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I'm sorry if this is going to sound -- that is, read -- familiar, but I absolutely must semi-vent here.
The two rules in sports that most upset me are: (1) the idea that somebody in basketball can actually call a timeout while he/she is flying out of bounds with the ball; and (2) the notion that a guy can score a touchdown merely by "breaking the plane" of the end zone.
No. 1 is embarrassing, frankly . . . and it's easily addressed: One cannot call a timeout unless he/she has two feet in bounds. Simple, huh? And smart.
No. 2? Well, we saw again how putrid the existing regulation is, thanks to that phantom touchdown scored by Ben Roethlisberger in Sunday's Super Bowl victory by the Pittsburgh Steelers. You know, the one that gave the Steelers a 7-3 lead in the biggest, most important sporting event on earth. The one where the tippy-tip of the nose of the football might have -- kind of, maybe, perhaps -- nicked the invisible plane of the goal line.
Pathetic. The ruling, while perhaps "correct" in the strictest sense of the existing flawed football canon, was "wrong" because it failed to reward the athletic play effected by the Seattle Seahawks, who did, in fact, keep Roethlisberger out of the end zone on that key third-down play in the second quarter.
Come on. Football is a man's-man game. There is nothing subtle about it. It's 11 tough guys banging on 11 tough guys (kickers excepted) for 60 minutes. And the touchdowns that come with it should be obvious, well-earned things that end with the ball clearly, unquestionably, in the end zone.
Again, fixing this is so very simple: If the officials aren't sure that Sluggo got into the end zone . . . he didn't. If they have to resort to some kind of taped review . . . they shouldn't. If there's any kind of question . . . there isn't.
You want to know why the "plane" of the end zone is invisible? Because it doesn't exist. Or, it shouldn't.
-- Bud Poliquin


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Sick of the snow? You're in good company.
Some public works crews aren't sure how much more they can take.
They're keeping an eye on their salt supply with just days to go before another possible storm.
Many municipalities use the same supplier in our area.
All got a salt delivery on Saturday, and some are getting creative to make sure that supply lasts until spring.
Finally a shipment of salt has come in at the public works department in Wilson Borough, Northampton County.
"We just got a shipment in of 150 tons," said Greg Drake, director of public works for Wilson Borough. "We're pretty much ready for this storm."
Added to the salt they already have, that make 250 tons.
In order to make it last the rest of the winter, Drake says his department is getting creative.
"Instead of salting three or four times during a storm, we are salting at the beginning of the storm, then we are plowing and hopefully the next day the sun comes out, the temperature goes up a little bit and it melts most of it off."
Drake says his crew will then lay down salt at the end of the storm.
That will save his department around 100 tons of salt.
"Normally I might only use maybe 800 to 900 tons because I always have some on hand when we first start," added Drake. "We're way over that, we're at about 1,500 or 1,600 tons already."
Crews also had to replace every blade on the plows, something that is only done every two years.
There is worry this won't be the last storm.
Wilson Borough can only order 135 more tons of salt from its supplier before this year's contract is exceeded.
That means one more storm after Monday and road crews may have to ask their neighbors for help.
"Between Palmer, Easton, Forks, whatever, whoever doesn't have any salt, we're sharing with our neighboring municipalities," said Drake.
Orders need to be made by March 15 for next year's winter, just another issue facing public works directors in the area.

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- Reunion Class Giving Heats Up
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- Reunion 2011
- European Vacation, Summer 2012
- Were you a student of Sister Maura Eichner?
- Looking For a Great Preschool Program?
- Save the Date for CE Chapter Fall Dinner
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Reunion Class Giving Heats Up Back to Top
Reunion is fast approaching, and the competition is heating up between classes, each trying to raise the most money with the most participants. Thank you to all celebrants supporting your class gift. Reunion giving plays a key role in Notre Dame's fundraising success each year and in turn enhances the experience of each and every student. See how your class is doing.
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Join Us September 9 for University Day Back to Top
Excitement abounds on campus as we prepare for this important moment in Notre Dame's history. From pancakes to fireworks, this is sure to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. Check out the details and register for any of the free events today. Remember—we're celebrating, rain or shine!
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Reunion 2011 Back to Top
Don't miss the opportunity to gather with classmates, friends, and faculty as we celebrate Reunion in traditional Notre Dame-style with a crab feast, awards, memories, laughter, great food and dancing. We hope you will join us for this special weekend your classmates have planned for you. Register now!
European Vacation, Summer 2012 Back to Top
Education, Culture and Diversity in Europe: Munich, Salzburg and Vienna
June 26-July 5, 2012
$2134 (land only) per person, double occupancy; $3670 (air included)
Explore how the cultural and educational settings in Germany and Austria have been affected by the European Union and the growing diversity of school-aged populations. In addition to visiting schools in Munich run by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, you can enjoy a walking tour of Munich and a guided visit to the Residenz, the Palace of Kings. On the way to Vienna, you will visit Neuschwanstein Castle and spend a day in Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace. In Vienna, visit schools and learn more about the effect of immigration on the educational system. Other activities include an orientation tour of Vienna and a guided tour of Schonbrunn Palace, plus free time in Munich, Salzburg and Vienna. An optional Mozart concert-dinner in Salzburg and evening in Grinzing, Austria are offered.
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Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun columnist, will be the guest speaker at the CE Chapter Fall dinner on Wednesday, November 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Doyle Formal. Her remarks entitled "Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: One Woman's attempt to combine work and family" are sure to be entertaining and thought provoking.
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Rehearsals are scheduled for August 30, September 6 and September 8, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., under the direction of Stephen Holmes. If you are interested in participating, contact Stephen via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Sicily: Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Escape winter in Baltimore for 10 days and enjoy a tour of Sicily, January 9-18, 2012. Get a taste of ancient Phoenician, Greek and Roman cultures, as well as Norman and Islamic remains, while enjoying modern Sicily. Cost is $3,595, and includes roundtrip airfare between Newark and Palermo; double accommodations in hotels; breakfasts; three dinners; local transportation; and admission to sites and museums. Single supplement is available. For information and/or registration materials, contact Sister Therese Marie Dougherty at 410-532-5559 or email@example.com. Register before August to be entered into a drawing for $100.
One-Woman Show to Benefit SSNDs Back to Top
The School Sisters of Notre Dame invite you to a benefit performance featuring the life of St. Catherine Benincasa of Siena, brought to life by Sister Nancy Murray, O.P. Sister Nancy is the sibling of actor Bill Murray. She will give two performances on Nov. 12.
Bring your whole family to the early performance at 11 a.m. for a single fee of $20. A VIP reception that begins at 5:30 p.m., for a single fee of $100 per person, includes hot hors d'oeuvres, beverages, an event memento and entrance to the evening performance. All ticket holders are invited to meet the actress after the evening performance at a free reception. Master of ceremonies for the evening performance will be Baltimore-area news anchor Mary Bubala of WJZ-TV.
All proceeds from the program will benefit the mission and ministries of the School Sisters of Notre Dame of the Atlantic-Midwest Province.
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In The News Back to Top
Atwater's Naturally Leavened Bread Bakery and Café hosted an art show highlighting the photographs, paintings and sculptures of its staff, including psychology major Kathryn Cohagan.
Communication arts associate professor Stacey Peterson is scheduled to present "A Call to Teachers: Taking Back the Classroom," at Ignite Baltimore on September 15.
The Baltimore Sun recently profiled Melinda Ciano '11, who will begin teaching at the Community College of Baltimore this fall.
The Baltimore Sun fashion reporter Sloane Brown visited campus recently for her column, "Glimpsed," which showcases fashion-forward Baltimoreans. Colleagues Faith Towner, Latisha Jones, Sybil Snow '06, Stephanie Cavill and Molly Baxter were featured.
Reporter Lauren Rosenburg enjoyed the Renaissance Institute's August 9 Open House and wrote about it in the Baltimore Messenger.
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She needs to add some choreography and transitions to her LP.
She needs to add some choreography and transitions to her LP.
But .. averaging the two rankings in the same category for Edmunds does not make any sense to me. Doesn't it penalize her?
At the very least she deserves for her higher ranking to be counted, IMHO.
And TBH, I do not understand why she does not deserve for both rankings to be counted in full. Yes, it would mean that she would receive the lion's share of the points for that category -- but to me, that would be a fair reflection of her consistent superiority.
(I am not familiar enough with Nate Silver's work to know whether similar situations come up in the types of data that he analyzes, and if so, how he handles them.)
But I can see a case for giving her all the points for now. So I'm going to change it.
@Mrs. P Is Mirai honestly under all those people in all those categories or did you just not include her? Surely she is doing better than Zhang
ETA: Heck, let's just go with it! Adding Senior B Scores. Disclaimer, technical panels vary, so it's not a a perfect comparison, but gives you a sense what each skater is capable of. Basically Courtney and Polina can be X factors due to high FS TES scores, but Christina is solid all the way around. Judges seem to like Samantha's style and Angela is still a factor as well. Mirai is not on the board yet, but you can't ignore that she gets decent PCS. I expect that she'll get on the board after NHK. Agnes performance so far does not reflect her bronze medal status in the U.S.
Ashley: 80
Gracie: 70
Courtney: 15
Polina: 15
Christina: 15
Samantha: 10
Angela: 5
Ashley Wagner: 193.81 (SA)
Gracie Gold: 185.65 (SC)
Christina Gao: 173.69 (SC)
Polina Edmunds: 171.21 (JGP Mexico)*
Courtney Hicks: 171.08 (U.S. Classic)
Samantha Cesario: 167.98 (SA)
Polina Edmunds: 165.77 (JGP Belarus)*
Gracie Gold: 164.68 (U.S. Classic)
Mirai Nagasu: 164.51 (Finlandia Trophy)
Ashley Cain: 162.39 (Nebelhorn Trophy)
Courtney Hicks: 162.00 (SC)
Samantha Cesario: 157.29 (U.S. Classic)
Angela Wang: 155.87 (JGP Czech Skate)*
Mariah Bell: 153.17 (JGP Mexico)*
Angela Wang: 152.36 (JGP Baltic Cup)*
Christina Gao 152.84 (Ondrej Nepela Trophy)
Vanessa Lam: 152.28 (Finlandia Trophy)
Agnes Zawadzki: 151.27 (U.S. Classic)
Kiri Baga: 150.48 (Cup of Nice)
Barbie Long: 148.19 (JGP Slovakia)*
Agnes Zawadzki: 147.64 (COC)
Yasmin Siraj: 142.32 (JGP Latvia)*
Rachael Flatt: 130.18 (Cup of Nice)
Hannah Miller: 128.20 (JGP Estonia)*
Mariah Bell: 128.11 (JGP Baltic Cup)*
Barbie Long: 124.16 (JGP Belarus)*
Caroline Zhang: 110.12 (SA)
Short Program
Gracie Gold: 69.45 (Skate Canada)
Ashley Wagner: 69.26
Christina Gao: 62.82
Angela Wang: 61.41
Gracie Gold: 58.49 (U.S. Classic)
Angela Wang: 58.00
Kiri Baga: 57.91
Ashley Cain: 57.87
Polina Edmunds: 57.78
Agnes Zawadzki: 56.27 (U.S. Classic)
Courtney Hicks: 54.80 (U.S. Classic)
Agnes Zawadzki: 53.76 (Cup of China)
Samantha Cesario: 53.51 (Skate America)
Polina Edmunds: 52.49
Christina Gao: 52.14 (Ondrej Nepela Trophy)
Yasmin Siraj: 51.70
Courtney Hicks: 50.71
Mariah Bell: 49.91
Samantha Cesario: 47.91 (U.S. Classic)
Caroline Zhang: 45.76
Barbie Long: 47.56
Barbie Long: 45.71
Mariah Bell: 43.84
Rachael Flatt: 41.59
Hannah Miller: 39.17
Short Program TES
Gracie Gold: 38.53
Ashley Wagner: 36.21
Angela Wang: 35.89
Angela Wang: 35.02
Christina Gao: 33.96
Polina Edmunds: 33.35
Courtney Hicks: 31.80
Gracie Gold: 31.37 (U.S. Classic)
Ashley Cain: 31.30
Kiri Baga: 31.11
Agnes Zawadzki: 30.73 (U.S. Classic)
Polina Edmunds: 29.12
Yasmin Siraj: 28.90
Agnes Zawadzki: 28.89
Christina Gao: 27.56
Samantha Cesario: 27.54
Courtney Hicks: 26.67
Mariah Bell: 26.55
Mirai Nagasu: 25.81[/B]
Barbie Long: 25.27
Barbie Long: 25.05
Samantha Cesario: 23.31
Caroline Zhang: 21.04
Mariah Bell: 21.01
Rachael Flatt: 19.23
Hannah Miller: 16.86
Short Program PCS
Ashley Wagner: 33.05
Gracie Gold: 30.92 (Skate Canada)
Christina Gao: 28.86
Mirai Nagasu: 28.20
Gracie Gold: 28.12 (U.S. Classic)
Kiri Baga: 26.80
Ashley Cain: 26.57
Agnes Zawadzki: 26.54
Angela Wang: 25.98
Angela Wang: 25.52
Samantha Cesario: 25.97
Agnes Zawadzki: 25.84
Christina Gao: 25.58 (Ondrej Nepela Trophy)
Courtney Hicks 25.00 (U.S. Classic)
Caroline Zhang: 24.72
Samantha Cesario: 24.60
Polina Edmunds: 24.43
Courtney Hicks 24.03 (Skate Canada)
Polina Edmunds: 23.37
Rachael Flatt: 23.36
Mariah Bell: 23.36
Mariah Bell: 22.83
Yasmin Siraj: 22.80
Hannah Miller: 22.31
Barbie Long: 22.29
Barbie Long: 20.66
Free Skate
Ashley Wagner: 124.55
Gracie Gold: 117.20
Courtney Hicks: 117.08
Samantha Cesario: 114.47
Polina Edmunds: 113.43
Polina Edmunds: 113.28
Courtney Hicks: 111.30
Christina Gao: 110.87
Mirai Nagasu: 110.50
Samantha Cesario: 109.38
Gracie Gold: 106.19
Ashley Cain: 104.52
Mariah Bell: 103.26
Christina Gao: 100.70
Barbie Long: 100.63
Vanessa Lam: 95.97
Agnes Zawadzki: 95.00
Angela Wang: 94.46
Angela Wang: 94.36
Agnes Zawadzki: 93.91
Kiri Baga: 92.57
Yasmin Siraj: 90.62
Hannah Miller: 89.03
Rachael Flatt: 88.59
Mariah Bell: 84.27
Barbie Long: 78.45
Caroline Zhang: 65.36
Free Skate TES
Polina Edmunds: 62.37
Courtney Hicks: 62.31 (Skate Canada)
Courtney Hicks: 61.48 (U.S. Classic)
Polina Edmunds: 61.82
Ashley Wagner: 58.54
Samantha Cesario: 56.98
Gracie Gold: 56.09
Samantha Cesario: 55.79
Christina Gao: 53.95
Barbie Long: 53.54
Mirai Nagasu: 53.46
Mariah Bell: 52.95
Ashley Cain: 51.51
Angela Wang: 49.25
Christina Gao: 49.09
Gracie Gold: 49.05
Angela Wang: 46.59
Yasmin Siraj: 46.39
Vanessa Lam: 45.73
Rachael Flatt: 45.31
Kiri Baga: 44.85
Agnes Zawadzki: 43.26 (Cup of China)
Agnes Zawadzki: 42.79 (U.S. Classic)
Hannah Miller 41.26
Barbie Long: 40.64
Mariah Bell: 40.44
Caroline Zhang: 24.27
Free Skate PCS
Ashley Wagner: 66.01
Gracie Gold: 62.11
Samantha Cesario: 58.90
Gracie Gold: 58.14
Mirai Nagasu 57.04
Christina Gao: 56.92
Courtney Hicks: 55.60
Ashley Cain: 54.01
Christina Gao: 53.61
Samantha Cesario: 53.59
Agnes Zawadzki: 53.21 (U.S. Classic)
Vanessa Lam:52.24
Agnes Zawadzki: 51.65 (Cup of China)
Polina Edmunds: 51.61
Polina Edmunds: 50.91
Mariah Bell: 50.31
Courtney Hicks: 49.99
Angela Wang: 48.87
Kiri Baga: 48.72
Angela Wang: 48.11
Barbie Long: 48.09
Hannah Miller 47.77
Yasmin Siraj: 44.23
Mariah Bell: 43.83
Rachael Flatt: 43.28
Caroline Zhang: 41.09
Barbie Long: 40.81
(Will stick my neck out and say that when watching the NBC broadcast of Skate Canada, I enjoyed the LP from Hicks more than the SP from Gold that had aired just before. Did not see Gold's LP. As the season moves forward, hoping for the best for Zawadzki, Nagasu, Gao, etc., etc.)
Anyone still holding out hope for Mirai to go to Sochi after NHK this weekend? I was very disappointed for Mirai to get so much lower PCS than Gracie in the LP (~7 points) and I think that is a bad sign because the international judges always liked Mirai a lot, perhaps more than US judges.
Anything is possible. But I don't think she has a very high chance at this point.
I was thinking how it is kind of ironic Gracie is now with Frank, moving from Chicago to train with him, and Mirai used to commute 2 hours to train with him, but didn't end up moving closer and the commute took it's toll and then she ultimately split from him. For that, and other reasons, of course. I just don't see her getting back to the level she was at with Frank.
Or that Gracie is willing to do more to achieve her goals. IIRC, FrankC offered to find a family for Mirai to live with and she/her family refused.
I always have a soft spot for Mirai. Even if the boot issues are what contributed to her bad skate at NHK, I'm happy that she didn't make the excuse after she finished.
I do not think it is fair at all to frame the comparison of the Nagasu/Gold/Carroll situations as Gold is "willing to do more to achieve her goals."
Gold moved to California with her mother, twin/best friend Carly, and their dog. They all live together as a family in a home of their own. (I do not mean that they bought their residence, for I do not know whether they did. I mean that non-family members are not under the same roof.)
Nagasu chose not to live away from her entire family. Gold lives away from her father (and even back in Illinois, the Gold women lived away from him during the week, for training purposes).


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The APWA membership has recently voted on a change to the regional and at-large directors' terms of office. All new directors on the Board will be eligible for three two-year terms of office for a total of six years. All current directors completing their first term of three years will be eligible for a second term of three years for a total of six years. All terms for individuals on the ballot will begin at the start of Congress in September 2007.
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Polaroid SX-70 manipulations are created by exposing an image onto Polaroid Time Zero film by means of SX-70 and 600 series cameras, a Daylab slide printer or an enlarger. After the image develops, the film emulsion remains pliable for a number of hours so that it can be manipulated by using different tools, such as crochet hooks, wooden ceramic tools, burnishing tools, pens, etc. A variety of effects can be achieved, transforming the images so that the distinction between photographs and paintings is blurred. This film was discontinued in 2005.
Carnevale in Venice is totally extraordinary. Like our Mardi Gras in the U.S. before Lent, but on a grander scale, and more European. People often spend thousands of dollars on their costumes, and against the backdrop of San Marco Piazza, it was a photographer's dream. Images from Florence and Tuscany are also included. These images were taken with a Nikon 35mm camera and then exposed onto the Polaroid films for Polaroid transfers and SX-70 manipulations. Prints are made with archival pigment inks on watercolor paper and canvas in limited editions of 40.
This gallery is the beginning of a Hawaii portfolio, and other images will be added later. Most of these images were taken with my SX-70 camera, and the remainder were photographed on slide film with a Nikon camera, except the dolphins--I used my underwater camera and black and white film, then handcolored the black and white print. Palm trees, tropical flowers, dolphins and hula are some of the subjects presented from the land of aloha. Prints are made with archival pigment inks on watercolor paper and canvas in limited editions of 40. Additional images of Hawaii are in the Polaroid Transfers and Polaroid Manipulations Galleries.
These black & white infrared images are my newest work. They are all photographed in Hawaii with a digital camera. For a long time I have been enchanted with the beauty of Hawaii--and the mystical and ethereal qualities of infrared imagery. The camera is capturing the invisible world found just beyond visible red in the near infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum, at 700-1200 nm (0.7-1.2 mu) wavelengths. Some of these photographs were taken on our Tropical Hideaway vacation rental property on the Big Island. Limited edition archival pigment prints on watercolor paper are available of these images in sizes up to 11x14 inches.


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Death by Sippy Cup DrawerJessie Knadler
See this drawer? This drawer is trying to kill me.
Welcome to my Sippy Cup Drawer: a black hole of plastic cups, super spout 2-handlers, insulated cups, thermoses equipped with pop up straws, cups emblazoned with Dora, Mickey, Cinderella (and probably a burrowed nest of baby gerbils, but I don't want to think about that), and for the life of me, I can't find a matching lid to go with any of them.
Is this a conspiracy? Are sippy cup makers trying to destroy parents of America with this protrusion of confusing lid and cup choices?
I would like to submit a request to the sippy cup manufacturers of America, or more likely China:
Can you please standardize cups and lids? I don't mind a wide variance in cup height and I place no restrictions on lid design — domed lids, nipple lids, lids that shoot confetti, I don't care — but every lid must match the width and threading of every cup. Sort of like what the plumbing and piping industries have done with parts. Or how the plug people got together with the electrical outlet folks for a company retreat and came back with a neat standardized system.
As it is, sippy cups and the drawers that contain them are just anarchy, blatant disregard for efficiency, order and my two year old's thirst. I'm about ready to take a flame thrower to the entire area except I'd probably cinge my pants and inhale a lot of toxic, cancer-causing fumes.
I've been on a campaign to purge my house of all the excess stuff but I'm half afraid of keeping the wrong lid with one sippy cup while tossing the lid of another. See? Pure anarchy. I'm also not wild about stumbling upon that baby gerbil's nest.
The solution is clear. Toss it all — June is moving up to glass.
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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word: The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Crack, and Methamphetamine
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February 7, 2011
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Kids will go nuts over these pocket-sized animals made with walnut shells. Display all four animals in shadow boxes for a cute look. This project comes to us from Heidi Borchers of Inspired at Home.
- 6" square of lightweight cardboard
- 3 whole walnuts
- 1 walnut half
- Acrylic paints: gray, green, light blue, orange, purple, white
- Paintbrushes
- Toothpicks
- Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue ™
- Scraps of felt: green, black, orange, pink, purple, white
- 1" diameter pom-poms: 1 gray, 2 white
- ¼" diameter pom-poms: 2 each white, pink
- 1 (3/4" diameter) green pom-pom
- 8 (1/8" diameter) black beads
- 6" (1/16" wide) lavender ribbon
- Scraps of white paper
- Colored pencils: orange, green
- Patterns
Transfer base pattern to cardboard and cut 3 (1 for each animal except turtle). Referring to photo, paint cardboard bases and walnuts; let dry. To complete turtle shell, paint flowers using toothpicks. Just dip end of toothpick into paint and dot on flowers. Let dry.
For each animal, glue cardboard base to rounded end of matching walnut. Referring to photo, glue 1" pom-pom to pointed end of matching walnut. For cat and bunny, glue 1 (1/4") pom-poms side by side to head to form cheeks. Let dry.
Transfer turtle pattern to green felt and cut out. Center and glue turtle shell to green felt turtle. Let dry. Glue ¾" pom-pom to turtle for head. Let dry.
Referring to photo for colors, transfer remaining patterns to felt and cut out. Glue felt pieces in place on matching animals. Let dry. Glue 2 beads to each head for eyes. Let dry. For bunny, tie ribbon in bow and glue in place. Transfer pattern for bunny teeth to paper scrap and cut out. Draw and color a carrot on scrap paper and cut out. Glue teeth and carrot to bunny. Let dry.
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thank you for sharing this.they're so cute!!
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These are too cute.
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I HAVE to make these! They're so cute!!
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In Deboshea, Haiti, a community of about one thousand people, funerals are common—approximately every twenty days another life ends. Often it is the life of a child. Aaron Green, former well driller for Hospital Albert Schweitzer, relates that eighty-five percent of these deaths are caused by contaminated water. Clean water would profoundly change the lives of the people of Deboshea. So, Jessica Jackson, an environmental engineering student at San Diego State University and an intern at Pountney Consulting Group, and Dr. Greg Loraine of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at S.D.S.U., designed a water treatment plant for this peasant village, conscious that it needed to be functional, robust, low-maintenance, and low-cost to the peasants.
In order for the design to be functional in Deboshea, it could have no reliance on electricity and should have few mechanical parts. This was accomplished by a combination of long-standing methods and modern technology. In imitation of nature, the water moves through the system due to gravity as sedimentation works to eliminate particulate matter along with a slow sand filter, which also eliminates up to ninety-nine percent of Giardia cysts and coliform bacteria in the water. A solar-powered hypochlorite generator coupled with a non-electric proportioning pump account for the innovations. The generator converts salt into hypochlorite bleach for disinfection. The proportioning pump adds the correct dosage of bleach to the water as it flows through the system to ensure disinfection. This combination of old and new results in a simple and effective treatment process.
Robustness was weaved into the design to create an enduring plant. The structures, constructed of concrete, are inherently durable for many decades. The hypochlorite generator and proportioning pump have minimum lifetimes of fifteen years. Should the generator or pump fail, minimal treatment can still be attained by the slow sand filters.
During this time, minimum simple maintenance will be required. The sedimentation tanks will need to be drained and cleaned out in regular intervals (for which a valve is provided). The slow sand filters are built in parallel so periodic maintenance will not disrupt water production. The slow sand filters are maintained by scraping off the top layer of sand and allowing the filter to condition for twenty-four hours. The hypochlorite generator requires salt and will need to have the electrodes soaked in vinegar weekly. Lastly, the effluent will need to be tested each day using paper test-strips to assure that the chlorine levels are safe.
In order to maintain the system, there will be some cost to the peasants, but it will be minimal, as most of the expense lies in the initial cost. The estimated cost for the needed salt, vinegar, and test-strips is less than one hundred dollars a year.
Through this functional and robust water treatment plant with minimum required care, up to 3,500 g.p.d. of water will be provided to sustain the people of Deboshea, Haiti. The design is presently complete and Ms. Jackson is in Haiti participating in the overseeing and construction of the plant.
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A search is on Tuesday for the vandals who defaced a memorial honoring the lives of two teens found dead along the Cady Way Trail.
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Sometimes the story is in the footnotes. In the most recent edition of the National Cancer Institute's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States: 1950-94, the last sentence fragment on the notes on multiple myeloma caught my attention. It was a sentence about the incidence of myeloma in "blacks, whose rates are much higher than those among whites for reasons that are unknown."
When I mentioned this fact to a myeloma patient from New Jersey more than a year ago, he was astounded. "You know," he said, "I've never met a black person with myeloma." And he had been diagnosed more than two years earlier and is active in myeloma support groups. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that he will meet black patients with myeloma sooner rather than later.
Black Americans are at highest risk among the general population to contract multiple myeloma. In a population where the average incidence of myeloma is 4/100,000, black males and females are diagnosed at a rate of 10.8 and 7.2 per 100,000, respectively. Among black males, myeloma is the ninth most prevalent cancer.
As Dr. Morie Gertz of the Mayo Clinic once pointed out to me, "according to the SEER (the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program) cancer statistics, the incidence of multiple myeloma in African Americans is higher than in whites and is rising faster. The mortality is also rising faster."
Among black males and females over 65, the incidence rates increase significantly. The myeloma incidence rate for black males over 65 is 73 per 100,000, as compared to 35 per 100,000 white males over 65. The corresponding numbers for black and white females over 65 are, respectively, 50 and 22 per 100,000. Similar differences in cancer incidence rates between various minority groups and the general population have been noted in other research studies and have led to action within NCI.
Last year, in a Senate hearing on minority cancer issues, an independent panel recommended "that NCI should give consideration to the magnitude of the cancer problem in different ethnic groups" and "coordinate an extensive program of re-search on cancer among ethnic minorities."
The panel also recommended replacing the four existing federal statistical racial categories used by NCI - White, Black, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Native American - with ones that put "a greater emphasis on the differences in cancer among ethnic groups, [and] determining the roles that diet, lifestyle, and customs play in varying rates of cancer."
In response to these recommendations, NCI launched a $60 million, five-year program "to address the unequal burden of cancer within certain special populations in the United States."
On April 6, 2000, NCI awarded 18 grants to address various cancer issues focusing on minority populations. Although none focus specifically on multiple myeloma, there should be great benefits to our understanding of some of the ethnic discrepancies of the disease.
For example, one study at the University of Alabama, Birmingham will study African-American populations in two rural areas and two urban areas in the south. Other grants will focus on issues such as cancer awareness and prevention in minority communities. All will study areas that have been traditionally neglected or rarely studied by researchers.
Since so little is known about multiple myeloma and since black Americans have the greatest risk to get the disease, this could be an important vehicle to learn more to benefit all patients. My hope is that researchers will be interested in these questions as they relate to myeloma and be drawn to the new opportunities for funding.
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Layoffs have dropped back to pre-recession levels and employers have slowly resumed hiring as the economy recovers from the worst recession since the 1930s.
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College Park, Md. - Any thought that Dartmouth had of pulling off an upset of the Maryland men's lacrosse team was lost early, as the fourth-ranked Terrapins dominated the Big Green, 14-2, Tuesday afternoon at Ludwig Field.
Maryland (5-1) scored seven goals in the first quarter to put the game out of reach in the first 15 minutes of play. What is even more impressive is that the Terps outshot the Big Green 15-0 in the quarter. The Maryland defense did not allow a Dartmouth shot until 6:56 in the second quarter and the Big Green did not get a shot on goal until 3:13 during an extra-man opportunity.
All-American midfielder Bill McGlone started the scoring parade with 12:18 remaining in the quarter off an assist from senior All-American Joe Walters. Sophomore middie Will Dalton scored his first goal of the season just over a minute later for a 2-0 Terp advantage.
Walters scored his first of four goals on the day at the 9:29 mark, but the most amazing score of the game came at 7:46 when sophomore defenseman Joe Cinosky caused a Dartmouth turnover in the Big Green's attack zone and raced the length of the field and fired a high shot past Dartmouth goalie Pat Marshall for his first collegiate goal.
Senior captain Xander Ritz scored the next two Terrapin goals with both coming off assists from younger brother Max. It appeared Maryland would take a 6-0 lead into the second quarter, but Walters fired a low shot with one second remaining that beat Marshall for the Terps' seventh goal of the period.
The second quarter was more of the same for Maryland as Walters scored twice more and assisted on goals by McGlone and Xander Ritz, who assisted both of Walters' goals in the period.
With an 11-0 lead at the half, the Terps were able to get their reserves some valuable playing time in the third and fourth quarters.
Junior midfielder Travis Holmes, who has primarily seen time as a defensive midfielder, scored his first goal of the season at the 2:23 mark of the third off an assist from freshman Danny Gallagher.
Gallagher followed up his first collegiate point with his first collegiate goal in the fourth quarter off an assist from junior Michael Phipps just 50 seconds into the period.
Dartmouth got on the board with a goal from Bread Heritage at the 6:28 mark, but Maryland responded with its first man-down goal of the season on freshman Scott Tompkins' first collegiate goal with an assist by sophomore midfielder Drew Evans.
The Big Green's Brian Koch closed out the scoring with 3:55 remaining with an unassisted goal.
One of the main reasons for Maryland's dominance was the performance of its face-off men. After winning just four of 16 face-offs last Saturday at UMBC, the Terps won 17 of 20 at the X, including 12 wins in 13 draws by senior David Tamberrino. Junior Thomas Alford had his best outing of the season facing-off, winning five of seven attempts.
Defensively for the Terps, it was another tremendous display of both individual and team defense. Junior All-American Steve Whittenberg, who shutout Nick Bonacci, Dartmouth's leading scorer, finished the game with two groundballs and one caused turnover. In addition to scoring a goal, Cinosky also caused three Big Green turnovers and picked up a groundball. The third member of Maryland's starting defense, All-American Ray Megill, also had an outstanding game with three caused turnovers and three groundballs.
Overall, Maryland's defense held the Big Green without a goal for 53:32 and shut them out for three quarters raising it season total of scoreless quarters to nine. The last time a Terrapin team gave up just two goals in a game was April 3, 2004, an 11-2 win over Virginia in College Park.
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Red Cross volunteers gave up part of their holiday time with family and friends during the last two weeks to help 40 victims of 11 house fires in Erie and Niagara counties.
The volunteers, officially known as the Disaster Action Team of the American Red Cross Serving Erie & Niagara Counties, aided the victims of residential fires in Buffalo, Tonawanda, Cheektowaga, Lackawanna, Amherst, Hamburg, Youngstown and Niagara Falls, agency spokesman Jay Bonafede said.
"Red Cross assistance typically includes vouchers for temporary housing, food and clothing, as well as providing emotional support for those displaced by the fire," Bonafede said. "The affected families then meet with caseworkers in the days following their respective disasters to work out a longer-term recovery plan."
The hundred or so current members of the local Disaster Action Team are all trained volunteers who respond to the scenes of local disasters when called – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Nationally, the American Red Cross responds to as many as 170 house fires a day, Bonafede said.
He said the local Red Cross agency spends on average just over $1,000 when responding to a house fire affecting a family of four.
The agency always is in need of more volunteers and donations. Anyone seeking more information about joining the Disaster Action Team can call 878-2140 or visit www.redcross.org/ny/buffalo/volunteer.
Financial donations to help families affected by house fires or other disasters can be made by visiting www.redcross.org, calling 1-800-REDCROSS or texting the word REDCROSS to 90999 to charge a donation to a cellphone bill.
Between Dec. 21 and Dec. 31, the local team members assisted families on Prospect Avenue, Eller Avenue, Dodge Street and Edison Avenue in Buffalo; Pyle Court in Tonawanda; Williamstown Court in Cheektowaga; Gates Avenue in Lackawanna; Margaret Road in Amherst; Pleasant Avenue in Hamburg; Pletcher Road in Youngstown; and Krull Parkway in Niagara Falls, Bonafede said.
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I'm apparently Public Enemy #1 in the Stump house. Clint ended up deleting his facebook account because of a status saying that this was the worst birthday ever and I will never celebrate another one again. Which is true. I want to forget that March 6 ever existed. He never told me why, but I think quite a few people asked him if we were divorcing. At this point, that would be a fucking godsend. I do not want to look him in the face anymore. He has decided that we aren't going to the casino as planned cause he "knows how I will be". I asked him how I would be and he wouldn't tell me. In the middle of the night, I accidentally rolled his direction and he literally pushed me back. I might have cried one tear and fell back to sleep. I'm considering sleeping on the couch tonight. Would be better than sharing the bed with him.
Aw Geo, wishing there was something we could do...
along the same thought process as Paula- IS there any way we can help? Offer you some form of acceptable emotional support? Do some research? I know you want to fix it and not hear pretty words.
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The ironic thing is that the person who befriended me last week, texted me wishing a happy birthday and we started talking about the events of yesterday. I was grateful to hear from him.
I hope today is a better day. Sorry for the crap storm. I hope it passes soon and your relationship survives. Money is a horrible wedge that tears us apart. Brad and I have experienced our own marital dischord lately because of money. Hopefully both of our relationships are stronger than the frustration and anger we feel when the financial waters get rocky. In the meantime, I hope a hug will help.
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I was talking with a friend of mine and he said tell your husband you love him. I can't right now. The way he's looking at me right now just kills me. I'm at his work then we are going to meet with the attorney.
While you're riding over to the lawyer's office, take his hand and tell him you love him. Look down at your lap or out the window while you say it if you can't say it to him face to face. It might break the ice enough to fix things.
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Well, to give a touch of perspective...
You're a man. You work hard to provide for your family like a man should. Shit goes wrong. You have to declare bankruptcy. You feel like a failure as a man, but you struggle through and think it is all going to work out. You are going to put $400 more towards it. You feel good as you are being a good man and taking care of problems and your family. You have a nice evening with your wife planned for her birthday. Suddenly, you find out that things are not taken care of, you are at risk of losing your house, basically you fail as a man. You feel like absolute shit. Luckily, it is your wife's birthday so maybe you can salvage one little part of being a man by taking care of your wife on this one day. Suddenly it is all over facebook how your wife has the worst birthday ever, never wants to celebrate another one, and basically her life if ruined. Suddenly the little hope you had left is gone. Now you are a public failure as a man and a husband. So yeah, he is probably not feeling great right now.
Not that you are either, but there is the dude's perspective. Telling him you love him will help more than you can imagine.
Geo, How is this your fault? It seems as if he is somehow blaming you. Is it just that you vented on FB?
That said, try to patch it up a little before you go to the attorney. Maybe you could apologize for the FB vent and tell him it will all work out even if you don't believe it.
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We just returned from a great trip on the Dawn to Bermuda from Boston. The cabin and food crews were very gracious throughout, the food was quite good overall (especially the NewYork strip steak at Cagney's), the entertainment by the Production Cast was superb (we especially were awed by the performance of the husband/wife acrobatic dancers in "Ocean's Apart"), the other entertainers throughout the ship were also good, and the entire on-board experience was very good. We did miss an adults only pool or hot tub area as in the afternoons especially the one pool and the four hot tubs around it were very full. In the mornings and evening though I often had the pool to myself and could do laps.
In Bermuda, we went twice to Snorkel Park (where admission ranges from $10 to nothing depending on when you go!) which is a small beach but quite good for snorkeling as there are a lot of fish around the reefs and the old fort foundation. I also took the excursion on a catamaran for snorkeling which also was good but I didn't see anything different there in terms of species than I saw in Snorkel Park. It was nice to sail around though to a different part of the island. We also went to Horseshoe Beach which is very different from Snprkel Park in that it is open ocean so has a lot of wave action.
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by Ross McDonald, an advisor at Stirling Mercantile Corporation - an independent, mid-market corporate finance boutique based in Vancouver, Canada. www.stirlingmercantile.com A company insight: Agrisoma Biosciences Inc.Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. is a small company with a big idea – designing new strains of crop varieties that are optimal for the production of biofuels. In practical terms, the technology aims to make biodiesel competitive with conventional diesel at the retail pump, even ignoring tax incentives. It does this through significantly increasing the oil output per crop acre, thereby materially lowering feedstock costs which represent over 80% of the total costs of refining biodiesel. Agrisoma offers one potential resolution to the food-vs-fuel debate, as its industrial feedstocks are fully compatible with conventional crop rotation strategies.
Through innovative, patented technology Agrisoma has succeeded in re-programming high performance oilseed crops to achieve increased yields of chemically superior oils that provide excellent feedstock for biodiesel production. Further, its patented 'Engineered Trait Loci' (ETL) technology reduces the time that it takes for the genetic enhancement of crops from over five years to just one year.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Agrisoma is a privately owned, venture capital backed, biotechnology company. Since its founding in 2001, the experienced agricultural biotechnology team at Agrisoma has used its patented ETL technology to create and test improved varieties of canola (a North American trademark for edible oil rapeseed, as produced in Europe) and soybean oilseeds. Canola and soy are two of the major feedstocks for North American biodiesel refiners. Investors include BDC Capital, JOV Investment Management and Chromos Molecular Systems Inc.
The oil from 'biofuel crops' is chemically superior, for biodiesel production, compared to oil from conventional food crops. "The perfect feedstock for biodiesel is one composed of 100% monounsaturated fatty acids," notes U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory reports. Agrisoma oilseeds contain over 80% monounsaturates with long chain monounsaturated fatty acids representing 50% of Agrisoma oil, making it a highly optimised fuel feedstock compared to the food oils that have been used in the past. The increase of monounsaturates and reduction of polyunsaturates creates oil with greater oxidative stability that will not clog filters and will have good cold weather performance, even at high blends.
"The renewable fuels began by using commodity food crops as a source of feedstocks. Food-grade corn, canola and soy are being used as feedstock for biofuel manufacture, which adds to the cost of biofuel and links food and nutrition to fuel. As the industry grows, dedicated biofuel crops will enable the energy industry to create its own value chain, independent of the food crop chain," explains Steven Fabijanski, President and CEO of Agrisoma.
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Agrisoma has strong IP assets. Its worldwide dominant patent portfolio protects its technology and technology applications in all plant species. Many current methods of gene transfer and delivery in crops are based on patents controlled by multinational organisations. However, Agrisoma has 'freedom to operate', stating that its technology can be successfully employed to avoid all major patents owned by plant transformation intellectual property roadblocks.
The company begins field trials for its new crop varieties in 2008 with the intention that seeds will be available to farmers in 2010. Expansion capital is being raised in 2008 and 2009 to complete field trials and launch commercial products.
Agrisoma advocates a need to 'break the cord' between food crops and biofuel production. Food crops should produce oil that promotes healthy eating, whereas biofuel crops should produce oils that power internal combustion engines. The optimal chemical attributes of food oils and fuel oils are markedly different, but both consumer needs can be satisfied through the design of multiple crop varieties.
The notion of genetic modification concerns some consumers and politicians. According to the industry body ISAAA (International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications), GM crops have gained worldwide acceptance, with over 114 million hectares (282 million acres) under production in 2007 by more than 12 million growers. Market research provider Cropnosis calculates that 2005 annual sales of GM crops exceeded $5 billion. In North America, popular crop varieties such as corn, soybean and canola are predominantly grown from genetically modified seeds. Even in Europe, where farming is highly political and the Common Agricultural Policy represents approximately 40% of EU spending, the law allows the import of GM-origin oil provided that it is intended for industrial use.
Will designed biofuel crops produce enough oil to completely replace petroleum diesel fuel? Never. But allocating an acceptable portion of crop acreage for biofuel purposes seems reasonable: and using biofuel crops, rather than food crops, to produce biodiesel seems smart. Together these measures could produce enough biodiesel to represent a meaningful alternative fuel source. Agrisoma aims to be the enabling technology to make this ambition a reality.
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The EPA has awarded 43 grants to teams of university students who will design technologies addressing sustainability challenges in the developed and developing world. The People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) competition asks students to design and build technologies that improve quality of life, promote economic development, and protect the environment.
The 2009-2010 competition begins in Phase I with the award of $10,000 grants to student teams who submit applications that focus on a wide range of categories, including water, energy, agriculture, built environment, materials and chemicals, and information technology.
After working on the project for eight months, the teams will bring their designs to the 6th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. At the Expo, the projects will be judged by a panel of judges selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Only a few will be awarded P3 Awards and Phase II grants up to $75,000 to further their designs, implement them in the field, or move them to the marketplace.
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Astor Place: The building that houses Starbucks has such interesting history (saw a bloody theater riot in 1849 at what was once the Astor Place Opera House; held a barber shop where mobster Albert Anastasia got slaughtered while sitting in his chair) that Lost City has decided to target "kudzu-like chains" around town and attempt to uncover their past incarnations. [Lost City] Chinatown: Dumpling House has reopened and the renovations include tables and chairs! [Eater] East Village: Bar Veloce is returning to the space it once occupied before transforming into now deceased Room 4 Dessert. [Eater] Tribeca: Harrison Tavern has already closed after a July opening. Clearly, offering ranch-chicken pizza did not bring in herds. [Grub Street] Upper East Side: Café Carlyle has added a D.J.-hosted soirée Thursday through Saturday from midnight to 3 a.m. to its cabaret-night repertoire, and a new cocktail menu comes from the mixologist at Bemelmans Bar. [Zagat] West Village: Pichet Ong is renaming his dessert bar P*ong & Batch at the end of the month when he'll be expanding the space to include a retail bakery. [Zagat] Williamsburg: Breakfast mecca egg (it's too cool to have a capital letter) deigns to open for dinner. [TONY]
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I once watched a video of a morbidly obese woman giving weight gain advice: "fry everything, cover it in sauces, and keep switching between salty and sweet so you can keep eating."
That really got to me. I now get very turned off now by many hyperpalatable foods, I don't associate it with paleo/primal. When I go out to eat I avoid sauces, cheeses, and too much food combining. I used to cheat with fried foods (like a fried shrimp in my sushi), but I avoid that completely now.
I think it helps immensely with digestion, bloating, and overall wellness. You're not tempted to eat more. I listened to a Chris Kresser podcast though and somewhere in it he's mentioned the research supports that low palatable foods are no more beneficial than moderately palatable foods. So sometimes you'll still catch me eating potato chips, but I wash it down with water and there's no flavoring...just salt. I don't overeat those kinds of things.
It's a weird balance. I try my best to pick foods that I feel are simpler and do not trigger any overeating symptoms, and I think it's a great tool. It keeps me on track.
Thanks for that WHS link. I liked the guy who had to ditch diet coke, although I wonder if removing diet coke would've been the ticket. I'm sure both helped. He explained he was ravenous after removing it. I have diet coke problems (weening off!) and that might explain some random hunger! DC is my final vice.
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The Erie region has received its first snowfall of the season.
Gerald Owens, a weather spotter for the National Weather Service, said he measured a trace of snow in Corry at 9 a.m. today before precipitation changed to a mixture of rain and snow.
A rain-snow mix was also seen this morning in other parts of southern Erie County, as well as in northern Crawford County.
The first snow that the National Weather Service measured at the Erie International Airport during the winter of 2011-2012 was on Nov. 10, 2011, when a trace fell, according to weather service data.
More snow could be seen this weekend, as slight chances are predicted for tonight through Sunday night. But little or no accumulation is expected, forecasters said.
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