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How deliciously perverse is Augusten Burroughs? In Magical Thinking, he describes a boat ride with "fat Americans" in Key West. Waiting to board, Burroughs is kicked by a tyke with a Hello Kitty backpack. "Stop that," he says evenly. "Don't kick." The little girl levels another blow, giggles and steps on his toe. Burroughs whispers, 'Kick me one more time... and once we get on the boat, I'll push your mother into the ocean, and she'll die. And then I'll hurt your daddy. And then I'll be your new daddy, and I'll take you home with me.'"
Part of Burroughs's charm is his ability to see the melodramatic possibilities in every moment, and to make harsh judgments about himself as well as others. The product of a harrowing childhood (in his 2002 memoir Running with Scissors he describes being sent to live in an Addams Family household with his mom's shrink), he gives pathos a comic spin: Of a toothless fan who smelled "like a gangrenous foot" he writes, "He gummed the words out, 'I wuved wur book.'" Adds Burroughs: "But then, look at me I'm an alcoholic, a 'survivor' of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult.... The only thing that separates me from the guy...is a book deal and some cologne." Of course this sort of thing isn't for everybody; darker than David Sedaris, Burroughs seems willing—even eager—to offend. But whether it's torturing his "evil troll" of a maid or having sex with a mortician, he extracts something funny from every shred of his own warped experience. Magical thinking indeed.
By Joyce Carol Oates
From its thunderous opening pages, Oates's 48th novel is as mesmerizing and turbulent as its Niagara Falls locale. In 1950 Ariah Erskine's husband flees their hotel after a disastrous wedding night and throws himself into the roiling waters. A stunned Ariah, accompanied by local lawyer Dirk Burnaby, keeps vigil until the body surfaces. Though she believes she has been damned by God, Ariah marries Dirk and has three children, and her past—and fear of being abandoned again—fade away. But when Dirk becomes obsessed with helping a desperate mother—one of the first victims of poisonous dumping at the infamous Love Canal—Ariah's unhinged jealousy turns her marriage as toxic as the chemicals leeching into Niagara's soil.
Long known for her gothic inclinations, Oates continues her unflinching look at the dark side. But she also infuses the narrative with unexpected subtlety. When the adult Burnaby children uncover corrosive family secrets 15 years later, this immensely satisfying novel doesn't deny them the hope of redemption.
By Miriam Toews
For a 16-year-old, living in a Mennonite community is like being grounded for eternity: Dancing, rock music, movies, makeup and cavorting after 9 p.m. are no-nos. Calling it the "most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager," the gently rebellious Nomi Nickel is left behind when her older sister and nonconformist mother flee the fictional town of East Village. Living with her loopy father, Ray, whose nocturnal hobby is reorganizing the town dump, Nomi experiments with rite-of-passage misdeeds (smoking dope, drinking alcohol, playing Led Zeppelin) that will guarantee her a spot in the Mennonite sector of hell. Offering incisive reflections on life, death and Lou Reed, the black-sheep Nomi is clearly wise beyond her years, and her voice is unique. The road to anywhere else may be rough for her, but her angst-ridden journey is unforgettable.
By Sophie Kinsella
In the fourth of Kinsella's bestselling Shopaholic tales, Becky Brandon returns to London from her 10-month honeymoon to discover Jess, a long-lost half sister and no-nonsense geologist who (gasp!) hates shopping. Besides trying to find common ground with her new sib, the well-meaning material girl also must cope with the fact that her honeymoon loot won't fit into her flat. If you understand how uplifting kitten heels with diamanté straps can be—and whipped happily through Kinsella's previous novels—this book's for you. If you prefer fiction with a bit of substance, though, save your money; this is ditzy, even for chick lit.
By Gloria Vanderbilt
The photo of the author on the cover of Vanderbilt's memoir reveals almost as much about her as the pages inside. No wonder so many illustrious men—Howard Hughes, Sidney Lumet, Frank Sinatra—were drawn to the gorgeous socialite-actress-fashion magnate! If the book seems a little weak on depth, it makes up for it with honesty and a frothy charm. Vanderbilt's tangled relationship with her bisexual mother, her son's suicide, her three marriages and many affairs—it's all here. You might want to skip her musings on the nature of fun, but it's hard not to pay attention when she writes about waiting for Marlon Brando to call after a one-night stand. This isn't meant to be a serious autobiography. Rather, it reads like zippy postcards from a colorful romantic journey.
People We Know, Horses They Love
In a new book by Today Show entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport and writer Wendy Wilkinson (with photos by Linda Solomon), 30 stars talk about their passion for all things equestrian.
I started riding at the age of 8.I was visiting my aunt's farm [in southern Brazil] during the summer, and one of the cowboys put me on a very tall gelding and hit him on the butt. When he finally stopped—no thanks to me—instead of being scared, I said, "I want to do it again!"
HILARY DUFF My family owns a ranch outside of Austin, and my parents used to put my older sister Haylie and me on the ponies when we were babies. We may have been just about able to sit up, but we knew we had to hold on tight. I think having a special animal in your life can help anyone learn to appreciate nature more. And a horse can become your best friend, just like a dog.
RICHARD GERE First horses are like your first girlfriend: You never forget. [My Appaloosa] is very athletic and very fast. We've taken good care of each other over the years. The first rides that [wife Carey Lowell] and I took were up here [New York] in the winter. Wonderful fresh snow on miles and miles of trails. She was fearless and I thought, "Man, this girl's for me."
Jon Stewart Want to reconnect with your smart-aleck high school self? Pick up America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, a new civics-text parody by Emmy winners Stewart and his writers on The Daily Show.
HOW DID THE BOOK COME ABOUT? We thought it would be a fun little project. But I think there's a reason why most TV shows' books are transcriptions of their best bits: because it's a giant pain in the ass to write one from scratch.
WHY A TEXTBOOK? It was a question of how do you get the sensibility of the show into paper form? The show has a sort of false authority, and so do textbooks. Pretension works beautifully in TV news, as well as in academia.
HOW DIFFICULT A PROJECT WAS THIS? Everybody worked very hard for a good nine months. During that time, we were able to completely ignore the show. That was the beauty of what we did: We sacrificed the quality and integrity of the program to do the book.
DID YOU EVER SEE YOUR FAMILIES? Occasionally, mostly because our families work at Kinko's. We would see them when we would bring things in to be printed. Yes, it was a relatively encompassing pursuit. What's the word I'm looking for...a drag. It was a drag.
IN YOUR TEXT, ITS'S CLEAR THAT YOU FAVOR ONE FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND THAT IT'S... Democracy, baby. As we point out in the chapter [outlining all other forms of government], whatever imperfections in our system, have you taken a gander at the rest of the world lately?
DESCRIBE YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE—THE RIGHT, THE LEFT, THE YOUTH OF AMERICA? People with $25.... This ain't government cheese.
THE BOMB IN MY GARDEN Subtitled The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind and cowritten by People contributor Kurt Pitzer and Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi, this is an insider's look at Iraq's quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
FINAL BEGINNINGS Written with People correspondent Natasha Stoynoff, this second novel from psychic and author John Edward is a supernatural thriller set in New York City.
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one who is in the continual state of having a stick up their ass; one who is such a tight ass as to have become the stick up others' asses; one who is exceptionally uptight, exacting, pretentious
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Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yank-these poking his ass like a pin cushion with performance-enhancing drugs.
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Ass rod; n. -A curse that happens if you work in Wendy's for too long. In theory, the ass-rod starts off rubbery, growing slowly in your intestine, feeding off of discount Wendy's grease/food. As time goes on, the rod becomes longer, straighter, more rigid, until it starts poking out your asshole. Men are more likely to develop Ass Rod than Women. Ass Rod can take years to grow from pupa to rod.
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I'm currently working toward my CPL and as one would imagine, I'm starting to look for job opportunities, not only in Canada, but around the world. Through this site, business articles, etc. I realized that India has a booming aviation industry, so I browsed Kingfisher Airlines' website.
Looking at their "Careers" page, I clicked to see the requirements for Co-pilot
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Another spelling of the Kurdish word Aryan.
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The Tiffin Drive-In Theater opened for business in July 1949. Monday, the Tiffin Chamber of Commerce conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the addition of a second screen at the drive-in, 4041 N. SR 53, Tiffin.
Rodney and Donna Saunders purchased the property in April and renamed it the Field of Dreams Drive-In Theater Tiffin. It opened for business May 27.
The theater has undergone many improvements since April and now sports a new movie screen. Rain earlier in the day did not postpone the celebration of its completion. The Saunders family was on hand for the occasion.
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Tiffin Chamber of Commerce members and owners of Field of Dreams Drive-In cut the ribbon to open a second screen Monday at the Tiffin theater.
"The day cleared up nicely, but it was very muddy around the new second screen. So, we did the 'festivities' at the concessions building," Donna Saunders said.
"Adding a second screen to this theater is essential to growth and ultimate success of this theater," Rodney Saunders said. "Two screens make it possible to show new, first-run movies every weekend. We will now offer four different movies every weekend, so we can meet the needs of more customer demand."
The Field of Dreams Drive-In Theater is open on the weekends with occasional special events during the week. For example, today the drive-in is to open its gates at 10:30 p.m. for a special "see-it-first" viewing of the new "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)."
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Movie listings for both screens are available online at www.fieldofdreamsdrivein.com, via a toll-free phone number, (877) 343-5334, or various smart phone applications.


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Friday night should have been a memorable game for Jesper Fast after scoring his first goal in North America in his first game with the Whale. Instead, Fast apparently sustained an injury in the third period and not only didn't return to that game (or salute the fans when named the 3rd star), according to Bob Crawford he didn't play in the Whale's 3-2 win last night because he's "banged up."
…hope it's not too serious. Never a good sign when a player can't come out to salute the fans after being named a star. Hopefully he was just receiving treatment and wasn't available for the curtain call.
…Fast has the talent to push for a roster spot on the Rangers next season, he just needs a better understanding of the North American game so any prolonged absence could set his development back.
Meanwhile, to last night's game, Chris Kreider had the primary assist on Brandon Segal's game winner against Rick DiPietro's Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals is shelling out more than $1.6 billion on a pair of acquisitions that will broaden its pipeline with one antibiotic approved two years ago, and another in late-stage clinical development.
Cubist said yesterday it will acquire Trius Therapeutics for $818 million, as well as acquire Optimer Pharmaceuticals for an additional $801 million, in separate deals. The deals were approved by the boards of all three companies, but require regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions before Cubist can close on its acquisitions.
In snapping up Trius, Cubist acquires the late-stage antibiotic candidate tedizolid phosphate (TR-701), as well as several preclinical antibiotic programs. Tedizolid phosphate is an IV and orally administered second-generation oxazolidinone for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI); as well as hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP), ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP), and other indications where Gram-positive pathogens are major contributors to infection, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Tedizolid phosphate met all primary and secondary endpoints in two Phase III clinical trials studying patients with ABSSSI. As a result, New Drug Application to market tedizolid phosphate for ABSSSI is expected to be submitted to FDA by year's end, while a Marketing Authorization Application will be submitted to the European Medicines Agency in the first half of 2014.
Trius shareholders will receive from Cubist $13.50 cash for each outstanding share, or approximately $707 million in all, plus one Contingent Value Right (CVR) entitling holders to receive up to an additional $2 cash per share payment tied to commercial sales milestones—including $1 per share if net sales of tedizolid in the U.S., Canada, and Europe are greater than or equal to $125 million in 2016; and up to an additional $1 per share, paid pro rata, for 2016 net sales between $125 million and $135 million.
"Trius is a tremendous strategic fit with Cubist that supports our Building Blocks of Growth long-range goals while extending our global leadership in the acute care environment," Cubist CEO Michael Bonney said in a statement. "We believe our extensive clinical, regulatory, and commercial experience in acute care will allow us to complement this team's work and maximize the potential for tedizolid while driving substantial near and long-term benefits for hospitals, patients, and shareholders alike."
Cubist yesterday also disclosed plans to acquire Optimer, which in July 2011 successfully launched Dificid® (fidaxomicin), the first antibacterial drug approved in more than 25 years to treat Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in adults 18 years old and older. In two Phase III clinical studies, a 200 mg, twice-daily dose of Dificid proved no worse than a 125 mg, 4x daily oral dose of vancomycin in clinical response at the end of 10 days of treatment, and was superior to vancomycin in sustained clinical response through 25 days beyond the end of treatment.
Cubist and Optimer have extended for one year an agreement where the companies agreed to co-promote Dificid to U.S. physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare institutions.
"Optimer is a natural fit for Cubist given our co-promotion of Dificid and focus on the acute care and hospital environments," Bonney said in the statement. "We are uniquely positioned to maximize Dificid's full potential for the benefits of patients, hospitals and our shareholders. We expect a very smooth transition, and we look forward to its contributions to creating shareholder value for many years to come."
Cubist will acquire all outstanding shares of Optimer common stock for $10.75 cash per share, or approximately $535 million overall. Optimer shareholders will also receive CVRs entitling them to additional one-time cash payments of up to $5 per share owned, tied to undisclosed net sales milestones for Dificid.
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Empathy, A Gift to Our Community of Parents of Children with Special NeedsEliana Tardio
To me, empathy means a willingness to understand other people's feelings without needing to have lived their experiences yourself.
Empathy is a gift, and at times a treasure, as is not always found easily in our communities.
I'm not the person I was ten years ago when the doctor informed me that I was expecting a child. I'm also no longer the mother who delivered that child, stuck between the joy of meeting the person who grew inside me for 9 months, and the uncertainty of not recognizing the extra chromosome that sabotaged what I wanted to fit into my perception of perfection.
In fact, I'm not even the same person I was yesterday! I could blame my constant transformation on my zodiac as I'm a Pisces and I'm supposed to always swim in different directions. Or I could blame my ADHD diagnosis for the sudden changes I have experienced through my life and for my never well-established perception about things. Instead, I like to believe that I'm still growing up, and that no matter how many mistakes I may make, I'm still evolving and learning and becoming something better every day.
I feel relieved to have all these feelings sailing the destiny of my life and the lives of my kids, since I myself have overcome a diagnosis. I look at them with joy. I freely enjoy their achievements and accomplishments. I accept their limitations and their challenges, and of course I accept my own, as well .
That doesn't make me better than anyone else, just more experienced, and with that experience has come the moral responsibility to be empathetic towards others who might not be as far along on their path as I am on mine.
Once in a while, we should all look back at the person we were years ago. Nine years ago, when my son was born, I was scared. Later, when my daughter was born and they told me she too had Down syndrome, I was angry.
I survived many of the same feelings that I recognized in other new families.
I doubted the possibility of my child attending a mainstream classroom. 1 of 4
Climbing the regular school bus for a typical day at school.
Many times, I doubted the possibility of him doing many things I once hoped for him to do. 2 of 4
Emir pretending he's a robot.
I tried to protect him from others. 3 of 4
Then, I learned that overprotecting is never the answer.
I didn�t want people to ask me about his diagnosis every day. 4 of 4
Then, I realized that my voice is the voice of my kids until they learn to speak up by themselves.
I didn't want to cry all the time. And yet, that's who I was then. And the last thing you need in those moments is judgment from others.
As an experienced parent of children with special needs, or part of the family, friend or community member, please never forget the importance of Empathy.
Many times people ask "How can I help?" For me, there is only one answer: BE EMPATHETIC.
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Green Mountain is up more than 800% since '08 on its revolutionary Keurig coffee machine. But the expiration of that patent in 2012 opened the doors to new competition, which is slowing the company's growth. Despite the threat, investors are happy to see it enter a new phase through the dividend and share buyback plan. Its profit per share will rise, which boosted the stock's value like a high-speed gondola on the Stowe slopes.
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Dr. Amy Ghiretti, PhD in Neuroscience
Dr. Aram Raissi, PhD in Neuroscience
and Deborah Rothbard, BS in Biology and Neuroscience
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Research in our laboratory seeks to bridge the gap between molecular and systems neuroscience by defining the genes that instruct neurons to establish and modify their synaptic connections and dendritic morphology. Neurons convey information by making synaptic connections onto other neurons, and receive information via synaptic inputs onto their dendritic arbor. Each type of neuron in the mammalian CNS has a distinctive dendritic arbor that is typically extensively branched, and this arbor influences the specific function of the neuron in part by instructing which synaptic connections it receives.
Another key aspect of neuronal circuit formation is achieving the proper balance of excitation and inhibition within the circuit. It is thought that this balance is required for normal cognitive development and function; disruptions to this balance can have pathological consequences for circuit function as demonstrated by the manifestation of devastating neurological impairments, including epilepsy (McNamara et al., 2006) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Fernandez and Garner, 2007; Rubenstein and Merzenich, 2003). There are two important obstacles to understanding the basic mechanisms underlying these types of developmental disorders: a lack of knowledge about which genes mediate experience-dependent construction of brain circuits, and a lack of ability to directly observe the influence of genes and experience on brain circuits in the living animal.Our research program aims to identify the function and examine the influence of genes and sensory experience on the development of neuronal circuits in living vertebrate animals. We pioneered an unbiased, forward genetic, RNAi-based screen in cultured primary neurons that revealed new genes which function to regulate synapse formation and dendritic morphology (Ghiretti and Paradis, 2011; Paradis et al., 2007).
Using this technique, our research uncovered a novel signaling mechanism that rapidly (within minutes) drives GABAergic synapse formation (Kuzirian et al., 2013). We also discovered that sensory experience concurrently activates signaling pathways that both promote and inhibit dendritic complexity (Ghiretti et al., 2014). Our work suggests that a key feature of structural plasticity is a balance of these opposing signals.
We are currently using gene knockdown and gene targeting approaches both in vitro and in vivo to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which genes of interest regulate synapse and dendrite development. In addition, in collaboration with the lab of Dr. Steve Van Hooser at Brandeis (https://sites.google.com/site/vanhooserlab/), we utilize 2-photon in vivo imaging to examine the function of specific genes in regulating activity-dependent changes in neuronal morphology in an intact cortical circuit.
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Mike Pawlawski was 31-of-47 for 289 yards and threw two touchdowns passes for the Demons in the first professional football game at Pac Bell Park.
Jose Cortez kicked a 25-yard field goal with less than four minutes to play to give the Xtreme a 13-12 lead, but the Demons marched down the field to grab the victory.
Brian Roberson caught 12 passes for 127 yards, but was nearly the goat when he fumbled the ball late in the game to set up Cortez's field goal.
Pawlawski's 32-yard scoring pass to Calvin Schexnayder early in the fourth quarter erased a 10-6 deficit.
San Francisco's Kevin Kaesviharn intercepted Tommy Maddox's pass at the San Francisco 3 to stop one Los Angeles threat, but Roberson fumbled three plays later.
Pawlawski's 3-yard pass to Vaughn Dunbar gave the Demons a 6-0 lead with 3:31 left in the first quarter. That touchdown was set up when Eric Englund recovered an Xtreme fumble. Terrance Joseph knocked the ball loose from Maddox's hands on a pass attempt.
Maniax 22, Bolts 20
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The football might not be scripted in the XFL, but that doesn't mean the made-for-TV league doesn't follow a formula.
There was football for the sports fan and scantily clad cheerleaders for the workaday guy Sunday as the Memphis Maniax beat the Birmingham Bolts 22-20 in the opening game for both teams.
Yeah, some profanity was broadcast over the Legion Field speakers. Players wore microphones on the field, and sometimes it really did sound like a locker room.
Memphis' Rashaan Salaam scored on runs of 39 and 1 yards, and Marcus Crandell threw a 49-yard touchdown pass to Daryl Hobbs. Jeff Hall added a 40-yard field goal.
But close your eyes and it was just like being at a World Wrestling Federation show - no surprise since the bawdy, in-your-face programming powerhouse owns the XFL jointly with NBC-TV.
The music was loud, the fireworks were bright, the players were intense, and the cheerleaders were dressed - mostly.
The football wasn't all that good, especially at the start. Birmingham had only 65 yards rushing, and a lot of those came on missed tackles by the Maniax.
Beer in hand, fan Tony Hale took in the whole show as he stood near a platform close to the cheerleaders.
"I knew what it was going to be like - I watch wrestling," said Hale. "But it's not wrestling. It's real football."
It was real enough that there was a made-for-TV quarterback controversy less than 20 minutes into the Bolts' season.
As Birmingham quarterback Casey Weldon struggled through a 10-of-21 first half, fans started chanting for backup Jay Barker, who led Alabama to the 1992 national championship.
As the boos mounted, the camera zoomed in on Barker standing on the sideline in a purple baseball cap. A cheer went up. So this is what Vince McMahon was talking about when he said XFL broadcasts would "tell the story" without cue cards.
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A cute, more loving way of saying mom. Usually used my younger children, but can be used by all. Most common with Indian children (from asia/ not native american)
"Mumma!! im hungry!! :)"
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Mumma in most Indian Citites , particularly in North India, means " Breast of a Female or Boobs
Os Da mumma bada Wada He Meaning she has big boobs
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the abilty for one to give oral pleasure to 2(or more) men by oscillating ones head back and forth between 2 penis's while simultaniously jerking off both men all while humming in a particularly despondent fashion
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a Mumma is a girl/guy with a somewhat pig like face, including a distorted nose and slight wrinkles that resemble a bulldog. a Mumma is also notorious for her/his unnatural ability to PMS every other day, so their actions are very unpridictable.
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The Federation included that and other notes on demand for holiday foodstuff in its monthly market basic survey (where prices were down 1 percent over a month ago).
Pricing on other holiday items, according to the federation's annual survey:
Turkey is a more economical choice for the centerpiece of the dinner table this year, with whole turkeys averaging $1.16 a pound, down 8 cents. Smoked hams were up 21 cents to $2.12 a pound.
Cranberry sauce was up 17 cents to $1.37 for a 16-ounce can.
Apples were up 37 cents to $1.53 a pound.
Oranges were down a penny to 85 cents a pound.
In the monthly survey, the average cost across Alabama of 20 basic market basket items fell for the second straight month. The cost was $57.63, down 57 cents from last month.
Savings on meat and poultry led the decline in grocery costs. Bacon was down 36 cents a pound to $5.23, Boston butts were down 8 cents to $2 a pound, and pork chops were down 6 cents to $3.53. Beef eaters enjoyed a 29-cent-per-pound break on T-bone steaks, which averaged $7.61 a pound. Ground beef was up 9 cents to $2.89 a pound, and chuck roasts were up 4 cents to $3.90 a pound.
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Destruction of Johnson C—the circular building—began on July 26. The bridge connecting the two Johnson buildings will take place next.
Ten-week Richter scholars presented their research results during a daylong symposium on July 22. Nineteen students worked on 13 projects in biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, education, English, music, and neuroscience. The four-week Richter Scholar Symposium was held in June.
The third consecutive plate race pitted teams of summer research students from different science departments, Richter scholars and the LFC-RFUMS Summer Scholars programs. Runners balanced a stack of petri dishes in a relay around the Middle Campus Quad in this highlight of the summer semester.
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Vehicle traffic continues to decline on Delaware River toll bridges, with 2012 on pace to be the lightest year in 17 years.
Traffic on the four spans operated by the Delaware River Port Authority - the Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman, Commodore Barry, and Betsy Ross Bridges - is down about 13 percent from its peak in 2007.
Steep toll increases have apparently played a role. Tolls have risen 67 percent on the DRPA bridges since September 2008, from $3 to the current $5 for autos. Traffic has declined every year since.
DRPA officials also blame a sluggish economy, high gasoline prices, and continuing bridge construction.


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Sunday September 25, 2016
Volume 24 Issue 34
|Garage in RP catches fire; damage estimated at $55,000
A garage in Rohnert Park caught fire late Sunday Night, and the estimated damage is around $55,000.
The blaze, which was reported on Alma Avenue at around 11:37 p.m., occurred at a vacant home. Firefighters from the Rohnert Park Dept. of Public Safety were joined by firefighters from Rancho Adobe Fire District and Rincon Valley. The fire, officials said, was under control within 25 minutes.
Officers who first arrived on the scene found a garage fully engulfed in flames, and the fire was spreading toward a home and a fence. The blaze remains under investigation.
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February 26, 2013
How many districts showed up?? And why is there no money in the coffers? Manage our resources and we will have more, better results.


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Kansas City police asked the public to help identify the man who robbed a Family Dollar store Tuesday afternoon.
Employees said the man came into the store at 1201 E. Meyer Blvd. about 1:30 p.m. He showed a gun to the clerk and took money from the register.
Police said the man is black, in his mid 20s, and wore a white T-shirt, dark pants and black glasses, Police released a surveillance image of him taken from a security camera.
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Former Davidson High School football standout Jimmie Ward was selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the 30th pick of the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft on Thursday night.
As a safety at Northern Illinois, Ward was a semifinalist for the 2013 Thorpe Award, which is presented annually to the nation's best defensive back. He made 95 tackles in 2013 to lead Northern Illinois in tackles for the second straight season. He led the Mid-American Conference with seven interceptions, including one he returned for a touchdown. A three-year starter, Ward was an All-MAC selection as a junior and a senior. He was a first-team All-American selection by Sports Illustrated and USA Today for the 2013 season.
Ward played in the 2014 Reese's Senior Bowl, where he was selected as the outstanding defensive back for the week of practices leading to the annual all-star game in Ward's hometown.
Ward missed the NFL Scouting Combine because of a foot injury. But at his pro day, he turned in a 4.47-second 40-yard dash and a 38-inch vertical jump.
Although a safety in college, Ward likely will start his NFL career as a nickel cornerback. Ward played all 14 games at safety for Northern Illinois as a senior, but he made 12 starts collegiately at cornerback. San Francisco's nickel position was filled by Carlos Rogers last season, but the 49ers released the former Auburn star in March, and he signed with the Oakland Raiders. Tarell Brown, another starting cornerback for San Francisco last season, also signed with the Raiders during the offseason.
The selection of Ward by the 49ers and C.J. Mosley by the Baltimore Ravens with the 17th pick put two former Coastal Alabama prep stars in the first round for the second time in the draft's 79-year history. Mosley, an Alabama linebacker, played at Theodore. In 2011, the Atlanta Falcons took Julio Jones of Foley at No. 6 and the Detroit Lions chose Nick Fairley of Williamson at No. 13.


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Please see information below from ODOT regarding local traffic patterns during The Honda Indy 200 August 2-4 race weekend:
In Morrow County
The following work is planned in the Morrow County area on the specified dates and times. All work is weather dependent; it may be postponed or cancelled without prior notice.
Interstate 71– (NEW) I-71north will be reduced to one lane between SR-61 and SR-95 from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. for barrier wall removal and road work.
Interstate 71– (NEW) I-71south will be reduced to one lane between SR-61 and SR-36/37 from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. for road work.
UPDATE Interstate 71– (NEW) I-71 north will be reduced to one lane at SR-61 from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for pavement work.
Interstate 71– (NEW) The entrance ramp from SR-61 to I-71 south and exit ramp from I-71 south to SR-61 will close beginning at 10 p.m. for four hours for pavement work. The detour is SR-61 to I-71 north to SR-95 to I-71 south. All ramps will open by 2 a.m.


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SALT LAKE CITY - American Stores Co. here reported increased sales and earnings for the fourth quarter ended Jan. 29. The company also posted decreased sales and increased earnings for the year. Net income rose 19% for the year and 7.3% for the quarter, while sales fell 1.5% for the year to $18.8 billion and rose 0.4% for the quarter to $4.9 billion. Same-store sales fell 0.4% for the year and 1% for the quarter. Fourth-quarter earnings were impacted by nonrecurring items totaling $11.1 ...
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Christians across the globe are fighting back against gender-based violence.
The World Council of Churches and the United Kingdom-based Tearfund are among the groups taking part in the United Nation's "Silent No More" campaign.
In the African nation of Malawi, the campaign is recruiting church leaders. Pastors not only speak out against injustice in their pulpits, they're also trained as counselors to help victims overcome an attack.
A resource kit includes Bible studies, videos, suggested prayers, and activities to facilitate healing.
Theresa Malila launched the "Silent No More" program in Malawi. She says many of the victims are between the ages of 2 and 13 years old.
"When I see the children that are being raped, the age groups, I can't live with that. I go to bed and I ask myself, "Does God see this? Does God see the suffering, does God see the pain of these children?'" Malila said.
"Because God is all seeing, He sees the perpetrators. And I have a battle within me," she continued. "And I know that God has raised us up, that God has raised me. I am going to speak out and I will not be silent and I am going to raise an army that will speak out and not be silent."
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3 Myths of Hot Yoga: It Feels Good, But is it Good For You?
Last beautiful Sunday morning I went to a hot yoga class at Tula West, a very relaxed studio in Toronto's West End. I know that hot yoga is nothing new but I've only done it a few times and every time, I leave feeling renewed and very, very sweaty. Yummy feeling. Yes I'm good at sweating and proud of it. I am one of those people that loves steam rooms and saunas. Sweating makes my skin feel healthy and cleansed. I also love hot weather and could live in flips flops and shorts year round. So hot yoga is a good fit for me.
By far, most popular brand of hot yoga is Bikram. Founded by Bikram Choudhury a few decades ago, he is credited for starting the now pervasive hot yoga trend. Mr. Choudhury started cracking down on the use of his trademarked name thus forcing many hot yoga practitioners to switch over to a more generic description, AKA hot yoga or join a spin-off, Moksha yoga, unless they were certified through him and paid him to use the name.
Hot Yoga Myth #1: All That Sweating Makes You Burn Fat
Many people gravitate towards hot yoga because they think sweat = fat loss, however sweating alone won't cause fat loss. It's what you do to make yourself sweat that will cause fat loss, burning calories through physical effort. It would be like saying that sitting in a sauna will make you burn fat. Hot yoga will leave you lighter after class but that's due to a loss of water.
TIP: Abs are made in the kitchen so if you want to lose fat, clean up your eating.
Hot Yoga Myth #2: All The Heat Helps Your Body Stretch Further
Then why is hot yoga special you ask? Choudhury claims that the series of postures performed in a hot humid room provide for new oxygenated blood rejuvenating the body.
Like most yoga practice, the postures are designed to stretch and strengthen the entire body. When warm, your muscles can generally stretch further into postures. But herein lies part of the controversy. Sometimes being in a hot room can provide a false sense of flexibility and people stretch too far and potentially get injured.
TIP: Yoga isn't about being macho and pushing yourself. It's about starting exactly where you are at and forgetting about competing with yourself or anyone else. Be patient and listen for signals that you might be overdoing it.
Hot Yoga Myth #3 All That Dizziness Comes From Your Body Detoxifying
Choudhury also claims that many of the postures massage the lymphatic system and aid in lymphatic drainage, assisting to eliminate infection, bacteria, and toxins. Our skin is one of our best detoxifying organs, so sweating will certainly help cleanse our bodies. But be warned! Many hot yoga practitioners also believe that the dizziness people can feel are actually toxins leaving the body when what they are actually feeling is dehydration. You can become dangerously dehydrated in a matter of minutes. In my books, being dizzy while exercising is never a good thing. Many people suffer serious injury due to injuries from falling.
TIP: Arrive hydrated and stay hydrated throughout class. Don't wait for the instructor to give you permission to drink water!
If you have a sensitivity to heat, ever had heat stroke or get dizzy easily or dehydrated quickly, have high or low blood pressure or heart disease talk to your doc before trying hot yoga.
Be prepared for the Bikram devotees who show up in basically nothing (men in speedos and women in bra tops and short shorts). They can test your commitment to staying focused despite distractions around you. Enjoy!
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With hundreds of companies having already reported quarterly results, we're now in the heart of earnings season. The key to making smart investment decisions with stocks releasing their quarterly reports is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed knee-jerk reaction to news that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.
Let's turn to Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) . The holiday quarter is always an important time for retailers, but with the company's dual focus that includes a substantial presence in the budding cloud-computing realm, its namesake website's financials will only be part of Amazon's story. Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Amazon.com over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its quarterly report on Tuesday.
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Earnings Beats in Past 4 Quarters
Will Amazon.com keep heading into the clouds?
Analysts have been lukewarm in their earnings expectations for Amazon over the past three months, pushing down their EPS estimates by $0.04. But the stock has raced higher, hitting all-time highs and gaining well over 25% since late October.
Amazon has always been more about long-term success than short-term performance, and nothing's different about this quarter than in the past. As interesting as it is to focus on how many Kindles the company has sold and how much it's spending to provide customer service, Amazon has made it abundantly clear that it's not interested in current profit. Rather, it's fighting Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB ) attempts to set up an exclusive ecosystem that can capture users to meet all their needs. However, given Amazon's reach in retail, cloud computing, and other high-demand services, it already has a lot of what Facebook and other rivals can only wish they had: a tried-and-true vehicle for monetization.
On the streaming video front, Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX ) huge earnings announcement last week shows the advantage of having valuable content. Amazon expects to develop its own original content later this year, following Netflix's production of House of Cards. It's trying to circumvent at least in part the need to pay third-party content producers huge amounts for streaming rights.
Amazon has its skeptics. With razor-thin profit margins and falling free cash flow, the company doesn't resemble many of its high-growth peers. After having so much time focusing on gaining market share in revenue at all costs, Amazon will eventually have to figure out how to make bigger profits from its innovations if it wants to satisfy investors.
Shareholders need to remember that for Amazon, earnings have never been as important as revenue growth and future prospects. At some point, that may change, but for now, guidance is far more important than whether the company manages to beat its relatively insignificant earnings at the end of 2012.
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Though he trails top vote-getter Kobe Bryant by a substantial margin, New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul ranks second among Western Conference guards in the first NBA All-Star voting numbers released by the league on Thursday.
Paul, a three-time All-Star has 386,649 votes, well behind Bryant, who leads all vote getters in both conferences with 722,682.
Hornets center Emeka Okafor is currently fourth in the voting at his position with 115,647 votes, trailing leader Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets who has 430,984.
New Orleans forwards Trevor Ariza and David West, who are also on the All-Star ballot, do not rank among the top 10 in the first figures.
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Quote:I found for me that the best way to do a good axe kick is to be really warmed up. Do about 50 jumping jacks, 100 squats, and jog for 10 mins. Then go into the side split(american split) position and hold it for at least one minute on each side.
Quote:i don't really like axe kicks, too slow, to easy to miss and they leave you to vunerable.
Quote: with good training an axe kick can be quick. its a kick that u usually should use after u have executed another technique... otherwise it can be easy to read... I agree and disagree on that.An neryo-chagi is a very fast kick and it is also a good kick for attacking, not only in defence.
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There's something almost hypnotic about watching the UFC's flyweights in action. When the very best 125-pounders let fists fly, flitting around an iconic structure that suddenly seems enormous compared to the fighters within, there's nothing in the world quite like it.
Watching John Dodson fight Demetrious Johnson is perhaps the closest you'll get to seeing cobra versus mongoose in human form. The speed and skill on display are like nothing else we've ever seen in the cage.
Unfortunately, it's been two years since the UFC debuted its most recent male weight class in Sydney, Australia, and the results have been a decidedly mixed bag for the promotion. Artistically, the fights are critical hits. But at the box office, where real-world decisions are made, the sport's smallest fighters have failed to ignite interest among casual fans.
At the very top of the division where Johnson reigns, the fighters are as good as any in the sport. But on the margins, the little guys haven't been around long enough to sort the wheat from the chaff. Most of the UFC's divisions have a decade or more of history to draw upon, making it easier to gauge a fighter's relative level. With the flyweights, a bit of guesswork is involved.
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Jay Kramer, a Mitt Romney campaign supporter from Washington, D.C., filed a challenge on Friday to keep Libertarian candidate for President, Gov. Gary Johnson, from appearing on the Iowa ballot in November. The Romney campaign hired the Des Moines-based Nyemaster Goode PC for the challenge, which will be heard by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz on Monday at 3 p.m.
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NASA's newest Martian rover Curiosity has landed successfully on Mars, touching down at exactly 1:31am eastern time after traveling 354 million miles. The MSL cruise craft and EDL landing team controlling the operation are located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena, California. The rover landed inside Gale Creater as planned and within feet of the targeted location near Mount Sharp.
Image Below: Flight trajectory information of rover capsule approaching Mars landing site
The decent was monitored with communications from the rover decent capsule relayed through the Odessey satellite that is already circling Mars. In the graphic image below the final decent controler has been separated.
Curiosity cost $2.5 billion and is the most expensive Mars landing project in NASA's history.
Trajectory and landing Image from NASA of Rover about to land.
Animated depiction of the final landing stage:
The first image sent from Curioisty back to earth. View: Camera is facing down at one of the 6 wheels of the rover.
The Curiosity Rover team celebrate at NASA's JPL after successfully landing the rover and receiving confirmation and full communications.
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden commented as the events unfolded saying "absolutely incredible, it doesn't get any better than this, I was on pins and needles. I know we're on the ground, we just don't know what kind of shape were in."
He added "its a huge day for our nation,... and for the American people".
The United States is the only nation to have landed anything on another planet.
White House Office of Science and Technology Director John Holden said "its an exciting time for the nation and for space exploration" in remarks at the JPL just after Curiosity touched down.
After considering hundreds of landing sites using high-resolution images taken by orbiting satellites, Gale Crater's Mount Sharp was selected. Mount Sharp is the central mound inside of the crater and consists of sediment layers over 3 miles high, taller than the rim of the crater itself.
Curiosity is on a two year mission on Mars in search of where the water believed to have existed on Mars went, improved geological understandings of the planet and how Mount Sharp came to exist, since nothing on earth is like that.
MISSION FACT SHEET: (Source: NASA)
Landing site: 4.5 degrees south latitude, 137.4 degrees east longitude, inside Gale Crater.
One-way radio transit time, Mars to Earth, on Aug. 6, 2012: 13.8 minutes.
Expected near-surface atmospheric temperatures at landing site during primary mission: minus 130 F to 32 F.
Rover dimensions: Length: 9 feet, 10 inches (not counting arm); width: 9 feet, 1 inch; height at top of mast: 7 feet; arm length: 7 feet; wheel diameter: 20 inches.
Science payload: 165 pounds in 10 instruments: Alpha Particle X-ray spectrometer, Chemistry and Camera, Chemistry and Mineralogy, Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, Mars Descent imager, Mars Hand Lens imager, Mast Camera, radiation Assessment Detector, rover environmental Monitoring station, and sample Analysis at Mars.
Launch Vehicle
Type: Atlas V 541 Height with payload: 191 feet.
Mass, fully fueled, with spacecraft on top: 1.17 million pounds.
One of five planets known to ancients; Mars was the roman god of war, agriculture and the state.
Average diameter 4,212 miles; about half the size of earth, but twice the size of earth's moon.
Atmosphere composed chiefly of carbon dioxide (95.3 percent), nitrogen (2.7 percent) and argon (1.6 percent).
surface winds of 0 to about 20 miles per hour (0 to about 9 meters per second), with gusts of about 90 miles per hour.
Highest point is Olympus Mons, a huge shield vol- cano about 16 miles high and 370 miles across; has about the same area as Arizona.
Canyon system of Valles Marineris is largest and deepest known in solar system; extends more than 2,500 miles and has 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 kilometers) relief from floors to tops of sur- rounding plateaus.


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Over the past 60 days, ShopVisible conducted research spanning 23,000 web and mobile transactions in order to "decipher some of the code to unlocking the potential of mobile commerce." ShopVisible found that in thousands of mobile transactions, 67% of customers used PayPal or an alternative payment method while only 33% chose to pay by credit card. In web-only transactions over the same period, the results were reversed: 62% of buyers choosing to pay by credit card, 12.9% by Amazon Payments, 8.1% by Google Checkout, and just 16.8% with PayPal.
ShopVisible said its study reveals that alternative payments overcome part of the barrier to unlocking mobile commerce, which is projected at $31 billion by 2016 according to Forrester Research.
Sean Cook, CEO of ShopVisible and author of Evolving Commerce, set for release in July 2012, said, "Lacking a simple alternative payment method could crush any retailer implementing a mobile commerce strategy. Even if alternative payment methods don't constitute a large percentage of your existing web business, you should reconsider the relative importance when it comes to your mobile strategy."
ShopVisible released the data at the Internet Retailer conference on Wednesday.
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I would tend towards link exchanges if I had to make a choice, but would certainly be looking to reinforce the link campaign with a much stronger portfolio of links.
Article submissions aren't all that useful - no point in having content duplicated dozens of times - you really think search engines are going to "value" such pages (and the links on them)? Same goes for press releases.
They have some value if someone picks up on the article / PR and talks about it elsewhere, but other than that...