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2010: Jockey-turned-crime-novelist Dick Francis, who wrote more than 40 international best-sellers, usually centered around horse racing in England, dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
2008: Former Northern Illinois University student Steven Kazmierczak opens fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb, Illinois, school, killing five people and injuring 21 more before committing suicide.
2005: YouTube is launched, with the domain name going live. The video sharing website was developed over the following months, with the first video, "Me at the zoo," showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, going up on April 23, 2005.
2004: In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the glass roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people and wounding more than 100 others. Engineer Nodar Kancheli, who had designed the structure, first claimed that terrorists likely attacked the attraction, but the cause turned out to be a faulty design.
2003: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult in 1996, is put to death at age 6 because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.
2000: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. The spacecraft would orbit the asteroid several more times before finally terminating its mission by touching down on the asteroid on Feb. 12, 2001.
1999: John Ehrlichman, who was counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs under President Richard Nixon, dies of complications from diabetes at the age of 73 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ehrlichman was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. He served a year and a half in prison for his crimes.
1992: The comedy "Wayne's World," starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, opens in theaters. The movie, based off a popular "Saturday Night Live" sketch, grossed $121.6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the 10th highest-grossing film of 1992 and the highest-grossing film ever based on a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
1991: The movie "The Silence of the Lambs," starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine and Scott Glenn, and directed by Johnathan Demme, premieres in theaters. The movie would go on gross more than $272 million at the box office and become only the third film to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).
1989: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie (pictured), the author of "The Satanic Verses," calling the book "blasphemous against Islam."
1988: Composer Frederick Loewe (left), who collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (right) to create some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theater for both the stage and on film, dies at age 86 in Palm Springs, California. Some of Loewe's best known works with Lerner include "Brigadoon," "Gigi," "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
1977: The B-52's perform their first concert together at a Valentine's Day party for their friends in their college town of Athens, Georgia.
1975: English writer P. G. Wodehouse, best known today for the "Jeeves" and "Blandings Castle" novels and short stories, dies of a heart attack at the age of 93 in Southampton, New York.
1972: The 1950s tribute musical "Grease" opens off-Broadway at New York City's Eden Theatre, featuring Barry Bostwick and Adrienne Barbeau. The play would prove to be an instant hit, moving to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre for a record 3,388 performances and spawning one of the most popular movies of all time.
1972: Members of the rock band Steppenwolf, best known for the top 10 hits "Born to Be Wild," "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Rock Me," announce they are splitting up, saying, "We were locked into an image and style of music and there was nothing for us to look forward to." The same day, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty declared it "Steppenwolf Day" in the city.
1970: Comedian and actor Simon Pegg, best known for his roles in movies such as "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuss" and the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, is born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England.
1970: The Who play a legendary concert at Leeds University in England that would eventually become the "Live at Leeds" album. The album, the only live album that was released while the band was still actively recording and performing with its best known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon, has often been cited as one of the best live rock recording of all time.
1967: The Turtles release their song "Happy Together." The song would go on to knock The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks to become the group's only chart-topper.
1966: Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers scores 41 points to break the NBA career scoring record with a seven-year total of 20,884 points, four points more than retired Hawk Bob Pettit registered in 11 years. Chamberlain would go on to score a total of 31,419 points in his NBA career. He now ranks fifth all-time among NBA career scoring leaders, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.
1962: First lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the redecorated White House. The restoration of the White House was Kennedy's first major project as a first lady.
1960: Hall of Fame football quarterback Jim Kelly, who led the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls from 1991 to 1994, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A four-time Pro Bowl selection, Kelly passed for 35,467 yards and 237 touchdowns during his 11 seasons in the NFL.
1949: The Knesset, the Israeli parliament, convenes for the first time, replacing the Provisional State Council that had acted as Israel's official legislature from its date of independence on May 14, 1948.
1948: Magician and comedian Teller (right), the frequently silent half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, is born Raymond Joseph Teller in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1948: Mordecai Brown, whose pitching helped the Chicago Cubs to World Series titles in 1907 and 1908, dies of diabetic complications at age 71 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He also helped the Cubs to National League pennants in 1906 and 1910, won 20 or more games each season between 1906 and 1911, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame a year after his death. Brown finished his major-league career with a 239-130 record, 1,375 strikeouts, and a 2.06 ERA, the third best ERA in MLB history amongst players inducted into the Hall of Fame, after Ed Walsh and Addie Joss. His career ERA is also the best in MLB history for any pitcher with more than 200 wins.
1946: Dancer and actor Gregory Hines, best known for movies such as "Running Scared," "White Nights" and "Waiting to Exhale," is born in New York City. He died of liver cancer at age 57 on Aug. 9, 2003.
1946: The black-and-white film noir movie "Gilda," starring Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, premieres in theaters. The movie featured Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale.
1945: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1944: Film director and screenwriter Alan Parker, best known for directing movies such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," "Pink Floyd—The Wall," "Mississippi Burning," "The Commitments" and "Evita," is born in London, England. Parker earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director for "Midnight Express" and "Mississippi Burning."
1944: Journalist Carl Bernstein, who with his fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal, is born in Washington, D.C.
1942: Politician and media mogul Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City from 2002 through 2012, is born in Boston, Massachusetts. With a net worth of $37.2 billion as of 2015, he also ranks as one of the richest people in the United States.
1934: Actress Florence Henderson, best known for her role of Carol Brady on the sitcom "The Brady Bunch," is born in Dale, Indiana.
1929: Actor Vic Morrow, known for his starring role in the 1960s TV series "Combat!" and for roles in movies such as "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry," "The California Kid" and "The Bad News Bears," is born in New York City. Morrow is also remembered for his tragic death, dying with two child actors when a stunt helicopter crashed on them during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" in 1982.
1929: In what's termed the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1924: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1920: The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association about six months before the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution gives women the right to vote. Today, the advocacy group operates one of the largest and longest running non-partisan voter registration efforts in the nation and local chapters often sponsor candidate debates.
1913: Jimmy Hoffa, the labor union leader who served as the Teamsters president between 1958 and 1971, is born in Brazil, Indiana. Hoffa would famously go missing on July 30, 1975, and be declared legally dead seven years later, although his body has yet to be found.
1913: College football coach Woody Hayes, who won five national championships and captured 13 Big Ten Conference titles during his 28 years as head coach at Ohio State University, is born in Clifton, Ohio. Hayes, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983, also was head coach for Denison University and Miami University and compiled a career coaching record of 238 wins, 72 losses and 10 ties. He died of a heart attack at age 74 on March 12, 1987.
1912: Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1903: The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established. It would later be split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor.
1899: Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1895: Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opens at the St. James' Theatre in London. The farcical comedy, which satirizes the customs of the Victorian age, would prove to be Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
1894: Actor and comedian Jack Benny, best known for his show "The Jack Benny Program," which ran on radio and TV for more than three decades and was a major influence on the sitcom genre, is born Benjamin Kubelsky in Chicago. He's seen here in 1960 with his wife, Mary Livingstone. Benny died of pancreatic cancer at age 80 on Dec. 26, 1974.
1891: Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, known for the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States, including his "March to the Sea" from Atlanta, Georgia, to the port city of Savannah, Georgia, in late 1864, dies at the age of 71 in New York City. When Ulysses S. Grant was elected U.S. president in 1869, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army, serving until his retirement in 1883.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does electrical engineer Elisha Gray. Bell's patent (No. 174,465) would be issued on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office.
1859: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., an American engineer and inventor most famous for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, is born in Galesburg, Illinois. Despite his invention, Ferris would die on the edge of bankruptcy in 1896, unable to claim enough of his share of the profits from the original Ferris Wheel to cover his expenses.
1859: Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1849: In New York City, President James K. Polk becomes the first serving U.S. president to have his photograph taken.
1847: Anna Howard Shaw, one of the most influential leaders of the women's suffrage movement, is born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Shaw, who was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States, joined the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1888 at the encouragement of Susan B. Anthony and was a driving force in the organization.
1818: Although the exact date of birth remains unknown, this is the day abolitionist Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate his birthday. Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, but escaped in 1838 and became a leader of the abolitionist movement, noted for his for his dazzling oratory skills and incisive antislavery writing.
1779: Capt. James Cook is killed by Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific. Cook had attempted to take hostage the King of Hawaii, Kalani'opu'u, to use as leverage for the return of a small boat that had been stolen from him. When the effort failed, he and his men retreated to the beach. When Cook turned his back to help launch the boats, he was struck on the head and then stabbed to death as he fell into the surf.
1778: The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Adm. Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine-gun salute to the USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones, as it arrived in Quiberon Bay in France.
1400: The deposed Richard II of England dies, most likely from starvation while in captivity in Pontifract Castle on orders from Henry Bolingbroke, who had claimed the throne for himself as Henry IV.
270: Saint Valentine dies a martyr on Via Flaminia in the north of Rome. Little is known about St. Valentine, with many of the current legends about him being invented in the 14th century in England when the feast day of Feb. 14 first became associated with romantic love. This painting from the 1600s depicts a kneeling Saint Valentine receiving a rosary from the Virgin Mary.
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Home List of Titles The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the amplitudes of fluctuations in the 2dFGRS and the CMB, and implications for galaxy biasing
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42983
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- Title
- The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the amplitudes of fluctuations in the 2dFGRS and the CMB, and implications for galaxy biasing
- Author(s)
- Lahav, Ofer; Bridle, Sarah; Percival, Will J.; Peacock, John A.; Efstathiou, George P.; Baugh, Carlton; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry J.; Cannon, Russell D.; Cole, Shaun; Colless, Matthew; Collins, Chris A.; Couch, Warrick J.; Dalton, Gavin B.; De Propris, Roberto; Driver, Simon P.; Ellis, Richard S.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Glazebrook, Karl; Jackson, C. A.; Lewis, Ian; Lumsden, Stuart; Maddox, Stephen J.; Madgwick, Darren; Moody, Stephen J.; Norberg, Peder; Peterson, Bruce A.; Sutherland, William J.; Taylor, Keith
- Abstract
- We compare the amplitudes of fluctuations probed by the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and by the latest measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. By combining the 2dFGRS and CMB data, we find the linear-theory rms mass fluctuations in 8 h-1 Mpc spheres to be σ8m = 0.73 ± 0.05 (after marginalization over the matter density parameter Ωm and three other free parameters). This normalization is lower than the COBE normalization and previous estimates from cluster abundance, but it is in agreement with some revised cluster abundance determinations. We also estimate the scale-independent bias parameter of present-epoch Ls = 1.9L* APM-selected galaxies to be b(Ls, z = 0) = 1.10 ± 0.08 on comoving scales of 0.02 < k < 0.15 h Mpc-1. If luminosity segregation operates on these scales, L* galaxies would be almost unbiased, b(L*,z = O) ≈ 0.96. These results are derived by assuming a flat ACDM Universe, and by marginalizing over other free parameters and fixing the spectral index n = 1 and the optical depth due to reionization τ = 0. We also study the best-fitting pair (Ωm, b), and the robustness of the results to varying n and τ. Various modelling corrections can each change the resulting b by 5 - 15 per cent. The results are compared with other independent measurements from the 2dFGRS itself, and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), cluster abundance and cosmic shear.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 333, no. 4 (Jul 2002), pp. 961-968
- Publication year
- 2002
- Keyword(s)
- Abundance; Cobe normalization; Cosmic microwave; Cosmology; Dependence; Evolution; Galaxies; Luminosity; Maxima-1; Parameters; Power-spectrum; Rich clusters; Statistics; Surveys; Universe
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 RAS.
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French joins the SenateAP FILE PHOTO
Former Rep. Eldred French, D- Shrewsbury, speaks during debate in Montpelier in 2009. Gov. Peter Shumlin on Friday appointed French to a seat in the state Senate from Rutland County.
RUTLAND Eldred French wasnt out of the Legislature for long.
Gov. Peter Shumlin announced Friday he had appointed the former Shrewsbury representative, a Democrat, to take the Rutland County Senate seat vacated by fellow Democrat William Carris.
Carris resigned late last year for health reasons. French will officially take office Tuesday, and he said he has been assigned to the Senates Government Operations and Agriculture committees.
Im thrilled about both of them, he said. There will be some campaign finance and some interesting things coming through Gov Ops and, for Rutland County, Ag is very exciting.
French was in Montpelier on Friday for an iPad training session with the Government Operations Committee.
The Gov Ops Committee is going all-iPad and I dont want to be the dumb kid on the first day of school, he said. Im thrilled. Im happy. Its a job I love.
French lost his House seat after last years redistricting put him in a race for re-election against Rep. Dennis Devereux, R-Mount Holly. French said he was ready to make the transition from House to Senate.
Im a big-picture person in many ways, he said. Serving the broader interests of the county rather than the narrow ones of a district appeals to me. ... Whether youre a senator or youre a representative, the important thing is listening and working hard. When you put those two things together, good things happen.
French said he already has good relationships with his two fellow Rutland County senators, Republicans Kevin Mullin and Margaret Flory. Mullin and Flory echoed the sentiment.
He served on the Judiciary Committee in the House at the same time I served on the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, Mullin said. I think its a good selection. The governor made a good pick.
Flory said she served alongside French on the Judiciary Committee during her time in the House.
Eldred is a good guy, she said. Hes a hard worker, a bright man, listens. Im not always going to agree with him, but well always listen to each other.
The other two nominees sent to the governor by the Rutland County Democrats were former representative and senator Cheryl Hooker of Rutland and onetime Senate candidate Robert Baird of Chittenden. Each said they wished French well and that it was too early for them to contemplate a Senate run in 2014.
Meanwhile, French said he plans to check in with community leaders in each town of the county.
Im very thankful the governor chose to appoint me, he said. I will not disappoint him. I will be a strong, energetic voice from Rutland County from day one. Ive never been so ready for a job in my life.
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"They had to come back again and more or less relive what happened years ago," said prosecutor Dwight Nadamoto.
But Stangel's victims and their families spent the past week fighting their emotions, day in and day, out facing the man who went on a shooting spree nearly two years ago.
On Thursday, a jury convicted him of second degree murder in the death of Tammy Nuygen, who was shot and killed at a stop light in Kaimuki.
Stangel was also convicted on two charges of second degree attempted murder for shooting and hurting Amy Asuncion and Michael Pagaliau that night.
"It is a heart-wrenching case if you think about it. The victims who are just going about their way working, going home, and for no reason someone just starts shooting at them," said Nadamoto.
Stangel was also convicted on six firearms related charges, but felony charges were reduced.
Stangel's attorney said that showed an acknowledgement his client was not in his right frame of mind.
"We did not dispute facts of the case. My challenge to them was to look into Stangel's state of mind," said defense attorney John Schum.
After the verdict was read Stangel's family walked out together, quiet and collected.
His father knows his son will pay for his crimes for a long time.
"This is their son. They love their son. Is their son a saint? No. Did Toby do something wrong? Yes. We did not fight what we thought was wrong, but did not fight what wasn't," said Schum.
"Hopefully it sends a message that you don't go around shooting people," said Nadamoto.
Three drug charges were thrown out, because the jury could not reach a verdict.
There will be a re-trial on those charges.
The prosecution requested an extended sentence hearing that Circuit Court Judge Glenn Kim scheduled to begin Monday morning.
Due to several reduced felony charges, Stangel is still eligible for parole.


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Whether on a quick lap out the resort gates or a long "walk" from a trail head, we're always packing our avy gear as well as a handful of other items. And though this isn't everything our editors bring while backcountry skiing, these are many of the things that are always in our packs regardless of where we are or how long we're out.
Of course, no backcountry gear is useful if you don't know how to use it. So be prepared, take an avy course, and learn as much as you can about yourself, the snow, the mountain, and your ski group.


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April 22, 2014 Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News
Healthcare has a few things to do differently in the privacy and security arena — one of them being: Start taking it seriously. This according to Verizon's annual breach report released today.
The new 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report highlights a concerning carelessness regarding privacy and security, specific to the healthcare industry.
"They seem to be somewhat behind the curve as far as implementing the kinds of controls we see other industries already implemented," said Suzanne Widup, senior analyst on the Verizon RISK team, in an interview with Healthcare IT News discussing report findings.
The industry's biggest misstep? Encryption, encryption, encryption.
To view the full story, please visit Healthcare security stuck in Stone Age


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Just wanted to share with you the way we lived the game yesterday. Including every aspect of the game: the start, the pole, the goals, the penalty kick..
Daaamn, those were probably the best games so far. Italy-Romania 1-1 and we remain undefeated by the World Cup finalists! A 1-2 would have been too nice but the final result was probably fair judging by Italy's canceled goal (pretty much valid) and Buffon's parade i can't ask for more. All i want now is a 0-0 between Italy and France and a 1-0 loss to Holland
Just wanted to share with you the way we lived the game yesterday. Including every aspect of the game: the start, the pole, the goals, the penalty kick..
I hope Podolski can lead the Germans out of the group stage. How the hell did they lose to Croatia?!?!? Damn Jens Lehman....Old bastard....
Yeeaaa! Lets go boy!, what a game against the Czech
Turkey has an unbelievable heart.
as i said before...romania can suck my nuts
well Portugal cost me my bet, should have known they would rest players.
Same with Argentina and Brazil, cant believe they didnt win.
Italy r very very bad.
i am looking forward to the quarters now. Interested to see who Holland get.
As much as I am a Germany fan, I might have to bet on Portugal because they look like the clear favorite right now.
Germany has many nice midrange shooters, and that might be enough for the win, since our keeper sucks at those kind of situations.
Ricardo is a great penalty keeper bad memories lol.
Cant believe the way Italy hammered France today. Toni is struggling though, cant hit the target. France for such a strong team have struggled for a while now. Not sure what the issue is. Their midifield is as good as any country. Trezeguet should have been in the team, absolute gun.
Felt bad for Romania but, should have been in the next stage. Missed penalty against Italy and then lose to a weakened Holland outfit that still looked all class. Its def Hollands tournament to lose in my opinion.
Been watching this with interest, unfortunately England didn't qualify which was embarrasing to say the least. So far Holland and Spain look to be the ones to watch, i know Spain has a historyof chocking and haven't won anything of note since 1964 but they have some real talent on this team, and they have possibly the best strike partnership in Villa and Torres.
Two things are for sure though, one I'm absolutely delighted that France got knocked out and two...... i can't wait for the quarter final between Portugal and Germany, that should be one hell of a game.
I tip Spain for the championship though........


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/155370
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- A radio Census of binary supermassive black holes
- Author(s)
- Burke-Spolaor, S.
- Abstract
- Using archival Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data for 3114 radio-luminous active galactic nuclei, we searched for binary supermassive black holes using a radio spectral index mapping technique which targets spatially resolved, double radio-emitting nuclei. Only one source was detected as a double nucleus. This result is compared with a cosmological merger rate model and interpreted in terms of (1) implications for post-merger time-scales for centralization of the two black holes, (2) implications for the possibility of 'stalled' systems and (3) the relationship of radio activity in nuclei to mergers. Our analysis suggests that binary pair evolution of supermassive black holes (both of masses ≥108 M⊙) spends less than 500 Myr in progression from the merging of galactic stellar cores to within the purported stalling radius for supermassive black hole pairs. The data show no evidence for an excess of stalled binary systems at small separations. We see circumstantial evidence that the relative state of radio emission between paired supermassive black holes is correlated within orbital separations of 2.5 kpc.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 410, no. 4 (Feb 2011), pp. 2113-2122
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Active galaxies; Analytical methods; Gravitational waves; Radio continuum
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 The Author. Journal compilation copyright © 2010 RAS.
- Peer reviewed


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Evidence-Based Medicine, Human Studies Ethics, and the 'Gonzalez Regimen': a Disappointing Editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Part 2
NB: If you haven't yet read Part 1 of this blog, please do so now; Part 2 will not summarize it.
At the end of Part 1, I wrote:
We do not need formal statistics or a new, randomized trial with a larger sample size to justify dismissing the Gonzalez regimen.
In his editorial for the JCO, Mark Levine made a different argument:
Can it be concluded that [the] study proves that enzyme therapy is markedly inferior? On the basis of the study design, my answer is no. It is not possible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
That conclusion may be correct in the EBM sense, but it misses the crucial point of why the trial was (ostensibly) done: to determine, once and for all, whether there was anything to the near-miraculous claims that proponents had made for a highly implausible "detoxification" regimen for cancer of the pancreas. Gonzalez himself had admitted at the trial's inception that nothing short of an outcome matching the hype would do:
DR. GONZALEZ: It's set up as a survival study. We're looking at survival.
SPEAKER: Do you have an idea of what you're looking for?
DR. GONZALEZ: Well, Jeff [Jeffrey White, the director of the Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the NCI—KA] and I were just talking a couple weeks ago. You know, to get any kind of data that would be beyond criticism is—-always be criticism, but at least three times.
You would want in the successful group to be three times — the median to be three times out from the lesser successful groups.
So, for example, if the average survival with chemo, which we suspect will be 5 months, you would want my therapy to be at least — the median survival to be at least 15, 16, 17 months, as it was in the pilot study.
We're looking for a median survival three times out from the chemo group to be significant.
Recall that the median survival in the Gonzalez arm eventually turned out to be 4.3 months.


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Together with their parents, Jamie Leigh Baker and Phillip Reed Lallathin announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Don and Ronna Baker of Belpre. She is the granddaughter of Floyd and Freda Baker of Belpre, Ron and Debby Eaton of Lubeck, W.Va., and the late Nancy Eaton of Lubeck. She is a 2007 graduate of Belpre High School, a 2010 graduate of Washington State Community College, and is employed with Trinity Rehab in Wilmington, N.C.
The prospective bridegroom is the son of Don and Phyllis Lallahin. He is the grandson of the late Bob and Isla Armbruster of Wheeling, the late Carl and Mildred Lallathin of Wheeling, and Virginia Lallathin of Bridgeport, Ohio. He is a 2006 graduate of Belpre High School, a 2010 graduate of Ohio Valley University, and is employed with Eyemart Express in Wilmington, N.C.
An October wedding is planned in Fort Fisher, N.C.


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Waterbury Police Log: Vehicle apparently hits buildingJanuary 29,2013
The following is a sampling of incidents as reported recently to the Waterbury Police Department.
Jan. 20
A large tree branch was resting on a power line on Wallace Street.
Jan. 21
It appeared someone drove into the front corner of a South Main Street building, as indicated by tire tracks and some property damage.
A mans children forgot some belongings at his place over the weekend, but when his ex-wife returned with the children she entered his South Main Street residence without permission, the man said. The man, who wanted to file a report, also said she suggested he stole $20 from his daughter and that he was verbally abusive.
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The Chickpea Cutlet recipe in Veganomicon is a big staple in our house. I've made it for friends and family, have convinced people to buy the book because of it and pretty much have it committed to memory by now. Simple, fast and always delicious, they're a protein-filled part of dinner that we have at least a few times a month during weeknights. If you have yet to try the recipe, I'm giving you a virtual kick in the pants to get going on that.
We generally fix this meal with the exact same sides every time: roasted Brussels sprouts and baked sweet potatoes, (as pictured above). If it ain't broke, right? Since we are in the midst of Vegan MoFo and I want to try to step out of my comfort zone (ever so slightly) with some of my standards, I thought I'd try to switch up our spuds and mash them into a bright orange glory. Problem was, I'd never mashed sweet potatoes before.
I did a little research and apparently the traditional method for creating regular mashed potatoes, (boiling then smashing) doesn't work for sweet potatoes, as the boiling process drains the flavor. I read that it's better to cook the potatoes down with seasonings then mash once soft to the touch. I couldn't find a recipe for savory rather than sweet that I liked, so I created my own.
Since I'm creating and generously doling out recipes today, I'll share my foolproof recipe for roasted Brussels, in case you haven't had the pleasure. If you grew up hating Brussels sprouts like me and most children, this will change your mind, and is so easy you'll wonder how you ever got on without 'em.
Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Yield: 4 servings
4 sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into chunks
1/2 c. almond milk
1 garlic clove, minced
Few pinches salt and pepper
1 T. Earth Balance (optional)
Add all ingredients to a medium saucepan, like so.
Cover and cook on low heat. Stir every few minutes then cover again.
Once the potatoes are soft (this took a little less than 20 minutes for me), shut off the heat, and proceed with smashing potatoes. Add the Earth Balance and mix well. Serve immediately.
Roasted Brussels sprouts
Yield: probably 4 servings, but we eat this in one night. Oops.
1 lb. bag of Brussels sprouts
1 T. olive oil
1/8 tsp. salt (I don't add a ton of salt to things, so feel free to add more to yours if you like)
Red pepper flakes
2 cloves minced garlic, (optional)
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Cut Brussels sprouts in half, and cut off stems.
Place on baking sheet, and add the olive oil, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and garlic if using. Mix together and ensure the sprouts are evenly coated.
Place sheet in oven and cook for 25 minutes, or until the sprouts are as cooked as you'd like them to be. Eat immediately!
Here's a shot of the entire meal, new mashed sweets and all. We usually top our cutlets with a vegan BBQ sauce, but a mustard sauce or gravy make perfect additions as well. White wine rounds out my meal.
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Cirino should apologize
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Cirino blaming "labor costs" for closing his Nevada City location is a slur against his employees and the rules that protect them from exploitation.
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Northside Elementary in La Crosse is recognized for its work helping students beat the odds.
The school is classified as Title I since it has a high percentage of economically disadvantaged children.
The state superintendent presented the school an award Thursday for beating the odds, meaning students are finding success in the classroom.
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WEST RUTLAND Carole Anne Caroline Woods, 67, of West Rutland passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at her home, with her family at her side.
She was born in Proctor, June 29, 1945, the daughter of Felix and Anna Mae (Harrison) Geryk.
Caroline attended St. Stanislaus School and was a graduate of West Rutland High School class of 1963.
She was married January 15, 1967, to Donald E. Woods Sr.
She was a member of St. Bridgets Church.
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She enjoyed her family, her dogs and trips to the casinos.
Surviving are her husband, Don of West Rutland; her son, Donald E. Woods Jr. of West Rutland; her daughter, Karen A. Woods of Waterbury; her brother, Robert Geryk and his wife Veronica of West Rutland; nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:00 p.m. at St. Bridgets Church in West Rutland. Officiating will be Rev. Vincent Coppola, pastor.
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[This article, written by Indian artifact hunter Stephan R. Woll, is dedicated to the memory of John (Jack) B. Niflot, Town of Fremont Councilman and Basket Historical Society President who died at his home on June 2.]
This is a story about a group of native people who called themselves "Muncee" that once lived in the Upper Delaware River Valley in Sullivan County. It is the story about an acculturated group of native people that lived among the early European settlers who could speak their language, wore the same clothing, used their tools and basically did the same things. They were friends and neighbors that would fight to save the valley together, but unfortunately, very little is written about them. Why? The story I am about to tell may answer part of that question.
Some 20 years ago, while I was searching a small field along the Delaware River, I happened to make a unique discovery at the place known by local folks as the "Old Dump." I noticed at that time what covered its surface did give the impression as a sort of old dumping ground. There were mostly broken items—glass, plates, cups—and bits were scattered between the harvested corn stubble.
I have been collecting native-made artifacts ever since I was 12 years old. Currently at the ripe old age of 63, I'm still at it, and over those many years of searching, I saw quite a few spots that I guess you would call some "old dump" and just passed them by. What possessed me to be drawn to this particular place, I can't explain, but for some reason I was, and a very unique discovery was made, with an interesting future result of that visit.
To begin with, there is always a basis of truth in local legends. These stories have to originate somewhere, and the dump is a good example, because these same stories and legends handed down through the years gradually will change from what they were intended to express into something completely different. That "old dump" was actually a part of the original occupation site (settlement) of the Muncee Delaware Indians during the Colonial period in the valley, called "Cushetunk."
When I study places such as this one, I always ask permission. So I contacted the landowner to show him what I was finding, and we met in Callicoon along with his grandson, who later commented, "Grandpa, maybe Steve will find some swords and guns." Hearing that, we both laughed and I received the permission.
Thus began the 20-year process of surface collecting from that site, which produced thousands and thousands of bits and pieces mainly of broken glass, plates, cups, jugs, clay tobacco pipes, buttons, bullets, scraps and more scraps. After each trip I would separate the samples I found into lots—for example, clay jug pieces and so on—and, of course, finally (as some of these neat stories go), one day I happened to notice something unusual on the edges of some of the broken glass. There were chip marks present, the same chipping marks that are found on stone artifacts. It was at that time that I realized all the broken glass wasn't exactly what it appeared to be. For instance, some were recycles into projectile points, scrapers, knives, punches and ornaments. This led me to examine and re-examine the rest of the materials over and over again. The research was long-term, slow, frustrating, nerve-wracking, disappointing at times, rewarding at others. The final result of all this work was to be able to add a chapter to the unwritten history of the Muncees here in the upper Delaware River Valley from the bits and pieces they left behind.


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Working with the new Message Driven Beans and JMS
This article discusses the new EJB 2.0 Message Driven Beans. I walk through an example of using this new bean, along with the corresponding JMS infrastructure that surrounds it.
All of the code from this article should work with any EJB server that has support for Message Driven Beans (EJB 2.0 container); and you will need a messaging server that supports JMS to hold the queues. This article assumes that you know about Enterprise JavaBeans and their fundamentals.
The system that we will build in this article will be an email queuing system. The parts of the system are
Before we can talk about Message Driven Beans, we need to talk about JMS, the Java Messaging Service. There are lots of messaging systems, each with its own API. Messaging systems provide a way to exchange events and data asynchronously. As a programmer, I can send some information to the messaging service and continue processing, without waiting for a response from the system. The JMS API describes a standard way to access any messaging system, just like JDBC allows me to talk to Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server using the same API. As well as being able to call services asynchronously, we also have the added benefit of having a loose coupling between the code that originates the request, and the code that services the request. Different clients put messages onto a certain destination; and, separately, receivers take messages off the destination and deal with them.
Let's quickly go through some of the basics of the JMS APIs:
Message systems have several models of operation. The JMS API provides separate domains that correspond to the different models. A JMS provider may implement one or more of the domains. The two most common domains are Point-to-Point and Publish/Subscribe. Both of the domains have the following concepts.
A point-to-point application has the following characteristics:
For example, a call center application may use a PTP domain. A phone call enters the queue, and an operator takes care of that call. The phone call doesn't go to all of the operators, only one.
A pub/sub application has the following characteristics:
For example, an email newsletter application may use a publish/subscribe model. Everyone who is interested in the newsletter becomes a subscriber, and when a new message is published (say the head of HR sends out new info), that message is sent to all subscribers.
Our email application will be modeled using the PTP domain. When an email is placed on the queue we only want one receiver, else the email could be sent out multiple times.
The item that is put on the queue is a JMS Message. This is a generic type that has message headers and contents. There are various subtypes of the JMS Message. For example,
This message holds a String. You manipulate the
This message stores a Serializable object. You manipulate the
This message holds name/value pairs. You manipulate the
This message is a stream of bytes. This can be used for wrapping existing message formats.
This message allows you to work with a stream of primitives
We will use a
MapMessage in our example, as it is one
way that we can place email header information and the email body,
into the message.
Now we have talked about the fundamentals of JMS, we can talk about the new component type that is in the EJB 2.0 specification. (The EJB 2.0 spec if a Public Draft at the time of this article, although the Message Driven Bean part is not rumored to change.)
Let's review the design so far. We have a sender that puts messages on the queue, and a receiver that will read the messages and use that information to send out email. This receiver could be a program that starts up, subscribes to the "EmailQueue", and deals with the messages that come in. Instead of doing this every time we need a receiver, it would be nice to have a component architecture that allows for the concurrent processing of a stream of messages, is transactionally aware, and takes care of the infrastructure code, letting us work on the business logic. This is where Message Driven Beans come in. A Message Driven Bean (MDB) is simply a JMS message consumer. A client cannot access a MDB directly (as you do with session and entity beans). Your only interface to the MDB is by sending a JMS message to the destination of which the MDB is listening. To allow reuse, as with the other EJBs, a lot of information is provided in the EJB deployment descriptor. This means we do not worry about where we go to get the message (whether to a queue or topic), we just write the onMessage(Message msg) code to deal with the message.
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We have talked about JMS, and Message Driven Beans; now it's time to build our example.
We will walk through the following steps to get the email application working.
The code that we will create is
The EmailClient that will plug a message on the queue
The Message Driven Bean that consumes the JMS messages from the client, and then uses the EmailHelper to send out an email
A helper class that has the static method
This step will depend on your messaging server (e.g. IBM MQSeries,
SonicMQ, and so on). We need to setup a JMS Queue. I will use the
EmailQueue, which will be used in both the client
(sender) and Message Driven Bean (receiver) deployment descriptor.
Now we will write our client (JMS sender). This client will take in
information about the email that we will eventually send out. The
main() method takes in the arguments from the command
line, builds a Hashtable (any Map would work), and calls the
sendmail(Map m) method. The sendmail method takes this
information, builds a
MapMessage from it, and then sends
the message to the
EmailQueue queue via
The majority of the work is done in the constructor. It is there that we do all of the JMS work. The constructor does the following:
getInitialContext() helper method.
connection.createQueueSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE)]
(Queue) ctx.lookup(QUEUE_NAME)]
That's it. Now we have a client that can send messages to our queue. We can compile and run this client via:
% java com.customware.client.EmailClient firstname.lastname@example.com
email@example.com "my subject" "my email body"
We have a client. Now we build our consumer.
When writing session, or entity beans, you have to write a remote interface, home interface, and the bean class (and optionally a Primary Key class for an entity bean). With Message Driven Beans we only have the bean class, as there is no "client" that interfaces with the bean.
A Message Driven Bean must implement two interfaces:
This is the JMS interface that provides the
This is the EJB interface that contains the EJB lifecycle methods:
If you look at the code in
EmailMDB.java you will see
that the first few methods implement the
MessageDrivenBean interface. All we are doing in these
methods is printing that they are called. The
setMessageDrivenContext() method saves away the context
to an instance variable, in case we want to query it later. Nine times
out of ten, this is what you would do. The last method is the callback
onMessage(Message msg) from the
MessageListener interface. This is where we consume the
message and deal with it. First, we create a
by casting the message that was given to us. Then we loop through the
name-value pairs in the map message, and plug in their values to a
standard Hashtable. Note the methods that we use to go through the
// Get the names out of the Map Message
Enumeration mapnames = mapmessage.getMapNames();
// Get the string out of the map message, giving the key
String val = mapmessage.getString(key);
Finally, we call the
EmailHelper.sendmail(map) method,
which takes care of sending the email for us.
That was pretty easy. That is the great thing about MDBs. We don't have lots of ugly JMS code (like we had in the client, or like we would have if we wrote the consumer from scratch); in fact how does the MDB know where to get these messages? For that, we go to the deployment descriptors.
At deployment time, we tell the container the information about our
MDB. You use standard EJB deployment descriptors to setup
MDBs. Therefore, we need a
META-INF directory to house
our descriptor files.
In the
ejb-jar file, we place the fully qualified
class name of the MDB, the destination type of the bean, and security
information etc. The file follows; notice the class name and the JMS
destination type. (The tag
<destination-type> was
changed by the specication authors from
<jms-destination-type>. You may need to use
<jms-destination-type> if you are using BEA
WebLogic 6.0sp1.)
Where do we tell it the NAME of the queue? This goes in the vendor
specific file. For example, if you were deploying this on BEA WebLogic
6.0 you would have the
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml file that
looks like
<ejb-name> links you to the bean definition
ejb-jar.xml. Then we can setup pool information. In
this example, we are going to have 5 MDBs instantiated at deployment
with the ability to increase to 200. This will allow us to have 200
concurrent messages hitting the queue. The
<destination-jndi-name> is where we tell the
container to look at the EmailQueue. Since we do not have this in
code, if the JMS environment changed, we could just change this XML
file, and redeploy the bean.
Now we have gotten the code, and the deployment descriptors, we need to package it to deploy on the EJB server. The directory structure should look like
Within the
ejb, and
util directories should be the compiled classes;
../ejb/EmailMDB.class, and
Now we archive the code and the deployment descriptors via:
../code% jar cvf emailmdb.jar com META-INF
Sample Files
Now we have the Email MDB in a jar file that we deploy to an EJB
server. To test, after deploying the bean, run the client, and you
should see the EJB server sending out an email. You may need to make
sure that the JavaMail API
mail.jar is at the beginning
of the
CLASSPATH for your EJB server.
We have created a Message Driven Bean, showing how simple it is to tie into JMS as a consumer. Message Driven Beans are a nice addition to the EJB component architecture, offering a way for developers to create consumers that are pooled, transactional, and use the container's infrastructure.
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An ongoing drug investigation in La Crosse late last week leads to two men being arrested including one with a long criminal history.
This past Friday night, Jonathan Banazkiewicz, 30, of La Crosse was arrested at 615 Jackson Street.
He has been the target of an ongoing police investigation and has previous drug felonies on his records.
Police say Banazkiewicz ran from them, but was quickly caught and was found to have illegal drugs on him when arrested.
Police also recovered a handgun he allegedly had thrown while trying to escape.
A search warrant at the house led police to John A. Irvin, 49, another subject who was located and arrested for possession of marijuana.
Police say they found various illegal drugs and paraphernalia.
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For several months since the announcement of the closure of Don Valley Stadium the club has been in detailed discussions regarding the newly developed Sheffield Hallam University sports complex on Bawtry Road.
Following a meeting last Wednesday it now appears that option is no longer available for first team fixtures. This has led to an emergency situation where the very future of the Eagles has been thrown into doubt.
The only possible remaining venue within Sheffield that could potentially accommodate the Eagles is Owlerton Stadium where the Eagles started out life almost 30 years ago. However there is likely to be a substantial amount of work required to bring the stadium up to RFL requirements.
The stadium lost its safety licence for playing rugby league games in 1989 and a feasibility study will need to be carried out to see how practicable it will be to return rugby league to the stadium. Sheffield City Council is providing capital sums to relocate athletics to Woodbourn Road and it is to be hoped that they can also assist rugby league to relocate to Owlerton if the feasibility study is positive.
Without a professional rugby league club in Sheffield then all the community work that the club has been carrying out over those 30 years will cease, to the great detriment of thousands of youngsters in the city. Sheffield Eagles are the current rugby league champions but the sport of rugby league may be lost to the city of Sheffield unless assistance is forthcoming.
Sheffield Eagles is a not for profit community club and has been self-sufficient throughout its existence and has brought great prestige to Sheffield without a penny of assistance from the Council. In its hour of need the club is appealing for one off assistance to allow it to survive the closure of Don Valley Stadium and ensure that it remains a thriving club for years to come, providing ongoing opportunities for the youth of Sheffield to participate in the sport.
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ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF TRAIL JUNIOR QUALIFIERMagnolia Grove Golf Club â Crossings CourseMobile, AlabamaSeptember 2, 2004
THREE CROSS PATHS WITH MATCHING 72s TO SHARE MEDALIST HONORS Even par leads 15 qualifiers into this weekendâs tournament
MOBILE, Ala. â Toby Ragland of Jacksonville, Fla., Parker Ferren of Tallahassee, Fla., and Jason Cuthbertson of Conway, Ark., battled a typically hot and humid Alabama summer day to fire even-par 72s and capture medalist honors at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Junior Qualifier on Thursday.Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Junior Qualifier was played at the Crossings Course at Magnolia Grove Golf Club. The field consisted of 65 boys from 18 states. Fifteen qualified for the tournament which begins Saturday at Magnolia Grove.Raglandâs round ended well, but getting there was an adventure. He started his round 2-over par, but quickly moved to 1-under par through seven holes before eventually finishing at even par. Raglandâs attempt to qualify for an AJGA event is unusual considering his fully exempt Performance Based Entry Status. âIâm fully exempt, but I missed the application deadline to get into the tournament,â admitted Ragland, who fired a 35-37â72. âI was hoping I would just make it, because I really didnât want to miss this tournament. Iâm really looking forward to the weekend.âRagland will have at least one familiar face joining him from the qualifier fieldâfellow medalist Parker Ferren who caddied for Ragland in the match play portion of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship earlier this summer. Ferren birdied holes No. 1, 2 and 3 on the way to his 33-39â72.âThe two tournaments Iâve qualified for, Toby has been there. I need to bring him along anywhere I go,â the 17-year-old Ferren joked. âI think I play well in qualifiers because I have nothing to lose. As long as I can take the same attitude into the weekend, Iâll be fine.âStarting his round on hole No. 13, Cuthbertson was 2-under par with three holes to play, but found trouble on the start of the back nine for a 34-38â72.âI looked at the results from last year and saw that the cut was 77 or 78,â said the Arkansas native Cuthbertson. âI knew that if I kept the ball in play and made a few putts that I would be in good shape to qualify.âA well-traveled group of boys round out the qualifiers for the final tournament of the AJGA summer season. Those qualifiers are Patrick Reed of Baton Rouge, La., Reed Howard of Hilton Head Island, S.C., Rikiya Kitagawa of Bradenton, Fla., Taylor Lucas of Collierville, Tenn., Freddie Janneck of Madison, Miss., Corey Nagy of Charlotte, N.C., Rocky Cleland of Hattiesburg, Miss., Chris Robertson of Huntsville, Ala., Austin Ehlenfeldt of Beaver Dam, Wis., Michael Blodgett of San Luis Obispo, Calif., Randy Guliuzo, Jr. of Belle Chasse, La., and Ryan Smith of Birmingham, Ala.The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.The first round of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Junior begins at 7 a.m. Saturday. Ninety-nine boys will be competing at the Falls Course at Magnolia Grove Golf Club, while 62 girls will start off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees at the Crossings Course. For more information on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Junior, contact tournament headquarters at (251) 649-6111.
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Woman accused of assaulting toddlerFebruary 13,2013Woman denies assault on child
NORTH BENNINGTON A woman who is staying at the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless shelter at 6 Bank St. was charged with two misdemeanors on Tuesday after police said they believed she had assaulted an 18-month-old child.
Adrienne Bowen, 22, pleaded innocent in Bennington criminal court to misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and cruelty to a child younger than 10.
In an affidavit, Detective Anthony Silvestro, of the Bennington Police Department, said he had begun to investigate Bowen because of a report made to the Vermont Department of Children and Families by an unnamed employee of the shelter.
On Monday, Silvestro and an investigator with the Department of Children and Families met with a person living in the shelter who was also not named in the affidavit. The resident claimed Bowen had picked up a child, who was born in August 2011, by the hand.
The resident said the child was held high enough to be swinging in the air and said Bowen twisted the childs arm and dropped her on the floor where she hit her head. The resident said Bowen kicked the childs foot before walking away.
On other occasions, the resident told investigators, Bowen dragged the child up some stairs by her arm.
Silvestro said Bowen told him that she gets stressed out very easily. She denied dropping and kicking the child but admitted to picking the child up by her arm.
She also told investigators she didnt want to have the child taken away from her.
Bowen was released without bail but ordered to observe a curfew and obey a safety plan created by the Department of Children and Families. She was also ordered not to use corporal punishment on the child.
Bowen also has a pending case from September with a felony count of forgery and a misdemeanor charge of retail theft.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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Manager: City budget is on trackJanuary 30,2014
By David Delcore
Staff Writer
BARRE — Department heads are still on yellow alert and discretionary spending remains frozen without prior approval, but City Manager Steve Mackenzie says he's not as concerned as he was a week ago about the prospect of a looming deficit.
It could still happen, but after having the opportunity to thoroughly review a mid-year budget report, Mackenzie said things aren't nearly as bleak as they appeared when he first glanced at the document's bottom line.
"You can't look at the raw numbers and make … an informed judgment as to the status of the budget," Mackenzie told city councilors a week after warning them that ending the current fiscal year in the black seemed like an extremely remote possibility.
That "gross analysis" was based on a cursory review of a mid-year snapshot of the city's financial performance — one that suggested expenditures were running over budget to the tune of about $160,000, while revenues were underperforming estimates by several hundred thousand dollars.
Mackenzie said those numbers, while accurate, are "misleading" and his gloomy financial forecast had brightened considerably after he'd had a chance to drill into the numbers.
"The good news is it looks like we're OK right now," said Mackenzie, who is now projecting a $12,000 surplus that is barely worth mentioning in a city that is slated to spend $10.3 million this year.
For the complete story, see Friday's Times Argus.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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The Invitation for Bid and Contract (IFB), used to procure vended meals for the Summer Food Service Program, must be used for all contracts and must be competitively bid if the contract will exceed $150,000. Materials were developed to assist program sponsors in procuring a contract and include required materials and instructions for completing the competitive bid process.
If the contract for meal services will not be in excess of $150,000 annually, you may use informal bidding procedures to procure the meal services contract. See link below.
- The Invitation for Bid and Contract - Included in the Instruction Handbook
- Instructions for Completing the Invitation for Bid and Contract
- Sample Newspaper Advertisement
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- Invitation for Bid and Contract Prototype — Contact the Illinois State Board of Education for a copy at (800) 545-7892 or email your request to email@example.com
- Renewal Procedures
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- Renewal Agreement for 2016-2017
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- Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility, and Voluntary Exclusion Lower Tier Covered Transaction
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A draft copy of the completed Invitation for Bid and Contract,
the proposed menus, a list of intended vendors, and a cover
letter to the intended vendors must be submitted by mid-April, to Amy Bianco at the Illinois State Board of Education,
Nutrition Programs, 100 North First Street W-270, Springfield,
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and Contract package must be approved by ISBE before you
can begin soliciting bids.
This year the bid materials may be downloaded from the website or you may contact Amy Bianco at 800-545-7892 or email your request to firstname.lastname@example.com to receive a copy of the bid materials.
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To say our readers like Rag-O-Rama is an understatement. The hip secondhand clothing store has dominated this category of our poll and shoppers' hearts for years. Why? The Clintonville joint is the whole package - good looking clothes, charming displays, nice prices.
Visitors can find everything from vintage to designer, accessories to formal wear. Rag-O-Rama will also pay for dinner, buying clothes from customers to re-stock their shelves. And that whole "forgo a shopping bag and donate the cost of it to a local charity" thing? Sweet.
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LAS CRUCES — New Mexico ranks seventh nationally in dairy product sales, with dairies adding more than $730 million to the state's economy, according to a New Mexico State University agricultural economist.
"Dollar for dollar, dairy is one of our big players," said Ereney Hadjigeorgalis, an assistant professor in NMSU's agricultural economics department. "It is the top agricultural contributor to the New Mexican economy, accounting for 37 percent of total agricultural cash receipts."
That rise to the top has accelerated since the turn of the century. From 2000 to 2004, New Mexico milk production has rocketed 28 percent, thanks to increases in both cow numbers and production per cow, she said in a news release from NMSU.
"We're the nation's fastest-growing milk-producing state," Hadjigeorgalis said. Her findings are published in a newly released NMSU technical report titled, "The U.S. Dairy Industry and International Trade in Dairy Products."
Two primary factors are driving this growth: excellent environmental conditions, especially on New Mexico's eastern side near Clovis and Portales, and a restrictive regulatory atmosphere in California that is pushing new operations to New Mexico, the release said.
"Dairy cows like New Mexico," said Jim Libbin, an agricultural economist with NMSU's Agricultural Experiment Station. "They produce very well under our growing conditions."
A bigger factor, though, has been a lack of elbow room in California, the news release reported. "Virtually all our expansion has been California dairies selling out because they weren't able to expand as they wanted," he said. "Also, California's regulatory regulations have put the squeeze on dairies there."


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PITTSBURGH, PA (March 14, 2008) - Pittsburgh International Airport's AIRMALL received top honors from Airport Revenue News (ARN) as the Airport with the Most Unique Services. The awards were announced at ARN's recent conference in Dallas, TX, to recognize excellence in the airport concessions industry.
For the 13th year in a row, the results, to be published in the April issue of ARN as well as on the ARN Web site, reflect the industry's choice for the best concession programs and the best concessionaires of the year in U.S. airports.
"These prestigious awards reflect the best airports and concessionaires in the industry who are chosen by respected experts," says Pauline Armbrust, president and chief executive officer of the Armbrust Aviation Group. "We are proud to be the administrator of this important industry competition."
Pittsburgh International Airport's AIRMALL was chosen for its comprehensive scope of management expertise in airport retail and food and beverage. The wide variety of branded merchandise offered at guaranteed street pricing continues to ensure quality as well as competitive pricing. It is the formula that has made the AIRMALL world renowned.
The AIRMALL provides its vendors with technical and administrative support programs for merchandizing, marketing and customer service. Its Quality Service Program that recognizes and rewards AIRMALL employees for excellent customer service is a model for the industry.
"Pittsburgh International Airport is a highly regarded airport because of the hard work and dedication to excellence of the AIRMALL and the many employees who work to provide the quality service to the region's air travelers," said Glenn R. Mahone, Chairman, Allegheny County Airport Authority.


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Dicke College of Business Administration honors seven with Pinnacle Awards
From left: Richard Meininger, Robert D. Kerscher, John J. Bishop, Cheryl Burcham Cotner, Robert L. Gronlund and Oscar J. Mifsud.
The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration at Ohio Northern University honored seven individuals with Pinnacle Awards at a banquet held Feb. 15.
This prestigious award, which honors individuals who have made the highest commitment to the business college, was presented to John J. Bishop, chairman and chief executive officer of The Motorists Insurance Group; Cheryl Burcham Cotner, executive director of The Future Begins Today; Robert L. Gronlund, chief executive officer and chairman of Wood-Mode Inc.; Robert D. Kerscher, founder, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Lexi-Comp Inc.; Dr. Clayton L. Mathile, former owner, chief executive officer and president of Iams Food Company; Dr. Richard Meininger, former ONU faculty member; and Oscar J. Mifsud, president and chief executive officer of The Mifsud Group.
"We wanted an avenue to publicly say 'thank you' to the people who have made significant and sustained gifts to the college," said James Fenton, dean of the Dicke College of Business Administration. "Through their generosity, they've had a tremendous and transformative impact on our students and the business college generally."
All of the Pinnacle Award recipients, with the exception of Meininger, earned business degrees from Ohio Northern University. Bishop graduated in 1972, Cotner in 1968, Gronlund in 1964, Kerscher in 1970, Mathile in 1962, and Mifsud in 1972. Although not an alumnus, Meininger served on the faculty of the business college for nearly 40 years before retiring in 2012.
The names of this year's honorees will be added to a fabricated sculpture on the ground floor of Dicke Hall. The contemporary display, constructed of copper, aluminum and stainless steel, stands as a public and enduring testament to the individuals who have reached a pinnacle in their generosity and service to the college.