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Maria offers: "When I travel to tournaments I put the disk in my computer three or four times a week and do yoga for about an hour. It helps my flexibility and gets me more relaxed, especially after a good workout. I enjoy it, and it helps my game tremendously."
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Bobby Thomson hits the "shot heard 'round the world," Woody Guthrie passes away, Germany comes together, and O.J. Simpson is found not guilty, all on this day.
1976: Future Hall of Famer Hank Aaron singles in his last career at-bat for the Milwaukee Brewers and drives in his 2,297th run, an MLB record that stands to this day. Aaron retired with a career .305 average, 755 home runs and 3,771 hits. His career home run record would stand until 2007.

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As its bigger rival struggles to deliver sufficient amount of chips produced using 28nm process technology, United Microelectronics Corp. claims that it is progressing smoothly with the roll-out of the technology. The firm has already delivered samples of 28nm chips to multiple clients and plans to initiate volume production sometimes in the second half of the year. Still, the company will be conservative with 28nm capacity.
"UMC is progressing smoothly on our advanced 28nm process technology. We have successfully delivered the 28nm flagship product samples to mobile communication and computing customers with additional product tape outs during last quarter. We remained on track to enter volume production for UMC 28nm process in the second half of the 2012," said Shih-Wei Sun, chief executive officer of UMC, during a conference call with financial analysts.
The company indicated that it actually delivered thousands of functional engineering samples of chips made using 28LPT and 28HLP version of the 28nm fabrication process that use conventional Poly/SiON (silicon oxynitride) gates. The list of clients is confidential, but UMC stresses that it includes customers with mobile communication and mobile computing designs.
Just like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, UMC will adopt high-k metal gate (HKMG) version of the process slowly. The first 28nm chips made using 28HPM version of the process with HKMG technology will only start to tape out sometimes in December, 2012, actual production will only commence in 2013.
"We are actively building sufficient capacity for 28nm technology and believe that this node will enhance UMC's customer and the product meets average selling price and profitability once volume production begins. [...] Our consistent efforts [in Q2 2012] would be directed towards timely management of customers advancing the capacity needs and completing all necessary 28nm preparation for volume production in order to maximize benefits to customers and the UMC," added Shih-Wei Sun.
Although UMC is committed to provide sufficient production capacities for 28nm node, the company stresses that it will not speed up the expansion plans. UMC wants wafers processed using 28nm manufacturing technology to account for 5% of wafer revenue by the end of the year.


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For some families, such as the Orems, Christmas Day means a few frames of bowling.
Yesterday, the Powell family kept with tradition at AMF Sawmill Lanes. For the past three years, Dad has typically taken the top score. This year, however, Mom earned the bragging rights.
"That's a first," Matt Orem said after his wife, Lisa, earned the highest score among the family, including son Conal, 13; and daughter Meara, 8.
With family all across the country, Mrs. Orem said they wanted to do something fun that kept the four of them together.
"We didn't want to sit around the house," she said.
Other families also opted to spend the holiday away from home and hearth. They popped by some of the few places open: movie theaters, Chinese restaurants, bowling alleys and roller-skating rinks.
"When Christmas falls on the middle of the week, we'd rather go out than travel to visit family," said Steve Weihrauch, who with his wife, Annie, watched two films at the Gateway Film Center.
The Hilliard couple plan to visit family in Bluffton during the weekend and decided to spend yesterday watching new releases.
Managers at area movie theaters say Christmas Day attendance rivals weekend numbers.
At Movie Tavern Mill Run in Hilliard, several thousand visitors were expected to take in a movie by the end of the night, manager Tom Ulrey said.
"We're busy all day," he said.
The same was true at Gateway, where Allison Hermance-Moore and her parents, Rob and Laurie, hoped to catch the first showing of Saving Mr. Banks, inspired by the back story of the making of Mary Poppins. The movie was sold out, so they decided on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
"We usually do this on Christmas," Allison Hermance-Moore said. "It's one of the only things open."
Harry Johns, manager of AMF Sawmill Lanes, expected a packed house at the bowling alley, which closed at midnight.
"There are people who want to do something with their family," he said. "Or people who want to get away from their family for a few hours."
Not so for the Orems. Lisa's parents later joined the family for bowling, and then dinner at a Japanese steakhouse.
"I couldn't have a Christmas without (bowling)," Meara Orem said. "I like it because it makes everyone happy and it brings everyone together."


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Several friends contacted me in February to say that Richard Talleur had passed away. Next, the newsletter of the Pike-Wayne chapter of Trout Unlimited arrived with the news that Fredrick Eck had died. Mr. Eck had operated fly fishing shops in the Honesdale, Scranton and Starlight areas. His then wife, Patti, had been an excellent ambassador of good will at his stores. She had an uncanny knack of remembering the names of even those who were only sometimes customers. Rick also gave freely of his time to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum.
I came to know Dick Talleur when AT&T transferred him from Albany, NY, to its Westchester County offices. Once Dick realized that there was no chapter of Trout Unlimited in the area, he set out to organize one. He arranged to have Wes Drake and Art Flick attend a dinner meeting along with 11 men and one woman to explore the possibility of forming a chapter. Barb and I, along with 10 other fellows, agreed to attempt to do this. Dick was to be the president of the new chapter and Barb was to serve as secretary. Since the chapter had no money, a treasurer was not named. This new chapter being located mainly in Westchester and Putnam counties, I suggested it be named the Croton Watershed chapter. The name stuck.
Dick would invariably eat dinner at our house prior to the monthly meetings. It was the custom to begin each meeting with a half-hour fly-tying session. In those days, Dick was a very ordinary fly tier. I suspect it was Poul Jorgenson who taught him how to polish his tying skills. Dick made the suggestion that the chapter could solve its financial problems by having our tiny group run a fly fishing school the following spring. It was our hope to enroll 10 or 15 students for the course. We were stunned when 98 students signed up for the school. At $25 each, our chapter was suddenly no longer poor. After the first year, Dick unfortunately suffered a nervous breakdown and was unable to continue to lead the chapter.
When he recovered, he began writing books on fly fishing and fly tying. He became a fixture at American Angler magazine, where for years he wrote interesting articles on fly tying. He will be certainly be remembered for his timeless books on fly fishing and fly tying techniques. To my mind, his most important legacy is the founding of the very successful Croton Watershed chapter of Trout Unlimited.
This chapter now has over 400 members. It funds and mentors more "Trout in the Classroom" programs than any other chapter in the state of New York. Its fly fishing and fly tying schools raise large amounts of money every year. No one who attended that initial meeting ever imagined this magnitude of success.
Opening day of the New York State trout season will arrive in only 21 days. Do not forget, the West Branch and the Main Stem of the Delaware are not open until the first Saturday after April 10. The following tributaries are also not open until that date: Callicoon Creek from its mouth upstream to Hortonville, the North Branch of Callicoon Creek up to Gossweylers Pond, Hankins Creek from its mouth upstream to the falls at Mileses, Hoolihan Brook and Pea Brook. This is to protect spawning rainbow trout from being disturbed.


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Walker to tout tax cuts, mining in State of State
Address scheduled for 7 p.m.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to talk about his desire to cut income taxes for the middle class and pass a bill to create mining jobs in northern Wisconsin in his State of the State speech.
Walker released excerpts of the speech Tuesday afternoon. He is scheduled to deliver it Tuesday evening to a joint meeting of the Legislature.
In the excerpts, Walker says the state is headed in the right direction after his last budget that eliminated a $3.6 billion budget shortfall.
Walker did that through massive cuts to public education, the University of Wisconsin System and by requiring public workers to pay more for health care and pension benefits.
Walker says the state made "tough but prudent decisions" that now makes money available to cut taxes.
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MINEOLA - A jury has found former Nassau Police Department Second Deputy Commissioner William Flanagan not guilty on the felony count of receiving a reward for official misconduct.
The jury had already found Flanagan guilty of two counts of misdemeanor official misconduct and conspiracy for preventing the arrest of the son of a police benefactor.
Police say then 17-year-old Zachary Parker stole $11,000 worth of electronics from JFK High School in Bellmore back in 2009. Prosecutors say Parker's father Gary used his connections with Flanagan and two other officers to persuade school officials not to press charges.
Bruce Barket, Flanagan's attorney, says he plans on appealing the verdict.
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La Casa de Los Amigos…Mis AmigosWednesday, September 12th, 2012 by Sally Weathers
This post is a heartfelt (albeit unpardonably overdue) thank you to the organization that took me in while I was in Mexico City this summer. Thanks especially to Nico, the center's director, who acted as host to the event the entire weekend . I would like to take the opportunity of this 'thank you' to dispel a few Haver-myths about the house, and to shed a little more light on an organization that has a remarkable partnership with Haverford.
What is La Casa?
A quaker meeting house, a center for the promotion of global peace and non-violence, a hostel, a space for community organizing, a place where migrants can find a temporary home…and perhaps most basically, a community of individuals prepared to support a variety of projects that reflect the values of the Quaker tradition.
What sort of relationship does Haverford have with La Casa?
Mythbusters: La Casa has NEVER been an arm of Haverford. Our Center for Peace and Global Citizenship has a long-standing relationship with La Casa that has permitted many Bi-Co students over the years the opportunity to study/volunteer in Mexico City.
What's it like to stay at La Casa as a guest?
It's one of those rare experiences when a group of total strangers welcomes you into their small, supportive community right in the midst of a huge and bustling city (population nearly 9 million). Mexico's capital would have undoubtedly overwhelmed a visitor like me had La Casa not taken me in. La Casa has dormitories for both sexes, as well as single bedrooms. Breakfast can be purchased for a small fee every morning, and La Casa provides showers, towels, and sheets for its guests.


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Despite President Obama's vow to shut down Guantanamo Bay, the nation's most expensive prison is undergoing some costly new updates that would allow the facility to remain open for years. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports.
A Guantanamo detainee who died Saturday was a former hunger striker who had recently been placed in a disciplinary cell after splashing a guard with a "cocktail"-- typically containing urine, a U.S. military official tells NBC News.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the death of the detainee, whose identity and country of origin will not be released until his family is notified, said Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a spokesman for the U.S. detention facility.
But Durand provided some new details about the detainee's death -- the ninth to occur at Guantanamo since the prison opened in early 2002 and the first since an Afghan prisoner committed suicide in May of last year.
The detainee was found unconscious in his cell in Camp 5 on Saturday afternoon and was taken to the Naval hospital at Guantanamo where efforts to revive him failed. There were no cuts on his wrist or any other obvious signs of self-inflicted wounds, Durand said.
The detainee also had no serious medical problems. He had participated in a hunger strike last spring but ended it in June and was examined as recently as Aug. 22 when he was at 95 percent of his body weight, Durand said.
He had "fairly recently" thrown the "cocktail" at a prison guard, causing him to be placed in a solitary cell at Camp 5, said Durand.
Although the death occurred on Saturday, military officials did not announce it until Monday in order to give officials time to notify the host country and family members of the detainee. That process has not yet been completed, but officials decided to release some details Monday because of concerns that some visitors to the base-- such as defense lawyers -- would learn about it anyway, Durand said.
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The Miami Herald reported that a pathology and mortuary team was brought to the base on Sunday to attend to the body. A Muslim imam was summoned in order to give the man Islamic rites.
The dead man's remains will be returned home after an autopsy, the Navy said.
The detention camp was set up to hold non-American captives suspected of involvement with al-Qaida, the Taliban or other Islamic militant groups after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Of the 779 men held there, 167 remain.
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Two of the earlier deaths were from natural causes and six were designated as suicides, most of them by hanging.
NBC News staff and Reuters also contributed to this report.
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Home List of Titles The effects of calcium and yttrium additions on the microstructure, mechanical properties and biocompatibility of biodegradable magnesium alloys
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/155749
- Title
- The effects of calcium and yttrium additions on the microstructure, mechanical properties and biocompatibility of biodegradable magnesium alloys
- Author(s)
- Li, Yuncang; Hodgson, Peter D.; Wen, Cui'e
- Abstract
- In this study, the effects of calcium (Ca) and yttrium (Y) on the microstructure, mechanical properties, corrosion behaviour and biocompatibility of magnesium (Mg) alloys, i.e. Mg–xCa (x = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0 and 20.0%, wt%, hereafter) and Mg–1Ca–1Y, were investigated. Optical microscopy, X-ray diffractometry (XRD), compressive and Vickers hardness testing were used for the characterisation and evaluation of the microstructure and mechanical properties. The in vitro cytotoxicity of the alloys was assessed using osteoblast-like SaOS2 cells. The corrosion behaviour of these alloys was evaluated by soaking the alloys in simulated body fluid (SBF) and modified minimum essential medium (MMEM) at 37 degreesC in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2. Results indicated that the increase of the Ca content enhances the compressive strength, elastic modulus and hardness of the Mg–Ca alloys, but deteriorates the ductility, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility of the Mg–Ca alloys. The Y addition leads to an increase in the ductility; but a decrease in the compressive strength, hardness, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility of the Mg–1Ca–1Y alloy when compared to the Mg–1Ca alloy. Solutions of SBF and MMEM with the immersion of Mg–xCa and Mg–1Ca–1Y alloys show strong alkalisation. Our research results indicate that Mg–xCa alloys with Ca additions less than 1.0 wt% exhibited good biocompatibility, low corrosion rate as well as appropriate elastic modulus and strength; whilst the Y is not a proper element for Mg alloys for biomedical application due to its negative effects to the corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 46, no. 2 (2011), pp. 365-371
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0910 Manufacturing Engineering; 0912 Materials Engineering; 0913 Mechanical Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Biodegradable magnesium alloys; Calcium; Yttrium
- Publisher
- Springer
- 0022-2461
- Publisher URL
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- Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.
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Youth Hostel Zadar
The YH Zadar is situatted in the tourist area of Zadar called Borik, a bit far from centar but close to beach, bar, restaurants. ...and public bus #5.
Residence Fee is not included in the price (out of season 4.50 HRK, low season 5.50 HR or in high season 7.00 HRK).
As we are part of Hostelling International, non-members will be charged 10 HRK for Welcome Stamp.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle hire
- Bicycle parking
- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Card Phones
- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Games Room
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meals Available
- Meeting Rooms
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Parking
- Pet Friendly
- Postal Service
- Restaurant
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes not included
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Vending Machines
- Wake-up calls
- Wheelchair Friendly
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Hostelling International membership required or surcharge 10 HRK for Welcome Stamp(s) per person and per night is applied.
Tourist Tax is included in the price.
08,00 - 14,00 and 18,00 - 01,00 - working days (Monday - Friday)
08,00 - 11,00 and 18,00 - 01,00 - weekends and holidays
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From Airport:
tthere are shuttle buses to main Bus / Train station about 30 minutes upon landing.
From the Main BUs/ Train Station:
Take bus # 5 PUNTAMIKA or # 8 DIKLO to the bus stop Puntamika (advice: ask the bus driver to tell you where to get off because the lines run in the circle)
Located Near
Youth Hostel Zadar is located about 4.5 km from the city center in a beautiful tourist zone (beaches, marinas, restaurants, cafes) and it is great starting place for your day activities and excursions (regardless is it sailing, bike, car, bus, buggy or walking tour).
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Volvo Group President and CEO Leif Johansson to resign in the summer of 2011
After almost 14 years as President and CEO of Volvo, Leif Johansson in December informed the Board of AB Volvo of his intention to resign in conjunction with his 60th birthday in the summer of 2011. At the same time Leif Johansson will also leave the Board of AB Volvo.
The Volvo Group enters partnership with WWF to reduce CO2-emissions
The Volvo Group will be the world's first vehicle manufacturer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Climate Savers Program. As a WWF partner, the Volvo Group's truck companies undertake to reduce the CO2-emissions from vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2014 by 13 million tons. Independent technical experts will oversee the results.


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From the team who brought you Go Hug Yourself comes the all new sketch comedy show with a little bit of everything. From uncomfortable breakups to business partners who are a little too comfortable, explore the ups and downs of personal relationships with the all-star cast.
Written and Produced by Lizzie Cross and Seth Zimmerman
Directed by Teri Jo Rask
Musical Direction by Ed Sanchez-Gomez
Starring Cassie Belek, Collin Dahlgren, Dylan Hackworth, Ben Harpe, Emily LeClair and Sarah Magnuson
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Items from classic Hollywood films can carry surprisingly hefty price tags. See how much these iconic cars, guns and shoes were worth at recent auctions.
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FoxSports.com: A kid at heart: Brian Scott enjoys giving back to pediatric care
February 17, 2014
Richard Childress Racing's Brian Scott has certainly had a lot to be excited about in the past few weeks.
The Nationwide Series title contender was recently married to girlfriend Whitney Kay, the couple honeymooned in Tahiti, on Sunday he will attempt to qualify for his first Daytona 500, and his No. 33 Chevy was among the top 5 in both practices on Saturday.
Yet when asked about his recent visit to Halifax Health's Speediatrics care unit, Scott's face lights up.
Working closely with the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma and the NASCAR Foundation, Scott spent his Valentine's Day with children and families in Halifax Health's NASCAR-themed pediatric section.
"I think the biggest perk of being a NASCAR driver is having the ability to give back," Scott said. "For me, my favorite and most rewarding way of giving back has always been dealing with kids and pediatric wards."
Scott visited with seven patients and their families, handing out NASCAR Nationwide Series stickers, autographed hero cards, as well as support and well wishes.
At just 26 years old, Scott still thinks of himself as a big kid, but with the responsibility of being a parent he says he is able to relate to both the children and their families.
"Kids are near and dear to my heart," he said. "I've got a little three-year-old girl that I'm responsible for, so I can relate with a lot of them, what they're going through. In some cases, I can't even imagine what they're going through. It's tough, and if I can just bring a smile to their face and say an extra prayer for them, and hope they pull through it and heal up and are able to get out of the hospital, because that's where kids belong. They want to be playing and not in a hospital bed."
With the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma a major part of RCR's philanthropic arm, Scott is always eager to visit pediatric wards and bring relief to the patients and their families.
"I'm just proud I can be a part of this and help in any way possible," he said. "It's great because every time we go and see a pediatric ward, you also see medical advancements and it's nice to see where money and funding goes when you fund pediatric-type initiatives. To see it really pay dividends, and see kids that are able to overcome unbelievable illnesses and things that used to be life threatening or wouldn't be able to overcome normally. It's great to see the fruits of the labor of everyone that gives and helps pediatric health."
While he continues to learn more about the medical advances that help the patients, he likes to stay away from specifics when visiting with the children.
"That's a touchy subject. I never like to go in there and ask what specific issues kids are dealing with," he said. "Sometimes they're open and they'll tell you, but it doesn't matter. Thereâ??s no one disease that's worse than the next. There are some that are harder to overcome or more life threatening, but really any kid that's in there and battling anything, you just hope that medicine and technology and everything we're doing can help a little bit."
Scott plans to continue working closely with the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma, but that is not the only way he gives back to the community. The Idaho native is also heavily involved with his familyâ??s J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, focusing on improving education.
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February 5, 2014 —
Most of New York State's drinking water comes from right here in the Catskills, and it is renowned for its taste and purity. Our water is simply amazing, and we need to protect it for all of us who live here, and the 19 million people in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who rely on water from our Delaware and Catskill watersheds. Our Catskill water is so pure, it reaches the taps of New York City unfiltered. Sadly, for the most part, we take it for granted that its purity and supply is being protected with vigilance by governmental regulatory agencies. The truth is that we should be much more watchful and cautious in making sure our water supply is protected.
Case in point: There's an ongoing environmental disaster involving the water supply of hundreds of thousands of residents in West Virginia (WV). Earlier this month, over 7,500 gallons of a clear, licorice-smelling chemical used to process coal leaked from an old storage tank and spilled into the Elk River. The accident took place near the largest water treatment plant in the state. Over 300,000 residents were ordered not to drink the tap water. That chemical, Crude MCHM, which is primarily composed of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, is very toxic, and there were immediate reports of rashes, stomach aches and other ailments.
After 10 days, restrictions on using tap water were lifted for most of those affected by the disaster, even though the licorice smell remained. Pregnant women are still being advised not to drink the water, while Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin emphasized that tests indicated the water is safe under guidelines set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. He was not too reassuring when he told residents: "If you do not feel comfortable drinking or cooking in this water, then use bottled water...."
Now, serious questions are being raised as to why there's so little regulation of the storage of these chemicals, and even worse, why there's so little knowledge by the federal government and the medical field about the potential toxicity of chemicals like the one spilled into the Elk River.
What stands out the most from the West Virginia spill is how the federal and state governments throughout the nation fail to monitor chemicals and their use in terms of protecting our water supplies. A recent article in the Washington Post's Health and Science section stated that "It has been 38 years since Congress passed a major piece of legislation regulating toxic chemicals, even though there is no disagreement that the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, or Tosca) needs an overhaul" and that "Chemicals in the United States are generally treated as innocent until proven guilty. A company does not have to prove that a chemical does not pose a health hazard in order to introduce it in the commercial market."
Much like West Virginia, our state is way too lax in regulating chemicals. Here in New York State, the controversy surrounding fracking already highlights the dangerous nature of chemicals used and released in the fracking process, In fact, several of the chemicals identified in the West Virginia spill are manufactured for fracking operations. In a report issued by Environmental Advocates in May 2012, a dire warning was issued about the lack of regulation of the oil and drilling process and the flawed exemption of chemicals from being deemed hazardous waste: "Existing state laws and regulations do not require oil and gas companies to report with any specificity how much waste is being created, its chemical components, or how drilling waste is being disposed. We also discovered that much of fracking's waste would likely be classified as hazardous waste if it were not exempt under flawed state regulations."
In upstate New York, it's not just about potential fracking here in the Catskills, but about a broader, rudimentary need to protect our water supply from chemicals on a day-to-day basis. Right now, our water supply is woefully under-regulated in terms of chemical storage and transportation, and with the boom going on right now in transmission pipes servicing the needs of the oil and gas industries in neighboring states, updated studies and regulations should be mandated immediately.
[Ramsay Adams is the founder and executive director of Catskill Mountainkeeper.]


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Upon acceptance into your program, you need to obtain UVM permission to study abroad. Therefore, once you've received acceptance into the program of your choice:
For fall, academic year and summer programs:
For spring programs:
Failure to meet the UVM approval deadlines require you to take a leave of absence to complete your study abroad program. UVM students on leave are not eligible for the following:
"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."
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Note: If you receive financial aid and want to take eligible aid with you when you go abroad, you are required to complete your budget sheet.
Prepare the Budget Worksheet. Complete it according to the program cost information your study abroad program provided to you or visit the program's website and print out their program cost information. Attach any and all cost documentation to your completed budget sheet and return it to our office. If you need assistance filling out your budget sheet, the OIE wil offer help sessions. See our Calendar of Events for dates and times.
Consider loans, scholarships, grants: Remember that financial aid includes loans, scholarships and grants.
Concerned about financing? See Step 3: Financial considerations for more financial planning information.
Once you have been accepted into your program, approval for overseas study must be obtained through your iAbroad account. Log in to complete this process.
After completing UVM approvals in your iAbroad account, OIE will issue you a course override so that you may register for OSSP online during your regularly assigned course registration period. This must be completed before your departure from UVM. Failure to register for OSSP has serious consequences:
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Washington State University provides an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as part of its employee benefit package. It is a free and confidential service available to WSU employees. Employees can use the EAP by self-referral or may be directed to the EAP by a supervisor or manager. Employees may use release time to utilize EAP services. EAP is not intended to be a long-term counseling service. Rather EAP is intended to provide initial assessment, consultation and referral. EAP services typically will not be more than five sessions per specific individual concern(s).
The EAP assists in identifying, managing, and resolving personal and work-related issues that may affect job performance or quality of life issues. The EAP provides counseling, education, and consultation services to improve job performance, worker health, and the well-being of the employee. Issues which may be directed to the EAP include, but are not limited to, the following:
In addition to individual service, the EAP provides crisis counseling for groups of employees who suffer from a shared workplace crisis such as death/illness of a colleague, inappropriate workplace behavior or any circumstance that may adversely affect the working group.
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Can anyone help us - my wife is devestated that having failed to succeed breast feeding our first two children, that our third child aged 13 weeks has totally refused to feed from her and will only accept bottle feeds.
Baby D was almost three weeks early and failed to gain weight over her first few weeks. Under pressure form all arround (especially her mother!) we felt forced to supplement her with a bottle over night. This worked well, with baby D putting on weight at a steady rate until about two weeks ago when she suddenly started to refuse the breast. Arching back, screaming (and I mean screaming!!!!!) until eventually offered bottle - then fed without a problem.
Tried feeding in warm baths , lying down in bed over night etc. had some limited success at first, but now total refusal.
My wife is deeply effected by this and sees it as a rejection from Baby D - I feel so helpless as she uncontrollably sobs. I can see her slipping into post natal depression and I don't know what to do.
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We had another successful George W. Dumont Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament.
The weather was great, the cooks did a great job on the food, friends, hole sponsors, local wonderful Karnes County friends and businesses make all this possible.
We thank all who come out and play and help with putting this tournament together.
We also want to thank our friends, family, from all over Texas and Kenedy High School graduates and Kenedy High School teachers and staff members and those that have been a part of the Kenedy ISD previously for supporting this tournament.
This is done to help further the education of Kenedy High School graduates. We all feel education is the way to success.
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Tensions are buildingMay 06,2013
The two-year-old civil war in Syria has been brutal from the start and its getting worse. Both sides have been accused of committing atrocities and the fighting has driven many thousands of civilians, caught between the two warring factions, to flee to crowded refugee camps in neighboring countries.
But the conflict became even more complicated this past week as any hopes that the fighting might be contained geographically vanished when Israel launched multiple missile strikes against targets inside Syria.
On Sunday, Israeli officials described the most recent attack, on a warehouse at the Damascus airport, as a move to neutralize an unacceptable game changer serving the needs of its own enemies. If nothing else the attack justified or not certainly changed the equation in the Middle East.
For President Obama, Israels decision to launch missiles at targets within Syria only complicates an already grimly complex question (how the United States can best serve the Syrian rebel cause), although it may be that Obama can, or must, accept Israels explanation that it was merely protecting itself by targeting Iranian missiles being shipped through Syria to Lebanon.
They believed, the Israelis explained, that the Iranian weapons inevitably would eventually be used against Israel by Hezbollah. Therefore, they argued, it became necessary to intervene.
Keep in mind that, to the leadership of both Iran and the militants who comprise Hezbollahs military and political organization, their hatred of Israel surpasses whatever affection or loyalty they may have for Assads regime in Damascus.
The Sunday attack was Israels second in two days and third this year. Although described as an act of self-defense, the attack also may have sent a signal that Israel intends to help the Syrian rebels, who lately have begun to suffer substantial losses as the Assad government has launched offensives around both the capital, Damascus, and the city of Homs to the north.
American intelligence sources identified the target of the first of the attacks, last Thursday, a shipment of ground-to-ground missiles. Believed to have been shipped from Iran, the missiles were described as highly accurate, solid-fuelled weapons capable of hitting Israels main population centers, such as Tel Aviv, from southern Lebanon.
But American officials also admit its not clear whether the missiles were intended for the Syrian army or for Hezbollah. However, since the airport warehouse is believed to have been under the control of personnel from Hezbollah and Irans paramilitary Quds Force, Israels fears seem justified.
The rebel Damascus Military Council, perhaps encouraged by the Israeli missile attack, on Sunday issued a statement calling on all the various anti-government rebel groups to put aside their rivalries and to focus their attacks on government forces protecting Damascus.
The existence of these rebel rivalries, reflecting the differing priorities of the various anti-Assad groups, has been a major factor in the reluctance of the United States to become directly involved in the Syrian conflict. It seems clear that among those fighting Assad are radical groups that are either linked to or at least sympathetic to Al Qaeda, and the White House certainly doesnt want to inadvertently help their long-term goals.
Syrian state television argued the Israeli missile attacks proved the rebels are supported by an American-Israeli conspiracy designed to punish Assad for supporting Palestinians and opposing Western policies in the Middle East. Assads critics, meanwhile, contrasted his failure to prevent the missile strikes with his success in killing Syrian civilians.
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The library catalog indexes all the reference books, circulating books, periodicals, reserve items and media items in the Loyola/Notre Dame library and other MIC libraries (
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Math PARCC Model Content Frameworks: Teachers' Guides & Presentation
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Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Math Coaches, PD Coordinators, District and Building Administrators
This brochure gives an explanation of what PARCC's Model Content Frameworks (MCF) are and how to use them. These document provide quick explanations of each section of the grade level portion of the MCF listed below. In addition to the Teachers' Guides, there are presentations explaining how to use the PARCC Model Content Frameworks.
Suggested Use for these Documents:
- Teachers could use this as an introduction to the MCF for their grade level.
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Christmas in Sweden sees its cities, towns and villages glow against the white winter landscape. It's Christmas card perfect.
Lucia celebration in December every year
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Enjoy the fresh nip in the air, get rosy cheeks and take your cheer outside. Just wrap yourself up in a scarf, hat and gloves and hit the skating-rink before strolling through the festive Christmas markets of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Warm yourself with a glass of spicy mulled wine (glögg) and browse over the most gorgeous handicrafts and Christmas decorations. You can sample typical Swedish Christmas delicacies at the markets too so look out for smoked sausage, reindeer meat and traditional Swedish Christmas sweets.
For a truly enchanting experience plan to visit on, or the week before December 13th, when the 400-year old tradition of the 'queen of light', St. Lucia, is celebrated with church concerts and processions. On St. Lucia's day you will see thousands of young girls emerge from the darkness of a Swedish winters day and gently silence the crowds with a procession of light.Dressed as Lucia's maidens, in flowing white gowns, each girl holds a candle and wears a wreath of glowing candles in her hair. Witness the charm of the children solemnly proceeding through cities, towns and churches, giving out saffron buns and singing Lucia's beautiful melodies, dressed as gingerbread men, elves and stjärngossar. Just magic.
From late November until Christmas, at most Swedish restaurants, you can enjoy the beloved julbord, the traditional Swedish Christmas buffet. Enjoy the best of everything Swedish with an endless array of delicacies including pickled herring, gravlax, paté, knäckebröd, ham, meatballs with beetroot salad and lutfisk (a ling dish for the truly curious).Swedes love their julbord so they do it all over again on Christmas Eve, the day Sweden celebrates Christmas. (Swedes are no strangers to forward thinking after all).
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you can make as many moves as you want with your team on a daily basis, just hit submit changes on each day. you only get 4 add/drops per week, starting monday morning, and i believe you can trade as much as you want. add/drops usually don't get picked up until 2 days later.
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In this excerpt from Robbie Allen's Windows Server Cookbook, Robbie shows you how to build Web sites and how to mailbox-enable users.
You want to create a web site.
To create a new web site from scratch using a wizard, do the following:
Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the left pane, expand the server node.
Right-click on the Web Sites node, select New → Web Site to start the Web SiteCreation Wizard, and click Next.
Type a descriptive name for your site and click Next.
Assign an IP address to your site and click Next.
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Windows Server Cookbook
Specify the path to the home directory for your site, decide whether to allow anonymous access to your site, and click Next.
Specify web permissions to control access to your site and click Next, then Finish.
To create a new web site using a previously saved configuration file, do the following:
Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the left pane, expand the server node.
Right-click on the Web Sites node and select New → Web Site (from file).
Specify the path to the XML file containing your saved IIS configuration, click Read File, select the web site you want to import, and click OK.
If the saved configuration was password protected when it was created, you'll be prompted here for a password; enter it and click OK.
Right-click on the new web site and select Start.
The following command creates a new web site named Human Resources on server with IP 220.127.116.11 and root directory D:\HR:
> iisweb /create D:\HR "Human Resources" /i 22.214.171.124
The following command creates a new site named
Company with root directory D:\Corp
and IP address "All Unassigned,"
effectively making My Company the new default web site on the server:
> iisweb /create D:\Corp "My Company"
The following command creates a site on a standalone server named
web04 using local credentials for that computer
and leaving the site in a stopped state:
> iisweb /create D:\Finance "Accounting Department" /i 22.214.171.124
/dontstart /s web01 /u web04\Administrator /p <password>
The following command creates a site by importing a previously saved password-protected site configuration file named hr.xml:
> iiscnfg /import /f D:\hr.xml /d <password> /sp /lm/w3svc/1525757177
/dp /lm/w3svc/2/child
The ID number 1525757177 for this site can be found by opening the
XML file in Notepad and examining the Location attribute of the
IisWebServer tag. For example:
<IIsWebServer Location ="/LM/W3SVC/1525757177"
ServerComment="Human Resources"
TIP: You can also retrieve this identifier from IIS Manager by clicking the Web Sites folder in the left pane. The list of web sites and their identifiers will be shown in the right pane.
' This code creates a web site.
strComputer = "<ServerName>" ' computer to connect to
strSiteName = "<SiteName>" ' web site description
strRootDir = "<DirPath>" ' root directory for the web site
' The following parameters are optional
' strPort = "<PortNumber>" ' port for the web site
' strIP = "<IPAddress>" ' IP address used for the site
' strHostHeader = "<HostName>" ' host header name for the site
' strSiteID = 1234 ' site ID (default is to auto-generate)
set objIIS = GetObject("IIS://" & strComputer & "/W3SVC" )
objServerBindings = Array(0)
objServerBindings(0) = strIP & ":" & strPort & ":" & strHostHeader
strNewSiteID = objIIS.CreateNewSite(strSiteName, objServerBindings, _
strRootDir, strSiteID)
WScript.Echo "Successfully created web site " & strSiteName & _
" with ID " & strNewSiteID
If you leave the IP address for your new site as All Unassigned, your
new site will be the default web site for your computer, which is the
web site the server returns when a browser tries to access an IP
address not currently assigned to another site. For example, if a
computer has three IP addresses--172.16.12.50, 172.16.12.51, and
172.16.12.52--and only the first address has been assigned to a site,
then opening the URLs
http://172.16.12.51 or
http://172.16.12.52 will return the default
web site. It's a good idea to have a default web
site configured with general contact information about your company
on a server that will be hosting many sites. Note that if there is
already a web site that has All Unassigned for its IP address (such
as the Default Web Site created when IIS is installed) then if you
assign All Unassigned to another site you won't be
able to start that site.
Host headers are a feature of the HTTP/1.1 specification and allow IIS to host multiple web sites that have the same IP address and port number but different DNS identities. You can't use host headers for sites that use SSL, however, and to use host headers you must have DNS name resolution working on your network. Also, don't assign any host header names to the Default Web Site. One good side of host headers is that when you have thousands of web sites hosted on a single IIS computer, using host headers to identify them incurs a smaller performance hit than using individual IP addresses.
The one tricky thing about this code is setting up the
ServerBindings array. For whatever reason, instead
of making the web site IP address, port, and host header part of the
parameters to the
CreateNewSite method, they must
be concatenated together in an array element and separated by a
Recipe 12.4, Recipe 12.17, MS KB 304187 (IIS: Home Directory Cannot Point to Mapped Drives), and MS KB 816568 (HOW TO: Manage Web Sites and Web Virtual Directories by Using Command-Line Scripts in IIS 6.0)
You want to create a mailbox for a user. This is also known as mailbox-enabling a user.
Open the ADUC snap-in.
TIP: This needs to be run on a workstation or server that has the Exchange Management Tools loaded (see Recipe 17.6).
If you need to change domains, right-click on Active Directory Users and Computers in the left pane, select Connect to Domain, enter the domain name, and click OK.
In the left pane, browse to the parent container of the user, right-click on the user, and select Exchange Tasks.
On the Welcome screen, click Next.
Select Create Mailbox and click Next.
Verify the mail alias is what you want, select the server you want the mailbox on, select which store where you want the mailbox, and click Next.
On the Completion screen, click Finish.
> exchmbx -b "<UserDN>"-cr"<server>:<storage group>:<mail store>"
Or alternatively, run the following command:
> exchmbx -b <UserDN> -cr"<Home MDB URL>"
To mailbox-enable user joe with a mailbox on Exchange Server SRV1, Storage group SG1, and mailbox store DB1, execute the following command:
> exchmbx -b "cn=joe,cn=users,dc=rallencorp,dc=com"-cr "srv1:sg1:db1"
TIP: I highly recommend that you keep your storage group and mailbox store names short, simple, and "space" free. Spaces are troublesome to deal with at the command prompt and have caused many administrators unneeded grief. If you do not use spaces and other special characters, you can dispense with the quotes in all of the command-line examples.
Replace <UserDN> with the
user's distinguished name,
<server> with the Exchange server
name, <storagegroup> with the storage group,
<mailstore> with the mail store, and
<Home MDB URL> with the full
homeMDB URL for the desired mailbox store.
' This code creates a mailbox for a user.
strUserDN = "<UserDN>" ' e.g., cn=jsmith,cn=Users,dc=rallencorp,dc=com
strHomeMDB = "<Home MDB DN>"
' e.g. CN=Mailbox Store (SERVER),CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,
' CN=SERVER,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,
' CN=RALLENCORPMAIL,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,
' CN=Configuration,DC=rallencorp,DC=com"
set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN)
objUser.CreateMailBox strHomeMDB
objUser.SetInfo( )
Wscript.Echo "Successfully mailbox-enabled user."
A mailbox-enabled user is a user who has a mailbox defined in the Exchange organization where the user object exists. This is the most common object in an Exchange organization.
TIP: Mailbox-enabling a user requires Exchange Data Administrator permissions. See the Discussion for Recipe 17.7.
When you create a mailbox for a user with the GUI or VBScript, you
call out to the
CreateMailbox CDOEXM interface. In
the background, the specific changes made by the
CreateMailbox method are on the
user object in Active Directory and include
changes to the following attributes:
Once all of those attributes are in place, the RUS sets additional attributes on the user object. The mailbox cannot be used nor receive email until the RUS has gone through this stamping process.
Creating a mailbox when you create a new user is a trivial task with ADUC because you simply need to specify the email alias and where in the Exchange organization the mailbox should reside. All of the guesswork on where the mailbox can go is removed because you have to select the location from the drop-down menu.
Prior to the ExchMbx tool, there was no simple way to mailbox-enable
a user from the command line. The LDIFDE method is not feasible
because the
attribute is a binary value and difficult to manipulate with LDIF
files and text editors. For flexibility, ExchMbx allows you to
specify the entire
homeMDB URL, or you can specify
the server, storage group, and mailbox store.
TIP: If you want to mailbox-enable multiple users at once, remove the
-boption from the parameter list and pipe the distinguished names into ExchMbx from another tool or from a file. Run
exchmbx /?for usage details.
The trickiest part of creating a mailbox for a user with VBScript is
to know what to use for the
homeMDB attribute. If
you use the wrong value you will get the error: "The
server is not operational," which
isn't helpful feedback. This is where the GUI method
is nice, because it looks up all of the possible values for you and
lets you select from the list.
I present an alternative scripting method in Recipe 17.16, which lets you specify three well-known
pieces of information to locate the proper
value. Finally, another alternative would be to search Active
Directory for all valid
homeMDB values, display
them, and have the person running the script select from the list
just like ADUC does. This third method involves searching against the
Configuration container of Active Directory with the following
MS KB 275636 (Creating Exchange Mailbox-Enabled and Mail-Enabled Objects in Active Directory) and MS KB 253770 (XADM: Tasks Performed by the Recipient Update Service)
Robbie Allen is the coauthor of Active Directory, 2nd Edition and the author of the Active Directory Cookbook.
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Private water supply from wells on city or county property to supply a reverse osmosis plant is not an option. We have voted against the proposition of reverse osmosis once.
Nobody ever mentioned privatizing the city water supply. We have never voted on that issue, and we don't need another hand picking our pockets. We already have Republic Waste Service doing that.
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Old Kirkcudbright
Glimpses into the History of an Ancient Parish & Burgh
An Internet Browse Through the History Topography and Genealogy of the Ancient Parish and Burgh of Kirkcudbright
Taken from a selection of contemporary books, magazines, documents, maps, illustrations and ephemera.
The Town of Kirkcudbright is finely situated on the estuary of the River Dee, and is the county town of the County or Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in South-West Scotland. Collectively with the County of Wigtown, the area was historically known as the Kingdom of Galloway, and now forms the western portion of the present-day local authority area Dumfries and Galloway.
Kirkcudbright is first recorded with Royal Burgh status as far back as 1455, but may have had this distinction even earlier. Royal Burgh status gave the town authority to trade with ports outside of Scotland and reflected the security of its position, and importance of its fine sheltered harbour.
The original town was built around the old High Street where many old town-houses still survive. With its castle, harbour and mote, it was protected on all sides by the tidal waters of the River Dee and has prospered over many centuries since.
The website was created to be shared with others, and free access is allowed to everyone - all that is asked is that you do not re-use this material without specific reference back to these pages. Most of the subject material is no longer covered by copyright restrictions, but there is some material specially written for inclusion here. Such material is therefore copyright, and may not be used elsewhere without permission of the copyright holder.


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After a pediatrician visit this morning for two vaccines, my 8 month old has vomited twice in the past three hours. No fever, but he's fussier than usual. He's asleep now, an hour after a feeding and that meal stayed down. At first we were afraid that it was a vaccine reaction, but the ped thinks it would have shown up earlier (the appt was at 8:45am). They suggested that it was the beginning of a bug. Boooo.
Thanks to you genius moms out there, I knew to ignore their recommendation of Pedialyte and keep BF in small amounts!
My question is this - how can my husband and I avoid catching this bug? He's leaving for an important work trip tomorrow, so it'll be just me and my LO for 5 days and I want to be healthy to be able to care for him if this is a bug.
I imagine that I've already got the same antibodies that my LO has at this point, thanks to the magic of BF. But would it be beneficial for my husband to drink some of my EBM? His immune system isn't the greatest and it would be great to keep him well.
Hopefully this isn't outside the purview of this forum.
Any other tips on how to keep my LO comfy while this passes are welcome too!
ETA: He ate some avocado this afternoon - second time tasting, first time swallowing. I wonder if this could be an allergic reaction rather than a bug? He had no reaction the first time, but it didn't get swallowed that time, either. (an hour and a half and he's still asleep peacefully.)


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Turtle Point Villas
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Number of Floors: 2
Bedrooms: 2-3
Baths: 2-3
Located along the 18th hole of the Turtle Point Golf Course on Kiawah Island, Turtle Point Villas gives its guests the option of watching the golf action from a screened porch/deck or enjoying the relaxing views of the lagoon.
Guests can take a short walk or bike ride to golf courses, tennis, dining, shopping and Night Heron Park & Nature Center from this complex in East Beach Village. Access to beach chair and umbrella rentals are available, and guests can also rent bikes to explore the nature trails. Kiawah's 30+ miles of paved bike trails extend to Freshfields Village, a picturesque hub of shopping, dining and entertainment.
Kiawah Island is a semitropical, nature-first gated community nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Kiawah River featuring over 30 miles of paved bike trails and 10 miles of hard-packed beach ideal for walking or biking. Its proximity to city attractions in nearby Historic Charleston ensures that guests experience a wealth of both social activity and relaxation. Kiawah offers something for everyone, including: championship golf courses, two tennis centers, basketball, volleyball, soccer, a picnic area, nature trails accessible by foot or bike and nature and wildlife tours. On the water, nearby Bohicket Marina offers boating, fishing water sports and eco-tour options.
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The 6-slot Cisco Catalyst 6506-E Switch provides intermediate port densities, ideal for many wiring closet and core network deployments. Catalyst 6506-E supports Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series end-to-end operational consistency benefits.
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April 20, 2011 —
Like other communities considering the issue of gas drilling, the Town of Highland would like to protect its town roads if drilling activity becomes intense. The town has been working with seven other towns over the past two years to create road-use agreements that would cover damage to town roads caused not only by trucks related to gas drilling, but any trucks that heavily use town roads.
Highland officials want the New York State Legislature to amend traffic laws to make it explicitly clear that towns have the authority to require truckers to enter into such agreements, which might require some truckers to post bonds.
The town sent a letter to the Sullivan County Legislature asking for a resolution in support of the law change be sent to Albany. At a meeting at the government center on April 14, lawmaker Frank Armstrong said he agreed with the intent of the request, which would strengthen the concept of home rule. But he said a resolution in support of Highland "is an anti-drilling statement, and it's not something we should do."
Lawmaker David Sager said that Highland's position was the same one taken by the New York State Association of Towns, and would give communities the ability to protect their roads against the inherent risk of gas drilling. He said, "My tax dollars should not go to repair roads damaged by activity that is going to benefit the few."
But others had questions about how the road-use agreements would affect existing trucks on town roads, such as milk and logging trucks.
Lawmaker Alan Sorenson said he would need more time before he could support the Highland request; he said he wanted to see details of how the road-use agreements would impact local trucks.
Bob Meyer, the commissioner of the Department of Public Works, was asked if the county would be able to have road-use agreements. Meyer said the county is in a different position because, as a rule, county roads are constructed to higher standards than town roads and would be better able to withstand the traffic.
Lawmaker Kathy LaBuda suggested that the board wait a month before taking a vote on the matter because she expected the state legislature will be getting a letter from the Sullivan County Association of Town Supervisors in the coming weeks regarding the road-use agreements. The lawmakers agreed to table the issue.
On a related matter, Sager asked the county attorney, Sam Yasgur, to provide an opinion on whether elected officials who may have a financial interest in gas drilling, such as a signed lease, should be voting on gas drilling issues. The opinion should be available in the coming weeks.


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Yearlong (Ph III, W II)
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Sets: 2-4 Reps: Work up to your 5RM
Set an adjustable bench to a decline and lie back on it, hooking your feet in the leg braces. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and arch your back. Grab the bar with an outside shoulder-width grip and lower it to your sternum. Press the weight back up. Perform several low-rep warm-up sets to slowly work up to your five-rep max (5RM), the heaviest weight you can lift for five perfect repetitions. Once you've found your 5RM, perform two to four sets with that weight or a load that's a little lighter.


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Ariana: -comes back out in a couple minutes with a low t-shirt, a towel around her hair, and low-rising jeans- hey. Sorry I took to long.
Sugaku : No you were pretty Quick -holds out hand- shall we go then ^^ oh wait your hair heheh :p
Ariana: right. -removes the towel from her hair, shaking her head to let it fall down her back in elogant waves- It'll dry. -turns around- I need to change into something else though.
Sugaku : heheh, okay then ^^ -sits back down on bench-
Ariana: -smiles and goes back into the locker room but comes back out in the exact same clothing- done!
Sugaku : w-what did you change??
Ariana: I needed to put a bra on. -blushes alot at the end- L-Let's go.
Sugaku : ah heheh -walks to the Restaurant and when we get there we find a table and I pull out your chair, gesturing for you to sit in it and gives a slight nod-
Ariana: -nods and smiles alil- thank you. -sits down and picks up her menu-
Sugaku : -sits opposite and rests head on hand, watching Ariana-
Ariana: -peeks over the edge of the menu, smiling alil-
Sugaku : huh...O.o -blushes and quickly picks up menu covering face-
Ariana: -looks back down, blushing alil-
Sugaku : Okay I know what I am having ^^ -places the menu down again-
Ariana: -smiles- I'll do too. ^^ -sets the menu down on top of his-
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Ariana: -smiles- I'll do too. ^^ -sets the menu down on top of his-
Sugaku : -calls over the waiter- we are ready, the lady first please ^^
Ariana: -flashes him a smile- I would like...-points to the things on the menu, not forgetting to thank him-
Sugaku : and I would like a Katsu Chicken please ^^ -the waiter walks off and I look at Ariana-
Ariana: -fiddling with a necklace hanging around her neck. It's a sharp cross with wings and black gems on the corners-
\Sugaku : that's a lovely necklace :D where'd you get it?
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Navy Wins Behind Another Seven-Point Effort from DePompeo
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Sophomore Jasmine DePompeo tallied seven points on five goals and two assists as Navy (4-0) cruised to a 22-7 win over Bryant (0-2) in women's lacrosse on Friday evening at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
DePompeo registering her third hat trick and second five-goals for the second time this season. DePompeo leads the team with 15 goals, eight assists and 23 points and has already surpassed her season totals from her freshman season (11 g, 7 a, 18 pts).
"We have been really pleased with the way Jasmine has been finishing this season," said head coach Cindy Timchal. "I was also really excited about all the assisted goals. That is one of my favorite things to see."
Navy recorded assists on 11 of its 22 goals and senior captain Caitlin Mandrin Hill led the way in the category with a game-high four assists. Mandrin Hill also had one goal, five draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover.
Senior Katrina Nietsch scored the first goal of the game for Navy just 38 seconds into the game. After Bryant's Mary Green responded a minute later, freshman Aimee Gennaro netted back-to-back goals before Mandrin Hill and Nietsch each scored to put Navy up 5-1.
Bryant would then score its second goal, but then Navy went on a torrid streak over the next 10 minutes, going on an 8-1 run. Freshman Molly Hamilton exploded for four goals during the span.
Green scored her second goal at 15:11, in the middle of Navy's spurt, but Hamilton would score just seven seconds later. Navy won the ensuing draw control and Hamilton notched another goal, just 13 seconds later. Hamilton's four goals were all scored within five minutes of each other.
DePompeo scored her first goal of the game right before halftime
to give Navy a 14-3 lead at the break. DePompeo then made up for
lost time by scoring four times in the second half.
Gennaro had yet another standout game with four goals and two assists. Gennaro now has 13 goals over the first four games of her collegiate career. Sophomore Kathy Young matched a career-high with four goals, scoring two in each half.
Nietsch had her first hat trick of the season with three goals and sophomore Claire Olechowski scooped a team-high four ground balls.
Junior goalie Elaina Ponchione played the first half to pick up her fourth win of the season. She made two saves in the first 30:00 and then Michelle Verbeeck and Charlotte Hauser combined to close out the game.
Navy outshot Bryant 35-15 and held a 24-14 advantage in ground balls and a 19-12 edge in draw controls.
The Mids were 5-of-5 on clears in the second half after being only 4-of-11 in the first.
"We talked about our clearing at halftime," Timchal said. "We were a little sloppy in the first half, but we were pleased to then turn that around and go 100 percent on clears in the second."
Navy will look to continue its undefeated season when it takes on High Point (1-1) on Sunday at 12 noon at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
*DePompeo's seven points matches a career-high. She also had seven points in Navy's win over Davidson last weekend.
*Nietsch broke a tie with Mary Ruttum (134) for second place all time on the Navy career scoring list. Nietsch now has 104 goals and 33 assists for 137 points. Former All-American Erin Rawlick has the school lead with 294 career points.
*Nietsch has scored a goal in 13 straight games, the longest active streak for Navy.
*Navy has held three opponents to seven or fewer goals this season and is a perfect 28-0 when doing so in program history.
*The Mids improve to 34-4 (.895) at home all-time.
*The game was played in extremely windy conditions as gusts were reaching upwards of 50 MPH.
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text: I have the opportunity to join my husband on an all expense paid trip to Maui later this month. I was planning to go however now I am having second thoughts! My son is soon to be 17 months old and is still nursing 4-5 times a day. He is drinking cows milk and eating plenty of solids, so that isn't a concern. However I am afraid he'll wean while I am gone. I have worked so hard to nurse him for this long and would like to continue until he is at least 2. Is the trip worth it? I am thinking perhaps I should just stay home!!!!


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Happiness is: Knowing your Growing
Good day today, not a whole lot to Rant about. Eight days till X-mas and I'm feeling the spirit.
Tomorrow night is the 2nd Annual, X-mas get together dinner of the Pavilion season ticket holders at Coors Field. I was working on coming up with a name for this event…I'll admit, what I have is weak. For a rhyming Ranter, I don't have much.
Here's what I've got:
1. Rockies Regulars X-mas Bash
2. Pavilion Posse Party or Pavilion Party
3. Pavilion Seat Meet and Eat..My fav.
If they don't choose any of those, I won't be offended.
(<—-This is not me or the Mobile Blogging Unit, nice hat though).
I've changed the dates for the Mobile Blogging Units departure for Rockies Spring Training.
Instead of arriving in Tucson at the end of February, we're going to make it there in time for opening day (Feb, 25th), and catch a bunch of home (Hi-Corbett Field), games during the first week.
That gives me a day and a half road time to make it from Colorado to Tucson.
That should be plenty of time. It's no fun being in a hurry. I've been carrying this Rockies spring training schedule around in my pocket now for over a week. I'm ready to go yesterday.
The MBU will be returning on March 3rd or 4th.
I've been playing around with this blog talk radio thing. I think it would be cool/fun if I could do a small internet radio thing at the end of each day in Tucson. Possibly do a few interviews with some folk down in Tucson, or possibly a Minor or Major league star?
Ok, I might be dreaming there, but you never know?
I'm going to try a test show on December 30.
Here's why I want to do this radio thing. For a good part of my life I was one of those guys who kept stuff bottled up inside.
Nobody knew how I felt or what I was thinking unless I wanted them to.
I can tell you from experience, that's not a good way to live. See, I Rant to help keep from getting mad.
Here is what I have managed to accomplish this last year:
1. I finished the year with a Top 50 Blog on MLBlogs.com. I started the Rant so I could document the batting practices that Hunter and attended.
I wanted to have a permanant record of our baseball collection for reference someday.
Secondly, I needed a place to vent the things that annoy me in my daily life. MLBlogs.com was a perfect match and the Rockpile Rant was born.
2. I got on an airplane, and stayed on. Say what you want to, this was by far my biggest accomplishment of the year.
3. I've expanded my circle of friends. It's not easy to be my friend. I've had the same buddies for 20+ years. I don't trust many, and you only get a couple of chances with me. I guess that explained my small circle of friends.
I trust them, every one of them and they trust me. It's cool when you have that.
I have spent the last year trying/learning how to be more social. I've done this by blogging and interacting with more people.
Now I find meeting new people not to be scary or uncomfortable (there are exceptions), I find it to be interesting and rewarding.
Thanks to all of you who comment on the Rant. I plan to spend the next year being a better commenter backer.
I'm not sure exactly at what point this year the change happened, but it happened, and is still happening. I'm not all the way there yet, but I can tell you it's hard to be shy at a baseball game when your the Rockpile Ranter…This leads me to # 4.
4. I plan to dabble in the Blog Internet talk radio as a way of overcoming a fear of public speaking. I will be doing a 15 minute call-in segment on December 30th at 9 pm Colorado time. Just in time to say I did it before the end of the year. I'll post all the links and stuff soon. Do me favor, if you listen, don't expect much. As with blogging, the more you do it, the better you get…and the first one's going to suck I'm sure. I just need to do it. I'll have cool music, and maybe snacks.
5. I got to pretend I worked for the Nuggets. That was something I will always remember. Thank you B.
6. I made it through another year of being a husband and a father and a (young) grandfather.(I miss you Mason). It can be hard work, but it's a labor of love :)
I'm using you MLBLogs.com. I'm using you to become a better person…D
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Well D, I for one am glad that you're blogging here for all of us to enjoy. I think most of us aren't as social (okay, Jane is the exception!) as we would like to be. And blogging gives us all a chance to rant, think, discuss & just plain have fun! Let us know how we can find your internet radio show. Okay, it will be VERY late on the east coast, but I'd love to listen! Here's to 2009! Always remember – the best is yet to be! Cause we can't do a Damn thing about the past! Have a wonderful Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
Right back at you J…Once the radio show is over you can listen to a saved version of it. I'll have it all linked up afterwards. So don't stay up late. It won't be worth it…D
Hey D,
The Blog talk radio thing sounds super cool. I'll look forward to checking it out.
I too am not a particularly social person but I enjoy being able to "talk" with you after reading your blogs.
(Can you believe they got snow in Las Vegas? Darn global warming!)
R-Luv, I hear you on the Global warming. It's weird, I went to Chicago, froze my *** off, then came back to sunny Colorado and it is colder here than Chicago. I think for my first BLOGTALK RADIO I'm going to do an interview. I'd prefer if you don't listen the first time. Let me do the intereview, if it's good, I'll link it here. But, I won't stop you if you want to listen live. Like I said, I'm new to this, nervous, and I don't really follow any other teams other than my Rockies, so I'm not about talking about other teams so much. I figure I'll do an interview, some Rockies talk, then my Rant. You can call in to the show also. So I might take a few calls. It is also possible I could chicken out. Click on the little blogtalk radio icon in my header, it has all the details.
Kylie-The Mobile Blogging Unit is the shizzle. Hanging out at the ballpark all day is cool, but having a place to go and relax, get out of the sun, have a drink and something to eat. That is what I think is cool. I've been preparing this trip since last spring training. I'm ready…D
SWEET blogtalkradio. I will definitely listen. It sounds like a really cool idea–I've always loved the sound of my own voice, haha.
MBU sounds like tons of fun. I wish I could go back to spring training.
Kylie — http://kylie.mlblogs.com
Spring training is the shizzle in general. I spent eight hours a day for five days at the ballpark talking to ballplayers. Seriously, what in the world could possibly top that?
The only bad part was the sunburn–make sure to use high SPF sunscreen. Since I was always facing the same way at every game my right side got really burned and my left side was pale, haha.
Kylie — http://kylie.mlblogs.com


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It has been one year since the city was forced to halt construction work on the rail project until it completed an archaeological inventory survey of the entire route.
That report is now being reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Division.
But the office has long been plagued by short- staffing and this summer a scathing federal report led to the resignation of its administrator.
When Pua Aiu stepped down as administrator last month, her boss was adamant that the change would not affect the review of rail.
"No, we have people who are dedicated specifically to review rail but so that's not going to change anything there," said state Land Director William Aila.
But weeks later, Aila turned around and rehired Aiu to oversee the review of the rail project.
The city said the archeological survey of just the urban core route is 10 volumes worth of work.
As of last week, the airport section was not yet complete.
Oahu's sole archaeologist Susan Levo, is charged with reviewing the project.
But insiders say Levo has had her hands full handling other projects including Kakaako with its many high-rises, as well as overseeing Kauai.
"We will have to reassign the Kauai stuff to someone else maybe the Maui folks. HART is a priority for us right now," said Aila.
With so much on the line, Aila is hard-pressed to keep the rail review on track.
"I have to find a way to get us additional resources to take care of the reviews of rail and Kakakao development and the development across Hawaii as a whole," said Aila.
The city is still expecting a thorough review for the $5.3 billion dollar project which is Hawaii's most expensive public works project to date.
But if the city was worried about any additional delays, HART Director Dan Grabauskas didn't let on.
"A lot of detailed work, a lot of revisions to make this a good review and we believe we are going to get there in the next few weeks," Grabauskas said.


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Over 200 traffic citations, six DUIs netted here in first days of national campaign
On its fourth day of the National Campaign called "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over," conducted by the Department of Public Safety, police officers so far have caught six civilians accused of operating vehicles while under the influence of alcohol.
The enforcement is under the leadership of Captain Ta'alolioufaiva John Cendrowski, who told Samoa News that as of 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon that the six individuals arrested and charged with driving under the influence and other traffic violations had all failed the field sobriety tests.
He also confirmed that among the six individuals was a pilot with Inter Island Airways who was arrested Saturday evening. According to police, Stanley Malae ran a stop sign, police responded and noticed that the driver had sustained an injury to his eye.
Malae failed his field sobriety tests and will make his initial appearance in the District Court today.
Captain Cendrowski noted police officers have issued more than 200 traffic citations over the past four days to members of the public who ran stop signs, were speeding, not wearing seat belts and other traffic violations. He explained there were only three traffic accidents, which were all minor.
On the positive side, Captain Cendrowski said it was a peaceful first weekend of the enforcement and he hopes it will remain this way throughout the three weeks of the national campaign — which is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and involves more than 30 police officers in local enforcement.
The Commander of the traffic division reminds the public that the campaign features "invisible" police officers, who will be observing and ticketing alcohol-impaired individuals who try to get behind the wheel.
"Don't risk it, please. If you are consuming alcohol, attain a designated driver or catch a cab home, don't drink and drive."
He added, "You will be caught, you will be arrested and you will appear in court to answer for your actions. "Is it worth it? Ask yourself that before you get behind the wheel intoxicated, because you put yourself and everyone else on the road at risk when you drive drunk. Remember that drinking alcohol and driving don't mix — that's a very dangerous combination".
Capt. Cendrowski also reminds members of the public that even one drink can and will impair your judgment, putting not only yourself at risk, but everyone else in grave danger.
He added a reminder that members of the public are encouraged to report impaired drivers to the police by calling 911 or 633-1111.
He further reminds everyone to "always buckle up, in every ride" regardless of your seating position in the vehicle, because it's your best defense against an impaired driver.