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A look at the Minnesota Timberwolves heading into the 2012-13 NBA season:
The big story
The Timberwolves have been called a dark horse in the Western Conference so many times that it's hard to consider them a dark horse anymore. But, for a franchise that has not been in the playoffs since 2004, there is reason for excitement.
It starts with star forward Kevin Love, who signed a four-year, $60 million contract extension last season that keeps him in Minnesota—then proved to be worth it by averaging 26.0 points and 13.3 rebounds, earning an All-Star spot and a place on the Olympic team. Love is the cornerstone that the Timberwolves have been looking for since they traded Kevin Garnett five years ago, and Love will be an MVP candidate for years to come.
The Wolves envision a future inside-outside star combo involving Love and much-hyped point guard Ricky Rubio, who made a splashy debut as a rookie last season. Rubio's scoring numbers were, as expected, lacking (10.6 points, 35.7 percent shooting), but he proved to be an adept floor leader, averaging 8.2 assists. His defense was stellar, too, as he showed good fundamentals and averaged 2.2 steals.
With Rubio running new coach Rick Adelman's offense, the Timberwolves had a good start last season, but they crumbled after Rubio went down with a knee injury. The team quickly fell out of playoff contention and went 5-20 without Rubio in the lineup.
Having played a year under Adelman, the Wolves had time to evaluate some of their young players and figure out where the holes are. Gone are Wesley Johnson and Michael Beasley, but they won't be missed much. The Timberwolves signed shooting guard Brandon Roy, who came out of retirement after repeated knee problems, and are hopeful that he can recapture some semblance of his former ability. They also signed veteran small forward Andrei Kirilenko, who is coming back to the NBA after playing in Russia last year. Wing Chase Budinger gives the Timberwolves a much-needed 3-point threat, and center Greg Stiemsma adds depth to the frontcourt. The Wolves also landed Russian rookie guard Alexey Shved, who is 23 and has high upside.
Ultimately, it is still the Love and Rubio show in Minnesota, and how those two develop will determine the Timberwolves' fortunes. But this is a deep, experienced team that is primed to make a playoff charge.
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The Timberwolves finally stopped forcing Darko Milicic into a starting role he could not handle last season, and that worked out well because the team had another center from a former Yugoslav republic—Montenegro native Nikola Pekovic—who was most definitely ready to start. Pekovic was the first pick in the second round of the '08 draft, and after he played limited minutes two years ago, he had his breakthrough last season, averaging 13.9 points and 7.4 rebounds while shooting 56.4 percent.
That was in just 26.9 minutes per game. On a 36-minute-per-game basis, Pekovic averaged 18.5 points and 9.9 rebounds. He remained something of a secret weapon only because his contribution was obscured by Rubio's arrival and because the Timberwolves were not a playoff team.
Part of the reason they were not a playoff team was that Pekovic was dealing with a bad ankle and wound up missing 19 games. That's something that bears watching this season—big guys with ankle troubles are always reason to raise the caution flag. Pekovic had surgery to remove bone spurs from his right ankle in May, but he also had problems with his left ankle, though that may have been a matter of overcompensating for the other injury.
Pekovic is coming into the season having lost weight and saying he is 100 percent back from the surgery. He is the ideal complement to Love inside, so the Timberwolves will watch his health closely.
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Coach Rick Adelman's ball-sharing offense was a welcome change from the triangle that Kurt Rambis had been running. Even though the Timberwolves played fast last year—they ranked fourth overall in pace (an estimated 93.3 possessions per 48 minutes)—they played more under control in the halfcourt and upped their efficiency in doing so.
But the problem for this team remains defense, something that has never been a strength for Adelman. The Timberwolves can and will put up high-scoring games, especially now that they have ironed out the roster and have established a more straightforward rotation. They are not going to cash in on their potential, though, unless they get much better on the defensive end.
They have had particular problems guarding pick-and-rolls, and a healthy Rubio should improve them in that area. Love has gotten better as a defender and does not get pushed around in the post as easily, but for Adelman, the defensive wildcard will be Kirilenko. He can play either forward spot and is an excellent shot blocker. Finding a way to get Kirilenko in the paint, where he can intimidate penetrators, will be a key to making this defense better.
Outside view (from a Western Conference scout)
"Rick Adelman's offense is not really complicated, but what it does is, it requires that you have a lot of time working with each other so you really get a feel for what your teammates want and how to read the defense and what your reactions should be. They did not have that last year, and I also don't think they had a whole lot of high-IQ kind of guys. So even though they were playing better, you give them more time to work together, more practice time, more of a chance for Rick to put in his wrinkles in his offense, they're going to be that much better."
Inside view (from Kevin Love)
"I like what we have brought in. I think this team, as we are, if everybody is healthy, we should be in the playoffs and should be able to play for a long time. Guys like Andrei and Chase and everyone, we have veterans here who want to win.
"I'm not saying our locker room was divided that last season, but for some guys they had a date circled on their calendar. It wasn't the one that said this is going to be our first day of the playoffs; it was 'Oh, this is the day I get to go home.' I don't think we have any guys on our team like that this year."
Our view
It's time for the playoff payoff for the Timberwolves. For years, they have been scrounging up draft picks, trying to slough off a few poor decisions and attempting to build a team around Love that can be a factor in the Western Conference. Now, it finally looks like they will get there. Much depends on the health of Rubio and Pekovic, but if those two come back strong, with the addition of the veterans they signed this summer, the Timberwolves should have the depth to crack the top eight in the West.
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Projected rotation
The moves the Timberwolves made in the offseason left the roster with two attributes it has sorely lacked in recent years: depth and experience. Minnesota will have to weather the injury to Rubio, who might not return until early January, but the Wolves now have the kind of tested players who should be able to handle that.
PG: Ricky Rubio
SG: Brandon Roy
SF: Andrei Kirilenko
PF: Kevin Love
C: Nikola Pekovic
Chase Budinger, F
Luke Ridnour, G
J.J. Barea, G
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Where would school nutrition standards be without First Lady Michelle Obama? The lady has certainly done more than her share to promote healthy eating in the last several years, and her remarks to school nutrition leaders yesterday were another example of her forceful presence. If Republicans are pushing back against school nutrition standards as a political statement against the Obama Administration, that is unfortunate. Here are some of the first lady's remarks May 27:
Because of you and your colleagues across the country, today, tens of millions of children are eating healthier school meals that finally meet modern nutrition standards, by the way, that were developed by experts at the Institute of Medicine, and based on sound science.
And I know that this type of major transformation of our nation's school lunch program hasn't been easy. The truth is that when it came to the food being served in our schools, we had our work cut out for us. Our school lunch program costs taxpayers more than $10 billion a year. And before these new standards, a lot of that money was spent on meals that had more than the recommended amounts of salt, sugar and fat -- meals that weren't meeting basic nutrition guidelines.
But today, thanks to the hard work of school chefs, food service workers across the country, 90 percent of schools are now meeting modern nutrition standards. That's a good thing. And the USDA is working to provide greater flexibility and more assistance to help the remaining schools catch up.
So today, kids across America are eating more fruits and vegetables -- let's hear it -- (applause) -- more low-fat dairy products and whole grains. And as a result of these changes, in many school districts -- which is important to note -- the number of students participating in the school lunch program has actually increased. And today, more importantly, parents across the country finally have some peace of mind about what their kids are eating during the school day.
But unfortunately, despite these successes, we're now seeing efforts in Congress to roll back these new standards and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have done on behalf of our kids. And this is unacceptable. It's unacceptable to me not just as First Lady, but as a mother. I know that right now, because I have talked to so many parents, so many teachers, so many kids write me every day. And more families are realizing that we are facing a health crisis in this country. We're now realizing that childhood obesity is a real issue. And so many families are looking for help now in their efforts to find new ways to feed their families balanced meals.
So moms and dads don't want their efforts undermined when they send their kids off to school. Parents have a right to expect that their kids will get decent food in our schools. And we all have a right to expect that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars won't be spent on junk food for our kids.
And the stakes just couldn't be higher on this issue. Because one in three children in this country are still overweight or obese, and one in three are on track to develop diabetes in their lifetimes. Those are real statistics. And we currently spend $190 billion a year treating obesity-related conditions -- and just imagine what those numbers are going to look like in 10 or 20 years if we don't start working on this problem now, if we don't solve it today.
So the last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids' health, especially when we're finally starting to see some progress on this issue. We're starting to move the curve on this. And folks like all of you have worked so hard to meet these new standards, and now is not the time to roll back everything that we have worked for. Our kids deserve so much better than that. They really do.
And as parents, there is nothing that we would not do for our kids -- there is nothing. Not a thing. We always put our kids' interests first. We wake up every morning and we go to bed every night thinking and worrying about the health and well-being of our kids. I know I do that with my kids, and I do it with every kid in this country.
And when we make decisions about our kids' health, we want those decisions to be guided by doctors and nutritionists. We want decisions that rely on the best information based on sound science. And that's what we expect from our leaders in Washington, as well.
So it is up to us to hold them accountable. It's up to us to let them know that we're going to follow what's going on here in Washington, and we expect them to act based on our children's best interests. And I know this work isn't easy. Transforming the health of an entire generation is no small task. But we have to be willing to fight the hard fight now. This is what I tell myself. In 10 or 20 years, I don't want to look back with regret and think that we gave up on our kids because we felt like this thing was too hard, or too expensive. We owe our kids way more than that.
TK: No matter the outcome of the appropriations committee process and the eventual status of school nutrition standards, the fresh produce industry should hold a gala "thank you" party for the first lady at some future date. She has earned any praise directed her way. The next first lady won't embrace nutrition issues the way Michelle Obama has, that much is certain. For the fresh produce industry, more is the pity.

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Saraswati Beej Mantra
Prostrations to Mother Sarasvati
Varade Kamarupini
Vidyarambam Karishyami
Siddhir Bhavatu Me Sada
O Goddess Saraswathi;
Salutations to you
The giver of boons - The one who fulfills desires.
I shall begin my studies.
May there always be accomplishment for me.
Saraswati Vandana
May Goddess Saraswati,
who is fair like the Jasmine colored moon
and whose garland is like frosty dew drops,
who is adorned with radiant white clothes
and on whose beautiful palm and arm rests the Veena,
those throne is a white lotus, and who is surrounded and
respected by Gods beginning with Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and
Lord Mahesh, protect me. I beseech Her to totally
remove my laziness and sluggishness.
Saraswathi Gayatri Mantra
Om Vakdeviyai cha Vidhmahe,
Virinji Pathniyai cha Dheemahe,
Thanno Vani Prachodayath.
Oh, wife of Lord Brahma, give me higher intellect,
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Patiently made using a 1,000 year old method. Organic brown rice, koji, and spring water are blended and fermented outdoors in clay crocks and aged eight months. Precious, sweet, smooth, and mellow. Enhances almost any food and it's essential to make good sushi rice. 4.5% acidity. Great chefs insist on this sweet traditional brew, please discover why.
Eden Organic Brown Rice Vinegar is a stimulating and versatile seasoning. It is full bodied without the usual sharpness of vinegar. In cooking, brown rice vinegar helps to balance salt and adds interest by providing a contrast of flavors. Use it as you would any other fine vinegar. It is an excellent condiment sprinkled over vegetables and grain.
Eden Organic Brown Rice Vinegar is made from organically grown, cooked brown rice Oryza sative, koji Aspergillus oryzae, a small amount of seed vinegar from a previous batch and pure water. These ingredients are blended and placed in earthenware crocks that are partially buried outdoors in the earth, covered and fermented for about eight months. The enzymes in the koji break down the complex starches in the rice, converting them to simple sugars. Yeast from the koji and seed vinegar further break down the sugar into alcohol. Bacteria in the seed vinegar then converts the alcohol to acetic acid or vinegar. 4.5 percent acidity.
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I dunno what is in there but the dog takes one smell and regardless of how he feels, downs it. The minute I open the resealable bag the cat shows up. I canot tell if this makes my old dog any calmer but he sure adores it!
noticable calming effect
Posted by iHerb Customer on Nov 27, 2010 | Verified Purchase
i give a larger dose than recommended. Effects not immediate so i give about an hour before vet, event etc.
I am pleasantly surprised.
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I had my doubts about these chews as far as calming my skittish dog, but they really work. She always was nervous when riding in the car and would pant and work herself into a nervous frenzy. Not any more. On days we are going to travel any distance, I give my 14 lb. terrier two of these tiny chews the morning of our trip. She seems calm but not drugged. She curls up and falls asleep after a few minutes on the road. They have even helped with her fear of fireworks. Although it hasn't gone away completely, it is noticeably better. I will always have these in my pantry.
very good.
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nice small size, and my dog loves them. She is over 25 pounds, so i have to give her 2 a day. They do help her to be calm. She has anxiety issues.
Seem to work
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I have tried at least 5 different natural dog calming products (with valerian, chamomile, L-Tryptophan, GABA and flower extracts) these seem to work better than any of the others and my dog loves them.


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hi everyone,
i am a 31 year old female diagnosed with SLE 3 years ago. although things often appear to be getting better thanks to quensyl (plaquenil in america) and learning how to relax when my body tells me to, i still get SO frustrated whenever the big ugly wolf shows up.
the last few days have some of the worst i can remember. i have the "electric" feeling in my joints and muscles, i can't sleep well at night, my heart is beating very quickly and i change between hot and cold so quickly and on top of all that my head gets so foggy when i feel like this!
so my husband was just trying to cheer me up and we started coming up with names for my "other" partner (lupus).
i thought some of these were pretty appropriate for the terror that lupus can cause, hopefully they can make others laugh like it did for me...
Osama Bin Lupus
Slobodan Miloselupus
Benito Lupolini
Adolupus Hitler
that's all we've got for now. any others? :P


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The Special Olympics Southern California -- the local contingent of the international sports organization founded by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver in her back yard in 1966 -- has just rolled out its fourth fundraiser drawing featuring a custom Italian-style villa in Encino valued at $4 million -- or cash payout of $2 million - as its grand-prize drawing.
The minimum cost to enter is $150 for a single ticket. If at least 60,000 tickets are sold in the drawing, the prize house will be awarded on June 9 during the organization's regional Summer Games at California State University, Long Beach.
"With the real-estate market coming back a little bit, we wanted something with real `pop' and that shows well, something that's enticing," said Bill Shumard, president and CEO of Special Olympics Southern California.
"And so we felt this was the right time and environment to up the ante."
The group has not sold enough tickets to award a house in the last three years (the owners keep their houses), but the effort is still lucrative. Last year's home was a 1917 Hollywood Hills mansion, and ticket sales netted more than $850,000, which was split by the winner and the organization. That was the biggest fundraiser to date.
With a more valuable home offered this time around, and better odds of winning more prizes offered than before, raffle director Neal Zeavy says this could be a banner year.
Ticket sales are up by 50 percent so far over previous years, he said.
"It's kind of like the Powerball or the Lottery," Zeavy says. "The more valuable the prize, the more excited people get."
The 2013 prize house is 7,500 square feet and has six bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms. It is located in an upscale neighborhood south of Ventura Boulevard. With its pink stucco facade and multilevel red tile roof, the recently built three-story villa sits atop a hill accessed by stairs that cut through its drought-tolerant landscaping.
It has all the luxuries of a grand estate. On the entry-level floor is a gourmet-style kitchen with a granite island that opens onto the family room. Open doorways direct the flow from one room to another, including the dining room with its custom chandelier, past the wine alcove to the game room with a fireplace.
Up the stairs to the second floor is a grand master suite with his-and-her walk-in closets and a sauna. The showstoppers include the indoor wood panel elevator and the backyard pool and hot tub area, complete with grotto and cascading waterfalls that glow in various colors at the push of a button.
The Dream House Raffle is Special Olympics Southern California's biggest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds benefit programs for more than 12,000 intellectually disabled athletes across Southern California, from San Diego to San Luis Obispo.
During our visit to the house, athletes from Riverside filed in, filling the luxurious living space with their lively banter. They talked about their trip this week to South Korea as part of the Team USA floor hockey team at the 2013 World Winter Games in Pyeongchang - paid for, in part, by proceeds from last year's Dream House Raffle.
When the team returns to the U.S., it will do so with torch in hand in preparation for the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.
"A raffle like this keeps it all going, not only for these 16 people, but for an entire Southern California community of special- needs special athletes," says John Webber, head coach of the floor hockey team and father of a team member. "We have basketball players, swimmers, bocce ball players and golfers who benefit year-round from what this type of promotion does on the Southern California level."
And so the raffle is back, yet new and improved. There are now discounts for multi-ticket purchases, including three for $400 and five for $550, respectively.
Those who purchase tickets before the early-bird deadlines of Feb. 15, March 15 and April 12 are eligible to win prizes leading up to the big drawing, thereby increasing the odds of winning to 1 in 50. The monthly drawings include cash prizes ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 or a choice of a vacation or a luxury vehicle.
There is also a "refer-a-friend" drawing for a chance at $15,000 or a Smart car. In addition, prizes will be awarded on the day of the grand-prize drawing.
The raffle closes May 24.
Special Olympics Southern California 4th Annual Dream House RaffleWhat: A $4 million Italian-style villa - or $2 million in cash - plus hundreds of other prizes are offered in the sports organization's biggest fundraiser of the year.
Tickets: $150; $400 for three, $550 for five. For tickets or more information, go to socalraffle.com or call 800-816-6108.


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Remembering Johan Westra
On Sunday, November 7, 2010, Johan Westra, age 88, passed away peacefully at his home. Westra '52 taught at Calvin College for 27 years. He was the college's first full-time political science professor.
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Stephen Colbert, the Emmy-award winning host of Comedy Central "The Colbert Report," will star in two Super Bowl ad spots for Wonderful Pistachios and launch a new twist on the five-year "Get Crackin" advertising campaign.
The Super Bowl ads will be the second consecutive Super Bowl appearance for Wonderful Pistachios and will launch a full-year agreement with Colbert under the campaign theme, "Get Crackin,' America," according to a news release from the company.
Los Angeles-based Paramount Farms, which is part of Roll Global, launched the "Get Crackin'" spots in 2008 and has featured pop culture icons including PSY, Dennis Rodman, the Honey Badger, and Snooki from the TV series "Jersey Shore."
The 2014 Super Bowl ads have been shot but won't be aired until the Feb. 2 NFL game, Marjorie Brevidoro, spokeswoman for Wonderful Pistachios, said in an e-mail.
Colbert's dry wit is evident in the Wonderful Pistachio's news release about the campaign.
"Since I was a child, I've dreamed of working with America's premiere nut company," Colbert said in the release. "The fact that it turns out to be the good folks at Wonderful Pistachios is just the pistachio on top of the ice cream sundae."
As part of the full-year agreement, Colbert and Wonderful Pistachios' in-house creative agency FireStation will create several ads highlighting the Get Crackin,' America rallying cry, according to the release. The advertising will be supported by in-store point-of-sale materials, public relations, digital and social media, according to the release.
"Last year's Super Bowl spot featuring PSY drove significant brand awareness and incredible buzz among consumers," Marc Seguin, vice president of marketing for Paramount Farms, which grows Wonderful Pistachios, said in the release. "This year, we wanted to extend and deepen that enthusiasm beyond the Super Bowl with talent that excites and resonates with our core consumer target over the full year. Mr. Colbert is the perfect fit for our brand and for this campaign."
Brevidoro said the Get Crackin' campaign has been very successful, with Wonderful Pistachios now ranked as the ninth-best selling salty snack item in America. She said the eight-ounce package of Wonderful Pistachios rates more than $100 million in retail sales annually. Brevidoro said the number of households buying pistachios has grown more than 100% since the beginning of the Get Crackin' campaign, from about 15.9 million households in 2009 to more than 33 million households in May 2013.
More information about the campaign can be found at www.getcrackin.com.


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Parts of Tienken Road in Rochester Hills will be closed this summer for the first phase of a reconstruction project that will include a continuous center left-turn lane when completed.
The $2 million project, which will be handled by New Haven-based Pamar Enterprises, will shut down Tienken east of Rochester Road to Sheldon Road, according to Craig Bryson, Road Commission for Oakland County's public information officer.
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Bryson said $1.6 million of the costs are being covered through federal funding while the remaining $400,000 is being picked up by the road commission and Rochester Hills.
Westbound local traffic will be open throughout the duration of the project, expected to begin June 15.
Traffic on eastbound Tienken will be detoured to Rochester to Avon Road to Dequindre Road to Runyon Road; from Sheldon, Tienken to Runyon to Avon to Dequindre to Rochester; and from westbound Washington Road, Dequindre to Avon to Rochester.
Construction should be completed by mid-November, Bryson said.
The entire Tienken Road reconstruction stretches from Livernois Road to Sheldon Road, Bryson said. The second phase, from west of Livernois to Rochester, should begin next spring and be finished around the end of summer, he added.
A public meeting in an open house format to discuss the first phase of the project will be held May 30 at Stoney Creek High School located at 575 E. Tienken Road, Rochester from 4 to 7 p.m.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The major U.S. equity averages closed mixed Tuesday, paring losses that followed in the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke weighing in on the fiscal cliff. "Currently, uncertainties about the situation in Europe and especially about the prospects for federal fiscal policy seem to be weighing on the spending decisions of households and businesses as well as on financial conditions," Bernanke said in a speech before the Economic Club of New York. "Such uncertainties will only be increased by discord and delay." The market was already weak ahead of the speech but stocks fell to session lows after Bernanke said he believes "
c oming together to find fiscal solutions will not be easy, but the stakes are high" and reminded investors that the federal debt limit also needs to be raised early in 2013. While housing market data was positive once again, downcast news revealed in Dow heavyweight Hewlett-Packard's ( HPQ) latest quarterly results was a big headwind for the broad market as well. The no. 1 PC maker fell short of Wall Street's revenue expectations and recorded a massive $8.8 billion charge in relation to its now-disastrous $10.3 billion acquisition of U.K. software maker Autonomy. Shares of HP, which is alleging Autonomy misrepresented its financials, fell 12%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped more than 7 points, or 0.06%, to close at 12,789. The blue-chip index, which rallied more than 1% on Monday, is now up 4.67% in 2012. Winners outpaced losers within the Dow, 17 to 13. Bank of America ( BAC), American Express ( AXP), and Disney ( DIS) were all up more than 1%. Aside from HP, the Dow's biggest decliners were Alcoa ( AA), Chevron ( CVX), and Intel ( INTC). Intel shares fell 3.6% after the stock was cut to neutral from buy at UBS, which referenced uncertainties surrounding the chipmaker's CEO changes. The world's biggest semiconductor company surprised Wall Street Monday with the announcement that Paul Otellini is planning to retire as chief executive officer in May. After Monday's close, JPMorgan named Marianne Lake as its next chief financial officer, succeeding Doug Braunstein, who is becoming the bank's vice chairman. Lake, currently the financial chief of the company's consumer and community banking business, is expected to transition into the CFO role during the first quarter of 2013. The S&P 500 gained less than a point, or 0.07%, to settle at 1388, and the Nasdaq also rose less than a point, or 0.02%, to finish at 2902. The weakest sectors in the broad market were technology, transportation and energy. Capital goods, financials, health care, services and consumer non-cyclicals closed in the green. Advancers outpaced decliners on the New York Stock Exchange by a 1.3-to-1 ratio, but losers slightly beat winners by a 1.1-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. Volume totaled 3.20 billion on the Big Board and 1.59 billion on the Nasdaq.
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Providence Ministries and New Beginning Baptist Church would like to thank the community for their support of the benefit held for Jayne Rocks on Saturday, March 19. Thanks to your generosity, a net profit of $3, 768.77 to help offset medical bills was presented to Keith and Jayne by Mr. Walt Rode, organizer of the benefit and Pastors Jimmy Sumner and Chris Ruggles. The benefit committee would also like to thank the many people who provided cakes, food and their time to make this event a success.
The article by Mrs. Jones, Editor of the Chiefland Citizen, insinuates that I am opposed to a hospital being developed in the Chiefland area. That is absolutely untrue. One is needed, that we all can agree on. Mrs. Jones heard me state that publicly on two separate occasions. My statement on a "MASH-style" emergency facility to stabilize patients, was suggested to replace the hospital, if it did not materialize.
Dear Jerry (Administrator of the Tri-County Hospital of Williston),
I met you last Thursday when I was leaving Tri-County Hospital after a three-day stay. Please allow me the opportunity to brag on these members of the hospital staff who were responsible for the positive experience I had during my recent stay in your health care facility in my hometown of Williston.
Hi, I'm Lashae Smith, and I live right here in Chiefland. I'm trying to be an actor, singer, dancer and model. I was selected out of hundreds of other contestants and received a call back to attend AMTC, an acting, modeling and talent competition. It's a Christian company that's been in business for 26 years. It's pretty famous, and I'm excited about it. I will be seen by agents from around the world who have launched thousands of careers.
While acting as branch librarian, and the only employee, I recruited and trained several volunteers. Many years later, when retiring, the volunteers stayed on. Operating the library without volunteers was almost impossible.
After a few years of driving for Meals on Wheels, and training for the old VOICE program at the Levy County Sheriffs Department, and for Guardian Ad Litem, (both of which required finger printing), I noticed the library was in need of volunteers.
I firmly believe in the concept of community gardens as a way of supplying healthy produce and providing much needed exercise for the gardeners. It is an excellent educational tool to teach children, and some adults, where our food comes from and how difficult it can be to produce. If done correctly, a community garden is a valuable addition to an area.
Once upon a time in Levy County, there was a great and wondrous place called Gulf Hammock. The rivers, streams, and springs ran clear and free. The flora and fauna was the richest in the land. One could walk for miles and not see another human being, or any kind of structure to impede their vision while taking in all that nature had to offer. It acted as a buffer for the riches of Waccasassa Bay.
For some time the citizens of the tri-county area have expressed support for the development of a full-service hospital in Chiefland, The purpose of this letter is to bring you up to date on the progress of the project and to ask you to participate in a short survey that can be found on page B5 of the Chiefland Citizen.
Three years ago I was hired by Tarmac as a receptionist to work part time in their Inglis office. I was already working one part-time job, so the extra work with Tarmac was really helpful. It allowed me to basically work full-time, which is hard to do in this economy since there just aren't many good jobs available. My job with Tarmac was even more important when I got laid off from my other job two years ago. It would have been difficult working only part time I would have only working part-time, but Tarmac increases my hours to make up for part of my lost hours.
The Greater Chiefland Area Chamber of Commerce would like to say thank you to all our sponsors and local businesses that donated to our Annual Citizen of the Year Banquet.
We had a huge turnout and all had a wonderful evening of great music, delightful food and enjoyable fellowship.
We would also like to say congratulations to Paige and Loran Brookins for being our 2010 Citizens of the Year.
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Editor's note: This market commentary is provided by the Dairy Division at FCStone in Chicago, Ill.
Class III was off to the races yesterday, settling anywhere from +.10 to +.55 on the day, with July rallying nearly 60 cents before closing just off its highs. Buoyed by a rally in spot, contradicting the last four weeks of lower trade action, the 2013 contracts all settled above $18.00 cwt. with the July-Dec pack now trading near $18.60, off its recent 90-day low of $18.38. Technically, we might very well have put in a bottom.
Yesterday's rally was strong and widespread on strong volume, nearby months were marred by a drop in OI indicating short covering with strong increased OI in the deferred contracts. We suspect more short covering is to come should the spot market remain firm. This has been a declining market for over a month now, but anticipated weather shifts in California might change the flow of the tide. Central Valley California is headed for strong heat as the National Weather Service issued warnings of extreme heat on Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8 where temperatures are expected to exceed 110 degrees. This is a stark reminder that summer is upon us and with that the potential for production problems due to excessive heat.
Spot Session Results
Block cheese: $1.735 (up 2.75 cents)
Barrel cheese: $1.73 (up 4.5 cents)
Grade A NFDM: $1.685 (up 0.5 cent)
Butter: $1.54 (unchanged)
In the grain complex, Dec corn settled down 10.75 cents to 542.50, while Nov beans settled down 16.00 cents to 1300.00. New crop values collapsed on improved planting weather, some speculation of slowing demand, and ethanol use reaching a plateau. Strong South American soybean shipments did not help in terms of price support in beans.
With that being said, weather will be a driving factor in the short term. With a majority of corn in the ground, too much rain or too much heat could cause some issues as far as abandoned acres, replanting and switch-over acres.
New crop is once again gaining on old crop and probably has some room to run. The Goldman roll will begin in earnest this Friday. As mentioned previously, at these levels one may want to explore option strategies to mitigate any adverse price swings; end-users of corn should be thinking along the lines of min/max's around 4.70 min and 6.10 max. Grain prices have come under some pressure this week, but despite true weakness in equities and ethanol the grain markets have not totally capitulated. It won't be easy to get cheap corn prices ― we've said that all season. Once we are passed planting concerns, we'll have more weather and crop condition concerns. So even if we do get cheaper, it will likely be amidst tense price action.
This morning, we look for corn and wheat to open mixed from -3 to +3 cents and soybeans to be steady to 6 lower.
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Food safety can be a useful marketing tool, and it doesn't have to cost a lot, according to organizers of the Ohio Produce Marketing Agreement.
The OPMA is a self-described grassroots effort that includes a network of Ohio growers who execute standards and inspections that members say are "realistic, sensible and affordable."
The program has several levels that suit growing operations of various scopes, functions and business models, according to Lisa Schacht, president of the board of directors of the Columbus-based Ohio Produce Growers & Marketers Association, which developed the program.
"The need for that program is significant because there's a real concern to address the issue of foodborne illness," Schacht said.
The advantage to OPMA is it can adjust to the needs of different members, Schacht said.
"Just like the California Leafy Greens tried to push the national leafy greens, there was concern that a region wouldn't be able to comply, and we thought we needed to have something that was a little more suitable for our area," she said.
OPMA serves that need, she said.
"What we need now is that it could be recognized by that and pushed for a certification program for growers," Schacht said.
The costs of larger-scale certification programs are not a problem with OPMA, Schacht said.
"They're exceptional producers and have good quality product that could be in stores if distributors were satisfied by a certification program like the produce marketing agreement," she said.
The agreement is still in its development stages, but it is progressing through the state legislature, Schacht said.
"Ohio didn't have a legislative vehicle in our revised code for marketing agreements to be established," she said.
The industry expects that it will have no problems getting the backing of state government, Schacht said.
"Once we have that in place, we can finalize the marketing agreement and hopefully see it move much quicker," she said.
OPMA hasn't pushed up sales, but it could be an important step for Ohio's industry, said Bill Schuler, president and chief executive officer of the Wilder, Ky.-based Castellini Group.
"I applaud the effort of the Ohio farmers committee trying to get out front and develop their own marketing agreement, but at the end of the day, it's got to meet standards set forth by the Food Safety and Modernization Act, which I know it will," he said.
Tony DiNovo, president of Columbus-based wholesaler DNO Inc., said he believes strongly in the OPMA.
"We were pushing it ... because traceability is an important part of our business," he said.
The company is trying to get smaller growers to comply, with some success, DiNovo said.
"We feel it's taking us in the right direction," he said.


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This Joint Programme will include the ongoing and planned operations of UNIDO, ESCWA, UNDP, ITC, ILO, FAO, WFP and UNCTAD.
After consulting with the United Nations Resident Coordinator and all the concerned agencies, the mission met with four Palestinian Ministers (National Economy, Planning, Agriculture and Labour) and the Deputy Minister of Finance, representatives from the civil society, and six representatives from the donor community.
All parties expressed their support for this initiative. It was highlighted that the initiative will have a critical and positive impact on an area that needs special attention for the recovery and sustained development of the war-torn Palestinian economy. It was agreed to continue the serious efforts to roll out, and seek funding for the implementation of, this initiative in the oPt.
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WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) is a message-oriented middleware for controlling and automating a smart home. It comes with working services and devices. WOSH is an open multi-platform C++ framework. Its architecture is service (bundles) oriented and designed for distributed (cloud) computing. WOSH ships with library source, many services, and some applications (a server, a trayicon remote controller, and a GUI full-controller). Some features provided by its micro-kernel are a multi-user system with access policies, a centralized database manager and system monitor, and automatic network management and masquerading (on TCP). Some of the implemented services are: multimedia audio playback, monitor and control of X10 devices, remote control using instant messaging, and a remote control using SMS and call notification.
NNDB is a C++ library that provides in-memory data storage and retrieval using syntax that is intended to feel natural for C++/STL, but which also might feel slightly like SQL if you squint and pound the top of your head with a seminal programming textbook. Columns types are fixed at compile-time and checked by the compiler.


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That will work itself out.
The often-injured guard, who will graduate from Indiana next week, will play his final college basketball season at another school after deciding to transfer. Because he will be a college graduate, he is eligible to play right away while working on a graduate degree. Indications are he'll seek a school closer to his Maryland home.
The reason, he said in a Wednesday university release, is simple:
More playing time.
"I want to thank Hoosier Nation for their support during my four years at IU," Creek said. "I am grateful that Coach (Tom) Crean gave me the opportunity to come to Indiana University. As much as anyone, he has helped me turn from a boy into a man. I feel like I would have a better opportunity for more playing time at another school where I can be eligible right away."
The 6-5 Creek endured two severe knee injuries, plus a torn Achilles tendon, that stripped him of much of his athleticism and explosiveness during his four years at IU. He averaged 7.2 points in 54 career games. He was the nation's leading freshman scorer at 16.4 points a game, including a 31-point effort against Kentucky.
But then he hurt his knee and was never the same. He averaged 8.3 points the next season before getting hurt again, then missed the entire 2011-12 season with the Achilles injury.
Creek played in 24 games this season and averaged 1.8 points in 7.8 minutes. He played in just one minute in IU's Sweet 16 loss to Syracuse and didn't play at all in the NCAA tourney game against Temple.
Creek scored a season-high nine points against Ball State in late November. He didn't play more than seven minutes in any of his final nine games.
Creek would have had to battle incoming freshman guards Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson for playing time next year in addition to veterans Yogi Ferrell and Will Sheehey.
"With his graduation coming up next week, Maurice and his family have decided to pursue an opportunity where he can find the type of role that would provide him the minutes he desires and is accustomed to," Crean said. "In all my time as a coach, I have never witnessed someone overcoming the adversity that Maurice had sustained during his time. His attitude, ability to continue to work and his passion for the game of basketball have never wavered. He has been an integral part of our basketball family and will always remain that in our eyes and and should also in the eyes of Hoosier Nation."
Creek's transfer, plus the transfer of guard Remy Abell and the decision of Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo to leave early for the NBA, means the Hoosiers are now one below the 13-scholarship limit.Travel teams from all over the Midwest will gather this weekend in Indianapolis for the adidas Spring Classic.
The three-day event will be held at multiple sites throughout Indianapolis, including North Central High School, the Fishers Fieldhouse, Fishers High School and Lawrence Central High School. Action begins Friday night.
The Eric Gordan All-Star teams and Indiana Elite squads are among the participating teams.
Ages range from fourth graders to players about to enter their high school senior seasons.


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Cobb County Trial Ruling Thrown OutFederal U.S. Appeals Court Decision To Throw Out Judge's Ruling Against Evolution Disclaimers on Textbooks Applauded by Discovery Institute
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May 25, 2006
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Atlanta — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has thrown out the trial court decision ruling that evolution disclaimers on science textbooks were unconstitutional.
In a unanimous decision the federal three-judge panel (including both Democratic and Republican appointees) stopped short of deciding the constitutionality of the stickers, and instead sent the case back to the trial court judge with instructions to hold more evidentiary hearings on the issue.
"This decision is a victory as it throws out the problematic ruling from the trial court," said Casey Luskin, an attorney with the Discovery Institute. "Essentially, the appellate judges found that some of the findings of the lower court were not substantiated by the evidence in the record, so now new evidentiary hearings must be held, which could completely change the trial court's original ruling against the school district."
"This is a major step towards a bigger victory for students, school districts, and objective science education," added Luskin.
The Cobb County School District had placed a sticker into biology textbooks explaining that the material on evolution "should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."
"A final ruling in this case will be at least as important, if not more important, than the Dover school district case last year," added Luskin, a co-author of Traipsing Into Evolution Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision. "Eventually it's likely that a decision will be handed down from this federal appellate court governing legal decisions in multiple states, whereas the Kitzmiller decision was from a trial court with no legal force outside of the parties in that local case."
Discovery Institute believes that school districts should have the right to require science teachers to inform students about both scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution. The Institute does not favor the mandatory inclusion of alternative scientific theories, such as intelligent design, and also does not favor the use of disclaimers, but instead recommends that school districts require teaching critical analysis of evolution.


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More than 1,000 biologists from around the world will converge on the CU-Boulder campus June 14-18 for the joint annual meetings of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists and the Society for the Study of Evolution.
The conference includes celebrations of the career achievements of Professor Timothy Prout, retiring from the University of California, Davis and Edward Wilson, retiring from Harvard. Concurrent meetings will be held on a wide range of topics including behavior, developmental patterns, sexual selection, plant and animal interactions, coevolution and mutations.
Highlighting the conference will be a talk by Wilson. Wilson is known for his work on the ecology and evolution of ants, for founding the field of sociobiology and for his recent work on conservation biology. His book On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. A social gathering in Wilsons honor will be held following his address.
Opening events are on Saturday, June 14, at the Mountain Research Station north of Nederland featuring Proutfest, a celebration marking the retirement of Timothy Prout, a professor of evolution and ecology at UC-Davis. Prout is best known for his work on fruit flys and for his contributions to the field of population genetics.
Sixty biologists from New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, Brazil and the United States will convene to hear a series of talks from his students and friends.
Several symposia are scheduled on Monday, highlighted by Geerat Vermeijs address as president of the American Society of Naturalists. Vermeij, a professor at the University of California, Davis, is world renowned for his work on the biogeography and evolution of mollusks.
He is blind and has written a well-received autobiography titled Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life that has taken him to reefs, beaches and mudflats around the world.
On Tuesday, concurrent sessions will continue including the Society for the Study of Evolutions symposium titled Know Thy Self: Evolution of Self-Recognition Systems. The meeting ends Tuesday night with an address to the Society of Systematic Biologists by Jay Savage, president of the group, titled A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go in Macky Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Professor Savage is a prominent herpetologist and helped found the Organization for Tropical Studies, which trains tropical biologists at field stations in Costa Rica.
Although the conference is closed to the public, members of the media are welcome to attend. The meeting headquarters will be located in the University Memorial Center, room 159.
A complete schedule of events can be found on the web site for the meeting at: www.colorado.edu/epob/evomtg.


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The 2010 Legislative Session adjourned Tuesday, March 30. Unique to the legislative session this year was a supplemental appropriation to UNI for fiscal year 2010 for $5.2 million. Included in the supplemental appropriation bill was a provision stating that UNI may carry forward any unencumbered funds of the $5.2 million into fiscal year 2011. The supplemental appropriation resulted in the Board of Regents voting to rescind the $100 surcharge effective upon enactment, which will have an impact of approximately $1 million to UNI's general fund.
The Education Appropriations Bill has been submitted to Gov. Culver, who has 30 days in which to apply his signature after officially receiving the legislation from the General Assembly. The bill includes a $77.5 million state appropriation to UNI's general fund budget for fiscal year 2011. This is a 4-percent cut, or $3.1 million reduction, from adjusted fiscal year 2010.
Also included in the Education Appropriations Bill was a one-time appropriation to UNI for fiscal year 2011 for $1.5 million. While these funds cannot be expected to support long-term commitments, they are significant and we thank our local legislative delegation for their efforts in securing these funds on UNI's behalf.
The Iowa General Assembly also asked the Board of Regents and Iowa's universities to achieve greater efficiencies, reduce costs and duplication of programs and services, and increase accountability as part of the State Government Reorganization Commission.
We are hopeful that the fiscal year 11 appropriation signals a reversal of trends in an improving economy. Compared to the more than 23-percent budget cut UNI experienced during a one-year period, it is a step in the right direction that will help us plan more strategically.
Nevertheless, it is another cut with serious consequences. For example, the Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership (IMSEP) will experience a $1.5 million budget cut. UNI's salary increases and related benefits are $3.9 million; our current appropriation does not cover these increases. UNI students and their families will experience a 6-percent tuition increase in fiscal year 2011.
We thank UNI parents and students for their continued support under difficult economic conditions. Our responsibility to our students and the state of Iowa has not diminished, in spite of budget issues. We must remain focused on our guiding principles and university priorities as we continue our efforts to pursue cost-saving measures and strategies that enhance UNI's revenue streams.
We will continue to do everything we can to maintain academic quality, to ensure progress to graduation, to make student financial aid accessible and available, and to keep our campus safe and secure as we make decisions in the weeks and months ahead.


text: Kanawha 'cautiously optimistic' about West Side schools program By Mackenzie Mays January 17, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Kanawha County Board of Education plans to ask the Legislature for permission, and funding, to implement a West Side Community Development pilot program in an attempt to turn around the area's struggling schools.The program would require students to wear uniforms, enforce a year-round school calendar and a stricter tardiness policy in addition to allowing principals to hire more teachers based on specific job descriptions, instead of seniority.Board members unanimously approved a motion on Thursday evening to give Superintendent Ron Duerring the go-ahead to write a letter to the governor and legislators seeking approval to enact the 15 recommendations outlined in the program -- several of which require legislative action.The affected schools would be Stonewall Jackson Middle School and Mary C. Snow West Side, J.E. Robins, Grandview and Watts elementary schools, which are among the lowest-performing schools in the state."The whole county should understand the critical condition that we're in on the West Side academically. We cannot prosper throughout the county and have the West Side lagging behind. There is no success unless we're all successful. It's critical over there," board President Pete Thaw said.The project is an expansion of a bill passed in 2010 that established a special five-year community development school pilot program at Stonewall Jackson. The purpose of Senate Bill 2009 was to pair community members and organizations with at-risk, underachieving students to give them the support they need to succeed in school.The county's original attempt at the pilot faced many obstacles, including funding problems, and "never fully left the ground," according to the Rev. Matthew Watts, a West Side community leader involved in the project.A lack of state funding created a few bumps in the road, and though Watts' proposal to expand the program to the elementary schools that feed into Stonewall Jackson was denied by legislators before, he is "cautiously optimistic" about the future of the pilot."It has been very difficult because there's been such little funding to really do anything. It has been a struggle, and the project hasn't taken off like we had hoped, but we have done the best we can do with limited resources, and we certainly continue to study and analyze it," he said.Watts said $500,000 over a four-year period of time would be ideal to implement the program, but that "may be an unrealistic number." The Legislature denied Watts' request for an additional $250,000 to expand the program in 2011. The state's efforts to move education reform to the forefront also gives Watts hope that the program will be well received.About 75 percent of the recommendations for the community development project coincide with the recommendations found in the governor's statewide audit of public schools and are supported by the state Department of Education, Watts said."We put our plan together before the state issued the audit, then we went through and looked for where there was support in the audit for our ideas," he said. "The environment at the state level is different than it's ever been. All are saying education reform is number one on the agenda this year and both major teacher associations are saying the same thing -- that we need to do something. I don't think we've ever had this type of alignment before."If approved, the changes could go into effect as soon as July, and board members agreed that because it is a pilot, only good things could come from the initiative. "The great thing about a pilot is that we can learn from it, see what works and doesn't work, and expand it to include other schools and counties across the state. But, it can't happen without the funding," board member Bill Raglin said. Also at Thursday's meeting:* The board discussed a new athletics sportsmanship policy that would mandate that student athletes and coaches show respect to opponents during and after games. The policy will be placed on public comment.* Board members agreed to meet in the near future to discuss the possibility of an additional levy to help increase revenue for the county's education budget. The school board is facing a million dollar deficit. Reach Mackenzie Mays at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-4814. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 2 WVU pulls away from Kansas for 56-34 win 3 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 4 WVU notebook: Defense feeling a bit run down 5 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis South Charleston proposes sewer line extension into Lincoln County Previous Story Drivers in southern, eastern W.Va. counties deal with treacherous conditions Next Story


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"There is no particular mystery in animation...it's really very simple, and like anything that is simple, it is about the hardest thing in the world to do. "Bill Tytla at the Walt Disney Studio, June 28, 1937.
As you know, the options on creating animation have changed quite significantly since the 1930's. What started out as a series of frames created by artists, which are then combined into a film, has since grown into the option of computer animation. The art of creating moving images with computers has even changed significantly since it's conception. Have you seen the movie Avatar? The computer animation in this movie has passed everyone's expectation.
Marc Mohan says in his article Avatar and the state of the animation art , "The combination of cutting-edge 3-D cinematography and revolutionary motion-capture techniques creates what they call in the video-game world an immersive environment. It's a shoo-in for a number of technical Academy Awards"
He goes on to say "the range of possibilities that can be explored using animation has expanded so much in recent years that the concept of a film like "Avatar" contending for such a prize seems, if not likely in the moment, then inevitable somewhere down the line." As we can see from this movie, that animation has had it's own revolution since the early years of Disney. Computer software has had many revolutions of improvement and right now we are living in one.... The "Smarter Planet revolution", software to help make this a greener and more sustainable planet. I'm excited to be part of it.
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Phase II Study of Allo LMI Vaccine With IL-2 for Stable Metastatic Breast Ca
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