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We need an elite defenseman. We really, really do.
Kronwall played terrible in this one.
But be real, this loss wasn't that bad. We got a goal called back for no reason. Refs missed the high-stick on Tatar. We were inches from killing the game in OT. Panthers for some reason play their hearts out against us and pulled out a win, but I don't think they deserved this one.
The kid line is awesome, but it could be getting time to switch up the others a bit. Abdelkader should return to his rightful place in the bottom 6, and I think we're seeing that Eaves isn't as great as he looked against Chicago. If Andersson returns on Tuesday I wouldn't hesitate to waive Patty.


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Leske Earns MIVA Defensive Player of the Week
MUNCIE, Ind. – Junior middle attacker Matt Leske has been named the MIVA Defensive Player of the Week after his performance over this past weekend against NJIT and Sacred Heart. This is the second nod of Leske's career.
Leske had two solo blocks in both contests this past weekend as well as a combined 12 assisted blocks. His eight assisted blocks in the 3-1 win over Sacred Heart tied a career high. The preseason All-MIVA team recipient had a 2.00 blocks per set average in the two matches. In addition, Leske had 12 kills in both matches and registered a .455 (7-2-11) hitting percentage against Sacred Heart. The junior leads the Cardinals in blocking, with 1.91 blocks per set so far this season.
The Highwood, Ill., native last earned the MIVA Defensive Player of the Week on March 19, 2012.
Leske and the Cardinals return to action next weekend when they take on Mount Olive on Friday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m., and Barton on Saturday, Jan. 26 at noon. You can follow the team on Twitter at @BallStatMVB or on Facebook by liking "Ball State Men's Volleyball". As always, ballstatesports.com is the official website for Ball State Athletics.

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Portugal announced in April that it was home to one of the world's largest solar
arrays. The 150 acre, 11-megawatt (MW) solar plant was built by Catavento
and PowerLight Corporation and is capable of powering 8,000 homes in Serpa.
Cleantech America LLC., a San Francisco-based company, plans
to build a solar farm that would far eclipse the one built in Portugal. The new
80 MW farm, known as the Kings
River Conservation District Community Choice Solar Farm, will be situated
on 640 acres of land and is scheduled to be completed by 2011.
"We're pretty confident that solar farms on this scale
are going to have an industry-changing impact," said Cleantech CEO Bill
Barnes. "We think it's the wave of the future. This scale of project, I
think, creates a tipping point for renewable energy."
"We think the impact for it will be similar to the
impact of the computer chip," Barnes continued. "So too will
economies of scale like the Community Choice farm drive down the cost of
Cleantech estimates that the energy generated by the solar
array will be enough to power 20,000 homes.
quote: If the US really wanted to save money on energy, we would make a new efficient energy grid based upon 220/240V. Higher voltage means less loss in transmitting the electricity, and a new grid would efficiently route spare energy. We could save billions of dollars a year, and more each year as old 60hz/120v appliances are phased out.


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The singer introduced two new pets on Twitter this week. "Meet our baby bunnies," she wrote, sharing several pictures of the fluffy rabbits.
Shakira shared individual shots of her new pets, calling the female "la hembrita," and the male "el machito."
Shakira's latest animal encounter is much tamer than her last, when the singer approached wild sea lions during a visit to South Africa. She made a narrow escape – with a few scrapes to show for it. The two rabbits, so small that Shakira could grasp them both easily in her hands, don't mind getting close and cuddly.
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We are pleased to announce a
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materials to our students beginning in the Fall 2012 semester. MBS
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In addition, we have a Custom Fanshop that allows you to create customized UMM apparel like t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, license plates, and more.
With the evolving textbook market and the development of the new student center in Kimball Hall, the goal of these changes is to provide better services to you, our students. The Galley will feature a Provisions On Demand (POD) convenience store in addition to the continuing snack bar services. The POD also offers many of the non-textbook materials, supplies, and clothing found at the Murdock Bookstore in the past.


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He's a hottie, but he's not as hot as Harry :)
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Harry is a sexylicious british boy.
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The boy who lived.
Voldemort's mortal enemy, hero of all wizard-kind.
Voldemort's mortal enemy, hero of all wizard-kind.
"Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you…"
"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.
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A sex move invented by my ex-roomate Harry. This is when you wake a girl up, just in time for her to be awake when you cum either on her face or on her chest.
Dude, that bitch had it coming, so I pulled a Harry on her in the morning.
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A man's testicle.
My right Harry is so sore.
See also: Tom and Harry
See also: Tom and Harry
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To masturbate in a public toilet e.g School, pubs, clubs etc.
Hey man, Steve's been 5 minutes, you think he's having a Harry?
door Edward Maxwell 20 mei 2008
A harry is someone that will randomly hump the shit out of anything in sight. A Harry will hump more than someone on JerseyShore. When a Harry gets started there is no stoping it.
Person one: Wow look at this weather outside!
*harry jumps on person one*
Person one: OH NO PLEASE!
*Harry Continues to hump till tired*
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What could possibly possess a man to jump into the water and choose not to swim?
This is the dark and unanswerable question at the black heart of "August: Osage County," a triumph of magisterial melodrama by Tracy Letts that opened Friday night in the Kavinoky Theatre.
The play, by the preternaturally gifted Chicago playwright Tracy Letts, shares certain strands of its DNA with Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and others with the unvarnished humor of sitcoms like "Roseanne." The result is a theatergoing experience specifically engineered to access the encrypted emotions of a generation raised on the television of the late 20th century. It has thus served as a gateway drug into the special virtues of theater for those who might not have believed it had anything useful to tell them.
That is to say: "August" is not for theatergoing veterans, who have tended to dismiss it as too clichéd in its conceit or brash in its execution to be considered serious theater. But it is melodramatic by design – something like a Pedro Almodovar film without the camp – and therein lies its particular brilliance.
The show transports us to present-day Oklahoma, to an old family farmhouse that has seen better days. As it opens, we meet the weary patriarch Beverly Weston (Saul Elkin) holding forth on his alcoholism and his love for literature. He is shortly to wander off into the night toward an uncertain fate.
What drives him away becomes clear soon enough, when a shrill yell comes from somewhere offstage. It's the voice of his cancer-afflicted, pill-addicted wife Violet (the extraordinary Sheila McCarthy), a primordial creature doomed by genetics and fate to inflict the pain of her illness, her addiction and her apparently wretched childhood on anyone within shrieking range.
Because of Beverly's flight from his wife's intolerable rage, the Weston children come flocking home to help. But they only find Violet, who delivers a series of remarkable diatribes – both drug-induced and terrifyingly clear-eyed – to excoriate her progeny for an endless litany of sins real and imagined.
We meet the put-upon Barbara (Eileen Dugan, who excels at playing exasperated sisters), whose impending divorce and missing father conspire to drive her to a very dark place, indeed. Her sister, Mattie Fay (Kelli Bocock-Natale), takes out her own unhappiness on her good-hearted husband (Norman Sham) and hapless son (Steve Copps). Another sister, Iby (the pace-setting Kristen Tripp Kelley), stayed close to home and is still plotting to escape her mother's sphere of influence.
The Kavinoky has pulled off a fine production of Letts' modern classic under the smart direction of Bob Waterhouse, a British-born man of the theater who clearly understands the peculiarly American sensibility and mood this play requires.
It takes an extremely delicate treatment from the cast, however, to activate the play's most melodramatic scenes in ways that don't come off as cheesy. Timing and chemistry issues afflict too many exchanges, particularly between Barbara and her husband (Tim Newell) and Mattie Fay and others. But McCarthy's performance, clearly the result of an expedition deep into the soul of her tortured character, provides the unrelenting force behind the production and helps to allay concerns about timing and casting.
The show is essentially a series of miniature soap operas, each one intersecting in a way that deepens our sense of the genuine hopelessness of each character's life. "August" can be read in any number of ways, but it is particularly interesting as a study in the ripples of abuse traveling across multiple generations. Violet carries the acid-green rage of her parents just as Barbara carries the rage of Violet, and, undoubtedly, young Jean will carry some version of that rage herself.
Letts makes us wonder whether the sort of merciless familial violence his characters embody is immutable and constant, or, like a radioactive element, subject to a half-life. That latter theory would constitute a form of hope, but that word is not in the vocabulary of "August: Osage County."
What the play contains is pain, the sort of pain that infects everything around it – the sort of pain from which it's just about impossible to look away.
Three stars
What: "August: Osage County"
When: Through May 19
Where: Kavinoky Theatre, 320 Porter Ave.
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The nautilus shell is the leitmotif of the Meldrum Science Center found on the wood-tiled floor, the magnificent window above the East entrance, and many other places throughout the facility. It is nature's example of a logarithmic spiral that can be found in everything from art, business, history, to mathematics and science. This pattern is representative of the interconnectedness of the learning that occurs across our science curriculum and throughout the entire Westminster campus.


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Wall Street Decline Takes Its Toll...
After more than 25 years of use, PCR remains a workhorse in molecular biology. New applications, new reporter chemistries, and advancing microfluidics will usher in higher throughput and more sensitive PCR techniques, believes Salvatore Marras, Ph.D., and professor, Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a speaker at Select Biosciences' recent "Advances in qPCR" conference.
"I think the future will include microfluidics where you'll probably do more than 3,000 or 10,000 PCR reactions simultaneously in a microwell," said Dr. Marras, whose own talk—The Bright and Dark Sides of Fluorescent Nucleic Acid Hybridization Probes—surveyed the broad landscape of probe design and selection of appropriate fluorescent reporter chemistries.
Given the variety of choices available, he said, "I think people put too much emphasis on the intensity of the particular signal during qPCR when it's actually more important to ensure you're able to determine how many copies of the target were present in the sample. There are chemistries that produce signals two or three cycles earlier than other chemistries and as long as you can detect one copy with any available chemistry—such as a Molecular Beacon or Scorpion primer or a TaqMan probe—that's what you want to use. Of course it is important to develop a signal that is significant above the background."
Looking ahead, Dr. Marras said, "People would like to go to higher throughput assays and higher multiplex assays. So rather than five or six targets to be detected at one time, maybe it will go to 10 or more different targets. This will require new types of fluorophores and new quenchers will probably be developed as well."
One persistent challenge with qPCR, he explained is "you are able to identify one single copy of particular target chain but the question is: Can you isolate that particular copy out of the sample? To do this, the development of real-time PCR will probably go hand-in-hand with new expression technology that uses a minimum amount of sample to retrieve that copy necessary for you to make the diagnostics."
A powerful PCR technique for use in profiling cancer tumors—LNA-Enhanced Real-Time Ice-COLD-PCR and High Resolution Melting for Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Low-Level Lung Cancer Resistance Mutations—was presented by Mike Makrigiorgos, Ph.D., director biophysics laboratory and medical physics division, Dana Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. The problem addressed by Ice-COLD-PCR and COLD-PCR (the original advance that lead to Ice-COLDPCR) is that clinical cancer samples are never pure, but they are always mixed with normal, wild-type cells.
"Ice-COLD-PCR provides a unique method for detection of low-level mutations—for example, mutations below 5 percent mutant to wild-type alleles—because it magnifies subtle mutations during PCR amplification such that following PCR they can easily be identified," explained Dr. Makrigiorgos.
Ice-COLD-PCR, an advance over COLDPCR, stands for improved and complete enrichment of mutations via co-amplification at lower denaturation temperature PCR. A full explanation was published by Dr. Makrigiorgos and colleagues in Nucleic Acids Research, 2011, Vol. 39, No. 1.
In brief, it combines elements of fast COLD-PCR and full COLD-PCR as explained in this excerpt from the paper: "… to enrich all mutation types, Ice-COLDPCR employs a reference sequence (RS) of a novel design; the RS is engineered such that (i) it matches the WT-sequence of the antisense strand; (ii) PCR primers cannot bind to it; and (iii) it is phosphorylated on the 3'-end so that it is nonextendable by the polymerase.
When incorporated into PCR reactions in excess relative to the template, the RS binds rapidly to the amplicons. At a critical denaturation temperature, the RS:WT duplexes remain double-stranded, thereby inhibiting selectively the amplification of WT alleles throughout the thermocycling. Conversely, the RS:mutant duplexes are preferentially denatured and amplified."
"The unique aspect of COLD-PCR is that there is no need of a priori knowledge as to the type and position of a mutation. All mutations are magnified irrespective of their position on the sequence. Accordingly, following Ice-COLD-PCR one may apply direct sequencing to the PCR product to identify the type and position of the mutation," said Dr. Makigiorgos.
While reliable NGS for DNA with highprevalence tumor somatic mutations has been demonstrated, Dr. Makigiorgos noted the required "depth" of sequence interrogation remains a problem, and detection of low-prevalence somatic mutations at levels below ~2–5% in tumors with heterogeneity, stromal contamination, or in bodily fluids is fraught with false-positives irrespective of coverage.
"We intend to establish massively parallel Ice-COLD-PCR to enrich mutant sequences prior to their screening via nextgeneration sequencing, thus enabling ultradeep NGS while also retaining accuracy, reliability, and high-throughput capability," said Dr. Makigiorgos.
The new approach has already been adopted by several groups worldwide and is being used for diverse applications that include: cancer-based molecular diagnosis, prenatal diagnosis, plant/crop genetics, and infectious diseases.
Ice-COLD-PCR requires special DNA constructs to work, and Dr. Makigiorgos said the constructs should soon be available commercially, "as Dana Farber Cancer Institute has licensed a portion of the rights to Ice-COLD-PCR to Transgenomic, which is developing Ice-COLD-PCR assays for specific clinically relevant genes."
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text: The recipes for Etter Kirsch and the other high-quality fruit spirits from this establishment are all about nature in its pure form. The cherries used to make Etter Kirsch are all grown in Switzerland and the company takes pride in only using Swiss produce. Etter supports Swiss agriculture with a philosophy of commitment to the nation and its relationship with it and so all the fruit used is grown by Swiss farmers who are fairly reimbursed for their produce. The amazing variety of flavours is what intrigues the Etter family most about its Kirsch. And because they want to take other gourmets on this journey with them, you are warmly welcome to visit the company headquarters.


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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Chef Ken Vedrinski is having a banner year and it is only August. Accolades have been strong for the recent opening of his oceanfront restaurant, Coda del Pesce. This includes the recent announcement that Vedrinski has been named one of Wine Spectator magazine's top Italian chefs in America for its September issue cover story. Wine Spectator selected six of the country's best chefs to highlight in the issue and each chef has a large profile and recipe in the issue. Vedrinski is in good company as he joins Michael White (Marea, New York), Dena Marino (MC Kitchen, Miami), Celestino Drago (Drago Centro, Los Angeles), Jonathan Benno (Lincoln Ristorante, New York) and Matthew Accarrino (SPQR, San Francisco) for the feature.
The magazine sent a writer and photographer to Charleston to capture Vedrinski in his new place and to learn more about the background of this accomplished chef. The September issue hits the newsstands soon.
"This is one of my greatest culinary accomplishments to date," stated Chef Ken Vedrinski. "Wine Spectator is such a highly regarding publication and they rarely do cover articles on restaurants. To be part of it and to be in the mix with these other world-renowned chefs means a lot. We are also extremely proud of our Italian focused food and wine program and thrilled that it was recognized by the industry's leading publication."
One of the most acclaimed and accomplished chefs in Charleston, Vedrinski is the chef and owner of Trattoria Lucca in downtown and the newly opened Coda del Pesce, the city's first Italian inspired seafood restaurant overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. He has been on the long list for the James Beard Awards in the Southeast Chef category for three years and his restaurants have been selected as Esquire's Best New Restaurant and Best Italian Restaurant by Travel & Leisure.
To learn more about Chef Ken Vedrinski and his restaurants, visit www.luccacharleston.com or www.codadelpesce.com.
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Come join us in a therapeutic horticulture experience to promote "a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community."
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Lenore Skomal: Recovery is joint venture
The World's Best Patient goes under the knife today. It's a self-appointed title, but I've allowed him this superlative because the process of getting to this point has been herculean.
But I get ahead of myself. The World's Best Patient is formerly the titleholder of the World's Worst Knees. He's put off having a much-needed double-knee replacement for the length of our relationship, which now spans more than a decade.
To call him competitive is akin to calling the Pope religious. His sport is racquetball, which is the sole reason he wouldn't agree to the surgery until this point. Oddly, he can't walk, but he can play. And he likes to win.
In fact, he has taken great pride when each doctor who examines his X-rays marvels at his ability to play through pain. Because he likes to be the best at whatever he does, it appealed to his ego when the surgeon he finally picked told him, "Yours are the worst knees I've ever seen." He absolutely glowed. "The worst! Can you imagine?"
Well, I don't have to imagine. Nor does anyone else who has seen him walk. Reality is what we're dealing with now. And his rehabilitation, we've been warned, is crucial to how successful the ordeal is.
Because the only other surgery he's had during our time together was minor compared to this one, it's all I have had to go by when judging how the recovery will unfold. His personal discomfort was compounded by his male need to be completely self-sufficient -- an impossibility thanks to abject immobility -- so the outcome was lousy.
Every "How are you feeling?" on my part was taken as an affront to his masculinity and viewed as harassment. Like a wounded bear, he said he just wanted to be left alone. "Can't you understand that?"
Of course I can, because I'm fluent in English. But my office, my place of work, is located in our home -- a mere 23 steps from his recovery bed. Technically, he's on my turf now. And with no place to hide, the inevitable chance meeting is pretty much constant. Since that miserable recovery, we have joked -- and winced -- about his wretched behavior as a patient. Compounded with his profound hatred of dependency is his truculence about not following doctor's orders.
But after walking, rather, limping the long road to this decision, he says he has reflected on his behavior and plans on following all of the doctor's orders to the aspirin.
Funny, he neglected to mention anything about following my orders.
LENORE SKOMAL writes every Thursday. You can read her blog at GoErie.com/blogs/gutcheck.


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quote: by Anoxanmore on December 28, 2010 at 4:14 PMNo you cannot open someone else's mail if it is not addressed to you.I thought it was common knowledge that this, opening another person's mail, is a federal offense.
quote: by deltaend on December 28, 2010 at 5:16 PMFederal delivered mail is not equal to electronically delivered email. They are far different with very different sets of rules. It is not a federal offense to read someone else's email, print it out, or deliver it to someone else. It could fall under other laws, but that is why this is a "grey area".
quote: By Yames on 12/28/2010 1:28:56 PMI can open up my wife's mail even if she locks it in a box in our house and I pick the lock, can't I?
quote: The emails Walker found suggested that Clara was having an affair with her second husband, who was arrested at an earlier time for beating Clara in front of her son from her first marriage.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Tahoe Truckee Unified School District students in eighth, ninth, and 10th grades will have an opportunity to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and math on Thursday, Oct. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the STEM Career Faire at Tahoe Truckee High School, 11725 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. Professionals in STEM fields such as biophotonics, mechatronics, energy engineering, materials engineering, research science, science education and more will provide information about their careers and give students advice in an informal atmosphere.
The event will be set up similarly to a trade show, with volunteer expert stations students may visit in small groups or one-on-one, so students may choose to learn about a variety of careers in STEM fields. The purpose of the career fair is to get students excited about real opportunities in STEM fields, to help them identify which high school classes they should choose to be prepared for college and advanced career training in these fields, and to give them perspective about why their high school STEM classes are an important foundation.
The STEM Career Faire is the first of its kind available to TTUSD students. According to Greg McDougall, Truckee Rotary member and chair of the committee responsible for the event, "Career expert volunteers and organizers have spent an enormous amount of time to provide this opportunity for students in the Tahoe-Truckee community. We're hoping for a good turnout so that we can make this an annual event to help students achieve their career goals."
The STEM career fair is sponsored by the school district, Excellence in Education, Soroptimist International of Truckee Donner, Truckee Rotary, Tahoe Forest Hospital, Truckee Optimist, Sierra Watershed Education Partners and Norwegian Wood Construction along with numerous volunteers in STEM professions. For students coming from North Tahoe School and North Tahoe High School, bus service will be provided from North Tahoe High School and Safeway in Kings Beach. Transportation will also be provided in Truckee. Parents are welcome to attend.
- Provided by Switchback PR + Marketing on behalf of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District.


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The Department of Anesthesiology offers an ACGME accredited 1-year fellowship experience in obstetric anesthesia. All deliveries in Forsyth County take place in the Maya Angelou Center for Women's Health and Wellness at Forsyth Medical Center and the obstetric anesthesia services are provided by the Department of Anesthesiology of Wake Forest School of Medicine. We have 6,500 - 7,000 deliveries and and we provide labor analgesia for approximately 80% of these deliveries. We are a tertiary care obstetric service with a high risk, complicated population comprising 40% of our case load. Our cesarean section rate is approximately 30%. We accept two fellows for each academic year.
We strive to provide an academic fellowship experience which allows our fellows to gain both clinical expertise and exposure to research and teaching. The obstetric anesthesiology faculty are enthusiastic about teaching and have been awarded the "Golden Apple Award" for best teaching in the Department of Anesthesiology. Fourteen full and part-time obstetric anesthesiologists provide instruction, supervision, and consultation. Daily didactic obstetric anesthesiology lectures are given by faculty and fellows. Faculty critique and proctor lectures given by fellows. All fellows are expected to teach and supervise junior residents, as this is an integral part of an academic fellowship.
We have a very active clinical research program in obstetric anesthesiology. Ongoing areas of research interest include investigation of new spinal analgesics for labor and techniques for providing postoperative analgesia. Fellows are expected to participate in clinical research. Wake Forest Obstetric Anesthesiology faculty have research funding from the NIH and have authored many original manuscripts, abstracts and textbook chapters. We have also recently authored and edited the second edition of a textbook titled "Obstetric Anesthesia." Our faculty has an active leadership presence in the national Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP). Fellows are tutored in every aspect of clinical research including conception of research protocols, writing proposals and consents, collecting and recording data, analyzing data, writing abstracts for presentation, preparing presentation slides and lectures, and writing manuscripts. Most fellows complete at least one original clinical protocol during their fellowship. Past clinical research by obstetric anesthesia fellows has been awarded the Gertie Marx Award for best clinical paper at the annual SOAP meeting.
To learn more about our Obstetric Fellowship review the application packet which includes an application and other related resources. Interested individuals should contact Dr. Robert D'Angelo, Professor and Section Head of Obstetric Anesthesiology, or Dr. Laura Dean, Associate Professor, Director of Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowships, for further information.
Completed electronic application (Microsoft Word) can be emailed to Lori Bailey, OB Anesthesia Office Liaison, at email@example.com. Two fellows are accepted each year and 12-month fellowship applications are preferred. Upon receiving a complete application, qualified candidates will be invited for an on-site interview. For fellowships beginning after July 2016, we will be participating in a match with NRMP. Details regarding that process can be found at http://www.nrmp.org
Thank you for your interest in our program.-Dr. Laura Dean, Program Director-Dr. Robert D'Angelo, Section Head
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Filppula and Tatar should be in the top 6. Not old man Sammy and old man Bertuzzi.
I don't think Cleary and Abdelkader should be on the team, period. We can find cheap crap on the market that puts up similar numbers with similar icetime that those players are getting.
So you think the top six and be stabilized by players already on the roster, but who are either injured (Flip) or could be freed up to play in the top six once an injured player returns (Tatar)? That sounds almost exactly like what Holland was saying to Pierre LeBrun in the conversation linked above.
For the record, I agree with you about Abby and Cleary, and I do believe Holland should make a move (see my post to Leftwinger above) to solidify the top six. But barring that, I still think that the return of Bert and Sammy makes us a better team than we are right now. Even if you have to put Bert and Sammy on the third line after you promote Tatar and Andersson goes back to GR.


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Eight area schools achieved an "excellent" rating after Ohio Department of Education released the preliminary 2011-12 district and school report card results Wednesday.
Clyde-Green Springs Exempted Village School District, Hopewell-Loudon, Mohawk, New Riegel and Old Fort local school districts, and Tiffin City Schools all received "excellent" ratings.
"We are very proud to have this rating for the second year in a row," said Donald Coletta, superintendent for Tiffin City Schools.
This also is the third year in Tiffin City Schools' history that it has received an "excellent" rating.
"(The rating) is a reflection of the outstanding instruction of the teachers and the commitment of the students to learn," Coletta said.
Lakota Local School District and Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District also were rated "excellent," an improvement from ratings of "effective" last year.
North Central Academy was rated "continuous improvement," improved from "academic watch" last year.
Carey Exempted Village School District and Seneca East Local School District maintained an "effective" rating
For the first time, Mohawk Local School District has met 26 of 26 of the state performance indicators, maintaining an "excellent" rating for the second year in a row, Superintendent Ken Ratliff said.
"I'm really proud of our students and staff. This is what Mohawk pride is really all about," he said.
Only a third of Ohio schools have met all 26 indicators and officials are happy to be among those schools, Ratliff said.
These indicators are based upon student performance on state assessments, graduation rate and attendance rate, Ratliff said.
Along with Mohawk, Hopewell-Loudon and New Riegel local school districts have also achieved 100 percent of the state performance indicators.
"We have met all the criteria of the state indicators and are happy to have maintained our rating," said Nicole Jiran, superintendent for Hopewell-Loudon.
Tiffin City Schools and Old Fort Local School District have met 25 out of 26 of the state performance indicators.
"I am pleased with the rating," said Old Fort Superintendent Jude Meyers.
"We are proud to provide our kids with the best education. There are challenges to stay in front of the changing climate and we have got to be focused," he said.
Bettsville Local School District, Fostoria City Schools and Bridges Community Academy have maintained a "continuous improvement" rating.
Report cards are normally released in August.
According to a release by the ODE, the department will not publish the official local report cards until an investigation by the auditor of state is concluded or as otherwise agreed upon by the state board of education.
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5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Being Offended
A few weeks ago, the video game cartoonists over at Penny Arcade realized that they'd gone too long without talking about rape and decided to start talking about rape again. Or they just had an innocent off-the-cuff moment and accidentally brought up rape again, and in predictable Internet fashion, it's been blown out of proportion with a good old-fashioned clusterfuck. The thing that bothers me isn't about what's true, false, right, or wrong -- it's that this entire conversation about offensive stuff has completely stalled out, because people have forgotten that ...
#5. You Can't Talk Someone Out of Being Offended
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Also known as "Calm down, it's just a joke."
When I accidentally piss someone off, my knee-jerk reaction is to try to reason that pissed-offedness into not existing. And I'm not alone: The Penny Arcade guys did it with mockery, and one of your friends will do it tonight after they forget that "You Jewed me" hasn't been an OK thing to say for like 50 years, or ever. The problem is that this strategy doesn't make any more sense than trying to talk someone out of diarrhea.
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"Before your colon makes a decision, I have a PowerPoint presentation I'd like it to take into consideration."
Scientists call the feeling of being offended a narcissistic injury, and it's as uncontrollable as crying after you've had diarrhea in front of your first and last date with the woman you've secretly loved your whole life.
Trying to reason your way out of having pissed someone off is a natural urge, because it's rooted in trying to fix a mistake. No sane person wants to feel like they're the source of someone else's pain, so it's a means of shifting the blame off of ourselves. "I can't believe you turned my innocent joke into something dark and evil." We didn't mean anything cruel, so no one should be upset -- only there is no situation in the world where what we mean to do is more important than what we did. If the world really functioned like that, we all would've aced every test in high school (we meant to give the right answers, right?). Good intentions mean exactly dick if you're too incompetent to do anything with them. For example, I hear this was supposed to be a movie:
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Oh, they sucker-punched ticket buyers! I get it now.
Basically, if you fart in your roommate's mac and cheese, all the explanation in the world ("You surprised me! It's a survival instinct!") isn't going to make their dinner taste any less like butt. Someone's dinner is ruined, and you're going to have to address it.
But just in case you're the one with the bowl full of stinky pasta, you'll need to remember that ...
#4. You Can't Force Someone to Be Offended (And You Shouldn't Try)
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When we talk about whether a comic is offensive, we're not actually talking about the comic -- we're talking about the people who were offended by it. They're the ones who matter in this discussion. Without their offense, there is no conversation, which is likely how The Family Circus slipped under the radar for so long. Except for that one strip where they adorably endorsed human trafficking and military torture.
If I could get all personal and real for a second (and I can!), I'd admit that the "dickwolves" comic doesn't offend me. But I'm not going to explain why, because that very fact means that my emotional reaction to the comic doesn't matter. When I first realized that, it irritated me, because I like to think I matter a lot (there's a reason I chose gold instead of brass for the statue of me I erected in my living room). But once I saw the whole picture, I realized that it's pretty liberating.
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So I put on my sundress and went for a frolic.
We're not the hive-mind buggers from Ender's Game -- our brains exist independent of each other, and we are allowed to be pissed off by something without anyone else's approval. That's kinda great, right? No one can tell us what to feel. Well, maybe Adele, but it has to be raining first, her haunting vocals forever tainting my memories with the mental whiff of my poop date. Sorry, I drifted for a second. What was I talking about?
Oh, yeah -- we're never going to all agree about what's offensive, because "offensive" isn't a measurable trait. No matter how much we pore over the psychology of humor or the syntactic structure of jokes, we'll never find a shortcut because there is no dowsing rod that we can plunge into a joke to find out if it's funny or unfunny or benign or offensive. All we can do is constantly pay attention to how other people around us are reacting and use that information to not be an asshole.
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This face means you fucked up.
Sure, it's a lot of work, but in exchange you get to have relationships with other humans that aren't based on yelling and crying. Which ... I mean, that's usually pretty OK, because some of them know how to fix my computer.
#3. It's Pretty Rude to Get Offended for Someone Else
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First of all, let me be absolutely clear that it's good to stand up for other people, even when it's just casual stuff. If your friend keeps shouting "Fag!" whenever you get on Xbox Live together, feel free to punch him in the nuts or just unplug his wireless router and let the apoplectic gamer-rage eat precious years off the end of his life. That's justice, right there.
What's not OK is using everything you see as an example to explain why people who aren't you might get offended by stuff, because again, you're not talking about the people who were offended (the only ones who matter, remember); you're talking about a hypothetical group that exists only in your imagination. You're making it all about you, and you may not have the necessary perspective. In short, you're talking out of your ass to create controversy. You've effectively become every cable news program.
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"Saving that cat's life just normalizes the stereotype of helpless kittens, you asshole."
I used to work in a high school, and I attended a lot of events, because high schools love events the way celebrities love using rehab as a form of apology. At one of these events (I don't remember what it was -- a wet T-shirt contest? I dunno; I was drunk), I was seated in front of two young women who were loudly talking about how racist this particular event was, until an elderly black woman seated behind them leaned forward and, with that infinite dignity and majesty that some old people just have, said, "Excuse me, I'm sorry, could you please shut the fuck up?"
Maybe the women were right about the event, but the elderly woman behind them didn't give a shit because she was there to see the kids, not listen to pompous 20-somethings show off the stuff they learned at their Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites meeting.
"Let's end racism by putting our members' race at the forefront!"
Obviously, that doesn't mean that you can't talk about offensive stuff unless you're offended. Cracked has done some great articles on this topic. But we're not grabbing those sexist comic book and video game characters and shoving them in women's faces and telling them to stop enjoying the stuff they like. We're just pointing out terrible things and laughing at them. Because we're fundamentally deranged individuals, and there's no helping us.


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The Sacrifices Moms Make starts at the 4:40 mark
Behind the scenes of Listen To Your Mother with June Saavedra...
June Saavedra is the mother of three joyful children - Wolfgang, 6, and Tulip and Luna who just turned 4 and 2. June is also extremely grateful and appreciative to be married to Gabino, the most awesome stay-at-home dad ever who, in addition to performing his responsibilities as CEO and janitor at Wolfgang, Tulip & Luna LLC, cooks her a delicious dinner every night.
June was born in the Chicago suburbs. Hightailing it to the big city as soon as she was able, she spent her formative years enjoying urban adventure and searching for the perfect Sunday brunch. Her exploits have included being a magician's assistant, modeling, and performance art. When motherhood beckoned, she chose to relocate to NWI for bigger lawns and quieter evenings. She is currently a middle school teacher.
Thoughts from June: "When I heard about this show I thought I would write a piece and audition. But, I kept it all a secret from everyone I know, including my husband, until just a few days before the audition. I decided that the audition (oh, and the writing process including sharing my writing) would be just for me.
It was something I wanted to do for myself, just for the experience of doing it. I wouldn't tell him what my piece was about. I just told him that I would be heading out Saturday morning for my audition. Once cast in the show, I was deliriously psyched. Mostly about my writing. To be honest, I figured I could speak well enough in front of an audience, but getting my "piece" cast was a huge accomplishment for me.
I was a bit nervous about opening the show, though, and being responsible for setting a tone, but then I knew that Stephanie had pieced together the show in such an appropriate way that there was a very good reason for our order so that gave me the confidence to pop up there onto the stage and offer the audience the first piece of the evening. I was elated during the whole show, that this cool, fun, and meaningful thing was happening, nationally too, and I was part of it. I am very glad to have been a part of this."
A little background from Steph: "June was actually my first audition and I knew her piece The Sacrifices Moms Make was going to open my show. She was the ultimate start to the day of auditions. Honestly, it got me GOING! I was soaring. June is not even a blogger!* I know her from a local natural parenting group. She is a middle school teacher and her husband is a stay at home dad. 1.) I had no idea she was this funny and 2.) had no idea she could write like that PS she doesn't even have a blog*. Those first roars of laughter I heard from the audience during her piece the night of the show will stay with me forever."
*edited to add: June is now a blogger! Follow along at Secret Life of Moms.
Every Sunday I'll be featuring a "behind the scenes" of each Listen To Your Mother Valparaiso/NW Indiana piece. You can watch the entire show on the Listen To Your Mother Show YouTube channel here or see each piece listed and linked here and here.
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Wisconsin Farmers Union Supports Lawsuit Intervention Defending Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL)
Wisconsin Farmers Union Supports Lawsuit Intervention Defending Country-of-Origin Labeling
Wisconsin Farmers Union President Darin Von Ruden issued a statement after the National Farmers Union Board of Directors voted unanimously to intervene in a recent court case that seeks to block implementation of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL). The case, currently pending in Federal court, was brought by foreign and domestic packer organizations seeking to circumvent the consumer right-to-know rules developed by the USDA pursuant to legislation passed by Congress.
"We are intervening in this lawsuit in order to stand up for the USDA's final Country-of-Origin rule," said Von Ruden. "Farmers Union has worked for years to secure consumers' right to know where their food comes from, and we will continue to do so until that right is secured."
NFU is joining with the U.S. Cattlemen's Association, which was the first organization to intervene in the lawsuit in defense of COOL. On the other side of the suit are packer-producer organizations that sought an injunction against the USDA to vacate and halt the implementation of the USDA's COOL rule. The plaintiffs include the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), American Meat Institute (AMI), Canadian Cattlemen's Association, Canadian Pork Council, National Pork Producers Council, North American Meat Association (NAMA), American Association of Meat Processors and Southwest Meat Association.
"First the opponents of COOL sought to block the measure in Congress, and then they raised a challenge at the World Trade Organization. When both of those strategies were unsuccessful, they resorted to suing the USDA in Federal Court. It's time for packer organizations to quit throwing up roadblocks to Country of Origin labeling, and instead put their energy into telling consumers where their food is coming from," said Von Ruden. "COOL is good for U.S. farmers, and it is what the consumer demands."


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Students will also be required to attend a 10 day professional experience placement and 3 x 3 hour intensives
This unit will provide students with opportunities to engage with the education and care of children from birth to two years of age. In a professional experience placement, students will engage with infants and very young children, teachers and families and will be able to critically analyse and reflect on the components of quality environments and programmes for infants and very young children.
Students will be able to make critical connections between theory and practice, and incorporate their understandings about the National Quality Framework legislative and regulatory requirements, including the child care accreditation requirements and National and Victorian Curriculum documents in the context of teaching, learning and care for children from birth to two years of age.
Reflective Journal, 1600 words, 40%
Critical Analysis Model, 2400 words, 60%
Hurdle Requirement: Satisfactory completion of the professional experience placement is required in order to pass this unit
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The protein-detection landscape has seen a number of advances in the last decade. Much of our knowledge of proteins has come from using ELISA, Western immunoblot, immunoprecipitation, and two-hybrid systems. Of those advances, the ability to simultaneously detect multiple proteins in a single sample has greatly enhanced our understanding of some of the complex protein interactions that occur in normal and disease states. The manifold benefits of multiplex protein detection are increasingly being appreciated by researchers.
Validation of genomic data is a major area where rapid multiplex protein detection is needed. Many researchers are now familiar with instances where alterations in mRNA do not equate to changes in protein levels. Some protein levels are increased by mRNA stability rather than increased mRNA transcription.
There are examples where a treatment or disease state triggers endoplasmic reticulum stress, which results in the blockage of translation of many proteins that are not related to protein folding, independent of mRNA upregulation. Others include instances where differential splicing and post-translational modifications are required for protein activity rather than mere protein presence, such as phosphorylation of Akt, or cleavage of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor from inactive to active proteins. Proteomic mapping and biomarker discovery are other areas enhanced by multiplex protein detection.
Researchers' demand for the obvious advantages of multiplex protein detection has fostered the entrance of multiple technologies and platforms into the research marketplace. Protein-detection technologies can be differentiated by the direct use of antibodies (e.g., ELISA, reverse-phase arrays) and those that do not use antibodies (e.g., mass spectrometry).
The systems that utilize antibodies are less expensive, and therefore, have obtained greater market adoption. Most antibody-utilizing technologies are derivatives of ELISA. Many are sophisticated technologies, however the high cost and need for high-maintenance equipment has limited their use. Fortunately, there are lower cost solutions that offer as good, if not better, quality in multiplex protein detection.
Quansys Biosciences has developed a multiplex protein array technology, Q-Plex™ multiplex ELISA, that enables high-quality low-cost multiplex protein detection. Using modern liquid-dispensing systems that are capable of precisely dispensing nanoliter volumes of liquid, multiple proteins are spotted down into the well of standard 96-well plates.
For sandwich-formatted ELISAs, the proteins spotted down are capture antibodies. The capture antibodies are separated from each other by their location on a Cartesian coordinate system allowing multiple ELISAs (multiplex ELISA) to be performed in a single well. The sandwich ELISA is performed with two cocktails, an antigen standard and biotinylated secondary or detection antibodies. A luminescent signal generated by infrared (IR) fluorescence or chemiluminescence is imaged by either an IR scanner or CMOS or CCD camera with the luminous intensity being proportional to the amount of antigen bound by the antibodies.
The use of chemiluminescent or IR fluorescent based detection systems in the Q-Plex ELISA enables most laboratories to use readily accessible multifunctional equipment negating the need to purchase additional expensive single-function equipment. The images are then analyzed with software to quantify the pixel values and perform regression analysis giving actual quantitative values for the unknown samples.
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on February 10, 2013 - 12:41 AM
Dear Miss Manners: I must have been born about a hundred years too late, because I have always delighted in the specialized flatware that was so loved in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I have recently secured a long-elusive prize in the form of eight ice cream forks. Beyond a basic plate of ice cream (I assume that sorbet, gelato and sundaes are included), with what dishes can I properly use them? I rarely serve just ice cream, and when I serve pie or cake with ice cream, I have always set a dessert fork and dessert spoon at each place. But that was before I had these nifty little sporky things, which I am eager to use.
I realize that my question does not offer much in the way of great general interest or mass appeal, but it is a matter of intense concern for me, and I trust no one else to provide me with the correct answer.
Gentle Reader: If you insist upon a correct answer, Miss Manners is forced to say that ice cream forks should be used only to eat ice cream. That is what specialized flatware is all about.
However, you surely know that she shares your fondness for it and wants to do better for you. Just please be good enough not to betray her to even sterner purists.
Ice cream forks are not the only table implements that combine a bowl with prongs. You could pass these off as terrapin forks.
What's that? Your guests don't want to eat a gelatinous mass embedded with turtle parts? Miss Manners will try again.
They could be used as ramekin forks. That can consist of anything baked into an individual dish, such as eggs with bread crumbs, cheese, bits of meat, whatever you choose. Or you could enjoy your ice cream, and set out in pursuit of specialized terrapin and ramekin forks. Miss Manners would understand.
Don't help freeloader
Dear Miss Manners: I have a friend who is always looking for people to do things for him or go out of their way to drive him places. His excuse is that he has an old car and doesn't feel that it will make it there.
He also asks me to have a party at my house and invite him over or take him to dinner or on a trip when I mention I am going somewhere, or asks me to buy him a drink when we are at the bar.
Would you say this individual is a freeloader? He probably does these things because in his mind he thinks I have a lot of money.
Gentle Reader: He probably does these things because in his experience he knows you will comply. Miss Manners suggests that you solve your problem by not doing so.
Send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com.


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A Koons Avenue woman told Buffalo Police that burglars kicked in the kitchen door of her home, breaking a lock and the door frame, and stole $50 worth of frozen ribs and three bottles of wine.
The incident occurred sometime between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Friday, according to the police report.
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Finished in 1943, the Pentagon is a symbol of U.S. military might. It's also one of the places attacked on 9/11.
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You have to give Deborah Shelton credit for being honest about her reaction to Dallas star Larry Hagman's death last November. "Selfishly," says Shelton, 1970's Miss USA, who played J.R.'s mistress Mandy from 1984 to 1987, "I thought, 'Well, there goes my chance of ever getting back on Dallas.'"
She was wrong. Hagman's passing proved to be a ticket back to Texas for many familiar faces. Joining series regulars Linda Gray (Sue Ellen) and Patrick Duffy (Bobby) and recurring players Ken Kercheval (Cliff), Charlene Tilton (Lucy) and Steve Kanaly (Ray) for J.R.'s drama-filled March 11 funeral are Ted Shackelford (Gary), Shelton and Cathy Podewell (J.R.'s former child bride, Cally).
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Bobby Behr is on the move. In the spring, he pledged to bring all of Dorchester District Two schools into his school garden program and he is well on his way to doing so.
Behr, athletic director at Ashley Ridge High School, created the ARHS Farm to School program. Starting small, he has grown the school garden program into an entity that now supplies the school lunch program with healthy produce.
Behr's vision doesn't stop there. Behr has plans to change the face of school food, education and childhood obesity … across the state and perhaps beyond.
He is implementing step two this fall. Every school in the district will have a school garden. Some will be large and some quite small, but all will be growing healthy food and teaching students – from kindergarten through high school – what healthy eating is all about.
Eighteen percent of children in grades K-12 are overweight and 75 percent of high school recruits trying to go into the military are overweight. Vending machines in schools are full of sugar, fat and starch.
Childhood obesity is on the rise in the U.S. and South Carolina, says Behr. According to the Trust of America's Health, South Carolina is now the fifth heaviest state.
This is going to change in DD2, if Bobby Behr has anything to say about it.
Expanding the program across the district is no easy task. At first Behr hoped that area farmers would step up and "adopt" a school to guide the creation and fruition of the school's garden. However, farmers work full time and then some, struggling with weather and pests to earn a living so their time is limited, says Behr. "It wasn't going to happen."
Undeterred, Behr looked elsewhere and turned to the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Master Gardner program.
Enter Amy Dobbs, urban horticulture extension agent for the tri-county area. Dobbs has long been an advocate for youth involvement in gardening but has not had a real outlet for her interest. Now she does.
The enthusiasm bubbles between Dobbs and Behr as they share their ideas and plans.
They have created a course for teachers to help get the school programs up and running. This is a specialized training that takes into account the things schools face when growing produce that will end up in kids' mouths. Such things as not using manure, making the creation and care of the gardens doable for teachers who have a full plate already, making it manageable, affordable and not overwhelming for teachers.
They have 31 participants from 18 schools – a mixture of teachers, administrators, maintenance staff, principals and coaches – all of whom have trained over five weeks to be ready for the fall garden. Most of the training has been on-line which has made it possible for these folks to easily take part, although there has been some hands-on training.
"I needed them to get their hands dirty," says Behr. And they did setting up the raised beds.
The program is officially called School Yard Gardening for Lowcountry Educators and is the first in the state making an effort to get all the schools in the district involved. It is specific to the climate, soil conditions and weather peculiarities of the Lowcountry.
The online portion of the training is interactive through the Cooperative extension Master Gardener site.
The project is paid for by a $24,000 grant from Boeing administered by the College of Charleston.
Participants have learned no-till gardening techniques, "lasagna" gardening techniques, about irrigation, fertilization and chemical free gardening.
So in September, every school in DD2 will have a school garden. The largest, aside from ARHS, is 50-feet by 50-feet at the William Reeves Elementary School. Most are smaller with the smallest size being three feet by five feet. They are all raised beds.
The raised beds make the implementation of the program much easier for the schools. However they would have been cost prohibitive if Behr hadn't discovered a local source … a sort of "found object" that is easily put to a different use.
Grand Forest, Inc., of Summerville, imports Gränsfors Bruk Axes from Sweden as well as other equipment for loggers. The axes come in wooden boxes that are specially constructed, collapse and segue perfectly into use as raised bed sides. Bottomless, two boxes stacked make a perfect raised bed. Better yet, Grand Forest is donating them to DD2 schools. The boxes are also perfect for allowing each school garden to grow slowly, box by box, bed by bed.
Further, school waste streams are diverted to the garden using compost, shredded paper and cardboard, etc. Bees Ferry Landfill, however, has donated the initial compost. It is the only compost supplier in the state approved for use in organic farming so its compost is safe for school children.
Lasagna gardening is based on the Lasagna Gardening book by Patricia Lanza and is simply a layered gardening method.
Key to the success of these school gardeners however, is not just the boxes or the method, but the partnership between the Master Gardener program and the schools. Each school will have its own Master Gardener to advise and assist, answer questions and give workshops.
It's the perfect partnership say Dobbs and Behr.
"This will build sustainability into the program," they say.
Master Gardeners have completed an intense Cooperative Extension course and are considered Extension volunteers. Through this program, a Master Gardener can adopt a school, earn continuing education hours (almost a year's worth) and help children develop an appreciation for healthy food and a love of gardening.
Because the majority of Master Gardeners are retired, they have more time than working farmers to donate. They will operate on an advisory/coaching basis but are encouraged to offer a monthly hands-on class for school children around a gardening activity.
The produce from the school gardens will be given to each school's cafeteria for use in school lunch.
Not only will students learn to garden, they will also learn about food safety. There is talk about getting an app for iPads called Garden Plan Pro that will enable the youngsters to plan their garden with dimensions, spacing and harvesting advice.
In the tri-county area, says Dobbs, there are some 300 Master Gardeners. In Dorchester County, there are about 160, most of whom are in the southern urban and suburban part of the county, perfect for DD2.
"Realistically," Dobbs says, "we expect 10 or so to take this on." Dobbs and Behr will cover the remaining schools.
This year's Master Gardener training will have the school aspect incorporated into it so that the 30 to 40 some odd new trainees will be exposed to the opportunity to take on a school gardening project.
All Master Gardeners who work with young people have gone through a background check, Dobbs assures, so they are approved to work with the schools.
"Eventually we would like to see parents get involved," says Dobbs.
"Because this project has come from within [the district] it is workable," says Behr who noted there have been a lot of ideas that have been tried that are "awesome when they work and terrible when they don't."
"All of us working together will make this work," he says.
"Making the effort to have kids at all levels not only learn to garden but learn where food comes from and introducing them to fresh vegetable eating, that's the purpose of this," says Behr.
Anyone interested in becoming a Master Gardener should go online to www.clemson.edu/extension/mg/mgonline.html or call 843-285-2180.
Anyone with residential gardening questions can call the Master Gardener office in Summerville at 105 Yancy Street at 843-285-2180.
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61 Students from Colleges Participate in 8th Annual Western Regional Dairy Challenge
61 Students from Colleges Participate in 8th Annual Western Regional Dairy Challenge
Sixty-one students from seven western US and one Canadian university traveled to Everett, Washington for the 8th annual Western Regional Dairy Challenge on February 28 – March 2, 2013.
The Western Regional Dairy Challenge is an innovative, three-day educational competition designed to prepare students for dairy careers. Working in mixed-university teams of five or six students, participants assessed all aspects of a working dairy farm, including facilities, nutrition, financials, reproduction, and animal health. Students collaborated on a 20-minute team presentation that detailed their observations and suggestions to a panel of judges. Teams were ranked based on how well their evaluations matched the judges' evaluations of the dairy operation.
at the pre-competition educational program on Thursday sponsored by DMI, Inc.
Michele taught the students how to speak to live media as well as use social
networking to tell their dairy story.
Along with the competition, students were treated to educational workshops on silage management and safety by Dr. Keith Bolsen, Professor Emeritus Kansas State University and social media and public relations by Michele Ruby of DMI, Inc on Thursday afternoon.
Jim and Andy Werkhoven welcomed the teams to their farm on Friday and participated in a question and answer session with students. Team-building and fun activities were held through the weekend to encourage networking among students and agribusiness sponsors.
Second place teams:
Team 11 Pacific: Josh Veenendaal, California State University – Fresno; Hannah Symonds, Washington State University; James Weber, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo; Cierra Olmstead, University of Idaho; Jacob Miller, Utah State University
Team 7 Lewis: Briana Arnold, Washington State University; Rob Diepersloot, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo; Leonardo DeLeon, California State University – Fresno; Brianna Williams, University of Idaho; Shelby Froland, University of Alberta
Team 9 Klikitat: Karly Nieuwkoop, California State University – Fresno; Kelli Carstensen, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo; Anna Haines, Texas A & M University; Jessica Reynolds, University of Idaho; Boyd Funk, Washington State University; Dallin Buttars, Utah State University
Dr. Larry Fox, Washington State University and a committee of dairy industry representatives organized the Challenge. A long list of volunteers was important to the competition's success. For more information about next year's contest, please contact Chris Dei at email@example.com.
To become a sponsor, contact Shawna Martinho at firstname.lastname@example.com. All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Contributing sponsor listings are available on the website.
The Western Regional Dairy Challenge is under the guidance and support of the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC), which was established in April 2002 as a management contest to incorporate evaluation of all aspects of a specific dairy business. For more information, visit www.dairychallenge.org. The national contest is slated for April 4 – 6, and will be hosted by Michigan State University, Ohio State University and Purdue University in Fort Wayne, IN.


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My son Lucas will be two in March. He is as rough-and-tumble as little boys come. He loves his trucks and trains and blocks and just about anything that goes "Vroom, Vroom." But he also loves his sling. I don't mean the one he rides in, although he certainly loves that one. I mean the one he wears, the one he uses to carry his puppy and dino and sometimes even his dump truck. He carries the things he loves and wants close to him. He is too small to put it on himself but he will bring me the sling and whatever he wants to carry and say "ing, mama, ing."
Children thrive when they feel valued, loved, and that the adults in their life enjoy being with them. That is why wearing your baby or toddler is so important: it fosters trust and a secure attachment with your baby and gives your toddler a safe place to reconnect and reinforce their bond with you. When we wear our children, we model for them that it is important to care for others. We are nurturing them and teaching them that they matter and that we want them to be with us. As mothers (and fathers), we want our children to learn how to nurture and love others out of the depth of nurturing and love they have received. Give them their own sling and teach them to care for the things they love just as they are cared for and loved. It is a great tool for encouraging your little nurturer in the development of kindness and compassion and love for others. I know that Lucas wants to wear his puppy in his sling because he loves his puppy. He feels loved when he is cuddled close to mama in the sling so it only makes sense to him that his puppy should go in the sling too. He is starting to make that very important connection.
Lucas is an only child so his only experience of babywearing is from being worn and occasionally seeing one of my babywearing friends with an infant in their sling. I know that if we are ever blessed with another child, the lessons of babywearing will be all the more poignant for him. Older siblings can learn to exhibit the same love and care they see you giving to their new baby brother or sister. It makes them feel important and valued by you when they are able to display the behaviors that are modeled for them. Dr. Sears comments on his website about the importance of role modeling nurturing behaviors for our children. "When we adults wear babies, we model for our other children that big people carry little people. Children and grandchildren are more likely to adopt the style of parenting that they received or witnessed when young. "
As parents, we all want to raise our kids to be compassionate, caring people. One of the best ways to do that is to model that behavior for them and then give them opportunities to exhibit the behavior themselves. Lucas and his puppy love their sling. He wears puppy or dino while he stands at the window watching the snow plows or while he sits in the living room playing with his trains. And me, I just watch and smile as my son kisses puppy's head. He is learning how to care for and nurture others. He is developing compassion and kindness. And that nurtures my soul too.
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No other station holds the trust or the attention of the region's involved parents and care providers like WQED. With a lineup that attracts children from toddlers to teens, WQED is an essential part of every childhood. WQED commits 12 hours of every weekday schedule to high quality children's programming parents can count on. In addition, WQED offers connections to PBS KIDS, PBS Teachers and PBS Parents through its website, wqed.org. WQED has enriched the lives of children with their own productions as well as the educationally robust and entertaining lineup of PBS KIDS's programming on subjects as diverse as global thinking, reading, and science. WQED was also the home of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, produced by Family Communications, Inc. for more than 40 years. More information is available at www.wqed.org/education.
A non-profit with ten employees, SLB began pursuing its mission in 1978 with The Saturday Light Brigade, a Saturday morning public radio program that blends acoustic music, live performances by youth and adults, participatory puzzles, on-air telephone calls, and interviews with other community-based nonprofits serving youth and families. Programming grew substantially between 1990 and 2000, as SLB built a strong and loyal audience, winning 10 local, state and national awards. In 2004, with support from the broadcast industry, foundations, corporations and individual donors, SLB opened a $250,000 broadcast studio and training complex in the expanded Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. SLB has since emerged as a hub of community and educational activity. Its work today focuses on (1) continued production of The Saturday Light Brigade radio program and its extension as a vehicle to promote youth voice in our region and (2) school and in-studio workshops in which experienced radio broadcasters and sound engineers work with children to explore self-expression as well as the tools used to collect and process audio into a creative work. More information about SLB is available at www.slbradio.org and neighborhoodvoices.org.
The Junior League of Pittsburgh's 400 women volunteers collectively contribute 10,000 volunteer hours annually in the Pittsburgh community.Over the past ten years, the League has donated in excess of $500,000 as either community donations or grants. The League educates and trains its members to provide effective voluntee service, to research challenging community needs, and to initiate pilot projects or expand services to meet those needs. It provides administrative, financial, and volunteer support for projects and facilitates the permanent sponsorship of programs by other community organizations. In October 2012 the Junior League of Pittsburgh will celebrate 90 years of service to the Pittsburgh community. Additional Junior League of Pittsburgh information is available at www.jlpgh.org.


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How do I volunteer? Myths about the World Volunteer Web
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by Marybelle Stryk
Each day we receive e-mails inquiring how and where to volunteer. The short answer is, "We don't know."
For a longer version of that answer, and some more clicks, we will point you to our "Take action" section, find the list of volunteer-involving organizations and our country pages where you'll read possible volunteering opportunities, if it's paid volunteering or you would have to pay to volunteer, duration of stay, in which part of the world, etc.
We are not very happy that we always have to give the longer route or reply. As the "global clearing house for information and resources related to volunteering", we wish we could say, "If you have two weeks in Namibia, instead of checking out where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stayed, why don't you spend the time working with orphaned children (or school children, battered women, forest rangers, etc) in (insert village) with (insert organization)." But resources – human and technical -- prevent us from doing this. I could recommend two websites that offer volunteer opportunities: the award-winning Idealist.org and Oneworld.net.
So, what exactly are we? Let me attempt to break the "World Volunteer Web myths". Here goes:
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A soldier or actual civilian that is hired by private sources to do the "dirty work" for others who are too scared or skillfully lacking to do it themselves... other terms are Mercenary, Dog of War and Pawn. You remember the game Metal Gear Solid? ...well Solid Snake was a Soldier of Fortune, so if you remember what the story was about, you'll find out exactly what a Soldier of Fortune does. They are also kept top secret and thier existance is denied and all records of them of everything they've ever done gets destroyed, because what they go out to do, they hardly ever come back because they generally have nothing to lose.
Private miller: oh man! last night on watch, I saw a man dressed in military uniform stalking alone in the middle of the jungle! He was all alone and his uniform didn't look like any army i'v seen before... he killed one of our look outs without any of us knowing, he must have been so skilled and quiet to get away with that!
Colonel Hemmel: Holy shit! We got ourselves a Soldier of Fortune on our hands!
Colonel Hemmel: Holy shit! We got ourselves a Soldier of Fortune on our hands!
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A soldier that doesn't fight for honor or pride but for money and fame. A game based off someone who has actually lived this life is Soldier of Fortune 1/2.
John Mullins is a soldier of fortune.
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awesome first person shooter.
sof2 kicks the crap out of all the other shooters.
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best game ever made
krakcer is god of the game
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Getting a blowjob while taking a shit.
Molly is giving Jack a soldier of fortune in the bathroom
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Better than Counterstrike.
Did you see SuicideMOnkey pwn that phukin n00b?
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