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Top Line: Malkin makes a difference; Bruins, Leafs both face demons; more
By Allan Muir
An annotated guide to this morning's must-read hockey stories:
• Evgeni Malkin's patience made the difference as Pittsburgh came from behind three times before finally knocking off the pesky Islanders.
• Chris Kunitz is involved in a tug-of-war between Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Poor guy. Kate Upton is calling him at all hours too, probably.
• After a series in which they won over fans with the promise of youth, the Islanders matter again in New York.
• If finishing as a Hart Trophy finalist didn't do the trick, then John Tavares's strong playoff debut marked the moment when he officially became a star in the NHL.
• Scott Cullen looks at some of the numbers that defined the Pens/Isles series.
• If the Bruins are to avoid a seventh game against the Leafs on Monday, it would help if Tyler Seguin and Brad Marchand bothered to show up for Game 6 on Sunday night. Lots of chances, zero finishes for the two speedsters so far in the series.
• Game 6 is set for Toronto's Air Canada Centre, but home hasn't exactly been sweet for the Maple Leafs. It hasn't been that great for the Bruins in this series, either. The last four games have been won by the road team.
• Damien Cox writes that both the Bruins and Leafs have demons to face in Game 6.
• The Rangers were 3-1 in elimination games during the 2012 playoffs. This year's squad puts itself to the test for the first time tonight at home against the Caps.
• The Rangers may need to call on Chris Kreider if Ryan Clowe is unable to go today. The burly winger could miss Game 6 with an undisclosed injury.
• The Caps are looking for a fast start to give them the edge they need in Game 6.
• First-rounder Tom Wilson made his NHL debut in Game 5. Here's how one Capitals fan made the night extra special for Wilson's dad. Very, very cool.
• The Red Wings spent some time in the pool Saturday to escape the tension of tonight's pivotal Game 7 against the Ducks.
• Detroit's keys to victory for the contest? They begin, and end, with goaltender Jimmy Howard.
• How he plays tonight could go a long way in determining Valtteri Filppula's fate in Detroit. I say if the Wings lose, he'll have played his last game with the organization.
• Lisa Dillman describes the nervous excitement of a Game 7 as being like "Christmas morning wrapped up with a trip to the dentist." A lede that good demands you read the rest of the story, doesn't it?
• Patrick Sharp doesn't care whether the Hawks face the Red Wings or the Sharks in round two. "I dislike them both equally," he said.
• Could Darren Pastor be the white knight Coyotes fans have been praying for? After reportedly putting in a bid for the team Friday, we could know soon.
• The St. Louis Blues have a crowd in the net. A heated argument between Ken Hitchcock and Jaroslav Halak before Game 4 of their series against the Kings may have just solved that problem.
• World Championship rosters are being buttressed by players from teams already eliminated in the playoffs. Here's a look at some of the latest arrivals in Helsinki and in Stockholm, where Canada is set to face off against the Czechs.in Canada's smallest, toughest league


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Curator Michael Gregg, of the Maritime History department of the Western Australian Museum in Fremantle, recently visited the Scienceworks collection store to take highly specialised photographs of a model ship in our Transport Collection.
Michael Gregg with the model of pearling lugger Mary.Source: Museum Victoria
The model is an exact replica of the pearling lugger Mary that operated out of Broome and Darwin in the 1920s and 30s. It was commissioned and partly constructed by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Ingleton RAN in the 1930s to document a uniquely Australian type of vessel that was rapidly disappearing.
In 1913, the pearling industry was worth a fortune to Western Australia in exports. As Michael puts it, "Australia didn't ride on sheep's back, it was on the pearl oyster's back." In one year alone, 300 new luggers were registered. "At one stage, the guy who built this boat was turning out a new lugger every 14 days."
Michael is interested in the model because it captures details of design and construction that have been lost with the demise of the pearling lugger. "There are no Fremantle-built pearling luggers still in existence in their original form," explains Michael. This is in part due to mechanisation; the original Mary was herself fitted with an engine by the 1930s. But more significant was the illegal rebuilding of luggers and recycling of registration numbers by unscrupulous operators. World War II took a toll on the lugger fleet also, as boats were requisitioned by the Navy or destroyed ahead of a feared Japanese invasion..
"There were all sorts of shenanigans that went on with the pearling industry," Michael says. "The best way to run the industry economically was to import Malay and Japanese labour. Come the early 1900s, the White Australia Policy meant you could bring in indentured seamen to work on ships for up to two years but they were only allowed to work as crew, not boatbuilders." Pearling masters got around this technicality by signing up imported labour as crew, but quietly issuing them boatbuilding tasks as 'maintenance'.
There were three distinct types of pearling lugger built to cope with the different conditions in Broome, the Torres Strait and Shark Bay. The nature of these vessels – rapidly built to a standard pattern and considered reasonably expendable – means they were rarely preserved in model form. It was only Ingleton's interest in recording history that inspired the construction of this model, and it's being used now exactly as Ingleton intended.
Detail of the Mary model showing its beautifully detailed rigging and fittings.Source: Museum Victoria
"We were just gobsmacked when we discovered this model because we thought we knew of all the significant lugger material in Australia," says Michael. "We regularly trawl the net looking for references to pearling luggers. Because there was sufficient information in your Collections Online and it's searchable, it popped up in Google." One of the most exciting prospects for the model, and the reason for Michael's visit, is that he's using it to help develop photogrammetric software and techniques that will conserve Australia's maritime technology.
Michael Gregg at work taking photos of the pearling lugger model in the Scienceworks collection store, experimenting with a 3D camera.Source: Museum Victoria
Photogrammetry uses a series of photos analysed by a computer to build a 3D virtual model of an object. According to Michael, it's commonly used by police to help reconstruct road crashes. "It's great for working out the distance between two points in space, but we're really pushing the boundaries of what it can do." While the process will be most useful in recording full-sized ships, the Mary model invites some experimentation; he was using a 3D camera see if it would help simplify the laborious process of matching target points between different photographs. "It's much easier to work on a full-sized boat because you can stick targets all over it and nobody minds. With a museum-quality model, we can't do that. This is the first time I've recorded rigging simultaneously, too."
Michael sees photogrammetry as an incredibly useful tool for museums and more. Ultimately he hopes the software and techniques he and his colleagues are developing can do something absolutely extraordinary: use historical photographs to create something you can hold in your hand. The craze for stereoscopic photographs around the turn of the century produced countless images of one view from two slightly different angles, and these might one day allow 3D recreations of long-gone ships, buildings, artefacts and more. "It's very, very exciting."
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Norco animal control officers launched an investigation after a dead horse was found on a trail in the city on Wednesday.
The black horse was initially picked up by the Norco Animal Rescue Team, a volunteer group, in the morning on a trail off Hamner Avenue and north of Detroit Street.
The animal was then turned over to animal control authorities, said Melvin Sparks III, senior animal control officer.
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CHINO - Chino Valley Unified will offer transitional kindergarten come the next school year.
The district's program gives children additional time to develop the necessary social and academic skills for success throughout their school experience.
Transitional kindergarten is designed for children who may not be socially and/or academically ready for entry into a traditional kindergarten program, although they were previously age-eligible, according to a district news release.
Many parents feel their children may not be quite ready for the academic rigor of today's kindergarten. These students often have birthdays in the fall and may still be developing the skills they need for academic work. Just as children learn to walk and talk at various rates of developmental growth, academic readiness occurs at different times in different children.
Under a new state law, students can enroll in a two year transitional kindergarten program, which is designed for students who will turn five between Oct. 2 and Dec. 2 for the 2013-14 school year.
Transitional kindergarten is based on the California Kindergarten Standards, including focused instruction in prereading and math readiness skills with a strong emphasis on self-regulation and social engagement.
Transitional kindergarten will be offered at a few CVUSD schools, but each student will return to their neighborhood school the following year for kindergarten.
The program is part of the public school system and is free for families.
The CVUSD daily schedule includes whole group instruction and activities, small group instruction, and independent "hands-on" learning. In additional to pre-reading and math readiness experiences, transitional kindergartners participate in numerous activities such as music, art, social, and motor skills development.
Classes will be taught by credentialed teachers from the K-12 system.
Students can be enrolled in the same manner as kinder students, at the neighborhood schools.


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Apple today announced a new refresh to its line of iPods that include the iPod, the Nano, and the Shuffle. The new iPod will have a 60-percent brighter screen and have an increased video playback time of 3.5 hours, which is roughly 1.5 hours more than the current iPod. Apple will also be releasing a bigger capacity iPod that sports an internal 80GB hard drive that can play video for 6.5 hours.
The iPod Nano will also receive a refresh. Apple today announced that the iPod Nano will now be all aluminum and available in various colors. Currently, the iPod Nano is made of plastic and was previously reported to be easily scratched. Available colors for the new iPod Nano are green, silver, black, blue and pink. Apple will be making the new iPod Nano in three flavors: 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. The 2GB iPod Nano will only be available in silver color.
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Topic: Roll Call problem?
I hate to sprinkle cold water on this idea as it is obviously one that is appreciated by many people. But if it is taken to it's logical conclusion it will become so long and unwieldy that it will be very difficult to use.
I remember when I first registered I was invited to complete a patient profile, which was password protected. Could something like that not be resurrected? It would have the benefit of being alphabetical, easily updated and having a reasonably standard input form.


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'"Very difficult. Extremely difficult," Regier told a packed media room at the First Niagara Center about his conversation with Ruff. "But this is professional sports. He understood it. He was extremely professional. It's a tough thing. It really is."'
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The Sheridan College Rodeo Team had a good weekend in Casper. The men's team ended up 5th, with with 220 points and the women's team ended up 4th, with 195 points.
In the bareback riding, Shane Stevens was 60 points on his first horse and 64 points on his short go horse. Tate Schwagler had a great ride in the long-go, earning 78 points and placing 2nd in the long round. He was 61 on his short go horse and ended up 4th in the average.
TROOPER BASEBALL - The Sheridan Troopers are scheduled to open the 2013 season Saturday at Thorne-Rider stadium in a double header with Cody.
Head coach Ben Phillips says the main focus during the early season is making sure his pitching staff is ready to throw a good amount of innings. The plan is to start Drew Adrieans in the opener he is currently a red-shirt pitcher and Montana state-Billings.
TRACK AND FIELD - The Sheridan high school got the annual spring "Dan Hansen" Sheridan invitational in on Saturday. In team scores the Broncs and Lady Broncs were both 6th.
In the girls standings Big Horn was 10th, Tongue River was 13th and Arvada / Clearmont was 18th.
The Boys results had Big Horn 7th and Tongue River 13th full results from the meet are on the sports page at sheridanmedia.com.
This week all state qualifiers are scheduled to compete at the Wyoming track classic Friday at Casper Kelly Walsh high school and Saturday kw will host the Casper Invitational
Buffalo High School athletes were back in action this weekend after some time off forced by some inclement weather.
Girls 100 Meter Dash Varsity
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2 Edeen, Gabby Sheridan Hig 12.67 12.51 5 8
3 Welch, Megan Cody 13.34 12.91 4 6
4 Timberman, Dayanera Kelly Walsh 12.87 12.99 5 5
5 Mcginnis, Lindsey Bismarck Cen 13.40 13.00 4 4
6 Richards, Crystal Sheridan Hig 13.27 13.08 4 3
Buffalo High School's sports teams were expected to get back in action this weekend after some weather-related cancellations and postponements over the last week or so, but that will not be the case for some.
SHS TRACK / FIELD - The Sheridan high school track teams had to cancel the "Gary Benson" track meet set for today.
Saturday 's annual spring "Dan Hansen" Sheridan invitational is still on schedule events are to begin at 10:00
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams start the second round of conference play this week against Laramie and Cheyenne South the Broncs will be at home the Lady Broncs travel.
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text: Retrospective moves onto the 1990 World Championships The Key facts in relation to these championships were:- Kurt Browning retains the world title he won for the first time the previous season. Petrenko actually won the short program (known as the 'original program' back then), with Browning 2nd. This left Petrenko in 1st place overall entering the free program, with Browning back in 2nd. However, a good long program (which contained some errors) from Browning meant that he won both the free skate and the title. He was scheduled to do a 4T in his FS, but went for a 3T+2T combination instead. Other highlights from the program included a 3A+2R combination. Bowman was in 5th place overall after the short program, but a good free skate moved him up to 3rd to take the bronze. Jill Trenary wins the world title. Midori Ito was the reigning world champion going into the championships, but effectively lost her title during the compulsories, in which she finished 10th. Despite Ito winning the short and free program segments, it was not quite enough, and she finished 2nd overall. Nevertheless, Trenary almost clutched defeat from the jaws of victory with a very poor short program (she finished 5th in that segment), but unlike during the previous world championships, she held her nerve during the long program (finishing 2nd in that segment) to take the world title. Trenary missed most of the 1990/91 season due to a serious ankle injury, and therefore missed the 1991 world championships. Unfortunately, the injury took a long time to mend and prevented her from regaining her previous form in time for 1992 nationals, where she needed to be competitive to qualify for the 1992 Olympics. This, in combination with the elimination of compulsory figures (which were key to her winning the 1990 World Championships), led her to make the decision to retire in December 1991. The 1989/90 season was the last season in which compulsory figures featured Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov win their 4th world title. Gordeeva had been having problems with her jumps throughout the season due to body changes (they had been 3rd entering the free skate at Europeans due to a poor SP, but a better LP enabled them to take the European title), and although their Romeo & Juliet (Tchaikovsky) LP was not clean, they did enough to retain their world title. It was their last competition before retiring for the first time. They would make a successful comeback during the 1993/94 season, in which they would win a 2nd Olympic title and a 5th world title. Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev take part at worlds for the first time, winning the bronze medal. Following Gordeeva & Grinkov's retirement, they would go on to win the world title for the next 2 seasons and win the Olympic title at the 1992 Olympics. Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko retain the world title which they had won for the first time the previous season. Their My Fair Lady FD was quite simply brilliant. They had a large lead going into the FD, but they finished 2nd to the Duchesnay's in the FD phase of the competition (the Duchesnay's were given five 6.0's for their FD). Nevertheless, their lead going into that segment was enough to enable them to win overall. Here are the videos for the medal winning performances:- MEN'S Gold: Kurt Browning (Canada) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition 1, Exhibition 2, Interview Silver: Viktor Petrenko (USSR) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition, Interview Bronze: Christopher Bowman (USA) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition, Profile, Interview 4th: Grzegorz Filipowski (Poland) Free Skate, Exhibition 5th: Todd Eldredge (USA) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition 6th: Petr Barna (Czechoslovakia) Short Program, Free Skate 7th: Richard Zander (West Germany) Short Program, Free Skate 8th: Viacheslav Zagorodniuk (USSR) Short Program, Free Skate 9th: Elvis Stojko (Canada) Short Program, Free Skate 10th: Paul Wylie (USA) Free Skate 11th: Michael Slipchuk (Canada) Short Program, Free Skate 12th: Cameron Medhurst (Australia) Free Skate 13th: Oliver Höner (Switzerland) Free Skate 14th: Philippe Candeloro (France) Free Skate 15th: Jung Sung-Il (South Korea) Free Skate 16th: Alessandro Riccitelli (Italy) Free Skate 17th: András Száraz (Hungary) Free Skate 18th: Steven Cousins (Great Britain) Free Skate 19th: Ralph Burghart (Austria) Free Skate 20th: Oula Jääskeläinen (Finland) Free Skate LADIES Gold: Jill Trenary (USA) Compulsory Figures, Short Program, Free Skate, Profile, Preview Silver: Midori Ito (Japan) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition, Profile Bronze: Holly Cook (USA) Short Program, Free Skate, Exhibition 4th: Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) Free Skate, Exhibition, Profile 5th: Natalia Lebedeva (USSR) Short Program, Free Skate 6th: Lisa Sargeant (Canada) Short Program, Free Skate 7th: Patricia Neske (West Germany) Short Program, Free Skate 8th: Evelyn Grossmann (East Germany) Short Program, Free Skate 9th: Surya Bonaly (France) Short Program, Free Skate 10th: Marina Kielmann (West Germany) Short Program, Free Skate 11th: Tamara Téglássy (Hungary) Short Program, Free Skate 13th: Beatrice Gelmini (Italy) Short Program 14th: Yuka Sato (Japan) Free Skate 15th: Tanja Krienke (East Germany) Free Skate 16th: Sabine Contini (Italy) Free Skate 18th: Zeljka Cizmesija (Yugoslavia) Short Program 19th: Helene Persson (Sweden) Free Skate 20th: Anisette Torp-Lind (Denmark) Free Skate PAIRS Gold: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR) Short Program, Long Program, Exhibition, Medal Ceremony, Profile Silver: Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler (Canada) Short Program, Long Program, Interview Bronze: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev (USSR) Short Program, Long Program, Exhibition 4th: Larisa Selezneva & Oleg Makarov (USSR) Short Program, Long Program 5th: Kristi Yamaguchi & Rudy Galindo (USA) Short Program, Long Program 6th: Christine Hough & Doug Ladret (Canada) Short Program, Long Program 7th: Mandy Wötzel & Axel Rauschenbach (East Germany) Long Program 8th: Radka Kovaříková & René Novotný (Czechoslovakia) Short Program, Long Program 9th: Cindy Landry & Lyndon Johnston (Canada) Short Program, Long Program 10th: Peggy Schwarz & Alexander König (East Germany) Short Program, Long Program 11th: Natasha Kuchiki & Todd Sand (USA) Short Program, Free Skate 12th: Anuschka Gläser & Stefan Pfrengle (West Germany) Short Program 13th: Sharon Carz & Doug Williams (USA) Short Program, Long Program 15th: Catherine Barker & Michael Aldred (Great Britain) Short Program ICE DANCE Gold: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR) OSP, Free Dance, Medal Ceremony Silver: Isabelle Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay (France) OSP, Free Dance Bronze: Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin (USSR) OSP, Free Dance, Exhibition 4th: Susan Wynne & Joseph Druar (USA) Free Dance 5th: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeni Platov (USSR) Free Dance 6th: Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko (Finland) Free Dance 7th: Jo Anne Borlase & Martin Smith (Canada) OSP, Free Dance 9th: Michelle McDonald & Mark Mitchell (Canada) OSP, Free Dance 10th: Stefania Calegari & Pasquale Camerlengo (Italy) Free Dance 11th: Ivana Strondalova & Milan Brzy (Czechoslovakia) Free Dance 12th: Isabelle Sarech & Xavier Debernis (France) Free Dance 14th: Anna Croci & Luca Mantovani (Italy) Free Dance 16th: Regina Woodward & Csaba Szentpéteri (Hungary) Free Dance 17th: Lynn Burton & Andrew Place (Great Britain) OSP, Free Dance 19th: Kaoru Takino & Kenji Takino (Japan) Free Dance


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Why would Obama act now, after two years of letting Bashar al-Assad massacre 10,000 of his people?
With the possible exception of Rand Paul, we can all agree that BP hasn't had its act together for a very long time.
This is not a million-dollar act," he told one performer, "this is not a $100 act.
But there are also those to whom this act becomes not a transition for sex, but the center of activity.
Yes, he writes, a nuclear bomb will again be detonated in an act of war.
Such an act is not a legislative phenomenon but a psychopathic one.
Honour and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honour lies.
And for that act of goodness, Uncle Matthew had gone to his grave under stigma.
A moment afterward Clif heard him in the act of striking a match.
I propose that we act on Tress's suggestion, and go and make inquiries of him.
late 14c., "a thing done," from Old French acte "(official) document," and directly from Latin actus "a doing, a driving, impulse; a part in a play, act," and actum "a thing done," originally a legal term, both from agere "to do, set in motion, drive, urge, chase, stir up," from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move" (cf. Greek agein "to lead, guide, drive, carry off," agon "assembly, contest in the games," agogos "leader;" Sanskrit ajati "drives," ajirah "moving, active;" Old Norse aka "to drive;" Middle Irish ag "battle").
Theatrical ("part of a play," 1510s) and legislative (early 15c.) senses of the word also were in Latin. Meaning "display of exaggerated behavior" is from 1928. In the act "in the process" is from 1590s, perhaps originally from the 16c. sense of the act as "sexual intercourse." Act of God "uncontrollable natural force" recorded by 1726.
An act of God is an accident which arises from a cause which operates without interference or aid from man (1 Pars. on Cont. 635); the loss arising wherefrom cannot be guarded against by the ordinary exertions of human skill and prudence so as to prevent its effect. [William Wait, "General Principles of the Law," Albany, 1879]
mid-15c., "to act upon or adjudicate" a legal case; 1590s in the theatrical sense, from Latin actus, past participle of agere (see act (n.)). To act up "be unruly" is from 1903. To act out "behave anti-socially" (1974) is from psychiatric sense of "expressing one's unconscious impulses or desires." Related: Acted; acting.
Related Terms
a class act, clean up one's act, do the dutch, go into one's act, sister act


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I wanted to share with you all a super easy eggs for supper recipe that I tried last week when my hubby was away.
I started off throwing some cherry tomatoes and garlic in a cast iron skillet and tossing with a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper.
Whirl it up.
Spoon it into a ramekin (this is the adorable part) or a non-stick muffin tin if you don't have ramekins. Top with an egg, parmesan cheese, and fresh basil and pop it into the oven.
If you like a softer yolk, you can cook it a little less. Also, if you have farm fresh eggs, this will taste all the better. I enjoyed mine with an avocado half drizzled with pistachio oil and it was absolute heaven.
I hope you'll pop by some to visit. Thanks again, Terri, for having me.
Thank you, Terry! This sounds delicious!!


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when i read these forums (and the other too) the thing is see a lot from Theravada buddhists is there is never any end to quotes. it's like one must know a million suttas.
yet when i was a Zen buddhist this was never the case, now i read way more than i had to, but it seems like in zen, all you need to know is a few key sutras, some old stories and a few books by a few masters and you were set. the rest was just zazen. and you could get rather far with this. direct experience was the key not quotes and study.
is this even possible in theravada? is there an equivilent? or must we all become scholars?


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We reached our deadline and this event is now over!
We've put a $4,500 bounty on the heads of Envato's most wanted file type – TypeEngine Themes on ThemeForest. How do you collect? Be one of the first 10 to have a TypeEngine Theme uploaded and approved. What's the reward? We'll hand out $400 per TypeEngine Theme.
We're also running a Best Item Contest (voted by the Envato community). Authors of all TypeEngine Themes submitted between, September 23 and December 2 will have a chance to win a $500 bonus cash prize.The winners for the bonus prizes will be chosen by you the ThemeForest Community. Here are a few of the rules:
- Authors who successfully submit an item to this Most Wanted event have a chance to vote for the winner.
- Authors will receive a message with details on how to vote at the end of the Most Wanted event.
- Authors cannot vote for their own item. (If you do, your vote will not count.)
- If an author submits more than one item, they do not get another vote.
- Voting will be open for seven days.
To help get you started developing TypeEngine themes, there were 2 Live Training sessions with the masterminds behind TypeEngine:
It's a Race and Contest!This Envato's Most Wanted is a race and a contest. And like any contest, you don't want to be disqualified because you didn't follow the rules. So as well as carefully following the procedure below, make sure you read the rules in full!
Here are the key details:
- Submit your items on or after Monday, September 23 and before the competition closes on Monday, December 2 at 12pm Central US time.
- The winning files will get a share of $4,500 of prizes! That's 10 x $400 and 1 x $500 bonus prize.
- All submissions during the event are eligible for the Bonus Prizes, not just the first 10 winners.
- Envato community to vote on entries/winners.
- For the first 10 prizes: each author is allowed to win two prizes.
- TypeEngine theme must include a minimum of 6+ article templates.
- Prizes are payable only via PayPal or Moneybookers/Skrill.
- All winners will also receive the much-desired Most Wanted Bounty Winner badge.
- Bonus prize winner will also receive a "Won a Contest" badge.
How to Submit Your Items
- Upload your items according to the normal upload instructions.
- Make sure your familiar with the ThemeForest Submission Requirements
- Make sure your familiar with the TypeEngine Theme Requirements
- You will find the new TypeEngine category during the first step of the upload process.
- Multiple submissions from the same author must be different to one another.
- Submit your items here: ThemeForest > TypeEngine Themes (category currently in beta until items are submitted).
What to Do After Your Items Are ApprovedOnce your items have been approved, do the following as soon as you can:
- Complete the Most Wanted Entry Agreement. By doing this, you agree to keep any winning entries online for a minimum of two years.
- Post your approved entries in this thread.
It's as simple as that! The first 10 files to be uploaded (and subsequently approved) based on the above requirements win. Good luck!
Interesting Stuff there
Live Training session with the masterminds behind TypeEngine to be held this Thursday 26th September at 10am PDT (5pm GMT) using GoToWebinar. Register your interest here
(There will be another training session with a time slot better suited for Europe. Stay tuned for details!)
Hey guys, Daniel Genser (Creative Director and Co-founder of TypeEngine) here! The guys here at Envato of done a great job with pulling this info together. However, feel free to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com anytime with questions, or hit us up on Twitter/App.net/Facebook/Google+ (We're TypeEngine at all of the above).
Thanks and looking forward to meeting you at the web meetup this Thursday at 10am PDT!
2nd Live Training session with TypeEngine to be held Thursday 3rd October at 12pm PDT (7pm GMT) Register your interest here
Sounds like a great opportunity. I'm in!
Sounds great.
Bummer. I missed the training session. Is there an archive of the session available?
I hope this will help – http://typeengine.net/theme-developer-webinar-recording-is-up/
..Additionally, if you follow @TypeEngine on twitter they are posting about the latest offerings on the app store to give you an idea of what people are currently making.
vector13 said
Bummer. I missed the training session. Is there an archive of the session available?
Not to worry! Both training sessions were recorded by TypeEngine, so you can watch and re-watch them anytime
I would start by watching the second & most recent training session here:
The initial training session covered similar ground, but had a much more extensive Q & A section, so it may fill in any gaps if you still have unanswered questions after checking out the first link above:
If you still have any questions after that, feel free to post them here! We'll also be posting a written TypeEngine tutorial on Tuts+ in the near future, so stay tuned.


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Microsoft could release a range of Surface phones to compliment its Windows 8 Surface tablets if the latest online rumours come to fruition.
Windows Phone blog WPArea spotted a Microsoft Surface Phone device on Windows Phone benchmark software WP Bench, suggesting that the Redmond software giant has a Surface-inspired mobile deep within its labs.
If true, we could see the first Microsoft Surface phones launch around the end of next month to coincide with Windows 8's October 26th release date – although we're taking the rumour with a hefty pinch of salt for the time being.
Still, if the end product resembles designer Jonas Daehnert's Microsoft Surface phone concept above, we'll be happy gadgeteers indeed.
[WPArea via ElectricPig]
BBC iPlayer update lets you download shows to iPhone and iPad
BlackBerry London snapped in the wild
New video! Toshiba Satellite U920t is a Windows 8 Ultrabook and tablet


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New York Philharmonic Launches CONTACT Series in April
CONTACT!, the New York Philharmonic's new music series, is in its fourth season. In this second of two programs, Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts a program of recent European works. Principal Oboe Liang Wang is featured in the U.S. premiere of Poul Ruders's Oboe Concerto (1998). Unsuk Chin's Gougalon (2012) has its U.S. premiere performance, as does Yann Robin's Backdraft (2012), a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic and the Fundacao Casa da Musica, Portugal. And Anders Hillborg's Vaporized Tivoli (2010) has its New York premiere.
Ticket-holders are invited to a reception after the concert, with beer provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
Principal Oboe Liang Wang, The Alice Tully Chair, joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2006. Previously, he was principal oboe of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (2005-06) and principal oboe of the Santa Fe Opera (2004-05). Born in Qingdao, China, in 1980, Mr. Wang began oboe studies at the age of seven. In 1993 he enrolled at the Beijing Central Conservatory, and two years later became a full-scholarship student at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. He completed his bachelor's degree in 2003 at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Philadelphia Orchestra principal oboe Richard Woodhams.
Tickets: $20
Bring the Kids! $1 tickets available, see www.metmuseum.org/tickets
Friday, April 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action: The Dark Arts of the Viola
In four concerts during the 2012-13 season, New York's dynamic young Salomé Chamber Orchestra will present programs featuring members and guest artists performing on instruments from The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments, a selection of which will be on view in the Metropolitan Museum's André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments through June 30, 2013.
These concerts are made possible by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
In this program, violinist Philippe Quint joins Salomé co-founders Sean Avram Carpenter and violist David Aaron Carpenter in performances of works featuring viola: Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and String Orchestra, K. 364; Lera Auerbach's Sogno di Stabat Mater for Violin, Viola, Vibraphone, and Orchestra (2008); and and Paganini's Sonata per la Grand Viola et Orchestra Op. 35, featuring violist David Aaron Carpenter, violinist Philippe Quint (performing on the "Bavarian" Stradivari in the Mozart work), and violinist Sean Carpenter (performing on the "Baltic" Guarneri del Gesù of 1731).
This is the first time that musical instruments from the renowned collection assembled by Sau-Wing Lam (1923-1988) are on public display in the United States. The instruments on view-nine violins and one viola-include such masterpieces as the Baltic violin by Giuseppe Guarneri "del Gesù" (1698-1744) and the Scotland University and Bavarian violins by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). The opening date of the installation, December 18, coincided with the 275th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari.
The Salomé Chamber Orchestra, New York City's electrifying new conductor-less string ensemble, was formed in September 2009. Founded by the Carpenter siblings (violinists Sean and Lauren and violist David), Salomé is dedicated to advancing the works of both underappreciated and well-recognized chamber composers, and to performing a broad range of repertoire from Baroque to contemporary. Salomé's intelligent, artistic, and interdisciplinary approach to music-making produces refreshing and vibrant performances that attest to the wealth of talent that can be found in this great city and in this generation of musicians. www.salomechamber.org
This event is in conjunction with the exhibition The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments on view through June 30, 2013. The exhibition is made possible by The Amati, Friends of the Department of Musical Instruments.
Tickets: $35
Bring the Kids! $1 tickets available, see www.metmuseum.org/tickets
Saturday, April 27, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. in The Charles Engelhard Court
Dan Deacon in The Charles Engelhard Court - World Premiere, MMA Commission
Electronic composer and party instigator Dan Deacon performs in places ranging from the streets to the clubs to Carnegie Hall. His latest project, America, is a love letter and a call to action. In a New York Times profile, Deacon stated: "it's impossible to think about the land without the history of it, and that's a mixture of guilt and shame." Deacon brings his fluorescent creativity to the Met Museum with a new music/video piece, specifically created for The Charles Engelhard Court in the Met's American Wing. This once-in-a-lifetime performance, combining audience-triggered sound and light, video projection with live and electronic sounds, explores Dan's commitment to civic responsibility through the lens of innovative multimedia performance. "If Dan Deacon comes your way, go...It will change your life forever," says Bob Boilen of NPR Music. "Oh, and the music is insanely good." www.dandeacon.com
Watch and listen to Dan Deacon in performance on the event page.
Deacon says about his work America, "Compositionally, America is layering of dichotomies: light and dark, acoustic and synthetic, celebration and contemplation. The result can be heard as simple or complex depending on how one listens to it. The music is rooted in triadic harmony set to a fixed pulse while the individual lines are complex, phasing layers of sound. The outcomes are dense asymmetrically rhythmic phrases of textured patterns framed as pop songs.
"The inspiration for the music was my love of cross-country travel, seeing the landscapes of the United States, going from east to west and back again over the course of seasons. The lyrics are inspired by my frustration, fear and anger towards the country and world I live in and am a part of. As I came closer to finishing the album these themes began to show themselves more frequently and greater clarity. There seemed no better world to encapsulate both inspirations than the simple beauty found in the word America."
Tickets: $27 Unreserved seating
Every Friday and Saturday, 5:00-8:00 p.m. on the Balcony Bar-Free with admission
ETHEL and Friends


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Caged Steel Amatuer (No headshots) interclub
This is a small interclub event to be held in our gym for over 16's, the fights will held in a 20ft cage. It is intended for novices wanting to try their hand at competition before going onto established events. It will be jointly run by Caged Steel and Fulinkazan. The show is presented by Caged Steel and is called "Sprawl n Brawl" "Rookies"
It is no headshots amatuer mma for anyone who has not competed before at mma or at the most have had 1 amatuer fight before. Whether you agree or disagree with no-headshots rules there is a demand for it.
We have interest in this already from local gyms but we decided to open it up to anyone else interested. There is a cut off point for the amount of fighters per weight bracket, first come first served.
The finalist from 2 of the weight brackets (To be chosen on the day) will be invited to fight on Mappuk's "The Champions" MMA event in Bradford 3 weeks later for the amatuer title. We hope to make this a regular thing, depending on success / demand.
VENUE: Caged Steel gym - Dewsbury
DATE: Sunday July 27th
TIME: Weigh-in 12pm First fight 1pm
COST: £10 upfront or £15 on the day, spectators £5
For full rules, entry forms or further information please contact either Neil Hall or Mark Spencer
Neil Hall - Operations Director


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Arts & Culture
Present and AbsentBy Hunter Braithwaite
The art world comes to Mexico City.
In a few hours, a conference room on the fourth floor of Mexico City's Hilton Reforma will swing open and the third day of the Material Art Fair will commence. But it's five a.m., and I'm on the sixth floor, in the heated indoor pool, with about five near-naked and naked artists and a bottle of mescal bobbing in the shallow end. None of us has a room here. Lenin said you can't trust artists because they can navigate all levels of society. In this case, that means all floors of the Hilton.
The evening began yesterday at a Mariachi bar. I proceeded to a store selling giant micheladas that had the mouthfeel of a Papa John's pizza in a cup. Then I went to a grimy rave. Then to the end-of-the-world wealth of a penthouse party in Polanco where the free sushi meant that at least two people were doing blow off of chopsticks, and where, in line for a marble bathroom indecorously coated in piss, I met a Spanish developer named Iggy who was building an entire village with Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architecture firm, on a stretch of virgin Mexican coast. After that, I picked up more mescal and sat on the desolate, please-abduct-me corner of a Centro Histórico street, pulling from the same bottle now bobbing in the Hilton pool's shallow end.
I live in Miami, where for weeks the talk had been about Mexico City. When do you get in? Where are you staying? The contemporary art fairs Zona Maco and Material both opened in the first week of February. Why not go? To work in the culture industry is to justify any type of vacation or prolonged period of dicking around as research.
As a supposed arbiter of transcendence, art and its surrounding world has of late succumbed to stasis and homogeny. Things feel the same. An unceasing focus on the contemporary has culture in the doldrums of a present-tense continuous, defined by a million identical white-cube galleries and purple-carpeted convention halls. But it takes a lot of movement to feel like you're staying in one place. Everyone—collectors, artists, curators, handlers, advisors—is launched into a ceaseless grand tour of the capitals of capital, armed with VIP cards to the nameless Biennials and Fairs wobbling skyward Babel-style.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Miami, which to many seems an art fair with a city attached. The parties and the velvet-rope-divided subjectivities are as much a part of a naturalized cultural terrain as the academy and the museum are in other cities. For artists here, drinking and schmoozing are not just that—they're praxis. So I booked a flight to Mexico City. Everyone was going. Read More


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News & Events
Response to the Emerging Threat of West Nile Virus (WNV)
Statement of
Jesse L.Goodman, M.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Director
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources
House Committee on Government Reform
October 3, 2002
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, I am Dr. Jesse Goodman, an Infectious Diseases physician and scientist and Deputy Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency). I appreciate the opportunity to appear today to discuss FDA's response to the emerging threat of transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) through blood and tissue. One of FDA's primary responsibilities is to help ensure the safety of the nation's blood supply. Within FDA, CBER is responsible for regulating blood and blood-related products. Our goal is to help ensure the safety of the nation's blood supply by minimizing the risk of infectious disease transmission and other hazards, while maintaining an adequate supply.
Since the beginning of this West Nile virus outbreak, we have taken many steps to meet this goal by collaborating closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS or the Department) agencies, while working with our partners in the blood and diagnostics industry to ensure rapid and effective responses to the evolving problem based on the best available information and technologies. I will summarize for you the background, current state of our knowledge and actions, and our process for promptly responding as new information becomes available to enhance blood safety for those who need transfusions.
In 1995, DHHS created the Blood Safety Committee to ensure coordinated activities across the Department. Chaired by the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Committee includes the Commissioner of FDA, the Director of CDC, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There have been periodic meetings to discuss important safety and availability issues concerning the blood supply. On September 13, and October 2, 2002 the issue of West Nile virus was discussed with the Chair of the Blood Safety Committee.
DHHS also established the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (Advisory Committee) to look at broad issues including global public health, legal, ethical, and economic matters related to the blood system. On September 5, 2002, the issue of West Nile virus was discussed at this Advisory Committee meeting so the public and blood industry would be informed of the latest CDC and FDA efforts.
In late September, Secretary Thompson announced the creation of an intergovernmental working group on West Nile virus. CDC and FDA will participate in this working group, and the first meeting is scheduled for October 4, 2002.
In addition to these activities at the Department, the current status of the West Nile virus epidemic was presented as an information item at FDA's Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC) on September 12, 2002. The BPAC considers scientific technical issues related to regulation of blood and tissue. FDA will continue to work with the other DHHS agencies in a collaborative effort to address the public health issues posed by WNV.
In recent years, tremendous steps have been taken that have greatly enhanced the safety of our blood supply. While we now face a new challenge, the American public can be assured that FDA is vigilant in its efforts to keep blood as safe as possible. In July 1997, CBER initiated a Blood Action Plan to increase the effectiveness of our scientific and regulatory actions and to ensure greater coordination with other parts of the Public Health Service (PHS). We recognized then, and recognize now, that potential threats to the blood supply will continue to emerge. We believe that helping to ensure blood safety requires timely action and a coordinated approach. Consequently, FDA works closely with CDC and NIH, and seeks input from consumers and the blood, diagnostic, and biomedical industries, to develop strategies that lead to appropriate studies, risk assessment, communication, and any other prevention strategies or regulatory controls needed to protect the blood supply.
Over a period of years, we progressively strengthened overlapping safeguards that protect patients from unsuitable blood and blood products. FDA's blood-safety system includes the following five measures; all of which are relevant as we address the threat of West Nile virus:
- Donor screening: Donors are provided educational materials and asked specific questions by trained personnel about their health and medical history. Potential donors whose blood may pose a health hazard are asked to exclude themselves. Donors also undergo medical screening to ensure that they are in good health at the time of donation.
- Blood testing: After donation, each unit of donated blood undergoes a series of tests for blood-borne agents such as HIV-1, HIV-2, HBV (hepatitis B virus), HCV (hepatitis C virus), HTLV-1 and HTLV-II (Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Viruses), and the agent of syphilis.
- Donor lists: Blood establishments must keep current a list of individuals who have been deferred as blood or plasma donors and check all potential donors against that list to prevent use of units from deferred donors.
- Quarantine: Donated blood must be quarantined until it is thoroughly tested and the donation records have been verified.
- Problems and deficiencies: Blood establishments must investigate any failures of these safeguards, and correct system deficiencies that are found by the firms or through FDA inspection. Firms must report to FDA any manufacturing problems, e.g., biological product deviations that may affect the safety, purity, or potency of products that were distributed.
If any one of these safeguards fails, affected blood products are considered unsuitable for transfusion and subject to recall.
WNV is the most recent emerging infectious disease threat to public health and, potentially, to the safety of our blood supply. WNV primarily infects birds but can be transmitted to humans and other animals by mosquitoes. While the majority of humans who become infected by the mosquito borne route never develop symptoms, approximately one in 150 develop serious and life-threatening nervous system infection. At this time we do not know whether this proportion would be similar for transmission via transfusion. It is likely that not all patients exposed to WNV by transfusion would develop clinical evidence of infection. However, patients receiving transfusions by definition are already ill and may be at higher risk of developing serious disease, if exposed.
Our information about the risk of transmission of WNV by transfusion has changed dramatically in the last few weeks. Only four weeks ago, the possibility that WNV might be transmitted by blood transfusions was theoretical, as no cases of such transmission had ever been documented here or elsewhere in the world. Even so, we knew that such transmission was plausible because the virus is believed to be present in the blood for a period of a couple of days to weeks early in infection, including the blood of people who never develop symptoms of infection. Thus a donor could feel well but after mosquito exposure, could have the virus present in the blood for a short time and, while unaware of this, could donate blood. However, the risk of such an infected donor transmitting infection was believed to be very low because, unlike classic transfusion-transmitted viruses such as HIV and hepatitis B and C, where individuals may be infected for life, in West Nile infection there is no known chronic carrier state. Persons infected with WNV develop a rapid immune response, which clears the virus from the blood stream. Thus, to pose a risk to recipients, a donor would need to donate blood on one of the relatively few days in which the virus is present in the blood. In addition, levels of virus in the blood, when present, are low compared, for instance, with HIV or hepatitis. Finally, as mentioned, despite three previous years of reported WNV cases in the United States and many years of epidemic infections in other nations, no cases of transfusion transmission had been reported.
Even though the risk was considered theoretical at that time, the growing distribution and increased numbers of WNV cases prompted FDA, working with CDC and NIH, to issue an alert to the blood banking community on August 17, 2002, about the possibility of transfusion-transmitted WNV, and to emphasize the need for careful attention to screening procedures for blood donors, especially the exclusion of donors with even mild symptoms that could represent early or mild WNV infection.
FDA has been working closely with CDC, state health departments, and blood organizations as part of the ongoing investigations of the recent WNV cases where patients had received organ transplants or blood transfusions. Based on the preliminary results of these investigations, we believe that it has been shown that organ transplantation can transmit WNV and that it is highly likely that blood transfusion also has done so. Thus, there is a newly recognized threat to blood safety.
It is important to recognize that the true dimension of the risks of either blood transfusion or transplantation spreading West Nile virus is not defined at this time and more information is critically needed. The risk could be higher or lower than the case reports suggest. Our investigations continue and new information, which shapes our understanding of the risk, comes to light almost daily. We are working closely with CDC, NIH, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and with colleagues in the blood transfusion community, to address this evolving situation and to share new knowledge. We are communicating with Congress, the public, the media, the blood industry, and health professionals. As we have much to learn, we strive to present a clear picture of our evolving understanding of this potential risk.
To better define the risk and to determine what interventions are needed will require more knowledge. We are investigating case reports as they are received. We are also working with CDC, the blood community, and NIH to design and help implement studies that will give us a better idea of what proportion of donors may be infected in areas of differing intensity of disease transmission. We are hopeful that additional studies can provide information as to the degree to which infection of donors then translates into risk for blood recipients. FDA also believes that studies are needed to confirm that long-lived blood stream infection (viremia) does not occur in persons who are potential blood donors. In addition, we are encouraging further studies of the effects of the virus on various conditions of blood product storage and manufacturing. We also are working with our partners to study the incidence of infection in frequently transfused individuals or those receiving plasma derivatives, such as patients with thallassemia, hemophilia, and immune deficiencies, even though existing information indicates that steps normally taken in the manufacturing of plasma derivatives are expected to kill this virus, thus protecting recipients. All of this knowledge, as it becomes available, will help us not only to better understand the nature and the degree of any risk, but also to shape effective policy and better protect the public.
Two reports currently being studied support transmission of WNV by transfusion, and other suspicious cases are being investigated. In one report, two patients who developed WNV infection shortly after receiving blood products likely containing WNV from a donor whose reserve samples were later tested and found to be positive for WNV, confirming that the donor had a WNV infection at the time of donation from Mississippi. In the case of another patient from Mississippi who developed WNV following transfusions of products from multiple donors, three different blood donors to this patient, among the 15 tested, may have carried the WNV at the time of donation. This would obviously suggest far greater prevalence than the predicted prevalence of approximately 1 or 2 in 10,000.
The estimate of 1 or 2 in 10,000 is from a CDC modeling study based on the density of infection during the 1999 epidemic in Queens, New York. Unanswered questions include: Is the West Nile virus persisting longer than expected in the bloodstream of some patients? Was there something unusual about the 15 donors to the Mississippi blood recipient to explain their apparently high rate of infection? Is mosquito borne transmission to certain populations far more intense this year than previously believed? These possibilities are under investigation. Regardless of the answers, we now have a very heightened level of suspicion and concern about all such reports, even if some may represent coincidental occurrence of transfusion and infection. Such coincidences can be expected to occur because the same individuals who need transfusions--the elderly, the chronically ill, and the immunosuppressed--are also most likely at higher risk to develop severe West Nile infection.
Based on the growing distribution and increased number of cases of WNV in this year's epidemic, FDA, working with CDC and NIH, decided it would be prudent to issue an alert on August 17, 2002, to the blood banking community about the possibility of transfusion-transmitted WNV, and to emphasize the need for careful attention to screening procedures for blood donors, especially the exclusion of donors with even mild symptoms that could represent early or mild WNV infection. In addition, where there have been reports suggesting that recipients of blood transfusions may have been infected by donated blood, we have worked with the blood banks and state health departments involved to take a precautionary approach. In these cases, the blood banks, at FDA's request, have withdrawn any untransfused blood components from these donors to protect other potential recipients while we investigate whether the donor(s) may actually have been infected.
More recently, we learned that the Mississippi blood donor, who likely transmitted WNV to a transfusion patient, became ill four days after donating blood. FDA policies encourage reporting by patients and the evaluation by blood banks of such so-called "post-donation" events. We have alerted blood banks to this finding and plan to issue guidance shortly to emphasize the importance of soliciting and investigating post-donation reports of illness. In cases of serious illness, quarantine of blood products and investigation of the donor illness should provide an additional safeguard to reduce the risk to possible blood recipients. With regard to donors who never develop symptoms, we need to continue to investigate and collect information so that we can develop appropriate policies to further reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted infection.
Some have raised the question whether not allowing anyone who reports mosquito bites to donate blood would be appropriate. This would likely be both inefficient and ineffective. Most people living in areas where WNV is spread will have had recent mosquito bites and we would exclude a large number of safe donors for every one donor with actual WNV infection. In addition, some individuals with WNV infection will not recall mosquito contact. These factors suggest that such measures could create serious blood shortages which present a serious potential to hurt far more people than might be helped.
If areas of intense WNV transmission can be identified, another measure that could be considered is excluding donors from those areas. This approach could potentially reduce risk, but the ever-expanding map of transmission makes it likely that this approach could likewise cause blood shortages, while still failing to exclude a significant number of infected donors. Nonetheless, if an unexpectedly high risk is identified in a specific area, such measures could be considered, particularly if no other effective interventions might be immediately available. It is also reasonable that a greater use of autologous blood collections could be encouraged in areas of intense infection.
The most effective potential means of reducing the risk of WNV transmission by blood transfusion would be to test donor blood samples for the presence of the virus. Such testing could be performed generally (e.g., on all blood donors nationally). Alternatively, if transmission is more restricted, testing could be performed during seasons where transmission is occurring, or, in donors from selected regions. If specific populations (e.g., transplant or other immunosuppressed individuals) were to be identified as being at special risk for severe disease from receiving WNV infected blood products (and other populations not), donor screening could be performed to target blood intended for such individuals. It is unlikely, however, that an approach focused on specific recipients would be either desirable or practical, except perhaps as an interim measure were one needed until testing methods for broader use were made available. All individuals exposed to WNV are at risk for infection, and the elderly, who appear most at risk for severe disease, also need transfusions more frequently than other populations.
What are the prospects for availability of a good blood screening test for this disease? In short, the prospects are encouraging although it cannot happen overnight. Significant challenges are being addressed. Classic tests for infectious agents involve looking for the human's immune response to the agent, in the form of antibodies. However, in the case of this virus, the WNV is present in the blood during the time period before antibodies develop. Therefore, direct methods to detect the virus itself will be needed. These methods are more complex, more expensive, and more difficult to implement on a broad scale than antibody tests. On the positive side, in response to the emergence of WNV, state and academic labs, some diagnostic companies, and the CDC, have developed sensitive tests that can amplify and detect the genetic material of this virus. Thus, we are continuing to make advances in the development of blood screening tests for WNV.
Tests based on similar technologies, called NAT (for nucleic acid amplification test), are now universally used in the U.S. to test all donated blood for the presence of early HIV and hepatitis C infection. These tests have helped make our blood supply very safe from these infections, with risks of transmission of these agents in the 1 in 1,000,000 range for hepatitis C and in the 1 in 2,000,000 range for HIV. The medical diagnostics industry, the blood industry, and FDA have significant expertise in the development, implementation, and evaluation of NAT testing. Such experience will be useful in rapidly adapting WNV test methodologies currently in use in diagnostic laboratories to more widespread and automated use for blood screening. There are many challenges, including the need to achieve high levels of reliability when used in populations with very low frequencies of infection, the lower levels of virus compared to those currently tested, the difficulties involved in scale-up, and time needed for test development and wide implementation. For testing organ donors, special challenges would be added, including timing, logistics, and determination of whether screening blood samples can rule out infection in tissues and organs. While we do not yet know if screening of blood will be needed, we believe it is likely to be needed, and that it is therefore most prudent to move forward to facilitate the development and availability of effective tests as soon as possible.
To this end, we are working with our partners in the blood and diagnostics industries, including the American Association of Blood Banks and AdvaMed. Recently, they hosted an important meeting with FDA, CDC, and state health departments with potential WNV diagnostics methodologies. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the development of assays of potential utility, stimulate interest in testing, identify barriers and approaches to resolve them, and foster technology transfer and sample sharing. These efforts are designed to get all partners the information and materials needed to be as prepared as possible to meet the potential need for testing. This meeting was quite successful and we are continuing to interact with these partners in the near future. We are also holding a follow-up public workshop at FDA co-sponsored by CDC, NIH, and HRSA in the near future. Further development and implementation of effective screening tests for WNV will depend in large part on the efforts and innovation of our public health and blood and diagnostic industry partners. It is important to note, however, that FDA can use its regulatory authority to make such tests available for investigational use under an investigational new drug (IND) application even before approval. We have made it clear to industry that we will show maximum flexibility and assist them in any ways that are feasible. Based on our most recent interactions with scientists from industry, we are hopeful that, if needed, a WNV blood screening test could be made widely available under IND by next summer, and that it may be possible to make some testing available even sooner.
One final approach that could be used in helping to address the WNV threat, as well as other future and potential infectious risks to the blood supply, is called "pathogen inactivation." In pathogen inactivation, a chemical and/or physical treatment of blood products is used that is capable of killing many infectious agents. FDA recently held a workshop on this promising and innovative strategy. Several approaches are currently under study and may be effective at inactivating viruses such as WNV. Although promising, it is important to realize that preventive treatment of blood products affects the products given to all recipients. In other words, if only 1 in 5,000-blood units had an infectious agent present, for every patient protected from the disease 4,999 would receive a product that may be altered in some ways that could affect its other characteristics and, perhaps, its safety.
For these reasons, these approaches must be, and are being, carefully evaluated for their immediate and long-term safety. However, should WNV risk prove to be significant in degree, or should blood screening be difficult to implement in a timely manner, pathogen inactivation may prove valuable as an approach to reducing risk in blood products from high risk areas and/or potentially in blood products for recipients at the highest risk of developing severe disease. Such approaches could also be initiated and evaluated in pre-licensure pilot studies under an IND application. FDA is also currently planning to specifically address the inactivation of WNV by such methods in conjunction with its upcoming workshop on WNV donor blood testing.
Most people who become infected with WNV will have either no symptoms or only mild ones. More severe disease occurs in approximately 1 in 150 of those infected and is manifested as encephalitis, meningitis, or meningoencephalitis. Encephalitis refers to an inflammation of the brain; meningitis is an inflammation of the membrane around the brain and the spinal cord, and meningoencephalitis refers to the combination of both. There are currently no drugs on the market to treat this virus. There are currently six IND applications involving two products in effect at FDA for the treatment of WNV. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has also supported promising research to identify and develop potential treatments for this disease.
While there is currently no licensed vaccine available to prevent WNV infection, FDA is aware of several promising approaches to vaccine development and believes that this is a potentially viable strategy to address this increasing public health threat. Because of the increased presence of WNV in the U.S., NIAID has supported research in this area. NIAID announced that in 1999 it funded a fast-track project to develop a candidate WNV vaccine with Acambis PLC. Scientists at CBER are also engaged in studies, which may hold promise for developing a vaccine effective against WNV.
Given the important and increasing public health impact of WNV infection, including the potential threat to blood safety, and the lack of available vaccines and therapeutic measures, FDA places a high priority on facilitating the development and review of such products.
As we continue to act on our current and evolving knowledge of the risk of WNV to the blood supply, and share information with the public as it becomes available, it is also important that we keep the risk, even a risk that is not yet fully defined, in perspective. There has been a remarkable decrease in the transmission of viral diseases through blood in recent years. We believe that our experience in dramatically reducing the risk from HIV and hepatitis will serve us well in addressing whatever needs to be done with respect to the challenges we now face with the WNV. Thousands of individuals' lives are saved or transformed every year by organ transplants. Millions of lives are enhanced by transfusion of blood and related products. It is essential that we keep these medical procedures and related products as safe as possible.
We will continue to work closely with our partners in CDC, NIH, HRSA and the states, and to engage the blood and diagnostics industries to harness their capabilities to help make a sensitive blood test a reality as soon as possible. It is important to keep in mind that success in controlling the mosquito-borne epidemic itself will be critical in determining the risk of infection in the blood supply and the need for routine blood donor screening. We will continue to share information with and seek input from the public and from experts outside of government, as we recently did with both FDA's Blood Products Advisory Committee and the DHHS Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability. We will continue to engage the highest levels of attention with the Department, including discussion of major blood safety policy issues with the Assistant Secretary's Blood Safety Committee and discussion of agency activities at the upcoming Friday meeting of the DHHS intergovernmental working group on West Nile Virus.
As a final note, FDA would like to encourage the public to continue donating blood because supplies are low and the need is great. Blood remains in short supply, in part, because of the extensive safety measures already in place. Some people are concerned that they might get an infection by donating blood. We want to assure you and the public that donating blood is a safe procedure. We also want to take this opportunity to thank blood donors and to emphasize that the cornerstone of our blood safety system is the volunteer blood donor.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today. I welcome your ideas and your questions.


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Corte Merlata
12 km far from Gallipoli.
In the heart of Salento, in the historical center of Galatone, just steps from the major resorts, the Corte Merlata 'is located in an ancient courtyard of 500' with the balcony.
Recognizable from its battlements, the structure stands out not only for its historical and artistic qualities but also tranquility and privacy. You will also appreciate the style of our rooms, taste and elegance with which they were appointed and rediscovered in a blend that combines the ancient and modern style, keeping intact the original structure.
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12 km far from Gallipoli.
You can reach us via SS Brindisi-Lecce, Gallipoli or proceeding in the direction the bus to Lecce and then with the railroad south-east from the nearest railway station.
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shuttle bus via Lecce city terminal, and then by taxi, bus STP Lecce - Galatone train or railway south-east.
By car via Highway 613 to Lecce, Gallipoli is accessed in the tangential direction. From ring road take the exit Nardo-Gallipoli-Galatone, and take the Highway 101 and exit at Galatone.
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'Corte Merlata' is located in the center of Galatone, Vico Coronelle street, 25, near the church of SS Crucifisso, Belmonte Pignatelli Castle At only 10 km from Gallipoli, and the various resorts of Salento: Porto Cesario, Porto Selvaggio, S. Catherine and 25 km from Lecce.
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Just got back from Ground Control 4 Tournament.
Great turnout and very well run, really smooth. Congratulations to everyone involved.
I took 3 guys up. Liam Corrigan and Ranjeet Baria walked through the opposition in the busy -73kg advanced division, fighting each other in the final (again lol). Liam won by advantage in overtime, very well deserved. Newbie Andre Hayes made his debut in the massive -68kg novice division, winning one fight by quick Kimura and losing in overtime by 2 points to the guy who took 1st place. Very proud of all of them
Nice to meet some new people there too.
And thanks to Craig from http://www.greenfightingmachine.com for the Supreme Greens. Go check out the site!


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Date(s) - Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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Lakeshore Road Bridge
Reconstruction of Lakeshore Road Bridge over Sixteen Mile Creek (between Navy and Forsythe Street) will take place between January and September 2017. During the project, the bridge will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
As of January 5th, 2017, Navy Street between Randall and Lakeshore Road has been converted to a 2-way street. A detour route around the bridge will be provided via Kerr Street, Rebecca Street and Navy Street to redirect traffic
Implementation of the two-way conversion will include the following:
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Conservative Media Echo Misleading GOP Claim On Health Care Law And The Deficit
Research ››› ››› MIKE BURNS & DAVID SHERE
Conservative media are parroting a Republican claim that a federal report says health care reform increases the long-term deficit. In fact, the report says that the deficit would only increase if cost containment measures in the bill were phased out over time, and found that the deficit would decrease if those measures were maintained.
GOP Sen. Sessions: Federal Report Says Health Care Law Adds $6.2 Trillion To Long-Term Deficit
The Hill: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) "Said A New Government Report Shows" The Affordable Care Act "Will Add $6.2 Trillion To The Deficit Over The Next 75 Years." The Hill reported: "The Senate Budget Committee's top Republican said a new government report shows that President Obama's healthcare law will add $6.2 trillion to the deficit over the next 75 years. Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) said numbers from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) prove the Affordable Care Act won't reduce the deficit, as proponents claimed." [The Hill, 2/26/13]
Conservative Media Echo Sessions' Claim
Fox News' Baier: Senator Sessions "Says The President's Health Care Overhaul Will Increase Unfunded Liabilities By More Than $6 Trillion Over The Next 75 Years." Fox News host Bret Baier said: "Republican Senator Jeff Sessions says the president's health care overhaul will increase unfunded liabilities by more than $6 trillion over the next 75 years. Sessions is citing a report from the Government Accountability Office, and he's recalling a promise of the president that the law would not add one dime to the deficit." [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 2/26/13]
Limbaugh: GAO Said That "Obamacare Will Increase The Long Term National Deficit By 6.2 Trillion." Rush Limbaugh also discussed the GAO report, saying it showed that "Obamacare will increase the long term national deficit by 6.2 trillion." He added: "It's not saving anybody any money. It's not reducing your premiums by $2500. It's not balancing the budget. It's not reducing the deficit. Obamacare -- another way to put this -- Obamacare will result in this country spending $6.2 trillion it otherwise would not spend. It's the only way to look at this. If we had not made any changes in our health care system, we wouldn't be spending this 6.2 trillion." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 2/26/13]
National Review Online: "GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion To Long-Term Deficit." Reporting on the GAO study, National Review Online's Andrew Stiles wrote in a postheadlined, "GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit," that "President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise." The post cited Senator Sessions as saying that "the new report exposes the 'lack of honesty' surrounding such claims." [National Review Online, The Corner, 2/26/13]
Drudge Report: "Obamacare To Add $6.2 Trillion To Deficit..." From the Drudge Report:
[Drudge Report Archives, 2/26/13]
Report Actually Says Federal Deficit Will Decline If Health Care Law Is Fully Implemented
GAO: Health Care Law Will Increase Deficit Only If Cost-Containment Provisions Are "Phased Out Over Time." The GAO report cited by Sessions and conservative media looked at two scenarios and found that the health care law will increase the long-term deficit under a scenario in which cost-cutting provisions of the law are phased out:
The effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted in March 2010, on the long-term fiscal outlook depends largely on whether elements in PPACA designed to control cost growth are sustained.
The Fall 2010 Alternative simulation assumed cost containment mechanisms specified in PPACA were phased out over time while the additional costs associated with expanding federal health care coverage remained. Under these assumptions, the long-term outlook worsened slightly compared to the pre-PPACA January 2010 simulation. [Government Accountability Office, January 2013]
GAO: "Notable Improvement" In Outlook If "Both The Expansion Of Health Care Coverage And The Full Implementation And Effectiveness Of The Cost-Containment Provisions" Are Sustained. According to the GAO report, "[T]here was notable improvement in the longer-term outlook after the enactment of [the health care law] under GAO's Fall 2010 Baseline Extended simulation, which assumes both the expansion of health care coverage and the full implementation and effectiveness of the cost-containment provisions over the entire 75-year simulation period." [Government Accountability Office, January 2013]
The Hill: $6.2 Trillion Figure Assumes Cost-Containment Measures End, But Deficit "Will Decline" If The Health Care Law Remains Fully Implemented. The Hill reported that the health care law "could increase or decrease the deficit over the next 75 years depending on whether its cost-saving provisions survive" and that the $6.2 trillion figure assumes a scenario "in which the law's cost-containment measures end." From The Hill:
In a new report, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that President Obama's signature law could increase or decrease the deficit over the next 75 years depending on whether its cost-saving provisions survive.
Assuming the law is enforced as-is, the U.S. deficit will decline 1.5 percent as a share of the economy over the next 75 years, according to the GAO. Auditors attributed 1.2 percent of this improvement to the Affordable Care Act.
Under a different set of assumptions, the law has the opposite effect over time, the GAO said -- the deficit will increase by 0.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) if the law's cost-containment measures are phased out.
The report attributed this potential increase in part to the law's most expensive features -- the Medicaid expansion and the provision of insurance subsidies.
The report was requested by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. On Tuesday, he and his office jumped on the figures to say that the healthcare law will increase the deficit by $6.2 trillion over 75 years.
To arrive at this figure, Sessions's office assumed the second scenario, in which the law's cost-containment measures end, and added up 75 year's [sic] worth of deficits using GDP projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [The Hill, 2/26/13]
CBO Previously Found That Health Care Law Reduces The Deficit
CBO: Repealing Health Care Law "Would Increase Federal Budget Deficits By $109 Billion Over The 2013-2022 Period." In July 2012, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation released a report finding that repealing the health care law would increase the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022:
On net, CBO and JCT estimate, repealing the ACA would increase federal budget deficits by $109 billion over the 2013-2022 period. Repealing the coverage provisions discussed in this report would save $1,171 billion over that period, but repealing the rest of the act would increase direct spending and reduce revenues by a total of $1,280 billion. [Congressional Budget Office, 7/24/12]
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Big Basketball Weekend
It's a big weekend for local basketball fans – both UAlbany and Siena teams are in action.
Tonight, it's the #10-seed Siena women facing #2-seed Marist. Siena beat Manhattan last night 87-66 in Springfield, MA at the MAAC Tournament. The Marist Red Foxes beat Siena twice this season: 78-60 on Jan. 7 and 78-39 on Feb. 6. Also tonight, the #1-seeded UAlbany women of the America East take on #8-seed Binghamton at 7 p.m. at SEFCU Arena, the Danes home court.
Tomorrow, the #5-seeded Siena men play #4 Canisius at 2:30 p.m. in Springfield, MA. Also tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., the UAlbany men face UMBC at SEFCU Arena. You can hear that game on Fox Sports 980.
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CES Spotlight: Canon EOS M Digital Camera
Zak Billmeier grew up in southern Vermont and coastal Maine. After graduating from Mary Washington College with a Geography degree he still isn't sure quite what to do with, he eventually settled in the mountains of Central Virginia. He spends his free time chasing his daughter around, taking pictures, gardening and cooking. He joined Crutchfield's car A/V writing team in 2007 and is now a lead producer on our video team.
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Canon made the world wait before releasing its first mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera — a breed we often refer to as a "hybrid." Now the world is discovering the wait was worth it. Canon has infused the EOS M camera with its decades of knowledge about what it takes to make a camera fully featured and irresistable.
Video Transcript
Zak: I'm at CES 2013 at the Canon booth here with Ben. Now Ben, tell me about the EOS M.
Ben: Alright. So here's our EOS M digital camera. And this camera is an 18-megapixel APS-C size sensor. So it's a nice large sensor, and it's also an interchangeable lens camera. So it comes with a 22mm prime lens, but if you would like, you could actually attach an EOS M adapter and put your EF lenses or your EF-S lenses on top of here. What makes this camera also stand out is gonna be its design to capture video. So this has movie servo AF. And what that means is its going to have continuous autofocusing no matter how you're shooting. You have selectable frame rates, audio manual control on this camera.
Zak: That's fantastic. Thanks Ben. That's the EOS M


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Tickets on sale Friday for Merle Haggard performance
Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:52 p.m.
Venerable country singer Merle Haggard will perform Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, with tickets going on sale at noon Friday.
A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Haggard has charted 40 No. 1 country hits including "The Fightin' Side of Me," "Okie From Muskogee" and "Mama Tried," and shared such No. 1 duets as "Pancho and Lefty" with Willie Nelson and "Yesterday's Wine" with George Jones.
The 75-year-old Haggard, a 2010 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, also has won more than 20 awards from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music and other entities. In 1999, he received his third Grammy, a Hall of Fame Award for the song "Mama Tried."
Tickets for the 7:30 performance, which are $36, $46, $56 and $66, go on sale at noon Friday at the Phillips Center Box Office, University Box Office or through Ticketmaster.com. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 392-2787.
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text: July 24, 2013 — September is Photography Month in Montréal, and the 2013 edition of Le Mois de la Photo promises not to disappoint. Spanning from September 5 to October 5, the great gathering of contemporary photography presents 25 free exhibitions deployed in 14 sites throughout the city. This major international biennale brings together striking work by influential photographers, both local and international, under a very topical theme – Drone: The Automated Image. The interactive and audience-friendly program devised by notable British curator Paul Wombell offers captivating insight into the evolution of images in our society. Technology pushes the limits of creativity further than ever, stimulating the reflection on the intelligence of the camera as a sophisticated instrument. Inviting visitors to explore the fascinating evolution of the relation between human and machine through the artwork of its guest photographers, Le Mois de la Photo emphasizes the link between the artists' creativity and the camera's autonomous capacity. Le Mois de la Photo also invites the public to participate in Canadian artist Max Dean's interactive installation As Yet Untitled. Approximately 20,000 family photos are needed, which will be shown to visitors by a robot that will either keep them or shred them. If pictures are worth a thousand words, Le Mois de la Photo's thirteenth edition will trigger thousands of captivating discussions. Keep your eyes peeled to see the big picture!


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Lucky 7: Tending to VirginiaOctober 24, 2012 • No Comments • category: Algonquin Books Blog, Lucky Stars
Although the term "for better or for worse" goes with married couples, it really should apply to families overall. In Tending to Virginia , Jill McCorkle presents us with three (soon to be four) generations of women who must come together to help one of their own. The e-book is only $1.99 through October 31 as part of our Lucky 7 deal. And check out the next addition to the McCorkle collection, Life After Life. A FREE preview chapter of the upcoming book is included with your purchase.
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This is the story of Virginia Turner Ballard, know to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue. It's also the story of her mother, her grandmother, her great aunts, her closest cousin–three generations of women who gather around Virginia to help her at the end of a hard pregnancy, to tend to her, to help her prepare for the fourth generation. This kind of family attendance, this kind of tending to, is Southern to the core, offering, as it does, the occasion for reviving and trading entwined family stories. Tending to Virginia is a novel of one family's most important stories–how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation–revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age. In her characterizations of these vivid women playing out their generational roles in the contemporary South, McCorkle presents us with a powerful insight–that the strongest family bonds are, for better or worse, as often created by what is held back as by what is spoken.
"With a sure touch and impeccable comic timing, McCorkle leads her characters to revelations and emotional relief… As the family's history emerges from a flood of interrelated experiences, the narrative achieves coherent drama. This novel confirms McCorkle's place among other talented Southern storytellers." – Publishers Weekly


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'It's like the lottery, you've got to be in it to win it. But as long as a team makes the top 16, it has a chance to win the Cup. But does that mean Sabres fans – watching one of the league's best goaltenders – didn't enjoy those six months leading up to the playoffs?'
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Costa Rica Coast Guard searches for Cape Coral student
Erik Downes, originally from Cape Coral, was on a study abroad program in Costa Rica with classmates from Oglethorpe University. According to reports, he was swimming with a group in the Pacific Ocean Jan. 4, when they got caught in a riptide.
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Cape Coral man reported missing in Costa Rica
A Cape Coral man, a student at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, has been reported missing in Costa Rica. Officials with the school say he was part of a study abroad program there.
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Families of September 11 is now operating as the For Action Initiative. The web pages on this site are available for informational purposes only. Please visit us at www.foractioninitiative.org.
Over the past several months, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 conspirators has been a major news item. The issue of whether terrorists should be tried in civilian courts or by military tribunal has become more polarized and political. Passionate arguments citing national security matters and constitutional principles have been offered by both sides.
In the midst of this discussion, one issue is often overlooked - the need for the victims of 9/11 bear witness to justice being served as a way to help restore a sense of safety, contol, and experience at least a small degree of healing. For victims who have suffered unspeakable loss and trauma, the prospect of trials offer the possibility of another step toward closure, but also the potential to feel retraumatized.
Dr. Suzanne Phillips emphasizes how important it will be for victims to support each other in this process. In an article on www.psychecentral.com she writes:
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