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How to deal with Enhanced Edition Director's Cut patch
(for those who encounter installation problems, via the now defunct Witcher FAQ)
1. Install game from DVD
2. Download patches:
5. Move the other downloaded files into the newly created directory "\TWEE_Upgrade\Disk1".
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition English language pack
- TWEE adventure The Price of Neutrality
- TWEE adventure Side Effects
6. Run Setup.exe and install the patch
- Disable Antivirus if you encounter any problems.
7. Download and install the 1.5 patch
Nice. You may want to make it clear as to what it is supposed to accomplish.
IE call it: How to Upgrade From Original Witcher to Witcher Enhanced Director's Cut.
There's different instructions if you already have the Witcher Enhanced version without the Director's :with boobies: Cut…
Mmmmm boobies ..
I had retarded issues with the EE patch. It's been a while, so my terminology might be a bit off but essentially I couldnt connect to the servers for verification without my firewall being switched ON, and I couldnt run the actual installation process without switching OFF the bloody firewall. And it all had to be done in one sitting. After a few hours of frustration I came to the conclusion that the only way to install the patch was to use a registration crack on the game:(
Hehe, I read something about firewalls on the forums when I was looking for a solution to my problems. The latest patch 1.5 says it removes the DRM part from the game.
Would you happen to know about installing the director's cut patch? I have the US version and I ran the patch but I still have no boobies. I checked the cs_sex_adda1.bik movie that shows her clothed in the US version but bare breasted in the international/director's cut version.
I downloaded the directorscutpatch.exe and ran it from the game folder. It did it's thing and seemed to finish successfully. But I checked the adda movie again but her sex card still shows her breasts covered.
Would you happen to know what I can do about that?
Many thanks.
Ooc, does this remove the need to register your game to patch to 1.4 or do I just have an old version of the EE patch?
I've never registered any of my games to be Forced to do something, even avoided Bioware's forums for this reason. I've even read they've removed the Copy Protection, but I just tried to patch to 1.4 and it's still trying to force me to register.
I reinstalled the original game just a few weeks ago and had to register it, then grab the 1.4 patch then grab the EE patch in that order.
Thanks Cm. :)
How pathetic to have to register your game, to be able to patch it.
Yea, when I get the chance I want to try to download a save of the patch files, install the game on my other pc and see if I can just patch without the registration part. I will post the results when I get to it. I hate being dependent on the game registration and the patch files still being available in a few years to replay the game if I want to one day.
We were caught out by this when installing the Witcher to a new build computer again. The way around it for me was to install the retail DVD version of the game (V1.0) so that all the registry entries are correct, then literally copy over the game install folder from a patched EE edition install (that we had on backup) into the new computer's Witcher folder, replacing all files. I didn't see any problems on start up and the game seemed to think it was now a patched EE.
It seems the registration server is down. Installing a vanilla version and patching it up to TWEE 1.5 is impossible.
I tried it on an ancient German retail version on Win 7.
1. DVD install
2. patch 1.4, language pack and the 2 bonus adventures into the same directory
3. install
4. DL patch 1.5
5. install
It worked. The updater didn't even try to connect to the server.
Manual registration still doesn't work. The server closes the connection after step 2.
Another update:
The interweb speculates CD Projekt uploaded a new patch 1.4 without authentication and successfully kept it a secret.
This explains why it worked for me.
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Due to a South African public holiday on Friday, court was adjourned early and will resume on Monday, 24 March at 3:30am ET.
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The case had come up expectedly two days after a public holiday.
It was a public holiday; and the train from Dijon was packed with excursionists.
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Our recent article entitled "Why computer science students cheat" hit a raw nerve for the undergraduates, software professionals and hiring executives.
The article discussed how more college students are caught cheating in introductory computer science courses than in any other course on campus, thanks to automated tools that professors use to detect unauthorized code reuse and excessive collaboration. The article explored the implications of this trend for hiring managers, who are looking for ethical employees who also can function in teams.
The article prompted more than 50 comments on Network World's Web site and 670 at Slashdot. The comments show IT professionals are split on the idea of whether computer science students who work in groups to complete their homework should be punished for cheating or rewarded for collaborating.
One camp said that computer science students who collaborate on homework shouldn't be accused of cheating because they will work in teams when they are in the workforce.
"These students should not be punished, and they should not be called cheaters," one comment said. "They are collaborative, using ideas from each other and outside sources to get their jobs done. Is that wrong?"
Another commenter took shots at computer science professors for assigning excessive amounts of homework.
"Homework assignments that are given out are often gross overkill and take inordinate amounts of time to complete if done by oneself. Students that collaborate the best learn the essence of what they are being taught and also have learned to minimize the amount of work they have to do to get it done. This is exactly the way things work in the real world," this reader said.
Another camp argued that computer science students should do their own homework so they learn the underlying concepts and are better prepared for the workplace.
"What we refuse to accept is a string of employment candidates right out of college that are not ready for the workplace because they don't really understand the work. I have to sift through far too many resumes with false claims of expertise, then bounce a large group of candidates who clearly have no clue what they are doing," one IT manager wrote.
"While collaboration is great, if I were a hiring manager (and I have been) I want someone who can solve the problem, not someone who got his/her answer from Google," said one commenter. "At the same time, many problems in the real world don't require innovative solutions, just fast ones. Still, way too many of my students can't even do that."
Some of the most insightful comments are from teaching assistants with first-hand knowledge of the questionable code being submitted by students.
"I had students who turned in identical code. I could tell they were cheating because both students had the original student's name in the comments. Cheaters are mostly dumb and easily caught," wrote one former teaching assistant.
"A lot of the cheating is unimaginative," wrote another."You are not going to have two people produce identical code, line by line, including all comments, unless they just copy and paste each others work. (I've seen this.) And the simple problems usually can be written in code in a virtually unlimited number of ways."
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2015 NSW State Election Call for Action
OUR VISION – That every person in NSW who is diagnosed with a condition that will result in their death in the foreseeable future will have access to quality care that addresses their physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.
Read more in our 2015 NSW State Election Call for Action [PDF, 674kB].
Palliative Care NSW Policy Statement
Thank you to everyone who helped us to write the Palliative Care NSW Policy Statement. This Statement will now help us to provide informed input to the development of palliative care in NSW.
Our vision is is that every person in NSW who is diagnosed with a condition that will result in their death in the foreseeable future will have access to quality care that addresses their physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. To achieve that vision, PCNSW aims to provide informed and evidence based input into the development of policy at the State and national levels.
To that end, PCNSW has released this Policy Statement canvassing the significant challenges in delivering equitable,quality palliative care in NSW, and possible solutions to those challenges.
This Policy Statement reflects feedback received in response to our Discussion Paper, which was released in November 2011.
Palliative Care NSW wishes to thank those members and stakeholders who took the time to prepare submissions on the Discussion Paper, and who participated in regional consultative meetings over recent months. Your input has been
invaluable in ensuring this Policy Statement properly reflects the real and practical experience of those involved in the delivery of palliative care in a range of different care settings.
We consider this Statement to be a 'living document' and welcome your comments at any time. If you have any comments, please send them to:
Post: Executive Officer, Palliative care NSW
PO Box 487, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
You can download a copy of the Policy Statement here.
Advance Care Planning in New South Wales
There is no specific legislation for Advance Care Directives in NSW, however the NSW Department of Health recognises Advance Care Directives as an extension of an individual's right under common law to decline medical treatment.
Palliative Care New South Wales has produced a position paper covering all aspects of Planning Ahead in NSW. Click to download the PDF file.
As a founding member, Palliative Care New South Wales Inc supports the policy initiatives of Palliative Care Australia .
Significant policy documents which can be found on the Palliative Care Australia website at www.palliativecare.org.au include:
- Standards for Providing Quality Palliative Care for All Australians (2005)
- A Guide to Palliative Care Service Development: A Population-Based Approach (2005)
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The Extinction of Life:
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Walking Papers
Walking Papers is a service that allows you to print out an OSM map, annotate it, and scan your annotations back in so that you can add new features to OSM.
The key feature of walking papers is the ability to very easily create an A4 map printout. It generates a PDF stitching tiles taken OpenStreetMap or a choice of several other OSM-based tile providers.
Walking Papers was designed by Mike Migurski of Stamen Design.
New Field Papers
In 2012 they have launched Field Papers (new) which is continuation of the walking papers concept, with new multi-page atlas feature, and a specially designed printable map style. Field papers largely supersedes Walking Papers. In fact...
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JOSM also supports walking papers via the plugin: JOSM/Plugins/WalkingPapers. This lets you bring in the same generated tiles as a background layer
Documentation and Questions
Some scans may not align themselves correctly to the map, like this one which also has "License status overlay" option turned on. Please help if you know what could cause this.
See also
- Field Papers
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- Video presentation held on the State Of The Map 2009 on Vimeo.
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Cambridge Manor is a modern care home where you will notice the warm and friendly atmosphere the moment you enter.
This highly-specified residence, set over four floors, has 88 generously-sized fully-furnished rooms, all of which have full ensuite facilities. Each room allows for residents to install their own phones and internet as desired. Communal areas are large and plentiful and the landscaped gardens provide a fabulous, safe outdoor space for residents to comfortably enjoy the seasons.
Specialist Care
Our focus is on providing the best possible care, and we have built a strong reputation in providing excellence in nursing and care for our elderly residents, including those that are experiencing memory loss conditions such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
Whatever you believe your care needs to be, we make an invitation for you to get in touch with us. Our commitment to care for others runs far deeper than you might expect.
Other facilities
Other features of the home include:
- Seven lounge areas
- Six dining rooms
- Six specialist bathing rooms
- A hair and beauty salon
- Landscaped secure gardens
Our chef provides a delicious menu of cooked food three times a day, and there are snacks and drinks available throughout the day.
Where to find us
We serve families from the city of Cambridge, and also Barton, Saffron Walden, Ely, Toft, Cottenham, Histon, Sawston, Fulbourn, and beyond. We offer truly empathic and therapeutic care, within an environment that is highly specified, homely and comfortable.
Situated in an ideal position, the home is set on the outskirts of the city centre and within easy reach of everything that this picturesque and charming city has to offer. In the immediate vicinity there are supermarkets, shops, hairdressers, pubs, restaurants, GPs and dentists and the river and parklands are a short walk away. Everything's close by for residents – and family and friends, too.


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American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID)
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Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 877-224-4360
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Web: www.aahid.org
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The newly energized Conservative Party of Great Britain which recently won may local elections is pursuing a campaign to come across as dfender of tratitional values. Its leader, David Cameron, supports legislation which would bar lesbian couples from access to IVF treatment unless they agree a father figure would be inolved in the upbringing of their child. Andrew Lansley, the Conservative shadow health authority, is seeking legislation which insists a "male role model" is necessary in a family and he called for changes in the human fertilization and embryology bill which only calls for "supportive parenting." The new Labor bill would amend the current legislation passed in 1990 that requires the need for a father in family life.
Lansley told MPs, "The reference to the need for a father should be recast to the 'need for supportive parenting and a father or male role model.' This is not to discriminate against same-sex couples or single parents, but to ensure that the responsibility to a child is discharged."
Inherent in this view of marriage and child-rearing is the belief a man and a woman best guarantee that children have a supportive home life. Perhaps, those who share this belief might actually check current family situations in which about half of marriages end in divorce and a high percent of children grow up with a single parent. Increasgingly in modern life, men are single parenting children which means many children do not have a female in their lives. Children need a loving parent or loving parents, but in eithr case they can be raised in a supportive home provided there is love.


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I recently upgraded my workspace at home, getting a monster of a Cintiq and a desktop. This is my first all-digital piece in my usual style... I still intend to draw my professional work on paper before taking it to the computer for clean-up and color -- handling all of this digitally was just a matter of trying to save time. It only kind of worked.
You can pre-order the deck right here. It's limited edition, and the list of contributing artists is crazy! I can't wait to get my hands on the final product. Full-size prints will also be available through the gallery during the course of the show, which you should totally check out if you're in the Minneapolis area around late October. For more information, check out the Light Grey Art Lab blog.


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I personally can't relate to the issues you guys are having with the transmission because a bought a manual (hehehe), but a good example is a power supply I had bought for my computer a while back. It broke. I got good support from the company, and because of this I won't scratch the company from my book when the time comes to buy another one.
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There are lots of variations of chocolate chip cookies from thin and crispy to ooey gooey and I can't say I'd complain about eating any of them, but I really prefer these bakery style cookies. They are nice and thick, gooey on the inside, especially when hot out of the oven, have crispy edges, and a really wonderful buttery flavor with hints of caramel.
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Fernandez-Castano replaces injured Hanson in Seve Trophy
(Reuters) - Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano will replace the injured Peter Hanson in the Continental Europe team for this week's Seve Trophy near Paris, the European Tour announced on Monday.
Swede Hanson has withdrawn from the biennial contest against Britain and Ireland at St-Nom-La Breteche Golf Club due to a back injury that has affected him for most of the season.
Hanson, 35, said: "I am really disappointed not to be able to play. Everyone knows how much I love matchplay events.
"My back has been an issue for pretty much most of the year and it is still not 100 percent. I have my defense of the BMW Masters in China coming up which is part of the Final Series of the European Tour and I want to be in ideal shape for that full run of tournaments."
Hanson's mind coach Torsten Hansson said the player was still practicing but did not think his back would stand up to the rigors of the Seve Trophy.
He added Hanson was about to spend two weeks in Florida, where he is based, receiving treatment on a compressed disc.
Fernandez-Castano, who will be making his third appearance in the contest, said: "I really enjoyed the two previous contests I played and it is important to support a tournament with Seve's name on it, not only because of what he did for Spanish golf, but for what he did for the game in Europe and the European Tour as a whole.
"I wanted to show my respect for him. It was a privilege to play under Seve in 2007 and under Thomas Bjorn in 2009, and it is a dream come true for me now to play in the Seve Trophy with Jose Maria (Olazabal) as captain.
Fernandez-Castano is joined by his fellow Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez, Danish duo Thomas Bjorn and Thorbjorn Olesen, Frenchman Gregory Bourdy, Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, Finland's Mikko Ilonen Dutchman Joost Luiten, and the Italian pair of Matteo Manassero and Francesco Molinari. Continued...


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Courier Cam on the Rogue
The Courier Cam on the Rogue River is located near the Grants Pass Parkway, looking down at the river from the city's water filtration plant across from Baker Park.
The Daily Courier's five cameras are the largest network of webcams in Josephine County and all of Southern Oregon with live streaming video and it's perfect for checking out rafters or birds, watching summer sunsets, seeing what the weather's like in Grants Pass, or creating a beautiful window to the river in your home or office.
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Evonne Trumble 5/27/2017 9:56:43 am
How do I get them to pull up. They have always done it on a double click before.
I just read below that you have to use a Flash Cam and I have now done just that because you have the Icon up above!!!
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Dennis, You need Flash Player to be able to view the cameras.
Dennis misner 1/19/2017 5:47:12 pm
I can not get critter cam on my tablet.Whats up with that?
sc 1/15/2017 1:40:07 pm
the greenies would protest cutting down a tree!!!
jerry p 1/14/2017 10:33:54 am
I would like the cam to look more down river and not so much across the river.
MikeW 1/11/2017 10:09:23 am
They should call it the raging rogue. the best view is in the winter when most of the leaves are off the trees.
fish 1/8/2017 5:06:01 pm
River is blowing out. Wont be fishable for weeks.
fish 1/8/2017 5:05:13 pm
River is blowing out. Wont be fishable for weeks.
ENVY ME 1/7/2017 2:19:58 pm
The river has that wonderful steelhead green look. Won't be long now.
jerry p 1/5/2017 10:50:14 am
Very nice day with snow on the ground.
MikeW 12/15/2016 1:25:48 pm
May the raging river will remove some of these trees, we can only hope.
Colleen Zimmerman (Big Red) 12/15/2016 10:22:56 am
The river is sure high this morning. Lots of debris floating by. Stay safe everyone.
MikeW 10/17/2016 10:58:04 am
I'm surprised nobody has cut that tree down, it looks like an invasive spieces.
Tammie Bellon 10/16/2016 3:25:09 pm
Since no one will trim the tree, can the camera be moved so we can actually see the river?
Lindy 7/30/2016 11:16:28 am
How do you get to view the cameras I click on the pictures, with nothing happening?
Miss the Rogue 6/28/2016 1:04:42 pm
I went to Baker Park, walked down to the water's edge, looked at the river with my own eyes. Kept walking into the river. Sat in my innertube. Floated under Caveman Bridge which can be seen compliments of the Taprock Camera and The Daily Courier. Now I'm 700 miles away and can't easily feel, smell, (or taste) the river. <sigh>
Envy me 6/25/2016 10:56:25 am
You should do like me , walk to Baker Park and look down river to see what the tree hides.
Wayne D 6/7/2016 9:11:50 am
Take river cam and place it forward of the tree so we can see down river. It's either that or cut down the tree so we can view. As it is all we get is a colorful tree surrounding some water.
IRONDUKE 6/2/2016 2:48:24 pm
Never mind, Bill. I remembered to right click then hit Zoom out. Take care.
IRONDUKE 6/1/2016 6:43:10 pm
Thanks Bill. I tried it and it works. How do you get a close up??


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I'm in the exact same position. I'm in the process of completing an ASA sailing course, and I just bought a used beater day sailer. It's an Islands 17 from the 1970's. The boat is in decent overall condition, with all rigging and newish sails, so it needs very little to be ready to splash and sail. The trailer is pretty rough, but I can easily fix it up. I paid $700 for the whole kit and kaboodle, which is a pretty good deal - I've been looking at boats on Craig's list and other boat sales sites for a long time now, and this type of boat (in good condition) typically fetches more.
My plan is to fool around with this boat and learn how to sail solo, get comfortable with it, and then maybe next year buy a larger boat to take the family out cruising on the Chesapeake Bay and adjacent rivers and such.
You're right - there are a lot of boats out there. In Virginia anyhow, the used boat market is full right now - there's a lot to choose from at decent prices. I don't know about where you are, but I've seen some quite good-looking, if basic and not very fancy, boats for anywhere from $2,500 to $6,000. I figure for a few thousand, I can get a boat to again get comfortable with and learn what I like and don't like, and then in a few years, maybe upgrade.
Thanks! I'll check out that book!
I don't have plans to sleep on the boat much, but the option sounds nice.
I have been looking locally on craigslist at what comes up, and I've been researching those, and I'll keep doing so. It's hard to sort through everyone's opinions on the web, as they can be so varying. I'll keep at it though. Thanks again.
|A good book to look at is Henkel's The Sailors Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, which discusses a large number of the boats under 27' LOA. Not a perfect book, but a good resource nonetheless.
My advice would be to go look at local boats in your price range. On this budget your selection is limited to what is for sale in your area. You may find out that you can't afford what you are looking for or you may find out that you don't like what you see and need to wait for more boats to come on the market.
Pretty much any boat in the 20-25 foot range will allow you to sail yourself and also sail with a couple of other people.
Just look what's available, what you can afford and then research those boats. You will learn a lot about boats by researching. Most likely you will buy the wrong boat, but that's part of the learning process and the "right boat" is probably not available at your price range. The wrong boat will most likely be good enough for a few years or maybe even forever. Most boats in this price range will be in need of repair. I advise you to buy the boat in the best condition as they pretty much can all day sail. If you are looking to do overnights >25% of the time, then pay attention to the accommodations for that. Don't look for a boat that will or can "do it all" because you won't find it.
Looking for guidance on model of sailboat to buy
This is my first post here, I apologize if this isn't the most appropriate category to post this under.
I'm looking to get a small day sailer and I'm overwhelmed by all the models out there. I sailed a bit when I was in my early teens on Blue Jays and Lasers and Sunfish. Then a few years ago I took a fairly intensive course in the SF Bay Area that licensed me to sail up to 48 ft boats.
I'm looking for something I could likely sail myself eventually, but that would have room for a couple other people or more. I'm thinking somewhere around 20-25 ft, but I'm open. I live in Portland, Oregon, so I'd likely sail in the Columbia as well as other nearby lakes if I end up with a boat I can easily trailer.
Ideally I'd only spend a couple thousand dollars, but again, this is a little flexible. I want to get something that I'll really enjoy.
Does that seem doable? Any suggestions on makes or models to look for, or top steer away from? What else should I look for when I'm checking out boats?
Thanks for any advice to this newbie sailboat buyer!
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Pot seller says there are high times ahead for businesses, state
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. - A recreational pot seller said Tuesday there are high times ahead for Colorado as retailers prepare to open their doors to recreational marijuana buyers.
Hank Borunda owns The Greener Side in Pueblo County. He said the state is about to make history and he's about to make more money.
"It's all coming together," said Borunda. "It's almost there."
Under Amendment 64, people 21 and over can have up to 1 ounce of weed and six plants. Starting Wednesday, people 21 and older will also be able to purchase recreational marijuana.
There are three pot shops in Pueblo County approved to sell recreational marijuana. Marisol Therapeutics and the Greener Side will open their doors to recreational pot buyers Wednesday. Pueblo West Organics needs more time to get ready.
Borunda said he's at the forefront of a budding new industry. He's almost ready for opening day, but he's waiting on a key piece.
The state Marijuana Enforcement Division, the MED, said its seed-to-sale inventory tracking system isn't ready. New radio-frequency indentification tags used to track marijuana plants will not make it in time.
"It's just coming down to the wire and a lot of these places still don't have their tags, and as of Jan. 1, they will kind of be out of compliance," said Borunda.
The MED said bad weather and holiday shipping delays are to blame for the delay in identification tags. The MED reports it has developed alternative procedures to allow marijuana businesses to start operating Wednesday.
Borunda said retailers want to follow rules to a "T."
"This is, like, uncharted territory. We want to be able to show everyone that we are doing it right," said Borunda.
About $300 million dollars of medical marijuana was sold statewide in 2013. The industry expects sales to more than double in the next year. Borunda said the future looks hazy, but green.
"Two percent of Colorado has cards, so that opens us up to a lot more people with recreational marijuana," said Borunda. "I think it's definitely going to bring in a lot of money."
The Greener Side is building a larger greenhouse specifically catered to growing marijuana to keep up with demand.
Borunda doesn't know what crowds to expect. He said a new chapter in Colorado history begins Wednesday.


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Washington • The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths.
The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences detects irregular mutations in stool samples that can be an early warning sign of cancer. Patients who test positive for the mutations should undergo a colonoscopy to confirm the results.
Doctors have long used stool tests to look for hidden blood that can be a warning sign of tumors and precancerous polyps.
But company studies of Cologuard showed that it was more accurate at detecting cancerous tumors and worrisome polyps than traditional stool blood tests. Cologuard detected 92 percent of colon cancers and 42 percent of advanced polyps in a study of 10,000 patients, while traditional blood screening only detected 74 percent of cancers and 24 percent of advanced polyps.


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Details of NBA deal; work ahead
Keyon Dooling, a member of the executive committe board of the dissolved National Basketball Players Association, participated in a conference call with other members early Friday evening.
At that point, he felt comfortable with the direction of negotiations between the NBA and locked-out players.
He said he went to bed with the anxious anticipation of the first day of school — not knowing exactly what to expect, but hoping for the best.
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He woke early Saturday to good news: the sides, after 15 hours of their latest talks, reached a tentative deal on a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), just in time to preserve the league's cherished Christmas games and conduct a 66-game season.
The sides still need to ratify the deal, but if all goes well, the laborious, contentious labor stoppage that went into Day 149, will soon come to an end.
Training camps and free agency are expected to begin Dec. 9, and the season on Christmas with a nationally televised tripleheader.
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"There is a lot of work to be done in a lot of places, with a lot of committees and player groups and alike, but we are optimistic that it will hold and we will have ourselves an NBA season," NBA Commissioner David Stern said early Saturday, after the sides emerged from another marathon bargaining session, this time with a much more satisfactory result.
In the past few weeks, it became clear the split of basketball-related income (BRI) would be about 50-50 — and that's what it will be. That was no small giveback for the players, who received 57% of BRI last season.
It amounts to a swing of roughly $240 million annually from players to owners, addressing the owners' stated losses of nearly $300 million last season.
The holdup was with the system issues, the means in which money is distributed to players.
The devil was in the details.
To foster competitive balance, the league wanted a system which shrunk the significant payroll gap between the highest and lowest spending clubs. However, players felt the league's proposals — specifically the spending restrictions on clubs that exceed the luxury tax — limited player options and created, in essence, a hard salary cap, which players opposed.
According to a person with direct knowledge of the deal, the players were able to get some concessions from owners. According to that person, here are some of the main points:
•BRI: The split will be roughly 50-50, with players having the opportunity to reach close to 51% if annual league revenues grow higher than agreed upon projections. To compensate for current salaries and avoid rollbacks, players will receive 51.2% of BRI in 2011-12.
•Salary cap/luxury tax: Threshold figures expected to be close to what they were last season — $58 million and $70 million.
•Mid-level exceptions: Maximum of four years and $5 million for all clubs, including taxpaying clubs who can use it to exceed the tax threshold by $4 million. In the NBA's previous offer Nov. 11, the mid-level alternated between three and four years for non-taxpaying clubs, and taxpaying clubs did not have access to the full mid-level.
Taxpaying clubs that wish to exceed the cap by more than $4 million can use another mid-level exception every season — three years maximum at $3 million annually.
Also, a new mid-level exception for clubs to exceed the salary cap — two-year maximum at $2.5 million a year. This was in the previous offer.
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•Maximum contracts lengths: Five years for players with Bird rights (the ability to sign a club's own free agent for more money and years), and four years for other players.
•Annual raises: For players with Bird rights, annual raises are 7.5%; for other players, raises are 4.5%, up from 6.5% and 3.5% in the league's previous proposal.
•Escrow: The amount players put into an escrow account will be 10%, up from 8%.
•Restricted free agents: RFAs who are outstanding performers will receive higher qualifying offers in an effort to reward players in their rookie contract. Also, clubs will now have just three days to match offers on restricted free agents. It was seven days in the previous CBA. This is a key point for younger players in the league, such as Chicago Bulls guard and MVP Derrick Rose and Los Angeles Lakers Clippers forward and dunk chamipon Blake Griffin, whose value is higher than their yearly salaries.
Also, a player finishing his rookie contract will be eligible to receive a maximum salary equal to 30% of the salary cap (it was 25%) if he re-signs with his own team and is either first-, second or third-team All-NBA two times or All-Star starter two times or MVP at least once. Rose, the 2010-11 MVP qualifies.
•Sign-and-trade: Taxpaying clubs will be able to acquire players via sign-and-trade, with some restrictions. This could be important in next summer's free agency for New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul, New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard.
•Extend-and-trade: The league backed off its elimination of extend-and-trade deals, which is how the New York Knicks acquired forward Carmelo Anthony last season from the Denver Nuggets, allowing Anthony to maximize the value of his deal in a midseason trade.
•Rookie wage scale and league minimum contracts: They will remain the same as they were last season and will not include a 12% rollback, which is what the league offered in its previous proposal.
•Length of the CBA: It is a 10-year deal with mutual opt-out clauses for both sides after the sixth year.
What it all means
Stern, NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver and San Antonio Spurs owner and labor relations committee chairman Peter Holt and NBA staff counsel were present for the Friday-Saturday marathon session.
Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher, Maurice Evans and staff attorney Ron Klempner were in attendance for the players, and outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler, a polarizing figure in negotiations, participated at times via phone.
"Today feels great," Kessler told USA TODAY on Saturday.
"The players, from the beginning, just wanted a fair deal with a system that would provide a true competitive market for their services. They now have that deal and they want to play basketball and bring that to the fans. It's a very, very happy post-Thanksgiving holiday day."
Kessler added: "The owners finally were willing to make the changes in the system that the players were pressing for."
The work that remains? The dissolved union must reconstitute, and the sides still must reach agreements on "B-list issues" such as the drug testing policy, player conduct code and the age for draft-eligible players.
After that, the CBA must be written, then ratified by both sides.
"We want to do that at such time that the understandings are adequately represented in pieces of paper," Stern said.
A majority on each side is needed to approve the agreement. The NBA needs votes from 15 of 29 owners. (The league owns the New Orleans Hornets.) The union needs a simple majority of its 430-plus members.
That will be followed by training camps, free agency and preseason games before the season openers Christmas.
"We're on an incredibly tight schedule as you might imagine between now and opening on Christmas," Silver said.
The NBA's network partners, TNT and ESPN/ABC, issued statements Saturday:
•TNT: "We are pleased and encouraged both sides are making progress and remain hopeful for a resolution that preserves as much of the 2011-12 season as possible."
•ESPN/ABC: "We're pleased with the developments and look forward to the start of the season on ESPN and ABC."
The Associated Press reported that President Barack Obama gave a thumbs-up when told about the tentative settlement after he finished playing basketball in Washington on Saturday morning.
The involvement of antitrust lawyers was kept to a minimum during negotiations, said a person with knowledge of the talks who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to go public.
The complaint filed by players against the league in Minneapolis U.S. district court, and pending litigation the league has against players in New York U.S. district court, need to be resolved. But neither side anticipates those lawsuits to impede a deal.
"The players ended collectively bargaining because it wasn't working," Kessler told USA TODAY. "They decided to bring antitrust litigation instead — and we have tentative litigation settlement a week later.
"I think that speaks for itself."
Long time coming
From the onset of negotiations, even before the lockout began July 1, the NBA made clear its intention to alter significantly the CBA by claiming a bigger share of BRI to compensate for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses annually and creating a league with more competitive balance.
The league achieved both on paper.
"This was not an easy agreement for anyone," said Silver, the league's lead negotiator.
"Owners came in having suffered substantial loses and feeling that the system wasn't working fairly across all teams. And I certainly know that the players had strong views about expectations in terms of what they should be getting from the system. So it required a lot of compromise on both parties' part, and I think that's what we saw today."
However, players scored a few points in the final hours of negotiations, possibly spurred by the real possibility of a lost season and an antitrust lawsuit filed by players against the NBA.
Silver said it was not the system the league wanted to implement, but he felt confident in the changes.
"I think it will largely prevent the high spending teams from competing in the free agency market in a way that they have been able to in the past. … But the luxury tax is harsher than it was in the past deal, and we hope it's effective," Silver said.
"You never can be sure with how a new system will work. But we feel, ultimately, it will give fans in every community hope that their team can compete for championships and that their basis for believing in their team will be a function of management of that team, rather than, as I have said before, how deep the owners' pockets are or how large the market is."
Stern hinted that not all owners will be happy with the offer, but "we expect our labor relations committee to endorse this deal, this tentative agreement. We expect our Board of Governors, at a meeting we will call after that, to endorse the deal. And we expect that a collective bargaining agreement will arise out of this deal, as well.
Likewise, not all players will be happy with the compromises made. But Stern has long said he and Silver will be able to sell a deal to owners, and Hunter and Fisher have said they need to present an offer to players they think will pass.
Stern expected to have a conference call with the labor relations committee Saturday, and players were expected to learn details of the tentative agreement in a separate conference call.
In these latest talks that began on Black Friday, a day for super deals, the two sides found their own deal — one that saved the NBA season.
As Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jonny Flynn tweeted, "Christmas in November."
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Re: King Capuchin V2!
Resubbed with higher definition bananas. I also broke the border with the design as I thought that it looked too "boxed in".
I'm keeping the grumpy face because he is meant to look like one of those angry, stern dictators. Surrounded by wealth, but still unsatisfied.
Hope y'all like it, even if its not as cute (nothin' wrong with cute, though!)


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BALTIMORE -- For the first time in two weeks, the Baltimore Orioles experienced the pleasure of a blowout victory.
Brian Roberts had three hits and three RBI, Miguel Tejada had three hits and a homer, and the Orioles cruised past the Oakland Athletics 8-3 Saturday night.
Ten of Baltimore's previous 11 games were decided by two runs or fewer; the exception was a 5-2 win over Toronto. The Orioles were 3-8 over that span.
"I don't think a manager ever gets real comfortable. I think you're always looking for what-ifs," manager Sam Perlozzo said. "But it was nice to see our guys swing the bats like we thought we were capable of. We had a lot of two-out hits, which is another good sign. It's a start, hopefully something we can build on."
Tejada put the Orioles ahead for good with a two-run homer in the first inning off Joe Kennedy. He has two home runs in three games after opening the season with two homers in his 46 games.
Roberts singled and scored in the first inning, hit an RBI single in the second and singled in two runs in a four-run fifth that made it 8-1.
"There have been a lot of one-run games, two-run games, it's been crazy," Roberts said. "It was nice to have a little breathing room."
Brian Burres (2-2) allowed one run and three hits in six innings. Pitching with 10 days' rest, the left-hander struck out four and walked three in earning his second major league win.
Oakland starter Joe Kennedy (1-4) allowed seven runs, eight hits and five walks in 4 2/3 innings to raise his ERA from 2.70 to 3.62.
"Joe's just a guy. I admire the courage he showed," A's manager Bob Geren said. "He didn't really have a real good feel, but he kept battling and got himself out a lot of jams. He actually pitched his heart out."
Nick Swisher and Travis Buck homered for the A's, who lost for only the third time in their past 17 games in Baltimore.
Although the Orioles treated the game like a runaway, Geren saw it differently. He liked the fact that Oakland scored a ninth-inning run off Danys Baez and had two runners on before Swisher popped out.
"It really got interesting the last couple of innings. We were one big swing away from making it a close ballgame," Geren said.
Baltimore led 4-1 before batting around in the fifth. Tejada hit a leadoff single and advanced on a two-out walk to Ramon Hernandez before Corey Patterson ended Kennedy's night with an RBI single.
Jay Witasick hit Jay Payton with his first pitch to load the bases for Roberts, who hit a two-run single, and Chris Gomez followed with an RBI single.
That put the lid on the Orioles' most prolific offensive showing since they scored 11 against Tampa Bay on May 10.
Patterson, who batted eighth, scored three runs and Payton, the No. 9 hitter, went 3-for-3.
"What we saw tonight is what we need: contributions for different areas in the lineup," Perlozzo said.
Buck got Oakland to 8-2 with his fifth homer off John Parrish in the seventh.
Burres retired the first 10 batters before Swisher drove a 2-1 pitch into the left-field seats in the fourth. Half of Swisher's eight home runs this season have come in four games against the Orioles.
"I like this park. It's a good ballpark to hit in," Swisher said. "It's probably just luck. Plus, it's close to home, too," Swisher, a West Virginia native, said.
In the bottom of the fourth, Baltimore loaded the bases with no outs and went up 4-1 when Gomez hit into a fielder's choice.
The A's filled the bases with one out in the fifth before Shannon Stewart bounced into a 6-4-3 double play, Oakland's AL-high 52nd of the season.
Eric Chavez returned to the Oakland lineup after missing three games with tendinitis in his triceps. He went 0-for-4 and has only one hit in his past 17 at-bats. ... Hernandez walked twice before snapping a 1-for-16 skid with a seventh-inning single. ... Oakland fell to 11-8 in games started by left-handers.


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The #3 Merrimack field hockey team has been recognized by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association for its academic success this year. The Warriors were one of 19 Division II teams to receive the Team Academic Award for sporting a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher as they garnered the distinction for the fifth-consecutive season.
Merrimack also placed eight players on the 2011 NFHCA Academic Team. A total of 249 student-athletes with a GPA of 3.30 or higher were selected to the NFHCA Academic Squad.
Senior co-captain Caitlin Kamide (Southbury, CT) led the way with her fourth selection to the NFHCA Academic Team while Kerri Bergquist (Mashpee, MA), Victoria DeLacey (Charlton, MA) and Jen Otis (Penacook, NH) are all three-time recipients. Sophomores Sarah Dunbar (Hubbardston, MA) and Lindsay Grover (Barnstable, MA) picked up their second-career nods this season. Sarah Salatto (Guilford, CT) and Candice Waldie (North Andover, MA) rounded out the Warriors' honorees as first-time selections.
Merrimack posted a 17-4 overall record this fall and reached its first-ever NCAA Tournament before falling to #4 UMass Lowell in the national semifinals.
The Warriors captured the program's first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Regular Season Title with a perfect 10-0 mark in league play. Merrimack set a school-record for most consecutive wins with a 17-game unbeaten streak.


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Book Artists Share Their Craft at the Tucson Festival of Books
Dates: March 12, 2011 - March 13, 2011
Contact: Roger Myers
Special Collections at the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries will explore the unique craft of book arts during a two-day exhibit and lecture program on March 12 – 13, 2011 held in conjunction with the Tucson Festival of Books. Artists from PaperWorks: The Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists will lead the lecture program to share their experiences of creating books that become unique pieces of art.
The exhibit and lectures are offered in connection with the Art of the Book Collection housed in Special Collections. The collection consists of limited editions by small presses, miniature books, special volumes created by notable binders, pop-up books, as well as thousands of artists' books, which come in all different shapes and sizes.
The exhibit and lectures will be held in the Special Collections Reading Room. Seating is limited.
The schedule of events is:
PaperWorks: The Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists Exhibit
Special Collections Reading Room
10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 12 & Sunday, March 13
Wax and the Artist Book
Catherine Nash
Saturday, March 12, 2011
11:00 a.m. – noon
Catherine Nash will present an international survey of book artists who are using wax/encaustic as a major media component in their artists' books. Her talk will be prefaced by a brief introduction to the media of artist books and followed by a brief discussion of suggestions (with some actual samples) on how one could incorporate wax/encaustic into a book format.
Catherine Nash freely mixes the media of paper, books, and encaustic to express her artistic ideas about nature and the movement of time. Nash balances creative studio work with teaching workshops and artist residencies. A passion for travel and different cultures has inspired her to live, exhibit, research and teach on four continents.
Making Photography Books
Nancy Solomon
Saturday, March 12, 2011
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Nancy Solomon will discuss making digital photography books online, with a printing company, or with a publisher. Also on hand will be photographer Virgil Hancock whose photographs were published in American Byzantium: Photographs of Las Vegas and is currently planning his own project. Sheila Johnson of Arizona Lithographers will be there too. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with them after the talk.
Nancy Solomon designed photography books for the Center for Creative Photography for more twenty years. Solomon is a freelance publishing consultant has made books showcasing photography using letterpress, offset, and digital printing. She is a photographer and has also created many artists' books that integrate her own photography in many handmade book formats.
Artist and Poet Collaboration
Poetry reading by Michael Rattee and a showing of the innovative artists' books created by Gene Riggs in collaboration with the poet
Gene Riggs and Michael Rattee
Sunday, March 13, 2011
11:00 a.m. – noon
Michael Rattee's books and chapbooks include Mentioning Dreams (Adastra Press), Calling Yourself Home (Cleveland State University), Enough Said: A Poetry Dialogue Between Father & Son (Adastra Press), Greatest Hits: 1976-3006 (Pudding House) and Everything Green Everything White. He received a Nation Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. A native New Englander, he has lived in Arizona for thirty years.
Gene Riggs, M.A. Art Education, is a retired art, writing and humanities teacher of children and adults. She spends each day gardening, reading, writing and making art and has lived in Tucson, Arizona, for 26 years.
The Challenge of Creating an Artist's Book: three book artists each describe their process in creating one of their favorite books
Mary Ellen Palmeri, Nadia Hlibka, Alice Vinson
Sunday, March 13, 2011
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Artist and educator Mary Ellen Palmeri currently focuses on the paper arts--creating unique pop-up cards, booklets, artists' books, and organically complex origami displays. Her personalized and internationally unique series, titled "Paper Dreams", often combines origami with hand-embossing, collage, and original drawings.
Nadia Hlibka has been exhibiting nationally for over 30 years (and a resident of Tucson since 1985). A professional calligrapher, graphic designer and artist, her artwork blends many diverse international cultural histories, languages, and styles. Currently Nadia is enjoying folding and altering antique books and the conundrum that process creates in terms of "reading."
Alice M. Vinson balances visual, textual, and structural elements in her book art. She captures experiences to provide a glimpse of that reality her work has been exhibited regionally as well as nationally, and can be found in both public and private collections across the United States and Japan.


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A development sector organization requires field surveyors/survey supervisors (male & female) in Rahimyar Khan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Bahawalpur and Jhang having degree preferably in education (MAMEd., B.Ed.) or related field. A minimum of 4 years' relevant experience with bachelor's degree or 2 years with Master's degree for Surveyor, and 4 years of relevant experience with Master's degree for Supervisor position is required, with expertise in primary level student's reading assessment/ education projects and data collection. Good communication in English and Punjabi/Siraiki and surveying skills would be a must. For detailed ToRs and to apply visit http://voiceteltech.com/career.php. Package will commensurate with experience & qualifications. Last date to apply is 10″ July 2013.


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At 90, marina founder has seen it allPosted on Written by Jim Flannery
Robert Cox used to keep a loaded Colt .45 caliber revolver and a thick piece of fiberglass in his desk at Lauderdale Marina, which he established 60 years ago in Fort Lauderdale. When a client challenged whether this newfangled hull material could stand up to a Gulf Stream crossing, hed take out that piece of fiberglass, lean it up against an old piling and let the customer shoot at it.
Those were the days when companies would throw a fiberglass boat out a second-story window [to prove its strength], says the 90-year-old Cox. You were selling the material rather than the brand for years.
Cox has been a prominent player in Fort Lauderdale for decades. He was a founding member of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida and a co-founder of what is now the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, which still helps fund the association. Mayor of Fort Lauderdale from 1986 to 1991 and a member of the city commission for 20 years before that, Cox has been a key figure in building Fort Lauderdales reputation as the Venice of the Americas.
For example, Cox pushed for dredging the citys waterways so deeper-draft boats could use them. He also lobbied hard for tearing down low bridges that werent needed and that blocked boat access to residential canals, another indication of his foresight.
Cox didnt start out as a Fort Lauderdale mover and shaker, though, nor did he plan on opening a marina. When he arrived in Fort Lauderdale in 1946 aboard his 83-foot motorsailer, Ungava, he thought he might start a business building small engines with a partner. Legal troubles scuttled the idea. He had no job prospects, and he couldnt find a marina deep enough for Ungavas 9-foot draft, which was a problem because he was living aboard. There were no fuel docks, either.
There wasnt a gas pump on the [Intracoastal Waterway] from Palm Beach to Miami, says Cox. There was one lousy marina in Fort Lauderdale.
Huss Marina, built 12 years earlier on the ICW at the Las Olas Boulevard Bridge, was nearing the end of its useful life. Its slips were shallow, the wiring was bad, and it boasted a single shower stall reputedly built by a boat owner in exchange for a bottle of whiskey, Cox recalls.
It was not a pretty picture, but where some might have seen a dead end, Cox saw opportunity. The one place he could find with docks deep enough for Ungava was a semi-abandoned Navy torpedo research station on the ICW, just north of Port Everglades Inlet. The Navy had installed fuel tanks there for its boats, run a water line half a mile to the remote property, and erected a concrete-block building to serve as offices. It looked to Cox like an ideal spot for a marina.
Fort Lauderdale still was very much a diamond in the rough. Developers had dug a network of canals in and around the city to fill surrounding swamps, most of which stayed undeveloped after the great Florida land bust of 1926. I looked at those hundreds of miles of canals and saw that the only way for boats to get to the ocean was past this [Navy] dock, he says.
He saw dollar signs.
A graduate in engineering from California Institute of Technology, Cox had helped design the Flushing Boat Basin for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. Later, he joined an aircraft engine company, then worked as chief engineer at a defense plant in New York during World War II. Thats when he acquired Ungava, a William Hand-designed motorsailer that had carried scientists on prewar expeditions to the Arctic. The government used it for wartime coastal patrols. Cox bought the boat after it was released from duty, and he lived aboard at the marina in Flushing.
I spent two winters in the ice, he says. I hated New York. After the war, he made a beeline for Florida.
Cox docked Ungava at the Navy station, and when the property reverted to its prewar owner, he negotiated a deal to open a fuel station there Lauderdale Marina. His first sale was 48 gallons of gasoline. On his second day in business, a boater asked Cox if he carried ice. You couldnt get cake ice anywhere, he says. So he bought a surplus military trailer with a freezer to store ice. He installed cigarette machines and bait wells, and he supplied anglers with box lunches ordered the night before. He kept his cash in a cigar box until he found out he needed a cash register to record revenues for sales tax purposes. It was a fun learning experience, Cox says.
Today, what started as a mom-and-pop marina is still family-owned. Three generations have a hand in it, and a fourth is coming up. I believe in nepotism, Cox says.
The property, one of the citys prime commercial parcels, is listed at $7.7 million by the Broward County appraisers office. While many mom-and-pops are perpetually for sale at the right price, this one isnt and thats for real.
Its a great piece of property that will only become more valuable, says realtor Ted Drum, a member of the Cox family. We all like what were doing. Why would we sell it?
Indeed, why? Lauderdale Marinas Boston Whaler dealership perennially ranks among the top five in single-location sales. The fuel dock is the busiest in Florida and one of the largest on the East Coast. The marinas 15th Street Fisheries restaurant is a Florida landmark. The 70 slips and deep-draft face docks are 10 minutes from the ocean.
The marina, operated by the Cox familys company, The Shipyard LLC, houses a boatyard with Travelift, a Grand Banks dealership, a yacht brokerage, a towboat business, a Mercury dealership, an outboard service shop, a ships store and a U.S. Customs station all just inside the 17th Street Causeway Bridge.
The marina complex has grown with the city. Cox says there was no Bahia Mar Beach Resort & Yachting Center, Pier 66, or Fort Lauderdale Marina Marriott nearby when he arrived in Fort Lauderdale. He was the first boat dealer in the Southeast to introduce fiberglass boats, at the 1949 boat show at the seaplane hanger in Coconut Grove.
I was an engineer, he says. I had some exposure to this new stuff.
He introduced three fiberglass boat brands at Miami, and during the course of 60 years he has represented some 40 brands, though the marina has sold just one Boston Whaler since 1973. Many of the boat companies are long out of business. Cox counted 200 fiberglass-boat builders between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
There was a fiberglass boat company in every two-car garage in Florida, he says. You couldnt get good fiberglass boat franchises.
In the 1960s, Cox started a side business designing vertical dry stacks all wood, three tiers and for boats to 21 feet.
In the early 1950s, gasoline sold for 39 cents a gallon. Now, its pushing $5 a gallon, a price many boaters find hard to swallow. Tough times are nothing new to Cox. He has seen six decades of business cycles, and he opened his marina when there was just a fraction of the 50,000 vessels now in and around Fort Lauderdale.
[Cox] hung in there, says Dave Bearden, Coxs Boston Whaler sales manager, and prevailed when it was hard to do.
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LSU running back Stevan Ridley may be forced to miss the AT&T Cotton Bowl against Texas A&M (No. 17 BCS, No. 18 AP) because of an academic violation.
Coach Les Miles, who discussed Ridley's status after the No. 11 Tigers completed pre-Christmas workouts on Wednesday, said LSU is appealing to the NCAA in hopes that Ridley can still suit up when LSU (10-2) meets the Aggies (9-3) in Cowboys Stadium on Jan. 7.


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Grade I winner Include Me Out puts her three-race victory streak on the line in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap (gr. I) Jan. 16 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Grade I winner Include Me Out puts her three-race victory streak on the line in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap (gr. I) Jan. 16 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Favored Include Me Out nailed down her third consecutive graded victory this year after overcoming pacesetter Ellafitz narrowly in the $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap (gr. II) at Betfair Hollywood Park May 19.
Grade I winners Zazu and Include Me Out will battle in the $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap (gr. II) at Betfair Hollywood Park May 19 in a race that also attracted multiple grade II winner Ellafitz.
Include Me Out blew past odds-on choice Ellafitz on the turn for home and became a grade I winner with an easy victory in the $300,000 Santa Margarita Stakes March 17 on a sloppy track at rainy Santa Anita.
On a three-race stakes winning streak for trainer Bob Baffert, Ellafitz will go for her first grade I victory against five opponents in the $300,000 Santa Margarita Invitational Stakes (gr. I) March 17 at Santa Anita.
Front-running Ellafitz demonstrated her gritty determination when she turned back several challenges to capture Santa Anita's $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes (gr. II) Feb. 18.
There was no staying with Ellafitz in last month's Pasaena Handicap and trainer Bob Baffert's 5-year-old mare could get the same kind of trip in the $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes (gr. II) Feb. 18 at Santa Maria.
Ellafitz, allowed to go it alone on a lackadaisical pace, proved too much to handle in the stretch as she scored her first stakes victory in the $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap (gr. II) by 3 1/4 lengths at Hollywood Park Dec. 4.
Top-weighted City to City and defending champion Washington Bridge form a potent duo in the $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap (gr. II) for Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer at Hollywood Park Dec. 4.
Every time he's asked her, trainer Art Sherman says Ultra Blend has met the challenge. In the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (gr. I) at Del Mar Aug. 6, the 5-year-old California-bred mare will take her biggest step yet.
Crisp, who blew the turn in her prior start yet still managed to break her maiden, proved to be an impressive winner of the Santa Ysabel Stakes (gr. III) at Santa Anita Jan. 10.
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"Captain Phillips" is based on the book from real-life Captain Richard Phillips, telling the story of pirate hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and Phillips' harrowing ordeal at sea, from director Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Ultimatum," "Flight 93").
The film is a tense thriller that tells a story many of us may know–in passing at least–in a way that is immediate and compelling without feeling exploitive considering how recent the events are.
Greengrass has proven that he can deliver smart action films, and does so again here, but it is the top-notch performances put forth by Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips and acting newcomer Barkhad Abdi as Muse, the leader of the pirates, which propel this film to the next level. It's become sort of a broken record with me of late, but I would not be surprised at all to see Hanks and Abdi's names among those announced when it's time for the Academy Award nominations.
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Basel, 25 June 2012 – At the General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, held at Iguaçu Falls in Brazil, the 2012 IADR/Straumann Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine was presented to Prof. Anton Sculean from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in recognition of his outstanding work and achievements in periodontal medicine.
The objective of the Award is to recognize significant contributions in basic and/or clinical research in regenerative periodontal or peri-implant medicine. The 2012 Award was presented by Prof. Alpdogan Kantarci, President of the IADR Periodontal Research Group, and Prof. Michel Dard, Head of Preclinical Research at Straumann.
"Prof. Sculean has contributed significantly to our understanding of oral tissue regeneration throughout his career", noted Prof. Alpdogan Kantarci. "As a preclinical and clinical investigator, he has evaluated all major approaches to periodontal regeneration. Furthermore, he has been an outstanding educator, a respected leader and a strong advocate of evidence-based regenerative medicine. In view of his continued active involvement and impressive output over the past 10 years the PRG board was unanimous in its decision to nominate him for this highly prestigious award", he added.
Worth a total of USD 5000, the IADR/Straumann Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine is sponsored by Straumann and administered by the Periodontal Research Group of the IADR. Straumann is a leading contributor to R&D in implant and regenerative dentistry and this award is a further example of the Group's commitment to fostering and recognizing excellence in dental research.
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there's a need for balance and moderation here at least
however salt peanuts I think that a skill needed professionally and a skill needed for a preschooler are worlds apart in their implications
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I do agree 100% that plopping a bunch of computers in a poorly performing school is not the answer to its educational woes. I recently read in the NY Times that there is a burgeoning scandal about these huge government grants that were given to impoverished schools so that they would have internet access and lots of computers. I can't remember all the details, but basically all these companies got gazillion dollar deals to go into these schools, hook them up, and set up incredibly expensive tech support centers. I remember one line, how all the educrats thought it would be wonderful, that "every first grader could have their own web page." Excuse me, by why on earth does every first grader need their own web page?? Isn't it more important that they are given the basics that impoverished schools seem incapable-- for whatever reason-- of giving to poor students?
|The teachers didn't know how to deal with any of the technical problems they encountered. Basically, the entire program has in some places been abandoned. The article mentioned one school in Florida that had a million dollar server just sitting in it, unused.
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Leftfield I think by the computers nature it does indirectly affect childrens play and imagination. It provides instant intellectual stimulation which breaks the innocent and immatative aspects which are vital in play. I also distorts the 'human' aspect of play, adding only pre-programmed ideas to the child's imagination. Don't be fooled, humans imaginations are far superior to what the computer has been programmed to do. I hope people out there aren't taking Waldorf activities straight from books! It is a philosophy not a methodology. The way each child and adult approaches education is unique
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|Chris: Jerry Mander pointed out in his book on television that when television was first introduced it was advertised as this wonderful, democratic technology that would make everybody's life better and serve as an educational tool available free of charge to all. And the American culture of the fifties bought this fantasy lock, stock and barrel. So how about computers in the 90s?
Joe: Well, computers fall into essentially the same category. Here's one example that demonstrates how they can have the same debilitating effects on the mind that television has. Researchers took a single page from a fourth grade level textbook that had explanatory writing and a couple of diagrams or pictures on it and asked three groups of people to review the information. Group A was given the piece of paper itself to study. Group B was shown a movie of the page, and group C viewed it on a television screen - which is exactly the same as a computer monitor. Twenty minutes later they tested them on their comprehension and retention of the material. Group A, who held a paper copy in their hands, averaged a retention level of 85%. Those who saw it on the movie screen had a retention level of between 25 to 30%, and those who studied it on the TV monitor had a retention and comprehension level between 3 and 5%. When they mixed the groups up and tested them again with different pages from the book, in every case the retention and comprehension was identical.
This again has to do with how the brain is constructed and the way it responds to radiant light rather than reflected light as a source of information. And it should make us pause to consider, but it won't.
Chris: Why?
Joe: I attended a computer conference at the University of California at Berkeley during which twenty-one of us from all over the world spent four days discussing the computers-in-education issue. At that very time the State of California had a 500-million-dollar bill pending for a pilot project of K-12 computerized education. They asked me to come and speak to any legislators who would listen and give them a report on what we had discovered during those four days at Berkeley. The woman engineering this, who at the time was head of the Republican strategy department, was fired for asking me to come and speak. It just goes to show you how much money and power is involved.
Kim: But, so many occupations these days involve computers. How do we teach young people what they need to know about computers without relying on them too much?
Joe: At that four-day symposium at Berkeley we concluded that everything hinges on age appropriateness. One professor from MIT made the passionate plea that we must encourage children to develop the ability to think first, and then give them the computer. After that the sky's the limit. But if you introduce the computer before the child's thought processes are worked out, then you have disaster in the making. This is because, as Piaget pointed out, the first twelve years of life are spent putting into place the structures of knowledge that enable young people to grasp abstract, metaphoric, symbolic types of information. The capacity for abstract thinking developed as a result of the natural concrete processes that have been going on for millions of years. The danger here is that the computer, which operates by the same artificial, cathode-ray-tube technology as the television, will interrupt that development.
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I have a jack russel male 5 -6 months old, since I got him I was always planning to get a beagle as a companion for him. Finally I got one (male ,beagle 6 weeks old). I was nervous thy might not like each other . First night he got home my jack russel has been growling at the new baby beagle everytime he comes near him. They were playing I think when they first met , but suddenly my Jack just follows my beagle around and annoys him and hops on him . My beagle gets angry and growls back . So then jack just growls and nips at him and they growl with their teeth out which scares me . Please help how do I fix this . It's only been 2 days but I want them to be friends !
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Iva Jean founder explains how she wants to encourage more women to ride bikes through stylish apparel.
Building up to our PSFK SEATTLE event on May 10th, we're interviewing the creators and thought leaders who will be sharing their latest ideas with us. Ann DeOtte Kaufman is the founder of Iva Jean, a bike fashion and lifestyle brand in Seattle, Washington. Iva Jean provides functional and fashionable clothing—encouraging women to incorporate cycling into their everyday lives. Their garments are constructed of high quality materials and produced in Seattle, Washington (USA). Iva Jean has been featured in Momentum, Seattle Met, Huffington Post, Fast Company and VeloJoy.
What was the inspiration behind Iva Jean?
The inspiration behind Iva Jean came from my own experience starting to ride a bike as a young professional in Seattle. I was intimidated my first month or so; I got destroyed by spandex covered men and women, and messengers on fixed gear bikes toting monstrous waterproof packs. After spending a month in Europe, pedaling next to women, men and families of all ages riding their bikes in everyday clothes, I decided to take this lifestyle back with me to Seattle.
As I continued my love affair with biking in the city, I realized that I didn't need all of the bike-specific goodies. Although, I did start to notice the things that made biking easier; rubber-soled heels, 4-way stretch pants and a big ol' basket. This is why I set out to start a line of apparel designed to make biking easier for more women.
What design decision do you prioritize when creating biking apparel for urbanites?
I focus on flexibility and durability first. Being a lady that bikes in the city, hell, just being a lady in the city, I know how important these qualities are. Flexibility means that each piece has a timeless and sophisticated aesthetic, working on your bike, in the office or on the weekend. We also need more clothing that will last years – not be ruined by grease or coffee stains, stretch out quickly, or look worn after a season.
What experience or success has been the biggest affirmation for your original idea of starting Iva Jean? What has been the biggest challenge?
Winning the DailyCandy Start Small, Go Big contest was the first time I had strangers, professionals and tastemakers saying that they believed in what I was doing. It was such a boost of confidence and energy. Kickstarter was also a great opportunity – I was able to reach customers and enthusiasts that would have been impossible (or much more difficult) to reach. I love getting to know the women that are wearing our garments or support the idea.
I've faced plenty of challenges, but I am constantly trying to be more efficient and effective with sourcing and production management. It takes a lot of time and energy to make sure that things are running smoothly. You also have to put all of your trust in your patternmakers and cut/sew contractors
If you could change one thing about American city pedestrian/bike infrastructure, what would it be?
We desperately need more protected bike lanes or paths that get people from point A to point B. It has to be easy for new and veteran bikers, eliminating both real and perceived fears for those that wish they could bike more.
How did your interest in cycling begin and how often do you ride? Do you own a car?
It was 2006 when I first considered giving up my car and get around by bike. I was an ambitious, though broke, single twenty-something working at a urban design firm in the city. A lot of my co-workers were regular bike commuters and participated in Bike to Work Month.
At the same time, blogs like Copenhagen Cycle Chic where making bikes sexy again and reminding the world of how smart and beautiful a city on bikes can be. I was determined to become a lady on two wheels.
I moved to Capitol Hill, where I could walk, bus or bike to and from work, the grocery store, shops, and restaurants; watching my car sit parked for over a month. Shortly after, I turned in my car for a vintage black Motobecane, a lucky consignment find at a neighborhood bike shop for just $100. I was really excited to embrace a more urban lifestyle.
Since then, biking has become a huge part of my life – I ride my bike most days in the spring, summer and fall or on dry or light rain days in the off season. I always dress for the destination and take a slower approach to riding, I think this makes biking possible for me. As for the car, we recently bought one after deciding that we wanted to prioritize snowboarding and getting out of the city more often.
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