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Mayoral candidate Paula Havixbeck tackled one of the public's biggest complaints with city hall – 311.
Havixbeck promised to overhaul 311, city hall's single portal for complaints and queries.
"This will improve the day-to-day living for citizens in our city," Havixbeck said during a noon-hour news conference in the city hall courtyard.
Havixbeck, the first-term councillor from Charleswood-Tuxedo, said 311 would be re-organized to ensure that every caller's issue would be managed by the same 311 agent, from start to finish.
Havixbeck also promised that timelines would be placed on every complaint, to ensure calls aren't lost in a bureaucratic maze.
"They were told one thing… it doesn't happen, it doesn't get communicated," Havixbeck said of calls to 311.
"If something can't be handled immediately, it would have to be triaged into a 30-day and have one person manage that," she said.
Havixbeck also promised to have a new CAO in place within 3 months of Oct. 22 election.
Veteran city administrator Deepak Joshi was appointed interim CAO following the sudden resignation in October of Phil Sheegl after revelations of further cost increases with the construction of the Smith Street police headquarters building and lingering concerns over the fire hall paramedic replacement program.
A search for a CAO was launched in the spring but the process was unexpectedly halted in early July – the public reason given that there wasn't enough time to hire a replacement because of the October civic election.
But sources told the Free Press the real reason was a split within the nine-member committee (Mayor Katz and eight councillors), where a faction wanted the next mayor and council to decide who should be new CAO.
The hiring committee, with the help of a professional firm, had already vetted 80 applicants and were ready to produce a short-list. Katz said he was assured all but one of the original applicants would still be available for the position when a new hiring committee resumes the search.
Havixbeck said the office of the CAO would be restructured to ensure it has a customer-service focus.
"Fast, effective service needs to be the norm at city hall," Havixbeck said. "Our motto needs to shift to 'how can we help you.'"


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Yu, L-Y., Korhonen, L., Martinez, R., Jokitalo, E., Chen, Y., Arumae, U., Lindholm, D.
Notes: Sympathetic neurons were grown in the presence of 2.5S NGF prior to injection with cDNAs from the X-chromosome-linked inhibitor of apoptosis gene. (2659)
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mNGF, 2.5S
Lewis, S.E., Mannion, R.J., White, F.A., Coggeshall, R.E., Beggs, S., Costigan, M., Martin, J.L., Dillmann, W.H. and Woolf, C.J.
Notes: The 2.5S Nerve Growth Factor was used to culture rat dorsal root ganglia neurons. The primary rat cells were infected with an adenovirus expressing E. coli β-galactosidase (lacZ) and the enzyme was detected by immunocytochemistry with the Anti-β-Galactosidase mAb. Primary cells infected with either an HSP27 adenovirus or LacZ adenovirus were withdrawn from NGF and survival assayed 48 hours later with the CellTiter 96® Non-Radioactive Cell Proliferation Assay. Only those cells expressing HSP27 showed some survival and percent survival was dependent upon the multiplicity of infection. (0788)
Anti-β-Galactosidase, Purified Monoclonal Antibody
CellTiter 96® Non-Radioactive Cell Proliferation Assay
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Binder, D.K., Routbort, M.J., Ryan, T.E., Yancopoulos, G.D. and McNamara, J.O.
Notes: To test the efficacy of TrkA, B and C-IgG fusions to their respective ligands, PC12 cells were stimulated Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and TrkA-IgG, TrkB-IgG, or TrkC-IgG. Only the TrkA-IgG blocked tyrosine phosphorylation as judged by a pan phosphoTrk antibody. The TrkB-IgG blocked the activity of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) on cortical cells and TrkC-IgG blocked Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) action. Promega's BDNF, NT-3 and NGF, 2.5S, were used. (1452)
Singer, C.A., Figueroa-Masot, X.A., Batchelor, R.H., Dorsa, D.M.
Notes: The CytoTox 96® Non-Radioactive Cytotoxicity Assay was used to assess LDH release from primary cortical neurons following 24hr exposure to glutamate. Various compounds including 2.5S Nerve Growth Factor were assessed for their ability to block the glutamate-induced cytotoxicity. One of the neuroprotective factors, estrogen, was also examined for induction protein tyrosine kinase activity with the SignaTECT® Protein Tyrosine Kinase Assay System. The induction of PTK activity peaked at 1min and returned to normal within 10min. (0367)
CytoTox 96® Non-Radioactive Cytotoxicity Assay
SignaTECT® Protein Tyrosine Kinase (PTK) Assay System
Katoh, H., Aoki, J., Yamaguchi, Y., Kitano, Y., Ichikawa, A., Negishi, M.
Notes: 2.5S mNGF was used to differentiate PC12 cells. The differentiated cells were then microinjected with expression plasmids. (0922)
Lee, N.H., Malek, R.L.
Notes: The SP6 and T7 RNA Polymerases were used to produce RNA probes for Northern Analysis. The authors examined the half-life of the m4 muscarinic receptor in PC12 cells and transformed PC12 cells following treatment with either murine 2.5S NGF, human recombinant basic FGF or human recombinant EGF. PC12 cells were also treated with the three factors, nuclei isolated, and nuclear run-on transcription assay were performed. (0814)
rhFGF, Basic
SP6 RNA Polymerase
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Endres, M., Laufs, U., Huang, Z., Nakamura, T., Huang, P., Moskowitz, M.A., Liao, J.K.
Notes: The 2.5S mNGF was used to differentiate PC12 cells in culture. (1219)
Strom, A., Castella, P., Rockwood, J., Wagner, J., Caudy, M.
Notes: NGF was used in this study of neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells under a variety of conditions. Protein Kinase C was used to in vitro phosphorylate a bacterially expressed protein and the phospho protein was assayed by gel shift. Many details of the phosphorylation are provided. (0304)
RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor
Imaizumi, K., Tsuda, M., Imai, Y., Wanaka, A., Takagi, T., Tohyama, M.
Notes: Superior cervical ganglia were maintained in culture with or without the 2.5S NGF. RNA was isolated from these cultures and used for differential display with RT-PCR. The RT-PCR products were cloned with the pGEM®-T Vector System. (0998)
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Bai, G. and Kusiak, J.W.
Notes: Reporter vectors (produced with the pGL2 Basic Vector) were transiently transfected into PC12 cells and promoter activity was measured in response to 2.5S NGF. Promoter constructs were generated by PCR, subcloned into the pGEM®-T Vector and sequenced. The pGEM®-luc Vector was used to generated an antisense luc RNA probe used in RNase protection assays (using RNase ONE™ Ribonuclease) to follow the transcription of luciferase DNA following NGF treatment. The early growth reaction transcription factor and variants were expressed in the TNT® SP6 Coupled Reticulocyte Lysate System and used to perform gel shifts with promoter elements. The SP1 Consensus Oligonucleotide was used to compete transcription factor binding to the promoter elements. (1493)
pGEM®-luc DNA
pGL2-Basic Vector
RNase ONE™ Ribonuclease
SP1 Consensus Oligonucleotide
TnT® SP6 Coupled Reticulocyte Lysate System
TnT® SP6 Coupled Reticulocyte Lysate System, Trial Size
Liu, H., Felix, R., Gurnett, C.A., De Waard, M., Witcher, D.R., Campbell, K.P.
Notes: Promega's 2.5S Nerve Growth Factor (NGF; 50ng/ml) was added to the culture medium three days prior to assay to induce PC12 cell differentiation. (0774)


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Amazon unleashed a flurry of new Kindles earlier this morning, so in case you missed it, here's a quick recap:
- Kindle Fire — The all-new Android-backed tablet from Amazon will come with a seven-inch screen, a dual-core processor, and WiFi. It's priced at $199 and will be available Nov. 15.
- Kindle Touch — The new (and unexpected) Kindle Touch will come with a six-inch infrared multitouch eInk display and the ability to loan books from your local library, and it will come in two models — WiFi-only for $99 including special offers on your screensaver, and $139 without offers, and WiFi + 3G for $149 with special offers, and $189 without special offers. All versions will be available on Nov. 21.
- Kindle — A brand-new version of the Kindle is available today, which comes with a smaller and lighter body than the previous Kindle editions, comes with WiFi connectivity, and has free cloud storage for backing up your books and documents. You can get a Kindle for as low as $79 if you opt for the model that displays special offers on your screensaver, and $109 without special offers.
Amazon is releasing these devices at the perfect time, right before the frenzy of the holiday shopping season. Tell me — will you be buying a new Kindle? If so, which one?


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The Urban Studies Minor, a set of courses focusing on the life and significance of cities, provides students with a sound preparation for future careers in those government agencies, private sector firms, and non-profit organizations that address the issues and challenges of urban development, planning, and social service delivery in both the developed and developing world. Since it was established in the 1970s, Wheaton's urban studies minor has entailed an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Economics, Political Science, Sociology and – more recently -- the Anthropology and Psychology departments. The minor was revised in 2013, to update its content, and to make it more focused on particular sets of skills, while also encouraging students to explore the many different ways in which urban life and culture is studied by a variety of disciplines.
First, the minor requires all students to establish a firm foundation in the study of urban economics because of the central importance of economic processes and issues in the development -- and regulation -- of social and cultural relationships in urban life.
Second, students will be expected to explore how one of the social sciences has examined the structures and processes of urban life. Currently, three departments – other than economics -- offer such courses: Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology. Other departments may do so in the future.
Third, the urban studies minor requires students to take a course in social science research methods, as they are currently offered either in Political Science, Sociology, or Anthropology
Fourth, students will be required to take a course in experiential learning that involves either an agency placement or conducting fieldwork in an urban setting. Currently, both Sociology and Psychology offer alternate ways of satisfying this requirement.
Finally, students will be required to take an elective from a selection of courses in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities that explore various aspects of urban policy, research methodology, and the social life, culture, design, and environment of cities. These courses must either have a primary focus on urban life, or involve an issue orientation or methodology with a clear and substantial application to the study of contemporary urban affairs.


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Meet our new favorite farm-direct relationship: Mission High School! We're proud to feature student-grown and harvested produce from Mission High's new urban farm in our Deli case and in our Produce department.
The Mission Youth Farm (MY Farm) project is a 7,900-square-foot plot and outdoor education space situated on the northwest edge of the Mission High School campus, nestled next to the Mission Bears' football field. The urban farm represents a tremendous collaboration between students, faculty, families, neighbors, business and community partners and city agencies to improve the food system within the Mission community and promote healthy eating within the school. Under the instruction of Mission High Food and Agriculture Coordinator Rachel Vigil, students in Mission's new Urban Agriculture CTE (Career Technical Education) Pathway Program receive horticulture, leadership, entrepreneurism and activism training in the areas of food justice, environmental stewardship and sustainability. "This is an exciting opportunity for Mission students to truly see how food gets from seed to many tables," says Rachel. Through the farming, cooking, marketing and distribution of the produce grown on their land, students are primed to become young leaders in the good food movement.
In just a few short months, the student farmers grew and harvested tender Red Russian Kale, spicy mizuna, fragrant dill and basil, vibrant rainbow chard and fresh herbs. Over the past several weeks, Bi-Rite staff toured the urban farm and youth kitchen, paying the same attention as we would with any new producer. Bi-Rite's owner, Sam Mogannam, tasted through the fresh vegetables and declared that all of the produce "is in exceptional shape, [has] great flavor and would go head to head with any of our great farmers".
This week, MY Farm students returned the favor and visited Bi-Rite as first-time vendors, bringing fresh greens and herbs for our produce buyer, Matt and market chef, Wyatt. After learning the proper ways to merchandise produce for a retail setting, they discussed upcoming Bi-Rite dinner items to make their offerings shine (mizuna salad with roasted Warren pears and walnuts, anyone?). Before heading out, students also met with our bookkeeper, John, and learned how to properly create and submit an invoice to get paid in a timely manner. The students will receive market rates for their incredible produce and are happy to join an illustrious group of producers. "The students were beaming about their first delivery; one student told me she felt legit, like a real professional," says Rachel.
You can help us go hyper-local in the 'hood and support these amazing student farmers! Check out our daily dinner menu and produce case, exclusively at Bi-Rite 18th Street. Look for the "Mission High School Farm" tag for produce harvested within hours, and fresh, seasonal dishes inspired by the students and created by our chefs. Your support helps MY Farm raise necessary funds to purchase garden equipment and seeds, and install a rain catchment and irrigation system.


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File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_qt4.py", line 156, in <lambda>
lambda: self.close_event())
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py", line 1564, in close_event
self.callbacks.process(s, event)
RuntimeError: wrapped C/C++ object of type FigureCanvasQTAgg has been deleted
This error does not halt the process, rather the plotting script continues to execute (and generate figures!) quite happily otherwise. While it seems to be working, I am concerned about these errors (benign as they seem). Unfortunately, there are no lines in the plotting script being flagged as being in error. The script that is calling the plotting script is posted below. Since the plotting script is rather long (really it is just the same thing being done for four different gases) I add it as an attachment in .txt. I give the whole script here for the sake of being thorough, though I don't expect anyone to read the whole thing (actually, I suspect the issue is with the system call and has nothing to do with the plotting script, which makes the need to post it moot...).
Does anyone have any idea regarding why this error is occurring?
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import os, time
import datetime as dt
def waitToTomorrow():
"""Forces the code to sleep until tomorrow morning at 06:00."""
print 'Sleeping...'
today = time.localtime()
today = time.mktime(today[:3] + (0,0,0) + today[6:]) # Midnight time.
time.sleep(today + 24*3600 + 6*3600 - time.time())
print '\n'*5
while True:
# Print current date.
print dt.datetime.strftime(dt.datetime.today(),'%Y %m %d %H:%M:%S')
# Run code to grab data from remote machine.
print 'Grabbing/unzipping data.'
os.system('python Grab_and_Unzip.py')
# Run code to process data.
print 'Processing to l2/3.'
# Run code to create plots.
print 'Creating plots.'
# Run code to make posting data files.
print 'Creating data files for posting.'
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print 'Posting data to web.'


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Daniel Pudil says he was "disappointed" after the Hornets let a two-goal half-time lead slip against Blackpool.
Ikechi Anya and Troy Deeney's goals meant Watford were two up inside 21 minutes at Bloomfield Road on Saturday.
But the visitors were poor in the second half and Isaiah Osbourne equalised with an injury-time goal.
Pudil said: "It was disappointing in the end as we were leading 2-0 at half time against Blackpool, who we knew were a good side.
"Second half Blackpool opened it up. We had to defend, to keep the ball and we couldn't and they scored two goals."
One player who impressed Pudil was Blackpool's England Under-21 winger Tom Ince. After hitting the bar in the second half, Ince set up Osbourne for the equaliser in injury time.
The Czech Republic international said: "It was difficult for the defenders in the second half, playing against players like Ince. I think he is very good - very young - and I think he could be very good in the future."
Despite the fact the Hornets had a disappointing end to the game, Pudil felt that they played very well in the first half.
"We played very well and I think we should have scored more goals," Pudil commented. "They only had one chance in the first half but we didn't keep the ball and we made it difficult for ourselves."
He added: "The whole team need to work, not just the back five. If we get it right then we can go further up the league. We didn't keep the ball today, that was our biggest problem."


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William J. Despain
Salt Lake UT
William Joseph Despain
Written By: Carrie R. Despain
William Joseph Despain son of Solomon Joseph Despain and Ruth Amelia Newell was born 9 April 1849, in Calhoon County, Illinois being the oldest child in the family of 11 children.
When Joseph was 8 years old in 1851 he moved with his parent to Memphis, Tenn. And Marion Arkansas where they remained until 1861, at which time they immigrated to Utah, crossing the plains by ox train in the David H. Cannon Company. While in the South young Joseph was busy helping his father. He has told stories to his children of his exploits up and down the Mississippi river and of his playing and working in the timber.
When they arrived in the valley of the great Salt Lake Joseph was 18 years old. They camped in Pioneer fort at the 8th ward square. The authorities of the church met them and inquired what they could do. Solomon Joseph said that they been chopping cord wood for steam boats on the Mississippi and that Joseph was born with an ax in his hand so as Bishop Woolley was looking for choppers in Little Cottonwood Canyon they were sent up there. The 1st job young Joseph did was chopping timber in Hoggum Flat where there was an old saw mill in Little Cottonwood Canyon. He went to Grantsville, Tooele County, off and on for 3 years living with his uncle James Despain, Farming and helping in the harvest.
He married a young English girl by the name of Ann Hill daughter of Thomas Hill. Date unknown of the marriage but it must have been in the Endowment House in Salt Lake. They lived in Granite, Salt Lake County, Utah he having homesteaded 160 acres in the mouth of the canyon. Little Cottonwood a very beautiful place on the bench overlooking the valley. They lived very happy having 3 children - 2 girls and a boy. Her health was not very good - she having heart trouble from which she died leaving Joseph a young widower with 3 small children.
Joseph was always faithful in the church - always observing the word of wisdom and the other commandments and keeping himself clean and "unspotted from the world." He worked some at odd jobs a little at the smelter but mostly in timber being a sawer and chopper, all the time working with his father in the saw mill. He was working for Charlie Burnham, chopping timber in Harker's Canyon north of Bingham Canyon, when he met Sarah Catherine Egbert, a young girl who was helping her mother cook for the workers.
He married Sarah Catherine Egbert, daughter of Robert C. Egbert and Seviah Cunningham in September 1874. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They lived on his homestead in Granite. She having been born 29 August 1859 was quite young to take the responsibilities of a young family. They struggled on with many hardships filling their great mission of parenthood for here they had born to them 13 children, 9 boys and 4 girls. They belonged to the South Cottonwood Ward, the chapel being about 10 miles down in the valley near Murray, Utah. Although it was far away they attended to their meetings and to their church duties, taking with them the children, always setting them the example of regular attendance, of family and private prayers and righteous living. He was very refined, gentle, and kind always trying to do the right and honoring his priesthood and encouraging his children to do the same. He was called by those in authority to work in the church as Sunday School Supt. (1882-1883), Counselor in the 93rd Quorum of Seventies for many years also being a faithful ward teacher over the years. He was a Seventy and went on a mission to the Northern States laboring in Illinois, southern part. He was gone for two years, laboring faithfully and receiving an honorable release.
Most of his church work was done in the Granite Ward. For many years Joseph baptized all the children of the ward as they became of age.
For many years he worked in the saw mill. He made shingles, lath and pickets. He took most of his pay out in store trade and other trade, seldom seeing any cash. One summer he earned ($1700.00) and all he had to go into the winter with after his summer work was ($20.00), a barrel of molasses and a couple hundred pounds of flour.
He quit the saw mill business in 1887 working at the Lambert paper mill, granite quarry getting out stones for the Salt lake Temple, carrying supplies to the mines in Alta, quarrying out rocks for foundations in the valley, etc. and all the time trying to farm and cultivate an orchard he was getting started.
The paper mill was located at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. He traveled on a cart with a horse night and morning. He had worn a beard up to the time he caught his beard in the rolls and someone grabbed him just in time to save his head from going in, part of his beard being pulled out. After that he was clean shaven the rest of his life, save for a small mustache.
When he carried supplies to Alta and camped in the mountains at many jobs he suffered untold exposure and hardships, having to wade thru deep snow, unbroken roads, up steep rocky roads, thru extreme cold and wind in all kinds of weather. In those early days before we had any modern conveniences our pioneers worked and toiled thru hardships our present generation will never know.
Joseph loved little children and he always had one in his arms or on his lap when he was around. They loved him too and would follow after him. He generally had one on his lap at the table and quite often fed or dressed the little ones.
His children all grew to maturity. Two of them died in the twenties unmarried. The other 14 married and had families. All were clean and free from tobacco and other contaminating things. All, except one, married in the temple to persons of good character. The married ones each had a family and most of them large families. Now 1950 his descendants are very numerous, children, grandchildren, great and great great grandchildren being numerous and increasing. The vitality of his descendants has been splendid. There has scarcely been a death among them, 2 or 3 by accident and 2 or 3 died young. Mostly all, if not all, of his adult descendants are active in the church and living good and honorable lives.
He died after a short illness April 22, 1918, being greatly missed by his family and friends. His wife Sarah Catherine Egbert Despain died 16 June 1933.


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Tickets on Sale for Seth Meyers Performance at Ithaca College
ITHACA, NY — Tickets are on sale now for the Saturday, April 12, appearance by Seth Meyers at Ithaca College. The Emmy Award–winning host of NBC's "Late Night" will deliver a stand-up comedy performance at 8 p.m. in the Athletics & Events Center.
Ticket prices for the general public are $30 for regular seating and $40 for premium seating. The price for Ithaca College students is $15 for regular seating. All seats are reserved, and a large screen will be set up to ensure that all audience members have a view of the stage.
Tickets can be purchased at iceventstickets.com. There is a $2 service charge per ticket, and each buyer can purchase up to six tickets. Premium parking passes are also available for purchase.
Meyers premiered as host of "Late Night" on February 24, succeeding fellow "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Jimmy Fallon, who in turn took over hosting duties for "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno.
Meyers was a head writer for Saturday Night Live and served for eight seasons as anchor of the "Weekend Update" segment. In 2011, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for writing host Justin Timberlake's musical monologue. He has also garnered 10 additional Emmy nominations for his work as a television writer. He was featured on the cover of the January 13, 2014, issue of Time magazine for its look at "The Year Ahead."
While at Ithaca College, Meyers will also speak to students enrolled in a mini-course titled "Weekend Update": The Intersection of Politics and Comedy.
For more information, visit ithaca.edu/seth-meyers.


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Loss of muscle and tissue following a traumatic injury can often lead to severe disability, loss of mobility in the damaged area, or amputation.
While current medical procedures can do a lot to reconstruct these injuries, UPMC researchers and surgeons consistently strive to find better ways to restore muscles and tendons. One new method — muscle tendon tissue unit repair and reinforcement (MTURR) reconstructive surgery — is leading the way.
This reconstructive surgery procedure utilizes a groundbreaking technology, called an extracellular matrix, to help repair and regrow damaged muscle and tissue.
The matrix, once implanted, provides a structural framework to:
Almost immediately, the body begins to break down the matrix, which consists largely of collagen and other proteins.
By degrading into smaller compounds, the matrix begins recruiting stem cells from other parts of the body to the damaged area. These stem cells then become muscle cells, promoting the growth of new muscle and tissue.
The MTURR reconstructive surgery technique can be beneficial for the thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who have been maimed by explosives and have lost a significant amount of muscle from an arm or a leg. The trial is also open to civilians who experience a severe injury involving loss of muscle and tissue.
Military or civilian men and women, 18 to 65 years of age, may be eligible to participate in the trials:
The Limb Salvage and Regenerative Medicine Initiative and the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement (MTURR) Reconstructive Surgery Research study is collaboratively managed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, Rapid Fielding Directorate and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Program. The Initiative is focused on rapidly and safely transitioning advanced medical technology in commercially viable capabilities to provide our wounded warriors the safest and most advanced care possible today.
For more information or to learn if you qualify to participate in a research study, call (412) 864-2587 or use our online form.
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Washington should not base its policy toward the greater Middle East on the assumption that the region is democratizing quickly or sustainably. The United States and other Western countries should encourage liberal reforms, support civil society, and provide technical assistance in improving countries' constitutions and financial systems. But the perceived promise of the Arab uprisings should not cause the United States to overlook its main strategic priorities in the region. Like it or not, the United States counts among its allies a number of authoritarian Arab countries, and they are essential partners in protecting its interests. The normative hope that liberal democracy may flourish in the future must be balanced by the need to work with governments and societies as they exist today.
A central goal remains counterbalancing Iran — not only preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons but also checking its long-term regional ambitions. Iran views the United States as its main ideological and geopolitical enemy, and it is seeking to become the preeminent power in the Middle East and to promote its revolutionary ideology. Tehran has lent support to a number of U.S. adversaries and organizations that challenge U.S. interests, including Shiite groups in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Palestinian terrorist groups, Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, and the Venezuelan government under Hugo Chávez. Even though many of the countries that the United States will rely on to help counter Iran, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, are not democratic, their cooperation is too important for Washington to forsake.
Another crucial goal is maintaining the free flow of energy resources at reasonable prices. The United States imports about 23 percent of its crude oil and related products from the Arab world, particularly from Saudi Arabia (1.2 million barrels per day in August 2012), Iraq (550,000 barrels), Algeria (303,000 barrels), and Kuwait (301,000 barrels). Several of these countries are — not coincidentally given their immense oil wealth — undemocratic. This means that for the foreseeable future, the United States must continue to work with authoritarian states to preserve its energy security.
Finally, the United States needs to work with nondemocratic countries on fighting terrorism.


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Tonight's grand finale of the Hudson Valley Hospital Center's Winning Winter Whiskers Challenge takes place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight at the Peekskill Brewery, 47-53 S. Water St.
The "Beard Bash" is the culmination of a month-long fundraising campaign in which men volunteered to give up their razors and grow out their beards to raise money for the Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.
An admission fee of $25 at the door includes a selection of brewery beers, hors d' oeuvres, and signature "Wet Your Whiskers" cocktail.
The event is sponsored by the Peekskill Brewery, Drive Action Digital and Beale Street Barber Shop.
The 30 men who have grown out their beards during the month of March, sponsors, community supporters will be on hand. At 6 p.m., Mark Sinnis, owner of Beale Street Barber, will do a traditional straight razor shave of the top three fundraisers.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private-sector employers added 118,000 jobs in November, shy of economists' expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP National Employment Report would show a gain of 125,000 jobs.
October's private payrolls were revised slightly down to an increase of 157,000 from the previously reported 158,000.
The report is jointly developed with Moody's Analytics.
(Reporting By Edward Krudy; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
This story was corrected to show that the report is developed with Moody's Analytics


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Connections for "Page 1"
What are Connections?
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- Find an interesting relationship
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With thousands of cancer patients receiving blood transfusions every year, NHS Blood and Transplant is challenging people in Wharfedale to make a date to donate to mark this year's World Cancer Day on February 4.
Many people who develop cancer have a need for red blood cell or platelet transfusions during their treatment.
A blood transfusion can give a patient more energy and improve the quality of their life.
Donna Batty, NHS Blood and Transplant's lead donor relations manager for Yorkshire and the North, said: "With around 7,000 units of blood needed every day, I would encourage both new and returning donors to make a date to roll up their sleeve and donate."
For more information, call 0300 123 2323 or visit blood.co.uk.


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Shakespeare once asked, "What's in a nameΑ" In the case of parks, a name often reflects the history of the place, and the spirit of the time when the park was named. Many small parks were named after local men who served and died in World Wars I and II, recalling acts of courage in troubled times. Others are named after prominent local figures, allowing the deceased to remain an important part of the community. Some derive their name from a previous owner of the property, others from local streets. Nautilus Park, which borders Riegelmann Boardwalk between West 29th and West 32nd Streets, follows the maritime naming tradition of the Coney Island area. The playground's name comes from the nautilus, a marine coiled-shell mollusk, belonging to the only surviving genus of the nautiloids, which were the largest predators of the seas during the Ordovician period 450 million years ago. The nautilus is a member of the carnivorous mollusk family Nautilidae…
Directions to Nautilus Playground
Capital Projects
- Brooklyn General Site Work For Hurricane Sandy (BG-1113M)
- Nautilus Playground Reconstruction
- Wingate Park Gym, Heckscher Park Playground, and Nautilus Playground Reconstruction


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The Department's Bead Study Group, a volunteer organization that
dedicates itself to working with beads and beaded items in the DMNS
collections, has spent the last few years researching items in the
collections to develop the Department's newest changing exhibit in
the Weckbaugh case. Thanks to great help not only from the Bead
Study Group, but also from the Exhibits Department and support from
the Calvin A. and Virginia J. Powers Family Fund, the Department of
Anthropology welcomed the new exhibit, "Around the World with Glass
Seed Beads" in June of 2011. This exhibit features sixteen items
from around the world, including an Akha headdress from Thailand,
an Ndebele girl's coming-of-age apron from South Africa as well as
items from Mexico, the Amazon, Indonesia, and Europe.
One of the items featured in the exhibit is a Ute beaded purse
made by Lizzie Jacket at an unknown date, and donated to DMNS by
Charles (Carl) Patterson III of Denver in 1991 (DMNS catalogue
number A1737.1A). Patterson also donated a White Rose Flour bag
(DMNS catalogue number A1737.1B) since he felt the rose design used
by Jacket had been inspired by the rose on the flour bag.
Jacket was described by others around the Ute Reservation as the
"finest bead worker among the Ute Mountain Ute". The story behind
this particular bag inspired Barbara Wagner, research librarian and
one of the Department's long-time Bead Study Group volunteers, to
delve deeper into Jacket's story. She traveled to Cortez, Colorado
and other areas in the Four Corners to interview individuals who
might provide more information on the beaded bag cared for at the
Wagner's article, along with larger images of the bag, may be
found in the August/September issue of Catalyst Magazine
here. Go to pages 8 - 9 to learn more.
Current and past issues of Catalyst Magazine can be
found at www.dmns.org/catalyst
The "Around the World with Seed Beads" exhibit will continue
until June of 2012. Please stop by the Weckbaugh case at the
entrance to the American Indian Cultures Hall on Level 2 when you
visit the Museum.


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Couple Hoards Entire Jason Wu for Target Collection. What Is WRONG With People?!
One couple in Miami literally bought out the entire Jason Wu for Target collection this weekend, leaving many, MANY angry people in their wake. Seriously? Who DOES that?
-Lucia Peters
If we learned nothing else from the 2011 Missoni disaster, it's that strange things happen when high-end designers collaborate with Target. This time, though, it's not really Target's fault… or is it? Well, whoever's fault it is, it's downright evil.
Here's what happened: The hotly-anticipated Jason Wu for Target collection dropped this past Sunday, February 5. As is to be expected, the masses hauled themselves out of bed at ungodly hours in order to hie themselves to their nearest Target to snag some of the gorgeous pieces for their very own. Naturally, there was always going to be at least SOME insanity—but one couple in Miami really took it to the limit: They hit up a Target and bought out the entire collection.
ALL of it.
Pardon my language, that's just a dick move, isn't it? I mean, really? Really???
Here's the thing: Target has a store policy of two items per customer. So who's to blame, the store for not enforcing their policy, or the couple for being the biggest jerks in the world? I'm inclined to go with the couple. The disaster got so complicated that the cops were called, but once Target's corporate headquarters were contacted, it was ruled that the store couldn't legally enforce the two-item limit; so really, it comes down on the heads of the people who decided that they were going to be enormous tools. Oh, and it gets better: In response to the other customers' angry cries, the couple told them all that they could buy the outfits from them outside the store—for significantly more than their retail price.
Seriously?! Who DOES that?!
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Blogger Ginger Harris chronicled the event in a post she titled (rather appropriately, I might add) "The Vultures That Ruined Jason Wu for Target." Go on over and read it; it sounds horrific. Ginger notes at the end that the vultures left the store with a police and Target security escort team because they were scared—and she's right when she goes on to say that they should be. This is so unbelievably not cool I can't even begin to wrap my brain around it.
Oh, and there's a video, by the way. Want to witness the horror for yourselves? Here you go:
If you're still interested in trying to acquire the collection, but don't want to deal with awful people in actual stores, it's possible that some of the items might still be available online, but (as you might have guessed) they're going fast, so consider yourselves warned. That said, the pieces really are lovely, aren't they?
Tell us: Is this couple horrible? They're horrible, right? If they're not, what's the justification?
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Getting ready to smoke my first rack of ribs on my Hasty Bake Gourmet. Main question is how to regulate the temp to around 220 degrees. Anyone have any experience smoking in this model?
Guess I'll start with about a quarter full firebox with the heat deflector on and then adjust how much charcoal.wood chips after that.


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Teen Read Week (October 13-19) celebrates teens and reading. The Glenside Public Library will have a variety of programs and activities during the week.
October 14-17
Advanced reading copies of young adult books will be available in the Teen Area.
Guess the Book Cover contest will be held every day after school on the library's FaceBook page
Monday, October 14
Stop Motion Workshop for grades 4-8 from 2:30-4 PM. Register now.
Chess Club for grades 9-12 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 15
Voting for Teens' Top Ten after school
Teen Scary Movie Grades 6+ 6:30-8:30 PM
Wednesday, October 15
Teen Scary Movie Grades 6+ 6:30-8:30 PM
Thursday, October 16
Alien Invasion for grades 4-8 4-4:45 PM


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Dr Richard Newland is already looking forward to seeing Pineau De Re defend his crown in next year's Crabbie's Grand National following his brilliant display at Aintree on Saturday.
The 11-year-old produced two prodigious leaps at the final two obstacles and galloped all the way to the line up the famously punishing run-in to seal a famous victory in the hands of Leighton Aspell.
The veteran warmed up for his Merseyside mission with a fantastic effort in defeat in the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham over hurdles and Newland intends to take in a few races over the smaller obstacles as part of his preparation for the world's greatest steeplechase next term.
With the press gathered at the trainer's Worcestershire base to see the latest National hero the morning after his heroics, Newland was delighted to report his stable star to be none the worse for his exertions and he will now be given a well deserved holiday.
"He gave 110 per cent yesterday but he's fine this morning," he said.
"He's going to go up in the handicap now and it won't be easy for him next season as there aren't a lot of races.
"We'd like to bring him back and have another go at the National, so perhaps we'll go down the hurdling route and maybe do a similar thing to this year.
"He deserves a nice summer break now."
The horse that finished an admirable second behind Pineau De Re was the Philip Hobbs-trained Balthazar King, whose fantastic campaign is not over just yet.
The 10-year-old began his season with victory in a French cross-country race in September before winning over the conventional fences at Cheltenham in October.
He then clinched the major cross-country prizes at Prestbury Park in both November and March.
Hobbs is looking forward to another trip across the Channel with his charge at the end of May and has already mapped out his route back to Aintree next season.
Hobbs, who also saddled Chance Du Roy to finish sixth in the National, said: " Both horses are absolutely A1 this morning and we were delighted with both of them.
"Balthazar King ran a fantastic race and he's an amazing horse, really.
"It's obviously frustrating to come so close and not win, but you have to be delighted with how he performed.
"The plan is to go to Le Lion-d'Angers for a big cross-country race on May 29.
"After that he'll have a break and I would imagine he'll come back in the cross-country race at Craon in early September, which he won last year.
"Now his handicap mark has shot up to 159, I don't think he'll run in the race at Cheltenham in October, but he 'll probably run in the cross-country race at the Paddy Power meeting in November again.
"Then he'll have a winter break, as we know he doesn't go on winter ground.
"With his new mark the cross-country race at the Festival will be difficult for him as it's a handicap, so we might just miss it next year and go straight to Aintree.
"We know he goes well fresh, so that's what we might do."
Chance Du Roy may not be seen again until defending his title in the Becher Chase over the Grand National fences in early December.
"Chance Du Roy ran very well and looked to have the better chance of the two at the third last, but he hasn't got home on the day," said Hobbs.
"He won the Becher last December, so I would imagine he'll go there again and it will probably be his next run."
Quietly-spoken Irish trainer Martin Brassil claimed National glory in 2006 with Numbesixvalverde and had another major contender this time around in the shape of the JP McManus-owned Double Seven.
The eight-year-old ran a fantastic race to finish third in the hands of Tony McCoy, leaving his trainer justifiably proud.
Brassil said: "He ran an absolute stormer. We're delighted with him.
"It's such a tough race, but it's been a lucky race for us so far.
"Going to the fourth last I was happy with where he was, but I sort of knew going to the back of the third last he wasn't going to reach the winner.
"I hoped he might catch the second at that stage. He didn't quite manage it, but he ran his heart out.
"The horse is only an eight-year-old, so hopefully he might be back, fingers crossed."
Asked whether Double Seven could run again this season, the trainer said: " We'll let him get over the race and see where we go.
"He's really a spring, summer sort of horse, but now he's the horse he's developed into, there won't be many races for him."
Alvarado is in line to return next year after delighting connections by finishing fourth, giving owners William and Angela Rucker and jockey Paul Moloney a sixth successive placed effort in the National.
Trainer Fergal O'Brien had thought of running the nine-year-old in the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown on April 26 but agreed with the owners to put him away for the season.
"He's fine today. He came out of the race really well. He's turned out in the field and is as happy as Larry," said the Gloucestershire handler.
"I was delighted. He did us proud and it was the sixth consecutive time for the Ruckers and Paul Moloney they've been placed in the race. It's a great achievement.
"William didn't mention it beforehand because he didn't want to put any pressure on. We got in the money and we're over the moon.
"That will be it for the season. I was keen to go to Sandown with him, but the owners have said, rightly so, put him away and we'll look forward to going back to Aintree again next year hopefully.
"Fingers crossed."
Moloney's previous placed rides had been on State Of Play and Cappa Bleu, both trained by Evan Williams.
Adam Wedge partnered the Llancarfan trainer's representative this time, One In A Milan, who was still in touch when falling at Becher's on the second circuit.
Williams felt the tumble was purely down to One In A Milan's inexperience and he would like to see his charge have another go at the famous fences.
"He was travelling very well. On what I saw I wouldn't be too worried about coming back for the National again next year," said the trainer.
"He was third in a Midlands National as a novice and fourth in a Welsh National.
"It was his seventh run in a chase and he's running a blinder in the Grand National.
"His inexperience caught him out. That's what happened."
Former Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Long Run could well run again in the not too distant future despite suffering a crunching fall at the ninth fence which left both horse and rider Sam Waley-Cohen a little sore.
"I've spoken to Nicky Henderson this morning and Long Run is absolutely fine," said owner Robert Waley-Cohen.
"Sam is a bit sore, but when you hit the ground at 35 mph from that height, I think you expect that.
"The haematoma he (Long Run) had on his shoulder has virtually gone and I think he will run again before the end of the season.
"Whether that will be Punchestown and or France, we'll have to see.
"We'll enter for Punchestown, see what the race looks like and how the horse is and go from there."
Asked about a potential second National bid next April, the owner said: "Never say never. I think I'd quite like to have another go.
"He was running very well when he came down - he was just disrespecting the fences and paid the price."


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SAINT LEO, Fla. - Newly announced Head Baseball Coach Sean O'Connor and his staff are happy to announce the 2013 early signee class for the Saint Leo University baseball program. This year's early class consists of four young men who have dedicated themselves to excellence on and off the baseball field and who have committed to guiding this program towards a championship-caliber level.
"We worked extremely hard as a staff to identify this group of student-athletes who are able to contribute athletically right away, and succeed in the classroom as well," Assistant Coach Lee Parks said. "Graduating 15 seniors this year, it was crucial for us to continue the momentum of building towards our goal of competing on a national level."
This November signing class consists of Ethan Lichtenberg, Kevin Games, Chad Miller, and Dylan Harris.
Ethan Lichtenberg, RHP
Tarpon Springs, Fla
Tarpon Springs HS
Coach Parks' Thoughts
"Ethan is a bulldog on the mound and is expected to eat up innings for us out of the bullpen. He pounds the strike zone and gets outs with his movement patterns and ability to locate three pitches."
Kevin Games, OF/LHP
Ocala, Fla.
College of Central Florida
Coach Parks' Thoughts
"Kevin's ability to be a two way player is what attracted us to him going back to his high school career at J.W. Mitchell High School for coach Scot Wilcox. He will make an immediate impact both on the mound and in the everyday lineup. We are always excited when we can keep a Pasco kid local."
Chad Miller, INF
Sarasota, Fla.
Sarasota Christian School
Coach Parks' Thoughts
"Chad is a very projectable athlete who we expect to contribute on the field right away. His 3.5 high school GPA as well as his accomplishments with the Burn prove he is ready for Saint Leo both athletically and academically."
Dylan Harris, INF
Land O' Lakes, Fla.
Land O' Lakes HS
"Dylan is an athletic kid who can contribute at multiple positions around the field. His ability to consistently barrel balls up is something that stood out immediately throughout the recruiting process. His academics are off the charts and his ability to hit near the top of the lineup will make an impact on this team."


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Jeff Francoeur has been struggling mightily lately at the plate, but it was a big night for him as he scored the tying run and hit a solo home run in the ninth off Billy Wagner for the go-ahead run. The Mets won a close game, 3-2, something they've had trouble with this season.
Francoeur said after the game that he worked with hitting coach Howard Johnson and Carlos Beltran before tonight's start. It evidently worked as he was patient in the seventh inning and drew a walk. In a pinch-hitting assignment, Chris Carter drove him in to tie the game at 2-2.
In the ninth against a pitcher who is as good as Wagner, it was almost a miracle that he hit the home run, especially given that he hit it to right field. Left-handed batters had a batting average of .067 against Wagner coming into this game.
The Mets scored their first run in the third inning after the Braves scored their first run in the second inning. Luis Castillo hit a bunt single to reach first. R.A. Dickey sacrificed him over before Jose Reyes hit an RBI double.
Speaking of Dickey, he gave the Mets his usual quality start, pitching six innings and allowing five hits, four walks and two runs. The second run came in the sixth off an RBI triple.
Pedro Feliciano started the seventh and got into some trouble. Manny Acosta was called into the game and induced an inning-ending double play. Acosta also pitched the eighth and walked two, but got out of the inning.
Francisco Rodriguez finally got a save chance and made good on it as he retired the side in order for his 23rd save of the season.
So, the Mets avoid falling below .500 and are 6 1/2 games behind the Braves. Mike Pelfrey tries to build on some promising signs from his previous two outings as he takes the mound Wednesday.


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By MARC KOVAC
Dix Capital Bureau
COLUMBUS -- Republican Sen. Jon Husted has been a state lawmaker for a decade, including a stint as the leader of the Ohio House.
"As Speaker of the House, I couldn't hide from making decisions," he said. "I've had to make a lot of them in my life. I'm not afraid to make them. But I also know that there's a way to make them in which you can minimize the fallout for whatever it is you do."
Democrat Maryellen O'Shaughnessy is the clerk of common pleas court in Franklin County and a former Columbus City councilwoman.
"There's no one else who sits before you as a candidate for Secretary of State who understands as fully as I do the obstacles, the challenges and the successes of local government," O'Shaughnessy said.
Both believe their backgrounds in public office help to make them a better choice to be Ohio's next Secretary of State, the individual responsible for administering the elections and the office where businesses make official their presence in the state.
Both also say they'll push to ensure the coming reapportionment process is completed without partisan rancor.
Husted and O'Shaughnessy are the two major-party candidates on the November ballot. Libertarian Charles R. Earl also is seeking the office.
Both Husted and O'Shaughnessy have outlined comparable goals for ensuring Ohio's elections run smoothly going into the next presidential contest in 2012.
"(As) the chief elections officer of the state, you have a very important role in ensuring the people trust the elections," Husted said. "And as I often say, if you don't trust the manner in which your public officials were elected, you won't trust your public officials."
"We need to make sure we do a good job there, that we continue to build on the successes and reforms that have been put in place by (Democratic incumbent) Jennifer Brunner," O'Shaughnessy said.
Both are supportive of eliminating "golden week," the period of time when Ohioans could register to vote and cast a ballot during the same day. And they both agree with shortening the early voting period in Ohio to 21 days from 35.
Husted said one of his first orders of business would be to form a bipartisan commission, made up of members from rural and urban communities, to meet with the boards of elections and discuss what they like and don't like about how elections have been run.
O'Shaughnessy also wants to be in close contact with local election boards to understand their needs and frustrations and respond accordingly.
Business services
O'Shaughnessy, a fourth-generation owner of a funeral home business, said one of her main goals would be to update the office's business services section, which handles corporate filings. That includes instituting electronic filing and online access to public documents.
"I want to make sure, of course, that we're administering fair and trustworthy elections and we continue to reform the system to make sure people feel their vote counts and is counted, but we really need to look really hard at ways to make that business services division a true asset to business development and job growth," she said. "... We have an opportunity here to reduce turnaround time, thereby reducing... massive amounts of paperwork that people have to do when they do business in Ohio."
O'Shaughnessy also would like to launch a series of small business seminars, in conjunction with the state departments of Development and Administrative Services and make a concerted effort to connect companies registering with the office with services that can assist them as they establish and expand their operations.
Husted voiced similar goals -- an online business filing process that takes 24 hours to complete and links to state programs that can assist businesses.
"That save you time, money, energy, attorneys fees ... stuff that you might otherwise have to incur as a business," he said. "If we do those kinds of things, that means that everybody's first interaction ... with the state of Ohio will be positive."
Apportionment board
Ohio is divided into 33 Senate districts and 99 House districts. Those district lines are redrawn every decade, based on new Census counts.
The process is overseen by a five-member apportionment board that includes the governor, auditor, secretary of state and single majority and minority members of the Ohio House and Senate.
Multiple groups have called the reapportionment process too partisan -- a winner-takes-all setup that allows the majority party to shift lines in their candidates' favor.
Husted was the primary sponsor of a proposed constitutional amendment that would have asked voters to expand the apportionment board to seven members -- governor, auditor, secretary of state and the majority and minority leaders of both the House and Senate.
Additionally, if voters approved, decisions by the new board would have required approval by a five-member super majority, including two members from the minority party.
That resolution did not pass before lawmakers broke for the summer or the deadline to place it on the ballot, so it will be another decade before the process could be changed.
"I'm disappointed that we couldn't get it done ...," he said. "No one outside of Capital Square, outside of partisans and maybe county party chairmen, think that the idea that we should draw districts on a partisan basis based on the elections of the secretary of state and the auditor and the governor and that should be the system we operate under for 10 years is a good idea."
O'Shaughnessy was critical of Husted's inability to get his constitutional amendment through the legislative process.
"Despite the fact that he has the majority in the Senate, he somehow couldn't get the votes to get this much-needed reform passed and onto the voters of Ohio," he said.
Still, O'Shaughnessy said the members of the apportionment board can draw district lines using the ideas presented in legislative proposals.
"There's nothing in the constitution that prohibits the apportionment board as it currently exists to come together and try to apply some of the best practices that were found in the laws that were being proposed," she said, adding later, "We can still have a transparent process. We can use a competition ... we can focus on representational fairness, competitiveness, compactness, holding communities of interest together and do this in a fair way so that we balance out the state so that no one political party has a partisan advantage going forward."
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.


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Has anyone thought of the idea, since most of the cameras being catered to by CHDK have no built-in "hot shoes" nor "PC flash port connections" to control an external flash..is there a way to make a connection with the usb port (with CHDK programming of course) to trigger an external flash? Buying a slave controlled flash unit has been the easiest solution for this. The problem with this though is we need a digital slave unit for ones with pre-flashes or red-eye reduction or if we are in a crowd with other cameras and flashes is our slave controlled external flash would also be abnormally triggered by the burst of other flash units in the area. So,I was thinking of a hot shoe connected and controlled by the usb port of the compact cameras? Has anyone thought of this before?
- This is a great suggestion and I don't see why it can't, in theory, be done. Since the USB remote cable feature can read the USB port, it should be fairly simple to change one of the signal lines with a new script command. I'd suggest directly asking Ewavr, Fingalos, or Microfunguy. (Ewavr would be my first choice, since he probably played with that port the most working out the USB remote stuff, but the other two aren't shabby programers either.) Getting the USB port to signal the outside world to do something would be the easy part. The trickier part would be designing a way to control the remote with that signal. that part would depend on the what the remote flash unit has in the way of trigger options. For slave units that fire on the flash of the main, an LED at the end of the cable which is taped over the light sensor might work (so the unit will only see the LED light).
- A friend of me has built a "remoteflash cable" just as you have described it by plugging a tiny light sensor on the flash of the cam. by using the original flash, the slaveflash is activated due to the elecrtic signal. it works very well, buts a bit complicated work to built a "plug" to fix it on the flash, he did it with wire soldering and patience


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What's in it?
[adapted from this recipe]
1/2 cup of Quinoa, rinsed
1 heaping cup of Black Beans, drained and rinsed
10oz of corn or Mexi-Corn (corn with red + green peppers)
3/4 cup of Veggie Broth
1 clove of Garlic, minced
1/4 cup of Onion, diced
1/4 tsp Cumin
1 tsp Olive Oil
salt, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder to taste
serve with tortilla chips and your choice of extras
Extras + Mix-Ins
Fresh chopped tomatoes
Homemade salsa [or store bought!]
Tomatoes andor Salsa
Lemon or Lime wedges
Mushrooms +/or Zucchini
Brontosaurus Chefs Enjoy! It's vegan =)
T-Rex Chefs Feel free to add cheese +/or chicken/shrimp
|click here for more tips on cooking quinoa <3
So, how was it?


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Ocala is home to the PAAS Easter egg-coloring company
Published: Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 11:09 a.m.
Probably on Friday, Marge and Loring Felix will sit down with their 9-year-old son, Christopher, in their Ocala home and begin coloring eggs for Easter.
Easter events in Gainesville
John Hughes Palm Sunday Concert: Singing live, performance followed by large church lunch, everyone welcome, 10 a.m. today, The Church at Sand Hill, 11011 NE 112th Court, Archer. Free. (772-529-8443)
Easter Bunny Photos: The Easter Bunny will be at the Oaks Mall for photos with children or pets, 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oaks Mall, 6419 Newberry Road. Free. (331-0040)
Easter Crafts: Create Easter-themed crafts, 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, High Springs Branch Library, 135 NW First Ave., High Springs. Free. (386-454-2515)
Holy Week and Easter Services: Communion Service commemorating the Last Supper, 7 p.m. Thursday; self-guided tour of the "Stations of the Cross" commemorating the Crucifixion, 8 p.m. Friday; Easter Services celebrating the Resurrection, 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. traditional, 9 a.m. contemporary Sunday, First United Methodist Church, 1126 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Free. (537-0207)
Good Friday Service: First Baptist of Alachua is hosting a Good Friday Service, 7 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church of Alachua, 14005 NW 146th Ave., Alachua. Free. (386-462-1337)
Annual Waldo Easter Egg Hunt: More than 1,700 eggs filled with candies and trinkets, special scavenger-hunt eggs lead to more prizes, including gold- and silver-egg prizes, free photos with the Easter bunny, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Waldo Farmer's & Flea Market, 17805 U.S. 301, Waldo. Free. (904-483-0727)
2nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt: Egg hunts for all children, free food, cake walk, face painting, live music, door prizes and more, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Abundant Grace Community Church, 12505 NW 39th Ave. Free. (337-8311)
Easter Celebration: Event featuring fun, food, games, crafts and an Easter Egg Hunt, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Celebration United Methodist Church, 9501 SW Archer Road. Free. (367-8005)
Easter Egg Hunt: Community egg hunt, 11 a.m. Saturday, Suwannee River Moose Family Center 325, 8231 NW 167th Place, Fanning Springs. (www.suwanneerivermoose325.com)
It's a scene that'll be duplicated in millions of homes across the country this week. Odds are, the hues most of them use will come from Ocala.
Ocala, you see, is home to Signature Brands, which since 1999 has owned PAAS — generally considered the name in Easter egg decorating. There are a couple of competitors, but the Ocala unit owns about 80 percent of this niche market.
"We, of course, let Christopher do the majority of the dying and write the names of family members on the eggs with crayons because he enjoys it so much," Marge Newsom-Felix said. "I still remember doing it when I was a little one.
"My mother told me, 'Marge, I've been using PAAS dyes since your older brother was 2,'?" she added. He's 64 now, meaning it was 62 years ago that Catherine Newsom started buying the coloring dyes for her family that eventually grew to 10 children.
But it's not really so surprising; after all, PAAS Easter egg dyes have been around a lot longer — for more than 130 years.
According to IncredibleEgg.com, "if you laid the PAAS egg dye kits sold each year end-to-end, they would reach from Miami to Chicago — that's nearly 1,400 miles." That's a lot of color, but then we dye between 180 million and 200 million eggs each Easter.
And not just with simple pastels. Designs nowadays include sparkly, tie-dyed, marbled, splattered, tattooed, sports shapes, animal shapes, mini-monster shapes, stamped and some even with a feel of velvet. To get the eggs this way, we buy some 10 million coloring kits.
"The top two selling kits are made right here," noted Brand Manager Brittany Lacey, a 25-year-old Ocala native who said she never dreamed as a young girl coloring Easter eggs with the PAAS kits her mother bought that one day she'd be the one selling them.
"I've been living in Ocala my whole life, and I didn't know everything Signature Brands did," she said. "It's surprising and kind of cool all the products that are made here in Ocala."
Though she has an office on the third floor of the Signature Brands headquarters overlooking I-75 a bit west of the College of Central Florida, Lacey often is found in the PAAS production and distribution facilities, overseeing every aspect.
She also goes to places beyond, like Minneapolis — in the winter. And to Washington, D.C., next Monday for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll that PAAS has sponsored for 21 years.
Also, closer to home, on Saturday, PAAS once again hosts Ocala's Eggstravaganza between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Tuscawilla Park — an event the company has presented since relocating to Ocala 13 years ago.
"We'll probably have between 3,000 and 5,000 [people] show up," Lacey said. "It's really nice being involved in a company that's so much a part of Ocala and gives back so much to Ocala." Thousands of eggs — dyed real ones and candy-filled plastic ones — will be subject to the hunt in those four hours.
Lacey took on the PAAS top job in August. "I'm so excited," she said. "I've been working on Easter 2013 since then." She's already thinking Easter 2014, which will be April 20.
"I've got a calendar of Easters for the next 10 years," she said. "We have to be very aware of when Easter falls." It is, after all, the only significant holiday that falls on a different Sunday each year, sometimes skipping from March to April or back.
And that means different shipping schedules, production schedules, different budgets and so forth each year — unlike, say, sister unit Pumpkin Masters that's tied to the fixed Halloween. There's also developing new products and testing them — more often than not right at her desk.
"I will frequently sit here and actually dye eggs," Lacey said. "What about this process is difficult, what don't I like? And how can we make it easier, add more fun, more play value?"
Answering these questions helps determine if the product is suitable for the PAAS key demographic: mothers 25 to 45 with children 3 to 12 at home.
"I use raw eggs; I do it very carefully," she laughed. She tests every new product before it's greenlighted for adding to the PAAS lineup. "Either I do them or my boss does them," Lacey said. "I am by no means a Martha Stewart with eggs."
Among the new products this year is the Grip 'n Dip, plastic tongs designed for wee hands helping with the coloring chores; they're way more secure than those flimsy wire things we grew up with.
Not long ago, she added, she found a suggestion on Pinterest — "I'm an avid user of Pinterest" — about a way to bake eggs hard rather than boil them. "This is something new I discovered while dying 120 eggs," she said. "It works!"
Directions are on the PAAS website along with other decorating tips: Preheat oven to 325 degrees; place eggs individually into muffin tins; cook for 30 minutes; place eggs one by one into cold water for 10 minutes. The directions also warn the eggs will be "very hot," so use tongs.
Another tip: Mix color tablets with three tablespoons of vinegar "to get bright colors"; allow them to fully dissolve before adding a half cup of tap water.
PAAS itself has been around almost as long as Ocala. According to a company history on its website, the original PAAS was founded in 1880 by Newark, N.J., drug store owner William Townley. Folks would buy his packets of Townley's Easter Egg Dye for five cents.
The history continues that he renamed his business to the PAAS Dye Company; "the name PAAS comes from 'Passen,' the word that his Pennsylvania Dutch neighbors used for Easter."
At some point by 1991, pharmaceutical giant Schering-Plough picked up PAAS, according to various online reports. Signature Brands bought the unit in late 1999 and moved primary production from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Ocala the following year.
At the time it was a $13 million business selling 13 decorating kits. Today, it brings in more than $15 million with some 28 different kits.
"It probably didn't show up on their calculator," a Signature Brands executive said in 2000 of the purchase. "We're much smaller. We will focus on it because it is part of our long-term business plan."
Rick Allen can be reached at email@example.com.
Inside the shell: Some Easter egg facts
■ Colored eggs were used to celebrate spring by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. The first Christians known to use colored eggs for Easter were the 13th-century Macedonians; crusaders brought the custom back with them to Europe.
■ Persians as far back as 3000 b.c. gave gifts of colored eggs to celebrate the first day of spring.
■ Most cultures around the world use the egg as a symbol of new life and rebirth.
■ King Edward of England once paid 18 pence for 450 eggs to be gold-leafed and given as Easter gifts.
■ It takes a hen between 24 and 26 hours to lay one egg.
■ Some 14,000 eggs are typically dyed for use at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll the day after Easter.
■ President and Nancy Reagan in 1981 were the first occupants of the White House to present wooden commemoration eggs; the eggs bore autographs of actors, famous politicians and athletes.
■ Before egg-dying kits, egg colorings were made from vegetables, edible flowers, fruit, coffee, tea, leaves, bark and roots.
■ Americans are expected to spend $145.13 per person this year on Easter candy, apparel and food.
■ The largest reported Easter egg exceeds 25 feet high and weighs 8,000 pound; it was made of chocolate and marshmellow spread over a steel frame.
■ Among the most famous Easter eggs were those created by Peter Carl Faberge for Russian czars before the 1917 revolution; the eggs were made of precious metals and jewels and featured a "surprise" inside. Of 50 Imperial eggs, 42 are known to have survived; 10 are on display in the Kremlin Armoury in Moscow.
■ "Easter Egg" is the term applied to unexpected goodies deliberately placed in software by game and video programmers.
Sources: PAAS, History.com. Incredibleegg.com, Whitehouse.gov, About.com, National Retail Federation
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hi all,
i want to use the list-style-image property to add icons for my navigation tabs. i have individual icons for home, about, tour, etc.
near as i can figure out, i would make the declaration like so: .menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-82 {list-style-image:url[fullPathtoHOMEicon1Here]; float:left;} and .menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-37 current_page_item menu-item-82 {list-style-image:url[fullPathtoHOMEicon2Here]; float:left;}
two questions: 1. does the item designation really have to be that long? and, 2. what would it be for the rollover focus state?
(okay three... )
thanks in advance!
The CSS selectors look wrong there, because each name should have a dot before it. Did you just grab that list of words from the element itself? Perhaps show us your menu HTML so we can see what's needed.
Personally, I would just use a background image for each list item.
hi ralph,
thank you for replying. i copied them from the firebug highlighted section.
here is the html from a source view (never occurred to me, duh!):

Skip to primary content

Skip to secondary content

Home

Tour the Gym

About Us

Schedule

Classes

Trainers

Contact Us

i'm already using a background image which is set to 100% width of each li. if i include the icon, it will beocme distorted. nervous about multiple backgrounds because of browser support issues.
here's the dev site (minus the icons): http://www.dev.threeriversfitness.com/tour-the-gym/
Since you have a bg image on the LIs, you could place the icon on the  itself as a bg image ... or, if you have a bg image on the  too (I can't check, as I'm mobile at the moment) then perhaps by adding a span to the , or by using the :before pseudo class for each .
You could target each individual  with something like this:
#enu-item-42 a {...styles here...}
That's assuming the icon is different for each LI. If there is just one icon to be shared, then something like:
.menu-item a {}
would be better.
thanks again!
no, background image on the .
yes, different for each. also for a:hover and current.
so for the current do i really need all of --
which i assume would actually be --.menu-item .menu-item-type-post_type .menu-item-object-page .current-menu-item .page_item .page-item-29 .current_page_item .menu-item-42
or can i get away with --.current_page_item .menu-item-42
No, leave the code as is in the HTML. It's in the CSS where you have to be careful. In your original post, you just copied those inline classes and tried to make a CSS rule of it, which doesn't work. That's a list of classes, and you just need to pick one to target the element with CSS.
yeah, that's what has my brain swimming...figuring out which one. and also what to target for the rollover state as it isnt something firebug can "see." i;ve searched the wp codex and online and either no one has covered it or i;m not using the correct search terms.
thanks for taking the time to help me muddle through.
Sorry my answers aren't very clear, but I'm on holidays at the moment, typing on a little phone. You can actually view hover states with Firebug. On the right there is an option to show the hover state for a selected element, as well as focus state I think (I use Chrome now, which has the same). If you want the image to change on hover, it's sounding like a sprite image might be the order of the day. You could incorporate the icons with the background image that's already on the  elements, and just shift the background image on hover. It's a great technique. I can't get you a link right now, but if you Google "CSS sprite A List Apart" you will find a good explanation of how to do sprites.
thanks for the firebug tip. i'll check it out. i'm stil on a mac g4 though, which can't run but an older version of ff, so that feature may not be available. yes, i know of sprites. i think it's also called a "sliding door" technique.
will using the image as a sprite or bg cause it to change size as the window is resized? or will it stay at actual image dimensions so long as i don't change anything manually?
hope you're enjoying your holiday (when you're not here getting your forum fix .)
As a rule, background images always stay the same size, and don't resize with changes to the browser window. There are new properties in CSS3 that allow the background image size to change, but that's something you do specifically.
So, no need to worry about the image resizing.
Regarding the G4, you could also see if Chrome runs on it, because the Chrome dev tools have somewhat outstripped Firebug in many respects, and I've switched to that.


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