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Crystal Rainbow Makers, Set of 3
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Crystal Rainbow Makers Fill Any Room with Magical Rainbows of Light
- Sparkling suncatchers create a roomful of mini rainbows
- Crafted from colorful Austrian crystals
- Perfect all-occasion gifts
- Set of three includes one each of Almond, Icicle and Ball designs
Hang these elegant cascades of jewel-toned Austrian crystals in a sunny window and, as if by magic, bright little rainbows scatter around the room. A daily delight for the young-at-heart, these sparkling crystal suncatchers are captivating in the kitchen, living room, child's bedroom, office or dorm room. The perfect all-occasion gifts, they're a thoughtful way to show your appreciation, send get-well wishes, or just say, "I'm thinking of you." They arrive nestled and ready-to-give in sheer organza bags. Approx. 3-1/2" L plus 6" hanging chain.
Product Details
- Austrian crystals, stainless steel chain
- Crystal strand is 3-1/2: L; hanging chain is 6" L
- Set of three
- For indoor display
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Given as a gift to hang in a window at their new house.
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My grandkids love the rainbows and it is a good opportunity for them to learn how rainbows are made! Love them!
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This was a birthday gift to my partner who is expanding her yoga studio and under a lot of stress. Each rainbow crystal, which happens to be the Chakra colors, will be in each of the 6 very large windows of the new studio. I'm sure it will remind her of the love we have for each other as well as the love of each student and teacher has for her.
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I gave these out to close pals at Christmas. We weren't exchanging gifts but these caught my eye. They are perfect for tiny expressions of love and thoughtfulness. The recipients loved them too! I have bought several sets since to use for the same purpose. It says I am thinking about them for lots of reasons. It is a very "classy" way to tell them that I care!
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put them in windows as sun catchers
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- Quality construction
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- Interior Decoration
Ordered two sets to split up for gifts to self and others. Was pleased to discover they are made by the Woodstock Chime people. Extremely attractive and well made.
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- Winter Sunny Window
Immediate satisfaction. Also, later, can move it to another window, chasing the sunbeams. Ahhhh
I purchased a set of three of these sun catchers and attached one of each of them to the outside ribbon of three wrapped Christmas presents as a little something extra for my three nieces. They loved them. They create a pretty rainbow affect, like little fairies dancing around the room. Very feminine.
- Very Sparkly And Pretty
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I am so glad I bought these sparkly rainbow suncatchers. They are beautiful and make me happy when I walk into the room just looking at them!
- Beautiful colors
- Refract Light Remarkably
- Unusual gift
- none
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- Hang From Ceiling Fan
- Hang in window
- Hang On Screened Porch
* gave the set of three as a Christmas gift, and recipient loved them
* adds a touch of brilliant color to a room or porch
* looks classy on ceiling fan
* avoid using in cold place as they are delicate
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For much of my career, I've tracked growth stocks of all market caps. I've expanded my view to include some dividend-payers that couldn't be classified as growth, though I definitely still consider growth names as one of the tent poles of most investors' portfolio construction.
On Thanksgiving night, I, like many stock geeks, found myself running a few screens (most likely just a bad habit reinforced by many years of such aberrant behavior).
Putting aside the fact that I was studying moving averages and earnings performance while others were lining up for early Black Friday deals, I was curious about which growth names are currently showing technical leadership.
I ran one of my tried-and-true growth screens. Among several other factors, I built this particular screen to ferret out stocks priced above $15, and moving at least 300,000 per shares per day.
Earlier this week, I wrote about some solid performers from the world of pharmaceuticals. One I didn't include in that article was Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), which is up 18% year-to-date, and was edging slightly higher Friday morning, trading near $55.11. Valeant specializes in meds to treat neurological and dermatological ailments, among other conditions.
This is one of those large caps with a high beta, 1.21. Its current pullback looks pretty orderly, however. The stock is hovering below its 50-day average, but found support above its 200-day.
The company has been in the news lately. On Nov. 16, the company got the Federal Trade Commission's OK for its acquisition of Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX), another maker of dermatological drugs. On Nov. 19, Valeant said it would buy back $1.5 billion of its debt and equity.
Analysts see Valeant earnings growing at hefty rates in the next couple of years. Income is expected to be $4.54 per share this year, a gain of 55%. In 2013, analysts expect earnings at $5.50 per share, an increase of another 21%.
Jumping off the pharmaceutical bandwagon, another growth performer is Ulta Salons (ULTA). Like Valeant, this is a familiar name to those who have tracked growth names since March 2009, when the market rally kicked off.
The stock is up 42% year-to-date, and is currently in the midst of what appears to be a constructive pullback. It sliced its 200-day line in heavy volume on Nov. 9. It was Ulta's first 200-day breach in more than three years.
Personally, I'm excited about this company because it plans to open a new location five minutes from my home in Santa Fe, N.M., in a site formerly occupied by the dearly departed Borders chain.
But putting on my stock-analysis cap again, I continue to like the fundamental case for Ulta. Wall Street sees earnings growing by 37% and 26% in the next two years.
The company reports its third quarter Nov. 29 after the close. Analysts are eyeing earnings of 56 cents per share on revenue of $504.11 million, which would mark significant year-over-year increases. The company beat views in each of the past four quarters.
I like the stock's current pullback. The stock joined other retailers in rally mode on Black Friday. Ulta gapped higher, and climbed back above its 200-day line. It's in a potential buy zone, but medium- and short-term traders should use caution if (more like: when) market volatility returns, possibly dragging the stock lower again.

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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
A supermodel got in a shower and uttered those immortal words for a shampoo commercial. It was 25 years ago, but Gisele Bundchen is bringing it all back.
She has people all lathered up over her postgame analysis of the Super Bowl. Out of the mouths of super-babes …
"My husband cannot (bleeping) throw that ball and catch the ball at the same time," Mrs. Tom Brady said. "I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times!"
The shower of scorn is on. From Boston to Baja people are saying Gisele should be seen and not heard.
She stands accused of being a henpecking wife who violated the team code. And if you trace the New England dynasty, it's now apparent the Gisele Curse is why the Patriots have now won as many Super Bowls in the past seven years as Prairie View A&M.
— Check out video of Gisele's snit | Brady's Super bummer
The first thing I'd like to say is if there is a Gisele Curse, where do I get one? But that is not why I believe it's time to turn off the spigot on Poor Gisele.
Poor Gisele, you say?
She made $45 million last year. She and hubby have a $20 million house in L.A. She's the world's greatest supermodel.
We hate her because she's the Queen Bee of the Beautiful People. That doesn't mean she doesn't deserve some grief for popping off like a drunken Patriots fan. But what did you expect?
It was right after a soul-crushing loss. A Giants fan spotted her waiting for an elevator and started yelling, "Eli owns your husband!"
It's not as if she called a news conference to rip Wes Welker. She turned her back and muttered her thoughts to her posse. But they were picked up by one of the video cameras. Bundchen became The Mouth That Roared.
— SI: Tom Brady's legacy
"Gisele has very few friends among the wives. Of course, many are jealous of her looks and all that, but she doesn't make it easy to like her."
I read that anonymous quote in the Weekly World News. It has taken a break from reporting on Justin Bieber's alien lovechild to provide round-the-clock Gisele/Super Bowl coverage. And why not?
It's a gold-plated celebrity gossip scandal. Since she makes a living wearing underwear, Bundchen can't really complain when cameras expose her inner thoughts. But did you think she'd offer an objective analysis of Welker's seam route?
Lost in all this is the fact Bundchen was right. Her Tommy Boy's passes weren't all perfect, but overall he did a better job throwing them than his teammates did catching them.
It didn't help that the biggest drop was by Welker, everybody's favorite NFL Kewpie doll. The guy wears flannel shirts and baseball caps. If Gisele found those items in Tom's closet, she'd probably have her butler set them on fire.
But please remember, Gisele is not just a Victoria's Secret legend. She's also a wife.
Wives are supposed to blindly bare their claws when their husbands are attacked. If Logan Mankins' wife had spouted off, the criticism would be couched in understanding.
"Apparently when Brady himself heard about his wife's crack, he hit the ceiling," the Weekly World News reported, "realizing how awkward that comment would make it for him to deal with his fellow Patriots."
Gisele's man undoubtedly is embarrassed by the whole thing. But Brady should be heartened that his woman reacted like any wife would.
Stand by your man. …
Even when you look beautiful doing it.
— Baseball team to auction off Kardashian-signed ball


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The Hoosiers' Friday 83-62 East Region demolition of James Madison was never close. They covered their 21-point favorite spread, led by as many as 33, and could have won by 40-plus points if it had served a purpose.
It did not.
IU thrived as you'd hope a No. 1 seed would. It ruthlessly ensured 16th seeds would remain winless.
The Hoosiers scored off the fast break (15 points) and off the bench (26). They scored in the paint (36 points and off of James Madison turnovers (15). They controlled the boards (38-28), took care of the ball (17 assists against nine turnovers) and showed they can be a dangerous team into April.
"You score on us and we're going to run it down your throat," forward Derek Elston said. "That's been our goal all season.
"We did that. We pushed. When we do that we're a hard team to stop. We're one of the best teams in nation in doing that."
Now comes ninth-seed Temple, a surprising 76-72 victor over season-long under-achiever North Carolina State. It seems the Owls did the Hoosiers a favor. Eighth-seed North Carolina State was an ACC favorite who played to also-ran status. The Wolfpack had Final Four talent and First-Four toughness, and that's not a knock on First-Four teams. They could have been a formidable opponent if they had played to their potential.
In other words, if they had played like Temple.
What the Owls lack in North Carolina State's high-profile ability they make for in skill, patience, poise and toughness, even if they did nearly cough up what had been an 18-point lead.
The Hoosiers began preparing for Temple last week with associate head coach Steve McClain leading the way. It was in limited doses because they also had North Carolina State and James Madison to consider, but coach Tom Crean won't enter a game unprepared.
Temple gives you much to prepare for.
It has the Atlantic-10's top scorer in guard Khalif Wyatt (19.8 points). It has a shot-blocking and rebounding threat in 6-6 Rahir Hollis (1.0 blocks a game, 6.2 rebounds). It has a defensive specialist in guard Will Cummings (1.4 steals a game).
Wyatt scored a game-high 31 points despite going just 1-for-7 from three-point range, in part because he was 12-for-14 from the free throw line.
Coach Fran Dunphy has won 158 games in seven seasons with the Owls. He's won 468 overall with 13 conference championships, three in the Atlantic 10, 10 in the Ivy League with Penn.
The Owls, by the way, are one of just eight teams to have appeared in the last six NCAA Tournaments. The others are Wisconsin, Michigan State, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Louisville and Marquette
"Fran Dunphy is a phenomenal coach and it starts with him," Crean said. "He's been a great coach for a very long time. They play in a highly respected league, a tough league, a league that's got a little bit of everything."
The Atlantic 10, by the way, included Butler and VCU this season.
"(Temple) is going to deal with pressure," Crean said. "They're going to deal with zones. They're going to deal with tempo.
"(Dunphy) takes these tough, athletic guys and gets them to really move the ball. They know what they want early in the shot clock. They know what they want late in the shot clock."
Temple was so focused on preparation that it missed last Sunday's NCAA tourney selection show because of a team meeting.
"That's a serious team," Crean said. "That's a team not to be taken lightly."
The same, of course, is true of Indiana.
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Thermodilution - Controlled Management of Volume Therapy in Septic Shock (THEMIS)
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Septic shock and multi-organ failure are among the most frequent causes of death in the ICU.
Patients with septic shock require early implementation of hemodynamic therapy to keep the duration of shock state and with it microcirculatory disturbances as short as possible. In the septic shock guidelines by the american association SCCM the diagnosis of volume status is based on filling pressures, like CVP. Some studies show, that the CVP depends not only on the intravascular volume, but also on the right ventricular compliance, pulmonary vascular resistance as well as intrathoracic pressure. The aim of the Study is to evaluate if the duration of septic shock can be reduced through algorithm driven volume therapy orientated to thermodilution based volume parameters (GEDI and ELWI)
|Septic Shock Volume Status
|Device: Picco- thermodilution catheter
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Mono-center Study Looking at the Effect of Thermodilution Controlled Therapy for Volume Optimization on the Duration of Septic Shock in Patients With Septic Shock
- Duration of septic shock [ Time Frame: 6 months ]septic shock is defined as sepsis with mean arterial pressure (MAP) <65mmHg or systolic arterial pressure (SAP) <90mmHg or the need for vasopressors to support the MAP >/= 65 mmHg or the SAP >/= 90 mmHg
- 28 day mortality [ Time Frame: max 28 Tage ]
- 90 and 180 days mortality [ Time Frame: max 180 days ]
- Intensive care mortality [ Time Frame: max 28 days ]
- Frequency of arterial hypoperfusion in the extremity of the thermodilution [ Time Frame: max. 28 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Thermodilution controlled volume management
Volume management based on parameters: GEDI, ELWI, CI
Device: Picco- thermodilution catheter
Transpulmonary thermodilution and pulse contour analysis with arterial catheter Arterial access via femoral
Active Comparator: Volume management based on surviving sepsis campaign
volume management based on surviving sepsis campaign guidelines: CVP, Urin output, MAP, ScvO2
Device: Picco- thermodilution catheter
Transpulmonary thermodilution and pulse contour analysis with arterial catheter Arterial access via femoral
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Informed consent from patient, authorized proxy, carer
- In women of child bearing age, effective contraceptive use with a known failure rate of <1 %
Clinical verification of infection (≥ 48 hours possible), with at least one criteria from a - d required:
- Proof of pathological microorganism in blood, sputum, urine or normally sterile body tissues
- Identifiable focus (e.g. purulent sputum or wound secretion, perforated gut)
- Identification of granulocytes in normally sterile tissue
- Clinical suspicion of infection without identification of pathogens or micro-organisms (e.g. new pulmonary infiltrates on chest x-ray, treated pneumonia, purpura fulminants, necrotizing fasciitis)
Confirmation of SIRS (≥ 48 hours possible), with at least 2 criteria from a-d required:
- Fever (≥38 °C) or Hypothermia (≤ 36 °C)
- Tachycardia (≥ 90/min)
- Tachypnoea (≥ 20/min) or Hyperventilation (PaCO2 ≤ 32 mmHg, ≤ 4,4 kPa) or mechanical ventilation
- Leukocytes (≥ 12,000/μl) or Leucopenia (≤ 4,000/μl) or ≥ 10% immature granulocytes
- Sepsis-induced HYPOTENSION despite adequate volume status (<24h):
Mean arterial pressure (MAP) < 65 mmHg (< 8,7 kPa) or systolic arterial pressure (SAP) < 90 mmHg (< 12 kPa) or the need for vasopressor (Norepinephrine <0.05µg/kg/min) to support the MAP ≥ 65 mmHg (≥ 8,7 kPa) or the SAP ≥ 90 mmHg ≥ 12 kPa), when one of these criteria has lasted for 4 hours or longer.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Therapy limited (DNR-Order)
- Patient moribund
- Pregnancy (positive pregnancy test in women of child bearing age)
- Breast feeding women
- Age < 18 years
- Patients active treatment for congestive heart failure with Ejection fraction < 30% and/or NYHA Class IV congestive heart failure
- Severe peripheral Arterial Vascular Occlusion Disease ≥ 2b after Fontaine
- Patients with Glasgow Coma Score ≤ 8 at the time of admission and prior to the administration of medications such as sedatives
- Patients with TNM stage 4 solid tumors, hematologic malignancies with high tumor burden, CNS tumors (WHO stage 4)
- Patients who are likely to die within days for diseases or conditions other than catecholamine-dependent shock
- Participation in another interventional clinical study within the last 30 days
- Particular relationship to senior investigator (e.g. staff, relative, colleague)
- Patients with severe liver dysfunction (Child C)
- Patients with septic shock within the last 60 days
- Patients receiving norepinephrine for longer than 48 hours
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01263977
|Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
|Berlin,, Berlin, Germany, 10117
|Study Director:
|Claudia D Spies, MD, Prof.
|Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, CCM and CVK, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael Sander, MD, Prof.
|Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, CCM and CVK, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
|Responsible Party:
|Claudia Spies, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine CVK/CCM, Charite University, Berlin, Germany, Charite University, Berlin, Germany
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01263977 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 20, 2010
|Last Updated:
|June 5, 2014
Keywords provided by Claudia Spies, Charite University, Berlin, Germany:
septic shock
goal directed volume therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Shock, Septic
Pathologic Processes
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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A QANTAS baggage handler is so proud to call Australia home that he has renovated his Bexley home to show his patriotism.
With an Australian flag flying proudly in the front yard, Chris Hazell's Federation home has a coat of arms set into the verandah, terracotta figurines of kookaburras in diggers' hats added to the roof, and images of kookaburras and rosellas in leadlight windows and on ceilings throughout.
"Australia is my passion, and I love making my house reflect that," Mr Hazell says.
"I'm descended from the First Fleeters and I'm very proud of our country.
''In the old days on Australia Day I used to fly two 17-foot-long flags to the front and back of the house too, but they always killed the flowers."
Mr Hazell, 54, is part of a marked trend to show home as where the heart is.
Heritage architect Paul Davies said that in earlier years, people were happy to strip their homes of Australian features and to modernise and start afresh.
But Mr Davies detects a change in the air. "Now that's moved back to wanting to preserve the past, which is indicative of an underlying sense of Australian patriotism and a nostalgia about the quality of craftsmanship that you might not see today," he says.
At the same time, the size of crowds attending antique fairs and exhibitions of Australian memorabilia is growing all the time, reports Jim Bertouch, president of The Australiana Society.
"People are now so much more interested in our history and our national identity in an aesthetic way, rather than seeing it as a potential investment," Dr Bertouch says.
"There are now so many people across the board restoring their homes back to their original finish and embellishing them with Australian features, which is fantastic."
Mr Hazell sees himself as merely reflecting an increasing sense of patriotism among Australians. "You see so many people flying flags on their cars these days," he says.
"I think we're becoming more Americanised in our patriotism, with young people embracing it now on Australia Day, and new migrants getting into it too.
''It is a great country that we like to pay our respects to."


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Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman review
Nippon Ichi Software is synonymous with long, arduous RPG's that require players to grind for many hours, but in turn offer fantastic gameplay. Z.H.P Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman is no exception, and is the perfect portable RPG that will devour many hours of game time, without you even noticing.
The wacky and insane story perfectly establishes the overall tone for the whole game. Darkdeath Evilman is about to destroy the world and the Unlosing Ranger is the only person who can stop him. Being late to the battlefield, his panic gets the best of him and he's hit by an oncoming car. As he's dying, he chooses the first bystander he sees to become the next Unlosing Ranger. Inexperienced and weak, your character doesn't stand a chance, dies, and awakens on Bizarro Earth where he begins his training. Your ultimate goal throughout the game is to level up, become strong, and ultimately save the world from Darkdeath Evilman. If you need more more proof of this game's total craziness, just watch this trailer.
Z.H.P. employs the Mystery Dungeon formula of exploring countless dungeons. Every move your character makes gives a turn to all the enemies on screen. This gives players time to think out movement strategies, change equipment, and use items without the fear of being rushed by random enemies. To discourage pointless wandering, a hunger meter will decrease, draining your health when it reaches zero. Combat consists of pressing the square button, or using a special and sometimes devastating attack depending on the weapon equipped.
After a certain amount of successful dungeon romps, you will frequently face off against Darkdeath, and will keep losing until you inevitably get super strong. The zany nature of the game continues when encountering Evilman numerous times, and the graphics engine continually gets better, starting with 8-bit and continuing to 16-bit and so on.
While not exploring, you are given a base that becomes quite expansive as you unlock different buildings and shops. A blacksmith will repair or forge weapons and armor, a scientist enhances your character's stats by using implants, and your nagging wife (who just happens to be a Prinny) demands money from you for living expenses that will grow your storage space.
The most peculiar parts about the game are both the leveling system and the armor system. Every time you enter a dungeon, you start back at level one. At the end of dungeons, the number of levels gained get pooled together as your overall level, which increase your characters stats. Though strange, it's a neat idea which ensures that every time you go through a dungeon, you will level up no matter what since you're always starting from square one.
Every weapon and piece of armor gradually breaks over time, and that time is very short. Unlike other games that challenge you to find a powerful weapon and stick with it, Z.H.P constantly drops new weapons and armor for you to mix things up. Since there is equipment for every part of your body, you can end up becoming half-robot with tank treads and armed with a drill, possibly a carrot tied to a stick as a hat. There are thousands of combinations, many of which are downright hilarious and break up the monotony of combat.
The armory also ties in to stat-boosting. The scientist can implant weapons into your body that will raise certain stats. Once those spaces are occupied, items called Booster Devices can be placed to enhance certain weapons, let you carry more items, or save some important items upon death. There is a give and take when it comes to implants. While armor and weapons increase stats, Booster Devices are then laid on top of those implants, rendering them ineffective, but granting you the bonus of the Booster.
Anyone familiar with NIS games knows what to expect when it comes to presentation. The characters look like they were ripped out of the Disgaea universe, and the voice over work is over the top and humorous, not to mention greatly appreciated, adding personality to each character you encounter.
Anyone itching for an insanely long grindfest on-the-go with an immense amount of customization should look no further than Z.H.P. The amount of content included for the modest asking price is unmatched for a PSP game. Get ready to keep saying, "Just one more dungeon," after already stating that 50 times before.


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Ukiah Daily Journal
A Boonville mother who admitted she allowed her 2-year-old son to swallow life-threatening amounts of alcohol and methamphetamine was warned and remanded to custody Wednesday morning in Mendocino County Superior Court.
Samantha Delvalle pleaded guilty in May to felony child abuse and endangerment. Judge Ann Moorman on July 9 suspended her potentially four-year state prison sentence, instead ordering her to spend 270 days in the Mendocino County Jail, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office.
Delvalle's probation terms included a provision that she surrender on July 15 to serve the time, but she missed the date and two days later filed paperwork with the court for a new surrender date, Judge John Behnke noted at Delvalle's Wednesday court appearance.
"This is someone on an extremely short leash," said prosecutor Beth Norman, who appeared for the District Attorney's Office. "If she forgets another probation term -- that's something you simply do not do."
The court had warned Delvalle at her July 9 sentencing that violating any of her probation terms could result in her spending up to four years in state prison, the District Attorney's Office stated previously.
After again warning her of the consequences of violating her probation terms, Behnke opted not to send Delvalle to prison and instead remanded her to the local sheriff's custody. A bailiff handcuffed her and took her to the inmate seating area to be removed later to jail.
Moorman had suspended the state prison sentence based on Delvalle's age and lack of a criminal record, according to the District Attorney's Office. Deputy District Attorney Shannon Cox had argued for prison time because the case was serious enough that the toddler could have died.
The child's grandmother picked him up from Delvalle's home May 7 and rushed him to Ukiah Valley Medical Center after she first noticed he was sick, then smelled alcohol in his vomit.
Deputies who responded to the hospital for the child abuse report went to Delvalle's home and found Delvalle and her cousin, Raymond Mabery, 21, apparently under the influence of a controlled substance, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office stated previously.
They also found alcoholic beverage containers and a methamphetamine pipe where the 2-year-old could reach them, according to the MCSO. Mabery, whose case is still moving through court, also faces felony child abuse and endangerment, along with charges of being under the influence and possessing drug paraphernalia.
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I knew from this site that the surgery is the only option of cure.
Hi to all;
First of all sorry for the delay. Today is one of those days when you feel something like what people call happiness.
In July my mother was the in first appointment with the surgeon after the surgery(october 2009) and six months of GEMZAR. That day she was told to take a blood test and a scanner for September. Today has been the day to know the results and they are correct.The new scan, blood test and surgeon appointmente will be in January without any additional treatament.She said doctor that sometimes she has stomach discomfort answering that "this is normal after this huge surgery"
After one year of surgey my mum
Hi Carlos and that is all just the most wonderful news. Congratulations to your Mother. I really don't believe the Doctor would hide anything as that would mean he is not letting you seek treatment that would be crucial to Mom's condition. It is what it is and enjoy this time. When Teddy was in remission he saw the Oncologist every 3 months so that sounds right. Enjoy!
Carlos...Indeed this is a happy moment. I am thrilled for you and your family. Enjoy.
Best wishes,
That's excellent news and I'm delighted your mom is leading a normal life, without the need for additional treatment.
Hi to all of you;
Today may mom had a new revision and she was told by the doctor that scanner was ok and the only thing was in the blood test.It seems that some transaminase levels are higth once again.
On the other hand mum
Hello Carlos, good to see you again! Glad to hear Mom is doing well. Another surgery would depend where the CC occurs and if the Surgeon feels it will be successful. I would guess they would start with Chemo again, but then we are not doctors. Mom is doing good, she is a survivor and I would take this and bank it and try to live your gifted lives without too much worry. The doctors seem to be watching her fine and for her to be doing this well, they must be doing all the right things. Good luck and best wishes to you and your Mom.
Thanks Lainy for your answer and support.
Kind regards from Spain;
Thanks for updating us, this is great news about the scan. I don't know a whole lot about the different scans but was it a PET scan or a CT scan? If it was a CT scan then maybe they could do a PET scan and see if something shows up there that explains the blood test? I agree with Lainy that your mother's good quality of life right now is a gift.
Hi Carlos,
It is good to hear from you again and also great to hear that your mum is doing well and feeling good, that is very good to hear. One thing I would say to you is to please try and not worry too much about what may or may not happen in the future. No ones knows for sure what the future holds for any of us so I would say to you to please try and enjoy the now and make the most of life right now. Your mums quality of life is good so enjoy this time together as a family.
My best wishes to you and your mum,
Thank you Patty and Gavin.
Patty, your Spanish is really good :-)
Un saludo para todos;
Hi to all of you;
Today may mom had a new revision(last one in January) and she was told by the doctor that CT scan was clear without any relevant information.
On the other hand mum
Hi Carlos and thanks for sharing this great news with us. Congratulations. I would not worry about the extended time for the next scan. Generally, when scans are clear the interval of time will be increased. And, unless your Mom is displaying some symptoms there is no need for her to visit with her doctor.
Life is good. Enjoy.
All my best wishes,
Hi Carlos, it is so good to see your smiling face again and even better to hear the great news about your Mother. It is an excellent sign that the doctor spaced the Scans further apart. That is the best news. Enjoy, enjoy and please keep us posted.
Hi Carlos,
It is good to hear from you again and also great to hear the good news that your mum is doing well, thanks for sharing that with us all. I know that sometimes it is hard not to worry about everything, but try and just relax and enjoy the good news that your mum is doing well.
My best wishes to you and your mum,
Marions, Lainy, Gavin and all of you thank you very much.
Regards from Basque Country;
Hi to all of you;
Today may mom had a new revision(last one in May) and she was told by the doctor that CT scan was ok.On the other hand mum
Did she have to take a bile thinner after her resection? My mom had to take one after her resection and I assumed it was standard procedure.
There is a post on natural bile thinners if you want to try that:
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … ?pid=32802
I did a search and some alternative/natural medicine websites have information on lemon juice and beets (remolacha? betabel?) as bile thinners, see:
http://www.processedfreeamerica.org/ind … ;Itemid=72
You would want to discuss this with her doctor before having her start trying these remedies.
Two years with clear scans and good quality of life is amazing, I think your mom is some kind of miracle, maybe there is something in the water in Euskal Herria, perhaps you can bottle it and ship it around the world!
Patty, PCL1029, eskerrik asko erantzuteagatik("thanks for your answers" in Basque).
What I don
She may still have what is called "biliary sludge," see:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/ … lekey=8573
I would ask the doctor why they think she needs to take it.
Hi Carlos and Hello to your Miracle Mom. While I don't know about thick bile, I just want to say that your Mom is truly a Miracle. 2 years is fantastic!!! I am not sure but perhaps gile itself does not show up on a CT Scan. Bravo that there is no Cancer!
Thanks to all of you.
I appreciate reading about you and your Mom. Thanks Carlos. Give my regards to you mom. It must feel wonderful to have the news of clear scans.
Dear Carlos,
I read your whole story. Your Mom is an incredible fighter. You are the son every mother would love to have. You are so concerned and caring . Your Mom is very lucky to have you. I'm glad to hear your Mom is still doing well after all this time. I hope she continues to stay strong. Best wishes to you both.
Hi Carlos....sorry for chiming in late. Like the others I am very much pleased to hear that your Mom is doing well and like you, I am puzzled by the comment of the "thick" bile. We have had a few members on this site that also used bile thinners. I remember our Rickkemp who had been given a prescription for URSO which is used to dissolve gallstones but, is used off-label also.
Please, keep us posted.
All my best wishes,
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OCALA, Fla. - Elementary school principals will now be able to paddle misbehaving students in Marion County.
The Marion County school board approved the measure Tuesday, three years after banning the practice.
Paddling can only be used in elementary schools if a parent gives a standing written approval once a year. In addition, the principal must receive verbal permission before paddling the child. And a student can be paddled just once a semester.
The paddling itself would have to have a witness in the office and would mean three hits below the belt, on the rear.
The newspaper reports that before the practice was banned in 2010, Marion County was one of the largest districts in the state that still used corporal punishment.
The motion to bring back paddling was made by board member Carol Ely, a retired principal who believes it is a good option for discipline.
"It's after we've had the student in the office for several other offenses and nothing seems to work," Ely said.
While talking to parents, Local 6 noticed those who were raised with corporal punishment were the ones in favor.
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text: Marshall snags DB from FSU recruit list By Doug Smock February 6, 2013 Story Share HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - So Doc Holliday's Marshall coaching staff was in a state of flux during the height of recruiting season. What effect would that have on the Thundering Herd's new signing class?Apparently, none. Check that - the effect just might have been positive.It showed as Holliday unveiled his fourth signing class Wednesday. A total of 29 players signed letters of intent, a combination of one mid-year junior college signing, nonqualifiers from last year, students already in class at MU, two Penn State transfers and the usual number of prep school and high school prospects.And there were some last-week steals and hard-fought retentions.In the day's surprise, Holliday and recruiting coordinator JuJuanSeider hauled defensive back Michael Johnson off Florida State's recruitment list. That wasn't reported until Wednesday morning by Warchant, an FSU-oriented website.In a swaying that was reported in south Florida earlier in the week, incoming assistant Alex Mirabal helped land offensive lineman Sandley Jean-Felix of Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Jean-Felix was one of the better commitments at new Conference USA rival Florida International, and was one of the most solid - until Mirabal and the rest of the FIU staff were fired.The Herd also flipped defensive back Tiquan Lang, a Georgia Class 6A first-team all-stater who was listed as a South Alabama commitment for four months. Among those thought to be signing with MU on Wednesday, only California junior college cornerback Lakeith Murray did not."I'm happy with the class. There weren't a whole lot of surprises," Holliday said. "There were a couple of guys we picked up today we weren't quite sure we were going to get. We were about plus-two on the day, which is unusual in this business."Holliday used his deep recruiting roots in Miami to land Johnson, who helped Booker T. Washington High win the Florida Class 4A championship. That school's only loss was to 6A Miami Central, the former home of MU's pass-catch combo of Rakeem Cato and Tommy Shuler."We have great contacts at Booker T.," Holliday said. "[Head coach Tim] 'Ice' Harris is a personal friend, [assistant coach] Ben Hanks I recruited out of high school is down there. We have a lot of friends in that school, and I recruited Michael's dad way back, when he was at Miami High, so I had a relationship with his dad."[Johnson is] a tremendous young guy who wants an opportunity to play early, and kids do things for different reasons. We were fortunate we hung in there with him, he visited and he liked it and he ended up signing with us. That was a good get."Jean-Felix was in an odd situation in Broward County, but one that will become more common. His parents are Haitian, and they don't speak English, or Spanish for that matter. Mirabal brought him to his high school camp for three years and secured his commitment at FIU, but swaying him to come northward provided another challenge. "What we had to do in this case is find somebody who spoke Creole," Holliday said. "We found somebody at the [high] school there who spoke Creole, and we did the whole appointment. Alex was sitting there, somebody spoke Creole and we got it done. If there's a will, there's a way."I wasn't smart enough to figure Creole out, so we had to find an interpreter."Mirabal was Holliday's last new coaching hire - in fact, it still has not been formally announced. Chuck Heater, the new defensive coordinator, helped bring the Herd in on Lang. And while the coaching staff shuffled, Seider, Gerad Parker, Bill Legg and J.C. Price did some very heavy lifting. Price is credited for getting former Maryland signee Stefan Houston out of Fork Union Military Academy, among others, and Hartley's name is all over the school's recruiting press release.Holliday singled out one special effort."Todd Hartley had a kid from Georgia [offensive lineman Michael Selby] who was offered by Georgia Tech three days ago and told Chan Gailey, 'No, he's going to Marshall.' So that was all because of that relationship with Todd Hartley. He had his arms wrapped around everyone in that family that helped make that decision, and we were able to hang on. "I can't give those guys enough credit - those five guys who were here and did the bulk of the recruiting."nnWith a 2012 senior class you could stuff in those Volkswagen Beetles of days gone by, a class of 15-20 was expected this signing period. And that's what the Herd got, sort of.There were 17 newcomers who signed Wednesday, but the total class numbers an oversigned 29. You can add punter Tyler Williams, a walk-on who more than earned his scholarship beginning this spring, for No. 30. Nonqualifiers and those that opt for prep school or junior college likely will get that down to the NCAA maximum 25.So where did all these guys come from?One, Taj Letman, was a midyear junior-college signee. Arnold Blackmon signed in December as well, but he did not enroll at MU and had to sign another letter of intent.Two are wide receivers transferred from Penn State, Shawney Kersey and Devon "Moo Moo" Smith. Smith had been on campus last fall but took a redshirt year, and Kersey has enrolled as a graduate student. Both have one year of eligibility remaining.Four are nonqualifiers from Marshall's 2012 class - linebacker Ken Turene, offensive lineman Tyler Combs, defensive end/linebacker Gary Thompson and cornerback Corey Tindal. Another is a 2012 Clemson signee, defensive lineman Josh Brown. Another 2012 nonqualifier, Larry Jefferson, has been dismissed for violating team rules.Twelve are enrolled in MU's spring semester, including Houston and Angelo Jean-Louis from Fork Union, Deontay McManus from Atlanta Sports Academy and one honest-to-God early high school graduate, quarterback Kevin Anderson. nnHolliday thinks all pressing needs have been met, including:Wide receivers, with voids left by the departures of Aaron Dobson, Antavious Wilson and Andre Snipes-Booker.Pick your poison: There is size (6-foot-2, 215-pound Deontay McManus), speed and veteran presence (the Penn State transfers).Linebackers: There are five or six, depending on how you designate Thompson.Pass rushers: Thompson, designated as a defensive end/linebacker, seems to be the next Albert McClellan/Vinny Curry prototype, or at least that's the plan.Offensive linemen: Five more of those will keep that position room full. Cater that group at your own risk.Coaches don't necessarily like to see one of those play immediately, but there are some who are physically closer than most freshmen. Jean-Felix comes to Holliday's immediate mind."The Sandley kid, he's a man now," Holliday said. "He's about as athletic, big kid as I've ever been around. He's got the biggest hands I've ever seen in my life."Quarterback: It doesn't seem to be a need, except that the Herd carried three scholarship QBs last season. Look to the 2010 season for a testimonial on how daring that is."You make a mistake if you don't take one in every class," Holliday said.Anderson, who developed under 1996 Herd passer Eric Kresser, is fully recovered from a broken collarbone and is throwing. He'll jump into the QB position with junior Cato, sophomore Blake Frohnapfel and redshirt freshman Gunnar Holcombe.nnAnd finally, Marshall can claim a so-called recruiting championship. The recruiting-oriented websites love to tally all the stars, put their mathematical spin and rank all the schools, overall and by conference.Overall, there is a wide variation - 48th by 247 Sports, 63rd by Rivals and 78th by Scout. But the Herd sits at or near the top of Conference USA in all the rankings - 247 even has the Herd ahead of the old, supposedly stronger, lineup."I don't know what it means," Holliday said. "Evidently, it means you're recruiting who people think are pretty good players. I mean, I'd rather be No. 1 than No. 10."Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130 or firstname.lastname@example.com or fol low him at twitter.com/dougsmock. 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This Low-Carb Southwestern Pot Roast in the Slow Cooker uses canned beef broth and salsa to add southwestern flavor to pot roast that gets tender and flavorful from the slow cooker. I've made this pot roast for years and recently I realized this recipe really needed new photos, so I made it recently to take some better pictures of this tasty pot roast!
This is one of my easy Five Ingredients Recipes, but please don't skip the preparation steps of browning the roast and reducing the beef broth on the stove before you add it to the slow cooker, because both those steps add a lot of flavor. You can do that the night before if you'd like, and then put the browned meat, broth, and salsa in the slow cooker to cook all day on low while you're at work.
I always use boneless chuck roast for pot roast, and trim as much fat as possible before browning the meat. When the roast is done, I use a fat separator to remove fat from the sauce or gravy if needed. If you haven't made pot roast, you can see some pot roast techniques in the recipe for Balsamic and Onion Pot Roast where I share How to Make Pot Roast in a Crockpot. If you don't have a crockpot, this could be cooked on top of the stove in a heavy dutch oven, just keep the temperature as low as possible, and add a little more liquid if needed.
Low-Carb Southwestern Pot Roast in the Slow Cooker
(Makes about 4-6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
I used my 6-Quart Ninja Cooker Slow Cooker, but it could have been smaller.
3 lb. boneless chuck roast, trimmed of visible fat (I started with a roast that was nearly 4 pounds before I trimmed it)
1 can (14 oz.) reduced sodium beef broth
1 cup + 1/4 cup your favorite salsa (I used Pace Picante Sauce - mild.)
steak rub or your favorite seasoning for steak to rub on meat before browning (I like Szeged Steak Rub Seasoning)
1-2 tsp. olive oil for browning meat
While beef broth is reducing, trim all visible fat from chuck roast. You may need to cut the roast into several pieces to remove big pockets of fat. Rub pot roast on all side with steak rub (or your favorite seasonings for steak.) Heat olive oil in heavy frying pan (pans that aren't nonstick will give the best browning.) Brown roast well on all sides. Don't rush this step because browning provides flavor, and I think it's especially important in crockpot cooking.
When roast is browned on all sides, put pieces of meat in crockpot, arranging them in a single layer. Pour reduced beef broth into frying pan and use a turner to scrape off any caramelized bits from the browned meat. Add salsa and stir into broth, then pour salsa/beef broth mixture over pot roast.
Cook on high for one hour, then turn to low and cook 3-4 more hours, or until meat is very tender when pierced with a fork. (You could also cook for a longer time on low setting. If you don't have a slow cooker, cook in a heavy dutch oven on stovetop at lowest setting for 2-3 hours.)
Remove meat from crockpot and pour sauce into small saucepan. (If there is a lot of fat on top of the sauce, spoon it off or use a fat separator to remove the fat. You may not need to do this if you did a good job trimming.) Put meat back into crockpot to keep warm, then add final 1/4 cup salsa to the sauce and simmer until reduced to about 1 cup.
To serve, slice meat across the grain or cut into pieces and serve hot, with sauce spooned over the top. I also think this meat would be great served as a filling for tacos, burritos, or quesadillas made with low-carb tortillas.
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PITTSBURGH -- Pedro Alvarez was back with the Pirates on Friday, and he spent time on the other side of the diamond.
Alvarez was activated from the bereavement list prior to the Pirates' series opener against the Padres, and the error-ridden third baseman took grounders at first base after fielding some at his usual post during batting practice. Reliever Ernesto Frieri was designated for assignment to make room on the roster.
Alvarez leads the Majors with 24 errors this season -- all but one of which has been because of his arm. The throwing problems have worsened for Alvarez as the season has progressed, and he's committed six errors in his last 11 starts.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was asked about the possibility of Alvarez switching positions earlier in the week, but deflected the question.
Alvarez has seen his playing time decrease due to the problem, as he started just once in the final three games before going on the bereavement list. And in that one start, Alvarez made two poor throws -- one went for an error -- and he was pulled in the sixth inning.
Currently, the Pirates have a platoon of left-handed hitting Ike Davis and righty Gaby Sanchez splitting time at first. Alvarez, who hits left-handed, has a slash line of .246/.336/.432 against righties this season, while Davis' numbers are .254/.368/.398.
Meanwhile, Frieri, who was the recipient of a late June trade with the Angels for Jason Grilli, never found his footing with the Pirates. In 14 games, the right-hander had a 10.13 ERA and 1.781 WHIP.
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The vision of the satellite-based, data-centric, network-enabled transformation of the ATC system known as the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) has entered mainstream discourse in the U.S., but so too has the realization of its formidable cost.
The July 4 issue of The Washington Post led with the headline, "Modernization of air traffic control may be delayed," bringing into public focus what the airlines and other airspace users have been sweating now for years: NextGen will cost upward of $42 billion by 2025, with government shouldering half of that amount for infrastructure and airspace users paying the remainder for equipment and training.
Private Sector Involvement
That imposing bill and the increasing likelihood that a federal government $14 trillion in debt can't be counted on for major subsidies have given rise to novel funding proposals, including a provision for "NextGen Public-Private Partnerships" contained in FAA reauthorization legislation the House of Representatives passed in April. One such "PPP," the NextGen Equipage Fund, pledges to "bring substantial private-sector capital to overcome the investment barriers."
Reauthorization language in the Senate bill directs the FAA Administrator to provide a financing proposal "that uses innovative methods" to fund NextGen and "takes into consideration opportunities for involvement by public-private partnerships." The Senate bill also proposes a State ADS-B Equipage Bank pilot program, modeled after a program in Colorado that deployed wide area multilateration (Wam) to support airports in mountainous terrain with radar gaps.
The long-delayed FAA reauthorization bill was still pending before Congress, with a 20th extension due to expire July 22.
Separate from legislation, the FAA has specified a "Data Communications Avionics Equipage Initiative" in a request for offers for the Data Communications Integrated Services acquisition, posted July 8. The "FAA's goal is to induce into operation the greatest number of Data Comm-compatible equipped aircraft for the funding provided for this initiative," expected to be $80 million, the solicitation states. The winning contractor will administer the program based on certain aircraft requirements. No more than 10 percent of the funding may be used to equip Part 135 commuter and on-demand aircraft, with the balance used for carriers operating under Part 121, according to FAA.
Former FAA acting administrator Bobby Sturgell, now Rockwell Collins senior vice president of Washington operations, said examples of public-private partnerships involving the FAA already exist, such as contract ATC towers and automated flight service stations. That approach is even more widespread in surface transportation, he said.
"Successful implementation of NextGen does not require public-private financing because certainly the FAA could go the mandate path and eventually get there that way," Sturgell told AIN. "But if we're talking about accelerating the benefits and capabilities so we can all start benefitting much earlier, I think you have to have some kind of public-private partnership or financing mechanism to support that."
The federal government's fiscal predicament "opens the door even further to public-private partnership types of funding and more creative financing," Sturgell said. "I think there's a big opportunity here for people to start thinking out of the box and to do things a little differently."
Operators Reluctant To Equip
Although there is consensus about its ultimate benefits, NextGen faces a cost conundrum. Airlines emerging from years of recession and coping now with high fuel prices are reluctant to invest in the necessary suite of airborne equipment–costing an estimated $150,000 to $1 million per aircraft–without proof of a timely return on investment in the form of fuel savings and operational efficiencies made available by the FAA. Some contend government should pay for the equipment. "We have an ATC system today that is largely ground based. All we're doing when we're talking about NextGen is we're taking a known technology, GPS technology, and moving part of the equipment in the air and part of the equipment will be on the ground," said Will Ris, senior vice president of government affairs for American Airlines, speaking at the FAA Forecast Conference earlier this year. "It is our view that that ATC system should continue to be financed and supported by the federal government because that's, after all, where all the ticket taxes are going."
The FAA is advancing on one major pillar of NextGen. The agency awarded a contract to ITT in August 2007 to deploy the ground infrastructure for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) nationwide by 2013, and last year mandated that aircraft operators equip for ADS-B out position reporting by 2020. A rulemaking on ADS-B in equipage–the ability to display air traffic in the cockpit–is in the works, with initial recommendations of an Aviation Rulemaking Committee due this fall. The FAA's investment in ADS-B and other infrastructure will languish, however, until a "tipping point" is reached of properly equipped aircraft that can benefit from NextGen system efficiencies.
The NextGen Equipage Fund aims to kick-start NextGen by assisting airlines in acquiring some of the necessary equipment. The fund would leverage $1.5 billion raised through commercial borrowing and private equity to finance new avionics for an estimated 75 percent of the U.S. airline fleet. It also reportedly is seeking $150 million in federal loan guarantees.
In the works since about 2009, the fund was revealed at an RTCA conference last fall by Steve Loranger, ITT chairman, president and CEO. While "other aerospace companies" are referenced in background material, ITT to date is the only named strategic investor of the fund, which is managed by Nexa Capital Partners, of Washington, D.C. Principals of ITT and Nexa Capital provided an overview of the fund at the Paris Air Show in June.
Russell Chew, managing partner with Nexa Capital Partners and a general partner of the NextGen fund, said the fund would procure "a basic NextGen suite of avionics," enabling functions such as ADS-B and data communications, which airlines would lease. They would make payments on the equipment based on the FAA's achieving agreed milestones for supporting infrastructure. In turn, the FAA would be bound by performance guarantees "in a contractual way."
Participating airlines would realize a return on their investment sooner as a result of airspace system efficiencies such as preferred routings delivered by the FAA on the principle of "best equipped, best served," closing the equipage "business case" that confronts NextGen. "The NextGen Equipage Fund was founded to bring real money to bear on the problem," Chew said. "It will allow airlines to afford, in spite of their weakened balance sheets, the actual investment in avionics they need to put together to take advantage of this new system [which] requires that all airplanes be equipped with new avionics. So the airlines in their equipage decisions have become the gatekeepers of this function." The fund was negotiating "participation agreements" with several airlines, which he declined to identify.
While a loan guarantee from the government technically is not necessary, Chew said, "in a public/private partnership…the loan guarantee is a perfect place for government to say, given the right amount a risk, I could really kick start this by lowering the cost of capital."
Chew headed JetBlue Airways for two years as president and COO. Before that, he served as the first COO of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization, and before that as an executive with American Airlines.
In addition to Chew, the fund's other general partner is Michael Dyment, founder and managing partner of Nexa Capital Partners. Dyment, who served as principal advisor to ITT on the original $1.86 billion ADS-B contract award, formed the investment firm in October 2007. His biography lists senior positions with the aerospace and transportation practices of A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Anderson, and experience as a product manager for GPS programs with Canadian Marconi.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal mine safety inspectors did not conduct adequate reviews of coal-mining operations and failed to step up enforcement actions against mines that routinely violated the law, according to a series of internal audits made public late Friday.U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration managers did not properly supervise or train inspectors, and MSHA officials did not do enough to look critically at their own actions and improve agency performance, according to the audits.More than 50 audits examining MSHA field offices from Alabama to Utah detail a variety of troubling glimpses into an agency that's again come under increasing scrutiny following last April's explosion that killed 29 miners at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County.Auditors who visited MSHA's field office in Norton, Va., for example, found that inspectors often did not catch safety problems related to active conveyor belts. They also overlooked delays by a mine operator in keeping emergency-escape equipment properly placed as mining activities progressed underground.Reviewers who visited an MSHA office in Franklin, Tenn., concluded that agency officials there didn't perform "complete and thorough" inspections or force a mine operator to fix long-standing safety hazards.Also, at MSHA's field office in Harlan County, Ky., auditors discovered that spot inspections of especially dangerous mines were not performed on the legally required schedule. Inspectors in the office did not issue enforcement actions that matched the problems outlined in their own inspection notes, auditors found. "Evaluations of gravity, negligence, number of persons affected and the level of enforcement do not always appear consistent with inspection notes, the narrative portion of the citation, or MSHA policy," the January 2010 audit said.Audits of MSHA field offices in Morgantown, Pineville and Summersville found similar problems.MSHA released the audits under pressure from Republican members of Congress, following an early March report in The Charleston Gazette that revealed the previously secret findings of an audit summary provided to a U.S. Senate committee less than two weeks before the Upper Big Branch disaster. That audit summary, though, detailed only the results of 30 audit reports performed through Dec. 31, 2009. MSHA on Friday disclosed more than 20 other audits, including many that were not addressed in the earlier summary."I firmly believe that, like any responsible government agency, MSHA should continuously review its activities to improve its efficiency and performance," MSHA chief Joe Main said in a prepared statement."Conducting audits is not a new practice for MSHA -- they've been carried out for years," Main said, "but beyond that, it's important to do more than identify and correct specific issues. We take these findings seriously and are implementing new training, and revising policies and procedures to ensure that common problems that have been identified do not crop up again and again."The newly released audit findings, though, mirror conclusions of numerous MSHA internal reviews conducted after major mining disasters over the past 20 years, as well as repeated criticism from the Labor Department Inspector General and the U.S. Government Accountability Office.Also, MSHA's internal auditing and accountability programs had been harshly criticized several times by Labor Department's Inspector General as being inadequate. Then-MSHA chief Richard Stickler created the accountability office in June 2007, in response to scathing internal reviews about MSHA's performance prior to disasters the previous year at the Sago, Aracoma and Darby mines.However, MSHA did not regularly make public any of the audits by that office, and only provided Congress a report on its activities because lawmakers required the summary as part of an appropriations bill.In the audits released Friday, MSHA removed the names of mining companies and individual mines where agency inspection and enforcement activities were reviewed. MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere said that material was removed to protect the identity of agency inspectors and "because of open litigation."In a news release, MSHA said the audits identified instances of inadequate supervisory reviews of inspections, which agency officials blamed on "widespread attrition that resulted in many field office supervisors having five or fewer years with the agency."MSHA has developed and conducted a training program specifically tailored to provide supervisors with the essential tools to successfully carry out their functions," the news release said. "By the end of April, all metal and nonmetal supervisors will have completed this training. Supervisory training for coal mine safety and health supervisors will be scheduled during the next six months."Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. 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I'm just starting to play the game and have many areas to improve. My question is on drives and mid range throws, is there any advantage/disadvantage to throwing backhand vs. sidearm? I simply have not had any success throwing backhand (no distance, no accuracy - it's just plain ugly) but when I throw sidearm I get a much better, somewhat consistent throw.
Since the sidearm motion it feels better and gives me better results, I'm refining and drilling with this motion. The only time I use a backhand motion is when I'm putting - and it's more of a push motion than a backhand.
I don't want to have to relearn my throwing technique later down the road, are there other players who use these same techniques? Would it be better for me to learn, no matter how painful it may be, a backhand throw?


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After a stellar week, Jennifer Jones and her foursome faced Sherry Middaugh in the women's final of the Roar of the Rings Olympic curling trials. Much to the delight of fans at the MTS Centre, the Jones rink won 8-4, and will represent Canada at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in February 2014.


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"The world is afire." That sentence would fit perfectly to your tatoo.
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Very few new e-book editions warrant their own press releases. But just one novel about the end of printed books has sold 10 million copies in print alone.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is now officially available as an e-book. Simon & Schuster are publishing both the hardcover and digital editions in the United States for a deal reportedly worth millions of dollars, according to the Associated Press.
Bradbury has been vocal about his dislike for e-books and the internet, calling it "a big distraction." In order to get him to relent, the publisher had to both pay a premium price and play a little hardball.
Bradbury's agent Michael Congdon told the AP that renewing the book's hardcover rights, whether with Simon & Schuster or any other publisher, had to include digital rights as well.
"We explained the situation to [Bradbury] that a new contract wouldn't be possible without e-book rights," said Congdon. "He understood and gave us the right to go ahead."
Unfortunately for hard-core Bradbury fans, according to Simon & Schuster's press release [PDF], only Fahrenheit 451 is currently being released as an e-book. The deal includes the mass-market rights to The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, but not their digital rights.
Like the Harry Potter books before them, samizdat digital copies of Bradbury's books edited by fans have been floating around for years. (I don't know anyone who's actually memorized Fahrenheit, like the novel's "Book People" do with banned books.)
Bradbury is far from the last digital holdout. Another K-12 classic, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, is only available in print. None of Thomas Pynchon's novels are available as e-books, although Pynchon has been characteristically quiet on the subject. Nor are any English translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and only a few of Marquez's story collections and none of his classic novels are even available in Spanish. Early editions of James Joyce's books are in the public domain, but Finnegans Wake, whose rights are tightly controlled by Joyce's grandson, is not.
Most of the gaps in the digital catalog, however, don't stem from individual authors or rightsholders holding out like Bradbury. They're structural; whole presses whose catalogs haven't been digitized, whose rights aren't extended to certain countries, or whose contracts didn't anticipate some of the newer innovations in e-reading, such as book lending, whether from a retailer, another user, or a public library.
In light of Bradbury's lifelong advocacy for libraries, I asked Simon & Schuster whether Fahrenheit 451 would be made available for digital lending; their representatives did not respond. [Update: Simon & Schuster's Emer Flounders says the publisher plans to make Fahrenheit 451 available as an e-book to libraries in the first half of 2012.]
In a 2009 interview, Bradbury says he rebuffed an offer from Yahoo to publish a book or story on the internet. "You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.'"
In a video on his home page, Bradbury argues that Fahrenheit 451 isn't primarily about censorship of books by the government, but their displacement and destruction by television.
"Fahrenheit's not about censorship," Bradbury says. "It's about the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news, the proliferation of giant screens and the bombardment of factoids.
"We've moved in to this period of history that I described in Fahrenheit 50 years ago," he adds. I doubt Mr. Bradbury loves YouTube.
In another video, he's more charitable toward the possibilities of the internet, mentioning its value for secondhand and antiquarian booksellers, while still skeptical about its potential for new books.
"I find it amusing that I'm on the internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of 'what are you going to do with it?'" he says. "I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys" — especially the toy-obsessed men who dominate the internet, he adds.
"All I want to do is warn people; that's all," he says. "We can use it as a good tool; we can use it for information." After all, to avoid the dystopic future of Fahrenheit 451, we need something to push back against the banality of most of our culture.
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One of biggest challenges is making the high end computing experience more affordable and if you ask us, ASUS just did that. During the NVIDIA press conference, Jerry Shen, CEO of ASUSTeK Computer announced a new quinqe-core Tegra 3 tablet running Android 4.0 ICS for the lowly price of just $249.
This amazingly low price will get you a 7.0" screen with relatively high resolution, 1GB of DDR2LP memory and yet unannounced amount of storage. Somehow, we expect to see 4GB as the nor or a maximum of 8GB plus the optional MicroSD storage.
Still, this is an exceptional value for a product that uses fixed-frame rate of 60 frames per second to ensure smoothest user interface known to the users of Android platform.


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Patrick Spenner at the Marketing Leadership Council presented a great variation on the Pareto Principle (also called the 80/20 rule) when it comes to trying new marketing tactics: (Beat the Social Media Investment Catch-22, November 9, 2009)
Spenner suggests any marketing plan should be follow the 70-20-10 spending rule: Roughly 70% of your marketing budget should be on the "tried and true" marketing channels — areas that you know absolutely have succeeded in the past.
The other 10% should be on experimental or new channels "for which there is no in-year expectation of ROI." In other words, don't expect to see an ROI within the fiscal year. Look for growth and results, but don't expect things to pay for themselves.
The middle 20%, says Spenner, is for the most successful of last year's 10%. "These touchpoints are incubating — we should manage them to develop benchmarks for success," wrote Spenner. "These touchpoints eventually move over into the 70% as the organization accepts them.
Where could you find some new traffic? It may not always be on social media (said the social media company). It may be something new like trade shows and non-industry conferences. It may be a new website. Or email newsletters. Or a strategy of participating in discussion forums. Or telemarketing. And it just may very well be Twitter and blogging. The point is that you look at at least one new strategy and give it a year to see what happens.
Take some of the money you've been spending on newspaper and radio advertising, and try a new social media campaign. Pepsi Cola just did it, forgoing the multi-million Super Bowl ad buy, and putting $20 million into a social media campaign instead. Toys 'R' Us saw some explosive growth on their Facebook fan page. And even the Cincinnati Bengals have joined the Twitterverse and have over 15,000 followers.
Finding new marketing channels is important. Media consumption by your customers is always changing, and they're going to places you didn't have in your 70% bucket a few years ago, or even last year. Two years ago, I thought Twitter was the stupidest thing ever. Today, as much as one-third of my personal blog's traffic comes from Twitter, but the largest portion comes from StumbleUpon.
So what's your new 10%? What are some new channels you could explore for 2010?


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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has changed the rules and as of April 25 will allow small blades and sports implements such as golf clubs and lacrosse sticks to be carried on board by airline passengers. The rules would allow passengers to carry knives with blades shorter than 2.36 inches and narrower than half an inch, as long as they don't have lockable blades. The existing rules prohibit most sharp objects, with the exception of scissors that are four or fewer inches in length, and also sports equipment. The TSA wants the rule change to harmonize U.S. security practices with those of other countries, which would make security screening more efficient. I'm not so sure about that.
Here is the TSA's official language: "This is part of an overall risk-based security approach, which allows transportation security officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher-threat items such as explosives. This decision aligns the TSA more closely with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards."
The TSA's move has generated spasms from incredulous critics wondering if the agency has lost its mind, including the Flight Attendants Union Coalition and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). According to Markey, in a statement sent to the media, "The attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated that in the confined environment of an airplane, even a small blade in the hands of a terrorist can lead to disaster."
According to Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants international v-p and a United Airlines flight attendant, "The Association of Flight Attendants has been a key advocate for aviation security and a strong proponent of a risk-based approach to airport screening. That's why we strongly oppose the TSA rule change that threatens to allow knives on the aircraft."
There is a pragmatic reason why this rule change is not going to make travel more efficient, and it has nothing to do with harmonizing security practices with other ICAO-member countries. The rule change attempts to precisely define something that is going to cause TSA Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) countless headaches. Instead of just telling people—simply—don't bring knives, now thousands of passengers are going to be testing TSOs' patience by trying to carry knives and seeing which ones are acceptable and which ones are rejected. This is going to cause many additional hours of digging through carry-on bags, opening and measuring blades, checking for blade-locking mechanisms and lots of TSA head-scratching. This is supposed to speed up the security lines? I don't think so.
And the line about aligning more closely with ICAO standards? That doesn't make any sense. If the U.S. security apparatus wants to align with ICAO standards, then, as one clever commenter put it on the TSA's blog site: "…then why are we still removing shoes and submitting to electronic strip searches?" Neither of these practices is ICAO-standard.
But let's put aside all the rhetoric for a moment. Sara Nelson says that the flight attendants are strong proponents of risk-based approaches to airport screening. And the TSA says that this rule change is part of a risk-based approach to security. Who is right?
If indeed the TSA has done a rigorous study—this I doubt—of the risks, then maybe this rule change makes sense. But the flight attendants worry that more knives on board will add risk.
The TSA is somewhat right, in judging that allowing passengers to carry more previously prohibited items won't add much risk, but the TSA is wrong that this will make screening more efficient.
While the flight attendants' position is understandable—after all, they are the heroic front line in dealing with passengers—Rep. Ed Markey is simply wrong, period. He says that the 9/11 attacks "demonstrated that in the confined environment of an airplane, even a small blade in the hands of a terrorist can lead to disaster." This is such an obviously illogical statement. A determined terrorist in the confined environment of an airplane is the problem, not the stuff that people carry on board. Does Markey seriously think that the 9/11 attacks couldn't have been carried out had the terrorists' box cutters been confiscated? Would it not be possible to stab someone in, say, the neck with a metal ballpoint pen? Or hit them over the head with a laptop computer? Strangle them, break their necks?
I see so many "dangerous" implements on so many flights—metal forks and knives with my meal!—that it boggles my mind to think that anyone supposes that we're safe just because we can't carry a Swiss Army knife on an airplane. I, for one, would feel far safer if I could carry a knife, just in case. Because I know the truth of the matter: if there is an attack, I and other passengers and flight attendants will be called on to do something. And I'd prefer to have a weapon, even a 2.36-inch long pocket knife or, better yet, a golf club, preferably a metal-shafted 7-iron, because for darn sure I am not going to sit still while some crazy fanatic tries to hijack and or blow up our airplane.
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April 2, 2013 - 4:27pm
TSA performs a great public service by hiring people who would otherwise be on the street as they are at the bottom of the intelligence gene pool. By allowing some knives, it appears that the DNA deficiency of the workers has mutated into TSA management as well.
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April 2, 2013 - 5:17pm
Rep. Markey is an idiot! This issue has been overblown way out of proportion. What about the silverware in the first class cabins? For once the TSA does something logical and gets criticized for it. Someone must have too much time on their hands!
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April 2, 2013 - 5:18pm
Rep. Markey is an idiot! This issue has been overblown way out of proportion. What about the silverware in the first class cabins? For once the TSA does something logical and gets criticized for it. Someone must have too much time on their hands!


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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- In the wake of Sony's announcement of its Playstation Now game streaming service at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, this has to be the end of retro gaming as we know it, right?
No more sales for strictly-retro vendors such as Englewood, Colo.'s JJ Games. No more classic video game tournaments at Laconia, N.H.'s gaming mecca Funspot. No more cartridge swapping and tables full of bygone consoles at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Now that Sony's shown the way forward, all of those fading cabinets, oxidizing cartridges and scratched discs aren't necessary for enjoying vintage games anymore, right?
Not even a little. In theory, Playstation Now would take just about all of Sony's contributions to home gaming out of the equation by making games for the Playstation 1, 2, 3 and, eventually, 4 available via streaming through Sony's Playstation Vita handheld, televisions, tablets and smartphones. Sony's presentation alone was enough to make used-game retailer GameStop's share price plummet by 8.5%. While it's still a worrisome prospect for GameStop, which took in $2.4 billion in sales from used games alone last year, even that retailer doesn't seem too fazed. In fact, this was its immediate response to Sony's plan:
We are looking forward to working with them on including the new PlayStation Now service as part of our portfolio of gaming products we offer our customers.
That's largely because the Playstation Now is still only a theoretical threat to GameStop and just about every other video game medium. In cold, unflinching reality, Playstation Now is just a cool idea that Sony's recent purchase of streaming company Gaikai makes possible, but hasn't made workable. As the folks at Ars Technica pointed out, Sony needed to drag a server to Las Vegas just to make its presentation work. Even at that, there were a whole lot of issues with latency -- the delay between a gamer pressing a button and that action actually occurring onscreen -- for those who were able to try Playstation Now firsthand.
Folks who own a PlayStation 4 or a Nintendo Wii U and have tried taking a Vita or a screen-enabled controller for a spin around the house may have run into similar issues, as that's basically local game streaming through your router. While services such as OnLive have tried streaming games, it's been a tough slog at best.