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Jim Jonsin Wants Another Shot With 'American Idol' Pia Toscano
If you're worried about the career of 'American Idol' cast off Pia Toscano, rest assured, she'll be just fine — that is if you ask 'Idol' mentor and superproducer Jim Jonsin. One week after the raven-haired beauty's elimination left pretty much everyone shell-shocked, Jonsin has publicly thrown his support behind the Queens native.
"Just so you know, I'm definitely going to be working with her, she better not run and hide," Jonsin tells the BoomBox. "I was really shocked [when she was eliminated]. That girl, she had so much momentum with people loving her and her voice, she sang really well. Everyone at the show was like 'wow.' Not to take anything from the artists because they're all incredible, it's a really tough competition but I thought Pia was awesome. You just never know what these kids are going to vote on, and that right there tells you it ain't fixed, it's [the] real deal."
Jonsin who has worked with Beyonce, Lil Wayne and Usher, was handpicked by Interscope labelhead Jimmy Iovine to mentor this season's contestants and help them with their song arrangements. Ironically, Toscano and Stephano Langone were the only two contestants out of the bunch that he hadn't worked with, but when it comes to the other singers, he's not picking any favorites.
"Their level of talent has grown since we've started working with them," Jonsin reveals. "This kid Paul [McDonald], he's writing his own songs, he's got his own thing going. Casey [Abrams] is talented, Jacob [Lusk] can sing with the best of them. Lauren [Alaina] and Hailey [Reinhart], they're both very, very strong. I think those two have a huge future. Stephano is talented, I haven't gotten a chance to work with Stephano but I hope this week we get in. There's a lot talent there, so I don't know how they're picking or choosing who wins or not."
This week's show on Wednesday (April 13) found the remaining eight contestants singing their favorite songs from movies. While some, like Casey Abrams' rendition of Nat King Cole's 'Nature Boy,' blew the judges away, others like Hailey Reinhart, who tried her hand at Blondie's 'Call Me,' didn't exactly get rave reviews. The next 'Idol' contestant will get eliminated on Thursday's show (April 14), which will also include performances from Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson.
Watch Pia Toscano Perform 'I'll Stand By You' on 'American Idol'


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Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Hood River County Records Inventory
Circuit Court Journals
Series records chronological narratives of the proceedings of the court including actions taken such as decrees, judgments, arrangements, sentences, dismissals, and grand jury reports. Information includes plaintiff, defendant, and attorney names; term of court; character and date of case; case number; and date of issue. The term "judgment" refers to judicial decisions regarding the verdict, decision, or judgment rendered by the court and is distinct from those judgments relating to the recovery of court costs and awards (see Judgment and Execution Dockets). Circuit court records continue after 1983 under authority of the state and are maintained by the trial court administrator. Circuit court records have been inventoried through 1983. For information on more recent court records, contact the trial court administrator. Portions of these records may be restricted.
Records are included from Wasco County documenting the governance of the Hood River County area prior to the creation of the county in 1908.
Records at the Oregon State Archives:
Circuit Court Journal [with index], vol. A, 1-6, 1875-1933 (7 volumes).
Records at the Hood River County Courthouse, Circuit Court Small Jury Room 309A:
Circuit Court Journal [with index], vol. 7-9, 1933-1947 (3 volumes).
Records at the Hood River County Business Admin. (Dean) Bldg., County Archives:
Circuit Court Journal [with index], vol. 10-22, 1946-1965 (13 volumes).

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Israel fears Turks could pass its secrets to Iran
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara's regional interests shift.
The leaked comments by Barak cast doubt on how much Israel is willing or able to reconcile with Turks outraged at its navy's killing of nine of their compatriots aboard an aid ship that tried to run the Gaza Strip blockade on May 31.
Until relations soured, Turkey had been the Muslim power closest to the Jewish state, a friendship largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing.
In a closed-door briefing to activists aligned with his center-left Labour Party at a kibbutz near Jerusalem on July 25, Barak still called Turkey a "friend and major strategic ally."
But he described Hakan Fidan, the new head of its National Intelligence Organization, as a "friend of Iran."
"There are quite a few secrets of ours (entrusted to Turkey) and the thought that they could become open to the Iranians over the next several months, let's say, is quite disturbing," he said in a segment of the speech broadcast by Army Radio. Barak was speaking in the context of past Israeli-Turkish intelligence cooperation, an audience member told Reuters on Monday. An Israeli defense official said the event was private and that the aired recording of Barak had not been authorized.
Appointed in May, Fidan was previously a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party has roots in political Islam and has often censured Israel.
Political sources in Ankara said that Fidan, a former envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, was also involved in a Turkish- and Brazilian-brokered compromise proposal -- received coolly in the West -- to curb Iran's controversial uranium enrichment. Continued...


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General Campaign Season Kick Off: What's Ahead
With the party primaries receding in the rearview mirror, political candidates have their eyes fixed on the six week road to November. As the first full week of general election campaigning gets underway, WNYC's Bob Hennelly spoke with Soterios Johnson about what lies ahead.
Andrew Cuomo had what he billed a "big tent" campaign event in Manhattan yesterday. That's a phrase you often here from Republicans to describe their party. What was the event, and is it too soon to get a sense of Cuomo's strategy in dealing with Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino?
HENNELLY: What we do see is that he was really using the opportunity of this event to announce his co-chairs for the campaign. Congresswoman Nydia Valazquez, former state republican chair Pat Barrett -- and that's very important -- and Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller and the gentleman who ran against mayor Bloomberg -- and did a better job than most people expected in that campaign. So he's trying to set a bi-partisan tone and, most important, stay above the fray.
Do we have a sense of Carl Paladino's approach now that he has the Republican nomination?
HENNELLY: Well, I think it's the same approach that seemed to work for him so successfully during the primaries. The New York Times has some details this morning about a letter that Paladino has written to Cuomo challenging Cuomo to a debate, and it's written in street rumble rhetoric. You know, get away from your daddy's coattails. Come on out and debate like a man. So it's really a taunting invitation. What you see here is the response on behalf of Cuomo is from Democratic chair Jay Jacobs, who said Attorney General Cuomo had already agreed to the idea in principle of meeting in a debate. And we saw earlier that it was Governor David Paterson who responded to Paladino's taunts earlier in the week.
Any Republican running for statewide office needs to pull over conservative Democrats and Independents. What are the prospects that Palaldino will actually draw enough people to his side to tip the scales?
HENNELLY: Well, the key here is what is going to happen with former Congressman Rick Lazio who did win the Conservative line on primary day. So we have to find out if he's going to make an active run. Also, Paladino has to continue to run an unconventional strategy that energizes people who don't normally turn out. So, to that degree, he's tapping into this national energy that's at the Tea Party and there's some kind of framework there to do that. For Cuomo, what he has to do is make it almost like a national election in the sense that he's got to get the Obama base that turned out in such huge numbers to give President Obama that big win. So, for Paladino, he's got to activate a base. So does Cuomo. But the difficulty for Cuomo is that, as the recession has dragged on, it's been much harder to try to turn around the economy. That Obama base, so far, hasn't shown up.
In the race for Attorney General, it's Democratic State Senator Eric Schneiderman against Republican Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan. What can you tell us about the different visions of the office of Attorney General that these two men have?
HENNELLY: I think that you see in the case of Donovan, a Republican, he is trying to emphasize that he is going to take the fight for corruption in Albany to a new level, thus reminding people that Schneiderman has been a veteran legislator up in Albany. Of course, Schneiderman tries to counter that by saying that he was central to the expelling of Hiram Monserrate after he was judged guilty in charges related to assaulting his girlfriend. And Schneiderman now -- we'll see today I guess that he's going out to Brentwood, Long Island to discuss plans to crack down on crime, invoking the tragic gang-related shooting of a 13-year-old playing basketball. So, he is now trying to look like the kind of prosecutor that Dan Donovan's says he's already been for two terms.


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Andy Burnett, 2016 Alumni Achievement Award winner
Andy Burnett is a recovering academic with a passion for creativity and technology. With a BSc in Management Science from Loughborough University and an MSc in Creativity and Change Management from SUNY Buffalo State, he's worked with a variety of organizations to further scientific and academic innovation.
Andy has filled various roles, from a Research Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, to the Director of Innovation for Knowledge Associates Ltd. He is currently the CEO and Founder of a consulting firm that specializes in accelerating scientific innovation called Knowinnovation (and yes, he's aware that it works better written down than spoken). Andy has consulted for organizations both large and small, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and NASA. Along the way, he was fortunate enough to discover that what really excites him is the potential to massively increase human creativity by harnessing the internet to build networks of creative minds. Although this is currently only a potential for the future, Andy is anxiously awaiting a time when it is a reality.


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2010 Review: Milly Freeman
Milly Freeman was one of our favourite graduates of 2010. A few more facts: she likes being a tourist, makes brightly-coloured prints for fun, is a big fan of BBC i-player, and should be considered "one to watch."
Milly's image of the year: "This year I have been enjoying print making and having just moved from Penzance to London, thought this picture summed it up."
Mark out of 10 for 2010?
What broke? How did you fix it?
I burnt a hole in my desk with a makeshift light box, oops. It is now disguised with a table cloth.
What was the best thing you saw this year?
Three shooting stars, they whooshed by with long tails like in cartoons.
What was your favourite day of the year?
A day in July when I saw 'The Red Shoes,' by the Knee High Theatre. The witty adaptation took place in a tent in Cornwall with live music. It felt like a festival.
Most dangerous/ scariest moment?
Moving to London.
Best Google image search of 2010?
I was searching pantomime horses and discovered there are pantomime Grand Nationals.
Best man/woman of the year?
A woman I saw with a wheelbarrow attached to her bike.
Your finest moment?
I took part in a comedy improvisation class in Brighton. I went extremely wobbly and my voice disappeared. It was embarrassing!
If you could only take one thing that you bought in 2010 into 2011, what would it be?
My hat. It's the perfect shape, fit and is warm.
What would you like to say to 2010?
Slow down. 2011 is coming up fast!
- Hey presto, it's Best of the Web!
- Paris-based Studio Jimbo creates "impact and power" with punchy poster designs
- Minju An's oddly sinister illustrations depict strange characters and floating bread
- Friday Mixtape: Warpaint's Glastonbury picks
- Karifurav Caihua's weirdly erotic Japanese-inspired illustrations
- High octane Nike China animation gets kids to wear their bandages as a "badge of honour"
- "Evolve or die": Bloomberg Businessweek creative director Rob Vargas on the magazine's redesign
- Southbank Centre visual identity redesigned by North, to be a "confident masthead" for the institution
- Photographer Khadija Saye has died in the Grenfell Tower fire, her family confirm
- The Buzzfeed redesign: UK art director Tim Lane talks us through his seven-month overhaul
- Alex Norris' hilarious three-panelled webcomics are universally appealing
- Fresh Yale grad Franci Virgili applies an academic approach to graphic design


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31 Dec 12
Drum And Bass
01 Apr 15
Drum And Bass
Cold Mission - "These Memories" - (6:32) 165 BPM
Goldie - "Dog Day" - (5:43) 168 BPM
Double O - "New Skank" - (6:25) 170 BPM
Threshold - "Bad Nah Bloodclarrt!" - (5:45) 170 BPM
Played by: 6Blocc
Review: A very exciting release from up and coming imprint Ako Beatz, not least because it features a scarce studio offering from the legendary GOLDIE! Cold Mission is first up to the plate with a heavy hitter, synth work reminiscent of "Champion Sound" is driven forward by some rough jungle breakbeats, chopped with laser like precision. The godfather Goldie's long awaited return to production does not disappoint. The warm bassline and tribal loops will have the ravers bubbling like a shaken bottle of Lucozade. Double 0 demonstrates his jungle heritage with space age atmospherics and skipping beats that harp back to the glory days 90's jungle, "New Skank" it sure is but it's one that clearly knows it's history. Last but certainly not least Threshold's "Bad Nah Bloodclart" is a dark roller with an eerie hook perfect for a grimey 4am set.
07 Dec 09
Drum And Bass
Letting Go (feat Jenna G) - (7:46)
Say You Love Me - (7:13) 175 BPM
Don't Give In (feat Natalie Williams) - (5:21) 152 BPM
Chances - (6:07)
I Know Who I Am - (4:52)
Breakin Glass - (6:44) 173 BPM
Something About You - (5:00)
Rhythm Killa - (6:11) 170 BPM
Inside Your Soul - (5:16)
Never Still - (6:02)
Latin Skin (feat Natalie Williams) - (6:15) 173 BPM
Invisible (feat Natalie Williams) - (6:18)
Truez String - (6:39) 145 BPM
Played by: Bilanez Music
04 Dec 15
Drum And Bass
Broken Man - (5:14) 55 BPM
Goldie/Halogenix - "Broken Man" (Halogenix remix) - (5:36) 174 BPM
Review: Not content with serving up one of this year's best LP length examples of electronic music fusionism as part of Ivy Lab, Laurence Reading has also made great strides with his solo output as Halogenix. After a continual stream of Halogenix 12"s for the likes of Critical and Dispatch, Reading landed on Metalheadz earlier this year with All Blue, a four track single that felt right at home on the label. The relationship between Halogenix and Metalheadz is strengthened further as he goes toe to toe with Goldie on this Broken Man 12". Up top is the Goldie's pensive original, with the production clearly presented as the musical backdrop for those mournful vocals. For the remix Halogenix plays on this mood, yet teases a bit more of a dancefloor vibe out of the track.
14 Jun 17
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14 Jun 17
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14 Jun 17
Drum And Bass
Played by: Ted Ganung
28 Jul 17
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Inner City Life (feat Diane Charlemagne - 2017 rebuild) - (7:03) 155 BPM
Inner City Life (feat Espa - Burial remix) - (6:59) 148 BPM
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Played by: Ennio Styles, PLATFORM, A Dominant Species, Juno Recommends Drum & Bass, Terminal State (Vanguard Audio)
Review: Marking the 100th release on the legendary Metalheadz imprint, label boss Goldie steps up with this iconic release. "Freedom" incorporates stunning vocals from protege Natalie Duncan and breathes fresh life into the contemporary D&B scene, by pairing swooning instrumentals with punchy, rattling jungle breaks, pulsating bass and plenty of empowering atmospheric sweeps, all the while maintaining a unique vision. The accompanying video is worth a watch too, depicting Goldie escaping from closed walls and entering an enlightened state. Don't miss out on this one!
GOLDIE presents RUFIGE KRU
07 May 07
Drum And Bass
Vanilla - (4:52)
Shutting You Down - (5:56)
Beez - (4:29) 175 BPM
Grouper - (5:33)
Special Request - (5:39)
Digital Warrior - (5:16) 173 BPM
Must Feel - (4:10) 173 BPM
Monkey Boy - (5:41) 173 BPM
Scar - (6:40) 168 BPM
Pest Control - (5:40) 175 BPM
Infamous - (6:00)
Letting Go (Vip mix) - (6:25) 173 BPM
Malice In Wonderland - (10:50) 175 BPM
05 Oct 09
Drum And Bass
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass, BCEE vs JUNO DOWNLOAD
02 Mar 15
Drum And Bass
02 Mar 15
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Goldie - "Dark Metal" (Source Direct remix - 2015 remaster) - (8:09) 167 BPM
Source Direct - "Stonekiller" (Hokusai remix - 2015 remaster) - (7:00) 55 BPM
Played by: TREVOR JACKSON
18 Jul 11
Drum And Bass
26 Feb 16
Drum And Bass
Dark Rider (Scar remix) - (6:20) 172 BPM
Beachdrifta VIP (feat Cleveland Watkiss) - (4:13) 170 BPM
Played by: IKON-B, DJ Ollie, Euphonique, Hex
Review: FACT: Being knighted with an MBE doesn't affect your gully abilities. Case in point: Goldie's return to his original Rufige Kru guise. First up, SCAR shake up his 1992 classic "Dark Rider". Maintaining the deep bass plunges, twisted paranoid feels and staccato detuned riff while polishing the production and rebuilding the drums, it's a near-on perfect example of remix craft. Then comes the VIP: 2000's "Beachdrifta" gets the future treatment. All the beauty and bliss of the intro are present but now come with added raw soul as Cleveland Watkiss adds his haunted cries and that drop gets a turbo charged sheen into pure back-hunched drama. Incredible.


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How to Choose Relaxing Bath-room Accessories
Have a bath and flake out
Bath time can be the most relaxing and enjoying time of the day. There are a wide variety of things when relaxing in that big yard tub of yours that you can use. Lets talk about a number of the things that could make your bathing more relaxing and enjoyable.
Just how to relax:
Your bath tub can be a important section of your leisure time. There are various different kinds of tubs out now to match everyones needs. Most people have standard size showers for one person, they could be very enjoyable too, just put some things around it to make it what you want. Refill the container with your favorite pungent pockets or enjoyable oils. The new water and all those pockets around you make you feel important and special.
How you can develop a romantic atmosphere inside your bathroom:
Can you like getting romantic in the bathtub? Decide to try the garden tub it is a good one for small areas and large enough for the 2nd person to join you. Garden showers are great if they are sunken into your floor area. Field the tub in and use a stereo system involved with it. Music is definitely comforting to everybody else. This impressive get classic agingsafelybaths encyclopedia has limitless provocative cautions for the meaning behind this belief. Change the music o-n a good easy listening music channel or put a CD into it, maybe an mp3 person too. Yard showers and music is simply one form of tub to boost every day.
Make sure you take into consideration where youre planning to mount it and the sitting around it when installing a bath for romance and pleasure. Click here investigate amazing aging safely walk in baths to research the meaning behind it. Your dcor means a lot when youre wanting to flake out and enjoy the surrounding area. Pick a place away from the master bedroom where you can be away from everything and only be alone. Before installing your bathtub, choose a style and how youre likely to fill out the empty rooms. Just take one end of the area and put-up a wall to produce a place for a bath separate and the chair from your bath. Adding the drain in the same place with the bath is ok, because you can shade and coordinate the colors to both areas to match the bedroom. Discover more on an affiliated website by visiting walk in tub reviews.
Put mirrors around your tub; box the bathtub in putting positions at one end for that glass of wine you could want while relaxing. Add candles when they are lit they may shine into the mirrors. Appears intimate doesnt it.
Deploy Garden tubs with jets in it. Jets are a simple method to get that massage youve been seeking. Many of them have heaters linked which means that your water doesnt get cold. Be careful not to fall asleep and die in there it can be achieved therefore dont stay static in there to long with the planes on they can make you to comfortable. For one more way of interpreting this, please consider having a peep at: per your request. Again, dont forget to incorporate the mirrors and candles.
Set where you can stay to dry off a chair designed to fit your theme in one corner and put that gel you could have to your feet. After relaxing because bath, you need to smell good afterwards. A little bit of body cream goes a long way. Match your lotion smells to go with the gas youve used to simply take the smells with you when youre done. Human anatomy lotions are affordable; also, you will find coupons, offers, sales, clearances, etc online to help you save money.
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Obamacare Reaches Its Target. Can We Stop Pretending That Number Matters Now?
The White House announced Wednesday that more than 6 million Americans have signed up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a long-awaited target set by Obama administration, with four days left in the initial enrollment period.
It's a minor political victory for the president. It's also a reasonable opportunity for analysts and policy experts on both sides of the political aisle to remind observers how little the figure shows—and to tout the more reasonable metrics of Obamacare's success that might now come into play.
"It's not really relevant," Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at MIT who advised President Obama on the law, told Newsweek. "The bottom line is this law is most appropriately evaluated over a three-year time frame."
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Gruber also advised Mitt Romney on the former Massachusetts governor's health care law. "In Massachusetts, we didn't just pay attention to these minute-to-minute or day-to-day changes," he said. "It's crazy how much attention we pay to all these numbers every week or every month."
So where did 6 million come from? As Obamacare critics are quick to point out, the Congressional Budget Office initially projected that 7 million Americans would sign up during the six-month enrollment period. Following a glitchy rollout, the CBO's number of expected private insurance sign-ups was reduced to a more modest 6 million.
But that was never the ultimate metric of the act's success, analysts say. And it risks obscuring other, more valuable data points, some of which won't be available for months.
Gruber said what matters is that there be enough people enrolled for the exchanges to function, "which appears to be true." He also pointed to the health mix of people signing up and how many of them were previously uninsured—two figures that won't be available until late spring or early summer.
He wished he could "press a magic button" that would keep people from assessing the bill's success until several years have elapsed.
Charles Gaba, a Web site developer in Michigan who has been tracking enrollments on ACASignups.net, concurred that the 6 million figure represents a relatively small indication of the bill's success.
"We're only talking about the private, qualified health plans that are sold through the exchange web site," Gaba stressed. "That does not include Medicaid. It does not include the small number of 'SHOP' small business enrollments. And most importantly, that doesn't include the off-exchange qualified plan enrollments—which I suspect are several million at least."
Gaba agreed that the ratio of healthy to non-healthy signups carried more weight. "What's most important long-term is that the uninsured rate goes down overall," he said. "It's starting to look like it's dropping, but it's going to take a long time to really see a long term trend on that."
President Obama's critics from the right have been especially dogged about holding the ACA to its early enrollment projections. But after watching the numbers steadily climb toward 6 million in the past week, they have also been forced to acknowledge that far stronger signifiers of the bill's success exist—or will exist.
"Every time the administration releases enrollment numbers, they cannot distinguish between those who are actually new customers versus people who had coverage [and] that coverage was canceled," Joe Antos, a health policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a private conservative think tank, said. "If it turns out that of the 5 million or 6 million people you only get a million or maybe a million and a half who truly didn't have insurance last year, that's a public policy failure."
"The 6 million is a very important number, but it does not guarantee success," Antos said.
While that number has been reached, enrollment data won't be available until next month because of an extension for those who have tried unsuccessfully to enroll through the federal marketplace.
So why the continued focus on whether or not 6 million enrollees would sign up by the March 31 deadline? Most obviously, it simplifies a process that is, to most observers, inscrutably complex. It also gives observers data to talk about before there is, in fact, extensive meaningful data to talk about.
"Some of that is an American thing," Gaba argued. "We like to watch the numbers climb. Everybody likes a horse race."
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Five Golden Rules for Healthy Joints
With so much use, it's no surprise some 30 percent of Americans complain of joint pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite the pain, most of us neglect our joint health. The simple truth is that most people don't how to maintain healthy joints. Hint: It's not the supplements you hear about on the radio and TV.
"Your body simply flushes out excess vitamins and minerals. That can make for very expensive urine," says Robert Detch, M.D., co-medical director of the Advanced Joint Care & Replacement Center at Mills-Peninsula. If you really want your joints to stay healthy into older age, follow these five golden rules, he advises Read More about Five Golden Rules for Healthy Joints
Knee Pain Solutions
No wonder so many Americans suffer knee pain.
- When you walk, the force across your knee cap is three times your body weight.
- When you run, the force is five times your body weight.
- And when you jump and land, the force is seven times your body weight.
So if you are a walker, a runner or a person who loves to shoot hoops on Saturday morning, you will undoubtedly feel pain in your knees at some point in your life, says Robert Detch, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Mills-Peninsula Health Services.
What can you do? First, "forget the joint juice," Dr. Detch says. "There's no evidence that supplements like glucosamine or chondroitin really help." Instead, follow some simple, proven tips to help prevent knee pain – or at least stop it from getting worse. Read More about Knee Pain Solutions
Shortcut to Recovery
Arthroscopic Surgery Helps Athletes Get Back in the Game
"My primary goal is to allow my patients to return to the sports they love as quickly and safely as possible," says Mills-Peninsula orthopedic surgeon Dirk Diefendorf, M.D.
One of Dr. Diefendorf's primary tools is the art of arthroscopic surgery – a minimally invasive surgical technique that allows surgeons to examine and repair damaged joints through minute incisions. This is a huge advantage over traditional open surgery because the joint does not have to be opened up fully. This reduces recovery time and increases the odds of surgical success due to less trauma to the connective tissue.
Smaller Is Better
"A vital instrument for the procedure is called an arthroscope," says Dr. Diefendorf, holding up a thin metal shaft, smaller than the circumference of a pencil. A slim metal tube, just slightly larger than the arthroscope, is inserted into tiny incisions or "ports" in the patient, he explains. Knee repairs typically require two ports; shoulders require three to four. But each port is no more than two to three millimeters wide, leaving tiny scars so fine that, six months later, few patients even notice them. The arthroscope, which includes a miniature camera and a light source, is inserted into the tube and moved from port to port as needed throughout the procedure. Images from the camera are then transmitted to large video monitors located throughout the operating room. These screens enable the surgeon and his or her team to visualize and manipulate the joint and make repairs by guiding their instruments entirely by watching the screens. Joints that are most commonly repaired with this form of minimally invasive surgery include the knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot and hip. Arthroscopic procedures are often used to treat a variety of orthopedic conditions. Some of these include:
- Torn floating or surface cartilage
- Torn rotator cuff s (shoulder)
- Labral (shoulder) and instability reconstructions
- Reconstruction of ligaments (such as the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in the knee)
- Trimming of damaged cartilage such as a torn meniscus (specialized cartilage also located in the knee joint)
Giant Leap Forward
"Arthroscopic surgery has allowed those of us practicing sports medicine to greatly improve our effectiveness and efficiency in treating these types of injuries, enabling athletes to return to their previous skill level," says Dr. Diefendorf. In previous years, he says, operations that would take four hours can now be done in one to two hours, which also means the patient requires less anesthesia. "Most people go home the same day as their operation," he says. "Best of all, the person experiences less pain and the post-operative recovery period is significantly shorter," Dr. Diefendorf continues. "This greatly increases an athlete's ability to get back on the field, the course or the court as quickly as possible."
Return to Activity, Health with Total Joint Replacement
"Total joint replacement isn't just about relieving pain in a joint," says orthopedic surgeon, Paul Hazelrig, M.D. "It's about getting a person back to living a normal, healthy life." Over time, joint surfaces can be damaged through injury, old age, trauma or disease, he explains. The most common cause of joint failure is osteoarthritis, a degenerative disorder affecting close to 21 million people in the United States in which cartilage deteriorates, causing injury to the joint. People feel stiffness, pain and loss of movement as bone starts to rub against bone, most often in the knees and hips.
Making Connections
Total joint replacement is a procedure that replaces damaged joint surfaces with man-made materials. In a knee replacement, for example, the tops of the femur and tibia are each replaced with a metal cap. A piece of plastic is then inserted in between the two, along with a plastic component across the top of the kneecap. This allows the kneecap to slide easily, pain-free, against the femur. Dr. Hazelrig describes the procedure in this video segment from Healthpoint TV.
A Permanent Solution
"The results are remarkable," says Dr. Hazelrig. "Patients go from a disabled state to a state of normal activity in as little as three months. For most people, their new joints last a lifetime. The failure rate for a total knee replacement is one-half of one percent per year. That means if a person lives for 20 years after his surgery, there's a 90 percent chance that the replacement will last for the rest of his life."
Amazing Advancements
When he first started doing joint replacements more than three decades ago, Dr. Hazelrig recalls anchoring the components to the bone with cement. That changed 25 years ago as orthopedic surgeons began implanting joint components using a special carpentry technique. This allows them to shape and customize the materials to fit so perfectly into the bone it does not loosen over time and no cement is required.
"We've also seen incredible improvements in materials," says Dr. Hazelrig, adding that cobalt-chrome alloy and ceramic joint bearings have replaced simple polyethylene bearings. "Minimally invasive surgical techniques are another significant advancement, allowing us to do smaller incisions than ever before," he continues. "This helps the patient recover faster and leave the hospital quicker." On average, patients are hospitalized for two to three days for a total joint replacement, followed by six or more weeks of physical therapy.
New Limbs, New Life
Dr. Hazelrig recommends the procedure for anyone who has a damaged joint that is beyond repair and does not respond to other treatments. "The majority of my patients are elderly, but many are younger people, too, who have injured their joints in sporting activities or because they are overweight," he says. "Recovering mobility is also key to getting back to good cardiovascular health and, in general, regaining a brighter outlook on life."
Sports Medicine Helps Put Athletes Back in Game
Brothers Matt and Mitch Labbie share a love of sports and a history of injuries and recoveries. They are among a growing number of young Americans who end up needing medical attention for sports-related conditions.
"I was playing pick-up basketball with friends," recalls Matt, now a student at San Jose State University. "Another player crashed into me, I heard a big pop and the next thing I know, I'm on the ground screaming," he continues. "I was in major pain. I found out later I had torn my ACL."
A Growing Issue
Every year in the United States some 30 million people, primarily children and teens, participate in some form of organized sports. More than 3.5 million participants suffer sports-related injuries. While contact sports such as football, basketball and baseball result in the highest number of injuries, all sports have the potential for damage, whether from collisions or overuse of a body part.
Knees and Shoulders
According to Paul Abeyta, M.D., a Mills-Peninsula orthopedic surgeon, three of the most common sports injuries include damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee, the meniscus, also in the knee, and the labrum of the shoulder. "ACL injuries typically occur in stop-and-start type sports that require cutting and pivoting motions," says Dr. Abeyta.
These injuries are prevalent in sports such as basketball, football, soccer, alpine skiing, martial arts, and certain forms of gymnastics and "ultimate" sports. The ACL is a major ligament stabilizer inside the knee joint. It can be torn in many ways, but is most commonly damaged when the knee is forced too much toward the back or to the side.
"When a patient comes in and says, 'I've blown out my knee,' typically they are talking about an ACL injury," says Dr. Abeyta. Often the injury is accompanied by a "popping" sound after impact, as well as swelling and severe pain, and the affected knee usually can no longer support the person's weight.
The Other Knee Issue
"Another common knee injury, particularly in basketball and soccer players, is a torn meniscus," says Dr. Abeyta. The meniscus is a horseshoe-shaped section of specialized cartilage that serves as a cushion within the knee. A tear can result from squatting or twisting-type motions.
Common signs and symptoms of a meniscus injury are swelling, clicking, catching and locking. But while the joint feels painful when in use, the pain often goes away when the person is off his or her feet. "If these symptoms persist more than a few days," says Dr. Abeyta, "you should be seen by a specialist."
The Thrower's Injury
"When baseball pitchers wind up to throw, they can tear the top part of the labrum ligament in the shoulder, which is often referred to as a SLAP tear," says Dr. Abeyta. (SLAP is an acronym that stands for superior labral tear from anterior to posterior.) "Football players are often struck on the arm, and the shoulder can be levered sideways out of the socket," he continues. "This causes a tear on the front part of the labrum."
"I was playing football at San Mateo High School, running away from a defender," remembers Mitch Labbie, now a sophomore at Canada College in Redwood City. "He started tackling me and I was trying to stay upright. I put my left arm down, jammed it into the ground and heard a pop."
Two years later, Mitch was playing baseball, dove for a ball, tore the labrum in his shoulder, and had to sit out the game for a year.
Back in the Game
"We can get most people back to their sports," says Dr. Abeyta. "But it can take time. Severe injuries requiring surgical procedures may take up to nine months to heal."
Both Matt and Mitch have subsequently undergone surgery and physical therapy. Matt now plays shortstop in the San Jose Men's Senior Baseball League and has also returned to his other love, snowboarding. "I went to Tahoe five times this past season," he says. "The snow wasn't very good this year, but my knee was completely pain-free."
Since his injury, Matt even changed his major to kinesiology and is planning a career as a physical therapist. Mitch is back on the mound and pitched all last season for Canada College. He hopes to someday play baseball professionally.
"It's been about two years since my surgery," he says. "I'm back on the field playing the sport I love, and it feels great."
"Orthopedics" Airs on Healthpoint TV
"Orthopedics," the latest episode of Healthpoint TV, takes you out on the playing field and into the high-tech operating room at Mills-Peninsula. You'll hear from our orthopedic surgeons about the most common sports-related injuries and latest technologies to treat bones, muscles, joints and ligaments.
Find out how to warm up and cool down for a safe workout, and get some nutrition tips to help maintain a healthy weight. Read More about "Orthopedics" Airs on Healthpoint TV


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Illustrations by David Malan; photo illustrations by Christina Smith
As a freshman in high school, Jacqueline C., from Indiana, USA, was asked to design costumes for all 25 members of her school's play. The play was set in the late 1800s in the southern United States, so designing costumes that fit the time and place was not an easy task.
Jacqueline started by reading books about costume design, researching the time period, and looking at lots of pictures. She also spent time talking with the director about how each character should be portrayed.
After all her research, Jacqueline designed the costumes, and she made sure all the actors looked their part. "There are two characters in the play that are complete opposites," Jacqueline says. "Their actions showed that they were opposites, and I made sure their costumes did too."
When actors are dressed appropriately for their character, it adds a lot to the play. "Their costumes pull the whole show together and give it a polished look," Jacqueline explains. As a costume designer, Jacqueline knows the importance of actors' looking their part, and as a Latter-day Saint, she knows the importance of our looking our part too. "The first impression the world has of us is based on how we look," she says.
When you know the part you play as a child of God, a covenant keeper, and a participant in the work of salvation, modesty will come naturally. Instead of being only about the length of your shorts, modesty will be about living up to your potential, keeping your covenants, and bringing others to Christ. It will be about looking—and becoming—the part.
Modesty Is More than Just Dress
When you hear the word modesty, it's natural to think about whether or not clothing is revealing or inappropriate. But did you know that modesty is about more than just clothing?
When it comes down to it, modesty is about the messages we send to the world through our appearance and our actions. Elaine S. Dalton, former Young Women general president, taught that modesty "is an outward manifestation of an inner knowledge and commitment."1 When you really know that you are a child of God, a covenant keeper, and a participant in the work of salvation, you'll want your actions and appearance to "glorify God in your body, and in your spirit" (1 Corinthians 6:20).
You Are a Child of God—Look the Part
The "most majestic, powerful, and glorious Being in the universe"2 is your Heavenly Father, and the blessings of that truth are incredible! Because you are a child of God, you have unlimited potential, you have infinite worth, and you have inherited goodness from your Father. As you come to understand this divine heritage, "it will be reflected in [your] countenance, [your] appearance, and [your] actions."3
When you know and understand your true identity, it "will make you free—not free from restraints, but free from doubts, anxieties, or peer pressure. You will not need to worry, 'Do I look all right?' 'Do I sound OK?' 'What do people think of me?'"4 When you truly know that you are a child of God, you will know that Heavenly Father's opinion is what matters most. How you look and act won't be about pleasing the world but rather about living up to your potential and expressing love and gratitude to your Father. As one young woman, Samantha Y., 17, from Utah, USA, says, "When you are modest, it shows Heavenly Father that you love Him and you want to be obedient to Him."
You Are a Covenant Keeper—Look the Part
At baptism, you covenanted to "stand as a witness of God at all times and in all things, and in all places" (Mosiah 18:9). And everything you do, say, and wear should help you keep this promise. Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught, "Honoring our covenants, starting with baptism, affects who we are and what we do, including the kinds of things we say, the music we listen to, and the clothing we wear. When we make and keep covenants, we are coming out of the world and into the kingdom of God. Our appearance should reflect that."5
When you understand that your covenants bring you "into the kingdom of God," you'll have the desire to look and act like a member of that kingdom.
You Are a Participant in the Work of Salvation—Look the Part
You're on earth at an exciting time. The work of the Lord is moving forward, and you're a part of it! As a participant in the work of salvation, you've been asked to "let your light … shine before men" (Matthew 5:16), and you can do this by being modest. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said, "We should be recognizable in appearance as well as in behavior that we truly are disciples of Christ."6
Jade F., 16, knows that outward appearances and actions can make you stand out as a disciple of Christ. "When we wear something, we represent who we are," she says. "I live in a place in Arizona where there are only a few Latter-day Saints. So when I'm modest, people notice and it's a missionary experience."
When you look and act like a participant in the work of salvation, you'll be an example of the believers (see 1 Timothy 4:12) and can bring others closer to Christ. (To learn more about your role in the work of salvation, visit lds.org/go/YouthRoleNE5.)
Claim Your Blessings
Many wonderful blessings will come when you look and become the part of a Latter-day Saint by being modest in action and appearance. Here are a few of those blessings:
The Companionship of the Holy Ghost
"When you are well groomed and modestly dressed, you invite the companionship of the Spirit."7
Protection, Chastity, and Virtue
"Just as one does not hike trails inhabited by rattlesnakes barefoot, similarly in today's world it is essential to our very safety to be modest. … Modesty has everything to do with keeping our footing securely on the path of chastity and virtue. … We simply cannot afford to be casual or get too close to the edge. That is dangerous ground for any [child] of God to walk."8
Confidence and Self-Worth
"As modesty becomes the virtue that regulates and moderates action in our lives, we … will find an increased sense of self-worth."9
True Beauty
"How truly beautiful is a well-groomed young woman who is clean in body and mind. She is a daughter of God in whom her Eternal Father can take pride. How handsome is a young man who is well groomed. He is a son of God, deemed worthy of holding the holy priesthood of God."10
A New Way to Look at Modesty
The next time you're thinking about modesty, whether you're wondering if your shorts are long enough or if your words are clean enough, first think of who you are. Remember that you are a child of God, a covenant keeper, and a participant in the work of salvation. When you think of it this way, modesty will no longer be a question of the length of your shorts or the cleanliness of your words; instead, it will be about living up to your potential as a child of God, keeping your covenants, and bringing others to Christ. As Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles reminds us, "You are a Saint of the great latter-day dispensation—look the part."11
Show References
Elaine S. Dalton, "Arise and Shine Forth" (address given at Brigham Young University Women's Conference, Apr. 30, 2004), 7; ce.byu.edu/cw/womensconference/transcripts.php.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Forget Me Not," Ensign, Nov. 2011, 123.
Elaine S. Dalton, "Arise and Shine Forth," 2.
James E. Faust, "What It Means to Be a Daughter of God," Ensign, Nov. 1999, 102.
Robert D. Hales, "Modesty: Reverence for the Lord," Ensign, Aug. 2008, 36.
Jeffrey R. Holland, "To Young Women," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 29.
For the Strength of Youth (2011), 6.
Elaine S. Dalton, "Stay on the Path," Ensign, May 2007, 113.
Silvia H. Allred, "Modesty: A Timeless Principle for All," Ensign, July 2009, 32.
Gordon B. Hinckley, "A Prophet's Counsel and Prayer for Youth," Ensign, Jan. 2001, 11.
D. Todd Christofferson, "A Sense of the Sacred," New Era, Jun. 2006, 30.


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Submitted to: Southeast Animal Waste Conference
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Publication Acceptance Date: 2/12/1997
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Technical Abstract: Atmospheric dispersion of livestock odors represents one of the most controversial issues in modern agriculture and has served as a major impediment in the expansion of livestock production and processing facilities in the United States. Unfortunately, little is known concerning the chemical identity and transport mechanisms of malodorous volatile organic compounds produced through biotic and abiotic processes in stored waste. The lack of progress towards the development of new odor reduction strategies and/or technologies has been associated with the lack of chemical-based methods to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate odor. To remedy these problems, a chemical-based odor measurement system has been developed to measure flux rates and gaseous concentrations of malodorous volatile organic compounds present in air samples from swine production facilities. Using this technology, we have established concentrations (ppb) and flux rates (ng/m**2/hour) for over 40 different volatile organic compounds associated with swine production facilities using two different waste management systems. A comparison of chemical data collected at 0, 25, and 100 meters from a swine waste storage basin indicates that these compounds are transported from the source with varying efficiencies with low molecular weight acids showing the highest mobility. Finally, the data suggest that the transport of several aromatic organic compounds such as 4-methyl phenol, 4-ethyl phenol, and 3-methyl indole is positively coupled to relative humidity.


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JASPER, Ind.—National Office Furniture is pleased to announce Brandeis University of Waltham, Mass., as its $25,000 Gift of Inspiration for Education winner. The company also announces the launch of its third annual $25,000 Gift of Inspiration for Healthcare to be awarded in early spring. National started the Gift of Inspiration program in 2009 and has given away $110,000 since the program's inception.
Brandeis University is National's third Gift of Inspiration for Education winner and plans to use the money to boost its Student Sustainability Fund, where students propose projects and have already implemented several to green their campus such as a community garden, a bike loaner program, incorporating building performance dashboards in five residence halls and spearheading the use of new solar-powered street lights at the university's entrance.
Brandeis students learn skills in project management and grant writing while contributing to the college experience, the community and future generations through their sustainable efforts today. All the ideas for green campus projects that utilize the sustainability fund are submitted and executed by the students.
"This gift will enable the Sustainability Fund Committee to implement larger investment projects and allow the students to push the envelope even further in what we can accomplish in greening our campus. This gift will definitely inspire us to do more for each other and the environment," says Herbie Rosen, student, Brandeis University Student Union President.
"We have a very capable, creative student body. Their innovative thinking towards sustainability has provided meaningful programs and implementations that are making a difference. This $25,000 Gift of Inspiration will only fuel their passion in making Brandeis as sustainable as possible. We truly appreciate this gift from National Office Furniture," says Janna Cohen-Rosenthal, sustainability coordinator, Brandeis University.
"We call it the Gift of Inspiration in hopes of inspiring others, yet we are always inspired by what our winners are doing to make the world a better place. Congratulations to Brandeis University. The Brandeis student sustainability fund is incredible and we can't wait to see how the $25,000 gift will be turned into another great sustainable solution to enrich the campus and the community," says Kevin McCoy, general manager, National Office Furniture, vice president, Kimball International.
The latest Gift of Inspiration for Healthcare Environments allows healthcare organizations to register to win $25,000 from the office furniture manufacturer. Healthcare organizations can enter now through February 29, 2012 simply by registering at www.NationalOfficeFurniture.com/Healthcare and be automatically entered to win. No purchase is necessary.
National Office Furniture presents the "Big Check" to
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What I have learned is God has every one of us, from the time that we ARE born. We came into this world and the world has made us feel so rejected, wailing in our own despair, thinking that we are so unloved. But the truth is that we have the greatest love of all. We have Gods love; often it is SO hard to remember that we do have HIS love or that we still have HIS love. Sometimes it is hard to see that we are loved or it is hard to accept love when it is freely given to us. We are so use to being treated badly, which makes us reject love. I pray that you will come to KNOW GOD'S love. Remember that we are all family. Let's learn to help one another even when we are in a crisis,
I know by experiences in these days an time, that it is hard to believe that GOD loves us, that GOD is with us during our darkness hours. I am a witness to the fact that GOD does indeed love us and that HE hears our prayers. When the world is attacking us, I know how hard it can be to take yourself outside of the crisis to see that GOD is holding you. I beg you! Just to call on JESUS' name and keep saying to yourself GOD loves me!" hold dear to our Lord and you shall see what I now see. Great love! So great that I could never put into words, of how Great GOD's love is. I can only hope as my hope is not alone that your eyes be awakens to see HIS LOVE.
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First it was Radiohead, then NIN, and now Oasis and Jamiroquai. In an article on the British news site Telegraph it was announced Oasis and Jamiroquai will be selling their next CDs directly to fans. They will be using the same "Pay what you wish†method that Radiohead used.
They also said that Radiohead's new album is already working its way up the Top Download charts. I tried going to their site to get a copy of it but the site was down. I am going to wait for tomorrow once everything has calmed down.


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i had posted earlier about my passat motor death. to what i have received from the tech here in germany, the motors have been manufactured in a different location and the problem has been fixed. the fault was started in the Emden plant in northern germany and was a design flaw. this flaw has been fixed in the new motors that go into the passat cheyene and the Q7. the reason that VW did not do a recall is because to do a recall for 20000 motors would not be cost effective so they waited until the motors broke down and then they replaced them. kind of a crazy thing but this is what i have been told.
VW replaced the motor without conflict and it took 4 days to get my car back. the car now runs and i am having to take it easy because of a wear in period. i will post pics and data on another thread concerning the pics of the failure and the data that i have received from the tech.


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Tue. November 16, 2010 | Derek J. LaRiviere
SPRING HILL — At 5 feet 8 and 160 pounds, Brian Beeker doesn't exactly look like the prototypical leader of men on the gridiron.
Stature isn't his strong suit, but heart is on his side. He uses experience and a never-say-die attitude to lead Springstead, and behind that combination, Beeker has the Eagles in the state playoffs for the first time since 2005.
"After having an extra year (of starting last year and) getting reps, that was a big advantage for Brian," 13-year coach Bill Vonada said.
"He is also one of the faster guys we have. He's broken the longest run for us this year."
Beeker, a senior, has been overlooked by major colleges despite putting up some eye-popping statistics and possessing obvious talent. While directing the Eagles' option attack, he has led the team in rushing with 1,116 yards and seven touchdowns.
He is a little different than the line of quarterbacks he has followed. Last year, he split time with Chris Kelley, more of a pocket passer who had the ability to run. Before Kelley, the guy under center was one of the most proficient passers in school history, James Mahla.
Don't be fooled. It's not that Beeker can't burn opponents with the pass. He uses the threat of his legs to keep defenses off balance and open up the pass. He tossed three touchdown passes against River Ridge this season.
He'll need to use all of these abilities and more to guide the Eagles (5-5) to their first playoff victory since 2004 Friday at Wiregrass Ranch (6-4). With two weeks to prepare for the Bulls, Vonada knows the play of the offense will be crucial.
"First and foremost, we have to play within ourselves," Vonada said. "We have to control the ball. Everyone loves to rip off big touchdown plays, but we have to be patient."
Despite having never been to the postseason, Beeker is ready for the challenge.
"I am not really nervous," he said. "I just have to play a little harder, and we have to have our best game."
As for his future, he's just taking it the way he always has: playing hard and controlling what he can control. He's had some looks from the Coast Guard Academy, Mount Union and Central Connecticut State, but his focus right now is on a postseason run.
"Maybe I can open some eyes. Coaches are always looking at quarterbacks," Beeker said. "We just have to win games."


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Horticultural Projects
The Cabrio greenhouse is a type with the same properties as a Venlo greenhouse, however the Cabrio greenhouse's deck can be opened completely. The deck opens fully from the hinges at the gutter. This means that the crop can be exposed to external weather conditions at any time. The deck and the walls of the Cabrio greenhouses can be fitted with glass or plastic panels. Cabrio greenhouses are ideal if you want to harden off crops to grow an optimal and quality product.


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Natural Language and Knowledge Processing Laboratory
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We focus on problems concerning knowledge-based information processing, a process which is strongly motivated by the deluge of information available on the Internet. We are currently engaged in research on knowledge acquisition, representation, and utilization, with special emphasis on Chinese processing.
1. Knowledge Acquisition
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[Group Profile]
We focus on problems concerning knowledge-based information processing, a process which is strongly motivated by the deluge of information available on the Internet. We are currently engaged in research on knowledge acquisition, representation, and utilization, with special emphasis on Chinese processing.
1. Knowledge Acquisition
Our focus is on strategies and methodologies of automating knowledge acquisition processes.2. Knowledge Representation
a) Construction of linguistic knowledge bases
Over the past two decades, we have developed an infrastructure for Chinese language processing that includes part-of-speech tagged corpus, tree-banks, Chinese lexical databases, Chinese grammatical elements, InfoMap, word identification systems, and sentence parsers, among other components. We plan to make use of these tools to extract linguistic and domain knowledge from the web with crowd sourcing.
b) Pattern-based information extraction (IE)
Most pattern-based IE approaches are initiated by manually providing seed instances. We have proposed a semi-supervised method that can manage a large quantity of seed instances with diverse quality. Our strategy can provide flexible frame-based pattern matching and summarization.
We will remodel the current ontology structures of WordNet, HowNet, and FrameNet to achieve a more unified representation. We have designed a universal concept representational mechanism called E-HowNet, a frame-based entity-relation model. E-HowNet has semantic composition and decomposition capabilities, which are intended to enable it to derive near-canonical sense representation of sentences through semantic composition of lexical senses.3. Knowledge Utilization
Our Chinese input system, GOING, is used by over one million people in Taiwan. Our knowledge representation kernel, InfoMap, has been applied to a wide variety of application systems. In the future, we will design event frames as a major building block of our learning system. We will also develop basic technologies for processing spoken languages, and music to support various applications.
a) Knowledge-based Chinese language processing
We will focus on the conceptual processing of Chinese documents. Our system will utilize the statistical, linguistic, and common sense knowledge derived by our evolving Knowledge Web and E-HowNet to parse the conceptual structures of sentences and interpret the meanings of sentences.
b) Audio (speech/music/song) processing & retrieval
Our goal is to develop methods for analyzing, extracting, recognizing, indexing, and retrieving information from audio data, with special emphasis on speech and music. For speech, our research focuses on speaker recognition, spoken language recognition, voice conversion, and spoken document retrieval/summarization. As regards music, our ongoing research topics include vocal melody extraction, automatic music tagging, music emotion recognition, and music search. Our audiotagging system was ranked 1st in the 2009 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX2009). Our work on acoustic visual emotion Gaussians modeling for automatic music video generation won the ACM Multimedia 2012 Grand Challenge First Prize.
c) Chinese question answering system
We integrated several Chinese NLP techniques to construct a Chinese factoid QA system, which won first place in NTCIR-5 and NTCIR-6. In the future, we will extend the system to answer "how" and "what" types of question.
d) Named entity recognition (NER)
Identifying person, location, and organization names in documents is very important for natural language understanding. In the past, we developed a machine-learning-based NER system, which won second place in the 2006 SIGHAN competition, and first place in the 2009 BioCreative II.5 gene name normalization shared task. In recent years, we have focused on using semantic rules and language patterns for NER-adopting Markov-Logic Network, which provides more flexibility for NER.
e) Chinese Textual Entailment (TE)
TE is the process of identifying inferences between sentences. We have integrated several NLP tools and resources, focusing on deeper semantic and syntactic analysis to construct a Chinese TE recognition system, which performed well in the 2011 NTCIR-9 TE shared task.
f ) Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Processing subjective information requires a deep understanding of the subject matter. We have studied opinions, sentiments, subjectivities, effects, emotions, and views in texts such as news articles, blogs, forums, reviews, comments, and dialogs, and developed related analysis techniques for Chinese and English. With developed techniques of sentiment analysis, we built Feelit, a web-post emotion visualization system, and RESOLVE, a writing system for ESL learners, to help users understand and learn to express their emotions. Based on their promising results, we will continue to improve performance utilizing the Sinica parser, semantic role labels, and e-Hownet.
g) Semantic-Oriented Machine Translation:
We adopt the deep syntactic structure with lexicon sense for each token and case-label at each node. An integrated statistical model is used to search the most likely combination of parse-tree, lexicon senses and node-case-labels (i.e., the best path). After the desired source semantic normal form is obtained, the corresponding target semantic normal form and the target string is then generated according to the patterns and parameters automatically learnt from those selected paths. For each unreachable sentence, a surrogate path will be created by searching the path (within the searching beam) that possesses the maximum value of the specified function (of associated sentence-level BLEU score and likelihood value).
h) Chinese Natural Language Understanding:
We will build a Chinese natural language understanding system based on various analysis modules (e.g., word segmenter, parser, semantic role labeler, logic form transformer) that we have previously constructed. We plan to start this long-term research project with a Chinese machine reading program which can be evaluated with reading comprehension tests. This project is expected to start from elementary school texts, and gradually shift to high school and then real domain-oriented applications (e.g., Intelligent Q&A).


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With the recent release of Finding Nemo 3D Disney have released two new Nemo universal apps for the iPhone and iPad in the form of Finding Nemo Storybook Deluxe & Finding Nemo Interactive Comic. Finding Nemo Storybook Deluxe For those of you that have downloaded any of the Disney Storybooks before you know that you are in for a treat … Read More
Instaviz – A flowchart tool for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Instaviz Rating: The best way to describe Instaviz for those who don't know about it is the description on the company's own website : Instaviz is an iPhone and iPad application that turns roughly sketched shapes and lines into beautifully laid-out diagrams. Instaviz uses Recog, a new shape recognition engine. Trained on over 2,500 sketches drawn by real users, Recog … Read More


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Auto trans on diesels
Hi guys.My UK spec WJ is blowing trans fluid out of the vent pipe. I cant check the levels as there is no dipstick on this model. Is it because the level is too high or too low.Thanks in anticipation.:(
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Your jeep probably has the Mercedes NAG1 (W5J400) transmission on it, right?
When the fluid comes out, its probably overfilled, not underfilled. For some strange reason only the stealer can check the level on this transmission, but there is a dipstick available on e-bay which you can use for checking the level yourself. This dipstick is not suppost to stay in the tranny, its only for checking and then it has to be removed: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230478671192?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2 Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp5039.m570 .l1313%26_nkw%3D230478671192%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1 )
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A film by Peter Raymont and Michèle Hozer
Sunday, March 24, 3 pm
Canada | English | 95 minutes
Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta
Free with gallery admission
Tom Thomson is one of Canada's most beloved painters. Described as our "greatest colourist" and "our Van Gogh", Thomson's vibrant interpretations of the northern landscape are iconic representations of the Canadian soul. On July 8, 1917, just as he was reaching ascendancy in his craft, Tom Thomson paddled across Canoe Lake and disappeared. His body was found floating in the lake 8 days later. The cause of his death remains a mystery.
What is it about Tom Thomson's life, art and death that haunt us still, that draws thousands to his cairn at Canoe Lake each summer and propels his little sketches to the stratosphere of the Canadian Art market? West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson unravels many of the mysteries of this brilliant, beloved artist.


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ARAB-399-01 The Arab Novel
Spring for 2017-2018
Since the late nineteenth century, Arab writers have experimented with novel writing in a number of languages. Yet, the very emergence of the novel in the modern Arab context begs many questions. To begin with, there is the old question about whether the Arabic novel was imported wholesale from the West, or whether it emerged organically in conversation with indigenous forms. We might pose this old question more bluntly: Was the Arabic novel an instance of colonial-era borrowing or, worse, a cultural artifact imposed by Western cultural hegemony? Certainly, many early experiments with the novel borrowed directly from European models, just as others drew self-consciously upon older Arabic narrative fiction forms, whether from the realm of the popular (like the Thousand and One Nights), or from that of the elite (like the maqama). At the same time, it is unclear whether the modern novel can rightly be considered part of the long-standing Arabic tradition of adab (literature), with its emphasis on ethical comportment and religious orthodoxy. If anything, in the modern Arab world, the novel is associated closely with secularism and anti-clericism.
Such issues will inform this survey of novels by Arab authors, most of which are written in Arabic, but some in French, English, Italian and Hebrew. Other questions we will explore are: the effective ability of the novel to critique political oppression; the role novels play in the articulation of human rights norms; the significance of novels in illiterate (and post-literate) societies; the novel as a supplement to official history; the novel in conversation with other mass media, especially film. Throughout, we will also ask what it means to be a writer in the modern Arab world.
The readings for this class will be available in Arabic and English translation. Classroom discussion will be in English. Students taking this course to satisfy Arabic requirements will read Arabic texts in the original, and attend a special discussion section.
Required Texts
1. Ibrahim Al-Koni, Gold Dust (Libya).
2. Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building. (Egypt)
3. Shimon Ballas, Outcast. (Israel/Iraq)
4. Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light. (Morocco/France)
5. Mohamed Choukri, For Bread Alone. (Morocco)
6. Yasmina Khadra, Morituri. (Algeria/France)
7. Elias Khoury, Yalo. (Lebanon)
8. Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Algeria/Italy).
9. Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley. (Egypt)
10. Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men. (Libya/UK)
11. Abdelrahman Munif, Variations on Night and Day. (Saudi Arabia/Syria)
12. Tayyib Saleh. Season of Migration to the North. (Sudan)
13. Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love. (Egypt/UK)
• Short Essay (7 pages) 20%
• Midterm 20%
• Final Exams (15 pages) 40%
• Attendance and Participation 20%
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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UTEP Beats Pacific-12 Power Arizona State, 60-54
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Chrishauna Parker scored 15 points, senior Anete Steinberga added 14, and UTEP defended with tenacity in an emotional 60-54 victory against traditional Pacific-12 power Arizona State at the Don Haskins Center Sunday afternoon.
The back-and-forth game featured 10 ties and 15 lead changes, but the Miners (3-0) remained composed throughout on the way to downing the Sun Devils (0-2). UTEP outscored ASU, 33-26, in the second half, including a key 5-0 run late.
The contest was tied at 45 with 4:35 to play before the home side used a pair of Parker free throws and its only three-pointer in game (Willingham) to grab a lead it would never relinquish. ASU trimmed the advantage to three points on four occasions but could never get any closer with UTEP taking care of business at the free-throw line.
The effort affords the Miners consecutive 3-0 starts to a season for the first time in program history. Additionally, it is the first victory for UTEP against a member of a power conference since 2008-09 and the fourth all time in program history. The Miners, now 4-35 all time vs. power schools (at time of meeting), previously defeated Nebraska (Big 12, 63-53, 12/20/08), Kansas State (Big 8, 67-61, 12/6/96) and Arizona (66-46, Pac 10, 11/20/80).
"It was a great win for us," UTEP head coach Keitha Adams said. "Our effort was tremendous. I'm proud of our team. Arizona State is very athletic and a very good team."
Willingham and Kristine Vitola each scored nine points while Irene Gari and Kayla Thornton chipped in four points apiece. UTEP made up for an off shooting day (17-of-49, 34.7 percent) by getting to the line early and often. The Miners connected on 25-of-39 at the free-throw line, including going 10-of-12 in the final four minutes of the tilt.
Parker led the charge in that department by making 9-of-12, both career highs. Willingham was perfect (4-4) at the line while Steinberga drilled four as well. Thornton, hampered by an injury throughout the contest, returned late to help ice the game by sinking a pair with nine seconds to play.
Willingham dished out four assists, but more importantly had just one turnover despite facing a full-court press from ASU for the majority of the contest.
At the other end of the court Adams varied her defensive looks, and the visitors never got comfortable. ASU was held to 33.9 percent (19-of-56), including just 3-of-15 from beyond-the-arc. It was harassed into 18 turnovers, which the Orange and Blue converted into 22 points.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Community Trash Pick-Up (Community Outreach)
Location: Greaswood Community
Trash Clean-Up for the whole month of April. Pick up trash bags at the Chapter. The main concentration at Greaswood Wash, Greaswood Airport Rd., along all main roads and N15 Highway. Please wear white T-Shirts for visiability. A potluck style luncheon and Door Prizes.
Community Trash Pick-Up Day (General Services)
Location: Low Mtn. Chapter
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NO SCHOOL-Many Farms Community School (School Announcements)
Location: Many Farms Community School
However the field trip for May 1st,2013, classes for Ms.Allen, Ms.Martin and Ms.Begay are going on a field trip to Albuquerque is still on. Residential students will be bus home. If there's school Thursday, they will be picked up Wednesday evening.
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Time: 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Resources & Development Committeee 22nd NN Council Regular Meeting (Meeting)
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Williams Appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Nashville Branch Board of Directors
For immediate release: Jan. 20, 2004
David Williams, who serves Vanderbilt University as vice chancellor for student life and university affairs, general counsel, secretary and professor of law, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlantas Nashville branch. His term began in January 2004, and runs through December 2006.
Williams previously served as vice president for student and urban/community affairs and professor of law at Ohio State University and as a tax specialist at Coopers Lybrand in Detroit.
Williams serves on the board of directors of the Tuition Plan LLC and is a member of the American Bar Associations Standing Committee on Public Education. He is a member of the American Corporate Counsel Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the American Bar Association, and the American Law Institute. Williams also serves as treasurer and chair of the finance committee for the Nashville Symphonys board of directors, and is on the board of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, the United Way of Middle Tennessee, the Second Harvest Food Bank, the Boys & Girls Club, and the Adventure Science Museum, as well as the Middle Tennessee Golf Charities Inc. He is also active in the Nashville Rotary, the Inns of Court and 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee.
Williams earned a bachelors degree from Northern Michigan University, a masters degree in education from Northern Michigan University, an MBA from the University of Detroit, a juris doctorate from the University of Detroit and a master of tax law degree from New York University.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta branch directors provide economic information from the branch territory to the district Banks president and head office directors, who use the information in formulating monetary policy and making discount rate recommendations. Williams was appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlantas Nashville branch by the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors appoints three of the directors of the Nashville branch, and the Atlanta head office directors appoint four.


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A python in a pocket, a fish in the face and an election in the offing
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Probing question ... Kerrie-Anne Kennerley on air with Peter Costello and python yesterday. Photo: Channel Nine
"Is that a python in my pocket?" Peter Costello asked himself before a national audience yesterday, as the camera zoomed in on the bulge in his trousers.
It was literally true; the big snake wrapped around him did apparently have its tail thrust deep into the Federal Treasurer's trouser pocket. It was a TV moment pregnant with comic possibilities, most of them vulgar.
But after that one suggestive line, Costello rejected the risque, and still managed to be funny.
"He's looking for a bit of tax relief in there," he quipped, assuring his audience and his co-host, Nine's Kerri-Anne Kennerley, that his pocket was empty. "I am a Treasurer so I am what they call retentive in relation to money - get it and be careful with it."
And that was about it, as far as economic policy was concerned. In his two hours as guest host on morning TV, Costello talked a whole lot more about his technique at the barbecue, how to build the fire, whether to prick the sausages or not, the need for a beer while cooking, et cetera.
Yes folks, we have reached that point of the political cycle where politicians try unorthodox ways to present themselves as people just like us, with ordinary interests, and to show their lighter sides.
Mark Latham began it the day before, with his visit to the Gold Coast set of the Big Brother show - of which he is apparently a fan - where his comic line was about his determination to see John Howard evicted from the Lodge.
Funnily enough, Costello's response to that gambit was to go after Latham for engaging in stunts.
"You won't hear Mark Latham talking about people's mortgages and their jobs or their economic future because he is too busy going on to the Big Brother set," he scoffed.
You might think Latham would have retaliated yesterday, but he didn't. Perhaps because he will be a guest host on the same show next week.
The season of silly stunts is upon us. How long before Kim Beazley kisses another fish? Or John Howard plays imaginary tea parties with little kiddies? Or Tony Abbott contrives to appear somewhere with his shirt off? Will anyone, anywhere, ever top Queensland Premier Peter Beattie's stunt, swimming in a tank of sharks?
The trick is knowing where to stop. Alexander Downer showed what can happen if you don't. Camping it up in fishnets and high heels, as he did a few years back, was not a good career move.
And lampooning his own values statement, Things that Matter, by reference to a mythical domestic violence policy called "things that batter", ended Alex's brief, unhappy leadership of the federal Liberal Party soon after.
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April 9, 2013 | All Things Digital
About a month ago, Willi Wu and his co-developers at Robocat sought to raise about $35,000 on Kickstarter to fund the development of a little thermometer that plugs into your smartphone's headphone jack. Instead, they raised that much in six hours. A month later, and the project closed more than $300,000 in funding. Read the rest of this post on the original site »
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ICYMI: It's a Free Country's 'Who Had the Better Week—Cuomo or Christie?'
It's a Free Country, our sibling site here at WNYC, has a running weekly run-down of the big news items for Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo. It's a fun, informative look at two of the region's--and nation's--political heavy weights, now and going forward. With that, the Empire would like to begin giving you some highlights from It's a Free Country's "Who Had the Better Week--Cuomo or Christie?"
Who'll win this week, Cuomo or Christie?! To find out, visit WNYC'sIt's a Free Country.
Chris Christie
Tax man
NJ Dems may not like Christie's proposed tax cuts, but in putting forth a plan of their own, they've practically guaranteed Christie will preside over significant tax relief in one form or another.
Christie has pushed for a 10 percent income tax cut across the board, but State Senate President Stephen Sweeney countered with a more nuanced proposal of his own: Offer taxpayers a credit equal to 10 percent of their property tax; cap the credit at $1,000; withhold the credit from households making more than $250,000 annually.
Democrats argue their plan will help the middle class more than Christie's while giving away less to wealthier taxpayers. But as Peter Woolley, executive director of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind Poll, told WNYC's Bob Hennelly, "By introducing this income tax cut, Christie has basically changed the conversation from raising taxes to how are we going to cut them." He can—and will—take credit for reframing the debate.
- Verdict: +2
Nominee rejected
The rejection of Christie's nominee to the State Supreme Court is the first big blow dealt to the Governor in recent memory.
Phillip Kwon was rejected by Senate Democrats in a 7-6 vote on Thursday. Kwon was scrutinized for his political affiliation and his history of working for Chris Christie while he was Attorney General. One Senator expressed concern over confirming someone "who a year before was part of the litigation team to advance Governor Christie's agenda."
- Verdict: -1
To see more highlights of Christ Christie's week, visit WNYC's It's a Free Country.
Andrew Cuomo
Redistricting reform: 'I failed'
Cuomo campaigned on a promise to veto any redistricting lines that were drawn by the state legislature and not an independent commission.
So much for that.
Instead, Cuomo settled for introducing a constitutional amendment that would put redistricting in the hands of a bi-partisan commission. Two things: a constitutional amendment—if it's passed—wouldn't have any effect until after 2020, when the next round of redistricting begins; also, a bi-partisan commission of legislators is not the same thing as an independent commission.
"I failed. I failed,"Cuomo said.
- Verdict: -1
Pension reform a double-edge sword
Pension reform, which Governor Cuomo has argued is essential to closing the state's budget gap, passed last week during a marathon, overnight legislative session.
And the unions hate it. While Cuomo touts the reforms as sparing New Yorkers from a tax hike, public employees bristle at being forced to pay more into the system and reap less come retirement. The Civil Service Employees Association, the largest public employee union in the state, and several other teachers' unions quickly announced that they'd be suspending all political contributions and endorsements, threatening to back challengers to incumbents in future primaries.
This is a tricky one to score. On one hand, Republicans and Democrats alike can appreciate a balanced budget, and if Cuomo can get a few under his belt it'll play well in a general election, especially with independent voters who may like seeing public employees make concessions.
But let's not forget that the general election won't mean squat to Cuomo if he can't get out of a Democratic primary. Alienating unions, among the party's largest, most dedicated donors, would be Cuomo's version of "Romneycare"—something he'll have to answer for over and over again during the nominating contest.
- Verdict: This one's a wash, 0
To see more highlights of Andrew Cuomo's week, visit WNYC's It's a Free Country.


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In response to your question "Is there an implied allowance . . . "
The allowance is not just implied, it's specified by Federal Code:
Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44, Section 926A: Interstate Transportation of Firearms:
Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the drivers compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.
While you are correct that the state laws vary considerably and you should check state by state when you travel, it is my understanding that the above listed federal law is the "worse case scenario" of how you may legally transport your firearm from state to state. If you check specific state laws, you will find some that allow much more than this. For example, WV allows open carry with no permit, so when you travel, simply lay the gun in open sight on the seat, dash, or holstered to your person in plain sight. Second example, SC allows you to carry in your vehicle without a permit, but the firearm cannot be exposed or on your person, but can be loaded in your glove box or console, and you can carry it directly between your vehicle and your hotel/motel room.
For the state laws, check http://www.handgunlaw.us/documents/USRVCarCarry.pdf. You will find lots of interesting details on each state, and they even list most of the actual code numbers so you can look it up yourself if you need to.
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Stroke Awareness Dr. Malek
Talked with Dr. Malek, Interventional Neurologist, Section Chief of Neurology, Medical Director of the Neurointerventional Program, Medical Director of the Stroke Program at St. Mary's Medical Center. We talked about stroke awareness, symptoms, F.A.S.T. acronym, and the importance of getting to a primary or comprehensive stroke center as quickly as possible. There are two types of strokes and over 770,000 strokes per year of which 700,000 are preventable with proper diet, exercise, quitting smoking, stress reduction. For info on that listeners can go to stmarysmc.com or call Dr. Malek's office 561-882-6214


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Feb. 7, 2014
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Michigan improves to 49-9-1 all-time against Illinois and extends its unbeaten streak in the series to 39 in a row dating back to January 1991.
The Wolverines also kept its conference dual-meet record intact at 3-0, setting up a showdown next Friday (Feb. 14) at Nebraska. It will be the last Big Ten head-to-head meet for each team before the Big Ten Quads in March.
This was Michigan's first visit to Champaign since Feb. 27, 2010.
Of the 48 routines from both teams on Friday, only six were judged at 9.850 or higher (five for Michigan, one for Illinois).
Michigan did not break 196.000 in its team score for the first time since March 24, 2012, at the Big Ten Championships, a span of 19 meets.
Joanna Sampson won the all-around for the ninth consecutive time in qualifying regular-season meets, dating back to last season. She has surpassed 39.000 or greater in 25 career meets, grabbing 17 career all-around titles and 44 career individual event titles.
Sachi Sugiyama won her first vault title since tying for first at the Minnesota Quad on Jan. 26, 2013.
Shelby Gies won uneven bars and balance beam in the same meet for the first time since March 2, 2013, at Michigan State.
Brooke Parker was in the official lineup for the second time in her Michigan career on vault and for the first time on floor exercise.
Natalie Beilstein was held out of competition on Friday for precautionary reasons after sustaining a fall on uneven bars during practice earlier this week.
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