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Special to the Herald-Guide - Oct 15, 2009
By Renee Simpson
The first edition features frequently asked questions about Animal Control, including rules and regulations for owning pit bulls and considerations for the parish leash and public nuisance laws. Questions are answered by Animal Control Director Angie Robert.
Future segments will deal with other government departments, including Wastewater, Public Works and Emergency Operations. All the questions and answers are also available online at http://stcharlesparish-la.gov/faq.
If you have a question about local government or its services to submit to Parish: FAQ, fill in the form located at http://stcharlesparish-la.gov/faq.
Dispose of cooking oil,grease in garbage
The substances, when disposed of down the drain, accumulate in the sewer system and can plug up lines, according to Wastewater Project Coordinator L.J. Brady. The grease cakes onto the sides of floats that control pump operations at lift stations and can corrode the equipment, causing the lift station to malfunction.
Please keep in mind that anything that empties into a drain in your household enters the sewer system, which parish employees and equipment have to deal with eventually down the line. Non-organic substances such as food wrappers and feminine products can also clog sewer lines. These issues can cause backups for neighboring residents as well.
For more information about what can and cannot be safely flushed or sent down the drain, contact Wastewater at (985) 783-5100.
Parish president will host second Veterans Day luncheon
Adjutant General of Louisiana Major General Landreneau has been confirmed as guest speaker for the luncheon. Landreneau is responsible for the deployment and coordination of programs, policies and plans affecting the more than 11,000 members of the Louisiana Army and Air National ?Guard.
All St. Charles Parish veterans are invited to participate. Attendees must RSVP for the luncheon by calling Dwan Switzer at (985) 783-5000 or e-mailing email@example.com by Nov. 6.
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text: Samantha Stosur - WTA Indian Wells odds Live Tennis Staff in WTA 7 Mar 2012 0 share Share Tweet Email Share RedditSamantha Stosur of Australia returns the ball to Jelena Jankovic of Serbia during their WTA Dubai Open quarter-final tennis match in the Gulf emirate on February 23, 2012. Jankovic won 6-4, 6-2. (credit: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images) We assess Samantha Stosur's chances of winning the BNP Paribas OpenYou can watch and bet on the WTA Indian Wells Open live for free at bet365 > live tennisSamantha Stosur is one of the top seeds in this week's BNP Paribas Open, and she might just prove to be a dark horse in the race for the title. The Aussie is the reigning US Open champion, but her performances at the beginning of the 2012 season haven't been particularly exceptional. She's played some good tennis though, and managed a runner-up finish in Doha, but she'll be disappointed with her displays in Australia in January.With Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova all playing superbly at the moment, there has been little talk of Stosur winning the Indian Wells Open. That said, Stosur has the ability to beat anyone on outdoor hard courts, provided that she's on form. Her powerful game can be explosive, and it could make sense to back her to win this competition at the lengthy odds of 20/1 being offered by Sportingbet.If you go for a slightly less ambitious bet, you can wager on Stosur reaching the final at 6/1 with bet365. Stosur may have to battle past the likes of Caroline Wozniacki, Sharapova and Sabine Lisicki in her half of the draw, but she might just upset the odds. However, she's likely to struggle even more against either Kvitova or Azarenka, who are both potential opponents in the final.


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Model of an eye, Europe, 1801-1900
The crystal part of this model shows the vitreous humour – the jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens. The copper covering represents the sclera, the hard white coating of the eye. This model may have been used to help teach medical students about the basic anatomy of the eye and about how light travels through the front of the eye into the vitreous humour.
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The organ of sight or vision. In man, and vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts.
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The transparent gelatinous substance that fills the eyeball between the crystalline lens (lens) and the retina.
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The white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball. It covers approximately the five sixths of its surface and continuous anteriorly with the cornea and posteriorly with the external sheath of the optic nerve.
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A Tribute To Phish with Lawn Boys
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The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) in conjunction with Consultants' Training Institute (CTI) Online Learning Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Frank A. Wisehart, CPA, CFE, CVA will present a webinar on Establishing Personal versus Professional Goodwill in Divorce, July 12, 2007; 2:00â4:00pm (EST).
The webinar program will allow attendees will learn the fundamentals of goodwill and the practicing standards of value used in divorce settlements. The webinar will focus on: separating and defining personal and professional goodwill, best practice methodologies commonly used in valuing goodwill, valuing non-compete clauses, and valuing buy/sell agreements. Participants will learn: how to determine standards of value in a divorce context, how to value and divide personal, professional goodwill, understand the factors that make an individual uniquely valuable to a business, how to properly handle divorce settlements, and how to avoid costly mistakes in valuing professional goodwill.
This webinar will help one navigate the narrowly-defined waters of goodwill and help to ease the clients' stress and anxiety in one of the most hotly contested issues in divorce â marital assets. Business appraisers, attorneys, and CPA's who work or may potentially work in family law will find the Webinar to be useful.
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I've been trying to write a wrapper to aid in win32 development. But for some reason I am getting segfaults when trying to access a class member.
I have 2 classes, cAPP and cWIDGET.
In cAPP I have a dynamic array of cWIDGET classes.
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But for some reason when I try to access a private member function from cWIDGET, GetHandle(), it segfaults when trying to access a private member variable, handle (of type HWND if it matters). I have no idea why it is segfaulting. I call another function Flush() before the GetHandle() function and it doesn't segfault when it sets handle to NULL..Code:cWIDGET* tmp; this->nWidgets++; tmp = (cWIDGET*)realloc( this->widgets, sizeof( cWIDGET ) * this->nWidgets ); this->widgets = tmp;
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I'm An Adult And I'm Addicted To Pretty Little Liars
You know what I did last summer. Well, you don't, but I'm going to tell you. This is kind of embarrassing, or possibly not at all embarrassing, which is something we can decide together at the end of this article. What exactly did I do this summer? Apply concealer as lipstick? Eat a soap I thought was a macaroon? Accidentally lock myself inside my apartment? No, those were all in September. What I did last summer was watch all the available episodes of Pretty Little Liars—the popular ABC Family series based on the novels by Sara Shepard that returns from mid-season hiatus tonight—in a matter of two weeks.
I would like to be less cliché and say that there wasn't a gateway moment. I wish I didn't go into this thinking "let's just see what this is like" and quickly become addicted, or that somehow I knew before I started that this would be a cannonball situation. However—despite some inklings based on certain plot points divulged in my Twitter feed—my love for this show took me completely by surprise.
I haven't read or seen Twilight, Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. It's not a spiteful thing; I just haven't. Maybe I'm waiting for them to morph into one giant book or movie about a group of vampires at a prep school who have to murder each other for ratings? (But if I found that entertaining then I could just watch Gossip Girl.) So why would Pretty Little Liars, a relatively much less popular adaptation, grab me when none of the big three Young Adult Crossovers did? (Yet.)
This question is especially pertinent, considering the fact that labeling something "young adult" lassos it to an implication that if someone like me—who is not a young adult (nor an old adult, thank you)—likes a certain work they are not a fully-formed adult, or are somehow regressing into some kind of frivolous or angst-ridden teenager. It is an implication that is pretty offensive to me, everyone who enjoys the YA genre, and I'm just going to assume here, teenagers. Those aforementioned big three book and movie franchises have managed to topple the YA stigma due to their sheer popularity—go ahead and read Twilight: Breaking Moons on the subway it's part of the zeitgeist so you have permission. However, there are few other examples of YA fiction of that are as free of judgment.
"Young adult" is such a bothersome term because it decides that certain emotional, faster-paced, first person, coming-of-age stories are for teenagers (or preteens) only. It's like when 1950's melodramas were labeled "women's pictures" because they appealed to, and heightened, the emotions of the audience (which was obviously full of soft-minded, hysterical women bawling over Douglas Sirk characters and their downfall via social problems). Some people, regardless of age, like serious-minded, slow-moving narratives. Some people like stories that are quicker, and more operatic. Some people like both, and they don't even feel the need to hide behind the phrase "guilty pleasure". I like what I like and I attended Catholic school, don't I feel guilty enough?
For the record, I'm not defending all YA books or television; most of it is terrible. You know why? Most television is terrible, period, and I love television so much I went to graduate school just to get a masters in watching it. There are enough hackneyed, watered-down, also-ran shows full of fresh-faced tormented high schoolers to fill a bildungsroman of DVRs (were "bildungsroman" to mean an extremely high number and not the German term for coming-of-age story).
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How to Design Indexes, Really
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MySQL users commonly ask: Here's my table, what indexes do I need? Why aren't my indexes helping me? Don't indexes cause overhead? This talk gives you some practical answers, with a step by step method for finding the queries you need to optimize, and choosing the best indexes for them.
I describe some of the misconceptions about indexing, identify common questions, and cover these main topics:
How do I find the queries I need indexes for?
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What do I do about performance overhead of indexes?
What are best practices of using indexes as my project grows?
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Ordinary water ice is known as ice Ih, (in the Bridgman nomenclature). Different types of ice, from ice II to ice XIV, have been created in the laboratory at different temperatures and pressures.
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Manny Ramirez seems to be living, um, large as a slugger in Taiwan.
(Must ... Not ... Make ... PED ... Joke ... Here. No. Seriously.)
And to think, this isn't even an official Manny Being Manny Moment. According to the blog Manny Does Taiwan, Ramirez donned the outfit as part of a team dress-up activity before boarding a train to a road game.
One possible reason Manny looks so happy: He's hitting .347 for the EDA Rhinos.
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Soldier Stuns Family by Returning Before Hockey Game
The NHL's Arizona Coyotes saved the season's best moment for the last game.
The NHL's Arizona Coyotes saved the season's best moment for the last game.
I love dogs! Specifically I like Chihuahuas, Dachshunds, Greyhounds and more. Dogs playing hockey is awesome! Watch these hot dogs high stick.
As our man in Nashville, Jimmy Carter, reported earlier this morning, Mike Fisher, one of Ottawa's favorite sons and a standout player on the NHL's Senators hockey team, has been traded to the Nashville Predators.
Is it just a mere coincidence that this happened, even though Carrie and Mike do have a home in Music City?
How do you burn off steam and stress? Well, Dierks Bentley plays hockey with his Nashville hockey team - the Nashville Iceholes.


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The large lakes of the world represent one of the most undervalued resources on the surface of the globe. Despite their dimensions, akin to inland seas, they have failed to enthrall man in the manner of the seas of the continental margins. Much of human development has resulted from the very existence of these sweet water inland seas which have been rewarded by being turned into major receptacles for the waste by-products of this development. Over the past two decades the visible and often noxious deterioration in the world's large lakes has resulted in a developing interest and concern by both scientist and layman in these unique water bodies.
In 1982, the First International Phycological Congress was held in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, and provided the editor with an ideal opportunity to organize an international symposium that focussed on the phycology of the large lakes of the world. Scientists from Canada, U.S.A., and U.S.S.R. contributed papers dealing with the large lakes of Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia.
This compendium on the phycology of the Great Lakes of the world is a major stepping stone in the development of a consistent approach and understanding. It stands at the base of the food web, it recognizes the importance of community structure and the fragility of these plants to anthropogenic stress. It represents the encreasing sophistication of the science of fresh water bodies which is slowly enabling us to effectively manage our lakes as ecological systems; to understand and control both food web interactions as well as the impacts of material loadings from our ever changing society.


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I can't believe I haven't posted in almost a month! Not like me! But I have an excuse-I've been headless with the final harvesting of giant pumpkins, tomatoes, harvesting the rest of the veggie garden, being 'The Tomato Lady' selling tomatoes at the Santa Fe Farmers Market AND planting the fall garden. What's that you say? Planting a fall garden? Am I not burned out yet of the season? Well almost, but I know I will crave something green in Dec-Jan so I sucked it up and planted some greens in my cold frame. They are already looking so pretty and green. So now that it has gotten cold at night and the garden has been put to sleep (I disconnected the drip systems), I will catch you up on what's been happening in the garden in the next few posts and what to do with all that produce!
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SeQuential Route Drivers collect used cooking oil (UCO) and grease trap materials from restaurants, grocers, and event centers, and then push off the oil to various SeQuential tank farms whereby materials eventually get turned into biodiesel. All drivers are expected to operate Company vehicles safely and pursuant to DOT and FMCSA regulations.
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• Collect UCO and grease trap material from accounts. There may be anywhere from 15-30 stops daily
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• Safely driving in the Bay area, and can navigates well in the city (SF area)
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• Ability to tolerate intense smells of non-toxic bulk liquids (used cooking oil and grease trap)
• Work schedule Friday through Monday 4:30am – 2:30pm
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What is Political Theory?
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- J Donald Moon - Wesleyan University, USA
Political Theory
What Is Political Theory? provides students with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the discipline. Ten substantive chapters address the most pressing topics in political theory today, including:
- what resources do the classic texts still provide for political theorists?
- what areas will political theorists focus on in the future?
- can western political theory alone continue to provide a framework for responding to the challenges of modern political life?
The authors assess the intellectual challenges to conventional political theory, such as post-structuralism and the scientific study of politics that have revitalized the field in the last 30 years. They also broaden the perspective to take in non-western ideas and to reconceptualize political theory in the light of specifically global challenges.
Students and teachers of political theory and political philosophy will find this book invaluable in understanding the factors that have shaped current political theory and which will guide its future development.
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Look!: Tiffany's Dining Room Before/After
We just heard from AT reader Tiffany that her dining room dilemmas have been solved (after a one year process!). She wrote:
Hello! I finally finished the dining room I've emailed you all so much about! I changed my mind about 20 times (wallpaper in the mouldings? paint the wood? augh!) but I think it turned out pretty nice. It only took a year! You wouldn't believe the deals either... hand me down table, chairs from craigslist-via AT scavenger no less! Antique rug from Egypt was a gift, thank goodness. Chandelier brought back from an antique store in Belgium, such a deal, and sideboard from Brown Elephant-$130!...
I even got the curtains on craiglist, new in packaging from Restoration Hardware-$400, paid $150, put them up and decided the color was not good, so exchanged them twice at the store, eventually got the velvet ones which were on sale, so ended up with $80 store credit! Nice! So this redo didn't take a lot of money at all. I think it looks so much more elegant, which is the look we were going for, we thought with the gorgeous mouldings in the ceiling we would make it more formal than modern. All I need to do now is possibly frame or stretch that Marimekko fabric over a canvas... AT, thanks for your help!
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That's good news because there's more room to improve economy than VO2 max, which is largely limited by genetics. Here's how to do it.
Sure, Paula Radcliffe set the world marathon record with her distinct loping gait. But for mere mortals, floppy form means wasted energy. Research has shown that through practice you can become more economical. "The more you rehearse, the more efficient you'll become," says running coach Matt Fitzgerald, who co-wrote the book with Dugas and Ross Tucker, Ph.D. You don't have to analyze your stride; the learning occurs naturally as you gain experience.
Make It Happen: Practice running with good form at a pace that feels comfortable from start to finish. You shouldn't be huffing and puffing, or moving so slowly that it feels unnatural. Over time, your gait will become more efficient. If you're a beginner, just focus on logging miles. If you're more experienced, add speedwork.
Increasing the force in your stride will make your running feel easier. The more powerfully you can push off the ground, the less effort each stride will take, and ultimately it will be easier to run faster. "You'll feel like you have more strength in reserve," says Fitzgerald.
Make It Happen: Try plyometrics—explosive bounding movements that help you push off the ground. These exercises (see "Jump Up to Speed," below) mimic parts of the running stride and help give you more push-off power on the road.
Build up your all-around body strength, and it will be easier to stay on pace when you're fatigued. "It's about being equally strong everywhere, not just having your legs go fast," says Dugas. Any weaknesses can throw off your biomechanics and cost you more energy.
Make it happen: Core, back, and shoulder work will help you stay upright. Choose specific exercises that fit into your routine and do them consistently, Dugas says. "It's most important that you're just doing something," he says.
Get The Runner's Body, by Ross Tucker, Ph.D., Jonathan Dugas, Ph.D., and Matt Fitzgerald (Rodale Inc.), at runnersworld.com/store.
Jump up to Speed
Exercises to make your running more efficient.
Matt Fitzgerald, a coach and co-author of The Runner's Body, suggests these three plyometric moves to improve bounding power. Try each of these once a week for four weeks. Do them after a run, or on a nonrunning day with 15 minutes of jogging to warm up.
Stand to the left of a box or a platform that's about 12 to 16 inches high. Bend your knees slightly and leap up and over the box so that you land on the floor on the opposite side on the opposite foot. Continue leaping over the box in both directions for 30 seconds.
Stand on your right foot facing a platform 12 to 18 inches high. Bend your right leg and swing your arms back, then forward, and leap onto the box. Don't let your left foot touch down. Immediately jump down, landing on the same foot you jumped up with. Keep jumping for 30 seconds, then switch legs.
Stand with one foot ahead of the other with knees slightly bent. Squat, then thrust straight up. In the air, move the forward foot back and the rear foot forward. Land on both feet and immediately bend your knees to begin the next leap. Start with 16 reps.


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UTA In The News — Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Snakes come out in the warmer weather
Warmer weather brings out the snakes, said John Campbell, a UT Arlington professor of biology, in a KXAS Channel 5 story about a Colleyville man who was recently bit by a copperhead. The NBC 5 report also was published on the station's website.


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Technical assistance to support the WHO FCTC process
Since the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the interim secretariat of the WHO FCTC has been concentrating its efforts on ensuring that as many countries as possible sign and ratify the Treaty. Awareness-raising among politicians, policy-makers, health professionals and society at large is essential to this process. TFI is also providing technical support to countries to assist them in their efforts to strengthen their infrastructure and take the necessary steps towards the signature, ratification and implementation of the WHO FCTC.


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Every week, we'll use this space to track players whose fantasy value is improving, declining, or uncertain. We're not particularly concerned with hot or cold streaks - all players toss up a 2-for-10 game every now and then - unless they are extreme or seem to indicate an underlying problem or injury. Instead, we'll be looking at changes in playing time, rotation role, or performance.
Jodie Meeks, G, PHI – After a couple solid showings off the bench in November, Meeks was promoted to the starting lineup last week. Through his first three starts, Meeks has averaged 17.0 points and 4.3 treys in 28 minutes per game. The sweet-shooting guard is a perfect fit in the Sixers' offense, as he stretches the floor and opens up more lanes for slashers like Andre Igudola. Any fantasy team in need of scoring or threes should look Meeks' direction.
Terrence Williams, G/F, NJ – Williams' fantasy value has been up and down all season, but it's back on the rise after a stellar stint in the D-League. In three starts with Springfield of the NBA Developmental League, Williams averaged 28.0 points, 11.3 rebounds, 10.7 assists and 1.3 steals. He won't average anywhere near a nightly triple-double for the Nets, but the talented swingman should be able to put up steady production in all of those categories as soon as head coach Avery Johnson decides to start giving him playing time.
Amir Johnson, F, TOR – With Reggie Evans (ankle) expected to be out up to eight weeks, Johnson has stepped into the Raptors' vacant starting power forward spot. In four December starts, Johnson is averaging 13.8 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks in 30 minutes per contest. By the time Evans returns, Johnson will likely have done enough to hold on to the job long term. Talented rookie Ed Davis will also see a nice boost in value with Evans sidelined.
Jerryd Bayless, G, TOR – Bayless is another player north of the border who is turning heads. He has averaged 12.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 treys over the past four games while seeing 21+ minutes in three of those four contests. Bayless' playing time may be a bit erratic, but he is clearly getting more of an opportunity in Toronto than he did in either New Orleans or Portland. Bayless is worth a look in deeper formats.
Earl Barron, C, PHO – Barron is the latest Sun to be promoted to the starting five. The seven-footer hasn't done much with the opportunity – 5.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in four starts – but he does add a much-needed big body to clog the paint for Phoenix. He'll have a chance to hold on to the gig until Robin Lopez (knee) returns, making him worth a roll of the short-term dice in deep leagues.
Shawne Williams, F, NY – Williams has snuck his way into the Knicks' rotation, averaging 13.3 points, 3.3 three-pointers and 1.0 blocks in 23 minutes per contest this month. The 2006 first-round pick has never been given much playing time to prove he could contribute at the NBA level, but he appears to be a natural fit in Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni's fast-paced offense. Like other back-end-of-the-rotation types for the Knicks, Williams' value could be short-lived, but he is worth a look in deep formats while his shots are falling and the playing time is there.
Brandon Rush, G/F, IND – Pacers coach Jim O'Brien continues to plug Rush into the starting lineup once in a while, but the third-year swingman has been providing steady production regardless of his role as a starter or reserve. Prior to Wednesday's five-point effort against the stingy Bucks, Rush averaged 20.7 points and 4.0 three-pointers in his previous three games. On the off chance Rush wasn't scooped up in your league during his mid-to-late November surge, he's definitely worth the addition now.
Josh McRoberts, F, IND – McRoberts is another Pacer finding his groove. He has been starting at power forward all season, but it was only recently that his playing time has begun to register at 25+ minutes on a nightly basis. Through three December contests, McRoberts is averaging 12.0 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.7 blocks and 2.3 threes. Tyler Hansbrough has been relegated to garbage time, so look for McRoberts' increase in playing time and production to hold steady.
Nick Young, G, WAS – Despite Gilbert Arenas and John Wall both playing at 100 percent, Young has been able to pour in 50 points over his past two games. Expectations should be tempered because Young is a streaky player, but he is worth a look while he's filling it up.
Mike Miller, G/F, MIA – Miller (thumb) has been eying a return to action on Christmas since mid-November, but Heat forward LeBron James thinks his teammate's return is only "a week or two away." Last we checked, James isn't a part of the team's medical staff, so this news needs to be taken with a grain of salt; but it's still promising to have Miller's teammates think he is very close to a return. If Miller is available on your waiver wire, he's worth grabbing and stashing in most formats.
Rajon Rondo, G, BOS – Rondo missed Sunday's win over the Nets with a hamstring injury, and now the Celtics plan to "strategically rest" their star point guard to keep him fresh. That plan could lead to Rondo getting shut down for a couple games in the short term, so be sure to keep an eye on the situation.
Andrew Bynum, C, LAL – Bynum (knee) has finally set a target date for his return: Dec. 14 against the Wizards. He was originally expected to make a return near the end of the Lakers' upcoming six-game road trip, but a return on Dec. 14 would actually be the night before the team hits the road. Those in weekly leagues will have a tough decision for the next scoring period unless we hear a definitive word on his status before lineups decisions are due.
Aaron Brooks, G, HOU – Brooks (ankle) is reportedly eying a return Friday against the Bucks, but the speedy guard still hasn't participated in a full practice yet. He is hoping to participate in Thursday's practice, so keep a lookout to see how he responds in that session before plugging him back into your lineup.
Darren Collison, G, IND – Collison was listed as questionable for Wednesday's game against the Bucks after suffering a leg injury in Monday's game against the Raptors, but he suited up and scored 17 points in nearly 32 minutes. Collison's injury does not appear serious, but owners will want to keep an eye on him in the short term.
Yao Ming, C, HOU – The Rockets shut down Yao (ankle) for the rest of the week on Wednesday. The big man's return from November 10 ankle injury has been pushed back numerous times now. He was originally expected to miss only one week, but his absence will eclipse one month this weekend. Given his injury history, the odds of Yao returning to full strength and staying that way for the remainder of the season are unlikely.
Chris Kaman, C, LAC – After making two brief appearances, Kaman is back on the shelf with an ankle injury. An MRI on Tuesday revealed a deep bone bruise that could keep Kaman sidelined for a while. Owners won't want to make any rash moves until a timetable is set for his return, but make sure he's on your bench for the time being.
Kirk Hinrich, G, WAS – Hinrich started the first 18 games for the Wizards, but he was moved to the bench in favor of Arenas and Wall on Tuesday night. Over the past two games, Hinrich has managed just five total points while seeing 20 minutes per contest. Unless Hinrich starts logging 30-plus minutes again, his fantasy value will be limited.
Jason Maxiell, F, DET – Anyone who added Maxiell when he took over as the Pistons' starting power forward needs to start shopping for replacements as soon as possible. Maxiell still holds the starting gig, but he has topped the 20-minute plateau just once in the past four games. Pistons coach John Kuester plans to go with a three-guard rotation on a more regular basis going forward, which will push Tayshaun Prince to the four and Maxiell to the bench. Maxiell's window of opportunity to be a productive player has passed, so owners shouldn't be shy about moving on.
Jordan Farmar, G, NJ – With Devin Harris returning from a knee injury over the weekend, Farmar has been pushed back to a reserve role. Farmar still holds value as a backup point guard, but that only stretches to deeper formats. Expect Farmar's numbers to revert back to the level they were at before his two-game stint in the starting lineup.
Evan Turner, G/F, PHI – Turner was the Sixer moved to the bench when Jodie Meeks took over at starting shooting guard. Sixers coach Doug Collins insisted that Turner's move to the bench would allow the rookie to be in a more comfortable position with the ball in his hands, but the swingman out of Ohio State has averaged just 4.3 points since moving to a reserve role. There's still plenty of upside here, but Turner isn't worth owning in shallow re-draft leagues right now.


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Thomas E. Thibodeau
Friendship — Thomas Everett Thibodeau, 79, of Friendship, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 3, with his family and loving wife by his side.
Tommy was born in Friendship on Jan. 22, 1933, to Joseph and Myrtle Simmons Thibodeau. He grew up in Friendship and attended Friendship schools. In 1952 he joined the Navy and served his country for a total of eight years including four years in the reserves, after which he received an honorable discharge. He was a commissary and gunners mate on the S.S. Savage, which was based in South Carolina. While he was home on leave, he married the love of his life, Nancy Carlson.
After his time in serving his country, Tommy and Nancy made their home in Friendship. Tommy excelled in his career in lobstering. During the course of his years in this business, he owned a total of 33 lobster boats. Five of these boats, he helped build, and one he kept for only one week before selling it.
One of the many talents Tom was known for was his expertise in buying and selling. He did so well that people wanted to borrow his "For Sale" sign, saying that it they used it, their items would be sure to sell.
He was quite a prankster when on his boat. Some of his buddies would haul their traps only to find vegetables, pumpkins, or even a bicycle in their traps. One time he decided that his grandson needed some help keeping his pants held up, so Tom fashioned a belt and some suspenders out of rope.
Tommy and his wife celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in October. Together they raised three children. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; two sons, Gary and girlfriend, Colleen of Waldoboro, and Nathan and wife, Heidi of Friendship; and a daughter, Renee of Friendship. He was predeceased by his son-in-law, Arthur Tainter. He is also survived by nine grandchildren: Steven Cowan and his wife, Julie of Friendship; Adam Thibodeau and his wife, Angelia, of Waldoboro; Alicia Thibodeau and boyfriend, Elliot Montgomery, of Friendship; Nathan Thibodeau of Waldoboro; grandson and sternman of many years, Aaron Tainter and his wife, Erin, of New Jersey; Zachary Tainter, Caleb Tainter; and Simon Tainter of Friendship; and Sarah Gaudette Tainter of Camden. He also has six great-grandchildren: Genevieve Cowan and Izabella Montgomery of Friendship; Lei-Ann, C.J. and Nancy Thibodeau of Waldoboro; and Lilianna Gaudette of Camden. He is also survived by two brothers: Dana Davis and his wife, Marge of Boothbay; Theron Thibodeau and his wife, Irene, of Friendship; two sisters, Virginia Thompson of Friendship, and Barbara Simmons and her husband, Wayne, of Waldoboro. Tommy is also survived by an uncle, Melvin Simmons of Cushing, and an aunt, Glenys Harrington of Friendship; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was predeceased by his sister Eleanor Tibbitts and his brother Jody Thibodeau. The family would also like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff at Togus VA Medical Center for all the care and love they gave Tommy.
Services will be held Friday, Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. at Halls Funeral Home in Waldoboro with Rev. Alan Chamberlain officiating. Burial will be held at the Harbor Cemetery.
Arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Home, 949 Main St., Waldoboro, ME. You are invited to share your condolences with the Thibodeau family by visiting their Book of Memories at hallfuneralhomes.com.


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* EU energy chief to detail biofuels standards on Thursday
* Draft document warns on biofuels from deforested land
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By Pete Harrison
BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - Palm oil grown on recently deforested land is unlikely to be acceptable for use in European biodiesel, a draft report from the European Commission shows.
The environmental standards add to a growing list of challenges for Asia's palm industry, including Indonesia's $1 billion climate deal with Norway last month [ID:nSGE65209C] and consumer worries about deforestation [ID:nSGE62O0AG].
The European Union aims to get 10 percent of its road fuels from renewable sources by 2020, and 7 percentage points are expected to come from land-using crops such as grains, palms or sugar cane.
Within the next decade, that could create a $17-billion-a-year market, eyed by Asian producers such as Indonesia's PT SMART (SMAR.JK), Singapore's Wilmar (WLIL.SI) and Malaysia's Sime Darby (SIME.KL) and IOI Corp (IOIB.KL).
But critics charge that the multi-billion-dollar market will compete with food crops, forcing up grain prices and encouraging deforestation.
The EU's executive arm has responded with a set of environmental standards, which will be announced by Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Thursday.
The development of the rules has been closely watched by Malaysia and Indonesia, especially as early drafts appeared to remove all barriers to palm plantation expansion by defining the plantations as another type of forest.
But a more recent draft seen by Reuters on Wednesday ruled that out.
"Any change in land use, including for example a change from forest to palm plantation, must be taken into account in the calculation of the greenhouse gas impact," it says.
An EU source said the draft was not the final version to be launched by Oettinger on Thursday, but its meaning was the same.
"You cannot chop down forests and convert them to palm plantations and use those fuels to meet the EU's biofuel targets," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"Oettinger is trying to make certain that the EU biofuels strategy is credible."
For the EU, the priority is to ensure that biofuels make a genuine contribution to cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for climate change.
Burning forests to clear land can pump vast quantities of climate-warming emissions into the atmosphere, enough to cancel out any of the theoretical benefits the biofuels were meant to bring in the first place.
The new rules lay down criteria to reduce such impacts in the future and during in the time since the EU biofuel target was first proposed in January 2008, although they do not tackle the most complex impacts known as "indirect land-use change".
"Raw material should not be obtained from wetland, continuously forested areas, areas with 10 to 30 percent canopy cover and peatland if the status of the land has changed compared to its status in January 2008," says the draft.
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Greg Tobin is like a lot of American Catholics. He and his wife are excited at having a sacramental encounter with the leader of their Church.
The media, however, has other plans. Where the faithful see unity, news outlets will foster division and dissension, top media analysts predict.
"People are excited for a reason," said Tobin, senior adviser for communications at Seton Hall University and author of Holy Father: Pope Benedict XVI: Pontiff for a New Era (Sterling, 2005). "Those few who will be able to go are enthusiastic."
His assessment was backed up by a new national survey commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
In the survey, 58% said they view him favorably, compared with only 13% who have an unfavorable opinion.
Furthermore, 65% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Catholic Church, compared to 28% who have an unfavorable view.
The results were released by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson March 25 at the National Press Club in Washington.
Yet, journalists have different expectations.
Journalists are "all waiting for the arrival of the tidal wave that is a papal visit," said Terry Mattingly, columnist and director of the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges. "Above all," he wrote at his blog GetReligion.org, they are "waiting to find out what the 'real' issue will be for this papal visit. There will have to be a 'real' issue or two in there to cover, which means, of course, anything that can be seen as affecting politics and, thus, real life."
William Donohue, president of the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said that surveys will be at the center of that effort.
"I expect the proverbial silly surveys will be dumped on us," he said. "They won't differentiate between practicing and non-practicing Catholics, but will ask them all the same questions about whether women should be priests."
In fact, in early March, Cleveland's The Plain Dealer featured a Religion News Service story by Daniel Burke titled, "40-Year-Old Contraception Ban Strains Relations Between U.S. Catholics and the Vatican." The article began and ended with quotes from Catholics who disagreed with the Church's teaching on the issue.
The Washington Post ran a story about the Pope's planned speech to educators at The Catholic University of America featuring the headline, "Catholic College Leaders Expect Pope to Deliver Stern Message."
In the 1996 book Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium, an interview with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith addressed such issues as the "canon of criticism."
"I would stress again that all of these are certainly genuine issues, but I also believe that we go astray when we raise them to the standard questions and make them the only concerns of Christianity," said Cardinal Ratzinger.
Out of Touch?
But will this affect media portrayal of the Pope?
"I think Pope Benedict will be portrayed unfavorably [compared] to his predecessor," said Bill Donohue. "They'll say that unlike his predecessor, he's endangered ecumenical relationships. They'll say that his challenge to theological relativism has upset some Protestants and Jews. They'll say that he has injured relations with Muslims and that the Latin Mass is a throwback to the Inquisition."
Tobin shared some of Donohue's pessimism.
"The media's all wet about Benedict," he said. "They've tended to underestimate him and view him as 'not sexy', but he'll surprise them with what he says."
"I think he will have a message for the American Church that will not be dissimilar to his approach to the Church in Europe," said Tobin. "Although I understand that he has great affection for America and American Catholics, we are perhaps viewed by the Holy See as veering off the reservation. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't address that."
Why is he coming? Tobin says: "He appreciates history and the importance of the American Church to the universal Church, and I believe he's really quite actively seeking to promote vocations to the priesthood here and wherever he goes."
"The media wants to see the Church as out of touch," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis with the Alexandria, Va.–based Media Research Center. "Rather, it's the people they use [for interviews] who are out of touch with the Church."
Judging from the media coverage that John Paul II received in the United States, Graham doesn't think that Pope Benedict will receive any less critical coverage. In April 2005, the Media Research Center released its special report, "The Life of John Paul II: Shepherd of Souls or Antiquated Authoritarian," examining the previous Pope's media coverage in the United States.
Noted Graham, the largely positive coverage during his death and funeral was completely different to the coverage he received during his pontificate.
"Our Pope John Paul special report showed that they see everything through a very political lens," said Graham of the media. "When he did something they didn't like, they construed him as intervening in our politics and he got negative coverage. When he did something they liked, such as on the death penalty, they covered it positively. They want to impose upon the Church a democratic power structure."
Said the study:
"Reporters glorified and enlarged the influence of John Paul's opponents, constantly lobbying for what they called the 'many Catholics' who wanted to attack the traditions and teachings of the faith."
EWTN's Raymond Arroyo said that the coverage, or lack thereof, for Pope Benedict's visit may be influenced by ignorance, political news in the United States, and dealing with the protocols of the Church.
"With the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, they're going to be spending an enormous amount of time covering the Democratic primary races. That will consume them," said Arroyo, news director with EWTN, who will be providing wall-to-wall coverage of the Pope's visit. "The Pope's visit comes at a time when television networks are hemorrhaging. They don't want to dispense a huge number of reporters and commentators to venues."
"My guess is that they'll take some of the feeds of the visit — the White House, the U.N. speech, and maybe some photos from his visit to Ground Zero — and that will just about do it," said Arroyo. "They're not going to pull away for an hour to cover his talk at Catholic University or the John Paul II Cultural Center."
Consequently, Arroyo predicts that the major networks will reduce the Pope's visit to a few reader stories and 30-second spots "shoved between Hillary and Obama's stump speeches."
"They really don't know Benedict," said Arroyo. "From their perspective, the last time he came out of the hole was at Regensburg."
Based on conversations Arroyo has had with other editors and producers, there's a "great deal of ignorance" regarding Benedict. "They don't know him or his work, and he's seen as not as compelling as Pope John Paul II was. He doesn't have the same resonance."
Graham noted that politics isn't what's drawing tens of thousands to Washington, D.C., and New York.
"The media sitting in their newsrooms are worried about, in this election year, what effect the Pope's visit can have on Obama's or McCain's campaign. But the people in the pews aren't coming to see Pope Benedict for the politics; they're coming for the Eucharist and to honor this great theologian."
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Great now Lowry?
Great now Lowry?
Another injury???? WTF????
Jesus Christ The Raps are cursed lol
this is awful
the state of the raptors as of this moment is the worst its been since their inception.
this is horrible
Now it's raining 3s. Sigh.
Calderon looks older than Kidd
It's ok...Doug smith said not to panic people ;)
Other teams can pick it up a level, raps do not know how to do it. Watch in the 2nd half they will get it a bit closer and Devlin will talk about how much heart they have for making it semi-close.
This team has been awful defensively for too many years, i am not sure how they continue to have this reputation.
Lowry back
i wish our offence ran like utah's is right now.... Ball movement is awsome..clean looks every time...our defence sucks too!! this team is a train wreck
I feel like Lowry is forcing it. He knows his the heart of them team.
lowry, u beautiful son of a bitch
It all started when Jazz started to match our energy at the end of first quarter. It's when Casey decided to put in Grey and Calderon, two pf the worst layers to use against high energy playing lineup; both way too slow... now game is messed up as the Jazz are running around, over and through the Raps as they wish to
Man every game is a fight back ugh! any news on how Ed is doing?
Gray was the best option to box out Kanter. Johnson and JV were in foul trouble. Can't believe Lowry is back!
38 points that's all I have to say
Man, Dwight Howard. 2 points shy of a double-double after one quarter @ Thunder


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Experts predict close finish in Upper House poll
A political analyst is predicting Upper House elections in three Tasmanian seats next month will be decided by preferences.
Richard Herr says in Rumney, Children's Minister Lin Thorp will be given a run for her money by Liberal independent Tony Mulder and the former Children's Commissioner Paul Mason.
He considers the former Labor party member Cate Clark an outside chance.
"At the moment we've got four candidates that have plausible reasons why they might win," Mr Herr said.
The other candidates in Rumney are John Forster and the Greens' Penelope Ann.
In Derwent, previously held by former Treasurer Michael Aird, Mr Herr predicts Craig Farrell will hold the seat for Labor.
But he expects Jenny Branch and Deirdre Flint will also poll strongly because of their local government links.
"Labor would hope to be able to hold it but if they don't it could go to preferences," Mr Herr said.
"It will probably be a test of the local government connection, which might give Deirdre Flint a good chance."
Retailer Ray Williams and the Greens Philp Bingley are also standing in Derwent.
The closest contest is expected in the seat of Launceston where the incumbent, independant Don Wing, is retiring.
It will pitch former State Liberal President Sam McQuestin against Labor's Steve Bishop, business woman Lou Clark and Launceston Alderman Rosemary Armitage.
"It's certainly open without a well-known and well-liked sitting member," Mr Herr said.
"Without Don Wing standing it could go any number of ways and I think that's why we see a field where it looks like any one of the four could win."
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Kevin M. Hunt and Janet S. "Jan" Odom of Mississippi State University are 2010 winners of honors given by the National Academic Advising Association. Hunt is receiving an Outstanding Academic Advising Award/Faculty Category, while she is a selection for an Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit/Primary Role Category.
Hunt is an associate professor in the department of wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture; Odom, a member of the University Academic Advising Center professional staff. A Texas A&M University doctoral graduate, he joined the MSU faculty in 2001 and currently directs the department's Human Dimensions and Conservation Law Enforcement Laboratory. He previously received campus awards for achievements in teaching and diversity efforts.
Odom is responsible for some 250 undeclared and special non-degree students. She holds two bachelor's degrees from the University of North Alabama, and has completed graduate work at MSU. She joined the campus advising center in 1993 as a graduate assistant and became a full-time adviser in 1996.


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Asparagus Cheese Strata
Cheesy asparagus pieces baked between slices of homemade bread
8-10 servings
1 1/2Â pounds fresh asparagus, cut into 2-inch pieces
4Â tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1 16-ounce loaf of Italian bread, sliced 3/4-inch thick (I use leftover slices of my homemade Italian bread)
2 cups (8 ounces)Â shredded cheddar cheese (or more!)
6 eggs
3 cups milk
2 teaspoons dried minced onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1. In saucepan, cook asparagus with some water until tender but still firm. Drain well.
2. Combine butter and garlic salt. Toast enough slices of bread to cover the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread butter on one side of the bread slices. Place the toasted bread, buttered-side-down, in a greased 9" x 13" x 2" baking dish. Sprinkle with 1 cup of the cheese.
3. Spread asparagus over cheese. Butter remaining slices of bread and lay on top, buttered-side-up.
4. In bowl, lightly beat eggs, milk, onion, salt, and dry mustard. Pour over bread.
5. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
6. Remove from refrigerator several hours before you plan to serve your meal. Bake, uncovered, at 325 degrees for 75 minutes.
7. Sprinkle top with remaining cheese and return to the oven for 10 more minutes, or until center is set (clear juices).
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90 minutes
This dish is surprisingly easy to make and I absolutely love the flavor!! Be sure to cook it long enough... you don't want it to be too wet inside. I like to use extra cheese. I also recommend using homemade bread if at all possible.
I was surprised by how well I liked this recipe when I tried it the first time. If you like asparagus at all, it's worth a try, definitely!! My rating: 10/10
Average recipe could use some
Lets get some of the perks out of the way: You can make it ahead of time, it uses asparagus in a breakfast dish, and it has a lot of really good ingredients that make it sound absolutely enticing.
And that is where the problems start. The recipe is bland and the asparagus is a little strong. Not overtly so, but more than I would like. This recipe could really use some Turkey ham or Pastrami to even out the flavor. Other negatives, while minor, is that it requires "day old bread" meaning the store bought stuff wont work due to all the conditioners they put in it. This not a last minute / quick recipe either, so you wont be making it as a last minute item when on the go.
I am hoping we experiement with this recipe to get better results. Adding some fragrant meat may be just the trick to balance the asparagus flavor and accent this cheesy-egg casserole.


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How to Talk About Unemployment With Friends
Savvy Confessions: Friends Aren't Understanding About My Unemployment
This reader posted in our anonymous Savvy Confessions group, venting about how her friends aren't being sensitive about her unemployment situation. Do you have any advice for her?
Most of my friends are employed and well, I'm not. It's taking a bit of a toll on me when I have to listen to them complain about something minor about their jobs. As of right now, I'd do anything to have a job. I don't know if I'm being a debbie downer, but their complaints kind of eat away at me and I try to be supportive to them, but it's getting to the point where I'm sick of hearing them. Am I overreacting or should they be more sensitive and not moan about their jobs?
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Paul H. Cannon discusses the importance of vetting home daycare centers
November 9th, 2012
Day care can be one of the biggest expenses in a family's budget and shopping for the best rate is always a good course of action, however while a day care run out of someone's home may be the cheapest option, is it always the wisest?
Attorney Paul H. Cannon, of Simmons and Fletcher, advises the importance of thoroughly vetting a possible in-home day care provider for above and beyond just the cost. He has seen cases where a child will have an accident, but there is no protection because the business in not required to carry additional liability insurance.
There are three classifications for home day care recognized by Texas, so it's important to understand each.
Licensed Family Homes are private residences owned and operated by at least one adult with up to three children, of no relation, brought into the home. In addition to these children, the homeowner/day care provider can care for their own children or relatives with a maximum number of children set at 12. The primary caregiver for all these children only needs to be 18 years of age.
Registered Child Care Homes are structured roughly the same way as Licensed Family Homes except they are restricted to only six young children (who are not school aged) and six additional children who go to school and can only attend the day care home during after-school hours. The primary caregiver must be at least 21 years of age.
Licensed Child Care Homes are allowed a maximum of 12 children, but that number can fluctuate down if very young children are being cared for. These facilities are inspected every 10 to 12 months and the primary caregiver has to be over the age of 21.
Both Registered and Licensed Child Care homes most follow several requirements set forth in the Minimum Standard Rules of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and the licensing requirements in the Human Resourses Code, Chapter 42.
These requirements mainly cover education level of the caregiver, CPR certification, minimum amount of play areas, and other items. The full statue can be found by heading to this site http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/HR/htm/HR.42.htm. While there are several important requirements outlined, according to Cannon, one key item is not covered: liability insurance.
"Is your child covered if the caregiver negligently allows them to be injured," Cannon asked. "The typical homeowners' insurance policy contains an exclusion for injuries that occur during the course of a business being operated out of the premises. Thus, there is no coverage under homeowner's policies for in-home daycare operations. Additional insurance can be purchased for this, but many of the people who open these mom and pop home day care facilities are unaware of their homeowners' policy exclusion."
Before sending a child to a new day care provider, ask to see proof of any licenses they may hold and also proof of liability insurance.
"If your current day care provider cannot provide you with sufficient documentation of liability coverage, you need to switch day cares," Cannon advised. "If your child is injured by, or on the premises of, a home child care facility, you should speak to a Texas personal injury lawyer immediately to determine what regulations apply and what rights you have."
For more information on day care liability, or any personal injury case, contact Simmons and Fletcher at 713-932-0777. Simmons and Fletcher's law office is located at 9821 Katy Freeway, Suite 925 in Houston, Texas 77024.


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Do You Know How Your Favorite Fishing Lure is Made? [VIDEO]
I grew up fishing Montana streams and creeks. My favorite lure of all time has always been a red & white Daredevil spoon. And it's crazy how much of a Mepps spinner is still hand made today…taking up to 45 mins of hard work for your lure. Here's hoping your next cast yields a keeper and not a snag!


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Supporters of the Proud Bird restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport, which plans to close later this month because of a rent dispute, expect to ask airport officials on Thursday to grant the restaurant a reprieve.
According to an email obtained by the Los Angeles News Group, restaurant managers are asking supporters to show up at the 1 p.m. special session of the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners. The board controls LAX, which has been seeking to increase the rent paid by the restaurant, located just east of two parallel runways — 25R and 25L. LAX officials say that, to receive a new lease, the Proud Bird must pay "market rent," equal to what other airport tenants pay. They say they can make no special deals.
In a recent interview, restaurant President John Tallichet said the Proud Bird's rent would have risen about 250 percent to $510,000 per year.
A flier circulated by restaurant managers asks supporters to speak during the public comment portion of Thursday's meeting, which will be held at the airport's central administration building at 1 World Way. It also asks supporters to send emails to firstname.lastname@example.com.
According to the flier, the Proud Bird opened 46 years ago and employs 104 people.
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For all the big moments in Graeme McDowell's career, his resume was short on PGA Tour victories.
McDowell relished what he called his first authentic tour win, defeating fellow U.S. Open champ Webb Simpson in a playoff at the RBC Heritage on Sunday at Hilton Head Island, S.C.
McDowell's been at the center of some of golf's biggest moments, from his rousing triumph in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2010 to capturing the winning point for Europe in that year's Ryder Cup matches. He has six European PGA victories, too, but he hadn't triumphed in the weekly grind of the world's top tour.
"This game kicks you more often than it gives you a pat on the back," McDowell said. "It's hard to win."
Not on this day for McDowell, who pushed forward on windblown Harbour Golf Links when his rivals were moving backward, unnerved by the 20 to 30 mph winds that rattled the course.
He rallied from four strokes down when the day began to take a one-shot lead into the 72nd hole. Then after he made his only bogey of the round to fall into tie with Simpson, McDowell two-putted from about 15 feet to make a par on the extra hole that Simpson couldn't match.
"I guess the weather was what the doctor ordered. I needed that to get close to the leaders," said McDowell, who earned $1,044,000 for the victory.
McDowell, from Northern Ireland, had a 69, one of only three scores in the 60s among the 70 who teed off Sunday.
Simpson, reigning U.S. Open winner, shot 71. Luke Donald shot a 69 to tie for third with Kevin Streelman, who had a 72.
Champions Tour: Bernhard Langer, a three-time Champions Tour player of the year, said he's never had a better start to a season. Langer relied on his short game to bail him out of trouble early, and he added to his impressive start to the season by shooting a 67 to win the inaugural Greater Gwinnett Championship by three strokes in Duluth, Ga.
He had six birdies for his fifth top-three finish in six events. He also won the Ace Group Classic and was the tour's points leader even before his successful three days at TPC Sugarloaf.
"I've had very good starts before, but this is exceptional so far," Langer said.
Langer, who finished 10-under 206 for the tournament, took control with a 40-foot chip-in for birdie on No. 10. Tom Lehman, whose 67 included birdies on 17 and 18, tied for second at 7 under with Tom Pernice Jr.
European Tour: Raphael Jacquelin of France won a record-tying playoff at the Spanish Open, edging Germany's Maximilian Kieffer on their ninth try at the 18th hole in Valencia. Jacquelin made a 5-foot birdie putt to end the back-and-forth battle with Kieffer in what started as a three-way playoff including Chile's Felipe Aguilar.


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Kitchen Storage Idea
I absolutely love this idea! It's brilliant. Our kitchen is teeny,tiny and things get positively lost in our cupboards, and whatever's on the top shelf? Well... I'm not sure what's there, really. This idea is fabulous. You could even have a few of them next to each other. It may take the same amount of space as a cupboard, but everything will be easier to find!
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- SnookumsLooks good.Would be interested in making one.Does it have some sort of rail or stop to prevent it coming out too far and slamming to the floor with it's contents?
- LynleyOramGood point! I love this idea, and was thinking how great it would be to do something similar. I don't think it would take much to put a rubber stopper on the wall or on the floor to prevent it coming out all the way.


text: I was walking around a Japanese market/shopping center with my wife last week and we were shocked when we found a plastic container with four apples in it, or so we thought. The label on the container said they were patent pending Grapples (pronounced "grape-puhl"), a cross 'tween grapes and apples. It really shocked the hell out of us when we gave them a wiff because they look exactly like standard old Gala apples, but they smell very strongly like grapes. We didn't buy them because it was like $7 for 4, but I've never even heard of those suckers. I've heard of Broccoflower, but not Grapples. Have you? If you've eaten one, what's it taste like?


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The Dangers of Thinking Small
One of the most distinctive differences I've found between credit unions who are thriving in the new economy and those who are continuing to struggle to grow is the thinking of the CEO and the board of directors.
A lack of growth is usually blamed on the economy or unforeseen circumstances, but the fact of the matter is, credit unions that are thriving are being led by thinkers who are thinking forward, progressive and willing to make necessary changes to be more competitive.
Conversely, those credit unions struggling to grow or even shrinking in membership or asset size or even loan volume suffer from self-created obstacles I call small thinking.
The following areas of small thinking can creep into any credit union. See if any of the following small-thinking mentalities have crept into your credit union and are holding you back.
Sacred Cows
When working with credit union clients on strategic planning I routinely ask about the board's sacred cows. Usually the first response is, "We don't have any." After a little probing, I find sacred cows such as; name changes would never be considered, a change in membership is resisted but may be acceptable as long as the foundation remains the original SEG with significant board representation, social media marketing shifts; I've even heard resistance to changing the restaurant the board eats at prior to the planning session. "It's tradition." How can progress happen with such anchored thinking?
Sacred cows are usually anchored in the past or a board member's pet interest. Change is happening in the new economy at the speed of thought. What we used to measure in years and months now needs to be reviewed in days and hours. To thrive in the new economy and be proactive in your service to members, self-created obstacles only make the challenge for success that much greater. It begs the question: if you are always looking to the past, how can you progress forward?
CEO/Board Disconnect
Thriving credit unions tend to have unity of thought at the top. The majority of the board opinion leaders and the CEO are on the same page as to where the credit union needs to be heading and how to get the credit union to that destination point. With unity comes momentum. With momentum comes confidence. With confidence comes success.
When a board and the CEO are pulling in different directions, want to progress at different speeds, or have a much different tolerance for risk, there is no momentum building because there is no unity of thought. Therefore, the credit union struggles to find direction and battles are waged over minor issues to where meetings literally become exhaustive.
I encourage all credit unions boards of directors to have a conversation with their CEO to determine if everyone is sharing the same vision and roadmap. Unity of thought, effort and commitment at the top creates a better opportunity for a credit union to achieve its full potential.
Crisis Management
Over the last few years many credit unions have felt under attack from regulations changes, regulator demands, the Great Recession, growing member expectations, rapid technology changes, and shifts in their local competitive environment. This confluence of issues created an all-hands-on-deck crisis management mode for executives and the board. This prompted many board discussions about fees, staff changes, budgets and "how to stop the bleeding" of resources.
Instead of being a temporary condition to get through rough waters, some credit unions I've been involved with have established the crisis management behavior as the new norm. A crisis mentality is all about looking at the short term, looking at how to show an immediate positive blip in reports, and losing focus on the vision of where the credit union needs to be heading.
A CEO is responsible for developing her management team to handle the responsibilities of the short-term issues. The management is responsible for creating a solid work environment where employees deliver great service to members and perform sound business practices under any circumstances.
The CEO and board of directors are responsible for the vision and direction of the credit union. When the CEO and board become more concerned with small thinking and micro-managing details of the credit union, they have lost focus and have essentially "taken their eyes off the road." That is how accidents happen at the wheel of a car, and at the helm of a credit union.
Russell J. White is a consultant and speaker from Lake Wylie, S.C.


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Success in the USA
Audi Sport customer racing, USA, began their long-anticipated US debut in 2012 with the Audi R8 LMS. In a few short years, the US market has seen much success, winning the 2013 Rolex 24 At Daytona and the 2014 Petit Le Mans. Since 2014, USA race teams have consistently finished in the top three for driver and championship points. There is now a strong internal infrastructure with technical and parts support available throughout the season. Backed by support from Audi Sport customer racing, two new teams, Magnus Racing and Stevenson Motorsports, will field three Audi R8 LMS race cars in the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The new Audi R8 LMS features even more race car technology and is following in the footsteps of its successful predecessor. With two real racing tests, including one victory in two of the world's most challenging 24 hour race events, the Audi R8 LMS has proven to be a reliable and robust race car. A feature that is key to winning endurance races.
Audi of America, Inc. and its U.S. dealers offer a full line of German-engineered luxury vehicles. AUDI AG is among the most successful luxury automotive brands globally. The Audi Group delivered over 1,741,000 vehicles to customers globally in 2014, and broke all-time company sales records for the 5th straight year in the U.S. Through 2019, AUDI AG plans to invest about 24 billion euros - 70 percent of the investment will flow into the development of new models and technologies. Visit www.audiusa.com or www.audiusa.com/newsroom for more information regarding Audi vehicles and business topics.
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Autologous Serum Efficacy Study in Patients With Severe Dry Eye
This study has been completed.
University of Chile
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First Posted: October 24, 2008
Last Update Posted: December 3, 2008
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|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|October 22, 2008
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|October 24, 2008
|Last Update Posted Date
|December 3, 2008
|Start Date ICMJE
|October 2008
|Primary Completion Date
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To compare the score reduction in the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) between patients treated with autologous serum and conventional artificial tears. [ Time Frame: 5 weeks ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00779987 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To compare variations in objective eye measurements, such as Tear Break Up Time and corneal-conjunctival staining according to the Oxford Score, in patients treated with autologous serum and conventional artificial tears. [ Time Frame: 5 weeks ]
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Autologous Serum Efficacy Study in Patients With Severe Dry Eye
|Official Title ICMJE
|Autologous Serum Efficacy Study in Patients With Severe Dry Eye
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to compare the reduction in symptomatology of patients with severe dry eye treated with autologous serum and conventional artificial tears.
|Detailed Description
|Severe dry eye remains an important and frequent eye disease, that reflects in a severe impairment of the patient´s life quality. Up to date there is no ideal therapy for this condition. Few studies have reported some kind of improvement in different parameters related to dry eye with the use of autologous serum, but no one has considered the patient´s symptoms with a systematic and validated evaluation method.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 2
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
|Dry Eye
|Intervention ICMJE
|Study Arms
|Publications *
|Urzua CA, Vasquez DH, Huidobro A, Hernandez H, Alfaro J. Randomized double-blind clinical trial of autologous serum versus artificial tears in dry eye syndrome. Curr Eye Res. 2012 Aug;37(8):684-8. doi: 10.3109/02713683.2012.674609. Epub 2012 Jun 6.
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
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|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Cristhian A Urzua, University of Chile
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|University of Chile
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|University of Chile
|Verification Date
|October 2008
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Game Changers
Will Bernard Berrian Finally Step Up This Season?
When you bring up Bernard Berrian to Vikings fans you it would be hard to find one that doesn't scoff or roll their eyes. His numbers haven't been anywhere near the 6 year 40+ million dollar contract that he signed for.
Many Vikings fans including myself figured he would be a cap casualty cut this off season. With the departure of Sidney Rice and the willingness to restructure his contract Berrian is almost certain a roster spot this season.
Last night against the Cowboys we saw a great play from Berrian. A 50+ yard reception thrown by McNabb. Berrian also had a couple other grabs and another just missed TD catch. With Sidney Rice gone can the Vikings finally rely on Berrian to step up and perform like we need him to? The past says no. His new attitude and pre-season performance state otherwise. For the Vikings sake lets hope he proves us all wrong and dominates on the field.


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I browsed this good-looking, good print quality journal that celebrates a very interesting and diverse range of individuals and small businesses, which I know that I should enjoy reading about. But I kept wandering off - looking at the mix of people in the library and the quiet school holiday street outside.
I can appreciate that there is good writing in the articles - there's hooks, narrative arcs and unique voices - but terms like "upcycling textiles" and "up-skilling communities", which sound like such positive activities, actually served as expressions that distanced me.
It's similar to how I felt when I joined a management consultancy firm and was told to "touch base" with a client. I didn't actually get what they were asking me to do, and when I did find out I vowed that it was a term I would never use.
I'm not a complete colloquial social purist. I started dropping 'like' into sentences as a pause or a placeholder after everyone esle did, and when I bought a pair of skinny jeans I realised I should never say I'll never do something. But for me, reading 'frankie' has gone from enjoying a new publication (which it was when I first read it 18 months ago) to something more like sociological research.
I'm pretty sure I'll never use the headline 'Tattoorary' or study at The College of Event Management - that said, the DIY Terrarium course at the CAE did get my attention - and my reaction to these reminded me of the first time I was called lady, when a young mother on a tram told her 5 year-old to give up their seat for me. I was surprised and a little offended before I thought of the 25 minute journey ahead of me and thanked them as I sat down.
I was respectful as I placed the issue of 'frankie' I hadn't finished back on the library shelf. It had reminded me of not being cool when I was younger, but not in a bad way. Now, comfortable in this period that is technically middle-age but feels like too much fun to be called something I always imagined to be dour, I could see that 'frankie' is fun, and funny, and something that I would have loved to have found when I was awkwardly trying to find my look and my place in a community far more diverse than my suburban experience of growing up.
And just to reinforce feeling old, I went back to a frankie that I enjoyed during those awkward years.


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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Reserve Soldier Certificate of Service
In what military establishment can you serve as a soldier for 20 years, required to be prepared for deployment and active duty and not be issued a record of your service at your departure? How about a list of your awards accrued after completing your 8 year contracted service? Answer – In the Army Reserve.
You see dear reader – if you do not have an extended active duty period in the Army Reserves you do not receive a DD Form 214 which is a Certificate of release or discharge from Active Duty. Seems logical – the form applies to active duty service. As a Reserve Soldier I received one after 22 Years Reserve service only because I was mobilized…but what if I had not had the active duty… what then? Well the answer is not good…I could not produce a document that detailed my years of Reserve service, my awards, badges, specialty information, grade or character of service. In fact the awards and Reserve service after my last active duty tour, including a subsequent short active duty assignment are not documented in a single source certificate from the Army Reserve.
I'm not alone – every year thousands of Reserve soldiers finish their Reserve commitment and do not receive any certificate or official document that provides the information contained on the Active Duty release document. Soldiers retire after 20 years and cannot provide an accepted document that details the Reserve Career they held. A soldier serving a typical 8 year commitment to the Army Reserve today will receive a DD214 after Basic training and no other document for their service… 7 years of service is not certified, registered, noted except in a personnel file in a file cabinet somewhere. Reserve soldiers cannot provide veteran's organizations, employers or family a certificate that lists their service both active and reserve that is completed at the end of their tour.
It is about time that we consider a Certificate of Release or Discharge from Reserve Duty for Reserve soldier service. A single certificate that acknowledges a soldier's achievement over the course of their service. The existing DD214 format would be a great start. The worth of the acknowledgement that the Reserve soldier has a document that provides evidence of their service is significant… especially to that retired soldier …required to be always ready… that didn't have the opportunity to deploy late in their career to get such a document.
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I agree that there is a need for a reserve/guard version of a DD214. For my 27 years of Navy service, all I have is a letter transferring me to the Retired Reserve. I recently tried to take advantage of Hyundai's $500 new car discount offered to military personnel in a "Retired Status", but the only documentation they accept is a DD214!
I served over 7 years in the Army Reserves i spent all those years serving my country to be told by Letterkenny Army depot for employment that i had no proof because there isnt a dd-214 for Reserves. So the years i spent didnt count at all including when i had active duty services.
There is a form you can and should recieve you can request your records from the state branch where you served or you may contact the National Records center to get a copy of your NGB 22 which is the sum of all your service includes your awards, the NGB 22 is usually mailed out when you discharge, however address are not always updated therefore if returned usually you can just fill out an SF 180 which a request for records and recieve the needed documentation.
And many places dont understand that an DD 214 is ONLY for active duty service.....if an offer is only extended for AD an you were a reservist and only recieve an NGB 22 you actually never had any "Active" time thus do not qualify for AD discounts,unless you were Full time NG or Reserves. An NGB 22 is avliable for any SM regardless of time serviced at the National Record Center in St. Louis or The records Branch of the branch and state of military component you served.
The Guard does have a version of the DD 214 it is known as the NGB 22. I have yet to learn what the reserves version of this is however.