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Timmy Bertalan, 11, enjoys participating in races; especially crossing the finish line.
Timmy Bertalan, 11, enjoys participating in races; especially crossing the finish line.
Most recently, Timmy took part in the Gainesville Kid's Triathlon on Oct. 19, which included nine laps of swimming, 3 miles of biking and 1 mile of running—quite an accomplishment for the boy who just six weeks earlier had completed three years of chemotherapy in a race for his life.
According to doctors, he also handily won that one.
Now, Timmy is looking forward to his next challenge, participating in the annual Reindeer Run on Dec. 14 as part of the Ocala Christmas Parade. The race will be a Bertalan family affair, as Timmy's parents and other family members will run alongside him in celebration of his return to health.
Timmy was 8 when his parents learned he faced a battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL, a fast-growing cancer of a type of white blood cells called lymphocytes, is the most common leukemia in children under the age of 15, but can affect people of any age. Six-thousand new cases are diagnosed each year. Normal lymphocytes help a body fight infections. In ALL, the lymphocytes are cancerous and don't fight infections. The cancerous cells grow quickly and crowd out bone marrow, preventing it from making the normal red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets that the body needs.
"We moved to Ocala about three years ago from New York to help with my father-in-law, who had cancer," explained Elizabeth Bertalan, Timmy's mother. "Four months after moving here, we found out about Timmy's cancer and it turned us upside down. The prognosis was good and he did not need a bone marrow transplant. The first six months were difficult, intense. He was in the hospital. Then, at the maintenance phase, he took oral chemo every day. We went to Shands in Gainesville once a month to have blood counts checked."
Timmy said he experienced a lot of fatigue and his body ached a lot. He struggled with school work but since he is home-schooled by his mother, he had some flexibility.
"My mom had found out about the kids race that was coming up in October and I really wanted to be in it," he said. "Sept. 7 was my last day of chemo. I was feeling better and started training for it. Some people train for a year, I only had two months, and some days I couldn't do any training. I am really glad I went through it though."
Timmy had his chemo port removed early this month. He feels stronger, in a weird sort of way from everything he's been through, his mother said.
"The body is weaker, but it strengthens the person you are," she said.
Elizabeth and Timmy are training now by walking and running on their street, a circular block that is eight-tenths of a mile. They had been doing three loops, but now are up to four, which is about 3.2 miles.
"We are looking forward to my husband, Dominic, who is an Ocala police officer, our daughter Cassandra, my nephew J.C., possibly my brother, and my mother to join us in the run," Elizabeth said.
Timmy remembers many days when he was very sick but would set a goal in his mind and concentrate as he completed his treatment.
"The way I finished was to just push through and think of that goal. That is what I would say to other kids who are battling an illness, just push through and think of that goal," he said.
Bobby Herndon is race director for the Reindeer Run, which this year is sponsored by the Ocala Runners Club and Gateway Bank.
"Registration begins at 3 p.m. Dec. 14 at the bank, 1632 E. Silver Springs Blvd.," Herndon said. "There will be a free fun run for really small kids that begins at 4:35 p.m. They will run a few hundred yards; adult supervision is not necessary. Then, the 5K will begin at 4:40 p.m."
The Reindeer Run is open to those under 18 for an advance entry fee of $18; $20 for those older than 18. The fee the day of the event is $25. Proceeds from entry fees will support the Ocala Junior Runners Club and Ocala Runners Club.
"We have about 600 participants. This is the only race that I know of that takes place in front of a large audience," Herndon said.
A toy drive has been added this year and participants are asked to bring new unwrapped toys that will be distributed to needy children for the holiday season.
For more information about the Reindeer Run, contact Herndon at 804-7319 or email@example.com.
And if you attend, keep your eyes out for the Bertalan group, with Timmy likely leading the way.


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RiseSmart Bails On Dallas, Heads to Silicon Valley
RiseSmart, an online jobs site focused on helping jobseekers find their next job, has left the Dallas area as a result of finding a Series A funding. RiseSmart said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding from Norwest Venture Partners, but also said that it relocated to Sunnyvale, California as part of the funding. The firm said that it relocated to Silicon Valley a few months ago in anticipation of the funding, which came from a Bay Area venture capital firm.

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A new national census to be carried out starting April 28, will allow Tunisia to update its data on the country's population and households. According to Tunisiaonline, the last census took place in 1994. The Tunisian population was then 8.7 million. It is estimated today at some 10 million.
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Many workers nearing retirement experienced a dramatic decrease in their retirement assets due to the stock market downturn. In order to maintain their expected standard of living in retirement, workers will need to work longer, save more, or do both. To measure the response of older workers to this downturn, the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) fielded the CRR 2009 Retirement Survey on a nationally representative sample of 45-59-year-old labor force participants with relatively high pre-downturn assets.1 This brief is the third of four based on the CRR 2009 Retirement Survey. The first brief described the Survey and highlighted its unique financial, employment, and behavioral factors.2 The second brief explored the relationship between these factors and worker responses to the downturn.3 This brief examines how providing simple information about the trade-offs involved in responding to the downturn impacts the responses. This brief is organized as follows. The first section provides a brief overview of the initial responses – work more, save more, both, or neither. The second section describes how these responses changed once the trade-off between working longer, saving more, and consuming less in retirement was made explicit. The third section then explains the relationship between the initial responses and the more informed responses. The fourth section identifies the characteristics associated with respondents who changed their response. The final section concludes that providing simple information on trade-offs appears to have a surprisingly large impact on changing responses.
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After liposuction my stomach is huge with swelling and turned hardest than Play Doh. If you push on it and it indents. Is there something wrong. I'm worried of how hard the whole area is and how huge the hardened area is
Right After Liposuction My Stomach is Hard and Swollen, Is this Normal?
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Swollen Tummy Right After Liposuction Expected
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Swelling after abdominal liposuction
Yes, this is quite normal. The compression garment should minimize this, provided you wear it 24/7 for about a month. A word of caution- if this swelling becomes unbearably painful, you start experiencing fever/chills- call your PS immediately.
Expect for the swelling to migrate toward your lower limbs and even in your genitalia. All this is temporary and should clear in a few weeks. Once the swelling reaches your feet - elevation (propping feet up periodically) helps keep the swelling down and your shoes on! Hope this helps, Dr. H
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Expect some swelling after any type of liposuction.
After liposuction there will be swelling of the area worked on and this is normal. The swelling is caused by fluid in the tissues which is your body's normal response to a surgical injury. When you press your fingers into the tissue, the fluid is displaced temporarily and this is why there are dents. This swelling should gradually subside and as it does the firmness will disappear. This may take several weeks to months to fully resolve, so patience is needed. I recommend you could check in with your plastic surgeon, just to set your mind at ease.
Swelling after Liposuction
Thank you for your question. This is part of the healing process but if you have any questions or concerns, I would ask that you follow up with your surgeon. I ask my liposuction patients to wear a compression garment for 4 weeks post op surgery to help with the swelling. The swelling can take months to subside until you see the final results. Best Wishes!
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After Lipo My Stomach is Hard and Swollen, Is this Normal?Answer:
This is totally normal and gets better with time, compression and massage (I even have my patients use a rolling pin,tho many women don't have one of those anymore!). And don't be surprised if you continue to have some swelling noticed even three months later. You may still notice a little indentation from your belt even that far out from surgery..Give your results a good 6 months or more!!!
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- When the Atlanta Falcons last stepped off the field after a game seven months ago, it was last year's NFC divisional playoffs. Their run as the conference's top seed ended in disappointment at the Georgia Dome, with a 48-21 loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.
So with the long offseason that has followed, it was no time for the Falcons to get down on what is still a very talented offense. They just decided to to keep up with the Pack and the league's other premier passing games.
With quarterback Matt Ryan, wide receiver Roddy White, tight end Tony Gonzalez and running back Michael Turner, the Falcons maintain a successful, experienced nucleus. It makes sense then, the team turned to the draft to boost its offensive depth, versatility and youth with two rookies -- wide receiver Julio Jones and running back Jacquizz Rodgers.
When the Packers flew past the Falcons on the fast track in Atlanta, it was clear the home team needed to reinforce itself with a top-flight deep threat. So came the aggressive trade up with the Cleveland Browns to draft Jones sixth overall in April. For coach Mike Smith, it's already evident in training camp Jones was worth it.
"Julio Jones has the skill-set we anticipated he was going to have," Smith said. "What stands out most about him is his completive attitude -- he loves to compete."
And don't be fooled by the fact Rodgers was only a fifth-round pick and stands just 5-6. He filled the team's need for a change of pace, change of direction back who can also present matchup problems on shorter third-down routes.
"Jacquizz is not little. He's short," Smith said. "He's stout, he's thick, he's strong -- it's going to be fun to watch him over the next four weeks to see how he starts making plays both in the run and the passing game."
Considering it was already a challenge for opponents to tackle Turner and cover both White and Gonzalez, with Jones' downfield speed and Rodgers' open-field quickness, the 2011 Falcons have become a lot harder to defend.
White has embraced his role of a leader, offering his advice on "all the little crafty things," from how to get open at the right time, and when to show more patience. That will help the Falcons meet the goal of becoming a quicker-strike offense with Jones and Rodgers in the mix.
"You watch those young guys run around -- they're fast, they're quick," White said. "Last year, we were down at the bottom of the league in yards after the catch. This year it will be a whole lot different. Those guys can make people miss and get away from people.
"That's the biggest thing -- a lot more this year, we'll catch 5- or 6-yard passes and turn them into 20- and 30-yard gains."
White's direct effect on Jones will be drawing defensive backs away from him on the opposite side of the field, and allow the rookie to often showcase his perimeter speed against single coverage.
"He'll have a lot of chances to make explosive plays, especially early in the season," White said. "He does a lot of things naturally that you don't have to teach him. He understands route-running, which is difficult to do at a young age. He came in and picked it up fast."
That has put Jones in position to contribute early, in however the Falcons use him, and in turn, help White and Gonzalez's production.
"I'm going to take what they give me, and we're going to take what they give us as an offense," Jones said. "If they double Roddy, and I have one-on-one, they'll probably come to me. If I start to get attention and Roddy gets attention as well with a safety and a corner, we've got Tony. "
The man in charge of speeding up Jones and Rodgers' early NFL development is Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey and he isn't holding back.
"We have walkthroughs, we have talkthroughs. There's a lot more quizzing players on their responsibilities, on everything, so they have to be on their toes." Mularkey said.
Although he's already seen just how much they can offer as rookies, Mularkey knows both players need a lot of work to get where they need to be coming out of a abbreviated offseason.
"Obviously he's got the size, the speed, the strength -- he just has to get the offense," Mularkey said of Jones. "He's little bit ahead because we got him the (play)book before locking him out again, but he still has a ways to go."
As for Rodgers, it may take him a little more time to get settled, but Mularkey expects to soon see him show some flashes at full speed in preseason game action.
"One thing I've seen is his great vision," Mularkey said. There's not a lot of big holes in the NFL that he can hit. He sees them and hits them, and has good feet."
Jones and Rodgers give Mularkey a good problem to have as a play-caller -- how to best incorporate all his options for '11 to stay a step ahead of counterpunching coordinators.
"We don't try to focus on one guy or another, because defenses will basically tell us who's going to get the ball when the ball is snapped," Mularkey said. "We'll have a plan where everyone will get a chance to be a factor in the game."
It's good Jones and Rodgers learn as fast as they can run, because they will both need to be big factors for the Falcons to get to the perch the Packers currently occupy.
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Military tries to shape policy on women's armor
It has been more than 30 years since women became full members of the Army and the Navy, and the military continues to wrestle with this indisputable fact: Women's bodies differ from men's. More than 10,000 American women in uniform are in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones, and the Army and Air Force are trying to come up with body armor that accounts for women's "torso curves," according to the Army's news service. The Army is developing unisex designs while the Air Force is investigating "female-specific geometries," the report said. And, the Army says, new helmets that can accommodate the hair buns worn by many women soldiers will be available this summer.
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These tacos can make you roar
A Tucson, Ariz., restaurant already has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo, rattlesnake and turtle. What's next? Lion meat. Boca Tacos y Tequila is accepting prepaid orders for African lion tacos, to be served starting Feb. 16. Orders must be placed by Feb. 7, and owner Bryan Mazon says there are already a few reservations. Mazon's restaurant offers exotic tacos on its menu every Wednesday and has tried "just about anything we can get our hands on." The lion tacos will cost $8.75 apiece. According to the Food and Drug Administration, game meat can be sold as long as the species isn't endangered.
No-smell test
Jeans stay clean as they can get
A student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton wore the same pair of jeans daily for 15 months without washing them. Josh Le, 20, bought the denims in September 2009 and wore them daily — and sometimes slept in them — until December 2010. He used paper towels and napkins to dab away food spills and, minus the jeans, got into the shower regularly. Every two weeks he put the jeans in a freezer overnight and there never was a trace of odor. After 15 months, Le and assistant human ecology professor Rachel McQueen ran tests on the pants and found bacteria levels were the same as any other samples.
Civil War bang
Museum recovers $50,000 revolver
A Civil War revolver that was stolen more than 30 years ago from the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., has turned up again. Collections manager Catherine Wright told WTVR-TV that the .36-caliber Spiller & Burr revolver was stolen in 1975 when the museum collection was moved to a new building. A woman in Knoxville, Tenn., discovered the gun in December in her late father's belongings. The Spiller & Burr revolver was one of the first Confederate-manufactured handguns. This one is valued at $50,000.
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My true passion for weapons systems belongs with long-range precision rifles. My time as sniper within the 75th Ranger Regiment, I favored the .300 Win Mag, although I mainly operated with the .308 SR-25 due to the rapid engagements in a target rich environment. When it came to putting rounds on target anywhere from 800-1250 yards, no questions asked, the .300 Win Mag was the go to cartridge of choice. The .300 Win Mags we used while on deployments were on the Accuracy International chassis (bolt-action) and did the job, the only issue was that when servicing multiple targets at various ranges, the bolt-action didn't compare to the speed of the SR-25 semi-auto, if it had, trust me, I would have taken it out more often. Well now, introducing the world's first AR platform .300 Win Mag. NEMO's OMEN .300 Win Mag has given us the SR's semi auto speed with the .300 accuracy!
I had an awesome time shooting the OMEN last month with a few Special Operations snipers here in Texas and had a blast to say the least. Having this being my first time operating the weapon, I really appreciated the fact that the weapons system operated just like an AR, the platform is the same.
Typically what I find with AR platform precision rifles is the decrease in MOA accuracy (-.5 to -1.0) when compared to a bolt due to the upper/lower separation, gas release, etc. The OMEN claims a .5 MOA accuracy out of the box, I can personally attest to their claim, we managed to squeeze out .43 MOA using .300 Sierra Match King 190 grain HPBT, very accurate.
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SHOPPERS and traders in Stourbridge have been given a boost after extra free on-street car parking was created in the town centre.
Dudley Council has introduced 25 spaces on the right hand side of Lower High Street by replacing the existing parallel parking area – which provided space for up to 15 cars - with angled bays.
Transport boss, Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, said: "This will take the total on-street free car parking in the Lower High Street to around 70 spaces so we're confident this common sense move will be welcomed by all."
Councillor Pete Lowe, Dudley's deputy leader, added: "We pride ourselves on the fact that we don't charge motorists for parking on our roads. And on top of this, we are always open to ideas about ways that we can increase and maximise the free on-street car parking we can provide.
"All councillors in Stourbridge have been involved in looking to create more free on-street car parking for the town. We are always looking at ways to support local businesses and we're confident this will be welcomed by shoppers who use the town."
Motorists can park for one hour, free of charge throughout High Street, Lower High Street and Market Street in Stourbridge, in addition to three hours free parking on offer at the 550-space Tesco car park in the town.
Some traders in Lower High Street had asked the council to consider increasing the on-street waiting time to up to three hours but a survey conducted by David Harcourt, president of the Stourbridge and District Chamber of Trade, showed that the majority of shop owners were happy to continue with the one-hour limit.


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DreamWorks Posts $12.3M Profit, 73% Drop from Last Year
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. reported a .3 million profit for the financial quarter that ended on March 31, 2006, representing a 73% drop from the same quarter a year ago. The profit was largely driven by home video sales of Madagascar, with no revenue generated by Shrek 2 or Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
In the conference call with Wall Street analysts after the close of the stock market, the studio stated that almost all of its income this year will come from its upcoming animated film Over the Hedge, although its distribution deal with Paramount may result in DreamWorks not receiving any revenue from the movie until its home video release.


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Ana Maria Jansen
Ana Maria Jansen was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1945. She received the medical veterinary degree from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in 1970 and the Ph.D. degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Since 1981, she has been a Researcher at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Presently, she is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Laboratory of Biology of Trypanosomatids. She is mainly interested in the biology and ecology of the transmission cycles of T. cruzi, T. evansi, and Leishmania in the wild environment and in the peculiarities of the interaction of T. cruzi with its wild mammal hosts and vectors. Currently, she is studying the hosts and vectors involved in the outbreaks of acute Chagas disease in the amazon region.
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Cash-out Refinance Program: Details
With the cash-out refinancing program, you can refinance your current loan, whether it's a VA-guaranteed mortgage or not.
Usually, the new loan is limited to 90% of the appraised value of the house. There are a few exceptions.
General Program Requirements
Persons who may qualify for these refinancing loans include:
- Veterans (including Reserve and National Guard members who were called to active duty)
- Active duty service members
- Current Reserve and Guard members (usually after 6 years of reserve service)
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Commissioned Officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are considered to be active duty members and veterans, once discharged.
Veterans must have been discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.
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Contact a lender to discuss qualifying for a VA loan. The lender will make sure you meet basic program requirements, including the following:
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- The loan must be for the home you will live in.
- You must also have a good credit history.
You may also want to use the VA Home Loan website as a reference point on how to use the program or find answers to other questions you may have about the program.
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BROOKSVILLE — Music and movement turn on the 3- to 5-year-old set. And at Mr. Armadillo's Backyard, which offers a stimulating day of organized activities in a spacious indoor studio, youngsters have so much fun they don't even realize they're building brain power and establishing a base for life skills learning.
Brenda Parish — owner, teacher and leader of the educational play studio — utilizes the German-developed Kindermusik curriculum, for which she has earned certification. It is specific to children from birth to 7 years.
Some 15 to 20 youngsters bound into the facility every weekday, from 9 a.m. to noon, to make joyful music and scamper about like wind-up toys. The youngest participant is still at fast crawl.
For the first hour, play is free range. Kids dig into the music box and extract maracas, a toy piano, xylophone, castanets, a tambourine and jingling bells. When one toy is discarded, another child picks it up, or trades.
"Sharing is a huge thing at this age," Parish said. "That's the first step in socialization."
Cognition takes place, a child recognizing the sound that each musical instrument emits and how to produce it: by fingering keys, plying drumsticks, punching buttons. Cognizance has been proven to help with math skills later on, Parish noted.
After the kids acquaint themselves — not the same ones attend every day — Parish takes the floor with planned play. She commands their attention. That's part of the curriculum she calls "active focused listening, which stirs observation."
And there's the physical side, with cross-coordination moves orchestrated. While a 3-year-old hardly can be held down, his or her energy can be channeled, at which Parish excels, herself a bundle of energy at age 35.
When Parish announced, "Ladybug drums," the youngsters squealed in delight. Each received a small drum, emblazoned with a ladybug, hung on a strap around the neck, and two miniature drumsticks.
"I want to hear tapping," Parish said.
She hardly needed to encourage. Kids like to make noise.
"Can you get louder?"
Clatter, clatter, clatter.
"Try soft tapping, slowly, 1-2-3-4."
Then, taped music was added and a parade commanded. Marching to the instructions of "1-2, 1-2," the kids likely didn't realize they were learning to count.
The parade ended, and the children were directed to deposit their drums in a big net bag. The subliminal message: Put your things away.
"Are we ready to dust?" Parish inquired with a smile most home keepers don't share for such a chore. The kids yelled, "Yeah." She distributed pieces of fabric netting, mentioning each color as she handed them out. The background music flowed with a tune of "Dust, dust, dust."
As the kids approached the clean, cushioned walls, Parish added: "Dust up high; now dust down low." They reveled in the activity.
The leader kneeled on the multicolored, spongy floor. "Scrub, scrub, scrub," she encouraged. "Scrub a green square; scrub a blue square." The kids took on the job with enthusiasm.
Not only were they learning to help at home, but their colors as well.
For the next structured activity, Parish told her brood, "Let's go into the kitchen."
That was a makeshift center circle in the studio.
"Let's pretend to be toast."
Kids hunkered down.
"Wait. It's going to get hot. Wait until it pops. Wait, wait, wait."
Little did the children realize it was a rest period. Finally, "It's going to pop," she predicted. "Pop up!" And the children jumped.
Mr. Armadillo's Backyard, portrayed in wall artwork with an armadillo centerpiece, offers more than morning playtime, which caters, Parish said, to "people who are looking for reliable kids to play with."
Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles participate from the sidelines.
Mother Kimberly Johns of Spring Hill helped her daughter, Georgia, 3, negotiate the slide during free play while keeping an eye on 9-month-old son Kaleb, crawling the floor on knees.
Carrie Hopkins of Spring Hill steadied a xylophone on her knees when 2-year-old daughter Elizabeth proceeded to bounce notes for her mother.
"It's a hands-on place for children and their caregivers," said Parish, who launched the venue two years ago. "Sometimes the park isn't the answer. In the studio they can run; parents can feel it's a haven."
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WHEN Bill Lilley opened the doors of his car dealership in Crawford Street for the first time on September 1, 1977, he had no idea how long the venture would last.
He'd run service stations and repair shops in Queanbeyan before, but Bill Lilley Chrysler -as the dealership was called then- was his first foray into the world of sales.Nor was he the only new car dealership in town.
"In those days all the major manufacturers were represented here in Queanbeyan. They've all since pulled back and let their Canberra dealerships handle it, and for many years there we became the only new car dealer here in Queanbeyan," he said.
In September this year the Bill Lilley Mitsubishi dealership celebrated 35 years in Queanbeyan, the town Mr Lilley has called home since he moved here from Geelong as a three-year-old.
The business sells and repairs both new and used cars, and is also the regional dealer for Proton and Mahindra cars as well as Mitsubishi.
35 years is a long time in business by any reckoning, and there were times when Mr Lilley considered following a lot of other dealerships across the border.
"A friend of mine in the industry said it like this: that you've got to make your mind up whether you want to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond," Mr Lilley said.
"And you get to a certain level where you're catering to the market, and that's what we've done," he said.
What kept him in Queanbeyan, ultimately, was that he liked the town and it's people, and felt he'd be able to offer a more tailored and personal service to his customers as a medium-sized dealer.
"If you want to talk about this dealership compared to some of the bigger Canberra dealers, there's quite a difference," Mr Lilley said.
"We're smaller and more flexible. We can take care of the customer from go to woe, whereas the bigger shops pass you between departments.
"I don't like the word boutique, but we exist because a lot of people don't like the bigger stores all that much. It's more personal here and you get to know people over the long term. Customers get comfortable with us and know what to expect," he said.
Some customers have been buying their cars at Bill Lilley Mitsubishi for as long as it's been open, which is one of the great rewards of the business, Mr Lilley said.
"I had a fellow come in to pick up a Pajero the other day, and I said 'this must be your sixth [car] now from us.' It was his seventh. That's a thirty-year relationship.
"That's the customer for life if you like, and that's the big reward. But this game is very competitive and tough. You can't get those multiple sales if you're not getting it right the first time. Loyalty cuts both ways," he said.
As for the secret of his business longevity, he said the right staff and attitude was just as important as the accounting and cash flow side of the business.
"You've got to have the right people and you've got to have the right attitude, which means you've got to be in it for the long run, and look after your customers. Those are the critical factors in any business. The rest is just mechanics. You can have the best systems available, but if you're not getting the customer things rights, it's all for nothing," he said.
When he's not at his Crawford St dealership, Mr Lilley likes to get out to his Urila property, just south of Googong, where his first-cross wagyu beef cattle are currently calving.
But he says he'll still be based out of Queanbeyan in the years ahead.
"Queanbeyan has been very good to me, and you can't get a better place to live with all the facilities we enjoy here. It's a nice town," Mr Lilley said.


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Jose Hernandez
Staff Writer
Donna Bentley presented the essence of her new research in a lecture for students and faculty, concerning the implementation of tutorials for students' research on Monday in the Presidents Dining Room.
Given the nature of her lecture, titled "Designing Web-Based Tutorials to Enhance Students' Research Skills," Bentley engaged with the audience during her lecture, creating an interactive environment between her and the audience.
"I was on sabbatical last spring and this is the research project I chose to do," said Bentley, reference-access services librarian and professor.
Bentley spoke about the creation of learning objects and embedding the objects on Web sites or other technological media, then creating screencasts – digital recordings of computer screen output – to guide students through the research process in a new way.
"This method would be a lot more helpful than just searching through the Web sites, especially if you're more of a visual learner," Justin Olin, sophomore computer science major, said.
Bentley's research project, which began in February 2009 and ended in the summer, strived to find ways to meet the specific researching needs of all students, which helps enhance her job as a librarian.
"I work with students in Organizational Leadership, but creating things on how to do research can help psychology students, those in master's programs and even new freshmen," Bentley said. The lecture touched on the future of education, with technology becoming more integral in our daily lives and the rise of electronically-based student resources.
"Scholarly information has been based on published books and texts, but that physical form is, in fact, moving away," Bentley said. "You can distribute it faster electronically and it can be freely accessible rather than going through expensive publishing fees."
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Al Clark is excited about this approach.
"Few of us can keep up with the advances because we're moving so quickly. The exciting part is that the students, know better how to use it, yet I'm supposed to teach you," Clark said.
"I know people who have trouble looking for articles for research and some faculty members don't know how to explain either, so now they would just look at the tutorials and learn off of the Web site," Olin said.
With information steadily available at all times, especially through mobile devices, Bentley believes that students need to become more sophisticated when they obtain their information.
"The important thing is for students to know who is a credible, authoritative source. We need to become information and media literate," Bentley said.
Jose Hernandez can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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(Weight Watchers Friendly Crock Pot Cooking, Day 14)
Here's a perfect recipe for Meatless Mondays: Slow Cooker Spinach Lasagna.
Yes, you can make lasagna in the slow cooker.
Every time I make lasagna I think of my dad. He wasn't a very adventurous eater, but he liked lasagna.
(I love how I can feel closer to him when I cook and/or eat his favorite foods. Food has such a power to connect us.)
I adapted this slow cooker spinach lasagna recipe slightly from Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker.
I added drained and squeezed dry chopped spinach.
And used cottage cheese instead of ricotta. Like my mom always did when we were growing up.
Mom gave this slow cooker spinach lasagna an enthusiastic thumbs up.
Rod ate it without complaint. (Rod never complains about what I cook. Am I lucky or what?) But it wasn't a favorite. He's not really a red sauce guy.
So, next time I think I'll make this slow cooker spinach lasagna with an alfredo sauce, which will make him much happier.
- 4-1/2 cups fat free, meatless spaghetti sauce
- ½ cup water
- 10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, defrosted, drained and squeezed dry
- 2 cups (16 ounces) non fat cottage cheese
- 2 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, divided
- ¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 8 ounces oven-ready lasagna noodles
- In a large bowl, stir together the spaghetti sauce and water.
- Make sure your spinach is as dry as possible.
- In another bowl, mix together the spinach, cottage cheese, 1-1/2 cups of the mozzarella cheese, ¼ cup of the Parmesan cheese, egg, Italian seasoning and garlic powder, until well blended.
- Spray your Crock Pot with nonstick cooking spray. (I used my 4-quart CrockPot. The recipe says to use a 4- or 5-quart.)
- Spread ¼ of the sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker. Top with ⅓ of the noodles, breaking them to fit.
- Spread the noodles with ⅓ of the spinach and cheese mixture, making sure the noodles are covered.
- Repeat the layers two more times.
- Spread your slow cooker spinach lasagna with the remaining sauce.
- Cover and Cook on LOW 4 to 5 hours. Sprinkle with remaining ½ cup mozzarella and ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheeses. Cover and let stand 10 minutes to allow the cheese to melt.
Source: Slightly adapted from Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker
*PointsPlus® for slow cooker spinach lasagna calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc.
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MOUNTAINS of paperwork. That was one of the problems Suzanne Swaine faced in the weeks after Sept. 11. Her husband, John F. Swaine, a vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald, was killed in the terrorist attacks, along with her brother, John A. Reo. She is now left to manage the family finances.
''It's a nightmare,'' said Mrs. Swaine, 37, who lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with her three daughters. ''I had a little bit of a panic attack the other night because it's so overwhelming.''
Kim Barbaro shares her feelings: her home in Holmdel, N.J., is overflowing with financial papers. Her husband, Paul, 35, a software engineer for the eSpeed division of Cantor Fitzgerald who also died at 1 World Trade Center, used to take care of the family's finances.
''I have a pile of all our tax information, and I'm just waiting to hear what to do with it,'' said Mrs. Barbaro, 35, the mother of two boys. ''I'm very concerned about it.''
She added that she was planning to gather all the papers and take them to an accountant. ''I'm sure everybody's in the same position,'' she said.Continue reading the main story
Many people -- especially those whose spouses took care of money matters -- were left picking up the financial pieces after Sept. 11.
With tax season upon them, they are feeling added stress. Not that help is unavailable. Mrs. Swaine, for example, went to both a financial adviser and a lawyer after her husband died, and she is looking for an accountant; Mrs. Barbaro's brother is helping her with her claims.
To help spouses cope with the paperwork, some tax consultants are offering their services pro bono. Richard A. Eisner & Company, certified public accountants in Manhattan, has a hot line, (212) 891-6081, or families may send questions by e-mail to email@example.com. Tax partners at BDO Seidman offer tax tips and information about disaster relief at www.bdo.com/about /newsevents/news/taxrelief.asp.
Still, many survivors find taxes difficult to understand, especially now that the Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act has been signed into law by President Bush. The legislation extends to the families of victims of the attacks the tax benefits available to families of military personnel who die while on active duty, as well as victims of other events declared as disasters by the president, including fires, floods, snowstorms and earthquakes. The law covers victims of the Sept. 11 and anthrax attacks and of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
The law provides some relief from estate and income taxes for victims of the terrorist attacks. Jim Seidel, a tax lawyer and editor at RIA in Manhattan, noted, however, that the relief is only for the income of the deceased, not for the income of the surviving spouse.
It also excludes from taxation employer-provided death benefits, cancellation of debt and disaster relief payments ''and gives the I.R.S. additional authority to postpone deadlines and increases the personal exemption for disability trusts, among other provisions,'' Mr. Seidel explained.
The benefits are significant. The law provides a minimum of $10,000 for victims of the attacks. This is true even for families of victims who owed little or no income tax. ''Those who owe less than $10,000 also qualify for a full $10,000 refund,'' he added.
The deadlines for filing claims have also been extended. Families of those killed in Oklahoma City, for example, may file amended tax returns for 1994 and 1995 until Jan. 23, 2003. Victims of Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks have until April 15, 2004, to file theirs.
Any payments made by a charity, assuming that it qualifies under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, to victims of these attacks are free of tax under the new law, provided that they are ''distributed in good faith using a reasonable and objective formula which is consistently applied,'' said Jeffrey L. Wechsler, a lawyer and certified public accountant in Manhattan.
So far, Mrs. Swaine has received money from several different groups, including the Red Cross in New York and the New York State Crime Victims Board as well as five checks from Cantor Fitzgerald, which has set up relief funds. ''They've been amazing,'' she said. None of these funds are taxed.
The new law also protects the first $8.5 million of a person's estate from federal estate tax and the first $3 million from state estate tax, said Randi Schuster, a tax consultant at BDO Seidman.
''The way the law is worded, you get tax relief for the year in which the death occurred and for any earlier tax year in the period beginning the year in which the injury occurred,'' she said.
''So, if a husband died in 2001, his family gets relief in 2000 and 2001,'' she added, so that in general no income tax would be owed on his earnings for those two years. ''You'd have to amend returns for 2000 and file for a refund; the I.R.S. is issuing guidance for how this should be done. But if you were injured in 2001 and die in 2002, they would have income tax relief for 2001 and 2002.''
For disasters, tax laws also allow individuals or businesses to choose whether to claim their casualty losses on the tax return for the year of the disaster or the previous year. In some situations, the government will extend filing deadlines. Victims of the Cerro Grande wildfire in New Mexico in May 2000, for example, were given an extra nine months to file and pay federal taxes. People living in the 21 counties of the fire disaster area were given until Jan. 16, 2002, to file and pay their income taxes for 2000, without interest or penalty.
Life insurance proceeds are generally free of income tax for all beneficiaries. In some instances, though, they could be subject to estate taxes, depending on the size of the estate, Mr. Wechsler said. But if another person or an irrevocable insurance trust owned the policy, it might not be included in the person's estate. If the life insurance proceeds are payable to the surviving spouse, there is no estate tax liability.
Mrs. Swaine said she had to hire an estate lawyer and file an estate tax return.
''We received money from my husband's estate; it had to go through probate court,'' she said. ''Thank God we had a will.''
IF all the new rules and variations sound confusing, they are. The Internal Revenue Service has a special a toll-free number, 866 562-5227, to answer tax questions specifically related to Sept. 11. A Web site, http://thomas.loc.gov, operated by the Library of Congress, also provides information. (Insert HR2884 as the bill number.)
Tax forms and publications are available through the I.R.S. Web site, www.irs.gov, or by calling 800 829-3676. Publication 547 covers casualties, disasters and thefts, while Publication 584 is a personal-loss workbook for those affected. Local I.R.S. offices have information on whether the president has declared a specific site as part of a disaster area.
But it is probably best to get some professional assistance, as Mrs. Swaine has done.
''My husband did well, and he had life insurance, thank God,'' she said. ''Just before this happened he paid off the house. One of the first things I found after he died was a letter of congratulations from the bank. He put me in a great position. I feel his strength with me every day.'' She sighed. ''There's no other way to get out of bed in the morning.''Continue reading the main story


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Autologous CAR-T Cell Manufacturing: Current Standing and Future Directions
A Look at What Drug Manufacturers are Likely Using to Make CAR-T Products
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Phase III Success for Boehringer Ingelheim Asthma Drug
Boehringer Ingelheim said today its once-daily asthma drug tiotropium, delivered via Respimat® Soft Mist™ Inhaler, produced favorable Phase III results by increasing the time to first severe exacerbation, and time to first episode of asthma worsening across a broad spectrum of symptomatic patients receiving standard care treatments.
Those increases were in comparison to placebo in asthma patients receiving standard care of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and long-acting β2-agonists (LABA) therapy, and were independent of age, allergic status, smoking status, and bronchodilator response, BI said.
BI presented preliminary results based on preplanned subgroup analyses of data from the PrimoTinA-asthma™ Phase III studies at the American Thoracic Society Congress in Philadelphia.
"These results are extremely encouraging as we continue to investigate tiotropium as a potential treatment for asthma," Richard Russell, Ph.D., FRCP, consultant chest physician at the U.K.'s Wexham Park Hospital, and a U.K.-based investigator in PrimoTinA-asthma. "There remains a significant number of asthma patients who continue to be symptomatic despite available therapeutic options. The results suggest tiotropium may be an efficacious treatment option for patients."
During BI's presentation, Professor David Halpin, D.Phil., consultant in respiratory medicine at the U.K.'s Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, said patients enrolled in PrimoTinA-asthma were reasonably certain to have had asthma and not COPD, based on age of onset, duration of symptoms, smoking status, allergic status, and bronchodilator response. Tiotropium has been shown effective in COPD patients with concomitant features of asthma.
PrimoTinA-asthma consisted of two parallel-group trials including asthma patients ages 18 to 75, with a five-plus-year history of asthma diagnosed before age 40; and life-long nonsmokers or ex-smokers who consumed less than one pack of cigarettes daily for 10 years, then quit smoking one or more years before study enrollment.
Over 48 weeks, 456 patients were randomized to tiotropium Respimat, while an equal number received placebo. Patients were allowed additional background therapy including theophylline, anti-allergic agents, stable systemic steroids, and omalizumab.
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text: Show Hide image 15 November 2012 The Ghost Stories of E Nesbit Victorian Gothic. Sign up for our weekly email * Ghost Stories of E NesbitBBC Radio 4 Extra Proving that there is little on the radio this time of year more consoling than a ghost story (as a country keener than most on the past, ghosts are the ne plus ultras in continuity) five ghost stories by E Nesbit are currently being endlessly repeated on Radio 4 Extra. First published in magazines in the 1880s, the stories are not so much frightening as full of an overwhelming longing for domestic normality and they also drip with autobiographical barbs. In one, read with tremendous speed and brilliance by Anton Lesser, a man inherits a fortune and sits by the fire thinking unenthusiastically of his lover – far less attractive to him now that he is rich – whom he "intends to marry one day". Lesser made clear with an almost imperceptible modulation that this meant never. Nesbit's first husband – a scurrilous bank clerk by the name of Bland – impregnated various women including one of Edith's best friends, only feet-draggingly marrying Edith when she herself was about to give birth. Having spent most of her miserable young life on the move with a poor single mother and sick sister (living in over 25 different places before the age of 16), Nesbit's desire to stay put and nest rang out in every line of a story about a young married couple who take a house on the Romney marshes in Kent and go about furnishing it over the summer. The story mentions cold steak and coffee for breakfast as though this was the cobbled together postcoital feast of the writer's dreams. Nesbit describes things that never crossed the greatest English ghost-story writer M R James's mind – of people clasping and kissing each other and indulging in pet names. Yet if Nesbit's stories did occasionally sound like some of the best of the genre – improbable but also strangely credible and matter-of-fact – only now and again did a line of Nesbit's approach something of James's horrible wonder. Figures on a tomb in a church were described as being "drawn out man-sized in marble" which sounds quite James. But where one James story can leave you awake all night (see "An Episode of Cathedral History") Nesbit's just made me a bit gloomy – for her. "I saw the dead lie low," she once wrote in a poem. "Who had worked and suffered and found life sad/ So many sad years ago." Antonia Quirke is an author and journalist. She is a presenter on The Film Programme and Pick of the Week (Radio 4) and Film 2015 and The One Show (BBC 1). She writes a column on radio for the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 19 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The plot against the BBC More


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Funding for victims has been down
Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:17:03 GMT —
Funding for victim's assistance programs across Texas has been down. It has been increasingly difficult for non-profit organizations to find backing. Without state funding and support from other sources, victims like Carrie-Anne O'Driscoll wouldn't have been able to receive the help that she so desperately needed.
Carrie-Anne O'Driscoll is not a victim, but a survivor. When she was nine months pregnant, she said she was brutally beaten by her husband. But she did manage to escape the abusive relationship. However, back in her hometown of Northeast Georgia, there was nowhere for her to receive the help that she needed.
Support Services here in Amarillo was able to provide Carrie-Anne with the assistance she needed to get through her situation. "When I found myself in Amarillo and I had started talking to Family Support Services and found out all of the things they did with counseling, I was just blown away," said Carrie-Anne. "If I had had the access to counseling, if I had had access to any of the assistance that is offered here, my recovery time would have been cut down immensely."
Now a Sheriff's Deputy, author and crisis advocate, Carrie-Anne says she understands the importance of state funding for victim's assistance. She states that the only way to stop crimes against persons like this is to increase awareness, education and to make an outlet for people to get out of the situations that they're in. "If the state does not offer those funds, then it's left up to private citizens and we can only give so much."


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Well, I only watched for a few minutes. Personally, I'd rather watch grass grow.
EVERY breed that came up the announcer would give a brief description. EVERY single one I saw started with "a highly intelligent breed". Apparently there are no dumb dogs out there. Except of course the ones that I have hunted behind.
What really got me was the description of the Akita. "A highly intelligent breed with a sense of humor"! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Does this breed do stand up comedy or something?
I guess I just don't get the whole show dog thing. I see a bunch of fat people prancing around a ring (most in polyester suits) with their dogs as they stuff treats in their mouths. My money is on most of those dogs being dumb as rocks - but they sure do look good! The whole thing is pretty silly in my opinion...
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On the wrong side of the bed ? Did we? LOL
nice to see best in show go to a hunting dog. I caught the tail end of the show and the german shorthair that won was a classy looking bitch.
marty I have four dogs and spend a lot time around them. Usually when a dog is dumb, so to speak, it's just a lack of training. most dumb dogs are just ones that get no real training and the people who own them blame it on the dog when acually it's their fault.
I'll email you a picture of Jake. He spends all of bear season with me in Ontario. Everybody who spends time in bearcamp with him really thinks he 's an exceptionaly smart dog. I think it is more the extra attention and training I give him while we're up there.
I used to show Great Danes in conformation. Unfortunatley my bitch was too small for the judges. They like to see them at around 34 inches and she was only 32. So I switched over to obedience, and she did an outstanding job there. She scored top dog in two events straight which is unusual for Great Danes as most people, even showpeople, consider Great Danes to be dumb dogs.
Paul hit it right on the head. There are no dumb dogs (some are very stubborn and hard to train though). It is the owners who are dumb. Most people do not take the time to train their dog, not even the basics, and then blame the dog for not behaving. Most people I observed are not qualified to own dogs.
I spent a lot of time with my Great Dane, and the end result was a "smart" dog. Now if I hadn't put that much time into her would that have meant that she was a dumb dog? NO. Just an untrained dog but still as smart.
Anyway, Marty competing in a dog show is actually quite exciting and a lot of fun. I still miss it every now and then.
And there is a lot more to competing in a dog show than it looks like (Not just prancing around and shoving food into the dog's mouth). I am going to show training classes right now with my chesapeake bitch. It is just like anything else in that it takes practice. I quickly realized this at the first class I went to as I stumbled around trying to get her to stand (stack up), trot and present her to the judge. LOL. There is a lot of training the dog and handler involved. (in my case - mostly handler).
I would prefer to be retriever training - but chessies are one of the very few breeds that are dual purpose - (meaning they have both the breed confirmation AND working ability that the AKC looks for in titling dogs). Liberty is out of DC lines - so I feel should give her the opportunity to compete in both.
I saw part of the show the first night and most last night and I picked the winner. When that German shorthair went into her stance and pose that was the most strikingly (sp) beautiful dog I've ever seen. I own three labs; two yellow and one black. the two oldest are 11 and the pup is 13 months. He was in the field and working birds at about 10 to 12 weeks old. The only dumb dog is the one that isn't trained. Not the dogs fault Marty.
I'm a Lab man myself. Best dog I ever owned was a Chocolate.
Sorry folks - the AKC shows are not for me - boring. Field trials on the otherhand are much more exciting to watch (to me). At least there is emphasis on intelligence and obedience vs. looks.
Also, I agree that time spent with the pooches is indeed the most important. But I still disagree, just like some people - intelligence does vary considerably amongst breeds and individual dogs. Been there, done that.
The Irish Setter as a breed is a good example. They were overbred to the point that nobody wanted one for many years because they were so darned dumb. They since have come around. But they still are not on top of the intelligence list as a breed (But I somehow suspect in yesterday's show they were described as "a highly intelligent breed").
Can anybody explain how a dog has a "sense of humor"?
Dogs are just like taxidermists. I know a lot of dogs smarter than some of the customers I have, so they're bound to be smarter than a few taxidermists I know. On one thing is without question, I can trust my dog a helluva lot more than I can some people, he's genuinely happy to see me, and he never asks stupid questions about Krowtann. LMAO.
Ruts yer Ree-rings on Rowrann?
I'll have to post a pic on a link I have. She's a mixed but she is beautiful!
They don't realize that you MAKE a dog like mine. You don't just buy one and they grow up smart. You have to teach them things. I have 2 Springer Spaniels that are absolutely "human". Everyone loves them, and our vet brags on them to no end. He tells me and all his new employees that he wishes all his patients were "this good". You don't just "get" a dog like this, you make it.
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Trying to teach my dogs to get me a beer . Well, six years and they still just stare at me ! LOl Maybe it's just me . Bradlee
I taught mine to get that beer. Worst mistake I ever made, now he stays drunk all the time. I laughed my tail off when he thought that Alpo can was a beer! Man did he spit that out quick...


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Wow. "Battlefield 4" is coming out already? Well, eventually, later this year on December 31, 2013. In the meantime, Electronic Arts has released a thrilling trailer and some gameplay footage for the game. Check them out below, check them outers.
Like the previous "Battlefield", it's all very impressive and immersive and totally badass — that is, if you're into first-person shooter games. Oh, who am I kidding. Considering that the last "Call of Duty" game made about a bazillion dollars, you are definitely still into first-person shooter games.
So what's in the new, fourth iteration of the popular shooter?
- Only in Battlefield can you experience Levolution, changing the landscape in real-time with interactive environments that react to your every move.
- Only in Battlefield will you find the awe-inspiring power of the next generation Frostbite 3 engine, whose unrivaled audio and visual fidelity make your game more dramatic, more believable, and more human.
- Only in Battlefield can you experience an unmatched level of all-out war that grants you the freedom to play to your strengths and carve your own path to victory.
- Only in Battlefield do you have the power to dominate land, air and sea with all-new, intense water-based vehicle combat.
Oooh. "Levolution". Sounds cool.
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Montgomery, Howard county trash collectors on strike again
(WJLA) - Trash collectors are once again on strike in Montgomery and Howard counties on Thursday, their latest move to demand better pay, increased benefits and the right to unionize.
Workers from both Potomac Disposal and Unity Disposal walked off the job Wednesday; for Potomac workers, it was the second time in the past month doing so.
The workers plan to go door to door in several parts of Montgomery and Howard counties to tell residents directly what they're fighting for and why they're not picking up the trash.
Potomac Disposal workers are unhappy with their diminished access to affordable health insurance and wages, leaders say, while Unity workers are united in their attempt to form a union.
Officials with Potomac Disposal say that both they and Unity representatives refused to meet with Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, who called a meeting to discuss their concerns.


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Making Peace with Revelation: Dr. Charles Mabee
In his lecture, Dr. Charles Mabee, Professor and Director of M.Div. program at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit, argues that contrary to popular imagery, the book of Revelation is not about divine retribution but a cautionary tale about human violence and war. Mabee invites attendees to re-imagine the origins of the impulse of war and to reconsider "the path (to peace) not taken." Raven Foundation Founder, Suzanne Ross, introduces this lecture.
Sponsored by the Raven Foundation, Making Peace with Revelation explored the paths to peace illuminated in the Book of Revelation. Attendees spent the morning deepening their understanding of the book of Revelation and how it illuminates the path to peace. In the afternoon, on-the-ground peace workers provided examples of their successes in creating a more peaceful world.
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Draft Coverage: The Phone Call StoryPosted by on May 2, 2011 – 3:15 pm
The phone call anecdote is a staple of post-draft coverage, and why wouldn't it be? It grounds a newly drafted player in something concrete and relatable, and there are so many potential variations: who called you? Where were you when you got the call? What'd they say? And so on.
Chris Cooley's draft day phone call story (pictured to the right) is legendary, as brother Tanner forgets that he left Joe Gibbs on hold … but most of them are a little more forgettable, just throwaways in the overarching So-And-So Got Drafted narrative.
Still, the Redskins picked twelve guys over the last few days, and most of them had at least one phone call or another mentioned in their draft stories; here are a few examples. Read more »
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The Universe Was Trying To Tell Leonard Hankerson SomethingPosted by on May 2, 2011 – 1:43 pm
In hindsight, it seems like newly-drafted Redskins wide receiver Leonard Hankerson should probably have expected to wind up with the Redskins. Redskins.com intern Brian Tinsman has the story.
Story by Brian Tinsman
If an octopus can correctly predict the results of the World Cup, it shouldn't be that surprising that a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl can predict their dad's NFL team.
After being drafted by the Redskins with the 79th overall pick, Leonard Hankerson revealed to Doc Walker on ESPN 980 that his toddler, Kienarria, correctly predicted the Redskins months ago.
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The Redskins Draft Class In Nine-Minute Video FormPosted by on May 2, 2011 – 9:01 am
There's much bigger news out there today, obviously, and this post has nothing to do with that. (Although if you want a Redskins tie-in to bin Laden's death, Dan Steinberg has aggregated the reaction tweets of D.C. athletes.)
No, this is just a fantastic video compilation of highlights of the Redskins' twelve-man draft class — plus their Twitter reactions to being selected, and more — set to "Welcome To D.C." by Mambo Sauce and "Moment 4 Life" by Nicki Minaj. And it is awesome. (Language warning: There's a little bit of profanity in the soundtrack, so turn the volume down if you find that sort of thing offensive or you're at work or whatever.)
Video by @KCClyburn, via BroodingBurgundy. Read more »
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SALT LAKE CITY — As a chief resident at Primary Children's Medical Center, one of Dr. Hilary A. Hewes' administrative responsibilities was to review every fatality that occurred in the hospital that year and to present her findings to the residents she supervised.
"I just got so sad with all these abuse cases. It was depressing to review all these cases of healthy, beautiful children who died unnecessarily," Hewes said.
It also piqued her curiosity about the prosecution of these cases.
"What does happen to the people who abuse children to the point of killing them?'' Hewes asked. "How well are the charges brought forth and prosecutors are able to convict them?"
The answer to that question was a study that compared conviction rates for perpetrators of child abuse homicides and adult homicides. The rates are strikingly similar, researchers found.
A review of Utah homicides between January 2002 and December 2007 found an 83 percent conviction rate for suspects charged with adult homicides. Among suspects in child abuse homicide cases, researchers calculated a conviction rate of 88.2 percent.
"Suspects of child abuse homicide are convicted at a rate similar to that of suspects of adult homicide and receive similar levels of felony conviction and severity of sentencing," the authors wrote.
The study, "Judicial Outcomes of Child Abuse Homicide," has been published in the October issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, one of The Journal of the American Medical Association/Archives journals.
The researchers had hypothesized that suspects of child abuse homicide are convicted less often than suspects of adult homicide and that people convicted of such offenses received lighter sentences.
However, the researchers' analysis of 334 homicides determined that there were no significant differences in the level of felony or severity of sentencing for suspects of child abuse homicide versus adult homicide.
"Under the Utah criminal justice system, suspects of child abuse homicide are not treated differently than suspects of adult homicide," the authors wrote.
The researchers found that the suspects in child abuse homicides were most often male, a parent of the victim and Caucasian.
"Our study may be limited by the homogeneity of the Utah population, which is primarily of white race/ethnicity," they wrote.
Thirteen percent of suspects in child abuse homicide cases had a prior felony conviction, researchers found.
Victims of child abuse homicide tend to be young, male and Caucasian, researchers found. The "mechanism of injury" was most frequently abusive head trauma.
The study, which purports to be one of the first comparisons of suspects of child abuse homicide versus adult homicide, adds "a new perspective to the literature, in which much of the prior work has focused on sexual abuse or mixed abuse judicial outcomes," researchers wrote.
Hewes, the principal investigator, said the similar conviction rate of suspects charged with child abuse homicide can be attributed to a number of factors.
While presenting the team's findings at a national conference, a number medical professionals from throughout the country told Hewes, "You don't realize how lucky you are that you have a good medical examiner who is tuned into child abuse cases," she said.
Credit also is due to law enforcement undertaking thorough criminal investigations of the death, the efforts or prosecutors and the Child Fatality Review Team.
"Hopefully it shows we value children in Utah," Hewes said.
Veteran prosecutor Rob Parrish, who for more than 25 years has advocated for children and/or prosecuted crimes against them, said there is little literature comparing the conviction rates of the two types of offenders.
However, there has been a sea change how society at large views crimes against children.
Early in Parrish's career, it was rare that the perpetrators of child abuse homicide were charged with an offense greater than manslaughter. Then, juries were reluctant to convict people of these offenses because many defendants were a parent of the child victim.
"There's sort of built in empathy we don't have in other types of offenses," Parrish said, explaining that many people have had the experience of being stressed out when caring for a difficult child, though most people do not act out on their child.
But in recent years, the statutes and sentencing schemes have aided the prosecution of these cases.
"People are willing to accept, 'Yeah, bad things happen to children that may not be intentional, but someone needs to be punished,'" Parrish said.
"That's the good news. That's the strong positive message of this study. That's how it should have been all along," he said.
Parrish, who regularly conducts training for prosecutors and others who work in child abuse prevention, said Utah has long been on the forefront of rigorous case screening and prosecution, which results in more successful prosecutions.
Homicide is one of the top five causes of childhood deaths in the United States.
Nationally, some child abuse homicide cases are misclassified as accidental deaths and may not be brought to the attention of law enforcement, which can skew statistics.
"However, Utah is a state with a strong child fatality review team, which minimizes the number of misclassified cases," the researchers wrote.
Hewes said reviewing the cases of child abuse homicide brought to the forefront the need to prevent child abuse.
People need to be aware of parents who, on occasion, may need help when they are overwhelmed with parenting. Aside from helping family and friends, parents need to know about community resources that can offer assistance.
"We need to prevent it in the first place," she said. "Anything we can do to protect children is the most important thing."
Like Hewes, Parrish said the key lies in enhanced prevention efforts because child abuse homicides still occur with shocking regularity.
"We've had six deaths in Salt Lake County just since April of this year. It's very concerning," he said.
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Riverton drops volleyball match to Rock SpringsSep 9, 2012 By Craig Blumenshine, Staff Writer
The Riverton Lady Wolverine volleyball squad fell in its second conference match of the season to the Rock Springs Lady Tigers in four games (25-23, 25-23, 17-25, 28-26) Saturday afternoon at Wolverine Gym.
"It boils down to consistency and confidence. We start hesitating during the game and have too many mental errors," Riverton head coach Adrian McNamee said.
Kristen Bailey and Ashley Lynott played well Saturday, according to the veteran coach.
"There were moments when we all played well, and there were moments when we had miscommunication or mental errors," McNamee said.
Bailey led the team in assists with 20, and Miranda Hosking had 13.
Defensively, Bailey had 18 digs, Bree Olson 15 and Lynott 13. Amy Woodward led the team in blocks with 7, Kiley Ridgway added 4, Olson 2 and Lynott 1.
Bailey and Ridgway each had two aces, and Olson and Baylee Stafford each added an ace.
Woodward, Bailey and Lynott each had 11 kills and Hailey Snell added 9, Olson had 8 and Ridgway ended the match with 6 kills.
"I think Rock Springs is one of the better teams in our conference. It is early and hard to compare them with the rest. We will work on communication and blocking Monday. The Lady Wolverines (8-10, 0-2 Class 4-A West) will try to get their first conference win this Tuesday, Sept. 11, when they host the Green River Lady Wolve at Wolverine gym.
Game time is set for 6 p.m. for the varsity match. Sub-varsity play begins at 4 p.m. Admission is free.