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Schedule for the Spring 2014 season has not yet been posted
Practices are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays @ 8 PM at the Old Stadium.
If you are interested in joining our team, feel free to come on down to one of our practices! You're also welcome to email our coach.
The K-State Women's Rugby Team is a community of women with a common interest: athletics. We love to play and this is our game. We compete with a variety of teams from around the region, including both collegiate and club teams. Matches are held on the weekends during the fall and spring semesters, with a break during the winter.
Interested in becoming a part of our team? Feel free to join us at practice! We meet at 8:00pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at Memorial Stadium. If you have questions or want more information, contact one of our officers. Most of us have no prior rugby experience, but we have learned to play and in playing we have learned to love the sport. You don't have to be a student or rugby veteran, and you can hop on board even in the middle of the season--as long as you are willing to work, you can become a vital part of our team.
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Heart disease - aging; Atherosclerosis - aging
Some changes in the heart and blood vessels normally occur with age, but many other changes that are common with aging are due to modifiable factors that, if not treated, can lead to heart disease.
The heart has two sides. The right side pumps blood to the lungs to receive oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide. The left side pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body.
Blood flows out of the heart through arteries, which branch out and get smaller and smaller as they go into the tissues. In the tissues, they become tiny capillaries.
Capillaries are where the blood gives up oxygen and nutrients to the tissues, and receives carbon dioxide and wastes back from the tissues. Then, the vessels begin to collect together into larger and larger veins, which return blood to the heart.
Blood vessels
Normally, the heart continues to pump enough blood to supply all parts of the body. However, an older heart may not be able to pump blood as well when you make it work harder.
Some of the things that make your heart work harder are:
Other problems with the heart and blood vessels include the following:
You can help your circulatory system (heart and blood vessels). Heart disease risk factors that you have some control over include high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes, obesity, and smoking.
Minaker KL. Common clinical sequelae of aging. In Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2011:chap 24.
Schwartz JB, Zipes DP. Cardiovascular disease in the elderly. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa:Saunders; 2011:chap 80.

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Men for Women's Choice
On the issue of contraceptives and choice, most men quoted and pictured in the media recently have opposed women controlling their reproductive health. The authors plan to change that. More »
Voters Reject GOP State Initiatives—What's the Message for 2012?
In a week when voters shot down anti-union and anti-reproductive choice measures, President Obama took pride in initiatives to advance women's equality. More »
Battle Looms for Electoral Votes in the Wide-Open Spaces
While engulfed in gusts of doubt and controversy—and as anticipation intensifies about her prime time speech at the Republican convention tonight (will she address the thorniest of the issues?)—Sarah Palin is not shy of supporters. More »
August 28: We Watched History in the Making
In a dramatically staged closing evening of the Democratic Convention in Denver—with fireworks in his speech and in the night air, persuasive endorsements from generals (men, women, white and black) and real people (women and men with compelling stories, well told)— Barack Obama took control of his campaign for the White House by reminding his supporters it's about their lives, their children's futures: More »
Accepting the Nomination, Obama Takes On McCain
After a month of incoming fire, Barack Obama used his acceptance speech to hit back at Republican John McCain, saying he was out of touch with the suffering of ordinary Americans today. More »
Both Clintons Deliver for Obama, With an Assist from Joe Biden
It was a one-two punch from the Clintons. Pundits praised their speeches on behalf of Barack Obama with every sports metaphor that exists: a knockout blow; a 10-strike, out-of-the-ballpark coup. More »


text: The tea is very compressed and looks like a green tea, although it consists of high grade leaves that are picked from plants that are know for their black tea. Said to be cooling and thirst quenching in the summer and stomach warming and cold preventing in the winter. Grown in the cold Xuefeng mountains and Anhua mountains. Also called 'Flower Tea' as the whole log looks like a flower as it is opened. (3.125 kg)Mellows with age, as we all should. 1998


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An Evening with Paul Tough: Why Some Children Succeed While Others Lose Their Way
The California Endowment
Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
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An Evening with Paul Tough: Why Some Children
Succeed While Others Lose Their Way?
Join us on Thursday, March 21st to explore the connection between character strength in childhood and its impact on adult success.
Admission is free; however, an RSVP is required.
Reading: C+, Math: B-, Curiosity: A. Imagine a world where children are graded not only on IQ, but their CQ, or Character Quotient. That's a world Paul Tough envisions. Through years of reporting on the work of economists, educators, neuroscientists, and children from low-income families, the author of Whatever It Takes and most recently, How Children Succeed is putting society's finger on the pulse of an emerging consciousness:
Can a child's ability to persist at an unrewarding task, delay gratification and follow-through on a plan be a greater indicator of success in adulthood than academic achievement?
On Thursday, March 21, CenterScene Public Programs invites you to a conversation with Paul Tough to unwrap the question central to his work: what can any of us do to steer an individual child—or a whole generation of children—away from failure and toward success?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
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Paul Tough challenges our culture's belief that intelligence, endlessly measured by test scores, is the sole indicator of value in our education system. It's not. In How Children Succeed, he ushers in a tidal change in thinking and argues that non-cognitive skills—or, character—are better indicators of success: curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, self-control, and grit.
A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Paul Tough is also the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, which focuses on the steps necessary to improve the lives and education of underserved children. Through the case study of the Harlem Children's Zone, Tough describes the inspiring struggle to establish a way to combat poverty that could be replicated nationwide. Tough has also contributed to "This American Life" and The New Yorker, where he has honed his focus upon education, poverty, parenting, and politics.
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With the opening of CityScape at One E. Washington St., Downtown Phoenix now has an urban-style, mixed-use development where people can eat, shop, meet friends after work, relax at a boutique hotel, and even blow off some steam at the gym or roll a few frames at a bowling center.
Developers of CityScape envision retail and restaurants as being key to the project's success. Some of the new downtown businesses include Gold's Gym, CVS pharmacy, Charming Charlie, Urban Outfitters, Stand Up Live, Five Guys Burger and Fries, and The Arrogant Butcher. Scheduled to open in March 2012 is the 4-star Kimpton Palomar Hotel.
"If you have a comedy club, a couple of bars, a fine dining place, a yogurt shop, a burger place and a taco shop, it gives people more of an incentive to check (CityScape) out," says Peder Bondhus, manager of Vitamin T, an already established Aaron May restaurant at CityScape.
Part of what CityScape has accomplished is due to its relationship with the Greater Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau (GPCVB) and the Downtown Phoenix Partnership.
"The Greater Phoenix CVB has been a relentless touring campaign," says Jeff Moloznik, RED's development manager. "We spend a lot of time with them touring prospective delegates to the downtown market and CityScape. They also help us with discussing what amenities are available for those who are considering coming to Phoenix for a convention."
Moloznik says he believes that the success of downtown as a whole hinges on the collaboration of all of downtown's stakeholders.
"ASU, the (Phoenix) symphony, Comerica, the sporting arenas, CityScape — we all contribute to what is good about Downtown Phoenix," he says.
Adding to the mix of retail and restaurants are the Phoenix offices of several major law firms including Polsinelli Shughart, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, and Ballard Spahr. The building also houses Alliance Bank, Fidelity Title and RED Development.
And by the end of the year, UnitedHealthcare of Arizona plans to move 600 of its Valley employees to CityScape.
Restaurants scheduled to open later this year offer diverse meal selections, such as American-style breakfast or lunch at The Breakfast Club, Italian cuisine at The Strand, French favorites at La Crepe Nanou, and Japanese options at Silk Sushi.
"We have the utmost confidence in CityScape and the synergy it's brought to Downtown Phoenix," says Kyle Shivers, owner of The Breakfast Club. "We're a breakfast and lunch venue, and the density and daytime market (in Phoenix) is exactly what we're looking for."
The only stumbling block CityScape has experienced so far occurred early this year, when LGO Public House pulled out of the project due to zoning and code restrictions relevant to a wood furnace burner.


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A rash is the appearance of spots or patches of a different colour or texture to normal skin and they come in many different shapes and sizes. Most children will suffer from a rash at some point and some are more serious than others so it's important for you to be able to identify them.
In this video we'll cover chicken pox, Measles and Rubella, and I've made a second video covering slapped cheek syndrome, meningitis, impetigo and ringworm.
The spots in a rash may be raised above the skin and some may be filled with fluid or pus whilst others may only differ in colour and texture. Rashes can be very itchy too.
Viral infections are one of the most common causes of rashes, so let's have a look at how to recognise, treat and prevent some of the most common childhood rashes.
Chicken pox is one of the most well known infections and starts with red spots which develop into very itchy raised fluid filled blisters. The rash spreads all over the body and after a few days the blisters dry up and scab over. Feelings of nausea, mild fever and headaches are usually quite common and can last for about 2 weeks. One of the biggest problems with chicken pox is that the rash is extremely itchy and there is a huge temptation to scratch it which can lead to the blisters becoming infected or can leave permanent scars on the skin. Make sure they wear loose clothing and try using ointments like calamine lotion to help soothe the itching. You can also try trimming your child's finger nails to prevent them from scratching and put socks over their hands at night so they don't scratch in their sleep.
Chicken Pox is at its most contagious about two days before the rash appears through to when the blisters have crusted over, and you should keep your child away from school during this time. The good news is that nearly all children who contract chicken pox develop immunity so they'll probably only have to go through this once.
Another well known rash is Measles which presents itself through a wide ranging spotty rash. It usually begins on the face and neck before spreading downwards. The spots may start separately but then appear to join up in to larger spots. This rash is usually accompanied by a mild fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and even small white spots inside the mouth and throat which can be quite unpleasant. Luckily, these symptoms only last for a few days although the rash can last for about a week. While Measles itself is mild there is a fair chance of more severe problems occurring particularly in children under 5 and these include conjunctivitis, diarrhea, and ear infections. If your child shows unusual symptoms you should seek medical advice from your GP. Measles is very contagious for a few days before the rash through to 4-5 days after, however, most children who contract measles will develop immunity. Your doctor can prescribe mild pain killers but you should remember to give you child plenty of fluids and lots of cold flannels to help keep their temperature down. There is a vaccination against measles which is something you should discuss with your doctor.
Rubella which is also known as German Measles, presents as a wide ranging spotty rash. It's generally mild in children and complications are much less serious than those of measles.The rash consists of small red spots usually beginning behind the ears and spreading downwards across the face. It usually lasts between 3-5 days and just like Measles nearly everyone who contracts Rubella develops immunity. Again a vaccine is available and you can speak to your family doctor about this.
In this video, one of two on rashes, Dr Christian talks Chicken pox, measles and rubella. From causes of rashes such as viral infections, to how to recognise, treat and prevent rashes, to talk of vaccinations, contagious periods, and developing immunity, Dr Christian really does explain all there is that you're itching to know about rashes. And, though Dr Christian advises never to scratch itches, watching this video is one itch we're dying for you to scratch!
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Vice Admiral Truly appointed to Mines Board of Trustees
GOLDEN, Colo., March 11, 2010 – Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, of Golden, has been appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees.
Truly was appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent death of former chairman of the board, Michael S. Nyikos. The term runs through December 31, 2010.
After graduating from Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1959, Truly began his 30-year career in the Navy. After distinguished service as a naval aviator, Truly became one of the first military astronauts and transferred to NASA.
Among his accomplishments as an astronaut, Truly piloted the Space Shuttle Columbia and was commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger for the first night launch and landing in the shuttle program. In 1983, he became the first commander of the Naval Space Command, the principal naval space operations element of the Department of Defense. Called back to NASA as associate administrator for space flight, Truly led the accident investigation and rebuilding of the space shuttle program following the Challenger accident. From 1989 to 1992, Truly served as NASA's eighth administrator under President George H. W. Bush.
Following his career at NASA, Truly served as vice president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and director of the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Truly was awarded the Presidential Citizen's Medal by President Ronald Reagan, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Mines in 2002.
Truly currently serves on the board of directors of Xcel Energy, Tetra Tech and Edenspace Systems Corporation. He is a trustee of Regis University and the University Corporation for Atmosphere Research. He previously served on the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors.
Truly's appointment, as well as those of Stewart Bliss and Mohan Misra, was confirmed by the Colorado legislature March 10, 2010.
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Im having problems getting this to work.
I tried both the download links, but they go to the same page, and dont allow a nessus client to be installed, just says Nessus version 4.2.0 on both links.
So i installed the old 4.02 version of the client.
Followed the other instructions ok, but when on the program there is no nessus IP to connect to.
So ive put the client i want to scan IP in, then you have to press connect, the edit on a connection manager screen, but this is blank, what IP am i meant to put for the Nessus server? I thought it would of had some default values.
I had a look at the PDF manual and got a challenge code, it said enter this on a web page with your activation code.
So i enter the URL and it says enter challenge code, then enter activation code, but it says the code is invalid?
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Lignetics: Manufacturer of Premium Wood Pellets, Pres-to-Logs® Fire Logs, and Fire Starters
Welcome to Lignetics' blog where we will be posting current information about the wood pellet, fire log, and fire starter industry. We welcome your comments and additions as we develop what we hope will be an up-to-date information center on all developments concerning wood pellets and fire logs.
Lignetics Inc. has announced the acquisition of the assets of GF Funding LLC (whose facility was formerly known as Geneva Wood Fuels), expanding its footprint into Maine and upper New England.
Lignetics is the largest residential wood pellet manufacturing company in the U.S. which now has a production capacity of approximately 550,000 tons of wood pellets per year. The company is the only pellet manufacturing company that has wood pellet manufacturing plants on both the East Coast and the West Coast in six plant locations in the states of Maine, Oregon, Idaho, West Virginia and Virginia.
Ken Tucker, CEO of Lignetics stated, "Completing this acquisition is in line with our strategy to continue to expand our geographic footprint in the U.S. and remain the market leader in the residential wood pellet industry." Tucker added, "Geneva has great customers which we look forward to continuing to support with the help of Jeff and Lucinda Allen and the rest of the team in Strong, Maine, whose goal is to continue to provide a superior product and excellent customer service."
Financing for the transaction was provided by Taglich Private Equity LLC, management and Gladstone Capital Corporation, who provided subordinated debt and equity financing, along with Texas Capital Bank, who provided senior debt in support of the transaction. Will Morris, Managing Director of Taglich Private Equity noted that Lignetics continues to be interested in exploring additional add-on acquisitions. "We are excited about this acquisition and the growth opportunities in our business to support us in our goal of being the largest and highest quality residential wood pellet manufacturing company in the U.S.", stated Morris.
Lignetics was founded in 1983 and is one of the founding pioneers of manufacturing premium wood pellets and Pres-to-Logs® fire logs for home heating. Lignetics offers a broad array of products that include wood fuel pellets in bagged and bulk form, animal bedding pellets and shavings, BBQ pellets in a variety of flavors and compressed wood bricks and logs. For more information on Lignetics and all its products, visit http://www.lignetics.com.
Lignetics acquired the wood pellet manufacturing facility of GF Funding LLC, based in Strong, Maine, which produces hardwood pellet fuel for residential and commercial use. The facility produces Maine's Choice and Geneva Wood Pellets brands of residential hardwood pellet fuel which can be found at independent retailers and select chains throughout the Northeast.
Taglich Private Equity LLC is a financial sponsor which has been investing since 2001 in lower middle market manufacturing, business service and consumer product companies. Taglich has completed transactions totaling over $500 million funded primarily with capital provided by Taglich Brothers, Inc., a full service brokerage firm managing capital in both public and private investments. Taglich focuses on finding sound investment opportunities with capable management and delivering significant growth resources and capital to portfolio investments. For more information on Taglich Private Equity LLC please visit http://www.taglichpe.com.
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From Biomass Magazine
By Katie Fletcher
Three biomass boilers are being shipped to Haines, Alaska, with the potential to heat a variety of buildings throughout town. The boilers are expected to arrive next month and utilize either wood pellets or locally produced wood chips as a feedstock.
Upon arrival in Haines, the boilers manufactured by Unilux will remain in storage for the next year or so. Twelve to 24 months later they are expected to be up and running, displacing around 80,000 gallons of heating oil. "We are either going to be installing biomass heat in eight or nine municipal buildings, or creating a district heating system," said Darsie Culbeck, contractor for the borough to help facilitate the biomass project. "In either case, the Coast Guard boilers will be useful."
The boilers could be used to heat the school, the pool and Chilkat Performing Art Center. Culbeck said hopefully the district heating system will heat the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), the school, the pool, the vocational technology building, the library, the administration building, the public safety building and maybe the city shop.
Culbeck said the feedstock could be pellets from British Columbia or Seattle, but that they are looking at locally produced wood chips as well. The boiler specifications are 1.5 MMBtu, 1.7 MMBtu and 500,000 Btu.
Haines borough officials recently approved the $60,000 purchase of the used boilers. The purchase includes the three boilers, 60-ton storage silos and an accumulator tank. Funding for the installation is provided through the $1.2-million Haines Borough Municipal Buildings Biomass Project grant. A resolution was voted upon at a recent borough assembly meeting, allowing borough manager, Dave Sosa, to make the purchase—five of six voted in favor. "The $60,000 was over the manager's spending authority so it had to go to the assembly for approval," Culbeck said.
Overall, the system was originally valued at over $450,000. The boilers were previously used in Sitka for heat by the U.S. Coast Guard, but a mishap occurred and the project was abandoned. "The combustion chamber of one of the two new pellet boilers in the AIRSTA Hanger suffered an explosion due to the buildup of the explosive gases hydrogen and carbon monoxide during testing by the installation contractor," Culbeck said. "The building's HVAC control system also played a role in this. This system was designed in-house by an engineer unfamiliar with biomass boiler systems."
According to Culbeck, the result of the explosion caused some blowout plugs on the boiler to pop (as designed), some deformation of exterior non-structural panels and the chamber door to forcefully blow open (as designed) to avoid a much more catastrophic pressure buildup. The water pressure vessel side of the boiler remained undamaged.
He added that the boiler design itself was not without some blame. "The control system should have had more checks in it to detect that combustion was not happening," Culbeck said. "The components were in place, but the boiler control logic did not take advantage of them. These have since been addressed by Unilux."
These boilers joins five other biomass systems in town, one in a municipal building. "The success of these boilers caused me to write the original grant and pursue biomass funding," Culbeck said.
Cost savings, a lower carbon footprint and the chance to become more energy independent top the list of potential benefits of the biomass system, according to Culbeck. "If we can source local wood chips, we are less impacted by global events and interruptions in the supply chain," he said. "Currently, the municipality spends about $300,000 annually on heating oil. Most of this money leaves town immediately. The same amount spent on local biomass could have a multiplier of four to six times. This creates jobs and stimulates the local economy."
Unilux will train the locals hired to operate the system. "I'm excited to be moving this forward," Culbeck said. "Even with all the challenges and risks, I believe it is the right thing to do for our community. It's good for the environment, it's good for the economy and it shows the kids that it's worth taking a chance to move a good idea forward."
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From Biomass Magazine
By Sustainable Biomass Partnership
The Sustainable Biomass Partnership has today announced that NSF International (NSF) has become an 'SBP-approved' Certification Body. NSF has provided evidence that it meets the SBP requirements regarding its existing accreditations and has demonstrated sufficient resource and competence to manage the SBP certification programme under the SBP Framework.
The SBP Framework of standards and processes enables Biomass Producers, typically pellet and wood chip mills, to demonstrate that they source their feedstock responsibly and that it complies with the regulatory, including sustainability, requirements applicable to power generators burning woody biomass to produce energy.
NSF has been approved for the certification, in Canada and the United States of America, of Biomass Producers and the biomass supply chain, for example, Biomass Producers and components of the downstream supply chain, such as trade, transport and processing that require Chain of Custody certification.
Peter Wilson, Executive Director of SBP, commented, "On behalf of SBP I am pleased to confirm that NSF's application is approved. NSF has been through a rigorous approval process, culminating in a final review and recommendation for approval by SBP's independent Technical Committee.
"This is the second such approval of a Certification Body, and the first in North America. This progress provides a good foundation for implementation of the SBP Framework throughout the woody biomass supply chain".
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From Biomass Magazine
By Ron Kotrba
Few events can sour the experience of domestic, residential pellet stove users more than being unable to buy product during a cold snap. "Frankly, not having enough products to meet demand is my major concern," says Paul Stringer, vice president of sales and marketing for Somerset Pellet Fuel, a Kentucky-based pelleting operation with an annual capacity of 50,000 tons. Somerset's raw material comes to the facility already kiln-dried from its hardwood flooring plant. The company's pellet customers are big box stores such as Tractor Supply Co. and Lowe's. "All of us in the pellet industry want the market to grow," Stringer says. "If customers can't get pellets, they won't buy the stoves and it hampers growth in the industry."
Supply shortages are part of any growing market, but the business of residential wood pellets is different than many other, more predictable industries. It's an emerging market that is based on unpredictable events such as oil and natural gas prices, the housing market, weather, the economy and even politics.
"The past year has been difficult with supply and demand," says James Mayer, salesman for PelletsNow LLC, a third-party distributor of pellets in the Northeast supplied by Maine Woods Pellet Co. LLC. "Demand is greater than supply and it's hard to meet the needs of our customers the way they want to be met." He says while demand usually slows down in spring and summer, this season it hasn't.
PelletsNow has a retail network of 150-plus small businesses in the Northeast. According to data from a recent Pellet Mill Magazine distribution survey, less than 50 percent of respondents' annual production is sold to big box stores, leaving a majority of domestic market sales to smaller retail outlets. "We don't deal with big box stores, mostly just mom-and-pop stores," Mayer says. "We have a couple of retailers that have five or six locations, some have four that do 10,000 tons out of one retail location." He says the small retailers in his network really distinguish themselves by getting to know their customers and the product, and by delivering product to the customers' homes—even bringing a pallet jack to the customers' driveways or helping hand-stack product.
Dejno's Inc. operates a 40,000-ton pellet facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and has a fleet of 35 trucks and 600 trailers to deliver its Dejno's brands of hardwood blends and softwood blends. "We've been in business for 10 years and we've seen the ups and downs—the times of extra supply and then crisis management where everyone's out," Dejno says. Located between Milwaukee and Chicago, Dejno's pellet facility doesn't have a dryer, so the plant doesn't process green product the way other facilities do. It receives sawdust directly from suppliers such as sawmills.
Dejno says pellet shortages in stores are oftentimes beyond the retailers'—and his—control. "Weather, propane and petroleum price spikes, or a housing market downturn where the raw material is not available—there's always a reason," he says. "But from my perspective, there's no doubt it's not a pellet production capacity issue. No one in the industry thinks that. It's not a capacity issue—except when the market gets to crisis mode and then it's a matter of playing catch-up."
He says in times of tight supply the industry does tend to see pellet mills pop up to meet growing demand, but then there's a glut and facilities that aren't the lowest-cost producers shut down. "I do wish the market didn't have the ups and downs it does," Dejno says. "It could be a good, stable, dependable business model, but we have to contend with these factors that make it fluctuate wildly. But fundamentally, I don't think it's a production capacity issue."
Stringer says it's less about production capacity and more of a raw materials supply issue. "Having the raw material source, especially a quality supply of sawdust, is critical to efficient production and to making a quality product," he says. "So, in my view, it's all about raw material supply. I can build a plant, but without raw materials, it doesn't operate."
Sally Goossen owns Green Friendly Pellets LLC, a 17,000-ton mill in Plainview, Minnesota. The plant has moved several times since it opened in Balsam Lake, Minnesota, in 2008. From there it was relocated to New Richmond, Wisconsin, and then to Plainview, Minnesota, and it may soon be moving again to either a reservation in North Dakota or near Bemidji, Minnesota, to be closer to feedstock. Like Dejno's and Somerset, Green Friendly Pellets doesn't have a dryer so the facility takes in prepped sawdust. Goossen says in New Richmond, the company dealt more with retailers but since moving to Plainview, it does more wholesaling. In addition to its own production and labels of PennyWise and Green Friendly Pellets, her company buys product from Spearfish Pellet Co. LLC and bags and sells it under the Stall Pro brand. She wholesales product to a distributor, Industrial Builders, which sells to hometown retailers such as Ace Hardware stores. Goossen also notes the pine pellets from Spearfish, South Dakota, are used as an absorbent in the shale fracking industry on the completion side.
As to why the industry experiences shortages at times, Goossen says there's "a lot of little things happening" that affect supply and demand. For starters, the growth in pellet stove users has been "dramatic," she says. "A few years ago in my home town of Balsam Lake, no one had a pellet stove. Now everyone in my neighborhood has one." She also says that additional outlets for pellets, such as the use in oil fields or even oak heating pellets for barbeques, increases demand and tightens supply. "The Lumberjack brand, instead of having 20 semiloads a month for heating pellets, they're now being distributed as barbeque pellets," Goossen says. She also mentions that a few plants have closed in Minnesota, which has affected supply. "Demand went up, but production didn't," Goossen says. Finally, Goossen notes that a lot of mills have been, or are being, developed in the Southeast to satisfy European demand. "That wood waste could be used for the U.S. market, but it's used for pellets that are going to Europe," she says.
The biggest variable, according to Mayer, is the price of oil and natural gas. "When it goes down, people are less apt to use wood pellets," he says. "When it goes up, they're more apt to use wood pellets. So what's going on with the fuel market—and politics—is big."
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So, with factors beyond anyone's control such as energy markets, politics, the economy, housing and export markets, expanding uses and the weather, how can producers, distributors and retailers better predict the market to keep shelves stocked without holding too much inventory?
"You can never forecast to a tee," Mayer says, "but if you look at last year's numbers, including spring and summer sales, the mills that are online, supplies and oil prices last year, weather forecasts and the economy, then 50 to 75 percent of the time you can do a decent forecast."
Capital and storage space are two major problems with keeping retailers adequately stocked, according to Mayer. "No one wants to sit on product for more than a month or two," he says.
When weighing which situation is worse—not having enough product to meet demand or stocking too much inventory—Dejno says it depends on point of view. "It's worse not to have product," he says. "From our perspective, it's worse to have retailers' expectations of your capacity and inventory, and not being able to perform. Either their expectations were wrong or their numbers on what you can do are wrong. There's not a shelf life on this stuff, it doesn't expire. Sure it costs money to carry over inventory, but it's not like it is spoiling."
According to data gathered from Pellet Mill Magazine's distribution survey, nearly 24 percent of producer-respondents offer storage for their customers' off-season purchases at a fee, and nearly 22 percent offer storage at no fee. The remaining 55 percent offer no storage. Dejno says occasionally he stocks inventory for his customers if they don't have the storage space. "They don't want to be left shorthanded," he says. "Sometimes if they do a prebuy we'll stock more inventory for them." Mayer says transportation and storage are the biggest variables and the largest cost. Using PelletsNow's partner, Quest Transportation, the company drops product directly from Maine Woods Pellet Co. to retailers. "Storage has always been something we have looked at, but it's a lot of cost," Mayer says.
Buying early can help alleviate the supply crunch later in the season. "We've had more customers this year make an effort to put their orders in early," Mayer says, adding that some of them have already ordered one-third to one-half of their predicted supply for the upcoming season. Goossen says for the pine pellets used as absorbents in oil fracking operations, orders have been put in six months ahead of time to ensure supply.
She says the issue with the local hardware stores comes down to risk of investment, noting that last year there were a few stores in Hudson and St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, that were out of pellets for weeks, which surprised her considering natural gas prices were so low. "For them, they would have to buy through a distributor and purchase a semiload at a time, so the company is putting out this money up front hoping that the local customers come there to buy [versus going to a big box store]," Goossen says. "They're putting up this investment and hoping they'll buy at 25 cents more a bag or $1 more a bag from the local place, and now you're housing 24 pallets outside and trying to keep them from the weather, or rodents. So the biggest complaint I hear is putting up $4,000 in August and maintaining a semiload of pellets, but come January they may be out, and if they order more and pay a premium for that, and have to turn that price over to the consumer, they will go to a big box store like Menards. I've seen it happen." She says Menards has called her a few times in the past month. "They're anxious for pellet purchasing in the upcoming season," she says.
"This is a business that requires investment," Stringer says. "Clearly, for the manufacturer, you are holding a lot of pellets in the summer so that you can meet the demand in the winter. It is a cash investment that you have to make, in my mind, to be a good supplier." For retail, Stringer views it the same way. "The best suppliers can afford to invest in pellets when they get them in the summer months, or at least the months prior to winter and they stock up," he says. "Otherwise, they are going to be caught up in the scramble that we see each year. I don't think there is a magic solution for that. It is the business."
A piece of advice Dejno offers retailers that want to alleviate the madness when demand is crazy and supplies are tight is to keep the good buyers employed. "That's the reason we run into issues—when we're dealing with a new buyer," he says. "We don't do a whole lot with big box stores, it's mostly small retailers such as garden shops and independent businesses. There are only a few big box stores we regularly work with, but when they have a changeover in responsibilities it feels like we're reeducating them all over again. When there's a shortage, they scramble and buy stuff going into next year. When they're comfortable and supplied well, they're not interested in putting in inventory for the next season."
Retailers carrying multiple brands might also help offset tight supplies in the heating season. Mayer says some of the retailers he services sell several brands. "That's good—they need a diverse line of products," he says. Dejno says many retailers have realized that more brands are better because it helps with fluctuation. "What we find is when a retailer is short on a brand and orders are way behind, we get a lot of calls in those times of shortages," he says. "We don't take on new customers at that time. We call them back in the off season so we don't deplete our inventory." Many of his customers have been with the company for five to 10 years, and Dejno says he doesn't want to short loyal, long-term customers to satisfy new orders.
Ultimately, the best solution to tight supplies of pellets during the heating season may boil down to two simple, but very important, elements: communication and relationships. "We have strong relationships with loyal customers and we agree to target volumes to deliver to each customer," Stringer says, adding that there is always more demand than he can deliver.
"Once we get into the season, like right about now, the best plan for me is to be in contact with my customers once a week to find out what their customers are saying—are they buying sand, are they buying salt, what's the consensus," Mayer says. "Then they ask me what's going on with the mill and ask if there are any changes. That way the retailers know and they aren't out of the loop." Mayer says there needs to be better communication on all ends—between pellet manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and home owners; and even between pellet producers, wholesalers and stove manufacturers. "I enjoy talking to retailers about trends and forecasts," Mayer says, adding that he has seven or eight retailers in strategic locations throughout the Northeast that he distinguishes as superior based on their sales. "I give those guys more than one call a week and ask them more in-depth questions and tell them, 'When you get to 50 or 100 calls a week, give me a call.'"
Dejno says, "If you have long-term relationships on both sides, you get used to a comfort level of what is in inventory and on-hand vs. what your customers' expectations are. The more you communicate, the better it is for their situation." He says at least three points during the year—preseason, in-season and end-of-season—his company has good conversations with its dealer-customers. "We just learn from each season, and find that comfort level on how to go forward," he says. "Sometimes the solution is literally communication. The best thing is when there's a buyer that understands the market risks of not building up inventory on their side. Everyone wants just-in-time delivery but with this product, it's about building up inventory on both sides to be prepared for a run."
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Meerkats live in the Kalahari Desert, which is not a true desert as it supports many plants and animals. Temperatures reach over 100 degrees (F) in summer and drop down close to freezing in the winter. Meerkats will use their claws to dig large underground burrows, but spend much of the day outside foraging, babysitting, grooming each other, or playing, with a sentry keeping an eye out for danger.
Meerkats are the most social of all the mongooses, and family groups live together in a pack or colony, which can contain up to 30 individuals.
Meerkats have brown, yellowish, or gray fur, with brown stripes running up and down their backs. They have long snouts, black noses, black fur around their eyes and ears, and black tips on their long tails. Meerkats weigh less than 1.5 ounces at birth and just over 2 pounds as adults; they are usually 12 inches tall, with their tails about 8 inches long.
Meerkats have an average life expectancy of 12–14 years.
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Young meerkats are called kits or pups. Pups are born inside the burrow hairless and blind, and do not come above ground until at least 21 days of age. They are fully grown at about 6 months old. Meerkats will take turns babysitting and even nursing the pups, and teach them how to catch food. Even with all of this care, it is estimated that only about 20% of pups survive to adulthood.
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Meerkats will let pups beg for food until a certain age, and then they stop responding to the pups' demands. Research has found that after a certain age the sound of the pups' begging chirps is no longer cute to the adult meerkats, it's just annoying!
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Meerkats, by Nigel Dennis, David Macdonald, New Holland, 1999.
"Meerkat pups go to eating school," BBC News, 13 July 2006.
Meerkat Mail, by Emily Gravet, Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Meet the Meerkat, by Darrin Lunde, Patricia J. Wynne, Charlesbridge Pub Inc., 2007.
Kalahari Meerkat Project: http://www.kalahari-meerkats.com/
Joah R. Madden et al., "Why do meerkat pups stop begging?" Animal Behaviour, Jul2009, 78(1):85-89.
*Taxonomic classification varies between references. Classification information used in this fact sheet was taken from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41624/0
Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Herpestidae Sub-Family: Herpestinae Genus: Suricata Species: S. suricatta
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It was quite hard to pull the lever to open the hood, so I inspected the cable, and towards the front, it was in a very poor shape:
Decision was made to replace the cable, in order to avoid one of those surprises. Out of 3 cables, I decided I need only the 2 cables that activate the 2 latches and the intermediate cable. These:
To reach the cables, unfortunately, you will need to remove the front bumper, then the driver side headlight. For the front bumper I used this DIY. For the headlight, DIY's not necessary - it's a straight forward process: Unplug the light harness, remove the top 2 screws, remove the bottom 2 screws and slide out. Done.
The reason you want the headlight out, is to allow for the cable to slide out under the front cross member. The reason you want the bumper out, is to be able to reach the latches - you will need to remove the air duct left & right (p/n 51717124217 & 51717123350) and the air duct ornamental grille left & right (p/n 51717123351 & 51717123352).
Next, you need a torx bit T30 to remove the 3 screws that hold the 2 latches:
To reach the latches, you need to pull out the middle pin of the plastic rivet that holds each air duct (left & right) mentioned above:
Then, pull on the 3 tabs that hold the ornament grille to the above airduct:
Now, the airducts can be folded away, and you can access the latches. This is why you need to remove the bumper. The front cable ties the 2 latches, and is also held in place by clip under the cross member. Slide it out. Here is the passenger side latch:
Pull the cable sheath out the guide of the latch, then the cable is exposed, and you can slide the cable out of the latch:
The driver side latch is also tied to the intermediate cable. This one has the connecting element as well. To get the latch out, you will first need to open the connecting element, by pressing and pushing with a screwdriver on the 2 tabs:
Then just pull the whole unit with cables still attached, from the body. It's held in place by 2 plastic tabs. They won't break, and even if they would, if you change the intermediate cable, you will have a new unit anyways.
Once the connecting element is out, you need to find a small screwdriver, or a fine pick and pull the round lead of the cable that goes towards the firewall. In this picture, it's the one to the right:
Once the lead cable is off (the one that goes towards the firewall), you can slide the cable with the connecting element through the cross member and out. This is why you need the headlight out.
The 2 latches are identical. Because the driver side latch had the guide damaged, I switched the 2 latches, to avoid buying a new unit. The guide is housing the sheath of the cable.
Both latches side-by-side:
Damaged guide on the driver side latch:
Installation is the reverse. It's quite easy in my opinion. The hardest part was to find the 2 tabs on each side of the bumper. Opening the hood is very easy now, a minimal effort is needed to pull the lever now. Yes, I had the mandatory beer afterwards.
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Those include the Heart no Kuni no Alice series, Crimson Empire, Okashi no Shima no Peter Pan, Mother Goose no Himitsu no Yakata, etc.
It would be awesome if we could get a little meetup together :]
I'm going to be Peter Pan from Okashi na Shima
If there's more people, let's get a meetup together and plan some times! I know there probably won't be many so just a small gathering will do in the lobby or somewhere.
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Linux for the GNU South — it's going on right now (if you're reading this the day the blog appears).
Yep, that title — also the name of an album by the Who — is what the British (and, I would imagine, our Canadian neighbors) call bits and pieces; which is what we're going to talk about today since this week was full of news and I have been staring at my living room thinking, "How the &@%*! am I going to move all this stuff?"
A difference of opinion, or . . . ? Ken Hess writes on ZDNet an item about businesses going (or maybe not going) completely virutal here, but wait — maybe you should keep one or two just in case the cloud dissipates. Contrast this laugher to Caitlyn Martin's response here, where she calls this "the most ridiculous article I've read in a very long time." Me? I side with Caitlyn — clearly. This is not the first head-scratcher Hess has produced, nor will it probably be the last. A corollary to this is Andy Updegrove's ominous look at a "cloud-free" future forced upon us here.
Dead horse, meet foot: I've been giving a lot of thought to the OpenOffice.org transfer by Oracle to Apache. I'd like to think something good will come of this, but I think that since joining the two projects seems to be all but impossible (for a couple of good reasons, but some not so good), we can thank the suits at Oracle for screwing up an outstanding FOSS project. Meanwhile, for all those who have an interest in keeping what OO.o started going in the right direction, get right over to the Document Foundation and pitch in.
Name, rank, and serial . . . OK, just your name will do: First, thanks for all those who liked the list blog that ran this week. I need to point out a matter of personal policy on this blog: I don't post responses that are anonymous or come from someone named/called/nicknamed "anonymous" or any variety thereof (i.e., "anon"). I bring this up because I have got responses from people who wouldn't name themselves — two excellent responses that I would like to post — and I've written each of them to ask them to identify themselves so I can post their comments. Initials would work.
Well, I should stop stalling and start packing up.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
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Head in the clouds? I can see allure of this cloud storage but no thanks.
Maybe, in a pinch, I would put something into off site storage. Just for a
moment because I forgot my thumb drive or I needed to send something
that would not fit in an email attachment. But maybe not. I don't keep
much of anything on my computer. With the governments penchant for
grabbing any and all personal effects, without warrant or reason, at any
time it is much more prudent to bury the gold in the backyard.
Andy Updegrove has a crystal ball, he has seen the future.
Oracle has poisoned every product it has touched. May they have a long
and successful stay in Hell. Open Office may or may not hang around.
With Libre Office up and running, from my side running better than
OO.o, we are in good shape.
You won't accept "anonymous" but something like Colonel Panik can
slip through?
Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground.
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"With grieving hearts the family announces the tragic loss of Brandon MacKinnon "Bmack", age 15, of St. Teresa," the family announced in the teenager's obituary.
The service will be held at 2 p.m. at All Saint's Church.
The Grade 9 student from Montague Intermediate was with three friends in an abandoned property on Mount Edward Road in Charlottetown when it somehow caught fire overnight and claimed the lives of MacKinnon, Kenneth Cameron Irving, 15, of Peters Road and Jospeph Allison Reeves, 19, of Montague.
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"Kenneth will be greatly missed by his family and all who came to know and love him," the family said in the death notice.
The funeral for Reeves will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of Christ in Montague. Visiting hours are from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Ferguson Logan Funeral Home here.
The lone survivor of the fire, a Grade 10 student at Montague Regional High School, remains in hospital in Halifax. He was burned badly before fleeing from the early morning fire.
Montague Regional High School principal Seana Evans-Renaud says students will be making cards to send to their classmate when they get back to school.
"We are just trying to get through the wakes, funerals and storms,'' she said in an email to The Guardian.
P.E.I. chief coroner Dr. Charles Trainor says his investigation continues.
"It's going to take another day or two before we have results of toxicology and other testing,'' he said.
Charlottetown Police Services did not have any update Tuesday in its ongoing investigation.
Deputy Chief Gary McGuigan said Monday after releasing the names of the deceased that police are now focusing on determining a time line of events on the four youths leading up to the tragic event.
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About 45 staff and freelance science journalists from around the world visited the Salk Institute in February to tour four laboratories working in various aspects of neuroscience.
The two-hour stop at Salk was part of a joint effort between the Institute and UCSD designed to bring science writers to both campuses and familiarize them with the research while they were in San Diego for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's conference.
"It was a great opportunity to learn about research I don't ordinarily cover (and therefore know precious little about)," said Janet Raloff, senior editor for ScienceNews, who wrote about the tour's stop at the Salk Institute's Stem Cell Core Facility in the Feb. 18 issue. "And it was so interesting–and potentially worthy of covering–that I only wish we had been given a lot more time with the teams in each lab."
A visit in the lab of Samuel Pfaff, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and HHMI investigator, included a short video that showed spinal cord motor neurons induced to fire signals that mimicked walking motions. A second video taken during a separate experiment depicted axons, or nerve fibers, reaching out for their intended muscle targets.
Sophisticated visual illustrations continued in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory of Professor Terry Sejnowski, who gave a brief International Journalists Tour Neuroscience Labs presentation on synapses, the structure that allows a neuron to pass electrical or chemical signals to another cell, before research scientist Tom Bartol launched a three-dimensional, computer simulation of a synapse and its surrounding structure created with M-Cell, a program he developed and widely used for scientific research.
The group also received a brief overview of the Salk Institute's Vision Center when they visited E. J. Chichilnisky, an associate professor of the Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, who studies ganglion cells – the output cells of the retina that send messages related to vision to the brain.
Chichilnisky explained the process his team follows to take hundreds of simultaneous electrode readings of retinal tissue using highly advanced equipment developed in collaboration with physicists at UC Santa Cruz. The lab's longterm goal is to contribute to the development of visual prosthetic devices – a possibility that is about five to 10 years away, Chichilnisky said.
The journalists also received a quick lesson on stem cells and their potential use to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig's disease by postdoctoral fellows Carol Marchetto and Kristen Brennand, who conduct their research in Professor Fred H. Gage's Laboratory of Genetics.
Both Marchetto and Brennand explained how they study the differences between healthy brain cells and their diseased counterparts. To do so, they take differentiated cells from patients and reprogram them into stem cells, from which they generate live human brain cells afflicted with the disease of interest.
More than 10 years ago, work from the Gage lab debunked the long-held belief in the scientific community that neurogenesis (the birth of new neurons in the brain) does not occur in adults. His lab has gone on to show that voluntary exercise is positively correlated with an increase in neurogenesis in the adult brain and with an improvement in learning and memory abilities.


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By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
The Everett School District, which was considering starting the school day earlier for thousands of high school students in September, has decided that the best option is no change.
"Knowing how important it is that families have that information before the end of the year, we're going to go ahead with the same start times … and have another assessment next year," Mary Waggoner, school district spokeswoman, said on Wednesday.
The district was mulling three schedule changes: High schools could have started as early as 7:10 a.m., some elementary schools as late as 9:25 a.m., and middle school as early as 7:10 a.m. or as late as 8:25 a.m.
The changes were aimed at saving the school district an estimated $163,000 in transportation costs.
However, some parents objected to the proposal, saying 7:10 a.m. was too early. Some parents of elementary school students said the later start would conflict with their work schedules.
The school district had previously said it would wait until the Legislature made a decision on public school funding before deciding next year's school schedules.
Lawmakers are now in their second overtime session trying to hammer out budget issues. The debate potentially could last into summer.
Kim Guymon, who leads the Everett School Board Project, a citizens group, and who recently announced as a school board candidate, was among the parents who had raised concerns about the early start time for high school students.
Public school districts across the nation are switching to later start times for high schools. Researchers have found teenagers are more alert and ready to learn when classes start between 8:30 and 9 a.m., due to adolescents' biological wake and sleep rhythms.
Guymon said some parents told her they were pleasantly surprised by the district's decision not to change schedules. The district "was pretty serious about changing it," she said.
Jeff Russell, school board president, said he was happy to hear that the school district's administrators didn't feel it needed to make a change to school schedules. "It's less disruptive for families," he said.
"I know it's an important issue for a lot of folks as they plan their work schedules and their day-care schedules," Russell said.
Russell said the school board may yet consider whether the district could move toward later start times for high schools during the upcoming school year.
Any change, if approved, would take at least two years to implement, he said.
"We would never do it in isolation," he said. "We'd want to do it in consultation with other districts so there would be some coordination of athletic and activity schedules with our partners."
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- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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Honoring our founder, Mary A. Regula, the National First Ladies' Research and Reading Room opened in the Education and Research Center in September, 2003. The collection housed in the research and reading room represents the only one of its kind in the world. Ever expanding, the collection includes over 6400 books and in addition to a unique and exemplary Audio Visual Collection containing everything from Eleanor Roosevelt's radio broadcasts to DVDs of Hillary Clinton's testimony before the sub committee on health care reform. . These materials reflect the special contributions First Ladies have made to the social and cultural history of our country.
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The Greatest Weakness: Whether or not the current Red Raider basketball team is the worst in recent memory is debatable. Unfortunately, the competition is mighty strong in this category. What is not open for debate is the fact that this is the poorest shooting team to come down Loop 289 in many a long year.
Now Oklahoma State is hardly a great basketball team. They are above average at best. And the defense the Cowboys applied to Tech was nothing to brag about. The Red Raiders got great, wide open looks all game long, but nobody could knock them down. Tech shot a dumbfounding 28 percent from the floor.
And although dreadful, that type of shooting has been the rule rather than the exception in conference play. Outside of Dusty Hannahs, a decent shooter who will one day be very good, there is nobody on the roster who is a threat to knock down a jumper. Consequently, defending the Red Raiders couldn't be easier. Pack the defense—man or zone—inside, and dare Tech to shoot it. Elementary.
The only coaching Chris Walker and staff can do to improve this team is to spend the overwhelming majority of practice shooting jump shots. Bubba Jennings, arguably one of the great shooters in college basketball history, should be able to provide some pointers. Somebody had better, otherwise this team and its followers have much misery in store.
Tolbert No Longer an Option: Whatever post abilities Jordan Tolbert displayed early in his freshman year have deserted him. Sad to say, when Tolbert gets the ball in deep, his post moves are slow and mechanical, his footwork is poor, and he shows no feel for the defender. It is time to stop feeding him the rock.
The best hope for Tolbert is that he develops into another Gionet Cooper. Many will remember Cooper as a critical role player on several very good Tech teams in the nineties. Cooper was not an interior scorer and he recognized his limitations. Instead, he concentrated on banging, defending and rebounding. Cooper excelled in those areas and became a big contributor on some darn good teams. Hopefully, this is Tolbert's future, because 20 points per game is not in the cards.
Daylen over Josh? Obviously, unless the Red Raiders begin knocking down open shots, point guard play is a bit otiose. Still, it is becoming apparent to this observer that Daylen Robinson is a better option at this position than Josh Gray.
Robinson doesn't quite have Gray's crazy quicks, and I'm not sure he's a better passer, but the fact is that Robinson thinks pass first and score second. He's a better distributor and floor general than Gray, and the offense runs more smoothly with him in the lineup.
Can't Blame Chris: I feel for Chris Walker. I really do. Whatever happens with his current team, the remainder of the season is just not an accurate reflection of his coaching abilities. Walker simply does not have enough tools with which to work.
Is Chris Walker a great coach, a poor one, or something in between? Unfortunately, we will not know the answer based on this season. And that is a shame because Walker May not get another chance to show what he can do in Lubbock.


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ALLENDALE, NJ -- The Promotion In Motion Cos. has announced three appointments to the management team.
Jose Sepulveda is named vice president of manufacturing. Born and educated in Chile, Sepulveda brings extensive experience in starch-molded confection manufacturing to his new post. He is a former vice president of manufacturing for the Jelly Belly Candy Co. (N. Chicago) and also has served with Supplement Sciences and Gimbals Fine Confections, among others.
Kevin Walsh is appointed vice president of engineering. He brings more than 20 years' experience in the manufacture and packaging of confections, including fruit snacks and chocolate, and has served as director of engineering for Farley's and Sathers Candy Co. (Round Lake, MN). Prior to that, he had been senior engineering manager for Nabisco Inc. and Kraft Foods.
Sepulveda and Walsh will be based at the company's Somerset, NJ manufacturing facility.
Kevin Mahoney has joined Promotion In Motion as director of purchasing. Most recently, he was senior manager, strategic sourcing with Weight Watchers International (New York City); he also has held management-level purchasing posts with Dale and Thomas Popcorn and Dunkin Brands Inc. He is based at PIM's corporate headquarters here.
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HQN, Nov 2004, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 0373770111 Ellie Peters enjoys her work as a UN interpreter, loves her dog Barnaby, but wishes her sex life was better as she has not had a boyfriend since Brian left for LA and he was a loser. When she reflects on her life she realizes that she has not had a good orgasm since her fianc� Michael Deavers dumped her without explanation seven years ago in DC. Her mother informs her that she is leaving her cheat...
Diamond in the Rough
Prudence Daniels runs a ranch in Colorado Territory in 1875 and provides a home and employment to unwed pregnant women. Her ranch is losing cattle. She grieves for her sister who died, unwed, due to a pregnancy complication. Brock Peters, a lawyer, grieves for his wife and son who died from cholera. He brings a pregnant girl to Prudence's ranch and ends up hired as ranch manager. During his stay he notices that cattle are being lost and decides to i...
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Ivy, Jan 2004, 6.99 ISBN: 0804119945 In Baltimore, Mia DeNero received her diploma from a bodyguard school after almost accidentally killing the instructor and needing her sister the lawyer to receive it. She opened the Guardian Angel Protective Services, but has no clients perhaps because no one can picture a midget like Mia keeping someone safe. True crime writer Niccolo Caruso hires Mia when he claims he is in danger because he is writing a ...
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Ivy, May 2002, 6.99, 336 pp. ISBN: 0804119937 In high school in Baltimore, Angela DeNero dated Tony Stefano, but had a secret crush on John Franco (he became a lawyer not a pitcher). Surprisingly, John shared her feelings, but neither admitted the attraction probably more out of fear, but somewhat out of loyalty to Tony. Both goes on to college and law school, but during all that education, they never set eyes on one another. Seeing each oth...


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Developmental dysplasia of the hipDevelopmental dislocation of the hip joint; Developmental hip dysplasia; DDH; Congenital dysplasia of the hip; Congenital dislocation of the hip; CDH; Pavlik harness
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a dislocation of the hip joint that is present at birth. The condition is found in babies or young children.
The hip is a ball and socket joint. The ball is called the femoral head. It forms the top part of the thigh bone (femur). The socket (acetabulum) forms in the pelvic bone.
In some newborns, the socket is too shallow and the ball (thigh bone) may slip out of the socket, either part of the way or completely. One or both hips may be involved.
The cause is unknown. Low levels of amniotic fluid in the womb during pregnancy can increase a baby's risk of DDH. Other risk factors include:
- Being the first child
- Being female
- Breech position during pregnancy, in which the baby's bottom is down
- Family history of the disorder
- Large birth weight
DDH occurs in about 1 to 1.5 of 1,000 births.
There may be no symptoms. Symptoms that may occur in a newborn can include:
- Leg with hip problem may appear to turn out more
- Reduced movement on the side of the body with the dislocation
- Shorter leg on the side with the hip dislocation
- Uneven skin folds of thigh or buttocks
After 3 months of age, the affected leg may turn outward or be shorter than the other leg.
Once the child begins walking, symptoms can include:
- Waddling or limping while walking
- One shorter leg,so the child walks on their toes on one side and not the other side
- The child's lower back is rounded inward
Exams and Tests
Pediatric health care providers routinely screen all newborns and infants for hip dysplasia. There are several methods to detect a dislocated hip or a hip that is able to be dislocated.
The most common method of identifying the condition is a physical exam of the hips, which involves applying pressure while moving the hips. The health care provider listens for any clicks, clunks, or pops.
Ultrasound of the hip is used in younger infants to confirm the problem. An x-ray of the hip joint may help diagnose the condition in older infants and children.
A hip that is truly dislocated in an infant should be detected at birth, but some cases are mild and symptoms may not develop until after birth, which is why multiple exams are recommended. Some mild cases are silent and cannot be found during a physical exam.
When the problem is found during the first 6 months of life, a device or harness is used to keep the legs apart and turned outward (frog-leg position). This device will usually hold the hip joint in place while the child grows.
This harness works for most infants when it is started before age 6 months, but it is less likely to work for older children.
Children who do not improve, or who are diagnosed after 6 months often need surgery. After surgery, a cast will be placed on the child's leg for a period of time.
Outlook (Prognosis)
If hip dysplasia is found in the first few months of life, it can almost always be treated successfully with a positioning device (bracing). In a few cases, surgery is needed to put the hip back in joint.
Hip dysplasia that is found after early infancy may lead to a worse outcome and may need more complex surgery to fix the problem.
Possible Complications
Bracing devices may cause skin irritation. Differences in the lengths of the legs may persist despite appropriate treatment.
Untreated, hip dysplasia will lead to arthritis and deterioration of the hip, which can be severely debilitating.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you suspect that your child's hip is not properly positioned.
Sankar WN, Horn DB, Wells L, Dormans JP. The hip. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 670.
Cooperman DR, Thompson GH. Neonatal orthopedics. In: Martin RJ, Fanaroff AA, Walsh MC, eds. Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. 9th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier;2010:chap 54.
Review Date: 1/27/2013
Reviewed By: Jennifer K. Mannheim, ARNP, Medical Staff, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Seattle Children's Hospital. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.