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Goll to retire from utilities board
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Longtime Salem Utilities Commission member Geoff Goll will retire from his seat after next Tuesday's meeting, with Ken Kenst appointed as interim member while Mayor John Berlin seeks Goll's......
Agreed Concerned .... and does anyone wonder why the Mayor wants his lackey in the Water Commission??? Does anyone else smell a monopoly going on???
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concerned, dear, please, stop giving them ideas...LOL
They may not have thought of that yet! LOL
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That Nestic guy sure loves spending money doesn't he?
I wonder if he would be willing to give me a start off of his money tree he has growing in his backyard?
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And to think people thought it was blasphemy when they wanted to combine Service Director and Safety Director into 1 position a few years ago (even though most cities have done it as 1 position forever)
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Good points KSbug. It is easy to talk about smaller less expensive government, but when the rubber meets the road we have to look at what they are actually doing. Let's see what is next? Should we pay every board that is in the city? How many paid people does it take to govern 12,000 people that live within an area that is about a 1 1/2 mile radius. We need to shrink the number of paid city administrative employees not increase them. The cost of government just keeps getting to be more and more.
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...city Service/Safety Director Ken Kenst be appointed to the commission until a permanent replacement can be found!
Hmmm...didn't realize he had all that free time to spare. Maybe we can spare the taxpayers some money and make his regular position part time and if he is qualified to sit on that board put him in the position.
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I love how the Republican party is supposed to be about smaller government, yet all this administration does is form more committees and pay more people for things that have never been paid before or committees never used before. Their goal for smaller government instead keeps growing and costing more and more.
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When the University of Hartford was incorporated just over 50 years ago by business and community leaders, they envisioned a center of education and culture for Greater Hartford. At its core, it would be a university for the community created by the community.
The University has come a long way since its humble beginnings on Hartford's last remaining farm, evolving from a local school for commuters into a comprehensive university that attracts students from throughout the world. Yet it remains true to its original mission of serving as a valued resource for individuals, families, businesses, and communities throughout the Hartford region, offering hundreds of programs that serve the University and its neighbors every day. For over 45 years listener supported WWUH has served an important role in the University's community service mission.
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At around 2:30 today, Watch This Space host, Susan Forbes Hansen, will air an interview she recorded yesterday with Pat Donohue (A Prairie Home Companion's guitarist/songwriter)
The interview includes Pat doing 7 songs live, and one song from his recent CD with Butch Thompson.


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So, I was browsing around on Pinterest the other day and found this delicious twist on the original chocolate/peanut butter Chex snack. The actual recipe on the Chex site is for Lemon Chex Buddies.
I decided to add some lime juice. And because I'm much too lazy to zest an actual lemon, I needed to use dried zest and all I had was orange. But the combo of orange, lemon and lime is fantastic. Sweet, sunny and slightly addictive.
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quote: Amnesty is never a one time thing. The US will get a flood of illegal immigrants when word gets out that it's coming.
quote: Why not reduce the dollars we spend overseas and spend some getting Mexico in line since it impacts the US?
quote: Whole cities are routinely massacred in Mexico. It's horrifying.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
11 comments:
- Wingz said...
i was gonna suggest yoga ... then i realised u already done tat ... hmmm
- May 31, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Daphne Charice said...
Don't grind your teeth
Don't pee during night
Think of me before you sleep
Then you can sleep well :)
- May 31, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- lionel0008 said...
At least I know what teeth grinding at night is called. I had this problem once but somehow it went away on its own but that was when I was a kid.
I hope that your teeth grinding is not loud and possibly find a way to stop it soon.
I have a friend who has Bruxism. At first I thought it was someone scratching the door or window until he woke up and the sound stopped.LOL
- May 31, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Jaclyn said...
Wingz: hahaha ya im a yoga addict
Daph: awww but i do! but recently keep getting nightmares.. its so scary :( another sleeping disorder
Lionel: hehe my teeth grinding is quite bad cos I can really hear it in my sleep :(
- May 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Taufulou said...
i think i have sleeping disorder recently eh..
wake up for the past few days so tired, yet sleep like a pig thru whole night. . .
- May 31, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- alie said...
see a doctor. he will give you sleeping pills. or something that can make you sleep. pee before u sleep. dun drink water b4 sleeping. no beer either. haha.
- May 31, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- email2me said...
Drink a glass of hot milk then sure doze away ..... It always work for me.
- May 31, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Jaclyn said...
bok: hehe isit? what is d recommendation a :(
alie: hehehe i got tons of sleeping pill at home but i try not to take.. my grandma got addicted to sleeping pill last time when she scouldnt sleep or take anymore sleeping pill she was practically crying
ken: hehe no wor i drink hot milk rite i feel damn full lol den kenot sleep
- May 31, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- Jason Mumbles said...
Need to lay down those work and relax a little by doing stuffs you like and enjoy doing.
Regardless of how tired I am, I spend at least 30min to do the stuffs I love doing, listening to soundtracks while surfing the web.
It helps to wind down and then sleep better. :D
- June 1, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- ~ Xi@nG~ said...
Try to relax yourself more Jac and listen to soft music all time. Making yourself in happy mood (not excited =P) does help to enter sleep too =]
- June 1, 2011 at 2:01 AM
- Eric said...
wahhhhh got so many comments wan....
mmm... maybe need to be 'really very tired' to make sure u sleep well
- June 1, 2011 at 2:14 AM


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The 8 Most Misleadingly Awesome Movie Posters
As a kid, I made a mental catalog of all the movies I saw in the video store that I desperately wanted to watch based solely on the awesomeness of their covers. I wasn't allowed to rent any of them at the time, but I knew that one day I'd be old enough to make all the horrible decisions I wanted.
This was in the late '80s and early '90s, when you couldn't just hop onto Wikipedia and look up an insanely detailed plot synopsis for every movie ever made, such as this one for Running Scared, which has a higher word count than the number of people who have actually seen Running Scared. I had to rely on the bitchingness of the cover art and let my imagination do the rest.
When I was finally old enough, I sprinted through the video store, snatching all those movies up like I was stealing pterodactyl eggs to pass the Warrior's Trial of Fleetness and Stone on my 16th nameday. And without exception, every single one of them crushed me with disappointment, because they aren't anywhere as cool as their covers.
#8. Def-Con 4
New World Pictures
Def-Con 4 is one of the raddest posters I have ever seen. It is so boss, Bruce Springsteen lists it as his employer on his tax return. It has a skyline of scarred modern ruins clawing up out of a desert wasteland toward a giant fucking spaceship swinging in low orbit through a radioactive sky. And in the foreground is the deadest astronaut in cinematic history. This movie should have been nothing less than Mad Max teaming up with Sting's character from Dune to kickbox their way through the International Space Station and steer that sonofabitch into the scorched capital of Homeworld to deliver space water to the people of the Shambling Wastes.
Sadly, that movie only exists inside my heart, because the first 20 minutes of Def-Con 4 consist entirely of three people arguing with each other and listening to the radio in a tiny spaceship that looks nothing like the majestic celestial death cannon on the cover.
New World Pictures
Then they crash and spend the rest of the movie wandering around in the Canadian wilderness, trying to outwit a junkyard full of cannibals inexplicably run by a smarmy college student.
New World Pictures
No part of it takes place in a desert or among the skeletal remains of a former metropolis, and there are no dead astronauts anywhere. That's like renting The Road Warrior and finding a copy of The Postman inside the box.
#7. Ghoulies
Clearly, clearly, this is a movie about monsters that come whistling up out of the toilet to murder people's assholes. The slogan all but guarantees that a well-groomed shit goblin in boxcloth suspenders and a belly shirt is going to shred more taints than a rusty bicycle. The toilet is the biggest thing in that picture. The gremlin almost seems like an afterthought, like maybe it's the toilet that's killing people and the gremlin is just along for the ride. This movie should've been so full of bleeding anuses that the American Medical Association had it classified as a new type of colon cancer.
But it isn't. It's a slow, boring movie about a guy and his dumbass friends summoning a bunch of raccoon-sized demons in his zombie grandfather's mansion. There is exactly one two-second shot of a Ghoulie popping out of a toilet, and it occurs during a montage:
And that's it. Nobody's bunghole gets eaten, the Ghoulies aren't born from some arcane toilet magic, and the one Ghoulie we do see spring out of a toilet bowl isn't even wearing suspenders. They shamelessly went on to build an entire franchise out of the "lurking toilet monster" idea, because they apparently weren't done slapping me in the face with the cold cruel hand of blighted hope:
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If you lined all three of those up on a shelf, you would assume that the entire series takes place in a bathroom like some haunted potty training video. But those toilets are fool's gold, my friend. Fool's gold.
#6. Moon in Scorpio
Trans World Entertainment
Objectively speaking, and without an ounce of hyperbole, this is the greatest piece of home video box art ever constructed. There's a ghost pirate ship with sails made out of tattered banshee hide, an angry skull-shaped storm cloud just waiting to blast the surface of Fear Ocean with poltergeist lightning, and the murky silhouette of an underwater titan scorpion who we can only assume was responsible for turning the majority of that sloop's crew into vengeful shades (one or two of them probably succumbed to rickets before the first scorpion sighting, but that's just a risk you accept as a buccaneer). A movie about any one of those things would be worth a rental, but a movie about all three should win every major award in the entertainment industry and spawn a generation of children named after its main characters.
However, the reason why none of us went to school with a kid named "Mooninscorpio Johnson" is because Moon in Scorpio is about precisely none of those things. There are no ghost pirates, there's no phantom hurricane, and, most egregiously, there is no giant sea scorpion. It's about a woman in a mental hospital, telling her psychiatrist about the time her husband and all of her friends were murdered on a yachting trip by a freewheeling psychopath. The killer's identity is never made entirely clear, but it definitely isn't a scorpion or an undead corsair -- it's just some clownshoe in black footie pajamas with a medieval grappling hook.
Trans World Entertainment
For some reason.
There's a vague Vietnam subplot that suggests there might have been ghosts somewhere in this story at one point, but any trace of the supernatural was violently deloused like Angelina Jolie in Changeling. All that remains is a jumbled mess of confusion best described by the plot keywords listed on IMDb:
No giant scorpion anywhere on that list. However, "breasts" are strongly represented in both the standard and bare variety.
#5. Eyeball
National Cinematografica
Quick, what is this movie about? If you said "a murderous sentient eyeball," then congratulations, that's exactly what I thought. I had every right to expect this to be about a possessed human eyeball (or an evil cybernetic eyeball, whatever, I'm not picky) zipping through the air like an enchanted walnut shell and boring holes through the skulls of its understandably confused victims. Or maybe it hypnotizes people and makes them do crazy self-destructive things, like jump the fence at the zoo to try to put roller skates on all the tigers. Or maybe it grows tiny eyeball arms and simply chokes/stabs/bludgeons hapless teenagers to death like a typical slasher movie villain.
To my dismay, I learned that Eyeball is actually about a man in a red plastic raincoat tiptoeing around like a cartoon burglar and stabbing people's eyes from their heads like an optician with a cocaine debt to an organ-harvesting mobster. Eyeballs don't fly, grow teeth, or do anything other than get jellied by a hunting knife. There are plenty of super uncomfortable close-ups of people with weirdly spaced facial features. But no rabid eyeballs. None whatsoever.
National Cinematografica
Not pictured: an eyeball.
I'm not sure what compelled them to go with the "killer eyeball" design for the movie's poster outside of just poor translation or a specific desire to fool 10-year-old children in Video Express, but it worked.


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Track & Field Travels To Ohio For MAC Championships
MUNCIE, Ind. - - The Ball State outdoor track & field team travels to Ohio's Goldsberry Track & Field Complex for this week's 2014 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
The three-day event, which runs Thursday through Saturday, kicks off at 10:30 a.m. Thursday with action in the women's hammer throw. The top eight performers from each event will be scored based on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 scale.
Fans can follow the action throughout the meet with live results at the following link: http://timerhub.com/get_web_index.php?page=finishtimingresults.com/2014/05-15-MAC/
Last season, the Cardinals placed 12th among the 12 league schools at the championship meet with four points. Based on this season's MAC performance list, Ball State is poised to score in three events at this year's meet.
In the second season of automatic qualifying standards, the Cardinals will send 19 individuals and a pair of relay teams to the outdoor championship meet, which is seven more individuals than last season and six more than BSU sent to the 2014 MAC Indoor Championships. Under the current format, each event is capped at 20 participants. If 20 student-athletes did not post automatic marks in an event, entrants were selected going down the conference's performance list.
Junior Christina Crawford (Belleville, Mich./Romulus) is poised to score in a pair of events for the Cardinals, ranking third in the league in the long jump (6.04m) and sixth in the 100m dash (11:92). Both events are set for Saturday, with the long jump starting at 1 p.m. and the 100m dash semifinals at 2:50 p.m.
Junior Haley Austin (Avon, Ind./Avon), who was the only Ball State student-athlete to score at this season's indoor league meet, enters the outdoor championships ranked fifth in the MAC in the high jump (1.70m). The high jump, which takes place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, will also feature junior Mindy Marx (Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven) who is seeded 13th (1.65m).
Sophomore thrower Michaela Hull (Bloomington, Ind./South) is qualified for three individual events, ranking 13th in the javelin (35.92m), 17th in the discus (44.36m) and 20th in the shot put (12.20m).
Ball State also has a pair of student-athletes entered in two individual events in senior thrower Erin Walker (Laurell Hill, Fla./Troy University) and senior distance runner Madelyn Webster (Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg). Walker qualified for both the hammer throw (12th at 50.54m) and the discus (15th at 45.59m), while Webster is entered in the 1500m run (15th at 4:41.74) and the 10,000m run.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State track & field, follow @bsuathletics and @BallStateTrack on Twitter.
Ball State Entries at the 2014 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championships
Hammer Throw (Thursday, May 15 @ 10:30 a.m.)
12th - Erin Walker - Seed Mark: 50.54m
Javelin Throw (Thursday, May 15 @ 4:30 p.m.)
13th - Michaela Hull - Seed Mark: 35.92m
15th - Jorden Traver - Seed Mark: 32.13m
10,000m Run (Thursday, May 15 @ 8:15 p.m.)
20th - Jordan Timmons - NT
22nd - Madelyn Webster - NT
Long Jump (Friday, May 16 @ 1 p.m.)
3rd - Christina Crawford - Seed Mark: 6.04m
1500m Run Semifinals (Friday, May 16 @ 1 p.m.)
15th - Madelyn Webster - Seed Time: 4:41.74
Shot Put (Friday, May 16 @ 1:30 p.m.)
20th - Michaela Hull - Seed Mark: 12.20m
400m Dash Semifinals (Friday, May 16 @ 2:15 p.m.)
11th - Hannah Lange - Seed Time: 56.46
100m Dash Semifinals (Friday, May 16 @ 2:50 p.m.)
6th - Christina Crawford - Seed Time: 11.92
800m Run Semifinals (Friday, May 16 @ 3:20 p.m.)
18th - Danielle Dahl - Seed Time: 2:17.85
400m Hurdles Semifinals (Friday, May 16 @ 4 p.m.)
11th - Makelle Skelton - Seed Time: 1:02.55
14th - Becca Kropf - Seed Time: 1:03.04
16th - Olivia Ashba - Seed Time: 1:03.49
3000m Steeplechase (Friday, May 16 @ 5:20 p.m.)
13th - Courtney Edon - Seed Time: 11:16.02
15th - Caitlynn Edon - Seed Time: 11:24.53
Discus (Saturday, May 17 @ 10:30 a.m.)
15th - Erin Walker - Seed Mark: 45.59m
17th - Michaela Hull - Seed Mark: 44.36m
High Jump (Saturday, May 17 @ 10:30 a.m.)
5th - Haley Austin - Seed Mark: 1.70m
13th - Mindy Marx - Seed Mark: 1.65m
4x100m Relay (Saturday, May 17 @ 1 p.m.)
11th - Makelle Skelton, Olivia Ashba, Christina Crawford and Hannah Lange - Seed Time: 48.31
Pole Vault (Saturday, May 17 @ 2 p.m.)
10th - Hannah Ciasto-Poor - Seed Mark: 3.72m
20th - Elizabeth Eversole - Seed Mark: 3.50m
Triple Jump (Saturday, May 17 @ 2 p.m.)
12th - Zenée Gadson - Seed Mark: 11.22m
15th - Gabrielle Perryman - Seed Mark: 10.90m
4x400m Relay (Saturday, May 17 @ 4:40 p.m.)
9th - Makelle Skelton, Olivia Ashba, Ariel Hune, Hannah Lange - Seed Time: 3:53.72


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Jordan Porter of Geneseo competed at the Punt, Pass and Kick Contest at Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall Nov. 24. In the girls' 8-9 year old age group, Porter finished second. She also attended the Nov. 25 Bears/Vikings game at Soldier Field where she took part in a passing exhibition prior to the game and had her name announced. It was Porter's first Bears' game.
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Team Adam
Melanie Martinez didn't stray far from her trademark soft vocals, but took a slight detour from her usually haunting songs with Cee Lo Green's "Crazy" and "The Show" by Lenka.
Christina Aguilera, whose contestants have all left the show, suggested she try more sultry songs. But Green approved: "In many ways we're cut from the same cloth, honey," he told her. "You did a great job."
Amanda Brown sang "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin and "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake, proving she could pay tribute to a legend while still belting out the rock hits that have made her a fan favorite. "You're a world class singer," Blake Shelton told her.
Team Cee LoNicholas David sang Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" and Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow," and pleased the coaches with both performances. "That was magic, and that was beautiful," Shelton said.
Trevin Hunte surprised viewers with a bubbly yet passionate rendition of Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine." He also scored rave reviews for Jennifer Hudson's "And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going)," making a return to his classic soul roots. The performance prompted his coach to ask for "a moment of silence to mourn the loss of all the other competition."
Team BlakeCassadee Pope sang Rascal Flatts' "Stand," before sticking to her pop-rock essence with Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You." She gave a quality performance, but both Levine and Aguilera hoped for something more unexpected from the singer. "I kind of want to see something a little more adventurous from you," Levine said. "I want to see something more different and bizarre."
Accompanied by just a piano, Terry McDermott gave a stripped-down performance of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." The simplicity of the set left him nowhere to hide, but his strong voice did not let him down, the coaches said. He also won them over with "Stay With Me" by Rod Stewart. His first performance even had Aguilera, speaking out for Shelton's powerhouse team: "After hearing that," she said, "there's no doubt Blake has the strongest team."


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Immunofluorescence Microscopy of Anti-GFP (GOAT) Antibody.
Tissue: E5.5 Hex-GFP transgenic mouse embryo.
Primary antibody: Goat anti-GFP was used at 1:500 dilution.
Secondary antibody: Fluorchrome conjugated Anti-goat IgG secondary antibody at 1:10,000 for 45 min at RT.
Staining: GFP as green fluorescent signal with DAPI blue counterstain.
Immunofluorescence Microscopy of GFP-GOAT-Antibody.
Tissue: Sf-1:Cre mice crossed to the Z/EG reporter line. Mouse brain (coronal view, 20X magnification).
Fixation: 4%PFA/PBS with o/n fixation, and subsequently transferred to a 30% sucrose solution.
Antigen retrieval: frozen in OCT freezing medium (Sakura) and cryostat sectioned at 40 microns.
Primary antibody: Goat anti-GFP was used at 1:500 dilution in free floating imunnohistochemistry to detect GFP.
Secondary antibody: Fluorchrome conjugated Anti-goat IgG secondary antibody was used for detection at 1:500 at 1:10,000 for 45 min at RT.
Localization: Sf-1+ neurons and their processes of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.
Staining: eGFP as green fluorescent signal and sections were counterstained with DAPI.
Western Blot of Rabbit anti-GFP antibody.
Lane 1: HeLa cells.
Lane 2: mock transfected HeLa cell lysate.
Load: 35 µg per lane.
Primary antibody: GFP antibody at 1 µg/ml for 1 h at room temperature.
Secondary antibody: IRDye® 800 conjugated Donkey-a-Goat IgG [H&L] MX7 (605-732-125) secondary antibody at 1:2,500 for 45 min at RT.
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Predicted/Observed size: 27 kDa, 33 kDa for GFP.
Other band(s): none.
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The Bureau County Metro Center is a 50,000 square-foot recreation center with full size gymnasium; 25-yard indoor swimming pool with wading pool and observation balcony; racquetball courts; weight room; cardio-vascular room, elevated running/walking track above the gym; and locker rooms. A 40' x 80' multi-purpose room with adjacent kitchen provides the perfect setting for conventions, expositions, meetings, or wedding receptions.
This 18-hole championship course has bent grass greens, tees, and fairways, plus a full-service pro shop.
Described as a Canyon Course complete with bluffs, valleys, hills and hundreds of trees. It is a challenge to both the beginner and the seasoned golfer and is recognized by many players as one of the finest 9-hole facilities in the country. The Club House offers a friendly atmosphere and includes a Pro-Shop, full service bar & restaurant with panoramic views of the Course and outdoor patio.
Mid-America's most exciting 1/4 high banked raceway. Come & watch drivers compete in furious side by side stock car racing action. Family fun entertainment where kids under 11 are free!
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Prairie Lakes offers a 9 hole golf course and a full service restaurant and hotel. Hotel and Golf packages available and banquet facilities. Golf opens daily at 7:00am and the restaurant is open 11:00am - 10:00pm daily. Call for seasonal hours.
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quote: - The Start screen is full screen, and no way to turn it off - The Start screen icons are far too large to fit enough apps - The Start screen takes your focus away from your other windows, kind of killing the whole point of the once aptly named "WINDOWS" - The Start screen cant embed folders , it can only do one shortcut at a time.
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Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2 Di II LD [IF] MACRO Nikon
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This is the second part of our lens recommendations for the Nikon D7100 where we've analyzed nearly 60 Nikkor and third-party standard and portrait prime and zoom models to assess their optical quality. Read onto find out which of these lenses are the best performers when paired with Nikon's ultra-high resolution 24-Mpix APS-C format semi-pro model.
The Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2 Di II is an affordable fast lens for macro photography fans. Even if the build quality isn't perfect, its image quality test results are quite satisfying for a lens at that price. Let's have a look at the details.


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Man, Julia was so quiet today and didn't talk to anyone, what a Jayoda move!
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DIsgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned from office in 2008 after it was revealed he was involved with prostitutes, announced in a joint statement with his wife late Tuesday that their 26-year marriage is over.
"We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end, and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject," spokesperson Lisa Linden said in a statement released on behalf of Eliot and Silda Spitzer.
The Park Avenue couple have three grown children – Elyssa, 24, Sarabeth, 21, and Jenna, 19 – but have been living apart for months. In the past few weeks the New York Post has been actively tracing the 54-year-old Spitzer's current relationship with former campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith, 31, who's now working for newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Silda Spitzer, 55, supported her husband's political ambitions, standing at his side during his campaigns for state attorney general and governor – and was still there in 2008 when he admitted he paid for sex with prostitutes.
The Post also said the Spitzers are worth $1 billion.
Earlier this year he lost a bid in the Democratic primary to become New York City comptroller. Previously, he had a short-lived TV career as a commentator.
Eliot Spitzer, Wife Announce End of Their 26-Year Marriage
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John Terlingo and Jon Tutolo at V.O.D.'s fourth anniversary party with Piamita trunk show and Allison V. Smith photography exhibition, co-sponsored by FD Luxe, Nov. 19, 2011.
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Charges won't be filed against 49ers' Crabtree
San Francisco's district attorney won't file criminal charges against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after reviewing evidence of an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers.
After examining a "thorough investigation" submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said Friday his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time."
Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment, and the team has referred all questions about the matter to him.
The 49ers are preparing to meet the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 in New Orleans.
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Someone pays family's Christmas layaway
GRANTSBORO - A family of 5 in Pamlico County is getting a free Christmas thanks to an anonymous generous donor.
The Longeneckers were finishing up their holiday shopping at Walmart when the father, Cameron, went to pay part of the bill.
When he arrived at the counter, the person working told him all $389.15 of the layaway had been paid for in full.
"All I could do was cry walking through the store," Tami Longenecker said about when she found out about the act of kindness.
The Longeneckers are overwhelmed and want to thank whoever their helped them buy the gifts. The layaway went to help pay for their three young children's presents.
The family was looking at which bills they had to skip this month to afford the nearly $400 bill. Now the family has nothing to worry about, and the kids can have the Christmas they want as well.
"I just want to say thank you so much, they've given my kids one of the best Christmases they could have," Tami said.
The Longeneckers live in Grantsboro.


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COLUMBIA South Carolinas high court on Friday put a stop to a recount of votes in Richland County, granting a request from state Republicans who argued that a GOP candidate fairly won a disputed legislative race.
The Republican Party had asked the Supreme Court to step in a day after a circuit court judge granted a request from state Democrats to recount votes in House District 75, a contested race in the county that includes South Carolinas capital city. Democrats said in court papers filed Thursday that election officials didnt have enough voting machines or adequately fix ones that broke down on Election Day.
The recount was expanded county-wide several hours later. State election officials had begun recounting all of the countys votes on Friday afternoon, but that process was halted after an hour when the high court ruled.
Richland Countys preliminary tally shows Republican Kirkman Finlay as the races unofficial winner by a narrow margin less than 300 votes. Democrat Joe McCulloch is challenging those results, and the circuit judge who ordered the recount had set a hearing for Nov. 13.
It wasnt immediately clear when Richland County elections results would be certified, a process other counties throughout the state conducted Friday.
Election officials have demonstrated the threat of immediate and irreparable injury in the form of the certification of election results that have been marred by unlawful election procedures and vote tabulation procedures, Judge Casey Manning wrote in his Thursday order. The public is entitled to an independent and thorough review of these procedures and tabulations.
Based on results provided by election officials, The Associated Press called the race on Election Day for McCulloch. The AP withdrew that call after election officials changed vote tallies to show Finlay in the lead and has not declared a winner.
A cascade of Election Day problems delayed the countys unofficial results until late Wednesday. Officials cited long voting lines, too few machines and broken counting scanners. Some voters reportedly waited up to six hours.
State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire has said Richland County was the only one of the states 46 counties in the state that reported serious problems. County officials have not explained how the problems occurred.
In court papers filed Friday, a Republican Party attorney said Manning didnt have the authority to issue rulings related to legislative elections and said the Democrats decision to take the matter to court was eroding public confidence in South Carolinas elections.
State GOP executive director Matt Moore said in a statement Friday that Finlay had fairly won the disputed House race and decried politically-connected Democratic Party lawyers for getting special treatment in being granted the recount.
In the request for the temporary restraining order, Democratic Party executive director Amanda Loveday is represented by Dick Harpootlian a Columbia attorney who also chairs the state Democrats. Loveday said Friday that Republicans actions showed they were more concerned with political results than fixing voting problems.


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Apple® today announced that the white iPhone® 4 will be available beginning tomorrow. White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple's online store (www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers."The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it's beautiful," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we've worked to get every detail right."iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple's stunning Retina™ display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime®, which makes video calling a reality.
quote: I'm a bit at a loss as to why anyone would buy this given that if you want an iPhone I'm pretty sure you can wait between two and five months for the iPhone 5 to come out. And if you can't, then you clearly deserve to get nearly year-old hardware. I'm still stuck on an iPhone 3G and I don't see a particular need to upgrade now if it means getting old hardware.


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A former Buffalo man was indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with four local HSBC Bank robberies in 2011, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported Friday.
Clifford B. Smith, 32, is accused of holding up the HSBC branches at 3107 Bailey Ave. on Sept. 29, 2011, the 1017 Broadway location on Oct. 21, 2011 and the branch at 973 Main St. on both Oct. 25 and Nov. 8, 2011, according to a statement by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti.
Smith made off with roughly a combined $42,000 in all the holdups, Grisanti reported.
A federal grand jury in Buffalo returned a 13-count indictment against Smith charging him with robbery, entry of a bank with intent to commit a larceny, bank larceny and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
If convicted, Smith faces up to 25 years in prison with a seven-year mandatory prison sentence for the firearm charge as well as a $250,000 fine.
The FBI and Buffalo Police participated in the investigation.


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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Don Morris had already caught and released five modestly-sized trout at Canoe Creek shortly after the 8 a.m. start of this area's 2013 trout season Saturday, when a husky brown took his Picola spinning lure at about 8:30.
After a brief fight through the thick, murky water, that trout wound up on Morris' stringer.
"I'll keep this one for lunch,'' Morris, 33, said of the trout, which appeared to be about 15 inches in length. "I usually keep a couple and eat them.''
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Trout fisherman dot the banks of Chest Creek in Patton?Saturday morning, the first day of trout fishing season.
Morris had the best of both worlds Saturday. He lives within short walking distance of the stream, and he was catching plenty of fish in a deep bend in the water off Beaver Dam Road.
"I was up at 6 a.m. drinking coffee and watching everybody come in here,'' Morris said. "I'll fish for a couple hours, then go back home, and come back in the evening.''
All in all, the weather Saturday morning was favorable, with overcast conditions and cloudy water from Friday's rain creating good cover for fishermen.
"With that rain that we got, this is a nice time to go,'' Morris said. "If [the water] is too clear, you can't catch [trout], because they can see you.''
While there was a lot of fishing pressure up on Canoe Lake, people seemed to generally have plenty of room for themselves along the stream.
Lou Rhodes, 35, and his cousin, Blaine Barefoot, 46, both of Altoona, were fishing in a wooded area considerably upstream from where Norris was trying his luck.
Rhodes caught and released a small rainbow trout on a rooster-tail spinning lure shortly before 9 a.m.
"It's not bad so far,'' he said. "At least it's not raining this year.''
Some opening days have featured plenty of rain, sleet, and even snow. But Saturday morning's clear and crisp weather made for a decent opener.
"The sun came up early this morning, then went away,'' Barefoot said. "It gave us a little bit of a teaser.''
Neither Rhodes or Barefoot planned to keep much of what they would catch Saturday.
"Not unless it's truly monstrous,'' Rhodes said.
"We don't keep anything,'' Barefoot said. "We put them back in for other people to catch.''
Some people along the stream weren't having much luck early Saturday.
Gary Householder, 63, and his younger brother Greg, 56, both of Altoona, were both fishing with minnows in a backwoods stretch of stream not far from the lake. They were having trouble with sticks and leaves that had fallen into the creek from Friday's rain.
"This hasn't been a very good day so far,'' Gary said. "There's a lot of debris in the water from the rain we had.''
Greg concurred.
"The rain put a damper on things,'' he said. "I haven't talked to anybody who has caught much.''
Raul Garcia, 61, of Altoona, was fishing near a small bridge a short distance away from the Householders. Garcia was using a variety of live bait - wax worms, meal worms, and nightcrawlers. He hadn't caught anything in the short time that he was fishing, but he had reasonable hopes that things would turn for the better.
"I saw a couple of guys here earlier pull out about four or five,'' Garcia said. "They moved, and I took their spot.''
Garcia was among the many fishermen who were just happy to be outdoors Saturday morning.
"It's a beautiful spring day,'' Garcia said. "It's not rainy, it's not windy, and you don't have to wear anything heavy. You can't beat it.''


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Planning an end-of-summer Labor Day cookout/picnic?
Just for that, I'm going to bring this Houston weather with me.... You can expect 105 degree heat factor in the afternoon with 95% humidity and punishing sun. The disagree folks will break a dripping sweat just going outside 5 minutes to water their plants. HA HA
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So who disagreed with you?? Do they not believe you'll be here, (not want you here??), not want you to enjoy cooler weather, not believe you're hopeful about that, or don't believe the weather here will be cooler than where you are now (assuming they know where you are). Surely they don't dislike you personally (unlike some others who always get a disagree even when they say they like the weather). Not sure what is wrong with some people--I blame some of it on drinking!
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And I'll be in Salem to do it, hopefully enjoying some much cooler weather.
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Stetson's series opening game against North Florida on Friday has been postponed.
The teams will play a single game on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. (weather permitting) and will make up the Friday game as part of a double-header on Sunday, scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
The Hatters (21-23, 10-8) have won their last four Atlantic Sun Conference series to move into fifth place in the league race, just four games behind the league-leading Ospreys (33-12, 14-4).
The series is the start of an eight-game home stand for the Hatters that will include three games against the Ospreys, two with Florida State on Tuesday and Wednesday and three against A-Sun newcomers Northern Kentucky next weekend.
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In many areas of physics, a postdoc is the natural first position following the PhD. If you're close to completing your physics PhD, you may have many questions about postdoc positions. What kinds of postdocs are there and how can you find them? How can you optimize your cover letter, CV and research statement? How do committees decide whom to make an offer? What should you look for in an employer?
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The application's name is PittPatt and it allows
a complete stranger to find your identity -- your real identity -- in under 60 seconds.
Here's how it works. A client code calls the PittPatt interface
with a picture it's taken. PittPatt jumps online and compares that
picture to millions of images in Facebook and in Google Inc.'s (GOOG)
image search, using advanced facial recognition technology.
And within 60 seconds, it can identify an individual.
The technology is more than a little creepy. It seems
straight out of futurist thriller flick The Minority Report, where
Tom Cruise's character is assailed by advertising billboards that ID him by
retinal scans. In the movie Cruise solves this problem by replacing his
eyeballs. In real life it won't be that simple (hint: you might need
facial modification).
PittPatt was a Carnegie Mellon
University research project, which spun off into a company post
9/11. At the time, U.S. intelligence was obsessed with using advanced facial recognition to
identify terrorists. So the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) poured millions into
And it worked. PittPatt's proprietary technology can spot
faces even when people wear sunglasses, hats, or masks. While that sounds
like a bank robber's worst nightmare, it's also alarming news for law abiding
Now the technology is in the hands of advertising giant Google.
Google purchased the company for an undisclosed price in July.
PittPatt announced on its website, "Joining
Google is the next thrilling step in a journey that began with research at
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in the 1990s and continued with
the launching of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) in 2004."
"We've worked hard to advance the research and technology in
many important ways and have seen our technology come to life in some very
interesting products. At Google, computer vision technology is already at the
core of many existing products (such as Image Search, YouTube, Picasa, and
Goggles), so it's a natural fit to join Google and bring the benefits of our
research and technology to a wider audience. We will continue to tap the
potential of computer vision in applications that range from simple photo
organization to complex video and mobile applications."
Just two months prior it had been all denials and winks when
Google was confronted with a CNN story which had a Google engineer on record
stating that facial recognition technology was being developed to add to Google
Goggles. Stated Google at the time, "As we've said for more than a
year, we will not add facial recognition to Goggles unless we have strong
privacy protections in place. We're still working on them. We have nothing to
announce at this time."
Alessandro Acquisti,
Ph.D, a researcher and instructor still at Carnegie Mellon has designed an
iPhone app that functions as a front end for PittPatt's facial recognition
technology. As mentioned, it can identify strangers Facebook profiles
with startling accuracy.
And that's not all it can do. It also incorporates searches
of public databases that allows it to make a good guess at your social security
number. If it knows your date of birth (e.g. if your Facebook profile is
public), there's a good chance it can ID your social security number.
Of course, the app relies on finding publicly available pictures
of you online. You can always put a picture of something other than your
face as your profile image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus. But given the fact that many
professional positions involve media exposure and/or online corporate bios,
that may not be enough to protect your privacy.
Professor Acquisiti, showed his app off to NPR.
The news service writes:
Fred Cate [a law professor and privacy guru at Indiana University]
says just imagine if you were a car dealer. You could hook Acquisti's app up to
your surveillance cameras, identify potential customers, then check their
incomes and credit ratings while they wandered around your lot.
Alessandro Acquisti has no plans to sell his app or make it public. In fact,
the prospect of that horrifies him. But Cate thinks the commercial pressure to
use technology like this will be intense. And some of the biggest companies in
America agree. PittPatt was just bought by Google. But its technology only
exists because of investments the government made in research in the wake of
the attacks 10 years ago.
The app isn't publicly
available. And stalkers and frauds still have to resort to conventional
methods like climbing in your window, sifting through your
mail, or sending you phishing emails.
But if there's one take
home message of the Google-PittPatt deal, it's the revelation that we're
approaching an era where it will be incredibly difficult to protect one's
privacy and finances. When and if this technology hits the public it will
shake both the social and financial foundations of society and no one can
honestly say exactly what the end result will be.
quote: "Its mere existence is unconstitutional". That's convincing. ;-) Without citing Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, please explain where in the Constitution this is forbidden - and why it doesn't similarly forbid the FBI, CIA, DEA, and any other federal security division.
quote: "Gun control is unconstitutional" - um, that's not what the Supreme Court has ruled, and they're the authorities on what's constitutional. You're not even trying to not sound like an extremist.
quote: Sigh... health care is not unconstitutional either, and you ARE a Ron Paul Tea Party Brigade member; I was hoping I was off-base. I'm sure auto insurance is unconstitutional too, right? Are you also one of those "soverign citizen" types who think you don't need a license to drive either?
quote: "Facial recognition is unconstitutional" - why don't you just say that anything you don't like is unconstitutional?
quote: When Michelle Bachmann wins a straw poll, that's a sign the problem isn't government anymore... it's an appallingly ignorant citizenship who'll believe anything, particularly if it's something bad about some other group of their fellow countrymen.
quote: I'm not an extremist, but the 2nd amendment is quite clear in what it states. The supreme court is not an authority; the citizens of the USA are the authority and law-abiding citizens do have a right to possess firearms for protection and self-defense. I am happy to see that a couple politicians are pushing a reciprocity act that would allow people with concealed carry licenses to cross state lines legally with their firearms.
quote: How is that unconstitutional. To me it sounds like a tax which last I checked the gov't was within its rights to tax it's citizens
quote: Also wrong again. It is only unconstitutional if someones privacy is violated by gov't. Just because there is a chance it could be violated does not mean anything. If police use it within the laws that are set which includes getting a search warrant or following the laws of a reasonable search then no 4th amendment violation is there.
quote: Wrong? Me? Never. The fact that you can legally take pictures of anyone in a public place would easily open the door for this technology to be abused by government/law enforcement. The scans and searches imposed by the TSA for people wanting to fly are also a violation of the 4th amendment.
quote: Really you have to resort to name calling?
quote: Just because the technology has the potential for abuse does not mean it is unconstitutional. GPS is technology that can track your location is it unconstitutional to have it in your cell phone when there is a chance for abuse from the police. Technology is also going to evolve and as it evolves there will always be a chance for abuse. Does that mean the technology is unconstitutional? That would be ridiculous to assume any new technology with a chance of abuse from the government should not be made.
quote: As for the other two points I don't really care since it is off the point of the article.
quote: Obamacare in a nutshell states that all US citizens must pay for health insurance. Who said anything about healthcare? Obamacare does not address the fundamental issue as to why people do not have health insurance - it's too fckin expensive! Healthcare in the USA, while maybe higher than some other countries, is priced well beyond what a legitimate market would support. It is definitely unconstitutional to force people to purchase health insurance, and furthermore it will not solve the problem of affordability for many people who currently do not have health insurance.
quote: Is that what I said? Pretty sure it's not. I said that this implementation (i.e. the contents of this news article) is unconstitutional because it IS sponsored by the government and it is a violation of the 4th amendment. It's not a matter of whether or not I like something.


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Wish she was my neighbor. Hot tits and pussy.
The director/cameraman hasn't got a clue. Decent woman though.
Enough with the excessive licking of cock. Ladies it doesn't feel that good,we barely feel it at all. It's something we just like seeing and only once in awhile. Women are so narssisistic these days that they think cocksucking needs to be improved and they're gonna be the one to do it. All they come up with is replacing sucking by making minimal contact on the tip. That feels like nothing and it doesn't need improvement. Some women don't even do that and instead they put their toungue near a cock and even appear to suck the air inches away. That's utterly ridiculous and no one likes it. Look up ginger teen licks and you'll see this girl do pretty much everything but suck,she licks the tip for a half second at a time and even pokes the guys tip with her finger. As if that wasn't idiotic enough she looks up as she does it like its something anyone would enjoy. She goes out of her way to show off a lack of skill and understanding
Really wish she would just shut her mouth.... Her vioce is horrible
wish she were my neighbor!
fuck id bang her every chance id get
Who cares what she sounds like while she's being fucked...Free pussy!!
ha ha ha - she's hot but her noises... she sounds like that character from the Dark Crystal. The whiny one. Kills me.
hi,what a woman
Her voice is so fucking annoying! She is hot though.
Hmm...Joyce maybe me and ur husband should fuck you like that!!
my husband and mate don,t fuck me like that pitty
They should let the brunette join ..
want a gangbang too in mynigerian tyt pussy
mamacita i want you
I love how real they are, I'm built like her but would never think to do a video although I do like having two men ;) good one!
lindo el video con esa mamacita, como me gustaria estar hay.
They should have cummed together while in her pussy, love the cocks rubbing against each other!
i love how she plays with their cocks at 8.30
who is this woman ?...she is so fuckin hot would luv to shag her, anyone know her name ?


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Generic competition for its former best-selling drug, and legal costs that include settling a lawsuit from one of its generic rivals, lowered Shire profits during the fourth quarter of 2012—though the company says it is in strong shape this year following investments in late-stage pipeline drug candidates.
Shire saw operating income slide 74% from the final three months of 2011, to $79 million, despite a 5% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue, to $1.2 billion. The drop in operating income deflated Shire's earnings per American depository receipt, which finished Q4 2011 at 22 cents, down 83% from $1.33 a year earlier. The company trumpeted non-GAAP results of $1.58 per ADR, up from $1.51 in Q4 2011.
More than $1 billion of Shire's revenue consisted of product sales, which rose 10% excluding the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug Adderall XR (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine mixed salts).
Sales of Adderall XR tumbled 35% during Q4, to $82 million. The drug finished all of 2012 with a 19% sales decline, to $429 million, due to reduced U.S. prescription demand, according to Shire. A price increase partially offset reduced sales and the one-time charge, as well as higher sales deductions and the greater effect of product destocking compared with 2011.
Also offsetting lower Adderall XR sales, said Shire, was a one-time $38 million boost in royalty income after resolving a dispute with GlaxoSmithKline and ViiV Healthcare over such payments for Zeffix® (3TC or lamivudine) for Hepatitis B and HIV.
While Adderall XR has had an authorized generic version for four years, the drug was buffeted last year by competition from generics not supplied by Shire, starting with a generic version from Actavis that launched in Q2 2012. The Actavis generic version resulted in a 34% drop in royalties, to $70.3 million, from an authorized generic version of Adderall XR by Impax Laboratories.
Shire agreed on February 1 to pay Impax a $48 million one-time cash payment to settle litigation focusing on a Shire contract to supply Impax with the drug—reflected in a $42 million reduction in product sales and $6 million dip in royalties. The payment was part of a total charge against Q4 results of $57.5 million taken by Shire to resolve an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania related to Shire's U.S. sales and marketing practices for Adderall XR; another ADHD drug, Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine); and the ADHD/narcolepsy drug Daytrana® (methylphenidate), for which Shire sold rights to Noven Pharmaceuticals in 2010.
Shire can expect even more generic competition for Adderall this year, since FDA on February 12 approved another generic version of the drug, ANDA, to be sold by Teva's Barr Pharmaceuticals unit. Since 2009, Barr has been selling an authorized generic version of Adderall XR, from which Shire said "we derive insignificant income."
"We believe that branded Adderall XR can continue to compete successfully in a generic market as it has done over the last four years," Shire said in a statement.
Adderall XR has anchored Shire's product offerings in ADHD, which include two newer medications with growing sales. Vyvanse—Shire's current best-selling drug—saw its Q4 sales jump 18% over the previous fourth quarter, to $256.5 million, while Intuniv sales zoomed 24% during the final three months of 2012, to $81.2 million. For all of 2012, Vyvanse racked up $1.03 billion in sales, up 28% over 2011, while Intuniv (guanfacine) finished last year at $287.8 million, a 29% leap.
"Shire is in great shape with the current business performing well, a promising pipeline of new growth opportunities, and the strategy in place to deliver an exciting future," CEO Angus Russell said in the statement. Russell, who has served as CEO since 2008, will retire in May and be succeeded by Flemming Ornskov, who joined Shire in January from Bayer, where he served as chief marketing officer and global head of strategic marketing for general and specialty medicine.
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Poetry is a beautiful thing. It can convey emotions or an idea in a few simple, well-crafted lines and phrases. Poetry can live. Every time a poem is read it is reborn with new life, but where would the poems be without the poets?
I believe that everyone began with poetry when they were young. Poetry allows a young mind endless creativity. I know for me, being introduced to poetry when I was young helped sculpt me into a thoughtful human being.
Poetry is important in everyone's life, be it for stress relief or for a vacation from the real world. Poems allow the reader and writer to explore their minds.
I am a self-proclaimed sorceress of words. I believe that through words, through poetry, you can get practically any mood or belief across to any person.
Needless to say, poetry is a major ingredient in the recipe of my life; it always has been.
I can remember reading my favorite book, "Where the Wild Things Are," when I was a child and reciting it by heart. This book brought out an imaginative side in me that I don't think I understood back then, and I definitely don't understand now.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, because sometimes the ineffable things in life are the greatest things to experience. I have always been creative with my words. I recently found a book filled with the scribblings of my young mind. It's filled cover to cover with words, with poems.
When my cousins and I were younger, we loved Shel Silverstein. Whenever we would get together, there would always be a copy of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" or "A Light in the Attic" lying around. We would read each other poems; it was our kind of family bonding.
In my sophomore year of high school, my English teacher had us do a poetry project. I was put into a group of three. We had to analyze T.S. Elliot's poetry. Elliot, since then, has become my favorite poet. The way he criticizes the human race, though mildly depressing, is done so carefully. He never states outright exactly what he is doing. He covers it by using a brothel to represent the world, or maybe just a small city street. Elliot was able to enhance my love of poetry even more, if possible.
From a very young age, I've been in love with words. They have been my go-to getaway from the everyday struggles and stresses.
My friend Katie and I have been writing and sharing our poetry with each other for a few years now and I feel that it has helped us both grow as writers and as human beings. Through our poetry I've been able to get my anger, frustration and sadness out in a non-destructive way. Without it, I don't know where I'd be right now.
Poetry and writing have become my life. I love writing, and maybe even more, I love reading other authors' and poets' writing. I believe that even authors who write only novels have little poets inside them who influence their writing.
My favorite author, Stephen King, is a master of imagery, in a very poetic way. I love reading poetic stories and, obviously, poetry. I love writing them, too. I even enjoy the occasional essay.
I suppose you could say I'm a well-rounded writer, but I started with poetry. Everyone starts with poetry.


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About Me
Kim Hengeveld
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I am the Field Experience Coordinator for the Education Department.� I work�with� PK-12 schools (local, national, and international) to�facilitate practical�field-based experiences�for education students throughout their time in the Education Program.
In addition to working with the education field experiences and student teaching placements, I teach Geography 151; Core 100, the required freshman perspectives course; and supervise student teachers.
I hold a BA in Secondary Education:�English and History� from Dordt and a M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from Dordt as well. Prior to joining the education department, I taught English at both the high school and middle school levels.


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About K-State
Kansas State University is recognized by the Princeton Review as one of America's best colleges, and U.S. News & World Report lists the university among the top 75 public universities in the U.S. Kansas State University is implementing an aggressive plan to become a top 50 public research university by 2025.
Quick facts
Colleges: agriculture; architecture, planning and design; arts and sciences; business administration; education; engineering; human ecology; technology and aviation; and veterinary medicine.
Graduate study: The Graduate School offers 65 master's degrees, 45 doctoral degrees and 22 graduate certificates in multiple disciplines across campus.
Extension: K-State Research and Extension conducts practical research and delivers those results to all 105 Kansas counties to improve the lives of Kansans.
Students: More than 24,000 from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
Degrees: More than 250 undergraduate majors and options are available.
Organizations: More than 475 student organizations and nearly 30 club sports.
Sports: A total of 16 men's and women's sports in the Big 12 Conference.
Financial aid: More than $230 million in scholarships, grants, loans and work study is distributed each year.
Locations: The main campus is located in Manhattan, Kan. The Little Apple is a classic college town with more than 52,000 residents. The university also has a campus in Olathe and the Polytechnic campus in Salina.
Kansas State University has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association (NCA) of Colleges and Schools since 1916.
Kansas State University is a national leader among public universities in the total number of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater and Udall prestigious scholarship winners. The university is home to more national CASE/Carnegie Professors of the Year than any other public research university in America.
K-State got its start in 1858 when Bluemont Central College was founded and 53 students enrolled. Five years later K-State became the first fully operational land-grant college in America.


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With a degree in illustration and history of art, Matthieu became involved in the world of digital imagery at the end of his studies. He worked on various productions which took him for long periods to Seoul, Saigon, San Francisco, Pune and Los Angeles, and became one of the specialists of animated film lighting. He worked on some of the major american projects such as Star Wars or Shrek, but it's in France where he took on his biggest challenge as the lighting supervisor of the third feature length film of Enki Bilal: Immortel.
During his travels, Matthieu never stopped taking photos. A lover of the image and the instant, he likes an adventure and seeks to immortalise moments in time, capturing what hazard puts in his path : the mysteries of Saigon in black and white, the startling contrasts of America in colour, feminin sensuality in the studio... everything which crosses his inspiration, is incisively framed by his lens. His work as a lighting designer draws him towards enigmatic contrasts and bold lighting, but always with care to keep a balance between the reality and the show.


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Bickel, Merkel Receive MAC Medal of Excellence
MUNCIE, Ind. – Ball State softball player Audrey Bickel and men's golfer Tyler Merkel were presented Tuesday night with the Mid-American Conference Medal of Excellence.
The Medal of Excellence is a newly created award which will be presented annually to one male and one female student-athlete from the graduating class of each of the conference's 12 member institutions. This year's winners were recognized at the honors dinner ceremony at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel as part of the MAC Spring Meetings.
Bickel, who managed a 3.71 GPA, graduated this spring with a degree in sport administration. The third baseman from Munster, Ind., helped the Ball State softball team to a 33-19 overall record and its fifth MAC regular season championship in the past six seasons.
Bickel was an all-conference selection for the second year in a row, earning first-team honors with a .369 batting average, nine home runs and 48 RBI. She finished her career ranked among the top five on the Cardinals' all-time lists for homers (25) and RBI (149). Bickel has twice earned Academic All-MAC recognition and served on Ball State's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Merkel, who managed a 3.87 GPA, graduated this spring with a degree in business administration. He competed in the NCAA Men's Golf Championships twice, earning a Regional berth as an individual in 2012 and helping Ball State to a spot in the Nationals as a team in 2013.
The Evansville, Ind., product was a three-time all-conference selection and twice a member of the league's first team. He won three tournaments in his career, and his 73.99 stroke average over his four years at Ball State ranks as the second-best in program history. Merkel has twice been named to the Academic All-MAC Team and was a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar in 2013. He was also active with Athletes in Action and College Golf Fellowship.
To be honored with the Medal of Excellence Award, student-athletes must participate on the varsity level in a conference sponsored sport and show evidence of academic success with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average. They must exhibit athletics excellence, leadership and service. Selection of the recipients was made by each MAC institution.
2014 Medal of Excellence Award Winners
Akron: Reinaldo Brenes (men's soccer); Ariane Beaumont-Courteau (women's track & field)
Ball State: Tyler Merkel (men's golf); Audrey Bickel (softball)
Bowling Green: Cody Apthorpe (baseball); Nicole Chiricosta (women's tennis)
Buffalo: William Regan (men's basketball); Kristen Sharkey (women's basketball)
Central Michigan: Kyle Smith (men's track & field/cross country; Simone Lazar (field hockey)
Eastern Michigan: Cy Maughmer (football); Stephanie Clarke (women's soccer)
Kent State: Nathaniel Vance (football); Jessacca Gironda (women's soccer/softball)
Miami: Mason Krysinski (football); Sarah Mueller (field hockey)
Northern Illinois: Richard Connors (football); Kimberly Gotlund (gymnastics)
Ohio: Travis Wilkins (men's basketball); Juliane Accurso (women's track & field/cross country)
Toledo: Zachary Kerin (football); Lauren Rafdal (volleyball)
Western Michigan: Oliver Mayer (men's soccer); Michelle Watson (women's soccer)
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State athletics, follow @bsuathletics on Twitter.


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Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in most subjects cover a full-year college course equivalent to eight credit hours. Some subject areas such as Computer Science A, Economics (Macro and Micro), Environmental Science, Comparative Government and Politics, U.S. Government and Politics, Physics C, Psychology, Statistics, and Human Geography, are equivalent to one semester of college-level coursework and are awarded credit based on the credit hours for the equivalent course at Westminster.
A score of 3 is the minimum score accepted by the college; however, individual departments may require a minimum score of 4 to award credit for the equivalent course and/or liberal education requirement. Individual departments determine how they will apply AP credits toward specific major or minor requirements. Students may receive a maximum of 40 hours of Advanced Placement credit. Listed below are the AP tests that fulfill Westminster LE requirements and the required scores.
|LE Requirement
|AP Examination
|Required Score
|English Composition/
|English Language/Comp
|English Literature/Comp
|Humanities I: U. S.
|3, 4, or 5
|History European
|3, 4, or 5
|World History
|3, 4, or 5
|Humanities II:
|English Literature/Comp
|Humanities III:
|Arts I
|3, 4, or 5
|Creative Arts
|3, 4, or 5
|3, 4, or 5
|Art-2D Design
|3, 4, or 5
|Art-3D Design
|3, 4, or 5
|Arts II
|Art History
|3, 4, or 5
|Arts Survey
|Science/Mathematics I
|3, 4, or 5
|Calculus AB
|3, 4, or 5
|Calculus BC
|3, 4, or 5
|Science/Mathematics II
|Physical Sciences
|4 or 5
|Science/Mathematics III
|4 or 5
|Life Sciences
|Environmental Science*
|3, 4, or 5
|Social Sciences I
|Government/Polit. U. S.*
|3, 4, or 5
|Government/Polit. Comp*
|3, 4, or 5
|Economics: Macro*
|4 or 5
|Social Sciences II
|3, 4 or 5
|Foreign Language **
|French, German, Latin,
|3, 4, or 5
|and Spanish Examinations
*Designates AP examinations equivalent to only one semester of college-level work.
**Part of Major. For application of Foreign Language AP credit, please refer to the information description given under the Spanish Program of this Catalog, section entitled Additional Academic Requirements and Procedure for the Spanish Program ("Advanced Placement (AP) Credit").
For a complete listing of the AP examinations, the required scores, and equivalent courses at Westminster, contact the START Center or the Registrar's Office.


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The students arrive for morning practice just as the fog is beginning to lift. Many have rolled out of bed earlier than they've had to all summer.
They share a hello or a laugh, catching up after a recent vacation or a seasonal job. They're glad to hear that oppressive heat and humidity are not in the forecast this week. Then the shrill of the whistle pierces the air, and the buzz of conversation comes to an abrupt end.
After some instruction, the teens line up into formation and begin their pre-season drills, trying to match one another's steps with uniform precision.
This is a scene at high schools throughout central Pennsylvania, and while it may sound like the start of football practice, it's actually the beginning of band camp.
Football players come to camp, hopefully in shape from self-inspired or volunteer workouts throughout the summer; marching band musicians have likely spent weeks learning new music to debut during the first home-game halftime show.
While some would say musicians and athletes have little in common, upon closer inspection, a marching band is very much a team. Football squads break out into position workouts for the likes of quarterbacks, linemen, etc.; marching bands break into groups by instrument: brass, winds, percussion.
Just as in sports, the band is not successful unless all members work together toward a common goal. Performances depend on a willingness of leaders to lead and others to follow knowing that each part is important in itself, but the larger goal is of even more significance.
Success comes in the form of harmonious music and interesting visuals featuring complicated formations accented by the beauty and talent of flags, dancers and majorettes.
And if you think there are no physical demands to band, just try marching around a football field or for several miles in a homecoming parade carrying (while playing) a tuba or a base drum.
Decked out in school colors, the football team and marching band take the field in different uniforms, though both are a reflection of the pride and tradition that comes with high school football season. Both are icons of our heritage, images etched in fond memories.
And while we love the excitement of the game, what would Friday nights be without the band? Imagine a high school football contest with no live National Anthem, or fight songs after touchdowns, alma maters or halftime entertainment. Not only do bands provide the soundtrack of the season, their participants are often the game's biggest fans, adding joy and spirit to the community-laced competition.
In a few short weeks, it will be time for football teams to run onto the gridiron and begin another exciting season. And playing them onto the field will be a group of dedicated musicians who have spent hours and weeks of practice to represent their schools with power and artistry.
Strike up the band!
Kellie Goodman Shaffer can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Her column appears on Tuesdays.


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Hoard's Dairyman article: She's weaned . . . now what?
She's weaned . . . now what?
by A. F. Kertz
The author is the principal in Andhil, LLC, a St. Louis-based consulting firm.
Calves should be eating a pound of starter a day the week before weaning. Then keep them in individual pens or hutches for another two weeks as starter intake climbs to about 5 to 6 pounds before calves are moved into groups.
In a previous column, "Don't drop the ball when you wean calves," (May 10, 2007, issue, page 340), emphasis was on feeding and management aspects of calf starters. But that is only one aspect of the calf-raising situation. We still see too many problems with calves after weaning.
Calves are the most vulnerable and sensitive animals on a dairy. Yet, they are subjected to conditions and situations that, by comparison, we would not think of subjecting our own young children or babies to. Both young calves and babies do not like changes in schedule or environment.
People calendar wean
According to the 2007 National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), the average (and most popular) age at weaning in the U.S. is 8 weeks. With the exception of 7 weeks of age, the other most popular ages at weaning are 6, 10, or 12 weeks. Why are the most popular ages of weaning even-numbered weeks? It is for the benefit of whatever management scheme is being followed, not for a particular need of calves.
From a nutritional perspective, the amount and composition of the liquid feed largely provides for meeting the calf's protein and energy needs. These, in turn, control how much the calf grows with ambient temperature and housing conditions playing a role. In colder weather, you must make adjustments in order to continue projected/targeted daily gains. ("Keep calves gaining during cold weather," November 2008 issue, page 719.)
While the milk or replacer feeds the calf's monogastric digestive system, the calf needs to shift toward becoming a functional ruminant. The key to that is consumption of the grain-based starter which empties into the immature and initially nonfunctional rumen. The best starter is one in texturized form which stimulates rumen development through its larger particles. This causes more cud chewing, saliva production, and favorable rumen volatile fatty acid (VFA) production (see May 10, 2007, issue, page 340).
You should not feed hay before weaning. It fills up the rumen due to its slower rate and extent of digestion, and it doesn't produce the right balance of VFA production for rumen development and function. (In fact, hay should not be fed for two to four weeks after weaning). Also, starter intake will not be as good if you don't have clean water available. Calves need to drink four times as much water as their dry feed intake.
Keep calves in individual hutches or stalls for two weeks after weaning. This will reduce some stress, encourage more starter intake and rumen development, and make it less tempting to start feeding hay or silage before they can utilize forages.
Why setbacks occur
Too often, people move calves into a large group pen with other calves right after they are weaned and feed them a TMR that may contain 50 percent forage. Suddenly, they have to establish a "pecking order" within the group, learn how to drink water and eat feed from new sources, and be more exposed to the environment, in most cases. Other changes that often occur at weaning are vaccinations, dehorning, and even tail docking.
What happens when the period after weaning is too stressful? Calves' immunity drops, and they have a respiratory outbreak. This requires various treatments with considerable cost, often with heroic effort to save the calf.
Once the calf appears to be back to normal, you usually forget that the calf was ever treated. But is that calf really okay? Before weaning, the main cause of death is scours. After weaning, it is respiratory problems, according to the 2007 NAHMS report. But it is the "living dead" with respiratory problems that are the major concern. These calves often are affected for life.
Long-term records from a New York state study in 1995 found that these "respiratory-affected" calves had higher mortality before calving, were less likely to enter the milking herd, took longer to grow before first calving, and had more calving problems. ("Calves go through a transition at weaning," June 2003 issue, page 436). However, since few people record calf treatments for respiratory problems and track progress of those calves, they will not recognize this problematic relationship. If they did, they would be better off economically, in most cases, in culling calves that had respiratory problems when young rather than feed and care for them one to two years. They would realize that it required more time and more costs to raise that heifer into the milking string.
What you can do
Recommendations are:
• Have a good transition leading up to weaning. Be sure that calves are averaging at least 1 pound daily of starter intake for the week before you cut milk/replacer feeding in half by eliminating one of two daily feedings. When one of those feedings is eliminated, daily starter intake should double that week to 2 pounds. If calves are kept in the individual hutch or stall for two more weeks, you should see starter intake double to 4 pounds and then to 5 to 6 pounds over those two weeks. When starter intake is too low going into weaning, calves will not be able to avoid a slump after weaning.
• If you can accomplish the above routine, consider weaning at 6 weeks rather than at 8. Six weeks was the second most common age at weaning next to 8 weeks, according to the 2007 NAHMS report. Benefits to this include not needing more hutches or stalls to keep calves for an additional two weeks of starter feeding after weaning, giving calves more time for more functional development of the rumen before hay is fed, and one less change to subject calves to when they are moved to the first grouping.
• Use a texturized calf starter. Sure it costs more, but the calves benefit more in rumen development and intake.(See May 10, 2007, issue, page 340.) Then continue feeding the starter in the first grouping, limiting it to 6 to 8 pounds per calf daily. Do not feed a TMR to this first group pen. One pound of alfalfa or a good-quality grass hay is about all the forage they can handle well at this stage/age. Sure, they will eat a 50 percent forage TMR, but look at the rumen fill on these heifers. If you sacrificed some of them, you would notice this and less rumen papillae development.
• Provide clean water so that feed intake is not limited. Remember that 4 to 1 ratio of water to feed. When calves still are in hutches or stalls, have a divider between water and starter containers. Otherwise, calves will dribble feed into water and water into feed. That will reduce intake of both.
• Keep the first group pens small so that establishing the pecking order is not as traumatic and prolonged. Some farms use super-hutches for this purpose with as few as six to eight calves. This will make it easier to avoid feeding a 50 percent forage TMR at this stage.
• Last, don't get hung up on cutting costs at this stage. It will limit your being able to foster a good start in the most vulnerable and efficient nutrient converter on a dairy. Trying to save $25 to $50 per calf versus an overall cost of $1,200 to $1,500 to raise a heifer can truly be penny-wise but pound foolish.


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