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Fickett Hammock covers 148 acres on Centralia Road, just west of Citrus Way.
I like this location — perfect quiet and solitude less than 10 minutes from State Road 50.
I like that the dense shade of the hammock, along with the first reasonably cool day of the season (Wednesday), let me walk the 1-mile trail and barely break a sweat. Imagine that a week ago!
I like that the trail leads past a clearing of shoulder-high palmettos that practically glowed in the sunlight, a giant oak with a small, bonsai-looking palmetto growing from a crook in its trunk, and a shrub called an Eastern wahoo (so Jim King, the county's conservation lands specialist, tells me), with a bright red seed pod that stood out like a brake light on an empty highway.
I like that the hammock is named after someone who deserved it — Steve Fickett, expert birder and co-founder of Hernando Audubon, who died in 2006.
I like that the trail was built last spring partly by volunteer workers — my kind of people, the ones who care about the woods — and that my view was more natural and less cluttered because still another crowd of volunteers had cleared away an invasive plant called Japanese climbing fern and a truck-load of trash last Saturday during National Public Lands Day.
Organized locally for the second year by Becky Brown, volunteer coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, it attracted 180 volunteers in Hernando County, twice as many as last year.
The jobs they did included planting 200 cypress trees at the Silver Lake Recreation Area, cleaning overgrowth from miles of trail in the Richloam Tract of the Withlacoochee State Forest, and pulling down tons of potato vines at the Springs Coast Environmental Education Center on the Weeki Wachee River.
What I don't like is that I missed it. It makes me feel downright guilty, in fact, because the agencies that manage natural lands have always been stretched thin. King, for example is the only land manager assigned to three tracts of county-owned environmentally sensitive land.
They are stretched even thinner now in the era of tight budgets.
The state Division of Forestry headquarters north of Brooksville, which is responsible for keeping up the vast Withlacoochee State Forest, has lost three positions permanently and is unable to fill five more, director Winnie Schreiber said.
And they will be stretched even thinner as revenues continue to drop, she said: "We expect it to get worse next year.''
"We're scrambling, trying to do the most with the least,'' King said. Volunteers are a way to leverage the effort of each paid worker, he said, especially for tasks that can only be done with lots of human labor, like picking up garbage or clearing brush.
That is next up on his schedule, on a work day scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 a.m. — cutting a boundary line through the woods on the Fickett property so a fence can be built.
For those of us who slept in last Saturday, he has planned three more chances to exorcise our guilt — cutting trails, picking up debris or laying tree limbs to prevent erosion — on work days in January, February and March.
C'mon, get out there. Steve would be proud of you.

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So I have so far kept this whole thing hush hush but, it's time now to reveal my plans. I have a 99' VEHIcross that I am planning on eventually taking on a jaunt down the PanAmerican Highway to Patagonia. For now though I will be taking a maiden voyage from Anchorage Alaska to San Diego California down the PCH and over to Phoenix Arizona. Even better I will be doing my trips to benefit The Crossing Church in Birchwood AK and it's missionary endeavors. http://www.crossingtonewlife.org/site/missions.htm
My wife and I will begin next April 2014 leaving from Chugiak AK, heading down the AlCan, to Kalispell MT to see my dad, and then eventually to San Diego. I will accompanied by my buddy Harlan on his adventure bike, and copiloted by my beautiful wife.
In a bush plane yesterday
So I have hit it hard making the VX as ExPo ready as possible, I have to contend with limited space, and the electronic failures that come with modern/limited run vehicles, but I also have the benefits of having a short wheelbase, high ground clearance and dashing good looks.
For starters I built a front bumper and added some big ***** lights
Then I built a drawer and a cutting board
I then built a rear bumper (sort of) basically just a tow/jack point.
next thing we have on order is the RTT that comes next week, the vinyl wrap with the links to the Facebook, Twitter feed, Church Missions, and the logos of the sponsors, as well as the name "VEHIcrossAmerica!"
We planned for a three week trip so we can enjoy the camping, food, B&B's, adventures, and general rabble-rousing/swash-buckling.
I need to still fashion an on-board water system, accumulate the camping gear, change the fluids/belts, spare tire, aluminum skids, get more GoPro cameras. get more sponsors, build the website, debug the lights, instal VisonX lights as interior lights, make brochures to drum up support for donations, get a Ram Mount for the iPad, and mount the HiLift.
I welcome any and all suggestions. If I can get a sticky on this thread being that it will be a year long race to outfit my team and rig for the journey. I will also post all of the camping trips up here we are taking to test our gear and vehicle, learning to cooperate on the journey. If anyone wants to donate money to children's missions I will link to the organization later, or you can donate gear for the trip, anything you think we could use or need would be greatly appreciated. We are all making sacrifices for these trips and these kids, it's going to be a great journey.


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An aircraft fuel bowser that fuelled the famous dam buster bomb squadron has been bought by a film company as a prop for a film about the epic RAF raid on Germany's dams during World War 2.
The 1943 AEC (see C&SC Auctions, July) went under the hammer at Richard Edmonds Auctions on 11 June for £19,250 - some £4250 over its £10 - 15,000 estimate.
It is the sole survivor of the six bowsers that fuelled the Lancaster bombers of the RAF's 617 squadron for its dare-devil raid to demolish the walls of the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany back in 1943.
The result at Richard Edmonds' Castle Combe sale came after the film company (which doesn't want to be named) out bid an aviation museum, keen on putting the bowser on display.
See: www.richardedmondsauctions.com for more.


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NEWPORT County's latest striking recruit Aaron Holloway is hoping he'll get the chance to score the goals that will end the club's horror run.
The 20-year old from Cardiff impressed manager Justin Edinburgh so much in a trial in January that he was signed despite the Exiles already having six strikers on their books and he made his debut as a second half substitute in Tuesday's 4-1 defeat at Morecambe.
The released Bristol City striker has represented Wales at under-17 and under-19 level and is now looking to push himself further into the thoughts of manager Edinburgh.
"It was a great experience to get on the pitch and make my debut, but obviously it was a very disappointing night for us," he said.
"We need to show everyone now that we are a team and still together and can get that win we need to get us going again. I think we can get that win.
"By the time I came on the game was probably gone, but the manager was telling us we needed to turn them and I don't feel like we did that well enough. Defensively things just weren't working for us.
"I want to play," he added. "I want to impress the fans and have them say 'he looks like a good player,' and I'll try and take any chance that comes my way."
Holloway explained that Edinburgh was critical of his players after the game on Tuesday.
"The gaffer has made clear he wants us to stick together and he made it clear he wasn't happy with how we played and said it wasn't acceptable how we lost our shape and he's right," he said.
"But obviously if you look at our results from the first half of the season, you can see we obviously have more about us than we've been able to show in the last few weeks.
"We can get back in the swing of it and hopefully I can play as much as possible and score some goals and help us out.
"As a group we just need to stick at it. We are playing well and we know in League Two one mistake can cost you, but if we do the basics right we'll get back on track.
"And it's important that eight of our last 12 games are at home. Our fans give us a massive boost and get behind us and can help us get back to winning ways," he said.


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In response to "State plans big changes to testing, instruction" (May 22): It seems like every few months there is a new plan to improve education but things only seem to get worse. If the state education system wants to better educate students I have some free advice and it won't cost very much to implement.
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P.O. Box 120191
San Diego, CA 92112-0191.
First, the people in charge of public education should visit the nearest Catholic grammar school and high school, see what subjects they teach and how they do it. They should also learn about the school's standards of behavior for the students and the teachers.
Second, go back to the public schools and copy what the Catholic schools have been successfully doing for generations. – Bill DiMasi, Jamul
Today's standards-based, testing-driven education reform is a dismal failure which has done more harm than good. Now we are supposed to double down on these radical unproven reforms by buying expensive testing systems and all new textbooks.
The common core standards for science do away with biology, chemistry and physics. These disciplines are replaced with integrated science, which necessitates all new texts and extensive teacher retraining. The new tests and new texts are not going to significantly improve education but they will drain significant amounts of money out of the classroom.
Standards can be a wonderful guide but they should not be written without any concern for cost, practicality and proven methods. Common core and the new testing regime is not an improvement. It is a huge waste of money when there are no funds to waste. – Thomas Ultican, University City
I wonder how many people are aware of the amount of testing that will eventually accompany the common core standards ("State plans big changes to testing, instruction," May 21). It will be more than we have ever seen on this planet, and much more than the already excessive amount demanded by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
Testing done at the end of the school year will be expanded to include all subjects that can be tested and more grade levels. As noted in the U-T San Diego, there will be "interim" tests given through the year and there may be pretests in the fall to measure growth through the school year.
This means about a 20-fold increase over NCLB.
The cost of implementing these electronically delivered national tests will be enormous, bleeding money from legitimate and valuable school activities.
There is no evidence that all this testing will improve things. In fact, the evidence we have now strongly suggests that increasing testing does not increase achievement. – Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus, University of Southern California
TWO BILLION dollars for new textbooks? I hope they are good ones because there won't be any money left over for teachers! – Kim Johnson, Mira Mesa


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Affiliation: The Salk Institute
Country: USA
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- EEG changes accompanying learned regulation of 12-Hz EEG activityArnaud Delorme
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0961, USA
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 11:133-7. 2003..A more complete understanding of these phenomena could help to explain the nature and locus of learned regulation of EEG rhythms and might also suggest ways to further optimize the performance of brain-computer interfaces...
- Early cortical orientation selectivity: how fast inhibition decodes the order of spike latenciesA Delorme
CNL, Salk Institute, 10010 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Comput Neurosci 15:357-65. 2003..It also demonstrates the biological plausibility of a new computationally efficient neural code: latency rank order coding...
- SpikeNET: an event-driven simulation package for modelling large networks of spiking neuronsArnaud Delorme
CerCo, Faculte de Medecine, 133 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
Network 14:613-27. 2003..01 ms) without significantly increasing the computation time. As an example, this method is applied to solve complex cognitive tasks such as face recognition in natural images...
- Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processing in the fast visual analysis of natural scenesArnaud Delorme
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition UMR 5549, CNRS UPS, 133 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 19:103-13. 2004....
- Enhanced detection of artifacts in EEG data using higher-order statistics and independent component analysisArnaud Delorme
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92107, USA
Neuroimage 34:1443-9. 2007..We note that ICA decomposition also allows simple subtraction of artifacts accounted for by single independent components, and/or separate and direct examination of the decomposed non-artifact processes themselves...
- A limit to the speed of processing in ultra-rapid visual categorization of novel natural scenesM Fabre-Thorpe
Centre de Recherche Cerveau and Cognition UMR 5549, CNRS UPS, Faculte de Medecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France
J Cogn Neurosci 13:171-80. 2001....
- Extraction of the average and differential dynamical response in stimulus-locked experimental dataA Sornborger
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Neurosci Methods 141:223-9. 2005..We also discuss improvements in the signal-to-noise ratio, relative to standard trial averaging methods, that result from the data-adaptive smoothing in our method...


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ERWIN (Martin Phifer) FAMILY CEMETERY, Snow Creek Road, MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE.
The Erwin home
Locator Maps Views of the Cemetery
ERWIN, Martin
13 Mar 1813 - 25 Sep 1872.
(b. in Burke Co. N.C., d. Maury Co. Tn.)
ERWIN, L. A., 10 Dec 1822 - 19 Mar 1866. "Wife of M. P. Erwin." (Nee: Louisa Ann Blackman; Ref: Patricia Kemper.)
ERWIN, Elizabeth King, 29 Jan 1853 - 19 Jun 1863. "Dau. of M. P. & L. A. Erwin."
ERWIN, George Martin, 13 Feb 1860 - 5 Jun 1863. "Son of M. P. & L. A. Erwin."
ERWIN, Jane Minerva, 15 Mar 1819 - 9 Apr 1851. "Wife of M. P. Erwin & Daughter of James & Catherine Huie." (Birth year was corrected to 1819 by the original inscriber.)
12 Feb 1987 commentary: This is one of the cemeteries that has been destroyed. Only a pile of stones remains. The massive monument that marked the grave of Martin P. Erwin is turned face downward and other stones are beneath it or piled around it. This listing is from They Passed This Way. [F.L.H.]
24 Mar 2009 commentary: This cemetery must have been restored by someone since then. I found the large monument standing and a wrought iron fence with no gate around the graves. [W.A.]
Also published in the book Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries, by Fred Lee
Hawkins, Jr. Page 660; he visited there 12 Feb 1987; and "They Passed This Way"
page B-4, about 1967. Added
to this site by Wayne Austin 3 Apr 2009 based on photos & visit made 24
Mar 2009.
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Physical therapists often see patients who have suffered injuries to their muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, tendons or nerves. These conditions are often considered orthopedic injuries.
In many cases, your primary care provider will be the first to diagnose an orthopedic injury. After that, you may be referred to an orthopedic surgeon or other specialist, depending on your condition. At some point in your treatment, it's possible that you'll be referred to a physical therapist, whose job involves not just treatment, but also rehabilitation and the prevention of future injuries.
One key element of physical therapy is working to improve the mobility and function of any part of the body affected by an orthopedic injury. We use a combination of stretches, exercises, and other therapies to treat an injury. Some of the areas that are commonly treated include the ankle, knee, shoulder, and wrist.
Welcome to the CEMM Orthopedic Injury and Prevention Web Site. This program provides an understandable and in-depth exploration of Orthopedic Injury and Prevention, including injuries to the ankle, knee, shoulder, wrist and hip. Common injuries are explained, along with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these conditions. Animation is used to demonstrate the function of the internal structures most susceptible to orthopedic injury. Personal testimonials from real patients show the user how other patients managed their injury and recovery.


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LITHE 10! 24 Sep 2012
Here's to achieving your best you right before the decadence of the holiday season is upon us with its hoardes of family members, cocktail dresses, and office parties. It's time for the fall edition of our "10"! Just like our incredibly successful summer edition, you can expect killer extended classes and a Lithe Foods component to really give you the results you're looking for (read our philosophy).
Our Lithe "10" is a one-month, ten (75 minute per class) class Lithe program capped at 12 people taught by select staff beginning October 9th. How do you know if "10" is for you? Ask yourself the following questions:
- Do you need a kick-start?
- Have you been in a bad food, no Lithe state of mind?
- Are you looking for a total lifestyle change?
- Do you need a little extra help?
- Do you want to become stronger?
Our program is complete with one, three-day Fall/Winter Seasonal Detox Plan ($225 value) followed by a fantastic, flab-fighting Lithe meal plan for you to do at home for the remainder of the month. As I always say, only 15% of changing your body happens in the studio, the remaining 85% is what we put into our bodies.
Confused? Here's the breakdown:
Lithe 10 is a series of 10 classes over 4 weeks, with a meal plan/nutrition element. It consists of:
- 10 classes, all of which are 75 minutes long (instead of 60), taught by selected staff. These classes are specially designed for you.
- A three-day Fall/Winter Seasonal Detox Plan to kick off the program
- A Lithe meal plan/menu for the remainder of the 4 weeks (it's a 1,500-1,700 calorie a day menu designed by Lauren Boggi, founder of Lithe Method. You purchase the ingredients and make meals at home for yourself).
are our set dates (much like the Immersion course). They will all take place at the Old City studio:
- Tuesday, October 9 (7:00pm)
- Thursday, October 11 (7:00pm)
- Tuesday, October 16 (7:00pm)
- Thursday, October 18 (7:00pm)
- Saturday, October 20 (11:00am)
- Tuesday, October 23 (7:00pm)
- Thursday, October 25 (7:00pm)
- Tuesday, October 30 (7:00pm)
- Thursday, November 1 (7:00pm)
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Ex-Britain's Next Top Model contestant Charlotte Holmes wins Miss England
This year's Miss England crown has been awarded to former Britain's Next Top Model contestant Charlotte Holmes.
The Devonshire lass shed tears of joy as she accepted her prize, holding her trophy high on stage at the Athena in Leicester.
Dressed in a sparkly blue gown with an Angelina Jolie-style thigh-high split the 23-year-old Miss Devon looked every bit a star as she dried her eyes in front of the cameras.
Charlotte was joined on stage by runner up Anastasia Smith, Miss North Yorkshire, and third place Tamzin Cummings who was voted Sunderland People's Choice.
There were six beauty-queen finalists in the running for this prestigious prize, all of whom waited nervously on stage after competing in preliminary rounds and a final eco-catwalk, where contestants designed their own 'green outfit'.
But after an agonising wait ex-Britain's Next Top Model participant Charlotte was given her Miss England sash and the much-coveted red and white tiara.
The firm favourite wrote on her entry page on the Miss England website that the competition was 'a fantastic way to celebrate inspirational, ambitious, young women,' and assured that she would be putting in every effort to make her country proud during the Miss World contest.
PICTURES: Check out the fashion round here:
Charlotte was a contestant on the sixth-cycle of the reality modelling show and will get to put her experience into practice as she carries out the first of her official promotional duties in Mauritius.
The new Miss England takes over from fellow 23-year-old Alize Mounter from Kensington and will compete in Miss World later this year.
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A stunning line-up of great comedians is promised for the second My Newt Comedy night at a Keighley town centre pub.
Organiser and stand-up comedian Daniel J Kennedy said there will be guaranteed belly laughs on at The Royal Oak in Damside on Sunday.
Steeton resident Daniel added: "The line-up features one of the best professional comedians on the circuit and a mix of the very best up-and-coming acts supporting him."
Headliner Gavin Webster started in the early 1990s, and has supported comedy giants including Lee Evans, Jack Dee and Phil Jupitus.
He has appeared on TV shows like Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and provided the voice for Viz comic character Sid the Sexist in Channel 4's Blaps.
Opening the night will be Nick Cranston, a "rip-roaringly funny" act, who is hailed by comedy website Gigglebeats as one of the north east's most promising comedians.
He is followed by Peter Brush, who was placed in the top three of last year's BBC New Comedy Award on Radio 2, and Monty Burns, whose material could make Frankie Boyle blush!
Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets cost £5 from the bar of The Royal Oak.


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A 3-0 loss away to Sevilla left Granada just two points above the bottom three ahead of a daunting run of fixtures that includes meetings with Real Madrid and Barcelona in the next three matches.
"The board of Granada CF has this morning removed the coach Juan Antonio Anquela," a statement on the club's website read.
"The club is now working to hire a new coach. Granada CF thank Anquela for his involvement and work and wish him every success in his future career."
Anquela joined Granada in the northern summer after guiding Alcorcon into the Segunda Division.
The side had finished 17th in the table last year under


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A Department of Medical
Ethics: Arthur Caplan
Arthur Rubenstein, EVP of UPHS and Dean of the School of
Medicine, has announced the creation of a Department of Medical
Ethics, which will provide the academic home for the world-renowned
Center for Bioethics. Dr. Arthur Caplan, the Emanuel and
Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, will serve as the newly-created
department's first Chairman.
The Department of Medical Ethics--the first to be dedicated
to medical ethics at an academic medical center--was created
to provide an academic home base for Penn faculty conducting research
on ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences. The new department--with
14 full- and part-time faculty members--is one of the largest
programs of its kind in the world. It will build on and complement
the work of the many Center faculty who are drawn from a variety
of academic and clinical disciplines. The Department of Medical
Ethics positions Penn Bioethics as the undisputed leader in bioethics
research and its use in the practice of medicine and life sciences.
its establishment in 1994 as an interdisciplinary unit of Penn's
School of Medicine, the Center for Bioethics has grown--under
Dr. Caplan's leadership--into a world-renowned educational
force, advancing scholarly and public understanding of ethical,
legal, social and public policy issues in medicine and the life
Center is Penn's voice of bioethics to the world," explains
Dr. Caplan. "It is also the way the School of Medicine is able
to interact on an educational front with other schools, programs
and university units--outside the world of medicine--who
are interested in bioethics, as well as with the community and the
general public. The focus of the Center has not changed. However,
with the increasing number of bioethics faculty teaching in the
School of Medicine, the rapid growth of the Masters of Bioethics
Program, the undertaking of an undergraduate program and the future
prospect of a Ph.D. program in Bioethics, it became critical to
have a department home for bioethics at the School of Medicine."
Caplan's goals for the new department are ambitious: "
... to use the department to better integrate bioethics into the
Health System and the School of Medicine, to improve our teaching
of residents ... to continue to expand our undergraduate teaching
and opportunities for internships and to attract philanthropic support
in response to the University's commitment to this new department."
Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 7, October 8, 2002


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Headphones Cause Pedestrian Injuries to Triple Over a 6-Year Period
Tiffany Kaiser
January 18, 2012 12:03 PM
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These accidents were due to both being distracted by their devices and blocking the sounds of the warning systems with their headphones
The fact that
wearing headphones
while navigating a city on foot can be dangerous seems pretty obvious, but the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore collaborated on a study to show exactly how dangerous the activity can be.
Richard Lichenstein, M.D., lead author of the study and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of pediatric emergency medicine research at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said that injuries to pedestrians who are wearing headphones have tripled in six years.
"Everybody is aware of the risk of cell phones and texting in automobiles, but I see more and more teens distracted with the latest devices and headphones in their ears," said Lichenstein. "Unfortunately, as we make more and more enticing devices, the risk of injury from distraction and blocking out other sounds increases."
Lichenstein and his team conducted the study by taking cases where headphones were involved in serious pedestrian injuries/fatalities from car or train crashes from 2004-2011 reports from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, Westlaw Campus Research databases and Google News Archives. Lichenstein's team reviewed a total of 116 cases during that time period.
According to the study's results, 68 percent of pedestrians injured or killed due to wearing headphones were male, and 67 percent were under the age of 30. About 55 percent of the vehicles involved in the headphone-related accidents were trains, and 29 percent of the vehicles involved used a horn or other type of audible warning system to let the pedestrians know they were there. In addition, nearly three-quarters of the headphone-related injuries were fatal.
Lichenstein said these accidents were due to both
being distracted by their devices
and blocking the sounds of the warning systems with their headphones, which Lichenstein called sensory deprivation.
This study was published in
Injury Prevention
University of Maryland
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Pennsylvania Playhouse Stages BOEING BOEING, Now Through 2/3
Pennsylvania Playhouse has announced the opening of the 2013 season. "Boeing, Boeing," written by Marc Camoletti and directed by Mark Breiner, tells the tale of Bernard, an American playboy in swinging 60s Paris who juggles 3 flight attendant fiancées-one American, one German, and one Italian. With the help of airline timetables and a phenomenally efficient housekeeper, he convinces each that she is his only love. But then a visit from an old school chum and a fast new Boeing jet puts everyone on a collision course, hurtling Bernard's cunning deception towards disaster, and provides lift-off for laugh after laugh. Featuring Beth Linzer, Joanne Rooney, Seth Rohrbach, mark Saylor, Kelly Rohrbach and Annie Locke, "Boeing, Boeing" is the perfect comedy to brighten the winter blues.
This is a comedy with broad satire and improbable situations. According to Mark Breiner, director of "Boeing, Boeing," the play is as funny a modern farce that has ever been performed. Mistaken identity, misunderstanding and that "falling down on your face" kind of humor is pretty much the same formula that has been used by the French and the British for years. What keeps it fresh is new faces and new actors trying new things with the same result in mind. "Keep the audiences laughing".
"Boeing, Boeing" is actually a French play first performed in Paris in 1960. It ran for 7 years in London. The 2008 revival on Broadway won both the Drama Desk and Tony award for Best revival of a play. Breiner says, "This is a play that is just funny. It doesn't make any social statement, has no political slant. You have a guy who thinks he's cool, who manipulates these beautiful flight attendants and nobody is the wiser. Until it all goes haywire."
What draws Breiner to direct a play like "Boeing Boeing?" "Much of what is being produced today in movies and on the stage has a tendency to be overly dramatic. There will always be those who feel the need to use the stage as a platform to express their opinions on the socio-political issues of the day. The way I see it, we face these issues every day just living our lives. I like to think of the theatre as a place people can go to and escape the drama of real life for a couple of hours. I believe in this day and age it is a good thing to make people laugh. Nothing is more rewarding for me as a director than to hear people laugh so hard they lose themselves in the fun."
Performances January 18,19,25,26,27,31,February 1,2,3 8PM, except 3PM on Sundays
Tickets are $22, $19 for seniors & students except for Saturday performances
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I have a wonderful dinner plan for you guys today!
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Their very fine quality has earned Tolosa black beans recognition and fame that extend beyond the borders of the Basque Country. Grown the traditional way in the local farmhouses, these beans are harvested manually from late September or early October.
They hold the "Eusko Label Kalitatea" designation of origin and are usually eaten with black pudding and the prestigious guindilla peppers from Ibarra.
These excellent black beans come in sealed, labelled packages to guarantee their origin and quality. They can be found raw to cook yourself and already prepared. And there's nothing better than to make your way to any restaurant in the Tolosa region for a fabulous plate of these beans. Bon appétit!


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TribU: Chicago River Wildlife Cruise ** SOLD OUT **
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Saturday, June 22, 2013 from 7:50 AM to 10:00 AM (CDT)
TribU: Chicago River Wildlife Cruise.
Join the Chicago Tribune's outdoors columnist Barbara Brotman and her guests, Mark Hauser, education manager of Friends of the Chicago River and Geoff Williamson, winner of the American Birding Association's 2013 Ludlow Griscom Award for regional ornithology, on this chartered boat ride up the North Branch of the river to learn what kind of creatures live in and around the river -- and hopefully to see some. Bring binoculars and your curiosity!
Refreshments available on board. Please arrive by 7:50 a.m., the boat will depart at 8:00 a.m.
$30, 8 a.m. departure at 400 N. Rush Street
The boat will launch from 400 North Michigan Avenue, below the Wrigley Building. The northwest corner of the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
Please note, we go out rain or shine. We do not offer refunds based on weather.
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This will be a SandBox style of game that takes place on Eberron, we start in Sharn.
We end up wherever your imagination takes you.
Start @ Lvl 3, 40pt stat buy. Max HP @ lvl 1&2, 1/2 for lvl3.
Max gold for Lvl 1. No more beyond that. Go out and earn that loot.
You will Level relatively fast, if you keep up with game posts.
If you want play in a good game, make a good character. If you want an evil game make an evil character.
If you are indifferent, make both. I will draw on the applications given to determine what might incite adventure.
Eberron is a dynamic setting with fantastic high magic areas, and brutally primitive savage lands.
Sharn is the biggest city in the setting, with an amazing abundance of magic, so much so it feels very modern.
The city holds life of every sort.
No restriction on character creation, except only light psionics. Psionics goes to sci-fi as magic goes to fantasy, plus I'm not fully versed on the system. Beyond that, if you can dream it, you can play it.
Gods of the pantheon are tweeked. We will use the Greek Pantheon in place of The Sovergn Host.
The Titans will play the 'evil' gods. The various cults are tied to Prometheus. If you want to play a cleric or paladin I can give more details. Also destiny points are used; much like their use in SW SAGA, if your not familiar I'll get details later, super easy, super fun.
Again, this is a sandbox game. I will not spoon feed you adventure, nor will I railroad players.
Sometimes you find adventure, and sometimes adventure finds you.
Post often. I'm online a lot (my job to be in the know). If there are any questions or comments, please PM me.
1X a day at least. If you have to take a couple days off, thats cool, just let me know. I will do the same.
Applications are accepted by first come, first serve.
Complete applications. I need a background of sorts: morals, desires, issues, qualities.
8-10+ sentences. 50+ sentences and I'll go back to reading the news.
I need heroes with the minerals to take on their destiny.
Do not hesitate to ask questions, comments, ideas, insults. We are soooo chill like that over here.
Oh yeah... If you don't want to play, please do not post on my Ad.


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Dubai Customs has announced sponsorship for 'Sanabel Al Khaeer 2005' project which is currently being held till the 11th of August 2005. The project, held at Al Sedeq centre for Quran memorisation in Rashidiya, will involve participant children of all ages.
Dubai Customs' sponsorship for the project is in line with its commitment towards developing and improving religious awareness in children. The memorizing programmes for the Holy Quran held at the Al Sedeq centre are part of Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Minister of Defence H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum's aim to make the Quran an integral part of the lives of the youth. Sheikh Mohammad offers awards such as the International Holy Quran Award and the local Holy Quran Award to encourage young people to participate actively in learning and reciting the Quran.
The 'Sanabel Al Khaeer' project includes several programmes centred on memorising the Holy Quran and understanding its meanings and rules. The project also encourages students to participate in the National Holy Quran Award that will also be held during the summer for National children.
Maryam Al Shamsi, Coordinator of the Society and Government Relations, PCFC, said: "Dubai Customs' sponsorship for the Sanabel al Khaeer project is in keeping with our resolve to develop cultural and religious knowledge in the children of PCFC personnel and the UAE society as a whole. Dubai Customs seeks to promote memorization of Quran among children. The Sanabel al Khaeer project ensures that children's leisure time is used constructively, and underlines PCFC's commitment to societal awareness and education."
Al Sedeq centre is one of the leading centres for recitation and memorization of the Quran in Dubai, and several of its students have won the Local Award for the Holy Quran since the award's inception five years ago.
PCFC, one of the biggest government departments in Dubai and employing a large number of UAE Nationals, is also actively participating in events for DSS 2005 this summer in addition to sponsoring the Sanabel Al Khaeer.
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Mark Honigsbaum: The cover-up of paedophile priests
I'm not even sure how to comment on this. As bad as the growing number of sexual abuse claims is, the role of the church in conspiring to keep this a secret is even worse. Why? Because they knew that their priests were doing this and kept it hidden, exposing even more children to the risk of abuse.


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Robber caught on camera assaulting clerk
Warren police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who may be connected to two robberies.
Surveillance video shows the man inside the Super Mart at 747 Main St. at about 12:50 p.m. Wednesday.
Police said the man asked to change a bill. When the clerk opened the cash register, the man struck him with a wooden stick.
The man fled with some money. The clerk was treated for injuries to his face.
The robber was described as a black man in his late 20s or early 30s. He was wearing a dark sweatshirt, a cap and blue fishing-style gloves.
A man wearing blue fishing-style gloves is also being sought in connection with a robbery May 8 at the Launder 'N Luxury Laundromat at 139 Main St.
A clerk said the man grabbed cash out of the cash register when she opened the drawer.


text: Hi folks, I have a 2.0 TFSI B7 S Line with the standard twin exit exhaust lower bumper trim. The tips that I have on the exhaust now are old, sooted and shabby looking and I am not willing to get a complete system. My question is about if anyone knows if the likes of the RS4 exhaust tips will fit or if anyone knows of any tips that look well or even any measurements ? I will be welding them on to make them look as best as possible.


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DENVER (Jun. 13)
The American Jewish Press Association (AJPA), at its 35th annual conference here unanimously voted its "good wishes" to the new government of Israel and expressed "solidarity" with the World Federation of Jewish Journalists.
In other resolutions, the 71-member organization at its three-day meeting which closed Friday, urged "firm support for a sound energy conservation program to help America cease dependency upon foreign sources for its energy needs," and urged President Carter to continue to speak out for human rights including those of Soviet and Syrian Jewries. It also congratulated the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on its 60th anniversary this year.
Following long discussions on a dispute in the Los Angeles area, the AJPA also adopted a resolution that backed "independent and viable" Jewish newspapers. The resolution on Israel's government said the AJPA "congratulates the people of Israel on their democratic election and extends its good wishes to Likud party leader Menachem Begin on his ascension to head Israel's government with the profound hope he is able to guide his country to an end of hostilities and achieve peace in the Middle East."
Norman Gold, editor and publisher of the American Jewish World of Minneapolis and St. Paul, was elected president, succeeding Robert A. Cohn, editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light, who had served for five years in the post. During his tenure, the AJPA, which consists of publishers and editors, grew from 36 to 71 members.
Elected vice-presidents were: Frank Wundohl, editor of the Philadelphia Exponent; Charles Buerger, publisher of the Baltimore Jewish Times, and Geoffrey Fisher, editor of the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin. Other officers are: Anne Hammerman, editor of the Dayton Jewish Chronicle, treasurer; Doris Sky, editor of the Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, recording secretary; and Esther Blaustein, editor of the Jewish Community News of Central New Jersey, corresponding secretary.


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Church started Sunday morning with singing. Ronnie Epps took over as superintendent and prayer by Bro. James Moore.
Sunday school lesson was Words For The Wise, Proverbs 1:7-23 taught by Ronnie Epps. After a good Sunday school lesson we sang several songs. Prayer was given by Bro. Raymond Haden. Specials were performed by Elsie Atchison and Sue Wright. Bro. Lyle Wright brought the message. He read Ephesians 3:1-11. He prayed. After a good message we sang. We were dismissed by Sister Diane Strunks.
Church started Sunday night with prayer by Sister Vera Dixon. We sang several songs. Elsie Atchison did a special. Bro. Lyle Wright brought the message. He read I John 2:1. He prayed then after a good message we sang. We were dismissed by Sister Janiece Moore.
Visiting Elsie Atchison Tuesday were Gary Atchison and Mona Price.
Visiting Elsie Wednesday were Gary and Noel Atchison, Deana Porter and Lena Ingram.
Friday visitors were Deana Porter, Mona Price, Charla Heinlein and Gary Atchison.
Elsie's visitors Saturday were Lena Ingram, Deana, Jade and Gary Atchison.
Visiting with Elsie Sunday were Noel and Gary Atchison and Lena Ingram.
Visiting James and Janiece Moore Friday night were Andrea Moore and Austin and Sara Maggard.
Visiting Friday was Eric Moore.
Charla Heinlein visited James and Janiece Moore Sunday.


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Orli Shaham, piano
Piotr Gajewski, conductor
Hailed by critics on four continents, pianist Orli Shaham kicks off the National Philharmonic's 2012-2013 season with Beethoven's sublime Piano Concerto No. 3. The heroic Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica")—originally dedicated to Napoleon—marked the arrival of Beethoven's middle period,
featuring powerful large-scale works.
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica")
Event begins at 8:00PM
Presented by: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Featured Artist(s): Orli Shaham, piano; Piotr Gajewski, conductor


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UKIAH, CA -- The Ukiah Valley Artists Co-Op brings this wonderful art event to Ukiah each year! Local artists from Mendocino and Lake Counties show a wide array of handcrafted art, including but not limited to paintings, jewelry, pottery, ceramics, gourdes and woodworking.
This years Art Faire will be at the Pear Tree Center. Due to the support of The Pear Tree Center, the fair will be held on the main concourse of the Pear Tree Center near Lucky's grocery at Perkins St. and Orchard Ave on Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.?
Attendees will find plenty of free parking directly adjacent to more than 40 artists displays.
This is your opportunity to view art not seen anywhere else, many artists only display their art once a year at the art fair or in their home town!
The UVAC, Ukiah Valley Artists Co-Op brings Ukiah residents other events during the year, The annual UVAC Studio Tour in late September and the annual UVAC Art Show benefiting the Ukiah Senior Center on Oct. 26.
The groups year round gallery in the Pear Tree Center adjacent to the AT&T store is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A dozen artists show oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, photography and frames. Many of the artists offer low cost prints and art greeting cards.
Plan now to attend the annual Ukiah Valley Art Faire Art Faire, admission is free!


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Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, First Floor
Artist Josie Vargas' watercolor paintings are inspired by foliage on the island of Puerto Rico as well as locations in Mexico and the Bronx Botanical Gardens. The artist takes photographs during her travels to tropical locations and then returns to her studio to paint, filling the paper with rich, saturated color reflecting the mood of tropical islands.
Vargas is an adjunct assistant professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology and an instructor in the BFA Fashion Design program at Parsons the New School.


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Bad Brains Unleashing New Album 'Into the Future' in November, Streaming Title Track
It has been five years since the last release from the legendary hardcore/punk band Bad Brains, but now they're coming back with the new album 'Into the Future,' which will be released Nov. 20 via Megaforce Records. The title track is now available for streaming (click below to listen).
Vocalist H.R. tells Rolling Stone the music connects the past to the future. "My vocalizing strengthens the impact of the group's overall deliverance of the music, and the expression of the church of music. The new album wouldn't be an A-plus new album if it hadn't been for the earlier music, which was equally as inspirational. And it gets better and better."
Bad Brains produced 'Into the Future' themselves after their previous record 'Build a Nation' was produced by the late Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys. The band included a remix of 'Peace Be Unto Thee' on this album as a tribute to Yauch, their longtime friend and fan.
"'Into The Future' is the purest Bad Brains recording since the 'ROIR' cassette," says bassist Darryl Jenifer. "This self-produced record shines with a true sense of freedom and musical experimentation, with blends of soulful backgrounds meshed with blistering hardcore and metal riffs, with classic dub."
A documentary about the band, 'Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.' was released this year, and is being screened at various film festivals. It will be shown at the Woodstock Film Festival in New York on Oct. 12 and 13.


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Evgenia Ginzburg, another writer ensnared in Stalin's repressions and jailed in Siberia for 18 years, recalls in her memoir the shock of discovering a possible second meaning of The Giant Cockroach. "I don't know if Chukovsky intended it or not. Probably not. But objectively, it's the only way to read it!" It's a feeling familiar to most readers of the poem. You hear it one way as a kid, transfixed by all the cool illustrations of animals in panic. And then, when you read it to your own kids, you hear something else.
But was there really a second meaning? In 1921, when Chukovsky set out to write The Cockroach, Stalin was still a relatively obscure thug from Georgia about to start elbowing his way to the top of the Communist Party. He was years away from attaining the bloody renown that would merit a satire. Chukovsky himself denied it, even after it would have been safe to admit it. Then there's the very good question of how in the world the Cockroach could have crawled through the Soviet censorship that found fault with far tamer works? One theory is that the satire—if it indeed existed—was so brazen and vicious that even to acknowledge it would have meant to be guilty of slander by association. And so The Cockroach survived.
Another incredible thing about The Giant Cockroach is that Stalin himself appears to have co-opted the critter for his own political ends. That trick recast the poem as a propaganda tool for the regime, and may have given Chukovsky the biggest political cover imaginable. Stalin was oddly attuned to the power of literature, and kept an eye on several influential writers in the Soviet Union, much to their anguish.
At a Communist Party congress in the summer of 1930, Stalin defended a few of his policies including "emergency measures" (read: "death") against wealthy peasants, and railed against dissenting voices within the party. "A cockroach rustles somewhere, and even before he crawls out of his hiding place, they jump backwards, become terrified and start yelling about a catastrophe, about the death of the Soviet power," Stalin told the assembled delegates. They dutifully laughed. "We calm them down, try to convince them that there's nothing dangerous here, that this is just a cockroach that you shouldn't be scared of." Many years later, Chukovsky grumbled in his diary about getting "plagiarized" by Stalin. "He retold my entire fairy tale and didn't cite the author."
The Giant Cockroach wasn't the first children's tale to lampoon, even if unwittingly, the farce of arrogant, absolute power. Danish raconteur Hans Christian Andersen did something similar in "The Emperor's New Clothes." A couple of years ago, I spoke to a Zimbabwean political activist named Magodonga Mahlangu, and she recounted to me another fable that mocks the inherent weaknesses of a dictator. In that tale, an old man enslaves a bunch of monkeys and orders them to bring him fruit from the mountains, flogging those who disobey. The monkeys do as they are told for a while, until one day a little monkey wonders why. The old man didn't plant the fruit, so what are we doing taking orders from him? The monkeys walk away, and the old man starves to death. Mahlangu was using this fable to mobilize opposition to Zimbabwe's own bad old man. I later learned that the tale is called "Monkey Master," and it was written in the 14th century by a Chinese scholar named Liu Ji.
In the 1990s, as Russia began to excavate the relics of Stalinism, The Giant Cockroach drew so much re-interpretation that the author's granddaughter felt compelled to respond. In a newspaper column, she cited Chukovsky's own lament about people "seeking out a secret political meaning" in his tales, and once again reminded readers that The Cockroach came along too early to be Stalin. But then Elena Chukovskaya continued, rather cryptically: "The future casts its shadow on the present. And art can discern that shadow before the appearance of the one who casts it."
So was it Stalin or not? "The Cockroach is as much Stalin as any other dictator in the world," she wrote.
A shorter version of this piece was originally published on Newsweek.com on February 6, 2011.
Philip Shishkin is a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society. Philip spent 10 years as a staff reporter of the Wall Street Journal, most of it as a foreign correspondent, running their Baghdad bureau through the height of Iraq's sectarian war in 2006 and 2007. He has written extensively about Central Asia, chronicling the turbulent nation-building process in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.


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Growing the Church through the reverential celebration of Mass
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Our team from The Good Catholic Life and Pilot New Media visited Mary Immaculate of Lourdes parish in Newton last week as part of our ongoing series on growing parishes that are embracing the New Evangelization. We seek to learn what specifically these parishes are doing to invite inactive Catholics home and to welcome those who choose to enter the Catholic Church.
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes parish is the mother church of Newton and Needham, established in 1870 as St. Mary's Parish. In 1909 the cornerstone was laid for the present church, which was built on a hill and was meant to be seen from far and wide. It has the style of an Italian hill town church with a soaring 135-foot bell tower that can easily be seen by all that commute on Route 128/95. When it was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in 1910, the new Archbishop of Boston William O'Connell, decided that St. Mary's was too plain a name for this beautiful church so he chose to rename it Mary Immaculate of Lourdes.


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If you go to the "Taste of Italy" at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, in Springfield's South End, "you can't possibly eat everything you like," warns Rosemarie P. Costa, event chair. But don't worry: Take-out is available for home consumption.
More than 30 main and side dishes will be offered on Oct. 13 such as eggplant rollatini, stuffed shells, mussels marinara and Sicilian lasagna. Recipes from different regions of Italy reflect the heritage of the Italian-American community, Costa said.
There will also be the favorite standbys like pizza and meatball grinders.
The celebration takes place in the school auditorium at 36 Margaret St., from 4:30 to 8 p.m.
"Parishioners and society members do home baking and bring in their favorites," Costa said.
A dessert table will feature special pastries like cannoli, Italian cookies and cakes.
Authentic espresso and cappuccino, plus wine, coffee and soft drinks will be available.
"This is the real, Old World tastes," Costa said of the Italian food to be served.
She mentioned lighter marinara sauces for fish, some heavier meat sauces for lasagna and ravioli and white sauces with tortellini and eggplant.
"The risotto is made just so," she said. "All of our cooks are well known. People know their food is good. Our foods are prepared like you were sitting in someone's kitchen having a home-cooked meal."
Some foods for the event will come from local restaurants: Milano Importing, Salvatore's Restaurant, The Monte Carlo, Sal's Bakery and Café, Frigo Foods, Partners, Primo's Pizzeria, Typical Sicilian Restaurant and Storrowton Tavern.
Food tickets will be sold at the door. Participants will be able to then select which Italian "tastes" they want to purchase.
"From its inception in 1992, the primary goal (of the Taste of Italy) has been bringing our people together and friends and friends of the parish," said Costa, who has been working on the event for 17 years.
She enjoys meeting up with old acquaintances, and seeing how families have grown.
"You re-establish old friendships," said Costa, praising all the volunteer spirit the festival evokes. Participant Judy R. Ceravolo added, "Total families get involved, like ours."
Asked what her favorite "taste" of Italy is, she replied, "Anything Italian I love: my mother's (Rose P. Rueli) raviolis to polenta to pasta fazul."
The Taste of Italy will offer special seating for seniors and handicapped persons, and there will be music. A grand raffle and a 50-50 raffle will take place at 7:30 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the parish.
Parking is free.
Chicken cacciatore
Adapted from Judy Ceravolo's recipe
2 pounds of chicken breast, diced into 2-inch pieces
2 bell peppers —1 red, 1 green — cut in 2-inch pieces
2 onions, cut into strips
Olive oil
Tomato sauce, about 3 to 4 cups
Season the chicken slices with parsley, basil, garlic, Italian seasoning, and salt and pepper. Sauté slightly in a heavy pan with olive oil. Transfer to plate when done.
Sauté peppers in olive oil, and transfer to a plate.
Add tomato puree and crushed tomatoes to the oil in pan for a sauce, season to taste, and bring to boil.
Reduce heat, add the chicken, peppers and onions, and simmer on low heat for about 1 hour.
Serve over pasta or polenta. Add about 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper, or more if you like it hotter.


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Hughes applauds Pools effort
John Hughes is still waiting for his first win after four games as Hartlepool manager following a 2-0 home defeat to Stevenage.
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John Hughes is still waiting for his first win after four games as Hartlepool manager following a 2-0 home defeat to Stevenage.
But the recently-installed head coach insists he can see a victory on the horizon.
Pools have improved in recent weeks but it is now 20 games since their last victory - their only one of the season coming on September 1.
Goals in each half from Marcus Haber and Lucas Akins separated the sides, but Pools were unable to make the most of the stack of chances they created from start to finish.
"I refuse to talk about luck and decisions going against us," said Hughes. "I applaud efforts and commitments. I've seen that all week in training and their effort in training and how they have gone about it in tough conditions.
"Two disappointments - the result and the goals we conceded. It's a shame we didn't play the same football second half as we did in the first.
"I wanted the supporters to see us having a go and we did. There's frustration throughout and we will build on the first-half performance.
"There will be comings and goings and we will be spinning plates, but I want to bring success here. They gave me an opportunity here, the supporters are behind me and there's a good sense of warmth here."


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Joshua Hubbs, aged 86 years, died Tuesday morning, May 20, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Everett Burnett, near Waverly, where he has made his home for the past eight years. Death was due to the troubles incident to old age.
Joshua Hubbs, son of Willis and Elizabeth Hubbs was born in Orange County, Ind., February 24, 1833. He was one of a family of fourteen children. His paternal ancestors came from England and entered the land on which Charleston, South Carolina, is now built. His maternal ancestors came from Scotland and entered the land on which Baltimore was afterward built. Both families were harassed by the Indians and helped to fight the various wars for safety and afterward for freedom.
They converted the forests into homes and helped build roads, bridges, school houses, churches and all other public improvements.
One morning while attending to chores a great aunt was attached by the Indians and scalped and thrown in a brush pile. She crawled to the house and recovered and lived for many years. During the war of 1812 one of his aunts, learning her son was sick in New Orleans started alone on horse back from her home in Kentucky to bring him back. When she had ridden 150 miles she met friends bringing him back and she returned to her home.
John Hubbs, grandfather of the deceased, settled near Knoxville, Tenn., and engaged in farming. He was a slave owner but several years before the war of the Rebellion he gave these negroes their freedom.
The deceased was united in marriage to Miss Rachel L. Acre, December 12, 1851, and a home was established in Iowa. A year later they removed to California and remained for four years. On their return they settled on a farm near Prentice, Morgan County, Ill., and the deceased engaged in farming. He retired from business life in 1893 and made his home in Springfield until the death of his wife in 1910, since which time he has resided with his daughter, Mrs. Everett Burnett. Here he ha had most loving and devoted care thru his declining years.
Surviving are five daughters and three sons; Mrs. William Brown and Mrs. G. T. Wiswell, Jacksonville; Mrs. Everett Burnett, Waverly; Mrs. Charles Jasper, Auburn; Mrs. Chas. Ward, Pisgah; Martin L. Hubbs, San Francisco, Cal.; Newton Hubbs, Palmyra; Geo. F. Hubbs, Springfield. There are also twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Union Baptist Church near Pisgah yesterday morning, May 22, 11 o'clock, in charge of Rev. F. M. Crabtree.


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Farmington Hills, MI (October 9, 2006)--- Lisa Allred, M.D., has joined the medical staff at Botsford General Hospital.
Dr. Allred, a Whitmore Lake resident, is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Society and the American Medical Women's Association. She is conversational in German.
Dr. Allred received her medical education from the University of Michigan. She also completed her Pediatrics Residency at the University of Michigan.
Botsford General Hospital, an independent, acute care, 330-bed community hospital in Farmington Hills, Mich., was founded in 1965. Nationally recognized for quality, safety and medical education programs, Botsford has received the 2005 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders award and the 2004 Governor's Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Hospital Setting (for treatment of heart attack) and Improving Care in the Emergency Department Setting (also for heart attack treatment). Botsford's Web address is www.botsford.org.
MEDIA CONTACT: Nancy Dumas, Beth Montalvo or Stacy Brand


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The Red Bulls head to Toyota Park this weekend to take on the Chicago Fire for the first 2013 regular season meeting between the two sides. The storied history between the two teams may not possess the same animosity as a D.C. United vs. Red Bulls match, but the long-last series - one that has the Red Bulls looking to gain ground on their 12-22-9 all-time record against Chicago - is bound to be an exciting one when the two kick off Sunday at 5:00 PM on ESPN2.
Although this may be his first season with the club, Red Bulls General Manager Jerome de Bontin is no stranger to the soccer community in Illinois. That much was evident when the Illinois Youth Soccer Association presented him with a Career Achievement Award early last month.
Prior to his move to the Red Bulls front office, de Bontin lived in Chicago for 26 years. As an active member on the United States Soccer Federation Foundation's Board of Trustees, de Bontin has always made it a point to play an integral part in his local soccer communities.
De Bontin first got involved with the IYSA in 1992 and joined the U.S. Federation Foundation's Investment Committee six years later. He would later climbs the ladder from a seat on the Federation Foundation's board, to the Executive Board, culminating with a role as the Chair of the Development Committee. In 2008, de Bontin stepped down from his position to take over the role of President for AS Monaco, but maintained his involvement with Foundation Investment Committee and continues to serve on this committee today.
"Leaving for AS Monaco was certainly an important moment in my career, but leaving an active role within the Illinois soccer community was extremely difficult," said de Bontin. "Even though I was miles away, I worked at developing ties between European clubs and organizations, with IYSA and its member clubs, some of which are still active today. I applaud the work of IYSA and its contribution to the growth of the sport, in particular in regards to the inner-city programs that it pioneered with the support of the US Soccer Foundation about a decade ago."
The IYSA Career Achievement Award is presented annually to a person who has contributed to the growth and development of Youth Soccer. This year's special event took place during the Illinois Youth Soccer Annual Banquet Awards in Chicago, where over 400 people were in attendance to honor de Bontin. The Red Bulls GM spoke for 45 minutes about player development, the merits of college soccer, and the dangers of "Europeanizing" development programs in the USA.
"It was an honor and a privilege to return to Chicago and speak on behalf of the future of soccer," de Bontin said. "Everyone within the organization has worked so hard to create opportunities for the youth in the area, and it's amazing to think how far it has all come ever since I first got involved years ago."
There's no question the Red Bulls will be looking to earn three points on the road when the face the Fire Sunday at 5:00 PM in what will be another heated Eastern Conference battle. Fans from both sides will be on hand to root for their teams, and those who will not be in the stands can watch nationally on ESPN2.
Although the outcome of the match remains uncertain until the final whistle, one thing is a definite – the growth of the soccer community in Illinois and beyond is limitless.


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It's no secret that many Las Vegas visitors, including those who go there to work or attend conventions, intend to party.
Now, many of the more than 21 million visitors who fly to Sin City each year can get the party started at the airport.
The Liquor Library, opened earlier this month and located in the baggage claim area of Terminal 1, offers beer, wine, liquor, packaged snacks and cups, ice and mixers. Travelers can get their party essentials before their checked bags even hit the carousels.
Many travelers are familiar with post-security, duty-free liquor stores accessible only to passengers flying on international itineraries. This airport liquor store is open to all, collects sales and liquor taxes and is believed to be the first of its kind in a domestic airport.
"Essentially, we offer most of what any liquor store would," Liquor Library marketing director Diane Boyle told NBC News, "Just in a much more traveler friendly location."
Because the retail space is small – just 1,400 square feet – the Liquor Library designers decided to stack the stock on tall "bookshelves" which are accessed by "librarians" (a.k.a. sales clerks) who will climb up and down rolling, library-style ladders to retrieve customers' orders.
"Our librarians wear charcoal grey pencil skirts, white button down shirts, black stockings and very cute spectacles while working on the sales floor," Boyle said.
The employee uniforms may be charming, but the daily in-store tastings, hosted by different brands, may also help fuel sales.
During its first week of operation, the store hit its mark for projected sales of spirits, with Grey Goose, Kettle One, Jack Daniel's and Kinky Vodka among the best sellers. Boyle said the beer is "flying off the shelves," but there's also been a brisk business in the sale of higher-end champagnes and wine, such as Dom Perignon, Veuve Cliquot, Duckhorn and Silver Oak.
There are, of course, plenty (maybe too many) of places to buy liquor in Las Vegas, but even travelers on vacation may find themselves pressed for time or unwilling to leave their hotel or the casino in search of a local liquor store.
"That is why airports continue to upgrade facilities and add convenient services for arriving and departing passengers," said Deborah McElroy, executive vice president, policy and external affairs for Airports Council International-North America, a membership group for airports.
"That includes nail salons, dry cleaners, pet hotels and now a way to avoid making one more stop on the way from the airport."
Find more by Harriet Baskas on StuckatTheAirport.com and follow her on Twitter.


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Steamboat Springs morning roundup for Thursday, Oct. 24
October 24, 2013
Good morning Steamboat Today readers.
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• After hearing three days of testimony, a Routt County jury acquitted Steven Torres of three counts of attempted first-degree murder and illegally discharging a firearm. Instead, the jury found Torres guilty of felony menacing and three counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. Man acquitted of attempted murder charges in Steamboat Springs
• The closest rival to Buffalo Pass for leader of the Colorado snowpack was west of Granby at the Never Summer measuring site, where the snow at 10,280 feet was 16 inches deep Wednesday. Despite temperatures in the 60s, snow on Buffalo Pass near Steamboat hangs in at 20 inches
• The city of Steamboat Springs is advising residents to take measures to protect their water meters from freezing or bear the cost of replacing a broken one. City of Steamboat Springs warns water customers about costs of frozen meters
• Anne Small, the city's director of general services, said Wednesday that the city received about 140 applications for its Parks, Open Space and Recreational Services Department director position and about 65 applications for the airport manager position. City of Steamboat Springs working to fill 2 management positions
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• Last week, a group of New York City journalists and editors got to taste wild sarvisberries sourced from the Elk River Valley. The Home Ranch brings taste of Elk River Valley to New York City
• At its 7 p.m. Thursday meeting, the Oak Creek Town Board will have a meeting with University of Colorado Denver students from the Colorado Center for Community Development about a recreation master plan. Oak Creek Town Board to discuss recreation master plan at meeting
• The Steamboat Springs composite high school mountain bike team wrapped up its season in fast fashion on Sunday, grabbing a third-place finish in the state championship race in the team's first year of competing. Steamboat cycling team finishes 3rd at state
• The Tour de Steamboat board officially handed out the funds raised during its annual summer event, and this year, it was a bit different as the board broke from tradition and doled out the money to local groups. Tour de Steamboat divvies up nearly $50K in local grants
• The Sailors lost, 3-0, against Denver North in the first round of the state soccer tournament. Steamboat soccer falls out of playoffs
• The season is ending quickly for area fall sports teams. The Hayden football and volleyball squads, the Soroco volleyball team and the Steamboat soccer, cross-country and tennis teams have wrapped up competition. Now, the teams still battling face a weekend of tall tasks. Routt County prep sports weekend preview for Oct. 24
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