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I wanted to nurse my son for at least one year, but after returning to work this past spring after my maternity leave, I realized how much of an uphill climb that was going to be. I wish I could stay home with my LO, but that's not in the cards for me. Instead of stressing myself out having to leave my classroom (I teach HS English) 3 times per day, find someone to cover me, run around like a chicken with my head cut off, and explain to my students why I leave every day, I think it's best for me to give my son formula while I am at work.
By August, I will have been breastfeeding for 8 months, but I am going to start weaning him from his day feedings to a bottle before that. My questions are:
- Will I be able to maintain my milk supply only feeding twice a day from August - December? (I would like to still nurse him in the morning and evening if possible.) Also, just to clarify, I will NOT be pumping at work.
- I will most likely have to wake him up to nurse him before I leave for work. This will bump up his wake time by about an hour. Is this a bad idea?
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By Amena Bakr
DUBAI (Reuters) - A tweet from one of Saudi Arabia's most influential clerics summed up the Middle East's response to Barack Obama's re-election:
"Obama isn't good," tweeted Salman al-Oudah, "But he is the lesser evil."
After four years during which he largely kept Washington on the sidelines while the Arab Spring transformed the Middle East, Obama's re-election was met more with relief than joy in a region that welcomed him in 2008 and still has bitter memories of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush.
There was cautious hope that he could reach a deal with Iran to defuse tension over its nuclear program, and prod Israel and the Palestinians closer to reviving their frozen peace talks. Above all, people said Obama was less likely than his Republican opponent Mitt Romney to start another war.
"Obama was the better choice," said Cairo schoolboy Mohammed Gamal. "At least no war had happened in his four-year term."
Amin, a Tehran filmmaker, told Reuters by telephone: "We hate the policies of the U.S. and Israel, but Obama's policies are wiser. The only chance we have for the situation not to get worse was an Obama victory."
Mira, a 32-year-old dissident Iranian journalist reached by telephone, said: "Romney seemed willing to take U.S. foreign policy back to its Bush-era belligerent xenophobic milieu."
The Middle East is hardly a region where any U.S. president can expect effusive praise, but surveys have shown that most there wanted Obama to win, if only because of bitter memories of Bush and the widely resented war in Iraq.
"An Obama win was expected and he is the best at this stage," said Cairo doctor Mohamed el-Sanusy. "Let us not forget that Romney is a little Bush."
After coming to power in 2008 promising to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq, Obama quickly visited the Middle East, saying he wanted to re-engage with the region and soothe anger directed at the United States during the Bush years.
In 2009, four months into his first term, Obama told an enthusiastic audience in Cairo that he wanted for launch a "new beginning" in relations between the United States and the region.
His Republican challenger this time around, Mitt Romney, has derided that visit as part of an "apology tour", a tag rejected by the White House.
But if Obama's first election was greeted warmly in the Middle East, his re-election four years later was met more soberly in a tumultuous region, where the Arab Spring revolts have revealed the limits of U.S. power to shape events.
"I have the feeling that people in the region are not as enthusiastic as they were in 2008 about the whole American presidential campaign," said Saudi political analyst Khaled al-Dakheel.
"There is a feeling that there is a marginal difference between the two regarding U.S. policy on the Middle East, especially after the third debate when they focused on foreign policy."
One man in the region who may not be pleased by Obama's re-election is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - he did little to dispel the impression he favored Romney after clashing with Obama over West Bank settlements and Iran policy and now faces a new spell of awkwardness with the White House:
"I don't think we can just assume that what happened between them over the past four years will have just evaporated," said Sallai Meridor, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington.
On Iran, Obama initially offered unconditional talks with Washington's old foe, but over the past year imposed harsh sanctions in conjunction with the European Union to try to force Iran to agree to abandon its nuclear program.
"Obama was a tough president for Iran's hardliners, because he exposed them as the problem. His ... efforts to engage Iran accentuated Tehran's internal divisions, and created greater international unity," said Karim Sadjadpour, associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington
Last year's Arab Spring uprisings toppled more Middle Eastern autocrats than Bush, with the United States largely staying on the sidelines or playing a supportive role.
Obama let France and Britain take the lead in the NATO coalition that helped bomb Libya's Muammar Gaddafi out of power, sat back as long-term U.S. allies were brought down by popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, and has ruled out U.S. military intervention in Syria.
Many in the region say Obama has largely fulfilled his pledge to dictate to the region less than his predecessor.
"What I know about Obama is that four years ago, he wanted to make balance. He has had pressures on him but in general he has made balance," said retired Kuwaiti schoolteacher Mustafa al-Khabbaz, 65.
But the U.S. president, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in the job, is hardly viewed across the Middle East as a peacenik. In Yemen, where his administration helped push veteran autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh from power, Obama is largely known for an aggressive and hugely unpopular campaign of drone strikes against al Qaeda militants.
"On behalf of Yemenis," tweeted Yemeni blogger and journalist Afrah Nasser, "I urge Obama to leave our skies alone in the next four years."
(Reporting by Reuters bureaux across the Middle East; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Only a few days from the Wii U's US launch date and already it could be tough to buy one if you didn't pre-order. Scott Moffitt, executive vice president of sales and marketing of Nintendo of America has stated that the higher priced deluxe version of the Wii U has been selling particularly well. Despite concerns of hardware pricing being too high Moffitt has deemed that the consumer demand has been reflecting that the units are, in fact priced right.
I wonder if Nintendo Land is the reasoning or not. I mean in reality, because Nintendo Land comes in a real game case, people could buy the deluxe bundle and then return Nintendo Land separately making it $10 cheaper than the basic set for all of the stands and the online discount, plus the much needed storage. I'm getting the Basic Version anyway because I don't see the point in the hassle but I have a feeling others are willing to do that.
The retailer down the road from us only has one pre-order thus far.
It seems that Nintendo has struck gold once more with the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system. From the many positive articles including this one, the Nintendo product line looks to have many lucrative years ahead of it. I am happy to see many returning Elite supporters putting their trust in Nintendo gaming once again. The better the sales, the likeliness of more third party dev support for our future investment. Launching first with an innovative quality product will play a large part in boosting the official install base, and gain momentum going into 2013. Leaving its mark within the industry before competition arrives.
The pricing seems to be just right to win over the hard earned dollars of the consumer. I had always thought that hovering around the $300 dollar range for a home console launch was just right. Nintendo seems to have had the same thought. A likely rewarding business strategy. The beginning of the long awaited much anticipated next generation of gaming is only 4 days away. It could not have come at a greater time.
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MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Jerry has stalled over the Atlantic with weakened winds and poses no immediate threat to land.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that the storm was centered about 1,300 miles (2,095 kilometers) east of Bermuda and was nearly stationary.
Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and little change in strength is forecast for the next two days.
Jerry is the 10th tropical storm of the Atlantic season.


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Playoffs Begin In Denver Thursday Night For Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild begin their playoff run tonight in Denver against the Colorado Avalanche (8 PM, AM 1390).
The Avalanche had great success against the Wild this season, winning the regular season series 4-0-1.
The Wild finished the regular season with a 43-27-12 record and earned the top wild card spot in the Western Conference.
Colorado won the West with a 55-22-8 record, including identical 26-11-4 marks at home and on the road.
The Wild will face a tough test in goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who won a franchise-record 41 games this season for the Avs. His Minnesota counterpart Ilya Bryzgalov finished the season 7-1-3 but has been less than stellar in the postseason (8-10, 54 goals allowed).
The Twins will play a doubleheader today with game one scheduled for 12:10 and game two scheduled for 7:10. RA Dickey vs Gibson in game one, McGowan vs Pelfrey in game two.
G1: Thurs 4/17 8:30 PM @ COL
G2: Sat 4/19 8:30 PM @ COL
G3: Mon 4/21 6:00 PM @ MIN
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The shortlist for the 2014 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction is here.
I am left gob-smacked by some of the exclusions – The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, for example. Surely a Man Booker Prize winner can win Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, too. And isn't it time to forgive Elizabeth Gilbert for Eat, Pray, Love?
But I am stupidly happy for Hannah Kent and hope she wins. Not just because the book is excellent, but because the book is excellent. If you look closely you'll find there is no getting around that argument.
The judging panel, which includes Mary Beard, Denise Mina, Caitlin Moran and Sophie Raworth, will announce the winner on June 4th.
The 2014 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids… Read More
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu – beautiful, self-assured-departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home… Read More
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her most devastating work of fiction to date… Read More
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee A stunning, riveting debut novel in the tradition of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room, The Undertaking shines an intense light on history and illuminates the lives of those caught up in one of its darkest chapters… Read More
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride To read A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable – but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is moving, funny – and alarming. It is a book… Read More
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph – a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate… Read More
The 2014 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Runners Up
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood From one of the world's most brilliant and exciting writers comes a new novel of astonishing power; the final novel in her dystopian trilogy. Told with wit, dizzying imagination, dark humour and a breathtaking command of language, Booker-prize-winning Margaret Atwood's unpredictable and chilling Maddaddam takes us into a carefully-crafted dystopian world and holds up a mirror to… Read More
The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne The Dogs of Littlefield is a wry exploration of the discontent concealed behind the manicured lawns and picket fences of darkest suburbia. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy streets and quaint village centre. Yet no sooner has… Read More
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The second, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. His troubled wife does not join the family that morning. No one knows where Mina… Read More
The Bear by Claire Cameron Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is almost three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. It's the perfect family trip. But then Anna awakes in the night to the sound of something moving in the shadows. Her father is terrified. Her mother is screaming. Then, silence… Read More
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter A stunning debut novel – unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful – that touches on some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting story of a single mother, and her son, a member of the US Special Operations Forces. Eleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son. It begins in May 2011: Sara's son Jason has been missing for nine days… Read More
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter India. 1837. William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. Nine months later he hasn't learnt a word of Hindoostani, is in terrible debt, and longs to return home before the cholera epidemic finishes him off. A few months earlier, so rumour has it, the infamous and disgraced poet Xavier Mountstuart leaves Calcutta in order to… Read More
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton The astonishing and epic second novel from the prize-winning author of The Rehearsal – a sure contender for every major literary prize. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes… Read More
Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she's just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery… Read More
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big century. It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. Peopled with extraordinary characters – missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses and the quite mad – most of all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker, a woman of the Enlightened Age who stands defiantly on the cusp of the modern… Read More
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s – by turns underground, elite, dangerous. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed… Read More
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson This is the extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger food… Read More
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined… Read More
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always… Read More
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld Set between Australia and a remote English island, All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman's present comes from a terrible past. It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed… Read More
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While still in his twenties, John Purcell opened a second-hand bookshop in Mosman, Sydney, in which he sat for ten years reading, ranting and writing. Since then he has written, under a pseudonym, a series of very successful novels, interviewed hundreds of writers about their work, appeared at writers' festivals, on TV (most bizarrely in comedian Luke McGregor's documentary Luke Warm Sex) and has been featured in prominent newspapers and magazines. Now, as the Director of Books at booktopia.com.au, Australia's largest online bookseller, he supports Australian writing in all its forms. He lives in Sydney with his wife, two children, three dogs, five cats, unnumbered gold fish and his overlarge book collection. His novel, The Girl on the Page, will be published by HarperCollins Australia in October, 2018.


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Christian Stryker was promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director in May 2016.
Stryker oversees all of the athletic department's fundraising and development efforts, including managing the Cobra Club and increasing philanthropic support for Coker athletics and the Cobra Club through community and alumni engagement.
He also oversees the sports information office and will coordinate the athletic department's marketing and promotions.
Stryker served as the Sports Information Director since the fall of 2005. In July of 2013 he was promoted to Assocaite Athletic Director for External Operations. Prior to being SID, Stryker was an Admissions Counselor at Coker.
He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and Omicron Delta Kappa. Stryker served as a member of the NCAA Division II National Baseball Committee from 2009-2012, overseeing the Southeast Region. He also served on the NCAA Southeast Region Softball Committee and on the NCAA Division II Southeast Region Men's Soccer Committee.
Currently, he serves on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Southeast Region Committee, is the Southeast Region Coordinator for the Daktronics men's basketball all-region team, and is a member of the the NCAA Division II National Men's Golf Committee, overseeing the Southeast Region.
In addition to his SID duties, Stryker has also served as the Director of Athletic Fundraising (2006-09), Director of Media Relations and Sports Information (2009-11) and Director of Event Administration (2012-13).
Stryker is a 2004 graduate of Coker College and was a four-year letter winner and team captain for the Cobra baseball team. He holds a Master of Science from Duquesne University in Sports Leadership.
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A few quick links to pass along:
* As you know by now, the Chargers have released LaDainian Tomlinson.
So the obvious question is: Where will he end up?
Tomlinson told SI.com's Jim Trotter he has a couple of requirements at this point in his career. He wants to be on a team that can contend, and a team that has a proven quarterback.
"I do know that I would have to go to a team that has a [proven] quarterback," Tomlinson said. "A place where you know you have a chance to win because of the quarterback."
Tomlinson did not mention specific teams, but Trotter listed the Eagles, Patriots and Packers in his report as teams that could potentially be fits.
Personally, I don't see how bringing Tomlinson aboard would make sense for the Birds. His yards per carry dipped to 3.3 last season, and he turns 31 in June. Have we heard anyone make the argument that he has anything left?
But if you wanted to make the case for such a move, it would have to involve them cutting Brian Westbrook and then bringing Tomlinson on board as a mentor for LeSean McCoy in a red-zone/backup role. He did score 12 touchdowns last season.
Again, I'm not really seeing it.
* Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com tells Eagles fans to relax. Donovan McNabb should be the QB in 2010:
McNabb deserves another year. Kolb can wait. And I think McNabb will get it, considering Reid has said as much twice already. Live with it, Eagles fans. Reid isn't going anywhere and McNabb will almost certainly be your quarterback next season. Is that really a bad thing? I can hear your responses from here: Eat #@&^X&, Prisco. That's why I love Eagles fans.
* Gwen Knapp of CBSSports.com would agree with Prisco, saying the Eagles would be foolish to deal McNabb:
The Eagles, however, have developed a near-fetish for shedding players as they head toward the periphery of their prime, and the patience-challenged Philadelphia fans don't know how good they have it with McNabb. They don't remember what it's like to dwell in quarterback purgatory, watching an Alex Smith, David Carr, Joey Harrington or JaMarcus Russell flounder for years. The Eagles already have the most important element of a successful team. They have a rock where at least a dozen clubs have a crater.
* Vic Carucci of NFL.com takes a look at how the Eagles' quarterback decisions could have a domino effect on the rest of the league:
It's hardly an exaggeration to say that how the Eagles address their Donovan McNabb/Kevin Kolb/Michael Vick quarterback glut is among the league's most anticipated decisions of the offseason. To what extent they do so is anyone's guess, but it's reasonable to assume that there will be movement of some kind. Such movement could quite possibly bring dramatic change to another team's fortunes while even affecting the competitive balance of one or more divisions.
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Dotcom warned the Kiwis about the dangers of following the United States into "the dark ages of spying". He told a parliamentary hearing that a proposed law to broaden surveillance capabilities would make it easier for the United States and other countries to keep track of New Zealanders.
"We should avoid blindly following the U.S. into the dark ages of spying," Dotcom told the hearing into a bill to give its spooks powers to monitor its own citizens. He warned that the Kiwi spooks are subsidiary of the (U.S.) National Security Authority and the U.S. government calls the shots.
A government enquiry last year found its spies acted unlawfully by providing information on Dotcom, a German national with New Zealand residency, to the US before raiding his home.


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Ford recalls 2006 E150, E250, E350 Escape, Expedition, F150, Ranger, Taurus, Lincoln Navigator, Mercury Mariner, and Mercury Mountaineer due to a possible lack of lubricant on the wiper motor output shaft gear. Eventually, loss of wiper function will result. Dealers will grease the wiper motor gears as necessary.


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Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Foreword by Toby Hemenway
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens."
But Food Not Lawns doesn't begin and end in the seed bed. This joyful permaculture lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Plant "guerilla gardens" in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces.
Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and the ills of our throwaway society. In Food Not Lawns, she shows us how to reclaim the earth one garden at a time.
Reviews and Praise
Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review-
For activist readers who believe activism is a political pursuit, FOOD NOT LAWNS: HOW TO TURN YOUR YARD INTO A GARDEN AND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD INTO A COMMUNITY offers a different viewpoint, maintaining that growing food where you live is a key method of becoming a food activist in the community. Chapters advocate planting home and community gardens with an eye to drawing important connections between the politics of a home or community garden and the wider politics of usage, consumption, and sustainability. Another rarity: chapters promote small, easy changes in lifestyles to achieve a transition between personal choice and political activism at the community level, providing keys to change any reader can use.
More Reviews and Praise
Library Journal-
Certified permaculture designer Flores advocates living an ecologically friendly lifestyle by creating gardens. Following a foreword by Toby Hemenway (Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture), she discusses the identification of garden sites, the water cycle and water conservation, soils and composting, plants, how to save seed, project design, the fostering of community involvement, the inclusion of children in projects, the sharing of information, and activism. Many of Flores's ideas are for the extremely committed. She advocates dumpster digging, composting human feces, and living life without appliances like refrigerators. She also suggests growing food on land, not necessarily with the landowner's permission, and espouses gray-water conservation techniques that may be illegal in some communities. While growing your own food is a worthy goal, Flores doesn't always seem to recognize the hard work involved. She also doesn't expand on all of her ideas, but she does offer an extensive list of resources for further research. Flores has an engaging style and is clearly passionate about her subject, and her debut book provides an alternative viewpoint, but it will probably not interest mainstream audiences. Purchase as required.
"More than just another gardening book, Food Not Lawns provides a road map for ecological and social literacy in our own backyards and neighborhoods. A quiet revolution is taking place across the country centered on small plots in urban and suburban areas where food is being produced, jobs grown, and real community developed. This timely book serves as an important guide, providing a source of both information and inspiration for one of the most hopeful and exciting movements of our time."--Michael Ableman, author of Fields Of Plenty
"Food Not Lawns is radical (rooted), subversive (underground), and seeded throughout with treasures that will sprout into savory, beautiful flowers. Don't just buy this book: Read it. Don't just read this book: Do it. Grow a garden. And let the weeds grow; they're good medicine."--Susun Weed, Wise Woman Herbal Series
"Food Not Lawns is a wonderful book expanding on the idea that we can do more than just protest but that we have the power to create the world we want. Food Not Lawns is a practical guide to feeding ourselves and making positive change. In a time of so much hopelessness this book reminds us that there really is so much we can do. I encourage everyone seeking peace and well being to dig into this rich loam of information. It will inspire you to grow food not lawns."--Keith McHenry, Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
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Keene State men host Plymouth State in Little East quarterfinal
February 18. 2013 9:38PM
New Hampshire's in-state Little East men's basketball rivalry between Keene State College and Plymouth State University heats up once again this evening when the Panthers travel to Keene for an LEC men's tournament quarterfinal round confrontation.
Keene, which ended its regular season with an uncharacteristic 22-point loss to Rhode Island College Saturday, sports a 14-9 overall record and is 8-4 in the Little East. That mark makes the Owls the conference's third seed.
Plymouth, meanwhile, played through a disappointing season and closed its LEC campaign with just three wins in 14 games. The Panthers are 7-18 overall.
Plymouth defeated Western Connecticut State Saturday, leaving both teams with identical conference records, but the Panthers won a coin toss after the game and were awarded the league's sixth seed.
The opening tip is slated for 7 p.m.
The Owls boast a trio of 1,000-point career scorers in their lineup. Seniors Ryan Martin, Anthony Mariano and Eric Fazio all reached the milestone this season, becoming just the second trio in KSC men's history to do so in a single season.
Keene swept the Panthers during the regular season, winning 83-62 at Plymouth and 68-62 at home.
The Owls are seeking their first LEC title since 2004 when they defeated PSU in the title game, 79-67. But the tournament road has been rocky of late for Keene as it suffered first-round double-overtime losses the past two seasons.
Plymouth's perimeter offense has relied upon the shooting of Petey Skevas and Dover's Alex Burt for much of the season. But in the Panthers' regular-season-ending triumph over WCSU, Moultonborough's Kevin Eisenburg led the way with 19 points and Manchester's Shomari Morgan tossed in 15.
Keene has won four of the five times the two rivals have met in the LEC tournament.
The Little East women's tournament also commences this evening. Keene State, the seventh seed, travels to Danbury, Conn., for a quarterfinal game against second seed Western Connecticut State, while Plymouth, the eighth seed, motors to Gorham, Maine, and a meeting with top-seeded Southern Maine.
Keene is 9-16 overall and 3-11 in the LEC. Plymouth is 1-23 and 0-14.


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The total value of independent RIA mergers and acquisitions increased 30% in 2012 compared to 2011, with assets under management of 45 deals in 2012 totaling $58.8 billion versus $43.9 billion for 57 deals in 2011, according to data compiled by Schwab Advisor Services.
National acquiring firms, like HighTower, Focus Financial and United Capital remained the dominant buyers, finishing the year with 25 of the 45 total M&A deals, Schwab reported on Monday.
The proportion of acquisitions by RIAs dropped in 2012, down from 44% of the total deals closed in 2011 to 20% of those completed in 2012.
"The independent model has become a destination of choice for both advisors and high-net-worth investors alike, and the growth in the overall size of the deals we saw in 2012 is proof that this is a model that is growing and flourishing," said Jon Beatty (left), senior vice president, sales and relationship management, Schwab Advisor Services, in a statement.
Activity among national acquiring firms remained high for the third consecutive quarter in 2012, representing 55% of the deals completed last year.
"National acquiring firms are proving to be a good overall alternative for the growth of the industry, attractive to both advisors that are looking to join the move to independence or RIAs that are seeking to expand their footprint or execute a succession strategy," Beatty said.
Schwab Advisor Services' releases its RIA M&A report every quarter. Its transition services unit helps advisors with succession planning.
Read Institute for Fiduciary Standard founder Knut Rostad's comment, HighTower Advisors: The New Face of Fiduciary?, and HighTower CEO Elliot Weissbluth's video response, at AdvisorOne.


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Penn's Garret FitzGerald Honored with Inaugural St. Patrick's Day Science Medal from the Science Foundation Ireland
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Newswise — Enda Kenny, the prime minister of Ireland, presented Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, with the inaugural St. Patrick's Day Science Medal at an Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-hosted event in Washington D.C. last week. The Medal recognizes the achievements of a distinguished Irish scientist or engineer, living and working in the US.
"The SFI Saint Patrick's Day Science Medal is a great addition to the Irish Government's St. Patrick's Day activities in America," said Mr. Kenny. "Individuals like Dr. FitzGerald who are part of the sizable Irish diaspora in the United States remind us of the enormous opportunity that this country presents for Irish people who come here. Dr. FitzGerald's achievements in his field are hugely outstanding and it is important that we in Ireland join those in the international scientific community who have already recognized his significant contribution to science."
"The US remains the most innovative and supportive environment in which to pursue scientific research and the ties that bind us have delivered wonderful opportunities to the Irish people to harvest that resource to the benefit of scientific development at home," said Dr. FitzGerald. "This has been realized through training of Irish scientists in the US and through Irish-American scientific collaboration both in academia and industry, often supported by Science Foundation Ireland, itself modeled on the US National Science Foundation. It is a great honor for me to receive the St. Patrick's Day medal which reflects the scientific dimension of the long and happy relationship between our countries."
FitzGerald's research focuses in the area of cardiovascular health and in particular the implications of pain medicines on cardiac systems. He was instrumental in the discoveries relating to the use of low-dose aspirin in preventing cardiac disease and to date has been awarded both the Irish Times/RDS Boyle Medal and the 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique -- considered the world's most prestigious honor for cardiovascular research.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 17 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $392 million awarded in the 2013 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; Chester County Hospital; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Chestnut Hill Hospital and Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2013, Penn Medicine provided $814 million to benefit our community.


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I have several schools of thought on this. My preferred school of thought is that mater and energy are interchangeable so the body can be made energy and then turned back as needed.
I think they both exist at the same time but are in the same physical position during waking hours. The obe are the displacement of this energy body during dreaming. Its an interesting concept and part of it gels with me if you look at phantom limbs and the feelings and sense that they are still there that is reported. It seems this energy body may be the stronger of the two in some ways.
.It also means that external energy sources like heat or light can be adsorbed and used as part of yourself when in a non-corporeal form. However, upon returning to the corporeal excess energy is released if not used to increase mass of shape
I absorb energy in the dreamspace and its getting more regular now. Either light or an object light rock will start to glow and vibrate and then turn to light with the next step being my arm starting to glow and heat up. This can spread to my complete energy body in the dream and leave an afterglow on waking for up to a day. Its an awesome experience and used to be spontaneous and really scare me but now I can call for it If I want to
The other school I prefer far less is that the body is a nursery for the conscious / unconscious mind which when capable of truly becoming one will no longer need a corporeal frame to support it.
I think that a lot but not sure about the being one part, theres a tricky bit of timing it that happens at death and how do you live without the body
Oddly this school of thought has also lead me to believe that there are other beings in this form far more evolved than us for some of whom we are food and for others we are servants of a type that they can indenture into a symbiotic relationship of sorts.
Yip might be some other forms, also I suspect there are other parts of us and the us we think exists is a puppet in a lot of ways.
The last school represents a more religious one where you die and the spirit / soul goes on. Please hold back the flying spaghetti monster comments or I'll put a beat down on a fat Buddha.
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1. Can I make money with a high lv in x craft?
A: Yes! No matter what craft you choose, you can always make money with HQ synths. Compare the cost of ingredients for, say, a Heko Obi, then look at how much more you make with a HQ! It requires a fairly high level, but it pays off in the long run.
2. What can I use to get from x level to y level in x craft with profit?
A: Allakhazam has a section with a complete list on synths for every craft. Because the prices of items you synth depends on your server economy, this isn't something we can help you that much with. Just take a look for what caps to 8 levels (that's where I stop looking for a leveling synth, and it usually results in too many breaks afterwards) above your current crafting level, compare the price of the ingredients with your finished product, and see what makes profit.
3. What can I use to get from x level to y level in x craft?
A: Popsi made a great thread with links to guides/information about every craft. If the guides don't have the levels you are looking for, go to the complete list of synths on Alla, and see what caps around 8 levels (where I stop) above your current level in synth, and try using those synths.
4. How far will x amount of gil get me in x craft?
A: Popsi has yet another sticky that gives approx. amount of gil to get to level 60 in each craft. Again, we don't really know how far it will get you, as that depends on your server economy, so start crafting!
5. What can I make at x level in x craft for profit?
A: Again, server economys make it hard for us to tell you. Use Alla's synth list and see what you can do.
6. What craft should I level for the most porfit?
A: Again, that depends on server economy. You're better off choosing a craft that will complement the job you wish to take to lv75, and going hog wild on that craft. Goldsmithing, which takes a *lot* to level up on, can make you a Rockefeller at high levels, but a craft like Cooking, which is extremely cheap to level, can be very handy out in the field when you're battling.
7. What craft is best to level with my current job?
A: That all depends.
[li]Bonecraft: Useful for any job that uses harnesses. Looking at the Bonecrafting synth list, that's what a lot of the synths are mainly harness armor.
[li]Cooking: Useful for any job. You can get it up to 40, bring the ingredients for mithkabobs out in the fields with you, and voila, you have 12 stacks of mithkabobs with you at a fraction of the room.
[li]Clothcraft: Mages will find this craft the most useful. 90% of your armor will consist of Clothcrafting recipies. Also, some Ninja tools can be made from this craft, so Ninja's may want to level Clothcrafting a bit.
[li]Fishing: Useful for any job. Also very useful for cooks. Fishing does NOT affect the 40 points after level 60.
[li]Goldsmithing: Useful for any job really, but mainlt tanks. You can make a lot of the rings, the gems to make the rings, the lizard armor set, Guns, weapons, earrings, etc.
[li]Leathercraft: Useful for melee. You can make a lot of armor with this craft (and I mean a LOT.)
[li]Smithing: Useful for melee. A lot of what you make in synthing is arrowheads, or weapons.
[li]Woodworking: Very useful for rangers. All of your ways of making arrows, bolts, bows, and crossbows will be made with this craft.
8. What can I use to level my fishing after x level?
A: Mystery Tour has a great section for fishing that includes what fish cap at what level, what type of water you can catch them in, and what lures/bait are good to catch them with.
9. Why dosen't SE do anything when I tell them about a fishing bot?!
A: Because what you believe is a fishing bot isn't always a fishing bot. Although there ARE cases where people really are botting, there's just as many, if not more, cases where people are falsely accused of botting.
10. How can I garden and what can I grow with gardening?
A: Pikko has a very nice site with a LOT of recipes for gardening, when the best to plant/harvest/feed the plants is, what type of pot the items grow best in, and what type of plant can give you what items.
11. What is the synth to cause HQs/what increases chanced of HQs?
A: The synth to cause HQs is the exact same as the normal synth, but you need to be many levels higher then the cap (I believe that 30 levels higher is the main recommended amount, any higher levels only increase your chances.
We're not really 100% sure what increases chances of HQs. We believe that things like a full moon (or is it new moon? I can't quite remember) and darksday increase your chances by a small amount.
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By the time he graduated from high school Alexander Olch was in possession of an impressive collection of 300 ties. He started off life as a film student but when he gave out ties as a wrap present to the cast the requests from friends started coming in and he's not looked back since.
His website features a selection of ties that physically made me drool, and I don't even wear ties! The crispness of the superfine wools and the soft weaves of the tweeds are pure eye-candy. To read more about Olch and his love for ties check out the feature at Valet


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LITTLE ROCK That bundle of joy can sometimes engender unexpected emotions.
An expert on mental health during and after pregnancy is to speak next week at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Tickets for the 11:30 a.m. talk by Dr. Zachary Stowe are $30 and include lunch and parking.
Stowe notes that between 60 percent and 80 percent of women experience sadness in one form or another after giving birth. One in 10 experiences serious postpartum depression.
Stowe's talk is part of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute's "Beautiful Minds" series. His presentation is scheduled to be held in the UAMS Medical Center Lobby Gallery.


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Toowoomba's party plan for Australia Day
FLY the flag, slap on the zinc cream and belt out the national anthem at any number of Australia Day activities across the region.
Australia Day Committee chairwoman Cr Anne Glasheen said Toowoomba Regional Council and local Australia Day committees invited residents to celebrate the national day on Saturday, January 26.
"There will be fun and entertainment throughout the region and we'd love mum and dad and the family to come along and share a special day together," Cr Glasheen said.
"We truly are a lucky country and it is the perfect time to get together with friends from the community and join in the festivities to mark our proud history."
Cr Glasheen said Australia Day activities would be held at Clifton, Highfields, Goombungee, Cecil Plains, Yarraman, Crows Nest, Pittsworth, Hodgson Vale, Oakey and Toowoomba.
Toowoomba - Picnic Point
- 7.45am: Caledonian Pipe Band
- 8am: Flag raising. Free billy tea, damper, flag handwavers (limited supply). Also, 8am-3pm: PCYC All Abilities and Disability specific sports display
- 8.10am: Toowoomba Municipal Band
- 8.50am: Bush poet
- 9am: Cactoblastis
- 9.30am: High Altitude Harmony.
- Free children's activities (limited snow cones, fairy floss, temporary tattoos)
- 10am: Bush poet
- 10.10am: Mosaic Judy
- 11.05am: Bush Poet
- 11.15am: Australia Day awards presentation
- 11.30am: Free sausage sizzle (limited supply), The Webb Family band
- 12.15pm: Bollywood dancers
- 12.30pm: Scout Revue
- 1pm: Dance Central
- 1.30pm: Penny Davies and Roger Ilott
- Organised activities until 3pm
Please note: Picnic Point's top car park will be closed on Saturday, January 26 for the duration of Australia Day celebrations. The car park will be closed to all traffic from 4am to 3pm.
Clifton - F E Logan Hall, Meara Place, Clifton
- • 7am: Flag raising, national anthem
- • 7.05am: Australia Day Prayer
- • 7.15-8.15am: Free barbecue breakfast
- • 7.15-8.30am: Nobby Barefoot Folk Orchestra; Tony Fenner (poetry)
- • 8.30am: Lucky breakfast draw
- • 8.35am: Addresses, including Australia Day Ambassador Christopher Raine, awards presentation
- • 9.15am: Cake cutting, damper for A 26ers
Highfields - Highfields Pioneer Village, Wirraglen Rd
- 9am-1.30pm: Activities including Aboriginal art display, milking and butter making, draft horse, sheep shearing and bee keeping displays, damper making demo and competition, whip cracking school, wheel tyring at the blacksmith's shop.
- 2pm: Official Australia Day program starts. Didgeridoo performance - Don Nikkelson; Flag raising, national anthem; Welcome new citizens, guest speakers including Australia Day Ambassador Daphne Pirie, awards presentation; Trevor Dodds - I Still Call Australia Home
- 2.30-3.30pm: Free billy tea, damper. Musical entertainment continues
Goombungee - Goombungee Public Hall
- 8-9.30am: Community breakfast
- 9am-noon: family activities: face painting, races, jumping castle, big slide, backyard cricket
- 10am: Australia Day awards. Includes guest speakers and official ceremony (Acknowledgment of traditional owners, national anthem, community reflection, affirmation followed by Australia address)
- Closing address
Yarraman - Yarraman Memorial Hall, Browne St
• 8.30am for 9am start: sit-down breakfast
• 10am: Presentation of Australia Day awards
• 10.30am: Coffee and socialising
Cecil Plains - Memorial Hall Park
• 7-9am: Free breakfast
• Includes games and activities - egg and spoon race, tug-o-war, thong throwing
• 9am: Official ceremony and presentation of Australia Day awards followed by mini triathlon with categories for children and adults. Barbecue lunch available
Crows Nest - Community and RSL Centre
• 6.30am: Cooked breakfast with tea/coffee for $2 donation. Cooked by Lions Club, served by Boys' Brigade members - sausage and bread for children
• 7.30am: Flag wavers distributed
• 8-9am: Flag raising, national anthem, Australia Day prayer, affirmation address by 2013 Crows Nest State School captains
• Guest speaker: 2012 Young Citizen and Regional award winner Samantha Gluer
• Presentation of Australia Day awards
• Announcement of Regional Australia Day awards and Groom Scholarship recipient
• Naming of best damper cook
• 9am: Morning tea with competition dampers
Hodgson Vale - Hodgson Vale Community Sports Club (Maydean Place)
• 8.30-10am: Free breakfast, children's games (face painting, jumping castle, egg throwing comp and more), entertainment by James Anderssen
• 10.30am to noon: Official award ceremony, flag raising. Guest speaker and Australia Day Ambassador Professor John Pearn AM
Pittsworth - Pioneer Village, Pioneer Way
- 4pm: Face painting, balloon tricks, treasure hunt for Under 5s
- 4.30-6pm: Frisbee throwing (12 and under). Other events include men's thong throwing, women's shopping bag throwing, egg throwing in junior categories, Mums' pram race (BYO pram), Under 5 egg and spoon race
- 5pm: Billy cart race (John Stephens memorial - check in 4.30pm)
- 5.15pm: Children's tug-o-war
- 5.30pm: Crosscut saw competition (men's, women's, jack and jill events)
- 6pm: Postle Gift - 75 yard sprint (Under 10 boys/girls; Under 14 boys/girls; Under 16 boys; Under 16 girls/women; open sprint)
- 7pm: Official ceremony - national anthem/flag raising (Pittsworth Army cadets). Official address, Australia Day Ambassador Charlie Earp. Presentation of Australia Day awards, event prizes and Gift trophies
- 7.45pm: Tug-o-war
- Ridgy Didge Bush Band plays throughout the program
- Organised activities until 9pm
Oakey - Oakey Cultural Centre
- 7.30am: Community breakfast
- 8.45am: Awards presentation, Australia Day Ambassador Uncle Albert Holt
- 9.45am: Morning tea
Oakey - Arthur Shooter Park
- 10.30am-noon: Oakey Creek Cup raft race and other creek-based activities (canoe races, billy boiling competition, Oakey Freshwater Fish Restockers display, Condamine Alliance river rescue displays and demonstrations, carp busting competition, remote control boats, magnetic fishing, water pistol war, waterslide and entertainment.)
Stay on for a picnic after the formal program


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Marvels, Milestones and Mom: The Ups and Downs in a Year of Functional-HIV-Cure Research
December 6, 2010
As an action-packed year for the HIV/AIDS community draws to a close, TheBody.com takes stock of 2010 in a new series of articles, "HIV/AIDS Year in Review: Looking Back on 2010 (and Ahead to 2011)." Read the entire series here.This blog entry is dedicated to my sweet Mother, Marguerite Aletha Murchie, born August 3, 1917, died September 1, 2010, who always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way."
It's hard to believe that the end of the year is almost upon us, and I hear the echo of yet another piece of my Mother's advice: "The older you get, the faster time flies!" I must admit that she was right, as it seems that only a few weeks have passed since July, when TheBody.com invited me to review a sample of the many abstracts being presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna on HIV controllers and long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs):
Everything, including the HIV advocacy and research fields, seemed to go into overdrive from that point forward. We are now witnessing a tremendous surge of novel approaches to genetic-, immune- and stem-cell-based therapies, a renewed commitment to the development of vaccines, and resounding calls for, if not THE cure for HIV/AIDS, the next-best thing: a 'functional cure' (as represented by controllers and/or LTNPs -- the subject of a blog entry here on TheBody.com in December 2008) or a 'sterilizing cure' (eradication of the virus in the human host). Collectively, these endeavors represent marvelous works and lofty goals in this battle. We can do this, if there is a will to do it. So many lives depend upon it.
In August, I traveled east to donate plasma to the LTNP Study at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., my fifth trip since joining that remarkable study in April 2006. It's always a pleasure to see the wonderful staff at Outpatient Clinic 8, and to learn what's new from the study's principal investigator, Dr. Stephen A. Migueles.
This year, Dr. Migueles and Nancy Cogliano, RN, Research Study Coordinator, surprised me with the news that I had been nominated for membership to the NIH Clinical Center Patient Advisory Group (CC-PAG) -- an informal forum established in 1998 for patients to share thoughts, concerns and suggestions on patient care needs across the various NIH clinics. It was a gracious offer from them and one that I accepted.
With a sparkle in my eye, I showed them a copy of the Internal Revenue Service letter approving the Zephyr L.T.N.P. Foundation's tax-exempt and public charity status -- a major milestone that took more than four years to achieve. The Zephyr team can now begin to raise funds to underwrite the expansion of our activities (e.g., educational public seminars) and to assist us to implement programs that have been simmering on the back burner for a couple of years, such as a fund to reimburse the incidental travel expenses traditionally paid out-of-pocket by participants of HIV controller/LTNP studies here in the U.S.
On the first day of September, I received the call that none of us wants to get. My eldest sister was calling to tell me that our Mom had passed away, peacefully, a few hours before, with two of my sisters at her side. Mom was a true champion, having lost the use of her legs 20 years before to a congenital defect called cerebral arteriovenous malformation, or AVM -- typically defined as an abnormal connection between the arteries and veins in the brain. In an odd twist of fate, the AVM struck our mother at the base of her spine, making her diagnosis quite difficult in the beginning. Complicated neurological surgery and rehabilitation over a six-month period did not help her to regain the use of her legs, and unfortunately, she eventually became paraplegic. This was a real tragedy, since Mom was incredibly vivacious and physically active at 72 years young and had never been ill a day in her life. The only time she spent in any hospital, prior to this problem, was to give birth to her five healthy children, a son and four daughters. We marvel at the fact that the AVM did not surface during the births, and consider ourselves fortunate to have had such a wonderful mom, who is now resting in peace.
Later that month, news from the vaccine research front served to buoy my spirits. For the first time in many years, there is discernible hope for an HIV vaccine. In a commentary piece published in the September issue of the journal Nature Medicine, the Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise (GHVE) addressed the release of the 2010 Scientific Strategic Plan (also known as "The Plan"). On the first page of this article, the words that lifted my spirits were: "Although a highly effective HIV vaccine remains elusive, we have never been closer to the target." The Council goes on to discuss the "key advances in HIV vaccine research over the past five years," which include "new insights into the immunological and genetic basis for the ability of some people to control the virus or prevent virus acquisition (so-called 'elite controllers' and 'exposed but uninfected persons' [otherwise known as ESNs, or 'exposed sero-negatives'], respectively)."
As a community advocate, I was gratified to read that one of the qualitative 'targets' for achieving the objectives of Priority 1 of the 'Plan' calls for "strengthening community engagement to insure that communities and individual volunteers are engaged as true partners in the clinical trials endeavor." In their discussion of Priority 2 ("harness the full potential of preclinical models and the ongoing revolution in biomedical science") on page 985 of the article, I was extremely pleased to read these words: "It is also crucial that we deepen our understanding of the genetic underpinning of the interplay between host defenses and viral evolution that leads to such drastically variable phenotypes as, for example, exposed uninfected (ESNs), long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs) and rapid progressors."
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Ethernet/RS232 Stand-Alone Motion Controllers
2 Axes Stand-Alone Econo Series Motion Controller
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**This product is NRFND (Not Recommended For New Designs)**
The DMC-1425 is a member of the Econo Series, Galil's latest generation of lowest cost motion controllers. The DMC-1425 controls two servo axes; and is half-the-size and half-the-price of other multi-axis controllers. It features linear and circular interpolation for precise coordination of two servo axes. The controller is available as a card-level product or packaged in a metal enclosure with power supply.
The DMC-1425 features Ethernet connectivity which allows easy, high-speed, long distance communications between any number of computer hardware devices located on a LAN, such as I/O modules, MMI interfaces, PCs, PLCs and vision systems. The DMC-1425 can handle the most demanding applications with such features as program memory with multitasking, and uncommitted I/O.
Modes of motion include point-to-point positioning, jogging, linear and circular interpolation, contouring, electronic gearing and ecam. Programming the DMC-1425 is simplified with two-letter, intuitive commands and a full set of software tools such as WSDK for servo tuning and analysis, ActiveX Tool Kit for Visual Basic users and a C-Programmers Tool Kit. The DMC-1425 also includes 2 uncommitted analog inputs, 3 uncommitted digital inputs and 3 uncommitted digital outputs. The 1425 comes standard with the ability to control two servo motors, yet it can be configured to output two stepper motor signals upon request.
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UC Davis autism researcher and education specialist Peter Mundy has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to apply virtual-reality technology to evaluate social attention and its relation to academic achievement among school children with autism. He also is launching Educational Interventions for Students with Autism, a book for elementary and secondary school teachers that shares current research and evidence-based approaches to training. The book is the first in a series on the topic, and Mundy is co-author.
In the U.S., 80 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) go to public schools, and at least 50 percent of them are in general education classes throughout the school day. More than 60 percent have average IQs and are not affected by intellectual disabilities, yet they have the worst graduation rates of any group.
"Schools are not very well equipped to deal with ASDs," said Mundy, who holds the Lisa Capps Endowed Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education and is director of educational research at the UC Davis MIND Institute. "Although we've made tremendous progress with ASDs at the preschool level, we haven't focused attention on how to continue to develop optimal development for these kids in elementary and secondary schools. The new research grant and book emphasize the benefits of research and the influence teachers can have on current and future generations of children."
Expanding on a pilot project conducted last year, the study uses virtual-reality technology to track participants' attention to nine avatars representing fellow students. All avatars stay on the screen if the participants regularly turn their heads to look at them, while avatars not getting attention begin to fade away.
It is one of the first-ever longitudinal studies on children with autism in school. The study goals include assessing whether or not social attention is a pivotal factor in both academic achievement and interventions for children with higher-functioning forms of autism. If results are promising, a follow-up study could focus specifically on use of virtual reality as an intervention.
An additional goal is to evaluate the use of social attention as a way of illustrating differences between children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and children with autism, as those symptoms can seem similar in classroom settings.
The new study will involve 120 elementary and secondary school children affected by autism and 80 typically developing children. They will participate in exercises at the Social Attention and Virtual Reality Laboratory at UC Davis, a collaboration of the MIND Institute, School of Education and Center for Mind and Brain that Mundy established in 2009.
"Through this study, we'll obtain new information about what might help these children graduate at higher rates and have better lives, earning more than minimum wage and living independently," said Mundy, who holds appointments as a professor in both the UC Davis School of Education and the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. "We need to make the best use of the biggest intervention system we have, which is the K-12 public school system. Children with ASDs spend more time in this system than in any other."
Educational Interventions for Students with Autism (Wiley, 2012) is written by nationally acclaimed experts in the field and published in collaboration with the UC Davis MIND Institute and UC Davis School of Education. Co-edited by Mundy and Ann Mastergeorge, who is now with the University of Arizona, it outlines best practices in education for children with autism to meet the practical, real-world classroom needs of teachers, school administrators and parents.
Topics include how autism affects student learning, autism and its impact on schools, a teacher's view of autism and the classroom, working with children who have high-functioning forms of autism in schools and successful community-school partnerships. Mundy contributes a co-written chapter titled "Effects of Autism on Social Learning and Social Attention."
UC Davis Health System Chief Executive Officer Claire Pomeroy, UC Davis School of Education Dean Harold Levine, MIND Institute Director Leonard Abbeduto and the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences supported early research that led to the current grant and facilitated the production of the new book.
Mundy's work on defining the nature of autism began more than 25 years ago at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (now the Semel Institute). Before joining UC Davis in 2008, he was professor of psychology at the University of Miami, where he was the founding director of the University of Miami Center for Autism and Related Disabilities and founding co-director of the Marino Autism Research Institute. A standing member of the National Institutes of Health Biobehavioral and Behavioral Science Subcommittee, he has published more than 100 papers on autism, early social development and developmental psychopathology.
The UC Davis MIND Institute, in Sacramento, Calif., was founded in 1998 as a unique interdisciplinary research center where parents, community leaders, researchers, clinicians and volunteers collaborate to study and treat autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The institute has major research efforts in autism, Tourette syndrome, fragile X syndrome, chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). More information about the institute, including previous presentations in its Distinguished Lecture Series, is available on the Web at mindinstitute.ucdavis.edu.


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Art Bots Workshop
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For kids entering 4th—12th grades: Join Barb Shaw, Colorado State University Extension Western Region & 4-H STEM Coordinator, for a special workshop where kids will learn how to program robots to draw their own creative designs onto t-shirts. FREE! Limited to 30 participants. Adults allowed to observe. Please bring your own white t-shirt to draw on. Sign up starts on June 12 at the Kids' Desk.


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'X-Men: First Class' | 2011
Changing gears quite a bit, Lawrence played blue shape-shifting creature in the sci-fi reboot film "X-Men: First Class." It took seven hours of makeup to turn Lawrence into her character Mystique. On set, Lawrence met Nicholas Hoult, who became her on-again, off-again beau. Come 2014, Lawrence will join Oscar-winning actresses Anna Paquin and Halle Berry in the film¿s sequel "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
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< Architectures | ARM
Versatile Express
The Versatile Express family of development platforms provides users with a modular board design for use testing different ARM SOC design implementations. QEMU provides the ability to emulate ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9 on your desktop computer for easy experimentation!
Technical Specifications
- ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9
- 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet
For more information on Versatile Express or QEMU visit their websites.
Running Fedora through QEMU
This page will give you detailed instructions for running Fedora 18 through QEMU. The tarball includes all that is needed to boot your system including the root filesystem image and the pre-extracted kernel and initramfs. Also, included for your convenience are two scripts to boot using a serial connection or the XFCE desktop.
Download the image
There are two Versatile Express images available for use with QEMU, a hardware floating point (armhfp), and a software floating point(arm). If you are unsure of which to choose, the hard floating point image is recommended, and will be used in the provided examples below (adjust accordingly for 'arm'):
Download and verify the checksum:
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/18/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM sha256sum --check Fedora-18-armhfp-Images-CHECKSUM
Preparing the Image
Linux Users
Extract the tarball using the graphical user interface or the following commandline option:
tar xvJf Fedora-18-vexpress-xfce-armhfp.tar.xz
Windows Users
QEMU is also available on Windows but is not yet covered in this guide. For more information on running QEMU on Windows please visit their website.
Using Fedora through QEMU
First you will need to install the ARM QEMU package (this example is using Fedora)
yum install qemu-system-arm
Once installed, change to the boot directory of the extracted kernel package:
cd Fedora-18-vexpress-xfce-armhfp/boot/
From there execute the provided script, choosing to boot with or without a graphical interface.
./boot-vexpress -h Usage: ./boot-vexpress [--gui] --kernel=vmlinuz... --ramfs=initramfs --image=fsimage [--dtb=vexpress.dtb]
For serial console:
./boot-vexpress --kernel=vmlinuz-3.6.10-8.fc18.armv7hl --ramfs=initramfs-3.6.10-8.fc18.armv7hl.img --image=../Fedora-18-vexpress-xfce-armhfp.img
For XFCE Desktop:
./boot-vexpress --kernel=vmlinuz-3.6.10-8.fc18.armv7hl --ramfs=initramfs-3.6.10-8.fc18.armv7hl.img --image=../Fedora-18-vexpress-xfce-armhfp.img --gui
The default root password is "fedora". This should be changed immediately.
Release Notes
- Images were composed using tools in Fedora 17 due to continuing work on Fedora 18.
- When upgrading to the 3.7.X kernel you will require a device tree binary (.dtb) file for the system to boot. The provided 'boot-vexpress' script allows for the optional use of a 'dtb' file and will give a warning when booting kernels above 3.6.x.
- The XFCE Desktop is not currently available when using the 3.7.x kernel.
Additional Support
There are Fedora ARM users all around the globe - if you need assistance, would like to provide feedback or contribute to Fedora ARM please visit us on the IRC - we can be found in #fedora-arm on Freenode. You can also contact us on the mailing list - email@example.com


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Alessi Bakeware by Matali Crasset and Pierre Hermé
The world of high end kitchen design can feel a bit awkward and cold compared to the well worn patina on the wooden spoons passed down through your family. It's easy to be standoffish, but when form meets function and beauty as it does in these new pieces from Matali Crasset — well then we're all ears.
We're often guilty of saying, "Well if they ever cooked a day in their life, then they wouldn't have made that." Though it sounds snooty (jeez, we're such jerks!), it is true that when aesthetics are applied to kitchen tools, sometimes form comes before function. Although pieces are designed to look amazing sitting in our cupboards and on our counters, they don't really have what it takes to get the job that is required of them done.
So when we saw these goods from Matali Crasset for Alessi, we were pleasantly surprised. Crasset sat down with pastry chef Pierre Hermé to develop these pieces that have it all when it comes to functionality and aesthetic beauty. There's a cake plate, mixing bowl, spatula and detachable whisk set, each designed with loving care.
We're particularly fond of the cake plate, which is made up of concentric circles that are balanced to sit upon each other off center, or to sit nested together to form a more traditional plate. Do you have a favorite piece? Let us know in the comments below!
• Related: One Big Kitchen Tool We Have... But Never Use
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(Images: Alessi)


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The Florida State Seminoles, the reigning national champions, were an overwhelming No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll.
FSU received 56 of 62 first-place votes in the Amway Coaches Poll released Thursday by USA Today.
"We're very excited about being No. 1 and happy to be No. 1, but we understand that we have to play like No. 1 and play great football," Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher told USA Today Sports. "That's going to be our objective. We're proud to start there and now we just have to go play great football.
"There is no added pressure. Our goal every year is to win the national championship. That's why we're at Florida State."


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Earth Under Fire
Gary Braasch's latest work, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, is a comprehensive look at the world-wide effects of climate change. His book presents dramatic photographs, maps and quotes from world climate science leaders. Our photo-essay offers a sample…
Just click on any of the photos below to start the photo essay.
|Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World is a comprehensive look at the world-wide effects of climate change. In dramatic photographs, maps and quotes from world climate science leaders, this one-of-a-kind book shows how the earth is being changed right now.
Earth Under Fire illustrates on-going shifts from weather extremes and melting glaciers to disruptions of animal migration and plant growth—including the strong impact on human life, cities and cultures. Earth Under Fire ends with a vision of how we can slow global warming and improve the lives of people everywhere. For more information and to order Earth Under Fire, visit www.earthunderfire.com.
Gary Braasch is a nature and environmental photojournalist whose work on global warming has won him international recognition. YES! Magazine has been proud to publish his work since our first issue. Gary's work can be seen at www.braaschphotography.com.
From the introduction to Earth Under Fire
"This book is a message from many of the places where the effects of rapid climate change are being seen and where scientists are studying what is happening. It is also a report on what these changes mean and what we can do about them.
As a witness to climate change, I have stood in the empty rookeries of displaced Adélie penguins and felt the chill as huge icebergs separated from an ice shelf in Antarctica. I have seen the jagged fronts of receding Greenland glaciers and observed subtle changes on the tundra. I have tracked down Alpine glaciers depicted in 150-year-old images and rephotographed them to show them wasting away. In the woods of eastern North America I have walked among spring wildflowers and watched for migrant songbirds, which are arriving earlier each season than in decades past. Along the coasts I have seen rising tides and heavy storms erode beaches. I have heard the anguish in the voices of native Alaskans as they describe their village being washed away, of Chinese farmers facing famine caused by drought, and of Pacific Islanders driven from their homes by increasingly high tides. Global warming is affecting the whole world, from the tiniest ocean plankton to humans in their cities and the flora and fauna of entire river basins and mountain ranges.
These observations are part of a photographic project called "World View of Global Warming," for which I traveled to 22 nations and seven continents. This book presents this visual evidence and combines it with the latest scientific and social reports of changes taking place now. It details what is beginning to be done around the world to control rapid climate change and issues a call to action to citizens, leaders, and governments."
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Area News Digest
Taken from the news columns of area newspapers.
School sues Sigler for embezzling $337,873.91
COZAD—The Cozad District No. 11 School has filed a complaint in Dawson County District Court against Brenda L. Sigler, former school secretary. The complaint allegedly claims that during the defendant's employment with the school, that she fraudulently diverted $337, 873.91 in funds to herself and fraudulently diverted funds for her benefit from financial accounts belonging to and controlled by the school. The case has been under investigation by the State Patrol after an audit indicated that funds started disappearing in 2004.—taken from the Tri-City Trib.
Lake Ogallala to be drained and dredged
OGALLALA—Lake Ogallala will be partially drained and dredged this fall as part of an effort to improve the lake's trout habitat. The first phase of the project is slated to begin in about one week with the lake level being drawn down to allow the work, which will continue through late November. Recreational activities by the public will be temporarily affected and fishing and waterfowl hunting also may be impacted at times this fall as well.—taken from the Keith County News.
Aquatic/wellness center proposed for city
CURTIS—Dave Winfield, owner of Winfield Inn & Suites in Curtis and Arnold, would like to secure enough membership commitments to build an aquatic/wellness center in Curtis. The proposed center would be a 6,000 square-foot facility south of Winfield's Curtis hotel that would contain a 30'x50' indoor pool, a 15' jacuzzi/sauna, 10'x20' steam room, an exercise/fitness center, locker rooms, tanning beds and room for a message therapist as well. In order to reach the required number of memberships, Winfield would need to have a big majority of the entire area to commit to the facility.—taken from the Frontier County Enterprise.
Positive feedback received on sports coop
ARNOLD—"It has to be done,' was the general consensus of administrators, school board members and patrons of School District No. 89, as the topic of cooping all high school sports in 2010/2011 with Callaway was discussed at Arnold Public School recently. According to recent input from members of the public, parents, players and teachers, the majority seem to be looking forward to a coop. If the coop moves forward, it was decided by officials that an activities director would be needed in each school and a cooping contract would need to be on a year-to-year basis because numbers involved are hard to predict.—taken from the Arnold Sentinel.
Angus tour makes stop at Woodward Soddy
CALLAWAY—For the first time in nine years, between 100 and 125 Angus cattle breeders and ranchers fanned out over the Woodward Soddy farmstead northwest of Callaway recently. The group stopped to tour the historic buildings and artifacts, have refreshments and then moved on to the next stop on the Nebraska Angus Tour. Neil Jorgenson of Jorgenson Farm of Callaway—who rents the Woodward pasture—said this was the first time he was able to host a stop, though he had participated on a couple of tours, which show how producers breed and raise Angus cattle.—taken from the Callaway Courier.
KCNI/KBBN station marks 60 years
BROKEN BOW—A long-time family owned Broken Bow radio station was recently purchased. The Bud and Georgia Crawford family has owned the station since 1949, KCNI (Keeping Central Nebraska Informed), a philosophy that still holds true today. New owners, David J. Birnie and his wife, Joan, have owned its sister station, KBBN, which was added in 1981. The station KCNI/KBBN is now celebrating 60 years of business serving Custer County and surrounding areas and was to host an anniversary open house with the new owners.—taken from the Custer County Chief.
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