to provide the strength and character that our Army needs. The Army has given me so much. This is my time to give back.
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AT HOME WITH: Hunter S. Thompson
Putting Out the Fire When It's Not There
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: May 29, 1997
WOODY CREEK, Colo.— THE front gate to Hunter S. Thompson's log-cabin-style ranch is flanked by two hunks of metal folded like origami into shapes resembling vultures. These twin sentries convey both a promise and a threat: you are entering the realm of the seriously weird, and you may not get out alive.
Inside, Mr. Thompson is doing his bit to live up to that billing. There is a tumbler of Scotch on a kitchen counter in front of him, plus a shot of tequila, not to mention a tall glass of some chartreuse-colored concoction called Toni's Kick-a-boo Joy Juice, in addition to a pipe with a bowl shaped like a human skull. Its contents smell suspiciously unlike tobacco.
Mr. Thompson partakes of each, pausing after a shot of the tequila, a special brand called Patron Gold, to reflect on the way the finest distilled spirits attain a common smoothness.
''The best of all the liquors, at the top, taste more alike, more like each other,'' he says as he drags on one of his beloved Dunhill cigarettes, which are quasi-permanent appendages to his lips. ''It's like fiction and nonfiction -- the pyramid theory.''
He is speaking not just about literature in general but also about his own work, which has occasionally straddled the line between the imagined and the real. And if this self-analysis seems a tad self-impressed, it is at least timely. Right about now, Mr. Thompson has cause to be feeling like a very important man.
Villard Books has just released ''The Proud Highway,'' a collection of letters he wrote between 1955 and 1967, a span of time taking him from his late teens to the age of 30. It is exactly the kind of glimpse backward into a writer's formation that is typically reserved for the most revered artists and even then appears after they die.
Moreover, it is not the only evidence that Mr. Thompson, the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism, still exerts a powerful hold on the American psyche.
Next month, just in time for his 60th birthday, the cameras are scheduled to roll on the movie version of ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,'' his 1971 account of a drug-addled odyssey through America's capital of kitsch, hailed by its many admirers as a nonpareil meditation on a nation's troubled soul. The talent involved in this project is A-list: Terry Gilliam directs, and Johnny Depp plays Mr. Thompson.
How does Mr. Thompson feel about all this? While it might be expected that someone with his antiestablishment rhetoric, irreverent antics and bad-boy posturing would greet such tributes with a sneer or shrug, his reaction is more along the lines of a cackle of triumphant glee.
Indeed, for all his self-destructive shtick, Mr. Thompson appears to care deeply, and in an entirely conventional way, about his regard and legacy as a writer.
Consider ''The Proud Highway.'' It would not exist had Mr. Thompson not made carbon copies of all the letters he wrote as a budding writer and had he not packed away and carted around these pounds of correspondence through the decades.
The book, sans forewords and appendixes, is 661 pages, and its editor, a New Orleans scholar and writer named Douglas Brinkley, says it represents only 1 in 15 of the letters Mr. Thompson kept during the years in question. There are enough missives left from subsequent years, Mr. Brinkley says, to fill at least two more volumes of correspondence, should the publishing industry and the rest of America be interested.
Mr. Thompson has trouble answering how at such an early age he was struck by the impulse to save all these documents. Then again, he is not so good with questions of any kind. Still hazy after all these years, he mumbles, mutters and digresses, making it difficult to interview him and virtually impossible to transcribe the results.
''I had a pretty profound thought there,'' he grumbles at one interlude, ''but I lost it.''
Mr. Brinkley offers a clearer view of how ''The Proud Highway'' came to be. He says that Mr. Thompson always anticipated success as a writer and that the letters were like a ''nest egg'' to be redeemed later.
''You don't associate Hunter Thompson with that almost anally retentive collecting of things,'' Mr. Brinkley acknowledges. But he adds: ''He really believed in his gifts as a writer. So, he would save everything and methodically file things.''
The resulting book serves as a reminder that before Mr. Thompson transmogrified into an eccentric pop icon, as famous for his fast-driving, drug-taking, profanity-spewing persona as for his writing, he was first and foremost an original, vivid prose voice.
The wicked humor and bracing political conviction of the letters in ''The Proud Highway'' laid the groundwork for ''Hell's Angels,'' ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' and ''Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72,'' Mr. Thompson's earliest books and, as time would prove, his most famous.
''The Great Shark Hunt,'' a collection of essays and articles that was published in 1979, was also well received. But since then, none of Mr. Thompson's work has garnered a comparable degree of attention and adulation. Some of the titles from the 1980's and 90's -- ''The Curse of Lono,'' ''Songs of the Doomed,'' ''Better Than Sex'' -- prod hardly a glimmer of recognition.


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WONDER WHAT Honda Motor Co. has planned for your motorcycle dealer brethren in Europe?
The OEM placed its 10-minute INTERMOT press conference online for the world to view. Click here to watch the conference and hear Shigeru Takagi, president and director of Honda Motor Europe, Ltd., and Mark Davies, general manager, Honda Motor Europe Motorcycle describe the company's plans for 2009 and beyond.


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The word "syncytium" is derived from two Greek words, signifying together, a hollow vessel.
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—The syncytium is one of the epithelial layers of the chorionic villi. It is of fetal origin; this has been proved by the fact that in men and children neoplasms have been found of which syncytial tissue formed one of the component parts. Peters,1 Minot2 and Marchand3 have demonstrated conclusively that the syncytium is derived from the primitive ectoderm and mesoderm or trophoblast. These investigations have opened the way into a broad field for the scientist; they have thrown a new light on pathologic findings on. the subject
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I guess it was just a matter of time. A city councilman from Central Florida is proposing that smokers be banned from city jobs. He wants all job applicants to indicate if they smoke and, if so, they will not be considered for a city job.
I'm a smoker and it's hard to defend the habit. It's nasty and has major health implications but so does alcohol abuse and obesity. Funny how the councilman omitted these issues.
Smokers are more prone to health issues and, on average, cost $1,600 additional dollars a year in health care expenses. But alcohol abusers and obese workers also add to the health expense. It may be popular to attack smokers but, when you examine the facts, it's a bone-headed approach.
If we're going to adopt a litmus test for hiring, then we'd better look at some of those issues that truly impact health care expenses. The government just recently issued a report on the cost of obesity to the medical community. The numbers run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. Perhaps the councilman missed that report.
I assume there's a statistic out there somewhere but I would imagine that lost productivity from obesity and alcohol abuse might outdistance that of smokers. We have statistics for everything else, I would assume there's one for that question as well.
Here's the bottom line. Smoking is stupid. But so is obesity and alcohol abuse. If you start imposing a ban based strictly on health care issues, you'd better be careful. That argument might return to snap you in the fanny.
If you want to reduce health care expenses, try an incentive to encourage people to quit smoking. And then make sure that incentive also applies to the obese and those who abuse alcohol. Before long, you might wonder where all the workers are because we've banned every conceivable shortcoming in life.


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Industry A-List Turns Out for Reed Krakoff's Debut
The luxury retail universe turned out to see the highly anticipated debut collection from Reed Krakoff, the president and creative mind behind the $3.2 billion Coach handbag brand, who presented Wednesday afternoon in a warehouse space on West 22nd Street. Several designers, such as Tory Burch and Tommy Hilfiger—Mr. Krakoff's former boss—were also on hand to support for Mr. Krakoff's maiden voyage into the world of designer sportswear.
Natalie Massenet, chief executive of e-commerce retailer Net-a-Porter.com, called the collection "strong and directional," and said she "would like to" carry pieces of it for fall. "I think it was a very complete collection, that covered every category," she said.
The eponymous collection contained neutral-toned coats in heavy fabrics, messenger bags and military boots adorned with luxurious materials like python and alligator. Much of the clothing was fabricated of a material that, as a handbag designer, Mr. Krakoff is quite familiar with: leather. There were leather skirts, dresses, baggy leather pants and even a utility belt of questionable utility that was festooned with fur.
Mr. Krakoff also experimented with more traditional materials, such as a pair of olive-colored denim shorts that appeared to have been dipped in wax. The show notes called the look "glazed." The styles were paired with beaver accessories, like collars and vests, giving the models an austere urban warrior look.


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Head-to-head contact with an already infested person is the most common way to get head lice. Head-to-head contact is common during play at school, at home, and elsewhere (sports activities, playground, slumber parties, camp).
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James Melvin Robinson, 85, of Stanleyville, passed away Saturday (Nov. 24. 2012) at Heartland of Marietta. He was born at home on May 29, 1927, in Sandyville, W.Va.
He worked at Berg Vault Service, Marietta Metals and farmed. He belonged to the Grange, Farm Bureau and Pioneer Sams Club and enjoyed fishing and square dancing.
A Celebration of Life Service and Dinner will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Highland Ridge Community Church, 2200 Highland Ridge Road, Lowell. It is open to anyone.
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I realised something the other day (whilst sitting on the loo): before I had kids, I never really thought about what I did in, on or around the loo. I don't think anyone does to be fair. All that happened in them / on them were Number Ones, Number Twos, 'Ladies Business'… read more
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One of my lasting memories of growing up is rushing home from school on a Friday, running into the kitchen, throwing open the cupboard and hearing that satisfying 'pffssst..' as I opened a bottle of 'Friday Fizz'. No, my sister and I were not under-age Champagne connoisseurs. It was just… read more
The history of dates as a top 10 lactogenic food The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a tree of western Asia and northern Africa that is cultivated also in the United States, South Asia, and Australia. It bears clusters of edible sweet fruit – dates. Have dates always been considered… read more
As a child of the 70s, say the word Barley and I think 'Water' (Mallet's Mallet style) – the image that pops into my head is that of Robinson's Barley Water. And perhaps summer. And tennis. The other thing that comes to mind, as someone whose mum is a coeliac,… read more
Leaves are falling With the Indian Summer seemingly now over and storms predicted for the coming week, it looks like the seasons are changing, and Autumn is well and truly upon us. (The good news though is darker evenings and mornings do give us a little more hope that we… read more
We are thrilled to announce that The Contented Calf Cookbook is the Silver Winner of Best Innovative Gift Under £50 in the Loved By Parents Awards 2014. Hundreds of brands from all over the world entered this years Loved By Parents Awards. After six months of work and testing, the short-list was produced. Over 50,000 public votes… read more
We are thrilled to announce that The Contented Calf Cookbook has been short-listed for Best Product For Breastfeeding AND Best Innovative Gift Under £50 in the Loved By Parents Awards 2014. Hundreds and hundreds of products were entered into this years awards from all over the world. Products were tested… read more
Please check out our June 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: June 2014 : Women's Fitness : Easy as A, B, C New mum? The Contented Calf Cookbook is packed with recipe ideas for breastfeeding mums that help to heathily promote milk production and boost energy. The tasty meals can also be frozen –… read more
Ever since we first launched The Contented Calf Cookbook at the end of 2011, people have loved it, especially mums – which is good, as that's who it's for! And it seems that the more people who know about the more, the more praise it gets. The M:UK Product Awards… read more
Please check out our May 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: May 2014 : Baby & Me : At your fingertips It's now easier than ever to cook-up an array of deliciously nutritious dishes for nursing mothers. The award-winning Contented Calf Cookbook now comes as an e-book, so all the nourishing recipes… read more
Time out. Two words that strike not fear as such, but complete frustration into the heart of my 4YO. (It's still very much a fun game for 2YO, so not as effective.) Time out for 4YO is one of the worst things that can happen to her – she is… read more
As well as tasting great, apricots are the friend of breastfeeding mums. They are one of our top ten lactogenic foods and can aid with a low milk supply, so let's find out a bit more about them. Usually referring to the species Prunus armeniaca, an apricot is a small,… read more
Please check out our April 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: April 2014 : Absolutely Richmond: The Contented Calf – Mother's Milk Richmond mum Elena Cimelli has released her award-winning recipe book for nursing mothers, The Contented Calf Cookbook, as a digital cookbook along with a new, smaller selection of recipes in a… read more
Our breastfeeding formula There are a number of themes that tend to reoccur on this blog and on our Facebook pages: health, nutrition, breastfeeding (naturally), how what we eat can affect our health, and how formula is not the devil. These are all things I feel passionate about. So that's… read more
Please check out our March 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: March 2014 : TIPS Unlimited: The Contented Calf – Nourishing recipes for breastfeeding mums As a passionate supporter of all things breastfeeding, I was intrigued to find out more about this innovative cookbook. Aimed at breastfeeding mothers this book is not only… read more
As you are no doubt aware, we recently re-vamped our website. The aim was to keep the same friendly feel, but to make it even easier to navigate. Hopefully you love it as much as we do. Mumpreneur UK certainly does. We are super excited that the Contented Calf website… read more
Look up the definition of 'almond' and you will get something along the lines of the dictionary.com reference: A small widely cultivated rosaceous tree, Prunus amygdalus, that is native to W Asia and has pink flowers and a green fruit containing an edible nut-like seed. The oval-shaped nut-like edible seed of this plant, which has a yellowish-brown shell [i]. General Health & Nutrition There are many reasons why we at Contented Calf love them. One serving of almonds (28 grams, or about 23 almonds) contains: Healthy fat:… read more
Today is International Day of Happiness. This is well-timed for me, as I've recently been reflecting on happiness and positivity. I've always been a positive person. I tend to be of the belief that we only have one life, so we might as well make the most of it, and… read more
Last week was parents evening at 4YO's school. Naturally it fell (yet again) on a week when hubby was away and couldn't make it. Luckily my wonderful friend, neighbour and fellow reception-parent had a later appointment than me, so offered to look after (and feed – thank you lots!) 4YO… read more
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This month, one lucky traveler will win a 'Game of Thrones' Filming Location Tour for 2! Read on to find out more…
About the tour
'Game of Thrones' County Down Filming Locations Tour from Belfast Including Winterfell
Wander into the Haunted Forest, see the Riverlands, make a grand entrance at Winterfell and more on this 'Game of Thrones' day trip from Belfast. Traveling by air-conditioned coach with a knowledgeable guide, journey to County Down and visit locations used in the award-winning HBO series. Explore Tollymore Forest Park, the real-life location of the Haunted Forest, and visit Inch Abbey and Audley's Castle, which featured as The Twins and the Riverlands. The highlight of the tour is Castle Ward — site of Winterfell — where you can join in an optional archery session.
How to enter
To enter to win 2 Skip the Line: Guinness Storehouse Entrance Tickets, visit our Dublin Facebook page and select the "Contest" tab. Tell us in 10 words or fewer "Why you want to go on this tour", and hit the "submit" button to be entered into the contest.
The contest closes on April 24, 2015– so hurry!
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Terms and Conditions: No purchase is necessary to enter. Must be 18 or older to enter. Our staff will pick the entry that we think best answers the question above. One winner will be awarded 2 free tickets for a 'Game of Thrones' County Down filming locations Tour from Belfeast including Winterfell. Tickets must be used by December 30, 2015. Airfare, taxes, and any other expenses not specifically listed above are not included. Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be sold or redeemed for any cash value.


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Definition of bearded collie in English:
bearded collie
A dog of a shaggy breed of collie with long hair on the face.
Example sentences
- The dogs included shih-tzus, dachshunds, lhasa apsos, bearded collies, corgis, chihuahuas, poodles, pekinese and Yorkshire terriers.
- Geeson groups the dogs together according to their coats, so the longcoated breeds such as Afghan hounds, bearded collies and Yorkshire terriers are all together.
- Pekinese, bearded collies, dachshunds and Yorkshire terriers were among the 260 dogs seized at a single house in Lancashire last month.
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Inglés americano: /ˈfɔrdəˌfaɪ/ Inglés británico: /ˈfɔːtɪfʌɪ/
Traducción de fortify en español:
transitive verb fortifies, fortifying, fortified
- 1 (Military)(town/building)
fortificarOraciones de ejemplo
- He immediately set up a defensive perimeter and fortified his area.
- I came in from the sides like a well drilled eighteenth century army attacking some fortified town in the Low Countries.
- Achieving both can fortify a region militarily and put its economy on par with the world's best.
- 2 (strengthen)(person/determination)
fortificar(argument)she had a snack to fortify her
reforzarcomió algo para recuperar fuerzasOraciones de ejemplo
- Teaching involved so much giving out, and the painting returned to Bill a strength that fortified him for his teaching.
- This power surged from his heart and dispersed to every cell in his body: it fortified him by strengthening his stamina, and increasing his reflexes.
- After this brief meeting, we were fortified with some basic knowledge about our surroundings, and we were able to forge ahead to explore on our own.
- 3 3.1(wine)fortified wine
encabezarvino (masculine) fortificadoOraciones de ejemplo3.2
(food/drink)fortified with vitamins
- Depending on the style of the wine, sherry is fortified with grape spirit known as aguardiente to between 15.5 and 22 per cent.
- The family of sweet fortified wines include Port, Madeira, Malmsey, Vermouth and Muscat de Beaumes de Venise.
- Spirit or fortified wine is heated gently (in a ladle or small pan) until the alcohol it contains begins to vaporize, then ignited, poured over the food, and allowed to burn.
enriquecerenriquecido con vitaminasOraciones de ejemplo
- Because many American foods are fortified with vitamin A, deficiency is very rare in individuals who do not have certain chronic intestinal illnesses.
- The body more readily absorbs folic acid from vitamin supplements and fortified foods than folate from food.
- Margarine is fortified with added vitamins A and D to bring their levels up to those naturally present in butter.
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The mission of the Manufacturing & Logistics Division is to benefit the state of Texas by maintaining the security of offenders while providing quality service in warehousing operations, freight transportation, the management of TDCJ vehicles, and by providing quality manufactured products and services to the TDCJ, other state agencies and political subdivisions, while providing reentry opportunities for incarcerated offenders.
The Manufacturing & Logistics (M&L) Division is managed by a division director, a deputy director, and three assistant directors that oversee Financial Operations, Texas Correctional Industries (TCI), and Transportation & Supply. TCI has 37 facilities, which includes two warehouses and four training facilities and Transportation & Supply has 18 facilities. Coordination oversight of the M&L Division is provided by the chief financial officer.
The division consists of Financial Operations, Planning & Research, TCI, and Transportation & Supply.
Financial Operations is comprised of the M&L Information Technology Department, the Financial Support Office (FSO), and the M&L Business Office. The M&L Information Technology Department provides automated information services, maintains the TCI website, administers the TMW dispatch system and assists more than 500 division users, both in the field and through remote access. The FSO is located at the Wynne Unit and is the data center for TCI. The FSO is responsible for compiling massive amounts of data to produce the monthly TCI Financial Report. The FSO also provides information to factories, M&L management, and TDCJ administration, which is utilized to make sound business decisions. The M&L Business Office provides division budget oversight, purchasing approvals and specifications, credit card monitoring, accounts receivable collections, TCI customer service, JD Edwards data controls, and general accounting.
Planning & Research provides support to the division. The department compiles and provides accurate and consistent information about the division for various publications, presentations and webpages, coordinates the development and maintenance of division policies, develops division publications, conducts legislative impact analysis, coordinates and monitors various division responsibilities, acts as the American Correctional Association – Correctional Industries coordinator for the division, provides technical assistance when needed, and coordinates division training needs.
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TCI was established in 1963 with the passage of Senate Bill 338, the Prison Made Goods Act. TCI manufactures goods and provides services to city, county, state and federal agencies, public schools, public and private institutions of higher education, public hospitals and political subdivisions. TCI includes six divisions: Garment, Graphics, Furniture, Metal, Marketing & Distribution and Offender Work & Training Programs. The Garment division has 14 facilities that manufacture items such as shirts, pants, coats, shoes, sheets, pillows, and mattresses. The Graphics division has seven facilities that create items including signs, stickers, printed materials, janitorial supplies, soaps, detergents, and license plates. The Furniture division has four facilities that build a variety of office and institutional furniture and modular systems. The Metal division has six facilities that manufacture items such as stainless steel goods, signs, park equipment, dump beds and trailers. The Marketing & Distribution division develops the marketing strategy, organizes TCI's participation in conventions, handles customer service, and maintains the Austin and Huntsville showrooms and warehouses. The Offender Work & Training Programs division oversees M&L's designated training facilities: Daniel Computer Recovery, Ferguson Geographic Information Systems, Wynne Computer Recovery, and Mt. View Braille. The division is responsible for:
TCI management provides oversight of the Prison Industries Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program. A program supervisor acts as the liaison between unit administration and a private business located on a correctional facility and monitors the program to ensure compliance with state and federal guidelines.
Transportation and Supply includes three divisions: Fleet, Freight Transportation, and Warehousing & Supply.
Fleet has four facilities and is responsible for the management and supervision of TDCJ transportation and mechanical operations, planning and forecasting equipment needs, and managing the acquisition and maintenance service of TDCJ vehicles, trailers, and equipment. Fleet provides transportation through motor pools or vehicle assignments to TDCJ staff and oversees the disposal of salvage vehicles.
Freight Transportation has four terminals and two diesel mechanic shops and is responsible for transporting goods, planning the shipping and distribution requirements for the TDCJ, providing safety education training for employees and offenders, and coordinating the transportation and receipt of goods with customers. Freight Transportation also provides offender transport bus maintenance services and emergency wrecker services for the TDCJ.
Warehousing & Supply has eight facilities and is responsible for managing the annual distribution of supplies, including dry, cold and frozen food, TCI produced goods, Agribusiness, Land & Minerals Division produced goods, Facilities Division construction and maintenance supplies, and general consumable goods, while optimizing the TDCJ's appropriated budget.
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Quantitative Characterization of Biomolecular Interactions - SPR
Surface Plasmon Resonance
SPR is a chip-based technology to measure biomolecular interactions in a label free environment in real-time. As one of the interactants is immobilized to the sensor surface, the others are free in solution and passed over the surface. Formation and dissociation are measured in arbitrary units and displayed in a graph called the sensorgram. From this sensorgram, various kinetic parameters can be calculated (ex.on-rates, off-rates and affinities)
Biomolecular interaction analysis is not limited to proteins. DNA-DNA, DNA-protein, lipid- protein and hybrid systems of biomolecules and non-biological surfaces can be investigated.
Biomolecular interaction analysis can be used to:
- Identify the binding of two or more interactants to each other
- Determine the strength of binding of the interactions
- Measure the kinetic rates of reaction (actual formation and dissociation rates).
- Quantify the concentration of protein in a complex mixture after binding
A Biacore 3000 SPR instrument is now available for use. The equipment is located in room C2705. Most analyses require a day to set up and run. Hourly or weekly rates are available. Please contact Wade Edris email@example.com to reserve time or for fee information.


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Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach is putting the finishing touches on his new solo album for an early 2014 release via Frontiers Records. The follow-up to 2011's "Kicking & Screaming" is once again being produced by Bob Marlette, who has previously worked with ROB ZOMBIE, BLACK SABBATH and SHINEDOWN, among others.Says Bach: "I am just resting my body and soul after singing all day every day for this past week for the new record. "Once again, producer Bob Marlette has outdone himself and this is the perfect follow-up to 'Kicking & Screaming'. I am extremely excited for you all to hear it! "I have been putting in long hours every single day making sure that it is kicking your ass in every way possible and it is sounding great! "Bach to work on Monday. The album is almost done!" Sebastian managed to involve in the writing and recording some very special friends and guest stars, including none other than Duff McKagan (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES), and not one but two top-class guitar players: John 5 (MARILYN MANSON, ROB ZOMBIE) and Steve Stevens (BILLY IDOL). Rounding out the lineup on the CD are Devin Bronson (AVRIL LAVIGNE, PINK) on guitar and Bobby Jarzombek (HALFORD, RIOT, FATES WARNING) on drums. Duff and Sebastian previously collaborated on Duff's solo album "Believe In Me". Bach's recent CD/DVD package, "ABachalypse Now", was released in North America on March 26 via Frontiers Records. The "ABachalypse Now" Ultimate CD/DVD Edition includes never-before-seen footage from last year's Graspop Metal Meeting festival in Dessel, Belgium, the full never-before-seen Hellfest set from France and the fully-remixed and remastered Nokia show from Los Angeles (originally broadcast on AXS TV), as well as bonus music videos. The DVD contains a running time of nearly 160 minutes. "ABachalypse Now" was made available in two configurations: the Ultimate CD/DVD Edition (2 CDs + DVD) and a standalone DVD.
SEBASTIAN BACH Says His New Solo Album Is 'The Perfect Follow-Up' To 'Kicking & Screaming'
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MALDEN - Mary Ruth Hogeland, 60, died Dec. 14, 2001, at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter.
Born March 24, 1941, in Dudley to the late Marvin and Genevieve Laramore Eagan, she was a member of the Second Southern Baptist Church of Malden.
On Oct. 14, 1983, at Malden she married Harold Hogeland, who survives of Malden.
Other survivors include: one son, Darian Hogeland of Malden; one stepson, Wayne Hogeland of Houston, Texas; one daughter, Deanna Eagan of Malden; two sisters, Joyce Trammell of Tallapoosa and Sharon Eagan of Sikeston; and three stepgrandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Martha Eagan.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden, where services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. Paul Starnes and the Rev. Roger Fowler will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Elder Cemetery in Campbell.


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The Freeze Dry Process
Freeze-drying or lyophilization and can be thought of in terms of holding food in suspended animation. The more water and oxygen you can remove from a food, the longer the food is preserved for.
Lyophilization is the most successful process at removing these substances and so Freeze-Dried food has the longest shelf-life of all preserved foods.
Happily it also happens to be the process that retains more of the food's original nutritional value, taste and texture. To find out why freeze-drying is a better method of preservation than canning or dehydration read this post.
Lyophilization for food is a three stage process: freezing, drying and packaging.
Although larger crystals are easier to freeze-dry, Clarence Birdseye identified that large ice crystals in the formerly living cells of plants and animals burst the cell walls during freezing and thawing, denaturing the texture of the food, and in some cases affecting the nutritional content.
Birdseye solved this issue by exploiting the phenomenon of flash freezing he'd encountered when ice fishing with the Inuit, finding that rapid freezing at extremely low temperatures (between -50 ? to -80 ?) actually prevented the formation of ice crystals.
The physical principal that is exploited in lyophilization is sublimation. Sublimation is the transition of a substance from its solid phase to a gaseous phase without passing through the liquid phase, (think dry-ice).
To ensure that sublimation (desirable) occurs during the drying process rather than melting (undesirable), the water needs to be cooled below its triple point in this initial freezing process. The triple point is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases of a substance can coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
So, to ensure the textural and nutritional quality of the food remains, this initial freezing is actually the most important stage in the lyophilization process.
This stage in the process can last several days. Pressure is lowered in the chamber in which the food has been placed through the application of a partial vacuum. Temperature is then increased to the point where the water will sublime, the ice evaporating from the cells dehydrating the food.
Temperature must be carefully controlled as too much heat can alter the cell structure, which again could impair texture, flavour and nutritional value. Too high a temperature can also risks evaporation that is too fast for the pumps to removed from the chamber resulting in condensation.
In this initial drying about 95% of the water is removed.
Some products may undergo a further drying process that aims to remove any unfrozen water molecues. The temperature and sometimes the pressure will be raised (depending on the product) and this second drying can create a product with up to 99% of its water removed.
When freeze-drying is complete the food is vacuum packed, sometimes with an oxygen absorbing sachet added.
Now the food is vacuum packed, it can be stored at room temperature for years without spoiling - perfect for hiking and camping, self-supported expeditions and races, as well as for use as emergency rations.