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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 9:20am ET
I have a drippy sinus this morning and my head doesn't fell all that well. I am a bit clammy and I can't breathe perfectly well. If I was passing through the airport, a health official might stop me. They might think it is swine flu, or some strange respiratory bug.
But it is the aftereffects of a very strong Cuban cigar that I smoked after a dinner at my friend's house in Hong Kong. My friend warned me. And now he simply says it is the effect of the killer cigar —a 1994 Ramon Allones Gigantes. The double corona was like a double-barreled shotgun to the head.
I haven't found a Cuban cigar like that in a long time. In fact, it was Habanos from about 1991 to 1995 that I remember being the most powerful. I still remember smoking a Bolivar Belicoso Fino in 1995 in London that made me dizzy. I had to put it down.
Honestly, I am not a great fan of such strong cigars. I like the better-balanced smokes. A great cigar is not about strength but harmony and balance.
I heard a story about an American who came to visit the tobacco grower Alejandro Robania at his plantation in Pinar del Río. The big man said that he wanted to taste the strongest cigar the veteran tobacco man could make with his family reserve of tobacco. So Alejandro made one with almost all ligero—the strongest filler tobacco.
Alejandro said he turned green after a few puffs and puked. The old man still laughs when he tells the story. "Stupid man," he chuckles. "The man was really crazy."
Maybe some people like getting stoned on cigars. But I can't say I do. I am going to take note next time my friend tells me "I have a special cigar for you," even if it's after a few bottles of great wine.
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Litto Gomez September 22, 2009 12:41pm ET
Amigo,if you change your mind...I can send you some of my favor vitolas.All the best to you.LG
Alex Benes California September 22, 2009 1:51pm ET
Litto,Your delicious cigars are already strong enough -- and beautifully balanced and harmonious -- but your palate is unequaled in its ability to stand up to the power of even atomic cigars.Un abrazo,Alex
James Suckling September 22, 2009 8:50pm ET
Hola Litto! Your Double Ligeros can be strong cigars but they always still have balance. Abrazo!
Jesus Calderon California September 23, 2009 11:39pm ET
Hey James where have you been hermano? Your blogs and videos have been greatly missed!
Catherine Kai Tamara Shiang Hong Kong September 27, 2009 10:50pm ET
James, Catherine here, very harsh that 1994 Roman Allones Gigantes. Are you still in Hong Kong?
Michael Gordon Healdsburg, CA USA September 29, 2009 3:04pm ET
I was thinking about your article, when I ordered a box of El Rey del Mundo, Grandes de Espana (Cuba). I just lit the first one, and it is heavenly, so I recommend it to you. Creamy smooth, and tasty without knocking your socks off. I had seen it described as "elegant," and I think that is true.
Michael Gordon Healdsburg, CA USA October 10, 2009 2:01pm ET
I take back my recommendation from Sept. 29, for Grandes de Espana. Turned out to be smooth, but dull and lacking in complexity.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Demand is holding strong for a state tax incentive program designed to nurture startup businesses in Nebraska that cost the state more than $2.8 million last year.
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Supporters say the credit promotes investment in high-tech startups that could lead to economic growth. Opponents question whether the incentives work.
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Gardner made headlines back in 1992 for shooting a man robbing his bakery.
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Gardner was blunt when he was asked about Ford, saying he doesn't think much of him.
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Women made up about 47 percent of the labor force nationwide and held 52 percent of management and professional positions in 2012, possibly reflecting that women are more prevalent in jobs that don't involve manual labor. However, they only held about 15 percent of executive positions in Fortune 500 companies and 17 percent of board seats on Fortune 500 companies — increases from prior years, but nowhere near parity with men.
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UAE militant cell linked to Al Qaida in Yemen
Dubai: A suspected militant cell detained in the United Arab Emirates had links to Al Qaida, Dubai's police chief has said, including the Yemen-based wing that is widely regarded as one of its most effective affiliates.
Dahi Khalfan also said the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran were among the main security threats to Gulf states because they wanted to export revolution to the region.
UAE authorities announced the arrest of the cell on December 26 in a joint operation with Saudi Arabia.
"They are adherents of Al Qaida and its misguided doctrine," Dahi said in an interview with the Saudi-owned Asharq Al Awsat newspaper published on Wednesday. "Some of the [cell] members are affiliated with Al Qaida in Yemen."
The group planned bomb attacks against targets in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other states in the region rather than targeting individuals for assassination, he added.
The Dubai police chief said he was concerned that members of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were making their way to the Gulf but said Saudi anti-terrorism efforts had reduced Al Qaida's threat in the region.
AQAP, formed in 2009 after a merger of Al Qaida's Yemeni and Saudi branches, remains a potent threat. In 2010, it claimed responsibility for two sophisticated parcel bombs sent to the United States. The bombs were intercepted in Britain and Dubai before they could explode.
In August, Saudi authorities arrested a group of suspected Al Qaida-linked militants — mostly Yemeni nationals — in the capital Riyadh, suggesting the group remained highly active.
Washington has backed a political transition in Yemen and stepped up drone strikes on suspected militants there to try to curb the group's influence and prevent a spillover of violence into Saudi Arabia.
But Dahi said Al Qaida was not the only security threat concerning the UAE. The Muslim Brotherhood — who swept to power in Egypt as a result of the Arab Spring — and Iran were "both a menace to the region".
He said: "I think Iran and the [Muslim] Brothers' menace is similar. They both want to export the revolution. What the Muslim Brothers are aiming for at the moment is to shred and denigrate the reputation of the Gulf rulers."


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Denied by war, vet finally walks with Central grads
The class of 1945 at Oklahoma's Merritt High School had six students.
Half couldn't walk across the stage at graduation because of service to country during World War II.
Among them was Edward Reed Jr.—once thought killed in combat.
On Monday, he was very much alive and experiencing things denied by war and circumstance seven decades ago.
Escorted by his graduate granddaughter, Destinee, 17, and his son, Central High School teacher Ed Reed III, Reed Jr., 86, received an honorary diploma during Central's commencement ceremony at Stocker Stadium. A throng of attendees, including Central's 323 graduates, gave Reed Jr. a standing ovation as he walked to and from the stage.
Attired in a suit with a cap on his head that noted his service in the 82nd Airborne, Reed Jr. said he didn't feel like he'd "earned the right" to wear Central's red graduation gown Monday.
"Let the kids who earned it wear them," Reed Jr. said in an interview last week. "It's just an honor to walk with my granddaughter."
A prolific student who'll attend Colorado Mesa University with an eye on a career in music, Destinee Reed said she jumped at the chance to include her grandfather on her graduation day.
"How many people get a chance to walk with their grandparents?" she asked.
Reed Jr. arrived in France three days after the D-Day invasion, one week before his 17th birthday. He later served in the 79th Infantry Division under the command of Gen. George S. Patton. Reed Jr. was the youngest of eight siblings, with seven sisters.
His mother, Etta, was scheduled to walk and accept her son's high school diploma from Merritt High School.
But two days before graduation, she was told in a letter from the U.S. Army her son was missing in action and presumed dead. The superintendent of schools went ahead and issued her a posthumous diploma. Etta thought her son was dead for a full month before he turned up in a full body cast at a hospital in France.
It marked the first of Reed Jr.'s two Purple Hearts awarded by the U.S. Army.
Etta never spoke to her son about accepting his posthumous diploma, according to Reed Jr.'s wife, Patta Leigh.
"She told me it was the hardest thing she had ever experienced," she said. "I hope no young man's mother ever has to experience what his mother did."
While denying him his high school commencement ceremony, World War II continued to frustrate life celebrations. He missed two college graduation ceremonies because of various surgeries—Reed Jr. counts numerous medical procedures on knees and shoulders stemming from war wounds.
Eventually earning a master's degree, Reed Jr. spent 36 years in education as a teacher, administrator and principal before retiring from Jefferson County schools in 1986. The family retired to Gunnison and eventually Grand Junction,
Ed Reed III, who's retiring after 35 years of teaching at Central, orchestrated his father's diploma walk and secretly restored a 1941 Chevrolet pickup to present to his father later on Monday: a gift like any graduate might get, Reed III said.
"This was the hot car when he was a kid."


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William L. Castleman
Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine
PO Box 100123
2015 SW 16th Ave
Gainesville, FL 32610-123
Fax 352-392-9704
- M.S., Anatomy, University of California, Davis, 1972
- DVM, Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, 1977
- PhD, Comparative Pathology (DVM-PhD program), University of California, Davis, 1979
- Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Anatomic Pathology, 1982
Honors and Awards
- University of Florida Superior Accomplishment Award, Faculty, 2004
Research Interests
I have broad interests in experimental and veterinary pathology. Research interests in experimental pathology focus on pathogenesis of viral respiratory disease with recent emphasis on canine influenza virus infection. Interests in veterinary pathology are diverse and stem from case-based studies in the UF Veterinary Hospitals and focus on diseases affecting horses, cattle, companion animals as well as laboratory animals used in research. I coordinate the Laboratory of Comparative Pathology that provides veterinary pathology support to University of Florida research investigators in areas ranging from gene therapy, transgenic mouse models of human disease, and toxicologic pathology to evaluate safety in new drug development.
Recent Publications
- α-Galactosylceramide protects swine against influenza infection when administered as a vaccine adjuvant.
Additional publications here


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Scientists around the world are studying the result of a spectacular supernova which was discovered over the summer. The thermonuclear blast was one of the closest to the Earth in decades, and is giving scientists a treasure trove of data. KCLU's Lance Orozco talks with a researcher who's both with with the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. and U.C. Santa Barbara.
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Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 24, 2000
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, December 14, 2000
The Sunday Gazette Mail, December 24, 2000
You know there's trouble ahead when Newt Gingrich is resurrected after Al Gore's concession speech to declare that this is a time for "unifying and healing." Don't get me wrong. I'm all for civility, and respect for the rule of law is certainly the foundation of a democratic society. Even if the 5-4 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court looked and smelled remarkably partisan, it's the law of the land, and Mr. Gore did the right thing by deciding to put this seemingly endless election in a lockbox.
But when our 43rd President George W. Bush talks about bipartisanship, and conservative Democrats and Republicans start getting all cozy with each other, it is a very bad omen indeed. When they talk about "getting things done," they are not talking about seizing the moment to reform our system of financing elections, so we could choose among candidates that are not pre-screened by major corporations and rich contributors. They are not even talking about some of the more modest reforms-- such as same-day voter registration or modern voting systems-- that would expand the electorate and fix some of the problems that led to the mess in Florida.
Instead, they are talking about co-operation to reform the things that don't need to be reformed. Number one: Social Security. Remember when George W. Bush accused Mr. Gore of believing "that Social Security is a government program?" That wasn't just a slip of the tongue. Watch out for a bipartisan commission designed to hack away at America's largest and most successful anti-poverty program. Here is a system that, according to the numbers accepted by all sides in the debate, is solid for the next 37 years without any changes at all. And even for the indefinite future, there is no financial or demographic threat to the program.
But Mr. Bush made a campaign promise to partially privatize Social Security, and so he will be playing on the widely held misconception that the retirement of the baby boom generation-- which begins about seven years from now-- will break the program. Unfortunately most Democrats have accepted this mythology for their own political purposes, mainly because they felt that "saving" Social Security was a good issue for them at the polls. Now they will have to tell the truth if they really want to save Social Security from its enemies.
Medicare is another potential victim of the emerging bipartisan love-fest. The Bush campaign promoted the legislation proposed by Democratic Senator John Breaux and Republican Representative Bill Thomas, who headed up the National Bipartisan Commission on Medicare Reform. Senator Breaux is currently under consideration for a position in the Bush administration.
Their proposals would radically privatize the insurance provided by Medicare, eroding the guaranteed benefit that Medicare currently offers to senior citizens and the disabled. By setting up a system of private plans that would compete to insure the healthy and avoid the sick, such "bipartisan" legislation would be likely to increase the segregation of senior citizens by health risk, with the less fortunate ending up with inferior coverage. Recent experience with Medicare HMOs also indicates that overall costs would increase, leading to continuing pressure for benefit cuts.
Like Social Security reform, Medicare reform is based on false assumptions and popular misconceptions about the program and its future. Medicare is sound for the next 25 years, and has traditionally done better at containing costs than the private health care system. In fact, the problems that it may face more than 25 years from now are overwhelmingly due to projected cost increases in the private health care system-- a system that spends nearly twice as much per person as the rest of the industrialized world, and still manages to leave 43 million Americans uninsured. It is not Medicare but the private health care system that is in need of reform, and the proposed privatization of Medicare would only take us further from this goal, with the elderly and disabled paying the price in dollars and health.
Watch out for a bipartisan tax cut too, that could include a fantastic windfall for the super-rich: elimination of the estate tax, which passed Congress but was vetoed by President Clinton in September. A staggering $400 billion of its $750 billion cost to the Treasury over 20 years would go to the richest one-tenth of one percent of all households.
With only 48 percent of the popular vote, less than a quarter of the eligible electorate backing him, and a big question mark over the actual results of the election, Mr. Bush has no mandate for the "reforms" that he is pursuing. Let's hope that his opposition in Congress doesn't forget that.


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Amateur Baseball: Aces rough up Hubbers for first win
Ellsworth may have gotten the first run in Tuesday's game with Red Wing, but the Aces went on to score 11 unanswered runs, rolling through the Hubbers for an 11-1 eight-inning victory at the Red Wing Athletic Field.
In the top of the first, Ellsworth drew three walks, with Scott Dewyre scoring on a passed ball. While the Hubbers watched the ball go by in the first, Red Wing was on the attack in the bottom half, scoring five runs in the frame. Zach Laffey drove in Mike Hommes with an RBI double, and Zach Garner scored on a wild pitch. Alex Quiding belted a two-run double that scored Laffey and Josh Thygesen, and Quiding came home on a single by Tyler Goering.
In the bottom of the third, Quiding reached home on an error, and in the sixth, Garner scored on a sacrifice fly by Laffey. Quiding reached home one more time in the seventh, scoring on a groundout from Mitch Matter.
The Aces put the 10-run rule into play with a three-run eighth inning, with runs by Kyle Blahnik, Dave Jenson and Aaron Johnson.
Brady Schroeder got the win for Red Wing, striking out nine and holding the Hubbers to two hits and six walks in seven innings. Jordan Warren threw a scoreless inning of relief. Ellsworth's Mitch Johnson was charged with the loss after allowing six hits and six runs (five earned) in three innings of work.
The Aces (1-2) stay at the Ath for their next game, hosting the Minneapolis Angels on Friday. The Hubbers (0-1) travel to Hager City on Saturday.


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No rivals emerge to contest Tom Gaglardi's bid to acquire Stars
The Stars on Monday took the next step in their quest for new ownership, as no other bidders alerted the bankruptcy court in Delaware that they wanted to enter an auction against stalking horse bidder Tom Gaglardi.
The Vancouver businessman is expected to eventually become the team owner, but the Stars, the NHL and the courts still have to go through paperwork and red tape to handle the transfer of ownership from a group of lenders to Gaglardi. The courts have set a Nov. 23 date to complete the auction, but paperwork could be filed to attempt to move that hearing forward.
"Now that the bidding deadline has been reached, we will continue our due
diligence process and will proceed with the Board's ownership transaction review
process," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a prepared statement. "We
also will work with the courts in the continued hope of bringing this matter to
a successful and expeditious resolution."


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DE Hill to miss 2012 season after knee surgery
It seemed likely Saturday when news came that backup defensive end Anthony Hill had torn the ACL in his right knee, but Skip Holtz confirmed Wednesday that Hill will undergo surgery Friday and miss the 2012 season.
As we mentioned Tuesday, this could clear a path for promising freshman Eric Lee to play this fall, as Lee is now the No. 4 defensive end behind Ryne Giddins, Julius Forte and Tevin Mims.
Hill actually has a traditional redshirt available to him, so he can come back and play as a redshirt senior in 2013, though it'll mean one less scholarship is available for USF's 2013 recruiting class. If you remember, Jim Leavitt pulled Hill out of a redshirt in the 10th game of the 2009 season, so he had three tackles in three games to show for that year of eligibility. In all, Hill has 14 tackles in three seasons with the Bulls, including a sack against Pittsburgh last year.
Holtz said that freshman receiver Alex Mut, who tore his own ACL last spring as a high school senior, injured his knee in Saturday's scrimmage and will also have surgery Friday, but it should only be a minor arthroscopic procedure to clean up the knee and should only sideline him for a month or so. Mut is still likely to redshirt this fall due to USF's considerable depth at receiver.


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The ability to generate currency. Sub-power of Monetary Manipulation.
Also Called
- Gold Maker
- Jackpot
- Loot Gain
- Money Creation/Gain/Generation/Maker
- Payday
- Wealth Generation
The user can create any form of currency into existence, ranging from coins/metals/jewels to notes of any country/state/world making them virtually the richest person in the world regardless if someone has more than them.
- Cloth Manipulation
- Coin Magnetism
- Copper Manipulation
- Creation
- Crystal Manipulation
- Gemstone Manipulation
- Gold Manipulation
- Golden Rule
- Greed Manipulation
- Ink Manipulation
- Luck
- Monetary Manipulation
- Omnificence
- Paper Manipulation
- Quantity Manipulation
- Silver Manipulation
- Over usage may cause an undermining of the economy's balance.
Known Users
- Midas (C); via Midas Money
- Eris (Konosuba)
- Draupnir (Norse Mythology)
- Pokemon that can learn the move "Pay Day" (Pokémon)
- Meowth (Pokémon)
- Mario (Super Mario Bros)
- Luigi (Super Mario Bros)
- Ik-Ik (Wansapanataym Episode 102: "Ik-Ik Da Madyik Biik")
- Halekulani (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
- No-Face (Spirited Away)
- Slice (Stealth Symphony)
- Leprechauns (Harry Potter)
- Suzune Ayasaki (Hayate no Gotoku: Heaven is a Place on Earth)
- The Pencil (The Lost Room); an "Object" with inexplicable powers, creates a single 1961 American penny every time the eraser tip is tapped against a solid surface.
- Gold Digger and Spell Digger (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
- Mama Odie (Princess and the Frog)
- Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- Almighty Dollar (Marvel)
Known Objects
- Bottomless Coin Sack (Wario Land: Shake It!)


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Staff Writer
SAN MARCOS -- Tim Bills, whose doctoral studies concentrate on law and higher education, has been named assistant dean of students at Cal State San Marcos, the university announced Tuesday.
Bills, 36, of Ramona, has been at the university for four years as coordinator of orientation and associate director of the Gear Up program, which helps prepare students for a college career. His focus has been on Grant Middle School in Escondido.
He will coordinate the university's programs in service learning, student conduct, academic withdrawal and leadership development.
Bills replaces Mary Wardell, who left the post last August after two years to become the dean of students at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
In an interview Tuesday, Bills said he was the type of student in college who "loved to get involved" and knew by his junior year that he wanted a career in student services in higher education.
He said a major challenge he faces is to help students balance college, jobs and family.
"A lot more students are working while they're going to school, even in high school," he said. "They come to college and it's almost a full-time job in itself. So it's a question of balance, balancing jobs, family and college. I hate to see students spread themselves so thin that they don't get their college degree."
The son of a tool-and-dye maker, Bills grew up on his family'sfarm in Oil City, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh. He receivedhis bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania's Slippery Rock and amaster's from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
He is completing a dissertation on federal law and higher education and expects to earn his doctoral degree in about a year, also from Bowling Green. He is co-author of a work on anti-discrimination laws and student affairs.
Jonathan Poullard, the dean of students at Cal State San Marcos, said Bills is known for a "strong commitment to students and employing a student-centered work style."
In a statement, Poullard said, "Tim brings a wealth of knowledge and practice in administering student programs and activities of students. He possesses strong skills in mediating conflict and in handling judicial and conduct-related matters."
Bills has worked in student affairs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,Bowling Green State University and Arizona State University and atCal State San Marcos.
He is active in the American College Personnel Association, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the Association for Student Judicial Affairs.
Bills and his wife, Lura Poggi, have a 4-month-old son, Braxton.
Contact staff writer Bruce Kauffman at (760) 761-4410 or email@example.com


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With the difficulties faced by the banking industry, none of which were caused by community banks, your employees have remained steadfast in their service to your customers and community.
This is your opportunity to express your appreciation by nominating them for the Making a Difference Award or the Rising Star Award (for employees who have been with your bank 5 years or less). These awards recognize those employees who go beyond the standard in character, attitude and performance. The ones who also invest personal time, volunteering in civic activities to make your community a better place to live. Please note, bank chairmen, presidents and CEOs are not eligible for this award.
PLEASE NOTE, this award is for employee appreciation. Bank Chairman, Presidents and CEOs are NOT
2012 Recipient
Tammi Carter-Granger
Tammi is Vice President of Loan Administration at Pioneer Bank in Dripping Springs. She has been with the bank since its inception in 2007 and is an outstanding professional who consistently epitomizes the Pioneer Bank philosophy of success breeds success. Tammi serves as a mentor to the individuals who work for her, and she strives to be a role model by providing the highest levels of service to both internal and external clients. In addition to her loyalty and dedication to Pioneer Bank, she is equally dedicated to her husband and two children who are actively involved in the Dripping Springs school district and through her involvement in community organizations and activities such as Friends of the Pound House, Dripping Springs Founder's Day, the Dripping Springs Women's Club, and the Dripping Springs Educational Foundation. Tammi has been instrumental in the success of Pioneer Bank through her work ethic and devotion.
Past Recipients
Past recipients of the award include:
- 2011 - Roy King, City National Bank, Sulphur Springs
- 2011 - Janice Spooner, First National Bank of Weatherford (Rising Star Award)
- 2011 - Elizabeth May, American Bank of Commerce, Bonham (Lifetime Community Star Award)
- 2010 - Juan Carlos Guerra, The First National Bank of Hebbronville
- 2010 - Cindy Robertson, American Bank of Texas, NA, Marble Falls
- 2010 - C. Brett McDowell, HCSB-A State Banking Assn', Kerrville (Rising Star Award)
- 2009 - Tammy Mitchell, Texas Bank and Trust, Longview (Rising Star Award)
- 2009 - Steven Harker, Sterling Bank, Houston
- 2009 - Kim McGlone, United Bank of El Paso del Norte
- 2009 - Christi Cornel, TrustTexas Bank, SSB, Cuero (Rising Star Award)
- 2008 - Ron Taylor, Fort Hood National Bank ( Financial Literacy)
- 2008 - Pamela DeCeault, Kilgore National Bank
- 2008 - Mark Herndon, First Liberty National Bank, Dayton
- 2008 - Jessie Garcia, American Bank, Dallas (Rising Star Award)
- 2008 - Diane Johnson, First National Bank, Weatherford (Rising Star Award)
- 2007 - Karen Partee, Texas Bank & Trust, Longview (Rising Star Award)
- 2007 - Cindy Dickens, First Bank, Farmersville
- 2007 - Brent Futrell, First State Bank, Dumas
- 2007 - Betty Jo Fox, First National Bank, Byers
- 2006 - Rosie Perez, National Bank of Texas, Fort Worth
- 2006 - Lilia Escajeda, Amarillo National Bank
- 2005 - Cindy Larance, First State Bank, Stratford


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London, February 11(ANI): Researchers say brain scans could reveal whether new couples will be together for the long term.
Looking at the patterns in the brain activity of volunteers who had recently fallen in love, scientist found they could predict whether the couples would be together three years later.
The findings showed even if volunteers believed they were in passionately love when their brains were scanned, by examining their neuron activity scientists could detect whether those feelings were strong enough for the relationship to last, the Daily Mail reported.
Volunteers were shown photographs of their partner and were asked to think of memories of them while their brains were scanned.
Where volunteers' brains showed more activity in the caudate tail area - which reacts emotionally to visual beauty - but less in the medial orbitofrontal cortex - the area linked to criticism and judgement - their relationships tended to last.
Surprisingly the pleasure centres of the brain were less active in the brains of couples who stayed together.
Of the 12 participants studied, half of them remained with their partner at the end of the three-year period.
Factors present early in the early stages of romantic love seem to play a major role in the development and longevity of the relationship, said Xiaomeng Xu, the lead author of the study at Brown University in Rhode Island.
"Our data provides preliminary evidence that neural responses in the early stages of romantic love can predict relationship stability and quality up to 40 months later," he added.
Professor Arthur Aron, a social psychologist at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York said the research could have a practical application in helping people having relationship problems. (ANI)


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A Clinical Trial With Influenza A/H1N1 Vaccines
This study has been completed.
Sinovac Biotech Co., Ltd
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First received: August 10, 2009
Last updated: October 28, 2009
Last verified: October 2009
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|Study Status:
|This study has been completed.
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Wu J, Li W, Wang HQ, Chen JT, Lv M, Zhou JC, Liang XF, Fang HH, Liu Y, Liu LY, Wang X, Zhang WL, Zhang XM, Song LF, Qiu YZ, Li CG, Wang JZ, Wang Y, Yin WD. A rapid immune response to 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccines in adults: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. J Infect Dis. 2010 Sep 1;202(5):675-80. doi: 10.1086/655226.
Liang XF, Wang HQ, Wang JZ, Fang HH, Wu J, Zhu FC, Li RC, Xia SL, Zhao YL, Li FJ, Yan SH, Yin WD, An K, Feng DJ, Cui XL, Qi FC, Ju CJ, Zhang YH, Guo ZJ, Chen PY, Chen Z, Yan KM, Wang Y. Safety and immunogenicity of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 vaccines in China: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2010 Jan 2;375(9708):56-66. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)62003-1. Epub 2009 Dec 15. Erratum in: Lancet. 2010 May 15;375(9727):1694.


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Cannot boot after BIOS settings lost
My parents, for whom I have in the past set up computers running Ubnutu 11.10, had a power cut last night, after which they cannot boot one of the networked three computers in the house. Unfortunately, that is the computer on which all their documents are stored (there is a backup, but that is all in Deja Dup's compressed format).
The BIOS's battery seems to be flat, as, after the 5 hour power cut, the BIOS settings were lost. I was able, over the telephone, to tell my father what the correct BIOS settings were such that he was able to get past the "insert correct boot device" message, but there is now a new and more puzzling problem.
The computer is a little old, and uses a P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard. The onboard IDE controller seems to have stopped functioning properly a while ago, so we had been using the add-on Promise controller, in non-RAID mode. D1 is the boot drive, an SSD, and D0 is a separate hard drive containing all the documents. The boot configuration is now set for D1 to be the boot drive.
When Linux is booted, the correct Ubuntu loading screen is shown, but the session eventually drops into a "busybox" shell without getting as far as the login screen. From either there or a recovery session, it is apparent that the filesysetm shown is not the filesystem that is actually on the boot device: /etc/fstab does not exist, for example; /root is empty, and there is no /home (which would normally be mounted as the additional HDD). There is also no /mnt or /backup which are root level directories which I had created.
After a failed start or two, the GRUB screen presented itself, and the option of a recovery mode was made available. When this was selected, there was, I am told, a printed error message in the system messages relating to being unable to mount a drive "by-uuid/[many seemingly random digits that my father did not read, which I am presuming is a UUID]".
I am afraid that I am somewhat puzzled by this, or how to correct it (which is made more difficult by the fact that I am not next to the computer to interact with it directly).
Does anyone have any ideas as to what the trouble might be, or how to go about investigating it further/fixing it? I should be very grateful indeed for any thoughts.
Remove hard disk and buy another - a working computer and install the disk. At least you will save your data. If on your father computer is Windows installed it may not work at all. Even a slight change of a hardware configuration may cause Windows to stop to boot.
No, Windows is not installed on any of the computers in the house; and it was working before the power cut, so it seems rather soon to give up on it now, especially since my parents have recently bought an entirely new computer to replace another that had decidedly failed (motherboard - vintage 2002 - capacitors gone). The next step if the problem cannot be fixed directly is simply to reformat and re-install Linux on the OS drive, leaving the separate drive with the documents intact; but it would be heplful if there might be a means of finding a solution rather less drastic.
If me. I would try
Hmm, good idea - I'll tell my father to give that a try.
At the cost of a download and a cdr disk. A live Parted Magic Iso with a current Gparted will do a fsck through Gparted after booting up live. Just be sure to unmount any partitions before you are going to run a fsck on.
I remember a post also where a SlaX CD was good for this also
Ahh, thank you for the tip. Does the Ubuntu Live CD have such a tool?
Yeah, but in that Ubuntu thread I posted They complain that the Ubuntu live CD does not do the job as well as Slax or Parted Magic.
Edit: There is a bug report on that.
Interesting - thank you for that. I have told him to use the sudo shutdown -rF command for the time being - will that assist, do you think?
Don't know since I don't run Ubuntu as you can see from my profile.
For me I keep a Parted Magic live CD like a wrench in a toolbox for situations like this when a improper shutdown scrambles a file system.
I have repaired my ext2 USB Puppy Linux installs when improper shutdown corrupted my pendrive and boot would not happen. Just be sure file system is unmounted, (I can't stress that enough), because you will damage the partition even further if it is mounted when doing a fsck.
Hmm - I think that that is the purpose of the shutdown/reboot fsck procedure - to run when unmounted. I don't have a Parted Magic live CD, but I might be able to give my father instructions to create one; but that might take some time.
How would one run fsck from a Parted Magic live CD (bearing in mind that I shall have to give instructions to my father by telephone or by e-mail, and I have not used the software before)?
Just open Gparted. Right click on the Partition you want to check. If mounted pick unmount in right click menu. Then after it processes. Right click the partition again and pick Check from the menu.
Simple and easy.
Lovely, thank you for that. I shall tell my father to do that if the reboot fsck fails. Thank you for your help.
No FSCK result yet, but I gave my father a Gparted disc recently, and he reports that it tells him the following on bootup:
How does one instigate a filesystem check when booting from a Gparted disc?
Thank you for your help with this!
In the Picture. See how unmount is greyed out. That means trhe partition is unmounted and it is safe to do the check. If not greyed out. He needs to hit that first to unmount the partition first. Then proceed to do the check.
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TEMECULA —— The Elsinore Woman's Club annual steak barbecue will be a bit more spicy this year with the incorporation of a chili cookoff, a fund-raising event the group began last year.
This year's event goes from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the clubhouse, 710 W. Graham St. So far, six contestants have registered for the chili cookoff. There is room for 10 entrants. Entry fee is $25. Prizes will be awarded for the best chili and best-decorated booth. Samples of chili will be available at 25 cents for a taste and 50 cents for a bowl.
"This is open to all," publicity chairwoman Carol Pollock said. "All that is necessary is to make a batch of chili."
Call 674-5567 or 245-0421 to register. A small cash prize will be awarded.
Some entrants are creative. Last year, Elsinore Valley Arts Network members prepared a green chili they dubbed "Galactica Chili" and dressed in space-style costumes. The local historical society dressed in red, white and blue.
Accompanying the chili cookoff will be the club's annual steak barbecue. About 100 people are expected to attend the event, which will feature grilled-to-order steaks, accompanied by salad, rolls and, for an additional cost, chili. Tickets are $7.
Proceeds benefit woman's club projects such as scholarships, support local causes and maintenance of the clubhouse.
Saturday's event also will feature entertainment by The Blacksmith Boys.
"It's a wonderful band with really good music, country and bluegrass," Pollack said.


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Nokia Lumia 920, the most advanced Nokia phone since ever! People from everywhere have been rushing to get their hands on this unique, and innovative handset. Today, Nokia Conversations listed 12 awards that the Nokia Lumia 920 won in the year of 2012, we will be stating them briefly.
- The Top Smartphone of 2012, V3, UK
- The Best Mobile Phone of 2012, Readers Choice Award, Gizmodo, Australia.
- iF Award for Outstanding Design, International Forum Design, Germany
- Mobil Award for Best Smartphone Design, Mobile Magazine, Denmark
- Best Smartphones of 2012, The Next Web, USA
- Top Score Award, Mobil, Sweden
- The Best High End Smartphones for the Holidays, CNET, USA
- Best Productivity Phone, Best Camera Phone, Best Mapping Phone, Best Windows Phone, Runner up, Arstechnic, USA
- Top 25 Tech of 2012, Mashable, USA
- Top Smartphone of the Year, Mybroadband, South Africa
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- "Probably the most advanced smartphone on the market", The Independent, UK
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Late season veggies are showing up at the market
August 19, 2014
The Glenwood Downtown Market heads into its 11th week from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday in Centennial Park in downtown Glenwood Springs. Summer is slowly cooling off, and this time of year brings an abundance of different varieties of tomatoes, potatoes, squash, peppers, sweet corn, purple and white kohlrabi and greens. You'll find peaches, apricots, early apples, jams and jellies. The vendors are happy to share suggestions on how to prepare the types of vegetables that are less common.
Will Kogler, from Fresh Bread and Pastries, offers a large array of goodies: 10 different breads, strudels, pretzels, croissants, danish, muffins and scones.
New this year to the market is Scott "Papa Lindsey" with his handmade batiks. Scott has been in the business of creating colorful and original batiks using the ancient method of hot wax dye — but with a "modern twist," for over 20 years. He had been concentrating his efforts on wholesales and festivals, but now has come back to the simpler life of markets. His T-shirts and other batiks items are truly originals.
Literacy Outreach will be there this week to answer questions about its program. Literacy Outreach creates hope and opportunity for adults who struggle with basic literacy skills. These skills include reading, writing and English as a Second Language. Volunteers are always welcome.
Cynthia Cyr will show the steps to making great organic jams, from start to finish at 5:30 p.m. under the cooking demonstration tent. Using the correct methods and ingredients is crucial to having a great and delicious product. She will have a question and answer session at the end of the demonstration along with handouts showing the equipment needed, and a few recipes as well. The Cooking Demonstration is sponsored by Town and The Pullman restaurants.
Tony Rosario brings more than entertainment to the table this week in the music tent. With or without his band, a unique, down-to-earth outlook on the American lifestyle can be heard through his relaxed vocal style and seasoned songwriting. Combining folk, Americana and country with an original rock and soul feel, Tony Rosario intrigues and captivates any audience the whole night through. Music begins at 5:30 p.m. and is sponsored this week by Carpet One.
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Join your friends and neighbors and visitors at the Glenwood Downtown Market where you will find the freshest summer produce while enjoying local art, music, food and friends.
Visit the Downtown Market website for events and information, including a list of local sponsors for the 2014 at http://www.glenwoodmarket.com.


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National Liner LLC has introduced a trenchless rehabilitation lining process that uses see-through PVC panels to rehabilitate circular pipes, box culverts and structures of other shapes.
The 3S Segment Panel System uses translucent, PVC panels bolted together inside the pipe to form an inner pipe, said Ray Pavlic, National Liner director of marketing and sales.
"This is a new process for rehabilitation of large diameter pipes and box culverts," Pavlic pointed out. "PVC segment panels can be used in pipes ranging from 48 to 120 inches in diameter and are designed for optimal application to the conditions of the host pipe or structure. They are light in weight and can be hand carried into the pipe – no large machinery or complicated equipment is required for construction."
See through segment panels make it easy to visually confirm grouting of the annular cavity is complete and without voids. Assembled rings can accommodate a joint offset of up to two percent and joint gaps up to six inches. Angular changes in alignment of up to 3 degrees can be made in the field.
"Minimal flow of wastewater is no hindrance to installation of the panels which can be installed in flow depths of up to 10 inches," Pavlic continued. "If necessary, temporary cessation of the installation process is possible."
Classification, approvals
Pavlic said the panels meet approval of the UK's WRc Group (a research-based group providing consultancy in the water, waste and environment sectors) as Type 1 sewer rehabilitation technique. In the United States, the panel system is classified as a grout in place liner (GIPL).
"The PVC material used in the panels has been shown to be equal or superior in abrasion resistance to the performance of typical PVC wastewater piping," Pavlic said, "and has passed the 'pickle jar' chemical resistance testing required by the Los Angeles Greenbook."
Design calculations take into account the residual strength of the existing pipe and panels which enable rehabilitated pipe to be stronger than the original pipe when new, Pavlic explained. Once joined panels are in place inside the pipe or structure, grout is injected between the host and the panel segments.
"An economic analysis of the cost of installing this system compared to CIPP for relatively short runs of pipe shows the segmental panel system to be the clear winner," Pavlic stressed. "In addition, where access is limited and the cost of sinking shafts becomes excessive, longer runs also can be most cost effective."
Pavlic said a recent inspection of a 72 inch run of the system installed in Orlando, FL, in 2005 "looks as good as the day it was installed."
"We believe," said Pavlic, "introduction of the 3S Segment Panel process combined with National Liner's CIPP technology for mains and lateral lining, offers municipalities a complete line of products and processes to rehabilitate and extend the life of their sewer systems."
The 3S segment paneling system is manufactured in Japan by Shonan Plastic Mfg. Co. Ltd. and is available in the United States from National Liner through its licensed installers.
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British & Irish Cup Pool Three: Bedford Blues 29 (14) Llanelli 24 (10)
Bedford Blues managed their first victory of the season with a 29-24 triumph against Llanelli in their second British & Irish Cup clash at Goldington Road this afternoon, writes Ted Kemplen.
An all-round strong team performance from the Blues saw them score five tries against their Welsh visitors through Ollie Dodge, Mike Howard, Michael Le Bourgeois, Charlie Clare and Neville Edwards.
James Pritchard also kicked two conversions for the Blues, while Llanelli got their points through two tries by Aaron Warren and one from Darran Harris, with Josh Lewis kicking a penalty and two conversions and substitute Johnny Lewis adding one.
Llanelli opened the scored through Josh Lewis' penalty, which he confidently converted from close to the half way line.
Their lead didn't last long though as, after a break from Blues scrum-half Luke Baldwin had led to a lineout, Clare powered over with Pritchard adding the extras.
That led to a spell of dominance for the Blues from the forwards as Don Barrell and Paul Tupai battled well as Dodge was slipped in by Mark Atkinson. Dodge, making his 151st game for the Blues, dived over between the posts, as Pritchard easily embellished the score.
Ten minutes later Llanelli replied to Bedford's early onslaught by getting over through Warren, with Josh Lewis converting to make it 14-10.
The remainder of the half saw Bedford drop down to 13 men as, after Pritchard received a yellow for kicking the ball away following a Llanelli attack, Darren Fox received the same punishment after he was deemed to have purposely tripped an opponent.
Llanelli tried to make the most of their two-man advantage, but the Blues showed real pedigree to go into the break still ahead.
There were no alterations at the interval and Bedford held the crowd in awe as they stuck it to the visitors, with Nick Fenton-Wells, on his return from injury, powering a move that saw Le Bourgeois cross to make it 19-10.
There was uproar from the crowd as the Goldington Road faithful waited for Pritchard and Fox to be allowed back on, as Pritchard finally returned seven minutes into the second half with Fox following two minutes later.
Bedford defended well as they waited for the pair to return, with Le Bourgeois and Dodge scrambling well to stop a Llanelli break in the 46th minute.
However, there were more moans from the home crowd as a series of second half decisions seemed to go against them.
The Blues didn't let the referee's calls influence them though as Jake Sharp flew through a gap in the Llanelli line to slip in Howard and he tumbled over the line to make it 24-10.
Substitutions then flowed as Llanelli looked beaten. However, they regrouped and gained a lifeline on 63 minutes when Harris outpaced Pritchard to score and Josh Lewis converted.
Harris inspired some fight from the away side but, when Pritchard broke down the right and was taken out, karma prevailed as the Blues worked it to the other side for Edwards to dive over and make it 29-17.
Llanelli fought hard in the last 10 minutes and got some reward right before the end when Warren nipped over the line and Johnny Lewis added the extras with the last kick of the game as Bedford prevailed 29-24.
Blues: Nick Auterac (Phil Boulton, 55), Charlie Clare, Ben Cooper (Darren Fearn, 55), Mike Howard (Ben Gulliver, 65), Paul Tupai, Don Barrell, Darren Fox (Nico Steenkamp, 72), Nick Fenton-Wells (Darryl Veenendaal, 65), Luke Baldwin (Sacha Harding, 65), Jake Sharp, James Pritchard (C), Mark Atkinson (Neville Edwards, 51), Brendan Burke, Ollie Dodge, Michael Le Bourgeois. T: Dodge, Le Bourgeois, Edwards, Clare, Howard. C: Pritchard 2.
Llanelli: Gareth Thomas (Rhys Thomas,73), Darran Harris, Aled Hopkins (Dean Howells, 55), Llewellyn Jones, Richard Kelly (C, Craig Hawkins, 80), Lewis Rawlins, Dan Thomas, Sion Bennet (Duane Edgar, 15), Aled Davies (Josh Adams, 60), Josh Lewis (Johnny Lewis, 69), Aaron Warren, Adam warren, Dylan Morgan, Steffan Evans, Dion Jones. T: Warren 2, Harris. P: Josh Lewis. C: Josh Lewis 2, Johnny Lewis.
Referee: Gary Conway.
Touch Judges: Luke Haskins and Darryl Chapman.
Attendance: 2,603.
Star Blue: Charlie Clare. Battled hard for his try as he put in a fearless performance.