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Hi, I am 33 years old and I have been having seizures now for about 3 years. It happened shortly after a toxic reaction to topomax. I was in the hospital for a week then and every since then I have had minor seizures off and on. When I do it affects my speech and I stutter bably and lose my thoughts and words. I feel so weird when this happens. I don't know anyone else like this. I have bipolar and dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality). I heard people with these illnesses can have seizures, I just don't know what type. I hate being like this. It makes me more depressed. I am getting so frustrated. I have two young boys and they don't understand why all of a sudden I loose my words or thoughts or I sound funny as they call it. My oldest one is 7 and he does ok. He helps me with my words and he answers the phone for me when I am having trouble talking. I just don't know what to do. My therapist wants to know more information about why it affects my speech but I have nothing to offer because I have been struggling to find information myself. Does anyone have suggestions? Kym
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Hi Kym,If it offers any comfort...I stutter after a szr too and have problems remembering/losing words. My H says that i start stuttering right before a szr as well. This is actually an improvement for me. When I first started szing almost 6 yrs ago (I'm 39) I started stuttering after a cluster episode and stuttered CONSTANTLY up until about 6-8 mos ago (sorry, I have lousy time sense). In increase in my doseage of trileptal seemed to nip the stuttering 24/7 in the bud.As to WHY i stuttered? The doctors were/are clueless other than it was related to my epilepsy some how. It definitely isn't common. My first neuro was convinced it was psychological but this was later disproved by 2 psychologist, a speech pathologist and the current neuro I have now. "The brain is a funny thing" is their best explanation :-)Regrds,Zoo
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Kym, I am new to this site and I to studder. I am diagnosed with Complex Partial Siezures in 6th grade. I am 30 now and I am being tested for my second brain operation (right temporal lobectomy) on my right temporal lobe. My dad told me that something happened to me when I was 3 years old, not sure if it was a siezure or not, but I turned blue. After that I started to studder. Prior to that, I spoke very clear and complete sentences. I still studder when nervous, but I do a pretty good job with general discusion.Hope your neurologists can narrow the situation down.Jerry
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You are having Simple Partial Seizures that might also be going into Complex Partial Seizures. There is a lot of information you can get to your therapist on the Internet. Look on www.webMD.com -- www.epiliepsy.com www.epilepsyfoundation.com and also search under Seizures and look for Simple Partial and Complex PartialYour speach is being affected because your seizures are in the temporal lobes of your brain that controls speach, emotions, etc. Your Bi-polar symptoms could actually be seizures themselves. Do you have a GOOD neurologist that specializes in Epilepsy? If you don't I would advise you to get one-- NOT ALL NEUROLOGISTS AND DOCTORS KNOW ABOUT EPILEPSY and its effects on your life-- do not be taken in by that myth. You have to find a doctor that deals with epilepsy either exclusively or he is VERY knowlegeable about it. YOU HAVE TO ASK because they will not tell you.I have speach problems and I do just what you do and sometimes I cannot even talk for hours after a seizure. God be with you. PS: as a side point TELL YOUR CHILDREN everything that is happening to you-- tell them Mommy has an illness that she cannot help and this is what happens to her. I made the mistake of not doing that and my children grew up with a lot of resentment and hurt. Tell them you do not want to be the way you are and that you wish anything that you could change it and you are trying everything you know to get help. Tell them that you love them so much and that it is not contagious and that just because you have this problem they will not get as they are afraid of that. Tell them that you love them with all your heart and sometimes people get sick and they cannot help it but that you are trying to do everything to make it easier for them. Tell them Tell them tell them
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I too would suggest that you should get a second opinion on your bi-polar disorder. I hope it relieves you to hear that I have had exactly the same challenges and my doc labels them simple partial and complex partial. I learned more to relieve my stress on this site than ever before. But I have had the same speach problems and have even done weird stuff during seizures that my doc says some docs would have hospitalized me for. Such as leaving my house and walking down Main St...trying to "run away" at 30 years old. Trying to give my dog away, give my car way, all things that would parlay into very half hearted suicide attempts. DURING ALL OF THIS....I could hardly speak to my family. Anything spoken was complete mish-mash and I don't remember most of it today.My point....a lot of this would be labled as bi-polar. But my doc. spent a lot of time with me....added Lexapro as an anti-depressant and Ambien to sleep. He has spoken to me from home on several occasions and I know that what is happening are seizures after all the reading. I AM FINALLY NOT FEELING CRAZY!!! It's amazing to learn that you aren't the only one.Despite having seizures for years....this just started getting bad the last little while...after 8 years. But it can be handled...Thank God!-Brandon
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I have seizures that affect my speech as well. When they are simple partials, I almost immediately lose my speech or will only be able to make strange noises that my wife only describes as "wailing." When I come out of it, sometimes the only word I can say is her name. Before some of the seizures, my voice will change or I will have trouble speaking clearly. My wife has described my voice during these periods as sounding something like Jimmy Stewart. I have a VNS but this does not coincide with stimulation (e.g., beocming better and worse in alternating cycles).My wife, who also has epilepsy, has seizures that presumably arise from the area around her left frontal lobe tumor. It's benign, thank the Lord. The neurosurgeons have said that it's too close to her speech center to remove without some morbidity. It is thought that my seizures come from my right temporal lobe. There has been some conflicting information on EEGs but in the latest review of one of them, an epileptologist noted there were possible sharp waves or spikes in that area (and, interestingly, focal slowing in the other temporal lobe). ...Know that you are not alone.Labspanielmix
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>> just don't understand a lot of the seizure stuff and it scares me to think I am going to be talking like this and feeling like this for awhile. I was talking real slow the other day in the grocery store so my sons who are 7 and 6 and don't understand what has happened to me, and the lady beside me thought I was deaf so she was using all these sign motions so I would understand. My oldest which can be a real smart alleck, said "Lady my mom can't talk she ain't deaf!" I was so embarassed but it felt good for him to stick up for me. He is a real trooper. He practices words with me most every day.>>I was at a grocery store once a few years back, ordering a sandwich from the deli. My speech was horrible but the clerk understood what I wanted. ... Maybe God put him in my way ... because he was obviously delayed and had some problems too. So he didn't judge me at all. I have had people make jokes. Not fun. That is great what your oldest child stood up for you. If only other people (and I mean adults here) could do the same. The whole psychiatry-epilepsy mess is just that, a mess. So many neurologists want to "throw patients in the psych pile" and get on with their other business. Many of these patients simply have more complex cases. They take time. It is possible to have both pseudoseizures or psychogenic seizures and epileptic seizures in your presentation. In fact, this is the case in up to 40 percent (or maybe even more) of people with epilepsy. Anyone who truly has psychogenic seizures is not a liar or a fake. The seizures are simply an outward display of something with which your brain -- or your mind -- cannot cope. At least that's what I've been told. The situation is complicated even more because so much epilepsy junk can cause psychiatric symptoms -- anxiety, fear, depression, the hearing of voices, hallucinations, etc. Just remember that medical professionals are "practicing medicine." That's what my wife says. She has epilepsy too and gave me the courage to fight for the right medications. ... We actually take the same ones, except I take them at higher doses. I also have a VNS (vagus nerve stimulator).It's easy for me to tell you to be strong but it looks like your children are giving you strength. May the Lord lift you up as well, for He is the great physician.Labspanielmix
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Picking up on what someone else said, there are a lot of patients with epilepsy who are mistakenly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. ... This is especially true for those with TLE (temporal lobe epilepsy). The temporal lobe controls speech, emotions and hearing, among other functions. I think finding a good neurologist or epileptologist is worth the work. People with some types of seizures have a prodrome, meaning that they feel a certain way long before they have a seizure. In some patients, this presents as agitation and anger. In others, it manifests itself as a hyperexcitable, manic state. Of course, after the seizure, some people feel depressed or in a "low" state. Still others feel "just fine." To them, it feels like the seizure has done a hard reboot on their brain, resetting it to a normal operating state (for the time being).Labspanielmix
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Hi I am also having trouble with my speach,I started having my seizures in October. My family called them episodes before this last week because I wasn't diagnosed as having seizures until then. But my darling 12 year old daughter can always tell when ever I am going into a partial sz because of my speach. I start speaking slower. It has happened so many times in a store that she can just tell by looking at me... and she just grabs hold of my hand and heads to somewhere to sit quietly. Because she doesn't know if it is going to be just an aura or if we are going to go into a full t/c sz. We both(as well as my husband) have our cell phones on us at all times. She just says my Mom is not feeling well and needs some privacy please to any rude people...and when I am unable to speak correctly and people look at me? She glares at them until they look away. Lets just say with her Red hair and Green eyes most people give up the stare before she does.I am still looking for the answers as to what is causing my seizures. I was just hospitalized for 2 days at UCLA- Not quite sure what was happening there. I was sitting there in a wheelchair(due to chance of sz) waiting to be admitted for some tests, next thing I know I am naked on a table in the xray room with some nurse named Romeo putting a gown on me. I couldn't speak for about 5-10 more minutes. A little later another nurse came up and asked me "aren't you the one we just brought back here "status"?" , I was was sitting there as if nothing had ever happened. she was amazed. They did a portable EEG in my Hospital room and it came back normal as did the CT scan. Now they want me to talk to a Psychiatrist.Dayna
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The doctors also took me off of my medications Effexor and are tapering me off of the Topamax. Pretty soon the only Med I will be taking is my Blood Pressure med. And My Head feels like it is going to explode.
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Oh Kym do not Give Up!,I am down to 25mg of Topamax a day, my head is still hurting but the have put me on Depakote, we are not sure how my body will handle this one...but we are going to try it.What I found that helps me when I am down and feel like I am about to spontaniously combust is...I go take a long bubble bath. I know I am supposed to take showers not baths...but I swear it is the only thing that helps my head sometimes. I can just barely float my head in the tub...for a couple minutes before someone is trying to make sure I didn't drown...but it does help,at least for me.


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The following article was written for HousingWire by Kerri Ann Panchuk on June 18, 2013, and is being republished in the South Florida Law Blog with comments from real estate and foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim .
When Florida's Governor Rick Scott signed House Bill 87 – the so-called foreclosure Rocket Docket bill – he had no idea he was opening another can of worms and potentially giving foreclosure defense attorneys more tools in their arsenal to delay foreclosures.
The bill was passed into law to deal with Florida's drawn-out and troublesome foreclosure process. HB 87 aimed to streamline the foreclosure process, enacting reforms at the legislative level to jump-start foreclosures and expedite the process in one of the states hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. (Click here to read more about the changes).
But while the bill has created procedural demands that challenge attorneys on both sides of a foreclosure, the bill itself could ultimately fail in its quest to speed up foreclosures in Florida, says foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim with Oppenheim Law.
Along with the many procedural changes, Oppenheim says the bill built in a series of potential constitutional violations that a foreclosure defense attorney could easily utilize as a tool to aid homeowners when challenging a foreclosure.
"They have given us new quivers in our satchel to use against the banks," Oppenheim told HousingWire. "There is ambiguity, and it's created confusion."
Oppenheim says opportunities for constitutional challenges are scattered throughout the bill—namely in the fact that there is an allocation of judiciary responsibilities to the legislative branch in some cases. In addition, potential property rights issues are peppered throughout the bill, creating potential due process, equal protection or illegal takings claims under the Constitution. Other parts of the bill are retroactive, which is another constitutional issue, Oppenheim said.

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Dividend stocks have been highly fashionable lately, and for understandable reasons. The Federal Reserve is keeping rates low and punishing savers. That has pushed more investors into equities … but low-risk strategies tend to focus on the low volatility and high income potential of dividend stocks instead of aggressive bets in growthy technology companies or emerging markets.
There are a lot of benefits to be had from a good dividend stock strategy in your portfolio. Still, I remain convinced that there is a fundamental misunderstanding among many investors that dividend stocks are inherently safe.
They are not.
I recently joined Moe Ansari, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Market Wrap with Moe, to discuss some of the risks facing dividend stock investors.
The three biggies I see are:
Low Volatility Works Both Ways: Last year, the stock market went like gangbusters with 30% gains for the major indices. However, dividend stock funds such as Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) or the T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund (PRDGX) slightly underperformed. Tom Huber, portfolio manager for the T. Rowe fund, explains why: "You should outperform in choppier, lower-return markets, but you're not as likely to participate fully on the upside in strong markets."
Low Volatility Doesn't Mean Low Risk: Even worse than broad-based dividend funds has been the performance of the Utilities SPDR (XLU), an ETF that focuses wholly on stocks in the utility sector and thus tends to be chock full of dividend stocks. In 2013, the fund was up a measly 13% including dividends vs. the 32% gain for the broader stock market — and one of the biggest dividends stocks out there, utility leader Southern Co. (SO), barely finished flat (including its hefty dividend). There is no such thing as a "risk-free" investment, and even low-volatility dividend stocks carry their own flavor of risk.
A High Dividend Doesn't Always Mean You'll Get a High Return: There's an old joke among investors who chase yield: The easiest way for a stock to see its dividend yield double is to watch its share price get cut in half overnight. Take retailer Coach (COH), a big consumer brand with a big dividend yield of 3.3% … and a 12-month performance of -30%. Or oil services stock Transocean (RIG), which yields more than 7% but has lost about 17% since January alone.
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Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen are officially parents to a baby boy. The "Orange Is the New Black" actor's wife announced on Instagram that she gave birth to their first child, a son named Sid, on Saturday, February 15 via c-section.
Sid was born at 5:33 P.M. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He weighed in at 8 lbs., 8 oz. and was 21 and quarter inches long upon birth. "Full head of hair, huge penis," Mollen jokingly captioned the first photo of Sid. "Mom is doing great and a fan of dilaudid (pain reliever)."
Mollen added on a more serious note, "We are incredibly grateful to all the nurses and staff at Cedars-Sinai. Everybody was top-notch."
Mollen also shared a series of videos that chronicle the exciting journey from the trip to the hospital at 3 A.M., the labor, the epidural to the unexpected c-section. In the last video, Biggs was seen leaning to his wife after the birth, saying, "You did amazing, sweetie. I'm so proud of you. He's beautiful, pretty damn cute."
Mollen, who once had a miscarriage, was actually due to give birth on February 4. "I feel like I've been pregnant since the mid 90s. I think I might have my second baby before I have my first," she tweeted previously. The 34-year-old was 41 weeks pregnant when Sid finally showed signs of coming out.


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It seems like only yesterday we were oohing and ahhing over the birth of lil Love-kun. Now check out this other 3-day-old Chihuahua, Kokoro-chan. With a telltale heart shape, this pup has the same father (Heart-kun) but a different mom — so these babes are cousins in cute.
Now, we already know that this marking is not that unusual, and I can think of a couple other pups with identifying markings (like Licorice's "L" shape). Sadly my pooch just has an splotch on his neck, but compare these two love marks — Love-kun's in the front and Kokoro-chan just behind — in a closeup shot when you


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HILTON HEAD, S.C. -- The Peach Belt Conference announced that a record 1,079 student-athletes have been named to the 19th-annual Presidential Honor Roll.
The list includes 92 student-athletes from Francis Marion University. FMU placed student-athletes on the honor roll from all 12 of its sponsored sports.
The Presidential Honor Roll recognizes all student-athletes at PBC institutions who had a grade point average of 3.00 or higher, based on a 4.00 scale, for the 2009-10 academic year. The honor roll is divided into four groups: Presidential Scholars (GPA of 3.00 to 3.24), Bronze Scholars (3.25 to 3.49), Silver Scholars (3.50 to 3.74), and Gold Scholars (3.75 to 4.00).
"I continue to be proud of the way our student-athletes excel both on the playing field and in the classroom," said FMU director of athletics Murray Hartzler. "This large number represents roughly half of the students who compete annually in intercollegiate athletics at FMU. It also shows how higher education and athletics, or other extracurricular activities, can both succeed working hand-in-hand."
Among the FMU athletes named to the honor roll were 10 who receive this recognition for the fourth time: men's soccer player Kyle Clinton (Safety Harbor, FL); women's cross country runner Amanda Doyle (Laurens, SC); women's volleyball player Jess O'Leary (St. Louis, MO); women's soccer players Emily Brandenburg (West Columbia, SC), Rachel Rubin (Charlotte, NC) and Angela Salem (Copley, OH); and women's softball players Kat Beauvais (Manassas, VA), Jessica Birchmeier (Port Richey, FL), Jamie Holmes (Monroe, WA), and Michaela Wolf (Littleton, CO).
Earlier this year, a record 134 student-athletes at Francis Marion were named to the university's Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic Honor Roll.
FMU student-athletes named to the 2009-10 PBC Presidential Honor Roll are:
Dalton Gress (baseball), Aiken, SC
Alex Lee (baseball), Blythewood, SC
German Reyes (baseball), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Preston Shuey (baseball), Charlotte, NC
Will Smith (baseball), Columbia, SC
Mindaugas Petreikis (men's basketball), Siauliai, Lithuania
Sebastian Backlund (golf), Bollebygd, Sweden
Travis Gantt (golf), Greenwood, SC
Amanda Mitchell (women's volleyball), Farragut, TN
Jess O'Leary (women's volleyball), St. Louis, MO
Danielle Parker (women's volleyball), Lockwood, MO
Ivan Juric (men's soccer), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kat Beauvais (women's softball), Manassas, VA
Olivia Ferguson (women's softball), Roanoke, VA
Jamie Holmes (women's softball), Monroe, WA
Cea Knox (women's softball), Myrtle Beach, SC
Emily Brandenburg (women's soccer), West Columbia, SC
Elisabeth Dobek (women's soccer), Sterling Heights, MI
Casey Durham (women's soccer), Waldorf, MD
Rachel Rubin (women's soccer, tennis), Charlotte, NC
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Karine Augur (women's tennis), Vendome, France
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Welcome to Prince Bishops Aikido Club
Sensei Tony Heseltine 6th Dan, Sensei Keith Murray 5th Dan
Here at Prince Bishops Aikido which includes Durham University Aikido Club we teach a practical and dynamic approach to aikido whilst maintaining the traditional principles, which make aikido a unique martial art developed by a unique person. The circular flowing movements with concentrated poise and re-direction of the attackers force and energy are the principal trademarks of aikido the secrets of which we want to share with you. We also train with weapons using the sword and jo (4ft staff) which form an important part of how aikido works at its most fundamental level. You will also learn how to defend against an attacker using these weapons as well as knife attacks. With the sword and jo not being the preferred weapon of attack by todays standards they can be likened to a club, bat or bottle; the methods are exactly the same


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ATLANTA - DeMarre Carroll scored 23 points and Kyle Korver put on quite a shooting display in the third quarter, carrying the Atlanta Hawks to a 101-88 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte Hornets needed a little pick-me-up after a tough - and potential costly - double-overtime loss to the Washington Wizards on Friday night.
ATLANTA - DeMarre Carroll scored 24 points and the Atlanta Hawks clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 99-86 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday night.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Atlanta Hawks want to do everything they can over their last dozen games to be as playoff-ready as possible.
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Hawks spent some extra time in the film room Monday. They didn't necessarily like what they were seeing but couldn't argue with what it showed.
ATLANTA - Tony Parker can't really explain why the San Antonio Spurs have been mediocre on the road this season.
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Thunder keep losing players and finding ways to win.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Harrison Barnes had 25 points, Andre Iguodala added 21 points and six assists, and the Golden State Warriors cruised past the Atlanta Hawks 114-95 on Wednesday night in a matchup of the NBA's top two teams.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeff Teague scored 23 points and Paul Millsap added 19 points and 10 rebounds to help the Atlanta Hawks set a franchise record with their 23rd road win of the season, 110-103 over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night.
LOS ANGELES - Dennis Schroder had 24 points and 10 assists, Al Horford scored 21 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Los Angeles Lakers 91-86 on Sunday night.
PHOENIX- Paul Millsap scored 23 points and the Atlanta Hawks made five 3-pointers in the final 6:38 to pull away from the Phoenix Suns, 96-87 on Friday night.
DENVER - Danilo Gallinari had 23 points, Will Barton added 16 and the Denver Nuggets beat Eastern Conference-leading Atlanta 115-102 on Wednesday night for their eighth straight home win over the Hawks.
ATLANTA- The Hawks gave Kyle Korver the weekend off, hoping it would help him break out of his shooting slump.
PHILADELPHIA - Hollis Thompson and Luc Mbah a Moute scored 19 points apiece, and the Philadelphia 76ers surprised the short-handed Atlanta Hawks 92-84 on Saturday night.
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Up to 12 front-facing Ethernet ports in three network modules which can be configured to provide flexible options for SFP fiber, standard 10/100 RJ45, and bypass-enabled ports.
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- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
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Link (Fierce Deity) - legend of zelda majora's mask
this is going to be awesome :D I look forward to the progress
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Majora's mask prop template (Posted 23rd June 2014)
This took 2 attempts just to draw but it was worth it :), It was odd really because you do have to use some maths for this. You have to get the angles right, positioning, shape and size... so much fun.
Armour: research (Posted 7th June 2014)
After being ill for the past few days I thought I'd do something to lift me up a bit, so I decided to do some cosplay research.
Sword: research (Posted 4th June 2014)
Because I have no intention on rushing this project I thought that I would start with one of the hardest parts which is the sword.
Starting point, reference images (Posted 31st May 2014)
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Lea Michele on 'Sons of Anarchy' Set Leads Today's Star Sightings
Just hours after announcing that she will be appearing on the final season of Sons of Anarchy, Lea Michele was spotted filming her scenes on the set of the popular FX show. On Monday, the Glee actress was all-smiles as she got into costume for her character, Gertie, a truck-stop waitress and single mother who befriends Gemma (played by Katey Sagal).
Michele tweeted about her guest appearance, writing:
On set at @SonsofAnarchy with my favorite person @Harparbar this is so cool! #SOAFX pic.twitter.com/5kvbPMKEj7
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Her episode is slated to air Oct. 14.
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May 9, 2014
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The Cowgirl tennis team finished the 2014 spring season ranked seventh in average attendance for the month of April, while they had the second highest single-match attendance in February against Colorado Mesa.
"Congratulations to our wonderful fans in helping us reach the Top 10 in attendance this season," head coach Dean Clower said. "The support from our great community makes UW the best place to coach and play in the country. Thanks again to you all for the support we have."
Wyoming averaged 200 fans (400 total) having attended matches for the month of April which was seventh behind some of the top schools in the country. Of the three matches in February and April, the Cowgirls tallied 737 fans for an average of 246 per match. Their largest crowd was 337 against Colorado Mesa on Feb. 7, which was the second largest single-match crowd during the month of February.
The Cowgirls closed out the season April 26th at the Mountain West Championships in Fresno, Calif. They went 11-8 overall and 4-1 in the Mountain West on the season.


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Stay Wild Wednesdays: Episode 5
Airblaster's webisode series came to visit us at I Ride Park City. Wild Wednesdays visited Parker Duke, during a shift at Cobra Dogs, and he took a ride break with Max Warbington!
Bode Merrill is a one-footer Maniac
Quite simply Bode Merrill is the man. He doesn't need two feet strapped in to drop hammers.
Halldor Helgason Does "I Ride Park City"
Halldor Helgason spent the past few days ripping around the 3 Kings Park at I Ride Park City!
Sam Taxwood Wall Ride
Sam Taxwood throws down on the wall ride on a beautiful Park City day.
Suns Out Holiday Sessions
The sun is shining and the park is firing. The "I Ride Park City" crew has been sessioning day and night logging hours for the new movie coming next Fall.
Friday Night Jib Fights Night 1
Utah's finest rail slayers threw down under the lights of 3 Kings.
Sam Taxwood Sending the 60 Footer
Sam Taxwood sends it on the 60 footer in 3 Kings. Lots of filming is happening each day for the upcoming "I Ride Park City" movie.
Cobra Dogs Grand Opening Party
This Saturday Cobra Dogs threw a huge grand opening party with DJ Matty Mo from Skullcandy, All Stars signing autographs, sunshine, hot dogs, smiles and beer.
Opening Week Photos
The goods just keep dropping. The All Stars were out in full force nearly every day this past week, as was most of the SLC shred scene. These guys put in the work and Rob Mathis was there to capture it all.
2011-2012 Opening Day
Three lifts, eight runs, 20 features and one jump were all available on the first day of the season – making for one of the Resort's biggest Opening Days in years. A slew of All Stars were hand including Tanner Hall, Tom Wallisch, Sage Kotsenburg, Scotty Arnold, Joss Christensen, Aaron Bittner, Erin Comstock, Ashley Battersby, Alex Schlopy and Torah Bright.
Saga Checks in with Park City
When the crew from Saga Outerwear stops by Park City, you know some killer photos are going to make their way to your computer screen. Even when the resort hasn't opened, these guys do a damn good job of making us look good. We hope you're ready for Winter because it's here.
"I Ride Park City" Print Ads
"I Ride Park City" ads featured in Freeskier, Snowboarder and Transworld Snowboarding. Be sure to pick up a copy of your favorite shred publication to see them up close and glossy.
Behind the Scenes: Early Season Edits
Go behind the scenes of filming for "I Ride Park City" in the 2010-2011 season with Stevie Bell, Sage Kotsenburg, Dan Brisse, Louie Vito, Aaron Biittner, Shaun White, Scott Stevens, and Bode Merrill.


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Tim Conway Jr at OC Fair
Tim Conway Jr., Aron Bender, Angel Martinez and producer Mystie Salbert were on-site at the OC Fair! They had all kinds of food that was either fried, wrapped in bacon, or dipped in chocolate. Mystie handled the deep fried, bacon wrapped turkey leg (above).
The crowd was amazing! It was such a good time. Hopefully fair officials will invite the KFI crew out again next year!


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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has big plans for next year if he gets to lead a Republican majority, but he has to avoid losing his own seat first.
McConnell is the only Republican whose Senate campaign is on the RNC's 2014 watch list. A new Rasmussen poll suggests why.
"McConnell runs dead even with Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in Rasmussen Reports' first look at the 2014 U.S. Senate race in Kentucky," Rasmussen says. "But McConnell's GOP primary rival Matt Bevin leads Grimes by six points."
Bevin, a political newcomer, is the rough equivalent of putting "Generic Republican" on the ballot. In Kentucky, Generic Republican beats the Democratic secretary of state by six points. McConnell is not a generic Republican, though. In a general election, moderate and left-leaning independents know him as the senator who said his top goal was to make President Obama lose re-election (a line that Obama's team cited repeatedly last year). For all that he's accused of conservative extremism and partisan hackery, conservatives also don't trust him, regarding him as the face of the Republican establishment.
He still has a big lead in the Republican primary. Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, showed McConnell with a 53-26 lead over Bevin in December. Human Events, a more conservative outfit, produced similar results last month, when McConnell enjoyed a 53-31 lead over Bevin.
Even those polls show signs of weakness for McConnell. PPP found that only 31 percent of voters approve of his job performance, compared to 61 percent who disapprove. Those numbers track with the Human Events survey of Republican voters. Human Events didn't ask about overall job performance, but -- given the Republican electorate's opposition to Obamacare -- a question about whether McConnell has done enough to fight the health care law seems like a good proxy. Fifty-nine percent of Republican voters polled told Human Events that "McConnell is not doing enough to end Obamacare."
McConnell's recent focus on the IRS scandal could endear him to the Tea Partiers who were targeted during the 2012 election.
"McConnell is now putting pressure on John Koskinen, the new IRS Commissioner, to withdraw a proposed regulation that would make the targeting and harassment of government critics a permanent feature of the tax agency's regulatory processes," the Washington Examiner's Mark Tapscott pointed out Monday morning.
A 30-year senator can only do so much to change voters' impressions of him in the middle of an election year, though. Bevin's capacity to define himself as a conservative alternative to McConnell remains the real question mark.
PPP seemed skeptical in December. "He remains mostly unknown to Republican voters in the state -- 61 percent don't have an opinion about him one way or the other," the polling firm noted. "And the voters who do have an opinion about him don't particularly like him -- just 14 percent see him favorably to 25 percent with a negative opinion. GOP voters say they like Rand Paul better than McConnell by a 59/27 margin, but so far they're not seeing Bevin as someone in the Paul vein."
Those numbers might reflect Team Mitch's work to define Bevin unfavorably, but they also could show the downside of how "Bevin speaks more like the businessman he is than a fire-breathing conservative; stylistically, he's more Mitt Romney than Ted Cruz," as Politico put it.
National Review noticed a comment from Bevin that seems to back up that observation. "We have way too much partisanship in Washington," Bevin said. "And it shouldn't be a function of, you know, the Democrats are this, therefore the Republicans have to be opposed to it or vice versa. It's got to be what's in the best interest of this country. Shutting down the government is ridiculous."
Mitch McConnell couldn't have put it better himself. The upside of having a Mitt Romney-like business background? Bevin is a wealthy candidate. In addition to the support of the Senate Conservatives Fund, Bevin can put a lot of money into the race if he has to, in order to define himself as the conservative alternative to McConnell.
"We absolutely will be on air, both through radio, through internet, through TV, in a substantive way," Bevin told Politico. "There will be nobody who goes into the voting booth on May 20 that does not have an informed opinion of who I am, I can assure you of that."
It's hard to imagine a Senate leader losing a re-election bid. The last time that happened was in 2004 when Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota was defeated by Republican John Thune -- and that was the first time since 1952.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who succeeded Daschle, was the most unpopular senator in the country (that title now belongs to McConnell, according to PPP) when he survived in 2010. The most likely outcome is that McConnell wins this primary and hangs on in the general as the national political environment trends against Democrats.
For Bevin to win, he'll have to run a perfect campaign, and he'll probably still need McConnell — a veteran campaigner — to make a couple of mistakes. If that happens, as unlikely as it seems now, McConnell could lose this primary.


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Chief Timipre Sylva-SamGovernor of Bayelsa State
Bayelsa Stateknown as"Pride of the Nation"
Population Approximately 1.9 million
LanguagesAlthough English is the Nigeria Official Language, almost 75% speak and hear English or broken English. The official local dialect is Ijaw. Almost 83% speak Ijaw language. Around 30% speak or hear Igbo Language.
Religious BeliefBayelsa State is principally a Christian State; almost 90% of the people are Christians while 5% are orthodox.
Capital Yenagoa
Local Government AreasBrass, Ekeremor, Kolokuma Opokuma, Nembe, Ogbia, Sagbama, Ijaw South, Yenagoa
State House Government House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Government Website
Bayelsa: Sylva accuses PDP of 'judicial fraud'
Written by Ihuoma Chiedozie and Kunle Falayi
The legal battle over the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial ticket for the governorship election in Bayelsa State commenced at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday with Governor Timipreye Sylva accusing the party of "judicial fraud."
Sylva, through his counsel, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, informed the five-man panel of the court, headed by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, that the party used fraudulent means to invoke its jurisdiction in order to stall the hearing of the substantive matter at the trial court, the Federal High Court, Abuja.
After Sylva had obtained an order of an Abuja Federal High Court, presided by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, on November 16, against the continuation of the governorship primaries in Bayelsa State, scheduled for November 19, the PDP had gone ahead to hold the election, and on November 21, appealed the order of the Federal High Court at the Court of Appeal, thereby successfully staying proceedings in the case when the substantive matter was to be heard on November 22.
Fagbemi informed the panel on Thursday that, in filing the application for stay of proceeding at the Court of Appeal, instead of the Federal High Court, the PDP fraudulently gave the impression that the record of proceedings of the lower court had been transmitted to the appellate court by its (Federal High Court) registry.
Fagbemi noted that the PDP, through its National Legal Adviser and counsel, Chief Olusola Oke, created such impression, thereby causing Sylva's counsel, (Fagbemi) to concede to the stay of proceedings applied for by the party.
"The appellants gave the impressions that the record of proceeding at the court below was compiled and transmitted by its (Federal High Court's) registry, whereas their record was a record compiled and transmitted by the appellants themselves.
"And because they made it seem like it was record compiled and transmitted by the court below, we had no choice than to concede.
"It is by fraud we are here without first getting a stay."
The head of the panel, Bulkachuwa, told Fagbemi to file the neccessary application for consideration, if he had an issue with the court record compiled and submitted by the appellants.
Bulkachuwa thereafter adjourned the matter to December 12, 2011, for hearing.
Meanwhile, a group, the Ethnic Minorities and Indigenous Rights Organisation of Africa, has warned that the crisis in the PDP in Bayelsa State might assume a national dimension which would threaten Nigeria's democracy.
The group said in a statement on Thursday, that the crisis does not portend good fortune for minority interest.
EMIROA said, "The lingering crisis over who contests the forthcoming governorship election in the state is a serious threat to the present democratic dispensation in the country. It is not clear what the operatives of the PDP at the centre intend to benefit by denying the incumbent governor, Timipre Sylva, a chance to seek re-nomination."
Source: Punch, 2nd December 2011.
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PHOENIX - Buoyed by four victories nationwide, a Scottsdale man has taken the first steps toward asking Arizonans to overturn their ban on gay marriage.
Tanner Pritts has formed Arizona Advocates for Marriage Equality. He also has filed the necessary paperwork with the Secretary of State's Office to allow him to start raising money for a 2014 campaign.
Pritts conceded he is a political novice. In fact, the Scottsdale resident said he is just 22.
The initiative drive, if successful, would put the issue back on the ballot just six years after Arizonans voted by a 56-44 margin to define marriage in the state Constitution as solely between one man and one woman.
Pritts said he is heartened by the results of elections elsewhere.
"Obviously, we believe the demographics of the nation are changing," he said. "We feel that Arizona is, too."
This month voters in Maryland, Maine and Washington approved measures specifically providing for same-sex marriage, the kind of measure Pritts said he wants in Arizona. And in Minnesota, voters turned down a bid to enact the kind of ban that exists here.
No one from any of the organizations involved in Arizona's 2008 ballot measure would comment Monday on Pritts' formation of the campaign committee. But campaign consultant Frank Schubert, who ran the losing "traditional marriage" campaigns in all four states, told the Los Angeles Times after this year's election that, despite the results in those four states, there is no national trend.
Anyway, he noted, all four are considered Democratic states.
"The American people continue to view marriage as a union between one man and one woman," he said, saying a nationwide vote would have different results than what occurred in the four states.
That's also the position of the National Organization for Marriage. On the heels of the election two weeks ago, it put out a survey of 800 people nationwide who went to the polls. That survey, the organization said, found 51 percent strongly agree that marriage should be limited to one man and one woman, with another 10 percent saying they somewhat agree.
Pritts conceded that Arizona is not Maine or Washington, but said "We believe we can change how people feel in Arizona," he said.
At this point, Pritts said he is just reaching out to other gay-rights organizations in Arizona in hopes of raising money to put the issue on the 2014 ballot, which would require more than a quarter million valid signatures by July of that year. And no measure has made the ballot in years without the use of paid circulators.
Pritts said he is a registered Republican who voted for Mitt Romney, but he hopes to change the party's view on the issue.


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Sixers fans seem to have a lot of hate for Tommy Heinsohn. I wonder if they realize that Tommy has 10 championship rings and therefore is entitled to say whatever he wants about basketball. There was also some KG hate in this game. My favorite comment was the one stating that Celtics games should be R Rated because of what the on-court microphones pick up. He may have a point there. It also cracks me up reading how the Celtics look old. They aren't an old team any more so they need to get used to it. Enjoy the final preseason edition of CTFOS. I for one can't wait to see them pound on the Celtics again. I saw them last week. The Celts look old and slow. Heinson is the most annoying announcer ever KG preseason chest pounding Completely necessary. Brandon Bass jumpers are the death of me Cannot stand these Boston announcers Nice shove by Rondo on ET to get open for the jump shot, no call. AWESOME Moultrie got ***** in the paint, no whistle. ...
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Paul Dietrich is chairman and CEO of Foxhall Capital Management and adviser to the Foxhall Global Trends Fund (DOIGX). An international corporate attorney, he has advised the World Bank and international governments on privatization and economic development issues.
If you could only hold one stock position in your portfolio (long or short), what would it be?
The one stock I would personally hold is Spanish Mountain Gold (OTCPK:SPAZF). It also trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture market under the symbol SPA.V.
Investors generally receive a better spread price if they can purchase the stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Tell us about the company behind the stock.
This Canadian gold mining development company has a market cap of about $74 million and has, by my calculations, some of the cheapest in-the-ground gold in the world that is located in a politically stable country.
If you take all the costs associated with mining and processing gold into bullion, an investor is able to buy Spanish Mountain Gold for about $650 an ounce rather than the current price of gold, which is over $1,500 an ounce. That is more than a 50% discount to the current price of gold.
This mining company is a pure gold, advanced-stage development project with significant leverage to the current price of gold. The leverage arising from every dollar increase in the price of gold is very attractive. While the grade of the deposit is low, the tonnage is massive (over four million ounces), so there should be economies of scale, and preliminary work indicates that there should be 88% to 90% recoveries.
The company is well funded, has no debt and is located in British Columbia, which is a mining-friendly and safe jurisdiction, and there are producing mines and infrastructure with grid power and road access nearby. Annual production could be in the region of 200,000 ounces with a life of over 15 years.
How does investing in Spanish Mountain reflect your fund's investment approach?
We are global tactical investors at Foxhall Capital, and our general investment strategy during long-term bull markets is to invest in companies that have (1) low price/earnings ratios, (2) high free cash flow generation, (3) high return on equity and (4) outperformed the S&P 500 Index over the past 12 months. This is sometimes known as an investment strategy that combines the best of both worlds of "value" and "growth" investing styles.
However, in selecting small- to-mid-cap gold shares we use a methodology of general investing guidelines developed by British investment guru Jim Slater:
The deposit needs to be located in a reasonably safe political territory. For example, nothing in Russia, Venezuela or any country with the word "Stan" in its name.
A strong resource position. We check the total number of ounces of gold against the market capitalization of the company - the cheaper per ounce of gold the better.
No serious environmental problems on the horizon.
A strong balance sheet with cash, little or no debt and no major future capital liabilities.
Future production to be unhedged.
Strong cash flow on a multiple (P/CF) below the average of its peer group.
Although it can be difficult to tell the quality of management, a good CEO with a meaningful stake in the company is clearly very desirable.
Rising gold production with a long life.
The cost per ounce of gold produced and the grade are critical factors. High-cost (low-grade) producers are obviously vulnerable to downswings in the gold price but they offer much greater leverage on the upside.
A very prospective deposit open to further discoveries in all directions, including depth, is very desirable.
A relatively small market capitalization, on the principle that elephants don't gallop and fleas can jump 200 times their own height. Also, small caps are less well researched and are more likely to be taken over. Market caps from $20 million to $250 million are the preferred range, but up to $500 million is fine if justified by the fundamentals.
How much is your selection based on the situation in gold and commodities, as opposed to a pure bottom-up pick?
At Foxhall Capital, we view investing in commodities not as a speculative investment, but as a way to hedge overall investment portfolios against the loss of purchasing power caused by inflation, the dropping dollar and the risk of "Black Swan" events in the world we cannot control.
In fact, this week, Foxhall Capital increased our overall commodity exposure in our Foxhall Global Growth investments strategies from 10% to 16% of the total portfolio holdings in order to better hedge against the loss of U.S. dollar purchasing power, because we believe inflation is increasing.
I personally believe that many gold mining companies will do better than physical commodities in hedging portfolios against inflation, because of the inherent leverage that we see in gold mining companies like Spanish Mountain Gold.
How is Spanish Mountain positioned with regard to competitors?
With its low cost per ounce of gold in the ground in relation to its market capitalization, I expect the stock market will eventually correct this anomaly and its share price should significantly increase. Meanwhile, the company provides comfort and protection on the downside while we wait for the market to price it appropriate to other peer-group mining companies.
How does the stock's valuation compare to its competitors?
Given an apples-to-apples comparison, Spanish Mountain Gold is very undervalued compared to its peer group. I credit that to it being under-researched by mining analysts because it is a "junior gold," small-cap stock primarily traded in Canada.
What about Spanish Mountain's management - does it play a role in your choice?
The company has strong and experienced management, which is a plus. Also, two of the company's major investors are Ian Watson and Jim Slater. These two British investors have a history of searching out and investing in junior mining stocks before their prices start to take off. There's a significant number of sophisticated investors around the world who follow these two gold mining experts.
When I saw they had taken major positions and Ian Watson joined the board of directors, I knew this company would have first-rate management or Ian Watson and Jim Slater would not have put up their own money as investors.
As an investment manager, one tries to look at every aspect of a company. Once you find an undervalued company, with very good fundamentals, then the difference can be the people behind the company who have made major commitments of their own capital. I like that!
What catalysts, near-term or long-term, could move Spanish Mountain stock significantly?
If, as I suspect, Washington continues to print new dollars to fund its deficits and other stimulus programs and the dollar continues to drop, inflation continues to rise and the world remains a dangerous and unpredictable place, I believe the price of gold will rise in the long term.
At some point, when investors realize that they can buy gold at a 30% discount to the world market price of gold by investing in Spanish Mountain Gold, the market should correct this inefficiency in the pricing of this stock.
The last time we talked in Just One Stock about gold in the ground, it was also an explorer, Fronteer Gold, which got taken out in a buyout by Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM). Decreasing discovery sizes still make acquisitions a factor for junior explorers; how attractive a target is Spanish Mountain for a major?
I believe that Spanish Mountain Gold is an extremely good takeover candidate. Given the fact that its four million ounces of gold is less than half the current price of gold; that it still has development land where they haven't found the end of veins so there could be a substantial amount of gold there still to be discovered (that is an additional attraction for a larger acquisition); and the fact it is located in Canada and surrounded by other mines that are owned by larger mining companies. All this makes for an attractive acquisition at some point.
What could go wrong?
I believe two things could happen that could cause the price of gold to significantly decrease.
First: if Washington politicians became serious and agree to legislation that would make major changes in the "Big Three" issues that must be reformed in order to solve our debt and deficit crisis, and that is reforming Social Security, Medicare and defense spending. Unfortunately, I see very little courage in Congress at present, so I am skeptical this will happen anytime soon.
Second, if President Obama fired Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and replaced him with Paul Volcker, the price of gold would very likely decline within minutes after the announcement. However, I don't think the appointment of Volcker as Fed Chairman is likely to happen either.
Even on the Toronto exchange, this is a low-priced and not especially liquid issue, which - gold in the ground or not - adds to the risk for investors; do you have a limit in your head as to how big a position you'll take in illiquid stocks?
We generally won't take more than a 1% to 2% position of a company's outstanding shares in an illiquid stocks. This is a stock that trades anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 shares a day. It should be important to remember that this is not a stock for traders who want to move in and out quickly. This is a stock for long-term gold investors.
Junior gold stocks are a long-term leveraged investment in gold, given that you are buying the underlying gold at a huge discount to the current market price. The key to this investment strategy is that an investor must (1) first of all believe that gold is in a long-term upward trend; (2) believe that eventually the market will properly price this undervalued gold play vis-a-vis its peer group mines, and (3) believe that there is a very high probability that Spanish Mountain will be subject to a buyout by one of the major mining companies.
Thanks, Paul, for sharing your choice with us.
Disclosure: Long SPA.V on the Toronto Exchange.
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HEBRON ESTATES - After two years of building, North Bullitt Lady Eagle basketball coach Amber Courtney is finally ready to start tasting the fruits of her efforts.
LOUISVILLE - You can just call Rob Williams the All-Bullitt County man.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - Three years in the making, the 2011-2012 Bullitt Central Cougars are chomping at the bit to show what they can do this winter.
HILLVIEW - Opponents to an annexation proposal by the city of Hillview expected to have an opportunity to speak on Monday night.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - What direction does the county want to take with its parks board and the parks and recreation department?
MOUNT WASHINGTON - It's a crisp autumn morning at Bullitt East High School and while most students are sitting quietly in their classrooms, outside a group of their peers are doing push-ups.
The holiday season has once again sprung upon us. Let the food, cheerfulness, and last minute shopping begin!
But wait….what should you get those loved ones? Well a healthy and delicious solution would be a holiday fruit basket.
The Bullitt Central FFA chapter would like to announce their annual holiday fruit sales. This fruit contributes to the chapter, and it allows the students to do more school, and community activities.
This fruit sale provides many opportunities for students as well as people within the community.
In his own unique way, Paul Coyle wishes everyone in Bullitt County a happy Thanksgiving holiday.
Like millions of other American homes, Bullitt Countians face uncertain times with continued trepidation, especially during the upcoming holiday season.
FRANKFORT - With Thanksgiving right around the corner - and food generally a large part of the festivities – the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) wants to remind the public to keep safe health practices in mind.
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It's hard to believe that we've hit the halfway mark of 2013 already. That means it's time for our mid-year Global Threatscape Report. During that time we monitored 4.2 million threats on the web, and filtered over 12 billion spam messages.
Spammers continue to use tragedies, like the Boston Marathon Bombing, to send email designed to have unsuspecting users click through to websites that deliver malware.
We also documented a Distributed Spam Distraction, an attack where scammers overwhelm a mailbox with hundreds or thousands of email messages from a unique IP addresses. While the user is frantically trying to manage the onslaught, valid email messages are missed. When this attack is deployed it is most often used to try and hide messages from banks or other financial institutions about large transfers.
We share a few more of these types of trends and global statistics in our full report at AppRiver.com. I would love to hear what you found most interesting in the report.
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Name: Jeremy
Hometown: North Manchester, IN, USA
Major: Political Science
Grad Year: 2014
Why attend MU: It was close to home and the community feel of it was easy to embrace.
Favorite thing: The professors. They really want us to succeed and are driven to further us in our aspirations.
Never expected: Got involved with the international students' community. It really opens my eyes to learn about other cultures and share experiences with them.I found: my future.


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Two Franklin County commissioners said Friday that they now plan on seeking public bids for a controversial piece of property.
Recently, the commissioners voted to sell a parcel in the Whispering Valley development south of New Haven.
Presiding County Commissioner John Griesheimer said he still thinks the county handled the land sale in a legal and ethical manner the first time. But he said he is willing to seek public bids in response to concerns over how the land deal was handled.
First District County Commissioner Tim Brinker said he would also be open to seeking public bids for the property.
Below is the earlier story on the issue:
A Krakow man alleges that the Franklin County Commission sold a piece of public property in an unethical manner.
Dean Riegel said the county commission's decision to sell a .120-acre parcel of property to Christopher Boone for $1 was done "under the table" through a "buddy system."
A stipulation to the sale was that Boone cover the cost of demolishing the old house at the site.
The land deal was handled in an unethical manner because the county "did not give everyone a chance to buy that property," Riegel said.
"I just think it was handled the wrong way," he said. "I'm all about everybody's rights."
County officials strongly disagree with Riegel's claims that the land sale was improperly handled. They say that the parcel was offered in a public tax sale three times with no bids received.
The commissioners say they saw this as a good opportunity to get the property cleaned up and back on the tax rolls.
The county took over ownership of the land and house after the previous owner did not pay taxes. It is located within the Whispering Valley development south of New Haven.
Presiding County Commissioner John Griesheimer said the land sale was not a "sweetheart deal," and he takes issue with it being described as such.
"We did the right thing," Griesheimer said.
Prior to selling the land to Boone, the county tried to give the land to the adjoining property owners with no luck, Griesheimer said.
The property was a health hazard and eyesore, and the county had an obligation to clean it up, Griesheimer said.
First District County Commissioner Tim Brinker said the property is in violation of the county's codes, and the land deal with Boone was a way to fix the problem.
"It was available for years to the public," Brinker said, and now rather than being the county's problem, the parcel will be cleaned up and put back on the tax rolls.
Second District Commissioner Mike Schatz also agreed with the way the land deal was handled.
The land deal actually saves the county money since Boone must tear down the old house, Griesheimer said. This saves the county the demolition costs, he said.
Favoritism Allegations
This was not just a special deal for Boone, Griesheimer said. If other county residents are interested in taking over property by paying back taxes on parcel, they should contact the county collector's office, he said.
Boone did not have to pay the back taxes on the parcel since he agreed to raze the house. This was a unique case, Griesheimer said.
Boone could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Brinker said he approached Boone about the parcel at a Franklin County Municipal League event.
Boone is one of the owners of Cochran Engineering of Union and Riegel's ex brother-in-law.
The property is not even big enough to install a septic system under the county's codes, Griesheimer said.
Riegel said the fact that the county sold the property to his ex-brother-in-law has nothing to do with him being upset about the deal.
"I've got no hard feelings about him," said Riegel, who owns a lot in the Whispering Valley development.
This is just an example of good-ol'-boys politics, according to Riegel, who said Boone was treated with favoritism.
"That's not ethically the way to do it," Riegel said, adding that the land deal makes him lose trust in the county commission.
Now that the land sale has been approved, the county commission has set a precedent, Riegel said, adding that he wants to buy a piece of property for $1 next.
"I think they're giving property away," Riegel said.
Others Not Given Chance?
Riegel said he thinks there should have been more opportunity for others to bid on the property rather than just selling it to Boone for $1 with the condition that the house be razed.
But county officials claim there was ample chance for other members of the public to bid on the property when it went up for a tax sale three times.
However, Riegel said there should have been another call for public interest when the county decided to sell it for $1 with the condition the old house be torn down.
He said he would have bid $10 especially since the county was paying the closing costs.
There could have been a notice put in the newspaper asking people to submit bids, and the county should have taken the highest offer, Riegel said
Filing a lawsuit over the way the deal was handled is not out of the question, Riegel said. However, he said he is not a lawyer and cannot say whether the land deal was legal or not but said he thinks it was unethical.
The county should have at least offered the property to the homeowners association in Whispering Valley, Riegel said.
It appears the county also inflated numbers over what it would cost to tear it down, Riegel said.
Griesheimer said he heard from the county building department that it would cost more than $10,000 to raze the house. Therefore, he said Boone was actually doing the county a favor by tearing down the structure since the county saved the demolition costs.
But Riegel said he thinks Griesheimer made the demolition sound more costly than it actually is to make selling the land to Boone seem more reasonable.
"That was just a big fictitious number they brought up," Riegel said, adding that he could have had the house torn down in eight hours.
Moreover, Riegel suggested that the New Haven-Berger Fire Department could have burned the home down for free as part of training.
But Griesheimer said the fire department does not offer that service and burning the structure presented problems with potentially causing a forest fire.
Property Values
Selling the property for such a small amount of money "destroys" the assessed value of other properties in Whispering Valley, Riegel said.
But Griesheimer said some of the properties are old and run down.
Riegel agreed that it was a good move for the county to get rid of the property and get it cleaned up. He just disagrees with the way it was handled.
Now it is too late to do anything to fix the situation, Riegel said, adding, "The damage is done."


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 24, 2008 - California Pacific Medical Center has been named one of the Leapfrog Group's Top Hospitals for 2008. This is the third year in a row CPMC has been honored by the Leapfrog Group survey, which is considered the nation's premier hospital patient safety evaluation tool.
"This is a tremendous honor," says Martin Brotman, M.D., President and CEO of California Pacific. "It's a testimony to the commitment of every person in the hospital to put patient safety first. The fact that we have won this award three years in a row shows that this is something we focus on every single day, and that we are always looking for ways to improve."
CPMC is one of twenty-six adult hospitals, and seven children's hospitals, named on the list. It is one of just five hospitals nationwide to be honored three years in succession.
The voluntary survey measures hospitals performance in four crucial areas:
A study published in the June issue of the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety found that hospitals that perform well on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey have lower mortality and better quality of care than those who either didn't perform as well on the survey or who chose not to complete the survey.
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At San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center, we believe in the power of medicine. We research the most up-to-date treatments, hire the most qualified individuals, and practice the most modern, innovative medicine available. We deliver the highest quality expert care, with kindness and compassion, in acute, post-acute and outpatient services, as well as preventive and complementary medicine. But we also believe that medicine alone is only part of the solution. That's why we look intently at each individual case and treat the whole person, not just the illness. It's why we go beyond medical care and provide our patients with things like disease counseling, family support and wellness treatments. As one of California's largest private, community-based, not-for-profit, teaching medical centers, and a Sutter Health affiliate, we are able to reach deep into our community to provide education, screening and financial support in some of the city's most underserved neighborhoods. Because medicine can transform a body. But going beyond medicine can transform a life. www.cpmc.org
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The area should expect high temperatures in the low 70s and low temperatures in the low 40s, a low that's warmer than the high in major cities such as New York and Chicago, 30 and 13 degrees respectively.
It may make for pleasant New Year's weather and a lower chance of accidents, but the long-term lack of rain can also be problematic.
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ON the second day of Lawrences' big autumn auction, jewellery and ceramics were on offer and the lure of the east led the day with the highest price.
However, there were plenty of highlights elsewhere.
Within the first twenty lots, a 108cm graduated amber bead necklace soared to £5,000.
A stainless steel 'Reverso' watch by Jaeger Le Coultre also exceeded expectations to make £2,620, whilst two gold and gem set bangles were pushed to £4,900.
Other strong prices included £3,220 for a gold, enamel and gem set pendant; £6,800 for a Burmese ruby and gold hinged bracelet; £5,130 for a two stone diamond ring with 2.3 carats total weight; and £5,000 for an emerald and diamond ring.
The section's top prices were for a 19th Century Colombian emerald and diamond bracelet, £14,340, and a similar brooch at £7,760.
A beautifully crafted, eye-catching enamel portrait upon a gold and enamel bracelet was bid to £4,420 to conclude the selection.
In the Ceramics section, a Royal Worcester coffee service decorated by James Stinton made £2,030; a collection of distinctive Troika, inspired by Cornish art and sorted into 19 lots, made £3,650; a Derby 'named view' tea service made £1,790; two Meissen groups of children playing around a wine press and a barrel made £5,130; a buyer took a stab at a fine quality Japanese bronze figure of a pikeman at £2,270; and a small Chinese Chenghua bowl from the 15th century made £1,790.
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The deal involves New Guinea's half-share of the PPL269 licence and follows Santos's acquisition last September of stakes in two exploration permits in PNG's Western Province from Canada's Talisman Energy.
New Guinea's earlier agreement to sell the stake to ExxonMobil, which was also priced at $US40 million, fell through in August after Exxon was unable to reach consensus on its farm-in with existing partners in the licence. Those partners are Talisman Energy and Mitsubishi.
Santos has been building up its exploration and development assets in Papua New Guinea as it seeks to amass valuable gas resources to capitalise on the country's status as an emerging LNG exporter.
Shipments of LNG from Exxon's $US19 billion PNG LNG project, in which Santos has a stake, are due to start later this year. Several companies are now on a hunt for additional gas resources that could feed an expansion of that plant, or a separate LNG venture.
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Date of Defense 2012-10-22 Availability unrestricted AbstractAlmost five million barrels of south Louisiana crude oil were released into the environment following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform on April 20, 2010, however, little is known of the effects of the spill to native species of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Field studies provide a context for ecological realism but laboratory- based studies can connect the specific cause to a specific biological response. A previous field study, completed in 2010, tracked genome expression responses in native killifish resident in oiled and several non-oiled marshes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Those data suggested significant biological effects from contaminating oil. As a post hoc companion to field studies, we sought to determine the genome expression response of the same native killifish to oil under controlled laboratory conditions to directly link a causal agent to a specific biological response. A concentration response experiment was conducted using experimentally-weathered surrogate oil to further characterize the genome transcriptional response, and to test for additional impacts on health. Transcriptome-wide gene expression responses were determined from the gill and liver tissues of fish exposed to experimentally weathered surrogate oil across a range of concentrations and throughout a time-course of exposure. Transcriptional responses to oil in the laboratory were predictive of the transcriptional response observed in the field study that coincided with the timing and location of oil contamination. These responses included increased expression in the genes activated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling pathway, including phase 1 and phase 2 metabolism genes, among others. Additionally, network and pathway analyses implicated the effects of transcription, centrosome, cell cycle progression, RNA processing, DNA damage, and apoptosis on gene regulation. These genome expression profiles offer additional scope for interpreting genome expression responses observed in the field, and offer additional insight into consequences of oil exposures in this important native Gulf of Mexico coast species. Files
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