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TUESDAY AFTERNOON - The Wellnitz fire in northwest Sheridan County and southwest South Dakota is 75 percent contained and some firefighters are taking their first day off in a week.
The fire has burned 77,000 acres. It was 74 percent contained by at 3:20 p.m. Mountain Time, Kight said.
Officials advise people to watch for three primary safety hazards.
Downed power lines that may still be energized.
Trees that have burned may be unstable and could fall.
Poor visibility and road conditions in some areas.
Those who have been released from the fire lines include all volunteer fire crews, some of whom first responded to the fire, which was set by lightning on Aug. 28.
Many others were also released Tuesday.
Also, the State Fire Marshal Wildland Fire Team, Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska National Guard Ground Troops from 1057th, Civil Support Team and Joint Incident Site Communications Capability, as well as Nebraska Department of Roads and County Road Crews have been released.
The size of the Wellnitz fire one of three wildfires near Chadron -- was reassessed after an aerial survey Tuesday. Officials say 44,159 acres have burned in Nebraska and 33,000 in South Dakota.
Fourteen air personnel, one Blackhawk helicopter and two type-three helicopters from the Nebraska National Guard Aviation Division remain on standby.
Weather conditions remained dangerous Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 90-95 and northwest wind gusting up to 30 miles per hour during the afternoon, Kight said.
At least 100 power poles have been damaged or destroyed in Sheridan County -- more than can be reached for a thorough assessment, according to Everette Langford of the Northwest Rural Electric Association public power company.
Crews have begun to repair badly damaged sandy roads. The Sheridan County Road Superintendent reminds non-essential traffic to avoid the roads until repairs can be made.
All state highways are open in the northern panhandle. Watch for fire fighters, smoke and wild fire. There may be intermittent road closures because of the response, Kight said.
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text: Table Talk: One-pan sweets fill cookie jar By Julie Robinson May 15, 2012 Story Share Chris Dorst Lime and coconut provide tart and sweet contrast in Tequila Lime Coconut Bars. Chris Dorst Cut Almond Joy Bars into small serving pieces. Just a taste of their candy-bar richness satisfies the sweetest of teeth. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My husband and I just survived our first two semesters as empty-nesters. The adjustment from playing parents to a high school senior and a frantically busy schedule to quiet evenings without practices, games and meetings was fairly smooth. We'd had a preview when his older sister headed to college several years ago.Take heart, weepy moms of seniors everywhere. Their departure won't be quite as bad as you might think.I didn't really adjust my dinner-for-four repertoire to dinner-for-two. Although the number of diners at our table was half, I continued to cook for a family of four as I had for the past 22 years. It meant tasty leftovers for lunch the next day instead of sandwiches and wraps.They're both home for the summer and the only real dinnertime change is the empty leftover containers. Well, that and the disproportionately larger quantity and variety of food purchases and resultant grocery bills.Another return-home adjustment came in the form of the largely empty cookie jar. I didn't bake many cookies this school year. They went stale quickly without the cookie monsters in residence. Husband Reed made do with ice cream after dinner.The reproachful looks are getting to me, though. I broke out the mixing bowl, as did my daughter who is really the baker in the house. Time will be tight for both of us, though, she has a summer job. We'll probably go for easily assembled, bake-in-one-batch bar cookies.This weekend I made Tequila Lime Coconut Bars from a Southern Living recipe. They were a tangy, tropical twist on classic lemon bars and would be a light (in taste, not calories) addition to a spring brunch or shower.My daughter, Katie, made Almond Joy Bars from a recipe she found on Pinterest. She made a half recipe, which was more than enough for a weekend with her friends at a WVU graduation celebration. They're a rich combination of coconut, chocolate and almonds. Delete the almonds, and you have Mound Bars because, "Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't."Tequila Lime Coconut BarsYield: 36 bars. Source: Southern Living, April 2011. 2 cups all-purpose flour, divided 2 cups sugar, divided 1/2 cup cold butter, cut into pieces 4 large eggs 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut 1 teaspoon lime zest 1/3 cup fresh lime juice 3 tablespoons tequila 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Garnishes: powdered sugar, lime rind curls HEAT oven to 350°. Line bottom and sides of a 9- by 13-inch pan with heavy-duty aluminum foil, allowing 2 inches to extend over sides; lightly grease foil.STIR together 1 3/4 cups flour and 1/2 cup sugar. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or fork until crumbly. Press mixture onto bottom of prepared pan.BAKE 20 to 23 minutes or until lightly browned.MEANWHILE, whisk eggs in a medium bowl until smooth; whisk in coconut, next 3 ingredients, and remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar. Stir together baking powder, salt and remaining 1/4 cup flour; whisk into egg mixture. Pour over hot crust.BAKE 25 minutes or until filling is set. Let cool 1 hour on a wire rack. Lift from pan, using foil sides as handles. Remove foil, and cut into bars. Garnish, if desired. Almond Joy BarsYield: 36 bars 10 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed 2 1/2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 28 ounces sweetened condensed milk 28 ounces shredded coconut 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5 cups bittersweet chocolate baking chunks, loosely placed in cupHEAT oven to 350°. Line a sheet or 9- by 13-inch pan (for thicker bars) with aluminum foil and coat with canola or vegetable spray.CREAM butter and brown sugar in a small bowl until combined. Add the flour and salt. Carefully mix to combine until it resembles chunky bread crumbs.TRANSFER mixture into the prepared pan and press the batter into an even layer. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool on a wire baking rack while preparing the coconut topping. COMBINE the condensed milk, coconut and vanilla in a large bowl.SPREAD over the crust and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes, until it begins to brown. Remove and place on baking rack.MELT the chocolate over a double boiler. Stir until melted and smooth. Pour over cooked coconut bars and spread into an even layer. Allow to cool, then refrigerate until hardened, about 1 hour.Apple Butterscotch BarsSource: myrecipes.com. 1 cup chopped pecans 2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar 1 cup butter, melted 2 large eggs, lightly beaten 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 cups peeled and diced Granny Smith apples, about 1 1/2 poundsHEAT oven to 350°. Bake pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 8 to 10 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring halfway through.STIR together brown sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla.STIR together flour and baking powder and salt; add to brown sugar mixture, and stir until blended. Stir in apples and pecans. Pour mixture into a greased and floured 9- by 13-inch pan; spread in an even layer.BAKE 35 to 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, for about 1 hour. Cut into bars.Chewy, Chunky BlondiesYield: 36 bars. Source: browneyedbaker.com. 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips (or 6 ounces chocolate, chopped) 1 cup butterscotch chips 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts 1 cup sweetened shredded coconutCENTER a rack in the oven and heat the oven to 325°. Butter a 9- by 13-inch baking pan; set aside.WHISK together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.BEAT the butter on medium speed with a stand or hand mixer until smooth and creamy. Add both sugars and beat for another 3 minutes, until well incorporated. Add the eggs one by one, beating for 1 minute after each addition, then beat in the vanilla.REDUCE the mixer speed to low and add the dry ingredients, mixing just until they disappear into the batter. Using a rubber spatula, stir in the chips, nuts and coconut. Scrape the batter into the buttered pan and use the spatula to even the top as best as you can.BAKE about 40 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of the Blondies comes out clean. The Blondies should pull away from the sides of the pan a little and the top should be a nice honey brown. Transfer the pan to a rack and cool completely. Cut into bars; store in an airtight container at room temperature.Reach Julie Robinson at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1230. 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Houses of Life: The Jewish Cemeteries of Jamaica
At the outskirts of Kingston lies Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery, Jamaica's oldest burial ground still in use today. The cemetery has recently been inventoried and mapped, and is now a Jamaica National Heritage Trust Site. Inventory work continues this month on another cemetery in Jamaica, the Orange Street Jewish Cemetery, a 200-year-old bet haim ("house of life").
Jamaica's several Jewish cemeteries, which ring this Caribbean island, are not wholly preserved, accessible, or undisturbed, but they contain over three continuous centuries of gravestone imagery, epitaphic language, genealogy, burial patterns, and cemetery site design. Thanks in part to the United Congregation of Israelites Shaare Shalom Synagogue of Jamaica and Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions, these New World necropolises are undergoing inventory, analysis, and preservation.
The Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery is located across the harbor from Port Royal. Its oldest grave dates to 1672. The cemetery served the local colonial Sephardi community for well over one hundred years, and embodies Messianic theology. It also incorporates versatility as evidenced by multi-lingual epitaphs in Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, and English; Jewish and Christian calendar systems; and fused artistry.
The Orange Street Cemetery is one of the island's newest Jewish cemeteries, established in the early 19th century by the Kingston congregation on what was then the northern fringes of the commercial capital. Today the burial ground continues to serve as the final resting place for the island's Sephardim and more recently for its Ashkenazim (Jews of Western Europe) and Jewish progeny of European origin, as well as Jews and non-Jews of African descent. The Jewish cemeteries of Jamaica hold the remains and funerary monuments of important individuals and reflect almost 350 years of Israelite burial practice and Jewish identity in the specific context of Jamaica.
While co-religionists in Poland, Iberia, and elsewhere in Europe fled from anti-Semitic environments, Jews in Jamaica, and their co-religionists in other New World settlements in Suriname, Curacao, Barbados, St. Thomas, St. Eustatius, Nevis, and New York incorporated refugees into their nascent communities. In the early generations, themes of deliverance prevailed worldwide, as evidenced by Manasseh ben Israel's book The Hope of Israel, about the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi and a renewed interest in the Hebrew bible among New World Puritans. Ezekielian skull and cross bone imagery on the gravestones of Hunts Bay's first generation of interments and its relative disappearance after the calamitous earthquake of 1692 reflect Jamaican Sephardi responses to Messianism in its first decades of settlement. The cemetery's southeast burial orientation — not toward the Land of Israel — suggests the primacy of something of the congregation's own creation.
Jamaican Jewry is most evident on the compound of the United Congregation of Israelites Shaare Shalom on Duke Street in Kingston. In the beautiful century-old synagogue building under a magnificent barrel-vaulted ceiling, lay leaders conduct services attended by members of its 200-person congregation, which is ethnically but not culturally diverse. Not all of Jamaica's Jews belong to this congregation. Some associate with rabbis and congregations in New York, Miami, and elsewhere. The expansive and wonderful Jamaican Jewish Heritage Center is also located within the compound. It boasts an interesting permanent exhibit and frequently hosts school trips and community events.
Hunts Bay Cemetery, and to some degree the 19th-century Falmouth Jewish Cemetery on the island's north coast, both long closed and now preserved, bear witness to the time when Jamaica was an emerging and variant colony characterized by political tolerance and abundant undeveloped terrain. This was a period when Jamaica's Jews adhered to their faith yet were distant if not isolated from rabbinical authority. Today, the ongoing use of the enormous centralized Orange Street Jewish Cemetery eludes the documentarians' efforts to conclusively catalogue, the analysts' to fully comprehend, and the preservationists' to wholly determine the bet haim, but it testifies to the continuation and evolvement of Jewish life in Jamaica.
Rachel Frankel is an architect in New York. She serves as vice president for the International Survey of Jewish Monuments, is the co-author of Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname, and currently leads the Jewish cemetery documentation work in Jamaica.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction on January 20, 2011:
An earlier version of this article misstated that the Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery is on the outskirts of Port au Prince. It is Kingston.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 20, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dr. Arne Boudewyn, a veteran of Abbot Downing and Wells Fargo with more than 20 years of experience as a researcher, educator and consultant to ultra-high-net-worth families, has been named head of Family Dynamics and Education for Abbot Downing. With $36.9 billion in client assets and a 40-year history serving ultra-high-net-worth clients, Abbot Downing is part of Wells Fargo's Wealth, Brokerage and Retirement group, a leading U.S. wealth manager, with $1.7 trillion in client assets.
Boudewyn and his team will work closely with the Abbot Downing team of professionals who provide planning, asset management, private banking, and trust, fiduciary and administrative services to the firm's more than 600 clients.
"Clients look to us for help integrating core values into wealth planning and decision making, translating vision and mission statements into actionable solutions, and establishing effective forms of family governance," says Boudewyn. "We place an emphasis on education and strategies for preparing clients and the next generation of leaders to manage the impact of their wealth, including as it pertains to current and future roles and responsibilities within the family and community."
Abbot Downing's highly credentialed Family Dynamics team, including four consultants with doctorate degrees in behavioral and social sciences, works with clients to develop strategies for communication, education and philanthropic giving. Abbot Downing, one of the first firms to create a family dynamics team more than a decade ago, is a pioneer in providing dedicated Family Dynamics and Education consulting services to clients.
"We're seeing an increase in Family Dynamics and Education service requests from clients, which confirms the importance of going beyond traditional financial services to help clients address the personal and social impacts of significant wealth," said Jack Ginter, senior managing director for Abbot Downing. "Clients are looking to Abbot Downing and our team of consultants to help develop cohesive dialogue within the family and perpetuate a healthy legacy for the people and communities they care about most."
Boudewyn joined Wells Fargo in 2003 and has spent the better part of his career collaborating with executives, entrepreneurs, and ultra-high-net-worth clients on strategies for enhancing human, intellectual and social capital. Prior to joining Wells Fargo and Abbot Downing, Boudewyn served in a strategic consulting role at Kaiser Permanente and held clinical, research and teaching appointments at the University of California at San Francisco; California State University, San Francisco; the University of Massachusetts, Boston; and Harvard Medical School. His research publications have appeared in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, Journal of Health Psychology and Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
He holds a doctorate degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts and completed multi-year fellowships at both the University of California at San Francisco and Harvard Medical School. In addition to holding memberships with the Family Office Exchange (FOX) and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), he is a member of the board of directors for Meals on Wheels of San Francisco. Boudewyn succeeds Dr. Pat Armstrong, who, with more than 24 years of experience in leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Abbot Downing, will continue to provide Family Dynamics and Education consulting services to the firm's clients as a senior consultant.
About Abbot Downing
Abbot Downing serves clients in all 50 states through offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, Palm Beach, Naples and other regional offices. Abbot Downing is the world's eighth-largest family office based on assets, according to the 2013 Bloomberg Markets survey. Wells Fargo launched the Abbot Downing brand on April 2, 2012, combining two Wells Fargo businesses. The original Abbot Downing built the iconic stagecoaches that have come to represent Wells Fargo.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company WFC, +0.35% is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.5 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank's customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune's 2013 rankings of America's largest corporations. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy all our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially. Wells Fargo perspectives are also available at blogs.wellsfargo.com.
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AMBITIOUS Malvern Town chiefs are striving to create a more professional approach at the Langland Stadium club.
Directors Chris Pinder and Ted Grizzell completed their takeover of the West Midlands League outfit last September.
They have been working hard since to not only re-establish the club at the heart of the community but also implement a footballing and development structure in line with many professional sides.
Malvern will have six teams playing under their banner next season compared to just two during the previous campaign.
Sporting director Grizzell said: "We are all very excited at the prospect of six different groups being part of the club next season and anything we can do to help aid development and improve performance is only going to be a good thing.
"It's a great time to be associated with the club and another step closer to the long-term goal of professionalising Malvern Town FC."
Along with the first team pushing for a top-six finish in the West Midlands League Premier Division, there will also be a new under 21s side operating in Division Two.
The under 18s set-up has been revived to play in the Midland Floodlit Youth League.
Another boost is the reintegration of Malvern Town Ladies with the club and the continuation of the boys' player development centre.
The youth scheme will have a season-long programme for local under 15s and a six-week pilot for under 13s.
Along with the professional-grade pitch installed at the ground, there will be more off-field staff to support the coaches.
They include a sports psychologist, goalkeeping coach, physio and an analyst to make use of video technology which will be installed at the club's home.
High-definition cameras will film home matches and, as well as games being shown in the bar, they will be studied for analysis sessions as part of training.
Potential players for next season can get involved in open trials at Dyson Perrins Academy's 4G pitch.
The first team, under 21 and under 18 trials are on Saturday, June 28, from 2.30pm until 4.30pm, while the ladies meet on Sunday, July 6, from 12.30pm until 2.30pm.
There are some eye-catching names in the pre-season friendlies, which should be confirmed next week.
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Lung Cancer
2mm Subpleural Nodule
I have had a CT with the following findings: 2mm subpleural nodule at the right middle lobe. I`m 66 years old, non-smoker, moderatively active, non-drinker, white, male. Should I be overly concerned?
A nodule in the lung can represent an infection, scar or tumor. The risk of tumor is high in someone over 50 who is smoker or has family members with lung cancer or other cancers. To prove a nodule is infection or cancer, we can either biopsy the nodule or send it for culture. However, a nodule has to be of sufficient size to biopsy safely. Any nodule smaller than 10cm is hard to biopsy. In this case, we decide to monitor it with serial CT scans to determine if it is increasing in size, shape or changing in character.
An infection may disappear on the follow-up scan when treated. A scar will remain the same, whereas a tumor will grow. As it gets bigger it can then be biopsied successfully. Because some tumors grow slowly, we usually do serial scans for a period of 2 years.
The risk of the 2 mm subpleural nodule being a malignant lesion is low given that you are non-smoker. But, at this stage we cannot be 100% certain. So the best approach will be to repeat a CT scan in 3-6 months. Your physician or pulmonologist can decide when to repeat a scan based on your risk factors.
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Topic: need help --advice please!!!
I am reaching out for advice to those of you who have done this before.
My husband has stage 4 CC....in liver and lungs.
He is considered terminal. No one can predict WHEN he will "terminate"
and we are proceeding w/chemo and hoping for the BEST amount and MOST
amount of time possible.
At the moment, he is doing great. We have heard/read/seen stories where
people with his diagnosis have gone anywhere from 8 weeks (which we've now passed) to 3-4 yrs. He is young and otherwise healthy.
Unfort. with this *#(&$# cancer, there is no predicting ...well, ANYTHING, it
would seem.
There are some VERY real and very hard realities that we will have to
face upon his death (well I will be the one facing them).
Finances, and raising 4 kids alone, seem to weigh the most heavily on my mind.
These are very real, and very serious issues, that are understandably hard.
I am TRYING to find a way to have "joy in each day" WITHOUT
CONSTANTLY worrying about the future...but I am finding it very hard.
We've talked a lot, put all things in order that we can--but there are some
things that will just plain be hard no matter WHAT we do now.
So my (long winded) question for those who have walked this path is this:
HOW do we put aside all the very real, very hard "fears and worries"
about what is coming and be joyful NOW? today? tomorrow?
How do *I* learn how to not worry every second of the day?
We haven't even hit the "bad stuff" yet (when he's REALLY sick and
not working and all that jazz...) Those things give us BOTH anxiety too.
Terminal illness is really hard.
The fact of NOT knowing when/or how long/ also makes it hard to make
any plans past next week ....
I would love some real life advice on what has worked for people ...
Thank you!
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TPWD Extends Redfish Bay Seagrass Protection
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) extended indefinitely the protection of seagrass within the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area (RBSSA) by a vote taken during Thursday's Commission meeting. This ruling removes the termination date of the state scientific area designation and thus extends the "no uprooting seagrass with a boat propeller" law in the area.
Shallow-water seagrass meadows are among the most productive marine habitat types on earth, next to coral reefs, salt marshes and mangroves. They provide many ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling which can prevent large-scale algal blooms, sediment stabilization promoting water clarity and preventing erosion, and oxygenation of the water column and sediment. Seagrasses form the foundation of the food web as well as protection and shelter for larvae, juvenile and adult finfish and shellfish, and thus, help sustain multi-million dollar fisheries in Texas.
Extensive field studies were conducted by Coastal Fisheries staff that demonstrated the current rule has been effective. The research biologists counted propeller scars along transects located in the north and south ends of Redfish Bay during the summers of 2005-2009. The number of scars counted in the transect study decreased 45 percent during that period. Coastal Fisheries also used aerial photography to monitor propeller scarring at the north end of Redfish Bay. High resolution imagery was acquired in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and the analysis confirmed a reduction in scarring of seagrass habitat in the area.
Redfish Bay was designated a state scientific area in 2000 for the purpose of education, scientific research, and preservation of flora and fauna of scientific or education value. When the state scientific area came up for its five-year renewal in 2005, TPWD changed the rule to prohibit the uprooting of seagrass in the area. At that time Coastal Fisheries launched a comprehensive outreach and education campaign regarding the change in regulation and the importance of seagrass. Efforts included presentations to constituency groups, local elected officials, media personnel and scientific organizations; publishing of magazine and newspaper articles; radio and television spots including "Lift, Drift, Pole, Troll" public service announcements; and installation of informational signs around the perimeter, within the local area, and at the nine boat ramp entry points of RBSSA. In addition, a curriculum about boating in seagrass meadows was inserted into Boater Education courses taught throughout the state. A webpage was developed for the TPWD website providing the public with information regarding seagrasses, the current regulation as well as downloadable files of signage and maps detailing RBSSA.
In order to assess the effectiveness of the combined education and outreach efforts to date in RBSSA a survey of the boaters using the area was conducted. One survey took place in 2006 before the regulation went into effect and the other occurred this past winter. Results of the 2010 survey showed that 86 percent of respondents were aware of the regulation, while 85 percent of those respondents reported that their boating behavior had changed in RBSSA due to the regulation. The most common way they changed their boating behavior was by avoiding known shallow areas.
Comments received at the two public hearings held in April were in favor of continuing these conservation efforts in Redfish Bay. In addition, constituents showed interest in possible expansion of seagrass protection to other areas of the Texas coast.
Coastal Fisheries Division Director Robin Riechers assured the commissioners that the regulation will be reviewed periodically like all regulations to determine how well it is working or to determine if any changes are needed.
For more information on seagrass and boating in the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area, see the Seagrasses pages on the TPWD Web site.
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For the past 30 years the Ocean Institute has provided hands-on educational programs to kindergarten through 12th-grade students year-round.
Students can learn about oceanography and what lives beyond the shores. From whale watching to gold digging, the Ocean Institute offers a variety of day and overnight field trips for students.
Beyond the school year, learning continues with the Ocean Institute's wide selection of day cruises for kids and families, such as the Catalina Snorkeling Cruise and Blue Whale Safari. The institute also has a collection of summer camps for kids.
Today the Ocean Institute has almost 500 volunteers and 2,500 members. They provide fun and entertaining activities for visitors of all ages.
The Orange County Register asked Randy Phillips, last year's educational volunteer of the year and a tour guide, about his time at the institute.
Q. What made you want to work at the Ocean Institute?
A. I grew up close to the ocean, and it has always been an important part of who I am. Back in about 1990 my middle daughter went to a one-week summer camp at the Ocean Institute, and I saw the very positive and lasting impact that experience gave to her. I made up my mind that, given the time, I wanted to somehow participate in what the institute is all about. In January of 2012 I retired, and now I have the time.
Q. What is the best part of being a volunteer at the institute?
A. As in most life experiences, the best times are because of the people. And this is true of the Ocean Institute. The staff welcomes volunteers with open arms and truly makes you feel a part of the effort and passionate beliefs that makes up what the institute is all about.
Working with other volunteers in a common effort provides a lot of good times as well as the opportunity for social interaction. The best time working with the kids is when they come prepared and excited to experience and learn about the ocean and the creatures that live there. … There is no better feeling than looking into their eyes to see that you have not only taught something important, but you have also created a lasting and significant memory.
Q. What are some of your favorite events, camps or programs that the Ocean Institute offers, and why?
A. Wow, this is a tough one to answer because there are so many from which to select. I teach a class called Big Al – normally in our ecology labs. (The Big Al class takes students on a journey with Big Al as he searches for more friends below the sea.) This year, I started to participate in Big Al at Sea, where the kids are taken out on the research ship the RV Explorer. Being out in the ocean on a floating laboratory really heightens the experience for both the kids and for the adult participants. My 35-year-old daughter still remembers vividly her summer camp at the institute.
Q. What do you think visitors get out of coming to the Ocean Institute?
A. From conducting tours, I would say that most of the first-time visitors who come to the institute know very little about what it is all about. It is tucked away down at the end of Dana Point Harbor Drive. It stands out because of the two tall ships whose masts you can easily see from a distance. Those who may know a little might think it is a museum or an aquarium. But it is a research and learning center whose mission is to educate all generations to be responsible stewards of our oceans. If a visitor takes a little bit of time, they will be surprised and intrigued that we are lucky enough to have the institute here in south Orange County.
Q. How could someone become a volunteer or contribute?
A. First, check out the website at ocean-institute.org. The website is a tremendous source of information about everything there is to know about the institute. You can also call 949-496-2274.
To get a real feel, come visit on Thursday or Friday at 3:30 p.m. and take our tour. Or come Saturday or Sunday from10 a.m. to 3 p.m., when the general public can purchase a ticket and spend time visiting the site with our volunteers.


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Nearly 1.1 million pages of ancient literary, philosophical and historical work in Sanskrit, Prakrit and other languages from the Central Library of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) will go online soon. The rare ancient manuscripts in the Central Library of BHU are sought by scholars from around the world.
"The Central Library has digitized its all 7000 manuscripts. We have compiled 11 lakh pages and our next step is to make the material available online. To begin with, the material could be accessed from any computer system within the campus. Later, it will be available on internet," said Dr. D K Singh, Deputy Librarian of BHU.


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Baker confident in Cashner's potential as starter
SAN DIEGO -- Catcher John Baker has been behind the plate for each of Andrew Cashner's three starts since he joined the starting rotation last month.
Baker has liked what he's seen from Cashner, who will get the start Monday when the Padres face the Marlins in the first game of a three-game series at Petco Park.
"There's a ton of upside there," Baker said.
Cashner is 1-2 with a 4.50 ERA in his first three starts. He allowed four earned runs in four innings in his last start against the Cubs on May 1.
Cashner has displayed a live fastball in his first three starts and a good changeup at times, but for him to be successful moving forward, Baker said, he has to develop and trust another secondary pitch.
"It's finding a secondary pitch he can throw any time, especially when he's having trouble commanding his fastball," Baker said. "Once he does figure out what pitch that's going to be, it's developing the confidence to use it."
Two starts ago against the Giants, Cashner had a firm handle on his curveball, a pitch he used often in a victory when he allowed one run in six innings. But that curveball wasn't apparent in his last start against the Cubs when he struggled.
"In the bullpen, he can just throw his fastball by people," Baker said. "… But when you're throwing 100 pitches [as a starter], you can't do that."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Given that the folks at Never Summer work in a building that resembles an aircraft hangar and is just as vast, it's appropriate that they are in the business of helping people fly — albeit with skis and snowboards, not wings.
The company is one of the leaders among Colorado's ski manufacturers, a burgeoning subset of the winter sports industry that shows not everything has moved to China.
"For a while there American ski manufacturing seemed to be disappearing," says Vince Sanders, who directs product development for Never Summer. "But there's been a comeback, and people are doing it for the right reasons, because they're committed and passionate."
And these manufacturers have their own testing labs — the ski slopes dotting the Rockies just a quick drive west.
Along with making its own products, Never Summer builds equipment for such Colorado brands as High Society, Icelantic, Fat-ypus and Rocky Mountain Underground. Toss in other Colorado brands such as Unity in Dillon, and you have a snowy version of the food world's "Eat Local" movement.
Never Summer sits in a brick building at 5077 Colorado Blvd. that is as long as a football field. Seventy employees work two shifts. The pace is brisk. On an average day the company produces 120 snowboards, 60 skateboards (longboards are the company's thing) and 50 pairs of skis.
The snowboards alone are a 40-step process.
About 70 percent of Never Summer's output involves its own product, with Icelantic accounting for more than half of their contract work.
Never Summer also recently turned out 400 pairs of skis for Enabling Technologies, a company that offers gear to paraplegic and quadraplegic skiiers.
"Capacity-wise, this place is not only unique in Colorado, but in the United States," Sanders says of the 19,000-square-foot facility. "We do our own tool-and-die. When we need a part or a piece of equipment, we make it.
"We're really self-sufficient."
Sanders joined Never Summer shortly after its 1991 launch. Before that he had a retail snowboard shop in Lakewood.
Like most of the company's employees, he learned on the job. "Most people here come in and are taught by senior workers," he says.
Owner Tim Canaday, however, is self-taught.
"In the early 1980s my brother and I built snowboards called Swift," he says. "I actually built my first snowboard in my wood-shop class at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins."
Some of those snowboards still hang on the wall. Funny thing: Radically innovative at the time, spawning a lengthy but now-settled debate about snowboard-skier coexistence, those old boards now look as archaic as a Model T or Philco tube television.
Unlike most of his fellow employees, who learned on the job, Never Summer's Cuauhtémoc Tiscareño is a career woodworker.
"I like the challenge of the work," says Tiscareño, who grew up in Denver. Although his title is production manager, he wears a slew of hats. "I'm the mechanic, welder, electrician, companion, babysitter and guidance counselor," he says with a laugh.
Never Summer's snowboards are a mix of birch, poplar and aspen — plus the carbon fibers and edging that give the board bite, stiffness or flexibility, as needed.
"The aspen is for lightweight flexibility, birch goes underneath the mounting area, and poplar creates durable edges," Sanders says.
The manufacturing area dominates the plant, and it's a bustling cacophony of buzz saws, routers, presses and programmable sanders — plus the din of a dozen or more competing radios. Not into rap or heavy metal? Just turn the corner, and you'll get a blast of Norteño. Or alt-country.
Colorado's ski industry owes a huge debt to the fact that it's located in, well, Colorado.
"The state is a great hub for snow sports," says Sam Warren, the promotional and apparel director at Icelantic, which is headquartered at 621 Kalamath St. "A lot of industry people really trust Colorado skiers to be at the forefront of things.
"And our access to some of the best mountains in the world make it really easy to test and innovate," he says. "That makes for a really quick turnaround, which is great, because there's real pressure to stay on the brink of innovation."
In that respect, Rocky Mountain Underground enjoys a real edge. Located in Breckenridge, their in-house "lab rats" can pretty much step right out the door to test-drive new products.
Owner Timothy Haley says he thinks the rise of Colorado's homegrown ski manufacturers owes something to the economic downturn.
"I've had a lot of skiers tell us that they wanted to support people who are creating jobs in the state," Haley says. "People really want to support businesses that are bringing jobs back to America."
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October 25, 2013|
Researchers show that genetic enhancer elements likely contribute to face shape in mice.
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Researchers show that genetic enhancer elements likely contribute to face shape in mice.
October 24, 2013|
Researchers find strong correlations between the composition of the human microbiome and genetic variation in immune-related pathways.
October 18, 2013|
The discovery of a new form of the deadly botulinum toxin gets published, but its sequence is kept under wraps until an antidote is developed.
October 11, 2013|
Nobels awarded for vesicle trafficking and computational chemistry; building 3-D microbial communities; mislabeled microbes cause retractions
October 7, 2013|
Researchers apply a 3-D printing technique to structure populations of bacteria in a three-dimensional environment.
October 1, 2013|
A new tick-borne disease has emerged in the US Midwest—and the culprit is not a bacterium.
September 27, 2013|
Antibiotic cycling makes a comeback in the lab; how life scientists can learn from astronauts; napping to conquer fears; deconstructing the cancer R&D crisis
September 25, 2013|
Switching up the drugs used to treat bacterial infections could help clinicians battle both illness and resistance at the same time.
September 18, 2013|
A patient response-based gene expression signature can distinguish respiratory infections caused by viruses from those of bacterial or fungal origin.
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The agency estimates that at least 23,000 people in the U.S. die each year as a result of antibiotic-resistant infections.


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WINCHESTER Cathedral is to celebrate all things agriculture with a free family day of fun this autumn.
On October 4-5, at its Inner and Outer Close, the Cathedral will hold its annual Harvest Festival.
Hampshire Farmers' Market will set up their stalls as well as a kidsroam farm, horse and carriage rides and vintage farming machinery. There will also be a static falconry display, a vintage fairground organ and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance Pod.
Displays will include this year's nominated charity, the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, as well as the National Farmers' Union, Sparsholt Agricultural College, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Fund and The Bee Keeping Society.
Families and school groups have been invited to take part in the scarecrow competition which can be entered by visiting winchester-cathedral.org.uk.
Winchester Morris Men will be jingling their bells while a brass band sounds its trumpets alongside a number of street performers.
On Saturday evening there will be the harvest country dance and hog roast with Ceilidh band The Threepenny Bits.
Tickets cost £15, £5 for children, and can be bought from the cathedral box office by calling 01962 857275.
A special service, entitled 'All God's gifts around us', will be held on Sunday at 10am and the County Harvest Service at 3.30pm. The address will include interviews led by Alastair Stewart OBE of three representatives of the agricultural community. A Hampshire Fare Lunch with the Dean of Winchester will be held at 12.30pm in the refectory. Tickets cost £14.95 available from the box office.


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Reminderville native Jeffrey James [real name Jeffrey Craine] said that as far back as he could remember, he was making movies.
"Me and my older brother [Chris Craine] have been making film since we could walk," James said. "My parents bought Chris a camera, and I would be in them. He'd shoot movies for class projects. For example, we were asked to do a history report in school on the Trojan War, and we asked if we could make a movie. We shot the movie, had cardboard swords, added music, had these battle scenes."
James, who graduated from Twinsburg High School in 2005 and from Ohio University in 2009, recently completed his first feature-length movie, "Get Serious." Brother Chris worked as producer. James said he started writing the film in 2010 and "we just finished it on Christmas Day." The film is now available to buy online through the movie's official website at www.getseriousthemovie.com. There also will be a free showing of the movie March 3 at the Twinsburg Public Library. Its run time is 82 minutes.
"Get Serious is a comedy that reflects the struggles of young people trying to get their feet wet in a dry economy, while also waking up to the 'real world' of rules and responsibility," he said. "I found getting a job and living at home were not as fun as I had remembered. I recall a friend laughing at the fact that I went through a different job every three months. I immediately recognized the potential in all this and began to create 'Get Serious.'
"I thought a comedy about job-hunting would be perfect in-light of the economic depression."
The movie's story centers on Mike Rivers (played by Joe Zamora), an average college graduate thrust into an unforgiving recessionary world. Instead of the cushy, well-paid job that every college graduate is promised to find, Rivers finds himself back at home and working menial, embarrassing jobs to make ends meet. The economy is down, but expectations from his mother and girlfriend are not. When Mike's anxiety about trying to reclaim his piece of the American dream peaks, he learns to pursue what is really important to him.
James said working on his first feature-length film was a learning experience.
"I learned so much," he said. "Before, I had friends and family members in the films. This time, we had full auditions, a casting process. Writing was probably one of the hardest parts. I knew a lot about the camera work, especially from school. But they didn't teach a lot about audio and mixing sound. Everyone worked for free on this movie. I've never directed anything of this magnitude before."
The movie was filmed in the Cleveland area, James said.
James is not resting on his laurels, however. He said he and his brother are already working on the script for their next movie, an action thriller they are thinking of setting in Cleveland. James said he and Chris also have started their own company, Dreamblind Productions.
Having the ability to entertain people is a big draw for James, when it comes to making movies.
"I consider myself an entertainer," he said. "I like to tell a story. When people leave the theater, I hope it makes a spark in them."
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Taking Farming Offshore
Posted October 24, 2013
Hydroponic gardening is already a well-established method of producing fruits and vegetables in controlled conditions for maximum flavor and efficiency, with growing adoption among landscapers. All over the world, hydroponics facilities are growing lettuce, strawberries, and more for eager consumers, but this farming production technique has another potential use; helping coastal communities like Singapore produce their own food.
Researchers concerned about shrinking supplies of arable land and conflicting land use have come up with a truly innovative approach to hydroponics. The whole point of this approach to food production is that it can be used anywhere, any time; you don't need high quality soil or a larger farm for hydroponics. So if you're looking at a coastal community that has to import most of its food or struggles to meet food security needs, why not just look a little further, beyond the beach and into the coastal waters?
Obviously, saltwater isn't the growth medium of choice for most edible plants, seaweeds excepted. But that doesn't mean it can't be used to float hydroponic capsules, thereby extending the usable space for farming for a community interested in fresh supplies of food. That's exactly what's being proposed with Sealeaf, a fascinating new floating hydroponics module that can grow up to 44 pounds of food each year.
That might not sound like very much, except for the fact that these modules are designed to be used in groups. Then, the amount of food they can produce starts to seem very impressive, especially when combined with thorough, careful management to make sure crops are producing at their healthiest and most efficient. The modules carry solar panels for energy production, thereby eliminating the need to rely on mainland power (an issue in cities like New York where electricians are already struggling to meet city power needs), and thanks to their close location to the market, they radically reduce food miles, cutting down on the carbon footprint of the produce grown inside.
Better yet, they address a pressing issue in many urban communities: that of a lack of fresh, seasonal, local, organic produce. Such produce is often out of the price range of much of the population, which makes it difficult for people to integrate fresh produce into their diet and to eat healthy, balanced foods. The Sealeaf system directly addresses this issue, improving not just food security but the local economy and, potentially, the health of the populace.
Given that 18 of the world's 21 megacities are coastal, and many of them rely heavily on food imports for their survival, the very direct need for a system like Sealeaf is obvious. Food security is a growing problem in the 21st century and one that is only likely to get worse as growing populations, shifting climate, and changing land uses put their pressure on the available farmable land. By extending food production to the water, cities can safely feed their populace and maintain more independence, something which can be politically and socially critical.
While it's only a concept right now, Sealeaf could prove viable in testing. If it does, it might revolutionize the face, and coastal waters, of many urban environments.
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PAMM friends and family can enjoy $5 off Disney on Ice tickets at AmericanAirlines Arena. Spend the day in downtown Miami and see the show before or after your visit to PAMM.
PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander Gives a Talk at FRESH MILK XIV
On Thursday, March 20, PAMM's Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander gave a talk at FRESH MILK XIV in Barbados with artists Nick Whittle, Mark King and Versia Harris.
The Miami Foundation Hosts Public Space Challenge Meet and Greet at PAMM
On March 20 at 6pm, during PAMM Presents Gatekeeper, The Miami Foundation will host a Challenge meet and greet to allow the community to learn all the important Challenge details.
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Hear PAMM's Knight Curator of School Programs, Mari Robles, in conversation with NLS Kingston, an artist-run contemporary visual art initiative in Kingston, Jamaica.
Edouard Duval-Carrié Discusses his Imagined Landscapes Exhibition at PAMM
Miami-based, Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié gives you a sneak peek of his upcoming exhibition, Imagined Landscapes, opening March 13 at PAMM. Hear Duval-Carrié and PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander discuss how the exhibition is completely different from the artist's previous works in the video below.


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On Yom Kippur, we ask, "Who by fire?" Sadly, this year at Tisha B'Av, we know who: the 19 firefighters who died in Arizona.
On Yom Kippur, we ask, "Who by fire?" Sadly, this year at Tisha B'Av, we know who: the 19 firefighters who died in Arizona.
"This is as dark a day as I can remember," Gov. Jan Brewer said. Her words connected me to the mood of the Ninth of Av, the Jewish day of mourning that begins this year on the evening of July 15.
Seemingly each year, we come in from the summer sun unprepared for this darkest day on the Jewish calendar. With vacation itineraries on our minds, we reluctantly stop over on this day without even a road map of the tragedies of our people.
Perhaps that's why, with the tragedy of Arizona still so raw, I found myself reflecting on those who gave their lives so that others would not die.
Tisha B'Av marks a day on which we are supposed to connect with pain and loss.
The flames from the destruction of the First and Second Temples — and other tragedies in Jewish history we remember on Tisha B'Av — seem so distant until a story of flames and heroism burns a connecting path.
All but one of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshots, elite firefighters trained in wildfire suppression, died in an effort to protect a subdivision near the small town of Yarnell. None of the victims were Jewish, yet their loss and the mourning of their loved ones cannot help but remind us at this time of year of those Jews who died in flames.
In Los Angeles and points West, during the weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av, it is almost always high fire season. In 2007, during the Griffith Park fire here, I could see the flames coming down from the Hollywood Hills. As I looked at the faces of my neighbors standing in the street, I could see that the fear of fire, of the horrendous loss it can bring, was not religion-specific.
The Arizona Forestry Division reported that the Yarnell Hill fire started from a lightning strike, in contrast to the Jewish martyrdom that stemmed from the torch of a conquering army or homicidal mob. Yet the result is the same: Wives are without husbands, children without fathers, parents without sons.
Some 30 miles away from Yarnell, where many of the memorials to the firefighters have been held, is Prescott, Ariz., where Rabbi Jessica Rosenthal, of Temple B'rith Shalom, was planning a memorial service to recall and honor those who had been killed or injured in the blaze. Unfortunately, memorial services and mourning are aspects of life with which we Jews have too much experience.
On Tisha B'Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year, we have customs that connect us to tragedy. You do not eat, drink, bathe or have sex. As a sign of mourning, you don't wear leather, which is considered a sign of luxury. In some communities, worshippers sit on the floor or on low stools.
On Tisha B'Av, we also chant Eicha, the biblical Lamentations, a dirge that poetically and painfully captures the fall of Jerusalem in the 6th Century B.C.E. Filled with phrases such as, "their faces are blacker than soot," you can't help but imagine the flames. The cover of the ArtScroll edition of Eicha shows a scroll that's been singed.
Eicha is dense with anguish and is sometimes difficult to follow. But after following the stories of the firefighters' wives, those who lost husbands and the fathers of their children, phrases in Eicha that made little sense began to pop from the page, helping me to connect to their loss:
"Panic and pitfall are our lot
Death and destruction.
My eyes shed streams of water
Over the ruin of my poor people."
In Eicha — "how" in Hebrew — a text illuminated with "blazing wrath," who could help but think of how these men died protecting their community? "None survived or escaped," the text says. In Eicha, we also find the words, "Why have you forgotten us utterly?" and "pour out your hearts like water."
Transporting the agony of Eicha to Arizona were the words of Patricia Huston, who is married to a member of a different Interagency Hotshot crew. She wrote a few days after the tragedy on the Wildland Firefighter's Wives blog, "The poor wives who were greeted by a uniformed official knocking on their door last night. I can't even imagine."
Huston wrote a Hotshot Firefighters Prayer. It ends this way:
"For if this day on the line,
I should lose my life,
Lord, bless my Hotshot Crew,
my children and my WIFE."
Eicha responds: "Our dancing has turned into mourning." But closing on words of hope, it ends, "Renew our days as of old."
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This week Shuanghau International Holdings Inc. announced it has signed a $4 billion loan agreement from a consortium of eight banks, part of the financing the Chinese pork giant needs to acquire Smithfield Foods, according to a Shuanghau news release.
China's Global Times reports that the agreement was originally signed on Friday and includes a $2.5 billion three-year loan and $1.5 billion five-year loan.
In a statement sent to Global Times, Shuanghui Chairman Wan Long said that the company is encouraged by the financial support and trust of banks in China and abroad and would make all efforts in expanding globally.
However, while the Smithfield purchase marks an important step for Shuanghau's internationalization, Yan Qiang, a partner of Beijing-based Hejun Consulting, expressed concerns over the company's capital flowers.
"Shuanghui is a large company in China, but does not make too much profit, as the profit margin of domestic food industry is not high - usually no more than 10 percent," said Yan, adding that it is likely to turn to capital market, such as an IPO, to pay off the loans in the future.
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Shuanghui announced in May it would spend $4.7 billion to buy Smithfield, valued at nearly $7.1 billion. However, the deal has come under scrutiny by Congress as opposition to the deal grows louder.
Starboard Value LP, an investor in Smithfield Foods, Inc., is continuing its efforts to derail the deal. The Wall Street Journal shows that Starboard has received indications of interest in the pork producer that imply a value "substantially" above the purchase price Shuanghui has agreed to pay.
On Tuesday Starboard said in a letter to Smithfield shareholders that it plans to vote against the deal and is working with possible buyers for an all-cash proposal to outbid Shuanghui. See, "Starboard Stirs Pot on Smithfield's Deal With China's Shuanghui."


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The Environmental Working Group said the California Department of Food and Agriculture is on the right track with the recent changes made to requisites for specialty crop block grants.
But the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group said it believes more can be done to focus on projects that help local or regional production and markets, organic production and ethnic growers. In addition, the group suggested the state adopt a more open grant award process.
These are but a few of the recommendations contained in the group's 41-page analysis of California's specialty crop block grant program released in October.
The group presented the report to the California State Board of Food and Agriculture at its regular meeting Oct. 2.
Steve Lyle, CDFA public affairs director, said the department continually reviews the grant program and makes necessary improvements.
"The objective has always been to make it reflective of stakeholder evaluations and not just CDFA's evaluations," he said, citing a stakeholder committee that also reviews specialty crop grant proposals. "We believe this is a very transparent process, and that's why it was established — to introduce transparency into the process."
The specialty crop block grant program, which provides funding to state departments of agriculture to enhance specialty crops, is the result of the 2008 farm bill.
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $55 million in specialty crop block grants, with California receiving about $17 million, or about 30%.
CDFA issued an annual request for proposals earlier this fall, with a Dec. 7 deadline for submitting initial concepts.
Final proposals are due March 22. After state and federal review, grants of between $50,000 and $400,000 are expected to be awarded in October 2013.
The EWG report praised state agriculture secretary Karen Ross for changes she's made to the block grant process since Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her in January 2011.
They included condensing grant priorities into four topics more aligned with strategies contained in California Agricultural Vision 2030, the state's long-range plan first released in December 2010.
The four topics addressed enhancing specialty crop marketability and competitiveness, expanding consumer access to California-grown specialty crops, boosting stewardship and conservation practices, and ensuring the viability of specialty crops by investing in the next generation of producers.
"The secretary and her colleagues were very interested in our findings and clearly agreed with many of our recommendations, based on their revised guidelines," Kari Hamerschlag, EWG senior food and agriculture analyst in Oakland and report author, wrote in an e-mail.
But the group still found shortcomings with the California program.
Among those were too much funding — more than half — went to research, with relatively little left to expand grower markets or increase access to healthful food, according to the report.
Although many grants provided support for improving environmental stewardship, few focused on reducing fossil-fuel-based inputs, and only 1% of funding went toward organic agriculture, according to the report.
Hamerschlag said the lack of organic projects could partly be blamed on a lack of good submissions. But she said changes to the block grant program should increase organic participation.
"With the new guidelines specifically calling out the goal around increased acreage in organic and sustainable ag, groups that are working towards that goal will be more inclined to apply," she wrote. "And, thus, I anticipate more organic-oriented projects to be submitted and approved in the coming years."
The group also noted the lack of projects geared toward grower outreach, beginning and disadvantaged growers, ethnic producers and farm labor issues, according to the report.
In addition, the group questioned continued support for international trade, since several other federal programs help fund marketing domestic agricultural products in foreign countries.
"If growers want support for international marketing, they should go to the Market Assistance Program," Hamerschlag said. "We monitor funds from that program and found that the specialty crop industry already gets $23 million for international trade. So let's put the block grant program to work to increase California and domestic consumption of fruits and vegetables while providing markets for growers. That's a win-win."
As part of proposal evaluation, the group wanted more information made public and provided to applicants about why they were approved or rejected.
Lyle said the department in 2010 began passing along comments from the stakeholder review committee.
"The quality of the feedback depends on the quality of the comments coming from the review committee," he said. "If there's a reason supplied — and we encourage the committee to be as detailed as possible — we provide that feedback."


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A Eureka woman missing for nearly one week was found alive on Wednesday morning in a wooded area near her care home.
Five volunteers and two trained search and rescue deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office gathered at Eggert Road in Eureka on Wednesday morning to expand the five-day search for Myra Sheek, 61, who was reported missing after leaving the Aguilar Manor Assisted Living Facility on Friday around 11 a.m.
The sheriff's office sought out the public's help in locating Sheek on Tuesday, saying that she had medical issues that could be cause for concern. Deputies and volunteers had been searching for her since Friday.
A volunteer found Sheek hidden in thick brush about 40 minutes after Wednesday's expanded search began, according to a sheriff's office press release. She was dehydrated and cold but uninjured, and was transported to St. Joseph Hospital. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sheek was in fair condition, according to hospital spokeswoman Leslie Broomall.
Sheek was found about 150 feet north of Ridgewood Drive, near the intersection of Eggert Road. She told sheriff's office personnel that she did not want to be found, according to a press release.
Stivii Aguilar, administrator and owner of Aguilar Manor, said he worried about Sheek through the weekend.
"We're so relieved," he said. "Right now, she's getting some medical attention at the hospital."
Aguilar said until Friday's disappearance, Sheek would always tell someone she was going for a walk, and return shortly.
"She just kind of walked out of the house without letting anyone know," he said.
Another resident saw Sheek leave, giving Aguilar an idea of her direction. While searching for her, Aguilar said he flagged down a sheriff's office deputy for assistance.
"We're so happy that she's OK," he said.
Temperatures dipped to 32 degrees on two of the nights Sheek was missing -- cold enough to prompt the Eureka Extreme Weather Shelter to open its doors.
National Weather Service spokesman Troy Nicolini said they release an extreme weather warning whenever temperatures are expected to reach 32 degrees or below, but that there's not a physiological measure of what temperature can lead to hypothermia.
Steven Keehn, an emergency medicine doctor at St. Joseph Hospital, said freezing temperatures heighten the risk of hypothermia, particularly depending on what kind of clothing a person is wearing.
Hypothermia treatment in the emergency room can range from a "bear hug blanket" to warm intravenous fluids in more severe cases.
Broomall said the winter sees an increase in hypothermia patients.
"It's not frequent -- but it's not rare," she said.
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HWW Mobile has launched a new Telstra imode� site built specifically for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney. The service will run during the Bridget Riley Exhibition, until 6th March 2005. Jennifer Wilson, Head of HWW Mobile, said:"We wanted to find a way to make this exhibit intimate and unique for each visitor, and few things are more intimate than a mobile phone. As content specialists, HWW recognises the importance of contextual information. Tying the audio commentary of the exhibit into a Telstra i-mode� experience adds another layer to the experience of viewing Bridget�s work. HWW Mobile ensures that the technology in the mobile experience is transparent, letting the content shine through."
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Currently, in the U.S., 1 in 3 males and 2 in 5 females born after 2000 are expected to develop diabetes during his or her lifetime. Research has demonstrated that control of blood glucose (BG) reduces the complications of diabetes. As a result, almost half of Americans diagnosed with diabetes, are prescribed finger-stick glucose meters to monitor their BG. The value of this approach is known to be limited by a high rate of patient non-compliance with BG testing, where patients test less often than prescribed. Increased communication between patient and care manager along with feedback has been shown to increase self monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) test compliance. However, this feedback loop is largely absent from the current, episodic model of patient / care manager interaction and not available in existing BG meters given to diabetic patients.
In this study, we propose to pilot test a cellular-embedded glucose meter. This device can transmit glucose readings directly over a cellular network to a care management server and then the patient will receive feedback on the screen of the glucose meter.
|Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
|Device: Telcare Blood Glucose Meter (BGM)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparison of a Cellular-embedded Glucose Meter With Two-way Personalized Communication Between Patients and Care Managers With a Glucose Meter in Standard Practice in the Care of Diabetic Patients.
- Rate of compliance to glucose monitoring schedule [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Determine if connecting diabetic patients to care managers via a cellular-enabled glucose meter with feedback will improve SMBG testing compliance.
- Improvement of overall blood glucose control [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Determine if increased testing compliance leads to improvement in overall blood glucose control. This will be measured by a reduction of HbA1c levels.
- Improvement in Patient Satisfaction [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Determine whether this intervention leads to significant improvements in patient satisfaction with self-care and patient self-assessment of compliance. This will be measured by the Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire by Bradley.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Control
Provider-driven care, based in office, no special diabetes management; Patient self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG)
Active Comparator: Intervention
Home diabetes monitoring by patient using cellular enabled glucometer to communicate information and receive feedback.
Care provider can access raw and analyzed patient data; Physician receives report summary.
Device: Telcare Blood Glucose Meter (BGM)
Cellular enabled glucometer
Detailed Description:
This research program will enroll participants in a 6-month pilot intervention study. In this study, 100 patients with diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2) who are known to be non-compliant with SMBG will be enrolled and randomized to treatment groups (one group will receive a standard glucose meter and the second group will receive the cellular-embedded device) in order to achieve the following specific study aims;
Primary Aim 1: Determine if connecting diabetic patients to care managers via a cellular-enabled glucose meter with feedback will improve SMBG testing compliance.
Secondary Aim 2: Determine if increased testing compliance leads to improvement in overall blood glucose control. This will be measured by a reduction of HbA1c levels.
Secondary Aim 3: Determine whether this intervention leads to significant improvements in patient satisfaction with self-care and patient self-assessment of compliance.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age and older
- Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 or Type 2)
- Currently, non-compliant with prescribed glucose testing regimen
- HbA1c of 7.5 or greater within the last six months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Actively being treated for substance abuse
- Treatment for a thought disorder within the past year
- Non-English speaking
- Persons who are legally blind
- Women who are pregnant
- Cognitively or decisionally impaired as determined by practitioner
- Persons using an insulin pump
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01341587
|United States, Maryland
|University of Maryland
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|Principal Investigator:
|Charlene Quinn, PhD, RN
|University of Maryland
|Responsible Party:
|Charlene C. Quinn, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01341587 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 7, 2011
|Last Updated:
|December 10, 2013
Keywords provided by Charlene C. Quinn, RN, PhD, University of Maryland:
SMBG (self monitoring of blood glucose)
mobile technology
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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JR wrote:Mark i get so much better traction with spike/chain combination add ons to the shoes and the good thing is that they are not permanent additions to the shoes and can be put on and taken off in a jiffy. The surface area and grip of chains is vastly superior to screws or spikes. There is a reason why military vehicles have chains added to the wheels instead of merely spikes in the winter. Try it and be prepared to be surprised pleasantly. Mine are made in the Czech republic so they might not be available in the US but i've seen a couple versions from different manufacturers in the US Kahtoola being the only one i remember off the top of my head. I recommend against half way models that have a rubber frame around which thin wire is spun. Yeah they have good traction and surface area but they wear quicker and are flimsier so they drop off far more easily. Tightness over your shoe is a must because even those drop occasionally off of the shoe wading in deeper snow.
Texans suffering from cold now? Stop playing in the night
Before discovering sheet metal screws I spent years looking for a good solutions to ice and tried a variety of chain contraptions worn over shoes. The ones I tried sucked. They broke easily and popped off in the middle of rounds then were very difficult to put back on with frozen fingers. There may well be superior versions available today.
Sheet metal screws have wide, flat heads with sharp ridges which grip very well but still have drawbacks. Once installed those boots can no longer be worn indoors due to the damage they would do to floors. I don't care about this personally. I use cheap shoes and boots to golf in anyway since I drag a toe and quickly destroy footgear. So to dedicate a pair of boots (or several) just to winter golf is fine by me. The screws wear down and need to be replaced. If the rubber on the boots is too soft the screws just pop out on their own. Now I know to look for hard rubber and flat soles. The more uneven the bottom of the sole (normally good for traction) the fewer metal screws it will hold. I put between 20 and 40 screws in per shoe (when you buy screws in bulk they are cheap). With a power drill they install in minutes. If you happen to have an old pair of boots there is little risk to trying screws in them.
Screws have been popular in Michigan for at least the last 5 years (I'm bad at dates so maybe closer to 10 years) and many if not most serious winter golfers here use them. Some players add just a few screws. I use more than anyone else I know. Then again, I throw forehand and bend down a lot to release my drives at knee level or lower. Without screws I slip out and face plant with regularity on icy teepads.
Of the players who have tried screws I don't know of anyone who is not sold on them.


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In addition, the company unveiled a new version of its virtualization backup product called Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition, which is designed to back up only virtual workloads.
Symantec, like many other vendors, claims that backup is broken. Citing a recent study, the company says that 49% of customers can't meet service level agreements because they have too much data, and that 50% of small and mid-sized businesses don't have disaster recovery plans. It says that information is being protected in silos, backup windows are being missed, and many businesses don't have disaster recovery plans because DR is too complex and difficult to implement.
With these new packages and services, Symantec is hoping to "unbreak" the backup problem.
Backup Exec 2012 has a new graphical interface that makes it easier for IT generalists to implement and configure backup systems. Within the Backup Exec family, the company is also offering Backup Exec 2012 Small Business Edition, for companies with 5-99 employees. The Small Business Edition allows for on-premises backup and recovery of data. Symantec also introduced Backup Exec.cloud, a service that lets small businesses back up un-deduplicated data into the Symantec backup cloud for $70 per gigabyte per year. This service is for customers who want to deploy data protection as a service and do not want to build out a local infrastructure for data protection. Customers who want to implement a hybrid cloud data protection model should purchase a copy of either NetBackup or Backup Exec with the optional Open Storage Technology (OST) Cloud Storage plug-in.
[ Symantec released a fix for PCAnywhere after hacker attack, but vulnerabilities could remain. Read more at Symantec Patches PCAnywhere, But Should You Delete? ]
Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition works with VMware and Hyper-V and is used to protect virtual machines. It includes deduplication to reduce the amount of virtual machine data being backed up and is agentless in order to facilitate granular application recovery. Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition can be used to convert physical to virtual machines or to back up to virtual machines. To convert physical to virtual, the software initiates two concurrent streams of data: one to the media server, the second to the hypervisor. This results in a backup of the full virtual machine, not just the virtual disk. In backup to virtual machine, the software initiates a backup stream to the media server and then runs a conversion job to the hypervisor. This also results in a full VM backup.
With NetBackup 7.5, Symantec has implemented three new capabilities: NetBackup Accelerator, Replication Director, and NetBackup Search.
NetBackup Accelerator was designed to enable businesses to meet their backup windows. It backs up only changed files and uses NFS or CIFS to backup NAS filers. The software reads and dedupes the changed files, sends unique data blocks to the media server, performs full data backups, and sends the metadata for the changes to the backup catalog.
NetBackup Replication Director combines NetBackup with the replication of snapshots and allows file-level recovery from any replicated snapshot. It presently works with NetApp snapshot technology.
Finally, NetBackup Search saves on the cost and manual searching of backup images for eDiscovery purposes. It allows administrators to save, edit, and export search queries, and quickly find relevant files in a backup environment.
NetBackup 7.5 starts at $3,995 for a 5-client starter pack. The complete edition includes V-Ray, Replication Director, NetBackup Search, and all other new components under a single capacity-based price of $12,000 per TB.
Backup Exec starts at $995 per server. Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition starts at $1,695 per hypervisor socket.
Deni Connor is founding analyst for Storage Strategies NOW, an industry analyst firm that focuses on storage, virtualization, and servers.
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The Nutcracker is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–92. Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E.T.A. Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky (written by Marius Petipa and commissioned by the director of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1891). In Western countries, this ballet has become perhaps the most popular ballet, performed primarily around Christmas time.
Among other things, the score of The Nutcracker is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda (premiered 1891). Although well-known in The Nutcracker as the featured solo instrument in the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Act II, it is employed elsewhere in the same act.
Even if you've seen this audience favorite many times you won't want to miss this splendid new Nutcracker. The entire family will want to enjoy this delightful new rendition of the world's most popular ballet, complete with mice and toy soldiers come-to-life, the menacing Rat King, the heroic Nutcracker Prince, innocent young Clara and the dozens of fantastic characters who carry her through a fantasy of snow and ice, grandiose gardens, and a magical land of sweets and treats.


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By John Hollinger, ESPN
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=79x8pp2O.J. Mayo and Ramon Sessions to Indiana in a 4-team deal (Proposed trade)
Admittedly, this one is a little difficult, but put the pieces together and it all makes sense. Cleveland trades Sessions and Ryan Hollins and gets back a great guard prospect in Eric Bledsoe. Memphis trades O.J. Mayo and Marreese Speights, and gets back a real power forward in Tyler Hansbrough and a real backup guard in Randy Foye. (Side note: The trade machine blew up once I added Speights to this deal, so I left him out in the link. But he'd need to be in it to keep Memphis under the luxury tax. Speights can go by himself to Cleveland and not as part of the rest of the package since Cleveland is under the cap.)
Indiana gets a guard who can actually pass in Sessions, a long-range shooter in Mayo, who they can keep as a restricted free agent, and a fourth big in Hollins, and deals out three bench players (Hansbrough, Dahntay Jones and Amundson). And the Clippers deal from their excess at the guard spots to fill in the roster, sending out Foye and Bledsoe and getting back a wing defender (Jones) and a frontcourt reserve (Amundson). If they really need another point guard I'm sure Indy could add A.J. Price to this swap, too.
(Finally, a quick aside on the Clippers -- heck yes, that was the best dunk I've seen since Vince posterized Frederic Weis.)


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Maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems (O30-O48)
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If you are pregnant with more than one baby, you are far from alone. Multiple births are up in the United States. More women are having babies after age 30 and more are taking fertility drugs. Both boost the chance of carrying more than one baby. A family history of twins also makes multiples more likely.
Years ago, most twins came as a surprise. Now, most women know about a multiple pregnancy early. Women with multiple pregnancies should see their health care providers more often than women who are expecting one baby. Multiple pregnancy babies have a much higher risk of being born prematurely and having a low birth weight. There is also more of a risk of disabilities. Some women have to go on bed rest to delay labor. Finally, they may deliver by C-section, especially if there are three babies or more.
Parenting multiples can be a challenge. Volunteer help and support groups for parents of multiples can help.
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The UIS Office of Web Services oversees the primary UIS website, including the campus homepage and the top-level pages of the website.
The primary purpose of the UIS website is to recruit prospective students and to provide information about our research and teaching to the community.
This office monitors compliance with the UIS Web Policy and coordinates all matters related to official department websites at UIS.
The Office of Web Services heads the Campus Web Team, which is composed of Web Liaisons who are responsible for the accuracy of content of the websites in each of the campus' operating divisions.
We focus on four areas:
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America's Family Pet Expo
Where: OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa.
When: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 27.
Admission: $13, $11 seniors 60 and older, $8 children 6-12; free for children 5 and younger, and active and retired military.
Information: 800-999-7295, www.petexpooc.org.
Forever friends, fur fashions, fabulous frills and a whole lot of fun — that's just a fraction of what's going on at the 25th America's Family Pet Expo.
Introducing new shows and products has helped keep the expo fresh, attracting more than 35,000 paid ticket holders each year, said Doug Poindexter, president of the World Pet Association, which produces the expo set for Friday through April 27 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
More than 400 exhibitors, manufacturers, retailers and rescue groups are expected to be in attendance as well as a plethora of pet-centered entertainment including splash dogs, wiener dog races, petting zoo, pony rides and grooming demonstrations.
New this year is the Extreme Canines Stunt Dog Show, a high-energy, fur-flying event with stunt dogs soaring for Frisbees, running through obstacle courses and more.
"We are so looking forward to performing at the expo," said Abby Cline, one of the stunt show trainers. "All our dogs are rescues from shelters. Along with a great show, we want people to see how great dogs from the shelters can be, and encourage rescuing. We want people to see that dogs don't have to have bloodlines going back 1,000 years to be really cool dogs."
Cline — rescue mom to Petey, Doc Holiday, Super Freak, Rosie and Toby — has been with the stunt show for more than five years and always looks forward to these events.
"Watching the looks on the kids' faces is so cool," she said. "They're always excited to see what the dog's going to do next."
There will be plenty of animals — from cats and dogs to reptiles, birds and most other pets in between — up for adoption, with experts on hand to answer questions to help attendees find what they are looking for in a new pet.
Rescue animals are a top priority for the expo, which has found homes for between 550 and 650 pets each year, said Poindexter.
"It's an amazing place to place a pet," said Mandy Stover, co-founder of Priceless Pets, a no-kill animal rescue in Chino that typically adopts out 25 dogs and 20 cats during the expo. "What's great is that people looking for a pet go (to the expo) to adopt. Not only do they have the opportunity to meet literally hundreds of pets, but there is lots of information available."
Adoption fees vary, which is another reason Stover likes participating in the expo.
"We believe there's an adopter for every pet and a pet in every price range," she said. "We don't feel there's a competition among rescues. There's just a connection that happens when the pets and adopters find each other, and it's so wonderful to see."
Adoptions are one of Poindexter's favorite parts of the expo. The Monrovia resident worked his way up to president from his start as an exhibitor in 1990 and couldn't be happier at the way the show has grown.
"We donate 75 percent of our space to rescues; it's our way of giving back," he said. "We're very proud to continue this tradition of providing exciting family entertainment while promoting responsible pet care.
"Every year the show grows in scope and size, from new product launches, educational seminars to our ever-popular animal adoptions. The expo has become the ultimate destination for anything pet-related."