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Although teens and adults are at greatest risk for hepatitis B, babies and young children can get it, too, even if no one else in their household has the disease.
Before the vaccine was introduced in the United States in 1982, about 25,000 children under age 5 were diagnosed with the disease each year, and only 6,000 of them had gotten it from their mothers at birth. Although we don't know the source of all of these infections, we know that in some cases hepatitis B virus was spread person-to-person in the home or daycare setting.
Many people don't realize how serious hepatitis B is, confusing it with milder forms of the disease. Hepatitis B kills about 5,000 Americans and 1 million people worldwide each year.
It's important for children to get immunized early, because those who get the disease when they're young are much more likely to have chronic, long-term complications such as liver failure or liver cancer. And babies and young children who become chronically infected have a 25 percent chance of dying from those complications. The disease may sometimes be treated with medication and some patients do get better, but there's no cure.
Also, the younger you are when you receive this vaccine, the more effective it is. About 80 percent of adults 40 or over who receive the vaccine develop good immunity, but the rate for infants is close to 100 percent.
In some cases, parents elect to postpone this vaccine if they believe there's little or no chance their child will be exposed to the disease, since it's usually contracted from contaminated needles or unprotected sex. But putting the vaccine off until your child is older is risky, because most children have less and less contact with doctors as they get older and no longer get routine checkups.
Studies show that despite parents' best efforts, up to 40 percent of kids drop out of the healthcare system before their teens. Protecting your child when he's young will help to keep him safe now and later.


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The cast of "Saturday Night Live" poked at President Obama with a campaign trail spoof in which the incumbent, invoking "The Sixth Sense," promised beleaguered supporters that he sees employed people.
"I know you don't see 'em—don't even know they're there. But one day all of you will be Bruce Willis and you'll realize you were employed all along."
Far from the concentrated skewering Mitt Romney received last week, "Weekend Update Thursday" spread its attacks across various targets, from Obama and the NFL's replacement refs to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose skilled impersonator—accompanied by a translator—sat for an interview with Seth Meyers.
President Obama, played by Jay Pharoah, kicked off the show by spewing upbeat slogans at a room full of pathetically down-and-out characters.
"Who here has a job?" Obama asked before calling one of the few people in the crowd who had raised a hand.
"What do you do sir?" he asked.
"I'm a manager at Burger King," the man replied.
"There you go," Obama said. "Having it your way. And where were you four years ago? Probably working the counter, right?"
"I was a vice president for Bank of America," he said.
Other voters he called on included an apparent meth cook, a man who chased raccoons out of foreclosed homes and a woman who worked at an apple store.
"There you go!" Obama said. "One of America's great companies, still growing."
"Oh, I don't work for the computer store, I sell actual apples," she explained. "I have a shack by the highway. I sell mostly to immigrants and the occasional mule."
Obama finally tried to level with the audience.
"Look, I know it hasn't been easy. Not even for me. Look at me. I took office as a 47-year-old man. Four years later, I'm 75."
The show moved on to the set of "Weekend Update" where host Seth Meyers commented on the end of the NFL's referee lockout.
"It feels nice to say this again," he said. "Good call!"
After running through the news of the week, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, played by Fred Armisen, was ushered on set with a translator (Nasim Pedrad).
"It is always so wonderful to visit New York City," Ahmadinejad said through his translator. "I love people watching. My favorite game is homosexual or Jew. That's where I guess if someone is either a homosexual or a Jew. I get most excited when someone is both."
Pedrad's character eventually threw in the towel and confessed to Meyers that she hates "translating for this guy ... He has no clue what's happening. I mean look at him, He looks like he's waiting for a bus outside a methadone clinic."
As Ahmadinejad babbled on, apparently unaware that his translator had gone off the rails, she told Meyers that there's no way Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
"That's like saying you need Internet in your hotel room for email."
Cornel West, played by Kenan Thompson, made an appearance on the show as well, spinning Meyers in circles with sing-songy, metaphor-laden responses to questions about his feelings for Obama.
"The president has promised us veracity, but has given us nothing but mendacity," West said, pausing to note in a journal that he had used the word "mendacity."
Girl at a Party (Cecily Strong) closed out the show with her take on the state of the world.
"People are angry Seth. Society is angry and sometimes it's not angry enough," she said. "Open your eyes people. War, hunger, diseases, it's like, pick one."
"Saturday Night Live" returns Oct. 6 with fresh fodder from the first of three presidential debates.
"Weekend Update" Takes Aim at Obama
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and NFL replacement refs were also mocked on the show
The cast of "Saturday Night Live" poked at President Obama with a campaign trail spoof in which the incumbent, invoking "The Sixth Sense," promised beleaguered supporters that he sees employed people.

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This article appeared in a March 2016 issue of the student newsletter.
By Debra Dennis
Every work of art is unique, and diverse creations by Dallas County Community College District students reflected that fact as they competed this month in the League for Innovation in the Community College's annual art contest.
Creations in sculpture, prints, textiles, painting and other mediums showcased students' talents that were exhibited in the Kiva Gallery at Mountain View College.
Five winners took honors during the annual art contest for community college students — who all will move forward to the national level of the competition — but only one student has taken the top honor two years in a row.
Juan Cruz, who has studied at both Richland and Brookhaven colleges, was awarded the Innovation Student Award for art. His winning piece — "Crimen de Estado," an acrylic on mounted paper — was among the works entered in the 2016 League for Innovation Student Art Competition.
"My work is based on my daily life, relating certain objects to my past experience," Cruz said. "The essential parts of my work are observation, the environment and everyday objects." He likes to mix media like acrylic, charcoal and dry pastels, and he works with both man-made and natural materials like sand and brush hairs to add texture to his pieces.
"I'm drawn to objects that people reject or ignore such as the bottle or the back of a canvas or the courtyard. There is so much beauty is so many objects. People just throw them away. They don't see the beauty. The bottle — it's a metaphor. I'm shining a light on things that are forgotten or ignored," explained Cruz.
Cruz uses materials that convey personal memories and experiences. He said, "These objects speak on behalf of an event or period in my life. I don't just paint what I see. Each item is connected to my memories and feelings."
The DCCCD League for Innovation Student Art Competition is a component of the greater League for Innovation in the Community College. This year marks the 30th competition.
Cruz will receive a Certificate of National Merit, and his work will be published in the Student League Art Competition's publication.
"What a joy it was to join Juan Cruz again at the Kiva Gallery," said Thomas Motley, professor of art and art history at Richland College.
Cruz has studied art appreciation and drawing under Motley's tutelage. His art is a nod to his creative skill and hard work, said Motley, who added that Cruz is developing into a professional artist.
The four other DCCCD students who were chosen to move forward to the national competition are:
The competition was judged by Maria Teresa G. Pedroche, head of community engagement at the Dallas Museum of Art.
DCCCD is one of 700 members of the League for Innovation in the Community College, a non-profit organization focused on improving community colleges through innovation, technology and experimentation to make a positive difference in the lives of students. Dr. Joe May, DCCCD's chancellor, will be a keynote speaker at the group's Innovations Conference this spring, scheduled March 20-23 in Chicago.


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6-15-10 PNC Park
Let's get right to it.
Ball #1 was a ground rule double hit by Lastings Milledge that I snagged on the bounce near the foul pole. It was ball #200 on the season.
Ball #2 was a home run hit by Lastings Milledge. The ball actually would've been ruled a ground rule double because I ran down to the front row and leaned out over the wall to make this catch.
At 5:30, I chose to run over to right field to look for baseballs.
I found ball #3 there and ran back to left.
Ball #4 was a ground rule double that an unknown White Sox batter hit. I got up on the bleacher in the fourth row and fully extended to make this play.
Ball #5 was somewhat of a 'scrum ball.' A White Sox player hit a home run that hit off of the rotunda and ended up rolling to this wheelchair section. One ballhawk dove over the railing and landed flat on the concrete on his stomach, his outstretched hand six inches from the ball. I hopped over the railing and landed next to the ball, landing and grabbing the ball in one motion.
Alex Rios put on an absolute show during batting practice.
Ball #6 and #7 were caught on the fly off of his bat.
I ended with seven balls. I should've had at least three more. I was robbed three times, was lazy and didn't move on one ball that trickled down right to where I would've been standings, and had another ballhawk glove trick two balls that I would've tricked myself had I been closer to the bullpen.
After batting practice I won a seat upgrade to right behind home plate. I'd only stay in that area for a few innings before heading back to the outfield.
Here's a few pictures from that location…
The Pirates would go on to lose the game, their ninth in a row. That means they now trail the Orioles by 6 games in the mild card, or race for the worst record in baseball.
After the game, they would bring up their top prospect Pedro Alvarez, which begs the question, why wasn't this done on their off day yesterday? So he could go 0-3 in the minors today? Stupid.
From ESPN.com:
Although Alvarez, 23, has significantly upgraded what previously was
a weakness — hitting left-handers — Huntington said a few hours
before the team's latest loss that there are areas that need improving
before Alvarez is major league-ready.
Apparently, the Pirates changed their minds in only a few hours' time.
not going to be an accomplished player in all areas when he comes up,
but no player is," Huntington said. "We're looking forward to his
arrival here in Pittsburgh, whether it's this week, next week or next
month. It's going to happen here at some point, pending health and the
continuation of his progress and development."
Who is going to get released? We'll find out tomorrow. I sincerely HOPE it's Ryan Church.
In other news, John Russell is on the hot seat. LINK
And, Ike Davis hit a home run ball in Cleveland tonight that I would've been all over. LINK
Here are today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 7 balls (6 hit, 1 found)
Season: 206 balls (110 hit, 53 thrown, 19 device, 24 found)
Games: 33 games
Average: 6.24 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 3
Career: 784 balls
Streak: 129 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 12,693


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Former Illinois legislator Robin Kelly captured the Democratic nomination Tuesday in the race to replace disgraced ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., after a truncated campaign season where she got a boost from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's super PAC.
The nomination all but assures that Kelly will sail through the April 9 general election and head to Washington, because the Chicago-area district is overwhelmingly Democratic.
From a crowded field of Democratic contenders, Kelly emerged early as a leader on gun-control issues - a central theme during the race - which helped her win support from Bloomberg's super PAC, Independence USA. It poured more than $2 million into the race by airing anti-gun ads in her favor and against another Democratic front runner, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson, who unlike Kelly is against banning assault weapons.
"We worked really, really hard," the former state representative from Matteson, a south Chicago suburb, told The Associated Press. "We were on the right side of the issue and our message resonated."
Kelly also defended the financial support from Bloomberg, saying: "No one complains when the NRA was spending big money." In her victory speech she vowed to fight for gun control until "gun violence is no longer a nightly feature on the evening news."
Halvorson conceded Tuesday evening, saying the outside money certainly played a role.
"It shows, unfortunately, you can't go up against that big money. ...That's the problem with super PACs," Halvorson, who unsuccessfully challenged Jackson in a primary last year, told the AP. "There is nothing I could have done differently."
After casting her ballot earlier in the day, in the snowy weather that pelted the region Tuesday, Halvorson had warned that if the ads were successful, Bloomberg would try to "buy seats" across the country.
Another Democratic front runner, Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale, also took issue with the ads, saying people were "extremely upset" that someone from New York was trying to tell people in Illinois how to vote.
"That's what money gets you," he told the AP after conceding late Tuesday. "We earned every vote."
Bloomberg called Kelly's win an important victory for "common sense leadership" on gun violence, saying in a statement that voters nationwide are demanding change from their leaders. His PAC, launched weeks before the November election, has spent more than $12 million backing candidates nationwide.
Meanwhile, the race among the Republican candidates, all lesser known, was too close to call Tuesday night.
Guns were a leading issue at candidate forums and email blasts from candidates, even as Jackson's legal saga played out in court and frustrated voters who've seen two other congressmen in the office leave under an ethical or legal cloud.
Jackson resigned in November, after a months-long medical leave for treatment of bipolar disorder and other issues, then pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges that accused him of misspending $750,000 in campaign money on lavish personal items, including a Rolex watch and fur coats.
Jackson's exit created a rare opening in a district where he was first elected in 1995. The primary featured 14 Democrats, including former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds, who held the seat in the 1990s but served prison time after being convicted of fraud and for having sex with an underage campaign volunteer. There were four Republicans on the ballot.
Voters heading to the polls Tuesday indicated that guns, ethics and economic woes were on their minds. Attention to the gun-control debate came as Chicago experienced a spike in homicides last year and was reignited in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut.
Mary Jo Higgins of south suburban Steger said she voted for Halvorson because the former congresswoman is "the only Democrat who believes in the Second Amendment."
But Country Club Hills minister Rosemary Gage said she voted for former state Rep. Robin Kelly because Kelly is "standing with (President Barack Obama) and trying to get rid of guns."
"It's really bad in Chicago and across the country," Gage said. "Too many children have died."
The issue of ethics was also on the minds of voters, particularly as Jackson's legal saga has been playing out in federal court. David Berchem, a retired painter, said he voted for Halvorson because he believes she would represent all residents of the district and was "as honest a person as you can find."
Beale voted at a school in Chicago, while Kelly voted early.
Beale touted his record as a job creator for the South Side ward he represents in Chicago's City Council. That's the reason Juanita Williams, who went to school with Beale, voted for him Tuesday, saying he helped bring a Wal-Mart to the area. The 47-year-old assistant teacher also said Beale has regularly provided school supplies and Christmas gifts to needy students.
Election officials in the three counties making up the district reported few problems at the polls, even though voters and poll workers had to contend with a blustery mix of snow and sleet. Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation deployed extra resources to keep polls accessible.
Turnout at the polls was low, approximately 14 percent district wide. Election officials said the weather might have kept some voters on the fence at home.
Associated Press writer Sara Burnett contributed to this report from Chicago.
Sophia Tareen can be reached at https://twitter.com/sophiatareen .


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Use SQL Server Profiler to create and test plan guides
When you are creating a plan guide, you can use SQL Server Profiler to capture the exact query text for use in the statement_text argument of the sp_create_plan_guide stored procedure. This helps make sure that the plan guide will be matched to the query at compile time. After the plan guide is created, SQL Server Profiler can also be used to test that the plan guide is, in fact, being matched to the query. Generally, you should test plan guides by using SQL Server Profiler to verify that your query is being matched to your plan guide.
Capturing query text by using SQL Server Profiler
If you run a query and capture the text exactly as it was submitted to SQL Server by using SQL Server Profiler, you can create a plan guide of type SQL or TEMPLATE that will match the query text exactly. This makes sure that the plan guide is used by the query optimizer.
Consider the following query that is submitted by an application as a stand-alone batch:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS c
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS h
INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail AS d
ON h.SalesOrderID = d.SalesOrderID
WHERE h.OrderDate BETWEEN '20000101' and '20050101';
Suppose you want this query to execute using a merge join operation, but SHOWPLAN indicates that the query is not using a merge join. You cannot change the query directly in the application, so instead you create a plan guide to specify that the MERGE JOIN query hint be appended to the query at compile time.
To capture the text of the query exactly as SQL Server receives it, follow these steps:
Start a SQL Server Profiler trace, making sure that the SQL:BatchStarting event type is selected.
Have the application run the query.
Pause the SQL Server Profiler Trace.
Click the SQL:BatchStarting event that corresponds to the query.
Right-click and select Extract Event Data.
Do not try to copy the batch text by selecting it from the lower pane of the Profiler trace window. This might cause the plan guide that you create to not match the original batch.
Save the event data to a file. This is the batch text.
Open the batch text file in Notepad and copy the text to the copy and paste buffer.
Create the plan guide and paste the copied text inside the quotation marks ('') specified for the @stmt argument. You must escape any single quotation marks in the @stmt argument by preceding them with another single quotation mark. Be careful not to add or remove any other characters when you insert these single quotation marks. For example, the date literal '20000101' must be delimited as ''20000101''.
Here is the plan guide:
EXEC sp_create_plan_guide
@name = N'MyGuide1',
@stmt = N'<paste the text copied from the batch text file here>',
@type = N'SQL',
@module_or_batch = NULL,
@params = NULL,
@hints = N'OPTION (MERGE JOIN)';
Testing plan guides by using SQL Server Profiler
To verify that a plan guide is being matched to a query, follow these steps:
Start a SQL Server Profiler trace, making certain that the Showplan XML event type is selected (located under the Performance node).
Have the application run the query.
Pause the SQL Server Profiler Trace.
Find the Showplan XML event for the affected query.
The Showplan XML for Query Compile event cannot be used. PlanGuideDB does not exist in that event.
If the plan guide is of type OBJECT or SQL, verify that the Showplan XML event contains the PlanGuideDB and PlanGuideName attributes for the plan guide that you expected to match the query. Or, in the case of a TEMPLATE plan guide, verify that the Showplan XML event contains the TemplatePlanGuideDB and TemplatePlanGuideName attributes for the expected plan guide. This verifies that the plan guide is working. These attributes are contained under the <StmtSimple> element of the plan.


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Category: 300 News Posted by: DaisyMay With a new year of films kicking into gear comes the chance to reflect on what's just passed. Here are a few of the things I enjoyed in 2007...
Highlights of 2007 (Blog)
Article Date: January 14, 2008 | Publication: Popcorn Films | Author: Steven Miller
Source: Popcorn Films
2007 turned out two belting comedies in the shape of a Brit-com, Hot Fuzz, and Judd Apatow's latest creation, Knocked Up. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright teamed up once again to repeat the success they had with Shaun of the Dead (2004). Knocked Up saw a performance to savour from actor Seth Rogen, in a tale of a stoner, a one-night stand and an unwanted pregnancy.
The return of Jason Bourne was welcomed at the end of the year, with Matt Damon convincing as ever as the forgetful spy who's after the truth in The Bourne Ultimatum. If the X-files has taught us anything it's that 'the truth is out there', and Bourne manages to find it by remembering a few snippets of information to put the puzzle together.
The 300 was perhaps one of the most enjoyable films of 2007. The performance of Gerard Butler as Leonidas, King of the Spartans, was enthralling, accompanied by sensational imagery and spectacular scenes of battle. When Leonidas stabs the giant he fights through the bicep mid-way through the film, you know it's going to be one heck a battle.
A plethora of good thrillers was served up towards the end of the year, with American Gangster and Eastern Promises worth particular mention. Ridley Scott managed to draw a superb performance from Denzel Washington, who plays Frank Lucas in American Gangster, as well as recovering his excellent working relationship with Russell Crowe after the pitiful A Good Year (2006). Eastern Promises was the product of another director/actor combination as David Cronenburg and Viggo Mortensen teamed up once more with outstanding results, following the success of A History of Violence (2005).
Foreign Film
German film The Lives of Others earnt a UK release this year following success at the Oscars. The movie is set in East Germany during communist rule and follows the life of a Stasi officer who is spying on a couple he suspects are Western sympathisers. As he learns more about the pair he begins to understand and even care for them, taking him on a compelling and unexpected journey.
Guilty Pleasure
So, if The Lives of Others is 'a bit of culture' then surely everyone is entitled to a guilty pleasure. Rocky Balboa saw the return of Sylvester 'Sly' Stallone to the screen, packed full of steroids and looking uglier than ever. Sly writes the Rocky films and it seems he's never been tempted to sway from the original plot, even now he's on his 6th film. Somehow it's still easy to take huge pleasure from watching him 'return to the ring for one last time' and defeat someone half his age. A new Rambo film is due later this year which is great, but personally I'm holding out for a new version of 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.�
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Jacquelyn Walton KenningtonBy STAFF,
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Jacquelyn Walton Kennington
82, Columbia
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 17, 2019, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church for Jacquelyn Walton Kennington, 82, of Columbia, who passed away on Monday, May 13 at her residence. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of the services on Friday, May 17 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
A native of Albany, Ga., she was an interior designer whose career spanned from Jackson to Grenada and Starkville, where she retired having worked many years designing interiors for the Sunburst Banking System, now Regions Bank. She was called "Mom" and loved by young men and women from all over the world. She and Warnie opened their home to many for meals, lodging, hugs or just to talk. Many still kept in touch with her even though Alzheimer's had taken away her memory. She was just as devoted to her family, especially her husband, Warnie, who predeceased her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warnie Crawford Kennington Jr., and parents, Bernard and Ophelia Griffin Walton.
Survivors include her two daughters, Leigh Berry (Jeff) of Columbia and Hallie Kennington of Canton; two brothers-in-law, Roy Kennington (Martie) of Atlanta and Bruce Kennington (Carolyn) of Ocean City, Md.; three sisters-in-law, Hallie Hull (C.G.) of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Fredda Kennington of Reeds Spring, Mo., and Sabra Kennington of Allentown, Pa.; two grandchildren, Ford Thomas of Canton and Tyler Berry (fiancé, Katie) of Columbia; two foster grandchildren, "Little Bit" and Eli; caregivers, Martha Hill and Denae Hammond, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations can be made to the "Christmas for Kids" program sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Columbia, 107 Walter Payton Dr. #124, Columbia, MS 39429.
Family and friends may sign an online guestbook at www.hathornfuneralhome.com.
Hathorn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.


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Press Releases
Hardee's Pays Tribute to a Burger Classic With Launch of New Patty Melt Thickburger
May 15, 2007
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – May 14, 2007 – The classic taste of an authentic diner-style patty melt is coming to Hardee's today in the form of the Patty Melt Thickburger™. The origins of the patty melt are not well documented but the burger first became famous in the 1950's and 60's after springing up on diner and burger joint menus in the Midwest. Today, the patty melt is a staple on lunch and dinner menus across America. The new Patty Melt Thickburger at Hardee's will be made the old-fashioned way, with a charbroiled 1/3-lb. Angus beef patty, topped with real grilled onions and melting American cheese, all piled between two slices of freshly grilled rye bread.
"At Hardee's, we love to eat great burgers and we love to create great burgers so we understandably wanted to look at making a great patty melt since it's an American classic," said Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing. "Sadly, there is not a lot of information available about who created the first patty melt or where and when they did so. What we could find out indicated that classic patty melts were made with grilled onions and cheese on grilled rye bread, so that's how we are making our Patty Melt Thickburger. While other chains have used microwaved onions and sourdough bread on their 'patty melts' we're using real grilled onions and real rye bread, which is the kind of thing that made Hardee's and sister chain, Carl's Jr., the only regional chains to be recognized for having the best burgers in a national survey by Zagat® released last Friday. The Patty Melt is now one of my favorite Thickburgers and the only way to make it better is to wash it down with one of our Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes or Malts™."
The new Patty Melt Thickburger will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $2.99 or at $4.79 for a small combo including fries and a drink. Prices may vary.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 29, 2007, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,105 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,087 Carl's Jr.® restaurants, 1,906 Hardee's restaurants and 96 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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2012-13: Led the team in scoring average with a 75.1 mark and top-ten finishes with an impressive five...Claimed the CCSU Fall Invitational, winning the tournament with two-round total of 141 (-1)...Shot a season low and team-best 66 in the first round of the Yale Macdonald Cup...Placed tied for 22nd at the Northeast Conference Tournament.
2011-12: Played in 26 rounds for the Blue Devils as a freshman...Carded a 232 at the NEC Championship where he finished tied for 19th place...His top finish came at the New England Championship where he placed tenth shooting a two-round score of 153...Posted an average score of 76.4 on the season over 1,986 strokes and two top-ten finishes.
Before Central: All-Conference performer his freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years at Farmington High School...Conference Champion and All-State performer his junior and senior years...Connecticut Junior Amateur Champion and Division one State Champion his junior year... Connecticut PGA Junior Champion his senior year.


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The Coast Guard has called off the search for a sailor missing off the coast of Virginia after a U.S. Navy helicopter crashed there, killing two other crewmen.
The helicopter, a MH-53E Sea Dragon, was carrying five crew members when it went down in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning off the coast of Norfolk. Four crew members had been rescued from the water, the Navy initially said, but two of the four rescued were confirmed dead later on Wednesday.
A search-and-rescue operation had been under way for the fifth crew member, but on Thursday afternoon, the Coast Guard announced it was calling off the effort.
The announcement came hours after parts of the helicopter were found. U.S. Navy officials said the fuselage, where the missing sailor was likely stuck, had not yet been located, but other parts of the helicopter had been.
The two surviving crew members were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital; one was listed in serious condition on Thursday, and one in fair condition, according to NBC Virginia affiliate WAVY.com.
None of the crew members' identities were released.
The MH-53E was conducting a routine training mission when it made the emergency water landing about 20 nautical miles east of Virginia Beach, a U.S. Navy official said. It was conducting the training mission in tandem with another MH-53E at the time.
The Navy said it took about a half hour to rescue the first two sailors after a distress call went out at around 10:45 a.m., reported WAVY.com. The other two sailors were rescued within an hour of the distress call.
Nearby Coast Guard assets were first to respond when the helicopter went down. U.S. Navy helicopters responded soon after to help with the search and rescue of the missing sailors.
The aircraft is part of the Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron, based at Naval Air Station Norfolk.
The crash came a day after four American airmen were killed when a U.S. military helicopter carrying live ammunition crashed on the east coast of England.
The MH-53E does not carry any weapons. It performs airborne mine countermeasures and onboard delivery missions, according to the Naval Air Systems Command website.
It is not clear what caused the crash.
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For the past eight years, the current City Council members worked to renovate downtown, address flooding issues and find a way to rebuild the city after the April 2011 storms.
Tonight, four members will cast their last votes on the Tuscaloosa City Council.
For the past eight years, the current City Council members worked to renovate downtown, address flooding issues and find a way to rebuild the city after the April 2011 storms.
Tonight, four members will cast their last votes on the Tuscaloosa City Council.
The longest-tenured councilman leaving is Lee Garrison, who has represented District 4 since 1997. He was elected chairman of the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education in August and will assume that post Nov. 4.
Garrison said that in his 16 years on the council, he's most proud of the policy and aesthetic improvements made in the city's historic districts.
He also pointed to improvements along the Black Warrior River, including the Riverwalk, the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater and the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum.
Garrison was first elected while he was a student at the University of Alabama, and he said his main goal then was to be a voice for his fellow students.
After being named chairman of the council's Finance Committee in his second term, he said his goal was to be a voice for the city as a whole.
"When I was first elected," Garrison said, "I had to do a lot of listening and learn how our government operated at that point in time.
"I had to learn the finances, the people who ran city government, and then take that experience and knowledge, build on it year-by-year and incorporate that into a vision for where we wanted to go year after year."
Garrison is the only departing member of the council to be moving on to another public office.
And he plans to take the lessons he's learned to his new position.
"I believe that, whether it's the city government or its the city school system, we have to have a vision for where we're going," Garrison said. "And I'm looking forward to laying out my vision for city schools on Nov. 4."
The remaining outgoing council members — District 1 Councilman Bobby Howard, District 6 Councilman Bob Lundell and District 7 Councilman William Tinker — all won council seats in 2005, but were each defeated at the polls this year.
"As a councilman," Howard said, "(I) was listening to their needs and passionate about their problems and trying to fix their problems."
Howard said his proudest accomplishments included:
n Pushing to fund more than $700,000 in work to mitigate flooding in much of the Royal Pines neighborhood
n The installation of a turning lane on Culver Road in front of Oakdale Elementary School
n The removal of a junk and salvage yard near the Piggly Wiggly shopping center
n The development of the Tuscaloosa Police Department's West Precinct.
"The council worked well together," Howard said, "and I believe we all raised the expectations and standards of the city council by our (cooperation)."
Lundell also focused on the cooperation of the current City Council and said it led directly to quality-of-life improvements for all city residents.
"The job of a councilman is to work with other council members for betterment of city — not just focus on his or her district," Lundell said.
District 6 did not require widespread improvements, upgrades or public safety improvements, Lundell said, which allowed him to help other council members work toward solving problems in their respective districts while overseeing citywide improvement projects as chair of the city's Public Projects Committee.
He said this cooperation led to the renovation of downtown, including the construction of the $12.5 million intermodal facility and 400-space parking deck, 80 percent of which was funded with federal dollars, and the $67 million federal courthouse building on University Boulevard.
Coupling this with the ongoing efforts to rebuild city facilities that were damaged or destroyed the April 27, 2011, tornado, Lundell said city residents will benefit from this council's work for years to come.
"I'm pretty proud of how those are turning out," Lundell said. "I think that's a pretty good accomplishment in eight years for this council."
Tinker said he was glad to push for stormwater drainage issues along Cypress Creek through the Belvedere neighborhood as well as the widening, resurfacing and sidewalk installations now ongoing on James I. Harrison Parkway.
"I'm proud of the way the mayor and the council worked together. I think we showed professionalism," Tinker said. "The only thing I tried to do is to represent the city — as well as my district — in a way that the people of the district and Tuscaloosa would be proud of.
"I tried to do my best and do the best job that I could for them."


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I'm ready
It's just that I'm ready now. It's enough already. The whole thing has gone on long enough. Really, let's be honest with ourselves - we're all friends here, right? - does it really feel like Doc has been a part of the team, or at the very least, part of the team's future, since the trade debacle shitstorm that swept through the organization back in July?
Because to me, it feels like me we've just been counting down the days until it's over. With baseball's Winter Meetings looming right around the corner, I'm almost hoping, mercifully, that it comes to an end. It sucks for Doc, it sucks for the organization, and it fucking sucks for the fans. Not the most eloquent thing I've ever written, but hey - the Roy Halladay Sweepstakes haven't exactly been poetry in motion.
At this point, Halladay breaking camp with the Jays will be just about the most awkward situation possible. It's really not even an option, despite the protestations that "2 comp picks just might end up being the best package". So get it done. Put us all out of our misery.
I'm ready for it, anyway.
Lying liars and the lies they tell
"We wanted to trade Roy and Roy wanted to be traded (in the summer), as he does now."
This quote from venerable old JP Ricciardi is just a litttttle bit different than the July deadline stance of "Roy never asked to be traded, we're just seeing what's out there."
Hey, I know how the game is played, but it's still funny as all hell to read. At least JP left us with one of his legacy quotes:
"I personally think, move the player and move on because ultimately the player is going to leave."
Reason #426 that Twitter is worth paying attention to
All around knowledgeable baseball dude Will Carroll drops this piece of juicy fruit via his Twitter account:
"I know of two HUGE announcements coming at the Winter Meetings. I expect both will be bigger than any player signing or news made during. "
Carroll has already denied all of the obvious guesses from his followers - expansion, contraction, relocation, Selig news, etc. Any guesses?
25 comments:
- Colin said...
Instant replay? One of them has got to be instant replay right?
- Divisional Series from 5 games to 7
- Re-alignment
- Balancing the schedule
- December 5, 2009 at 1:24 AM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Well said. I'm ready, too.
Epic quote from J.P. That's why I love him.
Can't wait for the meetings.
- December 5, 2009 at 1:28 AM
- bkblades said...
My guess is the always exciting selling of teams. Rangers and Dodgers? I'm hoping the news is more palpable for fans, who you know, couldn't care less about teams being sold by quasi-billionaires.
- December 5, 2009 at 1:32 AM
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- December 5, 2009 at 5:26 AM
- Unknown said...
I don't know if these would have CBA implications but how about an international draft or trading draft picks? Or perhaps a PED amnesty?
- December 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM
My definition of HUGE might be different than Mr. Carroll's. (insert penis joke here)
Re-alignment would be huge, but the rest of the guesses are underwhelming.
- December 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
My assumption on this is more video replay and 7-game LDS.
Which, I suppose, counts as HUGE if you look at it the right way.
What I'm holding out hope for is a balanced schedule. Or exploding bases.
- December 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- Gil Fisher said...
My guesses are (1) hicks sells thr rangers to himself and (2) Mcguire speaks
- December 5, 2009 at 1:42 PM
They talked about a 7 game LDS on PTI the other day, so that could be it. I guess that's huge in certain circles. I thought they were going to try to reduce the length of the season.
The Jays trading places with the Tigers in the AL Central would be HUGE!
- December 5, 2009 at 1:53 PM
- REAN said...
WOW - I just commented over @ DJF regarding the Roy, and then I came over here to see yr post on the same subject. As you can see below, I am more than ready....
"It still seems kinda strange to me that 7 weeks of spring training away from home is enough to be a deal-breaker for a dedicated professional. If that's the case, sign with Tampa or the Marlins next year, and FUCK OFF ALREADY. I have become disillusioned with the Roy. Sure he gave everything to the Jays for many many years, but he's starting to sound like a giant pussy. "I'll veto any trade after spring training... I won't play on a team that isn't going to win the World Series... I won't train in Arizona... blah blah blah."
I think I'm the first to say it, and I'm going to repeat it..
Sorry for the copy & paste,
I don't expect it to be a popular opinion, but I just had to agree with the sentiment.
- December 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Ty said...
Carroll said it wasn't a 7-game LDS, so I guess that's out. He also said the announcements will be "big, not sure about surprising, tho very few "outside" people know."
- December 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
I think "Fuck Off Roy!" is a little much, but that's me. But I will agree that the "I will only train in Florida" bullshit is, well, bullshit.
- December 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- REAN said...
Yeah - can you imagine if the Cubs (for example) make a pitch for Roy with a great package that would make both teams happy, and he squashes it because they train in Arizona?
THAT would piss me off.
- December 5, 2009 at 4:03 PM
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- December 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM
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- bkblades said...
Roy Halladay has a no-trade clause. How he uses it, whether he doesn't like Arizona or he thinks stripes make him look fat, is up to him. At this point, I couldn't care less anymore about the Halladay non-news.
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- December 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- SP said...
Love the exploding bases idea.
This better actually be "HUGE" and not a HUGE...moneygrab for rich teams.
I'm guessing we'll be disappointed with a 7 game LDS and a team sale or two. If it was anything else, we would've heard something about it by now.
- December 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Ty said...
SP: Will Carroll already said on his Twitter that it's not either of those two things, and since he's the guy who got all this speculation started in the first place, he's probably telling the truth. So... I don't know, we'll probably be disappointed in some way, but at least it won't be either of those two things.
- December 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- Ty said...
Just saw this tweet from Carroll:
Ok here's one of the big things to be announced Monday: http://bit.ly/6ICO3I I wouldnt want to be in the baseball stats business right now.
So... yeah.
- December 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Re: the above link - "Who gives a fuck?!1?!1"
- December 6, 2009 at 6:44 PM
- Ty said...
Exactly. Bigger than any other news made at the meetings my ass. "Well, maybe that Halladay guy was traded today... but who cares, let's get onto more important things: is motherfucking BLOOMBERG interested in baseball statistics now? Holy fucking shit, now THAT's news!
- December 6, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- SP said...
My point is made. This is 2009. If there was actually something coming out that's bigger than the deadline itself, we would've heard rumors about it from reputable sources. Like TMZ or something.
Bloomberg selling back end software to MLB teams? Yawn.
- December 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM
OK, ladies, we now know what Mr. Carroll's definition of huge is. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
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In his first major policy address as President Bush's chief economic adviser, former Fed Gov. Ben Bernanke devoted a few moments to discussing the current housing boom sweeping the nation.
He cautioned that "speculative behavior appears to be surfacing in some local markets," and said lenders and banking regulators need to remain "vigilant." But he also said sharply rising home prices are being supported by fundamental economic factors including "low mortgage rates, rising employment and incomes, a growing population, and limited supply of homes or land in some areas."
"For example, states exhibiting higher rates of job growth also tend to have experienced greater appreciation in house prices," he said.
Can it really be that simple? Can rising home prices be explained as a natural outcome of a growing job market?
To check on Bernanke's assertion, I looked at state-by-state data on employment and home prices and discovered that yes, many of the states that have seen the strongest home price gains over the past year have also seen some of the best job growth, including Nevada, Florida, Arizona and Virginia. But job growth and other economic fundamentals can only go so far in explaining the surge in housing prices, especially when you take a longer-term view.
For one thing, home sales and prices have been rising steadily for five years, breaking records year after year, even throughout the recession of 2001 and the jobless recovery that followed. If home price gains now are explained by rising employment, how do we explain the gains of 2001 to 2003, when the economy lost more than 2 million jobs and the unemployment rate was rising?
Secondly, the latest price gains in the boom states seem entirely out of proportion to the relatively modest job growth figures.
Take a look at California. Over the 12 months ending March 31, California ranked No. 2 in home price growth, behind only Nevada, with a statewide average gain of more than 25 percent, according to a quarterly price index published by federal regulators.
But California added only 250,000 jobs last year — about in line with the 1.7 percent job growth rate seen in the nation as a whole. Even more interesting: From 1999 to 2004, California's work force only grew by 2.9 percent while home prices rose 103 percent. Compare that to the boom years of 1995-2000, when the work force expanded by 17 percent yet home prices rose only 47 percent.
The same disconnect can be seen over and over again. In New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, home prices rose an average of 13 to 16 percent over the 12 months ending March 31, a bit better than the national average of 12.5 percent, a near-record rate. Yet job growth in all three states was well below average last year — New York state added only 80,000 jobs, or 1 percent of its work force.
To stick with New York, in the mid-'90s the state's work force added 800,000 jobs over five years, and average home prices rose 30 percent. From 1999 to 2004 the work force shrank by 50,000 jobs, yet home prices rose 71 percent.
Even in Nevada, which has led the nation in growth over the past decade, the pace of job growth has slowed over the past few years compared to the late 1990s. Yet home prices, which were rising a bit faster than inflation until a few years ago, suddenly zoomed through the roof beginning in 2003.
Of course job growth alone can hardly be expected to explain home prices, which are influenced by all the factors mentioned by Bernanke — income growth, demographics, constraints on new construction and, perhaps most importantly, interest rates. Long-term mortgage rates generally ranged from 7 to 8 percent in the late 1990s, compared with 6 percent over the past several years.
Still, the price gains seen in places like California, Florida, New York and the Washington, D.C., seem to reflect a psychological element that goes beyond such fundamental factors.
"You get the sense that housing is increasingly becoming the stock market of this decade," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Economy.com. "People talk about housing the way they did about stocks five years ago."
Zandi is among a growing number of analysts who say risky new loan products that appeal to speculators, like negative-amortization loans, are at least partly responsible for driving up prices in the hottest housing markets.
"I think it's an increasingly worrisome development," he said. "The impact is too small to date to be a macroeconomic issue, but given these trends, in another year I don't know whether I could say that. Regulators should become more aggressive in trying to stem this kind of mortgage lending."
Doug Duncan, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, a trade group, said anecdotal evidence suggests lenders are being careful in underwriting these new loans although there is not enough history yet to determine how they will perform over the long term.
He sees little risk of widespread price decline, although he believes there are "tiny bubbles" forming in some markets with multiple risk factors, including home prices that have risen sharply for years, drawing in a significant number of speculators.
But Duncan said home prices are being supported strongly by demographic factors including the enormous wealth of the baby boom generation, whose members are in their prime years for owning first and second homes.
Patrick Lawler, chief economist for the Office of Federal Enterprise and Oversight, a mortgage industry regulator, said the motives of many of these home buyers are hard to discern, possibly even in their own minds. Baby boomers who might be interested in owning a second home might be more likely to act now that housing seems to be such a lucrative investment option.
But he said the sharp price gains seen in many markets along both coasts have got to taper off eventually.
"The rates of increase are not sustainable," he said. "The question is are we going to see flat growth over a period of time, or will we actually see some declines?"
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Ci: We know there is a national crisis with the obesity problem. How can health clubs can be a part of a solution?
Brownell: Health clubs can participate in a number of ways. One is to make themselves more appealing to the deconditioned, overweight individual. From the health clubs I've been involved with it is not uncommon for them to have some sort of weight or nutrition program, but they generally do not advertise them and they don't extend themselves into the community as a way people can come in and get their weight under control.
Ci: There is a little shift there now. I think clubs see the success of the weight loss centers and more clubs are trying to incorporate them into their clubs.
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Ci:: This industry has struggled for a long time with becoming more attractive to the deconditioned market. What can clubs do to change that image?
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Ci How would clubs go about doing that?
Most people in our society have a strong bias against overweight people. Just like race bias or gender bias and things like that, but stronger. And the reason people have this bias is because being overweight is an unacceptable condition in our society, and you're blamed for it. People might have a bias against individuals of a certain race, but not blame them for being that race. But in this case, there's a bias because being overweight is considered bad and people blame the individuals that have it. It's like a double whammy.
For example, if club staff is circulating around the health club, they will stop and help someone who is using the equipment incorrectly, but they may do that less with overweight people. And when health club staff go through the initial run through of the club as part of the sales promotion, maybe they are acting in some biased way that they don't recognize. Being sensitive to that population would be a good initial step for health clubs.
Ci: In your book, "Food Fight," you look at some key points that contribute to obesity like school food and super-sizing at restaurants. Do you think the education is out there for people to combat this problem?
For people to control their weight ultimately they have to make fundamental changes in their behavior. And some things folks like to do interfere with this. For example, most health clubs that I know of are selling supplements of one type or another. And some of these supplements have weight loss in their description and that gives people the sense that the way you lose weight is by a powder or a pill. So that's one area where the clubs are probably doing something that might hurt themselves. But then another thing they could add on would be lifestyle change classes. Not just nutrition, but more how you change lifestyle, how you change the way you think about food, think about your weight, how you establish goals, how you handle relapse when it occurs and things like that.
Ci: That's interesting. So health clubs should focus on lifestyle issues?
People who are struggling with their weight have issues they face, and it's important that if a health club can combine a weight program that covers these issues, it could be a big help.
Ci: It's tough out there because if you go on the Internet or to a Barnes & Noble, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of weight-loss and diet plans out there for people to follow. It gets confusing.
The nutrition business is confusing. But I think the popular diet books contribute to that because there is absolutely no screening that goes on for these books to be published. An author can say just about whatever he or she wants and the public can have no confidence that these diets have even been tested.
Ci: In reading your book — especially looking at schools and nutrition, which you take a hard stand with — what can be done to change things there? You have the president and president's council preaching better diet and nutrition and exercise, but on the federal and state levels schools can't get budgets for PE classes or bring in healthy foods.
Exactly right. The focus of my book is on this toxic environment. You can imagine how toxic the environment is overall if even health clubs have candy machines. This is a sign of how bad the environment is in general. How everybody wants to make money by selling bad food.
CI: What else can clubs focus on?
Another thing health clubs might be able to do is to find this market by focusing on prevention of weight gain. Once obesity is established in a person it is pretty hard to change. It is not the kind of problem our society will ever treat away. Because for every person you can help by providing some treatment, there are 10 or 100 or 1,000 more becoming overweight. So most of this is more readily prevented than it is treated. With that in mind there's a whole group of people out there who are only a little overweight who would like to keep from getting worse. And if health clubs can reach out to that group and market themselves as a means for preventing weight gain, then I think they have a potential new audience.
Ci: That's a great point. If you look at healthcare trends in general, preventive medicine and complementary solutions seem to be the way people are looking as opposed to treatments. That would be a great way to capitalize on that.
I think that's an interesting part of the market for the health clubs to explore.
Ci: You mentioned the toxic environment. Look at how powerful the food groups are — the lobbyists, the restaurant groups. An industry like the fitness industry is relatively small. Is there a way that they can be an influence on a bigger level as opposed to maybe just on each individual person or each individual club?
People can be advocates themselves for a healthy environment. It's a good thing to do because you are being a good citizen. You are focusing on something most health club people are focused on anyway, which is the health of the population. But also ultimately would be good for business because as the population becomes more health conscious, more people will join health clubs. When I talk about being an advocate, what I mean is as a parent working with your local PTA to get snack foods and soft drinks out of schools. You can write to companies like Disney and Nickelodeon and ask them to not use their characters to promote unhealthy foods.
Ci: Taking that one step further to the industry as a whole, is it possible for health clubs to promote these goals?
Can the industry speak as one voice? Yeah, it can. Taking part in any national effort to improve diet or physical activity would be helpful. There is an interesting program called America on the Move. It was started by a guy in Colorado, named Jim Hill at the University of Colorado Medical Center. What the program involves is people get a pedometer, and they can go to the Web and get information on walking programs and they can set goals. The idea is to get people out there walking. It worked well in Colorado. That might be the kind of thing that the club industry can endorse or learn more about or be in support of. Initially, somebody might think that might hurt the industry because people are going to walk around the block rather than come in and work out at the health club. But my guess is that this is probably not true. Instead, this will help people get into better condition than they were and they will think of joining a health club.
Ci: It seems that when people start working out, they feel healthier and tend to make wiser food choices. I think that will help influence what corporations are doing.
You can get a positive spin going as you said. As people do a little exercise, it tends to improve their diet, then they can exercise more and then they get things moving in a positive direction.


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Out of the deeps rises the mysterious lotus. Stop in for refreshment, heka, and reflections from the sacred waters of ancient Egypt.
Di Ankh Djed: Given Life Enduringly
Di ankh djed – given life enduringly. The glyphs jumped out at me on one after another of the tablets, statues and mummy cases we passed in the museum. I was spending a very happy birthday visiting the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After a dozen years of following an Egyptian path I finally began to learn hieroglyphs last spring, having no idea that Red Cross would send my husband in for a long-term assignment in the wake of hurricane Sandy. Our holiday gift to each other was for me to join him in New York City for most of December while he continued to do relief work from the Hell's Kitchen operation office.
No coffee-table book can prepare you for the beauty of Egyptian art. Those who say they dislike the rigid canon used by the ancients have never stood before the Mona Lisa smile of a pharaoh carved in red granite, holding out his offering of nu pots (nu=water), or the graceful curves of a ram in bas-relief, the shining eyes of painted coffin faces, the silent witness of Wepwawet in limestone, or the vibrant colors of a family boat outing.
But my deepest fascination was with the abundant rows and columns of medu neter, the hieroglyphic "words of the gods." The more I get to know the sacred writing, the more I feel its magic, its ability to convey deep and layered meaning in symbol. Egyptians were not spare in their use of written magic; with it they covered the borders of monuments, the insides of coffins, the back sides of scarabs – everything, it seems, deemed important and meant to last.
My six-hour stroll through the galleries surveyed nearly 4,000 years of visual history. For centuries the monuments were silent, during the time that hieroglyphics became a forgotten pagan language. We are fortunate to live in a time when their meaning (most of it, at least) has been recovered by scholars. Like the inscription commonly found alongside a pharaoh, we, too, are "given life enduringly." The glyphs are more than translated speech. They embody spiritual ideas which still give us life all these centuries later. From time to time in this column we will return to the heka, the magic, of the words of the gods.
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When it comes to identifying the major issues facing state officials this year, it's a safe bet that human trafficking and the exploitation of young girls for sex isn't at the top of the list.
Yet, there was Attorney General Michael Delaney presiding over a news conference, announcing the formation of a 33-member task force to combat human trafficking in the state.
"New Hampshire citizens pay traffickers every weekend to exploit these women for personal satisfaction," Delaney said at the Jan. 17 press event, referring to online ads promoting sex with "very young" women in Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth and Salem.
And while accurate numbers are difficult to come by, Delaney cited estimates that suggest nearly 300,000 children are exploited by sex traffickers every year across the nation.
The New Hampshire Commission to Combat Human Trafficking is charged with developing a comprehensive strategy to not only track down and prosecute those behind this heinous practice, but to identify victims and put them in touch with agencies that can help them to cope with years of abuse. The task force consists of law enforcement, victim advocates, social services representatives, medical providers and others with expertise in this field.
As it turns out, it was a
Litchfield-based forced labor case that helped to serve as the impetus behind legislation that led to the creation of this welcomed task force earlier this month.
In 2003, two owners of a Litchfield tree-cutting business were convicted and sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for forcing four Jamaican men to work for them under unsanitary conditions. At the time, the sentence represented only the second jury conviction in the nation under the federal government's forced-labor laws.
That prompted state Rep. Jordan Ulery, R-Hudson, to file legislation in 2007 that explicitly would have prohibited the trafficking of individuals for sex or labor in New Hampshire. While Ulery's bill failed to make it out of the House of Representatives that year, the Legislature did create a commission headed by former Rep. Suzanne Harvey, D-Nashua, to study the issue further.
In the fall of 2008, Harvey's commission released a 44-page report titled "The Hidden Problem of Human Trafficking: Addressing Modern Day Slavery in New Hampshire," which concluded that "human trafficking or modern day slavery is a problem of epidemic proportions."
During the next legislative session, Harvey introduced legislation that made human trafficking for sex or forced labor a Class A felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison under certain circumstances. When Gov. John Lynch signed Harvey's bill into law, New Hampshire became one of the first states to make human trafficking a crime.
Still, that wasn't enough to prevent New Hampshire from being one of 17 states to receive an "F" grade from Shared Hope International and the American Center for Law and Justice, two nonprofit groups that examined state laws governing sex trafficking of minors.
Looking ahead, it is our sincere hope that the work of Delaney's new commission will result in the successful prosecution of individuals engaged in these abominable acts and the counseling and rehabilitation of their victims.
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Morning Five: The Morning AfterPosted by nvr1983 on April 5th, 2011
- While most of the college basketball world has been focused on the Final Four or certain ridiculous coaching hires (more on that in a bit), there was some very interesting news out of San Diego State where according to Malcolm Thomas, Aztec star Kawhi Leonard is essentially set to head to the NBA this summer. Although Leonard hasn't said anything officially, the statements by Thomas are intriguing as the two players live together. We should probably hear something from Leonard in the next few weeks to make this official.
- On to the ridiculous coaching hirings, Missouri's decision to hire Frank Haith was widely panned and it seems like he will be coaching some of his own players in the very near future. Although they are stating otherwise, the decision by Kim English and Laurence Bowers to look into the NBA Draft on the same day that news of Haith's hiring became public looks very suspicious. Both have stated that Haith's hiring had nothing to do with their decision and neither has hired an agent, so it is possible that both will return and play for Haith. The timing of their announcement, though, will not do anything to assuage the already frail psyche of Missouri fans.
- In one of the more interesting coaching transitions of the young offseason, Princeton coach Sydney Johnson announced that he was leaving the school to take the same position at Fairfield. In a short time at Princeton, Johnson turned the Tigers around from a 6-23 record in his first season to the NCAA Tournament this year after that buzzer beater that knocked off Harvard in a playoff for the Ivy League title. In the NCAA Tournament, Princeton nearly shocked the basketball world in playing Kentucky to the wire before Brandon Knight hit a lay-up to win it for the Wildcats in the closing seconds. From what we have read, the primary motives here appear to be a significant increase in pay and the hope of competing on a level playing field, as many speculated that Harvard's reported decision to ease admission standards further for basketball players would leave Princeton at a significant competitive disadvantage, since their administration was unwilling to budge on its admissions standards.
- Former Oklahoma State basketball player Darrell Williams was charged with one count of sexual assualt and four counts of rape based on allegations from two women stemming from an incident in December. The trial is set to begin on May 13th. Technically Williams has been suspended indefinitely, but we can't imagine that Travis Ford will let Williams back on the team or that Williams would want to remain at Oklahoma State even if he was found not guilty.
- Finally it looks like not everybody was in Houston just to see the Final Four. Southern University athletic director Greg LaFleur was in Houston for the Final Four, as were many high-ranking officials from other schools, except that LaFleur was arrested on charges of soliciting a prostitute. The school has released a terse generic statement saying that they will investigate the matter. LaFleur has been athletic director at Southern since 2005, but we suspect that he will lose his job over this. The one thing saving him from national embarassment here is that he is the athletic director at Southern.


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The past few months I have been pretty busy. December is no exception to that. Between normal work, moonlighting as a general contractor on my own basement, and trying to keep up with my family – it almost seems like the month has barely even been a blink.
Other than the highlights of the holidays and finishing a room in the basement, I did have some SQL related highlights.
The first highlight came with notice of having won a contest – yay. I entered into the SafePeak performance story contest back in September. The contest closed out in November and the winners announced the first part of December (maybe the end of November).
For that contest, I submitted this story. In that story, I showed how duplicated business logic can prove detrimental to query performance. By deduping the business logic, I was able to realize a significant performance gain.
As a reward for winning that contest, I received an IPAD2. That prize came the week just before Christmas. Now, we use the IPAD as an extra incentive with the children for improved behavior (they really like the IPAD).
The other highlight came at the beginning of the month when I presented a new topic for the S3OLV User Group. That new topic was on SSRS and customizing Sorts, Groupings, Display Order of Columns, and a few other tricks. The custom sorts, groupings etc can all be driven based on parameters and prompts.
It was a pretty decent presentation. The demos worked relatively well. There didn't seem to be any hiccoughs with technology. I do wish more people had attended – but we are working on that. I plan on sharing a few articles about the very topics discussed during that presentation.
I like presenting and think I need to find more opportunities to do that during the upcoming year. Let's hope I actually publish my goals this upcoming year (unlike 2011 where I started writing out my goals and the post remains unpublished).


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Friday, September 19, 2014
Hockey Jersey Training Camp - Day 2 - Where to Buy Your Jerseys
Day 2 of Hockey Jersey Training Camp brings us to our next "drill", where to buy your jerseys.
In the pre-internet past, buying jerseys was limited to the souvenir stand of your local team and a few select options at a limited number of sporting goods stores.
With the arrival of the internet into our homes, the options for the jersey collector have expanded exponentially since the mid 1990's, beginning with any number of online retailers and of course, ebay, the world's biggest garage sale, where collectors across North America could buy and sell their jerseys without regional boundaries and limited selections as in the past.
Other options beyond ebay that began to appear were online stores, such as IceJerseys.com, RiverCitySports.com, United States College Hockey Online's internet store (USCHO.com) and Shop.NHL.com, who focus almost exclusively on hockey, as well hockey equipment dealers like HockeyGiant.com, HockeyMonkey.com and TotalHockey.com, who all have a jersey selection as part of their hockey gear websites as well as other broader appeal sporting goods retailers such as FogDog.com and FansEdge.com.
No mention of online jersey sellers would be complete without a mention of the wonderfully unique WorldHockeyJerseys.com, who deal with mainly national team jerseys of quite nearly 50 different countries and have been responsible for some real gems in our collection, such as national team jerseys from Estonia, Iceland, the Netherlands and Poland since their founding in late 2006. It was absolutely unheard of to be able to purchase a Mongolian National Team jersey on demand until WHJ came on the scene!
If you are looking for some really obscure or unique items, go no farther than VintageMinnesotaHockey.com. The selection offered by VMH is like no other, beginning with a 1915-16 St. Paul Athletic Club jersey and moving through the history of Minnesota hockey through classic high school, junior, college, minor league, WHA and NHL Minnesota classics, all produced with painstaking detail and quality. And if you are a fan of the University of Minnesota, or the players they have recently sent to the NHL, VMH is the place for you to get your Gophers jerseys, from 1936 to 2008.
Unfortunately the main source we have relied on for over a decade, ebay, has taken an enormous turn for the worse, as fees associated with selling on ebay have risen again and again and again, which are naturally passed on to the buyer whenever possible. Rising postage costs have also made ebay less attractive to a certain degree, especially when items have to cross the border between Canada and the United States, but the main problem with buying on ebay these days is the incredible proliferation of fake jerseys from China flooding the market and making the legitimate jerseys quite difficult and time consuming to locate and identify among all the static.
A poor quality knockoff jersey with "Gonchar" misspelled!
Sadly, ebay has little reason or incentive to attempt to curtail all the illegal activity crowding out the legitimate jerseys as they profit from each and every one of the thousands of the knockoffs listed on their site through the listing fees they charge, whether an item sells or not.
Should any of these jerseys actually sell to those unknowingly thinking they are getting a great deal or don't care that the jersey is a fake when compared to the price of a real jersey, ebay makes even more money on both the final value fee and the subsequent paypal payment, further reducing their incentive to clean up their listings, as turning a blind eye to the fake jerseys only helps their bottom line.
Still, despite it's problems, ebay is still the place to look for the majority of what you want as long as you are able to identify the real jerseys from the counterfeits, especially if you are interested in any of the older style jerseys prior to the arrival of Reebok becoming the supplier to the NHL in 2007-08, as the above listed online shops only carry the current seasons jerseys almost without exception.
If one thinks ebay has gotten bad, it hardly compares to the cesspool of junk peddled on Craigslist. Even finding a legit jersey for sale with adequate photos is like finding a needle in a haystack, but it can be done with some persistence and luck.
Another alternative to paying retail prices at the various online stores or dealing with the hassles of ebay is to buy directly from other collectors. A limited number of online forums, such as that hosted by IceJerseys or the game worn forums at both GameWorn.net and GameWornJerseys.com all have marketplace sections where collectors can buy from and sell to other members of their online community.
After you have been a member of these discussion forums for a period of time, you will learn which members are trustworthy and have established reputations as honest people to deal with. We personally have started to buy an increasing percentage of our jerseys directly from others this way.
Some of those forums have rules which require you to be a member for a period of time and also participate as an active member of the forum with a minimum number of posts before you can sell your jerseys there. Please be respectful and follow not only their established guidelines, but the spirit of those guidelines. Creating a two dozen brief posts all in one day which add nothing to the conversation and annoyingly dredge up old threads to simply meet the number of posts required will not fool anyone will harm your reputation as a trustworthy seller and won't earn you selling privileges anyway.
If you have any other favorite sources to obtain your jerseys, we'd love to hear about it in the comments section below.
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Following the buzz about the BLACK DIAMOND trailer
There have been some entertaining blog entries about the BLACK DIAMOND DETECTIVE AGENCY trailer... It started when GalleyCat first reported it on MediaBistro...
Campbell's artwork is definitely the draw here, lending the video a unified aesthetic that most homegrown trailers can't quite match; my slapdash storyboard above gives you a rough feel for the visual dynamism, but you should really see it in motion for yourself. By the time you get to the DePalma-esque split-screen effect, you should be hooked—but be advised that the plot centers around a horrendous explosion that leaves scenes of gory devastation clearly intended as a 19th-century echo of the World Trade Center disaster, so those with delicate sensibilities may choose to simply take my word on the video's power. As for the book, it ships this week. (I know I've been persuaded to go look for it, but frankly they had me at "Eddie Campbell.")
And now, a wry take on it at New York Magazine, in an entry called In a World … of Desperate Publishers … One Gimmick Stands Alone !
So far, online trailers for books (and there are more every day) have self-consciously avoided aspiring to the style and flash of movie ads. That is … until now … in a world … dominated by irony … one author (Eddie Campbell) … and one tiny publisher (First Second Books) … have made a trailer for a graphic novel so earnest, so explosive, and so, uh, graphic that, well, maybe a few people will notice it.
Does that sound portentous, clichéd, begging for the deepest, darkest Hollywood voice-over? Now you've got a sense of what it's like to watch this 30-second spot for The Black Diamond Detective Agency, by Campbell, the co-creator of the comic-turned-movie From Hell.
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Jury finds Ohio man guilty in killing of daughter-in-law strangled, dumped in sewage tank
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – An Ohio man has been convicted of aggravated murder in the slaying of his daughter-in-law, who was strangled and dumped in an underground sewage tank.
A jury in Chillicothe (chihl-ih-KAHTH'-ee) issued its verdict Monday for 48-year-old William Inman, who was held after the March 2011 killing of 25-year-old Summer Inman.
The trial was moved to Chillicothe after unsuccessful attempts to seat a jury in Hocking County.
Inman's wife and son were convicted last year.
Authorities say Summer Inman was abducted in Logan, 45 miles southeast of Columbus. They say she was strangled with a zip tie and dumped in a septic tank behind a church in Athens County.
Summer Inman had filed for divorce from William Inman's son and was seeking custody of the couple's three small children.
William Inman denied killing her.