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I've been busy and lazy with all the schooling these few weeks >.> I have midterms coming up along with exams and evaluations to keep me occupied in the meantime T^T But I'm back!
I really am not consistent am I? :P
Recent pic of moi~
I've been growing my bangs again, and I've decided that I will grow out my layers too! I want the loong-flowy-hair-with-the-blended-bangs look LOL
And since I have always had short layers and bangs, I thought that it's time for a change~
Recently I have been sporting the wavy hair look as well, by twisting my hair into buns, after a shower that is xD
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Okay, so I said that I'd review two products from LUVIEW sooo long ago but never got to it, now's the time to finally do so!
I participated in a contest a while back and won, the winners got to choose two products from their makeup selection and I chose their Crystal Cover BB Cream and Crystal Mineral Pact.
So far I have been using these two products EVERY day and I must say that I really love them!
Here's goes the review~
Crystal Cover BB Cream
Packaging: 5/5
An elegant packaging for an elegant product ^^ You dispense the product by pressing the top and the BB cream comes out through the nozzle. It doesn't come out as white as another reviewer said though T^T I was looking forward to it haha
Color/Appearance: 5/5
It leaves a very matte and dewy finish! The tone of it is very.. blendable as one might say haha It really works in giving an even skin tone. Comes in two shades(light beige and natural beige), mine is the light beige tone.
Coverage: 4/5
I'd say that this BB cream does a well job in this aspect. Of course it won't completely cover up darker blemishes, it's said that it can be applied on more heavily in certain areas to be used as cover up.
Oil control/dryness: 4.5/5
I've used this without applying moisturizer before *accidently* and it worked just as well. So this may end up just a tad bit on the oily side. But to avoid the oily feel/look a setting powder should be used although not necessary.
Which brings me to the...
Crystal Mineral Pact
Packaging: 5/5
What can I say? Elegance~~ haha And like many powder compacts, this has a little flip up compartment for the powder puff
Coverage: 3.5/5
Powders aren't known to be awesome coverups or anything so look to the photos for reference :D However, this powder works very well for setting the BB cream.
Color/Appearance: 5/5
Very matte and smooth finishing, it does not leave a cakey feeling or make you have a cake-face haha It is on the lighter side though, and there is not another shade that it comes in(for all I know).
Oil control: 5/5
What more can I say? It works well! But I am not the oily skin type either so.. sorry, I am not of much help here.
Demonstration Photos:
I recently received a scar on my hand from a wonderful cat(It's my friend's, I by accident pet it like a dog -______-'') and so, I will use that scar to demonstrate how well these two products work...
|The beautiful scar...
|Blended BB cream
Till next time~
I leave you... with my face xD
|Wearing GEO Nudy Greys if anyone was wondering.
Random: I noticed that I can look really different in different photos... Which I personally think is kind of cool :P But I guess everything depends on lighting and angles haha
Does this ever happen to you guys too?!


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A Baltimore City Council member has proposed making the curfew for city children earlier than it currently is.
Councilman Brandon Scott said he wants a new curfew system based on a child's age.
The plan he proposed would create a 9 p.m. curfew for children younger than 14. For children ages 14-17, the curfew would be 10 p.m. on school nights and 11 p.m. on the weekends and during the summer.
The current law gives a midnight deadline for all minors, from infants to teenagers.
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Hagerty leaves gift to Erie's Cathedral Prep
In life, Monsignor John B. Hagerty was a pastor, a teacher, a leader.
In death, he is continuing another role: benefactor.
Hagerty, a former headmaster and teacher at Cathedral Preparatory School who died in April at age 83, left $240,000 to the school in two separate gifts. The Rev. Phil Oriole, the executor of his estate, delivered the first half of that gift to the school on Monday.
Chris Hagerty, John B. Hagerty's second cousin and the school's director of strategic initiatives, said the monsignor would never want the gift to advance his own name.
"If it encourages a spirit of charitable giving in people's hearts, that would be his wish," he said.
The money will be used for financial assistance and scholarships for needy students who might not otherwise be able to attend the school, and for renovation work on the school chapel.
The Rev. Scott Jabo, president of Cathedral Prep and Villa Maria Academy, said the gift is "a way of keeping Monsignor Hagerty alive in the hearts of other students.
"It's a great reflection of his commitment to Catholic education and his desire to see every student have the opportunity to see Catholic education," Jabo said.
"A gift of this magnitude is going to carry monsignor's legacy for generations and generations," added Paul Simon, the school's director of advancement.
Oriole, a former student of Hagerty's when he taught at St. Mark Seminary, remembered Hagerty as a man with a great sense of humility and an "Irish joy" in faith and life.
Support of Catholic education was "really the whole point of his life as a priest," Oriole said.
Hagerty graduated from Cathedral Prep in 1947 and taught there from 1957 to 1960. He served as headmaster from 1984 to 1989. He came out of retirement to teach Latin in 2012-13.
"When he was 26 years old, he's teaching 15-year-old kids during his first year as a priest," Chris Hagerty said. "At age 83 he's teaching 15-year-old kids, and he still connected with them.
"He was much more than a Latin teacher."
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History and Theory of Cooperatives
Morris Altman
University of Newcastle; Victoria University of Wellington - School of Economics & Finance
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL SOCIETY, Helmut Anheier, Stefan Toepler, eds., Springer, 2009
Cooperatives have evolved significantly over the last 200 years and are of increasing importance to economies throughout the world. Yet, cooperatives are marginalised and treated as inefficient and ineffective organisational types. This paper discusses the significance of cooperatives over historical time and the extent to which they are both efficient and effective economically and socially. Alternative theory is used to provide insight into the cooperative advantage in different economic sectors, and shows that cooperative solutions can produce higher socioeconomic welfare levels to members whilst also overcoming significant market failures. Also, competitive market places and cooperatives are not incompatible as market forces cannot force non-cooperative solutions to socioeconomic problems. Cooperatives show that democratic governance within the firm can contribute significantly to socioeconomic well-being.
Keywords: Cooperatives, Inefficiency, Organisational types, History, Market failures, Welfare, Socioeconomics
JEL Classification: P13, J54
Date posted: January 26, 2010
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Who makes the world turn? Who are the people with all the power, the influence?
Time mag knows. On Thursday, it unveiled its 10th annual Time 100, a list of the influentialest individuals on the globe - at least those who are visible. The real Power, we all know, resides in the hands of a Dastardly Invisible Elite.
President Obama makes the list for the eighth time. First Lady Michelle Obama also makes the cut. Other politicos include veep Joe Biden, New Jersey's Chris Christie, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and the light of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi (more on her below).


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A bocce throw, when the ball is thrown overhand as hard as possible to know the other teams ball away from the palino. The name Ruffe stems from the generic date rape drug name, and with both the date rape drug, and this throw, the main purpose is to knock out the target.
"Go for a Ruffe so they dont score their ninth point and win this round."
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Something someone slips into a girl's drink so he can have sex with her
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Best Buy has some doorbuster deals lined up for those brave enough to hit the stores on Black Friday. Keep in mind that many of these deals are in limited quantity so that means getting to the store early is necessary, in the case of Best Buy they are opening at 5am.
With a nice list of deals the one that stands out the most is the Toshiba A135-7404 laptop and Canon PIXMA MP210 all-in-one printer for $229. The laptop features a 15.4-inch TruBrite widescreen display, an Intel Celeron M processor, 512MB RAM, 80GB hard drive, double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW drive, CD/DVD media controls and a 5-in-1 bridge media adapter.
In addition to the Toshiba laptop they also have some digital cameras, video cameras, Plasma and LCD TV's, external hard drives, PMP's, GPS units, video games and some DVD's. Click the read link below for the complete list of deals.


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Sandy Strawn
Professor, Properties Production, Head of Technical Production
BFA/BSE Emporia State University
(414) 229-5046
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Professor Strawn is Head of Technical Production for the theatre department at UW-Milwaukee. Teaching properties design and production classes in the BFA program, her creative work is onstage each semester both as a designer and a properties director. She is the author of The Properties Director's Handbook (Focal Press, 2013) as well as an online textbook: prophandbook.com. Present scholarly activities center around the archival process for regional theatre history and archival work on the UWM theatre department production history.
As a designer, properties artisan, and scenic artist, Strawn has enjoyed over four decades of professional theatre experience. Strawn has designed scenery for Milwaukee Chamber Theater, First Stage Milwaukee, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee's Music Under the Stars, the Northern Stage Company, Renaissance Theatreworks, and Milwaukee Ballet. International credits include tours to Canada, Greece, Ireland, Great Britain, Japan, and Australia. Her extensive professional prop experience was highlighted by six seasons as the Resident Properties Master for Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL) working on over three hundred productions, including the premier productions of Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, Extremities, Lone Star, Gin Game, and Getting Out. She was also the Properties Artisan for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (MRT) for five seasons. Other professional prop credits include summer seasons at the Guthrie Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Pennsylvania Festival Theatre.


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Here is how I see events playing out:
- wet snow, perhaps mixed with rain at onset, will develop sometime after midnight
- snow will become moderate in intensity by Friday morning
- Friday will bring moderate to heavy snowfall, especially from late morning to late afternoon
- northeasterly winds will gust up to 30mph at times, especially over eastern areas, causing the potential for blowing and drifting snow and wind chills in the teens or lower
- temperatures will slowly drop through the day from early "highs" in the upper 20s to near 20 by early evening
- moderate snowfall will persist, though with lighter winds, Friday night, as temperatures drop to the mid-to-upper teens
- snow should taper off rather rapidly by early Saturday morning
I realize this is a wide range, but in an event like this, I believe that location will significantly affect snow totals. For snowfall distribution, I anticipate that the highest amounts will be as you move northwest from Denver towards Boulder and the foothills; lower amounts from downtown Denver to points south and east.
Note: ground temperatures are very warm due to our recent temperatures in the 60s; it is quite possible that much of the snow will not stick to paved surfaces, except during the heaviest snowfall. This is tough to predict, though, so roads could, indeed, become slick during the day Friday, and will certainly ice over Friday night.
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Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 300 species of shrubs and trees, which are found worldwide mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish. The generic name honours German botanist and pharmacist Valerius Cordus (1515-1544).[1] Like most other Boraginaceae, a majority have trichomes (hairs) on the leaves.
Many Cordias have fragrant, showy flowers and are popular in gardens, although they are not especially hardy.[2]
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A number of the tropical species have edible fruits, known by a wide variety of names including clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles. In India, the fruits of local species are used as a vegetable, raw, cooked, or pickled, and are known by many names, including lasora in Hindi. One such species is Fragrant Manjack (C. dichotoma), which is called gunda or tenti dela in Hindi and lasura in Nepali. The fruit of the Fragrant Manjack is called phoà-pò·-chí (破布子), 樹子仔, or 樹子(POJ: chhiū-chí) in Taiwan where they are eaten pickled.
The wood of several Cordia species is commercially harvested. Ecuador Laurel (C. alliodora), Ziricote (C. dodecandra), Spanish Elm (C. gerascanthus), and C. goeldiana are used to make furniture and doors in Central and South America.[2]
Ziricote[3] and Bocote[4] are sometimes used as a wood for making acoustic guitar backs and sides. Well-known guitarist Richard Thompson currently plays a Lowden F-35C RT Richard Thompson Signature Model with Ziricote back and sides.[5] Similarly, drums are made from C. abyssinica, C. millenii, and C. platythrysa due to the resonance of the wood.[6]
Cordia species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species, such as Endoclita malabaricus, Bucculatrix caribbea, and Bucculatrix cordiaella.[7] The Wild Olive Tortoise Beetle (Physonota alutacea) feeds on C. boissieri, C. dentata, C. inermis, and C. macrostachya.[8]
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C. sinensis trees.
- ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: A-C. CRC Press. pp. 612–613. ISBN 9780849326752. http://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC&.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bennett, Masha (2003). Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Timber Press. pp. 196–198. ISBN 9780881925890. http://books.google.com/books?id=bMUABcfWFNgC&.
- ↑ http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=+Backs+and+Sides&NameProdHeader=Ziricote Luthiers Mercantile page about Ziricote
- ↑ http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdproducts.asp?CategoryName=+Backs+and+Sides&NameProdHeader=Bocote Luthiers Mercantile page about Ziricote
- ↑ Presad, Anil (October 2009). "Richard Thompson" (PDF). Guitar Player: 50. http://www.richardthompson-music.com/docs/Guitar%20Player.pdf.
- ↑ Tudge, Colin (2007). The Tree. Random House. p. 237. ISBN 9780307395399. http://books.google.com/books?id=lUvmxt3_OGgC&.
- ↑ Davis, Donald R.; Bernard Landry; Lazaro Roque-albelo (2002). "Two new Neotropical species of Bucculatrix leaf miners (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) reared from Cordia (Boraginaceae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109 (2): 277–294. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13796205.
- ↑ Quinn, Mike. "Wild Olive Tortoise Beetle Physonota alutacea Boheman, 1854". Texas Beetle Information. Texas Entomology. http://www.texasento.net/Physonota.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Grandtner, Miroslav M. (2005). Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees. 1. Elsevier. pp. 252–260. ISBN 9780444517845. http://books.google.com/books?id=yjc5ZYWtkNAC.
- ↑ "Cordia dichotoma Forst. f.". Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Plant Growth Facilities. University of Connecticut. 2009-10-06. http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/198500500.html. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ↑ "Subordinate Taxa of Cordia L.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSubordinateTaxa.aspx?nameid=40014011. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Species Records of Cordia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2921. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
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It will be the "Mad Russian" versus the "Steel Horse" as two teams from The University of Texas-Pan American compete in the national Midwest Mini Baja competition, June 5-8 in Dayton, Ohio. The UTPA teams will be among 147 teams competing from the United States and around the world in the Midwest competition.
Sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the object of the Mini Baja competition is to simulate real-world engineering design projects. Students work together to design, build, test, promote and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules. There are three regional competition locations - West, East and Midwest.
This year UTPA has entered two vehicles in the competition. One vehicle, named the "Mad Russian," had an all female design team - a first for UTPA. Dr. Arturo Fuentes, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and faculty adviser to the Mini Baja participants, hopes both teams land in the top 20. Last year UTPA's one entry placed 22nd out of 125 teams.
The design team for the "Mad Russian" includes Ariana Gonzalez, team captain; Claudia Garcia; Ericka Ramirez; and Cecilia Treviño, all recent graduates in mechanical engineering. Other team members include freshman Hiram Rivera and sophomore Travis Brandt.
The other team, commanding the "Steel Horse," includes Rogelio Zamorano, team captain and Fernando Gallegos, team co-captain, both juniors; sophomore Michelle Moreno; and seniors Gabriel Salinas, Noe Salinas and Albino Rodriguez. Members of both teams are mechanical engineering majors. Team participants must also be members of SAE.
The prototype is a four-wheel, single seat, off-road recreational vehicle that is intended for the non-professional driver. The vehicle must be safe, easily maintained and transported, fun to drive, endure rough terrain and maintain a long life of components.
Gonzalez said the male designed car is faster and will probably do better in the speed events. However, she said the female designed car has more torque which will allow it to perform better in the hill climb and sled pull - two of the many events the cars are tested in. The cars will perform in a four hour endurance race on the last day of competition. Team members take turns driving in the different events. Top mobility industry experts score all events and pre-submitted design and cost reports to determine the winners.
"This competition is a learning experience that will be a foundation for their professional careers," Fuentes said.
All the female design team members have already secured jobs with major companies - Garcia at Lockheed-Martin in Ft. Worth, Texas; Gonzalez at Lockheed-Martin in California; Ramirez at Raytheon in California; and Treviño at General Motors in Michigan.
Ramirez said the competition experience helped her in obtaining a job.
"I had to learn about business, how to raise and handle money, as well as make many presentations concerning the car. Recruiters like seeing this type of experience on your resume," Ramirez said.
Gallegos echoed Ramirez' praise of the competition experience.
"What you learn in class you get to apply in real life and we also have a lot of fun," said Gallegos.
For the competition, Fuentes said the students go through the complete engineering design process including the design, analyses of different types of impacts and rollover, and testing of the different systems, including the power train, steering, suspension - all following under an extensive list of safety recommendations and requirements.
There are many benefits to participating in the competition Fuentes said. "Students get to network with top engineers and the world gets to see what we can do at our University," he said.
Teams are provided a 10-horsepower engine donated by Briggs and Stratton but are responsible for raising funds to pay for the raw materials, component parts, tools and other expenses of production and competition.
Major sponsors of this year's teams are Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon. Fuentes also credited significant support from University technicians, faculty, Office of External Affairs and University President Dr. Miguel A. Nevárez.
For more information on SAE or the Mini Baja competition, contact Dr. Fuentes at 956/316-7099.


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2010-11 (Junior)
Saw action in 23 games, starting one, while averagig 11.1 minutes of playing time per outing ... Scored a season-high 11 points twice, against Jacksonville (12/2) and UALR (12/23) ... Scored 10 points in the game at Florida State (12/15) ... Shot 49.1 percent from the floor, hitting 26 of his 53 field goal attempts ... Hit 23-of-32 from the free throw line (71.9) ... Grabbed a total of 26 rebounds.
2009-10 (Sophomore)
Sat out the 2009-10 season after transferring from Stony Brook.
College (Freshman)
Played his freshman season at Stony Brook ... Played 25 total minutes in four games for the Seawolves scoring two points and pulling down three rebounds ... Transferred to Stetson to play closer to home.
High School
Graduated from Dwyer High School in West Palm Beach ... Earned four varsity letters as a member of the Panthers basketball team under Coach Ross ... Averaged 18 points and seven rebounds as a senior ... Averaged 13 points and five rebounds as a junior ... Helped team win state title as a freshman and sophomore.
Born November 19, 1988 in Newark, New Jersey ... Son of Marsley and Dale Paul of West Palm Beach, Florida ... Majoring in Sports Management at Stetson.


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OS X 10.9.3 13D33: Safari Levels Up and a Unicorn
What does a unicorn look like? How about an eight-core 3.7GHz 2013 Mac Pro running OS X 10.9.3 13D33, which is what the above OpenGL Extension Viewer screen cap shows. It also, by the way, shows the current version of OpenGL that ships baked into this Mavericks update.
Last week, Apple pushed OS X 10.9.3 13D28 and there didn't seem to be much if anything new therein.
Seven days later, a pattern Apple's been repeating with OS X 10.9.3, there is a fresh developer seed and, wha'dya know, not much is new.
For what it's worth the mothership is still asking devs to focus their testing efforts on Graphics Drivers, Audio, Mail, Contacts + Calendar sync over USB in iTunes and Safari. On that note, the Safari 7.0.3 build number (9537.75.14) that ships with OS X 10.9.3 13D33 is the same as Apple delivered earlier this week with the stand-alone install of Safari 7.0.3.
Kind of an odd stutter step, but things are in sync again.
That said, iTunes 11.1.6 beta 5 comes with OS X 10.9.3 13D33, as well. No idea what if anything's changed, but that appears to be newer.
Otherwise, OS X 10.9.3 13D33 looks, smells and tastes, according to knowledgeable sources, very much like 13D28.
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Forward Pricing Indirect Rate Review for Fiscal Year 2003
March 2005
Reference Number: 2005-1C-043
This report has cleared the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration disclosure review process and information determined to be restricted from public release has been redacted from this document.
March 29, 2005
FROM: Daniel R. Devlin /s/ Daniel R. Devlin
Assistant Inspector General for Audit (Headquarters Operations and
Exempt Organizations Programs)
SUBJECT: Forward Pricing Indirect Rate Review for Fiscal Year 2003 (Audit #20051C0208)
The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) examined the contractor's Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 forward pricing proposal dated May 3, 2002. The purpose of the examination was to determine whether the proposed forward pricing indirect rates and costs are acceptable as a basis to negotiate fair and reasonable contract prices.
The DCAA opined that the contractor's original cost or pricing data are inadequate. The original proposal was not prepared in all respects in accordance with applicable Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and appropriate provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The DCAA identified questioned costs that significantly changed both the General Overhead and General and Administrative rates. During the examination, the DCAA discussed its position with the contractor, and the contractor concurred with the DCAA's position for FY 2003. In the DCAA's opinion, the final revised cost or pricing data submitted by the offeror in the revised forward pricing budget proposal are adequate because the contractor corrected the areas of CAS noncompliance.
However, the contractor did not agree to revise its indirect rates for FYs 2004 and forward. Rather, the contractor verbally advised the DCAA that it would propose accounting changes effective with FY 2004 and prepare a revised budget. The DCAA has not yet received the revised Disclosure Statements with official notification of any accounting changes. Due to uncertainties associated with the out-years (FYs 2004 – 2006), the DCAA had no basis upon which to evaluate the Civil Group's forward pricing indirect rates beyond FY 2003. Accordingly, the examination was limited to an evaluation of the indirect rates for FY 2003.
The DCAA also stated the contractor is in the process of planning an internal reorganization that will be effective at the beginning of the contractor's FY 2004. However, the contractor has not provided a proposal that identifies the potential impact of the planned reorganization on the proposed forward pricing rates.
This DCAA report was issued in January 2003; however, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) did not receive copy of the report until February 2005. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) previously received a copy of the report directly from the DCAA. We are transmitting this report to you to enable the IRS to track any financial accomplishments derived from negotiations with the contractor based on the results of this DCAA report.
The information in this report should not be used for purposes other than those intended without prior consultation with the TIGTA regarding their applicability.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (202) 622-8500 or John R. Wright, Director, at (202) 927-7077.
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Samoas Milkshake
Girl Scout Cookie buying season is almost over. So I had to stock up this weekend. And with the incredibly warm San Diego weather, I was inspired to make this milkshake.
At first, I thought of adding cocoa powder, caramel, coconut into the milkshake to replicate the Samoas cookies flavors. But then I decided to just go for the real thing and I mashed Samoas cookies with vanilla ice cream. This wasn't the prettiest milkshake base, but it tasted like Samoas cookies. Yum.
To make it prettier, I drizzled the top with chocolate syrup, caramel syrup and sprinkled some shredded coconut.
Samoas Milkshake
1 cup vanilla ice cream
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5 Samoas cookies
Blend cookies, milk and ice cream in blender until smooth. Top with syrup and coconut flakes if desired.
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A man in his 50s who was questioned by gardaí investigating organised criminal activity in Co Kildare has been released without charge.
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The Iowa vs. Indiana game Tuesday night has been postponed, officials announced this afternoon.
Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass sad a piece of metal falling from the ceiling into seats raised safety concerns.
The metal facing was about 8 feet long and damaged seats in the northwest corner of the building.
"Safety is our No.1 priority," said Glass in a news release issued Tuesday. "Our University engineers have advised us to postpone events in Assembly Hall until it can be determined what caused the facing to fall and ensure the safety of everyone attending an event in the facility."
The rescheduling of the Iowa contest and the status of Wednesday's women's game with Michigan will be determined as soon as possible, school officials said.


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Our View: Anti-violence ideas need follow-through
Darrell Dickerson Jr. would have celebrated his 31st birthday today. But Dickerson was shot and killed on Oct. 3, 2001, in an attempted robbery on West 17th Street. He was 18 years old.
You might not remember Dickerson's name or recall the violent crime. But his family lives with the pain, which intensifies every time there is another senseless act of violence in Erie, such as the Jan. 5 shooting that claimed the life of 26-year-old Rashid Anderson.
Tammy Dickerson, Darrell Dickerson's stepmother, fears that people have forgotten about his death. But her family will always remember the agony they've gone through -- learning about the murder, hearing about the plea deals for Marcus Martin and Kevin Jefferson, and sitting through the homicide trial for Mack D'Juan Hill and Jonnie McDowell.
McDowell was 26 and Hill was 17 when Dickerson was shot to death. Both were sentenced to life in prison.
In December 2001, when Hill was extradited to Erie from a juvenile detention center in Youngstown, Ohio, members of the victim's family gathered as Hill was led into the Erie police station.
"He's a baby. I couldn't believe how young he looks," Patricia Barrett, Dickerson's maternal grandmother, said then. "He looked like a little kid, a teeny baby," added Tonynia Laine Babcock, the victim's mother.
"I want to say I'm sorry for what happened to the victim. I feel bad for what happened," Hill said when he was sentenced to prison nearly a year after the murder.
But apologies are too late. Too many kids and young adults in Erie are still using guns for threats, armed robberies and homicides. Anderson became Erie County's first homicide victim for 2014 when he was shot to death at a private party at the East Erie Turners. Courtney D. Harden, 21, also known as Courtney D. Harden-Pulliam, turned himself into police a week ago Wednesday. He has been charged with numerous gun-related crimes, including homicide-murder, for Anderson's death.
In two incidents after the shooting at the club, in which three others were hurt, shots were fired at the suspect's house in the 2300 block of Holland Street. Michael Noble, 25, has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault in the first incident on Holland Street.
So when does it ever end? If there is any good news, it's that Erie people want to work together to stop Erie's gun violence. That was evident at the Booker T. Washington Center on Thursday when about 75 people turned out to share their crime-prevention ideas.
Mothers Against Teen Violence, founded by Sonya Arrington, organized the forum. Arrington founded MATV shortly after her son, Steven Arrington, was shot to death on Jan. 5, 2010. He was 19; his killer was 17. MATV now provides a mentoring program for teens and preteens. Participants at the public meeting generated other good ideas -- helping parents to communicate with their children, offering more after-school activities, teaching youngsters values and respect.
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A term used to describe when people playing Dungeons and Dragons get distracted during the game and get off track, which happens often. Derived from ADD. (attention deficit disorder)
Hey! ADnD! Let's kill these goblins!
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JACKSON, MI -- Steve Grace says Democratic voters should choose him in Tuesday's primary because he wants Democrats and Republicans to work together. Bonnie Johnson says she's the best choice because she has a history of fighting for the middle class.
The two Democrats are seeking the 65th State House District that has been represented by Republican Mike Shirkey for the last two years. One of them will face the winner of Tuesday's Republican primary, either Shirkey or Columbia School Board member Dan Fulara.
Johnson, 64, a retired Michigan Department of Corrections officer, and Grace, 55, a journeyman who works at Tenneco Automotive, have many things in common. Both live in Leoni Township. Both say public education needs more funding. Both have union backgrounds and say they want to help the middle class.
"Steve Grace and I are friends," Johnson said. "We want to continue to be friends."
She said she is unhappy that Shirkey voted for public education cuts and measures that increased income taxes for many middle class taxpayers.
Snyder and Republicans in the Legislature made reducing business taxes their top priority in an attempt to turn around Michigan's struggling economy.
"Mike Shirkey's record on his voting has just really upset me," Johnson said. "Every vote he's cast has been for big businesses, corporations. ... His record has been continually against the middle class, and I have fought too long for the middle class and the union to just sit back."
Grace said he would push for Republicans and Democrats to compromise.
"I want to make things better, try to get both sides to come together, start working for everyday people instead of just special interest groups," he said. "A compromise means we both win. And the people of Michigan need to win. If everybody wins, then we all prosper. You can't sacrifice one focus group for another focus group. Everything has to be on the table."
Johnson said she supports tax cuts for small businesses and wants to get rid of the pension tax and fully restore the Earned Income Tax Credit that was reduced by Snyder and the Legislature. She also wants to restore the Homestead Property Tax Credit, which was eliminated for some homeowners.
"The biggest issue, as far as I am concerned, is putting our school system back together to give every kid a fighting chance with the smaller class sizes and to equip our classrooms with technology. We need to invest in our future, and our future is our children."
Gov. Rick Snyder and the Legislature reduced per-pupil public school funding by $100 per student for the 2011-12 school year and did not restore a $170-per-student reduction from the previous year.
Grace said at least half the school cuts need to be restored. "They cut so much money out of education," he said. "I really think some of the business people in the government are trying to cherry pick our educational programs. I'm not saying it doesn't need to be reformed. Like I said, everything needs to be on the table. But I think the unions, the teachers, the administrators and the government needs to sit down at the table and say, 'How can we do a better job and cut costs and provide a quality education?' The kids are the ones that are going to suffer."
He said he opposes the pension tax. "When you start giving all these breaks to businesses and you start putting all the burden on retirees and the working family, then they pay more," Grace said. "I don't want to see the state turning into a corporate welfare state. We want to invest in our businesses and we want them to prosper, because we want them to hire more people. But they have to pay their fair share."
Johnson was a corrections employee chief union steward for close to 20 years and still volunteers with the Service Employees International Union.
Grace is a United Auto Workers member. He has run unsuccessfully for Leoni Township supervisor and the Jackson County Board of Commissioners.
The two Democrats have similar views on abortion.
Johnson said abortion should be legal, but not past the first trimester unless the mother's life is in danger. "Abortion is not for me or my family, but I do not feel I have the right to impose my feelings on the next-door-neighbor," she said.
Grace said abortion should be legal, but there should be greater restrictions. He said he likely would support legislation introduced in Michigan that would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother's life is in danger. As an Orthodox Christian, he said he doesn't believe in abortion. "But I also feel it's not my job to be in the doctor's office between a woman and her doctor," he said.


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When a man's penis, whether hard or not, is pointing upwards in his pants against his stomach. Usually happens when laying down, but is most uncomfortable standing up.
*whispers to Dalton sitting next to him in class* Dude, I'm up so up north right now, but I don't want anyone to see me adjust myself.
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North of Yonkers
He got sent up north/up the river
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The upper peninsula of Michigan.
Up north is a virtual mystery to those of us from the lower peninsula.
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The north of England. Anywhere from Northumbria south to Derbyshire. Home to a bunch of inbred mutants, and the League Of Gentlemen. Wierd people.
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Preparing your Job Search for Master of Education Students
Feeling uncertain about what you want to do next or unclear about how to get there? Taking some time to explore the employment options open to individuals with graduate degrees in education, and to learn strategies for making yourself competitive for those options, might help ease your mind.
When: January 22, 2013 7 p.m.
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30th Pacific NW Institute on Special Education and the Law will be held October 7-9
This popular conference on Special Education and the Law is held annually in the fall at various sites in the region. The Institute includes featured keynote speakers at three general sessions and twenty workshops over two days. The Institute is preceded by a full day of optional mini-courses providing formal instruction in various special education law topics, including empirical and practical studies of special education and general education law. Washington clock hours and Washington and Oregon CLE credits are available at no additional cost.
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I'm Done Supporting School FundraisersLori Garcia
I bet you're thinking, "Whoa! Hang on a minute, you selfish mom! Schools need money!" Believe me, I know. Our elementary school's monthly fundraising efforts won't let me forget.
I have kids in first and sixth grade attending a lovely public elementary school. Skilled teachers, competent staff, and a respectable administration offer nothing less than a perfectly acceptable educational experience for my kids … but it ain't free. Enrollment is high, funds are low, and the pressure is greater than ever to perform with fewer resources. Our poor schools!
Every year at back-to-school night, I'm provided with a wish list of classroom items, such as paper reams, dry erase markers, disinfecting wipes and tissue boxes. I'm also asked to purchase the state curriculum consumable workbooks that my kids work out of because the school doesn't have the budget to provide them (to the tune of $72 for one kid!).
But OK, there's no money, so of course, parents buy and they give. Every year, in addition to supplying my kids with their own consumable educational tools, I fulfill their teachers' wish lists and continue fulfilling them throughout the year. I don't do it because I have to, I do it because I want to, knowing these items will go to great use. But that's only the beginning, because next come fundraising sales.
Ah, "fun"draising assemblies with their dazzling carrot-on-a-stick promises of limo lunches, iPads, and Xboxes if only they sell a gazillion roles of wrapping paper, cookie dough tubs or magazine subscriptions. Except there's no way for kids to reach these prize-earning goals without serious parental intervention, and last I checked, few of us have the time, energy, or chutzpah to badger family, friends, and coworkers to buy! buy! buy! in the name of school fundraising.
But it doesn't end there, either. It's paper drives, read-a-thons, dance-a-thons, spirit nights, and family fun nights. Tack all that on to school party donations, spirit wear sales, and field trip expenses, and school really begins to add up, not to mention, get old.
I'm tired of keeping track of order forms. Tired of helping my kids ask for money. And tired of not seeing positive changes in my kids' educational experience as a result. Oh, and I'm broke.
It's been years of giving hundreds of dollars, submitting thousands Box Tops and Labels for Education, and paying staggering property tax bills — and for what? The classrooms still don't have what they need.
When both of my kids brought home information on yet another school fundraiser last week, I felt two things: pissed that our school has to be put in this position time and time again when their primary focus belongs on educating our kids, not working their tails off to raise enough money just so they can, and pissed that I needed to write another check. When I whined to my husband he simply said, "Just don't do it."
"What?! I can't be that mom! My kids can't be those kids! The school needs money!" I replied with raging indignation.
"It's your call, but know, the school will always need money. When I was growing up, my parents never helped out the school. They couldn't afford to." he said.
"Yeah, but that's different," I said, "we can." And then I paused. Because honestly, I'm not even sure we can anymore. Neither my husband nor I are making any more money, if anything we're taking home less. Add lower income to climbing food, gas, and utility prices, increased tax rates, and the hopes of ever saving for college, and it's harder and harder to even get by, let alone fund our school's insatiable deficit.
So now, three-quarters of our way through the school year, I finally decided that I'm done supporting school fundraisers this year. We've given enough, and might I be so bold as to say, we've given much more than that. Next year, I'll continue to support our school's fundraising efforts for as long as I'm able, but for right now, volunteering my time in the classroom with have to be enough.
School fundraisers: where do you stand?
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Curious Credit
Suspecting an ex-aide ran up bills, Kate Hudson itemizes—and sues
Buying your boss a Christmas present on her own credit card? Now that's low. Nonetheless Kate Hudson, 22, says her ex-assistant Margaret Miller, 25, did that and more. After finding that her American Express card apparently had often left home without her, Hudson filed a lawsuit listing more than $63,000 in unauthorized charges that she believes Miller had made before getting sacked in March. Among the questioned items: $72.50 worth of vitamins. Kate "doesn't take vitamins," states the suit. Hogwash, says Miller attorney Arthur Barens, who is planning on countersuing and disputing all the charges. "Anyone who knows Kate knows that she has every kind of vitamin known to man."
•Nike shoes, $92.01
•Massage, $100
•Parking ticket, $37
•Dental visit, $80
•Sushi, $28.90
•Dog food, $98.64
•Limo rental, $137.40
•Air fare, $4,347.50
•Car wash, $12.95
•Lunch, $7
•CDs, $236.93
The Boys Are Back in Town
With A.J. McLean scheduled to return to the stage on Aug. 24 after a 28-day stay in a rehab facility, Backstreet's back. The boy band is set to resume their summer tour in Milwaukee, having rescheduled all 36 concerts postponed by McLean's battle with alcohol and depression. But will sold-out crowds await them? Maybe not, says Gary Bongiovanni of the concert trade magazine Pollstar. Backstreet's audiences were respectable, but, he adds, the band still faced thousands of empty seats at June gigs in Pittsburgh, Nashville and Atlanta. "They and teen pop have cooled off," he says. One reason? Many parents won't give their kids ticket money to see an act they probably already saw last year, Bongiovanni says.
Public Press, Private Prince
News flash: The Brits are agog again. The cause? A report in Britain's conservative magazine The Spectator saying that Prince Charles, 52, will eventually marry longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, 54. The respected publication stated that it had been "reliably informed that the Queen has come around—somewhat grudgingly—to this view." Still, the paper says, nothing will happen until 2003, after Queen Elizabeth completes a jubilee celebration of her half-century on the throne. Then, it predicts, Charles and Camilla will exchange vows in a civil ceremony at a registry office (England's version of City Hall).
But don't check the wedding registry at Harrods just yet. "The piece is totally speculative," says a spokesman for the Prince. "We've dismissed it as rubbish." Meanwhile the public seems to favor status quo. When a British TV show polled 70,000 viewers last week, 71 percent did not favor a Royal Wedding II.
Claws Encounter for Evert Clan
Uninvited guests are often inconvenient. When they're huge, naked and raiding your garbage, it can be simply unbearable. That's how tennis great Chris Evert and family felt recently when they found a large black bear rummaging through the kitchen of their Aspen, Colo., vacation home. Retreating to a guest house with her three sons, Evert, 46, sent her husband, Andy Mill, 48, to investigate. "I'm a Floridian," she says. "I would have panicked. He's from here, so he wasn't fazed." When he came face-to-snout with the ursine invader, "we both just stood there looking at each other," says Mill, who kept quiet as the animal slowly backed out of the room, and then whistled to frighten it out the door.
For Shania Twain, an Eja Minor
Only two years ago Shania Twain told PEOPLE, "I'd like to have kids, but we're not planning at this point. Right now I'm dedicated and committed to my career." How quickly plans change! Last week Twain announced the birth of a son, Eja, on Aug. 12. The singer, 36, and her producer husband, Robert "Mutt" Lange, 52, have spent much of their time recently in Switzerland, at a 19th-century manor house they bought in 1998. The couple did not release further details, except to give guidance for pronouncing their newborn's name: Say "Asia."
Ewan da Man!
"I learned to swear here as a child," said Ewan McGregor, growing perhaps just a little misty as he gazed about his hometown of Crieff, Scotland. The actor, flashing a bit of calf in his McGregor clan kilt, acted as honorary chief at the annual Highland Games, where he handed out prizes and, emphatically, did not compete. "I couldn't lift a caber, never mind attempt to toss one," said McGregor, 30, of the phone-pole-shaped logs, weighing approximately 150 pounds, which competitors toss for style, not distance. Nor would he join in the traditional hammer throw. "I would throw a hammer into the crowd, and it would not be pleasant," he said. The fun, he added, was watching "the faces I grew up with" before he moved to London. "There's a great spirit out there," he said. "My fondest memories are of that."
Finding Mr. Write
Famously she ripped the Pope. Later she was ordained as some kind of priest. Then she came out as a lesbian. So it's no surprise that Sinead O'Connor, 34, got married, a few weeks back, to a guy. "We are both very happy," groom Nick Sommerlad, 27, recently told Britain's Press Association, for whom he works as a reporter. O'Connor appears to have a thing for the journalists. John Waters, father of her daughter Róisin, 5, is a writer for The Irish Times. (Her first husband, John Reynolds, with whom she had son Jake, 14, is a musician.) The newlyweds honeymooned after Sommerlad had covered Pierce Brosnan's wedding.
More Milli Vanilli (really)
He may not win a Grammy this time around, but at least he's using his own voice. On a national tour called Malibu Shower Palooza, Fabrice Morvan, the surviving half of Milli Vanilli (partner Rob Pilatus died in 1998 of a drug overdose), is holding karaoke contests in a portable shower he hauls to neighborhood pubs. "Everyone knows that they sound better in the shower," says the French native, who hopes to release an album that will revive a career nosedive that occurred after he was exposed for not actually singing on Milli Vanilii's recordings in 1990. That's behind him now. "They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," says Morvan, 35. "I'm still here."
with Pat Benatar & Haley Giraldo
Rocker Pat Benatar returned to the road this summer singing "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and performing in Cool Women on the Women's Entertainment channel. Her opening act: Glo, a pop group that features her teenage daughter Haley Giraldo. (Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo, 45, her lead guitarist, are also parents of Hana, 7.) So how does a 48-year-old rock-and-roll mom coexist with her 16-year-old rock-and-roll child? Scoop inquired.
What's it like with your teenager around all the time?
Pat: (screams) Aaahhh!
Can you elaborate?
Pat: It's a challenge. We have opposite interests.
In what?
Pat: In everything. She's a teenager.
Haley, how do your mom's fans react to your music?
Haley: I can't say they enjoy it. The audience is, uh, older. This is the kind of music their kids are listening to, and they hate it. But they are respectful. They know that I'm her daughter, so they're not going to boo us offstage.
If you never heard "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" again, would you die happy?
Haley: I'm not going to disagree with you.
Do you sound alike?
Pat: Her voice is much lower than mine. Mine is like a big, belting train wreck, and hers is much subtler.
Haley must be attracting young male fans. How do you advise her to handle them?
Pat: I just basically tell her to keep her head straight because this is all pretend. Just like Julia Roberts once said: Don't forget, you're an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job. Don't believe anything you read, anything that they tell you.
Haley: My dad's protective. When we wear our stage outfits, he says, "Put some clothes on!"
How did having children affect your career?
Pat: I took steps backward in order to do this. I never regretted it for a moment.
Does Haley see you as a rock star or as a mom?
Pat: I'm still her mother, first and foremost, and that takes any aspects of coolness away.
Start spreading the news. A 9,000-sq.-ft, five-bedroom Beverly Hills mansion, once home to Frank Sinatra, is on the market for $12.5 million. The estate includes 6½ bathrooms, a gym, spa, kennel and heated pool with waterfall. Although Ol' Blue Eyes hosted a weekly card game here for his celebrity cronies, daughter Tina Sinatra says he preferred to spend time in his other home in Palm Springs. Sinatra died at age 82 in 1998; his widow Barbara has since purchased a penthouse in the Westwood section of Los Angeles.
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Search continues for vandals who targeted ex-governor's grave
Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers and Raymond P. Shafer's family are offering a reward to identify and capture the vandals who defaced the late governor's grave in early November.
Pennsylvania State Police in Meadville said the vandalism done to Shafer's grave and to a church in Union Township was done sometime between Nov. 3 and 4.
Shafer's grave marker was spray-painted and damaged at St. John Cemetery on Mercer Pike. The vandals also attempted to unearth Shafer's grave by digging down to the vault, police said.
St. John Church, across from the cemetery, was also spray-painted with messages referring to Shafer. One, written in French, reads, when translated, "Cursed for all eternity Shafer."
All callers who submit tips remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward.
Shafer's family is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the prosecution of those responsible, police said.
Shafer, who was raised in Meadville and graduated from Allegheny College, served as Pennsylvania's governor from 1967 to 1971. He died in Meadville at 89 on Dec. 12, 2006.
Shafer's wife, Jane Harris Davies Shafer, who died in 2009, and his parents, the Rev. David Phillip and Mina Belle Miller Shafer, are also buried at St. John Cemetery.
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Ingenuity Systems and Affymetrix will be co-promoting Ingenuity® iReport™ with Affymetrix' expression microarray products to help eliminate a bottleneck for researchers working with human, mouse, and rat applications. The technologies will couple a statistical analysis and biological interpretation workflow with a platform for gene expression studies.
Affymetrix' expression microarrays, according to the firm, are the standard methodology used for many research and discovery applications. Affymetrix belives that, when combined with Ingenuity iReport, an interactive web-based report that can leverage the Ingenuity Knowledge Base of biological and chemical findings from the peer reviewed literature and databases, their expression microarrays will deliver researchers a "sample to insight" continuous workflow allowing for rapid, confident interpretation of results without the need for bioinformatics experience or support.
"By leveraging Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix gene expression arrays for our study on a mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we accelerated our data interpretation several-fold compared to using other analysis tools," said Adrian Grimes, Ph.D., from the department of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin. "Their rapid and effectively blind analysis provided an unbiased validation of our data. Additionally, iReport allowed us to identify and explore genes of interest found with Affymetrix gene chips, yet not identified by other analysis tools."
Several other companies have worked out similar deals with Ingenuity. In January of this year, TATAA Biocenter, a European provider of genomic services using quantitative real-time polymerase PCR (qPCR), annouced that it would complement its offerings in high-throughput gene expression profiling with Ingenuity iReport, thus enabling TATAA Biocenter's labs to provide contract research for a range of real-time qPCR services including primer and probe design, validation, kit and instrument evaluation, and biological and statistical analysis to academic, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies worldwide.
Also, in June of last year, ATLAS Biolabs signed a collaboration agreement with Ingenuity that gives customers of ATLAS Biolabs the option to analyze and interpret their study data using Ingenuity Variant Analysis (to identify causal variants from the output of whole-genome and exome sequencing experiments) and iReport (to be used for the biological interpretation of RNA-Seq and other gene expression data).
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By Vicki Johnson
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A wildlife and conservation display featuring nature-related organizations and agencies is new at the fair this year.
Wildlife Officer Matt Leibengood is coordinating the area in the merchant building to provide people with a one-stop location to get information about wildlife, conservation, hunting, shooting, archery and other outdoor pursuits.
"At least nine different agencies are being represented," Leibengood said. Each will have a table display where fair-goers can get more information.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife will be there, as well as Tiffin-Seneca chapter of the Izaak Walton League, Seneca Soil and Water Conservation District, Seneca County Pheasants Forever, Sandusky River Watershed Coalition, the local chapter of National Wild Turkey Federation, Ohio State Trappers Association, Seneca Muzzleloaders and maybe a few more.
The division of wildlife will have its archery trailer set up where people can try shooting a bow.
"Just go up to the trailer," Leibengood said. "It'll be right there in amongst the booths, and they can try their hand at archery."
Also, Seneca County Pheasants Forever will have its Laser Shot available for people to try. The portable fun range uses laser lights to simulate shots taken.
Fair-goers are invited to stop in and check the schedule for educational programs, or listen to announcements made on the fairgrounds.
Licensed wildlife rehabilitator Maribeth Taylor with God's Little Critters rehabilitation center of Willard is planning a program one evening.
SWCD is planning to show its model of how erosion happens, and Leibengood is encouraging other participants to plan education programs as well.
The first Seneca County Fair Taxidermy Contest is to take place Wednesday evening of the fair.
Participants will be setting up their mounts for display 4-6 p.m. and take them home the same evening after 8 p.m.
"There's going to be some interesting ones," Leibengood said.
Registered to participate are a half-body deer mount, a shoulder deer mount, a tabletop mink, a pheasant wall hanging, a gray fox, a couple turkeys and a deer taken by a youth last fall.
Winners will be determined by votes from people attending the fair. Fair-goers can vote on their favorite entry 6-8 p.m.
There is no entry fee, except fair admission. The winner gets a certificate and bragging rights, and possibly a prize if one becomes available.
Although it wasn't originally his idea, Leibengood said he coordinated similar displays while he was serving in Hancock County.
"It was because the wildlife officers before me already had it going," he said. "Some fair board members approached me and asked about setting up a similar display to Hancock and Wyandot counties."


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OurMine says if it doesn't DDoS the servers, someone else will. Okay, but what if no one did?
Valve has issued a statement on the technical problems that led to Steam's Christmas Day meltdown.
Every major BitTorrent client has been found to provide hackers with easy, ready-made botnets for devastating DDoS attacks.
Anonymous claims to be on the brink of bringing down the Canadian government with its most scandalous secrets — or is it all a hoax?
A new report from security firm Incapsula indicates malware authors have found a way to exploit tens of thousands of routers loaded with the same flawed firmware — and there's some indication that Anonymous is pulling at least a few of the strings.
After crashing Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, Lizard Squad is making its DDoS tool available as a service, but totally just a stress testing tool with no malicious intent. Promise!
Apple has pushed out its first ever automatic security update to Mac OS X users, fixing a vulnerability in NTP that would've allowed hackers to turn Macs into DDoS zombies. In some ways, this finally brings Apple up to parity with Microsoft: Windows has technically had the ability to do automatic updates for a long time. Rather impressively, the OS X security patch should install transparently, with no need to restart.
Yesterday evening, North Korea was unceremoniously knocked off the internet by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This comes shortly after the US government promised a 'proportional response' to the Sony Pictures hack, which the FBI believes was carried out by North Korea. While it would be rather funny if the US government was responsible for taking North Korea off the internet, it's more likely to be the actions of some disgruntled hacktivists such as Anonymous or Lizard Squad.
When the hackee becomes the hacker… In a somewhat amusing twist to the ongoing Sony Pictures hack and massive breach of sensitive files and unreleased films, the company is now fighting back. According to two unnamed sources, Sony is now using 'hundreds of computers' to perform a DDoS on websites where you can download the leaked data. Better yet, Sony is apparently using Amazon's cloud servers (AWS) to perform the DDoS. While I'm all for proactive security measures, Sony might be taking it a little bit too far here.
Poor Sony: This morning, the company's PlayStation Network was unreachable due to suspected foul play by Lizard Squad, the same hacker group that took down Microsoft's Xbox Live network last wee. Lizard Squad used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) to take the networks offline. This latest Sony outage comes just a couple of weeks after a devastating and very-high-profile hack on Sony Pictures, which resulted in a massive leak of sensitive information and unreleased movies.
In a rather bizarre twist of events, a group by the name of Lizard Squad has taken hacking to the next level: Not only did the hackers take down the PlayStation Network with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, but they also took down Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley's airplane with a bomb threat.
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Fisher's Integrity Stance Could Bury FSU
When a college football coach drops the word ``integrity'' into a conversation, people instantly perk up like bobbleheads. Since when is anyone interested in moral principles when boosters are human ATM machines and TV networks are throwing billions at megaconferences? This is especially shocking when a coach has something lucrative and magnificent at stake, such as a national championship and a quarterback gunning for a Heisman Trophy.
Meet Jimbo Fisher, a willing victim.
For now, anyway.
In position to produce a rare perfecta this season at Florida State, Fisher insists he won't do two things to gain an edge in the Bowl Championship Series standings. He won't run up the score against opponents, despite the presence of Jameis Winston, who seemingly could lead a potent offense to 50 or 60 points a game if required. And he won't necessarily vote his team No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which counts for a whopping one-third of the BCS formula. In what could be the perfect chaotic storm in the system's final season -- two undefeated teams playing for the national championship, while at least one undefeated team is aced out -- Florida State risks becoming the last team screwed by a process that has mocked and damaged the sport far too long.
This past week, when a case could be made for the third-ranked Seminoles as America's best team, Fisher wanted to make a larger point: All voters should detach themselves from emotion, including those with teams in the title hunt. So the FSU coach did not place FSU atop his ballot. You can hear the gasps already from Tallahassee.
``That's a job I have," he said. ``I don't look at it through our team. You can't let emotion get into it. You have to do what you think, from your study, evaluation, opinion and expertise, where you should fit in that poll."
While he wouldn't reveal his ballot, Fisher appeared most impressed by top-ranked Alabama, coached by his former boss, Nick Saban. ``Alabama's been very consistent, playing great defense right now, they have playmakers that can run the football, they're very physical, and they've done it and earned it for two years," he said.
Here in autumn, still several weeks and many big games from the announcement of who's in and who's out, his stance sounds refreshing -- admirably above coaching's self-absorbed fray. I just want to see where Fisher stands come the second week of December, when, quite possibly, Alabama, Oregon and Florida State have finished their regular seasons and conference title games with identical 13-0 records. If that happens, it seems Alabama, with an SEC schedule that will have included enough big wins over ranked opponents, figures to be in the Jan. 6 championship game in Pasadena. But the margin between Oregon and Florida State at that point could be miniscule. Oregon will have had victories over ranked Washington, UCLA, Stanford and Oregon State. FSU will have had victories over ranked Clemson, Miami and, presumably, Virginia Tech, but would be penalized because it scheduled two non-conference gimmes in Bethune-Cookman and Idaho while Oregon -- playing in a Pac-12 conference that is stronger than the ACC -- scheduled only one non-league gimme in Nicholls.
At that point, will Fisher vote his team No. 1 to help overcome Oregon and lift the grand cause? And will he have to start taking advantage of his potent offense and roll up ridiculous numbers -- not only to help FSU's title chances but to bolster Winston in his two-man Heisman race against Oregon QB Marcus Mariota? He vows to keep prioritizing integrity over professional gain, though you wonder how his university bosses feel about that.
``I'm not going to go out there and embarrass this game and the integrity of how you've got to play," said Fisher, who had a chance to go scoreboard-daffy last week against North Carolina State but pulled his starters early in the second half. ``If that's the way they're going to do it, they need to re-evaluate. If they can't tell we dominated that game early and put it away -- I just think that's bad for college football, in my opinion."
Further, he says voters should study film of the teams involved -- ``the eye test,'' in his words -- instead of basing conclusions on final scores and statistics. ``People watch and know when you're playing well," Fisher said. ``It's important you prepare to play well, play well and put a great product on the field. From that standpoint, you do have to impress. But I think that's how you win football games."
Next year will bring more order to the madness. Projecting our current mess a year from now, all three surely would make the four-team playoff, with the selection committee left to determine if Ohio State or Baylor is the worthiest fourth team. It makes perfect sense in a non-sensical system to have one last year of disarray, but in the middle of it all, at least, is a sane voice.


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Saracens take euro quarter to Twickenham
Saracens have opted to play their April 6 Heineken Cup quarter-final against Ulster at Twickenham.
There were suggestions that the Aviva Premiership club wanted to play the RaboDirect PRO12 team at their new Allianz Park home but chairman Nigel Wray has opted for Twickenham.
"It is absolutely clear that people want to see big teams playing big matches at big stadiums, and that is precisely what we will deliver at Twickenham," Wray said. "We did consider the option of playing this showpiece match at Allianz Park, our brand new home stadium in NW4, but, in consultation with local residents and our partners at the London Borough of Barnet, we have decided to settle at the new venue before applying to stage a one-off event with a larger capacity."


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On arrival at our center, the patient's condition was hemodynamically stable (hemoglobin level, 8.8 g/dL). After we reviewed the CT scan, she was taken to the operating room for formal exploration. A large clot was found surrounding the suprahepatic vena cava. On evacuation of the hematoma, a pulsatile hemorrhage from the inferior phrenic artery was encountered and ligated. A spherical mass of fibrinous tissue was found adherent to the hepatic capsule and diaphragm (Figure 2). This was evacuated and sent for pathological analysis, along with the clot material. The hepatic capsule was intact, and intraoperative hepatic ultrasonography demonstrated a normal liver. No abnormality was noted in the pelvis. Pathological evaluation of the specimen demonstrated products of conception (Figure 3), confirming the diagnosis of intra-abdominal ectopic pregnancy with inferior phrenic artery parasitization and rupture. The patient's postoperative human chorionic gonadotropin level was 80 mIU/mL.
Figure 2. Pulsatile bleeding from the inferior phrenic artery was controlled intraoperatively with suture ligation (black arrow). A fibrinous mass of tissue was pulled from a small cavity in the diaphragm (white arrow) posterolateral to the inferior vena cava (asterisk).
Figure 3. Pathological evaluation of the fibrinous tissue specimen demonstrated products of conception, including chorionic villi with surrounding trophoblastic cells (arrow; hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×100).
Ectopic pregnancies account for 1% of all conceptions; 98.3% of those are in the fallopian tubes.1- 3 Although extremely rare (1.7% of all ectopic pregnancies), extrafallopian intra-abdominal pregnancies can cause devastating complications. A literature review found 14 reported cases of hepatic implantation in 35 years.1,4 The rich vascular supply of the liver makes it a favorable site for implantation, with the majority of reported cases having implantation on the inferior aspect of the right lobe.5 Most of these pregnancies are aborted spontaneously in the first trimester as a result of disruption of the implantation site from maternal hemorrhage due to trophoblastic invasion of the Glisson capsule. The resulting hemorrhage is often severe with subsequent maternal hypotension; hemorrhage is rare after the 12th week of gestation. One case reported expectant management of an uncomplicated hepatic pregnancy that resulted in delivery of a viable 1800-g newborn at 34 weeks' gestation.5
Intra-abdominal pregnancy should be suspected in women of child-bearing age with an elevated human chorionic gonadotropin level and no sign of intrauterine pregnancy on ultrasonography. The first step in diagnosis usually is pelvic ultrasonography to assess the fallopian tubes. If a tubal pregnancy is not seen, complete abdominal ultrasonography should be performed to inspect the peritoneal surfaces as well as the liver for possible implantation sites. Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging is also a useful tool for diagnosis if the results of ultrasonography are inconclusive. The unstable patient is often taken to surgery for diagnostic laparoscopy after intrauterine pregnancy is ruled out. The entire abdominal cavity must be explored, including inspection of the liver, if a tubal pregnancy is not identified.
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