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Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 7, 2013 – Rice growers in 13 Arkansas counties who agree to install pilot conservation practices under the Conservation Innovation Grant – Greenhouse Gas (CIG-GHG) program have until Feb. 15, 2013, to submit applications to receive financial assistance to implement conservation practices.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in partnership with Winrock International, has received funding for the Demonstrating GHG Emission Reductions in Rice Production CIG project. The funding is available for rice growers in Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Desha, Drew, Greene, Jefferson, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe, Poinsett, and Prairie counties. Applicants can sign up at their local U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service field service center.
Funding will be available to eligible landowners through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). NRCS will provide technical and financial assistance for a variety of conservation practices for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with rice production. Land and producer eligibility, adjusted gross income, and all other program criteria for participation must be met to participate in this initiative. Agricultural lands are eligible for enrollment in the initiative.
The main focus for this project is to implement cost-effective projects, field-test GHG-reducing practices and produce user-friendly technology to help grower's access carbon markets. Results will be used to guide USDA policy and programs to improve incentives that encourage the voluntary adoption of conservation practices. All the practices to be piloted are designed to produce multiple benefits for rice growers including more efficient water management, reduced diesel use and more.
Additional information about the CIG-GHG project, area maps and conservation practices, is available at http://www.ar.usda.gov/programs.
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Wilfrid Laurier University is seeking proposals for its inaugural integrated and engaged learning conference May 7-9, 2014 on the universitys Waterloo campus: Integrated and Engaged Learning 2014: Exploring Partnerships in Teaching and Learning.
The conference will bring together the various partners both within postsecondary institutions and in their external communities involved in providing an educational experience that engages students deeply in their learning.
The means for producing deep and authentic learning are diverse, ranging from flipped classrooms to community placements. The conference will showcase these high-impact practices as well as provide a forum for examining the successes and challenges of the integrated and engaged approach to learning.
Proposals for workshops, information sessions, panel discussions and poster presentations are welcome, and should be submitted no later than 6 p.m. on Feb. 23. Organizers are interested in proposals that address the conference theme on both a curricular and co-curricular basis.
Conference details, keynote presenters, concurrent session information and proposal procedures are available online at wlu.ca/teachingandlearning/ielc.
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The Conference of Parties (COP), at is fourth session, decided to review the Financial Mechanism of the
Convention every four years in accordance with Article 11.4 of the Convention. The annex to decision 3/CP.4 (153 kB)
containing the guidelines states that the objective of the review of the Financial Mechanism is to take
appropriate measures regarding:
(a) Its conformity with the provisions of Article 11 of the Convention;
(b) Its conformity with the guidance of the COP;
(c) The effectiveness of the activities it funds in implementing the Convention;
(d) Its effectiveness in providing financial resources on a grant or concessional basis, including for the
transfer of technology, for the implementation of the Convention's objective on the basis of the guidance
provided by the COP; and
(e) Its effectiveness in providing resources to developing country Parties under Article 4.3 of the
The additional elements of the guidelines including the objectives were added by decision 6/CP.13.
Four reviews of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention have been conducted in the past, with the most
recent review completed at COP 16.
In accordance with decision 8/CP.19, the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) provided expert input to the
fifth review of the Financial Mechanism with a view of the review being finalized by Parties at COP 20.
The SCF prepared a
technical paper on the fifth review (1085 kB) and included the executive summary of the
technical paper in its report to COP 20 for consideration by the COP.
At COP 20, Parties concluded the fifth review of the Financial Mechanism and endorsed the expert input by the
SCF, which the COP agreed to annex to the decision on the fifth review of the Financial Mechanism.
Parties also decided on a concrete timeline for the sixth review of the Financial Mechanism. In this regard,
Parties agreed to initiate the sixth review of the Financial Mechanism at COP 22 and requested the SCF to
provide expert input to the sixth review of the Financial Mechanism in 2017 with a view to the review being
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"Show me the records!"
Governor Mitt Romney has turned the tables on Newt Gingrich:
TAMPA – A combative Mitt Romney on Monday broadened his call for Newt Gingrich to release records from his work as a consultant, speculating that those documents and records from the ethics investigation that led Gingrich to resign from the House of Representatives could show "potentially wrongful activity of some kind."
"We could see an October surprise a day from Newt Gingrich," Romney told reporters at a media availability here. "And so let's see the records from the ethics investigation, let's see what they show. Let's see who his clients were at the time he was lobbying Republican congressmen for Medicare Part D.
"Was he working or were his entities working with any health-care companies that could've benefited from that? That could represent not just evidence of lobbying but potentially wrongful activity of some kind."
"He said in a debate, actually, that people who profited from the failed model of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ought to give back their money," Romney said. "Well, the speaker made $1.7 million in his enterprises from providing services to Freddie Mac. He ought to give it back."
Here's what Gingrich claims:
Gingrich repeatedly has said that he never lobbied lawmakers on behalf of Freddie Mac and health-care companies, saying he was paid for his services as a consultant and historian.
"I was not a lobbyist, I was never a lobbyist, I never did any lobbying. Don't try to mix these things up. That fact is I was an adviser strategically," he said Sunday on "Meet the Press."
Earlier today Governor Tim Pawlenty and Florida House of Reps Speaker Designate Will Weatherford held a press conference call on Gingrich's work as a "historian" for Freddie Mac. Pawlenty sums it up: "The notion that he was paid $1.7 million as a historian for Freddie Mac is just B.S. Newt Gingrich has represented hundreds of clients and interest groups in Washington, D.C., since he left the speakership. To say that he wasn't a lobbyist is incredible hair-splitting."
Romney hit Gingrich on his "highly eratic" style of leading:
He noted that Gingrich voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, yet now says the department should be eliminated and its authority sent to the states. And Romney said Gingrich is "opposed vehemently" to the Massachusetts health-care system "and yet just a couple of years ago wrote about what a superb system it was."
"He's gone from pillar to post almost like a pinball machine, from item to item in a way which is highly erratic and does not suggest a stable, thoughtful course which is normally associated with leadership," Romney said.
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"By the way, saying that Newt Gingrich is a lobbyist is just a matter of fact. He indicates that he doesn't fall within the narrow definition of lobbyists that he might have in mind. But if you're working for a company, getting paid for a company through one of your many entities and then you're speaking with Congressmen in a way that would help that company, that's lobbying. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." ~ Mitt Romney


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The Individual Investor's Guide to the Top Mutual Funds 2013
This year's Top Funds Guide is published on the heels of a good year for mutual funds. Mutual fund assets totaled $12.872 trillion as of November 30, 2012, versus $11.627 trillion on December 31, 2011, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).
Credit the performance of the markets, domestic and foreign, for this increase. Many stock funds achieved double-digit returns in 2012, as did funds focused on long-term bonds, high-yield bonds and convertible bonds.
In this article
- How to Use This Guide
- Which Funds Were Included
- A Key to Terms and Statistics
- Performance Tables
- More on Mutual Funds
- Category & Style Definitions
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The increase in assets under management may have been even larger had investors not pulled money out of stock funds. Domestic stock funds experienced weekly outflows 47 times during the period of January 4, 2012, to January 2, 2013, according to the ICI's estimate of weekly mutual fund flows. In other words, there were only six weeks last year when domestic stock funds saw an estimated inflow of cash from investors.
One area where investors did put their investment dollars was target date funds. These funds are designed to adjust their portfolio allocations as the target date (e.g., 2015) approaches. Their popularity has been boosted by automatic enrollment and default allocation policies used by 401(k) and similar employer- sponsored retirement plans. Many investors are also choosing target date funds because of the allure of an "all-in-one" approach to portfolio allocation.
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Peter Chang from CA posted over 3 years ago:
I am a very new beginner of this. I just do not know how and where to start. Can you guide me?
Jack Salazar from CA posted over 3 years ago:
The world of investing can be very intimidating, so use caution.
Start with Beginner's courses here on AAII:
At the very bottom, is how to start.
And as a beginner, you should start with small purchases to get a feel for it, and do not go "whole hog" with your money, lest you lose a substantial portion of it.
Lynda Smith from NY posted over 3 years ago:
a young investor will benefit from using "dollar cost averaging"
By investing a monthly amount you average the highs and lows of the market. You are able to have the funds deducted automatically from your bank.
Richard Chapman from CO posted over 3 years ago:
Start first, learn later. Pick any one of the first 25 funds in Table 3 and open an account, adding to it monthly. Next, study the fund you've chosen: what it says, what it holds, how it works. Use that information to pick a second fund that behaves differently, maybe in another sector, maybe another style. Whatever you do, don't get bogged down in thinking too hard. Action speaks louder. You need to get in the game, not sit on the sideline. So act!
Paul Staab from NY posted over 3 years ago:
File names don't match performance tables 3,4 and 5 above.
J Traeger from CA posted over 3 years ago:
Table I - Performance of Index Benchmarks - How is "Total Risk Index" calculated? What is the baseline?
Jean from IL posted over 3 years ago:
As defined above in A Key to Terms and Statistics: The Total Risk Index is the standard deviation of a fund [or an index] return divided by the average standard deviation of return for all funds. Standard deviation is a measure of return volatility and is computed using monthly returns for the last three years. A value of 1.00 denotes average risk. Values above 1.00 indicate greater risk than average while values below 1.00 indicate less risk than average.
-Jean at AAII
Dewaine Osman from NJ posted over 3 years ago:
Some of your pages don't have the left side. They are missing. Page 11 is an example
R Walker from AL posted over 3 years ago:
Do the 3, 5, and 10 Year Annual Return % include reinvestment of dividends, if any?


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Kristen Stewart Wears A Sexy See-Through Lace Outfit To The London 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Premiere
Kristen Stewart showed off lots of skin at the Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square Wednesday evening for the British premiere of Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the final film in the Twilight series. During Monday night's world premiere of the film in Los Angeles the actress opted for something a little more modest, yet still a bit daring, when she wore a see-through strapless gold dress.
But on Wednesday she went for full-on sexy, wearing a sparkly black lace bodysuit with an open back that left little to the imagination. Both dresses were from Zuhair Murad's fall/winter "Skin Flowers" collection.
Is she looking to land the lead in the screen adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey?
During Monday night's premiere, where she walked the red carpet with Robert Pattinson for the first time since her cheating scandal this summer (the two were spotted together at the London premiere also), Kristen revealed that she's going to miss promoting the films.
"Every time we come back to do anything for these movies, it's always the same feeling," she tells People.com. "It's what we're going to miss. It's that excitement. You don't ever get to share movies on such a vast [level]. I have something in common with every single one of these people here, which doesn't happen. It's pretty cool."
"Breaking Dawn - Part 2" opens in theaters Friday, Nov. 16.
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University of Maryland (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia)
Utilizing Conservation Tillage to Minimize Nutrient Losses from Poultry Litter Applied in Grain Production Systems
Most poultry litter is applied as fertilizer to cropland following nitrogen (N)-based nutrient management recommendations. Under N-based planning, rates for manure applications are typically based on the N requirement of the crops to be grown and the plant-available N content of the manure. A recent economic analysis confirmed that application of broiler litter as a fertilizer to cropland is the highest value use of the litter generated on the Delmarva Peninsula. The amount of phosphorous (P) applied with the manure usually has not been considered when determining recommended application rates. In these situations, soil P concentrations can increase rapidly. Recent research that examined phosphorous in manure-amended Atlantic Coastal Plain soils suggest that the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are more vulnerable to receiving excess P from surface runoff than from P leaching. This same research concluded that the primary focus of P management efforts should be minimizing loss through surface runoff pathways coupled with monitoring the degree of P saturation of surface soils. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that currently existing conservation tillage technology can be successfully used to partially incorporate poultry litter in reduced tillage grain production systems, preserving surface residue and soil conservation conditions, while reducing N and P losses compared to no-till production systems. This nutrient management approach will be demonstrated and evaluated on 10-12 farms across the Delmarva Peninsula.
Penn State University (Maryland, Pennsylvania)
Controlling Odor and Nutrient Losses to Surface Runoff, Groundwater and Air with New and Conventional Manure Injection Technologies on No-Till and Sod Soils
Land application of manure is one of the most important conservation issues facing livestock operators in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. A large body of research has revealed how application of manure to soil can enrich nitrogen in groundwater or phosphorous in surface runoff. Recent changes in criteria for air quality regulations have made ammonia volatization from livestock manure a priority issue. Manure can also impact emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. An ever-expanding suburban fringe has resulted in a growing number of odor complaints. These concerns highlight the need to understand environmental and agronomic trade-offs when developing conservation strategies. Practices that control one conservation concern can exacerbate another. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the environmental and agronomic effects of several manure application systems (e.g., pressurized injection, surface application followed by tillage incorporation) to identify systems that optimally address multiple priority environmental concerns.
University of Maryland (Maryland, Virginia)
A Program to Improve Dairy Herd Nutrition Using Milk Urea Nitrogen
Milk urea nitrogen (MUN) has been shown to be an excellent predictor of nitrogen excreted directly into dairy cow manure. MUN can be used to identify herds that are overfed protein, and routine MUN analysis can help producers fine tune feed management and reduce the nitrogen excreted to manure. Currently, despite the promise of MUN analysis, there remain obstacles to its widespread adoption in the field. These barriers include milk laboratories' skepticism of the value of MUN analysis and a lack of understanding of the process and its value on the part of producers. The ultimate goal of this project is to reduce nitrogen losses to air and water from dairy farms in the Chesapeake Bay region by improving dairy herd nutrition. MUN analysis will be institutionalized in milk laboratories and diary operations, and an innovative incentive program will be established to encourage producers to reduce nitrogen lost to the environment by decreasing nitrogen feeding.
University of Delaware (Delaware)
Demonstration of a Complete Approach to Manure Management: Improving Nutrient Use and Creating Value-Added Products for Dairy Farmers
In 1999, the Delaware General Assembly passed a nutrient management law requiring farmers and animal producers to have a nutrient management or animal waste plan that includes best management practices to reduce nutrient losses to the environment. Many operations in Delaware will require significant upgrades to current manure management practices to meet the requirements of their plans. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and encourage the adoption of innovative techniques for managing animal waste and improving the nutrient balance on farms. The project will utilize innovative manure separation technology combined with improved storage and composting methods. Developing value-added products from the remaining waste will provide further benefits to producers.
Conserving Water and Nitrogen Using New Sensor, Control System, and Information Technology to Improve On-farm Irrigation Scheduling in the Delmarva Peninsula
The Delmarva Peninsula is a primary agricultural region within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and is likely a major contributor to water quality degradation of both the Chesapeake Bay and the inland bays of Delaware to the east. Agriculture is an important industry on the peninsula, and irrigated agriculture is a major user of its water resources. However, competition with and pressure from other land uses and interests is pressuring irrigated agriculture to manage water resources more efficiently in terms of both quantity and environmental impact. Scientific irrigation scheduling (SIS) can help producers improve irrigation management by systematically integrating local factors into a water management system that forecasts irrigation needs for a specific field. Research on SIS began more than 50 years ago, but despite its documented benefits, it has not been widely adopted by producers. Surveys indicate that SIS has had a low adoption rate because producers are hesitant to adopt new practices if they are not easy to implement and understand. This project will encourage widespread adoption of SIS by integrating SIS technology into the irrigation system making information accessible where the decisions are made, right at the irrigation control point. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and evaluate such a system, and to encourage its widespread adoption among agricultural producers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Maryland Department of Agriculture (Maryland)
Demonstration of Management Intensive Grazing Systems for Dairy Production
According to the 2002 agricultural census, the number of dairies in the state of Maryland declined 25% since the 1997 census. As the average herd size of dairies increases, smaller dairies must consider alternative management strategies to remain viable. One such strategy is management intensive grazing (MIG), designed to improve pastures and forage resources to support the majority of herd nutritional needs. MIG reduces dependence on off-farm feed inputs and helps achieve more of a nutrient balance or closed system. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and encourage the adoption of MIG within dairy production systems as an approach to protect or improve water quality, soil quality, and grazing land health while sustaining productivity and the economic viability of dairies. Results from forage trials will be used to maximize forage benefits for animal nutrition and nutrient uptake within MIG systems.
Tioga County Soil and Water Conservation District (New York)
Development of a Practical Approach for Reducing Imported Nutrients on Dairy Operation Through Precision Feed Management at a Watershed Scale
New York, as a Chesapeake Bay Watershed state, is developing a Tributary Strategy to meet sediment and nutrient load allocations developed by the Chesapeake Bay Program. A significant source of nutrients in the Susquehanna River watershed is the 262,000 dairy cattle that inhabit agricultural operations in the region. The two nutrients of greatest concern are nitrogen and phosphorous. Nutrient management planning on dairy farms with a focus on nutrient source reduction is vital to the economic sustainability of farms as well as improvement in water quality in the region. Significant reductions in nutrient imports can only be realized through more precise management at every step along the farm system. The purpose of this project is to engage dairy producers to implement precision feeding and forage management practices on their operations. Shifts that occur in both nutrient excretion from individual animals and in whole farm mass balance will be measured. It is believed that nutrient excretion can be decreased by 15-30 percent and whole farm mass balance by 30-40 percent on many dairy farms in this region.
Brian Brake (Pennsylvania)
Planting Alternative Dairy Forages
The deleterious impacts of nutrient and sediment runoff on the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay are well documented. Traditional row crop production practices may result in significant amounts of nutrient runoff and soil erosion from farm fields. Many dairy producers, however, depend on the high energy content and cost-effectiveness of corn silage in their dairy feed to keep their business profitable. A potential solution to this dilemma is the use of an alternative dairy forage, cup plant. Cup plant has a number of characteristics that make it an attractive alternative to corn silage. High seeding rates and low insect and disease pressure reduce pesticide and herbicide use. Plant densities help reduce soil erosion. Nutrient applications can be timed properly with plant uptake. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and encourage the widespread adoption of alternative dairy forages on farms in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Pennsylvania)
Precision Dairy Feeding to Reduce Nutrient Pollution in Pennsylvania's Waters and the Chesapeake Bay
Almost 4,000 miles of Pennsylvania streams are impaired by agricultural non-point source pollution, primarily due to excessive loadings of sediment and nutrients, predominantly from livestock manure. The scientific body of evidence accumulated by the efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay has clearly established the need to resolve this manure nutrient overload. Precision dairy feeding has been identified as a critical component of Pennsylvania's strategy to reduce non-point agricultural water pollution. The practice is cited for widespread implementation in the State's Tributary Strategy and is identified as a key cost effective strategy in the Chesapeake Bay Commission's publication, Cost Effective Strategies for the Bay, published in December 2004. Precision feeding reduces nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the levels required to maintain optimum production, resulting in 20-40% reductions in the nutrient content of manure. Through this project, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and its partners will work with Pennsylvania dairy producers to bring about significant changes in the dairy industry's standard feeding practices and subsequently improve water quality.
Chester County Conservation District (Pennsylvania)
Horse Drawn No-Till Planter for Plain-Sect Farmers
In February 2005, Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategies were written and adopted by the Chester County Conservation District and Board of Directors. A significant challenge for this area is sedimentation of water bodies due to the widespread use of intensive tillage methods. The purpose of this project is to encourage the adoption of conservation tillage practices among Plain Sect producers through demonstration and evaluation of a horse drawn no-till corn planter. The planter will be provided free of charge to Plain Sect (primarily Amish) farmers in the Octoraro, Elks, and North East watersheds. Widespread adoption of conservation tillage is an important component of the tributary strategies for this area.
Mifflin County Conservation District (Pennsylvania)
Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance (ESM) on Ag Access Roads to Eliminate Nutrient & Sediment Pollution in the Kishacoquillas Valley Watershed
Extensive studies of low traffic volume roads have identified unpaved road corridors as a major source of sediment pollution to nearby streams. On farms and in agricultural settings, unpaved lanes and access roads have the same potential as any public dirt and gravel roadway to produce, mobilize and transport sediment. These unpaved farm roadways are far more likely, however, to carry nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorous, as well as sediment, and far less likely to receive routine maintenance. Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy identifies dirt and gravel road improvements as a BMP to reduce nutrient and sediment loadings. The purpose of this project is to initiate the widespread adoption of environmentally sensitive maintenance (ESM) erosion control and reduce sediment/nutrient pollution from private farm lanes and field access roads in the Kishacoquillas Valley watershed in Pennsylvania.
Virginia Tech University (Virginia)
Precision Feeding to Reduce Nutrient Losses from Virginia Dairy Farms
Agriculture has been identified as the leading source of nonpoint source water pollution in Virginia, responsible for over 60% of the nonpoint nitrogen (N) and phosphorous( P) loads. The Shenandoah River basin combines intensive animal agriculture and a location in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin with a geophysical structure that makes it vulnerable to ground and surface water contamination. The increasing imbalance in nutrients applied to land and nutrient requirements for crop growth is due largely to the escalation in imported feeds. About 75-85% of the N and P consumed by livestock is excreted, so any increase in nutrient importation directly increases the amount of nutrients in land applied manure. The purpose of this project is to reduce N and P pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed through implementation of an innovative incentive program and demonstration of advanced precision feeding and feed management strategies.
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Update no. 26 of KPOP Idol-Off 2 Finals: Onew vs. Key! Team Key is in the lead with the scores at 3-4. Read on for a breakdown in scores.
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this is belated but when/where were the "upcoming announcement of prize winners" posted? :O
i tried to find it but it's like it doesn't exist yet
this is belated but when/where were the "upcoming announcement of prize winners" posted? :O
02/18/12 10:00 pm
OMG great job Team Key, so impressed! lol even thoughg I didn't really do anything…
credits to @Arishay for doing a great job!
I hope I win something though lmaos XD
Thank You xgzdiana <3
02/15/12 5:30 pm
congrats team key :D
02/10/12 12:42 pm
Go Team Key <3! good jobs you guys!
02/03/12 2:59 am
Good work Team Key <3
Congratz to team Key. We did good, Team Onew
01/31/12 11:49 pm
congratz Team Key!! Team Onew, good job!! <3
01/31/12 11:13 pm
congratulations team Key!!
OMG great job Team Key, so impressed! lol even thoughg I didn't really do anything…
credits to @Arishay for doing a great job!
I hope I win something though lmaos XD
Yeah team Key! Way to go guys especially Arishay and omgsun!
Good fight, team Onew. It was so close.
Thanks doctorwho <3
01/31/12 8:52 pm
Awww it makes me sad that Onew didn't win… I guess I could have tried harder at the games. Oh well. Congratulations Key!!!!! Everyone worked so hard.
01/31/12 3:42 am
Good job, Team Key! Those games were tough ><
01/30/12 10:42 pm
too bad we didn't win!
Congrats Team Key
congratz everyone for their hardwork
01/30/12 1:56 pm
weheee congrats Team Key ))
both Teams were awesome! <3
01/30/12 1:27 pm
YAY TEAM KEY!!! Congrats hehe ^_^ n great job to Team Onew as well =]
01/30/12 10:04 am
congrats team key!
01/30/12 9:37 am
Congratulations Team Key! This will hopefully be the last time I join a SHINee VS SHINee battle. ^^ (at least I don't get the "You beat Team Key"-pin. XD My heart wouldn't be able to take that, LOL)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to new flash games matches, where I'm better at the games. XD
01/30/12 8:38 am
Congrats team key!
It's okay team onew! We did our best! ^^
ouu team onew we did a great job… ^^
congrats team key :D
we won ! TEAM KEY ! xDDD"
Congrats Team key, you did very very well, I'm proud of you!^^
Team Onew, you also did well
01/30/12 12:17 am
Good job Lockets! :D


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Vail Daily obituary: Ellie Crocker, 1987-2012
June 4, 2012
Ellie Crocker, 24, died May 30 with her family by her side at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction.
She was born Nov. 25, 1987, in Denver to Jon and Jeanie Crocker. The family resided in Eagle for most of Ellie's life. Ellie attended Eagle County schools and graduated from Eagle Valley High School in 2007. The family moved to Grand Junction in 2008 to be closer to relatives.
Ellie thrived on learning, and in spite of her disability, she lived her life with purpose and simplicity. She enjoyed reading, playing video games, doing puzzles and volunteering at the hospital.
She will be remembered for the love and care she gave to family and friends, her genuine enjoyment of the little things in life, her determination and courage when faced with insurmountable obstacles, and her smile.
Ellie is survived by her mother, Jeanie Crocker; her father, Jon Crocker; her sister, Molly Crocker; her paternal grandmother, Shirley Ann Crocker; her maternal step-grandmother, Bettye Leeper; her aunt Nancy, aunt Gail, uncle Tim, aunt Jane, uncle Dick, and seven great cousins who she called her best friends; along with many other close relatives.
A private service will be held in Ellie's honor; email firstname.lastname@example.com for details. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the National Organization for Disorders of the Corpus Callosum or to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.


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The prostitute at the center of the Secret Service sex scandal speaks in her first American television interview, calling the agents "stupid brutes" and saying she's "not to blame for being attractive." NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
Updated at 8:16 a.m. ET: MADRID, Spain -- A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service personnel has called the group of agents "stupid brutes" who put partying above President Barack Obama's security.
"These seem like completely stupid, idiotic people," Dania Londono Suarez said in an interview which aired on Monday's TODAY. "I don't know how Obama had them in his security force."
She also accused the agents of "leaving their duty behind" and described them as "stupid brutes."
The scandal broke in April when, in advance of Obama's arrival at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, agents allegedly brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms. One of the men, Suarez told NBC News, refused to pay her for sex so she went to the police.
So far, eight agents have lost their jobs as a result of the incident.
Suarez, 24, said three men who approached and propositioned her and her friends were drinking vodka like it was water.
"They liked to show off their bodies, great bodies, well-defined abs," Saurez said of the men she first met at a nightclub. "They liked attention."
NBC's Kristen Welker talks about the interview given by the woman in the middle of scandal, in which she alleges she did not know the men were Secret Service agents.
The mother of a nine-year-old son said she made it perfectly clear to one that a night with her would cost $800.
"And he accepted. And it was clear," she said.
But in the morning after they had had sex, the man gave her only $50 and ordered her out of the room, Suarez said.
"I am not to blame for being attractive," she told TODAY. "They are to blame -- for leaving their duty behind."
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Twenty-two student journalists from North Central College have earned 17 awards for excellence from the Illinois College Press Association (ICPA). The awards were announced at the ICPA's annual conference Feb. 19-20 in Chicago. Thirty-six college newspapers and 290 student journalists from throughout Illinois participated in the annual journalism contest, which is co-sponsored by the ICPA and the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. Entries are judged by professional editors who are members of the Illinois Press Association. Visit
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4/26/11 at Rangers Ballpark
I snagged so many baseballs at this game, and it was so easy that I'm feeling somewhat ashamed and embarrassed. But you know what? I need days like this to stay sane. Citi Field has been really tough this season. The gates there are now opening later. The pre-game crowds have been enormous. The on-field snagging area has made it almost impossible to get toss-ups. Stadium security doesn't allow the glove trick. The weather has sucked beyond belief. And so on. At my last two games in Queens, I busted (not to mention froze) my ass during batting practice and managed to snag a whopping total of five baseballs. That might sound like a lot to some people — it would've been a dream come true for me 25 years ago — but numbers like that now leave me feeling incredibly frustrated.
That said, are you ready to hear about the paradise known as Rangers Ballpark? For starters, there were only about 20 fans waiting to get in the stadium when it opened at 4:30pm. That's what time season ticket holders can enter. The general ticket-holding public, meanwhile, has to wait until 5pm, but I found my way in with the early group. Most people were there to get autographs, so they made a beeline for the Rangers' dugout. A few people wandered out to right field. A few others hung out near the grassy berm in center. And I had left field to myself. For half an hour. It was truly unbelievable. I've never experienced such a total lack of competition at a major league stadium. I don't know what was going on, but for whatever reason, I was alone in the seats for thirty solid minutes.
As soon as I ran in, Cody Eppley tossed me my first ball of the day near the left field foul pole. I didn't even know his name or call out to him. I just saw the No. 50 on his uniform and held up my glove. Moments later, I used the glove trick to snag this ball in the gap behind the outfield wall in left-center:
In the photo above, do you see the two guys wearing red in the left field seats? They were employees. The person in the gray shirt several sections to the left also worked at the stadium and didn't stay there long.
This was my view from left field:
This was my (gorgeous) view to the left:
In the photo above, the man standing one section over is a fan, but he was only there for 30 seconds. I'm telling you, I had the whole place to myself. See the people wearing red in the front row in left-center? They also worked at the stadium. And do you see the clock way off in the distance? It's on the facade of the second deck in right field. It says "4:38," which means the stadium had been open for eight minutes. Did I mention that I had the whole place to myself?
This was the view to my right:
Now, forgive me for the lack of details here, but I got five home run balls in a very short amount of time. I have no idea who hit them. Ian Kinsler? Adrian Beltre? Nelson Cruz? I can't even remember how many I caught on the fly (one or two, at least) or anything else about them. Baseballs were raining down, and I was practically grabbing them faster than I could toss them into my backpack.
I used my glove trick to snag my 8th ball of the day in left field, then caught a homer on the fly in the front row, and then used the glove trick again to snag this ball in left-center:
I gave that ball to one of the employees. It was my 10th ball of the day. It was only 4:48pm. Total insanity. I'd snagged so many balls — and had been so busy running all over the place — that I hadn't even gotten a chance to scribble down any notes. Finally, when there was a break in the action, I was able to catch up. I'll show a photo of my notes in a bit, but for now, let's get back to the snagging…
While I was standing in straight-away left field, a left-handed batter on the Rangers (possibly Julio Borbon) sliced a ball into the seats along the left field foul line. Did I mention that I had the whole place to myself? I really couldn't believe it at the time, and I still find it hard to believe as I sit here writing about it. Because there wasn't another fan within 200 feet of me, I had time to pull out my camera and take a pic of the ball sitting in the seats:
Isn't that a lovely sight?
The ball had obviously hit the concrete when it flew into the stands because the stitches were pretty chewed up:
The on-field security guy (pictured below) called me over. Was I in trouble? Not at all. He told me that there was another ball in the seats that had landed a few rows behind the tarp. Here it is:
I thanked him profusely, and perhaps because I was so appreciative, he told me that there was another ball in the seats. I couldn't find it at first, so he described where it had landed, and sure enough, there it was:
(I'm seriously stunned by all of this. Don't think that I'm taking it for granted.)
After I picked up that ball — my 13th of the day — the guard told me that he'd been hoping that a kid would find it. Since there were no kids (or grown-ups) around, I offered it to him so that he could give it to the kid of his choice later on. Instead, he told me to place the ball in a cup holder just behind the first row. So I did. That way it was kind of hidden, and yet he knew where it was so he'd be able to direct a kid right to it.
While this was taking place, two balls rolled into the left field corner. I ran over there and began setting up my glove trick. I wasn't sure what the policy was for plucking balls off the field, and it's probably just as well that I didn't get the chance to find out. The on-field guard walked over and picked up the balls and tossed them to a nearby Rangers player. But get this: the grounds crew had a cart loaded with equipment in the left field corner, and just before the guard was about to walk back to his normal spot, I noticed that there was a ball in one of the buckets on the cart. Here's a photo that I took several minutes later to show where the ball was:
The guard didn't notice the ball, so I pointed it out to him. He ended up tossing it to me, and I didn't even have to ask for it.
"You are THE NICEST security guard I've ever met!" I shouted down to him.
"Thank you!" he called back.
"But I'm from New York City," I continued, "so that's not saying much!"
He laughed, and I thanked him again.
The stadium opened to all fans soon after, and when I snagged a home run in the left field seats, I handed it to the nearest kid. That was my 15th ball of the day.
Several lefties were hitting, so I ran to the right field side. It was still quite empty…
…and I ended up snagging two more home runs that landed in the seats.
Now, just so you don't think that everything was going my way, there were two balls in the gap behind the outfield walls that I couldn't snag. One was wedged against a chain-link fence in the visitors' bullpen, and this was the other:
I tried to knock this ball loose, but gave up after 30 seconds. It simply wasn't gonna happen, but it was nice to at least have the opportunity to try without being hassled by security. And hey, here's another example of things not going my way: at one point in the first 15 minutes of BP (when I had all of left field to myself), a home run ball landed five rows behind me and bounced back over my head onto the field. That really sucked, but given how everything else went, I really can't complain.
Thanks to my glove trick, I snagged one more ball during the Rangers' portion of BP. It was a home run that landed in the visitors' bullpen and rolled all the way to the back wall. There were actually two baseballs in the bullpen (see the red arrow below), but I could only reach one:
That was my 18th ball of the day.
The Blue Jays took the field.
Here's a photo that I took from the left side of the grassy berm:
That's quite a difference from this crazy scene back on 5/3/09 at Rangers Ballpark, huh?
Anyway, thanks in part to a crappy/retro Blue Jays jersey that I was wearing, Jason Frasor threw me my 19th ball of the day in left-center field, and Carlos Villanueva hooked me up with No. 20. It was only the 9th time in my life that I'd gotten 20 balls at a game, and there was still half an hour remaining in BP. My next ball was thrown by Shawn Camp in left-center, and it was the 4,799th ball that I'd ever snagged. The next one was going to be a milestone, so if possible, I wanted it to be a good one.
Mission accomplished.
It was a Jose Bautista homer that I caught on the fly while looking right up into the sun. It was a lot harder than any of the jumping catches (like this and this) that I'd made earlier this month, but probably didn't look all that impressive from afar.
My 23rd ball of the day was sitting in the gap behind the wall in left-center field, and then I raced to the Blue Jays' dugout at the end of BP. Someone rolled a ball to me across the dugout roof, but whoever it was, he was out of view at the time. I think it was bullpen catcher Alex Andreopoulos, but who knows? That was my 24th ball of the day. Here I am with it:
I was feeling pretty wiped out, but whatever. That's what a good night's sleep is for.
During batting practice, I ran into two guys who each owned a copy of my new book, The Baseball. The first guy, Graham, unaware that I was gonna be at Rangers Ballpark, had mailed me the book a few weeks earlier with a self-addresses stamped envelope. The second guy, Scott, knew I was going to be here, so he brought his copy of the book with him for an in-person autograph. Here we are with it:
Scott is from San Francisco and, like me, was wearing Jays gear for the sole purpose of sucking up to the Blue Jays players. He also has a profile on MyGameBalls.com, which you can see here. (Speaking of MyGameBalls.com, the feature story right now is about my catch on Mike Nickeas's first major league home run. Check it out, and if you haven't yet created a profile on that site, WTF are you waiting for?)
After Scott and I said our goodbyes, I took a pic of the inside of my backpack:
As promised earlier, here are the notes that I scribbled down during BP:
This is how I was able to remember all the balls I snagged, although as you can see, my 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th balls of the day were all a blur and got lumped together. I also marked down what time it was when I snagged certain balls, just because I got off to a blistering pace and thought it'd be cool to remember. The balls that are crossed out (No. 10, 13, and 15) were ones that I gave away. (My handwriting is actually very neat under normal circumstances, but when I wrote all of this, I was standing and rushing and leaning on my glove, which is not exactly a flat/smooth surface.) On the upper right, I wrote "Scott MGB" and underneath it, it says "mysteryca," which is his user name on MyGameBalls.com. On the left-hand side, kind of toward the bottom, it says, "Clyde & Suede" as well as "Trent & Brent." Those were the four guys I'd met the day before. I scribbled their names down at the time so I'd remember, and then my notes from this game overlapped.
Clyde was at this game too. He snagged a few balls on the grassy berm and generously treated me to a much-needed bottled water after the Rangers had finished hitting.
I also ran into a friend named Brian Powell (aka "Txbasebalfan" on MyGameBalls.com). Here we are together, just before game time, with his friend Dirk. In the photo below, Brian is on the left and Dirk is on the right:
As you can see, I had changed out of my Jays gear.
This was my view during the game…
…and this was my view to the left. Trent was sitting directly across the berm from me:
When I met Trent two days ago, he had never heard of MyGameBalls.com. Now he has a profile, although he has yet to fill out his stats.
In the photo above, do you see the man standing near Trent in the tan pants and white shirt? That's Jim Knox, the Rangers' roving TV guy. Trent has become somewhat of a local celebrity for catching a recent home run on the berm; when Knox went to say hello to him, Trent talked about me, and Knox ended up coming over to my section. He said he wanted to interview me on the post-game show and told me where to be and when to be there. As it turned out, it was only a 15-second interview that was done while I was buried in a crowd of exceptionally rowdy fans, but it was still cool.
Over the course of the game, I had cause to jump out of my seat twice, but in both cases, the balls ended up falling short. No action once again. Bleh. The Blue Jays did hit three home runs (including two by Adam Lind, who went 3-for-5 with five RBIs), but the balls all went to left and right field. Final score: Blue Jays 10, Rangers 3.
After the game, I got another lineup card from the Jays' bullpen. Here it is, along with the guard who kindly peeled it off the wall and handed it to me:
Here's a closer look at it:
Do you remember the lineup card that I got the day before? And do you remember the kid named Dylan that I met right after I got it? Well, Dylan left a comment on my previous entry and pointed something out about it that I hadn't noticed: Pedro Strop's last name was spelled wrong. It's good to see that the Jays also noticed and fixed the mistake.
I met up with Trent before heading out. Here I am with him and my 4,800th ball:
Trent is a BIG dude, and he's only 16. (For the record, I'm 5-foot-11.) I'm a bit scared to think about how he's gonna tower over me when I'm back here next season and beyond…
• 24 balls at this game (21 pictured on the right because I gave 3 away)
• 140 balls in 18 games this season = 7.8 balls per game.
• 679 consecutive games with at least one ball
• 212 consecutive games outside of New York with at least one ball
• 24 different stadiums with at least one game with 10 or more balls
• 139 lifetime games 10 or more balls
• 9 lifetime games with 20 or more balls
• 4,802 total balls
(I'm raising money again this season for Pitch In For Baseball, a non-profit charity that provides baseball equipment to underprivileged kids all over the world. Click here to learn more.)
• 38 donors
• $6.09 pledged per ball (if you add up all the pledges)
• $146.16 raised at this game
• $852.60 raised this season
Ready for a few more photos of the balls? Fifteen of the 21 had invisible ink stamps. Here's a side-by-side comparison in regular light versus black light:
(Yes, I took my black light with me on the road; my shirt speaks the truth.)
In the left-hand photo above, did you notice that some of the balls have the word "practice" stamped on the sweet spot? I snagged 11 of those balls yesterday…
…and I also got a practice ball that looked like this:
The reason why these balls say "practice" is that they have very subtle cosmetic flaws — anything from a misaligned stitch to a tiny imperfection on the cowhide. All the other specs (size, weight, compressibility, etc.) are fine. These imperfect balls get stamped with the word "practice" at the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica and are sold to teams at a discount. (This is one of the many things you can learn about baseballs in my new book.)
Here are two more funky baseballs that I snagged yesterday. The one on the left has a beautifully smudged logo. The one on the right has a bizarre mark next to the MLB logo:
Does anyone have an idea of what might've caused that mark? I'm guessing that it's a bat imprint (like the imprints you can see here), but it's hard to say.
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I was breathing hard just reading about all those balls. As for the ball with the imprint, I was thinking that it could be some kind of logo. My first thought was Easton because of the diamond shape in the middle. When I looked a little closer though I thought that it could be a "Sam" bat(http://www.fvteamsports.com/image.php?type=M&id=2). If you compare the outlines they do look kind of similar. Still not sure though.
It was good to meet you, but unless you met someone else yesterday during bp who sent you your book, my name's Graham (not Andrew). And the imprint on that ball kind of looks like it's a TPX logo with a maple leaf
Nice job Zack!
Awesome snagging day Zack. Hey, can you tell me how to set up a blog on this website? Thx
Zack, I just finished reading Watching Baseball Smarter and The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches. Those were the two greatest books that I have ever read.
I was laughing, in awe, and totally jealous going through the first half of this entry. Then I read "crappy" Jays jersey?!?!?! OFFENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOTALLY AND UTTERLY OFFENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll remember that next time you need a jersey (hahaha).
Insanely jealous right now, nice work bud.
In regards to the fact that you literally had LF to yourself during the first 30 mins of BP, the only explanation I can think of is people don't want to even try competing against you because they know they won't win, lol. But all kidding aside, that is just incredible. 24 balls and you didn't even play for tossups during the game. I'm assuming that it breaks your personal record for most balls snagged before a game starts (your 32 ball preformance in KC involved like a dozen balls from the gap, lol). Good luck trying to snag a gamer on your trip.
aye, aye, aye…what a day. Hey, Dirk is on mygameballs.com too. I think he's "ballguy" or something like that. There was recently an article on the website about his fishing pole-based "device."
Well here's the Google Image search for it http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sam%20bats&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi .
Zack, one thing I like about the Minor League is that I'm able to see players that I have seen in person in "The Show". On your recent line-up card I have seen seven of those guys when they played for the Frisco RoughRiders.
why dont you ever come to tampa, during batting practice, theres like no competition if u go during the weekdays
How much does that ticket out there cost again? I am in more of an anti-New York mood as ever. I guess their camera system is working well as they have now upgraded the pre-game security to keep the "troublemakers" like me out of their precious field level seats. They know one way of making money is not paying for extra employees (security) right?
Congrats on the 24 spot,
Looks like Trent caught a homer. Tried to find you. Was hit to his side so maybe you couldnt get there in time. He was lightning fast and the commentators were like "thats the same kid that caught one last week give him a contract"
When I saw Mitch Moreland hit that homerun in the 8th inning I was yelling GET THE BALL ZACK! too bad you didn't get it but wasn't it Trent who got the ball? I saw you joking around with someone by bowing down to them across the berm in the 9th but anyways congrats on the great game 24 balls that is simply amazing!
Hi, Zack! Way to go!!!
I think the mark on the ball you asked about above might actually be a watermark… or some type of liquid anyway.
24! Wowzers!
Zack, monster game, congrats! You were mentioned on the Uni Watch website again today, so I'm sure your Mike Nickeas article will get some hits today.
Random question, but have you ever played the phone app called Words With Friends? It's like scrabble, and everyone I know is addicted to it. You can play friends or random people, and you get alerts when the person makes a move, so you can play at your leisure, even if it spans a few days.
I delete the email from the Mets so I can't help you regarding getting in touch with them, but I think a few other people on here also emailed them. Maybe they can help….
hey I forgot to ask, how did you get to go in with Season Ticket holders? thanks for signing the book… congrats on the record for Rangers Ballpark


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Working smoke detectors vital for home safety
Daylight saving time returned this weekend and while that means we will have an extra hour of daylight to enjoy outdoor activities, it also represents one of the two good times during the year to follow a routine of checking smoke detector batteries in your home.
There were more than 480,000 structure fires in 2012, with 2,470 deaths and more than 14,000 injuries and $9.8 billion in damage, according to the National Fire Protection Agency.
There was a home structure fire every 85 seconds nationwide in 2012, according to the agency.
Smoke detectors save lives and limit property damage.
The time to talk about smoke detectors is before a fire breaks out.
Anyone can walk into a department or hardware store and purchase a smoke alarm for as little as $10.
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Remember that smoke alarms aren't effective if they aren't working properly. You can ensure that by testing the alarms once a month by pushing the test button and observing that the lights flash and the alarm sounds loudly.
When properly installed and maintained, smoke alarms do save lives.
According to the National Fire Protection Association, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in properties without working smoke alarms.
The biggest causes for an alarm to fail to function properly are missing, disconnected or dead batteries. In fact, surveys show that almost one-third of all smoke detectors fall into that category, and that's as bad as not having a smoke detector at all.
Smoking is the leading cause of fire-related deaths, and cooking is the primary cause of residential fires, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most victims of fires die from smoke or toxic gases and not from burns.
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Throughout my life there are those images left frozen on my mind. Mental pictures that can always spark instant emotion. Some are funny, well hysterical actually, others are pure joy, and then there is this one - one that leaves me with the rawest of emotions - sadness, frustration, anger, and doubt – all in one picture. Every time I've thought of it, it ends with - WHY? Why doesn't God protect us and keep us safe? The thing about these mental pictures is that no words can do it justice. But I'll try.
It was almost 2 years ago and I was attending a double funeral of my colleague and friend's daughter and son-in-law. It was a tragic death of a beautiful young couple killed in a fire. I was watching the family procession into the church. Behind the shared single casket which held this young couple; there was my friend, Dr. Kathie Morgan. She seemed barely able to walk with 2 men supporting and guiding her along; one man, her first husband, who she had grown to forgive and continue to love, and the other man, her new husband who walked with her through her recent battle with cancer to include a mastectomy. Just behind her walked her only surviving daughter, and when I see her I know instantly the world of hurt that she is facing in losing a sister. There was my snap shot and mental picture of Kathie bearing all of life's possible pains.
I also have to say here that Kathie Morgan is one of those amazing, kind women, who I imagine has very few, if any, grudges against her. So with this mental picture, I'm often left wondering – Why? Why does it storm so hard on some people? And good people? Where is our protection?
Yesterday, Kathie shared her story in our School of Education Convocation, I honestly wasn't sure if I wanted to go. I knew it would hurt to hear her story again. But then sometimes it seems the least we can do is to listen to her story. I also knew that underneath the pain, perhaps she would offer me some wisdom. That raw wisdom discovered through life's pain. She told her stories of pain, heartbreak, and loss to include others, like losing her sister to cancer. She didn't even have time to share her husband's recent heart problems and her Mom not doing well and other struggles I know she faces. While we are all left crying and emotionally drained, she closed with these thoughts. She gave us five things to do –
1. Love those people God put in your life in grace. Allow them to be free. And don't allow any regrets.
2. Choose people over things
3. Choose your friends, mentors, and colleagues wisely, as through the hard times, they are your support.
4. Listen to your heart
5. Pray
Being true to teaching and her love of literacy, Kathie ended it with a quote from C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia referring to Aslan.
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."
Here is a picture of Kathie and her daughter. Because this is much her story, Kathie read this and gave permission to share. It's been an honor to learn from her and I hope you feel this as well.
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Home List of Titles A novel statistical time-series pattern based interval forecasting strategy for activity durations in workflow systems
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- Title
- A novel statistical time-series pattern based interval forecasting strategy for activity durations in workflow systems
- Author(s)
- Liu, Xiao; Ni, Zhiwei; Yuan, Dong; Jiang, Yuanchun; Wu, Zhangjun; Chen, Jinjun; Yang, Yun
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- Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the process automation in a specific application domain where activities are of the similar nature. Hence, a particular forecasting strategy is employed by a workflow system and applied uniformly to all its workflow activities. However, with newly emerging requirement to serve as a type of middleware services for high performance computing infrastructures such as grid and cloud computing, more and more workflow systems are designed to be general purpose to support workflow applications from many different domains. Due to such a problem, the forecasting strategies in workflow systems must adapt to different workflow applications which are normally executed repeatedly such as data/computation intensive scientific applications (mainly with long-duration activities) and instance intensive business applications (mainly with short-duration activities). In this paper, with a systematic analysis of the above issues, we propose a novel statistical time-series pattern based interval forecasting strategy which has two different versions, a complex version for long-duration activities and a simple version for short-duration activities. The strategy consists of four major functional components: duration series building, duration pattern recognition, duration pattern matching and duration interval forecasting. Specifically, a novel hybrid non-linear time-series segmentation algorithm is designed to facilitate the discovery of duration-series patterns. The experimental results on real world examples and simulated test cases demonstrate the excellent performance of our strategy in the forecasting of activity duration intervals for both long-duration and short-duration activities in comparison to some representative time-series forecasting strategies in traditional workflow systems.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
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- Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 84, no. 3 (Mar 2011), pp. 354-376
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- 2011
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- 0803 Computer Software; 0806 Information Systems
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- Activity duration; Interval forecasting; Statistical time series; Time-series patterns; Workflow systems
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- Elsevier
- 0164-1212
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by Anton Shilov
The World Trade Organization late last week ruled that European Union should reconsider punitive duties it imposes on memory chips sold by Hynix Semiconductor. While the decision supports the memory manufacturer, it does not order the EU to stop the duties fully, something which Hynix demands.
The panel concluded that besides failing to prove the illegality of the restructuring support for Hynix, the European Union incorrectly calculated the material injury caused to its own producers by the subsidies, EETimes reports. The EU now reportedly has about a month time to prepare its plan to bring its countervailing duties into "conformity". It is unclear whether the EU will have to return Hynix already paid tariffs.
While the WTO found that in general 2001 rescue package that included loans and debt-for-equity swaps arranged by the South Korea-based memory maker's creditors were not illegal subsidies, WTO said the help organized by government-controlled Korea Development Bank was "commercially unjustifiable".
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From candles to cooking to electrical wiring to home appliances, there are potential fire hazards at every turn within our homes. In recent years, unintentional fires have killed an average of 2,500 people, injured more than 13,000, and caused $5 billion in property damage. Learn how to protect your family and home from fire hazards.
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Verona boys hockey wins state
Wildcats defeat Onalaska 6-1
Saturday afternoon at the Alliant Energy Center, Verona won its first boys hockey state championship as the team defeated Onalaska 6-1.
The Wildcats dominated for the entirety of the game. In the first period, Brogan Baker collected a Verona rebound and backhanded it into the goal to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead.
In the second period the flood gates opened. Phillippe Fromberger fired a wrister from the point that found the back of the net to make it 2-0 Verona.
Four minutes later, Fromberger scored again. This time he took the puck on a breakaway, avoided a defender, and scored to make it 3-0 'Cats. Charlie Parker added another goal to make it 4-0 Verona at the end of the second.
Onalaska managed to get on the board in the third period with a Luke Tepp goal, but Verona tacked on two more in the third to win it 6-1. It is Verona's first ever Boys Hockey State Championship.
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Fannie Mae Posts Record Profit
By Yuki Noguchi • Apr 3, 2013
Originally published on April 3, 2013 7:44 am
For all of last year, Fannie Mae posted net income of $17.2 billion. Just a year earlier, it had lost nearly the same amount. The company that finances home mortgages is still under government conservatorship.


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*Sigh* Jane is my first baby and she was born 6 weeks ago (tomorrow), 18 days early. I've been breastfeeding her since the first hour she came out of me. During her first week of life we had to supplement with some formula as she was very jaundiced and our pediatrician wanted to avoid admitting her back into the hospital to go under the lights.
Since then she has been EBF. Her output has always been good, typically exceeding the wet/soiled diaper output suggested in the books. She was back to her birthweight by her 2 week appointment.
I should mention that I don't love breastfeeding. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes I get engorged and some days (like yesterday) all this child wants to do is nurse. I can't get anything done and it makes me even more sore. (But strangely, today my nipples feel fine) Anyway, I'm at best pretty ambivalent about breastfeeding and sometimes I downright hate it. I hate it on days like yesterday where the only thing that will keep her from screaming is being at the breast. I want to give up and give her formula as it would be so much easier. So far, I haven't done that. Although last night my DH thawed some frozen breastmilk and gave it to her in a bottle to give me a break. It was heaven. I also really don't like that I can't be away from her for more than an hour, max, because she may need to nurse. Not that I want to be away from her, but I would like to get a haircut or get a pedicure or just go to the grocery store. Anyway, enough rambling.
1) Starting a couple of days ago, her stools got darker and had some black specks in them. Same number of stools per day and same consistency, just a different color. Other than being a fussy little girl yesterday, her personality/attitude hasn't changed and she doesn't appear feverish or anything like that. I also haven't changed my diet since I started BF'ing. Does this seem like a problem?
2) Occasionally when she is nursing, she will spit up and it will come out her nose (that alone doesn't really concern me) and then she will start choking. The choking freaks me out. I've started trying to feed her more inclined sometimes. This spitting up/choking started last Friday and happened twice that day where she choked pretty bad and once yesterday to a lesser degree. She always clears her throat/nasal passages herself once I get her upright. Should I be concerned?
3) I'm still setting an alarm for every 3-4 hours at night to feed her. Sometimes she wakes me up before the alarm, sometimes she's still sleeping when the alarm goes off. When can I just relax and wait for her to get hungry and wake me up?
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February 6, 2013 —
A local smoke shop was targeted as New York State Police launched a series of statewide searches to determine if so-called bath salts or synthetic marijuana are being sold illegally. Clyde Beach, the owner of the Jamaica Junction Smoke and Gift Shop in Port Jervis, said that his store was searched, but he has not broken any laws because his establishment voluntarily stopped selling synthetic marijuana when the state outlawed it back in August 2012.
He said the decision was sparked, in part, because "we saw what it was doing to some people." He also said he was very pleased with the professional way his staff reacted to the search and the police, and that no damage occurred to his establishment.
Beach's shop was one of eight searched by police after an investigation into the sales of the illicit substances. A New York State Police press release said, "The risks associated with the use of synthetic cannabinoids (marijuana) and related substances cannot be overstated. The negative effects include agitation, extreme nervousness, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, elevated blood pressure, seizures and hallucinations."
The drugs are linked to various instances of bizarre behavior. In September 2012 in Hawley, PA, 20-year-old Richard Cimino Jr., who had allegedly consumed bath salts, jumped out of a second-story window in a house he had broken into. He then attacked a woman and according to a police press release "gnawed on her head while screaming like an animal."
The New York State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, with the assistance of various police departments around the state, conducted multiple searches and recovered more than 11,000 packages believed to contain synthetic cannabinoids, $16,000 in cash, 200 packages of suspected bath salts, and other items and records relating to the sale of the banned substances. The seized drugs are valued at over $150,000.
City of Port Jervis Police Chief William J. Worden said, "Synthetic marijuana is popular among teens and has been known to cause severe medical-related side effects and even death. Clearly, this toxic drug is dangerous and putting our young adults at risk. Coordinated enforcement efforts and teamwork from all levels of New York State law enforcement is essential to effectively battle the negative effects that synthetic marijuana and other illicit substances contribute to the quality of life and well being of our communities."
Officials say they will test the chemical content of the substances they collected in the raids to find out if the law is being violated and, in some cases, the testing already confirms that it was. But Beach said in the case of the substances they took from his place, they will find no violations because the ingredients are just "herbs."


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Dukes from all around the country will be making a big difference this year at The Big Event --a day when students, faculty and alumni give back to their communities through service. Last year, more than 1,200 Madison students, and 13 Alumni groups participated in The Big Event.
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