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Three And Out: April 15, 2010
Brandon Marshall is dealt to the Miami Dolphins where he signs a big contract, putting pressure on the Chargers and Vincent Jackson. Nathan Vasher is excited about playing for Ron Rivera again, saying he'll bring playmaking ability to the Chargers' secondary. And a behind-the-scenes look at the Chargers draft war room.
When Marshall was traded to the Miami Dolphins he quickly signed a new deal which essentially pays him an average of $10 million per year. That deal makes him the highest paid wide receiver in league history. Off the field issues aside, one could argue that Brandon Marshall is worth the money based simply on his talent, production, and relative youth.
Vincent Jackson has emerged as an elite receiver in his own right. In fact, we have Jackson ranked as the fourth best receiver in all of football, just one slot below Marshall. Both players are down-field threats, tough across the middle, powerful with the ball in their hands, and demonstrate a real passion for the game. However, both players have had their fair share of issues arise of the football field.
Even after considering Brandon Marshall's off-field issues, the Dolphins still felt comfortable to sign him to a huge deal. Should the Chargers take that same route? The San Diego Union-Tribune's Kevin Acee argues yes, contending that waiting any longer presents the danger of Jackson out-pricing himself to San Diego. That is essentially what we have been saying for about a year now, and we haven't wavered in our stance.
What do you think? Should the Chargers sit back and let the season play out before putting serious effort into locking up Vincent Jackson? Is the threat of another DUI and subsequent suspensions make Jackson too risky to commit that many dollars to? Sound off in the comments section below and give us your take.
Cornerback Nathan Vasher is very appreciative and excited about his new opportunity here in San Diego. After starting off with a bang in Chicago, Vasher struggled with injuries and never quite got back on track. A fresh start with the Chargers just might be exactly what he needs to regain his Pro Bowl form.
"Being able to come out and make plays on the ball and get more turnovers is what I can add to the secondary. I know that Coach Rivera thrives on pressuring the quarterback and because of that the defensive backs and all the guys in the secondary will have a chance to make plays on the ball to give it back to Philip (Rivers) and those guys on offense. If we can get three and outs and play with a lot of enthusiasm and go out there and have fun and play like kids then that's when we'll be at our best."
SOURCE: Chargers.com
Chargers beat writer Kevin Acee goes behind the scenes and shows us around the Chargers' draft war room:
April 15, 2010at 7:00 AM Posted by Rob Zepeda
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We gotta sign VJ! It makes ZERO sense to take PR's number one target away from him when both players are in their prime. If the Chargers want to win a Super Bowl they'll need an elite WR to play in this offense
Sorry, there's no way I would pay Vincent Jackson that type of money. He's one DUI from suspension...too much of a risk, no matter how talented he may be. He's made the same mistake twice, who can say with any confidence the incident wont happen again???
I think VJ needs to be signed but if it takes them an entire season I wouldn't be surprised. Brandon Marshall has had much bigger problems with coaching staff, immaturity, being arrested for a DUI, disorderly conduct, domestic violence and even battery. Not to mention the numerous amount of times the police had to go to his house. If the dolphins could look past all that the chargers should be able to look over 2 DUIs. VJ is far from being as big a nuissance as Marshall was for denver but his production doesn't scream for a Marshall sized contract either.
The Chargers will sign him, no doubt, but with the CBA agreement still up in the air and the chargers still cautious about his off-field issues waiting seems like a good option for the chargers. I think the only way they sign him soon is if someone makes an offer.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what Vasher brings to the table. If he can come up with 4-5 INTs next season, that'd be fantastic. I'd like to see him play the nickel back and get opportunities on the ball. Cromartie's breakout year was when he played as the 3rd corner...
I really think they have to Resign VJ and with the money they will owe to McNeil and Gates new contract that leaves Sproles, Merriman and Malcolm Floyd the opportunity the chance to leave without compensation and only Sproles. Can be traded this year (he's the onlyone to sign his tender).
Floyd and Jackson should have been signed to long term deal before we got Chris Chambers.
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VJ isn't our top priority, but he should either be re-signed at some point or traded on draft day for two firsts (over two years) or the equivalent, nothing in between. Either would be fine. Or they could leave him on if they trade Merriman, because he's worth a franchise tag.
just because the dolphins throw around money like there is no tomorrow??
give VJ a good deal, something in the area of the average of the top10 receivers and good.
Chargers need to sign V.J., M. McNiel and stop messing around. Trade Lights Out for a good takle or safty, sign sproles, get cody and garhart, best or Tate and lets go win a superbowl already!!!!!!!!!! Last year in San Diego we got every position already set and where running around trying to fiqure things out like where the Browns. We got 11 wins without tomlinson, williams or cromartie's help
they need to get off their *** and sign VJ, but not for $10M. that's a ridiculous amount for a WR imo. for that amount a WR should score everytime he touches the ball. the heat of Miami i think has fried the big tuna's brain.
at the same time SD needs to get this addressed asap. they abandoned the run and changed the offensive philosophy. they have a pro bowl caliber QB and need to insure he has the necessary down field threats and protection around him.....but not for $10M
"VJ isn't our top priority, but he should either be re-signed at some point or traded on draft day for two firsts (over two years) or the equivalent, nothing in between. Either would be fine. Or they could leave him on if they trade Merriman, because he's worth a franchise tag."
I have to agree with the first part entirely. Passing team or not, VJ still isn't the #1 receiver on this team. It's still Gates, who has been a model citizen, and who is the primary reason if we want to be a truly dangerous passing team that we need to re-establish the run... to sell play-action and free safeties off of AG. I'd say priority for re-signing among the 2010 and 2011 free agents right now is Gates, McNiell, Jackson, Weddle (he's an AJ "pet" so he may be a spot higher to be honest), Merriman, Floyd, Siler, Dobbins, Clary, Sproles, Burnett, Cooper... with guys like Travis Johnson still big question marks because we don't have a proper sample size of where they fit into the defense.
Kevin Acee wants to speculate that Merriman could be traded, and while it wouldn't surprise me I doubt AJ's going to sell low on him which is what he'd be doing with a draft day trade, because Shawne hasn't had the opportunity to show what he can do on the field with a knee that's been given a chance to fully heal (people saying he "inexplicably wasn't the same on the field" really out to do some medical research as it takes 16-18 months for the repaired ligaments along with all the tendons and muscle tissue surrounding it to recuperate and re-strengthen and that's WITH rehab). I get why we're not extending him. The benchmark has been set - Ware's deal and to a lesser extent Dansby's deal - and if Shawne comes out of the gates this season like the Lights Out of old, I wouldn't be surprised to see him get that extension (the teams just making sure they don't paint themselves in a corner with a Deion Branch type deal: i.e. combination of contract size and inability to stay healthy would make the guy untradeable and murder to release if a salary cap is restored under a new CBA.
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An Athenian Loft with Acropolis View
Size135 m²
Floor No.4(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Disabled access
Accommodation summary
|Aristaiou, 11636 Athens, Greece
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This elegant apartment with stunning views of Acropolis and Attica, 10 minutes walk from the major archaelogical sites and the lively city centre (including Acropolis Hill and Plaka).
The apartment is very luxury and fully equipped. The amenities include :A/C in every room,a fully equipped kitchen decorated with Corian Bench,free wifi,satellite TV, DVD, DVD/ Book library, Bang & Olufsen sound system, which is one of the best in the world. The kitchen is equiped with oven,microwave, dishwasher, fridge with freezer, cuttlery, dishes and pans, kettle, espresso coffee maker, toaster. Nespresso coffee capsules are provided as well.There is also a jacuzzi with color therapy and self-decontaminated in the main bathroom which is located in the Master Bedroom and hydromassage tower in the second one. Complimentary cleaning service every third day.There is also a vacuum cleaner and a laundry machine. Two big closets will make your stay more comfortable. Bed linen and towels are provided.
Smoking is allowed only in the balcony.
There are few super markets, mini markets, bakeries, pharmacies and shops for all your needs around the loft. You can also enjoy your lunches and dinners in the area around, where you can find nice local tavernas and restaurants, as well as cafes to enjoy a morning coffee in Athens' center!
Your host George is a genuine , openhearted Athenian who will treat you with the traditional Greek hospitality and can arrange for you tailor made day trips in and around Athens.Number of services on request available, including personal trainer and spa treatments.
Airport transport or any other trasport is available upon demand at an additional but very reasonable cost.
House rulesThe guests in general must respect the property. Smoking is not allowed. Pets are welcomed upon prior arrangement. For everything you might need, I am 24 hours a day on call. The keys will be delivered upon arrival and I will personally explain you everything you need to know for the apartment.
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We recently stayed at this Penthouse apartment with pool in the center of Athens. The stay could not have been nicer. We were there with 6 kids and 5 adults total and the place was beyond spacious and comfortable. The roof deck with pool was the best part of the space - such a great amenity - and the direct view of the Acropolis was not bad either! The Owner was extremely helpful, and George arranged for drivers for our trip. A plus!
Very nice apartment close to all services : bakery, restaurants, pubs, and the beaches of course. You can easily walk to Lake Vouliagmeni (less than 10 minutes walk). Well equipped apartment with a pretty patio as shown on profile pictures.
The apartment was at the center of Athen. It was beautiful and it had everything what we needed for this trip. The coordination with George was funtastic. I will recommand it for sure !!!! :)
Contact person was on time at the apartment, training was short (without forgetting important) and friendly.
Very nice apartment, simply furnished but functional.
Had (unfortunately only two days) a very good time in a pleasant environment.
To Athens and tavernas and bars all to reach the beach, Einkaufsmöglichskeiten, tram on foot.
With great pleasure again.
Kontaktperson war pünktlich an der Wohnung, Einweisung war kurz (ohne wichtiges zu vergessen) und freundlich.
Sehr schöne Wohnung, einfach eingerichtet aber zweckmässig.
Hatten (leider nur zwei Tage) eine sehr schöne Zeit in angenehmer Umgebung.
Strand, Einkaufsmöglichskeiten, Strassenbahn nach Athen und Tavernen bzw. Bars alles zu Fuß zu erreichen.
Sehr gerne wieder.
I have been in the flat for 5 nights. The situation of the flat is okay. It's a little bit far to the centre but therefore it is really quite and there is an other centre/big streets with a lot of stores really near. Still, it doesn't take too long to get to the centre (Akropolis). Wheter you can take the bus/metro and it takes you 10-15min or you take a Taxi, which is also not expensive and only takes 10mins.
The elevator is helpful, the balcony is a nice place to sit and the room are also clean and well furnished. The wifi Router is directly next to the bed but still it is slow or sometimes not even usable.
All in all it was a great stay in Athens and I would totally recommend this flat.
Apartment address has been entered inaccurately - as Merarchias 0, 185 35 Pireas, Greece.
The search for appropriate address it took approx. 20 minutes. and another call in roaming to the host, who gave the correct address 2as Merarchias 19.
Adres mieszkania podany został nieprecyzyjnie - as Merarchias 0, 185 35 Pireas, Grecja.
Poszukiwanie właściwego adresu zajęło ok. 20 min. i kolejny telefon w roamingu do gospodarza, który podał właściwy adres 2as Merarchias 19.
Beautiful apartment to relax. Close to a supermarket and public transport. Many shops close by for shopping. Good advice from the host to find a restaurant.
Bel appartement pour se détendre. Proche d'un supermarché et des transports en commun. Nombreux magasins tout proches pour faire du shopping. De bons conseils de l'hôte pour trouver un restaurant.
Beautiful appartment, clean, confortable... In a very good location in Athens, i highly recommand!!! George was very accomodating and friendly. Thank you very much :-)
Excellent apartment and location. Everything was as it was seen on website! Thank you
We have been welcomed by a friend of George at the airport. He drove us to the appartment when it was already in the evening. The moment we came we were surprised by the service of all the things that were present in the appartment. The tools in the kitchen were very complete. Sugar, coffee,tea and the supplies were present and ready for using. A little garden at the backsite was complete and looked very charming. The only thing was that cats made it also to a place of there own, so you could smell as soon as you opened the door.
We enyoied it very much.
Thank you for the great hospitality.
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As a designer, you probably work with colors in several applications each day. It's tedious to create and organize colors in one application, only to have to recreate the same colors in another application when you want to reuse them. In a multi-application workflow, easy access to the exact colors you need is especially important. Helping you to organize, share, and manage your color swatches is one of the key goals of the 2014 release of Adobe InDesign CC.
In this tutorial, you'll go through a typical workflow involving InDesign and Adobe Illustrator CC. Specifically, you will:
- Create and organize color swatches in InDesign
- Load color swatches from another project in Illustrator
- The color workflow
- Organizing color swatches in a folder
- Using color schemes created in Illustrator
- Applying colors to artwork in InDesign
Start by taking a look at two projects that are underway: A personal brand project with color schemes and a business card project for the same client (see Figure 1). Notice that the "Magenta complement" color scheme from the personal brand project is applied to the business card. In this tutorial, you'll create variations using other color schemes. To do this, you'll save the color schemes in the personal brand document created in Illustrator and apply them to the business card project saved in InDesign.
Follow these steps to get started:
- Launch InDesign CC and open the cb_business_card.indd document.
- If the fonts saved in the file are not installed on your computer, The Missing Fonts dialog box will appear. Click Sync Fonts. InDesign will instantly download and install the fonts from the Adobe Typekit library. Typekit fonts are included with your Creative Cloud membership.
Before you import a new color theme, take a moment to look at how to organize the color swatches in this document.
- Choose > Window > Color> Swatches. The Swatches panel appears.
In the Swatches panel, notice the additional color swatches at the bottom of the list of swatches. These colors were applied to the artwork and saved with the file. Starting with the 2014 release of InDesign, you can create and organize color swatches just as in Illustrator. There are several ways to create folders to organize your color swatches. They're called Color Groups.
Follow the steps below to learn how.
To create a Color Group folder from scratch:
- Click the New Color Group button (the folder icon) at the bottom of the Swatches panel to create an empty folder named Color Group (see Figure 2).
- Double-click the folder and rename it as "Analogous oranges."
- Drag the three swatches into the folder individually (see Figure 2 at bottom).
Tip: Hold the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (PC) while clicking the New Color Group button to create and name the folder in one step.
You can save a step and move multiple swatches into a folder all at once.
- Select any number of color swatches in the Swatches panel (see Figure 3).
- Hold the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (PC) and click the New Color Group button in the Swatches panel.
- Name the color swatches folder and click OK.
An easy and intuitive way to organize colors is to save colors that are already applied to artwork. Here's how:
- Select the entire business card artwork (see Figure 4).
- Hold the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (PC) and click the New Color Group button in the Swatches panel.
- Select Create From: Selected Page Item(s), name the color swatches folder, and click OK (see Figure 5).
You've seen how easy it is to organize colors into Color Group folders in InDesign, and next you'll learn how to load Color Group folders from Illustrator to work faster and more efficiently.
Color schemes for this personal brand project have already been created and saved in an Illustrator document. Instead of recreating the colors manually in InDesign, you'll import the color swatch folders as a first step.
Before you can import the color swatch folders into your InDesign document, you'll need to save the swatch folders in Illustrator in a special format. Follow the steps below.
- Launch Illustrator and open the casey-barnes-brand.ai document.
- Choose Window> Swatches to view the Swatches panel (see Figure 6).
- Select Save Swatch Library as ASE from the Swatches panel menu (see Figure 7). The Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) file format lets you exchange swatches between applications that support ASE.
- Name the .ASE file CB.ASE and save it in an easily accessible location on your computer.
Next, you'll switch to InDesign and load the Swatch Library into the document containing the business card layout.
- In InDesign, open the cb_business_card.indd document.
- Select Load Swatches from the Swatches panel menu.
- Navigate to the saved CB.ASE file and click Open.
- The Color Group folders appear in the Swatches panel in InDesign looking exactly as they do in Illustrator (see Figure 8).
That's it! You're ready to start applying alternative color schemes to artwork elements in the business card project (see Figure 9). You just completed an easy and efficient workflow to organize colors in InDesign.
To learn more about color features, visit the InDesign Learn Essentials and Illustrator Learn Essentials sections of Creative Cloud Learn. You'll find tutorials and other content on using color and related topics.
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One of my favorite things to do is try a dish at a restaurant and then attempt to reproduce it at home. Sometimes I get pretty close; other times it's a massive failure.
On a trip to Olive Garden several years ago, I tried fried ravioli. It quickly became one of my favorites.
A frequent stop on vacations in Gatlinburg is an Italian restaurant called Best Italian. One of its appetizers is the best fried ravioli you've ever put in your mouth.
Because of these two wonderful food experiences, I decided to try the dish on my own. My result isn't exactly the same as what you'd get at these restaurants but is similar.
Start with a bag of frozen cheese ravioli. You can use any kind but I think cheese ravioli works best when you fry it. I've found two different styles in the grocery freezer located near the bread products. One is a square kind that looks like traditional ravioli and the other is a smaller round kind. Both work well.
Take out your electric skillet and cover the bottom with extra virgin olive oil. It doesn't have to be a lot, but just enough to fry the ravioli. You also can do this in a deep fryer and would use more oil.
Once the oil gets hot, drop in the ravioli. Be careful with this step. If your ravioli is straight out of the freezer, it could carry some ice crystals on it which will cause the oil to pop and burn you.
Cook until that side is a gold-ish brown. Flip and fry the other side.
Make sure you don't cook the ravioli too long. It can become too chewy if overcooked. Cheese may seep out the sides of the pasta while cooking.
When they are finished, remove from the oil and drain on a paper towel.
To plate these delectable fried treats, I often put cooked spaghetti sauce in the bottom of a pasta bowl and then place the ravioli on top of the sauce. Then sprinkle the top with graded parmesan cheese and Italian spices.
The dish is served warm and can be used as an appetizer, party food or served as a meal paired with a fresh salad.
Because it's become a favored dish, I usually keep some frozen ravioli on standby in the freezer. It's a quick meal and tasty at the end of a long day.
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OVAE Welcomes Rosanne Andre!
Rosanne Andre recently joined OVAE's Division of Academic and Technical Education (DATE) as an audit resolution specialist. She is responsible for reviewing single audits of vocational and adult education programs administered by state education offices. She will also develop proposed recommendations for settling cases of expenditures not allowed under Perkins IV and applicable federal regulations. Prior to joining DATE, Andre was with the Department's Federal Student Aid Office as both a senior financial analyst and an audit resolution specialist. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from James Madison University.
Education and Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults
A recent education research synthesis brief from the Urban Institute, Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients, reviews strategies found effective in increasing employment and earnings among welfare recipients to reduce their long-term reliance on welfare benefits. The findings show a clear role for skills enhancement, but also suggest balancing a focus on job-seeking and work with goal-directed education and training. Promising programmatic tools identified include financial incentives to increase job retention and earnings, as well as participation in and completion of education and training, experienced job placement intermediaries to help welfare recipients find and move into better jobs; and high-quality sectoral training with strong employer ties. While several strategies were found effective, they have not proven to be transformational, and thus, the brief indicates, much still remains to be learned about how best to increase the self-sufficiency and financial well-being of low-income parents.
Student-Identified Barriers to Community College Success
A recently released study, Student Voices on the Higher Education Pathway: Preliminary Insights & Stakeholder Engagement Considerations reported on the opinions of current and former community college students (including completers and non-completers) about the expectations for and experiences in college. This report, by Public Agenda and WestEd, is a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Postsecondary Success initiative, Completion by Design. In the focus groups that inform the substance of this study, the authors paid particular attention to how some students succeed while others do not. The report also focuses on students' opinions about those factors that could have enhanced their success.
As the report notes, one of the central tenets of efforts to improve the community college experiences focuses on student-centeredness. In such an effort, keeping students' opinions and experiences at the center of reform plans can enhance the implementation of these reforms. Generally speaking, five themes came to the fore in the focus groups that were shared by both current and former students.
Theme One. Students wanted more exposure to career possibilities so that they could make better-informed decisions about the goals they set out to achieve and the steps necessary for success.
Theme Two. While former and current community college students consistently reported that they lacked readiness for college, most believed that the student success and developmental education courses intended to bring them up to speed were not offered in a way that helped them succeed.
Theme Three. Participants believed that having clear goals and being in programs with well-defined pathways gave them a greater chance of persisting, completing, or transferring.
Theme Four. Advisors, counselors, and faculty members who offer support and guidance that is accurate, accessible, and tailored to students' education and career goals are in high demand and can be hard to come by.
Theme Five. Students are aware that colleges offer a wide range of services, but they report that finding the specific information or services they need often required going on a "wild goose chase" and navigating silos.
The last section of the study offers a set of questions developed to encourage dialogue and collaborative problem solving among college stakeholders, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
The Internal Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Toolkit (2012) developed by Public Agenda for Completion by Design offers guidance on designing and conducting problem-solving dialogues aimed at enhancing student success at community colleges.


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Cornhuskers rack up 521 yards of offense
LINCOLN, Neb. - No. 25 Nebraska 39, Illinois 19: Ameer Abdullah rushed for a career-high 225 yards and two touchdowns and Tommy Armstrong Jr. threw a pair of scoring passes as host Nebraska rolled to an easy win to open Big Ten play.
Playing a second consecutive game without senior quarterback Taylor Martinez because of turf toe, Nebraska (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) racked up 521 total yards and won its league opener for the 36th time in 39 tries.
Josh Ferguson rushed for 114 yards and a score for Illinois (3-2, 0-1), but the Cornhuskers frustrated Illini quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, who was 13-of-26 for 135 yards and an interception before giving way to Reilly O'Toole for the Illini's final drive.
Nebraska scored on its first four possessions to roll up a 23-5 halftime lead. Abdullah and Imani Cross each had 2-yard touchdown runs in the first half, and Armstrong hit Quincy Enunwa for a 4-yard scoring pass.
Abdullah ripped off a 43-yard touchdown run to open the third quarter, and Kenny Bell made a spectacular catch for a 43-yard score from Armstrong to make it 36-12.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Abdullah's 200-yard rushing game is the first by a Nebraska player since Taylor Martinez (205) completed the task last season … Donovonn Young rushed for 61 yards and a touchdown for the Illini. … Illinois has lost seven straight and 16 of their last 17 against ranked opponents since beating Ohio State in 2007.


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Old Town Square Apartment 3rd floor
Maximální počet hostů6
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Velikost50 m²
Floor No.3
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The apartment is sensitively renovated while maintaining all the original elements from the beginning of last century: the original parquet floors, locks and high Diptera castle door to the bedroom, living room and kitchen. Suitable for families with small children or for working on long solitary stay. Available DVD player, high speed internet.
Apartment consists of large living room, bedroom, kitchen, hallway, bathroom and toilet (see plan). The bedroom has 3 beds with extra bed, living room can be used as a second bedroom for 4 guests
Domovní řádCheck in from 1.00 pm , check out till 11 am
There is souvenir shop to the entrance of the house. Shop keeper will be informed about your booking and pass over you key. Kindly let us know your expected check in time as soon as you will know your schedule
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The location is perfect, very close to the old town square. The wi fi is very weak, we could not connected to it. We asked for double bed sofa too, but the sheet was very short, I think it was for single bed (very bad). The apartment is very basic, the bathroom not confortable.
This apartment, whilst in a good location, is ok. Quite surprised at some of the reviews as it just simply ok. The man in the shop received us and gave us our keys, however because of the langue barrier there was not much else we could ask him.
In the apartment there was no information such as host/emergency contact information which most other apartments have had I have stayed in. Also there is no high speed internet. The wifi, which I had to email asking for twice (again that information wasn't left anywhere) was so far away/weak neither me nor my boyfriend could connect to it.
The apartment is quite empty, basically just beds and lots of large shelves in the rooms so I suppose it's better for larger groups.
But as I previously said the location of this apartment is very good, right on the old town square as it says, however yes as other reviews say it can be extremely noisey at night.
Center of Prague and safe..dont need to hesitate if u re ok with price..i had any problem here everything is as seen and as written. .
Excellent Flat !!! Great indoors space, unbeatable location, lovely restaurants all around, right where things happen in the city so beware if you are just looking for silence, it met my expectations all the way and beyond, nicely heated and very hot shower, and on top of that, Prague rocks !!! Thank you Olina for all your support in letting me in and advice, etc... and Roman for such a good opportunity to stay in Prague and experience it from the very hear, literally meters away from Old Town Square and Astronomic clock :)
The apartment is much better than appears in photo! Breathtaking view from every window. WONDERFUL flat
Everything was fine ! Nice Place in the absolute middle of old prague.
If you want to sleep long with windows open, you should bring eartaps, as tourists on the street can be really loud.....;-)
Also the girl of the souvenirshop who takes care of the visitors is really nice.
A good place to stay !
Perfect for a City Centre break for us. Clean and basic, plenty of space for two, three floors up, but right in the centre of things. We just walked to everywhere we wanted to go.
We would definitely book again. Could do with more and larger towels is the only complaint.
Otherwise all you need is there.
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text: I'm not 100% sure about Cali law but in Ky you dont have to register a gun under your name if it was aquired through a person to person transaction or in your case they were willed to you,as long as the firearms meet state requirements. The best thing to do would be call your local sheriff dept. and ask one of there senior officers who has been around for awhile. You never know what you can learn from a sheriff that you befriend. I had one of my sheriff buddies come over to the house once and was gonna show me how to make my wasr 10 AK47 full auto and even do the work for me, but i politely declined. But I would definately do a little digging on cali gun laws b4 you transport them back and forth to much. just my 2 cents......Sigma_6 out


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BeschreibungPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A village, known locally as a "selo" ( ), is considered the lowest administrative unit. Villages may have an individual administration (silrada) or a joint administration, combining two or more villages. Villages may also be under the jurisdiction of a city council (miskrada) or town council (selyshchna rada) administration.There is, however, another smaller type of settlement which is designated in Ukrainian as a selysche ( ). This type of community is generally referred to in English as a "settlement".
Untertitel: Village, Gmina ob enica, Pi a County, ob enica, Greater Poland Voivodeship. Sprache: Englisch.
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Former MotoGP rider and two-time world champion Casey Stoner (pictured) continues to lead the media on a merry dance about his intentions around racing a V8 Supercar.
Over the past couple of seasons he's been in the pit garage of Triple Eight Racing and mentioned he'd like to have a go at tin-top racing. Then he hinted he had no intention of going V8 racing, but was still seen in the pit garage. Fair enough, you might think - he could just be a fan.
Things got more interesting when his personal sponsor, Red Bull, signed on the dotted line replacing Vodafone as the naming rights sponsor of Triple Eight.
Next up we had reports of him saying, "It was always my plan to drive a V8. Since I was 12 I've always been interested in it."
It has also been reported that Stoner's Holden will sport his famous motorcycle racing number 27. In fact, it's been said he's pencilled in for his first public outing in his car on February 16 at the Sydney Motorsport Park.
Don't hold your breath just yet folks. Sunday night NZ time Stoner put out via his Twitter account: "Don't believe everything you read. Haven't decided what I'm doing yet, of course V8 Supercars is on the cards. Will let you know when I do!"
Is this another flip flop by Stoner, or is he trying to take control of his own decision-making? He'd better make up his mind soon as it's all getting a bit tedious.


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Very nice! Any hints??? I will be making two this weekend.
Happy Quilting.
I made a Margo bag and gave it away forgetting to take a picture. Is that a Lazy Girl wallet?
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I make the Lazy Girl Wonder wallets for everybody. They are like potato chips, you can't have only one.
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Love your fabrics and I too love making this bag. Fun to make and turns out awesome.
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Brazil's Cup of Excellence Competition – Cup of Excellence Program
The structure of the Brazilian Cup of Excellence competition was pretty much the same as the other COE competitions I've done elsewhere around the world. The basic structure calls for Monday through Thursday being dedicated to the actual competition, with Friday devoted to re-cupping the top ten coffees and then capped by meetings with the farmers. Friday evening is the ceremony where the winning coffees are announced and their proud farmers accept their awards. Saturday and Sunday is usually devoted to field trips to meet the winning farmers at their farms (whenever possible), or visiting other growers and mills in the region to get a better idea of the agricultural practices in the region.
In Brazil, Monday was spent getting acquainted with the other judges and getting ourselves calibrated to each other and to the coffees. As part of the calibration process, we all did a series of cuppings of different solutions of acids and sugars dissolved in water (exciting stuff like how does malic acid compare to tartaric acid, and how does our perceptions of them change in the presence of sucrose?). We also did a couple of practice flights, cupping a range of coffees (good to awful) from Brazil that had been rejected from the competition. This really helped all of us acclimate our tasting and senses to the unique flavor profiles typically found in Brazil. Mondays are also used to get all of the cuppers – especially any cuppers new to the Cup of Excellence program - familiar with the specific cupping form used in the COE competitions (which may be different in structure and content to the cupping forms used by the cuppers at home).
Tuesday was the first day of actual cupping, where roughly half of the coffees were intensely tasted, followed by another full day of tasting on Wednesday where the other half was given its rigorous exam (you can think of both days as the quarter-finals). Thursday was reserved for re-cupping the top coffees from the previous two days (the semi-finals), with Friday being spent validating the top ten coffees, which were to become the most sought-after – and valuable – lots during the world-wide internet auction that follows every COE competition).


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UTSA's inaugural soccer team
UTSA soccer ties for first in Southland Conference
By Carlos Valdez III
UTSA Assistant Sports Information Director
(Nov. 2, 2006)--The No. 2 seed UTSA soccer team heads to the 2006 Southland Conference Soccer Tournament on Nov. 2-5, held in San Marcos at the Bobcat Soccer Complex. The Roadrunners will play the winner of Stephen F. Austin/McNeese State match at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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UTSA scored two goals in the second half to defeat Sam Houston State, 2-1, Friday night and clinch the second seed for the SLC Tournament. Freshman Ezinne Okpo put the Roadrunners on top 1-0 in the 59-minute mark. However, SHSU's Raquel Bueno knotted the match at one with 75:44 left in the frame.
Freshman Veronica Najera gave UTSA the win with her second game-winning goal and sixth overall on the year. Junior Rachel Francis tied her career high with 12 saves on the night.
On Tuesday, Chelsea Zimmerman was named the 2006 SLC Freshman of the Year, while Okpo was tabbed second-team all-conference. Najera and Kari Weiland were honorable mention selections.
Head coach Steve Ballard has been able to shape the team into a Southland Conference contender, despite starting 10 freshmen and one junior most of the season. In their first season of SLC play, the Roadrunners stunned the league with a 2-1 victory at preseason favorite and last season's SLC regular season champions Stephen F. Austin on Oct. 1, in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Freshman Chelsea Zimmerman's nine goals this season lead the team and rank second in the conference, while freshman Kari Weiland's seven helpers lead the conference. Junior goalkeeper Rachel Francis stands second in the conference with a .769 save percentage and five shutouts and ranks third with 93 saves.
For more information, visit the UTSA Athletics Web site.
Soccer statistics
(Team -- SLC Record -- Overall Record)
Southeastern La. -- 4-0-2, .833 -- 10-3-3, .719
Stephen F. Austin -- 4-2-1, .643 -- 8-7-1, .531
Texas State -- 3-2-2, .571 -- 5-11-2, .333
Northwestern State -- 3-3-1, .500 -- 8-8-2, .500
Central Arkansas -- 4-4-0, .500 -- 8-7-1, .531
McNeese State -- 3-4-0, .429 -- 7-6-1, .536
Nicholls State -- 1-6-0, .143 -- 4-13-1, .250
Sam Houston State -- 1-5, .167 -- 3-13-0, .188


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National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Coordinated by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy.
"We recommend that the Federal government review the coordination of funding for HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and mental health services on the Federal and State level, with the goal of increasing access to these services for patients with HIV."
"I find that my clients are underserved and lack the needed support services and medical care that affects their health and well-being."
"Understand that syringe exchange is the gateway to treatment and we need to take the obstacles and hurdles out of people getting into [care]."
"[We] support language in health insurance reform legislation prohibiting companies from refusing coverage for an individual based on their medical history or health risk."
"Negative cultural influences and stigma are big challenges for [Latinos], and we need interventions that will address core family values among the Hispanic community as well as traditionalism and machismo."
"There can be no true progress without stigma reduction. Stigma is still the REAL reason so many don't want to know their status, don't get help, or are afraid to be advocates for their own health."
Executive Summary
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When one of our fellow citizens becomes infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) every nine-and-half minutes, the epidemic affects all Americans. It has been nearly thirty years since the first cases of HIV garnered the world's attention. Without treatment, the virus slowly debilitates a person's immune system until they succumb to illness. The epidemic has claimed the lives of nearly 600,000 Americans and affects many more.1 Our nation is at a crossroads. We have the knowledge and tools needed to slow the spread of HIV infection and improve the health of people living with HIV. Despite this potential, however, the public's sense of urgency associated with combating the epidemic appears to be declining. In 1995, 44% of the general public indicated that HIV/AIDS was the most urgent health problem facing the Nation, compared to only 6% in March 2009.2 While HIV transmission rates have been reduced substantially over time and people with HIV are living longer and more productive lives, approximately 56,000 people become infected each year and more Americans are living with HIV than ever before.34 Unless we take bold actions, we face a new era of rising infections, greater challenges in serving people living with HIV, and higher health care costs.5
President Obama committed to developing a National HIV/AIDS Strategy with three primary goals: 1) reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV, 2) increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV, and 3) reducing HIV-related health disparities. To accomplish these goals, we must undertake a more coordinated national response to the HIV epidemic. The Strategy is intended to be a concise plan that will identify a set of priorities and strategic action steps tied to measurable outcomes. Accompanying the Strategy is a Federal Implementation Plan that outlines the specific steps to be taken by various Federal agencies to support the high-level priorities outlined in the Strategy. This is an ambitious plan that will challenge us to meet all of the goals that we set. The job, however, does not fall to the Federal government alone, nor should it. Success will require the commitment of all parts of society, including State, tribal and local governments, businesses, faith communities, philanthropy, the scientific and medical communities, educational institutions, people living with HIV, and others. The vision for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy is simple:
The United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.
Reducing New HIV Infections
More must be done to ensure that new prevention methods are identified and that prevention resources are more strategically concentrated in specific communities at high risk for HIV infection. Almost half of all Americans know someone living with HIV (43% in 2009).6 Our national commitment to ending the HIV epidemic, however, cannot be tied only to our own perception of how closely HIV affects us personally. Just as we mobilize the country to support cancer prevention and research whether or not we believe that we are at high risk of cancer, or just as we support investments in public education whether or not we have children, success at fighting HIV calls on all Americans to help us sustain a long-term effort against HIV. While anyone can become infected with HIV, some Americans are at greater risk than others. This includes gay and bisexual men of all races and ethnicities, Black men and women, Latinos and Latinas, people struggling with addiction, including injection drug users, and people in geographic hot spots, including the U.S. South and Northeast, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. By focusing our efforts in communities where HIV is concentrated, we can have the biggest impact in lowering all communities' collective risk of acquiring HIV.
We must also move away from thinking that one approach to HIV prevention will work, whether it is condoms, pills, or information. Instead, we need to develop, evaluate, and implement effective prevention strategies and combinations of approaches including efforts such as expanded HIV testing (since people who know their status are less likely to transmit HIV), education and support to encourage people to reduce risky behaviors, the strategic use of medications and biomedical interventions (which have allowed us, for example, to nearly eliminate HIV transmission to newborns), the development of vaccines and microbicides, and the expansion of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. It is essential that all Americans have access to a shared base of factual information about HIV. The Strategy also provides an opportunity for working together to advance a public health approach to sexual health that includes HIV prevention as one component. To successfully reduce the number of new HIV infections, there must be a concerted effort by the public and private sectors, including government at all levels, individuals, and communities, to:
- Intensify HIV prevention efforts in communities where HIV is most heavily concentrated.
- Expand targeted efforts to prevent HIV infection using a combination of effective, evidence-based approaches.
- Educate all Americans about the threat of HIV and how to prevent it.
Increasing Access to Care and Improving Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV
As a result of our ongoing investments in research and years of clinical experience, people living with HIV can enjoy long and healthy lives. To make this a reality for everyone, it is important to get people with HIV into care early after infection to protect their health and reduce their potential of transmitting the virus to others. For these reasons, it is important that all people living with HIV are well supported in a regular system of care. The Affordable Care Act, which will greatly expand access to insurance coverage for people living with HIV, will provide a platform for improvements in health care coverage and quality. High risk pools are available immediately. High risk pools will be established in every state to provide coverage to uninsured people with chronic conditions. In 2014, Medicaid will be expanded to all lower income individuals (below 133% of the Federal poverty level, or about $15,000 for a single individual in 2010) under age 65. Uninsured people with incomes up to 400% of the Federal poverty level (about $43,000 for a single individual in 2010) will have access to Federal tax credits and the opportunity to purchase private insurance coverage through competitive insurance exchanges. New consumer protections will better protect people with private insurance coverage by ending discrimination based on health status and pre-existing conditions. Gaps in essential care and services for people living with HIV will continue to need to be addressed along with the unique biological, psychological, and social effects of living with HIV. Therefore, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and other Federal and State HIV-focused programs will continue to be necessary after the law is implemented. Additionally, improving health outcomes requires continued investments in research to develop safer, cheaper, and more effective treatments. Both public and private sector entities must take the following steps to improve service delivery for people living with HIV:
- Establish a seamless system to immediately link people to continuous and coordinated quality care when they are diagnosed with HIV.
- Take deliberate steps to increase the number and diversity of available providers of clinical care and related services for people living with HIV.
- Support people living with HIV with co–occurring health conditions and those who have challenges meeting their basic needs, such as housing.
Reducing HIV–Related Health Disparities
The stigma associated with HIV remains extremely high and fear of discrimination causes some Americans to avoid learning their HIV status, disclosing their status, or accessing medical care.7 Data indicate that HIV disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society—those Americans who have less access to prevention and treatment services and, as a result, often have poorer health outcomes. Further, in some heavily affected communities, HIV may not be viewed as a primary concern, such as in communities experiencing problems with crime, unemployment, lack of housing, and other pressing issues. Therefore, to successfully address HIV, we need more and better community–level approaches that integrate HIV prevention and care with more comprehensive responses to social service needs. Key steps for the public and private sector to take to reduce HIV-related health disparities are:
- Reduce HIV-related mortality in communities at high risk for HIV infection.
- Adopt community-level approaches to reduce HIV infection in high-risk communities.
- Reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV.
Achieving a More Coordinated National Response to the HIV Epidemic in the United States
The Nation can succeed at meeting the President's goals. It will require the Federal government and State, tribal and local governments, however, to do some things differently. Foremost is the need for an unprecedented commitment to collaboration, efficiency, and innovation. We also must be prepared to adjust course as needed. This Strategy is intended to complement other related efforts across the Administration. For example, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has taught us valuable lessons about fighting HIV and scaling up efforts around the world that can be applied to the domestic epidemic. The President's National Drug Control Strategy serves as a blueprint for reducing drug use and its consequences, and the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness focuses efforts to reduce homelessness and increase housing security. ONAP will work collaboratively with the Office of National Drug Control Policy and other White House offices, as well as relevant agencies to further the goals of the Strategy. The Strategy is intended to promote greater investment in HIV/AIDS, but this is not a budget document. Nonetheless, it will inform the Federal budget development process within the context of the fiscal goals that the President has articulated. The U.S. currently provides more than $19 billion in annual funding for domestic HIV prevention, care, and research, and there are constraints on the magnitude of any potential new investments in the Federal budget. The Strategy should be used to refocus our existing efforts and deliver better results to the American people within current funding levels, as well as highlight the need for additional investments. Our national progress will require sustaining broader public commitment to HIV, and this calls for more regular communications to ensure transparency about whether we are meeting national goals. Key steps are to:
- Increase the coordination of HIV programs across the Federal government and between federal agencies and state, territorial, tribal, and local governments.
- Develop improved mechanisms to monitor and report on progress toward achieving national goals.
This Strategy provides a basic framework for moving forward. With government at all levels doing its part, a committed private sector, and leadership from people living with HIV and affected communities, the U.S. can dramatically reduce HIV transmission and better support people living with HIV and their families.
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"I am tired of telling teenagers that their HIV test is positive... Every 17-year-old I diagnose with HIV represents 60 to 80 years of transmission potential [and] each represents nearly a million dollars in healthcare costs over their lifetime."
"All too often, people suffering from multiple chronic conditions receive little to no coordination of their health care from the various specialists that they regularly interact with. Adapt chronic health care models that emphasize outpatient primary care, patient education, and multiple-condition health care coordination."
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Music Review: Living Things by Linkin Park
Twelve years after dominating the airwaves, it seems that rap-rock band Linkin Park still has what it takes the hold a crowd's attention.
Twelve years after dominating the airwaves, it seems that rap-rock band Linkin Park still has what it takes to hold a crowd's attention. It's a little terrifying to think that there are people out there who deem the iconic album Hybrid Theory to be classic rock (see Buzzfeed's roundup entitled "People Who Think 'Classic' Linkin Park Is Awesome" here), but since all those who felt a connection to "One Step Closer" are probably not feeling the same amount of rage they did when they were younger, it's good to see that the music has grown with the times.
And that's not to say that Living Things is all sunshine; this record is said to be their most intimate album yet. The band's 10th chart-topping single "Burn It Down" showcases both Chester Bennington's and Mike Shinoda's never-changing voices, catchy synth and the undeniable need to dance, a feeling that is not usually synonymous with a Linkin Park song. The scruffy instrumental "Tinfoil," which plays through into the drum track–heavy ballad "Powerless," teeters on the fine line between the simplistic perfection one may find in a Coldplay song and the irrefutable charm the musicians of Linkin Park possess over their fans. "I'll be Gone" is another song to note, possibly the most diverse song on the album, which explores other genres through a string arrangement by Canadian indie composer Owen Pallett.
Some may say that Linkin Park have been spending their time between albums listening to Diplo and Skrillex, but at least they're able to incorporate current music fads into their music without losing their unique combination of hip-hop, electronica and rock. The days of self-induced teenage angst may be over, but the musical stylings of Linkin Park have grown with the times. In celebration of the album release, Linkin Park will be performing two consecutive nights on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday June 27th and Thursday June 28th, so check your local listings.
Best Tracks: "Tinfoil/Powerless", "I'll be Gone", "Lies Greed Misery"
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Day 12 Tu, July 24 (101km) The Uneventful Day
Trip Start Jul 13, 2012
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It was a windy day but was sunny and the entire ride was pretty much flat. Just what I needed. It was close to 30 degrees so I had to adjust to the heat but managed alright. My back was still stiff and it took over 20km into the ride before I could properly bend and ride normal. Not too much interesting on this leg - other than the ever popular destination of "Horny Bar" - I wonder if people take pictures of the town sign as much as they do for Dildo Newfoundland?
Just when I thought I would have a rain free day the minute I arrived at the Hotel it started to rain. It has only been 12 days in a row
I was in a slow mode and just was taking care of my back. I went for a walk around. there was not much happening so I decided to cross the bridge into Hungary on foot. Despite the Hungarian side looking like a throw-back to the old Communist days the first thing over the border was a 24 hour Tesco. I did see what appeared to be a very surgically enhanced porn star at tesco in a very skimpy outfit. All she bought was one very large watermelon. Kind of a weird site to say the least as she carried it out to her Mercedes and drove over the border to Slovakia.
It was an early night and I tried to get a decent night sleep.


text: Jerry is in an all-out sprint. The ghost of Al Davis is chasing him with a chainsaw. I giggle at the hopeful debate among Cowboys fans about who is calling the coaching shuffle shots these days, as if history never happened and football sense resides in Jerry's pickled melon. Hello, McFly.... No, I'm not saying Jason Garrett wasn't in the room when these coaching decisions were bandied about. Sure, I can buy that he wanted Ryan gone, too, particularly if the work ethic rumors were true and given the "unsoundness" of his scheme, according to many a trusted guru I pay credence. But I'm pretty dadgum sure he didn't want to can his brother, nor do I know why Boniol earned his ire or why DeCamillis wanted out so badly last year and now. And you know Garrett especially doesn't want to toss his playsheet with Jon Gruden's staff circling him at Valley Ranch, many of which have manned a sideline in his very spot. The kitchen's got a bunch of head chefs these days. What and how and why all this is happening, really, is irrelevant. Perception always trumps reality, whether or not they are one in the same, which in this case, almost certainly is. Garrett's best hope to pull all this off, as moribund as it sounds, is that the cred among players remains from his brilliant handling of the death of Jerry Brown. He carried the team on his shoulders through difficult days, and those left on the roster next year won't forget that. Leaders shine under such circumstances, and Garrett shined the brightest. Jerry couldn't have done that. No way. Here's hoping the players keep that in mind after Jerry's "uncomfortable" guillotine spree. Playing to Garrett's favor is also the sad public tailspin of Jerry, who yet again thinks furiously muddying up the water will mask and evade 16 year's of crystal clear documented truth. Desperation oozes from the man, who looks more and more ready to find a trap door somewhere. He just looks uncomfortable. Yes - and I may be out here on an island with Tom Hanks and Wilson - I think Jerry is looking for a way out of the GM fray. There, I said it. Burn me in effigy if you must. I could be wrong, but my gut says Jerry's tiring of the charade. Pride, of course, won't let it be on our terms. It won't come with admittance or public intervention. Short of a Super Bowl appearance, there won't be a finite moment or trumpet fanfare to stamp the occassion. What Jerry needs is a playoff game, preferably two, and he needs it pronto. Another plunge into quarterback hell will only elongate the wait and punctuate his scorned legacy. That last Super Bowl with Deion is fading into pre-High Definition obscurity. A whole Ray Lewis career ago. RGIII was five years old. Jerry knows this has to happen under Romo's watch. It would bode nicely if Garrett was here, too, but as the odometer piles miles on Romo, that's not a must. Gruden is a call away, and it might fix Romo asap if needed. Jerry's seemingly playing a handful of cards all at once. Winning once emboldened Jerry to do scary bad things. Now, I think it might just provide the opportunity for him to surreptitiously step into the football background, smug mug intact. So cheer Garrett and your Cowboys like your life depends on it. More is riding on it than a singular season of wins and losses.


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Thyroid Cancer Name Change: Proposal or Done Deal »
"The recent reclassification of a type of thyroid cancer as a noncancer will have important and positive implications for patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders, experts say.
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Thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion is regulated by the hypothalamic-pituitarythyroid axis. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) released from the hypothalamus stimulates secretion of thyrotropin-stimulating hormone, TSH, from the anterior pituitary. TSH, in turn, is the physiologic stimulus for the synthesis and secretion of thyroid hormones, L-thyroxine (T4) and L-triiodothyronine (T3), by the thyroid gland. Circulating serum T3 and T4 levels exert a feedback effect on both TRH and TSH secretion. When serum T3 and T4 levels increase, TRH and TSH secretion decrease.
When thyroid hormone levels decrease, TRH and TSH secretion increase. The mechanisms by which thyroid hormones exert their physiologic actions are not completely understood, but it is thought that their principal effects are exerted through control of DNA transcription and protein synthesis. T3 and T4 diffuse into the cell nucleus and bind to thyroid receptor proteins attached to DNA. This hormone nuclear receptor complex activates gene transcription and synthesis of messenger RNA and cytoplasmic proteins.
Thyroid hormones regulate multiple metabolic processes and play an essential role in normal growth and development, and normal maturation of the central nervous system and bone. The metabolic actions of thyroid hormones include augmentation of cellular respiration and thermogenesis, as well as metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. The protein anabolic effects of thyroid hormones are essential to normal growth and development.
The physiologic actions of thyroid hormones are produced predominately by T3, the majority of which (approximately 80%) is derived from T4 by deiodination in peripheral tissues.
Levothyroxine, at doses individualized according to patient response, is effective as replacement or supplemental therapy in hypothyroidism of any etiology, except transient hypothyroidism during the recovery phase of subacute thyroiditis.
Levothyroxine is also effective in the suppression of pituitary TSH secretion in the treatment or prevention of various types of euthyroid goiters, including thyroid nodules, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, multinodular goiter and, as adjunctive therapy in the management of thyrotropin-dependent well-differentiated thyroid cancer (see INDICATIONS AND USAGE, PRECAUTIONS, DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
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Circulating thyroid hormones are greater than 99% bound to plasma proteins, including thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG), thyroxine-binding prealbumin (TBPA), and albumin (TBA), whose capacities and affinities vary for each hormone. The higher affinity of both TBG and TBPA for T4 partially explains the higher serum levels, slower metabolic clearance, and longer half-life of T4 compared to T3. Protein-bound thyroid hormones exist in reverse equilibrium with small amounts of free hormone. Only unbound hormone is metabolically active. Many drugs and physiologic conditions affect the binding of thyroid hormones to serum proteins (seePRECAUTIONS: DRUG INTERACTIONSand Drug-Laboratory Test Interactions). Thyroid hormones do not readily cross the placental barrier (see PRECAUTIONS, Pregnancy).
T4 is slowly eliminated (see TABLE 1). The major pathway of thyroid hormone metabolism is through sequential deiodination. Approximately eighty-percent of circulating T3 is derived from peripheral T4 by monodeiodination. The liver is the major site of degradation for both T4 and T3; with T4 deiodination also occurring at a number of additional sites, including the kidney and other tissues. Approximately 80% of the daily dose of T4 is deiodinated to yield equal amounts of T3 and reverse T3 (rT3). T3 and rT3 are further deiodinated to diiodothyronine. Thyroid hormones are also metabolized via conjugation with glucuronides and sulfates and excreted directly into the bile and gut where they undergo enterohepatic recirculation.
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Hi! My name is Molly. I'm 30 and a mom of 3 boys. We live in Vermont and got our first colony last spring. They wintered well, despite the incredibly rainy summer we had, but I'm holding my breath until we're through April. We are supposed to be getting another colony in April, but the local beekeeper/breeder I ordered from had a big die-out this winter and doesn't know if he can sell any nucs. He may need them all to replace his lost ones. We'll know in April.
I come from a long line of beekeepers and many of my family still keep bees, so I'm lucky to have advice from my mom or any of my aunts or cousins along my beekeeping journey. Sadly, my mom's bees died over the winter (varroa).
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TUSKEGEE, Ala. (May 25, 2012) — Tuskegee University President Gilbert L. Rochon has appointed Harold "Kippy" Tate vice president of capital projects and facility services. He has held the post since May 1, and will be responsible for project management and monitoring the life cycle of new construction, building renovation projects, campus physical plant and infrastructure for the entire campus, and more than 100 buildings as well as the university's off-site land and real estate.
Tate is the former vice president of buildings and grounds for Alabama State University in Montgomery, Ala. He has been an adjunct professor of architecture at Tuskegee since 2004. He also taught seminars for Lorman Educational Services in Eau Claire, Wis., from 2002 to 2007.
Tate also served as the director of the State of Alabama Building Commission, also in Montgomery, from 1999 to 2007. He was president at McKissack and McKissack Architects in Montgomery from 1997 to 1999. He served as health care principal architect at Gresham, Smith and Partners Architects in Birmingham, Ala., from 1985 to 1997.
He has worked on a myriad of architecture and design projects such as: the stadium for the Tennessee Titans football team in Nashville, Tenn.; Garland Diagnostic Center in Garland, Texas; River Oaks Hospital in Jackson, Miss.; and the pre-design of Tuskegee University's Carver Bio-Science and Research Center.
He earned his bachelor's degree in architectural sciences from Tuskegee University in 1983 and his master's in architecture, also from Tuskegee, in 1985. He is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Service Award from the National Society of Engineers and the 2001 Alumni of the Year award for the Tuskegee University Department of Architecture. The Montgomery Chamber of Commerce awarded him the "Emerging 30" Award in 1999 and named him 1998 Minority Business of the Year.
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today I´ve noticed during reading old sci-fi-mags a detail at the costume I´ve never seen in ROTJ (sailbarge-scene tatooine).
What is this silver rope for (coming from the armor disappearing under the cape ? ??
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I am perplexed by the results of some tabulations I ran in Stata SE/10.
Specifically, I am testing for the equality of two cells ... almost
identical to the situation described at
The commands
svy: tab x1 x2 , row
svy: tab x1 x2 , row se
produce different variance-covariance matrices in e(V). The overall
Pearson results appear identical.
So, when I issue the command
test _b[p11]=_b[p71]
the first command produces results that I believe to be simply wrong -
visual inspection of the two cell values being tested overwhelming
suggests no statistically significant difference yet the F value
produced is huge. The second command produces a very small F value.
Having thought that the se option was merely for display purposes, I
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Teach-In: Home Front Heroes & The Role of Black Workers
Betty Reid Soskin who is now a US Park Ranger at the Rosie The Riveter Education Center saw the segregation against black workers in the shipyards where she worked during the World War II. Tens of thousands of not only black workers but also women were able to get decent paying jobs for the first time but they faced discriminatory treatment and had to fight for their rights.
This discrimination continued after the war when they were laid off and other workers were rehired to replace them. Soskin was there face to face with this history and will be screening some videos about these issues. She will also be joining the LaborFest Maritime boat trip on July 21.


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Coming late September, exclusively for PC, Maelstrom is action strategy title where Hollywood sci-fi meets groundbreaking RTS gameplay, set against the violent ecological meltdown of Earth. Based on an original concept by Codemasters and KDV Games, the Russian team behind the critically acclaimed Perimeter, players will be able to unleash a tide of carnage with colossal transforming robots, crush enemies by raining down fire, level entire mountains, and freeze the oceans.
Maelstrom takes place on a devastated future Earth where, in the wake of an apocalyptic ecological disaster, the planet is threatened by an alien invasion. In this savaged world, water has become the most valuable of resources and divided the remaining humans into two factions. Now, they must wage war against the invaders and each other in a desperate struggle for supremacy and survival.
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For what it's worth, I agree with the posts that state that there are almost certainly a number of feral survivors in your area. I don't see how one feral hive can survive 9 years or even 3 without other feral survivors for queens to mate with. Your NZ genetics will have much less effect on say 10 colonies than on one.
Who knows, the gentics may even have a positive impact on the feral population by bringing in more deversity.
If you do want to keep your genetics from the feral survivors, just eliminate as many of your drones as you easily can. Then next year or even this year, split your hives and let the new queens mate with the drones from the ferals. Or, pinch your queens after they have started laying. Or similar techniques. That is the easiest way to get those genetics in your hives.
View yourself as fortunate.
Thank you all for putting my mind at ease, this forum is truly an important resource.
Just a comment on the sequence of things. You shouldn't pinch the package queens until you are absolutely certain that you have mated queens. Once you know things are good with your new queens then feel free to dispose of them.
Also because you don't know how good the genetic is after it is mixed with your NZ bees,
you might want do a split or 2 before pinching your package queens. You don't want to
deal with a laying worker hive. I would evaluate first before making them queen less.
I think this is much ado about nothing.
Your best insurance for longevity will be in numbers. The more hives you have going into winter the better your chances of succeeding in a severe environment.
If you got 10 swarms off that feral hive chances are at least a few would not make it (just the inherent variability in nature). If it were me I'd keep the original two queens if they are building up good but do at least one split from each hive and let them raise their own queens in nucs. Then you have at least four hives going into winter w/ at least two 50% native queens (if one or both hives supercede then daughter queens would be average 75% native).
Those NZ bees may surprise you.
Colino, you appear to want to do the natural thing so let nature weed out the genetics that don't work.
Remember that the drones also have the 50/50 genetic make up. How do you handle the NZ drones in your
parent hives to control this part? Do you allow your NZ drones to fly freely or let the F1 daughters to make the
50/50 drones with less of the NZ genetic influence. Don't forget about the drones too.


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I will put this in the film room thread as wel but just in case U didnt see this

Doug Martin vs Arizona State 2011 "Las Vegas Bowl"

Redeye, whats your thoughts/film on any DE's coming in the draft this year that could fall to the 2nd or 3rd rd. Obviously you cant see the future, but some guys that could be great value in the 2nd/3rd?
[/quote]Im not really feeling any of these pass rushers to be honest with U.[/quote]Whitney Mercilus looks fantastic! I actually hope we can somehow get him to go with JPP for our future DE tandem. I think Mercilus is the closest thing to JPP since JPP.. I think he rises to far up the draft for us though.. I'm thinking Janoris Jenkins at this point because i expect mercilus, kuechly, richardson and decastro to all be gone by the time we select.. I'm now hoping for Janoris Jenkins, Chase Minnifield, Pete Konz(if he comes out), Dwayne Allen, or Jerel Worthy..[/quote]I havent disagreed with U much this season but I do disagree with U about Mercilus.I dont think he is a bad prospect but I dont see anywhere near the elite level athletic ability JPP possess's .JPP had an insane burst off the line of scrimmage,Mercilus doesnt have that.What is similar about Mercilus and JPP is the motor.Both players play hard dont take plays off and are relentless.I do like that quality about Mercilus. Mercilus isnt so much about elite athleticism but hard work.Mercilus is also pretty well refined as a player.He uses his hands and arms real well. He reminds me more of a Derrick Morgan or Robert Ayers prospect then JPP or Aldon Smith.[/quote]Got to agree w/ Redeye on Whitney Mercilus. Not a bad prospect, but nowhere near the level of JPP. I actually think Nick Perry of USC is a much better defensive end.
[/quote] Its fine to dissagree Either way Whitney is gonna be a stud and i think u lead the nation in sacks and forced fumbles when your litteraly the focus of offensive lines unless your very athletic Hes fantastic!
[/quote][/quote]I've still got Southern Cal DE Nick Perry rated higher than Mercilus. His stock has gotta be on the rise w/ his strong combine showing the other day. Here's his results:

Nick Perry Combine Results

4.64 40 yard dash

35 bench reps of 225 pounds

38.5 inch vertical jump

124 inch broad jump

7.25 3 cone drill

4.66 20 yard shuttle

[/quote][/quote] Ya, his stock on the rise from a all ready most likely 1st rder.. Hes been rated higher then mercilus... I never thought Perrys had a chacne at going to us.. regardless, i like Mercilus more, but i can understand why some like Perry, because most Sites got him ranked higher then Mercilus..[/quote]I'm not gonna argue w/ you pal, here's Mayock's top 5 at DE:

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Updated Rank (2/14)
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Quinton Coples, North Carolina
Melvin Ingram, South Carolina
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Melvin Ingram, South Carolina
Quinton Coples, North Carolina
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Whitney Mercilus, Illinois
Andre Branch, Clemson
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Nick Perry, USC
Whitney Mercilus, Illinois
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Chandler Jones, Syracuse
Vinny Curry, Marshall
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Andre Branch, Clemson
Nick Perry, USC
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*That's right, he had Mercilus ranked ahead of Perry in January and February & I still stick to my word that Nick Perry is a better DE than Whitney Mercilus. End of discussion-
[/quote]I think Perrys gonna be a big bust to be honest... He didn't even show up untill the last 4games of the season...

Now theres a SIG BET i'll do with ya.. I'll gurantee u that Mercilus has more sacks and forced fumbles and TFL then Perry as a rookie...
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1) I think you've got Nick Perry all wrong
2) You're ON for the SIG BET
3) We will have to come up w/ a time frame for how long the loser of the bet has to keep the SIG up for. I'm thinking about 6 months sounds fair.


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UTSA MPA program earns national accreditation
By Alison Beshur
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(Aug. 7, 2006)--The master of public administration (MPA) degree program offered by the Department of Public Administration in UTSA's College of Public Policy has earned accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) through the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA) for master's programs in public affairs and administration.
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The Washington, D.C.-based association has granted more than half of the 253 member institutions offering master's degrees in public administration with the seven-year accreditation, but this marks the first accredited program in South Texas, said Jerrell Coggburn, Department of Public Administration chair.
Coggburn said the two-year voluntary accreditation process allowed MPA program faculty members to self-reflect and ask questions about the program's mission and objectives. Earning the national accreditation will create more visibility for the UTSA program, Coggburn said.
"The faculty has worked with its stakeholders for many years to develop a strong MPA program," Coggburn said. "It's a milestone for the program and UTSA."
UTSA launched its master's degree in public administration in 1982, but it wasn't until 2003 that it set out to make national accreditation a top goal.
Jesse Zapata, UTSA vice provost for the Downtown Campus and dean of the College of Public Policy, believes the accreditation heightens the program's visibility to a national level.
"The fact that our program in public administration has been accredited by NASPAA means that it has met the high standards established by the association," Zapata said. "In turn, this means that the community and our students are assured the delivery of a high-quality program."
NASPAA accreditation requires candidates of an MPA program to learn human resources, budgeting and financial processes; information systems; policy and program formulation; implementation and evaluation; decision making and problem solving; political, legal, economic and social institution processes; organization and management concepts and behavior; and ethics.


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Wife found stabbed to death, husband dies in motorcycle crash
Husband suspected of killing wife before fleeing
PUEBLO, Colo. - Pueblo police officers are investigating an early-morning homicide. It happened shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday at a home on the 1100 block of Mass Street. It's in Pueblo's Belmont area.
Police said 34-year-old Adeline Whitehead was stabbed to death. Police believe the victim's husband, 35-year-old Roy Whitehead, fled the scene on a motorcycle. He crashed a short time later on Highway 50 and Baxter Road. He died as a result of his injuries. Police said he is believed to be the suspect in his wife's death.
Police said three children were in the home when they arrived. The children were taken to the police station and reunited with a family member.
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A Darrell's roast beef poboy with jalapeno mayo and gravy. (Michael Cooper / American Press)
Last Modified: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:55 AM
By Johnathan Manning / American Press
Many restaurants in Southwest Louisiana offer a sandwich they claim is special.
But only one has cornered that market — Darrell's.
If you've lived in Louisiana for any length of time, you've heard of the Darrell's Special.
In fact, many of the "special" sandwiches at other restaurants are attempting to replicate the Darrell's Special.
The special is a ham, turkey, roast beef and cheese po'boy. But it's the bread, gravy and jalapeño mayo that make it special.
Our waitress wouldn't tell us where the restaurant purchases its bread, but she did confirm that Darrell's bakes it on site.
When it's all put together, the sandwich is drenched with roast beef gravy.
It's messy and delicious.
Those who move away often still crave the taste. My high school buddy Jean Paul Osteen, now a minister in Beaumont, Texas, often looks me up when he comes back to Lake Charles to meet up for a sandwich.
Although the Special is Darrell's pièce de résistance, the restaurant offers a full slate of po'boys — roast beef, turkey, ham, shrimp, barbecue brisket, barbecue sausage, and surf and turf.
On a recent weekday, my co-workers Coop and Laura and I all had Darrell's po'boys. I got the Special, Coop the roast beef and Laura the turkey.
While I prefer the Special, they said they enjoyed the respective sandwiches they ordered.
A word of caution here about the jalapeño mayo; while it is delicious, I often order it on the side so we can decide how much to administer.
There's always a nice-sized stack of bar napkins on each table in the restaurant and one bite of a sandwich and you'll know why. The healthy dousing of roast beef gravy drips from the po'boy with every bite.
Sandwiches come in two sizes — full ($9.95) or half ($6.50).
They're not cheap, but they're worth being fit into the budget, as least occasionally.
Each sandwich comes with a pickle, and chips can be purchased.
I would be remiss if I didn't also mention Darrell's soft drinks. I don't know what makes some establishments' carbonated beverages taste better than others, but Darrell's has the touch.
The restaurant/bar becomes a full bar at night, and no one under age 21 is allowed after 10 p.m.
Darrell's has opened a bar in Sulphur, and Coop has confirmed that the sandwiches there are just as good as the ones in Lake Charles.
Posted By: Steve On: 11/5/2014
I have not been in Lake Charles for a long time but still remember the mayo and gravy running down my arm as I tried to hold this sandwich. Good to see they are still around.