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The ubiquitous "mall pretzel", light and fluffy with a crisp crust is dipped into butter and liberally sprinkled with small chunks of coarse salt. For those with a dairy or gluten intolerance these gems were off limits but these Gluten Free Pretzel bites beautifully emulate those pretzels. There are a few tricks with these pretzels, firstly it is the amount of honey used to bloom the yeast. All of those little yeast particles love some sugar to feast on and honey provides more than enough for all that feasting and growing. The pretzel bites are endlessly adaptable and I made a cinnamon sugar batch as well as a basil variety which would be perfect for dipping into marinara sauce or a sprinkle of coarse salt for an adult palate.
Be sure to boil the pretzel bites in the boiling baking soda water to give the bites that quintessential crust so reminiscent of the soft mall or movie theatre variety.
Working with yeast can be a touch tricky and if your yeast does not bloom properly, then it has died; there are two possible reasons for the yeast's demise, either the water was too cold or too hot. Be sure to keep the water at 100º which is warm to the touch but not overly so.
The Pretzel Bites
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 2 tbsp liquid honey
- 1 cup warm water (100º F – warm to the touch)
- 2 – 2 ½ cups Bob's Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Mix
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp oil
- one tablespoon baking soda
- Optional: 2 to 3 teaspoons cinnamon sugar (a ratio of 1:1 cinnamon/sugar); or 2 to 3 teaspoons dried basil
- Dissolve the honey in ¼ cup of the warm water. Stir with a spoon as this amount of honey might be a touch stubborn. Sprinkle the yeast over top and allow to bloom fully for 10 minutes. It should be foamy and all the granules of yeast will have disappeared.
- Break up the yeast with a wooden spoon and add half the amount of flour as well as the sugar and salt. Slowly add the extra water as needed until all the flour is added and the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
- Allow the dough to rise for 25 minutes, keep in mind that gluten free dough is closer to a batter than it is a dough.
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Be sure to add one tablespoon of baking soda to the water and allow it to dissolve.
- Preheat the oven to 375º.
- Using two spoons drop the dough into the boiling water for 45 seconds. The pretzel bites will look like anemic matzoh balls but don't fret.
- Bake for 20-22 minutes until a golden brown. Brush with melted vegan margarine or olive oil and sprinkle with coarse salt or cinnamon sugar.

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Don't Take Firewood Outside of Fairfax County
Jan. 7, 2009
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Fairfax County residents should not take any firewood outside the county or nearby areas, or they may face state and federal fines. State and federal quarantines for the emerald ash borer ban the transport of firewood to prevent the spread of this insect.
Firewood may be transported within the state quarantine areas — Fairfax, Arlington, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park. However, firewood may not be transported from these areas to any other part of the state. The federal quarantine bans the movement of firewood across state lines.
Violating the state quarantine is a class 1 misdemeanor, which carries a maximum fine of $2,500 and a year in jail. Violating the federal quarantine could result in a fine up to $250,000.
When camping outside the area of the state quarantine, use firewood from local sources, instead of transporting it.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture imposed a quarantine on July 11, 2008. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs issued a similar quarantine on July 14, 2008.
The emerald ash borer, a serious threat to ash trees, was discovered in Fairfax County last summer. These insects have killed more than 25 million ash trees in the U.S. The borers are native to China, Korea and Japan, and they first arrived in this country from Asia in the 1990s.
For more information about the emerald ash borer, contact the Fairfax County Forest Pest Branch, at 703-324-5304, TTY 711.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711


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I saw the best mind of my generation, and he asked me to watch a crappy movie.
Tom Bissell is not a household name in Portland. But in the two years he has lived here, teaching creative writing at Portland State University, he has quietly ranked among the most dexterous, savvy and chameleonic wordsmiths in the country.
Bissell, 37, writes essays and short stories. His specialty—honed in five books, with another three on the way—is traveling to remote places and making them intensely personal.
He has written about the environmental cataclysm of Uzbekistan's Aral Sea, and his own mental collapse as a Peace Corps volunteer nearby. ("The world could be unevenly divided into those who diet and those who starve, those who gobble antidepressants and those who die of curable diseases such as tuberculosis.")
He has written about visiting Vietnam with his father to see the places where his Marine dad fought. ("The reason this was becoming a stock scene in the literature of Americans in the new Vietnam was that a confrontation with the lingering costs of war was inevitable for every American who came here.[...] Even a broken heart is a cliché.")
On a lark, he and a friend wrote a book of fake DVD commentaries parodying political pundits like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn arguing over movies like the Lord of the Ringstrilogy. ("Zinn: You view the conflict as being primarily about pipe-weed, do you not?")
He is relentlessly prolific: In the weeks between my first handshake with Bissell in early August and the article you're reading, he wrote a profile for The New Yorker, reviewed the new Nicholson Baker novel in GQ and published four lengthy essays at the au courant sports-and-pop-culture website Grantland. In that same time, his story about a honeymoon gone wrong in Rome, "A Bridge Under Water," was picked for The Best American Short Stories 2011 anthology.
"Tom's work," says the novelist Jonathan Franzen, "reminds me of both William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace—he has some of Vollmann's peripatetic daredeviltry and encyclopedic ambitions, and some of Wallace's manic prose energy and in-touchness with his demons—but he sounds like nobody but himself. For a writer his age, that's saying a lot."
When I arrived a month ago at the ground floor Pearl District apartment Bissell shares with girlfriend, Trisha Miller, he didn't want to talk about his literary triumphs. He wanted to discuss what he's currently writing about: video games, and a very bad movie called The Room.
"I started out writing about war and environmental catastrophe, and now I'm writing about cinematic catastrophe," he mused, after preparing a lunch of lamburgers: mutton patties held together with feta cheese and cherry slices.
Since the publication of his fifth book, Extra Lives—Random House launched a 15,000-copy paperback run last month—Bissell has become the national magazine industry's go-to essayist on video games like Mass Effect 3 and Gears of War.
At the same time, he has grown fixated on The Room—a 2003 movie notorious for its preposterous, fervent incompetence. Bissell has watched The Room at least 30 times. He is now collaborating with one of The Room's supporting actors on a tell-all book about the making of the film.
As a finishing move, Bissell informed Portland State last month that he was quitting his job to move to Los Angeles and become a screenwriter at a video-game development company.
On the afternoon we met, Thomas Carlisle Bissell sat on his couch opposite two framedHarper's covers with his name on them, watching a DVD of The Room on his plasma television—noticing for the first time that in the film's opening sex scene the lead actress removes her lover's necktie twice.
"Sweetie," he excitedly called upstairs to Miller, "I just found a new Room continuity error!"
Is something seriously wrong with him?
The Tom Bissell C.V.:
Born in 1974 and raised in Escanaba, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. English major at Michigan State; joined the Peace Corps in 1996. Deployed to Gulistan, Uzbekistan. Freaked out, flamed out, sent home. Worked as a book editor in New York City for most of his 20s. Returned to Uzbekistan in 2001 on a Harper's assignment-cum-book deal. Published Chasing the Sea, '03; God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories, '05; The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, '07. Moved to Estonia to write a book about the tombs of the 12 apostles. Began playing video games. Playing a lot of video games. Playing them for 10 hours a day, three days on end. Literary output essentially vanished for two years. Returned in 2009-10 with magazine pieces of video-game criticism; eventually published the lot as Extra Lives last year.
The Tom Bissell look: a close-cropped shagginess, with a thick jaw and wide smile that lend him a friendly canine aspect; this, combined with his glasses and quiet erudition, recalls Mr. Peabody from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. His speech is rapid but deliberate, and the effect is one of initiation—as if he were trying to include others on his intellectual playground.
The Tom Bissell mood: ambivalent about his career trajectory.
He has become the leading critic of an art form he finds innovative and idiotic. He has penned that "any writer who is not interested in what we are now calling 'video games' is a bystander to one of the most important conceptual shifts between story and storyteller in a hundred years."
But he also writes in Extra Lives about the doubts raised by arguing about the storytelling economy of Left 4 Dead: "I then realized I was contrasting my aesthetic sensitivity to that of some teenagers about a game that concerns itself with shooting as many zombies as possible. It is moments like this that can make it so dispiritingly difficult to care about video games."
Extra Lives is the first book-length argument about whether video games can be art: In it, Bissell makes a case that interactivity—the game player making changes in the story with every push of the PlayStation console—is both an insurmountable problem and a liberating narrative sea change.
Reviews of Extra Lives were mostly exultant, though Dwight Garner was one of the few naysayers in a New York Times review, saying he loved the writer but not the topic: "Reading it was like sitting on a hot tractor, mowing a big weedy field of Ambien."
In fact, Bissell wrote much of it on cocaine.
He confessed this while once again sitting on his couch, in our second interview. He was chewing Nicorette gum—"My one lasting addiction; I will chew it 'til the day I die"—and playing Far Cry 2, a first-person shooter game set among mercenaries ravaging a post-colonial African country. Bissell, who has spent his share of time in war zones (he was embedded with Marines in Iraq in 2005), believes Far Cry 2 is a profound statement about "the behavioral and emotional consequences of being exposed to relentless violence." At the moment, however, he was just wandering through the burning savanna.
"The only chapter of Extra Lives that had no drug influence at all was the last one," Bissell said softly.
That chapter, titled "Grand Thefts," is the best thing in an ambitious but uneven book: a grappling with intertwined binges on cocaine and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City—habits that reached a nadir in 2008, when Bissell was living in Tallinn, Estonia, ostensibly writing his early-Christianity book but in fact traveling in a perpetual loop from ATM to Russian drug dealer to Xbox 360. Revisiting those nights, Bissell finds parallels between himself and his car-stealing avatar, Niko: "He was trying, he was doing his best, but he was falling into habits and ways of being that did not reflect his best self."
Bissell quit cocaine not long after Sept. 12, 2008: the day David Foster Wallace hanged himself.
Wallace is the writer Bissell most obviously resembles—and has modeled himself after. "I probably stole more from him than any other writer," Bissell has said. The two played chess several times, bonding over a shared fondness for dipping tobacco.
"I was living in Estonia the day I found out David Wallace killed himself," he said. "That was just one of the most terrifying thoughts possible. This person who wrote with so much joy and perceptiveness was in fact an incredibly tormented, dark soul who was willing to pay out to himself and everyone who loved him the ultimate punishment. The existential implications of that were so terrifying and so profound I kind of went into a tailspin."
He was frightened enough by his subsequent cocaine binge that, when he returned to Michigan, he attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
"And you're not allowed to talk about what goes on in those meetings, but I will say that I went to one meeting and listened to people's stories—most of which involved crystal methamphetamine—and I thought to myself, 'Oh, I went to pieces living abroad in a fancy European country. I don't belong here. My problems are manageable. I'm 37 years old, and I have neither the time nor the physical vitality to keep subjecting myself to this kind of stuff.'"
His stimulants are now more benign: His refrigerator is stocked with bottles of Diet Dr. Pepper, and the pride of his spotless apartment is a $149 SodaStream Fizz home soda maker, which he uses to blend his own generic root beer and Diet Coke.
"Substance abuse and I...I hope and I think that's a story that is mostly over," Bissell said as he bagged trash in his kitchen. "But you know what? I'll say this: I think the Grand Theft Autochapter in Extra Lives is one of the best things I've ever written, and I would happily go through every drug-induced terror and self-mutilation to have written that piece. Seems to me like a very fair bargain."
Bissell wrote the end of Extra Lives back in his hometown of Escanaba, leveling out of a depressive plunge. In the Upper Peninsula, he began dating Miller, a friend from high school. When PSU offered Bissell a teaching gig in its Master of Fine Arts program, he and Miller decided to move to Portland together.
In Portland, he embraced his teacher's role, sharing his vulnerabilities with other young writers. "He wrote seven- or eight-page letters in response to every story I turned in," says Chelsea Bieker, an MFA student in his spring-semester fiction workshop. "He always used to ask if we felt 'understood and well-served' at the end of each workshop."
He also found The Room.
Bissell's second night in his Pearl District apartment was also the first night The Room ever screened theatrically in Portland. When he went for a walk around the block on Aug. 15, 2009, he found a crowd of 500 people waiting in line at Cinema 21 to watch a six-year-old movie.
"It's proof that you don't have any fucking idea what life has in store for you," Bissell said over Moroccan kebabs and beer before he took me to another late show of the movie. "The Roomand Portland seem made for each other."
The Room was released in 2003, a self-funded project by Tommy Wiseau, a director of indeterminate Eastern European origins. He meant it as a statement about emotional betrayal. It became a Plan 9 From Outer Space for a generation looking for its own Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The dreadfulness of Wiseau's opus is obvious. Characters appear without introduction, speak without feeling and behave without motivation. Wiseau himself plays the all-American hero, who seems more like a barbiturate-addled bouncer at a Budapest nightclub. The movie's best performance is given by a gun-wielding drug dealer on screen for 90 seconds.
Portland has embraced the movie with typical ironic ardor. Menomena drummer Danny Seim held private shows at his house before the Cinema 21 screenings began. The lobby of Cinema 21 is currently decorated with Tommy Wiseau bobbleheads and a poster explaining what audiences should shout at the screen
Bissell believes Portland's love for The Room has something to do with the city's rejection of conventional success. "The culture around The Room is this valorization of an indie, do-it-yourself aesthetic," he said. "There's a celebration of the outlaw aspects of The Room. But this is not just Portland: A large part of the [national] audience sees this film without trying to figure out what human sadness lurks underneath the surface of it."
The Room is a naked statement of Wiseau's personal feelings. The plot (such as it is) is effectively a teenage boy's self-pitying fantasy of how, if he killed himself, everyone would regret how mean they had been to him. The abject solipsism is an invitation for giggles. Many people have taken Wiseau up on that invitation.
Bissell saw the opportunity for his great nonfiction novel. In August, Bissell started the book. He wrote 80 pages in a week.
He has compared Wiseau to the hero of The Great Gatsby, another self-funded outsider seeking lost love. "Jay Gatski," he chuckled. "Part of my goal with this book is to take those skinny-jeaned hipsters and make them think twice about laughing at The Room too hard ever again."
As soon as Bissell's girlfriend, Miller, arrived in Portland, he wanted her to view his RoomDVD. She has now watched the movie 15 times.
"What does he see in it?" says Miller, an actress now performing in the Artists Repertory Theatre production of God of Carnage. "Gosh. What does he not see in it? I just think he realizes…the 100 percent sincerity [with which] Tommy Wiseau makes every artistic decision in the film. I think a lot of creative people like us wish we had that much self-confidence."
Bissell published an essay in Harper's last summer contemplating the film's "sincerealism." One of the readers was Greg Sestero, a male model who played The Room's linchpin character Mark, Johnny's turncoat best friend. Bissell and Sestero met in Los Angeles, and soon began work on a memoir of the actor's fraught friendship with Wiseau (tentatively titled Locked Inside The Room, it's slated to be published in 2013 by Simon & Schuster). Bissell kept the stories in a notebook titled "My Sestero Journey."
"I think Greg's and my desire is the same: to write something first-rate about something fifth-rate," Bissell said. "At some point I kind of realized: This could be the novel I never write."
It sounded, I ventured, like Bissell was trying to create his In Cold Blood.
"As pathetic as that sounds, that's kind of how I'm trying to think of it, yeah," he said. "I want it to be that riveting."
Two weeks ago, at Sellwood's former funeral home-turned-concert venue the Woods, Bissell stood on the small stage for the music and literature weekend This! Fest and read a story about a blowjob.
It was a passage from his story, "A Bridge Under Water," which was selected for the Best American Short Stories 2011 collection. The selection—which described the giving of oral sex from the point of view of the female protagonist—was daring and funny and sad.
"She wondered why they were otherwise getting along so well," he read aloud to laughter from the audience, "and had the brief, horrified thought that maybe couples in newly dead marriages got along in a way akin to the cheerfulness of people about to kill themselves."
Get ready for more of that prose.
McSweeney's is preparing a book anthology of Bissell's magazine pieces, Magic Hours. He has finished 1,300 pages of his travelogue and cultural history about the tombs of the 12 apostles. Entitled Bones That Shine Like Fire, it is, "I hope, a kind of return to form."
At the same time, he's preparing to leave Portland for an entirely new kind of writing: video-game scripts.
After teaching his last PSU course this fall, Bissell plans to move to California in the winter. He won't say the name of the video company or what exactly he's doing—he has signed nondisclosure agreements in "an industry notoriously adamant about keeping secrets."
I asked Franzen, whose novels include last year's much-lauded Freedom, if he thought Bissell was wasting his gifts on The Room and video games.
"Because he is a true talent, I'll follow Tom wherever his interests take him," Franzen wrote in an email. "Some of the recent work he's done comes out of his need to make a living, and my worry is not that he's squandering his talent but, perhaps, that he's reining in some of the linguistic heedlessness and inventiveness that made his work so distinctive in the first place."
After Bissell finished his reading at the Woods, I told him what Franzen had said. He looked slightly wounded.
"The commercial contingencies of being a writer are cruel and unforgiving," he said. "Look, I'm still writing stuff that's more in line with the other stuff I've done, but I nearly went bankrupt writing that stuff. I was $20,000 in debt, and didn't have a place to live, and came back from an intercontinental extended vacation having fucked my life up trying to pursue that stuff alone."
Bissell then told a story that contained something grand and something silly, and took measure of himself.
"I happened to see Spider-Man 2 and Red in the same week," he began. "Alfred Molina played Mark Rothko in that play [Red] when it was on Broadway. He's amazing as Rothko. It's one of the most electrifying performances I've ever seen. He just filled the stage with force and vigor and intelligence. And then you see him do Doctor Octopus."
His voice, which had been rushing excitedly ahead, hushed.
"I think Alfred Molina is a great actor, and I don't think he had any second thoughts about being Doctor Octopus. I think he tried to do Doctor Octopus in the most humane, interesting way he could. And I thought to myself, 'Shit, maybe my video-game stuff is my Doctor Octopus.' If I could be lucky enough to have a Doctor Octopus, I hope this is it.'"


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Rabies is a severe viral disease of the central nervous system. In the United States, rabies is chiefly a disease of wild mammals, but it can occasionally affect humans. Animals with rabies shed the virus in their saliva. If a saliva from an infected animal gets onto a break in a person's skin—most commonly through a bite--or on mucous membranes (eyes, mouth, nose), that person might become infected. Rabies vaccine, administered after a possible exposure, is highly effective at preventing the progression to rabies disease. However, once an infected person develops symptoms of rabies there is no effective treatment and the infected person will likely die within a few days.
In California, most cases of rabies occur in bats. Rabies is also occasionally detected in other wild animals such as skunks and foxes. Rabies is rarely identified in domestic animals such as dogs and cats, but can occur if they are bitten by a rabid wild animal.
Rabies can be prevented by avoiding contact with unfamiliar animals. If you are bitten by an animal, report the bite to your local health department or animal control agency. Wash the bite wound thoroughly with soap and water as soon as possible. If you are concerned that you may have been exposed to rabies, contact your health care provider.
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ALBANY -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long knew it would be an uphill race.
She is a steadfast conservative running for the first time and in a reliably Democratic state. By the usual measures used to assess political races - polls, money, name recognition - Long is far behind incumbent Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
With Election Day looming Nov. 6, the New York City lawyer spent the past week doing radio interviews and swinging through northern New York for events including a Meet the Republican Candidates Night in Ogdensburg. And, as she has been doing for months, she kept up attacks on the front-runner.
"I am very confident that we are going to start gaining momentum as people begin to focus on the race and they begin to look at her record, which frankly is appalling," Long said in an interview. "She has just not stood up for New York."
Long, 52, has noted she and Gillibrand are both mothers of young children who graduated from Dartmouth College and worked as lawyers. The similarities end there. The two women are on different ends of the political spectrum, and in different positions in the race.
Gillibrand reported 100 times more campaign cash than Long this summer. A Quinnipiac poll in September reported Gillibrand up by 37 points. That same poll found almost three-quarters of the voters didn't know enough about Long to form an opinion - a phenomenon echoed on a recent sunny day when more than a dozen New Yorkers questioned by reporters in Albany and Buffalo said they never heard of Long.
"I have no idea who she is," said Bob Markham as he read a newspaper on a park bench by Albany City Hall. "The only thing I'm focusing on is the presidential election."
Long is a cable TV veteran and is media savvy, but she has not shown she can afford the sort of multimillion-dollar statewide ad campaign candidates rely on in contested races. Her June campaign filing showed $96,411 in campaign cash. A new filing is due Oct. 15.
Long served as chief counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative advocacy group, a role in which she argued against President Barack Obama's 2009 nomination of fellow New Yorker Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Earlier in her career, she was a press secretary for two Republican senators and worked for the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life. As a college student, she worked at the Dartmouth Review, a conservative newspaper run by students.
In Gillibrand, Long faces an opponent who has worked hard to cement her position since 2009, when she was the surprise appointment to take Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's old seat. The unknown congresswoman who represented a largely rural district was judged too unaccomplished, too right-leaning and too upstate.
Gillibrand shifted to the left on guns rights and some other issues, slowly built statewide support and easily won election in 2010 against a little-known former congressman to fill out the last two years of the term.
New York Republicans have for years argued that Gillibrand is vulnerable, but they were unable to lure a prominent name to challenge her in 2010 or this year. Though not well known, Long has the credentials and talent to excite the base, which became clear after she wowed a meeting of state Conservative Party leaders early this year.
"Immediately, the leaders up and down the state of New York were excited about her running," said Michael Long, the longtime chairman of the state Conservative Party. Long, who is not related to the candidate, became a key backer after their first meeting.
Long easily won a three-way primary in June in a race in which she promoted her opposition to any tax increases and to same-sex marriage and her support for gun rights. But the social conservatism Long highlighted plays poorly with a New York electorate in which there are almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans.
"The more you preach that message, the fewer votes you get," said political scientist Doug Muzzio of Baruch College. "So shut up or attack your opponent."
Long calls for cutting taxes, paring regulation and slashing spending to balance the budget. But her campaign has been notable for a steady stream of releases attacking Gillibrand for months on everything from not agreeing to more debates (they have one scheduled for Oct. 17) to a series of economic issues.
A prime target has been the senator's support for President Barack Obama's health care law, which includes a tax on medical-device makers. Long has cast the tax as a job killer and pounced when central New York manufacturer Welch Allyn cited the tax as one reason for the loss of about 45 local jobs.
"It's Senator Gillibrand's failed policies that are leading to job losses in these specific areas," Long said.
A super PAC debuted an ad in upstate markets this week echoing Long's attacks on Gillibrand.
Gillibrand has largely ignored Long's comments, though a spokesman for the senator's re-election campaign defended her record.
"Senator Gillibrand is focused entirely on her agenda of growing jobs and the economy, cutting middle class taxes and ensuring more manufacturers across the state are stamping products with 'Made in America' - not hyper-partisan political attacks," spokesman Glen Caplin said in an email.
Gillibrand, who has raised more than $14 million this cycle, has started running upbeat ads around the state. They are expected to run through Election Day.


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Scahill sent to Triple-A to clear spot for Jurrjens
DENVER -- The Rockies' bullpen-audition carousel continued Friday as the team optioned right-hander Rob Scahill to Triple-A Colorado Springs to make room for recently acquired right-hander Jair Jurrjens.
The Rockies also opened up space on the 40-man roster for Jurrjens, who is making his debut Friday night against the Dodgers, by transferring right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (strained rotator cuff) to the 60-day disabled list.
Scahill made three appearances for the Rockies after being recalled from Triple-A on June 22. He went scoreless through his first 3 2/3 innings before surrendering four earned runs off three hits and a two walks in his final 1 2/3-inning appearance Monday.
Chacin was placed on the 15-day DL on Monday with what was being called right shoulder inflammation after showing diminished velocity for much of the season. He missed all of April with issues in his same shoulder and an MRI on Tuesday revealed a strained rotator cuff as well as fraying in the front of his right labrum.
Chacin is the fourth Rockies starter to be placed on the 60-day DL this season, along with Brett Anderson (fractured left index finger), Tyler Chatwood (right elbow strain) and Christian Bergman (left fractured trapezium).
Left-hander Franklin Morales will continue to hold down Chacin's turn in the Rockies rotation until Anderson returns shortly after the All-Star break.
The Rockies will have to clear another spot on the 25-man roster Saturday as they plan to activate left-hander Boone Logan (left elbow inflammation).
Cody Ulm is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Topic: Question about jaundice
I had an extremely light colored bowel movement. I know my menstral cycle can affect it, but I am seriously having a panic since I have been queasy for abit as well so of course I am thinking the worst. So my question is...does jaundice come in stages? When I was first diagnosed, my eyes turned yellow first, then my skin, then my bowel movements turned light. Is this always the case? Or can your bowel movements become clay colored as the first sympton of jaundice? I just had so many tests of every description in February and I just cant believe that the cancer has come back so strong to cause a blockage in 2 months. But I have really never had such light colored stools since surgery. I am freaking out, but my eyes and skin are normal color so I am hoping it is just hormonal changes in my body.
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My favorite place on LinkedIn isn't even in the main menu. You have to click on "more" to find the LinkedIn "Answers" section, but if you do, I think you'll find it worth your while.
Answers is a service LinkedIn provides so that members can ask questions—on any number of topics—and receive answers from other members of the community. Answers is like a free Help Desk for all your business needs. It's staffed by volunteers—other members who take the time to answer questions—but these volunteers also happen to be experts (well usually) in the topics for which they provide answers.
According to LinkedIn's Answer FAQ:
LinkedIn Answers is designed to allow professionals to exchange expertise. Members with greater than 5 connections are allowed to ask up to 10 questions each month.
As a business reference, Answers is invaluable because it gives you access to specialists in areas ranging from accounting to Web development, but if you answer questions it can also help you enhance your personal brand.
Answers as a research tool: the most common use
If you're working on a project and unsure about the best way to do X or Y, Answers is a good place to look. To start, go to the Answers section and search on some keywords related to your question. Answers has been online for a few years now, so someone may have already asked and answered your question. If that's true the answer you need may already be there. You may find it either by browsing through the question topics, or by doing a specific search.
For example, let's say you're a marketer. You want to drive more traffic to your site and want to know what you can do to get on the first page of search results for Google. In that case you might type "get on front page of google results" in the search box and be presented with this list of questions.
As you scroll down the list you'll notice a question quite similar to yours, "How do you answer the question: How can i make my site appear number one on Google, to those that know nothing about SEO?" If you click through to that question you'll find answers that explain more about how sites get to the better spots on Google and also learn that getting to #1 really shouldn't be a goal unto itself.
If that (or the other results) answers your question, then you're all set. If not, then you can ask your own question addressing your specific concerns. Over the course of the following days you should receive several answers that meet your needs.
Answering questions supports your personal brand by demonstrating your expertise
If you clicked through to the Google question you'll have noticed that there were 12 answers in total, 2 of which were listed as "Good Answers" and one of which is marked as the best answer (in this example, the best answer was mine). After you ask a question you are encouraged to select which answers were good and best. When you do this, the people who answered will get credit for providing a good or best answer and that information will appear in their profiles showing they have expertise in the topic(s) to which you assigned the question.
These credits for expertise also appear under someone's name, when they answer questions, so that the questioner and others can see whether or not they have a proven track record in the topic. This system offers an incentive for people to not only answer questions, but to take care to answer them correctly.
Answering correctly is critically important if you want to earn a best answer. Many knowledgeable people area already answering questions, so to compete you need to be thorough. Here are a few suggestions that should help you improve your answers:
- Read the question carefully. If you peruse it too quickly and don't answer precisely what is being asked your answer could be wrong and you may look foolish.
- Don't answer a question unless you are sure that you know the answer and are well-versed in the topic. If you are less experienced in a field you may not realize how much you don't know. If your answer isn't based in sufficient experience it may be shot down by someone who knows more, and again you may look foolish.
- Don't answer questions that have already been thoroughly answered. If you have a new point to add, that's fine, but if there is nothing more to contribute, just pass this one by. Agreeing with everyone else won't add any value to the discussion.
- When applicable include links to Web sites that offer further information to support your answer. If you blog, feel free to link to your own blog entries. I do this a lot and it also helps drive traffic to my blog. Just make sure that the articles you link to are clearly related to the question and will provide the questioner with more information on the topic.
- Read the other answers carefully. Note when you agree with someone and correct misinformation if you find it. When pointing out the mistakes in other answers, be gracious and polite. Your role is to clarify the information so the questioner gets the best information; it is not to mock other participants.
- Play nice and don't taunt the questioner. Some questions will seem utterly inane. You may think that even a 4 year old should know the answer, but to someone just getting started in a field their beginner questions are legitimate. They really want to know something that you already know. So just try to be patient. Some questioners may be off-base. They may pose questions to drive traffic to their sites or they may produce spam. Use your best judgment, in most cases the best thing is to just ignore these.
I'll readily admit that I like having those stars next to my name for providing best answers. It's a nice way to show that I have knowledge in topics like web development, blogging and Internet marketing. But in the process of answering questions I also learn from others and begin to connect with fellow users who may add me as a contact, ask me additional questions or even ask me to submit a proposal for a project.
A few of these contacts have become regular "pen pals," as it were, with whom I regularly trade information and ideas. We also follow each other onto other spaces such as Twitter and Facebook. While I may have started answering questions to further my reputation in my field, I've gained far more than that in the process.
Perusing Answers for professional development and idea generation
Like anyone else, I don't have all the answers. Web development and social media are fields that are constantly evolving. To keep up I need to read a lot. While I get a lot of information from blogs and other sources, I also learn from LinkedIn. When I peruse the questions in these topics and read the various answers I'll often find new tips and suggestions offered by my peers. This is a great way to learn about best practices and gain other useful insights.
As a blogger I'm also always looking for the next article idea. Sometimes I have a large list of topics I want to cover and other times I'm stumped. In particular though I want to write about the subjects that are of most interest to my target audience. Answers is a good place to find these. When I see that several people have been asking questions on a specific topic, it lets me know that this is something I should probably write about.
Whether you have a problem to solve, or have the time to help others, LinkedIn Answers provides a great way to participate more in the LinkedIn community and to forge new connections. Give it a try, go ask (or answer) a question today.


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Marin General Hospital reported that 240 individuals worked as volunteers at the hospital during 2012, donating 26,912 hours of service.
Fundraising activities by volunteers brought in $184,440 for the hospital last year.
Some of the hospital's longest-serving volunteers are Merrilee England of San Anslemo, Barbara Birnbaum of Larkspur, Annette Perry of Greenbrae, Martha Hamilton of Greenbrae, Nancy Sliter of Larkspur, Bill Foote of San Rafael and Jim Paullin of Lagunitas.
For more information about volunteering at Marin General Hospital, visit www.maringeneral.org/volunteer.
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This is the start of what hope to be a popular thread about the most human of heroes. Ollie Queen when you take away all the glitter is a humanist. A real live human being with real desires and problems.
In many ways Ollie could be called a fictional Capitalistic Che Gueverra. A man who while capable of turning his back to the suffering of others. Still stands as a beacon of hope to others.
Like Che Ollie is also very human. Making mistakes at times that destroys the lives of those closest to him. In other words he he is like most people. Simply trying to live his life and make his way.
So invite other fans of THE ARROW to join me. as i continue this thread in praise of the man i call simply.


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New York City, Circuit City Stores Inc. will be rolling out a new prototype store in June, according to a report by Reuters. John Mulleady, VP for real estate and construction at Circuit City, announced the prototype at the National Retail Federation's (NRF) annual conference in New York City on Sunday.
Although he did not give many details, Mulleady said the prototype would build on the consumer electronics retailer's efforts to continually test new store types to better appeal to today's shoppers. Mulleady said Circuit City is working on building 300 new stores in the next two years.
While Circuit City has stores in Canada, Mulleady said "not today" when asked if the retailer was looking at additional international expansion.


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March 25, 2013
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Since I lean toward the synthesizer slash software side of things the best music gear "fair" in the world is Germany's Musikmesse. Each spring or "Frülings" as the German's say, gear geeks, music software wizards and pro-audio companies from the States to Japan all meet in Frankfurt. This year's shibang is from April 1-4 which if you're reading this post today means it's on now. Will any new product convince you it will improve your songs? Nothing I've seen so far is making my head explode but there are some nice new toys on the show floor.
One of my favorite instruments, the Persephone, has been upgraded to "Mark II" status. It's big new feature is the addition of a second oscillator. To love a Persephone is to play one. It's a nice feeling high end instrument. The best way I can describe it is something in between a Theramin and slide guitar. Doepfer steps away from the Lego – build your own mindset and released the Dark Energy. The Dark Energy is a mini 100% analog synth with a built-in USB/Midi interface. At 400 EUR what's not to like? Tascam seems to have noticed Mackie's troubles (their Chinese factory went out of business) and released a new line of inexpensive analog mixers including the M-164, M-164FX with built-in digital effects and the M-164UF with built-in USB.
SSL released a new version of it's Duende which has an improved audio engine and includes a new reverb called X-Verb. Novation hit us with there new versions of their popular controllers, the Zero and SL now at MKIII status. I have some friends who were disappointed by earlier versions of these. Most of the complaints were in the "faders are too cheap" category. Nevertheless, Novation added more pink lights on the new babies so I can't help staring. Akai seems to be on a mission the past few trade shows and Messe09 is no different. They have a new basic Pad box, the MPD18 and a new 88key weighted controller the MPK88. What really has my mouth ready to scream "Reactivate!" is the new Miniak synth with built-in vocoder. I always thought Akai made the best software vocoder (D.C. Vocoder) but alas it never went OS-X. If the Miniak sounds as good I'll grab one for sure. Presonus released a DAW called Studio One. Are they crazy? Why isn't everyone using Ableton at this point? Oh yeah, in case you didn't hear Live 8 is out of beta and ready to buy.
Update. So a few more niceties have crossed my radar. Jomox has updated it's popular analog kick drum module the MBase now called MBase II. I believe the compressor is the new add on in this highly recommended box. I love mine: video. Rob Papen has a new software bass synth called SubBoomBass. I doubt SubBoomBass will break much ground sound wise but I constantly go to other Papen synths when Im doing certain styles of music and want to troll a zillion presets. MFB must be reading my mind because the only thing I love more than drum machines are semi-modular drum synthesizers and that's exactly what they just announced. They call it Schlagzwerg and I'll be buying that (680 EURO) before you can say Berlin!
More Musikmesse 2009 round-ups here: SonicState Create Digital Music Synthtopia
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All-star game features local skaters
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League will host its all-star games Feb. 10 at the Robert Morris University's Island Sports Center, located on Neville Island.
Action kicks off at 11 a.m. with the Open Class division followed in succession by the Class A contest at 1 p.m. and the Class AA game at 3 p.m. The Class AAA game caps the competition at 5 p.m.
The skills of 14 area players, plus one alternate and one coach, will be showcased in the Class AAA battle pitting the Southwest Conference against the Northeast Conference.
Bethel Park skipper Jim McVay hopes to coach the Southwest to victory along with his assistants Jim Black from North Allegheny and Anthony Raco from Seneca Valley.
While Mt. Lebanon's Nick Honkala is an alternate, Bethel Park's Derek Lesnak and Austin Jameyson along with Peters Township's Brad Tylenda and Upper St. Clair's Sean Allebrand spearhead the defense.
Mike Ambrose, a senior from Upper St. Clair, and Brian Baker, a Peters Township junior, share the goaltending duties with SV's Tanner Pfeffer.
BP headlines the forward line with three representatives in Ryan Kusmira, Daniel Yost and Christian Siak.
Canon-Mac and USC follow with two selection each. Blair Oldaker and Stephen Sramac excel for the Big Macs while Austin Cassidy and Connor Ackerman shine at USC.
Stephen Sramac of Mt. Lebanon is the other area forward named to the Southwest squad.
The Big Macs, who field two varsity teams in the PIHL, will also have three representatives on the Southwest squad in the Open Division. They are forwards Shane Morgan and Nick Green as well as defenseman Ryan Ferguson.
Ryan Ribeau and Ryan Rosato, seniors from Keystone Oaks will play on the forward line for the Northeast Conference club in the Open Division.
Chartiers Valley and Bishop Canevin are well represented on the Southwest unit for the Class AA clash against the Northeast.
In addition to boasting the squad's head coach with Seaan Biancaniello at the helm, the Colts comprise two slots at forward in Cullen McMahon and Anthony Franks, two spots on defense in Sean Brkovich and Tyler Stevenson, one goalie in Noah Stevenson and an alternate in Robert Ferrarri.
Among the all-stars for the Crusaders are: forward Austin Large, defenseman Brennen Adams and goaltender Nikita Meskin.
At the Class A level Joe Testa and Ryan Schultz were selected as all-star forwards from South Fayette. South Park earned three all-stars in forward Bill Walker, defenseman Cam Sabatini and alternate Josh Smith. Brandon Tingle coaches the squad.
Visit www.pihl.com for a complete roster of all the all-stars.


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About the Model 2266SP
The King 2266SP baritone offers easy response with a rich, bottom sound. The 2266SP features a 4 valve configuration to expand fingering combinations and range as well as assisting in tuning. Bell front design offers a different sonority of sound while the larger bore offers great projection. Front-action, nickel plated pistons provide smooth, quick action and unmatched durability.
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Brand History
Henderson White, founder of the HN White Company, started his business as a proprietor of a small repair shop in Cleveland, Ohio. With the help of Mr. Thomas King, a local trombone player, White developed his first trombone in 1894. This was viewed in the market as a "revelation" to the music world due to its radically different bell, bore, and mouthpipe designs. Players loved the "King" trombone because the slide was smoother and lighter than any other.
These instruments gained immediate success with professionals including Al Pinard, the trombone soloist with Arthur Pryor's Band. In 1909, the HN White Company developed a "Department of Acoustical Research" with the goal of developing higher quality instruments. As production grew, King became known for brass and woodwind instruments. From 1917-1918, the HN White Company was the sole provider of saxophones for the US military during World War I. In the 1920's, King would even become the first US manufacturer of French horns.
When Henderson died in 1940, control was taken over by Edna White, the first women executive officer in the male dominated music industry. Under her leadership the company flourished. As most company's production of brass products halted during World War II, Edna was able to secure two major government contracts making radar units and proximity fuses that kept the factories running.
Coming out of the war, King instruments saw great popularity in the 40's and 50's with names like Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Ziggy Elman, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, and Charlie "The Bird" Parker. In 1951, the King 3B trombone was introduced and today is still the world's top selling jazz trombone.
In 1964, production of King Instruments was moved to Eastlake, Ohio outside of Cleveland where they are still made to this day.


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It's no secret that breastfeeding is good for babies. But it may also reduce their risk of obesity later in life.
That's according to a recent study by researchers at Mount Sinai's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, published Nov. 15, 2012, in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Dr. Stephen Lye and his team followed children in western Australia from birth to age 14 and discovered that the length of time a baby is breastfed positively impacts the effects of the fat mass and obesity gene (FTO) in young adults. Specifically, breastfeeding can help reverse the effects of that gene variant if a child is exclusively breastfed for a three-month minimum.
The research team noted that girls required a minimum of three months breastfeeding, but boys appeared to need a longer breastfeeding period to have the full effect. They concluded that three-to-six months of exclusive breastfeeding would be the best approximation to affect the FTO gene.
Childhood obesity is a serious problem that may lead to the development of chronic diseases, which will be reflected in increased health care costs.
"This study is one of the first examples of early intervention in the fight against obesity," says Lye, associate director of the Institute in Toronto. "Rather than trying to treat the symptoms later, we're better off trying to prevent them in the first place."
There has been a startling increase in the number of Canadian children with unhealthy weights since 1978, when, according to the Childhood Obesity Foundation of Canada, only 15 per cent of kids were overweight or obese. By 2007 that number had climbed to 29 per cent. Statistics Canada says that today almost one-third of Canadian kids, an estimated 1.6 million kids between the ages of five and 17, are overweight or obese. The foundation notes that most adolescents do not outgrow this problem and many continue to gain excess weight. If current trends continue, it predicts that by 2040 up to 70 per cent of adults age 40 will be overweight or obese.
The FTA gene comes in two flavours: good and bad, Lye explains. "We all have two copies of this gene, but 20 per cent of Caucasians have two copies of the bad variant. Under these circumstances, as an adult, on average you would have three kilos of fat mass more than you might otherwise."
An estimated 70 per cent of Canadian children have at least one copy of the specific variant of the FTO gene responsible for increased BMI and obesity, and that increase can be seen as early as age six.
The first 2,000 days of life – roughly from conception to school age – a child undergoes massive development. "We're understanding that while your genetic makeup controls the overall blueprint of how that development occurs, the environment interacts with it to put children on varying paths that impact their learning, health and social functioning," Lye says.
"Our interest is in how the environment interacts with our genetic makeup, and this study shows that we can modify our genetic blueprints through positive environmental interventions."
While there are other genes associated with massive obesity, they are very rare, Lye adds. "In genetic terms, this gene variant is actually a large contributor to obesity.
"This is one intervention and one gene, but it sets a proof of principal that if we understand more about how trajectories are settled during life, we can develop interventions that enhance how children optimize their full potential."


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I noticed i've been getting more symptoms with my Lupus, and this was a little before I started medication, so I know it's not from that.
My sinus's have been getting really dry lately, and bleeding a little bit. I know it's summer, but it just doesn't seem normal for me. They are also itchy a lot, and I think there might be a sore. It's painful though, and I thought the sores you get from Lupus weren't suppose to hurt?
I've been getting diarrhea, and sometimes I feel constipated.
My throat is ALWAYS sore, i'm not sure if it's my lymph node or my tonsils, but either or it makes my throat sore.
My ears hurt a lot too, i've had trouble hearing a bit etc, i'm wondering if I might have a possible autoimmune inner ear disorder.
I'm just worried, I get scared when I get new symptoms.


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Keira Knightley's Cover Shoot Style
The highly-anticipated Season 11 premiere of Project Runway happens on Thursday, January 24 at 9/8C, and we're more than a little curious as to how the team concept will turn out. In the first episode, designers will create New York-inspired clothing, all hoping to impress some familiar faces. Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, and our own Nina Garcia return on the judging panel, with featured judge Zac Posen replacing Michael Kors. Season 4 Project Runway winner Christian Siriano will also join as a guest judge.
Age: 31
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Lives in: Lincoln, NE
Twitter handle: @avvalentine
Design training/schooling: "Bachelor's degree in Clothing and Textile Design from the University of Nebraska."
Strengths as a designer: "I'm always hyper-aware of proportion and line and fit."
Influences: "Every season I draw from international cultures, costume history, and music. I love combining seemingly disparate ideas."
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SANTA CLARA -- Charles Woodson's final three seasons with the Raiders overlapped with Nnamdi Asomugha's first three. A reunion could be in the making eight year later with the 49ers, according to a former teammate.
Akbar Gbajabiamila, a retired player now working with the NFL Network, reported early Friday on Twitter that the 49ers are "in serious discussions" with Woodson and Asomugha, a pair of free agent cornerbacks.
It's unkown if the extent of those "discussions" is anything beyond their free agent visits in the past two days.
Woodson's agent, Carl Poston, said Thursday that he hadn't even talked about a potential contract with the 49ers before Woodson left the Bay Area following his Wednesday visit.
Poston did not immediately respond Friday morning for a request seeking comment, nor did Asomugha's agent, Ben Dogra.
In reporting that Asomugha left the 49ers facility after 8 p.m. Thursday, Gbajabiamila hinted about Asomugha's and Woodson's imminent signing: "I predict The Bay Area will return two of its favorite sons in free agency."
Gbajabiamila played linebacker for the Raiders in 2003-04 when Asomugha and Woodson were teammates there, too.
The Raiders struggled mightily -- for myriad reasons beyond the secondary -- when Asomugha and Woodson were teammates, going 13-35 combined in those three seasons and finishing no better than 5-12.
Woodson missed 14 of 48 games during that stretch, including the final 10 games with a broken right leg. Although he's an eight-time Pro Bowler, Woodson didn't earn any of those nods between 2002-07.
Asomugha, the Raiders' first-round pick in 2003, had no interceptions in those three seasons with Woodson and didn't become a full-time starter until 2005.
To bring in that high-profile duo, that likely would force the 49ers to dump two other defensive backs, unless Woodson really is capable of being a full-time free safety, a role that became vacant when Dashon Goldson signed Wednesday with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Woodson also excels as a slot cornerback, a position that Carlos Rogers has filled to the past two years when rotating over as the 49ers' starting left cornerback.


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12 U.S. Code § 215a–2 - Expedited procedures for certain reorganizations
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(a) In general
A national bank may, with the approval of the Comptroller, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the Comptroller, and upon the affirmative vote of the shareholders of such bank owning at least two-thirds of its capital stock outstanding, reorganize so as to become a subsidiary of a bank holding company or of a company that will, upon consummation of such reorganization, become a bank holding company.
(b) Reorganization plan
A reorganization authorized under subsection (a) of this section shall be carried out in accordance with a reorganization plan that—
(3) specifies—
(A) the amount of cash or securities of the bank holding company, or both, or other consideration to be paid to the shareholders of the reorganizing bank in exchange for their shares of stock of the bank;
(B) the date as of which the rights of each shareholder to participate in such exchange will be determined; and
(4) is submitted to the shareholders of the reorganizing bank at a meeting to be held on the call of the directors in accordance with the procedures prescribed in connection with a merger of a national bank under section 215a of this title.
(c) Rights of dissenting shareholders
If, pursuant to this section, a reorganization plan has been approved by the shareholders and the Comptroller, any shareholder of the bank who has voted against the reorganization at the meeting referred to in subsection (b)(4) of this section, or has given notice in writing at or prior to that meeting to the presiding officer that the shareholder dissents from the reorganization plan, shall be entitled to receive the value of his or her shares, as provided by section 215a of this title for the merger of a national bank.
(d) Effect of reorganization
The corporate existence of a national bank that reorganizes in accordance with this section shall not be deemed to have been affected in any way by reason of such reorganization.
Source(Nov. 7, 1918, ch. 209, § 5, as added Pub. L. 106–569, title XII, § 1204(2),Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 3033.)
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Five years ago, Youthland Academy's corporate office (located in Montgomery) decided to make a big change in the foods served to children in its child care centers. Read more
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"…Our cuntry is in a bad condition I dont know what is to become of us we still have enough to eat and wear for which we aut to be truly thankful i fear it wont last long."
Leah Hamilton Jenkins brought life these words of Elizabeth Hunter, who wrote to her daughter Margaret Hunter Newberry in 1864 as the Civil War raged. Leah, with the Springfield Area Arts Council, is one of four pros who recorded such excerpts with public radio station KSMU to promote the Library's Big Read theme, "Voices of Conflict: The American Civil War."
KSMU, a library partner in The Big Read, airs a recording at 7:30 a.m. every Thursday through April 28. You can always hear them on KSMU.org, click on The Big Read icon. Full print versions are at Community & Conflict: Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks, along with many other materials focusing on the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
These recordings lend a realistic and human dimension to our observance of the Sesquicentennial. It's a reminder that the 150th isn't a "celebration," but a sobering reflection on our past.
The Big Read continues this week with a wide range of programs that help promote our understanding of the war:
See the full Big Read event schedule at thelibrary.org/bigread.
It's almost here! The big Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale will open its doors April 26-May 1 at Remington's, 1655 W. Republic Road. Hours are 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, April 26-30; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, May 1. The Friends members preview sale is 5-8 p.m. Monday, April 25.
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A new well-written article definitely worth reading:
Papañca & the path to end conflict
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... So the question is, what is it about the thought "I am" or "I am the thinker" that leads to ways of thinking that cause inner and outer conflict? The answer lies in the Buddha's explanation of what it means to be a being. The act of taking on the identity of a being is primarily a mental act. In other words, it's because you have passion, desire, delight, or craving for something that you iden tify with it (SN 23:2). In identifying with it, you become tied there. That's what makes you a being. Your choice of what to desire defines the type of being you are. This process happens both on the macro level–in the events leading from death to rebirth–and also on the micro level, as one sense of identity is shed for another on a moment-to-moment basis in the mind.
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In an increasingly globalized world, international concerns impact almost all areas of our lives, whether we realize it or not. Most of the goods we buy are produced elsewhere, the food we eat travels thousands of miles to reach our table, and even the diseases we contract make their way to all areas of the globe. Even in the political arena, very few policy choices can be considered truly "domestic" anymore, as legislative decisions in one nation have worldwide implications. The International Studies program at Luther College seeks to provide students with the academic tools and knowledge to function optimally in this interconnected world.
The program draws on a wide variety of academic disciplines (such as Anthropology, Communications Studies, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology, Religion, etc.) to introduce students to global economic, political, and social systems, and then uses that knowledge to contextualize the close study of one particular geographic region. Students majoring in International Studies leave Luther College with a broad range of international knowledge and with a detailed understanding of how these complex international issues impact their individual region of interest.
The major is built around an international theme that students identify during the IS 230 introductory course. After taking three foundational courses and IS 230, students then complete three "Global Perspectives" courses, and three "Regional Focus" courses in the geographic region of their choice. During the course of their study, International Studies majors study abroad for at least one semester in order to gain experiential depth in their selected region. Because the study of language is highly valued in the field of International Studies, students are strongly encouraged to take language courses while at Luther and while studying abroad. The IS minor is built on a similar model to the major, but students focus on either Global Perspectives or Regional Focus courses, and study abroad for either a semester or J-term as their course of study allows.
I enjoy the interdisciplinary nature of international studies. The major offers courses in a variety of fields, which have enabled me to consider the world from different perspectives.
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Vishakha Desai, Senior Vice President, Asia Society
Muzaffar Chishti, Immigration Project, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)
Alex Hing, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Vanessa Lesnie, Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights
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Vishakha Desai
Asia Society has a significant role to play in education here in New York in the aftermath of 9-11. I should also say that this particular program is part of our on-going commitment to focusing on social issues both in Asia and in Asian-America and it's a program called Asian Social Issues Program which is a public education initiative funded by the Ford Foundation as well as a number of other supporters to really look at critical social challenges such as human rights violations, conflict resolution, environmental issues as well as poverty, immigration and other kinds of issues as well as solutions that are being generated both in Asia as well as here.
This particular evening's event is actually held in conjunction with a very special performance. It's a performance called The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown. This is a chamber opera that we commissioned out of the cultural program inside of the institution and the program itself I hope all of you will have a chance to see, if not tonight then another time, the program is going to be here from November 1 to November 3. What this is, is a chamber opera commissioned, designed by a very talented Chinese-American artist, Jason Huang, who for more than three years collected stories of immigrants in Chinatown and on the basis of those immigrants' stories he created a very powerful and I think a poignant story of a Chinese family, which, in fact, takes some of the ideas from the oral histories that he collected. It's a story about a Chinese worker who is a restaurant worker now but was, in fact, a famous erhu player. I think the music is totally wonderful, the voices are fabulous, as even New York Times said so yesterday. So, I think that you will have a very special treat for you, if you should decide to see the performance and I hope that you'll get a chance to see it either tonight or as I said until November 3rd.
On your seats there are a number of different things including the event brochure where we have lots of different programs at the Asia Society ranging from things for Asian social issues on the one hand to in fact a very special program we're doing directly in relation to the 9-11 and the world that has changed. There's a program with Imam Faisal on November 27 which is to really look at Islam in the context of other great world religions and a town-hall format where you will have a chance to ask questions as well. So, I hope that you will really come and join us. Enjoy this new building. There will be a café here, there will be a store, there will be exhibitions to look at and lots and lots of public programs. So we will be in business in earnest starting on November 17th. So, without further ado, let me first of all say, on behalf of Asia Society, thank all of the panelists and also our moderator who's really going to take over the program from here. So, let me introduce Miss Vanessa Lesnie, who is the program coordinator for the Worker Rights Program at the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights and she will be moderating this evening's session and introduce the speakers. Vanessa, thank you very much.
Vanessa Lesnie
Thank you and I'm honored to be here and I hope we're going to have a very interesting evening. As it was been mentioned, I'm the program coordinator for the Worker Rights Program at the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights and much of the work that I do actually focuses on sweat shop conditions in countries other than the Unites States and in particular, in South East Asia. It's very easy to forget I think, once when you become part of this globalization debate that a lot of the sweatshop the so-called sweatshop conditions in factories in China, Bangladesh and India, Indonesia, Vietnam actually also exist in Chinatown and the garment district in New York. Even more interesting is that the people who are working for those sweatshops in Chinatown and the garment district are often Vietnamese, Bangladeshis, Indians, Indonesians and Cambodians and the same people. So, the issues are the same. If you want a sort of definition of globalization, it's that the issues are the same, whether you are in the Unites States or in Vietnam. And some of those issues include the failure to pay minimum wages, forced and excessive overtime, failure to uphold health and safety standards. The immigrant communities, whether it's immigrants into the United States, or into any other sweatshops, there's often issues of debt bondage for the workers so we're trying to improve their lives. A phenomenon that happens in the United States as in other countries, is that employers, somewhat unscrupulous employers, withhold passports for illegal immigrants, so that they are effectively held as slaves in the sweatshops. So that the sorts of issues which we'll hear a lot more about today, I think, from the people who actually have much closer contact than I ever have, with the workplaces themselves are common around the world.
And the sort of risks that face, Asian workers in the Unites States, I suspect, have been heightened in the wake of September 11. They shouldn't be heightened, it shouldn't be any different. But this sort of racist attacks that we've seen as a result of this racial profiling who a terrorist is in this country, I suspect has made the situation even worse for Asian immigrants working in sweatshops, working in factories or in kitchens, or wherever they are in the United States. Similarly, the economic recession, which we can argue whether or not it's because of September 11, but it's certainly been heightened by September 11, clearly affects immigrant workers to a higher degree, often their jobs are more tenuous and therefore they're the first victims of the recession.
So, I'd like to introduce the three speakers that we have tonight who can tell us much more these issues and we'll be answering questions at the end. Our first speaker is to my right is Muzaffar Chishti who's a lawyer and a director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees, more commonly known as UNITE. He's also a member and former chair of the board of directors of the National Immigration Forum and has testified numerous times on immigration and refugee issues before congressional committees. On my immediate left is Bhairavi Desai, who's the founding member of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York. She works to raise the awareness and improve conditions of taxi drivers. She was born in India and came to the United States with her parents at the age of six and then sort of progressed to get a degree in Women's Studies at Rutgers University and since dedicated her life to changing the discriminatory practices of migrant workers. And then to my far left is Alex Hing, who's a cook in a New York City hotel. He's been a member of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union for 35 years and he's served as a rank-and-file activist both in San Francisco, where he was involved in a movement to democratize the union and in New York City where he serves on the Local six executive board. He's a founding member of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance which is the first national organization of Asian and Pacific American trade unions. So, without further ado, Muzaffar, would you like to kick off?


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This is a great shot of Scott Wiener with the world's largest pizza box (that'd be 54 x 54 inches) from Big Mama's and Papa's in Los Angeles. For those of you that don't know, Scott is pizza box fanatic/expert (proof here) and has a pretty impressive collection. But until now, it was missing this legendary box. So glad to see your dreams coming true, Scott! To read more on Scott's big box adventure, check out his post here.
About the author: Meredith Smith is the Slice editor. You can follow her on Twitter: @mertsmith.


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FREMONT — A 52-year-old Cupertino man died Tuesday morning in a three-vehicle wreck on the Sunol Grade on Interstate 680, authorities said.
The man was identified by a spokesman with the Alameda County Coroner's office as Guy Li, 52, whose legal name is Ying Hao Li. .
The fatal crash occurred at 4:26 a.m. on southbound I-680 just north of Vargas Road, said CHP Officer Scott Cakebread.
No one else was injured.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, he said.
Traffic was backed up for more than five miles on I-680 after the CHP closed four lanes on the freeway, Cakebread said. Three of the lanes were opened at 6:25 a.m., and the final lane opened at 6:44 a.m.
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Did this once right when I joined and had no idea about how far I was throwing, kept changing my mind and the thread just became a huge clusterfuck. So here we go again.
I am too lazy to post weights. Drivers hang around 170g, Rocs 175g or more, putters are max weight.
Star Eagle- Forehand disc. My forehand is not long, but pretty accurate.
Barstamp Eagle- My workhorse Eagle. Throw it a lot. Can hit about 355' pretty consistently.
Z Flash- My distance driver. Best throws are probably 365 or 370'.
DX Leopard- Short turnovers.
I need a long understable disc and a wind fighter. Thinking Valk and Firebird, but I am open to suggestions.
DX Roc- Overstable with fade.
DX Roc- Slightly overstable with no fade.
DX Roc- Understable.
Champion Roc- Have not thrown yet, it was cheap and had to buy it. Will update when I know what it does.
I probably push Rocs out to 325' most of the time.
KC Pro Aviar- Putter.
KC Pro Aviar- Driving/approach putter. I only drive with a putter if hole is under 225' or so.
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Bruce Chassy, Ph.D., professor emeritus, University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, was a guest of Mike Adams on AgriTalk. Chassy said a French study released last week claiming health concerns from biotech corn is a mockery of science and was designed by an anti-GMO activist scientist who has an open agenda to find fault with everything biotech.
Chassy further suggested that Russia banning the import of biotech corn previously approved for import because of questions about food safety based on this French study is ridiculous. He said Russian scientists cannot be scientifically naïve enough to truly believe the French study will hold up to scrutiny. His thought is that the Russians have another agenda for banning the corn.