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Miscues hurt Brewers even as former Twin accounts for two runs
MILWAUKEE -- On Sunday, the question was, "What's wrong with Yovani Gallardo?"
On Monday, it was, "What's wrong with Wily Peralta?"
On Tuesday, the Brewers will try someone new. Alfredo Figaro will make a spot start for a team playing toward its toughest month in a decade.
Carlos Gomez homered twice against his former team, and Jean Segura added a solo shot, but Peralta and the Brewers made too many mistakes and lost to the Twins, 6-3, in a Memorial Day matchup of struggling clubs at Miller Park.
The Twins won for only the second time in the first eight games of a road trip that concludes here Tuesday night. The Brewers fell to 5-19 in May, their worst month since going 6-21 in August 2004 under second-year manager Ned Yost.
"When things go wrong, it's a little tough to get out of that," said Gomez, who delivered the first multihomer game of his career Saturday against the Pirates and matched the feat Monday afternoon against the Twins. "Things are going to change."
Playing without left fielder Ryan Braun, who was limited to a pinch-hit appearance in the ninth inning because of a sore thumb, and third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who needed a day to rest his right knee, the Brewers were held to three solo home runs by Twins starter Kevin Correia (six innings, seven hits, three runs) and four relievers. Glen Perkins earned his 10th save.
Peralta (3-6) lost his fourth straight start after needing 108 pitches to navigate five innings against a Twins team that entered the day 11th of 15 American League teams in on-base percentage, 14th in batting average and last in slugging. Peralta allowed four runs, three earned, on five hits, with three strikeouts and a career-high five walks.
"Right now, I don't think this is nothing with mechanics," Peralta said. "Something is happening. I just have to forget about it. We all have a hard time right now. I just want to go out there and do the best for me and the team right now. We are really struggling right now."
The Brewers had a chance to build Peralta an early lead when they loaded the bases against Correia (5-4) in the first inning, with Norichika Aoki working a walk, Segura singling and Gomez getting struck on the right wrist by a pitch.
They came up empty when Yuniesky Betancourt lined to shortstop for a double play, and Jeff Bianchi, batting fifth because Braun and Ramirez were sidelined, struck out.
"We're not getting any breaks," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said, "but I keep saying we're not playing well enough to get a lot of breaks."
Brewers mistakes contributed to each of the Twins' first four runs.
In a 29-pitch first inning, Peralta issued a pair of two-out walks (including Josh Willingham on four pitches) before Justin Morneau punched a fastball the opposite way, through a big hole between shortstop and third base for a 1-0 lead.
In the fourth, with two outs after a walk and a fielder's choice, Peralta appeared to surprise first baseman Alex Gonzalez with a pickoff throw. It ticked off Gonzalez's glove, moving Aaron Hicks into scoring position for No. 8 hitter Pedro Florimon's RBI double and an unearned run.
"He wasn't paying attention," Roenicke said of Gonzalez.
After Gomez halved the deficit with a fourth-inning solo home run, walks again burned Peralta in a 36-pitch fifth. This time he put Joe Mauer on base with one out and Morneau with two outs to load the bases for Ryan Doumit, who grounded a two-run single up the middle for two more runs and a 4-1 Twins lead.
"That's been kind of one of our problems is missing opportunities to either score runs or add on," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Today we did it a few times, which, if we can do that a few more times, we'll win a lot more ballgames."
Peralta's ERA after 11 starts in his first full Major League season is 6.35.
Roenicke was asked, what could be done?
"We'll see," he said. "We have discussions about it all the time, and I'm sure Doug [Melvin, the Brewers' general manager] will talk about it again. Somewhere, we need to get this guy going, and however best that is to do it, then we'll do it."
Peralta just turned 24 and entered the year universally considered the Brewers' top prospect, so a move to relief seems unlikely. That leaves two options: Stick with him, or send him back to Triple-A Nashville to gain confidence.
"He's got tremendous upside, but he's got to be confident when he's doing this," Roenicke said. "How do you get a guy confident? It comes with success. And right now, he's not that guy.
"He had it in the Minor Leagues. He didn't start off well last year in Triple-A, and then he got it, and by the time he came up to us [for September] he was really confident. That's what we expected coming into the season, that we'd have that same guy, and he's not."
Asked specifically about demoting Peralta to Triple-A, Roenicke said, "I don't know that we're there yet."
Trailing after five innings, 4-1, the Brewers tried to power their way back. Segura led off the sixth inning against Correia with home run No. 8, and Gomez followed with another solo shot to make it 4-3.
The Twins then pulled away. Mauer hit a solo home run off Tom Gorzelanny in the seventh inning, and Chris Parmelee went deep against Burke Badenhop in the eighth to extend the lead to 6-3.
Milwaukee's bullpen has been a bright spot of late (1.88 ERA over its last 19 games entering Monday), but Roenicke is growing concerned about overuse. Gorzelanny had been unscored upon in 16 of his 19 appearances before Mauer homered Monday, and Parmelee's homer accounted for the first earned run off Badenhop in 13 May appearances.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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THIS year's Christmas panto has been announced as the most successful ever festive production at the Towngate Theatre.
Over 25,000 people and more than 30 schools attended the month long shows of Peter Pan before it closed on Sunday. This is more than 4,000 extra people than in previous years.
It has also been revealed that the income from ticket sales is up 18 per cent on last year's performance of Dick Whittington.
Councillor Kevin Blake, cabinet member for leisure and arts said: "Over the past few years the theatre has been working to create a really quality pantomime, and has seen a year on year improvement in sales.
"I have made no secret of the fact that the pantomime is vital to the success of the theatre, accounting for nearly a third of its income, but more importantly than that, it also introduces children to live theatre, many of whom for the first time.
"We hope over the coming months their visit will encourage them to come and see other shows and get involved in projects at the theatre."
The show, featuring Simon Fielding as Peter Pan and Bryan Torfeh as Captain Hook, was proving to be popular before it even began with a 40 per cent increase in ticket sales from 2011.
It also received glowing reviews a week into the show in two well respected industry magazines. The Stage, and What's on Stage, both gave the show four stars.
Last year's performance of Dick Whittington also recieved lavish praise, with critics saying it wouldn't look out of place on Broadway.
The Peter Pan production was chosen by the audiences at last year's pantomime and this year it was decided that either Snow White, Sleeping Beauty or Rapunzel will be next year's performance.
An announcement on next years show is set to be made next week when it will go on sale.
For more information on all forthcoming shows, visit the theatre website at www.towngatetheatre.co.uk.

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2007 Ace Race disc now PDGA approved
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text: 'Birthplace of Rivers' By Rick Steelhammer July 4, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A plan to create West Virginia's first national monument from land encompassing the headwaters of six streams in the Monongahela National Forest is drawing support from certain forest users and forest-based businesses and at least one nearby community.Tentative plans call for including about 123,000 acres in and around the Cranberry Wilderness in the proposed Birthplace of Rivers National Monument. The land, which would continue to be managed by the U.S. Forest Service, includes the headwaters of the Cranberry, Williams, Cherry, Greenbrier, Gauley and Elk rivers.The proposed national monument would also include the Cranberry Wilderness, the nearby Falls of Hills Creek scenic area, the Cranberry Backcountry, Tea Creek Backcountry, Turkey Mountain Backcountry, Highland Scenic Highway and the Mill Point federal prison site.Unlike a federal wilderness designation -- which, among other things, prohibits the use of motor vehicles and bicycles -- national monument status would not significantly change the way the land is being managed."It takes an area that we think is managed well and keeps it that way in perpetuity," said Phil Smith, chairman of the West Virginia Council of Trout Unlimited. "It allows more flexibility than a wilderness designation does. As a national monument, we can still have things like stream habitat restoration projects," which wouldn't be possible in a wilderness area.All wilderness restrictions would continue to apply to the 48,000-acre Cranberry Wilderness, if it is included in the national monument as planned. But current management prescriptions, "which generally favor resource preservation and backcountry recreation," would remain in effect in the remaining 75,000 or so acres of nonwilderness land now envisioned for the national monument, according to Mike Costello, director of the West Virginia Wilderness Coalition."We want things like wildlife management and red spruce forest restoration to continue in the national monument," said Costello, including limited timbering to expedite management goals.Forest users such as mountain bikers, who are prohibited from riding in wilderness areas, and trout anglers, whose streams cannot be accessed by stocking and liming trucks in wilderness areas, would have no reason to feel left out in planning for a new national monument, Costello said. Current plans call for not allowing oil and gas development on lands with federally owned mineral rights within the proposed monument.Both the West Virginia Council of Trout Unlimited and the International Mountain Bicycling Association support plans to create the Birthplace of Rivers National Monument, providing that the continued ability to hunt and fish and ride mountain bikes in the monument is spelled out in enabling documents.National monument status solidifies current management policies by making them exempt from future administrative changes. National monuments are created either by congressional action or presidential proclamation.If Birthplace of Rivers National Monument becomes a reality, according to Costello, all current recreational activities now allowed would remain open in the future, and fish and wildlife management would remain under the jurisdiction of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. There are 108 national monuments in the United States, ranging from the tiny Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York Harbor to the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. The National Park Service manages 79 of the monuments, while the Bureau of Land Management is in charge of 19, and the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service each manage seven.Birthplace of Rivers would be the first national monument in the East to be managed by the U.S. Forest Service."Nothing in this proposal is set in stone," said Smith. "We're asking the public for support in continuing the planning process and defining what the boundaries will be." National monument status, Smith said, would "highlight the region's natural heritage and historic value," and increase interest in visiting the area."The area already has trails, campgrounds and visitor centers," Costello said, so no significant outlay of new money would be needed to accommodate national monument users. "It will bring sustainable economic benefits to the area."Costello said one of the biggest challenges facing those who want to make Birthplace of Rivers National Monument a reality is simply "getting folks to come to the table and be open to a new idea."Since there is no single template for creating a national monument or a plan for running it, "we have the power to define what it should be," he said. "If enough people come to the table, we can come up with a proposal that works for everyone."There are a number of misconceptions about what national monument status would mean for the area, Costello said. Among things a national monument designation would not do, he said, is affect private landowners, since the land in question is already a part of the Monongahela National Forest. Hunting, fishing, berry picking and similar activities now taking place on the forest would continue in the proposed national monument."Overall, every monument designation is unique and reflects the needs and opportunities of that particular situation," U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell wrote in a letter sent earlier this year to address questions raised by the Pocahontas County Commission. "Monument designations typically complement the underlying forest management plan, which is developed with public input. Regarding your questions on various management activities -- hunting, fishing, trout stocking, camping, vegetative management treatments, etc. -- what is permitted under the current forest plan would typically continue as a national monument." National monument status would "not automatically lead to new fees" for campgrounds or other amenities, Tidwell continued, and would not affect federal payments in lieu of property taxes now made to counties in the Monongahela National Forest through the Secure Rural Schools Act.Lewisburg City Council and the Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau have signed on in support of continuing the planning process for the monument. Support will be sought from other city, county and regional organizations in the area, Costello and Smith said.For more information on the Birthplace of Rivers National Monument proposal, visit www.birthplaceofrivers.org.Reach Rick Steelhammer at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5169. 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Target confirmed today that the hackers behind the data breach that compromised some 40 million debit and credit cards also stole customers' encrypted personal identification numbers (PINs) in the attack.
"This morning, through additional forensics work, we were able to confirm that strongly encrypted PIN data was removed," Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in an email. "We remain confident that PIN numbers are safe and secure. The PIN information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted within our system and remained encrypted when it was removed from our systems."
Target previously said that encrypted data had been stolen, but stopped short of saying it included consumers' PINs.
Snyder said the "key" necessary to decrypt the PINs was not stored by Target, so the thieves could not have that key.
"The most important thing for our guests to know is that their debit card accounts have not been compromised due to the encrypted PIN numbers being taken," Snyder said.
Stay vigilant, take steps to secure your debit card
Still, experts say people who used their debit cards at Target between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 -- the time of the breach -- should take extra steps to protect themselves.
"PIN compromise is much more serious than just losing the data from the magnetic stripe on a card," says Shirley Inscoe, senior analyst with Aite Group. She said that stolen magnetic stripe data can be used to make counterfeit cards and make purchases, but thieves that also have PINs can withdraw cash from ATMs around the world.
Yaron Samid, founder and chief executive of Billguard, which monitors its users' card accounts for fraud, agrees: "If in fact your PIN was stolen, there is a risk that hackers can walk up to an ATM and pull money out of your account."
If money is stolen from your debit card account, your bank may not replace that money while it looks into the matter. If you need to use that money to pay bills, you could be out of luck until your bank resolves the issue.
"It's more important to be safer with debit than credit cards," says Brian Riley, senior research director at CEB TowerGroup. "You're using your bank's money with a credit card as opposed to your own."
Tips from experts to help keep your debit card safe:
Change your PIN.
Samid says consumers should change their PINs regularly to avoid fraud. He suggests changing your PIN once per month, although he acknowledges that, realistically, most consumers won't follow his advice.
Check the activity on your card.
"There is no better solution or alternative to a consumer than simply checking your card activity regularly," Samid says. Consumers who used their debit cards at Target during the breach window should be aware that even if they don't see fraudulent activity immediately, the card can be used for fraud later.
Aite Group's Inscoe agrees. "Thieves may wait months to use this data, so (consumers) should continue this monitoring going forward and not grow complacent," she says.
Consumers shouldn't just be checking for major fraudulent purchases. They should scrutinize "micro-charges" -- small charges of $2 or less that criminals use to validate whether a card is still active.
Since most consumers don't worry about small amounts, those fraudulent micro-charges sometimes are overlooked.
Get a new card.
While experts disagreed on whether this step was necessary, CEB's Riley says his wife changed her debit card as soon as news of the Target hack broke out.
"If you went shopping at Target, you should probably do what my wife did," Riley says. "Cancel and get a new card. Period. End of story."
But Billguard's Samid says that may not be necessary for many consumers. "You don't have to rush to cancel your card," he says, noting that if all 40 million people who were potentially affected did that, it would cause havoc.
He said that only a small percentage of people who are breached actually see card fraud.
Remain vigilant.
If you do see a troubling transaction, report it immediately. You are not liable for any fraudulent transactions on your debit card as long as your debit card is still physically in your possession if you report the unauthorized transactions within 60 days of the fraudulent transaction showing up on your statement, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
"The bank will fully reimburse you if you report in a timely period," says Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy at the American Bankers Association.
Do you feel that you're being vigilant enough in securing your debit card?
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Car Charging Group, an electric vehicle charging company, has named William Fields, former president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores to its board of directors.
During his 25-year career with Wal-Mart, Fields was responsible for over 2,000 stores and 600,000 employees, and directed strategic planning in operations, merchandising, marketing, and logistics.
In addition to serving as president and CEO of the Wal-Mart Stores Division, Fields held various senior executive positions within the organization, including assistant to Wal-Mart founder, Sam Walton; SVP distribution and transportation; and EVP Wal-Mart Inc. After leaving Wal-Mart, Fields served as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment Group, a division of Viacom, Inc.; and president and CEO of Hudson's Bay Company, a 328 year-old Canadian retail corporation.
"Bill Fields has a wealth of retail and manufacturing knowledge and experience, and we are so pleased to have him join CarCharging's Board of Directors," said Michael D. Farkas, CEO of CarCharging. "With the recent appointment of former Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, as our chairman of the board, we look forward to continuing to develop our independent board of directors and working towards fulfilling all of the necessary requirements to assist us in becoming listed on a national stock exchange."


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Today is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco. Dozens of Rackers in Rackspace's San Francisco office participated. Here, I look at how cycling to work has become a key component of Racker SF culture (and some of the struggles that come with riding a bike to work in a major city).
San Francisco gets a big-city rep, but it's actually pretty small. You really notice exactly how small when you're in a car looking for a parking space. San Francisco, as a city, has exactly four parking spaces available for cars. And it costs $317 per hour to park in them; more on days when the Giants are playing.
The truth is that owning a car in the city is a headache. As a result, in our San Francisco office, we've concentrated on making it easier for people to bike in and we've won awards for it.
Everyone's got their own idea of what a biker is. Some envision Lance Armstrong wannabes and call up a mental picture of a guy on a fancy bike zipped into a yellow jersey. Others think of the Portlandia Bicycle rights guy, tatted to the nines with a tuft on his chin and giant holes in his earlobes maneuvering a fixie in and out of traffic.
But for lots of people, biking to work is about people riding in their jeans on normal-looking bikes. It's just how they get to where they're going. But when you don't have a Tour De France support staff tailing you, there are ways this can be difficult.
The first problem you face as a biker is the ever-present fear of having your ride ripped off. You leave a nice bike on the street, even chained up, and there's a good chance it'll get stolen or stripped of parts while you're inside the office coding. That's no fun, especially if you've invested in a nice bike that has a lot of memories caked into the sweat on the top tube.
Then there's the question of sweat. Thomas Edison said "genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration"- which is fine if you work from home. But nobody likes a stinky nerd at the office. Try pair programming after going a few miles up and down San Francisco's notorious hills. Not fun.
And then there's the maintenance issue. Bikes don't exactly take care of themselves. There are two ways of dealing with the requisite break-fix scenarios. You can DIY at home and spend a small fortune on tools or you can roll into a bike shop and spend a small fortune to have an expert do it for you. Either way, it's your money in somebody else's pockets.
Biking to work is great, but without safe storage, an opportunity to get clean and some good tools it isn't practical for most riders.
Now San Francisco has an ordinance that requires office buildings to contain a shower, a certain number of clothes lockers and bike parking spaces. That's great! But sometimes it isn't enough. When the architects worked on the office plan for SFO (Rackspace's San Francisco office) we told them that they'd have to dedicate more space to biking than was required. They came back with a revised plan. We still wanted more.
It seemed crazy at the time; we wanted 10 times what was required by law. But we've been growing gangbusters here. Not every new Racker brings a bike, but plenty do and the bike space is starting to get crowded. All of this space is indoors with a convenient sidewalk-level door and a place for you to change your shoes, store your helmet and take a quick shower.
I could stop right there and feel like I'd reached biker Nirvana. But we've also got a really incredible bike workshop, with all of the tools necessary to maintain, repair and upgrade bikes. I'm not talking about a wrench and a screwdriver either. These are tools that people don't necessarily have at home such as the precision tools to true a wobbly wheel or a bike repair stand that makes it much more comfortable to work on a bike. I am quite proud of how we've made our studio both functional and inviting. It welcomes people to learn and become more self-sufficient in their cycling. We've even got loaner bikes, helmets and locks for guests from out-of-town or quick errands if you walked or took transit.
But wait, there's more.
Truth be told, it would be quite a commute for me to bike to work from my home 40 miles south of the city. Fortunately, Rackspace offers commuters benefits to defray the cost of using public transportation. I'm able to bike from my front door to the CalTrain and then bike from the station to the office and Rackspace picks up a big part of the cost. It's no surprise that around half the SFO employees bike to work on any given day and all but a few use some alternative to cars for transportation.
There are a lot of reasons to not drive to work. For some people, it's just a healthy way to get a nice bit of exercise on the way in to work. There's plenty of good science that shows that exercise makes a person smarter and happier and healthier. For some people, it's about the community of bike riders. For some people, it's about saving money. For others, it's about not burning fossil fuels. Or merely the satisfaction of not needing to find a parking space and being able to bike past congestion. Rackspace supports all these things and at SFO, we support them fanatically.


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DX Viking 175 Red
DX Stingray 169 yellow
Like New meaning these discs have been thrown only a few times max:
DX Viking 174 Yellow
Champion Monster 165 Orange
Champion Starfire 175 Blue
1st run DX Goblin 175 Yellow
Tie dye Crush 172
Avenger Z 171 Blue
Avenger X 174 Yellow
Kinda beat but worth having
Star SL 168 white
pro Starfire 175 yellow
I'm open to anything I'll sell em in groups, one at a time a few at a time or trade them. If we trade I'll wave shipping on my end if you pay shipping on yours. If your buying we'll just call shipping $10 bucks.
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teebirds of all types
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Anthony Rashad White did not have a good year, but when playing next to Jerrell Worthy a few years ago, some said he was the better player. He still flashes great quickness and strength. If the Steelers can motivate him, he may become a good NT.
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Last Friday morning at around 7:00AM before I left for work I was checking email on my Macbook Pro. I shut the lid but then realized I forgot to check the weather so I quickly lifted the screen open again. The screen didn't come back on which does happen sometimes if you open and close the thing too quickly. This time however I realized how late it was getting so instead of closing the lid, waiting for the computer to properly go to sleep and open it again I just shut it again and ran out. About nine hours later I came home and opened the computer. The screen was still black and the computer was very hot. I held the power button down for a few seconds to force the machine off. I waited a bit and turned it back on. Unfortunately I couldn't get it wake up. I tried a few different things as recommended at Apple.com/support but nothing worked. Since I own an iPhone I didn't really freak out too much because I knew I could check email if I had to leave my computer for a few days for repair. I went to the local Apple store and met with someone at the Genius Bar. In fact, because this specific Apple store (Palisades, NY) was about to be renovated they would ship my computer to Apple and then have Apple ship it direct to me when it's repaired. I have AppleCare so hey all in all not a big deal.
Well… Monday rolls around and I'm at work at my partner Charlie O' Donnell asks me if I am still making music in my free time. I tell him of course and then something horrible dawned on me. I'm booked to playing two shows in Europe this coming weekend and I have no computer! I know Apple is pretty quick with repairs but I started to sweat. As soon as I got home I checked the online repair status and it didn't even show up in their system. I called Apple and they told me they just received the computer and the system would update itself shortly.
I decided I needed a backup plan just in case my computer doesn't arrive in time. Luckily I have a friend Leslie who doesn't need her computer as much as a supergeek like yours truly. She lent me her white Macbook which has a Firewire port (phew!) ready for my M-Audio Firewire 410. I created a user account for myself and plugged in my Time Machine backup drive. I didn't know what to expect because I never had to go to this drive before. I was very happily surprised to see that you can simply click and open folders on the drive just as if it were a clone of my machine. I grabbed my Ableton live show files (and videos), downloaded M-Audio drivers and Ableton Live 8. Everything loaded up without a glitch! Win one for Apple.
So without any disaster looming I decided to call Apple and just see if there was any chance my own computer would arrive on time. I didn't have to wait at all when calling the support line and spoke to a very friendly employee. He told me the computer was still in the process of being repaired. I told him I had a flight to Europe and it would be great if I had my own computer with me. I blabbed a bit about how I'd be onstage in Amsterdam and Barcelona and I really didn't want to scratch up Leslie's nice new Macbook. He put me on hold for a minute and told me he expedited the process and asked me to look at the online repair status. To my happy shock it said the computer would arrive by FedEx before 10:30AM this morning. I know it would have been a better scenario if my computer didn't break in the first place but Apple deserves a pat on the back for making it so easy to grab files from a Time Machine backup drive and for superb service.
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Class III futures resumed their bullish trend, marching higher across the board and posting a record close for the February contract at $22.92/cwt. All contracts through 2014 finished in the green on light volume, with the exceptions being November 2014 and January 2015, closing unchanged. The Q1 pack rallied a dime to close at $21.63/cwt.; the Q2 pack closed higher by 12¢ to finish at $19.28/cwt.; and the 2H of 2014 picked up 4¢ to close at $18.18/cwt.
As long as buyers keep coming for cheese, sellers step aside, resulting in higher spot prices. Fundamentally, the bullish undertones dominating this market for much of the last three months are still very much intact. Surplus milk continues to be diverted into the dryers for powder, firm international prices continue steady to higher. Persistent global tightness in the supply chain, with fresh cheese becoming a scarcity, are all contributing factors.
The ramifications of international demand, specifically from China, have been played out in the Class IV futures market since late summer. It will be interesting to see how the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations at the end of the month will impact the market on a short-term basis. Their absence from the marketplace may be just what it takes to get this market to break and correct itself a bit. However, with fundamentals as strong as they are, any realized price weakness will most likely be met with a fresh round of buying from those who have either previously missed the market or have been priced out of it.
Jan. 28 spot session results:
Block cheese: $2.32 (up 1.0¢)
Barrel cheese: $2.28 (up 0.5¢)
Grade A NFDM: $2.075 (up 2.5¢)
Butter: $1.90 (unchanged)
Today's expectations:
• Class III, Cheese & Dry Whey futures to open mixed
• Class IV & NFDM to open mostly higher
• Butter to open mixed
Grain futures
Grains traded mixed yesterday, with corn continuing to oscillate within its recent range. South American weather is turning a bit friendlier. Maybe, with the obliteration of the value of Argentina's peso and exports right on USDA's pace, corn can find an excuse to do something, with the path of least resistance possibly to the upside on a short-term basis. Strong soybean export numbers continue to impress, but are battling against what is expected to be a record crop coming out of Brazil.
Today's expectation:
Grains look to open slightly lower
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At Strata Hadoop World in October, Pentaho's Lord of 1's and 0's or CTO, James Dixon, unveiled a powerful demonstration of the true value that Hadoop – combined with enabling technology from Pentaho and our partner Cloudera – can provide. He took a publicly available data set provided by the City of Chicago and built a demo around it that enables nontechnical end-users to understand how crime patterns have changed over time in Chicago, unlocking insight into the type of crimes being committed in different areas of the city - not only historically but also broken down by time of day and day of week. As a result, citizenry as well as law enforcement have a much better sense of what to expect on the streets of Chicago from the insight the demonstration provides.
In the demo, end-users start with a dashboard that provides a high-level understanding of the mix of crimes historically committed on the streets of Chicago over the last ten years. Watch the demo here:
This kind of top-to-bottom understanding of (in this case) crime patterns is uniquely enabled by the capability Pentaho delivers to the market, combining dashboarding, analytics and data integration into one easily-embedded platform that leverages blending across multiple data sets.
The deep understanding that Pentaho's solution delivers to end-users is enabled by two key technologies from Cloudera: Cloudera Search and Impala. The original data set provided by the City of Chicago was loaded into a Cloudera Hadoop cluster using Pentaho's data integration tool, Pentaho Data Integration ("PDI"). End-user drilldown is powered by Cloudera Search, which executes a faceted search on behalf of Pentaho's dashboard. Once an area of interest has been located, Cloudera's Impala executes low-latency performance of SQL on the raw data stored in the Hadoop cluster to bring up individual crime records.
Although Hadoop is often perceived as a geek's playground, the power of Pentaho's business-friendly interface is readily apparent when engaging this demo. Unlocking the power of Hadoop can be as simple as engaging Pentaho's integrated approach to analytics together with Cloudera's foundational platform to deliver an integrated solution whose value is apparent to nontechnical executives wondering whether Hadoop is the right choice for a key initiative.
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Effects of Pulsatile Intravenous Insulin Delivery on Diabetic Neuropathy in pATIENTS (Pts) With Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
Florida Atlantic University
Advanced Diabetes Treatment Centers
Global Infusions
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Florida Atlantic University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 27, 2005
Last updated: August 8, 2016
Last verified: August 2016
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Diabetic neuropathy is a progressive complication causing serious problems in 25-40% of diabetic patients. Anecdotal reports have indicated improvement with pulsatile IV insulin therapy in affected patients otherwise resistant to all conventional therapies. Significant complications produce painful peripheral dysesthesias, loss of sensation and gastroparesis. This study is designed to test the effectiveness of pulsatile IV insulin therapy on diabetic neuropathy.
|Diabetic Neuropathy
|Procedure: Placebo Procedure: Pulsatile IV insulin delivery (humalog, humulin, novolog)
|Phase 2 Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effects of Pulsatile IV Insulin Delivery on Peripheral Diabetic Neuropathy
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Diabetic Nerve Problems
Drug Information available for: Insulin Insulin human Insulin aspart Insulin lisproU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Florida Atlantic University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To evaluate objective testing performed including nerve conduction velocity in diabetic patients treated with pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy [ Time Frame: at baseline and every six months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To obtain patient questionnaires and perform objective testing to analyze, compare and measure progress [ Time Frame: prior to start of pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy and every six months thereafter ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2005
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|May 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: 1
Control patients with diagnosed diabetic neuropathy will receive baseline testing and testing every six months thereafter to compare and analyze results with patients treated with pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy.
Procedure: Placebo
Control patients diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy are tested at baseline and every six months thereafter to compare to patients treated with pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy
Active Comparator: 2
Patients with diagnosed diabetic neuropathy have objective testing and questionnaires performed at baseline and every six months thereafter to evaluate and analyze progress of diabetic neuropathy after the start of pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy.
Procedure: Pulsatile IV insulin delivery (humalog, humulin, novolog)
Patients with diagnosed diabetic neuropathy have objective testing and questionnaires performed at baseline and every six months thereafter to evaluate and analyze progress of diabetic neuropathy after start of treatment of pulsatile intravenous insulin therapy
Other Name: humalog, humulin, novolog
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Up to 500 patients both male and female between the ages of 20 and 90 diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- All patients were diagnosed by their endocrinologists as having diabetic neuropathy.
- All patients had failed conventional treatment for diabetic neuropathy.
- All patients are taking oral agents and/or insulin for diabetic control.
- All patients are under an endocrinologist's supervision for their diabetes management.
- Endocrinologist must assess and approve patient for participation in this study.
- All patients must demonstrate the ability to swallow without difficulty and the ability to commit to the weekly time requirements associated with the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other causes of complications not related to diabetes
- Lack of intravenous access
- Pregnancy
- Alcohol abuse, drug addiction or the use of illegal drugs
- HIV positive
- Inability to breathe into machine for respiratory quotients
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00228904
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00228904
|United States, Florida
|Florida Atlantic University Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
|Boca Raton, Florida, United States, 33431
Sponsors and Collaborators
Florida Atlantic University
Advanced Diabetes Treatment Centers
Global Infusions
|Principal Investigator:
|Betty Tuller, PhD
|Florida Atlantic University
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Keywords provided by Florida Atlantic University:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Moghtaderi A, Bakhshipour A, Rashidi H. Validation of Michigan neuropathy screening instrument for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2006 Jul;108(5):477-81. Epub 2005 Sep 16.
Tesfaye S, Chaturvedi N, Eaton SE, Ward JD, Manes C, Ionescu-Tirgoviste C, Witte DR, Fuller JH; EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study Group. Vascular risk factors and diabetic neuropathy. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 27;352(4):341-50.
Potter PJ, Maryniak O, Yaworski R, Jones IC. Incidence of peripheral neuropathy in the contralateral limb of persons with unilateral amputation due to diabetes. J Rehabil Res Dev. 1998 Jul;35(3):335-9.
|Responsible Party:
|Florida Atlantic University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00228904 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
MH42900 and MH01386
|Study First Received:
|September 27, 2005
|Last Updated:
|August 8, 2016
Keywords provided by Florida Atlantic University:
Pulsatile intravenous insulin
Oral carbohydrate loading
Respiratory Quotients
Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetes Mellitus, with complications
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetic Neuropathies
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases
Insulin, Globin Zinc
Insulin Lispro
Insulin Aspart
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Last fall, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division proposed new regulations for children working agricultural jobs.
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) worked with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to craft the first proposed updates to agricultural child labor regulations in over 40 years. The purpose of the proposed regulations is to increase the safety of children who work in agriculture and align the rules with those of other high-risk occupations, such as manufacturing.
Current federal, agricultural child labor standards primarily concern the age at which children become eligible to perform various activities on the farm. Generally, a child must be 16 or older to work on a farm during school hours and 14 years old to perform farm work when school is not in session. Twelve- and 13-year-olds may work on a farm either with their parents or with parental consent. Children younger than 12 may only work on their parents' farms or on small farms exempted from the federal statute. Children ages 10 to 12 can work on farms not owned by their families only in rare circumstances, and the employer must show that the business would be severely disrupted without the child labor.
Federal law also prohibits children under 16 from performing hazardous activities unless they are employed by their parents or working on their parents' farm. Hazardous activities include, but are not limited to, operating large farm machinery, working in enclosed spaces with dangerous animals (studs and new mothers), working on a ladder or scaffold more than 20 feet high, working inside certain spaces such as manure pits, and handling hazardous farm chemicals. 29 C.F.R. § 570.71 contains the full list of activities considered hazardous.
Although the proposed rule changes cover a wide range of safety concerns — it is important to note that none of the the Wage and Hour Division's proposed regulations would apply to a child working on a farm owned in whole or in part by his or her parents. Additionally, the new rule would not affect a child's participation in 4-H and FFA. The WHD has specifically stated that under the new rules a child will be able to raise his or her 4-H or FFA animal, even if the animal is being raised on a working farm. The child participating in these activities would not be an employee, and thus the new regulations would not apply. The WHD's entire proposal and links to more in-depth analysis can be found on the WHD's website.
One proposed change would prevent children from working with animals in timber operations, manure pits, storage bins, and pesticide handling. Other elements of the proposal would prohibit children under 16 from operating nearly all power-driven vehicles (a similar rule has been in effect for non-agricultural labor for over 50 years). Perhaps the least controversial proposal would prohibit children from using electronic communication devices while operating power driven vehicles, a prohibition that several states already enacted. The proposal with perhaps the widest impact on commercial agriculture would prohibit children under 18 from working in "country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions." A side-by-side fact sheet of the current and proposed rules is available here.
The Wage and Hour Division believes that these new regulations will increase the safety of children employed in agricultural jobs. However, children, as well as adults, who live and work in rural communities may find them life changing, and not in a positive way. In some farming communities, the prohibited places of employment are the largest employers, and a minor who wants to work in agriculture when he or she is an adult, would obviously benefit from having work experience in those places. On the other hand, the Department of Labor proposed these rules because the "fatality rate for young agricultural workers is four times greater than that of their peers employed in nonagricultural work places" and "injuries suffered by young farm workers tend to be more severe than those suffered by nonagricultural workers." Moreover, current agricultural child labor rules are more than forty years old and have never been updated.
For an interesting 30-minute audio podcast discussing the impacts of the proposed rule, click here.
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Julio M. Ottino
Northwestern University
"For outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of chaotic mixing in laminar flows, to mixing and segregation in granular flows and for ground-breaking experimental work that has led to the broad application of these concepts."Background:
Dr. Julio M. Ottino is currently Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University and holds the titles of Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was the founder and co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and was Chairman of the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering during 1992-2000. Ottino's research has appeared on the covers of and Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US and other publications and has impacted fields as diverse as fluid dynamics, granular dynamics, microfluidics, geophysical sciences, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos. He is an Advisor to Unilever, was a member of the Technical Board of Dow Chemical, and was a member of the International Review of Engineering in the UK. Dr. Ottino received several national awards including the Alpha Chi Sigma Award and William H. Walker of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has given numerous named lectureships, including the Lacey Lectures at Caltech, the Corrsin Lecture in Johns Hopkins, the Pirkey Lecture at Texas, and the Danckwerts Lecture in England. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sigma Xi Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the APS, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition lands today and original title owners on Steam get it free
THQ Nordic is giving those who own Titan Quest or Titan Quest: Immortal Throne on Steam a present, and for those who don't own it, you're getting it on the cheap.
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Darksiders, Titan Quest, more included in Humble Nordic Games Bundle 2
Humble Bundle has a rather nice weekly bundle deal going on which allows you to pay what you want for a variety of Nordic Games titles.
Nordic Games still figuring out plans for Darksiders, Red Faction, and other THQ assets
It's been four months since Nordic Games forked out $4.9 million for a handful of ex-THQ properties. The Austrian-based company is still working to complete the transaction, and this means it might be a fair while before we see new instalments in any of the acquired series'.
Nordic Games wants to "do right by" the properties it purchased from THQ
Nordic Games has said it's received the most feedback from the community on franchises Darksiders, MX vs. ATV, Red Faction and Titan Quest since picking up the properties from THQ in April.
No "shitty" sequel for Darksiders, says Nordic boss
Nordic Games, which successfully bid for the vast majority of remaining THQ properties, may have some new games as soon as this summer – although don't expect it to crank out a "shitty" Darksiders sequel.
Humble THQ Bundle adds Titan Quest, Red Faction: Armageddon DLC
The Humble THQ Bundle has been given bonus content to sweeten the deal: Titan Quest and the Red Faction: Armageddon's mission pack, Path to War. If you have already purchased the bundle, you can get the Steam keys for your bonus content right now for free from your download page. New purchasers can get the […]
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Crate Entertainment has announced its currently at work on a new action-RPG similar in style to Diablo called Grim Dawn.
Steam puts THQ Collector Pack on sale for $74.99
Steam has put the THQ Collector Pack up for sale, and it's a rather decent deal. Until this coming Sunday, you can get the bundle for $74.99, which is 25 percent off the normal $99.99 price tag. Here's what you'll get: Company of Heroes Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Frontlines: Fuel of War Full Spectrum […]
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Iron Lore co-founder Paul Chieffo has given an interview to GameBanshee on the reasons behind the rather depressing news that the developer was forced to close in February. "The short answer is that we were unable to secure a follow on contract to Dawn of War – Soulstorm and were therefore unable to continue as […]
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Michael Fitch, creative boss at THQ, has no illusions as to why Titan Quest developer Iron Lore closed down: piracy was to blame, he said. "We didn't lose money on it," he says. "But if even a tiny fraction of the people who pirated the game had actually spent some god-damn money for their 40+ […]
Titan Quest developer Iron Lore closes down
Worst news ever. Iron Lore, the studio behind Diablo-clone Titan Quest and the upcoming Soulstorm expansion to Relic's Dawn of War, has closed down, the studio has just confirmed. "It is with great regret that we must announce that as of close of business Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Iron Lore Entertainment has ceased active game […]
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The Pontiac Board of Education has added the privatization of custodial and maintenance services to steps taken to reduce the growing deficit in the financially struggling school district.
Superintendent Brian Dougherty said Wednesday the move to privatize the service and lay off 30 employees will save the district $700,000 for the remainder of this school year and $1.2 million for the 2013-2014 school year.
The $2 million, three-year contract with GCA Services Group, Inc., was approved in a close 4-3 vote.
The bus service was privatized several years ago and the $3.9 million contract with FIRST Transportation approved this week will save the district about $548,000 during its three-year duration compared to the 2011-2012 school year, Dougherty said.�
Pontiac schools also contracts for management of the food services program but employees work for the district. Dougherty said there has been no decision to privatize the entire food service, nor the entire school district, despite rumors to that effect.
But one union official said employees are waiting to see what will be privatized next. Teaching assistants and para-professionals have ratified their contracts, but the board has not yet approved them, said Lisa Swinsey, acting president of the bargaining unit.
The number of employees is also decreasing as Pontiac district has also contracted with Oakland Schools to take over such services as technology, software and human resources.
GCA is a national provider of facility services, including janitorial/custodial services and grounds services for many venues, including school districts and colleges.
Pontiac school district's custodial and maintenance employees are being laid off and the school board extended their benefits until the end of the school year, the superintendent said.
However, all employees have the option of applying for one of the jobs in the Pontiac district with GCA, which has its main offices in Downer's Grove, Ill. near Chicago.
�According to documents provided to the board, the proposal to privatize and bids were solicited in August after talks with the state Department of Education in connection with the board's deficit elimination plan.�
The GCA representatives appeared before the board twice in August and on Aug. 20 the contract was brought to the board for approval, but trustees tabled it to provide unions the opportunity to provide their own proposals.
But union officials said the district did not meet 18 times in 18 months to bargain. Another union official said meetings were often canceled and proposals made by the union weren't accepted.
The recommendation was brought back to the board study session Nov. 14 and moved forward to Monday night's board meeting.
Services taken on by Oakland Schools regional district for the Pontiac district include the following: payroll support staff (September to end of November); finance and human resource software systems; access to the countywide fiber optic network; truancy services and back-to-school program for middle school; pupil aaccounting audit services; Medicaid billing for school-based services; and consulting support and staff training for food and nutrition services.
�For the two dozen various services provided to the district in information technology and management services, Oakland Schools employs four full-time staff.
Oakland Schools was also contracted to assess Pontiac district's technology programs and employee capabilities, come up with a plan and then assist Pontiac administration in providing professional development training in the use of technology.�
Staff at the intermediate district also provide cooperative purchasing; student information system software; learning management software; library management software; and Nova Net Software for online courses.
Contact staff writer Diana Dillaber Murray at 248-745-4638 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 2002
Fishwrap (volume 2) is a collaborative literary publication consisting of a magazine, a mini-zine, a poster/book jacket and a DVD. The theme of this issue is "sickness." It was written, designed, illustrated and produced by a single class of students working both within and outside their chosen major (e.g., designer as writer, illustrators and photographers collaborating on one image). Fishwrap is distributed at local bookstores and campuses.
Collections: AIGA 365: 24 (2003)
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Editorial design
- Design firm
- Art Center College of Design
- Student art directors
- Mark Aver, Leigh Okies
- Advisors/teachers
- Christian Clayton, Jason Holley, Lisa Wagner-Holley, Benjamin Weissman
- Student team
- Aaron Amaro, Oksana Badrak, Daniel Chang, Travis Chatham, Ben Grieme, Jana Haney, Davina Henderson, Jason Hernandez, Tracy Sunrise Johnson, Christopher Kahl, Soyoung Kim, Theo Morrison, René Neri, Souther Salazar, Hansen Smith, Rachell Sumpter, Paul Yeh
- Student editor
- Trinie Dalton
- Publisher
- Art Center College of Design


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Los Altos School District officials hosted a community forum last week to clarify how Blach Intermediate School and Bullis Charter School will execute their campus-sharing plan next year.
The meeting outlined the district's offer to house 129 in-district charter school students on the Blach campus. District Board of Trustees President Doug Smith said the district crafted the offer under the assumption that the charter school would use the Blach space to serve its sixth- through eighth-grade students.
Bullis Charter School's exclusive space on the Blach campus includes five classrooms (three for sixth-graders and two for seventh- and eighth-graders), an existing home arts room, an existing annex room for a computer lab, one specialized teaching area, an administrative building, a library portable, locker rooms and bathrooms.
The district's offer relies largely on the use of shared space at Blach. It allocates use of a science room (2:10-3:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; 2:15-3:30 p.m. Wednesdays), a drama/chorus room (8-9:45 a.m. weekdays) and a multipurpose room (eight days throughout the year).
Smith said that while the final offer includes language with a specific schedule for sharing the multipurpose room, the intent is for administrative leaders at the schools to communicate to develop a flexible schedule that suits both parties.
The offer also outlines a proposal for shared physical education space. For various lessons throughout the year, Bullis Charter School students may use the gym (16 weeks), multipurpose room (two weeks), blacktop (eight weeks), tennis courts (two weeks) and track and field (10 weeks).
PE facilities are available to charter school students during periods 1-5 Mondays and Tuesdays and through 9 a.m. Wednesdays through Fridays.
"Charter school students will have access to the gym, multipurpose room – everything our students have access to for PE," Smith said. "The intent is to share these spaces equally. To the extent that either program wants to make a change, the administrators or teachers can talk to each other and it should be resolved locally on site."
The parking lots at Blach will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, with 10 spots allocated to the private Stepping Stones Preschool & Infant Care facility, six for charter school officials and six for Blach officials.
Answering questions
After detailing the shared and exclusive spaces at Blach next year, the forum addressed parents' and neighbors' questions. Blach Principal Sandra McGonagle was on hand to offer input.
One parent asked if students were supposed to take a certain path to get from point A to point B on the campus. McGonagle said students should take the path of least resistance when traveling on campus – there are no Blach-only or charter-school-only paths.
Responding to a request for clarification on the total number of students anticipated on the Blach campus next year, Smith said the district expects 509 students, coupled with the charter school's 129 for a total of 638 students. He added that the schools are working to shift the start times in an effort to reduce traffic, increase student safety and to be a good neighbor to the community.
As for sharing PE facilities, Smith said the district plans to install keyless access pads for entry, guaranteeing access when needed.
The plan to share the blacktop is the primary reason Smith organized the meeting. While the final offer designates a portion of the blacktop for exclusive charter school use and a portion for Blach students only, Smith said the plan calls for students from both schools to share the blacktop during recess and lunch breaks.
"It is our intention to have a mix of students," he said. "The kids should be able to do that together. It is our goal that all the students interact with one another."
One charter school parent said Egan Junior High School students heckled her and her child as they walked across the campus, which currently houses the charter school. Smith encouraged the parent to share the incident with charter school leaders, who should then confer with Egan's principal.
Smith said there are still logistical matters to resolve with Blach/Bullis Charter School split, including emergency procedures, supervision of students during recess and lunch, student discipline issues, familiarity with both schools' staff members and the presence of adults on campus.
"What I would really like is to have the kids come together," McGonagle said. "Student leaders from both campuses could come together and discuss how to cohabitate."
While no further meetings are scheduled at this point, McGonagle said she is confident the remaining matters will be addressed over the summer.
In the wake of construction delays last year, one parent asked if there were a contingency plan in the event that construction on the Blach campus does not finish by the time school starts.
"It is happening," Smith said. "I'm not trying to be glib about it. When we land, nothing works because it never can, but we are trying to get it done. Last year we got surprised by a lot of soil work – we hope this is not the case this year."
Smith added that while there is no official contingency plan, if there is a delay, four portable classrooms and other spaces on the Blach campus are available for the charter school.
"I want to welcome our new neighbors into this," Smith said. "We want this to work. We need to approach it with the spirit of doing the best we can. When things don't work, we will have a civilized discussion. There will be bumps in the road, but if we go into it with the thought of sharing and getting along, it can work."


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The following items were compiled from reports prepared by law enforcement agencies.
Willits Police Department
December 30
Report: 11:01 a.m. Hit and run occurred overnight on 200 block of Margie Drive.
Report: 12:20 p.m. Disturbing the peace on McKinley Street.
Report: 3 p.m. Group of transients setting up encampment near the water tower on Railroad Avenue.
Report: 8:53 p.m. Woman wanted on warrant cited and released at Village Market.
Report: 10:12 p.m. Missing juvenile on 100 block of E. Mendocino Avenue.
December 31
Report: 5:45 a.m. Vandalism on 100 S. Main Street.
Report: 2:16 p.m. Hit and run into a propane tank at AM/PM market.
Report: 2:46 p.m. Missing juvenile on 100 block of E. Mendocino Avenue.
Report: 6:05 p.m. Vandalism on 100 block of E. Mendocino Avenue.
Report: 9:42 p.m. Traffic accident on 200 block of Shell Lane.
Report: 9:55 p.m. Disturbing the peace on 200 block of School Street.
Report: 10 p.m. Skate park violation issued.
Arrest: 10:16 p.m. Michelle June Bauer, 30, of Willits, was arrested on 1200 block of S. Main Street on suspicion of being under the influence and vandalism.
Report: 11:03 p.m. Shots fired on Coast Street.
Report: 11:06 p.m. Disturbing the peace on Brookside Drive.
January 1
Report: 2:39 a.m. Assault near 77 S. Main Street.
Report: 7:05 a.m. Drunk juvenile at Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital.
Report: 12:22 p.m. Vandalism on Creekside drive occurred overnight.
Report: 3 p.m. Large group (riding 12 bikes) inside Willits skate park.
January 2
Report: 10:40 a.m. Man on Coast Street reported being kidnapped during a Fort Bragg burglary.
Report: 11:23 a.m. Warrant served on E. Valley Street.
Report: 11:47 a.m. Woman patient creating a disturbance at Howard Hospital.
Report: 1:43 p.m. Vandalism to vehicle on 300 block of McKinley Street.
Report: 4:02 p.m. Assault on 500 block of S. Main Street.
Report: 6:55 p.m. Vehicle stolen on 600 block of S. Main Street.
Report: 8:27 p.m. Disturbing the peace at School Street apartments.
Report: 9:47 p.m. Theft from Safeway.
Report: 10 p.m. Skate park violation.
Mendocino County Sheriff's Office
December 30
Anna Mae Britton, 50, of Covelo, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
January 1
Michael Gene Glass, 49, of Willits, was arrested on suspicion of driving with a suspended license and an outstanding warrant.
Fort Bragg Police Department
December 30
Patrick Andrew Heppe, 25, of Willits, was arrested on suspicion of petty theft with priors and violating parole.
Ukiah Police Department
December 31
Timothy Jon Dobler, 42, of Covelo, was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft. NOTE: Under U.S. law, all those arrested are innocent until proven guilty. TWN encourages those arrested to contact the newspaper upon conclusion of their case so the outcome can be reported.


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Rep. Lynn Woolsey, the former welfare mother who jumped from the Petaluma City Council to the U.S. Congress in 1993, will be honored by the Marin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Resolutions, speeches and accolades are expected as the county board pauses at 10:30 a.m. at the Civic Center to bid Woolsey farewell after two decades in Congress.
A reception is planned for the retiring 74-year-old congresswoman, and all are welcome.


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Centre Jack Dixon hands Dragons an injury boost
3:17pm Tuesday 25th February 2014
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JACK Dixon is set to hand Newport Gwent Dragons an injury boost by making his comeback from a foot injury, writes Chris Kirwan.
The talented 19-year-old centre from Newbridge has been out of action since suffering the blow against Zebre at Rodney Parade on October 4.
He is back in full training and is likely to make his return to action for Bedwas, who travel to take on Llanelli at Parc y Scarlets in the Premiership on Sunday.
Dixon made a mightily impressive start to the season and would have been in contention to feature for Wales in the autumn internationals.
He will battle for midfield starts with Ashley Smith, Pat Leach and Ross Wardle in the Pro12 run-in.
While there is good news about the teenage centre, the region has suffered another blow in the backs ahead of Friday's RaboDirect Pro12 encounter with Ulster in Belfast.
Wing Will Harries will miss the Ravenhill clash after suffering a concussion in the second half of Sunday's impressive 24-23 victory against Glasgow.
He was replaced by Ross Wardle, who went on the score the matchwinning try and will be favourite to deputise against the Pro12 title hopefuls in Northern Ireland.
Both fly-half Jason Tovey and wing/full-back Tom Prydie are rated as 50/50 because of a dead leg and ankle injury respectively.
Meanwhile, the Dragons' home Pro12 clash against Edinburgh, which was postponed on February 9 because of a waterlogged pitch, has been rearranged for Thursday, April 3 at 6.30pm.
The region are not to blame for latest unsociable Pro12 kick-off time. The encounter will be televised on S4C and cannot clash with the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final between Sale and Northampton, which starts at 8pm.
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Measuring urban health
Since 2007, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. The impact of urbanization on population health, health equity and the environment are key concerns for national and municipal authorities.
At WHO Kobe Centre we have three main initiatives for measuring and monitoring urban health:
1. to work with city and national officials to translate evidence into action;
2. to develop a global observatory as a one-stop shop for data and knowledge on urban health;
3. to develop methods and standards for measuring and monitoring urban health.
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Metrics in action
78countries have built capacity on using Urban HEART to act on health inequitiesUrban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART)
Trends in urban health
828 millionurban residents live in slum conditions worldwideUrban health observatory
Monitoring ageing societies
31municipalities in Japan are engaged in developing benchmarks to evaluate the long-term care insurance policyInnovations in measurement


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Evolution Hoax
Nanotechnology is likely to shape every aspect of human life and many industrial sectors in the near future.
1. Nano (which means dwarf in the Greek language) means one billionth in the metric system of measurement. According to this definition, "nanotechnology" is a science that deals with "nano" particles which have the size of one thousandths of an human hair. Just like combining parts and creating a desired shape in a puzzle game, in nanotechnology individual atoms and molecules are combined in a similar fashion to produce a desired product.
2. The concepts of nanotechnology, first put forward by Norio Taniguchi of Tokyo University in 1974, are rapidly emerging technologies based on minimizing existing technologies and making them more sensitive.
3. Generally speaking, nanotechnology is about reducing matter indirectly to the size of an atom and therefore to "nano-size". In other words, nanotechnology is the name of that technology which deals with the production, installation and usage of materials which have sizes consisting of one hundred millionth and one billionth of a meter. Nanotechnology is a field which aims for the production of instruments which not only can operate but can work efficiently and contains features not existing in our macro world by using atoms individually.
4. The high potential of nanotechnology became known by the laws of quantum physics. At this stage, the laws of quantum physics step in and allow for new applications in areas like optics, electronics, magnetic storage, computing, catalysts and potentially many other fields as well.
5. In nanotechnology, a measurement unit is called a "nanometer" (abbreviated as nm). 1 billion nm exist in every measurement. Every nm is only three to five atoms in width.
Nanotechnology is often referred to as general purpose technology because when nanotechnology is fully realized it will have an important place in nearly every sector and every area of society. Better made, longer lasting, cleaner, safer and smarter products can be used with Allah's permission in the home, communications, medicine, transportation and every area of agriculture and industry. Nanotechnology brings faster, more cost effective and cleaner systems of production. The means of production can be increased exponentially so that a few nano factories can themselves produce billions of products in a couple of weeks.
7. By means of nanotechnology, bacteria-sized mini computers, or computers the size of sugar cube but have the calculating power of billions of computers can be produced. The thing that makes nanotechnology potential so tremendous is the structure of atoms and their excellent feature of organization with each other.
8. One of the areas in which the usage of nanotechnology is most potentially promising is medicine. With nanotechnology, it may be possible that robots produced through nanotechnology can seek out and find cancer cells and discharge their medicine payloads into them after entering these cells, or can carry out direct surgical operations to open clogged blood vessels.
9. Nanotechnology experts take as their inspiration living things in the environment and use their features in their works. In this respect ,viruses are ideal organisms to take as examples because of their mobility, concealment strategies and ability to store information and replicate it .10) Nanotechnology, like all the technological advancements around us, is one of the blessings which Allah gives to the service of mankind in order to make our lives easier and can be a potentially great benefit in every area in the future. Nanotechnology surely represents an occasion to praise Allah like all the things created by Allah. The diversity of Almighty Allah's blessings is revealed in the following verse from the Qur'an;
"And if you would count Allah's favors, you will not be able to number them; most surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful." (Surat an-Nahl, 18)
To give an example of the conveniences which nanotechnology may bring to human life, let us think of a system in which money is never used; let us also imagine that in this system, instead of credit cards there is a card developed by nanotechnology which contains all the information like a persons wages, recent information about his savings, and other documents like his drivers license, passport and student ID's, etc., gathered into this one card. This example is one of the potential conveniences that nanotechnology may bring into our lives.


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The Reserve Bank is keeping a close watch on the housing market as it signals a willingness to sit on the sidelines while the "stimulatory effects" of previous interest rate cuts flow through to the economy.
The central bank kept open the chance of further easing, noting that there was uncertainty over the growth in non-mining business investment over the next year. But it also added that "there was mounting evidence that monetary policy was supporting activity in interest-sensitive sectors and asset values".
"[G]iven the lags with which monetary policy operates, the stimulatory effects would likely continue coming through for some time," the RBA said.
The central bank said "it was appropriate to leave the cash rate unchanged while continuing to gauge the effects, including in the housing market, of the substantial degree of monetary policy stimulus that had been put in place over the past two years".
The Australian dollar bounced back from the day's low of 93.53 US cents just before the minutes were released. It was buying 93.78 US cents just before mid-day.
Still jawboning on a lower exchange rate
The Reserve Bank appeared to show a preference for a weaker exchange rate to lowering the cash rate further, which could overheat the booming housing market. The central bank noted again that the Australian dollar "remained uncomfortably high".
"The stimulation [of the economy] needs to come from a lower currency," CBA senior economist Michael Workman said. He added at the strengthening housing market was stymieing the central bank's ability to cut rates to take some heat out of the Australian dollar.
"Cutting interest rates just has an unwelcome and most probably an unnecessary impact on the housing sector, which benefits home owners unnecessarily but increasing the value of their properties," Mr Workman said.
"You always have this problem in Australia where so much lending is done at the short-end. Variable rate loans are the norm. So if you keep cutting interest rates, you tend to overstimulate the housing market, and that's probably a problem for the them at this stage."
No cuts for some time?
Citi's chief economist Paul Brennan said it was not possible to rule out another rate cut by the RBA given the uncertainty over a pick-up in non-mining business investment.
"I think they basically think they've provided a substantial degree of policy stimulus and at this stage, they don't want to do anymore as they are seeing some signs of it working through the economy," he said.
"But equally they are quite unsure that how quickly the non-resources business investment will pick-up and they seem to be saying in the minutes that it's probably going to be a story for 2015."
The RBA repeated its expectations of below-trend growth in 2014. In the quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy (SOMP), released earlier this month, it downgraded the 2014 and 2015 growth forecasts amid weaker-than-expected mining investment.
It added that it was not yet clear when non-mining business investment would fill the gap.
"Members noted that while the timing of investment upturns was very difficult to predict, it appeared likely that growth of the economy over the coming year would be below trend but that growth could reasonably be expected to pick up thereafter," the minutes said.


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Lately it seems you can't throw a rock without hitting someone decked out in Hurley. And for good reason. When it comes to modern designs and fresh perspectives, Hurley t-shirts, hoodies and jackets for men and women give the world something amazing to look at not to mention their world-famous board shorts.
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These two pin were in a grab bag from a local thrift shop. Under $10 for the entire bag. The red masonic pin is rare according to the research I found on it. However, this exact pin was not found, similar but the exact - I don't even know what category these pins should be in.
Any thoughts?