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Since she is very against us taking her, what would happen if she calls the cops? The fact that she is so convinced the final say falls soley on her, and her refusing her child a trip to disney for selfish reasons can only lead me to believe she could do something irrational.
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Despite available religious exemption, five times more haredim than seculars use Profile 21 to avoid draft, army says
Yossi Yehoshua
Published: 12.20.10, 21:20 / Israel News
Yossi Yehoshua
Not only a "secular disease". Data published by the IDF Personnel Directorate reveals that the rate of ultra-Orthodox who obtain psychiatric exemptions is five times higher than among secular people, although they have another "escape route" out of military service.
The IDF Personnel Directorate explained the phenomenon by claiming it is much easier to issue exemptions based on a profile 21 than it is to postpone military service due to religious studies.
According to an official at the IDF mental health department, it is easier for haredim to fool mental health officers because they do not understand and know the haredi sector as well as the secular one.

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U.S. Department of State 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report - New Zealand
|United States Department of State
|Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
|Publication Date
|3 June 2005
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|United States Department of State, U.S. Department of State 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report - New Zealand, 3 June 2005, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4680d859b.html [accessed 27 May 2016]
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New Zealand (Tier 1)
New Zealand is a destination country for women trafficked from Thailand and other countries in Asia for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Some women smuggled into the country are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation to repay substantial debts to traffickers. New Zealand has a sizable number of children in prostitution, many of whom may be trafficking victims.
The Government of New Zealand fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government should make a greater effort to prosecute trafficking offenses and raise public awareness of New Zealand's trafficking problem.
New Zealand's laws criminalize trafficking, slavery and child sexual exploitation. There were no convictions in the last year relating to transnational trafficking, but there were two convictions of brothel keepers for employing underage prostitutes under the Prostitution Reform Bill of 2003, which legalized prostitution in New Zealand and clamped down on trafficking of children for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. There were seven convictions for offenses involving underage prostitutes. Penalties for trafficking crimes carry a maximum of 20 years' imprisonment and substantial fines. The law extends prosecution to any person receiving financial gain from an act involving children exploited as prostitutes, and it prohibits sex tourism. The New Zealand Government cooperated in the foreign prosecution of its citizens who committed child sex offenses in other countries.
During the reporting period, the New Zealand Government's protection efforts continued to meet minimum standards. The government supported NGOs including one that provided services to women in the commercial sex industry and some trafficking victims. The government provides physical protection, medical services, travel documents, and repatriation for victims. There were no reports of trafficking victims who had been jailed, fined or deported.
The government has programs geared to protecting children. To prevent exploitation of new immigrants and refugees, the New Zealand Government also has a number of campaigns to make them aware of their employment rights and human rights. The government in early 2005 approved a National Plan of Action on Trafficking in Persons. Although too new to verify its implementation, the plan establishes procedures for victim identification; provides victims access to specialized shelters; and provides awareness raising and training on trafficking.


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Recently I've been talking with a few people about the idea of a WordCamp ( WordPress conference ) in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. This isn't something that one person can do alone though, so I'm putting out the call for help and feed back. If you are interested in helping make this happen we'll be getting together for a planning meeting:
Applebee's in Draper 105 E 12300 S Draper, Utah 84020 Thursday 10 April 2008 @ 6:30pm Upcoming Event Page
One of the reasons we chose that Applebee's location is because they have free WiFi, so feel free to bring your laptops.
In addition to people helping, I want to hear from Utah WordPress users about what they'd like to see in a WordCamp. Any thoughts on potential locations (in the greater SLC area), sponsors, topics and speakers? If you are interested in presenting let me know. And if you are interested in sponsoring WordCamp Utah, then I really, really want you to contact me :-)
First order of business is to lock in a date and location, so that everyone can make plans.
Also, a big thanks to Thom Allen for being willing to get involved and push me to get moving on this.


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195 Changebridge Road, Montville Municipal Building
SUBCOMMITTEE Minutes OF January 21,
Karkowsky - present
Ms. Nielson - present
Mr. Lipari - present
Mr. Visco - present
PC09-40 Towaco
Crossings, LLC – 8 Whitehall Rd.
– B: 96, L: 3 – restaurant/retail
Present: Jim Stathis, Tony Garrett, Mark Walker, PE
& Jack Costantino
Applicant is
in contact with NJ Transit for shared parking.
Applicant advised to meet with adjacent owner (vet building) to seek
possibility of cross easements/future connections/etc.
proposes a pedestrian bridge that will connect to Towaco Transit area.
instructed to look at further reduction of impervious coverage and to discuss
these concepts with the Planning Board engineer. Applicant also required addressing
aquifer as well as presentation of soil logs and water table info.
architect to address: adequate space for
collection, separation (recycle), storage and cartage for all tenant
(restaurant, retail & residence) trash removal. Applicant indicated
the restaurant will be responsible for the entire complex trash management
which may result in a larger dumpster area or more or frequent service. Applicant was asked to include a pedestrian
lighting plan with revisions to ensure safety of those using dumpster area. Look at some type of berm in front of the
parking lot interior.
indicated all mechanicals are located within the structure; none will be
installed on roofline.
Once final
drawings are available, obtain some input from some of our review agencies like
DRC, HPRC; contact EDC and Chamber of Commerce
for support reviews and meet with Towaco Fire Prevention Offices (Harry Shaub).
As to shared
parking concept, applicant requested to continue conversations with NJ Transit,
to contact owner of animal hospital as it relates possible easements/future
connections should animal hospital vacates and to further discussions with the
County as to their proposal of parallel parking on Whitehall parking, and to
make sure that the applicant develops a valet plan acceptable to this board and
Fire Prevention.
Applicant was
asked to submit a summary of all operations at the Towaco Crossing as it
relates to Hours of operation (indoor and out), any entertainment and/or any
banquet use. How will these activities
relate to retail use?
hopes to submit by March and anticipates opening October 2011.
National Fleet Parts, Inc. – 2
Como Ct. – B: 41, L: 1.4 – warehouse/storage 1,200
s.f. for parts – hours of operation 8am-5pm Mon-Fri – no signage requested – 1
employee – no outdoor storage – no commercial vehicles – carried for more
One Concept USA, Inc. – 26 Chapin
Rd. Unit 1102 – B: 183, L: 7.1 – Office (1,330
s.f.)/warehouse (5,670 s.f.) for distribution of hair care products – 5
employees – 8am-5pm Mon-Fri – 1 tractor trailer delivery per day – signage to
be in compliance with approved theme (First Industrial) – Approved subject to
compliance with agency findings and use letter, as well as sigh theme.
PMSP/F07-12 K&S at Montville – 49 Old Ln. – B: 39.07, L: 2 – discussion
re: wing walls
Mrs. White indicated this developer
constructed an entrance wall with gates which were not part of the prior
approval. Since he has to come in with
soil removal, applicant will be required to amend his application for
appropriate variances and approvals at the same time.
Mrs. White was asked to deal with
various window signs that were placed without approval.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda White


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With her blonde hair, great looks, hot body and beautiful breasts, Tommie is most definitely easy on the eyes. Her site looks pretty good too. It's got a good design and it couldn't be much easier to navigate. There are links that take you to all its different sections and you'll be pleased to know that they're clearly marked.
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Department of Biomedical Sciences; Director of Technology Development - Office of Research and Graduate Studies
Member of the GSBS Faculty
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA (1991-1995)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA (1989-1990)
Ph.D., Developmental Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1985)
B.Sc. (Hons), Zoology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1980)
B.Sc., Zoology and Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1979)
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX (2008-present)
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX (2004-2008)
Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M Health Science Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, College Station, TX (2000-present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX (1997-2004)
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1995-1996)
Research Officer, MRC Research Unit for Pediatric Mineral Metabolism, Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa (1985-1988)
Teaching responsibilities include:
Prenatal Craniofacial Development, Cell and Molecular Biology of Oral and Craniofacial Tissues, Graduate Student Colloquium (course director), General Histology (course director) and research mentor for D.D.S. specialty students.
My early research focused on bringing a developmental biology approach to understanding craniofacial anomalies in children, specifically craniosynostosis (premature obliteration of cranial sutures). I was the first researcher to demonstrate that tissue interactions are required for normal suture development and that the dura mater contained cells secreting soluble factors responsible for regulating suture development. My focus was on the role of Tgf-ßs in regulating suture patency, and I showed that Tgf-ß signaling via Erk pathways was responsible for Tgf-ß-induced suture closure. Later publications showed that Tgf-ß interacted with Eft in a sequential manner to regulate suture patency. My expertise in cranial growth and development led to a team-based approach to understanding bone generation, augmentation, wound healing and repair during surgical repair of cranial defects. Several publications show novel combinations of scaffolds and growth factors for accelerating bone augmentation and healing. A postdoctoral fellow and I collaborated in the development of a novel bone transport distraction device for repairing large bone gaps in the mandible using STTR and SBIR funding from NIH. Three patents (7,182,785,7,998,216, 8,287,573) were assigned to our company, Craniotech ACR Devices, LLC. FDA 510K clearance K062572, Regulation#21 CFR 872.4760, Product code MQN, Trade/Device name Craniotech Bone Transport Reconstruction Plate (BTRP) was received for the device described in patent 7, 182,785. The FDA is requiring clinical IND studies prior to clearing the bidirectional BTRP-02. An industry partnership is being sought to complete these studies. Using the bone transport devices, we were able to test the ability of distraction regenerate bone to accommodate implant placement, allowing for functional restoration of patients with large mandibular bone deficits without the requirements of vascularized bone grafting. A bidirectional bone transport device allowed for the first time the ability to test in the same animal the quality and quantity of regenerate produced using dentate vs. edentulous transport segments, one on either side of a complete anterior mandible resection defect. It was found that dentate and edentulous segments produced similar regenerate bone conforming closely to the shape of the reconstruction plate. It remains to be shown that implants placed in the regenerate can restore functional occlusion in a human. In parallel with my own entrepreneurial activities, I have collaborative research activities testing and developing new dental materials and new topical gels and drug delivery devices for use in the oral cavity. Recent collaborative activities have resulted in new endodontic materials being tested with Phase I and II SBIR funding to Primus Consulting, LLC, and a novel finding that an antioxidant dental gel developed by Periosciences can mitigate the effects of metal toxicity on oral cells.
Dr. Opperman has served as president of the American Association of Anatomists, the Craniofacial Biology Group of the International Association for Dental Research, and the Bioengineering Interest Group of Dallas/Fort Worth, as well as serving as Councilor of the Dallas chapter of the American Association for Dental Research. She has served multiple terms as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Texas A&M Health Science Center Faculty Senate and is currently the caucus leader for the HSC caucus for the Texas A&M University Senate. She is or has served as a member of the editorial boards of Developmental Dynamics, Frontiers in Craniofacial Biology, the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Experimental Biology and Medicine, and on the scientific advisory board of the Journal of Endodontics.
|Principal Investigator:
|Individual National Research Service Award F32 DEO5622 (NIH/NIDCR)
|First Award R29 DE11978 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Supplement to R29 DE11978 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Supplement to R29 DE11978 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Tobacco Initiative (TAMUS-HSC)
|Small Business STTR Phase I R41 DE15437 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Small Business STTR Phase II R42 DE015437-02 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Natural Dental Implants, Inc.
|Natural Dental Implants, Inc.
|R44 DE020204-01; Small Business Innovation Research Grant, subcontract
|R44 DE02004-01S1; Small Business Innovation Research Grant, subcontract
|REPLICATETM Tooth Implant Study, Natural Dental Implants
|Co-Investigator and PI on Subcontracts:
|Maxillofacial Surgeons Foundation Award (PI, Dr. J.A. Persing)
|Maxillofacial Surgeons Foundation Award (PI, Dr. J.A. Persing)
|Maxillofacial Surgeons Foundation Award (PI, Dr. K.Y. Lin)
|Foundation for Orthodontic Research (PI, Dr. J.B. Cope)
|Baylor Oral Health Foundation (PI, Dr. R.P. Harper)
|Baylor Oral Health Foundation (PI, Dr. C.D. Bishop)
|R01 DE15401 (NIH/NIDCR) (PI, Dr. R. Hinton)
|Small Business SBIR Phase I R43 DE015893-01 (NIH/NIDCR) (PI, Z. Minevski)
|Small Business SBIR Phase I R43 DE017259-01 (NIH/NIDCR) (PI, T. Mulone)
|Small Business SBIR Phase II R44 DE015893-01 (NIH/NIDCR) (PI, Z. Minevski)
|Small Business SBIR Phase I R43 DE017259-01 (NIH/NIDCR)
|Small Business SBIR Phase I R43 DE017259-01 (NIH/NIDCR); ARRA Suppl.
|Medtronic Inc.
|R03 DE020119-01 NIDCR (PI, M.D. Benson)
|Delta Dental (PI, H. Tapias)
|Small Business SBIR Phase II R44 DE020204-01 NIH/NIDCR (PI,Primus)
|Small Business SBIR Phas II R44 DE020204-01S1 NIH/NIDCR (PI, Primus)
|Boston University School of Medicine (NIH) (PI Subcontract, H. Tapias)
|Natural Dental Implants, Inc. REPLICATETM Tooth Implant Study (Co-PI)
|Comprehensive Oral Health Research Center of Discovery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD NIH/NIDCR (P60 DE13078), Cytokine therapy in craniosynostotic rabbits
|Individual Predoctoral Dental Scientist Fellowship F30 DE014657 for Joseph T. Rawlins
|AADR Student Research Fellowship, Dentsply International, Joseph T. Rawlins
|UT Southwestern Clinical Science Scholars program; NIH/NIDCR K12; HD052225-01


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RegeneRx is a publicly traded, clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company engaged in the design, research and development of novel peptides targeted at diseases with unmet medical needs. RegeneRxs mission is to research and develop novel pharmaceuticals that protect and repair tissue and organ damage caused by disease, trauma or other pathology.
RegeneRx acquired the rights to a novel peptide from the NIH in 1999. This intellectual property for Thymosin Beta 4 (Tβ4) allowed the company to direct its focus on tissue protection and repair in multiple disease indications.
RegeneRxs management team is focused on moving three distinct Tβ4-based drug candidates through the clinic: RGN-137, RGN-259 and RGN-352. RegeneRx also holds over 60 issued patents or filed patent applications worldwide in order to enable and protect multiple indications and applications for its product candidates.
Currently, RegeneRx has active partnerships in three major territories: the U.S., China and Pan Asia. Our partners have been moving forward and making significant progress in each territory with RGN-259 and are prepared to initiate their clinical trials programs this year (2015). In each case, the cost of development is being borne by our partners with no financial obligation for RegeneRx. Patient accrual, treatment, and follow-up for the ophthalmic trials are relatively fast, as opposed to most other clinical efforts, so data should be forthcoming in months, not years, after patients begin enrollment. We, therefore, should be able to maintain our existing operations at the current level while we await results from these trials and continue to seek additional partnership opportunities.
We still have significant clinical assets to develop, primarily RGN-352 (injectable formulation of Tβ4 for cardiac and CNS/PNS disorders) in the U.S., Pan Asia, and Europe, and RGN-259 in the EU. Our goal is to wait until the results are obtained from the current ophthalmic clinical trials before moving into the EU with RGN-259. We intend to continue to develop RGN-352, either by obtaining grants to fund a Phase IIa clinical trial in the cardiovascular or central nervous system fields or finding a suitable partner with the resources and capabilities to develop it as we have with RGN-259.


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Charges against James R. Halstead, who was scheduled to be arraigned today in the alleged drugging of Olympic gold medalist Oksana Grishuk, have been dropped.
Orange County (Calif.) prosecutors announced that they did not have enough evidence to proceed with the case.
Grishuk, 36, who won two Olympic gold medals for Russia with partner Evgeny Platov in the 1990s, told investigators in April that she had been drugged during a business meeting with a business partner at the St. Regis Monarch Beach hotel in Dana Point. She discovered the pill at the bottom of her glass and said she began to feel ill.
Tests determined that the pill in the glass was similar to Rohypnol, commonly used as a date-rape drug, Amormino said.
Michael Molfetta, Halstead's defense attorney, said his client -- who is married -- and Grishuk had a romantic affair.
Grishuk has denied a romantic relationship with Halstead. "I am very disappointed that the DA has decided not to proceed with the criminal charges that he filed. ... I appreciated the efforts of law enforsement in investigating this case. ... The allegation that I had a romantic intimate relationship with the suspect is not true. It was solely a business and social relationship," Grishuk said in a written statement she sent to IFS.
Famed attorney Gloria Allred is representing Grishuk. Allred expressed dismay at today's developments.
An arrest warrant issued on May 23 for Halstead, 61, was for one felony count of giving a narcotic, anesthetic and an intoxicating agent to an unwitting woman.
Grishuk was taken to the hospital on the evening of April 12 following the discovery of a pill at the bottom of her drink.
Grishuk lives in Orange County, Calif. with her 5-year-old daughter.


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Why leave the comfort of your own home to rent a movie for $4.99 and worry about incurring late fees when you can instantly stream films online? For only $7.99 a month Netflix (Nasdaq:NFLX) offers unlimited 24-hour access to thousands of movies and TV shows, which can be simply ordered online.
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Impressive Growth
With nearly 17 million subscribers, Netflix has modernized the way people watch movies. Much like Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN), which adopted a business model without brick-and-mortar facilities, Netflix is bringing similar changes to the movie industry. With rapid changes in consumer behavior patterns, Blockbuster and Movie Gallery both filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
Undoubtedly, NFLX has been one of the hottest stocks on the market, producing returns of 220% over the past year. Since going public in 2002, Netflix has produced a total return of over 2000% as its revenues increased from $153 million to over $2 billion for 2010. Furthermore, despite reducing its price from $20 a month to $9.99 for DVD mail delivery services, management has managed to run the company more efficiently and improve operating margins every year since the IPO. As Netflix begins to rely more on streaming content rather than mail services, margins are likely to continue to improve.
Netflix was probably largely helped by the recession as basic earnings increased from $1.36 in 2008 to $2.05 in 2009 and the number of users increased from 9.4 million to 12.3 million. However, as the recession fades, Netflix continues to grow at a rapid pace.
With a strong balance sheet, stellar cash flow performance, a $300 million share repurchase plan, effective management (CEO Reed Hastings was Fortune's businessperson of the year) and ample growth opportunities, investing in Netflix has one main draw back: the current $185 stock price.
Bearish Stance
In a December 16 article that appeared on SeekingAlpha.com, Netflix bear Whitney Tilson makes a strong argument that the rapid shift to streaming movies marks the beginning of the end for the company. Basically, the industry has undergone massive changes from brick-and-mortar facilities, to mail subscriptions, to now, streamed content. As the online business grows in importance, Netflix will be competing with big-name competitors such as Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL), News Corp (Nasdaq:NWS), Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) and Amazon, among others. Due to the increase in competition and Netflix's high margins, which have spurred resentment from movie studios, profitability is not likely to reach the levels implied by the stock price.
Additionally, in order to compete with other big name players, Netflix will have to significantly expand its content base, an area in which it lags its competitors. Based on the analysis conducted by Whitney Tilson, Netflix had only 17 of the most popular 120 movies of interest; in comparison, Time Warner Cable's (NYSE:TWC) video on demand had 41 and iTunes carried 77 titles.
Adding more titles will not come cheap, especially if Netflix begins offering newer titles. Although the company has been able to expand its library for a relatively low price in the past, this trend is likely to reverse. In 2008, Netflix paid approximately $25 million to Starz for its content; according to the New York Times, media analyst Michael Nathanson called it "probably one of the dumbest deals ever. Starz gave up valuable content for tens of millions of dollars.'" When such contracts are renewed, Netflix is unlikely to get such a stellar deal, which will surely hurt the company's margins.
Bottom Line
While Netflix may one day become the movie equivalent to Apple's iTunes, competitors will not let this be an easy road. (These dreams are likely to burst - and may blow away your financial future in the process. See 4 Fatal Financial Fantasies.)
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Area Festivals and Special Events >
Events that are daily or each weekend and run for more than a month are listed here instead of on the calendar.
Area Festivals and Special Events >
Did you know that this area has several live
performance venues?
Some specialize in music while others in live theater. Whatever your preference you are sure to find something great.
Visit these websites for more information about what great show you can enjoy during your stay in Hendersonville.
Brevard Music Center
Flat Rock Playhouse
Hendersonville Little Theater
Asheville Community Theater
North Carolina Stage Company


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Gambling, neon, getting married, staying up till dawn, shopping, fine dining, not-so-fine dining, mammoth hotels - Las Vegas is known for many things and if you've visited once or twice, you've probably partaken in more than a few. In recent years, however, Vegas has also become known as an adrenalin-fuelled city, with urban adventure activities to match those of better-known thrill seeker hot-spots - so if you're a fan of head-spinning, stomach-churning, fear-inducing fun, here's our pick of sensational Sin City escapades...
Stratosphere Tower Thrill Rides
First up in our list of daredevil activities is the Skyjump, a heart-racing free fall from the 108th floor of the Stratosphere Casino and Hotel. Before you experience the world's highest controlled free fall, you'll be suited and strapped into the Stratosphere's special jumpsuits and given a safety course. You'll then take the short elevator ride to the top of the tower where you'll be securely connected up and led to the edge of the platform. All that remains is to... jump. The ultimate in urban exhilaration, according to those in the video below...
If you want a thrilling birds-eye view of the Strip but prefer to be strapped into something a bit more sturdy, take a ride on Insanity, an only slightly-less scary experience than the Skyjump. A mammoth mechanical 'arm' extends outwards 64 feet over the edge of the Stratosphere Tower and then spins you and your fellow passengers in the open air at a height of more than 900 feet. You'll reach speeds of up to three 'G's' and be tilted to an angle of 70 degrees which will leave you looking straight down onto downtown Las Vegas below... up for it?
Stratosphere Casino and Hotel, 2000 Las Vegas Blvd Sth
SlotZilla Zip Line
At heights slightly closer to the ground, SlotZilla Zip Line offers the opportunity to zip along the entire length of the Fremont Street Experience's Viva Vision canopy from a height of 77 feet or 114 feet in the air.
The 12-storey, slot machine-inspired thrill offers a lower 'Zipline' and upper 'Zoomline' experience, the latter whisking zippers 1,750 feet down the Fremont Street experience to a landing platform at the famous Golden Gate casino, cheered from the ground by the crowds below. The attraction opens daily at 1pm, though we recommend doing it at night for the best neon-fuelled buzz.
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His double-play partner, one Yuniesky Betancourt, caused a furor of sorts after word got out that he'd skipped one such session the other day, so the first thing Lopez did when asked about the get-togethers was humorously note his attendance. Lopez had just clubbed two home runs in a 4-1 win by the Mariners on Wednesday night and inquiring minds wanted to know what gets discussed when the hitters gather to figure out how to score more than a couple of runs per game.
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"Yeah, we talked about that," Lopez said after his fourth three-hit effort the past two weeks. "We talk about having good concentration in those situations. If there's a man on third base with less than two outs, if they're back, I want to hit a ground ball towards shortstop and second. If they're in, I want to hit a long fly ball to [center fielder] Adam Jones, or [right fielder] Nick Markakis."
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The Mariners are now 20-8 when they score at least four runs in a game. They are 9-22 when they don't.
That first statistic is due primarily to an incredible run by the pitching staff, which rode a seven-inning effort by Felix Hernandez to a team-record eighth straight game of three runs or fewer allowed. The message is starting to get through loud and clear: score four runs and this team most likely wins.
It happened again in front of only 12,770 fans at Camden Yards as the Mariners scratched out their four and let the mound staff do the rest.
Lopez had given Seattle a 1-0 lead with a solo homer off Jeremy Guthrie in the second inning, then saw Betancourt — playing after a four-game benching — tap a soft roller up the third-base line to bring a runner home from third in the fourth inning.
Before that, the Mariners had been 1 for 22 with runners in scoring position starting with the Twins series.
Hernandez yielded a run in the fifth, but stranded a pair.
Lopez then padded the lead in the sixth with a two-run homer to practically the same location in left field after sitting on a Guthrie slider.
"I waited and he threw it," Lopez said. "He threw a lot of sliders the other day [in Seattle]. I struck out in the first at-bat and got a couple of ground balls. But especially with men on second or third base, I wanted to wait for that pitch."
That's the kind of pitch selection and situational hitting preached since spring training. The Mariners got some here from Lopez, and Adrian Beltre, who'd doubled to get on before the homer by taking a two-strike pitch the other way.
Spotted the three-run lead, Hernandez, who battled out of some early jams, kicked things into gear the final two frames.
"I don't relax," he said. "But it gives me more confidence. It allows me to be more aggressive, throw strikes."
Hernandez did that most of the night, using his two-seam fastball to escape a first-inning jam in which the Orioles put the first two runners on. Then, in the fifth, he got Aubrey Huff to fly out to right with runners on second and third after a run-scoring Markakis double.
"We're doing better now," Hernandez said of the offense, which has cost him a few wins this season. "If we hit a little bit better, we'll win a lot of games."
Lopez is hitting .364 in his past 11 games and has joined a surging Beltre to help balance out the offense.
"He has been, over the past month, one of our best hitters," Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said of Lopez. "And he is with runners in scoring position. But for him to sit on a slider and hit it out … it was an efficient swing and it was a great at-bat. It was a tough pitch, and he hit it out. And to be able to have a guy that can manufacture things and get some guys in motion, he's worked extremely hard."
• Pitcher Brandon Morrow confirmed what's been known internally within the team for some time: He's off to Class AAA Tacoma to work on becoming a starting pitcher again as soon as the Mariners can call up pitcher Roy Corcoran from an injury-rehab assignment. Might happen this week.
"It's going to be the long road this time," Morrow said. "Last year, it was the month in AAA and everybody knew I was coming back."
This time, there is no timetable. Morrow also said his concerns about his diabetes were just something he used as an excuse to convince himself he was doing the right thing.
"It was a hasty decision to go to the bullpen," he said. "The short forearm tightness injury [in spring training], that kind of started the doubts in my mind."
• Betancourt went in — on his own — to see manager Wakamatsu Wednesday to talk about why he'd been benched for four games. Wakamatsu laid it all out — the part about having to show up to play every day, about joining his teammates for workouts.
"I think what some players are accustomed to might not fit into our coaching philosophy," Wakamatsu said later. "It's not a defiant thing, or that we're trying to ask more of any particular player."
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Streak: W1
Home: 16-14
Road: 13-16
v. AL West: 13-14
vs. L.A.: 7-6
vs. Oakland: 6-3
vs. Texas: 0-5
vs. AL East: 7-4
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Let's not forget that electric cars are simply taking electricity that has been produced by either hydro, nuclear, and, most likely coal generation plants and transferring it to the batteries. They are not, for the intellectually honest, "green" technology, per se. And their future is being doomed further with every coal plant Obama shuts down. All-electric cars are not realistic for wide-range use here in the West where the need to stay warm during cold winters reduces the mileage range significantly and distances between destinations are often beyond the range of the batteries. Once the batteries are dead, you're done. Hydrogen technology sounds great, but what will it cost? How much water would have to be sucked out of the ocean to create the hydrogen? How long before the environmentalists scream we're killing the ocean to drive our cars? (Ted Danson predicted in 1988 we had 10 years to live because we were killing the ocean; of course, we're not dead, but environmentalists must use hyperbole to thrive). Until extreme environmentalists and the politicians who cater to their contributions can be intellectually honest, we are a long, LONG way from arriving at realistic energy solutions.
- 8:11 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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Re: ". . . we have to be aware that electricity produced through traditional
carbon-based sources of fuel is not leading to a sustainable energy
Wrong, Prof. A sustainable energy future is EXACTLY where carbon-based fuels IS leading us.
As your opinion piece mentions, but apparently fears to come right out and say -- "green" technologies are just not ready for prime time. They're all experimental. None offer alternatives to standard fuels any time soon.
That won't stop callow, doctrinaire liberals from killing off the energy industry they'll need in the brave new energy world they claim to be trying to create, though.
Mindless greenies and liberals don't actually give two hoots for "green" energy. What they really want is to hand-pick the energy moguls of the future. And, of course -- as Al Gore, Terry McAuliffe, Solyndra, etc., etc. etc., have so aptly demonstrated -- they will hand-pick themselves.
"Green energy" is nothing more than a financial-political scam, designed to wrest control from those that have it, and bestow it upon those that want it.
- 8:17 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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Professor, what do you think about natural gas? I have a natural gas car and love it, but the availability of CNG stations is an issue. It is getting better however.
- 8:43 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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First, you say "[electricity] has to be produced somewhere." But
extracting hydrogen from water also requires electricity!! Either way, it
brings us back to the same issue.
You describe hydrogen fuel cells like they're somehow different than a battery. But really, a both are nothing but a chemical reaction to convert some kind of chemical potential energy into electricity. So, again, we're really talking about the same general idea.
In either case the power has to be produced and stored somewhere, (be it a battery or a hydrogen fuel cell), so either way we're merely "shuffling the deck". Power can be produced much more cleanly and efficiently in dedicated power-plant facilities then it can be in the combustion engine of a moving vehicle. If our cars are dependent on electricity (stored in either a battery or a fuel cell) then the proposition of replacing our fossil fuel burning power plants with Nuclear or with Solar or whatever is a much easier thing to do! Our cars wouldn't have to be redesigned in order to make that change.
P.S. Elon Musk recently made comments about this. Search "elon musk hydrogen" to find it.
- 9:45 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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I don't get why the author makes a big deal about energy for electric cars
being produced elsewhere, but hides the energy required for production of H2.
All the energy a fuel cell uses comes from another source(coal, nat gas, wind,
solar, nuclear), the hydrogen fuel cell is merely another type of battery. True
it can be made from water, but most is made by splitting off the H2 from natural
gas which leaves...wait for it...CO2. Doh!
The advantages of fuel cells are the range and refilling ability which the author points out, but also that fuel cells don't require huge amounts of lithium and other toxic and/or rare chemicals like car-sized batteries do.
In regards to the source energy for electric car batteries--only 35% of US electricity production comes from coal, the rest is natural gas, nuclear, or renewables. Additionally the huge fossil fuel electricity plants are much more efficient and clean than a small car/truck engine can be.
I do think water based fuel cells would be the better long term option...mostly because the very limited world supply of lithium. But electric cars are a good option for now.
- 9:47 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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No fuel source is free. You can't get 'free' hydrogen from
water; the only available technology to create it requires... electricity. So
your car will only ever be as 'green' as the original source of the
Sure, hydrogen offers benefits in refueling that pure electric cars do not have, but the hydrogen economy is a long way off.
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I'd like to point out that only hydrogen extracted from water requires
electricity (or some other form of power.) Right now, various institutions, both
foreign and domestic, public and private, are working to create an efficient
method of capturing hydrogen emissions from bacteria and algae.
The author isn't making any arguments that can't be said about any alternative fuel technology. Current processes for delivering and utilizing these forms of energy are inefficient, but we're not investing heavily enough in them.
- 11:32 a.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe, but pure hydrogen is expensive here on Earth. A great deal of electrical energy is lost in separating the two hydrogen molecules from that oxygen molecule and this electricity has to be produced through current methods. Hydrogen can also be produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas, but that defeats the purpose and energy is also lost in the process. Hydrogen is not in the future as an inexpensive clean fuel.
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I agree with some of the other comments, it wouldn't take long for the Environmentalist to start complaining that we are killing the ocean to power our cars. The "War on Hydrogen" would just be the latest in their fundraising. I believe the quickest and easiest way to clean up the air and get off of oil is natural gas. I would love to see our politicians and policy makers steer the US in that direction.
- 12:01 p.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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@OneAmerican - I've been saying this for years, electric cars aren't
green. They're fed by, most likely, coal fired power plants. We're
kidding ourselves if we think that buring more coal to feed electric cars is
much different than burning refined petroleum. Somehow we've been
convinced that it is different.
I guess the upside of it is that we can push our bad air well away from our homes, maybe stop some of the inversion pollution problems we see...but that's really just kidding ourselves.
- 1:01 p.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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Hydrogen is an unnecessary conversion step to an electric drive train.
Don't forget that we could be running the cars we already have on hydrogen,
it's just too expensive.
If you have batteries you can provide your own energy with solar panels and apparently that scares the daylights out of the money interests who keep pushing the idea of hydrogen so they can tax it and profit from it.
Go electric and solar. Be free. I'm halfway there, I'll have the pure electric car soon.
- 6:04 p.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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I get a good laugh at these comments. Had we followed this mentality, we would
still be digging huge canal systems because rail was going to need so much more
energy to run.... or we would be using steam engines because diesel was not
ready for prime time and steam was a proven method of generating torque... or we
would still be flying prop planes because there was not a ready supply of jet
These are all nonsense reasons to try to freeze technology and maintain the status quo. We hear all this gibberish about electric cars use electricity... yes they do.... but we have options on how we generate electricity. This is not an issue we can not over come. And it is a lot easier and cost effective to create 100 non-poluting power generation plants - even coal, than creating hundreds of thousands or millions of non-poluting automobiles running on fossil fuels.
And if the electricity is created by coal - we can install scrubbers on these plants far easier than cleaning up the remaining emissions of diesel and gas cars. These "arguments" against are most ill informed.
Long live the dinosaurs.
- 6:58 p.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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Ditto the other comments about hydrogen only being a means of energy storage and
not a primary energy source. Hydrogen cars would still be ultimately powered by
coal, natural gas, or nuclear, as electric cars currently are. It seems much
simpler to skip the hydrogen step and focus on better batteries, as there are
really difficult problems associated with storing and transporting hydrogen.
Curiously enough, a gallon of gasoline contains 64% more hydrogen than a gallon of liquid hydrogen. The gasoline gets an extra energy boost from the carbon it contains, and it doesn't have to be maintained at -423 degrees F. Gasoline is pretty good stuff. Yes, let's find better and cleaner technologies, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- 8:26 p.m. Nov. 11, 2013
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The vision for electric vehicles is that ultimately, they will be powered
increasingly with renewable energy. In California, they have charging stations
with solar panels, so when workers park at Google or Apple, they charge their
EVs with the sun all day. It exists, and expanding this model across the
country is the next step.
As noted above, the problem with hydrogen is that the energy to split water for hydrogen is still not ready for prime time. I've seen some renewable energy projects where wind and solar are used for electrolysis to make hydrogen. Still in the R&D stage -- but it could be the model for the future.
The next problem, however, is infrastructure. Electricity's infrastructure is already in place -- only need to build those fast charging stations. Creating an infrastructure for hydrogen will be very costly vis-à-vis electricity charging stations. I read recently that old pay phones (that we don't need in this age of cell phones) that are already connected to communications and electricity infrastructure could become the basis for developing charging stations with minimal electrical extensions, etc., to parking areas.
EVs are the most promising technology for the very near future.
- 6:22 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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I drive my Tesla Model S and experience no lack of power or range. With a 300 mile range and 0-60 speed of 4.2 seconds, I am proud to drive my cool car. Tesla is building its own infrastructure of fast charging stations across the country, changing my car from empty to full in a few minutes and many of them are solar powered!
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To "news.john2" CNG is not a viable option. Right now we use natural
gas for heating our homes and generating electricity. Imagine if you take all
of the gasoline engines and replace them with CNG. The demand for CNG will be
so great that it will cost more than gasoline currently does. CNG is cheap only
because the demand is small.
To "RichardVotaw" and how expensive was your Tesla Model S? According to the Tesla Web site the Model S runs $62,400 base price. How affordable is that to somebody making $30,000/yr?
To those that like the idea of hydrogen cars. Did you consider what the emissions do? Water vapor right now is not a significant greenhouse gas being produced by man. However, if you turn that into something coming out of every tailpipe, you now create a problem. Are the environmentalists prepared to make their cities more humid and raise temperatures more?
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Re: "The next problem, however, is infrastructure."
That's only a real problem if you're intent on putting the existing energy power structure out of business.
There are hundreds of ways of converting solar, wind, bio, and nuclear electrical energy into chemical energy stored in a liquid of the approximate weight and viscosity of petroleum products. That would make the EXISTING infrastructure the best in the world to distribute energy from those that produce it to those that need it.
But, that's not what our current crop of greenie crony capitalists really want.
They will only be happy if they topple, then replace, the current moguls of energy production and distribution, assuming their power and prestige. And, the only entity strong enough to do that for them is greedy leftist government.
As Al Gore and hundreds of other leftist greenies daily demonstrate -- it's not "green energy" they want, it's the greenbacks that come from being the only distributor of it.
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I offer that using electric cars requires recharging at night which is a time
when electric power generation is a a relatively low point and some companies
take generators off line for maintenance. Increasing the need for electricity
at night will alter the maintenance cycles and creat some problems for the power
generation people.
It appears that with change come the law of unintended consequences, be careful for what you wish, it might be granted and you or we will have to live with it.
Change is not always progress.
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@Strider303 - or you could look at it that over night there are billions of
dollars worth of assets that sit there underused during non-peak hours, that
could be leveraged to increase the overall efficiency and utilization of these
I think you are way over estimating the amount planned outage and work orders being completed and the number of assets being serviced in non-peak hours.
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To "UtahBlueDevil" I don't think you understood Strider303's
If the power plants are running 24/7 at near full capacity, when will they have time to perform necessary maintenance to keep the equipment running?
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Dec 11 2012 , Tiruchirapalli (TN)
"United India is eyeing operations in West Asian and Saarc nations. Though this is in preliminary stage, a detailed survey has revealed rich potential due to a large Indian diaspora and business activities of Indian and foreign companies," the state-owned company's CMD Milind Kharat said.
"The operations could be through a joint venture or a branch or an agency model and is expected to be commissioned in a few months," Kharat, who was here to address a customers' meet, said.
He was confident that at least one centre would begin operations before March 2013, subject to clearances.
On the business quantum, he said United India has been maintaining 20 per cent growth this year despite the economic slowdown and a substantial drop in sales of motor vehicles in the country.
"The company is targeting to surpass premium collections of Rs 10,000 crore this financial year," he said.
In the first half of the year (half year ended Sept 30 2012), premium collected touched Rs 4,757 crore. Last year, United India clocked Rs 8,179 crore, against Rs 6,376 crore in 2010-11.
He said three new insurance products are on the anvil, including two in motor insurance and one in health sector, all of which would be launched before this fiscal end, pending clearance from Irda.
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Feb. 29, 2012
Sunday, March 4: No. 2 Stanford at California, 6 p.m.
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BERKELEY - The California Golden Bears (22-7, 13-4 Pac-12) close out the regular season by hosting the second installment of the Battle of the Bay, hosting the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal (27-1, 17-0) on Sunday, March 4 at 6 p.m. at Haas Pavilion. The game will be carried nationally on Fox Sports Net and locally on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area. Jim Watson will call play-by-play with Mary Murphy providing analysis. Laura McKeeman will the sideline reporter.
The game was moved to its Sunday day and time slot in September when the Pac-12 Conference announced the full FSN TV schedule. Some commemorative season tickets have the old date on them. Those tickets do not need to be exchanged and can be used at the gates on Sunday.
The game is a Cal Kids Day with all youth general admission (12th grade and younger) priced $1. UC Berkeley students have free admission to all women's basketball games (with a student I.D.).
Stanford comes into the game ranked No. 2 in both national polls. The Cardinal has won 74 consecutive Pac-12 contests (including Pac-12 Tournament games). The last team to beat the Cardinal: the California Golden Bears in the Jan. 18, 2009 57-54 victory at Haas Pavilion.
The Bears are the only team to force overtime against the Cardinal this season, with the Bears tying the Jan. 28 game at Stanford, 69-69, in the final minute before falling 74-71 in overtime.
The game this season was Stanford's narrowest margin of victory of the season and one of only three games for the Cardinal that was decided by less than ten points.
The Bears come into the contest having wrapped up a second-place finish in the Pac-12 and the No. 2 seed in the Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament. The Bears are also riding a four-game win streak. Junior guard Layshia Clarendon is averaging 19.8 ppg over the last four games. Clarendon scored the 1,000th point of her career in the first meeting of the year at Stanford, part of the 17 pts she scored in that game.
Freshman point guard Brittany Boyd scored a career-high 19 points against Stanford back in January.
The Bear guards took 55 of Cal's 74 shots in the game, with the Bears scoring just 24 of their 71 points in the paint.
The Cardinal have won the last seven meetings and lead the all-time series 58-17. Since 2001-02, the Bears have two victories against the Cardinal.
Who's Hot
* Layshia Clarendon is averaging 19.8 ppg since the overtime loss to USC. * Afure Jemerigbe has made six of her last seven three-point attempts (span of four games).
* Brittany Boyd is 14-of-17 from the free throw line in the last four games. In that same span, Boyd has scored 38 points with 18 assists, seven coming against Colorado.
* Eliza Pierre went 2-for-2 from three-point range against Colorado (3-for-5 overall).
Happy New Year After starting Pac-12 play 0-2 in the final week of December, the Bears are 13-2 since New Year's Day, with both losses coming in overtime by a combined four points. Cal has yet to lose a game in regulation in the 2012 calendar year.
The Big 2-0 The Bears secured their fifth 20-win season in the last six years. The Bears have only had ten 20-win seasons in the history of the program (including this year) and only two coaches had guided teams to 20 or more wins in a season. Gooch Foster did it four times (80-81, 81-82, 86-87, 91-92) and Joanne Boyle had four consecutive 20-win seasons from 2006-10 before Gottlieb joined that list.
Gottlieb is the first coach in Cal program history to win 20 games in her first season at the helm. The previous best first-year was a 18-12 season by Marci Cantrell in 1977-78 and Joanne Boyle's 18-12 record in her first season (2005-06).
Gottlieb now has two 20-win seasons on her resume. She was also the first-coach at UCSB to guide her team to 20 wins in her first season, finishing with a 22-10 overall record. That team won both the Big West regular season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
13 in the Pac-12 The Bears currently have 13 conference wins, trailing only the record-setting 15-3 seasons (2007-08 and 2008-09) for most conference wins in a season in the program history. Second Place The Bears' 64-43 victory over Colorado guaranteed a Pac-12 second-place finish for the Bears. It is just the third time since joining the Pac-10 in its inaugural season (1985-86) that the Bears have finished in second place and it is only the second time that Cal has finished with sole possession of second.
Before joining the Pac-10/12, the Bears twice finished first in the NorCal Conference with 10-2 marks in 1980-81 and 1981-82. The Bears also had a second-place NorPac finish with another 12-2 conference mark in 1982-83.
Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament As the No. 2 seed in the Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament, the Bears will have a first-round bye, advancing to the quarterfinals on Thursday, March 8 at 5 p.m. at the Galen Center to take on the winner of the 7 vs. 10 game. All of the first and second round games at the Galen Center will have free live streaming on YouTube. Check out the www.Pac-12.org for more details. Tournament ticket packages are on sale now at CalBears.com.
If the Bears win and advance to the semifinals, they will play on Friday, March 9 at 2:30 p.m. at the Staples Center in a game that will be broadcast nationally on Fox Sports Net and locally on Comcast Bay Area. Their opponent in the semifinals will be the winner of the 3 vs. 6 /11 game. The Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament Championship game will be played at the Staples Center at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, right before the men's championship game. It will also be broadcast nationally on Fox Sports Net and locally on CSN Bay Area.
Last season, the Bears advanced to the semifinal game after having to win two games at Galen to make it to the showdown with the No. 2 seed, UCLA, with the Bears falling, 63-50. The Bears have advanced to five consecutive semifinals, but only once, since the tournament began in 2002, has Cal made it to the finals. Cal and Stanford met in the championship game of the 2008 Tournament, which was held in San Jose, with the Bears falling 56-35.
NCAA Tournament The winner of the Pacific Life Pac-12 Tournament will earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. If the Bears do not win the automatic bid, they have a very good chance of earning one of the 33 at-large bids available for the tournament field of 64 teams. The NCAA Tournament Selection Show will be broadcast on Monday, March 12 at 4 pm Pacific Time on ESPN.
The Bears are looking to make the tournament for the eighth time in program history and the first time since the 2009 team advanced to the Sweet-16. None of the current players have ever played in the NCAA Tournament, though four of them were key members of the 2010 WNIT Championship squad.
Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb is looking for the second NCAA Tournament bid of her head coaching career. In her first season at Santa Barbara, the Gauchos earned the Big West's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament, where they faced the Stanford Cardinal in the first round.
Gottlieb looks to become the second head coach to take a Cal team to the NCAA Tournament in her first season at the helm. Joanne Boyle's 2005-06 squad earned an at-large bid in Boyle's first season at Cal.
17-0 In the Bears' game against Utah, Cal broke open a game that was tied at the half by going on a 17-0 run to start the second half. It was the second time this season the Bears went on a 17-0 run. Cal closed out the meeting in Boulder against Colorado on a 17-0 tear. The Utes failed to score for the first 8:03 of the second half. At Colorado, the Buffaloes did not score a single point for the final 7:10 of the game.
Under-50 The Bears kept both Utah (46) and Colorado (43) under the 50-point scoring mark. It was the fourth time this season the Bears held an opponent to under 50 points . The last time the Bears kept opponents from scoring 50 points in back-to-back games was last year's Pac-12 Tournament when they held Washington to 48 and Arizona State to 43.
Raining Threes The Bears made 15 three-pointers on the Oregon trip. The Bears had 16 made-threes in the five games leading up to that trip. Cal had a season-high 10 three-pointers at Oregon, surpassing the eight they hit at Saint Mary's. Cal had the best three-point-shooting game of the season against Oregon State, making five on eight attempts (62.5 percent), which also eclipsed the shooting at the Saint Mary's game (8-for-15, 53.3 percent).
Sophomore guard Afure Jemerigbe was a perfect 4-for-4 at Oregon State. In the last four games, she has gone 6-for-7 (85.7 percent) from three- point range. Junior guard Layshia Clarendon is 7-for-14 from long range in that same four-game span.
Cal's Two Wins vs. No. 2's On Nov. 21, 2008, the Bears defeated Rutgers, ranked second in the USA Today/ESPN poll and third in the AP poll. It was the highest-ranked opponent the Bears had defeated since they posted a 74-65 victory over the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal Jan. 10, 1992.
"No Senior" Day There will be no ceremony on Sunday on what is traditionally referred to as Senior Day. For the first time since 1974, the Bears do not have a single senior to honor. 1974, the official first season of the program, also had no seniors on their squad. Every year since 1975, the Bears have had at least one senior on the roster.
Rebounding Margin The Bears failed to outrebound their opponent for only the second time this season when the Utes and Bears each had 31 rebounds on Thursday night. Stanford is the only team to outrebound the Bears this year, winning the battle of the boards 51-47 in the first contest.
After leading the nation at one point this season in rebounding margin, Cal has dropped to fourth, averaging 13.5 more rebounds per game than their opponents. Liberty continues to lead the nation with a 15.6 per game average.
The Bears have outrebounded their opponents by double digits in 18 games this season and have six games with a 20-or-more rebound differential including besting CSU Bakersfield by 36 (60-24) and the 63-26 (37) differential against Oregon in the first meeting of the season.
Last season, Cal had 23 games in which they outrebounded their opponents and finished the year averaging 5.6 more rebounds per game.
Career Points Layshia Clarendon became the 22nd member of the California Golden Bear 1,000 Point Club on her first field goal attempt of the game at Stanford. Clarendon hit a jumper 20 seconds into the game to give her 1,001 career points. By the end of the contest, she had scored 17 points to give her 1,016 in her career, and move her up to No. 21 on the career scoring list.
Clarendon is racing up the career point list. She now ranks 13th and is 25 points away from passing Amanda Ray (1,172, 1985-88) and moving into the top-12.
Pac-12 Career Rebounders Junior center Talia Caldwell comes into the game with 707 career rebounds. She is seven boards shy of moving into the Pac-12's top-50 in career rebounding. Seven rebounds would tie her with Jamie Reed of Washington. Sitting in 49th place on the list, former Cal player Trisha Stafford (1989-92) with 721 boards.
Single Season Rebounding Record Gennifer Brandon has 290 rebounds this season, which ranks eighth on the list of most rebounds in a single season by a Cal player. She is three rebounds shy of passing teammate Talia Caldwell who had 292 in 2010-11. Brandon is already on the list with her freshman tally of 297 ranking fourth all-time.
Brandon is 27 rebounds away from tying the all-time single-season rebounding mark of 317, set in 2007-08 by Ashley Walker.
There have only been three players in Cal program history to have 300 or more rebounds in a single season. In addition to Walker, Colleen Galloway (312, 1977-78) and Jill Weddick (300, 1978-79) have also accomplished the feat.
Brandon is currently third in the Pac-12 in rebounding and 24th in the nation, averaging 10.0 per game.
Boyd's Record Book Aspirations Freshman point guard Brittany Boyd already earned a place in the Cal record book when she tied the single-game steal record with 10 at Arizona State. Boyd is poised to get two more mentions in the top-10 list for single-season accomplishments. Boyd currently has 139 assists, three shy of moving into a tie for tenth (Meme Fanner, 142, 1987-88). Boyd also is four steals shy of tying for tenth on that list (Courtney Johnson, 76, 1999-00).
Boyd is averaging 4.8 assists-per-game, the second-best mark in the Pac-12 (49th in the NCAA) and 2.5 steals (fourth in the Pac-12, 84th in the NCAA).
Rookie Report- Reshanda Freshman forward Reshanda Gray's 10.3 ppg average is third best among Pac-12 freshmen. She is the most efficient-shooting rookie in the conference with a 54.8 field goal percentage, which ranks fourth overall.
Bear Rookies of the Past Cal has had at least one player earn Pac-10 All-Freshman Team honors each of the last two seasons and have had six players earn the honor with five more honorable mentions since 2005-06. Alexis Gray-Lawson was the only Cal player to ever win the coveted Freshman of the Year award (2006).
Nine Points The Bears are now 1-4 this season against ranked teams but the Bears four losses against top-25 teams were by a combined nine points (lost by three to No. 16 Rutgers, one to No. 24 Texas, two to No. 12 Ohio State, and three to No. 4 Stanford.). Cal defeated No. 22 Virginia, 59-50, a nine point margin of victory.
The Bears only losses to schools outside the top-25 came against UCLA and USC. Only USC has managed to top the Bears by double digits.
The Bears have not lost a game to a team outside the top-50 in the RPI index.
Jog For Jill Sunday's game will highlight the efforts of the Jog For Jill campaign. Teal rally towels will be given to fans in an effort to "Teal-Out" the building. Members of the Cal coaching staff will be wearing teal ribbons to honor for Cal rower Jill Costello who passed away from lung cancer June 24, 2010, at age 22, less than a month after the Golden Bear crew team finished second at the NCAA Championships.


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She is survived by her son, Juan M. Hinojosa (Odilia), four grandchildren, Juan A. Hinojosa from Corpus Christi, Texas, Rosendo Hinojosa from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Cynthia Garcia and Lisa Michelle Hinojosa all from Corpus Christi, Texas, 14 great-grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter, sisters, Luciana L. Lopez and family from Woodsboro, Texas, Pomposa L. Longoria and family from Victoria, Texas and Frances L. Skotzko and family from Chicago, Illinois. Survivors also include numerous family and friends in Kennedy and Corpus Christi, Texas.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 1:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at Seaside Reid Chapel with a Rosary to be held at 7:00 P.M. that same evening. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 11:30 A.M. at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Kennedy, Texas with interment to follow at Sacred Heart Cemetery.
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MujeresMundi just launched a petition in the online platform Change.org. We request the Peruvian state, a reconstruction of the historical memory in the voice of the victims of sterilizations.
In Peru, from 1996 to 2000, corresponding to the second period of the government of Alberto Fujimori; it was implemented the National Program on Reproductive Health and Family Planning in a population control policy aimed at reducing the overall fertility rates. The most recent investigation involved the cases of some 2,000 women. However, statistics and documents show that around 300 000 rural Peruvian women were pressured into being sterilized during this period.
Serious irregularities were reported by government health agencies during its implementation phase. The campaign was marred by human and reproductive rights violations. There are indications that targets were set by government and that doctors and medical workers were given incentives to fill sterilization quotas. As a result of the incentives given to health facilities, there was pressure on health personnel to draw in more patients, which led medical workers to coerce women to obtain their consent.
On January 22th this year, the Ministry of Justice issued a resolution stating that the government would drop charges against government officials. From the moment the government launched its mass sterilization plan (which the Ministry of Health and the Peruvian Health Institute IPSS, carried out), there have been serious irregularities ranging from the lack of a free and informed consent (of both men and women), to human rights violations, and even deaths resulting from surgery complications.
We request the commitment from the Peruvian State to comprehensive repairs, investigation, punishment, justice and guarantees of non-repetition:
1. To investigate the case and to restore victims right's.
2. The compliance with the agreement between the Peruvian State and the International Court of Human Rights regarding human and reproductive rights.
3. The recognition of the truth of what happened and a reconstruction of a historical memory in the voice of victims, so that mass sterilizations would never happen again.
By all accounts, this was an abusive practice featuring typical and recurring acts of gender, socioeconomic and ethnic discrimination on the part of the Peruvian State and government officials. This practice brought great moral and material damage onto Peruvians; it is a crime for which no statutory limitation can apply, asking only that justice be done.
We are aiming 3 000 signatures, to be delivered to the President of Peru, Mr. Ollanta Humala Tasso.
We request your support to this campaign and help to put end to the indifference. Join us here. For more information about the case you can read our paper and/or the interview to the journalist, José Guardiola.