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Wow, I would be shocked, too, being asked why. None of your damned business,eh.
It is such a tough situation, sometimes. I tend to get testy about stuff like that. The medicos go into defense mode, "this is a hostile patient" or similar nonsense. Then the patient has a new label, even if unwritten. I was a Physical Therapist, I have sat in on meetings and have observed these responses about my patients (not for religion but simply for being assertive). I have a disability and I have some knowledge, so I question a lot; oh the looks I do get. I wouldn't be surprised if they have me listed as "this one is a butthead.
Mostly, I believe you have to leave your attitude outside the door. Never take abuse, that is not my point. Know that you get judged whether it is right or not.
Ask questions, force them to respond with meaningful answers, but stay calm.
Sorry to have belabored the point but doctors have sooo much medical-legal power, you can get really screwed with one comment of "Patient was not cooperative" in your chart, especially in worker comp or auto injuries where the law may come into play.
Tolerate no bull shit. They are no better than anyone else, they merely have medical knowledge and power. Amen, he said to the choir.
what happened with the doctor and this issue? I hope that there was resolution on your medical troubles.
Some books that I highly recommend:
"59 Seconds" by Richard Wiseman
"Depression Is A Choice" by A.B. Curtiss
"Brainswitching Out of Depression" by A.B. Curtiss (the follow-up book to "Depression Is A Choice", which has more strategies for handling depression).
Also, if you have a strained relationship with your doctor, you might want to seek out a new one.
The title is very misleading and the author stated in her second book that she did not like the title, but that was what the publisher wanted to go with. As Curtiss says in the book, no one would intentionally choose depression. That would be like when Christians say that people choose to go to Hell.
What she means by "depression is a choice" is that when we are depressed and aware that we are depressed, we can choose to redirect our thinking if we are shown how to do it. The point of the book is to share these strategies for redirecting your thinking out of the spiral of depression and to learn to catch yourself as soon as you start to get depressed. It is essentially the same concept as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Back in 2007, I was in a deep depression and I quit my job of five years because I felt I needed to take care of my mental health before I did something rash. In hindsight, I shouldn't have quit my job, but when you are in a deep depression, your thoughts arent' rational. I went to the library and started looking for books on depression. The first couple I read were a complete waste of time. Then I went back to the library and came across "Depression Is a Choice". I sat down and read the first few pages. It appealed to me. I ended up reading half the book there in the library and finished it the next day. It completely changed the way that I viewed depression.
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There's always room in our brood for another technician, whether voluntary or involuntary, and from Doug's reluctance to acknowledge too much in the way of a technician's way of life, this one may be more involuntary. Sort of the way a turkey on Thanksgiving may feel. It's one thing to be invited to dinner, but a turkey is forced to attend rather than doing it by choice. Both technicians and fundamentalists find themselves the turkey from time to time, though. It works both ways.
Earlier this year, Altisource Portfolio (ASPS) looked like it was about to break down technically. I even bought puts on the name. Yeah, it was less than half the price it was today. The fundamental case set me up as the Thanksgiving turkey, and longs ate my puts for dinner....448 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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The Philosophy program at Muskingum University challenges and supports students as they think through their basic convictions, attitudes, motives, and commitments, in the hope that each student may become more rational, creative, sensitive, and community-minded. The task is to create students who have not only professional skills, but also well-formed and internalized values.
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|Adrenal Tumors
|Procedure: needlescopic adrenalectomy and laparoscopic adrenalectomy
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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|Prospective Randonmized Comparison of Needlescopic Versus Conventional Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Benign Adrenal Tumors Less Than 5 cm in Diameter
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Procedure: needlescopic adrenalectomy and laparoscopic adrenalectomy
Needlescopic instruments, defined as those with a diameter of no more than 3 mm. They result in smaller incisions than conventional 5- to 12-mm instruments, and thus better cosmesis. It may further reduce postoperative pain, hospital stay, and recovery time.
All operations were performed with the lateral transperitoneal approach. A 12-mm port was created near the umbilicus for a 30-degree telescope, and another two(for left lesions) or three (for right lesions) 2-mm working ports (Tyco Healthcare, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) were created along the ipsilateral subcostal region. Careful dissection was done with the use of a 2-mm hook or scissors electrocoagulator. The adrenal vein of the lesion side was isolated and controlled with a 2-mm mini-bipolar coagulation apparatus (Tyco Healthcare) for a long segment. The vein was then transected closer to the adrenal gland, leaving the coagulated stump at the renal vein or vena cava as long as possible, even when a short right adrenal vein was encountered. Then the adrenal gland with the tumor was dissected from its surrounding tissues after several tiny vessels were transected with the needlescopic instruments mentioned above. The specimen was put into a retrieval bag and removed through the umbilical port.
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- Suspected adrenal malignancy clinically
- Bilateral adrenal disease
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laparoscopy, needlescopy, adrenalectomy
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POMONA – CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Inland Empire will host "The Glass Slipper" charity wine dinner on Thursday.
The event will kick off at 5 p.m. with a tour of the new Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center. The main event will start at 5:30 and includes a full dinner, complimentary wine and a silent auction.
This charity event was established two years ago to raise funds to provide scholarship opportunities to local young women pursuing careers in commercial real estate. This year it will also support the Chaffey College Foundation Fund-A-Dream scholarship program.
The Fund-A-Dream program provides individuals the opportunity to receive workforce prep training in specific trades, not just focus on earning a degree. A portion of the proceeds will also go to CREW Inland Empire's scholarship program, which aims to mentor and increase the number of women working in commercial real estate and related industries.
Local business and community members can support the cause. Rickets are $75. A table sponsor is $500. Register at www.crew-ie.org.


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Category: Yale name study
A names – those that start with the letter A – have become the most widely used in the U.S., given to over 10 percent of all babies, more than double the proportion of children who were given A names in the 1950s.
You can peg the popularity of A names to pure fashion, and definitely, A names ranging from the classic Abigail and Alexander to the trendy Addison and Aiden have been on the rise for a couple of decades now. While this may be part of an overall trend toward vowel names, which are up across the board while most consonant-starting names are trending down, A is up the highest.
But there's evidence that A names may be beneficial for your child in more substantial ways. A study by researchers at Yale and the University of California-San Diego found that students whose names begin with the letters A and B earn better grade point averages than those whose names start with C or D. And more law school students named Anna and Andrew tend to go to top-ranked universities like Stanford than those called Chris and Drew.
Even more significant, another study suggests that people with A names live longer – in some cases, as much as a decade longer – than those whose names start with the letter D. Scary, but compelling if you want to give your child every advantage in life.
A names account for 20 entries on the girls' Top 100, up from only five (Ann, Anne, Anna, Anita, and Alice) in 1950. They are, in order of rank with their standing in parentheses, for girls:


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Speaking out against I-5 banner: 'We need to stand together'
EUGENE, Ore. -- Local leaders gathered in the downtown park blocks Friday to condemn what they are calling a racist message displayed on a sign that was hung from an I-5 overpass last week.
The banner read "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white", and has since been removed.
People at the event said the overpass sign had a discriminatory message, and they didn't want that type of message in Lane County.
The meeting was organized by Equity and Community Consortium, which is made up of 11 public agencies. ECC members worked with Community Alliance of Lane County to formally denounce the sign.
Sheldon Berman, both superintendent of 4J schools and a member of ECC, believes diversity should be celebrated.
"It's important that diversity in our community is supported. That we look at issues of race and racism and confront those," said Berman.
Eugene Water and Electric Board General Manager Roger Gray agreed, adding he believes racist intolerance is a problem the community must face on a united front.
"The people who may be threatened by these kinds of events they know in this community as a whole, we believe the overwhelming majority supports the entire community," Gray said. "I think if any of us feels unsafe, we should all feel unsafe. We need to stand together when we see these things."
Above all, those who spoke against what they say was the sign's racist message believe diversity is something to be celebrated.
"Diversity is a critical asset in any community, and the more we look at the way we treat each other, and the more we support each other, the better off our community is," Berman said.
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»Many people find my stories and plays disturbing, but isn't the whole universe disturbing? Anyway, be warned. And I apologise for not being about to write more comfortable plays and stories.« Keith Johnstone
Keith Johnstone thaught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art until he left England and moved to Canada in the 1970s and has thaught or given workshops at major European theatre schools and universities. In Canada, he thaught at the University of Calgary, where he is now a professor emeritus and is a founding Artistic Director of the Loose Moose Theatre at Calgary. Johnstone still lives in Calgary and teaches all over the world.
Keith Johnstone has developed many forms of improvisation, including Theatresports, Micetro Impro, Gorilla Theatre and The Life Game, which (along with his techniques) are now being used worldwide. He has written two books about his work (Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre and Impro for Storytellers).


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Photo Gallery: Trish Magwood's Home
See this chef's open-concept family home.
A new metal-framed door matches the new windows.
Painting the entire fac?ade a deep blue-black unifies the brick, shingled roof, fence and lattice, and creates a dramatic backdrop for bright green foliage.
Durable new porcelain floor tile in the entry mimics pricier limestone and is easy to clean.
Trish dressed up the table, which belonged to her grandmother, with glossy black paint and a pretty branch-motif pull.
The enormous ash kitchen island acts as family headquarters.
Carrara marble on the island and on the 24″-deep pantry counter is a classic French choice that is both durable and stylish. Bar stools allow the kids to hang around while Trish cooks, and the open space allows her to keep an eye on the kids playing in the living room.
See more of chef Trish Magwood's home in our photo gallery. Also, get more decorating ideas in our Family Friendly Homes photo gallery.
Dark upholstery is a forgiving option around a dining table.
Chef Trish Magwood's children, Olivia and Findlay, spend hours at the antique drafting table that acts as the family's dining table. The long banquette features spacious storage drawers below for table linens and art supplies. "We can really pack kids in here," says Trish with a laugh, as her home is often the gathering place for her own extended family, a well as husband Bryce's.
See more of chef Trish Magwood's home in our photo gallery and check out more organized family homes.
A cosy working space with warm rustic finishes.
Tucked into the opening between the kitchen's pantry wall and living room entertainment centre, this floating ash desk acts as chef Trish Magwood's home office, as well as a dramatic focal point in the open-concept main floor. (Interior designer Rebecca Muha convinced Trish that one oversized family portrait made a bigger impact than many small photos sprinkled around the home.) Made from the same ash as the desk, the on-trend sliding doors on the living room's entertainment center are an easy space-saving trick for smaller homes.
See more of Trish's home in our photo gallery.
Colourful throw pillows brighten up a couch.
Throw pillows in luxe designer fabric are a small splurge well worth the expense, especially when your living room is a sea of neutrals. Potted plants and freshly cut flowers thrive in this well-lit space.
See more of chef Trish Magwood's home in our photo gallery. And for more colourful inspiration, see our Colourful Spring Rooms gallery.
A slab door with its original bright green paint and strap hinges is an unexpected rustic touch.
Graphic bedding and velvet pillows in rich jewel tones liven up the principal bedroom. Trish slipcovered an old side table in white cotton to hide its flaws.
Artwork takes center-stage in an all-white space.
A top-to-toe reno of the principal bath resulted in a glam modern space. Bands of black mosaic tile give the Carrara marble floor a lighter look. The contemporary tub is paired with more traditional wall-mount plumbing.
Subtle touches of dark pink offer femininity without going overboard.
The wicker chair in Olivia's room, a hand-me-down from her husband family, enhances the home's cottage-in-the-city vibe.
A small desk adjacent to the bed doubles as a nightstand.
Findlay's room has punchy orange accents inspired by the silkscreen print of a suitably named vintage Penguin book. A headboard in charcoal grey sets off the vibrant hue.
An outdoor space with European charm.
An intimate space at the side of this house allows for private alfresco family dining and daily barbecues in the summer. Homeowner and chef Trish Magwood brings colour to her outdoor dining nook by attaching inexpensive indoor-outdoor fabric to the table with a staple gun. She also adds playful bolster pillows to the metal chairs that match the table cloth and flowers planted along the stone wall.
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Killington to host 2005-2006 freestyle national championships
Killington to host 2005-2006 freestyle national championships{mosimage}The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has announced venues for alpine, nordic and freestyle national championships for the 2005-06 season.
Killington's Bear Mountain will host the 2006 Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships March 23-26. That same week, the U.S. Alpine Championships will return March 26-30 to Sugarloaf/USA in Maine. The U.S. Cross Country Championships Jan. 3-10 will return to the 2002 Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow, Utah, for the second season in a row and third time since 2000. Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Park City, Utah, will also host national title events.
The U.S. championships – which also include disabled cross country and disabled alpine ‒ match the best U.S. Ski Team athletes with hundreds of aspiring American skiers looking to measure themselves against world-class racers as they aim for spots on the U.S. Ski Team.
'This is an exciting lineup of venues for us' said Annette Royle, vice president of events for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. 'The Olympic season always generates plenty of excitement and interest, and these venues have shown their ability to host top-level competitions.'
More than 200 of the top freestyle and new-school athletes from across the country will compete in moguls, aerials and, for the first time at a national championship event ‒ superpipe. The event will also mark the first U.S. appearance of freestyle members of the U.S. Olympic Team following the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.
The four-day event will kick off Thursday, March 23 with superpipe competition, followed by single moguls on March 24, aerials on March 25 and dual moguls on March 26. All events will take place at Bear Mountain with Outer Limits, the steepest, longest mogul run in the East, as the venue for both moguls and aerials. Aside from the athletic competition, live music and a product expo and festival will take place in and around the Bear Mountain Lodge.
The addition of superpipe to the U.S. Freestyle Championships format will open the doors for new athletes to compete at a national championship level. In addition, new-school big-air athletes will once again compete head-to-head with traditional aerialists on Saturday at Bear Mountain.
"The interest from USSA clubs and programs has grown over the last few years and the addition of superpipe in the national championship program is an exciting opportunity for those athletes to show off their skills at the next level' said USSA Freestyle Program Director Polly-Jo Clark.
This year's site for the U.S. Alpine Championships is no stranger to hosting national championships. Sugarloaf hosted the 1996 and '97 U.S. title races as well as a 1971 alpine World Cup. 2005 alpine World Cup overall champion Bode Miller spent his years as a junior racer at Carrabassett Valley Academy, located at Sugarloaf.
The U.S. Cross Country Championships will include the U.S. Disabled Cross Country Championships. The U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships at Steamboat Springs, Colo., also are expected to generate extra excitement as the final events before the Olympic team is selected. This will mark the fourth straight season and 12th time in the last 14 years that Steamboat has hosted nationals. And The Hartford U.S. Disabled Alpine Championships will be held Feb. 13-17 at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah.


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COMEDY and music is on the bill at Age UK Dudley's latest fundraising extravaganza.
Professional local entertainers will take to the stage for Showtime at the Copthorne Hotel, Brierley Hill on Wednesday March 12.
Headlining the show is comedian Doug Parker, who will be supported by Bruce Thompson, the one-man-band comedy extraordinaire and international vocalist Sandy Lawrence.
Tickets for the show, which starts at 11.30am, cost £15 and include a two-course meal.
To buy tickets, contact any Age UK Dudley centre or call 01384 354668.


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Lord of the Rings?Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
My story whispers ancient lore;
The force at times my rings will hide.
I've sixty minions, maybe more:
Those unseen, these by my side.
Wand'ring far from glowing light,
Shape-shifting puzzles curious eyes;
Oft my glorious rings shine bright,
While men debate my family's size.
My aspect seems to wax and wane,
As the force dictates the deed;
My namesake ruled vast fields of grain,
But, legends tell, devoured his seed.
What am I?
HintWhere are those rings?
AnswerAnswer: The planet Saturn
Saturn is named after the Roman god of the harvest. When the force of gravity causes Earth's orbit to take us into the plane of Saturn's rings, they seem to disappear, and the shape of the planet appears to change. Most of Saturn's 60 or more moons are visible only through strong telescopes. The sixth planet from the Sun in the Solar System, Saturn receives little heat and light. There is still controversy about the number of planets in the "family" of the Solar System. With the demotion of Pluto, some say there are eight planets. However, counting Pluto and also the dwarf planets Eris and Ceres, others would say there are eleven known planets. As the god of the harvest, Saturn ruled over all agriculture. Because he feared his children were about to kill him, he devoured them.
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Discussion in 'Texans Talk Archive' started by djohn2oo8, Nov 12, 2013.
Where is the accountability?
whoah! Kalu was talking about this option this morning. I did not think it would happen so quick, but I guess none of us really knows what's going on with this FO.
No more overpriced has-beens....please
With his comments after the game it's not that shocking. I wonder if Andre's pissed though?
Holy crap!
Randy Bullock can miss all the FGs he wants, but don't you dare speak out against the coaches.
most cynical, superficial off-season singing ever....well, at least since Ahman Green.
Rick Smith gets a lot of hate on this board, but the good thing about him is that he's got no qualms about swinging the axe.
All I know is that they finally started using common sense when they benched Schaub and again with Coach Reed's release.
Let's hope the trend continues.
In this case, Andre gave the team some really bad advice about Reed when he
all but pleaded with them to sign his U buddy. TReed is washed up, over the hill,
stix a fork in him. Of course Reed is still grinning all the way to the bank.
I never heard the man sing but I imagine it must have been pretty damn bad.
He can't hit a note to save his life...
Ed Reed Sings Two Tickets To Paradise
This basically. Just tow the company line and you'll be fine, but don't speak out and make logical points against the staff or chop-chop.
I guess they just didn't like that he said it in public.
And because he's been terrible
My posts are as bad as the Team right now. yowsa.
Randy Bullock has arguably played better than Ed Reed did.
Does anyone know the cap implications off the top of their head?
I think I may remember reading something like 2.7 mil in dead money but I'm not sure.
Randy Bullock has cost us more games than Ed Reed.
How much did we lose total? No wonder ed reed sang two tickets to paradise.
dead money is 3.3 million I think? Any cap guru's got the number?
To me this seems petty...you can miss a ton of FG's and you can keep your job...
So fall in line you get to stay but act out your gone
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BOULDER — Police in Boulder are looking for two men who used bear spray to rob a medical marijuana dispensary.
The Daily Camera reports that the suspects sprayed the repellent at four people in the Dandelion Dispensary Thursday evening. Even though they all began to flee as soon as the spray was released, one of them had to go to the hospital. The other three were treated there for exposure to the spray.
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Take immigration reform. Eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney hammered Perry for his support of in-state tuition for undocumented workers in Texas. That was in 2012. Now Republican standard-bearers Marco Rubio and Rand Paul have changed the GOP's tune on immigration. Rubio teamed with Democratic colleagues to draft principles that could become the starting point for immigration reform, and Paul broke out some Spanish during a recent speech suggesting a pathway for illegal immigrants to become citizens.
Perry's support among Hispanics in Texas was decent, especially compared with Mitt Romney's awkward outreach. Perry won 38 percent of the Hispanic vote in his 2010 Texas gubernatorial race, while Romney only took 27 percent of the national Hispanic vote. Texas Republicans attribute that to Hispanic voters' familiarity with Perry, who as the state's longest-serving governor, has also appointed Hispanics as state Supreme Court justices, as well as secretary of state and transportation commissioner.
"They see his commitment to inclusion. I think Republicans make a mistake when they separate [Hispanic voters] out. They care about the same issues that other Americans care about," said Deirdre Delisi, a former Perry campaign aide and Texas transportation commissioner.
Perry also staked out a critical position on entitlement reform, memorably comparing Social Security to a Ponzi scheme in his book. Romney attacked Perry for his positions, but then later tapped Paul Ryan, the Republican leader on entitlement reform, as his running mate. Now Republicans are united on the belief that trimming entitlement benefits is necessary to get the budget under control.


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A plan to double the size of Oxford and turn it into a "garden city" has won a £250,000 national economic prize.
Design consultants David Rudlin Nicholas Falk, of URBED, entered their proposal for the second annual Wolfson Economic Prize.
The competition, launched in November, asked designers: "How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?"
Using Oxford as a case study, URBED's scheme proposed building thousands of new homes in four planned extensions to the city.
These would be just north of Abingdon, just south of Blackbird Leys, East of Headington and north of Kidlington.
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PHILADELPHIA — Marking their first year in the new Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, tenants report the move is bringing new customers.
Distributors also point out improved efficiencies that the move is bringing.
"This place is a showcase. It's unbelievable," said Chip Wiechec, president of Hunter Bros. Inc. "It's a pleasure to be able to work and do business here."
Without the increased efficiencies, Wiechec said wholesalers likely wouldn't be able to afford the place.
Better refrigeration
John Vena Jr., market board treasurer and president of John Vena Inc., said the facility's modern produce refrigeration marks one of the biggest improvements in preserving produce.
"Efficiency levels have increased and can increase more," Vena, the chairman of the facility's marketing committee, said. "I think we can be a lot more efficient.
"We are already hugely more efficient than the old market. I don't think you can overstress the importance of the cold chain here. It has made our lives so much easier."
Todd Penza, salesman for Pinto Bros. Inc., said he doesn't hear anyone complain anymore.
He said distributors are taking advantage of the modern facility's improved efficiencies.
Maintaining the cold chain results in a large improvement and value for them, especially when they handled produce in such a hot summer as this summer.
"We're able to expand our product line because of the room that we have and because of the quality of refrigeration," Penza said. "We're also getting more customers. We have expanded, and others have too. It's helping us attract new customers.
"It's the idea of working with someone that's in a modern facility," he said. There's some sense of reassurance that the quality of the produce they're buying is going to be the same standard as if they purchased from someone else with a modern facility. You didn't have that working in a 50-year-old facility."
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John DiFeliciantonio, market board secretary and partner with Ryeco Inc., said distributors finished adjusting to the growing pains involved in the building's first year.
He agrees the facility is a drawing card for more customers.
"The customers love it," DiFeliciantonio said. "They don't have to be here as long, it's much easier to park, there's so much more room for them, and the product has much greater shelf life. There's a lot less damage. Every customer seems to be taking more product and spending less time with it."
DiFeliciantonio said the way distributors were spread out in their stalls on the old market required customers to drive their trucks longer distances. In the new facility, customers only need to park in one place.
Rich Clark, owner of Jesse Pitt Co., said that distance often discouraged customer visits.
"They don't have to walk as far and are enjoying it much more," Clark said. "In a lot of ways, business is better here. The fruit holds up better. We used to panic when bananas got color because we had to sell them cheap. Now, with refrigeration we can sell them better. That's helped extend shelf life as well."
Jimmy Storey, president and owner of Quaker City Produce Co., said the market has strong leadership and staff that work diligently work to bring new customers to the facility.
"I see this market in the future going nowhere but forward," Storey said. "This market is a stepping stone for a lot of other terminal markets. It was very well put together and is a state-of-the-art facility."
Health reasons forced the longtime market board president to step down from his role in 2011.
Storey served as board president for nearly 20 years.
After a period of adjustment, distributors in the facility began operating as normal, said Tad Thompson, the market's business development manager.
He agreed the building's design and other features should help facilitate increased produce sales.
"We are really well-geared for the future," Thompson said. "This is a very convenient place for customers large and small. We continue to handle a lot of different kinds of business. It was built for all kinds of customers, from chains to individual customers."
In June, Rick Milavsky, vice president of BRS Produce Co., joined the market's board of directors.
He said tenants and customers are enjoying the benefits of the new location.
"We are seeing a few more customers," Milavsky said. "I am not sure how much, but we do see new people coming around. There are still people out there who will discover us and realize this is the place to shop."
The only complaint Milavsky says he repeatedly hears is the building's consistent 50-degree temperature.


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Yeovil is a town located in the South West of England. The town is inland from the coast and lies in the far South of the county of Somerset. Yeovil has a population of around twenty nine thousand people but as Somerset is such a popular spot for tourists to visit the town can often get busy in the summer months. The town is set in some stunning scenery and Somerset is often said to be one of England's most beautiful counties, for these reasons people have been coming to visit this area for many years.
If you are planning a visit to Yeovil and looking for accommodation then there are a few good options. There are plenty of hotels to choose from but some of the more well established ones include The Farmyard Hotel, The Preston Hotel and The Manor Hotel. These all have good reputations for excellent rooms and a good standard of service. There are also plenty of privately owned holiday homes in this area which are ideal if you are looking for self catering accommodation. There are also a few nice camp sites in the area, Long Hazel Park has good camping facilities and The Halfway Caravan and Camping Park is also good and has quite a few caravans you can also make use of, these are perfect if you are looking for a cheaper alternative.
There are lots of interesting things to see and do both in Yeovil itself and in the surrounding area. Fleet Air Arm Museum is just a few miles away and this is an interesting place to visit where you can see on of the largest collections of Naval Aircraft in Europe. They have Concorde, Harriers and lots of other aircrafts on display, this place is ideal for people who enjoy aviation. Sherborne Abbey is again only a few miles away and this is a really impressive building that is worth a look round. In the town itself there is the Museum of South Somerset, this gives you an interesting history of the area and how the town came into existence. It is also in the same place as the tourism information centre so you can get some tips on other places to visit while you are here.
Yeovil is a nice little town to browse round. There are plenty of shops ranging from practical things like supermarkets to places aimed at visitors such as galleries and book shops. There are also lots of nice pubs and cafes, many of which serve excellent home made food and they all have a very warm welcoming atmosphere.
If you have never been to the town of Yeovil then you are missing out. There are some great things to see and do in this area and Yeovil can be a great place to use as a base for exploring the South West of England. Next time you are heading for Somerset or Dorset make sure you stop off and see what the town of Yeovil has to offer.
As a resident of Yeovil for eight years (due to family connections) I have been able to see why people never seem to move here, only leave for somewhere nicer. I have spent the best part of my teenage years here, when you're bored, a teenager and more cultured than most of it's inhabitants, you have to seek out interesting things to do.
Thankfully in 2006 The Orange Box opened, bringing exciting new bands to the town. There are a wide selection of high street stores in the town, particularly clothing stores such as Topshop/New Look/River Island etc. Recently a Starbucks Coffee opened in the town centre, finally providing a nice place to grab coffee with friends.
However, Yeovil is a very unfortunate place to find yourself if you're there for too long. It is a beacon of Chav culture, and as of late appears to have a problem with homelessness and drug abuse. It is quite frequently that one gets stopped in the street by either a legless drunk or smack addict asking for "a quid to get the bus to Taunton" (despite their situation, they've got the right idea, Taunton is a lot nicer).
I find the general attitude of many older generation Yeovilians to be dreadful aswell, they're rude, narrow minded and often racist or homophobic. This is also a problem that goes right back to the Chav culture of Yeovil.
The town as a whole is very desolate, it lacks life, culture, history. We have hardly any remaining historical buildings or points of interest, and those we do are not kept up to standards. It is a very grey place, the shadows of industry which once prospered in this town, have left a very pitiful atmosphere over the town.
I feel sorry for Yeovil, and the people stuck in it, get out while you can I say. The town planners have promised exciting new developments, new shops, regeneration of the town as a whole. They've been saying this since about 2004 and all that i've seen happen are the building of some public toilets and three clothing stores move into BHS, along with a shedload of poorly built executive housing estates, hardly any of which have been moved into.
I am leaving this town in one month for University, the bright lights of London to be precise, and had hoped I could write this review and show Yeovil in a positive light, but I can really see now, after thinking about it, this place is dreadful. But what else can you expect from a town whose Newspaper looks like some kind of joke newspaper, filled with tales of "woman flashes ankle at chimney sweep shock" and "yeovil pervert flasher identified as wearing marigold gloves...watch out!"
Tourists, it's not for the faint hearted, don't even think about coming here. You'll regret the fact you had to pay an extortionate rate to park your car, then come back to it to find your stereo has been nicked.
I recently visited Yeovil for a few days, so this is a review of the town from a tourist's point of view, rather than as a local resident. Yeovil is situated in the south of Somerset, and has a population of just under 30,000.
The town didn't contain as much visible history as other similar sized towns that I've visited, and for a while the only really historic building that I saw was the church, St John the Baptist. The town does though have a long history, and there are some places which are well worth seeing.
When I walked past the St John the Baptist Church, it was open, and there were quite a few people looking around. The building hasn't changed a great deal externally since it was started in the late 1400s and completed in the early 1500s. There was a guide in the Church was explained though that much changed internally during the Reformation, when some items were destroyed as being too Catholic.
Entry into the Church was free, although you can of course leave donations, and there were literally tens of people milling about outside on the churchyard, so it looked like a good lunch-stop. There are a few graves in the churchyard, but the guide book explained that there were many more, but a churchyard was built further out in the 1860s, and not before time, as water from the graveyard where bodies were ran into the public wells on Silver Street.
I was disappointed to see just how much of Yeovil's history has been demolished, and rather appallingly, a lot of it was relatively recently. Possibly the worst example I read about was the George Hotel on Middle Street, which was built in the 1400s. This was demolished to make the road wider in 1962, just a few years before the road was pedestrianised which made the road changes unnecessary.
There were other examples, such as the former hospital which was demolished in 1969, and the Fiveways Toll House which was once moved 100 yards to protect it from road widening, but then demolished in 1969 when further road changes were being made.
Another demolition was the main Yeovil Town Train Station, which closed in 1967 and the site turned into a car park for many years. It is currently now Yeo Leisure Park, which was developed in 2002, but the only remains of the original station is the foundation stone which has been kept within the complex.
There is though fortunately still a train link to the town, indeed, there are two stations, although they are a couple of miles from the town centre, which isn't ideal. It certainly seems that the removal of the main train station was a mistake, at least from an outsider's point of view. There is though a central bus station, which is situated at the end of Middle Street.
I visited Yeovil Library, which I found to be a lovely building, with really helpful staff. It seemed to be struggling somewhat with technology when I was there, with no working computers and some slightly irate customers, but there was a good selection of local books to find out about the town's history, and it was a nice quiet environment in which to read.
I'm not really a football fan, but I did see the outside of Huish Park, where Yeovil Town football club moved to in 1990. Their old football stadium was demolished to make way for a Tesco, but the new stadium seemed well located. I'm also sure some big clubs will find Yeovil difficult to deal with in the FA Cup in the future, just as they have in the past.
There are a good number of shops in the town, and a shopping centre, which also had a range of local shops and not just the national chains. There is a large Tesco on the outskirts, as there is with nearly every major town now, and some smaller convenience stores in the centre of town.
I only got to visit a couple of pubs in the town centre, there are some with some considerable history. There is also the Mermaid Hotel, the site of where some townsfolk gathered in 1831 to protect themselves from the Yeovil riots. For cheaper fare, there is also a Wetherspoons, next to the bus station.
All in all, I found Yeovil a friendly place to go, with lots of attractions and places to visit nearby, such as Salisbury and Stonehenge, and the beautiful Wiltshire and Somerset countryside. It's also within quite close range to the beautiful town of Bath.
As a negative, I'd suggest that it really is a shame that so much of Yeovil's history has gone. They have suffered from a number of fires in the town's history which has destroyed many records, the town hall, and countless other buildings. But some of the more recent losses of buildings seemed more avoidable, and hopefully generations in the future will be less willing to destroy the town's heritage further.
I'd definitely recommend a visit though.
Yeovil is ok but that's about it really. I am slightly biased because it took me 6 attempts tp pass my driving place in the confusion that is Yeovil's roundabouts, traffic lights and dual carriageways - but I think this was also due to the fact I kept getting the same examiners instead of the nice jolly round chap who always passed everybody... Yeovil's shops are ok as well but they are the same old run of the mill high streety shops - nothing special, nothing unique. Growing up in Somerset, you went to Yeovil because it offered the best cinema in the area, occasionally to shop until you discovered Bristol or Bath, or maybe a visit to see a friend, but that was about it. I shouldn't be so unimpressed by the place whose hospital I was born in (and don't get me started on the state of repair of that place), but there is not much to write home about - oh other than the fact it has a dry ski slope.
I'm from Essex and moved to North Dorset almost two years ago to live with my partner. At the time I hadn't heard of Yeovil believe it or not and for the first few months of living here didn't consider paying a visit when my OH suggested it.
My first trip to Yeovil was born from necessity rather than desire; I was learning to drive and unfortunately had to retake the theory test as my original certificate had expired. The nearest test centre to my horror was in Yeovil, which meant a half hour ride on the bus, I wasn't impressed or looking forward to going there as my work colleagues who live in the area were forever putting the place down and encouraging me to go elsewhere!
First impressions were not good, Yeovil reminded me a lot of my birthplace Harlow in Essex, lots of roundabouts, it's functional.....er and that's about it. However two years on my views have changed a great deal, driving around the town almost every day on lessons and being dragged around the shops by my other half gradually made me realise the place does have many good points. I would even consider living there now!
Where is it?
The town itself is located just off the A30 in Somerset, close to Sherborne in Dorset.
Is it easy to get to/from?
Transport links to and from Yeovil seem to be good, there are two train stations, Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill which run direct trains to London and Exeter. Neither of them are close to the centre of town but are certainly not miles away either, at most you'd be looking at a 15 minute walk I would say. Buses are also widely available nearby towns and villages, though the more rural locations arent served more than once a day or worse.
Who lives there?
The town has a population of about 40,000
What facilities are available?
Like all towns of similar size there are the usual facilities and amenities. A good selection of shops in the town centre and also in out of town retail parks such as Babylon Hill. I get the impression that Yeovil isn't a particularly upmarket place as there's no Waitrose or John Lewis, instead there are two huge supermarkets - Asda and Tesco plus in the high street the usual staples such as a Primark and New Look. This suits me fine in these credit crunching times.
The centre of town seems a little disjointed, the high street has a down market feel to it and gives the impression it needs a facelift and a little TLC, the streets leading off from it fare a little better. Just off the main high street is a small open air shopping centre called the Quedam Centre which is much more modern looking and contains stores such as BHS and Boots.
Palates of all types are catered for with numerous places to eat from Pizza to coffee shop to posh-ish restaurants.
If you fancy a little culture you can take in a show at the Octogan theatre just off the centre of town or if you're in the mood for some sporting entertainment the town is home to Yeovil Town FC which I'm told by my footie mad work colleague is THE place to be every other Saturday afternoon, yeah I'll reserve judgement on that one!
Yeovil continues to grow on me every week, the more time I spend there the more I like the place, I think the chav in me is coming out more and more no matter how hard I try to suppress it!
I wouldn't choose to live in Yeovil but if I had to for whatever reason I wouldn't be able to complain. It has everything you need to go about your daily life and more besides. I was too quick to judge on first arrival down here, never judge a book by it's cover as the saying goes
As i come from the small town of yeovil im not going to boast thats it something it's not but i have to say it is quite a nice little place not much to do but enough.
We have a shopping centre and one currently being built now which will have 70 new stores in and will be ready in the 2010.we have a a centre with a bowplex a few rsturants such as frankie and benny's and pizza hut and with a cinema complex too good for the kids.
We also have some lovely takeaways and resturants in the centre of our town.
We have two snooker and pool clubs.
I must say our hospital is alfull they are really rubbish and do not really care about there paitents.As one of my friends child fell out of a high chair and got rushed to yeovil and they told him he would be fine an hour later toke him back and found out he had to be rushed to frenche in bristol as he had a blood clot on the brain poor thing.
Any way they do have a lot of certificates for being a very well and clean hospital well i suppose people can make mistakes.
We have plenty of dr surgery's and have a nineprings park which is miles of lovely springs and a lovely walk full of trees nice fields and a pleasent place to walk your dogs it has a huge park for the children and has a few big ponds.We also have our yeovil town football club really nice staium
my personal apinion is we have to many houses being built that is taking up great value of spcace.
Being a town of over 40,000 inhabitants I was rather surprised to be the first to write a review on Yeovil but then again it is possibly the most down trodden town in England which I have set foot in and has very few things to boast about. Yeovil in located just of the A30 in South Somerset and provides the perfect contrast to the surrounding countryside with an ugly metropolis filled with mortgage brokers and pawn shops (no wonder T.S Eliot is buried in nearby East Coker - for those who have not had the delight of encountering his work, he wrote frequently on the subject of urban waste lands).
In its favour, it is one of the few towns in the Dorset/ Somerset area which has a great variety of clothes shops, in Yeovil you can find Topshop/ Topman, New Look, Riverisland, Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins and many others. Unfortunately it lacks any more upmarket shops, such as Zara, Jane Norman, Karen Millen or All Saints.
Yeovil does have one of the best Cinema/ leisure complexes in the area, with a ten-screen cinema and 18-pin bowling alley, which is fairly cheap and fairly standard but yet there is nothing else like it within a 30 mile plus radius.
Yeovil also hosts Nine Springs, a waterside park walk centred around nine natural springs which would really be quite enchanting if you were not quite so scared of coming across hypodermic needles or teenagers fondling each other.
As for historical sites, Yeovil was mentioned in the Doomsday book as the town of Gilve (forked river / river noble - a hybrid of Old English and Anglo Saxon), however Yeovil does not really contain anything of any remarkable historical interest. With Westlands (helicopter manufacturing) as the main employer and before that the glove making industry, Yeovil has mainly developed as an industrial town and thus land has been used to maximise profit rather than for aesthetics. The Church of St John the Baptist in the town centre is perhaps quite pretty, although if it is churches you wish to see, I would recommend visiting the surrounding villages or the neighbouring village of Sherborne which is a historical town which even Shakespeare frequented which grew around the Sherborne Abbey.
One cannot help but conclude that Yeovil is to be avoided unless i) you have too due to some form of work reasons ii) you live in South Somerset / North Dorset (I fall into this category) - so there really is nowhere else to go on weekends!


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My Archon flips hard and fades too hard while being too slow for best distance. See Destroyer is as fast but doesn't flip as hard fading only a hair more so it is way more golfable and controllable. Destro is better in the winds also because of the thinner profile allows it to cut through headwind first. Boss is faster and flips way less flying farther with skips often but the Boss is way more golfable controllable disc even in some winds. Good Kings and Nukes not to mention Bliz Bosses leave the Archon in the dust distance wise on average. Sure once in a blue moon with proper landing forward skips of the Archon even out things but many courses reduce skips so the Archon is left less reliable, accurate, consistent and is shorter and gets raped by the winds. What's to like in an Archon? If that type of flight is desireable how about a Vulcan possibly a lighter than max weight one?
Throwing the Roady higher allows it to fade from flat. It isn't designed for fades though so other discs would be better for that and at your power PDs and Preds are nice.


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- Preschool Language Scales [ Time Frame: 16 weeks ]Change in the raw score from baseline of the Preschool Language Scales over the 16 week period. The raw score was measured at baseline, 8 weeks and 16 weeks after starting treatment and the change over the 16 week period from baseline to the end of the study was calculated. There was no imputed data and the analysis was as treated. The raw score ranged from 0 to 130. Higher scores indicate better performance.
|Study Start Date:
|July 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Kuvan®
Patients will be instructed to take 20 mg/kg/day of Kuvan® orally dissolved in 4 - 8oz. of water or apple juice with breakfast.
Drug: sapropterin dihydrochloride
Patients will be instructed to take 20 mg/kg/day of Kuvan® orally dissolved in 4 - 8oz. of water or apple juice with breakfast.
Other Name: Kuvan®
Detailed Description:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to develop biomarkers for central nervous system BH4 concentration in children with autism so they can be easily screened to determine if they may benefit from BH4 supplementation. Kuvan is a synthetic form of BH4. BH4 is an enzyme cofactor that is essential for several critical metabolic functions.
Procedures: Consented subjects' behavior, particularly irritability, cognitive and language function will be assessed at baseline to make sure that the subject meets the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Parents of subjects will be instructed to give the subjects 20 mg/kg/day of Kuvan® orally dissolved in 4 - 8oz. of water or apple juice with breakfast. Subjects will not be permitted to start any new supplement treatments during the study period but will be allowed to continue previous supplements. Subjects will be permitted to take over the counter medications or other prescription medications for acute illnesses. Evaluation of subjects will include three clinic visits for neuropsychological and clinical testing, completion of study-related questionnaires and telephone follow-up visits.
Course of Study: Subjects will be in the study for up to 16 weeks.
Enrollment: The study will enroll 20 (male and female) subjects, 2-6 years old, with delays in language and/or social development. Vulnerable populations include children. A pediatric risk assessment was completed by Ian Butler, MD with an outcome of minimum risks to subjects.
Recruitment: Subjects will be recruited when their parents present them for care at the University of Texas medically-based autism clinic.
Known Risks: For the study drug Kuvan, there have been rare associations with gastroesophageal reflux and a previous form of this compound was associated with seizures in individuals taking Levodopa concurrently. There is a risk of loss of confidentiality.
Data Safety Monitoring: A DSMB will not be formed for this study. The PI will be responsible for the data and safety of the study.
Informed Consent: A written parental informed consent form has been submitted for review and approval. There is no cost for participation, and no remuneration. Confidentiality will be maintained through the use of unique study codes.
IND#: A request for a pre-IND meeting with the FDA to discuss the possible IND exemption has been submitted.
Funding Source: This study is being funded by BioMarin Pharmaceuticals.
SCIENTIFIC PRE-REVIEW: The Clinical Research Unit Review Board Committee Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) completed the submission with the outcome of CRU - Approved on12/10/2009.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years to 6 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children 2 years 0 months to 6 years 11 months of age will be recruited.
- Delay in language and/or social development with or without delays in gross and/or fine motor development.
- CSF BH4 level less than or equal to 30 nM/L as determined by lumbar puncture.
- Adaptive Behavior greater than 50 as determined by the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Epilepsy / Seizure disorder as determined by medical history.
- Epileptiform discharges without clinical seizures.
- Metabolic disorder that would be a contraindication to tetrahydrobiopterin treatment.
- Genetic disorder
- Therapies that cannot be maintained at a constant level or have not been ongoing for more than 3 months as determined by medical history
- Prematurity
- Developmental delay isolated to motor delay.
- Current gastroesophageal reflux
- Current or history of liver or kidney disease
- Severe irritability (as determined by the aberrant behavior checklist)
- Drugs known to affect folate metabolism (e.g., methotrexate) and their derivatives
- Patients who are receiving drugs that affect nitric oxide-mediated vasorelaxation (e.g., PDE-5 inhibitors such as sildenafil, vardenafil, or tadalafil)
- Patients who are receiving levodopa.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01141595
|United States, Arkansas
|Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72202
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard E Frye, MD
|Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Richard Frye, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Directory of Autism Research, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01141595 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 8, 2010
|Results First Received:
|January 15, 2013
|Last Updated:
|February 28, 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Developmental Disabilities
Pathologic Processes
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mental Disorders
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Calcium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Vasodilator Agents
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Nakajima sustains left hamstring strain
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Once bountiful in number, A's middle infielders are dropping like flies.
Oakland entered Tuesday with as many as six players vying for spots in the heart of the diamond and left it with only four of them healthy.
Just hours after announcing that Adam Rosales would start the season on the disabled list, the A's watched shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima exit the 10th inning of a road game against the Indians with a left hamstring strain. He's considered day to day.
"It's too bad," manager Bob Melvin said. "Hopefully it's nothing significant and he'll be back playing in a few days, but you don't know with hamstrings. They can be difficult injuries."
Nakajima suffered the injury while running from first to second on a sacrifice bunt, just minutes after he had found his way out of a 0-for-20 slump with a base hit. He motioned for a trainer and walked off the field with a slight limp under his own power, ultimately deferring questions from the media before getting on the team bus.
The struggling infielder's murky health status only makes it that much more plausible that he doesn't begin the year on the A's 25-man roster. Rather, Jed Lowrie is likely to begin the season as the everyday shortstop, with Scott Sizemore and Eric Sogard sharing duties at second base. Andy Parrino, who is still in camp, is expected to start the year in Triple-A Sacramento.
That's where Nakajima seems destined to pick up more at-bats before making his Major League debut. Should his injury prove to be anything but minor, the A's could place him on the 15-day disabled list and have him rehab with the River Cats. Or, they can simply option him there before setting their roster.
Healthy or not, Nakajima still has work to do.
"He was working on some stuff in batting practice today, trying to use his back side and get his legs more involved," Melvin said. "He had a good BP today and took a good swing on that one there in the 10th, so maybe he's making progress, finding something that's working for him."
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A pipeline will be laid as soon as possible in the water farm project in southern Lincoln County.
The project, which officially began just six weeks ago, will convert the largest crop farm in Nebraska to a farm from which only water will be harvested.
Conservation officials officially bought the $83 million in farmland Tuesday. The water will be pumped, piped and ditched into two major Nebraska rivers.
The deal will help Nebraska meet agreements with surrounding states and the federal government for river flows in the Platte and Republican rivers, Kent Miller of the Twin Platte Natural Resources District said.
The farm, formerly known as Lincoln Farm and before that as Oppliger Farms, was one of the largest crop farms in Nebraska. Located in southern Lincoln County, it consists of 117 center-pivot irrigated crop fields, most of which cover half of a square mile.
The cropland will now be converted to grass pastures.
Thirty new wells will be dug with a common manifold to pump into the two pipelines, according to preliminary plans. One pipeline will run south to pour water into the Medicine Creek and eventually into the Republican River. Another pipeline will run north to put water into a Central Public Power and Irrigation District canal west of Lake Maloney, and on into the South Platte.
The pipeline to the Medicine Creek will be running by June, sending water to the Republican River, Miller said. The target date to pipe water to the Platte River is 2014.
Dan Estermann, a rancher in the path of the southbound pipeline predicts that the Medicine Creek won't carry the water the 60 miles or so to the Republican River, from where it must still travel another 60 miles to reach Kansas.
Estermann said much of the water will be lost to saturation and evaporation. He also said culverts on the creek are not big enough, and changes in the water levels will damage hay meadows all along the creek.
Officials have not specifically responded to Estermann. They say that up to 15,000 acre feet of water a year can be sent to the Republican River, if necessary, to meet requirments for river flows into Kansas.
Miller said the construction and engineering of the new wells and pipelines will cost about $27 million, according to estimates, putting the total cost at $110 million for the project.
The project is a joint venture of four natural resource districts the Twin Platte and the Upper, Middle and Lower Republican NRDs -- which are dividing the costs equally. The four NRDs have created a new government agency called N-CORPE to supervise the farm.
N-CORPE will discuss the engineering contract, and a potential bonding agency to finance the project, at 1 p.m. on Monday in the first floor of the Keystone building, 402 Norris in McCook. The meeting is open to the public.
Meanwhile, one of two dissenting members of the Twin Platte NRD resigned Dec. 1 from the board of directors.
Robert E. (Bob) Peterson, a retired carpenter from North Platte, said the project has only a marginal chance of success. He said the majority of the board of directors are profoundly blinded by studies and multi-million dollar expenditures and are ignoring and bypassing the public, taxpayers and the very voters who elected them to office.
They have fundamentally rendered the credibility of this board to no confidence, Peterson wrote in his resignation letter.
Peterson said the project is an obtuse approach to the existing water problems, only expanding the cost with no tangible results.
He also said the employees of the NRDs will essentially control N-CORPE, not the elected NRD board members.
The other dissenter on the 12-person board of directors is North Platte City Attorney Doug Stack, who remains on the board. Stack has predicted there will be trouble making a deal of this magnitude successful in such a short timeline.
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The Charlotte Hounds have acquired 2012 NCAA Champion and tournament Most Outstanding Player Eric Lusby (Loyola-Maryland) through the Major League Lacrosse waiver wire process. Teams had the opportunity to place waiver claims on any college player not drafted in January's 2012 MLL Collegiate Draft and who registered for the MLL Player pool between May 31 and June 6. The Hounds were able to place the first claim, as the order of the waiver wire was determined by current league standings, in which the Hounds rank eighth.
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See Servin & Stephens (PLoS Genetics, 2007).
where β1 is in fact the additive effect of the SNP, noted a from now on, and β2 is the dominance effect of the SNP, d = ak.
Let's now write the model in matrix notation:
This gives the following multivariate Normal distribution for the phenotypes:
Even though we can write the likelihood as a multivariate Normal, I still keep the term "univariate" in the title because the covariance matrix of Y | X,τ,B remains a single real number, τ.
The likelihood of the parameters given the data is therefore:
A Gamma distribution for τ:
which means:
And a multivariate Normal distribution for B:
which means:
Here and in the following, we neglect all constants (e.g. normalization constant, YTY, etc):
We use the prior and likelihood and keep only the terms in B:
We expand:
We factorize some terms:
Let's define . We can see that ΩT = Ω, which means that Ω is a symmetric matrix. This is particularly useful here because we can use the following equality: Ω − 1ΩT = I.
This now becomes easy to factorizes totally:
We recognize the kernel of a Normal distribution, allowing us to write the conditional posterior as:
Similarly to the equations above:
But now, to handle the second term, we need to integrate over B, thus effectively taking into account the uncertainty in B:
Again, we use the priors and likelihoods specified above (but everything inside the integral is kept inside it, even if it doesn't depend on B!):
As we used a conjugate prior for τ, we know that we expect a Gamma distribution for the posterior. Therefore, we can take τN / 2 out of the integral and start guessing what looks like a Gamma distribution. We also factorize inside the exponential:
We recognize the conditional posterior of B. This allows us to use the fact that the pdf of the Normal distribution integrates to one:
We finally recognize a Gamma distribution, allowing us to write the posterior as:
Here we recognize the formula to integrate the Gamma function:
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Luis Cocon, our CFCA communications liaison in Guatemala, and his wife, Mercedes, recently welcomed their third child, Cristel, into the world. Here Luis describes some local customs and traditions that take place after a baby is born.
Naming babies in Guatemala is a family thing. We all get involved: parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and everyone close enough will usually have a say in the matter.
We are careful in choosing names; we want our children to be proud of their name and we try to avoid those that can be offensive, funny or extravagant.
Our more common sources for names are: names of parents, grandparents or close relatives, from nature, from characteristics expected from the baby's personality or popular names at the time.
Local customs and traditions
As soon as possible after our baby was born, my wife drank a hot tortilla drink called "atol de tortilla." We believe this tortilla drink provides good, abundant and rich breast milk.
She stayed home with the baby for about 40 days as her body recovered from giving birth. During this time my wife was cared for by my mother.
Mercedes could not take cold showers, go up and down stairs, carry heavy things or hand wash dishes and clothes because she was recovering, and we also believe that the baby can get sick by her doing these things.
Putting a coin over the baby's bellybutton with a cloth is a common thing to do to prevent a protruding navel. My wife and I are not sure this really works, but we have done it anyway, partly because our parents wanted us to do it.
We also put a red bracelet on the baby's right hand to protect her from "mal de ojo," or bad-spirited people.
Community greetings
Well-wishers came to our home as soon as they found out that our baby was here.
They brought plenty of food because they knew my wife must rest and could not do all the chores and cooking.
The older people offered advice on how to care for our baby and affirmed their support for us.
We prepared our room with decorations, extra chairs and coffee for our visitors. It is tradition to give coffee and homemade bread with natural honey on the side.
Well-wishers came in and out of our home for the next month or two after our baby was born.
The amount of people was sometimes overwhelming, but we also felt blessed to receive the love from all these people. Everyone wanted to meet our new baby and welcome her to this world. We were also eager to present our baby to our loved ones.
My parents tell me that 12 was a typical family size about 30 years ago. My father had 11 brothers and sisters, and so did my mother.
Today the Guatemalan family has gotten smaller. Large families of 12 children are not as common as in past years.
I have three children, but a more typical number for an average Guatemalan family today is about four.
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There's no need for "fist pounding." Again, the bottom line is that no matter how hard you search you will never find a singular entity that fulfills the criteria for selfhood.


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