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China has become the largest source of foreign demand for Australian property with the Foreign Investment Review Board granting approval for $5.9 billion in purchases in 2012-13.
Chinese buying of real estate rose 44 per cent in the year to replace the US and Singapore as the top origin of foreign investment in the sector.
Leading Sydney real estate agent John McGrath last year said the Chinese buying was the strongest he had seen from a new entrant in the market.
Overall Chinese investors, who could take a stake in Qantas Airways, gained FIRB approval for $15.8 billion worth of investment.
And Prime Minister Tony Abbott's new declared best friend in Asia, Japan, dropped out of the top five foreign direct investors.
Foreign direct investment in manufacturing dived from $29.5 billion in 2011-12 to just $6.5 billion in 2012-13, a sign of the pain being suffered by the sector.
Switzerland, which has been a bigger investor in Australia since the global financial crisis, is now the second-biggest behind the US.
Trade analyst Alan Oxley pointed to the Glencore merger with Xstrata to explain Switzerland's rise and Canada's investment in infrastructure projects and pension funds. He said volatility was good, given it showed the diversity of sources of investment.
China, Canada and the UK make up the top five. Japan has slipped to sixth.
US investment again topped the list at $20.62 billion, dominated by mineral exploration and services, with 264 approvals. Japan's investment was worth $4.58 billion with 11 approvals, and $3 billion in mineral exploration.
Overall, the value of planned foreign investment in Australia fell by more than 20 per cent from $170.7 billion to $135.7 billion. Approvals in the two biggest sectors, real estate and minerals exploration development, both fell, the latter reflecting the cooling of the mining boom.
Investment in real estate fell from $59.1 billion in 2011-12 to $51.9 billion in 2012-13. Applications to buy existing residential property rose by 28 per cent to 5091, and the value of those application rose by 88 per cent to $5.4 billion.
Overall, real estate fell due to some very large commercial deals in 2011-12.
Investment in the minerals exploration and development sector fell from $51.7 billion to $45.1 billion, even though the number of approvals increased from 241 to 289.
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AUSTIN, Texas Ś Samsung got its moneyÆs worth from Jay Z and Kanye West.
Two of rapÆs top stars combined for a powerful, hit-filled two-hour show Wednesday night and Thursday morning during South By Southwest, allowing Samsung to steal some of iTunesÆ luster at the annual music conference and festival.
Samsung announced the Austin Music Hall show early this week and scheduled the pair at the same time as the iTunes FestivalÆs hip-hop night that featured Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q at the very nearby ACL Moody Theater. The performance came a few weeks after West called out Apple CEO Tim Cook at a New Jersey concert, telling him to ōstop trying to get performers to play your festival for free, you are rich as (expletive).ö
Chances are West and Jay Z didnÆt play the show for free, but the return on investment wasnÆt marginal. The show was one of the most anticipated surrounding the annual buzz-building gathering and fans with Samsung devices with the companyÆs new streaming music service, Milk Music, were granted free entry.
Fans lined up several hundred yards around the block before the show with most having little hope of getting in. Those who did Ś including Odd FutureÆs Tyler, The Creator, who forced his way to the front row to the delight of selfie-snapping fans and spent some of the show crowd surfing Ś were treated to an energetic performance from two of hip-hopÆs biggest stars.
They emerged individually atop two large boxes stationed on the stage and in the crowd Ś West wearing his trademark leather kilt and Jay Z in a black American flag t-shirt Ś and began the show near the rafters. They played selections from their ōWatch the Throneö collaboration throughout, including ōNo Church in the Wild,ö öģ in Paris,ö öWho Gon Stop Meö and ōOtisö as images of Doberman pinschers, lions and tigers, great white sharks and gazelle-killing cheetahs flashed across a screen that wrapped around the stagebound box.
The pair, who recently announced a partnership between WestÆs Donda Music and Jay ZÆs Roc Nation, each also played hits from their own lengthy catalogs. West, engaged and smiling and even occasionally trading high fives with the crowd, performed ōBlack Skinheadö and ōNew Slavesö from his latest album ōYeezusö along with older hits like ōJesus Walksö and ōRunaway.ö
Jay Z offered favorites recent hit ōTom Fordö from ōMagna Carta ģ Holy Grail,ö and standards ō99 Problems,ö öEmpire State of Mind,ö öDirt Off Your Shoulderö and ōBig PimpinÆ.ö
What they didnÆt offer was any clues about a sequel to their collaborative album ōWatch the Throne,ö which is anticipated later this year.

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CHICAGO -- No matter how many times the Phillies add a starting pitcher, someone wants to subtract one.
Perhaps it began with the ill-advised trade for Roy Halladay followed by the trading away of Cliff Lee in the winter of 2009.
When the Phillies re-signed Lee the next winter, rumors of trading away Roy Oswalt or Joe Blanton began.
When he arrived to spring training three months ago, Blanton heard the same questions. In the last week, more rumors surfaced involving Blanton and Cole Hamels.
Despite the aforementioned Halladay for Lee switcheroo three winters ago, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. almost always adheres to the adage that you can never have enough pitching. He'll trade away prospects, but he won't trade away major league starting pitching.
The reasoning is simple: Rare does a season go by that a team relies solely on five starting pitchers. The Phillies have born witness to this in the last two months when both Lee and Vance Worley have landed on the disabled list.
In their place, Kyle Kendrick has stepped in and showed off the value of the starting pitching depth Amaro thought enough of to sign him to a two-year, $7.5 million deal in February.
Rushed back into the rotation on short notice, Kendrick held the Cubs to one earned run in six innings as the Phillies took a 9-2 win Wednesday night at Wrigley Field.
"Tonight kind of proves his worth," manager Charlie Manuel said of Kendrick. "He did a good job, did a super job."
Carlos Ruiz's one-out home run in the eighth snapped a 2-2 tie and the Phils tacked on six more in the ninth to extend their season-high win streak to four straight games.
The Phillies (19-19) are back at the .500 mark for the first time in two weeks.
Summoned into duty when Worley was scratched a day earlier, Kendrick retired 10 of the first 12 batters he faced. That run only ended because Juan Pierre couldn't corral a can-of-corn fly ball to left with one out in the fourth.
The next batter, Alfonso Soriano, hit a two-run home run. It was the only damage to Kendrick's ERA.
Following Soriano's home run, Kendrick retired eight straight before turning the ball over to the bullpen.
"He was making good pitches," Manuel said. "His command was better tonight, his location, too."
Ignited by Freddy Galvis' second double of the game, the Phils scored six times in their final at-bat. Galvis, who has 11 doubles this season, is hitting .400 with six extra-base hits and eight RBIs in his last seven games.
Hector Luna's grand slam capped the offensive explosion in the ninth and sent the majority of the 38,678 Cubs faithful to the exits.
Luna may have earned himself a chance to make his first start tonight. Placido Polanco came out of Wednesday's game with a left knee contusion.


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Avila was medically cleared to play early Thursday and will bat eighth in the team's series opener against the Minnesota Twins at Comerica Park.
Quintin Berry will also make his first start since exiting Tuesday's game with a right shoulder scare. He'll bat second and start in left field.
Andy Dirks, who belted a solo home run Thursday afternoon, will make his fourth straight start in the outfield, hitting sixth and starting in right.
As a result, Brennan Boesch will sit for the fourth straight game.
The Tigers will look to right-hander Rick Porcello to help trim their two-game deficit against the AL Central-leading White Sox, who couldn't build on their lead after suffering a 4-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals last night.
Tied with Cleveland for the AL's worst record, Minnesota will counter with right-hander Samuel Deduno, who has walked a major league-worst 48 over his last 13 starts.
With only 13 games remaining, the Tigers will play six games against Minnesota and the other seven against the Royals -- two teams they've had success beating this year.
Here's tonight's starting lineup:
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2. Quintin Berry, LF
3. Miguel Cabrera, 3B
4. Prince Fielder, 1B
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Coolest place you have ever been: Machu Picchu, Peru
Top three off-snow activities: Cycling, family events, cooking
What's your favorite candy bar? Sky Bar
I would like to meet . . . Thomas Jefferson in addition to past family members
What's your best snow sports memory? There are so many… just to name a few… my first trip to Pleasant Mountain Ski Area in Maine in 1956 and Tuckerman's Ravine on Memorial Day in 1973, Pat's Peak (where I won my first college race in 1967).
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Demi Lovato: Cowell is so cruel
Simon Cowell is sometimes so mean, Demi Lovato can't believe he is speaking out loud.
The two stars sit on the judging panel of America's The X Factor together. Demi joined the show last year and is back for a second season in 2013, with Paulina Rubio and Kelly Rowland joining her and Simon this time around.
The music mogul is known for his acid tongue but Demi wasn't prepared for just how forthright he can be when they first started working together.
"Whatever he has to say, it's the honest truth. Sometimes I don't agree with him, but most of the time he says what I'm wanting to say but, like, I just physically can't because it's so mean!" she laughed to Heat magazine.
If Simon called some of Demi's choices into question she would definitely pay attention. She understands he has a lot of experience in the industry so is usually right, but still believes her opinion is just as valid.
"He knows what he's talking about, he knows that he's doing and he's gonna tell you straight up, whether you want to hear it or not," she said. "But then a percentage of my mind is gonna be like, 'Well, he also said that this person was really talented,' so it's the opinion of a guy who's very smart and who knows what he's going, but at the end of the day it's an opinion."
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Brain in a vat
A brain in a vat is the idea that a mind can exist in a situation in which it experiences an entirely simulated reality. The person thinks, feels and lives their life completely unaware that they do not experience the outer reality.
One of the earliest and most influential expressions of the idea was Plato's allegory of the cave. He imagined that people were restrained in a cave and had only ever seen one wall in front of them. On this wall are shadows cast by a light source behind them. People walk past the cave mouth and the people trapped in the cave might believe that the shadows were real. Plato's intention was to explain idealism rather than a brain in vat. The difference between them is that the shadows Plato's cave has indirect resemblance to the true world. A brain in a vat could, in principle, experience a very different reality.
In 1641, René Descartes speculated in his Meditations on First Philosophy that the world might be an illusion created by an evil demon. Ultimately Descartes rejected the idea that this could possibly be true, but in order to do this he had to invoke the idea of a good God who would not allow this to happen. This line of reasoning is not open to atheists.
- "I will suppose therefore that not God, who is supremely good and the source of truth, but rather some malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me. I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external things are merely the delusions of dreams which he has devised to ensnare my judgement."
Indeed, it seems that there is no way to conclusively prove that the world is not an illusion, if we are allowed to make the assumption that such an illusion would be so skillfully made that it was indistinguishable from reality. This may lead to a position of an extreme skepticism in which knowledge is impossible. Another consequence is that science is only able to state facts about the world with a limited degree of certainty.
If we cannot even assert conclusively that the real world exists, then it is fair to say that we can never truly "know" whether something like a god exists. Absolute certainty is impossible. Therefore, the brain in a vat is sometimes brought up as a way of illustrating why weak atheism makes more sense than strong atheism.
Do we live in a computer simulation?
Some cosmologists have speculated that since there may be many more simulated universes than real ones, it is quite likely that we are currently in a simulated reality. Theoretical physicists are trying to think of ways of testing this hypothesis, such as artefacts or glitches in reality caused by limitations in the simulation, but so far no evidence has been found to support the idea.
- "The argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.[1]"
In popular culture
The idea of a brain in a vat has been used in various TV shows and movies. By far the most well known movie to use the idea is The Matrix (1999). Other usages including: Red Dwarf (episode "Back to Reality", 1992), Star Trek the Next Generation (episode "Ship in a Bottle", 1993), eXistenZ (1999), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Source Code (2011) and in many other places [2]
"Have you ever had a dream Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
- — Morpheus in The Matrix
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
- — Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
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- ↑ Platonic Cave on tvtropes.org


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ictory becomes uncomfortable when she designs an advertising emblem for her latest line of bed sheets that feature a semi-nude woman, and her new investor want her to be the model on the cover. Nico calls on Kirby to be the photographer for the shoot, which puts both of them in an awkward position since they both ended their romance weeks earlier. Victory has a run-in with Joe (who's still cynical and misanthropic then ever), and she wants to talk to him about their ended relationship, but he naturally doesn't want to speak to her. Meanwhile, Wendy and Shane's marriage becomes more strained when Josie asks him to perform as the keyboardist in a band with Natasha Bedingfield as the lead singer, while he is opposed to Wendy finding work again. Both of their kids, particularly Taylor, also begin to feel the strain on them because of the tension between their parents.Résumé de IMDb.com
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PEOPLE are being asked their views on a new pattern of electoral divisions for Warwickshire County Council.
The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England has launched a consultation in the first part of an electoral review which will re-draw division boundaries across the whole county.
The Commission has also announced it is recommending the county council should have 57 councillors in the future, five fewer than the current arrangements.
The Commission now needs information from people and groups across Warwickshire to help it to produce a new pattern of electoral divisions to accommodate 57 county councillors.
Max Caller, Chair of the Commission, said: "As we develop the recommendations, we will take into account local community identities as well as ensuring electoral equality for voters.
"If you have a view about which communities, parishes or neighbourhoods should be part of the same county division, then we want to hear from you.
"And if you think a road, river or railway makes for a strong boundary between communities in your part of Warwickshire, then this consultation is for you. "
Residents will then have a further chance to have their say after the commission publishes its draft recommendations in September.
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Champions League Fixtures 2014: Best Matchups in First Knockout RoundFebruary 18, 2014
The Champions League is back after its usual hiatus, and the first knockout round includes some real gems.
The group stages saw Juventus crash out of the competition and Napoli fail to qualify despite picking up 12 points, a Champions League first:
However, the majority of Europe's powerhouses made it through, and December's draw for the last-16 paired many of the big guns against each other, with Arsenal and Manchester City notably paying for failing to top their groups.
Here, we take a look at the pick of the ties for the first knockout round.
Manchester City vs Barcelona
The pick of a good bunch, Manchester City could hardly have asked for a tougher introduction to the Champions League last-16 than a first competitive meeting with the Catalan giants.
Over two months from the draw, the Sky Blues are having a slight stutter in the Premier League, having failed to score in their last two games against Chelsea and Norwich City.
A comfortable 2-0 win over Chelsea in the FA Cup at the weekend does, however, see City go into Tuesday's first leg at the Etihad in winning form.
Barcelona come into the tie on the back of a 6-0 thrashing of Rayo Vallecano in La Liga on Saturday, which included two goals for one Lionel Messi.
Coming back into form after a stretch out injured the Argentine has scored six goals in this month alone.
However, Messi's record in England may offer Manuel Pellegrini some comfort:
City will be without their talismanic Argentinian Sergio Aguero who is injured, potentially a key factor in a tie between two high-scoring sides.
As reported in The Guardian, only Real Madrid have scored more goals in the group stages than City—who scored 18—with Barcelona just two behind.
City will need to take a lead into the second leg at the Nou Camp, which means either Alvaro Negredo or Edin Dzeko will have to step up in Aguero's absence.
AC Milan vs Atletico Madrid
The seven-time winners Milan enter this tie as significant underdogs against an Atletico Madrid side currently tied on points with Real Madrid and Barcelona at the top of the La Liga table.
The Rossoneri have had a torrid time this season and sit ninth in Serie A with qualification for next season's Champions League looking unlikely.
Conversely, former Inter Milan man Diego Simeone's Madrid side will go to the San Siro on Wednesday night full of confidence having ended a run of three losses with a comfortable 3-0 win over Real Valladolid.
Despite the seeming gap in class, there may yet be an upset as Milan's experience in the competition is almost unrivaled, as is that of their manager, Clarence Seedorf, who won the competition four times with three different clubs.
Furthermore, it is impossible to predict what will happen when the mercurial Mario Balotelli is involved.
The Italian comes into this game off the back of a magnificent winner for Milan against Bologna on Friday, as reported by The Guardian:
Arsenal vs Bayern Munich
A repeat of one of last season's round-of-16 ties, Arsenal will be hoping for a different outcome on Wednesday at the Emirates as last season saw them effectively knocked out after a 3-1 first-leg loss in London.
Two regulars of the Champions League knockout stages, this tie pits Bayern against a more consistent, more threatening Arsenal side than they faced last term.
Bayern Munich are currently 16 points ahead of second-place Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga and have scored 57 goals in 21 matches.
Arsenal halted a slight dip in form, which included a 5-1 defeat to Liverpool and a goalless home draw with Manchester United when they overcame Liverpool in the FA Cup at the weekend and currently sit second in the Premier League.
And Arsene Wenger is in a confident mood:
Holders Bayern will be without Franck Ribery but boast unrivalled wonders in midfield including the likes of captain Philip Lahm, Arjen Robben, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Javi Martinez and Thiago Alacantara.
Arsenal will need the likes of Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilsher, Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud to be on top form as they will likely have to take a lead to Munich if they wish to advance to the quarter-finals.
|Champions League Last-16 Fixtures
|Bayer Leverkusen
|Man City
|Bayern Munich
|AC Milan
|Atletico Madrid
|Man Utd
|Real Madrid
The other last-16 ties include Bayer Leverkusen taking on PSG, Olympiacos facing Manchester United and Chelsea taking on Galatsaray. Zenit St Petersburg versus Borussia Dortmund and Schalke versus Real Madrid round out the eight ties.


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Clade Age and Diversification Rate Variation Explain Disparity in Species Richness among Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilidae) Lineages
Issue Date2014-06-02
Bloom, Devin D.
Fikáček, Martin
Short, Andrew E. Z.
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Explaining the disparity of species richness across the tree of life is one of the great challenges in evolutionary biology. Some lineages are exceptionally species rich, while others are relatively species poor. One explanation for heterogeneity among clade richness is that older clades are more species rich because they have had more time to accrue diversity than younger clades. Alternatively, disparity in species richness may be due to among-lineage diversification rate variation. Here we investigate diversification in water scavenger beetles (Hydrophilidae), which vary in species richness among major lineages by as much as 20 fold. Using a time-calibrated phylogeny and comparative methods, we test for a relationship between clade age and species richness and for shifts in diversification rate in hydrophilids. We detected a single diversification rate increase in Megasternini, a relatively young and species rich clade whose diversity might be explained by the stunning diversity of ecological niches occupied by this clade. We find that Amphiopini, an old clade, is significantly more species poor than expected, possibly due to its restricted geographic range. The remaining lineages show a correlation between species richness and clade age, suggesting that both clade age and variation in diversification rates explain the disparity in species richness in hydrophilids. We find little evidence that transitions between aquatic, semiaquatic, and terrestrial habitats are linked to shifts in diversification rates.
Bloom DD, Fikáček M, Short AEZ (2014) Clade Age and Diversification Rate Variation Explain Disparity in Species Richness among Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilidae) Lineages. PLoS ONE 9(6): e98430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098430
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By GMBurns
Aug 4, 2008
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b PG13
|The crux looks harder than it is, and it is well-protected, too. A good route.
By JSH
May 26, 2009
I first led this as a middling 5.7 leader, and was horrified! Later, realized I was right to be horrified - the first 40' is really quite poorly protected, and you're in & out of groundfall zone for a good bit. The second, pulling the first bulge, is also faced with a big swing (and potentially the ground) - they remove pro, *then* make the move. YMMV.
The upper corner is very nice and 5.7G. It would be worthwhile if you could skip right up to it.
By Michael G
Jul 13, 2009
rating: 5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
I agree, the first crux protects well for leader, but the second faces a long swing if they come off towards the end of the first crux, or during the traverse afterwards. In an effort to protect the second, I placed a high piece above the slab for the second, and then had to downclimb and move right to get back on route. Since I couldn't place pro until I got above that high piece, I ended up on some 5.4/5 R climbing. It seems that with double ropes you can still place this piece for the second, and also protect yourself for the 5.5 stuff.
The second crux is G and a ton of fun.
By gblauer Blauer
From: Wayne, PA
Aug 17, 2009
|This is not for the early 5.7 leader. Didn't like this climb very much.
By Spiro
Sep 3, 2009
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
|It takes gear well. You can place a nice nut mid way thru the traverse. It is not a conventional placement but is solid and should help reduce the swing if the second blows it.
By Jake D.
From: Northeast
Sep 7, 2010
|I really liked this route. I thought a move higher up in one of the corners was harder physically than the opening undercling.
By focus
Apr 15, 2012
I concur with the comments about protecting the lower traverse.
All in all, a really nice pitch I thought. The crux is the lower part. After pulling the initial moves I couldn't find decent pro before traversing right so just went for it.
Holds were good though.
By BrianRH
From: Jersey City, NJ
Aug 27, 2012
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
|I protected the traverse with a microcam. seemed solid enough. a good fun climb. You can climb past the first set of slings on the pine tree to add another 30 feet of climbing. Stay to the left as the tempting cracks to the right all sound very hollow. From the higher ledge you can rap with a 60 meter rope
By jd4567
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 11, 2012
I really enjoyed this route, particularly the thoughtful second crux. A great climb for the grade. Also a comfortable and well shaded belay ledge at the second slung pine tree.
Traverse protected just fine with a small horizontal nut placement.


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About Preschool Special Education
Preschool special education is a state and federally mandated program for three and four year old children who are experiencing challenges in their learning and development and meet state eligibility criteria for special education and related services.
- Eligible children are entitled to a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. This is at no cost to the family.
- Every school district, some through a local Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), provides special education services to young children. Currently over 8000 children receive individualized special education services in preschool. (December 2014 data)
- Services are provided through school-based programs, community early childhood settings and/or Head Start programs.
Referrals of children with a suspected delay in development can be made to the local Child Find team where the family and child live. Learn more about Child Find.
Additional Information
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UK HealthCare has been a pioneer in transcatheter heart valve interventions for more than 25 years. Since performing the first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1984, our doctors have expanded the range of catheter-based repair to mitral, pulmonic and prosthetic valve diseases.
The UK Gill Heart & Vascular Institute continues to offer the most complete and most experienced transcatheter valve program in the region. Led by interventional cardiologist
John Gurley, MD, our heart valve team includes cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, advanced imaging specialists, cardiac anesthesiologists, nurse practitioners and care coordinators. The team performs TAVR and other minimally invasive heart valve procedures in a state-of-the-art hybrid
operating suite at the new UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.
cases, we use open-chest surgery to fix heart valve problems. But to get to the
heart, we have to cut through the tissue and bone. For some patients, this is
too risky. For them, TAVR may be an option.
new valve is collapsed inside a
tube. We thread the tube into the heart through an artery. To
place the new valve, we push a balloon
the tube.
is a treatment for A Fib (atrial fibrillation). A Fib is a
problem with the heart beat. It can cause blood clots. Blood thinners are often
used to treat it. If a patient cannot take blood thinners, LARIAT may be an
clots caused by A Fib come from the LAA (Left Atrial Appendage). The LAA is a
small sac that can be closed off. The LARIAT device lets us tie a suture shaped
like a lasso around the LAA. Two tubes are used to guide the lasso into place
and tie it off. This prevents stroke by keeping clots from leaving the LAA.
stands for patent foramen ovale.
This is when a child's heart has a hole that never closed. We fix this with an
implant that covers the hole.
tube goes into a vein and is threaded into the heart. Once the tube is in
place, we push the implant through the tube. The implant will expand and cover
the hole. The implant will stay in the heart for
the rest of the patient's life.
is a system from for bypassing blood flow. It can also remove blood clots and
blockages. Often, medicines can dissolve clots. If medicines do not work, we
may need to do open chest surgery. But for some patients, the AngioVac
may be a safer option. The tip of the tube is shaped like a funnel. This makes
it easier for blockages to enter the tube.
place two tubes in the patient's veins. Once they are in place, a machine
removes and filters the blood. It then returns the blood to the body.
Laura Daniel, CST
Micah Douglas, RN
Laura Daniel, CST
Micah Douglas, RN, BSN
Vicky Turner, ACNP-BC, APRN, CCRN
Fax: 859-257-6717
Gill Heart & Vascular Institute842 Rose St.Lexington KY 40536-0200
Call 859-323-0295
Directions to UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital - Pavilion G »Parking is available at the UK HealthCare Parking Garage (PS #8).
Appointments to the Structural Heart Program are most often requested by a referring physician. To request an appointment, complete this secure, online form »


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Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza
Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza is Taos' best located hotel for your vacation, business, meeting, and any other excuse for needing Taos lodging. Located conveniently 2 blocks South of historic Taos Plaza, most Guests leave their vehicle at the Inn and wander the historic district with 80+ galleries, 100 shops, five museums, restaurants galore, and other sites of interest. Most Guests find us about average in quality with some features few others offer. You will find our team of Associates friendlier than most and "tour guide" like in Guest service. Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza is a convenient, clean, comfortable, and affordable lodging choice for Taos.
Known by Guests for Location, Comfort, Quality, Service, Value!
John, Suzanne, and Stormy Slenes invite you to experience, explore, and enjoy Taos and Northern New Mexico and relax at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. Many folks have heard about or know they want to see and experience Taos and the Southwest, but wonder what to do when they arrive. Each Guest Service Associate is selected, trained, coached, and encouraged to be your "tour guide" to maximize your pleasure and time visiting the mountains, activities, cultures, museums, Taos Pueblo, history, and art of historic North Central New Mexico: the area surrounding Taos.
Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza mission statement: Provide our Guests the best lodging value in the Taos market through exceptional service, friendly hospitality, sharp housekeeping, Guest comfort, reasonable rates, and remarkable quality. We accomplish that by paying attention to Guest satisfaction, service, and quality in every Guest interaction, maintenance that exhibits pride, detail oriented, thorough, professional housekeeping, and having a team of thinking, service motivated, associates who maintain a Guest service focus.
As you enter the lobby, you're greeted by an exquisite hand carvered front desk with scenes of Taos Pueblo and one of the multitude of pueblo designed churches in Northern New Mexico. Winters, you'll be welcomed by our warm cozy lobby fireplace. Both locals and Guests are often found talking, reading, using their laptops, or relaxing in the spacious comfortable lobby.
Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza hotel offers tourists and travelers of all types lodging and accommodations surrounding a central park courtyard located on over 3 acres right in the heart of the downtown historic district of Taos, NM. From the moment you see our hand carved southwestern totems, you'll begin to appreciate your visit to Taos and stay at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. The hotel design is traditional southwestern pueblo architecture and has offered weary travelers friendly hospitality, a great night's sleep, and comfortable lodging since the early 1900's, something over 100 years. With the same ownership since 1975, we are the independent Inn you can rely upon!
Owner Slenes ancestoral property in Norway is roughly tranlated from "sleigh ness" to Slenes. That was a stopping point on the trails from the mountains to the shoreline. In other words, the Slenes's continue the family tradition of meeting travelers hospitality needs.
Our hotel service is known by Guests for: location, comfort, quality, service, value. The Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza is Taos' best located hotel lodging. 2 blocks South of historic Taos Plaza, most Guests leave their vehicle at the Inn and wander the historic district with 80+ galleries, 100 shops, five museums, restaurants galore, loads of nooks and crannies, and many other sites of interest.
Part of our claim to fame is affordable rates. We've held fairly constant in room rates over the last 6 or 7 yeqars in spite of significant operating cost increases. We have simplified our continental breakfast and removed a couple of little used ammenities so we can maintain our exceptionally reasonable rates. We'll beat ANY online rate quote you find by at least $5 - booking direct ALWAYS saves us both money (someone pays for all those TV ads you see)! Our direct toll free reservations phone is 1-800-444-2346.
ALERT - CAUTION - WARNING! To get best value and service, always make certain you are calling or accessing the hotel itself or it's website direct. Most 3rd party booking companies use pay per click with the hotel name included. They ALL cost us both of us big bucks. Our main website is www.IndianHillsInnTaosPlaza.com all one word - no dashes, no dots, not as a prefix, not as a sub domain of ANY other site. Our booking system uses a company called GenaresRedix or Synxis. We'll best ANY online travel site (other than ours) rate by $5 for direct bookings/calls to our 800 number or when you walk in! Ski you soon!
By the way, that advice applies to ALL of your travels. When you call the hotel front desk direct, most hotels will gladly work with you. Most hotels and most of the time they will gladly book DIRECT for you at a 5 to 10% savings to you (it also saves them a similar amount).
An integral part of your accommodations at Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza is we are your "tour guide". We are your travel - tourist directory for Taos and Northern New Mexico: Rafting, hiking, biking, golfing, hunting, fishing, skiing, nutrition, specials, coupons, art, shopping, health and wellness, and sight seeing are all yours from this site and Taos! With all those tourist and visitor ideas, you can build your own packages around Taos and Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza. We're your "Taos Lodging Connection" (c). If you need help finding something, email, ask on our Facebook page, or call us! We are here to earn your repeat visits and referrals.
Already write a review? Bring a copy of your review (from any online place) for a FREE upgrade or $5 discount. While many Guests tell us they enjoyed their stay and visit to Taos, they aren't the ones who invest the time to write reviews. FYI, less than 1/10th of 1% of our Guests have written reviews...and only about 1/3 of that tiny sample made somewhat negative comments or gave us less than 3.5 out of 5. Yes, we appreciate and need your thanks when our team does a good job!


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Oversight: Congress and some others in the media finally see the urgency in reining in Obama's rogue, out-of-control, unaccountable and secretive Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
This is something we have urged since its inception. In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act gave birth to what we have argued is the single most powerful and least accountable agency in Washington.
CFPB has the power to police virtually every financial transaction in the economy. Yet it holds its meetings in secret, has no inspector general and is funded outside the normal congressional budget process.
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee will take up 11 bills that would make the bureau more accountable and transparent to Americans.
According to TheHill.com, the GOP-sponsored bills on tap would change how the CFPB holds meetings, conducts research, collects data, examines banks and writes industry rules it enforces.
It's an understatement to say CFPB is drunk with the power it derived from the false narrative that "fat cat" bankers caused the financial crisis and deserve nonstop frisking from an army of credit cops. Consider a few of the things it's gotten away with over other federal agencies:
Its director, Richard Cordray, was installed to the post via a recess appointment and confirmed only after Senate Democrats killed filibuster rules so he and other radical Obama nods would be OK'd with a simply majority.
CFPB had bounced business owners, industry reps and even a member of the House banking panel from its secret meetings with "community advisers," who include radical civil-rights activists, Democrat operatives and trial lawyers.
Trial lawyers are invited in on private discussions with top officials about enforcement actions against banks also targeted in class-action lawsuits.
A large portion of more than $3.5 billion in fines collected from defendants has been funneled to community organizers.
CFPB has also been granting millions of dollars in federal funds to bank shakedown groups to gin up lending discrimination complaints.
CFPB officials have refused to testify at congressional hearings.
Cordray himself has snubbed several bipartisan requests for details about his opaque probes of banks for alleged lending discrimination, which are based solely on statistics following a dubious civil-rights theory known as "disparate impact."
The same simplistic statistical analysis reveals that Cordray and his senior staff have discriminated against blacks and Latinos in hiring and promotions, yet without any in-house watchdog, they've managed to duck responsibility for their own internal racial "disparities."
One bill would assign a much-needed inspector general for CFPB.
Another would require the agency follow federal sunshine laws and open its meetings to the public.
Yet another measure would mandate that excess funds collected from banks would got straight to the Treasury Department and not bank shakedown groups.
Democrats complain that Republicans are "trying to kill the CFPB by a death of a thousand cuts." Considering the agency should never have been created in the first place, that's kind.
As we predicted, CFPB has developed into one of the most powerful arms of government, yet it is the least transparent and accountable — and that's a very noxious mix indeed.


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Be swept away by the tranquility and grace of the Victorian Lace Room. With warm colors and queen size four-poster bed, this room tempts you to come and stay for a unique visit at this Bed and Breakfast. This room has a private bathroom with jetted garden tub.
Enjoy this magical room set off by the tranquility of the queen size four-poser bed, and private bathroom topped off with the jetted garden tub.


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OpenDNS wants to watch the web for you
OpenDNS is a new start up that wants users to redirect web traffic through its DNS nameservers, where an unusually large cache and an aggregated list of sites deemed guilty of phishing will make our web surfing faster and safer. It's free and as simple as changing your DNS address from your ISP and to OpenDNS, but a number of serious concerns about the service have already been… Read More
StumbleUpon now IE friendly
The wildly popular Firefox extension StumbleUpon released this morning a toolbar for Internet Explorer users. The service lets you browse around web sites that have been recommended by friends and other users with interests similar to your own. Users can also write reviews of sites. The end result is a very compelling user experience that's likely to explode now that it's… Read More
MoveDigital launches metered torrents, mobile streaming; John Edwards and Rocketboom among first customers
MoveDigital launched a pay-as-you-go digital media distribution service this morning that includes a very easy way to turn media into torrents and mobile streams. Senator John Edwards has announced that he will use both the company's torrent and mobile technologies in his "OneAmerica" tour. The videoblog RocketBoom will also use MoveDigital's service to distribute… Read More
iTunes video rental announcement foreseen
The blog that was sued over disclosing leaked information about the Mac Mini before its launch, ThinkSecret, reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce the availability of movie rentals on iTunes at next month's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Rental instead of purchase is the key issue here. The use of Digital Rights Management to limit how long a video file can be… Read More
ShopWiki announces $6.2m in funding
New York based ShopWiki is announcing $6.2 million in new funding today from VC firm Generation Partners. I wrote about ShopWiki at the end of last month and it's got an impressive feature set – including wiki style buying guides, user generated video reviews and a cool search by color function. The new financial backing will power a multi-year plan for international expansion… Read More
Digg to Add Sports, Swarm & Stack
Version 3 of Digg launched late last month with tweaks to the user interface, and new categories to expand Digg beyond technology news. The release, along with user stats that show massive growth, pushed Digg into the consciousness of mainstream Internet users for the first time. For more information on version 3 of Digg, listen to our podcast with the Digg founders, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson… Read More
Bix sees green in online contests
American Idol proved not just that we love watching the highs and lows of wannabe superstars, but that a surprising number of us wanted to be up there. It's these two factors that make Bix, a company enabling public and private contests online, think the service it's about to launch is a winner. When I first played around with the Beta site, I couldn't stop thinking it was… Read More
Got Herpes? Try Prescription4Love
Are niche dating sites viable? For some niches, they just may be. Prescription4Love.com is a dating site for people with diabetes, cancer, obesity, STDs and a variety of other chronic conditions. It's intended to be a safe space for people who risk serious embarrassment talking about their medical conditions with people who cannot relate. I think it's a great idea. The… Read More
YouTube serves 100m videos each day
The big news of the morning is that YouTube has announced it's hit 100 million videos served per day. Founded in early 2005, the company has raised at least $11.5 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital. It's one of many startups offering video sharing services, but for some reason now has an incredibly dominant position. This weekend's announcement said that 60%… Read More
New Yahoo Home Page Goes Live Today
Lots of Yahoo news today. In addition to the new Yahoo Finance site that launches later today, Yahoo is finally taking its new home page, previously in beta at yahoo.com/preview, live on the main yahoo.com site. The launch is U.S. only, other markets will follow shortly. We've all know this was coming for some time. Yahoo began testing the new home page with some users back in February. Read More
Yahoo Tweaks Finance
Yahoo Finance is launching a volley of tweaks to its Finance site tomorrow. The changes include the addition of interactive stock charts, improved message boards and business-related video clips from ABC.com, CNN.com, Forbes.com and SmartMoney. Yahoo will also be releasing a finance widget for websites, which we wrote about in mid-May. The changes are clearly in response to Google Finance… Read More
Feedburner Announces Acquisition of Blogbeat
Chicago-based RSS management company Feedburner is announcing the acquisition of Blogbeat on Monday. The deal will allow Feedburner to expand its reach with customers beyond RSS management. Details as Feedburner.com/blogbeat. We profiled Blogbeat in February. It is a blog analytics service similar to Measure Map (which was itself acquired by Google in February 2006). In a phone conversation… Read More
Salesforce announces upgrade, dev conference in October
Salesforce.com will undergo its seasonal Summer '06 upgrade on Monday and has released information for the first time about a developers component at their annual users conference. This year's Dreamforce conference will include a sub-conference October 9-11th for Web 2.0 developers interested in moving out of the consumer sector and into bringing applications to market for… Read More
Odeo Releases Twttr
Odeo released a new service today called Twttr, which is a sort of "group send" SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends. When any of them send a text message to "40404," all of his or her friends see the message via sms. This launched officially today, and a few select insiders were playing with the service at the Valleyschwag party in San… Read More
MyWhatSpace sends group messages in MySpace
I don't know if this violates the MySpace terms of service or not, I wouldn't be surprised, but it's cool. MyWhatSpace is a PC desktop app that lets you separate your MySpace friends into groups and send messages to all the members of any group at once. So I can send one message to college friends, one to family members, etc. This would be a very logical feature for MySpace… Read More
Earthlink Rolls out New Photo and Storage Service
Last week Earthlink released a free online RSS reader, and a social bookmarking site. Recently, word has leaked (Earthlink actually quietly announced this on their blog in June) that a much more ambitious project, called WebLife, is now live as well. WebLife is a combination of two services: photo management and sharing, and online storage/backup. The basic service allows 1 GB of storge and… Read More
Who-R-You Connects Email with Photo
German startup Who-R-You is a dead simple social network. It also may turn out to be one of the most straightforward online dating sites (although that it not its stated use). Go to the site, tell it your email address and add a picture of yourself. Confirm your email. Done. Visitors to the site can browse pictures, or type in an email address and see if a picture is associated with it. Read More
Multiply closes first funding round
Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company's founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible tag clouds, through a proximity filter with a slider. In other words, users determine whether they want to view information about people just on… Read More
Zooomr Being Courted
Rumors are circulating that controversial photo sharing site Zooomr, the creation of 18 year old Kristopher Tate, is in acquisition discussions with at least three possible acquirors, with discussions taking place in the $5 million range. I ran the rumor by one of the supposed bidders, who confirmed on the condition of anonymitity that they were in talks to acquire the company. They said… Read More
Skype Protocol Hacked
Reports are coming in from Asia that the Skype protocol has been hacked. If accurate, this means that users can access the Skype VOIP network without using the Skype client – calls could be made through third party software directly to and from Skype users. A Skype-compatible client may be available by the end of July. The reports are also suggesting that the new software will not… Read More
When Did Earthlink Get So Cool?
Earthlink doesn't conjure up images of cutting edge new web apps. In fact, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Earthlink is my old dial-up ISP account that took me forever to cancel. And on more than one occasion I've asked Steve Gillmor, who boasts Earthlink as a sponsor on his influential tech show Gillmor Gang, if any of his listeners (early adopter types) would… Read More
Technorati scores $7.6m more funding
Blog search engine Technorati raised an additional $7.6 million in Series C funding in June from previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital. The information has been picked up from a SEC document files by one of the investor's limited partners. Notably, August Capital, a previous investor, did not participate in this round. This news comes just after news of… Read More
Brand your life story with Dandelife
Dandelife is a fascinating new "social biography network" that launched its beta this week. Users tell their life stories with text, photos, videos and time lines. Part of the business model will be to license users' stories to corporations seeking case studies and brandable narratives. I feel very ambivalent about this. The company is lead by Kelly Abbot of marketing firm… Read More
Empressr, A Flash PowerPoint Competitor
A number of Ajax based powerpoint applications have launched in the past few month – notably Zoho Show and Thumbstacks (Thumbstacks also has a Flash option). Empressr, headquartered in New York, is the newest entrant into this space. It's a flash-based application with rudimentary features. Online office applications are serious business with real acquisition possibilities. Writely… Read More
IM interoperability: not just a dream anymore
Microsoft just announced that today marks the first day that interoperability between its IM client and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice is available. Microsoft says this is the first time two distinct, global consumer brands have made their IM clients interoperable. The combined user base of nearly 350 million accounts is the world's largest, the company says. IM interoperability took… Read More
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Amazon releases early info on S3 storage use
Just over three months ago Amazon made a major move beyond online retail with the launch of its S3 grid storage service. The company today released some information about the program's early progress. Online storage as a utility might seem unexciting to some, but it could be a real boon to innovation. S3 just passed 800 million discrete objects stored and has some interesting… Read More
KickApps social networking software launches
KickApps, a white label social networking software service, launched publicly today. Think of it as a way for any web site to add functionality similar to MySpace or YouTube. After looking at the way that the system works, I can say that KickApps looks strong on a technology level. While major media companies seem excited these days about buying social networking sites, this is a way they… Read More
Watch internet users' behaviour with ClickTale
Israel based ClickTale provides a new service that bridges an important gap in the land of online statistic services. The service is in private beta for now but should be releasing soon. Until then you can register for an invitation at ClickTale.com We had the chance to get an exclusive private preview. If you are a site owner, understanding your users is a primary concern to optimize the… Read More
NYTimes launches MyTimes, a weak RSS play
NYTimes.com has launched a limited beta of a personalized news site called MyTimes.com (screenshots via PaidContent), an RSS play that looks more like MyYahoo than it does the recent Newsgator partnerships with MyUSAToday and MyNewsweek. Unlike in those services, it does not appear that users can add sources from outside the recommended feeds to their MyTimes page. If that's the case… Read More


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text: On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Robert Kern wrote: > Arnd Baecker wrote: > > > Question: wouldn't it be possible to use > > `scipy.linalg` both for "scipy core" and for "scipy full"? > > > > When only "scipy core" is installed, > > scipy.linalg will just contain the basic routines, > > and use lapack_lite (and possibly no dotblas etc.). > > > > When also "scipy full" is installed, scipy.linalg will > > have the full glory of all the routines provided in present scipy. > > > > Technically the question is if there is > > a way to achieve this without "scipy full" overwriting > > files from "scipy core" (thinking of .deb/.rpm/... packages). > > > > Does this sound reasonable and feasible? > > Reasonable, yes. Feasible, not really, I don't think. At the moment, the > scipy_core versions are "physically" under scipy.basic. In > scipy/__init__.py, we have a block like this: > > import scipy.basic.fft as fftpack > import scipy.basic.linalg as linalg > import scipy.basic.random as random > > So "from scipy import linalg" should work even with scipy_core. I'm not > entirely sure if this is going to continue to work in the various > situations where you can't overwrite stuff, Would something like try: import scipy.THE_FULL_ONE.fft as fftpack import scipy.THE_FULL_ONE.linalg as linalg import scipy.THE_FULL_ONE.random as random except ImportError: import scipy.basic.fft as fftpack import scipy.basic.linalg as linalg import scipy.basic.random as random work? This assumes that the routines from `THE_FULL_ONE` are compatible with the `basic` ones. [...] Best, Arnd


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B.C. man arrested on Miami cruise
Published Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:27AM PDT
A Vancouver man was arrested on a cruise ship in Miami on several counts of conspiring to traffic marijuana and cocaine, in a case that has also resulted in charges against a Canadian border guard.
Charles Lai, 42, is facing up to life in prison and a $4-million fine after his arrest in Miami this week.
The arrest sprang from an investigation that began when two GMC Suburbans packed with cocaine were stopped last year on the U.S. side of the border, near the Pacific Highway Crossing.
"It was clearly a large amount of cocaine and a significant investigation for both countries," said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice, told CTV News.
Just after midnight on October 25, Canadian police swooped down on the two Suburbans, finding some $7-million worth of cocaine, as well as three handguns and ammunition in one of the vehicles.
Shminder Johal, 34, and Herman Riar, 26 of Richmond are facing four criminal charges after their arrest in Canada: importing cocaine, possession for the purpose of trafficking, conspiracy to import cocaine, and importing a restricted firearm.
Baljinder Kandola, a 35-year-old resident of Surrey and a border guard for six years, was also arrested.
Police said they believe someone arranged safe passage for the two trucks through the border crossing.
Police said they later found $200,000 in Johal's Richmond residence.
But investigators from Blaine and Seattle kept looking for Lai.
On March 20, a grand jury in Seattle indicted him for counts of conspiracy to export cocaine, conspiracy to import marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
The charges relate to activities over the past five years, investigators said.
When his cruise ship pulled into a Miami harbour over the weekend, investigators arrested him.
Lai is now being taken to Washington for arraignment on the indictment.
Conspiracy to export cocaine is punishable by 10 years to life in prison and a $4-million fine, while conspiracy to import marijuana is punishable by five to 40 years in prison and a $2-million fine.
Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is punishable by an additional consecutive five-year sentence on top of any other sentence, and a $250,000 fine.


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An effort to unionize state-subsidized child care providers remains in limbo after a second court hearing Wednesday in Ramsey County.
After hearing additional testimony in the lawsuit brought by unionization opponents, Judge Dale Lindman continued the temporary restraining that he issued in early December. Lindman took the case under advisement but did not indicate when he would rule.
The plaintiffs contend Gov. Mark Dayton exceeded his authority with an executive order that called for a statewide union vote among a specific group of child care providers.
The effort will continue regardless of the court case, said Jennifer Munt, a spokeswoman for AFSCME Council 5.
"We are not waiting for any judge or any right wing legislator to give us permission to advocate for kids, parents and child care providers," Munt said.
A plaintiff in the case said she's optimistic that a favorable court ruling will come soon.


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Lee Brice Responds to Fan's Twitter Slam
Lee Brice isn't afraid to stand up for himself, especially when someone says something untrue. The 'Drinking Class' singer recently replied on Twitter to an accusation that he says was completely false.
After Brice performed as the opening act on Luke Bryan's That's My Kind of Night Tour in Indianapolis, Ind., a concert attendee tweeted that he was disappointed in Brice's performance, alleging that he'd had had too much to drink — a claim that Brice quickly refuted.
@Miiiiiihm I had one drink. I take my job seriously. sorry if you got the wrong impression. Give me your adress I'll send your money back
— Lee Brice (@leebrice) August 31, 2014
@Miiiiiihm do the best I can every night. You hop up in front of twenty thousand and tell me how easy it is. Have a good night. Be safe.
— Lee Brice (@leebrice) August 31, 2014
The South Carolina native also chimed in that he leaves his wife and kids to do his job on the road, ending with, "Maybe think before you speak from now on."
Brice says that while he can let most things go, he finds it hard to stay quiet when the attacks are lies.
"If you say, 'Lee, you're fat, and your show sucked,' that's one thing," he tells CMT. "You can have your opinion. But to say that I was drunk onstage, when I pride myself on being professional, it's just slander. It burns me up.
"I'm usually very passive, but when you say something about me that isn't true, that's when I really get fired up," he adds. "If you're telling a lie about me, that affects me and everyone around me."
Brice's new album, 'I Don't Dance,' comes out today (Sept. 9). Order the record here.


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StoweAway Community Centre
The StoweAway Community Centre is an exciting new space at the heart of Swindon. The new centre gives us exciting opportunities to provide high quality, contemporary and cost effective facilities for a wide range of community and family activities.
We have designed the new centre with flexibility in mind - there are a number of different sized rooms available as well as the option to combine them to give even greater capacity. Whether you need a private meeting room for 20 or a large function room for a 130 person sit down meal or anything in between, take a look at our centre.
You can use this site to find out more about our rooms, equipment and the services we can offer and use the calendar to see where we have rooms available. You can also book rooms using our on-line booking system.
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ENGLEWOOD, FL - Despite improvements in the economy many pantries are still struggling to keep food on the table of local families. Monday at Englewood Helping Hand many of the shelves are bare. Volunteers stacking up what's coming in. They say the amount of people they're helping is staying about the same. The small pantry feeding around 13,000 local residents a year.
The big problem they say is giving is way down. Now receiving only about half of the donations they were receiving in 2009. Other Englewood area pantries who do similar work like David's Episcopal and St. Francis Catholic church dealing with similar situations as they all try to figure out why. "I don't know. Maybe people just have less to give. Englewood is very seasonal. The summer is rough for people. There is not as much work," says Helping Hand Administrator Aimee Kirvin.
Englewood Helping Hand also offers assistance for things like electric and water bills. If you would like to help donate food or money they're open Monday through Thursday off Dearborn street in Englewood.
Link here to Englewood Helping Hand.
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Johannesburg - One person died and 13 others were injured in a minibus taxi accident in Diepsloot on Monday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said.
One of the 13 was critically injured and the others sustained minor injuries, spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said.
"The injured were taken to various hospitals."
The taxi overturned on the R511, and the cause was unknown.
"Authorities are on scene investigating," he said. - Sapa


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Several options exist this summer for youth to participate in Vacation Bible School (VBS) at area churches. Many have registration deadlines but some may allow for last minute sign-up. Many programs are also looking for volunteers to successfully run their VBS programs. Contact each church or parish for specific details. The following details a list of some of those opportunities:
United Methodist, Osseo
JUNE 24, JULY 15 TO 18 — Area youngsters can now register for Osseo United Methodist Church's free Vacation Bible School (VBS) scheduled Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18, at the church, 16 Second Ave. S.E.
Registration forms have been sent to everyone who attended last year. Registration forms also are available by calling the church office at 425-2923 or downloading them from the church website at osseoumc.org.
Those youngsters registering by the Monday, June 24, deadline will receive a free t-shirt. Youngsters can still register up to the first day of events.
VBS is two programs running at the same time for your convenience, one for pre-schoolers and the other for school age children.
"God's Backyard Bible Camp Under the Sun" is this year's program for pre-schoolers (ages 3 by July 11 through kindergarten by this fall) and will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Preschoolers will experience worship, games, stories, snacks, missions and craft projects. The morning will be filled with fun and excitement as the children learn to serve their family, friends, neighbors, community and Jesus.
Children in grades one through fiv (this fall) will have their program from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Theme is "Faith Alive." The dynamic team from Luther Park Bible Camp of Danbury, Wis. again this year will lead the children.
With the help of senior high school student volunteers, children will be involved in Bible studies, arts and crafts, singing, recreation, worship and much more. The four days will focus on the Bible, worship, prayer, hospitality and service.
Each day students will need to bring their lunch and a water bottle clearly marked with their first and last name. An afternoon snack will be provided. Parents are asked to have their children wear sunscreen every day.
The final celebration will be for all children participating in both programs Thursday, July 11, at 7 p.m. at the church followed by a treat and by different activities including stations for food, yard games, crafts and mission projects to encourage spending time together as a family.
St. John the Baptist Catholic, Dayton
JUNE 25-27 — St. John the Baptist Catholic Church will host Vacation Bible School June 25 – 27 from 9 a.m.m to noon on June 25 & 26 and from 8 a.m. to noon on June 27 to include a special mass. The theme is Vatican Express. Open to children ages 4 through just completed 5th grade to register. Located at 18380 Columbus Street, Dayton.
Church of St. Stephen, Anoka
JULY 22-26 — St. Stephen's Vacation Bible School is a week long morning day camp for students who have completed 1 year of preschool to outgoing 4th graders. Each student is placed in a crew of 5-7 students with 4-5 year olds are grouped together and 6-11 year olds are grouped together. Each crew is lead around to each activity by a member of our M Squad or by a volunteer. We begin everyday in the School Gym at 9 a.m. with music and an intro. Throughout the day the kids do a series of activities. There will be games, crafts, a bible story, and a Saint story. The Bible story and the Saint story will be acted out for the students. Each day focuses on a different Bible story, and the activities are based on that story. There is also snack time in the middle of the day. We conclude with more music in the Gym at 11:30 a.m. and dismiss at noon.
The theme for this year is "Jesus loves me." Our goal is to teach the kids how they can have a relationship with Jesus, even at a young age. Registration fee includes a t-shirt for each registered child, bible memory wristbands, crafts, games, and snacks. Church of St. Stephen is located at 525 Jackson Street, Anoka. Contact Erica Prond at 763-712-7456.
Servant of Christ, Champlin
JULY 29-AUG. 2 — Vacation Bible School is Coming to Servant of Christ July 29 to Aug. 2 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Registration Fee: Prior to July 10 is $25 per child (max $50 per family). From July 10-19 cost is $35 per child (max $70 per family). The theme this year is "Kingdom Rock: Where Kids Stand Strong for God!"
The week will allow God's love to come to life for kids. It's just too much fun to miss. Registration deadline is July 19. Children 4 years old as of Jan 1, 2013 through 5th grade may participate. You can sign your child up by printing a form off from our website or filling out one in the Narthex. We are looking for lots of volunteers to join in for the week. Questions? Contact Anne Larsen.
United Methodist, Champlin
AUG. 4-8: Introducing PandaMania: Where God is Wild about You! Get ready to think pandas at this year's VBS. Mark your calendars: VBS will be August 4-8 from 6:15-8:15 p.m. The cost is $12 per child with a family max of $30. Scholarships are also available if needed. To register, call Rhonda Holtz or contact the church office at 763-421-7047. Early registration makes is easier for us to plan appropriately. Located at 921 Downs Road, Champlin.


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Broadcaster Sir Paul Holmes (62) has passed away at his home in Hawke's Bay, surrounded by friends and family. His family released a statement this morning.
"Sir Paul Holmes passed away peacefully early this morning surrounded by his family at home in Hawke's Bay, as he wished to be.
"Sir Paul had been in poor health since having heart surgery earlier in the year. In recent months, he had also been suffering from a resurgence of prostate cancer.
"More than just a broadcaster, Paul was a loving husband and father, as well as a generous friend. He loved people and people loved him.
"Lady Holmes, Millie, Rueben and Ken Holmes would like to thank the public for their incredible support."
For our full tribute to Sir Paul, see the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, on sale Sunday.
Journalist, author, columnist and consummate wordsmith Paul Little remembers the days when the radio and television personality had him - well, lost for words.
It has dominated his life for a year, left his wife a writer's widow and is about to cause a considerable stir with its hard-hitting search for the truth. Paul Holmes could not be more excited to talk
When Paul Holmes decided earlier this year to spend more time at his farm in Hastings, he couldn't have anticipated how grateful he would be for the extra hours he'd be sharing


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One fellow high school football coach once told Lincolnton�s Scott Cloninger that he�d know when the time is right for retirement. Another coach told him he should never retire.
The timing is different for every coach, but, for Cloninger, that moment has almost arrived as he announced Wednesday that he plans to retire Jan. 1 as head football coach, athletic director and teacher.
Cloninger, 57, will coach the Wolves for a 15th season this fall with one last chance to add to a resume that includes a 132-63 record, one state championship and three state title game appearances.
�I feel like the program�s in good shape financially and with athletes,� Cloninger said. �We�re not going to leave them high and dry. And I�ll be around. I�m not going to run off or hide or anything. I�ll still watch some games and be around.�
There is no timetable for announcing Cloninger�s successor.
Cloninger is looking forward to spending more time with his wife and two children, 10-year-old Kalee and 7-year-old Karson. He said he feels like a burden has been lifted off his shoulders with his decision.
�My health is good but there are a lot of nights I don�t sleep,� Cloninger said. �As a coach and athletic director, you worry about things.�
Still, he feels as if he�s been �living a dream.� A 1975 Lincolnton High School graduate who rushed for what was then a county record of 1,402 yards as a senior, Cloninger attended Western Carolina and returned to Lincolnton immediately upon graduation. He served as a Lincolnton football assistant coach from 1979 through 1999 under Von Ray Harris and Richard Smith before becoming head coach and athletic director prior to the 2000 season.
Cloninger is glad school officials didn�t initially know how much he loved his job because he would have worked for free. He still gets a thrill every time he walks onto the field right before a big game.
Speaking of big games, he�s experienced more of those than many of his peers. His 2007 team won the 2A state championship, his 2005 and 2011 squads finished state runner-up, and he�s won four conference championships (2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011).
Cloninger is the second-winningest coach in Lincolnton High School and county history, behind only Von Ray Harris, whose teams went 187-96-8 from 1959 to 1986.
All 14 of Cloninger�s teams have advanced to the state playoffs, where he�s the led the Wolves to a remarkable 28-13 record. Prior to his head coaching tenure, he was on the coaching staff when the Wolves made back-to-back state title appearances in 1993 and 1994, winning it in 1993.
�That�s the best team that I�ve ever been associated with,� Cloninger said of the 1993 group. �There have been some great teams at Lincolnton but that 1993 team had athletes everywhere.�
Cloninger informed his current players of his retirement decision right before the end of school, telling them, �Let�s go out with a bang.�
Cloninger�s final team will return 22-23 players from last year, when the Wolves went 9-5 overall, finished third in the Southern District 7 2A Athletic Conference at 5-2 and advanced to the third round of the 2A state playoffs. About six to seven starters should return on both sides of the ball, including highly recruited defensive end Darian Roseboro.
�I can promise you this, we�re going to work as hard as we ever have worked and try to keep everything rolling,� Cloninger said. �I think if things fall the right way, we ought to have a great season.�
Phillip Gardner: 704-869-1843; twitter.com/gazettephil


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Japanese Crane Courtship Dances
The Japanese crane, also known as the red-crowned crane, is one of the rarest cranes in the world. Adult cranes usually mate for life and these bonds are reinforced in a stunning courtship dance. Watch them perform their intricate courtship dances in this scene from EARTHFLIGHT: Asia and Australia.
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Apple has released Apple TV Software 2.0.2, adding a single new feature and a collection of unenumerated bug-fixes to Apple's set-top box.
The single noticeable change introduced by the 2.0.2 update is a Favorites entry within a Flickr contact. Previously, users could view a contact's publicly available photo streams; the update allows users to also view that person's favourite photos.
Possible evidence of bug-fixes are found in the Apple TV's response time. With version 2.0 and 2.0.1 of the software, the Apple TV could bog down while loading movie poster images or pulling together lists of movies, TV shows and music from shared computers. The device seems generally more responsive in these regards.
Those with Apple TVs can download and install the update by choosing Update Software from the General screen within the Settings entry. Over a 3 Megabits per second (Mbps) DSL broadband connection it took a Macworld US-owned Apple TV about 10 minutes to download the update. Installation (which, as before, can be performed at a time of the user's choosing) took another three or four minutes.


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A statement by the bloc received by IraqiNews.com cited "The
"After the expire of the contracts, the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ordered to redistribute this farm again but this order is not implemented yet," the statement added.
"This is a violation for the Article 76, 87 which obliges redistributing the farms occupied by the figures of the former regime," the statement concluded.
It is worth mentioning that The Secretary General of the White bloc, Jamal al-Batiekh called earlier the Federal Government to restore the lands confiscated by the assistants of the former regime to their original owners.


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Welcome to episode #196 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and Podcasters (both Jaffe Juice in audio and Jaffe Juice TV in video). He is the author of three excellent books (Life After The 30-Second Spot, Join The Conversation and the newly minted, Flip The Funnel). Along with that, he is currently one of the chiefs over at the Social Media Marketing agency, Powered. A long time friend (and one of the main inspirations behind the Six Pixels of Separation Blog and Podcast), we've decided to hold monthly conversations, debates and back-and-forths that will dive a little deeper into the Digital Marketing and Social Media landscape. This is our third conversation, and it focuses on location-aware Social Media and the new mobile stuff with a heavy emphasis on the current bright, shiny object, Foursquare. Enjoy the conversation...
Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #196 - Host: Mitch Joel.
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- Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
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- Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
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- Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
- In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
- Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available.
- Episode #28 of Media Hacks is coming soon and it features:
- Chris Brogan - New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
- C.C. Chapman - Managing The Gray - Campfire.
- Hugh McGuire - LibriVox - Bite-Sized Edits - The Book Oven.
- Christopher S. Penn - Blue Sky Factory - Marketing Over Coffee.
- Julien Smith - In Over Your Head - Co-author of Trust Agents.
- Just another Foursquare and location-aware debate with Joseph Jaffe.
- Jaffe Juice.
- Jaffe Juice TV.
- Life After The 30-Second Spot.
- Join The Conversation.
- Flip The Funnel.
- Crayon.
- Powered.
- Gowalla.
- David Usher - 'Kill The Lights'.
Please join the conversation by sending in questions, feedback and ways to improve Six Pixels Of Separation. Please let me know what you think or leave an audio comment at: +1 206-666-6056.
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Of Brothers: Poetry Inspired by the Life and Death of My Hero
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Sgt. Dan Patron was killed in action on August 6, 2011. He was my only brother. The raw emotions contained in this book are two years of reflection and pain. Of Brothers is my goodbye to my hero--words that will forever remain unsaid. Of Brothers contains adult themes and language and is not suitable for children.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Winkelman v. Parma City School DistrictI've updated a past post about the couple that was threatened with a fine because they went to court on behalf of their minor son without hiring a lawyer.
In short, the U.S. Supreme Court has now weighed in on behalf of the parents.
Says Tony Mauro, writing for Legal Times:
Parents do not need to hire lawyers to litigate public school special education disputes involving their children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.There's more. Read the rest here.
The 7-2 decision in Winkelman v. Parma City School District says parents have "independent, enforceable rights" in a free, appropriate education for their children under the Individuals With Disabilities Act. As a result, they can pursue those interests not just at the administrative appeal stage, but into federal court as well.
"It is not a novel proposition to say that parents have a recognized legal interest in the education and upbringing of their child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority, adding that "a parent of a child with a disability has a particular and personal interest" in pursuing equal opportunities for the child.
The opinion did not disturb the longstanding rule that pro se litigants can only represent themselves, not others. Kennedy said there was no need to rule on that issue because the Court was saying that parents, in pursuing these claims, are enforcing their own rights, not just the rights of their children.
The ruling came in the case of Jeff and Sandee Winkelman, who were dissatisfied by the educational plan devised by the Parma, Ohio school district for their son Jacob, who has autism spectrum disorder. When administrative appeals ended, Sandee Winkelman, a nurse, schooled herself in legal procedure and took the case to federal court. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled that parents could not litigate under IDEA, setting the stage for their high court appeal.
School districts, claiming that the cost of special ed litigation goes up when parents rather than lawyers are involved, fought against parental representation. In some cases, local bar groups have also complained that parents without lawyers were engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
But parents said the high cost of legal fees, as well as the dearth of lawyers willing to take on these often-complex lawsuits, made self-representation necessary...
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Inherited Disorders and Birth Defects
Genetic Disorders
I have two of my children that were born with the chromosome disorder of turner syndrome and I was wondering where I could go to have a chromosome analysis done to see if it was from me.
I would highly recommend that you talk to a geneticist or genetic counselor to discuss having a chromosome analysis done. They would be able to set that up for you and provide you with information about what the test is looking for as well as to tell you what the results mean. This would be especially important if you are planning on having more children in the future as well as helping you to understand what this means for your children and their futures.
You can locate a genetics center near you by going to the National Society of Genetic Counselors' Resource Center at the website listed below.
Anne Matthews, RN, PhD
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School of Medicine
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Good morning, readers, and happy Independence Day! Today is Friday, July 4, 2014. Weather in the Glendale area is expected to reach a high of 86 degrees and a low of 67.
Here's a roundup of headlines for today:
- Louis Zamperini -- the Olympic athlete turned World War II herowho was named grand marshal for the 2015 Rose Parade -- has died. He was 97.
- Activists opposed to one of the options under consideration for the completion of the 710 Freeway — a multibillion-dollar, 4.9-mile tunnel — have announced plans to march Friday in the annual Independence Day Festival of Balloons parade in South Pasadena.
- Glendale's City Attorney is reviewing the city's ban on living in vehicles, which advocates say unfairly targets the homeless, following a federal appellate court decision that struck down a similar ordinance in Los Angeles.
- Under mounting pressure to prevent the carnage in the San Gabriel Mountains gorge, Angeles National Forest officials are advancing a controversial plan to shut down Eaton Canyon above the first waterfall on Aug. 1, the Los Angeles Times reports.
- And finally, laws and safety tips regarding fireworks in Glendale and the Crescenta Valley area. Be safe and have fun, folks!
-- Sameea Kamal, email@example.com
Follow on Twitter: @SameeaKamal.