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Ok so ive been tryin to come up with a trade the would bring the two things we need. Scoring and a Big man. This adresses it. Idk if the money matches up cause trade machine isnt working(maybe some draft picks in there too somewhere....
LAKERS GET: Dwight Howard, Brandon Rush, Hedo Turgolou and Roy Hibbert
Pacers Get: Rudy Gay, OJ Mayo and Andrew Bynum
Orlando Gets: Pau Gasol, James Posey, Ron Artest and Xavior Henry
Memphis Gets: Danny Granger, JJ Reddick, Matt Barnes and Dante Jones.
If the money worked out The lakers would be getting Dwigh Howard a superstar for years to come. Hibbert a young improving player. They both replace bynum and Gasol. They also pick up a young Wing in Brandon Rush, and A vet in Hedo while getting rid of matt barnes and ron artest. Thats pretty close to an even swap. Overall lakers get younger and possibly better.
Orlando Pretty much loses in this, but at least they get something out of Howard instead of losing him for nothing. They get an allstar in gasol altho he is a little older. They get an expiring contract in posey, a Vet in ron artest who can bring some energy and a young solid, improving player in Henry. Memphis gets danny granger who is an allstar in his own right, a solid defender and 6th man in dante jones and matt barnes. and 3point specialist in jj redick. Him and Granger will compliment Conly and Randolph well.
Last but not least the pacers. They finally get A scorer in Rudy gay and OJ mayo and a young BIG man who can actually rebound and score in the post as well as defend. Gay will equal the production of granger(not as good defensivly but better at scoring) Oj May is a scoring gaurd who can play the 1 or 2(mainly 2) We lose nothing in this trade. Bynum> Hibbert Gay=Granger Mayo> Dante jones+Brandon rush and posey doesnt even play. I feel we make out like a bandet.
PG: Collison/George Hill/Lance/Price
SF:Paul George/Rudy Gay
PF:Tyler H/Sign free agent or make another trade
C: Bynum/Freeagent/Trade
I believe this is a winning team. Yes we have a log jam at wing and point, but we could trade lance and or price for a back up PF or C. Plus we would have money to play with in free agency....This of course is all wishful thinking and isnt going to happen, but it was fun!!


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"We've got some good-looking, young pitchers there," Phillies assistant general manager Benny Looper said Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park. "It's a different challenge for them. Hopefully they prove they belong to pitch even above that. A lot of those guys are guys that we either traded for or developed. It's enjoyable to watch them. In the business I'm in and a lot of people are in, which is signing and developing players, that's the fun part of it. Watching them get better and move up through the system."
The Phillies signed right-handers Aaron Cook and Rodrigo Lopez to Minor League contracts before Spring Training. They figured to provide the Phillies depth in Triple-A. But the Phillies felt good enough about rising stars like Morgan and Martin they released Cook and Lopez. Looper explained the process.
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Twenty-four area artists will show their work as part of the Lycoming County Juried Art Exhibition – titled "Art Alive!" – May 30 to June 28, at The Gallery at Penn College. The gallery is on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library.
The exhibition features fine art in a variety of media and showcases the unique vision and emerging aesthetic ideas within Lycoming County.
Artists in the exhibit are: Chad Andrews, Paul Barrett, Marguerite Bierman, Brenda Blackwell, Donna Britton, Steve Buggy, Fred Gilmour, Casey Gleghorn, Jeremiah Johnson, Edward Jonasen, Richard Karp, John McKaig, Deborah Mezick, Penny Young Miller, Timothy Miller, Matthew Parrish, Veera Pfaffli, Roger Shipley, Theresa Crowley Spitler, Gary Steele, Jackie Thomas, Howard Tran, Ralph Wilson and Maureen Wroblewski.
Artists were selected for the exhibition by independent jurors Gary Mesa-Gaido, Florence Putterman and Joyce Robinson based on four categories: style, artistic integrity and first impression; communication and content; design and composition; and quality and control of the medium.
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12:38pm Saturday 15th March 2014
By Andrew Simpson
LEE Duckworth says 1874 Northwich are happy to be distracted from a push for promotion to play in the last eight of a knockout competition.
His side host Abbey Hey in the North West Counties League Challenge Cup quarter finals on an afternoon when Division One pacesetters Nelson will widen the gap in the table to Ian Street's men if they win at Ashton Town.
Not a cause for concern, according to the assistant manager.
"When you've reached this stage of cup competition then you want to stay in it," said Duckworth.
"I was in the Winsford team that won in the final a few seasons back, and it was a great experience.
"It would be great to win a trophy in our first season, particularly as a Division One team, so for us it will be a welcome break from the league after two draining, hard-fought games this week."
He refers to back-to-back victories at Atherton Collieries, direct rivals to finish in a promotion position, and then at home to back-markers Flixton Villa in midweek.
It moved 1874 Northwich, if only for 24 hours, to within a point of second-placed Formby.
Duckworth was on the pitch, scoring the decisive goal, in Winsford colours for the 2011 final along with current teammates Lee Jones, Michael Brandon and Matthew Ward.
Ryan Stewart joined them as a second half substitute in a 1-0 win against New Mills, while Street watched on from the dugout.
Blues lost in the final the previous season, a game Duckworth also started, against today's opponents Abbey Hey.
He said: "Abbey Hey did last season what we're trying to do now, which is to get into the Premier Division.
"We've done our homework, and expect them to be hard-working and difficult to beat. They'll also have enough quality to hurt us if we let them.
"I think we'll enjoy being the underdogs for a change – it didn't do us any harm at Squires Gate [in the second round]."
1874 will be without injured Ryan Mitchell (groin), while front man Chris Lunn is ineligible.
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Chris wrote:Please partake in the joyous occasion of the re-establishment of the original lineage of nuns (Bhikkhunis) -established by the Bhudda 2000+ years ago - right here in Western Australia by Ajahn Brahm.
Chris wrote:I'm not sure about the composition of the group ordaining the Bhikkhunis in the previous attempts. Does anyone know?
TheDhamma wrote:Chris wrote:I'm not sure about the composition of the group ordaining the Bhikkhunis in the previous attempts. Does anyone know?
In the previous full ordinations in the U.S. they used Theravada bhikkhus and Mahayana nuns for the double-ordination. I think the Mahyana nuns had the Dharmagupta lineage which goes back as far as the Theravada to the Vibhajjavada - Third Council time period.
BlackBird wrote:I recently read Ayya Khema's autobiography, it mentions she was ordained as a nun under Ven. Narada Maha Thera in 1979, but she only mentions that she recieved her full Bhikkhuni ordination in California "much later."
I don't know what date this would be, but certainly before 1990 I would assume.
Full-steam ahead for the reinstation of the Bhikkhuni Lineage
Paññāsikhara wrote:For issues like this, I actually sometimes think that it is a little bit misleading to refer to the preceptors, whether bhiksus or bhiksunis, as "Mahayana" monks or nuns. After all, their preceptor status is due to their bhiksu/ni upasampada, and nothing to do with their bodhisattva precepts. It may be more appropriate to refer to them primarily as "Dharmagupta" bhiksu/nis, with a note of the Mahayana bodhisattva precepts, both through the Chinese traditions, as really quite secondary.
Blackbird wrote:I wonder what the reasons are for not reinstating the Bhikkhuni order in Thailand and Burma?
Dhammanando wrote:""Dhammânandâ has omitted some details - vital details, for they have a bearing
on why the Dharmaguptaka bhikkhunî lineage is considered dubious by vinayadharas
in the Theravada tradition (and also, I believe by those in the Mulasarvastivada
tradition of Tibet).
The original transmission (or rather, alleged transmission) of the bhikkhunî
ordination to China in fact took place in 357 CE. This alleged transmission was
carried out by bhikkhus alone and was therefore INVALID by Theravadin criteria.
It led, however, to a century-long tradition of Chinese bhikkhunî ordinations
being given by bhikkhus alone. Moving forward to 433 CE, of the 300 women
ordained in this year some had not done the two years' training as a sikkhamâna,
while others had already been living as bhikkhunîs beforehand, having received
ordination from the bhikkhu sangha alone. Therefore, by Theravadin criteria
their ordinations failed on the grounds of "defect in the material to be
ordained" (vatthu-vipatti). Those women who had never been sikkhamânas were
ineligible to be ordained until they had fulfilled this preliminary training.
Those women who had already been one-sidedly ordained were living in communion
by theft and were therefore banned for life from receiving a genuine bhikkhunî
ordination. Therefore Dharmaguptaka nuns are not bhikkhunîs by Theravadin
criteria. Moreover, this judgment is not unique to the Theravada, for even
within the Dharmaguptaka tradition the validity of Dharmaguptaka bhikkhunî
ordinations has been challenged, notably by the Taiwanese Vinaya master Ven.
Dao-hai. Dao-hai has argued that at several points in Chinese history the
bhikkhunî paramparâ was irreparably broken (see his Discussion of
Bhikshuni Ordination and its Lineage in China, Based on Scriptures of
Chinese Vinaya and Historical facts, p. 18-19, Dharamsala 1998).
To carry out formal transactions of the sangha in such an irregular manner is
not a "loophole"; it is a violation of Vinaya and a defect that invalidates the
Best wishes,
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
being5 wrote: In one talk each of the nuns speaks briefly about what full ordination would mean to her.
Chris wrote:Hello all,
It remains to be seen whether this action by Ajahn Brahms causes division in the worldwide Theravada Ordained Sangha, and whether it actually has positive or negative affects in the years to come.
Maybe a slower process (which was being worked through) with more consulation and eventual consensus would have been a better alternative?
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I thank Tim Duncan's knee just gave out
oh god i hope not. I love Timmy.
Oh Oh. empty seats at the Spurs game on a Saturday vs. the Bullets. Wonder if they are in danger of moving?
They say it's just a sprain that god it looked bad. His knee was crunched weird by Martel Webster. He is back on the bench to so that is great news.
As bad as Washington is, they have the lead down to 12. Everyone makes a run in the NBA.
I hope nothing is wrong with Duncan, damn how many more players are you going to take away from me god?
Did they say if it was an ankle or knee sprain? Knee Sprain isn't good, that's usually what they diagnose before the MRI shows that someone dropped a bomb on the knee.
They said it was an ankle sprain. This was his first game back in a week.
MKG was out for 10 minutes face down on the floor... knee'd real hard in the head. Has been taken to ER.
Injury video: http://www.nba.com/video/games/rocke...nba/index.html
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The rookie forward was knocked unconscious after his head collided with Jeffery Taylor's knee or hip.
Bobcats broadcasters said Kidd-Gilchrist had movement. He was on the ground about 5 minutes. Neck immobolized before leaving on a stretcher.
Yeah, I'm looking at this now, he's not moving after a hit to his head.
Now stretchered off...
edit1: He has been taken to hospital, that's all we know so far
edit2: It's gonna be MRI due to possible brain injury.
edit3: MKG was talking to medical personnel on the floor and since. No word on if he'll remain in Houston.
Holy crap... hope MKG's okay.
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Knicks shoot 43 3's tonight! they shot 43 3's out of 86 FGA. Thetymade 19 with JR Smith 7-14 and Novak 5-7. I wonder if this could be a record for 3 pt attempts in a NBA game.
Duncan looks like a meniscus..hopefully it's not worse.
Man, that's just bad about MKG. That's a good guy; hope he's ok.
MKG's injury looked horrible. I really wish that the guy is going to be ok.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Y'all see Kyrie's fourth quarter tonight? YIKES.
I know there was talk about how keepable Paul George is, Kyrie Irving would definently be one guy I'd trade him for.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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Everyone but Cleveland would love that trade
I was so pissed with Atlanta last night that I changed the channel over to a freaking Hockey game (and I know jack about that sport) around 8 minutes before the end of the game. I mean wow! It may be a great testament to Bulls winning that game without Rose, Hinrich, Boozer and Noah but I will say it's equally a pathetic defeat for Atlanta too. I mean come on now. You have to take such games at home.
Curry 29/2/8- 2 Stl
Deng 25/14/5- 4 Stl & 2 BS
Walker 24/3/3- 4 & 1
Beasley 24/5/2
Speights 21/10/3- 1 BS
Parsons 24/10/4- 1 BS
Barnes 21/8/1
Hickson 21/11/2- 1 Stl & 1 BS
Wall 21/5/9- 1 Stl
Harden 21/11/11- 1 Stl & 1 BS... trip dub
Sessions 20/2/6
Vucevic 20/12/6- 2 Stl & 2 BS
J Smith 19/13/5- 2 BS
Asik 19/15/1- 1 & 2
Harkless 19/14/1- 4 & 1
Gibson 19/19/2
Ibaka 18/12/0- 1 Stl & 4 BS
Aldridge 18/11/1- 2 BS
Sanders 17/13/2- 1 Stl & 6 BS
D Lee 16/12/7- 1 Stl
Illyasova 16/8/3- 2 BS
Chandler 11/20/2- 1 Stl
Dunleavy 11/4/3- 1 BS
Amundson 8/3/1
McBob 6/8/2
Tinjury 6/3/6
Jack 6/1/7
Price 5/4/5
Jackson 4/1
Bulls 53 Reb
Knicks 52 Reb & 34 Ast
Magic 52 Reb
Rockets 50 Reb
If a player flops and the refs don't call it, can the league still warn you? I'm just wondering because Andre Drummond flopped on a Pau Gasol backdown, and I'm curious if he'll get a warning.
Sean Deveney: Sources tell Sporting News that the #Clippers have contacted the #Celtics about Kevin Garnett. Offer would include Caron Butler and Beldsoe. Twitter @SeanDeveney
Kevin garnett is really worth Bledsoe and butler to them? Who is their backup sf?
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
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In the Media - Educating America
Read what Angela Watson has to say about Educating America
Angela Watson, from The Cornerstone, featured Educating America in her website article Volunteers and Aides. Here is an excerpt of what she had to say:
One of the most remarkable things about this book is that its advice applies equally well to teachers, parents, volunteers, para-professionals, and other classroom assistants (the first part of the book contains more general strategies, with separate chapters written "mostly" for each type of classroom worker.) Educating America tackles tricky topics from setting expectations to monitoring student progress. The advice goes far beyond common sense stuff and provides genuinely useful tips that you can tell are effective in real classrooms.
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EDMONDS, Washington -- August 30, 2011-- Paddy Eger invites educators, school volunteers and interested community members to the launch of her book. Educating America: 101 Strategies for Adult Assistants in K-8 Classrooms is written as a guide for adults working with students.
This celebration of volunteerism on Friday, Sept.16 runs from 4:30-7:00 at Maplewood K-8 School. The address: 8500 200th St SW in Edmonds. Attendees are invited meet the author, talk with educators and volunteers as well as purchase the book. Light refreshments will be served.
Reduced funding, increased class size and testing are today's big issues in education. When volunteers step up and step into classrooms, they support teachers and students while off-setting the issues. The book provides numerous easy-to-use strategies to enhance volunteers time with students.
Educating America: 101 Strategies for Adult Assistants in K-8 Classrooms is available at the book launch, in bookstores, online and through www.paddyeger.com.
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This blew me away on several levels: (1) These are university students participating in a largely optional learning activity (college) and they are already trying to figure out how to stop learning?! That doesn't bode well for their lives in general, much less their future as software developers, (2) They are studying a technology field and are old enough and smart enough to get into college, yet they've missed the fact that technology has done nothing but change their entire lives? There's a chance that some of the specific technologies they learn in college won't even be relevant by the time they graduate, (3) They think they'd actually want the job they are describing. [That last one is wrapped up with some personal bias, for sure -- I can't imagine any period in my career where I would have been happy doing just that thing for the remainder of it.]
Yet, somehow I fear I may be the odd one here. One of my favorite interview questions (sorry, no bizarre thought puzzles like "how do they make M&Ms") was "What was the last book you read and what magazines do you read regularly?" I rarely got a decent answer. Often I'd get quizzical looks and would have to eventually follow up with "Software development is a rapidly changing field. You'd like to come work for us as a software developer. I'm trying to figure out how you go about keeping up with change and staying abreast of new technologies and practices." Unfortunately, they often now understood my question and still had nothing satisfying to say.
BUT, here's the answer that I hated the most: "Yeah, you're right, doing that's a good idea but my company doesn't pay for books or magazine subscriptions." So you know it's a good idea, that it would be valuable to you as a software developer and by extension make you more valuable as an employee, but unless someone else pays for the book or magazine subscription, you're not going to do it? [imagine several more paragraphs of crazed ranting here -- it's harder than I thought to not include them]
I'm afraid to ask this question any more. It's so easy to follow folks on Twitter or Google+ or read their blogs or get entirely free magazines sent to you in email or buy even cheaper e-book versions of books that the interviewee's quizzical stare would cause me to tilt.
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke (don't let the subtitle fool you, it's a good introduction and recently published).
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JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov, presentation by author at http://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/javascript-patterns
Getting StartED with Dojo by Kyle D. Hayes with Peter Higgins. A gentle yet useful introduction, nicely organized and presented.
Dojo: The Definitive Guide by Matthew A. Russell. As I searched for a really good Dojo book, this one kept appearing at the top of people's lists. While based largely on dojo 1.1, it focuses on fundamental aspects of Dojo that I expect remain the same today. I understood things after reading this that I only thought I understood before reading it.
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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. This book "made it click" for me, providing a vivid description of how you can deliver high quality software of value to the customer while eliminating waste and constantly improving your team.
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn. I very much enjoy Mike's writing style and I give this book an edge over Ken Schwaber's original treatment, but either will suffice.
Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn. If you want to really understand how Story Points are meant to work and how Agile Planning seeks to mitigate risk, this is the book. If you're more into Cliff Notes, Mike provides lots of useful material at his web site: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
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Sandy silver lining: Storm helped app developers inch closer to 'nowcasting' weather
Two Canadian-based software developers are inching closer to their goal of instant, local weather prediction with a little help from an unpredictable source: Superstorm Sandy.
The story starts two years ago, when Montreal-based software developer Jacob Sheehy was surprised to learn that the new Motorola Xoom tablet computer would come standard with a curious tool: an atmospheric pressure sensor.
"I saw it had a barometer and I thought 'Oh wow, Google must be building a giant weather network,'" Sheehy said.
So he waited, but Google never did build that network.
"So, I said, 'Well I'm going to do it,'" Sheey said.
Sheehy and his business partner at Cumulonimbus Software launched the app pressureNET. It is for the Xoom tablet and newer Android phones, which now come standard with a barometer. The software can pull pressure readings from phones every 10 minutes, aggregate them, and post them online.
The goal? Gather hundreds of thousands of readings a day to offer real-time, highly localized weather predictions.
"You could look at your phone and will see an alert from pressureNET saying there is an incoming storm, it will arrive at your location in 20 minutes," Sheehy said.
Tracking Sandy, users accumulated
For that kind of forecast – or "nowcast" – you need a lot of data, and downloads of the app were slow for the first year. Then Superstorm Sandy started heading for the U.S. Users in the Northeast posted online, asking others with Android phones to help track the storm. Sheehy said active users doubled to around 2,000 in just a few days.
"I think the combination of people desiring to help and learn about science, and help researchers, along with this sort of unprecedented event, just drummed up a lot of enthusiasm and excitement," Sheehy said.
Now, new Android phone roll-outs, online mentions and media coverage have helped boost the number of active users to about 6,000 by Tuesday afternoon, according to Sheehy.
Phillyweather.net editor and occasional Newsworks.org contributor Tom Thunstrom said barometers used in forecasting now are typically just at airports and weather stations, often 10, 20, even 30 miles apart.
"If you've got 300 users that are within two to three miles contributing data, that's going to provide a lot more relevant and real time data, especially if it comes to thunderstorm aspect of it," Thunstrom said. "Thunderstorms can be very small scale. You can have a thunderstorm in the summer pop up over Center City while in South Philly, it's sunny."
In the winter, pressure changes can help forecasters predict whether precipitation will be snow or rain in a certain neighborhood.
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Still, Cumulonimbus Software has a long way to go before its app is a workable forecasting tool. Sheehy said he and his Toronto-based business partner Phil Jones need to get up 30,000 to 50,000 users, or a million readings a day, before the data can be used for real-time weather prediction.
They also need to convince Android users to allow them to share their data with scientists with whom they are collaborating to develop forecasting tools. They are currently collaborating with an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington.
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Walmart's ongoing investigation into bribery allegations was thrust into the spotlight again this week after the New York Times published results of its own investigation.
The New York Times lengthy, detailed and thoroughly sourced article detailed how Walmart employees in Mexico used an elaborate series of payments to accelerate construction of a controversial store in Mexico City. The store in question was highly controversial at the time of its construction due to a location near ancient pyramids in Mexico City. According to the New York Times, "Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited."
The article was a follow-up to an equally extensive piece that appeared in late April that asserted Walmart executives were aware of corruption in Mexico but failed to act. Walmart disputed that assertion at the time and maintained it had previously disclosed its own investigation in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in late 2011, well before the original New York Times article appeared April 22.
The most recent article prompted a swift response from Walmart in which it acknowledged the ongoing investigation and expressed regret that it couldn't share more details.
"The allegations contained in the New York Times article surrounding events in 2003-2004 involving the permitting and licensing process for a Walmart de Mexico store in Teotihuacan, Mexico, have been part of the company's ongoing investigation of potential violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act we began more than a year ago," Walmart spokesman David Tovar said in a statement released Monday night. He noted that the investigation is being overseen by an audit committee of the board that is composed entirely of independent directors and that Walmart is cooperating with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. "At this point, the investigation is still ongoing and we have not yet reached final conclusions. A thorough and independent investigation will take time to complete. We wish we could say more but we will not jeopardize the integrity of the investigation."
Walmart maintains that it is committed to a strong and effective global anti-corruption program and detailed how over the course of the past 20 months it has established several new compliance positions around the world, directed more than 300 third-party legal and accounting experts who have dedicated more than 79,000 hours to the effort, conducted more than 85 in-country visits and more than 1,000 interviews of market personnel, spent more than $35 million on new processes and procedures and conducted training sessions attended by more than 19,000 employees.
The company also shared an internal memo distributed on December 17, in which president and CEO Mike Duke addressed the New York Times article and the importance of acting with integrity.
"Leading on integrity begins with me and our executive team, and it depends on each of you," Duke said. "As leaders, we are measured by our weakest moment, so we can't have a weak moment in the area of integrity. We can have a bad sales day and a good sales day and hope they average out, but we can't average integrity. The only way our company can grow and thrive is for every Walmart associate to do the right thing – 24 by 7 in every country that we operate in."
He also repeated a familiar theme regarding how Walmart, because of its success, faces higher expectations from customers and employees.
"I love that the world looks to us as a leader," Duke said. "Walmart has an influencing role, and we must lead by example and help raise ethical standards overall. As I have said all along, we will use these events to raise the bar and make Walmart an even better company. We have ensured that the ongoing investigation has the time and resources it needs to get to the bottom of what happened."
To date, those resources total $99 million. That is the amount Walmart said it has spent on its FCPA investigation during the first nine months of its fiscal year.
To read Monday's article in the New York Times, click here.
For a detailed look at Walmart's compliance and anti-corruption efforts and to read the company's response to the New York Times article, click here.
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Quartzsite draws some rather unusual and interesting people and critters. I am not going to try to describe any of this, just enjoy.
Isn't that a great cast of characters?
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THE Trip, Critters of a Different Kind, Quartzsite Arizona
6 comments:
- Becky said...
Love the camel, and the sheriff!
- February 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
Some mighty interesting photos.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
I'm a fan. Great photos.
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Carol, I just love the pics! How did I miss these! Also, isn't it great when you can just put pictures up and no words are necessary? They just speak for themselves!
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Love these pictures!!! Quartzsite is definitely "one of a kind"!!!
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Eclectic group of critters...love it!
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ByStephan Dörner
If you listen closely to the music, you might hear a subtle shift in the balance of power in the music industry.
Record labels are trying to reassert their power over artists and—more recently, music sharing platforms—while artists toy with the idea of teaming up to engage audiences and advertisers without the labels.
It seems that SoundCloud, the Berlin-based music discovery and sharing platform sometimes dubbed "the YouTube of music," is dancing to a fast beat.
While reports swirl about a nearing agreement with major record labels for a licensing deal, SoundCloud, with 175 million monthly listeners, says it is launching a new partner program for music creators who will able to collect a share of revenues–effectively a shot across the bow of the record labels.
Additionally, it announced that it would be offering advertisements for the first time in its history. Another shot across the bow.
The company said its On SoundCloud partnership would "enable creators to make money on the platform." Various musicians and independent labels use the service today to promote their music, but the new Premier tier allows for advertisement revenue share with the artist.
As of now, the invitation-only Premier tier is available only to artists in the US, SoundCloud's largest market. "The deals with rights holders will mean they'll make the majority of the revenue that we generate," Geoghegan said, addressing a long-standing gripe by artists who complain that the lion's share of their revenue goes to the labels.
So far, On SoundCloud seems to have made a good start. Among the initial content partners for the new service are two major music publishers Sony/ATV and BMG, SoundCloud spokesman Luke Geoghegan said.
Other content partners include the Comedy Network's Funny Or Die, Jash and AST Records, as well as independent artists Little Simz, Big Gigantic, GoldLink, Blackbear, Romiti, Jakubi, Cyra Morgan and Oliver Sadie, according to SoundCloud.
"We believe the range of different partners is indicative of the fact that SoundCloud is for everyone, not just major labels," said Mr. Geoghegan. Sony/ATV and BMG weren't immediately available for comment.
The first advertisers to bite include Red Bull, Jaguar and Comedy Central, the New York Times reported.
But as bold as its latest move is, SoundCloud needs to be careful to not to antagonize the big labels, who still hold the rights to much of the content on its platform. For instance, SoundCloud is especially popular with disk jockeys who share their remixes—reinterpretations of licensed music into new forms. The pieces of content on which the remixes are based are copyrighted. DJs have already been complaining that they've received removal notices – and this could increase should SoundCloud and the labels fail to reach an agreement. On the other hand, should SoundCloud strike a deal with the labels that keeps royalty money away from artists, the start-up will alienate its core users. Labels that aren't present on platforms with millions of listeners could lose visibility to consumers.
It's a tricky balance.
The real winners in this tug of war could be the artists, who may increasingly bypass the big labels and publish music directly on their own on popular platforms, and even work with advertisers. But the truth is that most budding artists still dream of being discovered by the big labels.
This coming licensing deal— if one happens—could set the tone for others in the space, including popular services Spotify, Rhapsody unRadio, Pandora Internet Radio and many others.
With its new offering, SoundCloud might be trying to outmaneuver the labels, staking out new ground for itself in the age of on-demand content. But record labels have their share of leverage, too. When Twitter was reportedly interested in acquiring SoundCloud this May, the San Francisco-based company changed its mind after learning that the music platform had no licensing agreements with record labels back then, according to a person familiar with the matter.
SoundCloud wouldn't comment on its ongoing business dealings. "Creators on SoundCloud are only able to upload sounds to which they own all rights, or for which they hold all necessary permissions and licenses," Mr. Geohegan said. "This is made explicitly clear in our Terms of Use, our Community Guidelines and our Copyright Information pages."


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This was taken from another message board. I think it's good info and not alot of people drink enough of it.
Water is needed for every single metabolic process, including protein synthesis. So if your training intensity is high, one of the simplest things you can do for your body is to drink more water.
1. You Aren't Getting Enough
Soda and coffees don't count. In fact, though they are liquid beverages, the caffeine in both can increase fluid loss through diuresis. When this happens, the body begins storing water (see #4). Conventional wisdom tells you 6-8 glasses of water is enough per day. Since you're training for an unconventional physique, you need more. Aim for at least a half gallon to a gallon per day, depending your level of conditioning.
2. Water Clears Out Toxins
Water flushes out toxins and other metabolic waste products from the body. Water is especially important when following a "high protein" diet, as it helps remove excess nitrogen, urea (a toxic substance), and ketones. If you're eating big to gain weight, then you need even more water to help your kidneys do their work.
3. Water Helps Metabolize Fat
Without enough water, the kidneys can't function properly. When this happens, some of the load is transferred to the liver. The liver metabolizes stored fat for energy. If the liver is doing some of the kidneys' work, it burns less fat. In addition, water can actually reduce feelings of hunger.
4. Water Reduces Fluid Retention
Contrary to popular belief, drinking water can actually help you shed excess water weight. When water is in short supply, the body, thinking there's a shortage, begins hoarding it. This water is stored in extra cellular spaces. In other words, your skin starts looking soft and puffy.
5. Water Keeps You Regular
Too little water, and your body steals it from organs such as the colon. When this happens, you experience constipation. Plus, water allows you to digest your meals efficiently. This is especially true when you're consuming over 4,000 calories a day.
6. Water Helps Individuals Who Get Too Much Salt
If water retention is a chronic problem, it may be because there's too much salt in the diet. The higher the sodium intake, the more the body tries to retain water (to dilute its concentration). Either reduce salt intake or drink more water.
7. Water Helps Your Supplements Work Better
Supplements like creatine work in part because it pulls water in muscle cells, thereby creating an anabolic environment needed for growth. For this to work properly, you need plenty of water. Plus, if you're training hard, then you need a basic mega-vitamin. Many vitamins are water soluble, and water unlocks the power of those vitamins
Very good and sound advice, I think.
On the whole how much water is enough and what counts here is a very interesting read that I posted before in another thread:
Nice, long read....Mine's just a quick point form.
i drank 1.5 gals today (training days)
1 gal on none training days
The short of it is that there just has never been any real scientific evidence to support such coupious intakes of H20. The evidence does say that pretty much every fluid containing thing we take in "counts" including coffee, and the water in food. The osmoregulatory system in healthy persons is VERY efficient. Most of this "fluid retention" and sodium stuff comes from the practice of bodybuilders trying to shed water and "dry out" to appear more shredded. The average guy who bodybuilds and drinks coffee or whatever is not going to be all bloated with water retention. That's an individual problem. I used to drink 5 or 6 cups a day and never "retained" water.
I agree that we need plenty of water. I think, however, that forcing ridiculous amounts of it in the face of NO evidence and in fact, plenty of counter evidence, is just a sort of accepted dogma.
Of course with creatine you need a lot of water.
Here is an article that discusses the review I've just posted:
By: Mauro Di Pasquale
Almost everyone agrees that water is good for you and that the biggest problem with water intake is that you don't drink enough. We have all had it drummed into us that we need to drink at least eight glasses of water a day. That it's important to drink water before and during exercise.
That coffee and tea don't count because caffeine can dehydrate our bodies. And that you can't trust your thirst as an accurate measure of when you need water since if you're thirsty you're already dehydrated. Well think again. According to a recent review in the Journal of Physiology, most of these accepted truths seem to be myths.
This review looked at the scientific evidence of the 8*8 mantra � drinking at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day, and found that there really was none.
The claimed benefits of taking in that much water each day, including benefits for weight loss, bowels, fatigue, arthritis, mental alertness and headaches, losing weight, preventing constipation, are also mostly unsubstantiated.
Other Water Myths That Are Debunked In This Article Include:
By the time a person is thirsty that person is already dehydrated. This in fact isn't true and the best measure of how much water to drink is your thirst.
Dark urine means dehydration. Again that's not strictly true either as there are many other factors that can contribute to dark urine.
Caffeinated beverages dehydrate us. As you'd expect much of this is also unsubstantiated. In fact, contrary to popular opinion, a recent study has found that coffee, tea and sodas are hydrating for people used to caffeine and thus should count toward their daily fluid total.
While this review focuses on the validity of the various water myths, no one seriously disputes that getting enough water is crucial. However, fears of dehydration and the constant barrage telling us we don't drink enough water, has led to a mistaken belief that the safe thing to do is to drink as much and as often as possible. But drinking too much water can be hazardous to your health.
Too Much Water?
The reason why over hydrating can be dangerous is that when we consume large amounts of water when exercising, blood plasma (the liquid part of blood) increases, while the sodium concentration in the body fluids decreases, both as a result of the dilution by the water but also because sodium is lost by sweating.
Hyponatremia, or low blood sodium, generally happens after drinking too much plain water and can lead to adverse effects and tissue damage, and interfere with brain, heart, and muscle function.
Early symptoms can be difficult to spot and include:
Muscle cramps
More severe symptoms can include vomiting, muscle twitching, delirium, seizures, coma and death.
A new review of three deaths of US military recruits highlights the dangers of drinking too much water. Like in sports, the military has traditionally focused on dangers of not drinking enough, especially under conditions often associated with exercise and hot conditions. However, getting overzealous over the need to drink large amounts of water and over-hydrating can have deadly consequences.
So How Much Water Should You Drink.
My recommendation is to drink when you're thirsty, and if you think you should be drinking more, don't overdo it. As far as drinking water in and around exercise, I've outlined a few simple guidelines that will make sure you're well hydrated without hitting any extremes.
Within an hour or so of training, drink a few glasses of water so you start well hydrated. While training you can drink a glass or so of water for every 15 minutes you train, especially if you're sweating it out.
However, even during times of heavy sweating don't take in more than a quart and half of water per hour. As far as how much your daily intake of water should be, The American College of Sports Medicine that 12 quarts is the maximum amount to drink in a 24-hour period.
One other thing on the fluid retention thing. Extracellular water balance is regulated through sodiuim levels. The body does not "hoard water" in times of shortages. If a person retains a lot of water which will usually cause localized swelling there are a host of medical condtions to look at. Dehydration not being one of them. If the healthy normal body hoarded water outside cells just because we didn't drink copious amounts we would be in trouble. It would upset metabolic processes. The reason people shed water when they drink incredible amounts of water is because they lose sodium. Which can be very dangerous. It is not "healthy". If you are not going to step on stage and have not already fucked up your body to the point where you are retaining excess fluid (a medical problem) then it is not good advice to "drink a lot of water to shed water", imo.
Since I know people won't take my word about this myth of "hoarding water" as such I thought I'd post this little thing on the function of the kidneys. I bolded the relevant parts.
The body has two kidneys, each about 4-5 inches in length and reddish in color. The kidneys are located just above the waist, behind the abdominal cavity. Each kidney contains the hilus, through which the ureters are connected. Blood vessels and lymphatic vessels also are connected at the hilus, with the blood entering through the renal artery.
Three layers of tissue surround each kidney. The renal fascia, made of a dense connective tissue, anchors the kidneys to surrounding structures.
The principle task of the kidney is to preserve the volume and composition of the extracellular fluid constant. This it must do despite a varying outside environment, and varying input. A part of this task–but only a part–is to remove from the body some of the waste by-products of metabolism which the cells cannot break down further. Thus the principal function of the kidney is not excretion, but regulation. We can move and live on dry land, even though we are three-quarters water, and survive; our cells tucked away in a carefully preserved ocean of extracellular fluid, whose composition is guarded with exquisite accuracy by the kidneys, a major part of our life-support system in this hostile environment. We can roam into deserts, and (usually) survive, or drink a six-pack of beer, or starve, or gorge, but essentially the extracellular soup remains of a constant composition, and because of this, the composition of the cells themselves is constant.
The kidney is less in control of the intracellular water, since if the kidneys do their job adequately, each cells is largely autonomous, and will extract and eject what it needs or does not need from the extracellular fluid. The kidney conserves what we need, but even more, it permits us the freedom of excess. That is, it allows us to take in more than we need of many necessities—water and salt for example—and excretes exactly what is not required. This is essential, since neither our ancestors nor we, animal or human know the composition of the foods we eat, and the only way to ensure a sufficiency of everything is to eat an excess of at least some. Finally, the kidneys preserve the volume of our body fluids as well as their composition. Given that we're almost ¾ water, quite simply weighing oneself each day can assess the precision with which the kidney achieves this.
Despite variations in diet, exercise or fluid intake, the figures remain constant. The kidney performs its tasks, with a precision of as good as 1% and never worse than 5%, under extremely varying circumstances. If the kidneys fail suddenly, death occurs after a few days, partly because some of the accumulated metabolic waste products are toxic to the heart, which stops. More interesting, is the way in which the kidney can adapt to slow destruction by dysfunction, so that one can survive on as little as 5% of overall kidney function. The kidney has greater reserve capacity in the face of disorder than (for example) the heart or the lungs.
Why can't we switch off urine production all together in times of drought? This is impossible because of two constraints. The first is that there is an upper limit to the degree of concentration of urine that we can achieve. This is a function of the length of the loops in the kidney tubules. The other constraint, given that there is a limit to our concentrating capacity, is that there is a minimum amount of soluble waste, which we must excrete through our kidneys each day. This is mostly nitrogen-containing compounds, principally urea; and on a normal diet we produce an amount which will not dissolve in less than about one pint of the most concentrated urine we can produce. Therefore, even on a raft in the ocean, or in the dessert, we go on passing this volume of urine. If you are dehydrated, your urine is already four times as concentrated as your blood.
When drinking lots of water causes sodiuim levels to drop, then wouldn't it be safe to say that for every 2 litres + - (just picked a number) we should drink something to replenish our electolyes like gatorade or something ? Then wouldn't that make drinking a lot of water safer ?
As a matter of fact that is just the kind of thing that is recommended. But in order for this to be necessary you really have to be consuming way too much water. In other words, it doesn't make any sense to me to replenish electrolytes in order to compensate for over-hydration. That is just assuming there is some need for all that EXTRA water, and again, past the point of saying if your active you need more.
This is assuming you are not sweating your ass off in the hot sun for long periods of time. But even then the body regualtes electrolyte levels up to a point very well. It is another myth that all of your sweat contains sodium and such. It doesn't.
I posted something else on that before but I don't remember exactly. It is interesting to note that these military deaths involved simple over-hydration and loss of sodium because of that. Perhaps gatorade would have helped but the fact of the matter is they were pushed to consume more water than was necessary.
water is good to you in the trainning,and good to you for the metabolismo 3 or 4 liters at the day:biggthumpup:
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Golf pro Terry Gosden was among a group of PGA professionals who received special recognition at Headley Court for their part in coaching injured soldiers and helping rebuild their lives in the process.
Mr Gosden, who this year chalks up his 30th year as head PGA professional at Wiltshire's Tidworth Garrison Golf Club, volunteered his time as part of the PGA Golf Buddy programme, which pairs up pros with soldiers many of whom have suffered life-changing and serious injuries while serving in Afghanistan.
The Golf Buddy initiative, which sprang out of the Battle Back project, has placed around 20 soldiers with PGA pros across the country with the aim of introducing them to golf as part of their rehabilitation.
It was in recognition of their contribution that the pros were invited to attend the Surrey base where they were given a tour of the defence medical rehabilitation centre and were also presented with plaques by Lt Col Tristan Crew, who is clinical development officer for the base.
Mr Gosden, who in addition to the Golf Buddy programme has worked with soldiers at Tedworth House at Tidworth, said: "I had a big group and a lot of them had mental as well as physical injuries with problems like lack of concentration and attention issues.
"I have been quite heavily involved in disabled coaching through the Wiltshire County Golf Partnership and this has been very rewarding, both because it is giving something back to soldiers who have given so much and also as a coach because it is completely different and you have to think outside of the box."
Lt Col Crew said: "What the PGA pros are doing in the Golf Buddy programme is very special, it makes a massive difference to these soldiers.
"Sport is ideal for our guys, many of them who have been used to competing on the rugby and football field and the unique handicapping system of golf enables them to compete against their peers.
"More importantly they get a lot of self-esteem and confidence from playing golf.
"The support of the golf community has been vast with 230 golf clubs giving us free green fees while PING and Callaway have generously supported us with equipment."
The PGA pros utilize their coaching skills to help soldiers overcome a range of physical disabilities with a new target for many of them of qualifying for the Captain Pietsch Trophy which sees injured British war veterans take on their American counterparts in what Lt Col Crew described as 'their Ryder Cup'.
PGA captain Eddie Bullock, who attended the presentation, paid tribute to both the soldiers and work of the PGA members.
He added: "It has been very humbling to listen to some of the experiences of the soldiers at Headley Court.
"I was fortunate to represent the PGA during a trip to Afghanistan last year and the one thing I remember is being able to put a smile on faces because of the game of golf.
"I would like to thank all the PGA members involved in this programme. They have all done it quietly without any fuss and I'm sure their efforts are appreciated."


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Outdoor Grants To Texas Groups Focus on Education and Service
Austin – Thousands of Texas children will explore and learn more about the states' cultural and natural resources thanks to more than $622,000 in Community Outdoor Outreach Program (CO-OP) grants from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
"New research suggests that 95 percent of the science learned by most students is learned outside of the traditional classroom." said Darlene Lewis, CO-OP director. "It suggests that outdoor classrooms, parks, museums and other informal settings such as those targeted by our grantees are where kids learn best. Nature camps, state parks, woodlands and birding centers are just some of the areas targeted for these programs."
The following grants have been awarded:
(Austin) Shield Ranch Foundation – 100 youth will learn about conservation by making seed balls, building bird houses and doing trail work at the El Ranchito camp. Other activities include camping, outdoor cooking and hiking. ($47,904)
(Austin) Life Support Counseling and Research – Foster children and their families will get to experience wildlife and nature education such as fishing, shooting sports, camping and rock climbing. ($47,703)
(Brenham) Brenham ISD – Students in grades 3-5 will participate in hands-on field investigations of ecosystems, explore how pioneers used our natural resources and identify wildflowers and wildlife as part of this outdoor classroom program. ($11,121)
(Corpus Christi) Youth Odyssey – 275 participants will explore Texas state parks kayaking, fishing and camping. ($25,677)
(Galveston) The Artist Boat – Students and volunteers will restore six acres of coastal dune habitat at Galveston Island State park that was destroyed by Hurricane Ike. ($49,975)
(Georgetown) Williamson County Juvenile Services – This adventure-based counseling program will allow 300 at risk kids and their families the opportunity to kayak, fish, rock-climb, and backpack and more in state and local parks and along Texas rivers. As part of their service project, they will build and install benches at Mother Neff State Park. ($14,500)
(Houston) The Woods Project, Inc. – These year round service projects will allow students to learn more about the state's natural resources and leadership development. Eight outdoor service projects have been identified including trail maintenance at Huntsville State Park. ($41,540)
(Laredo) Big River Foundation – 249 Students in Laredo will develop science skills and experience kayaking, fishing, outdoor cooking and more. ($34,717)
(McKinney) The Heard Museum — 348 participants will experience native ecosystems through scientific investigations and native plant restoration projects. They will also learn how to paddle a canoe, camp and cook outdoors. ($49,992)
(Nacogdoches) Stephen F. Austin State University – This after-school, summer and family program includes a series of service projects for participants, information on career and educational opportunities beyond high school and outdoor activities such as archery, fishing and camping. ($42,042)
(New Braunfels) Ravenstar Inc. – 1250 kids will participate in this environmental education and service learning initiative which will allow them to go canoeing, orienteering and remove invasive plant species around local parks in New Braunfels. ($49,170)
(Pharr) Boys & Girls Club of Pharr – 250 participants will visit the nine sites of the World Birding Center as part of a nine-week outdoor curriculum on birds in Texas. ($44,500)
(Port Arthur) Port Arthur Historical Society – Summer camp for students in 2nd through 5th grade in the Port Arthur school district. They will study plant life, wildlife, weather, environmental issues and pollution as well as conservation and outdoor recreation. ($5,440)
(San Antonio) Epilepsy Foundation – Children with epilepsy will experience summer camp where they will learn about camping and conservation and weekend family trips are planned to state parks. ($19,903)
(San Antonio) SA Youth – More than 500 inner-city kids will get away to experience nature through outdoor experiential learning activities such as birding, environmental education, nature photography, hiking, canoeing and fishing. ($46,753)
(Seguin) Seguin Outdoor Learning Center – Students from Seguin and Navarro ISDs will participate in the following: hunter education, boater education and Jr. Angler programs. ($14,430)
(South Padre Island) Fishing's Future – 45 statewide Kids Fish Camps will expose more than 2,000 participants to fishing, kayaking, camping, conservation programs as well as environmental stewardship. ($48,424)
(Stephenville) Stephenville ISD – This Outdoor Adventure Program allows students to experience the outdoors while learning about the environment and stewardship. These students will also continue to work on developing woodlands around the school into an Outdoor Nature Trail and Learning Center. ($29,315)
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Litter in Our Storm Drain System
(Conservation Currents, Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District)
What's Up With All This Trash?
Last year, The Great American Cleanup, sponsored by Keep America Beautiful, Inc., reported that 2.3 million volunteers picked up 148 million pounds of litter and debris in 14,000 communities across the U.S. That's an incredible accomplishment for a spring cleanup. But it also says a lot about the extraordinary amount of trash that is polluting our environment.
One might think that Fairfax County residents, more educated and wealthier than most Americans, would be above littering. The folks in the county's Maintenance and Stormwater Management Division, however, would tell you otherwise.
Phil Miley inspects privately owned stormwater management ponds primarily on commercial property. He travels throughout the county with a camera in hand, capturing images of negligence and intentional disregard for the health and aesthetics of our environment. "The amount of trash we find is incredible," says Miley. "We're fighting a losing battle."
Larry Tapper is a senior maintenance supervisor responsible for the maintenance of about 1,000 publicly maintained ponds. He echoes Miley's comments. Tapper says the county has a lot of open areas that contractors and developers use as dumping grounds. He says residents do similar damage by dumping grass clippings and other yard debris into a drainage channel or directly into the storm drain. "The public needs to have a better understanding of proper disposal practices," says Tapper.
Billy Glines oversees crews who have to maintain and repair stormwater structures. Residents are quick to call the county when their backyards flood. Often, the storm drains are plugged, which means the crews have to take the lids off and climb in with buckets. "We find syringes, broken beer bottles, and oil containers," says Glines. "People have to learn that these storm structures are not trash cans."
In Reston, he recently found a strapped up bundle of newspapers that were never delivered. "We even find Christmas trees in the catch basins."
Learn more about proper trash disposal and stormwater management pond maintenance.
Pictured above is an underground detention system filled to the top with trash.
This publicly maintained dry pond is filled with trash. Any substance that makes it through the pipe outlet ends up in a stream.
This water quality plate was torn off by a member of a homeowner association. When the plate is installed, it is the primary device responsible for the detention of trash and other pollutants picked up by stormwater before flowing further downstream. The plate reduces the size of the opening of the pipe outlet, thereby slowing the release of water to let the pollutants settle out. The trash rack covering the plate keeps trash from going downstream.


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Topic: Latest update on my dad...very sad:/
So what began as what we thought was shingles in December to possible pinched nerve in early january then became bile duct cancer in mid January....than 10 rounds of radiation to try & shrink the tumor on the spine causing the initial pain, 2 rounds of chemo, a couple hospital stays to this last Friday when dad was ready to give up... Long story short we took him to his GI on Friday afternoon because he was feeling as if his whole body was done. We thought maybe his stents were getting infected as it had been 7 weeks since placement & he kept getting rigors,shakes, fevers than complete body sweats. The Dr wanted to admit him to do some ct scans as well as blood transfusions as he was very anemic. Dad insisted on going home first to "take care of business, financial etc" I think he knew...anyway once hooked up to IV with fluids, blood transfusions, antibiotics & pain meds he was feeling much better. Problem was the cancer has an agenda of its own & tests revealed that the mets in his lungs had grown & his blood counts were not healthy enough to continue chemo. We then learned that the chemo itself was "palliative" not curative. It was then that dad decided he didn't want anymore false hopes or sugar coating & asked the Dr for his prognosis. She said maybe 2 months give or take so he said he was done with all the chemo meds etc & tomorrow when he gets discharged from hospital he will start Hospice. My mom, sister, husband & older son were there to discuss the process with the hospice team but we are still so frightened & shocked with it all. It just still seems like we are living a nightmare waiting to wake up. I follow this forum addictively & I now relate so much to all the feelings, thought & fears. I just don't know what to say (((


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Impact of ADM in Reduction of Surgical Complexity of Breast Reconstructions With Implants (Nava)
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|Patients With Breast Cancer Requiring Mastectomy and Suitable for Reconstruction
|Device: Strattice™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Impact of Acellular Dermal Matrix in Reduction of Surgical Complexity of Breast Reconstructions With Implants
- Number of surgeries where a differentiation will be made between major and minor depending upon the requirement to enter the breast pocket under general anesthesia. [ Time Frame: At month 36 post-implant placement ]Total numbers of major and of minor surgeries for each patient during the full trial period and including any surgeries that the PI determines are clinically still necessary at the end of the trial period. Major procedures are defined as those involving the patient to be treated in the OR: re-entering the implant pocket; soft-tissue flaps not performed under local anesthesia; general anesthesia; or procedures requiring inpatient admission. Other procedures, including for instance CT-guided percutaneous drainage or breast fat grafting (lipofilling), are defined as minor procedures.
- Post operative sensation at Postoperative [ Time Frame: At Post-op Days 14, 30 and at Months 6, 12, 24, and 36 post implant placement ]Patients' subjective experience of sensation in the reconstructed breast as estimated by the subjective scale. In the experimental arm, this datum will be assessed at the POD 14 visit after the single stage implant (SSI) + ADM procedure; in the control arm\ this datum will be assessed at the POD 14 visit after the first stage and again POD 14 after the second surgical stage (TE/Implant exchange). The questionnaire will also be completed at Months 6, 12, 24 and 36.
- Quality of life pre-operatively and at post operative [ Time Frame: At month 6,12,24, and 36 post-implant placement ]Patients' QoL, including emotional and satisfaction status, will be assessed before the reconstruction procedure and at POD 30 after single stage implant (SSI) + ADM in the experimental group via the Short Form (SF)-36 questionnaire; and at POD 30 after TE/Implant exchange in the control group.
- Safety endpoints: evaluated by the number and type of complications that may occur. [ Time Frame: At 6, 12, 24 and 36 months post-implant placement ]Safety will be assessed continuously for the study period.
- Rate of capsular contracture at post operative [ Time Frame: At month 6,12,24 and 36. ]The incidence of grade III and IV of Baker capsular contracture rates will be assessed after reconstruction.
- Surgeon's evaluation of aesthetic outcome via photographs pre operatively [ Time Frame: At month 6,12,24,and 36 post-implant placement ]Photographs, taken at follow up visits, will be assessed for aesthetic outcome after reconstruction. Conventional Anthropometric distance measurements will be assessed, including nipple-sternal notch, nipple-nipple and nipple-infra-mammary fold after reconstruction.
- Costs related to in-hospital stay and devices. [ Time Frame: At 6, 12, 24 and 36 months post-implant placement ]Overall cost of In-hospital stay (crude and including revision procedures) and device costs will be assessed.
- Duration of post operative drainage. [ Time Frame: At Post-op Day 30 ]Duration of drain time from placement to removal and total drainage per day will be assessed after all surgical procedures where drains are used.
- Total operating time [ Time Frame: At Day of Surgery and Day of Expander/Implant exchange ]Operating time in minutes (in the control arm, operating time of the first and the second surgical stages will be recorded separately).
- Acute inflammatory response [ Time Frame: At Day of Discharge, Post-op Days 14 and 30 ]Concatenated score as well as scores from each of the subscales will be examined.
|Actual Study Start Date:
|March 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Single stage reconstructions
as defined for use in the Experimental arm
Device: Strattice™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix
Experimental arm: Device: Strattice Reconstructive Tissue Matrix Unilateral or bilateral mastectomy. Immediate breast reconstruction with sub-pectoralis muscle placement of a breast implant with ADM, single stage reconstruction technique. Control arm: Device: no device. Immediate breast tissue expander/implant based reconstruction with a two-stage reconstruction technique.
Two stage breast reconstructions
CONTROL: standard two stage breast reconstructions without Acellular dermal matrices (ADM), in patients who are clinically suitable candidates for reconstruction with Acellular dermal matrices(ADM)based single stage reconstruction technique. Reconstructions with Strattice™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix
Device: Strattice™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix
Experimental arm: Device: Strattice Reconstructive Tissue Matrix Unilateral or bilateral mastectomy. Immediate breast reconstruction with sub-pectoralis muscle placement of a breast implant with ADM, single stage reconstruction technique. Control arm: Device: no device. Immediate breast tissue expander/implant based reconstruction with a two-stage reconstruction technique.
Detailed Description:
This study is designed to compare the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing mastectomy followed by a direct to implant breast reconstruction with Strattice™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix to patients undergoing a standard two-stage reconstruction without Strattice™ or any other mesh or tissue flap.
Potential candidates for the study will be identified through routine practice. Women who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be invited to participate in the study. A screening visit will take place maximally 30 days prior to surgery.
Randomization will occur maximally 7 days prior to the mastectomy procedure. As some women may have to undergo bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction, the randomization scheme will ensure that both breasts will be reconstructed with the same surgical approach.
The Day of Surgery consists of both a mastectomy and a breast reconstruction. The surgical site and the breasts will be evaluated on the day of hospital discharge and at postoperative days 14 and 30 for all patients after each hospital admission. During these visits, the breasts will be examined and an Acute Inflammatory Assessment (AIR) will be completed. In addition the breast flaps and incisions will be evaluated for signs of infection, seroma, hematoma or skin necrosis.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
A study patient may be included if she:
- Has planned to undergo a unilateral or bilateral mastectomy and have small to medium size breasts (predicted breast implant size maximally 500 gms), with none or moderate (Grade 1 or 2) ptosis, and healthy, sufficiently thick, well-vascularized skin flaps anticipated by the surgeon.
- Is a clinically suitable candidate for immediate reconstruction with ADM based single stage reconstruction technique (as defined for use in the Experimental arm).
- Is female, ≥18 years of age.
- Is willing to undergo immediate breast reconstruction with sub-pectoralis muscle placement of a breast implant by either the Experimental (ADM based single stage) or the Control (TE/Implant based two stage) techniques.
- Is in good health other than breast pathology and is suited to general anesthesia and planned treatments.
- Understands and is willing to follow all aspects of the study protocol including randomization and has signed and dated the approved Informed Consent Form prior to any study-related procedures being performed.
Exclusion Criteria:
A study patient is excluded from participation to the study if she:
- Has undergone breast radiation treatment and/or be preoperatively evaluated to require radiation treatment to the breast area during the course of the study.
- Has collagen-vascular, connective tissue, or uncorrectable bleeding disorders as determined clinically by the PI.
- Has a BMI that is ≥ 35.
- Has any disease, including uncontrolled diabetes, which is clinically known to impact wound healing ability.
- Has an autoimmune disease, an immune deficiency, or is on immune suppression drugs other than any other current treatment for breast cancer.
- Currently has an alcohol/substance abuse problem or have had a relapse within 1 year prior to screening visit.
- Is pregnant, or lactating.
- Has concomitant unrelated condition of breast/chest wall/skin that, as determined by the PI, could affect the surgical outcome (e.g. significant chest wall abnormalities including pectus excavatum or pectus carinatum).
- Has an abscess or infection at the time of surgery.
- Has undergone previous breast surgery with the exception of breast biopsy, cyst removal, and lumpectomy.
- Has had a prior soft tissue support device implanted in the breast or is participating in another clinical trial with a breast related device (e.g. drains, expanders, implants).
- Has a known pork allergy or is sensitive to polysorbate.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01853436
|Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori
|Milan, Italy
|Principal Investigator:
|Andrea Spano, MD
|Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01853436 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 7, 2013
|Last Updated:
|May 23, 2017
Keywords provided by LifeCell:
Breast Cancer
Reconstructive Tissue Matrix
Acellular Dermal Matrices (ADM)
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Charged in assault: Branden Lee Carey, 28, of 101 Main St., Bentleyville, was arrested early Thursday by state police on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment for allegedly putting a 9mm handgun to the head of Ronald Richard Wright during an incident at Carey's home. Wright, of Coal Center, went to Carey's home to play video games, state police said. Carey became enraged when he thought someone stole $100 and told Wright to strip down, police said. When Wright refused, Carey allegedly held a gun to his head. Carey was arraigned before District Judge Curtis Thompson and placed in Washington County jail on $25,000 bond.
Hit and run: Shirley Koonse told Canonsburg police her truck was hit Thursday by another vehicle outside of her daughter's house on Franklin Avenue.
School fight: A juvenile allegation will be filed by Chartiers police following a fight Wednesday at the Washington Area Career and Technology Center. According to the police report, a 16-year-old student injured a 17-year-old student during a fight, giving the victim a black eye and sending him to Washington Hospital to receive a concussion check.
Mischief charge: Robert S. Michelucci, 38, of 754 Phillis Road, Bulger, was charged last week by McDonald police with criminal mischief for allegedly taking a cellphone owned by Elizabeth Zupcic and throwing it against the wall of her apartment Aug. 24. The phone was valued at $650. The charge will be sent by summons from the office of District Judge Valarie Costanzo.
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I am stuck with lilo failing with the read-only system error and so far nothing that I have found on the web has helped.
quick background:
- using a machine which had Ubuntu Intrepid installed on the HDD
- booted off of a BT3 live CD
- used QTparted to delete the ubuntu partions
- went successfully through every step of the tut until lilo
right now when I try to boot off of the HDD, GRUB loader throws an error (15) and that's it.
Lilo comes back with:
Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system
can somebody help me with this please?
PS: I don't intend to use the laptop for anything else so BT3 should use the whole HDD. no need for any other partions etc.
thx for the reply.
I figured it out a few minutes ago. Basically everything was spelled right, but I screwed up with QTparted. so once I wiped out everything properly this time and followed the tut, it worked like a charm
thx anyway
Ok first pureh@te thank you for the help. but i have run to a problem i can boot kinda when i hit enter it ask me to hit space and pick screen size or wait 30 sec no matter what i pick i get stuck in the log on screen ii login and i try xconf then starx but it gets me no where let me know if you can help or if this is not clear enough thank you


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Photo Flash: Inside Opening Night of THE JAMMER
Atlantic Theater Company has just announced that the New York premiere of Rolin Jones' comedy The Jammer, directed by Jackson Gay, has now been extended through Sunday, February 17 in advance of its opening last night, Tuesday, January 22. Check out photos from the festivities below!
THE JAMMER features the celebrated ensemble cast of Patch Darragh (The Glass Menagerie) , Dan Domingues (Atlantic's The Cherry Orchard), Christopher Jackson (In the Heights), Billy EuGene Jones (Passing Strange), Keira Naughton (The Rivals), Kate Rigg (Dogeaters), Jeanine Serralles (The Maids), Greg Stuhr (Atlantic's Offices) and Todd Weeks (Atlantic's Bluebird).
THE JAMMER began previews January 9 and will now play through Sunday, February 17, 2013 off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 16th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenue).
In this wild theatrical adventure about New York in the late 1950's, The Jammer plunges into the hard-boiled, bizarre world of professional roller derby. Jack Lovington (Darragh), a lovelorn Brooklynite, needs to find himself and stake a claim in the world. When he joins up with the rough and tumble Brooklyn Brown Devils, little does Jack know that his life is about to be turned completely upside down and that he's about to find himself on a most unexpected roller coaster ride. Jones takes us back to the Bushwick of yesteryear and creates a romantic urban fable for our time.
TICKETS: All tickets are $45.00 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (www.ticketcentral.com) or at the Atlantic Stage 2 box office (330 West 16th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).
Keira Naughton, Christopher Jackson
Dan Domingues, Billy EuGene Jones
Rolin Jones, director Jackson Gay
(Atlantic Artistic Director) Neil Pepe, Patch Darragh, (Atlantic School Executive Director) Mary McCann
Jackson Gay, Lucy Thurber
Rolin Jones, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, (Atlantic Associate Artistic Director) Christian Parker, Jackson Gay, Lucy Thurber
Elizabeth Reaser, Rolin Jones, Justin Kirk, Keira Naughton
Karen Kohlhaas, Svetlana Cemin, Peter Maloney, Kristin Griffith, Mary McCann


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U.S. corn futures are expected to open lower Friday as worries about the global economy continues to batter commodities generally.
Chicago Board of Trade futures are expected to open 4 to 6 cents lower. In overnight trade, corn for December delivery was down 7 1/4 cents to $6.42 3/4.
Early gains in the overnight session, following Thursday's 5% plunge, evaporated late as European markets again swooned, analysts said. Worries about the global economy is sending traders fleeing from riskier assets and could also hurt demand for corn and other commodities. Sharply lower U.S. equities have added to the negative tone.
Corn has seasonal pressure as well, as the ongoing harvest pushes more supply into the pipeline, said Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities in Des Moines, Iowa.
The December contract is down 15.4% since Aug. 30, and losses have been exacerbated as the market fell below technical support levels, which have prompted more liquidation, traders said. Front-month corn prices have not been this low in almost three months.
Longer-term, some analysts say corn's supply and demand fundamentals remain supportive. The government projects supplies will remain uncomfortably tight through next year, and this year's crop is expected to be a disappointment.
Traders say the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been counting on high prices to choke off, or "ration" demand, but with the recent sharp break in prices, some buyers are seeing an opportunity.
"We've got end-users covering stuff 6 to 8 months out," Roose said. "So there goes your rationing theory."
Still, MF Global broker Doug Bergman said that while signs of new demand are somewhat supportive, "more liquidation may need to take place before we stabilize."
Traders will be awaiting a Friday mid-morning report from a private analytical firm on planted acreage projections. The report is expected to be released around 11:30 a.m. CDT.