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About a month ago I thought I was experiencing a severe sunburn on my lips. They were red, swollen, had dry patches and VERY small bumps on them. They burned a bit and felt like sandpaper. I used vaseline and drank even more water than usual and about a week later they were fine. I purchased an spf 45 banana boat lip balm thinking it would prevent it again, but now I`m not so sure it was the sun. The tiny red bumps are back, I have deep red patches on my lips and they burn. I`m certain they aren`t cold sores (bc they are so tiny, so many of them, and they are simply little bumps) but I don`t know how to treat it! Is vaseline hurting them or helping? Any help would be appreciated!
This is a very interesting problem and could be the result of a couple of things going on at the same time. It is likely that the "little red bumps" you observed were actually minor salivary glands that are present on the mucosal or intraoral aspect of the lips. You probably experienced significant sun/UV exposure that resulted in an acute inflammation, edema, redness, and enlargement of the minor glands. Thus, you had pronounced "bumps" and "sandpaper feel" because of the swelling and dryness or mucosal dehydration.
You treated the problem with hydration (drinking fluids, and applying an emollient--Vaseline-- that was inert--no flavorings, additives or colorings). The next time you used a product with SPF formulation and again experienced the "red bumps", you may have an allergic response to the lip balm, or it washed off and you were not protected as you anticipated. Finally without examining you I can only speculate that the red bumps are minor salivary glands and not herpetic vesicles. The latter are fragile fluid filled vesicles that rupture almost as fast as they arise but then can leave a roughened burning surface feel that lasts for 10-14 days and lip balms will not reduce the occurrence. I would strongly suggest that you have this evaluated by either your dentist or primary care provider. UV/Solar damage to the lips and face is something not to ignore and not an enjoyable summer experience. I use a Zinc oxide lip balm with SPF 50 and apply constantly when I am out on the water or playing golf. But, I advise that you rule out a herpetic outbreak or contact allergy to the chap stick and avoid over exposure.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos did something on Thursday he hasn't done since last May. He played a full game behind the plate against the Braves, who defeated the Nationals, 4-3, at Champion Stadium.
The best moment came in the first inning, when Ramos threw out Andrelton Simmons trying to steal third base. Not bad for a guy who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee on May 12, 2012, against the Reds.
"I'm very excited right now for this step in my career," Ramos said. "It's the first time I caught eight innings after I had surgery."
Ramos feels he is in the best shape since entering the big leagues. He lost weight, learning after the knee surgery that he needed to take better care of his body.
"I feel more strong. I feel more light behind the plate," Ramos said. "I'm blocking the ball pretty good. I feel very strong behind the plate. So, I'm very, very excited for this moment."
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Wilson proud of MLB's harsher PED penalties
LOS ANGELES -- Left-handed pitcher C.J. Wilson, the Angels' Major League Baseball Players Association representative, reacted strongly and positively Friday to MLB's enhanced drug-program agreement.
"I hope this is the padlock, and closes this chapter," Wilson said. "We don't want to keep going through this."
More testing is what the players decided was the best course, he said.
"We had a lot of of discussions in the meeting in San Diego in the offseason," Wilson said. "We had a hundred players in a room talking about it. The solution would be what's right for the game. The conclusion we came to is, the No. 1 deterrent is getting tested more often. Significantly."
The Angels' No. 2 starter said he believes "the game is significantly cleaner than it was 15 years ago" when he signed his first contract.
Angels manager Mike Scioscia said: "I don't think everyone understands that this whole thing [the agreement] has been player-driven. It's an attempt to level the playing field."
Wilson said of PED use: "Guys do it for greed. They're not happy with the player they are. They want to do it and make themselves better.
"If there's always testing ... they're not going to feel like they're going to get away with it. ... I think you'd have to be really not good at risk evaluation at this point."
Wilson added that the penalty phase is also significant, in his opinion, especially "if you're a $10 million or $20 million player, and all of a sudden you're making zero dollars."
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The Alexander Kern papers include correspondence, clippings, articles, and photographs on Mr. Kern's career at the State University of Iowa and as a visiting professor abroad.
Biographical Note
Alexander Carl Kern was born September 23, 1909, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kern earned his B.A. at Yale in 1930. He took his M.A. at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and his Ph.D. in history in 1936. Kern married Jean Bordner in 1936, and they had two children, John and Antonia.
Dr. Kern joined the faculty at the State University of Iowa in 1936 as instructor of English. During 1945, he was a lecturer in the S.U.I. English Department, as well as University of Wisconsin and Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. In 1946 Kern was named assistant professor of English at S.U.I., where he further developed the American Studies Program. The American Studies Program was initially named American Civilization when it was first offered as a graduate program in 1934. Dr. Kern was made associate professor and course chairman of this program in fall 1947 by Elmer T. Peterson, acting dean of the Graduate College. Alexander Kern retired in 1975 and died August 16, 1997.
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Cawelti, John G. "Alexander Kern: An Analysis and Interpretation." American Studies 16, no. 2 (fall 1975): 9-14, illus. Also "An Issue for Alex," pp. 5-8, with "A Kern Bibliography."
Kern, Alexander C. "A Historical Note on [the] American Civilization [Program] at Iowa." Handbook of the University of Iowa American Studies Program (1978): 3-4.
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8 ounces elbow macaroni
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1 and ½ teaspoon oregano
1 and ½ teaspoon thyme
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoon flour
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8 ounces shredded or diced Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese
8 ounces shredded or diced Colby Jack cheese
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Marshal Davis describes the beginning of his journey to Israel to coach the U.S. fencing team at Maccabiah.
BY: Marshal Davis
I am incredibly excited, honored and humbled to coach about 50 fencers representing the United States at the third largest sporting event in the world, behind the Olympics and World University Games.
I previously coached Team USA at the 2011 European Maccabi Games in Vienna, Austria. At those games, Team USA Fencing won 13 individual medals and medals in all three team events.
It was an incredible experience to be part of the largest group of Jewish people to set foot in a Former Nazi territory since World War II. At opening ceremonies, attended by numerous dignitaries, the Austrian president for the first time publicly took responsibility for Austrian collaboration with the Nazis. That was preceded by the teams marching out of the courtyard of Vienna's city hall to see giant Israeli flags hanging from the building notorious for its balcony where Hitler infamously riled crowds with his speeches.
Personally, this will be my first time in Israel. I was selected to go on Birthright when I was a student at the University of Florida, but the trip fell through when the Second Intifada broke out. This is an experience I've been longing for since then. To couple that with coaching Team USA in the sport I love is just something words cannot describe.
Team USA Fencing will compete in epee, sabre, and foil individual and team events. The events will be separate for men and women in three age groups: Open, Juniors (born 1995-1998) and Masters (aged 40 and over).
Individual fencing events start with dividing up the competitors into pools. In a given pool, all fencers compete against each other in five touch bouts where the first fencer who scores five points against his or her opponent wins (or whoever is ahead after 3 minutes and 1 minute of overtime.)
Fencers from all pools are ranked based on wins and seeded into a direct elimination bracket. This is similar to the March Madness basketball bracket system, but in fencing the size of the bracket varies based on the number of entrants. So there may be an initial bracket of 64, 128, 32, and so on. The fencer who first scores 15 touches or is ahead after the time expires wins the bout.
For team events, the format is Olympic 45-touch relay. Each team (again, separate by weapon, gender and age category) has three fencers. Not counting an optional alternate, every fencer faces off against every fencer on another team for a total of nine bouts up to 45 cumulative touches. For example, if Team A is winning 5-3 after the first bout, the next two fencers will fence until the one reaches 10, and so on until one team hits 45. This is a very exciting format because often matches go back and forth as a strong fencer makes up a large deficit or a weaker fencer gives up a big lead.
Signing off from the El Al terminal at JFK Airport,
Marshal Davis
Outside of coaching the U.S. Fencing team at Maccabiah, Marshal Davis works as an attorney at Davis Law and coaches at Swarthmore College and Liberty Fencing Club in Warrington.


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THE nine-year-old girl who was killed after being hit by a bus has been named locally as Caitlin Hunt, a pupil at Rodbourne Cheney Primary School.
The incident occurred last night on Moredon Road, outside the Blair Parade shortly before 6pm.
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Paramedics and police officers attended the incident but the girl, from Swindon, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
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U.S. Sen. Al Franken is never at a loss for putting a spin on a discussion topic, whether he is wearing his senatorial hat or fulfilling his role as a new grandfather.
How is the 62-year-old Franken of today different from when he took the oath of office four years ago as Minnesota's junior senator?
"As a person, I am pretty much the same," he admitted when meeting with the ECM Publishers Editorial Board earlier this week in Coon Rapids.
Franken said he was known as a comedian when he was elected to the Senate after a lengthy recount.
"I have become more familiar with the way things work in the Senate," Franken said. "There was the reaction of exceeding expectations, and that was easy to do," Franken replied with that robust, echoing laugh.
When talking about himself, Franken doesn't take long to point out that he moved up in Senate seniority in an alarmingly fast way, but more importantly, he is a grandfather now.
Being a grandfather "makes me look at things in a slightly different way," Franken said. Joseph Bryson Greenwald was born May 30 to Franken's daughter Thomasin Franken and son-in-law Brody Greenwald. The family resides in Washington, D.C., so Franken and wife Franni press the home court advantage on the other grandparents from southern California.
"We've got to make sure every child has the same advantages," Franken insisted. He said the return on the investment in early childhood education is something he strongly supports.
Before moving to other issues, Franken changed the pace of the interview, asking where he had left his phone – "Did I leave it in the car, damn it," he said – and expressing a desire to brag about his grandson by showing a picture saved on his smartphone. Showing his comic side, Franken said all editorial board members now had to "come out to the car" to see what he called "an incredibly adorable picture" of his grandson. An intern retrieved Franken's phone, allowing Franken to show off his grandson's picture.
Making the point that family events often trump work on world issues, Franken said, "You see him come out completely clueless and then in two months he's making eye contact, smiling and gurgling. You can't look at a child and not say we've got to make sure that every child has the same advantages."
Accepting reality, Franken said he was frustrated that political leaders are not making the investments that need to be made.
Franken said many of his constituents ask him if he thought the Senate was different than what he thought it would be. Through another spurt of laughter, Franken said, "I can't remember what I thought it would be and wish I would have written down what I thought it would be like."
Franken admitted he wanted to identify his working demeanor early in his senatorial service and did just that by passing a bill on service dogs just two weeks into office. It was a bipartisan effort with the help of Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., he said.
One of Franken's major pieces of legislation has been the health care 80-20 rule provision. If insurers don't spend at least 80 percent of customers' premiums on actual health care, but instead put it toward things like overhead, marketing and CEO salaries, then they must refund the difference to customers.
The rebate from the 80-20 rule has amounted to a savings of more than $2.7 billion, Franken said. He explained that the law was patterned after a Minnesota law passed in 1993.
More work needs to be done in respect to reform of health care delivery, Franken said. Minnesota is currently No. 1 in delivering value care. He said good delivery systems should be rewarded. Better health care delivery nationwide could reduce health care costs, he said.
Care for the young and for the elderly is improving, Franken said, with preventive care also helping reduce costs. He said the cost of health care in the past three years has grown at the lowest rate in the past 50 years. Insurance premiums are also growing at the smallest rate since 1996, Franken said.
Franken has been utilizing his time away from Washington to visit with constituents throughout Minnesota.
"I heard a lot of frustration directed at Washington, and I feel frustrated myself," Franken said.
Congress did not pass an appropriations bill for transportation and housing. No appropriations bills were passed in either House. Franken said it looks like there will be more confrontations about the budget at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 and also with the debt limit.
"Hopefully, we won't have the debacle we had in 2011," he said.
Using the immigration bill as an example, Franken said there has been some "good bipartisanship" and compromise resulting in work getting done. Franken introduced five amendments on this bill, with one of his amendments being the only one passing unanimously. He also pointed to the confirmation of administrative executive decisions as examples of progress toward bipartisanship. Franken listed Republican Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, as a key lawmaker practicing bipartisanship.
Creation of more jobs nationwide is the objective of many political leaders, Franken being no exception. He recently introduced a bill before the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that could bridge the job skills gap and give students the training, tuition and real-world internships needed to fill 3.5 million job openings.
Franken said there are many manufacturers that have jobs but do not have people with the proper skills to fill them. His bill creates a competitive grants program where businesses and community colleges come together to train the workers they need. The bill is named the Community College to Career Fund Act. Franken compared the program similarly to the education Race to the Top grant process.
E.J. Ajax, in Fridley, a precision machine tooling company, has used this concept already and it works, Franken said. This apprentice-type program led an Ajax employee to walk up the ladder in education degrees and eventually end up as the head of quality control, Franken related.
In his discussion with 10 ECM Editorial Board members, Franken offered senatorial observations on the following:
• The Farm Bill – The Senate bill connected conservation practices with crop insurance. These parts of the bill are absolutely necessary, Franken said. He wrote the energy title of the Senate bill. The House bill has no connection with nutritional assistance. Franken said cuts in SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as seen in the House bill, would take away benefits from children.
• National Security Agency – Franken serves on the Judiciary Committee and has availed himself to classified briefings. He said it is necessary to weigh obligations to keep Americans safe while considering privacy rights. Franken strongly endorses transparency in security.
• Student loans and college affordability – Rising costs of college tuition and college affordability needs to be addressed, Franken said. Extending the 3.4 percent rate on Stafford loans has brought down rates in the short term. Minnesota currently ranks third in the country in college debt, with students now graduating with an average of about $30,000 in debt. The ability to get college credits while in high school can be accelerated, Franken said. He has introduced a bill where high school graduates can graduate with earned college credits. Franken said the U.S. must look at what other countries are doing in providing education at low costs or no costs at all. "We must make it less expensive to attend college," he said.
Howard Lestrud is at email@example.com.


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As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children. Director Rebecca Cammisa tracks the journey of several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call "The Beast." Two short films on undocumented migration precede the main screening.
The screening is presented in conjunction with the U-M Institute for Humanities exhibition State of Exception: Richard Barnes, Jason De León, Amanda Krugliak, which curates objects from Jason De León's (U-M Anthropology) Undocumented Migration Project, the largest assemblage of migrant artifacts in the country. The exhibition is a collaboration between De León, artist/photographer Richard Barnes, and IH curator Amanda Krugliak, and runs at the IH Gallery (202 S. Thayer Street) January 24-March 12, 2013.
In collaboration with the U-M Museum of Art and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. In conjunction with the LSA Theme Semester "Race: Are We So Different?"
The UMS on Film series is designed to expand understanding of the artists and cultures represented on the UMS season and reveal some of the emotions and ideas behind the creative process.


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This is a guest post written and contributed by Gal Moav (@GalMoav), director of product management at Ravello Systems, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. Powered by the industry's first Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables enterprise development teams to overcome internal capacity constraints and leverage the power of the cloud to supercharge their application development processes – resulting in faster time to market and higher quality.
The development and testing resource problem
Application development managers in enterprises face an acute problem day in and day out: they lack the resources for proper development and testing. This problem isn't new. In fact, it's been around for so long that most developers have learned to live with the pain. However, given increasing pressure from line of business owners to develop new applications and new features faster than ever, the problem is once again coming to the forefront in a big way.
Is the cloud a good solution?
Theoretically, from a 30,000-foot level, the public cloud — with its unlimited capacity — offers a good solution. However, using the cloud to develop and test an application that has to be deployed on-premise is near impossible, because the cloud is a completely different environment from the internal data center. In most cases, deploying an application on the cloud involves significant rewriting and re-coding. Just think about all the details: using the exact same hardened operating system with the same patch level and monitoring tools; identical physical specification (core count and memory size, network interface cards and disk controllers) and network and storage topology; controlling DNS names and DHCP address allocation; using virtual appliances (such as firewalls and load-balancers), and the list goes on and on. Let's say you do all this and essentially rewrite your application to run in the cloud. Now what? Developing and testing that application is meaningless because it looks completely different from what the target production deployment on-premise will look like.
An ideal world
In an ideal world, developers would be able to replicate their application and its environment in the cloud, instantly, without making any changes whatsoever. They would be able to use the same VMs, the same networking and storage topology. Then, developers should be able to, instantly and on-demand, create as many copies of the application as they need for development and testing (integration testing, system testing, penetration testing, destructive testing, etc.). Such replicas of the application would be completely consistent with the on-premise production environment so issues are found early in the cycle, and not when the code hits staging or production.
Developers may want to take this concept further and implement Continuous Integration (CI). Doing so, every time a developer checks in code, their CI system fires up multiple copies of the production replica application in the cloud and runs tests in parallel. Developers will be able to collaborate on live application instances, make changes and save complete versions of the application including its infrastructure. For advanced users, the entire multi-VM application infrastructure stack (VMs, network config, storage config, etc.) should be programmable, managed with code and versioned along with the rest of the application.
At Ravello, we wanted to implement this vision of the ideal world, and quickly realized that doing so requires a fundamentally different approach. With that in mind, we developed what we call a Cloud Application Hypervisor.
Supercharge your application development with Ravello
The Cloud Application Hypervisor is a new technology that allows you to completely encapsulate your multi-VM application, along with its entire environment (networking and storage) and deploy it instantly on the Rackspace cloud (or any public cloud) – without making any changes to the VMs, OS or application.
Once you do that, you can create as many copies as you want for development and test with the click of a button or a simple API call. Advanced users can also integrate Ravello with their CI environments, work iteratively on live application instances and version the entire application and its infrastructure. (Click image to enlarge.)
Ravello is exposed as an easy to use SaaS offering. We have just opened up our beta to everyone, and you can try it out for free. We don't require your credit card, or your cloud credentials. Check it out: www.ravellosystems.com.


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DETROIT ( TheStreet) -- Demand for fuel-efficient compact cars continues to mount: The Chevrolet Volt is not only a technological marvel but also a hot political topic and every major automaker recently has rolled out a strong product in the wildly competitive mid-sized sedan segment. But yet, as the Detroit Auto Show approaches, the auto industry is focused squarely on pickup trucks. Pickup truck momentum has been mounting for weeks, fueled by the revival of the housing construction industry, which provides a key market for pickup sales. On Dec. 13, GM ( GM) rolled out the long-awaited, remodeled 2014 Silverado, showing that it clearly got the timing right and now only needs to get the truck right. On Jan. 3, automakers released December sales that showed strong pickup truck sales including a 16% gain for the remodeled Ram pickup, a candidate for truck of the year. On the Ford ( F) sales call, Ford analyst Eric Merkle said full-size pickups had their best month of the year in December, accounting for 13% of industry sales. For the full year, pickup truck sales accounted for 11.5% of industry sales, relatively consistent with the previous two years. For all of 2012, Ford's F-150 and the Silverado were the two best-sellingU.S. vehicles, with the F-150 first by an immense number, 227,004 vehicles, or 35% of its total sales. Even today, despite all their gains in the various car segments in recent year, the Detroit Three have not entirely shaken the assessment that they are pickup truck companies which also make cars. Now the industry expects that Ford will unveil a concept for a remodeled F-150 at the Detroit Auto Show media preview next week, which would likely make a pickup truck concept introduction the principal event at the show. Given the publicity around the Silverado announcement, "Ford, (with) the top selling truck in the country, was left out of that excitement," said Edmunds.com analyst Jessica Caldwell, on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. "This is a way to get themselves back in it." Ford "is stealing the spotlight from GM," said Jefferies analyst Peter Nesvold, on the same call. "The real advancement will probably be weight, it is rumored to be 750 miles lighter than the current model." Nesvold said he does not expect Ford will lure many Silverado buyers because truck buyers are loyal, but the rollout "creates a new product cycle story." Ford has not commented on whether it will roll out a new F-150. On a conference call with analysts in November, Mark Fields, chief operating officer, was coy when asked that question. "We take leadership very seriously," he said. "We also know that as a leader you have a target on your back. That's what drives our product planning going forward."
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The overall partnership aim was to allow technology transfer of fermentation and molecular / microbiology expertise from Queens University to Almac. Almac met the specific partnership objectives by not only sharing a program of work with academics at Queens, but also attending training courses organised through University College London and embedding key learning back into the company.
The resulting success of this collaboration is that Almac can now deliver a fully integrated fermentation, optimisation and bio-product service to its customers. Since completion of the KTP, Almac have successfully scaled fermentation and bio-oxidation reactions to thousands of litres.
Dr Tom Moody, Head of Biocatalysis and Radiolabelling Services, is understandably delighted with the results of this partnership: "To receive the highest grade of Outstanding is a huge achievement for Almac, and testament to the commitment of the team involved. Not only have we further strengthened our long-standing relationship with Queens University, but we have also increased our service offering within the biocatalysis field to our clients, thus allowing us to compete in an area which was previously beyond our reach."
This achievement follows from an extremely successful year for Almac's biocatalysis service offering. 2012 saw the launch of its metabolite synthesis services, winning a Belfast Telegraph Award in Excellence in Technology, and announcing an industry-leading biocatalysis collaboration with DSM Pharmaceutical Products.
The Almac Group provides a broad range of services from R&D, biomarker discovery and development, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply and IXRS® technology (IVRS/IWRS), to commercial-scale manufacture. Almac provides services to more than 600 companies, including all the world leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. The company employs over 3,300 individuals and is headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. US operations are based in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California


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Once in a while, a different way of doing things comes along and you just want to share it.
In most cities, residents are assessed for repairing and overlaying streets. Sometimes that amounts to thousands of dollars for property owners.
In my hometown of Elk River, the council has just approved a new way of financing the repair of our streets.
Instead of assessing the property owners and businesses with those whopping charges, the council has started a franchise fee system where homeowners pay $9 per month, small commercial and industrial properties pay $29 to $41 monthly, general commercial properties pay $120 to $140 monthly and large commercial industrial properties pay $170 monthly. This includes nonprofits, such as schools and churches.
City Engineer Justin Femrite figures this fee will bring in $1.4 million per year that, when combined with state aid, will fully fund the pavement management fund.
Without this fund, homeowners this year were facing up to $8,000 in assessments for street repair and an average business $20,000.
The good news is this year they will not have to pay those assessments. The not-so-good news is those in the past who have been assessed will still have to pay the money, although the city is trying to work out some kind of a rebate.
St. Louis Park has been using this form of this method for years. It makes sense that all of us should pay a little something each month, since we all drive on all of the roads. Why should we be saddled with paying for the road in front of our house?
There's another savings for us taxpayers. The city no longer will have to sell $270,000 in street improvement bonds, plus pay the interest and costs of handling the bonds.
Street repairs will be done on schedule, uninterrupted by residents who protested the assessment and threw the repairs off schedule.
City Administrator Cal Portner was looking for a way to avoid those painful street assessment hearings where residents pleaded for relief of assessments they said they could not afford. He patterned this new franchise fee plan after one in law to handle storm water drainage.
Femrite calculates that figuring out 60 years, this new method will save 70 percent of the costs, figuring no bonds, no interest rates, no interest rates for the property owners and having the work done on time.
The Elk River City Council made every effort to let residents know about this new method. They mailed out brochures explaining it to 7,000 residents, told business property owners about it in an insert with the Chamber of Commerce newsletter and had an open house to explain it.
Just thought you'd like to know there is a way to avoid those painful assessment hearings as well as paying those thousand-dollar assessments for the street in front of your house.
For more information, call Portner at 763-635-1001 and Femrite at 763-635-1051.
Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers and a member of the ECM Editorial Board.


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A fundraiser for Laura's House – a temporary shelter providing services for women suffering from domestic violence – will mark its second year collecting sweaters for local women in need.
Organizer and Rancho Santa Margarita resident Cindy Andrews feels a particular connection to this upcoming event.
"Three years ago, God put the idea into my heart to help others who have been battered and desperately hurt," Andrews said.
Andrews is intimately acquainted with violence having been raised by a mentally ill mother who abused her and her two siblings. She recalls being burned when a coffee pot was thrown at her and once protecting her younger sister from a terrible beating which resulted in a broken arm.
"The bright spot was that my grandmother told me about Jesus, who loves all the children, even if they are bad. This got me through many a night," Andrews said.
Married at 19, Andrews entered a 14-year marriage that included more physical and verbal abuse. Her two children also endured much pain at the hands of an angry father.
Finally, Andrews said she made a decision to leave and confronted her husband, who threatened to shoot the children. When he left their home for a while, she quickly grabbed her son and daughter and fled. After an hour, Andrews stopped the car and realized she had forgotten to take a sweater to shield her from the cool autumn night.
"As I sat shivering, I looked at my two beautiful children sleeping in the back of the car," she said. "Now, holding this event every year ensure(s) that women will keep warm in their time of need."
Andrews divorced her husband and became independent. She started dating and attending church with her children's babysitter's brother, Robert. He encouraged her to find healing and hope with the Lord.
They have been happily married for 21 years.
"It's possible to find peace and a new life", Andrews said.
The second annual Sweater Event will be held Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. at El Toro Estates, 24921 Muirlands Blvd. in Lake Forest. RSVP by Sept. 24: email@example.com or 949-812-8104. Admission to the fundraiser is a new or gently used sweater and $5.
Laura's House has helped 2,000 abused women and 7,000 children for nearly 20 years. Hotline: 866-498-1511. Information: laurashouse.org


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I-70 westbound at Eisenhower Tunnel open after multiple accidents
December 9, 2012
The westbound Eisenhower Tunnel is back open after icy conditions led to multiple accidents on Interstate 70 lanes outside the tunnel. The stretch had been closed earlier Sunday, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Eastbound traffic is also slow on the road between Vail and the summit of Vail Pass due to an accident involving an 18 wheeler near the summit, said CDOT spokeswoman Mindy Crane.
To read this article in its entirety, go to http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22157583/multiple-accidents-force-closure-i-70-eisenhower-tunnel


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Baghead in "And The Kickstarter" Episode 2 of Season 3
Caroline tries to raise money for an expensive pair of new pants through an online fundraising site. Meanwhile, Max's new smartphone comes between her and Caroline, on 2 Broke Girls, Monday, Sept. 30 (9:00 – 9:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Max Black (Kat Dennings), from left, Julia Cho and Irene Choi, shown. Photo: Darren Michaels/Warner Bros. ©2013 Warner Bros. Television. All Rights Reserved


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Late-onset Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome and the Mutation of Phox2B Gene (CCHS)
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Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare disorder of respiratory control characterized by ventilatory impairment that results in arterial hypoxemia. Although patients typically present this disease as newborns and rarely in later infancy, there have been reports of patients presenting with CCHS in adulthood.
The present study reports a unique familial case in which the father (proband) presented late-onset CCHS with an expansion mutation of the Phox2B gene that was confirmed by genetic analysis. Surprisingly, the proband did not report any manifestation of the disease during childhood, and the disease progressed following an insidious course until adulthood. At the time of diagnosis, he did not present signs of pulmonary hypertension and right-side heart failure. The patient responded well to nocturnal invasive ventilation. In contrast, his son presented CCHS as a newborn with the full complement of symptoms while his daughter did not.
The present report shows that CCHS cases characterized by a mutated Phox2 gene can progress without many symptoms and that the treatment approach used here was efficient for controlling the course of the disease. Furthermore, this case indicates that incomplete penetrance can occur. Genetic screening of family members is mandatory to evaluate the reproductive risk of the disease, especially because asymptomatic mutation carriers may be at high risk to develop the disease and transmit it to the next generation.
|Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
|Device: positive airway pressure, Non-invasive mechanic ventilation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|Late-onset, Insidious Course and Invasive Treatment of Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome in a Case With the Phox2B Mutation
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Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Study Start Date:
|July 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Overnight supervised polysomnography (Embla System®) was performed in a sleep laboratory, which included capnometry. Arterial blood gas analysis was performed by radial arterial puncture. Ventilatory response to progressive hypercapnia was measured using the Read breathing technique. Briefly, subjects rebreathed into an air tight 5-L bag containing a mixture of 8% carbon dioxide (CO2) and 40% oxygen (O2). The spirometer technology used to monitor ventilation was based on a bi-directional rotating vane principle (flow sensitive). A continuous record of CO2 concentration in the expired gas was obtained by a CO2 analyzer within the circuit. The ventilatory hypercapnic drive was calculated from the slope produced by changes in ventilation (L. min-1) and changes in end-tidal PCO2.
Device: positive airway pressure, Non-invasive mechanic ventilation
Vpap: 16 cm H2O inspiratory and 8 cm H2O expiratory pressures, 20 irpm.
Mechanic ventilation: tidal volume of 850 ml; 16 irpm; inspiratory pressure of 40 mmHg; PEEP: 5 cm H2O.
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Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare disorder of respiratory control characterized by ventilatory impairment that results in arterial hypoxemia. This condition worse during sleep and occurs in patients with normal mechanical properties of the lung. It is diagnosed in the absence of primary neuromuscular disease, identifiable brainstem lesions, and other sleep disturbances or substance use.
Amiel et al. (2003) identified a mutation in the Phox2B gene associated with CCHS, characterized by 5 to 9 alanine expansions within a 20-residue polyalanine region in exon 3 of the Phox2B gene. Several reports confirmed the findings of Amiel et al., supporting the view that this gene is a master switch for the development of the autonomic nervous system network linked to respiratory control. Transgenic animals carrying the human Phox2B mutation develop a similar phenotype and lack glutamatergic neurons located in the parafacial region in the brainstem, which are involved in breathing control.
Although patients typically present with CCHS as newborns and rarely in later infancy, there have been reports of patients presenting with CCHS in adulthood. In cases of late-onset CCHS, most patients report having had some symptoms since childhood, and they have parents with a history of CCHS. Symptoms of right-side heart failure are generally observed at the time of diagnosis, and nocturnal noninvasive ventilation is frequently indicated.
The present study reports a unique familial case of CCHS in which the father (proband) presented late-onset CCHS linked to a Phox2B gene expansion mutation. The presentation, course of development and treatment response for this patient was unique His son presented CCHS as a newborn, while his daughter did not.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|5 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
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|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:Family member
Exclusion Criteria:NA
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01225679
|Disciplina de Medicina e Biologia do Sono, Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
|São Paulo, Brazil, 04024-002
|Principal Investigator:
|Lia Rita A Bittencourt, PhD
|Universidade Federal de São Paulo/UNIFESP
|Responsible Party:
|Prof. Dr. Lia Azeredo-Bittencourt, MD, PhD, Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa
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|NCT01225679 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 7, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 5, 2014
Keywords provided by Prof. Dr. Lia Azeredo-Bittencourt, Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa:
Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
Phox2B gene
invasive ventilation
central sleep apnea
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Apnea, Central
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Respiratory Insufficiency
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Signs and Symptoms
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
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Wright gets treatment on ailing shoulder
NEW YORK -- As the Mets showered, dressed and scurried out of the clubhouse, eager to enjoy a rare evening without work or travel, following a 2-1 loss to the Cubs on Sunday, their captain remained.
David Wright was busy receiving 45-60 minutes of treatment on his sore left shoulder, which has given him problems for two months and was re-aggravated when it absorbed the blow of an 88-mph fastball on Saturday night.
Wright, who was unavailable to the media before and after Sunday's game, didn't play in the loss. Manager Terry Collins made it sound as though Wright's availability on Monday -- at the very least -- was in doubt, as well.
The injury comes at an unfortunate time for Wright, whose recent 13-game hit streak helped him break out of a second-half slump. His slash line is still just .232/.289/.250 since the All-Star break -- which coincides with him receiving a cortisone shot in his ailing shoulder -- and he is weathering a down year overall. Wright's .711 OPS is far below his career mark of .874, and he's on pace for career lows in on-base percentage (.331) and slugging percentage (.380).
Collins downplayed the idea that this could be the beginning of a decline for the 31-year-old.
"David Wright will bounce back, whether it's next week or next year," Collins said. "This guy keeps himself in tip-top shape."
The manager did, however, acknowledge that the more recent struggles could be related to the shoulder issue.
"I do believe any time you compensate for an injury, you're going to change something so the pain is not there," Collins said. "The minute you change something, you can fall into a habit -- not necessarily a good habit. I know David, when he talked about it, tried to do some things at the plate to keep it from bothering him. It got to the point where he just had to finally speak up [in late June].
"Did he create some bad habits? Possibly. Has it been bothering him lately? I trust my players. When he says it hasn't been bothering him, it hasn't been bothering him. We'll see where it goes from here."
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Brad Becker joined the Concordia University Wisconsin Wrestling program in August of 2012. He, the older brother of assistant coach Kyle Becker, is also from Hartford, Wis. The three-time high school state place winner graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 2007 with a degree in criminal justice. Becker was also a four year member of UW-P's wrestling team, where he captured the NCAA Division II Championship at 157 pounds. The three-time All-American was also a three-time Academic All-American. He currently works for the city of Waukesha with his wife and family.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Saturday was a bittersweet day for NASCAR and Daytona International Speedway.
As more than 30 people were being treated for injuries sustained when car parts from a frightening crash flew into the grandstands, the horrifying accident was roundly described as tragic.
Yet hours later, when word spread that most of the victims were not critically hurt and that no one had suffered life-threatening injuries, there was a huge sigh of relief around Daytona and throughout the NASCAR community.
While injuries to dozens of fans is indeed tragic and a serious problem, NASCAR averted a major catastrophe.
As colleague Bob Pockrass pointed out late Saturday night, I don't know if we witnessed a tragedy or a miracle.
And perhaps that is the greatest irony in this situation and represents the biggest problem facing NASCAR and tracks like Daytona—it escaped calamity yet again. While they are fortunate that the accident and the injuries were not worse, that good fortunate might be the obstacle inhibiting officials from taking drastic measures.
And that's what NASCAR needs at its two most dangerous tracks—drastic measures.
For two hours and 115 laps Saturday, NASCAR fans witnessed some of the most spectacular racing they have ever seen at Daytona.
Throughout the afternoon, fans and media alike were tweeting and talking about how breathtaking the action was with 30 Nationwide Series cars racing three- and four-wide, bumper-to-bumper and door-to-door, at more than 200 mph.
Many, including myself, theorized that the Nationwide Series race was the type of thrilling action that fans deserved and that, hopefully, they would be treated to again today during the Daytona 500. And yet, at the same time, everyone knew the "Big One" was coming. We eagerly anticipated that as well, because, in NASCAR, isn't that one of the biggest attractions—shocking, jaw-dropping crashes that send cars spinning and flipping and that the drivers almost always walk away from?
The thrill and anticipation of so much building drama had fans salivating as the freight train of mayhem rumbled toward the checkered flag.
Then, in a split second, in the flash of an "Oh, no" moment, that kind of talk suddenly hushed.
Amid the chaos and horror of one of the worst fan tragedies the sport has ever seen, all talk about exciting racing and spectacular wrecks and a thrilling finish vanished.
With more than 30 people injured, 14 of them transported to local hospitals, some of them seriously hurt, the action on the track and the highlights of the race suddenly became an afterthought.
And therein lies the dilemma NASCAR and tracks like Daytona face.
It takes such a tragic event to open everyone's eyes and re-emphasize that restrictor-plate racing at Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway is insane and beyond dangerous.
During and after nearly every race at those two ultra-dangerous tracks, drivers climb from their demolished cars after a wild, spectacular crash and bemoan restrictor-plate racing and declare that it will take someone getting killed for NASCAR to stop it.
After flipping his car at Talladega, Ryan Newman warned a few years ago that someone was going to get killed. After being in a multicar wreck there last year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. called restrictor-plate racing "bloodthirsty."
And this is what Carl Edwards said in 2009, after his car flew through the air at Talladega, ripping apart the catch fence, sending car parts flying into the stands and injuring seven fans:
"NASCAR just puts us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it," Edwards said. "I'm glad the car didn't go up in the grandstands. I don't know if I could live with myself if I ended up in the grandstands."
Yet the changes that NASCAR and the tracks made were not nearly enough. Speedways raised the fencing around their tracks and reinforced the steel and metal barriers that are supposed to protect fans from flying debris. Daytona reconstructed and strengthened all of its fencing, raising the barriers to 22 feet, after Edwards' crash.
Yet, as we saw Saturday, those moves are Band-Aid solutions to a much more serious problem.
No fencing, no matter how strong, will prevent a 3,400-pound stock car flying through the air at 200 mph from disintegrating upon impact and spewing hot car parts and dangerous debris in all directions.
The biggest risk now is not a driver getting hurt—all 12 involved in the crash Saturday walked away uninjured—it's fans brave enough to sit close to the action in the most dangerous areas of the track.
So what should NASCAR do?
The most drastic solutions are ones NASCAR and track officials don't want to hear and are loathe to consider.
If racing at Daytona and Talladega is too dangerous for drivers and fans, stop racing there. Close the tracks or use them for some other form of entertainment.
That will never happen, of course. Too much money, too much politics. And fans and the media would likely decry such a move as a gross overreaction.
So if that sort of move is too radical and too extreme, what's next?
Perhaps the most feasible measure is to drastically alter the tracks, cutting down the high banks that slingshot cars down the long straightaways at more than 200 mph. Flattening out the banking would make the handling of the cars more of a factor and likely would separate the huge packs of traffic that now cause the big wrecks.
That too has been frowned upon by NASCAR and officials at International Speedway Corp., which owns Daytona and Talladega.
So the next logical move would be to drastically change the style of racing with major technical changes.
Smaller engines would produce less horsepower, slowing down the cars and perhaps breaking up the big packs. If the engines produce less power, putting more emphasis on handling and driving skill, there might not be a need for horsepower-choking restrictor plates, which seem to be the primary culprit in this dangerous brand of racing.
In 1987, Bobby Allison's car flew into the catch fence at Talladega, slinging car parts into the stands and leaving fans with minor injuries. NASCAR's response to that scare was the advent of restrictor plates.
Recalling the incident Sunday, Allison said that drivers knew then that such an accident was always a possibility "because the speeds are what they are."
Now, the speeds are creeping toward unacceptable levels again—practice speeds for the Daytona 500 approached 198 mph—and the cars are running in wildly dangerous packs.
And that leads us back to the dilemma that NASCAR faces. That speed and danger and the possibility of pending disaster is what keeps fans buying tickets and watching the sport.
And the more drastic the changes—lower banking, smaller engines, different restrictor plates—the less exciting the racing.
The biggest draw at Daytona and Talladega is the sheer speed and the thrill of watching 30 or more cars running in huge, breathtaking packs. It takes unimaginable skill and daring to drive in such a storm of chaos.
It's even more remarkable to witness the spectacular multicar crashes that are an inevitable result, and even more remarkable still to watch drivers walk away unscathed from such crashes.
Races at Daytona and Talladega—including the Daytona 500, NASCAR's biggest race—are among the most popular events in the sport. Fans flock to those tracks to witness the spectacular nature of both the racing and the wrecks.
So whatever measures NASCAR takes to make the racing safer—and it has made great strides in safety in the past 12 years—it risks diminishing the product on the track.
That's the delicate balance NASCAR has always faced—safety vs. competition, risk vs. reward.
But as we saw Saturday, the risk is becoming dangerously close to far outweighing the reward.
That's why NASCAR must make drastic changes—and soon.


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There was a reason that Amanda Lavond earned all-league field hockey honors as a junior in the West Valley Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League–and as a senior, the Westmont forward continues to show people why.
Lavond knocked in two goals last week to drive the Warriors to a 3-0 win over San Jose in Santa Teresa Division action. The win helped Westmont improve to 3-0-1 in the early stages of league play.
Junior Kayla Ernst popped a first-half goal off an assist from junior Lauren Provost to give the Warriors the early lead, and Lavond added two insurance goals in the second half, one off an assist from junior Rachel Hwang.
Branham tried to keep pace with the Warriors but could manage just a win and a tie last week, beating Willow Glen 3-0 before battling Del Mar to a 1-1 tie.
Allie Lawrence, like Lavond an all-league first team pick in the West Valley Division last year, drilled two goals in Branham's 3-0 win over the Rams.
Senior Hayley Martinez, an all-league second teamer a year ago, gave the Bruins the early lead when she scored off an assist from sophomore Madison Wood, and Lawrence put the game away with two more first-half goals–one off an assist from Martinez and the other off of a pass from Christine DeLong, the Freshman of the Year in the West Valley circuit in 2012.
The win left Branham 2-0-1 and tied for first place with Westmont, but a 1-1 tie against Del Mar two days later left the Bruins 2-0-2 and in second place. The Bruins are 2-2-3 overall this year.
Junior Hannah Zawacki scored a first-half goal for Branham against the Dons, but Del Mar tied the game in the second half when Madi Ng drilled a goal off an assist from Karilyn Patania, and that's how things would end.
Teams were scheduled to get back at it for two games earlier this week. In games next week, Branham hosts St. Ignatius at 3:45 p.m., Westmont visit University at 4:15 p.m. and Sobrato is at San Jose and Willow Glen at Del Mar at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 15. Two days later, it's San Jose at SI at 3:45 p.m., Del Mar at University at 4:15 p.m. and Westmont at Willow Glen and Branham at Sobrato at 3:30 p.m.
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St. Francis has jumped out to a quick 4-0 start in the Mt. Hamilton Division of the BVAL, posting a pair of convincing wins last week to improve to 4-0 in league play and to 8-0 for the year.
The Lancers knocked off Presentation 4-1 and blanked Prospect 4-0. A second-half goal by Presentation's Aleksandra Konrad was the only score St. Francis allowed.
Along with losing to the Lancers, the two teams of Panthers also each lost to powerhouse Archbishop Mitty last week. Prez's Panthers fell 3-0 to open the week and are now 1-2-1 in league play, and Prospect's Panthers closed the week with a 4-0 loss to the Monarchs, who are now 3-0-1 in league and 6-0-1 for the year.
Prospect, after its quick 2-0 start in division play, saw its record evened at 2-2 in Mt. Hamilton play and slipped to 3-3-1 overall.
In other action in the division, Leigh lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to Gilroy, despite getting a goal in each half from Maddy Fama.
Teams were slapping sticks in a full slate of games earlier this week, and on Oct. 11 Mitty will entertain Leland, Live Oak hosts Presentation and Prospect is at Leigh. All games in the division begin at 3:30 p.m.


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"I'm glad other women who go to the jail here will not suffer what I went through": Nashville case against shackling finally resolved after five years
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to participate in the "Rethinking Prisons" conference at Vanderbilt University. Being on that campus, I was inspired to tell the audience about the brave Nashville resident who stood up for her dignity and sued the county sheriff for shackling her during labor – even though taking such a public stance carried risks because of her immigration status.
Yesterday, Juana Villegas reached a final settlement with the Nashville and Davidson County government, which will pay almost half a million dollars to Villegas and her legal team.
In a surprise move, the federal judge overseeing the case recommended that Villegas be given a visa. The specific type of visa is usually reserved for victims of crimes – and reflects the fact that the local government violated Villegas's civil rights by shackling and mistreating her when she was in custody.
Here is her story:
In 2008, Villegas was arrested in Nashville. She was pulled over and then arrested for driving without a license. Usually people get a citation instead of being arrested.
Villegas was nine months pregnant and went into labor after a couple days at the jail. Her legs were shackled together in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Because she was an undocumented immigrant, the jail treated her as a flight risk, with no regard to her physical condition or lack of prior involvement with the criminal justice system.
Her case became a referendum on shackling pregnant women and also on racial profiling, immigration, and a controversial program in which the Justice Department enlists local police to enforce federal immigration laws.
As a result of the publicity, the sheriff quickly adopted a default policy against shackling pregnant women unless a supervisor approves the shackling for specific reasons and then only with soft restraints.
Villegas won her lawsuit against the county: The court ruled that shackling Villegas during labor and again after giving birth amounted to unconstitutional interference with her medical care and subjected both Villegas and her fetus to medical risks.
The court also ruled that the use of restraints inflicted physical and mental suffering by subjecting her to the "terror that her baby might die inside of her body" while her legs were shackled together on the way to the hospital.
The sheriff appealed the decision and an appellate court sent the case back to district court for further proceedings, which were finally resolved yesterday.
In other developments, the county ended its involvement in immigration enforcement last year. The Obama Administration has been downsizing the initiative because of nationwide criticism.
Like so many others who fight back against mistreatment, Villegas was motivated by the prospect of making systemic changes. As she told a reporter for the New York Times, "I'm glad other women who go to the jail here will not suffer what I went through."
The legislature in Tennessee, however, has not taken action to protect pregnant women from shackling anywhere else in the state.
Related news:
Nevada state officials are reportedly considering a settlement to end a lawsuit brought by a woman who was shackled in labor and immediately after giving birth in October 2011 – despite a state law prohibiting shackling unless a laboring woman is considered dangerous or a flight risk. The ACLU maintains that Valerie Nabors did not fit either of those criteria.
No doubt mindful of the lawsuit, the state Board of Prison Commissioners approved new regulations this week about the use of restraints on pregnant women.
This case reminds us that state governments need to take affirmative steps to enforce the laws they pass – to inform and train all personnel about the bans on using shackles and to require regular reporting and public reviews of any instances when officers decide to restrain pregnant women, as well as to provide a means of redress for those whose rights are violated.


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I've always felt that my Nikon SLR's primary drawback had to do with white balance. I just don't think the camera is that good at setting white balance automatically. It imposes blue tones outdoors, and orange tones indoors. While I realize that outdoor light does tend toward blueness, and incandescent indoor lighting does tend toward warm yellows and oranges, the result I see in my photos is just too extreme. And even when I do set the camera's White Balance controls to a more specific setting -- Sunlight, or Cloudy, or Incandescent -- the results are inconsistent.
So that's when I turn to Photoshop's Photo Filters.
Before I apply any filters, I try to make sure my exposure is exactly where I want it. (If I need to tweak it, I can use the "Levels" control.) Then, I go ahead and select Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter. (You'd think the Photo Filters would live in the Filters menu, but nope!)
I can preview the effects of the different warming and cooling filters, and also adjust their intensity by adjusting the Density slider.
That's what I did with this photo. (Yep, the toothy toddler is back!) Although this shot wasn't incredibly blue, it turned out more blue-looking than had been the case when I was shooting. I wanted to add just a touch of warmth back in, to better convey the sunniness of the moment.
I ended up applying Warming Filter 81 with the default Density setting of 25%. That warming filter is a bit less intense than some other ones, with a hair more green to it. It gave me the most accurate result.
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Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions last Friday and Saturday at SQLbits! It was great to meet many new people, not to mention spending some time exploring one of my favorite cities, London.
Attached are the demos for each of the two talks I delivered:
Query Tuning Mastery: The Art of and Science of Manhandling ParallelismAs a database developer, your job boils down to one word: performance. And in today's multi-core-driven world, query performance is very much determined by how well you're taking advantage of the processing power at your disposal. Are your big queries using every available clock tick, or are they lagging behind? And if your queries are already going parallel, can they be rewritten for even greater speed? In this session you will learn how to take full advantage of parallelism, from a developer's point of view. After a quick terminology review and technology refresher the session will go deep, covering T-SQL patterns that allow certain queries to scale almost linearly across your multi-core CPUs. Alas, not all T-SQL queries can go parallel, so you will also learn to watch for those things that can restrict the query optimizer's decisions. Along the way you'll learn to manipulate costs and row goals, challenge generally accepted tuning practices, and take complete control of your parallel queries.
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Query Tuning Mastery: Workspace Memory InternalsAs SQL Server professionals, we often think of memory in vague, instance-level terms: buffer pool, procedure cache, Virtual Address Space, and so on. But certain tasks require a more in-depth focus, and query tuning is one of them. Large, complex queries need memory in which to work--workspace memory--and understanding the how's, when's, and why's of this memory can help you create queries that run in seconds rather than minutes. This session will give you an in-depth understanding of how the optimizer makes its query memory decisions, with lots of tips and tricks along the way to help you guide the process for top performance. If you work with large queries and are serious about achieving scalability and consistently great performance, you owe it to yourself to attend this session.
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Brilliant. Really enjoyed both your sessions at SQLBits.
I was only able to attend the Saturday sessions and yours was the highlight for me. I've been looking forward to getting my hands on the code from your demo ever since, have many things I wanted to try out for myself.
Edafe and Craig, thank you both for attending my sessions! Let me know if you have any questions on how to play back the demos.


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Mooyah burgers to open first WA franchise in Federal Way
Mooyah Burgers, Fries and Shakes will open its first Washington state franchise in Federal Way.
Based in Dallas, Texas, the fast casual restaurant chain specializes in Mooyah Burgers, fresh-cut fries, fresh-baked buns and milkshakes made with 100 percent ice cream.
Aside from the original Mooyah Burger, the menu includes turkey and veggie burgers as well as condiments like Mooyah Sauce. Little Moo Meals for children 10 and under come with applesauce and include choices like chicken strips, a hot dog, grilled cheese or a Little Moo Burger.
Mooyah is slated to open in early 2013 at 1706 S. 320th St., across from The Commons mall. The restaurant will employ about 30 people, said Peter Marthedal, development agent.
The Federal Way location is a pilot store for Western Washington. Mooyah hopes to open a total of 12 restaurants in the region, said Marthedal, a Gig Harbor resident who owns several Little Caesar's franchises in the area with business partner Sebastian Brost.
Locations for the other Washington restaurants have not been determined, Marthedal said.
"We love the location off 320th Street," he said. "We plan to grow pretty quickly."
According to a franchisehelp.com interview with Mooyah president Alan Hixon, the company has 36 locations and is growing rapidly.
"We expect to reach 50 locations by the end of 2012, and grow to 100 open/under contract by the end of 2013," he said in the September interview. "Our primary target markets include Texas, California, Virginia, Washington, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Connecticut, Florida, and many others."
To learn more, visit www.facebook.com/Mooyah.