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Microsoft celebrates a decade of Xbox LIVE with a competition to win a customized Xbox 360, shown below, among other goodies. These include Microsoft Points, free months of Hulu Plus, free months of Xbox Music, and lots more. Simply downloading a gamer picture enters one into the sweepstake, no purchase necessary. Also, Xbox LIVE Rewards members get entered twice into the draw. Finally, gamers can download Wreckateer for free, but the deadline is today, so don't delay! Competition closes November 22. Full details are available at the link below.
Get even more from the Anniversary and save big with these hit Xbox LIVE Arcade games, available for 50% off until November 22. What's more, you can get the Kinect Arcade hit Wreckateer FREE on November 15-16, 2012.
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Saturday, September 23, 2017
Women's Health
Yeast Infection
I have had yeast infections in the past years and it always settles with medication. It is never smelly only thick and itchy but this time I find somethings like warts at the entrance to the vagina. I have had the same partner for 23 years. I am 43. I have 3 children. Is this normal for yeast infections?
Bumps or raised lesions that appear at the entrance to the vagina could be from an infection, but not from a yeast infection. Genital warts are a common infection caused by certain strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is transmitted sexually by any skin contact with a partner who is infected. These lesions are usually painless and vary from small and localized to large and widespread. Painful bumps may be a sign of herpes, another sexually transmitted disease.
Bumps can also be from inflammatory issues that are not related to sex. Hair follicles or sweat glands can get blocked and inflamed, causing painful bumps that usually regress on their own but may require antibiotics. Small pores can also get blocked and form small cysts under the skin that are usually painless but that may persist for years.
Any new skin lesion should be checked by a health care provider to see what is the cause and whether treatment is needed.
Jonathan A Schaffir, MD
Clnical Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University

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To receive a diploma, visit Graduation Information and complete the steps outlined under Apply for Your Degree. If you have financial obligations to any UH campus, you may not receive your diploma until all such obligations have been cleared. Visit Holds for more information.
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California Citrus Mutual has a new video on agriculture's contributions to air quality, created with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
The video, posted on YouTube, is "Growing for Clean Air." Industry spokesmen on camera include Dave Tomlinson, general manager of Griffith Farms; Etienne Rabe, vice president of horticulture at Paramount Citrus; and James Sherwood, vice president at Bee Sweet Citrus Inc., among others.
"What started out as a three-minute video tool has turned into a nine-minute promotion piece for the air district and our industry," Joel Nelsen, president of Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual, said in a news release. "That partnership doesn't always exist between government and industry, but with the air district it has happened."
The state's 285,000-acre citrus industry generates $2 billion annually, about 75% of it in the Central Valley. Since 1980 agriculture and other valley industries have cut emissions by 80%, according to the trade association.
"If you look at our history with the farmers, effectively we have been able to work with them to the point that they are the cleanest agriculture segment in the nation and in the world," Seyed Sadredin, air district executive director, said in the release.


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Look here for answers to your most pressing questions on curling pants and grippers...
I love the sport of curling. When I am not writing my blog or curling, I sometimes moonlight as a sales clerk at one of Goldline's retail stores. On these occasions, I have the opportunity to speak with many of our customers. I've decided to periodically share with you, through this column, some of the more frequent questions I receive from the curlers out there, and my answers to them.
Question: Dr. Goldline, can I wear jeans when I curl?
Honestly speaking, jeans would not be my pant of choice for curling. There are 3 things that come to mind when I think about wearing jeans during a curling game.
Stretch: Imagine yourself crouching down and preparing to deliver your rock. Do your jeans have enough stretch in them to ensure that blood circulation to your lower extremities is not cut off when you get down into the hack? Some of you may answer yes but I'm guessing most of you will say no. During the course of the game, you are leaning over and pressing down on the broom as you sweep. The button fastener of your jeans may accentuate your trim waistline but it may also leave you panting that much harder after a quick sweeping session down the ice. Stretch is the first thing you need to think about when you select pants to wear out onto the ice.
Warmth: The second key thing to remember about jeans is that your designer duds may look really cool, but they are also going to keep you real cool. Denim is not known for its thermal qualities; in fact, over the course of a typical 2-hour game, the fabric is going to cool down and the limbs lying beneath the fabric are likewise going to cool down. Not everybody gets cold out on the ice but if you are one of those people that bundles up when the temperature drops below 25ºC, you may find it more comfortable to be in pants that provide warmth (or at least enough room so that you can fit a pair of long underwear underneath).
Slide: When you first start to curl, the first and foremost thing you need to achieve is balance. Most people sliding out on ice for the first time ever with a piece of Teflon under their foot do not automatically have the greatest sense of stability and often their first instinct when they begin their slide is to drop their knee down onto the ice. Well, when you put a knee covered with denim down onto the ice surface, it is likely you will come to a screeching halt and will lose any forward momentum you had in your delivery.
To be comfortable and warm, wear pants that have sufficient stretch that you can easily crouch down into the hack, and keep you as warm as you need to be to make it through to the end of a game.
Goldline has a large selection of curling pants for both men and women. Women's styles include the Kalynn, Allure, GLX and Monaco, while the men can choose from the Kanata, GQ, GLX and the all new Mojo.
Question: Dr. Goldine, how do I know when it is time to replace my gripper?
The gripper: it is such a key piece of your curling equipment (typically you have a removable gripper protecting the shoe on which the Teflon is secured, and a permanent gripper on the other shoe).
With respect to the removable gripper, I suggest that you replace it at least once per season at the start of the season.
But many people say to me, "Dr. Goldline, my gripper looks just fine. I don't see why I should replace it."
Here are my tips for assessing the condition of your gripper (or, as some may call it, an anti-slider):
- Do you feel secure when you are out on the ice and as you are sweeping a rock down a sheet of ice? If you get the sense that your foot is slipping or sliding more than is normal as you move down the ice, then take a good look at your gripper before you end up taking a spill out on the ice.
- Look at the outside of the gripper. The most obvious areas of wear and tear are on the outer edges of the gripper where the sides meet the sole. If the surface is quite smooth, it is likely you are not getting the grip you want. Also, look at the upper edges of the gripper. Are there any gaps or notches in it? If you grip the upper edge of the gripper with two fingers and gently pull, does the rubber surface move in and out like an accordion? If yes, your gripper has seen better days
- Run your fingers over the surface of the gripper. Again, you may feel there are areas which are very smooth to the touch, indicating spots where the rubber surface has worn away, thereby lessening the effectiveness of the gripper.
- While the outside of the gripper is subject to the greatest level of scrutiny, it is frequently the inside of the gripper that is a real problem spot! Your shoe will gently rub away at the inside of the gripper, causing small particles of rubber to release from the surface. As you remove the gripper, these minute particles often stick to the bottom of your shoe and get dispersed out onto the ice surface. In fact, rubber debris from the inside of the gripper can be a common cause of picks during the course of a game! Make the ice technician at your club happy: replace your gripper regularly and help keep your ice surface clean.
Some people also notice that the permanent gripper on their shoe shows signs of wear and tear (in my experience, this is often caused by curlers using their feet to move rocks around in the house). There may be no need to buy a new pair of shoes if this is the case: having a new permanent gripper applied on the shoe may extend the life of your current curling shoes for many years.
Goldline has grippers available in a wide variety of sizes, in both basic black and bubblegum pink. We also provide many services, including toe coats as well as slider and gripper applications.


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How much does Honey Boo Boo make an episode?Posted: Updated:
We know a dollar can make Alana Thompson - a.k.a., Honey Boo Boo Child - holler, but her family's reportedly earning much more than that thanks to her new reality show.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the family is rumored to make between $2,000 and $4,000 per episode of the hit TLC show, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo."
The family, which includes mom June, dad Mike (Sugar Bear) and sisters Lauryn, Jessica and Anna (who's now mom to newborn Kaitlyn), could potentially bring in around $40,000 over the course of the 10-episode season.
The reality program follows the family's everyday events and has taken off in ratings, even surpassing coverage of the Republican National Convention last week.
In a CBS Atlanta interview, June shared how she felt about people who doubt her parenting skills. Click here to watch the interview.
CBS Atlanta also got some hilarious outtakes of Alana hamming it up. Click here to watch.
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The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
An elderly woman and a 10-year-old girl died Tuesday evening after a minivan collided with a horse the woman was leading on Southeast County Road 55A in Dixie County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office is investigating a homicide after George Hamilton Pierce, 51, was found dead inside the residence at 10151 N.E. 48th Lane, according to a press release.
Deputies were alerted to the death on Saturday, Dec. 8, by an unidentified family member. No cause of death is being given by the Sheriff's Office. This would be the county's second homicide for 2012.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is seeking the public's help in solving a homicide dating from the '70s.
Two people were arrested and a meth lab inside a home on State Highway 40 West in Inglis was shut down on Wednesday, Nov. 7 by officers from the Inglis Police Department, the Levy County Drug Task Force and the Citrus County Tactical Impact Unit, according to an Inglis Police Department press release.
The discovery inside the home came after an investigation into suspected narcotics and dangerous drugs which involved undercover operations and surveillance of the home.
Officers seized a large amount of methamphetamine manufacturing equipment, paraphernalia, and methamphetamine.
A Kentucky man died and his passenger was injured when the 2003 Subaru Outback they were riding in on U.S. Highway 27A veered off the road by Northesast 151st Terrace at 12:40 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release.
Dead is David G. House, 81, of Avaton, Ky., the driver, and injured was Betty G. House, 80, also of Avaton, Ky. She was airlifted to Shands Hospital at the University of Florida and was reported in critical condition.
Rodney Charles "Stump" Kirkland, 20, of Bronson was arrested at his residence on Thursday, Oct. 24, on two Dixie County warrants charging him with three counts of armed burglary and grand theft.
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WORK to improve the pitch at Rodney Parade won't begin as planned on Monday, say Newport County AFC.
The Exiles, who share the ground with owners Newport RFC and Newport Gwent Dragons, had announced at their recent fans' forum that the work would begin on May 12.
But the contractors have other commitments next week and won't now be able to start on the Rodney Parade surface until some time in the week beginning May 19.
A club spokesman said the work would be finished in time for the prestige friendly with Carl Zeiss Jena on July 26 "unless there are any unforeseen circumstances."
The £80,000 drainage improvement project, organised and paid for by County, was only partly completed last summer.
The plan was to install improved drainage along with a Dragons-funded £40,000 irrigation scheme. The latter was completed but contractors ran out of time to complete the former.
The main drainage channels running the length of the pitch were put in place but the sand and gravel slits that run across the pitch and tie the whole system together were only in place from the changing rooms end up to halfway.
That left the northern end of the pitch – traditionally the most troublesome end – at risk of flooding and it was that end that suffered so badly during one of the wettest winters on record.
County saw six home matches postponed in December, January and February and large parts of the northern end of the pitch have been covered in sand since then, making life difficult for Justin Edinburgh's men.
Star striker Aaron O'Connor said: "Having a decent pitch will help us next season.
"We've been labelled as a kick it long team this season but it's not been easy to get the ball down and play on that surface.
"A lot of footballing sides have come here and realised they can't do that either and they've resorted to long ball football.
"It's not what the fans want to see and it's not what the players want either.
"Players don't like doing it and it's not pretty but we felt that was the best way to deal with it and get results.
"We want to play football," he added. "We don't want the ball in the air all the time. We were brought up playing football and we want that as much as the fans.
"Hopefully if the pitch gets sorted and we can look after it a little bit better we can play some good stuff next season."


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Community invited to join campus drum circle
October 16, 2013
Community invited to join campus drum circle
Penn State Shenango invites the community to join the Shenango campus drum circle to beat stress and have fun. The drum circles are held in the Shenango campus Great Hall at 12:15 p.m. the second Tuesday and at noon the fourth Monday of each month.
A drum circle is a community rhythm that is co-created, shared and evolves as the drumming progresses. Participants do not need to have drumming experience in order to participate — simple instructions with practice rhythms and drums are provided so that new members feel welcome and included.
For more information, call 724-983-2969.
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Sometimes you're lucky enough to find a gem on the internet. Not just because it inspires you but because it's just utterly cool. Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton took to the slopes to film a night shot in France of William Hughes flying down the slopes with only his own L.E.D. powered suit to guide him. What an amazing job. "Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I've done in 20 years of snowboarding," says Hughes of the charged salopettes. "Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob's enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights."
Jacob Sutton's L.E.D. Surfer on Nowness.com.
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Neighbors team to fight off Black Ops Development condo project
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) A plot of land in southwest Bakersfield is a hot topic for residents.
Wearing matching yellow T-shirts, dozens of residents from the River Oaks neighborhood gathered Thursday night to voice their opposition to plans by Black Ops real estate. Black Ops plans to build a 100-unit condominium complex at the corner of River Run Boulevard and Elkhorn Creek Lane.
"What we have is awesome. We love our neighborhood," said River Oaks resident, Matt Dills. "The proposed development, it's totally inconsistent and incompatible with what we have."
Residents are frustrated that Black Ops wants approval to rezone a 12-acre area of land from low density to medium-low density, in order to build multi-family residences.
The board originally recommended to approve the land be built on by Black Ops. After hours of listening to resident's pleas though, the Bakersfield Planning Commission voted in favor of the community to not approve the project.
"I've done this for over 34 years, and I'll have to admit this is one of the closest-knit group of neighbors, in terms of banding together to voice their concerns about a planning project," community development director for Bakersfield, Douglas McIsaac, said.
Black Ops declined comment following the vote. The company has 10 days to appeal Thursday night's decision to the City Council.


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Wind Energy Development in South Dakota
Wind energy is fast becoming an area of interest in South Dakota. The information is intended to help you become more informed about wind energy and what it means to our state's economy, environment and energy mix.
The PUC's role in wind energy development is regulation and education. The PUC has siting authority for wind farms with a capacity of 100 megawatts or more. Smaller wind projects are not regulated by the commission. The PUC provides information on this Web site, on www.SDWind.com, and through other sources to help South Dakotans understand the opportunities and obstacles regarding wind energy use and development. It is necessary to have accurate information to make responsible and wise economic and environmental decisions.
See information about the Public Utilities Commission's Small Renewable Energy Initiative, a multi-part approach to encourage common sense development of distributed generation.
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Landowner Tools
Three South Dakota agencies – the Energy Infrastructure Authority, the PUC and the Attorney General's Office – produced the South Dakota Landowner's Wind Power Development Handbook as an information resource.
Small Wind Energy Facility Construction Notices
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A Pilot Clinical Trial of Exendin-4 in Alzheimer's Disease
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- Exendin-4 (or Exenatide) is a medication currently used to treat diabetes, but it has shown promising results in tests of its effectiveness in protecting neurons from damaging processes associated with Alzheimer s disease. It is possible that Exendin-4 may be a treatment for Alzheimer s disease, which involves the gradual deterioration and death of neurons. Researchers are interested in studying the safety and comparing the effects of Exendin-4 with placebo to on congestive performance, overall clinical progression, various chemicals measured in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and brain MRI, in individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment.
- To determine the safety and tolerability, as well as to acquire preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of twice daily administration of Exendin-4 as a treatment for early-stage Alzheimer s disease or mild cognitive impairment.
- Individuals at least 60 years of age who have objective evidence of early-stage Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment in screening testing.
- Participants will be screened.
- Following the telephone screening, two in-person screening visits to determine eligibility.
- The screening visit will involve a medical history and neurological examination, tests of memory and cognition, a lumbar puncture, collection of blood and saliva samples, and brain Magnetic Resonance Imagine (MRI) studies. Participants will be required to appoint a Durable Power of Attorney for research and medical care during this protocol.
- Eligible participants will be divided into two groups. One group will receive Exendin-4, and the other will receive a placebo. Participants will keep a medication diary and will be scheduled for additional study visits 1 and 2 weeks after the start of the treatment.
- Participants will have regular followup visits with blood tests, imaging studies, and other examinations 6, 12, and18 months after the start of the treatment. Another lumbar puncture may be performed optionally at the 18-month followup visit.
|Alzheimer's Disease Mild Cognitive Impairment
|Drug: Exendin-4 (Exenatide)
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of Exendin-4 in Alzheimer s Disease
- Safety and tolerability of Exendin-4 administered twice daily via SC injections [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
- Behavioral and cognitive performance measures [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
- Changes on structural and functional MRI and MRS [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
- Hormonal and metabolic changes and changes in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma Alzheimer s disease biomarkers. [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
- Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale sum-of-boxes [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
- Alzheimer's Disease Assessment scale - cognitive sub-scale (ADAS-cog) [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
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|Study Start Date:
|November 21, 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|November 18, 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 18, 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Age > 60
- Clinical Dementia Rating (global CDR) of 0.5 or 1. Memory box score must be at least 0.5.
- Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE) > 20
- Clinical diagnosis of (amnestic or mixed) MCI or early AD and Memory deficit on neuropsychological or clinical testing.
- Hamilton Depression Scale score of less than or equal to 12 on the 17-item scale
- CSF A beta 42 < 192 (+- 10%) pg/ml (given an intra-subject laboratory variability ~ 10%)
Medications stable for at least 4 weeks prior to screening. In particular:
- Participants may take stable doses of antidepressants, chronic anxiolytics or sedative hypnotics, if started at least 4 weeks or longer prior to screening
- Cholinesterase inhibitors and/or memantine are allowable, if started at least 4 weeks prior to screening
- Participants will not be asked to discontinue medications without permission from their primary care provider (PCP) or specialist.
- Fluency in English
- At the time of enrollment, participants must have the ability to provide informed consent and make health care decisions.
- An informant or caregiver who has frequent contact with the participant (e.g. an average of 10 hours per week or more) must be appointed to serve as Durable Power of Attorney (DPA) for research and medical care at NIA, accompany the participant to clinic visits and provide historical information regarding the participant s cognitive status, and assist participants with/administer injections of the investigational medication.
- Good general health with no additional disease states that could interfere with the study.
- Other significant neurological disease of the Central Nervous System (such as Parkinson s disease, atypical Parkinsons disease, Multi-infarct Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Huntington s disease, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, brain tumor, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Epilepsy, Subdural Hematoma or Multiple Sclerosis)
- A history of significant head trauma followed by persistent neurologic defaults or known structural brain abnormalities
- Positive RPR or HIV
- Abnormal PT/PTT and INR (1.5 standard deviation over the upper normal limit) increasing the risk for LP related bleeding/hematoma; platelet count <100,000/microliters.
- Anti-coagulant therapy (such as coumadin). Aspirin up to 325 is allowed.
- Investigators unable to obtain CSF, failure of Lumbar Puncture after a limited number of unsuccessful attempts).
- History of psychiatric disease with significant impairment in thought processes (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disease, psychosis). Participants who develop psychiatric conditions necessitating treatment after their enrollment will not be dropped from the study. The high incidence of late-onset depression and anxiety among individuals with MCI and AD requires that participants with depression, and/or anxiety should not be excluded from the cohort to maintain the ecological validity of the results.
- Current abuse of alcoholic beverages (> 7 in women and >14 in men) or substance abuse.
- Known diagnosis of diabetes at the time of enrollment or new diagnosis of diabetes based on the findings of elevated fasting blood glucose (= or >126 mg/dl) and/or the oral glucose tolerance test at screening (>200 mg/dl at two hours).
- Severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance <30 ml/min) or end-stage renal disease. Individuals with moderate renal impairment (creatinine clearance 30 to 50 ml/min) may be enrolled in the study, but their BUN and Creatinine will be monitored during each visit after drug initiation and extra safety visits will be conducted at 3, 9, and 15 months.
- Current or previous treatment with Exendin-4 (Exenatide, trade name Byetta.)
- History of pancreatitis, active upper GI, hepatic or gallbladder disease
- Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2
- History of repeated hypoglycemia
- Body mass index (BMI) < 18 on enrollment (given the expected weight loss caused by Exendin-4 and dementia). In the BLSA, participants with age > 65 had a mean BMI of 25.8 with SD of 3.9 Exendin-4 has been shown to cause an average 5.3 kg weight loss, with 95% CI: 6 to 4.5 kg (126).
- Allergy to Exendin-4 or to substances in the injection pen (metacresol, mannitol, glacial acetic acid, sodium acetate trihydrate, water for injection).
- Participation in other studies of investigational treatments for Alzheimer s disease in the last year.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01255163
|United States, Maryland
|National Institute on Aging, Clinical Research Unit
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
|Principal Investigator:
|Dimitrios I Kapogiannis, M.D.
|National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute on Aging (NIA)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01255163 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 4, 2010
|Last Updated:
|June 30, 2017
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute on Aging (NIA) ):
Alzheimer Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease
Cognition Disorders
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Stein Mart has plans to open three new stores on March 15, located in Irvine, Calif.; Suwanee, Ga.; and Sunset Hills, Mo.
The Irvine store is a relocation of another Irvine location. The two new and one relocated store bring Stein Mart's total store count to 264.
"We are pleased to announce the expansion of our footprint in these three existing markets," said Jay Stein, interim CEO.
The new stores are located at The Market Place II in Irvine, at Johns Creek Town Center in Suwanee, and at The Plaza at Sunset Hills, in Sunset Hills.


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OKOLONA – North Bullitt's season of re-emergence came to an end on Monday as the Lady Eagles dropped a frustrating 2-1 decision to Southern in the semi-finals of the 23rd District Softball Tournament on the Lady Trojans' home field.
North Bullitt was coming off a one-win season that had ended with a run-rule decision in the district tournament. That brought about a coaching change and Mike Nally took the helm.
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Climb Safe: Retiring Old Ropes
To help make more climbers safer climbers, Rock and Ice has teamed up with Black Diamond Equipment to present the Climb Safe series. These articles aim to answer some of climbing's most common gear-related questions. Here, Kolin Powick, Black Diamond's Director of Quality, and the crew look at retiring ropes.


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We first met this generation's Z-car from behind the wheel of a spanking-new 2009 Nissan 370Z. Almost four years later to the day, I find myself behind the wheel of the 2013 Nissan 370Z Touring, and let me tell you, not much has changed.
The Z's 3.7-liter V-6 is essentially untouched, outputting the same 332 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque. That power still flows through a six-speed manual transmission before heading to the rear axle. (A seven-speed automatic gearbox is available, but I will call you a poseur if I catch you driving it.) The Z still sports the same classic sports car proportions. Even the 18 city and 26 highway EPA-estimated mpg fuel economy is unchanged over the last four years.
Z-car aficionados and sharp-eyed car nuts will notice a few changes in this 2013 model. The revised front bumper removes the two angular protrusions from the intake opening that gave the previous model its "catfish mouth" look. I sort of miss them, as the new lower grille is a bit dull by comparison. LED daytime running lights (DRLs) have been added to the new front bumper, and at the other end of the vehicle, the rear lighting setup has been nearly imperceptibly tweaked. Beneath the surface, a slightly revised suspension tune for our vehicle's Sport Package rounds out the upgrades.
Outstanding performance...
The sharp performance of the Nissan Z is made even sharper with the addition of an optional $3,030 Sport Package that will be worth nearly every penny to drivers with any sort of motorsport aspirations, whether they be participating in local track days, autocrossing, or just carving a canyon at questionably legal speeds.
For your money, you get a set of "Euro-tuned" sport shocks that firm up the Z's ride and reduce roll when cornering, Nissan sport brakes with red-painted calipers that shave off the mph's at a staggering rate, and 19-inch Rays forged aluminum-alloy wheels with staggered and sticky tires. A viscous limited-slip differential helps with getting power to the road and a front chin deflector and rear spoiler augment the aerodynamics at speed. The Sport Package also adds the SynchroRev Match function to the manual gearbox -- a feature that you'll either love and praise or hate and curse, depending on your driving style and mood at the moment.
SynchroRev Match works like this: When shifting into a gear with the clutch depressed, the Z's computer will blip or hold the engine speed to match the wheel speed of the chosen gears. So, for example, when shifting from third to second gear, you'll hear the engine speed jump slightly and hold for a moment, allowing you to release the clutch for a smooth, perfectly matched shift.
After years of driving manually shifted vehicles properly, I'm used to blipping the throttle myself, so occasionally SynchroRev Match and I butted heads on just who was in control of the throttle. After getting used to it, I found that, if I let the computer handle the blipping and I handled the clutch, the shifts were smooth. The system seems to work best when in aggressive driving situations near the top of the tachometer's range. At lower speeds, I found it to be...well, a bit annoying, but we'll come back to that shortly.
The 370Z's heavy steering feels just a bit numb and didn't communicate very much to me through my fingertips, but it is definitely responsive and direct. The Z also makes up for its untalkative steering rack with a chassis that communicates plenty about what's happening where the rubber meets the road though the driver's spine.
And with over 330 horsepower on tap and gobs of torque available at reasonably low engine speeds, the Z-car's power delivery is absolutely amazing. When the road opens up or you round the bend onto the back straight and can really put the hammer down, the V-6 engine howls and you'll find yourself howling right along with it.
...with Touring and Tech upgrades...
When we last met the Z, we met it at its Base trim level and found it to be rather spartan where cabin tech and appointments were concerned. Our current Touring trim level adds a number of upgrades to the coupe's interior, including Bluetooth hands-free calling, an eight-speaker Bose audio system that includes dual subwoofers, and power-adjustable leather seats with heated surfaces and synthetic suede inserts. For the $4,700 price hike between the base and Touring trim levels, you also get a cover you can use to obscure the rear cargo area from prying eyes, aluminum pedals, and an auto-dimming rearview mirror with a HomeLink universal garage door opener built into it.


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A male body was recovered from the water near the Ocean City-Longport Bridge Thursday afternoon.
The body is believed to be that of a missing 14-year-old boy from Philadelphia who was swept out to sea by a rip current last weekend in Ocean City. Police say a boater found the body around 12:30 Thursday afternoon and it was recovered by state troopers and members of the Coast Guard.
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Dogs may have always been man's best friend, but you'd be surprised what they can do for the creative soul, as well. For those unfamiliar with skateboarding, a lot of the stunts started in empty swimming pools throughout Southern California. Those groups of individuals are the pioneers of the sport. One particular pool became a regular spot for skaters, which later earned the name of "Dogtown," as dogs often surrounded it. The styles, moves, and form of modern skateboarding developed greatly in this area, and because of that, Dogtown has become legendary in the sport. Brent Casteel may not be a skateboarder, but he does have his own Dogtown.
Back in 2000, Brent was walking by an old house when he noticed a pack of barking dogs. As he looked over, he noticed they were standing on what looked like the silhouette of a vintage Chevy. As he crept through the "dogpen" to get closer to the rust- and dirt-covered pile of metal, he noticed it was a '65 Bel Air. The car looked as if it had rolled out of the south end of a northbound cow. Both quarters, the floorpan, and a front fender were completely rotted. As for the windshield and rear glass, the only thing holding them in was gravity. Even though Brent's family was against buying the Bel Air, he still opted to go for it and picked up the rust bucket for a bank-shattering $300. From there, it was off to the races.
Brent's vision for the Bel Air was long, low, and sleek, but since it was in no shape for the road-or the eyes-it was going to be a long journey. Before the teardown and build got started, Brent started collecting parts. For the next three years, he slowly pieced his vision together part by part. When all the parts were collected, it was time. The focal point of the build was to be the body. All the years in the pen really took their toll on the Bel Air, and before any customizing could take place, the rust had to be fixed. Since the '65 Bel Air isn't the most popular car, some of the parts were hard to come by. Around the front and rear glass, the metal was everything besides intact, and the patches to fix it were nowhere to be found. With a few pieces of metal, a hammer, and a torch, Brent fixed that problem by fabricating some custom panels. To get the sleek look he wanted, the chrome and trim were stripped off, and left a smooth and sleek body that would later receive DuPont Viper Red paint. Another custom aspect giving the '65 a unique look is the LED taillights that Brent worked up in his garage. After more than three years in the making, his vision was unfolding in front of him.
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Today, if East Baton Rouge Parish residents send a text message to 911, they'll receive a "bounce-back" response instructing them to call 911.
By May, emergency response officials hope to change that by having dispatchers respond to text messages just as they would any other emergency call.
"It's a great alternative in situations where people only have that avenue to get in touch with emergency services," said Matt Hobson, East Baton Rouge Parish Communications District Manager, adding, "We're looking forward to getting it in place."
The move is part of a broader push by the parish's emergency responders to enhance and modernize the technology it employs to help people during local emergencies.
The effort includes construction of a state-of-the-art new Emergency Medical Services headquarters on Harding Boulevard. Parish officials gathered Thursday to officially celebrate the opening of the three-month-old, 30,000 square foot facility.
The $9 million building, which EMS paid for with savings accumulated over the past 15 years, features an educational training center, electronically monitored utilities and spiffy LED, motion-sensing light fixtures, said Chad Guillot, the parish's EMS director.
EMS trucks, too, have gone digital, Guillot said.
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Despite the technological advancements, EMS is still months away from implementing emergency text messaging services.
Hobson, who oversees the 911 call center's operations, said technical issues yet to be resolved with cell phone carriers are holding back the testing phase.
Only a handful of cities and counties nationwide currently have access to "Text-to-911," which began several years ago as a voluntary agreement between the country's four largest wireless telephone companies — Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint — and the National Emergency Numbers Association as an effort to make texting 911 a reality nationwide by May 15, 2014.
According to each company's most recent quarterly progress report, the service isn't yet available anywhere in Louisiana.
In places already equipped with the service, though, such as Durham County, North Carolina, and Oneida County, New York, "Text-to-911" has been a success, said Trey Forgerty, the National Emergency Number Association's director of government affairs.
"In some cases, text calls have actually proven easier to handle because of more advanced software," Forgerty said, adding that most call centers have not been inundated with false emergencies via text.
Specifically, the service is a critical improvement upon traditional phone calls for people with hearing or speech disabilities and people who might get themselves hurt by speaking out loud, such as in home invasions, Forgerty said.
While texting 911 is clearly advantageous in such cases, Forgerty still recommends picking up the phone and dialing 911 in most emergency situations.
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I've never met anyone who didn't like pizza! It's certainly convenient to order delivery, and I definitely have a local favorite pizza shop that makes life easy when there is nothing cooking in my kitchen. But when I can, I also like to make my own pizza, from the crust up! A cornmeal pizza crust isn't standard, but it makes this recipe special.
Use whatever toppings you like for this recipe. Right now the markets are overflowing with zucchini and peppers, so that is what topped this vegetarian pizza. I used prepared tomato sauce, shredded the zucchini, thinly sliced the red pepper and added mozzarella cheese to the top.
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- 2 tsp Active Dry Yeast
- Pinch of Sugar
- 2/3 cup warm Water (not hot)
- 1-2/3 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten-free All-purpose Baking Flour, plus extra for the work surface
- 1/4 cup Bob's Red Mill Gluten-free Cornmeal, plus a bit extra reserved
- 1-1/2 tsp Coarse Salt
- 2 Tbsp Extra-Virgin Olive Oil, plus extra for the bowl
– Add the warm water to a small bowl and sprinkle the yeast and sugar over it. Let it stand for about 10 minutes, until the yeast is dissolved and it's foamy.
– Add the flour, cornmeal and salt to a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the mixture and add the yeast mixture and oil. Slowly stir the ingredients together with a wooden spoon until the dough comes together. Turn out the dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead it for several minutes until it's smooth.
– If you're making two personal pizzas, divide the dough into two balls and use two bowls. Add the dough to a shallow oiled bowl and turn it to coat. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow it to sit at room temperature for about an hour. You can also keep it in the refrigerator overnight.
– Preheat your oven to 500 degrees F. with the pizza stone on the lowest rack. When the dough is ready, stretch it out into either two rounds (for the personal pizzas) or one.
– Sprinkle some cornmeal onto a pizza peel (or use the bottom of a baking sheet if you don't have a pizza peel). Place the dough on top and cover with sauce and your toppings.
– Slide the dough onto the pizza stone and bake until the crust is crisp and the cheese is bubbly, about 7-10 minutes, checking frequently. Serve warm.
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Mp3car�s Founder, Robert Wray, interviewed Mathieu Monney, creator of iphone navigation application XGPS. We talk about his turn by turn navigation application which has been downloaded almost 589,000+ times in the two months since it left beta. Don�t get out your calculator, that is about 10,000 times per day!
We expect the interview to be transcribed within the next couple of days.
Robert Wray: Hi. My name is Rob Wray, with Mp3car. We're talking today with Mathieu Monney in Switzerland. Mathieu is the creator and lead developer of the wildly successful turn by turn iPhone navigation application called XGPS. I call it wildly successful, because according to Cedia, the application has been downloaded about a half a million times in just the several months that it's been out.
A lot of the industry analysts all want to know how big the market is, and I think this is an amazing indicator that there's a lot of pent-up demand for XGPS and applications similar to this that do navigation and turn by turn directions. So Mathieu, thanks a lot for taking the time to talk with us today.
Mathieu Monney: Hi, Rob. Your welcome.
Robert Wray: As of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is allowing developers to use the core location; meaning turn by turn map creators now have the access to the combination of GPS, WiFi, cell towers, and all those utilities to do routing.
Mathieu Monney: Yes.
Robert Wray: So I guess the key is that you have to bring your own maps. How far do you think you can go with the free Google map solution that you're using right now?
Mathieu Monney: So right now, it will not be possible to use the current position to publish it on the app store, because it's completely forbidden by the Google terms and conditions and by Apple.
Robert Wray: Okay. Clearly the free thing has probably been one of the things that's driven the 500,000 number.
Mathieu Monney: Yes. That's true.
Robert Wray: So I guess right now you're using the Google maps. What do you use for your routing algorithms? Do you have your own routing algorithms, or are you using Google's routing algorithms?
Mathieu Monney: No. We are using Google's routing services, because the maps that we get from Google are only pictures or images. So when you display a map on your iPhone, you can't use GPS. It's only a picture, an image. And you can�t have any information about where roads are, or anything like that. So you cannot do any routing algorithm on it.
That's why we are thinking and we are trying to develop another solution based on other third party sources to use vectorial maps to be able to do outlier routings and vectorial routings, and stuff like that, to overcome this Google map problem.
Robert Wray: So that kind of leads me into my next question. There's a lot of really interesting free applications and free data sources that are out there, like OpenStreetMap. How much will XGPS contribute and be able to utilize OpenStreetMap or other data collection efforts?
Mathieu Monney: Actually, it's a go for the next version of XGPS to use OpenStreetMap.
Robert Wray: So that's great. That allows you to keep this application really low cost. So would you imagine that you would still license a routing algorithm? Or do you plan to develop your own routing algorithm?
Mathieu Monney: Yes. Sure. The long term goal is to be able to use your iPhone as a normal GPS, like TomTom. You enter a start location and end location, and the routing is done by itself offline, without any WiFi or GSM connection or whatever. So yes.
Robert Wray: I was looking at your website, and it looks like you're funding XGPS off of donations. How do you plan to fund the development of XGPS in the future?
Mathieu Monney: For now, for the current version, we will remain free and we'll be funded with donations. But for the next version, which will use vectorial map and so on, we haven't decided now what we will do. But maybe we will make some kind of licensing, or it will still be free, I can't really tell you now, because it will really depend on how the new GPS software will come up on the app store. I mean, with the new OS 3.0.
Robert Wray: So do you expect to release your application on the app store as soon as the OS 3.0 is available?
Mathieu Monney: I will not say as soon as, but we'll try to release it as soon as I get something working with OpenStreetMap and so on, because it will then be a legal application in terms of Apple�s point of view.
Robert Wray: It looks like you were able to keep a lot of your costs down by doing things like crowd sourcing the language translation into 25 languages.
Mathieu Monney: Yeah.
Robert Wray: How else are you planning to use the community in the future for your application?
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. That's definitely a good option. The problem with releasing your beta application or free application is that you get more people from it, and it's really easy to build a community, which helps the project growing.
On the other hand, with the pay application, there is less involved people, and people say, "Okay. I want this feature. Why is this feature not here, and why is this feature not in my language" or so on.
Robert Wray: Do you have any other ways in which you plan to use your forums? You have lots of active people in the community that are contributing in your forums, as far as feature suggestions. Do you plan to do any of your development with input from the community? Or do you plan to keep it a closed project, aside from the language translation and things like that?
Mathieu Monney: Again, it's an open question. For sure it will speed up the development of XGPS if we put it in an open source way. But the thing I don't want is that if the first project falls, all the projects are created on the basis of XGPS, and that will be a terribly bad thing for me.
And the other thing is that you cannot control, really control, how the development will go with the totally open source solution. So that's the two major problems. That's why I'm still debating if I will keep the project closed source or put it in open source.
Robert Wray: So I noticed that there was a competing navigation application that came out. It's about $40.00 on the app store, made by XRoads, called G-Maps. It's interesting that it came out and then really quickly was pulled off the iPhone store, on March 18th. Why do you think Apple is still being so aggressive, even with their 3.0 announcement?
Mathieu Monney: I don't know. This G-Maps application is not so � actually, it was not so good. I mean, at first, it was providing features with a lot of good functionality, like voice navigation, and offline routing, and turn by turn directions, and so on. But I think I've heard that they proposed G-Maps software to Apple one time, and Apple refused to put it on the app store, because it was not following their agreement rules.
So they removed some unwanted features, like turn by turn direction, and so on. So with the final release there were no more interesting features, like turn by turn direction. So G-Maps was only like the map applications on the iPhone, but without the need to download the maps over WiFi or GSM connection.
Robert Wray: So basically, it looked really interesting, and the app slowly got watered down and watered down until it was finally allowed to go on the store, and then it was pulled?
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. I don't like the way Apple is acting with all this software, because I think there can be really good software nowadays without all these Apple restrictions. But unfortunately Apple is placing so many restrictions that since there is no really good application which has come up on the app store, I think Apple is really handling it in a bad way.
However, it's still successful, and the app store is a good thing, but Apple could be a little less aggressive on their agreements.
Robert Wray: So I wanted to get back to the question before. We were talking about OpenStreetMaps. How much do you think XGPS will be able to contribute to OpenStreetMaps?
Mathieu Monney: XGPS could bring many users to OpenStreetMap, but the main problem is that you cannot build the software which can upload data automatically to OpenStreetMap, and automatically improve the map itself. There is always the need of a human to draw roads and so on on the map, on the basis of data given by GPS.
Robert Wray: Do you think that there will be algorithms that are eventually developed to translate the GPS trails into accurate road information?
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. You can already make simple software to take GPS position, GPS tracker, and so on, to automatically build the maps. But the main problem is still in naming the roads. The crossing of the road, you sometimes cannot turn right, or can't turn left, or sometimes there is a one-way road, or so on.
All this stuff makes automatically creating the maps a big problem, because if you develop an algorithm to create the maps automatically on the basis of a GPS track, maybe you can get a map that looks beautiful to the eye, but for the routing algorithm, it will be really, really difficult to create a route from a point A to a point B without going down a one-way street. That's the main problem.
And still, with humans there is a lot of errors now in OpenStreetMap, especially in Europe countries.
Robert Wray: So basically, the collected data is unroutable, but we have this situation where there's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario here. You have to have a certain mass of tracks and data that's collected in order for algorithms to be applied to them. Again, this chicken or egg type of scenario.
Why not collect the data now, since you have 500,000 users that are out there? Why not collect the data so that when algorithms are developed to process this data, and as more users are willing to properly label roads, and make them routable, why not collect this data, so that as users get more passionate about it, the data is there for people to work on?
Mathieu Monney: Sure. It will be an option. For now, the current version of XGPS already allows you to do this. Manually. But to do it automatically, the first problem is the privacy issue. I mean, not everybody wants to share where they go.
It will be an option. We are thinking about it for next version.
Robert Wray: Surely there has to be a way to anonymize the data, so that people don't have to worry about tracking issues, and they can still help contribute to the maps that they're getting for free, that they would otherwise have to pay $50.00 US or more for � even at the cheapest solutions, you have to pay $50.00 for map data.
Mathieu Monney: Sure. For you or me guys like us, it will be okay, but for the people who cannot imagine to have their position on the net, and to be anonymized by that. Not all the people are really interested in the iPhone and so on.
But a software like XGPS could allow them to use their iPhone as a GPS. And if we tell them, okay, you can use XGPS, but your position will be logged and sent over the internet, even if we say, okay, it's totally � it's totally anonymized, � I don't know. They will have some fears about it, I think.
Robert Wray: Yeah. You will always have skeptics, and I think that's a really important thing to be aware of. Do you have any plans to implement some of the more advanced location-based services, like petroleum prices, or traffic, speed cameras, and things like that?
Mathieu Monney: For traffic things, for now, it's as usual, the main problem with all of that GPS stuff software is data source. I mean, for maps, it's where the roads are, what are the road names, and so on. For traffic, you have to access some information given by the government or cities to know where the traffic density is, and etcetera. So it's always a problem of data sources.
But as long as we could get reliable data sources to show places with traffic on the map, we could do it. But I think for now, it's a little too advanced to think about it.
Robert Wray: I'd imagine, with 500,000 users, you certainly have enough volume to get data suppliers interested in buying the data. Maybe there's an option where you could have your core free products, and allow paid upgrades for premium services like speed cameras and traffic, and other things that have made some of the other connected navigation devices wildly successful.
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. Sure. It will be an option. We haven't thought about that yet, but it could definitely be an option. It will be able to create some kind of community around these data sources, as OpenStreetMap did. When you are on a road where there are too many cars and you cannot go on, you tap into iPhone, okay, I�m stuck on the road. And this information will be propagated on all the connected iPhones, and you will get some kind of peer to peer network with information about the current traffic.
You can do the same for speed cameras.
Robert Wray: There's been some commercial companies that have tried to do that. I mean, Dash was the big one here in the United States which had a little bit less success. They made a device that's all in one unit, they got more accurate as the number of users grew, because they were all committing to the amount of data. So the big win here with an application like that would be allowing lots and lots of users, even users other than XGPS, to be able to contribute to those data pools.
Would you see collecting this data and making it open for GPS applications of all types, maybe even PC type applications, or PND applications? Or would you see XGPS being the controller of this community-collected data?
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. I mean, it would be better if more products can be developed like this, because I think there is only the new XGPS that can act like that. It will be good for there to be some kind of constraint.
And I think if there is more products and more software, the more GPS products are involved and the bigger the community is, the more accurate it can be.
Robert Wray: Well, we're at a very exciting time in navigation and mobile computing, and it's great you're being a part of it, and developing apps to help it grow. So thanks a lot for taking the time to talk with us today out of your busy schedule. We appreciate it.
Mathieu Monney: Yeah. Your welcome.
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BEACONSFIELD SYCOB have enjoyed a fabulous season but it is still on a knife-edge after a 3-2 defeat to play-off rivals Dunstable last night.
Gary Meakin's team looked certainties for the top five after a 16-game unbeaten run during mid-winter, but a cup defeat to Redditch broke the spell and since then they've lost two of their three Southern League Central matches.
They are still fourth in the table, but the teams placed fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth all have games in hand to go above them.
Royston are two points behind them with two games in hand, Barton and Kettering have four games in hand with a points gap of three and four respectively, while eighth-placed Daventry are five adrift of Rams but have played seven games fewer.
Beaconsfield kept them all at bay on Saturday with a 4-0 win over North Greenford United.
Tom O'Regan (2) and John Christian put them 3-0 up after ten minutes and Shaun Owens made it 4-0 from a free-kick.
Another three points from Dunstable would have been helpful, but despite creating the lion's share of chances they went down by the odd goal in five.
Zak Joseph's penalty made it 1-1 at the break, but Dunstable scored twice after the turnaround to make Kofi Lockhart-Adams' late consolation academic.
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Even as the superstar face of his own wine label, Charles Woodson likes to mix things up with the vineyard's special-teamers. He and a Raiders strength coach once arrived for harvest time at 5 a.m. on the team's day off, each of them wielding shears and snipping grapes off the vine.
"We're just plugging away one bunch at a time, and all of a sudden you see this wave of guys -- whoosh! -- blowing through this vineyard," the eight-time Pro Bowl selection recalled. "We might have gotten three bunches off the vine by the time they finished the whole row."
Woodson tells this story with a glass of the finished product in his left hand, a 2008 cabernet sauvignon. This is his wine, his wine bar, his way of winding down. The defensive back sits in a corner booth of the Cult Following in downtown Napa so freshly removed from the Raiders practice field that he still is dressed in shorts and a silver-and-black Windbreaker.
TwentyFour wines, named in honor of Woodson's jersey number in Oakland, originated in 2001. It is an unusual pairing, the kid from small-town Ohio and the masters of the Napa Valley, but Woodson has found his niche with a well-reviewed cab that sells for $112 a bottle.
"He's really well thought of up here in the wine country," said Carmen Policy, a former 49ers executive who has his own acclaimed Casa Piena label. "A lot of people around here really roll their eyes, 'Oh, great, another celebrity who wants to put their name on the label.' But Charles is serious about wanting to produce a quality wine and about understanding the process."
Woodson, 37, enters this season on a one-year contract with the Raiders and, though he has said he has no plans to retire, it's easy to speculate that 2014 will put the cork in his Hall of Fame career. Woodson is two years removed from his last Pro Bowl selection and is one of only three players still active from the 1998 draft (Peyton Manning and Matt Hasselbeck are the others).
Whenever he does decide to hang 'em up, retirement sure looks inviting. He strolled into Cult Following about 20 minutes after practice, found a comfortable chair and a server who, without being asked, handed him a glass of the 2008 -- always the 2008.
The vineyard is down the road, about 25 miles on the St. Helena Highway, to Calistoga. From those 12 acres, Woodson expects to produce 1,200 cases of cabernet and 1,000 cases of sauvignon blanc this year.
The patch of land sits below the towering spectacle of Sterling Vineyards -- all 1,200 acres of it -- and the shadow serves as a reminder that Woodson is still just a role player here.
"You know that little cap on your bicycle that keeps the air in? That's how small we are compared to the rest of the wineries in the world," said Rick Ruiz, the director of operations for TwentyFour Wines.
Ruiz, a convivial Napa native who learned his craft at the Robert Mondavi Winery, keeps an eye on the reds and whites while Woodson is busy with football.
The two agree on everything about wine -- except for how they met. Woodson said it was through a promotional event at Raiders camp; Ruiz said it was in the tasting room at Mondavi, after he spotted the Heisman Trophy winner drinking a bottle he had worked on.
Woodson concedes the tiebreaker when Ruiz argues that he is much more likely to remember the day he met Charles Woodson than the other way around.
Either way, the friendship began in 2001, when Woodson was in his fourth season in the NFL -- and still a fledgling rookie when it came to wine. He lacked versatility.
"When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that's all I had," Woodson said. "I would go to dinner, and I'd see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot."
"Merlot. Merlot. Merlot," Ruiz said, still exasperated. "It got to the point where I told him, 'Charles, you're missing some of the best things in the world by only drinking merlot.' "
It took about six months of pestering, but Woodson eventually expanded his game. That was a turning point. Soon, Woodson wanted to know everything about the process -- from the agriculture to the economics to the marketing -- and started to impress Ruiz, 44, with his knack for pairing the right wines with any dish.
"Initially what drew me to it was that it seems to be a culture here in the valley, and there always seems to be a family atmosphere around wine," Woodson said. "People are truly into it. They come to the restaurant, they have their own bottle. They bring it in as a conversation piece.
"It was a culture. And I was interested in the whole deal. What is this all about?"
For kicks, they made a single barrel for charity -- merlot, of course -- starting in 2004. But a funny thing happened on the way to the glass: It was delicious.
"That's when we realized that we should start getting serious," Ruiz said.
With Gustavo A. Gonzalez, who also began his career at Mondavi, aboard as the winemaker, TwentyFour Wines had its release party in 2009, when they shared their '05, '06 and '07 vintages.
Among the early converts was Scott Lewis, the proprietor at V Wine Cellar, who said that Woodson's creation now ranks among the best cabs from the region, a conversation that includes Outpost, Melka Wines and Policy's Casa Piena.
"Sometimes, with these vanity projects, people don't always put in the time and effort into making something great," Lewis said. "But Charles is like Carmen in that he put in his due diligence when it came to getting something to his liking. He's not a flash in the pan."
Woodson's beloved '08, for example, offers brier notes and black fruits. The oak is integrated but not overdone, as with so many luxury Napa reds. It's a big wine with firm tannins, but not saddled with the uber-ripe fruit that has become the industry standard.
"What I'm trying to do as a winemaker is reflect Charles' taste, what he wants," Gonzalez said. "The reason we picked the vineyard we did is because it was the one most capable of producing his style."
In creating his own label, Woodson joined a deep roster of other sports figures that have made a name in the wine business, such as Tom Seaver, Dick Vermeil, Rich Aurilia, Jeff Gordon and Ernie Els.
All along, Woodson has retained the charity element. With every bottle sold, Woodson donates $10 to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at his alma mater, the University of Michigan.
At the time of the original release party, Woodson was in Green Bay, where he spent seven seasons monitoring his vineyard via text messages and emails back home. Ruiz also made frequent visits to Packers country, and the two delighted in converting cheeseheads into wine snobs. The wine events had fun with food pairings. (Handy tip: A bratwurst goes best with a red.)
Ruiz recounted those ambassador trips while standing amid the rows at TwentyFour vineyards on a soft summer morning. He plucked from a vine and held a single grape in the palm of his hand.
"This thing right here has built us a friendship with people for life. We have so many friends in the Midwest," Ruiz says. "So now our thing is, we're trying to get those kinds of friendships with the Bay Area people. One Raider fan at a time, we want to come toward them."
When Woodson returned to Oakland last season, he resumed trying to pair his reds and whites with the Silver & Black. TwentyFour Wines set up a tent in the parking lot on game days in an attempt to make Woodson's wine the drink of choice at tailgate parties -- the Raiders Libation.
At first, nobody bothered to look up.
"Even the cops looked at us like we were from Mars," Ruiz said. "And by the third home game, everybody was our new best friend. People started to realize that you can drink a Coors Light every day of the week. It's not very often you can taste a 2007 Calistoga Cabernet from Charles Woodson's vineyard, especially because we were limited in our production."
There is no winery to visit, but the public can meet at the vineyard by appointment. For now, Woodson steers people toward Cult Following, the wine bar on First Street in downtown Napa.
Next up are tentative plans for a Woodson wine tasting room to open in September, another place to toast one of the greatest careers ever put together by a defensive back. Woodson enters this season needing one more interception return for a touchdown to tie Rod Woodson's NFL record of 12. (Charles and Rod Woodson are not related.)
Charles Woodson's 909 career interception return yards also rank second among active players, behind Ed Reed's (1,590).
Once he is done picking off passes, Woodson can really focus on picking off those grapes. He will savor retirement soon, but he sees no reason to wait for the good life.
"I like to call my wines 'anytime wines,' " he said. "You just want to sit and open up a bottle and watch 'The Blacklist' on a Monday night? Open it up, and it's very easy. It's very approachable."


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I'm happy to inform you about my book, Lights Along My Path, published by Tao Publishing, LLC. This is a new version of a book I wrote originally in 1995, published by St. Anthony Messenger Press (Lights: Revelations of God's Goodness). The subtitle of the new book is A Friar's Journey in the Footsteps of St. Francis. It is simply my own imperfect attempt to follow in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi.
My journey began in the 1940s in southern Indiana. The first chapter of Lights Along My Path begins: "Bing Crosby was playing a young Catholic priest in The Bells of St. Mary's. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were a mighty football team. And I was a Catholic school kid and young altar boy at St. Louis Church in little Batesville, Indiana, my hometown." Some details of youthful mischief follow a bit later.
I go on to describe my life at age 14 as a student at St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, located about 50 miles east of Batesville. I entered classes there in 1950, beginning my 13-year journey through our Franciscan seminary system. After graduating in 1954, I went to St. Anthony Novitiate (also in Cincinnati), where I received the Franciscan habit. Then, in the summer of 1955, my family drove me to Duns Scotus College in Detroit, Michigan. Four years later, my class and I moved on to St. Leonard College near Dayton, Ohio, where I was ordained a Franciscan priest in 1963.
A Detour to the Philippines
To fast-forward a few years, I was a busy and rather contented English teacher for a number of years at our Franciscan high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Then, out of the blue, I got a phone call from Father Mel Brady, OFM, rector of the Franciscan seminary near Manila in the Philippines. Mel invited me to teach English Literature to college-level Filipino seminarians. After some soul-searching, I accepted his offer.
I found my teaching stint in the Philippines to be a dramatic change from life in the United States. I found life there to be a cross-cultural experience and a great unexpected blessing—truly one of the lights along my path. Serving in the Philippines for three years was, for me, the first of many opportunities to experience life in a foreign setting. Already, when returning to my home country, I had an opportunity to travel across parts of Asia and England, as well as make a stop in Ireland.
Life as a Journalist
In the summer of 1972, I was back in Cincinnati and, at the invitation of editor, Father Jeremy Harrington, OFM, had begun to write articles for St. Anthony Messenger magazine. Again there were opportunities to report on events abroad for St. Anthony Messenger—in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, for example, as well as in countries like El Salvador and Chile (under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet).
As a journalist, I also had the opportunity to interview fascinating personalities such as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a well-known psychiatrist and author of books on death and dying. I also interviewed actors such as Carroll O'Connor (TV's Archie Bunker), Gene Kelly, Bob Newhart, Brooke Shields, and Martin Sheen (who graciously wrote the foreword to this book). Brief accounts of five of these interviews are found in Lights Along My Path.
Spotlight on Franciscan Saints
The secret of St. Francis is identified in my book as Francis' amazing sense of God's overflowing goodness. The same secret—which is a central theme of the book—has energized each of the great Franciscan saints (St. Francis, St. Bonaventure, St. Clare, St. Anthony of Padua, and Blessed John Duns Scotus). Even in our own day, the same spirit is still alive in followers of St. Francis, and a good number of these individuals are mentioned by name in my book.
Special Offer
Because Franciscan Media is a distributor of Friar Jack's book for Tau Publishing, LLC, I'm happy to tell you about our special offer regarding Lights Along My Path. With your purchase, you will receive a copy of the book—personally autographed by me—for only $7.95 (plus shipping), a discount from the list price of $9.95. Order the book here.
Dear Friar Jim: Thank you so much for your "Saints of October." It was enlightening and very informative. I have shared this with friends! Nicole
Dear Friar Jim: It was wonderful that you included saints who might have passed us by this month. I particularly liked your inclusion of Pope John XXIII. What he did for the Church in the 20th century cannot be forgotten. Vincent
Dear Friar Jim: What a lovely newsletter! I could read about the saints every day! Jennifer
Dear Friar Jim: Thanks for your newsletter on saints in October. The saints inspire me to live a richer, holier life. Ronald
A: Dear Nicole, Vincent, Jennifer, and Ronald: All of you made a similar comment about how saints are so inspiring, helpful, and encouraging for us. It is Jesus, first and foremost, who calls us to holiness. But seeing the struggles and joys of our brothers and sisters reminds us that we don't walk alone. We are walking with a big crowd of disciples who are just like us. Thanks! Friar Jim


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Bronx tale ends in similar fashion for White Sox
Abreu drives in AL-leading 94th run; Carroll works six innings in loss
NEW YORK -- Scott Carroll bounced back from his recent struggles with a solid if not spectacular start on Saturday, but the White Sox defense did not do him any favors.
Carlos Sanchez bobbled a potential double-play ground ball in the second inning, Alejandro De Aza lost a fly ball in the sun in left field during the fourth and catcher Adrian Nieto did not make an attempt to catch Avisail Garcia's throw to the plate on a sacrifice fly in the sixth because Nieto heard Carroll say, "Let it go," which was intended for first baseman Jose Abreu to let the ball travel to the plate.
The Yankees capitalized on each of those mistakes in a 5-3 victory over the White Sox at Yankee Stadium.
Chicago has now lost five consecutive games, matching a season high, and has dropped 12 of its last 16 to fall a season-worst 11 games under .500.
Carroll came into the game with a 6.91 ERA and record of 1-2 over his last five starts. He pitched well for stretches on Saturday, forcing the Yankees into weak groundouts with a sharp sinker, but could not fully overcome the defensive lapses behind him. Overall, he surrendered five runs on seven hits and three walks in six innings.
"Defensively, we put him in some [tough] situations," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "We make some mistakes out there and with a lineup like this, they will grind you. He pitched fairly well, but you set him up with not making plays behind and then walking a couple guys."
While the White Sox defense made it more difficult than it should have been, Carroll was able to work his way out of most jams with minimal damage.
The Yankees loaded the bases with no outs in the second inning, but Carroll induced a double play and a groundout to give up just one run. De Aza misplayed the fly ball to start the fourth and ignited a four-hit rally coupled with a pair of walks, but some bad baserunning by New York helped Carroll escape with just two runs.
Carlos Beltran led off the sixth inning with a solo home run to right field and Martin Prado scored on a sacrifice fly, aided by Nieto's blunder.
"That's what is weird and frustrating about baseball, but that's why we love it, because there are so many things that can happen," Carroll said. "That's what is frustrating is that this line isn't indicative of how well I can throw the ball. I'm just going to take the positives out of this, get back on track and get ready for the next start."
The White Sox took an early 1-0 lead with a pair of a doubles by Conor Gillaspie and Alexei Ramirez to start the second inning, before Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda struck out the side. Abreu drove in his 94th run, which leads the American League, in the fifth with a single that plated Alejandro De Aza.
But Kuroda (9-8) kept the White Sox hitters off balance through his six innings, yielding only five hits and two runs while fanning six.
"The fact that I was able to keep the game close to give my team a chance, I'm really proud of that," Kuroda said through an interpreter. "To get a win is the biggest thing for me today."
The Yankees had not scored more than four runs in more than two weeks before the White Sox arrived in the Bronx, a place they have not been able to figure out recently. Chicago has dropped seven consecutive games at Yankee Stadium.
Jamal Collier 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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Features specific to Report Builder 2.0 are focused on simplifying the process of
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Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise
SQL Server User Group. We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone
enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS). I tried to
balance the presentation between those who hadn't used SSIS and those who have.
If you are interested in the sample projects, packages, and data files from the talk, here they
The newly formed Boise SQL
Server User Group kicks off its first meeting with Kalen
Delaney on June 25, 2008.
I'm happy to see a Microsoft SQL Server user group in Boise. It will fit nicely with
the other development and SharePoint groups in town.
For more information, contact Cindy
Gross of Microsoft.
It's generally known that if you want to run any tests, code analysis, or database
project build/deployment that you need to install one or more Team Edition of VSTS
on your build server. What's not so well known are the licensing ramifications around
these scenarios.
Fortunately Jeff Beehler,
Team System Chief of Staff, has posted
on this subject.
To summarize:
If the users creating the builds are licensed users of the edition in question
(or Team Suite), that license extends to Team Foundation Build and you don't need
to purchase an additional license. One way to think about it is: the people that are
using the Team editions need to be properly licensed which in turn ensures the that
the build machines are covered as well. Users who merely queue (execute) and review
the automated builds are only required to have a Team Foundation Server CAL.
Back home now, and I have a moment to get the photos downloaded from my camera and
uploaded to my blog. Next time I'll take my SD card reader with me.
As you can see, registration was quite busy. I heard that there were 4000 people there,
but didn't count them myself. The long lines delayed the keynote by about an hour:
Douglas McDowell and I snuck into the press area. Well, he was officially press (SQL
Server Magazine), but I wasn't - still I took more notes than most of the other pressies
The main screen was huge, and 3D. We estimated about 80' wide and 20' tall. When no
slides were on the screen, there was a spinning 3D Earth enclosed in curley brackets.
Hey, what about VB?
After the keynote, there was a short walk to the LA convention center, where the breakout
sessions, chalk-talks, exhibitor area, etc. Fortunately, we had these interpretive
dancers along the way to keep us from getting lost.
The line to lunch was too long, so we ducked inside to check out the exhibitor area.
I was there (where it says "You Are Here")
Attendees attending one of Doug
Seven's chalk talks on Team System.
Doug was all about the writing
quality code and the 3 C's in his talk (Code Coverage, Code Analysis, and the
new Code
After I turned in my evaluation form, I picked up the attendee bag, which had
lots of goodies, including a hard-bound, coffee-table style book called "Heroes Happen
Here" which contains IT heroes from all around the world, photographed by Carolyn
Jones. And yes, I got my book signed!
Time flies. It's been a year since Dr. Gray, a Microsoft research fellow and Turing
Award-winner, went missing while
sailing off San Francisco. A year ago, at Boise Code Camp 2.0, I hosted a session
on finding Jim
Gray, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Now, a year after Dr. Gray went missing, the Association
of Computing Machinery (the organization that holds the Turing Awards), the IEEE
Computer Society and the University of California-Berkeley have joined to announce
a tribute to Gray, planned for May 31 at the UC Berkeley campus. Jim Gray attended
UC Berkeley from 1961 to 1969 and earned the school's very first Ph.D. in computer
science. Fittingly enough, the tribute will also feature technical sessions for registered
You can find more information about the tribute here:
It seems that the US Tech-Ed is following Europe's lead, by breaking up the one large
conference into two: one for developers and one for IT professionals.
Both events will have a similar format with the past Tech·Eds, but will focus on a
single audience instead of a mixed audience, which was the case with the previous
Tech·Ed model.
Visit the main Tech-Ed
site for more information, including some FAQs.
I just came across this download at
Microsoft. It provides an introduction to the concepts and step by step instructions
for creating and customizing TFS reports.
The zip file contains instructional PDF documents as well as several sample reports.
Way to go Microsoft, and SQL Server 2005!
For the first time in the report's history, Microsoft is positioned in the Leader
quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS. The analysts say that
SQL Server 2005 is expected to grow in the data warehouse space and Microsoft's vision
for SQL Server 2008 makes clear the company's intent to become a major presence in
the data warehouse market.
Read more about this great announcement here.
Thanks to the Team System Rangers (an elite squad of TFS experts inside Microsoft)
for putting together this document, which serves as a single point of entry into the
world of TFS Operations as well as Microsoft's recommended operational best practices.
So, start learning/mastering TFS operations by clicking here.
Microsoft has released a new version of VSTS Web Access Power tool. This
release is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of what will ultimately be the 2008
version of the VSTS Web Access Power Tool.
This release (and the final 2008 release) can be used with either a TFS 2005 or a
TFS 2008 server. In either case, you will need to install a TFS 2008 Team Explorer
on the machine you install Web Access on. Since TFS 2005 did not support build
queuing, that functionality will not be available when this and future versions of
Web Access are used with a 2005 server.
You can download it here and
read more about it at Brian
Harry's blog posting.
Microsoft's Patterns
& Practices group recently released the final version of the "Team Development
with Team Foundation Server" Guide. This guide has been in beta for the last couple
of months.
It shows you how to get the most out of Team Foundation Server to help improve
the effectiveness of your team-based software development. Whether you are already
using Team Foundation Server or adopting from scratch, you'll find guidance and insights
you can tailor for your specific scenarios. It's a collaborative effort between patterns
& practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.
Some quick facts:
Download the guide from CodePlex.
Yesterday, Microsoft released a
tool to migrate from IBM ClearCase to
Find more information on TFS migration topics, keep an eye on this blog.
My students this week told me about the new
version. I remember using the original XML Notepad, and it was great, very simple.
For the longest time, I couldn't find it on Microsoft's site to download, and then
a newer version showed up on CodePlex.