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As I noted earlier this morning (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), a few days after Noveck went all-Miley, all-the-time, an AP report noted that the wire service could only round up 70 responses from thousands of subscribing news organizations to its "Entertainer of the Year" survey. Though actress Jennifer Lawrence "won" the award by getting 15 votes to Cyrus's 14, the real winner was clearly either "None of the Above" or "Who Cares?" Had she known, it seems that Noveck would still have engaged in the nincompoopery which follows the jump (bolds are mine):
Call her this year's pop-culture prom queen.
A year ago, Miley Cyrus was no stranger to us, of course. But who could have guessed how her star would rise - or rather, explode - in 2013, making this former preteen idol one of the most watched people on the planet? And so it seems only right to make Miley our tour guide (Kim and Kanye, you came close!) as we take our annual, highly selective, chronological tour through the year's pop culture moments:
... MILEY CYRUS, beginning her big year, is happily ensconced in her engagement to LIAM HEMSWORTH
Or is she? It's Oscar time, and MILEY, in a sexy backless white dress, makes news for who she ISN'T with at a post-Oscar party - her fiance.
Things are heating up for MILEY - she's the March Cosmo cover girl. Of her major image change from those HANNAH MONTANA days, she notes: "Some of the worst things that have happened in my career ... have actually been what's best for me."
Readers will be relieved to learn that I won't torture them by running down every month of the year.
Let's skip to the summer:
... August is the month MILEY will be remembered for most, thanks to her infamous performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, where she twerks her way into pop culture history in a teddy bear leotard that segues to a skimpy nude bikini. Of course, there's the foam hand, too, the constantly stuck-out tongue and the vulgar gestures. By morning, we can't talk about anything else. We'd like to stop ... but we can't!
With encouragement like that from a national news organization — it's not as if Cyrus isn't getting plenty of that already — we can expect hordes of Miley imitators in the next few years.
And finally, Noveck's wrap:
Time for some year-end awards. "Twerk" is on the shortlist for the Oxford Dictionary word of the year, though it loses out to "selfie." People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive is singer ADAM LEVINE. On the GQ annual list of least influential celebrities, Miley is No. 6, but don't feel TOO bad, Miley, President Obama is No. 17. At the American Music Awards, meanwhile, MILEY doesn't disappoint, performing "Wrecking Ball" as a duet with a giant, lip-syncing CGI kitten.
More nods to MILEY's pop-culture dominance: MTV names her artist of the year. As for KARDASHIAN, she ranks No. 3 on GOOGLE's list of most-searched people in the U.S., the only non-singer on the list. Fiance West is No. 10. And Google's No. 1 is ... come on, did you have any doubt? MILEY also tops Yahoo's most-searched list. (KARDASHIAN is second.) And, as the year ticks to a close, guess who's going to be rocking out in Times Square?
Happy MILEY Year.
No thanks, Jocelyn. Though I was never a big fan when he was alive, as we head into 2014, I would prefer a continuous loop of "Auld Lang Syne" by "Mister New Year's Eve" himself, Guy Lombardo.
Ms. Noveck was last seen at NewsBusters in early 2008 touting "Politically Active Kids — All Democrats, of Course."
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Apple Slicing
Present an apple, a slicer and a cutting board. Demonstrate using economy of words with your child.
Apple Peeling
Present an apple, a peeler and a cutting board. Demonstrate using economy of words with your child.
Apple Picking
Nothing is more hands on than going to an orchard and manually picking apples from a tree. Plus many orchards have apple cider making and other fun fall activities for kids like a pumpkin patch, bean shelling, hay rides and a corn maze. We'll be make sauce and pies with the apples we pick. Easy recipes for cooking with kids!
Apple Action Cards
To add a bit more movement to our Apple theme, I created these Apple Action cards. We'll look through them together and talk about each image and the respective action. I have a basket of goodies to match up to the image and action as well as fun movements to "Act Out" the Action Cards. We'll be doing many of these actions for real over the next few weeks!
Apple Life Cycle & Parts of an Apple
Fun & easy way to learn botany. I used this FREE Apple Lifecycle printable from Montessori for Everyone and supplemented it with Apples A to Z, a great Apple themed children's alphabet book.
Tonging Apples
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This is a variation of Peter Reinhart's Sweet Raisin Focaccia, from The Bread Baker's Apprentice
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2 ½ C Bread Flour
1t salt
1t yeast
3 T Light olive oil (not extra-virgin. Any light vegetable oil will do, actually)
1t Cinnamon
1t Vanilla Extract
1 C water (plus a few tablespoons more if needed)
1 ½ C dried cherries
½ C Amaretto
½-1 C water
½ C additional oil
2-3 T granulated sugar
Sliced almonds for topping
1. Place cherries, Amaretto, and enough water to cover in a sauce pan over low heat and bring to a simmer. Remove from heat an allow cherries to absorb liquid and cool down for at least one hour.
2. Combine flour, salt, yeast, cinnamon, vanilla, and the 3 T oil in a mixing bowl fitted with a dough hook. Add water (I start by decanting the water the cherries have soaked in-this will color the bread red.) Allow the mixer to knead the dough until you have a smooth, sticky ball, adding more water if needed. A good indication is that the dough sticks to the bottom of the bowl but not the sides. (If mixing by hand, you will need to knead within the bowl since this is a wet and sticky dough.)
3. Turn dough onto floured surface and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Stretch to dough out to at least twice its size and spread the cherries evenly over the dough.


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Line up both doors and lightly clamp them together (Photo 1). Next, mark the new slab (Photos 2 and 3). Mortise the hinge openings using a chisel and utility knife (Photo 4). Once you've finished mortising the hinges, set the door upright and bore the lockset holes.
If the old door was trimmed at the bottom and you were happy with the gap at the floor, cut the new door to match. Mount the hinges on the new door and hang the door. If you don't need any further adjustments, remove the door again, then finish it to match the rest of the woodwork and rehang it. Now it's on to the next item on your fix-it list.


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Sleepy Hollow
1999 (2000) - Paramount
review by Todd Doogan of
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Film Rating: B+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A/A/A+
Specs and Features
105 mins, R, letterboxed widescreen (1.85:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, RSDL dual-layered (layer switch 32:45 in chapter 7), Amaray keep case packaging,
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
"making of" featurette, audio commentary with director Tim Burton,
Reflections on Sleepy Hollow
(cast and crew interviews with film clips and behind-the-scenes footage), photo gallery, cast and crew bios, production notes, 2 theatrical trailers, film-themed menu screens, scene access (19 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 & 2.0) and French (DD 2.0), subtitles English, Closed Captioned
You know, I don't understand why more people didn't love this movie. I saw it opening weekend, and just fell in love with it. But I read the reviews and while most critics had negative things to say about it, no one really had the same things to say about where the film supposedly went wrong. I guess people just didn't see the value in it. But then again, Tim Burton's
Mars Attacks!
falls into the same type of category. I watched it with famed E! Online gossip maven Anderson Jones (when he headed up Rough Cut and I was a writer over there). He violently hated it, but I was rolling in the aisles. All he could do was look at me like I was a mutant when I laughed at all the references to cult sci-fi flicks. I thought it was brilliant, Jones thought I was insane. Burton is just one of those, "Guess you had to be there" kind of filmmakers... and boy, I'm there every time.
To start off, this is not the
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
you remember seeing as a kid. This is more like
Sleepy Hollow
The Alienist
. There are some major changes to the original Washington Irving story. First, Ichabod Crane isn't a schoolteacher in this one - he's a cop in turn of the century New York City, sent upstate to solve a series of mysterious murders. What he finds is an evil so black and malignant, that it will chill your soul. It seems that a real headless horseman is rampaging through a small town, killing all of its elder statesmen. Why? Well that's the mystery Ichabod must solve.
The charm in this film lies in Johnny Depp's portrayal of Crane. He's best described (as Burton described him in early press junkets) as this: Icabod Crane: Girl Detective. Crane is not a man's man. Nor is he a wuss. He's a prim and proper gentleman with educated ideas about how crime scene investigation should work. He's a flesh and blood kind of guy, not believing in mumbo jumbo. Just as it was in the original story, you have Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), whose role has changed a bit as well. But to go into her backstory would be reveling too much. Suffice to say that each and every performance in this film is very good and very Burtonesque. This is the perfect film for Tim and it all comes together quite nicely.
Paramount's new DVD is yet another wonderful entry in their cannon - and it's even a full-blown special edition (though it isn't labeled as such). We'll get to that in a second. Let's talk image and sound. The video was done with an anamorphic transfer and it looks beautiful. The quality in the blacks is quite strong, with nice contrast, which is important for Burton films. This is an almost black and white film and it's really stunning visually. It looks like they used a silver retention print, which is to say that the image is as rich as a bowl of chocolate mousse. If it appears almost white, don't fret - that's the look. In case you doubt it, wait until you see some blood and note how rich looking it is. The audio is also quite wonderful. It's a full-on experience with very nice bass (which comes in handy for the sound of hell horse hooves) and a good wide soundstage up front. The English audio is present in both Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 and both sound great. For you Frencies out there, we got you covered in 2.0 as well.
The fact that this is a special edition is surprising, given that it's a Paramount disc. But that's a welcome change. There are two behind-the-scenes featurettes, a commentary and some other fun stuff. The commentary is very well done, with Burton in conversational mode. He's not too talkative, but what he does say sheds some light onto the way he thinks in terms of his films, which is nice. It's not too surprising to know that he's a fanboy like most of us. The documentaries are light in tone, but very well done. The first is a more official "behind the scenes" look at the making of the film, whereas the one listed as "interviews with cast and crew" is just that, but in doc form. You'll also find two trailers, a small collection of photos from the film and some well-written cast and crew bio/filmographies. It's a nice little set and I hope we see more of this sort of thing from Paramount.
Burton was made for DVD, and it's great to see him embracing the format with this title and
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
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The post production works of the Malayalam feature film Elsamma Ennaaankutty, directed by Lal Jose and produced by M. Ranjith under the banner of Rajaputra Visual Media, has been completed and is ready for release this Friday, 10th September. The film has Ann Augustine, daughter of well known Malayalam actor Augustine, playing the title role. It features Kunchacko Boban and Indrajit in the male leads. Actors like Nedumudi Venu, Jenardhanan, Jagathy Sreekumar, KPAC Lalitha, Suraj Venjaramood and others also play vital roles in the film.Watch the trailers of Elsamma Ennaaankutty below:

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MONDAY SPORTS: Seahawks dominate Denver
So much for a classic battle between the NFL's best offense and its best defense. The Seattle Seahawks routed the Denver Broncos in a 43-8 blowout Sunday night in Super Bowl 48, a game that went wrong for Denver as soon as it began in relatively balmy 49 degree temperatures in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, despite all the concerns about the elements in the first cold-weather city Super Bowl. In a "how-did-that-happen" first play, Broncos center Manny Ramirez snapped the ball before quarterback Peyton Manning was in position, sending it flying back to the end zone, where Denver's Knowshon Moreno dove on it for a Seahawks safety to prevent Seattle from getting a touchdown. It never got much better than that for the Broncos, as Seattle dominated the game and went on to win their first championship in franchise history. Seattle's Malcolm Smith, who made a pick-6 and later recovered a fumble, was named the Super Bowl MVP, only the third linebacker to ever win the award and the first defender in 11 years.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2014 class was chosen on Saturday, headed by former Seattle Seahawks tackle Walter Jones and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Derrick Brooks, both in their first years of eligibility, as well as former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan. Also voted in were former wide receiver Andre Reed and cornerback Aeneas Williams, as well as defensive end Claude Humphrey and Ray Guy — the first punter ever to make the Hall — who were chosen by the Seniors Committee. The induction ceremony will take place on August 1st at the Hall in Canton, Ohio.
The Furman men's basketball team returns home to YP Court at Timmons Arena on Monday when it hosts the Samford Bulldogs in a game that was originally scheduled for January 30, before last week's winter storm altered the Paladins' schedule. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Furman, which is set to play its second game in a stretch of five games in 12 days, dropped to 7-14 overall and 1-7 in the SoCon with a 67-52 loss at first place Chattanooga on Saturday night.
Behind an incredible all-around performance from junior forward K.J. McDaniels, Clemson grabbed its third ACC road win of the season Saturday at Florida State, 53-49. The win improved Clemson's record to 14-6 overall, 5-3 in the ACC.
Furman offensive tackle Dakota Dozier and safety/linebacker Marcus McMorris were honored as offensive and defensive player of the year, respectively, at the squad's football banquet Saturday evening on campus. Furman went 8-6 this past fall and claimed the program's 13th Southern Conference championship by winning five of its final six regular season games.


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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used factiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
I'd like to give a big thank you to Patti Mercier to whom this book is dedicated, Orlando Fernandez for his first run reading of everything I write, the real Nika (Ishmael Perez), Steve Macintyre for his typing and translation skills, (I write my books long hand and all in caps, so this is where the translation skills come in), and also a huge thanks to all the people who might lose their job if I name them.


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Weather and its dynamics are big drivers of energy usage. Integration of key weather variables - solar, wind, and temperature - into home energy management and demand response programs is critical to maximizing energy efficiency and cutting costs. Earth Networks is the owner of the WeatherBug brand and observation network with over 10,000 commercial-grade weather stations in North America that provide observations of 27 environmental parameters every 2.5 seconds.
SmartHome developed by Earth Networks Inc. is an innovative home energy analytics service that compares Green Button data with the company's high quality, hyper-local weather information. This high resolution weather information and Green Button data is combined with sophisticated algorithms to analyze home energy use and recommend actions to reduce energy consumption enabling improved load management for utilities.
SmartHome plus is an innovative demand response and home energy management service that combines data from connected thermostats to optimize temperature schedules for energy efficiency and low-impact demand response.
This talk will introduce the SmartHome and SmartHome Plus services in detail and discuss the potential of using the similar framework for commercial buildings.


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Welcome to the Aurora Model Catalog Pages.
From here you can navigate to a thumbnails page featuring the cover images of
Aurora Catalogs published from the 1950's thru the 70's. From cover to cover every
Aurora Models catalog is available from 1959 to 1977 for your viewing pleasure. We
have a few from the 1950's and are working on completeing the rest from 1950 to 1959.
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One of the bags used most frequently and in varied capacities is the 'bail-out', 'bug-out', or 'go-bag'. Whatever you call them, we call ours Ditch™.This is the bag that will become your closest companion once you discover its amazing features. The soft-briefcase-style format can load-out numerous modular containers on its front surface MOLLE-system, but keep them hidden/protected under an optional unassuming flap mounted to the rear with an ingenious flat-lock system. You can also buy it preassembled with the flap in the 'Messenger of Doom™' (MOD) configuration. This bag has a large loop-fastener area which also fits our optional i.d. window patch. A loop-field on the top surface doubles as a MOLLE/modular area. When there is only time to grab-and-go one thing, make it this.
PLEASE NOTE: The Ditch does not come with a shoulder strap (this can be purchased separately).
- perfectly sized dimensions for the most common loads
- padded, top-zippered, rear laptop/armor-plate pocket
- front/side web arrays to add a layer of custom gear
- inside web-array allows weaving-in our modular pouches
- drop-in container lids 'replace' the zip-flap if top left open
- side wall pockets, grab-handles, and metal snap-rings
- front loop fasteners for patches or our optional i.d. carrier
- drop-down 'shelf' work-area w/ document/map window
- shelf retainers allow use while wearing bag like a chest-rig
- full-organizer for pens, knives, lights, magazines, s.d. cards, etc.
- top-flap peels completely and hides in an internal pocket
- loops on the inside allow insertion of our MOLLE divider panel
- padded front/rear panel w/ unpadded sides/floor allows bag to go flat & reduce bulk when unfilled/stored
- top-zipper link with big pulling-handle for fast opening
- top-zipper link can unpair from pullers to open zippers one at a time
- zipper-link can also act as a key ring or retainer clip
- briefcase, range bag, photography case, laptop case, tool kit, school bag, travel bag, aviator's cockpit bag, escape and evade survival kit, overnight-bag, etc.
- up to a 15.6" laptop (even in a separate sleeve)
- folding-stock carbine like H&K G36C (with mag/optics)
- folding/telescopic-stock sub machine guns like H&K MP5
- 3 L bladder reservoir (on floor or in laptop compartment)
- ballistic-armor plate (in laptop or main compartment)
- internal loop-fasteners for attaching our modular holster
- front loop-fasteners for attaching our modular holster
- internal/external wide belts for belt-slide-type holsters
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Vivendi, Seagram shareholders rubberstamp merger
A cheering crowd of 10,000 Vivendi shareholders, gathered beneath the pyramid at the Louvre museum in Paris, approved the company's three-way merger with Universal Studios owner Seagram and Canal Plus by a massive 95%. Seagram's shareholders had previously voted the merger by a 90.4% majority.
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So... the March For Life is over and we march on, into the 43rd year of abortion on demand in America.Over the last week, I've shared a number of videos from different genres, all expressing grief for children lost to abortion, or supporting life. If you'll be patient with me, I want to show you one more.Flipsyde is a rap/R&B/rock band from Oakland, California. In December 2005, they released the single Happy Birthday from their the album We The People. In Happy Birthday, Fli … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday! Rapper Addresses His Aborted Son
Abortion Hurts. BEN FOLDS Talks About It in "Brick"
This is sort of a bonus track. Each day this week, as we count down to the 42nd anniversary of the passage of the infamous Roe v. Wade abortion decision which legalized abortion in all fifty states, I've been posting a song about abortion.On Sunday, I kicked off the series with Faith Hill's "A Baby Changes Everything." (Well, okay, this one isn't really about abortion--it's about the birth of Christ! And yet you can see how relevant it is to the subject.)On Monday we listened to "L … [Read more...]
John Elefante's "This Time": Exposing Abortion, Pulling At My Heartstrings
Day Four of our musical celebration of life, and here's my favorite song so far: John Elefante's "This Time." Elefante is best known as the former "Kansas" lead singer. He's also an adoptive father. In 2013, Elefante released a single accompanied by a music video titled "This Time" that tells the story of his adopted daughter, who was nearly aborted by her birth mother. The video shows a pregnant teenager entering an abortion clinic and then having a dream about a little girl she knew to be … [Read more...]


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About the hotel
The Manor at Sway is located in the New Forest National Park, the ideal location to explore the stunning south east of England. The area is full of activities and places to see, with a number of wonderful villages and lots of events year round which keep people coming back again and again.
However, while staying at The Manor there is no need to go too far, with 4 acres of gardens, the Manor has been beautifully renovated and has a restaurant serving wonderful food using locally sourced ingredients wherever possible and an excellent variety of wines and beers you may just want to relax at your home away from home.
The village of Sway offers a quiet, relaxed alternative to the touristy areas of the New Forest like Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, which are generally very busy.
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Fresh cows have the greatest production potential in a dairy. However, fresh cows are very susceptible to diseases. The most frequent disorders observed in fresh cows are: mastitis, metritis, injury or lameness, milk fever, ketosis, displaced abomasum, pneumonia and enteritis. Losses associated with those diseases are estimated from $200 to $400 per case per lactation. Furthermore, 15% to 25% of all cullings take place during the first 60 DIM. Early identification and treatment of sick animals may reduce the overall cost of the disease (drugs and milk production), increase the chances for a full recovery, improve animal welfare, and reduce culling, especially of fresh cows. These benefits should motivate dairy producers to work with their herd veterinarians to implement a herd health program that will successfully identify, examine and treat sick cows in the herd.
While some dairies find it valuable to routinely check all fresh cows, others, due to time and labor, may limit physical exams to cows showing signs of disease or with abnormal attitude. The objective of this article is to describe a comprehensive way that may help dairy workers to identify sick cows requiring a thorough physical examination.
Some reasons that justify the need for a detailed cow exam are: 1) difficult calving, 2) twins, 3) retained fetal membranes, 4) foul smelling vaginal discharge, 5) abnormal udder, 6) deviation in milk production, 7) reluctant to lock, 8) poor appetite, 9) abnormal rumen fill, 10) diarrhea, 11) lame or walking with difficulty, 12) down cows, 13) fever, 14) extremely fat cows at calving, and 15) cows listed as recheck. All cows presenting any of these conditions should be included in the "list of cows to examine". In most operations, these cows will be added to the list the day prior to the exam or the morning of the exam.
In order to ensure that the "list of cows to be examined" is complete, a systematic approach to observation and recording is necessary. The identification of sick animals in the fresh pen can be accomplished by teaming up two people who walk simultaneously through the front and the back of the cows.
Walking in front of the cows – check for and take notes on:
o Appetite. Note if cows are eating, sorting or are not interested in feed at all. Check for undisturbed feed sitting in front of the cow at lock up. Before releasing the cows from the lock-ups, check for cows that consumed feed at a lower level than their neighbors.
o Attitude. Healthy animals are curious about their surroundings. Their ears are waggling and if you approach them, they will try to smell or lick you. Sick animals tend to have their head down, dropped ears, dull eyes and are too tired to groom their noses.
o Ears. Compare among cows the attitude and temperature of the ears. In healthy animals, ears are positioned above the point of
attachment to the head, whereas sick animals have ears that are below. Droopy ears suggest a sick cow that is depressed, in pain or with fever. Cold ears will indicate decreased blood flow to the periphery which could be related to milk fever, acidosis or severe toxic states.
o Eyes. Cows with sunken, dull and crusty eyes may be dehydrated and/or in pain. Note if there are visible eye lesions (pink eye, trauma).
o Nose. Check for abnormal nasal discharge (white, green, yellow, or bloody) that may indicate pneumonia or acidosis. Sick cows are too depressed to maintain their noses licked clean and feed particles and nasal discharge will stick on their noses. It is also important to check if the nostrils appear dry, as it may suggests fever.
o Cough. Cows that are coughing two or three times should be noted for observation.
Walking behind the cows – check for:
o Manure. Check the floor, vulva and tail for manure with
abnormal consistency (too loose to form a pile), color (almost
black) and/or foul smelling. Abnormal manure can be found in
cows suffering from acidosis, digestive upsets, toxic diseases,
or enteritis.
o Retained Fetal Membranes. Retained fetal membranes are not
a health problem per se, but increase the risk for metritis. If
you find retained fetal membranes, you should also look for
abnormal vaginal discharge.
o Vaginal discharge. It is normal to find vaginal discharge for up
to two weeks after calving. However, dark red and foul
smelling vaginal discharges are found in cases of uterine infection.
o Abnormal abdomen. Cows with their left flank tucked in have poor rumen fill because of anorexia. If the abdomen is distended, cows may be bloated due to rumen gas accumulation.
o Breathing rate. The basal respiration rate is 12 to 36 breaths/min. Note if the animal has an abnormal respiration rate or if inspiration and/or expiration require additional efforts. Pneumonia, bloat and toxic diseases may cause difficult breathing.
o Abnormal udder. Note udders that are unbalanced, swollen, with abnormal color (reddish or bluish), or with damage in their suspensory ligaments. Check udder fullness; poor appetite will result in poor udder fill.
o Cows that did not lock up after feed was delivered. Sick cows are reluctant to lock up as they lack the drive to eat.
o Cows' posture that indicate pain.
- Tail away from the body: irritation in the perineal region, vagina or rectum, or severe metritis.
- Elbows pointing out: pain in the rib cage.
- Arched back: peritonitis, severe lameness.
Some large dairies use colored chalk on the back of the fresh cows to write relevant information (calving date, calving difficulties, disease findings, and so on), and easily identify cows needing examination.
Sick cows can be found elsewhere in addition to the fresh cow pen. Therefore, all dairy workers, but especially those involved in feeding, breeding, moving cattle and milking should be trained to identify sick cows. They all should carry a little notebook and contribute with their observations to complete the "list of cows to examine". Feeders should look for cows reluctant to move when fresh feed is delivered. Workers moving cattle have an excellent opportunity to observe cow's gait and posture. They should look for cows that are depressed (react slowly to stimulus), with heads down, droopy ears, arching their backs, with the elbows pointing out, walking slowly and favoring one limb, or that have difficulty standing up and moving. Breeders will walk behind cows and should look for any cow with abnormal attitude, manure, vaginal discharge or abnormal udder. During rectal exploration, they can gather information on the uterus status and the temperature of the cow. In the milking parlor, milkers can easily note swollen quarters and discolored udders. Udder fullness prior to milking (too baggy) or after milking (swollen) should always be evaluated. By stripping udders, clinical mastitis cases can be identified in the milking parlor. Dairies recording individual milk weights should look for cows deviating from the expected production.
Recommended Reading:
Terra, R. 2001. Ruminant history, physical examination and records. In: Large Animal Internal Medicine by Bradford Smith, Chapter 1: pg 3-14
McGuirk, S. Examination of Fresh Cows: http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/dms/fapm/fapmtools/transition_cow.htm
Source: Noelia Silva-del-Rio, University of California Cooperative Extension - Tulare


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Awards & Recognition
Peer Education Advisor Award
Gary Rodriguez
California State University, Monterey Bay
The California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) POWER Peer Education program is composed of exuberant students with a vigor for providing peers with the resources and harm-reduction tools necessary to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Peer educators are taught about alcohol/drug safety, effects of substances on motor skills and decision making, and intervention techniques for dangerous situations. Peer educators then share their learned knowledge with peers through programs/presentations, events, and informational tables on campus and in classrooms. The faculty member responsible for leading this influential program is Gary Rodriguez, the Health Promotion and Prevention Specialist for Health and Wellness Services.
Gary possesses a non-judgmental mind, and arrives to each brainstorming session ready to listen and transform every outrageous and unfathomable idea into a successful and exciting event. When peer educators share their thought with Gary, they know that he will be understand and accepting of their perspective and supportive in turning their ideas for campus improvement into realities.
This past school year Gary has supervised multiple programs centered around harm reduction for alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. In collaboration with the peer educators, Gray has been able to provide evidence-based health education to a large portion of the CSUMB student population. Between outdoor tabling and in class presentations/discussions he has provided students with the resources required to make healthy lifestyle choices. Each semester, Gary and the Peer Educators have gone into multiple classrooms to talk about alcohol safety, harm reduction, and what to do if alcohol poisoning is suspected. Gary supports The Great American Smoke Out and with help from the Peer Educators handed out over one hundred quit-kits last semester which contained tools to reduce cigarette smoking within the student population. Gary also hosts an alcohol screening event bi-annually that provides students with the opportunity to determine if their drinking habits and healthy. Additionally, he provides confidential support to those students who wish to discuss their screening results at the event.
Gary is charismatic and especially energetic after a great cup of coffee. His personality is relatable and humbling, and he leads the POWER Peer Educators not as a faculty member, but as a friend and mentor. Gary provides a supportive atmosphere which enables the peer educators to come to him with they themselves need assistance, resources, and/or advice. He is continuously encouraging students to step into their community with a positive attitude, and a will to improve the CSUMB community. Gary Rodriguez is the perfect candidate for the Peer Education Advisor Award because he is a champion for encouraging and fabricating positive change within the CSUMB community. Gary demonstrates that the only tools students need to create a positive impact are a ceaseless smile, a non-judgmental attitude, and a zeal for improving the lives of all people.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Houston Technology Center Seeks Startups For SXSW
The Houston Technology Center, the business accelerator and incubator, said Friday that it is seeking startups looking to compete at its HATCH pitch competition at SXSW interactive. The pitch competition will run in March at the SXSW Startup Village. According to the HTC, it is looking for twelve companies to present their 4 minute business plan to a panel of corporate, angel, and venture investor judges; deadline to apply for the event is February 4th.


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This is the web's biggest, longest-running and best guide to DJ controllers with hundreds of the best DJ/producer controllers and gear reviewed and rated, brought to you by Digital DJ Tips and Magma Bags.
Whether you're looking for your first DJ controller, an upgrade, modular DJ gear, club equipment that can work with your laptop and DJ software, or even to build a mini set-up around your iPad or iPhone - if it's out there and worth telling you about, it's here in our DJ gear guide.
About this guide
We've rounded up every major DJ controller currently on the market. That means all-in-one controllers, plus modular controllers including Midi-enabled mixers, and deck / pad controllers, plus a host of production gear too. Basically, if it can control some aspect of your software, and we think it's worth telling you about, we've included it. We've also listed several (but not all) discontinued models that are still available / reasonably popular. All of the controllers are in alphabetical order, by manufacturer and then model, and they range in price from pocket money to thousands. Here's what you need to know about the guide:
- We've focused on DJ gear for "mainstream" DJ software. For the first time this year we've included a number of Ableton and general Midi controllers for producers, but it's still overwhelmingly a DJ-focused selection.
- Our ratings are reached after careful consideration, but are only a guide. We reach out to all companies, and only include gear from those who work with us so we can review their gear to give a fair assessment. When we run our tests, we assess the gear from the point of view of the beginner to semi-pro digital DJ. Be aware that ratings in our individual reviews may differ from those here, especially for older controllers, as we constantly reassess as the market changes.
- We've reviewed a lot of these controllers. At the end of each listing you'll find a link to our review and talkthrough video where we have one
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There are three group 1s around the country on Saturday and Darley's retained jockey Kerrin McEvoy doesn't have a ride in any of them, but he is happy to be on a support act that could be the real star in Guelph.
The planning for the massive Darley operation comes down to where it is best to have McEvoy, and it was an easy decision when Guelph lines up in the Surround Stakes at Warwick Farm.
''The team felt it was best to be in Sydney with her,'' McEvoy said. ''She is pretty special. Of course Appearance was going to be in the Chipping Norton as well, which would have been a great ride, but she had to miss it because of a problem that happens in racing.
''It is a little bit strange not to have a group 1 ride but Guelph, Memorial and Barbed make up for it.''
Guelph suffered a shock defeat in the Light Fingers Stakes two weeks ago but trainer Peter Snowden and McEvoy are confident she will be better suited at 1400 metres.
''You could see what was going to happen after they went 50m in the Light Fingers,'' Snowden said. ''She was stuck out three-wide over a trip which was below her best and they ran 1.09. I have put it behind me, and she has impressed me as she always has after that run.''
McEvoy was injured on Light Fingers day - the result of a fall in New Zealand, but is back in the saddle on Guelph, where he has won four group 1s. ''I'm confident, even from the [bad] draw, at seven [furlongs 1400m] she is better suited and the way she has worked suggests she is ready,'' he said. ''It is just enjoyable any time you can get on her back.''
Two-year-old filly Memorial, a two-time winner before Christmas, returns to make her press towards the Golden Slipper, via the Lonhro Plate at Warwick Farm.
''Her form from before Christmas has stood up with Press Report [running second in the Silver Slipper], which is encouraging,'' McEvoy said. ''She is stronger and will tell us whether she is up to the Golden Slipper in the next couple of weeks. She is no Earthquake, but she is one we think is up to the Golden Slipper.''
Darley will go to Canberra on Sunday where Guelph's half-brother Ghibellines will run in the Black Opal. ''He might suffer a bit from being her brother but he has shown us enough to suggest he is very good,'' McEvoy said.


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As a curious five-year-old,
My life is very busy. I start my day working in the centre of the largest Australian company and I start my evening working for more than 100 kids on the other side of the world.
My job is about strategy. I'm accountable for corporate planning, valuation and investments at BHP Billiton. [I work] with the chief financial officer and chief executive to draft and prepare the messages that inform our annual planning cycle, which basically sets the drum beat of the organisation. I then work with our businesses around the globe as they prepare their plans.
What we need is consistency of plans. There are 100,000 conversations happening at the base [of the company] and those things have to fit together. The strategy is what glues everything together.
In 2002 I got my first project manager role. I was the only woman project manager at the second largest company in Brazil [mining giant Vale]. I was proud but I was not happy about that. I took it upon myself to change that reality.
I started on the things I could control which was giving real opportunity to female project engineers to pursue management roles. Today, one of the things I'm most proud of is I can give the names of women across the globe who are project managers or general managers that I either hired, mentored or sponsored.
The best advice I ever got was from the man who gave me that role. I was very young to manage a team who were all men and at least 10 years older than me. His advice was: 'Vanessa, don't worry, just be a good leader. Care about the people and in less than one month it will not matter to them whether you are young or old, a woman or a man, black or white.' It is now my first advice I give to other women.
I love culture. I love going to the theatre or sometimes going to the movies after a very busy day. It's nice to go and disconnect from reality and see a Woody Allen movie.
I travel internationally at least eight times a year. Plus one or two times I go on my holidays to Brazil. I enjoy that. But it's also important to have a sense of home, coming back. In Melbourne, I live very close to Albert Park. On Saturday mornings, I like going for a walk around the park to reflect on life.
I have so many favourite places. One I have found most interesting is Giverny [France] where Monet's garden is. That garden still looks as it was more than 100 years ago. The ability to preserve things – it's a similar feeling to when I go to my community centre, in Brazil, on a Saturday when most kids are there. It's almost like I feel the presence of my parents there. They have passed away, unfortunately, but they live through every kid that goes there.
The community centre in Sao Jose de Lapa is my lifetime mission. It's the thing I'm most proud of. We try to give the kids the same conviction that helped me embrace all different challenges, which is that feeling you can be whatever you choose.
I ask the kids there "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Maybe ten years ago they would say I want to be a truck driver or I want to work in a house in the city, because that's what their parents' background is. Now we have all these volunteers that come who are lawyers and engineers. Now the kids say "I want to be a lawyer". That is so fantastic.
For me being a mentor is paying it forward. I formally mentor some women in BHP Billiton. It [gives me] the same kind of pleasure that I have every time I go to our community centre. The energy that you get from talking to and helping people is the best energy you can ever have.
The Australian Financial Review and Westpac are proud to call for entries in the annual 100 Women of Influence. In its second year, the awards are dedicated to identifying and celebrating the bold, energetic women who are changing Australia across 10 categories: board/management, innovation, public sector, business entrepreneur, diversity, young leader, global, social enterprise/not-for-profit, philanthropy, and local/regional.
Finalists announced in The Australian Financial Review, Thursday, October 17, 2013. Winners announced Thursday, October 17, 2013 at a gala event in Sydney.
For more information, visit www.afr.com/100women.
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WHAT: A first-of-its-kind, nationwide quality improvement initiative to help hospitals improve maternity care and increase the number of "Baby-Friendly"-designated hospitals in the United States.
WHO: Participants included 89 hospital teams from around the U.S.
WHEN: October 2011 to March 2015
FUNDER: The project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and run in close partnership with Baby-Friendly USA and the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC).
OUR ROLE: Facilitated three concurrent learning collaboratives that provide coaching to 89 hospitals on how to apply the Model for Improvement to maternity care in pursuit of Baby-Friendly designation. We also built Baby-Friendly USA's and the USBC's internal quality improvement capacity, raised awareness of the World Health Organization's Breastfeeding Hospital Initiative (BFHI) and supported teams in establishing improved connection with community based breastfeeding coalitions.
Designation Status and Final Report
As of April 20, 2016, 72 of the 89 hospitals achieved Baby-Friendly designation (see list). This increases the number of births in Baby-Friendly designated hospitals by 218,000 per year. Learn more about the successful methods used in the Best Fed Beginnings initiative in the final report (Full report; Executive summary).
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In the first installment of this two-part series, we introduce you to four hospitals that have not yet achieved Baby-Friendly status and are beginning their journey in Best Fed Beginnings.
In the second installment, we check in with two of the teams from Best Fed Beginnings as they take the final steps toward achieving Baby-Friendly designation.
"We are very proud to be the first academic medical center in South Carolina to achieve Baby-Friendly designation. This is a huge win for all the mothers and babies cared for at MUSC. The hard work and dedication of every nurse, physician and support staff who all wanted the right thing for our patients made it possible."
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Status: Ongoing (2010-2017)
Operating Agent: Dr Manuela Almeida
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Email: malmeida[at]civil.uminho.pt
Website: www.iea-annex56.org
In recent years, various standards and regulations for energy consumption in buildings have emerged that specify greatly improved levels of energy efficiency in comparison with earlier requirements. However, these mainly focus on new buildings and do not respond effectively to the numerous technical, functional and economic constraints of the existing stock. It is common that requirements for existing buildings, which are generally targeted at energy efficiency measures, result in expensive processes and complex procedures, seldom accepted by occupants, owners or developers.
But, with an objective of mitigating climate change, renewable energy supply measures can sometimes be at least as cost effective as energy conservation and efficiency measures, if not more so. Therefore, in existing buildings, the most cost-effective renovation solution is often a combination of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy supply measures.
Hence, it is important to investigate where balance point lies between these two types of measures from a cost-benefit perspective. This involves determining how the best performance (in terms of less energy consumption, less carbon dioxide emissions and overall added value achieved by the renovation) would be achieved with the least effort (in terms of investment, interventions in the building and disturbance of occupants). Therefore, a new methodology for energy and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions optimized building renovation, as a basis for future standards, will be developed to be used by interested private entities and agencies for their renovation decisions, as well as by governmental agencies for the definition of regulations and their implementation.
The project objectives are to:
|Define a methodology for establishing cost optimized targets for energy consumption and CO2 emissions in building renovation;
|Clarify the relationship between CO2 emissions and energy targets and their eventual hierarchy;
|Determine cost effective combinations of energy efficiency and renewable energy supply measures;
|Highlight additional benefits achieved in the renovation process;
|Develop tools to support decision makers in accordance with the developed methodology;
|Select exemplary case studies to encourage decision makers to promote efficient and cost effective renovations.
The project is mainly focused on both single and multifamily residential buildings. Simple office buildings without complex HVAC systems are also in the scope of this project, if relevant, and useful information can be extracted from them. This would demonstrate the applicability of the developed methodology and tools to non-residential buildings.
The project objectives, scope, work methodology and deliverables have been established.The basis of the methodology is being agreed, particularly concerning the cost optimization of energy consumption and CO2 emissions targets.A number of case studies are being developed.As it has been identified at an early stage that indicators and metrics vary from country to country, a glossary is being created to establish a common approach and a common language to enable meaningful comparisons of information and results.To communicate progress, a project website is under development and the first in a series of newsletters is being prepared.
Participants: Austria, P.R.China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy,
the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Observer: Finland
Methodology for Cost-Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation, Methodology and Assessment of Renovation Measures by Parametric Calculations
Walter Ott, Roman Bolliger, Volker Ritter, Stéphane Citherlet, Didier Favre, Blaise Perriset, Manuela de Almeida, Marco Ferreira
University of Minho 2014 Download
Shining Examples of Cost-Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation
University of Minho 2014 Download
The following project deliverables are planned:
|Report on Added Values of Building Renovation: Integration into Assessment and Promotion of Renovation Measures
|Supporting tools for decision makers
|Report on Detailed Case Studies
|Renovation Guidebook
|An executive summary for policy makers


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Maintaining consistent airway clearance is a critical concern for patients living with cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, spinal injury, neuromuscular disorders or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as those recovering from serious injury or illness.1,2 For highrisk individuals, inadequate airway clearance has been associated with decreased lung function, higher rates of respiratory infection, recurring episodes of respiratory inflammation and hospital readmissions.3
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Dr. Zoo Little is having a Thanksgiving feast to celebrate a good fall harvest. Come help Dr. Zoo Little and his friends to create a wonderful feast that's fit for a king!
Starting on November 16th, Dr. Zoo Little's Thanksgiving quest begins! Read on to discover more about this food filled adventure!
The Big Picture:
Similar to previous seasonal, there are two parts to Dr. Zoo Little's Thanksgiving seasonal. The first part is inviting guests to your Zoo. The second part – constructing the Thanksgiving Fest– will give you a free Ultra-Rare animal to stay in your Zoo when you complete it!
Getting Ready:
When you log into your Zoo, you'll find a new friend waiting for you at the dock, ready to start Thanksgiving. Click on the animal to bring up the Thanksgiving menu.
Thanksgiving Menu:
From here, you can see what animal guests have been unlocked, choose an animal to help, collect items, and ask friends to help invite these Thanksgiving guests to your Zoo!
The Thanksgiving seasonal has a story to tell! Each time you invite a new guest to your Zoo, you'll unlock a new part of Dr. Zoo Little's story. View the story panels you've unlocked so far by clicking the "View Story" button in the Thanksgiving menu.
Have questions about how to complete the seasonal? Just click on the "How To" button in the Thanksgiving Menu for an overview of how to complete the seasonal.
Use the countdown timer so you can see exactly how much time is left for the seasonal. Initially, the timer will show how many days are left. When there is only 2 days left, the timer will start to countdown in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Inviting Animal Guests:
Every 3 days, new Thanksgiving guests will be unlocked for you to help! There are a total of 7 guests in this Thanksgiving seasonal. As with past celebrations, you will need to help the first animal to get the second, and then help the second animal before getting the third, and so forth. New animals will unlock every three days, but you will need to invite the previous animal before preparing the next.
The Thanksgiving guests will help you complete the Thanksgiving Feast to attract the special friend to your Zoo! Read more below to find out how to get this special Ultra-Rare guest to appear in your Zoo!
You will need to collect special items to invite these guests to your Zoo. These items are the Plates, Long Table, Dining Bench, Haystack, Candlesticks, Silverware, and Thanksgiving Cornucopia. Each of these can be collected in different ways, and each animal requires a different number of each material.
Collect the 2 seasonal items, the Thanksgiving Ham and Pumpkin Pie from correctly answering the Daily Quiz.
You will have a random but equal chance of collecting either of these 2 items this way.
Collect the Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potato, and Greenbean Casserole through gifting with friends or feed posts.
- You can post to the Facebook feed asking for help 4 times per day per item, or once every 6 hours.
- Your friend can only click once on each post to help. They will receive an item themselves for helping!
- Feed posts expire after 24 hours, so act quickly!
- You can send your friends free Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potato, and Greenbean Casserole from the Free Gifts page to help them prepare their own Thanksgiving adventure, too! A player can send one request to a friend each day.
Collect the Witch Broom and Witch Hat by visiting your friends' zoos.
- Click on the boat dock in your friends' zoos for a chance to collect a Thanksgiving Ham or Pumpkin Pie.
- There's a greater chance of getting the Thanksgiving Ham, but don't get discouraged if you receive the Pumpkin Pie. It's all part of the fun!
- You can collect from the same friend once every day. You'll receive one item per visit. A countdown timer will show when the 24 hours are up and you can visit that friend again.
Once you have enough items, click on the "Complete" button to invite the guest into your Zoo. You no longer have to wait for 10 friends to help you invite guests into your Zoo. Congratulations, you've invited your first guest! Your Thanksgiving adventure is well under way.
If the button is gray, that means that either you do not have enough items to invite the guest yet, or the animal is still locked.
Make sure to take the time to Check-in:
Are you short on a few items to invite to your Thanksgiving adventure? Click on the dock to "check-in" every five minutes (and even earn XP)! For every 3 check-ins you complete, you will receive one free Thanksgiving item of your choice!
Rewards and Upgrades:
You will receive two (2) of every animal you invite into your Zoo to place on your island. All the basic animals are Rare. When you invite a new guest into your Zoo, you will have the option to upgrade your Rare animal to an Ultra Rare. Upgrading your pair of animals will cost Wildlife Points.
If you decide not to upgrade right away, don't worry! You can upgrade your Rare Thanksgiving guests to Ultra-Rares at any time during the promotion by clicking on the animal in your Zoo. The pop-up will have a button that allows you to upgrade. Once the promotion ends, you will no longer be able to upgrade your Rares to Ultra-Rares.
Note: You will be able to feed, collect hearts from, and breed Thanksgiving guests only AFTER the seasonal ends (i.e. when auto-trade begins).
Upgrading your Rares to Ultra-Rares has an additional advantage! As you'll read below, your Thanksgiving guests are busy at work making materials for you to complete your Thanksgiving Fest. Ultra-Rare Thanksgiving guests make buildable materials 25% faster than their Rare counterparts! Instead of getting materials from the Barnyard Cow every 6 hours, your Ultra-Rare will give you one every 4 hours! Speed up your Thanksgiving completion by upgrading your Rare guests to Ultra-Rares!
How to Complete Your Thanksgiving Feast:
The first time you open the Thanksgiving Menu, you will receive the Thanksgiving frame. An adventure like this isn't complete with just guests; you'll need something much more spectacular to attract the special guest! You'll be asked to place the base in your Zoo after you close the menu.
Your Thanksgiving guests bring more than just fun into your Zoo this time around! Each guest will make a special material that you need to complete the Thanksgiving buildable. It takes each guest a different amount of time to make their materials; you'll notice that each animal has a timer letting you know how long until its item is ready to collect.
Here are all the items you'll be collecting from your guests:
- Plates – Get from the Barnyard Cow and Harvest Bison
- Long Table – Get from the Barnyard Chicken and Harvest Turkey
- ??? – Get from a guest to be revealed on 11/18
- ??? – Get from a guest to be revealed on 11/21
- ??? – Get from a guest to be revealed on 11/24!
- ??? – Get from a guest to be revealed on 11/27!
- ??? – Get from a guest to be revealed on 11/30!
Reminder: Ultra-Rare guests produce materials 25% faster than the Rare guests! Upgrade your guests to complete your buildable more quickly!
When the animal is ready to be collected, the readied material will glow above its head. Click to accept the item. Invite all the guests into your Zoo to collect all the materials you need to complete your Thanksgiving Feast. When the buildable is completed, the Thanksgiving guest may appear!
Under the Thanksgiving Menu:
Click on the Thanksgiving Feast Frame to open the Thanksgiving Buildable Menu.
Here, you can see what stage your buildable has been completed to and the number of materials you need to reach the next stage, as well as tips as to which guests will give you what materials.
Feeling impatient? You can buy buildable materials for WLP to speed up the completion of your Thanksgiving feast buildable!
Once you've finished putting together the Thanksgiving , complete with the Thanksgiving feast buildable and all the guests properly invited, the special guest will be so impressed that it'll choose your Zoo to reveal its secret identity. But that's not the final surprise! The mystery guest is an extra-special Ultra Rare animal you get to keep in your Zoo forever as a souvenir when you complete Dr. Zoo Little's 2012 Thanksgiving seasonal.
This means that if you decide not to upgrade any of your animals for WLP, you can still work hard, complete the seasonal, and get a free Ultra Rare to keep. To find out what that is, start the adventure!
Getting Started for Dr. Zoo Little's Thanksgiving:
Two animals are unlocked right away and ready for you to start collecting items for:
- Barnyard Cow; Harvest Bison
- Barnyard Chicken & Harvest Turkey
Dr. Zoo Little's Thanksgiving adventure will come to a close on Wednesday December 12, 2012 at 12pm PST. On this date, the campaign will end and the Auto-Trade begins, and you will no longer be able to upgrade or trade in items.
Open your Zoo to start your Thanksgiving adventure and be sure to check back often to our Fan Page, Forums, Blog or Support site for updates, additional information, or even giveaways!
Happy Thanksgiving , Zookeepers!


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Junior midfielder Kara Cannizzaro and a few of her teammates are blogging throughout UNC's journey through the NCAA tournament. The Tar Heels are prepping for this weekend's quarterfinals, where they will play Syracuse. Click here to read the first part of this series.
First we just want to thank Navy for a wonderful, hard fought game. After our Navy game we began to prepare for the Syracuse game. As I have said before, here at Carolina we focus solely on the game ahead of us. We began this week focusing on what adjustments we can make from the Navy game for our upcoming game against Syracuse. Other then going to practice everyday we have been doing some really fun activities as a team. We pride ourselves in our team chemistry and are truly a family. Our team went strawberry picking after practice on Monday and one of our teammates made delicious jam. Also, in the back of one of the junior's houses we built a fire pit. The team gathers around the fire pit and we attempt to create a fire to roast marshmallows over. Brittney Coppa came up with a brilliant idea and brought over Reese's to add to the smokes. It was delicious. One of our favorite team activities is our weekly team meal at Whole Foods. We get to pick out whatever food we want… and it's for free! (That's the best part.)
We are excited to go to Syracuse on Thursday, on our chartered flight!! It will be a lot of fun to play in the Dome. I can't wait to go home!
As you all know, our next opponent is Syracuse. In The Dome. I think on some level this is fate. Before coming to Carolina I never understood the hype about "Syracuse, New York". The only thing I knew was that it was always cloudy there. After living with Kara Cannizzaro for three years, and becoming good friends with Laura Zimmerman…. You realize it is all they can talk about. The epic "Dome," the terrible weather, the "315" chants and more. They have an enormous amount of Syracuse pride, as I imagine everyone does who lives there. As our team watched the Syracuse vs. Dartmouth game last Saturday we decided it was a win/win scenario for us. If Dartmouth came out on top it would been great for us because we would have another home game this post season, and if Syracuse won we would get a chartered flight out to the good ole' 315.
Not only is it going to be fun traveling to Syracuse but having a competitive game outside of the ACC conference is exciting. New players to scout, new film to watch and a new game plan for us. It's an ideal situation. This week seems to be crawling by, but Thursday will come soon enough. Our expected fan base in promising and we hope to see as much light blue in the stands as there is orange! See you in The Dome!
These past few weeks we've been working really hard at practice. We've sharpened our focus to thinking about one game at a time. Everyone on the team is dedicated down to the details, putting in extra work and watching film, but this week we've stepped it up by going even harder at practice and putting in more time outside of practice. Since school has been out, the team has stayed connected having meals together and enjoying our off time away from schoolwork. A bunch of us have stayed busy doing art projects, having campfires, and picking strawberries at a local farm. This will be my first elite eight, so I'm very excited, but at the same time it's just another game. It will be interesting to head up north and play inside the dome this weekend...I know a couple girls have some family they will get to see near Syracuse, so that will be very fun.


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USF 2004-2005 Undergraduate Catalog - Pages 112 - 113
Course Descriptions - Faculty - Printable Degree Requirements
A five-year master's program is available to undergraduates where an M.A. degree in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and a bachelor's degree in another major (if desired) can be earned in a total program of 150 semester hours. An undergraduate major is not required. Students admitted through the five-year program (REF) must have completed 90 semester hours of work and have satisfied General Education, CLAST, and Rule 6A-10.30 (Gordon Rule) requirements. Minimum admission requirements include a total Verbal-Quantitative score of at least 1000 on the GRE or a "B" average over the last 60 semester hours. All applicants must take the GRE whether or not they have a 3.0 grade-point average. A detailed description of the M.A. program in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling may be found in the Graduate Catalog and on the Internet at http://www.cas.usf.edu/rehab_counseling/index.html.
Undergraduates interested in the five-year program (REF) should contact the department at the start of their sophomore year. Applications for the five-year program are available from the Department. GRE scores and three letters of recommendation must be received before any application is processed.
The mission of the Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling is to promote quality services for individuals with differences in abilities and to help the state meet its human service needs in the areas of rehabilitation and mental health through teaching, research and service.
Rehabilitation Counselors work in a wide variety of settings, including public and private rehabilitation programs and facilities, mental health treatment settings, and substance abuse treatment settings. Some establish their own private rehabilitation or mental health counseling practices.
Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling have roots in both the national rehabilitation movement and professional counseling movement. Training, which includes experiential learning, emphasizes psychological, social, medical, and vocational aspects of disability; and also the development and refinement of personal adjustment and mental health counseling skills. Graduates with an M.A. degree from the USF Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling are prepared for careers as both rehabilitation and mental health counselors.
The graduate program in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling is fully accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE), the national accrediting body for rehabilitation counselor training programs. Upon completion of the program, graduates are eligible to sit for the national certification examination of the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification. After passing this examination, the graduate is registered with the Commission as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC). Within the 60 hour M.A. program, graduates also meet Florida's educational standards for licensure as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor. The Department offers two, 15-semester hour, graduate certificate programs: (1) Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling; and (2) Marriage and Family Therapy. The Department also offers the Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy certificate programs as areas of concentration. Each student may elect to pursue a program of specialization in either area. The Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling program is approved by the Certification Board for Additions Professionals of Florida (CBAPF Approved Provider #179A).
Please send questions or comments to:
Office of Undergraduate Studies
Effective Date: Semester I, 2004