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Vicuron, based in King of Prussia, Pa., has two products currently under new drug application review at the FDA.
The products are anidulafungin for fungal infections and dalbavancin for skin and soft tissue infections. Both have shown positive results in late-stage studies, according to published reports.


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Disaster Relief Through the Planning Foundation
We are continuing to solicit gifts to the Planning Foundation of APA that will be used exclusively to support the planning efforts undertaken by APA and our chapters in support of communities impacted by natural disasters.
Here are some examples of what the APA Planning Foundation has done to help:
The Foundation supports the work of AICP Planning Assistance Teams deployed in disaster regions.
The Foundation supports education and constituent building (long-term support-building) using schools as "centers of community," building a planning curriculum in schools, and special planning projects by community members and school children.
The Foundation sponsored an audio conference called Disaster Recovery that focused on emergency permitting, visioning the next steps, rebuilding local businesses, historic preservation, and FEMA long-term recovery planning.
The Foundation supports students who serve as interns in recovering and rebuilding efforts.
The Foundation supports education efforts for planning commissioners and staff.
Learn more about the work that the Planning Foundation supported in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
Image: A tree is cracked in half and uprooted after powerful wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy swirled through Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst October 29, 2012. Sandy caused power outages in base housing areas and unit facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Throneberry/Released)


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See the World!
by Rachel Muller
Do you ever dream about living, working, or just travelling abroad, but think it's out of your reach financially? It might not be as impossible as you think.
When our three daughters were all still in diapers (we had twins and then a third baby less than two years later), my husband and I talked a lot about saving all our money for a trip around the world. This was an extremely ambitious dream, considering that at the time my husband was still a university student, I was delivering newspapers every morning to pay for our groceries, and our only real asset was a 21-year-old Volkswagen van! But, we were young, naïve, and still believed we could do anything.
Everyone had told us that we were crazy when shortly after discovering we were expecting our first children, my husband quit his job as a salesman to go back to university to become a teacher. But somehow we'd managed. We firmly believed that if we wanted something badly enough, we could work hard and achieve it. I think our 'anything is possible' attitude came in part from our immigrant parents. My parents immigrated to Canada from California when I was two, with little more than what was in their own Volkswagen van. Thirty years later, they're both professionals, leading very fulfilling lives. My husband's father immigrated to Canada from Germany in the 50s. He too arrived nearly penniless, worked hard, and made a comfortable life for his family.
The years passed quickly and my husband graduated and found a teaching position in a small community near my hometown. The frugality that we'd practiced as students continued to help us to realize our dreams; we were able to come up with a down-payment for a house (a fixer upper of course) and pay off our student loans within just a few years of my husband's graduation. I chose and was able to stay at home with our children until our youngest daughter entered school full-time, two years ago. As we settled into our new community, we still continued to fantasize about taking a year off and travelling around the world. Time was flying by, and our window for undertaking such an adventure while the girls were still young was getting smaller. We were still many years away from the $100,000 or so (Canadian!) that I estimated we would need to purchase round-the-world airline tickets and live in youth hostels and other cheap accommodations for a year. But we didn't give up; we simply revised the plan.
We still wanted to take our children abroad, to allow them to see a different part of the world, to experience life in a different culture. But financial matters aside; we were beginning to have doubts about the 'around-the-world-in-a-year' plan. We realized that the reality of being homeless for a year, travelling from place to place with little more than the packs on our backs, was probably a lot less glamorous than we had originally imagined. Instead we began to give serious thought to applying for a teaching exchange. This would be infinitely cheaper, give us an income while we were abroad, and give us both a home to settle into and a base from which we could travel further a field. It would also allow us to really get to know a culture, to move into and become a part of a community for a year.
It was amazing how quickly things fell into place once we'd made our decision. We could have applied directly to an exchange agency, but before we got that far, we chanced upon a letter to the editor in our local paper from a teacher in Northern Ireland who was looking for an exchange partner. We began corresponding by e-mail, and when we were mutually satisfied that we would be compatible exchange partners, we applied formally to the exchange organization with which she was already registered. And two years from that initial contact letter, here we are, having the time of our lives!
Obviously a teaching exchange will only work for teachers, but there are lots of other possibilities that can make travelling abroad more affordable, from short-term house exchanges to working and/or volunteering abroad opportunities. The advantages of exchanging or working abroad go far beyond the financial savings of course. Actually living in a community allows you to participate in a culture in a way you simply couldn't if you were just a tourist. But remember, while exchanging or working abroad is significantly cheaper than travelling exclusively on your own resources, you need to be aware of the hidden costs. Application fees, visas, passports and official photos cost our family of five more than a thousand dollars. And of course airfares for five from the west coast of Canada to the British Isles weren't cheap either. Shopping around both among travel agents and on the Internet did save us a few thousand dollars.
If you are interested in exchanging your home or working abroad, the Internet is a great place to start gathering information. For short-term house exchanges, the Global Home Exchange site at http://www.4homex.com/ is an excellent place to start. For international employment listings and all kinds of helpful information for people interested in working abroad, try http://international.monster.com/. If you're a teacher interested in going on an exchange, you might want to visit www.angelfire.com/ca/zael/. Happy travels!
Rachel Muller is the former author of two weekly newspaper columns, one on frugal-living and the second on grass-roots environmental issues. She is currently accompanying her husband and kids on a yearlong teaching exchange in Northern Ireland.
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Date of Stay: May, 2012
This is a great park. I have spent a lot of time there through the years. My only complaint would be the truck noise coming from the truck border crossing. The park has a lot of permanents. The staff is friendly and the park incredibly landscaped and clean.
Date of Stay: February, 2012
We arrived in the park to visit friends we had not seen in about 3 yrs. The RV park is quaint with only 17 spaces. It is basic with no frills. The drawing card is the owner, Betty. She is fantastic and puts on great happy hours starting at 4:30 everyday. This is a terrific way to meet the other guests at the park. I would stay here again for sure.
Date of Stay: November, 2011
I have stayed here several times through the years. The staff is friendly and the park is great. Lots of things to do. I disagree with some comments from other people. There are not a lot of park models here, mostly RV sites with some park models. Yes, it is off the beaten track but being surrounded by orchards you do not have the dust that you have in other parks. As far as noise yes you hear the odd truck on 3E. However that is better than sitting in a park on 32nd Ave somewhere where the traffic never stops. I am booked in for 5 months next year. I strongly recommend this park.


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Pacquiao vs Marquez 4
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Who's Going
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Home Security Camera Systems Cheaper, Easier to Operate
Wireless technology allows for mobile operation and monitoring.
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A recent burglary in Grover Beach that was caught on tape puts a spotlight on a growing trend of people installing security cameras in their homes.
Its easy enough now to do it yourself but you may want to consider letting a professional do the job.
Randy Hansen has been in the home security installation business for 40 years and owns Selective Security Systems in Santa Maria.
"There was a time when you had to have to know what you were doing to put an alarm system in", Hansen says, "you had to have licensing, you had to go to school, you had to be certified, now it seems that anybody that can turn a computer on or operate a cell phone thinks they are an alarm company. Now it seems that anybody that can turn a computer on or operate a cell phone thinks they are an alarm company."
Hansen shows off one his more common home security camera systems from his shop.
"This particular one is a stand alone DVR, it has a seven inch monitor on the front, it has a one terabyte hard drive in it", Hansen says pointing to the equipment, "see that where it says motion, this is detecting motion and movement so its now recording, as soon as that movement goes away it stops recording so its no recording dead space. There's no reason for it to record a parking lot, but when a person walks across this parking lot or jumps over this wall its going to start recording then its going to archive that information."
The DVR can store up to several months of video depending on the size of the hard-drive.
Not only do the security cameras provide homeowners and business owners with peace of mind they are also a very helpful tool for local law enforcement in catching criminals.
Video of burglars stealing packages from the front porch of a home in Grover Beach was captured by home security cameras and released to the local media by the Grover Beach Police Department.
As of Friday afternoon, no arrests had been made.
Randy Hansen shows how wireless technology and smartphones have brought home security security system management literally to your fingertips.
"From the typical key-lock alarm system, or the key pad system, where now you are operating your system via your smart phone", Hansen says showing off the technology on his iphone, "you pull up your smart phone, you pull up your app, and there is your system right there".
"You can arm and disarm your system from your telephone, you can watch video, you can pull up a live camera shot, there's live video of my home camera sitting in my garage right now", Hansen says, "my front door is unlocked right now, my back door is locked, so I can activate my alarm, I can send a command and I can lock the front door of my house right now all through wireless technology, all through smart phones."
"Some people don't like smart phones but you're going to have to step into the 21rst century, if you want this technology", Hansen says, "you are going to have to get it. I've done this while I was on vacation in Denmark, I ve been able to pull up my system, turn it off and on, open doors, unlock doors and send and see live video from anywhere where I have internet access."
Hansen says his price for residential, four-camera security systems start at about $2,000 and go up depending on size and sophistication.
Hansen says while its easy to buy home security camera systems online and install them yourselves, he warns about entrusting installation to unlicensed contractors that provide services without at least a one year warranty.
"Our licensing is through the State of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, as well as I'm a licensed C-10 electrician", Hansen says, "our employees are fingerprinted and run through Megan's Law and have background checks, I get a list every six weeks about people who will never be hired in the alarm industry."
"Definitely be aware of the fly by nights, what we call them are trunk-slammers", Hansen says, "they just come in and they put in the system, slam the trunk and drive away and they are gone you never see them again."
If you have any information regarding the Grover Beach burglary, the car or the suspects, call San Luis Obispo County Crimestoppers at 805-549-STOP.


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Wow, even the last bold nib sample in dark ink behaved nicely!
So how thick are those 22 signatures of 1584 pages? Looks like it might be well over an inch thick. And that's my point. All paper–Bible, tobacco, bond, or newsprint–comes in a variety of thicknesses for the same paper composition. I'd love to know the paper specs but I suspect the good ghosting performance is more a matter of using THICKER paper than necessarily great quality paper.
We need to convince the publishers that there's a sizable market that are glad to carry thicker volumes in exchange for readable text. Wide-margin Bibles are not aimed at the thinline "fashion accessory" market so they can use thicker paper and still be a market success. I'm not a "notationist" but if a wide margin is what it takes to get readable volume, I'll buy it and trim it down in the next rebind.
"Opaque, Lightweight and Writeable?": Putting an Allan Brevier to the Test
Nicholas at R. L. Allan kindly provided me with a set of unbound signatures for the recent Allan Wide Margin Edition of Oxford's Brevier Clarendon KJV. I'll have more to say about the new Breviers shortly, but first I want to talk about the paper. The product description refers to "opaque, lightweight writeable India paper," and since we're sticklers for paper around here, I thought I'd put these words to the test.
First, a teaching moment. In the photo above, you see the unbound signatures stacked up. This is what your Bible looks like inside, before it's stiched together, trimmed, gilded, and the cover is glued on. A signature is a folded booklet. In this case, there are eighteen sheets folded over. Each is printed with two pages on front and two on back, so that's a total of 72 pages. There are twenty-two signatures in the stack, for a total of 1,584 pages (not counting the map insert in back). There are 1,158 numbered pages in the OT and 348 in the NT — 1,506 total — plus front matter, back matter, and some blank note pages which we'll get to in a moment.
In typical book manufacture, you'll see signatures ranging in size from 16 to 32 pages. Paper thickness is the limiting factor. If you include too many sheets in the signature, it will be too fat and the fold will distort the way the print impressions overlap on successive pages. Thin Bible paper allows more pages to be folded over without bulk, so it's not uncommon to see signatures containing page counts in the 90s.
The Brevier text blocks (both the wide margin and standard editions) were printed in the Netherlands by Jongbloed, where they were also bound, with upgraded cover specs. I don't know what type of paper this is, or its listed weight. But there's one surefire way to test a wide margin, and that's to write in it and see how the paper stands up to ink. For a really grueling test, nice, wet fountain pen ink is preferred.
File this under "do not attempt at home." Despite the fact that most of the Bibles you see here are review copies kindly provided by publishers, I am still reluctant to do any damage to them or mark them up in any way. Sure, it would be fun to know whether the goatskin cover on your Allan Bible could withstand a gunshot or a flamethrower (and naturally I do have a flamethrower handy next to my desk), and I could conduct these tests without harm to my bottom line … but don't hold your breath. I prefer non-destructive methods of evaluation.
In this case, however, we're talking about an unbound text block. The liklihood that it will ever become a proper book is nil. Plus, there are pages in back marked NOTES, so I had an opportunity to do some testing without even scribbing on pages devoted to actual Scripture. With that in mind, I pulled out the pens.
Here's what happened:
From top to bottom, here's what you see. First we have the much-vaunted Pigma Micron pen — unfortunately the one I had handy is orange, which didn't show up very well in the photo. Next is a fine-point rollerball and a ballpoint, which represent the sort of pens most people are likely to have handy. Then a series of fountain pens with nibs in various sizes: Extra Fine, Fine, Medium, a Flex, another Fine, another Flex and then a Broad. The respective inks were Montblanc Irish Green, Noodler's La Reine Mauve, Noodler's Ottoman Azure, Noodler's Nikita Red, Noodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher, Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses, and finally De Antramentis Plum (a scented ink; I'll let you guess the aroma).
Convention wisdom would be, don't write in your Bible with a fountain pen. If you do, use a dry-writing EF or F nib (not too sharp, though). I'm no ink expert, but the two things that typically frustrate fountain pen users are "feathering," where the ink gets kind of runny and veiny as it spreads onto the paper, and "bleedthrough," where the ink actually soaks through the page and mars the other side.
[A brief aside: When I first started writing about Bible paper, a lot of people used "bleedthrough" to describe the phenomenon where the words printed on one side of the sheet are clearly visible on the other, giving the page a gray five-o'clock-shadow appearance. I started using the word "ghosting" to describe this, since the problem wasn't that ink was bleeding through, just that the page wasn't sufficiently opaque to block the reverse image's visibility. I'm not sure where I picked up the term — somewhere in my print/design journey. It's not original to me, at any rate.]
With all the inks I tested, I don't see any feathering on the page. The paper takes the ink well, and the lines look crisp. Now let's turn the page over and see whether anything has bled through:
None at all. You can clearly see the writing — what I call "ghosting" above — but that's actually quite common with thin papers, even the ones that take ink very well. For example, if you take a look at the enthralled fans of Tomoe River paper, which is used in the handmade Design.Y notebooks from Japan, at the same time they rave about the paper's phenomenon fountain pen performance, they concede that there's ghosting or "show-through," and that it's a fact of life with thin papers. (For the record, count me as an enthralled fan, too. A Design.Y LP Record notebook is on my birthday list, along with the Single Column Journaling Bible.)
The only exception I can think of to the "thin papers show through" rule is Smythson's blue featherweight paper, which has an almost miraculous ability to be both thin and opaque. Because fountain pen nibs don't need to dig into the paper like ballpoints, you won't even see the impression of the point on the reverse side. Of course, this paper comes at a high premium — and even Smythson doesn't print the Bibles it occasionally offers on the blue stuff!
All this to say, the Allan Wide Margin Edition of the Brevier lives up to the description. The paper is lightweight and opaque, and it is also writeable. There is some ghosting, as you would expect, but it is not nearly as pronounced as you'll find in the typical Bible. I'd say this bodes well for the edition. We'll take a closer look in a coming post.
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Wow, even the last bold nib sample in dark ink behaved nicely!
I often make small marks with a ball point in my bibles, instead of the Pigma Micron pens (which I always use a .01 in black). While the Pigma pens are great for precise notation, when I want to make short jots I find that the zebra ballpoint/lite highlighter is a good combo…convenient. Plus I do not have a problem with ghosting or imprinting any more I suppose than the montblanc above (not degrading the Montblanc by any means).
Why do you link to sites? I cannot stand that practice. I "clicked" on the Design.Y notebooks. That was an expensive "click". I too am an enthralled fan. Let me know if the upcoming Bibledesignblog X Allan collaboration will be featuring the Tomoe River paper. If so, I need to start the loan qualification process now.
I recently bought the 5WM wide margin from R.L. Allan. Was seriously disappointed in their lack of forthrightness as a company, their refusal to admit they had misrepresented their product and total unwillingness to deal with the legitimate concerns. I returned it to them and cannot recommend this company; not because of the quality of product, but because of a lack of forthrightness in their marketing strategy. A Bible publisher ought to be beyond this.


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thumpr with stock heads?
First time poster, long time reader. Like most people on here, I have somewhat of a small budget to work with. And like most people I love the sound of a nice choppy idle. And like probably more people than would like to admit, I have no intention of ever going to the dragstrip, hell the closest one is 100 miles away. So after much thought, I did the most logical thing in my mind to my 350 sbc powered 1980 Trans am to enhance my trips to town, and that was installing 4.10 gears. It will spin the tires as long as I want, and put a grin on my face when I accelerate to 50-60 m.p.h. as I'm hauling one of four of my kids to school, ball practice, dance class, etc. I don'.t care about horsepower, just want that cool idle. what has to be done to my stock 882 heads to run the small thumpr cam?
Welcome to the site :welcome: . What cams have you been looking at do you have any ideas yet? Myself i would'nt put any thumping cam in a basically stock engine with a few more upgrades. Like heads change the springs add a set of studs and guide plates have the heads check out a possible valve job. Are you running a automatic if so do you have a stall converter thats something you should consider also. Is you car carburetor ?JMO
Its a 355, flat tops, performer intake, 670 Street Avenger, headers, th350, stock converter. I just want a nice choppy idle with not alot of additional work. I'm a dirt digger, not a drag racer :D
Your not supposed to but I ran a comp 262xe with stock springs on a 73 stock smogger 350. With the steep ramp, the proper springs are a good idea especially with the constant high R's you turn with 4.10s. The stock heads should be good for 500 lift.
I looked up the 279thumpr and it calls for a 2000 stall. You might get by with a stock convertor because of your gears.
Thanks for the input, I really appreciate your time. I can change the springs, and the converter, just not interested in a lot of head work or different heads. Just want a nice choppy idle with minimal effort.
any ideas? anybody?
Heres one that should work and give you a decent rumble, Should work fine with your stock 882s. crane 274H06 with 218-218 duration at .050 and .450 lift on a 106 lsa. Or you can look into the VooDoo 262 about the same cam as the crane about the same specs . Still gonna need at-least a 2500 stall IMO.
the comp 268 is advertised as having a choppy idle. It is the high energy series so it doesn't have such steep ramps. Check out some vids on youtube and see if you find a cam you like the sound of that is stock head friendly (lower lift). Since you have the gears and convertor you might look into the "lift rule" circle track cams.
Summit also has some pretty good cams cheap.
duration will get you the lope but tight lsa gets you the pop corn sound 106-108. It can reduce the idle vacuum but build mid range. just for reference most stock cams have lsa of 112-114.
I had a friend that went with the comp 268 it's not very choppy not very noticeable at all IMO But you might like it dependes on how aggressive you want it to sound you can hear it but it just not to aggressive JMO. The crane and the voodoo cam i showed you are for a circle track engine which have certain limits they can go with lift and such. Either one should sound pretty aggressive. JMO
How 'bout Summit K00172
Looks like it has pretty much the same specs as the other two cams i showed you. Don't see why it wouldn't work still gonna need a converter. Be nice if you could hear one i would do what Sam bo said search youtube listen to a few get a better idea anyway. I have never used a summit cam before.
I know you guys dont wanna hear it, but on Youtube, I like the sound of a Thumpr.
Check this out the summit cam you showed me is the crane now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEthCakytU .
thanks again Cole for your time, with only a .450 lift, I can just bolt on some vortecs when the time comes, right?
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Adventures Of King David
Book by: abyskaria
Status: Finished
Genre: Non-Fiction
Chapter1 (v.1) - Adventures Of King David
Almighty God shares HIS goodness in many ways. Sometimes when we seek passionately a kind blessing in prayer and His tender kindness comes with as a fortune we are given to harvest. Earlier in young life of King David The Great, he came across one point in time when he was totally battered. He defeated Goliath and never asked the Guardian of His land his throne. It so goes like this.
News came from all around that we are facing a climate change that our resources are going into another unsafe hands. Everyone was receding over a case and the final order had left the Guardian of the land in vague when no one was ready to battle with the reality started with handing securities. A big battle surfaced as the present ruler of the communion was about to be vagued into controversies at his age. Everyones in the land had some key points but no one yet had the real picture how the matter had to be settled. The valuers on the other half passed by an unknown gate and this reopened a new enlightenment that some of us can make a new fortune with this. Soon a treaty was signed with the Goliath by few and the invaders step was a reach beyond every home in the capital.
There was a home far away in the midst of a lake. It was once said that the king of the 40 thieves once used to feed the little fishes in these lakes. A young lad of around tender age used to know little tales all that he could learn and accustom from his wise parents. Often he would ask them why cant everyone learn by not exploiting others but helping evenly when they don't put us in trouble. One day when his lessons were over and he ready his greatest teacher asked him, who are you? He told in reality I am your son and the illuminating light born to be the person like King David. Why, my son, King David may be like you may had vividness of experiences and do you prove in the midst of few steps how you can be in this episode if you could beat the vacuum that surrounded the late Prince Caspian fortress. And don't be like others in this journey except your hearts wish. The teenager called upon his dad before he left for the journey and told him, I am your son.
The journey took this young handsome guy 28 years and the entire crowded people of all lands gathered in the arena waiting with all the messengers of heaven and armies of the sky limits. The boundaries were made and it was only 14 generations for the final battle to be won by the men of the true honor and pride for their hearts content. Goliath alone was so much in arms of the times that could have shaped anything. Everyone assumed that the kings that ever lived on earth with the stars as their imprints were fading into meekness. Yet it was a human family that made this youngster David. Finally there were only one battle for the half of a daylight and full of darkness where everyone were startled at. Every plan was set and the battle had to be stated on the true words of human being. Our David had started for his journey with a mirror and a bow full of crafts. When he reached the city doors they were slathered with guards that no one had the right to enter. He sold all the crafts to buy a kite and a bow with hammer. There was no darkness for three days and four nights. Everyone caught up with flu and the entire army was suffering with mild fever due to climate change. People were shattered and crowd gathered outside the three galleries. What can be done to stop suffering? How can we end this battle with the Goliath frontiersmen? The only solution left for the guardians of the light was that the Goliath himself was summoned. This war needed would be recalled and we only need to sacrifice the motherland herself. Finally they send an invitation to Goliath by the words of the council. People were terrified as Goliath killed everyone who came on his way to the arena. There were flashes of thunder and lightening stuck every home in the courtyard. The Supreme Emperor and kings of the solar space were all set. The meeting was about to start and then the real life space struck Goliath.
A lightening stuck Goliath. It became rumors and spread like wild fire among the armies of Goliath. Who did this was the question? Who could have? The young David had climbed 10000 miles apart a tall mountain and with his mirror redirected one splash of lightening that laid the venue. Goliath couldn't have heard of this place and immediately directed his army to capture this young person. The arena was completely changed. They could do everything but had they been far across the lake across they would had but no one dare not with the ocean life. The courtyard was summoned and sum of around 1 trillion securities was laid the price by Goliath. Yet days passed and only one reason that lit that day sky was a price laid in the kite that caught all of then, why cant you not save 1 trillion for your loved ones when you could have come this far? is lined on its footprints. The daring Goliath transversed the ocean laws in a rage and laid one step across. Goliath saw the David with eyes on that tallest range over the ocean. The ocean life along the dove tear him down. Yet with his mightiest army he reached the step of the mountain and asked the boy to climb down from the mountain hill for the promise of being his chief leader of staff on a new day. As the young David told him, I can understand but there is a problem. I am very afraid that you are asking me when you are such a person who made no possible in a request. I cannot understand whether you yourself ever learned to climb even as a child. Goliath tried once and twice. This time David twanged his bow with the hammer stone and let it go. The times hit him so badly just below his forehead that he fell so sharply into ocean beside that he was laid to rest under the deepest fall into an reservoir where there is no escape. The armies of darkness disappeared. The next moment young teenager was honored in the courtroom. The King asked him you have saved our motherland from Goliath and you can ask us whatever in return. David told him I will surely if you assure that I may be always your behold servant and my bloodline among the guardians of the land. He became the greatest life ever lived among with kindness of Almighty's Grace. :)
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While the Paducah area saw temperatures in the 50s on Monday, cold and chilling winds are forecast for the rest of the week.
"Not to the magnitude like we saw at the beginning of the month, but close to it," Paducah National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Spaeth said Monday.
Spaeth said the weather service doesn't expect precipitation after this morning - in the form of light flurries possible near sunrise, if any - but predicted blustery conditions today, with 30-40 mph winds through much of the morning diminishing slowly late into the morning and into the afternoon.
While today's high is forecast in the lower 20s, Spaeth said single-digit wind chills may persist into the day. He said temperatures would be near freezing around sunrise and drop to about 10 around 8 a.m. or 9 a.m., without much warming through the day.
He said temperatures would rise to freezing or just above freezing Wednesday, but another shot of cold air is expected to arrive Wednesday night with temperatures well into the teens by daybreak Thursday. They are expected to remain in the teens during the day.
Strong winds also are forecast for Thursday, Spaeth said, with zero-degree wind chills possible by sunrise that morning. They are not expected to improve much through the day.
"Compared to what we've already had this year, I think we're starting to get used to it," Spaeth said.
While the winds are expected die off Thursday night, it is forecast that temperatures will drop into single digits.
Spaeth said the Paducah area will see the coldest air of the week Friday morning, after which temperatures will warm into the upper 20s but may feel like the teens that afternoon because of a southwest wind moving through the area.
"We've had quite a roller coaster," Spaeth said of the temperature fluctuations the area has seen in recent weeks. "That makes it very hard to adjust to anything."
Temperatures are predicted to warm into the 30s on Saturday and Sunday.
"It'll be cold, but not brutally cold," he said. "Basically, at this point we'll take what we can get."
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Vittore Carpaccio
Like most of the other great painters, Giovanni Bellini had many pupils working under
him--boys who helped their master, and learned their lessons by watching him work.
Among these pupils was a boy called Vittore Carpaccio, a sharp, clever lad, with keen
bright eyes which noticed everything. No one else learned so quickly or copied the
master's work so faithfully, and when in time he became himself a famous painter, his
work showed to the end traces of the master's influence.
He must have been a curious boy, this Vittore Carpaccio, for although we know but little
of his life, his pictures tell us many a tale about him.
In the olden days, when Venice was at the height of her glory, splendid fetes were given
in the city, and the gorgeous shows were a wonder to behold. Early in the morning of
these festa days, Carpaccio would steal away in the dim light from the studio, before the
others were astir. Work was left behind, for who could work indoors on days like these?
There was a holiday feeling in the very air. Songs and laughter and the echo of merry
voices were heard on every side, and the city seemed one vast playground, where all the
grown-up children as well as the babies were ready to spend a happy holiday.
The little side-streets of Venice, cut up by canals, seem like a veritable maze to those who
do not know the city, but Carpaccio could quickly thread his way from bridge to bridge,
and by many a short cut arrive at last at the great central water street of Venice, the Grand
Canal. Here it was easy to find a corner from which he could see the gay pageant, and
enjoy as good a view as any of those great people who would presently come out upon
the balconies of their marble palaces.
The bridge of the Rialto, which throws its white span across the centre of the canal, was
Carpaccio's favourite perch, for from here he could see the markets and the long row of
marble palaces on either side. From every window hung gay-coloured tapestry, Turkey
carpets, silken draperies, and delicate-tinted stuffs covered with Eastern embroideries.
The market was crowded with a throng of holiday-makers, a garden of bright colours and
from the balconies above richly dressed ladies looked down, themselves a pageant of
beauty, with their wonderful golden hair and gleaming jewels, while green and crimson
parrots, fastened by golden chains to the marble balustrades, screamed and flapped their
wings, and delighted Carpaccio's keen eyes with their vivid beauty.
Then the procession of boats swept up the great waterway, and the blaze of colour made
the boy hold his breath in sheer delight. The painted galleys, the rowers in their quaint
dresses-half one colour and half another--with jaunty feathered caps upon their floating
curls, the nobles and rulers in their crimson robes, the silken curtains of every hue trailing
their golden fringes in the cool green water, as the boats glided past, all made up a picture
which the boy never forgot.


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" In addition, I prefer to selectively highlight the main
results of the plot by using the bold option. "
Which "bold option" are you referring to? Stata 10 did not feature options
for bold text on graphs, as far as I recall. That was introduced in Stata
See -help whatsnew10to11-:
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Well there are a few things where the graphics editor doesnt work for
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rather, I havent figured out an easy way to do it.
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>> Hi,
>> I recently switched over to stata 10 for mac. When I used to use
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>> ungrouping. I cant seem to do with graphs created in mac. The graph
>> editor for stata 10 doesnt permit me to make all the edits I want. Is
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>> ungroup it and edit it.
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Miller was jailed immediately after a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington for refusing to give her source to a grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Palme's identity. Matt Cooper, a Time magazine reporter who wrote an online story about the case, avoided jail by agreeing to testify.
The blog husband imagines Judith behind bars.
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2 Pounds of "Fair Trade" bananas from Peru. The color of the bananas are usually yellow with a bit of green at the tip.
Banana plants have been in cultivation since the time of recorded history. One of the first records of bananas dates back to Alexander the Great's conquest of India where he discovered bananas in 327 B.C.
In some lands bananas were considered the principal food. Early travelers and settlers would carry the roots of the plant as they migrated. When Spanish explorers came to the New World, so did the banana. In 1516, Friar Tomas de Berlanga sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life.
Bananas were officially introduced to the American public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Before that time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean. In the late 1870's, with the invention of the telegraph and the development of the Central American railroads, the banana industry finally took shape.
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Los Angeles Unified officials Tuesday unveiled a new way to measure the success of teachers and principals, releasing their own version of the controversial value-added method of analyzing test scores.
The academic-growth-over-time formula looks at how much students improve year-to-year, based on how they have done in the past.
It then predicts how each student should do, based on factors like socioeconomic status or special needs, to gauge a teacher's effectiveness.
District officials hope to eventually use AGT data to evaluate teachers and principals, a move that must be negotiated with the local teachers union, which has publicly opposed the use of value-added analysis.
Incoming Superintendent John Deasy, who moves into that post Friday, said he will release AGT data for all district schools Wednesday to begin a pilot of the new system.
"This will help us identify good practices, it will help everyone get better and it will allow us to have quality control," Deasy said during a briefing with the school board Tuesday.
Deasy said AGT data will be used to evaluate teachers during the 2011-12 school year on a voluntary basis as a test of the new system. | Related story:"LAUSD says furlough days, borrowing needed to avoid massive layoffs"
A maximum of 1,050 teachers can volunteer, although the data cannot be used to make any hiring or firing decisions this year.
"We see this as a learning year," Deasy said.
Local teachers union leaders believe the school district is "steamrolling" new evaluations and bypassing negotiations by recruiting teachers to participate in the pilot.
In a written statement, United Teachers Los Angeles leaders accused the district of "bribing" teachers and administrators to participate by offering schools additional professional development money.
"If the district is interested in having a successful evaluation system, why are they rolling out a new system before negotiating. ... Why are they rolling out a system that contains the hugely controversial and unproven value-added method?" asked UTLA President A.J. Duffy.
Value-added methods of analyzing test scores have received a lot of attention over the last year, applauded by some education experts and elected officials, including President Obama and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
But the method has also been sharply criticized by experts, and labor leaders say the statistical analysis is flawed and error-prone.
If the plan is approved by the union, district officials have said that test scores would only be one of several factors used to measure the performance of a teacher.
Still, Duffy raised concerns about the use of any test scores to measure the effectiveness of teachers.
"People want to use something as simple as a test score to fire people," Duffy said.
"But standing in front of a room of 30 kids to teach them a subject is hugely complicated. ... No amount of statistical mumbo jumbo can take into account all of the variables that go into each human being."
School board members celebrated the release of the new measure.
"There is no more important thing we could be doing than ensuring that every child in our district gets a great teacher, a great school leader and a great school," said board member Yolie Flores.
"I think we're going to lead the nation."
The LAUSD school board launched the process of overhauling teacher evaluations two years ago when it created a teacher effectiveness task force.
In November the district approved a $1.5 million contract with the University of Wisconsin's Value Added Research Center to develop LAUSD's AGT system. The district used federal stimulus money that could not be used to pay for salaries.
Dr. Robert Meyer, director of the Value Added Research Center, said by beginning to use this data LAUSD would join dozens of other districts nationwide that already use this type of information to evaluate educators, including all of the districts in Texas, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Meyer also stressed that the information will help highlight not only which schools have high test scores, but which ones are helping students improve at the fastest rate. Releasing only a handful of information for schools on Tuesday, district officials said AGT shows that schools across the district are making great gains with some of LAUSD's neediest students.
In the San Fernando Valley, for example, teachers at Canoga Park and Reseda high schools and at Pacoima middle school have helped students make major improvements in their English test scores even though the schools' overall test scores continue to fall behind state and federal goals.


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Great link … Extremely interesting, especially about the longevity of microfilm. And I had to laugh at the idea of the vault being a disorganized place — terribly un-Teutonic!
That part amazed me, I must say. Take the retrieval system with you!
And here I am, busily working to transfer family movies from film to DVD! Finding a way to store records in the most modern format is the challenge for me. We have shifted our movies, originally taken in the 1940s, from 8 mm. film to videotape and now to DVD and YouTube.
I once worked in the Microforms Division (microfilm, microfiche, microcard) of a large university library. We all marveled back then (in the 1970s) that the entire main library would, if all on microfiche, fit into a single shoebox. Now, it could be stored digitally and accessible to all researchers everywhere.
Back to the Barbara Tunnels–I hope they have some microfilm readers stored in there as well!
I think it's a great idea to transfer your home movies from film to digital. You'll have to stay on top of how the digital motion picture format evolves, but home movies on film are vulnerable.
What I like about the German approach is that they'll always have film to work from and that leaves their options open. Something even more miraculous than digital may lie ahead that we certainly can't envision now.
I just discovered that the historical archive where I volunteer prefers microfilm over any digital approach. Of course, they have yet to trust any computer operating systems beyond DOS. Yikes!
Yikes is right – seriously, they're still using DOS?
But I think I should have been clearer in this post: I'm not anti-digital. It's just that I'm not anti-analog either.
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The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-national trade agreement the United States is negotiating in secret, seeks to export U.S.-styled intellectual-property rules abroad, according to a leaked chapter of the deal WikiLeaks published today.
Talks on the pact, which the U.S. is negotiating with 11 Asia-Pacific region nations, commenced in 2008. Negotiators are expected to meet in Salt Lake City next week in a bid to hammer out the accord that includes Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and Brunei.
The leak, which could not be immediately authenticated, is only of the chapter about intellectual property, dealing with copyright, trademarks and patents. It has not been officially released for public consumption. However, lobbyists or so-called "trade advisors" from all sectors of the economy, from Haliburton to Hollywood, have had limited access to the accord's text.
"The WikiLeaks text also features Hollywood and recording industry-inspired proposals – think about the SOPA debacle – to limit internet freedom and access to educational materials, to force internet providers to act as copyright enforcers and to cut off people's internet access," Burcu Kilic, a Public Citizen intellectual property attorney, said in a statement.
According to his analysis of the draft, there are some 100 unresolved issues, and the U.S. push to export its intellectual-property rights law has "led to a negotiation stalemate," he said.
Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said last month that "International markets are critical to the continued competitiveness of the U.S. motion picture and television industry. As such, we place the highest priority on working with our trading partners and the U.S. government to achieve a comprehensive, high-standard and commercially-meaningful agreement."
The measure increases overseas copyright terms and would impose a so-called "graduated response" program on internet service providers. In the United States, a voluntary "graduated response" program provides for extrajudicial punishment of internet users who download copyrighted works without permission. Commenced earlier this year, the program's punishment for repeat violators includes temporary internet termination and throttling connection speeds.
The accord, like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S., outlaws the marketing of products that circumvent digital rights management. And the definition of what a patent is "looks fairly similar to what we see in the U.S. patent law," Chris Mammen, an intellectual-property attorney, said in a telephone interview.
"What I would say overall, it looks like across the board what it's proposing to do is broaden the protectability and enforceability of intellectual property rights," Mammen said.
What's more, the pact gives Big Pharma more control of its medicines and makes it harder for developing nations to impose regulations on tobacco.
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A South African Jewish group said it would file charges for alleged hate speech against a trade union leader who accused it of complicity in murder in Gaza.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies, or SAJBD, decided to take legal steps against Tony Ehrenreich, provincial secretary of trade union umbrella body COSATU, after he wrote about the group on Facebook Wednesday.
"The time has come to say very clearly that if a woman or child is killed in Gaza, then the Jewish board of deputies, who are complicit, will feel the wrath of the People of SA with the age old biblical teaching of an eye for an eye," he wrote. "The time has come for the conflict to be waged everywhere the Zionist supporters fund and condone the war killing machine of Israel."
The board said it was instituting criminal and civil charges against Ehrenreich for alleged hate speech and incitement to violence against the community's representative body.
In a media statement issued Thursday, SAJBD chairman Mary Kluk said the post was "a flagrant violation of South African law prohibiting hate speech and incitement to cause harm" and inflamed "an already volatile situation."
Ehrenreich said that he stood by his statement, that he was not anti-Semitic and was not calling for violence against Jews, the daily Cape Times reported. His focus was on the SAJBD for what he described as condoning violence against the Palestinians.
"The killings in Gaza by the Israeli army have never been condemned by the Jewish Board of Deputies," he said, adding he was laying charges against it "for supporting crimes against humanity in Gaza."
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The ankle is one of the most commonly injured joints of the body and is frequently observed with activities that involve jumping or running. An examination of the ankle should also include a thorough evaluation of the foot. This includes an assessment of gait pattern, standing posture, and shoe wear pattern. Any obvious gross deformity, malalignment, or atrophy should also be observed and noted. Acute injuries to the ankle commonly result in swelling and the development of ecchymosis. Accumulation of swelling typically occurs around the lateral and/or medial malleoli, and may move distally into the foot.
Palpation of the ankle is important in identifying which structures are injured. Bony structures to palpate should include the shaft of tibia and fibula, traveling down the borders of both the medial and lateral malleoli. Palpation of the neck and dome of the talus should also be performed. This can be done by inverting and everting the foot, and palpating just anterior to the medial and lateral malleoli. Soft tissue palpation should include all the ligamentous structures: the anterior talofibular ligament, the posterior talofibular ligament, the calcaneofibular ligament, the deltoid ligament complex, and the anterior tibiofibular syndesmosis. Palpation of the muscle tendons that cross the ankle joint should also be performed. The peroneus longus and brevis tendon can be palpated as it passes posterior to the lateral malleolus and courses below the distal pole towards the base of the fifth metatarsal. On the medial aspect of the ankle, palpation of the posterior tibialis, flexor digitorum longs, and flexor hallucis longus can be done. These three tendons pass posterior to the medial malleolus. The posterior tibial artery and nerve can also be palpated here. Finally, along the anterior aspect of the ankle, the body and tendon of the tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, and extensor digitorum longus can be palpated.
Range of Motion
Assessment for ankle range of motion typically begins with an evaluation of active, passive and resistive range of motion. There are four main motions that occur at the ankle joint: dorsiflexion, plantar flexion, inversion, and eversion. To assess the passive range motion, have the patient seated with their foot off the exam table. While stabilizing the lower leg, passively apply pressure to assess soft tissue mobility. Range of motion should always be compared bilaterally and any deficits should be noted. Normal motion for passive dorsiflexion is 10° to 15°, while normal passive plantar flexion is 50 to 70°. Normal passive inversion is approximately 40° and eversion is around 10°. Any pain during passive movement may indicate musculotendinous or ligamentous. Limitation of motion may be a result of pain, swelling, or scar tissue from a chronic injury. Finally, resistive range of motion should be tested to assess for any muscular weaknesses or injuries.
Talar Tilt Test
Description: The Talar Tilt Test is a ligamentous stress test that examines the integrity of the lateral ankle ligaments, particularly the calcaneofibular ligament.
Maneuver: Have the patient in the seated position, with their knee bent and foot in a neutral or slightly dorsiflexed position. Stabilize the distal tibia with one hand while applying an inversion force to the foot.
Positive Findings: Positive findings include any pain in the ankle or increased joint laxity. Depending on the positioning of the ankle, pain may be experienced over either the calcaneofibular ligament or the anterior talofibular ligament.
Anterior Drawer
Description:The anterior drawer test is used to examine the integrity of the anterior talofibular ligament, which is frequently injured during an inversion ankle sprain.
Maneuver: Have the patient seated with their knee bent and their ankle in a neutral position at 0° or 90° to the leg. Stabilize the distal tibia with one hand, while grasping the heel with the other hand. Apply an anterior force to the heel. This test should be performed bilaterally to compare for differences in anterior translation.
Tip: In order to gain a better feel for the translation of the foot in relation to the lower leg, the index finger can be placed behind the heel with the thumb over the front of the ankle. Also, a firm, steady load during testing can be more sensitive than a higher, quick load.
Positive Findings: Pain or increased joint laxity in the injured ankle indicates disruption of the anterior talofibular ligament. A dimple may also be visually seen by the clinician while performing this test.
External Rotation or Kleiger's Test
Description:The test is used to help identify syndesmotic injuries.
Maneuver: Have the patient seated with their knee bent on the exam table. Stabilize the distal tibia while externally rotating the foot. External rotation of the talus applies pressure to the lateral malleolus, causing a widening of the tibiofibular joint.
Tip: The examiner may be able to feel the talus displace from the medial malleolus, which indicates there may be a disruption of the deltoid ligament.
Positive findings: Increased external rotation of the foot when compared bilaterally, or any pain in the anterolateral ankle joint is considered to be a positive finding.
Thompson's Test
Description:This test is utilized to evaluate the integrity of the heel cord.
Maneuver: Have the patient lying prone on a table with their foot extended off the edge. Squeeze the calf muscle at position slightly distal to the place of widest girth. Examine the movement at the foot.
Positive Findings: A positive test occurs when the calf is squeezed and no plantar movement occurs at the foot. This indicates a heel cord rupture.
Compression Test
Description:This test examines the integrity of the distal tibiofibular joint. It can also assess for fractures of the tibia and fibula.
Maneuver: Have the patient sitting supine with their foot on the table. Grasp the mid-calf and squeeze the tibia and fibula together. Gradually move distally towards the ankle while continuing to apply the same amount of pressure.
Positive findings: Any pain in the lower leg may be indicative of a fracture or syndesmotic sprain.


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I just returned from a round table discussion in NYC last week. Until yesterday, I wasn't at liberty to discuss the topic at hand, except to tell you that it did revolve around women's health and perimenopause issues in particular.
I have since received information from the company which sponsored the discussion which had been embargoed – a fancy way of saying I couldn't discuss it with you until I was given permission.
I haven't decided yet if or when I will write about it. But, I have been giving serious thought to the time I spent there and the discussions which took place. Here's the long and the short of it: I feel frustrated with the medical system.
I'm also frustrated by the fact there is a sharp divergence of thought around the subjects of perimenopause and menopause, around the treatments, and around what actually works for women and what doesn't.
It drives me insane.
On the one hand, I wish to give the respect and recognition which is due to the medical community. I sincerely honor those who are involved in the academic and scientific research as well. Their work impacts public policy in health care, and ultimately how menopause is diagnosed and treated.
On the other hand, however, I also see a real lack of clarity in medicine and research as it pertains to menopause, which I find completely exasperating. Do I have an impressive litany of statistics and facts to back up what I see? No, I do not. It is simply a gut impression. I feel certain I am not alone in those impressions.
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I also realize I am not making it easy for those of you who are looking for answers and help for your symptoms of perimenopause and menopause with my continual philosophical observations about the state of our medical system.
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Perhaps this is not such a revelation to you. Perhaps you figured this out a long time ago. For me, however, this has been a real evolution. I am feeling more and more like a traffic cop who directs you and points you to the information and the research. I cannot drive you there, because I am still trying to find my own way through this mess, too.
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