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My mom's voice cracked, then it went silent. I looked again at my cell phone to make sure I'd called the right number.
"Mom? Is this you?"
The next voice I heard was that of my older brother, Mark, speaking for Mom because she couldn't.
"Is your refrigerator running? Well, you better go catch it!"
No, it's not clever, but it's one of the many lines used by kids making prank phone calls.
I must admit, when I was a kid, years before caller ID came along, my friends and I made our fair share of prank calls. I clearly remember our last one.
My wife, Lori, and I are not good with houseplants. When she brings home a new plant, I shake my head, knowing the plant's likely demise. I want to pull it aside and whisper, "I'm so sorry she bought you. I promise I'll pray for you."
If plants could muster a police force, they would charge Lori and me with negligent homicide.
So last year, when some well-meaning friends gave us an amaryllis for Christmas, I thanked them kindly.
And as soon as they left, I knelt by their gift and offered last rites for it.
One of our greatest presidents and Kentucky native, Abraham Lincoln, once said of our country, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." That quote comes to mind as we gather in the coming days to honor those who have fought and died in wars foreign and domestic to continue to guarantee the freedom that makes us the envy of other nations and their people around the world.
Memorial Day is a significant holiday in the state of Kentucky in a variety of ways. Broadly, it is the unofficial kickoff to summer with the school year winding down, vacationers descending in droves to our lakes and rivers, and warm weather and sunshine becoming the norm. While many use this holiday as a time to travel back to their hometowns for reunions and family cookouts, others use it as a time to pay respect to their lost loved ones by taking flowers to their gravesites.
A friend and gardening mentor told me when I first ventured into this labor of love called gardening that this hobby should be relaxing. "If it's stressful," he told me, "you're taking it too seriously."
His words echo in my ears as I stare at the freshly plowed ground, that chore the courtesy of a friend kind enough to break up the soil for me.
It happens every year: "Can I do this? Do I really want to start with the planting, the cultivating, the weeding?"
In journalism, if you need a source for a story, you talk to someone who has a point of view to share for your story. You do that regardless of the person's background, and particularly regardless of their race.
Usually, I find myself on the side of the news story where I'm the one asking the questions. Rarely have I been the one interviewed. But Monday morning, I received a telephone call that placed me as a source for a story to be aired on television.
"Preacher," a church member said to me one Sunday, "I was driving in front of the church this morning, and I saw you standing by yourself up there at the top of the front steps. I knew what you were doing; I knew you were praying. And I just want you to know it made me feel better."
It somehow makes us feel better knowing somebody's praying, though I can't explain exactly why.
I've never been much of a country music fan, but I can listen to Ricky Skaggs sing,
Somebody's Prayin,' over and over.
To be honest, I'm not exactly a tolerant person. I can't stand stupidity, and I have little patience for people who do things that I consider to be stupid.
It's a shame to see people waste opportunities in life. They don't come around very often, and if you get a good one, you should take it and apply yourself to the best of your ability.
Jonathan Krueger was the kind of young man who did just that. He applied himself to his studies at the University of Kentucky, and he was part of a study abroad program that took him to London, England and Dublin, Ireland not long ago.
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I've had some of the best races of my life at Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI. At the 2005 Cyclocross National Championships, I won the Master's 30-34 National Championship and earned a bronze medal in the Elite Women's race the next day. I've also had some of the worst races there. It all depends on the weather and the course design that the promoters are using on a given year.
Truly amazing cyclocross racers can race any course in any conditions with the same results. I aspire to be that well rounded, but truth be told, I lack mass and power and sometimes get a bit bored on courses that aren't technically challenging if not at least muddy. I'm much less interested in learning race tactics and playing games than I am in simply racing my guts out. As American Cyclocross develops, there is a trend towards a style of course dubbed "American Style" which for me means I have to change my stubborn ways and learn to race properly on whatever course comes my way.
The forecast called for lots of sun and 80 degree temperatures. It was unseasonably warm for a 'cross race and the preceding dry spell meant that the course would be fast and dry. I had a decent start and sat behind the race leaders until the high pace caused a small gap to open up. I found myself with three other riders chasing the lead three and we were closing in on a tiring third place. My legs felt good and I was feeling confident that I would be able to put in a good fight for at least fourth place.
Racing in a pack involves anticipating the moves of the other riders and finding out where you have the advantage over them. There were enough turns in the course that might allow me a gap if I could be patient, find the right time and make my move…..but wait! A 20-foot section of course tape, broken by a crashed rider on the first lap, had been flapping around for the last 30 minutes and when I took a corner wide, it was sucked into my rear cassette and jammed my bike completely.
Not only was I out of my group, I was passed by three more riders as I attempted to free the tape from my wheel. Rather than run ¾ of a lap to the pit, I rode my bike with one gear that was skipping all the way around to the pit. After swapping bikes, I gave it my all but it was the last lap and I was unable to gain back any of the spots I had lost. 10th. I was really hoping the promoters would go back to one of the older style courses that was more technical for day 2!
No such luck on getting a more technical version of the course for Day 2. It was actually the least technical course I've ridden to date with about 1.5 km of pavement (roughly half of the course), which is far more than the norm. Later, we had heard that the park arborist requested that the course not be routed too close to the trees both days due to erosion from Hurricane Irene the previous month. The ENTIRE park is filled with trees.
I had a solid start and for the first three laps I was in a group of about ten riders in a paceline like a road race. I was even running out of gears where the pavement went downhill before coming onto the grass.
Needless to say, 80-degree temps and non-stop fast pedaling took its toll and the group began to pull apart. I gave it what I had but was passed by one rider in the last lap and ended up 7th.

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This recipe for porridge comes from Maura of Mac-n-Mo's. We met up at a recent conference and she wanted to share this great recipe for a delicious hot cereal with you. Check out her blog, The Morselist for more great recipes.
- ¼ cup cooked Quinoa
- 1 scoop Vegetarian Protein Powder (unsweetened-low sodium) such as Veggie Protein
- 2 Tbsp Flaxseed Meal
- 1/3 – ½ cup boiling Water
- diced Pear or Apple
- chopped Almonds or 2 Tbsp Almond Cream
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
variations: cashew cream, chopped walnuts, any nut of choice, blueberries
Mix the protein powder, water, quinoa, flax meal and spices together.
Add the nuts, nut creams and stir.
Finally, mix in the fruit and voila!
Breakfast or even a healthy snack or dinner for those nights you just want a bowl of healthy comfort.
Maura (Mo), a student at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, is also the founder of Mac–n-Mo's Morselicious Treats. These Vegan, Gluten-free, Sodium-free, Kosher morselicious goodies were created by Mo for her Dad, Mac, after his quadruple bypass surgery in 2010. Mac-n-Mo's Morselicious Treats are Vegan, contain NO preservatives, NO gluten, No soy*, NO cholesterol, NO sodium, 1 g sugar, and contain omega-3 & fiber. Mo offers a healthy alternative to cookies and is on a mission to change the way we eat snacks & treats.
She is carving a difficult path, but is passionate and dedicated and sees herself as a pioneer in this field, which comes with many challenges and obstacle, making her more determined to succeed!
Mo writes a daily blog as THE MORSELIST including her recipe creations, healthy living tips, funny & inspiring stories. Check it out at: www.macnmos.com/the-morselist


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The unknown persons searched through the property and stole various items.
Anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the area at the time the offence was made is urged to call 101 quoting reference 44140066630.


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Watch for falling trees this summer, U.S. Forest Service says
May 25, 2012
As Memorial Day kicks off the summer recreation season, visitors should be aware of the danger of falling trees.
Thousands of beetle killed trees fall every day in the central and northern Colorado forests. Heavy winds have weakened stands, causing them to be increasingly unstable, resulting in falling-tree dangers along public roadways, trails and recreation sites.
"The dead trees are rotting in their roots and are now starting to rot above ground making them susceptible to falling at unpredictable times," said Cal Wettstein, incident commander of the Bark Beetle Incident Management Organization. "With the resulting openings in the forest tree canopy the live trees, with all their needles, are catching in the wind like sails, causing them to blow over and pull the dead trees down with them. This makes it especially dangerous to be in these beetle kill areas in windy conditions."
Safety tips for traveling in and around tree stands include:
> Check local weather forecasts and be aware of high-wind advisories before going into the woods;
> Let family or friends know where you plan to go and when you expect to return;
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> Look for open areas when selecting a location to camp or park;
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> Bring an ax or a saw to remove fallen trees in case you become trapped; and
> Do not rely on cellphones for safety in remote areas.
The Forest Service has several crews tending to high-use recreation areas posing the greatest risks to public safety. Some campgrounds and trailheads have been closed or delayed in their opening due to hazardous trees. Updates are available at your local ranger district office.


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Documentation and transparency is the best way to satisfy the tax authorities by showing that fees are consistent with the arm's-length standard and avoid the risk of being double taxed.
The issue of intercompany guarantees is something a lot of national tax authorities are looking at closely these days, and often with differing views. Companies looking to expand foreign operations through acquisitions using parent company guarantees need to take care as this topic continues to heat up with authorities.
Imagine that a U.S-based multinational expanded its foreign operations through an acquisition of another company, and financed that acquisition with debt incurred by its foreign affiliates. If this financing involved an intercompany guarantee from the U.S. parent (keeping the interest rate low), the IRS would expect compensation for the provision of this intercompany guarantee. The issue of intercompany guarantee fees has generated controversy in the tax and transfer pricing arena as other tax authorities—especially the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA)—tend to view the appropriate treatment of intercompany guarantee fees differently, which risks double taxation.
In Burlington Resources Finance Co. v. Her Majesty the Queen,the CRA is attempting to deny intercompany deductions for guarantee fees paid by the Canadian affiliateto its U.S. parent. This Canadian affiliate borrowed $3 billion in early 2002 to finance the acquisition of certain Canadian oil and natural gas assets. The average intercompany deduction over the next four years was almost $21 million per year, or 0.7% of the third-party loans.
The Court is framing this issue in terms of whether the explicit guarantee allowed the Canadian affiliate to obtain a better credit rating than it would have received with only an implicit guarantee from the U.S. parent. This is how the decision in a similar case, General Electric Canada Co. v. The Queen, was favorably resolved in terms of General Electric Canada. In the Burlington case, the Court rejected the argument from the taxpayer that the Canadian affiliate was unable to borrow funds on a stand-alone basis, was unable to carry out financing activities without an unconditional guarantee from its U.S. parent, and could not obtain a proper credit rating without the guarantee. The Court is asserting that a trial will be necessary to determine what a reasonable guarantee fee would have been under the arm's-length standard.
While the most recent Court ruling does not mention the terms of the third-party loans, one 10-K filing for Burlington Resources notes:
In February 2002, Burlington Resources Finance Company (BRFC) issued $350 million of 5.7% Notes due March 1, 2007 (February Notes), which were fully and unconditionally guaranteed by BR.
In other words, the Canadian affiliate was able to secure a five-year loan at an interest rate that exceeded the interest rate on five-year government bonds at the time by 1.3 percent, which was consistent with an AA credit rating. Combined with the 0.7 percent guarantee fee, the Canadian operations were effectively paying a 2 percent credit spread. At issue in this trial will be whether the credit rating of the Canadian operations, in the absence of this explicit guarantee, would be such that a third-party bank would have charged that much in terms of a credit spread.
This kind of scrutiny and litigation is happening all over the world, as tax authorities have differing views on these issues. The risk of double taxation is very real for any company with these common kinds of transactions. In this case, a credible and complete transfer pricing analysis would most likely satisfy the expectations of the Court and settle the matter.
Companies going into these transactions would be well advised to prepare a proper transfer pricing analysis. The controversy surrounding transfer pricing makes audits likely. Documentation and transparency is the best way to satisfy the tax authorities by showing that fees are consistent with the arm's-length standard and avoid the risk of being double taxed.


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WHEN midwives, mothers and their tots gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the Winchester maternity unit they didn't quite expect it to be such a joyous occasion.
While some munched on cake and chit-chatted about the good old days, one Hampshire woman was mid-way through giving birth.
Vicky Butler, 39, from Bursledon Road in Hedge End, started having contractions in the early hours of the morning but still found the energy to visit the ward she herself was born in nearly 40 years ago at the 40-year anniversary of Florence Portal House.
Mrs Butler was joined by her husband Jonathan, 41, their first-born Isabel, 2, and her parents, Peter, 68, and Teresa Taylor, 63, who live at Hoveton Grove in Chandler's Ford.
"I've been awake since 3.30am so I'm quite tired I'm afraid but I'm looking forward to introducing my daughter to her soon-to-be brother," she said.
Some 40 people gathered with toddlers in tow regaling each other with the memories of years gone by.
Maureen Chisnell, 66, from Edward Road in St Cross, was invited by staff to cut the cake along with her daughter Rosie Bowerman, who was born at the hospital 40 years yesterday (January 9) and her granddaughter, Aimee, 2, who is the youngest of four Bowermans to be born at the ward. Mrs Chisnell's two other children, Catherine and Adrian were also born there as were her daughter's other three children.
Mrs Bowerman, of Western Road, Fulflood, Winchester, said: "When I was here with my four, even though two of them were a little tricky, I was made to feel very comfortable. Aimee was a little troublesome but we managed to fish her out in the end."
Val Robinson, 73, a support worker for the ward since 1971, said: "There's been lots of changes over the years. It's a lovely unit to work on, I wouldn't still be working here if it wasn't. I've stayed in contact with many of the mums over the years. We're like one big family really."
The event was organised by Clara Haken, consultant midwife for the ward, who was born the year it was open when her mother, Winnie, worked on the ward also as a midwife.
Lady Florence Portal was the resident Commandant of the Laverstoke Voluntary Aid Detachment (VADs) of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade at the hospital in the First World War, between 1917 and 1919.
She gave money for three hut wards to be built on the hospital site — Bluebell, Burrell and Blighty — staffed by volunteers and used for military patients. Lady Portal was also instrumental in raising the money for the hospital's maternity wards, which is thought why Florence Portal House was named after her when the maternity wards were moved to their dedicated home in 1974.


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NEW YORK— Peter Sims says business leaders can learn a lot from comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
While that notion may cause more than a few incredulous chuckles, Sims couldn't be any more serious.
Sims, a venture capitalist turned innovation theorist, compares how Seinfeld still tests his stand-up comedy material at small clubs to how breakthrough business ideas often emerge from a sequence of smaller discoveries— or as Sims calls them, "little bets."
"Most people don't start with brilliant ideas: They discover them," Sims said to housewares leaders at the IHA's recent Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession (CHESS) outside Chicago. "Little bets are smaller, affordable actions that you can take to discover new ideas."
Sims cites several corporate innovators, from Google to Pixar to Starbucks, built on a creation-stimulating trial-and-error methodology.
The discovery course prescribed by Sims is not without checks and balances. He said successful creators need to understand their financial, resource and time limits and think in terms of affordable losses— those so-called "little bets"— they could absorb on a path to cultivating a bigger concept with better odds of a bigger payoff.
"The challenge," Sims said, "is we're taught from an early age not to make mistakes. We're not given a lot of space for discovery. It's not intuitive."
"Discovery takes a willingness to be imperfect," he added.
At the heart of it, Sims is advocating a decision-making culture change at a time when companies of all shapes and sizes are learning the old rules of shaping business strategy might not cut it in this new economy.
It is a call to reengage organizations and inspire innovation though open dialogue. It is the antithesis of what Sims calls the "HIPPO" (highest paid person's opinion) approach to decision-making that can muffle potentially fruitful ideas.
"The goal is to accept every offer and to make people feel good about suggesting something," Sims said. "That keeps the ideas flowing. Don't judge prematurely and use words like 'but' or 'not.' That stops the idea. Let everything build off one another."
Then watch a company's luck change, he said.
"Lucky people are lucky because they are much more open to the world," Sims said. "When you are more open to gathering every insight you can gather, that can lead to the bigger opportunity. Indeed, you can create your own luck."
Some may write off Sims' views as overly idealistic in an unforgiving business climate that requires take-charge leadership. The other side of the coin says it can be more prudent and practical to absorb a few bumps along the way to identifying and refining a winning idea than to aim so high at the onset that it sets up a calamitous collapse if and when the plan doesn't pan out.
Despite pressure to move faster today, betting big on an outcome that is far from certain doesn't make a lot of sense. Encouraging a business development culture to be more comfortable placing little, affordable bets in pursuit of breakthrough innovation could mean a bigger win in the end.
Peter Sims is right. There is a lesson to be learned from a performer as accomplished as Jerry Seinfeld, who still feels the need to perfect his stand-up comedy act at small clubs before hitting the big stage:
Bombing on that big stage is no laughing matter.
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And when they [Joseph and Mary] had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him. Luke 2:39-40
Dear Lord Jesus, I've never thought of irony as being beautiful until today; but, ultimately, everything that is associated with your reveals beauty, in one way or another. Joseph and Mary loved you well as parents. Soon after your arrival to our world, and into their embrace, they did "everything according to the Law of the Lord" on your behalf. But little did they realize, you were born to fulfill everything required by the law of the Lord for them—and for us.
Oh, wonder of all wonders, joy beyond all measure, peace that passes all understanding! Our hearts sing and soar as we reflect upon your humility, your kindness, and your servant love for us, Lord Jesus. You didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it on our behalf. What we could never do, you've done for us. What we could never be, you became for us.
The law demands a righteousness we could never attain—a righteousness that is freely ours in you. Hallelujah, many, many times over! Your last words from the cross, "It is finished," are our first words of freedom. It's not our obedience but yours in which we trust. It's not our righteousness but yours in which we boast and rest. It's not our works, but yours, which have reconciled us to God, and made us heirs of the new heaven and new earth. We praise, bless and adore you for your matchless mercies and irresistible grace!
And this same grace that justified us is now changing us. This same gospel which placed us in you is now making us like you. Fulfill in us everything you desire, Lord Jesus—as spouses, parents, friends, neighbors. Free us more fully to delight in you and serve with you, as your kingdom advances and as the great Day approaches when you will return to finish making all things new. So very Amen we pray, in your most glorious and gracious name.


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Brain Power: Resistance Training and Cognitive Function
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Primary Objectives:
1. To ascertain whether a 12-month, twice-weekly or once-weekly resistance training (RT) program will significantly improve executive function in community-dwelling women aged 65 to 75 years old compared with a 12-month, twice-weekly stretch and relax (S & R) program (shame exercise). We will assess executive function by standard neuropsychological tests.
Secondary Objectives:
- To describe the neural mechanisms that underpin the observed changes in executive function associated with a 12-month, twice-weekly or once-weekly RT training (by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)).
- To investigate whether RT-induced changes in executive function are independently associated with changes in physiological fall risk profile.
- To investigate the dose response of RT (resistance training) on bone health as measured by dual energy x-ray and peripheral quantitative computed tomography.
- To conduct a one-year follow-up after the formal cessation of the resistance training programs to determine the persisting effect of resistance training on cognitive performance, cortical plasticity, physiological falls risk, and bone health.
|Behavioral: Exercise Training Behavioral: Exercise training
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Resistance Training on Cognitive Performance, Cortical Plasticity, and Fall Risk in Women Aged 65-75 Years Old: A 12-Month RCT
- Cognitive Performance of Executive Function [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Functional MRI and physiological falls risk [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: 1
Twice weekly resistance training for 52 weeks.
Behavioral: Exercise Training
Twice weekly resistance training for 52 weeks.
Experimental: 2
Once weekly resistance training for 52 weeks.
Behavioral: Exercise training
Once weekly resistance training for 52 weeks.
Experimental: 3
Twice weekly balance and tone training for 52 weeks.
Behavioral: Exercise training
Twice weekly resistance training for 52 weeks.
Detailed Description:
Primary Research Question: Does resistance training (RT) significantly improve cognitive function, specifically executive function in older women with a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score equal to or greater than 24 (i.e., cognitively intact) compared with a stretch & relax (S & R; control) program?
Secondary Research Questions:
- Are changes in cortical activation associated with RT-induced changes in executive function?
- Are RT-induced improvements in executive function associated with lowered physiological fall risk?
- Is there a dose-response on bone health with RT (resistance training)?
Study Design: A 12-month, single-blinded, randomized controlled trial. Participants: 155 cognitively-intact (i.e., MMSE score > 24), right-handed, sedentary community-dwelling women, aged 65 to 75 years.
Measurement: Measurements will take place at baseline, six month, and trial completion. Standard neuropsychological testing and physiological fall risk assessment will occur at all three measurement sessions. A subset of the participants (20 from each experimental group) will undergo fMRI assessment at baseline and trial completion only. Exercise Classes: Participants will be randomized to a 12-month, twice-weekly or once-weekly RT program or stretch & relax program (control). All exercises will be offered at a Vancouver YMCA with whom we have partnered previously. Sample Size Justification: The sample size of 50 per experimental group (i.e., N = 155) is based on the primary end point of this study, cognitive performance of executive function. SUMMARY: Falls are a major challenge for the senior population. To date, no intervention has significantly reduced falls among those with cognitive impairment. Our immediate primary goal is to test whether RT can improve cognitive performance of executive function; impaired executive function are associated with injurious falls. If this proposed exercise trial proves successful, the RT intervention will be trialed in the future in a larger study powered for falls.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|65 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Sedentary (less than twice weekly exercising) women aged 65-75 years old without conditions restricting them from exercising.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00426881
|Canada, British Columbia
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Y 2Z5
|Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Research Pavilion
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 1L8
|Principal Investigator:
|Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Ph.D
|University of British Columbia
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University of British Columbia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00426881 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 23, 2007
|Last Updated:
|December 3, 2014
Keywords provided by University of British Columbia:
Resistance training
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The La Macchina Moto Bell Car Show II is scheduled for Sept. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at RiverWoods golf course Akron.
There is no admission fee to view the cars. This is an invitation only car show for registered vehicles. The show will include more than 300 antique cars, classic cars, muscle cars, exotic cars and custom vehicles.
A special display of more than 50 Ferraris and Italian Exotic vehicles, under the direction of David C. Nelson a show coordinator, also can be seen. There will be a cruise in area for non-registered vehicles. The show also will have live music, food and beverages.
Donations will be accepted for the Summit County Kidney Foundation at the event.
For details, call 330-929-3377 or visit http://todaroscarshow.com online.


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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Gum Diseases
Effects of tooth abcess, long term
I am in my late twenties with a history of poor oral hygeine. I used to consume a lot of soft drinks, and have changed my diet and oral hygeine habits for the better two years ago. I had a diagnosed tooth abcess in early 2004, but I had no way to pay for it`s treatment (I have no health insurance). I am experiencing the same symptoms now, only on the other side of my mouth, where a wisdom tooth is. Half of my molars are broken or cracked, and now part of my upper mouth and the gums surrounding the infected tooth are turning white. I am afraid to go to a dentist, because of the horrible condition that my mouth is in (it is very embarrassing), but now I am afraid that I am going to lose all of my teeth. Is there a chance that my remaining teeth can be spared?
It is obvious that you need urgent care. Abscesses will continue to develop from severely decayed, broken tooth. You have to keep in mind that this is an infection caused by bacteria and it will spread if you do not have treatment. It will probably affect your general health too. Thus, it will become more costly and your dentist will be more limited in what he/she can save. I recommend you visiting a dentist immediately. You may receive discounts at different facilities such as university hospitals, dental schools, etc.
Binnaz Leblebicioglu, DDS, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Periodontology
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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Stroll into any New York bagel shop or bodega and it's more than likely that you'll encounter a beloved New Yorker: the black-and-white cookie. With one half chocolate frosting and the other half vanilla, how you approach a black-and-white is telling.
Are you a chocolate person or a vanilla person? Do you take your first bite from the center? Or do you go for a more balanced approached, alternating your chocolate and vanilla bites? Though the providence of this much loved cookie may be lost to the ages—Glaser's, a 109 year old Upper East Side institution, has reportedly been making them for decades—I think we can all agree that this springy cakelike cookie is ideal for an indecisive eater (or an equal opportunity snacker).
There's no right season for the perennially delicious black-and-whites, but that doesn't stop plenty of bakeries from giving them a little bit of a holiday spin. My local bagel shop makes green-and-whites for St. Patty's Day, but it was their Halloween "black-and-oranges" that inspired this playful take on the New York classic. I'm a sucker for holiday themed goodies, but as I was wolfing down my cookie, I got to thinking, what if instead of orange icing you made a Halloween black-and-white with a pumpkin cookie base?
The pumpkin puree lends a lightness to the texture and gives it enough moisture to stave off the dryness that tends to plague traditional black-and-whites. And the pumpkin works equally well with the vanilla and chocolate frostings, making for a slightly tricky, but still winning Halloween treat.
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About the author: Alexandra Penfold is mild mannered children's book editor by day, food ninja by night. Never one to skip dessert she's the Brownie half of Blondie & Brownie and a Midtown Lunch contributor. You can follow her on Twitter at @blondiebrownie.


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Call it what you will, but the National Rifle Association (NRA) has released a new game for Apple iOS users, called "NRA: Practice Range," that is being billed as appropriate for ages 4 and up. The game, which is free on iTunes, consists mostly of first-person shooting practice at either indoor or outdoor ranges. The video game was released one month after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and has a more than a few people upset even though the game appears to be more about firearm safety than a 'kill anything that moves' first person shooter.
The player has a choice of nine guns, though at first, only the pistol and the M16 are "unlocked"; you can unlock other weapons — like a Beretta, an AK-47 or a Dragunov SVD sniper rifle — for $1 each through an in-app purchase. The NRA recently blamed video games for stoking gun violence, so this game release is interesting!
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American dads
Father's Day Fact box
70.1 million
Estimated number of fathers across the nation in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available.
24.7 million
Number of fathers who were part of married-couple families with children younger than 18 in 2013.
2 million
Number of single fathers in 2013; 17 percent of single parents were men
Estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2013. These married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wife works outside the home. These fathers cared for about 434,000 children.
Source: Census Bureau, Wave 2 Fertility Topical Module from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation
American dads. Often the humble heroes of the home, they defer even on a day wholly dedicated to them, when asked what they want for Father's Day.
"Gimme all A's on the report card, I'm good to go," said John Pruitt, of Rancho Cucamonga, while shopping for groceries with his 15-year-old daughter, Julie.
More than 70 million dads in the United States will mark Father's Day in one way or another, be it in solitary remembrance or with a backyard barbecue, and Americans this year will spend about $12.5 billion on tools, ties and other presents for pops, according to the National Retail Federation.
Is Father's Day a big deal? In our hearts, yes. In our wallets, not as big as Mother's Day.
The retail group calls it "a blip" in comparison, along with Christmas, "but the sentimental importance of the occasion will never be overlooked by consumers."
Americans spent about $20 billion on Mother's Day. The retail federation said spending for Mom averaged about $163. For dads in the U.S., spending is expected to average about $114.
The $49 question is why?
Kathy Grannis, spokeswoman for the federation, said while the gap is closing between the two holidays, "it is evident that Mom is still queen, and I think, really, people are listening to dad's advice and not going overboard with the spending."
Grannis said a lot of dads don't want the fuss, and a simple barbecue is good enough for them. Still, Americans will get creative with their gift-giving, be it a simple item, or a surprise outing to a baseball game, after saving for a couple months, she said.
The difference in spending on Dad versus Mom comes down to the sticker prices on what they want.
"The items we buy Mom are usually a little more expensive — the cashmere sweaters, jewelry and roses cost a lot more than the items we typically buy for Dad," Grannis said.
And when it comes to cards — perhaps the easiest of the last-minute pickups for a loved one — dads also trail far behind moms.
Christmas and Valentine's Day cards top the list of sales each year, according to greeting card giant Hallmark, with the former seeing about 1.5 billion sent each year, and the latter leading to 142 million exchanged. Mother's Day is third on the list, with 133 million sent annually. Dads receive 87 million cards each year.
With Mom safely out of earshot, doing whatever moms in Rancho Cucamonga do on a weekday evening, Pruitt and daughter Julie laughed about the difference in the holidays.
"She gets a week. He gets an hour," Julie said.
History of the day
Historians say Father's Day took root in a West Virginia church on July 5, 1908, with a sermon to honor dads, after 362 men died during explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah the previous December.
A year later, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Wash., started to rally support for Father's Day as she sought a way to honor her father, a widowed Civil War veteran named William Smart, who raised six kids on a farm. Spokane held an observance for dads in June 1910.
In 1914, a Father's Day resolution was passed by Congress. President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 issued the first presidential proclamation about Father's Day, setting aside the third Sunday in June. In 1972, President Richard Nixon made it law.
Bret E. Carroll, professor of history at Cal State Stanislaus and editor-in-chief of "American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia," said the lag time between Dodd's work and the 1972 resolution was largely because of a "considerable popular disdain for the idea, partly because of the perceived 'unmanliness' of the gift-giving."
"Many fathers also scoffed at the commercialism of the idea, especially when they felt they'd really be the ones paying for the gifts," Carroll said in an email. "Thus, while President Coolidge supported its state-level observance, there was no federal recognition through the early 20th century — not until 1972 — due to the widespread disdain."
Mike Spohr, who blogs about family life, along with his wife, Heather, at thespohrsaremultiplying.com, said there is a cultural shift underway, and Father's Day is catching up, among younger families, to Mother's Day in terms of importance.
"I don't see all that much difference in our family," said Spohr, who lives in Thousand Oaks and is an associate editor at BuzzFeed, where he writes about parenting. "It's a little bit more casual on Father's Day. Mother's Day is more about having a nice meal and more presents, where on Father's Day it's a fun meal, but usually more casual."
Spohr said it's a time of transition for dads these days as they take on more domestic roles and mothers earn more money. But he also adds that dads still endure pop culture depictions of buffoonery, and commercials for Father's Day that involve giving them a beer and a break, whereas moms are held up as the key to a family's survival.
"I think it's inequitable," he said. "I think that's part of the change guys want."
As for gifts, Spohr said there should probably be modern updates on what is good to give dads. A lot of dads don't ask for gifts because, with an eye on the family budget, they know that money can be better spent elsewhere, he said. And men can appreciate something handmade from their kids. Mostly, it's about time spent with the family, Spohr said.
Spohr speaks from experience as a father of three. His firstborn, a daughter named Madeline, was born prematurely on Nov. 11, 2007, and spent 68 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Her parents describe her as a bright-eyed girl with an infectious laugh. Madeline died of a severe respiratory infection on April 7, 2009.
"You definitely get a sense of perspective on what's important, having gone through something like that," Spohr said. "People who focus too much on the commercialism and the stuff you can get are missing the point, especially when it can be gone. With Madeline, we had one Father's Day, and that was so special to me. I wish I could have a million more. When I think back on that Father's Day, I don't remember what I got. I remember the feeling of having her on Father's Day. That was special."


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Speaking in quick, short sentences, Katherine Canul strikes you as a determined and focused young woman.
Canul, 21, a biology major at CSU Monterey Bay who has been accepted to the University of California San Francisco medical school, confirms she is, but it wasn't always that way.
Before her junior year at El Camino Real High School in the San Fernando Valley, Canul had been distracted, not greatly interested in school.
"Lazy would be the word," she said, sitting at the coffee shop at the CSUMB library. "I never found something I was interested in. I was always into English and history, but never enough to excel in it."
Canul found her resolve in 2007, when her family lost their home during the real estate crisis.
"That's when I decided I wanted to get into college," she said. "I realized there was no backup plan. If I wanted to do well, I had to do it and do it for myself."
Canul is believed to be the first CSUMB student to ever get accepted into the program, said university officials.
Aparna Sreenivasan, coordinator of the biology program, is practically giddy about Canul and what she has been able to accomplish.
"She always knew what she wanted," Sreenivasan said. "Katie is one of those students that you know you ask her something and she'll do 200 percent. She was my first student to get an A-plus in my genetics class."
University officials have records of four recent CSUMB graduates attending medical school, but no other at UCSF, said spokeswoman Joan Weiner.
The school has had a pre-med concentration in the biology major since it was launched four years ago. Before, pre-med was housed in the environmental sciences department, but now it's more visible, Sreenivasan said.
Canul has also been accepted into UC San Diego, and she's interviewing with at least another major university for possible acceptance.
Canul decided to attend CSUMB because she knew she would need extra help with her science classes.
"I got a lot of attention: the first class I had here, the professor knew my name right off the bat," she said.
Canul noticed there wasn't a centralized place where to get information about medical school, so in her sophomore year she co-founded the first pre-med club at CSUMB. She's also the president of the Tri-Beta Biological Honors Society, and with the help of medical students from UCSF she's created a list of resources for students who want to go on to medical school.
Another reason Canul chose medical school was her mother's medical condition. She suffered from polio when she was younger, and Canul has seen the difficulties people with low income have to endure when seeking medical help.
Still, she doesn't know what she'll do after finishing her degree. She plans to take a year off from medical school to study for a master's in higher education — she wants to get involved in medical education. Or she may pursue a career researching viruses and epidemics.
"I'm grateful this university gave me a chance," she said. "Definitely I owe a lot to people who helped me along the way, especially my mentors and professors here."
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Mouth Diseases
Orange Tongue Issue
My Fiance recently had a illness that required high doses of antibotics and now is experiencing the Orange Tongue issue. He has been eating yogurt to counteract the bacteria issue but it has not helped at this point. My question is when and will this clear up on it`s own? He has had it for about 3 weeks. thank you
Drs. Allen and Kumar have been asked similar questions with regards to "Orange tongue." (see links below)
My questions and concerns are the following; how long were you on antibiotics? Were you on Ripanfin? How long have you been off your high dose antibiotics?
One possible explanation is that you have an over population of Rhodotorula fungal infection.This species is associated with orange/Red/coral isolates.This yeast is commonly found in air/ soil/ lakes/ and dairy product.
Rarely the etiologic agents of opportunistic mycoses in some hosts cases have been reported. (severe Immuno-compromised patients)
Susceptibility data is limited but the preferred treatment is Amphotericin, followed by fluconazole or itraconazole.
Microscopic examination presents with unicellular blastoconidia, pseudohyphae and hyphae absent. Differential diagnosis from Cryptococcus includes inability to assimilate inositol.
Richard J Jurevic, DDS, PhD
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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Make an egg that bounces
Children love to learn and experiment with new things. Try this bouncing egg science experiment that is fun to do and will teach kids about osmosis. Watch our video tutorial to show you how.
What You Need:
- Egg
- Plastic cup
- Vinegar
- Plastic spoon
- Paper towel
Watch the below video to see how to do the bouncy egg experiment.
Place an egg in a plastic cup and completely cover with vinegar.
Place the cup somewhere where it doesn't have to be moved for four days.
The vinegar will dissolve the eggshell.
After two days, use a plastic spoon to remove the egg from the cup.
Lay it down on a paper towel so that it can dry.
The eggshell will have completely dissolved.
Take the egg outdoors and from a low height gently bounce it.
- Osmosis is the process where water passes into tissues through a semi-permeable membrane.


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Short covering seemed to support the crop markets before the weekend. After having tumbled to three-month lows after Wednesday's WASDE report, corn futures firmed Thursday. Priced followed through on those gains today as traders seemed to be covering shorts and/or bottom picking before the weekend. July corn rallied 3.0 cents to $4.47/bushel Friday afternoon, while December gained 3.75 cents to $4.475.
Surging oil prices boosted beans and depressed meal Friday. As with the grain markets, little fundamental bean news emerged today, so traders apparently took profits on recently established short positions before the weekend. They probably don't want to risk being exposed through next Monday's NOPA crush report either. Asian palm gains boosted oil in early trading, then technical buyers took over. That supported beans, but meal suffered from its position on the wrong side of the crush spread. July soybeans bounced 10.5 cents to $14.2575/bushel at its Friday settlement, while July soyoil soared 1.11 cents to 39.69 cents/pound, while July soymeal slid $1.3 to $467.9/ton.
The wheat markets also ended the week on a mixed note. Big wheat importer Egypt announced purchases of Romanian and Russian wheat this morning, which suggests U.S. wheat remains uncompetitive on the global market. That probably limited bullish technical buying. Favorable conditions in the eastern Corn Belt may also have weighed on CBOT prices. July CBOT wheat futures closed up 0.75 cent to $5.86/bushel Friday close, while July KCBT wheat surged 7.75 cents to $7.1325 and July MWE futures added 2.25 to $6.8425.
Cattle futures built upon Thursday's big advance. News of a surprising increase in cash cattle prices triggered a major rise in CME cattle futures yesterday. Although short-term beef prospects look rather weak, futures resumed their surge Friday. August cattle jumped 1.57 cents to 146.62 cents/pound in late Friday action, while December vaulted 1.10 cents to 151.75. Meanwhile, August feeder cattle spiked 2.30 cents to 208.15 and October leapt 2.12 to 208.80.
Midday cash and wholesale weakness undercut hog bulls. The CME swine market followed cattle higher Thursday and again this morning. However, today's midsession reports proved surprisingly weak, thereby undercutting what had been an across-the-board advance. August hog futures rallied 0.47 cents 131.27 at their Friday close, while December sank 0.22 cents to 98.42.


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Bridgewater Restaurant Server Left a 'Tip' About Her Lifestyle
A Bridgewater restaurant server was left an unexpected "tip" on Wednesday night about her lifestyle.
Dayna Morales, who works at the Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, was left a note instead of a monetary tip by a family on their receipt on Wednesday night. "It says, 'I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and how you live your life,'" Morales told ABC 7 of the note left behind on the $93 bill.
The evening started with Morales making the standard introduction to her customers to which the mother at the table said, "Oh I thought you were gonna say your name is Dan. You sure surprised us!"
She did not share her lifestyle information with the family during an otherwise uneventful dinner. In fact, while Morales is openly gay, she had not shared that information with her family. She did, however, take a picture of the message and post it on on her Facebook and other social media.'
Morales in her post on the Instinct website said she was "THOROUGHLY offended mad pissed off and hurt that THIS is what her kids will grow up learning and that I served in the Marines to keep ignorant people like them free." She added, "Sorry lady but I don't agree with YOUR lifestyle and the way you're raising your kids but you didn't see me throwing that in your face and giving you s****y service. Keep your damn mouth shut and pray we never cross paths again."
A manager at the restaurant told News 4 New York, "We support Dayna 100 percent. She's a wonderful person and a wonderful server, and we are extremely proud of her and the way she handled this situation."
- Mother Stiffs Gay Server On $100 Check: 'I Do Not Agree With Your Lifestyle' / Instinct
- Family says no tip for waitress because she's gay / ABC 7
- Waitress, a Former Marine, Stiffed on Tip Because of 'Lifestyle' / Bridgewater Patch


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Chateau rauzan
Made great leaps since being acquired in 1994 that "Chanel", as one of the greatest contemporary MEDOC wine praise be given "rauzan"!
[History of the winery]
The history of rauzan, opened a vineyard "Pierre de メシュール de Lausanne' dating back to 1661. This Chateau name comes from him.
Regained the Chateau since 1983 until it was faltering as a leading producer, suitable for rating quality. This is Jack became involved in the management of the Chateau and brewery and Theo achievement is greater.
In 1994, acquired this Chateau Chanel ヴェルトハイマー of home ownership.
[Wine philosophy]
Rauzan-Segla finesse comes this enchanting Chateau. Sprouted in what noble products, wall hangings, decorative items, weathers good mind space.
As time goes by slowly aged wine that possess unparalleled complexity. This is maintained through the generations.
Robert Parker Jr. " Bordeaux, 4th Edition "
Lausanne-Segura history back in 1661, by Pierre de メシュール-Lausanne opened vineyards. He was also owner of the vineyard at the time, consisting of current havilah-Longueville,-Comtesse de Lalande and havilah-Longueville-Baron.
In 1855, Rosen-Segura was Bordeaux Mouton Rothschild ワシャトー four of the first luxury chateau with Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Haut-Brion and Chateau's top in second grade after the best wine. In 1973, Mouton-Rothschild and promoted to first grade, now Rosanne = Segura 14 remain second-class Chateau ranked high to position. Imagine that the 1960s, wine produced in the 1970s deserve their status, but mediocre quality at that time changed dramatically from 1983 vintage.
Was also be disappointed before 1983 of wine and looking back down, seems like there is some legitimate reason. Think first, many vintage has a musty, damp, Barnyard aroma, and it's because of the bacteria with old wood was used in the fermentation of the wine fermentation tanks.
In the 1980s changed to stainless steel. Secondly, in harm of severe frost in 1956, after the owner at the time, Mellon's repotted field in a big way. The majority was a clone of the good fruit of Merlot. 1960'S, many of the wines made in the 1970s reflected young grape vines as well, also of the clone selection have already left. Exhumed butt planted grapes and Cabernet Sauvignon and being replaced with higher-quality Merlot. Finally, to Rosen-Segura was sold exclusively through the well-known Bordeaux negociant, エシュノエ, sometimes improper comparative tasting of natural wine is sold on the free market. It's clear than through exclusive sales contract might be sold on the free market inspired much improved quality.
Since 1983, the remarkable improvements made. That year, Alexis resin & co. former President, Jack and Teo took over managing Lausanne = Segura. Further, Jowell said of プルゾー disease as started brewing Vice President. In Teo new Chai (wine collection) construction and stainless steel fermentation tank to only increase wine production facility improvements, new oak usage ratio increased, the best grape wine that strict selection policy allows brilliant wine of Lausanne-Segura was born one after another. If you look at recent wine quality, certainly enter this Chateau is unfailing Bordeaux top group. That was wrong in Lausanne-Segura has since 1983, only one. Jack Teo that fail is vintage Bordeaux 1987 made and declared, made unpleasant companions of Bordeaux. And Rosen-Segura became for the first time in decades come, do not produce a certain vintage (i.e. 1987) in the leading Médoc ratings Chateau in Chateau. In 1994, ヴェルトハイマー house owned Couture, Chanel acquired Rosen-Segura.
This wine is brilliant things worth getting. Prices are not yet caught up new quality level of this historical vineyard. Will increase the General view that continue to produce wine that recently adopted by the owner, Rosen-Segura is a great addition. However, wine judging from many of its tannin amount, much patience and self-restraint until maturity also require mind.
General evaluation
From the 1960's through the early 1980's have been good was not, despite been praised Rosen = Segura always has great potential. Early 1980's, this Chateau has made revival completely. Then outstanding wines produced during the 10 years that prove it.
Average annual production: 100000 book
Vineyard area: 51 ha
Average age: 25 years
Planting density: 6500-10000 book HA
Average yield: 40-45hl/ha
Training: 6 ~ 8 days of fermentation and maceration for 10-14 days do in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks.
Pumping-over done 2 times one day. Ripening is 65% new oak at 18 to 20 months. Racking every 3 months;
Filtration to fining with egg whites, but is not.
Grape varieties: 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet franc
| It is during 1855 ratings establishment, were considered the rating level 2 senior price "Mouton" as well as the venerable Chateau.
Was also not produced in 1987, could not be harvested good grapes, and also quality at an extraordinary.
Chateau owns luxury brands "Chanel" is also famous.
Originally this Château style has a very solid tannins and drinking are moving in slowly comprehensible was that forced a lot of patience to the palate of the owner from the style.
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If you have been searching the web for a baby monitor then you may have stumbled across a new state of the art product produced by Samsung – the Samsung SEW-3030 baby monitor system. Unfortunately it's not yet been launched in the US. However, if you can wait (we don't know the release date yet) then this promises to be one of the most incredible new developments in the world of baby monitors for quite some time. So what will put this device in a league of it's own? The technology. And the technology within this product will wow and amaze.
Firstly, with respect to conventional features this device is designed to impress and to provide parents with the ultimate peace of mind. It comes with a huge screen (3.5 inches) which will provide one of the best views of your baby of any comparable device. The hand held portable parent unit is absolutely exquisite and looks more like a top of the range mobile phone than a baby monitor. And, when you're not roaming around the house and are sitting down in front of the television you can connect the device up to your television. There are different viewing modes but the picture in picture view enables you to keep an eye on your baby without taking your eye off your program – pretty neat!
Regardless of whether it's daytime or night time the quality of the video is perfect and the camera can see for up to 3 meters even in the darkest of rooms. And if you want to monitor several rooms or have several young children, each parent unit is capable of receiving video from up to four cameras (additional cameras bought separately). If you want to talk to your baby then no problem, there's an inbuilt two way intercom. You can play lullabies remotely to aid sleep. There's even a built in thermometer to warn you if the temperature of the room becomes too high. And regardless of whether you live in a large or small home your guaranteed on receiving a clear video with minimal interference as this product is powerful enough to transmit for distances of up to 100 meters.
Now, here's the clever bit. Not only can you see your baby from anywhere in your home, you can also see your baby from anywhere in the world. By connecting the device to a personal computer and integrating it with a video chat application such as Skype you can literally check up on your baby remotely regardless of your location.
So what are the downsides? There's just one – price. This product is a top of the range baby monitor and, although yet to be announced for the US market, is likely to come at a top of the range price. Even so, if you can wait, it's money well spent.


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Arlington, Va. -- In a letter sent Wednesday, Retail Industry Leaders Association president Sandy Kennedy asked President Obama to take action to prevent a work stoppage at the East and Gulf Coast ports.
Negotiations on Dec. 18 did not produce a resolution between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, foreshadowing a shutdown of the Eastern and Gulf ports by the end of the year.
"RILA is extremely concerned about the potential short and long-term consequences to our members, their employees and customers as well as to the economy if cargo is stalled along the East and Gulf Coast ports," said Kennedy. "If a work stoppage occurs at the end of the month, it will substantially affect the already delicate economy."
In 2002, the West Coast work stoppage caused an estimated $15 billion in reported losses. Last month, an eight-day work stoppage at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach caused shipping delays for hundreds of millions of dollars in cargo. The 14 ports potentially affected by a strike account for 95% of all containerized shipments offloaded on the Eastern seaboard.
"In order to prevent another prolonged and damaging stoppage, we respectfully request you put the weight of the White House behind resolving this dispute and bringing the ILA and USMX back to the negotiating table," Kennedy concluded.


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twmccoy wrote:Whatever you do don't get a Z cyclone. Those things have no glide and are pretty overstable. They fly way different from other plastics.
Thatdirtykid wrote:a worn x cyclone for me flies very similar to a new d cyclone.
I like having one for that reason. (although I recently lost mine)
when I have a new pro D I will throw it in the place of the X until it starts getting worn, then it moves down the line, and the x stays where it is
Blake_T wrote:once i adequately break in some of my clones i will probably carry more like 5
i currently have a stock of old plastic clones as well.
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Mumbai: State-run oil producer Oil India Ltd's offer for sale, or OFS, of a 10% stake in itself was oversubscribed on Friday. Investors had bid for 94.2 million shares, compared with the 51.9 million shares on offer as of 3.25pm.
The floor price for the shares was fixed at Rs.510 apiece.
Oil India is expected to raise Rs.2,600-3,000 crore through the OFS, a part of the government's divestment plan.
The indicative price of each share in the OFS, or the price at which the shares could be allotted, was Rs.516.22. The stock dropped 2.53% to Rs.525.55 on BSE on Friday.
Foreign institutional investors such as Sweden's Nordea, UK-based pension fund BA Pension, Maryland-based asset manager T Rowe Price and South Korean asset management firm Mirae participated in Oil India's OFS, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter. In the domestic institutional investor category, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, Life Insurance Corporation and GIC placed bids, said the person.
"Details of allocation of shares will be ascertained late in the evening. All bids above Rs.520 a share will get full allotment as per their bid. Bids at Rs.520 a share should get 80% of the quantity asked for," the person said on condition of anonymity as the final details are yet to be publicly announced by the department of divestment.


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- BSO Case Number: 02-1307-001577
- PIO Number: 13-8-30
- Date: July 21, 2013
- Time: 5:20 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 4147 Stirling Road, Apt. 502, Dania Beach
- Jurisdiction: Dania Beach
- Eilan Taregan, 55, male, 9/20/57, 4147 Stirling Road, Apt. 502, Dania Beach
- Unidentified suspects (one female, two males)
Description of Incident:
A man looking for love had a rude awakening when his date for the night ended up being part of a violent robbing trio who left him tied up and beaten in his own home.
Eilan Taregan, 55, went clubbing one hot summer night in July and may have felt lucky when he met a Hispanic female in her mid-twenties and invited her to his home for a drink. The unidentified temptress was accompanied by two Hispanic males. All three robbers drove to the victim's apartment in the woman's black late model Toyota Camry.
Once at the Taregan's home, the victim, believing the men to have gone, and the woman began to drink alcohol. The female then went outside to have a smoke and left the front door unlocked for her accomplices to enter. The two men barged in and punched and kicked Taregan until he fell to the ground. They then tied his hands and feet and left him in a bathroom while they stole his money, several watches, phone, jewelry and wallet.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact BSO Detective Theophilus Woulard at 954-321-4553 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
***MEDIA NOTE: A clear video is available for download from our website www.sheriff.org.
- INVESTIGATORS: BSO Det. Theophilus Woulard, CID
- THIS REPORT BY: Gina Carter/PIO 8/26/13 1430
Posted At: 08/26/2013 02:30 PM
- PIO 13-8-30 - A man looking for love had a rude awakening when his date for the night ended up being part of a violent robbing trio who left him tied up and beaten in his own home.
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Well THAT didn't take long. The confetti thrown on college campuses has barely been swept up after Barack Obama's reelection, and reality has smacked more of his children in the face. This is happened faster than any of these fools could have imagined. You will recall that Obama's union children at Hostess found out what real life is about last week. This week, his college student children got their dose of cold truth.
The stroke across the student loan crowd's face is the news that in the 3rd quarter, the number of student loans in default has skyrocketed.
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Student loans that are now delinquent by at least 90+ days and 30+ days have risen dramatically.
The amount of outstanding student loan debt has reached $956 billion, having climbed $42 billion in just the last quarter alone. Obviously, the effects of a 53% underemployed/unemployed rate among those graduating from college last May is taking hold of these young fools. Fully eleven percent of all student loans are delinquent for more than 90 days.
Probably very few of Obama's college children, who have outstanding school loans, understand that they can NEVER walk away from their debt because it is NOT dischargeable in a bankruptcy; but they will soon find out. How they expect to live a life of their own in a country that offers them no jobs but demands repayment for their useless degree is a mystery.
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Worse still is that this report is "likely to understate actual delinquency rates because almost half of these loans are currently in deferment, in grace periods or in forbearance and therefore temporarily not in the repayment cycle" according to Zerohedge.com. The explanation goes on to say: "This implies that among loans in repayment cycle delinquency rate are roughly TWICE as high."
The rate of delinquent student loans jumped by 2% in just the three months following last May, and the total amount of outstanding student loans is now pressing $ 1 trillion. Since trying to tell these foolish children this was coming made no impression, maybe the demand letters the hounds at the IRS will be sending them will make an impression.
They can hide in Mom's basement for now, but sooner or later they will have to come up for a beer and smokes. Until then, children, keep plenty of gas in your cars so you can try to outrun the revenuers. Maybe you'll get work in your own reality show; 'Two broke Students" sounds about right. Oh, and look up the meaning of the word "Schadenfreude" – it might be an eye-opener.
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The key to his salvation is the one person hes destined to love and betray.
Tattooed half-breed, Takayo Saint St. John, kills for the PSC with single-minded efficiency. Hes never questioned or failed his assignments until he stares into the cornflower blue eyes of Ryken Valte, the man whose life hes infiltrated under false pretenses. Harsh words and a cold shoulder isnt enough to keep the distance between them, but Saints mission hangs over his head. His job is to kill the brother of the man he loves and he sees no way out of his predicament.
Ryken melts under the intense attraction between him and Saint, but the man keeps pushing him away, denying their connection. Ryken would give up everything, do anything to have Saint at his side and in his bed, but secrets bigger than them make it impossible. Ryken yearns for Saints surrender, but hell get more than he bargained for when dark forces neither comprehends return with a vengeance.


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April 12, 2012 BY John Kim
Arriving this Saturday, April 14th at select Converse retailers is the Missoni for Converse Chuck Taylor All Star for the Spring/Summer season. The fifth overall collection of Missoni x Converse is comprised of three seasonal colorways – one unisex release (blue) and two for women (both featuring the signature zig-zag chevron pattern). All three releases will retail for $200 and will be available in limited quantity at Missoni stores, Jeffrey's, Fred Segal, and Aloha Rag locations in NYC and Honolulu. Continue reading for a detailed look at the three upcoming releases and don't forget to pick these up this Saturday!
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If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.
The Browns, six games behind in the AFC North with six games to play and out of the division race again, can make life difficult for Pittsburgh by beating the Steelers on Sunday. Kickoff is 1 p.m. at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
Baltimore leads the AFC North at 8-2. The Steelers are 6-4 and the Bengals are 5-5. The Browns are last at 2-8.
The Steelers already trail the Ravens by two games and lost to them Nov. 25. The Steelers and Ravens meet again Dec. 2 in Baltimore. The Ravens play the Chargers in San Diego on Sunday.
"We want to be their spoilers," linebacker and defensive captain D'Qwell Jackson said Friday. "We've been in a lot of ball games. They're dealing with their third-string quarterback. It's one of those deals where we smell blood. Let's take advantage of it."
The Browns did not spoil the Steelers' playoff chances last year as much as sabotage them. In the same game in which James Harrison gave Colt McCoy a season-ending concussion on Dec. 8, a sack by Scott Paxson and Brian Schaefering resulted in a sprained ankle for Ben Roethlisberger. Big Ben did not fully recover in time for the playoffs and played injured when the Steelers lost a wild-card game to the Broncos.
This is different.
The Steelers are in danger of slipping out of the playoff race if they do not overcome their injuries, and the Browns have a chance to nudge them off the path. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has reminded his team it would be a mistake to take the Browns lightly and look ahead to the Ravens.
"We respect all people we play," Tomlin said in a conference call. "More important than that, we believe football is a man vs. himself battle. It's about our preparation, our readiness and ultimately our play. We're coming off a subpar performance, and I expect the appropriate response."
Tomlin said excuses "are the tools of the incompetent" and he won't let being down to his Charlie Batch as his starting quarterback become one. Roethlisberger will miss his second straight start with rib and shoulder injuries. His replacement last week, Byron Leftwich, is out with broken ribs.
"We expect him to play winning football," Tomlin said of Batch. "We believe he's capable of that. He's a veteran player, one that's distinguished himself over the latter part of his career of being able to play above the line on a limited number of snaps. He's done it for us as recently as last year, he did it for us in 2010, and we expect the same."
Nevertheless, the Browns expect to see more running from the Steelers than would come from an offense piloted by Roethlisberger. But that is only part of the dilemma because the Browns still have to figure out how to move the ball on the No. 1 defense in the NFL.
The Browns rank 27th in offense and 25th in points scored (189). The Steelers have allowed the fifth-fewest points in the league (190).
"I guess there's no magic pill against them. Otherwise, I think people would've figured it out because Dick LeBeau has been a D-coordinator in the league forever -- literally forever -- and a lot of the guys that we're going to be going against are 10-plus year guys," said left tackle Joe Thomas, whose mission is to keep Harrison away from quarterback Brandon Weeden. "It's just doing your job, being fundamentally sound, just taking things one play at a time.
"Don't expect to hit a lot of big plays on these guys. It just has to be a chipping-away mentality because they just don't give up a lot of big plays. That's just the way their defense is built."
Darren McFadden scored on a 64-yard run on Sept. 23 to help the Raiders beat Pittsburgh, 34-31. The Steelers haven't given up a touchdown longer than 15 yards on the ground or through the air since then.
Steelers at Browns
When: 1, Sunday
Where: Cleveland Browns Stadium
Records: Steelers 6-4; Browns 2-8
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Come PetMarking With Me: Pet Toy Box
I've totes got toys on the brain today! Because many of our pets have more than their fair share, it's hard to keep them from spreading all over the house. I currently keep North's toys in a large plant pot from Ikea – it's meant to be a temporary fix, so now I'm on a mission to find a new container for my pooch's fun things! Looks like amh678 already got us started by locating this cute design. Can you take her lead and help find something special to hold goodies?
All you savvy shoppers and Internet researchers out there, please help locate the best pet toy boxes for our furry friends' treasures and come PetMarking with me, by bookmarking your finds on TeamSugar. Don't forget to tag your finds as "Pet Toy Box." I'll do a recap next week of our finds.
Geeksugar has written a helpful explanation of how to bookmark . . . or, in our case, PetMark! Happy hunting!
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Boeing's conclusion that a short circuit or electrical arc caused by foreign debris in a P100 power distribution panel led to the November 9 fire aboard the second 787 flight test airplane might have come as a relief to those who feared the need for an extensive system re-design. But a month after the fire forced the emergency landing of ZA002 in Laredo, Texas, Boeing still hasn't issued a new certification target and all six test aircraft remain grounded, leaving many wondering if what the company described as "minor" changes to the power distribution panels and updates to associated system software might still result in protracted delay.
On November 30 Boeing flew ZA002 from Laredo to Seattle after mechanics replaced the damaged P100 power distribution panel, repaired damage to interior composite structure and installed new insulation material. The P100 panel serves as one of five major power distribution panels on the 787. It receives power from the left engine and distributes it to an array of systems.
"We have successfully simulated key aspects of the onboard event in our laboratory and are moving forward with developing design fixes," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program. "Boeing is developing a plan to enable a return to 787 flight-test activities and will present it to the FAA as soon as it is complete." Late last month Boeing said it would issue a new program schedule "in the next few weeks."
While it awaits word from Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems, the Wichita-based supplier of the 787's forward fuselage section, engine pylons and wing leading edge, has chosen to divert most of its workers from its 787 lines to other programs, most notably its busy Boeing 737 lines.
Notwithstanding the Spirit move, Boeing insists a three-week hold on 787 assembly it instituted late last month does not mean its suppliers will have to halt production of the 787 parts they make. Meanwhile, more evidence of a potentially significant delay came when Continental Airlines confirmed that it postponed the launch of its 787 service between Houston and Auckland, New Zealand, from November next year to some time in 2012. Continental, which holds orders for 25 Dreamliners, also planned to use a 787 on new service set to start next November between Houston and Lagos, Nigeria, but it now plans instead to use a 777.


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Topic: Come in and laugh at me
So I am back in Swedish class and today was our first test. Everyone was concentrating, thinking...you could hear a pin drop or in this case my very loud burping that I think most be classified as belching. Lovely. Classy. Thank goodness I sit at the front of the class so I didnt have to see their reactions. I wonder what American stereotype I confirmed. But as Jeff has pointed out, better out than in! I dont understand how I can make so much gas, but I am beyond thankful that today it was only burping and not the farting that came forth.
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Corn insect control is a moving target, and sometimes the answers aren't as simple as they might seem. In recent years, unpredictable weather, increased pest pressure and unexpected damage in rootworm-traited corn have confounded corn insect control strategies. Although corn rootworm management has evolved over time, one constant in the fight for over 25 years is Force insecticide.
"Corn rootworm has been a challenge for corn growers since the late 1950s," said Chuck Foresman, Syngenta global corn crop protection R&D lead. "And since its introduction in the late 1980s, Force has provided farmers with control of corn rootworm and other pests, resulting in reduced lodging, faster and easier harvests, and higher yields."
Looking Ahead
As farmers plan for the 2014 growing season, Syngenta recommends the following strategies for corn insect control in areas where corn rootworm is expected to be a problem:
- Taking a multi-year, whole-farm approach
- Rotating to a non-host crop, where that is an option
- Integrating multiple measures of control
- Using corn hybrid stacks with two corn rootworm traits
- Applying a soil insecticide or seed treatment
"Corn rootworm control is not one-size-fits-all," Foresman said. "Rotation to a non-host crop is the first option for farmers seeking to break the corn rootworm cycle. Effective corn rootworm management will require a multi-year plan, incorporating the integration of multiple control measures, not merely employing a single technology. Understanding the complexity of corn rootworm will help farmers choose the right approach for their farm."
Force Insecticide Team: The People Behind the Progress
Foresman has been part of a select group at Syngenta who have worked with Force insecticide since its inception. In the summer of 1980, he spent time digging up corn roots to test the efficacy of Force insecticide as a pre-registration compound. "It's been a very robust compound, and after nearly three decades, Force remains an effective tool for corn insect control," he said. "We're very pleased it's a product growers continue to rely on."
Foresman and his colleagues have seen Force evolve from a new control option to a trusted resource, especially now through its use on rootworm-traited hybrids. When applied to hybrids that contain a single mode of action against corn rootworm, for example, Force can help increase corn yields by an average of 10 bushels per acre.
Dave Thomas, Syngenta senior R&D scientist, helped commercialize Force by providing in-house, contract and university technical support for the insecticide. "It was more user-friendly than the older products that were on the market," Thomas said, adding that farmers also like the fact that Force controls secondary pests, such as cutworm, wireworm and white grub.
Today, Force comes in both liquid and granular formulations. Force 3G is a proven and reliable granular soil-applied insecticide that offers industry-leading control of the toughest corn pests. Force CS liquid soil-applied insecticide offers the same performance as Force 3G but with added convenience, a lower use rate and reduced product exposure.
Craig Nichols, Syngenta senior R&D scientist, also has been heavily involved in the development of Force over the past 20 years, from trial digs to data summary. He took part in developing Force 3G, testing Force on Bt traits and, most recently, testing Force CS. "As control challenges have emerged, farmers have found the need to attack corn rootworm with more than one mode of action," Nichols said, noting that the application of Force on trait can help farmers control corn rootworms, especially in areas with heavy corn rootworm pressure.
As a leader in corn insect control, Syngenta is working to help farmers develop multi-year, whole-farm solutions for corn rootworm and other yield-robbing pests by taking current and historical insect pressures into account. Led by its "people behind the progress," Syngenta is able to offer growers more tools to control corn rootworm than ever before, including Force, a product as useful for corn growers today as it was 25 years ago.


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Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA) hosted its annual Dining by Design at Pier 94 in conjunction with the Architectural Digest Home Show. The Gala was hosted by fashion designer Tracy Reese and culinary master Geoffrey Zakarian and honored powerhouse fashion and design figures, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, long-time supporters of DIFFA and Rick Wolf.
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PONTIAC (AP) -- Authorities say a woman driving drunk, with a suspended license and an 8-year-old child aboard crashed her vehicle into a parked police car.
The Oakland County sheriff's department says in a news release that a deputy had parked his car in Pontiac about 1 a.m. Saturday when he "heard a vehicle accelerating at a high rate of speed and then heard a crash."
The department says the 28-year-old Pontiac woman and the child weren't injured. It says the woman was arrested for drunken driving, driving on a suspended license and child endangerment.
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Sometimes I'll even eat this Spicy Dipping Sauce with Sriracha on (gasp) frozen sweet potato fries like the ones in these photos, although there's no doubt that from-scratch sweet potato fries are better. Whether you make your own fries, or use frozen ones, this sauce is the perfect dip for sweet potato fries or roasted veggies. Fresh lime juice is the secret ingredient that I think makes this over-the-top good!
Spicy Dipping Sauce with Sriracha Sauce for Sweet Potato Fries or Roasted Vegetables
(Makes just over 1/2 cup dipping sauce, enough for a big cookie sheet of sweet potato fries. Recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from Spicy Mexican Slaw.
1/4 cup sour cream (I used light sour cream)
1/4 cup mayo (I used regular mayo, but next time I would probably use light mayo)
Sriracha sauce to taste (about 1/2 - 1 tsp.)
2 T fresh-squeezed lime juice
Sweet Potato Fries for serving (I would probably just roast the sweet potatoes with olive oil, salt, and pepper if I was eating them with this dipping sauce.)
When the sauce is as spicy as you'd like, add the fresh-squeezed lime juice and whisk in until the mixture is smooth. Serve dipping sauce with sweet potatoes fries. I think this would also be good with other roasted vegetables, especially Roasted Cauliflower or Roasted Broccoli.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Sweet potato fries with a moderate amount of this dipping sauce would be approved for phase 2 or 3 of the South Beach Diet, especially if you make your own sweet potato fries and use light sour cream and light mayo. If you use low-carb vegetables like Roasted Cauliflower or Roasted Broccoli, this could be eaten for phase one and most other low-carb eating plans.
More Tasty Ideas for Dipping with this Sauce:
Roasted Broccoli with Garlic ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Sriracha Roasted Cauliflower ~ White on Rice Couple
Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Whole Roasted Cauliflower ~ Nom Nom Paleo
Slow Roasted Asparagus ~ Kalyn's Kitchen


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Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort hosting canned food drive
January 3, 2013
Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort is collecting canned food for the food bank of El Dorado County until Jan. 12.
Guests are asked to bring canned nonperishable foods such as canned soup, dried pasta, crackers and pasta sauce to the collection bin next to the season pass office. If three bins of food are filled by Jan. 12, general manager John Rice will sit in a dunk tank and let customers try to hit a target to sink him.
According to Feeding America's 2011 Map the Meal Gap study, 15.26 percent of El Dorado County – or 27,850 individuals – are food insecure.Food insecurity is the Department of Agriculture's measure for lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
The Food Bank of El Dorado County provides food assistance on a daily basis to over 40 local emergency food response agencies, including battered women's shelters, senior centers, local food pantries, under privileged youth programs, youth shelters, soup kitchens, maternity homes, and more. When guests contribute to the Food Bank their donations help nonprofit establishments throughout El Dorado County feed people in need.


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A MARATHON batting performance from Ian Cockbain rescued a miraculous draw for Gloucestershire from their County Championship game against Surrey at Bristol.
Making his first County Championship appearance of the season due to injuries to Chris Dent and Will Tavare, Cockbain hit a career-best 151 not out from an eight-hour, 45-minute stay at the crease to lead Gloucestershire to safety at 506-6 in their second innings after the visitors dominated the first two days and built a first innings lead of 514.
The key to Gloucestershire's successful survival mission was a 177-run sixth wicket stand between Cockbain and Tom Smith, who also recorded a highest first-class score of 80 to justify his promotion in the batting order with his only previous half-century being the 50 he scored against Leicestershire in September 2013.
Michael Klinger (120) led Gloucestershire's resistance by hitting a century for the second consecutive County Championship game and sharing a 101-run stand with Cockbain on the third day.
Gloucestershire resumed the final day still needing 240 runs just to make Surrey bat again with only five wickets left but on a flat pitch Cockbain and Smith were relatively comfortable in the morning session as they both passed 50 and brought up a century partnership.
Cockbain was stuck on 48 for the first half-hour before reaching his half-century from 189 balls and he survived a strong lbw appeal from Jade Dernbach on 56 but grew in confidence as the session went on, aided by some positive strokeplay from Smith.
By comparison, Cockbain took just 67 more balls to bring up just his third first class century with a paddle for two off Dernbach 20 minutes after lunch but the third new ball did the trick for Surrey, Smith edging a Matt Dunn delivery to Rory Burns at third slip with the score on 434.
Fears of a batting collapse never materialised as Will Gidman (46*) added an unbroken partnership of 72 with Cockbain before the teams shook hands at 5.25pm.
Gloucestershire were shot out for just 112 in their first innings as Dunn (4-37) and Chris Tremlett (2-24) ripped through the top and middle order, Geraint Jones top-scoring with 28.
Surrey surpassed that score easily without losing a wicket as Burns, who finished one run short of a double ton, put on 215 with opening partner Zafar Ansiri (98).
Burns also shared a 200-plus third wicket stand with Vikram Solanki, who piled on the misery by hitting 143, and Jason Roy smashed an unbeaten 121 off 71 balls against a weary bowling attack before Surrey declared on 626-6 at the end of the second day.


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Toy Fair 2014: Bandai's Sprukits Build Up Superman, Batman, 'Halo' And More
I wasn't expecting to see much past new Power Rangers toys when I visited Bandai America's booth at Toy Fair 2014, but I was straight up stoked when I rounded a corner to see its upcoming line of Banda Japan-designed SprüKits. What are SprüKits? Try all-new action figure model kits of Superman, Batman, Joker, Halo soldiers and more -- all available in several scales of size and complexity. Additionally, the SprüKits line is being used to import Bandai Japan's existing Danball Senki LBX figure kits.