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Under the warm August sun, the wiry, lushly bearded farmer moves at a slow walk through the field, swinging his scythe in a steady rhythm, the tawny stalks of wheat falling to one side in neat rows. From time to time he pauses to hone his curved steel blade on the stone he keeps in a belt pouch. He is followed by three or four young women, who gather the felled stalks by the armload, picking out the stems of mayweed and ragweed, tying the wheat into sheaves, and standing up the sheaves into shocks that will dry and ripen in the sun until they in turn are assembled into circular head-high ricks that will resist the autumn rains until the time to bring the harvest indoors for threshing.
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Civilization began like this, as acknowledged in Genesis with the Lord's decree that "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," and thus it was until the invention of the mechanical harvester and the combine. Then a vast monoculture of wheat spread across much of the land, abetted by railroads and chain supermarkets, bequeathing unto the nation bread untouched by human hands from the moment the seed goes into the ground until the loaf is unwrapped and the slice anointed with peanut butter. That the scythe-wielding farmer is seeking to reverse 150 years of industrial history is an act of, at the very least, hubris. That he is attempting to do it in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains on an acre of heavy, cold soil containing a limitless supply of stones to menace his blade seems to border on madness.
But there's something about wheat. It speaks to the American soul like no other crop, even much more valuable ones, which is most of them. Find a penny from before 1959, and what you see on the reverse are two iconic stems of wheat, not a bunch of arugula. "Man does not live by salad alone," says the Berkshire farmer, Tevis Robertson-Goldberg of Chesterfield, Massachusetts. "He needs croutons, too." In growing grain where it has not been grown in living memory, Robertson-Goldberg is pushing the boundaries of locavorism, the national movement that obsessively tracks the miles covered in every calorie's journey from earth to mouth, combining elements of environmentalism, survivalism, nutritional fanaticism, common sense and food snobbery.
As recently as 2005, when the writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon tried to live for a year exclusively on food grown near their home in Vancouver, flour was among the most elusive staples; in their book, Plenty, they describe the tedium of separating mouse droppings from the grain in the only sack of wheat they could find within 100 miles. They would not have that problem today; farmers in the lush Skagit Valley north of Seattle, whose leading products are potatoes, tulips and vegetable seed, have begun adding wheat to their crop rotations for what one of them, Dave Hedlin, calls "fun, and occasional profit."
Like many farmers, Robertson-Goldberg planted wheat as a cover crop, something to keep down the weeds on a field being rested from the more demanding work of growing the broccoli, berries, rutabaga and other vegetables he supplies to farmers markets and to families who pay a flat sum for a share of his production, an arrangement called community-supported agriculture (CSA). But standing tall in the late-summer sun, the wheat looked so beautiful he couldn't bear to plow it under.
His only real qualification to raise wheat was knowing how to scythe, a skill he'd picked up during a year at a "living history" farm in New Jersey. (Scything, he says, "is harder and less dangerous than it looks." The other way to harvest wheat, if you don't happen to own a combine, is with a sickle, a curved blade attached to a short handle, and wielding one of those is easier and more dangerous than it looks.) He didn't even have wheat seed, at least not of the heirloom varieties he was interested in growing. One of those varieties is Arcadian, which was grown in New York State as recently as the 1920s; it had gone so thoroughly out of fashion that when officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture sought it for their seed bank in 1991, they had to get it from Russia. (And even that, he says, may not be identical to the New York strain.) The seed bank provides only five grams to a customer, or about 100 seeds. These, after one growing season, yielded Robertson-Goldberg a pound of seed, which turned into ten pounds the following year, at which point he was ready to have a crop. And he would have harvested one, too, if a hurricane hadn't hit the Northeast this past fall.
Even home gardeners are planting wheat, in backyards measured in square feet rather than in acres. They are harvesting it by hand, threshing it by flailing chains inside plastic buckets, separating the chaff from the berries (or kernels) with vacuum cleaners and then grinding it themselves on hand-cranked mills. This is an impulse entirely separate from the desire to grow, say, tomatoes, which are obviously better and cheaper from a garden than a supermarket. As an economic proposition, raising wheat to save money on flour makes about as much sense as raising children to help with the dishes. In either case, the decision is an emotional one. Home-grown wheat springs from the soil of American self-reliance and independence, fertilized with a pinch of apocalyptic fervor. Jack Jenkins, a genial tinkerer who sells hand-cranked tabletop mills by mail order out of Stanwood, Washington, cites a customer who connected two of his machines in tandem to a stationary bicycle and in a year "processed enough flour to bake 1,456 loaves of bread. She trained for a marathon that way!" Jenkins praises the taste and nutritional value of freshly ground whole-wheat flour, but also notes, pointedly, that unmilled wheat can potentially keep for decades, a useful quality if you're stocking up in advance of social and economic collapse. (Flour has a definite shelf life, which can be extended by refrigeration, Jenkins notes—"if you're sure you're going to have electricity.")
The unlikely ground zero for the nouveau-wheat movement is Skowhegan, Maine, in a region that was, long ago, one of the breadbaskets of America. It was here in 2007 that the annual Kneading Conference was born, a celebration of bread bringing together small farmers, artisanal bakers and practitioners of the obscure art of building outdoor wood-fired brick ovens. The missing link in re-establishing the area's self-sufficiency in bread was a mill, so two of the conference organizers, Amber Lambke and Michael Scholz, constructed one in a vacant building that had been the city's jail. This year, the Kneading Conference spun off a West Coast satellite event, held in September at the Washington State University (WSU) research center in Mount Vernon and organized by its director, a WSU plant geneticist and plant breeder named Stephen Jones. "Farmers here need wheat in their rotation, but they lose money growing it," Jones told an appreciative crowd at the conference. "They just want to lose a little less money."
Tom Hunton, a farmer in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon, where a leading crop is grass seed, said he became restless growing "things you can't eat." He was encouraged in this change of heart by the housing collapse, in which the market for lawn seed was collateral damage. He planted a field with hard red wheat, the kind used for bread flour. The infrastructure of the valley was geared to transporting soft white wheat—used for pastry and noodles—to ports for shipping to Asia. Hunton at first had his wheat custom-milled, but then he too built his own mill, the Camas Country Mill, in Eugene. When it opened, this past spring, it was the first in the region in 80 years.
In semi-rural Dutchess County, New York, Don Lewis, a farmer and baker, built an artisanal "micromill" to process locally grown grain for sale at his own farm store and bakery and to supply the voracious epicures of New York City, some 100 miles away. "The nation owes its very existence to Hudson Valley wheat," Lewis avers, because the grain allowed the Continental Army to eat fresh bread, while British troops were gnawing stale hardtack. (Legend has it that Catherine Schuyler, the wife of the American Gen. Philip Schuyler, burned her wheat fields near Albany to keep them from the British—the subject of a painting by Emanuel Leutze, who also painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.) The heyday of Hudson Valley wheat ended in the 19th century with the spread of a stem-devouring pest called the Hessian fly, which supposedly had been brought by Britain's Hessian mercenaries, and the opening of efficient transport routes from the Midwest. But the land and the climate are still there, and people are still eating bread.


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The suspect who shot a security guard today inside the headquarters of the anti-gay Family Research Council worked as a volunteer at an LGBT community center in Washington, D.C., according to multiple reports.
The suspect, 28-year-old Floyd Corkins II, made a negative reference toward the Family Research Council's work before opening fire after entering the lobby of the group's headquarters at about 10:45 a.m. The suspect argued with the security guard before shooting him in the arm. The guard is in stable condition.
Even before it became known that the suspect was a volunteer at the center, a coalition of national LGBT groups responded by issuing a joint statement condemning the shooting. The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, meanwhile, blamed the shooting on the practice of labeling anti-gay groups as hate groups.
I'm sure there will be a lot of debate in the LGBT community over the next few days about how we should best respond to this senseless act of violence, but here's my initial reaction: Yes, we have crazy people in the LGBT community, too. And in that regard, we truly are just like any other group.


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Possible Epigenetic Changes in Offspring of Women With Pregestational and Gestational Diabetes
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Pregestational diabetes (PGD) during pregnancy may be associated with an increased rate of spontaneous abortions, intrauterine death and congenital anomalies among the offspring. Although the prevalence of congenital anomalies among the offspring of diabetic mothers is reduced as a result of the improvement of the glycemic control in the early pregnancy, the rate of congenital anomalies is increased and there seems to be an increased rate of neurodevelopmental disorders including some fine and gross motor deficits as well as increased rate of inattention and/or hyperactivity. In gestational diabetes, that develops in the second half of pregnancy (past the period of major organogenesis), there seems to be no increase in the rate of major congenital anomalies but there are some developmental disorders in the offspring.
The exposure of the developing embryo and fetus to diabetic environment (i.e. hyperglycemia, hyperketonemia ext), is known to cause increased oxidative stress and significant changes in gene expression as observed in several experimental diabetic models. We hypothesize that diabetic environment may also cause long lasting epigenetic changes. It is therefore our purpose to evaluate these possible epigenetic changes and correlate their presence with the degree and time of onset of diabetes, (i.e. whether from the beginning as in PGD or in the second half of pregnancy as in GD), the degree of oxidative stress and with the neurodevelopmental outcome of the offspring. Diabetic pregnancies will be compared to a similar number of normal pregnancies in all parameters studied.
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|Possible Epigenetic Changes in Offspring of Women With Pregestational and Gestational Diabetes: Molecular Studies of the Placenta and Cord Blood and Possible Correlation to Postnatal Development.
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Pregnancy Complications
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By DON HEINZMAN
The issue of not scheduling youth sports on Sunday mornings in order to preserve some family time is getting some reaction.
Steve Marohn, of Elk River, had a good suggestion, after reading my first column on this topic: Don't schedule any sports games and practices on Sunday until noon.
Not surprisingly, there are good arguments on both sides of the scheduling issue. Some parents, in letters to the editor, say they decided to keep Sundays and Wednesday nights for church. One parent, wrote, "We do not regret for one moment that we focused our children's training and our family life on God rather than sports."
There's another view by a parent who lets her kids play Sundays and disputes that sports activities are the reason families miss church on Sunday. "If a person truly wants to make church a priority, then a sport won't stop them," she said.
In the final analysis, say some, this is a matter for parents to decide. One parent said he always found a church to attend services when their daughter played, either on the way to the tournament or at the tournament site.
The clergy have been strangely silent in this discussion. Apparently they've given up trying to change it.
Another letter writer urged parents to speak to their church leaders about setting aside Sunday morning and Wednesday nights for church activities.
She wrote, "I know because I have taught third grade Bible academy class for nine years and I have seen what this does to the students' attendance and their spiritual training."
An editor of one of our newspapers implored the Ministerial Association and associations of children's and family ministry directors to reach out to athletic organizations that make marks on our calendars and to-do lists.
Marohn went so far as to suggest community members write their school board and city council to have all athletic facilities and parks closed until noon on Sundays. This plea fell on deaf ears. Marohn hasn't heard of anyone who is writing their council and board members asking for such a move. This is understandable because then it becomes a church-and-state issue and public officials don't want to get involved.
Marohn raised a valid point: "Why should we as parents and players have to make a choice as to going to church on Sunday morning or playing a sport, especially in fear that the player might be suspended because of it. Really!"
He said many parents want a change. The question is how.
A parent notes there are lots of things that conflict with Sundays and going to church, not just sports. Should we close all businesses on Sunday, all festivals, fairs, parks and malls?
Professional, college and State League high school sports teams don't play games on Sunday mornings. Schedulers of Little League tournaments should follow their example.
Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers and a member of the ECM Editorial Board. Reactions to this and any other commentary printed on these pages are always welcome. Send to: [email protected]


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By Jatin Thakkar and Soham Sarkhel
Pakistan 262/8; Bangladesh 241 (Pakistan won by 21 runs)
The scorecard of the match is here.
Three big all-round efforts characterised this match – 2 from Pakistan, 1 from Bangladesh (which is what clinched it finally). Bangladesh's solo star (the most expected name – their greatest ODI player in history) could not quite finish the match. Bangladesh will need to find other stars too if they are to compete in this tournament.
The match through Impact Index.
Mohammed Hafeez was rightly declared the man of the match as he had the highest Match Impact (7.45*). Not only did he have the highest overall impact, his individual Batting (4.22) and Bowling Impact (3.23) were also the highest in the entire match.
Hafeez's knock of 89 runs, which included an opening stand of 135 runs (Partnership Building Impact) with Jamshed, gave the Pakistanis a solid start upfront. While bowling, Hafeez took two wickets in the space of two deliveries to push the Bangladeshis on their back foot and was the only bowler other than Gul to have a Pressure Impact in the match.
Along with Mohammed Hafeez, two more all-round performances in the match from Shakib Al Hasan and Umar Gul were the other two highest Impact performances in the match.
Umar Gul in particular was the surprise package as he came in at 198-7 (Pressure Impact) and absorbed pressure while scoring a quickfire 35 runs off 21 balls (Batting Impact 2.66). His Strike Rate Impact was also the highest amongst all the batsmen in the match. While bowling, Umar Gul again was the major tormentor as he came in at the death to spark a late Bangladeshi batting collapse starting with wicket of Nasir Hossain (Partnership Breaking Impact).
For the Bangladeshis, Shakib Al Hasan (the highest impact bowler and batsman, both, for Bangladesh in their ODI history – the only player in ODIs for any country to achieve this) was, after a fashion, their best performer with an all-round match impact of 7.27. While bowling he had the best economy impact amongst all the Bangladeshi bowlers and also picked up two wickets in the form of Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi. While batting he came in at 100-3 (which soon got reduced to 135-5) and absorbed pressure (Pressure Impact) by building partnerships (Partnership Building Impact) with Tamim Iqbal and Nasir Hossain in the middle overs. His batting also had the highest Strike Rate Impact amongst all the Bangladeshi batsmen.
Mahmudullah and Islam for Bangladesh failed to have a Bowling Impact in the match whereas in comparison all the Pakistan bowlers managed to have a Bowling Impact of above 1.
Overall, Pakistan's Team IMPACT in the match was 2.27 as compared to Bangladesh's 1.86. It wasn't quite as close as it might have seemed with Shakib Al Hasan at the crease.
For more information, go to www.impactindexcricket.com.
By Jatin Thakkar and Soham Sarkhel


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MINNEAPOLIS -- After serving as the Twins' starting shortstop in the early going last year, Jamey Carroll has seen his playing time diminish in a utility role so far this season.
Carroll, who has played in at least 130 games in each of the last three seasons, has made just two starts in the club's first 13 games and wasn't in the initial lineup on Wednesday before the game was postponed. But Carroll, a 12-year veteran, is doing his best to take it in stride and said the key is staying prepared for every game even if he doesn't play.
"You just come in and wait and see and then you adjust otherwise," Carroll said. "But you have to go out and try to get and stay as game-ready as possible. When you get that opportunity, you also understand that it may be a long time since you played and to not try to put that extra pressure on yourself, which is tough. But at the same time you understand your expectations of what it is and you hope that on the other side they understand that expectation level as well."
Carroll said the anxiety of not knowing his role on a particular day is the toughest part of the job, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he plans on playing Carroll more as the season goes along.
"He'll get plenty of playing time," Gardenhire said. "We'll mix him around. He can play anywhere. He's a professional hitter and player. He knows the job as a utility guy, sometimes you have to sit for a few days and if anyone can handle it, he can."
Carroll has been on the bench more this year with shortstop Pedro Florimon and second baseman Brian Dozier getting the bulk of playing time and Eduardo Escobar also seeing action as a utility infielder. But Dozier said Carroll is still a key member of the team and one of the players many of his teammates look up to.
"He's one of a kind," Dozier said. "He's my biggest mentor to be honest with you with everything like on the field stuff and how to prepare. He works harder than anyone. He's 39 going on 24."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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US Youth Soccer Region III Championships Continue in Edmond, Okla.
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US Youth Soccer Region III Championships Continue in Edmond, Okla.
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— The 2013 US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Championships, presented by the National Guard, continued Saturday at the ESC Complex in Edmond, Okla. More than 190 games have been completed, and tomorrow's action will decide the 90 teams moving on from the event's preliminary rounds. Sunday's matches begin at 8 a.m. CT and continue throughout the day with the final matches beginning at 5:45 p.m.
In addition to top competition, players receive exposure to more than 75 college coaches that have registered for the Region III Championships. Year after year, the coaches enjoy the level of performance and urgency that comes when the teams play for advancement in the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series.
On Saturday teams competed to create separation in their groups and improve their chances of advancing to the knockout rounds.
Under-14 Girls Tophat 17 Gold (GA), a semifinalist last year, met a tough Tulsa Blitz 99 White (OK) team on Saturday. Tulsa's Kennedy Goins and Tophat 17's Kara Henderson exchanged first-half goals to make it 1-1 at halftime. Caroline Orman's 41st-minute goal put Tophat 17 up 2-1, but Cora Duininck and Nayeli Perez each scored in a 5-minute span to give Tulsa a late lead. With just a few minutes left, Tophat 17 found an equalizer when Chloe Maize weaved through several defenders before cutting inside and slotting a right-footed shot into the left corner of the net to cap a 3-3 draw.
That score line exemplified the competition in Edmond, as Tophat 17 entered the Region III Championships having not conceded a single goal during its run to the Premier League East title. Tophat head coach Troy Garner said the Region III Championships help the players learn to play against different styles and in changing environments.
"I think it speaks highly of the tournament because player development is what we're trying to do," Garner said. "If players are in big-time games where they have to make big-time decisions and it's changing and it's competitive and things are on the line, that's making them better players in the long run."
In a very tight Under-17 Boys group, West Pines Strikers (FL) earned a 2-0 win over 2012 Region III semifinalist Concorde Fire Elite (GA). Alberto Poleo scored both of the Strikers' goals, as they moved to the top of Pool A, which has seen three of its first four games result in ties.
Under-18 Girls 94 NC Fusion Elite (NC) took a big step toward a second consecutive semifinal appearance with a decisive 5-0 win against El Paso Storm (TX-S). Sarah Henson scored twice, and Rachel Baylor, Allison Hopkins and Jaclyn Nieradka each added one goal to the balanced attack.
After winning its opening game on Friday, Under-16 Boys Cajun SC Fury 97 (LA) looked to take control of its group against SSA Bulldogs (MS). Early in the second half, an SSA forward chased down a bouncing ball behind the defense, but his volley went just wide of the right post and the game remained scoreless. Despite Fury controlling possession and earning a multitude of second-half corner kicks, the Louisiana state champions couldn't find the back of the net. Several timely interventions by the SSA defense kept the teams even and the game ended in a scoreless draw, leaving the Under-16 Boys Pool B wide open heading into Sunday's final preliminary games.
Under-13 Boys United FA 00 Elite (GA) increased its odds of advancing past preliminary play after it defeated Oklahoma FC 2000 (OK), 2-1, on Saturday. United's Carlos Reyes settled a loose ball at the top of the penalty area and calmly chipped it past the keeper for the opening goal in the 12th minute. OFC responded just before half when Jaime Ponce hit the crossbar with a superb long-range effort before Daryl Dike put in the rebound. Joshua Deane scored the game-winner for United in the 34th minute to give his team its second win in as many games.
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TROY -- Sister Linda O' Rourke's time as the director of the Roarke Center has come to the end, and during a ceremony at the Our Lady of Victory Church last week, she was celebrated as a woman who devoted her time in the city to help the poor.
O'Rourke had been with the center for 13 years as its director during which time she said she was able to become more responsive to those needing the services of the Roarke Center, which was established to help the under-served with GED classes, a food pantry and re-entry programs. O'Rourke spent most of her time developing new programs and finding ways to fund them but, in a blunt response, she said she is not able to serve in a directorial position anymore.
"I'm old," O'Rourke said. "I feel I can't do justice to a full-time management positing at this point in my life. I will work part-time afterwards but I won't be in charge of anything."
The city has been generous to the Roarke Center, O'Rourke said, as she said it helped bring a facility with almost no influence to a center able to provide for needy members of the community.
This was done through donations and volunteers within the community, as well as partnering with other churches and community groups to join in executing their mission in the city. O'Rourke said even though finding funding could be a challenge, it was one she enjoyed.
"They have partnered with us by donating goods, volunteering and helping us out," O'Rourke said. "The people of Troy have been so generous."
O'Rourke said between 8,000 and 10,000 households are served each year through the various services offered by the center. It never bothered O'Rourke the center was considered a last resort, just as long as they were able to help those in need.
O'Rourke, who said she was sent there as a member of the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul, the patron saint of charitable work, said there is a chance her community could decide to send her elsewhere. Before arriving in Troy, O'Rourke had worked in other areas such as Philadelphia, Utica, Greensburgh, PA and Boston.
Not really knowing of Troy, O'Rourke said she has come to love the city where she has made numerous friends and has been involved in various community events, including Christmas in Little Italy and the Stickball Tournament held each year.
"I think it has come quite a distance," O'Rourke said of the city. "I've seen it sort of revive. It is certainly looking better. There are certainly more opportunities for work, shopping and dining. I think it has gradually risen from the ashes, so to speak."
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Labor Day is one of our beloved long weekends, and has
almost become synonymous with fairs in American culture. Vermont
has a few great fairs and festivals scattered through out the state to help you
celebrate this weekend.
Northern Vermont:
The Champlain Valley Fair, located in Essex Junction (about
15 minutes outside of Burlington)
began on Saturday, August 25th, and will continue through Monday, September
3rd. This fair is packed with concerts,
rides, animals, and of course, fair food!
Central Vermont:
The Vermont State Fair is located in Rutland,
The 167 year old family tradition will run from Friday, August 31st to
Sunday, September 9th. There will be
demolition derbies, concerts, tractor pulls, a carnival, food vendors (ever
tried fried dough with maple syrup?), and much, much more!
Southern Vermont:
The 17th Annual Southern Vermont Garlic and Herb Festival is
located in Bennington, Vermont.
This outdoor festival will be open on
Saturday, September 1st, and Sunday September 2nd, from 10am-5pm. Join
fellow garlic lovers in visiting over 100 different vendors, joining workshops,
and listening to live music. Kids will
be happy to tag along when they learn about the hay maze, face painting,
inflatable fun jumps, and the bean bag toss!
Another Southern Vermont event
happening Labor Day weekend (September 1st and 2nd) is the 18th annual Mount
Snow Brewers Festival. Mount
Snow is located in West
Dover. With 35 breweries,
there will be over 80 beers and ciders for sample and sale. In addition to the beverages, there will be a
large music tent and food vendors. Scenic chairlift rides will be available,
allowing people the unique experience of seeing the Mount
Snow view during the summertime.
This Labor Day weekend, there is an event for everybody in Vermont. What are your weekend plans? Tell us on our
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with free breakfast and indoor pool
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Situated in Concord, this hotel is 1.2 mi (1.9 km) from Capitol Center for the Arts and 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from New Hampshire State House. Christa McAuliffe Planetarium and Beaver Meadow Golf Course are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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Along with an indoor pool, this smoke-free hotel has a fitness center and a snack bar/deli. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a business center, and dry cleaning are onsite.
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Residence Inn by Marriott Concord features an indoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a snack bar/deli. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
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When making a connection from CH0 to COM1 on a 2593 in independent mode, COM0 will also be connected to c0c1c2c3d0d1. I first tried to avoid this happening by creating a mutual exclusion between com0 and ch0 but that didn't help. So my question here is: why didn't that help? How can NISE choose to connect com0 to ch0 when I order it not to?
I found out that I can make a connection from COM0 to d0d1 to control this connection, but I still think that a mutual exclusion between com0 and ch0 should not allow connecting com0 to ch0. Or have I misunderstood exclusion usage? I tried to use a Set Exclusion also.
My example path:
I should note that I have read http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2996 and will try to use the tips described in the section "Configuration Channels and RF Stubs" to optimize the other parts of my signal route (It would have been nice though to have some mode selection that tells NISE to allow/prefer the signal to split or not. And to have a graphical representation of the signal path/relay positions would have been great).
Solved! Go to Solution.
This problem occurs because as far as the software is concerned, all SPDT switches are considered disconnected in software on bootup. So as far as switch executive is concerned, there is no connection at bootup. This leads to problems which your exclusions will be invalid, as they will say it is disconnected when in reality, it actually is connected. The following except from the KB Switch Executive "Disconnect" or "Disconnect All" Violates Exclusions with SPDT Relay Modules describes this issue.
If an explicit call is made to disconnect COM from either NC or NO using the niSE Disconnect VI, NI Switch Executive updates the software connection state such that COM connects neither to NC nor NO, but does not change the hardware connection. Thus, the software state no longer reflects the hardware connection, and verification of exclusion conflicts might be inaccurate. In order to accurately reflect the hardware connection in the software state after using the niSE Disconnect VI, you must then connect either NC or NO to COM using the niSE Connect VI.
If an explicit call is made using the niSE Disconnect All VI, NI Switch Executive connects NC to COM for every relay but does not reflect this change in the software state. Thus, verification of exclusion conflicts might be inaccurate. To reflect this change in the software state, you must then connect NC to COM using the niSE Connect VI.
Your best bet to verify that this does not happen is to disconnect all, then ensure that you specifically order the relay KD0 to close before you make the connection between CH0 and COM1.
This is how I would do this. Set up two routes, and ensure that the first route to go is:
The second route should be:
To make this connection work.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you for your help. I had read about the SPDT-issue but perhaps not that KB, and I didn't understand the impact of it, but now I do. Thanks also for your description of the proposed solution. This is how I do it now and it works great.
Your link to the KB didn't work so I'll repost: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/52DE58670391A435862575210003089B


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State and federal agencies were warning this year's predominant flu strain -- influenza A H3N2 -- would hit hard. But other than keeping doctors and nurses busy, this year's nasty flu season has not had much of an impact on Solano County, health officials said.
"So far it's not been that bad. We've had a couple of outbreaks in long-term care facilities and a handful of cases reported so far," Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas said.
Solano County has not had any reported deaths from influenza this season, Matyas said.
Throughout California, there have been 18 people under the age of 65 who have died after contracting influenza, a state health worker reported.
Other than minor occurrences, Solano County hasn't seen any widespread shortages of flu vaccines which doctors strongly recommend.
"We have to stay vigilant because it could still take a turn for the worse," Matyas said, adding that the flu season can stretch into March and April.
While the flu season is not considered severe in Solano County, numerous people have been ill and sought help in local hospitals, medical centers and doctors' offices.
"The flu season has been keeping us busy. It, fortunately, is not causing a lot of hospital admissions," said Steve Parodi, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center chief of infectious disease in Vallejo.
The local Kaiser call center has seen a 20 percent increase in members seeking advice or appointments about the flu compared to prior years, Parodi said.
Numerous people have also sought help through the Kaiser Emergency Room services, he added.
Complicating matters is an unrelated virus -- health officials are calling naroviruses -- which afflicts people with similar, though slightly different symptoms, Parodi said.
The flu causes high fever, muscle aches, weakness and loss of appetite, plus, in some cases, diarrhea.
Naroviruses primarily cause vomiting and diarrhea, though low-grade fevers, muscle aches, fatigue and headaches can also be present.
Parodi believes the influenza has peaked in southern Solano County and fewer people are calling and seeking attention.
Both Parodi and Metyas recommend common sense prevention techniques to keep from getting or spreading the flu or naroviruses, including vaccinations, washing hands, and coughing into a tissue or sleeve.
Those who do get ill are advised to stay home from school and work, they said.
Kaiser members can call 1-800-KPFLU11 (1-800-573-5811) to get more information about vaccine availability as that information becomes available, the statement read.
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THE rich history of Winchcombe is being brought to life in a new Spring production.
A dramatic presentation Steps Through Time, will use music, lighting, images and sound effects with a cast people of all ages in community to tell the story of the town in three perforamnces from Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 9.
The production will be staged ?in the round″ in St Peter's Church, rearranged specially for the occasion and will include an array of colourful local characters telling Winchcombe's fascinating story.
Characters will include Ralph Boteler, who helped to rebuild St Peter's Church and Emma Dent of Sudeley, who gave generously to the town.
Performances start at 7.30pmare are held in St Peter's Church, Winchcombe.
Tickets are £10 for adults and £4 for children and go on sale on Friday (24) in This Fair Isle, Hailes Street, and Cotswold Eye Care Centre, in High Street. To book online visit fostpw.org.uk.
A backstage tour is also taking place on Saturday, March 8 at noon and repeated at 1pm in conjunction with the performances. To register call Rob Davies on 01242 602657.


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Greek MythologyTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Complete the series by making a selection from the pool.
Series: Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaea, Ares, Zeus, Cronus, Uranus, Poseidon, ?
Pool: Athena, Dionysus, Eros, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera
AnswerThe series is the equivalent Greek names for the planets, which are Roman. When the Romans assimilated Greek mythology, they renamed many of the Greek gods.
Mercury = Hermes
Venus = Aphrodite
Earth = Gaea *
Mars = Ares
Jupiter = Zeus
Saturn = Cronus
Uranus = Uranus **
Neptune = Poseidon
Pluto = Hades
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Program Costs for International Students
In your application for admission to Muskingum and then again when you apply for a student (F) or Exchange Visitor (J) visa to come to the United States, you must provide documents assuring that
you have enough money for all your expenses. From the American viewpoint, this documentation means you actually have the money, or at least have unrestricted access to it. If you do not actually have the money or access to it, you should not come to the United States. Living here is very expensive; and although Muskingum offers some financial aid for degree seeking international students, it is not enough to cover all of your expenses. Some students provide documents of funds that they cannot or simply do not intend to use (for instance papers from a family member who cannot really afford to support the student); those students believe that if they can just get the visa, they will be able to find a way to earn their own way through hard work and/or extra scholarships-- this is not the case. If you do not have the funds you need, in most cases, you will have to leave your studies and go home until you do. Wise students will not come to the United States unless they truly have the money they need.
The US government restricts the type and amount of work that foreign students are allowed to do. In most cases, you are restricted to working on campus for up to 20 hours per week while classes are in session, and up to 40 hours per week during semester breaks. On campus jobs usually pay "minimum wage" which is the lowest amount an employer is allowed to pay any employee by law. Off campus work of any kind (including informal work like babysitting, or yard work) is against the law unless it is a required part of your academic program and you have special permission from Department of Homeland Security and/or the person on your campus authorized by the Department of Homeland Security to grant work permission for you (Designated School Official or Responsible Officer). Working without permission has serious consequences including the possibility of deportation.
Below are the amounts that you will see on your I-20 or DS-2019 Certificate of Eligibility that you will receive from Muskingum after you have been accepted and proved your ability to pay for your studies. Please keep in mind that these budgets do not take into consideration all of your costs -- so you and your family should carefully create a budget of your own to make sure that you can really afford a US education. That budget should be flexible to deal with normal fluctuations in your currency against the dollar and for cost inflations over the period you intend to study (perhaps 5% per year). Your family budget for your education should include:
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I know this is dumb but for some reason I felt like telling you about it. There is a new and completely strange iPhone app called Sounds of Pain. Here's part of the the developer's description: "Need to express a slight pain or minor displeasure? Tap one of the top three rows. In slightly more pain? Tap one of the middle three rows. Experiencing pain the likes of which you have never known before? Tap one of the bottom three rows.". So you get 54 pain sounds of which you can tap to play a single sound or drag your finger to play multiple sounds. You can also shake the iPhone for a random sound.
So what pains you in the studio? Headaches from reading tiny eq numbers in Pro-Tools? Back pain from sitting for 12 hours straight? Frustration pains from Cubase crashing? Ear pain from forgetting to disarm monitoring before turning your speakers back on? Girl friend pain for forgetting she's more important than your Moog?
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The Levy ARC Thrift Store is having its annual Clean Sweep sale on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be lots of bargains.
The store will also be selling fish dinners for $6 each. The meal includes fried mullet, baked beans, cole slaw and hush puppies.
The Friends of the Luther Callaway Public Library Board of Directors, will hold their monthly meeting at the Library, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov 8. Members, prospective members and guests are welcome at all meetings. For further information, call FLCPL president Tom Reitz at 493-1896 or 949-5413 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dr. Jack Foley will be autographing and selling copies of his recently published book, "Those Were the Times," a collection of stories about life in Gulf Hammock, at Treasure Camp on the Suwannee River in Fowlers Bluff, on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Foley, who was born and raised in Gulf Hammock and has a doctorate in mathematics, was a professor at Florida Atlantic University. Now retired, he has chronicled life in Guf Hammock when he was growing up.
The Dixie County Historical Society will be hosting another evening of Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel music for your enjoyment on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the "Old" Old Town Elementary School Auditorium located at State Road 349 and County Road 55A. Big Cypress Bluegrass will be performing. The music will start at 6 p.m. and will finish when the music stops. Admission is free, so bring the family and enjoy.
Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, normally a church meeting night, so some groups and municipalities have shifted their celebrations around to accommodate both events.
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Women with advanced ovarian cancer or a related gynecologic cancer who receive treatment with the targeted therapy pazopanib (Votrient) following successful chemotherapy lived longer without their disease coming back than those receiving a placebo (an inactive treatment, often called a "sugar pill"), according to the results of a recent clinical trial. Pazopanib is medication taken by mouth that focuses on stopping angiogenesis, which is the process of making new blood vessels. Because a tumor needs the nutrients delivered by blood vessels to grow and spread, the goal of anti-angiogenesis therapy is to starve the tumor.
Despite successful initial treatment with surgery and chemotherapy, about 70% of women with advanced ovarian cancer experience a recurrence (when the cancer comes back after the initial treatment), and about half of these occur within the first year. Advanced ovarian cancer is cancer that has spread into the peritoneum (the membrane that lines the inside of the abdomen) or to distant organs. Because doctors are currently unable to predict which patients will experience a recurrence, maintenance therapy (ongoing treatment to help lower the risk of recurrence after the cancer has disappeared following initial therapy) is a promising area of research.
As part of this study, 940 women with stage III or stage IV ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer (a rare cancer that begins in the peritoneum) received either pazopanib or a placebo every day for 24 months. Before participating in this study, all of the women had surgery and five or more rounds of chemotherapy that successfully prevented the disease from getting worse.
Researchers found that for women who received maintenance therapy with pazopanib, it took an average of 18 months for the disease to worsen compared with 12 months for women who did not receive the maintenance therapy.
What this means for patients
"Our findings show that we finally have a drug that can maintain control over ovarian cancer growth achieved through initial treatments," said lead author Andreas du Bois, MD, Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at Kliniken Essen Mitte in Essen, Germany. "If pazopanib is approved for ovarian cancer, many patients will experience longer disease-free and chemotherapy-free periods."
Pazopanib is currently approved to treat kidney cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. It is not approved in the United States for use as a maintenance therapy for ovarian cancer at this time. As a result, it may only available as part of a clinical trial. If you are interested in participating in a clinical trial, talk with your doctor for more information.
Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- What stage of cancer do I have? What does this mean?
- What is my prognosis (chance of recovery)?
- What are my treatment options?
- What is the chance that the cancer will come back after treatment?
- If the cancer does come back, what are the next steps?
- What clinical trials are open to me?
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NECA has posted two new images (above left and right - almost final figure) of their upcoming Duke Nukem action figure, the latest video game character to join their Player Select line. Based on his look from the long awaited Duke Nukem Forever, the 7 inch tall Duke will pack his trusty 1911 pistol and a cigar. Scheduled to ship this May to coincide with the game's release.
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Microservice architecture resembles a Service Oriented architecture in the part that both rely on cohesive
loosely coupled services, strung together to provide a solution. Beyond this similarity, the common nature
of the architecture seems to end. Microservice architetcure consists of completely decoupled services orchestrated
with each other via REST+HTTP API interfaces. These services can each be running in its own environment including
different programming languages. Each service can have a different deployment/management cycle while keeping the
final solution consistent.
Docker is a technology that is naturally suited for building an Application with a Microservice architecture.
You can visualize Docker as a wafer thin Linux VM that can host multiple containers without a tight dependency
on the host Operating System. Compared to a regular VM, it is light weight and more manageable. You can have
Microservices loaded into individual containers each completely isolated in environment from each other.
Besides Isolation, Docker also provides a consistent environment between code movement from Development -> QA
-> Production. Developers can have development time Docker containers that run on minimal hardware resources
and have the same code deployed consistently in maximized Production environments including Cloud and PAAS/IAAS
infrastructures. Same code, different scale!!!
With that in mind, I would like to cover the implementation details associated with developing Java Microservices
in a Docker environment.
Java Microservice
This step involves developing the Java Microservice. Keeping the scope of the blog in mind, this microservice can be downloaded and run with the following instructions
|Git Clone
|git clone https://github.com/sohishah/hello-microservice.git
|Build the project in Maven
|mvn clean package
|Run the Microservice
|java -jar target/hello-microservice-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server hello-microservice.yaml
|See the Microservice in action
Implementation details about the Microservice can be studied in the source code by loading the project into your preferred Java IDE such as Eclipse.
Install Docker
Before the Microservice can be run inside Docker, the Docker technology must be installed on your local machine. You can follow step-by-step Docker installation procedure at: Docker Installation
Once Docker is installed correctly, you can test your installation using the following command:
|docker run hello-world
Create a Microservice Docker Image
In the Docker ecosystem, there are two main concepts to understand.
- Docker container: A Docker container is a lightweight instance of a Linux based OS running on top of your host Operating System
- Docker image: Docker image represents your Application software + entire environment running inside a container
For the above microservice, the container loads the microservice image, and as part of this image it not only loads the Application Code for the microservice, but also the Java 8 environment it needs to run the microservice.
But, before you can load the microservice into Docker, you need to create a Docker image for that software. The steps to create the image are as follows:
|Create a directory next to your microservice project
|mkdir hello-microservice-build
|Copy microservice artifacts to the build directory
cp target/hello-microservice-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ../hello-microservice-build
cp hello-microservice.yaml ../hello-microservice-build
|Create the Dockerfile file under hello-microservice-build directory
FROM java:8
ADD hello-microservice-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar hello-microservice-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
ADD hello-microservice.yaml hello-microservice.yaml
CMD java -jar hello-microservice-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server hello-microservice.yaml
|From the Docker session, goto the hello-microservice-build directory and issue the command
|docker build -t hello-microservice-local .
The Docker build process uses a file named Dockerfile to get its instructions about what to do when building an image. In this particular microservice, the Dockerfile instructs the Docker system to download an image called 'java:8'. This is the core infrastructure needed to run the microservice. Next it adds the microservice jar and configuration to the image. And later, it exposes the ports 9000 and 9001 to service the requests.
docker build -t hello-microservice-local . (is the command that processes the Dockerfile and produces the hello-microservice-local image)
Note: make sure this command is issued from the Docker session and not just any command line session.
Once this Java Microservice Docker image is created, it must be run inside a Docker container using the following command:
|docker run -p 9000:9000 --name hello-microservice-local -t hello-microservice-local
|-p: exposes port 9000 to the host machine port
You can test the Microservice in the browser using: http://localhost:9000/java/microservice
Once this works, you can stop the microservice using: docker stop hello-microservice-local
Publish the Microservice Docker Image
Now that you have the Microservice Docker Image working locally, you can publish this image to DockerHub to share with your team. This can be accomplished as follows:
|Create a DockerHub Account
|Create your Remote Image Repository
Steps to post your local image to the remote repository
|Get the image id of the local hello-microservice-local image
|docker images
|Tag the local image for push to remote repository
docker tag localimageid yourdockerhubusername/hello-microservice-remote:latest
|Push to the remote repository
docker push yourdockerhubusername/hello-microservice-remote
Before testing the remote image, you need to delete the local images. Get the image id for both 'hello-microservice-local' and 'hello-microservice-remote' using: docker images
and remove the two images using the command: docker rmi -f imageid
Once, the images are removed, you can test the remote image using the following command:
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Introducing Wade Chambers, Vice President of Engineering at TellApart
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
I feel lucky.
I've been lucky to have gone through three IPOs and a major acquisition. I've been lucky to have worked with some of Silicon Valley's elite and to have helped build technologies that hundreds of millions of people have used (and hopefully enjoyed). I've been lucky to hire, mentor, and coach some of the best minds in the valley and watch them grow into amazing Venture Capitalists, CEOs, Directors and Vice Presidents of Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering. I have been lucky to be a part of teams that have accomplished absolutely amazing things against strong odds. I am thankful to have been a part of all of those things and more. But today I feel lucky and humbled by the opportunity in front of me.
I am extremely excited to join TellApart as the Vice President of Engineering and look forward to playing a part in the next wave of scale for the company. TellApart is a company that is already killing it, committed to doing it the right way, and at the center of what is technically hard but relevant. As an executive and technologist, it doesn't get much better.
It shouldn't be surprising that TellApart is doing so well. TellApart's business model is completely aligned with their — correction, our — customers (and our customer's customer). We only make money if our customers make money using our products. To do so, TellApart has built a team of 'A' players who are making the cloud, Big Data, and machine learning all work together in a highly-scalable, extremely high performance platform that is capable of both understanding the sophisticated merchandising models of the world's best brands and the wants/needs of a motivated buyer.
What did come as a surprise to me is TellApart's strong commitment to do the things necessary to be successful in a scalable and repeatable way (including growing the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs in the Valley). This forward thinking personally excites me as I would like to see the next generation of leaders make new mistakes, not repeat old ones. Over the last 20+ years I have built models, patterns, anti-patterns, and best practices and then (thankfully) reduced the number of "must haves" down to the few (80/20 rule) that generate the greatest impact.
Of those, here are a couple that I feel are connected but often overlooked:
- Impact over Completion.You have to ship to win. As a result, getting good at closing down a project is a necessary and valuable skill. The problem occurs when shipping takes precedence over creating the desired impact with your customer base. Impact is measured externally by your customer and involves them realizing if what you shipped them actually met with what they wanted and/or needed. Completion, on the other hand, is measured internally by the team and is accomplished when the project's ship criteria is simply met. Getting the team to own desired impact is much harder and requires different skills inside of the team but produces far superior results. The team must interact with the customer(s) to test assumptions, theories, approaches, and pivot until they reach the desired impact. In my experience, teams that continuously focus on making the desired impact a part of their completion criteria grow faster and have much longer relationships with their customers than those who only focus on shipping what they think they want.
- Measurement over Opinion. I have often heard that a person's opinion is only as good as their level of expertise on a subject matter. It resonates with me. But it also means that I can't weigh every opinion in the same way, as they are highly variable and largely formulated from prior experience. Unless prior experience perfectly maps to the problem under consideration, it is most likely flawed in some way. Measurement helps expose the noise and focus on signal. I am highly suspicious of opinions (especially my own), and I look for ways to measure facts and leverage them instead. It may take several paired measurements to get to the needed facts, but at least then you have something from which you can create a shared baseline. Good facts generally make for better decisions … egos and emotions seem to dissolve in the face of the right facts. Please don't get me wrong, I personally love opinions–and I have plenty of emotions too … I just value facts more. A lot more.
If these principles are already at work in your environment, you're doing significantly better than most companies in the Valley. If not … we are hiring. Want to be lucky too?


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About ATI
The Austin Technology Incubator is the startup incubator of the University of Texas at Austin. A program of the University's IC2 Institute, ATI has a 25-year track record of helping founding teams achieve success.
Value Proposition
"We Get You Funded"
ATI focuses on helping startups compete successfully in the capital markets. We don't write checks. But we have strong, long-term, trust-based relationships with investors—the local angel investors community, local and national venture capital firms, and sources of public funding. It works. Some stats:
- 85% of our 2012 graduating class received funding while at ATI
- Members of that class have now collectively raised over $335 million
- Since 2007 ATI companies have raised over $650 million in the capital markets
- More than 40% of Texas Emerging Technology Fund awards in Central Texas have gone to ATI members
How the Value is Delivered
We surround founding teams with talent that they couldn't otherwise afford. That talent comes in 3 flavors:
- Our professional staff. Our team of full-time professionals is made up of people who previously were successful entrepreneurs, investors, tech executives, and consultants. They work with you to identify your most critical issues and design a custom program to attack them.
- Students and faculty at UT-Austin. ATI hires student associates from across UT, with 30-35 working at the incubator each semester. ATI also collaborates with faculty in academic programs at UT—such as Texas Venture Labs in the Business School and Startup Studio in Engineering—to ensure that our companies have access to the full range of entrepreneurship support at UT-Austin.
- Our network of mentors, advisors, and investors. We work with over 300 members of the Austin tech community—people who have been successful as entrepreneurs, executives, investors, technologists, professionals—to ensure we match the right people to the right problems at the right companies. We also collaborate extensively with other startup support organizations in Central Texas (including DreamIt, CTAN, Capital Factory, Techstars, TechRanch, Incubation Station, and others) so that our members enjoy the full benefit of being in Austin.
Our program is customized to each company. We don't have one process that each member must follow. We're made-to-measure, not off-the-rack. We find that's the best way to get results.
ATI practices rolling admissions. Fill in our on-line application and if we think there might be a fit, we will reach out to you. Our due diligence/get-to-know you process is driven by meetings between the founders, ATI people, and relevant experts from the community. The feedback and relationships generated through this process often has considerable value regardless of the final admissions decision.
Even though the Incubator is part of UT-Austin, any company can apply. There is no requirement that a startup needs to be based on UT technology, or have any other connection to UT, in order to be a member of ATI.
ATI is a selective incubator-a big part of the value we offer to our investor partners is a tightly curated portfolio. Of the 1,000 applicants that we have received over the past 5 years, we have admitted 8-10% into ATI membership.


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by T.W. Budig
ECM Capitol reporter
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has contracted with the engineering firm Smith-Root to design a "sweeping" electronic fish barrier at Lock and Dam No. 1 on the Mississippi River.
The proposed barrier is intended to halt the spread of Asian carp.
Unlike other electronic barriers, a sweeping electronic fish barrier would not continuously be activated. Officials in the past have expressed safety concerns and worry over the corrosive effect on the lock of standard electric barriers.
Nick Frohnauer, DNR Invasive Fish/River Habitat coordinator, said a sweeping electronic barrier would serve to "scoot" invasive fish out of the lock when opened for river traffic.
A meeting between Smith-Root and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials is scheduled for June 19, according to an update by Rep. Rick Hansen, DFL-South St. Paul.
The Corps must approve the use of the electronic barrier at Lock and Dam 1, also called the Ford Dam, before construction could begin.
The Corps' review will include the use of an independent panel, according to Hansen.
How quickly approval could take place is unknown, Frohnauer noted.
If things progress as hoped, construction on the sweeping barrier could begin in late 2014.
The cost of construction is still being determined, Frohnauer said.
He stressed the barrier is new technology, and a lot of unknowns could surface.
"I wouldn't put much stock in this," he said of a possible 2014 construction date.
The current time line has Smith-Root completely finishing its design and submitting the plans to the DNR and Army Corps by next May.
Last legislative session, Republicans ridiculed an earlier proposal for construction of a light, bubble and sound barrier at the Ford Dam as a "disco" approach to combating Asian carp.
Although a recent joint testing effort by the DNR, the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and U.S. Geological Survey failed to replicate 2011 testing results that showed positive hits for silver carp eDNA upstream of the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi and elsewhere, the DNR wants to act speedily.
"We still feel a time crunch," Frohnauer said.
Asian carp are being sporadically caught.
On April 19, 2012 a commercial fishermen working near Prescott, Wis., brought to the surface a 30-pound bighead carp from the confluence of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers.
The DNR, Hansen noted, believes the best way to keep Asian carp from moving upstream on the Mississippi is by closing the 50-year-old Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock in downtown Minneapolis.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in May announced that her amendment allowing for closure of Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock passed the Senate.
It takes an act of Congress to close a lock.
According to Hansen, Klobuchar's amendment permits closure of the lock, provided the five-year average tonnage of goods moving through it falls below 1.5 million tons.
Tonnage through the lock has been under 1 million since 2007, Hansen notes.
Closing the lock would have repercussions.
A Metropolitan Council study in July 2012, estimates a lock closure resulting in direct employment loss of 72 jobs.
Shifting the river barge traffic to roads would also cost the state about $21 million from 2012-40, according to the study.
But proponents of quick action against Asian carp argue allowing the invasive fish to spread threatens the environment, fishing and Minnesota's tourist industry.
The DNR would like to close the lock and erect a barrier at the Ford Dam, Frohnauer said.
But, the lock closure initiative in the U.S. House could take a lot more time, he noted.
Work upstream at Coon Rapids Dam may be completed by next year to make it a stouter fish barrier.
Some $16 million was slated toward the project.
Coon Rapids Dam is considered critical in preventing Asian carp from invading the Upper Mississippi River, the Rum River, and Lake Mille Lacs.
Tim Budig can be reached at [email protected]


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Two Small Earnings Plays
Expect trading to thin as we grind toward Friday. But volume thinning doesn't mean a lack of volatility. In general, the larger indices may be prone to a tight range, however, individual names can and will move. Friday is triple witching, so we'll at least get the illusion of volume. I've been trading very lightly the past week and will continue to do so until the new year kicks in. The holidays provide enough stress, so adding trading stress to that can sometimes be too much. For many, it is the reverse. Adding the holiday stress to the stress of trading can often cause folks to make poor trades and poor decisions. There will be other days with better opportunities -- unless the Mayans are right, but then your positions won't matter much anyhow.CarMax (KMX) Source: StockCharts.com View Chart » View in New Window »
A couple of small trades I'm looking at for tomorrow around earnings are Jabil Circuit (JBL) and CarMax (KMX). I have reservations about both names, but going into the latter part of 2013, I believe both will be solid plays. For now, they feel range bound and the charts are ripe for a small pullback here. I am not looking for a huge drop in either name. For instance, KMX has strong support in the $32 area, so the December $35-$32 put spread around $0.85 or January $35 puts around $1.50. My preference is the January $35 puts to give the trade time in general, but KMX is setup more as a drop, then recovery, so I will use the December put spread here....91 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Babe is super sweet. House trained and kennel trained. Has a wonderful personality. Good with children also. Not good with cats. Good with other dogs given time. She loves belly rubs and loves to lay on your lap. She has energy but tires out easy so limited there. She knows basic commands also. Babe is about 3 years old.
We have worked through 5 natural disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In the aftermath of Katrina, we helped unite people with their pets and saved cattle from drowning and starving.
We also helped pass the Pet Evacuation Bill that keeps service animals and pets from being left behind during a disaster.
We have been helping animals and their owners for over 25 years, and one of our goals is to rescue and rehome as many animals as we can from the local Animal Control facility, a high kill pound with no adoption program.
You must be 18 years of age or older.
The adoption fee is $150.00 and covers vaccinations and spay/neuter. Should you want to donate more, we will graciously accept it!
A securely fenced yard is required, unless otherwise approved.
You must fill out our online adoption application for cats or for dogs.
A background check will be conducted, this may include checking out your residence, inquiring with your veterinarian, etc.
All animals will be spayed or neutered before adoption.
You must uphold state laws.
You must sign and abide by our adoption contract.
You agree to provide lots of tender loving care.
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Roy wrote:The bodies dont need to be the same. Its angles and planes we're after.
Blake_T wrote:The (nearing completion) secret technique was something I had hoped would make this easier by giving a simple, intuitive motion based upon disc manipulation and going from there. This seems to have opened things up for about 20-25% of the people that have tried it... which means it still needs a lot of work.
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