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The Badgers Hill boss has already snapped up Jon Vance and Jack Vallis from his former club Gillingham Town since taking over 18 days ago and revealed that he has already identified the areas he plans to strengthen.
"I think that there are a few areas that we don't quite look up to it," said Foster.
"I've already addressed it and decided who I'd like to bring in, so it's just about getting those people in now.
"Grovesey (Ian Groves) and Ben Wood work their socks off up front, but maybe we need to add another body up there.
"I also think that we might need to strengthen in the middle of the park too.
"I think that we're only two or three players short of being a really good side, but I've got to go out and get it done straight away, rather than waiting."
Frome manager Foster reckons that tomorrow's clash with bottom-of-the-table Bashley presents the perfect opportunity for his side to end their 11-match winless run.
He added: "We need a win – period.
"They're a side that are struggling and we have to try and get three points if the game is on."
Last weekend, Frome were well-beaten at play-off chasing St Albans City in one of the few clashes to survive the wet weather in the Calor League Premier Division.
Jamal Lowe put the hosts ahead in the first half before David Keenley-side, James Comley and John Frendo all found the net after the break.
Foster, whose side have yet to win a home match this season, added: "I could see it in the lads' eyes that they knew they had conceded any good goals. We created some chances ourselves but the difference was that theirs went in.
"The lads are beginning to play the way I want them to and if we keep working hard in training, I'm confident things will improve."
Winger Will Agbo has left to join Foster's former club Gillingham Town, with defender Johnny Lynn also joining the Toolstation League outfit on loan.
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Willits police arrested three juveniles Sunday for car theft and burglary after what appeared to be a short-lived crime spree.
A resident on the 500 block of Railroad Avenue called police at 9:38 p.m. Sunday to report her green Subaru Forester had been stolen.
Willits police began looking for the car promptly, and at 10:39 p.m. an officer spotted the car being driven southbound on South Main Street near Hollands Lane.
Police arrested the three juveniles in the car; two boys aged 15 and 17 and a 13-year-old girl. While searching the car, police recovered a cache of computer equipment that did not belong to the car's owner.
Police subsequently traced the recovered computer equipment to a burglary at Sherwood School. The school break-in had apparently happened over the weekend and school officials only discovered the theft after being alerted to it by officers.
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About 9:27 p.m. Thursday, deputies discovered the unidentified man in medical distress in a cell at the Rancho Cucamonga jail, the Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
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Nine Sandy Creek FBLA members attended the 2014 Georgia State FBLA State Leadership Conference after qualifying at the regional level. Six members won top honors and qualified to attend the 2014 FBLA National Leadership Conference. Front row, from left: Madison McNair, Saridh Galvan, Rosie Jamison, Tamara Lopez, Ellie Klarl, and Carlisle Vidourek. Back row, from left: Malcolm Woods, Sanjay Rampersaud and Jamarcus Mathis. Photo/Special.
Two teams from Sandy Creek High School's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter advanced to national competition after winning their respective events at the Georgia FBLA State Leadership Conference held Mar. 14–15 in Atlanta. Ellie Klarl, Rosie Jamison, and Jamarcus Mathis won first place in Hospitality Management. Saridh Galvan, Tamara Lopez, and Carlisle Vidourek took top honors in Digital Design and Promotion. In addition, Jasmine Clark placed fifth in Intro to Business and ninth in Business Math.
The two winning teams, led by SCHS Career/Tech teacher Melanie Duncan, will compete June 28–July 2 at the 2014 FBLA National Leadership Conference in Nashville, which will host over 8,000 students from around the world. The National Leadership Conference is the culmination of the year's activities for FBLA members.
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Are some health guidelines faith-based with a dash of science?
Here are two questions I would have gotten wrong before the release of a new Institute of Medicine report on sodium intake and health:
1. True or False: The American Heart Association's recommendation of 1,500 mg/day is still quite salty compared to diets our ancestors ate.
2. True or False: The average intake of 3,400 mg/day is skyrocketing over the consumption of a few decades ago.
Both are false, according to Brian Strom, a Penn professor of Public Health and Preventative Medicine and chair of the Institute of Medicine report.
The 1500 mg the heart association recommends, he said, is actually the minimal amount of salt it's possible to consume and still eat enough food to maintain yourself. That's because sodium is infused in food even if nobody adds any salt at all. We need some salt. So why do the heart association and other groups, such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, recommend such a drastically low intake?
Strom says it's based on an inference. Lowering salt up to a point lowers blood pressure and lower blood pressure, up to a point, reduces heart attack and stroke risk. So the doctors who recommend that 1500 mg limit are extrapolating those connections to assume that the less salt you eat the better. But there's no actual data showing any direct benefit from going that low.
As for the second question, Strom learned that people ate the same 3400 mg of salt 50 years ago as they do now. Another interesting fact is that the major source of salt in the American diet is bread – not because bread is salty but because we eat so much of it, and all our food has some salt.
Salt is one place where scientific consensus is falling apart.
The Institute of Medicine panel examined the data we do have on salt and health. They narrowed that down to 25 relevant scientific papers. They found no evidence that lowering salt below about 2300 mg a day would benefit anyone's health and some suggestions it might cause harm. The harm is hard to asses, he said, because it could be being sick causes people to stop eating which would cause them to get much less sodium.
There are a number of limitations in our data on salt and health. Food diaries are notoriously inaccurate. You can measure people's sodium by collecting all their urine, but there's only so long people will subject themselves to this process and it's long term rather than short-term consumption that matters.
In talking to Strom, I left realizing that there's much we don't know. There's evidence that very salty diets might contribute to high blood pressure and therefore to heart disease, but it's not clear how much is too much. And who should be worried.
And in this case, the perfect may well be the enemy of the good. I asked Strom what he aims for in his own diet. He said his wife is a vegan and prepares the food in his household and that they eat about as low-salt a diet as may be possible – which adds up to about 2300 mg. If people who eat home cooked vegan dishes can't get it lower than 2300 mg, who can?
The Heart Association advocates haven't backed down. In a letter to the New York Times this week, Chief Executive Nancy Brown insisted that indeed the evidence supports their continued recommendation that we all try for 1500 mg a day – which equates to as little salt as humanly possible.
Americans seem to take an almost religious attitude toward certain health-related practices and prohibitions. No matter what studies say, some people insist that all women over 40 must get a mammogram every year. Others assumed for ages that all fats are evil. There's a pervasive belief we can all live forever if we eat right.
The take away lesson for me is that we need to ask the medical establishment harder questions about how they arrive at the recommendations they do. Whether we're talking about cancer screening or dieting or an hour of cardio exercise, calcium supplements, or vitamin pills, there should be some evidence that it will have the promised benefits and do no harm.
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One Life to Live has recently undergone two ill-conceived character renovations, revamping the characters of Eli and Ford almost overnight.Viewers were just starting to know and like Eli, as the show worked to establish him as a love interest for Blair. He was strong, handsome, smart, sexy, and kind. It was refreshing to see Blair paired with someone besides Todd, and with someone who wasn't in love with someone else, like John. Blair deserves a man who's completely into her and Eli appeared to fit the bill and adore her. Their once physical-with-no-strings-attached relationship was slowly blossoming into more and we were rooting for Blair to finally get her man.
Our high hopes for Blair were eviscerated when Eli was revealed as a psycho stalker-murderer, responsible for killing Blair's aunt, Melinda, and her friend Rodney. He was also the culprit who pushed Marty down the stairs causing her to miscarry, and the one who beat Ford to a bloody pulp.
I'm still scratching my head as to why the show sacrificed a viable leading man to tie all of their loose ends together into one convoluted plot. It's not any fun for fans to watch Blair fall even more in love with her new Mr. Wonderful, even agreeing to marry him, while we know he's only going to break her heart again. Isn't Blair due for some happiness?
The show has gone the complete opposite direction in their remodeling of Ford. We've spent months watching Ford sleep his way through Llanview with a complete disregard for anyone but himself. Ford manipulated Langston for his own purposes and when things got too complicated, he dumped her, and moved right on to Jessica.
On prom night, Ford slept with Karen the pizza girl, seduced Langston and was about to sleep with her until her boyfriend walked in, and then wound up in bed with Jessica. When he was discovered beaten and near-dead the next day, no one would have been too upset if his next on-screen appearance was at his own funeral.
Ford survived his brutal beating and now, inexplicably, is a changed man. We're supposed to believe that he was a misogynist pig because his father beat him and his little brother, and his mother abandoned them. Now poor, misunderstood Ford has apologized to Jessica, and is acting nice to Hannah (another girl he slept with and dumped). He's also working overtime trying to convince Langston he really did love her, after telling her on prom night it was just a line to get what he wanted. Talk about revisionist history.
One Life to Live isn't the only show undergoing such drastic character 180's. General Hospital is guilty of committing this offense with the character of Claire Walsh. When Jax brought Claire to town, she was a tough-as-nails federal prosecutor, whose sole mission in life was to prosecute mob boss Sonny Corithos. Claire went after Sonny with a balls-to-the-wall vengeance, even putting his young son Morgan on the witness stand in an effort to discover the truth about Claudia's murder.
After Claire's case fell apart when Sonny was exonerated by his other son confessing, Claire vowed to exact vengeance and lock Sonny away for a different crime. All of a sudden, Sonny began flirting with her and she turned to Jell-O. A few weeks of Sonny flashing his dimples and batting his big brown eyes at her, and the woman lost her mind. She can't think straight and even asked Sonny to father a child with her. This makes no sense, especially given what she knows firsthand about his relationships with his children and the damage it has caused them.
While Dahlia Salem (Claire) and Maurice Benard (Sonny) have good chemistry, it's not enough of a rationale to justify destroying Claire's credibility as a strong willed prosecutor by relegating her into another one of the many notches on Sonny's belt.
Characters should have a legitimate reason to undergo such an extreme metamorphosis, and it should happen over time. Neither OLTL or GH has made a convincing case for these characters' rapid transformations, so viewers are left to wonder what might have been if they had stayed the course.
OLTL has a knack for casting good kid and teenage actors. The show successfully cast Kristen Alderson (Starr) and her brother Eddie (Matthew) when each turned seven, and struck gold again with Carmen LoPorto as Starr's brother Jack. Now newcomers Kelley Missal as Starr's half-sister Danielle, and Nicolas Robuck as James, a potential love interest for Starr, are the latest young finds taking Llanview by storm.
LoPorto is hilarious as Jack. Jack idolizes his unscrupulous father, Todd, and the writers give LoPorto plenty of great lines to this effect. LoPorto is able to portray Jack's natural exuberance - as well as his tendency to scheme against anyone he doesn't like - as charming not bratty, a rare feat for a child actor. If OLTL is smart, they'll sign this kid to a contract now, instead of leaving him dangling in the land of the recurring.
Missal has been a revelation in her role as Dani. She is by turns petulant, proud, strong, scared, sarcastic, smart, and warm, exactly as one would expect an offspring of Todd and Tea to behave. It's hard to believe Missal is making her soap debut.
Robuck, too, has star (r) potential written all over him. He's handsome and charismatic without crossing the line into cheesiness. His chemistry with Alderson's Starr is something to behold. As much as Starr and her baby daddy Cole, have a built in rooting value, their relationship has been dull to watch for sometime. In the four years they were paired together, Alderson never had the chemistry with Brandon Buddy (Cole) that she has with Robuck after two months.
Robuck brings out the feisty side of Alderson, an attribute Starr inherited as the daughter of Todd and Blair, and one which used to be a key aspect of her personality. Alderson lights up any time Starr is flirting with James and nothing is more endearing than watching him call her "Twinkle."
Robuck also has chemistry with Brittany Underwood, who plays Starr's best friend Langston. This trio is a compelling triangle in the making and will be great fun to watch develop.
When teen actors invade soaps for the summer, it's usually time to fast forward the TiVo. However, OLTL has hit the jackpot with their new talents, and made the once insufferable warm weather months enjoyable. Let's hope when fall comes, these kids don't get sent off to boarding school.
Lesleyann Coker is a reporter and monthly opinion columnist for Soapdom.com and a blogger for The Huffington Post. She is also the co-author of Boob Tube, a novel that goes behind the scenes of the soap opera industry. The book is available in ebook form at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3 . She was previously a reporter for Soap Opera Weekly Magazine.
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Looks like the Aints are back.. Gesh I never thought it could get worse for them until now and if I were Brees I would try my hardest to get out of town.
ESPN Outside The Lines reports that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device set up in the Superdome that gave him the ability to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for three seasons.
According to the report, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisiana was informed of the allegations against the Saints general manager late last week. It is believed that Loomis had the ability to listen to private conversations of the opposing team's coaching staff for most of the 2002 season, and all of the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
According to ESPN, such actions could not only violate NFL rules, but also federal communications laws.
Loomis was recently suspended by the NFL for eight games for his part in a bounty system established by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. Under the system, defensive players were financially rewarded for injuring opponents. As a result of the scandal, Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended for an entire season, and Williams was suspended indefinitely.http://tracking.si.com/2012/04/23/re...2_a2&eref=sihp
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana was told Friday that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite that had been secretly re-wired to enable him to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for nearly three NFL seasons, "Outside the Lines" has learned.
Sources familiar with Saints game-day operations told "Outside the Lines" that Loomis, who faces an eight-game suspension from the NFL for his role in the recent bounty scandal, had the ability to secretly listen for most of the 2002 season, his first as general manager of the Saints, and all of the 2003 and 2004 seasons. The sources spoke with "Outside the Lines" under the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisals from members of the Saints organization.
Jim Letten, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, acknowledged being told of the allegations Friday. Sources said he has briefed the FBI in New Orleans about Loomis' alleged activity. If proven, the allegations could be both a violation of NFL rules and potentially a federal crime, according to legal sources. The federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 prohibits any person from intercepting communications from another person using an electronic or mechanical device.
"I can say that we were just made aware of that on Friday, at least of these allegations," Letten said. "Anything beyond that I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to comment."
Greg Bensel, Saints vice president of communications, said Monday afternoon on behalf of the Saints and Loomis: "This is 1,000 percent false. This is 1,000 percent inaccurate."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league was unaware of the allegations.
Sources told "Outside the Lines" the listening device was first installed in the general manager's suite in 2000, when Loomis' predecessor, Randy Mueller, served as Saints GM. At that time, according to sources, Mueller only had the ability to use the device to monitor the game-day communications of the Saints coaching staff, not the opposing coaches. Mueller, now a senior executive with the San Diego Chargers (he also was an ESPN.com NFL analyst from 2002-05), declined to comment when contacted by "Outside the Lines."
After the transition from Mueller to Loomis, the electronic device was re-wired to listen only to opposing coaches and could no longer be used to listen to any game-day communications between members of the Saints coaching staff, one source said.
"There was a switch, and the switch accessed offense and defense," said the source. "When Randy was there, it was the Saints offense or defense, and when Mickey was there it changed over so it was the visiting offense or defense," the source said.
"Outside the Lines" could not determine for certain whether Loomis ever made use of the electronic setup.
The sources said when Loomis took his seat during home games, then in the front row of box No. 4 in the 300 level of the Superdome's north side, he was able to plug an earpiece into a jack that was under the desk in front of him. The earpiece was not unlike those used to listen to inexpensive transistor radios, the sources said. With the earpiece in place, Loomis could then toggle back and forth with a switch that he controlled, enabling him to listen to either the game-day communications of the opposing offensive or defensive coaches.
Also underneath the desk in front of Loomis, said the sources, was a metal box that contained two belt packs similar to those worn around the waists of NFL head coaches during games. The packs powered the listening device available to Loomis, which was, according to sources, hard-wired to the audio feed of the opposing coaches.
The Saints are facing new allegations that they used electronic surveillance devices to listen to opposing coaches. If true, is this worse than the bounty scandal?
The wiring setup was disabled sometime in September 2005 in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. The timing of the device's removal could prove significant for legal reasons. If Loomis used an electronic device to secretly listen to the opposing coaches without their consent, it would appear to be a violation of the federal ECPA statute, said Mike Emmick, a Los Angeles-based attorney.
Emmick worked for 25 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, serving for eight years as chief of the public corruption and government fraud section.
"The ECPA bars any person from intentionally intercepting wire, oral or electronic communications by using an electronic or mechanical device," Emmick said. "The ECPA doesn't make it illegal just to eavesdrop. You have to have used a device ... Intentional interception by using the device is the key."
But the statute of limitations, the window federal prosecutors have to pursue any criminal charges against Loomis or the Saints, would only extend for five years after the date of such an offense, Emmick said.
If Loomis no longer had the ability to eavesdrop on opposing coaches after the 2004 season, he would be free from any potential criminal prosecution for a violation of the ECPA, Emmick said.
Loomis' alleged activity also would be a violation of Louisiana state law, according to Danny Onorato, a former assistant U.S. attorney now in private practice in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in white-collar crime. The statute of limitations for the law governing electronic eavesdropping in Louisiana is six years, Onorato said.
"A prosecutor or law enforcement should conduct a thorough investigation to make sure these are the facts. Did these individuals re-connect this device in some way?" Onorato said.
"At a minimum, somebody somewhere has a duty to investigate it to ensure the integrity of the game of football," he said.
Emmick said that it's possible Loomis and others could still be prosecuted for taking part in a conspiracy to cover up the federal ECPA violation. The statute of limitations for prosecution of a conspiracy is also five years, Emmick said, but that period would begin with the last "overt act" of the parties involved in a conspiracy.
In this case, any attempt to cover up the ECPA violation that extended into 2007 could constitute such an overt act and fall within the window of the statute of limitations, Emmick said.
Emmick and Onorato both said that any prosecution on the basis of a conspiracy to cover up an ECPA violation is unlikely. But there is another potentially far more costly aspect to Loomis' alleged behavior, according to Emmick and other legal sources contacted by ESPN.
"There's the potential for a lot of lawsuits filed by whoever was victimized by the electronic eavesdropping," Emmick said.
Under the civil laws that govern electronic eavesdropping, the victims of the eavesdropping would have two years from the time they had a "reasonable opportunity to discover the violation" in order to file lawsuits, Emmick said.
In other words, if an opposing team or individuals who were eavesdropped upon wanted to sue Loomis or the Saints, the clock would start ticking on their time frame to file a lawsuit when they discovered the alleged ECPA violation, not when the violation actually occurred.
Under Article No. 9 of the Constitution and Bylaws of the NFL, which lists "Prohibited Conduct," the league specifically bans the use of "...videotape machines, telephone tapping or bugging devices, or any other form of electronic device that might aid a team during the playing of a game."
"That would be a stupendous advantage if you had that," said Rick Venturi, who was the team's defensive coordinator during the period the sources said Loomis could eavesdrop on opposing coaches.
"That's shocking," Venturi said, when told of the allegations. "I can tell you if we did it, nobody told me about it. ... Nobody ever helped me during a game."
Venturi served in various capacities during a decade-long period with the Saints coaching staff, including a brief stint as interim head coach, and now hosts a radio program on an ESPN Radio affiliate in St. Louis.
Attempts to reach former Saints head coach Jim Haslett were not successful. Haslett served as the Saints head coach from 2000-05 and is now defensive coordinator of the Washington Redskins. Sean Payton was named head coach of the Saints in 2006.
Rick Mueller, the brother of former Saints general manager Randy Mueller, was in the Saints front office from 2000-08 and was a regular in Loomis' booth during Saints home games.
"I sat right next to him most of the time," said Mueller, who now serves as a player personnel executive with the Philadelphia Eagles. Mueller said he vaguely recalled Loomis using an earpiece during games but he could not recall whether Loomis ever did so during the period in which sources allege Loomis had the ability to eavesdrop on opponents.
During Saints home games, Loomis typically sat in a seat next to the glass separating the Saints front office personnel from the Saints assistant coaches. When asked whether Loomis in any way signaled those Saints assistants on the other side of the glass during games, Mueller replied: "I didn't get any indication of that. ... There's no communication going on between Mickey and the coaches during a game I can tell you that. ... If it was just Mickey hearing it, I would see no way he could signal our coaches next door."
In 2002, the Saints compiled a 9-7 record. The team had an 8-8 record during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In those three seasons combined, the Saints were 12-12 in the Superdome.
The 2005 season remains the infamous one that the Saints never played a home game in the Superdome due to the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina. According to sources, that was also the first time Loomis would not have had the ability to listen in on the play calls of opposing teams. That year the Saints finished 3-13.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has an established a track record of issuing severe penalties when teams attempt to skirt those rules.
When it was discovered that the New England Patriots videotaped the New York Jets coaches' signals during a September 2007 game -- the so-called "Spygate" episode -- Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 by the NFL, the maximum amount permitted under league rules.
The Patriots were also fined $250,000 by the NFL, and the team was forced to give up its first-round pick in 2008.
"This episode represents a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid longstanding rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field," Goodell wrote at the time in a letter to the Patriots.http://tracking.si.com/2012/04/23/re...2_a2&eref=sihp


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So as usual Apple has released a bunch of new items and previewed some tasty things. I like the new Macbook Air in theory but until they get a bit more quick they are useless as live show machines. Facetime in OSX is a no brainer if you have an iPhone 4 and a spouse at home. iLife 11 seems to be just a minor feature bump. It's still killer software that makes all Macs even nicer especially considering the price. With regards to this blog any music instruction is good so if you get a copy please watch a few piano lessons in Garage Band ok? Lion is what has me happy. The new Mac App store is going to be great and bringing much of the iOS stuff into OSX is a win. Don't kid yourself and believe what Steve said today about touch screen Macs. He's lying through his teeth… they are coming 100%.
"We took our best thinking from Mac OS X and brought it to the iPhone. Then we took our best thinking from the iPhone and brought it to iPad. And now we're bringing it all back to the Mac with our eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system. Mac OS X Lion arrives in summer 2011." – apple.com
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Susan Hintz, daughter of Bob and Debbie Hintz, was crowned North Dakota's 67th State Dairy Princess today (June 10) in Bismarck. Hintz is 17 years old and comes from Flasher.
The runner-up was Moriah Karey 19, of Manning. She is the daughter of Tom and Marietta Karey.
Hintz was crowned during a luncheon with Midwest Dairy Association North Dakota Division board members. Midwest Dairy Association sponsors the princess program.
Hintz is a graduate of Flasher Public High School where she was active in speech, drama, choir and band. In the fall she plans to attend the University of Mary majoring in addiction counseling with a minor in psychology.
Karey was an active 4-H and FFA member, showing dairy and sheep. She attends Bismarck State College where she is majoring in elementary education.
Hintz and Karey received scholarships from the Friends of Dairymen and the North Dakota Milk Producers. Karey was also awarded the Midwest Dairy Association scholarship, chosen separately from among the candidates.
Hintz will spend her year serving as the official goodwill ambassador for the state's dairy farmers advocating and educating on their behalf during public appearances that include media interviews, classroom appearances, dairy events and fairs.
Midwest Dairy Association is a non-profit organization funded by dairy farmers to build demand for dairy products through integrated marketing, nutrition education and research. Midwest Dairy is funded by checkoff dollars from dairy farmers in a 10-state region, including Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. For more information, visit www.midwestdairy.com. Follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook at Midwest Dairy.


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Friday, September 22, 2017
Lung diseases
Getting a Cortisone Shot Cause Problems
I had 2 cortinsone shots many years ago could it cause problems down the road such as parenchymal pleural scaring and thicking of subplueral?
Thank you for visiting NetWellness. Many visitors have questions pertaining to lung scars. No, cortisone shots would not cause these effects.
Please visit What is Lung Scarring? for information about this condition.
Jeff E Weiland, MD
Associate Professor - Clinical
OSU Asthma Center
College of Medicine
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Simple, colorful stripes never go out of style, making them the perfect pick for your little one's nursery. With a mix of bold, bright decor and more subtle accessories, we're highlighting a variety of pieces to suit your taste. Even better? By sticking to stripes, you'll be able to use several of these picks throughout your home long after you've redecorated your child's room. Take a look at these classic striped pieces for a timeless, charming nursery.
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This is driving me insane. I am trying to use mod rewrite to get from the url:
I have tried out about 10 different mod rewrite version from varios forums but nothing is working. I just keep on getting an Internal Server Error message. Below is one example i have tried but for the life on me can see the problem. Is this code correct? If it is any other ideas what might be causing the issue?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ /folder/index.php?param=$1 [NC]
You don't need the RewriteBase.
You don't need (can't have) the leading / with an Apache 2.x server (it's required for an Apache 1.x server, though).
No Case is NOT appropriate for a RewriteRule (the {REQUEST_URI} variable IS case sensitive).
Make those mods then test with the flag(s) being [R=301,L] and remove the R=301, when you're satisfied it works.
Hi dklynn,
Thanks for the reply! I have tested what you recommended but im still getting the same error. I have tried the following all with the same result:
RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ /folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^folder/(.*)$ folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
I have other instructions in my .htaccess so maybe they are conflicting somehow?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.comRewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
php_flag session.use_trans_sid offphp_flag session.use_only_cookies on
(Not so) silly question first: Is mod_rewrite enabled? (Several ways to check and verify in my signature's tutorial.)
Your "other" mod_rewrite code is fine.
I've got to assume that you tried your new code (after the other mod_rewrite code) individually:
PLEASE wrap your code in [noparse]
[/noparse] tags as that preserves the code when quoting for a reply.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ /folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
# This will ONLY work on an Apache 1.x server (^/) and
# ^ will only work on an Apache 2.x server.
# If you're not sure what you're using, use ^/? as that works with both.
# the / in the redirection is first interpreted as "server root" but should be okay.
# (.*) is a terrible thing to use:
[standard rant #1][indent]The use of "lazy regex," specifically the :kaioken: EVERYTHING :kaioken: atom, (.*), and its close relatives, is the NUMBER ONE coding error of newbies BECAUSE it is "greedy." Unless you provide an "exit" from your redirection, you will ALWAYS end up in a loop![/indent][/standard rant #1]
# In other words, use the !-f test to prevent looping on folder/index.php!
RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
# same ^/ problems (#1 and #3) as above
RewriteRule ^folder/(.*)$ folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L]
# Same loopy problem (#3 above).
# redirect non www. to www. domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# I prefer to use existing variables rather than create new ones so I use
# RewriteRule .? http://www.mysite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# but your RewriteRule is the more common use (by noobies)
# Remove the file extension from URL's
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
# I will check whether $1.php exists as a file before making this redirection
# server automatically adds a PHP Session ID to URL's so this needs to be switched off
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
php_flag session.use_only_cookies on
Technique tip: Because Apache's core directives are executed before mod_rewrite, I will always list them first.
I dont understand what you mean when you say to use the !-f test to prevent looping on folder/index.php?
From your notes above i gather that the below should work then on apache 1 and 2 server, but i should change the (.*)?
`RewriteRule ^/folder/(.*)$ /folder/index.php?param=$1 [R=301,L][\\code]
I have tried about 6 different .htaccess code generators all with no luck. There is clearly something fundamental i am doing wrong here but i still cant figure out what?
If mod_rewrite enabled? Have you confirmed that (and that it works on a simple test)? EVERYTHING else would be a waste of time if it's not enabled for you.
I checked my phpinfo() file but mod_rewrite wasn't listed. I have been in contact with my hosting company and they assure me that even though it is not listed in my phpinfo() it is turned on on my server.
Did you run the test with the code I provided in the tutorial? That will give you a definitive answer.
I tested it and it is working ok. I see the "this is a PHP file" text.
I was wondering is it ok to have the .htaccess file save at my root folder or should it be in the /folder/ as that is what i am trying to effect? I have tried both but not with every test i have tried.
Well, that's as good a confirmation as you can get! :tup:
As a rule, I keep my .htaccess in the DocumentRoot so I can see all the interactions (conflicts) at a single glance. You CAN do either but that will complicate things unnecessarily for you.
So i finally got it working. I am using the following:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ /folder/index.php?param1=$1¶m2=$2
which converts:
The problem was that i had this code beforehand which must have been causing some kind of conflict:
# Remove the file extension from URL's
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
[ot]When posting .htaccess files, order matters! So if you have a block A and a block B in your .htaccess file it is wise to also post in which order they are in your .htaccess file. In this particular post that would have made the problem clear after post #3 (where the OP posts two blocks but it turns out the second one actually came before the first one he posted)
This is not to attack anyone, just to telling the OP and others a way we can better help them [/ot]
Another day another .htaccess problem
I now have a new problem with this code. If i try to navigate to www.mysite.com/folder2/ i.e. droping the index.php at the end i get a server error. It works if i use the full address i.e. www.mysite.com/folder2/index.php. It seems to be trying to use the new mod rewrite rule i just added even though a different folder has been specified. Any ideas why this is happening?
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# redirect non www. to www. domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# server automatically adds a PHP Session ID to URL's so this needs to be switched off
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
php_flag session.use_only_cookies on
# remove the variables when passed through domain URL
RewriteRule (.*)-(.*)/$ /folder1/index.php?param1=$1¶m2=$2
# Remove the file extension from URL's
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
[rant #1 REPEATED][indent]The use of "lazy regex," specifically the :kaioken: EVERYTHING :kaioken: atom, (.*), and its close relatives, is the NUMBER ONE coding error of newbies BECAUSE it is "greedy." Unless you provide an "exit" from your redirection, you will ALWAYS end up in a loop![/indent][/rant #1]
Sorry, you are NOT specifying a folder with (.*) but matching EVERYTHING (or NOTHING). That's been the problem and it's still the problem.
Once you finally get into your folder2 directory, DirectoryIndex index.php will specify that index.php will be served if only the directory is requested.
Thanks again! I'm new to Regex as well so it was all going over my head a bit. I have looked through the regex tutorial and got it working.
Newbie here, trying to map old urls to new urls using rewriterules. I've converted a website from DNN to Joomla, and now I'm trying to get my 301 redirects in place before rolling out the new site. I have 7 templates, each which are applied to 22 models. For example, I have:
www.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_a_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_b_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_c_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_d_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_e_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_1/long_subsection_f_goes here.aspx
So each "long_complicated_subject" has 7 pages (landing page and 6 subpages). The subpages for every long_complicated_subject has the same name.... like this:
www.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_a_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_b_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_c_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_d_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_e_goes here.aspxwww.mywebsite.com/long_complicated_subject_goes_here_2/long_subsection_f_goes here.aspx
and so on for many "long_complicated_subject" groups. As you can see each long_complicated_subject" has a landing page, and 6 subpages with identical names to every other "long_complicated_subject". There is no consistency to the actual "long_complicated_subject", but I'm hoping I don't have to duplicate the subsections for every "long_complicated_subject".
Instead of a one-to-one mapping, and ending up with hundreds of rewriterule lines, is there a way to do this in a 2-step process; that is, may I first substitute the "long_complicated_subject" and the once that's completed, may I do a second substitution on result of the first one?
One more thing, is there a way report the original url and the final url with a 301 back to the search engines?
FYI --- the domain name is not changing.


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Pre-colposcopy instructions
Ultima Vez Modificado: 24 de marzo de 2002
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was wondering if there were precautions I should take before my colposcopy?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
While instructions before colposcopy may vary, in general, you should place nothing in the vagina for at least 48 hours before the test (no sex, tampons, or douching). Also, it is easiest if the test can be scheduled when you know that you will not be menstruating.


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Topic: any help available for copays
Hi, my name is Cindy. My husband was diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma a couple months ago. He has stage 4. He has good days and bad days so far. He is taking Gemzar as his chemo. He had a port put in. I am looking for help on this site as the chemo is not fully covered. If anyone has any info on who helps with chemo co-pays it would be helpful. He was in the service in the 60s and was in Korea for a year. I am finding out about a parasite from there for drinking the water there and eating the fish. That could be the cause of this cancer, I have filed with the VA on this...does anyone have any info on this being the cause of their cancer? Thanks ahead for any info.


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Prize Recipient
Olumakinde Ogunnaike
Harvard University
My name is Olumakinde Ogunnaike and I will be majoring in physics at Harvard University this fall. I have lived in Hockessin, Delaware all my life. My interest in physics began in Kindergarten, when my older brother taught me the particles that constitute an atom, down to the quarks. To me, Physics became a way of understanding the mystery of the universe that surrounds us. It still seems the most direct route, as it probes the very roots of the relations that govern all physical reality. What kept me interested, however, was the beauty and elegance of its framework. That, and a trip in 8th grade to CERN. The patterns and relations revealed by a study of physics inspire in me the same profound awe as the sight of a sunset over the ocean. I hope to shed a little more light on the universe's enduring questions through the study of quantum mechanics. I am truly honored to have received this distinction.


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How to Be Happy, by Kristen Bell
Kids will be thrilled to eat their fruits and veggies after seeing an adorable friend do the same on the cover of this PVC-, phthalate-, lead- and BPA-free zipped box. Dieter Lunch Box, $35, Beatrix New York.
Leaving notes in your child's lunchbox just got 21st century, thanks to a chalkboard on the inside cover. Multi Monogram Lunch Box, $29.95, Freckle Box.
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Freddie Hunt, the son of late motor racing world champion Janes Hunt, was a star attraction at Castle Combe circuit on Saturday.
He was competing Formula Ford 1600 race in the class B Swift SC92 of the Yatton Keynell based Swift Cooper team.
Although this was Freddie's first visit to Castle Combe, the circuit's very survival in the modern era was contributed to by his late father, who appeared as an important expert witness at a public inquiry in February 1981, the result of which secured the circuit's future with permanent planning permission.
At first glance, Hunt appeared to be a complete reincarnation of his late father, his looks and 'public schoolboy' voice attracting plenty of attention, much of it from the female quarter. Initially, Hunt also appeared to have inherited his father's skill too, claiming the class 'pole' and seventh overall in the abysmally wet qualifying session on his circuit debut and in a car which was new to him.
Unfortunately, his words prior to the race proved to be rather ironic; "I really like the track, there was plenty of grip where I wasn't expecting it, but it looks like it will be dry for the race, so god knows what will happen then. I just need to keep out of trouble and build up some experience."
In reality, Hunt made a slow start, dropped down to 11th and retired on the fifth lap after spinning on oil at the Esses. Hunt's antics prompted a Safety Car, to the chagrin of Melksham's Ed Moore who had shot from 8th of the grid to take a dominant lead in his previously recalcitrant Van Diemen.
Nevertheless, Hunt impressed Swift Cooper team boss Alan Cooper.
"He is a lovely guy, with a great attitude'" he said.
"I've been really surprised at him over the last few days. The awning has been full of media and people wanting to see him all day and he's been really great with them and very professional.
"He was brilliant in qualifying and if his last lap hadn't been cut short, he would have done a time which could have put him fourth overall. It's a shame about the race, because he would have won the class, but he thanked me for everything afterwards and we hope he will come and race with us again."
In contrast, the two laps under the Safety Car allowed Chippenham's Adam Higgins to close the gap to Moore, who, two laps later spun on the same oil as Hunt, later retiring with broken rear suspension.
This left Higgins to take a brilliant win and the championship lead.


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Tiger Talk: Keep 'em safe
School bus facts:
• Approximately 480,000 yellow school buses carry 25 million children to and from school every weekday.
• Only half of America's students take the school bus to school; the others use more dangerous forms of transportation.
• In the United States we lose more than 800 children every year because they are not in school buses. Most of the fatalities (55 percent) occur in cars driven by teenagers.
• School buses are required to meet higher construction, equipment and inspection standards than any other vehicle and their drivers are required to meet higher qualifications, training and testing standards than any other drivers on the road.
The nationwide safety record for the 25 million children who do NOT ride school buses to and from school each day:
• 448 fatalities in passenger vehicles with a teenage driver.
• 169 fatalities in passenger vehicles with an adult driver.
• 131 fatalities to pedestrians.
• 46 fatalities to bicyclists.
The nationwide safety record for the 25 million children who RIDE the school buses to and from school each day:
• 5 passenger fatalities.
• 15 pedestrian fatalities at school bus stops.
Additional interesting facts:
• School buses decrease our dependence on foreign oil through an annual savings of 2.3 billion gallons of fuel!
• School buses keep cars off the road, decreasing both traffic congestion and fuel emissions.
• School buses represent 25 percent of the miles traveled by students but account for less than 4 percent of the injuries!
For more school bus facts, go to SchoolBusFacts.com sponsored by the American School Bus Council and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Flashing yellow and red lights?
Flashing yellow lights are turned on 300 feet before a stop. Once the bus stops, the red lights are turned on and the stop sign is deployed.
Question: What should I do as a driver of another vehicle?
Answer: When the yellow lights come on, that is your warning to begin to slow down looking for children at their bus stop. then, be prepared to come to a stop at least 25 feet from the stopped bus.
Warning: Passing or driving around that stopped bus is against the law! You must wait until the bus driver has turned off his red flashing lights before you move!
Please note: School buses are on the road picking up children generally from 6:45-8:15 a.m. and dropping off children generally from 3-4:30 p.m.
When buses are on the road, please leave a little earlier, if need be, to give yourself extra time to get to your destination.
To keep our children safe, it is our job to: Drive safely, be patient and stop for school buses.
Please remember... "Keep 'em safe!"


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Core Campus is planning to open its 512-bed, 183-unit student luxury housing project in August 2015, but will "The Hub" at 515 E. Broadway be able to compete with the glut of cheaper student housing already being built, particularly at a time when college enrollment is dropping? At other Core projects, monthly rent for studios runs about $1,000 and five-bedroom apartments go for about $3,000. Penthouse units and those with their own hot tubs are more.
• Joe Walacki and Borden Beck will speak and show slides on "High Desert Wildlands" at the meeting of the Many Rivers Group of the Sierra Club from 5:30 to 7 pm Thursday, March 20, at the Eugene Garden Club, 1645 High St. The club is currently working to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands and other endangered desert areas.
In Afghanistan
• 2,312 U.S. troops killed (2,310 last month)
• 19,673 U.S. troops wounded in action (19,656)
• 1,481 U.S. contractors killed (1,481)
• 16,179 civilians killed (updates NA)
• $703.2 billion cost of war ($699.1 billion)
• $290.8 million cost to Eugene taxpayers ($289 million)
In Iraq
• 4,423 U.S. troops killed, 31,941 wounded
• 1,605 U.S. contractors killed (1,605)
• 135,459 to 1.2 million civilians killed* (134,734)
Though speculating on water is illegal, WaterWatch of Oregon says Willamette Water Company was looking to do just that back in 2008 when it applied for a permit to withdraw 22 million gallons per day from the McKenzie River. On March 7, the Oregon Water Resources Department (WRD) issued a final order denying the Willamette Water Co.'s controversial application to control a large amount of the McKenzie's water.
The Alder Street Advocates neighborhood group is planning a transportation-themed mural to be painted on the street surface of Alder Street between 19th and 24th avenues. The design and painting of the mural will happen through the collaborative efforts of people who live in the neighborhood.
Grant applicant Allen Hancock says the applicants have gone door to door and found 50 people who are interested in participating. "Not only because they want to create some art and make the street beautiful, but because they want to meet their neighbors," he says.
Under Oregon law a nuclear power plant can't be constructed in this state until there is a safe, permanent way to deal with nuclear waste, and even then, citizens reserve the right to vote on whether a plant can be built, according to Chuck Johnson of Oregon and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. While Oregon does not have a commercial nuclear reactor, Johnson is concerned with the Columbia Generating Station (CGS), a Washington nuclear power plant just across the Columbia River from Oregon.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently sent PeaceHealth a warning letter for hazardous waste law violations discovered by DEQ during an unannounced inspection last month at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. The facility is classified as a "small quantity generator" of hazardous waste because it generates between 220 and 2,000 pounds of hazardous waste per month.
The Eugene Police Department's Civilian Review Board (CRB) has reviewed two cases that were filed with the Eugene Police Auditor's office in the past nine months regarding allegations of officers unlawfully frisking African-American women.
On Feb. 11 the CRB discussed a case in which a male officer patted down a female while her car was being impounded for not having insurance. Police Auditor Mark Gissiner says pat-down searches can only be performed if the officer has reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous or if he or she is being taken into custody.
Last week in this column we wrote about a late-night flight coming into Eugene Feb. 23 that was diverted to Portland. It took a few tries before we found someone to talk to at the Eugene Airport, but it appears we talked to a fellow who was ill-informed. The flight did not arrive after midnight so the tower was still open, there actually was a malfunction of the Automated Surface Observing System at the airport. ASOS is owned and operated by the Federal Aviation Administration, not the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• A "Hunger Banquet" educational fundraiser is planned for 6 to 8 pm Thursday, March 13, at Unitarian Universalist Church at 13th and Chambers. Sponsored by OSPIRG, ShelterCare and others. All donations will go to the Rainy Day Food Pantry at LCC. Call Zack Wright of OSPIRG at 255-5364.
Eugene City Manager Jon Ruiz has recommended cutting $250,000 from Human Services discretionary funding as part of balancing the city budget for fiscal year 2015, which begins July 1. These cuts would manifest as "reductions in support to local nonprofit agencies such as Looking Glass, St. Vincent de Paul, Womenspace, Lane ShelterCare and a myriad of others," according to Human Services Commission (HSC) Chair Pat Farr.
Just as LGBTQ activists are celebrating Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum's decision to not defend Oregon's gay marriage ban and celebrating Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of that state's anti-gay discrimination bill, along comes the reminder that the Oregon Family Council wants to throw a little cold water on the gey celebration.
More precisely, OFC is the primary sponsor of an initiative that wants to dampen any future gay weddings in Oregon by allowing businesses to refuse "supporting same-sex ceremonies in violation of deeply held religious beliefs."
The fight against genetically modified crops in Lane County is in the hands of Circuit Court Judge Charles Carlson, who is expected to rule on whether the Local Food System Ordinance complied with state constitutional requirements.
Grupo Latino de Acción Directa (GLAD)'s Feb. 28 forum at St. Alice's church in Springfield focused on public safety. More than 140 members of the Latino community attended, including Timothy Doney, the new Springfield police chief and Lane County Sheriff Tom Turner, according to one of GLAD's founders, Phil Carrasco.
GLAD is hosting evening and luncheon forums as well as "Café con" (Coffee with) events that politically engage a broad spectrum of the Latino community, Carrasco says. These forums let people show up and speak their piece, without others speaking for them, he says.
International Women's Day is Saturday, March 8, and events in the Eugene area welcome writers, rockers, artists, healers and more to celebrate this day and Women's History Month.
Oregon wolves are on the move. Just last week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) confirmed that wolf tracks were found on Mount Hood last December. Oregon has enough suitable habitat for 1,450 wolves. So why did the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) remove federal protections for gray wolves in 2011 in the eastern third of the state when there are currently only 64 wild wolves in Oregon? Wolf reintroduction advocates discussed this quandary and more at "Wolfshop," part of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference on Feb. 28.
We heard a late-night flight coming into Eugene Sunday, Feb. 23, was unable to land and was diverted to Portland. Grumpy Eugene passengers had to rent cars and make the early morning drive home. The pilot told passengers that he was unable to get ground wind speed information from the Eugene tower and so he could not land. What happened? We checked with Eugene Airport officials and learned that all pilots have discretion when it comes to safety and it appears some malfunction occured with the FAA equipment, which was quickly repaired.
• The Eugene Budget Committee is meeting three times in March at Harris Hall in the Lane County Service Building. The second meeting will be at 5:30 pm Thursday, March 6, and the third will be at 6 pm Tuesday, March 11. The meetings follow the city manager's recommendations for balancing the FY 2015 General Fund that were presented to the Budget Committee Feb. 26. Additional meetings will be planned for April. See eugene-or.gov/budget.
A growing trend in Eugene, gift circles, allows people to enter a space where people share items, ideas or resources with no expectation of receiving anything in return. Tree Bressen and Kim Krichbaum are community members who have been organizing gift circles for over a year. Bressen says that what she does is just a part of the larger gift economy.
In this year's November general election, Oregon voters could be asked to ratify (or not) a new law that would effectively end the Oregon Liqour Control Commission's role and "privatize" sale of distilled spirits (aka hard liquor). That is, assuming that at least one of eight petitions filed by a group calling itself Oregonians for Competition can garner the required number of voter signatures (87,000) to gain a spot on the ballot. The petitions are backed by the Northwest Grocery Association and agents of various large grocers, acting as petitioners.
While other states, such as California, have introduced bee protection bills, Lisa Arkin of Beyond Toxics says she thinks Oregon is the first state to take some kind of decisive action at the state level. The city of Eugene is also looking to take further action on bee-killing pesticides.
House Bill 4139 passed in the Oregon House earlier in February, and on Feb. 24 it passed in the Senate, "showing amazing bipartisan support for protecting the bees," according to Arkin.
The fate of the Beverly property and the Amazon Creek headwaters it contains is still up in the air, thanks to the Eugene City Council's motion to table the issue in a Feb. 19 work session. The property is near Spencer Butte in the south hills.
The city of Eugene's Revenue Team is sifting through potential strategies to suggest revenue increases to the Budget Committee for the city's General Fund, in light of the $3 million deficit the city faces for fiscal year (FY) 2015. Their goal is to recommend revenue strategies that will generate significant revenue, be acceptable to the community and can be implemented by FY16.
City Councilor and Revenue Team member Claire Syrett says the team aims for its recommendations to equally affect businesses, property owners and people using city services.
Dozens of people were turned away from the Bascom-Tykeson room at the Eugene Public Library Feb. 23. The room had reached its full capacity of 106 people well before Walidah Imarisha's 2 pm talk "Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon? A Hidden History." Several people watched through the windows from Broadway.
Imarisha, a professor in Portland State University's Black Studies department, has been touring Oregon for three years giving the talk, with 12 stops this February in honor of Black History Month.
Cascade Raptor Center on Fox Hollow Road took a big hit in the recent snow and ice storm, says Louise Shimmel of the center. She says volunteers wore hard hats as they were feeding the birds and checking on them amid crashing branches and even falling trees. The birds survived despite damage to their aviaries, though a couple of traumatized owls and a kite needed to come inside for the weekend. A supply shed was damaged, along with the mouse barn and a car. The center was closed for two weeks and is now fundraising to help pay for the damage and lost revenue.


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A year ago 2.5 miles was the hardest thing in the world. Pedaling up the hills and over the terrain would leave me heaving for air and disgusting with sweat. It was gross and I hated it. Finding the motivation to pick up the bike and ride was tough, but I was far too stubborn to be left behind while Handsome was out having such a good time.
I will never forget one of our first rides. Every time I climbed one hill, I would look up and see rolling fields with only steeper hills in front of me. My stomach churned and I threw the bike to the ground as I tried not to puke. I cried.
Last night I stepped out onto a treadmill for the first time ever. Given that it's winter and the trails have been a sloppy hot mess of mud and ice we are waiting for the ground to get solid before we brave the 29 degree weather and head out for a ride. We have joined a gym less than two minutes from our house and are continuing cardio and muscle training so that we don't fall too far behind this winter.
I should preface this with – I never thought I could be a runner. The idea of running scares me and the treadmill seamed like an easy way to break my face.
Last night I ran for the first time. Only 2.5 miles. But it was easy.
Did you read that? It was EASY. Would would have guessed that my lazy out of shape second hand smoke terrible lung weak as crap self would ever say such a thing. But I am.
I'm here to tell you – anyone – who thinks that they can't do it, that they could never possibly get that far, that it's too hard, that it is. But it's worth it. It's worth every ounce of sweat to feel so strong and healthy at the end of the day. I have miles to go before I am 'fit' but I'm getting stronger every day and more motivated with every sore aching muscle. I'll get there. I may not be the fastest or the best, but I keep coming back for more and that's all that matters.
We are currently planning for our first 5k in the spring along with a terribly active mountain bike schedule and I can't wait.
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- 4 strips cooked bacon, crumbled
- hard bagette sliced or crackers
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Brown ground beef with Worcestershire, hamburger seasoning, salt pepper and onion until cooked through and onions are softened. Strain off excess fat and place in a slow cooker.
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Osteogenic Cell Viability in Bone Graft
This study has been completed.
University of Missouri-Columbia
AO North America
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Brett Crist, University of Missouri-Columbia
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 26, 2009
Last updated: June 20, 2017
Last verified: June 2017
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The purpose of this study is to find out if the cells in bone graft samples collected using a reamer are similar to the cells in bone graft samples collected using the iliac crest bone graft method.
|Fractures, Closed
|Procedure: iliac crest bone graft Procedure: Reamer Irrigator Aspirator
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Osteogenic Cell Viability in Bone Graft Obtained Using the Reamer Irrigator Aspirator (RIA) System Versus Iliac Crest Bone Graft
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Bone GraftsU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Brett Crist, University of Missouri-Columbia:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Cell viability [ Time Frame: 1 hour post-collection ]
- Osteogenic potential [ Time Frame: 1 hour post-collection ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
iliac crest bone graft
Bone graft harvested via iliac crest bone graft procedure
Procedure: iliac crest bone graft
iliac crest bone graft procedure
Other Name: ICBG
Reamer Irrigator Aspirator
Bone graft harvested via the Reamer Irrigator Aspirator (RIA) Procedure
Procedure: Reamer Irrigator Aspirator
Reamer Irrigator Aspirator (RIA) Procedure
Other Name: RIA
Detailed Description:
Although iliac crest bone grafting is the gold standard for autogenous bone grafting procedures, limited quantity in some individuals and donor site morbidity have lead surgeons to look for alternative harvest sites or sources such as allograft or osteobiologics. Of these alternative harvest sites is the femoral shaft. Intramedullary contents from reaming are composed of bone marrow, and blood and bone spicules. In this respect, the reamed contents are similar to the bone routinely harvested from the iliac crest. Studies have shown that despite the reaming process using standard reamers, cells maintain their viability and are able to produce new bone. However, the addition of aspiration and irrigation used in the RIA system could potentially compromise the harvested cell viability and limit their osteogenic potential. In addition, Wenisch et al. have concluded that the harvested cells using standard intramedullary reamers not only proceed toward osteogenic differentiation, but also can be directed toward neurogenic differentiation. This suggests that reaming debris is a viable source of stem cells as well. RIA allows for these cells to be harvested. It is our hypothesis that the intramedullary contents harvested using the RIA system is similar to ICBG in cell viability and osteogenic potential.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Project involves comparison of small samples taken from patients undergoing iliac crest or medullary reaming for comparison and review
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects age 18 years or older
- Subjects undergoing a bone grafting procedure, either using an iliac crest or RIA system harvesting technique, or
- Subjects undergoing reamed femoral intramedullary nailing using the RIA reaming technique
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects under age 18
- Subjects with a history of: leukemia; cancer with bone metastases; renal failure, receiving dialysis; or on immunosuppressive medications
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00843973
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00843973
|United States, Missouri
|University of Missouri
|Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65212
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Missouri-Columbia
AO North America
|Principal Investigator:
|Brett D Crist, MD
|University of Missouri-Columbia
More Information
Keywords provided by Brett Crist, University of Missouri-Columbia:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Brett Crist, Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Trauma Services, Co-Director Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00843973 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 26, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 20, 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Keywords provided by Brett Crist, University of Missouri-Columbia:
Iliac Crest Bone Graft
Reamer Irrigator Aspirator
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fractures, Closed
Fractures, Bone
Wounds and Injuries
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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I found this at the goodwill last year and I would normally think its a reproduction but the frame is reverse painted and the image is on what seems to be old paper that matches the border perfectly. Who ever had it before me stuck a bunch of tape on the back to keep it in the frame. The tape seems to be old as well much thicker then the normal. I was afraid if I removed the tape to see if it was stamped any where I would ruin it, and even if she is a repo I think shes great. What do you guys think? Old or new? If old do you think she has any value even with tape? My camera battery died I will try to get a picture of the back up soon. Thanks.


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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=1/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=1/3. The space mercenaries are back and are ready for new missions. Play as Star, Trey, and Lain along with new characters. Choose between a variety of missions and change your squad. StarWings is a side view shoot'em up game.
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The answer is A. While a few people know the Harbaughs are brothers, the media has generally ignored that storyline.The NFC beat the AFC 62-35 in the Pro Bowl on Sunday. Questions about the seriousness and quality of game should no longer be in dispute.
If it wasn't a serious competition, Jeff Saturday would have just switched teams in the middle of the game to hike the ball to Peyton Manning one last time. Oh. Never mind.Dr. Phil McGraw has booked Manti Te'o hoax mastermind Ronaiah Tuiasosopo as a guest on the "Dr. Phil Show." This answers the question: How shameless is Dr. Phil's chase for ratings?
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Coincidentally, Ole Miss' record last season was win-win and 10 losses.UCLA has investigated the Gucci backpack that freshman Shabazz Muhammad' wore during a postgame interview and declared it was a gift from his family. The good news is that Muhammad is now cleared for a cover shot on the new magazine, Team Vogue.Shaun White ended the Winter X Games in Aspen by winning the SuperPipe for the sixth straight time. His complete confession to having performed on artificially enhanced snow is expected to be revealed to Oprah or Katie Couric in 2017.


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Between the Vines is a biweekly column on wine and winemaking in the Livermore Valley region. This column was contributed by Steven Kent Mirassou, the owner of La Rochelle Winery.
Winery name: La Rochelle Winery
Owner: Steven Kent LLC
About us: Our mission at La Rochelle is a simple one: to make California's best, most interesting, most collectible pinot noir.
My family introduced the pinot noir grape to California in the 1850s. Today, we partner with the state's most renowned pinot noir vineyards. We craft pinot noir grown on these famed estates that let the individual vineyard's terroir, its special sense of place, shine through.
My great-great-great-grandfather left the French port of La Rochelle 160 years ago on a voyage of possibilities. Our journey at La Rochelle Winery is an equally exciting one — to discover the best pinot noir vineyards and translate those exceptional estates into limited releases worthy of our heritage.
Our winemaker, Tom Stutz, believes in the prime importance of a given vineyard site — its location, climate, soil, aspect, drainage, air movement, fog, row direction, training methods and, most importantly, the grower's desire to create quality fruit. Tom's role is to find the expressive core of each site's fruit and bring that expression into a recognizable form year after year.
Our wines: La Rochelle makes vineyard-designated pinot noirs and Chardonnays. Each of our small-lot wines is handcrafted to reveal the truth and beauty of the site, the farmer, and the winemaker. Our least expensive wine is our pinot gris ($24), and the most expensive is our donum pinot noir ($75).
La Rochelle's Pinot Noir Program wine club offers six different vineyard-designated wines per year available — upon release — exclusively to members. With a lineup of spectacular wines from a variety of regions, lovers of pinot noir have the opportunity to taste and own a wide variety of world-class pinots.
On Jan. 12, we will release a new wine in the Pinot Noir Program, our 2009 pinot noir, White Sage Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands. Please visit the La Rochelle website to become part of the club and join us for the members-only celebration in our barrel room.
Hours and tasting fee: We have two tasting experiences available: the barrel room offers tasting of a flight of La Rochelle wines from noon to 4:30 p.m. daily for $10. The Reserve Room is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4:30 p.m. and offers samplings of our most limited collectors' wines paired with fine cheeses for $20 per person.
Where is the winery? We are located at 5443 Tesla Road, Livermore Valley, CA 94550, www.lrwine.com, 925-243-6442.
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If you're a fan of football, four seasons and building a future in the natural gas industry, a city that some call "Houston North" might be for you.
Natural gas industry jobs requiring both post-high school training and professional degrees should be plentiful throughout the 10-county Greater Pittsburgh region for years to come, according to a 2012 workforce analysis conducted for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Energy Alliance of Greater Pittsburgh.
"At a time when our region is already setting all-time records for employment, the 'help wanted' sign is out, and it's likely to stay there for years to come," noted David Porges, chairman, president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp., in a written statement.
Thirty-seven Pittsburgh-area employers from seven energy sectors participated in the study, which reflects perspectives spanning the region's energy economy. In addition to employment needs in the fossil fuel mainstays coal and natural gas, the report considers opportunities in other energy sectors such as nuclear, power generation and renewables. Twelve of the 14 hard-to-fill jobs that the analysis identifies apply to the natural gas industry, and the study's authors anticipate that competition should remain keen among the region's energy employers to fill these "target jobs" through 2020.
National Guardsmen enrolled in a 2011 roustabout training course at Westmoreland County (Pa.) Community College Center (WCCC) participate in a rig trip sponsored by Chesapeake Energy. Photo courtesy of ShaleNET.
"For the energy industry in particular, our challenge is to educate, train and attract enough skilled workers to meet this demand," continued Porges. "The good news: we have the tools necessary to make it happen; however, to be successful, we must have business, government and the workforce development system effectively working together towards this common goal."
Below are graphical breakdowns of these hard-to-fill jobs based on three broad levels of educational attainment:
Note that average annual wage figures accompanying each job title range from entry-level to experienced. Also, remember that the figures only reflect the responses of 37 companies that participated in the survey. More than 60,000 people work in direct energy jobs at 1,700 establishments in a 32-county region encompassing parts of Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to the Pennsylvania Economy League of Greater Pittsburgh.
Results of the survey will help prepare students for jobs in the natural gas and other energy sectors, Laura Fisher, senior vice president of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, pointed out. ShaleNET, a federally funded workforce development program that provides training for high-demand jobs in the natural gas industry, is launching its first pilot initiative based on the study's conclusions, Fisher added.
"The initiative will be focused on industrial maintenance technicians, needed widely across all energy sectors," said Fisher. "We have 15 companies, representing all sectors, at the table. We are working to develop a common energy-wide curriculum, skills assessment and training model."
Participants in a floorhand class at Indiana County (Pa.) Community College Center (WCCC). Photo courtesy of ShaleNET.
In addition, ShaleNET is working with the RAND Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to develop a study examining how innovation will change the skill sets for occupations highlighted in the 2012 analysis, Fisher said.
"We know that technology is calling for ever-greater skills, even at the entry level, so we will be working to identify how our systems need to adapt to meet this continual need to advance worker skills," concluded Fisher.
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Joaquin | Jan. 19, 2013I have my resume posted all over and it is hard when you have been doing it hands on and dont have the degrees to back you up. Most of my knowledge and expertise is in production. I was running a privately owned multi-million dollar CBM (Coal Bed Methane) field, and now cant even find a job. I have been willing to relocate but still no luck.
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