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The moon appears totally covered by shadow as Earth passes between the moon and the sun during a lunar eclipse on Jan. 9, 2001. On Tuesday, the first day of northern winter, the full moon passes almost dead-center through Earth's shadow. The eclipse begins at 1:33 a.m. EST. At that time, Earth's shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the "bite" to expand and swallow the entire Moon. Totality commences at 2:41 a.m. EST and lasts for 72 minutes.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Skywatchers got an early holiday present this year: A total eclipse of the moon.
Hanging high in the sky, the moon slowly turned from bright silver into a red disk early Tuesday.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth casts its shadow on the full moon, blocking the sun's rays that otherwise reflect off the moon's surface. Some indirect sunlight still pierces through to give the moon its eerie hue.
The 3 1/2 hour celestial spectacle was visible from North and Central America where skies were clear. Portions of Europe and Asia only caught part of the show.
The totality phase -- when the moon was completely immersed in Earth's shadow -- lasted 72 minutes.
Since the year's only total lunar eclipse coincided with winter solstice, the moon glowed high in the sky.
The last time this occurred was more than three centuries ago on Dec. 21, 1638. It will happen again on Dec. 21, 2094, according to U.S. Naval Observatory spokesman Geoff Chester.
Lunar eclipses are safe to watch with the naked eye, unlike solar eclipses.
The next total lunar eclipse will occur in June 2011 and will not be visible from North America.
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Cloud platforms and cloud-based solutions are a reality. More and more businesses are taking advantage of hosted software, solutions and services, outsourcing non-core competencies to lower costs and increase productivity.
For businesses looking to accelerate time to value, it is easier to build upon existing assets rather than start from scratch. In a cloud environment, asset sharing and reuse becomes imperative. A new asset, for example, a specialized application for a small number of users, can easily be created by importing an existing asset (perhaps another existing application) and tweaking it for a specialized purpose.
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications such as IBM® Blueworks Live that allow business users to collaborate, create and share assets, are considered to be asset-centric. In the case of Blueworks Live these are business process management (BPM) assets that can be shared with others in the team.
For such asset-centric SaaS applications, it is important to provide the right amount of isolation and sharing features. Certain assets may be shared with the entire cloud community, while others may be confidential and available only within a tenant boundary. While securing assets within a tenant's boundary is imperative, asset-centric collaboration between tenants is also desirable. We call this collaborative multi-tenancy, wherein users across tenant boundaries can work together to develop and share artifacts, if they so choose.
In the course of building out several SaaS applications, we have used the IBM Rational Asset Manager as a shared component in the IBM Cloud to satisfy many requirements around asset-centric collaboration. IBM Rational Asset Manager is a collaborative software development tool that organizations can use to identify, manage, and govern the design, development, and consumption of software assets and services. Think of it as a repository of assets coupled with a rich set of asset-centric functions such as upload, download, search, reporting, governance, to name a few. It handles any kind of asset, including applications, components, patterns, software that runs systems and products, services, frameworks, and templates.
This article shows an approach that enables collaborative multi-tenancy using Rational Asset Manager and describes the crucial role that RAM plays in supporting collaboration, while maintaining the desired levels of asset isolation and privacy for multi-tenant applications. Find practical information on how to provision, configure and manage RAM in the IBM Cloud.
Asset isolation and sharing in a multi-tenant environment
Asset isolation and sharing is the ability to support the scenario where an asset that belongs to one tenant is not visible to another tenant, unless that behavior is explicitly requested. This behavior can be achieved easily utilizing the "asset communities" concept that is provided by RAM.
Rational Asset Manager defines asset communities as collections of assets that are grouped by a common use and purpose. A community is an environment in which users interact with a group of related assets. Community administrators assign roles and permissions to users and user groups to set different levels of access to the community. This scoping can be utilized to implement asset isolation as follows:
- For every tenant, create an asset community in Rational Asset Manager with the tenant administrator as the community administrator. This asset community is private. Assets in this community are visible only within the tenant boundary.
- All the registered users of the tenant become registered members of this asset community with the ability to publish and download assets.
- When publishing an asset, users can publish to the community by default.
- Optionally, allow each community administrator to set up additional roles for the users in their organization, for example, to support an asset review or governance process.
Public asset communities
To promote collaboration across tenant boundaries and enable new patterns of partnerships between tenants, thereby driving greater value for the overall cloud community, a SaaS provider might want to create some public asset communities, and prime them with some assets that can be reused by all the tenants. Tenants wanting to seek feedback on an asset, or collaboratively develop an asset with another tenant may also want to leverage a public asset community:
- Create one or more public asset communities in Rational Asset Manager.
- Create implicit membership for public communities, where every user registered in your cloud solution is automatically a member of these public communities.
- Allow any registered user to publish and download assets from the public communities.
Figure 1 show the architecture for asset sharing and isolation.
Figure 1: Asset isolation and sharing between cloud tenants
Provisioning Rational Asset Manager in the IBM Cloud
The IBM Cloud offers an image of Rational Asset Manager, currently version 126.96.36.199. Use the Add Instance wizard, as shown in Figure 2, to provision a VM that has Rational Asset Manager installed on it. This Rational Asset Manager instance is running on embedded IBM WebSphere Application Server. It is useful for development and testing purposes.
Figure 2: RAM single instance image in IBM Cloud
However for a production environment, you need to install a Rational Asset Manager cluster for workload balancing and failover capabilities. At this time the IBM Cloud does not provide such a production image so you have to set it up yourself. In the following section, we share our experiences.
Configuring a Rational Asset Manager Cluster in the IBM Cloud
The basic idea is to start from the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image and then build up the Rational Asset Manager cluster. Figure 3 shows the overall topology. Each rounded rectangle represents a VM running in the IBM Cloud. Specifically:
- RAM Node 1 and RAM Node 2: A 2 node Rational Asset Manager cluster, each node running two Rational Asset Manager servers. It is possible to scale by adding more nodes and/or more Rational Asset Manager servers within a node.
- RAM Deployment Manager and License Server: The Rational Asset Manager setup application, which orchestrates the installation and configuration of Rational Asset Manager on a cluster, must be installed on the deployment manager node. The Rational License Server must be installed with sufficient license keys to allow the anticipated level of concurrent user access to Rational Asset Manager.
- Rational Asset Manager Load Balancer: A VM that distributes the load across the Rational Asset Manager servers. This VM is the entry point for any client that wants to use the Rational Asset Manager cluster.
- Storage Mount VM: A VM attached to the IBM Cloud storage which is used to store the assets.
- Database: A shared VM in the system for a database server.
- LDAP: A shared VM in the system for a user directory.
Figure 3: Rational Asset Manager running in production environment on the IBM Cloud
Configuring the RAM Nodes and Deployment Manager is a multi-step process that is well explained in the product documentation. The following sections describe the additional configurations that are necessary to make the cluster work in the IBM Cloud.
Shared storage for assets
Rational Asset Manager uses the file system to store the artifacts. When you configure Rational Asset Manager, you must specify a folder location for persisting files and indexes. In a cluster environment, the folder must be on a shared drive so that all Rational Asset Manager servers can access the folder.
On the IBM Cloud, the equivalent capability can be realized using the Storage. As discussed in Best practices to architect applications in the IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Storage allows you to persist and share files between multiple VMs. Figure 3 shows the Storage Mount VM that is attached to the IBM Cloud Storage that was provisioned.
A Network File System (NFS) server is already available on the Storage Mount VM RHEL image and just needs to be configured and started. The NFS client was also started on each RAM Node to attach to the Storage Mount VM. With this set up, Rational Asset Manager can store the user artifacts on the IBM Cloud Storage. This is depicted in Figure 3.
Licensing considerations
Rational Asset Manager uses Rational Common Licensing for license enforcement. You need to provide a permanent license key or set up a Rational License Server with the required FLEXlm license keys, and configure Rational Asset Manager to connect to the License Server.
To generate FLEXlm-based license keys, you need the host ID of the machine on which the Rational License Server is installed. The host ID is used to identify the hardware to which you are registering your key. Host IDs can be disk serial numbers or MAC addresses. License key files run only on the License Server that was specified when they were generated.
The license keys that are served by the Rational License Server depend on the MAC address or disk serial number. In a cloud environment where VMs can be deleted and re-provisioned, for example to recover from failure, this can pose a new challenge. This is because the MAC address of a re-provisioned VM on the IBM Cloud is not the same as the MAC address of the previously de-provisioned VM even though they can have the same static IP.
So, in the event that the host ID of your Rational License Server changes, you must reissue licenses for the new host and register them with the License Server. Alternatively, having a permanent license lets you bypass the License Server altogether.
On ramp to enterprise
If a tenant wants to on ramp assets from the cloud environment into their enterprise environment that sits behind the corporate firewall, they can also authenticate via the Rational Asset Manager Eclipse Asset Management perspective, and then browse or import their assets. This is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Using Eclipse Rational Asset Manager client to import assets into Enterprise
The deployment configuration to support accessing Rational Asset Manager from both a browser environment and an Eclipse environment turns out to be a bit tricky, depending on how it is accessed. RAM uses both form-based authentication (using a browser) and basic access authentication (using Eclipse). Hence, you must configure your platform access to support both basic and form-based authentication to enable both cloud access and on-premise access scenarios. This solution deploys a cluster of WebSEAL instances that are configured for both basic authentication and form-based authentication. Traffic is routed to the appropriate WebSEAL instance based on the HTTP header in the incoming request. The role of WebSEAL in the overall solution will be explained in more details in future articles.
Managing and monitoring Rational Asset Manager in the cloud
For each VM in Figure 3, activation scripts describe the sequence of actions that are required to start up the servers and services on that particular VM. For example, an activation script may include steps like starting up the NFS client, starting the WebSphere® Application Servers, and mounting the required shared storage. This ensures that if a VM is rebooted, it will come back up with all the services started up and accessible automatically.
IBM Tivoli® Monitoring is deployed in the IBM Cloud to monitor the performance and the availability of all our cloud VMs. By creating a number of agents to monitor URLs, logs and network connectivity, we were able to detect problems and in many cases automatically recover from the problems without human interventions. In the case of the Rational Asset Manager sub-system, some of the failures detected and attempted to recover from include:
- Inaccessible shared storage.
- One or more RAM servers are down or not responding.
- Errors in logs (e.g. ramDebug.log, SystemOut.log) such as license errors, connectivity issues, hung threads.
- Unavailable shared database server.
Future articles will describe how IBM Tivoli Monitoring can be deployed and configured to automate the monitoring and recovery of your cloud solutions.
Asset governance and security
In addition to getting your Rational Asset Manager production cluster up and running reliably in the IBM Cloud, you should also think through how you want to define the taxonomy and governance processes for your assets.
While there is no one answer here, and the best fit for your cloud solution might be different from someone else's solution, here are a few tips that may be useful to consider:
- What is the list of asset types that make sense for your cloud solution? For example, you might have high-level architectures and design assets, implementation assets, and even marketing and demos assets.
- Consider defining additional classification attributes on your asset types so that they can be used to facilitate search. For example, classification based on industry (such as retail or health care), domain within an industry, maturity level (such as level 1, 2, 3), adoption pattern, customization characteristics (for example, as-is vs. configurable).
- What are the semantic considerations for fine-grained access control on your assets? For example:
- Who can create an asset?
- Who can delete an asset?
- Can a user view or modify another user's assets?
- Can a user share an asset with another user?
- Is re-sharing of an asset allowed?
Although these considerations may not be specific to cloud deployment, the intrinsic sharing nature of the cloud makes it more important to consider these standard practices up front, and minimize changes after the solution is deployed, which can then affect many tenants.
This article described how asset-centric collaboration can bring together like-minded organizations to build applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. Such a cloud solution lets users leverage popular social networking technologies to interact more with each other; yet still preserve the level of security, governance and integrity that are necessary for enterprise assets. This article also demonstrated how to unleash the power of asset-centric collaboration by deploying a cloud solution that is built on Rational Asset Manager.
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More Female Partners: A Noble Goal, but How to Get There?
As a law-firm goal, it sounds simple enough: increase the percentage of women partners. But in practicality, how does a law firm go about getting more women in the top ranks?
The issue was the topic of an interesting article this week in the UK's The Lawyer. The focus of the article was Clifford Chance, which has pledged to increase its percentage of female partners to 30 percent.
As the Lawyer reports, however, "the firm has a long way to go." Currently, only 15 percent of its partnership is female.
In speaking with the Lawyer, the firm's managing partner, David Childs, was refreshingly candid, admitting that such a boost in the numbers likely won't come easy. "None of us are happy about the figure being around 15 percent," says Childs. "Speaking to junior female lawyers, it's not good enough to say there's just 15 percent of the partnership female without making it clear that we want that to change. We wanted to give ourselves a goal to be able to make headway."
Fair enough. But how does a firm essentially double its ranks of female partners in short order? Childs says the firm is considering a range of options, including reviewing its partnership agreement to incorporate more flexible working opportunities. But he concedes it's not an overnight process. "There's no one thing that will solve the problem," says Childs. "It's something that all firms face and there are many ways you can approach it."
One problem, says Childs, is that pursuing a quick fix leads to problems. "There's a real concern around positive discrimination," he says. "Women don't want to be promoted on that basis. We need to find ways to change things over time. It's a gradual process."
We'll pause here, LBers, to throw out a question: What's the answer here? What should be the goal for a law firm on this front?
But we'd be remiss if we didn't include in our post a provocative quote in the Lawyer story from Dawn Dixon, a partner at Webster Dixon and a former member of the Association of Women Solicitors.
"The main question I'd ask is, how and why are firms doing this?" she asks. "Not every woman wants to be a partner. The reality is that many want to do their job, live their life and spend time with their family. Partnership is not the Holy Grail."
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Sure, there are a ton of entertainment options in San Diego, but I'd choose a long, luxurious afternoon at the spa over just about anything. And I do, most weekends of the year. While club nights and music festivals excite and exhaust, spa treatments detox and revitalize, cleansing and strengthening your mind, body and soul.
From advanced skin care facials to rejuvenating body scrubs and therapeutic massages, the spa isn't just a place for pampering; it's a refined refuge for total body wellness. Although frequent trips to the spa are essential for the preservation of health and beauty, unfortunately not everyone can afford or justify this luxury.
If you are desperately in need a 60-minute hot stone massage followed by a mani / pedi, but can't shell out upwards of $400 for that afternoon of bliss, listen up, your big break has arrived. The fall edition of San Diego Spa Week returns October 10 – 16, hooking you up with discounted $50 treatments at top San Diego spas.
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I think i would be more upset if this new mode is nothing but one of the current modes with certain options shut off. For example Saboteur with one life.
Pretty sure the devs have said multiple times that are more guns in retail than in the beta though.
...They better not be referring to the UPlay/Special Edition/Promotion bollocks. =/
I get the feeling some of this was already on disc. The weapons listed were listed before somewhere else, which leads me to think this.
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cashing in like actokidavision's child on duty
Selling items that are already on the disk for DLC is just daylight robbing in my opinion, it's like buying a car with heaters, but then you have to invest more money in order for you to use the heaters.
wow! all you people do is whine whine whine! are you guys serious? now your whining about dlc? too early? too expensive? non respawn mode? heres a crazy idea. dont buy the game and stop coming here to whine about it and go play something more to your liking. this is the absolutely the worst game forum ive ever been too. nothing but a bunch of whiners who act like a spoiled child who didnt get a pony on their birthday. the sad part is alot of you are "adults". smdh its pathetic. im excited about this great game and the dlc sounds sweet! ftw!
And people complain about early DLC/day one DLC is because it's killing the gaming industry, I find it hard to get excited about something that could have been on the disk to start with. Announcing DLC before the games even released... Yep definitely going to be cut content, sorry i mean 'new' content.


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Post subject: Molluscum
Has anyones Lo had/got it?
I took my dd to dr coz she has it.
Ive no idea where she picked it up from as she doesnt go to nursery (dr said thats where they tend to pick it up)
Just wondering how long it lasted if your have had it.
Ive looked on line and its not very helpfull it just says few months to years!!
Luckly its on her chest so its not visible and its covered up to stop risk of spreading it to others.
My dd has had it for a few months now. its not got any worse or any better.
Dont know what to do to treat it as dr didnt do anything.
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Post subject: Molluscum
Hi - both my youngest and eldest has suffered with molluscum - my eldest's cleared up on its own after about 2-3 months - however I took my youngest to a dermatologist as it was showing no signs of clearing up - he recommended something called poxiderm and thankfully this is doing the trick!
Hope this helps
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Is this the same as Mollusculum contagiosum?
Like warts/chicken pox type spots??
If so, my eldest son was diagnosed with this in March. They have continued to be quite angry and even bleed at times. Ive taken him back to the dr 4 times and last week he FINALLY gave him some cream which has virtually cleared them all up!!
Now Liam is much happier and so am I because we told it could take 18 months to fully clear!
Not very nice when you have to do PE and swimming lessons with other children.
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My GD has this , it first appeared just after she had chicken pox and it's part of the pox family, hers has started to spread after she scratched it but I had a look online and there are treatments that are effective for some children , my DD's GP was useless and said it will go on it's own some people say cider vinegar on cotton wool covered with a dressing dries them up and makes them less itchy but it might be worth going back to the GP to see if they can suggest anything for it xx


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Our weekly survey of the best of the web for Florida Panthers, hockey and more.
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By Patrick McGrath - FloridaPanthers.com
It's finally here! It's Draft Day! If you feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve, don't worry, you are in good company. There will be plenty of Panthers fans pumped up for the draft at our Draft Party at Bokamper's Sports Bar & Grill – Plantation, so feel free to stop on by and celebrate the draft with the best crew in town!
With the draft on the way, the introduction of Gerard Gallant as the Florida Panthers new head coach, and the release of the regular season schedule, it has been a crazy week filled with tons of awesome Panthers content, here is a look at what you may have missed:
The Panthers held a press conference on Monday to introduce new head coach, Gerard Gallant. Check out our inside look at the hiring, as well as some facts that you may not have known about the Panthers new bench boss.
Have you ever wondered what you would buy first if you got drafted by the NHL? Panthers forward Jonathan Huberdeau and fellow top picks from the 2011 draft sat down with Nerdwallet.com to talk about what it is like dealing with your finances as a young NHL star.
Because it's Friday and it's draft day (let's be honest, you weren't getting any work done anyway) check out this behind the scenes look at the draft from ESPN.com's Scott Burnside.
Still can't get your Panthers draft fix? Check out Hockey's Future's 2014 Florida Panthers NHL Draft Preview.
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Thanksgiving is over, but the holiday season is just beginning. This weekend has some exciting stuff in store. Legendary Jazz pianist Chick Corea is in town and much, more!
- The Nutcracker is playing all over with the holidays right around the corner. For our friends in B.C., pay a visit to the Royal Theater in Victoria. The Nutcracker will be there from Friday-Sunday. Tickets are $25 online. Seattle's own annual Nutcracker ballet runs all month and tickets are available for all showings on the PNB website.
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Unite Teaming Up With Hoffa's Teamsters To Demand Justice
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Unite's General Secretary Len McCluskey is travelling to Birmingham to demand National Express treats its workers better.
But he is not representing the company's British staff - he is demanding better terms and conditions for American workers employed by the British-based company.
He will be working with Jimmy Hoffa, son of the famous American union leader James Hoffa, who had links with organised crime.
National Express is a major player in the transport industry, running the famous American yellow school buses.
Many bus drivers do not even have a contract - they can leave their job when they want, but they can also be fired at any point.
The US union is run by Mr Hoffa and he has joined forces with Len McCluskey to demand the company allows the union to expand in the States.
The duo are visiting the AGM of National Express's shareholders in Birmingham today to lobby investors to force National Express to offer workers in the States better terms and conditions.


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Flyers Annual Cancer Awareness Night Set for Oct. 16th at Wachovia Center
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The Philadelphia Flyers will host its annual Cancer Awareness Night on Tuesday, October 16 as the Flyers take on the Atlanta Thrashers at 7 p.m. at the Wachovia Center. To raise awareness and show support for the cause, the Philadelphia Flyers will donate a portion of proceeds from ticket sales, 215-218-PUCK, to The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation and Breastcancer.org.
"This game is an opportunity for the Flyers to make a personal difference in the fight against cancer," says Senior Vice President for Business Operations Shawn Tilger. "We are proud to host our Cancer Awareness Night as a way to support the initiatives of The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation and Breastcancer.org."
The 2007-2008 season marks the NHL's 10th Anniversary of Hockey Fights Cancer. As an example of the Philadelphia Flyers commitment to this cause, players will wear a pink Hockey Fights Cancer decal on their helmet during all regular-season games in October.
According to Philadelphia Flyers' Mike Knuble, who has a personal connection with breast cancer, "My mom is a breast cancer survivor and it means a lot to me to be able to encourage others to become educated about this horrible disease."
Fans will join Lauren Hart, Heather Hatcher, and the Philadelphia Flyers as they recognize Adriana D'Alessandro, as the community teammate for the evening. Adriana is the co-founder of The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation and has dedicated the past seven years of her life to help conquer the disease. After watching her sister Sandy slowly succumb to ovarian cancer, Adriana, only 21 at the time, decided to start The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation to honor her sisters memory, as well as educate others about the prevention and early detection of the disease.
All fans wearing pink or teal may enter to win an autographed prize pack from Derien Hatcher or Jason Smith. Fans can also help the Philadelphia Flyers by visiting the Flyers Charities booth behind sections 102/103 and purchase a Flyers Cancer Awareness pin. All proceeds from the sale will go to Flyers Charities which help support women's health initiatives.
Representatives from breastcancer.org as well as The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation will be on site to answer any questions.
Individual tickets and game plans for all home games are on sale exclusively through ComcastTIX at PhiladelphiaFlyers.com or calling 215-218-PUCK.
The Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation's mission is to unite with our community and work together to promote awareness of ovarian cancer by educating both women and physicians about the disease, to advocate for early diagnostic testing and more effective treatments and to raise funds to help advance research towards a cure.
Comcast-Spectacor (comcast-spectacor.com) is the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA), the Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL), the two arenas in which their teams play, the Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum, four Flyers Skate Zone community ice skating and hockey rinks and Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. In addition, Comcast-Spectacor is also the principal owner of Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly management field with more than 70 facilities throughout the United States and Canada; Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage service provider; New Era Tickets, a ticketing and marketing company for public assembly facilities; Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company; and 3601 Creative Group, a full-service in-house advertising agency. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces 10 nationally televised figure skating spectaculars on NBC.


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The Genomics Leadership Initiative at Juniata College
The Genomics Leadership Initiative at Juniata College has been funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Science Foundation. The initiative seeks to achieve its goal by developing a genomics certificate program, a leadership module, and student summer research experiences.
Comprised of seven courses, the genomics certificate addresses both the science and the broader ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) surrounding progress and discoveries in the field of genomics. The ethical, legal and social issues surrounding advances in genomics provides a strong focus for practicing a breadth of knowledge and skills; the understanding of the scientific foundation of genomics provides the focus for developing an interdisciplinary base and cross disciplinary understanding of the life sciences in an era of "big data". To help support this part of the program the grant has also funded an ELSI faculty development workshop, a seminar series, stipends for faculty developing new or revised classes, and stipends for faculty to formally assess the learning gains of students as a result of programmatic activities.
What is a certificate?
In general, an undergraduate certificate provides an interdisciplinary curriculum that is not available within any single academic unit. A certificate offers the possibility of a more cohesive general education experience oriented around a theme and taught by faculty who work together as a group on an ongoing basis and have common inter-departmental learning objectives and assessments. The awarding of the certificate is noted on the student's transcript.
Who is this certificate for?
Students intending to pursue careers in biological research and medicine are the primary target. However, students interested in careers in public policy, public health, law, and business will gain by developing similar competencies.
Why should a student get this certificate?
As cost of a human genome approaches $1000, appreciation of both the science and the ethical, legal, and societal implications of genomics has become an increasingly pressing issue. Design of the certificate was based on recommendations from a joint document between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) entitled, "Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians." This report emphasized the importance of integrative scientific approaches, scientific reasoning, intellectual curiosity, communication and decision making skills, adaptability, ethical principles, and understanding of patients as individuals and in a social context. HHMI has funded Juniata College to implement this certificate program.
Description and Goals of a Certificate in Genomics, Ethics, and Society
Comprised of seven courses, the certificate addresses both the science and the broader ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) surrounding progress and discoveries in the field of genomics. No area of modern biology provides a more appropriate focus for combining the humanities and sciences than the ethical, social and legal implications (ELSI) of the human genome project and the evolution of the field of personalized medicine. The subject cannot be completely addressed without the input of specialists working across disciplinary boundaries. The ethical, legal and social issues surrounding advances in genomics provide a strong focus for practicing a breadth of knowledge and skills while understanding the acts of judgment and social contexts involved in the development and application of scientific knowledge; the understanding of the scientific foundation of genomics provides the focus for developing an interdisciplinary base and cross disciplinary understanding of the life sciences in an era of "big data".
Learning objectives
Students who attain genomics certification will be able to:
Describe the basic concepts and principles of genomics.
Explain the scope of genomics from genes to society.
Integrate knowledge of the chemical, physical, mathematical and computational bases of genomics.
Explain the importance of the place of genomics in the human effort to understand natural phenomena, including its history and social impact.
Be able to make and justify ethical judgments about genomics research and its uses in medical practice and elsewhere.
Use the skills and interdisciplinary perspectives of the liberal arts in understanding trends in genomics and communicating them to academic peers and others.
Apply the process of science to questions in genomics.
Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of a selected field in genomics.
Progress into a leadership role, working with experts and non-experts, with an awareness of the likely results of one's actions and an understanding of how results might differ in different settings and different cultures.
Core Courses: All students pursuing a genomics certificate must take four core courses required for a genomics certificate. Download the Genome Certificate Sheet to organize and plan your course of sudy.
1) Genomics, Ethics and Society (IC 203; Fall; MW 2-3:50PM; CWS prereq) A team-taught course that lays the foundations for interdisciplinary work on the ethical and social dimensions of genomics:.
2) A course covering basic molecular biology, genetics, and genomics:
Biology II BI 106; Fall; N division class; T/Th 9 to 10:20AM, or T/Th 1 to 2:20PM, Discussion Sections Weds 8 or 10AM; BI-105 CH-105 prereqs
Human Biology BI 109; Not for biology majors; Fall; N division class; MWF 9 to 9:55PM
3) At least three credits of statistics:
Biostatistics with lab BI 305, Fall; N and QS division class; T/TH 10:30 to 11:50AM; Lab M 1 to 2:55PM or 3 to 4:55; BI105 or ESS100 prereq
Environmetrics ESS 230; Spring N division and QS class; T/Th 10:30 to 11:55AM; Sophomore standing
Introductory Probability and Statistics MA 220, Fall MWF 10 to 10:55AM; Discussion T noon; Spring MWF 1 to 1:55PM, TH 2:30 to 3:25PM; QS and N division class, prereq MA130.
4) One course covering informatics and analysis of large data sets:
Information Discovery IM 241, Fall QS and S division class; T/TH 9 to 10:20AM; prereqs IT110 or IT111 or CS110 or Instructors Permission (Loren Rhodes)
Biological Sciences Research Methods (Lamendella, Buonaccorsi, and Keeney sections)
Even Spring Semesters (Buonaccorsi), N division class; MW 2 to 4:50PM; prereqs BI207 or Instructors Permission
Odd Fall Semesters (Lamendella), N division class; schedule TBA; prereqs BI207 or Instructors Permission
Even Fall Semesters (Keeney), N division class; schedule TBA; prereqs BI207 or Instructors Permission
Computer Science 110 section G only, Spring N class, MWF 8AM to 8:55AM
Unix CS 255U, 1 credit every semester, T 8AM, prereq Computer Science 110 or Instructors Permission (Loren Rhodes);
Perl CS255P, 2 credits, Summer, prereq Computer Science 110 or Instructors Permission (Loren Rhodes), sophomore standing, self study
Python CS255Y, 2 credits, Summer, prereq Computer Science 110 or Instructors Permission (Loren Rhodes), sophomore standing, self study
Electives: In addition to the core courses, students must take at least three elective courses related to ELSI genomic themes:
Social History of Medicine History HS 211; Every Fall; May count as a either a CA, or an H or I division class. T/TH 1 to 2:20PM
Medieval Medicine: Health and Disease in the Middle Ages History HS 399, Every Spring. H division class. MW 11AM to 12:20PM
Doctors, Medicine and Literature Russian RU 299 01, Fall of odd numbered years. May count as a either a CA, or an H or I division class. T/TH 10:30 to 11:50PM, T Noon to 12:55pm.
Science and Human Values Philosophy PL 250, Spring of odd numbered years, H division class.
Moral Judgment Psychology 3XX, Every Summer online, S division class.
Leadership in the 21rst Century. Business EB 299, Odd Springs online (3 cr), S division class
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"A sweet machine built trail that rides great up or down, this trail is a hammerfest."
— Josh Matta on May 22, 2014
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DescriptionFrom the Parking area, go across the bridge and up the gnarly washed out doubletrack. Non advanced riders do not worry - this is the hardest part of the whole climb. Stay left as you pass the bottom of Kimmer's Trail and continue up the hill. The trail climbs roughly 550 feet over 2.2 miles. It's nicely graded and the surface is about smooth as we have in Stowe due to it being machine built.
At roughly the 1.5 mile mark right after the bridge on the side of the rock. There is a short downhill, right after that short DH Hardy's Bypass goes off to the left, bear right to continue up.
When you reach the top you can either.
A. Turn around and go right back down, this is fun option for everyone and the best option for less advanced riders.
B. Turn Right on to Haul Road and continue up to Kimmer's trail.
If you do decide to turn around, you'll be treated to the fastest descent in Stowe. Remember to yield to uphill riders. The trail was designed as an up but it does work really well going down and there are no restrictions against it.
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Over the last 10 years, the state has spent about $2.5 billion to offer Hartford students enrollment in an integrated school. Most of the state's spending has gone toward opening new magnet schools in the region to encourage Hartford minority students and white students from the suburbs to enroll.
These efforts follow the Connecticut Supreme Court's ordering the state 17 years ago -- in its ruling in the Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit -- to eliminate the inequities that exist because of Hartford's largely minority-student population.
The interactive charts below show the results of the state's two-pronged strategy to provide an education in an integrated setting for students who live in Hartford: through the opening of new magnet schools; and through Open Choice, a program that encourages neighboring districts to open their schools to students who live in Hartford.
Despite these efforts and all the changes, more than half of all Hartford's 21,000 students continue to attend segregated schools, a term used when more than three-quarters of a school's student population are members of minority groups. And, as John Logan, a sociology professor at Brown University, reported to state legislators this month, a comparison of Connecticut's metro areas to those of most other metro areas in the country show that black and Hispanic students are more segregated in the Brigeport-Stamford-Norwalk area, the New Haven-Milford area and in Hartford than most other cities.
Approach #1 -- Magnet Schools -- Dozens of new or renovated schools have been opened as magnet schools throughout Connecticut. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy last week was in East Hartford to celebrate the opening of the Connecticut River Academy, the state's newest magnet school that cost $57 million to build.
"The state fought hard to open more seats for Hartford's children in a variety of learning environments," Malloy said recently when announcing that hundreds more Hartford students will be offered enrollment in magnet schools next school year.
Here's a look at the demographics of those magnet schools that enroll students from around the Hartford region.
It's not just the capital area that has taken advantage of state funding to build or renovate existing buildings into new regional magnet schools. Here's a look at the demographics in interdistrict magnet schools in the Bridgeport and New Haven regions. Enrollment in magnet schools in these areas has continually increased.
Approach #2 -- Open Choice
The state's strategy to get more Hartford-resident students in integrated schools has relied heavily on suburban districts' voluntarily offering seats to Hartford students. Despite recent increased financial incentives to the suburban districts, the strategy has yet to take off. State reimbursements range from the $745 provided to West Hartford for each Hartford-resident student who is enrolled to $5,575 per Hartford student in Portland.
Between the 2008-09 and 2012-13 school years, the number of seats suburban districts have offered Hartford-resident students has increased by 531, well short of the number the state has promised the court it would have each year for students.
Here's a look at how relying on districts to voluntarily offer seats with some financial reimbursements has played out over the past five school years in Greater Hartford.
Students from the New Haven and Bridgeport areas have also been able to take advantage of Open Choice by enrolling in nearby suburban districts. Last school year, various Fairfield County districts offered enrollment to 184 students living in other districts. In the New Haven area, nearby public schools offered 503 students enrollment to students living in other districts, reports the State Department of Education.
What's next?
While the state has already promised to offer nearly 2,000 additional seats in integrated settings through Open Choice and magnet schools for the next school year, the state has until Nov. 15, 2014, to reach a new agreement with the plaintiffs in the case for the years after that.
And while negotiations continue, some people are calling for a fresh look at the state's strategy of relying on new schools or the suburbs to provide a quality education to Hartford's children.
"The desegregation of Hartford schools has been taking place for the last 20 years and there are changes to be celebrated and others that merit further inquiry," Rep. Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, wrote his constituents this month in an email. "It's not just an urban or core city issue anymore. I am currently meeting with individuals who have reached out to me with ideas and am also conducting some research to see what other policy options exist to more effectively and efficiently address this challenge we face as a region."
Malloy also has hinted that the state's strategy needs updating.
"Over the next year, it will be important to take a hard look at what's changed since this case was decided nearly 20 years ago — to listen to parents, students and the community; to acknowledge the complex demographic changes in the region; and to focus, first and foremost, on making a quality education available to every child," he said last month.
The superintendent of Hartford Public Schools has suggested that more than race or ethnicity be taken into account when determining if a school is integrated, such as family income.
Here's an interactive chart outlining the difference between schools' socioeconomic makeup versus their ethnic and racial makeup. For example, while 76 percent of students at Classical Magnet Middle School located in Hartford are minority students, only 47 percent come from families that earn so little they qualify for free- or reduced-priced school meals. Several schools throughout the region are significantly more racially isolated than they are segregated by the income of the families attending the schools.
Coming tomorrow: Numbers aside, Hartford parents also have strong views for and against state efforts to provide an integrated education. "Our schools are more segregated than ever," one parent told the State Board of Education recently.
Editor's note: The graphics in this article were produced in a collaboration between Trinity College students participating in The Cities, Suburbs & Schools Project and CT Mirror Data Editor Alvin Chang.


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Born in the Philippines, Dolphin Calf Makes Waves
The arrival of a newborn bottlenose dolphin at Ocean Adventure Subic Bay is a welcome addition to the Philippine theme park, but is also drawing criticism from conservationists.
The male, yet-to-be-named calf was born on July 6 at Ocean Adventure, located on the west coast of Luzon island, about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila. His 11-year-old mother, Vi, was likely born somewhere off Japan's east coast and has the distinction of being the first dolphin to give birth in captivity in the Philippines.
Nuno Romao, the senior manager for animal training at Ocean Adventure, says the pregnancy wasn't part of a planned breeding program, and he isn't sure of the calf's paternity, though he suspects the father is Loki, who also hails from Japan.
The natural way the calf was conceived "shows we're a happy family here," he says. "They only breed when they are comfortable in their environment."
Arnel Yaptinchay, the founder and director of Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, doesn't buy the idea that satisfaction of basic needs and producing an offspring means happiness for dolphins in captivity.
"Wild animals serve a purpose in the ecosystem," he says. "If they can't serve that purpose, then they're as good as dead."
Animals at Ocean Adventure and two other marine theme parks in the country are used to entertain visitors and not for conservation or educational purposes, he says.
Mr. Yaptinchay says that Vi along with other dolphins and whales at Ocean Adventure were bought at Taiji, a small fishing village in Japan that is the subject of the documentary "The Cove," which followed activists who covertly filmed fishermen herding small whales and dolphins for slaughter.
Marine aquariums take a small percentage of the animals, he said.
On its website, Ocean Adventure says it is committed to conservation, citing its work in saving stranded marine mammals offshore the Philippines. It says all of its dolphins were "rescued," some of which were "literally hours away from being slaughtered" in Japan.
AG Sano, an environmentalist-artist, says a young, untrained dolphin sells for $150,000.
Mr. Sano and Mr. Yaptinchay say that marine aquariums that either directly or indirectly purchase animals from Taiji are helping to fund the slaughter.
Mr. Sano, who paints dolphin murals in the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore, is willing to say "Congratulations" to the parents of the bottlenose calf, but he doesn't think its birth advances the cause of conservation–not unless they release it into the wild. " And it is highly unlikely they would."
Ocean Adventure's Mr. Romao, a native of Portugal who has 20 years of experience in training marine animals, said both Vi and her calf are doing well.
Staff at the theme park have increased the mother's food supply by 50%, to around 24 kilograms of fish a day, to help her supply the milk needed to meet the 3,800-kilocalorie daily requirement of the calf.
The pair will be monitored 24/7 for at least a month, Mr. Romao says, adding it will take six months before the calf starts to feed on fish and as long as two years before he is completely weaned.


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MANILA: The Philippines is among the countries being secretly monitored by a telecommunications spying programme of the US National Security Agency (NSA), as revealed by whistle-blower and fugitive Edward Snowden.
Online publication The Intercept, a platform releasing Snowden's leaks, alleged in a post yesterday that NSA's cutting-edge surveillance programme MYSTIC collects "metadata" and content and from mobile networks in the Caribbean, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines and another unnamed country.
Metadata are information revealing message or call's time stamp, source and destination information collected by MYSTIC that may be authorized by the host country and even by the telecommunications firms. A 2013 budget justification of the US intelligence community cites the need to fund MYSTIC capable of providing "comprehensive metadata access and content against targeted communications in ___, Kenya, Caribbean, Mexico, and the Philippines."
The programme also offers "near real-time, complete access to the additional target country's GSM networks," according to the document leaked by Snowden. Another classified document, provided by Snowden, provides a NSA Special Source Operations' description of MYSTIC as a "programme for embedded collection systems overtly installed on target networks predominantly for collection and processing of wireless/mobile communications networks."
Philippine laws prohibit wire tapping and related violations not authorized by all parties concerned. RA No 4200 or the Anti Wire-Tapping Law, however, only covers the monitoring and interception of content.
In February, the Supreme Court upheld penalties under the assailed Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act.
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The weekend looms, but hard times are already upon us. We made a handy guide on how to have fun and fight for your rights to party (and survive!) during the financial freakout. Ready for a rent party?
- Drinking is a traditional refuge in hard economic times. New York needs to save at least one industry, given that finance and media are fucked. Longtime nightlife chronicler Steve Lewis suggests that New York state
"wrest control of liquor sales from community boards and hand it over to the State Liquor Authority. The SLA used to be seen as a regulatory body with an eye on the bottom line. Issuing licenses to responsible people generated tax revenue and jobs... Right now a virtual moratorium on new liquor licenses and constant attacks on the club industry are severely hurting the New York economy."
- Let's preserve the right to get wasted — and the right to make money out of other people getting wasted!
- That said, if you're short on cash: bring a flask. Everywhere.
- If you forget your flask and you meet some new people at the bar, try the "Oh my God, I just lost my job!" sob story. It will guarantee you a free drink if you say it with the right amount of patheticness.
- Use a condom, each and every time. Just one, though! If you find yourself going through two or three a day, you may want to consider having less sex.
- Rent parties? We read about them in Malcolm X's autobiography once. Bring 'em back! They used to have them during the last Depression: gather all your friends, buy some cheap alcohol, and charge money at your door. Rent: almost made.
- Food: a problem. Wheat and grain or whatever else is going up, which is why $2 slices are now like $2.50. Blackbook suggests cheap Chinese food, but scoff at more lowbrow delights: "maybe getting lunch from a food cart is a tad too extreme." No it's not!
We also suggest buying "groceries". As the gentle Megan told the protagonist in Bright Lights, Big City:
"'I'm going to teach you to purchase and make a meal.'
In the next aisle she introduces you to two cans of clams. Ordinarily, she says, she would use fresh clams and fresh pasta, but she doesn't want to scare you on your first lesson."
- Details has this thing on "yuppie survivalists" called "preppers." Like the old coots in Wyoming who bury guns in the back yard, except they stock up on Poland Spring in their home's mudroom.
- Related: for no discernible reason, we recently received an old copy of a book called Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival. Would you like to know some common urban edibles? Blackberries, burdock, cattails, clovers, and dandelions. Brown also suggests dumpster-diving, just like the common hipster freegans we (previously) liked to harass so much. However: he does not suggest you become a "dumpster gourmet" unless you are "truly hungry."
Finally, remember: we're all in this together.


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Windfall Creek State Forest, also known as Cattaraugus Reforestation Area # 6, covers 968 acres. This state forest is located in Cattaraugus County in the towns of Carrollton and Great Valley. The most common recreational uses of this area are hunting , hiking, camping, and fishing.
State Forests are managed for multiple uses. They provide a source of raw material for New York's forest products industry which provides employment and income for many New Yorkers. They are managed for wildlife by the creation and maintenance of various habitats for many wildlife species. They are managed to provide recreational opportunities and for watershed protection.
In the 1930s, Windfall Creek State Forest was the site of many work projects carried out by the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. The CCCs, established by the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, provided employment opportunities for young men during the depression. CCC projects included the construction of roads and the planting of thousands of pine, larch and spruce trees in the open areas on the property.
A water powered sawmill was located just north of Thorpe Hollow road just past the bridge. Evidence of house foundations and old fields with rock walls suggest that this state forest was farmed prior to state ownership.
Hunting and Trapping
Hunting and trapping are permitted on the property in accordance with all game regulations, unless otherwise posted. Traps may not be set on public road right of ways. Body gripping traps set on land must be at least 100 feet from public trails.
Terrain can be rugged in some areas so walking up and down hills is part of the hunting experience. Access is good using forest roads to many areas. Not all roads are open to motor vehicles. More information can be obtained from your local DEC office by calling 716-372-0645.
Fishing is at twin ponds and in the steams is a minor activity on this unit. There is parking available off of Windfall Run road for this area. These are unplowed in the winter months.
Mountain biking
Mountain biking is allowed. Multiple use trials and old logging roads can be used for this purpose. Most of these trails require a high level of mountain bike riding skill. They are a great ride if you are an expert rider and a great hike if you are not. The Western New York Mountain Bicycling Association (WNYMBA) has adopted these trails. See the link in the right column for their website and their trail maps. Please be aware that their trail information is a work in progress and all work is done by volunteers.
Horseback Riding
There are no horse trails on this area, but old logging roads may be used.
Picnicking and Day Use
Twin Ponds provides a picnic table and fishing access. Parking is available off of Windfall Run road for this area. There is one campsite available here as well. Twin Ponds access is unplowed in the winter months.
There are three camp sites on this property, one site is off of Windfall road at the Windfall ponds and two site are off Thrope Hollow road. Also individuals may set up camp at any location which is at least 150 feet from water bodies, streams, roads or trails. Camping for more than three nights or in a group of ten or more requires a permit from a Forest Ranger.
Geo-caching is allowed although caches must be marked with the owner's contact information and may not be placed in dangerous or ecologically sensitive locations.
This area has been managed to provide some young forest habitat. This unit contains a mix of sizes and species of trees, but much of the area is in larger size classes of trees and forest stands of medium maturity. Management for a variety of habitats will continue with a focus on improving and expanding young forest habitat to benefit ruffed grouse and turkey .
Timber Management
Conifer - The stands of pine, larch and spruce were planted in old farm fields as they need open areas with direct sunlight to thrive. These have been or will be converted to hardwoods by removal of the conifer overstory and allowing the hardwood seedlings that usually exist in these stands to grow to maturity. Many former conifer stands exist on this unit as young hardwood stands along Thorpe Hollow Road. Some pine along the stream near Thorpe Hollow Road are rooted in gravel soil will be retained as long as they are healthy and able to survive as will be some spruce on the other side of the road. This area was mostly hardwood and is that way today. The newest plantation is located near the Phearsorf Forest Road. It consists of strips of alternating larch and spruce.
Hardwood - Hardwood trees are not usually planted as they spread vast amounts of seed and naturally regenerate. Thinning of the forest through the sale of forest products gives the residual trees more growing space. This helps to keep the forest healthy and provides openings for new seedlings, a revolving supply of food and cover for wildlife and source of future crop trees. Some stands will contain large trees, giving an illusion of old growth, but are in almost all cases not. These stands have been harvested prior to state ownership, or managed during state ownership to favor large trees. Many other stands are mature and ready to be regenerated to new stands. This is usually done by a thinning to promote regeneration of new seedlings and followed by an overstory removal. Forest stands that are dominated by species that require direct sunlight for reproduction are managed in this way. Forest stands that contain oak species may require the use of fire or other types of disturbance to maintain this forest type.
Most timber on this property had been cut by the timber company before it was sold to New York State. Now, after a half century of DEC management, many mature stands exist and are ready to be harvested and regenerated. This would create forest stands in smaller size classes that are needed to balance the mix of forest stands on this unit.
New haul roads have been created to provide access for timber management. These have yellow gates and some may not be open to motor vehicles.
From Olean take Rt 417 west. At Vandalia turn onto North Nine Mile Road and drive north to Nine Mile State forest or from Rt 417 take Thorpe Hollow Road or Windfall Road to Windfall Creek State Forest. Access to Twin Ponds is from Windfall Road.
Important Numbers
Allegany DEC Forestry Office (M-F 8-4 p.m.): 716-372-0645
Emergencies, Search and Rescue, Wildfire, or State Land Rules and Regulation enforcement call a Forest Ranger:
Martin Flanagan - (716)771-7191
Bob Rogers - (716)771-7199
Wayne Krulish - (716)771-7156
Or you can reach the Forest Ranger general dispatch number at: 1(877)457-5680
General Emergencies: 911


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Small car buffs believe small is beautiful even when it comes to engines. However, the trend is hardly the same when it comes to big cars, where owners want all the power they can get whilst on the road.
The 800-cc Alto, for example, outstripped the 1,000-cc Alto on the sales front. It's quite the same with the Fiat Palio — the 1.2-litre version accounts for 80% of total Palio sales. The other option is the 1.6-litre car.


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PHILADELPHIA — The jury is still firmly out on Chip Kelly as an NFL coach, but the Eagles' new boss already has a growing flock of believers — his players.
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- Times are hard for the Carolina Hurricanes, who, despite throwing a season-high 45 shots on net, couldn't find a way to solve Ben Bishop and the Tampa Bay Lightning, losing 5-0. The Canes are still winless in the month of April and have secured just three points in their last 11 games. "I thought we came out strong in the first period. It was a good, even match," said head coach Kirk Muller. "We looked like a fragile team when we give up that first goal right off the start in the second."
- Unfortunately, there's no simple cure for the Canes' malady. Something as nebulous as confidence can appear or disappear with a simple bounce of the puck. Right now, the Canes aren't seeing the bounces, and confidence is rather fleeting. "Any time you're playing with those kinds of results, your confidence isn't going to be very high. You're going to get frustrated," goaltender Dan Ellis said. "You have to focus on your individual task at hand."
- A defeated Ellis, who was gracious enough to speak with the media after the game, shouldered the blame for the loss. Ellis made 25 saves on 30 shots. "Honestly, I think we're playing good hockey. I need to make a save," he said. "That first goal is a crappy rebound that changes the momentum of a game. Right now, with the way our team is, we need those saves."
- But it's hard to win games without scoring a goal. "Some guys individually will say they are responsible, but all in all, we've got to win together and lose together," Muller said. "This is where you've got to stay together as a group and try to get wins."
- Tonight marked the fifth time this season the Canes have registered 40-plus shots on goal. The last time the Hurricanes were shut out while also registering more than 40 shots was on Feb. 12, 2009 in a 5-0 loss against Florida (42 shots).
- With two heavy-lifting defensemen in Justin Faulk and Joni Pitkanen out of the lineup, Jamie McBain led blueliners and the team in ice time with 22:53, including 2:09 on the power play. "We just have to make sure we're playing sound hockey," McBain said. "Tonight, for whatever reason, we were losing our guys and that's unacceptable."
- Seeing their playoff hopes diminish with each passing game, the Hurricanes will get back to work on Friday before hosting the New York Rangers, who are clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, on Saturday. "We've tried a number of times to reset and refocus, and we've found great spurts in our game. We just need one to really kick and get back on a roll," Ellis said. "Things are within reach. We have a chance still to make it. No one thinks we do, but mathematically we are still in."
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Ben Bishop made quite a first impression on his new Tampa Bay teammates.
The tall goalie earned a shutout in his debut with the Lightning, leading them to a 5-0 rout of the reeling Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Bishop, acquired a day earlier from Ottawa in exchange for promising rookie Cory Conacher, stopped a career-high 45 shots.
"It just got to the point where they were like, `Bishop has this,"' coach Jon Cooper said.
Teddy Purcell, Tom Pyatt and Keith Aulie scored during the Lightning's three-goal second period that broke open a scoreless game.
"Sometimes I'm going to have to be sharp, and sometimes guys are going to have to block some shots in front of me," Bishop said. "They did their job there in the first to keep it a 0-0 game. The offense took over there in the third, and the guys played great in front of me."
Martin St. Louis had a goal and two assists, Benoit Pouliot added a goal and an assist, and NHL goal-scoring leader Steven Stamkos had two assists to help Tampa Bay earn points for the fourth straight game.
The Lightning moved into a tie with Carolina for third in the mediocre Southeast Division.
"It's big for the team - there's no individuals here," Bishop said. "We're chasing a playoff spot and really just wanted to get off to the right foot and do that with a win."
Dan Ellis stopped 25 shots for the reeling Hurricanes, who outshot Tampa Bay 45-30 but dropped their 10th in 11 games.
They were flying high when they led Washington 2-0 on March 14, but went on to lose that game 3-2. That blown lead started a slide in which they have been outscored 41-15 - 42-15 if you count the goal the Rangers were awarded for their shootout win on March 18.
"It's a little fragile," coach Kirk Muller said. "We're getting enough scoring chances to win hockey games. We're outshooting teams. It seems like we say that every night, but we make a breakdown and it's in our net. We've just got to find a way to eliminate that."
Bishop became the latest goalie to beat them. He earned his third career shutout and second of the season while improving to 5-1 in his last six games.
His imposing 6-foot-7 frame between the pipes proved impossible to beat for a Carolina team that has lost 11 of 15 games against the Southeast and was blanked for the third time and first since Feb. 26 at Washington.
"He's big," St. Louis said, "and he plays really big."
The Lightning, who improved to 4-0 against the Hurricanes this season with all three victories coming by at least three goals, welcomed back captain Vincent Lecavalier, who missed nine games with an unspecified lower body injury.
He didn't score - but then again, he didn't need to. Not with his teammates striking so often in the second period.
Purcell started it just 26 seconds in when he tapped the rebound of Matthew Carle's shot from the blue line. Pyatt made it 2-0 with 4:05 left in the second when he redirected Alex Killorn's shot past Ellis moments after a faceoff. And Aulie capped it with a shot that clicked off the crossbar and in with 42.4 seconds left.
"We started putting pucks to the net," Carle said. "We had a pretty nice faceoff play there, and that got the confidence going."
Two distressing trends continued during that brutal 20-minute stretch for the Hurricanes. They've given up a goal in the first minute of the second period in two straight games and gave up a goal in the final minute of a period three times in two games.
"Honestly, I think we're playing good hockey. I need to make a save," Ellis said. "That first goal, it's a crappy rebound and it changes the momentum of a game. And right now, the way our team is, we need those saves. You need your goalie to go in there and steal a game for you, especially at a time like this where things are difficult to get wins, and I didn't do that tonight."
It came after the Hurricanes blew a prime chance to take a lead in the final minute of the first.
Alexander Semin stole the puck from Dana Tyrell to start a 2-on-1 break. But Semin clearly kicked Eric Staal's give-and-go feed into the net and a quick video review took the goal off the board.
NOTES: The Lightning also hit the post at least three times. ... Carle also finished with two assists for Tampa Bay. ... The Hurricanes have lost six straight at home. ... Carolina C Tuomo Ruutu returned after missing two games with a lower body injury. He skated on the Hurricanes' No. 2 line with C Jordan Staal and LW Jeff Skinner.
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City Council will consider a pair of ordinances on B&O exemptions for new businesses if the matter is approved by the finance committee, which will meet an hour before council. Last week, Mayor Bob Newell requested council consider giving preference to companies to use local labor.
City officials are seeking a provision for purchase procedures where winning bids for demolition and construction projects would be required to have at least 50 percent of its workforce from the area. Newell said last week the ordinance stems from developments when the city's demolition contract was recently awarded to a firm from Wheeling. Previously such contracts had gone to a local firm.
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Under the proposed ordinance, businesses would pay a gradual increase over a five-year period - paying zero the first year, 20 percent the second, 40 percent the third, 60 percent the fourth and 80 percent the fifth.
The proposed B&O ordinance is separate for incentives for the proposed 100-unit hotel. Under the proposed agreement between the city and MPH Hotels, the city would grant the hotel a B&O tax credit/exemption for a five-year period from its commencement, as well as on all construction costs.
The city would also assist in the development of the site in the amount of $200,000 payable in two, $100,000 payments. The hotel would create at least 15 full-time jobs that would be maintained for at least five years. Newell said the $200,000 is CDBG money.
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My daughter started the same thing at around 3 months. She drooled so much that I ended up with an array of cloth bibs to match every outfit she had. I waited and waited for teeth. My niece got her first teeth at 4 months. So, be prepared for that to happen. But my daughter, in spite of all the drooling and chewing, didn't get her first tooth until 10 months, so be prepared for that as well.posted 06/09/2012 by lizlorell
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