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Calorie Content:
400 kcal/cup (calculated)
Chicken Meal, Ground Corn, Ground Barley, Rice Bran, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken Fat (Stabilized with Mixed Tocopherols), Ground Oats, Ground Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Ground Flaxseed, Calcium Carbonate, Fish Meal, Yeast Culture, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Sweet Potatoes, Dried Chicory Root, Blueberries, Dried Yeast Fermentation Solubles, Vitamin E Supplement, Taurine, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Selenium Yeast, Sodium Selenite, DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract, Lascorbyl- 2-Polyphosphate (Source of Vitamin C).
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein 28%
Crude Fat 12%
Crude Fiber (max)4%
Moisture (max)10%
Calcium 1.65%
Phosphorus 1.0%
Copper 20 mg/kg
Manganese 70 mg/kg
Zinc 180 mg/kg
Vitamin A 11,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 220 IU/kg
Taurine* 0.03%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids* 0.22%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids* 2.5%
Values are minimum values unless otherwise noted.
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
Nutritional Adequacy Statement:
Blue Seal Puppy Formula is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages.
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficent meat content, some low quality ingredients, controversial filler
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient 12th on the ingredient list. This is too far down to make any substantial contribution to the overall meat content of the food. We note it is a fish ingredient, but we find no sign on the manufacturer website of a guarantee that they use only ethoxyquin-free protein sources in the product (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish ingredients, but which is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
The main grains in the food are corn and barley. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value and that is commonly implicated in food allergy problems. Rice bran is a further grain fragment. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Fortunately, this is a minor ingredient.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. The food contains a small amount of vegetable matter in the form of sweet potatoes.
Overall, the product contains many ingredients of low quality as is the resultant product.
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An updated take on the legendary Trident Series 80 by Mr. Toft himself.
The Toft Audio Designs ATB-16A is an analog mixing console designed by Malcom Toft, the designer of the original Trident Series 80 console. Over the years, the Trident Series 80 console has been praised time and time again for its excellent quality, pristine accuracy, and most of all, its equalizer-widely considered to be among the best and most musical-sounding EQs. This powerful combination produced an enormous amount of hit records and is still revered as one of the best analog recording consoles made to date. The Series 80 boards have been redesigned by the original designer himself, Malcolm Toft. The end result is the new Toft ATB Series Consoles.
The Toft ATB-16A Console packs the same powerful equalizer that was used on the Trident Series 80 boards. The ATB's EQ section is regarded as one of the best sounding Equalizers on the market today. The super musical 4-band EQ on the Toft ATB unleashes all your creativity without any limits.
Through and through, the Toft ATB Console was designed for professional use. It went through countless grueling tests to meet Toft's rigorous standards. For this reason, the ATB console is trusted and used by the some of the best engineers and producers around the world. There is nothing stopping you from tracking a platinum album with the ATB Series Consoles. The ATB16 is ideal for a pro with limited space who needs a high-end console.
The Toft ATB Series Console is loaded with a master control section only seen in more expensive, high-end recording consoles. The ATB features super-accurate meters (L/R main VU, LED in master section), a wide range of routing capabilities, and talkback function to the 8-bus mixdown section. From top to bottom, you have everything you'll need to take control of your mix and produce the best possible recording.
Whether you are in a project studio or a major recording facility, the ATB is sure to impress even the most demanding critics. No doubt about it, the Toft ATB console is a professional's dream come to life.
Optional meter bridge
If you require the visual I/O reference that can only come with a meter bridge, Toft offers the ATB16-MB VU meter bridge for the ATB-16A. Please see item# 501834.
The legacy of the Trident Series 80 console
The story of the Trident Series 80 is an interesting one. Initially, Malcolm Toft and Barry Porter designed the Trident A Range console for London's Trident Studios, where David Bowie, Queen, the Beatles, and James Taylor recorded some of their biggest hits (with Toft at the board). The A Range console was also produced for sale. (As anyone with years of platinum records under their belt will tell you, the Trident A range is rock and roll.) Though only 13 were actually built for commercial sale, the A Range spawned an entire generation of consoles, and many hit records were tracked and mixed on its direct descendant, the Trident Series 80. Today, Toft is still building consoles based on the Series 80, including the Series 980, which was used to record the last three Radiohead releases.
- 16 premium channel strip modules
- 8 mix buses with outputs
- Direct Outs on every channel
- Inline Monitoring for every input channel strip
- Additional 8 Monitor Returns in Group Section
- Vintage Series 80 EQ for every input channel
- 6 Aux Sends on every input channel strip
- 8 fully dedicated Stereo Aux Returns
- Super-accurate 12-stage LED meter
- Optional meter bridge
- Optional 24/192k FireWire card
- Microphone input impedance: >1.2kOhm balanced
- Line input impedance: >15kOhm electronically balanced
- Line output impedance: <100 ohms balanced/unbalanced
- Microphone Gain: 70dB
- Line Gain: -16 to +30dB
- Microphone input noise: <-128dBu ref 150 ohm (20Hz-20kHz)
- Line input noise: <-75dBu (EQ In, 20Hz-20kHz)
- Maximum mic input level: <+24dBu at all frequencies
- Maximum line input level: <+24dBu at all frequencies
- Dimensions: 31" W x 5" H x 22-1/2"D

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This Webinar will present one of his most effective and popular learning tactics – the infamous "Friday Special". On Fridays, five minutes before the end of class, Professor Weiner would pronounce, "Pens down, books closed, it's 'Friday Special' time!". Then he would show on screen an article or cartoon or letter or something that has to do with math, the "real world" and has absolutely nothing to do with class, assignments, or tests. It is math for fun. He has learned that a few very simple, yet enjoyable and appropriate diversions from the same old routine can make a big difference in the motivation and achievement among students. During the Webinar, Professor Weiner will provide an entertaining and engaging demonstrations of some of his best "specials". Time will be reserved for live Q&A with the audience.
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Earlier this week in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidates touted the benefits of a Medicare premium support system — the approach to entitlement reform embraced by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and The Heritage Foundation.
Ryan's recent partnership with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) helped thrust the idea of premium support back into the national spotlight. Their bipartisan framework represented a breakthrough on Capitol Hill after liberals spent much of the year making false charges about Ryan's plan.
Given the misleading information about premium support, let's first take a moment to explain what it is. Heritage's Bob Moffit and Kate Nix put it this way:
Under premium support, Medicare would become a real insurance program, not merely an outdated mechanism to reimburse specific services. Receiving fixed financial assistance to offset the cost of health insurance would permit seniors to choose the health plan that works best for them, rather than being locked into a federally defined benefits package and forced to pay a second premium for supplemental private insurance to cover Medicare's gaps.
Pressed by NBC's David Gregory about Ryan's plan and the premium support model, the GOP candidates voiced approval for the approach.
Newt Gingrich:
Well, the fact is that the — Ryan Wyden bill, which was just introduced recently, actually incorporates allowing people to choose and allows them to stay in traditional Medicare with the premium support model, or go to new methods. And I think it's a substantial improvement. It allows for a transition in Medicare in a way that makes sense.
Ron Paul:
Well, you know, I hear this all the time when I was — have been campaigning around — the state. You know, we should have the same kind of health care the members of Congress have. Well, that's pretty much what Paul Ryan's plan is. That the — the members of Congress have a premium support model. So does every other federal employee.
I mean it works very well. As — you know, the- – the federal government has a liability. They put — put money out there. And then if you want, you — you have — about this thick. If you're an employee in Washington, D.C. it — got a — whole bunch of different plans to choose from and you have all sorts of options available to you. You want a more expensive plan, you pay more of a co-insurance. If you want a less expensive plan, you don't.
Mitt Romney:
And finally, with regards with entitlement, in the entitlement reform area, I do not want to change Medicare and Social Security for current retirees. But for younger people coming up they have to recognize that in the future higher income people will receive less payments in the premium support program.
Rick Santorum:
Well, I– I said repeatedly that– we should have had a funding mechanism. And– it's one of those things that I had a very tough vote, as you know. In that bill, we had health savings accounts, something I'd been fighting for 15 years, to transform the private sector health care system into a more consumer, bottom-up– way of doing it. We also had Medicare Advantage to transform the entire Medicare system into– Medicare Advantage is basically a premium support type model.
Jon Huntsman:
Well, I would have to say that I agree with the Ryan plan. I think I'm the only one standing up here who has embraced the Ryan plan. It's a very aggressive approach to taking about 6.2 — $6.2 trillion out of the budget over 10 years. And it looks at everything. And what I like about it is it says there will be no sacred cows.
In addition to Ryan's plan, Heritage has endorsed the premium support model as part of Saving the American Dream, a comprehensive approach to fixing the debt crisis and reforming entitlements. Last fall, Moffit outlined exactly how it would work and why it would restore Medicare solvency.


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English Sheraton Armchair
English Sheraton Armchair
English armchair, around 1800.
Original : private collection.
Sheraton : (Thomas Sheraton) a style that competed with the Adam style in England and followed it at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. Adhering to its elegant English simplicity, Thomas Sheraton influenced the English-speaking world. He published a collection of drawings: "Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Handbook".
This English armchair is remarkable for its lightness and the purity of its lines emanating from the style of the end of the 18th century. Many of Thomas Sheraton's designs are there and prefigure the "Regency" style. The elegance of this light chair with limited decoration is unquestionable and is suitable for placing around a table as well as in the drawing room.


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What are the chances of joining the growing list of states where marijuana, medicinal or recreational, is available? Well, like most everything, it depends on whom you talk to.
In 1996, California was the first state to legalize marijuana use of any kind when it allowed its citizens access to the drug for medical purposes. Since then, 19 other states and the District of Columbia have followed suit in enacting laws to allow physicians to prescribe pot as a legal alternative to prescription drugs when they believe it's warranted.
On Jan. 1 of this year, Colorado undertook one of the nation's most grand social experiments when the sale of marijuana for recreational use became law.
Just more than 55 percent of voters in the state passed Colorado Amendment 64 in November 2012, which allows individuals to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana. People also can grow up to six marijuana plants in a private space, but smoking pot in public still is prohibited. Washington will follow suit later this year when it begins to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.
If they are to be judged by the results of some recent polls, Americans appear to be more open-minded when it comes to allowing the use of marijuana, or cannabis, for medical purposes or even the outright legalization of it.
In a CNN/ORC International survey released last week, 55 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana. Those numbers are up from a similar poll two years ago, when 43 percent favored the legalization of pot. More telling, perhaps, is that 35 percent of respondents said smoking pot is morally wrong. That percentage has been halved since 1987.
With that backdrop, what are the chances of Ohio joining the growing list of states where marijuana, medicinal or recreational, is available?
Well, like most everything, it depends on who you talk to.
One local state representative doesn't see much happening, either in the statehouse or if the issue was ever put to Ohio voters.
"Every state has a different personality and Ohio has always been more conservative in these areas than other states," Rep. Kirk Schuring, R-Jackson Township, said last week. "Even if it was taken to the people through the initiative petition process, I don't think it would prevail. I definitely don't think it will see the light of day in the general assembly.
"It might stand a better chance if it went to the ballot, but even then I don't think it would pass."
Voters in the state may get a chance to prove Schuring right, or wrong, if either of two statewide petitions reach the ballot. The Ohio Alternate Treatment Amendment and the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment are ballot initiatives aimed at making medicinal marijuana legal in Ohio. The latter is headed by an organization called the Ohio Rights Group.
Roughly 385,000 signatures are needed by the sponsors of either petition to get the issue on the 2014 ballot. Three prior ballot issues have been cleared by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine since 2011, but have stalled before reaching the ballot.
Rob Ryan, president of Ohio NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), has an idea what would happen if either of the two initiatives reach Ohio voters.
"They're each a little bit different but, overall, if either one of them make it onto the ballot, it would pass," Ryan said. "There is no doubt in my mind. I would bet a year's salary on that."
State Rep. Bob Hagan, D-Youngstown, introduced House Bill 153 last year that would allow seriously ill patients to grow and use marijuana. The bill received a committee hearing last May but has not been scheduled for a second hearing by the Health and Aging Committee.
"Something has been introduced each of the last four legislative sessions and each time it's never really had a chance," Ryan said. "Someone always quashes it."
Proponents of medical marijuana point to studies showing the drug helps individuals diagnosed with everything from glaucoma to cancer. Some studies have shown the drug helps alleviate epileptic seizures in children. The website ProCon.org cites 105 studies done on marijuana's effects on individuals with severe neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis, cancer-related pain and other symptoms related to chronic pain. Of those, 41 resulted in a positive effect, 33 were labeled "con" and 31 were not clearly pro or con as to the drug's effect.
Even with the positive outcomes, the muddled results are one primary reason legislators like Schuring are still pessimistic about even medical marijuana use.
"In many respects, when it comes to a variety of issues, we (Ohio) have been more cautious," Schuring said. "We like to have solid information and right now I don't think there is that empirical base of information that would suggest marijuana has the medicinal qualities that some would claim."
Research on marijuana's possible benefits has been complicated by its status since 1970 as a schedule 1 drug — one that has a high potential for abuse, a lack of accepted safety and no currently accepted medical use — in the eyes of the federal government.
Still, the rise in support for it in national polls leads Ryan to believe that states won't be able to ignore the issue forever.
"It crossed that 50 percent mark a couple years ago and every single poll afterward has only repeated that, and the numbers are only increasing," Ryan said.
The bottom line in Ryan's mind is just that — the bottom line. Bloomberg News estimated that marijuana sales in Colorado may bring in close to $570 million this year. Retail sales have a 25 percent state excise tax, along with a sales tax of 2.9 percent. Given the belt-tightening going on around the nation, an extra $100 million or so in tax revenue might look good to some states in a couple years.
"The amount of tax money they generated that first week in Colorado, I think eventually they're going to realize 'My God, we should cash this in,'" Ryan said. "They're going to come to the realization that they're going to be able to benefit tax-wise. All these state governments are strapped. What are we doing? We're in this prohibition, part two, period.
"Quite frankly, I think the Republicans are missing the boat since they're in control. They should take Bob Hagan's bill, put a comma here, a period there and have someone else introduce it and have Gov. Kasich sign it. Tax it, regulate it, control it, put the product labels on it and get it out of the black market."
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If you wanted to come up with a plan to undermine the economy of the most prosperous and successful nation on earth, how would you go about it?
The first thing you'd have to do would be to debase the underlying value system that provides the foundation for prosperity. That is, the value system to which the founders of this nation, and many generations of immigrants who came here seeking opportunity, subscribed. The core of that value system is the belief that you do not deserve anything you have not earned.
The first step would be to condition the populace to believe that prosperity is bad, that anybody who makes more than a modest income must be evil (or at least dishonest), and that nobody really deserves to be rich, no matter how much they contribute to the economy or how many opportunities they create for others. The rich, by definition, are always a minority, since the term itself implies someone who has substantially greater wealth than the average person. All that's usually needed to turn the many against the few is a sense of grievance.
Fostering a sense of grievance can be accomplished by promoting the notion that everybody, by virtue of their very existence, is entitled to basic sustenance, such as healthcare, food, shelter, etc. This attitude can be cultivated by establishing a system of bureaucracies (paid for almost entirely by the rich) that provide free handouts to everybody else, while nurturing a sense of perpetual resentment among the people receiving the handouts toward those who provide the wherewithal to satisfy their ever-increasing expectations.
The many are not generally aware that nearly 90% of the income taxes that sustain our government, and all the services "it" provides, are collected from the top 20% of income earners. And, if the many were aware of that, do you think they'd feel like saying "Thank you"? Not likely. Because they've been conditioned to believe that the rich don't deserve their wealth, and that they, the beneficiaries of all those taxes paid by the rich, deserve that money more than the people who earned it. What did the beneficiaries do to deserve it? Nothing. But they exist, and therefore they're entitled to things they cannot afford, so the money should be taken from those who can afford it and redistributed to them.
Having undermined the cultural values that provide the basis for a prosperous economy, by fostering a culture of dependency on ever-expanding government services, you now have popular support for the next step, which is to penalize production. You do that by regulating industries to the point where the cost of doing business is too great to justify the returns, forcing businesses to either downsize, go bankrupt, or relocate offshore. That increases unemployment, creating an even greater dependency on government services. At the same time, it reduces production so there's less wealth to tax, and less money coming into the system to support the ever-increasing demands.
At that point, you've got a self-perpetuating cycle, with ever-increasing demands on the system and ever-diminishing resources from which to draw to provide for them. To add fuel to the firestorm, you can use the increasing demands as an excuse to raise taxes on the remaining top producers even more, driving more employers out of business or offshore, creating an even larger non-productive class, and further accelerating the drain on the system…
But why stop there? At this point, the economy is so unstable, it can be toppled with ease. To finish it off in style, all that's required is to spend like a drunken sailor. Get the nation so far in debt to hostile foreign powers that they won't accept our IOUs any more. Print up fiat money and dilute our currency to the point that the whole world loses confidence in it and the G20 proposes a new international monetary standard. Then distract the citizens by holding contests in Congress to see who can spend money the fastest, and call it a "stimulus plan."
At that point, the death spiral reaches critical mass. That's where we are today. How did we get to this point? Well, it could just be a combination of entropy, ignorance, and well-intentioned idiots. Or it could be that there are those who actively seek to undermine our economy to bring our nation to its knees. For what purpose? That depends on who's pulling the strings. I concede that this begins to sound a little paranoid from someone who usually dismisses conspiracy theories. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine that anyone, especially the leaders of our nation, are stupid enough not to realize they're doing the exact things required to accelerate the collapse of our already destabilized economy. And, if they're not stupid, then they must have a reason for what they're doing.


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"Each year around the world, International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8, with thousands of events occurring not just on this day, but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.
As the world marks this special day ONE spoke to Winnie Ngabiirwe, Chairperson of Publish What You Pay Uganda and Executive Director of Global Rights Alert, on why transparency in the extractives industries will benefit women in Uganda and other countries.
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DUBLIN (AP) – Ireland agreed Tuesday to sell the country's largest insurance company, Irish Life, to Great-West Lifeco of Canada for 1.3 billion ($1.75 billion) in a move to reduce its deficit and longer-term debts.
The agreement caps a year of efforts by Ireland to sell the profitable business, which has 2,200 employees who manage more than 1 million policies with assets of 37 billion ($50 billion). Ireland also will receive one 40 million ($54 million) dividend payment from Lifeco when the sale closes in July. The government last year paid 1.3 billion to acquire the Irish Life unit, as it nationalized and split up its debt-crippled parent bank, Irish Life & Permanent. Lifeco was considered the front-runner to acquire the insurer because the Winnipeg-based company's subsidiary, Canada Life, has been in Dublin since 1903 and is the biggest Canadian employer in Ireland.
Allen Loney, president and chief executive officer of Great-West Lifeco, told a Dublin press conference that Canada Life would merge into a company retaining the Irish Life brand. He said the purchase "allows us to achieve, with a single transaction, the leading position in life insurance, pensions and investment management" in Ireland, a country of 4.6 million.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan heralded the sale as further evidence of Ireland's rebound from its 2008 property crash, the nationalization of five of its six banks, and the country's own rescue by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in 2010. Ireland hopes this year to resume normal borrowing on bond markets and repair its battered credit rating.
"Today's deal is the first time during this crisis that a company in which we have invested has been returned fully to private ownership. This is a historic transaction and provides the Irish taxpayer with a full return on its investment in Irish Life," Noonan said.
Irish Life and Lifeco said they expected some job losses over the next two years as Canada Life's current headquarters moves into the Irish Life headquarters and duplicated positions are eliminated. Lifeco said it expects the Irish Life acquisition to boost earnings about 10 percent in 2014, the first full year of ownership.
The sale leaves Irish taxpayers as the owner only of the lossmaking half of the dismantled Irish Life & Permanent, a retail bank called Permanent TSB. It is heavily exposed to Ireland's shellshocked property market as the country's top mortgage provider. Many of its 174,000 mortgage policies are money-losing either because homeowners have fallen behind on payments or their interest rates are legally fixed to rock-bottom European Central Bank rates, below Permanent's own funding costs.
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WAKEFIELD — The lively multicolored and patterned quilts made by Ladies of the Lake Quilters Guild specifically for David's House at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are featured at the Gafney Library during April. The quilts are beautifully themed around sports, animals, trucks, motorcycles, flowers, dinosaurs, ballerinas, ducks, pigs and balloons and many other objects that may bring comfort to a young girl or boy undergoing extended medical treatment. David's House is a comfortable home-away-from-home for chronically ill children and their families to stay for an extended period. The quilting guild provides quilts for all rooms in the house along with a quilt for each child to take home. Guild members make over 300 quilts each year and feel that "those who sleep under a quilt are covered by love and hugs." The guild was honored in October with the Spirit of New Hampshire Award by Governor John Lynch as "volunteers who contribute their time and talent," who "cooperatively work together" to "fulfill the needs of others." Members whose with works on display now at the library include Maria Wentworth, Louise Horskin, Jean Shenton, Jeanne Nalaskowski, Isabell Manson, Shirley Bishop, Harriet Terkelsen, Florence Morrison, Janet Vaughn, Marie Pullin, Sue Strauch, Lynne Parker, Marilyn Ray, Joan Wright and members of the Country Village Quilters and the Sanbornville Methodist Church.
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PASADENA >> A Pasadena pet groomer and former reality television show star pleaded guilty Thursday to arson for torching a carport in 2012, authorities said. Artis Willie Knox, 32, pleaded guilty to arson of an inhabited structure and identity theft charges in the Pasadena branch of Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokesman Ricardo Santiago said.
He was expected to receive a prison sentence of five years and eight months at an April 23 sentencing, Santiago added. Knox will also be required to register as a convicted arsonist on a statewide database.
Knox was named the 2008 "Groomer of the Year" on Animal Planet's "Groomer Has It" TV show, and subsequently had his own Animal Planet show titled, "Beverly Hills Groomer."
He set fire to a carport containing five cars that was attached to an apartment building where he was living in the 600 block of South Marengo Avenue on Sept. 8, 2012, according to Pasadena Fire Department officials and prosecutors.
The blaze caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damage to the carport, which was attached to an occupied apartment building, as well as five vehicles inside, according to Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian. Two of the vehicles were destroyed, while the other three were damaged.
Knox was initially charged with six counts of arson: one for the carport and one for each of the scorched cars.
Though he pleaded guilty to a single count of arson, he was ordered to pay restitution for the burned vehicles as well, Santiago said.
Knox ignited the arson fire because he could not afford his rent and hoped the fire would allow him to stay longer, Santiago said.
And Knox had several other suspicious fires in his past, officials said.
"He was previously investigated (for arsons), but had never been charged until now," Santiago said.
Authorities noted suspicious fires in connection with several homes, businesses and cars, "for which he was in arrears," Santiago said.
After winning $50,000 and a grooming truck in the 2008 reality TV contest, Knox opened a pet grooming business in Los Angeles.
But the business closed in 2009 after experiencing a fire. No charges were filed in connection with the grooming shop fire.
In addition to the arson, Knox also pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of identity theft, officials said.
That charge stemmed from the theft of money from a woman who lived in his Marengo Avenue apartment before he moved in, Santiago explained.
The woman had made a deposit to rent a hall for a wedding, but was ultimately issued a refund by the company, Santiago said.
The check arrived in the mail after the woman had moved out and Knox had moved in, Santiago said. He cashed it.
The amount of money stolen was not available Friday.
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Al and Trudi Dufek of Largo Vista, Texas, have had a long and colorful history with this '63 Falcon Sprint. As a matter of fact, the car was in Trudi's driveway when Al stopped by to pick her up for their first date. When he asked about the Falcon, she replied that it was an original '631/2 Sprint with a 260ci, factory four-speed, and Rotunda tach. The car was a little rough on the inside and needed a fair amount of bodywork, but it was all original and complete. Al told his new girl the car could be fixed up nicely for not much money.
Fast-forward and we find that Al and Trudi got married, and that's when she gave her blessing to go forward on the Falcon project. To begin with, Al wanted more power than the original 260 could offer. After finding a suitable block, he had Joe Jill at Superior Automotive in Anaheim, California, construct a stout 302 engine. Al had the tunnel-ram intake on hand since he knew from the beginning he wanted one sticking out of the hood, and he equipped it with dual quads.
After the installation of the engine but before work began on the body, Al and Trudi took the car to the Fabulous Fords Forever show at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. While there, fellow automotive enthusiast and comedian Jay Leno walked over and became interested in the car. Among other things, Jay told them that "the engine was looking good and to go forward with the rest of the job." Surely both Al and Trudi felt encouraged in their project by Leno's interest and kind words.
When the time came to address the paint and body issues, Loy Auto Perfections of La Habra, California, was chosen to do the bodywork and orange paint. Cleaning up the car was the plan, and toward that end the door handles, trunk entry, side mirrors, cowl vent, gas cap, and windshield-wiper holes were all shaved off or filled in. The result is a super-clean body and a sleek look.
Al decided way back in the beginning of the project that he would give the car his best effort and produce something extraordinary. He also said his ultimate goal was to get his car featured in Mustang & Fords magazine. We're glad to say he achieved both.
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- Twin Holley 450-cfm four-barrel carburetors
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- Front: Rebuilt stock, lowered 3 inches, KYB 90/10 Drag shocks
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- Front: Toyo Proxes 4, P195/50R15
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- Custom tan and orange leather interior by Westminster Upholstery of Anaheim, California; Lexus carpeting; '95 Thunderbird power front seats; LeCarra Mark 4 steering wheel; custom instrument panel with Auto Meter Street Rod gauges; Auto Meter 5-inch tach with shift light
- Chrome Orange paint by Loy Auto Perfections, La Habra, California
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Thalassemias are a group of blood disorders that affect the way the body makes hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is a protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body. It's made up of alpha globin and beta globin.
The body contains more red blood cells than any other type of cell, and each has a life span of about 4 months. Each day, the body produces new red blood cells to replace those that die or are lost from the body.
With thalassemia, the red blood cells are destroyed at a faster rate, leading to anemia, a condition that can cause fatigue and other complications.
Thalassemias are inherited conditions — they're carried in the genes and passed on from parents to children. People who are carriers of a thalassemia gene show no thalassemia symptoms and might not know they're carriers. If both parents are carriers, they can pass the disease to their kids. Thalassemias are not contagious.
While there are many different types of thalassemias, the main two are:
When the gene that controls the production of either of these proteins is missing or mutated, it results in that type of thalassemia.
Beta thalassemia happens when the gene that controls the production of beta globin is defective. Beta thalassemia can cause anemia ranging from mild to severe and is more common in people of Mediterranean, African, and Southeast Asian descent.
A child can only get beta thalassemia by inheriting it from his or her parents. Genes are "building blocks" that play an important role in determining physical traits and many other things about us.
Humans are made up of trillions of cells that form the structure of our bodies and carry out specialized jobs like taking nutrients from food and turning them into energy. Red blood cells, which contain hemoglobin, deliver oxygen to all parts of the body.
All cells have a nucleus at their center, which is kind of like the brain or "command post" of the cell. The nucleus directs the cell, telling it to grow, mature, divide, or die. The nucleus contains DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), a long, spiral-shaped molecule that stores the genes that determine hair color, eye color, whether or not a person is right- or left-handed, and many more traits. DNA, along with genes and the information they contain, is passed down from parents to their children during reproduction.
Each cell has many DNA molecules, but because cells are very small and DNA molecules are long, the DNA is packaged very tightly in each cell. These packages of DNA are called chromosomes, and each cell has 46 of them. Each package is arranged into 23 pairs — with one of each pair coming from the mother and one from the father. When someone has beta thalassemia, there is a mutation in chromosome 11.
Beta globin is made on chromosome 11 (beta globin, along with alpha globin, is one of the proteins that makes up hemoglobin). So, if one or both of the genes that tells chromosome 11 to produce beta globin is altered, less beta globin is made. This affects hemoglobin and decreases the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen around the body.
There are three types of beta thalassemia, depending upon whether one or two beta globin genes are mutated, and the severity of the mutations.
Beta thalassemia major and intermedia can lead to serious complications, especially if untreated. Complications of beta thalassemia major include:
The signs and symptoms of beta thalassemia vary depending on the type that a child has. Most children with beta thalassemia trait have no symptoms. Those with beta thalassemia major and intermedia may not show any symptoms at birth, but usually develop them in the first 2 years of life.
Some of the more common symptoms of beta thalassemia include:
Babies who begin to show symptoms of beta thalassemia after a few healthy months may fail to grow normally (failure to thrive); have trouble feeding; and have episodes of fever, diarrhea, and other intestinal problems.
In most cases, beta thalassemia is diagnosed before a child's second birthday. Children with beta thalassemia major may have a swollen abdomen or symptoms of anemia or failure to thrive.
If the doctor suspects beta thalassemia, he or she will take a blood sample for testing. Blood tests can reveal red blood cells that are pale, varied in shape and size, and smaller than normal. They also can detect low red blood cell counts and cells with an uneven distribution of hemoglobin, which causes them to look like a bull's-eye when seen through a microscope.
Blood tests also can measure the amount of iron in the blood. Usually the diagnosis is confirmed by a blood test called a hemoglobin electrophoresis and/or a DNA test for abnormal hemoglobin genes.
If both parents are carriers of the beta thalassemia disorder, doctors can conduct tests on a fetus before birth. This is done through either:
If one parent carries a beta thalassemia gene and the other carries a different gene that also affects beta globin, such as a sickle gene, their child could have a significant blood disorder (such as a form of sickle cell disease called sickle-beta thalassemia). Therefore, people who carry beta thalassemia genes should seek genetic counseling if they're considering having children so they can understand the risks.
The amount of treatment that beta thalassemia requires depends on how severe the symptoms are. For most children with beta thalassemia trait, whose only symptom may be mild anemia from time to time, no medical treatment will be necessary.
However, the blood counts in beta thalassemia trait look a lot like the blood counts in iron deficiency anemia, which is a very common disorder. It's important for doctors to know when children have beta thalassemia trait so that they do not treat them with iron if it's not needed.
Doctors also might recommend a folic acid supplement for kids with moderate cases of anemia to help boost production of new red blood cells.
Some children with moderate anemia may require an occasional blood transfusion, particularly after surgery. Those with severe cases of beta thalassemia major, on the other hand, may require regular blood transfusions their entire lives to keep them healthy. During blood transfusions, they're given blood from donors with matching blood types. Over time, this can cause a build-up of iron in the body, so kids who receive frequent blood transfusions may have to take medications to remove excess iron from their bodies.
Research into treating beta thalassemia with experimental gene therapies is ongoing. But for now, it can only be cured by a procedure called a bone marrow transplant (also called a stem cell transplant). Bone marrow, which is found inside bones, produces blood cells. In a bone marrow transplant, children are first given high doses of radiation or drugs to destroy the defective bone marrow. The bone marrow is then replaced with cells from a compatible donor, usually a healthy sibling or other relative. Bone marrow transplants carry many risks, so they usually are done only in the most severe cases of thalassemia.
If your child has beta thalassemia, support groups are available to help your family cope with the obstacles presented by the disease.
Reviewed by: Robin Miller, MD
Date reviewed: July 2015
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FORT MYERS, FLA. – It was a warm, sunny day in Fort Myers, but the Lipscomb Lady Bisons experienced a freezing outing from the field in their 75-57 loss Wednesday afternoon at Florida Gulf Coast in Alico Arena.
The Lady Bisons were 20-of-63 from the floor for 31.7 percent. Lipscomb's top three scorers on the season – senior Jenna Bartsokas, junior Anna Bowers, and sophomore Hannah Phillips – combined to shoot 12-of-46 for 26.1 percent.
Bowers led Lipscomb (6-7, 3-1 A-Sun) with 13 points as she connected on four 3-pointers. Bartsokas posted 10 points.
Florida Gulf Coast (11-0, 4-0 A-Sun) was the second Lipscomb opponent in the last week that receives votes in the national polls. Lipscomb lost 91-52 at Miami on Saturday.
Florida Gulf Coast shot 41.3 percent and was led in scoring by Sarah Hansen with 16 points. She had a team high eight rebounds.
FGCU led 48-38 on the boards. Bartsokas had a team-high eight rebounds while Bowers brought down seven and Phillips had six boards.
FGCU began to open the contest early going on a 9-2 run to take an 18-9 lead eight minutes into the contest. The Eagles pushed their lead to 17 points, 41-24, with a minute to play in the first half and led 41-27 at halftime.
FGCU took its largest lead 29 points on a layup by Shavonne Butler with 4:54 to play.
Lipscomb closed the game on a 15-4 run.
Lipscomb returns to Nashville tomorrow ending a nine day stay in sunny Florida. The Lady Bisons host Jacksonville Saturday at 4 p.m. Benjamin Seamon will have the call on the Lipscomb Sports Network and ASun.TV.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
I run a blog about software development. My blog contains posts that teach people how to take advantage of Microsoft software (I work for Microsoft). I am moving my blog to a new platform and want to brand myself. I am passionate about software and teaching. The goal of my writings is to take the complexity out of software. I think of what I do as demystifying or simplifying software development.
The target audience is software developers and development managers. Although I work for Microsoft and am not a training company, that is probably the closest market to compare my blog to. I tend to train folks. I like to keep a pretty professional feel
I have chosen the theme for my blog and am looking for a logo that will fit within this theme. You can find an example of the theme here: http://www.studiopress.com/demo/corporate.html. What I am looking for is the logo and the images for the top header. I am not married to any of the specifics in the banner in the example. For example, I foresee eliminating the globe on the right hand side.
What I am looking for is a simple design. I tend to like simple fonts and am drawn to logos like the following examples:
I'm pretty open to what the graphical part of the logo looks like... Use your creativity. Some high-level ideas would be around teaching, learning or just my initials... Those are just ideas, I'm not very creative.
Here are the 2 images from the web theme. One is the old sample logo from the theme and the other is the background image of the header:
Just to be clear, I would like logo itself (photoshop format) and 2 images that I can use in the theme like the 2 above (png).
Thanks and I look forward to it.
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Last year, Salt Lake City playwright Kathleen Cahill felt like she couldn't escape "Downton Abbey." "Anywhere I went, 'Downton Abbey' came up," she said. "Any social occasion. You're standing with a drink in your hand, and 'Downton Abbey' comes up. You overhear people talking about it. It's very bizarre."
Cahill, who writes the introductions for "Masterpiece" host Laura Linney, isn't the only one surprised by the popularity of the series.
"In fact, the executives at 'Masterpiece' were saying it was too melodramatic," she said. "There was some question about whether they even wanted to produce it."
Boy, are they glad they did. "Downton Abbey" has caught the pop-culture wave in a way no PBS drama has since the original "Upstairs, Downstairs" aired some 3 1/2 decades ago.
"How much fun is this?" asked Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of "Masterpiece" since 1985, at a news conference for TV writers promoting the show's third season.
The show's popularity came as a complete surprise to the cast and crew. "None of us had any expectation of that at all," said Hugh Bonneville, who stars as Lord Grantham. "We have a word in England, which is 'gobsmacked.' And to have had the show embraced so wholeheartedly by America is very special to us."
Michelle Dockery, who plays Grantham's daughter Lady Mary, had a similar reaction: "Overwhelmed" is the word she used.
It wasn't until the series began airing in the United Kingdom (before it debuted on this side of the Atlantic) that the cast realized how popular it is among viewers you wouldn't expect to be watching period drama.
"The first time I realized that it was, as it were, breaking the boundaries of the expected audience was when a lad in my son's playground came up to me he's about 10 or 11 and said, 'I don't like that Thomas,' " Bonneville said.
That would be Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier), the manipulative footman/petty thief who is noted for his plots against his fellow servants. He's the sort of character you love to hate, in what amounts to a really good soap opera set in the early 20th century, featuring a grand estate, fabulous costumes and great writing.
And, clearly, viewers are fascinated by it. It's the most-watched show in "Masterpiece" history; Season 2 finale drew 5.4 million U.S. viewers and that doesn't count all the online views.
Overheard at the hairdresser • Cahill isn't the only one who overheard people talking about "Downton Abbey."
Oscar-winning actor Shirley MacLaine didn't know anything about the show until "I walked into my hairdresser lady in Malibu and they were talking about this."
She checked out the show and got hooked and then she was asked to join the cast as Martha Levinson, the mother of Lady Cora Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern).
"I didn't know anything about her. But my hairdresser does," MacLaine said with a laugh. "All the ladies in my hairdressing place said, 'Oh, she's Jewish and she's from Long Island and she has a lot of money.' I thought that might be worthwhile investigating. Along with the great acting and a fantastic show, that's basically why I did it. To see if my hairdresser lady is right."
More than just a show • "Downton Abbey" has become more than just a show to a lot of its fans. Some viewers hold parties where fans dress as their favorite characters, while KUED is inviting Utah fans to a costume-party fundraiser to celebrate the kickoff of Season 3. Other "gobsmacked" viewers take "which character are you?" quizzes on Internet sites. "They're having 'Downton Abbey' support groups," Cahill joked.
Joanne Froggatt, who plays maid Anna, got an email from the vicar who married her inquiring about a set visit. "If Jo could fix it for me and my wife to go to the 'Downton' set, she'll go straight to heaven."
Brendan Coyle, whose character, Lord Grantham's valet, Mr. Bates, walks with a limp, recalled a letter he got from a viewer with a similar affliction.
"All of his life, he had these terrible nicknames thrown at him," Coyle said. "Now he's being called 'Mr. Bates.' So he's writing to thank me for giving him, at last, a cool nickname."
It's a sure sign that a show has entered the pop-culture consciousness when it's parodied and there have been parodies of "Downton Abbey" on everything from "Saturday Night Live" to "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to "Sesame Street" to an Arby's commercial.
"They're not going to do a parody if they think the audience isn't going to know who the heck they're on about," Bonneville said. "It's a form of flattery."
What makes a TV hit? • There's a certain alchemy that's difficult to analyze when a TV show suddenly claims a spot in the pop-culture zeitgeist. "Everyone always says, 'Why do you think it's so popular?' " said creator and writer Julian Fellowes. "And the answer is you haven't a clue."
There have been a lot of great series on "Masterpiece" over the years, so what made this one take off in such an unusual way? Fellowes speculated it might be in part because "Downton Abbey" sprang from his imagination, rather than being an adaptation of a classic novel.
"There is a liberation in it being original because you can go into areas of the period that a contemporary novel would not have done," he said. "There are many subjects … whether it's women's rights or homosexuality or whatever, which you wouldn't find in a novel written in 1906. And so you have that freedom."
But he works to be true to the time period.
"You must be careful to try and give people reasonable reactions and emotional responses that are right for their own time and not simply someone who's been parachuted in from 2012."
"Downton Abbey" is set in a world completely unlike 21st-century America, which may be part of its appeal. "I think we find that upstairs, downstairs, class thing very interesting," Cahill said.
KUED-Channel 7's director of creative services, Mary Dickson who, by the way, dressed up as MacLaine's character for Halloween speculated the show's success comes because it is "pure escapism."
"Look at all those movies in the '30s where they were wearing evening gowns while the rest of the country was struggling," Dickson said. "Nobody lived like that. But people couldn't stop watching."
Of course, it's also just a great story done well. "What [Fellowes has] done so brilliantly is make, what, 15 characters or combinations with just the right amount of time on screen, which fits with the Internet tolerance for emotional knowledge," MacLaine said. Once she started watching the show, she quickly discovered: "I was just as addicted as everybody else, making me wonder about my attention deficit syndrome."
As Season 3 begins, there's a financial threat to the future of Downton Abbey; another roadblock in the path of true love for Lady Mary and Matthew (Dan Stevens); and Mr. Bates is still in prison, wrongly convicted of murder.
And, rest assured, the actors are as caught up in the show as the fans. That was clearly demonstrated by Bonneville, who jumped up om the midst of a press conference, pulled open his dress shirt and revealed a T-shirt emblazoned "Free Bates."
We can only hope.
KUED fundraiser
KUED-Channel 7 and O.C. Tanner are hosting a fundraising dinner black tie or period dress invited to celebrate the return of "Downton Abbey."
When •Saturday, Jan. 5. Cocktails and social hour at 6 p.m.; formal, English-themed dinner at 7 p.m.
Where • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $150; tax deductible; all proceeds benefit KUED. For reservations, call Kate Jones at 801-581-3915.


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2 (14.5 oz.) cans Italian-style diced tomatoes (such as Hunt's Italian Style or Del Monte's Basil, Garlic, Oregano)
1 (19 oz.) can black beans, drained and rinsed
10 oz. fresh baby spinach
8 oz. pasta
½ cup crumbled Feta cheese
Cook the pasta according to package directions until al dente.
Meanwhile, combine tomatoes and beans in a large non-stick skillet. Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.
Add spinach to the sauce; cook for 2 minutes or until spinach wilts, stirring constantly.
Serve sauce over pasta, and sprinkle with feta.