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For the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, March 8, 2011, Equality Now has launched the 100 Steps to Equality campaign. We know that globally one in three women has faced some form of violence or abuse; 3 million girls in Africa are at risk of FGM every year, and that an estimated 500,000 women die of pregnancy-related causes annually. But what does the status of women look like on the ground every day in different parts of the world? The following is a compilation of facts and concrete ACTION STEPs, however small, that we can each take to reach towards equality and a better world for women and girls. Whether it is putting pressure on government officials, contacting your local news agency, making a donation or simply learning more about an issue and sharing it with friends, let us make a pledge to take a step towards equality. Happy International Women's Day!
NOTE: This campaign was launched for the 100th anniversary of international women's day on March 8, 2011 and therefore some of the issues highighted here may have changed.
|FACT: The Afghan government proposed a bill that would transfer the operation of women's shelters from independent women's organizations to the Ministry of Women's Affairs. Such an action would be detrimental to the safety of women victims of violence.
ACTION STEP: Aside from an oral statement made by President Karzai there has been no official withdrawal of the Bill yet. Take action.
|FACT: In 2011 anti-choice representatives in Congress have introduced legislation that would eliminate funding for Title X, the nation's family planning program.
ACTION STEP: Call on legislators to vote NO on any attempt to cut family planning funding.
|FACT: There are no women in Egypt's Constitutional Committee, a body formed with the mandate of drafting the new constitution following the ousting of Hosni Mubarak. Read more.
ACTION STEP: It is critical that Egyptian women be part of the drafting of their new constitution and that women's equality and non-discrimination are included in the new constitution as among its core principles.
|FACT: Over 250 rapes, in various camps, were reported a mere 100 days after the earthquake first struck Haiti. Many women and girls were raped multiple times, often by several men at once. The international as well as local responses to safeguarding women and girls from sexual abuse continue to be inadequate.
ACTION STEP: The UN, its agencies and the international donor community have a responsibility to include the protection of women and girls and the prevention of sexual violence in their plans. Write to OCHA and express your concern about the threat of increased violence against Haitian women and girls.
FACT: Research has indicated that funding for women's rights organizations is dwindling and has revealed a need for urgent strategies to reverse this trend.
ACTION STEP: Please show off your commitment to women's rights and support our work by purchasing an Equality Now t-shirt, mug or hat.
FACT: There are about 264,000 child domestic servants in Pakistan, most of whom are girls trapped in employers' homes with little or no pay, deprived of education, health care or a childhood.
ACTION STEP: Call on Pakistan to ban domestic work for children.
FACT: As of January 1, 2011 only 30 countries had women heads of state.
ACTION STEP: Is your government facilitating access to women's political participation? Find out how it can appoint more top-level women in government.
FACT: Bride kidnapping or abduction and forced marriage occurs in several places including Ethiopia, Chechnya, and Kyrgyzstan.
ACTION STEP: Urge these and other governments to take all appropriate steps to enforce bans on bride kidnapping/abduction and forced marriage.
FACT: In Uganda's Bukwo and Kapchorwa districts, elders prepared to genitally mutilate over 200 girls during December 2010, despite the ban on FGM.
ACTION STEP: Call on Uganda to enforce its anti-FGM law.
FACT: Fewer than 25% of op-eds in newspapers are written by women.
ACTION STEP: Write and/or encourage your women friends to write an op-ed in your local newspaper.


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PHILADELPHIA - For the 18th time, Penn will host the Keystone Classic on Sunday at The Palestra, joining 14 teams for one of the country's toughest early-season tournaments. The Quakers have won eight Keystone Classic titles over the previous 17 tournaments, most recently claiming top spot in 2010. Last year, Northwestern was dominant to claim the team championship, with 140.0 points to win by 43 team points. The Wildcats will be back to defend their title in 2012, Penn looking to overtake the 'Cats and improve on its sixth-place finish last season.
The Red and Blue will be loaded in their hunt for a ninth championships, fielding a squad of 23 wrestlers on Sunday. While the designated point scorers aren't known heading into the weekend, Penn will have all of its top weapons in the lineup for the first time this season.
Two-time Keystone Classic champion No. 9 Micah Burak looks like the top seed at 197 pounds. The returning NCAA All-American was the title-winner in 2009 and 20101 at the tournament, missing last season's with injury. Also returning to the Keystone mats is No. 13 Mark Rappo at 125 pounds. Rappo has twice placed at the Keystone Classic, earning third in 2010 and sixth in 2008.
Heavyweight Kyle Cowan is expected to make his return to action for the Quakers after missing all of 2011-12 with injury. The 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year was dominant in his first Keystone Classic in November of 2010, winning all four of his matches to claim the crown.
Last weekend, Casey Kent made his Penn debut with an impressive run to the finals at the Binghamton Open. Kent went 4-1 in his first collegiate meet, losing a one-point match in the 165-pound championship bout.
This weekend, a Penn debut over a year in the making is slated to take place. Charlie Lynch was a National Prep champion in 2011, capping an undefeated 60-0 season. Ranked No. 10 at 145 pounds and No. 67 overall by InterMat coming out of high school, Lynch missed all of his freshman season with injury and will make his first appearance for the Quakers this weekend at 149 pounds.
Two veterans to keep an eye on after strong starts to 2012-13 are Troy Hernandez and Ian Korb. Both had moments to build on last weekend at Binghamton and could go a long way to adding team points to Penn's score this weekend. Hernandez went 3-2, winning his first two matches by technical fall. Korb was caught in a tough spot a minute into his first match and pinned, but recomposed himself to the tune of six consecutive wins to take third last weekend.
Penn's Probable Lineup for 2012 Keystone Classic
125 #13 Mark Rappo, Sr. (0-0)
133 Geoffrey Bostany, Jr. (2-2)
133 Jeff Canfora, So. (0-0)
133 Eric Friedman, Fr. (1-2)
141 C.J. Cobb, So. (3-2)
141 Eric DeVos, Fr. (1-2)
141 A.J. Murabito, Fr. (2-2)
149 Andrew Lenzi, Jr. (3-2)
149 Charlie Lynch, So. (0-0)
149 Brooks Martino, Fr. (3-2)
149 Jordan Michelson, Jr. (0-0)
157 Ray Bethea, Fr. (1-2)
157 Troy Hernandez, Sr. (3-2)
157 Steve Robertson, So. (0-2)
165 Casey Kent, Fr. (4-1)
165 Brad Wukie, Jr. (0-2)
174 Harrison Cook, Jr. (0-2)
174 Ian Korb, So. (6-1)
184 Canaan Bethea, Jr. (2-2)
184 Mike Steltenkamp, Sr. (0-2)
197 #9 Micah Burak, Sr. (3-1)
285 Kyle Cowan, Jr. (0-0)
285 Anthony DiLonardo, So. (1-2)
285 Steven Graziano, Jr. (3-2)
Tentative Keystone Schedule
9:00 a.m. - Championship First Round
10:00 a.m. - Championship Second Round
12:00 p.m. - Championship Quarterfinals and Consolation First Round
2:00 p.m. Consolation Second Round
3:00 p.m. - Championship Semifinals and Consolation Third Round
4:30 p.m. - Consolation Fourth Round
5:15 p.m. - Consolation Semifinals
6:00 p.m. Championship Finals, Third and Fifth-Place Matches
Keystone Classic Team Champions
1995: Penn
1996: Penn
1997: Penn
1998: Arizona State
1999: Rider
2000: Penn
2001: Iowa State
2002: Penn
2003: Hofstra
2004: Rider
2005: Penn
2006: Columbia
2007: UT-Chattanooga
2008: Penn
2009: Liberty
2010: Penn
2011: Northwestern
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It's not very often I openly accuse the federal government of breaking the law... but I've had a tough week, so what the heck.
Actually, it's a tough claim to make stick, since the government writes the law. So let me modify that statement to say the law and regulations that govern employment insurance are immoral and unfair and should be illegal, as they pertain to family businesses.
In a nutshell, the EI regime makes all family members involved in a business pay EI premiums, unless they are a 40 per cent or larger voting shareholder in the business.
However, when those people lose their jobs, they are routinely turned down for EI benefits.
Fair? I don't think so. The law says "pay," while the regulations give the EI Commission employees the ability to arbitrarily deny benefits.
Is a refund of premiums offered in those circumstances? No.
A recent example in the news was a fellow working for his parents' restaurant. He was paid regular wages and, likely, tips. He was not an owner.
The restaurant was sold, I believe, or additional competition moved in. At any rate, he was laid off.
His application for EI was denied.
The "logic" here appears to be a family member must have control over his or her position and whether or not to remain employed. I can tell you from my personal experience and from the experience of many others, this is often not the case.
In a related inequity, many owners don't realize they can opt out of paying premiums if they own 40 per cent or more of the voting shares of a firm.
As well, if CRA deems you to be "self-employed," you do not need to pay premiums, as you will also not be eligible for benefits.
So many people pay these premiums unnecessarily, there are businesses set up specifically to help them recover the money paid in the past. Most accounting firms will also help their clients apply to stop premiums and to get back the previous three years' premiums, the maximum allowed.
Current maximum employee EI premiums are $891, with the employer's share being $1,248 per employee per year.
To request a ruling about eligibility, file a form called CPT1, Request for Ruling of a Worker under the Canada Pension Plan or Employment Insurance Act, to the CPP/EI Rulings Division. You can send these to your local CRA office.
In time, you will get a ruling, based on a list of factors, such as employee control over the work situation, salary compared to non-family members, duties, etc. Basically, they want to avoid situations where people can pay into the program, then decide to get laid off once qualifying, and being able to go through that cycle by choice.
The rulings division may grant an exemption, from both premiums and eligibility for benefits. At least then it's clear.
David Christianson, BA, CFP, R.F.P., TEP, is a financial planner in Winnipeg, and author of the book Managing the Bull, A No-Nonsense Guide to Personal Finance.


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PHILADELPHIA - The Ivy League has announced its weekly award winners in women's soccer, and for the second time in three weeks Penn freshman midfielder Erin Mikolai has been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week.
Mikolai was honored for her two-goal performance in Sunday's 4-0, non-conference win over NJIT. The win was the second in a row for the Quakers, who also defeated Cornell 2-1 in an Ivy match on Friday night. Penn is 6-4-0 overall, 2-0-0 in Ivy play. Mikolai leads a deep Penn attack -- eight different players have scored this season -- with three goals.
Penn is home again on Friday night, hosting Columbia at 7 p.m., before hitting the road to face Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sunday in its final non-conference regular-seasongame of 2012.


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Anyone Use Amaco Potters Choice Saturation Metallic Or Gold?
Posted 28 February 2011 - 04:33 PM
Posted 28 February 2011 - 05:38 PM
i just picked up a pint of each and im not sure what to do with it. ive only worked with velvet underglazes.
im assuming these are overglazes? so would i apply to bisque and fire to the cone of my clay? (^6)
can i apply to greenware and once fire to ^6?
I have used saturation gold and have gotten various results. Usually a dark color fired to cone 6. Then one day I had about a half bottle left and used that... It came out beautiful ... A dark colored gold. I did in the past stir it well. But I think this needs more bottom stirring than usual. I will use it again but will store it upside down.
Posted 28 February 2011 - 07:35 PM
i just picked up a pint of each and im not sure what to do with it. ive only worked with velvet underglazes.
im assuming these are overglazes? so would i apply to bisque and fire to the cone of my clay? (^6)
can i apply to greenware and once fire to ^6?
I have used saturation gold and have gotten various results. Usually a dark color fired to cone 6. Then one day I had about a half bottle left and used that... It came out beautiful ... A dark colored gold. I did in the past stir it well. But I think this needs more bottom stirring than usual. I will use it again but will store it upside down.
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Posted 28 February 2011 - 07:48 PM
I have purchased most of the potter's choice line and so far have had very limited success! I've tried doing 2 coats of one color with one coat of another over, 3 coats under and 1 coat over and I'm still not getting the results they show on their site. I did try the 2 coats with 1 coat over and that didn't do it either. I'm sooooo frustrated because their results look so spectacular~I did have one very textured pot that I used the rutile blue with something over (can't remember now!) and it broke and does look nice but that's only one of about 40 pots I've fired in the past month! I have also tried refiring but that didn't seem to make much difference either. One thing I'm thinking that might have made a difference is that we've been bisque firing at 05 instead of 04. And I noticed last time I checked Georgies site (where I get most all my glazes) that they fire over a very light clay whereas I use a medium brown body. I wonder how much difference that might make? It would be great if someone that gets great results would clue us all in )
Also meant to add, I tried the saturation metallic the other day, put 4 brushed coats on and it turned out REALLY UGLY!
Posted 01 March 2011 - 12:52 PM
My name is Steve Lampron and I am the ceramic engineer here at AMACO. I want to give some simple tips about firing the Palladium and Saturation Gold glazes.
Palladium: This is what I call a float glaze. This means that in order to get the shiny silver look you need to actually allow the supersaturated metallic particles to float to the surface and form the skin. There is no trick to this other than to make sure you put a good thick layer of glaze on the piece. This is true of many glazes (commercial and made at home) which need a good thickness of glaze in order to make the surface. If you do not put enough glaze on, you will not have enough excess material to float and the glaze will look totally wrong. In the case of Palladium, it will be a fairly ugly green color. We fired this glaze on all of our clay bodies at both cone 5 and cone 6 with great results. I have a caution; this glaze can be very fluid and run so make efforts to allow for this. When you first try glazes you need to run test tiles (pieces) that are fired vrtically where you vary the thickness from what you think is too thin to what you think is too thick. This will show you where to go to get the look you want, it will also show you what it looks like when it is wrong. You will then know what went wrong when you get a pot that looks wrong. This glaze will be fine at cone 5 or 6 and requires no soak (it will make it run more). A medium / 8 hour firing is good. Cool normally. I see that a few people have gotten some blisters on pots that are fully glazed. This has happened on some clay bodies I found out after releasing it. It never seems to happen on poecelain bodies and these will also give the best surface. Please try your pots again on porcelain.
Saturation Gold: This is also a float glaze so thickness is important as well. The glaze doesn't turn out a bright shiny gold like gold lusters or the old leaded cone 05 golds. It turns out a dark kind of wrinkled bronze gold. It is not an easy glaze to get to look smooth and perfect. The suggestion that applying it over another glossy mid-range glaze is something that I find also helps the surface. The plain fact of the matter is that this type of glaze is difficult to use and requires alot of trial work. The kiln Gods probably didn't want this type of glaze to be made. It can be beautiful when perfected but it is not as simple to perfect as a pretty little matte white glaze.
I can't stress enough how important it is for all potters (especially new ones) to test glazes well before making pots. I know the desire to just make a pot but this method will only lead to disappointment and bad pots. Let me know if this helps or if I can address any other concerns you have.
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 03:41 PM
If I may make a suggestion to your company, why not include any special instructions along with the product. If it weren't for this forum I probably wouldn't give the Paladium a second chance.
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Posted 03 March 2011 - 09:00 AM
I like the glaze now that I have figured out how to use it, and now that I understand I shouldn't expect it to be as shown on the site...but still. If you changed the picture on the site to a more realistic depiction, others won't be disappointed.
As for Palladium. Still trying. Again, I think the website misleads. I've attached a pic of the results I got on my test "shell" in saturation "gold".
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Really can't stress enough how important it is to apply these babies with generous coats. Also, experiment with the clay bodies. Our "regular classroom clay" is Standard's #153 Buff Stoneware, and we fire to cone 5 at a slow glaze speed.... the glazes need time to mature and melt properly. If you are having pinhole problems, you can try a "soak" at the end of your firing. My distributor and (wonderful clay/glaze/kiln goddess friend) recommended a 10 minute soak at the end of the firing. Worked wonders! I don't recommend this with "runny" glazes, but it seemed to create some nice effects with the metallic glazes. We also use various other clay bodies by Standard.... you will notice quite a difference on the lighter/white bodies compared to the darker bodies. My students really enjoy experimenting with test tiles to see what layering glazes look like. Amaco has a great site that shows various combos of their PC line.... We've achieved many of the same results.
HOpe this helps.... I know I'm late in adding my 2 cents. Hopefully you have all had happy results since your last posts!
Posted 13 April 2013 - 07:20 PM
I tried the Paladium this weekend. Turned out a black-green with just a wee bit of metalic sheen. Ugly. I tried it on a small pinchpot and fired to ^6. My guess is it's overfired.
My friend whom I do pottery with uses the gold at cone 6, 04 bisque and it comes out true gold.
Posted 11 May 2013 - 06:24 AM
You need to apply it thicker.
I tried the Paladium this weekend. Turned out a black-green with just a wee bit of metalic sheen. Ugly. I tried it on a small pinchpot and fired to ^6. My guess is it's overfired.
My friend whom I do pottery with uses the gold at cone 6, 04 bisque and it comes out true gold.
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Posted 16 May 2014 - 07:22 PM
Hi Steve,
I used Saturation Gold on a couple pieces made with Laguna's Cone 5 B-Mix With Sand and although still beautiful, it came out all blistered.
I used the "slow glaze" program on my L&L Easy Fire kiln with a 3 hr "preheat", as it calls it, for a total of 12 something hours to fire at cone 5.
Both pieces shown in the pictures are made with the same clay body.
I now see from your post that I shouldn't have done that 3-hr soak
After reading everywhere how it needs it to be applied as a thick bunch of coats, I brushed a crapload of coats on them...
Is there anything you can suggest to get a smoother result without the blisters?
Thank you!
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I've tried the gold and had the same disappointing results as most of these posts (a metallic black). On one piece where the glaze was thick because it ran down the side of the pot, I did get a gold/bronze drip which was quite nice. Figure I'll try again with a thick application. I fired to >6 with a >06 bisque.
Posted 19 May 2014 - 05:17 PM
I have found saturation metallic looks very good over ancient jasper (3 heavy coats of ancient jasper at the least, then thick coats of metallic.
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Minibus grant for Halesowen Scouts
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SCOUTS in Halesowen are a step nearer to replacing their worn out minibus after securing a £5,000 Dudley Council grant.
District commissioner Ian Dale successfully pleaded for the funding from the Belle Vale/Hayley Green and Cradley South Community Forum.
The grant means the 1st Halesowen Scouts are just £3,000 off the £28,000 needed to replace their clapped out J-reg vehicle.
Councillor Donella Russell questioned whether parents could not transport the children, but Mr Dale warned Scouts would miss out on activities if a minibus was not provided.
He said: "We offer an immense range of activities, which are not always in Halesowen, and the further you go the more prohibitive it becomes for parents. For example we take children to Wales and London – parents could not take them there."
The group is the largest in the area, with 190 members aged six to 25-years-old and needs to run two minibuses.
Mr Dale said the vehicles were also used by other organisations and Earls and Windsor high schools on an ad hoc basis.
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Collector's Adventure: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Grilled Artichokes
6 artichokes
6 garlic cloves
½ cup lemon juice
1 cup olive oil
6 cloves of minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 tbsp lemon juice
6 oz goat cheese
Chopped mint
Orange zest
¼ cup olive oil
Remove outer layer of artichoke leaves and peel the stem. Cut the artichokes in half. Boil them in water with the garlic and lemon juice for 20 minutes. Remove from the water and transfer to the bowl. Mix the marinade and pour over the warm artichokes. Marinate at room temperature for 4 hours. Heat grill to medium high heat. Grill the artichokes for 3 minutes per side. Plate the artichokes with the goat cheese and sprinkle each plate with mint, orange zest, and olive oil.
The recipe above was for one of the eight courses our group savored during our last dinner in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Though our Director could argue that those artichokes were the highlight of our feast, I think we could both agree that the company and conversation made the evening truly memorable. Earlier this month, members of the Collectors' Salon and Photo Forum took the Southwest's cultural hub by storm and experienced the best photography, hospitality, fare, and weather the city had to offer.
So as we passed around what seemed like endless plates of tapas, we also passed around our cameras and phones, sharing with each other our favorite moments from the weekend. For some, it was hearing Jonathan Blaustein talk about his thought process behind his The Value of a Dollar series. For others, it was to seeing how he was able to simply, yet elegantly, capture powerful messages of economy in these beautifully minimal photographs. For me, it was the delicious BBQ that was served up at the home of photographers, Jo Whaley and Greg Mac Gregor. (As you can probably tell, I think some of the best memories are created around food. And that I really like to eat.) Jo and Greg threw a party for us and invited many people from the vibrant Santa Fe arts community. It was like the Southwest version of a French salon – spending the night engaging in conversations with photographers, educators, curators, and the like.
It was a whirlwind weekend and after meeting with 8 photographers, visiting 2 museums, and 3 galleries it still feels like we only scratched the surface. Though we could have easily filled another week with studio visits, what we did experience left us inspired and excited by what's in store for the medium of photography.
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Surat Al-Ma'un
"Have you seen him who denies the religion?" "He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan"
That is, the dajjal, the system of the dajjal, insha'Allah.That is, the one who oppresses the orphan, slanders him, tries to put him into a difficult situation or try to make him suffer. If we interpret the word "orphan" according to the End Times, it refers to Hazrat Mahdi (as). You know Prophet Jesus (as) is also an orphan because Prophet Jesus (as) had no father; he was created fatherless by Allah. Hazrat Mahdi (as), on the other hand, was also an orphan since his father had passed away while he was young. "He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan." That is, the one who gives harm to Hazrat Mahdi (as) and Prophet Jesus (as) and gives struggle against them is the dajjal."and does not urge the feeding of the poor." For instance the whole Islamic world is poor right now; they are in destitution. We say, "Let the Turkish-Islamic Union be established. Let the Turkish-Islamic Union be so that Muslims would no longer suffer." But the guys do not accept. Notice what the verse states,"and does not urge the feeding of the poor." No matter who he is, if he does not advocate the Turkish-Islamic Union, then he would not encourage feeding the poor. Sending an SMS message from your phones would not be of any help.Feeding them in the true sense of the word becomes possibleonly by the Turkish-Islamic Union.
This saves them in the true sense of the word."So woe to those who pray" This means that there will be Muslims who will be against the Turkish-Islamic Union and put Hazrat Mahdi (as) in a difficult position. With respect to its interpretation about the End Times, there will be those who will try to oppress Hazrat Mahdi (as) and Prophet Jesus (as). They will be among those who pray. "and are forgetful of their prayer." That means, they perform their prayers in the wrong way. That is, they entertain superstitions, erroneous information; not in the way our Prophet (saas) and his Companions prayed. They perform it according to their own mindset. "Those who show off" says Allah. They show off by having a turban and cloak but when it comes to wanting "The Turkish-Islamic Union" they do not want it. They do not want Hazrat Mahdi (as) either. They count their beads until morning and claim that they have deep fear of Allah, but Allah says, "they deny help to others." It is very easy to help and support the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Turkish-Islamic Union but they avoid it. Allah draws our attention to this issue with respect to the End Times in this way Insha'Allah. The last surahs especially refer to the End Times.


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EUGENE, Oregon—In this day and age, oral traditions are viewed more as cultural curiosities than practical solutions. But are they really? Sister MorningStar has dedicated a lifetime to the preservation of instinctual birth among native people. From them, she recognized something deeply profound. When women embarked on their journey into womanhood and motherhood, stories from their grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors came forth through songs, stories and what appeared as mythological tales. Upon hearing these stories, women became empowered to do what all women from which they came were able to do: give birth instinctually. Sister MorningStar witnessed not only the power of story but the power of women who share their stories—her/stories. Within the pages of Sister MorningStar's newest book, The Power of Women: Instinctual Birth Stories, she reveals to the reader compelling, enlightening and touching tales from her experiences with real women who opened themselves to trust their inner knowing of life giving.
Raised in the Ozark Mountains within the influence of Cherokee traditions, Sister MorningStar birthed her own daughters at home and has helped thousands of other women find empowerment through instinctual birth. She has served on state, national and international boards helping to oversee the development of midwifery certification programs. She serves on the CASA International Advisory Board helping to oversee the continued stability of Mexico's first accredited Midwifery School and Maternity Hospital. She is the founder of a spiritual retreat center and author of books related to instinctual and spiritual living. She lives as a Cherokee Hermitess and Catholic Mystic in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
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The National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program announces 18 new awards to develop transformative interdisciplinary research and training programs for Ph.D. students at institutions across the country. Among the new principal investigators is Thomas Cech, a University of Colorado, Boulder, professor and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry. In addition to the 123 institutions that have hosted an IGERT to date, the program welcomes five new institutions: Tulane University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Connecticut, West Virginia University and the University of Vermont.
In keeping with the IGERT program's community-driven, cutting-edge research at the interfaces of disciplines, this year's awards tackle critical national priority research areas that require interdisciplinary approaches. From Big Data to biofabrication, advanced manufacturing to nanotechnology, energy to sustainability, 18 IGERT PIs, hundreds of faculty, and more than 400 Ph.D. students will collaborate across disciplines to solve the world's toughest research problems.
Complementary projects at Penn State and Columbia University will investigate the technical, social, legal and ethical considerations associated with the world's growing collection of data. Professor of Computer Science Julia Hirschberg at Columbia is bringing together an impressive group of researchers to better extract knowledge and information from text, audio and video data. At Penn State, Professor of Political Science Burt Monroe and colleagues are aiming to understand the social contexts and behaviors behind collected data, and advance social science research, by developing the next generation of researchers with technical and theoretical expertise.
At Purdue University, PI Carol Handwerker and her team of engineers, physical scientists and social scientists, are aiming to solve the greatest challenges in creating sustainable electronics. With the United Nations estimating that e-waste will grow globally by 40 million tons each year, the IGERT team hopes to partner with industry to produce talented and capable leaders to holistically approach a sustainable life-cycle process in the manufacturing, shipping, consumption and disposal of computers, mobile devices and appliances.
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After legally adopting their Louisiana-born child in the state of New York, Oren Adar and his partner Mickey Smith were told by the Louisiana state registrar that she would not issue a new birth certificate for their child, because Louisiana does not recognize adoption by unmarried parents. Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of Adar and Smith in October 2007, saying that the registrar violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution by refusing to recognize the New York adoption decree, and that denying a birth certificate only to children of unmarried parents violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The Louisiana attorney general had earlier advised the registrar that she did not have to honor an adoption from another state that Louisiana would not have granted under Louisiana law if the couple had lived and adopted there. In December 2008, a U.S. district judge ruled against the registrar, finding that the attorney general was wrong and that the registrar's conduct did not comply with her full faith and credit obligation. The court ordered her to issue a new birth certificate identifying both Oren Adar and Mickey Smith as the child's parents.
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Materials management and recycling are an integral part of environmental management at the MBTA. The MBTA has numerous programs in place that assures the proper disposal of land ban items and hazardous waste. The MBTA not only deals with its waste responsibly, but in addition works with local communities to help reduce their waste through community recycling events.
The MBTA has a single stream recycling program to bring a more sustainable solution to its waste stream. The program includes all faces of our waste stream from paper recycling up to and including complex recycling of our vehicles. The comprehensive program saves the MBTA upwards of $150,000 per year.
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The single stream waste management program was first piloted in 2010 at all MBTA maintenance facilities. The program recycled 425,093 lbs in 2011 and 371,974 lbs in 2012. This program has achieved over $125,000 in cost avoidance in comparison to the previous waste management programs. In addition another recycling program at MBTA stations for newspaper was started in 2011. 1,053,940 lbs of paper was recycled in 2011 and 637,480 lbs in 2012.
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Season 6: Episode 101: The Clip Show, Part IIINTRODUCTION: This special 100th episode of SEINFELD looks back at the moments which have defined the show, including George's sexual liaison with a cleaning woman, Elaine's pesky "red dot," and Kramer's effort to save a severed toe. And Jerry also looks at his own foibles, such as making out during "Schindler's List" and his collaboration with George on a sitcom pilot...about nothing.
RELATIONSHIPS: Always fertile ground, relationships are the next stop in this SEINFELD retrospective. In addition to Elaine's date with baseball star Keith Hernandez, there is George's too close encounter with his secretary, as well as Jerry's inability to remember a girlfriend's unusual name.
AMBITION: Jerry's friends are prominently featured in this next segment, particularly George's aspiration to be a famous architect and the frequent use of his association with the fictitious Vandelay Industries. But Elaine and Kramer aren't immune as she's caught trying to impress a famous author, while he's shown in one of his many efforts to start a new business.
OFF THE SUBJECT: In a "show about nothing," what could be more appropriate than frequent digressions from matters at hand, including analyses of decaf cappucino and Superman's sense of humor, as well as Jerry's argument over whether soup makes a meal.
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Restaurant Revisited: Soup to Nuts Dinerby Maria Russo in Shows, March 17th, 2013
Soup to Nuts Diner in Tavares, Fla., was in such poor condition when Robert Irvine arrived that he promptly deemed the restaurant "dangerously dirty" and refused to let anyone eat the food coming out of the kitchen. Littered with bugs and coated in dust, this 1950s-style eatery featured a cluttered dining room with tattered seating, but unfortunately for owner Sharon Whitmore, even more serious problems were in the kitchen. There, Robert found tools and equipment caked with grease, raw meat being kept at unsafe temperatures and a complete lack of management among the cooks.
For the last four years, Soup to Nuts has struggled with decreasing business, and Sharon admits that prior to Robert's visit she was losing nearly $1,000 per month, which resulted in the foreclosure of her home. With a $10,000 budget and only two days to work, Robert and his Restaurant: Impossible team reworked all aspects of her restaurant, deep cleaning every surface in the front and back of the house, demonstrating the how-tos of making a fresh menu and restructuring Sharon's schedule so that she'd be able to abandon her 100-hour workweeks. At the end of what Robert called "one of the most-ambitious projects we've ever tackled," Soup to Nuts reopened to hundreds of customers with in-control management at the helm. We checked in with Sharon a few months after the renovation to find out how her business is doing.
She tells us that in the weeks immediately following filming, Soup to Nuts was "overwhelmed with" a 40 percent increase in business, and now the restaurant is "up consistently about 20 percent over last year."
While they've made a few tweaks to the decor like additional paint, new blinds and adding "a door from the front counter area and a wall so the kitchen is no longer seen by the dining room," Sharon, the staff and much of the customer base have been wowed by the other changes at the eatery.
Employees are now washing the restaurant each night, Sharon tells us. "I have had to get on the cooks for poor closes a few times, but Alan is closing five nights a week to reinforce a proper, clean closing."
In terms of management, Sharon has interviewed several applicants, but she's yet to hire a full-time lead cook. Jeanie is still working at Soup to Nuts, as Sharon believes that she "grew from the experience," explaining that "she is not as hotheaded." Sharon adds that "several of the people who gave [her] the most grief are not [t]here anymore."
Soup to Nuts is still serving its original offerings but with additional dishes from Robert's menu, including fried green tomatoes, disco fries, salmon burgers and roasted chicken.
For the most part, Sharon is sticking to the schedule she developed with Robert. "With Alan staying and riding his bike home, the restaurant has guidance and supervision," she explains. "I am very thankful for the privilege to have been picked for this experience," she adds, looking back on the renovation. "I am happy personally and with my restaurant's makeover and volume." She is no longer living with her parents and is looking forward to what the rest of the year brings to her business.
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I. A Time of Death and Desolation
If that title sounds dire it is because it was indeed a grim time for life on Earth. Occurring about 252 and one-third million years ago, the mass extinction came at a time when life on Earth had become fairly advanced. Terrestrial life consisted of a rich mix of large amphibians (think huge cousins of today's salamanders) and scaly reptilian dinosaur predecessors. The seas teemed with life.
Then some sort of cataclysm swept the globe. Ninety-six out of every one-hundred marine species (96%) went exinct, while seventy out of every one-hundred terrestrial vertebrate species (70%) also bit the metaphorical dust. The exinction to this day remains the most severe mass extinction in Earth's history and what is believed to be the only mass extinction to feature a major extinction of insects -- traditionally among the Earth's most hardy species.
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The Great Dying marked the edge of the Permian. Its end ushered in a new era -- the Triassic -- which would become the first of three major historical eras when the land-masses were ruled by large reptiles (dinosaurs).
To look for clues as to what caused The Great Dying, Professor Rothman dug back into sediments from the end of the Permian era. Examing deposits in China, he found something intriguing.
Carbon levels in the sediment indeed appeared to rise quickly. But the interesting part is that they rose so quickly that he feels that the sedimentary analysis rules out change by slower-acting forms of carbon release, such as volcanoes.
He also observed that oceanic nickel levels spiked 251 million years ago, as volcanoes in Siberia dumped tons of molten nickel into the sea.
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Nickel is a ubiquitous catalyst in certain kinds of biochemical reactions. Microorganisms, such as the ocean-based methane-producing bacterium methanosarcina, often use the metal to speed up reactions that produce carbon waste byproducts.
Thus Professor Rothman suggests that methanosarcina likely exploited the rising nickel levels to transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane.
In fact, Professor Rothman believes that methanosarcina fortuitously acquired the its triple metal-catalyzed methane-producing metabolic pathways about 251 million years ago, just as the nickel levels spiked.
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The loss of atmospheric carbon dioxide would likely have twin adverse impacts -- first as plants require carbon dioxide to produce sugars, there likely would be mass loss of foliage globally; second as methane is a more potent warming gas than carbon dioxide, temperatures likely would have spiked globally.
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Plans for new South Texas university take a bold step forward
The Texas House of Representatives today unanimously approved House Bill 1000, which authorizes the creation of a new University of Texas institution in South Texas.
The initiative would include the University of Texas at Brownsville and the University of Texas Pan-American and would create a new medical school to serve South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley.
"We are so thankful for the strong support we received today from the House of Representatives and earlier this month from the Texas Senate," said Gene Powell, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents. "It is gratifying to know that lawmakers and leaders across the political spectrum have come together to give students of South Texas access to a first-class education."
Powell also expressed appreciation to the entire Rio Grande Valley community, including mayors, elected officials and residents who have all worked to make a South Texas university a reality.
"This has been a team effort from the start, and we are thrilled to be one step closer to bringing this dream to fruition," Powell said.
The House approved the bill 149-0, and last week, the Senate passed a companion bill, Senate Bill 24 with a vote of 30-1.
"We are very grateful to the members of the Legislature, and especially to the Rio Grande Valley delegation for supporting our vision for South Texas," Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said. "We are not there yet, but we're on our way to forever transforming the educational and health care landscape of the Rio Grande Valley."
At this point, the House and Senate bill sponsors will have to decide whether to push forward HB 1000 or SB 24 because they are not identical bills. A committee hearing will follow, and then either the House or the Senate will need to approve the bill, depending on which bill is moved forward.
It likely will be mid to late April before the bill goes to Gov. Perry for approval.
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NVIDIA Announces Spring 2014 GeForce Game Bundlesby Ryan Smith on 3/14/2014 8:00 AM EST
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ImSpartacus - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkThese seems kinda meh.
It's almost like Nvidia feels pressured to provide SOME kind of game with their GPUs. Reply
Jon Tseng - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkYup.
Yeah. There's basically an inverse correlation between competitiveness of GPU vendor and generosity of bundle.
The logic is when you are behind and your product as strong as the opposition (AMD a couple of years ago) you bundle to compensate.
However when your product lineup is strong and you are killing it, no need to throw in freebies!
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Mathos - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkNot really, unless you're completely blind, Nvidia isn't killing it. Had they not released the 780ti, they'd be handily in second place. Don't forget, the 290x was able to solidly beat the 780 and Titan in most cases. The reality is, were it not for the wonky price inflation due to crypto coin miners in the US, pricing on AMD's cards puts them as faster at generally any given price point. They just need to work on getting power usage down.
Far as bundles go, even when they were getting solidly beaten, Nvidia always has been stingy with bundling games. And if they did, it's going to have the Nvidia the way it's meant to be played logo right at the start, which is becoming much less common these days. Those F2P vouchers likely don't cost Nvidia much of anything. Since as far as the game devs are concerned it's an easy way to draw new possible customers in. The only one out of that bundle that's decent though is Path of Exile, and thats only if you're into diabloesque style games. Was unimpressed when I beta tested Warface. It'd be one thing if they were pushing good f2p's like War Frame or War Thunder, Mechwarrior Online, etc. Reply
nevertell - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkHaving the fastest flagship does not mean that the company is doing good by any means. Reply
hpglow - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkI can go buy a nvidia card for retail or less. AMD on the other hand is making money from crypto miners. So right now its hard to tell if AMD is competitive from a gaming standpoint when I we can't buy one for a price comparable to most nvidia cards. Once the 280 and 290 come down from the stratusphere they will go on my radar. Reply
Hameedo - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - link@Mathos, Are you high? Assassin's Creed 4, Batman Origins, Call Of Duty Ghosts, Splinter Cell Black List, Metro Last Light, Titanfall, Watch_Dogs, Bureau XCOM, Remember Me, Hawken, Warframe, NeverWinter, ElderScrolls Online .. All of these are TWIMTBP games, NVIDIA practically flooded the market last year with it's games!
And NVIDIA is killing it as always, their market share is 65%, just like last year. Reply
patrickjp93 - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - linkYou're high. Nvidia just took the cryptocoin mining crown from AMD and both AMD and Intel know it. With the Maxwell independent CPUs onboard the cards and with the superior performance per watt, NVIDIA is going to steal the only market AMD had solidly wrapped up. AMD is floundering and done unless they scrap GCN for something 50% more efficient. Reply
inorbital - Saturday, March 15, 2014 - linkAgreed Nvidia is killin itttttt. Look at Nvidia stock vs. AMD... lol pwnd. Reply
Ammaross - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - linkYou don't look at stock prices, you look at Market Cap. Either way, AMD is still outmatched sadly. Reply
patrickjp93 - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - linkAMD will remain outmatched. Their performance per watt is a shoddy 18% less than NVIDIA, and with the maxwell and volta architectures coming out, AMD is going to lose for a decade. None of their upcoming architectures have the performance per watt nvidia does nor the ability to cool their cards as well. Nvidia cards can be overclocked to almost 200% if you know what you're doing. AMD even with a refrigerated oil bath is going to burn out. Reply
willis936 - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkThat's a very underwhelming bundle for cards that came out a year ago.
Also $150 sounds like a lot but to me (and I'm sure everyone else who has no interest in playing those games) it isn't that appealing. $150 in big titles like LoL or tf2 would be a different story. Though it's not usual for laptops to have bundles at all so as long as it doesn't affect laptop pricing it's fine.
I'm really bummed about that 600 series bundle though. It feels like they're actively trying to keep me from upgrading my desktop gpu. Reply
flemeister - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkMoar hats for everyone! =P Reply
DanNeely - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkI can't speak for the other F2P games; but I've been playing Path of Exile (a D2esque ARPG) since mid 2012. It's not P2W; but spending $30 on a dozen extra stash tabs will make inventory management much easier. A free account comes with 4(?) tabs and 24 character slots; and it's certainly possible to use most of the slots to create mules to hold stuff but having to switch characters all the time to shuffle items around would get annoying fast. Reply
hughlle - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkYou spent $30 to make your inventory easier to manage? Here was me running around with this silly notion of in-game purchases being a joke. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkYou can spend whatever you want or not. $30 is the middle of the range for a not on heavy sale game on steam; the bigger inventory just means you can spend more of your time killing monsters instead of playing inventory management and can hold onto stuff that would be useful for use on future characters or for trade without having to offer firesale prices to get rid of it asap to keep your inventory clear. Reply
minijedimaster - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkWell, it's main competition would be Diablo 3 which was $60 new and you can't expand your inventory at all there. Or Torchlight 2 which is $20 and again, no upgrading the inventory I do believe. If the only purchase you need is around $30 to make the game perfect then I'd say you're doing ok. Reply
bj_murphy - Sunday, March 16, 2014 - linkClearly you don't and haven't played Path of Exile. Buying extra stash tabs is like buying a case for your computer. You don't technically need one to build and use the computer, but you are just making too many sacrifices without it. Same with extra stash tabs in PoE, I have also spent about $20 on them and it's really worthwhile considering I've played the game for 9 months now at a total cost of $20. Reply
EricZBA - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkHot garbage Reply
EdgeOfDetroit - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkAlready got a 750Ti, so no bundle for me. I guess its good that I'm completely uninterested in all of those games. Reply
dstarr3 - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkOver the holidays, I bought a GTX770, and it came with Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, and the new Batman game. I have no interest in any of those titles, and would've much rather just taken an even slightly deeper discount. This seems like just another round of that. Reply
rish95 - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkWould you mind giving away the codes if you haven't used them? Reply
willis936 - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkHe could flip them on ebay for a significant amount of cash back. Keep in mind that pricing on the 600/700 series hasn't really changed since the holidays so we're paying the same for less value instead of getting a new GPU lineup. Reply
jasonelmore - Saturday, March 15, 2014 - linkyeah that was the most epic bundle i've seen from nvidia. I guess they lost a lot of money with that 3 AAA bundle or they wouldnt have nerfed the program.
oh well Reply
anonymous_user - Saturday, March 15, 2014 - linkI would actually be interested in the credit for Warface. Unlocking any items (weapons/attachments/gear) is very time consuming. Reply
jasonelmore - Saturday, March 15, 2014 - linka $15 free game, and Free to play bundles on the rest is a major regression in the quality of this program. Reply
PrayForDeath - Saturday, March 15, 2014 - linkThese bundles are quite sad. Reply
IdBuRnS - Monday, March 17, 2014 - linkThis current bundle makes me wish I had bought my 780 last year. nVidia goes from offering a new, AAA title like Assassin's Creed IV to this Daylight crap- a $10 game on Steam. Lame as hell. Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - linklame Reply


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Tampa, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's cross country team finished seventh out of eleven teams competing in the UT Early Bird Classic Friday morning at Brandon Trails in Tampa, Fla. The men finished with a team total of 216 points.
Javier Beuzeville (So., Tampa, Fla.) was the top 8K finisher for the Lions on the course Friday, clocking in with the eight best overall individual time at 22:05.00, just one minute over the overall individual winner (21:03.00). Mike Berry (Fr., North Palm Beach, Fla.) also ran a respectable time, finishing at 24:39.00 finishing in the 52nd spot out of 101 places. Matt Attal (So., Tampa, Fla.) also ran an impressive individual time clocking in at 25:05.00
In his first collegiate race, Carson Holton (Fr., Tampa, Fla.) ran 25:44.00 and Travis VanBuren (So., Dade City, Fla.) finished just behind Holton with a time of 26:09.00.
Nova Southeastern took home the Classic title, finishing with 56 points, one point ahead of Florida Southern.
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SATURDAY proved to be a damp squib all round for the Terras as they saw their winning streak come to an abrupt end at a sodden and windswept Hardenhuish Park.
Chasing a fourth league win in a row and facing a side without a victory in the last seven, Wey-mouth went into the fixture with high hopes of another three points.
But with near gale-force winds battering the Wiltshire venue and the visitors unable to find their form of recent weeks, Jason Matt-hews and his men ended up with nothing to show for their efforts.
Player-manager Matthews made only one change to the side that started the 3-2 win at Arlesey in the team's previous outing with Adam Kelly making his debut in place of Luke Winsper who dropped to the bench.
New loan signing Niall Thomp-son was also among the substitutes having arrived from Torquay United in the week, and he would go on to make an almost instant impact when coming on in the second half.
Cheered on by a healthy contingent of travelling supp-orters, the Terras played up the Hardenhuish slope in the first half and against a strengthening wind.
The conditions were such that the hosts enjoyed most of the territory and possession in the first period and they took the lead on 24 minutes.
An earlier Corey King cross had failed to find the target, but this time Alan Griffin's centre found the head of Rob Dean and he did the rest with a finish that Matthews could do nothing
Former Weymouth man Lee Phillips then squandered a great chance to make it 2-0 to the home side minutes later.
Through one-on-one against Matthews, Phillips guided his shot wide of a post to let the visitors off the hook.
Chippenham duo Aaron Oakley and James Guthrie were booked within a few minutes of each other just after the half-hour mark, and that was when the weather really started to turn.
Driving rain made it almost impossible for both sets of players and, at one point, a Matthews' goal kick was blown back into the keeper's hands the wind was that strong.
The rain had abated as the second half got under way but the wind continued to blow.
After a first half slim on goalmouth action, the Terras began the second with more intent and Luke Burbidge found Ben Joyce at the far post only for the latter to be ruled offside.
However, disaster struck on 48 minutes when a miskick by Matthews served the ball on a plate for King and seconds later it was 2-0.
A foul on Kelly gave Scott Walker the opportunity to test Ben John in the Chippenham goal and the midfielder's free-kick flashed just wide from 25 yards.
Burbidge then fired over from a corner before Walker made way for Thompson.
And less than five minutes later, it was Thompson who helped the Terras halve the deficit.
A superb run across the home side's area ended with Thompson unleashing a shot that took a deflection, hit a post, and left Stewart Yetton with the easy task of tapping the ball into an empty net from a yard out.
Thompson's introduction had Chippenham on the back foot but had Guthrie made the most of another one-on-one situation, the game would have been out of sight for the Terras.
A poor challenge by captain Sam Poole brought Weymouth's only caution of the day with 15 to go, moments before Kelly forced John into a great save.
As the Terras pushed for an equaliser they brought Carl McClements on for Ashley Wells, and the replacement striker may have levelled late on had he not missed getting on the end of a free-kick by a matter of inches.
Chippenham: John, Wright, Monks, Smith, Oakley, Tindle, King, Dean, Griffin, Phillips (Purnell 73), Guthrie. Subs not used: Kauppinen, Leigh, Beeden.
Terras: Matthews, Wells (McClements 84), Green, Kelly, M Walker, Poole, Burbidge, Rigg, Yetton, Joyce, S Walker (Thompson 59). Subs not used: Winsper, McConnell
Bookings: Chippenham – Oakley (foul 32), Guthrie (foul 35)
Terras – Poole (foul 75)
Referee: Adam Penwell (Weston-super-Mare)
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North Florida Regional Medical Center is on schedule to complete in mid-June the fourth and final phase of a five-year construction project that has revamped and expanded most of the hospital's services.
"The doors are in, the floors are down," Matt Davis, the hospital's chief operating officer, said on a tour Wednesday of the latest wing being built. "At this point, everything goes very quickly."
When the construction project started in 2008, the hospital had 325 beds. In June, it will have 445 beds.
"We've basically added a small hospital," Davis said.
He added that the expansion will add 250 jobs at NFRMC and that the construction alone — contracted out by Gainesville-based Charles Perry Partners Inc. — used "100 percent local labor."
"That is very important to us," Davis said. "It's been a huge capital investment at a time when capital investments didn't exist. We're putting money back into the economy."
The project has cost about $145 million, with the fourth phase alone costing $62 million. The fourth phase includes a new 92-bed patient tower with four floors that expands cardiovascular services and adds a neonatal intensive care and post-partum maternity patient unit, along with a neuroscience unit.
Dr. Tim Wessel, a cardiologist at NFRMC, said the revamped cardio area — which also includes new catheterization labs and non-invasive diagnostic services — "lets us continue to improve on our excellent quality care for patients and lets people know they are in the right place for heart problems."
Wessel added that the additional beds — with private rooms — will be a real boon to patient comfort.
"I think the main thing (the expansion) is bringing is increased comfort and satisfaction for patients," he said. "What makes patients most uncomfortable is having a roommate, let alone a sick one."
Davis pointed out that the private rooms have earth-tone decor to reflect "natural healing." The walls throughout the new wing will be decorated with nature photos by area photographer Susannah Peddie.
Other phases of the expansion have included the construction of a cancer center, cardiovascular intensive care unit, 562-space parking garage, along with the expansion of the emergency department and chest pain unit and the women's center operating rooms.
Davis said all these services will allow the hospital to better serve patients.
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Thinking back to the project's infancy, Davis said, "When I started looking at (the hospital's) campus, we didn't have enough infrastructure for what was going on. When you're at capacity every day, it's hard to do what you need to do. We knew we needed to grow to meet the community's needs."
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Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Бец
) (April 14, 1834 - 1894) - Russian anatomist and histologist, professor of the Kiev University, famous for the discovery of giant pyramidal neurons of primary motor cortex.
Vladimir Betz began his education in the Nezhin Gymnasium. Later he transferred to the 2nd Kiev Gymnasium and graduated from it in 1853. In 1860 he received a physician's diploma from the Medicine faculty of Saint Vladimir University in Kiev and was appointed a prosector's aide at the anatomy department. He left abroad to study in May 1861 and had returned in September 1862, having studied with and attended the lectures of professors Brücke, Bunsen, Kölliker, Helmholtz, Kirchhoff. From 1864 to 1867 he lectures anatomy and histology at the university, rising in 1868 to the rank of Extraordinary Professor and in 1870 becoming Ordinary Professor of the anatomy department.
Brain tissue preparations made by Betz were awarded medals twice - at the All-Russian manufacturing exhibition in 1870 and at Vienna World Exposition of 1873. In 1874, Vladimir Alekseyevich described the giant pyramidal neurons in the primary motor cortex, which later were named Betz cells.[1]
Betz' most prominent works include:
- "On the hepatic blood circulation" (1863)
- "A new method of human CNS exploration" (1870)
- "On the grouping of the convolutions of human brain" (1871)
- "Two centers in the human brain cortex" (1875)
- "An anatomy of the human brain surface, with an atlas and 86 tables" (1883)
- "Historical figures of the Russian South-West" (1883, coauthored by prof. B.A.Antonovich)
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- ↑ Betz W. (1874) Anatomischer Nachweis zweier Gehirncentra. Centralblatt für die medizinischen Wissenschaften. 12:578-580, 595-599.
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