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JAMESTOWN – An eighth suspect was arrested today and more than 100 mature marijuana plants, was seized in a continuing crackdown by city police on a Southern Tier pot ring.
Marijuana and cocaine, long guns and a large amount of marijuana growing equipment also was taken from the home of Patrick S. Silk, 49, of 834 Lafayette St., police said.
Silk was arrested about 11:30 a.m., police said, after investigators received a tip that the power supply at his home had been tampered with – a key indication that suspects were trying to hide the extra power needed to grow marijuana plants indoors.
Police Capt. Robert Samuelson told The Buffalo News that the arrest of Silk, who is being held in city lockup pending his initial arraignment, is linked to the arrests last Thursday of five men and two women and the seizure that day of about 700 marijuana plants, 14 pounds of dried marijuana, more than three dozen long guns and a handgun, cash and various pot-growing gear worth more than $20,000 in Jamestown and Busti.
Silk was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, unlawfully growing marijuana, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (cocaine), theft of services, endangering the welfare of a child found in his home and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Those arrested last week were Angel L. Pacheco, 37, and Gloria M. Pacheco, 32, both of Barrows Street, Jamestown; Eric R. Truver, 22, and Jillian E. Hilton, 22, both of Water Street, Jamestown; and David P. Truver, 51, of Lafayette Street, father of the younger Truver; and Mark A. Truver, 54, of East First Street, and his brother, Scott B. Truver, 44, of Big Tree Road, both Busti. The Truver brothers are cousins of the Jamestown Truver, police said.
Anyone with information about illegal drug sales in the city is asked to contact the Police Department's anonymous tip line at 483-8477 (TIPS).
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Ford Employee Slaps UAW & Company with Federal Charges for Illegal Dues Deductions
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Dearborn, MI (August 20, 2014) – A Dearborn-area Ford Motor Company worker has filed federal charges against the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and the company for violating his rights.
With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Todd Lemire, a 16-year Dearborn Tool & Die plant worker, filed the charges last week with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
On April 7, 2014, Lemire sent a letter to Ford Motor and UAW union officials exercising his statutory rights to resign his union membership and refrain from full union dues. Under Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court precedent, nonmember workers can refrain from paying for union boss politics and members-only events.

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Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand? | Opensource.com
Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand?
In my day job at New Kind, I spend quite a bit of my time working on brand-related assignments, particularly for organizations interested in community-based approaches to building their brands.
When marrying the art of community building to the art of brand building, it's hard not to talk about building "brand communities." It's a convenient term, and brand experts love to trot out examples like Harley Davidson and Apple as examples of thriving communities built around brands.
The term "brand community" even has its own Wikipedia page (definition: "a community formed on the basis of attachment to a product or marque"). Harvard Business Review writes about brand communities. Guy Kawasaki writes about brand communities.
Yet almost every article I've read about building "brand communities" shares a common trait:
They are all written by brand people for brand people.
The result? Articles focusing on what's in it for the brands (and the companies behind them), not what's in it for the communities. Learn how to build a brand community so your company will succeed, not so a community will succeed.
Typical corporate thinking.
What if we turned things on their heads for a second and changed the words around? What if, instead of "brand community," the phrase du jour was "community brand?"
Is there a difference? I think so.
If "brand community" is defined this way:
A community formed on the basis of attachment to a product or marque.
I'd define a "community brand" as:
A brand formed in service to a community or group of communities.
I'm just making this stuff up, but this difference is meaningful for me.
I love that smart companies are successfully building brand communities around their products. Companies that can do it well can make a lot of money, and Apple and Harley Davidson are fantastic examples.
But truly enlightened brands are starting to think beyond building brand communities around themselves. They are beginning to think with humility about which existing communities they can serve better than they do today.
Who is thinking this way? A group of over 300 companies, called B Corporations, for starters (my company works with a fantastic one called The Redwoods Group based here in North Carolina).
These companies serve more than just the bottom line, they also serve multiple communities—as small as the community of their own employees and as big as the global common good.
They make active, positive contributions to many communities beyond the ones centered around them.
To sum my feelings up, there is nothing wrong with building brand communities around your products. In fact usually having an active brand community is a good sign of brand health.
My question:
Is it enough? Should we be aspiring to make more of our brands into community brands—brands that make positive contributions to communities other than their own—as well?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Yes, you can engage me. Treat me like I am a value to
your company.
The early years of Volkswagen in the USA? Saturn also
started with the concept of community. That works.
Many of the evil corporations in the communications
field (cell phone, cable, etc.) started having or at least
letting their employees go on forums and blogs to
interact with costumers who were at wits end with the
"Help Desk" type of service. It works if you know it
is there.
The article before this one was about the co-op
business model, if I have to contact the company
about anything it sure is nice to get someone who
has their future tied to my happiness.
I like the rearrangement to "Community Brand." It puts community first and disrupts just enough to freshen the thinking of those who know what Brand Community means. We speak here, inside Redwoods, about being "of the community, not above the community." Unlike Apple and Harley Davidson, we have a pure B2B dynamic which adds complexity, and while we're far from perfect at all this, we keep trying.
Thanks for the mention of us and the B Corporation movement.
Dan Moore, CMO
The Redwoods Group
You are right in the fact that brand communities are started by brands for the brands, for the $$$ and the market share. That is what business is about. From Harley Davidson to Apple. On the odd occasion, the community is started by a small group of people who are 'crazy' (for lack of a better term) about the brand. Needless to say, the marketing execs should be aspiring to reach out to the communities and find ways of working inconjunction with with them for a better cause. It will be better business (more $$ and loyalty) to the brands and make people feel good about doing something good. GM tries to do things like that with their Hockey program but it doesn't meet half of the turn out that a Harley rally does. It's a fine line, that very few companies seem to be able to walk.
Bottom line, the brands need the communities, and what they need even more if for the community to feel like they need the brand. They can only achieve that through community programs and involvement that enrich people's lives.
There are so many ways to reach out from your own "community comfort zone" and impact other communities. Often there are sub-communities inside your larger one. Being able to create a Community of Opportunity - allowing everyone to create change and impact the community in their own way - is what I get from this article.
This is where you see a lot of Open Source projects navigating to. The smarter companies are seeing that, too. Letting your customers/community members tell you what they like rather than you telling them what they should like.
Great article - thanks!


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MARTINSBURG - The Apollo Theatre, 128 E. Martin St., will hold the following auditions:
Auditions for "Hello Dolly!" will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. March 2; from 7 to 9 p.m. March 3 and 4. Performance dates are May 3-5, 10-12;
Auditions for "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. March 11 and 12. Performance dates are May 17-19. Roles for five males and two females. Be prepared for improve exercises and cold reading from the script.
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"The Fantasticks:" July 24-28,
"Happy Days:" July 31 to Aug. 4,
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Pittsburgh, Pa. - March 9 at the James Center (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre), 327 South Main St.
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WINCHESTER, Va. - The Winchester Little Theatre, 315 W. Boscawen St., will hold auditions for its production of "You Know I Can't Hear When the Water's Running," at 7 p.m. March 17 and 18. Performance dates are May 10-12, 16-19 and 23-25.
For more information, call 540-662-3331 or visit www.wltonline.org
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MARTINSBURG - The Berkeley Community Chorus is actively seeking new members for the second concert of its first season. The chorus is open to all individuals 18 years of age and older. Sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses are welcome to join. In particular, the chorus hopes to include recent graduates of Berkeley County high schools who were singers in their concert and show choirs.
Auditions will take place on March 18-19 at Westview Baptist Church, 301 S. Louisiana Ave. An audition consists of simple vocalizing to determine voice range and quality. Music reading ability is desired but not required.
To schedule an audition and for more information, contact music director Jeffrey Poland at 304-260-0866, jtpoland@frontier .com, or message www.facebook.com/berkeleycommunitychorus.
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MARTINSBURG - The Harmony Along the Potomac Chorus is holding auditions for its "Doo-Whopping through the '50s & '60s, Barbershop Style" show to be held later in 2013. Women singers ages 18 to 85 in all voice ranges are invited to sing with the chorus for four weeks before auditioning. The Harmony Along the Potomac Chorus is a chartered Sweet Adeline Chorus. Rehearsals are held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Monday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Every rehearsal has a singing lesson.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Gather at Bar Of America Nov. 10, 8:30 p.m. for a privately sponsored Hurricane Sandy benefit concert organized by Rak Dettelback, Dennis Alexander and many other individuals kind enough to help with the cause.
The benefit will raise money for Red Cross donations to help all those in need affected by hurricane Sandy. A well-rounded group of local musicians (JJ Cady, Tanner Jones, Kandy Xander, Ben Martin, Sarah Gotschall, Matt Reardon, Drew Campbell, Dan McAlister, Warren Martineau, Andrew Baird, Ryan Davis, Stan Charles and One Track Mind band) will each perform a few songs of their choice.
They will graciously share their amazing talents and time to support this event. Jaclyn Wozniki of Bella Petunia in Truckee has put together a raffle. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Program. Raffle tickets can be picked up at Bella Petunia or at the event. Not interested in the raffle? Pop a little something in the donation bucket.
"All in all, this is going to be a spectacular night! I've been blessed and honored with the amount of support from the community and everyone involved ... and will always be a Jersey boy at heart, but my home is Truckee ... So, being a part of an event that puts both coasts hand and hand is priceless. This is what it's all about!" said Dettleback.


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Pianist Van Cliburn performs for a packed house in the Great Hall of the Moscow Coservatory in April 1958 during the first International Tchaikovsky Competition. Cliburn won the competition, vaulting him to international fame.
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Dr. Dewain L. Lee has more than 21 years experience in higher education administration, particularly in student success program development aimed at preparing minority students for success. She is currently the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Development and Dean of Students at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is responsible for programs and services, which are designed to assist and support students in achieving academic and personal success. In her previous position as Dean of Students at Dillard University, she emphasized effective leadership and management, outreach, planning and effective program development to meet retention, and student success goals.
Dr. Lee has used her role in higher education to make a presence and be an advocate for social causes and humanitarian efforts. Viewing education as the great equalizer, she spends her time lecturing and presenting on the importance of education, particularly higher education for minorities. Dr. Lee has used this platform to present career development and life preparation sessions at many of the New Orleans area public schools and at high schools in Anchorage, Alaska to both students and their parents. In an effort to empower parents of minority students, she was appointed by the Anchorage School Board to serve on the Multicultural Educational Concerns Advisory Committee. She is also chair of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Alaska Leadership Council, where she works with the National UNCF Office to provide students in Alaska an opportunity to attend college through scholarships.
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A conceptual design for the planned, seven-story UB Medical School at Allen and Main streets has been presented at various community meetings in recent days, as officials prepare to break ground in September for a $375 million facility to anchor the west end of the sprawling Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
But UB's new centerpiece will also assume a role assigned to few – if any – medical schools around the world: It will incorporate Metro Rail's current Allen/Medical Campus Station onto its ground floor, providing a crucial role for the Buffalo subway as a gateway to the new Medical Campus.
It's all part of a grand plan the university has envisioned for years as its architects and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority engineers put the final touches on designing a facility serving about 2,000 medical students, staff and faculty every day – in addition to thousands of commuters.
"Having a transit station as a means for people getting around is an integral part of our planning," said Laura E. Hubbard, UB's vice president for finance and administration.
Indeed, the partial plans UB has presented depict a transit facility similar to those of bigger cities in which stations are often incorporated into larger buildings. With Metro Rail envisioned as a key component of moving not only UB students but thousands of other Medical Campus employees every day, planners said it became apparent that transit would prove an essential part of the design – especially because few parking spaces will be available.
Now UB and the NFTA are preparing for the first major alteration of any station since the Metro Rail system was launched almost three decades ago. The challenge includes the unique assignment of blending transit and educational needs into one building.
And it all becomes necessary by the concept of a multifaceted medical campus on the north edge of downtown.
"It's so valuable to have academia and health care [together] on the Medical Campus," said Robert G. Shibley, dean of UB's School of Architecture and Planning. "And we will have better health care, research and education all by virtue of this co-location."
Thomas George, the NFTA's director of surface transportation, highlighted the conceptual plans to the board of commissioners last week. He pointed out an open walkway through the building providing pedestrian access, while newly placed entrances to the station are also envisioned.
And, in a first for Metro Rail, retail is planned for the transit station.
"We're talking about 'grab and go,' newspapers and sundries," George said, adding that staff will issue a request for proposals for the retail component when work is completed in August 2016.
Shibley stressed that the design unveiled for the NFTA and for a recent Allentown neighborhood information meeting is not yet finalized. But final plans and drawings are slated to be introduced to the community April 9, he said.
Still, he feels planners have settled on a "conceptual" design that complements existing neighborhood buildings as well as new construction planned for the Medical Campus.
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"UB is in the final process of determining how to protect the station while essentially tearing off the roof and walls," George said.
"We're stressing to UB that we have to maintain service," added NFTA Executive Director Kimberley A. Minkel. "So that's a consideration they have to make."
Shibley, however, said officials of the HOK architectural firm commissioned to design the project seemed almost amused when asked about the challenge of building over a working subway station.
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Re: Elk Creek, Erie County PA 12/5/2009
2009/11/4 22:06
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you make a fatal error and call these fish steelhead... they aren't
the are lake run rainbows
the genetic inbreeding has led to no dirversity, natural selection, or survival of the fittest... creating a weak inbred population that is overstocked by a program driven by $$$ rather than management of a resource
At this time of year, many fish are still very actively on the move.
this time of year??? we are just a few days from full freeze
the water is in the mid 30s
where are these fish moving??? they are already in upper elk
I managed a few good hookups but no fair hooked fish landed. We had many foul hooks due to the large amount of fish, and the low clear water.
this speaks volumes...
the fish were in low clear water because you herded them there
what makes you think any of the fish you lost were legit???
these fish get stuck in gin clear bathtubs... they try to find cover, until peoples idiotic antics push them out into water with no cover, and the start foul hooking them
force feeding- standing over a fish and hitting it on the nose 30 times with a tandem rig and then on the 31 it mouths the fly
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Re: Elk Creek, Erie County PA 12/5/2009
2008/1/31 17:19
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you make a fatal error and call these fish steelhead... they aren't the are lake run rainbows
They are both, as all steelhead are technically lake or ocean run rainbows, but they are indeed steelhead. Steelhead are a subspecies of rainbow trout and originate on the west coast, and each drainage evolved a different "strain".
PA steelhead originate from a weird mix of steelhead strains and are often termed a mutt, but they are true steelhead. We grew fish reared from eggs obtained from Washington State, as well as Michigan's Little Manistee (which originated in the McCloud River, CA) strain. I believe there is some influence from Skamania, Jacob's Creek, and London strains too. The London strain is from Ohio and could truly be called a domesticated rainbow, not a steelhead. So our fish are 90% a mix of various strains of true steelhead, and 10% domesticated rainbow. The mixing of the "true" strains was to increase return rates as well as spread out the run over the course of the season. Steelhead eggs are gathered from returning steelhead, and the system runs totally independent of the rest of our stocking system.
As far as inbreeding, the PA "mutt" strain is more genetically diverse than any natural population of trout found ANYWHERE. Genetic ancestry determines the time of the run. PA steelhead run anytime from late August through early May, which is the longest time frame I know of and reflects the genetic diversity. Eggs are collected throughout the whole year to maintain that diversity. And the migratory nature of steelhead makes them less inbred than say, you're average wild brown trout stream.
3-C-U also stocks a large number of steelhead. Obviously their genetics are strongly influenced by the fish commission. At least early in their operation, they seined WILD smolts as their brood stock. I don't know how they do it now.
I should note that our wild brown trout are also "mutts", a strain not native anywhere in the world, but rather a mix of natural strains that have adapted well.
this time of year??? we are just a few days from full freeze
Fish actively move until full blown ice-up (not just slush or shelf ice, we're talking dams of ice). They'll move again as soon as the streams thaw enough to allow passage. In years where the ice doesn't get severe enough to stop upstream migration, it doesn't stop for winter. Fish not only feed in 33 degree water, they've been recorded trying to breed in it. I've literally seen fish actively moving up through riffles with slush flowing over their backs.
At any given time throughout the year, you have active fish which are moving up, temporarily resting fish, and fallback fish (which will later make another push). These fish never settle down into long-term "holding" areas, and instead are looking to move all of the time.
There are miles of water, and several tributaries, above Foley's. I consider it to be middle Elk. These fish basically move upstream until there's no more room to do so, and even then, they keep trying.
I can't speak for this situation as I was not present, but they get into shallow water all on their own. While they will get into cover on occasion, as well as feeding lies. But the primary factor in location is not cover or feeding, but rather migration. This is why they differ from "regular" trout.
Posted on: 2009/12/23 8:48
Re: Elk Creek, Erie County PA 12/5/2009
2006/10/18 15:46
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ALL of the water up there this past weekend was low and clear. Whether the fish were still in their original holding point, or in the spot where we were fishing over them it was ALL low and clear. The action of the "push" did not change the way the conditions were. Foul hooking happens in those conditions. Whether using 1 or 2 flies, swinging or using lots of lead, it just happens. Also your theory of force feeding is rediculous. It is known that fish eat throughout the day and also put things in their mouth not knowing if it is food or not and then spit it out. We ALL catch fish this way, even trout. I've seen trout hit sticks, cigarette butts, and non food items, even wild trout. So your theory of force feeding is bogus.
If you have such a strong disgust for these "steelhead" why do you care how they were caught. The "imbred" fish can be for everyone else to catch then. I don't understand why you have such a passion for this topic if you hate the fish that I was attempting to catch.
Posted on: 2009/12/23 9:27
Re: Elk Creek, Erie County PA 12/5/2009
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i learn something everyday , i have been changing my offering to trout over the last 21 yrs and all i had to do was count my drift to 30 and on 31 they open their mouth so they can eat , i always changed at 6-10 drift .....my bad , oh well it still beats workin
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Re: Elk Creek, Erie County PA 12/5/2009
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pcray, had to laugh, trying to make a deer eat during a hunt!! all I could think of is what kind of fly would one tie to get a deer?? maybe a nice berry pattern. better have a good drag on that reel!!
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Mary packed up her three young daughters and fled to the beach, leaving an endless trail of questions in her wake. Would anyone ever make sense of the tragedy in Selmer, Tennessee?
About the author: Diane Fanning is the author of the Edgar Award finalist Written in Blood: A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret that Tore a Family Apart. Her other works of true crime include the best seller Mommy's Little Girl, A Poisoned Passion, Gone Forever, and Through the Window. She is also the author of the Lucinda Pierce Mysteries. She has been featured on 48 Hours, 20/20, Court TV, The Today Show, and the Discovery Channel, and has been interviewed on dozens of radio stations coast to coast. Her books are sold throughout the English-speaking world, including the UK and Australia, and there are more than half a million copies in print. Before becoming a writer, Fanning worked in advertising, and she earned more than 70 Addy Awards.
©2008 Diane Fanning (P)2012 Diane Fanning
"Satisfies your curiosity about this murder."
I had read available stories that were in the news about this when it happened and like a lot of people I suppose, I had the uncomfortable feeling there had to be more to it than what I was reading. I couldnt understand how she got off so easy.
Actually, this question still bothers me slightly.
The author did a very good job, by my standards, though. She presented what information she was able to gather in her research and, what is important to me, she did not try to FILL IN where there was no satisfactory documentation on why things happened as they did. It left me still wanting to know, but realizing that in real life, we usually have to accept that some questions will remain, for extreme events such as a murder.
In any case, I WAS much more satisfied after listening to the book than before, that most of my questions were answered. Most of them were tracked right back to the wife who shot her husband - some might say she was half batty but not batty enough to be guilty of capital murder, others might say she was an example of battered wife syndrome or PTSD. To me it looked like some of both. But this woman was not easy to figure out, not by a long shot. I do not think she was just coy, or pulled a fast one, I think she was damaged goods due to one cause or the other.
Quite a fascinating study, however. For you true-crime lovers, go ahead, you will like it.
puppet lady
"Extremely pleasant voice to listen to. Good story"
First one I've heard on audible.
Not sure. I guess anything with mystery intrigues me.
No favorite
Nothing specific
I loved the performer's voice. It was so easy to listen to. I've actually returned audio books to the library because I cannot stand listening to the person reading!!! This one is really good and I'd like to listen to more of her books. I will search for them.
"Lots of filler used"
I was excited to read/listen to a Diane Fanning book since I see her on Deadly Women quite a bit. However, this book was pretty boring. Lots of filler used on history of the location...nothing to do with the case. It seemed like she got most of her references from the media...which we have all read all ready.
The narrator's voice was pretty annoying too when she read the conversations.
I will try another Diane Fanning...hoping it has more information that what the average joe can read in the newspaper or crimelibrary
I definitely wouldn't recommend this one though.
"Good story"
I thought it was a good book that explained in depth what had happened, and what I had been hearing about in the media in this case.
I am not sure if I would compare it to any.
I believe she read the story very well, and I enjoyed listening to her
Wife gets away with murder, or did she?
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|Cool Magnetic Molecules
Certain materials are known to heat up or cool down when they are exposed to a changing magnetic field. This is known as the magnetocaloric effect. All magnetic materials exhibit this effect, but in most cases, it is too small to be technologically useful. Recently, however, the search for special molecules with a surprisingly large capacity to keep cool has heated up, driven by environmental and cost considerations as well as by recent improvements in our ability to design, assemble, and probe the structure and chemistry of small molecules. An international collaboration of researchers from Spain, Scotland, and the U.S. has utilized ALS Beamline 11.3.1 (small-molecule crystallography) to characterize the design of such "molecular coolers." The work targets the synthesis of molecular cluster compounds containing many unpaired electrons ("nanomagnets") for applications involving enhanced magnetic refrigeration at very low temperatures.
Underlying the magnetocaloric effect is the idea that magnetism is the result of the ordering of electronic spins in the material. It is already well known that heating a magnet to its Curie temperature will thermally disrupt this order and cause the magnetism to vanish. Conversely, introducing a magnetic field to certain materials will cause the material to heat up. This happens because, as the spins in such (paramagnetic) materials align with the magnetic field, the magnetic entropy (disorder) of the system decreases; if the system is isolated (insulated), the total entropy must remain constant, and the thermal entropy (temperature) increases to compensate. The process is reversed for a decreasing magnetic field: magnetic entropy (disorder) increases, and thermal entropy (temperature) decreases.
Single-molecule magnets are metal–organic compounds that show such behavior at the molecular level, so that collective long-range magnetic ordering of magnetic moments is not necessary. The researchers' idea was to use molecular cluster compounds containing paramagnetic metal ions. The most suitable metal ions for the job are those with isotropic electronic configurations, such as Gd(III), and these must be bound together within a molecule through the use of bridging ligands, such as calixarenes. The word calixarene is derived from calix, the latin word for "chalice," because these organic molecules have bowl-shaped cavities. Their rigid conformations are helpful in self-assembly, and the polyphenolic pocket at the lower rim is an attractive feature for metal complexation.
By employing calix[4]arenes (calixarene with 4 repeating units), it was possible to build heterometallic transition-metal/lanthanide (3d/4f) cluster molecules whose structures describe a square of Mn ions surrounding a square of ions from the lanthanide series. The flexibility offered by the similarity of chemistry across the lanthanide series means that the isotropy or anisotropy of the resulting clusters can be tuned at will, by using either Gd(III), Tb(III), or Dy(III) as the lanthanide-series ion. The structures were determined crystallographically at ALS Beamline 11.3.1, and magnetic measurements down to 80 mK and specific heat measurements down to 0.3 K were carried out on powdered crystalline samples for magnetic fields of 0–9 T.
Clusters with Tb(III) and Dy(III) both exhibited superparamagnetic behavior but performed poorly in terms of magnetic refrigeration. However, replacement with isotropic Gd(III) resulted in a large number of molecular spin states being populated even at the lowest investigated temperatures. This, combined with the high magnetic isotropy, makes it an excellent magnetic refrigerant for low-temperature applications.
Very low temperature experiments are of great importance because they provide us with a detailed fundamental understanding of the physical properties of materials (be they magnetic, electrical, etc.) and thus they are indispensible for the design of new materials. This work shows how lanthanide polymetallic molecule clusters, which are otherwise chemically isostructural, can have dramatically different magnetic properties depending on the lanthanide.
Research conducted by G. Karotsis and E.K. Brechin (University of Edinburgh, UK); S. Kennedy and S.J. Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, UK); S.J. Teat and C.M. Beavers (ALS); D.A. Fowler (University of Missouri); and J.J. Morales and M. Evangelisti [Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain].
Research funding: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), Leverhulme Trust, and the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: G. Karotsis, S. Kennedy, S.J. Teat, C.M. Beavers, D.A. Fowler, J.J. Morales, M. Evangelisti, S.J. Dalgarno, and E.K. Brechin, "[MnIII4LnIII4] calix[4]arene clusters as enhanced magnetic coolers and molecular magnets," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 12983 (2010).
ALS Science Highlight #228


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QWe have an approximately 6-year-old beagle named Lilly. We found her on the road four years ago, and she appeared to be lost hunting dog.
Her condition was horrible. So bad, in fact, that although she had on a collar, we never considered trying to send her back to wherever she lived.
Our problem is this. Being a beagle and a former hunter, she occasionally lets go with her melodious baying. But to our neighbors, it is not at all appreciated.
Now the condo association has said the barking cannot be tolerated any further. So we are faced with a choice, have her "de-barked," or find her another home. It seems cruel to do this procedure, but it appears that it is the only way we can keep her. What do you think about this, and how is it done?
A: I had a client recently in a very similar situation. She, too, had community pressure to stop the barking "or else."
She relayed that she had desperately inquired at several veterinary clinics and received a frosty response from all of them.
One receptionist responded judgmentally, "We don't do that," to which my exasperated client responded, "Well I don't "do that" either! I have to do it or I have to get rid of my dog."
In my exam room, she was clearly feeling a lot of guilt about this. It struck me as odd that we seem to have little problem with removing a healthy uterus, or castrating a dog, in the name of reducing the homeless population of dogs and cats.
But so many react with shock at the idea of a procedure that quiets a dog's bark, when the alternative may mean a trip to the animal shelter, or at least to another home. We also accept declawing a cat who is shredding the furniture if that cat is faced with becoming an outdoor pet or finding another home.
I am certainly in favor of spaying and neutering, and in some cases, declawing. Personally, if faced with a choice of being neutered, having my fingertips removed, or having my vocal cords trimmed, I'd have to go with the third choice.
The procedure is called a ventriculocordectomy, which means removing the vocal cords. These are two small bands of tissue that resonate like a reed instrument as we exhale, creating our voices, or in the case of dogs, barking. Voice production is also called phonation.
There are essentially two techniques to performing this procedure. The oldest technique, and probably a major reason this procedure is so widely panned, is the intra-oral approach. In this technique, the vocal cords are accessed through the mouth and are removed with a long handled pair of scissors. It takes about 30 seconds to perform. This is the cheapest way to do this, but I do not recommend this technique and I do not perform it.
The problem is that although you can reach and cut these cords through the mouth, one cannot then close the wounds that have been created.
This leaves the possibility of excessive scar formation, which can result in regaining some or all of the voice in approximately 50 percent of cases. This scar formation can also result in "webbing" or a scar that reaches across the larynx and impairs the ability to breathe.
With such serious complications and a high failure rate this procedure should be avoided.
The second, and preferred, technique, is the intraglottic approach. This procedure is a bit more surgical than the first, but much more effective and far safer.
The larynx is opened from underneath the neck and the folds are removed. The wounds are then sutured closed, eliminating the possibility of regrowth or web formation.
These dogs will still go through the motions of barking, as before, but the volume is approximately 20 percent of normal. I have never seen, or heard, that a dog appeared to be adversely affected psychologically by this procedure.
I have never seen a case where their behavior changed significantly in any way, or that they even appeared aware that the voice was reduced.
I do not pretend to know all that is going on in the mind of a dog. We can only speculate and interpret, based upon what we observe. I have seen dogs at Pet Helpers or The Charleston Animal Society that have been relinquished by their family for behavior issues, including excessive barking and noise. It's a sad sight to say the least. I can only imagine that the psychological impact of that abandonment far exceeds any that may occur from a debarking procedure.
Is this surgery something that I would do or recommend for any dog? No. But when faced with losing its family and place, I feel it is a very reasonable and humane procedure.
Dr. Henri Bianucci and Dr. Perry Jameson are with Veterinary Specialty Care LLC. Send questions to email@example.com.


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In autumn, the Senate Armed Services Committee summoned the Joint Chiefs of Staff to demand answers. Led by JCS Chairman General Henry H. Shelton, the chiefs told quite a different story in September than they had presented in February. "The military services are showing increasing signs of serious wear," Shelton said at a remarkable 29 September hearing. The nation's top officer said that non-deployed readiness was declining, that a substantial pay gap existed between uniformed troops and their civilian equivalents, and that a skimpy pension was pushing people to get out of the service. Fixing the problems, he said, would cost an extra $24 billion a year beyond the Pentagon's fiscal year 1999 pool of roughly $270 billion.
The senators seethed.
Senator John C. McCain (R-AZ) called the chiefs' about-face "Orwellian." Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) faulted the brass for not standing up for their troops. "You have a responsibility at the top of the chain of command for the people who work for you," he said. At a minimum, the chiefs showed "a lack of zealous representation," Santorum said.
In their defense, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jay Johnson and the rest of the chiefs of staff said that the readiness problems had worsened since they testified seven months previously. A high operating tempo—for the Navy, the highest since 1991's Gulf War—and a booming economy had worn down equipment and lured troops away from the military, Johnson told the senators.
The CNO was even bleaker in an October letter to McCain, who had demanded detailed readiness reports from the service chiefs. Johnson's letter vividly described leaking roofs and empty cruise missile silos—in short, declining readiness across the non-deployed Navy.
This jibed better with the accounts feeding into the Republican-led Congress. "We're getting more and more reports of shortages of supplies and shortages of people," said Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), Chairman of the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. "We may be tolling the bell on a hollow Navy."
By the time the budget-hearing marathon began anew in February 1999, Johnson was coming to Capitol Hill with a new message for lawmakers: there were parts of the fleet that needed fixing, pronto.
Pay Reform
Chief among Johnson's fixes was the "pay triad." "In the short term, people are my No. 1 priority," the CNO told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee in March 1999. The White House's proposed $83.5 billion fiscal 2000 budget proposal included a number of increases in benefits. First, sailors and other troops would get a 4.4% pay raise. Second, the proposal contained targeted raises of up to 5.5% for midlevel and senior service members, and reforms aimed at rewarding quick promotion rather than longevity. Third, the proposal largely would abandon the unpopular Redux retirement plan in favor of one that more closely resembled the old half-pay-after-20-years pension.
The administration's pay proposal—which was included after the chiefs called for it in the September hearing—was quickly trumped by a Senate bill that promised to hike pay 6.5% and to completely sweep away the decade-old Redux system. In February 1999, the senators also threw in a hefty upgrade to the Montgomery GI Bill, allowing service members to use their educational benefits more flexibly. (By March, Stevens was having second thoughts. "We took $3 billion from the readiness account to pay for education," he said. "In retrospect now, I seriously question that.")
No matter who got the credit for boosting troops' paychecks, Johnson told the senators that pay reform would provide a "fundamental" bulwark to shore up recruitment and retention. Both had sagged badly in 1998. By autumn, the Navy was short nearly 22,000 sailors for its 370,000 billets. Recruiting shortfalls—the first since 1972—hurt as well.
Indeed, Navy officials decided to increase the percentage of high-school dropouts at boot camp, raising their numbers to 10%, but requiring a work history and character references. "I'm very disappointed that the Navy had to lower its standards in recruitment, and I hope that's temporary," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) told new Navy Secretary Richard Danzig at a March 1999 hearing.
"I do not hope it will be temporary," Danzig responded. Properly screened diploma-less recruits actually were scoring higher on entrance exams than the low-scoring graduates whom they replaced, he said.
Danzig also pushed several new or modified officer-retention bonuses that would pay thousands of dollars to people willing to stay Navy through a department head tour. If a new surface warfare officer bonus program would cost $50,000 for each of the 257 department head students a year, it was money extremely well spent, Danzig said.
But as the CNO told lawmakers, money was not everything. Operating tempo was higher than ever, hiked by the Navy's heaviest Persian Gulf schedule since Operation Desert Storm. And while deployed optempo was "sustainable for now," the non-deployed load was "clearly too high," he said.
"It needs to be fixed, now," Johnson said, who took significant steps toward lightening the workload with sweeping inspection reductions in September.
If people were the CNO's immediate concern, then ships and aircraft were his long-term worry. Johnson declared that 305 ships were absolutely the smallest the fleet could go safely, a number that not-quite-coincidentally reflected the number it was likely to hit by 2005. But the strong economy that was blamed partially for depopulating existing ships also provided the wherewithal to start building a few new ones. The year's unexpectedly low inflation and unexpectedly high tax revenue—combined with the alarms raised over the shrinking fleet—helped the Navy add one ship annually to its five-year plan.
Last year's plan for fiscal 2000 proposed to build three Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)-class guided missile destroyers and two San Antonio (LPD-17)-class amphibious transport dock ships. This year's proposal, totaling $5.6 billion, also includes a T-ADC(X) cargo vessel—bringing total construction to six hulls. The next four years include eight ships per year, buoyed from seven by the addition of one Virginia -class submarine, two more cargo ships, a joint command center ship, and an amphibious assault ship. In 2005, plans call for three extra vessels—a command ship, an amphibious assault ship, and an extra DD-21 Land Attack Destroyer—to bring the total to nine, enough to sustain a 305-ship fleet.
The recent elevation of Senator John Warner (R-VA) from Seapower Subcommittee head to the leadership of the Armed Service committee augured well for future shipbuilding plans, congressional observers noted. Naval Station Norfolk and Newport News Shipbuilding both occupy Virginia real estate.
On the aviation front, most of the fierce battles were subsiding. With one high-profile exception, members of Congress seemed won over by the F/A-18 Super Hornet. A slightly larger version of the multi-mission Hornet strike fighter, the "super" version was conceived in 1991 as a relatively inexpensive bridge between today's aircraft and tomorrow's.
In 1998, the Super Hornet emerged unscathed from the flap over "wing drop," a tendency to roll a bit when making climbing turns at dogfighting speeds. Even a second set of flight tests that revealed reportedly more than two dozen "deficiencies"—the Navy's word—merely provoked a few raised congressional eyebrows. Instead, lawmakers seemed ready to accept the testimony of program officials, who praised the aircraft's payload, range, survivability, ability to land with unused ordnance, and space for yet-to-be-developed avionics-what one defender called "the Super Hornet mantra."
In March 1999, Danzig told the Senate Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee that the program was on time, on budget, and under weight. Furthermore, he said, the plane had flown acceptably despite its deficiencies. "The performance of the aircraft in that test is excellent," he said.
As the Super Hornet team prepared for the plane's final exam—the summertime operational evaluation that would determine its suitability for fleet service—top brass urged Congress to put down payments on the next six years' production of Super Hornets. Buying in bulk would reap "220 planes for the cost of 200" and save around $700 million, Rear Admiral John Nathman, Director Air Warfare Division, told the House Armed Services Committee in March 1999. The total amount to be spent on Super Hornets in fiscal 2000 was $2.8 billion.
The air warfare chief left unspoken one point: Navy budgeteers already had written these "savings" into future spending plans. If Congress disallows the multiyear plan, nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars will come out of someone's hide. Nevertheless, most lawmakers seemed amenable to the proposal. "The F-18 multi-year procurement appears prudent," said Representative Owen Pickett (R-VA). In February 1999, the Navy ordered its third small batch of aircraft, bringing the total on order to 62 for a cost of roughly $6 billion.
One senator, however, vowed to bring the production lines to a halt. In floor speeches and letters, Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) argued that the Super Hornet was not "the most cost-effective approach to modernizing the Navy's tactical aircraft fleet." It was not smart, Feingold said, to spend some $54 million apiece for F/A-18E/Fs if they were not twice as good as the $26 million F/A-18C/Ds.
In a November 1998 letter to Defense Secretary William Cohen, Feingold asked that no more money be spent on the Super Hornet until the Secretary's Inspector General certified that the new plane outperformed the older model in a wide spectrum of maneuvers.
In December, the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions appointed a three-person panel to study the program. It was led by a Boeing lobbyist who "recused" himself from his industry job three days before joining the panel. In a letter to Cohen, Feingold flayed this cozy arrangement. "Given the history of flawed information, dating to the withholding of information on the wing drop problem prior to the Lot I production decision, I was not surprised, in the least, that the `independent' advisors gave the program 'positive reviews,"' he wrote in February.
Feingold asked for a declassified report on the 1998 flight tests. Navy officials have declined to produce such a document for Feingold or for reporters, although Danzig told the seapower senators that he saw no reason why there could not be one. At press time, Feingold's bill to kill the program was on the floor of the Senate. It had three cosponsors but was not expected to pass.
Although the Navy's submariners were beginning to raise their own alarms about the shrinking of the submarine fleet, there was little public discussion on the Hill about a force whose numerical decline showed no sign of slowing as it prepared to pass through the Quadrennial Defense Review -mandated target of 50 boats after the turn of the century.
In March 1999, Danzig told Congress that the Navy needed to build more submarines—one or two more per year. But he seemed content to wait for the development of the Virginia -class subs (slated to be cheaper than the Seawolf [SSN-21]-class, and named against convention for Warner's home state) before bumping up production. "I think we're in the right position with respect to the present," Danzig said.
There was a trickle of congressional interest in turning four Trident ballistic missile submarines into conventional Tomahawk cruise missile batteries or extra-large SEAL delivery vessels. Four of the Ohio (SSBN-726)-class boats must be removed from nuclear-deterrent duty if the Russian Duma ever ratifies the START II arms-reduction treaty.
Missile Defense
Meanwhile, interest was surging around the Navy's efforts to develop a theater-wide anti-missile defense system. In a series of recent tests, the Navy demonstrated the potential of Aegisequipped warships to throw a cordon of protection across an entire theater by 2007.
The lawmakers' interest was not merely for the safety of troops, but for the possibility of forging a replacement for the long-abandoned "Star Wars" missile defense: a shield for the continental United States against missile strikes from rogue nations. In March 1999, both House and Senate passed overwhelmingly laws—vague in detail but pointed in tone—commanding the Pentagon to develop a national missile defense quickly. As the Army's Theater High-Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system failed test after test in 1998, Pentagon handicappers began to give the edge to the Navy.
Obviously enthusiastic, Johnson and Danzig danced carefully around the topic. "From my viewpoint, there has been a recognition that the Navy program represents value to the nation," the Secretary told a group of senators.
Still, they resisted invitations to rush the project along. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) asked whether $617 million, the administration's planned investment in the program's development, would be sufficient.
"That will keep us on our aggressive test schedule," Johnson responded. "We need to field this system as fast as we can sanely do it."
That was not fast enough for Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). "Waiting until 2010 for NMD [national missile defense] is absolutely unacceptable," the former bomber pilot said.
Danzig stood his ground, described briefly the technical challenges of adapting the Aegis system to track ICBMs, and invited Stevens to reconsider the Army's THAAD. "If you want NMD faster, you may be driven to a land-based system," he said.
Base Closings
Last year, Navy and other military officials raised a clamor to close more excess military facilities. In January 1999, the White House requested two more rounds of closings to add to the 97 bases already slated to disappear. Lawmakers are loath to discuss the idea, especially after Clinton's political meddling in the last base closing process obviated its entire purpose. Besides, the defense budget is rising again, and there appears to be no chance for more closings this year.
In one of Warner's first hearings as Armed Services Committee chair, the Virginia Senator cut JCS Chief Shelton off in midsentence when the Army General brought the topic up, Navy Times staff writer Rick Maze wrote about a 5 January 1999 hearing.
Representative Floyd Spence (R-SC), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he would consider further base closings only after all the selected bases are closed and the costs and benefits weighed, which might mean three to five years, Maze reported.
A Sea Change
Navy officialdom's new, less-chipper approach was reflected by the slick briefing books produced annually for congressional consumption. The language in the February 1998 edition was fairly standard, a recitation of can-do statistics with rarely a hint of roiling waters.
"We have examined operations and support shortfalls that in past years dictated migration from investment accounts," the introduction runs. "As a result, we have dedicated the resources needed to maintain high levels of readiness and sustainability."
This year's edition was different. "Recent drops in non-deployed readiness, leading to steeper and later recoveries to meet succeeding deployments, are reflective of developing problems in forces that can no longer be overlooked or managed around," its introduction reads. The update section on aircraft optempo is almost wry. The 1998 edition reads: "Fleet Readiness Squadrons operations are budgeted at 100% of the requirement to enable pilots to complete the training syllabus." But the 1999 edition explains that, "Consistent with recent execution experience, Fleet Readiness Squadrons operations are budgeted at 90% of the requirement . ..."
These briefing books, which accompanied the presentation of the President's defense budget in February 1999, are one of the opening flourishes in the annual budget dance that ends (usually) in September amid a passel of bills passed just before (or after) the fiscal year ends. With months to go, the Capitol Hill climate seemed fecund ground for the Navy's fiscal 2000 budget seeds: there was a handy stream of new tax revenues and danger in the air.
One Navy officer predicted congressional approval of several personnel issues in the coming months. Still, there was hard work ahead. "We're getting everything we want, but if we don't turn this around, they're not going to give us any more," he said.
Bradley Peniston is a staff writer for The Navy Times .


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Sh*t My Dad Says (Hardcover)
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:
"That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them."
"Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking."
"The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."
More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.
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Sh*t My Dad Says is f______ great!...Very funny, very irreverent, very real. It's refreshing at a time when we're all choking to death on political correctness and can go for days without meeting a single person with common sense."
-Janet Evanovich, Time Magazine
"This book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society."
-Chelsea Handler
"Shoot-beer-out-your-nose funny."
"A fun gift book that is bound to crack up anyone who flips through it."
-Los Angeles Times
"If you're wondering if there is a real man behind the quotes on Twitter, the answer is a definite and laugh-out-loud yes."
-Christian Lander, New York Times bestselling author of Stuff White People Like
"Read this unless you're allergic to laughing."
-Kristen Bell
"Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching—and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book."
-Laurie Notaro, New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
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Four people are in custody and one remains at large Wednesday following a multi-agency pursuit of suspected burglars in the Roseville area.
A perimeter has been set up near an apartment complex in an effort to apprehend at least one other person, police said.
It all started when police got reports of a possible burglary in progress at a business on the 7200 block of Auburn Boulevard.
When authorities responded, a chase ensued and ended at an apartment complex where the suspected burglars ran away on foot, police said.
A command post is set up in nearby by parking lot where the burglary happened.
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Steve Matoren is a life-long Tramp and the writer/producer of the upcoming in-depth documentary film, �Is There Anybody Alive Out There?! The Magic of Bruce Springsteen� and the soon to be published book, �The TAO of BRUCE.� You can contact him via Email at firstname.lastname@example.com� or Twitter @imaliveoutthere for more.
While Bruce Springsteen continues on his magical, heart stomping, booty shaking, European Wrecking Ball tour, back here in the USA, we�re celebrating our nation�s independence. And it got me thinking about the connection between America and Bruce. Not only will The Boss will be forever credited as �rock and roll future,� but also the rock and roll voice of this country. Even more than that, his prolific words transcend borders, generations and religions. If there�s anyone else in the world who speaks in a common language to a secular humanity more so than Bruce Springsteen, please let me know.
During Springsteen�s magnificent 40-year recording career, he�s covered a range of relevant topics we can all relate to. For many of us, he�s consistently been our infinite light, hope and joy throughout much of our lives. On this July�4th holiday, and in honor of the US Army�s 11 principles of leadership, here are the 11 principles from The Greatest Boss born in the USA.
�It ain�t no sin to be glad you�re alive.�
Darkness on the Edge of Town � 1978
Perhaps no one embodies living such a joyous and passionate life as Bruce. What�s interesting about this song lyric is that it came during a time of great struggles and identity for the man who penned it. What it points to is Bruce�s never ending reminder to himself, and to his audience, that you have to live your life as best you can, right now!
�Love me tonight, and I promise I�ll love you forever.�
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle � 1973
Life is incomplete without love. It�s that simple. The greatest gift you can offer someone is your love. Bruce reminds us My Love Will Not Let You Down and of course, Two Hearts are better than one.
�I�d drive all night just to buy her some shoes,
and to taste her tender charms.�
Drive All Night}
The River � 1980
What do men want? We want women. Bruce writes and sings about girls exactly how men think about them. There�s nothing we won�t do to capture your admiration or to be with you�.or Sandy, Mary, Mary Lou, Wendy, Rosie, Cynthia, Janey, Theresa, Frankie, Candy, Kitty, Linda and a Red Headed Woman. For only a girl can cause �that thunder in your heart.�
�All the redemption I can offer girl,
Is beneath this dirty hood.�
Thunder Road
Born to Run� – 1975
In other words: No car. No romance. A car can take you anywhere in life. Not only is a car a symbol of independence and freedom; it�s the actual thing to get you there.
�More than rich,
More than famous,
More than happy
I wanted to be great.�
The Promise Film,
The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town� – 2010
A man�s entire self-esteem is affected by his work. But a job is only that. Too many of us let our work determine our worth. It�s not great to work. More importantly, work to be important in someone�s life. Work to be great.
�God have mercy on the man,
Who doubts what he�s sure of.�
Brilliant Disguise
Tunnel of Love � 1987
����������� Being a man isn�t complicated. And it�s not about bravado.� Determine what you want and go after it. No retreat. No Surrender. Walk tall and be Tougher Than the Rest. And if you have to get down on your knees and beg your woman for forgiveness, do it!
�Faith will be rewarded.�
Land of Hope and Dreams
Wrecking Ball – 2012
No matter how tough times get or how much you�re struggling, keep hope alive. Somehow, someway, you got to find a Reason to Believe.
�Tomorrow, there�ll be sunshine
And all this darkness past�
Meet me in the land of hope and dreams.�
Land of Hope and Dreams
Live in New York City� – 2001
When Melissa Etheridge spoke on her MTV Unplugged special in 1995 about Bruce�s influence on her life, prior to him appearing on stage with her to perform �Thunder Road,� she said, �If anyone can make you dream, it�s Bruce Springsteen.� Ironically, in grade school, kids picked on Bruce for always daydreaming. Before he was revered as �The Boss� he was ridiculed as �The Dreamer.� Good thing he didn�t listen to them.� Everyone has the right to dream of something, be it a better life and future, or whatever matters at the time. And the most important thing about dreams is they should never stop.
�We stood side by side each one fightin� for the other�
Blood Brothers
Greatest Hits � 1995
����������� Regardless of your political leanings, the reality is we�re all in this together. Nobody wins, unless everybody wins. We may come into this world, and leave it, alone; but in between, we�re blood brothers. No one makes it on their own. One world. One community. Bruce has searched for meaningful connections his entire life. His self proclaimed �life long conversation with his audience� is not a One Way Street. It�s the common ties that bind us that really matter the most.
�We learned more from a three minute record
than we ever learned in school�
No Surrender
Born in the USA � 1984
����������� Music can be our salvation. It feeds our soul and illuminates our world. It moves us and it shakes us. It wakes us and it drives us. It�s the soundtrack to our lives.
�As long as we�re here and you�re here, they�re here.�
My City of Ruins interlude,
Wrecking Ball Tour � 2012
Death is inevitable, but one�s spirit and memory remains in our hearts and minds. As long as we continue to recall and sound their names, their souls live forever.


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CHARLESTON - Attorney General Darrell McGraw recently warned West Virginia borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure to avoid scammers offering help with the National Mortgage Settlement. McGraw reminds all consumers never to pay anyone to file a claim in a case brought by his office. Help from the Consumer Protection Division is always free.
In March, McGraw's office announced a settlement in which the nations' five largest mortgage servicers, Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, agreed to resolve claims brought on behalf of consumers by the federal government and attorneys general for 49 states and the District of Columbia. The $25 billion settlement set aside $3.6 million in payments for West Virginia borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, while their loans were being serviced by one of the five banks.
Unfortunately, unscrupulous organizations soon began offering "help" to eligible borrowers. For a hefty "contingency fee" of up to 20 percent of the expected payment, fringe companies offer to help consumers submit simple claim forms, but this is unnecessary according to the Attorney General's office.
"It's not complicated," McGraw said. "The claims process is simple and easy, so don't be fooled by outfits claiming you need their help with a settlement resulting from my office's enforcement efforts."
This month, McGraw's office mailed legitimate claim forms with easy-to-use instructions to 5,222 West Virginia borrowers who are eligible to file claims. The customized, one-page claim forms are simple to complete and any borrowers who have questions or need help filing their claim can contact the settlement administrator, toll free, at 1-866-430-8358 or call the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Hotline at 1-800-368-8808. The deadline to submit all claims is Jan. 18, 2013.
McGraw's office recently learned that a San Antonio, Texas, company called Murray LLP ran TV and Internet ads directing consumers to its website, www.bringaclaim.com, to charge eligible borrowers a 20 percent fee to submit a one-page claim form in the National Mortgage Settlement.
McGraw warns all homeowners to be aware of settlement-related scams. Do not provide personal information or pay money to anyone who advertises, calls or emails you claiming that they are providing settlement related assistance. If you believe someone is conducting a settlement related scam, contact the West Virginia Attorney General at 1-800-368-8808.
For more information about eligibility and filing a claim, visit www.NationalMortgageSettlement.com; email administrator@ nationalmortgagesettlement.com; or call toll-free, 1-866-430-8358 (hearing impaired: 1-866-494-8281). The line is staffed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, Eastern Standard Time.
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Crawford Leads T&F On Day Two Of MAC Championships
ATHENS, Ohio - - Junior Christina Crawford (Belleville, Mich./Romulus) turned in an eighth-place showing in the long jump to lead the Ball State track & field team on the second day of the 2014 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championships hosted by Ohio.
Through seven scored events at the three-day meet, Kent State holds the overall lead with 47 points. Miami is second with 33 points, followed by Akron (32), Bowling Green (31), Ohio (27), Central Michigan (25), Eastern Michigan (24), Toledo (20), Buffalo (17), Western Michigan (8), Northern Illinois (8) and Ball State (1).
With her eighth-place effort of 5.71m in the long jump, Crawford picked up the Cardinals' first point of the 2014 MAC Outdoor Championships. Following her performance in the finals of the long jump, Crawford had a quick turnaround for her second event, the 100m dash, in which she placed 15th overall at 12.38.
In the day's final event, Ball State's junior twin sisters Courtney Edon (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine) and Caitlynn Edon (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine) placed 11th (11:13.47) and 19th (11:31.25), respectively, in the 3000m steeplechase.
In the 400m hurdles, sophomore Becca Kropf (Goshen, Ind./Fairfield) led a trio of Cardinals in the event by crossing the finish line in 1:03.31 to place 12th.
The Ball State track & field team is scheduled to compete in six events on the third and final day of competition Saturday, starting at 10:30 a.m. with discus and high jump.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State track & field, follow @bsuathletics and @BallStateTrack on Twitter.
Ball State's Friday Results at the 2014 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championships
Long Jump
8th - Christina Crawford - 5.71m - 1 point
1500m Run Semifinals
18th - Madelyn Webster - 5:02.32
Shot Put
18th - Michaela Hull - 12.16m
400m Dash Semifinals
18th - Hannah Lange - 57.51
100m Dash Semifinals
15th - Christina Crawford - 12.38
800m Run Semifinals
19th - Danielle Dahl - 2:18.05
400m Hurdles Semifinals
12th - Becca Kropf - 1:03.31
16th - Olivia Ashba - 1:04.53
20th - Makelle Skelton - 1:08.73
3000m Steeplechase
11th - Courtney Edon - 11:13.47
19th - Caitlynn Edon - 11:31.25
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Tuesdays Under the Tree – for Kids in Jackson
July 9, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Calvary United Methodist Church presents Tuesdays Under the Tree, Beginning June 18, at 1:00 PM and every Tuesday until mid-August, the popular free summer, "Read to Me" story time "Tuesdays Under the Tree" will return to Calvary United Methodist Church. The "Read to Me" program will be outside, under a tree, on the Backus Street yard. Some classic stories, some new favorites read by Pastor Edrye Maurer. A wide assortment of books will be read this summer! Children may also bring their own books to be read. Questions? Call the church @ 517-782-0543. Light snacks provided. In case of rain, we will be inside.


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ROYAL OAK, Mich. - Marguerite C. Alexee, 72, passed away at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., after a brief illness.
Services will be on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at 4 p.m. at the Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen and Sons Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Salem. Father Steve Wassie of St. Paul Catholic Church will officiate. A time of visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at the funeral home.
Marguerite was born April 26, 1940, to Anita and James Alexee in Youngstown, Ohio.
Marguerite graduated from South High School in 1958, and graduated from Ohio University in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Her life's passion was to help people, which she achieved through her work as an English teacher at Edwards AFB in California and Beaver Local High School in Lisbon. At Beaver Local she also was the adviser for the school newspaper, Beaver Tales, for many years.
After retiring as a teacher she continued her professional career as an adviser with the Boy Scouts of America and counselor at the New Castle Detention Facility in Pennsylvania.
Her hobbies and interests included reading, learning, traveling, cooking for family and friends, tending her garden and recently enrolling in Greek language lessons. She moved to Pontiac, Mich., recently to be closer to her son Michael, his wife Nancy and her precious twin grandsons, whom she enjoyed greatly.
She is survived by her three sons and daughter, Michael (Nancy) Shaffer of Royal Oak, Mich., Timothy Shaffer of Long Beach, Calif., Nicholas Irizarry of Fort Wayne, Ind., Emilia "Lia" Irizarry of Kent; and two grandsons, Gabriel and Jacob Shaffer. She also leaves a sister, Marina (Brian) Grant of Hanoverton; two brothers, George (Dee) Alexee of Canfield; and Michael (JoAnn) Alexee of Hubbard; and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and nephew Brian James Grant and beloved aunts, uncles and cousins. She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.
A guest book can be signed and condolences sent at www.apgreenisenfh.com.
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Protein biomarkers have been used for many years for population screening, disease diagnosis, and prediction of therapeutic response. The increased focus on proteomics research over the last several years has led to advances in protein analytical technologies that are increasing the pace and scope of efforts to discover new biomarkers. There is an ever-increasing awareness that single biomarkers are limited in their ability to provide high predictive-value assays with clinical utility. Biological pathways that lead to disease are complex, and the ability to detect and monitor multiple biomarkers is required to achieve more robust, accurate, and predictive assays.
Proteomics technologies that enable the simultaneous analysis of hundreds of proteins hold the promise of biomarker panels that could be used to accurately detect and predict human disease states.
Human biological fluids, especially serum and plasma, contain many thousands of proteins and peptides, with concentrations varying as much as 11 orders of magnitude. The new proteomics technologies must meet the challenge of being sensitive enough to detect large numbers of proteins present at low concentrations in the presence of a small number of proteins that may comprise as much as 99% of the protein mass of the sample.
In addition, they must be highly reproducible, while providing the throughput and vigor required to rapidly analyze thousands of samples, in order to provide statistically relevant data on biomarker candidates.
Despite intensified interest and investment, however, the rate of introduction of novel protein biomarkers is falling, with only an average of one per year being approved by the FDA. This trend reflects not only the long and difficult path from candidate discovery to clinical assay but also the frequent lack of a coherent, rigorous, and comprehensive process for biomarker development.
The success rate of biomarker development programs using any proteomics platform can be increased by first dividing biomarker research into five phases that address each of the key steps of the process: study design, discovery, validation, identification, and clinical assay implementation (Figure 1).
In the initial phase of study design, the objective is to detail the clinical question being asked and the types and number of samples, experimental workflow, and technologies to be used. This phase is particularly critical to successful biomarker discovery.
The purpose of the discovery phase is to elucidate candidate biomarker proteins by screening a large number of conditions to detect the maximum number of proteins including low-abundance proteins.
Samples must be carefully chosen and in sufficient numbers to produce statistical significance. Those proteins that show significant group- or time-dependent differences are described as candidate biomarkers, which can be used alone (univariate analysis) or in combination (multivariate analysis) to produce predictive models.
The validation phase assesses the validity of a biomarker against a larger, more heterogeneous population. The robustness of the candidate markers is tested against a level of biological variability that more accurately represents the variability present in the target population. This phase may be designed to confirm the findings from the discovery phase or it may explore different variables affecting the validity of the markers for a large population. In the identification phase, the most promising markers are first enriched and purified and then subsequently identified by tryptic digestion and sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry.
The clinical assay implementation phase entails the development and optimization of assays for the validated biomarkers that are robust, sensitive, and quantitative enough to be of clinical utility. This phase can be performed at multiple points in a study, and the assays may be either chromatography or antibody based.
Understanding and managing sources of bias are also key to successful biomarker development during all five phases of the process. Small changes in protein expression levels can be detected with current proteomics technologies. Some of these changes can be due to the biological differences related to a disease or treatment under study or may reflect the heterogeneity of patients across multiple sites, the inherent complexity and diversity of different sample types, and even small differences in the sample collection, processing, and analysis techniques used. As a consequence, results may be site, study, population, or sample specific, and thus not of clinical use.
Preanalytical bias can arise from systematic differences in patient populations or sample characteristics as well as the procedures used for sample collection, handling, and storage. Differences in the manner in which samples are processed and analyzed can produce analytical bias, which can have profound effects on the outcome of a discovery study. Careful management of sources of variability and bias can help ensure reproducible results.
Preanalytical bias can be minimized by careful definition of the biological question and selection of appropriate samples, evaluation of patient and sample histories, establishment of rigorous criteria for sample inclusion and exclusion, development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for sample collection, handling, and storage, and measurement and documentation of all potential sources of uncontrollable variation.
Analytical bias can be controlled through rigorous training, instrument qualification, and the use of SOPs, resulting in the elucidation of true biological differences. Best practices to minimize analytical bias include using sufficient numbers of replicates, processing all samples together under the same conditions including reference and quality control samples, analyzing all data using consistent parameters for processing, and maintaining detailed records of all sample-processing and data- analysis steps.
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So, did they?
Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Rowland may have crossed a line with their outfits – Lopez in an Anthony Vaccarello dress with a high thigh slit, and Rowland in a Georges Chakra outfit that showed lots of skin.
"I feel fantastic," Lopez tells PEOPLE of the thigh-baring gown that one-ups Angelina Jolie's famous gam-baring dress.
Other singers, like Katy Perry, seemed to technically follow the rules while leaving little to the imagination.
Perry's dress – which she said was "inspired by Priscilla Presley in the '70s" – was a skin-tight mint-green number that showed off plenty of cleavage, though not the banned "bare sides or under curvature of the breasts" mentioned in the CBS email.
Likewise, Kathy Griffin said she decided to bring the "inside boob" tonight instead of the banned "side boob."
The dress code was on everyone's mind, for better or worse, with Nicole Kidman telling PEOPLE of her Vera Wang dress: "I put it on and it felt great. I had to get it lined so it wasn't see-through. Those are the rules!"
Miranda Lambert, in a classy Cavalli dress, joked of the dress code: "I'm country. I wasn't exactly going to be having my cheeks hanging out."
Not everyone was opposed to the idea of a dress code. As host LL Cool J told ET Canada: "The hottest clubs in the world have dress codes."
Of course, the night is still young ...
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excellent point!
Naslund should sue Moore, lindros should sue Stevens, savard should sue Cooke, etc. Any time any hockey player has a serious injury, he should be able to sue the player who injured him. You should never be held responsible for your own choices and actions in life if your a victim**
I wonder if Bertuzzi can counter sue that Moore should just leave him alone? Enough is enough!... Wasn't there stories out there that no players came to Moore's defense because Moore was one of those players who's actions and words always crossed the line? I'm not saying that the players were happy he was hurt, but that he pissed off enough people where he had no allies in the game.


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Frost Bank receives highest customer satisfaction ranking in Texas
San Antonio-based Frost Bank has received the highest customer satisfaction ranking in Texas in the J.D. Power and Associates 2014 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study for the fifth consecutive year.
The study measures satisfaction in six factors: account information; channel activities; facility; fees; problem resolution; and product offerings. Banks are ranked based on overall customer satisfaction in 11 regions.
Frost ranked highest in customer satisfaction among all 14 retail banks in Texas and received an index score of 856. This ranking is 58 points above the Texas region average of 798 and 71 points above the national average of 785.
J.D. Power has studied retail banking for nine years but started conducting a separate rating for Texan banks in 2010.
"This J.D. Power award recognizes that Frost customers appreciate the unique experience of banking with us," said Dick Evans, Frost chairman and CEO, in a statement. "This highest ranking acknowledges Frost's legendary customer satisfaction that is an essential part of our culture."
Frost Bank was also recognized as a J.D. Power 2014 Customer Champion in March.


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The Modern Pantry: Baia Pasta
By Ashley Beck | July 23, 2013
Made by two Italians in California with wheat from Utah, Montana, and Colorado, Baia Pasta is as authentic as it comes, and yet as local as one can get. "We believe that American wheat is among the best in the world and are very proud to create the first pasta that glorifies all its features. We always travel with a couple bags of Baia Pasta" say the founders, and after you read more about this delicious, locally made pasta phenomenon, I am sure that you'll do the same. Read More


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The Brian D. Novis Award honors the IMF's founder Brian Novis, who died of multiple myeloma in July of 1992. The International Myeloma Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life for myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
The International Myeloma Foundation funds several research grants including the Brian D. Novis Research Award. These grants are provided through donations from private individuals, and are presented annually by the International Myeloma Foundation. These awards go to researchers doing work in the field of multiple myeloma and related disorders including smoldering myeloma, MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance) as well as immunoglobulin derived amyloidosis. This year's awards will be $50,000 each for the junior grant and $80,000 for the senior grant.
The qualifications for a candidate for the Brian D. Novis Junior Research Award include the following:
Junior Grant Application (PDF)
Junior Grant Application (DOC)
These awards are targeted to established investigators with a track record in myeloma or related disorders, and are designed for projects which represent a different focus, direction, or area of research from those in which they are currently funded. In most cases, these awards will be for pilot projects to obtain sufficient funding for larger applications from NIH or similar larger funding agencies.
The qualifications for a candidate for the Brian D. Novis Senior Research Award include the following:
Senior Grant Application (PDF)
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Kelly Clarkson doesn't sweat the small stuff, even when it comes to prepping for one of the biggest days of her life.
Although the engaged superstar, 30, tells PEOPLE her upcoming wedding with Brandon Blackstock, 36, has been "a lot to plan," she's "not going to be a bridezilla."
In fact, she says she's "going to be the opposite," explaining, "I'm going to be like, 'Oh, the cake fell off the porch, that's fine. Cool, something's on fire, cool, whatever, we'll move it. We'll get married over there.' I'm going to be that girl."
Her impending nuptials are what excite her most about 2013.
Says Clarkson, "I never really thought I'd get married, so it's kind of cool that I fell in love and I'm getting married."