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- an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside"
- having short sharp turns or angles
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- Zigzag: other uses, see Zigzag (disambiguation). A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path
- Zigzag (1963 film): Zig Zag is a 1963 film produced by Albert Zugsmith starring George Nader. It was made in the Philippines. http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.
- Zigzag, Oregon: Zigzag is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is located within the Mount Hood Corridor, between Rhododendron and
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KALAMAZOO, MI – More than 475 runners braved freezing temperatures and slushy roads Wednesday night at the Bell's Brewery Inc. second annual St. Patty's Pub Run in downtown Kalamazoo.
The race, which was put on by Gazelle Sports and Bell's Eccentric Cafe and benefited Big Brothers Big Sisters, had to be shortened from a 5K to a 2.2 mile fun run because of excessive snowfall on the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail, said Carrie Drake, Gazelle's community outreach director.
Runners also had the opportunity to take part in a costume contest and prize drawings.
While heavy snowfall that hit Kalamazoo Tuesday night and Wednesday morning led to the race being shortened, Drake said the weather also may have been a factor in low attendance at the event.
"The severity of the storm probably took people away," she said. "A run like this for charity purposes brings recreational runners; a storm would be very intimidating for them."
In spite of the conditions, Drake said she expects the event raised about $9,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
The runners that did brave the conditions Wednesday and ventured out to Bell's found themselves immersed in a sea of green as the majority of runners were sporting St. Patrick's Day-themed outfits.
Cindy Lammon, 48, came from White Pigeon to participate in this year's Pub Run after losing 90 pounds in the last year. Lammon said she hopes to serve as an inspiration to other women.
"I love to run," Lammon said. "I've lost 90 pounds in a year due to running and I hope I'm inspiring other women to do the same thing."


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New Erie National Wildlife Refuge manager has stops in Texas, Montana, China
Taking over as manager of the Erie National Wildlife Refuge isn't a true homecoming for Vicki Muller, but it's close enough.
Muller's calling for the outdoors began while she was growing up on her family's 20-acre property in Medina County, Ohio, southwest of Cleveland. Her current position with Crawford County refuge followed stops at refuges in North Dakota, Colorado and Texas.
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What are you most proud of? I wanted to make something colourful for my Mother-In-Law. It was my first quilt so I'm pretty proud of the whole thing!I'm especially surprised I managed to do it all without a walking foot and it looks fine.The way Wendy shows in the class of doing the binding all by machine was such a moment of relief because I'd been dreading having to hand-stitch the binding.
It is a lovely quilt! You will make more I think! Love the palete!
what a fun project.... simple, but great use of the fabrics.... glad you jumped in... now you can keep moving forward and having fun at the same time!


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The new name for "legal tender".
The new name for "legal tender".
That would be "ten hundred" as it is written in the xkcd banner graphic.
All my HP FC SAN arrays have DMR support for the warranty period and again when under maintenance. On a 25 drive chassis, with 900Gb 2.5" SAS drives, it's about 5% of the total cost. All have dual controllers and power supplies, of course.
The disks are arranged as 4x 6-disk RAID6 sets, then presented to VMWare as 4x 3.6Tb VMFS disks.
The 25th disk? It goes on the shelf and is the cold spare for that array. When a disk fails, it goes in straight away and a phone call to HP sees a new disk is sent out overnight.
DMR: Damaged Media Retention. We send a load of old server and dektop media, plus USBs, etc, to a rated destruction facility once or twice a year. Yes, it will shred.
Boiling water is great for killing weeds/grass around bricks and pavers. Those steam wand thingies work well, too.
It's not a pubic holiday like ANZAC Day, but it's customary to observe a minute's silence wherever you may be at the time.
"Why is he pointing his pistol at that missile? Is he arresting it? Does he have to read it's ri... Oh, he's pulling on his second glove. Never mind."
Just because a material has a everyday name, it doesn't mean that the original specification didn't have a chemical/mechanical/biological/radiological/whatever reason for specifying it.
If all the material property requirements were met with a commonly available product that didn't require an expensive supply chain, then that's great.
I suspect that originally somewhere in the nuclear disposal system, a group identified the need, a solution was found and a materiel was specified. Along the line or through the years, the REASON for that specification was lost to the end of the purchasing chain and the poor sod who orders the stuff was given a directive to "buy sustainably" and substituted the new material without being aware of the original intent.
That person probably wasn't even been aware of the use of the material - they may have though it was used in the kennels for the guard dogs. It's a nuclear material disposal site. Need to know is important. (1) The suppler wouldn't have known, either.
There's lots of complaints of expensive procedures and materials(2), but this is a perfect example of the need for a formal supply chain system with provable provenance. You may BUY a commonly available kitty litter to fulfill the order, but what arrives in the sacks will have to match the specification sheet.
1. Yes, this is irony. The accident may have been prevented if the purchasing officer knew what it was for. Then again, maybe not.
2. Ferrous hammers are a bad idea around strong magnetic fields. If you're in a lab with a MRI or similar and lots of delicate equipment, a hammer to undo the dog on a vacuum chamber had better be a very special hammer. The kind that you can buy today for less than a hundred bucks, but in the 60's had to be engineered from scratch. Thank someone else's R&D for the fact you can buy a (nearly) chemically inert, non-ferrous, non-sparking hammer for a pittance.
> So you've added two or three more people to be bribed to ignore a faulty tracking device - 1 or 2 in maintenance, and someone in the control tower?
They'd be the first people to be arrested when the syslog was backtracked on the first day of the search. I'll admit that some people are not the brightest, but looking at a red flag on a computer screen and granting take-off permission anyway is a little beyond belief.
You'd need a sysadmin or ATC site admin to inject fake data, but that wouldn't survive the satellite data analysis.
I don't know if it would be possible, but you might be able to have a ghost transponder in another aircraft or on the ground which pretends to be the target. You'd have to be careful to transmit at the correct time and with the correct signal drop-off if you wanted to hide the fakery from the investigation.
It the investigators managed to get satellite triangulation data, even that wouldn't work.
I *think* that the meaning of the quoted words "full cost" is that NASA was selling to H2-11 at NASA's cost price. This would be less than "market rate" because NASA does not collect tax on the fuel.
The customary difference between cost and market would be tax, handling and profit margin, none of which were added by NASA.
Whoops, that was from the repealed/superseded regulations list. It's still illegal in Queensland and NSW, though. Here's the _current_ Qld rules:
A driver must not switch headlights to high beam if another vehicle is closer than 200m in front of the driver's vehicle.
A driver may flash the headlights briefly before overtaking another vehicle.
Drivers must ensure that they do not dazzle other road users.
The Australian road rules sidesteps the "warning" issue:
Using headlights on high-beam
218 Using headlights on high-beam
(1) The driver of a vehicle must not use the vehicleâ(TM)s headlights on high-beam, or allow the vehicleâ(TM)s headlights to be used on high-beam, if the driver is driving:
(a) less than 200 metres behind a vehicle travelling in the same direction as the driver, or
(b) less than 200 metres from an oncoming vehicle.
Penalty: Offence provision.
Note: "High-beam" and "oncoming vehicle" are defined in the dictionary.
(2) However, if the driver is overtaking a vehicle, the driver may briefly switch the headlights from low-beam to high-beam immediately before the driver begins to overtake the vehicle.
Note: "Low-beam" and "overtake" are defined in the dictionary.
The report I read was that the neural net which distinguishes phonemes is trained up to the age of around 10-14.
Out of the 110 (approx) (IIRC) human phonemes, most languages use no more than 85 (approx) (IIRC), sometimes far fewer.
The classic Japanese/English "L"/"R" problem is an symptom of this, where for a Japanese person who hasn't been exposed to the "L" sound regularly at a young age, it is mapped to an "R" sound.
Note also, that the single "R" sounds that the Japanese-language person is making instead of "L" and "R" may not be the "R" sounds that the English-language person is hearing. Different "L" and "R" sounds may spoken by Japanese-language person, but the English-language person may only hear them as a single "R" sound. Since there's no common frame of reference, the phoneme corruption could be happening in either or both directions for any phoneme mapping.
I recall reading somewhere else that the French language has three different sounds which map to the English "R" sound. That's my excuse for scraping high-school French, anyway.
There are people who are exceptions to the rule, of course, and there's also the possibility of learning to speak a language correctly by an external feedback loop. All you need is to make different sounds until a person who can hear the difference confirms when the sound is correct, and use that mouth/larynx shape when appropriate. Easy!
Forget flying, these ones worked out how to weave a net.
Here's a video: http://izismile.com/2012/08/01/nature_why_you_so_scary_netcasting_spider.html
My parents have them in the plants around their house, and on the balcony.
The intent may be to introduce a delay in the other consoles' UI responses.
When a non-tech user buys a competing console in a year or so, and it's easier for them to daisy-chain it through the xbox than hunt around behind the TV, it may be enough that they tend to play the xbox more than the new console because it's more responsive and gives a better gameplay experience.
Too paranoid? Check out the cryptographically signed charging cables from Apple, and then try to persuade me otherwise with a straight face. <sardonic grin>


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The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., on jobs for youth:
It's summertime, but the living ain't easy - especially for teenagers on the job hunt. Fewer than three in 10 American teens now spend June through August working the jobs that have traditionally belonged to the youth, such as busing tables or working cash registers.
Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds are at the lowest level since World War II, The Associated Press reported recently.
We already knew that we live in a country where application pools for entry-level jobs are teeming with the overqualified; where job fairs touting underpaid positions draw in crowds by the hundreds. But now, it is also one where a 16-year-old can no longer expect to bag groceries all summer, watching those precious minimum-wage paychecks add up in their college fund.
These lower-skill jobs once filled by high school students now go to college graduates, immigrants and the recently laid-off, struggling to pay off loans and support families in a weak economy.
What's even more frightening is that teen employment may never return to pre-recession levels, according to a projection by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The work ethic that was instilled in many at a young age may now be lost with the rising generation, the consequences of which we likely won't learn until they take the helm of the working world. . . .
But Americans were smacked with another unpleasant statistic: The average tuition at four-year public universities rose a whopping 15 percent between 2008 and 2010 - faster than the cost of health care. . . .
So what are teens supposed to do, when work is nearly impossible to get, and public university tuition, along with loan interest rates, continue to rise? These are problems that cannot be ignored in the upcoming election.
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After Francois Beauchemin informed the Ducks he could find a richer deal in free agency, the team reacted Tuesday by acquiring veteran defenseman Kevin Bieksa from the Vancouver Canucks for a second-round draft pick in the 2016 draft.
The Ducks also announced the hiring of Paul MacLean as assistant coach to Bruce Boudreau. MacLean was the NHL's coach of the year for Ottawa in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, but the Senators fired him last season.
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Shire reports that data from an FDA-requested Phase III study with Firazyr® (icatibant) has confirmed that the drug significantly speeds time to relief from symptoms associated with acute attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE). The Fast-3 study was carried out to support Shire's previously filed NDA for Firazyr in the U.S., which FDA deemed not approvable back in 2008. The firm says the Fast-3 trial data means it should now be able to file a complete response to the FDA's nonapprovable letter during early 2011.
"These very positive and clinically meaningful results represent a significant milestone in the U.S. clinical development program for Firazyr," notes Sylvie Gregoire, president of Shire HGT. Firazyr is currently approved in 37 countries, including the EU, for the symptomatic treatment of acute attacks of HAE in adults with a C1-INH deficiency.
The Fast-3 study involved 67 sites in 9 countries, and included 88 patients with moderate to very severe cutaneous and/or abdominal symptoms associated with HAE. Results showed that in comparison with placebo, treatment using subcutaneous Firazyr resulted in significantly faster time to onset of relief from combined symptoms, and also much faster onset of relief from the patient's primary symptom. Median time to onset of composite symptom relief (measured as a 50% reduction in composite symptom score assessed by the patient) was 2 hours for Firazyr-treated patients, and 19.8 hours for those receiving placebo. Median time to onset of relief from the primary symptom (a 30% reduction in symptom score) was 1.5 hours for the Firazyr cohort, compared with 18.5 hours for the placebo-treated cohort.
Icatibant is a specific bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist administered by subcutaneous injection. Shire recently submitted data from the Phase IIIb EASSI study to the European Medicines Agency, to support its submission for a label amendment that would allow patients to self administer icatibant when they suffer an HAE attack.
Firazyr achieved worldwide sales of $3 million in the third quarter of 2010, up 71% on the equivalent 2009 period at constant exchange rates.
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A pleasantly boring town in western Montana. It is probably the most culturally diverse town in Montana. The University of Montana is located here, and the general population is obsessed with going to Griz (mascot) football games. Also it is famous for it's hippies. It has 2 Walmarts. Oh and, a river runs through it.
We're going to a Griz game in Missoula, and we're going to get totally wasted.
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A wonderful city in Western Montana where you can get high as a kite for $5, bike like a fucking maniac and go to a killer house party all in one day. Lots of hobos that are very fun to have casual conversations with, and a pretty decent football team. By far the most liberal town in montana with the most hot people.
Person 1: You look terrible! What'd you do this weekend?
Person 2: Missoula, man.
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The second largest and Most important city in the state of Montana and home of the University of Montana Grizzly football team 2010 population 68,000. Nicknames include the garden city and zoo town due to it sounding like Mi-zoo-la.
Missoula has doubled in size from the 1970s to today.
grizmaster tərəfindən 26 Mart 2011
Located in western Montana, a town where dogs outnumber people and are allowed to roam freely and defecate freely throughout the city. More Birkenstocks per capita than any other part of the world.
Tom: "Why are you wearing birkenstocks?"
Sue: "I'm headed for Missoula this weekend."
Tom: "Don't bother shaving."
Sue: "I'm headed for Missoula this weekend."
Tom: "Don't bother shaving."
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to take an extremely large and painful shit, usually filling the toilet, and any other containers near it (trash, sink, and possibly bathtub, depending on the intensity of the missoula.)
Home of the Griz.
Home of the Griz.
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Dvorak Shfilkins tərəfindən 02 May 2011
The most liberal POS town in America. Where the hippies, mad jay walkers, and crazy bicyclists roam the streets. DO NOT ENTER! However there is an excellent Grizzly football team located in the town.
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In the past few days, I've received maybe a dozen emails and as many text messages about this story:
Basically, a Seattle Police Officer left a huge assault rifle on the back of his car, and he apparently drove all over downtown without noticing the thing sitting on his trunk.
Of course, once this was posted on The Stranger, every media station in town picked it up and each station invited their readers to comment and comment often. The news loves it when stories like this break, because of the Jerry Springer effect. When given the ability to judge others on obvious matters, outraged finger-waggers from across the Sound fill news comment sections with free content, and this in turn results in more page views and more ad revenue.
If you're a corporate media outlet, you don't really need to do any investigative journalism to get views these days. All you have to do is tweet "Do you think Britney Spears is a good mother? Tell us what you think!", and before you know it you have 200 mini-articles in your comment section explaining in glorious detail why the commenter is, in fact, a far superior mother to Britney.
I, on the other hand, find little value in stating the painfully obvious in order to receive waves of affirmation.
Clearly, leaving an assault rifle on the trunk of a car is a boneheaded move. That being said, I am neither outraged nor concerned about it.
Every year in this country, thousands of people are killed in automobile accidents. Tens of thousands are injured. Every, single, solitary one of these accidents is preventable.
Every day, in every city, we have people piloting 3,000lb bullets down crowded streets while eating, putting on makeup, playing with the radio, etc. In any given month, I have at least a handful of near-misses where I am almost run over by an automobile driver. Most of these drivers probably wag their fingers ad-nauseum in newspaper comment sections every time they are invited to judge others for their obvious mistakes. That's what's going on here.
"Rex, I can't believe my eyes, are you actually defending the cop?"
Why, yes. Yes, I am.
Given that I am imperfect, and you are imperfect, and the whole damn world is imperfect, I just can't jump on the finger-wag bandwagon as easily as everyone else has.
There is a big difference in forgetting a rifle, and shooting someone in cold blood. One is forgetfulness, and the other is malice.
This was a stupid mistake that I feel has been overblown. Sure, the size of the gun makes it more dramatic, and some criticism is warranted, but for Christ's sake, the cop didn't mean to leave it there. He's embarrassed. I'm pretty sure he'll never do it again.
That's more than I can say for most of you shitty drivers and other purveyors of imperfection out there.
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|Sunday, 21 April 2002
Prof. Sucharitha Gamlath: The Plekhanov of Sri Lanka
by Neil Christopher
Sinhala literary criticism had begun to blossom along the line of grammar-oriented analysis and of theories of Sanskrit aesthetics, during the first part of the 20th century. W. F. Gunawardena, Munidasa Kumaratunga were the pioneers of this trend.
Using theories of Sanskrit aesthetics, mainly 'rasavada' to assess the quality of artistic productions of the medieval period, Kumaratunga rendered a tremendous service to the areas of interpretation and annotation to the old tents. Even today he and Tennekoon are the beacon lights to make the reader well-aware of the meanings of these texts.
Apart from occasional anti-sexist approaches, as shown in 'The Kovul Sandesa Vivaranaya' by Tennekoon, the Sinhala literary criticism remained within the confinements of grammar-oriented analysis mingled with Sanskrit aesthetics, until Sarachchandra came with realism to expand the horizons of literary criticism sensing well the dire necessity to enrich the area of literary criticism with realistic elements.
With the advent of realistic novels of Martin Wickramasinghe and the rapid expansion of the middle class with a bilingual background, the demand for realism was at its peak. Although Sarachchandra blended Sanskrit aesthetics with western literary theories. Emphasizing the importance of realistic elements in works of art, his approach was also idealistic in the final analysis. The intellectual enterprise of establishing realism in the literary criticism fell on the shoulders of critics with Marxist background, and Prof. Sucharitha Gamlath took up the challenge well-armed with the needed intellectual capacity and courage.
It is indisputable that Prof. Gamlath is the foremost living aesthetician in Sri Lanka. His knowledge of both oriental and accidental aesthetics is unquestionable. His massive contribution to literary criticism is yet unsurpassed, and can basically be divided into three periods. In the first period we find a scholar well-armed with the fundamentals of Sanskrit aesthetics.
He made a tremendous attempt to encapsulate the cream of Sanskrit aesthetics into the literary criticism, then messed up with efforts by others to found an indigenous critical theory. His arguments to this effect could be found in his 'Kavsilumini Vinisa'.
He bravely introduced theories of Sanskrit aesthetics having understood that it was to India that we ought to turn because it was the intellectual universe of our past. In his 'Rasavada Vivaranaya', 'Samskrutha Natya Kalava Saha Abinnana Sakunthalaya,' 'Natya Sastraye Rasavadaya', etc. We find that commendable attempt. I still think his 'Rasavada Vivaranaya' serves as a guide-book for the students who wish to have a grasp of 'rasavadaya' in Sinhala.
In the second period of his literary service we find a transitional intellectual whose aesthetic philosophy had been inclined to western theories of aesthetics. His 'Sahithya Lokaya ha Seba Lokaya' is a fine manifestation to this tendency where he raises questions and suspicions relating to the concepts of beauty, truth, morality and aesthetic judgement.
In the third period we find an aesthetician armed with dialectical materialism exploring the dialectical nature of aesthetics. In 1980s Prof. Gamlath flashed himself in the sky of literary criticism in Sri Lanka as an adjudicator to whom all with no hypocrisy went and listened in the hope of expanding their intellectual horizons. It is during this third period that his aesthetic vision blossomed to a rationalistic brim. With regards to the written literature the critical tools he has developed and introduced are quite adequate to give the needed critical judgement. When it comes to the criticism of pure and applied music, I think they have further to be developed and refined.
Prof. Gamlath co-authored a book critical of Sarachchandra's aesthetic vision with late Kirthi Balasuriya. That book alone is a monumental contribution to the field of literary criticism because it makes a commendable and successful attempt at struggling with the remnants of idealism in the literary criticism. When it is translated into international languages, the world intellectual community will realise that here in this tiny island are the twins of aestheticians of world class.
Apart from the contributions as a critic, Prof. Gamlath's services have extended to the areas of introducing technical terms to the Sinhala language. His yet unpublished 'English-Sinhala Dictionary' is the only one which properly caters to the needs of the student on anyone who is in search of a fitting equivalent term in Sinhala. It is highly unfortunate that the process of publishing is getting delayed.
Another area of his services that cannot be left unmentioned is the translation of literature into Sinhala. He has translated world literature into Sinhala without distorting the original work and in poetically opulent language. I must say that for any student of translated literature, Prof. Gamlath's works will serve as guidelines in the field. A volume of essays is needed to assess the contribution of Prof. Gamlath to literature.
Perhaps I am unfair by him when I write this brief note. To be frank, I am not adequately qualified to assess his contribution. But the sense of gratitude to this great intellectual who enriched our generation with universal knowledge compelled me to write this note of tribute.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Deep in the Southern Appalachian Mountains on January 30, 2010
9 comments:
- Lynn Hamilton Rutherford said...
Oh my gosh ... it's beautiful!! And I love Sasha peeking out from around the snowy bush!!! Home ... I miss it! I was coming up this weekend, but now, it looks like I'll have to wait! *sigh* I love you! Kiss the critters!!!
- January 30, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Dearest Nancy: You have been on my mind, there up on your mountain.
It has been a harsh winter, almost like a little ice age coming. Daffodils were poking up by my sidewalk, so my heart lifted a bit.You have become a wonderful, empathetic teacher; mentor and friend. The pain you suffered refined your best qualities and brought you to all of us. God keep you strong on your beloved mountain. Carole Thompson
- January 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Jayne Jaudon Ferrer said...
To me, life in the Appalachians has always mimicked life in general: brutal, bitter times but also brilliant and beautiful ones. There are such gifts in these mountains! I'm sorry for your pain, but what better place to heal?
- January 31, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Nancy Simpson said...
You are right, Jayne.You just keep putting one foot before the other and one day, when healing occurs, you don't now how it happened.
Your words are so true: " Life in the Appalachians has always mimicked life in general: brutal, bitter times but also brilliant and beautiful ones."
I imagine all of you will be glad when spring comes and I get back to flowers, flowers everywhere.
- January 31, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Tipper said...
Oh Nancy-it looks like a fairy ice land to me. Beautiful doesn't say enough-it is so magical.
I'm sorry January has been hard for you in the past-and in the present. But I love that you and your mountain persevere and continue.
- January 31, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
I've been concerned about you up there on your mountain in this horrible weather. I heard that the Farmer's Almanac predicted it. I think I'll start reading their almanac.
I had no idea about your husband and father. You are a strong woman Nancy. It would have broken many. I love how you re-invented yourself. You should be very proud.
Stay warm.
- February 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Kathryn Stripling Byer said...
Nancy, I've been worried about you in the midst of all this winter weather. We were without power for 2 days; thank goodness for the woodstove. The photos are beautiful. I haven't downloaded any of mine yet, and I missed the full Wolf Moon, as our lights went out after dark and we were distracted by various chores related to that. Thanks for your post on Cathy! love, K
- February 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Melissa Greene, LPC-MHSP said...
Thank you for sharing that. It really touched me today.
- February 1, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Glenda Beall said...
You are one of those strong women, Nancy, like those mountain women of long ago who persevered after losing children, losing mates, and parents, they kept on.
And every struggle makes us stronger. The sun will shine again and the flowers will soon be peeping up from the ground. Can't come soon enough for me this year.
- February 2, 2010 at 11:56 PM


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COLD AGGLUTININS occurring during the course of respiratory infections were first described by Clough and Richter1 in 1918 and again in 1939 by Wheeler and associates.2 However, it was not until 1943 that Peterson and co-workers3 noted the association of cold agglutinins and primary atypical pneumonia. Since then, numerous such reports have appeared in the literature. The hemolytic properties of this agglutinin were first recognized by Salén4 in 1935. Almost a decade later, reports appeared describing hemolytic anemia in the course of primary atypical pneumonia with high cold-agglutinin titers.5 The exact mechanism of this hemolysis and the role played by mechanical trauma were investigated and demonstrated by Stats and his colleagues.6
The purpose of this paper is to report a case of hemolytic anemia occurring in viral pneumonia with a high cold-agglutinin titer.
W. W., a 46-year-old Negro man, was admitted to Kings County Hospital on March
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SAGINAW, MI – Dan Smith lives in Saginaw when he isn't working as a histotechnologist, preparing tissue samples for pathologists at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital.
But Smith recently checked a big item off his bucket list when he wrote the music score for an independent film.
Delivering the score that elevates the terror in the horror film "Bachelors Grove" left recent viewers wonder what took Smith so long.
"I knew I was going to do this, even as a kid, when I started my bucket list," Smith said. "But it took me a while to go through with it. It's what I really wanted to do but I never thought I was good enough."
That worry was put to rest when friend Laurie Middlebrook held a screening party at her sprawling country spread in Freeland for the horror flick set in a cemetery known as one of the top 10 scariest places in America.
Directed by Ricardo Islas, a senior producer at WYCC PBS Chicago, and including Richard Pryor Jr. and Saginaw native Tonia L. Carrier in its cast, the film is available on youtube.com. (Warning: graphic violence)
Smith's hometown premiere started with an all-star jam, guests Eva Stone, Michael Brush, Loren Kranz and Smith sitting in with Middlebrook and her band. Then, after passing around the mosquito spray, everyone grabbed a dish of popcorn and settled in for the show.
"It was like a CD release party," Smith said. "It goes without saying that when you do something like this, you want to share it with people. But then you hope they'll have a good time."
"I listened to it with my hands over my eyes," Middlebrook said, confessing to a fear of scary movies.
Brush was impressed with the way the music dovetailed into what was happening onscreen, building the story without making the viewer aware of hearing anything.
"That made me feel really good," Smith said. "Anytime Mike Brush or Jeff Hall have something nice to say, it's an honor."
After graduating from Saginaw Township's St. Peter and Paul High School, now Nouvel Catholic Central, Smith headed in 1980 for Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film scoring. But when people told him he's spend at least 10 years scoring X-rated movies before getting mainstream notice, he changed his major.
"I started focusing on contemporary jazz and performing," he said.
Since then, he's played with different bands around the country and with show bands and at private functions at Disney World in Orlando, jobs he secured after sending out a video calling card.
"I put it in the email and I was working the next week," he said.
On the local front, country fans might remember the catchy music he put behind Romeo Ridge's "Every Time We Touch," a song that won them the national True Value competition in Nashville in the 1980s.
It was after a divorce four years ago that Smith started pursuing his dream again, tackling projects he was too afraid to try when he was younger.
When "Bachelors Grove" came up, he drew on those who inspired him, film composer Jerry Goldsmith, who says he knows he's successful when he watches one of his films and doesn't remember hearing any music, and film orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley, who shared secrets of the business at a workshop in New York City.
For nearly three months, Smith worked around a myriad of challenges, including software malfunctions and pinched nerves in his neck, to bring the music playing in his head to the screen. In addition to composing the music, Smith also recorded it, performing the entire score.
And now that it's out, "I'm happier than a camper in Yellowstone," he said. "Afterwards, you don't even remember all the stress you went through doing it. But I know I can do better.
"Hopefully, this will open something up down the road. Early in the project, I told my brother I was not going to do the movie, that I was going to quit, and he said that was OK. He didn't want to see me tormented. But I'm so glad I did it.
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quote: All he needs now is to get pregnant and he 'll really be the 99%
quote: What are they putting in the water over there?
quote: That's the spirit! You're unemployed (by your own account), but damn if you won't get the iPhone5 the day it comes out. Quick, someone enshrine this for all of history: it frames such a large portion of the country's mentality so perfectly.
quote: Eviction notice in one hand, iphone 4S in the other. All he needs now is to get pregnant and he'll really be the 99%.
quote: Don't make us weep for you by saying you had to cut off your Time Warner. If you've enough to 'still out partying' then you've enough to have paid for that. You made your choices, you weren't forced into them.
quote: I wish my mommy and daddy would buy me a new superphone every year.
quote: Um, no. Couple reasons why: 1. Shareholders > customers 2. Not maximizing your profit margin is poor management, even if you're a private company. What you should say is that AT&T et al should provide more reasonable guidelines and governance of their "unlimited" plans. The kicker being that no one in the industry really does things any differently...so you can either get kicked in the nuts by AT&T, or go to Verizon and let them do the kicking. Or T-Mobile. Etc.
quote: 1. Shareholders > customers
quote: 2. Not maximizing your profit margin is poor management, even if you're a private company.
quote: The main focus of any company should be providing a value to their customers.
quote: Shareholders call the shots at any public company - not the customers. If the company begins to tank...for example, if the company's policies are pissing off customers to the point where they're taking their business elsewhere, then the shareholders will demand action.
quote: The problem there is that all carriers do the same things...have the same policies, and the same definitions of "unlimited." Ergo, there is nowhere else to take your business as a customer where you'll get better service/product. So no point in leaving. Shareholders win again.
quote: That's a nice sentiment. But it's not how business works. Businesses exist to make money. They make money by providing value to customers...but make no mistake, businesses have to maximize margin in order to grow and survive.
quote: Every business always works to find the maximum balance of margin vs. customer satisfaction. Always.
quote: Has to be that way. Netflix is a good example - they built a great reputation in the beginning as "providing great value to the customer" - then they realized that they have to maximize margin, and they overstepped their bounds, and had to back track. Finding their balance...not always easy. But always a requirement - lest the shareholders oust the CEO and the board and replace you with someone else who will get the job done.
quote: AT&T agreed to give him unlimited when he signed up and it's not his fault AT&T didn't have the foresight to increase their network capacity to account for the number of users.


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Wednesday, February 14, 2001
By Monday afternoon, scientists excavating the Hunley had
removed more than 70 rivets from one of the plates covering the submarine's crew
The plate, which probably weighs around 200 pounds, could be
loose from the submarine as early as today. In all, 94 rivets hold each half-circle plate
in place.
Dr. Bob Neyland, the project's manager, said the plate will
likely be strapped in place until all three plates they plan to remove are loose.
When those three plates, which are roughly two feet wide, are
detached, senior archaeologists Maria Jacobsen will being the interior excavation of the
Confederate sub. At this rate, the excavation could begin before the end of the month.
Neyland said Monday that, so far, everything is going well and
the plates are springing away from the hull. Scientists were afraid they would have to
find a way to pry the plates loose.
As scientists chip away at the concretion of the hull, they are
finding the Hunley's skin is smooth and still black. Beneath the protective coating of
sand and silt, the submarine has been preserved well.
Thursday, February 15, 2001
Archaeologists working on the Confederate submarine Hunley
have drilled out all the rivets from one of the plates covering the crew compartment. They
even tried to jiggle the plate loose.
Ninety-four rivets came out. "We tried to ease the plate off
a little," said project manager Dr. Bob Neyland. "The plate's not coming off
easy, which isn't a surprise considering it's 137 years old and made well."
Neyland said there might be a millimeter of separation. In the
meantime, the team is applying heat and doing some gentle prying and chiseling away of the
concretion on the sub's hull to try and help move the process along.
The excavation team plans to remove rivets from three panels in
the crew compartment before opening the sub and clearing away the silt to look for the
crew's remains.
The work has proved to be slow, and it could be a week before
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"There's no reason to rush," Neyland said.
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Well done! Very impressed.
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WOW lisa that really looks great I enjoy all your stuff. Do you do this full time? Also question do you put the fondant and butter cream combo into a fridge? Do you wrap it in cellophane? In other words how do you protect the integraty of the rolled fondant. Have you ever put a gum paste project into the fridge.
Thank you for the kind words! Yes, I do this full time out of my home. I am well equipped with two large ovens and three fridges. Yes, I put my fondant and buttercream in the fridge all the time - I've had no problems in the last 8 years - no, I do not wrap any cake that has been finished iced. I put gumpaste in the fridge all the time with no problem - but to clarify, I wait until the last day or day before the wedding to put gumpaste flowers on the cake. If the bows/flowers are not on a cake, I leave them out at room temp in a clean, dry area away from sunlight. The only items I do not put in the fridge until the day of the wedding are royal icing items as they will get soft and lose their shape against the buttercream and moisture. Hope this helps! :) Lisa
Where did you get the molds for the buttons?
That mold is the cheap Wilton mold available at Walmart and Michaels for about $5.99. Works really well! Lisa
What wonderful timing in finding this cake for inspiration. It looks like my special little sweet pea, my very special golden retriever Lucy is going to be having a cataract removed. We were at the animal eye surgeon on Tuesday. When I saw this cake I thought what a PERFECT idea to do as a thank-you on one of our follow up visits after the surgery. I don't think I'll try to do it for her day of surgery, that's too stressful all for one day but that will give me a chance to snoop a little that day and discover a little personalized info I can place on the cake. It's also a small staff so I don't need to worry about feeding the masses. Keep up the incredible work, I always LOVE to see your creations. I'll have to keep this hidden from all of my doctors and my local vet if this turns out well. I'll end up having to do one for every place I go.


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When Eelekoa Kanamee was growing up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, he loved to race down to the beach after a big storm to hunt for bottles that had washed ashore.
The cobalt blue ones are his favorites to this day. It's a preference he shares with partner Alan Petravich, who had his own blue-bottle collection when the two met in California in 2004.
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BAY CITY, MI — A night of celebrating a friend's upcoming marriage resulted in two of the revelers recovering from stab wounds and a third man jailed in connection with the incident fewer than 24 hours later.
Around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Bay City police responded to fight and double-stabbing near Madison Pub, 1001 S. Madison Ave. on the city's South End. According to police reports, officers arrived to the sight of Chad A. Rauschenberger, 26, standing in front of 1008 S. Madison Ave., his shirt covered in blood. Andrew J. Prevost, 27, was nearby, also bleeding from fresh wounds.
Both men were part of the bachelor party, which arrived at the pub on a party bus around 10:30 p.m.
"We went over there … and were hanging out, just having a good old time," said party member Zane J. Geeting. The mood soon soured when a 23-year-old male patron told a bartender that something bad was going to happen to the party-goers if they didn't leave, Geeting said.
The group left the bar and started getting back on the bus, Geeting said. The groom-to-be and a friend had yet to board when Geeting heard that some of the bar patrons were attempting to goad them into a fight.
Geeting said about 10 members of the party left the bus and walked a block down the street. "When we came around the corner, there were about five guys backing (them) down the road," he said. "They had their shirts off, were hooting and hollering and had their fists up like they wanted to fight."
One member of the smaller group punched the groom and a fight ensued. At some point during the melee, Prevost and Rauschenberger were stabbed. Though he didn't see it happen, Geeting said he believed the two men were attempting to break up the squabble when they were stabbed.
The two victims were taken to McLaren Bay Region hospital. Prevost suffered wounds to his thigh, right wrist and knee and under his right arm, while Rauschenberger was stabbed twice in his back and once each in his right thigh and right side.
Both men told police they were attempting to break up the fight when they were stabbed.
Witnesses told police the man who instigated the fight and punched the groom had fled to a house on South Monroe Avenue. Police visited the house and found the man, who initially denied being at the bar. He later said he was there but left before the fight happened.
The following day, Kyle L. Perrou, 24, visited the hospital for treatment of injuries he said he sustained in the fight. He contacted police, who met him there.
Perrou told police he was with two friends outside Madison Pub when about 20 men started chasing them. The group of three tried to escape, but ended up being jumped. Perrou said he was punched several times and briefly knocked out. At one point, one of the members of the bachelor party pulled a knife and Perrou wrestled him for it, he said.
Perrou said he didn't remember or not if he stabbed anyone.
Police arrested Perrou and he was arraigned Monday in Bay County District Court on two counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to cause harm less than murder. Judge Timothy J. Kelly set his bond at $100,000.
As he did with police, Perrou told the judge he and his friends were jumped without provocation and that he only fought back in self-defense.
Geeting said Prevost has been released from hospital and that he has met with him since the incident.
"Having seen Andrew's wounds, I think there was more than one person stabbing," he said.
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In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in China's Sichuan province and on the eve of the Olympics this August in Beijing, Discovery Channel Managing Editor Ted Koppel presents KOPPEL ON DISCOVERY: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CAPITALISM, a sweeping four-part series which examines modern China. An advance screening of the documentary, followed by a question-and-answer session with some of the programs producers, will be
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AGREED: Pierce Brosnan has committed to do a fifth James Bond movie for producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, reports Variety columnist Army Archerd. "The invitation has been accepted," says Brosnan, 49. The next Bond picture, which hasn't been written, probably will not start filming until early 2005, according to the trade paper. The current 007 adventure, "Die Another Day," costarring Halle Berry, opens Nov. 22.
TREATED: Veteran actor Robert Stack, 83, is undergoing outpatient radiation treatment for prostate cancer, his publicist tells the Associated Press. Stack, who started playing handsome teen boyfriend roles at MGM in the '40s, rose to prominence in the '60s when he played crimefighter Eliot Ness on TV's "The Untouchables" and then, later, as host of the NBC reality show "Unsolved Mysteries."
ADMITTED: "Stripped" singing star Christina Aguilera, 21, was not permitted to get her ears pierced when she was a little girl, but now she has some 11 piercings (in every place one could imagine), she tells Rolling Stone. Aguilera reveals she started getting piercings when she was on tour after her first album. "If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing," Aguilera tells the magazine. "It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else."
OBSERVED: Steven Spielberg, visiting Cuba for the first time on Monday, said the U.S. should end its 40-year trade embargo against the communist-run island and allow more cultural interaction with Cubans, Reuters reports. He is there on a cultural mission. "I personally feel that this embargo should be lifted. I do not see any reason for accepting old grudges being played out in the 21st Century," Spielberg, 56, said at a news conference. "It does not make sense to me that my country will trade with North Korea and China, but not with Cuba."
ACCUSED: Five men arrested Saturday night in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham, the Spice Girl wife of England soccer captain David Beckham, appeared in a London court Monday on unrelated charges of allegedly stealing a valuable jeweled turban from Sotheby's auction house, Reuters reports. The Five men are Azem Krifsha, 30 a Kosovan living in London; Joseph Rivas, 24 from London; Rusu Sorin, 31, a Romanian living in London; Adrian Razvan Pasareanu, 28, a Romanian living in Morden, south London and Alin Turcu, 18, a Romanian living near London.
MOURNED: Jonathan Harris, 87, who portrayed the foppish villain Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1965-68 CBS sci-fi show "Lost in Space," died in Southern California Sunday from a blood clot in his heart while receiving therapy for a chronic back problem, a family spokesman tells the Associated Press. Born Jonathan Charasuchin in the Bronx to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Harris adopted the stage persona of a classically trained British actor. In recent years he supplied the voices of Manny, the preying-mantis magician in "A Bug's Life," and of the elderly doll repairman in "Toy Story 2."
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The money comes from the federal Recreational Trails Grant Program, which is administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. It will buy equipment to be used on the 70 existing miles of hiking and horseback-riding trails on Forever Wild's 227,573 acres of wildlife management areas, nature preserves and recreational properties. More than 100 additional miles, including at least one trail dedicated to mountain biking, are under construction or planned on Forever Wild properties.
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During the lockout, players are lacing up their skates overseas, and they are wearing some interesting jerseys.
If you are tired of hearing about CBA agreements or lockout news, this silly slideshow should brighten up your day.
In the words of Heath Ledger as The Joker, "Don't take things too seriously, now."
This slideshow will look at 20 of the strangest jersey sponsorships in hockey history.
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