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Family gets service dog for son's diabetes
COEBURN, Va. - A family in Coeburn, Virginia has a new pet, but she's not just any pet; she's a service dog to help their son with juvenile diabetes.
We first introduced you to the Mullins family in June when they were working to raise money to get the dog. Click here to read more.
To the average dog the command 'shake' means give your paw. To five-month-old Luckie it means something is wrong with seven-year-old Jonah Mullins.
Jonah has Type I diabetes and Luckie is his new service dog. The family just got Luckie after struggling to sleep through the night, concerned about Jonah's blood sugar levels. "It's a constant worry, it really is. He'll never be regulated," says Jonah's mom, Rebecca Mullins.
Several times a night Jim and Rebecca Mullins would get up to check Jonah's levels; now, that's Luckie's job. "If they start going higher it's a sugary smell that she detects. If they start going lower it's more of a metallic or acetone smell," explains Erin Gray, a trainer with Virginia-based nonprofit group Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers.
Gray is in Coeburn with the Mullins family training them and Luckie.
It's only a few days in and already Luckie is doing her job. In fact, during our interview Luckie became anxious and showing signs that something wasn't right. Sure enough, Jonah's blood sugar was low. "He just went down to 47 and without the dog we may not have checked him," says Jonah's dad, Jim Mullins.
A dog with this kind of talent comes with a big price tag of $25,000, but the Mullins says she's worth every penny. "Just for the dog to give him the comfort, there's really no price you can put on that," adds Jim Mullins.
The Mullins say they've held fundraisers and received help from the community to pay for Luckie.
For more information about the organization Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers visit http://www.sdwr.org.


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Last Desert Sun Development defendant pleads guilty
13 charged; ex-loan officer could face five years, $250,000 fine
EUGENE, Ore. - A former Bend loan officer pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to his role in a major fraud case that cost a bank more than $2.6 million on fraudulent loans, the last of 13 to do so in the Desert Sun Development case, prosecutors said.
Jeffrey Sprague, 50,of Bend, appeared before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make false statements to a financial institution, to commit wire fraud, and to commit bank fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The charge arose out of the collapse of Desert Sun Development, a Bend development and construction company that built properties across Central Oregon from 2004 to 2008 before it collapsed.
Sprague was one of 13 people charged in 2009. Prosecutors said losses totaled $19 million. All 13 have now pleaded guilty.
As part of his guilty plea, prosecutors say Sprague admitted that he caused his former employer, West Coast Bank, to lose more than $2.6 million on fraudulent loans.
According to court documents, Sprague, a loan officer at West Coast Bank at the time, falsified loan applications for Desert Sun employees and others by fraudulently inflating their monthly income and falsely claiming that these homes were going to be the employees' primary residences, when he knew these homes were part of the company's flipping scheme.
Sprague also knew that these loan files contained forged or scanned signatures and other material misrepresentations and omissions, federal prosecutors said.
West Coast Bank approved and funded the loans for Desert Sun employees and others based on the loan applications Sprague falsified, they said, as well as the other documents that Sprague submitted to the bank that he knew were false.
Sprague is scheduled to appear before Chief Judge Aiken for sentencing on Sept. 3. Sentencing hearings for the co-defendants are scheduled for July 10 and July 31, also before Chief Judge Aiken.
A conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This case was investigated by the FBI, IRS-Criminal Investigations, and the Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford is handling the prosecution of the case.

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i just (well about 12 weeks ago) order one from K&D Holsters, the Cochise Defender. Have read good on them, like the versatility. As to how i like it.. well. I will happily let you know when i get it (i have a P-11 that i love).
I have carried in a Desantis "Inner Piece" That of course is loops.
Kel-tecs sight has links to makers of holsters for their handguns.


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In 1988, Surrey Quays—one of several former dock-yard complexes along the River Thames in an area of East London known as Docklands—became the site of Freeze, a renegade art exhibition curated by then–Goldsmiths College art student and enfant terrible Damien Hirst. For this exhibition, Hirst brought sixteen current classmates and recent graduates together to breathe new life into a dilapidated warehouse with the goal of finding an alternative to exhibiting their works within the highly political academic and gallery systems. What couldn't have been predicted was that this show would also resuscitate a stagnant London art scene and attract international attention to a select group of emerging artists who would eternally be imprinted with the epithet "Young British Artists" or YBAs.1 Although the show would not garner much critical press when it opened, it all but insured the infamy of its participants, including artist-of-all-trades Angus Fairhurst.
Fairhurst works in a multidisciplinary fashion, turning variously to painting, drawing, photography, video, animation, and sound-based and live performance pieces. A common thread running through his artworks is his interest in constructing stunted narratives that frustrate expectations by never reaching a climax or point of resolution. The product of cyclical and repetitive actions, his time-based works address the constructs of "before and after" and the tendency for the mind to jump ahead to form foregone conclusions.
In 1995, the Walker Art Center organized the exhibition "Brilliant!" New Art from London, to which Fairhurst contributed two hand-drawn, animated videos, edited in ten-second loops and displayed on monitors. In Strange Loops (Catching and Dropping) (1995), no sooner does a naked man fall from above into the arms of a gorilla than he is dropped again. Similarly, in Strange Loops (Stripping) (1995) the beast peels the expressionless man's skin from head to toe, like a banana. This editing style reveals the artist's view of the cyclical nature of time and history: "You can't avoid loops. That's the way things actually operate."2 Also on view was A Cheap and Ill-fitting Gorilla Suit (1995), an installation that included the eponymous costume hanging flaccidly from a hanger and a video in which the naked artist is seated at a table sewing pieces of furry material together into a gorilla suit. He then puts it on, stuffs it with newspaper, and violently jumps up and down until the whole thing comes apart at the seams and falls off, rendering him naked again.3
For years, Fairhurst had been creating sketchbook drawings of the misadventures of an anthropomorphic ape (the artist's alter ego), which he kept in his private collection until he felt he was ready to "get the peccadilloes out in public."4 In all of these works, the projection of human qualities onto an animal and vice versa has served as a practical means through which the artist has been able to mine the human condition as well as represent the baseness and brutality of mankind and so-called civilized society. However, there is also a decidedly comic aspect that resounds with the existential dark humor of Samuel Beckett, an influence that Fairhurst readily acknowledges.5
The notoriety of many of the YBAs must be attributed in part to the intense media coverage surrounding the controversial 1997 exhibition Sensation, which was organized by London's Royal Academy of Arts and toured to New York's Brooklyn Museum in 1999, highlighting the collection of art patron and advertising magnate Charles Saatchi. ↩
Fairhurst, interview by Walker research fellow Marcelo Spinelli, in Richard Flood, ed., "Brilliant!" New Art from London, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1995), 35. ↩
The installation also included a set of computer-generated bubble-jet prints of stills from the video A Cheap and Ill-fitting Gorilla Suit. ↩
Fairhurst, audiotaped interview with Marcelo Spinelli, March 11, 1995, London (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
See Clarrie Wallis, "In the Realm of the Senseless," in Gregor Muir and Clarrie Wallis, eds., In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2004), 101. ↩


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From left are Michael Findeisen, Angelika Rocha and Jennifer Silver
UTSA Spotlight: Three staff members named certified research administrators
By Noe Saldana
Director of Sponsored Programs
(July 28, 2009)--The UTSA Office of the Senior Associate Vice President for Research Administration announces the certification of three UTSA staff members as certified research administrators (CRAs): Jennifer Silver and Angelika Rocha, grants and contracts specialists in the Office of Sponsored Programs, and Michael Findeisen, grants and contracts coordinator in the College of Education and Human Development Office of Research and Grant Development.
CRA certification is a national certification acknowledging a comprehensive understanding of the basics of research administration. Individuals are eligible to sit for the exam if they have a bachelor's degree and a minimum number of years of experience. They also must pass an extensive examination of their competencies in a broad body of knowledge relative to research and sponsored program management.
Among national research administrators, the CRA credential signifies professionals are qualified to function as research administrators with a high degree of efficiency and knowledge in the industry. This achievement demonstrates the breadth and depth of understanding of the complexities of research administration on a broad array of topics. Most research administrators have gathered the necessary knowledge and skills through on-the-job training, attending professional meetings, and learning from mentors and colleagues.
In order to be certified, candidates must pass a written examination developed by the Research Administrators Certification Council. Based on the Council's Body of Knowledge, the examination covers four areas:
- Project development and administration
- Legal requirements and sponsor interface
- Financial management
- General management
Learn more at the Research Administrators Certification Council Web site.


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Durango Building, UTSA Downtown Campus
UTSA progresses in reaccreditation process
(Oct. 22, 2008)--With the first stage of the Southern Association of College and Schools/Quality Enhancement Plan (SACS/QEP) process complete and the conclusion of the proposal presentations in September, the three pre-proposal finalists have incorporated feedback from the UTSA community into the final proposals.
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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The final versions of these proposals were submitted to the QEP Committee on Oct. 1 so that the committee can evaluate them based on the guidelines established in the SACS/QEP Handbook.
The three final QEP proposals are:
- Maximizing the Relevance of Graduate Education for Current and Prospective Students
- Quantitative Scholarship: From Literacy to Mastery
- Service Learning: The Paseo to Lifelong Learning
After this evaluation period, the QEP Committee will make a recommendation to the university's SACS/COC Reaffirmation Leadership Team. The leadership team will then make a recommendation to the Campus Management and Operations (CMO) committee, which will select the final QEP by Dec. 31.
Read more about the reaffirmation process at UTSA's Southern Association of Colleges and Schools-Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) Reaffirmation 2010 Web site.


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this case reeks of big time crime involvement. This is not one man vs the other. You will see as this unfolds how Henandez and the man he killed were caught up in some organized ****.....
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
Additional details from the court room through Victoria Warren of 7NEWS, Boston's WHDH-TV, on Twitter:
First assistant district attorney Bill McCauley "says Lloyd was shot multiple times, in groin, arm, side, chest and back. DA says appears semi automatic weapon used. DA says Hernandez and Lloyd spoke in hours before murder. DA: key found in victims pocket was to a car rented by Hernandez. DA: Aaron Hernandez home has 14 cameras. Footage missing from hours after murder."
"DA: shell casings recovered from scene at Lloyd's feet. Lloyd shot and killed in industrial park"
McCauley also shared final text messages from Lloyd to a family member: "Did you see who I'm with?" ... "NFL" ... "Just so you know"
McCauley also said in court that Hernandez was seen on home surveillance carrying a gun in hand. There were two other men involved in the case, but there was no immediate information on either man.
Hernandez "drove the victim to the remote spot, and then he orchestrated his execution," McCauley said.
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
To be clear: DA's saying #hernandez shot Lloyd three times right after Lloyd got out of the car. Then stood over him & put two in his chest.
The evidence was all on the security system supposedly..... so it has to be true.
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"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."


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Greetings . . .
I have NOT seen any "traffic" thru the notch of my inner-cover during entire season. My first thought was that the space between the inner-cover and top-cover was too small (notch up), so I turned the inner-cover over (notch down). I am sure the top-cover is pushed foward to provide proper bee-space between front of super and top-cover.
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Associate Professor of Physical Science Sarah Knowlton and Assistant Professor of Biology Breea Governor.
Two Rhode Island College faculty are members of two separate higher education teams working on climate change research. Recently both their teams were awarded Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) grants.
Associate Professor of Physical Science, Sarah Knowlton, and two colleagues from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography were awarded $160,402 to improve scientists' understanding of the impact warming waters have on animal and plant life by using computer simulation designed especially for coastal waters. The team's findings will contribute new data to Rhode Island College's recently added environmental chemistry track and K-12 Next Generation Science Standards.
Assistant Professor of Biology Breea Governor, along with colleagues from URI, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University and the Rhode Island Costal Resources Center/Rhode Island Sea Grant, will receive a $133,057 grant to test the effectiveness of sculptural forms in coastal habitat restoration. This project intends to result in commercial investment to support development of new materials and sculptural forms for coastal habitat restoration and shore protection.
The STAC awards are funded by a state match to the multi-year Rhode Island National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grant.
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Ms. Rogers says that when President Bush cut taxes, the share of income taxes paid by the rich went up, but that doesn't mean the tax code had become more progressive. "The rich were paying a larger share of a much smaller pie," she says. Even so, the rich "enjoyed the largest relative (not just absolute) decline in tax burdens" she says, so progressivity actually fell, when tax burdens are measured by income level.


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What radiation poisoning is known as in certain Russian towns where the whole population is contaminated.
Don't assume that this is unique to Russia. America has the same problems, but American townies aren't guite poetic enough to come up with a similar phrase, so they just refer to it by it's medical name.
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Medium-sized school placed in the middle of the woods in the hellhole of Citrus County, Florida. As you know, it's about 30 minutes away civilization. Or what civilization Citrus has to offer. Everybody knows everybody. Good basketball team, not-so-wonderful football team. The other schools in Citrus are Citrus High and Crystal River, both of which suck terribly.
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First to explain why I'm asking.
I wanted to cut out a basic rectangle with rounded corners and some holes from a piece of (about) 1/4" aluminum with an 1/8" end mill, and doing the boarder in three or four passes.
The holes went fine but doing the edges the end mill broke before it finished the first pass, ok slowed down the feed rate and it broke the second end mill during the second pass.
I have the mill spindle set to the highest speed, 2500 rpm by the chart.
So my question is, is that to low of a spindle speed for that small of an end mill?
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This is very refreshing, used with toothpaste, as a mouthwash (diluted!) or added to an oral irrigation machine. I use it in all three ways. I would like to have it in a package that was easier to transport. The pump device is not meant to travel with, which I have to do regularly.
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G-MAL w/ accuracy
So, until a couple of months ago I barely used the G-MAL. I always preferred the M9 or AK. But then I unlocked Elena's G-MAL, and I started using it frequently in large maps. I never bothered trying any other type of G-MAL, cos RS + CS + CO is a pure win combnation. However, yesterday I stumbled upon a G-MAL w/ accuracy, picked it up and... wow! The difference in recoil is astonishing. It almost feels like the reticle doesn't move at all. If your aiming is good, then you have little chances of missing the shot.
So yeah, great weapon, but then again I think that Elena's G-MAL is also a beast given its excellent MODs. Kind of undecided which of the two to use.
Which do you lot use on your own: G-MAL w/ accuracy or the treasure ones?
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Romans G-Mal, because I need reload speed and with a call out weapon I get too many assists. Accuracy G-Mal is great as well but I find the aim assist sometimes too sticky and it screws up my aim. It's pretty fun to kill someone with a jumping blindfire burst if he's low on health and it works pretty decent with Romans.
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i've been using the accuracy g-mal for a while now, even before that i used flynn's g-mal instead of elena's because of the max ammo / clip size (i think were the mods)
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Food, food, food – I love to make it, we love to eat it and I love to have it prepared and served by a talented at home chef.
This past labor day weekend two couples met at Whispering Pines, Bev & Michael from Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cindra and Darryl from Southfield, Mi. They were definitely foodies, especially Darryl. Knowing that part of our family lived about a 15 minute drive from their home, Darryl and his wife Cindra invited us over for dinner during Thanksgiving week. Naturally we accepted the invitation with much anticipation.
The menu: Armagnac and fig glazed roasted cornish hens – mashed root vegetables and golden yukon potatoes with roasted shallots and a mix of sauteed wild mushrooms with baby spinach and bacon. All this served with Peirano Estate Heritage Collection Chardonnay from Lodi Valley, Ca. Darryl used to be in wine sales, so he has a good deal of knowledge regarding wine and lots of great stories to share.
As you can see from the photos chef Darryl at work, the golden finish of the hens and the beautiful plated presentation. It was a 5-star dinner. Thank you Darryl for all the time and thought you obviously put into this masterpiece.
The evening was a lot of fun and we enjoyed meeting their good friends Gail and Dewey. They shared many stories that left us in laughter.
Well, we really do meet the nicest people as innkeepers, one of the many perks of our 'job'.
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REPRESENT: Magnus Johnstone (the pale brother, center) debuted Boston radio's first all-rap program at MIT's WMBR in 1985.
Soon after music-minded UMass-Boston management professor Pacey Foster signed on to write a Boston chapter for the most comprehensive hip-hop tome ever compiled, his mission brought him to rural Maine, where it has long been speculated that the Hub rhyme scene's Holy Grail is safely stored.
Access to artifacts was essential to the Bean's accurate portrayal in the 1094-page master narrative Hip-Hop in America: A Regional Guide (Greenwood Press), which drops this week following years of research by writers from across the country. (Its release will be celebrated by the Beat Research team Monday at Enormous Room.) Foster's elaborate Bay State account is anchored by his visit to Johnstone's Maine hideaway, where a treasure of cassettes and snapshots was tucked high above his stereo in wooden wine crates.
"It was classic Magnus," says the 42-year-old Foster, who had last seen his old friend in 1999. "He was playing music that I'd never heard before, and painting while we were talking, and the whole time I was dying to ask where the tapes were. Finally, after an hour and a half, he showed me the boxes, and the first thing I pulled out was a handwritten case from FTI (Fresh To Impress) Crew, which was Edo G's group back when he was called Edo Rock. I almost cried."
Foster felt a responsibility toward rap culture, and with that came the need to tap primary sources. He had tuned in religiously to Lecco's Lemma — and he remembers spending hours watching b-boys tear up Harvard Square — but as a white kid from Brookline, he says his direct involvement in hip-hop's heyday was limited to "lamely tagging on the Green Line."
So he studied Johnstone's fossils for traces of the past. Beneath the amateur demos were tales of Boston hip-hop in its infancy, and to fill in the blanks, he conducted interviews with Hub heroes like Lino Delgado of the Floorlords breaking crew, Cindy Diggs of Peace Boston, Rusty "the Toe Jammer" Pendleton of Funky Fresh Records, M.C. Spice, and Edo G. In time, with guidance from such early trend spotters as retail icon Skippy White, the amateur historian also mined the roots of Boston's rap establishment, which Foster links to local funk forefathers including pop producer Maurice Starr's brother Michael Jonzun and current Berklee music engineering prof "Prince" Charles Alexander.
Although Johnstone was just one unlikely player in a budding theater, his show served as Boston hip-hop's epicenter from 1985 to 1987, during which time he invited in and spun singles by the likes of Keithy E. (who would later be known as Guru of Gang Starr), Top Choice Clique, and Ray Dog and Emo E, who soon after found street rap prominence as Benzino and Twice Thou of Almighty R.S.O. By the late '80s, he was being turned off by what he perceived as hip-hop's devolution at the hands of major labels and suburban practitioners — yet his influence remains today. Since Boston didn't get a dedicated commercial rap outlet until JAM'N in 1993 (and because corporate stations mostly ignored local artists, as they do now), regional hip-hop survived solely on college frequencies, from Emerson to Salem State.
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The 24/7 Squad began as a result of a series of sermons at the 2001 South Pacific Regional Student Convention. It began as a concept and has grown a life of its own, rooted and grounded in God's Word. The 24/7 Squad is based on four principles found in the following Scripture verses:
- Commitment—Jeremiah 24:7
- Worship—Psalm 24:7
- Obedience—Exodus 24:7
- Wisdom—Proverbs 24:7
The purpose of the 24/7 Squad is to influence others to live for Christ by assisting the Student Convention leadership with any task asked of them. Squad members arrive at ISC prior to registration and remain until after the Awards Ceremony. Some tasks that previous Squads have performed are:
- Assisting in prerally
- Cleaning up
- Helping in Global booths
- Running errands
- Being mascots
- Helping with Grand Entry
- Setting up the stage
- Helping with Open Events
Squad members are students or graduates who can no longer participate in competition but who still want to be a part of ISC by serving. They could be students who:
- Have graduated from a school using the A.C.E. curriculum.
- Are in school but past the age of competition.
- Have graduated but are not of the age to sponsor students.
- Have servants' hearts but do not have students to sponsor.
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Fall enrollment at East Central University is up by 5.6 percent over fall 2008, ECU officials said. ECU has 4,633 undergraduate and graduate students this fall, or 244 more than a year ago.
Posted on: 02 September, 2009
Even though they live on opposite sides of the world, the excitement, anxiety and concerns are the same -- at least for the parents of three college students.
Posted on: 28 August, 2009
Its work with military veterans has earned East Central University a plaque and a spot on G.I. Jobs magazine's list of military-friendly schools for 2010.
ECU ranks in the magazine's top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools which are doing the most to embrace America's veterans as students.
Posted on: 26 August, 2009
Reggie Whitten admits he once thought drug and alcohol addicts were bad people who made bad choices and who didn't want to quit their habit -- and that he was in denial long after he discovered his own "nearly perfect" son was a drug and alcohol addict.
"Why don't you just stop?" he said he asked his son, Brandon.
Later, addictions killed his son, he said.
Posted on: 24 August, 2009
New faculty members in kinesiology, accounting, math, education, nursing, biology, computer science, social work and communications have begun teaching at East Central University. A new librarian, an academic adviser in McAlester and a new director of institutional research also have been added.
The new faculty members are:
Riley W. Bailey
Posted on: 21 August, 2009
A state senator, district judge, district attorney and the director of prevention services for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHA) will join Oklahoma City attorney Reggie Whitten for a presentation on addiction and substance abuse Tuesday [AUG. 25] at East Central University.
Posted on: 21 August, 2009
The first Project Invest Book Drive, a community effort to collect books for children up to the age of four, is underway in Ada during August and September.
East Central University's Child Care Resource & Referral Agency, in collaboration with Smart Start South Central, is hosting the book drive.
Posted on: 20 August, 2009
The Community Education Program at East Central University is now accepting online registration for its fall non-credit classes and trips.
"This means that anyone can enroll in a class and charge the fee to a credit card 24 hours a day, seven days a week," said Charlee Lanis, coordinator of the Community Education Program.


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Catch the Wave of Health!
UTSA health services hosts spring health fair April 12-13
(April 11, 2005)--UTSA Student Health Services hosts its annual spring health fair with the theme "Catch the Wave of Health" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, April 12 and Wednesday, April 13 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Building second floor atrium on the 1604 Campus.
The fair, free and open to the UTSA community, is designed to increase health awareness and provide health screenings.
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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More than 50 vendors will be on hand with information on topics including alcoholism, drug addiction, diabetes, pets, heart health, cancer, social diversity, travel and safety, oral hygiene, STDs, safer sex, tobacco, and UTSA and community health services.
There will be drawings for door prizes every half hour, massages and free screenings for spinal disorders, vision, hearing and blood pressure.
Both days of the fair, Student Health Services will conduct free HIV screenings at the Recreation and Wellness Center.
As part of the event, the Texas Blood and Tissue Center will have a blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., April 12 in Business Building University Room (2.06.04), 1604 Campus.
For more information, contact Cassity Calhoun or Kathy Ceresoli at (210) 458-4142.


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Mary Ann is being recognized for her dedication to the Good Shepherd Center.
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I have ordered the following breeder queens in the past three years....
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I have used some as breeders and some for stocking drone yards. What I find interesting is that only two are still going. The 2006 and 2007 carni's. The rest were put through the same criteria as my overwintered nucs. I have had great success with the queens raised from all the breeder queens, except the SMR/SMR breeder queen which was a flop from the start. I have also used other breeder stock from the USDA russian program and a few other places. But these were A/I queens I listed above. So I do not really expect them to last more than a season or two. But I did find it interesting that the two carni's are still kicking.
This year, I did not add any breeder queen A/I stock, and have continued to select from my survivors.


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|Analysis of Immune Reactions Occurring Upon Administration of Patch Tests and Contact Dermatitis Affected Skin
- The response elicited by the allergen on relevant immune pathways as measured by cytokine levels in skin of IFNγ (Th1 pathway), IL-13 (Th2 pathway), IL-9 (Th9 pathway), IL-17 (Th17 pathway) and IL-22 (Th22 pathway). [ Time Frame: 5 weeks ]
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Allergic contact dermatitis is a term for a skin reaction resulting from exposure to specific substances that come into contact with skin that is hypersensitive (allergic) to the substance. These substances are called "allergens." Some common allergens are nickel, rubber, dyes, poison ivy, poison oak and other related plants. These allergens do not cause a skin reaction in most individuals, but for some, once the skin becomes sensitive or allergic to the substance, any exposure to that specific allergen will produce a rash that may consist of redness, swelling and blisters. This rash may become worse with each exposure to the allergen. The skin reaction results from two phases. In the induction phase, initial exposure to the allergen occurs. The body recognizes the allergen as foreign and the immune system, which is the body's primary line of defense against infections and other things perceived as foreign to the body, mounts an immune response against the body, itself. During this immune response, cells specific to the allergen are activated. In the second phase, the elicitation phase, the skin is again exposed to the allergen and an immune response occurs, as the cells that are specific to the allergen attack the skin, leading to the rash. In order to diagnose allergic contact dermatitis, a clinician will discuss the materials that touch the patient's skin at work and home and perform patch tests. In a patch test, a very small amount of the suspected allergens are applied to the skin for a fixed time. After that designated time, the clinician will determine whether a reaction has occurred to the applied allergens. Currently, the main treatment for allergic contact dermatitis is avoidance of the allergen.
This study hopes to improve our understanding of how the immune system acts in allergic contact dermatitis. In order to reach this goal, normal volunteers, who are suspected of having allergic contact dermatitis, will be patch tested for the fifteen most common allergens. Then, biopsies will be taken of the skin at the sites where the there is a positive reaction to the allergen. Also, small biopsies will be taken from an area that received a patch but no allergen and an area that did not receive a patch to serve as controls. In a second stage of the study, volunteers will receive patches with the allergen to which they demonstrated an allergic response. More biopsies will be taken, over three designated time points. The biopsied skin samples will then be studied in a laboratory by methods such as immunohistochemistry and microarray analysis, which will help define the progression of the immune reaction in allergic contact dermatitis. The rationale for the study is to better understand how the immune system is activated to produce the rash of allergic contact dermatitis, so that treatments can target the cells that are involved in the activation.
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|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or non-pregnant female between 18 and 60 years of age
- Able to give verbal and written informed consent
- Must have a negative urine pregnancy test (for WOCBP). For women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) willing to use an acceptable method of contraception to prevent pregnancy for the duration of the study. Acceptable forms of contraception are listed in section 16 of this application.
- Must be suspected by clinician of having ACD (history or self-report of signs of ACD as defined as eczematous rash development with fragrances, use of non-gold or silver jewelry, use of hair dye, cosmetics)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with suspected occupational allergies
- Subjects taking any of the following systemic or topical therapies within 2 weeks of enrollment: corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, and/or any other medications that may affect the outcome of the study
- Hepatitis A, B, or C (self-reported)
- Subjects who have active localized or systemic medical conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude or make unsafe their participation in the study
- Subjects who are nursing mothers, pregnant, or planning to become pregnant at anytime during the course of the study or within 30 days of study completion
- Subjects who are unable to comply with study procedures, communicate effectively, cooperate with the investigator, or are unable to understand the study
- Subjects who have been treated with another investigational device or drug within 30 days of enrollment
- HIV positive as determined by self-reported history and/or a HIV POCT at screening
- History, physical, social or lab findings suggestive of any medical or psychological condition that would, in the opinion of the PI, make the candidate ineligible for the study
- Known sensitivity to bandage or adhesive tape
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01546298
|United States, New York
|The Rockefeller University
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|Principal Investigator:
|Emma Guttman, MD,PhD
|The Rockefeller University
|Responsible Party:
|Rockefeller University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
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|Study First Received:
|March 2, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 25, 2016
|Individual Participant Data
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Keywords provided by Rockefeller University:
Contact Dermatitis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dermatitis, Allergic Contact
Dermatitis, Contact
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Eczematous
Hypersensitivity, Delayed
Immune System Diseases
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Don't like Dickens characters? I guess you can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think.
Above is a joke in good spirit, exercise is close, but exercises prepare for, this is a way to do.
I read on another post you were looking for a writer, you, who does not like Dickens characters, in charge of writers, say it aint so.
To be fair, classic literature can be unrewarding if not read in context. I was going to put in a one-line teaser for my book-in-progress, but that would be unfair, so...
I was lucky enough to be born and raised in London and the nearby county of Kent, so I'm well aware of the historical contexts behind Dickens' writing. (Incidentally, Dickens primarily wrote serials for magazines that were only later collected in novel format. He would actually modify future chapters according to the reception of his earlier instalments; interactivity in his favoured medium was not yet dead!)
Shakespeare is another example of context making a huge difference to understanding his works.
Shakespeare's writing can be bloody hard to follow at times because he wrote at a time when the very language itself was in flux. Worst of all, however, is the way teachers tend to approach him as a playwright first and foremost, assuming that plays were performed under a proscenium arch. This does Shakespeare a massive disservice: he was an *actor* before he became a writer, and he was acting for much of his life. If you haven't seen the Globe Theatre, a replica of Shakespeare's most famous theatre, it's incredibly difficult to see just how interactive the acting process was at the time. There was no curtain. No proscenium arch. Few sets. It was surprisingly close to improvisation. Some copies of Shakespeare's plays mistakenly included dialogue that was clearly ad-libbed between actors and the audience.
We see linearity in Story today as axiomatic, but this was not the case until very recently. Oral storytellers frequently adapted their stories to their audiences. Harpists (in pre-invasion Ireland) taught through song and story, spreading news and gossip across the land -- the original gossip columnists! Even early theatre was closer to pantomime in its level of audience participation than to today's formal staged plays. Shakespeare would probably be stunned to see just how much reverence we put in his words. Heaven forfend that someone changeth a single jot or tittle of his plays!
It was not until printing presses, radio and finally movies and TV that an author's written word became entombed in amber forever by modern media. The computer has merely restored the interactivity our ancestors already enjoyed, but with the potential to take it so much further.
If Sunandshadow doesn't like Dickens or Shakespeare, this is no reason to insult her writing abilities. One does not need to have read widely in the fiction genres in order to be able to write well enough to make a living at it. Fiction is about the *people*, not just the words on the page. You can pick up characterisation and plotting pointers from TV, film and radio, not just books.


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Our flow here right now is not a strong one. But, going through a number of my yards I have taken 14 wearhouse pallets of honey to extract. I hope to get this done this week and get some of those wet supers back on the hives to see if they will be filled again w/ the goldenrod and maybe asters.
We don't usually get much aster honey because of when it blooms and the cold temperatures which occur then. But, w/ this year everything seems early and the heat is holding on. So, maybe we will have the right combo of early aster bloom and warmth enough for bees to fly. I would like to have some aster from my own hives to bottle and sell as a specialty. Maybe this is the year. Maybe I don't realize what I am asking for.
I hear that aster honey crystallizes in the comb and is hard for bees to winter on.


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Focusing on Bono and Bob Geldof's high-level lobbying in my documentary allowed me the opportunity to see whether my prejudices about celebrity actually hold true: were their efforts as self-centred, short-sighted and superficial as many believe? Spending the better part of 18 months in the company of politicians, gatekeepers, lobbyists, rock stars, aid workers, government ministers, experts and activists, confirmed the fact that a great deal of development aid money has been squandered in the past.


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Lieutenant Ehren Watada seems to know his chances are slim. He is trying to convince the US Army that the war in Iraq is illegal, a task that would be challenging for anyone, and is even more so for Watada, a 28-year-old officer who has refused to deploy to Iraq. "He is willing to accept some form of punishment," Watada's lawyer, Eric A. Seitz, told military officials at a packed hearing at Fort Lewis army base, near Tacoma, Washington, on August 17, tacitly acknowledging his client's difficult position.
After deliberately missing the deployment of his Iraq-bound Stryker brigade on June 22, Watada was charged with multiple violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice — one count of missing movement, two counts of contempt toward officials, and three counts of conduct unbecoming an officer. It was a contentious ending to a military career that began with the stuff of Army recruiters' dreams: a patriotic young man who simply wanted to defend his country against terrorists.
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By his own account, Watada, a native of Hawaii, joined the military in 2003 at the age of 25 because he felt the United States was in danger. This was two years after the Twin Towers had been leveled by terrorists flying hijacked airliners, a year after the terrorist bombings in Bali, and during the run of constant terror alerts and heated rhetoric that marked the build-up to the Iraq war.
"I had the idea that my country needed me," Watada recently told an interviewer for the liberal Web site TruthOut.org.
His first rotation took him to South Korea, where he received stellar reviews from his superiors, but while he was racking up accolades he was also developing a different view of the Iraq war, reading books and articles that led him to conclude that the US attack on Iraq was "manifestly illegal." That transformation led to his refusal to deploy, and to his current confrontation with the military justice system.
The August 17 hearing at Fort Lewis was intended simply to allow the Army's investigating officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Keith, an opportunity to hear arguments from both sides before deciding whether to recommend a court-martial for Watada. In the language of civilian courts, it was a hearing about whether to have a trial. But what transpired suggested that if Watada is ultimately court-martialed, as seems likely, the military will be dealing with more than just a few violations of its code. In prosecuting Watada, it will also have to defend the legality of a war that is increasingly seen as a mistake (if not worse), and as a result is steadily losing its public support.
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Wojciech Szczesny admits that Robin van Persie's scoring exploits can embarrass goalkeepers - including him.
Van Persie notched his 30th and 31st goals of the season in Arsenal's dramatic win over Liverpool on Saturday, firing a delightful last-minute volley to sink Kenny Dalglish's side at Anfield.
Szczesny also earned plaudits with a fine display, but the Polish international admits it does not always go his way where Van Persie is involved.
"We get bullied, I am not going to lie," the 21-year-old joked. "He is a goalscorer, he gets plenty of them in training and plenty of goals in games. It is quite embarrassing sometimes.
"But there is nothing you can do. When you play against players like him you just want to be at your best and that is how you can improve."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Pookie wrote:I am a bi-vocational Baptist youth minister and I don't really like Anonymous.
With my disclaimer being said, I hope, if this is true, that Anonymous wipes the floor with Phelps and his "church". His actions are not representative of any teachings I am aware of and they poison people against good people that don't share his misguided views.
I don't like censorship, but I would love it if his group would shut their collective cake hole.
don wrote:From an ethical hacking standpoint, anonymous is breaking the law. This is the reason I started this board. To point out that, although intentions may be good, breaking the law regardless on which side of an argmunet you are, is wrong and shouldn't be done.
I like the counter-protest idea that has been done. Groups legally protested Westboro and had enough participants to actually block the westboro protesters from getting near a funeral. Now that's perfect on 2 fronts... it's legal and it promotes more free speech rather than less.
From a personal standpoint, I just hope the supreme court hands down a decision against Westboro. If they do, they penalty will for all intents and purposes make their sad organization go away.
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The 2007 Community College Virtual Summit was held to explore four critical issues facing community colleges: 1) Two-to-Four Year Transitions, 2) Adult and Non-Traditional Students, 3) Accountability, and 4) Leadership. The program yielded a rich and thought-provoking discussion to highlight the importance of these topics and suggest approaches for further action. The discussion drew upon the expertise of nationally known leaders in the four issue areas, some of whom served on a panel at the Washington, DC site, and some of whom led regional site gatherings at selected model institutions. The summit resulted in a back-and-forth dialog among participants at the five sites. During the course of the Summit, strategies were discussed to address better affordability, accessibility and accountability. The issues explored at the Summit were selected in response to "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education," the 2006 report issued by the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
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text: Urge your state senator to support MTA-backed amendments The MTA is seeking support for several amendments to the Senate Ways and Means Committee's budget, released on May 15. The Senate budget plan increases funding for K-12 education over the House budget, but it proposes spending for public higher education significantly below House levels. Despite research showing that investments in early education help children be successful in school, the Senate plan makes no new investments in early education.Over the past 13 years, public higher education has been cut by more than $620 million when adjusted for inflation. The House in its FY14 budget began to reverse that trend by increasing funding for public colleges and universities by 10 percent over FY13 funding levels. Unfortunately, the Senate's proposed budget increase would be about 2 percent lower than the House's investment. "Please make your voice heard and urge your state senator to support these amendments," said MTA President Paul Toner. "Your elected leaders need to hear from you right away as the debate in the Senate is expected to begin on Wednesday, May 22."Click here to send a message to your own state senator urging him or her to support MTA-backed amendments. They include:• Amendment 409. Reviving the Foundation Budget Review Commission. Filed by Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, D-Boston, and other senators.• Amendment 380. Bringing Senate funding for expanded learning time to the same level as has been approved by the House. Filed by Senator Michael Rodriques, D-Westport.• Amendments 337, 359 and 367. Increasing funding for UMass, state universities and community colleges so that it is in line with levels approved in the House budget. Filed by Senator Michael Moore, D- Millbury.• Amendment 394. Establishing a Commission on Higher Education Funding similar to one included in both the governor's and House-passed budgets. Filed by Senator Eileen Donoghue, D-Lowell.• Amendments 162 and 381. Investing in early education by increasing funding for the income-eligible Access account and other quality initiatives, and bringing early education funding in line with the House budget. Amendment 162 was filed by Senator Tom McGee, D-Lynn, and Amendment 381 was filed by Senator Chang-Diaz.Finally, please urge your senator to maintain the state's current privatization law, often referred to as the Pacheco Law, by rejecting Amendments 112 and 113, filed by Senator Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester. Send a message to your state senator urging him or her to support MTA-backed amendments.


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Gadget Geek's Guide to the Best Games of 2012
We've covered them all by month, now it's time to choose our favorite four. Here's the best four games we've played on our i0S devices in 2012.
The year in app gaming has been pretty phenomenal. There have been great crossovers from many favorite console games, unbelievable advancements in design and an apparent takeover in all of our lives. Apple just announced its annual list of the top free, paid and grossing apps of 2012, and understandably seven of the ten highest grossing iPad apps were games. We've reviewed a lot of games this year, but we're cutting the list down to a clean four. Just don't expect us to review Angry Birds Space; we can't believe that franchise is still around.
Mass Effect: Infiltrator
Developers at BioWare knew they'd have to follow up the highly popular Mass Effect franchise with something, but no fan was expecting a completely new chapter to the story just for iOS! Running parallel to the Mass Effect 3 storyline, you play the role of Cerberus agent Randall Ezno battling through a base to deliver incriminatory evidence to the Alliance. What's cool about Infiltrator is that whatever points you accumulate while playing on your iPad (it was one of the few games that were optimized for the new iPad's retina display) you can then tranfer over to your Galactic Readiness Rating on your console.
Max Payne Mobile
It's been about a decade since we last saw Max Payne, the tenacious neo-noir character that blasted his way through our hearts all those years ago. He's never left our minds, though; as of 2011 the Max Payne game franchise had sold over 7.5 million copies, which is a pretty incredible feat. With the release of Max Payne 3 this year, they also put out the original game in all of its gritty glory through iOS. There's not much to explain; it's still the same old Max Payne out for revenge.
It may be the fact that you're able to drive vehicles throughout the game or it may have been the six multiplayer modes that kept us interested. Whatever the case, we found ourselves playing a lot of N.O.V.A. 3 this year in our spare time. The graphics were exemplary, the story was interesting and the gameplay, which took place in ten different galaxies, was really addictive. Oh, and did we mention that you're able to jump into a vehicle with another gamer if you're in multiplayer mode? Yeah, I think we have a thing for cars.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Speaking of cars, wasn't Need for Speed awesome? Our own Gamer Next Door took a liking to it when she went to the track to drive some of the cars featured in the game. What was so impressive about Need for Speed was its ability to transfer points through a new CloudCompete technology designed to let gamers pick up where they left off at home when they are on the go. Being able to keep playing anywhere is terrifyingly addictive but is definitely the dawn of a new way of gaming.


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Can anyone help me identify this tree. I'm assuming it's an ornamental tree as it's planted in town alongside a parking lot. The bees were loving it...I was driving by when I heard the buzzing and stopped to take a closer look.
I hope these photos come thru...if not they're on my flickr page