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For the past eight years Meaghan Edelstein has immersed herself in social media and mobile marketing. In 2007, Edelstein began documenting her personal battle with cancer via her blog, I Kicked Cancer's Ass. Within six months of her first post, Edelstein founded the nonprofit organization, Spirit Jump, a grassroots nonprofit organization with a mission to provide hope and comfort to the many men, women and children battling cancer. Through the strategic use of social media Edelstein was able to reach thousands of cancer fighters, survivors and supporters. Her savvy use of social media tools and platforms quickly captured national attention by the likes of Good Morning America, NPR, Cure Magazine, BlogWorld, NTEN and Mashable.
Through invaluable experience gained from running a highly successful blog and nonprofit, Edelstein's social media passions continued to grow. Edelstein took on various freelance and in-house marketing jobs until she was hired as the sole event producer for Global Strategic Management Institute's (GSMI) Social Media Strategies Summits, Mobile Marketing Strategies Summits, Social Media Legal Risks and Strategies Summits and Blogging Strategies Summit. Over the course of two years Edelstein was responsible for producing over 17 highly successful executive level summits. In addition, Edelstein was the Vice President of Social Media for GSMI overseeing all social media marketing efforts including being the senior editor for the GSMI Social Media Strategies Summit blog. Edelstein also had the privilege of facilitating Social Axcess 25, GSMI's executive working group.
Most recently, Edelstein acted as Chief Digital Strategist for e-commerce startup, Zindigo, where she was responsible for brand and Ambassador digital strategy. Edelstein also regularly contributes to Mashable, Social Media Examiner and RingCentral Blog.
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99Thinx is based on a quickly growing pool of interactive learning content, created by community members. Thus, 99Thinx facilitates the next generation of mobile social learning:
• Learning gets interactive, lightning fast and addictive.
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99Thinx aims to get as comprehensive as Wikipedia, but related to interactive learning content. The knowledge of the world, partitioned into small chunks that can each be consumed in a matter of minutes.
Anyone can contribute. Whether it's about the players of a favorite club, preparation of Asian food, or mathematics rules: in just a few minutes new content can become available in 99Thinx. Consumers turn into producers. Friends can be supported, cheered, but also topped in the high scores.
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Banking on the smart phone boom continuing, the 12-year-old maker of software that enables users to watch live TV today filed to raise as much as $75M in an IPO. The filing did not indicate how many shares it will offer or the price. CBS, Fox and Disney's ABC and ESPN all have content deals with MobiTV, which has seen its minutes streamed grow from 264 million in 2007 to 1.4 billion in 2010. Gefinor Ventures is the largest investor in MobiTV, along with Oak Investment partners. JPMorgan Chase & Co and Deutsche are managing the IPO for the Emeryville, Calif. firm, which was founded by Paul Scanlan, Phillip Alvelda and Jeff Annison.
Software Firm MobiTV Files For $75M IPO
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Awesome. Now people can watch TV while they're texting and drinking Starbucks behind the wheel. Any coffin-makers filing for IPOs?
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Re: execution model: Function vs. delayed execution
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:34:59 AM UTC-4, Oleksandr Rasputinov wrote:
> Function employs strict lexical scoping that overrides the HoldFirst
> attribute of Set:
> In[1] :=
> Function[x, x = DeleteDuplicates[x]; x][{1, 1, 2}] // Trace
> this is documented via the statement,
> "Function has attribute HoldAll. The function body is evaluated only after
> the formal parameters have been replaced by arguments."
*Very* helpful! I did read that documentation more than once,
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From: Anne Peat <>
Subject: Re: INQUESTS - help
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:17:46 +0000
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Sue, the advice from "Tracing your Ancestors at the Public Record
Office" is that inquest reports rarely survive. "The survival of
coroner's inquests after 1850 is not good - it is probably easier and
more rewarding to search for a newspaper report rather than for the
coroner's record". If records do survive they will be in the local
record office.
If you want to find the relevant local newspaper, look in the British
Library Newspaper catalogue searchable by date and place
then see if a local library or record office has copies and will do a
I found quite a lot about an ancestor who committed suicide from the
newspaper report of his inquest - dated the day after his death.
On 17 Dec 2003, at 11:17, Sue wrote:
> I have just received a copy of my gr. grandfathers death cert and
> found that there was an inquest, he died aged 55 in 1897.
> 1. Is it possible to get a copy of the inquest, and where on earth
> from? I know he died in Poplar/Bow area, which was then in Middlesex,
> and that he had cardiac failure, attributed to typhoid. He was
> working at a water company.
> 2. Would I find out any info, other than that I have ( as above)from
> the inquest papers?
> TIA for any suggestions
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U.S. Contemplates 'Additional Measures' for Syria
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
Press representatives at the White House and the State Department are using the same vague phrase, "additional measures," to describe the administration's mystery plan for addressing the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
What measures, exactly? No one knows, perhaps not even those speaking the phrase, but The Associated Press suggests that foreign powers with or without U.S. assistance could arm the rebels trying to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel from a conference on Somalia in England on Wednesday to a conference on Syria a few days later in Tunisia, a country that only recently dispatched its own corrupt dictator. —PZS
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Perhaps the picture accompanying the article is intended to suggest that the "additional measures" under consideration may involve U.S. aircraft carriers and what is referred to in military circles as "kinetic solutions."
If so, a more appropriate picture might have shown flight deck personnel in red shirts (ordnance): these chaps in green are responsible for, among other things, launch and recovery of aircraft. The sled these two fellows are manhandling appears to have either oranges or onions in those bags.
I suppose pictures of bombs and such would only upset the citizenry. Well, some of the citizenry.
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Suns All-Star point guard Steve Nash sported his new haircut when he attended a basketball clinic in his boyhood city of Victoria, British Columbia.
The two-time NBA MVP and Canadian national hero addressed the throngs of fans.
Nash then hit the court for some basketball instruction.
The Steve Nash Foundation and the S'Cool Life Fund was responsible for the revitalization of Central Park in the city's North Park neighbourhood.
Nash was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
It was a hands-on event for Nash, who will be hosting his second charity basketball game in Victoria.
With twin daughters of his own, Nash always finds time to hang out with some little ones.
While in Vancouver, Nash also participated in the Fan Fest, signing some autographs for a number of faithful Canadian fans.
Nash also held his second annual charity game, the proceeds aiding underserved children in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life.
No surprise the MVP would get the nod as a starter, playing on a West team consisting of Mavericks guard Devin Harris, former Vancouver Grizzlies guard Felipe Lopez, as well as former teammates Michael Finley, Walter McCarty and Nickoloz Tskitishvili.
Nash drives passed former Bulls guard Jay Williams who was playing his first game against NBA-calibre talent since a motorcycle accident in June of 2003.
As he does each and every game for the Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash is always looking for a way to get his teammates involved.
Never afraid to do battle in the paint, Nash fights for a rebound against former Suns teammate Steven Hunter.
At halftime, he also managed to entertain fans without the basketball as well.
The NBA MVP netted a basket with the soccer ball using his head.
Whether during the course of an NBA season or a charity event, the MVP is always focused from the free throw line.
Following the third quarter of play, Nash shared a moment singing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Carolina" along with West teammates Felipe Lopez and Devin Harris.
The all-star point guard was all smiles as he managed to score 14 points in the contest.
Toronto Raptors sharpshooter Morris Peterson congratulate Nash on a great game in which the East emerged 46-41 victors.
Following the contest, the losing West team fulfilled their agreement by performing 20 push-ups.
Nash who always enjoys a good workout didn't seem to mind.
The game's color commentator and Raptors broadcaster Todd Mccullough stands tall over his friend and two-time MVP.
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Comerica Bank's Texas Economic Activity Index rose 0.6 points in October, to a level of 99.5. The October index reading is 28 points, or 39 percent, above the index cyclical low of 71.7. The index has averaged 98 points thus far in 2012, eight points above the index average for all of 2011.
"After being range-bound for five months, our Texas index rose above the 99-point mark, to the highest index level since September 2008," said Robert Dye, Chief Economist at Comerica Bank. "The index components highlighted broad-based economic improvement in October, with the exception of rig drilling activity, which declined for the fifth straight month. Due to continued low natural gas prices, the rig count will likely continue to drift lower over the remainder of the year."
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For the fifth season, the University of Alberta offers a 9 credit (3 course) summer study abroad program entitled "West African Music, Dance, Society, and Culture", July 4 to August 11, 2013, available for undergraduate or graduate credit.
This summer program in Ghana comprises social science, humanities, and performance components, all of which run in parallel. Temporally, the program is divided approximately into thirds: the first third at the University of Ghana Legon campus, a second devoted to study-travel throughout Ghana, and the final third to cultural immersion in a small Ewe-speaking village, in Ghana's Volta Region, for fieldwork and intensive music/dance instruction.
While centered on the performing arts, these serve as a window onto the broader culture and history of the region, so the program should be equally valuable to students majoring in subjects across the spectrum of social sciences, arts, and humanities, and beyond. No experience in music and dance areas is required to succeed, and there are no formal prerequisites of any sort.
At the undergraduate level, the program is formally equivalent to three University of Alberta courses: Music 144/244 (West African Music Ensemble), Music 365 (Introduction to Ethnomusicology), and Middle Eastern and African Studies (MEAS) 300.
You need to meet with a study abroad advisor by March 2 to complete the Summer Abroad Application.
For complete program information or application details, please see http://bit.ly/ghanamusic or contact Xiao Zhang (email@example.com, tel: 780 492 6215).


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Due to being sick and stuck in my apt I just swapped my bug out bag from summer to winter setting and did some inventory. In the process I thought about bouncing my gear and plan off other like minded individuals to get some feedback from another point of view.
My situation: I am a 25 year old former USMC 0311. I live in western NC, home is 1.5 hrs(drive)/75 miles east of where I currently live. Drive a Jeep with 4wd and always keep at least a half a tank of gas. Ex girlfriend lives in the same town as I currently do and home is the same for both of us. Home is rolling hills/forests with plenty of game/water/pasture, low population density, buckle of the bible belt where everyone knows each other and average distance between houses is roughly 500m.
My plan: Grab the girl, my bag, and head for home. Between here and home there are several bridges which could become my main obstacle depending on the disposition of local riff-raff. Ditching the Jeep (as heart breaking as it'd be) is certainly a possibility. I'd hope to make it at least half way in the Jeep due to several reasons: that would put main population centers behind me, from there is a straight shot east to home, and half way is a deep gorge with the longest bridge I'd have to contend with and its at the bottom of a 6% grade.
Assuming other people are bugging out and I'm not just crazy, I figure most people would be heading West and not East. West being into the mountains of western NC and away from Charlotte. So now I'm on foot. I'd plan on sticking within eye/ear shot of the road simply for ease of direction but could ditch the road if I had to. I might swing south at one point to avoid going straight through my last population center(two city area of around 12k pop.) before the happy hunting grounds of home.
The gear: Current bag is my bug out/camping bag but as of two days ago all of the listed items are in/on the bag. Bag goes with me in the Jeep if I go more than 30m from my apt. I really need to weigh this thing and start cutting it down I think.
-Bandaids x14
-razors x2
-bar soap
-liquid soap
-toothpaste (travel size)
-pain killers
-baby wipes
-toe nail clippers
-medical tape
-second skin patches x2
-electrical tape
-whistle x2
-WP matches x50
-magnesium block
-bic lighter x2
-chem light x2
-bug spray
-change $2
-Batteries x4 AA, x2 AAA, x4 cr123
-sheets of paper x4
-hand sanitizer
-NC road map
-small notebook
-map pen
-sewing kit
-Nat Geo Nat. Park maps x4 (Doubt these will last much longer in the bag)
-knife sharpener x2
-Flashlight x2 (rotary) (Fenix P3D runs on CR123's)
-Headlamp (Princeton Tec Aurora runs on AAA's)
-Cotton sleeping bag liner
-sleeping bag (Kelty Tundra 15-Degree)
-sleeping pad
-gloves x2 (cold weather)(work)
-bandana x2
-grunt roll (boxers, tee shirt and pair of cold weather socks, all synthetic)
-socks (cotton)
-base layers (patagonia capilene 3 top/bottoms)
-rain coat
-ENO single hammock
-Fixed blade knife (Buck Omni)
-cheapass compass
-pure aqua tablets
-duct tape
Loose items around apt to be tossed into bag:
-personal daily notebook
-big ol survival book
-USMC guidebook for Marines (to train conscripts to beat back the Reds)
-spare set of woodland cammies
-NC state map (85 pages of 1:150,000 maps) (Might just tear out the pages I'd actually need)
I've a list of items to grab from around my apt stuck in my daily notebook. The list includes those loose items listed above. Ill not post the portion that contains my PC tower, guitar, and other luxury items for fear of mockery :) Not every situation is the Defcon 1 Zombie Invasion and if I can take my ol guitar ima gonna. I've a few items already in the Jeep like a gallon of water, spare food and some spare clothing.
Currently planning on getting a new headlamp that uses 123 batteries to cut down on needing two types of batteries. I need to toss a tarp in the kit, restock my 550 cord and get a decent lensatic compass.
As for the gigantic oversight that I'm sure everyone has noticed. I'm planning on building an AR to join me in this hypothetical journey. Was torn for a bit on shotgun or handgun over AR but I figure I'm just trying to get to home base in this plan, where we have plenty of shotguns/handguns.
Thoughts? Opinions? Feedback? Anything I've overlooked? What do I need to ditch? I could certainly could drop a lot the weight of current set up if I had two bags dedicated for both the camping role and bob role but currently funds don't allow me to double up on almost everything. I'm also fairly sure I'm blurring the line between a 72hr bag and survival bag.
Edit: Everything that cant get wet is in zipplock bags. Essentials (first aid, water tabs, etc) are in 3 layers of bags.
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There seems to be a bit more than you may need or want to carry there.
I know that one is none and two is one, but since this will be more of a Get Home Bag, you may be able to eliminate some redundancy.
Two razors? Take one
Liquid and Bar soap? Pick one
Cut back on your batteries
Two knife sharpeners?
Two whistles?
Three base layers? Can you get by with two?
Do you need the cotton sleeping bag liner?
What does your GF have in her BOB? Does she have one?
Ya might want to add these....;)
Good nylon rope.
Set of various carabiners.
Good points CA. Reckon I'll set aside my current double ups for the start of a different bag. I should have been more clear on the base layers, there is only one set in the bag, they are lvl 3's which is the warmest of the Patagonia line. Seems I forgot to remove the cotton sleeping bag line when I changed over to winter setting. The gal ain't got a bag and isn't swayed my arguments on the subject, so I guess I'm packing for two. Thanks CA.
Thanks for the rope suggestion IGETEVEN. Not sure how I overlooked that detail. I've got some cheapo carabiners attached to the daisy chain on the bag which hold my knife and Fenix light. Should snag some legit ones considering their uses and weight.
I would suggest some food, water, and a water purifier.
Something as simple as prepacked tuna, jerky, or energy bars could keep you going. A couple of bottles of water would be my minimum and a steri-pen or filter straw could make found water good enough to use.
Seems I forgot another detail. I have 1 bottle of water, a nalgene and pure aqua tablets for water. For food I have a diminishing supply of MRE main meals and peanutbutter crackers that needs restocking. Thanks for pointing out my oversight and reminding me to resupply.
JR, you're probably way ahead of 90% of the population.
A good bag liner can lower the "Thermal Protection" 10 degrees. If your bag is rated to 15 degrees, with the lliner it becomes a 5 degree bag. They are light weight and when rolled into the bag and stored in a stuff sack, they take up no room.
Egyptian Cotton - 7 degrees
Silk - 9.5 degrees
Ooo thanks for the heads up dune, I never thought to just keep the liner in the sleeping bag. That should free up some space inside the pack itself. I need to find a suitable size WP bag instead of the stuff sack if I can considering the bag is outside my pack. Or just a large enough poncho to cover the whole pack hmmm.
Thanks CA, that's reassuring.
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Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan and PUSH Buffalo are calling on the state Public Service Commission to set aside $40 million in what they describe as National Fuel Gas Co.'s excess profits to fund weatherization programs for low-income residents and provide rebates for the utility's customers.
But the funds that Ryan and PUSH Buffalo are seeking would depend on the PSC recapturing money that National Fuel earned during its previous rate agreement – a path that the commission is not currently pursuing but has the legal authority to do.
The PSC included a provision to recapture what it determines to be excessive profits in the temporary rates that it set for the company in June, but National Fuel has challenged the commission's legal ability to do that, arguing that it violates the company's constitutional rights. The temporary rates would only allow for the recovery of excess profits earned since June, not the three-year period targeted by Ryan and PUSH Buffalo.
Aaron D. Bartley, PUSH Buffalo's executive director, said the group's attorneys believe that the PSC has the legal authority to claw back what the commission determines to be excess profits earned by National Fuel in previous years.
"The lawyers can slug it out, but our position remains that every penny of overcharged funds over the last three years should be either returned to ratepayers or placed in a fund that will allow the region to permanently reduce its cost structure and carbon usage, through weatherization," he said.
"We have not overcharged our customers," said Karen L. Merkel, a National Fuel spokeswoman. "We've charged our customers the same rates that were approved by the Public Service Commission in 2007."
Ryan, a Buffalo Democrat, said he believes that National Fuel has been charging local customers too much and that those consumers are entitled to some relief. The assemblyman and PUSH Buffalo said they have asked the PSC to set aside $20 million for refunds to National Fuel's customers, which would equal about $35 per customer, and another $20 million to fund an expansion of the utility's program to weatherize the homes of thousands of its poorest customers.
The money for the program would come from recapturing about $10 million in what they said were excess profits during each of the last three years, along with $10 million that has gone unspent in the low-income customer assistance programs administered by National Fuel.
"They should be getting a rebate check in the mail," Ryan said. "It makes sense. They paid the overcharge."
Ryan estimated that the $20 million in weatherization funds would pay for long-term improvements that this would significantly reduce natural gas consumption at more than 5,000 of the region's draftiest and most energy-inefficient homes.
Bartley, who has been battling with National Fuel for several years to expand its low-income energy-efficiency programs, said that those efforts are much more effective than the furnace and water heater rebates that have been a centerpiece of the utility's Conservation Incentive Program.
"Our position from the get-go has been that rebates are ineffective," Bartley said.
Merkel said that expanding the scope of the weatherization program would benefit PUSH Buffalo financially. "They are a contractor and recipient in the very programs that Assemblyman Ryan is seeking to have the funds assigned to," she said.
In June, the PSC imposed a series of temporary rates for the utility that will freeze its delivery charges while the commission conducts a broader review of its rates that could take nearly a year to complete. The PSC said profits at National Fuel's utility business were so strong during the final years of its rate plan that expired in June that the company may have been overcharging its customers by more than $10 million a year from 2010 to 2012.
National Fuel has countered that its earnings were much less than the PSC says and that its improved profitability is because of efforts to cut costs and become more efficient.
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It's not as big a day on the baseball calendar as, say, Opening Day or the All-Star Game, but it was a fairly important offseason day for several Minor Leaguers and their parent clubs. Wednesday -- more specifically, midnight ET -- was the deadline for players to be added to the 40-man roster before the Rule 5 Draft, which will take place Dec. 12 at the Winter Meetings.
Players who signed when they were 19 or older and have been in pro ball for four years or who signed at 18 or under and have played in pro ball for five years are eligible for the Rule 5 Draft. Teams can protect their players who fit the description from that process by adding them to their 40-man rosters. (A more in-depth primer of the Rule 5 Draft can be found here.)
That's where Wednesday's bevy of moves comes in.
Perhaps the biggest name added to a 40-man roster was top Cardinals prospect Oscar Taveras. The 21-year-old outfielder, who ranks as the No. 2 overall prospect, was expected to join the Major League club at some point during the 2013 season but was limited due to an ankle injury that eventually required surgery. He is expected to be ready for Spring Training, where he will compete for a starting job in the St. Louis outfield.
MLB.com's No. 13 overall and No. 2 Pirates prospect Gregory Polanco also earned a spot on the Pirates' 40-man roster after a breakout season across the top three levels of the Minors. The 22-year-old outfielder owned a .285/.356/.434 slash line with 12 homers, 30 doubles, 71 RBIs and 38 steals across those three levels while developing into an exciting five-tool player.
Other Top 100 prospects added to 40-man rosters were the the Yankees' Gary Sanchez (26), the Pirates' Alen Hanson (39), the Rangers' Luis Sardinas (70), and Red Sox prospects Anthony Ranaudo (79) and Garin Cecchini (82).
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I don't like playing hockey with girls! It's true. And also, I don't like that I don't like playing hockey with girls. Let me explain.
Last night was our first game of the summer season. And as such we are starting in a lower division for the first few games at least, so the league can start to balance out teams and group them in divisions of similar skill level. Well the team we played had 3 girls on their team. I like that they're willing to put themselves out there with their boyfriends or whatever and have some fun. That's great. The part I have a problem with, is, how hard to I play them? Many times, I can take the puck away just by reaching over top of them. It's so unfair. Plus they rarely skate fast enough to provide a challenge, and they are easier to pressure into simply coughing up the puck. I also noticed myself pulling up at the last second to avoid plowing over these sweeties on a few occasions. To me this is an issue because I am very competitive by nature. And the guy that does body check a girl, he looks like the biggest ass on the ice.
There was one play where one of the girls (and they were all cute, too) had a breakaway. Our defense was out of position, but me being me and not liking being scored on, I caught up to her. But I had a moment of hesitation. Do I let her walk in alone on goal? Or do I take the puck away from her. I took it. Not polite, I know. But it's not a polite sport either. This is the part I don't like. I don't ever know how hard to play them. We won 8-0 so hopefully we get bumped up a division soon. Until then, I guess I'll have to pad my stats.
So I leave y'all with this question: What should I do? We didn't need to play them hard because of the score, but is it insulting to the girls if I let them have more space and more chances to score? Or is it the gentlemanly thing to do? I can't decide for myself, but I do know that I don't like my opposition backing off for me. I want to win and be successful against the best the opponent has to offer. But that's me. Little help?


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The Shallotte Police Department investigated the following incidents last week. All information is taken directly from police reports.
•Forgery and uttering and obtaining by false pretenses at Coastal Drugs; suspect forged prescriptions for Percocet, Soma and Oltram. The doctor whose prescription pad was used for the prescriptions said he did not write them and the suspect was not a patient.
UPDATE: The private investigator hired by the county's social services board to investigate DSS director Jamie Orrock, who has been on leave since Aug. 11, has cost the county more than $3,000.
According to an invoice filed with the county Aug. 31, the county owes PDS Investigations $3,300 for three hours of document/questionnaire development, six hours of travel to Bolivia, 20 hours of investigative interview services and four hours for a final report.
Its name is Earl.
A Category 4 Hurricane, Earl had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph as of the 6 p.m. National Weather Service briefing Tuesday, Brunswick County Emergency Service Director Anthony Marzano said.
"We are expecting the storm to weaken. It will most likely be a Category 3 when it begins to impact the coastal waters of North Carolina," Marzano said.
"We are currently expecting that it will stay off shore. It continues to slide ever so slightly west," he said.
A lone bagpiper arose in a sea of people and began to play the hymn "Amazing Grace."
Then more bagpipes, followed by the low singing of people joining in the chorus until the entire crowd sang in unison—it was a scene Mary Wayne said she wouldn't soon forget.
While in Washington D.C. for conservative commentator's Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally, Wayne, one of 14 Brunswick County residents who traveled to the rally with the South Carolina-based Carolina Patriots, said she was overwhelmed with that moment.
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How and when did we get this way?
When are we going to wake up before it's too late?
At 29 years old, I feel like that's something my grandparents' generation should be saying, but the past 18 or so months have aged me it seems.
We want to blame Washington for out-of-touch policies, out-of-control spending and a general sense they're all out of their minds (a point I won't argue), but here at home I fear we aren't much more in touch.
BOLIVIA—Amid a months-long project to electronically restore and save the county's fragile, aging marriage certificates, some more than 100 years old, Brunswick County Register of Deeds Brenda Mercer Clemmons happened upon something unexpected—her great-grandparents' marriage certificate.
Clemmons began the project after she found county marriage certificates from 1867-1962 folded and tucked away in a filing cabinet.
A dance crew featured on several national TV shows will be in Brunswick County next week, teaching master classes for dancers of all experience levels.
The Strikers All Stars, who have appeared on America's Got Talent and America's Best Dance Crew, will spend Saturday, Sept. 11 at Dance 4 Life on Oak Island. The crew will teach a six-hour session of jazz, jazz funk and hip hop to any dancer interested in participating.
BOLIVIA—School officials plan to apply for a grant to implement new programs intended to reduce the dropout rate.
Reeda Hargrove, Brunswick County Schools director of student support services, said the grant would help implement programs at West Brunswick High School, Cedar Grove Middle School and Shallotte Middle School.
BOLIVIA—One member of the Brunswick County Board of Education does not want any language pertaining to abortion referral services in the district's policy code, even if it requires parental consent.
During a policy committee meeting Tuesday morning, members Shirley Babson and Catherine Cooke were presented with revisions to Policy No. 1310, which deals with parental involvement.
The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver's license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.
From Aug. 23-29, K-9 deputies answered 11 calls, wrote seven citations and made eight drug arrests.
The following suspects were charged:
•Jessica Lynn Williamson, 22, of 314 Orange St., Wilmington, was charged with possession of one-half ounce or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia
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I. Simplify the problem if possible
If the preliminary information indicates that a certain contaminant (or type of contaminant) is present, then analytical efforts should target that material. Initial observations and odors can provide important clues. For example, the odor of the sample may suggest the presence of bleach, ammonia, amines or a petroleum product such as gasoline, thinner or a vehicle for an emulsifiable concentrate of a pesticide. Analytical methodology can be obtained from compendia (9, 10, 11) or the general chemical literature (12, 21) but often these procedures are modified to accommodate differences in the sample matrix. The analyst may need guidance from an experienced analyst for method modifications and validations. Method validation studies will demonstrate the method is usable to support the conclusions of the analysis for the sample and the situation to which it was applied.
II. When there isn't much to go on
The remainder of this section addresses situations where there is little information to provide focus for the analyst.
If moderate shaking of the sample (see Section 14.6 before shaking) produces a persistent foam, then the presence of a surfactant which might be associated with a cleaning product is indicated. If the foam remains when a small portion of the sample is acidified, then the surfactant is probably a detergent. This form of tampering is relatively common and there are a variety of tests to determine which class of surfactant is present (13, 14). A soap is indicated when the foam produced by moderate shaking does not remain after acidification.
Exposing the sample to ultraviolet light may indicate that a component of the contaminant is a fluorescent material like many of the dyes which are associated with antifreeze. This would suggest that the sample be further examined for the presence of ethylene glycol.
A good early chemical test is an estimate of pH with test paper (e.g. pHydrion paper (1 to 12), MicroEssential Laboratory or colorpHast pH 0 –14 strips). A shift in pH relative to a control sample indicates a change in the sample which should be explored. If the pH is less than 2 or greater than 10, then the presence of a corrosive acid or base is likely. Further investigation might include examination by ion chromatography (IC) for anions, such as chloride or nitrate, or inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) or mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) to indicate the presence of a metalloid and/or complex anion (such as PO42-). IC can also be used to detect some organic acid; gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS) can be used to detect organic acids or bases.
Other simple chemical tests might include cyanide screen (Cyantesmo test paper) and sulfide screen with lead acetate paper.
Spot tests for the presence of oxidizing agents using diphenylamine in sulfuric acid (15) or Starch/Iodide paper can provide useful information.
Experience with actual tampering cases has shown that the contaminant is typically present in relatively large amounts. However, when the examination reveals no remarkable differences, it is important to have a sense of the adequacy of the screening procedure. The toxicity of a wide variety of substances has been described based upon ranges for the probable oral lethal dose (4). If we allow for a margin of safety of 3% of the probable oral lethal dose, then a warning concentration for a contaminant in a product can be defined by the following equation:
Warning = 0.03 X Probable Oral X Body Weight X 1
Concentration Lethal Dose Portion
(mg/ml)(mg/kg body wt.) (kg) (ml) -1
Using a body weight of 70 kg (average adult) with a portion size of 355 mL (e.g. a 12 oz. beverage), the table below can serve as a guide to the needed sensitivity of the analytical methods. Bear in mind that significant clinical illness can be expected at doses on the order of 10% of the probable lethal dose. This equation can be adjusted in keeping with additional information. For example, there may be a good estimate of the amount of product ingested by a child of known body weight and an identified poison with a known lethal dose may be suspected.
|Toxicity Class
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Lethal Dose
(mg / kg body wt.)
|> 15000
|Slightly Toxic
|5000 to 15000
|Moderately Toxic
|500 to 5000
|Very Toxic
|50 to 500
|Extremely Toxic
|5 to 50
|Super Toxic
|< 5
NOTE: The minimum lethal dose for some super toxic materials can be as low as 0.1 (mg/kg body weight) and this is used to calculate this number.
III. Application of instrumental techniques
The following is a brief overview of the use of instrumental methods to compare the suspect sample and the control sample. It is recognized that not all of the instrumentation that will be discussed is found in every laboratory. A basic understanding of each technique on the part of the analyst is assumed.
Sample preparation should be minimized in order to speed the progress of analysis and to retain information. Whenever possible, direct analysis is preferred to extraction/clean-up. Good judgment on the part of the analyst(s) should be exercised when deciding which methodologies are to be use and the order in which selected methodologies should be executed.
A. Static Headspace Sampling combined with Capillary Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) for Volatile Materials
The technique (16) is directed at the detection and characterization of volatile materials (boiling points approximately below 200°C). It is very useful for detecting solvents (e.g. alcohols, chlorinated hydrocarbons), fragrances associated with cleaning products which frequently appear as contaminants, and petroleum products. Petroleum products may occur as contaminants in their own right or may be associated with pesticides in emulsifiable concentrates.
A small portion (10 to 500 mg) of the sample is placed in a vial which is sealed with a teflon-lined septum-cap. The vial is incubated at an elevated temperature for about 10 min and a portion of the vapor in the vial (the headspace) is withdrawn through the septum and injected into the GC-MS for analysis. Limit of Detections (LODs) for typical analytes extend to the low mg/kg range.
Mass spectra which are associated with observed differences between the suspect sample and control sample are compared to reference spectra (17) to obtain tentative identification. This may be subsequently confirmed and quantified through the analysis of standards and demonstrated recovery of a standard which has been spiked into the control sample.
B. Capillary Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) for Volatile and Semi-volatile Materials
Direct injection of the sample or an extract/solution of the sample in methanol is the first choice.
If the nature of the sample precludes this or if some pre-concentration is needed, then the sample may be extracted with acidified aqueous acetonitrile (pH = 3) and the acetonitrile subsequently isolated by "salting out" for analysis by GC-Flame Ionization Detector (FID) or GC-MS. Isolation of a basic extract is obtained using the same procedure with basic aqueous acetonitrile (pH = 10). Additional sensitivity can be obtained by evaporative concentration of the acetonitrile extracts. This protocol is modeled upon a multi-residue pesticide method (18) in conjunction with an extraction procedure from a guide to forensic analysis of pharmaceuticals (15).
The range of applicability can be extended to functionally non-volatile materials by silylating the extracts after solvent exchange into pyridine by the addition of N,O-bis-(trimethylsilyl)-trifluoroacetamide which contains 1% trimethylchlorosilane with incubation at 60 degrees C for at least 15 min and repeating the analysis.
The suspect sample and the control sample are compared to expose differences. The mass spectra associated with these differences are compared to reference spectra to provide tentative identification. Occasionally, the tentative identification proceeds from first principles (19).
C. Ion Chromatography (IC)
The role of this technique is to detect anions such as those in the table, below. There is some overlap with GC-MS and Inductively-Coupled Plasma (ICP) methodology but ICP occupies an important niche. Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, analysis of a sample is performed on a ten-fold dilution of the sample in water using a conventional anion column (eg. Dionex AS9-HC, or equivalent) in suppressed mode with a 9 mM sodium carbonate buffer. Additional sample preparation such as further dilution or the use of sample preparation cartridges such as C-18, Ba (for sulfate removal), or H+(neutralization) may be needed for some samples. More sophisticated chromatography such as the use of hydroxide gradients may be needed with the most complicated samples. It is worth noting that a reactive contaminant, such as bleach, may produce additional peaks in a suspect sample that can only be properly characterized through additional experiments which monitor the impact of the addition of the nominal contaminant to a control sample through time. The probable presence of bleach in the suspect sample at some point in time is implied by elevations in the chloride and chlorate levels along with high pH and the presence of excess sodium.
Some Potentially Toxic Anions and the Associated Warning Level (WL)
|Toxicity Class 6
|Toxicity Class 5
|Toxicity Class 4
|WL = 1 mg/l
|WL = 30 mg/l
|WL = 300 mg/l
D. High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS)
A wealth of methodology using HPLC and Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) for analyzing certain compounds or classes of compounds is found in compendia (10, 11) and selected references (15). However, because of reduced information content of UV-Vis spectra with respect to MS data, HPLC techniques are somewhat inefficient for general screening. Advances in the application of mass spectrometry to liquid chromatography have made HPLC-MS the method of choice for detecting non-volatile or thermally unstable compounds (e.g. cardiac, glycosides, alkaloids, proteins) which are not amenable to determination by GC-MS. HPLC-MS is especially useful as a screening tool if a comparison sample is available. There are some restrictions on mobile phase composition which must be considered, and interpretation of results requires a degree of skill and experience due to lack of spectral libraries for HPLC-MS.
E. Inductively-Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) for the Detection of Metals, Metalloids and Some Complex Anions
Many liquids and some water soluble solids can be analyzed directly, or with a single dilution, by ICP-AES and ICP-MS. However, in general, samples are solubilized or digested to remove organic components with concentrated acid. Modifications may be needed to digest the sample properly in order to detect certain elements (e.g. Hg). (20)
Selected Metals with Toxicity Class and Warning Level (WL)
|Toxicity Class 6
|Toxicity Class 5
|Toxicity Class 4
|WL = 1 mg/l
|WL = 30 mg/l
|WL = 300 mg/l
The form of the element defines its toxicity. This can create difficulties in the interpretation of comparative results and limit the usefulness of elemental analysis in some cases. For example, Phosphorous, as Yellow Phosphorous (Toxicity Class 6) is a significant hazard but Phosphorous, as Phosphate (Toxicity Class 3) is commonly encountered in foods. Inorganic arsenic is highly toxic (toxicity class 6), but arsenic as arsenobetaine, which is found in seafood, is considered non-toxic.
F. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometry(FT-IR)
Lack of sensitivity limits the usefulness of this procedure for the screening of solutions except in instances of gross contamination. However, FT-IR may be utilized in conjunction with a microscope for the examination of individual particles or for characterization of substances isolated by physical means. FT-IR can provide identification through matching spectral features with compilations of the IR spectra of reference compounds or it can provide indications of the presence of functional groups to supplement other analytical information.
G. UV-Visible Spectrophotometry (UV-VIS)
With some product types, compare the UV-Visible spectrum of the suspect sample dissolved in a solvent system of ethanol: 0.05M aqueous hydrochloric acid (1:1 v/v) with that of the control sample. A similar method is also applied in which the solvent system is ethanol: 0.05M aqueous sodium hydroxide. In ideal circumstances, these comparisons are capable of revealing the presence of a variety of drugs and other bio-active materials at the mg/l level (15).
However, this technique is most often encountered as an adjunct to modern HPLC instrumentation with photodiode array detectors that can spectrally characterize components during the course of a separation.


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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines and the United States signed an accord Friday to jointly search for the remains of American troops missing in action in the Philippines during World War II.
The U.S. Embassy said the "statement of intent" signed Friday by Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. was the first step in setting guidelines for the search.
Thomas says that families of the missing have not been able to know their final stories and have not given them a proper burial for more than 65 years.
In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Department says the accord honors the shared sacrifices by Filipino and American troops who fought to defend freedom.
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines has graves of 17,202 Americans who died in WWII action, most in New Guinea and the Philippines. Tablets inscribed with names of the missing list 36,285, including some since recovered and identified, the cemetery website says.
Neither country gave current figures of the missing Friday, and it wasn't clear if the cemetery's figure was exclusive to the Philippines.


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The buoyancy and the saltness are not so wholly unparalleled.
There is not a poem in Anglo-Saxon but breathes the saltness and the bitterness of the sea-air.
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After four busy days in Antarctica, this first sea day provided ample time for sleeping in, and so many of us rolled over once or twice before getting up to greet the day. A thick fog, which the Minerva had entered yesterday evening, was still very much in evidence this morning, occasionally loosening its grip only to quickly close back in around us. Not a single bird was following us, adding to the feeling that we are very much alone out here in the Southern Ocean.
After breakfast, we stopped by the bulletin board to read up on ocean currents and to check the water temperature graph to stay abreast of our progress in passing back across the Antarctic Convergence. While the ship's company conducted an emergency drill, we went out on deck to mingle with the Naturalists and to try to spot the first bird of the day. Soon the ship punched its way out of the fog bank and, within minutes, several albatrosses and petrels spotted the ship in the greatly increased visibility, and came over for a look at us.
Before lunch, Expedition Leader Marco Favero and Ornithologist Patricia Silva gave a talk called, "Albatross: We have a problem". They discussed the issue of bycatch in fishing, specifically the accidental catch of albatrosses and petrels in the Southern Ocean longline fishery for Patagonian toothfish. They presented the declining population trends for several seabird species, and then explained some of the techniques that are being used on fishing boats to keep seabirds from drowning on fishing hooks.
During the noontime announcement, Captain John Moulds told us that we were already approximately one third of the way across the Drake Passage. The calm winds and light swell continued while we retired for a short nap following lunch, after which we joined Geologist Monte Marshall for his final talk, "The development of plate tectonics: An insider's view." Monte told the story of the discoveries leading up to the development of the concept of plate tectonics, beginning with Alfred Wegner's work in the 1920's.
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We then joined Historian John Dudeney for his lecture, "Who owns and who governs Antarctica?". John spoke of how the Antarctic Treaty operates, and went on to discuss some current Antarctic issues including the impact of tourism, and the ice core drilling down to pristine Lake Vostok beneath 3,000 meters of ice.
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Sorry, Kanye West haters—and judging from reader feedback, there are more than a few of you out there—but rumors of the rapper's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
E! Online reports that the 808s & Heartbreak star was the victim of an Internet death hoax late Tuesday night, when word spread across the Web that West had died in a "bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars" and "RIP Kanye West" became the Number 1 Twitter trending topic.
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(Mar. 29, 2010) In February 2010, the Government of Bangladesh announced that trials would be held for those accused of war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Prosecutors and investigators were to be appointed in March, with the goal of having fair, open procedures. The cases will be tried under Bangladesh's International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973. (Megan McKee, Bangladesh Cabinet Ratifies ICC Treaty, PAPER CHASE NEWSBURST, Mar. 22, 2010, available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
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