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Number of Homeless Students Tops 27,000
McKinney-Vento law ensures free education even if student has no home
OLYMPIA — February 4, 2013 — The reasons are varied: job loss. Unforeseen illness. Increasing housing costs. Foreclosures.
The result is the same: homeless students.
According to numbers released this past week by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 27,390 students were reported as homeless in the 2011-12 school year. That number is up 5.1 percent from 2010-11 and up 46.7 percent from 2007-08.
Collecting and reporting homeless numbers is a requirement of the federal McKinney- Vento Act, which applies to all homeless children and youth.
Districts cite many reasons for the increase. The overall job market is still struggling, in addition to local economic factors, such as the closing of a paper mill in Everett and the decline of the logging industry in Shelton and elsewhere. More students are living on their own. And funding for services that help prevent homelessness is being cut.
In Olympia, one problem is the lack of space at shelters. "All the shelters are constantly at full capacity with people being turned away on a daily basis due to space issues," said Sarah Greenwell, the homeless liaison for the Olympia School District.
Districts also say that better reporting and more awareness have lead to more accurate numbers. "Families are more aware of (McKinney-Vento) and they pass that information on to other families," said Patty Hoff, the homeless support coordinator for the Bellingham School District. "Also, we are doing a much better job of identification."
The federal McKinney-Vento Act ensures that homeless children have access to "the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths."
McKinney-Vento defines a student as homeless if he or she lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. In practical terms, the student is classified as homeless if he or she lives in:
The lack of a stable home puts tremendous pressure on homeless students. Mobility rates are higher than students in homes, absentee rates are higher, health problems are more prevalent and graduation rates are lower.
Under McKinney-Vento, homeless students must be given the same access to education as other students and cannot be separated from other students. Where feasible, the student can remain in the district he or she was in before becoming homeless and is provided transportation to and from school.
Washington state receives about $950,000 per year from the federal government to help homeless students. That money is given to districts in the form of competitive grants, with money going to districts with the greatest need. Districts can use the money for a variety of activities for homeless students, including: helping to defray the excess cost of transportation; tutoring, instruction and enriched educational services; supplies and materials; and early childhood education programs. Districts that do not receive McKinney-Vento grant funding can use Title I or other state or federal funding sources to support the educational needs of homeless students.
About OSPI
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency charged with overseeing K–12 education in Washington state. Led by State School Superintendent Randy Dorn, OSPI works with the state's 295 school districts and nine educational service districts to administer basic education programs and implement education reform on behalf of more than one million public school students.
OSPI provides equal access to all programs and services without discrimination based on sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. Questions and complaints of alleged discrimination should be directed to the Equity and Civil Rights Director at (360) 725-6162 or P.O. Box 47200, Olympia, WA 98504-7200.
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The National Dairy Council and the Quaker Oats Company, a division of PepsiCo, today announced a partnership that will leverage the strengths of both organizations to develop effective programs in schools and other channels to increase children's access to breakfast, nutritious snacks and physical activity. The National Dairy Council, under the leadership of America's dairy farmers, and Quaker have long been dedicated to creating healthier lifestyles for children and families.
The National Dairy Council is committed to dairy nutrition research, education and communications to foster a healthier society. One of the most trusted and iconic brands in America, Quaker has been in existence for more than a century and remains a symbol of quality, great taste and nutrition. This partnership will focus on the synergy between grains and dairy and extend both organizations' commitment to children's health and nutrition.
"Decades of nutrition research and in-school programs have helped the National Dairy Council fight against poor nutrition, inactivity, and obesity among children. Dairy farmers are excited to extend their long-standing commitment to children's health and nutrition by partnering with Quaker Oats to address the need for wholesome, balanced meals for children," said Thomas Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management Inc., the non-profit organization which manages the national dairy checkoff program including the National Dairy Council.
The partnership's activities will be funded in part through the GENYOUth Foundation, a non-profit organization formed through an unprecedented public-private partnership with the National Dairy Council and the National Football League (NFL), devoted to raising funds to support child health and wellness efforts. Quaker will join the NFL roster of partners in 2012.
This is also an important step toward developing new products that will inspire families to achieve wellness by making healthy, accessible food choices.
"Quaker has a rich legacy of providing nourishing foods for families and bringing communities together to promote healthy lifestyles," said Jose Luis Prado, president of Quaker North America, who also serves on the board of directors of GENYOUth. "We are very excited to partner with the National Dairy Council since this will serve as a catalyst to help improve nutrition solutions and increase physical activity opportunities for kids in schools."
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The No. 18 Warriors (14-3, 7-2 WHAC), who are currently tied at the top of the WHAC standings, enter having won three straight games and nine of their last 10.
Meanwhile, the Golden Eagles (11-6, 5-4 WHAC) have dropped their last two contests and have fallen out of the rankings in the latest Top 25 poll released on Tuesday.
It's a big night for the Warriors as they look to maintain their hold of first place with a pair of very challenging games coming up against No. 8 Davenport University and No. 24 Madonna University. However, Tech won't be at 100 percent after sustaining a couple of key injuries in their latest win at the University of Northwestern Ohio over the weekend.
Antonio Cannon, Jeff Hoskins and Antonio Landers each came away from the UNOH game banged up and that could have an effect on Wednesday's game.
Cannon is the leading scorer for the Warriors averaging 13.7 points per game, while Hoskins is scoring 10.2 and Landers 8.9 per game.
The Warriors have proven to be resilient all year though playing with an undersized lineup and beating teams with their quickness and tough defense.
Indiana Tech coach Al Grushkin has his team ranked in the top five in the country in three-point field goal percent defense (0.242), scoring defense per game (51.8), field goal percent defense (0.374), and turnover margin (6.3).
Cornerstone will present a challenge for the Warriors, coming into the contest as the league's top offensive team averaging more than 77 points per game.
Wes Hudson has been a big reason for their success. The junior guard is one of the WHAC's top scorers with 16.9 points per game and ranks second in NAIA DII in free throw percent, shooting 90 percent from the charity stripe.


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2009: Played in nine matches in the midfield during his senior season ... started in Horizon League victory over Cleveland State Nov. 7.
2008: Appeared in each of Valpo's first 18 contests as a junior … took the field as part of the starting 11 on eight occasions in the midfield … tallied first point as a Crusader with an assist at Evansville Sept. 14 … attempted 15 shots on the season, including a season-high four against Wright State Sept. 28.
2007: Made 12 appearances off of the bench for Valparaiso in the midfield during his first season in a Crusader uniform ... attempted five shots on the year, two of which were on frame.
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Prep: A one-year letterwinner for the Maples ... led the team in goals with 14 while also dishing out nine assists ... named to the All-Area team ... named team's Best Midfield Player ... also played for the Fuerzas Basicas of Pachuca F.C. and Pumas F.C.


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HOUSEHOLDS in the Malvern Hills district that have suffered flood damage will be eligible for a £250 emergency flood grant from the council.
MHDC leader David Hughes says the grant is a way of helping residents get back on their feet after some of the most devastating floods in recent years.
The grants will be available to residents whose houses have suffered flood damage to habitable rooms. Damage to gardens, drives and garages is not covered by the scheme.
Cllr Hughes said: "We hope that this small grant might help residents towards getting back on their feet and rebuilding their lives after the terrible flooding in recent weeks.
"There will of course be other grants available from local authorities and other organisations but we felt it was important to let residents know that there is immediate access to this small grant with no paperwork or bureaucracy involved."
Access to the grant is very straightforward: as long as flood damage can be confirmed, only bank account details will be required.
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She was preceded in death by her husband in 1990.
A rosary will be held at 10:30 a.m. followed by a memorial Mass at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 24, at St. Francis Church in Sherwood. A reception will follow in the church hall.


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WELCOME, N.C — Richard Childress hopes to wish Kevin Harvick good luck at the end of 2013 when Harvick walks out of the Richard Childress Racing shop for the last time and joins Stewart-Haas Racing for 2014.
Childress nonchalantly confirmed Harvick's well-publicized move to Stewart-Haas Monday night. Harvick, meanwhile, did not confirm the move, but he did not deny it when the news broke last October.
MORE: Jeff Burton/RCR rumors | Danica's happy face | Stewart-Haas needs sponsors
Harvick has played a critical role in RCR history as he replaced seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt after Earnhardt was killed in the 2001 Daytona 500.
He has been in a Cup car for Childress ever since (except for one race in 2002 when he was suspended), but told Childress last October that he would be leaving the team in 2014. The news of his departure then broke a few weeks later at Phoenix International Raceway.
"We had a meeting (last year) and he told me his plans, and we discussed what we were going to do in '13 — and he will do well over there at Stewart-Haas and RCR will keep going and we will keep moving forward," Childress said Monday during the Sprint Media Tour.
"We will see how it comes out. Him and Tony will have a good relationship."
The 37-year-old Harvick has had a roller-coaster career and a sometimes-rocky relationship with Childress. The highlights include winning the 2007 Daytona 500 and finishing third in the Cup standings in 2010 and 2011.
Harvick also complained often about his team's performance and talked about leaving in 2009 when his contract was set to expire in 2010. But a strong first half in 2010 changed his mind.
There will be no changing his mind now, although Harvick remained mum on where he would race in 2014.
Harvick has 19 career Cup wins and two Nationwide titles with Childress but will drive for his good friend Stewart in 2014. Stewart won Nationwide races for Harvick's Kevin Harvick Inc.
Stewart made headlines last year when he jokingly grabbed Harvick's wife's butt prior to a Cup race in a video that went viral.
"It's been a great journey. … Change can be bad but for the most part, when you have change, the enthusiasm level goes through the roof and you want to do well," Harvick said at the RCR shop.
"Sometimes you just want a change of pace and that's just kind of where I was."
Harvick said he believes he can manage this season well despite the pending departure.
"I have a lot of respect for Richard and the organization," Harvick said. "You don't want to leave that black mark on that as you leave.
"You want to do it with as much class and everything that comes with being classy about it as you can. We're going to race. We're all racers."
Childress agreed. Harvick won the Cup race at Phoenix just two days after his move became public — a day when Childress was fuming that the news had leaked and when Harvick hastily exited the garage area, dodging reporters' questions about his pending move.
"I am going to wish him well," said Childress, who said he knew Harvick was talking to other teams before Harvick told him he wouldn't return in 2014. "All I want to do is win this championship and when he leaves, I want him to leave on a high note.
"I don't know the reasons. It could have been contracts. I want to have a long-term friendship with Kevin even after this is gone."
Childress said sponsor Budweiser has not told him whether it would remain with the team in 2014. He said he would like to have grandson Austin Dillon in a Cup car in 2014 but wouldn't say whether he would replace Harvick.
"(Harvick) was what we needed at the time when we lost Dale Earnhardt," Childress said. "Now that he'll leave, we will find another driver to put in and carry RCR on."
Childress admits that he and Harvick have had their disagreements but is optimistic that they will have a great year.
"We'll make it," Childress said. "It's going to be tough. We both committed to each other that we're going to make this a positive year and a positive end.
"We had a great career together and we want to make this last year a great ending."


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My areas of research include cave geomicrobiology, microbial life in highly mineralized environments, unique or characteristic biominerals and biosignature detection. Additionally, I am involved in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth. Cave formation mechanisms on other planetary bodies is a topic of particular interest to me. My background includes geology, microbiology, atmospheric chemistry, global biogeochemical cycling, and climate/life interactions.
I head the Cave and Karst Studies Program, in conjunction with the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), of which I am the Associate Director (Academics). NMT is the major academic partner with this national institute.
I am passionate about and extensively involved in educational outreach about caves and karst issues, space exploration, and general science for school kids, older students, elder groups, and the general public.
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Are you an incoming freshman at NMT? Joining a Living and Learning Community can provide you with enormous benefits both educational, social, and professional. Modern science and engineering is a collaborative enterprise that typically involves groups of individuals working together to solve a common problem or design a device, system, or software. Learning to work in highly creative groups is a valuable skill that cannot be learned too early in one's career. The LLC also provides a social setting that encourages students to excel and to make connections with other students in a very easy and natural way.
Research on real scientific questions at the Freshman level is a central and critical concept of the LLC. Students will be engaging in research projects involving lab work, field work, modeling, and other research activities immediately. The Spaceship Earth research component takes both semesters of the Freshman academic year.
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Environmental Science, Earth Science, Biology, Physics, Math and Chemistry majors are encouraged to apply. For more information on LLC at NMT, check out this link.
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Jamie Hince, The Kills guitarist, put a ring on it. That is, in old-school form, he popped the question to supermodel Kate Moss on Tuesday night. Kate reportedly joked that she will be the most famous Kate to tie the knot in 2011…instead of Kate Middleton!
According to The Sun, Jamie proposed to Kate in bed with an expensive 1920s vintage engagement ring. He even asked her parents permission for their daughter's hand in marriage before he proposed!
The couple will marry on July 2 and Kate's eight-year-old daughter, Lisa, will be the main bridesmaid. Her father is Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused magazine. Kate has had several high profile romances including former engagements to Johnny Depp and Peter Doherty.
A source told The Sun, "Kate is delighted. Jamie is the man for her — they are soul mates. She just wanted to make him work for her hand in marriage. He has been badgering her to get married but she wanted to take her time."


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Shawn Colvin realized her dreams through a combination of discipline, vision, and talent. She picked up her first guitar at age 10, and followed her muse over the years along a meandering itinerary that included Canada, the Midwest, Texas, California, Boston, and New York City. Burgeoning new forms of folk allowed her to explore different genres and hone her performing skills. She was also able to work with other musicians including singing back-up on Suzanne Vega's 1987 hit, "Luka." Her work did not go unnoticed, and in 1989 she released her debut CD entitled "Steady On" on Columbia Records. Her debut earned her a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.
Folk music occupies a special place in the heart and has always been identified with the sound of a Martin guitar. The authentic and personal nature of the genre has its finest moment in the duet between voice and acoustic guitar. Throughout her career, Shawn Colvin has played a vintage Martin D-28, which embodies the traditional and recognizable tone that only a Martin can deliver. Shawn wanted her signature model to be a guitar that was smaller and more comfortable than a Dreadnought, an ergonomic concern that has been addressed very successfully by C.F. Martin's Women and Music Program over the past five years.
Shawn chose an M shape, also known as a 0000, a Martin guitar shape with a unique history of its own. First produced in the 1970s, the M models were inspired by the much lauded archtop guitars of the '30s, praised for their tone and delicate balance. Because of its tight-waisted profile, the M guitar produces a sound that is balanced and even between the treble and bass tones, making it less prone to feedback and more adaptable in the studio. Notes play and decay quickly, without the bass overtones often associated with a Dreadnought. The Martin M models were quickly embraced by the folk community because of their incredibly balanced sound.
Martin aficionados will recall the look and sound of the M36 and M38. Shawn's M3SC, like the former M36, features a 3-piece back, but with an added striking visual and tonal feature -- the center wedge is Indian rosewood, with solid mahogany wings, and solid mahogany sides. The rosewood center wedge in the back adds warmth to an already crystalline mahogany tone. This spectacular mix is highlighted by C.F. Martin's renowned hand-polished, nitro-cellulose gloss lacquer finish. The Engelmann spruce top is finished with a vintage toner and sports a rosette of a single ring of highly colorful abalone pearl with wood fiber inlay hues. Aesthetic congruence is achieved with a 3-piece headstock which parallels the back and crowns an ebony fingerboard.
Details such as large ebony buttons on the Schaller tuning gears and an OM teardrop-shaped pickguard in tortoise color, add sophisticated elegance to this instrument's startling beauty. The mahogany neck's low profile shape ensures comfortable play and superior tone all the way up the fretboard. The unique and balanced tone of this instrument is augmented by a genuine bone nut and compensated saddle and includes a Fishman Gold+Plus Natural I transducer system. This is a state of the art, under the saddle pickup, which sends an active signal through the endpin, utilizing a piezo co-polymer technology developed by Fishman, the industry's foremost producer of sound transducers.
It is no coincidence that both Shawn Colvin and her M3SC Signature model deliver a uniquely individual voice coupled with a striking visual appearance. Martin is proud to honor Shawn's determination, vision, and talent with this stunning instrument. In order to maintain purity of design, the fingerboard does not bear the artist's signature, rather Shawn Colvin and Chairman and CEO C. F. Martin IV will personally sign the interior label. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each Shawn Colvin Signature Edition guitar will benefit disaster victims in New York City.
Orders for the M3SC Shawn Colvin Signature Edition will be accepted by Martin until March 18, 2002. After the ordering period closes, the size of the edition and the names of participating Martin dealers will be posted on the Martin website.
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A simply stupendous card effect that comes with a DVD to clearly guide you through the instructions. You'll learn the secret to one of the most incredible effects in card magic!
But wait- that's not all! You even get special extra cards to perform EVEN MORE routines that are explained on the DVD!
The basic routine goes like this: A deck of cards is separated into two piles. The cards are fanned and shuffled face to face so that half the cards are face up, the other half face down. Your spectator takes ANY face up card and places it ANYWHERE in the deck face down. The cards are shuffled again and when the deck is spread out on the table, all the cards are face down, except for one face-up card- the selected card!
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If someone collapsed and stopped breathing, would you know what to do, beyond calling for help?
Researchers and designers at the University of Pennsylvania worry not enough people know of a simple, effective technique or where to find a defibrillator in a public place.
"It's a lifesaving device which can shock the heart and restart it when the heart stops," says Dr. Raina Merchant, while demonstrating how to use an automated external defibrillator, or AED, inside Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.
The device comes in a small zipper pouch. An automated voice offers step-by-step instructions for what to do.
Merchant, an emergency physician at Penn who's been mapping where AEDs are located around the city, says using one, along with CPR, can increase a person's chance of survival from less than two percent to more than 50 percent.
Problem is, AED's are often hidden in plain sight.
"I haven't noticed any in here," said Steve Pennington, a construction worker sitting at a table around the corner from Merchant.
And even if he did?
"I wouldn't use it," he said, adding that he would call for help and start CPR in an emergency. "I wouldn't feel comfortable without being trained."
Pennington's not alone.
AED's are used less than five percent of the time, according to Merchant.
"That's a huge missed opportunity," she said, pointing out they're simple enough for bystanders without any training to use.
"As soon as you open the device, it starts talking to you and walks you through exactly what to do [including how to do CPR]," she said.
Dr. Merchant and others at the University of Pennsylvania recently issued a call-out to designers, to develop flashy AED stations, such as one now on display at 30th Street. They want them to be accessible, approachable and easy to spot.
That way, if someone were to collapse, say right here, bystanders would know what to do, and not waste any precious seconds before starting to help — seconds that could mean the difference between life and death.
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I recently found a way to make a very large amount of gold for a very short time investment with Inscription.
Things you will need
• 485 Inscription
• Virtuoso Inking Set (duh :P)
• Lots of Resilient Parchment
• Lots of Blackfallow Ink
• An unknown/new bank alt that has no connection with your main.* (Explanation at the bottom of this post.)
• Some starting gold
IMPORTANT: What you want to do first is check what prices "Mysterious Fortune Card" are going for at your Auction House. If it is less than what 1 Blackfallow Ink costs, don't bother doing this, you will only lose gold.
The Setup
Start out by opening your macro screen by pressing M. It will look like this:
Click on "New" and give your macro any name and icon you want.
In the "Enter Macro Commands:" box, type in this:
/2 Mysterious Fortune Card now on sale at the Auction House! Buy them for X gold and stand a chance to get the 5000g vendor value Fortune Card!
If "/2" is not your Trade Chat channel number, change it to whatever your Trade Chat number is.
At "X gold" insert whatever amount you are selling them for. Between 100g and 200g is a good price, although you can push it to 300g each if you are the only one selling them.
The Crafting
Log your Scribe (yes, it's Scribe, not inscriptionist/inscriptioner) and buy out some Blackfallow Ink, and run to the Inscription Vendor. Buy the same amount of Resilient Parchment as the amount of Blackfallow Ink you have, and start crafting Mysterious Fortune Cards.
You can also choose to Mill the cheapest Cataclysm herb on your realm for Ashen Pigment (2 Ashen Pigment = 1 Blackfallow Ink) and turn those into Blackfallow Ink, instead of straight up buying the Blackfallow Ink.
20 Herbs = 4 Mills = 2-3 Ashen Pigment per Mill = 8-12 Ashen Pigment + a few Burning Pigment.
Once you are done crafting, mail all the cards you made to your new bank alt and post them up on the Auction House. (Make sure if there is any competition that you list them for slightly cheaper but NOT too much, otherwise the market will crash like on my server.)
Before you click your macro you will want to type this into your chat box, or make a specific macro for it:
/dnd If you are whispering me because you didn't get the 5000g card, please note that it is only a CHANCE to get it as said by my macro earlier. If you don't believe that you can get a 5000g vendor value card from Mysterious Fortune Cards, check www.wowhead.com for confirmation on the loot table.
Then click your macro and watch the gold roll in.
Ze Gold! Where is ze gold!
My sales after a few minutes, and this is not all of them:
In total over 2 or 3 hour's worth of hitting my macro, I made a grand total profit of 60 000g. That's over 20 000g an hour!
Remember to do this at peak times when there are many players online (13:00-18:00) to get the maximum profit. Don't do this when there is nobody online! You will not only NOT sell anything, others might also try and make some gold and undercut you!
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Please note: This is NOT bannable and is NOT a casino, which is against Blizzards EULA (End User License Agreement, that thing that nobody reads). You are merely selling an item that has a chance (albeit small) to give you a card that vendors for a ton of gold.
Here's a list from WoWhead of all the cards you can possibly get from using the Mysterious Fortune Card:
* The reason for having an unknown bank alt is that people really do not understand what "chance" means. They might buy 1 card expecting to get 5000g, and when they don't get it they QQ at you for "lying" to them. They might not let it go and might annoy you on your main character. So create a new bank alt if people know your current one is you.
When creating a bank alt, DO NOT call it anything that might link that character to your main. For example if your main is called "Beefsteak", don't call your bank alt "Beefsteakbank" or "Beefbank". Don't just give it a faceroll name either or people think you're a gold seller and not buy anything from you. Giving it an RP name helps.
You probably only have a few hours (if that) after you first click your macro for this to stay profitable for you.
If your realm has a lot of smart people, they will catch on FAST and start selling their own Mysterious Fortune Cards. So don't just click your macro and hope for the best. Be active and respond to legitimate questions about the cards, and point people to WoWhead.
Straight up saying the cards are from Inscription, however, is a bad idea. People will go look for Scribes or log their own and start making cards too.
Most importantly: don't spam. People will just think you're a chat bot posting Trade messages and report you.
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The 10th Annual Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop will be held on July 8-9, 2013 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. This year's conference theme, Trend to Blend: Lessons from the Field reflects a renewed interest in blended learning while emphasizing the importance of research and proven effective practices of the past decade in guiding our future. Although the field of blended learning is not new, we are witnessing a revival in interest around…See More


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Fryxell Scholarship
Dr. Lucy Fryxell and Dr. Donald Fryxell taught English at Augustana from the 1950s through the 1980s. Both were master teachers who cared about students and cultivated their potential. Dr. Lucy Fryxell established the Don Fryxell Scholarship in memory of her husband. She desired that the scholarship be awarded to young scholars who wish to study the humanities. As English professors, the Fryxells had a special affinity for literature and the pursuit of an elegant and excellent use of the English language. Therefore, special consideration is given to candidates with an interest in studying English and/or journalism.
Incoming first-year students are invited to apply. This is a $1,000 scholarship and is renewable.
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University policy on travel and entertainment expenses has been developed within the constraints and guidelines set forth by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
It is expected that all faculty, staff and students will exercise adequate care in incurring travel and entertainment type expenses. Only actual expenses incurred will be reimbursed. It is the responsibility of each individual incurring such expenses as well as the individual approving such expenses to comply with the University's policies and procedures. All reimbursements must have the approval of the immediate supervisor or appropriate VP.
IRS regulations require that employers have an "Accountable Plan" for the reimbursement or payment of business expense for employees. An "Accountable Plan" must include requirements for proper substantiation, a bona fide business connection and a timely return of amounts in excess of expenses. Payments not meeting these requirements would be considered taxable wages to the individual receiving the funds. The University would be required to treat these funds as subject to income tax withholding and pay FICA, Medicare and other applicable taxes on these amounts. Consequently, the University will only reimburse individuals for expenses that meet the requirements of an "Accountable Plan." Included in an Accountable Plan are requirements that:
This is applicable to all University representatives regardless of the source of funds supporting such travel. It extends to all University representatives seeking reimbursement for meals, alcohol, and entertainment, even if travel is not involved. Purchases with the University purchasing card (p-card) are also subject to this policy.
The Expense Reimbursement form is to be used by employees to account for expenses while traveling on University business and to professional meetings. The guidelines are not intended to impose an undue burden or limitation on the individual, but are intended to maintain adherence to IRS regulations, University independent auditors and the Board of Trustees.
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Q: What should be included in the business purpose?
Details necessary to show how an expense was related to the University's business differ depending on the type of expense. The business purpose may include:
Please don't use acronyms. They may be familiar to everyone in your department, but auditors will not know what they mean.
Q: What are some examples of acceptable and unacceptable business purpose descriptions?
Q: Why do I have to provide so many details about the business purpose to get reimbursed when the approver knows what the expense was for and has already approved the payment?
The IRS considers all income taxable unless there is an exception. One exception is to follow an accountable plan for expenses incurred by employee while conducting University business. There are three requirements for these plans:
The Business Office is not questioning how a department's budget money is used. It is trying to get enough documentation to satisfy IRS requirement (1) listed above to prevent the reimbursement from becoming taxable income for the employee.
Q: Where should we report the business purpose for expenses on the Employee Expense Reimbursement Form?
The form has a space to the right of each item for description, including business purpose. Some people also write the names of individuals attending a business meal and the purpose for the meal on the receipt, some staple or tape the receipt to another piece of paper and write the additional information on the paper. (the form is also available in xls).
Documentation for expenses on the purchasing card (p-card) should be on the original receipt or on the expense envelope if there is not sufficient room on the receipt.
Q: I submitted a copy of a receipt. Why are you asking me for the original?
The University requires original receipts to help prevent duplicate reimbursements.
Q: Why would some of my mileage or travel expense be taxable?
For adjunct faculty, some of the mileage expense may be taxable, depending on the work locations and the mileage from the person's residence.
Q: I traveled for work, why can't I use the purchasing card to buy gasoline for my car?
The mileage reimbursement rate is designed to include all expenses of operating a vehicle, including fuel, vehicle wear, depreciation and related. The IRS sets the mileage reimbursement rate each year based on its study of current costs; and the University has adopted this as our mileage reimbursement rate. Employees receiving a mileage reimbursement are being compensated for all costs, including fuel and cannot be reimbursed for any other direct expenses.
Q: What is the current mileage rate?
The mileage rate for travel occurring on or after January 1, 2017 is 53.5 cents per mile and is indicated on the Expense Reimbursement form. Travel prior to 1/1/2017 will be at 54 cents per mile. Requests for reimbursement should be accompanied by this form and should indicate the origination and destination points of the trip. Commuting mileage is not eligible for reimbursement. Adjunct travel is addressed in the above policy.
Q: Why won't the University reimburse me if I pay someone for services?
The University needs to directly pay for services to make sure the vendor is properly classified as either an employee or an independent contractor and all the information necessary to report the income is obtained before the payment is made. If services are reimbursed, the payment does not show up in Datatel under the name of the service provider, creating the risk of inappropriate tax reporting to both the vendor and the employee.
Q: How is the term "services" defined?
A payment is for "services" if it is paying for the performance of work or duties and is primarily compensating time or expertise. "Services" may include some merchandise.
Examples of payments for "services": lecturers, musicians, medical and legal assistance, repairs and maintenance, consultants, tour guides, translators, photographers, maintenance agreements for software or equipment, employee training, athletic officials, security officers, investment assistance, catering, tickets for an activity that includes services, advertising
Examples of payments not for "services": purchases of machinery and equipment (although installation and maintenance would be "services"), books, supplies, postage, utilities, insurance, items for resale
Q: What is the policy on gift cards?
Gift cards to students or others are considered as taxable compensation when provided in exchange of services rendered (including 'honorariums' for work performed). Prizes to students may also be taxable to the recipient and may need to follow the W-9 documentation requirements. All gift card awards to students must be processed through the Student Life office.
Gift cards provided to employees are considered taxable compensation by the IRS without exception. For this reason, gift card purchases for employees are prohibited.
The University must comply with IRS reporting requirements. The Business Office will make the final determination on the taxability on gift cards. Any questions should be directed to the Business Office.
Q: Why is there a problem getting a tax-free reimbursement more than 60 days after the cost was incurred or the business trip ended?
The second (2) condition is that the expenses be accounted for within a reasonable period of time, and the IRS believes 60 days is a reasonable period.
Q: What are some examples of extreme extenuating circumstances for late submission of a reimbursement form?
Examples of reasonable explanations for late submission of a reimbursement include, but are not limited to:
If the circumstances would not have prevented the employee from submitting the reimbursement form within 60 days, the reimbursement will be considered taxable income and reported on the employee's W-2.
Q: How do I handle a reimbursement request submitted after 60 days?
Please attach the completed Late Reimbursement Request to the Employee Expense Reimbursement Form (with all supporting documents), get the approval signature, and send everything to the Vice President for Business and Finance. The VPBF will decide if the reimbursement will be paid and if it is, whether it should be treated as taxable income. The VPBF will return the denied request to the employee, forward the approved reimbursement to Accounts Payable (if nontaxable), or send the approved taxable reimbursement request to Payroll.
Q: If I incur research expenses in June and I'm still out of the country until August, how will my reimbursement be handled?
When travel crosses the fiscal year end, the University asks that the reimbursement form be submitted by July 15 or, if the trip ends later than that, as soon as the employee returns. The employee should obtain electronic copies of credit card statements so that the reimbursement isn't delayed until the statement arrives in the mail. In addition, all expenses incurred in advance of the trip should be reported before leaving. Every year there are a few people with lengthy travel that includes both fiscal years, and the Business Office appreciates it when told in advance that there will be late reports.
Q: Why don't we have more than 15 days after the close of the fiscal year to submit invoices and reimbursements for that fiscal year?
In order to get everything ready before the auditors arrive, the Business Office follows a strict schedule for closing the books at year-end. If one task is delayed, everything that depends on that task is also delayed. For example, until all invoices are submitted, reconciliations involving accounts payable cannot be done, grant reports cannot be completed, and accounts cannot be reviewed for new property and equipment.
Q: If I'm going to charge my reimbursement to an account with a budget that will carry over to the next year, is it still important to submit all reimbursement requests by July 15?
Yes. The deadline for submitting invoices and reimbursement requests is not just for budget purposes. It is also to get costs in the correct fiscal year for the audited financial statements. With the financial statements there is some tolerance for small expenses getting in the wrong year. With Federal grants however, there is no tolerance for error. Expenses must be recorded in the correct fiscal year.
Q: How should I convert foreign currency to U.S. dollars?
The rate used has to be reasonable and the Business Office must have printed support for the rate. Some of the ways the conversion rate may be determined are:
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Acute Changes in Intraocular Cytokines After Intravitreal Bevacizumab
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Purpose: To evaluate the acute changes in intraocular cytokines after intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) in proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Design: Prospective, open-label, controlled, randomized interventional clinical trial.
Participants: Twenty eyes of 28 consecutive patients who are scheduled for pars plana vitrectomy (ppV) for proliferative diabetic retinopathy were prospectively enrolled.
Methods: All patients were randomly assigned to receive IVB either at 2 or 7 days before ppV. Aqueous humor samples were taken from anterior chamber just before IVB and at the time of surgery. Multiplex cytokine array were used to assay various cytokines
|Complications of Diabetes Mellitus
|Drug: Intravitreal Avastin injection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Acute Changes in Intraocular Cytokines After Intravitreal Bevacizumab
- intraocular VEGF levels (pg/ml) in both groups (measured in aqueous humor), using multiplex beads immunoassay [ Time Frame: At day 2 after IVB in Group 1, day 7 after IVB at group 2. ]
Because we want to compare the differences between day 2 and day 7, vitrectomy will be performed at day 2 in group 1 and day 7 in group 2.
That's why the time frame has two time point
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|November 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Intravitreal Avastin Day 2
randomized to either treatment with preoperative IVB 2 days before PPV (Group A) or 7 days before PPV (Group B).
Drug: Intravitreal Avastin injection
Bevacizumab (1.25 mg in 0.05 ml) (Avastin; Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA) will be injected through the pars plana at 3.5 mm from the limbus, using 30 gauge needle.
Active Comparator: Intravitreal Avastin Day 7
randomized to either treatment with preoperative IVB 2 days before PPV (Group A) or 7 days before PPV (Group B).
Drug: Intravitreal Avastin injection
Bevacizumab (1.25 mg in 0.05 ml) (Avastin; Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA) will be injected through the pars plana at 3.5 mm from the limbus, using 30 gauge needle.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy who were scheduled for PPV for vitreous hemorrhage or tractional retinal detachment (TRD)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Eyes with any pharmacologic intervention on study eye within 6 months
- Eyes with panretinal photocoagulation on study eye within 3 months
- Eyes with any pharmacologic intervention on fellow eye within 3 months,
- History of ocular diseases other than diabetic retinopathy
- History of PPV on study eye
- History of systemic thromboembolic events including myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accidents.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01439178
|Contact: Won Ki Lee, MD. Ph.D
|Korea, Republic of
|Seoul Saint Mary's hospital
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 137-070
|Contact: Won ki Lee , M.D. Ph.D 82-2-2258-1188 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Responsible Party:
|Won Ki Lee, Preofessor, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01439178 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 29, 2011
|Last Updated:
|September 21, 2011
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Complications
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
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- Overall product dimensions: 48"w x 16"d x 32"h.
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- Clearance under buffet: 2.5"
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- Packaged weight: 144 lbs.
Minimal assembly required. View assembly instructions.
Lift when moving to avoid damage to base or legs. Wipe with a soft, dry cloth. To protect finish, avoid the use of chemicals and household cleaners. Hardware may loosen overtime. Periodically check that all connections are tight.
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Exercise in Sjogren, Myositis and Takayasu's Arteritis
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified February 2016 by Bruno Gualano, University of Sao Paulo
University of Sao Paulo
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Bruno Gualano, University of Sao Paulo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 29, 2011
Last updated: February 17, 2016
Last verified: February 2016
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Exercise may improve physical capacity and health parameters in Primary Syndrome´s Sjogren, Myositis and Takayasu's Arteritis.
Therefore, this study aims to investigate the role of an exercise training program in patients with Primary Syndrome´s Sjogren, Myositis and Takayasu's Arteritis.
|Primary Sjogren´s Syndrome Myositis
|Other: Exercise training
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effects of Exercise Training in Primary Sjogren´s Syndrome, Myositis and Takayasu's Arteritis
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Sjögren syndrome idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
MedlinePlus related topics: Exercise and Physical Fitness Myositis Sjogren's Syndrome
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy Takayasu ArteritisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Bruno Gualano, University of Sao Paulo:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Aerobic Capacity [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]Maximum Oxygen Consumption (VO2Max)
- Muscle strength [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Serum anti-inflammatory cytokines [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]Interleukin-10
- Serum pro-inflammatory cytokines [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]Interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a)
- Serum inflammatory markers [ Time Frame: Twelve weeks ]erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), c-reactive protein (CRP), aldolase
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|July 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|No Intervention: Sjogren and Myositis Control (no control for takayasu's)
|Experimental: Sjogren, Myositis and Takayasu's Trained
Other: Exercise training
"Sjöegren arm": 30-60 minutes of combined aerobic and strength exercises, twice a week, moderate intensity.
"Myositis arm": 30 minutes of resistance training combined partial blood flow restriction, twice a week, low intensity.
"Takayasu's arteritis arm": 30-50 minutes of aerobic, twice a week, moderate intensity.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Physically inactive
- Stable drugs regime for at least three months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other rheumatic diseases
- Physical disability that prevent the patient to perform the physical tests
- Severe pulmonary disease
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01501019
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01501019
|University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine Clinical Hospital
|Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05403-010
|Contact: Thalita Blasques Dassouki, MSc 55 11 2661-8022 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Ana Lucia Sa Pinto, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Bruno Gualano, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Fernanda R Lima, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Hamilton Roschel, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Sandra G Pasoto, PhD
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University of Sao Paulo
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Mattar MA, Gualano B, Perandini LA, Shinjo SK, Lima FR, Sá-Pinto AL, Roschel H. Safety and possible effects of low-intensity resistance training associated with partial blood flow restriction in polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2014 Oct 25;16(5):473. doi: 10.1186/s13075-014-0473-5.
|Responsible Party:
|Bruno Gualano, Principal Investigator, University of Sao Paulo
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01501019 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Exercise in Autoimmunity
|Study First Received:
|November 29, 2011
|Last Updated:
|February 17, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sjogren's Syndrome
Takayasu Arteritis
Aortic Arch Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Salivary Gland Diseases
Mouth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Dry Eye Syndromes
Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases
Eye Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Muscular Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Aortic Diseases
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I picked up this portable TV as a freebie, advertised on Craig's List. It's not working, though it looks good enough for a display item. The original cord was cut off at the plug and so I removed it and found another cord with a plug of the same size (after reaming out the holes). Several tubes seem to light up but not the screen.
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Rios undergoes pregame ankle test
ARLINGTON -- Outfielder Alex Rios was on the field 4 1/2 hours before Friday's game with the Angels. The Rangers wanted Rios to go through a series of tests on his right ankle to make sure he was good enough to play right field.
The Rangers decided he was, so Shin-Soo Choo, who is dealing with a sprained left ankle, was used at designated hitter.
"We wanted to see if Rios could play defense," manager Ron Washington said. "We made it known to him, don't start something you can't finish."
Rios, who originally sustained the injury in the second game after the All-Star break, said he was good enough all the ankle continues to bother him.
"I'll have to deal with a little bit of pain but hopefully it won't affect my performance," Rios said. "I'm good enough to be playing tonight."
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In 1963, the first homes were built as the Mission Viejo Company began developing this planned community, and Mission Viejo incorporated as a city in 1988. Our city will celebrate these significant milestones later this year. Thinking of these celebrations causes me to reflect on the great progress we've made over the last two decades and to anticipate goals for the coming year.
This is a vibrant, dynamic city that nearly 100,000 people call home. The quality of life here is the key. As I look forward to the new year, I want to preserve and enhance that quality of life, which continues to be a magnet for families, individuals, organizations and businesses alike.
During difficult economic times, we have remained fiscally sound, thanks to careful planning and cost cutting. This proactive fiscal management has given us the ability to protect and enhance the great facilities and programs we provide our residents. We have a budget surplus this year, and foresee a surplus for the next budget cycle. We've also received park development fees, which will allow us to make recreational improvements that will benefit the community.
Our city has continually been named the "safest city" in California for its size. I plan to continue my focus on public safety. In 2013, we will also move forward with more infrastructure and road improvements to enhance transportation.
Recreation is another priority for me. In the public's best interest, I believe we should renovate a park each year.
For example, Pavion Park could be refurbished as a universally accessible park, with a playground that children with disabilities and all abilities can enjoy. I also want to enhance and connect our trail system, and address improvements at the Nadadores swim complex. Of course, a new dog park and other exciting upgrades will take place.
Indeed, we have much to look forward to in 2013. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful community full of passionate and involved people who are invested in Mission Viejo.


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Episode 3 just served up a big reminder to Star Trek of the sort of thing it used to do well, tackle difficult social issues straight on. Gender identity, social acceptance, parameters of consent to name a few. Not preachy and often humorous because using words to lighten a subject doesn't mean you take that subject lightly. Seth MacFarlane is dangerously close to stealing the crown from the stumbling Trek franchise here.
The season finale was absolutely great up to the last few minutes ...still looking forward to season 4 though.
why is she wearing the same red pant-suit in every episode?
mpore episode like this - please.
so, last season finale' the toxin got released and it's.. what? gone? The people it affected are no longer affected? Jim is no longer affected? PLEASE dont screew with this show, it's one of the FEW good ones still on.
These episodes are all wrong. They are all ep1
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This kind of series in not my thing,sorry
Can you upload version without narration for the blind?
@Kyndryd I think Kai (Evan Peters) is trying to start a kind of cult. He's ramping up everybody's fear then taking it away. They follow him because he's like a god to them.
and now anyone can walk onto/into an acitve crime scene. smh
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Nice end to an amazing series. Sad to see it go.
Johnathan is hot and a dracula!
That chick's kind of adorable. :p wish I had a machine that gave me free limitless weed though
we need like 100 more seasons and epsodes too
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what is up with the quality of some of these episodes?
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You're right about the rest of the links though.
@captcrazie, click on the openload.co link (the one from cutiepie works for sure). Close all the ads if you need to, then click "View" or "Download". If you click view it will reload the page with a working play button.
There is no EPISODE 9 one of the actors got hurt they only made 8 EPISODES
I always checjk somone else's pulse with my thumb- every single time. Speaking of time - he had PLENTY to put one more bullet through the forehead.
these links have all been sucky since theres none that work now... needs fixing
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WOOOHOOOOO + WTF combined = Suits
The synopsis made me go wtf? xD pass.
Episode 9 has not yet appeared on the internet
Does anyone has a link for ep 9
Does anyone has a link for epsp?
Totally agree with RR, they definitely miscast the role of Danny. It doesn't work at all .
Hoping to see The Iron Man through the series.. All the best.
One of the best TV shows ever
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Great episode! Happy it is back in my life.
Season 7 - S E V E N and it starts, and ends, with a scream.
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A measure making its way through the New Jersey Legislature would allow towns to require mortgage lenders to maintain vacant foreclosed homes.
The legislation would give a creditor 30 days to correct any building code violations or face the same fines that a homeowner would pay.
Lenders need to take responsibility for the homes they foreclose on, said Sen. Ron Rice, the bill's primary sponsor.
"Once you foreclose those properties, in essence, you own them and you're no different than anyone else," Rice said. "I don't care if you live in California or your business in Texas you have to maintain those properties and to do otherwise is really pulling our communities down throughout the state."
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Rice says when a foreclosed residence is unoccupied and not maintained, the property deteriorates and can bring down the value of surrounding homes.
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There is no garden, only patches of community-owned ivy adjoining the Hollywood condo where I live. But in last summers heat, against house rules, I planted Kentucky Wonder pole beans, which climbed from long, narrow containers up a wrought-iron railing and through bird netting attached to hooks on the eaves of my roof; beefsteak tomatoes, in tubs, which strained through vertically linked wire rings; and potted marigolds and garlic to help protect my crops from aphids. Neighbors carrying garbage bags downstairs had to step gingerly around the foliage, but if you give away a few homegrown beans in the middle of a city, much is forgiven. By October, my summer crop yielded to cool-weather bulbs and sweet peas. Ive been marking the seasons in various Los Angeles homes this way for some 20 years. In Southern California, if you want seasons, you have to contrive them. And this is a story of seasons.
Last fall, Home Depot had a sale on a new brand of potting soil. After lugging a green plastic bag of the stuff upstairs, clutching it against my chest, I scooped wads of loam with my hands into empty pots. Thats when it hit -- the smell of chicken manure in the soil, under my fingernails, triggering a cascade of vivid sensory recollections: the
ostentatious explosions of golden acacia along Sonoma County roads, blackberries and thistles growing in tandem along roadside ditches, the pungent smell of eucalyptus windbreaks. And, getting to the heart of the matter, the musk of dust and ground corn, blighted feathers and chicken shit -- all mixed into the sawdust that once lined the floors of the old wooden sheds where I spent so much time during 1963 and 1964.
Theyre all gone now. Those long poultry barns, piles of compost against the outer walls, were already starting to sag, like old men in open fields, even then, when I was 9 years old.
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I came to Northern California with my parents, brother and sister, green cards in hand, on August 29, 1963, on the S.S. Oriana. We sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge after a 16-day passage from Southampton -- a dazzling arrival in America from the concrete-and-brick suburbs of southern England. My parents endeavor to start a new life in California had been sponsored by distant cousins Joe and Sheba Rapoport, then in their early 60s -- themselves immigrants, but from the Ukraine in the 20s. Joe and Sheba were part of a Sonoma County enclave of old commies -- Yiddish-speaking radicals who were visited by an FBI agent, just checking in, every year until their deaths, over a quarter-century later. (Shebas lectures on the beauty of the Soviet Idea remained intractable until she died at the age of 89, though her defense of Stalin softened somewhat as historical evidence kept pouring in.) Joe and Sheba had helped unionize garment workers in New York, before being hounded west by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist witch-hunt. Afterward, all that was left to Joe, professionally, was chicken farming, which he despised. (Sheba worked as an executive secretary in San Francisco.)
Almost every morning, before school, I helped Joe on his rounds feeding the chickens, sometimes picking up dead birds that had been crushed into the floor, or killing the sick, dangling them by their feet and slamming their heads against a post, just like Joe did, then chopping them up with a hatchet on a stump outside, before tossing dismembered feet and wings to eagerly awaiting cats.
The ranch housed some 15,000 Rhode Island Red meat chickens, many of whom I grew to know by appearance and personality -- a perverse attachment, since every 14 weeks, large flatbed trucks carrying stacked wire cages rolled onto the property with a trio of men with rubber boots and gloves, who would seize yelping birds, three at a time, holding them by their feet upside down, and stuffing them into the cages on the trucks. Hysteria yielded to complacency: The birds were quite docile as the convoy rolled away -- beaks and combs craning into the breeze. Chickens are like that. They live in the moment.
Every day, I would walk up the hill to visit Joe and Sheba in their white cottage. On their black-and-white GE television, I watched the Beatles ensnare the heart of America, the aftermath of JFKs assassination, and reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies. It was through Joes halting Russian accent and Shebas brisk stridency that I absorbed the heroic rhetoric of Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers, of Martin Luther King Jr. and the fledgling civil rights movement, as well as my cousins rabid opposition to the quickly escalating war in Vietnam.
It simply didnt occur to me that not everyone in the county actually opposed the war, or other imperatives of big business. I was a popular, exotic fourth-grade entry at Cotati Elementary School, until I started criticizing American foreign policy, aping what Id heard in the white cottage on the hill. Thats when my popularity plummeted as abruptly as it had been bestowed on me: If you dont like it here, why dont you go back to where you came from?
For solace, and refuge, Id sit with the chickens, sometimes in an old chair that Id brought for the occasion, sometimes for an hour or two, frozen like a statue. Sometimes it was just to gaze at the behavior of the day-old chicks lounging in fresh sawdust under a suspended gas heat lamp. The birds made little contact with me in their infancy; they confined themselves to the area of the heat. But as they feathered out, and chirping turned to clucking, Joe raised the lamp via a pulley, and the chickens ventured into an expanded terrain. I trained myself to sit in the chair, moving nothing but my eyes, and the chickens would approach, torn between apprehension and curiosity. One would peck at my shoelace, then another would imitate, until the first would take the brave jump to my knee, realize what it had done and run away. Then all would flee, stepping on each other, squawking in a farce staged by instinct until, following some leader, they would re-approach, this army of the doomed. They really couldnt help themselves, being so inquisitive by nature. One on my knee, then two, one on my shoulder. At the end of an hour, I was covered in chickens, absolutely enchanted.
In the middle of Los Angeles, almost 40 years later, it all comes rushing back, triggered by the smell of chicken manure on my fingers. Even after washing my hands, I know I have been infected -- a kind of lunacy is now gnawing, growing, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.
When I see fertile eggs at the Mayfair Market, I immediately buy half a dozen, along with some sponges, a 25-watt bulb and a thermometer. I retrieve a shoebox from a closet. Yes, I am going to build an incubator in order to hatch my very own chickens.
And what are you going to do with them after they hatch? ask friends, colleagues and my perplexed wife. Are we going to turn the apartment into a chicken farm? What about the furniture?
These are foolish questions to ask anyone who is living in the moment.
After prodigious research on the conditions needed to hatch chickens, through Google.com and About.com, I place a quartet of eggs into my shoebox incubator. The temperature must remain stable at 100 degrees, but in my shoebox the temperature wobbles lethally, dropping at night to a frigid 90 degrees. I make a tiny adjustment, moving the eggs millimeters closer to the light bulb. The thermometer shoots up to 110, meaning that I have just cooked the little ones -- presuming there are little ones to cook. After repeated attempts over two a and a half weeks, I realize that the shoebox isnt working. I order a $20 incubator online and head back to the Mayfair. Still no luck. I go through 24 eggs over 10 weeks with no success.
Then, one morning at the Hollywood Farmers Market, I meet Ken, a gentle, bearded fellow with a slight potbelly held in by an apron. Ken operates two stalls, one for knife sharpening and the other for eggs. One bin is marked fertile eggs. I say that Id like some of his eggs and tell him of my plight.
You cant use these eggs to hatch, Ken explains. And for sure, not from the grocery store. Theyre bumped around too much. Then he rolls two eggs into each other so that they tap, ever so lightly. See that? If theres an embryo in there, its all over. They have to be held reeaaal delicate. You want hatching eggs, come up to my farm.
He gives me a business card with the address of his farm, a mere 20 minutes away in semirural Van Nuys. I drive out there with my teenage stepdaughter, Sasha, to a large one-story stucco house, a chained fence across the driveway, and a dusty front yard with kids and dogs playing in a mound of dirt. There is no way in but to hop the wall, and Im not about to do that. As he later told me, Ken has barricaded his property after being raided by the LAPD, the Department of Building and Safety, and the Health Department after a neighbors complaint about his 3,000 critters -- chickens, rheas, goats, pigeons -- and the buses that he collects and stores on his property. The expression he uses most frequently is violating your civil rights.
The centuries-old American confrontation between the country and the city has now been replaced by equally hostile feelings between the country and the suburbs. Its always about neighbors. The farm and the city are now at a more exotic distance from each other, separated by the burbs, allowing for a greater measure of appreciation than when they rubbed up against each other -- in geography as well as in attitude. Raising chickens in the suburbs is considered deranged, whereas raising chickens in the city is merely eccentric -- thats the difference.
Ken sees me and comes out with an egg carton. Six eggs, six bucks. What breed are they? I ask. No idea, he says. Mutts . . . Anything could come out of these.
On the way home, Sasha holds the carton like a treasure, suspended above her lap. Three eggs go into the incubator that afternoon. Three are held in refrigerated storage, where they can last no more than a week.
My wife and Sasha fly to Moscow the next day, for a month. I am now living alone.
On my third day of solitary, late at night in my living room, with all the lights out, I hold an egg behind a flashlights beam, and there, floating on a very clear yolk, is an equally clear red-black dot, the size of a pinhead, with two hairlike follicles extending from it, curling and pink. Life -- as unmistakable as it is miraculous, as it is common. Life and blood. Three days. The heart is already beating -- make that two hearts, for theres life in two of the eggs. The third reveals nothing.
On day four, the pinheads have become double pinheads, linked by flesh into a hook, with a network of ruby arteries that now reaches through the entire yolk. But on day five, a bright-red ring encircles one of the embryos -- what one Web site calls the ring of death. The embryo has expired, and all the blood has been drawn to the perimeter. There remains one survivor. I pull a new egg from the fridge, let it settle to room temperature for three hours before placing it in a second incubator.
At day nine, the replacement egg shows signs of life, while the senior partner, now named Thornton, starts to disappear behind a black veil of skin. If you hold a flashlight up to any store-bought egg, you can see through its translucence. But Thorntons mass has rendered his home impenetrable to light.
Just past midnight on Saturday morning, from the incubator to my left, Thornton abruptly announces his impending arrival: three shrill chirps from within the egg, and then silence. After my initial euphoria wears off, I whistle back, through my teeth, in imitation -- a trick I learned on the ranch. Thornton answers -- three more chirps, and then silence. We go on like this for about half an hour.
I send an e-mail to my friend Cathy, who has been monitoring Thorntons progress through the prior week. Indeed, the younger embryo is named Betty, in Cathys honor. (Cathy, an expat New Yorker who lives down the street, routinely uses the proper noun Betty as a common noun -- as in Then this betty with the big hair says . . .) Thornton and I chirp to each other until 2 a.m., after which, evidently more fatigued than my new, unborn friend, I go to bed.
By 8 a.m., upon staggering to the incubator to check Thorntons progress, I observe a small triangle at the top of his egg -- not so much a hole as a crack. By 10 a.m., the outer shell has dislodged around the crack, revealing an inner membrane with the appearance of thin white paper. This, too, has a tear in it. Through the tear, a little yellow beak emerges, chirps, pushes at the paper membrane, then withdraws. And thats the sum of activity for the next nine hours: chirping, beak emerging, tasting the membrane, withdrawing.
A few things concern me. First, if the hatch is not completed within 24 hours from the first chirp, something is wrong. Thornton is now at the 19-hour mark and shows absolutely no interest in, as they say in the neighborhood, taking this to the next level. Also, sometimes his cheeping has the distinct tone of frustration. What if hes stuck?
A chicken-themed Web site directs me to a woman named Kelly in Pennsylvania, whom I call. Kelly shushes a number of children, and adopts a tone of cool compassion.
Now let me get this right. Youre in the middle of Hollywood, and youre hatching chickens?
Yes, thats correct.
Well. [Pause] Okay . . . And where are you going to put the chicks after they hatch?
I have a cardboard box with wood chips, and a lamp for heat.
And they have room to get away from the heat if they want?
Oh, yes.
You have food?
Medicated chick-starter from a feed store in Silver Lake.
Sounds like youve thought this through.
I have.
Okay . . . If the chick doesnt break out by midnight, you might want to start helping him, but to tell you the truth, its really hard work for the little guy to punch that air hole through the shell. After that, sometimes they just relax for hours. Thats pretty normal . . . Call back if nothing happens by the morning.
I check the incubator and find Thornton on a tear, in every sense of that phrase. His chirping has turned to chattering, pieces of shell are bouncing off the inside of the dome, and two large cracks have now formed, streaking across the eggs radius and diameter. Not only is Thornton twisting his body around the egg in order to drill a circle about an inch below the eggs tip, he simultaneously flexes with a ferocity that threatens the eggs entire structural integrity.
Within seconds, the egg is in two halves being kicked by a sopping-wet bird, all beak and claws and blood spots, flat on his back, shrink-wrapped in cellophane and squeaking like a rusty hinge. His back is still attached to a large piece of shell, and he contorts with such violence, he knocks the lid from the incubator. Then a purple, clawed foot pokes through -- a massive appendage, seven times the size of the body, it seems. This is not pretty at all.
In a mild panic, I stuff the leg back inside the rickety incubator and hold the lid down as Thornton kickboxes and writhes, trying to liberate himself from the confines of the eerie transparent membrane that is smashing his head and body into the likeness of a dinosaur, or an alien. In seconds, he peels away the membrane, ripping it from his head, so that two eyelids, sealed shut, can pry themselves open -- a pair of dark pools on either side of a narrow yellow beak. Thornton now just lies there on his back, panting, staring at me, as though accusing: Are you the one whos responsible for this?
I gently pick him up and detach the piece of shell still glued to his sopping hindquarters. Thornton is too exhausted to argue. Thats when I notice that something is terribly wrong.
Protruding from beneath Thorntons wing and stomach are two gray fleshy tubes that conjoin into a larger tube, or artery, or something, that leads to a black-and-silver sac -- all of which is dangling from the chicks torso. As the horror sinks in, with this fragile bird in my hand, the walls literally start to shake.
Forgive the melodrama andor biblical allusion, but you can call Caltech for verification: At about 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 13, a small earthquake was felt across the Los Angeles basin.
Thornton, now back in the incubator, lying on his stomach, struggles to stand, impeded by this grotesque dangling organ and cheeping with annoyance. I call Kelly back.
I think its his liver, I explain. Hes dragging it around behind him.
Just stay calm, Kelly says in a silky tone. I dont think any animal can live dragging around a vital internal organ. Im not there, so I cant say for sure, but sometimes, if they hatch early . . . Did he hatch early?
Uh, yeah, he wasnt due till tomorrow.
Sometimes when they hatch early, not all of the yolk is absorbed into the body. He may just be dragging around some leftover yolk. Keep the chick in the incubator until hes completely fluffed out. Dont let him eat or drink until then.
Sunday morning, turning Bettys egg, I see the thermometer has fallen because her egg rolled sharply into the mesh wall. Probably during the earthquake. Her egg oozes a sticky liquid, signifying the end of Betty, the tremors one fatality.
Thornton, now the only living chicken on the block, stands proudly, chirping, head bumping the top of the dome, almost knocking it away. The appendage appears like a piece of lint attached to two brittle twigs. I pick up Thornton and snip the twigs away with a pair of scissors. No protest. No writhing in my hands. After setting him back inside, I tie down the incubators roof with string, and wait for Thornton to dry. By Sunday evening, he looks magnificent -- a little puff of flaming gold.
I could regale you with tales of Thorntons penchant for babys-breath flowers, of Thornton yelping until I set him on my work desk, of Thornton pecking at the keys of my computer and crying (a feeling I know well), of Thornton napping on my shoulder, of Thornton standing on my head before tumbling into my macaroni-cheese dinner, of following Thornton around the living room with toilet paper and a wet, soapy sponge. But that would be sentimental.
I will say that when Thornton was a week old, sprouting brown feathers on his wings, he struck me as being very alone in the fowl world. I brought the two incubators out of storage and started heating a new clutch of four eggs -- three of which hatched without incident. When Thornton met his younger reflections of himself, he was the only one with feathers, which he puffed up and in which he allowed the infants to snuggle. This supported Cathys hunch, stated at the outside, that Thornton was a female, and that dubbing her a male, with no evidence whatsoever, was mere gender chauvinism.
Thornton is now fully grown and very henlike indeed, a beautiful rust-toned Rhode Island Red pullet with a golden head -- an eagle among chickens.
When the weather warmed, the flock was moved to the back yard, into a little pen with a coop. In the pen, they walk on strips of sod. Every day, I hose their waste into the grass, where it dissolves. The pact I have made with apprehensive neighbors is that this project will be odorless and noise-free. The agreement appears to be holding, though among the younger birds is a Barred Plymouth Rock rooster named Janucz, who I bring inside every night to sleep in a darkened box; this prevents him from crowing at dawn. Thorntons younger sister, Betty II, completes the flock, for the fourth, Dionysius -- a beautiful white bird streaked with caramel -- was snatched from the coop in the middle of the night by a coyote. The roof had been weighted down with bricks -- insufficient protection. All that was left was a pool of blood on the cement and a few feathers down the driveway. It starts and ends with blood.
The following day, my next-door neighbor Trevor, on his own initiative, attached the roof with hinges and sealed it with a padlock.
Meanwhile, the birds have attracted the attention of neighbors living in the adjacent apartment complex. Last Sunday morning, a 7-year-old named Christopher came by with his mother while I was feeding the birds. He wanted to step inside the pen.
I placed some birdseed in his cupped hands and let him in, telling him to squat, hold his hands to the ground and remain still as a statue. As Thornton, Janucz and Betty ate from his hands, Christopher beamed widely enough to reveal his missing front tooth. Thornton then leapt onto Christophers shoulder, Janucz onto his back and Betty all the way up to his head. The boy was covered in chickens, absolutely enchanted.
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What do you guys think our record will be after this all star break? We have 28 games to go.
Looking at our schedule, it looks as if we have a lot of games coming up that I think are very winnable.
I'm going to post the schedule and put either Win or Loss after each game, then add up the score. If you want to do it in this format, that would be nice.
Tue 22 @ Washington Win
Wed 23 vs Detroit Win
Fri 25 vs Utah Loss
Sun 27 vs Phoenix Loss
Tue 01 vs Golden State Win
Wed 02 @ Oklahoma City Loss
Fri 04 @ Dallas Loss
Sat 05 @ Houston Win
Tue 08 vs Philadelphia Win
Wed 09 @ Minnesota Win
Fri 11 @ Toronto Win
Sun 13 @ New York Loss
Tue 15 vs New York Win
Wed 16 @ Boston Win
Fri 18 vs Chicago Loss
Sat 19 @ Memphis Win
Mon 21 @ New Jersey Win
Wed 23 @ Charlotte Win
Fri 25 vs Sacramento Win
Sat 26 @ Detroit Win
Mon 28 vs Boston Loss
Wed 30 vs Detroit Win
Fri 01 vs Milwaukee Loss
Sun 03 @ New Orleans Loss
Wed 06 vs Washington Loss
Fri 08 vs Atlanta Loss
Sun 10 vs New York Win
Wed 13 @ Orlando Win
So the way I have predicted, we would be 17-11 our last 28 games which would put us at 41-41 on the season. I would say that would be a good end to our season, but i'm OBVIOUSLY being optimistic.


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Pandemonium Aviaries has scheduled behind-the-scenes tours of its rare-bird conservation facility in Los Altos Hills 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 11 and 12.
The Mother's Day Weekend Bird and Garden Tours will feature family-friendly guided tours that showcase the unique habitats for the facility's exotic, endangered birds and the art-filled gardens.
Founded in 1996, the nonprofit Pandemonium Aviaries began as a bird sanctuary, but its focus shifted from individual birds to species survival. Its efforts to increase bird populations through conservation breeding of endangered species extend worldwide. The group primarily concentrates on several New Guinea species, boasting some of the largest flocks currently under conservation in the world, including the Victoria Crowned pigeon.
Suggested donations – tax deductible – are $75 adults, $35 youth and free for children under 3. Box lunches are available with advance purchase for $20.
A Music in the Aviary event featuring music by Freddy Clarke, a classical/flamenco guitarist, and wine and hors d'oeuvres is scheduled 4-6 p.m. May 11 at the aviary. Pandemonium Aviaries CEO Michele Raffin will lead a tour. Suggested donation is $150.
Proceeds from the tours support bird care and the breeding program.
The facility is usually closed to the public. The precise location will be disclosed upon tour reservation.
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Despite almost ideal conditions a quarter of the entries in the senior doubles section of the Devizes to Westminster canoe race were forced to retire before reaching the finish line at Westminster Bridge yesterday.
With Easter being later this year, the weather was warmer than last year's race and the rain held off for most of the competitors. But the 125-mile race, described as the canoeists' Everest, proved too much for 51 of the 208 competitors who paddle non-stop throughout the day and night.
Among them were Devizes crews Roger Heath and Gavin Wrobel, who retired after 14 and a half hours, Alexander Little and Roger Edwards, who pulled up after 16 hours 52 minutes and Steve and Sam New who gave up after 17 hours 22 minutes.
Kevin Crabb and Derek Tate managed 20 hours 12 minutes before retirement.
But other Devizes crews fared better.
Sam Weller and Steve Bush were the highest placed local crew, completing the course in 22 hours 12 minutes.
Neil King and Mark Bouch finished in 23.36 and Ray Clements and Jonpaul McCourt in 23.45, while Andrew Sanigar and Steve Kelly made it in 25.56.
Kevin Dobson and Paul Papworth-Smith also completed the course in 25.45. Paul Sykes and Simon Woddy crossed the line in 27.20.
The race was won by Ryan Pearce and Michael Southey of the Fowey River Canoe Club in 17.23, with Daniel Beazley and James Smythe of Leaside CC second in 17.55 and Steve and Rob King of Hereford CC third in 18.15.
Olympic gold medal rower Ben Hunt-Davis finished in 13th place with his crewmate Matthew Parish, of the Richmond Canoe Club. The last time the duo attempted the DW, in 2012, they didn't make it past Reading.
Sadly, in the senior singles, the oldest man in the race, 71-year-old Bob Norbury of Burbage, was forced to retire after 15 hours 51 minutes.