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Nashville News: Friday, 8/28
All signs are pointing to a romance between Brett Eldredge and Victoria's Secret model Jessica Hilbert.
Jessica's Instagram account has several pictures of them doing some fun date-like things like posing for silly pictures and what looks to be river rafting.
And if she looks familiar, she was the nurse in Brett's video for "Lose My Mind."
Lady Antebellum have been at it for almost 10 years now pretty much with out a break -- except forHillary Scott's maternity leave a few years back -- and they could use a vacation.
After their Wheels Up Tour lands, they'll be taking a break to breathe and write some songs for their next
album. The gift of time will especially be welcome for Charles Kelley and his wife, who are expecting a child
early next year.
Not only has Jennifer Nettles signed a shiny new record deal with Big Machine -- she will have a new single out in October and a new album next year. In the meantime, she will
launch the Playing With Fire tour this fall with openers Brandy Clark and Ryan Kinder.
We are older and wiser now, so here is a list of things we do now versus what we didn't then...
Things We Do in Our 30s and 40s That We Didn't Do in Our 20s
1. Spend five dollars more on a cocktail to avoid a hangover.
2. Pick up the tab to avoid splitting a queso four ways.
3. Brag about getting carded.
4. Pay more for an appliance that will last longer.
5. Ask about the return policy.
6. Upon returning from a fantastic, amazing vacation, say, "It's good to be home."
7. Spend more for the flight without a layover.
8. Think plans are a great idea until it's time to actually leave the house.
9. Give thought to the time of day we enter a grocery store.
10. Make coffee at home
List courtesy of yahoo.com
Nashville News: Friday, 8/21
Carrie Underwood made her big announcement yesterday.
She told fans that she'll release a new album called Story Teller on October 23rd. The first single from the album
is "Smoke Break." Carrie says she and her cowriters stumbled onto the song when they were struggling with coming
up with ideas. They decided to step outside to take a "smoke break," and thought that would be a great title for a song.
Do blondes really have more fun? Miranda Lambert is testing out the theory with a trip to the salon.
She posted a photo on Facebook with the caption, "What doesn't kill you only makes you blonder."
Miranda will show off her new 'do will see travels with her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars tour that
features all girls: Ashley Monroe, RaeLynn, and Claire Dunn.
Love corn mazes? Love Garth Brooks? Then you might want to plan a visit to Govin's Farm in Menomonie,
Wisconsin, where they've carved a Garth maze out of 11 acres of corn.
Garth approved by tweeting, "A-MAZE-ing! Thanks Govin's Farm!" Maybe a bit corny?!
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Nashville News: Friday, 8/14
Sara Evans is teaming up with REO Speedwagon for an installment of CMT Crossroads.
Sara is a veteran of the show -- she's done episodes with Joe Walsh and Maroon 5 in the past. She says, "As an artist, it's so exciting to be
able to explore another artist's music and to hear how they interpret mine."
The episode will film next week and is set to premiere on September 19th.
Rolling Stone has come out with its list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time --and country is well represented.
Hank Williams is the highest-ranking country songwriter, checking in at number-13. Dolly Parton takes the 30th spot on the list,Merle Haggard is 33, Johnny Cash is the 43rd best,
and Willie Nelson holds the number-60 position. Also making the list are Loretta Lynn, and Taylor Swift. Topping the list is Bob Dylan.
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Nashville News: Monday, 8/3
The last time Alabama put original music out, the country genre looked a little different, and the band
itself did too. Now 14 years later, Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook are slated to release a brand
new album, Southern Drawl. Since country music has changed a bit since their last go round, their sound will too.
Southern Drawl will drop on Sept. 18. There is no track listing or pre-order information available yet, but it is expected to be announced as the release date draws nearer.
The Dixie Chicks thrilled European fans recently by announcing they'd be reuniting and going on
tour across the pond, but is it possible the band will take a tour stateside? According to Natalie Maine's
Twitter page, it might be in the cards.
Shes responded to a fan who asked if they were "ready to play nice" (a reference to their song "Not Ready to Make Nice") yet and perform in the States, giving American fans hope for a U.S. Tour.
She said, "I'll never make nice, but I will tour the states again."
I will keep you posted on all things chicks that are dixie!
CLEVELAND, Ohio – In response to the tremendous interest by Ohio families and residents about the State of Ohio's first back-to-school Sales Tax Holiday from Aug. 7-9, the Ohio Department of Taxation offers the following tips for consumers: (read complete article from Cleveland.com)
Facebook Quitters
You know those people who quit facebook every week just to come back that day or the next day? Or those who weed out their friends and announce, "Congrats, you have made the cut!"
Here's why they do it:
They want you to think they have better things to do: It's their own inadequacies that make them feel this way. Your internet life looks a lot more exciting than the real one.
They usually loudly announce their exit: This is done in effort to ease their insecurity by hearing
how many people want them to stay.
It only takes a month or two to come back: There's the fear of missing out and the realization that they aren't getting enough attention offline.
They want to make themselves feel special: Everyone wants to feel special, and the thing is, we all are.
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Recently two LCOGT 1.0 meter telescopes went on sky for the first time at Siding Spring Australia. I was given the privilege of taking some of the first images with those telescopes.
In keeping with the spirit of the "first-light" images made by BJ Fulton (see the story here) I also did no touching up of the images. Using scrips I created in IDL, images in red, blue, and green of 4 fields were tied together to make the single color image. The images of the Eta Carina Nebula were taken on 25th of May 2013.
It is remarkable to note the clarity of these images which were taken on the night of a full moon. This is a sign of great things to come!
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The College of Staten Island improved to 6-1 in the CUNY Conference and 14-11 overall with a 14-1 rout over John Jay on Sunday in Willowbook.
CSI took the final two games of the three-game series.
Casey Mulligan worked five innings for the win, and was followed on the mound by Daniel Slvein, Chris Matusiewicz, Jonathan Aponte and Matthew Schwartz.
Joseph Falcone paced the offense with a 3-for-5 day with five RBI. Pat Gale drove in three runs.
CSI took a 3-0 lead in the first inning and added seven runs in the fourth.
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PCCW Teleservices is to close a telemarketing office in Tiffin Mall March 20, which is to displace about 120 people, according to a news release from the company.
Employees were notified Wednesday of the office's closing. According to a news release, the jobs are to be replaced at other U.S. centers, including a new operating center in Lincoln, Neb. The Dublin, Ohio-based company has operated a center in Tiffin since 2001.
The release stated the company is offering licensed insurance agents the opportunity to work from home, and some management personnel the opportunity to relocate to another center in Ohio. The company also is to work with local companies and Seneca Regional Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Services to consider job fairs and new job opportunities.
"Displacing employees is never an easy decision," Barb Bricker, director of human resources, stated in a news release. "We are truly grateful to those employees that have served us over the years and to the city of Tiffin and the surrounding communities for their support. We are taking every step to minimize the impact to these employees and to assist them in their transition."
John Detwiler, president and CEO of the chamber, said he is in talks with representatives of Seneca One-Stop to find teleconferencing solutions for those hoping to continue employment with the company, but discussion is in early stages.
A message placed to Tiffin Mall was not returned Thursday evening.
According to an article published in The Advertiser-Tribune, the company employed about 200 people last February. The business, then called Influent, has since merged with PCCW Teleservices.
While most of the focus at the Tiffin office has been insurance-related, during election season, political parties around the country employ PCCW to gather support.
PCCW Teleservices is a wholly owned subsidiary of HKT, a telecommunications service provider headquartered in Hong Kong.


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The San Francisco 49ers have signed a deal
22 May 2013
Jay-Z is continuing to make waves in the sports representation industry. His fledgling representation company has already signed Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano away from Scott Boras, purchased a Mercedes Benz for former Notre Dame (now Tulsa Shock) point guard Skylar Diggins and he's now Read More
It has been days since a company last attempted to generate interest based off of former NY Jets quarterback, Tim Tebow. Fear not, the Storm Stoppers are here. Orlando-based Storm Stoppers, noted for being an alternative to plywood for hurricane window protection, has offered the Read More
Hyperice, the California-based portable ice compression device company now has a new partial owner. Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has joined Hyperice as an equity partner, adding to an impressive athlete roster including Steelers safety Troy Polamalu, LA Clippers forward Blake Griffin and U.S. Read More
StubHub is teaming up with Paciolan, a ticketing and marketing provider, to create a secondary ticket marketplace for the University of Nebraska. Under the deal, StubHub will now be known as the Official Fan-to-Fan Ticket Marketplace of Nebraska Athletics. The company will also manage each Read More
The 49ers are moving to Santa Clara. Tight End Vernon Davis is making sure that Jamba Juice will be making the move right along with the rest of the team. Davis has signed a store development agreement with the Jamba Juice Company that looks to Read More
California Senator Roderick Wright's newest bill could be called an old dog with some new tricks. The Senator has once again introduced a bill, Senate Bill 190, which seeks to legalize sports betting in the state of California. Wright had passed a similar bill last Read More


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May 20, 2013
The Truckload Carriers Association has formed a partnership with Truckers Against Trafficking, a nonprofit organization that educates, equips, empowers, and mobilizes members of the trucking and truck plaza industries to combat domestic sex trafficking.
May 13, 2013
The Iowa Department of Transportation is partnering with Truckers Against Trafficking to combat the trafficking of human beings.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are at risk to enter the sex for sale industry each year.
November 9, 2012
The Colorado Motor Carriers Association, Colorado Truckstop Conference, local elected and law enforcement officials will be kicking off an education and awareness campaign focused on combatting the human trafficking of underage children who are being forced to engage in prostitution.
November 7, 2012
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is partnering with Truckers Against Trafficking in TAT's efforts to educate, equip and mobilize members of the trucking and travel plaza industry to combat domestic sex trafficking
November 6, 2012
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Jake Gyllenhaal & Olivia Wilde Get Flirty in L.A.
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Jake Gyllenhaal was cracking up and laughing with pals during a lively night at West Hollywood's Chateau Marmont – but the actor gave special attention to one woman: Olivia Wilde. The two were very flirty, an onlooker says, acting "touchy-feely." Says the onlooker: "At one point, he had his hand on hers." Still, the two weren't overly affectionate with each other. "Olivia was very cool," the onlooker says, "and wasn't fawning over Jake but seemed to like the attention he was giving her." Alas, at the end of the evening the two went their separate ways. As for their relationship, the actress's rep tells us they're just friends.


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On Sunday, Dec. 8, the Mirror inched closer to endorsing reassessment with an article titled "A long time coming."
This article contained a suggestion that read: "The most logical time to initiate reassessment might be after the 2015 primary."
This nasty political trick would be effective.
It would tie the hands of a future board of commissioners and pre-empt the will of the voters. The general election that followed would then become one of resentment.
The article then implies that voters are equally divided over reassessment by citing retired commissioner Donna Gority's support for reassessment and her successful re-election in 2007 as an indication of voter division.
Gority's success, over her anti-reassessment opponent, hinges on the fact voters are only allowed to pick two candidates out of four for three commissioner seats in the general election.
If voters were allowed to vote for three candidates for the three commissioners seats, Gority would have lost because of her pro-reassessment stance.
The county commissioners' race is the only election with this electoral disparity.
Here is where the back of adversarial partisan party politics, at its crass roots - and I mean crass, not grass - should and could be broken.
This electoral disparity inhibits the majority in realizing its will with confidence, allows the judicial system to intervene with litigation, and gives political parties the opportunity to distort and sacrifice majority will to special interests.
Another tactic is to have a school district bring a lawsuit against the county. Remember this: The school districts, unlike the county, have no millage cap.
Thus enters the next excuse for reassessment - you might as well do it, because the courts will order it.
Given the courts' silence on these dirty political tricks, their complicity is obvious and the legitimacy of an order would be a suspect in criminal political conspiracy.
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2011 Ann Schreiber Grant Recipient – Sherry Wu
Sherry Wu, PhD
MD Andserson Cancer Center
Novel Approach to Destroy the Blood Supply that Feeds Ovarian Cancer Tumors
Project Summary
While most ovarian cancer patients respond to available treatments, most patients eventually experience disease progression resulting in death. Novel therapeutic strategies are therefore urgently required. Dr. Wu's project involves using a highly effective gene silencing molecule, called a small interfering RNA, or siRNA, to shut off genes important in ovarian cancer progression, such as those that form blood vessels that support the tumor. By switching off these genes, it is anticipated tumors will stop making a new blood supply and will die. Since our bodies are efficient in removing foreign materials, there is an urgent need to develop a suitable carrier for these siRNAs so they reach tumor site after administration. Dr. Wu aims to develop a safe siRNA delivery system to destroy the ovarian cancer tumor blood supply. The approach also might be useful in delivering other treatments to ovarian cancer tumors.
Dr. Sherry Wu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University and will join M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2011. She obtained her undergraduate pharmacy qualification with first class honors from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2004. Following her internship year in pharmacy, she undertook her Ph.D. at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute under the supervision of A/Prof Nigel McMillan and was awarded her Ph.D. in March, 2010. Her thesis investigated the potential of using small interfering RNA (siRNA) for treatment of cancer. During this time, she developed novel delivery systems which enable the use of siRNA in vivo for both local and systemic applications. She was awarded Young Investigator Award and the Jian Zhou Memorial Award for her work at Diamantina Institute and was also selected as one of 15 young scientists from around Australia invited to present their work to the general public. Her research interests include understanding the molecular basis of cancer progression and metastasis and investigating novel ways to target cancer using nanotechnologies. In particular, she is interested in applying a novel technology called RNA interference to combat ovarian cancer.
The five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer has increased by only 8% in the last 30 years.
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Madhuri Dixit (born on 15 May 1967) is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Often cited by the media as one of the best actresses in Bollywood, Dixit made her film debut in Abodh (1984) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab (1988). She went on to establish herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses, acknowledged for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing. Some of her proceeding films include such box-office hits as Dil (1990), Saajan (1991), Beta (1992), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) and Raja (1995). After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand (1997), Pukar (2000), Lajja (2001) and Devdas (2002). In 2002, she retired from films in order to raise her children and made a comeback with the musical Aaja Nachle in 2007. Dixit has won five Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress and one for...


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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia would veto a U.N. resolution calling to extend the mandate to for observers in Syria calling it blackmail.
He went on to explain that the observer program is fine, but the threat of sanctions if Syria does not accept the Observers amounts to blackmail, since it is also tied to Annan's peace plan.
"To our great regret, we are seeing elements of blackmail," Lavrov told a news conference before Annan started a two-day visit that will include talks on Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin. "This is a counter-productive and a dangerous approach."
Russia is Syria's largest arms supporter and has resisted western efforts to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power saying "he will not go" on his own and that any planned negotiations must include Assad.
Russia did say last week it would not deliver any more arms or other weapons to Syria until this conflict is resolved.


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Original 1976 Topps football display box housing thirty-five 1977 Topps football wax packs. When we received this box we expected the contents to be 1976 Topps football packs but inside were actually 1977 Topps football packs. A complete box is thirty-six packs; this box is missing one pack and contains thirty-five unopened packs. The 1977 Topps set includes cards of Walter Payton, Steve Largent, Roger Staubach, and Terry Bradshaw. While it is impossible to provide guarantees with reference to grading of unopened material, there is, of course, the very real possibility that within this box are Gem Mint cards of these stars. All the other stars of the day are also included. Twenty of the interior packs are in Ex-Mt condition and sixteen are slightly lesser (downgraded due to a very minor tear or two in the corners). The box has shelf wear but displays beautifully. Total 35 packs. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $940.00
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DAVISON, MI -- Nearly every question got flipped around.
Junior center Frank Vukaj had a triple-double Tuesday night against Swartz Creek and all he wanted to talk about was the team's defensive play.
Freshman guard Dylan Alderson, averaging 12 points and seven assists per game as a starter, stood coy, crediting his teammates with helping him get adjusted to the varsity level.
And then there was Davison boys basketball coach Bobby Hatten, talking about a chart with battles, illustrating a defensive mindset that a coach with such a tall and athletic team would die for.
"One of them," Hatten said, explaining the chart, "is to hold teams under 12 points per quarter. The school record (in a season) is 49 points per game. That's how we came up with it."
Proven difficult to do, the Cardinals have only pulled it off four times this season, Davison (8-7, 4-4 Saginaw Valley League South) enters Thursday's Flint Journal/MLive.com Game of the Week against Flint Carman-Ainsworth hoping to do just that on Feb. 13.
"Our defense is going to be key to us winning the game," said Vukaj, a 6-foot-8 center. "We need to get good, solid defense. Our offense just clicks, so it has to come from the defensive end."
To help spark the tenacity, Hatten says his coaching staff has developed a chart of eight in-game battles, ranging from holding opponents to 12 points per quarter to winning the turnover and rebounding margin to making 70 percent of their free throws -- even taking two defensive charges.
And it seems to have worked. After starting the season 2-7, the Cardinals have won six of their last seven and held opponents to just under 50 points per game.
Vukaj, who tallied 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks Tuesday, Feb. 11, in a 71-57 win over Swartz Creek, couldn't even recall his own stat line when asked. He's more more concerned with trying to stop teams.
"We picked up our defensive tempo," Vukaj said. "That's how we're going to stop teams. We're not an 80 point scoring team. If we stop them and get points, we have a good shot."
Carman-Ainsworth, however, is a different beast. The Cavaliers (14-2, 8-0 SVL South) enters Thursday's game averaging more than 66 points per game. The last time the two schools played each other, Jan. 8, Carman-Ainsworth won 76-53 on a 30-point effort from Cameron Morse and 20 points by Justice Green.
"They got a lot of quickness, and we really couldn't stop it," Vukaj said.
This time around, though, Davison is peaking at the right time -- "practices are better," Alderson says -- and Hatten hopes to use his team's defensive philosophy to make it a half-court game against a C-A team full of "extraordinary athletes."
"For us, it's about controlling the ball and making sure we're working inside first," he said. "Year-in, year-out you can always count on Carman to be one of the best teams in the area, if not the state."
Aaron McMann covers sports at The Flint Journal. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com; follow him on Twitter @AaronMcMann.


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Space is limited, so please apply as early as possible. The priority application deadline is in early March for summer programs and mid-October for January programs.
The priority application deadline for January term study abroad is October 7. If there are still openings after the priority deadline, applications will be considered in the order in which they are received.
To apply, please submit the following items. (The forms can either be printed and filled out or filled out online, saved to your computer, and then emailed.)
- Study Abroad application
- Advisor recommendation
- RD recommendation
- A copy of the identfication page of your passport, if you have a passport
Once application forms are received the Director of International Education will contact you to schedule a short interview. Students will receive notification about acceptance on the program shortly after the priority application deadline. After receiving an acceptance letter, the following forms will be required:
Peg Alden
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wash and dry the inside of each ball jar. Spray the inside of each jar with nonstick cooking spray. Set jars aside.
2. Prepare cake mix according to box.
3. Scoop about 1 cup of cake batter into five smalls bowls. Add a different color of coloring to each bowl of cake batter until the cake batter is very bright. (The brighter, the better!)
4. Pouring in a circular motion (so colors don't mix together), add 1/4 cup of each color into a each jar (purple on the bottom of each jar, then turquoise, green, yellow and finally pink). Place the jars into a shallow baking dish and add 1/4 inch of water to the bottom of the dish. Place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes. (test with toothpick...as different ovens and altitudes produce different results)
5. Remove jars and allow to cool completely before scooping out a small portion of the top of your cake (cake will bubble out of the top a bit...so feel free to eat that extra bit right then and there!) and adding a hefty dollop of whipped topping to the top. Finish by topping them off with rainbow colored sprinkles and serve!!!!


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Pinelands (0-4) at Long Branch (3-1): Long Branch's power-I formation, featuring Joscil Jackson and Deon Williams at fullback and tailback, respectively, should roll over a Pinelands squad struggling through a 16-game losing streak.
Long Branch, 42-7
Point Pleasant Boro (3-1) at Msgr. Donovan (2-1): Point Pleasant Boro's triple-option offense could not get into gear against Asbury Park without starting fullback Ryan Prout. The senior hopes to return this week against Msgr. Donovan from a knee injury, and reestablish the run game that fueled Point Pleasant Boro's 3-0 start. Running back Grant Klimek looks to combat Point Pleasant Boro's stout front seven for Msgr. Donovan.
Point Pleasant Boro, 21-17
Howell (0-3) at Toms River East (0-4): Both teams look for first wins of the season, as Toms River East running back Matt Gudzak looks to take advantage of an inexperienced Howell defense. But look for Howell's offense to rally behind quarterback John Quinlan.
Howell, 28-23
Brick Township (0-4) at Wall (1-3): Both teams are struggling right now with young squads.
Wall, 24-14
Manasquan (1-3) at Middletown South (2-1): Middletown South gave No. 16 Manalapan a run for its money a week ago, as running back Jake Ripnick rushed for 242 yards and a touchdown in the 35-31 loss. Manasquan also found itself on the losing end of St. John Vianney's 27-point comeback. With both teams looking to bounce back from tough losses, expect a hard-fought, ground-and-pound type game.
Middletown South, 21-14
Freehold Borough (1-3) at No. 12 Red Bank Catholic (4-0): Red Bank Catholic looks to extend its 18-game winning streak in the Shore Conference with another strong rushing performance. Look for running backs Larry Redaelli and Jesse Flaherty to continue their strong seasons.
Red Bank Catholic, 42-14
Shore Regional (3-1) at Holmdel (3-1) Shore and Holmdel boast identical 3-1 records with losses to Rumson. Holmdel looks to halt Mark Costantino and Shore's rushing attack, with its defense that is averaging just 2.3 points per game in its three wins.
Shore, 17-14
Ocean (2-2) at Red Bank Regional (0-3): Red Bank put together its best performance a week ago, holding an undefeated Rumson offense to nine points. Defensive end Garrett Sickels is a top-ranked defender in the state, and he hopes to shakeup Ocean's offense. Red Bank's offense will need to play up to par, however, to top an Ocean team with a proclivity for points.
Red Bank, 20-14
Raritan (0-4) at Monmouth Regional (0-3): Both teams are coming off blow-out losses and hope to reestablish their defensive presence after allowing 49 and 39 points, respectively.
Raritan, 30-21
Manchester (0-4) at Lacey (4-0): Lacey's offense boasted one of its best performances of the season last week, scoring 42 points against Toms River South. Look for quarterback Tom Kelly to continue to lead the now pass-friendly offense supplemented by running back Kyle Spatz.
Lacey, 42-13
Keyport (3-1) at Mater Dei Prep (0-4): Keyport has rallied to three-straight wins following a season-opening loss to Asbury Park. Quarterback Alex Thomson found a groove a week ago, setting a school record for passing yards in a single game in the process. Look for Thomson to continue to showcase his hot hand.
Keyport, 27-14
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Catch up on efforts by Franklin Chang-Diaz, the record-setting former NASA astronaut, to develop a propulsion system for deep space travel in an article by Irene Klotz at Discovery.com.
With colleagues at his Ad Astra Rocket Co., located near NASA's Johnson Space Center, Chang-Diaz leads the development of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. This exotic propulsion device could transport humans to Mars in as little as 40 days instead of the six to nine months required by conventional rockets.
The Costa Rican native retired from NASA in 2005, after 25 years as an astronaut and seven shuttle missions, a world's record for trips into space that he shares with another American astronaut.
His work on the advanced propulsion system began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Chang-Diaz obtained a doctorate in physics before joining NASA.
After leaving the space agency, Chang-Diaz found support for the privately financed project in Costa Rica. With the backing, he established an office and test facility near the NASA's Johnson Space Center, where efforts are under way to establish a human lunar base and prepare for a future expedition to Mars.


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Environmental and Policy Approaches to Increase Physical Activity: Community-Scale Urban Design Land Use Policies
Community-scale urban design land use policies and practices involve the efforts of urban planners, architects, engineers, developers, and public health professionals to change the physical environment of urban areas of several square miles or more in ways that support physical activity. They include the following.
- Design elements that address:
- Proximity of residential areas to stores, jobs, schools, and recreation areas
- Continuity and connectivity of sidewalks and streets
- Aesthetic and safety aspects of the physical environment
- Policy instruments such as zoning regulations, building codes, other governmental policies, and builders' practices
Summary of Task Force Recommendations and Findings
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends design and land use policies and practices that support physical activity in urban areas of several square miles or more based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness in facilitating an increase in physical activity.
Results from the Systematic Review
Twelve studies qualified for the review and evaluated a variety of effect measures.
- Most of the studies compared the behavior of residents in automobile-oriented (or suburban) communities with those in traditional (or urban) communities.
- Overall, the median improvement in some aspect of physical activity (e.g., number of walkers or bicyclists) was 161%.
- Additional benefits that may have been brought about by these interventions included:
- Improvements in green space
- Increased sense of community and decreased isolation
- Increased consumer choice for places to live
- Reduced crime and stress
- Increased walking and bicycling on urban streets, although beneficial, also pose the risk of increased injury to pedestrian or cyclist, because of increased exposure to motor vehicles.
These results were based on a systematic review of all available studies, conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice, and policy related to increasing physical activity.
Supporting Materials
- Analytic Framework [PDF - 24 kB]
- Evidence Gaps
- Summary Evidence Table [PDF - 64 kB]
Heath GW, Brownson RC, Kruger J, et al. The effectiveness of urban design and land use and transport policies and practices to increase physical activity: a systematic review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health 2006;3(Suppl 1):S55-76.
Read other Community Guide publications about Increasing Physical Activity in our library.
The findings and conclusions on this page are those of the Community Preventive Services Task Force and do not necessarily represent those of CDC. Task Force evidence-based recommendations are not mandates for compliance or spending. Instead, they provide information and options for decision makers and stakeholders to consider when determining which programs, services, and policies best meet the needs, preferences, available resources, and constraints of their constituents.
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The content of publications of the Guide to Community Preventive Services is in the public domain. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Sample citation: Guide to Community Preventive Services. Environmental and policy approaches to increase physical activity: community-scale urban design land use policies. www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/environmental-policy/communitypolicies.html. Last updated: MM/DD/YYYY.
Review completed: June 2004
- Page last reviewed: January 14, 2015
- Page last updated: January 14, 2015
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This is the most common description programmers give for their training. Even those who have had formal
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Interestingly, it seems that the best programmers all teach themselves the same things.
This is by necessity. The programming languages and techniques one learns in school are often not applicable to the real world, and the set of marketable real-world skills changes every couple of years. So staying on top of things and taking charge of one's own education is essential to a programmer's career.
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) Conversely, the average college graduate soaks up relatively little of the education they were theoretically exposed to.
Ramanujan frequently wrote only his results, not his methods nor proof, in his mathematical notebooks, and to this day work continues on studying his results, reconstructing his probable methods, and supplying missing proofs (one such was finally completed in 2003). "Kanigel [Kanigel, R. 1991. The Man who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan,] called Ramanujan "intuition incarnate" and he was perhaps the personification of creativity, if we take into account the thousands of original results he churned out of nowhere and that too, when he was either in search of a benefactor (1907 - 1913), or working furiously with failing health while at Cambridge (1914 - 1919), or deathly ill (1919 - 1920)." Mathematical paper at
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Last season, the Seahawks' offense was in a constant state of flux. The makeup of the offensive line changed on a weekly basis, the quarterback's health was a constant source of worry, both starting wide receivers finished the season on injured reserve — the list goes on.
But amid all the uncertainty and setbacks, a few players on that side of the ball stepped up their game and helped turn a dismal 2-6 start to the year into an outside shot at postseason contention. Undrafted rookie Doug Baldwin came out of nowhere to become the team's leading receiver. Max Unger stepped into the starting job at center and proved he could be a capable, savvy leader in the middle of the line, something the team had lacked since Robbie Tobeck retired back in '06. Michael Robinson completed his improbable transition from college quarterback to NFL fullback by lead-blocking his way into the Pro Bowl. And let's not forget Tarvaris Jackson, who gritted his way through most of the season with a 50% tear of his pectoral muscle that would have landed most quarterbacks on injured reserve; there may still be legitimate questions about his ability to be an effective starter, but the man has more than proven he's one of the toughest QBs in the NFL.
But no one on offense — and I mean no one — stepped up to the challenge like Marshawn Lynch did. Week after week, play after play, Lynch ran over, around, and through tacklers, physically dominating games so completely at times that I could've sworn someone at the television network had switched out the game broadcast for an old reel of Jim Brown highlights. Not bad for a guy who came to Seattle as a midseason pickup on a downward career trajectory. Looking back now, it's amazing to think that a player with his talent was available for trade at all, much less in exchange for a pair of mid-round picks, but if you know a little something about the Bills' recent track record with running backs the Lynch trade starts to make a whole lot more sense.
(To continue reading, please click on "Read More" below.)
What's Past Is Prologue
From 1988 to 1996, the Bills were riding high on their greatest run of success in franchise history. In those nine seasons, they won two-thirds of their regular season games, went to the playoffs eight times, and appeared in an NFL record four straight Super Bowls, and one of the main reasons for all that success was Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas and the 10,762 rushing yards (plus an additional 1,399 yards in the postseason) he accumulated during that span of time. But as remarkably durable as Thomas had been for the Bills, by 1997 he was 31 years old and a veteran of nine NFL seasons. There's only so long you can expect a player to continue defying the odds, and running backs are not known for having particularly long or injury-free careers.
So in the 1997 draft, Buffalo began planning for life after Thomas by using their first round pick on Houston running back Antowain Smith1. Smith quickly outperformed Thomas, rushing for a total of 1,964 yards in his first two NFL seasons, but after his production dropped off in 1999 and 2000 the Bills let him walk in free agency and used their 2001 second round pick on Tennessee RB Travis Henry. So it goes.
Henry was a respectably productive player in his first few seasons with the team, but that didn't stop them from spending their first round pick in '03 on Miami back Willis McGahee. Why they did so is unclear; maybe they were hedging their bets after Smith's sudden decline, or perhaps Henry had already begun to show signs of becoming the Travis Henry we all know and ridicule today. He did get a one-year reprieve while McGahee spent his rookie season recovering from a major knee injury he suffered in college, but in '04 Henry was injured and McGahee took over the starting job. Henry was traded to the Titans that following offseason.
By now, I'm sure you've caught on to the pattern. McGahee played well for three seasons, but injury and off-the-field issues2 prompted the Bills to trade him to the Ravens and draft his replacement in 2007, UC Berkeley RB Marshawn Lynch. For his part, Lynch produced in his first two seasons in Buffalo, but he also spent his off hours getting into trouble. He committed a hit-and-run in '08, followed by a weapons charge in '09 that earned him a three game suspension and eventually led to his being replaced in the starting lineup by ex-semipro running back Fred Jackson. After yet another off-the-field incident in early 2010 — this time a real head-scratcher in which he was accused of stealing a $20 bill from a policeman's wife (no, really) — the Bills used their first round pick in the draft on Clemson back CJ Spiller. After Henry and McGahee, the signal to the rest of the league was pretty clear: Lynch's replacement had been found, and the troubled back was now up for grabs.
The Seahawks eventually took them up on the offer, and when Marshawn left for the Pacific Northwest I'm sure the Bills figured his post-Buffalo career would be much like those of their other recent ex-backs: moderately successful, but nothing too exceptional. Antowain Smith spent three respectably productive years with the Patriots before fading away into veteran backup obscurity. Travis Henry had one last 1,000+ yard season left in him, but mainly he spent his remaining three NFL seasons self-destructing as hard and as fast as he possibly could. Willis McGahee's numbers dropped off every year he spent in Baltimore, although last year he proved he had a little something left to give after all by rushing for 1,199 yards for the Broncos. And like Smith, Henry, and McGahee before him, Lynch's performance in 2010 was sometimes great and sometimes awful, but mostly it was just plain average.
Lynch's career might well have continued to go the way of his predecessors, but then something truly awesome happened. In a playoff matchup against the defending Super Bowl champion Saints, a game which no one but Seattle fans thought the team had a snowflake's chance in hell of winning, the Seahawks found themselves protecting a slim lead in the fourth quarter. Trying to take some time off the clock, the Hawks went with a simple run play designed to go for a modest gain, as in four or five yards. Well, Lynch didn't go four or five yards. Instead, he took an entire season's worth of frustration out on the Saints' defense by bulling his way through no less than eight tackles en route to a 67 yard touchdown run that ended up sealing one of the biggest upset victories in playoff history. Marshawn Lynch may have been in town since October, but it wasn't until that night that Beast Mode finally arrived in Seattle.
Better yet, so far he appears to have come to stay. Offensive line troubles hindered the run game's effectiveness at the beginning of the 2011 season, but by the time the year was out Lynch had topped 1,000 yards, set a franchise record by scoring a touchdown in eleven consecutive games, and broken another team's streak by scoring a rushing touchdown against a 49ers defense that hadn't allowed an opposing team to run one in for an NFL record-tying 15 straight games.
Beast Mode Got Paid, But What Comes Next?
By all accounts, Lynch has rededicated himself to football and is taking his work much more seriously now than he did when he was still with the Bills. Given his newfound professionalism and undeniable impact on the field, it's no wonder that the Seahawks signed him to the contract they did: four years, $31 million, with $17 million of that guaranteed. After watching him move piles and demolish tacklers all last season, it's hard to argue he didn't deserve a nice big contract.
But merit aside, it's hard not to worry when you see that much money being invested in one player. To put that $31 million in perspective, that averages out to $7.74 million per year; if he had played next season under a franchise tag contract, which is calculated by averaging the top five highest salaries for his position, he would've earned $7.75 million. In short, for the Seahawks to get their money's worth, Lynch needs to play at a franchise tag-worthy level every year for the next four years. Again, I'm not arguing that Lynch isn't a great running back, but what are the odds of him playing at such a high level through end of the 2015 season?
In the five years he's been in the NFL, Lynch has carried the ball 1,137 times for 4,542 yards. Absorbing 1,000+ carries' worth of hits and tackles in just five years would put a lot of wear and tear on anyone, but that goes doubly so for a ballcarrier whose running style invites contact as much as his does. So, when I began looking for running backs for a comparison, I narrowed my search to RBs who had at least 1,000 carries in their first five seasons in the league.
Going back to 1991, I found 37 running backs who fit the bill. Since there's no clean and easy way to search for the aggregate stats I required, I may very well have overlooked a player or two who meets the criteria. I was tempted to loosen that restriction a bit — for one, I had to rule out 17 players who just missed the 1,000 carry threshold3 — but ultimately I felt it was more important to stick hard to that mark in order to ensure that I'd only be looking at players who were subjected to roughly the same amount of physical abuse as Lynch at similar ages within the same specific timeframe.
Once I had my list, I recorded how each of those backs performed in their sixth through ninth seasons. You can view the resulting spreadsheet here. For the kind of money Lynch will be making, I figured that 1,000+ yards per season is a reasonable expectation, so for every season a player met or exceeded that mark I highlighted his yardage total on the spreadsheet in cash-money green. Likewise, I figured a season total that fell between 500 and 1,000 yards would be disappointing without being a total wash, so I highlighted those figures in a nice cautionary orange, while any season that fell below 500 yards got highlighted in an embarrassing shade of pink.
Breaking down the data I gathered by percentages, slightly over half of the running backs in question (54.1%) were able to hit the 1,000 yard mark in their sixth year, but the odds get worse from there. Only about two-fifths of the players reached that goal in years seven (38.9%) and eight (41.9%), and in year nine only a third of the pack (32.3%) made the grade. Not very encouraging, I know.
Of course, what we really want to learn here isn't whether a player was able to play at a high level for one season, but whether he was able to sustain that level of performance over multiple seasons. To that end, I tallied up how many 1,000 yard seasons each running back was able to produce in their sixth through ninth seasons:
|1,000+ Yd Seasons
|# of RBs
(Note: Since we're looking at these seasons as a whole now, I only included the 31 RBs whose careers started in 2003 or earlier. The other six haven't been around long enough to play four seasons.)
Breaking the results down into percentages again, 22.5% were able to gain 1,000+ yards in all four seasons, 32.3% were able to do it three times, and 48.4% managed to break that mark at least twice. In short, the odds of Marshawn Lynch performing at a level commensurate with his pay over the entire length of his contract are not good when we look at each season individually, and those odds get even longer when we look at all four seasons as a whole.
That said, what really caught my eye while I was putting together the data for that last table wasn't the numbers themselves but the names attached to them. It's one thing to say that seven out of those 31 running backs were able to produce four straight 1,000 yard seasons in years six through nine of their careers, but it means a whole lot more when you find out that those seven players are Hall of Famers Thurman Thomas, Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, and Curtis Martin, Hall of Fame finalist Jerome Bettis, Hall of Fame nominee Ricky Watters, and Edgerrin James, who just hasn't been retired long enough to be eligible for the Hall of Fame.
In terms of guaranteed money, the Seahawks appear to be banking on Lynch remaining an elite back for at least two more seasons. If his play drops off after that, he can be released without incurring too much damage to the team's salary cap. But, if he can defy the odds and keep his Beast Mode attack going strong for the next four seasons, he will have not only justified his hefty salary, he will have also made himself a legitimate candidate for enshrinement in Canton. Marshawn Lynch is already a special, game-changing player, and now he has an opportunity to show everyone just how truly special he can become. Let's hope he takes advantage of it.
1 As it turns out, their fears weren't unfounded. Thomas would run for just 643 yards in 1997, and his production dropped off in every year thereafter until his retirement (281 yds in '98, 152 yds in '99, and 136 in '00).
2 McGahee made plenty of contract demands and for a while there was the target of a seemingly endless stream of paternity suits, but neither one of those is the reason the team got rid of him. No, McGahee was shipped out because he went and did the one thing that no one in Buffalo could ever forgive: he publicly suggested that the Bills should move to Toronto.
3 In case you're wondering, here are those players in no particular order: Ahman Green, Tiki Barber, Duce Staley, Stephen Davis, Mike Alstott, Napoleon Kaufman, Jamal Anderson, Garrison Hearst, Adrian Murrell, Edgar Bennett, Chris Warren, Cedric Benson, Ronnie Brown, Cadillac Williams, Marion Barber, Joseph Addai, and DeAngelo Williams. Some failed to make the cut by more than others.
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The Susquehanna Folk Music Society has teamed up with experts on traditional Greek folk music and dance to bring Greek Dance Day to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Saturday.
If the dance steps of Asia Minor and the Mediterranean islands are all Greek to you, don't worry - dance master and folklore expert Dr. Christos Papakostas will lead two workshops to teach you the basics.
The first workshop is designed for teens and new dancers, while the second workshop will cater to advanced participants and include more complex steps.
Joining in the fun will be the Karpouzi Trio, a D.C.-based group of musicians who will provide the traditional Greek music for the day's events.
And once you've learned the steps, you can show them off that night at the dance party, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Dancers are asked to dress appropriately and wear soft-soled shoes. Opa!
1 and 3 p.m. dance workshops and 7:30 p.m. dance party Saturday at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1000 Yverdon Drive, Camp Hill. Tickets for the workshops are $16, $12 for SFMS members, $10 for students; $30 for both workshops. $10 for dance party admission. Call 717-234-3844 for details.


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Buffalo needs to improve poor condition of streets
If you do any driving within the City of Buffalo, you must know the deplorable condition of many of the streets. They are rife with cracks, patches, bumps – you name it.
But to add insult to injury, we have multitudes of manholes that are recessed to the point that they may as well be potholes. I complained to the 311 complaint line and was told that many of these manholes are not Sewer Authority manholes but belong to the utilities.
It shouldn't matter who owns them. They should be made safe for people to drive on. Sometimes it's like driving on an obstacle course or a bombing range. These conditions could lead to accidents as well as being destructive to one's vehicle. Someone in City Hall should address this situation. It's not like that in the suburbs. The people doing the repaving must be made responsible for correcting this situation.
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Cluster conference of the Swiss Association for Military History and Military Science (Annual Conference) and of the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (Spring Conference) 2014
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To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the conference "On the front and behind the front: The First World War and its military and social battlefields" organised by the Swiss Association for Military History and Military Science (SVMM) and the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK) aims at making a significant contribution to transnational studies of the Great War from a number of perspectives. At the centre of the conference will be questions regarding military, social and cultural history. A number of current research fields of the First World War are to be explored and approached from a comparative perspective. In the section on military history, speakers will discuss military recruitment, the now widely debated question of combat motivation of the participating armies, the tactical and operational challenges of the industrialised battlefield as well as the solutions to these issues put forward by various military apparatus. At the centre of the section on social and cultural history will be the ever ongoing question of the totality of the First World War, as well as questions concerning the various forms of war memory and remembrance. Therefore, the conference not a symposium for experts only but a platform which brings together the various research areas of the First World War.
The conference is organised by Professor Rudolf Jaun (University of Zürich and SVMM) and Dr. Michael M. Olsansky (Military Academy at ETH Zurich and SVMM). The speakers are Béatrice Ziegler (Zürich), Sacha Zala (Genf), Georges-Henri Soutou (Paris), Adrian Wettstein (Zürich), Günther Kronenbitter (Augsburg), Ian Beckett (Canterbury), Nicolas Offenstadt (Paris), Markus Pöhlmann (Potsdam), Dimitry Queloz (Neuchâtel), Gerhard P. Gross (Potsdam), Stig Förster (Bern), Sönke Neitzel (London), Roger Chickering (Washington), Michael Epkenhans (Potsdam), Roman Rossfeld (Zürich), Gerd Krumeich (Düsseldorf), Martin Schmitz (Augsburg), Wim Klinkert (Amsterdam) und Michael M. Olsansky (Zürich).
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A rabbi has been found guilty of groping a female passenger on a flight to New York.
Rabbi Gavriel Bidany, 47, could face six months behind bars after he was convicted of assaulting a 23-year old female Israeli soldier on a Delta airlines flight in March.
The rabbi, who claimed he was asleep during the incident, lifted the woman's blanket and touched her inappropriately.
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The Bike Law Interview: Bruce Hagen, Bike Law Georgia
When I first teamed up with Peter Wilborn and Ann Groninger to help launch the Bike Law network, there were exactly four states in the network—Maryland and South Carolina, represented by Peter, North Carolina, represented by Ann, and my own state, Oregon.
Since then, the network has expanded to 22 states, and continues to grow. In fact, it is now possible for a cyclist to ride coast to coast, or from our southern border to our northern border, and always be riding in a Bike Law network state. You can now even cross into Canada and still be riding within the Bike Law network!
One of the more recent states to be brought into the Bike Law network is Georgia, ably represented by Georgia bicycle accident attorney Bruce Hagen. Recently, I had a chance to talk with Bruce about bicycle law, advocacy, and of course, lots of great bicycling in the great state of Georgia. Here's what he had to say.
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From here, you have the privilege of looking down on Zermatt, Switzerland's southernmost health resort, situated at a "mere" 1620 m at the foot of the world famous Matterhorn and surrounded by 38 of the 76 European mountains that are more than 4000 m high. Riffelalp Resort 2222 m is 600 m higher and surrounded by lovely larch forests. The cog railway can take you there in 20 minutes. And once at the top, summer season guests can ride on the red Riffelalp Tram – Europe's highest streetcar.
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Completely restored and modernized this beautiful 2200 sq. ft. home has all the charm of an early 1800's farmhouse combined with updated features and all the conveniences of a modern home. The Farmhouse sleeps 7-8 guests with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, dining room, sitting room, study, modern full kitchen, and wrap around porch with lake view.
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Our Double Queen Luxury Suites will welcome and delight you. These spacious 378 sq. ft. suites feature two dreamy queen beds and all of the pleasantries described above. With the ultimate in comfort and luxury in mind this Suite offers two queen beds adorned with plush linens, feather pillows, duvets, bathrobes and slippers, and special room amenities for guest to enjoy.
Make yourself a cup of coffee while searching the net on your free wireless internet. Gas fireplace, heated tile floors, spacious bath with walk-in shower, heated towel bars, TV monitor, hair dryer, refrigerator, iron and ironing board, and flat screen television will complete your stay. Maximum number of guest permitted in room is four adults.
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The King Luxury Suite features one king bed and a pull-out love seat, all stylishly presented in ample 348 to 368 sq. ft. rooms and complete with the luxuries described above. With attention to the finer details you will feel the special style of Tuscany in the King Luxury Suite retreat.
Delight in comfort in this spacious guest room featuring one king bed and one queen pull out sofa. Luxuriously layered with plush linens, feather pillows, duvets, bathrobes and slippers, and special room amenities, this room is the ultimate in comfort.
Enjoy your morning coffee as you relax on the outdoor patio surrounded by spectacular views. Gas fireplace, heated tile floors, spacious bath with walk-in shower, heated towel bars, TV monitor, hair dryer, refrigerator, iron and ironing board, and flat screen television will leave you feeling relaxed and refreshed. Maximum number of guest permitted in room is three adults or two adults and two children.
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This 603 sq. ft. suite offers you VIP relaxation and is completed with all amenities described above. This suite was designed with two levels of comfort in mind for the ultimate in rest and relaxation.
The main living level features a full sofa, walk up bar, refrigerator, in room coffee maker, luxurious spacious bathroom with walk-in shower, heated towel bars, TV monitor, hair dryer, refrigerator, iron and ironing board, free wireless internet access, and heated tile floors throughout. Enjoy the lake view from your patio setting.
Relax upstairs in peace and quiet in our king poster bed featuring plush linens, bathrobes and slippers, and flat screen television. Maximum number of guest permitted in room is four adults or two adults and 2 children.
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The six Gervasi Villas each comprise of four individual suites and a central living room to be shared by the villa guests. Guests may rent a single suite or an entire villa. (1 Double Queen, 2 King Rooms, 1 Two Level King Suite)
The hospitality room features living room seating, dining seating, stone fireplace, kitchenette, microwave, ice maker, refrigerator and sink. Rear access to the patio and outdoor seating. Maximum number of guest permitted is 14 adults.
The living room (hospitality area) is 494 sq. ft. and features living room seating; dining seating; stone fireplace; and bakers rack with microwave, ice maker, refrigerator, and sink. The living room has rear access to shared patio (224 sq. ft.) and outdoor seating.
Light Continental Breakfast is delivered to each Villa hospitality area in a rustic wine box consisting of fresh pastries and fruit (complimentary).
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- A deposit equal to the total stay room charge + taxes) will be required for confirmation
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- Unless otherwise stated, rates do not include taxes, gratuities, or incidental charges
- The Inn cannot guarantee any room or Villa location with regard to specific views, property locations or combinations of rooms or Villas
- We reserve the right to make reasonable substitutions in assigned guestrooms or Villas
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- Guest requiring a late check-in (after 11pm) must contact the Inn in by 8pm same day so that special arrangements and instructions can be coordinated for the late check-in with the guest
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- The Common area is to be shared and enjoyed by all Villa guests registered in a given Villa
- Quiet time begins at 11:00pm in the common area, patio, and entire Gervasi grounds
- Should you need assistance, please call Guest Services
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- If guest has rented entire villa, outside guests could be invited to the villa common area (maximum occupancy of 14)
- Registered guests only are permitted for overnight stays
- If children are staying with you, please tend to them and be respectful of other guests
- Do not place personal items in the common area unless you have rented the entire villa
- Keep common room orderly and available for other guests
- Common Area should not be used for meetings or gatherings unless the entire Villa has been rented by the customer
- Ipods, radios, etc. should not be utilized in the Common Area unless the guest has rented the entire Villa
- Please call Guest Services for assistance if cleanup is needed in the common area
- Do not move furniture in the common area
- Refrigerators are available in each guest suite for personal food or beverages
- Please do not use refrigerator in common area for personal items
- Personal items should not be placed in the ice machine as to not contaminate the public ice
- No kitchen appliance or similar (hot plates, crock pots, etc.) can be utilized in the common or guest suites
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- Check-In: 3:00-8:00 PM EST
- Check-Out:11:00 AM EST
- A two (2) night minimum stay is required for select holidays, special events, and weekends during peak season (June-October)
- No pets allowed in guestrooms or on the property
- Outside food and beverage are not permitted on the grounds.
- Gervasi is a smoke-free property
- Smoking is not permitted in any building or anywhere on the grounds
- There is a significant room recovery fee of at least $200 per room for a guest who does not comply with the non-smoking policy in order to cover the extensive cost of restoring the guestroom(s) to a smoke free condition
- Gervasi is an active and lively environment; you are likely to experience festivities and music up until 11pm in the evening
- Parking is free of charge in our surface lots
- The Bistro and Marketplace are closed Mondays and select holidays
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Should the reservation be cancelled greater than 90 days in advance of arrival date, a full refund of the deposit (equal to total room stay charges) will be made. Should the reservation be cancelled 31-90 days in advance of arrival date, all of the deposit except a $50.00 cancellation fee per room per night ($200 per Villa per night) will be refunded.
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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Please inform us on the danger and symptoms of MRSA.
I heard it could be found in the nostrils. I have a blister in my nostril. My doctor ignored it. How is MRSA contracted? How dangerous is it? What does it look like? - A.P.
ANSWER: MRSA (pronounced MUR-suh) is the staph bacterium that has learned how to evade most of the common antibiotics. When penicillin was first discovered, it killed staph germs easily. With the passage of time, ordinary penicillin could not eradicate all staph germs. Some of them had become resistant to it. Chemists formulated a variation of penicillin called methicillin. It was effective against the resistant staph. But once again, some staph learned how to dodge methicillin, and became the MRSA germ, methicillin-resistant staph aureus. This new staph presents grave problems for humans. We do have antibiotics that can kill it, but it still remains formidable.
MRSA produces the same kinds of infections that regular staph produce - skin infections, boils, blood infections, infections of joints and bones, heart infections and just about the whole gamut of infections. The deadly aspect of MRSA is its resistance to so many antibiotics.
MRSA is passed to other people from those infected with it and from touching surfaces coated with it. All staph survive for a considerable period of time on inanimate objects and surfaces.
The nostrils do serve as a haven for staph and for MRSA. Between 25 percent and 50 percent of people have staph living on their skin or in their nose for long time periods without producing illness. They're colonists. Some of those staph can be MRSA staph. A blister isn't a common sign of a staph infection; a boil is. If your blister persists and your doctor isn't sure what it is, then you ought to consult an ear, nose and throat doctor. Don't assume it's a MRSA infection or an ordinary staph infection.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am glad you encouraged the 69-year-old woman who wanted to learn how to swim to do so. Many people, however, don't have access to a large pool. I would like to share my solution: I have an above-ground pool. I use a bungee cord that's as long as my height. I attach one end to my swimsuit and the other to the edge of the pool. I put on a face mask, then I start swimming.
I don't go anywhere, and I don't have to worry about gulping water. It's great exercise, even in a small pool. - D.K.
ANSWER: You deserve a standing ovation for your ingenuity. I like the idea.
I believe I have seen college swimmers using a halter device in a way similar to your method. I'm sure many with no access to a pool will be able to take up swimming, thanks to you.
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Kenmore City Council deals with amendments, trucks, birds, flowers
Also, a council retreat open to the public is planned for January.
Archaelogists complete work at ancient site
For five months, archeologists have dug and sifted dirt at the location of an ancient Indian camp found recently on a terrace above the Tolt River. Their efforts have been fruitful. Twenty-two boxes of stone tools, flakes and spearpoints have been recovered from the 10-acre site. Experts believe the artifacts are 8,000 years old.
New cubs join pack in Bothell
Cub Scout Pack 548 of Northwest Community Church, Bothell, was officially launched at a Pack meeting held Oct. 28.


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Virgin Islands National Park, one of two outside of the 50 states, is among national parks to visit in your lifetime.
By Donna B. Ulrich
You can drive to most of America's national parklands, while some others require an airplane flight. But on our first visit to Virgin Islands National Park, we sailed in.
Located on St. John, in the Caribbean Sea, this treasure of the U.S. park system is a legacy of conservationist Laurance Rockefeller, who donated more than 5,000 acres for it in 1956. Park officials acquired 5,650 undersea acres off the northern and southern coasts in 1962, and today the park covers more than half of St. John's 19 square miles and nearly all of tiny Hassel Island.
Imagine a luxurious tropical paradise with easy access to beaches—and we own the place! The U.S. purchased St. John and many smaller islands from Denmark during World War I. Virgin Islands is one of just two national parks not located within the 50 United States, the other being the National Park of American Samoa in the South Pacific. Weather in the park averages 79 degrees, and there is very little temperature change between summer and winter.
My husband, Larry, and I spent 11 memorable days exploring Caribbean waters on a 42-foot sailboat before anchoring off the park's Trunk Bay, consistently voted one of the 10 best beaches in the world. The long strip of white sand, framed by lush tropical plants, stretches invitingly for a quarter of a mile.
Offshore, an underwater snorkeling trail through the Caribbean blue invites the visitor to linger and enjoy dazzling coral formations and fish of colors unfamiliar in our terrestrial world. Signs along the 225-yard underwater path tell snorkelers about the coral and other life forms they may see, including the coral-munching parrot fish, moray eels and trumpet fish. Farther out in the bay you may see green turtles, stingrays and eagle rays.
Serious snorkelers can also explore many other interesting reefs and bays along St. John's north coast. In fact, coral reefs surround much of the island.
Though you can camp in the park, we hadn't brought the necessary equipment to do so. There are cottages available for rent, but we chose to rent a bungalow complete with resident anoles—quick-moving lizards that eat bugs.
We quickly discovered on a drive inland that the residents have adopted many British customs, like driving on the left side of the road. We also found that picking up hitchhiking locals, especially elders, was not an option; it was mandatory. From that experience we learned about places to see, most of them within the park. Hiking to abandoned sugar mills, historical Taino petroglyph rock carvings and subtropical rainforests filled our days.
The Annaberg sugar factory ruins date back to the 1780s, when the island was owned by Denmark, sugar cane was king and more than 300 slaves were used to clear the land, build stone structures and toil in the fields. Terraced hillsides are reminders of plantation farming, but tropical plants that were once cleared for raising cane are now reclaiming the slopes and ruins.
Twenty hiking trails offer short and long ventures to moist high-elevation forests, desert terrain, mangrove swamps and beautiful beaches. The island's highest point and some of the most spectacular views are on Bordeaux Mountain, which rises to 1,277 feet and plunges dramatically to the sea over a distance of just three-quarters of a mile.
There is much to see in the national park, including more than 50 species of tropical birds and some 800 species of plants like bay rum trees and tropical orchids.
But throughout our trek the sea was never far from sight, beckoning to us. A day of sightseeing must be followed by sight-sea-ing along sun-drenched beaches and pristine waters.
Larry and I spent most of our time photographing, but at day's end, sunsets were watched, local culinary specialties were consumed and warm breezes lulled us to sleep each night.
Photos by Larry Ulrich