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Carry through design into production. Communicate with NYC factories on day-to-day basis. Source fabrics. Work closely with Designer to cut and sew first samples. Create tech packs, trend boards and costing sheets Asha Mia (Women's Contemporary) 2012 * Commissioned Assistant Designer: Oversee process of design. Carry through design into production. Drape, Cut and sew first samples. Work closely with factories in LA and India. Create tech packs and set company up for initial launch. Werun LA (Women's Swimwear) 2012 *
Designed and created women's wear for B By Apiere runway show. Collaborated with B By Apiere shoe designer to complete 5 separate looks. SKILLS Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Digital Illustrations, Technical Flats, U4ia, Microsoft Office, Fashion Illustrations, Flat Illustrations, Draping, Sewing, Flat Patterns, Screen Printing, Leather Handling EDITORIALS America's Next Top Model: Lisa D'Amato 2012 * Designed 5 looks and styled professional photo shoot to create a published book containing editorial images of Lisa D'Amato Glenlux Magazine 2011 * Created dress origami style, made of newspaper during photo shoot for local writer in Los Angeles area Indianapolis Star 2009 * Created men's wear design made of recycled leathers from '67 Camaro car seat. Featured in newspaper discussing Fashion Week Indianapolis Business Journal 2008 * Designs featured in newspaper article discussing up and coming student designers
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NFL Blitz replaced Borderlands, which replaced The Walking Dead Episodes 1 and 2, which replaced either Just Cause 2 or Saints Row 2. So there's no guarantee one way or the other.
Ya, there's no rhyme or reason in which games they take down and which they put up, in regards to whether it's a PSN game or full retail game. My guess is we'll get one PSN game and one PS3 game. My guess is we'll get Red Dead, though I'd personally love RE5 Gold (though it seems like they would have given it to us today if we were gonna get it).
Ya, that's what I was talking about. Just Cause 2 & Saints Row 2 were replaced with PSN games. Laura Croft: Guardian of Light & something else maybe Gotham City Imposters or Bloodrayne.
Edit: I'd still rather have 2-3 more PSN games per month and PS1 Classics than retail games. Can find these retail games for $5-10 easy, and they don't expire.
This is the truth. I don't understand why so many people fawn over the full retail releases. Sure they're usually longer, but they're not any more expensive than the PSN games they offer. One simple example would be NFL Blitz and Borderlands vanilla. Both can be had for around $15 at the moment.

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"I knew this golden entree was a winner when my mother-in-law -who owns every cookbook imaginable- asked for the recipe" relates Dawn Mayford of Granite City, Illinois. She flavors halibut steaks with a deliciously different sauce that combines fresh mint and peach preserves.
- 1 jar (10 ounces) peach preserves
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh mint
- 4 halibut steaks (6 ounces each)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- In a small saucepan, combine preserves and mint. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; set aside. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper.
- Broil 4 in. from the heat for 5 minutes. Spoon half of peach mixture over fish. Broil 1 minute longer; turn, Broil 3-4 minutes more or until fish flakes easily with a fork, basting once with remaining peach mixture. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Minty Peach Halibut in Quick Cooking September/October 2004, p6
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Vista provides the capability to connect two different network types through software. This feature is referred to as network bridging. Network Bridging can eliminate the need to buy a hardware device to connect two different networks.
For example, you can bridge a phone line with an Ethernet network. Vista acts and the bridge between the two networks and computers on either network can communicate as if they were directly connected.
Bridging is similar to routing, but it's more appropriate for small network because it's easier to configure and doesn't require different sets of IP addresses on each network segment. Technically, bridging occurs at the physical level of the network protocol stack. Windows forwards network traffic, including broadcasts and packets of all protocol types received on either adapter to the other. In effect, it creates one larger network.
To enable bridging in your Vista computer, install and configure two or more network adapters. However, don't worry about setting up the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) parameters for either of the adapters because once you enable the bridge, any original settings are lost.
Once the network adapters are installed, complete the steps described below:
- View the connection icons by clicking Start, Control Panel, Network and Internet, Network and Sharing Center, Manage Network Connections.
- Select the icons you want to bridge by clicking on the first, holding down the Shift key, and clicking on the second.
- Right-click on one of the icons and select Bridge Connections.
- A new icon appears. Select the new bridge icon and, if you want, rename it appropriately.
- Double-click the bridge icon. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and configure your computer's TCP/IP settings. You must do this because any TCP/IP settings for the original two adapters are lost.
When you've created a bridge, your two network adapters function as one and share one IP address, so Microsoft disables the "network properties" of the individual network adapters. You must configure your computer's network properties with the bridge's icon.
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Aren't most sit down restaurants primal? I mean, really... most restaurants have steak & veggies
I was wondering if there were any restaurants out there that caters to the Primal/Paleo Eaters out there. I am quite busy and I am horrible in the kitchen. I'd pay top dollar to have someone prepare me something so I can avoid the whole cooking and grocery shopping deal.
I can't believe there's no industry for this yet. I mean even Raw Foodists have their own restaurants around Southern Cali. I would imagine Paleo is more popular and easier to cook. There's also tons of vegan restaurants out here but ZERO Paleo. Also when I shop, I don't see any "Paleo approved" seals on food labels as advertised. I guess that never caught on.
Aren't most sit down restaurants primal? I mean, really... most restaurants have steak & veggies
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Paleo labels are a bad idea, because it would be controlled by a central authority. The issuers of the label would then be under financial pressure... it would just be another case where the advice giver could get bought out (see: USDA/FDA and Monsanto).
Truth is spread within this community, not handed down.
As for a restaurant, I think it would definitely work.
The real problem w/ restaurants is the intrusion of "healthy" vegetable oils into the cooking process or side dishes. Not that I obsess about eating them occasionally it's just that they disagree w/ my system.
Wheat is the new tobacco. Spread the word.
Do you live in SoCal? My husband travels there frequently on business and frequents The Counter Burger. (We have one near us, too.) I can't vouch for grass-fed, but I know they are conscious of humane treatment of animals--which I hope eventually means grass-fed. Their website (Google it) has all the ingredient/allergen info. I get beef burgers in a bowl over mixed organic greens + loads of veggie toppings.
My blog (primal after 8/5/11).
I rarely go to Chipotle. Not sure what oils they use, but they take care with the raising of their meat and you can order it all primally.
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I agree with Dr. Bork Bork here. In my experience, most restaurants are already quite Primal (as long as you stay away from the places that only serve pasta or pizza). Just ask to replace the potatoes/fries/rice/whatever with extra vegetables.
If you're such a control freak that you can't handle vegetables fried in vegetable oil, I suggest you cook all your own meals from scratch, as that's pretty much the only way you can control every ingredient.
I don't see much point in Primal/Paleo-specific restaurants, as they would pretty much be the same as every other restaurant, except maybe more focus on grass-fed meat, organic vegetables, etc, and many restaurants like that already exist, they just haven't been "branded" as Primal or Paleo.
Norak's Primal Journal:
2010-07-23: ~255lbs, ~40.0"
2011-11-03: ~230lbs, ~35.5"
2011-12-07: ~220lbs, ~34.0"
I was fairly excited to see "low carb" specials on the web site for the local Charcoal Kabob. Your choice of kabob on a salad, no bread, no rice, and a choice of a vegetable curry side. Unfortunately, 3 of the 4 curry sides were... Lentils, chick peas, and spinach with potatoes. Number 4 was mixed vegetables, most of which were acceptable.
Strangely, there was no lo-carb option advertised in the restaurant, but at least the staff knew what I was asking for.
Overall, it didn't quite live up to my expectation, but at least they were trying.
Dittos on the positive comments about The Counter. I can stay reasonably primal there without feeling weird about it.
Overall, I have to conclude that Primal specific restaurants are unlikely, but that awareness of Primal diets, and highlighting of good choices on menus is certainly a possibility.


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- February 04, 2013
- Roadside assist called out to find lost pets.
- Patrollers say every day is an adventure.
- Members say anything to get roadside assist to come out.
GHOSTS causing car batteries to run flat, saving tropical fish and helping build flat-pack furniture are some of the surprising tasks which face our roadside-assist patrollers.
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Hopefull of Adelaide Posted at 3:42 PM February 04, 2013
It maybe fluff but it is a wonderful story. Five comments and five negative opinions, it is about helping people and spreading a little joy in the world. Lighten up.
Wait...what? Posted at 3:34 PM February 04, 2013
If this was supposed to be a good PR story then think again. People pay for roadside assistance and have to wait because these blokes are saving fish, looking for lost pets or driving people around looking for a car that isn't there. Next time I need the toilet cleaned, kids picked up from school or the mower wont start, I'm calling the NRMA. How about doing the job that you get paid for.
lucky i'm with aami Posted at 3:19 PM February 04, 2013
nice little "going the extra mile" ad for nrma. if this stuff is true then it explains, like others have said, why it would take so long for road side assistance to get to me for actual relevant things back when i was insured with nrma.


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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices.
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In 2011, the Federal Trade Commission reported that identify theft was the top consumer complaint. Of the 1.8 million complaints to the agency, 279,156 or 15 percent concerned identity theft. One of the latest scams involves individuals who are filing tax returns of other individuals and collecting their tax refunds with the help of dishonest postal workers.
Facebook has also had occasional brushes with privacy watchdogs, for which the social network has become something of a bête noire. Last year Facebook incurred the wrath of America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The commission had been inundated with complaints that the company was making public data about its users that it had said would be kept private. As part of a settlement with the FTC, Facebook agreed to submit to an external audit of its privacy policies and practices every two years for the next 20 years.
About 30 million Americans have debt under collection, the CFPB says, with an average amount under collection of $1,400.
Cordray said that debt collectors have more complaints lodged against them by consumers than any other industry according to a database maintained by the Federal Trade Commission.
The FTC has in the past pursued cases on behalf of consumers against debt collection firms. But that agency doesn't officially supervise the industry, examining records for potential violations of law the way the CFPB intends to do.
America has avoided overly prescriptive privacy legislation, believing that companies should generally regulate themselves. Only when firms fail at self-regulation does the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) step in. It has broad powers to tackle unfair and deceptive practices, and has not hesitated to use them. In recent rulings, Google and Facebook agreed to a biennial audit of their privacy policies and practices for the next 20 years.
Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces limited Internet privacy laws, and Cameron F. Kerry, general counsel for the Commerce Department, said at a hearing of the Senate commerce committee that writing new laws and giving the F.T.C. the power to enforce them with civil penalties would promote Internet commerce by increasing the trust that Americans put in online transactions.
Currently, the F.T.C. monitors whether Internet companies that have privacy policies keep their promises to consumers about when and where they will share personal information. But the commission lacks the authority to assess penalties for most transgressions, and it has little authority over how companies operate when they have no written privacy rules.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have signed an agreement to coordinate efforts to protect consumers and avoid duplication of federal law enforcement and regulatory efforts.
"Entering this agreement with the FTC is important to making sure markets for consumer financial products are getting efficient and effective federal government oversight," said Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB. "We are both motivated by the same thing: To do right by consumers. We look forward to this partnership."
The period from 1970 to the present has witnessed profound changes in the quality of regulation at the Federal Trade Commission and a remarkable convergence of antitrust enforcement policy between left and right, and between primarily legal as opposed to primarily economic approaches. Since the early 1990s, the effort at the Federal Trade Commission has been to find a middle ground that avoids the extremes of over- and under-enforcement.
After a decade of cutbacks and politically motivated inactivity, the Federal Trade Commission awakened from its slumber in the 1990s. Good information systems enable staff to maintain productivity. But dissatisfaction with the five-person appointed commission is still pervasive, largely due to serious delays in decision making. The 79-year-old antitrust and consumer protection arm of the government is also hampered by cumbersome procedures.
Today, the FTC is an independent agency which reports directly to Congress. The commission is headed by five commissioners, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, each serving a seven-year term. The president chooses one commissioner to act as chairman. No more than three commissioners can be of the same political party. The commission is further divided into bureaus and divisions, which are responsible for various aspects of FTC operations.
This week, the Federal Trade Commission weighed in on the topic of consumer privacy with a new report that essentially says individuals need more protection than the rules and guidelines in place today provide. "The traditional distinction between personally identifiable information and 'anonymous' data has blurred," the agency says in its report. It says companies need to "make privacy the 'default setting' for commercial data practices and give consumers greater control over the collection and use of their personal data."
In the 1912 campaign Woodrow Wilson promised to wage "a crusade against powers that have governed us … that have limited our development … that have determined our lives … that have set us in a straightjacket to so as they please." The struggle to break up the trusts would be, in Wilson's words, nothing less than a "second struggle for emancipation."
Wilson lived up to his words – signing into law the Clayton Antitrust Act (which not only strengthened antitrust laws but also exempted unions from their reach), establishing the Federal Trade Commission (to root out "unfair acts and practices in commerce"), and creating the first national income tax.


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What? Yuzu just wore a tutu tooOriginally Posted by Icey
What? Yuzu just wore a tutu tooOriginally Posted by Icey
Mirai looks great
And has anyone ever seen Julia without gloves!?!?!?!
Is this the stream that is working for everybody (listed on the official site) http://areena.yle.fi/tv/2046705 because I can't get it to come up at all. Not even a geoblocked message. I did have yesterday's stream. What browser are you successful watchers using?
Thanks I'll keep trying!
Julia LIPNITSKAIA (JPN)
Music: Schindler's List (soundtrack) by John Williams
Red "coat" dress with grey under skirt and gloves
3Lz+3T - stepout
ChSq - Ina Bauer into Kerrigan and forward arabesque
Solid skate, only one big mistake. She still needs more expression, but I think she has made good progression
Score: 66.54+59.28=125.82, 191.31 and into 1st
Wow, I liked it... nice programm, facial expressions...
I was surprised about the wobble in the first combination... and she needs to fix the travelling while the spins, but it is a really nice programm, I enjoyed watching
Oh, i've just realized why she's wearing that red dress now
Julia seems to have developed a lot in aspect of music interpretation.
Her face expressions are much better than last season..(am I the only one who thinks so?)
Juuuuuuliaaaaa I enjoyed it really, despite the strange-looking mini-axels.
She obviously could not hide her disapointment about her score. She expected more...


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How have we not heard of this Goth infant clothing story, Baby Noir, before?By Chris Rovzar
How have we not heard of this Goth infant clothing story, Baby Noir, before?By Chris Rovzar
Plus: pizza-master Mark Bello is opening a retail spot for pizza classes and parties, and the Schnitzel & Things truck is mobbed by long lines.By Michael Alan Connelly
The Atlantic Antic returns to Brooklyn on October 4.By Aileen Gallagher
Boerum Hill: Sunday's Atlantic Antic Street Festival = live music + copious gut busters ranging from baklava and funnel cake to pulled pork and roasted corn. [Hell's Half Acre] East Village: The Bourgeois Pig plans to move to a new location next week, which means the original space is that much closer to becoming a New World wine-and-beer bar serving homemade versions of Hostess snacks! [Imbible] Harlem: One of uptown's favorite food carts, Super Tacos on 96th and Broadway, is a finalist at the Vendy Awards this Saturday. [Uptown Flavor] Midtown East: Nikki Beach restaurant and nightclub wants to lure you back in the morning with a weekend buffet brunch. [Grub Street] Soho: Joe on Greene Street near Prince introduces a Fall program of coffee-related classes including "Coffee & The Environment"; "How to Cup: Single Origin Coffee"; and "How to Cup: Exploring Roasteries" that will begin in October. [Grub Street] Upper West Side: Just the right bargain to make us think about how much mark-up we've been getting charged for wine: Order the $35 prix fixe on Sundays at Compass restaurant and any bottle you order is 50 percent off. [Grub Street]


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MUSKEGON, MI -- Everything the superintendent of Muskegon Public Schools knows about the county's consideration of Craig School for a juvenile detention facility he's learned from sources other than the county.
That is troublesome to Jon Felske, especially since the district is taking heat for the talk about converting the closed school located in an urban neighborhood.
"I just find it surprising that county leadership officials haven't even asked for one short meeting with me," Felske said.
Craig School has been one of the top contenders for a juvenile facility because of it proximity to the Muskegon County Jail. Felske said county representatives contacted the district's maintenance director to walk through the school, which they've done twice.
But that's all the contact they've had with school authorities, Felske said. Ultimately, it will be the school board that decides whether it even will sell the school to the county.
Craig School, 1580 Park St., was among four schools, which included McLaughlin Elementary, the district closed after the last school year. McLaughlin also was under consideration for the juvenile facility until neighborhood opposition prompted planners to drop it.
Felske said he never heard from anyone at the county about McLaughlin either.
"I can't tell you who the person is from the county," Felske said. "I can't tell you if it's a male or female."
Heath Kaplan, the county's finance and management services director, said neither Felske nor any other school authority has been contacted because the county wants to discuss the idea with neighbors first. The county has scheduled a meeting with the Nelson Neighborhood Association Jan. 16.
"What we learned from looking at schools in the past is if we don't get the neighborhood on board first, what's the point in even considering it?" said Kaplan, who is assisting county Administrator Bonnie Hammersley with the search for a site for both the juvenile facility and a new jail.
"We don't want to waste his or her time if we don't have buy-in from the community," Kaplan said, referring to Felske.
Sheriff Dean Roesler, who chairs the committee of county and community representatives exploring sites for the two facilities, said he was not aware Felske had not been informed of the interest in the district's school.
"Certainly the school (district) needs to be involved," Roesler said. "It's generated a lot of emotion, I know that."
Felske said some area residents have the false impression that the district is on board with conversion of the school to a juvenile facility. Indeed, a commenter identifying himself as Lawrence Spataro, Muskegon's vice mayor who has voiced his opposition to using the school for the juvenile center, left this comment on an MLive story:
"The Muskegon Public Schools Board needs to stand up and take these buildings off the table, unless their intent is to compound the harm caused by the painful need to close these schools."
Felske said school board members have asked him about the county's plans, since they also haven't had contact with anyone of authority. "I've told the board, 'When I know something, I'll let you know,'" he said.
The board will want to review site plans and reuse proposals before deciding whether it wants to sell the building, Felske said. He is in the process of having all four closed school buildings appraised.
Kaplan said he believes Felske's annoyance with the lack of information from county officials is misplaced. He said Felske really should be frustrated with "the media," specifically MLive and the Muskegon Chronicle, for its coverage of the county's interest in Craig School before any decisions have been finalized.
"There's not much we can do about that … The Chronicle does what it wants," Kaplan said. "If anyone, he should be irked with the media and not the county."
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A May 29 indictment says 37-year-old Jason Marshall Bullock, also known as "Sir J-Mac," was a leader of the group in the Hattiesburg area. He was arrested July 9 in Pensacola, Fla.
Bullock is accused of attempted murder, kidnapping, bank robbery, drug distribution and bribery.
In a handwritten letter filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg, Bullock said his lawyer, Wesley Broadhead, seemed unprepared and tried to get Bullock to incriminate himself.
The letter also said Bullock wants to go to trial and didn't want Broadhead to ask for a continuance. Broadhead asked for a continuance on July 31, saying he needed more time review the "great amount" of evidence in the case. Court records show Bullock signed the motion to continue.
The trial had been scheduled to begin Monday, but has now been pushed back to Oct. 21.
Broadhead said Friday that Bullock's "allegations are wrong and false," but he would have no problem stepping aside if Bullock feels strongly about it and the judge approves.
The indictment says the Simon City Royals gang was formed in Chicago and spread throughout the city in the 1960s and 1970s before branching out to other parts of the county, including Mississippi. The gang has been involved in murder-for-hire, gambling and drug trafficking, the court document said.
Bullock, who identified himself as the "Prince of Mississippi," sometimes traveled to Chicago to meet with gang leaders, the indictment said.
The indictment said that in 2006, Bullock and others conspired to murder a man identified as Joseph Shelton, who was assaulted and shot. The court document said Bullock ordered gang members and associates to kill Shelton, but it didn't say who Shelton was, why he was targeted or offer details about the shooting.
Gang members also bribed a Forrest County deputy sheriff in 2008 to deliver contraband to Bullock while he was in jail, according to the indictment. The document doesn't name the deputy and it doesn't describe the contraband.
The oldest crime listed in the indictment was in 1998, when prosecutors allege that Bullock and other gang members robbed Citizen State Bank in Seminary, Miss. In 1999, Bullock was sentenced to a little more than four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to bank robbery, according to court records from that case.
He was arrested again in 2006 and pleaded guilty to a federal charge of being a violent felon in possession of body armor. He was later sentenced to 15 months on that charge.
Bullock has also faced numerous state court charges over the years, including grand larceny, selling marijuana, aggravated assault and perjury, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He was most recently sentenced in state court in 2008 to four years as a habitual offender for perjury.
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Over two decades of synoptic 1083 nm data from the National Solar Observatory/Kitt Peak Vacuum Telescope (NSO/KPVT) attest to the fact that satisfactory equivalent width images may be obtained from simple sums over ``line''and ``continuum'' bandpasses. However, much more care is needed to extract Doppler velocity, line depth, and asymmetry since the 1083 nm line typically has line depths of only a few percent and is blended with both telluric water vapor and the red wing of a nearby Si I line at 1082.8 nm. We present a new algorithm for analysis of He I 1083 nm data obtained with the NASA/NSO Spectromagnetograph (SPM) at the KPVT. A linear fit to intensity averages over bands near 1082.4 nm and 1083.6 nm specifies the continuum intensity across the wavelength domain of interest. The spectral algorithm currently used for 868.8 nm SPM magnetograms computes line-center wavelengths and depths for the strong adjacent telluric and Si lines. Quick fits of the damping wings of these features together with a scaled profile of the weak water vapor feature which is coincident in wavelength with the 1083 nm line (Breckenridge and Hall, 1973: Solar Phys. 28, 15) are removed from the spectral region containing the 1083 nm line. The spectral algorithm then computes the central wavelength and line depth of the 1083 nm line. An extension of this algorithm locates the bisector at the 0.35 central line-depth position on the profile to compute a line asymmetry parameter (Dupree, Penn, and Jones, 1976: ApJ 467, L121). We show sample results of the algorithm applied both off-line to spectra-spectroheliograms and on-line to spatial-spectral data as they are acquired.
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U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a U.S. missionary in Mexico, even as mission groups in Texas are re-evaluating the risks of working in the country.
Fifty-nine-year-old Nancy Davis had ministered in Mexico for 40 years. Her husband said they were about 70 miles south of the border when gunmen in a pick-up truck tried to stop them. When Mr. Davis sped up, they opened fire, wounding Nancy in the head.
"The gunshot wound would have happened in the interior of Mexico as they traveled from Mexico towards the United States," Pharr, Texas Police Chief Ruben Villescas said.
Click play to watch Heather Sells' report, followed by analysis from CBN News Latin America Correspondent Stan Jeter.
Authorities said the shooting happened in one of the most dangerous areas of
the country. The area is controlled by the Zetas drug cartel, a fact the Davises probably knew already.
Friends said they spent a lifetime in Mexico helping start new churches. The slain missionary's son said his mother died doing what she loved.
"Time after time, what made her the happiest was seeing somebody hit their knees and come up forgiven for whatever they've done - murder, rape, the smallest sin," he said. "She'd come home so happy. She'd say, 'Well, we stole another one from the devil today.'"
Mission groups in south Texas said her death is yet another wake-up call to the dangers of ministry in Mexico, and they are re-assessing their travel policies.
"Right now we haven't officially sat down to say what is our policy but our informal policy is, 'Don't just abandon these people, they need help, maybe now more than ever,'" said Mark Rotramel, moderator for the Rio Grande Valley Baptists Association.
"But it is dangerous, so if they go, they must be very careful," he continued. "And yet we're not really encouraging wholesale going across like we have in the past."
After the shooting, Mr. Davis said he drove to the border at top speed to outrun the gunmen. His wife died of her wounds about an hour later in a south Texas hospital.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
On Thursday morning, Nov. 14 at 8 a.m., while pulling out onto Rifle Range Road from the Seaside Farm entrance, the tail gate of a man's SUV came open and his golf bag, along with his clubs, spilled out onto Rifle Range. He pulled off the road and turned around as traffic at that hour allowed, and went back. The clubs were gone.
These clubs had special meaning to the owner. He reported it to the Mount Pleasant Police and has a case number. He is offering a $100 reward - with no questions asked - for their return. Call 971-9098 with any information.
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This is my sister's speech she gave on the occasion of my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, which I missed!
This is a special day for Mom & Dad and I'd like to say a few words about them and the life they have shared together. Everyone here knows them well but I thought I'd start with a little bit about their backgrounds. This is the kind of information that you can only glean, for instance, when people reminiscence while sitting around playing Euchre together on Boxing Day.
Dad is the oldest of five children - three brothers and one sister. As far as I can tell, his Dad was a gruff, tough Irishman and his mother was a gentle, tender-hearted English woman. They all lived through the Depression one way or another. Despite that, those four boys seemed to have a lot of fun with a little mischief thrown in. I'm not sure how his sister Jeanette survived it. You'll have to ask her, later!
I'm not sure of the order but I think Dad lived in Toronto, Shelburne and Orangeville. Dad was helping his family at a young age. At 12 years old he started working part-time doing deliveries for a bakery.
By age 17, he joined the Army and suffered the longest ride of his life going over to England, crammed into the hold of a troop ship. I think it was overseas that he gained his command of the French language. The hungrier those boys got, the better they got at asking around for grub.
When the war ended, Dad went to Northern College of Mines in Haileybury to study Geology. I think he was planning to do a little prospecting and strike it rich. He did make an important find but it wasn't ore.
As for Mom, she was born and raised in Haileybury. She has two younger brothers. Her mother was a French-Canadian with roots going back to some of the first French settlers. Her father was from England. She grew up with her mother's parents nearby and her command of the French language surpassed Dad's. Now, I know Mom lived in Toronto for a while, before she was married, when she was studying...dressmaking I think it was. [pause and ask Mom] But for most of her life, she stayed in Haileybury.
She was working at the Bank of Nova Scotia, I think, when she met Dad at a dance. Something tells me Dad was going to those dances with a keen interest in the Haileybury girls because I recently heard a story that Mom's brother Gilbert told Patty. He said that he ran into my Dad [where was it Patty?] and after a little conversation, Dad asked Gilbert if he had any sisters. Now, there were a lot of students at the Mining School and only so many Haileybury girls to go around. It seems Dad was making sure he got there before the other guy!
Their courtship lasted a couple of years and when Dad graduated, they married and Dad whisked Mom off to South America where they lived in Columbia and Peru. I think Dad's French knowledge came in handy then, because if he didn't know a certain Spanish word, he could always try and see if a French word would do!
I was born in Peru but Mom took me home to Haileybury while Dad stayed behind for several months. Dad was then transferred to the States and they lived in New Jersey and Minnesota. Rick was born there and because of that was later able to emigrate to the States quite easily.
Next, they moved to North Bay and it was there, I believe, that they bought their first house. Patty and Kathy came along and, while Mom was expecting Terry, Dad told us he was starting with Boart-Hard Metals and we would be moving to British Columbia.
Dad drove across the country with Rick and me for 5 days and Mom joined us in Edmonton, by air, with the younger ones. I still remember that trip as an amazing adventure. Dad let us do things that Mom never would have allowed. We rode while laying on the back seat with our feet out the window. We went swimming in our underwear. My kids have heard me tell my favourite story. Dad bought wieners and buns and a jar of mustard at the grocery store. We had a swim and Dad brought out this lunch but Rick and I hesitated to eat uncooked hot dogs. Dad just dipped a spare wiener into the mustard jar and spread some mustard on and told us they were cold cats. We thought they were the greatest!
Dad was on the road a lot and Mom did everything necessary. She looked after the house; did a lot of yard work; always had a garden and looked after her five children and all the other kids that trooped in and out. When we moved to a new place, Mom would get her garden ploughed out of a patch of grass and get it well-nourished and producing and then Dad would whisk us off to somewhere new and Mom would start her garden again.
Mom sewed for us all the years we were growing up. We had matching sister outfits, smocked dresses, embroidered dresses and even practical shorts and tops. Our clothes were always admired. To me, a dress from the store was a step down. Of course, now the grandchildren are getting the benefit of Mom's talent.
Dad, as usual, did a great job in British Columbia and was soon promoted, so back we went to Ontario. He stayed with Boart-Hard Metals until 1974 [is that right?]. Dad spent a couple of years with Sala but Boart couldn't get along without him and he agreed to head the Button Bit division in Pennsylvania.
The three oldest children were in University by that time so Mom and Dad went to Pennsylvania with Kathy and Terry. They were there for 11 years and made a lot of good friends. Dad became an American citizen but Mom was so thoroughly Canadian that she never did get her American citizenship, though she was eligible.
Once Dad returned to Canada, he tried to retire but that didn't last long. He was soon running Parts Headquarters and Mom said she was really happy to see him with his own business.
Eventually, Dad did get used to the idea of retirement and he has been pursuing his wine-making hobby and sharing the joy of it with all his children. He's gotten into his computer and, after a lot of persuasion on his part, he's even gotten Mom sending e-mail.
Of course, this is only the briefest possible summation of 50 years together. I don't need to say that 50 years of marriage is a remarkable accomplishment and any long-lasting marriage is always the result of a lot of commitment, patience, tolerance and love.
All of us are here to offer our congratulations to you at this special time.
To June and Jim: congratulations on your 50th Wedding Anniversary.
I don't know if 2 or 3 more toasts are in order - maybe a toast from us kids thanking them for their loving, constant care of us? Someone else might think of one, too. I bought champagne so we gotta have toasts!!


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I probably started sewing as a measure of self defense; if my mom was busy teaching me about 5/8" seams and casings for elastics, there was no way she could whip up yet another set of matching floor ...
I probably started sewing as a measure of self defense; if my mom was busy teaching me about 5/8" seams and casings for elastics, there was no way she could whip up yet another set of matching floor length gowns for my sister and I to wear while posing for photos at the local Sears photo studio.
While my mom sewed all manner of things, quilts were never one of them. I discovered quilting on my own in 1995, and like most new quilters, my first can be considered a horrific monstrosity. Several years and much more talent later, I started to design my own patterns, and in 2005 launched EvaPaige Quilt Designs.
My design style is one of "fun over fuss", and I unapologetically preach the gospel of "Perfection is Overrated" through my trunk show and on my Quilting Hottie Haven blog. Quilting isn't mean to be hard or frustrating, and with every pattern I try to help the user focus on enjoying the creative process rather than becoming annoyed by too many matching points and seams.
I tend to shy away from trends; I design what I love and have a hard time conforming to what's hot in the quilting world. Other than me, of course.
On a more personal note, my husband and I have three young daughters, twins Eva and Paige, my mini-mes and company namesakes, and Greta, who will likely be in therapy because her name only appears on a pattern, not as part of the true EPQD empire. We live in a pretty town northwest of Boston MA that I promise you have never heard of and where you don't even need a clear day to see New Hampshire, where all five of us pretty much live our lives covered in thread scraps.
This fun pumpkin wallhanging, a perfect addition to your fall decor, can be made with either fat quarters or scraps. A funky pieced background and strip pieced pumpkins make the basic design a standout. Machine appliqued pumpkins, stems and leaves are dressed up with beading and cording.
Recently redesigned to use more modern fabrics and align the writing with my other patterns, "Pick Me" now features both Completely Scrappy and Planned Scrappy versions.


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This book, featuring the complete, unabridged stories from "Keepers of the Earth" & "Native American Stories," represents the art of traditional Native American storytelling at its best. Performing stories drawn from the native cultures of North America - from the Inuit in the far north to the Creek in the southeast, from the Abenaki in the northeast to the Hopi in the southwest - Bruchac celebrates the human spirit as he connects the listener with nature.
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Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights organization, has urged the government of Bangladesh to set 18 as the minimum age for marriage to comply with international prohibitions against child marriage.
The global rights watchdog said recent media reports indicate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's cabinet is con-sidering a revision to the law to make 16 the minimum age of marriage for girls.
It said the proposed revisions would reverse stated government aims to reduce child marriage among girls. "Set-ting the age of marriage for girls in Bangladesh at 16 would be a terrible step in the wrong direction," said Liesl Gerntholtz, women's rights director at the Human Rights Watch.
"The rate of child marriage in Bangladesh is already off the charts. The new law should set the minimum age of marriage at 18 for both women and men and put the best interests of children at the centre of all of its provi-sions."
It said Bangladesh has the second-highest rate of child marriage in the world, second only to Niger, according to Unicef, the United Nations children's agency.
About 74 percent of Bangladeshi women currently aged 20 to 49 were married or in a union before age 18, de-spite a minimum legal marriage age for women of 18. International law prohibiting gender discrimination re-quires that the age of marriage be the same for both women and men, and evolving international standards set 18 as the minimum age, it added.
"The Bangladeshi government's promised efforts to end child marriage are encouraging, but these steps need the participation of affected women and activist groups.
"The government should consult closely at every stage with the groups, who have a wealth of knowledge about protecting women and girls, to develop a new law and a national plan of action," Gerntholtz said.
"Bangladesh should take the opportunity to learn from countries around the world that have successfully tackled child marriage," Gerntholtz said adding, "The Bangladeshi government should pass a new Child Marriage Re-straint Act that empowers girls to delay marriage, resist unwanted marriage, and be recognized in society for their value as individuals, not just as brides."
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We glanced into Oracle's room to see what was new. We'd seen the Delphi, we'd seen the CD 1500 and CD 2500 before. "Nothing new?" we asked.
Actually, yes: the Thalia moving coil cartridge ($1500). It was voiced to be used in a Delphi Mk V turntable, fitted with an Oracle/SME 345 tonearm feeding an Oracle Temple phono section.
The Thalia's body is ebony, the cantilever is boron, and the output 2.5mV. "We voiced it to be warm and have lots of body without sacrificing Oracle's traditional speed and detail," said Rusty Taub.
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Hank Williams Jr. Fell Down a Mountain and Lived: Now He's Climbing High on the C&w Charts
When I sing them old songs of Daddy's,/Seems like ev'ry one comes true./Lord, please help me, do I have to be/The living proof? (From Hank Williams Jr.'s song, Living Proof.)
During most of his young life the unhappy answer for the only son of Country Music's greatest star was yes. Hank Jr. was 3 when his father died from liquor and speed at age 29. The boy began touring in 1957, conjuring up his father's spirit on stage with imitations of his C & W classics like Your Cheatin' Heart and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. It was a life bereft of either professional or personal satisfaction. By the early '70s, young Hank was anesthetizing himself with the familiar alcohol and painkillers. In 1975, he tried to OD on Darvon. (He was discovered unconscious by his manager, who rushed him to a hospital.) Then, six months later, a horrifying accident on a climbing trip very nearly ended Williams' mission on earth as Daddy's musical legacy.
While scaling Ajax Peak in Montana, the snow under Williams' feet gave way, and he fell crashing face first into a boulder 500 feet below. His face was split open down the middle, hairline to chin as if struck with an axe. It took plastic surgeons two years to reconstruct the shattered bones and torn flesh; and two years beyond that for Hank to rebuild his personal life and musical career. The living proof (also the title of a new autobiography) is that Hank's Family Tradition LP and single this summer have been his biggest hits since the accident. Moreover his just-released LP, Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound, may well be the finest outlaw-style progressive Country music he has recorded yet. It is a sound distinctly different from the lonesome wail of his father. Meanwhile, junior's thriving club dates now earn him $7,500 a night, triple his fee of two years ago.
For Hank, 30, breaking away was both slow and painful. When he was 8, his widowed mother, Audrey, pushed him into the spotlight to sing his father's songs—"with Daddy's band. It was like a reincarnation," Hank remembers. As a teenager he performed as many as 200 nights a year, toured with Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis and drove the '52 Cadillac his father owned. Hank Jr. dubbed his own voice over his father's on a "duet" LP and recorded the sound track for Hank Sr.'s 1965 film biography, Your Cheatin' Heart. Looking back on these years of recreating his father's music, Hank now says "It was fun. I got thousands of dollars and standing ovations." Moreover, he had been willed 60 percent of Hank Sr.'s royalties, worth more than $250,000 a year.
But offstage young Hank's pained life began to mirror his father's. He married at 17 to spite his mother, but that broke up. So did a second marriage after his wife Gwen bore him a son, Hank III. Drinking night and day, Williams started walking out on gigs, just as his father had.
Lapsing deeper into depression, he began seeing a Nashville psychiatrist and moved to Cullman, Ala., 140 miles south of Montgomery, to escape his past. His rousing mid-1975 LP Hank Williams Jr. and Friends was a promising break away from his father's idiom, but a few weeks later he left for the mountains of Montana.
At his side as he recovered from his injuries was his third wife, Becky, whom he met a week before the accident and married a year later. "I used to use women like bathrooms," recalls Hank, a favorite of "snuff queens"—as country music groupies are called. "But all Becky and I did our first six dates was hug," he marvels. Becky, a native of Mer Rouge, La., was just getting over a sacked romance with Baltimore Colts quarterback Bert Jones. But "twenty-four hours after admitting we loved each other, I became a monster on a mountainside with most of my face gone."
Today Hank and Becky share the 20-acre Cullman spread with their own 8-month-old Hilary (Hank III, 5, lives with his mother in Nashville.) Hank is happily domesticated to the point of cooking—his piece de résistance is cubed venison soaked in beer and barbecued all night on a window screen. He loves to hunt, flying his own Bonanza A-36 to Montana; in his re-finished basement a stuffed mountain lion, grizzly and rattlesnake attest to his prowess.
Hank Jr. now seems reconciled to his past. In every show, he is sure to sing at least two of his father's songs, Jambalaya and Your Cheatin' Heart. "I couldn't be the son of a legend like Daddy and turn my back on him—nor do I want to." So how does he face down the honky-tonk hecklers? "If you want to hear Hank Williams Sr.," he tells them unsentimentally, "go buy his albums."
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Nokia X aka Nokia Normandy has leaked numerous times in the past few months. The reason for so much excitement when it appears to be an entry-level handset? Well, it's said to come with a forked version of Android, a similar version that's found inside the Kindle line-up from Amazon.
Well, Nokia has already sent out press invites to their press event at the Mobile World Congress, and if rumors are correct, Nokia will unveil a couple of devices at the event schedule for February 24th in Barcelona.
According to a report from WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter, Nokia plans to launch the Nokia X smartphone later this month at the Mobile World Congress. As rumored before, it seems the Nokia X will come with Nokia's own version of Android and will have nothing to do with the actual Android itself.
The same sources also revealed it will be different from other Android handsets, and will not provide access to some Google related services, including the Google Play Store. Instead, it will come with a Nokia app store as well as other Nokia-related apps, such as HERE maps and a few others.
Nokia is said to be working on such a smartphone before its devices and services division was taken over by Microsoft for $7.1b, which is yet to complete. Now, the question is: will Microsoft allow such a thing? Nokia's dominating the Windows Phone arena currently with its Lumia range of devices.
MWC 2014 is not too far, I guess it's best to wait for it and see what the Finns have planned rather than firing blind shots about what they will do. We'll update you as soon as any other information comes up.
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Popular store Phat Stuff on Main Street in Keene has reopened following a raid by federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents.
The DEA and Keene police searched the business last Wednesday.
According to the U.S. attorney in New Hampshire, the officers were looking for evidence of sales of synthetic marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
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Has anyone caught The Marriage Ref on TV yet? That show is AWESOME! Dustin and I watched last night and were totally cracking up. If you haven't seen it yet you should. You'll laugh, I promise.
Now, my friend Lauren over at the little things we do does a fill in the blank Friday and I'm playing along this week. So check her out if you want to play too and have a good weekend all!
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Consider a non negative function over interval such that the area between the graph and interval is and the area of the region between and the interval is as shown below:
The area and can be expressed as below:
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Consider the solid generated after revolving region R about
To obtain the volume of this solid consider a small strip of width in the region R as shown below:
This strip will become a cylindrical shell after revolution.
The radius and height of this shell would be and respectively. Therefore the surface area will be
And the volume will be then
Total volume of revolution will be obtained after integrating this over entire range of of interest.
Consider therefore
And when
Put these results in the volume expression
From the expression (1)
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Assume the region R is horizontal and it will balance at line
The moment of area around shall be 0.
To obtain the total moment of area, consider a strip of width as shown.
Area of this strip is
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LOS ANGELES - Cole Hamels had another man picked off, only Ryan Howard made another errant throw. This was in the first inning of his Game 2 start of the National League Division Series, and the most distressing thing about it was what happened next.
Hamels snapped his glove downward as he got the ball back from Jimmy Rollins, clearly in disgust. Maybe he was angry that his throw didn't get there faster, maybe he was just angry that he was in another early inning pickle. But it looked as if he was showing up Howard, and for a guy who yesterday again blamed his erratic subpar season on trying to be "perfect in order to succeed," it was not the personality trait you were hoping to see from him at this time of year.


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ByANNA FERRANTINO, DONGAN HILLS
What do Al Gore, Barack Obama and Irena Sendler have in common? All were Nobel Peace Prize candidates. Barack Obama "won" the award this year. Al Gore "won" the previous award, in which Irena was a runner-up.
What were her contributions? During World War II, she helped save 2,500 Jews, mostly children, from certain Nazi death. She smuggled children past Nazis in bags, carpenter boxes, coffins, etc., and placed them in Christian homes. She kept a record of their names and attempted to reunite them with their parents, those who were still alive, after the war.
She was captured, tortured but survived, never giving information to the Nazis. Check her complete story on the Internet.
My point? Al Gore did not step aside for Irena. Our president accepting an award for doing nothing tells you the truth about the Peace Prize committee and their two charlatan awardees. God bless Irena.


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HONOLULU - Many NFL stars are hoping that when it comes to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, aloha doesn't mean goodbye.
The NFL all-star game doesn't have a home beyond Sunday's game. League and Hawaii officials are negotiating a deal to keep the game in the islands, which is hosting it for the second straight year after it was played in Miami in 2010, breaking a 30-year run in Hawaii.
"It takes away from the game when it's somewhere else," said Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall, who also selected to the Miami game two years ago. "It's always a privilege. It's always an honor to be selected to a Pro Bowl. But this is what the Pro Bowl is about - paradise. So it would (stink) definitely if we no longer come out here."
Some players went as far as saying they wouldn't participate if the Pro Bowl was moved.
"That's a lot of the players' attitude, I think. If it's in an NFL city, you're in those cities quite often," Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said.
Allen and other players said the game belongs in Hawaii, where it's more family oriented, relaxed and considered a reward for the hard work they put in during the season.
Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew's first Pro Bowl was in Miami, which he said was a great experience.
"But it's nothing like coming over to Hawaii. This is my first time here for the Pro Bowl, and it's great," he said.
The state is paying the NFL $4 million for the rights to hold this year's game. About seven months ago, Gov. Neil Abercrombie opposed the state paying millions to host the Pro Bowl when the money could be used for education.
"We've got to get our values straight and our priorities straight," he said then.
On Tuesday, however, Abercrombie changed his tune when he crashed the NFL's press conference and spoke in favor of keeping the game here. The governor said the state would like to continue hosting the game, "and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that comes about in a fashion that will make everybody very, very happy."
Last year's Pro Bowl attracted 17,000 visitors to the state, generated $28.2 million in visitor spending and created $3.1 million in state taxes from people who traveled to attend the game.
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Just curious -- is learning to fly a helicopter significantly more difficult than learning to fly an airplane? I know it's less common...
Someone who has never been in a plane could probably steer a plane fairly well, and maybe even land. Probably not true in the case of a helicopter?
I think I saw a statistic claiming that flying helicopters is slightly more dangerous than airplanes. I also read that helicopters need constant maintenance because the helicopter's fundamental mechanics are essentially tearing the helicopter apart while flying. Also, a military helicopter pilot once told me that helicopters leak enormous quantities of oil as a standart part of operation. Is all this accurate?
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The Windy Fire burned thousands of acres in the Santee River region near McClellanville in 2011. Out of that wildfire came a survivor and a seed: the longleaf pine.
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Both needles and wood are sought-after products.
The grassy understory of the pine savannahs is habitat for 30 threatened or endangered plant and animal species, 60 percent of the reptile and amphibian species in South Carolina and more than 68 bird species.
Longleaf is more adapted than other pines to the hurricane winds, wildfires, drenching rains and droughts of the coast; it resists insects and disease better.
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Nearly $200,000 in grants have just been awarded to plant 600 more acres of the native pine and restore at least 5,000 more acres in the Sewee region around the Francis Marion National Forest. That acreage would augment more than 10,000 state-owned and privately owned acres already growing in longleaf pine.
Why is that important? Longleaf pine forests are maybe the most ecologically and economically valuable forest in the Lowcountry and the entire Southeast.
"They are one of the most diverse ecosystems in the hemisphere," said David O'Neill, National Fish and Wildlife Federation conservation program vice president.
The forests made the place. By Colonial times, they covered some 60 million to 90 million acres of the coastal plain. But the acreage was hacked to little more than 3 million by the 1990s.
Now private-public groups across the region are trying to bring them back. More than 4 million acres exist today; the goal is 8 million by 2025.
The grants announced Thursday have been awarded to the S.C. Wildlife Federation to manage the effort for the Sewee Longleaf Cooperative Restoration and Outreach, one of those groups. It's made up of private owners along with conservation groups like the federation, as well as state and federal agencies.
The grants come from contributions by International Paper through the National Fish and Wildlife Federation and from federal agencies.
One of the cooperative's private owners is White Oak Forestry, an affiliate of Evening Post Industries, the owner of The Post and Courier.
Grants also were awarded in North Carolina. But the effort here is significant enough that the grant announcement was made at the Sewee Visitor Center in Awendaw. Here the effort has keyed on private lands around the longleaf "stronghold" Francis Marion forest, where more than 40,000 longleaf acres are growing. The private owner-led Sewee group is a model for similar groups across the region.
All that leads back to the Windy Fire, fueled by 30 mph winds. The cooperative "was a direct result of that," said Hall McGee, White Oak Forestry vice president and general manager.
The fire spurred commercial owners to look harder at the cost/benefit of planting longleaf compared to more widely grown — and fire vulnerable — commercial pines.
White Oak lost more than 700 pine acres during the fire. The blaze virtually was unstoppable once it got into the peat moss-rich grounds, because it burned underground there and would pop up anywhere.
But when the fire crossed a road to a stretch of the company's longleaf planting called Peachtree, it quit. Longleaf is fire resistant and those acres recently had undergone prescribed, or controlled, burns. There was nothing left to catch.
In most pine forests, the straw, fallen limbs and other debris create virtual pyres of highly flammable material.
That had been more thoroughly burned clear on the Peachtree property because longleaf need a clear understory to thrive.
"That's the whole idea, to get rid of the fuel," McGee said.
The cleared understory creates the irreplaceable ecosystem.
"Fire is to the longleaf forest what rain is to the rain forest," said Steve Moore, of the S.C. Wildlife Federation, quoting an adage.
It's no small thing that one of Moore's intentions with the grant money is workshops and other education efforts about the critical need for prescribed burns in the coastal plain — for people's wildfire safety as well as forestland health.
As the region develops, more people are moving closer to forest lands. Smoke complaints have become more frequent and forest owners have become more reluctant to burn. S.C. Forestry Commission officials estimate that only half the acres are burned each year that are necessary to keep out-of-control wildfires from raging.
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Cigna CEO Cordani Says Court Won't Derail Health-Care Shift
A Supreme Court ruling on whether the U.S. health-care law is constitutional won't stop market forces transforming how Americans get their medical care, said Cigna Corp.'s chief executive officer.
Employers are increasingly pushing workers into plans where they share more of the cost and responsibility for managing care, the health insurer's CEO, David Cordani, said in an interview yesterday at Bloomberg's New York headquarters.
The change, aimed at taming soaring health costs, has come to businesses including JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, which asked Cigna to revamp its benefits for this year, Cordani said. The bank switched workers into high-deductible policies that include fixed health-savings accounts that can be tapped by employees for out-of-pocket expenses.
Even if the 2010 law is overturned, "the problem still exists, the problem of affordability, eroding health status, an aging population," Cordani said. "The good news is, a lot of change is unfolding in the marketplace today."
In a 45-minute interview, Cordani said health plans may flee the market for individual and small-business coverage if the court kills only the mandate that all Americans get coverage while leaving the rest of the legislation in place. That would leave insurance pools dominated by patients who wait until they get sick to buy a policy, he said.
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Three days of oral arguments on the health law are scheduled to begin March 26 before the nine-member court. Twenty-six states have challenged the law, championed by President Barack Obama, saying its insurance-buying mandate is unconstitutional.
Cordani also said Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Cigna, the fourth-biggest U.S. insurer, would increase the number of patients covered by joint ventures with doctors -- so-called accountable-care organizations -- by 10-fold over two years.
By 2014, the company plans to have 1 million patients in such arrangements, in which physicians and insurers work to better coordinate care and share in any cost savings, he said.
"We philosophically believe it is a big part of the solution" to rising health-care costs, he said.
Cigna rose less than 1 percent to $46.81 at the close of New York trading. The shares have gained 10 percent in the last 12 months. The company provides medical benefits to 11.5 million members in the U.S. and operates in about 30 countries.
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The so-called consumer-directed benefits Cigna put in place at JPMorgan this year are an example of the changes sweeping through much of U.S. health care, Cordani said.
Such plans can include a health-reimbursement account, funded by employers, or a health savings account, where workers can steer their own pretax contributions, said Paul Fronstin, a research director at the Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington.
Companies are "hoping that it's going to save them some money, that it's going to control their costs, that people are going to think twice about the type of health-care services they use as a result," Fronstin said.
In addition to JPMorgan, Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co., Wells Fargo & Co. of San Francisco, and American Express Co., based in New York, have shifted their workers to consumer-directed plans, Fronstin said. So far, the evidence on whether they reduce costs is mixed, he said.
These type of programs "are probably not really ready for prime time" in terms of saving money for customers, said Les Funtleyder, a health-care strategist and portfolio manager at Miller Tabak & Co. in New York. Consumers are at a disadvantage because prices charged by doctors and hospitals often aren't transparent, he said.
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"Without information, these consumer-driven plans will not deliver as promised," Funtleyder said in an interview.
Cigna has tried to give members those tools, said a spokesman, Joseph Mondy. Earlier this month, the company debuted an online feature allowing customers to estimate the price of more than 200 procedures, from delivering babies to knee replacement surgery, he said in an e-mail.
Cordani said Cigna has enrolled about 100,000 JPMorgan employees in the new policies. For the insurer, "it's an example of change and it's an example of being much more retail-oriented," he said.
The plans often include features such as 100 percent coverage of preventive care, personal health coaches and online tools to help workers choose doctors and hospitals, said Gloria Barone Rosanio, a Cigna spokeswoman.
Joseph Evangelisti, a JPMorgan spokesman, declined to comment in an e-mail.
Like consumer-directed plans, Cigna's accountable-care partnerships with doctors are an attempt to focus more on the needs of individual members than the employers who buy their policies, Cordani said. The company now has 17 such arrangements, covering 100,000 people. It's goal is to expand to 1 million by the beginning of 2014, he said.
Under the ACO model, Cigna "embeds" nurse-practitioners or health coaches in physicians' practices, helping doctors to track which members are taking their medicines or need follow-up calls. Cigna uses its claims information to flag signs a patient may be relapsing.
"There are a lot of products designed now around incenting health, incenting behavioral change and lifestyle changes and where physicians and hospitals engage in a much more comprehensive fashion," Cordani said. "With or without the health-care law, the economic forces are driving change in any regard."


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Twentieth Century Fox has decided to postpone the premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine set for Wednesday in Mexico City, as the city remains paralyzed by the virus that has killed over 100 people. Dozens of cases of swine flu have also been detected stateside. (For information about the swine flu, click here.)
"We were not only concerned about Hugh's welfare – and we would never send anyone into harm's way – but we also have an enormous office filled with people we care about," says a rep for the studio. "There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions."
The Mexico government has asked for residents to stay home, shutting down schools and even the nation's top movie-theater chains have opted to shut down dozens of cinemas. Hugh Jackman was the only cast member from the film expected to attend the Mexico City premiere.
"There is a possibility it could be rescheduled," the rep says of the premiere. "Hugh is obviously beloved [there] so we'll see what happens. We'll monitor the situation."
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Significant effort has been made to identify high-quality antibodies and develop sensitive detection methods. The sensitivity and specificity of the primary antibody is a determining factor in the success of the assay. Antibodies need to be highly reactive with cell lysate and give a predominant single band by Western blot.
A good way to start is by choosing antibodies with proven track records or those made against native proteins. Often, several antibodies need to be tested before finding one with the desired properties. RPPA require minute amounts of lysate (1–2 ng), making it possible to conduct thousands of assays with the same material. Detection often requires the use of tyramide signal amplification systems such as the one depicted in Figure 1A. To assist with this complicated task, OriGene has developed a small inexpensive RPPAs for validation of reagents and procedures.
A curve-fitting solution is the most accurate way to analyze RPPAs (Figure 1B). Changes between cancer and normal tissue can be quantified by dividing the readout from each sample with the median expression of normal samples from the same tissue (Figure 2).
When represented in a simple heat map format, the clustering of aberrant expression (both high and low) in particular cancers become apparent. The analysis shows that ERBB2 is overexpressed not only in breast and ovarian cancer but also in a number of other cancers. In addition, it is downregulated in some kidney and liver cancers (Figure 2). Such findings have clinical implications for extending the use of current tests and drugs to additional cancers. More detailed analysis can be made using the clinical data provided with each sample. For example, the higher expression of Phospho c-Myc in ovarian cancer samples is mainly restricted to stage 2C and 3 and appears in 83% of these samples (10/12).
Using a variety of high-quality antibodies, it is possible to create an expression profile for each cancer and discover associations within clinical data.
High-density RPPAs provide quantitative profiling of protein expression and post-translational modifications of cancer and normal cells and tissues. With this method, proteins are extracted from many biospecimens and arrayed using a standardized protein dilution curve. This large-scale method can identify cancer-associated alterations at the protein level. This makes high-density RPPAs a powerful and important tool for cancer research.
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