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Welcome To Lazy Anchor Saddle Club's Homepage
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Lazy Anchor Saddle Club
The Lazy Anchor Saddle Club (LASC)
6172 Attu Road Extended
Millington, TN 38053
Welcoming Everyone To Come Out And Have Some Great Family Time!
Bring the family out and have some fun at the Lazy Anchor Saddle club. We have lots of new things going on this year. So please come and join our club. Spread the word. Come back and check this site out. Will be adding tons more information as we go
Please sign our guest book. Check out our photo album. Come and join in the FUN!!!
LASC welcomes the new LASC board members for the 2012 club show season.
Julie Walker is the newly elected 2012 LASC President
Julie Gillespie, 2012 LASC Vice President
Sheila Robley, 2012 LASC Secretary
Michelle Fisher, 2012 LASC Treasurer
Susanne Bower, 2012 LASC Master-At-Arms
Justin Walker, 2012 LASC Points Recorder
If you wish to contact the new LASC President, she can be reached at 901.835.4076
YOU can participate in some of the workings of YOUR club!!!
The 2012 LASC board will make available the future dates and times when saddle club meetings are being held. Issues/concerns are welcomed and taken under consideration and then the board will meet to discuss business for the saddle club. All member are encouraged to participate saddle club meetings giving voice to all matters concerning
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The Lazy Anchor Saddle Club Newsletter will be on display here for any and all information, updates and accomplishments
The current points standings will be posted on this website shortly after each show. Members have until the following show to dispute any discrepencies, otherwise points are final and stand as posted.
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STORRS, Conn. (September 19, 2008) – The University of Connecticut women's soccer team defeated Providence, 1-0 in their first BIG EAST match of the year. Annie Yi scored at 86:22 to give UConn the lead and their first win in four games.
In the 23rd minute of the game, UConn had a few opportunities to score a goal. Redshirt sophomore Ashley O'Brien (Broad Brook, Conn.) attempted three corner kicks in the matter of a minute. After the third corner, O'Brien took a shot herself but it was able to be saved by Providence goalie Jill Schott.
Despite a lot of offense by both teams, the score remained at halftime 0-0.
Freshman Melissa Busque (St. Bruno, Quebec) had three chances during the 53rd minute of the game to score. The first shot Busque took, Schott stuck her leg out for the save. Busque regained control of the ball and took another quick shot but a Providence defender was there for the save. On Busque's third shot the goalie fell on the ball squashing the UConn attack.
UConn was actually able to get the ball in the goal during the 74th minute of play. Busque reeled around and kicked the ball past the goalie, but was apparently offsides according to the referee.
UConn was finally able to capitalize on their many opportunities at 86:22 when junior Annie Yi (Indianapolis, Ind.) sent a laser shot to the top of the goal past the reach of the Providence goalie. Yi was helped out by Busque on the goal.
UConn held on to their late lead for the rest of the game and defeated Providence for the 26th time in school history. The only team that UConn has beaten more times in history is Boston College.
The Huskies are back in action Sunday Sept. 21, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at Fairfield in their first road match of September.
GOALS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd Total
Providence 0 0 0
UConn 0 1 1
1. 86:22 UConn Yi, Annie (Busque, Melissa)
SAVES: Connecticut 3, Providence 10
SHOTS: Connecticut 23, Providence 11


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Buying generic medication? You might be paying too much
Posted November 3, 2014
Updated November 4, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — About 86 percent of all prescriptions filled in the U.S. are for generic medications. Those who have insurance typically pay a small co-pay, but WRAL Investigates found customers can get dozens of commonly prescribed generic drugs for less than what insurance charges.
"If you use your insurance to buy a generic medication in the United States, chances are you are paying too much for it," said Dr. David Belk, an internist who runs his own practice in Alameda, Calif.
Belk also blogs about health care costs as he looks at ways his patients can save money. He says Americans have been led to believe that all medications are expensive and that insurance saves customers money all the time. As patents expire, Belk says, more companies start making the generic and prices go way down – sometimes to just pennies per pill.
About 20 percent of Americans use at least five prescription medications, and the costs can add up.
Pam Grimes of Johnston County, who has beaten Stage 3 breast cancer, says she takes six prescription drugs – two are name brand and four are generics. With insurance, including her $10 monthly co-pay at the local pharmacy, Grimes spends $40 a month on generic medication alone.
"I know there's probably something out there cheaper," Grimes said.
She is right. Walmart, Target and Kroger have more than 200 generic drugs for just $4 a month, or $10 for three months. No insurance is needed. Those who have insurance are charged a lower price.
Target pharmacist Thomas Sinodis says people are often surprised to learn that their medications can cost more with insurance.
"Sometimes they're like, 'But my co-pay is $10,' and we'll have to explain, 'Actually, this is on our $4 list, so it's only going to be $4 this month,'" Sinodis said.
Belk says it's "only the chain pharmacies that sell it to you for your insurance co-pay that are most of the time ripping you off."
WRAL Investigates researched how much pharmacies actually pay for pills. The federal government does a weekly survey of hundreds of pharmacies across the country to find out what they pay for nearly every prescribed medication. Six out of the 10 most commonly prescribed medications in the U.S. cost pharmacies 7 cents a pill or less, no more than $2.10 for a month's supply.
So, if many generic medications are that cheap, why do insurance plans still have $10 co-pays? WRAL Investigates reached out to Blue Cross Blue Shield, which said customers can get a plan that has $5 co-pays or no co-pays on prescriptions. But customers might have a higher premium. Many group insurance plans, on average, have $10 co-pays for generics and $20 to $40 co-pays for name-brands.
WRAL Investigates looked at the medications Grimes is taking to see how much they cost. Insurance does save her money on some of the drugs. But hydrochlorothiazide, a blood pressure medication, is just 3 cents a pill, or 90 cents for 30 days. Her insurance co-pay is $10. Another blood pressure medication, metoprolol tartrate, is just 2.3 cents a pill, or 60 cents for 30 days. Again, she pays $10.
Belk calls it the pharmacies' dirty little secret.
"They don't want you to know that because the insurance co-pay is actually the biggest profit most chain pharmacies get," he said.
Daniel Barbara, executive director of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, disagrees. He says the co-pay "off-sets the cost to the insurance company, not the pharmacy. Often times, the co-pay is substantially more than the profit made by the pharmacy."
"As with most issues in business and health care, the issue of co-pays and medication costs is not nearly as a simple as it would appear from a cursory review of the subject," Barbara said in a statement. "Costs are further affected by factors such as availability/scarcity of the resource, competition, transportation and demand." (Read Barbara's full statement.)
Belk maintains, for the majority of commonly prescribed generics, a customer's co-pay more than covers the cost of the medication.
"No one is talking about it yet. If no one's talking about it, no one knows, and they get away with it," he said.
WRAL Investigates found that Costco also offers incredible savings, and customers don't need a membership to buy at the pharmacy. At Costco, two of Grimes' blood pressure medications are just $16 and $18 for an entire year's supply.
Between Target, Walmart, Kroger and Costco, if Grimes shopped around, she could save $286 a year. Belk says those retailers are not taking a loss on the generic drugs.
"They're still selling it as a profit," he said. "And since it's less than what the chain pharmacies and what you insurance gives it to you for, it looks like they're undercutting everyone. In reality, they're just selling it for what it's worth."
Joel Farley is a licensed pharmacist and associate professor who studies drug pricing and policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He says there's much more to drug pricing than the pills.
"For a lot of companies, $4 generics are a way to bring people in the store and buy other things while in the store," Farley said. "They're able to offer that because the ingredient costs of medication are less than $4, but I don't think they're adequately building in cost of dispensing medication (and the) cost of clinical consultation the pharmacist has, for example."
Farley points out the important role pharmacists have in making sure patients are getting the right drugs and checking for drug interactions and side effects.
A corporate pharmacy director at Blue Cross Blue Shield says it's important to show your insurance card. The drug interactions can't be tracked without using one's insurance card.
For Grimes, shopping around and getting to know a new pharmacist is well worth the savings.
"That (savings) goes toward the phone bill or light bill or mortgage payment or groceries," she said.
Of course, insurance does save customers money on many brand-name and generic drugs, but don't assume the co-pay is the best price.
Harris Teeter and Walgreen's have generic prescription savings programs, but customers have to pay a small annual fee to join. There is no annual fee for $4 generics at Walmart, Target or Kroger, and customers don't have to have a membership to shop at the Costco pharmacy. It may be hard to search for prices at Costco's website, but customers can call their local store and ask for a price quote.
WRAL Investigates heard from a number of pharmacists about this topic. They pointed out the danger of shopping around for medication and the risk of dangerous drug interactions. Patients should have a conversation about it with their doctor and always have a list of all the medications they're taking to discuss with their pharmacist.
According to the IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics, a company that tracks sales at the pharmacy level for drug companies:
- 86 percent of prescriptions are for generics in 2013
- Patent expirations for products used by millions of patients have contributed to a nearly 30 percent rise in the generic share of prescriptions over the last 10 years
- Generics are now dispensed 95 percent of the time when a generic form is available


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Orgasmic Female Brain In 'La Petite Mort' | Images Nicola Vallotto/
Italian photographer Nicola Vallotto shares an editorial 'La Petite Mort' posted on the excellent blog The Ones2Watch.
"The title is a French circumlocution, a metaphor for orgasm but more widely, it can refer to a spiritual release." says Nicola.
The Orgasmic Brain
I've previously written about the health benefits of sexual activity alone in masturbation or together with a loving partner.
I say 'loving partner' or even 'good friend', knowing that some women truly do enjoy drop-over, no strings attached sexual activity.
Research does suggest that among women, the greatest levels of sexual dysfunction (that nebulous term undergoing medical redefinition) occur — not among older, menopausal women — but among single, younger women with multiple sex partners.
Hence my focus on orgasms alone or with people a woman truly enjoys sensually and emotionally.
One of the greatest benefits of orgasms is stress reduction. Few challenge the medical research confirming:
Oxytocin released during orgasm definitely reduces stress, by lowering cortisol levels. Women stress about money more than men and tend to take To Do lists to bed with them. Sexual intimacy can be a richly-rewarding, free experience. Properly planned and with both parties being "present" and engaged during sex, many more stress-reducing health benefits of sex are outlined in research. AOC Health
Rutgers researchers Barry R Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores and Beverly Whipple have studied female orgasms in depth. Using brain scan techniques, the team studied the brains of eight women who masturbated themselves to multiple orgasms while lying under a blanket in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner.
Despite the clinical surroundings, all the women were able to experience orgasm, mostly in less than five minutes — although some took up to 20.
Komisaruk said about the 2010 research: "The analysis of the self-stimulation data shows how the genital sensory cortex, thalamus and motor areas are activated earliest."
A cascade spreads across the brain to areas such as the cingulate cortex, insula and amygdala, and finally peaks in the hypothalamus, nucleus accumbens and caudate.
The Sexually Silent Brain
Female orgasms (and male also) can only be triggered when the amygdala — the brain's fear and anxiety center—is turned off. This medical reality is another reason why foreplay is important as part of sexual activity.
Neurobiologists have observed similar deactivation in the amygdala in brains when people who are deeply in love see photos of their loved ones. Trust is a key factor in deactivating the brain's fear center, so that orgasm can proceed.
Similarly, the prefrontal or orbito-frontal cortex of the brain — the region lying just above your eyes — also becomes deactivated during orgasm. This part of the brain is involved in controlling basic emotions. It is true to say that at the moment of orgasm, we abandon our emotions.
One study at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands showed "extraordinary activation of the ventral tegmental area", another part of the brain's reward circuitry. The early evidence suggests that this effect, while similar in nature in men, is shorter lived and not as strong as the sensation experienced by most women.
Scientific American confirms, writing:
Achieving orgasm, brain-imaging studies show, involves more than heightened arousal. It requires a release of inhibitions and control in which the brain's center of vigilance shuts down in males; in females, various areas of the brain involved in controlling thoughts and emotions become silent. The brain's pleasure centers tend to light up brightly in the brain scans of both sexes, especially in those of males. The reward system creates an incentive to seek more sexual encounters, with clear benefits for the survival of the species.
This 2008 quote shouldn't be understood to say that women experience less pleasure during sex, based on light bulbs exploding in the brain during the moment of orgasm. Women's orgasms are considerably longer than men's, as are the pleasant after-affects.
Orgasm As A Unique Pleasure
Orgasm is a unique process, one which takes which takes over the whole brain and can be felt all over the body, say researchers. That never happens with other female pleasures, not even when eating chocolate — in spite of women who swear eating chocolate delivers more pleasure than sex.
They are wrong when the sex is good.
In truth, the female orgasm is a moment of 'la petite mort' when we consider the neuroscience behind the event. Given women's tendency to not shut down at any time of day — which isn't all neurotic behavior but perhaps also part of her evolutionary role as protectress — it's important that women understand their own sexuality and how to best achieve orgasms on their terms. Anne
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BY Paul Groessel
Sun POST Newspapers
After months of consideration, Osseo Area Schools Supt. Kate Maguire and the executive administrators have recommended to the school board that the district change its overall grade reconfiguration to a middle school model that would include ninth to 12th grade high schools beginning in the 2015-16 school year.
The school board expects to vote on a formal motion during its March 18 school board meeting. The board wants to make the change without making drastic school assignment changes for families. This would likely mean adding space to three high schools at cost of $13.5 million, or $18 per year for a typical district household, administrators said.
"I'm confident that we will be able to make the necessary changes both in physical structure and programming and logistics," Maguire said. "… I do not make this recommendation lightly."
Financing was one of the largest considerations, but the impact on students, staff and others was a primary concern, she said.
"I don't take that lightly at all," she said.
A review of the district's use of building space and grade structure began last year when the Minnesota State Legislature passed a bill funding all-day kindergarten programming. Implementing all-day kindergarten has been a district priority since 2007, Maguire said, so the district plans on implementing it next year with state funding.
The district's building space needs were reviewed because all-day kindergarten would require additional classrooms. Rather than simply adding more space to school buildings, administrators wanted to review the overall grade structure, Maguire said.
The district is mainly comprised of pre-K through 6th grade elementary schools, seventh to ninth grade junior high schools and 10th to 12th grade high schools. The district has considered changing the grade structure in the past, but leaders lacked a clear need or driving force for the conversion. The all-day kindergarten space needs could be a legitimate reason for the change, Maguire said.
Maguire and administrators presented the grade-change proposal during a Dec. 17 meeting, with a preliminary recommendation to switch the district to a grade structure that would include K to fifth grade elementary schools, sixth to eighth grade middle schools and ninth to 12th grade high schools.
"Changing grade spans would relieve space pressures at the elementary level, primarily related to expansion of all-day kindergarten, and would provide better alignment for ninth-graders related to graduation requirements, curriculum and high school activities," according to a summary on the district website.
Expanding one of three high schools, Osseo Senior High School, was one initial proposal. It would cost $6.5 million, according to administrators' estimates. Maintaining the current grade structure with an all-day kindergarten expansion would have required $4 million in elementary school expansions and boundary assignments for 7-11 elementary schools, administrators said.
The districts' preliminary proposal was taken to residents during public meetings, most of which took place late December through early February. Feedback from meetings and other channels brought about proposal revisions and more facility options that were presented to the board last month.
One of those options include an expansion of all three high schools rather than one high school, which would prevent drastic enrollment boundary changes.
If three high schools are expanded, parents could continue sending their children through the chain of schools they are familiar with or have planned on attending, administrators and school board members said.
Adding space to three high schools would cost approximately $13.5 million, paid for through a lease levy, which would cost approximately $18 per year for a typical homeowner in the district, according to administrators.
During the March 4 meeting, administrators said expanding the three schools would require interior renovations that would cost an additional $4 million to $6 million, but the exact cost and funding source has not yet been pinpointed.
Administrators also shared their curriculum and staff training steps thus far, as well as a planning timeline. School board members permitted administrators to prepare a formal motion to approve the grade reconfiguration for the March 18 school board meeting.
Boardmember Jacki Girtz said the $13.5 million expense for building additions to three high schools, plus the estimated $4 million to $6 million cost for any interior changes to buildings, was difficult to consider because of tax increases for residents, and the total expense was more than she had thought it would be.
She was particularly concerned about families who may be on the cusp of owning a home within the school district, she said.
"But I do think for the long term of our district, it is the right thing to do," she said.
With the final vote on the grade reconfiguration expected during the March 18 meeting, now is the time for those who still want to weigh in on the matter, said Boardmember Dean Henke.
"This is kind of the last opportunity," Henke said.
Info: district279.org
Contact Paul Groessel at [email protected] or follow the Sun Post on Twitter @ECMSunPost.


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Loving Your Work
Posted: Apr 22, 2008 10:20am ET
I had lunch the other day with Litto Gomez, who makes La Flor Dominicana cigars. We ate at Otto, part of the Mario Batali/Joe Bastianich Italian food empire. Litto is as slim as a spear, but you'd never know it if you watched him tuck into a table set with great Italian food. The guy can eat about as much as I can, and that tells you something.
It was a great lunch, with delicious, casual food, some good wine and easy conversation. Between bites of house-made salumi and a plate of spaghetti carbonara that Litto dubbed better than any he'd had in Italy, we got to talking about business.
Like half of New York, I commute to work on a train every day. Litto is also a commuter, but his is a longer, tougher ride—most Mondays he leaves Florida for the Miami International Airport and hops onto a plane to Santiago, Dominican Republic. On Fridays he heads home. It's a two-hour flight.
Even if you love to fly, that routine can get to be a grind. But it doesn't bother Litto, because he simply loves what he does. He took a vacation recently, and one night he woke up in the middle of the morning, grabbed the laptop computer and began typing, waking his wife. "I had too many ideas in my head," he said.
This is a guy who loves making cigars. He's been doing it since 1994. When he started making smokes (he was previously a jeweler), he was dizzy, unsure of what to do, a newcomer in a strange new world. Today he's a master of his craft, the man behind some of the world's best cigars.
I asked him how long it took for him to fall in love with the cigar business. "Two months," he said with an easy smile. "Now, I'm raring to go on Monday morning."
Litto isn't alone. Most of the guys I know in this business bleed cigars, and love everything about the process of making them. Remember—it hasn't always been such a lucrative career. Many of the men I write about who make cigars got into this business when cigar sales were slumping, not growing, as they are now. Many of them chose this career path when the future for cigars looked very, very uncertain.
Litto is a man who loves his work. I know how important that is in life, because I love what I do as well. There's a certain peace you find when your career is something that brings you not only money, but joy.
Do you love your work as well?
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Dion Giolito April 22, 2008 2:41pm ET
It consumes me.
Robert Peluso April 22, 2008 4:23pm ET
Yes,,I do!
DAVE Savona New York April 22, 2008 5:47pm ET
Dion, I know what you do (Dion is the owner of the superb Illusione cigar brand) but Robert, what do you do?
Alan Rubin April 22, 2008 6:09pm ET
Cigars are my passion, my hobby and my business, and it doesn¿t get better than that. I absolutely love my career.Alan Rubin
Marc Ille Danville California April 22, 2008 9:38pm ET
I love my work as well. The spirits and wine industry is challenging and the hours are long. What makes it fun is working for a company that keeps you engaged, and looking forward to one of Litto's great smokes at the end of the day. I had the pleasure of meeting Litto at the Big Smoke Las Vegas. To me he is a "Rockstar" in the cigar world. We chatted for awhile about his cigars and a mutual friend in Chicago. I was amazed at how down to earth and passionate he is about cigars, life and friends.Marc-Danville, CA
Luis J Falto Mayaguez, Puerto Rico April 23, 2008 10:24am ET
I've been blending and making cigars for the past thirteen years and enjoying them for more than that. It is so great to wake up in the morning (or in the middle of the night) and work on something you love. Something that is a passion suddenly does not become work, but enjoyment. Otherwise it would be a miserable and boring life.Luis Falto,President & CEO, La Garita Cigar Co., Inc. & Falto Cigars
Jorge Armenteros Princeton, NJ April 23, 2008 12:13pm ET
if you love it... its not called work...
LITTO Gomez April 23, 2008 1:33pm ET
Savona, Just for the record,the only reason I eat so much when I am with you is because...It inspire me to see you eating.It was great to spend time with you.
Patrick Jordan New York, NY April 24, 2008 9:25am ET
I do love my job. I did not a few years back, but there have been some organizational changes at the company that turned a horrible situation into a great one. I can honestly say I enjoy coming to work each and every day. And the occasional sneak out to the back for a good cigar makes the day all the better!
Pete Noel Medford, NY April 24, 2008 10:00pm ET
I love what I do for a living! Somedays I can't belive I get paid to do what I do. I personaly belive that the day that your job feels like a job, it's time to get a new job.
Pete Noel Medford, NY April 24, 2008 10:05pm ET
I love what I do even though it's not in the cigar industry (would be great if it was though). I personally believe that the day your job starts to feel like a job, it's time to find a new job.
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September 4, 2013 BY Brendan Dunne
The majority of the Nike Flyknit silhouettes have a "Multicolor" release under their belts by now. But what if you want to obtain that sort of static look without things being too fluorescent? Helping out with that is this new pair of the Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ from Nike's upcoming "White Label" collection. The sneakers go with the alternating threads in a very muted scheme that flips through the grey scale across the knitted texture. Click through to get a more in depth look and watch for the Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ "White Label" to release at Nike Sportswear retailers in the coming weeks.
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Anyone who tried to tell MoMo Jones this week how good the Arizona Wildcats were in reaching the Sweet 16 was probably out of luck.
"To be honest with you, I haven't heard it," Jones said. "I keep these big headphones on, and I just walk around."
That's probably a good thing for a young team that has drawn concern from coach Sean Miller at times this season for being "fat and happy."
There's no room for fat and happy when Duke is next. The Blue Devils (32-4) are the defending national champions and the No. 1 seed in the West Region.
"That's the one thing that we're trying to instill in our team, that this game is so much about great effort," Miller said Tuesday. "The team we're playing is great at that. They have a lot of talent, a great coach, their defense is terrific, but it's the effort level they play at that can really catch you off guard, and we're trying not to let that happen to us."
The week before the Sweet 16 can be a dangerous one for young teams or those not expecting to be there. The Wildcats rejoiced after making the 2002 Sweet 16, despite having lost four starters from the previous year - then were bounced 88-67 by Oklahoma in the West Region semifinals.
In 2009, the Wildcats made a surprising return to the Sweet 16 after barely making the NCAA tournament field - but were blasted 103-64 by Louisville in the next game.
Even though the Wildcats were not expected to reach this Sweet 16, either, junior forward Brendon Lavender said there's a different feel than he sensed two years ago.
The Wildcats, this time, intend to keep playing.
"I feel like this team is more focused and determined to win," Lavender said. "My freshman year, we didn't have that same motivation. This year, we're really on top of everything. I'm excited."
The Blue Devils, of course, have a way of providing motivation. Arizona last faced the Blue Devils when the Wildcats lost in the 2001 NCAA title game.
"They take everybody's best shot, and they don't flinch," Miller said. "Every team tries to match their great intensity and effort, and at best, it's almost a wash."
But at the same time, Miller said it's possible to be respectful without being intimidated - because, he said, Arizona has a proud history, too.
The ever-confident Jones certainly felt that way. When asked what the iconic Duke program represented to him, the UA sophomore guard responded in typical fashion.
"We're an iconic program, too," Jones said. "Arizona means more to me than Duke will ever mean to me."
Tight turnaround
Another reason the Wildcats may not rest on their first tournament weekend success: They can't.
Arizona's charter flight home from Tulsa didn't arrive until about 1 a.m. Monday, Miller said, and Arizona chartered out again to California on Tuesday evening.
That left them in Tucson for only about 40 hours, with one full day of practice.
"It's very quick, but it's like that for both teams," Miller said. "I think the hard part of our journey was leaving Tulsa and getting back to Tucson.
"My hope was that our guys were able to get both feet on the ground (Monday), and then (Tuesday), you're practicing, but you leave right afterward. It's almost as if it hasn't really stopped. That's all about being a mature team, a focused team, and that's what's required in this tournament, because it's very difficult to advance."
Parrom to play
Miller said he expected sophomore forward Kevin Parrom to be able to play Thursday with a sprained ankle he suffered against Texas.
Miller said there were initial fears Parrom might have suffered a high ankle sprain, which likely would have kept him out this week. The injury did swell up, but Miller said it is progressing with rehabilitation.
"I don't know if he'll be 100percent" Thursday, Miller said. "But I'm hoping he'll be effective."
Parrom wasn't available for comment at Tuesday's news conference, but Jones said, "Kevin will be fine."
Miller honored
Miller was named the District20 Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches on Tuesday.
He was also given a similar honor for District 18 in 2008 as coach at Xavier.
Former UA coach Lute Olson won the District 20 award twice, in 1989 and 1993.
Sweet 16
• Who: No. 5 Arizona (29-7) vs. No. 1 Duke (32-4)
• Where: West Region, Anaheim, Calif.
• When: 6:45 p.m. Thursday
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Yeah, she resigned like others "resign", by falling on their own sword:
Vivian Schiller, the President and CEO of National Public Broadcasting, announced her resignation on Wednesday after an undercover camera caught then-NPR Vice President Ron Schiller (no relation) calling the tea party 'racist' and disclosing that the organization could survive without government funds. According to NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik, the organization's board "ousted" Vivian Schiller from her position.
Still no word yet on Ron Schiller's "resignation" yet, but don't hold your breath.
You know, I've said this once and I'll say this a million times more: I like Juan Williams. Not because I agree with him, because he's not a coward. He stands up for himself and his beliefs. When he's not on Fox News Sunday or Special Report With Bret Baier, I am highly disappointed. I want someone to challenges my point-of-view in a respectful way.
That said; karma, it is what's for lunch. Juan Williams, enjoy.
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Sirmione, B&B Topaze is 500 metres from Lake Garda promenade and features free bicycle rental. Located in Colombare, it has rooms with free Wi-Fi and a garden with seating area. With a garden view, the air-conditioned rooms feature parquet floors and a TV. The private bathroom has a shower, free toiletries and hairdryer. A buffet breakfast is offered every morning, and served outdoors in fine weather. With multilingual staff speaking English, French, Portuguese and Italian, the Topaze B&B is 3 km from Sirmione. Gardaland amusement park is a 20-minute drive away. (B&B Topaze Sirmione hotels booking).


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Ten myths about subprime mortgages
On close inspection many of the most popular explanations for the subprime crisis turn out to be myths. Empirical research shows that the causes of the subprime mortgage crisis and its magnitude were more complicated than mortgage interest rate resets, declining underwriting standards, or declining home values. Nor were its causes unlike other crises of the past. The subprime crisis was building for years before showing any signs and was fed by lending, securitization, leveraging, and housing booms.
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MOSCOW (Dec. 31)
The liquidation of all Jewish places of worship housed in private residences, has been ordered by the Government. The closing or the houses of worship will cause worshippers considerable hardship as most synagogues in Kiev and other places are now quartered in private homes. The authorities, however, are willing to leave the economical independent "Botemedroshim" alone.
The campaign against institutions is evidently not limitied to synagogues. Thus a report in the "Emes", the Yiddish communist organ, states: "The Tarbuth Gymnasium of Kiey (Hebrew High School) has been finally liquidated. It has functioned illegally since the revolution, and has had 130 students."


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McAdoo ruled eligible for NFL supplemental draft
Posted August 12, 2011
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Former University of North Carolina defensive end Michael McAdoo has been ruled eligible for the NFL supplemental draft to be held on Aug. 17.
According to McAdoo's attorney, Noah Huffstetler, McAdoo filed his paperwork before Thursday's 5 p.m. deadline and was ruled eligible for the supplemental draft.
The 6-foot-7, 245-pound lineman amassed 29 tackles, 10 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks in two years at UNC while never starting a game. He was frequently rotated in on the defensive front with current NFL lineman Robert Quinn in those two years, giving potential scouts a good base of film from which to review his play. McAdoo was also named the MVP of the Tar Heels' 2011 spring game after racking up four sacks and intercepting a pass.
McAdoo was one of seven players forced to sit out all of the 2010 season while the NCAA investigated the Tar Heel football program. After academic fraud was found as a part of that investigation, the NCAA ruled that McAdoo would once again be ineligible for the 2011 season.
McAdoo is suing UNC and the NCAA seeking damages – a lawsuit that will continue despite his entering the draft. In the suit, he argues that he has been deprived of the opportunity to succeed and that the NCAA violated its own procedures in ruling him ineligible. He further alleges that the NCAA's decision was based on information that was factually wrong and never gave him a fair chance.
On July 14, Mcadoo was denied an injunction by Durham County Circuit Judge Orlando Hudson that would have allowed him to play out his senior season.
"This doesn't mean the lawsuit goes away," said Huffstetler. "That injunction was to try and get him on the field. The lawsuit is seeking damages."
The student Honor Court, which has since had its policies and procedures come under review, was presented with three cases involving McAdoo from the 2009 academic year. It found no wrongdoing in one case, was unable to rule in a second and found McAdoo guilty of presenting another person's work – his tutor's – as his own when submitting a works cited page.
After McAdoo filed the lawsuit, multiple media outlets were able to confirm that a paper submitted by McAdoo pulled liberally from other sources – something that the Honor Court had overlooked. The NCAA did not include that specific infraction in their Notice of Allegations to the university, but did use it as a cornerstone of their argument that led to the denied injunction.
"Mr. McAdoo committed academic fraud. He is a cheater. That is what happened here," said Raleigh-based attorney Paul Sun at the injunction hearing while representing the NCAA. "The NCAA takes academic fraud very seriously. The university's facts presented to NCAA show academic fraud. Presumption is (that) there should be ineligibility."
McAdoo, an Antioch, Tenn. native, is the fifth player to be ruled eligible for the supplemental draft joining former Georgia running back Caleb King, former Northern Illinois safety Tracy Wilson, former Western Carolina cornerback Torez Jones and former Lindenwood defensive end Keenan Mace.
The supplemental draft, which was first held in 1977, is generally populated by players that have either missed the filing deadline for the NFL Draft or NFL-eligible seniors who have had been ruled NCAA-ineligible. It has produced more than 40 NFL players including Bernie Kosar and Chris Carter. Duke quarterback Dave Brown was selected by the New York Giants in the 1992 supplemental draft after graduating with a year of eligibility remaining and failing to declare for the NFL Draft on time.
Eligible players are not guaranteed to be selected. Teams opting to draft an eligible player will forfeit a draft pick of their proposed round in the following year's NFL Draft.
McAdoo's stock is relatively unknown in the NFL ranks, but many scouts say his size and skill set are better than that of Jeremy Jarmon - the last defensive end selected in the supplemental draft. Jarmon, who was suspended in his senior year at Kentucky for testing positive for a banned substance, was picked up in 2009 by the Washington Redskins with a 3rd round selection.


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BY AMY KINGSLEY -- Nearly 75 percent of young adults in the United States don't qualify for military service. The biggest obstacle here in Nevada is the state's high rate of high school drop outs.
The military no longer accepts drop outs or people with GEDs for service. Enlistees must have a high school diploma, said First Sergeant Thomas Putnam.
The service has changed in the last several decades, and now requires more highly skilled soldiers.
"We've transitioned from the old school to a new, high-tech service," said Billy McCoy, a retired Air Force Major General. "And it requires a better-educated force to operate it."
"The young students [in high school] have no idea what the requirements are to serve in the military," said 1st Sgt. Thomas Putnam. "And a lot of them look at the military in the past like it's plan B. And the Army, along with all the other Armed Forces, have made an initiative to change that. We're not your plan B because it's easier now to get into a college than it is to serve in the military."
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About St. Paul
St. Paul located 200 km northeast of Edmonton on Highway 29 boasts the World's First UFO Landing Pad. A UFO Tourist Information Centre is now located adjacent to the UFO Landing Pad and provide information to its many visitors.
St. Paul's life-support is the rich agricultural land that surrounds the Town, supplemental by the oil and gas industries. With a population of 6004 (Census 2014), the community is rich in a number of ethnic backgrounds.
St. Paul is strategically located in the centre of the northeast region of Alberta, and as a result maintains its status as a major trading centre for the surrounding district. An excellent road system and a 3,500 foot paved airstrip provides easy access to and from the area.
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If you are a long-term reader, you might remember I won the Storytellers knitting design competition over at Purlescence, with my Cinderella Stockings.
Well, the pattern is about to get a bit more ... ahem... exposure... in the Knitting Noras' 2010 Naked Knit calendar! Julie (Dannikins on Ravelry) has made a pair of Cinders' stockings in sizzling red which her brave friend Francesca will wear for this project. They look fab!
Proceeds are going to the Christie Hospital in Manchester, one of Europe's leading cancer hospitals, which treats over 40,000 people a year .
You can learn more about the Knitting Noras on BBC1 this Thursday at 9pm in the "Calendar Girls 10 Years On" programme.
Pre-order the calendar here!


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KDE 4.8: Soprano "invalid iterator" nepomukstorage
Occasionally, KDE 4.8 will freeze and the frames and my windows will disappear. I have to restart X. This is what my .xsession_errors repeatedly says:
"/usr/bin/kactivitymanagerd(3117)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
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Application: Demone KDE (kdeinit4), signal: Aborted
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Freeloader Friday continues... Tonight at the Summit Music Hall, In Flames brings its blistering brand of influential Gothenburg metal to the Mile High City. It's a sick bill that also features Trivium, Veil Of Maya and Kyng. Would you and a guest like to be our guests at the show? Page down to enter and then check back this afternoon when we pick a few winners at random to see if you won! Oh and if you haven't already, be sure to check out our interview with Daniel Svensson of In Flames.
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BBC Review
...occasionally the recognisable sound of wind on water or through leaves can be...
Peter Marsh 2002
Over the last few years there have been a glut of records released that document the sound of the world doing its own thing in a variety of ways; Alan Lamb's telegraph wires whistling in the wind, Chris Watson's wildlife recordings, Joe Banks and Stephen McGreevy's VLF radio recordings of solar storms and leaf static and so on.
While none of this may be music in the strictest sense of the word, some of the results have been as strange and beautiful as any contemporary electronica, and a vindication of Cage's idea that there's enough to listen to in the world without resorting to music. Wind is the work of Hazard, aka Swedish sound artist B. J. Nilsen (as well as a large variety of meteorological phenomena, who presumably don't get royalties). Unlike the purely documentary work of those mentioned above, Nilsen has subjected his raw material of wind recordings (much of it gathered by Chris Watson for a Radio 4 programme) to extensive digital processing, much like the work of Matmos or Steve Roden.
Using filtering, harmonisation and sundry other techniques, Nilsen alchemically transforms this source material into a set of ambient pieces of unearthly beauty. Deep bass drones, gentle, sighing tones and crackles morph gently into another; occasionally the recognisable sound of wind on water or through leaves can be heard, or the deep breath of moving air as it caresses the microphone diaphragm. Nilsen conjures up the same sense of place that Brian Eno's On Land manages, each piece having its own distinctive, immersive soundworld. Sometimes a more conventionally 'musical' aesthetic emerges; the long "Anemo" even features an almost techno-esque bass pulse at its close, while the gorgeous "Landmass" pitches plaintive, shimmering melodics over a deep sine tone in a piece which evokes Eno's best work. This is stuff that repays deep, close listening; definitely album of the year material.


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Label Changes for:
Tarka (trandolapril/verapamil hydrochloride ER tablets)
July 2016
Changes have been made to the PRECAUTIONS sections of the safety label.
Detailed View: Safety Labeling Changes Approved By FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
July 2016
Drug Interactions (the following sections were added):
- Concurrent use of verapamil increases exposure to ivabradine and may exacerbate bradycardia and conduction disturbances. Avoid co-administration of verapamil and ivabradine.
Other (Verapamil Component)
- Verapamil, a P-gp inhibitor, increases exposure to dabigatran (a thrombin inhibitor) when administered concomitantly; however, no dose adjustment of dabigatran is required when administered with verapamil.
January 2016
Head and Neck Angioedema
- Patients receiving coadministration of an ACE inhibitor with an mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) inhibitor (e.g., temsirolimus, sirolimus, everolimus) may be at increased risk for angioedema.
Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Inhibitors
- Patients taking concomitant mTOR inhibitor (e.g., temsirolimus, sirolimus, everolimus) therapy may be at increased risk for angioedema (see Warnings – Head and Neck Angioedema).
September 2011
Drug Interactions
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents including Selective Cyclooxygenase – 2 Inhibitors (COX-2 Inhibitors)
- Trandolapril component: In patients who are elderly, volume-depleted (including those on diuretic therapy), or with compromised renal function, co-administration of NSAIDs, including selective COX-2 inhibitors, with ACE inhibitors, including trandolapril, may result in deterioration of renal function, including possible acute renal failure. These effects are usually reversible. Monitor renal function periodically in patients receiving trandolapril and NSAID therapy.
- The antihypertensive effect of ACE inhibitors, including trandolapril, may be attenuated by NSAIDs.
August 2011
Drug Interactions
- In vitro metabolic studies indicate that verapamil is metabolized by cytochrome P450 including CYP3A4, CYP1A2, CYP2C8, CYP2C9 and CYP2C18. Verapamil has been shown to be an inhibitor of CYP3A4 enzymes and P-glycoprotein (P-gp). Clinically significant interactions have been reported with inhibitors of CYP3A4 (e.g. erythromycin, ritonavir) causing elevation of plasma levels of verapamil while inducers of CYP3A4 (e.g. rifampin) have caused a lowering of plasma levels of verapamil. Therefore, patients receiving inhibitors or inducers of the cytochrome P450 system should be monitored for drug interactions
- No clinically significant pharmacokinetic interaction has been found between trandolapril (or its metabolites) and digoxin.
- No clinically significant pharmacokinetic interaction has been found between trandolapril (or its metabolites) and cimetidine
Antihypertensive Agents
- Section revised
Post Marketing Experience
- There has been a single postmarketing report of paralysis (tetraparesis) associated with the combined use of verapamil and colchicine. This may have been caused by colchicine crossing the blood-brain barrier due to CYP3A4 and P-gp inhibition by verapamil. Combined use of verapamil and colchicine is not recommended (see PRECAUTIONS-Drug Interactions).


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with full-service spa and free breakfast
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly Jackson hotel is located in the mountains, within a 10-minute walk of Museum of White Mountain Art at Jackson, Jackson Falls, and Jackson Historical Society. Black Mountain Ski Area and Wentworth Golf Club are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an indoor pool. Free cooked-to-order breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge.
Room Amenities
All 41 rooms offer free WiFi, LCD TVs with cable channels, and free newspapers. Other amenities available to guests include hair dryers, phones, and ironing boards.
Guest Highlights
- Breakfast
- Pool
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
Christmas Farm Inn and Spa
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Christmas Farm Inn and Spa features an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This family-friendly hotel also offers a spa tub, a fitness center, and a steam room. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Christmas Farm Inn and Spa is a smoke-free property.
- Ski passes available
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Indoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 41
- Number of floors - 2
- Restaurant
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Full-service spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- One meeting room
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1786
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 13
- Spa services on site
- Outdoor pool
- Bar/lounge
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Garden
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Outdoor seasonal pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Playground on site
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
A complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
Onsite venue - This family restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Mistletoe Pub - This pub specializes in American cuisine and serves dinner only. Open daily.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a steam room and a fitness center.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, fitness facility, or spa tub without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Rafting nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Sledding nearby
- Snow tubing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Playground on site
- Cross-country skiing on site
Spa Services
AVEDA Concept Spa has 7 treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Number of treatment rooms 7
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20+tax per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 10+tax per night.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 10.90 per accommodation, per night
- Breakfast
- Pool access
- Spa tub access
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Internet access
- Newspaper
- Phone calls
- Parking
Optional extras
- Late check-out fee: USD 50.00
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 10+tax per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20+tax per night
Hotel Name
- Christmas Farm
- Christmas Farm Inn
- Christmas Farm Inn Jackson
- Christmas Farm Jackson
- Farm Inn
- Inn Farm
- Christmas Farm Hotel Jackson
- Christmas Farm Inn And Spa
- Christmas Farm Resort
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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Matthew McConaughey agrees this career has had a change of direction, but says it's all part of the ride: "I don't see it as much as a 'then' and a 'now', I definitely changed a gear, and started making some different choices, but it all seems like part of the evoluton to me," McConaughey told 3 News.
McConaughey has already won a Golden Globe for his role as Ron Woodroof, a bullrider who tested HIV positive in 1985. He then dedicated his life to importing the medication he and others needed to stay alive.
He says he could understand the paranoia around HIV/AIDS in the 80s, as he was a teenager then. "And I remember going to doctors going, 'Give me the straight dope. I am heterosexual, I am not doing drugs, I am not having sex with women doing drugs, I am not having sex with prostitution, give me some numbers. Protected sex. Unprotected sex'. And there was real fear, as no one had the same answer."
Watch David Farrier's uncut interview with Dallas Buyers Club star Matthew McConaughey. The film opens in New Zealand on Thursday February 20.
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Cherry Chocolate Dump Cake
I've been struggling with how to write this post. How does one stay classy when writing about a cake that happens to have the word "dump" in the title? But here I go anyway…I went to a puppy shower this past weekend (for a dear friend who had puppies instead of children…Hi Queen! Frank is perfect!) and I brought this cake — this DUMP Cake. All I can say is that I hope my parents are proud; they sent me to pastry school in New York City and I made a Dump Cake.
I am quite sure that this post will make someone mad because I'm positive that this recipe, which I have so lovingly referred to as being a form of Dump Cake, is not actually what is typically known as a Dump Cake in the Southern United States. Far as I know, a true Dump Cake is one where no mixing is required, just the dumping of ingredients into a cake pan; however, while my recipe calls for the dumping of ingredients, it also calls for a wee bit of mixing. Gasp.
Despite my overt sarcasm concerning this Dump Cake, I have to tell you that it was a total hit at the party because frankly, it's totally delicious. It takes five minutes to dump together and is delightfully satisfying, especially on a warm afternoon surrounded by friends and wet puppy kisses.
Cherry Chocolate Dump Cake (adapted from Mama)
Makes 1-9×13 inch cake
1 box chocolate cake mix
1 540ml (19 ounce) can of cherry pie filling
1 teaspoon almond
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
Rich Chocolate Glaze, to frost with if desired
Preheat oven to 350˚F. Butter a 9×13 inch cake pan and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and beat with a spatula or wooden spoon for 1 minute or until all dry ingredients have been moistened. Pour into prepared cake pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the car comes out clean.
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Enjoy the juggling, magic, and hilarious antics of Boswick the Clown! Boswick Turnstyle is a former Ringling Brothers Circus clown with a ridiculous slapstick style. For ages 4 and up.
Come to the library, check out the show, get a library card, and enjoy some books!
Summer Read SF 2014: May 31-August 10
Connect to your library, your imagination, and San Francisco.


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This past weekend I went to a couple of school musicals to see a couple of my girls perform. One of the shows that I saw was "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Hunter High School. It was wonderful, very well done, and a lot of fun to watch. However, I think Aubrey had a better time at the play than I did. During one of the songs, the actors came into the audience to take a few people on stage to dance. Aubrey was one of the chosen few. She went up on stage and a sweet Egyptian girl (at least according to her costume) sort of adopted her and they did the twist together. It made Aubrey's night. I wish that I had had a camera there to catch the excitement. It was a pretty fun night. Aubrey and I had a great time together.
Also, lately Gavin has taken to changing his clothes seven times (or more) a day. Any time he gets a drip of water or an almost invisible speck of food on his clothes, he feels compelled to change them...immediately. This makes for a lot of laundry. My parents are probably laughing up a storm at that. I have heard the stories of how I was exactly the same way when I was little. Stupid heredity!!!
P.S. Saw Twilight this weekend...I loved it. YEEEEEAAAAAH VAMPIRES!!!


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BROWNHELM TOWNSHIP -- A subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. has permission to build a new electric line west of Lorain.
The Ohio Power Siting Board this week approved the new 345-kilovolt line from the existing Beaver Substation to Brownhelm Junction, where several existing power lines join about 1,970 feet south of North Ridge Road. American Transmission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, planned the project.
The new line "is a necessary component of the larger transmission system upgrade known as the Beaver-Davis Besse 345 (kilovolt) transmission line project that will help meet electrical supply needs in the area for the foreseeable future at a reasonable cost to consumers, even during periods of peak demand," the ruling said.
The new line would run about 2.8 miles parallel to existing north-south transmission lines. It would cross over 11 parcels.
Construction would begin after Oct. 1 and the new line is expected to be in place by April 30, 2014. The line has an estimated cost of $3.06 million and could generate more than $182,000 in property taxes for Lorain County, Brownhelm Township and the city of Lorain, according to the staff of the Ohio Power Siting Board.
The new line was permitted subject to 28 conditions that ATSI must meet to remediate the environmental and social impacts of the project, according to the OPSB.
The company filed its application in July 2012; the OPSB held a local public hearing Jan. 3.
More information about the project is at http://bit.ly/ZGIJdd.


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For 10 years, Paul Alioto stressed family first to his players.
On Monday family became a priority for the Palma High basketball coach.
Alioto stepped down Monday as the school's varsity basketball coach, citing a desire to spend more time with his young family.
"I wish I could come back and do it at the level the kids deserve,'' Alioto said. "But with a growing family and a new job, it's time for me to step back and focus on them.''
Alioto, 43, took a job in sales in January. His kids are 6 and 3.
"There is a little more traveling involved,'' Alioto said of his new job.
Alioto broke the news to his players at lunch on Monday, after coming to a decision over the weekend following a meeting with Palma administration.
"I think a lot of them (kids) were surprised,'' Alioto said. "Maybe some of the older kids might have thought something was up. It's May and we haven't done anything in the off-season.''
In part, because Alioto didn't have the extra time. And by his own admission, he didn't have the desire to put in the extra off-season work.
"I didn't have the same passion that I had in November,'' Alioto said. "I didn't have the same desire to invest that time. That's what led to my decision. I wasn't chomping at the bit to get back in the gym."
Perhaps a break will re-energized Alioto, who has coached for 21 years, including pit stops as an assistant at Hawaii-Hilo, Hartnell and CSU Monterey Bay.
"We'll see,'' Alioto, a 1988 Gonzales graduate, said about one day returning to coaching. "You never say never. But as far as a competitive situation, it's going to be a while.''
Alioto won 190 games in 10 seasons at Palma, taking the program to the Central Coast Section Division IV semifinals nine straight years, including this season.
The Chieftains won the CCS title in 2007, reaching the Northern California Division IV quarterfinals behind guard Orlando Johnson, who went on to play in the NBA.
The Chieftains were coming off a 7-17 season when Alioto took over.
"There were guys before me like Bob Burlison and Ron Critchfield that built this program to where it is today,'' Alioto said. "I just came in and took a page from them in resurrecting it.''
One of the things Alioto did change was beefing up Palma's non-league schedule.
"We wanted to play elite teams, gauge ourselves,'' Alioto said. "Why not test yourself. The competition would only make us a better team.''
Palma won 20 or more games four times during the Alioto era, including a 27-3 season in 2007, the second best record in school history.
"This was not a huge surprise,'' Palma athletic director Jeff Carnazzo said. "Family is very important to Paul. Being a varsity basketball coach is demanding and time consuming. His priorities are in the right place.''
While Alioto is at peace with his decision, it was still difficult to walk away from something that has engulfed more than half of his life, counting his playing days.
"It was hard to leave my assistant coaches that are the bloodline to the program,'' Alioto said. "It takes everyone being on the same page to sustain success over a period of time. No one had a big ego. They were like my family for four months. I'll miss that.''
Who will succeed Alioto is unknown since the decision came suddenly.
"It's a marquee job,'' Alioto said. "I think they'll find some qualified people that will apply for it.''
Plus the program is stocked at the bottom with a promising eighth grade class coming up.
"There are some kids coming up that I would have loved to have coached,'' Alioto said. "But when do you end it? There is always going to be a kid you want to coach. At some point, you have call it a day.''
One of the first people Alioto texted was current UCLA guard Noah Allen, who spent four years at Palma under Alioto.
"I told Noah I want front row seats at a UCLA game next year so I can yell at him,'' laughed Alioto.
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I topropped this the other day to gain the top of the pinnacle for vanity purposes (photographing my second on Restless Virgins).
It's actually a solid route that would take bomber gear except for the unprotectable and challenging first half. It also has moves significantly harder than Restless Virgins--including some finger jams, and the 10- grade is a fantastic sandbag. As of this date there's no anchor of any kind on the pinnacle summit.
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|The route Dick's Prick was added in June 2013, and notes an anchor on top of the pinnacle.
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|I was up there today, people are missing the anchor - it's ancient and crispy, definatly been around for a long time. Poke around, you'll see it.


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A vocabulary is a list of words.
The vocabulary a person uses is all the words that person uses. A person who is five knows 4,000 to 5,000 words.[1] Adults who go to college may know 20,000 words.[2]
The number of words in a language is more than of the words. One dictionary may have a list of 500,000 (half a million) words. Another dictionary may have some other words that the other dictionary does not have. When you add all the words in those dictionaries, there are about 750,000 words in English. There may be more words than that.[3]
If there are 750,000 words, how can we talk with only 3000 words? Because, we do not need all the words. You can say most things with 3000 words.[4]
The most used words are short words. That is true in all languages.[5] The 50 most common words in English have less than seven letters. Half of these words have less than four letters.[3]
The vocabulary of a language is always changing. New words are made or words change their meaning. Words about computers, like "download" are new to the English language. The new word "bling" came from hip hop. Words like "cool" have developed new meanings.
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- ↑ Goulden R; Nation P. & Read J. 1990. How large can a receptive vocabulary be? Applied Linguistics 11: 341-363.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Crystal, David 1995. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge University Press, p119, p423.
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On our current site, a late 90's PERL roll yer own, this feature was implemented as a separate SKU. Of course this results in confused customers trying to buy their 2 and having 6 arrive!
My preference would be that someone buys qty 2, we add a line item at no charge.
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Analysis of Total Cost Ownership (TCO) models from Intel show that the lowest costs comes when PCs are refreshed on a three-year cycle, with savings in the form of energy efficiency, security, productivity, and manageability.
For example, making the transition to Microsoft Windows 7 Professional lets you take advantage of advances in security, networking, remote access and mobility. The new system has fewer interruptions and prompts, and has a faster recovery from problems. Even better, this powerful new operating system lowers support costs – by as much as 55% according to an IDC study. Older operating systems simply cannot compete.
You'll see even greater value and ROI in the refresh cycle when you choose PCs with 2nd Gen IntelCore Processors with vPro™ Technology. With an average payback period of 10 months and an average ROI of 300% on a 3-year refresh, Intel's research shows you will demonstrate real value to your organization. Benefits from refreshing with 2nd Gen IntelCore Processors with vPro™ Technology include:


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Barbara Harris, First Vice Regent Elect -- Rebecca Shelton, First Vice Regent and Regent Elect --Compatriot Robert Hall, --U.S. Congressman Brad Ellsworth, --Compatriot Kenneth Gilkey, --Mardell Puckett, Regent. DAR members are from the Captain Henry Vanderburgh Chapter, NSDAR
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Don't wait for last call. Instead, get the new Barfly gloves from Roland Sands Design in time for the first round of summer riding. Intended as an all-city glove, the Barfly merges the best of performance comfort and style, according to RSD. "Not every rider needs a MotoGP-spec racing gauntlet," says racer-turned-designer Roland Sands. "However, every rider needs a great set of all-round riding gloves."
Tough but supple top grain cowhide combined with strategic protective padding and a great fit might just make the Barfly your regular pair of gloves. Starting with the pre-curved ergonomic design and incorporating flex knuckles for better feel of the brake and clutch lever, the summer-weight gloves get perforated venting for optimum comfort. The padded palms are reinforced for added protection while a strap/Velcro® closure keeps the gloves from flying off when your hands are on the bars.
"These gloves do the job as protective equipment, but they don't make you look like you just got off a GP bike," says Sands. "We incorporated the key functional elements with a style to match our jackets." Highlights of the Barfly include:
• Top grain cowhide construction for durability
• Strap/Velcro closure for added security
• Pre-curved ergonomic design for better fit
• Flex knuckles for better feel of the controls
Given this combination of style, functionality and comfort, you might just want to order a double! The Barfly comes in a choice of basic black, sand or tobacco colorways. Sizes range from S-2XL and MSRP is just $70 a pair. Get a better look at the entire RSD glove collection at www.rolandsands.com/categories/gloves. Remember, RSD gear is available through authorized RSD dealers and riding friendly stores only.


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Photo contest
Kanawha County students can win gift cards in the Capitol Conservation District's 2014 Poster Contest. The theme is "Dig Deeper: Mysteries in the Soil." Open to K-12 students, posters must be made on 14-by-22-inch poster board for grades K-6, and 22-by-28-inch poster board for grades 7-12. Posters will be judged in each of these grade categories: K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Any media may be used to create a flat or two-dimensional effect with paint, crayons, colored pencils, charcoal, paper or other materials. The posters will be evaluated on message, visual effectiveness, originality and universal appeal. Contact the District office by phone, 304-759-0736, or email, firstname.lastname@example.com, for information and to receive an application. The deadline for entries is June 25.
Membership drive
Greenbrier Historical Society is accepting new members. Members receive a free copy of the society's annual publication, "The Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society," and the society's quarterly newsletter, "Appalachian Springs." Member benefits also include one free query in "Appalachian Springs" and a 10-percent discount in the Star Tavern Gift Shop. Memberships start at $25 for individuals, $35 for families, and $50 for businesses. Forms can be found at the North House or online at society.greenbrierhistorical.org. For more information, contact the Greenbrier Historical Society at 304-645-3398 or firstname.lastname@example.com. The Greenbrier Historical Society's North House Museum and Archives, at 301 West Washington St. in Lewisburg, are open free to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
Host families sought
The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, nonprofit agency, provides free summer experiences to New York City children from low-income communities through the fund's Volunteer Host Family Program. Host families are sought for these children. To learn more about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, call Rachel Eubanks at 304-282-6010. Visit The Fresh Air Fund online at www.freshair.org.
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CDC Issues Recommendations on Providing Family Planning Services — Physician's First Watch
April 28, 2014
CDC Issues Recommendations on Providing Family Planning Services
By the Editors
The CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs have released a comprehensive set of recommendations on providing quality family planning services. Published in MMWR — and directed at primary care providers and anyone who provides family planning care — the document covers contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping patients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health, sexually transmitted infection management, and related preventive health (e.g., cervical cytology).
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The rustic charm and warm color of knotty alder makes this type of wood an option for doors, furniture and cabinetry. By staining the knotty alder yourself, you are in control of the specific shade of the wood. Adding a finishing coat to your stained alder door seals and protects the wood from moisture, dirt and the elements.
Things You'll Need
- Wood finish with a UV protective additive
- 220-grit sandpaper
- Mineral spirits
- Paintbrush
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Purchase polyurethane, lacquer, varnish, or shellac for finishing interior alder doors. Use a spar finish on external doors; this is a a UV-protective additive that prevents fading. Read the product's directions thoroughly before beginning.
Move your door outside or to a well ventilated area. Stain the knotty alder door to your desired shade. Allow the stain to dry thoroughly according to the product directions. The average drying time is two to six hours, but stain products vary. Reapply the stain if you want a darker color.
Sand the entire wood surface with steel wool or 220-grit sandpaper. This gives the varnish a surface that it can grab onto.
Wear rubber gloves and dilute your finish with mineral spirits. This usually provides an even finish. Dilute the solution to 25-percent mineral spirits and 75-percent finish.
Apply a thin, even layer of your diluted finish to the entire surface with a paintbrush or an old T-shirt. Allow it to dry according to the product instructions. Depending on your chosen product, your drying time between finish coats might range from 4 to 24 hours.
Sand the surface lightly with steel wool or 220-grit sandpaper, and reapply another coat. Repeat this until you have five coats of finish the door.
Flip the door over and repeat the procedure.
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To be admitted to the IRGC Program, there are two prerequisite courses, one in graduate level research methods (qualitative or quantitative) and one in graduate level statistics. An assumption of two prerequisite courses is that the student has completed introductory (and possibly intermediate) level courses in both areas. Students may take one, but not both prerequisite courses as a corequisite (i.e., students must have completed at least prerequisite requirement for admission to the program).
Most prospective students have or will complete these prerequisite courses while pursuing a post baccalaureate degree. Both prerequisite courses may be taken elsewhere, and in fact Humboldt State does not currently offer these courses online. If you need to take them, you are welcome to do so at any regionally accredited University or you may complete courses from the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Data and Decisions Academy.
Satisfies Graduate Level Research Design Requirement:
– Designing IR Research
Satisfies Graduate Level Statistics Requirement:
– Longitudinal Tracking for Institutional Research
Suggested as a Statistics Refresher
– Foundational Statistics for Decision Support
Students may also complete the following courses from Udemy:
Graduate Level Statistics:
– https://www.udemy.com/anova-spss/
– https://www.udemy.com/manova-spss/
– https://www.udemy.com/datascience/
Equivalent of Upper division stats, but not grad level
– https://www.udemy.com/inferential-statistics-spss
SPSS Refresher:
– https://www.udemy.com/descriptive-statistics-spss/


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Landslide closes Chain of Craters Road
Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was closed briefly after a landslide covered one lane of the road below Kealakomo on Sunday. Crews used a backhoe and dump truck to remove debris and the road reopened Monday afternoon, according to a park spokeswoman. No one was injured in the incident. Here, heavy equipment operator Herbert Botelho uses a backhoe to clear the road. He removed approximately 100 cubic yards of lava rock and debris from the roadway.
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Lisa Lefkowitz WPPI 2011 Lecture Notes
The following is a guest post by Brittany Hansen of Brushfire Photography located in San Tan Valley, AZ.
Lisa Lefkowitz got started by doing low end weddings at a high volume. She didn't like how things were going so she decided on what she wanted to be doing and starting taking steps to get there.
She loves taking photos of details and this makes her work very attractive to magazines and online publications. This also allows her to do a lot of storytelling through details. Her photos are brights and airy with a lot of off-camera gaze. They are styled, directed and with a definite vision. It is important to find an authentic vision because this will compel the right clients.
It is often argued whether film or digital photography is more expensive. Lisa has done the math and has found that it is basically a wash. Film has a lot of up front cost, but digital rapidly changes and the cost of time editing is higher.
Lisa has a list of words that represent her work and that she uses in her marketing and advertising. These words are: fine art, artisan, hand-made, and heirloom.
-Minolta light meter
–Canon EOS 3 & 5D Mark II
-Contax 645 80mm f/2
-Fuji 400H
She exposes her color negatives at 1/2 ASA and has her film scanned by Richard Photo Lab. Files are then imported into lightroom where she or her assistant make the final edits. She showed up this crazy graph of all the steps and milestones she completed to get to where she is today. This was really helpful and generous of her to list all these things that she has done. Here are some of the steps:
-Joined a photographer referral group
-Moved into a nice studio in nice neighborhood
-1st Wedding published
-1st wedding in Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine
-Hired a designer to make all her branding cohesive
-Found planners and work through wedding planners
-Started a blog
-Featured on the cover of PDN (Wedding Magazine)
-Featured in an Ad for Fuji
-Featured in an Editorial Wedding for Brides Magazine
-Trying to be everything to everyone. You need to find what work you like doing and stay true to yourself. If you jump all over doing everything your work will suffer and clients will be confused about what they would get from you.
-Too many products or packages. By simplifying your packages and products clients are less overwhelmed and so are you.
-Not charging enough. You are worth it and you need to set your prices to make money.
-Not outsourcing. By outsourcing the things you are not great at, you have more time to focus on your strengths.
When your work is published you have a major vehicle of self-promotion. Plus, when you have been published you are more attractive to clients and planners. When your work is published the vendors work you have photographed is also getting exposure, therefore the vendors are very happy with you as well, and are likely to refer you. They will also spread the word about the feature and be giving you more press in the process.
Once published create a promo card about the publication and send it to vendors & planners. Her promo cards are folded with one photo on front and 6 inside, and says "as featured in Use a team approach by linking to vendors on websites and blogs, and giving credit where credit is deserved.
Who are you shooting for? Me, planner, vendors, editors, clients. Make sure you get photos for all those people. By doing this you will be making every wedding a possible publication. Make a timeline of what you need to do and when. Educate clients on what you will be doing and get a list of group photos they expect, this way your plan is more concise and they know what to expect. Before you start shooting look around and get a feel for everything. Try to get portraits done at sunset if possible, it is the most romantic and sought after.
She directs and composes photos, but also creates natural poses. It is important to capture real-to-life moments.
Lisa's talk was really informative and useful. I mainly took away the importance of being published and creating relationships with vendors and planners. This has made a huge impact in how I work now. I now try to get a hold of the vendors and give them photos of their work. In this short time after WPPI I have already created relationships with vendors that has helped my business.
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Clodagh McKenna trained at Ballymaloe Cookery School and went on to work as a chef there. After an inspiring visit to the Midleton Market, Clodagh decided to leave the kitchen and start up her own stall, which eventually led to her involvement in setting up farmers markets around the country.
She writes for several publications and is a regular contributor to many shows including Saturday Cooks, Saturday Kitchen, and UKTV's Market Kitchen, to name just a few. Her first book The Irish Farmers Market Cookbook was published in 2006 and a TV series called Fresh from the Farmers Markets aired on RTÉ. Her book Fresh From the Sea was also published to coincide with her RTÉ series. Clodagh's most recent publication is Homemade, which offers homemade recipes for every occasion.
In 2010 Clodagh opened a cookery school and the Canal Café at the Village at Lyons, in Co. Kildare, and in 2011 she launched Homemade by Clodagh Food Court & Food Market at Arnotts department store in Dublin city centre.
Clodagh was delighted to return to The Restaurant critics table for the four star cook-off, and brings with her a vast knowledge of Irish produce and passion for seasonality.


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The lack of NFC support on Apple's iPhone has perplexed 3G for some time and the recently announced iPhone 5 also didn't include support for the technology. Natwest and RBS seem to disagree with Apple about the important of NFC and contact-less payment because they've announced they are trialling "TouchPay".
TouchPay enables iPhone owners to pay for items in stores using NFC thanks to a free iCarte case. The iCarte case effectively adds NFC support to the iPhone enabling it to be used to pay for items up to £20 in supported retail outlets.
In order to use the service you just need to put your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S into the case and download the TouchPay application from iTunes. However, the service is currently only at a trial stage with the pilot beginning today.
Touchpay is linked up directly to your current account from Natwest or RBS , which ensures minimal effort is needed to use the service. The maximum transaction value of £20 also ensures that any losses due to fraudulent activity are kept to a minimum.
RBS and Natwest are very confident that they'll be rolling out TouchPay to the wider public very soon. We're not sure if they have any plans to provide a similar service for iPhone 5 owners, but we would expect them to do so !
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4. As of noon trading, Williams Partners ( WPZ) is down $0.34 (-0.7%) to $51.69 on average volume. Thus far, 380,615 shares of Williams Partners exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 877,600 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $51.65-$52.25 after having opened the day at $51.94 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $52.03. Williams Partners L.P., an energy infrastructure company, focuses on connecting North America's hydrocarbon resource plays to growing markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). It operates in two segments, Gas Pipeline and Midstream Gas & Liquids. Williams Partners has a market cap of $21.4 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 33.4, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Williams Partners a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Williams Partners as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, reasonable valuation levels and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share. Get the full Williams Partners Ratings Report now. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.
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NY State Senator Rubén Diaz Honored at The Children's Aid Society in the Bronx
On October 6, New York State Senator Rubén Diaz was honored for his support of the audio/video room at The Children's Aid Society Next Generation Center in the South Bronx. Thanks to Senator Diaz's assistance, the center, which serves neighborhood teens, as well as those aging out of foster care, now features a state-of-the-art A/V room designed to build young people's creative and technical skills. William Weisberg, The Children's Aid Society's Chief Operating Officer, described Senator Diaz as a "champion of young people."
Cutting the ribbon at The Children's Aid Society Next Generation Center are (left to right) Cordale Manning, 18; New York State Assembly Member Marcos Crespo; Karon Porter, Technology Coordinator; New York State Senator Rubén Diaz; Fateem Smith, 16.


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The downtown scene and sights have been shifting dramatically for the better over the last decade. Approximately $4 billion in public and private developments has been completed or committed for downtown Nashville from the start of the millennium until now.
Extraordinary private sector investment projects include The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, Terrazzo, Hotel Indigo on 3rd Avenue, SunTrust Plaza, Encore, ICON, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Stahlman Building Residences, Viridian, Commerce Center, Hampton Inn & Suites, Homewood Suites by Hilton, and the Hilton Nashville Downtown. Additionally, extensive renovations and construction at Union Station Hotel, The Hermitage Hotel, Holiday Inn Express, LifeWay Plaza, Bank of America Plaza, Cummins Station and Gateway Pavilion.
Public investments in downtown since 2000 include the Howard Campus for Metro Offices, Music City Central transit station, the Metro Courthouse and Public Square, Music City Star commuter rail system, Criminal Court Building, Church Street, Capitol Boulevard, and 5th Avenue North improvements, the Demonbreun Street Viaduct, the Nashville Public Library, the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge, Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, and the District Energy System.
The grand opening and ribbon cutting for the highly-anticipated $585 million project of the Music City Center took place in May 2013. Construction is almost complete for the $280 million Omni Hotels & Resorts convention center hotel, as well as the expansion of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
The investment potential in downtown Nashville is multiplying as both density and demand continue to increase with popularity. Contact the Nashville Downtown Partnership for customized research on retail, residential, or business investment opportunities.