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Objective: To evaluate the relation between weight variability and death in high-risk, middle-aged men participating in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT).
Design: Cohort study with 3.8 years of follow-up.
Setting: Multicenter, collaborative, primary prevention trial conducted at 22 clinical centers in the United States.
Participants: Men (n = 10 529) who were 35 to 57 years old at baseline and who were in the upper 10% to 15% of risk for coronary heart disease because of smoking, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol level. Participants were seen at least annually for 6 to 7 years for medical evaluations in study clinical centers.
Measurements: Death from cardiovascular disease (228 deaths) and from all causes (380 deaths).
Results: The primary measure of weight variability was the intrapersonal standard deviation of weight (ISD), which was calculated from measured weights obtained at clinic visits during a 6- to 7-year period. All-cause death rates per 1000 person-years of follow-up across ISD quartiles were 8.28, 8.25, 10.57, and 11.07 from the first to fourth quartiles, respectively. After adjusting for baseline risk factors associated with weight change, the relative risk for all-cause mortality in the fourth compared with the first quartile was 1.64 (95% CI, 1.21 to 2.23). Cardiovascular death and ISD showed a similar pattern. The association between weight change and death was not observed in the heaviest men.
Conclusion: Greater weight variability was associated with a greater risk for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in some types of high-risk men.
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TEL AVIV, Israel - Players from the National Basketball Association are known around the world, especially in Israel where basketball is a national sport. When some former pros came to visit the Holy Land, their presence attracted the attention of many Israelis.
Former NBA players, college stars and even a Harlem Globetrotter gave up their height advantage to play disabled Israeli veterans in a game of wheelchair basketball.
The game was just one stop on their goodwill tour sponsored by the Christian ministry Sports Power International. Ministry founder Bill Alexson served as chaplain for the Boston Celtics for more than 20 years.
It wasn't always easy for the NBA players to control their wheelchairs, but the game was good fun for both sides.
"A real dream to play with the big players that play in the NBA and you can see them all over the world," Israeli basketball player Barak said.
Calev Meyers helped organize the event.
"One of the great things about the NBA which is a little different than the other American sports is that they're very influential all over the world," Meyers said. "Israeli children watch the NBA. They all have their favorite team and so by having these evangelical Christians, who love Israel and basketball players come here and interact with the people through the sports camps and work with the disabled veteran association, it's wonderful."
For some of the Americans like Dwight Howard, Sr., father of NBA superstar Dwight Howard, this was a profound experience.
"This is one of the most exciting events I've had in my life and to be here to represent the U.S.A. and the Howard family I think it's just great," Howard said.
With Israel maligned in many places around the globe, Sports Power International came with a word of encouragement for Israeli President Shimon Peres and Israelis everywhere.
The players may have arrived in Israel as visitors, but when they leave they say they will be ambassadors.
"When I'm at home in America, Israel isn't portrayed as what I've seen when I got here," said U.S. basketball player Darnell Lindsay. "When I get home, I'm going to tell everybody that Israel's a great place to be."
"To be able to walk the walk and experience the love of His chosen people in the manner that we've been able to experience -- it has made me for the rest of my life committed and a true partner of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people forever," said former NBA player Anthony Bonner.
Alexson, the players and the Israelis all hope for a return trip next year.
For the record, the Israelis won 24-20.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Maria Sharapova finished her first match of the year in 55 minutes Monday, cruising to a 6-0, 6-0 win over Olga Puchkova to start proceedings on center court at the Australian Open without showing any signs of trouble with her sore right shoulder.
The No. 2-ranked Sharapova, who lost the final to Victoria Azarenka here last year before going on to win the French Open, faced only two break points in the match and she saved both of those in the first game.
Then she went on a 12-game roll that earned her a second "double bagel" inside a year.
Sharapova started her run to the French Open title with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Alexandra Caduntu at Roland Garros last year. But she said the score line wasn't really relevant.
"If you win 7-6 in the third, you've still won the match," she said.
Sharapova withdrew from the Brisbane International earlier this month with an injured right collarbone, saying she wanted to concentrate on being fit for the season's first major. She skipped the tournament last year, as well, before going on to reach the Australian Open final.
Against Puchkova, she said, "I didn't want to focus on the fact I hadn't played a lot of matches."
Sharapova has a potential third-round match against Venus Williams, who needed just an hour for her opening 6-1, 6-0 win over Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan.
Williams played with power and determination and took command of the match early with a steady stream of winners and powerful serves.
She skipped last year's Australian Open due to illness and was warmly welcomed with applause as she entered the court. Venus Williams had the biggest jump of any of the top players in 2012, moving from outside the top 100 to finish the year at No. 24.
The announcer told the crowd as Williams, who has won seven major titles, was warming up on court: "She's back and fiery."
Her younger sister, Serena, was sitting in the crowd with coach Patrick Mouratoglou. Serena is the strong favorite to win the Australian Open.


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Saratoga Springs, NY (September 22, 2005) - Yaddo novelist Jonathan Lethem is among the 25 recipients awarded a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The fellowships, commonly referred to as the "genius awards," recognize people in wide-ranging fields who demonstrate exceptional creativity and originality and the promise for continued innovative work. Each fellow receives $500,000 over five years, and the award is bestowed with "no strings attached," allowing each fellow to use the money as he or she sees fit. There is no application process for the fellowship program, and nominators serve anonymously.
Mr. Lethem, 41, has been called "the poet of Brooklyn" and "one of the best writers of his generation." He is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, was named novel of the year by Esquire, and is scheduled to be released as a film in 2007. His most recent publications include The Disappointment Artist, an autobiographical essay collection exploring the nature of cultural obsessions, and Men and Cartoons, a book of short stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, McSweeny's, Tin House, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and a variety of other periodicals and anthologies. Mr. Lethem has been in residence at Yaddo seven times, beginning in 1997. He is a Director of The Corporation of Yaddo.
Like Yaddo, the MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, emphasizes the importance of creative individuals in society. Nominees are reviewed for their achievements, but the fellowship is an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential rather than a reward for past accomplishments. In line with that goal, in 1990 the foundation established an endowed residency at Yaddo to annually support the visits of two creative artists working in any discipline. Painter and installation artist Michelle Oosterbaan and literary critic Helen Vendler most recently held the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Residencies at Yaddo.


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Doctors use immune therapy against cervical cancer
Two years ago, Arrica Wallace was riddled with tumors from widely spread cervical cancer that the strongest chemotherapy and radiation could not beat back. Today, the Kansas mother shows no signs of the disease, and it was her own immune system that made it go away.
The experimental approach that helped her is one of the newest frontiers in the rapidly advancing field of cancer immunotherapy, which boosts the body's natural ways of attacking tumors.
At a conference in Chicago on June 2, doctors also reported gains recently made with immune therapies against leukemia, the skin cancer melanoma, and bladder, lung and other tumor types.
The cervical cancer experiment was the first time an immune therapy has worked so dramatically against a cancer caused by a virus -- HPV. In a pilot study by the National Cancer Institute, the tumors of two out of nine women completely disappeared and those women remain cancer-free more than a year later.
That's far better than any other treatment has achieved in such cases.
Doctors are trying it now against throat, anal and other cancers caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus, and think it holds promise for cancers caused by other viruses, too.
This is "very, very exciting," said Dr. Don Dizon, of Massachusetts General Hospital, a women's cancer specialist.
The second woman to have a complete response has been cancer-free for 15 months so far, said one study leader, Dr. Christian Hinrichs, of the Bethesda, Md.-based cancer institute.
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Simple Definition of yap
of a dog : to bark in high, quick sounds
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First Known Use: 1596
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: a dog's high, quick bark
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But attorneys Mary Stowell and Linda Friedman saw plenty wrong. Approached in 1996 by Thomann and 22 other women, the tiny Chicago firm of Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., filed a class-action sex discrimination suit against the venerable brokerage firm—the second largest in the nation—never imagining that they might have an impact on an entire industry. "I don't know if we were just naive or unimpressed," says Friedman, 39. "It never occurred to us to be afraid." They were so undaunted, in fact, that the next year they hit Merrill Lynch with a similar suit. Then they waited...and waited. "Class actions," says Stowell, 53, "are like giving birth to an elephant: There's a very long pregnancy."
Their persistence is paying off. Since both cases were settled separately several months ago, the two firms have adopted practices intended to prevent future abuses in such areas as training, promotions, wages and account opportunities. For coming forward, the 23 Salomon plaintiffs shared an initial $1.9 million, and their eight Merrill Lynch counterparts split $600,000, while the parties continue to negotiate a final figure. In addition, under the terms of the respective settlements, Stowell and Friedman have filed claims on behalf of 1,900 women who were part of the class of employees defined by the suit against Salomon and 900 women at Merrill Lynch. These claims, which may take another two years to resolve, could add millions to the remediation kitty. Now Stowell and Friedman are readying claims against the CIBC Oppenheimer Corp. and Goldman Sachs brokerages.
"This has brought the industry to its knees," says Steven Piatt, president of the National Employment Lawyers Association. "By forcing these successful class actions, Stowell and Friedman have forced these companies to take notice." The cases have also put a dent in the industry-wide practice of mandatory arbitration, a grievance procedure in which the industry itself chose the arbitrators. Since January, for example, the New York Stock Exchange has stopped hearing mandatory arbitration cases concerning civil rights and allows brokerage employees to take such claims to court. Both Merrill Lynch and Salomon say they never tolerated discrimination. "If it is brought to our attention, we investigate immediately," says Bill Halldin, a Merrill Lynch spokesman. Still, says Joan Guggenheimer, an attorney for Salomon, "to some extent both of the lawsuits were a wake-up call to the industry as a whole."
Few who know Stowell and Friedman are surprised that they were the ones to provide such a call. A child of the '50s, Stowell was born in Memphis to an airline pilot and a home-maker who later became a teacher. "When I was young, I thought men's work was more important than what women did," she says. "I wanted to compete with men." Yet after graduating from Will Rogers High School in Oklahoma, she went off to secretarial school, married at 20 and worked as a secretary before earning a B.A. at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Divorced in 1971, she attended Northwestern Law School—"I thought law would give me a chance to succeed on my own"—then worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, where she met her current husband, attorney Jim Streicker, now 54, who has two children from a previous marriage.
Friedman, the daughter of politically active parents in suburban Wilmette, Ill., is 14 years to the day Stowell's junior and came of age in the '60s. "By the time I was 8," says Friedman, who is single, "I was knocking on doors and handing out literature for liberal candidates and the ERA." During her four years at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she protested for the closure of Rocky Flats, a nearby nuclear plant; while a law student at DePaul University, she clerked for Judge James Parsons, the nation's first African-American federal judge.
Friedman initially approached Stowell seeking legal advice. Mentor-ship quickly evolved into friendship, then partnership. Since hanging out a shingle together in 1989, they've worked side by side, often for 14 hours at a clip, seven days a week. Fortunately they complement one another well. "Mary is the older sister I never had—and wasn't sure I ever wanted," says Friedman with a smile. "I fall victim to insults and take things more personally; it takes a lot to ruffle Mary's feathers." Says Stowell: "Linda's tenacity is a model. I'll think something is dead; Linda keeps at it and gets results."
Neither seems as impressed by their success as some of the women who still work at Salomon and Merrill Lynch. "Women across the country at Salomon Smith Barney have called to thank us," says Lorraine Parker, a plaintiff from the Garden City office. "They all say the class action has made a difference." Though she has already received $150,000 and will get even more in the settlement, Roberta Thomann quit trading to work for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. "I miss the securities field, but I don't know if I'll ever go back," she says. Her treatment, she adds, "left a bad taste."
Some claimants had, in fact, hoped for a trial so that the brokerage firms' dirty linen would be publicly aired. "We want to go to court to show the abuse and the harassment," says Judy Mione, 59, who opted out as a Salomon plaintiff to pursue her own litigation. And though Merrill Lynch plaintiff Linda Conti, 34, praises the attorneys' tactics, she had hoped for a public admission: "I would have liked them to stand up and say, 'Yes, we are scum.' "
While they defend their decision to settle the cases, Stowell and Friedman concede that even the most finely tuned agreement can't eradicate abuse. "It's like melting a glacier with a hair dryer, because the discrimination is so entrenched," says Stowell. "But the goal is to welcome women into the securities industry. The more women there are, the more it will change."
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Airgas, a newly opened Loyalsock Township business, sells gas and welding products, tools and hardware, and various safety related products.
"The big push on this store was the natural gas industry," said Tony Joy, branch manager of the store at 2000 Rear East Third St.
The local business, which employs four people, is one of 1100 Airgas branch stores in the U.S. Formerly the site of Action Rental Equipment, the store is located behind the Villa Restaurant off the Golden Strip.
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Joy said company officials had been eyeing the Williamsport market for quite some time. However, it wasn't until January that the local store finally was opened.
The nearest other Airgas store is located in White Deer.
"Fifteen years ago, we had a branch in Williamsport, but it was consolidated into White Deer," Joy said.
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The store location, he said, is a good one, even if it is partly hidden by other businesses fronting the Golden Strip.
"But folks are still finding it," he said.
Joy is excited about operating a store that serves the natural gas industry. The store serves the needs of other customers as well. Customers can find medical products and medical support equipment; safety products for head, eye, face and respiratory protection; two-day radios and accessories; and gas cans, fire extinguishers, beveling machines, pipe strands, safety cones and spill kits.
At some point, the store plans to make emergency deliveries of supplies to work sites.
An open house of the store is upcoming, Joy said.
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Spiritual growth is broad enough to encompass both the idea that the ultimate truth can be discovered from a complete group of strangers at an AA meeting, as well as from your own internal stillness while meditating in your living room. It is the quest of every recovering drug addict and alcoholic, whether they realize it or not. But the problem is that so many of us have preconceived notions of what "spiritual" means, and some of us have a limiting belief system in place that makes it harder for us to grow spiritually.
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We might think that growing spiritually means that we have to become more religious. Or that we have to engage in certain practices like daily prayer and mediation. What's more, many recovering addicts have some emotional baggage associated with these ideas, and thus are hesitant to approach the subject of spiritual growth with an open mind.
The creative theory of recovery has it's own unique formula for spiritual growth, and specific actions that you can take to help you make progress in this area.
The limitations of traditional spiritual growth
1) You are not your belief system
One of the neat things that I did in early recovery was to try on a number of different spiritual "hats." I explored eastern philosophies, read through the new testament, and pretty much read all sorts of different books regarding spirituality. What I learned by all this was the power of true open mindedness. This is the ability to try on a new spiritual "lens," instead of staying stuck in a specific set of rigid beliefs.
Some people have great resistance to this idea, because they have internalized their belief system into who they are. Not only that, but they tend to defend this belief system with a great sense of pride.
Now I'm not saying you have to change your religion in order to grow spiritually. But what I am saying is that you might benefit by staying truly open minded to ideas from other belief systems and philosophies. Why limit yourself to the dogma of one system, when there is so much more opportunity for growth out there?
Imagine the depth and added knowledge that comes when, say, a Christian priest studies eastern philosophy, or even Native American spirituality. The new knowledge doesn't take away from the priest's Christian belief set….instead he notices overlaps and similarities and thus experiences a strengthening of core spiritual principles that seem to keep popping up as he studies. This is the power of opening your mind to new spiritual ideas, philosophies, or even religions. In AA they have a saying: "take what you need and leave the rest." Apply this to spiritual and religious concepts as well and you will find a whole new world to explore that can open you up to spiritual growth.
2) Some spiritual paths are non-holistic (and thus limiting)
I think there is some danger in falling into too narrow of a recovery program that focuses sharply on what I would call "traditional spiritual practices." In other words, if all you do in recovery is pray and meditate according to a certain belief system, then you are leaving a lot of spiritual growth on the table.
Spiritual growth is bigger than that. Imagine a walk through nature or an invigorating jog across the countryside. Imagine painting landscapes or composing and performing music that truly touches people's souls. Spirituality is bigger and broader than what most people think it is. Remember that it's all spiritual:
* You can find a special connection to your higher power in the unlikeliest of places.
* All learning is essentially spiritual growth. You see the world in one way, and then a shift is made and you gain new awareness. You see things in a new light, and it does a better job of explaining reality than your old thought processes. This is learning. You adopt a new belief set about how things are; about how things work.
This becomes especially powerful when you can apply this to your own life after seeing it in others. In recovery, we don't have to keep learning only from mistakes. We can connect with other recovering addicts and use their knowledge to help steer us on our own path. This is learning; this is spiritual knowledge applied. It's using our connections with others to empower each other in a positive way.
Clearly, there is more to spiritual growth than the "traditional" ideas that most of us have about what constitutes spirituality. In the creative theory of recovery, the world becomes our playground, and every person we encounter becomes a potential teacher.
What is spiritual growth?
Spirituality is a lens through which you perceive the world. It helps us to explain our reality and can provide a guide for living. For many of us, spirituality also speaks of how the universe works and tries to explain what are role in the world is.
Therefore, spiritual growth must be the progression of how we see the world. It is the evolution of our consciousness. How we see and frame events in our minds changes over time, hopefully for the better. Here is an example:
Say that you have a friend who is struggling with drug addiction. You're frustrated to watch this person continuously fail and return to using drugs.
In the early stages of your spiritual growth, you might frame this in your mind as "$h!t happens." The universe is cold and cruel and this person just doesn't get it. Or perhaps you have a belief set that says they are experiencing the tail end of some bad karma; that the universe is paying them back for wrongs they have done. (Notice that this is not a very empowering way of viewing things).
After some level of spiritual growth, you might find it easier to relate to this struggling addict and feel compassion for them. You identify closely with their struggle and can remember when you were in their position, or going through a similar struggle. Thus you might reach out and try to help them in some way, based on what you learned by going through your own struggles. (Notice that this is more empowering for both people).
After even more spiritual growth, you might experience an even closer connection with those who are struggling, and can see that people who are acting out, behaving badly, or just generally failing miserably at life are actually doing the best that they can with the resources available to them–just like you have always done in your life. You feel true compassion for them and have an intuitive sense of when to offer your "experience, strength, and hope," and when to hold back and allow them learn from natural consequences. Life becomes a learning experience and a series of lessons and we can see that others are on a similar path. We use our intuition to guide us when attempting to help them, and some will also use prayer and meditation in this way too.
So you can see that spiritual growth is a progression of sorts. Specifically, it is the evolution of how we perceive the world and different situations. Furthermore, spiritual growth is all about what we do with those perceptions of the world. The trend is towards a more positive outlook on things, as well as the shift towards learning from experiences and also helping others.
As we grow spiritually, the emphasis on learning continuously increases. Everything becomes a source of knowledge; a way to refine our belief system. We stay flexible and open-minded so that we are always ready to take in new knowledge.
The creative theory of recovery and spiritual growth
Specifically, here is how the creative theory of recovery approaches spiritual growth:
1) Holistic approach – Shift in attitude from traditional "spiritual viewpoints" to an all-encompassing view of spirituality and opportunities for growth in our lives. Physical, mental, and emotional experiences and processes start falling under the "spiritual umbrella" and can teach us new things. Each person in our life becomes a potential carrier of new knowledge for us as we cultivate humility and try to learn from every interaction.
2) Use of multiple "lenses" through which we view our lives – gaining new truths through multiple perspectives. Also, ultimate truths and core beliefs can be seen to run parallel in multiple belief systems and philosophies. Thus we learn better what is truly useful in our spiritual growth and what is essentially "fluff." For example, the practice of meditation that is almost universally found in all major religions and philosophies throughout the world, demonstrating a common thread. Other principles can be found in the same manner, such as forgiveness or the virtue of helping others.
3) Emphasis on learning and constantly seeking new knowledge. "What can I learn from this experience?" We are driven to grow from every failure; from virtually any experience.
4) Turning seemingly "negative" experiences into either a learning experience, or a way to connect with others and help them avoid the same mistakes. In recovery, our previous failure can become a valuable lesson for someone else, provided that we share that message.
5) A shift from self-centeredness towards a genuine interest in other people's well being. This is one of the great gifts in recovery, that we can experience real joy from being able to reach out and help other addicts.
Spiritual growth is a process. I don't think you can really wake up one day and say: "I'm going to grow spiritually today!" Instead, we embrace the creative life in recovery and start making progress on our journey, slowly. It is only after pausing later and looking back that we can see just how far we have come. This is how we grow spiritually.


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>As far as the OP's question goes, can someone tell me if you still need that
>APACHE$WWW ACE if the WORLD has read access to the files? Not that's it's
>important, but just for curiosity's sake I'm wondering if what is being
>achieved is a regime where every bloke and a dog with a browser can view the
>files but there's just no way we'll let local VMS users see them.
Nope, the APACHE$WWW ACE isn't required for files that are W:R.
(Of course, there tend to be fewer and fewer local VMS users who actually log
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The Audi Q5 is a five-seat crossover SUV. It was the second to join Audi's lineup of luxury vehicles; today it sits in the middle of the automaker's crossover lineup, between the compact Q3 and the new Q7.
Its rivals include vehicles such as the BMW X3, Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class, Volvo XC60, Cadillac XT5 and Range Rover Evoque.
A replacement model is due for the 2018 model year. Despite being on the market for nine model years, the Q5 remains a popular choice due to excellent interior space and refinement, good handling, and various powertrain options.
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With the Q5, Audi doesn't stray too far from the successful luxury-crossover formula. The platform is derived from the A4, but the Q5 has better ground clearance and now comes standard with Audi's quattro all-wheel-drive system for great all-weather traction.
The Q5 arrived in U.S. showrooms in late 2009 as a 2009 model, and was left virtually unchanged for the 2010 model year. It was offered in a single configuration: with a V-6 engine, an automatic transmission, and all-wheel drive. This initial Q5 had a smart mix of luxury and performance off the bat. The heart of the performance package was a 3.2-liter, 270-horsepower V-6, teamed up with a six-speed automatic with manual gear selection and all-wheel drive. It was powerful, but created a little more volume and vibration than expected from an otherwise refined German offering. Gear changes were smooth enough, and Audi claimed a 0-60 mph time of 6.7 seconds.
The Q5's chief dynamic liability is its fairly stiff ride, and Audi's adjustable Drive Select suspension and steering are some of our least favorite applications of chassis electronics. The Q5 will tow 4,400 pounds and has nearly 8 inches of ground clearance, so mild off-roading isn't entirely out of the question. Most versions come with luxury features such as leather, Bluetooth, and satellite radio; a panoramic sunroof is a great addition to the options list.
In the 2011 model year, Audi added a new drivetrain option to the Q5 mix—a version of the VW/Audi corporate turbocharged four-cylinder making 211 horsepower. Mated to a six-speed automatic and front-wheel drive in base form, this is the Q5 we recommended unanimously at the time. It felt lighter on its feet, produced much better fuel-economy numbers than the V-6 (20/27 mpg versus 18/23 mpg), and had a lower sticker price. That said, it's still rare to find a Q5 priced below $40,000 with popular features.
For the 2013 model year, the Audi Q5 carried over its turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder, but offered as a high-output option its 272-hp supercharged 3.0-liter V-6 coupled to an 8-speed automatic, plus a new Q5 Hybrid was added to the mix. The hybrid blends the turbo-4 powertrain and 8-speed automatic with lithium-ion batteries and a 54-hp electric motor for a net of 245 hp, a 0-60 mph time of 6.8 seconds, and a combined gas-mileage rating of 26 mpg, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Quattro all-wheel drive is standard with all powertrains, including the hybrid.
Audi added a TDI turbodiesel Q5 to its lineup for the 2014 model year and it earns EPA ratings of up to 27 mpg combined. In 2015, the drivetrain was among those implicated in VW's diesel scandal, in which emissions were understated and standards were intentionally violated by the automaker. A solution has yet to be reached between VW, Audi, and the EPA.
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For 2017, Audi discontinued the current-generation Q5 Hybrid and added an available appearance package to the top-of-the-line SQ5. Not many changes were made in anticipation for a new model.
The Q5 is due for an update soon, likely sometime after the the arrival of a new version of the A4 sedan with which it shares underpinnings. The next Q5 is likely to debut sometime in 2017. Given changes to other Audi models, it may receive a plug-in hybrid variant as its efficiency leader.


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Here's a way to organize your notes and study material that's fun and helpful to your learning at the same time. While you're studying or writing a term paper or homework, have you ever wanted to find a web page or a note that you know you once had but can't track down? Here's the answer. 3D Topicscape Student Edition (SE) is FREE computer software that can help you organize your study using 3D concept maps that you can fly though. It saves Web pages for you as you research, lets you organize your notes in 3D landscapes and helps you find things quickly and easily. If you like mindmaps, it can import them from FreeMind (free, 2D mindmapping software) and make a Topicscape from them. And it can take outline-numbered text and make a Topicscape for you from that. When your study and research are done, it can export a text file which you can use as the starting point for a homework report or term paper. And you can keep your Topicscapes for reference and revision, where colors and position in the 3D concept map are a powerful memory aids. 3D Topicscape Student Edition (SE) is a flexible way for you to sort out your thoughts and approach on a new project even before you have collected any files or information. You choose the topic names and organization and you can easily re-organize as you read, study and research when new information comes to hand or new ideas develop. You drag web pages and text notes onto topics, and connect the topics yourself, so they will reflect your own understanding when you go back later to find them. Find a note by 3D Topicscape SE's keyword search or, if you can't remember the right words, fly around the 3D scene, tracking an item down by topic. Topics can represent concepts, subjects, categories, or classifications. And it lets you do that important thing in concept maps: Describe how two concepts are connected. For example, you can connect the concept Paris to the concept France with a phrase "is the capital city of".
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In this movie we are going to cover how to create alpha channels. Now, the easiest way to create an alpha channel is to be in the Channels Panel, and simply click on Create New Channel. Now, that creates a totally black channel which means it will have no effect at all, it's totally black. The entire image is protected. Now that we have this blank channel, we can start to draw into it to do things like let's just say we create this little swirl like this. So now I can come over here, load that channel, and we'll hide the marching ants, so we don't see those, and I can go in there and say let's go and colorize that.
So, I'll go to Hue/Saturation, Colorize, increase the saturation, and you see that, that area is being controlled inside the alpha channel. That's the quickest way of creating one provided you have nothing in mind from the image to create that alpha channel. Now, another way is to have something selected. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to select this rock, because in the exercise, I have an alpha channel already created for this rock. So I have that, and I'm going to go over here and say Save Selection, where I have the ability to save the alpha channel, and give it a name.
Now, another very important thing to look at this window here is that there is the document. You will notice that I can actually send it to a new document. So, the alpha channel does not have to reside with the actual file. So, you are not limited to the number of alpha channels in a particular image or you might want to have say a couple of 100 alpha channels that you don't want your client to see. So you can put all the alpha channels for a particular file in a completely separate file, and that way, you could use them. You could also send it to a new channel or you can actually just bring it in, and replace an existing channel.
So, if I click on Alpha 1, which is the little swirl I made, and you can see it down here in the panel, it will replace that particular channel. So now that I have it, I click OK, and there is the rock. Now, once it is there, I deselect it, and I go to that channel, and I can see the RGB on top of it. You notice its showing up as a quick mask. Now, if red is not a good color to see the stuff behind, you can double-click on it, which brings you up to the options, which allow you to name it again or choose a different color.
So, I can go in here and say use green, and increase the opacity, so I can see more of it and so on. So there, now it's using green. So now once I have that, I can come in here, get in real close, and refine this mask to get it just the way I want. Remember that white exposes, black protects. So, if I paint with black, I'm going to be protecting. If I paint with white, I'm going to be exposing. So now, I can go in there and very specifically, go in there and say I wanted to get these little areas, and start to paint my alpha channel the way I want it.
And once I have all those areas exposed and just get just how I want it, I can go in there, and then I have an alpha channel which will allow me to select this rock as you will see in the various exercises where I use that. Now, sometimes you can pull an alpha channel from an existing image. Now, this is without selecting it. I'm going to redo what I did in that particular exercise where I used this waterfall as a waterfall falling from the high cliff. I'm going to look at the existing channels to make it easy, because this is not an easy thing to select on its own.
So, I'm going to look and see where I'm going to have my contrast. Is it in the red? Is it in the green or in the blue? The blue, the blue is giving me the most contrast. You can see how white it is here and how gray the rocks are as opposed to the red where they are fairly even and the green where they are pretty close, whereas the blue is giving me a strong contrast. So, by taking the blue and duplicating it, I get blue copy. Now, the image did not get any bluer, because remember, the alpha channel has nothing to do with the actual image, it is simply a mask.
So, in that blue channel, I can now go in there, and we'll bring up our levels. And I can go in there and take all my midtones and darken them, and take all my dark tones and darken them, and make those whites stronger, see. Click OK, then all the grays that are left, I can quickly eliminate those. Press F here so I can get a full screen, and I can go in here, and I'll select this entire area up here, and I'll just say, fill it with black. And I can take this entire area here and say fill it with black, this whole area here and then down here.
So now I can be a little more selective and go in here with a brush and paint these areas to black, and there you'll see that I'll now have an alpha channel that exposes just this water here. So, I can do things to it in the image. So, once I have all my water selected right there just, like so. I can now go back to the image, load that alpha channel which selects the water. So now, I'm going to just hide those marching ants so we can easily see what's about to happen.
So I can in there and say let's colorize this. Let's throw a little tone in there. Let's say we throw a little red in there. We could just make it red, see. Do anything we want to it, or make it a little lighter, make it a little darker, whatever. If we want to throw a gradient through there, we can, because we'll just throw a nice little gradient so it's water turning into blood or whatever. Now, whatever we want to do there, we can because the water has been selected from the rest of the image. And in that particular case, we use an existing channel to make our alpha channel.
So creating alpha channels has many different ways, but the uses are infinite.
- Creating alpha channels
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Interest Level
Grades 2 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.3
Lexile® Measure: 700L
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- Comedy and Humor
- Elementary School
About This Book
Miss Daisy, who teaches second grade, doesn't know how to add or subtract. Not only that, she doesn't know how to read or write either. She is the dumbest teacher in the history of the world!
In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? What are A.J. and the kids in his class going to do? They've got to bring Miss Daisy up to second-grade level before the end of the year!
Never before has school been this mixed up, or this much fun. Popular author Dan Gutman pulls out all the stops for this right-on second-grade hilarity.
Series Information
A.J. would rather play video games than go to school. But Ella Mentry is no ordinary school; it's staffed by grown-ups who are offbeat, kooky, and just plain weird. In fact, they're so weird that it's usually up to A.J. and his pals to restore order when things get a little out of hand. In the meantime, the kids discover that school can be fun, even the learning part.
These irreverent early chapter books feature cartoon illustrations and characters whose antics will have readers expecting the unexpected. The original My Weird School series has branched out into My Weird School Daze (following the kids from second to third grade) and My Weirder School (which brings the weirdness of the outside world to Ella Mentry).
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Chicago, Nov. 28, 1906.
To the Editor:
—Dr. David L. Edsall's article in The Journal, Nov. 3, 1906, so overstates, in my opinion, the dangers from x-ray exposures that it should not go without reply. Dr. Edsall's article begins with several paragraphs devoted to an implied criticism at the tardiness of the recognition of deep-seated effects of x-rays and at the purely empirical use of x-rays as a therapeutic agent His opening sentence is: "In its relation to medical practice, one of the most remarkable things about the x-ray is the tardiness with which there was any realization of its power of producing very marked changes in other tissues than those superficially situated. "X-rays were discovered November, 1895. To cite no other illustration, as long ago as the summer of 1897, W. Stone Scott reviewed the cases in which deep-seated effects were thought to have occurred from x-rays without corresponding
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HOWELL, N.J. — At least 27 children have died so far this year after being left alone in hot cars. But a child who might very likely have been the 28th is alive today thanks to a heroic rescue by an ex-cop and a schoolteacher in Howell,
One of city's first female firefighters known as calming.
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Police responded to 'large disturbance' outside Bronze Boar.
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Post-Standard: Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is anticipating the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, but believes there is still more work to be done.
"America needs to be reminded, even as we revel in the joys of now, just how fragile and fallen we are," Glaude said in his keynote address Sunday evening at Syracuse University's 24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the Carrier Dome. » Photos
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By Michael Howell
The Bitterroot Audubon Society and the Five Valley Audubon Society joined up to sponsor a citizen scientist survey of sage lands in the Bitterroot Valley at the end of May. The aim was to train a cadre of citizen scientists to identify various birds commonly associated with
sagebrush habitat and then send them out to various spots in the valley to see what they could find. All the data collected is shared publicly via eBird, an on-line bird data archive sponsored by Cornell University. The eBird site is the largest citizen science project in the world
According to Bitterroot Audubon member Kate Stone, about 10,000 acres of sage land has been mapped in the Bitterroot Valley. Be
sides looking for birds the citizen scientists are also mapping and assessing the quality of the sage habitat. She said much of the sage land on the Forest has been surveyed but habitat located on private land has not gotten the same attention.
"A lot of sage land has been lost over the years as land was developed and cleared for farming and ranching and housing developments," said Stone, "but there is still a lot left in the valley."
Audubon members trained the volunteers to identify birds by sight as well as by song. Stone said that the small birds commonly associated with sage habitat are not very colorful and are hard to spot. She said identifying the birds by song aided immensely in conducting the surveys.
About 20 citizen scientists participated in the latest survey, visiting 15 different patches of sage land located from Skalkaho southeast of Hamilton, to Reed Butte, just east of Stevensville. The surveyors counted a total of over 400 birds, identifying 52 different species.
Common sagebrush birds like the Vesper Sparrow, the Chipping Sparrow, the Clay-colored Sparrow and the Brewer's Sparrow were identified. The most commonly identified bird in the survey was the Vesper Sparrow. Forty-seven Vesper Sparrows were identified. Sixteen Brewer's Sparrows were identified, tripling the known distribution records for the species in the Bitterroot. No Sage Thrashers were identified despite the fact that they are one of the most common sagebrush species.
Stone has produced a field identification guide for some of the sagebrush birds with photographs taken in the Bitterroot which the citizen scientists took into the field with them. Stone said that most of the surveys conducted this past month were done from the roadside, but anyone with sagebrush on their property that would like to have the sage land surveyed can contact her to make arrangements by calli
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Here is the other dish I made with the clay pot tofu (a lot of tofu, I know). I rooted around online looking at some recipes, and they all were pretty much the same. I adapted the recipe here. The tofu is fried with a cornstarch coating, but you can opt out of this step and just coat the tofu in the sauce. I never use Ener-G egg replacer, but it caught my eye at the bulk food store the other day. I thought it made a nice light and crispy batter.
- 1 pkg tofu, cubed
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp cooking sherry
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- Ener-G egg replacer for 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp salt
- oil for frying
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tomato, cut into wedges
- thinly sliced red pepper
- thinly sliced cucumber
1. Mix together marinade ingredients and toss tofu in marinade until coated.
2. Mix together batter ingredients and toss tofu in batter until coated. Fry in 350 degree oil unitl golden on all sides. Drain.
3. Mix water and cornstarch together and pour into a saucepan. Add sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, ketchup and tomato, and bring to bubbling. Add tofu and mix to coat.
4. Garnish with red pepper and cucumber (I didn't have any on hand as you can see) and serve with rice.


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Mother arraigned in Stuthers boy's death
STRUTHERS - The mother of a 14-year-old who was killed was arraigned Friday in Struthers Municipal Court on complicity charges.
Bond was set at $100,000 for Shain Widdersheim, 32, who faces charges of complicity to murder, complicity to rape, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in the death of her son, Teddy Foltz.
Her boyfriend, Zaryl Bush, 43, is charged with murder and an additional count of rape in Foltz's death.
Foltz died last weekend at St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was taken after he was hospitalized Jan. 21 with a severe head injury.
Family members tipped off detectives that Foltz's injuries were suspicious and after an investigation, police charged Bush, saying that for three years he abused the teen.
Widdersheim was charged because she was not truthful with investigators and that she allowed the abuse to happen, according to officials.
Bush was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on $1 million bond. Widdersheim was arrested Wednesday and is also in the Mahoning County Jail.
Cortland man flown to hospital after crash
HOWLAND - A Cortland man was being flown by helicopter to a Cleveland hospital after a two-car accident about 1:40 p.m. Friday.
Troopers with the Southington post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said 73-year-old Marilyn McBride of Cortland was driving north on North Road when she ran a red light and collided with a car driven by 45-year-old William Morris of Warren who was driving west on North River Road.
McBride's car hit a telephone pole and her husband, Gary McBride, 82, was injured. He was first taken to Trumbull Memorial Hospital before being transferred.
A spokesman did not say if any citations were issued.
Water boil called for Lowellville
LOWELLVILLE - Aqua Ohio customers in the village are advised to boil their water after a contractor struck the water main on Friday that supplies water to the village.
A news release from Aqua states the break is repaired, but customers are advised to boil their water until 4 p.m. today.
All water used for drinking, cooking and brushing teeth should be boiled for at least one minute, the release states.
West Farmington council discusses water
WEST FARMINGTON - Village council will review a new rate structure for water and revisions to the water rules and regulations at 7 p.m. Monday at the village hall.
Mayor Allen Patchin will present the rate structure to council for review.
After council reviews it and if there are no questions or more information requested, council will give the item a first reading, he said.
Patchin said a second reading will be given at a special meeting to be scheduled by council. A public meeting on the structure and revisions also will have to be scheduled.
Technical center to hold open house
WARREN - An open house for prospective students will be held Thursday at the Trumbull Career and Technical Center.
The event is open to the public from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the TCTC campus, 528 Educational Highway, Champion.
Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the facility, meet teachers and staff, learn about high school and adult education and career center programs as well as participate in interactive demonstrations.
Refreshments will be offered, and attendees also can register to win door prizes.
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Conservatives in California believe they may have lost a battle, but won the war.
That is the response of many who watched the events during Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on Proposition Eight -- the voter-approved marriage amendment.
The California Channel broadcast the court arguments. It was expected to be the most widely-watched hearing in a generation.
Click play for comments on the case from Jay Sekulow of American Center for Law & Justice.
The public's interest in the case was also clear outside the courthouse, where demonstrators from both sides lined the streets.
Inside, the three-hour hearing showed the justice's doubts about overturning Prop 8.
"The people have created the Constitution and I think what you're overlooking is the very broad power of the people to amend by initiative the Constitution," said Justice Joyce L. Kennard.
Opponents of Prop 8 argued that it illegally revises the state constitution.
"The analysis is, if it's outside the parameters, if it's a fundamental restructuring, if it's going to change the laws in a fundamental way and the branches of government--that itself is a revision, not an amendment," argued the Asian Pacific American Legal Center's Raymond C. Marshall.
Attorney Shannon Minter said removing the rights of a minority substantially changes the constitution.
"The core of our argument is that a simply majority cannot take away rights from a historically disadvantaged minority," he said.
But even some of the justices who voted to legalize same-sex marriage last May, didn't appear convinced.
"It seems that what your argument really boils down to is the practical, but perhaps more political than legal matter," said Justice Ronald M. George. "It's just too easy to amend the California constitution.
Supporters of Prop 8 argued for the rights of the voters who passed Prop 8.
"What we have not heard a lot from the other side is this inalienable right of the people of California, whether wisely or no, to change the constitution," argued Kenneth Starr.
Starr did not appear to convince justices to invalidate the thousands of gay marriages performed in California last year, before Prop 8 passed.
But that sticky issue seemed to be priority number two for justices and counsel alike.
By law, the court has up to 90 days to decide the fate of Prop 8. Court watchers say a decision may come as early as mid-May.
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"I'll be beginning medical school at Wayne State University beginning the fall of 2009 while participating in the U.S. Air Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Upon receipt of my MD, I intend to enter into a residency in family Medicine and afterwards practice as a family physician in the U.S. Air force."
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Super Bowl Lined Up
Madonna will be at the pre-game, and Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias and Toni Braxton will top the half-time lineup during the Super Bowl, the National Football League announced over the weekend. The half-time show, titled "Tapestry of Nations" and produced by Walt Disney Attractions, will feature an 80-member orchestra, puppets, a choir and special fireworks. (The Jan. 30 game at Atlanta's Georgia Dome will be aired on ABC.) Madonna will introduce her new single, a rendition of Don MacLean's classic "American Pie." Tina Turner and country star Travis Tritt will also perform in a salute to "Great American Music of the 20th Century." At the kickoff, Faith Hill will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner."


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John Dudley: No perfect punishment for Penn State's crimes
Drew Astorino heard the sanctions being read off against Penn State's battered football program Monday and wondered, "Why?"
Why levy such a stiff punishment against players and coaches who had nothing to do with the crime?
Why cripple a program, as the NCAA did by stripping scholarships and taking away the Nittany Lions' postseason for the next four years, and making it painless for players and recruits to leave?
Why scrub away 13 seasons of victories -- 111 in all -- for college football's erstwhile winningest coach?
"Obviously, I was very angry," Astorino, a General McLane graduate and former Penn State player, said of NCAA president Mark Emmert's list of unprecedented penalties that figure to handicap the program for at least a decade or more. "I'm not trying to say (Emmert) didn't make some good points. But the sanctions against the current players and coaches, I thought that was unnecessary."
Anger. Horror. Disbelief. All of it tinged with sadness.
Gone is the image of late head coach Joe Paterno as the iconic JoePa.
Gone is the notion of Happy Valley as Camelot, one of the few remaining places where the ills of big-time college sports, if not those of society itself, dared not tread.
Gone, too, is every victory from 1998 through 2011, all those scholarships, and tens of millions of dollars.
Nothing can take us back to the time before Jerry Sandusky sexually abused young boys in the showers at Penn State's football building. That sad ship has sailed. It took our innocence with it.
To former players like Astorino, an all-Big Ten safety whose career ended last fall as details of the scandal began to emerge, thoughts turned Monday toward the locker room.
"To be totally honest, my mind has been on the players and the coaches that are still there," Astorino said. "The ones getting the most severe penalties are the ones that did nothing wrong."
Don't think for a minute that Astorino isn't sickened by what Sandusky did and isn't heartbroken for his victims. When the Freeh report was released, Astorino didn't page through it. He didn't ask about it.
"I've been living in the middle of this controversy for the last six or seven months of my life," he said. "I didn't feel like I needed to read another 270 pages about it."
But like so many others, he has a hard time drawing a straight line between a series of sordid crimes and the subsequent cover-up and what happens on the field over the next four years.
From the very beginning, when the indictment against Sandusky first came down, there simply hasn't been time for us to fully process what we've seen and heard.
Yes, some nine months have passed, but nine months isn't long enough.
One of the criticisms of Emmert's actions Monday is that they arrived too quickly on the heels of the conclusions reached by Freeh's team of investigators.
Only 12 days had passed, and 12 days wasn't long enough.
But would more days or months have changed anything?
There seem to be two reactions to the Freeh report and to Penn State's punishment.
One is resignation that whatever the penalties, they couldn't be too strong in the wake of the worst scandal college sports, and perhaps higher education, has ever seen. They needed to be handed down, and then the process of rebuilding and recovery needed to begin.
The other is a sense of injustice drawing from the belief that what happened wasn't a football problem and shouldn't be treated or punished as such. That whatever sanctions the NCAA settled on would represent a misguided attempt at reparation by a representative body overstepping its bounds.
Those two camps will never see things eye-to-eye, no matter how far down the road they meet.
Somewhere in the middle are the rest of us, those who are too numb to understand how a man could do so much evil, how an institution of higher learning could misjudge so grievously, how a once-great program could crumble so far so fast.
"There's nothing in this situation anyone should feel good about," Emmert said. "This is an awful place to be."
Likewise, there could be no perfect punishment to fit Penn State's crimes. Whatever happened Monday was bound to leave us feeling sad and asking, "Why?"
JOHN DUDLEY can be reached at 870-1677 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNdudley.