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Video-Based Delivery of HIV Test Information for Spanish-Speaking Latinos
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified August 2011 by Rhode Island Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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The purpose of the study is to determine if a Spanish-language HIV and HIV test information video is as effective in delivering basic information regarding HIV and HIV tests to primarily Spanish-speaking HIV test recipients as an in-person presentation with an HIV test counselor.
|Behavioral: Video or In-Person Presentation
|Phase 3
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Video-Based Delivery of HIV Test Information for Spanish-Speaking Latinos
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Effectiveness of an educational video regarding HIV and HIV testing for Spanish speaking LatinosParticipants in both arms will complete an HIV knowledge questionnaire after recieving an in-person presentation or watching the video to compare the effectiveness of an HIV educational video for Spanish speaking Latinos regarding HIV and HIV tests.
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Active Comparator: In Person Counseling
Participants will receive an in person HIV and HIV testing counseling session
Behavioral: Video or In-Person Presentation
Participants will be randomly assigned to an in person counseling session or will watch a HIV and HIV testing video
Experimental: Video Presentation
Participants will watch an HIV and HIV testing video
Behavioral: Video or In-Person Presentation
Participants will be randomly assigned to an in person counseling session or will watch a HIV and HIV testing video
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|18 Years to 64 Years (Adult)
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- 18-64 years of age
- Self-identify as Latino
- Able to give informed consent
- Spanish speaking
Exclusion Criteria:
- Intoxicated
- Being treated for acute psychiatric illness
- Mental incapacitation
- Significant visual or hearing impairment
- Prisoner or under home confinement
- Participating in HIV vaccine trial
- Critically ill
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Dec 5, 2012 at 6:47 am
GLENWOOD, Minn. (KNSI) A 38-year-old man accused of driving drunk and killing a Minnesota coach's son last summer has agreed to a plea deal.
Dana Schoen of rural Starbuck pleaded guilty Tuesday to amended charges in Pope County District Court. The court administrator's office says Schoen pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal vehicular operation.
In July, Schoen's pickup collided with an SUV carrying Southwest State University men's basketball coach Brad Bigler. Bigler's 5-month-old son, Drake, was killed. Bigler was critically injured. His wife, Heather, who was driving the SUV, and her 74-year-old grandmother, Sharon Schuler of Granite Falls, also were hurt.
Schoen's plea deal includes an admission of a blood-alcohol content of 0.32 percent, four times Minnesota's legal limit.
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Every Friday, Sporting News' Ryan Fagan will take a deeper look at the players making on-the-field headlines—both good and bad—with the help of advanced baseball metrics. Unless otherwise specified, statistics have been gathered from baseball-reference.com and fangraphs.com, two thoroughly indispensable websites.
This week, we'll look at how three age-defying players are succeeding well into their golden baseball years (all stats through Thursday):
Raul Ibanez, Seattle Mariners
The seemingly ageless Ibanez moved back to Seattle this season after a memorable 2012 playoff performance for the Yankees—he blasted three incredibly clutch home runs, two against the Orioles and one against the Tigers. He's carried that power over into the 2013 season; Ibanez already has 21 home runs this season, a total that's fifth in the American League and has already eclipsed his full-season totals from 2010, 2011 and 2012. He's on pace to pass his career high of 34 homers, set in 2009.
The stat: 27.3% HR/FB
What HR/FB isn't: Human Resources meetings for Football teams
What HR/FB is: The Home Run-to-Fly Ball ratio. This one's pretty basic, as it measures how many of a player's fly balls carry over the fence for a home run. To use Ibanez as an example, 27.3 percent of his fly balls in 2013 have gone for home runs.
What this means for Ibanez: The left-handed slugger, who turned 41 on the second day of June, is doing unprecedented things at Safeco Field this summer. His 27.3 percent HR/FB is third in the majors among players with at least 200 at-bats (behind Chris Davis and Pedro Alvarez), but his home/road splits are stunning. At the notoriously pitcher-friendly Safeco—the place where fly balls go to die—Ibanez's HR/FB rate is an insane 31.0 percent. To put that in perspective, since Safeco's first full season of 2000 (it actually opened in July 1999), the Mariners player with the best career HR/FB rate in the park is Richie Sexson, at 19.8 percent. From 2002 (Fangraphs batted-ball numbers only go to 2002) through this season, the average HR/FB rate for all Mariners players at Safeco is 8.4 percent.
So, yeah, Ibanez is doing amazing things. This has been a strange year overall for Ibanez. According to his Fangraphs numbers, he's on pace to post his highest HR/FB rate (previous best was 21.2 percent), his highest overall fly ball percentage (43.0 percent), his lowest ground-ball percentage (35.8 percent) and his highest line drive percentage (21.1 percent) since 2002. He's also striking out at an amazing clip. His strikeout rate is 24.0 percent; he'd only been above 18.4 percent one other full season during his career. His walk rate of 6.6 is lower than any full season of his career except 2011, when it was 5.7 percent.
Marco Scutaro, San Francisco Giants
Scutaro has played like a Hall of Fame second baseman during his time with the Giants. San Francisco acquired him from the Rockies a few days before the 2012 non-waiver trade deadline, and he hit .362 for the rest of the season. Then, he went 14-for-28 against the Cardinals as he led the Giants to a come-from-behind victory in the NLCS. This year, in his age 37 season, he's hitting .312 with a .365 on-base percentage. This, from a player who had never hit higher than .299 in any full season of his career.
The stat: 95.6 Contact%
What Contact% isn't: How many times a player has seen that Jodie Foster movie
What Contact% is: Simply, the percentage of swings on which a player makes contact with the baseball. The MLB-average Contact% over the past decade has consistently been right around 80 percent.
What this means for Scutaro: When Marco Scutaro swings, he makes contact better than anyone in baseball. His 95.9 percent contact rate is easily the best in the majors; Norichika Aoki of the Brewers is second at 93.4 percent and Ben Revere of the Phillies is third at 93.2 percent. Scutaro always has made excellent contact; since his first full season in the bigs in 2004, his Contact% has been at least 89.6. This is his career-best, though.
When he swings at pitches in the strike zone, he makes contact 97.5 percent of the time (tied for first in the bigs) and when he swings at pitches outside the zone, he makes contact 89.7 percent of the time (second in the bigs). Knowing those numbers, it's not surprising that his strikeout rate is an incredibly low 6.7 percent, which is a career-best and second in baseball in 2013. He's struck out 21 times in 71 games.
Bartolo Colon, Oakland Athletics
Reports of Colon's demise—a regular occurrence the past few years—have been greatly exaggerated, apparently. He's become the ace of the Oakland staff; in 17 starts this season, he's compiled a 2.78 ERA, 1.103 WHIP and a sparkling 11-3 record.
The stat: 13.8 P/IP
What P/IP isn't: Watching MLB games with a Picture-In-Picture set up
What P/IP is: Pitches per Inning Pitched. It's the average number of pitches used per inning (duh), which is a good way of noting a pitcher's efficiency.
What this means for Colon: In his age 40 season, Colon has apparently lost all tolerance for wasted effort. He throws the ball in the zone (69.6 percent of his pitches this season have been strikes) and isn't worried about generating swing-and-misses. His swinging-strike percentage this season is 5.8 percent, which ranks 90th of 93 qualified pitchers in baseball. And because he throws strikes (his walk percentage of 3.2 percent is second in the majors) and batters regularly put the ball in play, he's able to move through innings quickly. Among qualified pitchers, only Washington's Jordan Zimmerman has a lower P.IP (13.6).
Colon doesn't even mess around with a wide variety of pitches; he throws a fastball 83.4 percent of the time—38.5 percent of those are four-seamers (with an average velocity of 91.1 mph) and 44.9 percent are two-seamers (average 89.3 mph). He'll mix in occasional sliders (9.6 percent of the time) and changeups (7.0 percent).


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Schools across Wiltshire will be partly closed next week, as teachers in the county strike over proposed Government changes.
The National Union of Teachers is holding a day-long walkout on Wednesday, when union members will protest against what they believe is excessive bureaucracy, performance-related pay and changes to their pension arrangements.
In Bradford on Avon, St Laurence School will be closed to Year 7, 8 and 9 pupils.
In a letter to parents, headteacher Fergus Stewart said: "We have considered the situation very carefully, bearing in mind the impact of strike action on timetabled classes and the welfare of pupils, and have decided that we will be able to remain partially open on that day.
"We realise that this will be very inconvenient for many families and for that we apologise."
Year 8, 9 and 10 pupils at Trowbridge's John of Gaunt School have also been asked to stay at home.Headteacher Andy Packer said: "We will be partially open, with Years 12 and 13 in as normal and Year 11s doing mock GCSE exams. At the moment the plan is also to bring Year 7s in and we'll update parents if there are any changes."
The Corsham School will be closed to all pupils, although the sixth form will remain open.
The Clarendon Academy on Frome Road, Trowbridge, will not be affected by the strike, and will be open as normal to all pupils, as will Matravers School in Westbury and Stonar School in Atworth.
St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge, Kingdown School, in Warminster and Melksham Oak Community School were all unable to say whether they would be open as the Times went to press this week.


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Islam was promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century AD. The term islam literally means 'surrender', as in 'surrender to the will of Allah'. Allah (Arabic: God) is viewed as the sole God, creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. His will, revealed to his messenger Muhammed, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qur'an (Koran).
Pre-Islamic Arab and Persian traditions, which were essentially pagan, developed a wonderful body of myth and folklore. Jinns, efrits, demigods, saintly men and women, and great heroes played their part in sparkling collections of folkloric tales and fables. It is only natural that people, throughout history, would borrow these entertaining beings and attach them their own heros, and Islamic literature, therefore, is rich in such material.
However, we are fully aware that pure Islam is entirely monotheistic and does not encourage the creation of anthropomorphic figures, play of fantasy, or anything suggesting multiplicity of gods and idol worshiping. None of the articles or stories that appear in this section presumes to be a religious discussion. Many excellent books and articles on formal Islam are available to the interested reader.
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UCONN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Huskies dominate top-ranked Stanford
Published 12:00 am, Saturday, December 29, 2012
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The sellout crowd of 7,329 was still in the midst of getting comfortable inside Maples Pavilion when Joslyn Tinkle sent the partisan Stanford crowd into a frenzy.
More than a few of those who were in those same seats two years ago when the Cardinal snapped UConn's NCAA Division I basketball record 90-game winning streak had to be envisioning that this was going to be another memorable day on The Farm.
Instead, it was the relentless defensive effort put forth by the visiting and second-ranked Huskies making history in a 61-35 victory over top-ranked Stanford on Saturday to snap the Cardinal's 82-game home winning streak.
UConn held a dynamic Stanford offense to program low marks of 11 field goals made and 19.3 field-goal percentage. The Huskies became the first team to hold Stanford to fewer than 40 points in 28 years.
What made the defensive effort so remarkable was the manner in which it was accomplished.
There was a prevailing notion that the Huskies would likely use defensive stalwart Kelly Faris on Stanford's All-American forward Chiney Ogwumike. However, Faris was one of the few people never assigned to check the Cardinal's double-double machine.
Instead it was junior center Stefanie Dolson, who was limited to 17 minutes due to foul trouble, who was asked to match up against one of the nation's best and most athletic post players. By game's end Ogwumike had missed 16 of her 22 shots and was outrebounded by Dolson.
"Sometimes you can make it as complicated as you want and you can go into football mode, and we had all the matchups analyzed and we put it through the computer," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "It is really not like that. Stefanie was going to guard Chiney until she proved she couldn't; Stewie (UConn freshman forward Breanna Stewart) was going to guard her until she couldn't, and Kelly (Faris) was going to guard her until she couldn't guard her. The key for us is what everybody else was doing who wasn't guarding her at that time. I think whoever those players were who weren't guarding Chiney did a really good job of knowing when to help when not to help, where to be and where not to be. Overall just as a team I thought we executed."
Not only did the Huskies harass Ogwumike, who came into the game averaging 21.8 points per game on 61.9 percent shooting, but nobody else was able to take any of the pressure off Ogwumike.
Tinkle, who came into the game averaging nearly 14 points per game, would not score again. Sophomore guard Amber Orrange, the Cardinal's only other double-digit scorer, not only missed all six of her shots but also failed to register an assist. The only player to make as many shots as they missed was reserve wing Bonnie Samuelson, who hit a pair of 3-pointers 46 seconds apart in the second half. That was also the only time the nation's top-ranked team scored on consecutive possessions.
"We knew coming into the game that they are a great offensive team and Chiney is an All-American for a reason, so we knew we were going to have to tighten up our defense, play our best defensive game," Dolson said. "I think we all came out with a great defensive mentality of buckling down and keeping girls in front of us, not letting them get a lot of 3s and not letting them getting a lot of shots. I think we did a pretty good job with."
A pretty good job is an understatement. Stanford had uncharacteristic scoring droughts including one stretch of 15 straight missed field goals.
"I think our team is a great defensive team," said Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who had a game-high 19 points. "We take a lot of pride in it. We practice it for hours. Coach (Auriemma) harps on it every single day. When you have a head like Kelly Faris who is going 110 percent all the time, I think there is really no point where you couldn't stop a team."
UConn's offense had its ups and downs in the early going, but not coincidentally, the Huskies went on a 17-2 run shortly after freshman phenom Breanna Stewart checked into the game for the first time.
The run began when Bria Hartley drained a 3-pointer to break a 5-5 tie. Faris scored five straight points before Stewart ripped off seven straight points to push the Huskies' advantage to 22-7.
After Ogwumike scored to stop the run, the Huskies responded by scoring the next seven points to make it a 29-9 lead.
At halftime the Huskies held an 18-point cushion. Stanford did pull within 15 points after back-to-back 3-pointers by Samuelson, a one-time UConn recruiting target. However, the Huskies countered with baskets by Dolson, Hartley and Mosqueda-Lewis.
Mosqueda-Lewis led UConn (11-0) in scoring against Stanford for the second straight time after scoring 25 against the Cardinal last season. Dolson had 10 points and 14 rebounds, while Hartley and Faris added 10 points each.
Ogwumike led Stanford (11-1) with 18 points and 13 rebounds.
Morgan Tuck, who missed the last two games with a bone bruise in her right knee, returned to action with 1:05 left in the first half with Stewart and Dolson on the bench with two fouls each.


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Topic: anyone exerence personality changes long before diagnosis?
My husband Rick seemed to change emotionally , as near as I can figure, around 2005. It seemed to come on gradually, he was disconnecting and very distant. I blamed it on the possiblity of male menopause, mid life crisis, whatever. We had been married 22 years by then, and i thot I knew him well. But he as emotionally void. I cant really explain it. Finally we went to counseling, and again, non participant. I tried to be close with him but he just was not "there". I felt very threatened but just did not know why. Then he started to age fast, and get tired alot etc. I knew something was wrong and he did get a physical and passed. (How they palpated his abdomen and missed a 15 cm tumor I just dont know, I could feel it myself) He died the first of this year, and I never saw the old Rick again. I wanted to cherish our remaining time but he seemed unable to ...feel, for the lack of a better word. I wonder if anyone else has gone thru anything like this. I feel like I lost my husband long before I actually experienced his death. I do believe it was the cancer, I found no evidence of anything else. The timing was right, but I am still confused about it. So I focus on thought of the normal Rick who was a bunch of fun almost my whole married life. But the last few years I was married to a stranger.


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Feb. 5, 2009
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, Feb. 9, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., will make the following presentations to residents and county staff. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711. Information on the Feb. 9 meeting, including an agenda, can be found online.
Sheriff's Office Honor Guard
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office Honor Guard for its accomplishments in a 2008 competition sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The Honor Guard placed first in the best-dressed category and second in the marching competition. The annual event is held at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Bill Renner
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Bill Renner for his years of service to Fairfax County. Renner has served for 20 years as a football coach and physical education teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools at Mount Vernon, Langley and West Springfield high schools. Renner also is a nationally recognized expert on punting and kicking and has mentored college and National Football League punters.
Springfield Mall
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the staff of Springfield Mall for its civic-minded response on Inauguration Day. They allowed more than 2,200 vehicles to park on the mall's premises, which enabled many residents and visitors to participate in the inauguration event and ease the effects of the traffic in the vicinity of the nearby Metro station.
Peter Braham
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Peter Braham for his years of service to Fairfax County. For more than two decades Braham was the lead staff member on numerous zoning applications for the Zoning Evaluation Division of the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning. Projects he worked on include Kingstowne, Laurel Hill, the Tysons Urban Center and the Springfield Mall redevelopment.
Engineers Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate the week of Feb. 15-21, 2009, as Engineers Week in Fairfax County and urges all residents to join in recognition and tribute to this diverse and talented group of professionals and the many ongoing contributions they make in Fairfax County.
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I saw Paul George retweet a message calling for his return. In another thread I saw quotes from Dahntay Jones saying he did a great job and essentially that he wants him back.
Has anyone else said or done anything publicly yet to support his return? Did I miss anyone?


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Updated: December 30, 2012 12:46 PM
The Everett Silvertips beat the Seattle Thunderbirds 2-1 in overtime Saturday night at Comcast Arena in Everett.
This was the second game of a home-and-home series between the two teams. Everett won 2-1 Friday night at ShoWare Center.
Seattle outshot Everett 12-11 a scoreless first period.
Everett (15-22-0-1) took a 1-0 lead at 9:26 of the second period when Josh Winquist scored. Manraj Hayer had the only assist on the goal.
Both teams had 13 shots on goal in the second period and the T-Birds lead 25-24 in total shots after 40 minutes.
Seattle (16-18-2-1) tied the game late in the third period. Connor Sanvido intercepted a Silvertips pass in the Seattle zone and broke up the left wing with Seth Swenson on his right. In the left circle Sanvido took a wrist shot that deflected off an Everett defenseman's stick right to Swenson in the right circle. Everett goalie Austin Lotz went down to stop Sanvido's shot which gave Swenson the whole net to shoot at. Swenson snapped the puck past an out of position Lotz for his 12th goal of the season, which came at 15:27 of the period.
The T-Birds outshot the Silvertips 8-4 in the third period and led 33-28 in total shots after regulation.
Winquist won the game at 1:56 of overtime when he scored on a breakaway. Nick Walters made a long stretch pass to a breaking Winquist to get the only assist.
Seattle outshot Everett 35-30 in the game.
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover stopped 28 of 30 shots and his record is now 15-13-2-1.
Lotz made 34 saves on 35 shots and his record is now 7-12-0-2.
The T-Birds travel to Portland to take on the Winterhawks on Monday in the team's annual New Year's Eve game. The game is at the Rose Garden at 8 p.m.
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2012-13 season are available online at the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office.
Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.
First period - No scoring. Penalties - Elliot, Sea (major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct), 7:10. Grayson, Evt (major-fighting), 7:10. Sanvido, Sea (slashing), 13:40. Harrison, Evt (interference), 19:21.
Second period -1, Everett, Winquist 13 (Hayer), 9:26. Penalties - Winquist, Evt (slashing), 4:51. Cox, Evt (tripping), 9:53.Bauml, Evt (hooking), 13:36. Adam, Evt (roughing), 14:37. Swenson, Sea (roughing), 14:37. Theodore, Sea (tripping), 16:21. Wardley, Sea (rouging), 17:48.
Third period - 2, Seattle, Swenson 12 (Sanvido), 15:27. Penalties - Walters, Evt (interference), 9:31.
Overtime - 3, Everett, Winquist 14 (Walters),1:56. Penalties - No penalties.
Shots on goal - Seattle 12-13-8-2 35, Everett 11-13-4-2 30. Goalies - Seattle, Glover 30 shots-28 saves (15-13-2-1); Everett, Lotz 35-34 (7-12-0-2). Power plays - Seattle 0-5; Everett 0-3. A - 7,653. Referees - Jeff Ingram, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen - Adam Brastad, Mark


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Some youngsters go to summer camp to learn to swim or canoe, but 37 Colorado high school students this summer are attending the University of Colorado at Boulder to learn about philosophy.
The Summer Philosophy Institute is designed to provide an introduction to college life and to the methods and subject matter of philosophy as a way of enriching students appreciation of literature, art, history and Western culture.
Participants in the Summer Philosophy Institute are living in residence halls, attending lectures and debating current philosophical issues including free will and determinism, the relationship between mind and body, the nature of knowledge, the basis of morality and other issues in personal identity.
A culturally, financially and geographically diverse group of students is enrolled for the institute from July 20 through July 26 and from July 27 through Aug. 2 on the Boulder campus. The institute was started two years ago by the CU-Boulder Center for Values and Social Policy and the philosophy department.
Colorado students attending the CU-Boulder 1997 Summer Philosophy Institute include:
Arvada West High School: Kevin Jones
Aspen High School: Derek Ward and Mirte Mallory
Overland High School: Mat Trafton
Fountian Valley High School: Colin Day
High Plains High School: Roxanne Stone
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Roaring Fork High School: Rachel Mulry
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Air Academy High School: Grant Foy
Montrose High School: Ilana Moir
Colorado Academy: Katie Stuckey
George Washington High School: Richard Jeong
Skyview: Siobhan Barros
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Littleton High School: Roxanne Baca
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Oglethorpe's Theatre Department is starting the year off right by welcoming new Theatre Director/Visiting Assistant Professor Matt Huff and by offering ways for both Theatre and non-theatre majors to get involved.
The 2010 Season kicks off this week with Georgia Shakespeare's "Welcome Back" Mixer for OU Students on Wednesday, August 25 at 6 pm in the Conant Performing Arts Center. (Georgia Shakespeare is Oglethorpe's professional theatre in residence.) Come schmooze and eat pizza with the GA Shakes staff, OU Theatre faculty and students and learn about the exciting theatrical opportunities available to you this year.
Immediately following the mixer, auditions for Stop Kiss by Diana Son and Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton will be held from 7:30-10 pm in Rehearsal Room A (third floor of Conant). All actors are welcome! Auditions will consist of cold readings of scenes from the scripts that will be provided. Not familiar with the plays? Check out copies in the Theatre Office (2nd Floor, Conant)–but please return them quickly as there are only a few copies of each.
Callbacks for Stop Kiss will be held the following night, Thursday, August 26 from 6:30-9:30pm. Rehearsals will begin the weekend of August 28. Callbacks for Women Beware Women will be scheduled in a few weeks.
In Stop Kiss, hardened New Yorker Callie befriends an optimistic newcomer to the city, Sarah, and the two unexpectedly fall for each other. Their first kiss, however, is violently interrupted forcing both women on a journey to discover who they are and what they are willing to commit to. Stop Kiss will run September 23-25.
Women Beware Women, Thomas Middleton's salacious examination of sex, power and politics, is as shockingly depraved today as it was in the 17th century. This rarely performed Jacobean thriller spins a tale of lust and betrayal so destructive, the play easily lives up to its title. Women Beware Women will run November 18-20.
Make plans to take part in these productions–either on stage or in the audience–and be reminded why Princeton Review ranked OU's Theatre among the top twenty theatre programs in the country.


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One ml of pure water is equal to one cubic cm and is one gram. But Jonie had a sample of one ml of pure water but its mass was slightly more than a gram. How can this be?
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Speculations on Openings, Closings, and Thresholds in International Public Media
Monday, July 26, 2010
Blog written by Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema studies at Ithaca College and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
8 is a lucky number in Singapore, especially at Chinese New Year. During Lucky Draws at parties, a sort of raffle with a generous collective ambience where small gifts are dispensed (I won a bunch of neon highlighters!), any number drawn that has an 8 in it elicits hurrahs. 8 is auspicious: good luck, good fortune, good health, good cheer. My time at NTU was auspicious indeed, blessed with all four.
My six month appointment as the Shaw Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore bloomed with many 8's.
Below is Part 1 of my list of my take-aways from my wonderfully engaged colleagues at SCI, in no particular order of importance, with my first four in this posting. They are highlights but also useful metaphors and maybe even benchmarks or conversations for US colleges and universities, now grappling with precipitious cutbacks and reorganizations from the GEC (the acronym Singaporeans bestowed on the Global Economic Collapse, barely felt in Asia):
1. The SCI Weekly Research Seminar. Organized by my colleague Marko Skoric, an intensely clear-thinking quantitative communication scholar from Serbia , the weekly seminar featured scholars from both SCI and across campus. 20-30 minutes of presentation, then discussion.
After the ferocious "let me make an intervention" battle calls of Northeastern US intellectual life, I appreciated the more collegial and less combative style. Maybe it was the round table we all sat around. Maybe it was the fact that the room was filled with faculty from so many disciplines and methodological schools in communications. Maybe it was the Asian value of harmony. Who knows?
I heard about remittance cultures in Asia and new media, about global Asian cities marketing themselves as new media and IT promised lands, IT access for development in Nepal and Indonesia, the problems of Asian communications schools teaching courses from a US perspective, the SARS epidemic and representation, internet law in Malaysia, social media and news in Germany.
I learned so much from these presentations because they exceeded my own discipline of film/media studies and historiography and pushed me beyond my comfort zone. It didn't matter if there were 5 or 35 faculty in attendance. The ideas and research popped with freshness. The research seminar changed a lot of my ideas. And it was a great way to meet people for future lunches of dim sum or laksa.
2. The SCI Book Exchange. On the fourth floor of the SCI building, a faculty lounge offered coffee, tea (always my favorite, the stronger brew of Lipton Yellow Label, hard to procure in the US), snacks, a continuous news feed from Channel News Asia, and, my favorite, a book exchange.
Across Asia, you'll see these book exchanges in hotels and hostels. Books are heavy to carry, and, very expensive in Asia. The book exchange at SCI struck me as both practical—books are expensive so why not share ?—and symbolic—ideas circulated and were shared.
Spy, thriller, suspense, historical, and literary novels, travel guides to countries in Southeast Asia and communication books, jammed the shelves. There was also plenty of trash reading, although as an former English lit major, trash is not to my taste.
I borrowed quite a few literary novels—Marguerite Duras (who wrote feminist novels about sexuality and Vietnam), Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, John Burdett (who writes detective novels set in Thailand), Jhumpa Lahiri. And I left books there as well.
I liked how the book exchange idea was pirated from backpackers and then adapted. I wondered why more US based departments don't adopt this practice. In a puritanical and individualistic culture, maybe we can't admit we read novels --or anything--for fun and relaxation. They remain secret pleasures.
3. Continuous Discussions about Pedagogy. By US Carnegie criteria, NTU would be considered a Research institution in Tier 1.
In the US, an ideology persists that only four year student-centered institutions care about teaching, with those student-remote research one schools focused exclusively on publication.
What I discovered at NTU was that a lot of these schools in the US claiming to focus on teaching actually focus on catering to students, student evaluations, student centered learning and the potential market for future students—a big difference from pedagogy. Students in the US often are figured as simultaneously customers, a market, and clients. I wish we could think of students as burgeoning intellectuals. My former dean, Thomas Bohn, once told me when I was a young assistant professor that our job as faculty is to invite students into a larger disciplinary based conversation. Quite a different idea from a service-centered pedagogy....
Not a day passed at NTU without a substantive and deeeply intellectual discussion about pedagogical issues, whether it was with colleagues or administrators: how to deliver an effective curriculum, how to update courses with new research, how to structure courses around ideas and their development, how to build intellectual critique and good writing skills. Research and teaching were always intertwined, like the yin and yang symbol so prevalent across Asia.
A continuing topic of discussion was the question of laptops and various electronics infiltrating the classroom, with some students doing continuous Facebook updating during class! My colleagues Mark Cenite and Nikki Draper confronted this menace to engagement as an intellectual conundrum that needed careful deconstruction culturally, socially, economically, ethically.They were not dismissive of these students, but wanted to understand what was happening in the cultural shift towards ubiquitous social media in order to structure their classroom time to maximize engagement.
In cinema studies at IC, we have suffered through this same problem given extensive campus WiFI and a requirement for laptops in the School of Communications, and instituted a Laptop and Electronic Device Policy that effectively bars all devices during classtime. It's on our syllabi, and gives us the right to ask students to suspend their social media practices. SCI Faculy were interested in this policy, and wanted to instituted something similar. I felt quite useful sharing our cinema studies laptop policy. Big thanks to my colleague Matt Fee who popped the current version over to me.
4. International Faculty: The Real Deal. Over the last ten years, the word "international" works like a barnacle attaching itself to the boats of higher education.
It appears in so many mission statements, strategic plans, assessments, and facilitated brainstorming sessions that no one ever seems to ask how it is defined and actualized—at least in the US.
Most US faculty I know figure these incantations of "internationalism" present a contradictory moment.
On the one hand, in the shifting and increasingly volatile terrain of transnational corporate life, graduates (and institutions) no longer have the luxury of isolationism and English-only. On the other hand, with twenty years of globalization, post-colonial, cosmopolitan, critical race, and other theories of the periphery, research and teaching are much more carefully situated within global flows and power relations, so new faculty are pushing curricula away from its American-centeredness.
At NTU, I experienced a different way of considering "international." Faculty in SCI came from 18 different countries, including England, Burma, India, Malaysia, the US, Singapore,Serbia, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Mexico. I didn't find one course based on a single country. Courses seemed to be structured around salient issues and important trajectories. And I rarely heard a research presentation on a single country.
Maybe it is because Singapore is so small, with only 5 million residents. Maybe it is because Singapore has always been an entrepot, a port in global flows reaching back a thousand years.
Whatever the reason, working in an environment that was this international rerouted my vectors, my teaching, my curatorial work, my writing, my ideas, my reading, my theoretical orientations, and what I read in the Singapore Straits Times and the International Herald Tribune. It was exciting. And, it was intellectually invigorating, like going to a spa for one's mind, getting the kinks kneaded out and the toxins flushed.
I looked forward to going into my SCI office everyday, wondering who I would talk to and what we would talk about. My days were filled with questions, rather than answers. And maybe, in the end, it reconnected me to why we all became academics in the first place.
Stay tuned for Part II, and more auspicious take-aways.
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Thanks for the kind words, Tom. Coming back is a lot harder than leaving, that's for sure! And...no laksa or lime juice, anywhere!
Tom, did you have take-aways from teaching in Mongolia? Any impact on how you thinking/conceive teaching and writing and programming?
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Will Richie Sambora Return To Bon Jovi Tonight?
Will guitarist Richie Sambora return to Bon Jovi in front of a hometown crowd at MetLife Stadium tonight?
The website Radar Online says Sambora, a Woodbridge native, would like to make his return during the band's 2 shows in the Meadowlands Thursday and Saturday night but claims Jon Bon Jovi won't allow it.
"Jon won't allow Richie to come back for that show," says an unnamed source. "And Jon won't even pick up the phone and talk to Sambora. Sambora has tried to end this feud but Jon won't respond."
The site says Jon is more interested in making money from the tour he can put towards his dream of owning a NFL franchise.
Sambora left the band during a stop on the "Because We Can" tour in Calgary suddenly for "personal reasons" that have never been made public. The band that night also made a donation to to the Calgary Homeless Foundation, according to the Metro of Calgary, to make up for the missing Sambora.
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For the MetLife Stadium shows tonight and Saturday, NJ Transit will be running trains from Hoboken to Meadowlands station through the Secaucus station.
The first train will leave for the Meadowlands from Hoboken on Thursday at 3:29 p.m. and at 3:03 p.m. on Saturday. The last train will leave the Meadowlands at 12:40 a.m. but trains could run later depending on when the concert ends.
According to the stadium's website the parking lots for the concert will open at 2:30p.m. on both days and the gates into the stadium open at 6:00 p.m. The J.Geils Band is scheduled to take the stage at 7:30 p.m. and the concert will end at 11:00 p.m.
Even with the chance of showers in the forecast for Thursday night umbrellas are not allowed into the stadium.


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National news story highlights the difference Baylor's Parents Network makes
Last week, the Associated Press ran a story on the demise of the care package, specifically those being sent by parents to their college-age children. The story cited stories of how parents from all across the country support their kids — but even the Ivy League-educated reporter noted there was something unique about Baylor parents:
"Parents of kids at Baylor University, a Christian school in Texas, have different priorities: They hold parent meetings around the country to assemble care packages together, and they tuck Scripture verses in with the toothbrushes and snacks."
Those meetings are part of the Baylor Parents Network, which incorporates Baylor parents into the Baylor family. The Parents Network offers resources to help moms and dads adjust to their children leaving the nest, while at the same time bringing together Baylor parents to support one another and their students.
More than three dozen chapters are scattered across Texas, and three dozen more outside the state connect Baylor parents from as farflung locations as Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle. Regular events include Send Off Parties each summer, monthly prayer meetings throughout the year, and "Bear Care" packaging parties, in which parents meet to assemble care packages for their children and children's friends.
Perhaps the most telling statement about the community built within the Baylor Parents Network is this: Many of the network's most active volunteers are parents whose kids have long since graduated — moms and dads, many of whom didn't even attend Baylor, who remain active in the Parents Network because of the friends they've made and the good they see being done.
Want to join them in helping support Baylor students (whether yours or others)? Click here to find a chapter near you.
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On the first day i filmed a group with two Swedish juniors, Locastro, Gurthie and McBeth. On the second Shusterick, McBeth, Owens, Feldberg and Piironen. Today and tomorrow the MPO lead group. I have shots from others groups as well from single throws to a little over one hole. Except i got more holes partially filmed from Val, Paige, Holly and the rest in their card after i had filmed the guys. I ran out of battery power so i did not get each of the holes the ladies played from then on. And i was not filming like usual following the flight of the disc each time. So it might not be interesting to see all the time what kind of throws the ladies had since that is not always what's on the screen. We were asked to show emotions of the players so we tried at times to zoom in on the faces of the players after throwing.


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For fans of the The Classic Malts Selection, a range of malt whiskies that neatly represents the breadth of the Scottish distilling regions, there's been a lot of tasting to do lately. Six of its distilleries have issued double-matured drams and the Talisker distillery celebrates its 175th birthday with a very special vatting of whiskies.
The double-matured whiskies-Talisker, Oban, Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie, Cragganmore and Glenkinchie-had traditionally only aged in refilled Bourbon casks. According to the Talisker distillery manager, Charlie Smith, the group was responding to consumers keen to explore "the next stage." The task was to select wood to match the idiosyncrasies of each whisky. Five of the six were finished in Sherry casks and Cragganmore received a Port finish. The project was begun in 1997, but it's only now reaching the States. "We've been a little selfish," Smith allows.
Scotch age-statement regulations disallowed adding together the periods of different maturation to calculate age. Instead the labels of the Distillers Editions ($65) were printed with the distillation and bottling dates. "You do the math," says Smith.
The delicate Speyside Cragganmore (distilled 1992) was finished in Port as it was predicted not to retain its light character in Sherry. The Distillers Edition is a bit softer and less smoky, but gains rich, nutty, toasty flavors plus oak and meaty fruit. Anise warms the cream finish.
Glenkinchie (1991), from the Lowlands, is typically easy drinking. Aged in Amontillado Sherry wood, it opens up with sweet, hard-candy nose and becomes more savory on the palate, with oak, butter, biscuit and Parmesan cheese. It finishes longer and drier.
Dalwhinnie (1990), of the Highlands, took an Oloroso Sherry finish, which markedly deepened its color and its body. Fruit, floral and heather notes turn supple with olive oil, oak, peat and hard candy. A bit of anise and sesame seed on the finish.
Oban, from the west Highlands, was put in Montilla Fino Sherry casks, which took its fruit to a sweeter, less citrus place. The salt is subdued, the finish longer.
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Tetanus is a life-threatening infection caused by bacteria that live in dirt. Some people are at higher risk for infections than others, like people who work with horses. Thanks to regular vaccinations, tetanus infections are rare here in Australia, and people should get regular boosters to keep them from getting sick if they come into contact with the bacteria. Tetanus is so serious that, even with treatment, someone who gets infected might die.
Tetanus is caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani. These bacteria live in dirt and soil, and enter the body through a cut or other wound. Tetanus is not contagious. Symptoms develop anywhere between three days and three weeks after infection. Usually, the faster symptoms appear, the more serious the infection is.
Tetanus is very serious and kills about one in ten people who contract it. Tetanus can cause breathing problems and convulsions. Even people who get treated can die from the infection.
You can prevent tetanus by getting vaccinated - tetanus is rare here in Australia because of vaccinations. With vaccinations, even if your child comes in contact with the tetanus bacteria, he will not get sick. Kids are vaccinated at two months, four months, six months, four years, and in secondary school. Adults should have a tetanus booster shot every ten years to be protected.
Tetanus produces some pretty serious symptoms such as:
In serious cases, tetanus can lead to pneumonia, heart attack, low or high blood pressure, and even suffocation.
Tetanus is treated with antibiotics, antitoxins, and anti-convulsant medications. If your child gets tetanus, he might have to be hospitalised for months and may even need to be on life support.
Tetanus is a life-threatening emergency so call your doctor right away if your child is showing signs of an infection.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.
Last revised: Monday, 18 January 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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As I watched the 3OT game on Thursday (end of regulation and all 3 OT periods), I overheard one of the announcers make a comparison between the Fever's SG DeForge and Reggie Miller. At first, I was like, "Y'all are just reachin'." I admit I hadn't had very many opportunities to catch a Fever's game on TV, but even in those few I did see I never made that connection. Until today...
I watched the first half of their Game 2 playoff matchup against the Connecticut Suns and that's when I saw it.
@ SG - DeForge = Reggie Miller
@ PG - Bevilaqua = Mark Jackson
It was as if I were back in time watching Reggie and Jax execute the high screens again to perfection! Bevilaqua executed the offensive magnificently in both games, but she really out did herself in Game 2 pushing the tempo, setting picks, making crisp passes. And DeForge! That girl can shot the rock! And she plays with so much passion. I kept looking at the screen thinking to myself, "This isn't women's basketball. No way!" That is until Whitemore would throw up a wild, out of control shot under the basket miss or Catchings would make a nice crossover move, but couldn't finish. Then I'd be like, "Yep, it's the ladies alright. " But man can they play!
Those girls switched on defense constantly, always playing unselfishly. It was then that I couldn't help asking myself, "Can my Pacers ever execute and play unselfishly they way this Fever team is playing right now?"
This I know for sure: This Indianapolis Fever team has come to play! And for the first time, I'm feeling the Fever!
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Akron's dreams of a memorable March were in danger of ending in the worst way possible.
Zeke Marshall rescued them.
Dominating at both ends, the Zips' 7-foot-center scored 18 points with 10 rebounds and seven blocks as Akron, rocked last week by the suspension of point guard Alex Abreu, kept its NCAA tournament hopes alive by beating rival Kent State 62-59 on Friday night in the Mid-American Conference semifinals.
Playing just their second game without Abreu, who was arrested last week on drug trafficking charges, the Zips (25-6) overcame atrocious foul shooting (13 of 29) to make the MAC final for the seventh straight year.
Marshall and the Zips wouldn't be denied.
"I've never seen anything like what our guys did," said Akron coach Keith Dambrot. "We were emotionally ruptured last week. I've never seen anything like what Zeke Marshall did. That was the most unbelievable performance. I've never seen anything like that in my life."
Dambrot can be excused for some exaggeration. He never could have imagined losing Abreu, his top playmaker and inspirational leader, who was charged with marijuana possession and trafficking after police said he accepted a package containing five pounds of pot.
But with a week to heal, the Zips got better.
"It hit us hard," Marshall said. "We had a goal to make a run in the NCAA tournament and to do that we had to step up."
Randal Holt scored 19 points for Kent State (20-13), which lost to Akron for the third straight year in the tournament.
Golden Flashes forward Chris Evans, who scored 25 in a quarterfinal win over Buffalo, had just six points on 1-of-11 shooting before fouling out.
"It was a frustrating night for me," Evans said. "I was attacking like I usually do, but Zeke came over and blocked some shots. That was the difference."
Demetrius Treadwell added 14 points for the Zips, who will meet Ohio on Saturday for the conference's automatic NCAA bid.
Abreu's shocking arrest last week near campus had threatened to derail a special season for the Zips. Akron had a 19-game winning streak and gained national attention before Abreu was arrested the day before a loss at home to the Golden Flashes in the regular-season finale.
With a week to work freshman Carmelo Betancourt into the starting lineup, Dambrot wasn't sure what to expect from his team.
The Zips, though, dug down and persevered.
"We've been through a lot of battles before," Dambrot said. "You saw our guys just rev it up."
Marshall was a force in the second half - he had 14 points and six blocks after halftime - and his layup with 1:59 left pulled Akron within 57-56. Treadwell scored inside to give Akron the lead, and on Kent State's next possession, the junior forward stole a handoff to give the Zips possession.
Nick Harney, who played point for much of the second half, split a pair of free throws and then missed two more with 36 seconds left to keep Kent State close.
Holt missed a pair of jumpers, and Akron senior Brian Walsh stepped to the line and calmly made two free throws - his only points - to give the Zips a 61-57 lead with 6.7 seconds left.
Holt made an uncontested layup in the final second, and Marshall made a free throw with .02 on the clock, closing out a win the Zips had to have to keep their NCAA dreams from dying.
The MAC hasn't had two teams make the NCAA field since 1999, and a loss would surely have ended any chance Akron had of impressing the tournament committee.
Playing cautiously after picking up two fouls, Evans didn't score for the first 19:54 of the first half. He announced his arrival with a stunning dunk.
The 6-foot-8 senior powered down the lane and slammed over Marshall, and then Evans and his teammates celebrated the stunning play with loud screams that could be heard over the roaring Kent State crowd. The dunk helped the Golden Flashes take a 32-29 halftime lead.
But Evans never got it going in the second half and dejectedly went to the bench after fouling out in the final minute.
Following the game, Dambrot acknowledged the events of the past week have drained him.
"It's been very tough," he said. "I wasn't right for five or six days. I'm still not right. But I can't let that get in the way of winning basketball games. I owe that to our team."


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With sub-zero temperatures upon us, the RSPB is advising people to make sure their bird feeders and tables are full of high-energy foods - plus, find out what else needs doing in the garden this week.
By Hannah Stephenson
How long is it since you filled your bird feeder or replenished the water in your birdbath? If you haven't done it for a while, there's no time like the present.
"The sudden drop in temperatures across the UK will have been a big shock to birds' systems after spending the past couple of months with few worries in terms of food availability," says Richard James, RSPB wildlife adviser.
"Thanks to the recent mild weather, many natural food sources have been readily available and water has been easy to come by. Now the snow and ice are here birds will need all the help they can get to survive the winter."
However, the range of bird seeds, fat balls and other so-called bird-friendly items can leave gardeners baffled as to what's best for our feathered friends.
The RSPB suggests calorie-rich foods such as mixed seed, nyjer seed, fatballs, suet sprinkles, sunflower seed and good quality peanuts, as well as kitchen scraps such as mild grated cheese, rice and porridge oats.
There are different mixes for feeders and for bird tables and ground feeding. The better mixtures contain plenty of flaked maize, sunflower seeds, and peanut granules.
Small seeds, such as millet, attract mostly house sparrows, dunnocks, finches, reed buntings and collared doves, while flaked maize is taken readily by blackbirds.
Tits and greenfinches favour peanuts and sunflower seeds. Mixes that contain chunks or whole nuts are suitable for winter feeding only.
Pinhead oatmeal is excellent for many birds. Wheat and barley grains are often included in seed mixtures, but they are really only suitable for pigeons, doves and pheasants, which feed on the ground and rapidly increase in numbers, frequently deterring the smaller species.
Avoid seed mixtures that have split peas, beans, dried rice or lentils as again only the large species can eat them dry. These are added to some cheaper seed mixes to bulk them up. Any mixture containing green or pink lumps should also be avoided as these are dog biscuit, which can only be eaten when soaked.
Don't feed the birds cooked fat from roasting tins and dishes, because the fat may have blended with meat juices which leaves a mixture prone to smearing, which is not good for the birds' feathers, and is a breeding ground for bacteria, the charity warns.
Polyunsaturated margarines and vegetable oils are also unsuitable as birds need high levels of saturated fat to retain the high energy to keep warm, and soft fats can be smeared on to feathers, destroying the waterproofing qualities.
Lard and beef suet on their own are fine as they re-solidify after warming and are not as prone to bacteria breeding because they are pure fat.
Never give milk to the birds because it can result in serious stomach upsets or even death. They can, however, digest fermented dairy products such as mild grated cheese, which may attract robins, wrens and dunnocks.
If you want to give the birds coconut, only give them the fresh stuff in the shell, rinsing out any sweet coconut water before hanging it out, to stop black mildew emerging. Desiccated coconut should never be used as it can swell inside the bird, with fatal consequences.
Cooked rice without added salt can be beneficial to birds during severe winter weather, while uncooked porridge oats are fine for many bird species. You can also put out small quantities of dry breakfast cereal .
A supply of water is also essential for bathing and preening. In freezing conditions birds become more dependent on water provided in gardens, since many natural sources are frozen over.
The most effective way to keep the water in your garden from freezing is to pop in a light ball that will be moved by even a gentle breeze - a ping-pong ball is ideal.
Alternatively, pour on hot water to melt the ice to make sure the birds can get to it.
Put out enough food and you may see a wider variety of visitors during the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch (Jan 26 and 27), the world's biggest wildlife survey.
:: For more information, visit www.rspb.org.uk Best of the bunch - Corkscrew Hazel (Corylus avellana 'Contorta') Its curiously twisted branches look particularly striking against a backdrop of a clear blue sky and it provides a conspicuous, if a little spooky, edge to the winter scene.
While many hazels are too big to grow in the average garden, the corkscrew hazel is slow-growing, so will take years to reach its eventual height of 5m.
In February the stems will be further decorated by the 5cm (2in) long pale yellow hazel catkins. It is ideal underplanted with early flowering bulbs and marble-leaved arums and will grow in sunny or semi-shaded sites in fertile, well-drained soil. Remove suckers and any unwanted stems in the winter.
Good enough to eat - Garlic We have garlic in so many dishes these days that it's not difficult to justify the little time and effort it takes to grow your own.
Buy bulbs that are certified virus-free from seed merchants rather than planting one you've bought from a supermarket because the results may be disappointing if you cut corners.
Break up the bulb and plant the cloves in prepared, well-drained ground in a sunny spot, placing them 15cm apart and pointed end up, so the tip is just covered with soil.
Cover them with cloches in frosty weather. Each one will produce a whole bulb which should store until the following spring.
If you live in a cold area, speed up the process by planting the cloves in divided seed trays in multi-purpose compost, water in well and place them in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse.
They should be ready for planting out in March or April. In dry spells, keep garlic well watered or you may find the resulting bulbs don't keep for very long.
Three ways to... Save plants in windy gardens 1. Avoid plants with big leaves and those that come into flower early in the season because they are more vulnerable to wind damage.
2. Protect vegetable plots with windbreak netting, as wind will slow plant growth by increasing water loss through evaporation, and keep new plants well watered.
3. Try to grow fruit crops against sheltered walls because pollinating insects avoid windy areas.
What to do this week :: Protect winter-flowering bulbous irises in the garden from severe cold or damp.
:: Brush snow off the branches off shrubs to avoid the branches snapping under the weight.
:: Start forcing pots of lily bulbs for Easter and early summer flowering.
:: Give perennial vegetables such as asparagus and artichoke a dressing of general fertiliser, which will have time to wash down to their roots, ready for the new growing season.
:: Sow an early crop of salad onions, such as 'White Lisbon', in a greenhouse border.
:: Apply a winter wash over your fruit trees and bushes to stop overwintering pests in their tracks.
:: Continue to plant bare-root trees while they are dormant, if weather permits and the ground is soft enough.
:: Renew compost in permanent pots by scraping off the top couple of inches and replacing it with fresh compost.
:: Move containers to a sheltered spot during freezing weather.
:: Trim down agapanthus stalks and wilted leaves at the base while they are dormant.
:: If any of your variegated shrubs show plain green shoots, cut them off a the base or they will quickly outgrow the variegated leaves.


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Have you noticed that your health food markets have stocked fridges full of kombucha tea? In only a few years, kombucha has become king of the healthy beverage craze. Loved for its fizziness and signature sweet and sour flavor, fans of kombucha also love its probiotics, B vitamins, and beneficial acids — kombucha is practically liquid gold with the cost of a 16-ounce bottle averaging $4. It should be noted, however, that this traditional Eastern-originating brew has not undergone Western scientific research to support all of its health claims.
We met up with brewmaster Otto Thorsen of Three Stone Hearth, a community cooperative kitchen in Berkeley, CA, to learn the basics of brewing a delicious kombucha tea. Stay tuned for a detailed recipe for black tea kombucha and my experience making a home brew.


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The decision to undergo facial plastic surgery is a very personal and important one, requiring mutual understanding and rapport between patient and surgeon. Fortunately, because this form of plastic surgery is largely elective, the patient is allowed adequate time to thoroughly understand the details and ramifications of any desired procedure. It is our intention to ensure that all questions are answered completely, and that each patient approaches surgery with the confidence and expectation born of a realistic understanding of the goals and limitations of surgery. The facial plastic surgeon is a highly trained, skilled and artistic physician.
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The degree of success in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery depends not entirely upon the surgeon's technical skills and analysis, but often upon the limitations inherent in each patient's type of skin, bone structure, healing capacities and overall health status. If any limitations exist in your case, they will be pointed out and explained factually and honestly. Certain patients simply are not good candidates for surgery, and may be understandably disappointed when plastic surgery is not recommended or is delayed until a more appropriate time when results will be better.
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The goal of cosmetic surgery is to make you look as good as it is possible for you to look. Surgery cannot do more than that. We always try to produce "natural" facial features, thereby improving appearance and minimizing facial abnormality. When we discuss the various procedures in this booklet, we are speaking in terms of the average case; individual variations certainly exist.
The purpose of this web site is exclusively to provide you with information and knowledge upon which intelligent decisions may be made. No portion should be construed as implying a warranty or guarantee of any specific surgical result. Finally, cosmetic surgical procedures have been performed successfully many thousands of times and are overwhelmingly dependable when executed by experienced surgeons.
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The Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Division at OHSU provides a number of services, and performs procedures to improve the look and/or function of the face and neck area. The Introduction to our services booklet (you need Adobe Reader), goes into some detail about our clinics, procedures, and some things to consider about facial plastic surgery. Our open house and special events give you an opportunity to meet our providers, discuss your needs, learn about plastic surgery, and to win great prizes!
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Please contact our office regarding scheduling appointments. Prior to scheduling an appointment, our providers often need to review chart notes related to the reason you want to be seen in order to coordinate any additional tests they may need in order to make the most of your visit. In some cases, we will require a referral from your primary care physician. We would be happy to discuss this with you to ensure we have all we need to expedite the scheduling process. Please contact us by phone or email to begin the process.
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STARKE, Fla. - Florida executed one of the longest-serving inmates on its death row Wednesday evening, 32 years after he kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old girl who was riding her bike to school after a dental appointment.
Larry Eugene Mann was put to death by lethal injection for kidnapping and murdering Elisa Vera Nelson on Nov. 4, 1980. Melissa Sellers, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Scott's office, said Mann was pronounced dead at 7:19 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Starke.
The death sentence was carried out more than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mann's latest appeal. The condemned man answered "Uh, uh, no sir," when asked if he had any last words before the procedure began. There were 28 witnesses to the execution, including media and corrections personnel, and a group of Elisa's relatives sat in the front row wearing buttons with her photo on them.
In 1980, Mann tried killing himself immediately after the girl's slaying, slashing his wrists and telling responding police officers he had "done something stupid." They thought he was talking about the suicide attempt until a couple of days later when Mann's wife found a bloodied note written by Elisa's mother explaining why she was late for school.
While Mann sought to die the day he killed Elisa, his lawyers had succeeded in keeping him alive for decades through scores of appeals. His lawyers didn't contest his guilt during appeals, but rather whether he had been properly sentenced to death.
Elisa was riding her bike to school on the day she was killed. Mann kidnapped her, took her to an orange grove, cut her throat and then beat her head with a pole with a concrete base.
"Larry Mann is the poster child for what is wrong with the system," said Wendy Nelson, the girl's mother. "His guilt has never been an issue."
That was in 1996.
"It's been 32 years, and people say, 'Oh you know, closure.' There's never closure," her aunt, Wanda Vekasi, said recently as the scheduled execution date loomed. "But at least my tax dollars will no longer be supporting that creep."
Of the 406 inmates on death row in Florida, only 28 had been there longer than Mann.
Mann woke up at 6 a.m. and had his final meal at 10 a.m, including fried shrimp, fish and scallops, stuffed crabs, ice cream and a soda. His only visitors were his two lawyers and a spiritual adviser. His mood was calm and somber in the hours leading up to the execution time, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Ann Howard.
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Welcome everyone, to the Royal Ramble! I am Trick the writer of the Royal Ramble! Follow me on twitter @TheRoyalRamble once I get out of Twitter jail. This is the first addition to my weekly review blog on Raw! Before I start, if whatever I say offends or pisses anyone off, well then grow a pair and move on! Happy 4th of July by the way! Let's kick things off
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Over bowls of steaming pea soup and corn and quinoa soup, members of Midtown's Soup Group gathered to share food, ideas and life stories, just as they have done each month for the past 2 1/2 years.
Soup, salad and wine. Neighborhood children playing together in the hallways and garden patio. The soup group is capturing something many residents say is missing from Palo Alto these days: a real sense of community, they said.
Rose ladled the chartreuse pea soup made from fresh English peas into bowls and passed them around. Optional additions included crème fraiche, mint leaves and chunks of ham. Everything is local and the vegetables come from the Palo Alto farmers market, she said.
When visitors arrive, some bring their own bowls or spoons, but this isn't a potluck. Only the host does the cooking. All that is required of guests is to show up, she said.
People say Palo Alto is a different place these days — less friendly and more disconnected, said Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa, who attended the Friday gathering. But soup groups such as Midtown's could be just what anyone's grandmother would order for an ailing quality of life.
"People say there is not a sense of community. I tell them to do something about that. Here are people doing it right. With soup, it's so easy to do," he said.
It's a no-pressure affair that Rose's husband, David Hsiao, said is not "fancy schmancy."
"This is a great way to create a low bar of entry. Soup and salad is something almost everyone can eat," he said.
Sutida Majarone, a Thai native who moved to the neighborhood in March, had not eaten pea soup before, she said as she sampled the soup. Majarone has hosted the soup group, making spicy Thai soup for her guests, she said. Having a chance to share food and culture on a neighborhood level is appealing because in Thailand food is central and people eat 24 hours a day, she said.
As a new resident, having a monthly gathering place with neighbors also keeps relationships going beyond the cursory cup of sugar and sidewalk wave.
"The lifestyle is so busy here. This is a place where we just hang out, and this is so personal. I bring my son, and he gets to know all the neighborhood kids," she said.
Rose got the idea more than eight years ago after learning of a similar group in Woodside. At the time, she resided in Mountain View, and as a newcomer there, she reached out to single people through her church and yoga class to join for weekly soup gatherings, she said.
The gatherings developed into deep discussions as well as meal sharing, she said, and that aspect has also become part of Palo Alto's soup group.
Each month the soup dinner is hosted at a different home; the host chooses a topic, and for a short period after the meal, residents gather to discuss anything from the proposed waste-to-energy plant at Byxbee Park to electric vehicles, composting, safety and earthquake preparedness and Christmas caroling, she said.
Sometimes the discussions go deeper. "Check-ins" allow residents to discuss the big events in their lives.
"Those are the times when we really build depth of connection — hearing someone talk about a death in the family, a job search, struggles with infertility, issues around starting a nonprofit," she said.
Rohana Gunawardena, the neighborhood-preparedness block captain, organizes the gatherings. No two meetings are the same, with soup and salad as the constants, he said. In winter, the gatherings are in larger homes and in summer, at smaller ones where people can spill outside.
"Sometimes there's a deep discussion; sometimes it's been someone's birthday and we've had a cake for them," Gunawardena said. When people meet at his home, he will often choose emergency preparedness as the topic, he said.
Hsiao said he enjoys the mix of cultures, which span from Northern Europe to Southeast Asia.
"I like that it is meaningful for other people. We all know each other. It's easy, and it builds community," he said.
Espinosa recalled a Weekly story where neighbors saw a van in the driveway of a home and assumed the residents were moving. But the van belonged to burglars who emptied the house of its contents in plain sight, he said.
People on Palo Alto Online's discussion forum, Town Square, asked how something like this could happen in a community, he said.
"It really does make a difference in a neighborhood and a community and a city. ... A soup club ripples into safety and taking care of kids," he said.
A dozen people remained for the after-dinner discussion on Friday, and Rose, a chiropractor and nutritionist, began with nutrition and seasonal foods. Hsiao passed around a food wheel, to show foods that are seasonally available in the Bay Area.
The conversation morphed into organizing meals for an expectant mother on bed rest, finding Palo Alto restaurants and wine bars serving local products and keeping bees.
Maybe they would make a good burglary deterrent if one put a sign in the window: "Killer bees," someone said, to laughter, and the topic turned to summer and vacations.
"I'm so glad you're all here so you can look for the moving van if it comes to my house," a resident said. "And we're not moving."