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2nd August, 2012Butterfly populations are an important gauge of the health of local habitats and wider climate change. Faye Dobson explains what population changes mean, and how you can get involved in helping monitor them. more...
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17th September, 2012Tackling the population explosion is critical to avoiding environmental disaster more...
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Freedom Ride helps disabled
At 9 years old, Talia hadn't said a word to anyone outside her home in her entire life.
Doctors didn't really know why, but the shy, skinny brown-haired girl couldn't speak. They called it global developmental delay with selective mutism — the closest a diagnosis comes to explaining a mystery trapped inside a child's head.
One day, Talia met Titan, who had never talked at all. Titan, a chestnut quarter horse, was used to helping children. At Freedom Ride therapeutic horseback riding, he had seen many medical miracles happen atop his saddle.
The huge animal had a special bond with disabled people. He helped set them free.
Atop Titan, children and adults with muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis who were told they'd physically degenerate for the rest of their lives grew stronger and gained better balance. Autistics, locked away in an inner world, came out of their shells.
But Talia was a rarity. Atop Titan, she couldn't say "go" or "whoa". She just sat there.
"You'd see her try to make sounds, but she never said a word," Freedom Ride Executive Director Linda Chapman said.
A year crept by as Talia saw Titan every week. She would hop out of her mother's car, walk over to her horse and touch him without a word to anyone.
"You didn't know if she could hear you," Chapman said. "We had no idea what she was taking in."
Volunteers at the stables didn't know if she'd ever improve. But then, one day there was a peep — Talia was trying to speak to her horse.
With just a whisper, she said hello to a new world.
That's the point of Freedom Ride, housed in a barn along Lee Road just west of Winter Park, catering to disabled people from all over Central Florida. Riding horses gives people a sense of freedom from their disabilities, Chapman said.
"There's something about the horse … the horse brings it out in them," Chapman said.
"They seem to really connect with the horse. Some say that horses even see the world the way people with autism do."
All of Freedom Ride's hundreds of riders, who span all age groups, have some form of disability, but all are connected by riding.
David Sitts found that connection another way. While the 25-year-old Floridian was at his sister's home near Chicago, he spent eight months riding. When he came back to his home in Longwood, he was a man without a horse.
That's where Freedom Ride came in. He couldn't participate in the program, but he could volunteer. He'd never worked with disabled people before, but he knew horses. Now he joins an army of more than 300 Seminole and Orange County Freedom Ride volunteers bridging the gap.
"Everything that you get there is unique in and of its own way," Sitts said. "It's definitely an interesting experience working there. I enjoy every minute of it."
On any given day, Sitts may go from shoveling hay to helping a rider onto a horse.
This fall, he's hoping to volunteer three days a week.
"I love working with the horses even if I don't get to ride," he said.
For some of Chapman's volunteers, Freedom Ride is the most accessible way they can be around horses. The program's 13 horses cost $1,500 a month just to feed. That's a cost many horse lovers can't bear on their own, she said.
"You ask why they come, and it's for the horses," she said. "Owning a horse is an expensive sport. This is a good way to be around horses and get outside."
And while volunteers such as Sitts get to work with horses, they get to watch miracles happen, like Talia.
That tiny whisper to Titan was just the start. Soon she was giving commands.
"Go…whoa." Then she was smiling and laughing.
Then there was that moment that Chapman won't forget.
"One day she got out of the car, came to the barn, and said hello to everybody," Chapman said. "She knew our names, the horses' names, asked us questions. We were all in awe."
Talia's mother walked behind her in tears.
"She never said a word to anyone before," Chapman said. "Now we can't get her to stop talking."
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The National Dove Hunter Survey is scheduled to begin this month, and will be compiled by the end of 2013. Randomly selected hunters can expect to receive questionnaires in the mail beginning this week.
Survey questions will focus on hunter characteristics, time spent hunting, perceived constraints to hunting, and hunter's thoughts about potential effects of spent lead from hunting ammunition on mourning doves and other wildlife.
"There are more than one million dove hunters in the United States. This survey will encompass all regions of the country and will give us an excellent picture of hunter opinions and needs." says Dr. Ken Richkus of the Service's Population and Habitat Assessment Branch. "The Service and the states want to make sure we use the best science-based information for the management and conservation of our migratory bird resources and take hunter opinions and preferences into account whenever possible."
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WASHINGTON — Life…supplemented on Thursday announced its fundraising initiative, "Why You Want to Be Well," for Vitamin Angels for March, and will use Facebook to raise up to $5,000.
"Why You Want to Be Well" will feature 31 questions — one new question each day during the month of March — that will focus on one of the three pillars of health. For every person who posts a response to the question of the day, Life…supplemented will make a $5 donation to Vitamin Angels. Consumers can double their donations ($10 per response) during "Wellness Wednesdays."
Additionally, every Wednesday two participants will be randomly selected to win a prize for sharing their motivations, achievements and questions relative to the three pillars.
This is the third 2011 initiative that Life…supplemented has dedicated to raising money and awareness for Vitamin Angels. The campaign conducted its "Spread the Love Tweet-a-thon" the week of Feb. 14, which raised $5,000 for Vitamin Angels. In early January, the campaign hosted a 60-minute live video stream with host Hungry Girl Lisa Lillien and wellness experts, registered dietitian Dave Grotto, licensed naturopathic doctor Duffy MacKay, and certified personal trainer Andrea Metcalf. The event garnered more than 900 participants and raised $10,000 for the organization.
"It's an honor for us to be able to help raise funds for a cause as worthy as Vitamin Angels," stated Judy Blatman, SVP communications for CRN. "We're also encouraged by the heightened participation in our own campaign that has come as a direct result of conducting our fundraising initiatives on social networking sites and entirely within the online space. We will continue using these platforms in the future in order to foster more discussion around the importance of wellness and how dietary supplements play a role."


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Garcia exits rehab start after getting hit in left elbow
CHICAGO -- The Cardinals got some encouraging news earlier this week when it was announced Jaime Garcia would join Double-A Springfield this weekend to begin his rehabilitation assignment for left shoulder inflammation. Excitement over Garcia's first rehab start quickly turned into concern Sunday afternoon after Garcia was hit in the left elbow by a pitch in his second-inning at-bat and was removed from the game.
X-rays came back negative and Garcia has a bruise. He will return to St. Louis for further evaluation.
Tulsa's Harold Riggins accounted for the only runs off Garcia with a two-run homer in the top of the second. Garcia allowed three hits, struck two and walked one in his two innings of work.
Righty Jason Motte also joined Garcia in Springfield for a rehabilitation assignment as he continues to progress from Tommy John surgery in May 2013. He struck out the side in a perfect eighth inning.
Joe Popely is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Back by popular demand, it's the list of things you may or may not have tried the first time around. Playing it a second time makes a short game feel twice as long!
Did you…
Did you…
…watch a clip of your own show on the office TV?
…try calling someone on the office phone?
…shoot your gun out the office window?
…discover the dark secret of Mr. Spatula, the fish?
…try to sell something to Jimmy?
…(and try to buy something from him with a token)?
…try shooting everyone in the casino?
…beat Whack-Da-Ratz on the highest difficulty (super speed, no mistakes)?
…try to buy something from Bosco with one token?
…try to bribe the guard with one token? With ten million tokens?
…try to give Leonard his ten million tokens back?
…use the bug on every character in the game?
…repeatedly look at the monitors in the back room?
…(guess the identity of the office with the fancy carpet?)
…notice the one-armed bandit was broken before you found the arm?
…stall with Sam in the standoff with Leonard as long as possible?
…guess the setups for the two Max punchlines that Sam didn't know?
…come back and repeatedly talk to Leonard after finishing the interrogation?
…tell Bosco to look outside after delivering the bear?
…try to take the bear back after delivering it?
…use the cap gun on Bosco?
…try to fill Sybil's cup with coffee from Bosco's?
…annoy Chuckles by repeatedly talking through the car megaphone?
…look at all the things in the back room before entering the factory?
…use the screwdriver on odd things?
…talk to Max in every location at various stages of the game?


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Garageband for iPad was announced along with the iPad 2 yesterday. It could be considered the first mainstream DAW to go tablet. I like that Apple is pushing the creation/full computer side of the iPad with it's own apps. Garageband for iPad is in decent company along with iPad versions of iMovie, Pages, etc… You have to wonder if Ableton has a team working on iOS software.
"GarageBand for iPad gives you all the tools you need to lay down fresh tracks and record music anywhere you go." – apple
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Over the objections of dozens of Japanese-Americans who crowded City Hall chambers, the Glendale City Council voted Tuesday to install a controversial memorial at Glendale Central Park honoring "comfort women" -- a euphemism for the mostly Korean women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
"I think we're doing the right thing," Councilman Frank Quintero said. "I'm very proud of the city of Glendale."
Aside from Quintero, council members Zareh Sinanyan, Ara Najarian and Laura Friedman voted to let the Korean American Forum of California, a nonprofit human rights organization, fund and build a memorial on a plot of land adjacent to the park's Adult Recreation Center.
"We're taking a meaningful step to show our moral support, sense of camaraderie, and our sharing of the pain that our Korean-American brothers and sisters feel about this issue," Sinanyan said.
"I don't see this as designed to be a monument to shame Japan," Friedman added. "What happened to those girls was a tragedy, and that's what this monument is about."
Mayor Dave Weaver cast the lone dissenting vote -- not because he opposed the memorial, but because he refuses to approve any construction at the park until a master plan is developed.
Dozens of Japanese-Americans addressed the council, many of them denying that comfort women existed, even though historians believe about 200,000 women and girls -- mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipina and Dutch (from the then-Dutch colony of Indonesia) -- were rounded up and forced into brothels where they were raped and tortured by Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese government issued a formal apology in 1993.
Yoshi Miyake, 60, a massage therapist from Los Angeles, warned the memorial would "bring out hate crimes and conflict."
"Comfort ladies were nothing more than prostitutes," he added, drawing applause from some members of the crowd.
Andy Naoki, 63, a tour guide from East L.A. warned Glendale that it would appear to the world as a "city praising prostitution."
Few Korean-Americans spoke during the council meeting, but dozens of them posed for pictures on the steps of Glendale City Hall after the vote.
They held up signs saying "End Sexual Slavery" and "Government of Japan Must Apologize!"
The memorial will be unveiled July 30, and a surviving comfort woman will attend the ceremony. It will be a replica of the famous "peace monument" that Korean civic leaders erected across the street from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 2001, near where surviving comfort women have held a protest every Wednesday for more than 20 years.
The peace monument is a bronze statue of a teenage girl wearing traditional Korean attire, hands in her lap, feet bare and sitting on a chair.
Andrew Kim, a member of the KAF, stressed the organization does not want to strain relations between Koreans and Japanese.
"We are a human rights organization and our mission is to promote public awareness of this issue," he said.
KAF President Joachim Youn said he was proud that the council heard both sides of the issue, and voted in the end to approve the memorial.
"That's why I'm so proud of being a citizen," he said. "A 4-1 vote, God help us -- we really, really appreciate that."


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Erykah Badu just doesn't give a flying f-ck. She makes music from her soul, and she doesn't care what you think. She doesn't follow the norm, and she doesn't care what you think. She's a Vine-star in the making, and she doesn't care what you think.
Oddly enough, even though Badu doesn't march to the beat of any drum but her own, a whole helluva lot of people think she's pretty great. She's a mother, Grammy winner, and a rapper's Kryptonite.
Badu has five albums in her repertoire, collaborations up the ying-yang, the respect of her musical peers, and a staunch "I give no f*cks" attitude about the music business. It's not that she doesn't necessarily care about her fans, she's just unbothered by the confines that some artists are forced to fit within.
She can't be put in a box, and she follows her own bliss.
Check out examples of "10 Times Erykah Badu Gave No F*cks" in the gallery below.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, Jan. 10) Wisconsin grower-shipper RPE Inc. has introduced a new brand for its potato and onion lines.
The Old Oak Farms brand will be the Bancroft, Wis.-based company's core commodity brand and will be widely available on packaging this year, said Randy Shell, vice president of marketing and business development.
"In the past, potato packaging has consisted of a smattering of one brand for russet potatoes, another brand for Idaho potatoes, another for red potatoes and so forth," Shell said. "Not only is the plethora of brands confusing to the consumer when she's trying to determine the difference between "Brand A" russet potatoes and "Brand B" russet potatoes, but it doesn't give a display a consistent look and feel."
Russet, gold, red, jumbo russet, fingerling and Idaho russet potatoes and a full line of onions will be packed by RPE under the Old Oak Farms brand.
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A SPRINT finish saw Charles Pennington take victory in an extremely muddy Rough 'n' Tumble multi-terrain race.
The unattached athlete out-kicked Avon Valley Runners Michael Towler to win by three seconds in a superb time of 1:07.43, with the unattached Paul Pallister in third.
Following the start outside the village hall in Milton Lilbourne, Pennington and Towler had opened up a decent lead by the time the first mile was out.
And they were locked together in battle until Pennington edged to victory in the closing stages.
Some 600 runners took part in the 10-mile race, with the women's crown going to Chichester Runners' Fay Cripps in 1:21.35, placing her 36th overall.
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THE organisation responsible for planning and paying for health services in south Worcestershire is celebrating its first year of operation.
South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group took over responsibility for health services in the area on April 1 last year after Worcestershire Primary Care Trust was disbanded.
During that time the organisation launched a Better Together scheme increasing patient involvement with services and was nominated for a Health Service Journal Efficiency Award for its programme caring for people coming to the end of their lives.
It was also highly commended for its work to train more than 300 people as community champions and has formed a partnership with the University of Worcester to improve training for students studying medical-related subjects, while remaining in financial balance.
The organisation's chief clinical lead Dr Carl Ellson said the past 12 months had been extremely challenging for the entire NHS.
"We've made great strides over the past year and aim to build on this progress over the coming year," he said.
"We will continue to work with partners across the county to make sure that everyone has access to the best health services possible.
"We are continually looking at better ways of working to make sure that everyone can enjoy the same opportunities for good health."
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Ask any good comedian, running back or produce manager and they'll all agree: Timing is everything.
I'm not claiming to know anything about the first two occupations, but I'd agree that good timing can help define a produce department. In fact, fine-tuning the skill can actually build the bottom line quite nicely.
But before we get into this, one must be reminded that fresh produce is unique, even within the grocery business. We deal with products that have the shortest period to (as several of my old pals would attest to) either "sell it or smell it."
Or avoid it. We used to have a report called "Sales per $1,000 dollars." And while most managers would disregard this as just another bean-counter report, Tom, a wise produce manager I worked for, used to review it often. Usually as we went over paperwork for the week.
"See this item — kohlrabi?" Tom said one afternoon, running his highlighter along the green-bar paper line.
"This says we sell a fraction of a case of kohlrabi for every $1,000 in sales. Whaddya think? Should we even carry it?"
It sure made no sense on paper. So I said no.
"Ahh, grasshopper. Let me tell you something about this item. The person who buys kohlrabi is Mrs. Jenkins. You know, the self-described gourmet chef? She's in here every Friday. She only buys a bunch or two at time. But with this she also buys a huge cart of other produce. Now do you think we should drop it?
"Sometimes she doesn't even buy any kohlrabi." Tom went on. "But I make sure we have it in stock."
Tom made a couple of good points. First, he wanted to make sure we had this slow-moving item in stock for good customer service. But secondly, and more important — Tom didn't have six cases in the cooler at all times either, which would certainly turn up as shrink.
Instead, Tom advised we order a fresh case every Wednesday so that it would arrive in time Friday morning, in time for Mrs. Jenkins and more like her.
"But we don't stop there. Look, ours is a weekend and first-of-the-month store." Tom said.
"That's the time to bring in the more obscure items that I have marked in the order guide. It's a balance to provide the widest assortment to the greatest influx of shoppers."
Even then, Tom cautioned that prior sales are no guarantee of future success.
"If we have no sales of a slower item, try bringing it in every-other weekend instead."
The message was clear. Keep the order pencil sharp, but don't throw in the towel on slower-moving items. You can't sell produce if you don't stock it in the first place.
Armand Lobato works for the Idaho Potato Commission. His 30 years of experience in the produce business span a range of foodservice and retail positions.
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Chemin Neuf at Lambeth Palace
Four members of a French Roman Catholic community live and pray at Lambeth Palace.
Watch a short video about the Chemin Neuf community at Lambeth Palace.
In January 2014, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby invited four members of Chemin Neuf - a Catholic foundation with an ecumenical vocation, founded in France - to live and pray at Lambeth Palace.
This is part of Archbishop Justin's priority of encouraging a renewal of prayer and religious communities.
The four members living at Lambeth Palace comprise a married Anglican couple, Ione and Alan Morley-Fletcher; a Lutheran training for ministry, Oliver Matri; and a Roman Catholic consecrated sister, Ula Michlowicz.
Three prayer services are held each day in the Crypt Chapel at Lambeth Place so that the Archbishop's ministry, as well as the church and the wider world, is held constantly in prayer. The Chemin Neuf community at Lambeth Palace share in this daily life of prayer, while also seeking to further the ecumenical and international dimensions of the Archbishop's work.
The Chemin Neuf community follow in the footsteps of a line of sisters from the Anglican Religious communities of the Order of the Holy Paraclete, the Community of the Holy Name and the Sisters of the Love of God, who have served at Lambeth Palace over the past 24 years.
With 2000 members in over 30 countries, the Chemin Neuf Community consists of men and women, married and single, some who have taken lifetime vows and others committed for a shorter term. Its members, who come from different Christian denominations, are united by their faith in Jesus Christ and the desire to serve the Church, the Gospel and the world.
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151: Mario
Title text: Why would anyone ever, ever say that? Please, nobody ever say that.
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One-upmanship is the act of surpassing another person. In this case, one female character is one-upping her friend's claim of being taken on a mountain hike with a claim that she was proposed to.
Mario is the major figure in the Super Mario series. In the games, completing specific conditions causes a "1-up" to appear on screen, referring to an additional life. The comic relies on the homonym of the action of one-upmanship and the event of one-ups in Mario.
In the title text, Randall implies that this is a pretty bad joke.
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- Megan: For our anniversary, my boyfriend took me hiking in the mountains.
- Ponytail: My boyfriend proposed to me.
- Ponytail: They should call you Mario, 'cause you just got <<1 up'd.>>
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Mario is not the star, Mario's the plumber. Muahaha. --Kronf (talk) 12:24, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Am I the only person intrigued by the fact that he used European quotes («»)?184.108.40.206 22:21, 2 February 2017 (UTC)


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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- NASA said it fully supports plans to build a huge monument to the Wright Brothers at a high-profile interstate highway interchange near their Dayton hometown -- and has even offered to help conduct computer testing of the monument's design.
"We have support of it even at the level of the administrator of NASA," Ray Lugo, director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, told The Dayton Daily News for a story published Wednesday.
The Glenn Research Center plans to run tests on a computer model of the 250-foot-tall monument using NASA simulation codes that vary wind speed, direction, temperature and air density, Lugo said.
Lugo said the model also could be tested using NASA codes for ice formation on airplanes to determine the effects of winter weather. It will be done under the umbrella of a Space Act Agreement, which is a legal agreement between NASA and a private entity, Lugo said. The agreement will be framed in the coming months, he said.
The cost of the testing has not been determined, but it's expected to be less than $100,000.
The proposed Wright Monument is an oversized replica of Orville and Wilbur Wright's 1905 Wright Flyer III atop a pedestal. It was first proposed in 2005 by the Wright Image Group, a local nonprofit organization.
The monument would be visible to motorists in more than 52 million vehicles each year and identify Dayton with the Wright brothers and the birth of aviation, officials said.
About $1 million has been raised toward the project's estimated $12 million cost, including private donations and in-kind contributions, said group spokesman Curt Nelson.
Nelson said a physical scale model of the monument was successfully tested earlier this year by University of Dayton students using a small wind tunnel. Ohio State University Aerospace Engineering students also will perform computer analysis of wind effects on the proposed monument.
Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com


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A number of big releases will this week enjoy significant discounts on Nintendo's Wii U eShop digital game store.
Ubisoft has cut the price of all of its Wii U games, with big-hitters Zombi U and Assassin's Creed III cut from (the admittedly extraordinarily high) £54.99 to £29.99.
Several have also been cut from £39.99 to £19.99 – Just Dance 4, Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, Rabbids Land, Sports Connection and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013.
The cuts come as retail continues to discount the Wii U hardware in an effort to try and stimulate UK sales.


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'Fifty Shades of Grey' Makes Most Challenged Books List
The American Library Association has released its popular list of the most challenged books in America.
A perennial highlight of Banned Books Week is the Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, compiled annually by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF). OIF collects reports on book challenges from librarians, teachers, concerned individuals and press reports. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness. In 2012, OIF received 464 reports on attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves. This is an increase from 2011 totals, which stood at 326 attempts.
Captain Underpants
Offensive language, unsuited for age group
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit
Thirteen Reasons Why
Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide
Fifty Shades of Grey
Offensive language, graphic sexual content
And Tango Makes Three
Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
The Kite Runner
Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
Looking for Alaska
Offensive language, sexually explicit
Scary Stories
Unsuited for age group
The Glass Castle


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Free and cheap things to do with kids this week
I hate to break it to you, but Christmas events are already popping up, but on the bright side they are fun and usually free. We also have some fun fall festivals this week and lots of wallet-friendly options this week as you try to block out the coming holiday season from your memory banks:
We've barely had time to put away the plastic skeletons and vampire teeth and lo and behold Santa arrives at many of our local malls, and two of the most popular holiday events are getting under way this weekend. It's the first week for Disney's after-hours Christmas celebration, Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. This separate-ticket event has a Christmas parade, fireworks show, holiday characters and "snow" on Main Street. It's $53.95-$67.95 at Walt Disney World at 7 p.m. Friday and Monday. And if you're dreaming of a white Christmas, the ice sculptures and real snow in the 9-degree splendor of Ice! at Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando is as close as you'll get to a winter wonderland in Florida. It features two million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures by artists brought in from China and 40 tons of real snow creating a North Pole Carnival attraction with a Madagascar theme. It runs Saturday through Jan. 1. $22.99-$27.99, $20.99-$25.99 seniors, $13.99 ages 4-11, 3 and younger free. Gaylord Palms Resort, 6000 W Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee. (407) 586-2000.
This weekend's Pasco EcoFest is packed with activities for outdoor activists and nature lovers, with kayaking, bird watching, hiking, riverboat rides, fishing, a swamp tromp, drum circles, an EcoMart, educational workshops and talks, pet adoption, a geo-caching challenge, concerts and an art show. Activities take place in six different Pasco County parks and various other locations. Check the website pascoecofest.com for a complete schedule of activities and their locations. Free from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday.
Rarely does an arts event offer something for everyone but the Eckerd College Art Celebration in St. Petersburg does just that on Saturday during an all-day celebration of the arts. A visual arts show, musical performances, poetry and fiction readings and Legally Blonde, The Musical will be on the campus and it's all free. Students, faculty and staff have come together to present a rich selection of creativity that will tempt you to stay for the day on the college's lovely campus at 4200 54th Ave. S., St. Petersburg. The only event requiring tickets (though they're free) is Legally Blonde, which will be available throughout the day while they last. See www.eckerd.edu/news/cra.php for a schedule.
Holiday Gift Market The Junior League of Tampa heads up a big weekend for bargain hunters and the passionate arts and crafts crowd with its annual Holiday Gift Market on Friday, Saturday and Nov. 11 at the Florida State Fairgrounds. More than 140 merchants from Tampa Bay and around the nation will be on hand. Special events include Breakfast with Santa, celebrity chef demos and a Man Cave. It runs 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 11. The cost is $8 at the door, $6 for parking.
Opa! Celebrate Greek heritage, culture, Mediterranean cuisine, wine, shopping and dancing in the spirit of Greece at the Tampa Greek Festival. That means spanakopita, baklava and traditional costumes. Proceeds benefit the church and LifePath Hospice. $1 advance, $2 at the door; 11 and younger free; everyone free 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday; military with ID free. St. John Greek Orthodox Church, 2418 W Swann Ave., Tampa. (813) 876-8830. It runs 11 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.
Though it had some bumps because of a lack of insurance, Cirque Italia a European-style, big top circus, has resumed its scheduled run through Dec. 2 at MOSI ($25-$40 for adults, $10-$35 for children 2 to 12; mosi.org). But the big name in the cirque circuit — Cirque du Soleil's Kooza — opens this weekend runs through Dec. 9 under the Grand Chapiteau in the parking lot of Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg. Tickets are $43.50-$143.50 for adults, $33-$104.50 for children 2-12. For info, see cirquedusoleil.com.
See a national touring flying tribute to the Memphis Belle bomber and to the crews of bombers and fighter aircrafts including the WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the Memphis Belle. Come touch a piece of history or take a 30-minute ride for a real life bombardier experience. Hourly flights take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ground tours 2:30 p.m. to sunset. Reservations required for flights. Tours free; $450 Flight. Tampa Executive Airport, 6582 Eureka Springs Road, Tampa. (918) 340-0243. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
This weekend you can learn a lot at the Egmont Key Discover the Island Day. Shuttle boats leave from the pier at the park to Egmont Key taking passengers to see costumed Civil War re-enactments, children's games, interpretive sites on the island's wildlife, as well as its history of military involvement, it's natural appeal and the culture of the old lighthouse. Food, water and souvenirs available for purchase. Last shuttle leaves for island at 2 p.m. and returns to mainland at 4 p.m. Benefits the Egmont Key Alliance. $18, $5 ages 6-11, 5 and younger free. Fort De Soto Park, 3500 Pinellas Bayway S, Tierra Verde. (727) 524-6595. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
Other family events this week
Family Campfire Night
An all-ages evening around the campfire with stories, a short hike and s'mores. Children must be accompanied by an adult. $5. Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, 1101 Country Club Way S, St. Petersburg. (727) 893-7326. 6-7:30 p.m. Friday.
Grandparents Sunday
One grandparent gets free admission with one paid child's admission. $14.95, $11.95 ages 3-12, $12.95 seniors. Dinosaur World, 5145 Harvey Tew Road, Plant City. (813) 717-9865. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.
World Drumming Festival
A day of drumming activities, performances and hand drumming in well structured drumming circles. Free (donations appreciated). John Hopkins Middle School, 701 16th St. S., St. Petersburg. (727) 893-2400, ext. 2121. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday.
Kidz and Rigz
The family event includes vehicles of all shapes and sizes including semi-trucks, monster trucks, race cars, children's activities, vendors and food. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Shriners. $5, $3 ages 4-12, 3 and younger free; maximum family total $25. Hernando County Fairgrounds, 6436 Broad St., Brooksville. (352) 596-1114. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Fountains Fest
The mall throws a celebration that includes live music, acrobatics, a fire eater, scavenger hunt, pet rescue groups, an appearance by McGruff the Crime Dog and prizes. Free. Fountains Plaza, 34824 U.S. 19 N, Palm Harbor. (727) 787-6173. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
Fairy and Earth Festival
Explore magical realms at this festival with musicians, storytellers, readers, speakers and fairy and Earth vendors. $5, 4 and younger free. Sacred Lands, 1620 Park St. N, St. Petersburg. (407) 704-2320. 11 a.m. Sunday.
Later next week...
Sanding Ovations Meet the Masters
Meet the sculptors of the Sanding Ovations Masters Cup competition, which begins Wednesday but really takes shape next weekend. At this special event beer tasting and meet and greet, there will be samples of Great Bay beers and hors d' oeuvres from Sloppy Joe's. $5. Bilmar Beach Resort, 10650 Gulf Blvd., Treasure Island. (727) 547-4575. 7 p.m. Wednesday. The sand sculptures will start taking shape behind the Bilmar through next Sunday.
Emmy-winning nature conservationist Jeff Corwin returns to USF's University Lecture Series next Thursday, Nov. 15, to talk about his work for the environment such as hosting Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin, and discovering regional foods that celebrate cultures on Extreme Cuisine. A question-and-answer session follows the talk. The event is open to the public but it's a good idea to arrive early; seating is limited and it usually fills up fast. USF students with an ID, plus one guest, will receive priority seating at 7:30 p.m.; doors open to the general public at 7:45 at the University of South Florida Marshall Student Center, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa.
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Judson, Churchill win openers
The Rockets edge MacArthur, while the Chargers pound Wagner.
Updated 12:46 am, Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Knocked out of the playoffs by last-second overtime shots the past two seasons, Judson coach Mike Wacker figured his team was due to hold on to a lead.
As an 11-point advantage shrunk to a one-possession game against MacArthur on Monday, a packed crowd at Clemens High School wasn't as sure.
This time, the Rockets pulled out a 49-45 victory over the Brahmas in an intense start to the boys basketball playoffs.
The Rockets survived despite making only 2 of 9 free throws in the fourth quarter and foiled MacArthur's rally in the start of a Class 5A bidistrict doubleheader.
In the second game, Churchill had no trouble handling Wagner's press, rolling to a 70-50 victory.
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"You'd like to hope that probabilities say what happened to us the last two years wouldn't happen to us again," Wacker said, as Judson lost on a 40-foot shot in the third round against Warren last year. "Experiences like this will help us in the long run."
No. 8 Judson (28-7) will face the winner of tonight's Taft-East Central game. No. 7 Churchill (29-5) will face the winner of Jay-Corpus Christi Carroll.
Judson led 43-32 early in the fourth quarter, but MacArthur chipped away while the Rockets struggled at the foul line. Marcus Harris had 20 for the Brahmas, who trailed 48-45 with 14 seconds left.
Instead of giving MacArthur (21-12) a chance to tie, Judson fouled before a potential shot, and the Brahmas' free throw missed.
Tanner Leissner led the Rockets with 13. Derrik Luster added 10, and Tony Allen had 11, including three second-quarter 3-pointers that gave Judson the lead.
In the second game, Churchill held No. 6 Wagner (22-12) to just four points in the second quarter, all on free throws. The Chargers took control from there and never trailed in the second half.
Sam Burmeister scored 13 of his game-high 20 points in the fourth quarter to help the Chargers clinch the win. Taylor Sutlive added 17, while Clint Lewis led Wagner with 12.
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Here's Reggie Watts doing a piece he calls Binary Existence. I think all musicians get diarrhea of the mind. We babble and have moments of awesome babble. Reggie manages to capture some pretty good moments. He's getting a lot of buzz because he's opening for Conan O' Brian's tour. Well deserved I think… Not long ago I drank some very sugar packed red juice and began beatboxing, mouth 303ing and screaming I am a robot over and over. I think I went on and on for 20 minutes. If I only had the best 3 of it on tape maybe I could be opening for Conan too. Ah well more likely it would have just been a source of ever ending embarrassment.
"Reggie Watts is a Brooklyn-based comedic/musical performer. Watts' shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness standup in various shifting personas, mixed with loop pedal-based a cappella compositions. He also performs regularly on television and in live theatre." – Wikipedia.org
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Through November 24, 2012 steer slaughter was down 2.4% and heifer slaughter was down 5.4% compared to the same weeks last year. Beef cow slaughter was down 12.7%, but dairy cow slaughter was up 6.2%. Year-over-year, combined cow slaughter was down 4.5%. The sharp drop in beef cow slaughter and the drop in heifer slaughter relative to steer slaughter are strong indications that America's cow-calf operations are moving toward herd expansion. This year's calf crop is smaller than the year before for the 17th consecutive year. I expect that the 2013 calf crop will be the last in this long downward trend.
Beef carcass cutout values were lower this week. On Friday morning, the choice boxed beef carcass cutout value was $193.17/cwt, down $2.58 from last Friday. The select carcass cutout was $172.23/cwt, down $1.98 for the week. The choice-select spread remains high at $20.94/cwt.
Fed cattle prices were lower this week. Through Thursday, the 5-area average price for slaughter steers sold on a live weight basis was $123.76/cwt, down $4.02 from last week, but up $1.48 from the same week last year. Steer prices on a dressed basis averaged $196.00/cwt this week, down $5.29 from a week ago and down 79 cents from a year ago. Steer dressed prices remain above the choice cutout value.
This week's cattle slaughter totaled 639,000 head, up 0.6% from last week, but down 1.1% from a year ago.
The average steer dressed weight for the week ending on November 24 was 874 pounds, up 2 pounds from the week before and up 18 pounds from a year ago. This was the 46th consecutive week with steer weights above the year-earlier level.
Oklahoma City stocker cattle prices were $4 to $6 lower while feeder cattle prices were steady to $2 higher this week with prices for medium and large frame #1 steers: 400-450# $171-$188, 450-500# $159-$165, 500-550# $152.50-$166, 550-600# $145-$159, 600-650# $142-$156, 650-700# $136-$153.25, 700-750# $138.50-$149.85, 750-800# $142-$147.50, 800-900# $140-$149.35, and 900-1000# $132-$139/cwt.
Live cattle futures prices ended the week close to where they started. The December live cattle futures contract closed at $125.87/cwt, down 85 cents from the previous Friday. February cattle settled at $130.40/cwt, unchanged for the week. April fed cattle contracts settled at $134.47/cwt, down 10 cents. The June fed cattle contract ended the week at $130.65.
January feeder cattle futures ended the week at $148.77/cwt, $3.15 higher than last Friday. March feeders closed at $151.15/cwt, up $2.73 for the week. The April feeder cattle contract ended the week at $152.40/cwt.
Source: Ron Plain and Scott Brown


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Finals is a defensive clinicBy John Hollinger
ESPN Insider
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How Detroit was able to win Game 3
If you're looking for offensive explosions, you might have to wait until November. The 2005 NBA Finals have been all about defense in the first two games. Neither team has reached 100 points yet in fact, Detroit hasn't even reached 80.
This shouldn't surprise anybody who followed the two clubs when they routinely suffocated opponents' attacks during the regular season. The Spurs ranked No. 1 in defensive efficiency (my measure of points allowed per 100 possessions) at 95.8, while the Pistons weren't too shabby themselves, finishing third at 97.9.
They're not exactly Johnny-come-latelies, either. A year ago, the Spurs were first and the Pistons a close second, and of course it was Detroit's dominating defense that put the kibosh on the Lakers' dynasty in the 2004 Finals.
Each team's strengths have been obvious in the first two games, and a few from last night stand out:
Early in the first quarter, Tayshaun Prince posted up Manu Ginobili on the right block. It's usually a bread-and-butter play for Detroit, but it has netted the Pistons virtually nothing against the Spurs. First, Ginobili fronts Prince to make the entry pass difficult. Then, once Prince catches, Ginobili overplays Prince's dominant left hand. This sets up a spin baseline for Prince, but that's exactly where San Antonio wants him to go, because Tim Duncan is waiting on the baseline. With no options, Prince can only return the ball back outside.
In the second quarter, Brent Barry brought the ball up the right sideline as a few other Spurs jogged upcourt. Normally this is no big deal, but Detroit's ball hawks smell blood. Richard Hamilton and Lindsey Hunter ad lib a trap as Barry crosses midcourt. Carlos Arroyo cuts off the closest passing lane, forcing Barry to throw crosscourt. Rasheed Wallace steps in to intercept the pass and starts a Detroit fast break.
One of the most common maneuvers in pro basketball is for a guard to penetrate on one side, go under the basket and throw it to the opposite corner for an open jumper. That move has done nothing for either side in the Finals, because Detroit and San Antonio rotate so quickly, the man in the opposite corner is covered. Both teams had multiple turnovers trying this play in Game 2.
Even the mistakes stand out. In the third quarter, Barry and Robert Horry botched a pick-and-roll defense, leaving Wallace wide open for a jumper. It might have been the only defensive miscue San Antonio made all night, and the Spurs were up by 17 at the time. But that didn't stop Gregg Popovich from calling a timeout and berating the both of them.
Considering such defensive dynamos are battling for the championship, let's take a look at what makes these two defenses tick. As you'll see, they have very different ways of accomplishing the same result:
Stopping the 3
The Spurs' specialty is starving opponents of 3-point shots. They figure they won't have to deal with a hot 3-point shooter if they never allow a good look from downtown, and it seems to be working. San Antonio permitted only 10.0 3-point attempts per game this season, leading the league. Considering the league average was 15.8, the Spurs cut out more than a third of their opponents' tries from out there.
Detroit gave up more of an average total of 14.8 per game. However, the Pistons excelled at something else reducing the percentage. Detroit ranked second in 3-point percentage against, holding opponents to 33.8 percent shooting from beyond the arc. San Antonio permitted 36.7 percent, which was worse than the league average. Overall, the Spurs reduced quantity while the Pistons reduced quality.
Avoiding fouls
Detroit was one of the best in the league at this, and had to be. With a rotation that had only six quality players, it behooved the Pistons to avoid foul trouble at all costs. They did it, allowing only 21.8 free-throw attempts per game. That narrowly missed being the league's best figure Phoenix allowed 21.6. Of course, the Suns played much less intense defense, making the Pistons' accomplishment much more impressive.
San Antonio also fared well here. The Spurs allowed 23.8 foul shots per game, sixth in the NBA. Interestingly, the Spurs' defensive stats might have been even better if they hadn't been slightly unlucky with their opponents' foul shooting. Teams shot 76.8 percent from the line against the Spurs, beating the league average of 75.6 percent. Since one can't "defend" foul shots, this suggests the Spurs were about 0.2 points per game better than their already awesome stats indicate.
Forcing turnovers
Surprise, surprise. If you think of great defenses as swarming masses that force turnovers in bunches, these two teams might change your opinion. As great as they are in other areas, neither is particularly great at forcing turnovers. San Antonio was above average, creating miscues on 15.8 percent of opponent possessions to rank sixth in the league, but that still put the Spurs behind the Bobcats. Meanwhile, Detroit opponents turned it over just 14.5 percent of the time, putting the Pistons in the bottom half of the league.
Additionally, the turnovers that both teams forced tended to be offensive errors rather than sly pickpocketing. Both clubs were below the league average in steals, meaning most of the turnovers came on plays such as offensive fouls, shot-clock violations and the like.
Getting the boards
Good luck getting second shots against these teams. Controlling the defensive glass is a double whammy, as it also eliminates the high-percentage putbacks that pad a team's field-goal percentage. As former Detroit coach Chuck Daly recently told the Detroit Free Press about the current Pistons, "We didn't give up second shots, we rebounded, took care of things so the other team only got one crack to score. And that's what they're doing. It's a solid formula that works."
Indeed it does. San Antonio ranked third in defensive rebounding percentage, while the Pistons were fifth. This category is doubly important for both teams, because they both force so many missed shots. Since they create relatively few turnovers and rarely foul, there are tons of shots clanging off the rim when one of these teams is involved.
Forcing misses
Finally, there's the most important category, field-goal percentage. "This is a make or miss league," is one of Jeff Van Gundy's favorite quotes, and indeed that is what usually determines the winner. But against San Antonio and Detroit, it's usually just a "miss" league. The Spurs and Pistons were second and third, respectively, in opponent field-goal percentage.
Again, an example from Game 2 is in order. Hubie Brown kept bringing up how many close-in shots Detroit missed in the first half, but that's par for the course against the Spurs. The close shots aren't necessarily easy shots, because so many long arms are in the way of the shooter. For an indication of just how troublesome it is to complete an inside shot against either of these teams, check out another stat blocked shots. The Spurs were second in the NBA, the Pistons third. Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Duncan, Rasho Nesterovic and Nazr Mohammed all sent back more than a shot per game.
These teams shut people down because, other than forcing turnovers, they're good at everything. San Antonio is better at cutting off 3-pointers while Detroit is better at avoiding fouls. But in the big picture, it boils down to one simple reason these defenses are so dominant: They make it very difficult for opponents to make shots.
John Hollinger, author of "Pro Basketball Forecast 2004-05," is a regular contributor to ESPN Insider. Click here to contact John


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nocompass wrote:Nooo Jikan!
I didn't say "saving face"... I said, "saw my own face", as in, "recognizing my own nature". I've often come across "to see one's own face" used as a euphamism for recognizing one's own nature, and that was my meaning.
Sorry for the misunderstanding there, because your response really was quite helpful. Also, my wording about Direct Introduction was poor.. my meaning there really was unclear. I can see why you read it that way.
Oh, I'm so sorry! I'm adjusting to a new pair of glasses and getting everything all wrong. Please accept my apologies for misreading you AGAIN.


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Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Backs Paines Plough's First Portable Theater-in-the-Round
According to The Independent, Andrew Lloyd Webber's foundation has donated £150,000 to a traveling theater, the "Roundabout auditorium", designed by theatre company Paines Plough. It is the first portable theatre-in-the-round and aims to put grassroots theater back on the map.
Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough George Perrin said: "That idea was of the circus coming to town and being in a space that feels owned by the community. We wanted to do it on a small scale so it's intimate and all the focus is on the writing and acting, not on big production."
"It's a way of tipping our hat to the regional theaters and saying it's extremely important as a foundation to theatre in this country," added board of trustees member Madeleine Lloyd Webber about the foundation's donation.
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Paines Plough has plans to tour the 111-seat auditorium this year. The venue can be pieced together and taken down by just two people over several hours. Last year, the prototype made appearances in Sheffield Theatres and Shoreditch Town Hall.
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1. What's your NCAA tournament bracket strategy?
|Marc Silverman: It's like dating: spend a lot of money and enter multiple places, pick the "hot" teams, drink, hope you get lucky.
|Pete McMurray: Lots of beer, goof off at work, fill out brackets at the office. So, a typical workday.
|Jim Walsh: I always pick the team with the prettiest costumes.
|Elliott Serrano: This year I'm using the George Costanza Strategy: Pick a team then go with the opposite.
|Sarah Spain: If last year is any indication, winning is my strategy. BOOM.
2. What's the sports equivalent of dyeing the Chicago River green?
|Marc Silverman: The NHL watching the Blackhawks play—green with envy.
|Pete McMurray: Dennis Rodman circa 1996. BEFORE the wedding dress incident.
|Jim Walsh: Wait, what?
|Elliott Serrano: Putting minor leaguers in Cubs uniforms and passing them off as baseball players.
|Sarah Spain: Dyeing the patio of Murphy's Bleachers green after one too many Old Styles.
3. Whom should Northwestern hire as its new men's basketball coach?
|Marc Silverman: Chris Collins. Sorry, no joke here. Northwestern basketball has been enough of a joke for years.
|Pete McMurray: Hello Larry Wert! He's running Tribune now, so why not? Too much kissing up on his first day?
|Jim Walsh: Coach K. We UNC fans would be glad to see him go.
|Elliott Serrano: Yoda, since it's going to take a Jedi Master to get this team into the tournament.
|Sarah Spain: NU grad and ESPN's own Mike Wilbon, though he'll have to take a pretty big pay cut.
4. How will the Blackhawks get their revenge on Colorado for breaking their streak?
|Marc Silverman: Hawks sign Elvis Dumervil for a game. How's that feel, Denver?
|Pete McMurray: Take a leak in the snow while listening to John Denver. Sing with me ... "Rocky Mountain Hiiiiiggghhhh ..."
|Jim Walsh: Can't disclose all the details, but suffice it to say there's a goat involved.
|Elliott Serrano: Revenge is best served cold ... and out of the Stanley Cup.
|Sarah Spain: A Patrick Kane hat trick with all three goals scored via Spin-o-Rama.
5. What did the Cubs' Anthony Rizzo take from his WBC experience?
|Marc Silverman: The understanding that he now plays on two teams that cannot win it all.
|Pete McMurray: A hot Latina named Lucinda.
|Jim Walsh: He definitely has friends in Chicago, that's for sure.
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LORAIN -- Riding a four-game winning streak, Lorain took on state-ranked Amherst, who have lost two games in a row after winning its first 10 games of the season, in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at The Pipe Yard.
The Titans and Comets each had an outstanding pitching performance, as Amherst mercy-ruled the Titans, 11-1 in Game 1 before the Titans bounced back with a 7-1 win in a pair of non-conference games.
In Game 1, Amherst's Noah Skladan pitched five strong innings, allowing just one earned run on four hits.
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I have a Latitude 64 Pearl and Latitude 64 Diamond in their "best" plastic. Both are about 150 grams, and they are Latitude's most understable discs, and I can just throw them. I basically can't throw anything that is stable or overstable. I'm beginning to wonder if I need to stick with course, grippy plastics due to my 51 year old arm and lack of skill.
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Rachel Thibodeau was a star scholar athlete at Southwestern, earning an NCAA postgraduate scholarship for her prowess in the classroom as well as on the volleyball court. She says her Southwestern Experience was "stimulating, challenging and enriching."
Best lesson learned at SU?
I have learned how important time management is. It's really hard to be successful at SU without prioritizing your time and activities. This is a skill I will be able to use for the rest of my life!
Why did you choose SU?
When I was choosing an undergraduate school, I knew I wanted to play volleyball but I also wanted to go to a school with a high academic standard. Southwestern fit this criteria and had a unique sense of community that was very comforting to me. I was also impressed by how much focus the faculty placed on involving their students in research. I knew the opportunities at Southwestern would be endless!
What's the best advice you received from a professor?
Early on, I was considering graduating early, but my adviser encouraged me not to so that I could get the true, full Southwestern Experience. I'm so glad I listened!
If you had a super power, what would it be?
To read minds. I've always been so fascinated by how people think and learn!
In your opinion, what makes SU special?
At SU, you have the opportunity to get involved in and have a positive impact on several different organizations. Being an athlete, it meant a lot to me to be able to enjoy my sport and get a great education while also participating in a sorority and several honor societies on campus.
Do you have any fun, embarrassing or quirky stories about campus life?
On the volleyball team, there is a running joke that I am the charter member of the "17-0 Club." This came about my first year when we were winning a game 17 points to 0. We were hoping to make it 25 to 0, but I made a really bad mistake…one that my team will never let me live down!
After graduation, Rachel enjoyed traveling and getting ready for graduate school. She is now in a four-year Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama.


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A TEENAGE girl allegedly raped after being picked up in a car by two men and taken to a Blackburn house had injuries including bruises and scratches, a court heard.
The 15-year-old accused Imran Khan, 36, of attacking her in an upstairs bedroom at a house in Chester Street after she and her friend, aged 14, got into a Honda Civic, driven by another man, in the town centre.
The court had previously heard that Khan and Zhaid Mohmmed, 45, refused to let the youngsters leave the house and 'took advantage of them sexually'.
The jury was told yesterday that when the alleged rape victim was examined by doctors, she was unable to explain how she got the marks. She also had no injuries in the genital area, the court heard.
Robert Golinski, prosecuting, said the lack of injuries on that part of the body did not mean she had not been raped.
He said: "There have been a number of studies concerning victims of rape and I think the general consensus from those is that in proven cases of rape, the likelihood of injury occurring to the female genitals is between 15 and 20per cent.
"It follows from that, that four out of five victims of rape do not have any genital injuries at all." Dr Joanne Curran, who examined the teenager, said: "That is correct."
Charles Kayne, defending Khan, of Tenby Close, Black-burn, said the girl had played football and slept rough in a park for a period of time after the alleged rape.
He asked the doctor: "It is a matter of comm-on sense that activities like football and running about and kicking a ball could give rise to bruising that you are completely unaware of?"
"It is possible," said Dr Curran.
Khan denies rape, and two counts of detaining a child without lawful authority.
The jury also heard the police interview of Mohmmed, of Boardman Street, Bolton. He is accused of sexual activity with the 14-year-old girl in the kitchen, while Khan was ups-tairs, which he denies.
He has also pleaded not guilty to two counts of detaining a child without lawful authority.
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Topic: Compare 5FU-Based and Gemcitabine-based Chemo w/wo Cisplatin
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If it is of interest to you,please read.
Current available literature from uptodate.com indicated:
1. 5FU alone and older 5FU- based combination therapies- the objective response rates(OR ) is between 0-34%. Higher responses rate(OR=32%) are reported when using either infusional 5FU or 5FU with leucovorin(ie:using continuous infusion pump for 48 hrs);For unclear reasons,capecitabine as a single agent is LESS effective against CCA than for gallbladder(GB) cancer;(thus ,in my opinion and not from any other sources, Xeloda is more effective in extrahepatic CCA than intrahepatic CCA due to the physiological location of the extrahepatic bile ducts are closer to the GB than the intrahepatic bile ducts that originated from the inside of the liver for the intrahepatic CCA..
2.Gemcitabine ALONE-The Objective responses rate is around 7-27%; for Gemzar+cisplatin combination ,a pooled analysis of 104 trails of a variety of chemotherapy regimens in advanced biliary cancer (dose not included the famous ABC trial which total pt. pop=410,CCA pt=242;gallbladder=148;ampullary=20 that means this famous ABC02 trials is not exclusively for CCA either) concluded that the GEM/CIS regimen offered the highest rates of objective response and tumor control compared to either gemcitabine-free or cisplatin-free regimens.,however,this did not translate into significant benefit in terms of either time to progression(ie:the time from the last scan that shows no tumor growth or stable to the time the new scan shows tumor is growing or new lesion is discovered) ; median overall survival (ie; is the middle number in months of all the patients who survived.eg. if have 100 patient in a study,and the MEDIAN overall survival is 20 months;that means 50 patients will survive less than 20 months and the other 50 patients will be live longer than 20 months); therefore the Gem/Cis regimen in their view(the uptodate literature review panel) should be considered a standard option,but NOT the definitive REFERENCE standard for treatment of advanced CCA.
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DD played RG in college. They are making the transition to the NFL easier for him this season.
Beachum will be moving ahead of Foster on the org chart starting next year. Foster is on a one year contract and he will be allowed to leave next year. He will not get a big money contract to stay. We'll see how good the rest of the NFL thinks he is.
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AT THE VERY END of the contentious Association of Bay Area Governments' Executive Board meeting, dominated by Plan Bay Area, something big went unnoticed.
ABAG adopted the hugely important Regional Housing Needs Allocation for 2014-22.
Despite widespread fears, the housing mandate assigned to Marin's unincorporated areas and its 11 municipalities for the coming eight-year cycle is reasonable, doable and makes sense.
Marin will end up building a fair amount of needed affordable housing while facilitating social diversity.
Now, if they choose, local planners should be able to build that housing in a non-disruptive manner.
That's good news for Marinites desiring to retain the county's "small-town ambience." It's a blow to housing activists determined to urbanize Marin.
Marin's final total allocation is 2,298 new housing units over eight years. That's only 176 units per year. Of those, 618 units are reserved for those with very low incomes, 367 for low-income families and 423 units for moderate-income households.
The balance of 890 units is for market-rate homes.
They are of secondary concern because the private sector will easily produce those in conjunction with new developments providing "inclusionary" affordable rental apartments.
Income definitions are based on statistics showing the average Marin County household with a family of four earns an annual gross income of $103,000.
Typical is Mill Valley. Over the next eight years, it must zone for 41 very low-income units, 24 low-income apartments, 26 moderate-income households and 38 market-rate units, for a total of 129 or 16 units per year.
That's in contrast to the 292 units Mill Valley was allocated under ABAG's preliminary numbers.
In Marin's unincorporated areas, where opposition to the Board of Supervisors' fixation on large-scale development is most keen, only 185 units of all categories are required over the 2014-22 horizon.
These allocations can be provided by second units, residential-over-retail construction and a limited number of higher-density developments.
Blockbuster housing projects that many feared are not mandated unless local jurisdictions decide to approve them.
The decision instantly shifts pressure from ABAG to boards of supervisors and city councils. That's precisely where it belongs since it puts voters back in control.
The defect in ABAG's approach is that environmental review for new housing is limited. We short-change new residents if we don't make certain there is adequate water, schools and transit without further worsening traffic.
ABAG's new restraint is due to planners' realization that most "Priority Development Areas" created pursuant to the now-adopted Plan Bay Area will be built in the South Bay, the San Francisco-San Jose region's prime job generator.
That took pressure off the North Bay. Marin's total housing allocation is 2,298 units.
Napa's is 1,482 and Sonoma must build 8,449 new homes. Contrast that to mandates for 44,036 units in Alameda County and 58,836 in Santa Clara County.
Few will publicly admit it, but Marin's popular resistance to the high-density housing threat helped move the focus to counties where political constituencies want more growth.
That shift certainly wasn't due to Marin's supervisors, who never understood how to address the public's outrage over the county's infatuation with high-density housing schemes.
Does ABAG's Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation eliminate Plan Bay Area's promotion of high-density subsidized housing?
Not necessarily.
There are financial incentives for cities and counties to pursue the fast-growth strategy. That means that if Priority Development Areas with 30-units-per-acre zoning are approved, the spotlight will properly be on Marin elected officials and planning commissioners.
Columnist Dick Spotswood of Mill Valley now shares his views on local politics twice weekly in the IJ. His email address is email@example.com.


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- More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson's disease.
- Incidence of Parkinson's increases with age, but an estimated four percent of people with PD are diagnosed before the age of 50.
Men are one and a half times more likely to have Parkinson's than women.
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Three people were rescued by fire crews after they were trapped in an overturned vehicle.
The incident, which happened shortly before 12.12am today on Witham Road, Cressing, involved one vehicle leaving the roadway.
Crews used specialist cutting equipment to free the three casualties by 12.50am.
They were treated by East of England Ambulance service after a rapid response car, ambulance and paramedic officer were dispatched.
The casualties did not require hospital treatment and were left in the care of Essex Police.


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