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Many women who have been through pregnancy are familiar with low back pain. For some, that pain can last after childbirth and be severe enough to require physical therapy. One tool Mayo Clinic physical therapists use frequently with postpartum patients is rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (RUSI). The technology, which is safe and radiation-free, allows a patient to look at a screen and see her abdominal muscles during a physical therapy workout.
"Pregnancy-related back pain affects between 50 and 75 percent of all women. Our goal is to identify the potential source of the pain and help women return safely to physical exercise," says Kathryn (Kathy) R. Cieslak, P.T., D.Sc., OCS, of Mayo Clinic's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "We can see which muscles are having trouble contracting, and we can modify the exercises to target specific muscle groups."
Cieslak presented details about her use of the technique during the 2013 American Physical Therapy Association conference in Atlanta.
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Things that make you go "hmmmm" or Say what???!!!! Pt 5
let's continue....
Yes, it's already Friday in some parts of the world....we're still spinning....
another confused woman called my friend that works security
Me: Hello, Security, Roric speaking
Lady: Is this security?
Me: (shaking my head) yes
Lady: I would like to leave my car for a few days while I travel.
Me: ok what kind of car is it.
Lady: Broo Toyota Camry NJ plate for licence. I leave there 4 days.
Me: Where is it going to be?
Lady: in parking lot there at Carnegie Center.
Me: which lot? which building?
Lady: leaving car n parking lot at building where I am working.
Me: (shaking my head) where do you work?
Lady: Carnegie Center...I leave my car for 4 days. In parking lot.
Me:.........what building ma'am?
Lady: the 400.
Me: ma'am there iS no 400.
Lady: oh really? Well I leave car ok.
Me: ok ma'am....no problem. Have a nice trip
Maybe shes going back to her home planet for a short visit lol sheesh
At least he can laugh about it!
You have to laugh or they'll drive you crazy!
From Twitter:
"The worst part about surviving the apocalypse is that everyone else survived too."
Friendlier than some of my neighbors!
Prarphernalia in his car explains a lot!
Yes, it does!!!
maybe it 'splains my spelling LOL!
Nasty robbery in my town yesterday.....trashed every room, including fridge & freezer.....took 4 tvs, cash, jewelry, & all the Christmas presents....broke the sliding glass door on the deck....and nobody heard? This is in a busy neighborhood, was part of my mail route....
Most people including me, are barely aware of what's going on outside in cold weather. Of course, depends on how close the houses are. I hope I would notice if strange people were taking all those things from the neighbor's house. Must have had a van.
But trashing all the rooms and food? Sheesh. THat's overkill.
I'm sad to realize that property crime will probably be a continuing or bigger problem as the recession drags on.
Someone tried to break in to my DS's loft apartment yesterday. (Downtown, old industrial bldg, SW VA), He is here but one roomie was there and his noise seemed to make the burglar move off. I would not be surprised if it was one of their neighbors, who knows they are college kids and might all be home for holidays.
The bad guys think the best stuff is hidden in fridge or freezer.
Terrible shock for that family - so disturbing.
Overheard at Walmart
Young woman speaking to cashier
"Well, hi how ARE you?" "This is my boyfriend Sam."
"Sam, this is my ex sister in law."
"Did you know I remarried after your brother and I divorced?"
"Well, Sam is HIS brother"
This is what makes me REALLY go hmmmmmm
Major mall at Christmas.....it ain't so warm in those malls......
At the Photo with Santa area
Mom, Dad all bundled up...jeans...shirts...sweaters....wooly UGGS, etc,
~ 2 month old baby all decked out for the photo in SLEEVELESS silver and red satin .... with a few touches of purple....oh wait...those are her wee mottled arms!
I have seen babes really not dressed for the weather....afraid to say something however! Sally, sounds like your son had a lucky escape...yes, probably neighbors is right.....
Oh poor baby
No dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic conference held in London, England, and attended by some of the best linguists in the world. Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear winner.
His final challenge was this: Some say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. Please explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand.
Here is his astute answer: "When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. But, when you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!"
His answer was received with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes.
Must have been an audience of mostly men! Very funny!
Great answer!
Good one!!
After of as now - I think this about my Job. No I would like to say take this job and..........
Would you be happier home without the job? If so, quit now...no sense suffering....
I took the 2nd store in the height of holiday sales not knowing what I was getting into. Now that its over, maybe I can get into a routine & have 1/2 of a Life or somewhat of a "Normal" job, for a while.
The $$$$ is good. Most City Crew Workers dont do the physical labor I am. I can lean on a shovel. My husband says its too much for 1 woman to do alone during the holidays.
Lifting a 70 lb display, by myself. Up @ 3, on the road at 5:30 & home at 5:30. The 2nd store has kicked me. I am the 7th employee that has kept this job for more than 3 months.
Misery? Not peaches & cream.
schickenlady- seems like it will slow way down now until spring or easter do you think? which may not prevent those 70 lb displays and may not be good for the money with less hours....hope it works out for the best.
Sherrie, that sounds very physical....one reason I quit the post office was the heavy lifting.....
Like I always say - people suck!!
you can say it again!
Not surprised....some ugly humans out there......
How sad is that and we call ourselves human...We've pulled over many times to rescue them and let them go in our woods.
He thinks that was "forseeable"? Just another reason to hate lawyers. And those parents - how ungrateful can you be?
Typical. Tragedies bring out the best and the worst.
With Stormin' Norman passing the other day, they were giving some of his quotes. My favorite is, 'Going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordion.' GREAT!
Good one.....Memory, I was not happy to see that article....on the other hand, loved the article in today's Courant about a 102 year old woman who drives an 82 year old Packard....she still changes the oil & sparkplugs!
How do you like the new computer game dad got you for christmas?
Great! It is really sweeeet! These zombies....they are coming at you...and then you throw the tomahawk and then the dynamite and then you can cut their heads off or blow them up....
Whoa! Guy catches place crash in Moscow on dashboard camera.
What is it with 'Sandy' and tragedies this year?!
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Overtime violations were on the rise this month. Here's a rundown of a few recent cases.
A Houston manufacturing company has paid $1.6 million in back wages to 1,751 employees after a federal investigation revealed the company violated the federal overtime labor law.
According to Elizabeth Todd, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Labor in Dallas, IFCO Systems North America, which manufactures and repairs reusable plastic containers and wooden pallets, also paid $963,050 in civil penalties assessed by the DOL's Wage and Hour Division.
The federal investigation found that IFCO Systems failed to pay its workers time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 in a workweek in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and that the company failed to maintain employee records.
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Final note: Expect more wage-and-hour lawsuits during this extended economic downturn.
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As in any other engineering activity, the design of semiconductor chips (ICs) encompasses several separate, but often closely coupled, design activities. Today's system-on-a-chip (SoC) development exemplifies such a design flow, comprising tasks such as design conceptualization, architectural design and optimization, logic synthesis, physical implementation, and design verification. Evolving design tools and design methodologies require changes in software design-tool capabilities to meet current and future chip-design needs.
One clear line of demarcation within chip-design tasks is the separation of front-end (logic) and backend (physical) design activities. The front-end/backend "barrier" represents an important transition point for the designer, due to the importance of communicating design intent from logical- to physical-design representations. A successful transition from front-end to backend design is necessary for achieving timing closuremeeting the chip's timing constraints without expensive and time-consuming logic-synthesis/physical-implementation iterations.
As originally developed, logic synthesis was a tool for abstracting a gate-level design representation from an RTL representation, according to timing constraints a designer would place on the design. The user of the logic-synthesis tool would identify a library of gate-level logic cells the synthesis tool would target, along with the chip's timing constraints. The tool would generate, or synthesize, a gate-level representation of the design for the process technology of the targeted library that, supposedly, would meet the intended timing constraints for that design.
To map the library into the design to meet timing constraints, the synthesis tool would use estimates of wiring loads on the various design nets, the so-called estimated wireload model, based on statistical wire (interconnect) lengths on each net. Since these net parasitic loads were only estimates, the chip's physical implementation, using P&R software tools, would yield an unpleasant surprise. The estimates were almost always much different from the timing delays the designer would get by extracting the wire lengths (and loads) from the placed-and-routed chip and using this data to simulate the chip's timing behavior. Along with poor initial timing estimation, logic optimization in synthesis also does a poor job handling incremental optimization changessmall changes can result in major design perturbations.
Non-compliance of chip performance to the timing specification required the designer to modify the design at the RT level, re-synthesize, and then redo the chip's layoutexpensive operations that took huge chunks of time. Adding to the design problem was the reality that you often needed more than one synthesis/P&R reiteration to meet timing specificationsin other words, to reach timing closure. With shrinking time-to-market cycles and profit margins, this design methodology has quickly become unacceptable.
Another approach was to include more "intelligence" into the P&R tools, allowing them to optimize the chip's layout to meet timing and area specifications. However, this has now led to the current problem in achieving first-pass timing closurelack of a smooth handoff between front-end logic-synthesis and backend physical-design tools. This synthesis/physical-implementation barrier is due to several problems, including lack of a unified data model when moving from front-end to backend tools and an overlap of capabilities between synthesis and physical-design tools.
However, logic synthesis does a poor initial estimate of wire delay. When the physical-design tool takes the gate-level netlist from the synthesis tool, it must re-optimize the chip so that it meets design constraints in the physical design space. In other words, the P&R tools must "throw out" the optimization provided by logic synthesis and re-optimize taking into account the more accurate physical layout. This wastes time in the logic-synthesis operation (optimization dramatically increases run time) and actually hinders the operation of the subsequent physical-implementation tool.
Inserting a software tool between synthesis and physical implementation to more closely couple the logical and physical tools may provide some additional design optimization for small and medium designs (Figure 2). However, this added physical-synthesis tool does not eliminate the need to re-optimize large SoC designs in the physical-layout environment. In addition, a pre-P&R physical-optimization tool may also use a logic-synthesis core, thus just redoing the optimization done by the logic-synthesis toolanother waste of time.
Figure 2: Chip design flow including a physical-synthesis tool
To illustrate the complexity and inefficiency of designing a chip using the current logic-synthesis/physical-synthesis/physical-implementation flow, a benchmark four-million-gate design took 26 weeks of design time. Each iteration through this flow requires around 20 intermediate files, comprising command files, scripts, data-translation files, and data files such as netlist, DEF/PDEF, SDF, SPEF, and PLIB. For a 4M-gate design, with 20-30 blocks, that adds up to several hundred files. Adding to the complexity of the accompanying data management are tasks dealing with directory structure, version control, user environments, hardware platform, and design network.
Parasitic extraction on our 4M-gate design creates a 7 Gbyte file that takes 12 hours to read out from an extraction tool and 10 hours to read into a static-timing-analysis tool. A complete iteration through the RTL-to-GDSII flow with commonly used point tools requires over 27 hours of run time and around 15 Gbytes of disk space for all the necessary intermediate files (Figure 3). Finally, to reach timing closure you typically need between 6 and 10 full synthesis/physical-implementation iterations. You can see that a lot of time and effort are wasted due to an inefficient front-end/backend handoff. There are no advantages in having such long file I/O times and large file transfersthey don't add anything to design quality.
Figure 3: Current design flow is marked by large file sizes, long read and write times, and multiple synthesis/P&R iterations
Another problem with a physical-synthesis tool following logic synthesis is that such a tool is usually concerned only with timing specifications or, at most, also with some types of crosstalk optimization. Physical synthesis does not adequately address crosstalk and signal-integrity problems, since these problems are very layout dependent and the physical-synthesis tool does not have knowledge of the final chip layout. Furthermore, physical-synthesis tools do not address problems caused by interconnect inductance and do not understand the complex layout design-rules associated with complex SoCs. Even with physical synthesis, design issues such as these result in difficult-to-solve front-to-back design problems.
Design partitioning requires guard-banding performance. This means that you must over-constrain interfaces to allow back-end tools to account for inaccuracies in front-end tools. You also have to define "registered" interfaces to allow constraints to be setthis results in extra logic in the design. In addition, you must derive the constraints and keep them consistent with any change in design-block constraints.
The need for a large number of design partitions places an additional resource load on both the design team and on logic-synthesis and other design tools. Partitioning adds complexity to resource allocation for the various serial and parallel design activities, and in accounting for the interdependencies between these activities. Reducing the number of partitions decreases the cost of design development and EDA-tool licenses, reduces time-to market due to decreased tool run times and chip design time, and improves quality of results.
The design-tool flow must deal with all of these constraints, not just those concerned with on-chip timing, at all phases of the design, especially at the front-end. Current design flows do not do a good job with this, requiring expensive design modifications late into the design.
- They are inadequate for today's multimillion-gate SoCs
- They cannot adequately account for the process and physical details of ever-shrinking process technologies
- They hinder, rather than help, designers achieve first-pass silicon success.
Overcoming the front-end (synthesis)/back-end (P&R) discontinuity requires several changes in the way chip EDA tools operate and how they interface with each other. One important change would be a logic-synthesis tool that does not have more capability than it needs to have to work with the newer, more efficient physical-implementation tools. For example, a front-end tool flow, based on logic synthesis, would comprise tools for tasks such as:
- Checking RTL code (linting)
- Selecting the best architecture to meet design specifications
- Logic optimization
- Technology mapping and library selection
- Inserting design-for-test (DFT) scan logic
- Performing feasibility analyses (area, timing, power, routing congestion).
The logic-synthesis tool would not do irreversible logic optimization to meet timing or area constraintsthis is a task for the back-end P&R tool, which also does clock-tree insertion, design-block placement, and both global and detailed routing. Other back-end tasks that a physical-implementation tool should address include delay extraction, reliability analysis, and power and signal integrity based on a fully wired chip layout.
Front-end tools are critical for providing RTL synthesis along with design performance and chip-size estimates prior to the chip's physical implementationa virtual prototype of the designwith fast area and timing estimates and an RTL-to-netlist flow that takes just a few hours, not days. It is at this point that the design can be handed off to an intelligent P&R tool for optimization and successful physical implementation.
SoC technology has changed. Along with this change is a need to review current EDA-tool capabilities and design methodologies. We need to make sure that the tools a chip designer uses provide an optimum environment for efficient and accurate design, even if that means changing the tools to meet advanced technology requirements.


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Maple Leaf defenceman Mike Komisarek's season-ending shoulder surgery will take place next Wednesday at Dr. James Andrews' world famous clinic in Birmingham, Ala., with a recovery time of four to six months.
Still reluctant to go into details, except to say it involves a damaged right labrum but involves more than teammate Phil Kessels similar shoulder procedure last spring, Komisarek told the media on Thursday that he tried every known method of rehabilitation.
I want to do whats best for the Leafs, Komisarek said in the same anteroom at the MasterCard Centre where fellow defenceman Mike Van Ryns season-ending knee in jury was announced in the autumn. Theyve made a long-term commitment to me (five years, $22.5 million US last summer). This is my team.
Komisarek was injured on Jan. 2 in Calgary, a day after Leafs general manager Brian Burke named him and Kessel to the U.S. Olympic team. He thought it was a day-to-day situation at the time, but the problem started last season when the 6-foot-4, 245-pound defender shoulder popped out during a fight with Bostons Milan Lucic.
They have MRIs from last year and this year and this procedure had to be done, Komisarek said. They know whats going on in there and what needs to be fixed.
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Military Night Series Part 3: Wright, Brunson Share Military Connections
Editors Note: The Minnesota Lynx will hold its annual Military Night on Aug. 31 against the Tulsa Shock. Leading up to that evening, LynxBasketball.com will highlight members of the team who have family military ties. Part 3 highlights Monica Wright and Rebekkah Brunson, each of whom have families with multiple ties to the military.
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The Minnesota Lynx are getting excited about the opportunity to give back to the military community on Military Night, Aug. 31, when they hope to have thousands of military families in attendance with tickets paid for by donations to the cause.
For some Lynx players, this military community is one they and their families are personally a part of.
Forward Rebekkah Brunson, for one, has no shortage of military connections. Dating back to World War II, when her grandfather Davie served, Brunson's military family has grown to include her father, Thomas, and two brothers, Suja and Matt.
Rebekkah's father was a marine. Her older brother Suja, 37, was deployed for his first tour in Iraq, and her twin brother Matt, 30, served in Afghanistan. Rebekkah talked about the pride that their family feels in their country and in all the military members who are a part of her family.
"We feel a lot of pride," Brunson said. "It's gone on for generations, so everybody down the line has felt the same amount of pride, to the point where they feel they need to put their lives on the line to protect this country."
She said that she hopes that Military Night will foster the widespread respect and gratitude that our troops deserve.
"We have the spotlight, and we have the ability to encourage other people to show the same amount of appreciation for the military," she said
One person she knows will need no encouragement is teammate Monica Wright. Wright's parents, Garry and Lynette Wright, served in the Air Force, where they met. Shortly after Monica was born, her dad was stationed in Germany at the Rammstein Air Force Base. She had her first birthday party in New York, and then her family moved to Germany. When they returned to the United States, settling down near Washington D.C., Garry retired from the Air Force and worked for the government.
"He was from San Antonio, and I dont know if many people know this but San Antonio is a military city," Wright said. "Everything there is military. You have the veterans offices, and you have all branches there, two bases. Growing up in San Antonio he knew about ROTC and something called Civil Air Patrol, so he grew up wanting to be an officer."
Both Brunson and Wright know the struggles that come with being part of a military family. From being away from loved ones to the constant worry that comes with deployment, military families make sacrifices every day for their country.
"I was in elementary school when my dad was still working in the military," Wright said. "He was working a lot then. I dont remember seeing him until late at night, early in the morning and weekends."
As a little sister, knowing Suja was overseas serving was hard on Rebekkah. But she said she really began to understand the gravity of it when her twin Matt was in Afghanistan.
"I would call and he wouldnt answer, and they dont call you back for a little while. Immediately, something jumps into your head, like 'Whats going on?' Brunson said. He and his wife were there. So its nerve wracking, but thats what they do. They take great pride in being able to ensure that we have all of the things that we do here at home, no matter what it takes. Putting their lives on the line, risking their immediate family time just to ensure the country is in a stable place."
The Lynx are accepting donations in any amount from now until game day, Aug. 31. To donate, call 612-673-8400 or mail donations to 600 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55403 labeled "Military Donation."
"I have so much respect for [the military] because I know the stories my dad and my mom talk about, and how many sacrifices they had to make just being in the military, because its not an easy choice," Wright said.
"I salute all those officers, especially those who are serving right now. Because whether youre abroad or on U.S. soil, youre making sacrifices every single day. So much respect to them, and I hope they enjoy Los Lynx basketball on their days off."
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Sheriff's reports
8:27 a.m., Groveland A man said garbage was dumped onto his driveway on the 20000 block of Lower Skyridge Drive.
8:36 a.m., Columbia A caller on the 22000 block of Parrotts Ferry Road reported losing an Indian flute.
9:07 a.m., Dodge Ridge A man reported losing a wallet while working at the ski area.
11:01 a.m., Jamestown A man on the 10000 block of Eighth Street found a bird with its head cut off and wanted to talk to a deputy about it.
11:45 a.m., North Sonora A house on the 20000 block of Saratoga Road was reported burglarized.
12:25 p.m., Tuolumne A caller said a woman who appeared to be under the influence was staggering into a store on Tuolumne Road after walking from a vehicle with two people in it.
1:31 p.m., Sonora Meadows A woman on the 16000 block of Creekside Drive said a large parcel delivered to her home was missing.
3:47 p.m., Racetrack Road area A man on the 19000 block of Rough and Ready Trail said money in a jar in his bedroom was missing.
5:26 p.m., Columbia A Columbia College student said a mountain bike was stolen from the college dorms over the weekend.
11 p.m., Tuolumne A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after a Black Oak Casino security officer saw him running around cars parked at the casino.
12:32 a.m., Standard area A woman said she saw a vehicle pulling into a carport of a vacant house near Jenness Road and thought it was suspicious.
Felony bookings
2:28 a.m., Jamestown Forrest Richard Lowe, 23, of the 17900 block of Harvard Mine Road, Jamestown, booked on suspicion of robbery and misdemeanor battery on a peace officer, petty theft and being under the influence of a controlled substance after an arrest on Highway 108 at Woods Way, Jamestown.
According to a sheriff's department report, a woman said Lowe came into a convenience store on the 18100 block of Highway 108 talking irrationally and acting "pretty freaked out."
Lowe reportedly took a candy bar and money on the counter belonging to the woman, then left. Deputies found Lowe, questioned him and arrested him. Lowe struggled with deputies and one of them was cut on the hand, the report stated.
He remained in custody this morning in lieu of $5,000 bail.
8:39 a.m., Sonora Christopher George Morganelli, 26, 10400 block of Mt. Brow Road, Sonora, booked on a warrant charging him with marijuana cultivation after he turned himself in. He was released on his own recognizance after appearing in court.
9:07 a.m., Sonora Jason Thomas Dewar, 27, 3700 block of Byer Park Avenue, Modesto, booked on a warrant charging him with embezzlement, after he turned himself in. He was released on his own recognizance after appearing in court.
7 p.m., Big Hill Jeremy Paul Hernandez, 25, 12200 block of Gunsight Road, Big Hill, booked on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and a state parole hold after an arrest at his house. He remained in custody this morning without bail.
12:45 a.m., Jamestown Marilyn Lee Burger, 49, 10800 block of Mt. Brow Road, Sonora, booked on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance after an arrest on Highway 108 and Fifth Avenue, Jamestown.
During a traffic stop about 10 p.m. yesterday, a sheriff's deputy recognized Burger as being on probation and searched her, a sheriff's report stated. The deputy said he found three small plastic bags in her pocket, one of which contained a small white powder the deputy suspected of being methamphetamine.
As the deputy was trying to put handcuffs on Burger, she swallowed one of the bags. Burger was taken to a Sonora hospital where she could be under a doctor's care after ingesting what the deputy believed to be methamphetamine.
She was later released from the hospital and booked into the county jail.
Burger remained in custody this morning in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Cited on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol:
Leslie Charles Ferrari, 60, 23300 block of Pinewood Lane, Twain Harte, booked at 9:25 p.m. yesterday after arrest on Highway 108 west of Yosemite Junction.
Billy Wayne Locklin, 46, 9400 block of Bostwick Road, Sonora, booked at 12:55 a.m. today after arrest on Highway 108 at Main Street, Jamestown.
Sonora police reports
9:01 a.m., theft An employee at the Inns of California on the 300 block of South Washington Street said someone broke into a room and used it overnight.
11:08 a.m., suspicious circumstances An agitated student was seen leaving Cassina High School on South Barretta Street.
11:10 a.m., suspicious circumstances An man reported a possible parolee at large in a vehicle near a business on the 900 block of Sanguinetti Road. The man was gone when an officer arrived.
12:23 p.m., agency assist An officer checked on a woman intoxicated at a business on the 1200 block of Sanguinetti Road.
2:09 p.m., suspicious circumstances An officer checked on a man on the 800 block of Greenley Road.
4:13 p.m., suspicious circumstances Two small children were seen alone in a parked vehicle in the parking lot of a business in the Sonora Crossroads shopping center on the 1200 block of Sanguinetti Road.
4:48 p.m., reckless driving An erratic driver was reported on Mono Way, heading toward downtown Sonora.
10:41 p.m., suspicious circumstances A woman said while she was walking her dog, someone threw a bottle from an older station wagon that landed close to her. She wasn't sure if the person was trying to hit her.
10:44 p.m., controlled substance arrest During a traffic stop, a 43-year-old man was arrested on Terrace Drive on suspicion of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, possessing a hypodermic needle and for violating probation, all misdemeanors. The man was a passenger in the vehicle.
Injury ........................... 0
Non-injury .................. 4
7:45 p.m., Groveland A flue fire was reported on the 17800 block of Deer Flat Road. No dollar damage was reported. J. Granger of the same address owns the home. Groveland Community Services District Fire Department, Tuolumne County Fire Department and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection responded.
Sheriff's reports
7:08 a.m., Valley Springs A caller on the 500 block of St. Andrews Road reported seeing smoke from a golf course and things falling out of the sky. A deputy determined the smoke was from a controlled burn in the area.
12:13 p.m., Mokelumne Hill A caller found a wallet at a convenience store on Highway 49.
12:48 p.m., Copperopolis A caller reported four suspicious-looking teens walking around a vacant house on the 3000 block of Arrowhead.
2:24 p.m., San Andreas A theft was reported at Gold Strike High School on the 500 block of Gold Strike Road.
6:50 p.m., Valley Springs A caller said someone threw a lit firecracker onto Baldwin Street when the caller drove by.


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Some Westchester County beaches have been closed as a precaution after sewage leaked into the Long Island Sound.
County health officials issued an advisory urging all recreational boaters and swimmers in Rye Harbor, Milton Harbor and Greenhaven in Rye and in Mamaroneck Harbor to avoid Long Island Sound indefinitely.
The advisory comes in the midst of a heat wave.
Swimming is barred at Beach Point Club, Orienta Beach Club, Mamaroneck Beach and Yacht Club. Also Shore Acres Pointe and Harbor Island Park Beach, American Yacht Club, Shenorock Shore Club, Coveleight Club and Greenhaven Association.
The health department will take water samples and advise when it's safe to reopen the beaches.
An underground force main break continues to release sludge near Blind Brook.
Published at 9:13 AM EDT on Jul 16, 2013 | Updated at 9:31 AM EDT on Jul 16, 2013


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The Hispanic Health Council, Inc. of Hartford is among the winners of the "Let's Move!" Communities on the Move Video Challenge First Lady Michelle Obama announced last month.
The Hispanic Health Council, Inc. created "Puppets & Peers …..On the Move!," a video that focuses on prevention of childhood obesity through healthy eating, physical activity and access to affordable healthy foods.
The video covers a pre-school program, as well as the breastfeeding: heritage and pride peer counseling program, which encourages breastfeeding and provides support for low-income women.
The first prize winner was a church in Florida. Other winners come from California, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
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15 February 2013
Rajesh Pulaparambil
UST Global
This is the one question Agile teams are always asking each other, and I see many questions in blogs related to it as well. How do we bid on a fixed-price project? It's a question I asked myself for a long time. Finally I've found a solution — or at least a work-around to get the project estimate before bidding on the project itself.
It's risky to commit to a fixed-price project. Those who follow Agile methods are generally reluctant to accept such projects, but there are some situations (maybe a management push where management is premature in Agile, for instance) when we are compelled to commit to them. If the team has a proven velocity in this domain, then it's fairly easy to find out the estimate and schedule. The risk becomes higher when the team doesn't have a proven velocity in the specific project domain.
When the team has no sprint velocity in a specific domain
Let's assume an Agile team is already in place. When this team gets an offer for a project with fixed price, the biggest challenge is to find out a list of features. Most customers can give a high-level feature list (epics); then the combination of team, marketing person, and domain expert can find out the estimate.
The marketing person and domain expert can act as the product owner, and the team helps them estimate the project. The marketing person and domain expert sit with the team and elaborate on the high-level feature list, splitting its elements into low-level features or a user stories list. They can conduct meetings and discussions with the client and fine-tune the low-level feature list. This will ensure that the team can estimate the project efficiently, since it can clarify any questions with the domain expert and sales person.
The estimation is done in story points (relative estimation), and team has to convert those story points into hours. Once we find out the hours estimate, then we can arrive at the cost of the project. How we can find out the estimated project hours? One solution is to run a sample sprint of one week, selecting a few features from the product backlog. If the team completes 50 story points in 250 hours, then each story point costs 250/50 = 5 hours.
So if we estimate, overall, 1,000 story points, then the estimate of hours will be 5 x 1,000 = 5,000 hours. The team has to decide on the DoD (definition of done) before coming to this estimation. If we're billing $X for each man-hour, then the cost will be 5,000 x $X.
If our estimation goes beyond the fixed price of the project, then we have to check with the customer. We need to push the customer to find out the major features (we can use the MoSCoW method or some other criteria). Run estimates for the selected features again, and find the cost. Repeat these steps until the project cost comes under the project quote amount. The team should commit only those features that it can complete within this project cost. If the customer agrees with those features, then we can go ahead with project. Otherwise, say, "No."
Once the project estimation is over, then the team can concentrate on committing the schedule. We sometimes conduct a sample sprint for estimating the project. This way we'll get a rough velocity of the team and, based on that, we can set a schedule for the entire project. When we submit a schedule, we give three: bad, normal, and good. This will give us protection on the schedule in case something goes beyond expectations.
Changes in the features
There may be changes in the features, and there will be continuous juggling with the product backlog. But the team should be always conscious of the agreed-on project cost before committing any changes. Changes should be allowed in Agile, but they need to be limited by cost. If these changes are giving real value to the customer, and the customer also agrees to change priorities (maybe some less-desired features are pushed down the list or thrown out of the backlog, for example), then the product backlog can change. But those types of negotiation have to be conducted by the PO with the customer.
Teams with measured sprint velocity in a project domain
Estimation is comfortable in these cases, since we know our team velocity in the specific project domain. Here the team can sit with the product owner and estimate the features. This estimation helps decide the feasibility of doing the project. The person acting as product owner can interact with the customer and find out the most desired features. If the customer isn't aware of the financial value of the features, the product owner can help determine them, since he or she already has experience doing similar projects. Experience helps in this situation.
The risk of feature changes
As we're following the Agile approach, we don't just say no to any type of changes in the selected features. Here the level of experience in handling projects comes into the picture. I've seen many teams put some buffer time into the estimation to accommodate these changes. Some people can argue against using that practice in Agile, since Agile is about transparency between the customer and the team. But I agree with some level of time buffering — especially in a fixed-budget project, where any extra cost will make the customer panic.
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Josh and I officially decided on a name! We've been calling her Amelie for awhile now and we still love it. There's a small chance we still might change her name at birth (hehe), but we're 95% sure our baby girl's name is Amelie.
Fun story: Before my baby shower, I stopped by a bakery to pick up the cake. While waiting, I met a lovely lady in line and we started talking about babies. She was picking up a birthday cake for her one year old and can you guess her daughter's name? It's Amelie! It's not that common of a name, so what are the chances? It must be a sign, right? :
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According to CBS Sports' Jon Heyman, the Phillies are talking to the Twins about outfielder Ben Revere.
The Twins have made it known that they're shopping Revere, who is a strong defender and boasts excellent raw speed but is probably never going to hit at a decent clip. The 24-year-old batted .294/.333/.342 with 40 stolen bases in 124 games this past season for Minnesota.


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Treasury launches reform road show – Greenspan hits Bush tax cuts again – Goldman details AIG valuations – WSJ: Big investors fear deflation
Treasury launches reform road show – Greenspan hits Bush tax cuts again – Goldman details AIG valuations – WSJ: Big investors fear deflation
By Ben White
Story Continued Below
UNDER-RADAR ECONOMICS – In today's POLITICO, I take a look at figures other than GDP and unemployment that political pros, policy makers and pundits use to get a read on where economic and political sentiment is heading: "'The difficulty with those big numbers is they are all after the fact. They tell us what already happened,' said Karl Rove, former top political adviser to President George W. Bush who has documented the minimal connection between GDP, unemployment and midterm election results. 'The American people tend to react to information they glean from their daily experience.' …
"Administration officials keep their eyes on all sorts of so-called 'high frequency' data, from electric utility company outputs to the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's Business Outlook survey. But one of the more interesting data points is the number of people searching the Web for 'new car dealers,' according to data compiled by Google Insights. … The searches … plunged as the recovery slowed and are now lacking a strong trend in either direction, sort of like the economy as a whole." http://politi.co/crZacN
POLITICO PRINT EDITION FRONT PAGE -- http://bit.ly/cgAcoK
EXCLUSIVE: TREASURY LAUNCHES REFORM ROAD SHOW – Following Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's big speech at 4:00 p.m. today at NYU's Stern School of Business, a number of Treasury officials will fan out around the country to explain the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation and argue that it can help rather than hinder economic growth the way post-Great Depression reforms did.
Per a Treasury official: "Geithner will discuss how Wall Street, Main Street, and Washington have a shared interest and obligation to get the next stage of reform right. In particular, he will detail steps the government will take over the coming months to ensure that these reforms provide certainty and strike the right balance between reining in financial excess and maintaining the benefits of financial innovation."
FROM THE SPEECH: "We had an obligation to rebuild our financial system so it could, once again, be an engine for economic growth and innovation. …The reforms that are now the law of the land will help us rebuild a pro-growth, pro-investment financial system. … We will move as quickly as possible to bring clarity to the new rules of finance. The rule writing process traditionally has moved at a frustrating, glacial pace. We must change that. …
"We will not simply layer new rules on top of old, outdated ones. Everyone that is part of the financial system - the regulated and regulator - knows that we have accumulated layers of rules that can be overwhelming. So alongside our efforts to strengthen and improve protections for the economy, we will eliminate rules that did not work. Wherever possible, we will streamline and simplify."
DRIVING TREASURY'S WEEK – Treasury Assistant Secretary Michael Barr will speak before the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday morning, and Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin will hit both Boston and Philadelphia on Thursday for events hosted by The New England Council and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. Look for events in other cities to follow.
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GREENSPAN HITS BUSH TAX CUTS AGAIN – Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on NBC's "Meet the Press": "I'm very much in favor of tax cuts but not with borrowed money and the problem that we have gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money. And at the end of the day that proves disastrous. My view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here." Full transcript: http://bit.ly/bpIBZa
BLACKBERRY BANNED IN UAE – FT's Andrew England reports from Abu Dhabi: "The United Arab Emirates is to suspend BlackBerry mobile communication services from October because, it said, they operate outside its laws and raise national security concerns. Saudi Arabia appeared to be following suit … BlackBerry services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, use internal encrypted networks that are difficult for governments to monitor. It is the only data services provider operating in the UAE that exports its data offshore and denies authorities access to its systems." http://bit.ly/9HGh32
BREAKING ON SUNDAY: CHINA SLOWS – Bloomberg reports: "China's July manufacturing data were the weakest in more than a year as the government clamped down on property speculation and investment in polluting and energy-intensive factories. A purchasing managers' index released … by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics slid to 49.4 from 50.4 in June. A separate, government-backed PMI fell to 51.2 from 52.1, the Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported yesterday. Fifty is the dividing line between expansion and contraction." http://bit.ly/bx02pM
MARKETS SHRUG IT OFF – Dow Jones reports from Singapore: "Asian stocks traded mostly higher Monday despite a tepid lead from Wall Street on Friday and weak Chinese manufacturing data, with the Tokyo market spurred higher by strong earnings reports. Investors were looking past data on Sunday showing China's manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in 17 months in July as some economists had expected the report to show a contraction." http://bit.ly/9ZAwfU
U.S. FUTURES – Suggest a higher open http://bit.ly/92Ysfe
GOOD MONDAY MORNING – Welcome to August and the post-Chelsea Clinton wedding era. Mazel tov to the happy couple but thank God that's over. POLITICO's Ben Smith explains why we shouldn't really have cared to begin with (some of us never did). http://politi.co/9espK6
ICYMI – FT's Ed Luce had a majestic weekend read on the crisis in middle-class America. Print it out for the ride home if you haven't read it yet. http://bit.ly/cb3Jrs
GOLDMAN DETAILS AIG VALUATIONS – Goldman Sachs last night posted its highly-detailed and hotly anticipated nine-page response to the FCIC's request for information on how it came up with the mortgage security valuations it used to extract collateral from AIG in 2007 and 2008.
Some have criticized Goldman's valuations of CDOs insured by AIG as a contributing factor in AIG's near-collapse. Goldman lays out a very different narrative in which it sensed that AIG was going to run into trouble and so took out insurance with third-parties. Goldman also notes that AIG had no mechanism for coming up with market prices on the securities and that their third party sources provided prices they weren't prepared to trade on. The memo provides a road map of how Goldman went about determining prices and sticking to them in collateral calls.
Goldman also argues its prudent risk-management left the bank hedged against either an AIG failure or a bailout. "We believe our marks were accurate and reflected the value markets were placing on the transactions," Goldman wrote in the memo. Full memo: http://politi.co/afOvS1
Goldman also provided a (too large for linkage) spread-sheet with more data on its RMBS and CDO positions.
WEST WING PUSH BACK – White House Deputy Communications Director Jen Psaki blogged last night on an AP story that moved over the weekend on small business legislation supported by the White House: "FICTION: 'Congress is at work on a new program that would send $30 billion to struggling community banks.' FACT: To participate, a bank's Federal regulator must deem it viable – helping to protect taxpayer investments and ensure that they can increase lending." http://bit.ly/c6ba8A
JULY BEST MONTH FOR DEALS THIS YEAR – Dealogic yesterday put out a report yesterday showing July was the best month so far this for deals with $240.8bn in mergers and acquisitions. Full report: http://politi.co/9zaMfq
DRIVING THE ECONOMIC WEEK – Another big data week with ISM July manufacturing today. WP reports analysts expect a drop to 54.5 from 56.2, another indication GDP will slow further as the year goes on. Similar drop expected Wednesday from the larger services sector … Big number once again falls on a Friday with the July jobs report. Census cuts will again bring down the top line with private payrolls expected to go up by 110,000 jobs, from a gain of 83,000 in June. That won't be enough to stop the unemployment rate from inching up from 9.5 to 9.6 percent, according to estimates.
DRIVING BP'S WEEK – WP's Joel Achenbach reports on pg. A1: "The next shot at killing BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico could begin as early as Monday night, as engineers plan to pump heavy mud into the capped but still dangerous well and 'bullhead' the rogue oil back down into its source rock 2 1/2 miles below the seafloor. … If all goes perfectly, the one-two mud punch will literally be overkill. The static kill will terminate Macondo, and the bottom kill will be more like a confirmation test, akin to poking the body to make sure it's dead." http://bit.ly/9xxaps
BARR WAITS IN THE WINGS – WSJ's Damian Paletta reports on pg. A4: "Many Democrats and liberal interest groups have launched an all-out campaign to have Elizabeth Warren [head CFPB] … The White House's other top candidate, Treasury Department Assistant Secretary Michael Barr, has, like Ms. Warren, spent years calling for stricter curbs on the banking industry. … Mr. Barr has called for rules that would force banks to offer 'plain vanilla' financial products to consumers. … Mr. Barr declined to comment." http://bit.ly/9iUsT5
BUSINESS TO FLOOD AIRWAVES – L.A. Times' Tom Hamburger reports: "Driven by increasing anger at Democratic policies and by recent Supreme Court decisions unshackling corporate contributions, business and conservative groups are preparing a flood of campaign money to try to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce … has increased its spending for the congressional election in November from $35 million in 2008 to a projected $75 million this year. Officials say it may go even higher. … One report circulating among Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill last week estimated that more than $300 million has been budgeted for the campaign by a group of 15 conservative tax-exempt organizations." http://bit.ly/atThN7
MORE ON GOLDMAN VALUATIONS – WSJ's Serena Ng and Carrick Molenkamp report on pg C1: "In a nine-page memo, Goldman noted that the securities AIG had insured .. rarely traded, so Goldman instead used prices from trades in other CDOs to 'help inform' its valuations on the AIG deals. … Goldman's memo acknowledged that 'a certain degree of judgment was necessary' in valuing the CDOs because they were so thinly traded. Goldman said its prices were based on bids and offers and trades in 'comparable instruments,' as well as valuations it used for residential mortgage-backed securities and other assets that made up the CDOs." http://bit.ly/duNKmY
TRADE EFFORT FACES HURDLES – NYT's Sewell Chan reports on pg. B1: "When President Obama announced at his State of the Union address in January a goal of doubling American exports over five years, business owners applauded … But now, as officials complete a plan of action due in September, the hurdles before Mr. Obama's ambitious goal are getting clear. Opening access to foreign markets, especially the fast-growing developing countries in Asia and South America, remains a politically touchy matter that will require the cooperation of Congress. A free-trade agreement with South Korea that was negotiated under President George W. Bush and that has been endorsed by Mr. Obama still awaits Congressional ratification, as do agreements with Colombia and Panama." http://nyti.ms/a3vcpO
TOP TALKER: BIG INVESTORS FEAR DEFLATION – WSJ's Gregory Zuckerman reports on pg. C1: "Some of the world's leading investors are becoming more worried about deflation and are re-shaping their portfolios … Bond-fund heavyweight Bill Gross, investment manager Jeremy Grantham and hedge-fund managers David Tepper and Alan Fournier are among the best-known investors who are bracing for a possible bout of deflation, a development that could cripple global economies and world stock markets. … [M]any of these star investors don't see extended deflation as a sure bet and predict that, as deflation becomes more likely, the Federal Reserve and other government officials will take radical steps to arrest the decline, such as buying bonds or introducing spending programs." http://bit.ly/bNERno
LATE STATE AID PUSH – POLITICO's David Rogers reports: "With a Senate vote slated for Monday evening, the White House shows signs of a late-breaking push behind a $26.1 billion aid package to help state and local governments cope with revenue shortfalls … Democrats fear more state layoffs, beginning with teachers just months before November elections. Cash-strapped governors are promised $16.1 billion to pay Medicaid bills next year and ease their budget situation; another $10 billion in education assistance would go to school boards to help with teacher hiring—a top priority for Education Secy. Arne Duncan. 'There is a tremendous amount at stake here,' Duncan told POLITICO." http://bit.ly/cRZrfC
INTERNET EXPLORER TRACKS USERS – In the latest "What They Know" installment, WSJ's Nick Wingfield reports on pg. A1: "The online habits of most people who use the world's dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn't the plan at first. In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.'s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They wanted to design the software to automatically thwart common tracking tools … That triggered heated debate inside Microsoft. …. In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads." http://bit.ly/cMM5DU
PAUL RYAN SCARES REPUBLICANS – WP's Perry Bacon Jr. reports on pg. A1: "Viewing him as a rising star in the party, Republicans in Congress often talk up Rep. Paul Ryan as a potential governor, senator or House leader. … Instead, Ryan is running a campaign of a different sort, one his party has so far refused to adopt: He is determined to persuade colleagues to get serious about eliminating the national debt, even if it means openly broaching overhauls of Medicare and Social Security. … He administers his sermons with evangelical zeal. He will go anywhere and talk to anyone who will listen. When he is not writing op-eds and appearing on television, he can often be found speaking to liberal and conservative audiences alike about his 'Roadmap for America's Future,' a plan he says would fix the problem." http://bit.ly/buoYA8
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EPSS classifications
NFPA 99, NFPA 101, and NFPA 110 establish the minimum requirements for defining the level, type, and class of EPSS.
Level: The EPSS level defines powered loads and risk to human life and safety.
Level 1: Equipment failure could result in loss of life or serious injury.
Level 2: Equipment failure is less likely to result in loss of life or serious injury.
Type: The EPSS type determines the maximum time in seconds that essential ATS load terminals can be without power.
Type 10: 10 sec to restore power
Type 60: 60 sec to restore power.
Class: The EPSS class determines the minimum time, typically in hours, that the EPSS can operate without being refueled.
Class 6: 6 hr of operation
Class X: X hr of operation as required by application, code, or user.
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OK. So I joined Facebook a couple months ago to see what it was all about. Yeah, I know, the college kids have been way into it for a while, and I kinda feel like an old fart on it, but I figured I'd start a Slice group on there for the hell of it.
My thinking is that I'll use it to rally the troops, to raise a "Slice Army," if you will—a group of folks to call on for organized and impromptu pizza field trips. The Slice group is open to Facebook members at large, so if you're on there, even if you and I aren't "Friends" on there, feel free to join. Most of the pizza outings will probably occur in New York, but when I travel, if there are members of the "Slice Army" in any given city, I'll hit them up for taste-tests. So what I'm saying is, feel free to join even if you don't live in the Big Apple.
Here's the URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5055932698
By the way, if you're a Facebooker, challenge me to a game of Scrabulous. I'm totally addicted to it.
[And yeah, Slice used to be on MySpace, but I got tired of the spammy come ons from skanky "females," the annoying auto-play songs everyone seems to have on their pages, and the overall crappiness of the design there.]


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Partying is serious business! For those who believe this will definitely understand how important it is to keep finding new avenues to feed their interest in music, dancing, food and spirits. But, what if you are the one driving down your friends to the party destination? You, of course cannot drink any alcoholic beverages. Fear not, we have outlets for all the designated drivers who just end up just watching people drink their way to glory.
Let's take a look at some of these truly innovative and unusual outlets that can be found in India.
1) Soi 7, Gurgaon
Soi 7 is not your run-of-the-mill Asian-themed restaurant serving a fusion of various Asian cuisines. Its appeal goes far beyond food and drinks. While everyone else enjoys the microbrewery at the DLF Cyber Hub, you can groove on the outdoor terrace where the live bands play and enjoy some thrilling Muay Thai action. If you feel you should rather participate in the action than only watch you can jump into the wrestling ring along with your friends for a friendly bout.
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2) Social, Todi Mill, Mumbai
Social at Todi Mill is an outlet where work and fun co-exist. It is a place that allows people to enjoy their work. If your friends have been whining about you not spending time with them because you have been working all day, now, work with them. Trust me… there is nothing like completing pending tasks when your friends are around.
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Dancing is just another way to unwind along with your friends, especially when you have to drive them back home sober. M Bar Kitchen is one of those outlets that helps you dance like a crazy duckling. And after having worked up an appetite, you can dig into the Moroccan chicken, garlic chicken popcorn, tempura fish, zesty chicken fajita wrap and spiced basa with lemon chilli sauce and many more dishes to satiate your hunger. The pizzas and kebabs served here too are delicious, and worth every penny spent.
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AliceLauren wrote:I want to see when Bella, Mike, and Jake are in the movies, and both Jake and Mike hold out their hand so that Bella can take it. I think that it would be so funny to just see Bella look at them, look angry, sigh, and fold her arms around herself. HA HA HA. Rejected.
But I will cry so hard, no matter what, when Edward leaves. I am going to bring a box of tissues to the movies. Ha ha.
Rob better do a good job and leave her. Wow that wounds strange. But if he just kinda says "I'm leaving, bye." to Bella, i will be mad. He needs to use those good acting sills that I know he has.
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The Clash of Ideas at Columbia
Published: April 11, 2005
To the Editor:
''Intimidation at Columbia'' conflates two different issues under the rubric of intimidation: charges that certain faculty members have behaved in an unprofessional manner toward students, and the ideas of those teaching Middle Eastern studies at Columbia.
Professors who do not treat students properly should be reprimanded. But for a student to encounter unfamiliar or even unpleasant ideas does not constitute intimidation.
Exposure to new ideas is the essence of education. Your call for the university to investigate ''the quality and fairness of teaching'' and ''complaints about politicized courses'' because students do not like the professors' ideas opens a Pandora's box that can never be closed.
Would you favor an investigation of every class on campus that deals with a controversial issue -- for instance, whether I give enough class time to the pro-slavery argument, or whether economists present globalization in too flattering a light?
The autonomy of professors in designing and teaching their classes is the foundation of academic freedom.
Eric Foner
New York, April 7, 2005
The writer is a professor of history at Columbia University.


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Week ending January 13th, powered by Nielsen BookScan. Copyright 2012 The Nielsen Company.
1. "A Memory of Light" by Robert Jordan (Tor)
2. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
3. "The Husband List" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's)
4. "Collateral Damage" by Stuart Woods (Putnam)
5. "Kinsey and Me: Stories" by Sue Grafton (Putnam/Marian Wood)
6. "Tenth of December: Stories" by George Saunders (Random House)
7. "The Racketeer" by John Grisham (Doubleday)
8. "The Blood Gospel" by James Rollins (William Morrow)
9. "Cross Roads" by Wm. Paul Young (Faith/Words)
10. "Threat Vector" by Tom Clancy (Putnam)
11. "The Forgotten" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
12. "Empire and Honor" by W.E.B. Griffin and William Butterworth IV (Putnam Adult)
13. "Dream Eyes" by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam)
14. "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" by Ayana Mathis (Knopf)
15. "Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
1. "Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes" by Ian K. Smith (St. Martin's Press)
2. "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reilly (Henry Holt and Co.)
3. "The Plan" by Lyn-Genet Recitas (Grand Central)
4. "Ninja Innovation" by Gary Shapiro (William Morrow)
5. "My Share of the Task" by Stanley McChrystal (Portfolio)
6. "Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
7. "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen (Dutton)
8. "The Virgin Diet: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds, Just 7 Days" by J.J. Virgin (Harlequin)
9. "I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak" by Joel Osteen (Faith/Words)
10. "Wheat Belly Cookbook" by William Davis (Rodale)
11. "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" by Jon Meachum (Random House)
12. "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies" by Jared Diamond (Viking)
13. "The End of Diabetes" by Joel Fuhrman (HarperOne)
14. "Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook" by Weight Watchers (Wiley)
15. "Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig (Hudson Street Press)
1. "Odd Interlude" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
2. "The Columbus Affair: A Novel" by Steve Berry (Ballantine)
3. "Return to Sender" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
4. "Big Sky River" by Linda Lael Miller (Harlequin HQN)
5. "10th Anniversary" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Vision)
6. "Montana" by Debbie Macomber (Harlequin Mira)
7. "Catch Me: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel" by Lisa Gardner (Signet)
8. "Full House" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press)
9. "Left for Dead: A Novel" by J.A. Jance (Pocket Books)
10. "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Choke Point" by Peter Telep (Berkley)
11. "Sea Glass Winter: A Shelter Bay Novel" by JoAnn Ross (Signet)
12. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
13. "Wyoming Bride: A bitter Creek Novel" by Joan Johnston (Dell)
14. "After Tex" by Sherryl Woods (Harlequin Mira)
15. "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
1. "Proof of Heaven" by Eben Alexander (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James (Vintage)
3. "Fifty Shades Darker" by E.L. James (Vintage)
4. "Fifty Shades Freed" by E.L. James (Vintage)
5. "Home Front" by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
6. "Private London" by James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing)
7. "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James (Vintage)
8. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain (Ballantine)
9. "Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel" by Sylvia Day (Berkley)
10. "The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again" by J.R.R. Tolkien (Mariner Books)
11. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
12. "Do More, Spend Less" by Brad Wilson (Wiley)
13. "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel (Mariner Books)
14. "Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel" by Sylvia Day (Berkley)
15. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books)


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Fiber-Optic Light Painting
The photographic technique of 'Painting with Light' has been around since the very early days of photography.
Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera during the exposure. Subjects can be lit by 'painting' the subject with light from outside the frame with hand-held light sources.
Many kinds of light source can be used, from simple flashlights to dedicated devices like the Hosemaster, which uses a fiber optic light pen with many attachments to 'shape' the light. Colored gels can be used to color the light. Other sources of light such as candles, matches, fireworks and glowsticks, could also be used.
Selective 'blur' can be added to an image by camera movement or the use of diffusion filters over the lens during selected parts of the overall exposure.
Light Painting Photography can be traced back to 1914 when Frank Gilbreth, and his wife Lillian, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of workmen. Man Ray, in his 1935 series "Space Writing," was the first known art photographer to use the technique. Barbara Morgan began making light paintings in 1940.
By using this technique you can produce images that are as 'way out' or as 'normal' as you wish.
Even everyday items can be turned into works of art.
Try it !
To get started all you need is a camera (that has a 'B' or 'T' shutter setting), a tripod, a darkened room, a few colored gels and a good penlight torch.
I have just posted a new 'collection' with my modern take on this old photographic technique. I produced most of the images in this collection by using Hosemaster Fiber-Optic Light Painting equipment. Most of these images were shot on white background paper which was then colored using light and color gels.
View my collection: "Fiber-Optic Light Painting" at the following link:
You can get a basic idea of the techniques used by watching the video at this link:
A few pictures from the collection..........
Steve Allen
Langton Village, North Yorkshire, UK
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Tick Species
Lone Star Tick
Nick Names: Lone Star, Seed ticks
Common Names: Lone Star
Formal Names: Amblyomma americanum
Description: The female is easily distinguished from any other tick by her pronounced white dot or star in the center of her back. The star is actually part of her shield. Lone Star are aggressive ticks and are known to move long distances in pursuit of the host.
Repellents: Permethrin clothing treatment kills ticks and deet-based skin repellent helps repel them.
Diseases: Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, Tularemia and suspected of Lyme Disease and possibly Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. New information is available regarding a disease called STARI - Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness.
Left to Right: nymph, female, male
Left to Right: female, male
Left to Right: unengorged female, 1/4 engorged, 1/2 engorged and fully engorged. Notice how star continues relationship to mouthparts? The star is part of the shield and remains consistent throughout the engorgement sequence. Shields on all hard ticks are consistent in their relationship to the mouthparts.
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CHICAGO -- Frank Riordan clearly keeps a level-headed perspective on indulgently rich ice cream as he explains his first visit to Cold Stone Creamery in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
"My wife and I wanted to have more than our week's share of treats, so we decided to walk a farther distance to burn the extra calories," said Riordan, 34, president of a software engineering consulting firm. "I did a Mapquest (computerized locator). It is 2.3 miles to get here from our home."
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Americans plunk down 6 of every 10 dollars they spend on ice cream at parlors ranging from Cold Stone Creamery, Baskin-Robbins and other national franchises to the local mom and pop shops
We routinely throw aside nutritional caution -- and fat gram/calorie counting -- for the satisfaction of cooling palates and soothing stress.
Going out for ice cream is in. Very in. People magazine's Fall Style Watch declared going out for dessert as a "Use it" proposition, while meeting friends for coffee has become a passe "Lose it" event.
Of course, you don't have to skip the coffee flavor or caffeine buzz. For instance, TCBY (an acronym for The Country's Best Yogurt) offers the monstrous Toffee Coffee Cappuccino Chiller featuring frozen yogurt, milk, coffee flavoring and whipped cream.
Bumping up against you-name-your-favorite old-fashioned local parlor are some butterfat heavyweights.
Cold Stone Creamery, which started in Arizona and quickly established a stronghold in California and, of all places, Alaska ("We were selling ice cream to Eskimos," said company representative Christopher Enser), has 350 locations nationwide.
A big draw is the franchise's commitment to making fresh ice cream on its premises every day, plus offering customers a chance to view their customized mix-in of ingredients including berries, nuts, candies and chunks of cakes and brownies.
"When we opened the first store three years ago in Arlington Heights (Ill.), we had customers who were driving up to an hour to visit," said Enser, 28, co-owner of Cold Stone Creamery stores in suburban Chicago.
Just this month, a Chicago landmark became home to an ice-cream import. Australian Homemade opened in Marshall Field's on State Street.
The national chain has set up shop on the first floor, making ice cream fresh every day.
In addition--apparently management doesn't read People--Australian Homemade also will be roasting and blending trademark coffees.
The frozen frenzy reminds business people and customers alike of other buzz-worthy fresh-made market niches, such as espresso drinks and doughnuts.
Enser said Cold Stone Creamery is "not afraid to say we want to be the Starbucks of ice cream."
He elaborated that the "whole experience" of Cold Stone is critical, right from greetings from employees at the door (or in a longer queue on hot nights) to explaining how workers "spade" ice cream onto a 15-degree granite stone for custom mixing.
"We don't plan television commercials or national radio advertising campaigns," Enser said. "We hope for word-of-mouth recommendation from customers."
Anne Galioto and Brian Zboril were two such customers one night. They took a mile-plus walk after work to see "what the buzz was all about." Galioto said they weren't disappointed.
"We ordered the cake batter ice cream with graham crackers and chocolate chips," said Galioto, 30, who is finishing a doctorate in psychology. "The ice cream is delicious and really does taste like cake batter."
"Apparently, this place is sort of the new Krispy Kreme," said Zboril, 34, a trader, referring to the Southern chain of doughnut shops that has won over customers by offering a free, hot, glazed doughnut whenever you enter a store.
Both Galioto and Zboril joked that they "saved up some calories" during the day to allow for the splurge.
The couple planned to dine later at a tapas restaurant, so Galioto favored the kid-size portion.
"We had to upgrade," Zboril said.
"So 'Ice Cream Boy' ordered a medium size," reported Galioto. "It's a lot of ice cream."
Exactly the point if you ask Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the CSPI, based in Washington, D.C.
He is well-known if not always well-liked for his organization's stance on the fat content in foods such as movie popcorn, deep-dish pizza and Chinese takeout.
Now CSPI has turned to ice cream in a report published in its July/August newsletter.
"We recognize that most people know ice cream is a splurge item," Jacobson said. "Our findings show just how big a splurge it can be."
For example, the Haagen-Dazs Mint Chip Dazzler is a sundae in a cup with three scoops of mint-chip ice cream, hot fudge, Oreos, chocolate sprinkles and whipped cream. That's 38 grams of saturated fat or equal to about a day and a half's worth in a healthy diet.
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Definitely have been eating better since I found this site, Thanks... I was wondering if anyone knows of good weekday specials? I have one to share, the 2-4-1 Pizza place on Bloor near Dufferin has two huge slices of pizza and a pop for a Toonie on Tuesdays, tax included. It isn't he best pizza in the city but it is great if you are short on cash and hungry. Another one worth noting is The Fan on Bloor near Jane, Monday night is 10 cent wing night, they have several different flavors, and lots of big TVs for watching sports and chowing down.


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The Big Interview: Sir Nick Partridge from the Terrence Higgins Trust
6:33pm Monday 3rd December 2012
By Bill Gardner
6:33pm Monday 3rd December 2012
By Bill Gardner
Saturday was World Aids Day - an opportunity for people around the world to unite in the fight against HIV.
Recent figures suggest around 1 in 100 people in Brighton and Hove is carying the incurable virus.
On the 30th anniversary of Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, chief executive Sir Nick Partridge talks to Bill Gardner about the city's struggle against the killer disease.
THE ARGUS (TA): Is enough being done in Brighton and Hove to make people aware of the dangers of HIV?
SIR NICK PARTRIDGE (NP): Sex is not when we are being at our most logical. Love and passion usually take over and people can make stupid decisions.
So we need to make sure that people at risk know exactly how to keep themselves safe from HIV.
In Brighton and Hove we have an active outreach team that works with gay men on a daily and weekly basis.
We want to make sure there is substantial coverage in the gay media and the bars.
I think most gay people do know where to get condoms from and they know the risk of HIV.
(TA): Has AIDS dropped out of the public consciousness? Do we need more of the tombstone ads from the 1980s to boost public awareness?
(NP): In the 1980s AIDS was new and it came as a profound shock to the world. Sex had become much safer and the contraceptive pill had freed women from the fear of unwanted pregnancy.
That shock resulted in a huge media campaign to help tackle the problem and support people who were getting sick and dying.
But it was never going to be possible to sustain that level of fear.
The tombstone ads were appropriate for their time but things are so different now.
The priority is to let people know that HIV is extremely prevalent in Brighton and Hove but there are now excellent drugs that will enable people to live full lives.
Of course there's a risk that people will become complacent but we can't expect HIV to be given the same degree of national coverage because that wouldn't be a good use of money.
Running a big television campaign is hugely expensive and it's a much better use of limited resources to target those at the greatest risk.
(TA): What about the new generation? Do they know enough about HIV?
(NP): One of the things we have failed to do is to make sure each generation of children get really good sex education in schools.
We have failed to get that part of the national curriculum. It's so patchy.
I don't think that we give our children enough support to understand how to keep themselves safe from harm.
If we did that we would create a good basis to move forward.
We need to invest in campaigns that actually mean something to the young people of today rather than the old tombstone campaigns.
I believe the majority of young people know that you should avoid AIDS but much more needs to be done.
(TA): With the massive improvements in the treatment of HIV are people becoming more complacent about practicing safe sex?
(NP): We know amongst gay men the vast majority still see HIV as the big health risk around them.
I don't think it's just good drug therapy that has led to complacency. It's because we have HIV in a better perspective now.
I wouldn't want to be living with the same level of personal fear that we had in the 1980s but of course we still need to be vigilant.
(TA): Is there still stigma around people living with HIV?
(NP): What has changed most dramatically is the new drug treatments that can keep people healthy.
We no longer see young people getting very thin on hospital wards and dying at the same rates we saw in the 1980s.
But HIV is different to almost any other illness. That has resulted in a continuing level of stigma and discrimination that doesn't happen with cancer sufferers or any other illness.
The closest comparison would be mental health issues. It's certainly true that the public perception has not changed as rapidly as we would like.
(TA): What types of discrimination do sufferers experience?
(NP): Many people lead incredibly fulfilled lives. But there are others whose family still find it hard to accept them.
Disclosing that you have HIV is still very challenging. You can't guarantee that your family or employer or your friends will be supportive.
We deal with lots of young people whose families have completely disowned them – and that's just terrible.
To help people deal with the stigma we make sure people with HIV can support each other through it.
We ensure they have safe spaces where they know they won't be judged in that short-sighted way.
(TA): Are residents in Brighton and Hove especially exposed to catching HIV?
(NP): I don't think Brighton is necessarily more exposed to HIV. I think the city has responded with huge generosity of spirit to this problem.
The work that charities do has seen a huge community response over the last 30 years and the city should be immensely proud of that.
The challenge now is to keep the response vibrant, new and fresh. That's why World Aids Day is so important. It's a time for parents to talk to their kids about the disease and to remember all those who have died in Brighton and around the world.
(TA): How is The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) coping in the recession? Are you struggling for funds?
(NP): This is the longest downturn for decades and it is certainly putting pressure on our finances. We cut our cloth according to our resources.
We are certainly feeling the pinch but we have been very successful at maintaining our charity support. I'd really like to thank everybody who contributes and volunteers.
(TA): What has the Trust achieved in the 30 years since it was founded?
(NP): If you try to imagine the world without the THT there would have been far more people with HIV than there are.
All of us wish that it had been wholly preventable. But in many Southern African countries you can see the scale of what has been averted.
We have been supporting people to know what drugs to take. With our help people have learned how to keep alive and how to stay in jobs and make a valuable contribution.
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