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Save the planet, and hassle, with native prairie plants
Native plants and grasses can be welcome additions in the landscape, adding beauty, movement and sound. By planting an expanded area of native grasses, or by mixing grasses with shrubs and flowers, gardeners can reap environmental benefits, including less watering, less need for fertilizer and herbicides, resistance to invasive species and attraction to birds.
First let's define "native plant." The only truly native plants are ones that still grow where they originated. Most literature refers to native plants in the United States as plants that existed in an area prior to the arrival of European settlers. Prior to settlers in Illinois, landscape consisted of 22 million acres of prairie. Today less than one hundredth of one percent of the original undisturbed prairies exist in Illinois.
Prairie plants have evolved with the climate, soils and pathogens in their native habitat for thousands of year. Extensive root systems make prairie plants resistant to drought and dry conditions, they can reduce soil erosion, and in general prairie plants have few insect and disease problems. Once established, prairie plants need minimum maintenance, and they provide habitat for birds and other grassland animals.
Native grasses provide year round interest and offer a great diversity of leaf textures, colors and flowers. Most grasses flower in the late summer. Grasses can be incorporated into existing flower gardens or as separate prairie plantings in the landscape.
In 1989, big bluestem was designated the Illinois Official Prairie Grass. Big bluestem, Andropogon gerardii, is a warm-season grass that was once the chief grass of the tallgrass prairie. Big bluestem grows six to eight feet tall and has a fibrous root system up to 12 feet deep. This tall slender stemmed grass ranges in color from bluish-green in the summer to reddish-brown or orange in the fall. Flowers appear in late summer. This grass is easily identified by its purplish hairy stems, and its seed head which branches into three parts, resembling a turkey's foot. The leaves turn a yellow or coppery color in the fall. Big bluestem makes a nice specimen plant or a quick screen.
Little bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium, has bluish stems that change from orange to russet red color throughout the fall and winter. Little bluestem's common name refers to the bluish coloration at the base of the stem. It reaches a height of two to four feet and has a dense root system which may reach five to eight feet deep. Fluffy white seed heads are produced in late summer on arching stems.
Using native plants can cut down on exotic invaders that we bring into our gardens. Prairie plants are best planted in the spring, while late fall is the best time to sow prairie plant seeds. Purchase native plant species from reputable local nurseries or mail-order catalogs. Usually plants from a local source are adapted to your area. Avoid digging native plants from the wild.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has a publication, Prairie Establishment and Landscaping, by William E. McClain, that is available in print and on the Internet at http://dnr.state.il.us/conservation/naturalheritage/prairie/table.htm. This publication also offers a list of sources of native Illinois prairie plant seeds.
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By Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will plant crops this spring under the shadow of a persistent drought that grips prime farmland from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, with grain supplies already tight from drought losses in 2012.
In all, 56 percent of the contiguous United States is under moderate to exceptional drought, twice the usual amount, the Senate Agriculture Committee was told on Thursday.
Arid weather was expected to run until May in the wheat-growing Plains and in the western Corn Belt, where corn and soybeans are the major crops.
"In fact, we are forecasting drier conditions," said Roger Pulwarty, director of the National Integrated Drought Information System, a federal agency. Above-normal rainfall benefited the southern Plains at the start of this year.
Wheat, corn and soybeans are the most widely grown U.S. crops and form the foundation of the U.S. food supply. They are used in livestock rations and as ingredients in food ranging from salad dressing to bread, breakfast cereal and cookies.
Some 59 percent of winter wheat was under drought conditions, said Joe Glauber, Agriculture Department chief economist. "While that also implies that spring planting may be affected by drought conditions as well, there have been improvements in the eastern Corn Belt, where many areas are no longer experiencing drought."
With adequate rainfall during the growing season, U.S. yields will rebound to normal levels, leading to bumper corn and soybean crops. In turn, commodity prices would fall as near-empty grains bins are filled. The corn stockpile is expected to be smallest in 17 years by harvest-time this year.
The government's three-month outlook says drought will persist in the central and southern Plains and the U.S. Southwest while easing in Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Most of U.S. cattle and hay production areas are under drought conditions, said Glauber. Ranchers and cattle feeders culled herds as pastures withered and feed costs soared in 2012.
"Particularly for cattle producers, the next four to five months are critical," said Glauber. "Hopefully, some spring rains to get pasture conditions back up" while abundant crops in the fall "should help relieve feed prices."
The 2012 drought ranks second to 1934 as the most widespread and severe drought, said Pulwarty. But in the Midwest, 2012 was the driest summer on record with half of the usual rainfall.
Crop insurers paid a record $14.2 billion as of Monday for crop losses in 2012, almost all due to drought. The old record was $10.8 billion in 2011, also a drought year.
Indemnities could total as high as $16 billion or $17 billion when all claims are settled, said Glauber. USDA oversees the federally subsidized insurance program.
"The western Corn Belt remains dry, no doubt about it," Glauber said after the hearing. He said rainfall and temperatures in late summer, when corn and soybeans mature, are far more important than early-season moisture levels in determining yield.
"It's still very, very early," he said.
(Reporting By Charles Abbott; editing by Gunna Dickson)

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CENTER VALLEY, PA – The York College softball team suffered a pair of close losses to DeSales University in a non-conference twinbill on Sunday in Center Valley, PA. The Bulldogs won game one 2-0 and completed the sweep with a 3-2 win in the nightcap.
The Bulldogs improve to 21-11 with the two wins while the Spartans fall to .500 at 19-19 with two contests left in 2011.
In game one, Bulldog starter Jen Lococo was outstanding as she handcuffed the Spartan offense all game long. She tossed a two-hit shutout with one strike out as both Spartan hits were singles. Lococo did not allow a base runner until junior Brittany Schlorff singled with one out in the fifth. Lococo improves to 9-5 with the win.
Spartan starter Brittany Therres was outstanding in her own right as she allowed just two runs on six hits with four strikeouts and a walk as she suffered the tough loss. Therres falls to 11-11 with the setback.
The Bulldogs got all the runs they needed on a two-out, two-run double off the bat of Brianna Chilcoat in the bottom of the second.
In addition to Schlorff's single, freshman Emma Erbig had a seventh inning infield single.
Chilcoat went 2-for-2 with two RBI to pace DeSales while Courtney McKenna also had a pair of knocks for the hosts.
In game two, the Bulldogs seized the early lead with single runs in the first and second innings. The Spartans tied the game at two in the top of the third as Erbig and Megan Markland each had run scoring singles in the frame. The Spartans left the bases loaded in the inning, as the inning could have potentially been a bigger one.
DeSales got the game-winning run with two outs after a Spartan error extended the inning, allowing Julie Brugger to drive in the winning run on a single to center.
Christine Petrilla earned the win in relief, as she was outstanding. Petrilla held York to just one base runner, on a walk, in three innings as she improves to 3-2 overall. Katie Morrissey started for the Bulldogs and did not get a decision as she allowed two unearned runs on three hits with three walks and a strikeout in four innings of work.
Freshman Chelsea Bock allowed three runs, two earned, on seven hits with four punchouts and one free pass in six innings of action. She falls to 8-8 with the loss.
Katie Steiner led the Bulldog offense as she was 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Petrilla and Brugger each had a hit and an RBI for the hosts.
Erbig and Markland each went 1-for-3 with an RBI while Bock had the Spartans' other hit in the contest.
York closes out its 2011 regular season on Tuesday when they host Messiah in a non-conference twin bill. Game one is slated for a 4:00 pm start.


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It looks like T-Mobile may be offering up a sweet deal for BBM users soon. According to this internal doc showing some product launch dates, they will be including BBM as part of the unlimited text bundle - meaning those with no data plan can still use BBM with no issues.
BlackBerry customers with Unlimited text and no data will be able to use BlackBerry messenger without charge
This is awesome news if you're a T-Mobile user and I have to say I wish other carriers would pick this up as well. There are plenty of BlackBerry users who don't have data plans and would love to be able to use BBM as part of their text package.
The new service will be added to exsiting unlimited text plans automatically upon launch (which looks to be October 21).
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* Billionaire accused of insider trading in Mamma.com
* SEC says Cuban sold 6.3 percent stake following tip
* Cuban has denied wrongdoing
By Jonathan Stempel
March 5 (Reuters) - Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, on Tuesday lost a bid to throw out a U.S. regulator's civil fraud lawsuit accusing him of insider trading in a 2004 stock sale.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may continue to press its case against Cuban, which began more than four years ago.
The SEC said Cuban avoided more than $750,000 of losses by selling his 600,000 Mamma.com Inc shares in June 2004, after learning about an equity offering that would dilute his 6.3 percent stake in the Montreal-based search engine company.
Fitzwater said the question of whether the case against Cuban could be dismissed was "in some respects a close one," but that the SEC ultimately deserved a chance to present its arguments to a jury.
Cuban is worth $2.4 billion, Forbes magazine said this week.
Stephen Best and Lyle Roberts, who are lawyers for Cuban, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A Mavericks spokeswoman declined to comment.
SEC spokesman John Nester said: "We look forward to proceeding with our insider trading case against Mr. Cuban in court."
Cuban has long denied wrongdoing and in court papers said there was no evidence the information about the equity offering was confidential or material.
Fitzwater had originally dismissed the SEC lawsuit in July 2009, but a federal appeals court revived the case in September 2010. Mamma.com later became known as Copernic Inc.
The SEC said the illegal sale occurred after Mamma.com Chief Executive Guy Faure told Cuban on June 28, 2004 of the company's planned private investment in public equity offering, or PIPE.
According to the SEC, Cuban became "very upset and angry" upon learning that the offering would be sold at a discount to the market price, diluting the holdings of existing shareholders like him.
"Well, now I'm screwed. I can't sell," Cuban told Faure, according to the SEC.
The SEC said Cuban then directed his broker to sell his Mamma.com shares, and completed the sale on June 29, 2004, hours before the company announced the PIPE offering. Mamma.com's share price fell 9.3 percent the following morning.
Fitzwater said a reasonable jury could find that Cuban agreed at least implicitly not to trade on the PIPE information, and that the information disclosed to him was material.
Evidence submitted so far "would enable a reasonable jury to find that the PIPE information that Cuban possessed would have been viewed by a reasonable investor as having significantly altered the total mix of information made available about Mamma.com," Fitzwater wrote.
Apart from the Mavericks, Cuban's entertainment vehicles include the AXS TV television channel and the Landmark Theatres chain.
He has often appeared as himself on television shows, including on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" and as a contestant on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
Cuban is also often seen on U.S. television sitting courtside among ordinary fans at Mavericks games, cheering on his team or yelling at officials. He has over the years amassed large NBA fines for criticizing the league and referees.
The Mavericks won the NBA title in 2011, but are at risk of missing the playoffs this season. Their 26-33 record is 11th-best in the league's Western Conference. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences make the playoffs.
The case is SEC v. Cuban, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, No. 08-02050.


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Playing with your food
Amateur food photos rarely gain more than a few Facebook likes, or perhaps a retweet or two. However, Norwegian-born Ida Skivenes's amateur photos of food have garnered her 49 000 Instagram followers, a popular blog and coverage in Norway's two biggest newspapers, a magazine and a radio station — all in the space of seven months.
The difference is that, instead of taking photos of other people's food, Skivenes invents reasons every morning to take photos of her own.
She uses fresh, healthy ingredients to make her breakfast into "food art". After making the dish, she takes a photo, uploads it to Instagram, and then (naturally) eats the food.
An Instagram devotee, Skivenes began posting photos of her food art in June 2012 under the handle @idafrosk.
Her decision to become a vegetarian two years ago helped prompt the idea. "It made me reconsider what I ate and [to] experiment with new ingredients," she told the Mail & Guardian. She tries to keep her dishes quick and easy to make, so she generally doesn't spend more than five to 15 minutes on each one. At the weekend, though, she takes more time.
Her rendition of The Little Prince — a dish inspired by the original cover of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book — took her about 45 minutes from start to finish, because she had to make pancakes for the dish. "Plus it was a lot of detailed work," she said.
Skivenes writes on her blog that the reason she does food art is "because it's fun" and because she likes to inspire others. There are more than 100 #idafrosk-inspired photos on Instagram: users who have created their own food art, photographed it and tagged Skivenes as their inspiration.
Skivenes proves your mother wrong. Her motto? "Don't be afraid to play with your food!"


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(Reuters) - Sharp Corp and Qualcomm Inc reached a deal to jointly develop an energy-efficient LCD panel for smartphones using the Japanese company's display technology, the Nikkei reported.
Sharp will provide its indium-gallium-zinc oxide technology, which greatly reduces a panel's power use. Full details are expected to be announced as early as Tuesday, the daily said.
Sharp will receive 5 billion yen ($61 million) from the U.S. chipmaker by the end of this year through a private placement of new shares. Sharp will receive an additional 5 billion yen or so once sufficient progress has been made, the newspaper reported.
A 10 billion yen investment would give Qualcomm a roughly 5 percent stake in Sharp based on Sharp's Monday closing price, the daily noted.
Qualcomm and Sharp representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Sharp, which pioneered LCD technology, has lost three-quarters of its market value this year following massive losses and falling market share.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)


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The recreational red grouper bag limit in Gulf of Mexico state waters (excluding Monroe County) will increase Dec. 30 from two to four fish, followed by the Jan. 1 season closure of shallow-water grouper in Atlantic state waters.
The red grouper bag limit increase is one of several fishery management changes made at the November Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) meeting in Key Largo.
Hello, Hello, Hello. Merry Christmas.
Ha ha, okay, maybe I can get some fake laughs for that. Anyways not a big o' bunch to talk about this week. Not much guiding going on for me.
I did make a fish camp trip to the north with my oldest son Daniel. We had a big time and ate like champs. But the cool, big news is something new happened to me that has never of all my days happened.
We were catching fish while having deer walking within casting range of our boat in a 2 to 3 foot shallow flat.
Hey everyone, I hope everybody was able to hold down the forts with all this wind we've had. It has put a major damper on my fishing. Also, put a major push on the tides — we really had some good low tides this week. Good for airboaters, clammers and oystermen — all the above jobs are easier with less water. Well for the most part, I guess, without getting too technical.
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Capt'n Danny Allen's fishing report is on military leave as the Allen Family spends time with his daughter who is home recuperating from serving her country.
The Cedar Key Beacon staff thanks her for her service and her family's sacrifice.
By Tom Ten Broeck
Happy Turkey Day everyone — what a great holiday. Seems that this time of the year the woods are full of hunters, and the water is full of fishermen. And stories about big bucks and rumors all over town.
Recreational anglers targeting red drum in northern Florida can soon take home more of the popular fish, thanks to a change approved Nov. 16 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
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Celebrating 50 Years of Teaching
"Many of you know of my affection for Italia and its people. My favorite proverb, which I first heard as a toast, is: Quando si trovi un amico, poi si trovi un Tesoro. When one finds a friend, then one finds a treasure. I look out at you tonight and I am humbled by the sight of so many friends and the knowledge that many others wanted to join us. I look out at my friends tonight and I know this much. I have had the good fortune and privilege to serve this great University and especially this Law School for nearly fifty years, and I know that it would not have been as good and as fortunate anywhere else or at any combination of other schools. Am I the luckiest man on the face of the earth? Perhaps not. I am certain, however, that my six thousand students have made me rich beyond measure with the many treasures they have conferred. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you have given to me. You have my love and gratitude forever."
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Obese patients are at a significantly increased risk for surgical site infections after undergoing partial or full removal of the colon, a new study finds.
It included 7,020 patients, aged 18 to 64, who had either partial or total colectomy for colon cancer, diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease between 2002 and 2008. Of those patients, 1,243 were obese.
The overall rate of surgical site infections was 10.3 percent, but the rate was higher in obese patients (14.5 percent) than in non-obese patients (9.5 percent). After adjusting for a number of factors, the researchers calculated that obese patients were 60 percent more likely to develop surgical site infections than non-obese patients.
The average cost of colectomy for all the patients was $16,399, but the average cost for obese patients was about $295 more than for non-obese patients.
The researchers also found that surgical site infections greatly increased the cost of the procedure. The average total cost for patients who developed surgical site infections was $31,933, compared to $14,608 for patients without infection.
Patients with surgical site infections also had longer average hospital stays (9.5 days vs. 8.1 days) and a much higher rate of hospital readmission (27.8 percent vs. 6.8 percent).
"We conclude that patients undergoing colorectal surgery who develop SSIs [surgical site infections], many of whom are obese, tax the health-care system," wrote Dr. Elizabeth C. Wick, of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues.
Incentive programs that reward surgeons for keeping costs down and improving patient outcomes should take into account that obese people are at higher risk of infection, according to the authors.


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In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are imprisoned in the palace dungeon, awaiting execution under orders from the evil vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), who has seized the throne. But they escape and make their way to Basra, where Ahmad, now living as a beggar, meets and falls in love with the Princess (June Duprez), who has been betrothed by her father the Sultan (Miles Malleson, who also wrote the screenplay) to Jaffar. Their fight for the love of the Princess triggers a series of adventures for the young Abu that brings him halfway around the world and into mystical realms with help from a towering genie (Rex Ingram), brushing up against the gods and transforming the little thief into a hero in the process. Along the way, we encounter a wide array of characters, some of them charming, such as the gentle Old King (Morton Selten), and some sinister, such as the devious Halima (Mary Morris), plus a range of color and lushly designed sets and set pieces (and special effects) that still dazzle the eye seven decades later, even in the wake of various remakes (which include Disney Studios' Aladdin). And it all leads to an amazing and suspenseful ride on a magic carpet, and a race against time to save the king and his beloved. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Lt. Todd Radabaugh was recognized as the Wildlife Officer of the Year by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation at the 49th Annual Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards.
A 22-year veteran with the Wildlife Commission, Radabaugh chairs the governing committee for the multi-agency "On the Road, On the Water, Don't Drink and Drive" campaign. He organizes special hunting opportunities for youth and disabled veterans and is nationally recognized as a training officer for law enforcement agencies. Radabaugh serves in Pender County.
The awards were presented during ceremonies on Sept. 8.
"What impressed the awards committee so much about Radabaugh was his willingness to pitch in on tasks large and small," said T. Edward Nickens, a longtime outdoors writer and master of ceremonies for the awards banquet. "After more than two decades as an enforcement officer, his enthusiasm for getting the job done seemed to have diminished not one bit."
The Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards are meant to inspire North Carolinians to take a more active role in protecting the natural resources of the state, according to Tim Gestwicki, executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Federation.
"This awards program brings together a remarkably diverse group of conservationists to highlight the 'good news' about wildlife conservation in North Carolina," Gestwicki said. "Our primary focus is to applaud and honor these people who work so hard for wildlife and the air, water and land that they and all of us depend upon."
Former Wildlife Resources Commission employee Chris McGrath was honored with the Wildlife Conservationist of the Year Award. A resident of Buncombe County, McGrath was with the agency for more than 22 years, serving most recently as coordinator for the Wildlife Diversity Program.
During his time with the Wildlife Commission, McGrath was involved in the management and conservation of a number of wildlife species, including freshwater mussels, Carolina northern flying squirrels, peregrine falcons and bats. He is well known throughout the natural resources community as a knowledgeable, enthusiastic biologist with an unwavering passion for nongame and endangered wildlife.
"Many times I have mentioned to other scientists in other regions that I'd crossed paths once or twice with Chris McGrath, and that comment has almost always prompted a compliment," Nickens said. "Literally, the last time I mentioned his name, to a biologist in Virginia, I was told, 'We lost one of the best when Chris McGrath stepped down.'"
The Cumberland County Wildlife Club was honored as the Hunter Safety Education Organization of the Year. The wildlife club began offering hunter education classes in 1992, with three of the group's instructors volunteering more than 1,000 hours to the Wildlife Commission's Hunter Education Program.


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To Our Guests,
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, It could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
This wonderful time of the year is certainly a time for reflection. Here at the Blair House we have so many things for which to be thankful. We are blessed to reside in the beautiful hills of Wimberley and enjoy the quiet that brings peace and wellbeing.
We are grateful for the many guests who visit us and appreciate the serenity of the surroundings and enjoy the experience we have worked hard to provide – a chance to relax, rejuvenate and reconnect. Our four favorite words are "I will be back."
We are also thankful for the employees who have worked here over the years. Those that looked at their position as being meaningful by providing for others. We have had great chefs who create magic in the kitchen and housekeepers who care as much as we do about the quality and cleanliness of the Inn. We observe with joy the Assistant Innkeepers who radiate warm smiles of welcome and our Office Manager who has worked hard to enhance our marketing efforts and keep us on track with special requests.
"An attitude of gratitude brings great things."
Warm regards,
Mike & Vickie
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Aaron Heilman wants to be a starter and the Mets needed a starter for tonight. They came up with Brandon Knight.
Why not finally give Heilman his shot?
Well, for one thing, he hasn't proven he can get hitters out in one inning, much less five or six. He's only thrown 1 1/3 innings this month. Obviously, Jerry Manuel has no faith in him, and consequently, Heilman has no faith in himself.
Heilman struggled much of this season and he had one chance to piece together his fragile confidence, and that was when Billy Wagner went down. Manuel gave Heilman a chance to close a game and he blew it. Manuel then pulled the plug on Heilman in the closer role.
You want to crush whatever confidence he had left, and that's the way to do it.
Anyway, Heilman was good in his role for the Mets, but he never seemed to recover from giving up the homer to Molina in the 2006 NLCS. He said all the right things, but something was missing.
The Mets resisted dealing Heilman the past two winters, but I don't see that this time around. If they are offered a package they'll bite. They have to.


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GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- It's pretty tough to top the Green (and White) on St. Patrick's Day.
North Dakota delivered one of its most complete games of the season tonight to eliminate Michigan Tech from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs with a resounding 6-0 win in the third game of the best-of-3 first round series.
The victory advances UND as the No. 3 seed to the Red Baron WCHA Final Five in St. Paul next week, where it will face No. 6 seed Colorado College on Thursday. The Tigers beat Denver 4-3 Sunday night in Game 3 to win that series from the higher-seeded Pioneers.
This marks the 11th straight year UND has advanced to the Final Five, tying the league record for longest streak set by Minnesota (1999-2009).
UND, winners of the last three Final Five titles, looked very much in top playoff form before an announced crowd of 10,384 at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
Six different players scored goals, 12 had at least one point, everybody except freshman Drake Caggiula finished in the plus column and all 18 skaters had at least one shot on goal. Goalies Clarke Saunders (27 stops) and senior Tate Maris (1) combined for the shutout. Maris, who played the last 4:02 of the game, saw his first varsity action in his four years and entered to a thunderous ovation from the fans.
"I thought the level of play was our most complete of the year, without a question,'' UND coach Dave Hakstol said. "We played at a playoff level for three periods. That started right from the drop of the (opening) puck.''
UND ran away with the game with an explosive four-goal second period, the most goals in a single period for UND since they scored four against Alaska Anchorage on Oct. 28.
Senior centers Corban Knight and Carter Rowney, junior wing Mitch MacMillan and freshman Colton St. Clair scored to highlight the huge second period for UND.
Junior defensman Dillon Simpson had scored his third goal in the last eight games to give UND a 1-0 lead after one period in which UND outshot the Huskies 18-5.
Sophomore Brendan O'Donnell completed the masterpiece for UND with his second goal of the season late in the third period.
The victory boosted UND's overall record to 21-11-7 and wrapped up Tech's record at 13-20-4, including four losses in five games against UND.
Scoring first set the tempo for UND, but Simpson's goal meant more than an initial tally, Hakstol said.
"Sometimes you can score the first goal in a game and maybe not deserve it,'' Hakstol said. "We deserved it tonight and we kept our foot on the gas after we got the first one.''
The fact that all four lines and all three sets of defensive pairings contributed to the scoring was a welcomed sign with more playoffs looming.
"We have to have different people chipping in,'' Hakstol said. "I thought all four of our lines looked the same tonight.''
Tech beat UND 2-1 on Saturday to force Game 3, but UND was too much tonight.
"All you have to do is look at this series and see how hard it is to advance and get to St. Paul,'' Hakstol said. "I felt like we had maybe the toughest draw in the first round of the playoffs with Michigan Tech with how well they were playing. We knew it was a bit challenge in front of us. Our guys got it done.''
Done so well, in fact, that fan favorite Maris, also much loved by his teammate, got a chance to play in goal for UND.
"Easy decision,'' Hakstol said. "It means an awful lot to the guys in that locker room. He (Maris) means a ton to our program. He's earned a helluva lot more minutes than four over his time here.''
Maris, a walk-on from Denver, Colo., has practiced with the team every day, but never got into an actual game, other than exhibitions, until now.
"It's kind of indescribable,'' Maris said of getting into a game. "I guess I'm at a loss of words for it. It's kind of four years pushed into four minutes right there at the end. It's pretty surreal, to say the least.''
The highlight goal of the night might have been St. Clair's goal. Just as he came out of the penalty box for his tripping minor, defenseman Joe Gleason found him breaking in the neutral zone and hit him with a pass.
St. Clair sailed in along on Tech goalie Phoenix Copley (38 saves) and beat him cleanly with a backhander after cutting across the crease.
"I think I almost lost an edge, actually, but the goalie was giving me my backhand, so I took it to my backhand, got lucky, and scored,'' St. Clair said.
The goal made it 5-0. "For me, it was a huge relief,'' said St. Clair, who had gone 18 games without a goal. "But the team, we just put the pedal to the metal. We didn't let up the whole game. That's the way we need to play from here on in.''
St. Clair was named No. 1 star of the game for that goal, with Knight and Saunders earning the other stars.
"We reponded pretty well from last night, I think,'' Knight said. "Coach challenged us this morning to be better for 60 minutes and I think for the most part, we were able to do that.''
UND notes: Rookie Rocco Grimaldi led UND in shots on goal with six, followed by Rowney with five, Caggiula and Mitch MacMillan with four . . . The 44 shots on goal was three shy of the team high this season of 47 . . . Prior to tonight, the only shared shutout in school history occurred on Nov. 1, 2003, when Jake Brandt and Jordan Parise combined for a 10-0 win over Yale.
Virg Foss covered UND hockey for 35 seasons for the Grand Forks Herald until his retirement in 2005. He now reports on UND home games exclusively for UNDsports.com.


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Designed with multimedia designers in mind, the RevoDrive 3 SSD Series is a storage solution for intensive workstation applications with maximum performance and a feature-set based on OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture 2.0 (VCA) technology.
OCZ's PCI-E SSD provides benefits to users by incorporating features from the VCA 2.0 flash virtualization software that allow certain direct memory access (DMA) and data management functions. Included in this feature-set are OCZ's command queuing and queue balancing algorithms, which can be handled by the onboard processing core for higher performance and reduced burden on the host resources. VCA 2.0 is also the only virtualization layer in the industry with TRIM and SCSI unmap support to enhance sustained performance and provide greater endurance by reducing the overhead associated with garbage collection. Furthermore, VCA also offers consolidated SMART support and provides system administrators with features for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting device attributes.
The RevoDrive 3 family gets its edge by employing a PCIe x4 Gen. 2 interface and two SandForce SF-2281 controllers in RAID 0 design to maximize data access and bandwidth. The drive promises to deliver up to 1GB/s of bandwidth and up to 130,000 IOPS (4K random write) under HPC or workstation workloads with a single-card solution.
The OCZ RevoDrive 3 is available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities. Today we will test the 120GB version of the drive (RVD3-FHPX4-120G), priced online at $400.
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This three-day (24-hour) course will provide students with knowledge of basic firearm terminology, construction, and operation as well as first-hand experience in safely loading, test-firing, and unloading a variety of firearms. The firearms included are the ones commonly found in criminal cases: revolvers, pistols, rifles, shotguns, and automatic firearms. The primary focus is the safe operation and handling of firearms, ammunition. This course is intended for laboratory technicians, latent print examiners, criminalists, or crime scene specialists from law enforcement agencies who must handle evidence firearms in the course of their duties. Each class is limited to 20 students.
Dave Barber and Mike Giusto
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Classroom lecture, handling and range firing of more than 25 different firearms.
Students will be able to collect firearms evidence safely. Students will be able to safely load and unload a wide variety of firearms action types.
Pre-course reading material may be required
No cost to POST supported or State of California based Law Enforcement agencies. A $360.00 tuition fee will be required of all other public agency, private sector, or out-of-state applicants.
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Acropora rudis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Acropora rudis (Rehberg, 1892)
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|Endangered A4ce ver 3.1
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|Aeby, G., Lovell, E., Richards, Z., Delbeek, J.C., Reboton, C. & Bass, D.
|Livingstone, S., Polidoro, B. & Smith, J. (Global Marine Species Assessment)
This species has a disjunct range and is uncommon. It is particularly susceptible to bleaching, disease, crown-of-thorns starfish predation, and extensive reduction of coral reef habitat due to a combination of threats. Specific population trends are unknown but population reduction can be inferred from declines in habitat quality based on the combined estimates of both destroyed reefs and reefs at the critical stage of degradation within its range (Wilkinson 2004). Its threat susceptibility increases the likelihood of being lost within one generation in the future from reefs at a critical stage. Therefore, the estimated habitat degradation and loss of 59% over three generation lengths (30 years) is the best inference of population reduction and meets the threshold for Endangered under Criterion A4ce. It will be important to reassess this species in 10 years time because of predicted threats from climate change and ocean acidification.
|Range Description:
|This species is found in the northern Indian Ocean and the central Indo-Pacific in Thailand, west Indonesia (Richards pers. comm.), Rodrigues (Fenner et al. 2004), Andamans, and American Samoa (Fenner pers. comm.). It has a disjuct distribution.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Bangladesh; British Indian Ocean Territory; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Maldives; Mauritius; Myanmar; Samoa; Seychelles; Sri Lanka; Thailand
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – eastern central
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|This species is uncommon, but conspicuous. It was found at one of six regions in Indonesia (Wallace et al. 2001).
There is no species specific population information available for this species. However, there is evidence that overall coral reef habitat has declined, and this is used as a proxy for population decline for this species. This species is particularly susceptible to bleaching, disease, and other threats and therefore population decline is based on both the percentage of destroyed reefs and critical reefs that are likely to be destroyed within 20 years (Wilkinson 2004). We assume that most, if not all, mature individuals will be removed from a destroyed reef and that on average, the number of individuals on reefs are equal across its range and proportional to the percentage destroyed reefs. Reef losses throughout the species' range have been estimated over three generations, two in the past and one projected into the future.
The age of first maturity of most reef building corals is typically three to eight years (Wallace 1999) and therefore we assume that average age of mature individuals is greater than eight years. Furthermore, based on average sizes and growth rates, we assume that average generation length is 10 years, unless otherwise stated. Total longevity is not known, but likely to be more than ten years. Therefore any population decline rates for the Red List assessment are measured over at least 30 years. See the supplementary material for further details on population decline and generation length estimates.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species occurs in shallow reef environments. It can be found on fringing reefs (Richards pers. comm.). This species can be found from 3-15 m.
|Major Threat(s):
Members of this genus have a low resistance and low tolerance to bleaching and disease, and are slow to recover.
Acanthaster planci, the crown-of-thorns starfish, has been observed preferentially preying upon corals of the genus Acropora (Colgan 1987). Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) (Acanthaster planci) are found throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Red Sea. These starfish voracious predators of reef-building corals, with a preference for branching and tabular corals such as Acropora species. Populations of the crown-of-thorns starfish have greatly increased since the 1970s and have been known to wipe out large areas of coral reef habitat. Increased breakouts of COTS has become a major threat to some species, and have contributed to the overall decline and reef destruction in the Indo-Pacific region. The effects of such an outbreak include the reduction of abundance and surface cover of living coral, reduction of species diversity and composition, and overall reduction in habitat area.
In general, the major threat to corals is global climate change, in particular, temperature extremes leading to bleaching and increased susceptibility to disease, increased severity of ENSO events and storms, and ocean acidification.
Coral disease has emerged as a serious threat to coral reefs worldwide and a major cause of reef deterioration (Weil et al. 2006). The numbers of diseases and coral species affected, as well as the distribution of diseases have all increased dramatically within the last decade (Porter et al. 2001, Green and Bruckner 2000, Sutherland et al. 2004, Weil 2004). Coral disease epizootics have resulted in significant losses of coral cover and were implicated in the dramatic decline of acroporids in the Florida Keys (Aronson and Precht 2001, Porter et al. 2001, Patterson et al. 2002). In the Indo-Pacific, disease is also on the rise with disease outbreaks recently reported from the Great Barrier Reef (Willis et al. 2004), Marshall Islands (Jacobson 2006) and the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Aeby 2006). Increased coral disease levels on the GBR were correlated with increased ocean temperatures (Willis et al. 2007) supporting the prediction that disease levels will be increasing with higher sea surface temperatures. Escalating anthropogenic stressors combined with the threats associated with global climate change of increases in coral disease, frequency and duration of coral bleaching and ocean acidification place coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific at high risk of collapse.
Localized threats to corals include fisheries, human development (industry, settlement, tourism, and transportation), changes in native species dynamics (competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites), invasive species (competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites), dynamite fishing, chemical fishing, pollution from agriculture and industry, domestic pollution, sedimentation, and human recreation and tourism activities.
The severity of these combined threats to the global population of each individual species is not known.
|Conservation Actions:
All corals are listed on CITES Appendix II. Parts of the species' range fall within Marine Protected Areas.
Recommended measures for conserving this species include research in taxonomy, population, abundance and trends, ecology and habitat status, threats and resilience to threats, restoration action; identification, establishment and management of new protected areas; expansion of protected areas; recovery management; and disease, pathogen and parasite management. Artificial propagation and techniques such as cryo-preservation of gametes may become important for conserving coral biodiversity.
|Aeby, G., Lovell, E., Richards, Z., Delbeek, J.C., Reboton, C. & Bass, D. 2008. Acropora rudis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T132913A3490569. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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This section looks at current UK recommendations on physical activity, and the activities that can help you achieve these. How much you can do will depend on different factors. In the UK adults are advised to do at least 2.5 hours (150 minutes) of moderate intensity physical activity a week. For example, this could be 30 minutes of activity on five days of the week, which could be broken up into 10 minutes of activity three times a day. It's important to gradually build up to this amount at a pace that's comfortable for you.
It's also important to do activities that improve muscle strength on at least two days of the week. If you are older or at risk of falling, you are also advised to do activities that improve coordination and balance on at least two days of the week. There is more information about strength exercises and about balance and flexibility below.
You can find out more about types of activity and the recommendations for people of different ages from the Department of Health (dh.gov.uk) and the World Health Organization (who.int).


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Matt Kenseth was in Canada when J.D. Gibbs sent him the results of Joe Gibbs Racing's appeal of NASCAR penalties against the team.
The ruling was relayed via text messages that kept coming and coming and coming.
It was good news for Kenseth, who came to Darlington Raceway on Friday a victor after a three-member appeals panel overturned almost all the penalties NASCAR levied against JGR after an illegal part was found in Kenseth's race-winning engine at Kansas.
He'll have Wally Brown, a crew chief with Sprint Cup experience, atop the pit box Saturday night while Jason Ratcliff serves a one-race suspension. Ratcliff was originally suspended six races.
Kenseth also got back 38 of the 50 points docked and goes into the race ranked fourth in the standings.


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Lezyne Hecto Drive 350XL/Strip Light Set
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This commuter-friendly power pack features the Hecto Drive 350XL front light paired with the Strip rear light. For all-around use, the Hecto Drive 350XL delivers up to 350 lumens for one hour on the brightest setting, and will run for up to two hours at 150 lumens. The Strip rear light provides high visibility with five high-output LEDs and side cutouts for 180-degree lighting. The durable, waterproof housing fits both aero and round seatposts, and the USB stick makes charging cable-free.
Hecto Drive 350XL Specs:
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By Barbara Parry
with photos by Ben Barnhart
A sheep farm blanketed in white is a quintessential New England winter landscape. Somnolent and picturesque, this façade is somewhat deceptive; it belies many hours of exertion and elbow grease behind the scenes to keep things humming when the thermometer hovers below freezing and the north wind rocks the rafters of the barn. . . READ FULL ARTICLE


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WHAT: Over one hundred mobile devices are now shipping from manufacturers including LG, Motorola and Samsung with ARM® Mali™ graphics technology, delivering stunning visual experiences on smartphones, feature phones and other handsets.
Ericsson Mobile Platforms and NXP are major licensees of the ARM Mali200™ GPU with Ericsson Mobile Platforms also licensing complementary Mali graphics software, joining the growing list of Mali licensees announced in January 2008. To read more, click here for Ericsson Mobile Platforms and here for NXP.
Visit ARM on booth 1C01 in Hall 1 at Mobile World Congress to find out more and to see Mali technology in action. ARM will also unveiling new Mali products from February 11, 2008.
To arrange a meeting to discuss Mali technology at MWC please contact email@example.com.
WHEN: Monday 11 – Thursday 14 February, 2008
WHERE: Mobile World Congress, Fira de Barcelona, Spain. Booth 1C01, Hall 1.
HOW: For more details about MWC please visit http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
WHO: ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from mobile, home and enterprise solutions to embedded and emerging applications. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. Mali and Mali200 are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS.
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About Game
Three (or more?) heroes are fighting to conquer all Myth Balls. Who'll win? You'll decide! Play the adventures of three curious heroes and the Little Army! Mix and match 'em with 8 unique classes, 48 characters, and 96 weapons to beat dozen of missions in each scenario, and other rewarding quests!


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The head and neck service is composed of a multidisciplinary team of physicians and allied health care professionals who all specialize in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer. Over 150 new patients with head and neck cancer are diagnosed yearly and one half will eventually undergo surgery at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.
Because of the complexity of treating patients with advanced head and neck cancer, a complete laboratory, radiological and endoscopic workup is completed before patients are presented at the tumor board conference. Head and Neck surgeons, radiation therapists, medical oncologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, radiologists and pathologists discuss the patient's staging, treatment, and prognosis.
Input is likewise obtained from nursing staff regarding pre- and post-operative care and social adjustment issues. Speech therapists, prosthodontists, dieticians, and social workers all participate in treatment planning to assure a comprehensive level of specialty care and the greatest possibility of a positive outcome and early discharge from the hospital.


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NH Foliage drives - A Lakes Region smorgasbordCarol Carter July 23. 2013 1:14PM
Brilliant foliage, restaurants galore, gift shops, quaint country villages and the last traditional country fair of the season gives Lakes Region visitors a smorgasbord to enjoy this Columbus Day weekend.
Leaving Interstate 91 at Exit 23, motorists can enjoy the pallet of color along Route 104 where the leaves are reflected in picturesque lakes Pemigewasset and Wicwas. A visitors center near the exit has maps and activity suggestions for leaf peepers.
In Meredith, stroll along the boardwalk at the base of Meredith Bay where late season boaters and perhaps a sailboat on Lake Winnipesaukee will provide great scenic photos. Coffee shops and small restaurants are all within walking distance of the Meredith town docks for a quick pick-me-up before heading north on Route 25 to Center Harbor.
Turn left at the traffic lights in Center Harbor onto Bean Road a scenic country road winding around Squam Lake into the village of Sandwich. But expect a lot of company on the road this weekend as fair enthusiasts will be heading to the annual Sandwich Fair.
You say fried dough and blooming onions arent your meal of choice? Well, perhaps the well known Corner House Inn will satisfy those taste buds. The restaurant is open daily.
Continue on toward North Sandwich, enjoying the mountain vistas and scenic farms before turning right onto Route 113 that brings you back to Route 25 in Tamworth. There you have a choice. Turn right to retrace your route back to Meredith or turn left and hook up with Route 16 in West Ossipee just a few miles away. If you choose the latter and are still hungry, you'll find the Yankee Smokehouse restaurant, a Subway and McDonald's at the intersection of Routes 25 and 16. Then grab the Tums and head back home after a full-filling day.


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Maternity Wrap
Added Jan 25, 2013
by lizajane09
Upstate, South C...
I made a maternity version of the awesome Burdastyle knit wrap top pattern from the 11/2011 issue. I made it up per the pattern except I added several inches of length and about two inches of width (by slashing and spreading) to the front pieces. Then I ruched the sides of the front to match the back. It worked. These pictures are from earlier in pregnancy when my belly wasn't very big but I am still wearing it now at 30 weeks. In fact, the hem has seemed to even out now (same front and back). The fabric I used is a very stretchy sweater knit. I love the way the top is constructed and the dropped shoulders have really grown on me. This is a pattern I will definitely revisit in the future.
Blog post about top here
Material Notes
Red acrylic sweater knit
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I simply can not say enough good things about this book. It's amazing.
And don't forget that Patty also offers both online and in-person digital scrapbook classes all over the country! If you learn better with personal guidance, that's something to check out!!!! The Digital Scrapbook Teacher
To find my scrapbooking layouts, go to my layouts blog, Layouts by the Numbers.
There you'll find a combination of paper scrapping pages, digital scrapbook pages, and other crafy stuff I do. :) Go visit and look around!
I have also have a blog about
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UF moved up to No. 4 in the latest standings after Kansas State and Oregon were upset Saturday night.
As has been the case all season, the Florida football team shrugged off any BCS talk when meeting with the media Monday.
UF moved up to No. 4 in the latest standings after Kansas State and Oregon were upset Saturday night.
If top-ranked Notre Dame loses at Southern Cal on Saturday and the Gators beat No. 10 Florida State, the Gators will play for the national title and face the SEC champion should No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia win this weekend. Florida would have a 4-1 record against teams in the Top 15 of the BCS with a win over FSU, assuming the Seminoles stay that high in the standings.
UF defensive tackle Omar Hunter did not watch the countdown show Sunday night and hasn't heard any of his teammates talk about the BCS.
He even said sarcastically that he thought the Gators would be ranked 21st.
"Somebody just told me we were No. 4," Hunter said. "I didn't even know that. It would be great playing for a national championship again, but we just got to worry about Florida State this week."
Florida coach Will Muschamp said his team's only focus this week will be on defeating FSU, which he called a "huge if."
"We've got to take care of business Saturday," Muschamp said. "Any clutter outside of just focusing on the game Saturday really doesn't matter. That's my message for our football team. Let's understand what's at stake and what's important, and that's focusing on the game."
If UF walks away from Tallahassee with a win and gets some help from the Trojans, Muschamp said he won't have to campaign for a shot at the national championship.
"Our record speaks for itself and playing in the Southeastern Conference and playing the teams we've played, where we've played them, and being at the University of Florida," Muschamp said. "Our fan following is as good as anybody in the country. So I don't feel like you need to politic much other than put your shirt on and show where you are and who you are."
Regardless of what happens with Notre Dame, Florida is in for a big pay day if it can beat FSU.
UF would then be guaranteed to make a BCS bowl because of the 3-4 Rule, which ensures an automatic berth for at-large teams that finish No. 3 or No. 4 in the final BCS standings.
Muschamp said to be in that position is an accomplishment for the Gators given that they were barely bowl eligible in 2011.
"It says a lot about our senior leadership, our (coaching) staff and our strength staff and the job that they've done in our offseason program," Muschamp said. "All of those things point that we're headed in the right direction."
After two straight losses to the Seminoles, Muschamp said Florida needs to get back on the winning side of the rivalry.
The Gators had a six-game win streak from 2004-2009.
"There's a lot of things that I think when you take this job that you need to do," Muschamp said, "and you need to beat your rivals."
The BCS implications don't change the importance of Saturday's game in Muschamp's mind.
"This game is important for a lot of reasons beside any ranking that's involved or anything outside of that," he said. "It's an important game for the University of Florida. It's important for your state to win this football game. There's a lot of other reasons that come first and foremost in my mind as opposed to the external situation out there."
As for the beach house Muschamp shares with FSU coach Jimbo Fisher in Northwest Florida, he said they haven't sold it yet.
"I don't know, I haven't really talked to him," Muschamp said. "Nobody's buying up there right now."
Muschamp was asked for his thoughts on the critics who say UF doesn't win impressively enough.
"Um, well," Muschamp said with a pause, "those three seconds I just thought about it, that's probably the most time I've spent thinking about it. Five now."
Muschamp said he agrees 100 percent with Bill Parcell's maxim that you are what your record says you are. His wife, Carol, also made him feel better about the way Florida's been winning.
"My wife told me I was sexy after the game," Muschamp said. "We don't win sexy, but she said, 'You're sexy.' That's a positive. There's something good in that, I guess. She was kidding."


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Just curious about this. The output of the netstat -ta command shows two listening ports:
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:5335 *:* LISTEN
ipp is the CUPS server on port 631 tcp
the second entry is the MdnsResponder service listening on port 5335
When I run Nmap to scan myself, it shows CUPS listening on 631 ok, but it doesn't show 5335 as open. I was thinking that if a service was listening on a port then, then the port is open. Why doesn't Nmap pick up this port as "open"?
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Washington authorities have suspects and are closing in on possible arrests after a months-long investigation into the poaching of 10 trophy deer.
The Wenatche World reports that Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife searched four homes in Okanogan County on March 1 and recovered the heads of nine antlered bucks. Another was recovered in February.
The newspaper said the heads are critical to the investigation, which has been going on for almost six months after complaints from residents who were finding carcasses. The headless bodies were of whitetail and mule deer.
"This was a poaching ring, and spree killing," Sgt. Jim Brown, Wildlife's supervisor in Okanogan County, told the paper. "All of the suspects in this case know each other. They're interrelated, and doing this together, or as part of a common scheme."
The hunters were using spotlights at night to hunt and kill them, Brown said.
"They just killed them to kill them," he said. "Their heads were stacked like cordwood."


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Semantic heterogeneity might sound like a meaningless bit of tech jargon, but it actually describes a subtle set of problems confronting many developers and DBAs. Anyone who's ever had to combine data sets from two different databases (and what DBA or database developer hasn't?) has probably encountered a semantic heterogeneity: data that doesn't match in format and therefore is difficult to merge. Combining databases when temperature is recorded in Celsius in one database and Fahrenheit in the other, for example, can result in significant data corruption unless you deal with it in advance. Recovering from such a data corruption is at best extremely time-consuming—at worst, it's a logical impossibility. This article examines the four types of semantic heterogeneity, looks at where they occur in database comparisons, and shows different ways to handle them.
Semantic Heterogeneity Types
Semantic heterogeneity is a complicated term for the phenomenon of disagreement about the meaning or interpretation of the same or related data. Sources for semantic heterogeneity can include differences in data-definition constructs, differences in object representations, and system-level differences in the way that atomic data (e.g., byte order for multibyte data, such as an integer) is stored in two systems.
Dr. Stefano Ceri and Dr. Jennifer Widom, two leading database scientists, identify four kinds of semantic heterogeneity, as Table 1 shows: naming conflicts, domain conflicts, metadata conflicts, and structural conflicts. Let's look at each briefly, using example databases A and B in Figure 1 for illustration.
Naming conflicts occur when two databases use different names to identify the same real-world entities. For example, one database schema might store an employee identifier in a field named Employee ID, but in another database schema, a field containing the same data could be called Employee_Number.
Domain conflicts occur when different databases use different values to represent the same concepts. In the central company database, an employee's identifier might be as123, for example, but the department database might list her as number 17. The temperature representation example, in which one database uses Fahrenheit and another uses Celsius, falls into this heterogeneity category. For some examples of the common types of domain conflicts, see Table 2.
Metadata conflicts occur when the same concepts are represented in one database at the schema level and in another database at the data level. Historical salary information about an employee, for example, can be stored either as part of a table or as separate rows. For example, in database A in Figure 1, the last two salary values are stored as attributes; database B shows them as rows in a separate table.
Structural conflicts occur when different data organizations are used. In database B, a name is represented as one character string, whereas database A stores the name as two strings, one for the surname and one for all the other names. This kind of semantic heterogeneity also includes type conflicts, when different data types represent the same concept. For example, you can represent temperature as either a floating point or an integer type.
Where the Problems Occur
So where do such semantic heterogeneities occur when you're comparing databases? To answer this question, you need to consider the two levels at which databases are compared—the schema level and the data level.
Schema-level comparison. A schema-level comparison matches table names of one database with table names of the other. The matching tables are checked to ascertain whether their schemata are the same—that is, do they contain the same number of columns, and do the column names and domains match? This process also compares the constraints on the databases. The result of the schema-level comparison shows the DBA any differences between the compared databases at a structural level. It can show that a particular table that exists in two databases includes a certain column in one and not the other, as Figure 2 shows, or that the data type of a certain table column has changed. You can use these schema differences to synchronize the schemata of the two databases.
Comparison tools—such as Embarcadero's Change Manager, SQL Compare from Red Gate Software, DB SynchroComp from E-Dule, or AdeptSQL's Diff—can quickly identify the tables whose equivalents are missing from one of the databases you want to examine. But comparison tools generally consider only the name of the table, so they can miss renamed tables. The reason the comparison tool doesn't try to match tables automatically is that, although it's possible to guess the name of the equivalent table in certain circumstances, the guess might not be reliable. Thus, tables that are structurally identical yet represent different concepts might be synchronized, resulting in corrupted data.The last thing a DBA wants to do is automatically synchronize data between two random tables whose schema happen to be highly similar.
During schema-level comparison, your comparison tool can identify many semantic heterogeneity problems from the categories of naming conflicts, metadata conflicts, and structural conflicts. However, most of the domain conflicts can remain undetected. You can address these conflicts at the next database-comparison level.
Data-level comparison. Data-level comparison for one table in each database classifies rows into one of three categories:
- The row exists in the first database and has no match in the second database.
- The row exists only in the second database.
- The row exists in both databases and either it's identical or parts of the row are different—that is, some columns contain different values.
Note that this third classification is based on the assumption that the compared rows can be uniquely identified within a table, usually by a primary key. Generally, commercial data-comparison tools require the presence of a primary key on tables whose data you want to compare.
You can use the differences the comparison tool identified to synchronize the databases at the data level. Figure 3 shows an example of such identified differences. But is the data or the database schemata correct after such a synchronization?
You can represent data values differently in two ways. The first is a structural difference. For example, you can represent a name as either one string or two strings (containing first and last names). Luckily, comparison tools can identify many of these structural representation differences during the schema-level comparison. Merging such data requires the DBA to specify ad-hoc conversion routines—for example, one that splits a name into two parts (first and last name) or joins the first and last names to form a full name.
The second type of difference occurs when the interpretation of the values is different, as in Fahrenheit or Celsius. You can store such a value by using a floating-point data type such as real. In this case, automatic tools can't detect any differences between the schemata of two tables that contain such data. If you manually identify this difference, you need to provide a conversion function that changes the temperature value from one interpretation to the other. Because automatic comparison tools can't detect semantic-heterogeneity problems, you need to manually create these conversion functions and add them to the synchronization or migration scripts.
Unfortunately, you can't always create a conversion function that works in both directions without data loss. If your database stores temperature values as integers, for example, converting a Fahrenheit value to Celsius and back can result in a different temperature value than the original. For example, 101F = 38.3333C, which rounds to 38C; however, 38C = 100.4F, which rounds to 100F, not 101F.
Sometimes you can't provide such conversion functions at all. A string concatenation with unknown boundaries doesn't have an inverse. You can join the two strings "ab" and "cdef" to make "abcdef," but you can't reverse-engineer that to get the value of the original two strings if you have no information about where to split "abcdef."
Solutions to Common Problems
One way of handling semantic heterogeneity is to use strong data typing and associate the semantics of the data with the data type. Most database management systems (DBMSs) allow subtyping, making it possible to define a new data type for a temperature in Celsius, for example.
In SQL Server 2000, you can create user-defined data types (UDTs) by using the sp_addtype stored procedure:
EXEC sp_addtype CtemperatureInt, int, 'NOT NULL' EXEC sp_addtype FtemperatureInt, int, 'NOT NULL'
Unfortunately, SQL Server automatically converts values of the above two data types when necessary; thus, you don't achieve strong typing by creating a UDT. However, the difference in the data type shows up during schema comparison. And SQL Server 2005 promises a more flexible data-type support that could help to achieve strong typing.
Using UDTs adds implicit documentation to your schemata by providing a more descriptive and specific name for the data. It also helps to achieve consistency in whether a field is nullable. A disadvantage of using such derived types is that you might have difficulty figuring out the base data type when you're looking at the name of a derived type. You can solve this problem by suffixing the type's name with the base type, as in the UDT code example above.
You can also identify some interpretation differences by looking at the data. Body temperature, for example, should have a range between certain sensible limits. A body temperature value of 100 C° is certainly unacceptable in a database of medical records. In such cases, you can set up database integrity constraints. Constraints can help to detect when incorrect data is inserted into a table as a result of a table merge.
To set up a check constraint for a temperature column whose type is CtemperatureInt, you can include the following code in the table declaration:
temperature Ctemperature CHECK (temperature >10 AND temperature <43)
Inserting an incorrect value would result in an error, such as the one Figure 4 shows. Often, a schema is already given, such as during migration from legacy applications. Adding temporary check constraints can help to find problems in the migration scripts.
An alternative to checks are triggers that consider the value of inserted or modified fields, then abort the transaction when they encounter incorrect values. You could replace the preceding check constraint for single-row inserts with a trigger like the one Listing 1 shows. Check constraints generally perform better when most of the inserts are successful, and triggers perform better when most of the inserts contain invalid values.
SQL Server 2005 will introduce data-definition language (DDL) triggers. SQL Server will be able to execute such DDL triggers automatically when database schemata change. This will give DBAs the means to enforce basic schema-related rules on the database. Such rules might include mandatory documentation, the use of certain data types, and the mandatory use of check constraints.
In many cases, not even check or trigger constraints help, since the values of two interpretations can have overlapping value ranges. Two examples are the differences in floor numbering between the UK and the United States and representing money from different currencies. If you don't use derived data types to capture this disaccord of the data semantics, a good documentation of the database schemata is the last resort for a DBA. Automatic tools don't detect these conflicts, so unless you know that two databases use the same schema and are maintained in exactly the same way, you should double-check the merging script your database comparison tool provides and contrast it with the databases' documentation.
No Easy Solutions
Semantic heterogeneity leads to complex problems that often don't have simple solutions. DBAs and database developers need to recognize when semantic heterogeneity occurs and what actions they can take to prevent, detect, and fix resulting problems. A good resource for more information about this topic is "Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues" by Dr. Stefano Ceri and Dr. Jennifer Widom.


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Leg inflammation or leg edema is a frequent medical malady. The main reason of leg inflammation should be discovered and healed. It should not be pushed aside nor be dealt with liquid pills except if the cause has been identified. There are six biggest causes of leg swelling.
The major source of leg swelling is chronic venous insufficiency. Vein disease or vein disorders happen twice as often as coronary artery disease, three times more frequently than peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, and almost five times more widespread than congestive heart failure.
Vein disease has six names:
- Venous stasis
- Varicose veins
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Venous hypertension
- Venous reflux disease
In this health issue the veins in the legs suffer a loss of their power to transfer the used blood back up and out of the legs to the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys to be filtered, replenished with essential nutrients and oxygen, and transported back out to the body. When this occurs, high pressure occurs in your leg veins. This high pressure results in discharging of fluid and other blood components into the leg outside of the blood vessels. When the veins are not able to effectively deliver the blood out of the legs with each heart beat, your heart pumps blood into your legs under increased and higher pressures. This can cause a generalized engorgement of the veins in your legs and accompanying this will come added leakage.
In addition, the blood in your legs ends up being rather toxic since it has not been cleaned by your kidneys. The quantity of oxygen in the blood lowers below normal. The nutrition is used up, and the waste from your legs gather in the uncirculated blood in your legs. This builds a generalized harmful state in your legs. This "toxic" blood makes your legs ill and creates inflammation. All these things result in swelling.
Swelling from veins is best early in the day and worse during the night time. When you lay down at night the blood finally comes back out of your legs and it is then filtered by your kidneys, nutrients is replenished by your intestines, your lungs add oxygen, your liver processes the blood, and your heart is able to pump the good healthy blood back out to the legs which are no longer engorged, the pressure in the legs is back to normal, and the blood is now good and healthy. By the morning your legs ought to seem at their very best and the cycle will begin again once you stand up and gravity alongside damaged venous circulation hinders the blood from returning again.
Congestive Heart Failure
The second most frequent reason for swelling to the legs is congestive heart failure. Over the years, before vein disease was understood very well, congestive heart failure was felt to be the reason behind all leg swelling until it can be medically backed differently, thus multiple patients with leg swelling some time ago and even now will take several different cardiac assessments to eliminate heart failure as a root cause. Definitely venous disease is considered the most common underlying cause and most people have a normal cardiac workup.
In the patients with congestive heart failure, the common signs or symptoms is generally difficulty of breathing. While resting many have difficulty of breathing on exertion and when they lie down flat. This is known as orthopnea and it frequently results in these people having to rest with their head elevated because once they lay totally horizontal it allows significant breathing difficulties.
Congestive heart failure is largely a consequence of one or both of two underlying health disorders; these are coronary artery disease or clots in the arteries and undiagnosed or untreated high arterial blood pressure or "hypertension".
Kidney Failure
The third most frequent reason for leg swelling or leg edema is kidney failure. Progressed kidney failure will hinder the body's ability to clear itself of surplus fluid resulting in fluid retention and leg swelling. It can also be correlated with undiagnosed arterial hypertension which is much more widespread in persons with diabetes.
Liver Failure
The fourth major cause of leg edema or leg swelling is liver failure. This could be a little bit more tricky, but when the liver is not operating very well the required protein in your bloodstream drops to dangerously low levels which then may cause leakage of fluid out of the vascular system and into the tissue, resulting in swelling in your legs or even abdomen. Most of these patients frequently have considerable swelling in their abdomen as well.
The fifth common root cause of leg edema is low thyroid or hypothyroidism. This is known as pretibial myxedema. This is also a little complicated, but once your thyroid hormones decline to an unhealthy level and is still there for a considerable amount of time your overall rate of metabolism declines very low and this contributes to swelling in your legs.
Lastly, Lymphedema is where vessels often called lymphatics get damaged or blocked for many reasons, contributing to the incapability of your body to clear fluids from your legs. Many times this is as a result of lasting neglected venous insufficiency, but can even be resulting from trauma, operation, and much less likely cancer.
Regardless of the underlying cause, leg swelling is never natural, and a reason needs to be determined and dealt with accordingly. To identify the trigger of swelling in your legs, call Dr. Morgan in Houston at the Lone Star Vein Center. We specialize in treating vein disease using non-invasive and painless procedures such as VNUS Closure to return the health of your legs. Schedule an appointment and contact (281) 292-0121 to find out more.


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Newly seated Stockton Councilman Michael Tubbs says he wants to bring more accessibility and transparency to city government.
Newly seated Stockton Councilman Michael Tubbs says he wants to bring more accessibility and transparency to city government.
One way he plans to do that is to hold regular office hours each month, a time when constituents can come in and jaw with Tubbs about what's on their minds.
Not a bad idea, but no council member should be - and few really are - beyond the reach of a telephone. Still, there's nothing like sitting face to face with someone and laying out your concerns, gripes or ideas.
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It was a tough call and a close one, but in the end Calaveras Unified School District trustees voted 3-2 last week against building a $5.4 million arts center already approved and partially funded by the state.
Most of the money for the center, which would have included a 500-seat performance hall, was available. The state approved $1.2 million, and the district has about $4 million remaining from a bond measure approved in 2006.
But a majority of the trustees just couldn't pull the trigger, not amid layoffs and a shrinking school population.
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Yolo County Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson was correct when he rejected claims that a video showing the June 2008 shooting death of Yolo County sheriff's Deputy Tony Diaz played at trial and later on a Sacramento television station violated the privacy of the dead deputy's family.
An attorney for Crime Victims United, representing the Diaz family, sought an order stopping viewing of the dashboard camera video that captured Diaz's death at the hands of Marco Topete following a chase near Dunnigan.
The family was entitled to privacy under Marsy's Law that's designed to protect the privacy of crime victims and their families.
But Judge Richardson cited a California court statute in denying the order with prejudice, saying court records, unless deemed confidential, are presumed to be public record.
"The documentation taken by a government agency is a matter of public record, especially in the matter of a court proceeding," said First Amendment authority Terry Franck of California Aware.
We agree. The video is public record. The decision by KCRA-TV to air it is another matter.
Whenever you start to question the sanity of this state's lawmakers, consider some of the elected officials other Americans must endure. Two examples:
� Franklin County, Ind., commissioners voted unanimously to approve the county's "Second Amendment Preservation Act," declaring that all federal laws in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment are invalid in the county and won't be enforced.
But not to be outdone, an Indiana state senator, Phil Boots, has introduced a bill making it a felony to attempt to enforce a federal law declared void by the Legislature. His bill is aimed at the federal health care reform act already upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Perhaps the commissioners (not usually the nation's arbiters of constitutionality) and Boots could benefit from a reading of Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the so-called supremacy clause.
� State Rep. Cathrynn Brown of New Mexico has introduced a bill that would jail any rape victim - and her doctor - who has an abortion. The charge: evidence tampering. The possible sentence: up to three years in prison.
Brown's tortured logic is that this will deter sex offenders, although she has yet to explain how turning rape victims into felons accomplishes that.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Patti LaBelle, Jordin Sparks, Michael McDonald and others will join headliner Frankie Valli at "A Capitol Fourth" concert.
Organizers say the July 4 celebration at the National Mall will be hosted by Tom Bergeron of "Dancing with the Stars."
Other performers will include Sara Evans, Kendall Schmidt and Kelli O'Hara. Composer John Williams will conduct a new arrangement for orchestra and chorus of the "Star Spangled Banner" to mark its 200th anniversary.
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Sunday night's American Music Awards felt like the ultimate concert and fashion show in one, complete with performances by Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, and many more. For starters, Taylor Swift, looking golden in a Julien Macdonald mini-dress, took home four awards, including the night's top honor: Artist of the Year. Swift set an AMAs record, being the first person to ever win the award three times. "Winning Artist of the Year for the third time is kind of a little bit mind numbingly unbelievable, it is a little bit hard to absorb all at once," Swift told InStyle.com. "It's amazing, and the fact that it's fan voted makes it that much better. This year has been unreal for me with this album. I don't expect things to do well, just by default, so for this to happen is just wonderful."
Another big winner was Rihanna, who was given the AMA's first Icon Award, along with an award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist. Wearing a sexy Jean Paul Gaultier look, the singer was presented the award by her mother, Monica Fenty, who told her daughter how proud she was of her success. "I know the journey in your career has not always been an easy one," Fenty said onstage. She had more kind words for her successful daughter: "I applaud you and admire you for being so strong and so positive and so humble and so focused."
One of the most interesting moments of the evening? Lady Gaga rode down the red carpet atop a large, white, human-operated costume horse, wearing the exact same lavender Versace dress she wore in a campaign for the fashion house, released the day prior. Timberlake took home three awards at the fan-voted awards show, while Ariana Grande won New Artist of the Year and One Direction nabbed two awards including Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.
After walking the red carpet in a white pantsuit at the beginning of the evening, Miley Cyrus, who turned 21 the day before the show, closed the night with an emotional performance of "Wrecking Ball," which surprisingly included a giant lip-syncing kitten in the background. Dressed in a two-piece cat-adorned ensemble, the singer proved her skills by flawlessly belting out her hit, while the giant cat was floating onscreen behind her, even crying in zero-gravity at one point. Check out the complete list of AMAs winner's here.
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Actor Grant Gustin is ready to run in his first full Flash costume image.
The image, released Tuesday, reveals a closer look at the superhero suit Gustin will wear as the star of The CW's new pilot "The Flash," based on the lightning-quick DC Comics character. The red-and-gold uniform was designed by Academy Award-winner Colleen Atwood.
The series, from Warner Bros. Television, comes from executive producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and David Nutter — the masterminds behind the breakout hit series "Arrow," also on The CW. The show's pilot, directed by Nutter, was co-written by Berlanti, Kreisberg and DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, who has cited Flash as his favorite comic character.
Gustin will play Barry Allen, a scientist who becomes the fastest man alive after a freak accident. The character first appeared in comics in 1956 and went on to become a founding member of the Justice League of America.
The new series won't be the Flash's first foray into live-action television. John Wesley Shipp played the hero in the short-lived CBS series "The Flash," which ran for one season in 1990. It's unclear how the character's return to television will affect Warner Bros.' reported plans for a Flash movie, to be written by Berlanti, Johns, Marc Guggenheim, Chris Brancato and Michael Green.
Still, superheroes are proving a boon for the CW. "Smallville," the Superman prequel series that ran for 10 seasons, garnered devoted fan support, and "Arrow" has become a huge success for the network.
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Quote:"Everything applying to Koryu systems should and can be validated"Not necessarily. Some things can be verified through generally accepted history. But as for who is legitimately teaching Koryu, for the most part it's just a matter of whou you choose to believe. The politics has made it that way.Take a look here at the Kondo Sensei thread in the Daito Ryu forum. Kondo Sensei is seen by some, including Aikido-Journal (a respected publication here in the U.S.) as being the inheritor of Daito Ryu. Now they try to paint other Daito Ryu teachers as illegitimate or atleast not teaching Daito Ryu. Yet, it is quite common knowledge in Japan that there are problems with Kondo Sensei's claim. So who do you believe? I was just looking today at another well known and respected koryu web site. They have information about 2 koryu systems, 1 Kenjutsu the other Iaijutsu. I know that both articles contain fabricated information. The one person who they are holding out as "Soke" has changed his own training history on his own web site several times over the last few years. Also, his "sokeship" is widely disputed in Japan. But anyone looking for information on these styles may very well end up not training with a legit teacher based on the politics of this web site publisher.The same publisher had an article that discredited a very well known teacher of Ninjutsu. Then they started selling books on the web site of one of this teachers students. Suddenly, that article is gone.The Budo has become totally corrupt and polluted. Rank, titles and now even history and lineage mean absolutely nothing outside of your own dojo.
Quote:Hello Wristtwister:With respect any baffoon can punch or kick, but a teacher uses words. Your response concerns me... it seems to imply I must win to be a non-fraud (ie the real thing). Am I missing something...? Jeff
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