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Question of the Week: Favorite day of homecoming
Published: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:52 p.m.
Last week, the halls of West Davidson High School were even more rowdy than usual. Walk in and you would have seen Dragon Pride from the ceiling tiles to the floor tiles. From early Monday morning to Friday night, it was Homecoming Week.
Every year at West, each day of Homecoming Week has a different costume theme. Monday was Team Day, a chance for students and faculty alike to show some spirit for their favorite sports team. Tuesday was Twin Day, a day to find a friend or someone you resembled and dress similarly. Your opportunity to mix plaids, stripes and any other wild prints was Wednesday, Tacky Day. Thursday you could honor your favorite Disney character on Disney Day. School spirit was obvious on Dragon Day, Friday, the night of the homecoming game.
After being asked the simple question, "What's your favorite homecoming day and why?" the student body voiced their opinion.
"Definitely Disney Day because we seniors have seen a lot of Disney movies, we know how to do homecoming right, and who doesn't love Disney?" — Danyelle Ealey, senior
"Friday, Dragon Day, because we get out of class for the pep rally and Dragon Fest!" — Patience Hunt, freshman
"I love Team Day because it gives me a chance to show others my team spirit for my hopefully future alma mater."— Luke Stephens, freshman
"Disney Day is my favorite because I get to dress up like my favorite Disney character." — Cheyenne Neally, junior
"Twin Day is the best because you get to dress up with your best friend." — Wake Younts, freshman
"Friday because everybody shows school spirit and everything that's fun happens, like the homecoming game." — Emily Hutchinson, senior
"My favorite is Disney Day because I always have huge plans for it." — Carley Parker, sophomore
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Clear instructions from Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal that government school premises will not be used for private or public functions seems to have fallen on deaf ears at least in Abadpura Government Primary School located in Jalandhar city.
On Thursday, it hosted a wedding during the school hours allegedly without the knowledge of the school management. When students and teachers entered the school in the morning, they saw tents have been put up and a paath was in progress.
Principal Dalbir Kaur claimed she had never given permission to anyone to hold a function in the school. I was surprised when I saw tents inside the school today morning. I asked those present at the function to stop th function, but they didnt listen to me. Then I informed the district education officer, Kaur said, adding that earlier, some locals had approached her for organising a function at the school premises, but she had refused them permission.
As the ceremony went on till the afternoon, the classes were held during the function. The school, which runs from 9 am to 3 pm, has around 100 students and four teachers. I do not know the family which had organised the function, said Kaur.
Deepak Telu, BJP SC Morcha and district grievances committee member also went to stop the function, but to no avail. They showed me a permission letter issued to them by a former Congress councillor, who is still using his stamp as a councillor. They asked me to not to spoil their function and threatened me, said Deepak, adding that he had made several attempts to contact Deputy Commissioner Shruti Singh but received no response.
When contacted, Director General (School Education) K S Pannu said: It is unfortunate and I will get the matter inquired into. How can one organise a function in school premises and that too during school hours? The district administration must intervene to stop such nuisance. DEO Primary Kuldip Sharma could not be reached despite several attempts.


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Funding opportunities
We propose to sponsor a CIRM Research Training Program in stem cell and regenerative medicine, which will provide six postdoctoral Ph.D. or M.D. (Type III) trainees per year with state-of-the-art stem cell-related research experience and coursework in a rich scientific environment. The goal is to prepare trainees for productive, independent research careers in stem cell and regenerative medicine, with an emphasis on training individuals from scientifically and demographically diverse backgrounds. Consistent with our mission, the program will focus on stem cells in aging and age-related disease, with particular concentration in neurodegenerative disorders. Required courses will be offered in Stem Cell Biology; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Legal, Ethical and Social Issues in Stem Cell Research; and Career Development. Trainees will also be invited to participate in other courses and related activities at the Institute, including weekly laboratory meetings, a weekly journal club in stem cell and regenerative medicine, a special lecture series titled Seminars in Stem Cell Biology, professional development workshops, and a Summer Scholars Program for high school and college students, whom trainees will participate in mentoring. Research opportunities will be available in a broad range of disciplines related to the goals of the CIRM, including human embryonic stem cell biology, adult neurogenesis, neurodegenerative disease (stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), cancer, biology of aging, programmed cell death, DNA damage and repair, model organisms (yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila), mitochondrial physiology, epigenetics, and stem cell research methodology (imaging, genomics, proteomics, knockout/transgenics, drug screening). Trainees will have access to a variety of multidisciplinary activities, including the Program in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, CIRM Shared Research Laboratory and Stem Cell Techniques Training Course, CIRM Major Facility for stem cell research, [REDACTED] AAALAC-accredited vivarium, and research cores devoted to hESC cukture, hESC characterization, FACS, morphology/imaging, genomics, epigenetics, chemistry/proteomics, drug screening, and knockouts/transgenics.
The 2000 US Census showed that 10.6% of Californians were aged 65 or older and 1.3% were 85 or older. According to a 2003 special report from the California Policy Research Center on "The Growth and Aging of California's Population", the proportion of Californians aged 65 or older will increase to 20.5% over the next 50 years, and 4% will be 85 or older. As noted in the California Health and Human Services Agency's 2003 Strategic Plan for an Aging California Population, many of these individuals can be expected to suffer from chronic diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease, so that a key element in preparing for the aging of California will be "developing new treatment modalities and medications that slow disease progression, improve treatment of symptoms, and/or reverse the course of disease". To this end, we propose a postdoctoral training program focused on the role of stem cells in the pathogenesis and potential treatment of aging and age-related disorders. Research opportunities will be available in a broad range of disciplines related to the goals of CIRM, including human embryonic stem cell biology, adult neurogenesis, neurodegenerative disease (stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), cancer, biology of aging, programmed cell death, DNA damage and repair, model organisms (yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila), mitochondrial physiology, epigenetics, and stem cell research methodology (imaging, genomics, proteomics, knockout/transgenics, drug screening). The proposed training program will benefit the state of California and its citizens by preparing the next generation of stem cell researchers, by improving current understanding of stem cell biology in relation to human disease, and by pointing the way toward new cell-based treatments.
This application proposes a Type III training program that will support six postdoctoral trainees per year in stem cell research and regenerative medicine. The focus of the program is stem cells in aging and age-related disease, with particular concentration in neurodegenerative disorders. The program will offer the required Stem Cell Biology and Legal, Ethical and Social Issues in Stem Cell Research courses and additional courses in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Career Development. The program will include journal clubs, lecture series, and professional development workshops plus the opportunity to mentor high school and college students.
Reviewers noted that the quality of the course instructors and training environment was excellent and likely to have a high impact. The Stem Cell Biology course is a new topics course offered by two established stem cell biologists. The partnership of an academic scientist and an industry leader in delivering this course is a significant strength. The Program Director (PD) pairs up with a trained physician and attorney to teach Legal, Ethical and Social Issues in Stem Cell Research. Additionally, all trainees will take a laboratory course in a CIRM-funded stem cell training lab. Overall the curriculum is considered appropriate for a postdoctoral training program. There is an expectation in the proposed program that each trainee will have a manuscript ready for submission by 12 months and by 24 months should have sought additional funding through fellowship or grant mechanisms. Reviewers commented that this might be an unrealistic goal for those entering the stem cell field from other disciplines, such as engineering, or for MDs who have had little research training.
The Program Director and Associate Director are considered well qualified to oversee the major aims of this proposal. In addition, the overall plan for scientific and administrative oversight was noted to show a considered and well-organized approach.
Reviewers felt that the proposed training program is narrower compared to that of other applicants but recognized that Type III programs are meant to have a more focused scope. Reviewers also noted that the list of available mentors was limited and only two or three would actually be considered stem cell biologists. This is balanced however by excellent researchers in the field of developmental biology where major advances in stem cell research are likely to occur in the near-term. The training record among the faculty was thought to be strong. The institution primarily trains postdoctoral fellows, who seem to be quite productive and move on to good-quality faculty positions. The applicant institution has trained 134 postdoctoral fellows since 1999 and currently has 41 fellows in training, so there seems to be an adequately sized pool from which to draw. These fellows have published 37 papers in peer-reviewed journals within the last year, which is impressive, but a more extensive documentation of training outcomes would have improved the application. How trainees will be recruited into the program was also not discussed.
The overall strength of research at the applicant institution was found to be less robust than that of others in California. This was attributed in part to the relative age of the institution, which was relatively recently established and thus does not have the lengthy track record of other institutions. Nevertheless, reviewers felt that the focus of the proposed program would be attractive to trainees and would provide a suitable training environment.


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…alpel (@Skepticscalpel) started my day with a Tweet that read: Houston Chronicle's hard-hitting exposé on robotic surgery. http://is.gd/lT5ed4 You have to know his work and his style to know that he was being sarcastic about "hard hitting exposé." The headline of the piece is: Advances in surgeries with robots reduce risks and trim recovery times The lead paragraph is: What if you could have a major surgery with only a short hos…6/7/2011
Ads & news (often resembling ads) fuel growing use of robotic prostatectomy
An analysis, "Consumerism and its impact on robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy," in the journal BJUI (formerly the British Journal of Urology) concluded that media coverage and marketing of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy on the Internet is more widespread compared to laparoscopic and open radical methods of prostate removal. And that: "Disturbingly, the quality of websites using any technique for prostatectomy was o…2/26/2010
The news love affair with robotic surgery – even simulators
We've written before about some of the headlines praising robotic surgery: Robot doctor – surgery of tomorrow Da Vinci puts magical touch on the prostate Cancer survivors meet lifesaving surgical robot Robotic surgeon's hands never tremble Da Vinci is code for faster recovery Surgical Maestro DA VINCI ROBOT IS SURGERY WORK OF ART Now even the news that a company is testing a couple of robotic-surgery-training-simu…4/12/2012
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Major-market TV news glorification of "scarless" robotic surgery
An example of how major-market television news delivers gee-whiz, awestruck segments on robotic surgery. This is from the NBC station in Los Angeles. The formula is familiar: surgeon comes on the set still wearing scrubs he says he just did 3 robotic procedures that day one of them was "first single-site, single-incision gallbladder removal done by a community hospital in state of California" It amounted to more than 6 minutes of fre…8/23/2014
Robotic surgery company objects to tough journalism; objections & responses posted
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Small town, small hospital example of how robotic surgery is promoted
Lest anyone think that the recent studies showing how marketing is driving up the use of robotic prostatectomy (see yesterday's post, "Ads & news (often resembling ads) fuel growing use of robotic prostatectomy") is just academic hypothesis, let me roll out what promoters often do – an anecdote. After yesterday's post, a physician (who wished to remain anonymous) wrote me: "Gary, I saw your post today abo…8 8/24/2012
Robotic thyroid surgery doubles the expense
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Barron's piece on how the robot has reigned (so far) on Wall Street
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Robotic surgery: good studies of effectiveness "never been done…not going to magically appear now"
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Urologists' report: more prostate cancer surgery driven by more robotic procedures
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Choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan's ambitious project Happy New Year featuring Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Deepika Padukone, Sonu Sood and Malayalam superstar Prithviraj, goes on floor today.
Farah Khan, whose last film Tees Maar Khan had bombed at the box office, was happy to be back on the sets.
STARTS 2DAY !! Thank u all 4 ur good wishes n positive energy! pic.twitter.com/8klSDIHxKr— Farah Khan (@TheFarahKhan) September 1, 2013
Abhishek Bachchan also tweeted: "Today, starts a new journey . Lets hope it ends in a Happy New Year . #HappyNewYear wish me luck guys. Need it!"
According to reports, Abhishek Bachchan has waved off his fees for Happy New Year for dear friend Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.
Bollywood colleagues also sent their best wishes to Abhishek Bachchan and Farah Khan.
"@shrishtiarya: The fabulous @TheFarahKhan kicks off the #happynewyear today! break a leg @juniorbachchan You guys gonna rock this party!"TY— Farah Khan (@TheFarahKhan) September 1, 2013
@TheFarahKhan @iamsrk @juniorbachchan @deepikapadukone @bomanirani @SonuSood @VishalDadlani @5hekhar wishing you guys all the best!!!— Jacqueline Fernandez (@Asli_Jacqueline) August 31, 2013
Farah Khan had finished costume trials with lead actor Shah Rukh Khan and recorded a song with composer Vishal Dadlani on August 31.
Sonu Sood who is to join the Happy New Year on September 2, earlier tweeted: Tom this time I will be in my flight to dubai to join my team of #happynewyear.New movie,New character.Something I've been waiting for long.
The movie revolves around a bunch of male friends and how situation forces them to participate in a dance competition. Deepika Padukone will play the role of a bar dancer, who will help these friends win the dance trophy.


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I've got an issue which i've never had before up until this site and i can't figure out the problem.
I build my sites with a wrapper set at 100% width; and a container set at 960px with a margin of '0 auto' to center the container.
Most of the time (and as with this one) i have a header wrapper/container, main content wrapper/container and footer wrapper/container.
In addition, my body is set to 100% width and height.
The problem is my header wrapper is causing a very small scroll to occur, and when i scroll right to see, the entire right of the page seems to have a 20 pixel margin.
I don't seem to get the problem in Chrome, just IE and Firefox.
My CSS is cleared with this at the beginning:
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float: left;
font-family: 'Verdana', 'Arial';
background: #E3E3E3;
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I'm a bit embarrassed to ask this as CSS bugs are normally a breeze to get through, but i've no idea with this. As for the other wrappers, as i mentioned, they're all set as:
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Posted Wed, 2009-12-02 12:53 by ChickTower
On Thursday, December 10th, Stan Mortel will give the neural network presentation he did at Penguicon. If you're at all interested in neural networks, or in learning about them, be sure to attend our meeting at the downtown Lansing branch of the Capital Area District Libraries. I found the first part of it fascinating, but I was unable to attend the concluding hour, so I know at least one person is looking forward to this.
Posted Tue, 2009-11-03 11:05 by Clay Dowling
As a follow-up to Chick's excellent Linux Command Line class, I will be teaching a class on using the vi editor on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Vi is ugly, evil, and absolutely essential to becoming a UNIX power user. Because ugly though it may be, it's also fast and it's the only editor you can count on being present in an emergency situation. The executable is only 270k, and you can run it on a 300 baud connection.
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Posted Thu, 2009-09-24 19:28 by Clay Dowling
You can't really consider yourself a power Linux user unless you can use the command line. Come to the Capitol Area District Library Thursday, October 29th at 6:30pm. You should bring a computer with Linux or another UNIX-like operating system installed.
Posted Sun, 2009-08-09 09:37 by Clay Dowling
The voting is in, and it has selected the Sky theme for the website. That's now the default theme, and I have removed the other themes from the website.
The only thing we're currently missing is integration with a calendar. That will be coming shortly, once I have some things figured out.
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Posted Tue, 2009-07-21 14:25 by Clay Dowling
With the upgrade to the new version of Drupal, we thought it would be a good idea to start over with a bunch of other things as well. I've added new features to this install that weren't in previous versions (and couldn't be easily added).


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Ubisoft is one of the industry's most prolific game publishers this generation, thanks in no small part to the Assassin's Creed franchise. Since 2010, the stealth-action series has become an annual juggernaut, shifting millions of copies and implementing new tweaks to the formula – admittedly some more significant than others – every year. Football has FIFA, shoot-'em-ups have Call of Duty, and now action/adventure has Assassin's Creed. And that equals big bucks for the French publisher.
Yet, despite the ubiquity of the Assassin's Creed brand, Ubisoft hasn't been resting its well-worn boots on the back of Ezio and Connor. Nope, the studio is looking to tread even more ambitious territory with 2013's Watch Dogs; an open-world, high-tech action-thriller that looks set to really push the boundaries of current-generation machines and give us a taste of what to expect from new formats.
Comparisons have been made to the aforementioned Assassin's Creed, with many lambasting Ubisoft for essentially making a modern-day equivalent of the stab-happy series. But we'd firmly like to disagree with that; Watch Dogs is perhaps the most intriguing project we've clapped eyes on – here's why.
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PS4 gamers will benefit the most
Ubisoft Montreal has already come out and said that the next-generation edition of the action-thriller pushes beyond that of other versions, making it an ideal purchase for early PS4 adopters. We're talking increased graphical fidelity and heightened immersion, though fortunately the extra muscle afforded by Sony's new machine extends beyond just aesthetic value. Promisingly, AI is something which has also been enhanced, and Ubisoft has said they are able to spend more time working on individual behaviour thanks to the PS4's meaty innards. Furthermore, the console's touchpad will also be utilized to control the protagonist's in-game phone. Indeed, the consensus at Ubisoft is that, while fundamentally the game is the same, this version will push everything that much more – and that can only be a good thing for PS4 gamers.
New engine, new experience
Comparisons to Assassin's Creed were perhaps inevitable, but in reality, the two games couldn't be further apart. Watch Dogs runs on a completely new game engine, dubbed 'Disrupt,' which is strikingly evident if you watch the footage. This flashy piece of tech was conceived specifically with Watch Dogs in mind, so there's no regurgitating of any old AC assets here – everything's fresh. Like Assassin's Creed, it is an open-world title, though far more ambitious; Ubisoft has stated that it wants Watch Dogs to go toe-to-toe with other sandbox games, specifically Grand Theft Auto. Now, that's quite a statement. But back to the engine. It's obvious from the outset that Watch Dogs is going to be one of the most technically capable games to grace the current crop of consoles, and even as an early PS4 game is sure to impress. The visuals speak for themselves, with the city of Chicago rendered in meticulous detail to allow you to explore every nook and cranny; the sense of interactivity and scale is almost unprecedented. Many of this generation's biggest franchises have managed to survive off the same engine for years now with only incremental updates (Call of Duty, FIFA, even Assassin's Creed) and so by developing a brand-spanking new piece of tech with Watch Dogs, Ubisoft not only offers something previously unachievable on previous engines, but may potentially set a new benchmark for open-world games in general. Who knows, later down the line Disrupt may be on every dev's Christmas list.
Hack your way to the top
Watch Dogs may have some impressive technical muscle to flex off, but it's the hacking premise that has really got tongues wagging. As protagonist Aiden Pearce, gamers wage information warfare as they literally hack their way through various objectives, tapping into to anything from smartphones, traffic lights and cash machines. This game-changing concept puts it miles apart from the likes of GTA and Saint's Row, offering a unique and original take on a genre that is typically defined by jacking cars, decking prostitutes and capping cops. Ubisoft is clearly aiming to inject some much-needed variety into the sandbox landscape, and Watch Dogs is undeniably unlike anything else currently on the horizon. Sure, combat plays a part – combining the parkour sensibilities of Assassin's Creed with more conventional means – but it's all built around the concept of hacking. You'll be able to get critical information on your foes by sabotaging various devices, affording plenty of room for strategy in regards to planning your attack. Need to slow down a car? Hack some traffic lights. Hard up on cash? Nick some from an innocent civilian by hacking their bank details. The possibilities are endless, and this is what makes Watch Dogs unequivocally one of the most intriguing, original videogames in years.
What do you think of Watch Dogs? Let us know in the comments section below.


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Josh has been working in the search marketing industry since December 2011 and has gained a great amount of knowledge and experience in SEO. He has worked as part of an agency in a range of different industries including dating, education, gourmet food, web design, travel and much more. Within these industries Josh has overseen elements such as keyword research, technical audits and online analytics to name a few. He's friendly, focused and passionate about the ins and outs of online marketing.
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Last week, Rep. Sue Myrick voted "no" on the bailout package proposed by Congress. This week, she's going to vote yes–a sign the package will get passed. From Myrick's office:
"I don't want to have to vote for this bill, and I'm not defending it. It's full of things that I don't believe in.
But, we're on the cusp of a complete catastrophic credit meltdown. There is no liquidity in the market. We are out of time. Either you believe that fact, or you don't. I do.
If we don't act now, we'll see devastating unemployment.
I did the best I could to get things in this bill to protect the taxpayer. Some of what I wanted is in there. Most is not. We are simply out of time. I'm voting yes."


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Sunrise, FL (Sports Network) - Jacob Markstrom made 20 saves to notch his
first win of the season, as the Florida Panthers defeated the Winnipeg Jets,
4-1, on Tuesday.
Tomas Kopecky, Shawn Matthias, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mike Santorelli each
scored once to help the Panthers snap a three-game skid.
Kyle Wellwood registered the lone Winnipeg goal and Ondrej Pavelec allowed all
four goals on 20 shots for the Jets, who have lost two straight.
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Associated Press Release
IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) -- Three teenagers are dead and a fourth is in serious condition following a fatal Halloween crash in southwest Florida.
The Florida Highway Patrol says the crash happened in Immokalee about 10:55 p.m. Thursday.
According to FHP, a 2000 Ford Mustang driven by 17-year-old Jacob Garibay went onto the shoulder of Immokalee Road, struck a concrete culvert and turned onto its roof.
Garibay died, along with two passengers, 17-year-old Joseph Daguerre Jr. and 17-year-old Gerardo Ruiz. A fourth passenger, 16-year-old Lamorris Hall, was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers with serious injuries.
The teens all lived in Immokalee.
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1 pound of medium or large shrimp, cleaned, rinsed and patted dry
1 tablespoon mild chile powder
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon chipotle powder
4 tablespoons Tapatio hot sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons honey
1. Combine all the dry spices and coat the shrimp with the dry rub evenly, set aside.
2. In a separate bowl, combine the hot sauce, rice wine vinegar and honey, set aside. Heat a large griddle pan to medium heat and line with heavy aluminum foil.
3. While the griddle is heating up, skewer the shrimp onto the skewers, about 6 or 7 per skewer, do not crowd the shrimp. Drizzle the hot griddle with about 2 tablespoons of canola oil, lay the skewers flat onto hot griddle, cook for about 2 to 3 minutes per side, brushing and basting with the hot sauce glaze. The shrimp should be pretty much done.
I take some fresh lemon or lime juice and squeeze it over the shrimp before serving. I like to serve the shrimp with rice or over a fresh salad.


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Wistful Frustrations
This is pretty good It's well laid out, and flows quite well. I can't see any spelling or grammar mistakes.
My favourite thing about this poem is the descriptions you've used, especially the first line, 'Because the words that fall out of my mouth and stain the page are sophomoric at best'. The imagery is unique- I don't think I've seen this image used before- and I really like it. It sets off the poem very atmospherically. I also love the idea of the character's personality being shaped by who they love, and the way this runs through the whole poem- 'formed', 'shape me' and 'mold me'.
I don't think the rhyme scheme is necessary. The first stanza rhymes, whereas in the third stanza, there is no rhyme at all, and I prefer it like that. The emotions in the poem are quite complicated and contrasting, and I think that this is made clearer by having no rhythm. Having a rhyme in the first verse changes the flow, I think.
All in all, this is really good, and the imagery and description really caught me up in the poem. Well done
I can never seem to truly stick to a rhyme scheme and I've been told multiple times that it's better without. So I will keep that in mind for next time!
I'm glad you think so highly of the imagery and the character's personality. I agree that the flow isn't quite smooth and I feel that you're right and there was too much difference in the first stanza.
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17 hours?? Whoa! That's not for me, you may think. But you might be surprised to learn that trains have some great amenities that you can't find on airplanes. We are going to start with...
- LEG ROOM!! Lots of it! Stretch out, do a couple yoga poses... It's possible in a train, and until planes start carrying exercise rooms standard, space is a cheap appreciated commodity on trains.
- What to do with the time? We are starting with all the movies and TV episodes we missed! What do you like to watch?
- How about discovering new music? Getting tired of the same beats? When do you take time to browse for new music that's still to your taste? Break out the ear phones find your Pandora app. Start exploring. We started with a french word "dit" (which means "say") in the search box. Now our FORUS clad feet are stepping to "Stromae." Dance on... you have the space!
- Camaraderie. This is something that is seen in airplanes less. Once upon a time the excitement and wonder of flying 30,000 above terra firma brought people together. Maybe it's the appreciation between train travelersfor the "passé" or perhaps the kid in all of us that loves playing "Thomas the Tank Engine." Whatever the reason, there is something about sitting in the dining car with a coffee and simple cheese sandwich and watching the world run away from you, that makes spontaneous conversation natural.
- The view. Sky is cool... really cool, but sometimes lacks variety. Furthermore, unpredictable thunderstorm weather is not exactly what we hope to experience on planes. Trains on the other hand have views that change every split second, and there are millions of impressions we can take in at every moment. Keep your camera close! Through the cities, the art of graffiti, unusual architecture, styles of housing, funny restaurant and street names, all catches the eye. Then city landscape succumbs to the brilliant colors of autumn leaves still changing. The water of deep gullies, swirling rivers, and vast lakes, creep around the train tracks concrete legs. Movies are interesting, but be sure to take a gander outside of the window. Sometimes the best vistas are in reality.
- Discovery. When you travel across land, there is an opportunity to see things you didn't know existed. Today, we discovered that Manassas has a skating rink next to the train station, and a "Charburger" restaurant across the street! We are always looking for new places to run to and this one just made the list!
- Catching up on emails, deleting, responding, checking out cool links. Yep, trains are ideal. Trains have the space to put the computer on your lap or, if you prefer, the fold out table. Most importantly they have outlets all along the walls. No running out of battery! You are not going anywhere for many hours, and you don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to, so take the time to give your electronic devices a cathartic cleanse!
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"As a mainstay of this city, Fred Lazarus has encouraged, cajoled, and inspired colleagues within MICA and across Baltimore to work harder, dream bigger, and envision a brighter and more vibrant community."
Ronald J. Daniels
President of The Johns Hopkins University
In the neighborhoods and the news, MICA was visible in a significant way again in FY2013, expanding its ongoing commitment to the city and citizens beyond the campus, and furthering its stature as a national model for collegebased community engagement. From neighborhood-centered teaching initiatives to grand neighborhood transformations, MICA as an institution and its students as individual activists continue to demonstrate their belief in art as a force for positive change on a local and global scale.
MICA's influence was cited by Fast Company magazine last year when it named Baltimore one of the "15 Tech Scenes in Places You'd Never Think to Look." The Huffington Post commended MICA as a "generator and magnet for human capital," helping to make Baltimore "the perfect incubator for artists and others searching for low-cost living and ample space to innovate." And three MICA community engagement initiatives made Baltimore magazine's "Best of Baltimore" list for 2012.
"MICA has played a critical role in revitalizing its neighboring communities and in stimulating the development of Baltimore's arts and cultural life."
The Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Mayor, City of Baltimore
In January of 2013, The Baltimore Sun cataloged MICA's pioneering community engagement efforts, citing MICA as one of the first Baltimore institutions to incorporate community engagement into its strategic plan more than a decade ago. While certainly formulated with a guiding altruistic spirit, that strategy was practical as well.
"What happens in our city, especially in our neighborhoods, is really crucial to our ability to attract and retain students," President Fred Lazarus IV told The Sun at that time. "We can't be passive observers."
The students have definitely been attracted to MICA—enrollment has more than doubled during Lazarus' tenure—and MICA's impact on its neighborhood and the city has been significant. There are murals, community farms, and art classes and outreach programs at schools and in neighborhoods. Perhaps most visible in scale (in addition to the school's own ambitious physical expansion) is the Station North district MICA adopted as an anchor institution, called the the most successful of Baltimore's arts districts by The New York Times last year, and earning a top spot on the Times' list of things to visit during "36 Hours in Baltimore"-a considerable achievement for a neighborhood that not long ago was considered blighted and unsafe.
During the 2013 fiscal year, students and faculty also completed a pilot for a new community-based learning program that will develop courses to address specific needs in the community. One such project partnered students with the Mayor's Office of Economic and Neighborhood Development, the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, and Lexington Market, the city's oldest public market, to design stands for licensed street vendors. The students' solution won the praise of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
On a citywide level, MICA launched the Baltimore Art + Justice Project, an ambitious, first-of-its-kind project designed to connect arts-based practitioners focused on social justice and amplify their collective impact. The program is the inaugural city platform of the national Animating Democracy program, which has goals of understanding and fostering the role of art and design to address community inequities. The Baltimore Art + Justice Project has initial funding through a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Open Society Foundations in New York.
On a more global scale, three students from the MA in Social Design program were invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University in April. Co-hosted by former President Bill Clinton and political comic and activist Stephen Colbert, the conference brought together students from more than 80 countries to explore new ideas for tackling global challenges. Mira Azarm '13, Jonathan Erwin '13, and Heejin Suh '13 attended the invitation-only event.
MICA's commitment to community engagement has grown and solidified over decades, the product of a long-term vision of MICA as a leader not only in the neighborhood and city, but also in the nation. A host of initiatives over the years has steadily and deliberately fostered a now firm institutional mindset that art has a vital activist role to play, and that it is MICA's responsibility to be its catalyst. As with so much of the College's progress, community engagement has been inspired and enabled by the efforts of President Lazarus.
His thought process was clear even in his interview for the job of president in 1978, when Lazarus told Board Chair Eleanor Hutzler, "For Maryland Institute to be a great art college, Baltimore needs to be a great city for artists." At the time, Baltimore was struggling with re-birthing pains—Harborplace and the Convention Center were yet to be built, and Baltimore's image was of a decaying, postindustrial port city. But plans were in place and finally taking shape, and Hutzler was confident. "Baltimore is on its way to becoming a great city," Hutzler told Lazarus, "for everyone."
Art played a prominent role in that renaissance. For the next three and a half decades, Lazarus and MICA pursued all manner of opportunities not just to make Baltimore a fertile and friendly city for artists, but for MICA and its artist community to effect positive change across the city for all its residents.
"He's someone who has taken MICA to a new level as an art school, but also he embraced new ideas that make Baltimore a greater city."
Doreen Bolger
Director, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Sun, April 29, 2013
One of Lazarus' first efforts was to enlist a coalition to help create Maryland Art Place, which opened in 1981 near Baltimore's reborn Inner Harbor and gave contemporary and emerging artists a prominent new exhibit place. Later that same year, Lazarus convinced Mayor William Donald Schaefer's administration to locate the new citywide arts festival in MICA's Mt. Royal Station neighborhood. Artscape soon became the biggest free arts festival in the nation, and continues to draw big-name acts and hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
As MICA's catalytic impact in the city continued to grow, Lazarus sought to empower students to make a positive difference in its neighborhoods. To celebrate Lazarus' 20 years of service, the Board of Trustees created the President's Fund for Community Initiatives. MICA used grants from the Wallace Foundation to advance efforts for youth and community development through the arts, emphasizing partnerships with community-based organizations. In addition, the College partnered with The France-Merrick Foundation to expand MICA's Community Arts Partnerships program, which provides funding for students to design and implement artsbased projects to elevate challenged neighborhoods and empower people throughout the city.
President Lazarus did not just impact the city through academic and student programming, however. He made it both an expectation and a priority that MICA senior staff become directly involved in arts, culture, and education in the city, and made it not only an acceptable, but expected part of their work responsibilities. Theresa Bedoya, vice president for Admission & Financial Aid, has served as chair of the Baltimore Collegetown Network of colleges; Chief Financial Officer Douglas Mann has served as chair of Maryland Citizens for the Arts; Michael Molla, vice president for operations, has chaired the Station North Arts and Entertainment District; Leslie King-Hammond, PhD, director of MICA's Center for Race and Culture, chairs the Reginald F. Lewis Museum; Michael Franco, EdD, vice president for advancement, has been vice president of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance; and Provost Ray Allen has served on the board of The Contemporary Museum.
Of course, Lazarus has led by example, serving as founding chair of Americans for the Arts and the Central Baltimore Partnership and as a founding board member of the Midtown Development Corporation. He has also chaired the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and has served on the boards of an extraordinarily diverse range of organizations, including Partners for Livable Communities, Arts Every Day, Friends of Artists Equity, the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property, the Afro-American Newspaper, American Visionary Art Museum, Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, Howard Street Development Corporation, Maryland Art Place, Maryland Artists Equity Foundation, The Baltimore Council for Equal Business Opportunity, the WYPR Community Artist Board, Addition Art Advisory Board, the SNAAP Advisory Board, and the D Center Baltimore.
From the individual efforts of students, faculty, and alumni to degree programs and national initiatives, community engagement is not an afterthought or tangent at MICA, but is now woven into its institutional fabric-in large part due to the efforts of President Fred Lazarus over the past 35 years.
"MICA's approach to community engagement is at once comprehensive and strategic," he has said, "and also dependent on the freedom to pursue unconventional approaches to complex challenges."
"He's the most fiercely community-minded person I know. His value goes well beyond his contributions to Artscape, which he helped start. His focus was always on the well-being of the entire community."
Rebecca Hoffberger
Founder and Director, American Visionary Art Museum
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|QUOTE (BigBadJohn @ Apr 24 2005, 04:16 PM)
| you can't say it is a rip off just because they are stealth games
that would be like sayin midnight club 3 is a rip off of Need for speed 2
or motal kombat is a rip off of teken.
and anyways, mgs had a totally different style, sure it is stealth but there is alot of cutscenes and it plays like a movie, where as splinter cell doesn't, it is alot more serious.
|QUOTE (EMBO @ Apr 24 2005, 01:47 PM)
|Complete rip off of MGS. And it doesn't even rip it off well.
|QUOTE (BigBadJohn @ Apr 26 2005, 03:26 PM)
|yeah i tried co-op with my bro but i didn't really like it
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It rips it off, how cuz its a stealth game? MGS isnt as realistic as Splinter Cell. Pretty much Splinter Cell is a better and more realistic game than MGS. HAHA deal with that MGS fanboys.


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|Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
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In this paper we present the results of a study of human preferences in using mid-air gestures for directing other humans. Rather than contributing a specific set of gestures, we contribute a set of gesture types, which together make a set of the core actions needed to complete any of our six chosen tasks in the domain of human-to-human gestural communication without the speech channel. We observed 12 participants, cooperating to accomplish different tasks only using hand gestures to communicate. We analyzed 5,500 gestures in terms of hand usage and gesture type, using a novel classification scheme which combines three existing taxonomies in order to better capture this interaction space. Our findings indicate that, depending on the meaning of the gesture, there is preference in the usage of gesture types, such as pointing, pantomimic acting, direct manipulation, semaphoric, or iconic gestures. These results can be used as guidelines to design purely gesture driven interfaces for interactive environments and surfaces.}, author = {Roland Aigner and Daniel Wigdor and Hrvoje Benko and Michael Haller and David Lindbauer and Alexandra Ion and Shengdong Zhao and Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh}, month = {November}, number = {MSR-TR-2012-111}, publisher = {Microsoft Research}, title = {Understanding Mid-Air Hand Gestures: A Study of Human Preferences in Usage of Gesture Types for HCI}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=175454}, year = {2012}, }


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June 1, 2016
A legal fight has broken out between the school district and City Council over funding for schools in Mississippi's largest city.
The Clarion-Ledger reports that the Jackson Public School District filed a lawsuit against the Jackson City Council accusing the city of refusing to raise enough taxes to cover a budget request by the school board.
Council members were given copies of the suit earlier this week.
The suit, filed in Hinds County Circuit Court, challenges the council's Sept. 14 decision to raise taxes by 2.5 mills on the school system's behalf. The school board says that tax rate won't be enough to cover a budget request of $88.9 million.
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About Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
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August 26, 2010
Always a "Classic" Success
An expanded format, a bevy of generous supporters and a gorgeous venue are among the many highlights of this year's Englewood Hospital Golf Classic, a signature event of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation.
Golf buffs are marking their calendars for this always eagerly anticipated outing, to be held at Knickerbocker Country Club, 188 Knickerbocker Road, Tenafly, NJ, on Tuesday, September 14. This year's Classic features two shotgun starts, 7:30 AM and 12:30 PM.
Breakfast and registration will begin at 6:30 AM for the morning round, and lunch and registration will begin at 11:00 AM for the afternoon round. After a great day of sport and good company, players can look forward to cocktails and a delicious buffet at 5:30PM with the many specialties of the house.
Top sponsors so far include the Kaplen Foundation and Crothall Services, Presenting and Gold sponsors, respectively. Contact Todd Brooks, acting executive vice president for the Foundation, at 201-894-3004 or firstname.lastname@example.com to learn more about sponsorships.
Individual golf is $500. The price of cocktails and dinner alone is $150. Sponsorship packages vary. Visit englewoodhospitalfoundation.org or call the Foundation at 201-894-3725 for more information. Reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis.


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A great family medicine doctor has a way of becoming a part of your family. They are there for all the flus, strep throats, and annual check-ups. And they are able to direct you to a great specialist or hospital when something may warrant an extra look. Meet a member of our medical family: Dr. William Murdoch, our Chief of Family Medicine.
Dr. Murdoch is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency in family medicine. During clinical rotations in his third year of medical school, Dr. Murdoch gravitated towards the idea of becoming a primary care provider for a number of reasons; especially appealing though was the ability to keep his work very patient-focused.
A Great Opportunity for Patients
Dr. Murdoch speaks encouragingly about the increased awareness his patients have about their preventative care. He sees a more heightened sense of awareness among the patient population regarding eating habits, exercise regimens, and working to maintain a healthy lifestyle, which is a positive movement. "Patients," Dr. Murdoch says, "are continuing to become more involved in their care. They appreciate the importance of regular screenings and check-ups." As patients continue to stay involved in their care, there is a better chance of improving lifestyle habits to combat prevalent health concerns like diabetes, obesity, cancer, and more.
A Day in the Life of a Chief
Dr. Murdoch's role as a family medicine doctor and Chief of Crittenton Hospital's Family Medicine Department allows him to work as both a provider and an educator; two roles in which he excels. "A typical day for me starts at the hospital seeing any of my patients who have been admitted there. Around lunchtime, I sit with the residents during their lectures, and a lot of the times I will give the lecture. In the afternoon, I go to the family medicine clinic and see more patients for the rest of the day." And between this, he fits in administrative duties, department meetings, and other work with the hospital's family medicine residents.
Why Crittenton?
Dr. Murdoch believes that it is the attention that Crittenton always keeps on the patient that makes Crittenton an ideal hospital. "Crittenton is truly a full-spectrum hospital that is 100% patient-focused in its care," Dr. Murdoch explains. "That shows." When you find yourself in need of a hospital, you want one that is just as focused on you as your family medicine doctor is. Our Chief of Family Medicine is committed to continuing this dedication for all patients at Crittenton Hospital.
About Dr. William Murdoch
Dr. William Murdoch received his medical training at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency also at Wayne State University, where he received the Leland Award for Outstanding Graduating Family Medicine Resident.


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How To Replaced Damaged or Mutilated Money
Posted By Jim On 07/23/2007 @ 1:37 pm In Personal Finance | 8 Comments
What do you do when a dog has eaten your money [3]? Well, you wait until it comes out, then you soak it, wash it, rinse it, and repeat a lot. Ewww…
But what if it's been damaged or mutilated to the point where you can no longer use it? That's when you call in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing [4] to get a replacement.
If you have more than 50% of the bill, just mail it "Registered Mail, Return Receipt Requested" (or personally deliver it) to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing along with a letter explaining the estimated value of the bill and how it got that way. If you have less than 50%, do the same but you better do a much better job with the letter as they have to believe that the rest of the bill has been destroyed.
If the damaged money are bills, send it to:
Department of the Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Office of Currency Standards
P. O. Box 37048
Washington, D. C. 20013
If they are coins, send it to:
U. S. Mint
Post Office Box 400
Philadelphia, PA. 19105
If they aren't damaged or mutilated and they're just dirty, defaced, worn out, or a little torn, then bring them back to your bank for a replacement. This only applies if you can definitely tell what the value of it is and it's clearly more than 50%, though the site doesn't really tell you what "clearly more" really is. If it's a little corner tear, that's probably clearly more.
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Happy Memorial Day! The popular annual food-fest Taste of Cincinnati ends today (Monday), your last chance to hear some solid local music and eat some excellent local grub (at least until the next downtown street event). Today's musical offerings kick off on a bittersweet note. At 1 p.m., the Katie Reider Spirit of Music Award will be given posthumously to longtime local bassist and music scene presence Chris Walker, who passed away last year after battling injuries sustained in a serious car accident in 2007.
The award was first given out in 2009 to its namesake, the late, local singer/songwriter Katie Reider, who died in 2008 from complications from a rare tumor when she was just 30. The award was designed to honor musicians in the local music scene who personify Reider's "essence and that of the Cincinnati music scene." Last year's recipient, Kelly Thomas, received the honor for her numerous musical charity events over the past several years.
Walker's sister and former bandmate Carole Walker Luley will accept the award at 1 p.m. today at the Metromix Stage at P&G Gardens. Thomas and her Roots/Country band, the Fabulous Pick-Ups, perform on the stage at 1:30 p.m.
Here are a few other recommendations for Taste of Cincinnati musical exploration:
Monday 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Blues ace Sonny Moorman has been on the forefront of the local Blues scene for over 15 years, releasing several albums that have received attention from the international Blues community. Moorman's discography is loaded with "live albums," a testament to the natural power of Moorman and his band in concert.
Monday 3 p.m.-5 p.m. Chemed Stage
The music of Tracy Walker (pictured) has, over the past 15 or so years, been a consistent, jaw-droppingly gorgeous and soulful presence in the soundtrack of Greater Cincinnati. Be it with her top-notch band or as a solo force, Walker proves with every show how deserved she is of her numerous music awards and accolades. She makes transcendent sounds that are organic and folksy at their root, but soar off into the stratosphere thanks to Walker's stunning voice.
Monday 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Metromix Stage at P&G Gardens
Cincinnati's best new Rock & Roll band is The Kickaways. The scrappy young foursome doesn't muddy its waters with trendy consolations — they play it straight up … the way the Rock gods intended. See them live for a taste, then grab their fantastic debut album, America! America! (available for free download via The Recording Label here), to hold you over until the next time they play.
Monday 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Metromix Stage at P&G Gardens
Chris Sherman — aka Freekbass — has been a renegade of Funk since his days with local P-Funkin' faves SHAG. Since then, Sherman has guided his eponymous band through several albums (including the brand new Concentrate, available as a free download here) and steady tour dates, and his "side-projects" have become equally beloved. Following up his successful run with Headtronics (an Electro Funk/Hip Hop project with Steve Molitz, DJ Logic and various guests, including Funk legend Bernie Worrell), Sherman has been doing a lot of shows with Freekbot, his Hip Hop/Funk duo project with DJ/producer Tobotius, aka Tobe Donohue, from DMC world champion turntable crew Animal Crackers. Below is a clip of the twosome jamming during a recent appearance in Chicago.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Valero Energy Corp. has reported fourth-quarter earnings of $298 million.
The San Antonio-based company said Thursday that had a profit of 62 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.79 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations.
The oil refiner posted revenue of $18.78 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts.
Valero Energy shares have declined roughly 7 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has decreased roughly 8 percent. The stock has climbed 29 percent in the last 12 months.


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Nobel prize winner Stanley Prusiner calls for Alzheimer's disease funding
Posted: November 12, 2010
Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner was one of the authors on a letter to the New York Times on October 27 advocating that congress pass legislation that "would raise the annual federal investment in Alzheimer's research to $2 billion, and require that the president designate an official whose sole job would be to develop and execute a strategy against Alzheimer's."
Prusiner, who is director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF, along with retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and gerontologist/psychologist Ken Dychtwald, wrote:
During Alzheimer's disease awareness month here are some numbers to keep in mind, from the NYT letter:
Prusiner, who is director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF, along with retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and gerontologist/psychologist Ken Dychtwald, wrote:
As things stand today, for each penny the National Institutes of Health spends on Alzheimer's research, we spend more than $3.50 on caring for people with the condition. This explains why the financial cost of not conducting adequate research is so high. The United States spends $172 billion a year to care for people with Alzheimer's. By 2020 the cumulative price tag, in current dollars, will be $2 trillion, and by 2050, $20 trillion.Their letter came days after CIRM board member Leeza Gibbons joined California's First Lady Maria Shriver in her first March on Alzheimer's at the California Women's Conference. Gibbons founded Leeza's Place to provide support for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and other disorders. The march raised a quarter of a million dollars for Alzheimer's research.
If we could simply postpone the onset of Alzheimer's disease by five years, a large share of nursing home beds in the United States would empty. And if we could eliminate it, as Jonas Salk wiped out polio with his vaccine, we would greatly expand the potential of all Americans to live long, healthy and productive lives - and save trillions of dollars doing it.
During Alzheimer's disease awareness month here are some numbers to keep in mind, from the NYT letter:
Starting on Jan. 1, our 79-million-strong baby boom generation will be turning 65 at the rate of one every eight seconds. That means more than 10,000 people per day, or more than four million per year, for the next 19 years facing an increased risk of Alzheimer's. Although the symptoms of this disease and other forms of dementia seldom appear before middle age, the likelihood of their appearance doubles every five years after age 65. Among people over 85 (the fastest-growing segment of the American population), dementia afflicts one in two. It is estimated that 13.5 million Americans will be stricken with Alzheimer's by 2050 - up from five million today.CIRM has a Alzheimer's disease fact sheet about stem cell therapies for Alzheimer's disease, and a list of all awards addressing Alzheimer's disease funded by CIRM. One of those grantees, Frank LaFerla, is in this video about a discovery he made as part of the CIRM-funded research.


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Ryan Braun quickly got into the swing of spring. The Milwaukee slugger homered in his first at-bat of the exhibition season and the Brewers...
PHOENIX — Ryan Braun quickly got into the swing of spring.
The Milwaukee slugger homered in his first at-bat of the exhibition season and the Brewers beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1 Saturday.
"There was nothing I didn't like about it," Braun said. "It was a home run. Homers are cool. I love home runs. I think I'm definitely ahead of where I usually am this time of year."
Braun hit only two home runs during spring training last year. He played just in home games for the first week to ease his exposure after he became the only major-leaguer to have a 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs reversed.
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Braun's name surfaced again in late January in connection with a Miami anti-aging clinic that reportedly provided PEDs to professional athletes. Braun has denied using PEDs.
"He's really good upstairs," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "He's able to handle a lot of different situations really well."
The 2011 NL MVP hit .319 with a league-leading 41 home runs, 112 runs batted in and 30 stolen bases last year.
Braun will soon be leaving the club to prepare for the World Baseball Classic with Team USA. He hit a solo shot over the center-field fence with two outs in the first inning off Jesse Chavez.
Braun has accelerated his spring regimen to prepare for the WBC, where he's set to start in left field. With only four outfielders on the roster, he's already been told to expect to play all nine innings in each of the first three games.
• A bloody sock worn by Curt Schilling while pitching for the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals was sold for $92,613 at a live auction in New York.
• Yankees captain Derek Jeter practiced on-field running and agility drills in Tampa, Fla., for the first time since breaking his ankle last fall. "It's a natural progression, but everything went good," Jeter said.
• Rays third baseman Evan Longoria returned to camp in Port Charlotte, Fla., after missing three days due to the birth of his daughter.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates reached agreement with 41-year-old pitcher Jose Contreras on a minor-league contract.
• Miami Marlins catcher Jeff Mathis broke his right collarbone in the team's spring training opener in Jupiter, Fla., and is expected to be out six weeks.
• Ryan Vogelsong pitched two scoreless innings, Pablo Sandoval lumbered home on Jackson Williams' double and the San Francisco Giants opened Cactus League play with a 4-1 victory over a Los Angeles Angels split squad in Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Clayton Kershaw got off to a shaky start in his spring debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 9-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox in Glendale, Ariz. The 2011 NL Cy Young winner allowed two runs and four hits in two innings.
• Toronto outfielders Mike McCoy and Ryan Langerhans were both shaken up after colliding on a fly ball in the seventh inning of the Blue Jays' 10-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, Fla. Langerhans stayed in the game. McCoy got up and was able to walk toward the clubhouse with a left quad contusion. Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera both homered for the Tigers.
• Stephen Strasburg had a rocky return to the mound in his first outing since the Washington Nationals shut him down last September to protect his arm. Strasburg gave up a single and a full-count homer to the first two batters he faced as the New York Mets beat Washington 5-3 in a spring training opener in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
• Boston starter John Lackey returned to the mound after missing last year, allowing one run in one inning as a split squad of Tampa Bay Rays beat the Red Sox 4-3 in Fort Myers, Fla.


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Alternative title: Lago Lauricocha
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search citizencredit.com advances.cccbl it.cccbl
host `hostname`
cccbl.citizencredit.com has address 172.16.10.54
cccbl.citizencredit.com mail is handled by 0 cccbl.citizencredit.com.
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any errors??
You should post the full output of the commands you're asked for. According to the DNS output you have no A or MX records shown (it's also not picking up any DNS server, you also don't have any DNS server in your resolv.conf output that you've posted.Code:cat /etc/hosts
Is this "citizecredit.com" your actual domain name? If it is, then according to this report you also have no external DNS records either. So, as you can probably guess, I'm completely baffled as to how your Zimbra server is working with that configuration.
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cat /etc/hosts
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
127.0.0.1 localhost
# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
172.16.10.54 cccbl.citizencredit.com cccbl
i think i haven't mentiond an important point... this is an intranet... we have not given any of our staff access to the net..... that's problably why we dont show up in the pingability.com report
This line is incorrect (as I mentioned earlier):
it should readCode:127.0.0.1 localhostAs I mentioned in my last post, your output shows no A or MX records for your domain so you will need to put a DNS server address in your resolv.conf.Code:127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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December 14, 2010
NACD Supports Farm Bill Conservation Programs
NACD is urging Congress to support full funding for
conservation programs authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill. These
vital programs provide critical assistance for farmers,
ranchers and forest landowners to address local natural
resource concerns while producing food, fuel, feed and fiber
for the world's growing population.
"Applied conservation on the nation's farms, ranches and
private forestlands provides clean water, healthy, productive
soils and wildlife habitat, and other important public
benefits that should not be lost," NACD President Steve
Robinson stated in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye
and Ranking Member Thad Cochran.
Conservation districts work with millions of cooperating
landowners and operators to manage and protect land and water
resources. Full funding of Farm Bill conservation programs
will help ensure the continuation and success of these
locally-led efforts to provide critical natural resource
benefits for communities.
Report Shows Inconsistencies in Chesapeake Bay Data Modeling
A new report finds
inconsistencies between EPA's Total Maximum Daily Loads with
those in a recent draft USDA report. The discrepancies
related to assumptions about conservation practices and other
data used as the basis for EPA's Chesapeake Bay "pollution
loads" model. EPA's modeling potentially underestimates the
good progress that farmers and landowners are making in the
Bay region.
"Landowners have already implemented many environmental best
management practices resulting in significant reductions in
nutrient and sediment loadings in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
over the past 25 years," NACD President Steve Robinson said.
"It's important that these efforts are fully accounted for in
EPA's modeling. Fair and accurate treatment of producer activity
is critical to ensuring maximum participation in cleanup
efforts – and in turn, a cleaner and healthier Chesapeake Bay."
To address concerns about the accuracy of EPA's modeling, NACD
recently entered into an agreement with NRCS to coordinate the design of a system to reliably
track the voluntary conservation practices that farmers are
already implementing in the Bay region. NACD is working with
the six Bay-region states, NRCS, EPA and other stakeholders to
design a protocol for the characterization and collection of
best management practices (BMPs) installed by agriculture
producers – with the ultimate goal of ensuring these BMPs
are counted in the EPA model.
NACD, Indiana, Wisconsin Win Grant for MRBI Work
The Walton Family Foundation (WFF) has awarded $225,000 in grant funding to NACD for policy
support and on-the-ground conservation work associated with
the Mississippi River Basin Initiative (MRBI).
Funding under the one-year grant is designated for the
following areas: (1) public policy education by NACD, (2)
the Indiana MRBI project, through the Indiana Association
of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (IASWCD) and (3)
the Wisconsin MRBI project, through the Wisconsin Land and
Water Conservation Association (WLWCA).
The Indiana project will target watersheds where the greatest
needs have already been identified. IASWCD will document
the results through water quality monitoring, modeling and
producer surveys, in order to achieve maximum watershed
benefits in the future. The Wisconsin project seeks to identify
the highest phosphorus and nitrogen sources in the landscape
in order to direct conservation resource to the areas that need
it most.
Earlier this year, conservation districts in the Mississippi River Basin received more than $11 million
of the $30 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
to help landowners implement conservation practices to prevent,
control and trap nutrient runoff from agricultural land.
Congress Continues Debate on Appropriations, Taxes
Debate on Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 appropriations and the Obama
tax deal takes center stage this week on Capitol Hill.
Yesterday, the tax deal negotiated by the President and
Republican leaders moved one step closer to reality.
The Senate voted by a large, bipartisan margin to end debate
on the bill, and is expected to pass the measure in the
immediate future. The measure will then be up for consideration
in the House, where Democrats may attempt to amend the estate
tax provisions by increasing the rate and decreasing the
exemption level.
Next on the Senate agenda will be an omnibus appropriations
bill; it's unclear whether it can garner the 60 votes necessary
for passage. Last week, the House passed a full-year
continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through
end of the current fiscal year at FY 2010 levels. Instead of
either a yearlong CR or omnibus, some Senate Republicans have
proposed a short-term CR until February, giving Republicans
a greater role in determining federal budget policy in the
next Congress.
Live Auction Deadline Approaching
The deadline for donations to the NACD Live Auction is fast approaching! To ensure your donation is featured in
the auction catalog, please submit your donation form by
December 17th.
Featuring your item in the catalog helps us promote the
items and bring in the maximum amount possible for each piece.
The Live Auction would not be possible each year without your
generous donations. All auction proceeds from this popular
event are used to support NACD's legislative activities. A
few NACD favorites will be back again this year, including
the hand-made Amish quilt and the Wild Turkey Federation Gun
of the Year.
Take a moment to visit the NACD auction web page and fill out the donation form.
Lucas to Head House Ag Committee
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) has been officially elected as the
next Chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee. The
former Chairman of the Conservation, Credit, Rural Development
and Research Subcommittee, Lucas has a longstanding history
of working closely with conservation districts, and is a
strong advocate of the partnership between districts, NRCS
and state conservation agencies.
"Rep. Lucas has been a strong supporter of conservation over
the years, and we look forward to continuing to work closely
with him as we head into the next Congress and upcoming Farm
Bill," NACD President Steve Robinson said. "He has played a
critical role in strengthening cooperative conservation
throughout the nation and his efforts have gone a long way
in ensuring farmers, ranchers and other landowners have the
resources necessary to protect our air land and water through
locally-led, voluntary programs on the ground."
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Report Shows Inconsistencies in Chesapeake Bay Data Modeling (read more...)
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Why's that? It's the R word: "Republican."
Between us Negroes, the phrase "black Republican" is more than an oxymoron. A black Republican must be a sell out and a self-hating wannabe reeking to high heaven of allegiance to the enemy.
Being a black Republican is akin to being a porch nigger.
If President Bush's right-hand woman were, say, a black athlete in a white-identified sport like Fred Braithwaite, Venus and Serena Williams or Tiger Woods or, better yet, any number of the crop of unimaginative entertainers like P. Diddy or Destiny's Child, Rice would be splashed across the covers and pages of Savoy, Ebony and especially Essence. Further, we'd by now know that her mauve leather sofa set was imported from Italy or that her swimming pool is the biggest on her block.
In other words, black media have an awful habit of celebrating celebrity -- which, in the last 30 years, has generally failed to use its collective powers for good.
Rice's absence from black pages says as much about -isms along party lines among Negroes as it does about the anemic state of America's black-owned and -operated media.
Generally, I think Oprah Winfrey and all her franchises are necessary evils. Her interviews hover somewhere between cheerleading sessions and blow jobs.
But in a recent issue of her magazine, Winfrey has a conversation with Rice, 46, the only black woman to be named national security advisor and one of the highest-ranking black women in any recent administration.
For those of you who like overlooking the obviousness of race and gender in the name of best-man-for-the-job-anti-affirmative-action-speak, there's no denying the heft and significance of entrusting America's security to a black woman when America doesn't much trust the sons of black women.
If you can wade through Winfrey toggling between her sister/girl persona -- which, interestingly, Rice doesn't bow to -- and her attempts to externalize and pile her own melodrama atop the already melodramatic circumstances of Rice's life, there are answers that expand Rice's cardboard cutout image.
For example, was Rice the first person to speak to Bush moments after terrorist attacks on Sept. 11? Does Rice have presidential aspirations? Were there positive black female role models in the segregated Birmingham, Ala., of Rice's girlhood?
There's also a laundry list of firsts and academic marvels.
Rice also pinpoints and recounts the precise moment she switched parties. What's most interesting is that her status doesn't mean she ignores her minority status.
Wherever she goes, there she is.
She hasn't forgotten anything about herself; yet her self cannot be victimized by what customarily is seedling for the making of a victim. And being a woman means there's an obvious and definite lack of ego in the undertaking of her job.
She says she "checks things out" for Bush, presents him with information and refrains from injecting her personal opinion into any of his final decisions. Of course she's admiring of Bush and his administration. I like my boss, too. Especially publicly.
She's a self-described "all-over-the-map" Republican and, to white folks, certainly she's "one of the good ones."
And she should be for us, as well.
Look, you take one of us and you get all of us. Same goes for us on the subject of us.
This is age-old stuff. Negroes complain about not being invited to the party and, when we finally are, the Negroes who should illuminate the invitees among us instead pout like someone assigned them to work the coat check.
Ultimately, the Winfrey/Rice conversation is sublime because it's two ultra-powerful black women deconstructing an ascension to power.
Regardless of party affiliations or class standings, you gotta love that. Even if only for a minute.
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