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Mr. Speaker, in order to inform parliamentarians and Canadians on the government's overall performance, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, on behalf of departments and agencies, 92 performance reports for 2008-09 and their companion piece, a report entitled, "Canada's Performance".
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Patrick Kane set up Johnny Oduya's goal late in the second period and then got the decisive score in the shootout, leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.
Corey Crawford stopped 29 shots to help the Blackhawks end a two-game losing streak after they set an NHL record by getting at least a point in each of their first 24 games.
Jack Johnson scored the tying goal for Columbus 52 seconds after Oduya put Chicago ahead, and Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 39 saves for the Blue Jackets, who set a franchise record by picking up a point in their ninth game in a row.
Columbus, 5-0-4 in its point streak, has reached overtime in eight of the last nine games.
Crawford and Bobrovsky traded sterling saves in a wild, end-to-end game.
A crowd of 15,009, including a large percentage of Chicago fans, gave both teams a lengthy standing ovation after they swapped scoring chances in a blizzard of offensive moves - followed by outstanding work by the goalies.
Columbus' Artem Anisimov and Chicago's Jonathan Toews each scored to open the shootout. After Crawford stopped Ryan Johansen, Kane moved in slowly on Bobrovsky and then lifted a backhander into the net. Crawford then stopped Derick Brassard's attempt before he could even threaten.
With the score tied at 1 in the third, the Blackhawks turned up the heat and dominated play in the opening minutes of the period.
Bobrovsky made yet another big save when a ricochet ended up on the stick of Brandon Bollig just right of the cage. Bobrovsky gloved the shot from 12 feet away.
Crawford then fought off a rising wrister by Anisimov to keep the score tied.
The Blackhawks, 11-1-0 coming in when scoring first, took the lead at 16:45 of the second, thanks to a spectacular set-up pass from Kane. From near the end of the right blue line, he saucered a pass through two defenders all the way across the ice to the left circle to Oduya who was racing to the net. The defenseman settled the puck and then beat Bobrovsky high on the stick side.
The goal broke a 39-game drought for Oduya. It was also Kane's 400th career point (140 goals, 260 assists in 426 games).
Not long after Sheldon Brookbank headed for the penalty box for holding, the Blue Jackets evened it with a power-play goal.
Derick Brassard won a faceoff in the circle to Crawford's right, with the puck sliding to the high slot. Johnson stepped into it for a hard one-timer for his fourth of the year.
The Blue Jackets came in ranked 29th in the NHL with a man advantage.
Bobrovsky had a goal-saving stop just 2 minutes in when he smothered a point-blank one-timer from Andrew Shaw.
Crawford also made a glittering save in the scoreless first period when he gloved Fedor Tyutin's blast from the left point despite congestion in front of the net.
Columbus' previous mark of eight games in a row with points (4-0-2-2) came from Jan. 15 to Feb. 6, 2009.
NOTES: Just before the start, the Blue Jackets reassigned C Nick Drazenovic to their AHL affiliate in Springfield, Mass. ... Chicago won the teams' first three meetings, winning all three by a goal. ... During the first break early in the game, the Blue Jackets' move to the Eastern Conference (along with Detroit) was heralded on the center-ice monitors. ... The Blackhawks began a four-game road trip that will also take them to Dallas, Colorado and Anaheim.
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Ok, i have been using lisp for a while, and have already 'embraced the parentheses'. I like the high level of whitespace in well indented with the syntax attractive. And if used well, it is very clear. And if done badly it will look bad, just like parentheses alone. Imo the only point of the code is to represent the tree, and this can do that. It isn't very complicated either.
I do not think i will use it though, at least i will convert every time it goes into a project, since if i do not want to inconvenience people when i share code. A smaller factor is the (a priory expected)remote chance of a problem two contexts in contact with each other both equally having 'rights' to the syntax.(As explained before) In such case, of course the developer could just choose, but in teams this might lead to whining about conventions.
I will probably look into paredit once i guess. However, i think for me, at least, dominant factors of the speed of development are psychological(motivation, etc) and actual solving of problems.
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Here are a few tips that will help you make the most of trading in your vehicle.
Real estate agents will tell you to do certain things to make your home more saleable, such as applying a fresh coat of paint in worn areas, emptying closets and cleaning out the clutter to create the perception of spaciousness. These simple things can improve the overall perceived value of your home, making your asking price more acceptable.
The same holds true for your car as you're getting ready to trade it in. When you include your used vehicle or truck as part of the negotiated price for a new vehicle, the dealer will be challenged with another sale before he realizes the full value of the transaction. The more saleable your vehicle appears to the dealer, the more you can expect to get for your trade-in. Needed and obvious repairs will immediately become deductions from what a dealer will be able to offer you as a wholesale price for the vehicle. Here are a few simple things you can do to improve your vehicle's trade-in value.
First Impressions are Lasting Ones
How your vehicle looks at a glance sets the first impression. A thorough wash and wax job can help restore the luster to your vehicle, making it look years younger than it is. Clean often overlooked spots such as doorframes, trunk edges and wheel wells. These are places that hide dirt and most likely will be noticed by a dealer.
Vacuum Top to Bottom
A clean vehicle is a sign of a well-cared-for-vehicle. You can't spend enough time vacuuming and cleaning the interior. Cotton swabs are ideal for getting dust out of tight spots and air vents. Use lint-free towels or cloth diapers and clean water to wipe down the dash and console area. A stiff-bristled brush will help to get dirt out of the carpet. For stubborn stains, use a small amount of carpet cleaner, but don't over-saturate the carpet. Make sure the carpet is completely dry before closing up the vehicle.
Make it Wheel Clean
The wheels are often forgotten but what a difference they can make to the appearance of your vehicle. Dealers will take note of the condition of your wheels, so make sure they're clean and in good shape. Front wheels usually will look dirtier, because of an accumulation of brake dust from the disc brakes. Several car cleaning products help remove brake dust, but choose the right product for your type of wheel or wheel cover because there are different products for alloy wheels and plastic wheel covers.
Tires and Treads
Your tires should be in good condition and have a reasonable amount of tread remaining; otherwise you may want to consider replacing them. Swap out a full-size spare if you have one that's in better condition. It's smart to apply one of the spray-on tire protectants found in most auto parts stores. These formulas revitalize the rubber and leave even war-torn tires looking showroom new.
It's all in the Details
You may want to have your vehicle professionally detailed. The $100 to $300 expense can add significantly more to the trade-in price a dealer may offer. You also should inquire whether the detailing shop can steam clean the engine compartment. To find a reputable detailing shop, call the service department at your dealership to see whom they use for their detailing work.
Inoperative Parts and Emission Standards
It's relatively easy to replace a broken headlight or a cracked lens on a taillight or turn signal. These types of obvious damage can detract significantly from the value of the vehicle and because they're inexpensive to remedy, it's best to have them fixed in advance. Also be sure you can produce a current and valid emissions standards document stating that your vehicle complies with local environmental regulations
Have Minor Body Damage Repaired
Depending on the extent of the body damage, you may want to have minor dents and dings repaired by a paintless dent repair professional. They also can airbrush small scratches and chips to eliminate the minor imperfections in your car's exterior. For more extensive body damage, you may want to get a written repair estimate and use this as part of your negotiations
Repair or Replace a Cracked Windshield
If your windshield has a chip or crack, it may be repairable you should get it fixed or have the windshield replaced. This is something a dealer will have to fix due to the liability of selling the vehicle to another customer. If you're not sure whether the crack is significant enough to warrant a complete replacement, have a windshield repair shop evaluate whether the crack can be economically repaired.
Pull Together Copies of all Your Service Records
A complete set of service records will show that you took care of the vehicle and provided the proper scheduled maintenance. This will help increase the trade-in offer if the dealer knows that the vehicle was properly maintained. If you've had all your service work performed at the dealership, the records should be in the service department's computer system and you can ask for a printout of all service work performed. If you carry and Added Security Extended Warranty, present this to your dealer. This policy may be transferable and can add to the current value of your trade in.
Many factors will determine how much a dealer can offer for your trade-in, such as blue book value, mileage and vehicle popularity, but the condition and cosmetic appearance of your vehicle is something you can affect. Service records will demonstrate to a dealer that the vehicle was maintained properly, but absent a complete set of service records, the cosmetic appearance will be a significant factor in determining how much you get for your trade-in.
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The difficulty is that the products we sell are somewhat generic challenging our feable creativity. Although to us they are exciting to us once printed, we are well aware they are not really exciting to look at until printed (yes, we think barcodes are very cool!).
Most of our clients know what they are looking for when they come to our site. They do have something in mind. The graphics need to help assure them they are in the right place and quickly.
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First post in the forum and i am a beginner as far as programming is concerned. The task is to read in a text file that has the size of the maze in the first line then maze follows. The out put im looking for is true that i did escape the maze but i am only seeing false or out of ArrayOutOfBoundsError when i am positive it is still inbound.
Any feedback is very much appreciated.
public class Maze { // public static char map[][]; public Maze(int row, int col, char map[][]) { Main.row = row; Main.col = col; Main.map = map; System.out.println(map[row][col]); } public boolean excape(int row, int col) { boolean exit = false; if(isValid(row, col)) { Main.map[row][col] = Main.WALL; if (row == Main.map.length-1 && col == Main.map[0].length-1) exit = true; //the maze is solved else { exit = excape(row+1, col); //down if (!exit) exit = excape(row, col+1); //right if (!exit) exit = excape(row-1, col); //up if (!exit) exit = excape(row, col-1); //left } } return exit; } public boolean isValid(int row, int col) { if(row <9 || col< 9 ) { } return true; }


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We all benefit from transit, and we should all pay for it.
Our view: Gas tax opponents are wrong to claim that spending more on public transit shortchanges motorists (or anyone else living in Maryland)
Opponents of the effort to raise Maryland's gas tax have thrown around a lot of ridiculous claims in recent weeks, from the argument that the money isn't really needed (if anything, the projected $600 million-a-year return is not enough to meet Maryland's future transportation needs) to hand-wringing over local transportation aid that was diverted toward balancing the state budget during the depths of the recession — as if using the money to spare cuts to schools or avoid tax increases wasn't preferable to pot hole repairs.
Oh, and here's a favorite. Raising the gas tax in a manner that will result in more revenue to the state as prices rise puts the tax, as Del. Herbert McMillan claims, on "autopilot and locks us out of the cockpit." (Heavens, imagine a tax that rose with inflation. Let's see, sales, personal income, corporate income, property, transfer…).
But the latest criticism smacks of something worse than the customary short-sighted single-mindedness of anti-tax crusaders. Some opponents say not a penny of gas tax money should be spent on public transportation, which should instead be self-sustaining.
What makes this claim particularly laughable is that gas tax opponents insist they want to look out for low-income families. They argue that working people end up paying a higher percentage of their income toward gasoline taxes than high-earners — and that's true, although the same could surely be said of the sales tax and many other consumption-related taxes and fees.
But what about those who can't afford a car at all? For mass transit to be self-sustaining, fares would have to be astronomical. Would a 400-to-500 percent increase be enough? Considering the immediate drop-off in ridership it would cause, probably not.
Do we really want to make it more difficult for poor people to hold jobs? That's not the only purpose of public transit, of course, but it's certainly among its most vital functions. Without buses, light rail and subway to connect low-income workers with employment, particularly in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, poverty and government-dependence would spike. Putting more people on the dole isn't usually the goal of anti-tax crusaders.
But really, it's worse than that. To suggest that spending on public transit is inherently wasteful is not only unfair but inaccurate. Maryland traffic congestion is already ranked among the worst in the nation. How much worse would it be if not for transit? A full bus may take 60 cars off the road, a full rail car 200.
Public transit provides rides for hundreds of thousands of commuters each day. Without that option, the state would have to be build hundreds more miles of roads to accommodate the traffic — adding as much as 71 percent more lane miles in some areas, according to one 1999 report on Maryland's transit potential.
In a small state where adding, or even widening, roads may cause serious disruption, displace homeowners and cost billions of dollars, paving one's way out of traffic congestion isn't always a desirable option. That transit is more fuel efficient, produces less greenhouse gases and is better for the environment ought to factor in that decision, too.
It's no shock that much of the opposition to the higher gas tax — and on spending that money on public transit projects like Baltimore's Red Line — comes from the rural parts of the state where transit plays a much smaller role. One would hope such lawmakers would see the benefit in keeping the state's urban and suburban centers economically viable, but that doesn't seem to factor into their thinking.
Of course, Maryland could keep separate pots of money for transportation to make sure taxpayers got a one-to-one benefit for what they paid in. But that's a kind of accounting that would hurt rural counties most. How could you justify some expensive bridge or bypass in a sparsely populated Eastern Shore county when most of the gas tax revenue comes from Central Maryland?
We'd be the first to admit that raising the gas tax isn't a cure-all for financing the state's long-term transportation infrastructure demands, particularly as vehicles continue to become more fuel efficient and consumption of gasoline slows and perhaps even drops. But for now, raising the gas tax from its 21-year-old rate — as the House of Delegates agreed to do last week and a majority of the Senate is likely to do soon — is a reasonable step toward meeting Maryland's most pressing transportation needs in the near-term, including its vital transit lines.


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The entire night sky before you -- what a wonderful thought. Yet this will never be unless you are an astronaut. An entire planet blocks half the sky. Ever wonder what shines under our feet, on the other side of this planet we call our home?
The entire night sky before you -- what a wonderful thought. Yet this will never be unless you are an astronaut. An entire planet blocks half the sky. Ever wonder what shines under our feet, on the other side of this planet we call our home?
There was a cartoon one time about a young boy in a department store asking his mother about the escalator: "What happens when the basement fills up with steps?"
Most realize that when the stars set in the west, they don't just collect -- or may be that is where the sun comes from? All the stars of the night set in the west and pile up and make a big ball of light for the other side of the world where it's daytime. Not exactly!
The earth beneath our feet hides stars we see at night only temporarily, as we spin around daily and night returns. A section of the sky below our feet, however, never rises in the east and is locked from our view. This is the far southern sky, observable only as we travel south down around the globe. As we do, the northern sky behind us descends, and once we reach the equator, the famous North Star is just about right on the horizon. Any farther south, the North Star is not seen at all.
The full sky -- surrounding our planet -- is referred to as the "Celestial Sphere." It took thousands of years for mankind to discern that the stars are not actually fixed points of light on a literal sphere, in which our world was in the center. It appears to be that way, however, just as at first glance our world seems to be flat.
That entire sphere looks like it is revolving around a point in the north, the "North Celestial Pole," where the North Star (Polaris) happens to be very close by. This point is where Earth's axis of rotation points. At any given latitude, such as where I live at 42 degrees North, the North Celestial pole is that many degrees off the north horizon. At the North Pole, the North Celestial Pole is straight up, or 90 degrees from the horizon. An entire region of the sky never sets below the horizon -- within that many degrees. As seen from where I live, for instance, all the stars and their constellations within 42 degrees of the North Celestial Pole constantly miss the flat horizon.
Constellations always above my North horizon are the Great Bear (which contains the Big Dipper), the Little Bear (or Little Dipper), Cassiopeia the Queen, Cepheus the King, Draco the Dragon and a faint star group Camelopardalis, the Giraffe. These are referred to as our "North Circumpolar" stars.
The stars we NEVER see from any given latitude are found within the exact opposite portion of sky, with the same amount of degrees from the opposite pole -- in this case, the South Celestial Pole.
Only from a flat area on the equator would you be able to see the entire Celestial Sphere, at one time or another.
Once Galileo introduced the telescope to astronomy in 1609, scientists were eager to study the skies beneath their feet. One of the first astronomers to take a telescope south of the equator was Edmond Halley, who sailed in November 1676 to the south Atlantic island of St. Helena. Here, Halley measured positions of 341 southern stars. Charting was greatly expanded by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751, when he catalogued 10,035 southern stars. Fixing southern stars charts became a priority, as celestial maps from below the equator had become chaotic, with assorted proposals for new constellations, which overlapped other claims.
I have yet to travel farther south than 18 degrees above the equator. Just from examining Southern hemisphere star charts, it is easy to see one's early views of the sky would be confusing. While the stars of course would still rise in the east and set in the west. The sky would have seemed to have partly "turned over." The familiar North Circumpolar stars would be gone. In the north, stars would appear to pass from right to left, as they go east to west. The orientation of constellations would be so strange you would not easily recognize them at first. Orion, for instance, would not be in the south in February but would be in the north -- upside down! Having learned all the constellations you could up North, your first visit to the South would bring you to virgin territory, looking south. The South Circumpolar stars would await your examination. Among them would be Crux the Southern Cross; Centaurus the centaur with its brightest star Alpha Centauri; Dorado the Swordfish; Antilla the Air Pump; Telescopium the Telescope; and of course Musca the Fly, to name just a few. Other highlights would be the brilliant southern portion of the Milky Way Band, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The latter look like detached pieces of the Milky Way Band but are actually small, nearby galaxies that orbit the Milky Way galaxy. These satellite galaxies are easily visible on a dark, clear night with out any optical aid.
You will note that there is no obvious "South Star" like our North Star. The brightest star close to the South Celestial Pole, about which the sky seems to revolve, is barely visible to unaided eyes, Sigma Octantis.
Astronomer Joahnn Bayer, in the early 17th century, created most of the Southern constellations that were eventually officially recognized. Most of them are named for sea creatures. To fill in regions, astronomer Lacaille fashioned 13 more constellations, breaking tradition and naming most of them for scientific instruments.
Have you ever seen the far Southern stars? I'd love to receive your impressions.
First-quarter moon is on March 4. From "Down Under," by the way, the Man in the Moon looks like he's standing on his head!
Did you know, the soles of your shoes and soles of shoes on a person on the exact other side of the world are facing each other? And yet, as you ponder the heavens, both of you ...
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Thanks, I think I know the issue. When icons are placed on the home screen via the composer function the themes don't work. Its what controls all animations, hiding docks etc. I used composer for that theme and not my others, hence this one does not work and my others do.
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Welcome to the forum, M.A.U.
Jim Scrivener's Learning Teaching (MacMillan) and Jeremy Harmer's The Practice of English language Teaching (Pearson Longman)are good places to start. One or the other (if not both) will almost certainly be on your reading list for the course. If you start reading one now, you will help prepare yourself for the course, and also pinpoint some areas where you may need to do some extra work, But don't think you have to master everything - that's what the course is for.
One of the parts of grammar that seems to cause many problems for beginning teachers is the tense system of English verbs. Rosemary Aitken's Teaching Tenses (ELB) is a very sound guide - and provides tips and materials that will be useful for you in your early days as a teacher.
You are wise to want to make yourself better able to deal with the course, but don't worry about becoming an expert before you start. You do not have to be an expert on English grammar before you start the course - you won't even be one at the end of the course! If you can identify the names of parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc), can identify most of the English verb forms (present simple, past progressive, present perfect, etc) and have some idea of how they are used, then you are well on the way. It is the job of your course providers to bring you up to the reqired level; all they are looking for initially is an understanding of how the language works at a level that might be expected of a person beginning a university undergraduate course.
You can always post specific questions you have here, or in the 'Ask a Teacher' forum. We'll do our best to help.
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Hello Peter!!Just dropping you a line, responding to your message, even though its pretty late.My father is Manuel Pereira DeCaires, and was born in Canico, Madeira to Jose Joao DeCaires and Graca Pereira.You can e-mail me if you want to chat about it, and if your family is related to mine somehow.I'm in Toronto, Canada, but lived in Madeira when I was young.Please feel free to drop me a line, any info is appreciated.Thanks!
Peter and Emanuela, as i was checking the site, i could not help but stop and focus on the subject matter of your names, and then when mentioned that some of your reltives are from canico, "bang" that did it. My dad Ricardo Caires Nobrega was born to the Caires/Nobrega household. My grandmother was a Caires from Canico. I have been to Madeira 3 or 4 times and researched my grandfathers side, but not my grandmothers side. Hope to do that later this year or next. Please post what you find, its rather exciting. I even have the coat of arms from the nobrega side and have had them made into full size flags, as i am in the advertising business. Good Luck, ill keep you posted.
Peter and Emanuela, as i was checking the site, i could not help but stop and focus on the subject matter of your names, and then when mentioned that some of your reltives are from canico, "bang" that did it. My dad Ricardo Caires Nobrega was born to the Caires/Nobrega household. My grandmother was a Caires from Canico. I have been to Madeira 3 or 4 times and researched my grandfathers side, but not my grandmothers side. Hope to do that later this year or next. Please post what you find, its rather exciting. I even have the coat of arms from the nobrega side and have had them made into full size flags, as i am in the advertising business. Good Luck, ill keep you posted.RICARDO CAIRES NOBREGA
Ola Ricardo!I don't know where you are living - I assume the U.S., - I myself grew up in Madeira, and I have the Caires coat-of-arms. Apparently, as far as I got to know, the Caires' date back to the 1400's in France when an Elizabeth Caires was married. The family moved to Spain, and eventually to Portugal (over time of course)and then settled in the new island of Madeira. The original name of course is DeCaires, but the "De" is being dropped off everywhere. My grandfather was Joao Jose DeCaires and he grew up in Canico and lived in Brazil - where he eventually died. I never spoke with him, and so much of the family history I could have gotten from him is now gone forever. If you ever find anything - let me know.As for the Nobregas, my dad Manuela Pereira DeCaires new them in Canico, I should ask him if he has any information that could be interesting to you.All the best, and thanks for replying to my message!!!
Sou brasileira e procuro parentes com sobrrenome Caires. O meu avô nasceu em Madeira e se chamava Manoel de Caires. Existem parentes morando na França e quando ele foi à Portugal que já faz muitos anos havia muitos parentes ainda lá. Ele já é falecido por isso eu não tenho mais informações. Me responda por favor o email é domeu filho e eu adoraria conhecer algum parente ou corresponder em qulaquer parte de mundo. Um abraço.
Do any of you guys have any relation to the DeCaires family from Canico that relocated to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1870's. My Great Grandfather was Manuel DeCaires from Papakolea Oahu. I am trying to locate my family origins in relation to Portugal. Anyone with info or help would much be appreciated. Much Alohas to all DeCaires's and Much aloha for help.
Kawika DeCaires
Well i live in Essex which is in England, my dad gabriel nobrega caires was raised in gaula in Madeira, which is where my name comes into my name, Peter Gabriel Ornelas Caires. My mum came from camara de lobos which is also in madeira, they both came here to england as well as some other family members on my dad's side. My family is very huge and you may even be a long lost cousin or distant relative, email me if you want.
I don't know if this will be much help but my great-grandmother was Leonara de Caires Martines. She was originally from Madeira so I'm told but came to the Hawaiian islands (then called the Sandwich Islands apparently) by ship when she was about two years old. She lived on the Big Island--I think her whole life. She married my great-grandfather ------- Martines and had 13 children. She died at 91 in Papaikou near Hilo over 30 years ago. I believe many of my distant relatives are still on the Big Island and scattered about the islands--my grandmother married a military man and moved to the mainland when she was about 21 years old. Her name was Anita Martines then Annette Dicks, then Annette Goddard. One other family name I'm aware of is Pacheco. I know one of my grandmother's brothers was a big labor union organizer.
I'd be very curious to learn more and to see the Caires coat of arms if anyone has anymore information about the de Caires from Madeira. Were they royalty? My grandmother told me (before she died) that my great grandmother was very, very interested in royalty and read up on a number of royal families when my grandmother was a young girl. Don't know how this relates, but it's what I remember.
Kimberly de Caires
Hi Kimberly,
You won't remember me, but I remember you. I am your mom's cousin Beverly. My mom, your aunt Vicky, was your grandmother Annette's sister.
Cousin Jacob's son Jason found your message on the internet. I wanted to connect with you to hopefully fill in some of the blanks for you........as best I can.
I am now living on the Big Island of Hawaii. Jacob lives here also and he and his wife live and own the home in Papaikou that your great-grandparents owned.
Jacob knows a lot about the family, and would probably be happy to talk to you.
I hope to hear from you soon.
I am trying to research my family name. I know my paternal grandfather was born in Maderia. His name was Joseph De Caires. I have his birthdate as March 8, 1895. When he came to America, he settled in Peabody, Massachusetts with his wife Mary Thomas. He dropped the "De" from our name. They had several children and the names I know are; Bernard P., Leonard F.(my father), Franklin G., Armando J., Theresa and Lita. Our family knows very little and I was elated to find this site after some research on the net. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I too am of De Caires desent, My Grandfather was Joseph De Caires born march 8th 1895. He married Mary Thomas and came to America, got rid of the De in the name and settled in Mass. Do you have a copy of the coat of arms? I cannot find it anywhere and am interested in my heritage but I have nothing to go on. any suggestions? My family is getting smaller year by year and I have no one to ask anymore.
My great grand father was Manoel de Caires b abt 1850 d abt 1910 he lived in then British Guiana now Guyana.
I don't know if he was born in B.G. or in Madeira?
He married Leopoldina D'Andrade in 1850 she died 23rd June 1921 she was 75 years old.
I would like any information about him and his family and how they came to British Guiana and his life there and where he was from in Madeira.
Also about great grandmother Leopoldina D'Andrade and how her family came to British Guiana.
He had a brother Joseph S. deCaires b 1880 who went to Venezuela. Does anyone know of Joseph's life in Venezuela?
Thanks so much Maggie.
Looking for information on Manoel de Caires b abt 1850 d abt 1910 he lived in then British Guiana now Guyana.
I don't know if he was born in B.G. or in Madeira?
He married Leopoldina D'Andrade in 1850 she died 23rd June 1921 she was 75 years old.
I would like any information about him and his family and how they came to British Guiana and his life there and where he was from in Madeira.
Also about his wife Leopoldina D'Andrade and how her family came to British Guiana.
His brother Joseph S. deCaires b 1880 in Guyana about the 1900's went to Venezuela. Does anyone know of Joseph's life in Venezuela?
Thanks so much Maggie.
Hi, I just discovered in my mom's safety deposit box a letter from the 1930s inquiring about my great-grandfather in Hawaii. It mentioned that my mom's grandfather was born in 1883 and was a DeCaires. Somewhere along the way his name got misspelled as Dekidos. His first name was Domingo. According to my mom he was brought to California as a small boy to live with his older sister. His father returned to Hawaii and that was the last anyone saw of him. My mother is unable to recall any other details about his family except that they definitely were from Madeira originally. Can anyone shed any light on this matter? I think it quite possible I have some relatives in Hawaii that have been lost to follow-up for over a century.
Am curious.
aye... my name is Matthew de Caires (from Trinidad & Tobago)
my grandfather came from madeira when he was very young i believe he had one or two brothers... his name is joseph de caires. I will however find out his father's name and some more information asap.
Also could someone send me a picture of this coat of arms... i would really like to see
I am looking descendants of Joseph Phelps, b.24.9.1791 Fegueria,Madeira, m 17.8.1819 Elizabeth Dickinson, b.18.11.1795.
They have 11 sons.The eldest Elizabetn Phelps,spinster, she was created the Madeira Embroideries.
I need to know Charles Phelps, wife's name, one of the sons, the eighth, b.1833,Madeira +1911 England.
He was a Portuguese woman and she is Maria Antónia.I don't know the surname.They are no children.
I need the surname of this Maria Antónia
Thank you for any information
I am also a de Caires trying to trace my Portuguese roots. My grandfather whose name was Jose Gomes de Caires came from Madeira between the late 1800's and early 1900's. He came to an island in the West Indies called Trinidad and settled there. As typical Portuguese of that time he went into business and owned a bar plus agricultural lands. He sent for his nephews from Madeira to come to Trinidad and learnt English. Form what my father told me one was called Jose as well. I was also told that some of my grandfather's family lived in South Africa and Brazil as well and some migrated to Boston. As far as I know I still have family living in Madeira.
For further information there are also de Caires' living in Guyana and Barbados.
The past editor of the Starbroek News in Guyana was Peter de Caires. There are also other de Caires living in Trinidad. They live in the capital city Port of Spain.
I am the grt grandson of Francisco Joao de Vasconcellos, who was born in Faja da Ovelha, Madeira 8Apr1848, was a foundling on the doorstep of and raised by Florencio de Ponte of Arco da Calheta.
He married Maria Rose de Caires of Arco 18Jan1873. Maria was 1 of 5 children: Maria born 10Jun1855, Manuel born 2Jun1857, Carolina born 4MAay1860, Constatina born 10May1862, Joao born 14May 1864, all born in Arco.
Francisco/Maria's 1st-born Joao is my grandfather, born 30Oct1875 in Arco. Maria died in childbirth with their 3rd child 10Aug1882. Francisco married her sister Carolina about 1 month later. Their first-born Francisco Joaquim was born 8Aug1883 in Arco.
Francisco, Carolina with 3 children left Madeira 23Nov1885 on the ship Sterlingshire for Hawaii, arriving 2Mar1886. A son Manuel was born 23Jan1886 during the trip. They lived in Kahului, Maui and had 5 more children.
My father, John, was born in Kahului 19Oct1901. Joao moved his family of 10 children to Santa Clara, CA between 1918-1923. I am John's 2nd-born, 26Feb1937, and live near San Francisco, CA.
Any Caires or Vasconcellos that can connect with above family names/dates, pls contact me.
Also, any ideas of any possible connection to the present Conde de Calheta, Vasconcellos??? Any contact info???
My name is Aleena DeCaires, I live in New York and I do not know very much about my grandfather. His name is John DeCaires and he is from Madeira, he settled in Guyana and passed their as well. He passed away at a very young age my father was about 7 at the time of his death so he doesnt remember very much plus my grandfathers past was a secret. He probably died around 1960 and that would put him at round fiftyish. It would be very much appreciated if anyone knows of any family secrets about an uncle or nephew or any relative by the name of John DeCaires that migrated to Guyana.
Thank You
I was told by my father(Alvin De Caires), that the "De Caires" migrated from Egypt to the Madieran Islamd sometime in the year 400A.D. and the name De Caires descibes where we came from "mouth of the nile"(caries or caires meaning mouth),or a play on the name Cairo , the city in Egypt.The next migration of the De Caires took place in the very late 1800 to about 1930 to the island of Trinidad and also to Guyana.My grand father owned and operated a dry goods shop and bar at CROSS CROSSING < SAN FERNANDO,TRINIDAD. Our name is well known and very much respected both in the major cities of Trinidad namely PORT OF SPAIN and SAN FERNANDO. MY grand fathers cousin ANTONIO De Caires was the President of THE PORTUGESE ASSOCIATION in TRININDAD in 1920's , you can view his name on the bronze wall plack at the Asssociation ,DUNDONALD St. PORT OF SPAIN ,TRINIDAD.This is some of what was passed on to me and i passed it on to my kids.
Hey cousin , your dad and mine were/are brothers, we used to attend the same church. Christ The KINg RC , LES EFFORTES< San FERNANDO. I was an acolyte there and you were in the youth group. Your brothers RICHARD and ROGER, went to SAn FERNANDO BOY'S GOV't SCHOOL with my brothers RAYMOND AND RICHARD and myself. If memory serves me you attended ST JOSEPH CONVENT < SAN FERNANDO.


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19 May, 2010
27 years and 2 daysFirst U.S. gig for the Alarm. Great great show. War was such a potent album and those songs just went over so well live. '40' was particularly memorable: each band member exited the stage one by one with just Bono at the end leading the crowd in a sing along. I think 'Gloria' was the encore, guess they don't do that one anymore (pretty much disowned the October album) but loved it then and now. Seeing them for just the second time 6/3/10 in SLC, 27 years and 2 days later.
17 November, 2009
BreakdownI was there. It was amazing. The show opened with Romeo Void followed by the Alarm. Both bands killed it. U2 entered the house in a foggy din of smoke, steam and poor lighting; no fancy stage or video projection; just four guys from Ireland, their instruments and a handful of fans. Not long into the set, the sound broke down. We could hear it. Guitars clanking, feedback; then nothing. Bono chatted us up while the roadies worked their magic. As I remember it, Bono remarked to the crowd it was their first breakdown. We cheered, though I'm not sure why. The band pulled it back together and rocked the house. It was an incredible, personal and inspiring show. The first of many more… Thanks for that night. It would be incredible if the band were to release those early show recordings.


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The original Portal was almost an afterthought, a bonus game for those who bought The Orange Box mainly for Half-Life 2 and its episodic extensions. However, the first-person puzzler was so addictive and ingeniously paced that it ended up overshadowing the headline acts - for some at least.
This time around, though, the sequel is the main event, and takes the concept to a whole new level.
The idea, for those who haven't played the first Portal game (and if you haven't, we advise you go straight out and buy it immediately, as part of The Orange Box or stand-alone from one of the many games-on-demand platforms), is that you progress through puzzle rooms of progressive complexity by creating portals in walls and floors that you can travel through.
It relies on lateral thinking in three-dimensions, as you have to work out how to get to switches that are seemingly beyond your reach, or how to traverse fields of armed security drones without being frazzled.
However, because it was merely a bonus game, it is also criminally short. And that's where Portal 2 comes in.
Valve has listened to the fans, and addressed several areas. For starters, the first game didn't have much of a plot. You were a test subject for the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center - a human behaviour research facility - and had to progress from one level to another as, essentially, a guinea pig (although there's a cool, scripted ending that's also referenced in the sequel).
In Portal 2, however, you can immediately see that things are different from the tutorial levels. Rather than the clinically stark surroundings of the first game, the Aperture Center has been left unattended for some time, and is in some state of disarray. Some equipment still works, but it's all overgrown with plant life, and many of the features are crumbling or broken. It's up to you, therefore, to find a way out. No easy feat...
Thankfully, you have a helper in the guise of Wheatly, a small, spherical robot that's voiced by The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant - who has a distinct Bristolian twang, and as such gives the ambience an altogether British feel. His presence also aids the narrative of the new title enormously, and adds a new level of comedy that's more obvious, but no less enjoyable than the original's darkly humorous satirical training instructions.
Certainly, during Pocket-lint's play with the demonstration levels presented to us at Electronic Arts' Spring Preview event, we laughed out loud several times. And, as we were wearing headphones, we attracted a few strange looks along the way.
The other thing we immediately noticed was that the levels seemed larger in scope, and offered much more variety in gameplay. The first, for example, doesn't even outfit you with a portal gun, instead opening apertures through the pressing of buttons, for which you have to work out a sequence.
There's also a lot of levels in darkness, and you finally get to see areas of the Center that were restricted before, such as maintenance tunnels.
Needless to say though, especially for those who have played the first, as soon as we started, we didn't leave the demo until we'd finished every preview level afforded us (about nine or ten in all). It is, like its predecessor, impossible to put down.
EA had both Xbox 360 and PS3 playable demos on site, and in our brief look, both seemed identical (maybe the Xbox 360 version just shaded it on crispness, but it was very very close).
We didn't get to play multiplayer sadly, and can't wait to try the new co-op mode. You'll have to wait for our review to find out what we think of that.
Portal 2 will be out on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on 21 April. And, from what we've seen already, we cannot wait.


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In the spring of 2001 I started a 3100 mile cross country bike trip in Huntington Beach, California that lasted two months and landed me in Easton, Pennsylvania.
It was an adventure before it began. I graduated college (PSU) in December 2000 and within two weeks I was heading to Austin, TX with Dave Vmaas for his new job as Art Director at Terrible One bikes. In Austin I was lucky enough to share a two bedroom apartment with 10 other BMXer's, most of them from the FBM road trip that was put on hold thanks to the death of their shitty mini-van. Corrigan, Rob Doleki, Stew Johnson, Vmass, and I made use of our similar obsession with vegan food and stuffed our selves silly for the days preceding my flight to central america.
Two months in Belize with my girlfriend (at the time) was a mind boggling experience. That poor girl had to share a room with me for 8 weeks! We went camping at a jaguar reserve in the tropical rain forest, swam in rivers, traveled to Chiapas, Mexico (where we were nearly killed by an exploding restaurant), and survived the mess that is called Belize City. I even did a 125 mile bike trip and met a bunch of cyclists. They invited me to follow an illegal bike race that shut down the only paved highway in the country. Towards the end of my stay I went a World Economic Forum protest in Cancun, where the Federales were brought in and I ended up spending the night in jail. They stole my bag with all my belongings (and a bunch of other people's!), but at least I wasn't deported.
On that I returned to Austin where Vmass picked me up at the airport and couldn't remember where he parked. Then he took me to IKEA to complete my culture shock. The next couple of weeks I spent hanging out in Texas and then in Tucson, Arizona with my boy Boaz Ramos. I worked day labor at a construction site for a ridiculous $5.15 an hour. I was told to "Get the f**k off the road" by a bunch of roadies when I would ride out to Gate's pass. I learned quickly that roadies here are nothing like the friendly ones I met in Central America.
I went to look at a graduate school in Cali and then couldn't find a place to stay on the coast. I ended up staying with some friends of friends, to their dismay as well as mine. We had some things in common (sxe), but they thought I was completely nuts. That was my situation BEFORE I left for my cross country journey. I had already been on the road for 3.5 months, I was exhausted and away from my friends and from usual comforts.
On April 12th I took a picture of my bike at the beach and started pedaling east towards Pennsylvania. Within 10 days I had climbed a 5000 ft pass, road through a 100 mile stretch of desert with no services in 100 degrees heat, crossed one state border, met another touring cyclist, road through a snow storm, and got hit head-on by a car going 55 miles per hour. It was a rough start.
Getting hit totaled my bike and put me in the hospital with a broken wrist. Luckily it was his fault and insurance would cover my bike and then some. I stayed with the brother of someone who stopped at the accident. He smoked a lot of pot, but he had numerous tapes of Simpson episodes which we watched in marathon lengths. I made the difficult calls to friends and family to tell them what happened and that I was continuing on nonetheless. After 10 days I left his house with a brand new Bianchi Axis and a broken wrist.
The rest of the journey is hard to convey; numerous days in a row without talking to anyone and then days where I met some extraordinary people. In Columbia, Missouri I finally came across some normal kids (not married with babies by 22) and we went to an indy film theatre, cooked up mad vegan food, and just chilled. We could all relate even though we didn't know each other. Maybe there are some benefits to punk. Those kids will never know how stoked I was to see them.
Christian Kurpiel met me in Missouri, and we continued east. We did a 137 mile day into Indianapolis where Chris from Goshen let us into his Papa John's at midnight to cook up some XL pies with veggie sausage (and then I ate the entire thing). We took a closed highway into pittsburgh and stayed at the peach pit with Justin Cummings. It was an appropriate place to receive an email from my girlfriend (now ex) telling me that she didn't think I was right for her. Who could blame her? Add her to the list of bicycle related dumpings. The cycling didn't get any easier when I got closer to my destination. Pennsylvania is one giant mountain. No, wait, it is 1000 giant mountains. After stopping off in the old stomping ground of state college and having reunions with close friends, I pedaled the final two days to Easton, Pennsylvania.
Despite some hardships, I knew this bike touring stuff was right for me.


text: Monday, April 23, 2012 New Diabetes Guidelines Focus on Individualized Approach, Physical Activity Education "Interventions designed to impact an individual's physical activity levels and food intake are critical parts of type 2 diabetes management," say new guidelines that call for a more patient-centered approach to managing type 2 diabetes. Such an approach, according to the guidelines, allows for individual patient needs, preferences, and tolerances, and takes into account differences in age and disease progression. The guidelines, which are less prescriptive than the previous ones, recommend providing all patients with diabetes education—in an individual or group setting—focusing on dietary intervention and the importance of increased physical activity, in addition to weight management, when appropriate. They encourage developing individualized treatment plans built around a patient's specific symptoms, comorbidities, age, weight, racial/ethnic/gender differences, and lifestyles. Developed jointly by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the guidelines are being published concurrently in Diabetes Care and EASD's journal Diabetologia. The need for a joint task force to review and revise the guidelines was driven by the "increasingly complex and to some extent controversial" nature of glycemic management for type 2 diabetes, the "widening array of pharmacological agents now available, mounting concerns about their potential adverse effects, and new uncertainties regarding the benefits of intensive glycemic control on macrovascular complications," says the ADA.


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REMA gains enhanced support by the European Commission!
Sunday 7 September 2014
REMA, the European Early Music Network – which Peter Pontvik for the time being is chairman for – has been granted a multi-year support under the European Commission's new program Creative Europe.
Consequently REMA is one of the 21 essential networks in Europe having received grants from the European Union, out of 58 organizations that applied for it. "We are delighted that early music heritage is regarded as one of the important forms of expression in Europe and has got its funding doubled" says Peter Pontvik. He adds "it would be very encouraging if we here in Sweden could match such a view of the historical music by increasing the contributions to it".
Thanks to the EU-support REMA will have the possibility to fulfill some of the projects planned for, like a web radio station för early music a Showcase Festival for young musicians and the prize REMA AWARD.


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DEEP RUN � There was no love lost between former conference rivals Richlands and South Lenoir on Friday night.
DEEP RUN � There was no love lost between former conference rivals Richlands and South Lenoir on Friday night.
The foes combined for more than 150 yards of penalties and plenty of big hits � and injuries to accompany them, but it was the Wildcats, led by Jamar Harrington�s 256 all-purpose yards, that came away with a 31-6 win.
After forcing the Blue Devils to punt on the game�s opening possession, Richlands sustained a 22-play drive � taking more than 11:30 off the the clock � into the second quarter before junior kicker Jeffery Tolson gave the Wildcats a 3-0 lead on a 27-yard field goal.
On the ensuing Blue Devils possession, with starting center Wade Wetherington out after sustaining a leg injury early on, South Lenoir quarterback Kyle Huffman received a bad snap the Wildcats were able to pounce on. Four plays later, quarterback Ben Jackson hooked up with Harrington on a wheel route to the left corner of the end zone for the 10-0 lead.
�It seemed like forever,� Richlands coach Justin Snider said of having two possessions for nearly 13 straight minutes.
But, he added, pounding the ball wasn�t necessarily the game plan.
�We weren�t totally sure what we were going to be able to have (with) the way they run their defense,� Snider said. �They do a good job of making you have to think. They move guys around so we weren�t sure.�
The Blue Devils, who held their own through the first half with the Wildcats, had trouble sustaining any momentum as injuries mounted.
�I think, to start out, we had a decent drive ourselves,� South Lenoir coach Ken Grantham said. �It was really a two-possession (game) through the first half.�
During the third quarter, down by 17, Huffman tried to extend a drive on fourth-and-long and ran around the end towards the Richlands sideline. But before stepping out of bounds, he took a brutal shot just short of the first down marker.
The impact forced him out of the game. As a precaution, Huffman was sent to Lenoir Memorial Hospital. He will be monitored over the weekend for concussion-like symptoms. With backup quarterbacks Nick Hunter (leg injury, did not dress) and Hunter Bryan (leg injury, left the game in the second quarter) sidelined, the Blue Devils turned to running back Dion Jones to take snaps.
Down by 24, Jones would score South Lenoir�s loan touchdown, a 4-yard run to cap off a three-play drive. Grantham said Jones had taken limited snaps as part of the team�s wildcat formation.
Harrington led all rushers with 208 yards on 23 carries. He added 48 yards receiving on three catches. Quentin Fenn added 63 yards on the ground, including a 27 yards touchdown in the third quarter.
Jones led all Blue Devil runners with 83 yards. Noah Stroud added 52 yards and Logen Cauley had 30 yards rushing.
Richlands 0 10 14 7�31
South Lenoir 0 0 7 0�6
Second Quarter
R � FG Tolson 27, 8:07
R � Harrington 18 pass from Jackson (Tolson kick), 6:33
Third Quarter
R � Harrington 52 run (Tolson kick). 9:27
R � Fenn 27 run (Tolson kick), 3:21
SL � Jones 2 run (conversion fail), 2:30
Fourth Quarter
R � Jackson 3 run (Tolson kick) 11:52
First downs 14 10
Rushes-yards 38-293 41-155
Passing 8-13-0 1-1-0
Passing yards 86 11
Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-2
Penalties 13-120 4-34
Punts-avg 1-24 2-31.5
Individual statistics
RUSHING � R: Horne 3-15, Harrington 23-208, Thompson 4-13, Jackson 3-(-2), Marshall 1-(-4), Fenn 4-63. SL: Jones 14-83, Stroud 4-52, Cauley 9-30, Huffman 6-(-17), Bryan 1-4, Stotler 3-3.
PASSING � R: Jackson 8-13-0 86. SL: Huffman 1-1-0 11.
RECEIVING � R: Dickerson 2-13, Seraphin 2-24, Harrington 3-48, Marshall 1-1. SL: Ladich 1-11.


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par Julie Machin
Si j'étais arrivée un jour avant à NYC, ben j'aurais pas louper la séance... GRRRRRRRR
Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with "rock star status." He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat's heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.
Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O'Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, among many others.


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As a doctor, Cathy Cantilena can talk about her condition objectively, even clinically. She wouldn't tell a patient in her current situation that everything's going to be all right.
"I know all too well the enormity of the lung transplant surgery," said Cantilena, who is in critical need of a double-lung transplant due to the rare cancer-like lung disease Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, known as LAM. "But there is no choice. I either die without the surgery, or I get the surgery. There is no choice."
AS A WIFE and mother struggling with life-threatening illness, Cantilena feels no different from what one would expect.
"It's kind of scary. It's a scary thing," she said.
Cantilena is living in a hotel in Durham, N.C., and awaiting transplant surgery at Duke University Medical Center, a world leader in lung transplants. On Feb. 24, she was "activated," meaning that she is atop the list of eligible organ recipients in the program and that she could be called into the surgery at any time—whenever a suitable donor is found. The average time from activation to lung transplant surgery is eight days.
Five years ago, Cantilena, who lives in Potomac with her husband Lou Cantilena and four children, ages 8, 13, 16 and 19, was leading the typically frenetic life of a working mother. She studied transfusion medicine at the National Institutes of Health, worked in a private medical practice and helped out at the American Red Cross in Baltimore. The family attends St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Rockville and is well known in the Potomac youth sports community. Lou Cantilena coaches soccer and several of the children participate in competitive swim leagues.
When Cantilena developed a cough, she assumed she had caught a cold from one of her children. When the cough persisted, she feared she had pneumonia. A doctor recommended a chest X-ray and the image showed lung damage "you might expect from someone who had spent a long time smoking."
Cantilena had never smoked.
Doctors, including NIH colleagues eventually diagnosed her with LAM, which is currently found in fewer than 1,000 people in the United States, almost exclusively women of child-bearing age. The disease is thought to be the result of a genetic mutation, with no known environmental cause. Besides transplant surgery, there is no effective treatment and no known cure for LAM.
The disease is not a type of cancer but like cancer is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of harmful cells. The cells eventually block airways and make breathing impossible.
Cantilena's health deteriorated slowly at first and then more rapidly, falling off sharply in the last year. Already petite, her weight dropped to 90 pounds. She could walk increasingly shorter distances and became exhausted from simple tasks.
"I couldn't wash my hair," she said. "It was like running a marathon race every day."
CANTILENA GAVE up full-time work and after researching treatment options, joined the Duke program, which includes both pre- and post-operative treatment. Lou Cantilena has taken leave from his job at the Department of Defense and the Cantilenas' oldest daughter has suspended her studies at Villanova University to be with the family in North Carolina. Anna, 8, is being home-schooled and the two middle children are still in school in the Washington area and staying with relatives, but are ready to come to Durham at a moment's notice.
If Cantilena's surgery is successful, she will have to live in a sterile environment — free of dust and mold — for some five months following the surgery.
All of that means not just an emotional but a financial strain on the family, which has prompted friends of the family to establish a support fund.
"All they care about is their kids," said Kimberly Kempa, a parent at the Barnesville School, where Anna Cantilena is a second-grader. "They're all about kids and all about family. They're even a couple that renewed their vows. I don't know a lot of people that do that."
"I really admire the family," said Jaralyn Hough, Barnesville's Head of School. "They embraced the whole community. And now the community is embracing them."
Barnesville parents have organized several fund-raisers, including a Family Fun Night March 18 that is open to the public (see box).
A group of parents at another school are collectively donating $2,000-$3,000 per month to the medical fund while Cantilena is sick.
"We obviously have Cathy on our prayer list," said Kathryn Swartz, a pastoral associate at St. Elizabeth's, where Cathy was a Eucharistic minister before she became ill. In addition, the church will take up a special collection for the medical fund at its Ash Wednesday service March 1.
IF THE Cantilenas' communities seem eager to help, it is because the family was selflessly involved in them for years, Kempa said. Potomac residents have not only made financial donations, but taken over care of the Cantilenas' house and pets, and pitched in taking care of the children.
"They're astounding, astounding people. I'm humbled, really humbled to have such wonderful friends," said Cantilena, who can only speak in short spurts due to her limited lung capacity. "The goodness in people is so astounding to me. I'm overwhelmed. I can't begin to express the feeling.
Our friends in Potomac and in Barnesville and at home have been so supportive."
The following is excerpted from the Canadian Lung Association's Web site at www.lung.ca/diseases/lymphan.html. Learn more there and through the LAM Association, on-line at http://lam.uc.edu:
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare lung disease characterized by an unusual type of muscle cell that invades the tissue of the lungs. Over time, these muscle cells form into bundles and grow into the walls of the airways, and blood and lymph vessels, causing them to become obstructed.
Although these cells are not considered cancerous, they act somewhat like cancer cells in that they grow uncontrollably throughout the lung. Over time, the muscle cells block the flow of air, blood, and lymph to and from the lungs, preventing the lungs from providing oxygen to the rest of the body.
LAM affects almost exclusively women of childbearing age. The cause of LAM is not known, though recent research links it to gene mutations connected to tuberous sclerosis, an inherited disease.


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The college-aged voter population is one that has not commonly been tapped into in the past. However, in recent elections, larger and larger numbers of 18- to 29-year-olds have turned up at the polls, making up 28 percent of the California electorate in the last election. This is prompted by an increase in knowledge and a decrease in the apathetic attitude of our youth. Another big reason is students' accessibility to a polling site.
College students have become very accustomed to the idea of convenience. In a generation fueled by social media and smartphone technology, a task that takes more than five minutes is only done by those who are actually motivated to do it. Though that motivation has increased in recent years with an increase in student activism and education, it still has yet to manifest in large numbers at the polls.
One way to build on that increased turnout is to establish polling sites at every California State University, University of California and community college in the state. This goal has been emphasized through Senate Bill 240, introduced in the state legislature this month by Sen. Leland Yee. The bill proposes that polling sites be opened at every CSU, UC and community college campus residing in a county or city with a population of 150,000 or more.
The convenience of the in-house polling site, coupled with the emphasis on the importance of the student voice, which has been evident in recent elections, will lead to an even greater turnout at the poll from this age group. Evidence of this can be seen in the example set forth by San Diego State University. During the 2012 presidential election campaign, students led a full-scale voter registration and mobilization campaign designed to get more college students engaged in the political process. The Associated Students of San Diego State hosts a polling place on campus every election. Those campus-based campaign efforts resulted in 4,413 new registered student voters, and a total of over 5,300 people took advantage of the polling site set up at the university. Those voters made a clear difference – 60 percent of voters from the 18-29 age range voted in favor of Proposition 30, which passed with 55 percent of the vote.
The numbers reflect a necessary emphasis on convenience, which draws students to polls. Oftentimes, students may not be able to find time to vote before work or between classes unless they can go somewhere close and convenient like their own college campus. Anything else would be too far out of the way for most students, and inaccessible for those without transportation. To ensure that all citizens – including students without reliable transportation – are able to cast their vote, campus polling sites should be established.
In addition to the increased voter turnout among a historically apathetic group, the installation of polling sites at universities and college campuses would introduce an element of community well-being and respect. An increased voter turnout from college students offers an interest in and respect for the community in which they live, and helps them to take responsibility for their community through their votes. When students feel more inclined to vote, due to the closeness and convenience of polling sites, more students will be informed of the issues that surround their community. The public nature of the polling sites would also lend itself to a sense of equality, as anyone would have access to these polling sites, bringing together the community.
The driving factors of convenience and increased voter efficacy would bring out large numbers of college students to the polls in a way that has not been seen before. The success has already been shown right here through the poll site at San Diego State in 2012. It would also work toward bridging the gap between college students and other residents by providing a common ground to support their community.
SB 240 speaks to a vital issue. Without poll sites on college campuses, we would lose the progress we have made in student voter turnout, losing out on a huge portion of our nation's future. We would also lose the sense of unity and positive relations that could be created.


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It was reported on the Montgomery Advertiser yesterday that Rays uber prospect Jake McGee will have to undergo season ending elbow surgery next week. The Biscuit starter was put on the DL a few days ago, but an MRI revealed a torn elbow tendon and a ommyJohn's surgery looks to be in McGee's future.
This could have been a huge blow to the Montgomery Biscuits third straight SAL title, but the Rays had promoted David Price and Jeremy Hellickson days earlier and should fit both into the rotation without a problem. McGee flew to Tampa to see the Rays orthopedic doctor, Koko Eaton, nd was to see r. James Andrews after the weekend to confirm the diagnosis. If he requires Tommy John's surgery, McGee will be lost for up to a year and a half for the Rays minor league system.
Trivia Fact of the Night:
In 1953, respected and innovative National League umpire Bill Klem was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Rays starter Matt Garza (6-4) will remember this game against the Florida Marlins for a long time. Not because he got his 6th victory of the season, or the first complete game of his career, but for the lone floating slider that changed the day for him and the Rays. There is still no doubt that te series sweep of the Marlins in Miami made for a fantastic airline flight to Pittsburgh, but what might hve been will be in his head for a few days.
On the first pitch that Marlin's shortstop Hanley Ramirez saw in the bottom of the 7th inning, he drilled into the leftfielder bleachers above the huge scoreboard. It was the only pitch that Garza would want to take back all day long. It took not only his shutout away, but a chance at Rays immortality………. a no-hitter.
According to the Elias Baseball Bureau, It was the first complete-game no-hitter or one-hitter with a double-digit strikeout total in the majors this season. There was only one such pitching performance in each of the last three seasons: by Chris Carpenter in 2005, John Lackey in 2006 and Justin Verlander in 2007.
The Rays are now a franchise high of 15 games over .500, and have 4 more vicotries than they have ever achived before the All-Star break in the teams short history. They are also 7 games better than they have ever been after 77 games.
The Rays have been above .500 for 57 straight days and 61 total for the season, both club records. Prior to this season, the Rays have been above .500 for only a combined 72 days in the last 10 years.
Rays rookie Evan Longoria has been given many nicknames in the last few months, "Evan Almighty," "The Natural", and "Longo". The last one is a reference to an Alex Karas character in "Blazin' Saddles," and Evan might just be fitting of the name.
He is one of the main reason this team has been on a roll the past two months. Since coming u from Triple-A, the Rays have been pretty hard to beat every night, which is a rareity in Tampa Bay.
Yesterday just added to the ever increasing legend that is "Longo:"
Evan Longoria had three hits (two doubles and a home run) in the Rays' win on Thursday, after notching three hits (a single, double and homer) in Tampa Bay's 15-3 win over the Marlins on Wednesday night. Longoria is the fourth player in Rays franchise history to have consecutive games with at least three hits and one home run. The other Tampa Bay players to do that were Aubrey Huff (2004), Jorge Cantu (2005) and B.J. Upton (2007).
The Rays are now 9-5 in Interleague this season their highest total since 2006 when they had 11 wins. With a sweep in Pittsburgh they can establish another record this season for total victies in Interleague play.
Along with Longoria and Garza's efforts, came the bat of back-up catcher Shawn Riggans for the Rays. Riggans has seen very limited action this year with the emergence of Dioner Navarro both at the plate and behind it for the Rays.
Riggans responded going 1-3 with 3 RBI's for the Rays. Riggans hit a sacrifice fly in the seond to score B J Upton from third, and hit a double to deep centerin the 5th inning to score Upton and Longoria.
Shawn also called a great game behind the plate for the Rays, that only saw Garza in trouble a few times theentire game. Garza only walked one Marlin, Jeremy Hermida, in the 4th inning.
Shortstop Ben Zobrist also hit his second homer in two days in the 8th innig to complete the scoring for the Rays. Zobrist is now hitting .292 since coming up for the Rays.
With the expected return of both Jason Bartlett and Carlos Pena on Friday in Pittsburgh, th Rays will have to make some roster moves befre the Friday night game.
I am thinking we might see Troy Percival go on the DL for another 15 days, and itwill not be his decision. That will either happen, or a Rays relievers' will be sent down or put on waivers and hopefully pass through to stay with the team.
And I think based on the numbers and the experiecetis year, Ben Zobrist might be the odd gy out unless atrade can be reached for another infielder on the team. I kowthat Zobrist needs consistency in his routine, and it is a shame he will/has to be the fall guy this time.
Worst case is the fact he has only been off the DL for 7 games now, both in Durham and Tampa Bay, and might need a bit more seasoning to get I great game shape for th team. Let's hope that all goes well and something truly positive can come out of all this for every player involved in the roster moves.
Tonight we start a 3-game series in Pittsburgh. I want to tell you about a unique thing they do in the Steel City before every game. They close the Roberto Clemente bridge to auto traffic and let the stadium patrons walk the bridge o the stadium. It is one of the truly unique things in baseball. You get to travel the roads on foot to the ballpark before and after the game…..without dodging traffic.
The Rays are visitng PNC park for the second time in their history, losing 2 of 3 in June 2005. They are 2-4 All-Time against the Pirates, who have former Ray infielder Chris Gomez playing for them this year.
The Pirate will be bringing up rookie Jimmy Barthmaier for his MLB debut against the Rays. Barthmaier, a 13th-round Draft pick in 2003, will be making his first Major League appearance when he makes Friday's start for the Pirates. The right-hander has combined to go 4-5 with a 4.04 ERA in 10 Double-A and five Triple-A starts. In his most recent start, Barthmaier threw six innings, allowing one run on four hits and striking out eight. He has shown better control with both his fastball and breaking ball since being promoted to Triple-A in late May, allowing just six walks in 31 2/3 innings.
Look closely at the picture above of Barthmaier. Is it jus me, or are there not color to his pupils in the picture. Might be a Vulcan robot plant to supress the Rays victory celebrations. Just Kidding, he might just have some wild contact lens for gamedays. Can we get the entire pitching staff a set of those Joe?


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LITTLE ROCK — As he is wont to do, House Speaker Davy Carter used a sports metaphor to describe what is left to do this week in the legislative session.
"We're just kicking the extra point now," said Carter, R-Cabot.
Lawmakers are expected to meet just two days this week to approve final budget bills and address any last-minute issues before going home. Carter and Senate President Pro Tem Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, issued a proclamation Friday declaring that the session, originally scheduled to wrap up business that day, would be extended through Tuesday.
In a flurry of activity last week, at times meeting late into the night, lawmakers gave final approval to $140 million in tax cuts and a plan to subsidize private health insurance for about 250,000 of Arkansas' working poor.
On Monday, the House and Senate are expected to consider and approve the General Improvement Fund bill, which details how the governor and Legislature will allocate about $170 million in surplus money, as well as the Revenue Stabilization Act, generally the last piece of legislation passed, which prioritizes spending in the $4.9 billion budget for the next fiscal year.
Lamoureux said that's about all that should happen on Monday and Tuesday.
"I don't think there is much else," he said, adding there might be some concurrences on House amendments that need to be done.
On Tuesday, Lamoureux said, the House will consider the Senate's RSA and GIF bills and the House will take up the Senate's identical bills before lawmakers go home.
The Legislature is to return May 17 to make any needed technical corrections, consider overriding any gubernatorial vetoes and then formally adjourn.
"I think it's been a good session," said Sen. Johnny Key, R-Mountain Home, who is chairman of the Senate Education Committee.
Carter recalled that when the session began in January, he identified his three top goals of the session as resolving the question of health care expansion, passing tax cuts and approving incentives for a proposed $1.1 billion steel mill in Mississippi County.
"Sitting here today and being able to read that adjournment resolution, and the membership having done those things, I'm pretty proud. I think it's been a good session," he said.
When asked if his "extra point" metaphor meant that the finish line had been crossed, Carter smiled.
"I think a touchdown was scored," he said.
Reporter John Lyon contributed to this report.


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Is the Mystery Novel Going Global?
by William Minter, May 2010
Author's note: I wrote this short essay at the request of the blog CriminalBrief.com, where it was first published in two parts on May 18 and May 25, 2010. The links in this file go to Amazon.com.
Sweden's Lisbeth Salander and Botswana's Precious Ramotswe may have little else in common. But these fictional detectives created by Stieg Larsson and Alexander McCall Smith are both harbingers of a trend which is gathering force: the globalization of the mystery novel. Along with the familiar scenes of English villages, London and Manhattan streets, and Los Angeles freeways, airport kiosks around the world feature books set in cold Nordic landscapes and African cities, in the high mountains of Tibet and in Brazil's Amazon. more ...


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Structural Design Manager
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Structural Design Manager
Remote work from home with European travel
Rate: £500 - £600 a day
Contract: 12 months rolling
Job Ref: JR66204
A unique, exciting, and challenging opportunity to work client side for one of the world's largest technology firms in a Structural Design Manager remit involved in some of Europe's largest Data Centre projects. The job will be a roaming position with travel across Europe to various sites as required, but with the majority of work being done remotely from home.
The role of the Structural Design Manager will be to sit within the Design Execution team and will be part of the overall capacity fulfilment team. The role of the Structural Design Manager is to oversee the development of individual data centre design packages including the permit packages, specifications, technical evaluations and construction drawings on time and on budget. The Structural Design Manager is also responsible for identifying technical challenges and working to drive solutions, develop mitigation strategies, and develop cost and schedule for such.
The client seeks a Structural Design professional who has at least 3 years recent design experience on data centre projects in addition to seeking construction experience either gained in an onsite delivery remit or site experience gained in a Structural design role whilst working for a Design & Build contractor.
Main Duties:
- Ensure that the design team is meeting all standards and requirements (local, Irish, US, or UK).
- Localising the design into a site specific building design for all disciplines, developing an execution strategy, and turning over to the delivery team for construction.
- The team consists of design managers that are responsible for 1-2 full, site specific projects from concept to 100% design.
- The team works to take the model cost and schedule and localise based on early design due diligence. This is then turned over to delivery.
- Drive design meetings and provide continual input to optimise design.
- Assist in developing Design Delivery Schedule along with the delivery Project Managers, Designers and consultants.
- Develop comprehensive scope-of-work and contract document deliverables list for each related discipline.
- Negotiate scope-of-work, deliverables and price with consulting firms.
- Hold ultimate responsibility for full review and sign off of Structural designs submitted by approved consultants.
Experience / Skills:
- Minimum of 8 years design experience with Mechanical bias gained in the UK or Ireland.
- In depth understanding of the design of load bearing structures, beams, RC, Walls, and roofing.
- Recent and multiple data centre design project experience is a must.
- Must be able to comprehensively review design specification for all Structural works within a Data Centre environment.
- Must have experience in onsite delivery/construction, or site experience gained in a design role working for a Design & Build contractor.
- Must be able to roam Europe and offer flexibility to travel to meetings across Europe as and when the job demands.
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Having welcomed giddy Whovians into the Millennium Centre and tickled their excitement with actual Silurians and a very visible Ood…
…the next phase was to invite people into the various auditoriums and arenas and explain exactly how the show gets made.
However, we do have a slight problem in that some of the topics covered today will also be covered tomorrow, and it would be rotten to spoil the fun of anyone who has tickets for Sunday. So, here's just a brief stone skim across the topics which have come up so far. Most of this stuff came from fan questions or just general randomness.
Apart from the first thing. OMG THEY PLAYED A TRAILER FOR THE FIRST HALF OF SEASON SEVEN! This happened during the Uncut Panel, where the show's producers explained how they go about taking a script and casting it, picking a location etc. While the audience watched the panel talk, upstairs, in the upper balcony, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Steven Moffat snuck in, and demanded the trailer be played.
I won't spoil it, except to say four words: cowboy, snow, beach, caves.
…oh and you don't ever want to let Amy Pond play with a gun.
Then they demanded it be played again, and during the delay Matt revealed the horse he had learned to ride for the cowboy story was called Carmello.
Let's see, what else happened?
• Arthur Darvill revealed that he was the first of the cast to work out the identity of River Song. Alex Kingston had already been told, but was sworn to secrecy by Steven Moffat. When he figured it out, he asked Alex if it was true, and she just looked deep into his eyes and said "hello Dad."
He also said his first reaction when he found out that his friend Matt had first got the job as the Doctor was "I can't wait to get a pencil case with Matt's face on."
• Community fans! Karen Gillan loves Inspector Spacetime! She had to explain it to Matt and Steven and Arthur though. Then Steven promised, as they were having an affectionate pop at his show, to "take the rip" back. The question is not whether he will do this, but when.
In answer to a question about returning monsters, he also pointed out that the Daleks must be the most easily-thwarted Doctor Who villains ever. Oh sure, they always come back trying, but just at the last minute here comes the Doctor again to wreck their plans, "with a twig."
• Earlier in the day, at a panel devoted to the writing and production of The Girl Who Waited, writer Tom MacRae admitted his chief inspiration when developing the handbots was that they could be made into a toy. Sadly this has not yet happened.
He also offered this sage advice to anyone who wishes to write for a living: learn to touch-type. Then you can get all your ideas down in one go.
• Fact: Everyone dressed as the Tenth Doctor struts around with his (or her) hands in his (or her) pockets.
• Matt Smith was seen handing out jammy dodgers at the first Meet The Stars panel. He had clearly run out by the time of the second one, which was interrupted by the sudden arrival of a Judoon, and then a Silurian. Clearly they'd heard about the free biscuits.
The Silurian terrorised poor Karen so much she nearly fell off the sofa, just by sniffing her hair. Ever the sensible one, Arthur had already moved to sit on the floor.
Seriously though, the trailer… *swoons*
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The Cubs quest for a five game winning streak fell short last night thanks in large part to the Cubs not being able to get out of their own way. Justin Germano got the ball for the Cubs and turned in one of his best outings of the year. Germano lasted five innings giving up one run, unearned, on three hits while walking two and striking out eight. Unfortunately that wasn't good enough for a victory, not even a no decision as the Cubs couldn't push a run across all night. It's not like the Cubs didn't have their chances as they were 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left 11 guys on base in the loss. They had a wonderful opportunity to tie the game in the 6th inning with runners on second and third with only one out. Darwin Barney hit was seemed to be a sacrifice fly to center, inexplicably Dave Sappelt tried to tag up from second and make it to third. In true Cubs fashion Sappelt was thrown out at third before Castro could cross the plate meaning the run doesn't count. There was no reason for Sappelt to tag, I like being aggressive but there was no reason for it, he was already in scoring position and the important run was Castro. As I mentioned the Cubs had their chances but they weren't really generating any offense, they only had six hits. The Astros did all they could to give this one to the Cubs by committing four errors and walking two. This loss could have been even more costly as Anthony Rizzo had to leave the game in the third inning after a violent collision at first base with Brett Wallace. All reports after the game seemed to indicate that Rizzo was going to be fine and was just sore, let's hope so.
Five First Responders Throw Out First Pitch
Rizzo's Scary Collision
Game Highlights:
Cubs Cost Themselves a Run
Germano's Solid Outing
Thanks for reading,
– George