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Correction: A document called the Finding of Suitability for Early Transfer referred to below was written in 2007. The document's restrictions on excavation and residential development in portions of Parker Flats will be lifted after the Environmental Protection Agency certifies that munitions cleanup is complete. An earlier version of this article included an incorrect year.
The Fort Ord Reuse Authority is planning to cut down hundreds of trees to clear munitions in preparation for housing on land that may be restricted from residential use by two official agreements.
The project will clear all vegetation from three wooded areas, totaling 12 acres, north of Parker Flats Road. Included is a half-mile long, 50-foot wide strip of land between Parker Flats Cutoff and 8th Avenue.
The land is commonly called the "endowment property," because the proceeds of its purchase will provide operating costs for the planned veterans cemetery immediately to its south. It is also part of the proposed Monterey Downs development, which would include 1,500 residences, 400 hotel rooms, retail areas, an Olympic-sized aquatic and tennis center and a horse-racing track.
The work had been planned for early next month. Due to concerns raised by at least one FORA board member and open-space advocates, FORA has decided to delay the work until it holds a public workshop Sept. 20.
FORA Executive Officer Michael Houlemard did not respond to a request for comment. An office assistant said FORA policy required all questions to be posed to Candy Ingram, an outside publicist paid $19,500 annually.
Ingram said FORA staff told her the work is required by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control because of unexploded ordnance found on the properties. The half-mile strip is believed to contain explosives discarded off a trail used by soldiers returning from training areas. Another of the sites was a hand-grenade training area.
Ingram balked at the phrase clear-cutting, but agreed the plan called for clearing the land to the "root ball" so it can be thoroughly scoured for munitions.
At the suggestion of the FORA board's administrative committee, private presentations were made last week to officials from Monterey County and the City of Seaside.
Supervisor Jane Parker, a member of the FORA board, said she declined a private session and asked that she be included in a presentation to fellow board member Supervisor Dave Potter. The two constitute the county's FORA subcommittee, and Parker suggested they could open the session to the public.
Potter said there was not time to agendize a meeting and declined the request. Several who attended the meeting suggested a public presentation prior to the work would be wise.
One of those people was Sheriff Scott Miller. While his office was previously approached about providing more security on Fort Ord, the sheriff said he was not specifically requested to provide deputies during the upcoming project.
Potter and Ingram conceded there are safety concerns about recent incursions into closed areas by open-space advocates like Veterans Wild Fort Ord. Ingram also said no-trespassing signs are being regularly removed from the property.
Local attorney Zan Henson said he is prepared to file a lawsuit against FORA on behalf of Veterans Wild to stop the clear-cutting, but he is waiting to see what the agency says at its Sept. 20 meeting.
He said he is aware of no planned protests at the site, but he wouldn't be surprised because "you're dealing with Vietnam Veterans who are accustomed to protests."
"You're cutting down 300-year-old oak tress," he said. "I think there's a possibility. I'm wondering whether it's legal. It's certainly going to be environmentally destructive."
The legality of removing the trees and building houses on the land does appear questionable.
Monterey Downs LLC has an application for its project before the City of Seaside. It currently has the land zoned for open space and parks, though Senior Planner Rick Medina said there would be a zoning variance if Monterey Downs is approved.
Less clear is the effect of land-use restrictions in two government agreements.
The Army's Finding of Suitability for Early Transfer (FOSET) released 3,340 acres to FORA to be cleared of munitions by contractors before transfer to local jurisdictions. The 2007 document includes residential land-use and excavation restrictions on parcels now set to be clear-cut by FORA.
The document states that FORA and its successors "shall not construct, make, or permit any alterations ... to the property in anyway that may violate this (excavation) restriction (and) shall not use the property for residential purposes."
Judy Huang, the Environmental Protection Agency's Fort Ord project manager, said the restrictions are still in place but do not apply to activities related to cleanup.
That does not appear to be the case with a 2005 agreement between the county, FORA, the Army, Monterey Peninsula College and the Bureau of Land Management that swapped residential-use allocations from Parker Flats to East Garrison.
According to the East Garrison Specific Plan, the swap was motivated by concerns over loss of oak woodland. It states that the county found Parker Flats unsuitable for a "mixed-use urban village development," partly because of the loss of oaks.
Instead, it swapped residential units that had been planned for Parker Flats to East Garrison. To make way for more houses there, MPC agreed to move its law enforcement training center to an area south of Parker Flats on BLM land.
Houlemard signed the document on behalf of FORA, which was to amend its Fort Ord Reuse Plan accordingly.
Carl Holm, the county's assistant planning director, said his interpretation of the agreement is that if not all of the units are used at East Garrison, they can be swapped back to Parker Flats because the FORA reuse plan still calls for development there.
Asked if FORA had neglected to modify the plan in 2005 in keeping with the swap agreement, he said, "that might have happened."
Ingram said Houlemard was not available for comment Friday afternoon.
FORA is in the midst of a reassessment of its reuse plan. A hearing is set for Wednesday for final public comments on the draft scoping report, which can be found at www.fora.org.
Virginia Hennessey can be reached at 753-6751 or email@example.com.


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Publisher 505 Games is toasting retail this week as Sniper Elite V2 hit the top of the charts.
The shooter was comfortably the biggest seller, besting action rival Prototype 2.505 says the game's success was due to the 'amazing' support from its retail partners, which included GAME in Milton Keynes dressing up for the title's launch (pictured).
"We are delighted that Sniper Elite V2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the All Formats Chart this week," said 505 Games marketing director Alison Greagsby.
"Our strong campaign was totally supported by our retail partners, who really got behind Sniper Elite V2 to help build the anticipation.
"The roll-out at store is key for any title, whether it's a virtual store or traditional bricks and mortar.
"Whilst our online partners did an amazing job building the pre-orders, traditional retail played their part and created the theatre from the day of launch which make launches like Sniper Elite V2 very exciting.
"Store staff at GAME Milton Keynes went that extra mile to create additional noise for launch weekend, which is really important for titles such as this."

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text: [O]ne day, in a weak and hungry moment, my roommate and I succumbed to a bit of larceny. A greengrocer's truck had parked down the street and was left unattended. We grabbed the first crate we could off the back. It turned out to be celery. For two days we ate nothing but celery and used up more calories chewing than we realized in energy. "Damn it," I said to my roommate, "What're we going to do? We can't starve." "That's funny," he replied. "I thought we could." [Chuck Jones, "Chuck Amuck," 1989]


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An IAEA regional training course on the security of radioactive materials during transport, highlighting problems and effective security measures, takes place in Dakar, Senegal, 9 to 11 November 2009.
Organized by the IAEA in cooperation with the Government of Senegal, the training course is intended for participants coming from French-speaking Member States of the IAEA-supported African Regional Cooperative Agreement (AFRA).
The participants will represent operating or regulatory agencies, government departments with responsibilities related to the transport of radioactive material, and the shipping industry. They will learn about and apply new measures and technologies in a series of lectures and workshops.
Radioactive material transport is a matter of particular interest to Member States, according to Ms. Ann-Margreth Eriksson Eklund, a senior nuclear security officer at the IAEA. "Transport of radioactive material has so far focused on safety. In recent years a need has emerged to also look at security issues for radioactive material. The Agency recently published a Nuclear Security Series Document No. 9 Security of Radioactive Material in Transport. The training course complements this publication and the intention is, based on this guide, to give training to Member States on all continents," she said.
Mr. Natanael De Carvalho Bruno, from the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, hopes that a more organised approach will yield long-term benefits. "The IAEA expects the government to train the industry but that does not happen so easily. The IAEA can provide Member States with the training they need, but the ´Train the Trainer´ policy could be revisited allowing, for example, the participation of the end users in our training courses," he said.
The rising threat of terrorism and sabotage makes transport a particularly vulnerable part of the nuclear and radioactive material supply chain. Improved national regulations will encourage transparency, enhance security, and make denials of shipments less frequent.
Ms. Eriksson Eklund stated that the Agency will have a long-term involvement in reforming the transport infrastructure in African Member States. "It´s a long procedure. We are offering Member States assistance in writing and developing regulations and upgrading their transport systems," she said.
The World Nuclear Association (WNA) estimates that, worldwide, about twenty million consignments of radioactive materials are transported annually on public roads, railways and ships.
The increased use of radioactive substances in industry and medicine highlights the importance of transport as part of the supply chain with movement of these materials becoming more frequent and larger in volume.
The transportation of radioactive materials and radioactive wastes involves a potential radiological hazard. To ensure the safety of people, property and the environment, appropriate transport regulations, both domestic and international, are necessary.
Through an extensive training programme, the IAEA facilitates the implementation of the domestic regulations in Member States, so that their principles are in compliance with IAEA regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials.


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Info Center
Physician of the Month July 2012
Joseph Wilson, MDBy: Cesar Davlantes
Having worked with Dr. Wilson directly for 17 years has allowed me to understand just how skilled and dedicated he is to his craft and his patients. More recently he has coalesced his surgical team and his nursing and technical staff with his professionalism, his kindness, and his friendship to a level of heightened performance and patient outcomes. As an employee of EMC and also as a family member to one of his patients, I can genuinely state that Eisenhower Medical Center is truly blessed to have such a wonderful, skilled, and dedicated practitioner as their cardiothoracic surgeon.


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BELLS BEACH, Victoria/Australia (Tuesday, March 30, 2010) – Round 1 of the Rip Curl Women's Pro Bells Beach presented by Ford Fiesta will commence this morning at 8am.
The second stop on the 2010 ASP Women's World Tour, the Rip Curl Women's Pro Bells Beach awoke to clean two-to-thee foot (1 metre) waves on offer this morning and will see the ASP Top 17 sink their respective fangs in on the opening day of competition.
"We have clean little waves on offer this morning and we'll be commencing women's Round 1 at 8am," Damien Hardman, Rip Curl Pro Contest Director, said. "We'll monitor the conditions throughout the day, but we suspect to complete Round 1 with Rounds 2 and 3 on standby."
Up first this morning will be Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 19, Rebecca Woods (AUS), 25, and Carissa Moore (HAW), 17, in the opening heat of Round 1.
The Rip Curl Women's Pro Bells Beach presented by Ford Fiesta will be webcast LIVE via www.live.ripcurl.com
The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by SNICKERS, featuring the ASP Top 45, has been called off for the day.
For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com
Heat 1: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), Rebecca Woods (AUS), Carissa Moore (HAW)
Heat 2: Coco Ho (HAW), Paige Hareb (NZL), Lee Ann Curren (FRA)
Heat 3: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), Bruna Schmitz (BRA), Tyler Wright (AUS)
Heat 4: Silvana Lima (BRA), Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), Nikita Robb (ZAF)
Heat 5: Sofia Mulanovich (PER), Rosanne Hodge (ZAF), Claire Bevilacqua (AUS)
Heat 6: Melanie Bartels (HAW), Chelsea Hedges (AUS), Amee Donohoe (AUS)
Heat 1: Dane Reynolds (USA), Andy Irons (HAW), Nate Yeomans (USA)
Heat 2: Damien Hobgood (USA), Luke Stedman (AUS), Matt Wilkinson (AUS)
Heat 3: Bobby Martinez (USA), Jeremy Flores (FRA), Tanner Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 4: C.J. Hobgood (USA), Tiago Pires (PRT), Travis Logie (ZAF)
Heat 5: Kelly Slater (USA), Mick Campbell (AUS), Marco Polo (BRA)
Heat 6: Adriano de Souza (BRA), Kekoa Bacalso (HAW), Blake Thornton (AUS)
Heat 7: Taj Burrow (AUS), Daniel Ross (AUS), Neco Padaratz (BRA)
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS), Kai Otton (AUS), Stuart Kennedy (AUS)
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS), Chris Davidson (AUS), Gabriel Medina (BRA)
Heat 10: Bede Durbidge (AUS), Adrian Buchan (AUS), Adam Robertson (AUS)
Heat 11: Jordy Smith (ZAF), Patrick Gudauskas (USA), Jay Thompson (AUS)
Heat 12: Taylor Knox (USA), Michel Bourez (PYF), Adam Melling (AUS)
Heat 13: Tom Whitaker (AUS), Jadson Andre (BRA), Brett Simpson (AUS)
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS), Ben Dunn (AUS), Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 15: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW), Owen Wright (AUS), Drew Courtney (AUS)
Heat 16: Dean Morrison (AUS), Luke Munro (AUS), Roy Powers (HAW)


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The Ukiah Daily Journal
Authorities are looking for a man they believe squatted in an empty vacation home near Covelo and stole items from a neighboring cabin while armed with a shotgun, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were summoned at 9 p.m. Saturday a vacation cabin off of Highway 162, near Covelo, and learned someone allegedly broke into the cabin and stole items inside.
The man who reported the burglary Aug. 3 told deputies he had walked to a neighboring cabin and had seen through a window that some of his property was inside, according to the MCSO. He contacted the neighboring property owner and learned no one was supposed to be at the cabin.
The next day, deputies met with the reporting party to investigation further. They also spoke with the owner of the second cabin where the stolen property was seen and learned no one was supposed to be there, according to the MCSO.
Deputies walked to the second cabin and spotted a man outside. They tried to talk to the man, who allegedly picked up a gun later identified as a makeshift shotgun, and started running away. Deputies ordered him to drop the gun several times, and the man reportedly threw it to the ground as he ran down the Eel River canyon toward Dos Rios, according to the MCSO.
The second cabin was cleared and authorities found no additional suspects, according to the MCSO. Deputies found the gun dropped by the running man and found it was a crudely-fashioned shotgun made of plumbing materials and loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun round, according to the MCSO.
Deputies also found the allegedly stolen property and returned it to the reporting party. Further investigation revealed that the second cabin had also been entered through a window, according to the MCSO, and it appeared the suspect was a transient who had taken up residence there.
The suspect is described as a Caucasian man in his mid 40s to early 50s, 5-feet, 9 inches to 6 feet tall with brown hair and a gray beard. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a tan beanie-type cap. Anyone with information about him is urged to contact Sgt. Matt Kendall of the MCSO at 463-4086.


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$95 for a Shallow Water Dolphin Encounter ($155 Value)
During the Shallow Water Dolphin Encounter, guests walk out into a natural lagoon, allowing waters to reach their waists. Once surrounded by water, they exchange handshakes and belly rubs with dolphins, such as Elvis, Nica, and Isaac. Trainers also show participants hand signals that cue the marine mammals to respond. Guests take turns entering the water, typically six at a time, to interact with one or two dolphins. The encounter does not have a set duration, rather it's based on a series of behaviors that the dolphins perform at their own pace. Encounters take place daily at 10 a.m. Nonparticipating visitors may also join for additional fee—$10 for adults, $5 for kids aged 7–17, and free for children aged 6 and younger.
Dolphin Cove
Like all dolphins, Elvis loves to chase fish, leap into the air, and paint abstract-expressionist artwork. He does, however, need a human to hand him a brush, which is where the Painting with Dolphins program comes in. This is just one of the initiatives at Dolphin Cove that reveals these marine mammals' fascinating behaviors. In a natural lagoon, trainers facilitate human-dolphin relations through encounters such as swimming with, snorkeling beside, or rubbing the belly of Elvis and his cohorts. The dolphins may also regale guests with antics such as sharing their favorite toys or showing off a new behavior. Dolphin Cove's additional services include the Trainer for a Day program and a live webcam, which was an idea Elvis brought from his background in IT.


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David Johnson Sr. lost a foot but not his sense of humor,
"Just call me 'Mr. Three Toes,'" said Johnson, 85, who lives alone in his North Franklin Township home.
Diabetes led to the removal of one foot and two toes on the other. "When no one is around, I'm pretty much in a wheelchair," he said.
Yet he feels fortunate because most of the time, someone is around. Frequently, it's his primary caregiver, Lois Jean Johnson, his daughter-in-law and a former nurse at Washington Hospital. Sometimes, it's a caregiver from Family Home Health Services Inc.
"I lost a toe on my second leg," Johnson said, "then a second toe got infected. My daughter-in-law said she didn't like the looks of it, that it should be removed."
It was – in time to possibly save the remainder of his foot.
"If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have one leg left."
He is grateful to his daughter-in-law for that, and for wrapping his foot, helping to bathe and dress him and assisting with other tasks on a regular basis. Just as he appreciates the other aides.
Because of them, he is able to remain in his house, where he is most comfortable.
Johnson is among a rising number of people in their 70s, 80s, 90s who require a certain level of care, yet prefer to continue living in their homes. Services provided by visiting caregivers – relatives, friends or agency employees – enable many seniors to stay there or return home following treatment at a hospital or nursing facility.
More seniors now have a true choice on where they reside.
Helping to make the transition
Tim Landrin is director of long-term care for Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging, a pri vate nonprofit based on Beau Street in Washington. It serves seniors in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties.
On its website, swpa-aaa.org, the agency describes its mission as promoting "the well-being of older adults through a planned, coordinated and collaborative program of health and social services."
Landrin did not have specific numbers but estimated that Southwestern provides services to about 16,000 people in the three counties, including in-home care for "at least 2,000."
Among the agency's initiatives, Landrin said, is nursing home transition – helping seniors return home following a nursing facility stay.
"Nursing homes provide a great service, and we have a great relationship with them," Landrin said. "A lot of times, people may go from a hospital to a nursing facility and be in there for a short term or midterm. They want to get back into the community, but there may be some barriers that prevent that.
"That's where we come in. We work with the nursing home, the person, the doctors and sometimes the family. We try to break down barriers to get them back into the community."
Landrin estimated that 70 to 80 individuals in the three counties make this transition each year. A number require caregivers, but residents aren't the only ones who need them.
Caregiver need rising
Lucy Novelly is owner and chief executive officer of Home Instead Senior Care offices in Washington and Bethel Park. Her company, based in Omaha, Neb., is the largest senior care franchisee in the world with more than 850 locally owned offices.
In an economy still experiencing fits and starts, Home Instead plans to hire 45,000 caregivers nationwide this year. Novelly, who estimates she has 275 caregivers serving 250 people in the South Hills and Washington County, will be part of that equation.
"We're thinking about 20 to 25 caregivers per month," she said, "and if we can get more, it would be great."
These are not 20 to 25 full-time jobs each month, but positions that require a range of duties and hours. "We're a 24/7 service provider," Novelly said, specifying that she may need employees for one, a few or many shifts a week; for morning, afternoon, evening and/or overnight hours; and for one or many tasks.
She also is particular, and has to be, about who she hires.
"We are very selective," said Novelly, who opened the first Home Instead office in the Pittsburgh area in 1999. There are now nine.
"We want people who are caring, dependable, patient, have good judgment. They have to be individuals who will say, 'I want to work with older adults.'
"They have to have innate abilities that would make them capable caregivers. Many caregivers consider doing this more of a calling than a job."
Novelly said Home Instead can teach and train job candidates to perform certain duties, such as how to give a bath, but they must have the personal makeup the company wants.
"You can't train or teach people to be reliable," Novelly said.
Twila Green apparently has those intangibles. "I filled out the application, went to training and got hired," she said.
A longtime banking executive, Green retired last year, moved out of town for a while then returned to her Mt. Lebanon home. She wanted to work and met Novelly at a networking event. They started working together in September.
"I had some experience with each of my parents separately," Green said. "But you don't need to have an ounce of experience. I think this is for anyone who cares about people and wants to work with people."
She has worked with a number of clients in the past eight months and remembers especially a couple who, while under her care, required a transition to assisted living. They moved to Asbury Heights in Mt. Lebanon.
"Their family asked that I go there for two weeks to help them get adjusted," Green said. "Their family knew they were attached to me, and I went. You create this bond with people."
Green wasn't sure initially whether this job would be a comfortable fit, especially long term. She's comfortable now.
"I thought this would be a good fill-in, but it's more than a fill-in. What is so amazing is that I profit from this as much as the people I care for. It has changed my life."
Prefers his home
Lois Jean Johnson hasn't had an easy time. Her husband, David Jr., died at age 43, leaving her with five young children. Her father-in-law, David Sr., and his late wife Vi helped as much as they could.
A number of years ago, she was diagnosed with a liquid brain tumor that still exists. Dealing with it is a challenge. "It's severe sometimes," David Sr. said.
But she perseveres, and her assistance helps make her father-in-law's life more pleasant – despite diabetes, diminishing vision and being basically homebound.
He revels in conversation, talking about how he was "born in a cow barn in Washington" and grew up "in a house with no electricity." Johnson is a Korean War veteran who was a longtime employee of Bell Telephone.
"It was seven years before I made $7,000 in a year."
He is a homeowner and a rental property owner in Washington.
Even though he spends much of his time in his house, Johnson prefers to be there.
"My daughter-in-law does a lot and this caregiver (with Family Home Health Services) has been pretty good with us," he said. "I lost my foot about four years ago, and I spent quite a bit of time in the hospital and a nursing home.
"You don't want to go to a nursing home unless you have to go. If my daughter-in-law weren't helping me, I would have to go to a nursing home."
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THE panto season is alive and kicking with an unusual production for the half-term holidays.
Much Marcle Amateur Dramatic Society is back with a performance of Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs, which departs from the original format by adding an extra dwarf to the proceedings from Thursday to Saturday, February 20-22 in Much Marcle Memorial Hall.
The original pantomime was written by one of the society's own cast members, Danielle Bowers, who is also directing and producing the play, as well as playing the part of one of the story's six baddies.
This year, the cast features more than 20 young people, all with specific parts, which include dwarfs, fairies, wood mymphs, as well as the magic mirror, the prince and his manservant, and the title role of Snow White.
It is the largest number of young people featured in any of the society's pantomimes to date as they mark 20 years since their first show.
A spokesman for the group said: "MADS are very proud to have survived for this long, and we are lucky enough to be going from strength to strength each year. For each new performance we manage to gain a new member willing to have a go at treading the boards."
It will mark the debut of Hennessy Vine, James and Louis Johnson and Lizzie Simpson along with Charlie Weston of Westons Cider fame, who will be playing Muddles the Jester.
Daily performances will be staged at 7.30pm and a 2.30pm matinee on the Saturday.
Tickets are available from Much Marcle Stores on 01531 660201.


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A KIDDERMINSTER hairdressing business has been named the country's best regional salon in the Hair Magazine Awards 2014.
Lisa Shepherd, in Mill Street, which was set up in the town 12 years ago, was given the award in recognition of its community engagement and its new Color Bar service.
It was praised for various fundraising and community activities, such as its Red Nose Day work, tea and cake drop-ins, styling for fashion shows and setting up pop-up styling bars.
The salon has raised money for various charities, including Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer, Marie Curie Cancer Care and The Katie Piper Foundation, which gives help to people with severe burns and scars.
Lisa Shepherd, salon director, said: "It's fantastic to receive the best UK regional salon accolade and know that what we're offering in Kidderminster is the best in the country.
"Hair is so much more than a service in the salon. We've really enjoyed getting out and about offering our expertise to help others.
"Wherever it's done, hair makes people feel amazing."
Ms Shepherd has also been named as a business director of the year finalist at the Most Wanted Awards run by Creative Head Magazine.
The Color Bar service has also been nominated at the awards in the innovation of the year category.
The new service has the slogan We Dye, You Dry, with customers receiving hair colouring from the salon before blow drying and styling their hair themselves to keep costs down.
The Most Wanted Awards will take place on Monday, September 1, at the Tate Modern in London and will be hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall.
Ms Shepherd said: "I'm over the moon to be up for business director and business innovation.
"I wanted to shout about the amazing Color Bar concept and show how innovative ideas really work and are great for improving business."


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World Series Game Four Recap (Cardinals Edition)
Throughout the World Series, we'll be providing two recaps of each game, one with a focus on the winner and the other devoting a longer look to the loser. This is the Cardinals entry for Game Four. The Red Sox edition is here.
Maybe I should make a macro; with this series still far from over, it might save me (and other internet analysts) some time. Matheny made the same mistake in Game Four, and this time the Cardinals couldn't recover.
Look: Lance Lynn is a pretty good pitcher. As a starter, he's struck out a batter per inning, with roughly a league-average park-adjusted ERA. He throws fairly hard and has a big, durable build, with no recent history of arm injuries. As back-of-the-rotation guys go, that's about the best-case scenario. There's been some talk that the Cardinals could try to trade Lynn this winter, perhaps for a shortstop, and to make room in the rotation for some younger, higher-ceiling starters who are further away from arbitration. If they do, they'll have no trouble finding a taker.
But Lynn has limitations, some of which are specific to him, and some of which apply to all starters. Be mindful of those flaws, and you'll minimize their effects. Pretend they don't exist, and you'll make them more costly.
Lynn threw 79 pitches through the first five innings of Game Four, striking out five Boston batters and allowing two hits, two walks, and one run. In the regular reason, when teams go a week (or more) between off days, every manager in the majors would let the 26-year-old start the sixth in a similar scenario, hoping to coax an extra inning or two out of him and save someone else's arm.
But last night was the World Series, and the rules weren't the same. The Cardinals had four days off between NLCS Game Six and World Series Game One, another off on Friday, and one more scheduled for Tuesday, with Adam Wainwright and Michael Wacha slated to start the next two games. Joe Kelly had given them 5 1/3 innings in Game Three, and although their five most reliable relievers had appeared after him, only Trevor Rosenthal had faced more than four batters. With the winter no more than four days away, there was no need to eke out another few outs from Lynn to keep the bullpen fresh. This was the sort of situation a manager spends the first six months of the season keeping the bullpen fresh for.
The only reason for Matheny to leave Lynn in for the sixth, then, was if he believed that the right-hander would give him a better chance to get the next few outs than one of several relievers. And it's tough to make that case.
For one thing, the lineup was about to turn over again. Beginning with leadoff hitter Jacoby Ellsbury, Lynn would be facing batters who'd seen him twice already, and we know what happens when pitchers take a third trip through the lineup: contact rates rise, and balls get hit harder. (Historically, this hasn't been true for Lynn, who's actually limited batters he's seen twice in the same game to a .616 OPS. But the sample is small, and it's mostly based on a low BABIP; Lynn's K/BB ratio has fallen from 3.50 in his first trip through the lineup to 2.51 in his second and 2.05 in his third.)
On top of that, the first and fourth batters due up were left-handed hitters, and the second (Daniel Nava) was a switch-hitter who's much more effective from the left side. Lynn is a right-handed pitcher with lousy results against left-handed hitters and a profile that supports sizeable splits. Matheny could have gone to Kevin Siegrist, a lefty who's effective against opposite-handed hitters. Instead, he stuck with his starter.
The frustrating thing about managerial mistakes—particularly those involving pitching changes (or non-changes)—is that they often end up looking deceptively like the right move in retrospect. After all, even a suboptimal matchup is usually going to go the pitcher's way. And sure enough, despite the deck being stacked against his starter, Matheny almost got away with leaving Lynn in. The righty earned two quick outs, getting Ellsbury to pop up and Nava to ground out.
But then Dustin Pedroia singled, bringing up David Ortiz. And here Matheny made another strange decision: just as he'd stuck with Carlos Martinez against Ortiz over a warmed-up Randy Choate in Game Two, he went with Lynn against Ortiz over a warmed-up Choate last night. Lynn threw four semi-intentional balls to Ortiz, later telling reporters, "I'm not one to be dumb. I'm not going to let that guy beat me in that situation." After that walk, with two outs and two on, Matheny finally made a move, replacing Lynn with Seth Maness. And Maness left a 2-2, 90-mph sinker up to Jonny Gomes, who drove it over the left-field fence for a game-winning three-run homer.
Matheny faced some criticism over the sequence after the game, but not for the right reasons. Here's an excerpt from the game story at MLB.com:
The first key decision Matheny had to make didn't come with Ortiz up. It came before the inning, when he left Lynn in. Leaving Lynn in longer, with Ortiz up, just compounded the original error. Once Matheny decided to pitch to Ortiz—as he should have, since walking him meant advancing the tying run to second—the numbers made going to Choate the obvious move, despite what the game story says. But to come to that conclusion, Matheny would have had to have been looking at more meaningful stats: not the tiny, 4-for-10 sample of head-to-head matchups between the two, but the massively more significant career performance of Ortiz and Choate versus left-handed opponents, which suggests that Choate vs. Ortiz is a matchup a manager should be happy to have. Matheny fell for the fallacy that Ortiz couldn't be pitched to, both because the Boston first baseman had success in this series and because he'd hit a few singles off Choate. For a manager, a short memory isn't an asset. Neither is a selective one.
Matheny is taking some flak for going to Maness after Ortiz reached base, because Maness was the one who gave up the big blow. But bringing in Maness was the best move Matheny made in the inning. The groundballer had given up only two homers to right-handed hitters this season, and Gomes had hit only five against right-handed pitchers. That matchup was unlikely to lead to disaster, but just as the wrong managerial move often ends in success, the right one sometimes backfires.
There's a comment on that game story by a reader named "ThankYouCards." "89 pitches, 1 earned run, Lynn was doing his job," it says. "Walking Ortiz is hardly a reason to hook."
In other words, if Cardinals fans (and Lance Lynn) are angry about anything, it's that Matheny didn't leave Lynn in longer.
The Red Sox might still have scored in the sixth had Matheny done something differently, or they might have won some other way. We can't say the Cardinals failed to win because of Matheny, but we can say he made it more likely that they'd lose. In-game tactics are about paying more attention to process than results. They're about knowing what the research says about how starters pitch when they go deep into games, even when they've pitched well up to a point. And they're about being skeptical when it comes to small samples. Maness shouldn't have left that sinker up, and Kolten Wong shouldn't have slipped after taking a too-large lead. Rookies—and non-rookies, for that matter—make mistakes. But only Matheny's mistakes were premeditated.
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I'm a Cardinals fan. I have been baffled by Matheny's handling of pitchers both this postseason and last year's. He leaves his starters in too long again and again. It is infuriating.
Oct 28, 2013 06:10 AM
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Remember that the Cardinals were one Seth Maness ground ball from getting out of that sixth inning unscathed. This from a guy who is a ground-ball machine and whose HR rate this year was one per 15.5 innings, over 50% better than league average (1/10.2).
Oct 28, 2013 06:35 AM
Is Shelby Miller broken? Handcuffing Lynn and Miller for a total of six or seven innings would have limited Lynn to one at bat- plus limit the chances of Lynn's apparently fragile psyche to go red line.
Oct 28, 2013 07:09 AM
Speculating on Shelby Miller's whereabouts is an exercise in Kremlinology, but from what I hear the Cards think he has a dead arm (his numbers in Aug and Sept support this). I'm also guessing that Matheny - who's been having a torrid love affair with small sample sizes - felt burned when he brought in Miller in the NLDS and saw him give up a home run to the first batter he faced. So the Cards don't trust Miller, whether fairly or not. In which case I'm not sure why he's even on the roster.
Oct 28, 2013 07:39 AM
It's actually quite normal for there to be one or two players on a team who are on the Series roster but never get into a Series game. Over the last ten years, a large majority of Series teams haven't used their whole rosters, with one or two guys being saved for "break glass in case of major emergency" roles. The only thing that makes Miller's appearance in that role unusual in any way is that he was good during the regular season, rather than being the 25th man (the no-shows seem to be either spare catchers or mop-up relievers as far as I can tell).
Oct 28, 2013 08:31 AM
A couple things matter here:
Oct 28, 2013 09:19 AM
"What was actually going on in that game was that the Cardinals were being shut down by Boston pitching, plain and simple."
Oct 28, 2013 09:33 AM
Oct 28, 2013 07:29 AM
"If Cardinals fans (and Lance Lynn) are angry about anything, it's that Matheny didn't leave Lynn in longer."
Oct 28, 2013 07:32 AM
What's odd is that Randy Choate is presumably on the postseason roster as a LOOGY. He faced only 141 batters in his 64 appearances in 2013, 70% of which were lefties. His maximum pitch count in 2013 was 25, and both times he threw 20+ pitches were in blowout losses. His career OPS against is .793 vs. RHB and .555 vs. LHB.
Oct 28, 2013 08:12 AM
You are going pretty far out on the plank to criticize Matheny when his two best moves (Maness vs. Gomes and Siegrist vs. Ortiz earlier) have blown up in his face.
Oct 28, 2013 09:07 AM
The usual refrain here is to separate processes from outcomes. Matheny's decisions should only be evaluated based on information Matheny had at the moment he made them.
Oct 28, 2013 09:20 AM
"That matchup was unlikely to lead to disaster, but just as the WRONG MANAGERIAL MOVE OFTEN ENDS IN SUCCESS , the right one sometimes backfires."
Oct 28, 2013 09:15 AM
Prior to yesterday's start, Lance Lynn had made 4 postseason starts in his career. In those 4 starts, his ERA after the third inning is 21.60.
Oct 28, 2013 09:35 AM
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Olsen attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He met his future wife Doris, then a student at Immanuel School of Nursing, on a blind date. Following graduation from NU with a degree in agriculture economics in 1967, Olsen joined his parents in farming. Olsen's father died in 1969 and later that year he married Doris and together they operated the Olsen farm. Today, the Olsen farm is a no-till, dryland operation raising certified seed wheat, wheat, dry peas and corn.
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Olsen has been a staunch proponent of the importance of the Nebraska State Fair, Husker Harvest Days and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources with particular attention to the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. He also served on the search committee for the president of the University of Nebraska system, building strong relationships with both President J.B. Milliken and UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman. He is highly respected among IANR officials having served on department advisory boards and other search committees.
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In 1956 he joined the UNL Animal Science Department, retiring in 1996.
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Doane was an active contributor to numerous university committees, adviser for Block and Bridle Club and the Nebraska Registered Sheep Association and director of the Nebraska Ram Test Stations.
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Great observation and I think he plays so much more assertive w/o JO in the game, too.
Cobol, who is your avatar, I've always meant to ask you.
The entire team plays better without O'neal
Exactly! Its just so much more movement.....
Yeah, its Bjork.
Violet on back to back charges.
Whats with this freaking team. It appears we can get leads on any team we want.
Pacers up 9 at the half!!!
I wish I had the feed working to see the Tinsley dunk attempt.
Looking good or what?
It was a dead ball, right after the whistle blew, not a game situation, but he jumped about 8 inches higher than I thought he could, unless he pulled up on the net, which was mention earlier.
Otherwise the box score looks good, even scoring, Shawne has 9. Tins has 9 and 5.
I hope whatever direction this team goes, I hope a big priority is Shawne being a focal point in being allowed to maximize what he can do. The kid scores so easily/effortlessly and it feels like its just the tip of the iceberg for what his potential could be.
Best part of the game was seein shawne beat Dirk on a crossover on his way to the basket could just see the expression on dirks face change after he new he just got beat was like...OOOP
Need to jack up the intensity and maintain it, but for sure they look good.
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Mackey was arrested April 12 at the Behavioral Health Service Center at Great Plains Regional Medical Center when police answered a call about a combative woman who was out of control. When officers tried to restrain Mackey in the emergency room, she struggled and injured the officer's ankle.
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Lindemeier asked Ablard if Mackey had tried to directly assault the officers.
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"Clinching a spot was coming anyway so we looked for the two," said James Sheppard, whose first period goal was the only shot to beat Calgary netminder Karri Ramo. San Jose now holds a two-point lead over the Anaheim Ducks, but the Ducks have played two fewer games.
The loss was San Jose's second straight in the one-on-one competition after winning the previous nine. Flames forward Mike Cammalleri was the only shooter to beat Sharks goalie Alex Stalock while Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski and Sheppard all missed for San Jose.
The Sharks got a scare when Logan Couture blocked a shot by Flames defenseman Mark Giordano late in the first period. Couture headed straight to the locker room, came out and played one shift in the second period and called it a night.
But after the game, coach Todd McLellan said Couture was not seriously hurt.
"He's fine," McLellan said, "I don't know if he'll play tomorrow, but he's fine."
The Sharks finish this two-game trip to Alberta against the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night after a game against the Flames that saw San Jose falter in the second period after a strong opening 20 minutes.
"We were like a yo-yo," McLellan said. "We were very good in the first and had a pretty successful formula going, a good game plan and executing it. In the second, I said to our guys we were like lab rats, looking to try a new way and see if it worked. And obviously it didn't."
The Sharks put 18 shots on Ramo in the first period and it was the last one at 18:11 that gave San Jose a 1-0 lead when Matt Nieto cut laterally across the slot and fired a shot as Sheppard drove the net.
"He made a superstar move, agile coming across like that," said Sheppard, who was hit by the original shot. "When you do a play like that, you sometimes get lucky bounces and I was just driving the net."
Calgary got its only goal at 18:00 of the second period when rookie defenseman Tyler Wotherspoon found Joe Colborne all alone in the right faceoff circle and his one-timer beat Stalock.
It was a defensive breakdown that proved costly.
"I was in front with Smid there and he pulled out," defenseman Matt Irwin said. "I should have stayed back. I looked over my left shoulder, but by the time I did it was too late."
The Sharks did get their game back on track in the third period, but Ramo made 10 saves – including two on point-blank shots by Joe Pavelski and Marty Havlat. Seconds later, one puck did get past him, but the shot by Havlat hit the crossbar.
Stalock entered the game with a perfect 3-0 record in shootouts and had stopped all 10 shots he faced. But after coming up big against Colborne and Flames forward Jiri Hudler, he was beaten by Cammalleri.
McLellan didn't want to overlook the fact his team had clinched a playoff spot, but he, too, was focused on the race with Anaheim.
"There is satisfaction in clinching. That was one of the goals we set out to do and we accomplished that," he said. "It would have been nice to have the two points. Obviously we're in a heckuva race for other things so that's a little bit disappointing, but we've got to move on."


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An unseasonably warm winter in desert growing regions interrupted by a pre-Christmas frost is likely to cause shortages of lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower in January, grower-shippers say.
"By the middle of January we're going to have volumes 20% to 30% lighter than normal straight across the board, all commodities," said Art Barrientos, vice president of harvesting for Castroville, Calif.-based Ocean Mist Farms.
Light frosts hit Arizona's Yuma region and California's Imperial and Coachella valleys Dec. 19-21. No major damage was reported.
"It wasn't the kind of ice that can change the deal," said Mark Adamek, general manager for romaine and mixed leaf production at Salinas, Calif.-based Tanimura & Antle.
Growers were ready to welcome signs of relief from temperatures in the 70s and low 80s common since October. They prefer to see the thermometer in the low 60s, where it spent the last week or so, and brave sporadic freeze risks.
"The industry is so far ahead, we've all had to leave a lot of product in the field because it just grew too fast and had pretty rough quality," Adamek said.
"My yields are two thirds to three quarters of what they should be," he said. "Toward the end of January we could start seeing a reduction in supply just because we're eating up our acres so quickly by leaving so much problem product in the fields."
"If it does not stay cold – if it warms back up – I'm afraid we could finish desert production before the northern production area is ready," Adamek said Dec. 21.
Since the desert deal began in the third week of November, heat has kept Ocean Mist's vegetable crops in Coachella and Yuma anywhere from eight to 20 days ahead of schedule, Barrientos said.
"The whole desert region has been in that mode," Barrientos said. "Now the weather has changed more toward the typical December and January, so crop growth has slowed down."
"Typical cold temperatures are forecast now into January and that will likely include our share of frost mornings," he said Dec. 21. "There's no significant damage. If we get hit a few days of moderate to heavy frost, we will start seeing some epidermal pealing in the leaf lettuces."
On lettuce, Adamek had little room to maneuver.
"I have to cut two more acres to get the boxes on my production schedule because I'm leaving a third of my crop on the ground," he said. "As the weather cools off and we catch up with the crop, now I don't have the boxes planned for because so many acres were cut ahead of schedule."
Romaine shipping point prices out of Yuma were $6.95 to $7.65 for 24-count cartons Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Year-ago prices were $6.95 to $8.50.
Broccoli and cauliflower, which dislike heat, even stopped growing for a while and were in low supply early in the desert deal, Adamek said.


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Hi David Snyder,
I have read your Dhammawiki page on bhikkhuni ordination at: http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Bhikkhuni_ordination
and I suggest you to check out 2 points:
1) "2009 In Australia, 8 novice nuns are given the full ordination ...": it should be 4, not 8.
2) "To be properly ordained, a nun must be ordained first by a quorum of monks and then a second time by a quorum of nuns.": it should be the other way round, ie. a nun must be ordained first by a quorum of nuns and then a second time by a quorum of monks. Actually, there are also other possible ways to ordain a bhikkhuni, see the excellent article by Bhikkhu Bodhi written last year, which is available on the Internet.


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Little River Print Project Launched
April 1, 2013
Katherine Cox, Benjy Davies and students examine a printing plate.
Associate Professor of Art Benjy Davies invited Huntington-based artist Katherine Cox to be the first participant in the Little River Print Project. This initiative will bring regional and national artists to Rio's campus to create original lithographs, screenprints, etchings and woodcuts with Davies and Rio students. The prints will be created in editions of 20, with the artist receiving ten prints and the Art program keeping the other ten. One print from each edition will become part of the Esther Allen Greer Museum's permanent collection, and each printer will recieve one print in lieu of payment. The remainder of the prints will be available for sale.
Cox is completing two separate two-color photo-lithographs for her project. Each print is 11x15", printed on white paper, and both feature a house shape, with stones, tree branches and berries. In addition to the printed elements, the finished work will include hand-coloring. The prints should be completed by mid-April. Davies will serve as the Master Printer, with Rio students assisting and apprenticing.
In addition to being a working artist, Katherine Cox is also the Education Director for the Huntington Museum of Art. She and her husband Jonathon Cox, who is a professor of Sculpture at Marshall University, will have a two-person show at The Art Store in Charleston WV in May 2013.


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Hi folks,
Sorry for posting too much.
I just wanted to let you know that I'm physically unwell.
I am feeling very sick and have to take antibiotics 4 times a day for a week and the medication is making me feel very weak and sleepy and nauseated.
So, yeah, I won't be able to come online as much till I fully recover.


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October 29, 2013Celebrities
Style Standoff: Kate Middleton Vs. Cressida Bonas. Whose Side Are You On?
To determine how she'll measure up, style-wise, to her (potential) sister-in-law, we're analyzing how the two wear the same trends —body-con, plaid, monochrome, and more—in very different ways. Decide whose fashion you prefer and shop their looks, here.
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We don't see Middleton in denim very often, and when she does wear it, she tends to pick dressier pieces like this white Zara jean skirt. Here, she looks like a quintessential Sloane Ranger (London's version of a preppy) with an eggplant-hue cable knit sweater and suede knee boots.
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Brain Response to Treatment for Pediatric PTSD
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|Emotions Memory Deficits Post-traumatic Syndrome
|Behavioral: Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Biomarkers of Clinical Response to Cognitive Treatment of PTSD in Youth
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (brain activation) [ Time Frame: change in brain activation after 4 months of treatment (baseline and 4 months) ]We will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in brain activation after 4 months of psychotherapy
|Study Start Date:
|April 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Psychotherapy
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral: Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
the 'gold-standard' behavioral treatment for children/adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder
Other Name: TF-CBT
Detailed Description:
This is a neuroimaging study of changes in brain function associated with trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT)for abused youth suffering from PTSD. By scanning patients before and after treatment, the investigators will identify mediators (potential mechanisms) of recovery from PTSD.
Childhood maltreatment is unfortunately common, and can lead to significant problems in school, emotional difficulties, and physical ailments. Frequently, abused children develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as re-experiencing aspects of the trauma, avoiding trauma-related situations, and suffering from chronic hyperarousal. PTSD can inflict significant stress-related damage on the brain at any age, but may be particularly damaging during developmental periods such as adolescence. Therefore, effective treatments for PTSD in youth are critical, and this depends in part on our ability to understand the neural abnormalities underlying pediatric PTSD, and the brain changes accompanying recovery from PTSD.
TF-CBT is the "gold-standard" treatment for this population however, some patients continue to experience symptoms of PTSD following treatment. Examining neural changes associated with successful treatment may suggest adjunctive or additional steps to enhance recovery in non-responders or partly responsive patients.
The investigators will assess brain activation in response to an emotion-related task in 40 adolescents with PTSD before and after a 12 week TF-CBT treatment, conducted at Stanford University. The fidelity of TF-CBT treatment will be assured through ongoing consultation between clinicians and treatment co-creator Judith Cohen, M.D. Neuroimaging analyses will assess patterns of activation associated with response to TF-CBT. Also, the investigators will scan 30 age-matched healthy controls recruited from the same community, to compare with patients to identify abnormalities in brain structure and function in the PTSD group. Controls will be scanned before and after a 12-week interval as well, to allow analyses of test/retest reliability of fMRI measures in this age group.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|9 Years to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- ages 12-17, history of physical or sexual abuse, witnessing violence, or bullying; and English speaking
Exclusion Criteria:
- receiving other psychotherapy currently, taking medications for a psychiatric disorder currently, history of head injury with loss of consciousness longer than 5 minutes; major medical condition such as epilepsy, diabetes, heart disease, or loss of hearing or vision, developmental disorder such as fragile X, autism, or Down's Syndrome, MRI contraindications including metal in the body from an injury or surgery, non-removeable piercings, or braces, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) < 70; schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, current substance abuse.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01806701
|United States, California
|Stanford University
|Palo Alto, California, United States, 94305
|Principal Investigator:
|Amy S Garrett, Ph.D.
|Stanford University
|Responsible Party:
|Amy Sue Garrett, Principle Investigator, Stanford University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01806701 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
K01MH097769 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|February 27, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 12, 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Keywords provided by Amy Sue Garrett, Stanford University:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Memory Disorders
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 20, 2017


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Up Front - News & Stuff - August 2013
Wow, no WoW
What that cryptic headline means is that there will be no MCR-affiliated Week on Woodward event this summer. We hate to pull the plug, as we were really looking forward to getting back to the Dream Cruise and hanging out with more of our readers, but we simply don't have the budget for that trip and the other travel we need to do this year.
However, MCR readers are welcome to join Jerry Dixey's Street Rodder Road Tour, which is traveling between Bonneville and Detroit and will hit Motown the Thursday before the Dream Cruise. In addition to a couple of day trips Friday afternoon, Dixey's group will also occupy the same great parking space we had for the Dream Cruise last year on the corner of Woodward and 13 Mile, the epicenter of the cruising action. Go to www.streetrodderweb.com and click on the Road Tour link for all the info.
Mecum Sells $96 Million in KC
Dana Mecum's Kansas City Spring Auction saw $9.6 million in collectible cars change hands during the three-day sale. The highest price paid for a muscle car was $100,000, spent on this 1969 Hurst/Olds, a 48,000-mile, a mostly original example that came with extensive paperwork. A 1936 Ahrens-Fox fire truck was the top draw of the weekend, selling for $125,000. Full results are available at www.mecum.com.
Muscle Car Bookshelf
The Art of the Muscle Car, Collector's Edition
by David Newhardt, photography by Peter Harholdt; 240 pages, hardbound, Motorbooks
Our favorite muscle cars get the full coffee table/art book treatment with gorgeous studio photography by Harholdt and insightful text by MCR contributor Newhardt. Originally published in 2009, this new edition is a bit larger in format than the first and includes several glossy 8×10 prints you can hang on your garage wall. Nearly 50 muscle cars are featured, all dramatically staged and lit to highlight their various design elements, from the simple "GTO" fender badge on a '64 Goat to the outlandish screaming chicken on a 1974 Super Duty Trans Am's hood. The content runs the gamut from Ford, GM, and Mopar to AMC muscle and even a barn-find Challenger in all its dusty glory.
Mobile Mod Center
The Mobile Mod Center is a speed shop on wheels. It travels across the country to major car events and will install speed equipment on-the-spot. You can call ahead (248/939-7954) and order the parts you want to make sure they'll be on the Mod Center when it reaches your local car show. Among the places it will be this summer are Hot August Nights in Reno, Aug. 6-11; the Mustang Memories Car Show in Dearborn, Aug. 11; and the Woodward Dream Cruise, Aug. 16-17.
The Mobile Mod Center is sponsored by the Mustang Club of America. Companies with parts available for installation include BFGoodrich, Ford Racing Performance Parts, Kicker Audio, and Gateway Classic Mustang suspension products.
Hot Wheels Camaro Leads Power Tour
Remember the Hot Wheels 1967 Camaro concept car we showed you in our SEMA Show coverage (Feb. 2013)? Apparently it's no show queen, but a fully operational car. It is leading a procession of Chevy high-performance production and concept vehicles on this year's Hot Rod Power Tour, and it's aiming for Long Haul status—traveling the entire route from Arlington, Texas, to Charlotte, North Carolina.


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Ticket Information
Tentative Dates for 2013 Season
Box Office opens to the public Monday, June 3. The box office is open daily from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Ticket prices (tentatively) are $29 each and include buffet meal, program book, show and tax.
First Show opens June 13 and closes June 29.
Second Show opens July 11 and closes July 20.


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Developers are "destroying our county" and soon "we will have nothing left," a Mabe public meeting was warned last week.
The meeting, called last Tuesday to discuss a planning application for 90 new homes on land between Treliever Road and the A39, saw Mabe WI Hall packed to the rafters with concerned residents keen to raise their concerns.
Justin Dodge, from CSA Architects, presented the application and said it had been downsized from the original proposal of 98 "units" with "more family-type housing rather than apartments."
The scheme still includes a three-storey block of 12 flats that will be "affordable for rent," he said, alongside 78 two, three and four bedroom houses.
Social housing will account for 36 of the "units" with 27 for rent and nine for shared ownership.
"We believe we have produced a very high quality design of scheme that's also delivering substantial affordable housing for the village in accordance with Cornwall Council figures," Mr Dodge said.
Concerns were raised by residents over the potential for flooding on the site, the inability of the existing road network to cope with extra traffic and the lack of truly affordable housing being proposed.
As the village currently has approximately 580 houses, the development would increase its size by almost a sixth, it was noted.
David Matthews, from house builder Taylor Wimpey, said reports from the Environment Agency over flooding, the highways department over the roads and Cornwall Council's own guidelines on affordable housing had all come back supporting the proposal. And nothing could be done about worries that the open market homes would be sold to students' parents or incomers, he added.
"Inevitably there will be people that come from outside the county," he said.
"But the new people that come in will spend money in the village, they will spend money in the local pub, they will spend money in the local shop, they will spend money on services.
"The development will generate a fairly major boost to the local economy."
Landowner, farmer and Mabe resident Paul Dunstan was not convinced, however.
"It's of great concern to me and I think everyone here that you are trying to build over all of Cornwall," he said.
"You are not developing it, you are destroying it. You are destroying our county. You are destroying our balance."
He then turned to the audience and said to a round of applause: "Don't let them build down there, because believe you me, you won't have anything left."
Mr Matthews said if planning consent was granted in January, work could start by April or May and would last two-and-half to three years.


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A Trowbridge woman and a man accused of hanging a dog pleaded guilty today at Salisbury Magistrates Court.
Veronica Reid, 42, of Woolpack Meadows, Trowbridge, and Jon Allen, 27, also of Woolpack Meadows, changed their pleas to guilty. A third defendant, Paul Brown, pleaded guilty at the court on July 14.
The court heard how Allen and Brown, 52, of Okehampton Road, Exeter, went to a vets practice in Trowbridge on January 17 to inquire about having the dog put down after it had became aggressive.
They were told by the vet that it would need to be assessed before such a decision was taken. The vet noted that Brown and Allen seemed to be concerned about the cost.
The next day they decided to hang the dog, a collie named Shandy, which had been left with Miss Reid by an ex-boyfriend.
Sarah Wood, prosecuting on behalf of the RSPCA, said: "They decided to take matters into their own hands, with the instigation of Miss Reid.
"They decided to hang the dog in the house the next day by hoisting it up with a rope in the attic. It took between five to 10 minutes to die in that position.
"It was checked to see if the dog had died and then Mr Brown punched and kicked it to make sure it was dead. They then buried it in the garden."
The matter came to the attention of the RSPCA in March after they had a conversation with one of Miss Reid's neighbours.
The prosecution added that there is a dispute between Allen and Brown over who went in the attic to hang the dog, but as both accept it was a joint enterprise, it should not make a difference when sentencing.
Esther Bisgrove, defending for Allen, said that there was dispute between him and his co-defendant, but he did accept it was a joint enterprise.
Nick Redhead, defending for Reid, said the dog had come into her house through a previous boyfriend and when the relationship broke down the dog stayed as a pet for her daughter, who has learning difficulties.
Mr Redhead added that the dog had become aggressive and said: "By the time things came to ahead, the dog had to be kept in a cage and everyone in the household was afraid of it.
"She did attempt to do the right thing and inquiries were made to the RSPCA among others about rehoming the dog, but when it was mentioned about it being aggressive these inquiries went nowhere.
"Inquiries were then made about the dog being out to sleep the day before the incident. When Mr Allen and Mr Brown came back to Miss Reid what swayed the decision was the cost."
Mr Redhead added: "This most extraordinary plan was arrived at and the dog died in the manner the court has been told of."
Both defence solicitors asked for the sentencing to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report.
Reid and Allen were informed by the chair of the magistrates that they will return to Salisbury Magistrates' Court on September 15 for sentencing, along with Brown.


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INKSTER, Mich. - Inkster police said they're interviewing a student to find out why he brought a loaded gun to school twice this week.
Police said the 10-year-old showed the gun to a classmate at Daly Elementary School on Thursday.
The classmate told his mother at home and she in turn called the school to report it. Friday morning, school officials called the student in and found the gun.
Police said the student told them he got it from a cousin for protection but are not yet clear on why.
It hasn't yet been determined if the student will be held in custody or turned back over to his parents.
Parents say they had no idea a student brought a loaded gun into school two days in a row.
In fact, most parents Local 4 talked to at the end of the school day, did not know.
"They should have at least sent out a phone call saying that we had an issue and if you want to come get your kid, you can," said parent Jeremy Massey.
"If they removed the threat, I don't think they should have cancelled school. They did the right thing by reporting it," said parent Larry Deforrest who has a child attending the school.
Police say the student claimed he had the gun for protection, and that he got it from a relative.
"That just don't make sense. If you are 10 years old, the only protection you need is to go tell an adult," said Massey
Now, parents are wondering what could have happened if the student had fired the gun.
"So what if the kid was to pull the gun out and shoot somebody. That's just dangerous and all the stuff going on with the colleges and the other kids getting killed. Our kids are at danger," said parent Melissa Pollington.
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- Compuware says no thanks to firm's takeover offer
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- Report: Child poverty skyrockets in Detroit
- Community helping siblings who lost their parents
- Jane Bashara's murder: 1 year later
- Former Detroit police chief still cashing checks
- Detroit church sets up free clothing store
- Karmanos stepping down from Wayne State board
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1:1 Half-Life Gravity Gun...
Following thier successful run with Portal 2's Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, NECA will be introducing a new 1:1 scale prop replica based on a Valve video game. Releasing in Spring 2013 will be Half-Life's Gravity Gun, the The Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (pictured above in prototype form).
NECA states that the 1:1 scale replica will be limited, but not as limited as their Portal replicas were. It will be on display at NY Toy Fair this February with pre-orders to start soon.The Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (ZPEFM), most commonly known as the Gravity Gun, is a tractor beam-type weapon that was originally designed for handling hazardous materials, but, as Alyx stated, was primarily used for heavy lifting. At its core is a substance that appears to be a Xen crystal. Introduced to the player by Alyx Vance shortly after arrival at Black Mesa East, the Gravity Gun soon becomes an invaluable tool in Gordon Freemans arsenal and is considered one of his trademark weapons.
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