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I'm selling a 2011 Caad 10 with Rival (Force Crank), Size 54cm (see geo at cannondale.com). I bought it this past summer (store leftover) as an impulse buy. I put 125 miles on it. Not a scratch on it. No dents or dings either. It has been "slammed" with a slamthatstem cap (5 mm spacer above for steerer safety).
Just don't need a "crit" bike. Selling to finance a set of Kreitler Rollers (sorry I sold mine about 10 years back) and some wheel building supplies/tools (going to stop being a wussy and get back to building my own wheels like I used to).
Selling the bike without wheels and pedals. Top and bottom pics show wheels and pedals - these are not included (you don't want these heavy deep vee wheels and crappy wellgo pedals anyway). The 3 pics that show the bike handing are what I'm selling and the cassette (sram 11-26t).
- 2011 Caad10 size 54cm
- SRAM Rival: Shifters, fr and rear DE.
- SRAM Force: Crank 53/39, 172.5mm
- Ritchey Comp: seatpost, stem 120mm, bars 46cm
- Cassette SRAM 11-26t (removed from wheelset and included).
- Tektro (whatever the that company is) brake clalipers
$875 shipped to lower 48. (paypal works for me).
the middle 2 pics show it boxed and ready to ship. PM me and I'll give you my paypal info. When I see the money in the account I take it to the UPS store and get it out to you.
Then just slap on your wheels, lay down a $30 entry fee and you'll be ready to tear up every Joe Blow Office Park World Championship Crit in 2013.
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This seems like it should be a fairly simple question, but I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to approach it.
I'm using Node.js + Express to build a web application, and I find the connect BodyParser that express exposes to be very useful in most cases. However, I would like to have more granular access to multipart form-data POSTS as they come - I need to pipe the input stream to another server, and want to avoid downloading the whole file first.
Because I'm using the Express BodyParser, however, all file uploads are parsed automatically and uploaded and available using "request.files" before they ever get to any of my functions.
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STILLWATER — Just before the start of the 2013 season, Oklahoma State has lost a key piece of its offensive line.
Devin Davis, the Cowboys' projected starter at left tackle, has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and is likely out for the season, an OSU source told The Oklahoman.
The injury is a big blow to an offensive line that already enters the season with a fair amount of inexperience, following the departure of three seniors who started in 2012 in guards Lane Taylor and Jonathan Rush and center Evan Epstein.(Story continued below...)


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Video: Fire displaces family day before Thanksgiving
By Sharon Stevens Education Reporter
KSDK -- Multiple fire departments in Jefferson County battled to save a home overnight in Imperial and to keep the fire from spreading to a second home.
Firefighters from Imperial, Antonio and the Rock Community Fire District fought a fire at a home on Windswept Drive for more than an hour. They backed down when they determined everyone made it out. They turned their attention to neighboring residence that was slightly damaged from the intense heat.
Two adults in one house and two adults with four children in the other home were displaced, but they made it out safely.
Bob and Cindy Hunter lived in their home for 26 years. It was the home that suffered the most damage.
Bob Hunter said, "We smelled smoke. We went into the kitchen and it was real smoky. We opened the garage door and the entire garage was engulfed in flames."
Flames spread to the house next door but the damage wasn't as serious.
Fire officials believe the fire started in the garage, but the investigation continues.
The Hunters had planned to serve thanksgiving dinner. Their plans have changed, but they are thankful to be alive.
The American Red Cross offered food, clothing and shelter to both families.
The Hunters say they'll rebuild. For now, they are staying with family and friends.


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Review/Film; History Plays Tricks With a Documentary On the Berlin Wall
Nothing ever goes according to schedule for Ross McElwee, which is his good fortune and ours.
Sometime in the early 1980's the North Carolina-born film maker was planning to make a documentary about Gen. William T. Sherman's devastating march to the sea in the final months of the Civil War. Mr. McElwee had the money, the research and the equipment. He was ready to go.
Then his girlfriend left him, apparently taking the muse of history with her. Mr. McElwee was bereft. For a day or two anyway, life was meaningless.
Being resilient, he eventually carried out his project, following Sherman's tracks through Georgia and the Carolinas, though he was now less interested in Sherman than in the possibility of romantic love in today's South.
The result of that journey was "Sherman's March" (1986), a wonderfully cockeyed record of Mr. McElwee's relationships with a succession of women met along the way, with occasional time out for a visit to a Civil War battlefield or monument.
Unforeseen circumstances also played hob with the film maker's plans in 1989 when, two days after he and Marilyn Levine had completed a film about the Berlin wall, the East Germans decided the wall was no longer necessary.
"When the wall opened up," Ms. Levine says on the sound track of their new movie, "Something to Do With the Wall," "we could hardly believe it. We now realized we had to have a new end to our film."
They certainly did. Most of the people they had interviewed in Berlin in 1986, the 25th anniversary of the wall's existence, had glumly accepted the notion that the wall would be around forever.
"Something to Do With the Wall," beginning today at Anthology Film Archives, is another blithe chapter in Mr. McElwee's continuing and extremely uncertain relationship with history. The film is not as personal as "Sherman's March," but it is reporting of a most pertinent and genially eccentric order.
It is also fitting that he should have met Ms. Levine, his co-producer, co-director and co-writer, when he was editing "Sherman's March." She is the happy offscreen ending to the exuberantly footloose odyssey remembered in the earlier film.
Together they traveled to Berlin in 1986 to make a film about the place of the wall in history, in the lives of Berliners, who had to live with the wall, and in the consciousness of Americans for whom it had become a cold war metaphor and tourist attraction.
Mr. McElwee and Ms. Levine, who is a film maker in her own right, were married in 1987. The next year they became parents of a son, Adrian, who was just 9 months old when they packed him up with their camera equipment and flew back to Berlin in 1989 to record the wall's last days.
"Something to Do With the Wall" opens with scene-setting material about the the cold war and the circumstances that gave rise to the wall. It is best, though, when it is looking at history at ground level, from the self-interested point of view of the film makers and other ordinary folk.
There is something both lunatic and hopeless about the mood at the wall in 1986.
The part of the wall on which the film makers concentrate, near Checkpoint Charlie, is covered with graffiti in brilliant colors. Bongo drummers play. People climb the observation platform to stare through binoculars across the wall into binoculars staring back at them from the East German guardhouses.
A rather self-important middle-aged German fellow, an American prisoner of war during World War II, rants about the injustice of it all. Gunther, who lives with his young son, Schnookie, in a trailer near the wall, calls Germans "cowards and pigs" for allowing the wall to stand.
Another youngish German, Dieter, fumes about the circus that the wall has become and about the attitude of uninformed American tourists who scoff at the life on the other side. "They have enough to eat over there," he says.
A professional photographer, who makes a good living taking pictures of the wall for magazines and newspapers abroad, says cheerfully: "It's better than Disney World. It's not plastic. It's cement. It's real. It'll be there for the next hundred years."
A disk jockey talks about her need always to return to Berlin. She feels a sense of energy and danger in Berlin found nowhere else: "It has something to do with the wall."
There is extraordinary excitement when the film makers return in 1989 as the wall is coming down. People are hacking away at it for souvenirs. Gunther reports that because of the hammering, which goes on all night, it's impossible to sleep.
After several days, there are feelings of both anticlimax and anxiety.
What next?
Reports Mr. McElwee on the sound track, "We can now make small talk with an East German guard, but we can't think of anything to ask him."
"Something to Do With the Wall" is not only about history but, more important, it's also about those uncomfortable if fleeting moments when we realize just how little of it we control or understand. Something to Do With the Wall Directed, written, edited, photographed and produced by Marilyn Levine and Ross McElwee; released by First Run Features . At Anthology Film Archives, Second Avenue at Second Street. Running time: 88 minutes. This film has no rating.


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Alan KrigsteinEVP, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer
As executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer, Alan Krigstein is responsible for all financial functions for Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and its subsidiaries. He also plays a key role in strategic planning and strategic new business development for IBC. Krigstein joined the company in 2009.
Krigstein has more than 35 years experience in the insurance and health care industries. Prior to his current position, he served as senior vice president of Finance, chief financial officer, and treasurer at AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies (now AmeriHealth Caritas), one of the country's largest Medicaid organizations, in which IBC is the majority shareholder, serving millions of beneficiaries in more than a dozen states through Medicaid managed care plans, administrative services, benefits management, behavioral health care, and other services. Krigstein had executive oversight of the corporate financial functions and financial oversight of new business development.
Krigstein has served on the board of Community Behavioral HealthCare Network of Pennsylvania (CBHNP), a behavioral health company wholly owned by AmeriHealth Caritas, and currently serves on the Board and Finance Committee of Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA), a leading trade association of Medicaid health plans. He is also a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Krigstein received MHPA's Joy Wheeler Leadership Award in 2008, and was previously nominated for CFO magazine's CFO Excellence Award.
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About St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Church was organized in 1830, when Burlington's population was about 3,500. About 55 Episcopalians met at a local hotel and laid the groundwork for the parish. The first service was conducted on June 12, 1831, in the old Court House. In 1832, the fledgling parish dedicated its new building, a neo-Gothic limestone structure. Under the leadership of the Rt. Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont and Rector of St. Paul's Parish, the church grew, as it did under his several successors.
In 1851, again in 1866, and – after a fire – in 1910, the building was enlarged. The mid-20th century was, for St. Paul's as for numerous other Episcopal parishes, a time of explosive growth. In 1965, the Diocesan Convention, meeting at St. Michael's, Brattleboro, voted that St. Paul's Church be designated the Cathedral Church of the Diocese.
After having served as a home to Episcopalians in Burlington for nearly 140 years, it was destroyed by fire in February, 1971. This traumatic event was met with both grief and a resolve to renew the whole life of the Cathedral, together with the rebuilding of its fabric.At the time of the fire, the City of Burlington was engaged in massive urban renewal projects. As a part of this program, the City offered to swap the land on which Old St. Paul's had stood for a spacious new tract overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Although the decision to change locations was a contentious one, the parish's extensive deliberations led to the decision to accept the city's offer.
Dean (later Bishop) Robert S. Kerr and Miss Barbara Ward provided careful and skilled leadership as the Cathedral set about planning for a new building. There emerged a strong desire to make a new statement in architecture. The prevalent feeling was that the new Cathedral building ought both to redefine what a cathedral should look like, and to return to medieval ideas about the vital role of the cathedral in its city. It should be home to the fine and performing arts; it should be the site of lectures and discussions on the great issues of the day; it should welcome and embrace its city and its world; it should invite lively participation of Vermont Episcopalians as well as people of other faith traditions; and it should avoid becoming a museum of artifacts and memorial tablets.
An international competition was held to determine the architect of the new Cathedral. The winner was the local firm Burlington Associates, now Truex, Cullins & Partners. The new building was dedicated in two days of festivities, in November of 1973.
The Cathedral is made of stressed concrete. Its plain interior is warmed by white oak furnishings and paneling, and a slate floor; the neutral tones of concrete allow colorful vestments and liturgical action to stand out vividly. Light floods in from skylights and vast curtain windows – including the south wall's great window, which allows a panoramic view of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.
The tower holds a chime of eight bells, cast in 1895 by the Meneely Bell Company of Troy, New York. Cast for Old St. Paul's, after the 1971 fire they were refurbished and rehung in the new building; a ninth bell was cracked in the fire, and it is now near the main entrance at the base of the bell tower.
The Memorial Garden, an oasis of calm and beauty on the east side of the nave, dates from the 1970s. In it are interred the ashes of numerous members and friends of St. Paul's. The stonework that encloses the garden incorporates stones from Old St. Paul's.
The organ, designed and built for the new Cathedral in 1973 by Karl Wilhelm of Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, is a neo-classic style tracker-action instrument of two manuals and 24 stops. Since its dedication in 1973, St. Paul's Cathedral has dwelled in the tension of a dual identity: we are both a parish church and the Diocesan Cathedral. Our call is to the pastoral realities of the parish, as well as to service in and hospitality to the larger Diocese. The Cathedral's current ministries include:
- Cathedral Square Corporation, which offers service-enriched housing for and elderly Vermonters and those of low income
- The Joint Urban Ministry Project, which (in co-operation with other Burlington churches) responds to the needs of people in crisis, offering pastoral care, referrals, emergency assistance, and advocacy for persons with low incomes
- Cathedral Arts, which presents a vigorous schedule of concerts and art exhibitions in the nave
- The Christian Meditation Center, which teaches meditation practice throughout the Diocese and offers time and space to groups for Christian meditation
- Numerous opportunities for education and fellowship in small groups – Education for Ministry, the Christian Initiation Process, Foyers, and Discovery Groups – as well as a full Sunday program of Christian Education for children and adults
- Choral singing for children aged 7-18 and for adults, in the Treble Choir, the Canterbury Ensemble and the Adult Choir.


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Global energy-focused private equity firm Denham Capital has agreed to sell its stake in the GNPower Mariveles project, a 600MW power generating plant currently undergoing commissioning in the Philippines' Bataan province.
The stake is to be sold to Ayala Corporation, a Philippines-based conglomerate, for $155m.
Denham's initial investment in the Mariveles project was made alongside project developer Power Partners in June 2007, with financing from a consortium of Chinese and Filipino banks.
Mariveles is the only large-scale plant scheduled to come online in the Philippines in 2013, and will be a low-cost source of power to help fill the nation's anticipated power supply needs, Denham said.
In April this year Denham closed its sixth fund, Denham Commodity Partners Fund VI, on $3bn.
The fund was launched last July and was oversubscribed, exceeding the targeted cover amount of $2.5bn. Nearly 90 per cent of Denham's existing investors participated in Fund VI, the firm said.
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Homocystinuria is an inherited disorder that affects the metabolism of the amino acid methionine.
Homocystinuria is inherited in families as an autosomal recessive trait. This means that the child must inherit the non-working gene from both parents to be seriously affected.
Homocystinuria has several features in common with Marfan syndrome, including joint and eye changes.
Newborn infants appear healthy. Early symptoms, if present at all, are not obvious.
Symptoms may occur as mildly delayed development or failure to thrive. Increasing visual problems may lead to diagnosis of this condition.
Other symptoms include:
- Chest deformities (pectus carinatum, pectus excavatum)
- Flush across the cheeks
- High arches of the feet
- Intellectual disability
- Knock knees
- Long limbs
- Mental disorders
- Nearsightedness
- Spidery fingers (arachnodactyly)
- Tall, thin build
Exams and Tests
The health care provider may notice that the child is tall and thin.
Other signs include:
- Curved spine (scoliosis)
- Deformity of the chest
- Dislocated lens of the eye
If there is poor or double vision, an ophthalmologist should perform a dilated eye exam to look for dislocation of the lens or nearsightedness.
There may be a history of blood clots. Intellectual disability, slightly low IQ, or mental illness are common.
- Amino acid screen of blood and urine
- Genetic testing
- Liver biopsy and enzyme assay
- Skeletal x-ray
- Skin biopsy with a fibroblast culture
- Standard ophthalmic exam
There is no cure for homocystinuria. However, just under half of people respond to high doses of vitamin B6 (also known as pyridoxine).
Those who do respond will need to take vitamin B6 supplements for the rest of their lives. Those who do not respond will need to eat a low-methionine diet. Most will need to be treated with trimethylglycine (a medication also known as betaine).
Neither a low-methionine diet nor medication will improve existing intellectual disability. Medication and diet should be closely supervised by a physician who has experience treating homocystinuria.
Taking a folic acid supplement and adding cysteine (an amino acid) to the diet are helpful.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Although no cure exists for homocystinuria, vitamin B6 therapy can help about half of people affected by the condition.
If the diagnosis is made while a patient is young, starting a low-methionine diet quickly can prevent some intellectual disability and other complications of the disease. For this reason, some states screen for homocystinuria in all newborns.
Patients whose blood homocysteine levels continue to rise are at increased risk for blood clots. Clots can cause serious medical problems and shorten lifespan.
Possible Complications
Most serious complications result from blood clots. These episodes can be life threatening.
Dislocated lenses of the eyes can seriously damage vision. Lens replacement surgery should be considered.
Intellectual disability is a serious consequence of the disease. However, it can be reduced if diagnosed early.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you or a family member shows symptoms of this disorder, especially if you have a family history of homocystinuria. Also call if you have a family history and are planning to have children.
Genetic counseling is recommended for people with a family history of homocystinuria who want to have children. Intrauterine diagnosis of homocystinuria is available. This involves culturing amniotic cells or chorionic villi to test for cystathionine synthase (the enzyme that is missing in homocystinuria).
If there are known gene mutations in the parents or family, samples from chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis can be used to test for these mutations.
Alternative Names
Cystathionine beta synthase deficiency
Rezvani I, Melvin JJ. Defects in metabolism of amino acids. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme J, Schor N, Behrman RE, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 79.
Update Date 2/3/2014
Updated by: Chad Haldeman-Englert, MD, FACMG, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Section on Medical Genetics, Winston-Salem, NC. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Do you use too much salt?
BY Leanne Hudson body+soul
Cutting our salt intake by three grams a day could save 6,000 lives a year. So why are the levels in processed foods rising?
Almost three years ago there was much fanfare when the food manufacturers and retailers were persuaded to voluntarily reduce the amount of salt in bread and breakfast cereals.
Health organisations rejoiced, politicians and food producers patted themselves on the back and there were smiles all round.
Fast forward to 2012 and the picture is not quite so rosy – recent research by health research centre The George Institute in Sydney shows that between 2008 and 2011 average sodium levels in Australian processed foods increased by about nine per cent.
Too much salt kills
The National Heart Foundation of Australia says reducing daily salt intake by three grams per person could save 6000 Australian lives a year, so any move towards reducing the amount of salt we consume is welcome.
Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council recommends four grams of salt per day for good health. Many Australians, however, consume more than twice that.
"Between 75 and 80 per cent of that comes from processed foods," says Professor Bruce Neal, senior director at The George Institute.
Neal's team regularly visited five supermarkets in Sydney over four years and collected the nutritional information on about 30,000 products. That information was entered into a database and revealed the worrying rise in average sodium levels.
"The worst culprits were often new products," Neal says. "It seems some manufacturers are taking their eye off the ball there."
Voluntary guidelines
Neal would not say who the worst offenders are – "We're still gathering and looking at the research," he says – but points out that some manufacturers are trying to do the right thing.
"The nine per cent rise is an average, so sodium levels in some products are falling," he says. "But we need this to happen across the board. The problem is that the government guidelines are voluntary, not compulsory, and the food industry has a big say in what these guidelines are."
He believes the government won't introduce compulsory sodium limits because it is reluctant to start another industry fight after taking on the asbestos and tobacco giants.
The government declined to provide a response for this article, but some food manufacturing organisations have reacted to The George Institute's report.
Industry pact
Shortly after the Institute released its findings, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) announced an industry-first initiative, the Healthier Australia Commitment. "This will take measurable action to help reduce the incidence of chronic preventable diseases in Australia," a media spokesperson said.
The foundation members of the pact include Unilever, Nestlé, Campbell Arnotts, General Mills, Lion, Sugar Australia, Coca-Cola South Pacific and PepsiCo Australia. These manufacturers make up more than 25 per cent of the Australian food and grocery industry.
The AFGC says the companies have committed to reducing the sodium in products by 25 per cent by 2015, which would be equivalent to more than 27,000 kilograms of sodium removed from the food supply.
Neal says there should not be that much salt in food in the first place, especially because people become habituated to the taste. "Salt is often added to products to make them taste better," he says. "Take sausages. They are usually made from poor-quality meat. If they weren't full of salt they'd taste awful."
More than salt?
Neal believes a taste for salt can lead to poor eating habits and says he has a "gut feeling" that foods high in salt tend to be generally unhealthier.
"But you can look at it the other way – if a manufacturer has gone to the trouble to reduce salt levels in a product, they'll probably try to do the right thing regarding things like sugar and fat too," Neal says.
Or could we see a similar situation to what happened when many products went "low-fat"? Some manufacturers upped the sugar content to compensate for the loss of taste.
"This is a concern," Neal says. "We are in the process of looking into whether low-salt means more of something else that's unhealthy."
Better choices
Neal says it can be difficult to find low salt products, so The George Institute, in conjunction with health insurer Bupa, has created a Food Switch app. Smartphone users download it for free, then use their phone to scan an item's bar code. A "traffic light" system shows if the salt, fat and sugar content is high, medium or low, and suggests alternatives. The app can be used for more than 28,000 different foods.
More than 500 milligrams of salt per 100 grams is considered high, while 120 milligrams or less per 100 grams is low.
With a high salt intake linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and even stomach cancer, Neal says the cost of high salt diets on the national purse is enormous.
"It costs about $1 billion to $1.5 billion a year to treat people with problems caused by high blood pressure, which has been linked to a high salt intake," Neal says.
"A 'gold-plated' salt-reduction program that concentrated on taking sodium out of foods at source would cost about $10 to $20 million a year. It's an economic no-brainer," he says.
Salty diets are a leading factor in increasing the risk of high blood pressure, which contributes to more than seven million deaths worldwide each year. More than 30 countries have programs aimed at reducing salt intake. In the US, UK and Canada, specific targets have been set for food categories. Finland has led the way, with population-wide initiatives launched 30 years ago reducing average salt intake by a third.
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Nicole Kidman Releases Personal Video To Fans
Posted on Tue Jun 7th, 2011 11:50am PDT By X17 Staff
Nicole Kidman is getting in touch with her fans via her computer.
On the last day of filming her HBO movie, Hemingway and Gellhorn, the red-haired beauty thanked her fans for their support. Although Nicole looks beautiful in the clip, the message comes across a bit awkward. Keith Urban's wifey says:
- "This is the first of a few [videos]. I'm not going to do loads of them 'cause I'm kind of shy! But I really just wanted to say thank you, everyone.â€
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Merck Serono has spun out a bioinformatics firm, Quartz Bio, to provide biomarker data management and exploratory biomarker analysis services to the pharma industry. The new firm is the second created through Merck Serono's Entrepreneur Partnership Program (EPP), which was launched in April.
The EPP initiative is part of the firm's €30 million (approximately $37.7 million) drive to support the establishment of spin-out and start-up firms based on technologies and compounds developed in-house. Merck Serono says spinning out promising IP will reduce the burden on its existing employees, given the recent closure of its Geneva headquarters as part of a major restructuring program. The EPP has already led to creation of Parkinson's disease therapeutics firm Prexton Therapeutics at the end of July.
Quartz Bio will be hosted at the Blue Box offices of FONGIT, a start-up accelerate in Geneva, which is supported by the local authorities. Merck Serono says it will itself use the services provided by Quartz Bio, and expects to put around €2 million (around $2.5 million)-worth of work the firm's way over the next 2–3 years.
"An increasing number of pharmaceutical companies are integrating a stratified medicine approach in their drug development process in order to predict how patients will respond to a specific therapy," comments founder and CEO Jérôme Wojcik, former director of bioinformatics at Merck Serono. "Biomarker analyses are at the heart of stratified medicine, and we believe that Quartz Bio's flexible and highly specialized services will bring added value to pharmaceutical companies for the development of new drug."
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Police say a high-speed chase led by 24-year-old Malika E. Bell ended after she crashed into two parked cars.
The chase began about 4:10 a.m. Thursday, when Kingston police saw a gold Cadillac traveling across the Market Street Bridge from Wilkes-Barre at "an extremely high rate of speed," according to a police affidavit.
An officer pulled out as the vehicle continued to accelerate, and got behind it at a stop light on Wyoming Avenue near Burger King, police said.
The light turned green and the vehicle took off, despite the officer's lights and siren.
The vehicle continued speeding down U.S. Route 11 through Edwardsville and Larksville, entering Plymouth where it hit a parked car in the 500 block of West Main Street, police said.
The vehicle turned on Coal Street in Plymouth and hit another parked car in front of 157 Franklin St., where it came to a stop, police said.
An unidentified man in the passenger seat jumped out and ran, and police took Bell, the driver, into custody.
The affidavit says Bell told police she fled because she had a bad experience with police in the past. Police say Bell found it "comical" that she was driving faster than the police and that she "almost got away," according to the affidavit.
Bell, of 121 High St., Plymouth, is charged with felony fleeing or attempting to elude police and a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment. She was also cited for driving without a license, speeding and hitting two unattended vehicles.
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Like we said, it's possible that Marion Cotillard may or may not pick up a nomination for her performance in "Rust & Bone." But however good she is in the film (the answer: very), it's not her we've been thinking about since we saw the film -- instead, it's her lesser known co-star Matthias Schoenaerts. Originally intended to be played by a non-professional actor from the boxing world, director Jacques Audiard handpicked Schoenaerts after seeing him in the excellent "Bullhead" (an unlikely Foriegn Language nominee last year), and the gamble paid off. The Belgian actor plays Ali, a single father who comes with his son, Sam, to the South of France to find whatever work he can, only to fall into a curious friendship with a killer whale trainer (Cotillard) who lost her legs in a terrible accident. And he's positively magnetic, bringing a tremendous physicality to the part (he'd lost the weight from "Bullhead," and trained up again to an entirely different shape), along with a sheer screen presence that many have compared to Tom Hardy. But there's far more to it than just presence; Ali's a good man at heart, as demonstrated by the way he never treats Stephanie as a victim, but he also has no idea how to live with his son, or articulate his feelings, as he struggles to find some semblance of stability. Schoenaerts might not be in the running in a tough Best Actor field this year, but there's every chance of it happening down the line (perhaps in the upcoming "Suite Francaise," opposite Michelle Williams. Speaking of... ).
This pick isn't within the realm of impossibility. In fact, Emmanuelle Riva, the co-star of Michael Haneke's sobering, brutal, but compassionate "Amour," has an outside shot at a nomination, but so far she hasn't snagged any strong augur nominations like the SAGs or Globes. And it's also a French-language drama -- a tough one at that -- so it has that working against it slightly as well. Co-starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert, "Amour" focuses on an retired elderly couple, with a daughter who lives abroad. When Anne (Riva) suffers a stroke it paralyses her on one side of her body, leaving her husband (Trintignant) to look after her. And it's difficult to watch, as Anne transforms from lovely elderly lady, to a someone who is gradually losing their grasp on the world, becoming more frail, angrier and then essentially mute, forced to be completely dependent on her husband. Sequences where Anne is still cogent, but unable to move her arms are particularly moving and resonant; she loathes pity and the slow dissolution of her dignity makes her bitter at the world and the ordeal she has to go through. When the character is bedridden, your heart bleeds when she's lost the will to live, and all of this nuanced decay comes directly from Riva, who puts in a stunning performance (we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Trintignant and Huppert, but it's Riva that has the almost impossibly difficult task to bear). Will it happen? Hard to say. It's a crowded field and Helen Mirren ("Hitchcock"), Naomi Watts ("The Impossible") and Rachel Weisz ("The Deep Blue Sea") seem to be jockeying for the last slots in this category, but we certainly wouldn't be mad if she snuck in there for this truly deserving performance.
Given that she's had two nominations in the last two years (for "Blue Valentine" and "My Week With Marilyn," with a supporting nod for "Brokeback Mountain" not too far in the past either), perhaps it's unsurprising that Michelle Williams is sitting the race out this year. But in a young career stuffed with outstanding work, we think the peak so far might have come in Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" as Margot, a happily married twentysomething who finds temptation away from her husband (Seth Rogen) in the shape of neighbor Luke Kirby. Thanks in part to Polley's writing and direction, it's an extraordinarily detailed portrait of a curiously recognizable woman; a sort of gender inversion of the manchild trope we've seen so often on screen. Somewhat naive and babyish (in part because of her relationship with Rogen), Margot, once she meets Kirby's Daniel, starts to get that grass-is-greener feeling we've all felt at one time or another. The brilliance of Williams' turn here is that she doesn't court any sympathy from the audience (one of the reasons many took so fervently against the film). Margot can be silly, insufferable, frustrating, even a little vacant, and her quest to fill that empty void is clearly not going to end well. And yet Williams never judges or points in one way or another, and because of that, you feel deeply for her. It's a gift of a part, and while it'll go sadly unrecognized by the Academy, we'll cherish it for a long time to come.
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Kevin Favreau, the chief FBI agent in Nevada, is retiring after almost 30 years with the bureau, according to a report by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Favreau, 51, leaves the bureau to become executive director of First Tee of Southern Nevada, a nonprofit gold leadership program for youth.
"I am still only 51 years old, and the new job with the First Tee of Southern Nevada is right up my alley," Favreau told the Reno newspaper. "t was a great career. After 29 years … I think it is just time to try something new."
A replacement has not yet been announced, the newspaper reported.
Favreau came to Las Vegas in January 2010 as special agent in charge for the Las Vegas Division. His long FBI career began in 1983 as a support employee in Boston.
In 1988, after completing training as a special agent, he moved to the Pittsburgh Division, working for eight years on counterespionage and counterintelligence.
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Avalanche's Roy wins Jack Adams Award for coach of year; Nathan MacKinnon wins Calder Trophy
Ryan O'Reilly takes home Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
LAS VEGAS - Colorado Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy has been awarded the Jack Adams award for NHL coach of the year at a ceremony held in Las Vegas Tuesday.
Roy, who was a top-three selection on 89 of the 95 ballots cast, including 68 first-place votes for 399 voting points, is the first coach to claim the Jack Adams Award in his first NHL season since Washington's Bruce Boudreau in 2008, according to NHL.com.
"There's no way a coach can win this award without a total commitment from his players," Roy said in his acceptance speech.
Patrick Roy adds to his collection. Here's his first as a coach. #NHLAwards pic.twitter.com/uzg5fZIfEn— NHL (@NHL) June 25, 2014
He beat out Mike Babcock from the Detroit Red Wings and Jon Cooper from the Tampa Bay Lightning for the award.
Roy lead the Avalanche to 52 victories and 112 points in a historic turnaround that helped the team finish third in the overall League standings after placing 29th in 2012-13.
Colorado won the Central Division championship before losing a seven-game playoff series to the Minnesota Wild in the opening round.
Under his leadership, Colorado became the first club since the NHL expanded to 21 teams in 1979 to go from the bottom three to top three in a single season.
The Avalanche matched a franchise record for wins, recorded the NHL's best road mark (26-11-4), ranked fourth in the League in goals (250) and did not suffer a regulation loss when leading after two periods (35-0-3).
"To all Avalanche fans, thank you for your support. See you in the fall," Roy said.
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Other major award winners from the Avalanche included Nathan MacKinnon, who won the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year, and Ryan O'Reilly who takes home the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the player who showed the most sportsmanship and gentlemanly play.
All smiles for this guy. @Mackinnon9 takes a photo with his new hardware. #NHLAwards pic.twitter.com/edVTXodwgI— NHL (@NHL) June 24, 2014
MacKinnon was a near-unanimous choice for the Calder Trophy, awarded "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League."
The 18-year-old received 130 first-place votes from the 137 ballots cast and becomes the youngest Calder winner ever.
MacKinnon topped all first-year players in points (63), goals (24-tied), assists (39), power-play goals (8), game-winning goals (5-tied) and shots (241).
The Cole Harbour, N.S., native was the first overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft and tallied at least one point in 13 consecutive games for the Avalanche from Jan. 25 to March 6 (5-13—18), breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record for the longest single-season point streak by a player age 18 or younger (12 games).
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The @Avalanche just scored a hat trick at the 2014 #NHLAwards. @Ryan_OReilly90 poses with the Lady Byng. pic.twitter.com/mGqJccwAiG— NHL (@NHL) June 25, 2014
O'Reilly received 110 first-place votes from 137 ballots cast to win the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded "to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability," as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
O'Reilly tallied a career-high 64 points as the Avalanche captured the Central Division title. He led the club in goals (28), power-play goals (nine) and game-winners (six-tied), and led the NHL in takeaways (83) for the second time in the past three seasons.
O'Reilly was flagged for just one minor penalty all season.
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I am thinking about the impossible to know with a reasonable level of certainty. What do two people have to do or not do to make a marriage work or die a flaming death much like mine? AC/DC's song "Shot Down in Flames" comes to mind. While I admit that the world is probably a safer place for all involved if I live alone, I wonder what it was that I obviously did or did not do. I know what my problem with the whole grown-ups behaving badly thing is/was. No need to cover old ground, or extremely tainted water under a falling bridge.
I realize that having a diagnosis such as Bipolar tends to knock you a little sideways, and your perceptions of yourself in relation to the world changes a bit (maybe more than a bit). However, once you have recovered your senses, and you happen to be a highly functional mentally interesting person, shouldn't things get easier not more tedious? Yes, I flew off the handle one too many times, but once again, I wasn't the one who could not leave my computer sometimes for days on end. I tried to communicate, but how do you communicate with someone who does not know how to communicate with you? It's like clapping with one hand (thanks to Anthrax for that analogy).
What are you supposed to do with someone who has no desire to really get to know who you are apart from your interestingness, and does not seem to have any desire to learn anything substantial about Bipolar? I, upon receiving said diagnosis, went out and read everything that seemed legitimate. How can you battle that which you do not understand fully? Answer: you cannot effectively deal with any illness unless you know what you are dealing with.
This was supposed to be forever, but I guess that's a big fairy tale society tells little girls: your knight in shining armor will come and all will be sparkly and shiny and smiley and happily ever after. They lied. I think I met my knight in shining armor, and ditched him to get married to a man who turned out to be a far cry from the "face" he put on during the courtship. I am sure he feels the same about me, but I really do not know how to be anything but myself. He knew my moods weren't completely handled, but he said, no problem, he could handle it. Apparently not.
So, now I am in my early 40's looking at starting all over again. Dating in my 30's was not a problem because of said knight in shining armor. I never had to worry about someone to go drink beer and listen to blues bands with. He was always there for me, in all ways. What the hell was I thinking? Now, I am left to pick up the wreckage that used to be a perfectly satisfying life. I did not have self-worth problems, I did not have problems with how I looked, I did not have a problem with how feminine I was or was not. I didn't have a problem with a lot of things. As I imagine he didn't either. But, I wasn't shattering his masculinity every single day.
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PoP Tech – Michael Jackson get Jacked & JR Smith's Twitter TroublePosted on June 6, 2012
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Cross classification AACR2 style is creeping back in here. Many things are both video and digital, specifically DVDs. The glossary definition of video even mentions the DVD player. Why are DVDs classed as digital when most video catalogers will be looking for them under video? Solution and Reason: Prefer content over carrier whenever there is a conflict in the classification of carrier categories in Chapter 3. Martha M. Yee, UCLA Film & Television Archive 5/10/2007
3.20.0 Basic instructions on recording digital file characteristics
18.104.22.168 Scope
220.127.116.11 Sources of information
184.108.40.206 Recording digital file characteristics
184.108.40.206 File type
CLARIFICATION: It seems redundant to record file type when RDA has already instructed us to record this information as a subunit under "Extent". The instruction in this section might be revised to say to only include file type if it hasn't been elsewhere in the record. de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07 In dealing with a digital image (vs. many digital images) one generally would not refer to it as an "image file", but rather as a "digital image". de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07
The use of video file in this instruction seems to contradict the definition provided for video file in the glossary which requires a playback device. Is a computer considered a playback device? Kincy/MLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 5/16/07
[QUESTION: Are computer games considered program files? Or what? In content type, the definition of "moving images" sounds as if it is intended to cover "video games" so does that make Doom a video file? What about text-based computer games? Can we have some examples in this section? de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07
126.96.36.199 Encoding format
I think this listing should be identified as examples of encoding formats, especially since the Content Standards for Digital Geo-spatial Metadata lists more than 30 encoding formats for cartographic images. Delete "GIS" in the list under "Image encoding formats" since there are a number of formats used by GIS systems (e.g., ARC/INFO). Also, PDF can be used to encode any type of file and listing it only under text seems misleading, especially if this list is presented as anything other than examples of encoding methods used to encode specific types of data. MANGAN 5/7/07 Yes! MOORE/MAGERT 5/18/07
QUESTION: So, I can use multiple terms as appropriate -- but can I use a description such as DualDisc instead, per 18.104.22.168.2, or would I need to specify the two different types of encoding on each side of a DualDisc? Glennan 5/18/07
Example in Appendix 1 would suggest that DualDisc (or dual disc) is not a carrier type, but merely a conventional-terminology placeholder in the extent area. The example does list each type of encoding separately. "PowerPoint" is certainly a useful term, but I don't know if it represents a single encoding format. Scharff, MusLA, 5/21/07
Closed list is a drastic mistake. And "GIS" is not a format. LARSGAARD/MAGERT 5/20/07
Audio encoding formats
Data encoding formats
Image encoding formats
Delete "GIS" in the list since there are a number of formats used by GIS systems (e.g., ARC/INFO). MANGAN 5/7/07
Add, JPEG2000, and surely more to come. Also, need to distinguish between a "digital image file" (which may mean a file with many digital images on it) vs. a single digital image, which should be called a "digital image". de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07
Text encoding formats
Video encoding formats
Under video encoding formats, why is MPEG-4 the only MPEG on the list? Why isn't MPEG-2 or MPEG-3 on the list? How were the standard terms selected? Kincy/MLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 5/16/07
18.104.22.168 File size
Using abbreviations of any kind is a mistake; spell out megabyte, kilobyte, etc. The exception to that is if the cataloger has no way of knowing what an abbreviation means. LARSGAARD/MAGERT 5/20/07
Disagree with Larsgaard; these are terms in common use. Glennan 5/30/07
[QUESTION] A downloadable audiobook may vary in size according to the sound quality of the file chosen. Should all choices be reflected in one statement, perhaps in an inclusive file size? (example: 5-25 MB). Then specific information regarding the relationship of file sizes to sound quality could be given in a general note. de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07
I would also include the term, terabytes (TB). Knop for Fieg, ATLA, 5/18/2007
True; as written, this rule is a closed list -- that's probably not advisable. Glennan 5/30/07
188.8.131.52 Transmission speed
184.108.40.206 Representation of cartographic images
Change "Digital graphic representation". Only raster encodes images. Vector data is alpha-numeric information which can be used to produce cartographic images. Since some catalogers dealing with still images are interested in being able to supply this information for raster images why should they be excluded from doing so? This is an optional element so there is no reason not to broaden it. MANGAN 5/7/07 Agreed. MOORE/MAGERT 5/18/07
[EXAMPLE] We found the layout of the examples to be confusing and not helpful to those unfamiliar with representation of cartographic images. They appear to be grouped together. Is it possible to have a data type without an object type? Kincy/MLA Liaison on behalf of NLM 5/16/07
"Representation of cartographic images" : Don't use that word, "images," unless all that is meant is remote-sensing images. Call it a cartographic resource. LARSGAARD/MAGERT 5/20/07
Change "digitally encoded cartographic images" to "digital cartographic resources and still images". Change "number of objects used to represent spatial information" to "number of objects used to represent the information". MANGAN 5/7/07 Agreed. MOORE/MAGERT 5/18/07
Change to "If additional details on the digital representation of a cartographic image (e.g., topology level, compression) are considered important for identification or selection, give them in a note (see 3.20.1)." to "If additional details on the digital graphic representation (e.g., topology level, compression) are considered important for identification or selection, give them in a note (see 3.20.1)." MANGAN 5/7/07
3.20.1 Notes on digital file characteristics
18.104.22.168 Scope
18.104.22.168 Sources of information
184.108.40.206 Details of digital file characteristics
[QUESTION] Are these notes where we would specify whether a video or audio file is streaming or downloadable? If so, they should be included as examples. If not, then there needs to be somewhere in the record where we can record this information either in the digital file characteristics (preferred) or in the notes, if it cannot be recorded with sufficient clarity there (e.g., there is also a downloadable version as well as streaming on the same website). de Groat for OLAC, 5/16/07


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The Wagner College campus on Grymes Hill in the New York City borough of Staten Island is not a huge one, but it is rich in picturesque locales. This volume is an attempt to gather some of the most memorable of those images so that you can take them with you, no matter where you go.
They begin with a panoramic photo of the Verrazano Bridge, one of the enduring images of the world as seen from The Hill, followed by a few iconic shots of the modern campus.
Then we take you on a "walk around" that opens with a historic panoramic shot taken in the summer of 1918, showing the extent of the entire campus at the time, shortly before Wagner opened the new campus on Staten Island after moving from Rochester, New York. Many of the older buildings on campus are also introduced with historical photos, to help you place them in context.
Campus images are drawn from shoots conducted during the seasons in which school is in session. A number of them show winter scenes on Grymes Hill -- and if you had spent the winter here the last couple of years, they would look very familiar to you!
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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc (OPTT)
Q2 2012 Earnings Call
December 09, 2011 10:00 am ET
Charles Frederick Dunleavy - Chief Executive Officer and Director
Brian M. Posner - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Secretary and Treasurer
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Brian M. Posner
Thank you. Welcome to Ocean Power Technologies' earnings conference call for the second quarter ended October 31, 2011. OPT issued its earnings press release earlier today, and this coming Monday we will file the company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All public filings can be viewed on the SEC website at sec.gov, or you may go to the OPT website, oceanpowertechnologies.com. With me on today's call is Chuck Dunleavy, our Chief Executive Officer.
Please advance to Slide 2 of our presentation. During the course of this conference call, management may make projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or financial performance of the company within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. As indicated in this slide, these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions made by management regarding future circumstances over which the company may have little or no control and involve risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. We refer you to the company's Form 10-K and other recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of these and other risk factors.
I'll now turn the call over to Chuck Dunleavy, OPT's CEO.
Charles Frederick Dunleavy
Thank you, Brian, and thanks to everyone for being with us today.
First, turning to Slide 3. Let me briefly review our major accomplishments of recent months. It's been a very active period. We deployed our unique autonomous PowerBuoy for the Navy's Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy or LEAP program off the coast of New Jersey in August. Having performed very well, including surviving Hurricane Irene, the LEAP PowerBuoy represents an exciting stage in the development and delivery of our autonomous PowerBuoys. The ocean trials of our PB150 PowerBuoy in Scotland came to a successful conclusion in October as planned. As previously discussed on our conference calls, we are very pleased with the performance of the PB150 and are now speaking with various potential customers and government entities, who may wish to utilize the PowerBuoy for commercial applications in the future.
Most recently, we announced an important collaboration with Lockheed Martin, plus significant progress in Spain as I'll review further momentarily. OPT will shortly retrieve its PB40 PowerBuoy device, which has been deployed at the test site of the U.S. Marine Corps Base at Oahu, Hawaii, following the successful completion of this demonstration project. During its 2-year period of deployment, the buoy became the first-ever wave energy device to be connected to the U.S. grid, survived tsunami wave conditions and achieved over 5.5 million cycles in operation.
In addition, the system features our new direct drive power take-off system, which is a major technology upgrade from our previous hydraulic power take-off. The U.S. Navy remains a valued OPT partner, and we are in discussions regarding the next stage of prospective commercial-scale wave power stations in Hawaii.
We ended the quarter with a backlog of nearly $9 million as compared to $7 million at July 31, 2011, and also with cash-on-hand of approximately $40 million. We are very optimistic about the future of Ocean Power Technologies and what 2012 will bring. But now let me go into a little more detail on our major initiatives.
Turning to Slide 4. I'm happy to say that our LEAP autonomous PowerBuoy performed well during its ocean demonstration, providing persistent power in all wave conditions, withstanding the 50-foot high waves of Hurricane Irene. The LEAP PowerBuoy which was taken out of water several weeks ago at the completion of its ocean trials, as provided under our contract with the U.S. Navy. We're very encouraged by the potential market for our autonomous PowerBuoy product.
As a reminder, the autonomous PowerBuoy operates totally independently and can generate power in all wave conditions using OPT's proprietary power management system. This includes persistent power generation in the ranges needed for sophisticated vessel detection and tracking systems for maritime surveillance along coasts. Systems currently being used for remote power is the often utilized diesel generators, which require frequent maintenance and fuel replenishment and can be very noisy.
The autonomous PowerBuoy is also appropriate for oil and gas platforms, offshore fish farming and desalination. Consider the number of oil and gas platforms worldwide that could benefit from a clean, quiet and persistent source of power right from the waves where they operate. Given its smaller size and variety of applications, the autonomous PowerBuoy is seeing increasing interest and we're marketing it aggressively. We believe there's a bright future for such buoys across a multitude of markets.
Turning to Slide 5. I'd now like to provide an update on our project in Reedsport, Oregon, and the latest on our collaboration with Lockheed Martin. This agreement with Lockheed is an important step for the commercialization of our PowerBuoys. Working on the Reedsport project, Lockheed will provide their expertise in the areas of design for manufacturing and systems integration to enhance our proprietary technology. We're committed to improving power conversion efficiency, reliability, manufacturability and lowering the cost of marine operations and maintenance. Lockheed's expertise in large-scale manufacturing and supply chain management will greatly assist us in reaching these goals in a timely manner thus making our applications more attractive to our potential partners and customers.
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A windowed door with extensive glazing might seem like a real challenge, but a two-part hanger consisting of an outside knob held against the glass by a strong magnet placed on the inside, such as the Hanger Knob from Lee Valley, will hold up to three pounds (1.5 kg), so you can simply suspend the wreath from the knob with ribbon.
If you've got a wooden door, hammer a flat-headed metal tack into the top edge (check that the door still opens and closes as usual). As you tap in the tack, punch through one end of a length of wide, festive ribbon (fold the end over to avoid a tear), then tie it in a bow around your wreath.
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Stanford Falls in Regional Final
The Cardinal ends the season with a 39-21 overall record
Cardinal Defeats UNI to Reach Third Straight Regional Final
Stanford will face Nebraska at 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, May 19
Stanford Falls at Nebraska, 7-1
The Cardinal will play an elimination game on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. PT
Freshmen Power Cardinal Past Tulsa
Senior pitcher Teagan Gerhart earned her 100th career win
Three Cardinal Nab All-Region Honors
White and Winter are two-time honorees
Stanford Softball vs. Pacific - 02/17/12
Stanford Softball vs. Pacific - 02/17/12
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As a Freshman in 2012: NFCA Second Team All-West Region ... Second Team All-Pac-12 Conference ... All-Pac-12 Freshmen Team member ... started 58 games in left field ... led the team, ranked fourth in the Pac-12 and 32nd nationally with 54 runs scored ... led the conference with 12 sacrifice bunts and ranked seventh in the Pac-12 with 68 hits ... her 54 runs scored were the sixth-most in a single season in school history ... second on the team with 21 muti-hit games and fifth with seven multiple RBI games ... scored two runs in the season opener versus Cal State Northridge (2/10) ... registered her first collegiate hit in the loss to Texas A&M (2/10) ... tallied a single, a double and two RBI against Portland State (2/11) ... went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI in the win over Texas Tech (2/11) ... was 3-for-3 with a run scored, an RBI and a walk in the win over Nevada (2/17) ... tallied two hits, two RBI and scored two runs in the win over San Diego State (2/26) ... hit .588 (10-for-17) with seven runs scored and three RBI at the DeMarini Invitational (3/2-4) ... hit her second homer of the season in extra-innings to help defeat Indiana (3/2) ... went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI against the Hoosiers ... the only Cardinal to register multiple hits in the win over Northwestern (3/2) ... tied her season high with three runs scored against Ole Miss (3/9) ... led the team with four hits in the Pac-12 series against then-No. 2 California, including an RBI double off of Valerie Arioto ... tallied two hits and scored two runs in a 4-1 win at Arizona (3/30) ... went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI in the series opener against Oregon (4/5) ... scored two runs in a 7-6 win over the Ducks (4/6) ... hit an inside the park home run in the series finale versus Oregon (4/7) ... hit a three-run homer for a season high three RBI in the win at UCLA (4/10) ... went 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI at ASU (4/20) ... hit a home run, tallied three RBI and scored two runs at Utah (5/11) ... followed up with a double and a triples to go with three RBI and two runs scored in the series finale against the Utes (5/12) ... tallied a hit against Lousiana-Lafayette and scored a run against Baylor (5/19) in the NCAA Tournament.
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High School: A 2011 graduate of Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. ... lettered four times in softball ... captained her team as a junior and senior ... region champions in 2008 and 2011 ... appeared in the state tournament three times (2008, 2009, 2011) ... placed first in regular season in 2011 ... a two-time first-team all-region selection (2008 & 2009) ... three-time AIA Scholar Athlete (2008, 2010, 2011) and two-time AIA Scholar Athlete Honor Roll (2010 & 2011) ... all-state honorable mention in 2009, all-state second team in 2010 and all-state first team in 2011 ... two-time team MVP ... 2011 Desert Valley Player of the Year, all-region, and Scottsdale Republic Player of the Year ... ESPN RISE 2011 First Team All-American ... holds high school season records for singles, hits, runs scored, triples, and second in stolen bases ... also holds career records for singles, hits and runs scored.
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