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Award-winning poet gives reading at Coastal Carolina University
April 8, 2009
Coastal Carolina University's annual African-American Poetry event is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Wall Auditorium. The program will feature poetry written and read by University students, faculty and staff. Guest poet Paul D. will return to Coastal Carolina for the second year to present a selection of his works. The event is free and open to the public.
Paul D. of Atlanta, Ga., has established himself in the poetry world by using unique imagery, word play and storytelling techniques. In 2005 he won the Southern Fried Poetry Slams in Charlotte, N.C., competing against more than 100 poets in the world's largest regional slam competition. His team finished in second place in the 2006 Southern Fried Poetry Slams in Birmingham, Ala.
The show is the last event of the University's annual African American Celebration. For more information contact the Office of Multicultural Student Services at 843-349-2863.

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PETER CHINGOKA is not the easiest person to interview; part obstinate, part evasive, part combative. Then again, if you were being asked to account for millions of dollars in missing funds - as well as a recent independent audit that allegedly uncovered "serious financial irregularities" within your organisation - you might be a little tetchy, too.
For those not aware of his place in the sporting spectrum, Chingoka is the man who has presided over one of the most scandalous and sorry declines in professional sport.
As chairman of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, the former batsman has watched on as many of his country's best players have gone abroad, either out of fear or frustration, and the national team has faded into insignificance. Accusations of intimidatory practices and standover tactics against players are widespread. So, too, allegations that he is the eyes and ears of President Robert Mugabe within his organisation.
It gets worse. Chingoka is alleged to have siphoned money earmarked for grassroots cricket in Zimbabwe and, along with aide Ozias Bvute, feathered his own nest. While the country's cricketers are forced to play on unprepared wickets, with no scorers to maintain proper first-class records, Chingoka has stood impervious, safe in the knowledge that he still maintains full voting privileges on the International Cricket Council - the same as India, England and Australia - and therefore remains a sought-after ally. To sport-loving Zimbabweans, black and white, he is the Grinch who stole cricket.
But he is also a survivor. Domestically, Chingoka has ensured his own job security by disbanding regional associations and systematically purging all opposition. Internationally, though, he has had an altogether more difficult time of it; most notably this week, when KPMG published its audit of Zimbabwe's books and found more irregularities than your modern day Bulawayo pitch.
Chingoka's response? Not one of shame or remorse, as you might expect. No, this was a victory speech after auditors found no evidence of criminality on his part. That, however, does not explain where the missing millions have gone - an estimated $7 million in World Cup payments alone - which have evidently not gone to player payments or cricketing infrastructure.
"Your company does its books, and sometimes money gets sent to the wrong places," Chingoka told me. "We have adopted a new accounting protocol. We have taken immediate measures and asked Cricket South Africa to send one or two of its people to us and display their methods for keeping their accounts in order.
"KPMG found that there was no misappropriation from any individuals. The audit showed no single individual benefited from this. I am happy."
Happy? But what of the lost funds, the parlous state of the game in Zimbabwe? The fact that, on your watch, a once-proud cricketing nation has not played a Test since 2005?
What of the former players and officials who have told one of the few remaining independent journalists operating in Zimbabwe, and who is on Chingoka's hit-list, that you have had your fingers in the bikkie tin for years?
"If players have these opinions, then they must produce evidence," Chingoka said. "Our books are clean in that respect. Ask the players what the problem is, not me. There is always going to be criticism. I am not going to run around with a flag saying I'm innocent." Clearly, accounting and accountability are not Chingoka's strong points.
Sensing that the interview, like Zimbabwe cricket, wasn't going anywhere after hitting repeated brickwalls in inquiries about the KPMG audit, I changed the point of the attack to Zimbabwe's self-imposed exile from Test cricket. When does Chingoka envisage their return?
"We will announce it when we feel we are ready to return," he said. "We are trying to get experience playing against A-teams and domestically in South Africa. I will not say any more than that."
Australia's decision not to tour last year? "I will not comment on that."
Reports that he will be denied an entry visa to Britain before an ICC meeting in London later this year?
"I will not talk about that."
His arrest on foreign exchange charges in 2006 after an investigation by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (he was later cleared by the attorney-general)? "No comment."
His feelings on the "rebel" players, some of whom claim to have been threatened by Chingoka's cronies?
"That was their own decision [to boycott the national team]."
Inspiring stuff. And with no suggestion that the ICC intends to purge Chingoka from its ranks, expect more of the same in the years to come.
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Wednesday's announcement marks the fourth All-America honor for Ogwumike over the past few weeks. She was previously named to the ESPN, USBWA and Associated Press All-America Teams. On the five-player John R. Wooden Award Team, she was joined by Kayla McBride (Notre Dame), Odyssey Sims (Baylor), Breanna Stewart (Connecticut), and Alyssa Thomas (Maryland).
Ogwumike was named to the Stanford All-Regional Team Tuesday night after helping lead the Cardinal (33-3) to its 12th Final Four and sixth over the past seven years in a 74-65 win over North Carolina. Ogwumike's 20 points and 10 rebounds, her 26th double-double of the season, led to her averaging 24.5 points and 12.5 rebounds over the wins against Penn State and the Tarheels.
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The 2010 Code4Lib Conference
Media, Blacklight, and Viewers Like You
Code4Lib 2010 - Wednesday, February 24 - 10:35-10:55
There are many shared problems (and solutions) for libraries and archives in the interest of helping the user. There are also many "new" developments in the archives world that the library communities have been working on for ages, including item-level cataloging, metadata standards, and asset management. Even with these similarities, media archives have additional issues that are less relevant to libraries: the choice of video players, large file sizes, proprietary file formats, challenges of time-based media, etc. In developing a web presence, many archives, including the WGBH Media Library and Archives, have created custom digital library applications to expose material online. In 2008, we began a prototyping phase for developing scholarly interfaces by creating a custom-written PHP front-end to our Fedora repository.
In late 2009, we finally saw the (black)light, and after some initial experimentation, decided to build a new, public website to support our IMLS-funded /Vietnam: A Television History/ archive (as well as existing legacy content). In this session, we will share our experience of and challenges with customizing Blacklight as an archival interface, including work in rights management, how we integrated existing Ruby on Rails user-generated content plugins, and the development of media components to support a rich user experience.
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I Am Not Your Mother: Write Your Test Code
Code4Lib 2010 - Wednesday, February 24 - 09:55-10:15
How is it worth it to slow down your code development to write tests? Won't it take you a long time to learn how to write tests? Won't it take longer if you have to write tests AND develop new features, fix bugs? Isn't it hard to write test code? To maintain test code? We will address these questions as we talk about how test code is crucial for our software. By way of illustration, we will show how it has played a vital role in making Blacklight a true community collaboration, as well as how it has positively impacted coding projects in the Stanford Libraries.
Vampires vs. Werewolves: Ending the War Between Developers and Sysadmins with Puppet
Code4Lib 2010 - Wednesday, February 24 - 09:35-09:55
Developers need to be able to write software and deploy it, and often require cutting edge software tools and system libraries. Sysadmins are charged with maintaining stability in the production environment, and so are often resistant to rapid upgrade cycles. This has traditionally pitted us against each other, but it doesn't have to be that way. Using tools like puppet for maintaining and testing server configuration, nagios for monitoring, and hudson for continuous code integration, UVA has brokered a peace that has given us the ability to maintain stable production environment with a rapid upgrade cycle. I'll discuss both the individual tools, our server configuration, and the social engineering that got us here.
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Iterative Development Done Simply
Code4Lib 2010 - Wednesday, February 24 - 09:15-09:35
With a small IT unit and a wide array of projects to support, requests for development from business stakeholders in the library can quickly spiral out of control. To help make sense of the chaos, increase the transparency of the IT "black box," and shorten time lag between requirements definition and functional releases, we have implemented a modified Agile/SCRUM methodology within the development group in the IT department at NCSU Libraries.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the Agile methodology as an introduction to our simplified approach to iteratively handling multiple projects across a small team. This iterative approach allows us to regularly re-evaluate requested enhancements against institutional priorities and more accurately estimate timelines for specific units of functionality. The presentation will highlight how we approach each development cycle (from planning to estimating to re-aligning) as well as some of the actual tools and techniques we use to manage work (like JIRA and Greenhopper). It will identify some challenges faced in applying an established development methodology to a small team of multi-tasking developers, the outcomes we've seen, and the areas we'd like to continue improving. These types of iterative planning/development techniques could be adapted by even a single developer to help manage a chaotic workplace.
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Metadata Editing – A Truly Extensible Solution
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23 - 14:00-14:20
We set out in the Trident project to create a metadata tool that scales. In doing so we have conceived of the metadata application profile, a profile which provides instructions for software on how to edit metadata. We have built a set of web services and some web-based tools for editing metadata. The metadata application profile allows these tools to extend across different metadata schemes, and allows for different rules to be established for editing items of different collections. Some features of the tools include integration with authority lists, auto-complete fields, validation and clean integration of batch editing with Excel. I know, I know, Excel, but in the right hands, this is a powerful tool for cleanup and batch editing.
In this talk, we want to introduce the concepts of the metadata application profile, and gather feedback on its merits, as well as demonstrate some of the tools we have developed and how they work together to manage the metadata in our Fedora repository.
Link: Trident Project site
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HIVE: A New Tool for Working With Vocabularies
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23 - 13:40-14:00
HIVE is a toolkit that assists users in selecting vocabulary and ontology terms to annotate digital content. HIVE combines the ease of folksonomies with the rigor of traditional vocabularies. By combining semantic web standards with text mining techniques, HIVE will improve the effectiveness of subject metadata generation, allowing users to search and browse terms from a variety of vocabularies and ontologies. Documents can be submitted to HIVE to automatically generate suggested vocabulary terms.
Your system can interact with common vocabularies such as LCSH and MESH via the central HIVE server, or you can install a local copy of HIVE with your own custom set of vocabularies. This talk will give an overview of the current features of HIVE and describe how to build tools that use the HIVE services.
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Matching Dirty Data – Yet Another Wheel
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23 - 13:20-13:40
Regular expressions is a powerful tool to identify matching data between similar files. When one or both of these files has inconsistent data due to differing character encodings or miskeying, the use of regular expressions to find matches becomes impractically complex.
The Levenshtein distance (LD) algorithm is a basic sequence comparison technique that can be used to measure word similarity more flexibly. Employing the LD to calculate difference eliminates the need to identify and code into regex patterns all of the ways in which otherwise matching strings might be inconsistent. Instead, a similarity threshold is tuned to identify close matches while eliminating false positives.
Recently, the UW Libraries began an effort to store Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) in our institutional repository which runs on DSpace. We received 6,756 PDFs along with a file of UMI-created MARC records which needed to be matched to our library's custom MARC records (60,175 records). Once matched, merged information from both records would be used to create the dublin_core.xml file needed for batch ingest into DSpace. Unfortunately, records within the MARC data had no common unique identifiers to facilitate matching. Direct matching by title or author was impractical due to slight inconsistencies in data entry. Additionally, one of the files had "flattened" characters in title and author fields to ASCII. We successfully employed LD to match records between the two files before merging them.
This talk demonstrates one method of matching sets of MARC records that lack common unique identifiers and might contain slight differences in the matching fields. It will cover basic usage of several python tools. No large stack traces, just the comfort of pure python and basic computational algorithms in a step-by-step presentation on dealing with an old library task: matching dirty data. While much literature exists on matching/merging duplicate bibliographic records, most of this literature does not specify how to accomplish the task, just reports on the efficiency of the tools used to accomplish the task, often within a larger system such as an ILS.
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Taking Control of Library Metadata and Websites Using the eXtensible Catalog
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23 - 13:00-13:20
The eXtensible Catalog Project has developed four open-source software toolkits that enable libraries to build and share their own web- and metadata-focused applications on top of a service-oriented architecture that incorporates Solr in Drupal, a robust metadata management platform, and OAI-PMH and NCIP-compatible tools that interact with legacy library systems in real-time.
XC's robust metadata management platform allows libraries to orchestrate and sequence metadata processing services on large batches of metadata. Libraries can build their own services using the available "service-writers toolkit" or choose from our initial set of metadata services that clean up and "FRBRize" MARC metadata. Another service will aggregate metadata from multiple repositories to prepare it for use in unified discovery applications. XC software provides an RDA metadata test bed and a Solr-based metadata "navigator" that can aggregate and browse metadata (or data) in any XML format. XC's user interface platform is the first suite of Drupal modules that treat both web content and library metadata as native Drupal nodes, allowing libraries to build web-applications that interact with metadata from library catalogs and institutional repositories as well as with library web pages. XC's Drupal modules enable Solr in a FRBRized data environment, as a first step toward a full implementation of RDA. Other currently-available XC toolkits expose legacy ILS metadata, circulation, and patron functionality via web services for III, Voyager and Aleph (to date) using standard protocols (OAI-PMH and NCIP), allowing libraries to easily and regularly extract MARC data from an ILS in valid MARCXML and keep the metadata in their discovery applications "in sync" with source repositories.
This presentation will showcase XC's metadata processing services, the metadata "navigator" and the Drupal user interface platform. The presentation will also describe how libraries and their developers can get started using and contributing to the XC code.
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7 Ways to Enhance Library Interfaces with OCLC Web Services
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23 - 11:40-12:00
OCLC Web Services such as xISSN, WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Identities, and the WorldCat Registry provide a variety of data which can be used to enhance and improve current library interfaces. This talk will discuss several simple ideas to improve current users interfaces using data from these services.
Javascript and PHP code to add journal of table of contents information, peer-reviewed journal designation, links to other libraries in the area with a book, also available ..., and info about this author will be discussed.
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Public Datasets in the Cloud
Code4Lib 2010 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 11:20-11:40
When most people think about cloud computing (if they think about it at all), it usually takes one of two forms: Infrastructure Services, such as Amazon EC2 and GoGrid, which provide raw, elastic computing capacity in the form of virtual servers, and Platform Services, such as Google App Engine and Heroku, which provide preconfigured application stacks and specialized deployment tools. Several providers, however, offer access to large public datasets that would be impractical for most organizations to download and work with locally. From a 67-gigabyte dump of DBpedia's structured information store to the 180-gigabyte snapshot of astronomical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, chemistry and biology to economic and geographic data, these datasets are available instantly and backed by enough pay-as-you-go server capacity to make good use of them. We will present an overview of currently-available datasets, what it takes to create and use snapshots of the data, and explore how the library community might push some of its own large stores of data and metadata into the cloud.
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People who have schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses who do not continue to take their antipsychotic medication run the risk of having acute psychotic episodes and being hospitalized. Once lost, medication adherence may be difficult to reestablish, and the ensuing clinical deterioration may not be reversible, explains Wayne A. Ray, Ph.D., of the Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
A July 1, 1996 shift in Tennessee's Medicaid program, TennCare, to provide mental health services through a specialized behavioral health "carve-out" program greatly bolstered the likelihood that seriously mentally ill patients would miss taking their antipsychotic medication for more than 2 months. These patients decreased their use of antipsychotic drugs immediately after the transition to the carve-out program, and the lower level of drug use persisted throughout the 12 months of followup, according to the study which was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS10384).
Dr. Ray and his colleagues observed adherence to antipsychotic therapy after this TennCare shift among patients 21 to 64 years of age who had adhered to antipsychotic therapy during a 6-month baseline period that preceded the 12 months of study followup. The researchers examined lack of adherence to antipsychotic therapy (missed treatment for more than 60 days) among 4,507 patients followed for 1 year after the shift (post-transition group) and 3,644 patients whose followup began 1 year earlier (pre-transition group).
Among high-risk patients (those requiring the administration of extended-release injections of antipsychotic medications and those who had been hospitalized for psychosis), for whom continued medication was most important, 29 percent in the post-transition cohort missed more than 60 days of antipsychotic therapy compared with 20 percent in the pre-transition group. They also had 14.4 fewer mean days of antipsychotic therapy than the pre-transition group. Continuity of outpatient care also decreased after the shift to the carve-out program.
More details are in "Effect of a mental health "carve-out" program on the continuity of antipsychotic therapy," by Dr. Ray, James R. Daugherty, M.S., and Keith G. Meador, M.D., M.P.H., in the May 8, 2003, New England Journal of Medicine 348(19), pp. 1885-1894.
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NEW YORK — To mark the launch of Colgate Total Advanced Pro-Shield Mouthwash, Colgate will team up with actress and television host Stacy Keibler to try to break the Guinness World Record for most people using mouthwash simultaneously, currently at 1,061.
Called "A Wish for a Swish," the event will be held at noon EDT Tuesday, June 25 in New York City's Times Square.
Colgate will also donate $1 to Make-A-Wish for every participant in attendance and for every "post-swish" smile uploaded to the Colgate Facebook page from now until July 1, with a minimum donation of $50,000 and a maximum of $60,000.
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By Christine Harbin Hanson
History is repeating itself. Brazil cotton farmers are currently filing a case against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that American cotton subsidies are too high. And once again, Uncle Sam is digging deeper into America's collective wallet in search of "protection money."
The last time this happened was in 2004. As Americans for Prosperity has discussed before on this blog, the fact that Brazil won the case did not stop Washington politicians from shoveling taxpayer subsidies into the influential domestic cotton industry. Brazil threatened to retaliate, warning that it would impose steep tariffs on U.S. products coming into Brazil unless the U.S. cut back its market-distorting cotton subsidies.
Reducing or eliminating the sky-high subsidies that it provides to domestic cotton producers would have been the right thing for the U.S. to do. That's not what happened, however.
Instead, the federal government cut an even bigger check. The U.S. paid $34.3 million up front to the cotton producers in Brazil, and it continues to pay $147.3 million to the "Brazilian Cotton Institute" each year – a quid pro quo arrangement that allows the U.S. government to continue its misguided policy of subsidizing domestic cotton producers. The end result is an expensive international "double dip" in which the federal government puts American taxpayers on the hook to subsidize cotton farmers here at home while also bribing cotton farmers in Brazil.
Fast forward to the most recent Farm Bill, which President Obama signed into law this past February. One of the provisions in this bill was a new shallow-loss revenue protection program, called the Stacked Income Protection Plan, which provides an even more lucrative subsidy for domestic cotton producers. Meanwhile, the federal government stopped making its monthly payments to the Brazilian Cotton Institute in October, citing budget pressure from sequester cuts.
Cotton farmers in Brazil now claim that the subsidies in this program will distort global cotton markets even further than the direct payment subsidies for cotton they replaced. If the past is any indicator, the WTO is likely to side with Brazil.
They say that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So may be the case of the U.S. and our sky-high cotton subsidies.
The United States needs a better agricultural policy than bribing foreign producers with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the detriment of American consumers. American taxpayers deserve a farm policy that puts their interests first. Too bad that Congress missed this opportunity with the most recent, largely reform-free Farm Bill, choosing instead to lock in a trillion dollars of corporate welfare and unchecked food stamp spending for the next decade.


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MONTEREY >> Ricardo Perez took Saturday's negative experience and turned it into a positive win in the Sunday finale of the Ferrari Challenge at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
"Yesterday wasn't a good day for us," Perez said. "We were fast but couldn't make the pass for first place. We had contact with Harry Cheung (the eventual winner) in turn two and spun our car off track. We were scored eighth.
"Because it's so hard to pass on this track, it is extremely important to have pole position."
Driving for Ferrari of Houston, the Mexico City driver out-qualified his closest rival Sunday. Saturday's winner, Harry Cheung slipped to fourth in qualifying and was nearly 3/10's of a second off Perez's pace.
"This is a very tricky track and I wasn't completely familiar with it," Perez said. "But every time I went out on track I learned a little more. That's why this morning I had very good practice times. Yesterday I didn't have all the fine points of every turn but today I was very happy."
Cheung of Portola Valley bumped another car in Turn 2 during the first lap of Sunday's race. Going off course, Cheung suffered suspension damage and was done for the day. He was scored 26th of 27 starters.
Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale driver Henrik Hedman became a bridesmaid for the second time this weekend. His teammate Gregory Romanelli of Miami, Florida earned his first podium finish. He finished 11th in yesterday's race.
Wisconsin's Chris Ruud, driving for Ferrari of Silicon Valley/Ferrari of Beverly Hills, swept the weekend in the Copa Shell class. His win was a sixth overall finish. In addition to winning both races, he also dominated qualifying.
Robert Herjavec of Toronto was second in Copa Shell. Ruud's Copa Shell teammate, Jon Becker was third in class and tenth overall.
Driver coaches are a primary part of the Ferrari Challenge. It is a requirement for the more inexperienced driver and strongly recommended for even the experienced competitor.
Thomas Merrill of Salinas and Mikel Miller are two coaches who worked the weekend. Both are also part-time instructors with the Skip Barber Racing School at Mazda Raceway.
"There are about three or four of us local guys working this weekend," Merrill said. "This has actually been a good weekend for coaching. Sometimes it's hard to help a driver when track time is limited. But with the Ferrari Challenge group, they get lots of track time and that makes my job easier. I've been able to work with my driver, John Baker of New York, almost on a corner by corner basis."
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Chrysanthos (Chris) Dellarocas is the Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management at the Questrom School of Business and Director of Boston University's Digital Learning Initiative. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in the fields of online reputation and social media and has consulted on these subjects for corporations and the U.S. Federal Government. As Director of Boston University's Digital Learning Initiative, Dellarocas leads a special projects team whose mission is to take advantage of the wealth of emerging opportunities for innovation in education and scholarship created by globalization and technological change.
Dellarocas holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from MIT and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Prior to Boston University he taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at the University of Maryland's R. H. Smith School of Business. Before pursuing an academic career he was a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and McKinsey.
He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and Information Systems Research, both considered top journals in the field of Information Systems. He has served as chair of a number of international workshops and conferences, including the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce and the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE). Dellarocas is a recipient of numerous teaching, funding and merit awards, including the National Science Foundation's CAREER award and grants from Google and Microsoft. He holds 9 patents and is co-founder and advisor of a number of companies in the technology space.
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FLOWERY BRANCH -- The Flowery Branch girls basketball team got its first win of the season Tuesday night pulling away for a 63-48 victory over Winder-Barrow.
It also was the Region 8-AAAAA opener for the Lady Falcons (1-2, 1-1 Region 8-AAAAA).
Flowery Branch trailed 15-11 after the first quarter but grabbed a 22-21 halftime and then took control in the second half outscoring the Lady Bulldoggs 41-27.
Kylah Mize paced the Lady Falcons with 12 points and had four steals. Kierra Knight added 11 points, including three 3-pointers, with four steals and Breanna Locke had nine points, four rebounds, three assists, and two steals for Flowery Branch.
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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has called on Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz to open an investigation into the death of journalism student Mohammad Abu Halimeh, who was killed on 22 March 2004 while covering clashes at the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
The organisation also demanded that the conclusions of the Israeli Army investigation into the death of British documentary filmmaker James Miller be given to his family and made public as soon as possible. Miller was killed by Israeli gunfire on 3 May 2003 while working on a documentary in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip (see IFEX alerts of 5 August, 18 June, 12, 6 and 5 May 2003). Eyewitnesses described his death as an "assassination," and this was also the conclusion of the investigation sponsored by the filmmaker's family.
"The Israeli Army previously killed Nazeh Darwazi, a cameraman for the American news agency APTN, in Nablus on 19 April 2003 [see alerts of 5 August, 29, 23 and 22 April 2003]. Shamefully, no investigation was launched and no action was taken against the perpetrators of the crime, even though eyewitnesses and footage of the incident demonstrated that there was a serious breach of regulations," RSF said in its letter to the defence minister. "We are calling for an honest and serious investigation into the circumstances of the death of Mohammad Abu Halimeh, to bring an end to the impunity enjoyed by Israeli soldiers," the organisation added.
Palestinian hospital and security sources said a bullet had apparently fatally wounded Halimeh in the stomach. Eyewitnesses told RSF that the journalism student was standing about 50 metres from the soldier who opened fire on him. He was reportedly standing in front of one of the Balata camp's main entrances and had a camera around his neck. No exchange of gunfire was heard at the time. Agence France-Presse said Israeli soldiers had opened fire against stone-throwing Palestinians.
Halimeh, aged 22, had been working for several months as a volunteer for An-Najah University's radio station in Nablus, where he was completing his journalism studies. He had been reporting live by telephone on the clashes at the Balata camp about 10 minutes before his death.
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Have you ever been watching Hanna Montana and laughed so hard you started hyperventilating and almost died?
No, but all the flat jokes made me facepalm so many times I almost gave myself a concussion.
No... but I do have "party in the usa" on my ipod and I'm usually noddin' my head like "Yeah!" Movin' my hips like "Yeah!"
nope, that show makes dane cook sound funny.
i can never find those good of drugs
no not even when i'm high
i would have to be to watch it ;)
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no! never! psh!..........well, i may have kind of possibly laughed till i almost died just once. or twice. or....(sshh dont tell) a lot. *cough cough*
I don't think I've ever even seen that show.
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The office of Utah Lt. Gov. Greg Bell says Brent L. Andrews of Sunset a Democratic candidate for State Senate District 20 failed to file a campaign financial disclosure form before the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline, so he will be disqualified from the election as required by law.
That is good news for his opponent, Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, who now will be unopposed.
Mark Thomas, state elections director for Bell, said his office was on the phone with Andrews shortly before the deadline urging him to file quickly. "He argued with us that the deadline wasn't until next week and hung up," Thomas said. "So we're going to pull the trigger" on removing him from the ballot.


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Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies
4 Comments | Written on February 6, 2013 at 5:00 am , by Kristina Vanni
You really can't be a chocolate chip cookie…and in my book, the bigger the better! Not only the size of the cookie (of course) but also the size of the chocolate chips. That's why I decided to make a batch of jumbo cookies with extra-large chocolate chunks!
Keep reading for the recipe!
I have always just purchased my chocolate chips from the grocery store baking aisle, but recently I was browsing the See's Candy Store at my local mall here in LA. See's was founded in California way back in 1921 and has been located here ever since. Whenever I want to give someone a local treat, See's is always at the top of my list.
For some reason, I had never noticed before, that See's not only makes great chocolate truffles and famous peanut brittle, but they also carry their own line of Chocolate Chips! Of course, I had to give them a try…
The bag was overflowing with large size semi-sweet chocolate chips and there was a classic cookie recipe on the back. I made a few tweaks to the recipe and gave it a try. The results were spectacular and I will certainly be buying these bags in the future! If you don't live near a See's Candy Store, you can find them online here.
I also highly recommend the peanut brittle, and have used it recipes as well. Like these Layered Peanut Brittle Ice Cream Pops!
See's Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 package (16 ounces) See's Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
Combine flour, salt and baking soda, mix well and set aside. Cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Scoop 1/4 cup of cookie dough and roll into balls. Press down slightly. Bake at 375 degrees F for 9-11 minutes. Makes about 25 jumbo cookies.
Adapted from the recipe on the bag of See's Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips. I used the entire bag of chips, instead of just 2 cups, and omitted the 1 cup of chopped walnuts. I also made the cookies larger to accommodate the size of the chips!
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This looks amazing and I have heard so many good things about the sees chocolate chips will definitely give it a try.
Does See's use real vanilla extract in the chocolate chips?
The cookies look amazing but I wish there was a "Pin it" option for pinterest…my husband is getting critical of all the recipes I print out.
Try bookmarking the recipe if there is no "pin it" option. I too have a TON of printed recipes so now I look for other ways of saving them.


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A day after losing wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery in free agency to Carolina, the Steelers went to their backup plan, signing New Orleans free-agent Lance Moore to a two-year deal.
Moore, 30, will provide an immediate upgrade at the receiver position for the Steelers, who also lost starter Emmanuel Sanders to Denver last week.
The Steelers would have preferred to keep Cotchery, 32, who had spent the past two seasons in Pittsburgh. But he decided to sign a two-year, $5-million deal with the Panthers over an offer from the Steelers.
With Cotchery considering Carolina's offer, the Steelers turned their attention to Moore as a backup plan, hosting him Wednesday.
The addition of Moore gives the Steelers a veteran option at receiver behind two-time Pro Bowl player Antonio Brown. With the loss of both Sanders and Cotchery, the Steelers had little experience remaining at the position. Backups Markus Wheaton and Derek Moye have eight combined career receptions.
"Excited to be a part of #steelernation," Moore tweeted. "Couldn't ask for a better organization to continue my career with!"
Moore (5-9, 190) joins the Steelers after being released earlier this month by the Saints in a cost-cutting move. He was to receive a $500,000 roster bonus from New Orleans this month.
Moore had his best season in 2012, catching 65 passes of 1,041 yards and six touchdowns. Those numbers dipped to 37 receptions for 457 yards and two touchdowns last year.
Moore, who was signed by the Saints off of Cleveland's practice squad in 2005, has 346 career receptions for 4,281 yards and 38 touchdowns.
"While his production on paper is obvious, it only tells half the story," Saints head coach Sean Payton said in a statement following Moore's release. "Lance came to us an undrafted rookie who went to NFL Europe and spent time on our practice squad. He went on to produce outstanding results on the field for us as a result of his work ethic, reliability and commitment to get better every day. He's been one of the pillars of what we have built here as an organization."
Moore signed with Cleveland after going undrafted in 2005 despite a standout career at Toledo, where he played with current Steelers backup quarterback Bruce Gradkowski.
Moore was signed by New Orleans later that season and was allocated to the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. By 2008, Moore was a fixture in the Saints' lineup, catching 79 passes for 928 yards and 10 touchdowns that season as a slot receiver.
He will likely serve the same roll for the Steelers, who could go into the draft looking to further upgrade their receiving corps with a tall receiver. Pittsburgh's top three receivers – Brown, Moore and Wheaton – each are 5-11 or shorter.
Moore wasn't the lone signing for the Steelers Friday. Reserve tight end Michael Palmer agreed to a one-year deal to return to the team.
Palmer, who was claimed off waivers from Atlanta last August, appeared in 16 games for the Steelers, mainly as a special teams player. He caught one pass for eight yards. Free-agent running back LeGarrette Blount, who rushed for 772 yards and seven touchdowns for New England last season, is expected to visit the Steelers Sunday. The Steelers, who hosted Maurice Jones-Drew earlier this week, are looking for a veteran backup to pair with starter Le'Veon Bell.
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DigestSep 25, 2013 The Associated Press
Horses still need WNV vaccine
CHEYENNE -- Despite the onset of fall, cases of West Nile Virus in horses continue to be reported throughout the state of Wyoming.
At least 15 West Nile horse cases have been diagnosed this season by the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory.
State Veterinarian Jim Logan says the West Nile season can last until a hard frost.
The Wyoming Livestock Board veterinary staff recommends that owners vaccinate their horses if they have not done so already.
Horses are far more affected by the West Nile than other livestock and domestic animals. Signs of West Nile include initial flu-like symptoms, where the horse becomes lethargic and depressed, followed by weakness, incoordination and seizures.
Of those that become ill, about 30 percent die or need to be euthanized.
Teton visitor center closing in winter
JACKSON -- The National Park Service has decided to close the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park during the winter.
The center is located in Moose and typically serves as a hub for visitors to Grand Teton during wintertime, when the vast majority of the park's services are closed for the season.
The closure means that Grand Teton will have no buildings other than bathrooms open to the public this winter.
Grand Teton chief of interpretation Vickie Mates says the decision for the winter closure was based purely on economics.
Mates sid the park will save about $100,000.
She says the center has few visitors in the winter.
The center is scheduled to close for the season Nov. 4.
No recount on Casper smoke ban
CASPER -- The city of Casper maintains that its city clerk legally rejected a smoking ban referendum and is not required to conduct a recount.
Attorneys for the city responded to a lawsuit challenging the Casper's petition signature verification process.
The lawsuit was filed by a group called Keep Casper Smoke Free, which circulated the petition. The petition fell 61 signatures short of the number it needed to put the issue on the ballot. The group maintains some signatures it collected were wrongly thrown out and wants a recount.
But in its reply, the city maintains that it did not act "arbitrarily or capriciously" while verifying the signatures.
The city also argues the state court has no right to review the complaint.
UW starts land program
LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming has launched a new program for students interested in land management related to oil, gas and mining.
UW's Professional Land Management program is one of just nine in North America accredited by the American Association of Professional Landmen.
This fall, 13 students are enrolled in the program, developed in partnership with the Wyoming Association of Professional Landmen and the energy industry. Don Roth is the program's director and deputy director for academics in UW's School of Energy Resources.


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Parents: Beware of nicotine posing as candy and alcohol that tastes like punch.
That's the combined heads-up given this week by the state Department of Health and a grass-roots parents group trying to quell underage drinking and tobacco use.
Smoking and other uses of tobacco products continue to decline, but nicotine is coming at children in breath mints, candy and toothpicks, said Amy Sands, program manager for the health department's Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.
"The products are designed to make tobacco addiction more accessible as well as to promote the dual use of cigarettes and smokeless products, creating an even stronger addiction," she said.
ParentsEmpowered.org kicked off the fourth year of its ongoing public awareness campaign against underage drinking Thursday with some good news.
Statewide averages for underage drinking are down across all grade levels for lifetime use, including use within a 30-day time frame and binge drinking in general, according to the Student Health and Risk Prevention survey.
The survey also found that teens cited parents' disapproval of alcohol in general as the main reason they don't drink.
The survey, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, also found an average 4 percent reduction in drinking among teens over the past two years and across every high school grade. That means about:
11,260 fewer Utah children reporting ever trying alcohol in their lifetimes.
5,520 fewer have used alcohol in the past 30 days in the last two years.
2,600 fewer underage binge/heavy drinkers in Utah than two years ago.
While most Utah parents don't drink, 65 percent of them generally agree their child could be exposed to alcohol.
"This is significant since many Utah parents often erroneously believe their children are insulated from the dangers of underage drinking because of their upbringing and their children don't need parents' help to stay alcohol-free," said Parents Empowered spokeswoman Sherri Clark.
Parents should continue to be vigilant about tobacco products as well, said Sands, adding "there is no safe tobacco product," and in any ingested form tobacco causes heart and other organ diseases, cancer and death.
Sands specifically outed Camel Snus, a smokeless — and with the added attraction of being spitless — tobacco in tea bag-type pouches touting refreshing flavors such as "frost," now available in convenience stores.
With its "pleasure for whatever" slogan and concealable size, kids can easily take it into the classroom, she said. It also comes in a container shaped like a cell phone.
There's something particularly insidious about hiding the most addictive element in tobacco in candy, said Dr. Ellie Brownstein, a University of Utah Health Care pediatrician.
Because the products have arrived so quickly, not much is know about them, she said. But so-called "dissolvables" have three times the nicotine, and contain cinnamaldehyde, a toxic insecticide, fungicide, corrosion inhibitor and severe skin irritant. Coumarin, a food additive the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned in 1978 and was removed from cigarettes in 1997, also has been found in the product.
Losing 400,000 smokers a year, the tobacco industry is busy figuring out ways to promote products to have an ever-young market, Sands said, noting that adults trying to quit shouldn't be fooled into thinking they can be used to help them get off nicotine.
"Ironically, the cake mix in your cupboard is more regulated than these new smokeless products, which are known to be addictive and destructive," she said. "We, and our children, are to be human guinea pigs in the tobacco industry's pursuit of profits. The only way to eliminate risk is to quit or never start."
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This week, a memo went out letting us know that the refrigerators in the break room were going to be cleaned, since our Event Queen Angela is completely grossed out by them.
Today was her designated cleaning day, and I had to document her experience, as she tried to keep from barfing all over the kitchen with some of the stuff she found in there.


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Recently I have upgraded PC Law from 9.31c to 10.03a.
When I go to change bill under Change/Write off bill, the G/L Account drop down box is missing. The same was available in version 9.31c.
Note that under Option, System Setting, Other, Use G/L Accounting box is selected.
Can someone please let me know under which default G/L account will the write off be allocated in absence of drop down box ? On the other hand, how do I get back the G/L Account drop down box in the change bill screen.
Many thanks.
Diago Fernandes IT Administrator Bin Shabib & Associates (BSA) LLP Building# 3, Level 6, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) PO Box 262, Dubai, UAE T +9714 368 5555 (ext 239). PC Law Enterprise Pro V 10.03a
I do testing on 10.XX on home machine. V 10.03a does have G/L lists available on pop ups under Change/Woff Bill.
Are you saying that a) the G/L box is not available, or b) the G/L pop-up during double-clicking right mouse yields nothing or c) that G/L Pop-up brings up no G/L accounts?
In my past exprience there have been instances when no G/L accounts are available during Pop Up help. I have had to exit PCLaw and relogin. If that's the case you need to check whether G/L accounts are availble on other data screens in PCLaw. You may also need to check that Use G/L Accounting is selected on the machine under Wokstation Settings>Other tab
If settings are ok and relogin fails, perform VDI failing which contact Tech Support (case of data corruption perhaps).
When I go to change/write off, I do not find the pop up for G/L Account under Fees (Bill Details), whereas the same is available under Disbs.
I checked the settings under systems & workstation and find G/L Accounting selected.
My question is in absence of G/L accounts selection against Fees, under which default G/L accounts will the write off be balanced.
Very surprising Fee box does not have G/L pop up help. I would first establish why it is not available. I recall you are on SQL, so you may have your own unique issues.
To answer your question: The Fees reduction affects the Fee Credit lawyers G/L Accounts in the proportion of original fee allocations - PClaw supposed to do this on its own automatically so users dont have to worry about which G/L accounts to use - you just leave it blank. However in your case you dont even have an option to select G/L A/c. You should ensure by running the W/Up Down Journal and the G/L Statement for good measure to determine the G/L A/cs the W/Off has been debited to.
If your books are set up as either cash or modified cash, there is no g/l for writing down time. Unbilled time or accounts receivable are not carried on the books, and therefore when you write them off, there is no write off to the g/l. The only time this would show is if the books are set for accrual based accounting.
Client costs (soft & Hard costs) are carried on your books, and therefore when you write them down, you do have a g/l pop up box to choose the write down account.
So unless you are on accrual basis, you will not have the g/l box for fees.
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C & S LegalTech Consulting Group, LLC
Birmingham, AL
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Thanks Pat & Matt, your replies are bang on target. I had recently moved my backend PC Law to a brand new server with Windows 2008 Standar Edition. After moving with the same version of PC Law, I upgraded to new version 10.03a. I have no clue after upgrading why the accounting mode changed from Accruals to Cash.
Since we are only two weeks since this change in accounting mode was detected, will there be any implications of the accounts flow, billing and accounts receivables?
PC Law tech support are in process of correcting the accounting mode. Many Thanks for your replies.


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In a world seemingly gone mad, I have been thinking long and hard about what I should say to readers in this, our Christmas issue.
The news has been full of violence with the latest atrocity being the massacre of first-graders in Connecticut. However, the madness is right here among us with a cop killer still on the loose in Cold Spring, a Little Falls man killing two burglars on Thanksgiving Day, and more recently, the shooting of a Sauk Centre man near Upsala, allegedly by someone from Melrose.
So how does one say, "Merry Christmas" in the face of all that?
I heard on the news recently that it's harder to get an appointment to see a psychiatrist these days than it is to buy an automatic weapon. The psychiatrists are swamped by people full of fear and anxiety. So are some gun buyers, I think. What ever happened to faith, hope and charity, the enduring themes of the holiday season?
For 2,000 years, we've been reminded of them each December, but now many seem intent on turning the whole world into an armed camp. Is that what we need to do to survive?
Reflecting on the Connecticut school shooting, Kyle Eller, a former co-worker who now edits the Northern Cross, the monthly newspaper of the Diocese of Duluth, offered the following insights:
"It is so very easy to say, 'Get rid of guns' or "I blame violent video games," or "It is all about mental illness," or "You kicked prayer out of schools," or even "This is what you get in a dictatorship of relativism," and all the rest. And it is not that those conversations are wrong to have, not that these things may not form some part, even perhaps a great part, of the constellation of things going on here. Some of those things I have strong opinions about, and some I do not think I am knowledgeable enough about to justify a strong opinion.
"But what I am increasingly certain of is that this is right — that there is a fundamental alienation somewhere at the heart of this. There are lots of people who do not feel they have a place, do not belong, have no one to love them. I say it not to point fingers at anyone, because I know all too well I am as complicit in this and as much a contributor to this as anyone else who might read this. I say this with a 'mea maxima culpa.'
"But I feel deep down that in every one of these events there is an indictment of many things we are not willing to give up, our way of thinking about family, our way of thinking about friendship, our way of thinking about an economy, our way of thinking about a community, our way of thinking about rights and, most of all, our way of thinking about God. And it is this indictment which makes it so hard to talk about — and perhaps which makes it so easy for us to grab for superficial answers.
"People do not feel they belong in part because there is so little left of a common life that there is little left to which to belong. Or so it seems to me."
I liked his comments because he left room for doubt. Most of us can't get past the hand-wringing to even begin discussing this problem.
I think it stems from within the family. We know for example, that children of single parents are less likely to do well than children who come from a low-conflict, two-parent household. We know that families that sit down to dinner together on most days produce better children. And frighteningly, we pretty much know by third grade who is college material and who isn't.
In my mind, we have created a society that is convenient for adults, but not good for raising children.
And yet, we know of countless examples of children who overcome the odds, so it isn't just that.
Another part of it is that with the withering of our geographic community ties, so much of what we do is in isolation. We can watch TV or movies together, but are those a truly shared experience? How many of us never think about the values that these shows bring into our homes? We no longer have community norms because we no longer have true communities. We don't know each other well enough.
It seems as if we have forgotten some things — like what an awesome responsibility it is to create a new life and then raise a child. Most of us claim to be busy, but much of what we are busy with are things that keep us from having enough time or energy for our families.
Then we wring our hands over suicides, the growth of unemployables in a technological age and then the occasional attempt by the alienated to outdo the atrocities of others. It's all tied together somehow, but the question is, how can society as a whole turn this around?
I think we can figure it out, but not by being more self-righteous. Instead, we all ought to be humbled that these things are happening in our communities, and admit that all of us need to refocus.
There are good ideas out there on how to proceed. You may hear a few of them if you find yourself sitting in a pew in the next day or so.
About the time I wanted to throw my arms up in despair, a co-worker at the Record, Dorine Buermann, told me that she had taken a friend shopping in St. Cloud this week. The friend chose $172 worth of items. When they came up to the cash register, a woman behind them handed the clerk a credit card and told her to put their purchases on it. Her son, Nathan Matros, had chosen them for this act of kindness. They were from Sartell, she said, adding, "We can afford it. Just 'pay it forward.'"
There is still hope.
Tom West is the editor and general manager of the Record. He may be reached at (320) 632-2345 or by e-mail at [email protected].


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Republicans sought to capitalize today on some Democrats' not exactly embracing the president's jobs plan with both arms, as the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill battle not only to pass a jobs bill but also to win the larger message war.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, had a little fun turning the president's words around on him.
"Yesterday, you heard the president, as I did, tell someone in the audience that, 'If you love me, you will pass this bill,'" Cornyn said at a news conference this afternoon. "Well, it's pretty clear that even Democrats, members of his own party, have lost that loving feeling for the president and his agenda."
White House advisers David Plouffe and Gene Sperling are on the Hill briefing Senate Democrats behind closed doors about the president's job bill, something Republicans also pounced on today.
"One would think they would want to be briefed on details before the president demanded they pass it right away, not after," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said today. "But, then again, the White House probably expected stronger support from Democrats than it's gotten so far. After all, this bill's top selling point, according to the president, was that both parties should like it, yet so far the only thing both parties in Congress seem to agree on is there has got to be a better way than this."
Many Republicans today echoed, almost mockingly, the president's repetitive call to "pass this bill."
"While the president was out in Ohio insisting over and over again that congress pass the bill, it seemed like the only Democrats who were even willing to talk about it here on Capitol Hill were tearing it apart," McConnell said, noting the many Democrats who have spoken out in recent days critically about the bill's needing to be broken apart, instead of passed as one bill.
"I know the president and his advisers are keen on this idea of making Republicans look bad, but from what I can tell, he has got a bigger problem at the moment lining up supporters in his own party."


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Kuch Toh Log Kahenge 24th January 2013 Written Update
Kuch Toh Log Kahenge 24th January 2013 Written Update by Armu4eva
Part 1
AshNi are sitting on the bed.. all quiet! Ashu asks the matter? Nidhi asks if Ashu has noticed that.. they as kids.. are shy about thinking about their parents love life..! She says that they cant imagine..that their parents loved someone in youth and still think of that loved one! Ashu asks who Nidhi is talking about and Nidhi says BB..! She says that during college.. BB used to love someone deeply..! Ashu says.. accepted.. but whats the point lamenting over it? He says…BB must have gotten over that..! Nidhi says.. no..! Ashu says.. even if not…still it will embarrass BB if AshNi confront him about it..! He suggests to let the secret stay safe in BBs heart..! He asks Nidhi not to think of it. .n wishes her good nite..! Nidhi recollects thinking of BB looking at the pics..!
Next day morning.. BB asks CS about his love story n he says.. his love story ended before it began…! BB says some love stories are not meant to be..! CS says that DB ruined his love story by stopping his driving classes..! BB asks him to keep hope… n suggests to hang more n to do push ups.. to increase his height! Nidhi sneaks into BBs cupboard and goes thru his documents..! BB is coming towards his room right then ..! Nidhi keeps looking thru the papers and finds an old paper cutting .. about Ashish and Aradhna winning some championship..with the duos pic..! Nidhi senses BB coming..! She also finds a Happy Birthday card ..from Aradhna..! BB comes inside his room and sees Nidhi…setting the bed..! He asks her what she is doing and Nidhi says.. setting the bed..! She excuses herself..!
BB gets up to take a look at the book ..the paper cutting and talks to it.. saying .. 'How are u Aradhna? And where are u?' He says.. he is counting the last days of his life …and she …well…dunno where she is..! He says.. hoping she is lost in her world ..! He wonders if she thinks of him .. ! He says.. he cannot forget her.. even after trying ..! He says.. from where he took her out. .there is an emptiness there..! He says..whenever he returns.. he falls in the dark pit.. she left. .behind..! He says.. that its been ages since he had any wish. .or desire.. ! He rues that his heart is left void without her..! BB in tears.. and says that when death is knocking at his doorstep.. dunno from where.. she has come and stood in the emptiness in his heart and head..as his last wish…! He says…before his eyes close… he wishes to see her.. just once… one last time..coz . he wants to apologise to her for rejecting her… ! BB wallows sadly..! Nidhi overhears the whole thing.. n is in tears..!
Nidhi comes to Ashu and tells him that they need to do something..! Ashu asks what? Nidhi says..to reunite.. BB and Aradhna..! Ashu asks who? Nidhi says.. the one …whom BB used to love a lot.. the one ..with whom all were teasing BB … the one whose pic n card is still with BB …!
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Ashu asks Nidhi ..from where she came to know? Nidhi says..from BBs cupboard..! She shares how.. BB had hurt Aradhna and feels guilty about it..! She says.. if he gets a chance to apologise? Ashu asks. .if she is mad? He says. BB is in pain right now! Nidhi says… if BB doesnt get a chance.. he will regret it forever.. n if he does not survive. .then .. he will never rest! Ashu says.. Nidhi is not talking like a doc.. one side.. she is talking of saving BB n on another. .talking about death? Ashu says.. she is talking of healing of soul ..while body needs medication! Nidhi opposes but Ashu says.. nothing ..like that..! Ashu says.. he has taken an off and will be with BB one whole day before BB is admitted to hosp ..! Ashu walks off..! Nidhi says like all kids Ashu cant accept BBs love life details!
Rangu is called by the slimey pharmacy guy to meet his colleagues..! Rangu says.. he thought he had invited him for seminar? The guy says.. it was cancelled at last moment..! The guy asks Rangu to take a seat..! They serve him drinks… but he refuses..! The guy asks if he has any other liking? Rangu says no.. n then says. .he came for seminar..! The senior there asks Rangu to give them the contract and offers 25% commission .. on each order…! Rangu concludes that they are trying to bribe him!
Part 3
The guy says.. not bribe.. its called facilitation fees… just for running smooth business! Rangu says enouf and says..they are trying to bribe him ..! He warns them that he is gonna lodge complaint against them in Indian Medical Association..! The guy stops him and says.. they will continue to do their work.. but he will be at a loss..! Rangu says.. who will lose.. only time will tell..! Rangu walks off..!
Nidhi meets up with one of BBs friends and asks about Aradhna..! The guy resists.. n says.. BB wont like it.. if they talk of his past..! Nidhi assures.. BB wont know..! She says BB has very short time . .with him .. and till date he has not forgotten Aradhna..! The guy says.. Aradhna. .wont leave all to come to meet BB! Nidhi says..she will surely come as she is BBs last wish.. and she too loved BB.. so will come..! She asks for the address..! The guy agrees.. on the condition of anonymity..! Nidhi gets to know.. Aradhna is in Allahabad!
Precap — Nidhi comes inside a house.. n greets an old lady … [Anju Mahendru]! She turns n looks at Nidhi ..!


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A failing heart caused Michael Quinn to live in reverse isolation at All Children's Hospital for three-and-a-half months as he waited for a transplant.
It meant late-night poker games with nurses. And visits with friends who wore surgical masks.
But at 16, Michael was ready for a life — and the new heart that would give him one.
"I will be glad when this ordeal is over," he said Sunday by phone. "I just want to go home."
Earlier that day, he had learned his wish would soon come true — a donor had been found.
"Vital organ is on its way," he told his mother.
Hours later, his long and dangerous journey to a brighter future would begin with a six-hour surgery.
By 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Michael's new donor heart was in place and beating on its own.
Late Monday afternoon, Michael was "doing well and progressing as expected," said Cindy Rose, hospital spokeswoman.
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On Jan. 13, Michael was climbing steps at Clearwater Central Catholic High School, when he started to sweat. He felt weak, faint.
He was taken to Morton Plant Hospital, where a blood test revealed he was in heart failure. From there, he was transferred to All Children's Hospital, where he remained in the cardiovascular intensive care unit.
On Sunday, Michael was upbeat waiting to be prepped for the surgery, but he didn't want to get his hopes too high.
Earlier this year, he was to receive another heart, but the surgery was canceled at the last minute because the organ carried a virus.
Michael was 10 when he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart has a difficult time pumping blood because the walls within are thickened.
"When you hear of young athletes dropping dead on the field, it's often because of that," said his mother, Silvia Quinn, 35.
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Silvia Quinn is a cardiovascular invasive specialist assisting physicians with cardiac catheterization procedures at Morton Plant Hospital.
She knows that when Michael returns home in about a month, his surroundings need to be in "pristine condition."
Immunosuppressive drugs, used to reduce the body's tendency to reject the new organ, will leave Michael vulnerable to a host of illnesses.
"Mold, mildew and dust have got to be removed or it could be lethal," she said.
For the past three months, she and her longtime significant other, Chuck Degrenia, have spent countless hours renovating their 1980s home in Oldsmar.
It's on a small lake. Over the years, mold and mildew have crept their way into walls, woodwork and doors.
They all had to go.
So did the carpeting, the laminated wood floors, and the dusty popcorn ceiling.
Molding was replaced or sanded and repainted. Shelves were pressure-washed.
Degrenia, 38, a commercial and residential remodeling contractor, did most of the work himself.
"If I didn't know how to do this, I'd be in a world of trouble," he said.
He recalled when Michael was a little tyke.
"He asked if he could call me 'Dad,' " Degrenia said. "I thought that was the most wonderful thing."
Friends and neighbors like Dave Wachtler, 53, have spent weekends helping.
"I love Michael dearly and want this to work out for them," he said.
PODS donated two units to help the family store furniture. Home Depot donated $7,000 to the cause.
Co-workers have been making dinner and bringing it to the couple for months.
Others have donated money through a Web site and a special Wachovia bank account.
Quinn said the family owes about $400,000 in co-pays and deductibles and has nearly reached their $2 million limit with Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
And Michael will need expensive medications the rest of his life.
"It's all part of the transplant journey," Quinn said. "It's overwhelming."
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As a kid, Michael Quinn wasn't the kind to race a bike around the block for three hours at a time. He had to limit his activity level, so he took up ballroom dancing.
He loves to read and plans to study corporate law.
At Clearwater Catholic Central, he has held many leadership roles, including that of youth minister.
As word of Michael's transplant surgery spread, students were both delighted and a bit fearful, said John Venturella, president of the school.
"It's a whole batch of emotions," he said. "The students are praying for Michael and the donor that made this possible."
One of Michael's closest friends, Daniel Strehle, said Michael was an upbeat kind of guy.
"I've never seen him frown. In fact, some of his friends are more depressed and worried about his condition than he is," Strehle said. "But Michael knew he'd make it.
"I know he'll make it."


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