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Nolasco comes up short in home debut vs. Rox
Right-hander allows three runs on eight hits over five innings
LOS ANGELES -- Ricky Nolasco's dreams became reality on Sunday afternoon in his first start at Chavez Ravine as a member of the Dodgers. But it wasn't a happy homecoming.
Nolasco gave up three runs on eight hits in five innings and the Dodgers fell to the Rockies, 3-1, at a sold-out Dodger Stadium. Despite the loss, Los Angeles enters the All-Star break with the best record in the Major Leagues since June 22 (17-5).
Acquired in a trade with the Marlins on July 6, Nolasco, who grew up in nearby Corona, had hundreds of family and friends in attendance. But the right-hander was unable to match his Dodgers' debut, when he fired seven innings of one-run ball to beat the D-backs last Tuesday. Nolasco struck out four on Sunday, but walked three and hit Carlos Gonzalez with a pitch.
"It was exciting and stuff like that, but the main thing we have to do here is win," Nolasco said. "We weren't able to do that, so I'm not too happy about that. It was nice, but a win would have made everything better."
Nolasco allowed a run in the first inning, as Dexter Fowler greeted him with a double down the right-field line and scored on a single by Michael Cuddyer. But Nolasco settled in and held the Rockies scoreless for the next three innings.
Despite all the possible distractions, Nolasco said he wasn't nervous when he took the mound at Dodger Stadium for the first time with the team he grew up watching.
"I thought I did a good job of just staying calm," said Nolasco, who imitated Ramon Martinez and Chan Ho Park as a kid playing baseball with his brother in their front yard. "I've been pitching in this game and this league for a long time, so I think that helped."
Cuddyer was the spoiler again in the fifth, belting a hanging breaking ball into the right-field bleachers for a two-run homer that gave the Rockies a 3-0 lead.
"I had a little bit of control issues and just wish I could have that one pitch back to Cuddyer," Nolasco said. "He's a good hitter and he did a great job of not trying to pull it and going with it. I'd like to have it back, but at the same time, this is the big leagues and good hitters are going to do that."
Yasiel Puig sparked the Dodgers in the bottom half with a pinch-hit single in his first at-bat since Friday. Bothered by a bruised left hip for over a week, Puig ran well on the bases and scored from second on a two-out single by Adrian Gonzalez. The first baseman leads the Dodgers with 59 RBIs.
But that was all the Dodgers mustered against Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin, who won his ninth game. Chacin struck out six over six innings, allowing six hits and walking three.
Fowler took a home run away from A.J. Ellis in the fourth with a leaping catch at the wall in center. The Dodgers stranded eight men on base and were 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
"I think we played an outstanding series," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss. "We played lights out, we held the Dodgers to two runs in the last three games. That's a team offensively that's going better than anybody in all the game."
As the Dodgers prepare for a four-day layoff during the All-Star break, they take solace in the fact they remain 2 1/2 games behind Arizona in the National League West. Three weeks ago, the Dodgers were last in the division and 9 1/2 games behind.
"We're right in the middle of it," Gonzalez said. "If we continue to play good baseball when we come back, I think we'll be in good shape."
The Dodgers' turnaround coincided with better results against division opponents. They are 14-4 over their past 18 games against the NL West, after beginning the season 9-23 against division rivals.
"I think that's been the key," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Early on, we didn't play well against our own division and we got ourselves in trouble. At this point, we're in it. We got hot at the right time, when everybody else cooled off."
The Dodgers will use the break to get healthy, something they've been unable to do for much of the first half. Starting pitchers Chad Billingsley and Josh Beckett were lost for the season, and Hanley Ramirez, Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford, Zack Greinke and Mark Ellis each spent time on the disabled list.
"It's been unscripted," Mattingly said. "It ended up OK. We survived it."


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Ryan, I'd like to take you up on your invitation and request that you forward the following text to the CA/Browser Forum public list, please…
Hi CA/B Forum! I'm a software engineer and one of the authors of RFC 7686; since 2001 I have maintained a personal blog and it's overdue for a complete software refresh. I want to take advantage of Let's Encrypt to provide normal HTTPS certificates for the blog, and I want a 100% HTTPS deployment when I am done.
I intend also to provide my blog with an Onion Address, thus my question:
On my blog I do not represent a company – I act purely as an individual; I expect to easily get a "normal" domain-related certificate from Let's Encrypt, but as an individual I will not be able to get an EV certificate for my Onion Site as mandated by CA/B Forum Ballot 144.
This situation inhibits me from protecting my personal blog's Onion Site with some form of Onion HTTPS certificate.
It further discriminates against my choice of software deployment as an individual.
Perhaps I could run my blog as HTTP-over-Onion and HTTPS-over-Internet, but this breaks my goal of a 100% HTTPS deployment. Clients of my Onion Site would not have access to HTTPS-only "Secure" cookies and other functionality which browsers today (or will soon) restrict to HTTPS sites, e.g. Camera & Microphone access. This would be an undesirable lack of consistency.
It is not viable to hack the Tor Browser to support an "Onion-only" CA, because only some portion of Tor traffic uses the Tor Browser; non-browser apps which use Tor would not be able take advantage of such a kludge, and thereby would not see the benefit of SSL.
In any case, ".onion" is now an official special-use TLD, and therefore should be supported by official means.
After a hint from Ryan Sleevi – plus referring to the Mozilla CA glossary [1] – I did some research and think that I need either an AV (address validation) or an IV (individual validation) SSL Certificate for my personal blog's Onion Site.
Discussing likely use cases with Runa Sandvik, we believe that people who use Tor desire (at least) all of privacy, anonymity and integrity. The option that seems most sympathetic to all of these requirements is the AV (address validation) certificate. An AV certificate would provide an Onion Address with an SSL certificate (and thus a form of persistent identity) corresponding simply to an RFC822 email address. This would appear extremely well-suited to users of Onion-backed instant messenger software, such as Ricochet, especially those communicating without reference to "real world" identities.
The alternative of an IV (individual validation) certificate appears closer to the goals of the EV certificate, being a more expensive "absolute identity" certificate that would (per the Glossary) require a Driving License, Passport, or National Identity Card to get. This would be useful for instances where people wish to publicly attest to ownership of what they write / blog / post / publish, but would be less useful e.g. for whistleblowers operating in repressive regimes.
Frankly I see a need for both, and would be (for this case in point) happy to get one of either, but am also open to other alternatives which would not require me to register a company to bootstrap.
So, finally, the question: how may I go about obtaining a suitable, personal, Onion-capable SSL Certificate for my blog, please?
Alec Muffett
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Glossary – some extracts follow:
AV (address validation) — Many CAs issue end entity certificates to individuals for use with S/MIME email for which the applicant need only demonstrate that they own and/or control the email address named in the certificate. For example, the owner of the "firstname.lastname@example.com" address could obtain an AV certificate for that address based on their demonstrating to a CA that they owned or controlled the email address in question, e.g., by responding to email addresses sent to an email sent to that address. We can refer to such certificates as address-validated or AV certificates.
More formally we can define AV certificates as certificates containing an emailAddress attribute or Subject Alternative Name extension with a value (or values) apparently corresponding to an RFC 822 email address, for which the CA makes claims (e.g., in the CPS) that it has in some way validated that that address in question is owned and/or legitimately controlled by the cert subscriber, and for which the CA makes no claims as to the validity of any individual identity stored in the Common Name attribute of the certificate. Note that "AV" is not a common industry term, but is newly-coined by analogy with "DV", "IV", etc. Some people use the term "DV" loosely to cover this case, but arguably it deserves a term of its own.
IV (individual validation or identity validation) — Many CAs issue end entity certificates to individuals for email, SSL/TLS client authentication, and other uses, for which the applicant is required to supply some sort of evidence as to their identity (e.g., by presenting themselves in person with a copy of their national identity card). These are commonly referred to as identity-validated or IV certificates.
More formally we can define IV certificates as certificates containing a Common Name (CN) attribute with a value apparently corresponding to an actual named individual, for which the CA makes claims (e.g., in the CPS) that it has in some way validated that that value corresponds to the individual identity of the certificate subscriber. Note that some people use "IV" as a synonym for "OV" when referring to certificates issued to organizations. However it's arguably more clear to use "IV" to refer only to certificates issued to individuals.
Note that an IV certificate could also contain an email address in addition to the individual identity information. Mozilla policy requires that email address to be validated to the same or greater degree as for a AV certificate.

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I have always wondered what a typical day feels like. Having a routine, knowing just where you're going to be and roughly what you have to do for the day seem oddly comforting to me at times – especially when I am hanging off the side of a kopje (steep sided rocky hill) in the Matobo Hills or wandering amongst herds of wild animals in Hwange or watching a spectacular sunset, the light sinking into the mighty Zambezi river. On the other hand, why aim for typical? And how to define typical? After living almost my whole life in Zimbabwe, a country with a particularly turbulent recent past, my standards are very skewed when compared to other parts of the world. We've had crazy hyper-inflation, severe political violence, massive urban clearances, deteriorating infrastructure, food shortages and famine, and perhaps worst of all, a flood of emigrants that saw the best and brightest leave Zimbabwe for apparently greener pastures. I chose to stay and see it through for a variety of reasons, not least because of my choice of careers. First and foremost, I am an archaeologist. And I consider Zimbabwe to be the most interesting and exciting place to do what I do.
I have always been told it is an odd choice for someone who grew up on a farm and in the wilds of southern Africa. I often patiently explain that I love the study of the past, especially learning about how people lived in the past. Questions constantly burn in my mind – what did they look like? What and how did they eat? How did they live, love, laugh and die? And why? My curiosity could only be slaked by education and it has been a never ending journey, one that has been immensely rewarding and still holds great promise for the future. I took my first degree at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare and followed that with a degree at University College London. Once I had graduated, I couldn't imagine doing anything different with my life except learning about the different cultures and histories of the peoples who created modern Zimbabwe. Shiny degree certificate in hand, I headed home to try and find employment in the archaeo-historical field. It was very difficult because the universities and museums (the only places of secure employment) were all but bankrupt and struggling to pay the people they had already. I eventually took a job as a lecturer in archaeology at one of the newer universities on a part-time contract basis, teaching a few courses for a couple of years. Of course, I needed something else to fill my time (and my bank account) and this is where things made a drastic turn. I was approached to act as a tour-guide for a company to look after a particular group interested in the history and culture of southern Zimbabwe. Thinking it was a one-off deal I agreed. I have never looked back.
Coming from an academic background, I have to admit that I was rather disdainful of the idea of guiding; venturing from the lofty ivory tower to associate with the "general public" seemed a come down. I was completely wrong. Tour guiding is one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever had and it allows me to combine my love of teaching, learning about the past and sharing my knowledge with so many people from all over the world. It has the added advantage of providing a perfect excuse to venture into many exotic locations in southern Africa although I keep returning home – especially to my spiritual sanctuary, the Matobo Hills. Guiding is tough work – I often have 18-hour days for weeks at a time – never see my home or family for those same weeks – and I am expected to fill a variety of roles. Raconteur, mechanic, photographer, gunsmith, medic (thankfully not too often), tracker, historian and socialite – my job is to inform, entertain, advise, look after and protect my guests as we travel around Zimbabwe.
I consider myself fortunate because I have been able to create a niche for myself, focusing on the history, anthropology and archaeology of Zimbabwe. Rock art, the Zimbabwe Culture and the 19th century history of the Matabele people are my passions and I continue to publish regularly on these and other topics. As a direct consequence of my growing involvement with the world of tourism, I find I am writing more and more for the so-called "popular audience" in attempt to share my academic knowledge with more people in different fora. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I find that questions asked by guests stimulate my research and often open up whole new areas of intellectual exploration; one of the real benefits is interacting with so many different cultures with different viewpoints and interests – I get to see things anew all the time.


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Bomb in central Damascus kills 14; opposition forces suspected
DAMASCUS, Syria -- A powerful bomb rocked central Damascus on Tuesday, killing 13 people according to Syrian TV, and sowing fear and chaos in a busy commercial district of the capital for the second consecutive day.
A day earlier, the Syrian prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after a car bomb struck near his convoy, a few kilometers (miles) away from Tuesday's blast.
The bombings appear to be part of an accelerated campaign by opposition forces seeking to topple President Bashar Assad to strike at his heavily protected seat of power.
"I heard a very loud bang and then the ceiling collapsed on top of me," said Zaher Nafeq, who owns a mobile phone shop in the Damascus Towers, a 28-floor office building. He was wounded in his hand and his mobile phone shop was badly damaged in the blast.
Syrian TV said Tuesday's explosion was caused by a "terrorist bombing" in the commercial district of Marjeh. Assad's regime refers to opposition fighters as "terrorists."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which the TV said also wounded 70 people. Car bombs and suicide attacks targeting Damascus and other cities that remain under government control in the third year of the conflict have been claimed in the past by the al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra group -- one of scores of rebel factions fighting to oust Assad.
The target of Tuesday's attack was not immediately clear, although the explosion took place outside the former Interior Ministry building that was also damaged in the blast.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and Syrian state TV aired footage of fire trucks in central Marjeh Square and firefighters trying to extinguish a blaze that engulfed several cars and buildings. A man was seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood while another, apparently wounded, was seen being carried by civilians into a bus.
Inspecting the site of the blast, Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar, who himself escaped a car bomb that targeted his convoy in December, told reporters the back-to-back attacks in the capital were in response to the "victories and achievements scored by the Syrian Arab Army on the ground against terrorism."
The government has waged an offensive in recent weeks, overrunning two rebel-held Damascus suburbs and a town outside the capital. Regime troops have also captured several villages near the border with Lebanon as part of their efforts to secure the strategic corridor running from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast, which is the heartland of the president's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 people were killed and 65 wounded in Tuesday's blast. The group, which relies on a network on activists based in Syria, often gives different casualty tolls from the figures released by the government. The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled.
Local residents said they heard gunfire in the area of the attack immediately after the 11 a.m. blast, apparently meant to disperse people and open the way for ambulances. The residents spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals from authorities for speaking to reporters.
The explosion underlined the tenuous security in the Syrian capital, just a day after a remotely detonated roadside bomb struck Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi's convoy. The premier escaped the assassination attempt unharmed, according to state TV.
But a government official said two people were killed and 11 wounded in the assassination attempt. The official spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The Observatory said Monday's bombing killed at least five people, including two of al-Halqi's bodyguards and one of the drivers in his convoy.
The bombings laid bare the vulnerability of Assad's regime and highlighted an accelerating campaign targeting government officials, from mid-level civil servants to the highest echelons of the Syrian regime.
Syria's conflict began with largely peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011, but has since morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Also Tuesday, Syrian troops battled opposition fighters near a military helicopter base in the northern province of Aleppo, killing 15 rebels in a single airstrike against their positions, according to Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman.
The rebels tried to storm the Mannagh base late Monday but the regime deployed fighter jets to the area, pounding rebel positions around the base, which is near Syria's border with Turkey, Abdul-Rahman said.
He added that fighting was also raging Tuesday around other airports in the country, including the Damascus International Airport just south of the capital.
In the north, rebels besieged military airport facilities, including Kweiras northeast of Aleppo city and the Nairab military base, adjacent to Aleppo's civilian airport, the country's second largest.
In neighboring Idlib province, a government airstrike near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey killed one child and wounded several more people, the Observatory said.
An Associated Press journalist near Reyhanli on the Turkish side of the frontier described a huge plume of black smoke and reported seeing wounded people being rushed by ambulance from the Syrian side to the Turkish control point.
Thousands of Syrian refugees live in a makeshift camp known as the Bab al-Hawa refugee camp near the border with Turkey.
Air power has proven to be Assad's greatest advantage in the civil war, and he has exploited it to push back rebel advances and prevent the opposition from setting up a rival government in the territory it has seized in the north.
As the regime has pushed back against rebel forces, it has come under allegations of using chemical weapons on at least two occasions dating back to December.
The U.S. said last week that intelligence indicates the Syrian military has likely used sarin, a deadly nerve agent, echoing similar assessments from Israel, France and Britain. Syria's government denies the charges and says opposition fighters have used chemical agents in a bid to frame it.
President Barack Obama has said that use of chemical weapons or the transfer of those stockpiles to terrorists would cross a "red line" and have "enormous consequences."
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that use of chemical weapons in Syria would also be a "red line" for Iran, but suggested rebel forces should be investigated rather than the Islamic Republic's allies in Damascus.
In the latest alleged attack, activists in the town of Saraqeb in northern Idlib province claimed the government bombed the town late Monday with chemical agents. It said the attack caused respiratory problems and other symptoms among a few residents which they claimed were consistent with a chemical attack.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was unable to confirm the purported use of chemical agents.
But in response to the claims, border authorities in Turkey decontaminated a group of Syrians wounded in the Saraqeb attack as they entered the country and hospital staff treating them wore protective equipment, according to an aide to the governor of Turkey's Hatay province, which borders Syria.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to journalists, told AP on Tuesday there was no indication that chemical weapons were used in Saraqeb attack.


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HOTSEAT- Head case: Kassell mends brain woes
"It's not brain surgery."
Neal Kassell's profession is the standard by which intelligence and aptitude are measured. We've even built colloquialisms around it. Not bad, eh? for a guy who had trouble finishing high school.
Kassell says he barely managed to scrape his way out of 12th grade– mostly because of attendance issues– but he was eventually admitted to the University of Pennsylvania's medical school. At the University of Iowa a few years later, Kassell received a job offer from UVA hospital that really made his ears perk up.
"I realized that if I brought my program here and merged with what was already in place, we would have the best neurosurgery program in the world," he says. He was excited about combining his own research and clinical work in the area of strokes and aneurysms with that of Dr. John Jane, a leading neurosurgeon already at UVA. The two co-chaired the department until this past summer, when they simultaneously stepped down and passed the torch.
"It has liberated a huge amount of my time and creative energy to allow me to pursue some research objectives," Kassell says of his "retirement."
During their time as co-chairs, however, the two men built an empire. "When I came here in 1984, the number of aneurysms that were being done were 25-30 a year," Kassell says. "Last year we did more than 180. The rest of the program has grown as well, from four neurosurgeons to 10, and from 750 major operations to 3,300 a year. We added people so that we have expertise and depth in every major neurosurgery sub-specialty."
Kassell rattles off names at 90 mph: Ed Laws, Ladislau Steiner, Chris and Mark Shaffrey, and numerous others.
Now Charlottesville is one of the neurosurgery world's most respected centers, and physicians in the program Kassell helped build see patients from all over the globe.
One of Kassell's most promising areas of study is MRI-guided focused ultrasound, which uses intersecting beams of ultrasound energy to destroy tissue with pinpoint accuracy.
"In the future, it will also be used for precisely delivering drugs, to dissolve blood clots in blood vessels and restore flow to previously obstructed arteries," Kassell explains. "This has the potential to be the most important therapeutic technology since the invention of the scalpel.
"We're still in the early stages, and it will take ten years and billions of dollars of investment before it becomes mainstream. But we're working at the right point on the curve. It's the most exciting thing I've ever been involved with."
Age: 36 (You're only as old as the woman you feel.)
Why here: Recruited by UVA
What's worst about living here: Having to leave for business trips
Favorite hang out: My back porch in the summer and my kitchen in the winter
Most over-rated virtue: Being too nice
People would be surprised to know: As a single parent, I raised three very successful daughters from the ages of 5, 7, and 9.
What would you change about yourself: No more Mr. Nice Guy
Proudest accomplishment: Research on aneurysms
contributing to a reduction in mortality from more than 40 percent to less than 10 percent
People find most annoying about you: I'm almost always right.
Whom do you admire: Ataturk
Favorite book: Machiavelli's The Discourses and The Prince
Subject that causes you to rant: Bureaucratic intrusions into the practice of medicine that compromise the ability to properly care for patients
Biggest 21st century thrill: Medical technology and drugs that can dramatically improve the outcome in desperately ill patients
Biggest 21st century creep-out: Religious fundamentalism and intolerance leading to the clash of civilizations and World War III
What do you drive?: Porsche
In your car CD player right now: Boccherini, "A Night Walk in Madrid"
Next journey: Venice
Most trouble you've ever gotten in: Getting married
Regret: Not having met Lee, my girlfriend of two and a half years, earlier in my life
Favorite comfort food: Duck risotto
Always in your refrigerator: Iced tea
Must see TV: Live coverage of a war
Describe a perfect day: Successfully operating on a patient who was deemed inoperable by other surgeons, a long hike in the mountains, talking to my three daughters and five grandchildren, a dinner with
great wine, great food, and great conversation with Lee and two to four friends, accompanied by classical music, and finally intimate time alone with Lee. Walter Mitty fantasy: Conducting Beethoven's 9th
Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Who would play you in the movie: Klaus Kinsky
Most embarrassing moment: Finding myself locked out of my hotel room unclothed
Best advice you ever got: Every day do something to make the world a better place and yourself a better person.
Favorite bumper sticker: More people have died in Teddy Kennedy's car than in all nuclear power plant accidents.
Neal Kassell


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2012 Poll Shows Baby Boomers Go Vegetarian for Health Benefits
According to a 2012 Harris Poll conducted for the Vegetarian Resource Group, about 2.5 million Americans over the age of 55 have adopted a vegetarian diet.
You've heard the term baby boomers, right? More than likely you've connected the expression with people who were born between 1946 and 1964, who are known for growing up with "Leave it to Beaver," experiencing the Vietnam War and seeing John F. Kennedy serve as president. Well, now baby boomers may be remembered for living a vegetarian lifestyle.
According to a 2012 Harris Poll conducted for the Vegetarian Resource Group, about 2.5 million Americans over the age of 55 have adopted a vegetarian diet. The big question is "why are baby boomers choosing a plant-based diet?"
One of the main reasons is to improve health issues. The Washington Post reports that doctors say "this demographic group is heading into prime time for health issues and sees vegetarianism as a way to protect their bodies."
It is known that strokes are more prevalent in middle-aged people; older women are more prone to osteoporosis; and the more red meat consumed, higher the risk for cardiovascular disease. So, embracing fruits and veggies over meat can help in these areas.
All sorts of research exists out there, but here's one example showing how forgoing meat is good for the body. Harvard researchers discovered in April 2012 that the more red meat one person eats the easier it is to develop heart disease. By adding just 3 ounces of meat to your daily diet, in addition to what you already consume, the risk of cardiovascular diseases increase 16 percent.
"Vegetarianism can be used as a way to combat many conditions that plague boomers: heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity. We now know, for example, that such a diet can lower your blood pressure," John Salge Blake, Boston University's registered dietician, said.
Some of the most famous vegetarian baby boomers include former President Bill Clinton,Sir Paul McCartney, Michelle Pfeiffer and even talented actor Sir Ian McKellen.
As you know, Clinton suffered great health risks and after having a heart attack and undergoing a quadruple bypass surgery he quickly switched over to a vegan diet. He turned his life around and reaped the health benefits of saying sayonara to animal products.
Are adults over 50 taking note from these public figures? This just could be.
For further information on baby boomers and other statistics, visit The Washington Post for the complete article.
Photo Credit: Anthony Correia / Shutterstock.com
About Allyson Koerner
Allyson Koerner is a graduate from Emerson College where she obtained her Master's in Print & Multimedia journalism. Passionate about writing, reading and entertainment, she is looking to make her way into the journalism profession.


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Anthem, Inc. Director of Strategy and Execution in Apple Valley, California
SHIFT: Day Job
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it's a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we're creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.
This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health care companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.
Director of Strategy & Execution
Work Location: Any Anthem Office
Primary duties to include but are not limited to:
Partners with the Medicaid Region President, Presidents for each of the Region's health plans, and key business and functional teams across the enterprise to drive strategy and execution in support of the Region's annual business plan and goals.
Supports planning and execution for the Region's long-term growth plan (LGTP) and strategic / organic / inorganic growth initiatives, including procurements, Alliances, and cross-line of business partnerships (e.g., other GBD businesses, CSBD, DBG, and IngenioRx).
Collaborates on the identification and evaluation of potential strategic partners and cultivates effective relationships with Plan Presidents and key enterprise Growth Partners to ensure flawless execution.
Manages, on behalf of the Region President, multiple, broad-based initiatives, including but not limited to the following:
Partners with Medicaid leadership to define Region's strategy and successful criteria for performance execution and measurement.
Leads the Region's planning process, translating strategy into defined tactics, program / project priorities, and timelines to ensure achievement of enterprise's strategic goals.
Coordinates Monthly Business Reviews and Business Operating Reviews, including setting cadence, preparing materials, and managing follow-up action items.
Works with the Region's health plans to ensure initiatives are effectively managed through portfolio management tactics, including KPIs and other success metrics.
Supports the strategic evaluation, planning and / or execution of M&A targets and Alliance partnerships. Responsible for supporting data-gathering and assisting in implementation, etc.
Helps lead, on behalf of the Region President, efforts to super-charge growth efforts in coordination with key enterprise and other line of business stakeholders.
Identifies, reports, and tracks risks and opportunities affecting financial, operational, growth, or reputational performance across the Region.
Requires a BA/BS degree in a related field; 10 years of leadership/management experience in healthcare business and analysis with experience in project management including a 3-5 year strategic plan with corresponding tactical plans; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.
Masters degree preferred.
Ability to travel 35% may be required.
Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of America's Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and has been named a 2019 Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.


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I always try to give my boys the opportunity to run around and get lots of exercise so they don't sit around playing video games eating snacks all day. I always feel healthier too. After standing around taking pictures of them exercising. Lol...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Yay! There's the sweety boys :)
love aunty Lani xo xo
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Rowing Travels to Knecht Cup
April 13, 2012
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April 13, 2012
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - The Old Dominion women's rowing team is heading into the final stretch of the spring season with three events left, including this weekend's Knecht Cup being held on Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15 on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
This year's Knecht Cup will featured over 60 schools from across the country. Click here for results throughout the two days of racing.
At least year's Knecht Cup, the Lady Monarchs' Varsity Eight placed third and the Varsity Four took fifth in the Grand Finals. Both boats had advanced to the Grand Final after winning their respective heats in the regatta's quarterfinals and semifinals.


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Astros officials participate in expanded replay meeting
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- The general managers, managers and bench coaches from the Braves, Tigers and Nationals joined Astros officials Friday afternoon at Osceola County Stadium in a meeting in which they were briefed on the expanded use of instant replay, which begins this season.
MLB executive vice president Joe Torre was joined by replay subcommittee members Tony La Russa and John Schierholz and others in giving a presentation and answering concerns from the clubs about replay. The meeting lasted two hours and 45 minutes.
"We have a long deck to show them," Torre said. "Basically, some video, but mainly instructions on how the replay system is put together and responsibilities and basically how it's going to work."
Replay will be expanded to include the majority of plays outside of balls and strikes. Each manager will have as many as two challenges in one game, and umpires will have the power to institute a review beginning in the seventh inning.
"When we started this, when the Commissioner put John Schierholz, myself and La Russa in charge of this subcommittee, [we thought] what could be so tough about looking at a TV screen and figuring out what happened?" Torre said.
Among the scenarios addressed, Torre said, were situations when there were two challenges at one time, both teams challenging the same play and a double play situation where one team challenges at second base and the other at first base.
"Just from questions that are asked, we're still looking into certain concerns of people, but for the most part everybody has been pleased with what they heard," Torre said.
Torre's crew will have four more meetings with multiple clubs -- two more in Florida and two in Arizona. He said all teams will have at least five games during Spring Training to simulate the use of instant replay.
"It's going to be pretty clear once they see the list of what's reviewable and what's non-reviewable," La Russa said. "Most plays that happen are reviewable. We're just not going to stop the game to get every play right. And there are some plays that are not quite as simple as the out at first or out at second -- how many guys are on base. Those are the ones that take a little more time explaining. They have sharp guys in there and they know it's real and going to happen."


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- M.A., Michigan State University 1970
- M.S., California Institute of Technology 1969
- B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology 1966
Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Ambivalent Approach: D. H. Lawrence and the New Physics." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 15, no. 3, 1982, pp. 89–108.
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It is known that any full flag manifold $G/T$ is a spin manifold. For example, we can prove it using that $G/T$ is a complex manifold, by computing its 1st Chern class as follows: For full flag manifolds we have that the first Chern class is given by $c_{1}(G/T)= 2\delta_{G} \cdot $ generator of $H^{2}(G/T, \mathbb{Z})$, where $$\delta_{G}=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{\alpha\in R^{+}}\alpha.$$ Here $R^{+}$ are the postive roots of $G$. It is well known that $\delta_{G}=\Lambda_{1}+\cdots+\Lambda_{\ell}$, where $\Lambda_{i}$ are the fundamental weights and $\ell=\dim T= {\rm rank}G$. Then $$ c_{1}(G/T)= 2\delta_{G} \cdot g =2(\Lambda_{1}+\cdots+\Lambda_{\ell}) \cdot g,$$ where $g\in H^{2}(G/T, \mathbb{Z})$ is the generator. Therefore $c_{1}(G/T)$ is even and since for a complex manifold $M$ the second Whitney class $w_{2}(M)$ is the reduction $\mod 2$ the first Chern class $c_{1}(M)$, we conclude that $$w_{2}(G/T)=0 \ \ thus \ \ G/T \ \ is \ a \ spin \ manifold.$$
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A couple years ago, while pregnant with M, I read on a parenting forum about being trapped in a wardrobe rut, always wearing the dreaded "Mom Uniform", khakis and a button-down shirt. At the time, I chuckled and made a mental note to mix up my body coverings once baby was born. After M was born, however, I found myself in the Totally Let Myself Go Uniform - I wore the same PJs all day (and night) several days in a row, even though they stunk of spit up. I just didn't see the point in…Continue
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When John Innes, dean of the faculty of forestry at the University of B.C., talks about a sustainable forestry sector, he is both encouraged and concerned about what he sees unfolding in the province's forests, educational institutions and mills.
First, he said in a phone interview from a London forestry conference, he is encouraged by the attitudes of the students now enrolled in faculty programs and by the innovative changes taking place within much of the industry itself.
The next generation of foresters live and breathe sustainability, he said, and the industry is beginning to look at a multiplicity of values in the forests, creating a more diversified sector with revenue streams from a suite of bio-products, not just pulp and two-by-fours.
But when he looks at forest-management decisions now being considered by the provincial government, he fears the province and the industry are about to take a huge step backward that could do irreparable damage to more than a decade of effort aimed at promoting B.C. wood products as sustainable.
"There are some signs that the quality of forest management may deteriorate," he said.
Recent timber supply reviews in the Central Interior show that in areas hardest hit by the mountain pine beetle, there is not enough timber to keep mills operating unless new sources of timber can be identified. The province is considering policy changes that would permit logging in forest reserves, which include everything from riparian zones at one end of the spectrum — critical to maintaining biodiversity along streams and rivers — to stands set aside to preserve viewscapes for tourists.
If the government allows logging in those reserves, Innes said, the province risks losing its international reputation as well as critical elements of a diverse forest ecology.
Further, it remains unknown how customers will respond if the province backs away from its sustainability commitments. Companies may risk losing their certification as responsible forest stewards.
"We have never had such proposals before that in my view, are a pretty retrogressive step in terms of forest management," Innes said.
Complications of scale
The whole issue of sustainable forests is further complicated by the sheer size of B.C. forestlands. There are 55 million hectares of forest in B.C., 60 per cent of which is harvestable.
On such a scale it is not possible to practise forest management at the same level as it is practised in Europe, where the entire life cycle, from seedling to harvest, is monitored and managed.
In B.C., after harvesting is completed, forest companies are required to replant and manage the new forest until the saplings are considered free to grow, meaning they are tall enough to be free from competing vegetation.
"We sign off at free-to-grow. But there is no monitoring afterwards," Innes said.
That absence of followup data makes it difficult to gauge just how much timber, and what species, is out there.
North of the pine beetle-affected forests, sustainability is being re-defined by a new forest company with a beetle-free timber supply, a nimble approach to markets and a corporate philosophy that values the 53 per cent of each log that ends up as chips, sawdust or bark, as highly as it does the lumber it manufactures.
Four-year-old Conifex, said chief executive officer Ken Shields, is a fibre-management company, not a lumber company. He views sustainability through three lenses:
• Social sustainability: maintaining employee welfare, safety and health.
• Environmental sustainability: maintaining the health of its timber tenures through measures such as subscribing to forest certification programs.
• Economic sustainability: managing the fibre supply to maximize revenues.
In some ways, what Conifex is doing is no different than what most other sawmilling companies are doing: for example, it is using computers and electronics to define new grade specifications for lumber.
The high-tech machinery signals in an instant the optimum grade, or grades, into which a piece of lumber zipping past the scanner can be broken down. The result is more value per board, making the company more economically sustainable.
But in other ways, Conifex is stepping into new territory.
"We have some of the attributes of a major company, such as access to capital, and some of the attributes of a small, family company, where everybody knows each other and we all answer our own phone," said Shields.
Shields' role is to try to pick the best aspects of large and small to become a successful mid-size company.
To maximize its use of fibre, Conifex is spending almost $100 million on a cogeneration plant that will utilize sawdust and bark to heat its Mackenzie sawmill and provide energy to the grid through a contract with BC Hydro.
"The power plant provides new revenue streams and strengthens our financial viability. But it also goes back into environmental sustainability," Shields said. "We will have an outlet for material that was traditionally left in burn piles; we will be able to utilize an important portion of that to power up our co-gen facility."
The result: a lower carbon footprint, improving environmental sustainability.
The $100-million plant is also creating new, skilled and highly paid jobs, further enhancing the company's social sustainability objective. The power plant is an example of all three sustainability objectives supporting each other, Shields said.
Improved employment
At forest giant Canfor, sustainability is also measured in terms of employment.
Forestry jobs, Canfor president Don Kayne said, are now being described as part of a sustainable, healthy lifestyle where employees can come home each night to the community where they live, rather than staying in resource camps.
Innes said Kayne appears to understand what is needed to bring new blood into the industry. In what Innes sees as a sign of revival in the forestry sector, Canfor has started coming to the university seeking student interns, a practice that almost disappeared during the six-year-long industry recession.
Those students are far different in their outlook than those of the generation before, Innes said. They will change the industry. Further, he said, after years of declines, enrolment at the faculty is on an upswing, signalling a new interest in forestry as a profession.
Forestry is attracting more students with a new way of viewing the woods. "We are seeing far more interest from them in anything to do with sustainability," Innes said.


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Cat vomitting - possible prednisone connection - Answered by Dr. Lee
I'm so happy to have for this site! All the members seem to truly care when a pet isn't feeling well.
My 7 year old cat, Max, has a problem with vomitting bile. It might be once a day & then nothing for 2 weeks. Sometimes, there is a fur ball along with the bile. I saw the vet, he ran a blood test which was within the normal range. He sent me home with natural fiber capsules. This didn't seem to help so on my next visit, he gave me an antibotic & some nutritional supplements. I can't see a difference. I've confined both Max & his litter sister, Abby, to the kitchen/family room, removed my silk plants, changed his food to IAM's Digestive Care for sensitive stomachs, but he still has this problem! Now his sister is also showing the same symtoms!! Other than this one issue, both cats act & play the same.
I've even looked for worms, but found none.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I might have missed or what I might try to help poor Max & Abby!!
mine too
hi there.
sorry to hear about your kitty. my cat, patsy, has a sensitive stomach that flares up every now and then. she'll be fine for quite a while, then she'll start to vomit frequently (daily). the vet puts her on prednisone and that seems to take care of it (she gets one pill a day, 5mg, for about four days, then a pill every second day to wean her off it). ask your vet. it's what works for her...
hope this helps!
tracy :thumbs up
I am sorry to hear about the problems Max is having. Before we go onto prednisone I think some more testing sounds in order. If your vet is not interested in further diagnostics, then we need to find someone who is. Prednisone is a steroid and should not be used lightly. Also FYI Prednisolone (notice the extra syllable) is generally accepted as being safer and better for cats. Prednisone is an inactive form, prednisolone is the active form. Dogs and people can easily tranform prednisone to an active form, cats have a much harder time. One of the problems with steroids at this juncture is the fact that it may mask a more serious problem and can make certain problems such as chronic pancreatitis, infection or foreign body diseases worse. Disorders such as inflammatory bowel diseases are common in cats and are readily responsive to steroids. However food allergies will also be and can be more easily treated.
So what diagnostics can be done?
1) Fecal parasite screening by centrifuge to rule out parasites.
2) Empirical deworming may be beneficial regardless of test results.
3) Radiographs to look for organ enlargement, kidney stones, bladder stones (yes, these could cause recurrent vomiting), foreign bodies, masses, etc...
4) Urinalysis and culture. I have had several patients, both dogs and cats which have urinary infections and have presented with on and off vomiting.
5) Food trial - a hypoallergenic diet (not available over the counter) needs to be used for a minimum 8 week trial. The antibodies can remain in the gut for at least 8 weeks so it takes a while to know if a hypoallergenic diet is working. These are available either by prescription or home made diets (I am sure there are plenty of people here in the forum to help offer hypoallergenic receipies).
6) Additional blood testing such as in depth viral screens and a feline specific PLI test to look for a chronically inflamed pancreas.
7) If these either do not solve the clinical signs or lead to an answer, then I would recommend an ultrasound with an internal medicine specialist.
There are other diagnostics available but they can be recommended as your veterinarian and you get further involved into the case. Each patient's workup will be slightly unique.
I hope this helps! If you are looking for some options without going to a veterinarian, then I would suggest over the counter deworming, a food trial for 8-12 weeks and perhaps a trying pepcid (famotidine) - your vet can give you an exact dose based on weight.
Good luck. :pawprint:
Thank You
Thank you for your valueable advise!! I've already tried several over-the-counter cat foods as well as ones purchased from the vet. I'll try the deworming & pepcid 1st. Less costly & it might just work!! Again thank you for the good advise! Laurie
hi all. bumping this thread because dr. lee offers some [B]really[/B] valuable advice for owners with "pukey" cats (i have one - patsy - it's [B]very[/B] frustrating). please take the time to read his response, as it is very informative. it was also interesting for me because i finally learned the difference between prednisolone and prednisone. will definitely determine how i treat patsy for this affliction next time!
thanks, dr. lee! :thumbs up
tracy (mama) patsy :cat: cline :cat: punkin :cat: and jimmy (daddy)
Thank you Moosedry!:lovestruck: I am so glad that it was helpful. :pawprint:
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no, thank [B]you[/B], dr. lee. it most certainly was!
tracy :thumbs up
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Democrats Leading In Voter Registration
Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats - one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote.
She's encouraged by the response here. "They're all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They're feeling like, 'You know what, I hold a little bit of power in this.'"
To counter this effort, the Republicans are counting on a formidable, high-tech get-out-the-vote operation that has helped them win the past two presidential elections.
Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 voters in the same states.
The Democrats hope their voter registration efforts can boost Obama to victory in competitive states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida and perhaps even give him a shot at winning traditional Republican states like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, are fighting for independent swing voters, and many of the new Democrats had been unaffiliated voters.
The number of unaffiliated voters dropped by nearly 900,000 since 2006. Many joined the Democratic Party to take part in the primaries and caucuses, and now they will now be targeted by an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign.
"We feel that our supporters are more enthusiastic than we've seen in previous cycles," said Jon Carson, Obama's national field director.
The Obama campaign is taking the lead among the party organizations and labor unions that traditionally work on voter registration efforts.
Because party organizations and unions, like the Service Employees International Union to which Graham belongs, can raise unrestricted amounts of money, presidential campaigns typically rely on them to handle the bulk of voter registration drives, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said in an interview.
"This is the first campaign I've seen where the voter registration is done by the campaign," Dean said.
The Republicans are relying on a more traditional voter registration model, with the Republican National Committee leading the effort among state parties.
"We hope that the hard work we've done in the past will provide us with a strategic advantage," said Mike DuHaime, McCain's political director. "We will have the most technologically advanced ground operation ever."
DuHaime said the RNC is working with the state parties to register voters in every battleground state. He said there is extra emphasis on the fast-growing ones, including Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and North Carolina.
He said the GOP's comprehensive voter database helps it track voters moving into competitive states.
"If you ever voted in a Republican primary and move without registering, we pick it up," DuHaime said.
Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.
The Democrats have posted big gains in many competitive states, including Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado and Florida. They have also been targeting historically Republican southern states.
Since 2006, the Democrats have added 167,000 voters in North Carolina, while the Republicans have added 36,000. The Democrats' biggest voter registration goal is in Georgia, where the Obama campaign hopes to register 500,000 voters before the election, said Dean, who has spent the past month traveling the country on a voter registration bus tour.
"The Obama folks are serious about Georgia," Dean said. Georgia has added 337,000 voters since 2006, but the state does not identify them by party affiliation.
In Pennsylvania, the Democrats have added 375,000 voters since 2006 while the Republicans have lost 117,000.
America Votes, an umbrella organization, coordinates voter registration efforts for more than 40 groups in Pennsylvania, including unions, the NAACP and the Sierra Club.
On a recent weekday, two dozen volunteers canvas neighborhoods in five southwest Pennsylvania counties, targeting African-Americans in their teens and twenties, who tend to vote at lower rates than older voters.
Graham, the SEIU member, works the neighborhoods of Clairton, where the steel industry's decline has left more downtown storefronts boarded up than occupied.
Graham finds a potential voter at the first house she stops at. Justin Webb, a father of two, is unregistered, but tells Graham he has serious concerns about the economy.
"We need more jobs," said Webb, 28. "If we had more jobs, we would have more opportunities to better ourselves."
It takes Graham less than five minutes to register Webb as a Democrat.
Party Registration By State
Since 2006, the Democrats have added 2.1 million voters in the 28 states that registered voters by party affiliation in both 2006 and today. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 voters in the same states. The number of registered voters in each party, the percent change since 2006:
State Dem Change GOP Change
Ala. na na na na
Alaska 73,446 9.3% 120,611 3.7%
Ariz. 1,090,484 7.9% 1,207,993 2.7%
Ark. na na na na
Calif. 7,053,860 4.8% 5,244,394 -3.5%
Colo. 946,277 5.5% 1,024,504 -4.0%
Conn. 707,885 0.4% 408,376 -5.7%
Del. 264,167 7.3% 179,470 0.5%
Fla. 4,389,698 4.0% 3,924,081 -0.3%
Ga. na na na na
Hawaii na na na na
Idaho na na na na
Ill. na na na na
Ind. na na na na
Iowa 713,656 12.8% 618,731 1.5%
Kan. 449,058 1.6% 741,786 -2.9%
Ky. 1,647,140 4.4% 1,043,331 3.2%
La. 1,525,915 -1.9% 722,420 1.9%
Maine 318,807 3.0% 274,189 -2.0%
Md. 1,804,106 4.1% 901,347 -0.9%
Mass. 1,476,133 0.2% 486,188 -2.6%
Mich. na na na na
Minn. na na na na
Miss. na na na na
Mo. na na na na
Mont. na na na na
Neb. 372,864 0.6% 550,581 -3.9%
Nev. 564,885 14.3% 489,396 1.3%
N.D. na na na na
Ohio na na na na
Okla. 1,025,611 -1.6% 806,943 0.5%
Ore. 869,538 13.3% 676,895 -4.2%
Pa. 4,275,524 9.6% 3,184,081 -3.5%
R.I. 277,961 na 75,480 na
S.C. na na na na
Tenn. na na na na
Texas na na na na
Utah 119,759 na 581,173 na
Vt. na na na na
Va. na na na na
Wash. na na na na
W.Va. 665,234 2.5% 347,760 1.4%
Wis. na na na na
Wyo. 70,363 4.6% 155,912 -4.3%
Nation 41,776,472 5.3% 30,617,193 -1.1%
By Associated Press Writers Julie Pace and Stephen Ohlemacher


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