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P- Reviewer Ferguson CB S- Editor Gou SX L- Editor A E- Editor Zhang DN
Published online Mar 7, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i9.1354
Revised: August 21, 2012
Accepted: September 19, 2012
Published online: March 7, 2013
The patient with inflammatory bowel disease will be predisposed to numerous infections due their immune status. It is therefore important to understand the immune and serologic status at diagnosis and to put the patient into an adapted vaccination program. This program would be applied differently according to two patient groups: the immunocompromised and the non-immunocom-promised. In general, the first group would avoid the use of live-virus vaccines, and in all cases, inflammatory bowel disease treatment would take precedence over vaccine risk. It is important to individualize vaccination schedules according to the type of patient, the treatment used and the disease pattern.In addition, patient with inflammatory bowel disease should be considered for the following vaccines: varicella vaccine, human papilloma virus, influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine and hepatitis B vaccine.
Citation: Sánchez-Tembleque MD, Corella C, Pérez-Calle JL. Vaccines and recommendations for their use in inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastroenterol 2013; 19(9): 1354-1358
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with a greater predisposition to infections, many of which are preventable with vaccines[1]. Many studies show a low rate of seroprotection and adherence to vaccination programs in these patients[1-4]. Given that at some point in the progression of the disease, 80% of patients will require treatment with corticosteroids, 40% with thiopurines and around 20% with biological drugs, it is important to consider the number of patients who will be at risk for acquiring infections due solely to the medication they receive[5].
The vaccination plan will be made after thorough study of immunocompetence at the time of diagnosis and prior to any immunomodulating treatment and/or treatment with biological agents[3]. After immunocompetence has been assessed, we consider the vaccine schedule, serological studies for certain infections and each patient's personal risk in order to adjust the proper vaccination regimen for each case[2].
Evaluation of the patient's immunocompetence is essential prior to starting any immunosuppressant treatment or putting the patient in a vaccination program[5-7]. An IBD patient is considered to be immunocompromised when they meet any of the following criteria: first, patients on corticosteroid treatment at dosages equal to or greater than 20 mg of prednisone for more than two wk, patients on immunomodulators (azathioprine, mercaptopurine and/or methotrexate), calcineurin inhibitors (cyclosporine, tacrolimus) or anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (infliximab, adalimumab or others); malnourished patients and patients with any associated immunocompromise condition [hyposplenia, asplenia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), etc.][5,6].
Study of the patient with IBD should be individualized based on age, particular risk factors and previously-administered vaccinations prior to inclusion in a vaccination program.
The medical history should be directed towards both their bacterial (especially urinary tract infections), viral [hepatitis A vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine (HBV), herpes zoster vaccine, herpes simplex virus, HIV, varicella], fungal and tuberculosis infectious disease history. Regarding tuberculosis (TB), study should include possible current or previous contacts with tuberculosis patients as well as a history of travel to endemic areas, both in the past and in the foreseeable future[5,6]. Careful evaluations for latent TB before the use of anti-TNF therapy is mandatory[8]. We suspect a latent TB when there is a history of recent exposure to the disease and positive initial tuberculin skin-test (TST) or positive booster TST and no radiological evidence of active TB. Another chapter delves more on this topic[5].
Laboratory studies will include a hemogram, C-reactive protein, urine analysis (if there is a history of urinary tract infections), the viral serologies mentioned above and a stool culture. The patient's vaccination history will always be useful if the patient has it, as will a study of group risk due to household members or occupational risk (such as teachers or healthcare workers)[5].
Ideal vaccination is that which is performed at diagnosis of the disease and/or prior to starting immunosuppressor therapy. In general, all patients should be vaccinated for the following: tetanus, diphtheria and polio, varicella, human papillomavirus, influenza, pneumococcus, HBV, measles, mumps and rubella[5]. Confirmation of immunization against infections preventable by live-attenuated viruses is recommended since they are contraindicated in cases of immunosuppression, which may apply to the patient if their immune status changes over the course of the disease (Table 1).
|IBD patients
|General vaccination
|VZV varicella vaccine
|Human papilloma virus
|Influenza (trivalent inactivated vaccine)
|Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
|Hepatitis B vaccine in all HBV seronegative patients
|Contraindicated live vaccines
|Anthrax vaccine
|Intranasal influenza
|Polio live oral vaccine
|Smallpox vaccine
|Tuberculosis BCG vaccine
|Typhoid live oral vaccine
|Varicella yellow fever
Below we mention each of the vaccines used in these patients and the considerations to be taken into account before, during and after their administration.
Flu is one of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases in adults[9]. The European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) guidelines recommend the inactivated trivalent vaccine on an annual basis in all patients with IBD with or without immunocompromise[5]. However, it has been confirmed that the two most common reasons for not receiving the flu vaccine were the patient's lack of awareness (49%) and fear of side effects (18%). Several studies have shown that the inactive trivalent vaccine does not affect IBD activity and caution is only recommended in those patients who have previously had adverse reactions to the vaccine[9,10]. The Mamula study observed that among patients who received infliximab and immunomodulator treatment, response to two of the vaccine's antigens may be reduced, with significantly lower antibody titers[11]. Later it was shown that seroconversion after the flu vaccine is not reduced by corticosteroids, methotrexate or anti-TNF treatment[5,9,12]. However, seroconversion was not guaranteed with combined use of these agents. Thiopurines and cyclosporine did reduce the rate of seroconversion[13-15].
The polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine is recommended in immune-compromised patients, as is revaccination at 5 years from the first vaccination if immunosuppression persists[16]. Treatment with methotrexate is associated with a lower seroconversion rate[5,6].
The prevalence of HBV infection in IBD is similar to the general population. The HBV vaccine is recommended in all seronegative patients[17]. Patients with IBD may have an increased risk of developing hepatitis B[18]. Invasive procedures such endoscopies and surgery might be some of the reasons for this. Moreover, the use of immunosuppressors may reactive a latent infection[19-21]. Effective vaccination is only present in 12% of IBD patients although it is indicated in all with or without immuno suppression. It was observed that the only factor associated with higher efficacy of the vaccine was younger age and the number of immunomodulators that the patient takes. The use of high antigen doses or administration of a fourth dose is sometimes needed in order to improve response to the vaccine. The response rate in the general population is related to reaching surface antibody levels (HBsAb) that are equal to or greater than 10 mU/mL. The immunological memory conferred by the vaccine produces an anamnestic immune response upon contact with the wild virus that quashes the infection or at least leads to an unapparent infection[17,18]. Only patients who do not respond to this vaccine should be subjected to intense vaccination schedules such as administration of a fourth dose, complete revaccination and/or the use of high dosages (40 μg) of HBV surface antigen. The conventional HBV vaccination regimen requires three doses at 0, 1 and 6 mo. If faster vaccination is required, the first two doses can be administered at a three or four-week interval (0, 1 and 2 mo)[18-20]. In another chapter will be explained in more detail the performance against HBV.
Confirmation of HBsAb seroconversion is recommended one or two months after the last dose of the vaccine[22]. The efficacy of the vaccine is affected by the type and number of immunomodulators, with anti-TNF being the slowest. Several authors suggest that the HBsAb concentration in these patients should be greater, with titers greater than 100 mU/mL considered protective. Annual measurement of HBsAb titers is recommended and administration of a booster is recommended when these patients are older than 10, especially in patients with IBD and immunosuppressor treatment[5].
Because this is a live attenuated virus, it is important for the patient to receive it prior to converting to an immunocompromised state[6,23]. Previous review of the documented medical record or serology at diagnosis and protection of the seronegative group are recommended. In patients with stable IBD who are high risk of contagion, vaccination will be evaluated after discontinuing immunosuppressor therapy for at least 3 mo prior to vaccination[23,24].
ECCO recommends ensuring immunization against this virus in patients with IBD before their immune status changes[5,24]. Immunization is performed at diagnosis, at least three weeks before starting immunomodulator therapy or at least 3 mo after discontinuing the immunosuppressor, if the IBD situation permits. Because this is a live attenuated virus vaccine, vaccination is not recommended in patients on immunosuppressor therapy except for seronegative patients who are at a very high risk of contagion (healthcare personnel or teachers) who are on monotherapy with thiopurine drugs. In patients in whom it is decided not to vaccinate, group protection is recommended by adequate household vaccination[25]. The seroconversion rate in adults and adolescents is less than in children (78% vs 97%), so a second dose of the vaccine is recommended 6-8 mo after the first dose. The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends discontinuing 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) until 6 mo after administering the varicella vaccine. The effects of 5-ASA may theoretically increase the risk of Reye syndrome associated with the use of live virus vaccines such as varicella[6,23,26].
For patients with increased risk of occupational exposure to varicella (for example, an early childhood teacher or healthcare worker) without prior immunity, careful consideration of the risks of acquiring the infection need to be weighed against the potential risks and benefits of vaccination[23,24,27]. In cases of active varicella exposure in these patients, postexposure prophylaxis with varicella zoster immunoglobulin is recommended.
The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine is a quadrivalent vaccine that targets the 4 HPV serotypes associated with highest risk of progression to cervical dysplasia and cancer[28,29]. This vaccine is indicated in all women between 11 and 14 years of age, in addition to strict cytological monitoring, according to the guidelines of each country[30-32]. There are no studies that defend the use of this vaccine on a routine basis in women over 26 years of age. Because this is not a live virus vaccine, it can be administered to immunocompromised patients with IBD. Interruption of immunomodulator treatment should be considered in patients with extensive cutaneous warts and/or condyloma. However, past HPV infection is not a contraindication for immunomodulator therapy[10,23].
Universal administration of the tetanus and diphtheria vaccine and the inactivated polio vaccine is recommended in patients with IBD, including immunocompromised patients[33,34].
The hepatitis A vaccine is indicated in travelers to medium or highly-endemic areas, groups at high occupational or behavioral risk and immunocompromised individuals[35,36].
Patients with IBD who wish to travel abroad should consult their physician 4 to 6 mo prior to traveling. There are three types of vaccines in travel guidelines: systematic, recommended and required[4]. The option of administering live virus vaccines should be considered in all IBD patients based on their immunocompromise status. Infections caused by enteropathogens can cause reactivation of quiescent IBD. The oral cholera vaccine will be indicated in all travelers to highly endemic areas. The oral typhoid vaccine should not be prescribed to patients who have undergone colectomy due to the loss of colonic bacterial colonization, though the parenteral vaccine can be administered[5,37-40]. Patients who take immunomodulators should be discouraged from traveling to South America or Sub-Saharan Africa where yellow fever is endemic and vaccination with live virus vaccines is required. Other vaccine-preventable diseases in travelers that should be considered are the following: Japanese encephalitis (inactivated virus), meningococcal meningitis, tick-born encephalitis, malaria, travelers' diarrhea, tuberculosis and insect-borne diseases[35,40].
The majority of childhood vaccinations occur in the first two years of life[34]. The use of live virus vaccines is contraindicated in pediatric patients who receive biological treatment. In addition, children who have been exposed to biological treatment in utero should not receive live virus vaccines while the biological agents are still detectable in their blood, generally for the first 6 mo of life[10,37,41]. Booster immunizations are recommended in the second decade of life at the onset of IBD. Booster recommendations include hepatitis B, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella[6]. The ability to mount an effective immune response will depend on the presence of immunosuppression in the 2 wk after immunization. Adequate immune response is recovered between 3 mo and one year after discontinuing the immunosuppressor[4,5].
In conclusion, all patients who are recently diagnosed with IBD should have their vaccine serology and immunocompromise status studied thoroughly. If the patient is immunocompromised, they will receive the following vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, inactivated polio, pertussis, hepatitis B, pneumococcus, human papillomavirus, hepatitis A and flu, among others. If the patient is not immunocompromised, live virus vaccines will be added based on the vaccination schedule in each country and based on the patients behavioral and professional risk. This measure will prevent infectious problems over the course of their disease and reduce morbidity. The patient's disease and its treatment may vary over the course of the disease, which is why we must take prophylactic measures in order to avoid problems in the future when immunocompromise may hinder treatment. The use of immunosuppressants such as immunomodulators and/or biological agents in IBD is becoming more intense and frequent, making it necessary to take prophylactic measures such as the use of vaccines.
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Voted 10/10
|excellent area page. ill be going there in 3 weeks, and this page is exactly what i was looking for.
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:48 am
|Re: Excellent
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|Thank you, there is so much to do in Southeast Asia. I hope you have a good trip.
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:31 pm
|Excellent work
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|I know nothing about Thailand but a page like this one really helps to bring me up to speed. Nice addition to SP.
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 1:42 pm
|Good one !
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|Nice work !
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 9:46 pm
|mikael arnemann
|Very good !
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|Very good page, congratulations!
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 10:43 pm
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|Its good to see an area page thats loaded with information rather than just a fancy peak list. You are obviously very knowledgeable about this area.
|Posted Mar 19, 2006 9:52 am
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|I always wanted to visit Thailand, but I just can't lie on the beach all day and do nothing. Your description gives me a new impetus to visit this wonderful country. I am going to organize my next vacation based on your pages.
|Posted Mar 23, 2006 3:55 pm
|Re: great
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|Thank you, I made this page to show that there is more to Thailand than tourist resorts and beaches. So now you can go hiking instead of lay on the beach all day. It is a wonderful country with a lot of mountains, national parks, and historical sites.
|Posted Mar 23, 2006 8:06 pm
|Good one!
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|I have travelled a lot in the area and can really vouch for the quality of the page. Very substantial info!
|Posted Mar 31, 2006 6:25 am
|When I went
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|to the Philippines (by plane) several years ago, I suddenly
realized what a treasure SE Asia and its people are. The
rice fields were so beautiful, as the morning sun shined on
them. The rivers were unspoiled, and the volcanoes magnificent!
But most of all, everybody I looked at had a smile on their
face. Not a 'painted on smile,' but a special smile from their
heart. I would encourage people to visit this land of smiles!
|Posted Jun 10, 2008 1:40 pm
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|Thanks Larry! I agree with you. Southeast Asia is very beautiful and has many treasures. I won't be able to see them all. What I have seen has made an impression on me. I have met a lot nice and friendly people there.
|Posted Jun 12, 2008 5:15 am
|Great page
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|Posted Mar 19, 2010 1:41 pm
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|Thanks, I appreciate your comments! There is so much to do here. I wish that I had more time when I visited this area. Check back later and I should be finished with the page.
|Posted Mar 19, 2010 2:26 pm
|Melinda ...
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|One of the biggest JOYS my wife had was meeting S.E. Asians,
(from her home-country of the Philippines), living in central Arizona.
One of our friends who runs a Thai restaurant and was born in
Thailand wants to go to Alaska ... of all places.
She's not a climber, but wants to visit the Thai Temple in
Anchorage. Guess she's never seen Alaska.
I was LUCKY to find so many Asians who have an obsession with
cooking (and sharing) so many different kinds of yummy foods.
|Posted Apr 13, 2012 10:20 pm
|Re: Melinda ...
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|Thank you Larry! There is actually a Thai Temple in Utah so it wouldn't surprise me if similar places had one too. I also noticed that Asian people are happy to share their cooking and food with others. I guess they would like living in central Arizona because of the warm weather and not as much snow during winter.
|Posted Apr 14, 2012 1:50 pm
|Re: Melinda ...
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|Yes ... and what you said makes perfect SENSE !
I'm beginning to wish (hope?) there exists MORE things in the world
that I could (personally) relate to & develop a better understanding thereof ... THANKS, Melinda
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you ROCK !!!
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Jonathan Papelbon offers $5,000 bounty for walk-off homer, Jim Thome hits record-breaker and wants his check
Jonathan Papelbon got so mad at himself after blowing his first save of the season Saturday that he offered up a $5,000 reward on the spot for the Philadelphia Phillies teammate who got him off the hook.
An inning later, Thome hit a home run that not only cleared Papelbon, but also capped a wild 7-6 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays and set the all-time major-league record for game-ending home runs. Thome connected against left-hander Jake McGee for his 609th career homer, which ties Sammy Sosa for ninth on baseball's career list. It also was Thome's 13th game-ending blast, allowing him to surpass five Hall of Famers.
Papelbon later told reporters, including Ryan Lawrence of the Delaware County Times, that he had written out a check to Thome:
"I came in the clubhouse (after the blown save) and I said, 'Whoever walks this guy off, I'll give him five grand.' I didn't think Jim would do it right off the bat."
Papelbon also said, in the Associated Press story, that he offered Thome the home run bounty as he stood in the on-deck circle just before the winning hit. The above photo illustration shows what the transaction might have looked like in a perfect world. (Note that "Papelbon" mistakenly dated the re-created check for "2011" and wrote "winning bomb pop" in the memo.)
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Thome, who has a well-earned nice-guy image to protect, denied that any money had changed hands. Yet, anyway, and not where anyone could see. Because lip readers would tell you that Thome can be seen telling Papelbon "I want that check" as the Phillies congratulated him at the plate for his winning homer:
So, does Citizens Bank have any branches inside Citizens Bank Ballpark? Because it would be really convenient for Thome if it did. (If the game had been played at Chase Field, they could have used QuickPay.) No matter that Thome reportedly has earned roughly $141 million in his 20 seasons in the majors. This is a special five grand we're talking about.
''You never forget them,'' Thome said. ''These are moments you never know how long you'll have them.''
There's no word yet if Major League Baseball will take issue with Papelbon offering a bounty to Thome, but Internet rumors say the NFL already is in the process of penalizing the New Orleans Saints for the Phillies' apparent transgression.
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In the meanwhile (as Thome's former manager Ozzie Guillen would put it), Thome can bask in the considerable glory that comes with passing some enormous company. Thome came in tied with Hall of Fame sluggers Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson and Babe Ruth for game-ending home runs. No longer.
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Shares fall as Apple release a Surface Pro and last year's iPhone
Investors fear that Apple has run out of ideas after it released a version of Microsoft's surface pro and an iPhone, which was the same as last year's.
iPad Pro gets 12.9-inch display
Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil
The biggest announcement at Apple's event, next to the Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, was the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
Apple Watch gets superficial changes
Watch OS 2.0 update on September 16
Apple has unveiled couple of new updates for its Apple Watch, including new apps, finishes and straps.
Apple fanboys discover time
IWatch's most obvious feature is the only feature
Apple fanboys desperate to find a use for the perfectly pointless technology have focused on its most obvious feature – they are using it to tell the time.
12.9 inch iPad Pro unveiled tomorrow
Side-by-side apps, A9X monster 14nm CPU
Apple has a busy day tomorrow. Apart from the iPhone 6S with iPhone 6S Plus, new Apple TV and Apple watch bands, the company plans to unveil the biggest yet, 12.9 inch iPad PRO.
China jumps on VPN tools
Astrill restricted
China is doing its best to make sure its workers cannot use VPNs to sneak past its Great Firewall of China.
Apple tries to buy intelligence
Running out of ideas
Desperate to find new ways to flog its iPhones in a dying market, fruity cargo cult Apple is turning to artificial intelligence.
Germans fascinated with two-in-ones
Unificaton is very precise
Germany appears to be jolly interested in unification again and are fast becoming the blue-eyed poster boys for two-in-one computers.
Intel might have miffed the Tablet market
Why do you need one?
As Intel unveiled its Skylake chips yesterday it was hammering in another nail in the coffin of tablets.


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Servicing more than 23 million users, Xfire has recently announced the rollout of a new feature for the service called Battleground. With the new feature users are able to basically join tournament games across the vast array of Xfire-supported titles such as Counter-Strike: Go and Call of Duty, similar to using Matchmaking services on Xbox Live. Pretty cool, eh?
Battleground has three primary modes: Instant Action, Direct Challenge and Tournaments. This enables gamers to easily and conveniently find competitive gaming rooms in their favorite games, as well as legitimately sponsored tournaments from Xfire affiliates.
Xfire CEO Paul Kim commented about running the service for ten strong years and implementing the new automated tournament organizer, Battleground, saying...
"The most successful games today are ones that have a competitive element, but currently the experience is fragmented and lacks structure," ... "Battleground unifies competitive games into a seamless and engaging experience, making it a true game-changer that raises the stakes for serious players. We think Battleground has the potential to redraw the competitive PC gaming landscape and solidify Xfire as a leader in this growth-oriented space."
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Wealth of Nations, 2011
Deconstructed American Flag, 40" x 68" x 3"
Rended Flag Series - Destylosis of the symbol of America itself.
Here I have painstakingly taken apart Americans flags string by string, completely disassembling them and then reassembling them into two separate flags made only of vertical and horizontal strings respectively. The end of each string is threaded through a needle and then placed in the shape of a graph comparing the wealth of the top 1% of Americans to everyone else for the last 100 years. I feel that the extreme polarization we are currently experiencing: socially, economically, and politically is literally rending the fabric of America, so this work is a physical representation of the state of the Union. For me these vertical and horizontal strings once separated become paradigms for viewing the world, that once polarized as opposites can never fully integrate.


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Canon Powershot G9
The Canon Powershot G9 is not a brand new camera. It's not the smallest or lightest camera but that's not it's purpose. The Powershot G9 is for ambitious photographers and amateurs that care about taking superb photographs, not the flat colorless crap you get from point-and-shoots that claim to take double digit megapixel images.
Not that the Powershot G9 won't do double-digit megapixel images. It will, in glorious 12.1 megapixel resolution. It also has a 6x optical zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer and RAW mode for unadulterated photographs processed through Canon's Digic III processor. Face Detection 9-point autofocus, 25 different shooting modes and a 3-inch PureColor LCD II display round out the other features.
What can't be explained here is just how good this camera feels in your hand. I personally shoot an SLR camera (Canon 400D) and actually find myself craving the metal and heavy-gauge plastic found on the Canon G9. It feels like a rock in your hand and for those of you who care anything at all about photography you'll know this is a good thing.
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If New York was not under the cap, would free agency this year have been made as big a deal?
I know that other big markets are under the cap and a ton of big names are out there. But I still think that the fact that New York is involved steps it up a notch or a few. Maybe its just since I'm in the NY area, but would 1050 have LeBron watch everynight at 7? Would other outlets have made quite as big a deal?


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Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Razor of Athens, Georgia, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jill Ashley Razor to Bryan Joseph Wells, son of Dr. and Mrs. Larry Wells of Martinez, Georgia.
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Anyone bemoaning jazz today because of that "dour seriousness syndrome" present in so many manifestations just needs to listen to Louis Hayes' Cannonball Legacy Band's Maximum Firepower.
Dedicated to the music of the late Cannonball Adderley Quintet (sometimes Sextet) for which Hayes drummed, Firepower is, dare I say, a firecracker of a soulful (though not soul-jazz), energy-loaded hard bop session. There're no surprises here, just plenty of the plump 'n' juicy, fluid 'n' tart sax of Vincent Herring (a C'ball successor if there ever was one), the full-bodied crackle of Jeremy Pelt's singing trumpet, and plenty of winning tunes that make up in zinging joie de vivre what they lack in "complexity" or "depth." Get it, kids? This is not cerebral jazz to ponder (to), this is jazz in the moment, to get swept up in, tap your foot, and ride the sonic rollercoaster of the solos.
Louis Hayes is as much the "star" here as is Cannonball's music (and spirit) - his punchy, eruptive, ebullient flair is heard/felt throughout, literally driving this music like there was no tomorrow. Which is not to imply there are no mellow/tender moments to be had - the Pelt-composed ballad "The Two of Them" is a tribute to the Adderley Brothers (Cannon and bro Nat, coronetist) artfully balances the wistful and the celebratory.
Need some "seriously" hearty, tuneful, earthy jazz to blast away the cobwebs, to give your get-up-&-go a serious boost of B-12? This platter is your tonic, no prescription needed.


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It is suddenly summer in the midwest where record warmth is surging into the Plains today. Temperatures will be in the 80's from Kansas all the way to the Gulf states. No chance of us seeing that warmth today with a breezy NW wind out of Canada. Winds will be shifting to the SW overnight…and this will be the beginning of a brief warm up of small proportions…which will be accompanied with showers. Exciting stuff I know.
Cold air is pushing down the Rocky Mountains bring 6-12″ of snow to area mountains. Cooler dry air will clash with the warmer more humid air coming out of the Gulf to form severe weather today. The map below shows the Severe Storms Prediction center's outlook for the probability of sever weather developing.
We will be tracking that ribbon of rain and snow currently pushing into the Great Lakes. That is the warm front or the leading edge of the warm air mass that is beginning to spread eastward. By dawn tomorrow, the precipitation will be arriving at the coldest point of the day around sunrise.
This will allow for a brief burst of wet snow or sleet in the Berkshires and Worcester before quickly changing to rain. The cold air will likely hold on a bit longer in potions of NH and SW ME Monday morning where there is the potential for 1-3″ of snow before mixing to rain by midday.
The warm front will be slow to advance north with the cold ocean water helping to keep it cooler at the ground. With SW winds aloft, overrunning precip in the form of showers will likely continue into the early afternoon.
Below is a map of what it will look like around noon Monday. CT and RI will likely get into the warm and dry sector behind the warm front which could move temps to the 50's…any breaks of sun will mean 60's. While Northern New England will be on the cooler wetter side of the front struggle to reach 40 degrees. Showers will taper off from South to north during the afternoon. Still S wind and clouds…scattered showers, sprinkles, drizzle and fog are possible into Monday night as temps remain steady and start to climb overnight.
Tuesday will be the day of the cold front. Temperatures are always warmest the day of the frontal passage. Strong WSW aloft will continue to transport warm air into the Northeast… But nothing like what will be occurring from Virginia south where temps will be in the 70's and 80's. Nope. Our warm up on Tuesday will come with showers quickly advancing from west to east during the morning and could last into the afternoon. These raindrops will keep it cooler in the 50's…despite the mild breezy SW winds at the ground.
Below is the SUNY MM5 showing the rain moving from west to east as early as 7 AM Tuesday morning. Hard to bust into the 60's looking at that timing. Still any balmy air will be welcome…even it has to come with rain.
The combination of the passing warm front Monday with the cold front on Tuesday will deposit about .50-2″ of rain…with the heaviest likely to fall in central and western new england, with lighter amounts at the coast. Briefly heavy downpours will be possible Tuesday with a warmer more humid airmass.
A weak shortwave will move through Wed night-Thurs AM which could come with a few light rain or snow showers…no biggie. The bigger news will be the turning of the wind to the Northeast for Friday opening day which could make it awfully chilly and raw at the coast and keep temps in the 40's.
Just enough ridging in place to stay optimistic about dry conditions…but questions are starting to emerge on how dry we will be. An unsettled look heading into the weekend persists. Some of the showers could spread into New England as early as Friday night.
Another shortwave will be tracking through the Great lakes and north of New England. This appears to bring with it some light overrunning showers for Friday night into Saturday and enough to keep some cool cloudy damp conditions around to start off the weekend. The confidence on how all this plays out is still low right now.
Check out after next weekend….a big Upper low comes spiraling through the midwest, slows, deepens and will impact our weather sometime in the 11-13th time frame. More ridging ahead of the low could allow for another brief warm spell barring any more onshore winds…which can be so typical this time of year.
This low will likely track west of us and bring rain, then much cooler air behind it as it pulls away into the Northeast. This setup has plenty of room to change in the coming days…but I am pretty sure we will have another shot of cool heading our way around this time once any sort of storm passes.
WSI is onto the incredible warmth shifting east and mostly staying away and south of the Northeast. A real nice summer pattern for those down south this weekend. Gorgeous weather for the Masters.
Oddly enough…after forecasting April feature above normal across the east for the month of April. The forecast has changed. Not the first time this has happened. The outlook for April has now shifted towards temperatures running below normal in the northeast for the month of April. hard to argue with that. Despite brief surges of warmth active fronts will be sweeping across the nation creating severe weather. We will likely never get warm or humid enough to see the big storms…but south of us…I think it is safe to say the Thunderstorm season is beginning as Spring warmth becomes more pronounced against stubborn, yet retreating winter cold.


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The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. By Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. Arranged by Carol Cymbala, Jason Michael Webb & Oliver W. Wells. Collection. Choral Book. Published by Word Music (WD.080689908170).
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This glorious new collection from the Grammy and Dove award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir unites lush harmonies with a powerful message of hope and joy for God's people. Sure to inspire and encourage your congregation, I'll Say Yes includes thirteen uplifting songs that touch on themes of dependency on God, obedience to His call, and praise for His constancy in an ever-changing world.
From earnest and joyous worship offerings to rich and reflective ballads, Carol Cymbala's beautiful choral arrangements once again remind us of the power of saying "Yes!" to God's will.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — More than 20 local artists and supporters filled the back lot of Grand Rapids' San Chez Bistro for a fundraiser Sunday night, days before the year's ArtPrize competition kicks off.
The event, which featured live music and the local artists' work, went from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the restaurant, 38 W. Fulton St. The $10 entry fee will benefit Avenue for the Arts, an arts and culture center on South Division Avenue.
At the event, ArtPrize artist Phanie Mills-Behning unveiled her entry, a large mural. Mills-Behning was among 11 ArtPrize artists whose work was previewed at San Chez.
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by Karl Utermohlen | July 23, 2013 2:29 pm
Although Keurig is usually associated with coffee, it is now joining the tea industry by making three Lipton favorites available in K-Cups. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR[1]) has partnered up with Lipton to create K-Cup packs of the following flavors:
K-Cup brewing systems are normally used to prepare single cups of coffee in a matter of seconds, but thanks to this partnership, it is now possible to get hot and iced teas the same way.
As of July 2013, you can find Lipton K-Cup packs in most grocery stores around the nation sold in packs of 10, 16, or 22.
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MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Dikembe Mutombo is ready for the season to start. He's had enough of the two-a-day practices during the Atlanta Hawks training camp.
"Physically it was hard," Mutombo said Tuesday during the team's media day. "They just ran our butts off. I haven't seen training camp more intense than this one. I'm just glad these two-a-days are over."
The abbreviated camp began on Jan. 21 following a lockout that threatened the entire season. Instead, teams will play a 50-game schedule, beginning Friday night when the Hawks entertain the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Like his returning teammates, Mutombo believes the Hawks will be improved over last year's team that finished fourth in the Central Division and exited the playoffs in the first round.
His reason: depth.
"Our bench will be much stronger," Mutombo said. "Bringing in Grant Long and Mark West has added strength."
"I think our depth is as good as anyone now," coach Lenny Wilkens said, adding that it's the best he's had going into his sixth season with the Hawks.
The 7-foot-2 Mutombo said the presence of 6-10 West has been especially helpful.
"Banging on you in practice helps you physically," he said. "With him here, I think I can get 5- or 10-minute breaks in the course of a game. By having Mark, he's helping me a lot. He's getting me at the top of my game.
"Time is getting close," Mutombo said. "I think we're ready to play. There are a few more plays to put in our game, but physically and mentally, I think we are ready."
The Hawks have all five of last year's starters in camp, with Alan Henderson having moved ahead of the departed Christian Laettner at midseason a year ago. Mookie Blaylock and Steve Smith are back in the backcourt and Ty Corbin returns to the front court, although he likely will be pushed out of the starting lineup by LaPhonso Ellis, signed last week as a free agent from the Denver Nuggets
After two years in Detroit, Grant Long is coming back to the Hawks, providing depth on the front line.
"We need the bench to maintain things and take it up another level," Wilkens said. "It's definitely the best depth we've had since I've been here."
Ed Gray is back after missing more than half his rookie season with a fractured foot. He gives the Hawks a solid outside shooter to spell Smith, the team's leading scorer at 20.1 points a game last year.
Two rookies also should see playing time off the bench - 6-foot-8 forward Roshown McLeod of Duke and guard Shammond Williams of North Carolina.
Anthony Johnson, another free agent who played by Sacramento in his rookie season last year, provides depth at the point behind Blaylock. Johnson led the Kings in assists with 4.3 per game.
"We've got some talent," Long said. "We've solidified the depth of the team. That was something that was missing when I was here before. I think we'll be right there in the meat of the race right to the end."
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Somerset moves through its wrestlers at state
MADISON - All three Somerset wrestlers advanced through the preliminary round of the WIAA State Individual Wrestling Tournament Thursday at the Kohl Center.
Bobby Leroy scored two two-point takedowns in the second and third periods to eventually beat Sparta's Brock Polhamus 9-6 at 120 pounds. Gabe Flandrick dominated his 138-pound match against Dodgeville's Jasper Meeker from start to finish for a 6-1 win and Austin Bushinger's takedown after a throw in the second period was enough to put him in front of Southern Door's Nolan Wagner 3-2 for good at 152.
These three Spartan wrestlers will join teammate Haydon Dvorak competing in the quarterfinals today starting at 11 a.m.
Leroy faces Campbellsport's Ryan Costello (Jr., 38-1); Flandrick faces Valders's Stetson McCauley (Jr. 40-5); Bushinger takes on defending state champion, Sheboygan Falls's Lucas Lambrecht (Sr. 34-2) and Dvorak's first match of the tournament will be against Brady Huenink of Waupun (40-5, Jr.).
Winners wrestle in tonight's semifinals starting at 7 p.m. while those who lose will wrestle again in the afteroon's consolation round beginning at 2:45 p.m.


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amq-protocol is an AMQP 0.9.1 serialization library for Ruby. It is not an AMQP
client: amq-protocol only handles serialization and deserialization.
If you want to write your own AMQP client, this gem can help you with that.
WWW: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/net/rubygem-amq-protocol/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install rubygem-amq-protocol
cd /usr/ports/net/rubygem-amq-protocol/ && make install clean
pkg install rubygem-amq-protocol
PKGNAME: rubygem-amq-protocol
SHA256 (rubygem/amq-protocol-2.2.0.gem) = c0fa3a96bd4af98934590b5f7a18bb87b5d38c6385d50600139901440bf4e7ee
SIZE (rubygem/amq-protocol-2.2.0.gem) = 43520
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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No options to configure
Number of commits found: 22
Update to 2.2.0
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
Revert r438532 and remove shebang
- Bump PORTREVISION for package change
- Fix shebang
Update to 2.1.0
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
Convert USES=gem:autoplist to USES=gem since autoplist is default
create USES=gem and update rubygem- ports to use it
Note that for now ports still have to have USE_RUBY=yes to use USES=gem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6070
- Update to 2.0.1
- Add LICENSE_FILE
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/commits/2.0.x-stable
- Update to 2.0.0
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
- Remove blank line between NO_ARCH and USE_RUBY
Set NO_ARCH for remaining rubygem-* ports with no arch dependent files
Obtained from: DEVELOPER_MODE
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Sponsored by: RideCharge Inc / Curb
- Update to 1.9.2
- Add LICENSE
- Reformat pkg-descr
- Take maintainership
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
Reset maintainership:
- Lots of maintainers timeout
- unresponsive for almost a year
Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus minor
COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles where not
included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break the Phabricator
workflow. Category N.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
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PR: ports/180133
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- Update to 0.9.4
PR: ports/170621
Approved by: maintainer timeout (clsung, >4 weeks)
- Update to 0.9.0
Changes: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amq-protocol/commits/master
Approved by: clsung (maintainer, via IRC)
- Update to 0.8.4
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 0.8.3
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ADDISON — Despite being shot six times by two men robbing the all-night gasoline station where she worked, Patti Lacefield was listed in fair condition Monday and was able to give police a detailed description of her assailants.
Lacefield, 34, of Addison, was the cashier on duty at 4 a.m. Sunday at the Purple Martin gasoline station, at Lake Street and McNair Avenue in unincorporated Addison Township, when two men entered. She said one of them showed a large, blue-steel, semi-automatic handgun and ordered her into a storeroom area, where he shot her six times. The men emptied the cash register and fled, she said.


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Science consistently shows that those who are more optimistic and express gratitude often experience less sickness and have a longer life expectancy. Time to choose reasons to being happy!
It's easy to nit-pick others' behavior, find faults in prominent leaders' decisions, and voice your opinion behind the security of a screen… but not only do most people find negativity an unattractive trait, it might even be throwing off your health and reducing your life expectancy.
Forget for a moment the Law of Attraction and invested interest you might have in sending only good thoughts 'out to the universe', your body here and now hears every word you think and say, and is a reflection of your healthy attitude or not.
In fact, scientific evidence is conclusive when it comes to mood, outlook, and health. Happy people live up to 10 years longer than unhappy people, and optimists have a 77% lower risk of heart disease than pessimists. Considering heart disease ranks as one of the top causes of death in developed nations, being thankful (and in effect raising your mood by appreciating what you have) is not just to invite more pleasant company into your life, but is necessary for optimal health.
The How of Happiness
Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, teaches how 50% of our propensity for happiness is based on a genetic set point, something we can't influence very much, 10% is based on our life circumstances (such as getting a promotion, finding 'The One', or achieving a creative dream), and 40% is "intentional activity" that we can influence with our behavior.
This means that we can be up to 40% happier in our lives just by choosing to conjure emotions of fulfillment, satisfaction, and pleasure. One of the key "intentional activities" to achieve this is the act of gratitude.
Research shows that consistently grateful people are happier, more energetic, more hopeful, more helpful, more empathetic, more spiritual, more forgiving, and less materialistic. It is also clear they are less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, neurotic, or sick.
Yeah, but where's the evidence?
In one study, a group of participants were asked to name five things they were grateful for every day, while another group was asked to list five hassles. Those who expressed gratitude were not only happier and more optimistic, they reported fewer physical symptoms (such as headache, cough, nausea, or acne). Other gratitude studies have shown that those with chronic illnesses demonstrate clinical improvement when practicing regular gratitude.
Also, when a website asked depressed people to list grateful thoughts on the site daily, they were found to be significantly less depressed by the end of the study when compared to depressed people who weren't asked to express gratitude. As depression is a significant risk factor for disease, this study may be extremely beneficial for those who are presently suffering.
What are some of the benefits one might expect?
According to Dr. Lyubomirsky, gratitude:
- Promotes savoring of positive life experiences
- Bolsters self-worth and self-esteem
- Helps people cope with stress and trauma
- Encourages caring acts and moral behavior
- Helps build social bonds, strengthen existing relationships, and nurture new relationships (and we know lonely people have twice the rate of heart disease as those with strong social connections)
- Inhibits harmful comparisons
- Diminishes or deters negative feelings such as anger, bitterness, and greed
- Thwarts hedonistic adaptation (the ability to adjust your set point to positive new circumstances so that we don't appreciate the new circumstance and it has little affect on our overall health or happiness)
Your life is exactly that: your life. Don't wait another day for the universe to hand you the perfect setting, job, opportunity, or partner to create an ideal situation for you to then be happy. Courageously go after what you want and adopt an attitude of gratitude TODAY, so that tomorrow you learn the delight of being grateful in the moment without needing any external reward to manifest the emotion.
If you're not sure how to begin feeling grateful, here are a few tips:
Keep a gratitude journal and write down 3-5 things you are grateful for every day.
Spend some time in meditation and DECIDE to be happy, practicing the vibration and emotion it creates in your body, mind, and spirit.
Share your gratitude with others: Not surprisingly, you are not the only one who is seeking to receive more self-love, confidence, and feelings of fulfillment in life. Express your gratitude to another individual and watch their face light up; feel their heart expand, and in return feel more grateful to the Universe for creating such a kind and thoughtful you.
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For some reason the Sinatra song that's life just popped into my head.
There's a lot zooming around in the noggin', and no linear thought patterns to keep them from assaulting my mouth region.
I'm moving to a condo soon. It's an exciting if not exhausting process. Painting the place now, and will be moved in with the lady love by March 1st.
Been reading John Dies at the End. I started the book after I saw the film a month ago, and loved it. JDATE is great. Talk about like minds. David Wong seems to have the ADD too. I'll probably go straight from JDATE to This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude Don't Touch it.
I read an interview with Wong, and I credit it with getting me back into working on my first book. He talked about not sitting on a book, but getting feedback on the work. Specifically he said to release it on the internet, but an editor I've found said not to until its found a home. Been sending it out to friends for feedback though. Let's face it, for the past few years I've also sent it to total strangers. I just think it's funny.
I definitely have a deranged sense of humor.
Even in its early stages I feel like it's still entertaining, and you get a good sense of the book.
So I found an editor, and am accumulating the funds right now to have it edited. This of course is so I can release it. I've been putting it off for so long. So, expect a release sometime in 2026.
I've developed an unhealthy addiction to the show Supernatural now that it's on Netflix instant. I used to make fun of the show before I'd watched it. I'd hear them talk about watching it on Dinner For Fiends, and would think, "who would watch that lame ass show?" So color me a hypocrite, I was wrong. It's amazingly entertaining. Think of a dumbed down X-Files starring ex-soap opera actors who look like male models.
I plan to start toying with more audio recording stuff in an attempt to record my very first Ruination with my own monotone, mumbly voice! Get pumped! Haven't decided what to ruin yet.
I used Skype for the first time the other day. If anyone wants to Skype with me hit me up via personal messaging on Facebook.
Had a story called In Sickness and in Health published in a web magazine called Surreal Grotesque. They'd already published my story Casual Sex much to my amazement. Casual Sex is easily my most fucked up short story.
I've heard I might have Casual Sex put into a best of collection by the editor of Surr G. Oh Daniel William Gonzales, you're too good to me. (April 10th, 2013: It was put in the best of Surreal Grotesque! Aliens, Sex & Sociopaths
Plan to do an article about three scary stories with boxes for Women in Horror Month! Kidding, not that kind of box…the regular kind.
Speaking of, look for my third In Honor of Women in Horror Month Screwed up Screenshots to be up soon. (March 4th, 2013: So I goofed, and forgot to post one. Look for one next year!) And wait for the drama to follow. I have two female sets of friends both pro and anti Women in Horror Month, so it should be entertaining once it goes live!
I'm off to listen to the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Just watched the uncensored video for Jubilee Street. Ray Winstone stars in it. Check it out. Later sickos.


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Spanfeller Media Group, the company founded by ex-Forbes exec Jim Spanfeller, has closed $6 million in funding, Business Insider reports.
Spanfeller Media Group is the publisher behind The Daily Meal, a food site that launched six months ago and boasts Colman Andrews of Saveur fame as editorial director.
Business Insider says that SMG will be using the money to launch two other verticals, the first online by the end of the year and the next by mid-2012. What those are he hasn't said, but they won't be business, finance, sports, entertainment or tech.
SMG is also going to use some of that $6 million to hire salespeople, which hasn't happened yet. "We are starting to actively pursue revenue this month, basically. Part of the funding will be use to hire a sales team for the first site," he told Business Insider.
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Research Interests: Computational Methods in Solid Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Mechanics of Composites, Composite Materials and Manufacturing, Nanomaterials, Experimental Stress Analysis, Machine Design and Computer Aided Design.
EducationPh.D.:Mechanical Engineering, 1989, and M.S.:Mechanical Engineering, 1986, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.; B.S.:Mechanical Engineering, 1975, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Career HighlightsMay, 97-Present Tenured Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee
May, 1995 Obtained Tenure in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
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RSU 3 seeking one year extension for awarding proficiency-based diplomas
Regional School Unit 3 officials are seeking a one-year extension from the Maine Department of Education in order to meet the requirements for a proficiency based education diploma.
By law, the graduating class of 2018 must leave high school with a proficiency-based diploma; however, the MDOE released six options available to school districts that need more time to make the transition to awarding the proficiency-based diplomas.
According to the MDOE, in order to receive a proficiency-based diploma a student must demonstrate they engaged in educational experiences relating to English language arts, mathematics, and science and technology in each year of the student's secondary schooling; demonstrate proficiency in meeting state standards in all content areas of the system of learning results — English language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and technology, health education, physical education, visual and performing arts, world languages, and career and education development; demonstrate proficiency in each of the guiding principles set forth in department rules governing implementation of the system of learning results — being a clear and effective communicator, a self-directed and lifelong learner, a creative and practical problem–solver, a responsible and involved citizen, and integrative and informed thinker; and meet any other requirements specified by the governing body of the school administrative unit attended by the student.
The six options provided to the school districts offer extensions of one to two years depending on how far along a district is in regards to being able to award the proficiency-based diploma. Heather Perry, RSU 3's superintendent, said school board members considered options two and three before ultimately deciding to ask for the one-year extension outlined under option two.
Option two states that the district has a "fully implemented proficiency-based instruction program in place at the secondary level" and that the district needs an additional year in order to "pilot and refine the mechanisms for reporting and assessments that have already been developed."
By requesting an extension, RSU 3 agrees to provide evidence demonstrating its preparedness to deliver diplomas based on proficiency of the standards of the eight content areas and the standards of the Guiding Principles in 2019. It also agrees to provide an implementation plan that outlines benchmarks for the 2014-2015 school year that RSU 3 will meet in order to pilot and refine the mechanisms for reporting and assessment that have already been developed and are necessary to meet the goal of awarding diplomas based on proficiency in the standards of the eight content areas and the standards of the Guiding Principles, according to the MDOE.
Perry explained the district began implementing proficiency-based standards about three years prior to the state mandating those standards be developed. When the district began its efforts, the goal was to start with grades K-5, then move to grades 6-8 before finally implementing the proficiency-based standards at the high school.
However, the state had the opposite goal in mind and wanted the proficiency standards to start with high-school students. For that reason, Perry said trying to enact all of the requirements for awarding a proficiency-based diploma to the Class of 2018 would have presented too much of a hardship for the district.
She said that the one-year extension should be adequate for the district to fully implement all requirements for the proficiency-based diploma. Furthermore, she also pointed out that she believed the majority of school districts in the state would be seeking an extension from the MDOE.
If the district still feels it is unable to award a proficiency-based diploma to the Class of 2019, another extension can be requested. She said current statute allows the MDOE to grant extensions until 2021.
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Very nice to see how this living wall is thriving-- longterm sustainability and health are topics which I see come up repeatedly when people are discussing Mr. Blanc's system.
What a fabulous wall! We are off early tomorrow morning on the Harley, first stop Merida!
so incredible! love the use of space.
on a much smaller scale the anthro in Jackson, Mississippi has something similar that i always go gaga for.
What an amazing idea for a garden! It's gorgeous. And I love his green getup!
My favorite grocery store is in Austin, Texas. It is the Whole Foods Grocery headquarters and it has two walls of plants that can be seen when riding the escalator. I have not seen anything as extravagant as the one you show. Beautiful!
This looks great,all those different textures and shades of green.Cuddly walls ,wonderful idea to bring some green into a city.
Your photoos are always beautiful,just beautiful.
Me necantan sus diseños,me parece una gran idea para los espacios urbanos,
Bss y gracias por tus visitas,
Now thats going green!!! .. We saw a building in Paris which had greenery that appeared to be growing out of the wall .. wonder if he was behind it... XO
Wishing you a great week mon ami!!
Ooh, all that green is beautiful...even the artist's hair has life! :)
Well I've never seen such a vertical garden. That is simply amazing. So green and wonderful in the midst of heat and dryness.
Even his hair, how wonderful!
Hi Lala, thanks for sharing.
That living wall is looking good after so long.
Hi, Lala! Thank you for coming by Cloud of Secrets. Inspired by your comment, I wore ruffles yesterday, too -- not sure if I like any of the pictures enough to post them, though!
It is my pleasure to spread the word about your blog. I do so like it when bloggers share beautiful pictures of their real lives and happenings.
My goodness -- with a name like Patrick and with all that green in his work and on his person, I was sure he was Irish - not French!
What a wonderful place. I wish I go there..., one day :-). I love your photos. Have a nice day. Anna
The wall is fantastic - an important addition to a city. Brave of you to visit in August - all the Madrilenas are down here on our beach!
'Good on yer, Patrick!'
ha, I love the green hair, I do wonder if he was born on St. Patty's day.
My friends moved to Madrid over a month ago so I will have to forward this post to them.
now this is really cool.......only in spain!
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When is the best time to fly to Dakar?
As the weather is generally warm all year round, there isn't a bad time to book a flight to Dakar. The city has a hot, semi-arid climate which means the dry season is much longer than the rainy season. Rain falls from July to October and the rest of the year is dry. Between December and May the weather is warm but not hot with temperatures between 24 and 27 degrees Celsius. However from May to November the weather becomes hot with temperatures reaching 31degrees Celsius. Sea breezes keep the city cooler than much of Africa, all year round. A variety of festivals occur throughout the year, so you might want to plan your flights to Dakar to take advantage of the International Arts Festival or traditional dance festival.
Some travellers avoid the area when it is very hot or during the rainy season so it is possible to get good deals and cheap flights to Dakar at this time of the year. Festival times will see higher accommodation rates and airfares as will school holiday periods, the festive season, Islamic holidays and New Year. The rainy season still offers good weather but the rain may deter travellers and taking advantage of deals during this time is prudent.
Dakar overview
Sometimes dusty and often hot, the beauty of Dakar lies in its colourful markets, traditions, its Medina and the constant hum of traffic and Senegalese pop which throbs through the city. If you're looking for magnificent views, look no further than Les Mamelles where you can see the Cap-Vert Peninsula from above the only two hills in the area. From this vantage point, you can see the Atlantic, cityscape and the African Renaissance Monument (Monument de le Renaissance Africaine) which is bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Local and international music is very much a part of the local culture in the city and for the best in live local artists, a visit to Just 4 U, is a great choice.
The Medina is a series of streets laid out in grids. These narrow walkways offer a busy area where you can see the Grand Mosque and plenty of local colour in the form of horse-drawn carts, stoves, open air food stalls and ones selling rugs, art and crafts and techno gadgets. For art and culture, head to the Institut Français to enjoy coffee in the gardens, film shows and exhibitions all year round. Good food is plentiful in Dakar from al fresco fare on Avenue Pompidou, where you can find fish, mutton skewers and rice at very low prices, to La Fourchette, where you can enjoy international cuisine.


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I used to have that happen. It's some kind of problem with the account settings. An email to Telsa will eventually get it fixed.
Can you provide the appropriate Tesla email address? I didn't see a general / website email address listed on the contact page.
Odd as it seems, sending it to firstname.lastname@example.com will get it to the right person eventually.
If you have someone in Tesla that you already communicate with, send it to them.
had the same problem and TM fixed it after several tries-
just send an email to the general adress and be patient
Quick fix: copy your message (or use the Lazarus FF add-on, which saves every entry you type), then go back up one level, and reselect the thread. Paste the message back in, and submit.
That might not work. Problem described at beginning is different than validation error, it acts to posts like they are spam. I had this problem some time ago and it could prevent posting completely to some threads or even to any thread for days.
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I feel that I am loosing grasp on him and exhausted all ways to try to reach him with words. He doesn't seem to care and his continuous behavior almost feels as a mockery to what we talk about when defining wrongs and rights and the making of better choices when tempted to do what is wrong. I don't know what to do with him anymore, he is only eight and doesn't want to go to school anymore because he feels that everyone hates him and everyone is giving him a hard time so that he can get in trouble.
His behavior is affecting me at work, school and our home, his actions need to turn around or he is facing being expelled, and as a full-time working single parent and student, and another child at home, I just can't put a hold on everything just to go babysit him at school to make sure he is behaving. I don't how to reach him anymore.
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They don't call him Ramblin' Jack Elliott just because he runs around with a guitar on his back.
But today, on one of the first sunny breaks from a torrent of rain, the spirited old cowboy folk singer is cooped up in a Point Reyes restaurant, a few miles south along Tomales Bay from his home in the population-50 town of Marshall. Outside, the hills near the coast look like smooth, moss-covered river rocks. Inside, Elliott sets aside a stitched-up taupe-colored cowboy hat and works on a cup of black tea. He's here to talk about Friends of Mine, a new album of duets with Guy Clark, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, and others. Jan Currie, his fiancee of several years, looks on. ("We got engaged," Elliott says, "in the Ace Hardware in Eureka, Nevada, which is a good place to buy a ring because it's sitting on top of a gold mine.")
As Elliott talks, Currie occasionally pats his bluejeans to stop a tale from splintering into a half-dozen tangents. "I'm a storyteller," he says matter-of-factly. "I've been accused of being a poet, but I haven't explored that."
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is 67 and still plays 50 live shows a year. He's Northern California's greatest folk minstrel and one of its finest storytellers. Inseparably, he's also a man alive, the kind of guy who loves to whittle, rope, tie knots, sand wooden boats, work cattle, drive trucks. Others call him the bridge between the old, weird, prewar American folk music and its early '60s coffeehouse cousin. For his part, Elliott calls himself "a goddamn good picker and a goddamn good driver."
"I don't like travelin'," says Elliott. "I like driving around in an old diesel truck, but flying and airports and airlines and eating all that bad food and listening to them high-school-girls-on-speed chewing gum and talking into the microphone telling me to buckle my seat belt -- I don't like to be told what to do."
Born Elliott Charles Adnopoz in Brooklyn in 1931, Elliott assumed the Ramblin' Jack handle after he ran away with a rodeo as a young teen. (He was Buck Elliott in the interim.) After picking up a couple of guitar chords around the rodeo and then a stint in Greenwich Village folk music circles, Elliott met Woody Guthrie -- one of the most important figures in the music of this century, a troubadour, an honest poet, a writer of more than 1,000 songs, a follower of and a believer in folk, and the man Elliott would be associated with for the rest of his life. In the year-and-a-half Elliott lived with Guthrie, and the few years that he would travel around the country with him, the young man learned everything about playing guitar and singing from his senior: the old cowboy songs and the Dust Bowl ballads, how to flat pick and how to sing simply. (He also acquired a couple of Guthrie's bad habits: Elliott, too, went through a handful of wives and never really learned how to deal with a record company.) In 1955, Elliott set out on his own; soon after, Guthrie drew back into illness, fighting the decadelong bout with Huntington's chorea that would end with his death in 1967.
Elliott was one of the first American folk singers to tour England and Europe; he was rewarded with appreciation from Germans and Danes and Englishmen hungry for American traditionals. (Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax saw him at that time and told the folks back home that Elliott was his favorite young singer.) By the time he got back to the States and the center of the Village folk scene he was still singing Guthrie songs: His first American platter, recorded in 1960, was Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie. On that record, his version of "Hard Travelin' " -- his "first favorite Woody Guthrie song" -- played exactly like the version Guthrie laid down for famed folk producer Moses Asch years earlier.
"For years I did Woody Guthrie songs exactly the way that Woody did," he says. "And I got a lot of criticism from his friends and admirers. Some of them might have loved him as much as I did, but they didn't like how I was being a perfect mimic, aping Woody Guthrie down to the very last movement and gesture and facial expression. I'm sure they found it unnerving. Perhaps I owe them an apology, but I've changed the way I do a lot of Woody Guthrie songs."
"Hard Travelin'," which Elliott distinguishes from Guthrie's plain treatment by giving more heart, more emotion, and a pinch of shtick on the new Friends of Mine, is a good example. "Buffalo Skinners," a traditional that Guthrie used to do, is even better. Like most songs Elliott plays, it's got a back story. He had heard Guthrie play the song, but Elliott couldn't figure out the part that gives the song its driving sense of doom: You had to play the tune in straight major chords, but sing it in a minor key. He asked Guthrie to help him out. "He was offended by the concept of teaching," says Elliott. "He told me that he once asked Leadbelly what Leadbelly was doing on a guitar one time. Leadbelly replied, 'I ain't gonna show it to ya, but you welcome to steal it if ya like it.'
"He wasn't even going to play it or show it to me," Elliott continues. "He said, 'It's on the record, Jack.' " Elliott "listened to the record a hundred times" and learned the song and its story, about a group of cowboys who kill their boss after he lures them out West and then screws them out of their pay. Elliott sang "Buffalo Skinners" the same way Guthrie did for 10 years, then slowly started to make it his own. Between now and then Elliott's picking has become more forceful and confident, but the major difference is that Elliott gives the song two additional minutes. The added length lends the song a sense of wide-open space that connects it to the New Mexico landscape where the story takes place. At the end of the song, Elliott quietly howls into the microphone. It's twice the song Woody Guthrie once recorded.
Regardless, it's not fair to compare Elliott with Guthrie; they're really not playing the same game. Woody Guthrie was a troubadour. The original troubadours were 11th- to 14th-century poets from the South of France. They wrote about love and chivalry in the language of the people and traveled around spreading their music. Ramblin' Jack Elliott is, by contrast, more of a minstrel. He doesn't write his own songs (much); what he does is entertain through others' songs and his mastery of the exquisite craft of interpretation. Like every good minstrel, Elliott maintains a quiver of songs. South Coast, a 1995 record that won him a Grammy for best traditional folk record, is a fairly representative collection: Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues," Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter," and "Mean Old Bedbug Blues," made famous by Bessie Smith.
That record, released on the Minnesota-based folk label Red House Records, marked Elliott's return to the recording studio after a 26-year hiatus. It wasn't that he couldn't record; it was that he refused to. Elliott says that throughout his career he's released 40 records for more than 10 record labels -- five of which were "totally gonzo" outfits, as he puts it -- and has yet to see more than a couple of dollars for his trouble. "Didn't make records for 26 years," he says. "Total mistrust because I'd been ripped off so many times by record companies that I never had any hope of ever getting a square deal."
Eventually Elliott gets around to talking about the songs he recorded for his new album on the East Bay's Hightone Records. Tom Waits wrote the pained "Louise," a timeless-sounding tune about a jilted lover, just for the record. "If you didn't know it you might think it's some old song," says Elliott, who croons an eerie Louvin Brothers-style harmony to Waits' lead. Bob Weir had to learn how to play and sing lead on "Friend of the Devil" -- a tune he had spent 25 years backing Jerry Garcia on -- in order to perform it with Elliott. Joe Ely (whose wife makes delicious pozole) spent all night teaching Elliott "Me and Billy the Kid," but the latter turned the tale into a talking blues. The climax of the amusingly unsentimental story, the moment where Billy the Kid gets it, is a punch line to a joke set up in the refrain of the chorus -- "He wore his gun all wrong." Elliott just thinks it's funny. Elliott once sang Merle Travis' "Dark as a Dungeon," which he does here with Guy Clark, in the forward torpedo room of an attack submarine off the coast of Hawaii.
He was never in the service, so that's another story entirely. And by the way, did Elliott ever mention how great Ray Charles was? Or the time he went to bull-riding school when he was 47?
At this point the stories are part of the teller's being. While he wasn't recording, Elliott toured endlessly, probably most notably with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder tour. That experience means that now, onstage, Elliott acts with complete ease. He leans back on his heels to play guitar, then hunches into the microphone to sing. "I'd say about half of the shows that I've done I started the show with absolutely no list of songs," he says. "I just start talking about what happens on the way to the gig. People just start laughing. No matter how boring it is, they always start laughing."
They're laughing, of course, because Elliott's keeping up his end of the performer-audience contract. Elliott knows that good stories are all in the telling. "You can tell a good story about anything in the world," he says. "Say you want to tell a story about some guy's great eyesight." His voice changes. "See that fly on the telephone pole across the street?" Pause. "He's got a piece of bread in his mouth." Pause. "Whole wheat."
"Now you've made the audience laugh," he says. "They're ready to hear anything you have to say. It's just like roping. You have to whirl your loop properly. Get that nailed down because the next thing you're going to do is throw the loop. If you didn't whirl it properly it's not going to be open, a nice round circle, when you throw it. When you release it, the only thing you have to do is throw it in the right direction, at the right speed, at the right time so it gets around the calf's neck or the steer's hind foot. And there's this wonderful moment when the rope goes around the steer's horns and you got yourself a steer on the end of your line. It's not very hard work.


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By best-selling author Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes, Cherished by the Lord brings us a devotional that is great for those who want to deepen their relationship with God. Short biblical readings and reflections make this book a beautiful way to stop and reflect with the Lord, even if you only have a few minutes a day!
Published: O'Reilly Media, Inc. on Mar 1, 2012