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This Jewish travel agency offers tickets for the various Jewish Museum sights, the Old-New Synagogue, tours of Prague and trips to Terezín, a small town that was used in 1941 as a holding camp for Jews destined for concentration camps further east. The English-speaking staff are also able to book boat tours, meals in kosher restaurants and accommodation.
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This was an amazing, insightful and very comprehensive tour. Ljuba knew exactly where to take us, where to stand for the best views. She was very knowledgeable about the Jewish history of Prague and pointed out and told us about many other important sites in Prague as well. She really puts her heart and soul into this tour and we would very highly recommend her for anyone who is interested in the Jewish history of Prague. Thank you so much Ljuba.
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Our family was exceptionally pleased with the service we received from Precious Legacy during our time on Prague on December 11 and 12, 2012.
We took two tours, one to Terezin, and one around the synagogues of Prague.
Throughout, we received immensely professional service from the time we made our first inquiry at your company. The guides themselves were outstanding. They were well-informed, responsive to our needs, and good company too. We were absolutely thrilled with the tours they provided.
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Constructivist Online Learning Environments (COLE): A Methodological Analysis PROCEEDINGS
Jing Lin, Julie Tallman, The University of Georgia, United States
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Orlando, Florida, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-58-7 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
The goal of this paper is to examine the current state of research methodologies being applied to constructivist online learning environments through reviewing and comparing methodological aspects of empirical studies (last 5-10 years) related to constructivist online learning environments. Specifically, the paper tries to answer the questions 1) What qualitative approaches to research have been used to examine constructivist on-line learning environments? 2) What kinds of questions are made possible using qualitative research methodologies? and 3) What kinds of questions are excluded? The authors indicate that current literature emphasizes online discussion, but falls short of employing many available qualitative methodologies, thus, ignoring many questions allowed by different qualitative methodologies. The authors hope to indicate the weaknesses existing in the current relevant research, and suggest the possible scope for further research by using different qualitative methodologies.
Lin, J. & Tallman, J. (2006). Constructivist Online Learning Environments (COLE): A Methodological Analysis. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (pp. 410-417). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

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Fall Fellows getting started in Florida
For an inside look tomorrow, follow hashtags #OFA_FL and #FallFellows11.
Tomorrow is a big day for our campaign here in Florida.
We'll be holding Fall Fellows trainings in Gainesville, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale that will put hundreds of ambitious new organizers on the ground across the state.
I'm excited to read the updates our Fall Fellows will post here in the coming weeks about the skills and best practices they're learning for recruiting volunteers, holding phone banks, managing data -- and lots more.
We think educating about these skills is important because empowering people to organize their neighborhoods will always be at the heart of what we do. After all, President Obama started out as a community organizer himself.
So even if you won't be joining the Fall Fellows program make sure you check back here for tips about how you can become a better organizer in your community.


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Help!....Replacing Guides on Bamboo rods
I have a few high quality English fly rods and a Leonard that I would like to use with the newer generation fly lines. This would require they have larger "S" guides and tips installed. I am fairly handy: is there some information available on getting and sizing the new guides and the best way of installing them? Is there someone qualified who does this as a hobby and would like a little extra cash?
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Ashley Olsen Went To John Stamos' 50th Birthday
John Stamos celebrated his 50th birthday last night (Side Note: And is a vampire.) and invited the cast of Full House. Which usually means Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen won't come anywhere near the place because they're serious fashion designers who only allow the blood relatives of French dignitaries into their vaginas now. Except, surprisingly, Ashley did show up, so at one point in the evening Heath Ledger's corpse was wheeled out and beat with pinata sticks until bags of heroin fell to the floor. Look at her eyes and tell me I'm wrong. I'll wait.
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By Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay
Is a particular dietary recommendation harming people in the U.S.? For almost 20 years, scientists have been arguing over whether Americans and others on a typical Western diet are eating too much of omega-6s, a class of essential fatty acids. Some experts, notably ones affiliated with the American Heart Association, credit our current intake of omega-6s with lowering the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Others, which include biochemists, say the relatively high intake of omega-6 is a reason for a slew of chronic illnesses in the Western world, including asthma, various cancers, neurological disorders and cardiovascular disease itself.At the center of this dispute is how omega-6s and their cousins, omega-3s, are biochemically processed in the body and the physiological outcomes of the metabolism (see box on the EFA naming convention). Both camps agree that a healthy diet requires both omega-3s and omega-6s. Omega-3s are sorely lacking in Western diets, so people need to increase their consumption of them. But the split comes over omega-6s: Are we or are we not eating too much of them?To make their case, both camps point to the same body of biochemical and clinical trial data but say the other camp is misinterpreting the data. "It's a real can of worms," says Norman Salem Jr., a biochemist at DSM Nutritional Products, a company that makes essential fatty acids and other food supplements.Opening the can of wormsIn 1985, Artemis Simopoulos, then the chair of the nutrition coordinating committee of the National Institutes of Health and now the president of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, described how, from the 1950s onward, Western diets were becoming dominated by omega-6s at the expense of omega-3s. Fish intake, a critical source of omega-3s, had dropped considerably, even among American Catholics after Pope Paul VI decreed in 1966 that Fridays no longer had to be meatless (1). "By 1985, fish consumption was minimal. Something like 25 percent of the U.S. population did not eat any fish at all," says Simopoulos. "In the meantime, agriculture and agribusiness had changed animal feeds. The omega-3 fatty acids that are normally found in grass-eating animals had disappeared because the animals were fed corn." Corn and other grains are generally high in omega-6s.The oils people consumed also changed. People began to eat more corn, soybean and safflower oils, which are high in omega-6s and plentiful in industrially processed foods. Another source of the dietary change came from the work of Ancel Keys. In 1965, Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota published an equation that quantified the relationship between saturated fats, polyunsaturated fats and serum cholesterol levels (2). The equation helped to sway public health dietary emphasis toward the polyunsaturated fats, which include EFAs, to lower blood cholesterol levels. But the Keys equation treated all unsaturated fats the same. It didn't distinguish between omega-3s and omega-6s. But biochemical studies, such as those by Nobel laureates Bengt Samuelsson and Sune Bergström at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and John Vane at the Wellcome Foundation in the U.K., were demonstrating that the two classes of EFAs formed different kinds of bioactive eicosanoids.In 2009, the dispute over omega-6 consumption came to a head when the American Heart Association recommended that omega-6s comprise at least 5 percent to 10 percent of the energy intake in a diet (3). If omega-6 intakes were less than that, said the AHA, the risk of cardiovascular disease likely would increase. According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average American currently gets 6.5 percent of his or her energy intake from linoleic acid, the major omega-6 in the diet.
William Harris, an expert in cardiovascular disease at the University of South Dakota and president of the company OmegaQuant Analytics, says that much of the evidence, both from dietary studies and measurements of blood levels, has shown that higher blood levels of omega-6 are associated with reduced risks for cardiovascular events. Harris, who spearheaded the heart association's scientific advisory group, adds that this is why "the American Heart Association encourages people to eat omega-6 fatty acids and specifically not to buy into this idea that we're eating too much." Walter Willett, an expert in nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard University, goes one step further and calls the assertion that high omega-6 intake is harmful "an urban myth."
But lipid biochemists are alarmed. For example, Floyd Chilton is a biochemist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a consultant to the company GeneSmart. He says that the AHA recommendation was made without considering the biochemistry of EFAs and solely focused on the outcomes of clinical trials that were not well designed. "I think it led to some very troubling decisions," he says, a sentiment echoed by others, such as Simopoulos, Salem and William Lands, a biochemist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.The biochemical debateEssential fatty acids were discovered on the heels of vitamins in the early 1900s. In 1929 and 1930, George and Mildred Burr demonstrated that essential fatty acids were critical for the well-being of laboratory rats and discovered the first essential fatty acid, the omega-6 linoleic acid (4). In 1933, one of George Burr's graduate students, Arild Hansen, showed that humans, like the laboratory rats, could suffer from deficiencies in essential fatty acids. Soon both omega-3s and omega-6s were accepted as nutrients like vitamins that had to be consumed through food for optimal health.EFAs have several functions, which include producing bioactive molecules, making up our tissue composition and contributing to the skin's barrier function. EFAs go through one well-documented biochemical pathway to make a class of bioactive molecules called eicosanoids. This pathway is also a source of contention between the two camps.
Linoleic acid, the main omega-6, enters the pathway through the Δ6 desaturase. The resulting molecule then gets elongated by an enzyme whose identity has not yet been established. Next, the molecule goes through the Δ5 desaturase. The result is arachidonic acid, a 20-carbon chain that gets converted by cyclooxygenases into eicosanoids, such as leukotrienes, prostaglandins, and thromboxanes, which regulate inflammation and thrombosis. (Aspirin and its fellow nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit cyclooxygenases.)α-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid, also enters the biochemical pathway through the Δ6 desaturase and is transferred to the Δ5 desaturase. The product from the Δ5 desaturase, eicosapentaenoic acid, goes on to form docosahexaenoic acid through additional steps involving elongases. EPA and DHA, like arachidonic acid, help to build eicosanoids. But these eicosanoids are not as potent as the ones made from arachidonic acid.Here is the contention between the two camps. The camp that believes we eat too much omega-6 says that linoleic acid swamps out the biochemical pathway, not giving α-linolenic acid much of a chance to get to the Δ6 desaturase. All you get with the high linoleic acid amount, argues this camp, is an accumulation of the powerful arachidonic acid, which shifts the body into a state of constant inflammation. But the camp that argues that our omega-6 intake is fine gets frustrated by this argument. Penny Kris-Etherton, a nutrition expert at Pennsylvania State University who was in Harris' advisory group, says the conversion issue goes away if people just eat adequate amounts of EPA and DHA. If EPA and DHA are sufficient in the diet, the need to convert α-linolenic acid into those molecules gets bypassed. "Just eat a lot of fish and we don't have to worry about the conversion issue," she says. Fortified foods that contain EPA and DHA, like milk and eggs, can also be sources of omega-3s.Even then, says Salem, the products of arachidonic acid compete against those from EPA and DHA for incorporation into complex lipids and into cells and organs. Indeed, arachidonic acid is a better substrate for cyclooxygenases than EPA. William Smith, a biochemist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, says that cyclooxygenase 1 uses EPA at 5 percent to 10 percent of the efficiency of arachidonic acid; cyclooxygenase 2 uses EPA at a somewhat greater efficiency but no more than 20 percent to 30 percent. "If you have a fairly high level of arachidonic acid over EPA, you're opening the floodgates for all the things that prostaglandins do," which includes stimulating inflammation, says Smith.Even if products from arachidonic acid dominate, Harris argues, products of arachidonic acid can't all be painted with the same brush. He says some of the molecules produced by omega-6s are proinflammatory but some are anti-inflammatory. "One can't certainly say the omega-6s are pro-inflammatory," states Harris. "That's far too simple, because there are several examples of omega-6 metabolites that are either anti-inflammatory or antiplatelet aggregation."Lands says Harris' point about omega-6s producing both pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is correct. But as a whole, he counters, the proinflammatory molecules from omega-6s dominate their anti-inflammatory counterparts. These proinflammatory molecules, Lands, Chilton, and others in the camp advocating lower omega-6 levels assert, accumulate in the body and result in several diseases for which inflammation of some sort is the root cause.Genetics also now has entered the fray. In recent years, Chilton's laboratory has been studying the FADS cluster, which codes for the Δ5 and Δ6 desaturases (5, 6). His team has shown that people of African descent have much higher frequencies of genetic variants that efficiently convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid than people of European descent. As a result, African-Americans have much higher circulating blood levels of arachidonic acid, says Chilton.This difference in conversion rate is important for an assertion often made by those advocating for the current omega-6 levels. They say that the biochemical pathway self-regulates, turning itself off after a certain amount of arachidonic acid is made. "If we eat more omega-6s in the diet, it doesn't increase arachidonic acid levels, because there is so much regulation," says Willett.But Chilton says his research suggests an individual's background does matter. "Many people have argued that the system saturates itself at relatively low concentrations of dietary linoleic acid, limiting the amounts of arachidonic acid that can be made," he says. But, he adds, the studies were almost exclusively carried out in European and European-ancestry populations. Given that individuals of African descent have higher frequencies of the variants that convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid at higher rates than European descendants, Chilton says it is likely that the saturation of the linoleic–acid-to-arachidonic-acid pathway occurs at higher levels of dietary linoleic acid in people of African descent. "With recommendations like that from the American Heart Association, I am particularly concerned we may be driving health disparities," says Chilton.Lands and other biochemists decry what they see as a complete dismissal of the biochemistry of essential fatty acids in making dietary recommendations. But to that critique, Harris says public health policy should be dictated by clinical trial data. "You don't do it by looking at biochemical pathways," he says. "You look at randomized controlled trials and population cohort studies where disease endpoints are being measured. That's what you care about."
Clinical conundrumIn coming up with its 2009 recommendation, the AHA looked at the literature describing various clinical trials that included omega-6s. The AHA used evidence from observational trials that lasted up to 20 years and randomized controlled trials in which participants were given special diets. Subsequently, biochemist Joseph Hibbeln and clinician Christopher Ramsden at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism analyzed the oils used in the randomized controlled clinical trials (7). They asked if the evidence for the AHA recommendation was specific to linoleic acid or if an increase in omega-3s could be responsible for the benefits.Ramsden and Hibbeln describe the problems they see: The trials involving only omega-6 didn't give any indication of benefit and even suggested a hint toward increased risk; only the trials that increased omega-3s along with omega-6s presented a benefit. The AHA, they say, did not separate the trials involving only omega-6s from those that also increased omega-3s."Here's the analogy," says Hibbeln. "Say I give marshmallows infused with penicillin to people who have an infection and they get better. By gram weight, the intervention was mostly marshmallows. But there was penicillin. Do I then overgeneralize, as the American Heart Association has done, and recommend that people eat marshmallows to cure their infections? I don't think so."Harris doesn't buy that argument. Biochemistry dictates that an excess of linoleic acid should suppress the conversion of α-linolenic acid to EPA and DHA. It must be linoleic acid that is the main factor in preventing cardiovascular disease in these clinical trials, Harris says, adding that the molecule is known to have beneficial effects, such as lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. The onus is still on Hibbeln's group "to explain how a small amount of α-linolenic acid contained in a virtual ocean of linoleic acid" can have cardioprotective effects, says Harris.But Ramsden counters that the one trial that increased the daily intakes of EPA and DHA to 5 grams, a large amount equivalent to 16 fish-oil pills a day, showed major benefit. If that trial, called the Oslo Diet Heart Study, was excluded from the meta-analysis, none of the other clinical trials showed a benefit from the omega-6s.There aren't any data showing what happens when linoleic acid in people's diets is dropped to less than 5 percent, an amount at which it's thought that linoleic acid doesn't crowd out α-linolenic acid. What's needed is a clinical trial that carefully tracks a large range of linoleic acid amounts in the diet and catalogues health outcomes."That trial will never be done. It would take 10 years or longer and cost perhaps $100 million," says Salem. "No one is ever going to pay for that trial." Harris concurs, saying the randomized, controlled trial would be extremely hard to pull off, because the entire food supply would have to be manipulated to test different amounts of linoleic acid."We're the experiment"No one is disputing that we're eating more omega-6 than our predecessors did. Over the past 100 years, consumption of linoleic acid has increased dramatically in the U.S., mainly through the use of soybean oil. Soybean oil intake has gone up from being 1 percent of calories in the American diet to as much as 10 percent, according to Hibbeln. Lands, Salem and others contend that the rise, driven by the processed food and agriculture industries, has happened without anyone knowing its effects. "If I were now to try to get permission to change 10 percent of the calories in the U.S. diet, I would need a very large body of data unequivocally proving that it was safe," says Hibbeln. "No such body of data exists for soybean oil. But it's in our diet. We're the experiment. It's been a very large, uncontrolled intervention."Experts like Harris and Willett say this increase has been to our benefit. "We have seen a massive decline in cardiovascular disease mortality and huge increase in life expectancy," says Willett. "Not all the benefit is due to the increase in linoleic acid, but almost certainly much of it is. It was not an absolute disaster." But the lipid biochemists counter that it's not just cardiovascular disease at stake. They say diabetes, obesity and even psychiatric disorders are some outcomes of a diet heavy on omega-6s.Both sides agree that there is much more research to be done on the various pathways in which EFAs participate. Ramsden says nonspecialists may have the impression, based on the well-known body of work on prostaglandins and a few other categories of compounds derived from EFAs, that the biochemistry of omega-6s and omega-3s is firmly established. But that is not the case, because "it's really more complex than anyone had ever thought." Ramsden continues: "I look at this field as having a long way to go."For this reason, the current experts in the field urge more scientists and clinicians to join in the efforts to understand the impact of EFAs on health outcomes and perhaps finally lay the omega-6 dispute to rest. As Harris says, "The more people are tuned into the question, the more research will be done on the topic and the less uncertainty we will have around the issue."
As I tweeted, excellent article Raj. In my opinion this is (a)crux of the matter: "Lands says Harris' point about omega-6s producing both pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is correct. But as a whole, he counters, the proinflammatory molecules from omega-6s dominate their anti-inflammatory counterparts". How is this "dominance" assessed or quantified? Horrobin was among the first (and by far most vociferous)in questioning the "n-6 is pro-inflammatory" line of thinking 30+ years ago. Others provided laboratory and clinical evidence that n-6 metabolites or the fatty acids themselves such as GLA and DHGLA were anti-inflammatory (Anthony Willis, Robert Chapkin etc).This is a great topic and worthy of continuing evaluation as we argue less about the benefits of n-3's but the "pro-inflammatory" effects of n-6's.
I am a student in the third year doctorate in applied organic chemistry, analysis of the fatty acids omega 3 and 6 and of olive oils, at the university of El Oued. I aspired to become a researcher in the field of fatty acids omega 3 and 6. In this perspective I hope to apply for a candidature for the training period that you propose on the analysis of polyunsaturated fatty acids . This course seems to me indeed very conducive to my professional aspirations. I am available from 1 December 2013 in order to enrich my knowledge in this field.
Your article on the Omega-6 debate was both timely and well-done. There were, however, a couple of issues that need clarification. While the fatty acid desaturases involved in PUFA synthesis have been well established, the enzymes involved in fatty acid elongation have only recently been identified. Seven fatty acid elongase subtypes have been identified in the human and rodent genomes. These enzymes display substrate specificity with respect to chain length and degree of unsaturation. Studies in yeast, mice and cells have established that over or under expression of specific elongases alter cellular PUFA content; and, changes in cellular PUFA content impact gene expression and cell signaling pathways. Fatty acid elongase-5 (Elovl5), for example, is involved in the elongation of gamma-linolenic acid (18:3,n-6) to dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (20:3,n-6). This enzyme also elongates arachidonic acid (20:4,n-6) to adrenic acid (22:4,n-6). Elovl5 is also involved in the elongation of omega-3 PUFA. In addition, EPA (20:5,n-3), a delta 5 desaturase product is converted to DHA (22:6,n-3)through additional steps involving an elongase (Elovl2), a desaturase (FADS2) and peroxisomal beta-oxidation (Curr. Opin. Lipidology 19: 242-247 (2008). Finally, the expression of the enzymes involved in PUFA synthesis are regulated by diet, drugs and genetic background. As such, understanding the impact of dietary PUFA on health outcomes also needs to examine PUFA metabolism. Clearly, much more work is needed in this area.
Thank you for highlighting the debate on a very challenging question in biochemistry with important health and nutritional implications (December, ASBSB Today, page 14). For mechanistic details on omega-6 vs omega-3 fatty acid supplementation effects on elongation and eicosanoid metabolism and the implications for inflammation, see P. C. Norris and E. A. Dennis (2012), Omega-3 fatty acids cause dramatic changes in TLR-4 and purinergic signaling, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 109,8517-8522. (Comment submitted on behalf of Paul Norris and Edward Dennis)
Great article! Very balanced. Michael McBurneyHead of Scientific Affairs, DSM Nutritional Products@dsmnutrition @mimcburney
As a membrane biologist I want to congratulate you for raising this critical and timely issue of Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) intake for health and harmony. Essentially, it is a delicate chord between balance and imbalance that needs to be struck in a scientific manner. The polyunsaturated Arachidonic acid (AA), the precursor of prostaglandin, is derived from the linoleic acid (an EFA). The AA in turn, is stored in the plasma membrane in the form of phospholipid side chains serving vital roles in membrane structure and function. The point I want to make is the following. The phosphatidyl choline molecule found to be essential for maintaining the activity and stability of the gastric Proton Pump (a close cousin of the plasma membrane Sodium and Calcium Pump) is devoid of all polyunsaturated fatty acids (Trends in Cell and Molecular Biol. 3, 69-78, 2008). There must be a reason why Nature made these vital cation-transporters in this way. An improper function of the pumps could very well arise from an imbalance in EFA intake.
The 20th century began with biochemists arguing whether enzymes' catalytic actions had first order or zero order kinetics. The confusion was resolved by Michaelis & Menten recognizing how a saturable active site creates BOTH behaviors depending on the supply of substrate in relation to the half-saturation concentration (Km). The response to substrate availability of a "saturable" process is predictably unchanged by substrate supplies several-fold above the apparent Km of the process. To see a linear response to supply, the supply should be provided near (or below) the Km value. This idea likely applies to the low responsiveness of tissue accumulation of arachidonate when its dietary omega-6 linoleate precursor is eaten at levels above one percent of food energy. [Lands, Prog.Lipid Res.2008,47:77-106).
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Townville hunter fined in Canada
A hunter from Townville pleaded guilty to four charges under Canada's Saskatchewan Wildlife Act and Regulations. According to an announcement by the provincial government, David Hamby was fined $7,139 after being convicted of two counts of unlawfully purchasing a Canadian resident deer license, unlawfully using another person's license and unlawfully exporting wildlife without an export permit. Besides the fines, Hamby was suspended from hunting for one year and seized items were ordered forfeited to the crown.


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This is cosplayer Sebastien Nguyen who cosplays as ThatGuyYouKnow and he thinks the TARDIS really should be able to transform. He's a big fan of Transformers and Doctor Who so he decided to combine the two in one fantastic costume. It's made out of foam floor mats and took about three weeks to build. Absolutely brilliant.
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Zacks Investment Research Lowers Sotheby's (BID) to Hold
Sotheby's (NYSE:BID) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a note issued to investors on Friday.
According to Zacks, "Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. is one of the world's second largest auctioneers of fine arts, antiques and collectibles, offering property in collecting categories, among them paintings, jewelry, decorative arts, and books. Sotheby's Holdings, Inc is the parent company of Sotheby's worldwide auction businesses, art-related financing and private sales activities. The Company operates in countries, with principal salesrooms located in New York and London. The company also regularly conducts auctions in other salesrooms around the world, including Australia, Hong Kong, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Singapore. "
A number of other research firms also recently commented on BID. TheStreet downgraded Sotheby's from a "b-" rating to a "c" rating in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. Sidoti reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a $62.00 price objective (up previously from $59.00) on shares of Sotheby's in a report on Friday.
Sotheby's (NYSE:BID) traded up 0.14% during trading on Friday, hitting $56.62. The company had a trading volume of 361,671 shares. The company has a market capitalization of $2.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.52 and a beta of 1.80. Sotheby's has a 12-month low of $30.42 and a 12-month high of $57.26. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $53.65 and a 200 day moving average of $47.11.
Sotheby's (NYSE:BID) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, May 10th. The specialty retailer reported ($0.21) earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.38) by $0.17. The company had revenue of $187.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $111.66 million. Sotheby's had a return on equity of 20.73% and a net margin of 10.00%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 76.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.35) earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Sotheby's will post $2.07 earnings per share for the current year.
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A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in BID. Columbus Circle Investors bought a new stake in Sotheby's during the first quarter worth approximately $6,138,000. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC increased its stake in Sotheby's by 8.1% in the first quarter. Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC now owns 675,193 shares of the specialty retailer's stock worth $30,708,000 after buying an additional 50,488 shares in the last quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System increased its stake in Sotheby's by 1.8% in the first quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System now owns 11,600 shares of the specialty retailer's stock worth $528,000 after buying an additional 200 shares in the last quarter. Fox Run Management L.L.C. bought a new stake in Sotheby's during the first quarter worth approximately $885,000. Finally, Capstone Asset Management Co. increased its stake in Sotheby's by 5.3% in the first quarter. Capstone Asset Management Co. now owns 5,522 shares of the specialty retailer's stock worth $251,000 after buying an additional 280 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 91.91% of the company's stock.
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Sotheby's is a global art business company. The Company is engaged in offering its clients opportunities to connect with and transact in a range of objects. The Company offers a range of art-related services, including the brokerage of private art sales, private jewelry sales through Sotheby's Diamonds, private selling exhibitions at its galleries, art-related financing, and art advisory services, as well as retail wine locations in New York and Hong Kong.
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Black Friday Online Spending Hits $1.042 Billion
Online, Black Friday spending totals hit $1.042 billion, according to the latest numbers from Internet measurement firm comScore, which reported that online sales were up 26 percent compared with Black Friday last year. The shopping day was the heaviest day yet in 2012, and bring the total spent online during the Nov-Dec holiday season to $13.7 billion. The online spending records are bound to be good news for local Texas e-commerce retailers, and most likely for folks like Austin's WhaleShark Media, which operates online coupon site RetailMeNot, a destination for people looking for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and other online coupons and deals. Image courtesy BigStock.


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For starters, The FMW received a shipment of fresh Razor shell.
Steamed with garlic and green onions. It was amazing, Sweet, buttery, fresh razor shell, a real treat.
The soup of the day was Tofu, and watercress in a fish stock. Light, with no fishiness at all. While subtle in flavor, it had great taste. Note that it was boiled in a way it was almost white in color.
We ordered one of the combos that were on the Chinese menus. cost:80$
We received a dish composed of fish, 2 type of mushrooms, lotus root and snow pea. While the dish soups bland, it had the correct amount of wok hei to make it stand out. It was great.
Long Bean, Sichuan style, was in my opinion, the best dish of the night. It was a tasty, a little bit spicy, a full of Umami flavour. (Side order, totally worth it)
Snow Pea and Pork Neck, XO sauce. The pork neck was the best meat dish of the night, the snow pea allowed the dish to be not as salty as it could have been.
Free-range Chicken and jelly fish. While this dish is usually prepared in advance and chop on order. The chicken was just out of the boiling pot, and passed in an ice bath for a really short time. We know this because when it arrived at the table, the chicken was still warm. It was a solid dish, while not spectacular.
salt and pepper Tofu and Fried fish: Tofu was silky, and crispy, and spicy and delicious. The fish was fried to perfection. Great dish.
Preserved green and Pork Belly: (side order) Not my favourite dish, but technically speaking, it was flawless and the greens were of good quality. My dining companions seems to have appreciated this dish more than I did.
Tofu dessert: while I'm not a fan of those, my friends told me it was quite good.
It was a great deal if food for 6 person, I don't remember what we payed, but it was dirt cheap.


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It began so optimistically.
On Nov. 16, after their first "fiscal cliff" session with President Barack Obama, the four leaders of Congress had stood in the driveway of the White House shoulder-to-shoulder for what is a rare photo these days, Republicans and Democrats together, smiling.
There they were at the microphone, talking about a "framework" for tax reform and deficit reduction.
In hindsight, the shot of House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - the Republicans - with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi - the Democrats - seems like an old family photo, before things went bad.
From that day on the driveway, things went downhill, rather quickly.
There was a feeling on both sides that the other was not acting seriously to avert the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts that were set to occur at the beginning of this month. That was inflamed by public comments from ranking Republicans and Democrats, poisoning the atmosphere.
Many lawmakers and their aides fear that things may get more toxic through a series of bitter struggles expected in the next few months over the nation's debt and deficit burdens - fights not just between the parties but within them, and between the White House, the Senate and the House.
At stake is not only the U.S. government's ability to get its finances under control but whether it might default on its debts, and suffer further downgrades in the nation's credit rating.
While Mr. Obama is perceived the victor in the fiscal deal passed by Congress earlier this week, he did not come close to getting the one thing he demanded that could have headed off the next potential crisis: Freedom from a fight over the federal government's debt ceiling, which is likely to occur in February when the Treasury Department must ask Congress to increase the government's borrowing limit beyond the current $16.4-trillion.
Any positive vibes started fading a few days after the photo. On November 20, at a meeting between Republican staffers and Rob Nabors, the White House director of legislative affairs. Mr. Nabors announced that he had a White House offer in hand but "didn't want to be laughed out of the room and implied he would skip it because it was a waste of time," according to one Republican source. The White House declined to comment.
What the White House was offering was Obama's budget proposal from earlier in the year, long ago rejected by Republicans.
A Democratic source familiar with the negotiations said it was merely an opening bid that should have come as no surprise, but Republicans saw it as a red flag, particularly after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner touted it again nine days later.
Things didn't get better in the final weeks of the year.
At a Dec. 13 meeting between Mr. Obama, Mr. Boehner and their aides at the White House, Mr. Obama spoke for almost the entire 50-minute session, according to Republican sources. They said he warned that if he did not get an agreement to his liking, he would spend the next four years "campaigning against House Republicans," starting with his second-term inauguration speech on January 21.
As far as the Republicans were concerned, Obama had effectively remained in campaign mode after his Nov. 6 re-election, going on the attack in his "fiscal cliff" speeches.
One of the clearest examples of this, occurred at a delicate point in negotiations on Monday, with a looming deadline and the risk growing that the Republican-controlled House would blow up any deal pulled together by the Senate. At a campaign-style event with "middle class" Americans in the background, Mr. Obama accused Republicans of trying to "shove spending cuts at us that will hurt seniors, or hurt students or hurt middle-class families."
The move angered House Republicans who were already divided on how to proceed, leading to more bad blood. Republican Senator John McCain responded in the Senate, wondering "whether the president really wants this issue resolved." The people Mr. Obama was talking to, Mr. McCain said, "were laughing and cheering and applauding as we are on the brink of this collapse."Report Typo/Error


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Limbaugh Laments Government Mistrust He Helped Create
Minutes after sowing seeds of doubt as to whether U.S. embassies abroad are truly facing a possible terrorist attack, Rush Limbaugh warned that this line of cynical thinking is "really dangerous" and "unhealthy" while ignoring his own role in spreading misinformation.
After the State Department announced the extended closure [1] of twenty-two U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa over the weekend, due to intelligence suggesting the possibility of a planned terrorist attack, Limbaugh pondered the theory that this new threat could be an attempt by the administration to distract from other stories. Limbaugh listed incidents in which he believed the White House has not been truthful before declaring, "[A]ll of a sudden here comes this monstrous terror threat ... It's just easy to not believe it anymore. It's just too easy to be cynical."
Approximately ten minutes later, Limbaugh returned to the topic of the embassy closures. But, ironically, this time he complained [2] that the strain of cynicism which doubts the veracity of the embassy terrorist threat -- the same doubt Limbaugh himself had expressed minutes before -- is "a really dangerous thing":
RUSH: The very fact that there are so many people who are cynical about this. The very fact that there are so many Americans who think they're being lied to about a terror threat is a really dangerous thing. It is an unhealthy thing for the country. It is the surest sign of the wanton lack of respect for this country that has swept all across this country. This threat may be real. Everything we're being told could be real. We could be facing something as bad or worse than 9/11. And I bet the majority of Americans think it is a lie. What does that tell you? That what most Americans think of the people who are telling them about this threat -- they're liars too.
Limbaugh continued during a conversation [3] with a caller, at once explaining why listeners should not trust the Obama administration all while asserting that this distrust of government is "not good." Limbaugh stated, "This administration has shown a desire and a knack for distracting people away from things that might be harmful for them politically." He explained that he doubts the threat because "it comes at a time when this administration is trying to cover up what happened in Benghazi. So it's not happening in a vacuum. And the people telling us this, Thomas, are not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow."
Then he again pivoted, saying "I'm simply putting all this in a flow in a contextual flow to explain why there is a lot of cynicism." He continued, "This threat could be exactly as it's being told. It could be dire. And we've got people out there thinking the administration is lying to them."
Limbaugh's cognitive dissonance conveniently ignored the role he plays in encouraging his listeners to mistrust the Obama administration using false information and his influence [4] on the conservative movement at large. Whether it's his claim [5] that President Obama is "at war with the America that was founded," his exploitation [6] of a 10-year-old girl to lie about death panels in Obamacare, his lies [7] about [8] the attacks [9] on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, or his repeated [10] dismissal [11] of climate change, Rush Limbaugh has consistently proven to be a habitually dishonest [12] low-information [13] radio host.
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This week, the ratings of five Biotechnology stocks on Portfolio Grader are down. Each of these rates a "D" ("sell") or "F" overall ("strong sell").
Sinovac Biotech's (NASDAQ:SVA) rating falls to a D ("sell") this week, down from C ("hold") the week prior. Sinovac Biotech researches, develops, manufactures, and markets various vaccines, including flu vaccines and vaccines for Hepatitis A. In Portfolio Grader's specific subcategories of Earnings Revisions, Equity, and Cash Flow, SVA also gets an F. While the Nasdaq has remained flat over the past month, the stock price has fallen 7% over the past month. For more information, get Portfolio Grader's complete analysis of SVA stock.
Curis Inc.'s (NASDAQ:CRIS) rating weakens this week, dropping to a D versus last week's C. Curis is a drug discovery and development company that engages in the research and development of cancer therapeutics. Investors seem to agree with the downgrade and have pushed down the share price 12.4% over the past month. The stock currently has a trailing PE Ratio of 105.70. For a full analysis of CRIS stock, visit Portfolio Grader.
Slipping from a C to a D rating, Progenics Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PGNX) takes a hit this week. Progenics Pharmaceuticals develops and distributes therapeutic products to treat the unmet medical needs of patients with debilitating conditions and life-threatening diseases. In Earnings Momentum, Earnings Revisions, Equity, and Sales Growth the stock gets F's. Wall Street appears to agree with the stock downgrade, with share prices dropping 22.7% over the past month. To get an in-depth look at PGNX, get Portfolio Grader's complete analysis of PGNX stock.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:IRWD) earns a D this week, falling from last week's grade of C. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes marketed drugs. The stock also gets an F in Equity. The stock price has fallen 5.9% over the past month. For a full analysis of IRWD stock, visit Portfolio Grader.
This week, Exelixis (NASDAQ:EXEL) drops from a C to a D rating. Exelixisis a development-stage biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery and development of small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. The stock receives F's in Earnings Growth, Earnings Momentum, and Equity. Margin Growth and Sales Growth also get F's. Share prices fell 6.6% over the past month. As of Dec. 5, 2012, 22% of outstanding Exelixis shares were held short. To get an in-depth look at EXEL, get Portfolio Grader's complete analysis of EXEL stock.
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Lend Lease's highly paid executives have been plunged into a dispute with investors, with the Australian Shareholders Association urging a vote to oust three directors, including the deputy chairman, Richard Longes.
The request comes in the wake of Lend Lease paying out about $13 million in retrenchments in the 2002-03 year.
In addition the current chief executive, Greg Clarke, received $1.8 million for seven months' work - a package that included a base wage of $745,257 and a bonus of $1.13 million.
Lend Lease's annual report shows Mr Longes was paid $340,446 for 2002-03, compared with $394,985 the previous year.
Institutional investors said that, while the ASA's position was credible, Lend Lease should have enough proxies to defeat the motion.
In a letter attached to Lend Lease's notice of its annual shareholders meeting on November 12, at which the three men will be up for re-election, the ASA says the three directors should be held accountable for the group's poor performance.
Lend Lease chairman David Crawford has responded by describing the ASA's request as "ill-conceived".
The ASA letter says: "The only way for shareholders to hold the board of an underperforming company accountable for its flawed strategy is to vote against the re-election of Mr Longes, Peter Goldmark and Gordon Eddington, who failed in their responsibility to deliver an acceptable result."
The letter also said: "Deputy chairman Mr Longes joined the board in 1996. Together with Mr Goldmark and Mr Eddington and other directors, he signed off on board decisions over a number of years that contributed to the current parlous state that Lend Lease finds itself in today."
Meanwhile, Lend Lease US Office Trust has set down a unit holders' meeting for November 14 to vote on whether Morgan Stanley or Principal Real Estate Investors should manage the trust.
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G.I. Jobs Ranks AT&T Among Most Military Friendly and Military Friendly Spouse Employers
Recognized for inclusion of active and retired military employees and their spouses
Dallas, Texas, November 13, 2013
Military personnel, veterans and their spouses are finding career opportunities and an environment that cultivates and nurtures their talent at AT&T. G.I. Jobs recognizes AT&T for its military and military spouse programs as it advances to #15 of their Top 100 Military Friendly Employer® list. This marks the ninth year that the company has been included on the prestigious military-friendly employer list. AT&T debuted at #25 of the Top 50 Military Friendly Spouse Employer® list.
"We value the incredible skills, character and leadership experience veterans bring to AT&T," said Scott Smith, senior vice president of human resources operations, AT&T. "That's why we provide career opportunities, education and training for veterans and military spouses, and it's why we're honored by this recognition."
About 5,000 companies participated in the survey. Criteria for selection included the strength of military recruiting efforts, the percentage of new hires with prior military service, retention programs, and company policies on National Guard and Reserve service.
AT&T recently doubled its goal of hiring veterans and their family members over the next five years to 10,000. The original goal was set in April with the White House's Joining Forces Initiative. AT&T also announced then that it is leading an initiative with JPMorgan Chase and the 100,000 Jobs Mission to create the veteran talent exchange, www.vtx.jobs. The exchange enables active duty military and veteran job candidates to "opt-in" to a talent-sharing database to facilitate the sharing and referral of veteran candidates among participating 100,000 Jobs Mission member companies. AT&T recently launched a military spouse career site that showcases the breadth of AT&T's portable and virtual careers across our US locations and shares testimonials from our military spouse employees.
"We know that diverse, talented and dedicated individuals are critical to our success, so we look for people from various backgrounds and give them opportunities to grow," said Debbie Storey, senior vice president – Talent Development & chief diversity officer, AT&T. "This inclusive culture is something we live every day and positively impacts our employees and customers."
AT&T provides numerous resources to its military employees, including differential pay and benefits options to employees and their families.
Here are other ways AT&T actively supports veterans and their family members:
- AT&T's veteran career site includes tools for veterans to match their military skills with AT&T jobs.
- AT&T's military talent attraction manager focuses on military recruitment.
- The company has a Careers for Veterans program where AT&T Veterans provide job search advice to veterans transitioning from military service.
- The AT&T Veterans employee resource group has more than 7,000 members. The group is in its 30th year and mobilizes AT&T veterans as recruitment ambassadors and for community outreach and volunteerism opportunities.
- AT&T has been a pioneer and leader in the inclusion of disabled-veteran-owned business enterprises in the corporate supply chain through a program called Operation Hand Salute.
- AT&T also works with multiple organizations such as Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Military Spouse Employment Partnership, Military Child Education Coalition, the Department of Veterans' Affairs and state veterans' agencies and commissions.
- AT&T was named one of 2012's Best Military Talent Programs by Electronic Recruiting Exchange, the premier recruiting industry association.
- AT&T was recognized by the Direct Employers Association for veteran recruiting programs.
- The Military Times EDGE Best for Vets ranked AT&T No. 12 for 2013.
Now in its 11th year, the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers® list is the premier resource for transitioning service members and spouses seeking civilian employment. The survey results that determined the 2014 list were independently tested by Ernst & Young LLP based upon the weightings and methodology established by Victory Media. Each year companies taking the survey are held to a higher standard than the previous year via improved methodology, criteria and weightings developed with the assistance of an Advisory Board consisting of leaders in the military recruitment community. A full list of board members can be found at MilitaryFriendly.com/board. AT&T's company profile, including open positions that are a fit for military personnel, can be found on MilitaryFriendly.com.
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Our mission is to provide protection for life and property within the district; respond in a quick, safe and effective manner; and serve with pride, professionalism, tradition and courage.
The District will cooperate with other Jefferson County fire protection and law enforcement agencies in their own similar management efforts, recognizing that extreme situations will arise from time to time where the assistance of other jurisdictions will be indispensable.
We will complement Highland Rescue Team Ambulance District's emergency medical response services to District residents with a capable and reliable staff of qualified EMTs and first responders.
Current News
Foothills Fire Greatly Improves it's ISO Rating!
Foothills Fire Protection District just completed our ISO performance audit. ISO evaluates the ability of a fire department to provide structure fire response. Ratings are from 1 (the best) to a 10 (not recognized as a fire department).
We are proud to announce that we are now an ISO Class 3 fire department! We couldn't have accomplished this without the dedication of our volunteers and the support of our community. Please be sure to inform your insurance provider at renewal time of this new rating. It should help you save money on homeowners insurance!
UPDATE! A Stage 2 Fire Ban is Now In Effect for all of Jefferson County
Jefferson County, CO - Effective at 12:00 p.m., July 13, 2017, the Jefferson County Sheriff will enact a Stage 2 Fire Ban for all unincorporated Jefferson County. The fire ban is being enacted due to current dry conditions favorable for the possibility of a wildfire, and limited availability of fire control resources. For fire restriction or fire ban information, firework regulations, burn permit information or to report a firework violation, please visit the JeffCo Sheriff's website at: http://jeffco.us/sheriff/community/fire-restrictions-and-bans/
Fire Season Information - Learn What's Legal in Each Restriction Level
The Jefferson County Sheriff's department has developed information sheets that contain language, definitions and photographs of items that are restricted in either a Stage 1 (Fire Restriction) or Stage 2 (Fire Ban).
To better understand what is considered a legal burn, (including fire pits, campfires, etc.) see the links below for more details:
- Stage 1 (Fire Restriction) Picture Dictionary
- Stage 1 (Fire Restriction) Detailed Information Document
- Stage 2 (Fire Ban) Picture Dictionary
- Stage 2 (Fire Ban) Detailed Information Document
Recreational Fires
Certain types of recreational fires are allowed when the district isn't under any restrictions. Please refer the following documents (PDFs) for detailed guidelines concerning recreational fires:
- Recreational Fire Information
- Recreational Fire Specifications
To be alerted (via email) to changes in the fire restrictions and bans, please click on the following link: Jeffco Fire Restrictions and Bans Alert Email List.
Colorado National Forest Fire Information
Volunteers Needed!
Foothills Fire & Rescue is a combination department comprised of full-time and volunteer firefighters. The department accepts applications year-round for volunteer firefighters to join our team! If you would like more information about the benefits of membership, and/or how to apply, click here...
For additional information, contact Recruitment Coordinator, Pati Stajcar, at firstname.lastname@example.com. We are now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Foothills Fire Academy!
New VHF High Band Radio System
Since 2012, Foothills has been studying and evaluating both the benefits and drawbacks to transitioning to a high band radio system. After a thorough review, we have decided to move forward with the implementation and funding of our own high band radio system and network. We truly feel that this move is in the best interests of our community and of the fire department.
We have received generous donations from neighboring agencies in the form of radio-repeater equipment, and also received $250,000 in Homeland Security grant money to equip every member and truck with a modern high band radio. The construction of our radio network is the final step in this project. The total cost is anticipated to be $150,000 and paid for by capital reserve fund.
The main benefits of this switch are:
- Increased interoperability
- Better radio coverage
- Lower cost equipment and infrastructure
- Upgrades as needed, not as mandated by a larger agency
- No future fees for service
- System stability
- Coverage for our entire service area, including Genesee (see coverage maps)
For more detailed documentation about the upcoming VHF High Band Radio System, click here...
Evergreen Fire Department Takes Over Dispatch Services to FFPD
Due to various issues with Jeffco Dispatch, the decision was made by FFPD to transition dispatch services in early 2014 to Evergreen Dispatch. This decision was also backed up by a 2013 Audit done for the Jefferson County Emergency Communications Authority (JCECA), which also recommended that all mountain fire departments should eventually transition to Evergreen's dispatching system. Board members involved in the discussions with JCECA were successful in procuring funding from the 911 Commission to enable all the mountain departments to switch together. Funding was approved for a 5-year transition period of declining coverage. (i.e. 100%-Year 1, 75%-Year 2, 50%-Year 3, etc.)
To read more about the transition to Evergreen Dispatch, click here...
Setting Up a Medical ID and/or ICE (In Case of Emergency) on Your Smart Phone Could Help Save Your Life
While no one ever wants a medical emergency to occur within their family, being prepared can avoid a bad situation from becoming worse. Not having access to medical information, for instance, can be problematic, especially if you or your loved one requires immediate attention.
Today's smart phones offer a feature called Medical ID and/or ICE (In Case of Emergency) that will provide medical information about you that may be important in an emergency; such as who you are, any allergies or medical conditions you may have, and how to contact next of kin - all without having to unlock your phone.
As emergency service providers, we hope you'll never need to use this feature. However having timely access to vital information really helps increase our ability to provide top-notch, quality care.
For more information about setting up a Medical ID on your iPhone, click here...
For more information about setting up an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact on your Samsung Galaxy, Droid Incredible or Nokia Lumia smart phone, click here...
2015 Public Safety Communications Subcommittee (PSCS) Annual Report
PSCS is a group formed by state resolution in 2014 to promote the sustainment of all emergency radio systems in Colorado, and includes control of all state funding toward emergency radio systems. membership in this group include individuals leading public safety organizations and state agencies, from all across Colorado. Brian Zoril, Foothills' own Fire Chief is an appointee on this committee.
As a result of legislation passed in 2013, a needs assessment and business plan was recently completed regarding statewide radio communications that determined Public Safety communications were at a crossroads; the current model was determined to be no longer sustaining the critical tools of governance and funding needed by the first responders of Colorado.
Sign Up with Smart911
Smart911 is a free service that allows citizens across the U.S. to create a Safety Profile for their household that includes any information they want 9-1-1 to have in the event of an emergency. Critical information such as family members, bedroom locations, utility shut off information, pet information, etc. At a time when seconds count, being able to provide 9-1-1 with all details that could impact response the second an emergency call is placed could be the difference between life and death. For more information and to sign up with Smart911, visit their website at: www.smart911.com
"Watch Out! Hazards in the Home" Safety Information
Keeping your home safe and hazard free is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family. We have included five surprising dangers that lurk in your home that you may never suspect. Watch out for these to ensure you don't fall victim to the deadly consequences of poisoning and unintentional injury.
For a 1 page PDF summary of key home hazards to watch out for, click here...
For more detailed information about home hazards, please visit the following website at: www.safety.smart911.com/homehazards/
Codes and Keys Requested
Residents of Foothills Fire & Protection District: The fire department would like to know if you or your community has a key-pad gate, and if so, what the code is. A lot of our gate already have Knox access, but we would like to have the key pad codes for back-up. For your information, a knox lock is accessed by keys that are only held by the fire department. Please email Brian Zoril with the information at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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|Business Office Hours:
Saturday - Monday:
7 am - 3 pm
(303) 526-0707
|28812 Rainbow Hill Road,
Evergreen CO 80439
(303) 526-2225
Key Personnel
|Brian Zoril - Fire Chief
|(303) 526-0707
(303) 900-8675
|Dave Stajcar - Fleet Officer
|(303) 526-0707
(303) 916-8928
|Julia Kalish - Training Officer
|(303) 526-0707
(303) 828-8802
|Jill Inman - Executive Assistant
|(303) 526-0707
|Pati Stajcar - Recruitment Coordinator
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Meh... I voted on the front page... before reading the situation. I voted Beat him to a pulp.
What I would have done in this situation though, is beat him until he stopped fighting, call the cops, and then beat him till he stopped fighting again after finding out he was gonna be arrested. I don't agree with these liberal morons that say you shouldn't defending your property for risk of being hurt. THEY shouldn't have considered messing with ME for risk of being hurt!
I heard one colleges solution for if you saw a woman being raped in the parking lot was to call security, and leave... knowing it'll take security 15 to 20 minutes to arrive. Security's answer was "she's only being raped, she'll live."
I would shoot the guy before I called security, screw the law. I've found that in most situations police are useless, I've learned to defend myself, and the people around me. If police are on the scene at the time of the crime, I'll let them handle it. Otherwise, there's no way I'll let someone else be hurt while I'm around.
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If They Don't Sell...Blow 'em Up!
The U.S. military is trying to sell around 4,000 vehicles still in Afganistan. They have too many of them left over after the troop numbers have been greatly reduced. If they can't find buyers, the vehicles will have to be destroyed!
I was born and raised in the Grand Rapids Area. I started working in radio in Whitehall in 1985. Went back to Grand Rapids for less than a year and got a better gig in Muskegon in September of 1986. I also worked at a few restuarants and in construction while going to school before going full time in radio.
I started rockin' with WMRR in March of 2009 and never looked back! I always loved rock music and finally get to work with it everyday!


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Hi. I'm online and happy to answer your question today.
Thank you so much
i have a problem
Are you eyes sensitive to the light? Do they feel like they have something in them? Are both eyes affected?
yes they are sensitive to the light. today around noon when i went outside to drive i could only open one eye. and then i couldnt have either open from the light from the watering and the burning
Also, did you manage to get your contact lenses out? I also assume that they are soft lenses, correct? (sorry for the 20 questions :)
yes i took them off as soon as i woke up
one is worse than the other. one is pink the other is completly red
it burns and the one that is completly red hurts like im having sharp pains
Do you eyes seem to be getting a little bit better as the day has progressed or are they worse as far as you can tell?
my right eye has gotten better through the day. my left one remains the same
Well, the problem is that contact lenses, especially sleeping in them and waking up with problems like you are having, is the number one cause of serious, possibly vision threatening, corneal infections (ulcers).
well that worries me
what do i do?
am i going to go blind?! im worried
Because a corneal ulcer, especially if it is caused by a virulent bacteria such as pseudomonas spp., can get a lot worse in just a few hours if left untreated I think you should get your eyes checked right away.
No. You are not going to go blind.
It might be that you just have caused a corneal abrasion and some mild keratitis/anterior uveitis (swelling inside your eye) and thing will be OK.....however, as I discussed above I wouldn't want to risk missing a bad infection.
so i should go to the hospital?
It would be best if you could call your ophthalmologist and see who is on call for the office and be seen tonight. If that is not possible I would call the nearest ER and ask them if they have an ophthalmologist on call who can see you in the ER....
Being seen by a regular ER doctor is better then not being seen at all. They can give you some antibiotic eye drops but they really don't have the training or the equipment to diagnose this very well.....
Where are you located in the US?
Union, NJ
OK. What size town in Union?
im so worried i have 20/20 vision. i was using contacts for color such a stupid thing to do\
what size is the town of union?
ya.....Ophthalmologists see this all the time. People don't understand the risks, nor do the folks selling them many times.....
the nearest hospital is overlook hospital in union should i call there?
In any event, you have caught the problem early, and you most likely don't have the worst case corneal ulcer so you will most likely be just fine. However, as you can understand, the risks of delaying diagnosis and treatment if it is (on the remote but not uncommon possibility) a serious infection, the sooner you start with antibiotic eye drops the better.
Yes. I think that would be a good idea. Did you get the contacts from an ophthalmologist, or do you have a regular ophthalmologist you can call to see if they have an on-call doctor who can examine your eyes?
im going to the hospital now.
The botXXXXX XXXXXne? Do not panic. You are already doing the right thing by not ignoring this issue until the morning.....
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Ok. Let me know how things turn out or if I can do anything else to help you. Think positive, OK? OK.
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text: Hi All, I've been working with torque/maui and my user base for a while and I've found the ability to submit jobs with dependencies is pretty useful. However, it's also pretty messy if you have any kind of less-than-trivial dependency graph and you are trying to capture job IDs via a shell. Given some other push/pull factors I decided to develop a utility that takes a make-like syntax where each "make" target gets turned into a job and submitted to the job scheduler. Here is a quick example: --- > cat test #!/usr/bin/pbsmake -f 123: testing @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo 123 date testing: @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo testing date sleep 2 > ./test testing(41672.torqueserver...) scheduled 123(41673.torqueserver...) scheduled > sleep 4 > cat ~/job_outputs/testing.o41672 ~/job_outputs/123.o41673 testing Wed Jul 11 20:58:57 MST 2012 123 Wed Jul 11 20:59:00 MST 2012 --- Of course, other parameters can be specified per-target such as queue, resource limits, mail settings, etc. pbsmake is written against the python pbs module and uses a single connection to send all jobs to the scheduler which makes it fairly efficient for sending many jobs at once. pbsmake supports wildcards with wildcard dependencies. This allows all kinds of mischievous stuff to be written (exercise best left to the user) and a quick example of a wildcard target: --- #!/usr/bin/pbsmake -f a-%: % @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo a ${pm_target_match} b-%: % @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo b ${pm_target_match} c-%: % @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo c ${pm_target_match} d: @Output_Path localhost:~/job_outputs/ echo d > ./test-wild a-b-c-d d(41682.torqueserver...) scheduled c-d(41683.torqueserver...) scheduled b-c-d(41684.torqueserver...) scheduled a-b-c-d(41685.torqueserver...) scheduled > cat ~/job_outputs/*.o4168[2345] a b-c-d b c-d c d d --- Finally, to make debugging targets with dependencies and wildcards much easier, there is a graphviz output mode that will output a digraph that can be piped to dotty (or other graphviz tools) to view the dependencies before they are actually sent out. Yes, it will visualize circular dependencies appropriately: --- > ./test-wild -d a-b-c-d digraph pbsmakefile { t_0 -> t_1; t_2 -> t_0; t_3 -> t_2; t_2 [label="b-c-d"]; t_3 [label="a-b-c-d"]; t_0 [label="c-d"]; t_1 [label="d"]; } --- The above command can be invoked as "./test-wild -d a-b-c-d | dotty -" to popup an appropriate graph. For those of you who are still reading, congratulations! You win the URL to the released versions of pbsmake as well as the development repository for it: http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~tims/pbsmake/ https://github.com/imoverclocked/pbsmake I'd like to take a second to thank Chris Van Horne for all of the development work he has done to get pbsmake where it is now while also putting up with my sometimes much less than rock solid plans for how pbsmake should behave in certain corner cases and turning them into specs and code. Hopefully others may find this useful in their work with torque/pbs. Cheers, -Tim


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A former synagogue cantor was
sentenced to at least 15 months in prison for molesting two girls during their
religious training.
Phillip Wittlin, 57, must spend 11 months in prison before
being eligible for parole. He was credited with four months served since his
surrender in February.
Wittlin apologized in court Friday to the girls, their
families and the synagogue where he was a cantor for 34 years.
"I know that my actions have caused a lot of pain to my
people," said Wittlin, who was terminated from his position in October.
Wittlin pleaded guilty in February to corruption of minors,
indecent assault and other charges. He will be on probation for 20 years after
his release from prison.
As cantor, Wittlin was responsible for preparing young
people for their bat or bar mitzvahs. He was accused of fondling two girls in
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Yesterday I had the pleasure to be part of a tasting of a diverse selection of The Glenmorangie's Single malt expressions held at Ciro's Speakeasy and lead by Bill Hyatt (Moet-Hennessy Portfolio Manager). This is what was talked about:
- Master Distiller Bill Lumsden
- The Glenmorangie holds the tallest stills (16 feet 10 1/4 inches) in Scotland allowing only the lightest and purest vapours to make it to the top. This stills where initially used for Gin.
- The distillation process is undertaken by a staff of 16, known as The Sixteen Men of Tain, who work year round.
- Casks are only used twice.
- The Cask imparts aprox. up to 2/3 of the flavor of the spirit.
- The distillery is located in the Highland town of Tain. The distillery was founded in 1843
- Glenmorangie has been experimenting with different cask for maturation for over 20 years.
- Glenmorangie Original is aged 10 years in american oak barrels that have been used for bourbon maturation and its different expressions are aged 2 more years in specially selected casks. Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban aged 2 more years in port casks form Portugal. Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or aged 2 extra years in Sauternes casks from France. Glenmorangie Lasanta 2 years in Oloroso casks from Spain.
- Glenmorangie releases yearly a new product for its customers, this year its Glenmorangie Finealta ('elegant' in Gaelic) which uses a recipe that dates back to 1903. Matured in a combination of American white oak casks and Spanish Oloroso sherry casks this whisky is unusual for its light touch of peatiness – a reminder of a time when Glenmorangie dried its barley in a peat fired kiln.
Here is Master distiller Bill Lumsden describing the expressions we tasted.


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A PLANNING application to build a museum on the site of Drakelow Tunnels has been put on hold while documents are collected.
A Wyre Forest District Council spokeswoman said the original application for the former Second World War aero engine factory in Wolverley was invalid due to incorrect documents being submitted regarding the ownership of the site.
She added: "It's on hold until we get the correct documentation."
The proposals, submitted by Swiss owners Quercus Ilex SA, with the help of an unnamed group working to restore the tunnels, are for a museum, gift shop and coffee shop to help with tourism and preservation of the site.
The volunteers have been busy clearing up and restoring the tunnels by holding regular working parties.
Over the last couple of months, they have been removing rubble from office space, clearing the BBC, BT and computer services rooms and working to repair lighting and electrics.
Updates can be found on the "Say YES to the Drakelow Tunnels Museum Development" facebook page, which now has more than 700 likes.


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The Road To Perdition - Poem by Captain Cur
She said she was a fallen angel.
I partly believed it because the bar was closing
and she looked anything but angelic.
She had rust colored hair and a worn glow.
I asked her; 'What are you doing, later.'
She said; 'I am going to walk the road to Perdition.'
I asked; 'What town is that in? '
I got her to smile.
I told her I would give her a lift.
I brought her to my place.
She said nothing in the ride.
I asked; 'What do you drink? '
She answered; 'Blood red wine.'
I poured her some old merlot.
I stroked her hair and kissed her.
It was forced.
I relaxed.
She took off her blouse.
She was bruised all over.
I asked her where she got the bruises.
She said; 'Michael gave them to me when he cast me out.'
I thought, the archangel or a cruel boyfriend.
I didn't press.
She asked me to put on some music
and then she danced for me,
it was a kind of awkward teasing dance.
I swallowed my drink.
She was really quite pretty
when you picked through all the hazards.
She was completely naked now.
I poured myself a double.
I got up and danced with her.
I stroked her back.
I asked about her wings.
She said; 'Life has stripped them and I can no longer fly.'
I rolled a joint and got her high.
That is the night I slept with a fallen angel.
In the morning
she would be walking the road to Perdition
and I would be living in my house of ruin.
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Swimsuit-clad Snooki & JWoww Swim with Dolphins in Mexico (PHOTOS)
This week, Snooki and JWoww were spotted swimming with the dolphins on the coast of an isle near Cancun, Mexico. Snooki, who is currently engaged and pregnant with her first child, rocked an embellished cut-out swimsuit but covered up her blooming baby bump in a sheer top. Meanwhile, her BFF Jenni "JWoww" Farley was seen flaunting her bikini bod in a bright pink two-piece. Their friend, Ryder, was also present sporting a black bikini.
Snooki and JWoww are currently hard at work filming their new reality show — which has taken a drastic turn since Snooki's pregnancy, according to a source.
"It certainly has changed the direction of the show," a production insider revealed to Celebuzz. "Not in a bad way, just a different way."
"Nicole is so happy, but she's exhausted," our source added. "So shooting has been a little tough."
Whatever the case may be, it looks like Snooki's enjoying her time in Mexico!