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A WINCHESTER-based energy company has been commended for its commitment to staff wages.
Utilita, based on Moorside Road, has been accredited as a 'Living Wage' employer which aims to pay its 150 members of staff a wage which reflects the cost of living in Winchester and annual inflation.
The voluntary scheme came into effect on Tuesday (July 1) seeing every employee receive a minimum hourly wage of £7.65 regardless of their contract.
The current national minimum wage is £6.31.
Living Wage Director Rhys Moore said: "The best employers are voluntarily signing up to pay the Living Wage now. The Living Wage is a robust calculation that reflects the real cost of living, rewarding a hard day's work with a fair day's pay."
The Living Wage campaign has been running for ten years.
Bill Bullen, Utilita's managing director, said: "Utilita is pleased to be part of the move to the Living Wage. It's important to us that all our staff can afford a reasonable standard of living, hopefully that will reduce stress, and improve productivity."
The company also works with local charities to help organise fundraising events. Over the last year members of staff have volunteered at Winchester's Lanterns Children's Centre and supported Home-Start hosting a range of activities raising £5,000 for the cause.
Anne Macpherson, Home-Start co-ordinator, said: "We are delighted with the way that Utilita has been working with Home-Start Winchester over the last year. Their staff volunteers have made a huge practical difference to our Family Group and have helped us to make a morning of play with young families even more rewarding.
"We look forward to continuing this relationship with Utilita, a company which clearly values fairness and understands the importance of helping families to gain the confidence they need to eventually manage without support."


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ST JAMES' School, Lower Darwen, has announced that tickets for its annual 'J-Factor' talent show are now on sale.
A spokesman said: "The children have been working hard on their performances for months and this year are excited to perform at the Thwaites Theatre, Blackburn. Expect an extravaganza of song, dance and martial arts from the pupils of St James' and a few surprises from the staff too."
Tickets are £5 for an adult and £3 for a child, priced to cover the cost of hiring the theatre. Any profits made will be donated to charity.

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I have had customers asking about how to brand Acrobat JavaScript dialog boxes with images in Adobe LiveCycle Designer. I did some research and found that it was not as simple as defining an <img href="image.png"/> tag (I wish it was that easy though). As an overview, images used in a Acrobat JavaScript dialog has to be in a icon stream format represented by a hex-encoded string. The data string also needs to be 32 bits per pixel with 4 channels (ARGB) or 8 bits per channel with the channels interleaved. The hex-encoded string looks something like this, "fffffffffff…efdf8fff0e3beffd3b". Beautiful. Anyway, moving on.
There are a number of free and commercial third party tools you could use to convert images to hex-encoded strings. However, none of the tools fits my workflow in terms of flexibility and extensibility. So I have created a Java utility library, called Acrobat Dialog Image Generator (ADIG), which allows you to generate a hex-encoded string or a skeleton Acrobat dialog box with an embedded image.
You can invoke ADIG via a command-line interface, ANT or an API call. Here are some sample invocations:
java -jar adig.jar /Users/lerlop/Pictures/test.jpg /Users/lerlop/Desktop/
This will reads in test.jpg and generates a JavaScript dialog file called test.jpg.txt on my desktop. Here is a sample.
ant -buildfile adig.xml
This will also produce the same result as the command-line option but everything is defined in the following build file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="MyProject" default="GeneratorAcrobatDialogImage" basedir=".">
<target name="GeneratorAcrobatDialogImage">
<adig imagePath="/Users/lerlop/Pictures/test.jpg" outputPath="/Users/lerlop/Desktop"/>
API Call
String hexString = AcrobatDialogImageGenerator. generateHexEncodedString(imagePath);
By calling this static method in your Java code, you can generate a hex-encoded string from an image and assign it to a String object. This particular option is very useful when you try to perform any kind of batch operations. For instance, I can call this method to dynamically insert an image to a JavaScript dialog defined in an XDP before calling LiveCycle Forms to render it as a PDF.
To use the generated dialog JavaScript code in your form design, you can follow these simple steps:
- Run ADIG via command-line or ANT to get a generated file. The generate code should like this.
- Open your form in LiveCycle Designer (note: XFA form not AcroForm).
- Create and name a new script object. It does not matter where the script object is located as long as you can reference it later. For simplicity, create it on page 1 and let's call it DialogSO.
- Copy all the code from the generated file and paste it into the script object.
- Now create a button object so you can use it to launch the dialog box. Note that you could launch the dialog box in any event such as form::docReady or form::initialize.
- The last thing is to make the button launch the dialog box. In the click event of the button, type in the following function call: DialogSO.launchDialog();
There you have it. You can extend the dialog box in any way you like by adding dialog elements to the dialog body. Please refer to the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference.
I want to note that there are commercial tools out there that will let you design and extend Acrobat dialog boxes far more than just adding an image and generating dialog JavaScript template. If you are looking for a WYSIWYG tool to design dialog boxes, WindJack's AcroDialogs may be more suitable for your needs.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Led by three Saint Leo University standout student-athletes, a total of 12 Sunshine State Conference men's soccer players were named to the 2013 National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Men's All-South Region Team released on Friday, Dec. 6.
Saint Leo had the most first-team selections of any South Region team, including midfielder Edgar Herrera, defender Chris Lavie and goalkeeper Manuel Schoenhuber.
Of the three selections, Herrera highlighted the noteable First-Team members as he served as the Lions leader with the ball. On defense, veterans Schoenhuber and Lavie earned first-team honors as well as leading a back line that was among the best in the region.
Helping the Lions earn the Sunshine State Conference regular season title, Schoenhuber was a stalwart in goal as his 1.01 goals against average helped the Lions to a 13-win season.
The NSCAA/Continental Tire All-America Teams are scheduled to be released on Friday, Dec. 13.
Founded in 1941 and based in Kansas City, Kan., the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) is a non-profit organization with a mission to educate coaches, encourage excellence and serve the soccer community.
The NSCAA is the world's largest soccer coaches' organization with members at every level of the game. The membership is primarily made up of coaches, but also includes administrators, referees and others in the soccer industry. The NSCAA provides its members ways to enhance the game of soccer by providing a national education program, interaction and networking opportunities, and membership benefits.
For more information about the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, visit NSCAA.com.
2013 NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Men's All-South Region
GK - Manuel Schoenhuber, Saint Leo
D - Walker Hume, Rollins
D - Chris Lavie, Saint Leo
D - Patrick Zimmer, West Florida
D - Javier Lopez Mochon, Lynn
M - Thibault Charmey, West Alabama
M - Edgar Herrera, Saint Leo
M - Michael O'Neill, Lynn
F - Josh Ball, Lee
F - Kenny Hogg, Palm Beach Atlantic
F - Fernando Silveira, West Florida
GK - Thomas Halsall, Lee
D - Nicola Brivio, Nova Southeastern
D - Samuel Clare, Shorter
D - Julian Kitkowski, Shorter
M - Alex Bisbee, Rollins
M - Lucas Coutinho, Palm Beach Atlantic
M - Evan Greenbaum, Rollins
M - Tosan Popo, Rollins
F - Tyler Blackwood, Tampa
F - Thomas Coombes, Barry
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CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Performs in SF SKETCHFEST, 2/9-10
The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography performs in San Francisco tonight, February 9 at 8pm and Sunday, February 10 at 5pm, at Marines' Memorial Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest.
For the show's fifth visit to SF Sketchfest, co-creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel are joined by Maria Bamford (Comedians of Comedy) (Sunday only), Roger Bart ("Desperate Housewives"), Jennifer Coolidge (Best in Show) (Saturday only), Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live"), Janeane Garafalo ("The Ben Stiller Show"), Andy Kindler (Sunday only), Laraine Newman ("Saturday Night Live"), Maya Rudolph ("Up All Night") (Saturday only) and Fred Willard (Waiting For Guffman).
Celebrity Autobiography features selections from books by Justin Bieber, "The Situation," Madonna, Tiger Woods, Susan Lucci, David Hasselhoff, Geraldo Rivera, Melissa Gilbert, Patti LuPone, Kenny Loggins, Destiny's Child, The Jonas Brothers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Diana Ross, David Cassidy, Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eminem, and VAnna White.
Celebrity Autobiography also includes special 'celebrity mash-ups'-Cher, Barbra Streisand, Neil Sedaka, Dolly Parton, and Celine Dion all expressing their passion for food; Sylvester Stallone and Tommy Lee on working out and working 'it' out; LL Cool J, Miley Cyrus, and Ricky Martin addressing who they "really are;" Tallulah Bankhead, Kathleen Turner, and Ethel Merman sharing the secrets of 'diva-dom;" and Lauren Bacall and Carol Channing recreating the suspense of Tony night.
No version of Celebrity Autobiography would be complete without some returning classics, including the infamous memoirs of Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds, which are edited together to create a Rashomon-esque playlet, and the hilarious Burt Reynolds-Loni Anderson he said/she said saga.
Celebrity Autobiography created by Eugene Pack and developed by Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, feature a line-up of rotating performers who read-in both solo and ensemble pieces- the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous in their autobiographies.
Celebrity Autobiography has recently toured nationally and internationally with acclaimed performances in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago, Arizona, Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Sydney Opera House, as well as an ongoing production at Los Angeles's Broad Stage. The show also plays at London's Leicester Square Theatre to critical and popular acclaim.
Celebrity Autobiography has played to sell-out audiences and rave reviews in New York since its opening in September 2008 when Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the show "big-yuks entertainment" and a "merry compendium of the witlessness and wisdom of the rich and famous." Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News called it a "potent comic cocktail...you weep with laughter." The New Yorker called it "inspired." Sam Thielman of Variety wrote, "Audience members hyperventilate. It should lead a long and happy life." Michael Riedel of the New York Post called it "the funniest show in town, hands down." And Entertainment Weekly said that Celebrity Autobiography is "one of New York's most buzzed-about shows" while New York Magazine called it "brilliant." The show has been featured by numerous media outlets, including ABC's "The View" and "Nightline," NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly," CBS's "Sunday Morning," NPR's "Morning Edition," CNN'S "American Morning," New York 1, WNBC'S "News for New York" at 11pm, and Bravo's "A-List Awards."
For more information, visit www.celebrityautobiography.com or www.sfsketchfest.com.


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Corn futures settled 9 to 26 cents higher on Tuesday. Weather is the driving force behind this week's corn market. New crop contracts continued to see support from dry weather forecasts across the U.S. Midwest over the next 7 to 10 days. The market was underpinned by yesterday's bullish crop progress report. The report indicated that corn crop conditions had deteriorated from the previous week due to crop stress. The good to excellent condition rating for the new crop decreased 3 percentage points to 63 percent.
Soybean futures settled 42 to 48 cents higher on Tuesday. Soybeans ended the day on a high note, posting gains as high as 52 cents during trading. Soybean prices soared on renewed demand and weather concerns. Old crop contracts were supported by reported exports sales of 140,000 tonnes of soybeans to an unknown destination for 2011/12 delivery. Weather forecasts for increasing temps across key production regions propped up new crop prices. Yesterday's crop progress report indicated a 4 percentage point decline in soybeans' good to excellent crop condition rating.
Wheat futures settled 12 to 22 cents higher on Tuesday. Wheat prices were pulled higher by spillover buying in the corn and soybean markets. Today's lower dollar index was friendly for market prices. Adverse weather across the Atlantic in parts of Russia, the Ukraine and China encouraged today's market gains. News that Russia reduced their 2012/13 wheat crop by 3 mmt to 50 mmt supported the market and will likely increase demand for U.S. wheat.
Cattle futures closed lower on Tuesday. The market ended the day lower, despite the lower dollar index and higher outside markets. Initially, the market was called to open lower on profit taking. But, concerns that beef demand is declining appears to be the dominant factor weighing on market prices. Rising prices in the grain markets also pushed prices lower. Boxed beef prices were reported higher at midday, but had a minimal affect on cattle futures.
Lean hog futures closed mixed on Tuesday. Hog futures traded choppy most of the session today. Nearby contracts were pressured by profit taking and higher prices in the grain complex. On the other hand, market prices were supported by strength in the cash market and higher wholesale pork prices. Cash prices remain firm as ready supplies of market hogs dwindle. Today's hog slaughter was reported as 2,000 head lower than last week.


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Photograph by Andy Maser
Yes, it's exactly what it looks like. But there's more to it than you might think. Swat the flies away and peer a little closer. Hidden in there somewhere is that master key to all earthly life: DNA. National Geographic-supported biologists, with the help of some remarkable canine assistants, are busily collecting as much of the stuff as they can put their hands on, for such noninvasive techniques are now providing a wealth of information about wild animals, especially predators, not obtained in any other way. This information, when combined with powerful database technologies, might be critical to better conservation planning.
So put on your gloves and discover what it is they're learning.
Pictured: In March 2011, explorers Andy Maser and Trip Jennings joined forces with Samuel Wasser on the National Geographic-funded Elephant Ivory Project, to identify elephant poaching hotspots in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Dung Trail
Photograph by Dave M. Augeri
The benefits of scat analysis are easily transferred from one species to another. Dave Augeri was seeking sun bear droppings in the remaining tropical rain forests of Sumatra when he encountered wild elephants, which often compete with the bears for food in this critical but fast-disappearing habitat. Soon he turned his attention from sun bear scat to elephant dung—and amassed the first substantive population estimates of Sumatran elephants, based primarily on dung count surveys.
Thar She Blows
Photograph courtesy Center for Whale Research
Specially trained "scat detection" dogs can hone in on droppings from a variety of species, even if some leavings are no bigger than a sesame seed (courtesy of pocket mice)—or as big as a whale's. Tucker, who works with biologist Sam Wasser, can scent killer whale scat floating on the ocean over a nautical mile away.
Photograph courtesy Center for Whale Research
Bears Do What in the Woods?
Photograph by Kathy Millani
Volunteers working for the Wildlife Land Trust collect grizzly bear scat in Montana's Centennial Valley, hoping to better determine if the animals use wildlife corridors that cross private property. The canine detectives, supplied by the organization Working Dogs for Conservation, have also been trained to nose out deposits left by black bears, wolves, wolverines, and cougars.
One Plop at a Time
Photograph by Sabrina Locatelli
Fecal pellets mark the presence of duikers, various species of small woodland antelopes, in the forests of Cameroon. Biologist Mary Gonder and her team collect the samples, integrate the DNA into existing population genetics databases, and see more clearly how rivers, by carving the forest into many fragmented habitats, have long been shaping the distribution patterns of duikers and other animals in Central Africa.
Discriminating Nose
Photograph by Juan Pablo Zurano
Working in the forests of northeastern Argentina, Train, a four-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, can make fine olfactory distinctions between the scats left by any one of several major predators, including jaguar, puma, and ocelot, still prowling the remaining thickets. His partner, biologist Karen DeMatteo, wants to learn how large a tract of unbroken territory the various species require to establish better wildlife corridors.
Sweet Smell of Success
Photograph courtesy Working Dogs for Conservation
Wicket, a black lab mix, seems comfortable enough surrounded by bags of bear scat. One of Working Dogs for Conservation's stars (he once found 52 scats in a single day), Wicket possesses the single-minded intensity that detection dogs need to succeed. For some obvious reasons, they don't always make good house pets.
Ghostly Traces
Photograph by Jan Janecka
Stretching far into the distance, Mongolia's barren hills are home to Asia's most elusive predators, snow leopards. So seldom are they seen that only the genetic analysis of scat collected by Dr. Jan Janecka's transect team revealed that several of the beautiful cats actually lived on this ridge. Such noninvasive sampling methods are ideally suited for studying the distribution and habits of these cryptic yet endangered creatures.
Sealing the Deal
Photograph by Courtney Vashro
Marine ecologist Dash Maslund found that studying seals off the coast of Maine was dirtier than she had expected. On Mount Desert Rock, she spent her days either beachcombing for seal dung or examining her gatherings in a marine research lab under less than ideal conditions. In summer there was no electricity or running water (and only an outhouse for her own use).
Cat Scat
Photograph by Steve Winter
Bruiser, a chocolate Labrador retriever, noses tiger leavings in Bhutan. It's a world away from the fragmented forests of Belize, where alongside wildlife biologist Claudia Wultsch Bruiser is usually seeking different kinds of cat scat—that left by mountain lions, ocelots, margays, jaguarundi, and especially by jaguars. Because they roam so widely and are active mostly at twilight, jaguars have long proved a challenge to study. But in order to mark their territories, they choose prominent locations in which to leave scrapes—and feces.
Waste Not
Photograph by Andy Maser
It's not just for science that members of the Elephant Ivory Project field staff collect samples of elephant dung in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—it's for conservation as well. The staff hopes to curb the illegal killing of the pachyderms for their tusks. By filling critical gaps in a DNA map of elephant distribution, they are providing law enforcement authorities with a reference tool against which to match DNA gleaned from seized shipments—the better to pinpoint poaching hotspots.
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This article was published 29/1/2013 (1664 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Turning 40 is a big deal for many of us. It seems to be a marker of sorts, a time when we reflect on who we are and what we've accomplished and look ahead to where we are going -- and maybe even what we want to change.
For the Winnipeg Singers and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, both marking 40th anniversaries this year, it's a time to celebrate -- and they have decided to join forces to do so together.
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m., the two groups will celebrate in a special concert at Westminster United Church. "We've collaborated in the past," says MCO managing director Vicki Young. "We thought we should get together and do something bigger than we could each do on our own."
So music directors Anne Manson (MCO) and Yuri Klaz (WS) sat down and created a program that spans the centuries, starting with Thomas Tallis's complex motet, Spem in alium (I have never placed my hope), working all the way up to Manitoban Glenn Buhr's Ritchot Mass, dedicated to Manitobans who lost their homes during the 1997 Red River flood. Also planned is Vivaldi's antiphonal choral work, Credo in E minor, Arvo Pärt's ethereal Berliner Messe and Jesu, Meine Freude by Mendelssohn.
The 40th anniversary is having a positive effect; Winnipeg Singers executive director Pat Wray, who also sings alto in the choir, says there's excitement over this venture.
"More of the same singers are staying all season. They are sticking around for this." (It is not uncommon for choir members to perform in only some concerts, owing to scheduling issues, other commitments, etc.)
The choir, in its present form, began to produce its own annual four-concert series in 1973, after a short stint as the CBC Winnipeg Singers, singing sacred and secular music for broadcasts. When the CBC could no longer support the choir, it moved ahead on its own, working over the years with artistic directors, William Baerg, John Martens, Wayne Riddell, Mel Braun, Vic Pankratz (who still sings with the group), Rudy Schellenberg and since 2003, Yuri Klaz.
They have become a true Winnipeg institution with a loyal following and a number of CDs to their name. Their special triumph, according to Wray, was a trip to Japan in 2005 to represent Canada in the World Symposium on Choral Music.
The Singers stay close to their roots, commissioning a new Canadian work to perform every year. But they are not resting on their laurels -- quite the opposite.
"We are looking for a new, fresh look for the WS; making each performance an event -- more than a concert," says Wray. "We are trying to get innovative."
The WS continue their celebrations with their next series concert, as well, Fabulous at 40! on Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m. at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. They will present favourites chosen by past and present conductors and some works they've commissioned over the years.
The MCO presents a nine-concert series and has maintained a relationship with CBC Radio since 1984, making them well-known across the country. Memorable highlights include backing up k.d. lang for her rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah for the live broadcast of the Juno Awards in 2005, performing for more than 7,500 people on Canada Day at Harbourfront in Toronto, touring Canada and the U.S. with Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian (concluding with a performance at Carnegie Hall) in 2008 and a 2009 West Coast tour with percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Music directors and conductors over the years have been Ruben Gurevich, Simon Streatfeild, Roy Goodman, Alain Trudel and since 2008, Anne Manson, who has truly brought the orchestra to new performance heights.
Young attributes the orchestra's longevity and success to a variety of people and things.
"Simon Streatfeild was interviewed on our 25th anniversary and said it was because we can keep renewing ourselves by commissioning new works, and we adapt to different circumstances," she says. "We have had wonderful musical direction. There has always been someone strong at the helm, keeping the focus on musical excellence. We have a strong and deep pool of excellent musicians in Winnipeg."
She gives credit to her predecessor, Rita Menzies, who "for 25 years guided the administration, and laid a strong foundation. We also have a committed and innovative board and good donor/funder support. We try to take advantage of opportunities that come along and create our own opportunities."
Looking to the future, the MCO plans to tour and record more.
"We'd like to take the orchestra beyond the Winnipeg market," says Young. "We will be doing more recordings, commissioning, and developing education and outreach, which is a significant part of what we do."
Tickets are $26.50/adults, $24.50/seniors and $7.50/students at McNally Robinson Booksellers, the West End Cultural Centre or by calling 204-783-7377.


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Successful investment management companies base their business on a core investment philosophy, and Vanguard is no different.
Although we offer many specific strategies through both internally and externally managed funds, an overarching theme runs through the investment guidance we provide to clients—focus on those things within your control.
These principles have been intrinsic to our company since its inception, and they are embedded in its culture. For Vanguard, they represent both the past and the future—enduring principles that guide the investment decisions we help our clients make.
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Markets are unpredictable. Costs are forever. The lower your costs, the greater your share of an investment's return. And research suggest that lower-cost investments have tended to outperform higher-cost-alternatives. To hold onto even more of your return, manage for tax efficiency. You can't control the markets, but you can control the bite of costs and taxes. More »
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The Baltimore County Fire Department will honor a fallen firefighter and first responders and civilians who have performed exceptionally at its annual Promotional and Commendations Ceremony, scheduled tomorrow, March 11, at Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium.
The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m.
Besides awarding deserving first responders and civilians, this evening also will recognize 55 Fire Department members who have been promoted during the past year and 31 graduates of the 102nd Recruit Class of Probationary Firefighters. Graduation ceremonies for the 102nd class originally planned last January were postponed due to inclement weather.
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Fire Chief John Hohman are scheduled to speak.
Highlights of the awards portion of the program:
- Recognition of Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Co. Firefighter Gene Kirchner, who died of injuries suffered while trying to rescue a person trapped in an April 24, 2013 Reisterstown house fire. Kirchner, 25, last spring was posthumously presented the Medal of Honor -- the Fire Department's highest honor -- and the Purple Heart.
- A Baltimore County police officer from the North Point Precinct will receive the Fire Department's third highest award, the Bronze Star, for rescuing a man from a building fire in Dundalk.
- Several citizens will receive awards. These include two women in Garrison who saved a person from choking; a boy in Eastview who called 911 and helped save his mother; a man in Rosedale who evacuated a warehouse following a train crash and explosion; a Parkville lifeguard who saved an infant by performing CPR; a woman in Perry Hall who saved the life of her neighbor by performing CPR; and a Parkton man who saved a man in cardiac arrest by performing CPR.
- Crews from Dundalk, Eastview, Wise Avenue, Edgemere and North Point Edgemere will be recognized for rescuing 14 residents trapped in an apartment fire.
- Crews from Golden Ring and Eastview that were the first on the scene of a train derailment and explosion in Rosedale will be honored.


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Andy Muschietti Opens Bird Box
With the success of horror pic Mama, which he adapted from his own short, Andy Muschietti is now a hot property in Hollywood. Universal in particular seems keen to keep working with him, even if he's not that interested in a sequel to the chiller. He is now in negotiations to helm post-apocalyptic adaptation Bird Box for the studio.
Despite the title, it will not in fact be a big-budget overhaul of Springwatch in which Bill Oddie fights the zombie menace with the help of Kitten Kong.
It's actually based on an upcoming book by rocker-turned-writer Josh Malerman, which follows a woman and two children who are blindfolded and sent down a river in a seemingly dark future. Comparisons have already been drawn to Children Of Men, which bodes well even if it's far too early to tell. The book won't even hit stores until next year.
Muschietti still has to make a deal and the studio is looking for writers to bring the project to life. We'd expect the director to land several other projects in the meantime. If he follows the example of Mama producer Guillermo del Toro, it could be several hundred projects, so watch this space for more.


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There's no short answer to this question, really, since neither browser is clearly better, so instead of a straight out "Use X" recommendation, let's consider the pros and cons of each.
First, in our regular web browser performance tests, Chrome has regularly beaten up the competition or come in a very close second in most categories, while Firefox rarely leads the way. That might seem like a pretty big deal, but most browsers actually perform really well these days, so the fact that Chrome beats Firefox in most of our performance tests doesn't mean Firefox is extremely slow—it just means that compared to Chrome, it's not the fastest.
But that brings us to another important point: Bloat. Despite the fact that Firefox generally does pretty well on memory use tests (strangely enough, it regularly wins that test in our browser performance tests), a lot of Firefox users are increasingly frustrated with slow-downs caused by what they see as browser bloat. It's not at all uncommon to see a Firefox installation eating up more than any running application on your system, and while the memory consumption itself isn't that big of a deal (Chrome eats a lot of memory, too), the high memory usage is often accompanied by serious browser slowdowns, which is a very big problem, and one that, anecdotally, at least, we hear from tons of Firefox users and very few Chrome users. (Presently company included.)
So what keeps Firefox users coming back despite Chrome outperforming it on Windows by most accounts? One of the biggest issues is extensions. Firefox's extension ecosystem has long been a selling point of the popular open-source browser, and if there's anything you wish your browser did differently, chances are there's a Firefox extension to address it.
Chrome has its own flourishing extension gallery, and while it doesn't have close to the extension support that Firefox does, every day more and more really popular extension functionality makes its way to Chrome. Want to sync Chrome up with your existing Firefox bookmarks? You can use Xmarks for that. (Or you can use Chrome's built-in bookmark sync tools if you prefer, though this editor still dearly misses keyword bookmarks in Chrome, despite the workaround.) Want to securely sync and automatically fill your passwords? The LastPass extension, which we recently raved about, can handle that at more. Even the must-have for web developers, Firebug, has made its way to Chrome in a very functional lite version.
If you use a ton of Firefox extensions—especially some more obscure ones—chances are you may not be able to find replacements for everything in Chrome. But if you only use a few of the more popular Firefox extensions, odds are very good that you could transition to Chrome without noticing a difference.
On the other hand, a lot of people shy away from Chrome specifically because of its affiliation with Google. Those who believe Google already has enough of your personal information might prefer to stick with Firefox just to temper the growing piles of information Google has collected about you, anonymously or not.
At the end of the day, both Chrome and Firefox are excellent web browsers for Windows, and you can't go wrong with either. From our perspective, more and more power users seem to be swapping happily to Chrome from Firefox (several Lifehacker editors have made this switch and haven't looked back), and their switch has been spurred mostly by the bloat issues mentioned above. If you've been frustrated with Firefox, we'd recommend kicking the tires and Chrome to see how you like it; you can always switch back if you decide your heart lies with Firefox.
If, on the other hand, you're perfectly happy with Firefox, we don't see any reason to upset a good thing. (If it ain't broke and all that.)
The answer to this question is very different from the one above, but luckily it's much shorter. If you read the Windows section (and you should, because a lot of it still applies), you know that Chrome has a lot of great things going for it. Chrome is snappy on OS X, the same extensions that work for Chrome on Windows work in OS X, it isolates processes so that one crashed tab won't bring down your browser, and so on.
Unfortunately, in our experience, Chrome for OS X is still much too young for full-time adoption. Remember, Chrome for Mac launched quite awhile after the Windows version and has been around much less than a year overall. Like Chrome on Windows, it shows a whole lot of promise, but it's also prone to the occasional non-responsiveness and other bugginess that we aren't used to and probably shouldn't be seeing from a prime-time browser.
While we'd love to say you should give it a try full-time if you're not happy with Firefox on your Mac, we can say from experience that it's probably not ready for you to do that.


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Topic: Good News!!!
My dads latest scans show that his lymph nodes are almost all completely normal. They have decided to stop his traditional chemo and he will meet with a radiologist next Friday. They are going to do the chemo embolization!!! This is VERY exciting and hopefully will help with his fatigue. He is excited about the prospect of being able to plant this spring and so are we.
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The Crap We Missed – Thursday 10.3.13
Welcome to Thrursday's The Crap We Missed, where I'd like to start by making a simple comparison. Here's Jenna Dewan, who gave birth two weeks before Kim Kardashian, on Extra yesterday, and if you think I'm about to comment on their post-pregnancy bodies, you're wrong. That would be like comparing apples to soulless famewhores who got peed on because working is hard. As for the rest of today's collection, here are random butts mixed in with George Clooney making a face we'll all assume disparages monogamy in some way, Josh Duhamel and some dudes in a truck bed, which I'm having trouble turning into a joke about his wife's penis, and Joan Rivers introducing her new Jonah Hill Flatware Collection.
I'm aware that shit wasn't just low hanging, that was already on the ground and rotting,
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:: Marketing for Small Business
Spring 2013
@Kapiolani CC
|Credit Hours:
Timothy L Kwock
|Instructional Mode:
|01/07/2013 - 05/10/2013
|Course Requirements:
|Prior to the start of the semester, log into https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal with your UH username and password to check for announcements from your instructor.
|Course Prerequisites:
|Recommended Preparation:
ENG 50, ENG 100 or ENG 160.
|Course Description:
|ENT 130 is a marketing course covering key
concepts and issues underlying the modern practice
of marketing for the small business. The course
provides a clear understanding of marketing's role
in the management of a small business. The course
covers marketing terminology, consumer-oriented
approach to marketing, channels of distribution,
correct usage of methods in marketing research,
concepts and practices of retailing, wholesaling,
and physical distribution, role of marketing
communication, correct usage of procedures in
personal selling, and principles and practices of
marketing organization.
Upon completion of ENT 125, ENT 130, ENT 150, students are eligible to apply for the Certificate of Competence in Entrepreneurship.
This ENT 130 class section (CRN 33670) is conducted on the internet and is not self-paced. Two weeks prior to the start of the semester, log into https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal with your UH username and password to check for announcements from your instructor.
|Books may be purchased at the Kapiolani CC bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/uhkcc/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
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|The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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Fireside Inn & Suites Gilford, Gilford
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 83 smoke-free guestrooms
- Indoor and outdoor pool
- Fitness center
- 24-hour business center
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Computer station
- Lobby fireplace
- Gift shops/newsstands
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
What's around
- Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook (0.8 mi / 1.2 km)
- Ellacoya State Park (3 mi / 4.8 km)
- Winnipesaukee Playhouse (3.4 mi / 5.4 km)
- Endicott Rock Park (3.5 mi / 5.6 km)
- Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad (3.8 mi / 6.1 km)
Fireside Inn & Suites Gilford, Gilford
Hotel Info: 866-266-9798from $179 CAD
- Deluxe Room, 2 Queen Beds
- Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 83 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 21
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed *
- Specific rooms only *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
- Free RV/bus/truck parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Free continental breakfast
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Fitness facilities
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour business center
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Fireplace in lobby
- Television in common areas
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Balcony or patio
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
This property does not have elevators.
Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for USD 15 per night
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 20 per pet (may vary based on length of stay)
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I'm working on a project for a foundation that manages a number of microsites and a few regular websites. Right now the microsites are just WYSIWYG HTML pages and the main site is managed by one CMS tool, Convio. We want to bring all these together under one roof. I'm most familiar with Drupal however I think a CMS that has an easier admin area would be best (and maybe an easier theming method). If any have a great WYSIWYG tool, that would be preferable -- I will likely do all the coding but most of the users here need an easier way to input content.
Any recommendations? Maybe ModX? I'm not sure.
Right on with MODx.
The new version 2.0 Revolution, supports multiple sites easily through something called "contexts." Theming a MODx site is ridiculously simple, and your users can input content with TinyMCE and an easy admin interface.
Have you used the admin_menu module? It replaces the regular administration menu block and is a must for anything Drupal 6 or less. Drupal 7 has a built in Admin Menu that is very similar to the aforementioned module and it really makes navigating through the administrative areas a much nicer task.
Also for Drupal, I have been a fan of TinyTinyMCE however, I'm now a big fan of the WYSIWYG module. What I like about this module is that is is a wrapper for TinyMCE, FCKEditor and several others. You install the module and then put CKEditor, FCKeditor, jWysiwyg, markItUp, NicEdit, openWYSIWYG, TinyMCE, Whizzywig, WYMeditor, YUI editor, etc... in "sites/all/libraries" then you can configure your editor. Best of all, you don't have to write or edit an init script to add or remove icons from your editor. Well worth a try IMO.
Other than that, I would recommend taking D7 out for a spin. It's set to release any day now and since Drupal is built to manage multiple sites right from the get go, I can't imagine why you would look anywhere else.
Let me know if you'd like to take a vanilla copy of D7 for a spin... I have a copy of RC2 running on a test server and I can set up an admin role for you to try it out with.
EDIT: Some links regarding multiple sites and multisite:http://drupal.org/node/43816http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-sitehttp://groups.drupal.org/multisitehttp://gotdrupal.com/videos/multisites-vs-multiple-sites (comparison multisite vs. multiple sites)
If you've got the budget for it check out Sitecore. It's an asp.net solution and has virtually unlimited capabilities and support for multiple sites in various ways one with a dedicated product but their overall cms platform supports them as well.


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Surveying the field
With Great Britain's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games came keen national interest, in both policy circles and among the wider public, in the potential for medal success. This, in turn, led to a plethora of state-supported talent identification and development schemes across the country. The concepts associated with talent (Bloom, 1985; Coté, 1999) are many and varied:
- Talent pool
- Talent gaps
- Talent identification
- Talent matching
- Talent development
- Talent promotion
- Talent acceleration
- Talent transfer/crossover/athlete reassignment – 'donor' and 'recipient' sports
- Talent recycling
- 'Relative age effect' (Musch and Grondin, 2001)
- 'Career transitions' (Stambulova, 1994; Wylleman et al., 2004)
- 'Early and late specialisation' sports
- 'Ten Year/Ten Thousand Hour Rule' (Simon and Chase, 1973)
- 'Theory of Deliberate Practice' (Ericcson et al., 1993 and others)
- 'Long Term Athlete Development' (Balyi and Hamilton, 2004)
- 'Sampling years' (Coté, Baker and Abernethy, 2003)
- 'Developmental Model of Sport Participation (DMSP) (Coté and Fraser-Thomas, 2006)
In a 2009 review of research on talent identification and development programmes at Olympic level (Vaeyens et al., 2009) the entire paper focussed on empirical data related to performance variables such as age, training onset, performance level, number of sports practised and so on. The dominant consideration was 'investment patterns' in young athlete talent. The authors pointed to estimates from Australian sport (Hogan and Norton, 2000), for example, that an Olympic medal cost about A$37m for a gold and A$8m per medal in general. The so-called 'time-economic motive', by which long term investment is assumed to lead to medal success, was contrasted with the 'talent crossover' approach, by which high performance systems can benefit from transferring already talented, mature athletes from a 'donor' sport to a 'recipient' sport. At no point in this review did human considerations of desire, pleasure, fulfilment or joy feature at all, nor was a single athlete voice reported. At no point were children's rights mentioned. I would argue that this approach to the commodification and processing of athletic talent separates the objective from the subjective, disembodies the human being at the centre of the enterprise – the child - and undermines the prospects for delivering children's rights in elite sport.
In a somewhat broader review of research on involvement in youth sports Fraser-Thomas and Coté (2006) assessed the benefits for youth of engaging in sport against three commonly identified outcomes: physical health, psychosocial development and motor skills. Even 'enjoyment' was acknowledged as "critical" despite not yet being "fully integrated in athlete development research" (p.31-2). Unusually for literature on this subject, the authors acknowledged early in the paper that positive benefits are not automatic and went on to list research on a range of psychosocial detriments such as:
- feeling excessive pressure to win
- feeling unattached to teams
- injuries
- eating disorders
- low self-confidence and self-esteem
- poor sportspersonship
- poor moral reasoning and,
- acts of violence and aggression
The authors concluded (drawing on Gould, 1987, p. 2) that, possibly due to these experiences, attrition rates from sport are extremely high during adolescence. We know that research on abuse and harassment in sport is in its infancy, with international peer reviewed papers on the subject appearing in the literature only in the past 15-20 years. Yet even this literature was not connected with child rights discourses until very recently (Donnelly, 1997; Tymowski, 2001; David, 2005; Farstad, 2006; McCardle and Giulianotti, 2006). However, such is recent medical interest in harms to children in sport that the British Journal of Sports Medicine published a special issues on the subject in January 2010 (Caine, 2010) that addressed topics such as: heat injuries, long-term health outcomes, steroid use, violence, overweightness and disordered eating.
As other contributors to this book point out, both athlete development and child maltreatment are deeply gendered processes. It is certainly worth reminding ourselves of this, and of the other important parameters of the elite sport experience. We know virtually nothing, for example, of class, disability or race differences in this field, let alone their intersecting influences on elite child sport. In a special issue of Child Abuse Review (Kelly and Pringle, 2009, p. 370), the editors synthesised the issues facing research and practice in general in order to improve our understanding of gender relations and child maltreatment:
- there are both moral and practical reasons for putting the child's voice at the centre of academic analysis and welfare practice
- intersectional approaches to power dynamics should be adopted in both research and practice
- research and practice should attend to context (space and time) in order effectively to counter child harm
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The actual site for the Battle of Bosworth has been located approx two miles from where the visitor centre is currently located. The location is being kept a secret until 20 Feb 2010 when all will be revealed at a special conference. A large number of medieval cannonballs and shot was found helping identify the site. All very timely for the current releases from the Perrys !!
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Am I the only one who takes the last remnants of the last rub and dumps them into the beginnings of the next batch? Making matters worse, I flex the recipe.... paprika, chili pepper, brown sugar, black pepper, salt.... but the bottom line is since I've got the leftovers in there as well my rub has evolved over time and I'm pretty sure it's beyond replication.
But I like it.
Is it just me?


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|My Urban Revolution
|culture, design, environment, music, san francisco, social, sustainability, urban
"One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us." — Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness. Blog by alumna Laura Surma.
Notice: Blog authors are solely responsible for the content of the blogs listed in the directory. Neither the content of these blogs, nor the links to other web sites, are screened, approved, reviewed or endorsed by Stanford University, the Stanford Alumni Association or any Stanford-affiliated entity ("Stanford"). The text and other material on these blogs are the opinion of the specific author and are not statements of advice, opinion, or information of Stanford.


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This is a 90 cm * 90cm * 90 cm pyramidic reflector for solar cooking. Inside there is a 1/3 or 120 degrees of a cylinder wich complete the pyramidic reflector. This part of the sicle reflect almost as good as an parabolics and the design is much simpler. The square 90 cm will collect theoretically about 800 W * 0,8 = 640W of energy, wich is plenty to heat your food. The angels of the pyramid are 60 degrees wich also is matching the angel of the sylinder. The reflector is aiming for a sun 30 degrees above the horizon. For more information see www.solarcookers.ning.com here is an animation of this design: http://solarcookers.ning.com/video/pyramidic-solar-cookerThis design
Inside the pyramidic reflector I have inserted a parabolic structure. In this case I have found that 120 degrees of a circle can do as a parabolic reflector. It is not perfect, but comes very close to a focal point with litle spread. The botle to be heated is painted black and lifted off the ground, then tilted 30 degrees backwards. This model is designed for northern countries where the sun can rest at 30 degree above the horizon for some time.


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Did you know?
Documents, letters and previously unseen photographs are on display in the ground floor windows.
The time is the oppressive 1950s during apartheid. The place is Chancellor House, in the heart of Johannesburg's CBD. The residents are Mandela & Tambo Attorneys who run their legal firm from these premises.
It was a brave decision by owners, the Essa family from Polokwane in Limpopo, to lease their building in a so-called 'Indian area' to two black African men.
Between 1952 and 1956, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo had a thriving law practice, trying to help others who were accused of crimes against the state and disobeying the draconian laws of the time. Many of their clients needed help in securing passes, obligatory for black citizens to carry at all times.
Ironically, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo were arrested for a crime for which many of their desperate clients had been accused, an event that ended up as the infamous Treason Trial.
When Chancellor House opened its doors once again to the public in 2010, Amos Masondo, the former Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, said that 'if bricks could talk this building would have been replete with colourful stories about the struggles for national liberation'.
For years, the former law offices had been derelict and crumbling, inhabited by squatters, but today the building has been faithfully restored with the help of old photographs.
A new roof has replaced the dilapidated one, new ground floor windows have been installed, and the three small rooms of the second-floor offices, where Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo once practiced as South Africa's first ever black law firm, have been re-laid with parquet flooring.
Chancellor House is now a dignified freedom struggle museum that resonates with the spirit of the two remarkable men who changed South African history.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Past Experiences
Tel: +27 (0)11 678 3905
Cell: +27 (0)83 701 3046
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
Chancellor House is on the corner of Fox and Gerard Sekoto streets in Ferreirasdorp in the heart of Johannesburg's CBD.
Tours to do
Past Experiences offer great walking trips around the inner city, including a visit to Chancellor House.
Get around
On foot. The building is not yet open to the public but the ground floor museum faces out into the street so that any member of the public can read and see the information at any time.


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The 2012 NFL Cheerleader Kickoff Awards
Last year, it was all about the scandals. Now we get to see how those teams pick up the pieces and move on — and how the rest of the nation gets back to playing some really good football. I think USC getting back into post-season eligibility will be a good litmus test for schools like Ohio State, Penn State, UCF, and UNC that have bowl-game bans this season (we're still waiting on Miami). That's a real question for too many fans' favorite teams these days: Can a program go through a two-year hiatus and lose those scholarships and still come back and win the BCS title their first year back? If the Trojans can — and I've got them winning it all this year — it would send a great message that these coaches can use for players, for recruiting, and to fans to try and get their programs back on track as soon as possible. In the meantime, it's going to be a great year.... —as told to Ryan Joseph
So, there are five teams in the top 10 from the SEC. I was really impressed with Georgia last year when everyone was calling for coach Mark Richt's head — and now they've extended his contract, and I think Aaron Murray (left) is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, so they at least have a shot at the division crown. But LSU, even though QB transfer Zach Mettengberger really impressed me when I watched him in their spring game two years ago, is dealing with some stuff — they lost Tyrann Mathieu, and running back Michael Floyd and linebacker Tajh Jones might be out because of academic issues. So with that off-the-field stuff for the Tigers, I'm still picking Alabama as my favorite down south. And don't tell my fellow Florida alums — I mean, I think Florida's good, and they have one of the best defenses in the SEC — but I think coach Will Muschamp's got to get his quarterback situation figured out. We've seen two-QB systems, and it just works better when we've got one; they don't have to look over their shoulders. As hard as it is to follow in Urban Meyer's footsteps, it's a statement year for my Gators.
The Olympic Excitement-Level Index


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This article is an excerpt from Chapter three in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda – Debunking Experts' Lies. This is the second of seven parts for Chapter three that will be presented here sequentially. Read part one here.
This article is an excerpt from Chapter three in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda – Debunking Experts' Lies. This is the second of seven parts for Chapter three that will be presented here sequentially. Read part one here.
The Solar Energy Cycle
Solar energy plays two direct roles: it evaporates water and, by warming the atmosphere, increases its ability to carry more water vapor. Solar energy also plays a significant indirect role. Some places are warmer than others. By a relatively complicated mechanism, these differences in air temperature result in pressure differences. Air located in an area of higher pressure will naturally flow towards areas of lower pressure. The exact path the air takes is a function of many things, including the shape of the land and the rotation of the Earth. The net result, however, is wind. When you think about it, therefore, the motion of the air – the wind – is a form of solar energy.
We can directly recapture solar energy from the wind by placing a windmill in its path. Many Western windy ridges host armies of wind generators. These farms of tall, single-mast, high-tech windmills suck a significant amount of solar energy out of the passing air. The hardware is simple but still relatively fragile. As more and more of these systems come into use, the technology will become increasingly robust.
We have been indirectly recapturing solar energy for millennia using flowing water. Remember all that water vapor that found its way into the atmosphere through the action of solar energy? Much of this water eventually forms into water droplets that make up clouds. Under the right conditions, these droplets coalesce into raindrops that fall to Earth, either back into the ocean to undergo the cycle all over again, or on land somewhere. When they fall, they give up something called potential energy. In effect, each raindrop contains a level of potential energy exactly equivalent to the amount of total solar energy it took to get the raindrop from the ocean where it originated to the point from which it begins to fall. When a raindrop falls into the ocean, it has given up its entire store of potential energy; every bit of solar energy that it took to create the water vapor, coalesce it into a droplet, and transport it to the rain location is gone. When the landing spot is higher than sea level, however, the raindrop sitting on the Earth's surface still contains some potential energy.
So here's the whole story. Melting snowfields, rainstorm runoff, brooks, streams, rivers, lakes – all this massive amount of water eventually finds its way back to the ocean. Sure, some of it evaporates and gets recycled locally, but eventually all of it comes home. Every inch of descent represents a surrender of potential energy.
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Love it!
I like it. Apple should offer this guy a job!
I could see this app having a lot of potential as long as they can get the CPU problems out of the way. This app seems like it would require quite a bit of CPU and could crash the springboard a lot. I hope it pans out. This would be awesome to show off!
I would love this, but he must choose a VERY talented/experienced developer if he chooses to make this a reality, you could run this on a iPhone 4 perfectly, if coded correctly, but if not it could easily have problems running on the 5, even with the amazing processor, if the code isn't written well, almost virtually anything could take down any processor.
Looks hot! Wish Auxo was compatible with the iPad mini but its not still but I would love it if this would be available for the mini I would def purchase it! There aren't many tweaks or mods compatible for the mini and that's unfortunate considering we would all like to have a piece of the pie as well!!! These guys are great!!!!
Sentry needs to work for apple. Now that I have that out of the way, I would absolutely LOVE to see this as an update to Auxo or at a discount for people who bought Auxo. It's so much cleaner and nicer.
To the guy who has crashing problems. Try the latest update of the beta. I was having those problem too.
Edit just crashed on me when I was listening to music. Something with Auxo and music app are not getting along.


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Breast Cancer in Women Under 40
Breast Cancer in Women Under 40
Breast cancer among young women is rare and often associated with high-risk features. Age alone has been shown to be an independent risk factor for recurrence, although the biologic explanation for the increased risk among younger women remains unknown. Due to the higher risk of recurrence and otherwise typically good health of young women with breast cancer, one must carefully consider both the maximally effective approach to treatment and the potential long-term consequences of therapy. This manuscript focuses on the clinical decisions that we confront when considering systemic therapy for young women with early-stage breast cancer and the evolving data to guide the care of these patients.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, with over 180,000 new diagnoses of invasive disease annually in the United States, based on recent estimates.[1] Despite advances in therapy, over 40,000 women still die of breast cancer each year in the US.[1] While most women with breast cancer present with early-stage, potentially curable disease, young women face higher risks of recurrence and death compared to older women, which leads to challenges in selecting the optimal treatment strategy for these patients. The clinician is typically confronted with an otherwise healthy patient facing a life-threatening disease, and we are inclined to offer therapies with maximal benefit and minimal longterm toxicity, in the face of frequently inadequate or evolving data on how to achieve this.
This manuscript will review the challenge of managing breast cancer in women under 40 years old, the therapeutic choices facing us in the clinic, and emerging data from recent clinical trials.
Is Breast Cancer in Women Under 40 a Different Disease?
Given an otherwise similar cancer presentation, should women under 40 be treated differently from older women on the basis of age alone? The answer is not entirely clear. Even the age range that should be viewed as being at higher risk is somewhat controversial, with women under 35, 40, or 45 classified as "young" in different studies.[2-4] While breast cancer in women under 40 is rare, accounting for roughly 6.5% of all cases, it is more likely to be associated with high-risk features than the cancers seen in older women.[5] In addition, breast cancer in women under 40 may signal a BRCA mutation—and testing should be considered in all young patients— but for most young women a specific etiology is not identified.
Breast cancers in young women are more likely to be estrogen receptor–negative and of higher grade.[6,7] Several studies suggest that HER2-positive disease is more common in younger women.[2,8] In addition, young African-American women are more likely to have triple-negative breast cancer (estrogen receptor–negative, progesterone receptor–negative, and HER2-negative) compared to older women and to young Caucasian women.[9] Age also appears to play a role in risk of recurrence, independent of other disease features.[10]
A recent study by Anders and colleagues suggests that there may be biologic pathways common to tumors from women under 45 compared to those from women over 65.[2] This research identified differential expression within sets of genes related to cell signaling, survival, immune function, and other possible correlates of tumor pathogenesis that appeared to distinguish tumors in younger women from those in older women. Further investigation is needed to clarify whether any ofthese differences represent a specific high-risk feature of cancers prevalent in younger women but present in some older women vs a common process in all younger women with breast cancer. The latter possibility would suggest a need to view breast cancer in this population as a distinct breast cancer subtype.
At a minimum, it is clear that there are as yet unidentified biologic factors contributing to a higher risk of recurrence for young women with breast cancer. Even if these factors are neither present in all cancers in younger women nor confined to this age group, they still require us to consider more rather than less treatment for this patient population. When appropriate, we also need to discuss emerging treatment strategies and/or participation in clinical trials with these patients. This bias toward what many call "aggressive" treatment should, however, be tempered by the fact that women under 40 are also at higher risk for long-term consequences of initial treatments, and for many of our interventions the side effects 20 years and farther down the road are unknown.
Endocrine Therapy and Other Options
For premenopausal women with early-stage endocrine receptor–positive disease, standard therapy includes tamoxifen for 5 years. This strategy is supported by an analysis from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group suggesting a 47% improvement in disease-free survival compared to no endocrine therapy, and a sustained improvement in overall survival of approximately 30% at 15 years, regardless of age.[11,12] Deferring for a moment the challenging question of chemotherapy, major questions for young women with endocrine receptor–positive breast cancer include: (1) How long should we continue tamoxifen? (2) Should we add ovarian suppression? (3) Is the use of aromatase inhibitors plus ovarian suppression superior to tamoxifen plus ovarian suppression? (4) Should we conduct CYP2D6 testing for tamoxifen metabolism? and (5) Should we add adjuvant bisphosphonate therapy (Table 1)?
Duration of Treatment
The standard of tamoxifen for 5 years is based on studies comparing 5 years to 1 or 2 years of therapy, finding 5 years superior in terms of disease-free and overall survival.[12] In addition, the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) B-14 trial randomized over 1,000 women with endocrine receptor– positive, lymph node–negative breast cancer completing 5 years of tamoxifen to 5 additional years of therapy vs placebo, and found no difference in outcomes, regardless of age.[13]
Two large studies—the adjuvant Tamoxifen Treatment offer more (aTTom) and Adjuvant Tamoxifen Longer Against Shorter (ATLAS) trials—are continuing to explore the optimal duration of tamoxifen therapy. Although both trials are complicated by a pragmatic community- based design, variable initial duration of tamoxifen therapy, and unclear endocrine receptor status for some patients, these trials will provide data on close to 20,000 patients randomized to stopping tamoxifen (at 4 to 5 years for most patients) vs 5 additional years of therapy.
To date, with roughly 7,000 patients, the aTTom trial demonstrates no significant difference in recurrence risk for 10 vs 5 years of tamoxifen, but a small increase in the risk of endometrial cancer with longer therapy.[14] On the other hand, in a preliminary report of the ATLAS trial, results from over 11,000 patients showed a small benefit in disease-free survival but no difference in overall survival.[15]. At this time, the standard duration of therapy remains 5 years, and further data from these large trials are anticipated. Pending these results, it is reasonable to discuss the pros and cons of additional years of treatment and the limits of data in this area with individual patients who face a high risk of recurrence.
For patients at highest risk of recurrence who experience permanent ammenorhea due to chemotherapy, clinicians should consider the data from the MA.17 trial showing reduction in recurrence risk from 5 years of letrozole (Femara), an aromatase inhibitor (AI), following 5 years of tamoxifen.[16] This trial included women rendered postmenopausal due to chemotherapy or ovarian ablation; some form of ovarian ablation/ suppression or frequent monitoring of menopausal status should be implemented if AI therapy is pursued.[17]
Should We Add Ovarian Suppression?
Ovarian suppression is one of the oldest known therapies for breast cancer.[18] The benefits of ovarian suppression alone have been reviewed previously.[19] Whether the addition of ovarian suppression to tamoxifen is more beneficial than tamoxifen alone is currently unclear.[20] This question is being addressed in the Suppression of Ovarian Function Trial (SOFT), in which patients are randomized to tamoxifen, tamoxifen plus ovarian suppression, or an AI plus ovarian suppression; the design of this trial reflects the clinical uncertainty in this area. Several randomized clinical trials, including the ongoing Tamoxifen/ Exemestane Trial (TEXT) and the recently reported Austrian Breast Cancer Study Group (ABCSG) 12 trial,[21] have adopted ovarian suppression plus tamoxifen as the standard control arm for comparison with ovarian suppression plus an AI.
Patients who experience temporary or permanent amenorrhea secondary to chemotherapy have a lower risk of recurrence than patients who experience no cessation in menses, and this difference has long been attributed to the endocrine effects of chemotherapy.[22] Presumably, a similar benefit should be seen through administration of ovarian suppression. There is both a greater rationale for administration of ovarian suppression among young women who may not experience the endocrine benefits of chemotherapy, and reason for caution and concern with the quality of life and late effects of early menopause in these patients. Routine use of ovarian suppression among young women with endocrine receptor–positive breast cancer is not recommended, but this author considers it a reasonable topic for discussion and consideration in select patients at high risk for recurrence.[20,23]
Is an AI-Based Strategy Superior to Tamoxifen?
Although AIs are a standard component of adjuvant endocrine therapy for postmenopausal women, their role in adjuvant therapy for younger women, if any, remains unclear. There may be important biologic differences between cancers that arise in pre- and postmenopausal settings and differences in the effect of further estrogen deprivation (above and beyond ovarian suppression), as opposed to estrogen receptor blockade with tamoxifen. As noted above, the SOFT and TEXT trials will address this question. Recent data from the ABCSG 12 trial found no benefit for ovarian suppression plus an AI vs ovarian suppression plus tamoxifen. Thus, tamoxifen remains the standard.[ 21] For young women with endocrine receptor–positive disease who are unable to tolerate tamoxifen or who have a strong contraindication to such therapy, treatment with an AI plus ovarian suppression can be considered a reasonable alternative. The lack of differences in the ABCSG trial is reassuring, although the study was not powered for noninferiority.
Some women will develop permanent or prolonged amenorrhea after treatment with chemotherapy, but AIs may increase the likelihood of ovarian recovery, making concurrent treatment with ovarian suppression—or, at minimum, frequent monitoring of menopausal status—important.[24]


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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Coastal Fisheries Division officials have announced drop-off sites for the 7th Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program, running this year from Feb. 15-24.
During this 10-day period, all Texas bays will be closed to crabbing with crab traps and any traps left in the bay will be presumed to be abandoned and considered litter under state law, thus allowing volunteers to legally remove any crab traps they find.
Volunteers are needed to assist in the coast-wide effort to remove the numerous wire mesh cages used to catch crabs that have been lost or abandoned since last year's cleanup and in years past.
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Areas that are relatively free of abandoned traps will have stand-alone sites with dumpsters marked for trap removal.
In other areas where more effort is need, sites will be manned until noon on Saturday, Feb. 16, weather permitting, and have stand-alone dumpsters for the duration of the closure. For those who choose to work on their own, TPWD requests information about the number of traps that are collected.
Volunteers can work at their own pace during the closure as time and weather permit, but cannot remove traps before Feb. 15 or after Feb. 24. Any crabs found in the traps must be set free. Last year, volunteers with the aid of numerous sponsors removed more than 2,000 traps.
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Should I pay cash?
Yes! Paying cash is great because it forces you to stay within your budget, and you won't have the "debt hangover" in January that so many of us face when we overspend during the holidays. Some stores may also give you a discount if you pay in cash, since they won't get "hit" with the fee from the credit card company.
Many people use the holidays as a time to build up their credit card rewards. But be careful. You can float purchases on a credit card with rewards such as airline miles, but you should make sure to pay it off with the cash on hand before interest is assessed. This gives you both the rewards on the credit card, as well as interest on the cash in the bank for another month.


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Another round of staffing cuts with the Executive Producers leaving as well. Reports that the game is well under 1 million subscribers. Server numbers being reduced from 120+ (NA) down to 14 total.
1 million - 750k is still a healthy population , and there is money in free to play.
Will Star Wars: TOR
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|1 (4.3%)
|Reach a Rift level of sustainability :
|13 (56.5%)
|Join the likes of forgotten MMO's like Warhammer & Age of Conan :
|7 (30.4%)
|Be only mentioned in whispers along with Vanguard as a cautionary tale for MMO developers :
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Your new clock will suddenly transform into an elegant display of motion and soothing melodies.
Fascinate your guests with a push of a button! Imagine watching your friend's amazement when they see your new Magic Motion Clock. The Caprice's simple and elegant design will catch the attention of the traditional eye. Encased in a beautiful wood-like frame, the clock plays one of 30 melodies on the hour. The center piece of this model is the artistic looking Swarovski crystals pendulum. This is definitely a great addition to any home. Clock is battery operated with a Quartz movement.
- Wooden Finish
- Made with Swarovski Elements, a premium brand of fine crystal elements
- Your new Rhythm Clock is warranted to be free of defects for one year
- Dimension: 14.6" Height x 12.2" Width Musical On/Off Switch lets you silence your clock on demand, while it still keeps perfect time
- Auto night shut-off is regulated by a light sensor. Which means your sleep will never be bothered by the music because your clock is smart enough to know when you are sleeping!
- Demonstration button lets you thrill your guests on demand
- Volume control lets you hear your clock only from very close or from across the house
- Weight 4.1 lbs
- Plays your choice of 12 Nostalgic Melodies or 12 Classical Melodies or 6 Christmas Melodies.
- 12 Nostalgic Melodies include 1 Traumerei 2) Aura Lee 3) Air 4) Beautiful Dreamer 5) Thais' Meditation6) Lorelei 7) Ballets des Champs-Elysees 8) Home, Sweet Home 9) Jesus, Joy Of Man's Desiring 10) Greensleeves11) Morning Mood - Peer Gynt 12) My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
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- 6 Christmas Tunes 1) The First Noel 2) Jingle Bells 3) Silent Night 4) Deck The Halls 5) Joy To The World6) We Wish You A Merry Christmas
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Same situation. Different approaches.
Different results.
On Saturday the Aztecs trailed Air Force by three points with 19 seconds left, went for a tying 3-pointer, missed twice and lost. On Wednesday they trailed Boise State by three with 19 seconds left, went for a two-pointer, fouled and won 63-62 on a last-second 3 by Chase Tapley.
"If the truth was to be told," Coach Steve Fisher said, "that was our initial thought against Air Force, too, to push it and get a quick two."
But after Falcons forward Kamryn Williams made both free throws for a 70-67 lead, the Aztecs were slow getting the ball upcourt and, sensing insufficient urgency from his players, Fisher called timeout with 14 seconds to go. And with Air Force now having a chance to set its defense after the timeout, the strategy switched to a tying 3.
A play was diagrammed for James Rahon, but Franklin ultimately launched a 3 off the dribble. JJ O'Brien got the rebound and kicked it out to Rahon, whose 3 also missed at the buzzer.
The difference against Boise State?
Fisher called timeout immediately after the Aztecs got the ball back, down three, with 19 seconds to go.
"So everybody knew," he said. "It was a better job of communicating our thoughts in this game. And Jamaal did a great job of just lowering his head and going as hard as he could to get to that rim."
His layup made it 61-60 with 13.5 seconds left. The instructions during the timeout were to face guard everyone but forward Kenny Bruckner on the ensuing inbounds, hoping the Broncos passed to the career 59.3-percent free thrower who had not attempted one all game, and immediately foul him.
"We couldn't do that," Fisher said. "They threw it right to the guy they wanted to get the ball to."
That was guard Derrick Marks, who entered the night having made 25 of his last 27 free throws and leading the Mountain West at 87 percent. He made the first, missed the second.
Franklin got the rebound and raced down court, almost identically to his scoring play a few seconds earlier. The Broncos were ready for him, though.
"We did a great job cutting off Franklin going to the basket," Boise State coach Leon Rice said. "It was a loose ball, and I think he knocked it out. It just seemed like the clock ran forever. It went to Tapley, and he's a big-shot maker."
Thames update
The plan for Xavier Thames and his bad back after a lengthy meeting with doctors and trainers: Sit out the Boise State game with the intention to play Saturday against Fresno State, giving him a full two weeks since he last suited up.
"That's what he's hoping," Fisher said. "I would say I'm cautiously – underline cautiously – optimistic. He still hasn't done anything live. But he had a long talk with the doctor. His dad talked to the doctor. The plan is to see if we can push the envelope a little bit and have him go through hard warm-ups Saturday and, if he feels OK, play him just a little bit. It might be for short bursts, but the plan is to play him on Saturday."
Fisher said doctors have cleared Thames to play, assessing that he faces minimal risk of incurring further damage to his back.
And if that doesn't work?
"I'm getting all the calls," Fisher said, "about witchcraft and magic, try this and try that, do this or do that, that I've got this person or that person."
Franklin update
It is becoming increasingly apparent that junior guard LaBradford Franklin is done for the season. He left the team in mid-December to work through what Fisher described as a "family situation" and has been in street clothes during home games since.
"The only comment I want to make," Fisher said, "is LB is not practicing with the team and I would say there's a good probability he won't be back practicing with the team this season."
Asked whose decision it is, Fisher said: "It's a mutual decision. It is every bit as much mine as it is his."


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The state Senate gutted a Louisiana House-passed bill Monday that sought to give local school districts the ability to choose their own textbooks rather than have to follow a state-approved list in order to use state dollars to pay for them.
Senators turned the House Bill 116 into a study commission to review the issue. With that rewriting, the Senate then passed the measure in a 37-1 vote, sending it back to the House for consideration of the change.
State Rep. Frank Hoffmann, R-West Monroe, wanted to establish that the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education can't require local school districts to purchase specific textbooks or instructional materials, saying locals should have the ability to make their own decisions.
Critics questioned whether the change would allow substandard teaching and let creationism be introduced in public school science classes.
Under the rewritten bill, an 18-member Task Force on Textbooks and Instructional Materials would be created in the state education department to review the process for selecting textbooks and make recommendations for revisions to the law. The task force would make recommendations to the House and Senate education committees by Feb. 1.