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A majority of Canadians (about 60% nationally) have private insurance/third-party insurance for prescription drugs as part of the group health benefits provided by their employers. Most plans also cover the employee's family/dependants. Employers purchase these plans from insurance companies and determine the terms of the plans (what drugs are covered, how much of the cost of the drug the plan covers, etc.)
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Generic Substitution - When there is more than one brand of medication available, which contain identical medicinal ingredients, some insurance plans will provide full coverage for the original brand. Some insurance plans will provide full coverage for the lowest cost generic alternative only. If a patient is unable to tolerate or has failed treatment under a generic drug, the treating physician can indicate "No Substitution" when prescribing, and the cost of the brand-name drug may be covered by the plan.
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Special Authorization
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For a directory of Canadian insurance companies, click here.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA SINGLES OUT "COMPETITIVENESS" AND STEM EDUCATION IN STATE OF THE UNION: President Obama said that the U.S. was experiencing a "Sputnik Moment" as he delivered his State of the Union Address on 25 January. He received a standing ovation when he said "We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair." Obama indicated that R&D spending and STEM education will remain top priorities in his FY 2012 Budget Request, which will be presented to Congress on 15 February.
WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES STARTUP AMERICA INITIATIVE: President Obama launched "Startup America," a national campaign to help promote high-growth entrepreneurship across the country with new initiatives to help encourage private sector investment in job-creating startups and small firms, accelerate research, and address barriers to success for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
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RARE EARTHS AND CRITICAL MATERIALS LEGISLATION BEING PREPARED: According to published reports, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is prepared to reintroduce a bill from the last session of Congress which addresses China's decision to cut exports of rare earth metals by 35% in the first half of 2011. China supplies about 95% of the world's rare earth metals, used in many products manufactured by SPIE members.. Coffman's bill will be called the RESTART Act. According to Coffman's office, key provisions of the bill will be:
• Create a strategic stockpile of rare earth metals within the Department of Defense that will help stimulate domestic production and protect the U.S. from further Chinese export restrictions.
• Make loans, backed by the federal government, available to start production should lending from the capital markets not be available.
• Establish coordinated responses from the federal government to address the problems preventing establishment of rare earth industry.
• Utilize the Defense Production Act of 1950 to recreate our ability to manufacture rare earth metals, alloys and magnets in the U.S.
• Establish a Rare Earth Policy Task Force across relevant Executive Branch agencies to expedite the development of alternative sources of supply.
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Forget the Seaquarium and Jungle Island! South Florida's best attractions these days are on the beach. Take Victoria's Secret angel Doutzen Kroes, for example. She caught some rays yesterday in Miami Beach, and just about everybody within view enjoyed it. -- Click here for the exclusive Gossip Extra beach beauties (for boys and girls!) The blue-eyed beauty, 27, was spotted frolicking in the surf with baby Phyllon under the watchful … [Read more...]
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Scarlett Johansson's CyberStalker, Rush Limbaugh, Whitney Houston: The Morning Buzz . . .
The stories making noise this a.m. in South Florida: -- The Jacksonville hacker accused of extracting naughty photos from the cell phones of famous women like actresses Scarlett Johansson (above) and Mila Kunis, and singer Christina Aguilera is expected to plead guilty Monday to nine felony counts of wiretapping and unauthorized access to computer accounts. Christopher Chaney, 35, may have accessed the accounts of at least 50 showbiz celebs and … [Read more...]
Martin County Mystery: What is Davy Jones' Family Hiding?
Singer Davy Jones, who suddenly died at home in Indiantown of a heart attack Feb. 29, lived in fame's proverbial fishbowl for four decades as the cute-as-a-button frontman of The Monkees. -- Davy Jones' family: We need money for his horses! In death, however, Jones' family wants to kept secret the singer's will and financial papers because it is worried revelations would harm the estate's future earnings! -- Keep up with South Florida's best … [Read more...]
John Goodman Trial Closing Arguments: There Are no Excuses For Goodman's Actions!
A jury of five men and a woman is deliberating the fate of multi-millionaire Wellington polo mogul John Goodman, who could face a maximum 30 years in a state prison for the death of 23-year-old engineering graduate Scott Wilson. The jury started working on a verdict about 4:30 p.m. and broke up for the day about 5 p.m. They'll return tomorrow about 8 a.m. In their closing arguments in a West Palm Beach court, prosecutor Sherri Collins and … [Read more...]
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Medical Examiner: DUI Suspect John Goodman's Victim Could Have Lived!
Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Bell told the jury today at the trial of Wellington polo mogul John Goodman that 23-year-old Scott Wilson suffered non life-threatening injuries early on Feb. 12, 2010 when his car was hit by Goodman's Bentley on a dark country road. Had Wilson not drowned later while sitting in his partly-submerged car, Bell added, he could have recovered from the injuries! Bell was the closing witness for the … [Read more...]


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Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9
Thanks to Peter Westwoord's WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next "point" release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version, in this case, 2.9.
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Support for rel="canonical"
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Upgraded TinyMCE
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- The paste and paste from Word cleanup removes spans and inline styles.
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Re: st: mixed multilevels models with weights
"Stas Kolenikov" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: mixed multilevels models with weights
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:05:00 -0500
Check out Kim Chantala's paper -- she compares several packages,
although it was a few years back. See
Stata's set of multilevel tools is not exhausted by -xtm*- commands. I
am surprised you have not found out about -gllamm- that does support
weights. See also the paper by -gllamm- authors where they use PISA
data: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=7285304785835205587
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Maarten buis <email@example.com> wrote:
> --- firstname.lastname@example.com wrote:
> > I am using multilevel data coming from a cross-country dataset.
> > (student, school, country level).
> >
> > I would like to estimate a mixed model, that is, containing fixed and
> > random intercepts, as well as fixed and random coefficients, taking
> > into account the nested structure of the data. I found a fantastic
> > tool with the xtmixed command. Until I discovered it did not handle
> > weights.
> >
> > Yet, it is very important that I take the student weights into
> > account. I am not familiar with sas and spss, but apparently this
> > type of estimation, using weights, is possible. in spss the procedure
> > is called "mixed".
> >
> > This suggests that it is not incorrect to take weights into account.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestion?
> >
> > Does by any chance the authors of the ado-file would be willing to
> > incorporate this feature? I am quite convinced that since multilevel
> > models often come from survey data, with the latter being always
> > provided with weights, this feature would be useuful to a number of
> > statausers.
> >
> > Obviously, I cannot use the svy tool since the commands allowed by it
> > in terms of estimation are quite limited and do not include mixed
> > models.
> Weights in a multilevel model is a remarkable complex issue, so if you
> had to go for other software and had to choose between SPSS and SAS,
> than I would have much more faith in SAS. If I indulge in a bit of
> Collegestationology (as in Kremlinonlogy) than I would guess that if it
> can be done, than it will be implemented at some point in the future,
> because StataCorp has invested greatly in both -xtmixed- and its
> capabilities of dealing with complex survey designs.
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Sally's Recipe of the Week: Huevos Ranch'eros
Huevos 'Ranch'eros
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Magazine
4 servings
For the Chips: (see Sally's Notes)
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 8 corn tortillas, each cut into 8 wedges
- 1 1-ounce packet ranch dressing mix
For the Sauce:
- 5 plum tomatoes
- 1/2 medium white onion
- 5 cloves garlic, unpeeled
- 1 to 2 chipotles in adobo sauce
- 1 15-ounce can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
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- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 8 large eggs
- 1 avocado, halved, pitted and sliced
- Fresh cilantro and crumbled cotija cheese, for topping (optional)
Make the chips: Heat 3/4 inch vegetable oil in a pot over medium heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 375 degrees F. Fry the tortillas in batches until golden, about 1 minute. Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon dressing mix.
Make the sauce: Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the tomatoes, onion and garlic and cook, turning, until the vegetables are charred, 5 to 7 minutes. Squeeze the garlic from its skin and cut the onion and tomatoes into chunks. Transfer to a blender; pulse with remaining dressing mix (about 2 tablespoons), the chipotles and half of the beans until smooth.
Heat the olive oil in the same skillet over medium heat. Add the pureed mixture and the remaining beans and cook until thick, about 5 minutes. Keep warm.
Make the eggs: Melt 1 teaspoon butter in a skillet over medium heat. Fry the eggs in batches until the whites are set, adding more butter as needed. Divide the sauce among shallow bowls; top each serving with 2 eggs, some ranch chips and avocado. Sprinkle with cilantro and cheese, if desired.
Sally's Notes: I did not want to deep fry corn tortillas. I had some flour tortillas and I just brushed them with garlic infused olive oil and heated them up on a grill pan. You could also serve with warmed soft taco shells. Use what you like. I also did not have ranch dressing mix so I added the seasoning that would be in ranch dressing to the sauce. (1/2 tsp each of onion powder, garlic powder, dill, parsley flakes (or 1 tsp fresh) and dried chives (or tsp fresh). Plus salt and pepper.
I also like a little more tomato flavor so I added some tomato paste (1TBS) to the sauce.


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Now for a little history on the town. Bell Buckle is a quaint little Victorian village, famous for it's antique shopping. But there is more to the town than that. Bell Buckle has also exported some of its talent and goods to the wider world. Sculptor Russ Faxon has his studio here, you will recognize some of his works from TPAC, the Korean War Memorial at the TN capitol and even a cache site. The sculpture at "briefcache" is a Faxon work. Nature's Own Potpourri, one of the country's largest potpourri makers is located on the outskirts of town, as is Bell Buckle Country Store, Inc. makers of the Captain Rodney's, Rose & Ivy, Bell Buckle Country Store and Simplify lines of gourmet delicacies. But my favorite place to visit when in town is the BlueBird Ice Cream Parlor. This place has been an ice cream parlor and soda shop off and on since the 1880's. It even has the original marble topped bar that was brought accross the mountains by a team of mules. The BlueBird was named the "Best Ice Cream Parlor" in Tennessee last year and if you pop in you'll see why. (This is not a commercial solicitation, I am just passing on a hidden treasure to you). I hope you enjoy your visit to Historic Bell Buckle.
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The Gang of Four, also known as the Harlem Clubhouse, was an African-American political coalition from Harlem whose members later ascended to top political posts. It is named after the Gang of Four of China.[1][2]
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- David Dinkins, later Deputy Mayor and Mayor of New York City
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- Charles Rangel, a state assemblyman and eventually a senior Democratic Congressman
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The son of Basil Paterson, David Paterson, became Governor of New York in 2008 following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer.[3]
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Graph Drawing is the art to place nodes and route links in a diagram fully automatically. As you know, the IBM ILOG Visualization Components contain plenty of layout algorithms for this task. Still, it is ongoing research, as there are every year new inventions that improve the layout quality or that apply graph drawing technology to new domains. IBM participates actively in the research community. We hope to get here inspiration for further developments within our own components.
It is time again for the 17th Graph Drawing Contest, held in conjunction with the GD'2010 conference in Konstanz on Sep 21-24. Like last year, I have the pleasure to be a member of the contest committee, and I am excited to soon see the results of the challenges. This year, we have an exciting mystery graph: by looking at the topology of the graph, you have to figure out what this graph is. You also have to produce a nice layout of the graph. Every student of computer science should know this graph, even though it is not immediately obvious what the graph means. Another topic is edge or link routing: graphs with node positions are given and you have to route the links so that the result looks appropriate for the corresponding application domain. If you have a good algorithm for link routing, I invite you to try this challenge. The contest is open for everybody to submit results. Maybe you will be declared winner!
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Newlyweds Martin Burley and Fen Jerimiah lost their camera when a 6.3-magnitude quake struck in Christchurch, New Zealand in February of last year, causing them to leave their home.
The camera had their wedding pictures on it, and the couple thought it was gone forever.
But the disaster gave them a miracle when Martin found the camera from the remains of their driveway recently, according to Metro UK. The camera had emerged onto the surface from rains after being buried in mud.
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The smoking ban passed by the New York City Council in February will go into effect on May 23, prohibiting smoking in New York City parks, beaches and playgrounds.
Both of the peninsula's two City Council members, Eric A. Ulrich and James Sanders Jr., voted against the bill, only two of 12 who voted against the ban which was eventually approved by a 36-to-12 margin. Mayor Bloomberg signed the bill at the end of February.
The law bans smoking in pedestrian plazas and public parks. Specific these areas include properties such as public parks, beaches, pools, boardwalks, marinas, playgrounds, and recreation centers that are under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Smoking is also prohibited in areas such as pedestrian plazas or areas that contain benches and tables meant for pedestrian use that are under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Transportation. Fines for smoking in these areas will start at $50.
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Friday, September 18, 2015. PCT day 151. Miles 2561.25-2569.42. (8 miles) The pain in my right quadriceps was less this morning when I awoke and the inflammation decreased. I was able to squat all the way down with out too much pain. Thank you ibuprofen and a good nights. I slept in since I only had 8 miles to go before the 12:30 bus to Stehekin. I took it easy. My leg felt better, but ...
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Dear Editor:
I always get a grin reading Ellen Wedum's perceptions of what really happens in the world. Her recent Little Bear fire letter was no exception.
Her expertise on the subject is doubtful beginning with firefighters cutting down "300-foot-tall trees."
Ms. Wedum might do well to consider the fact that New Mexico has no 300-foot-tall trees. As a matter of fact, the state's tallest tree is a 156-foot Rocky Mountain White Fir. Our tallest Ponderosa Pine is 114 feet in height. Nope, no 300-foot-tall trees anywhere in New Mexico.
Equally inaccurate is her condemnation of Congressman Pearce — who she blames for a 4 to 5 percent U. S. Forest Service budget cut for each of the past three years. Her conclusion is firefighters are now unable to extinguish forest fires due to Republican budget cuts. I believe she misses the mark on both her facts and her conclusion.
Congressman Pearce has the right to ask U. S. Forest Service officials the tough questions. It seems to me that during the events of the Little Bear Fire a lot of things were done right and some things were wrong. Congressman Pearce seeks answers to help avoid repeating a tragedy in our dry and over-grown forests. I salute both our firefighters and Congressman Pearce for their hard work and dedicated service to our country and community.
In the meantime, I await her next letter setting us all straight on the events of the day.
Yours very truly,
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Street closures irritating
Dear Editor:
For years we have been going to a friend's house on [auth] Sycamore to watch the Fourth of July fireworks display.
Not this year. We couldn't get there from here. While there always has been heavy traffic it was easily manageable. But this year with RPD out in full force and barricading every road, there was no way to get there. And traffic was a nightmare.
We started out about 8:20 to get there by 8:30 as we usually do.
Got down Eighth Street to somewhere and it was blocked off.
So we turned around and went back to Union and and went to Second. Drove down Second to Sycamore and turned down Sycamore. At Eighth Street Sycamore was blocked and so was Eighth Street at that point.
We turned west on Eighth until I found a through street that got us to College. But at College and Sycamore the street was blocked both ways so we had to continue down College until we encountered yet another road block and had turn onto some dirt road until we got back to Eighth which was also barricaded. I went around the barricade and back down Eighth back to Union where I was going to turn north to Country Club. But Union Street was blocked off there.
By then it was 9:00 so we just went back home.
Maybe next year if Roswell continues this exercise in traffic control we'll go a day early, bring our sleeping bags and pitch a tent in their backyard.
I don't know why the city did this. There never seemed to be problems with traffic flow in past years. Probably some city bureaucrat thought up a "plan" which they implemented and as governments tend to do they mucked everything up.
This was the first time in over a dozen years we missed visiting our friends and watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July and enjoying cake and homemade ice cream afterward. Thank you very much Roswell!
Noel Sivertson
Political rancor out of control
Dear Editor:
I want to thank the Alliance for Peace and Justice. It was very kind of them to mention that this is a "Great Nation." One of the very things that allows it to be great is the right we all have to express our views, even controversial ones. Who could imagine? We don't all agree on the immigration issues that face this great nation.
There is no way to overstate the important roles that immigrants have played in the United States. I believe that most of us living here are at least the distant grandchildren of immigrants. Mine came from Ireland, and yes, the Irish were discriminated against here too. That being said, we have immigration issues that desperately need to be dealt with in this nation. The president of the United States in his recent executive action, aimed at slowing the deportation rate of young Hispanic people, did little to solve the problem. He didn't change anyone's status. He just kicked the can down the road again, and scored a few election year points. Hurrah for him! Come the second Wednesday of November nobody will remember.
We have only to look to our Congress for the lack of action on this (and almost every other) important issue facing our nation. Congress appears to have degenerated into an ideological organization whose members either "are" or "are forced into" pandering to extreme points of view. There appears to be no middle ground anymore. It always seems to be about "who's right" not "what's right." Nothing ever gets done except finger pointing and the filming of soundbites for the talking heads to interpret for us.
We the people deserve better! We deserve to have the kind of governance that we are paying for! We have become a nation that has "faith-based governance." All sides say, "Trust us, we know what's best!" That appears to be an adequate definition of "faith based" to me. Most of the evidence seems to indicate that both major political parties lie to their constituents to get elected. How in Heaven's name can we forget that when we go to vote? Membership in a political party (me, neither side wants) does not imply that you're right. Both Democrats and Republicans occasionally have good ideas and bad ones too. Even a blind squirrel finds a few nuts.
I suggest that we fire them all. Stop voting for incumbents. Nothing would get their attention faster than a pink slip from us. If we fired them all, then the next group will understand that we expect them to represent us, not well healed special interests of any kind.
Keith Bell is a man I know and respect for his talents. I do not always catch the aim of his cartoons. Sometimes they just don't hit my funny bone. Political cartoons are, and always have been, meant to stir controversy and thought. It's a thankless job with 50-50 odds at best of getting it right! Keep up the good fight, Keith!
Thanks for letting me ramble,
Don Donigan
Religious freedom
Dear Editor:
The back page of the Roswell Daily Record for July 4 carried a full-page paid ad with quotes purporting to demonstrate that Christianity should be the official religion of the United States. It is refreshing to reflect, especially on the birthday of this greatest country in the world, that the First Amendment to our Constitution (besides prohibiting the establishment of a national religion) guarantees not only that some groups of people have the right to believe and express such things, but also that the rest of us have an equal right not to. (It mystifies me that anyone could really want the USA to be a theocracy. If you want to see what it's like to live in a theocracy, look at Iran.)
The argument that the Founding Fathers wanted us to have an official religion is demonstrably untrue. They were too smart and too far-sighted for that. The problem is that like virtually all politicians, they often said one sort of thing to people they hoped would vote for them and quite a different sort of thing in private.
It is instructive to read the letters exchanged by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Both believed in a God, in the deist sense, but had little patience with the claims of "revealed" religion. Thomas Jefferson, while admiring the moral teachings of Jesus, frankly disbelieved in his divinity, writing to Adams: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
This scarcely sounds like someone who would favor establishing Christianity as the national religion. Jefferson believed that people could be good without such things. Adams was much more pessimistic, believing that the masses needed organized religion to keep them well behaved. When Jefferson ran against Adams in the presidential election of 1800, the Adams campaign people lambasted Jefferson for being so irreligious. Yet Adams himself would later write to Jefferson: "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
In the context of that letter, Adams was suggesting that it would be a wonderful world if people were strong enough of character not to need the props of religion to make them behave. But he made it clear in his letters over the years that he felt he needed no such props himself, as a person who had thought long and hard about morality.
Anyway, one wonders whether it never occurs to proponents of Christian theocracy how many Jews, atheists, agnostics, Hindus and other non-Christians have spilled their blood for this country, so that we could all be free to believe or disbelieve as we see fit.
The world has seen many theocracies, but the United States of America is far greater, far more respectable, far more enduring, and far nobler than that.
Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D.
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Your cat has probably got ear mites or an ear infection. Regardless, he needs to be seen by a vet ASAP. Don't try to treat him yourself.
Twinkle answered on 3/14/12. Helpful? / 0
Definitely sounds like an ear infection! Yeast gives off a terrible odor. It does need to get cleaned out; the vet can either prescribe you something or you can try an ear cleaner I like; it's called PETfection Ear Cleaner. It is Organic and Non Toxic, it works great at clearing up yeast and mite infections. Either way, the sooner the better!
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Excellent advice from the others. I just wanted to add what the consequences of an untreated ear infection can potentially be. When I got Kira, she apparently had ear mites and had previous ear infections that the breeder had not treated. She ended up needing a very serious surgery called a bulla osteotomy which cost me aproximately $2000 and put my baby's life at risk. Much better to schedule a vet visit and have it treated for probably less than $100 than to run the risk of serious health issues or deafness.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Colorado State registered an important conference victory, 9-3 over Cal State San Bernardino, before sustaining an 11-1 setback against No. 14 San Diego State, on the second and final day of the Loyola Marymount Invitational Saturday at the Burns Center.
The impressive win over CSUSB gave the Rams (8-14, 3-3 Western Water Polo Association) a .500 record in conference play with little more than a month remaining in the regular season. It also helped them close their spring-break trip with four wins over a brutal nine-game tour. Six of those nine opponents were among the 23 teams receiving votes in this week's Collegiate Water Polo Association Division I poll.
"I was really pleased at how we responded and controlled the game," said coach Mike Moody, whose Rams have now won four of their last seven. "It was a conference win and we'll take those. It'll certainly help us out in the seeding at the conference championships next month."
The Coyotes (13-11, 2-5 WWPA) led the Rams after one period, 2-1, before CSU's Ali Pavlik knotted the contest 2 minutes into the second quarter. Minutes later, teammate Lorene Vidal netted the go-ahead score and Pavlik followed with another tally to give CSU a lead it would not relinquish.
Then, playing outstanding defense for the second straight game, CSU shut out San Bernardino in the second half, on the strength of six Melissa Fisher saves. Fisher, a true freshman, finished the contest having denied eight Coyotes shots. Six CSU players scored, led by Pavlik's hat trick and Vidal's two goals. Kailin Custy, Sarah Ostling, Maggie McShane and Caroline Young also found the net for the Rams.
In the second game, as they did against No. 9 Loyola Marymount Friday, the Rams played the 14th-ranked Aztecs tough out of the gates, trailing only 1-0 after one quarter. But SDSU, a non-conference foe and the 10th match CSU has played this season against an opponent ranked in the nation's top 20, scored three times in the second frame and never looked back, employing a suffocating defense. Ostling recorded CSU's only goal just before halftime.
"We played great in that first period," Moody said, "then we got into foul trouble and had a couple turnovers in the second period and the game got away from us. We need to do a better job taking care of the ball on offense and not have those mental errors. We have a pattern of playing well early but not being able to carry that level of play throughout against the high-caliber teams. It's an issue that we need to address and change and fix."
CSU, believed to be the nation's only team without a home game on its 2010 schedule, has only one tournament left before the all-important WWPA championships in Bakersfield, Calif., April 30-May 2. The Rams now have three weeks off before finishing their regular season in the Bay Area, where they meet conference foes Santa Clara and UC San Diego, and play a rematch with San Bernardino. CSU finishes that trip at the Santa Clara Tournament.
"It was a competitive training trip out here," Moody said from the airport, awaiting his team's flight home. "It was a tough schedule. It was grueling by the end of the week. We're definitely in shape, physically. We just need to do a better job mentally preparing for the top-ranked teams. We got better as the week progressed."
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Dan River, Tonka construct partnership
December 18, 2000,
DANVILLE, VA -Dan River Inc. and a popular toy manufacturer have teamed up to bring "toughness" to children's bedding.
Dan River will develop its new line of juvenile bedding and accessories with "little tough guys" from the ages of 2 to 8 in mind, the same target age group as the toys themselves.
"Tonka has a 99 percent total brand awareness among American moms of boys, and our juvenile bedding will build upon the established brand loyalty by expanding a child's experience with Tonka," said Daniel Hammer, senior vp, sales and marketing, Dan River's Home Fashions for Kids division. "We are pleased to add the well-recognized and trusted Tonka brand to our juvenile bedding assortment."
The new line will be available in toddler, twin and full sizes. A coordinating comforter, sheet set, bed skirt, pillow sham, blanket, drape, valance and decorative pillows will all be offered and be available for shipping in spring 2001.
Colorways for the line will be primarily blue with the familiar bright yellow used for the trucks in the design and used as an accent color, said Laurie Berkin, director of marketing and licensing, Dan River's Home Fashions for Kids division. Artwork for the patterns debuted this past fall.
"Boys love Tonka because it's the brand that puts them in the driver's seat," said Patricia Schmidt, vp, 3D Licensing North America, a Tonka licensing company. "And parents know that Tonka is all about quality, which is why we are so pleased to partner with Dan River Home Fashions for Kids, an industry leader with a well-earned reputation for high-quality bedding products for children."
Dan River had previously worked with Hasbro for its Furbee licensed bedding, based on the popular Tiger Electronics toy.
Suggested retail price for a twin sheet set will be $19.99 with a twin comforter suggested at $39.99. A full sheet set will be offered at $29.99, while a full comforter will be $49.99.
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For all who dream of carrying around old bus seats all day, let your wishes be granted. Well, not whole bus seats—just parts of them. An odd dream, but at Green Goddess Boutique, even the strangest dreams come true. At Green Goddess, which opened at 1009 West Armitage on April 1 (another location is in Hinsdale), recycled and repurposed items yield fashionable goods that often come from unusual places.
These oddly rooted items include handbags made of recycled bus seats from the Argentinean brand Viva Zapata!, but it doesn't stop there. There are portfolios made with recycled billboards so that they can survive any weather, floor mats made of recycled candy wrappers, light fixtures made out of mason jars—and this is just the beginning. Read the rest of this entry »


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TEA petition seeks to possibly take teacher certificates from 11 in EPISD cheating scandal
EL PASO, Texas - The Texas Education Agency has filed a petition to punish 11 educators allegedly involved in the El Paso Independent School District cheating scandal.
Those named in the petition are Damon Murphy, Terri Jordan, James Anderson, Maria Flores, Mirna Gamboa, Norma Regina Gonzalez aka Gina Oaxaca, Kathleen Ortega, Jesus Chavez, Anna Luisa Kell, Juan Manuel Duran, and Johnnie Vega.
According to the petition, the TEA is asking the administrative law judge "enter a proposal for decision up to and including permanent revocation of the Texas Educator certificates of each respondent listed in the petition."
Read the full petition at http://bit.ly/1r5fUDZ
In Sept. 2013, some EPISD employees mentioned in connection with the cheating scandal received letters from the TEA.
EPISD Board of Managers President Dee Margo told ABC-7 in Sept. 2013 that "the letters are the TEA's response to the evidence in the Weaver report."
That's the audit EPISD commissioned to investigate the extent of the scheme to cheat the federal accountability system. The fraud landed former superintendent Lorenzo Garcia in prison.
The state's education agency requested the district turn over its findings in July.
Margo said EPISD has nothing to do with the letters some employees mentioned in the report received in September but he understands the TEA is putting some employees on notice that their professional certification is under review.
EPISD released the 86-page report by Weaver and Tidwell, LLP on April 1, 2013. The auditor was hired by the district and conducted the audit from Nov. 5, 2012 to Feb. 8, 2013.
Weaver and Tidwell, LLP conducted and documented at least 154 witnesses, including individuals from Central Office and at least nine campuses. Former employees also were interviewed.
Of more than one million emails downloaded from the district's current and former email systems, 98,000 emails were pulled from more than 60 current and ex-staff members' current and archived email data files.
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Former England captain John Terry has announced his retirement from international soccer, the BBC reported on Sunday.
The 31-year-old Chelsea defender was capped 78 times in an international career stretching back to 2003.
Terry announced his retirement less than 24 hours before the Football Association hearing on the Anton Ferdinand saga was set to begin.
According to the Guardian web site, Terry accused the FA of making his position "untenable."
His statement reads:
"I am today announcing my retirement from international football. I would like to thank the England managers who have selected me for my 78 caps. I have had great pleasure in sharing that honour with all the players that I've played with. I would like to thank them, the fans and my family for their support and encouragement during my international career. Representing and captaining my country is what I dreamed of as a boy and it has been a truly great honour. I have always given my all and it breaks my heart to make this decision. I want to wish Roy [Hodgson] and the team every success for the future. I am making this statement today in advance of the hearing of the FA disciplinary charge because I feel the FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable. I now look forward to playing for Chelsea FC, and challenging for domestic and European honours, and I want to thank the fans and the club for their continued support."


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Vertical search
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A vertical search engine as distinct from a general web search engine, focuses on a specific segment of online content. They are also called specialty or topical search engines. The vertical content area may be based on topicality, media type, or genre of content. Common verticals include shopping, the automotive industry, legal information, medical information, scholarly literature, job search and travel. Examples of vertical search engines include; Mocavo, Nuroa, Trulia and Yelp. In contrast to general web search engines, which attempt to index large portions of the World Wide Web using a web crawler, vertical search engines typically use a focused crawler which attempts to index only relevant web pages to a pre-defined topic or set of topics.
Some vertical search sites focus on individual verticals, while other sites include multiple vertical searches within one search engine.
Vertical search offers several potential benefits over general search engines:
- Greater precision due to limited scope,
- Leverage domain knowledge including taxonomies and ontologies,
- Support of specific unique user tasks.
Vertical search can be viewed as similar to enterprise search where the domain of focus is the enterprise, such as a company, government or other organization. In 2013, consumer price comparison websites with integrated vertical search engines such as FindTheBest drew large rounds of venture capital funding, indicating a growth trend for these applications of vertical search technology.[1][2]
Domain-specific search[edit]
Domain-specific verticals focus on a specific topic. John Battelle describes this in his book The Search (2005):
Domain-specific search solutions focus on one area of knowledge, creating customized search experiences, that because of the domain's limited corpus and clear relationships between concepts, provide extremely relevant results for searchers.[3]
In the domain-specific setting one can combine the tf-idf approach implemented via an inverse index with semantic approaches of semantic headers and semantic skeletons. Instead of most frequent keywords, a set of entities is extracted from a portion of text to be matched against a potential question. This allows much more flexibility due to real-time reasoning capabilities while matching questions and answers in the form of semantic headers.[4]
Any general search engine would be indexing all the pages and searches in breadth first manner to collect documents. Whereas, the spidering in domain specific search engines is more efficient which is through searching a small subset of documents by focussing on particular set. The spidering that can be accomplished using reinforcement learning framework which allows optimal behaviour, which is three times more efficient than breadth-first search as per experimental results.[5]
- ^ Rao, Leena. "Data-Driven Comparison Shopping Platform FindTheBest Raises $11M From New World, Kleiner Perkins And Others". TechCrunch. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
- ^ HO, VICTORIA. "Asian Price Comparison Site Save 22 Gets Angel Round Of "Mid Six Figures"". Retrieved 27 May 2013.
- ^ Battelle, John (2005). The Search: How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. New York: Portfolio.
- ^ Galitsky, Boris (2006). "Building a Repository of Background Knowledge Using Semantic Skeletons". AAAI Spring Symposium: Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question Answering. AAAI.
- ^ McCallum, Andrew (1999). "A Machine Learning Approach to Building Domain-Specific Search Engines". IJCAI. 99: 662–667.


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Underwear as outerwear is back, this time in the form of slips. It's a classic look for a night out but since Victoria Beckham wore one at the Wimbledon final, the slip has become the new sundress. Already people are rushing to the nighties section of John Lewis with the retailer reporting a 35 per cent rise in sales since the tennis. But a negligée on a summer day is a bold move, as demonstrated by the stir that Posh Spice caused with hers, so I took to the streets to find out if us mere mortals can pull off the style in the daytime or if these nightdresses are best kept in the pyjama drawer.
Victoria Beckham's dress was part of Louis Vuitton's autumn/winter collection and Alice Temperley has also taken the trend on board.
I tried the look with a navy silk John Lewis slip and a long black one from Myla. Jo Hooper, head of womenswear buying at John Lewis, said: "Darker colours are proving most popular and our customers are buying them to wear both in the boardroom and the bedroom."
Finishing the outfit with low platform shoes was an effort to avoid looking like I was on a walk of shame, but with slightly longer dresses a high heel can work well. If you're buying a slip that was designed for the boudoir they can be a touch too see-through for wearing in public, so add another plain one underneath, as I did with the black one.
My dress testing began in the park.
I expected the outfits might turn some heads but, as usual in London, most people seemed unfazed, apart from one woman who ran up asking if it was the same dress Victoria Beckham wore and where could she get it.
It was a different story on the street and on the bus, where there were gawking passers-by. Unfortunately, most of them were not the people I particularly wanted to be gawking at me. The styles I opted for were rather, er… revealing for the afternoon. I felt particularly overdressed in the office, where people knew for sure that I wasn't on my way to a glamorous party.
On their own, as I wore them, slips feel a bit dolled-up for daywear. Paired with a contrasting oversized blazer or dark denim jacket though, I think this trend is a striking look for any time of the day or night. Just make sure you practice your death stare to keep wandering eyes at bay.
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The Internet was built on only a few rules, but one of them was "keep the network dumb and the end points smart." That means that networks are designed to know little about what they're carrying, pushing the onus of consistency checking and packet handling to the server and the clients. That architecture has served the Internet and private networks very well in the roughly 30 years since the advent of TCP/IP. In the next 30, it's going to change -- big time.
Gradually, the network has gotten smarter. Quality of service, firewalls, and layer-3 switches have all enhanced the security and speeds of local and wide-area networking. Today, the rapid pace of development in solid-state storage and low-power, high-speed CPUs is truly changing the game. It's possible to inspect every packet between gigabit interfaces and make intelligent decisions on whether the communication should take place or what direction the traffic should be routed -- all at wire speed.
Next up: Networks will become smarter than the client. Advances in virtualization and thin-client technology are reducing the processing power present at the client side, just as switches and routers are gaining smarts and speed. More and more server tasks will move into the network space, running on core switches. Desktop systems will disappear in favor of monitors with an Ethernet connection, and servers will return to their mainframe roots, offering little more than storage and a hypervisor layer for a few applications. After all, what do you think made George Orwell's telescreens so ubiquitous?
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In our blog we've mentioned Brian Head ski resort several times. We at the Lodge at Red River love going to Brain Head each season and spending some time on the mountain. Recently, however, another resort has opened in Beaver. And it's caught our attention. It's called Eagle Point. We at the Lodge at Red River Ranch thought we should gather some information about this new ski resort in Southern Utah. (All information current as of this writing.)
According to a source at Utah.com, "[the location has been a] popular ski area since it opened in the early 70s and operated until 2002 as Mt. Holly and, later, Elk Meadows, Eagle Point Resort was reintroduced to the public in 2010. The current owners, three friends from outside the ski industry, envisioned a boutique resort with challenging and enjoyable terrain, modern amenities, lively entertainment and the highest standards in guest service. These qualities have made Eagle Point Resort Utah's best kept secret, for now…"
• From December 21 until January 6, the resort is open daily from 9:30am to 4pm
• After January 6, the resort is open Thursday – Sunday 9:30am to 4pm
• Base elevation 9,000 feet
• Top elevation 10,600 feet
• Adult day pass costs $45
• Child/student day pass costs $40
• No entrance fee for children under seven
• Special tubing park section
In addition to the awesome slopes, Eagle Point has a wealth of amenities to offer. They serve lunch and dinner and are equipped with a full bar. They even have a "hot tub garden." So if you're looking for a great place to ski and relax, Eagle Point sounds like it fits the bill. Check out their site for more information.


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The Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture, in partnership with the Office of Professional Development and Outreach, host "An Introduction to Sustainable Living Course" May 16-20 on The University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg campus.
Family and friends of the late Leon Eubanks came together Tuesday to honor his memory and love of nature, both of which continue blooming at his beloved Lake Thoreau in Hattiesburg, Miss.
Located on Thoreau Road off of West Fourth Street in Hattiesburg, the property was donated to the University Foundation in 2000 by the Eubanks family with the intention that it be utilized as a nature preserve for scientific, educational and aesthetic purposes. It is managed by the Southern Miss Department of Biological Sciences.
Sea Camp registration is in full swing accepting registrations for its 24th consecutive year as a popular marine science day camp for children ages 6-13.
The focus of this year's camp is threatened and endangered marine species. Campers will learn to fish, crab, seine and sieve at The University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Marine Education Center in Ocean Springs. Registration for this year's event closes May 13.
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Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease: Your Easy-to-Use Guide from the National Institute on Aging
Finding the Right Place for the Person with AD
Sometimes you can no longer care for the person with AD at home. The person may need around-the-clock care. Or, he or she may be incontinent, aggressive, or wander a lot. It may not be possible for you to meet all of his or her needs at home anymore. When that happens, you may want to look for another place for the person with AD to live. You may feel guilty or upset about this decision, but remember that many caregivers reach this point as the disease worsens. Moving the person to a care facility may give you greater peace of mind. You will know that the person with AD is safe and getting good care.
Steps to take
Choosing the right place is a big decision. It's hard to know where to start.
Below we list steps you can take to find the right place:
1. Gather information
- Talk with your support group members, social worker, doctor, family members, and friends about facilities in your area.
- Make a list of questions to ask about the facility.
- Call to set up a time to visit.
Check these resources:
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
CMS has a guide to help older people and their caregivers choose a good nursing home. It describes types of long-term care, questions to ask the nursing home staff, and ways to pay for nursing home care. CMS also offers a service called Nursing Home Compare on its website. This service has information on nursing homes that are Medicare or Medicaid certified. These nursing homes provide skilled nursing care. Please note that there are many other places that provide different levels of health care and help with daily living. Many of these facilities are licensed only at the State level. CMS also has information about the rights of nursing home residents and their caregivers.
Joint Commission
The Joint Commission evaluates nursing homes, home health care providers, hospitals, and assisted living facilities to determine whether or not they meet professional standards of care. Consumers can learn more about the quality of health care facilities through their online service at www.qualitycheck.org.
Other resources include:
National Center for Assisted Living
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2. Visit assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Make several visits at different times of the day and evening.
Ask yourself:
- How does the staff care for the residents?
- Is the staff friendly?
- Does the place feel comfortable?
- How do the people who live there look?
- Do they look clean and well cared for?
- Are mealtimes comfortable?
- Is the facility clean and well-maintained?
- Does it smell bad?
- How do staff members speak to residents—with respect?
Ask the staff:
- What activities are planned for residents?
- How many staff members are at the facility? How many of them are trained to provide medical care if needed?
- How many people in the facility have AD?
- Does the facility have a special unit for people with AD? If so, what kinds of services does it provide?
- Is there a doctor who checks on residents on a regular basis? How often?
You also may want to ask staff:
- What is a typical day like for the person with AD?
- Is there a safe place for the person to go outside?
- What is included in the fee?
- How does my loved one get to medical appointments?
Talk with other caregivers who have a loved one at the facility. Find out what they think about the place.
Find out about total costs of care. Each facility is different. You want to find out if long-term care insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare will pay for any of the costs. Remember that Medicare only covers nursing home costs for a short time after the person with AD has been in the hospital for a certain amount of time.
If you're asked to sign a contract, make sure you understand what you are agreeing to.
Assisted living facilities
Assisted living facilities have rooms or apartments. They're for people who may need some help with daily tasks. Some assisted living facilities have special AD units. These units have staff who check on and care for people with AD. You will need to pay for the cost of the room or apartment, and you may need to pay extra for any special care. Some assisted living facilities are part of a larger organization that also offers other levels of care. For example, continuing care retirement communities also offer independent living and skilled nursing care.
Group homes
A group home is a home for people who can no longer take care of themselves. Several people who can't care for themselves live in the home. At least one caregiver is onsite at all times. The staff takes care of the people living there: making meals, helping with grooming and medication, and providing other care. You will need to pay the costs of the person with AD living in this kind of home. Remember that these homes may not be inspected or regulated, but may still provide good care.
Check out the home and the staff. Visit at different times of the day and evening to see how the staff takes care of the residents. Also check to see how clean and comfortable the home is. You'll want to look at how the residents get along with one another and with the staff.
Nursing homes
Nursing homes are for people who can't care for themselves anymore. Some nursing homes have special AD care units. These units are often in separate sections of the building where staff members have special training to care for people with AD. Some units try to make the person feel more like he or she is at home. They provide special activities, meals, and medical care.
In many cases, you will have to pay for nursing home care. Most nursing homes accept Medicaid as payment. Also, long-term care insurance may cover some of the nursing home costs. Nursing homes are inspected and regulated by State governments.
How to make moving day easier
Moving is very stressful. Moving the person with AD to an assisted living facility, group home, or nursing home is a big change for both the person and the caregiver. You may feel many emotions, from a sense of loss to guilt and sadness. You also may feel relieved. It is okay to have all these feelings. A social worker may be able to help you plan for and adjust to moving day. It's important to have support during this difficult step.
Here are some things that may help:
- Know that the day can be very stressful.
- Talk to a social worker about your feelings about moving the person into a new place. Find out how to help the person with AD adjust.
- Get to know the staff before the person moves into a facility
- Talk with the staff about ways to make the change to the assisted living facility or nursing home go better.
- Don't argue with the person with AD about why he or she needs to be there
Be an advocate
Once the person has moved to his or her new home, check and see how the person is doing. As the caregiver, you probably know the person best. Look for signs that the person may need more attention, is taking too much medication, or may not be getting the care they need. Build a relationship with staff so that you work together as partners.
Publication Date: January 2017
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