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Manage and verify address data to reduce undeliverable mail and improve operational efficiencies.
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Capitalise on a more accurate view of your customers, and integrate that intelligence into your business operations.
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Customer Data Management Solutions
Capitalise on a more accurate view of your customers - and integrate that intelligence into your business operations - with customer data management solutions from Spectrum Enterprise.
Use OnDemand customer data management solutions to manage and verify address data to reduce undeliverable mail and improve operational efficiencies. Add location data and other insights to improve targeting, streamline operations and generate more effective customer communications. Reduce your investment in servers and software updates to save both time and money with customer data management solutions from OnDemand.
Customer data management solutions can create a powerful orchestration environment to manage customer data in real-time, from all customer touch points. Our customer data management solutions combine the power of our data quality software and the flexibility of a hosted environment; an ASP service that provides a single data flow solution for address validation, data enrichment and geographic intelligence.
With the help of customer data management solutions, your business can benefit from reliable, real-time response for call centers, CRM systems, customer databases, distributed applications and point-of-entry systems, including your website. Our customer data management solutions require no investment in servers, no ongoing maintenance and no software updates to install, so you can save time and money month after month.
Enhance your enterprise customer data quality
Update, link and consolidate valuable customer information into enterprise-wide business intelligence, from all customer touch points. The customer data management solutions enable users to:
- Enrich your customer relationship with the dimension of location intelligence
- Drive analytics and business intelligence with confidence in your customer data quality
- Focus cross-marketing and cross-selling efforts on your valued customer
- Enhance and improve existing procedures through customisable business processes
- Improve user adoption with an intuitive user interface
- Maximise the value of each customer exchange
- Deliver timely, relevant and personalised communications to your customer
Reap the benefits of rich, more accurate customer data
- Increase customer loyalty with more accurate, targeted communications
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- Boost campaign effectiveness through consolidated customer profiling and householding
- Reduce marketing costs by eliminating redundant mailings
- Cut operational costs by streamlining business processes
- Increase efficiencies in data management with on-going data cleansing
- Comply with USPS® and other governmental regulations
Advanced featuresOur customer data management solutions provide a solid foundation for enterprise-wide business intelligence systems, with the flexibility and cost-savings of a hosted service.
Standard APIs for easy integrationWith our customer data management solutions, you can reduce technology-related investments and concentrate your resources on other critical business issues.
The customer data management solutions provide greater flexibility and easy integration with the most popular environments, including an Application Programming Interface (API) that supports C, C++, COM, Java, .and .NET.
Our customer data management solutions also publish the XML schema allowing customers to create their own XML and simply POST it to the service. WSDL /SOAP is also supported. Integration support includes test accounts, test servers (with a limited number of free transactions), up-to-date, and the technical support you need to get up and running quickly. Our solutions also support encryption via HTTPS.
Global address verification for 230 countriesOur customer data management solutions validate, correct and format addresses for 230 countries. Verification occurs in real-time at the point of customer contact, while the opportunity exists to capture correct data. The customer data management solutions also correct misspellings, add missing data elements and perform address standardisation–ensuring the on-time delivery of goods and services, fewer returns and improved customer satisfaction.
The customer data management solutions address verification service is available via the standard API. Our solutions accept an address as input and provide a standardised address as output, automatically routing data to the appropriate address cleansing engine.
Advanced telephone append functionalityOur customer data management solutions can help you maintain current and actionable business and customerr phone numbers with both phone append and reverse phone append functionality.
Phone append accepts a customer or business name and partial address information and returns a full name, complete address, telephone number, and a confidence score. If the match is ambiguous, the technology can return up to five candidate matches. Reverse Phone Append accepts a telephone number and returns the corresponding name and address.
Geographic enrichment to pinpoint locationOur customer data management solutions offer geographic intelligence based on the industry-leading GeoTAX™ and GeoStan™ solutions–pinpointing the exact location of a street address. This information can help direct customers to the nearest physical location, such as a retail outlet, and assign tax jurisdictions for the most precise calculation and collection of sales tax.
Simplified migrations link installed applicationsWith customer data management solutions it is easy to migrate from a hosted solution to a locally installed application. That way, you can integrate address validation, data enrichment and geographic intelligence quickly and easily today. And later, if you choose to install this functionality behind your local firewall, no new development would be required.
Create custom services that combine functionalityUsing our customer data management solutions you will have so many opportunities to improve service, enhance target marketing and strengthen your CRM initiatives.
Imagine you are managing a call center; the incoming call is routed to The Spectrum Technology Platform OnDemand through CTI, the phone number is then used to look up the name and address, identify household level demographics and display a few key fields on a CSR's screen (all before they pick up the phone). We can create custom services that combine a broad range of functionality.
Highly scalable architectureTake advantage of a hosted solution with an infrastructure that's highly robust, scalable, secure and reliable, where there's no need for you to invest in hardware - offered by our customer data management solutions.
You also won't need to invest in ongoing maintenance or the month-to-month support required for software and data updates. You can deduct the cost of the service as an operational expense — with no need for major upfront capital expenditures. Simply focus on your core competency and trust our customer data management solutions to handle all your data quality needs.


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60 seconds with Matt Hudson on the recent rotation in UK equities
It's been a fascinating time to be a UK equities investor. For the first quarter in many we have seen a complete rotation in what is driving the market.
Having been in a period when growth, growth defensives and consumer cyclicals have performed really well, we have seen a rally in value and an underperformance in growth.
Opportunities in industrial cyclicals and financials
This is partly because emerging markets have begun to stabilise and commodity prices are going up. We think there is a great opportunity - a short term opportunity - to increase weightings to industrial cyclicals as we get a restocking bounce and also, even in the slowdown phase, to financials.
We think financials are at a big discount to fair value to the market and to other value type assets. However, we are still in the slowdown phase and we must make sure that our overall portfolio positioning remains fairly defensive.
Positive dividend growth
Corporate profitability has already peaked and we have seen signs of stretch on corporate balance sheets and capital ratings coming through as well. From an income perspective, we still see positive dividend growth coming from the UK market this year although levels of cover have reduced.
The views and opinions contained herein are those of Schroders' investment teams and/or Economics Group, and do not necessarily represent Schroder Investment Management North America Inc.'s house views. These views are subject to change. This information is intended to be for information purposes only and it is not intended as promotional material in any respect.

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/22/13 -- VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: VSTA) (OTCQB: VSTA), a biotechnology company applying stem cell technology for drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening, today announced that Shawn K. Singh, CEO of VistaGen, will present at Noble Financial Capital Markets' Ninth Annual Equity Conference.
Mr. Singh will discuss VistaGen's progress and unique opportunities to apply its stem cell technology platform, Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube™, for drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening. Mr. Singh's presentation will be delivered at 12:30 pm EST on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
Webcast Information: At the time of the presentation, a live audio and video webcast of Mr. Singh's presentation and a copy of the presentation materials will be available on VistaGen's website at www.vistagen.com and Noble Financial's website at www.noblefcm.com. Investors and analysts should register approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the presentation to ensure timely access. Viewing the presentation will require Microsoft Silverlight (a free download is available from the presentation link).
About VistaGen Therapeutics
VistaGen is a biotechnology company applying human pluripotent stem cell technology for drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening. VistaGen's drug rescue activities combine its human pluripotent stem cell technology platform, Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube™, with modern medicinal chemistry to generate novel, safer chemical variants (Drug Rescue Variants) of once-promising small molecule drug candidates. These are drug candidates discontinued by pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) or university laboratories, after substantial investment in discovery and development, due to heart or liver toxicity or metabolism issues. VistaGen uses its pluripotent stem cell technology to generate early indications, or predictions, of how humans will ultimately respond to new drug candidates before they are ever tested in humans, bringing human biology to the front end of the drug development process.
Additionally, VistaGen's small molecule drug candidate, AV-101, is completing Phase 1 development for treatment of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain, a serious and chronic condition causing pain after an injury or disease of the peripheral or central nervous system, affects millions of people worldwide. To date, VistaGen has been awarded over $8.5 million from the NIH for development of AV-101.
Visit VistaGen at http://www.VistaGen.com, follow VistaGen at http://www.twitter.com/VistaGen or view VistaGen's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VistaGen
About Noble Financial
Noble Financial Capital Markets was established in 1984 and is an equity research driven, full-service, investment banking boutique focused on life sciences, technology and media, emerging growth, companies. The company has offices in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Boca Raton, FL. In addition to non-deal road shows and sector-specific conferences throughout the year, Noble Financial hosts its large format annual equity conference in January in South Florida featuring 120 - 150 presenting companies from across North America and total attendance of close to 600.
To learn more about Noble Financial Capital Markets, visit www.noblefcm.com
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
The statements in this press release that are not historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Those risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks related to the success of VistaGen's stem cell technology-based drug rescue, predictive toxicology and metabolism screening activities, its AV-101 Phase 1 clinical program, its ability to enter into predictive toxicology, metabolism screening and/or drug rescue collaborations and/or licensing arrangements with respect to one or more drug rescue variants, risks and uncertainties relating to the availability of substantial additional capital to support its research, drug rescue, development and commercialization activities, and the success of its research and development plans and strategies, including those plans and strategies related to AV-101 and any drug rescue variant identified and developed by VistaGen. These and other risks and uncertainties are identified and described in more detail in VistaGen's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These filings are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. VistaGen undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
For more information: Shawn K. Singh, J.D. Chief Executive Officer VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. www.VistaGen.com 650-244-9990 x224 email@example.com Mission Investor Relations Atlanta, Georgia http://www.MissionIR.com 404-941-8975 firstname.lastname@example.com
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Earthquake-Report came across one of the first and very interesting inspection/research reports from SEEDS Asia, OYO International Corporation and the Kyoto University. A team from these organizations has traveled to the damaged areas and spoke with local people, did looked at which buildings survived the tsunami, how people coped with the situation soon after it happened, etc. A very interesting report.
At the bottom of this excerpt is a link to the full report consisting of 22 pages of text and pictures. We encourage our readers to read it.
Here is the summary which is only a small part of the full report.
We fully support the conclusions of this research team.
All text and images are courtesy this research group.
The survey team went around the several affected city/town in Iwate and Miyagi Prefecture. The following are the damages/problems, needs, and findings by the earthquake and tsunami. Based on these, suggestions and future plan are pointed to conclude the survey.
Damages and Problems
・ Individual residences and government building: Damages by the earthquake is not much. Most of damages are caused by the tsunami. Therefore, damages are seen in coastal area and plain area.
・ Industry: Fishery industry is heavily damaged because the tsunami attacked coastal area. Other industry or shops were also damaged.
・ Isolated area: Because communication system was down, Kamaishi city could not transfer the information to outside area.
・ Temporary evacuation place: Some of evacuation place worked effectively. But human damages were increased in plain area because the number of evacuation place is few, compared to largeness of area.
・ Safety confirmation: In local government or evacuation centers, local people are giving information of their safety or information to looking for other persons. These are paper base information. Therefore, it is expected that nobody knows which is new or which is not necessary already.
・ Amount of rubble: Tsunami is different from earthquake. In case of tsunami, it is almost impossible to understand whose property. But rubble should be demolished for recovery reconstruction.
・ Community wireless system: In case of big hazards, the system [bousai musen in Japanese] is damaged and it does not work properly.
People's Needs
・ Temporary house and spaces: Many people lost their own house. These people are staying evacuation places. Temporary houses are necessary but it is necessary large spaces to build.
・ Equipments and resources to start works: To start works again, equipments need to be prepared but it takes cost. If people cannot earn money, they cannot survive in emergency situation and their life after the reconstruction.
・ Job: Job is related to the need mentioned above. Many people lost their jobs. In reconstruction process, it takes much cost to recover their own lives. Therefore, job hunting is one of the most important tasks for affective people.
What Worked Well
Early warning system: The earthquake occurred at 14:46, the tsunami warning was provided at 14:49, and was on the JMA [Japan Meteorological Agency] website at 14:50. The tsunami warning in Japan has two parts: tsunami warning and tsunami advisory. A map is shown in the TV with three different colors, red [major tsunami, with more than 3 m], orange [up to 2 m], and yellow [height about 0.5 m]. The red and orange colors are warning, and yellow one is advisory. The estimated arrival time is also shown in the JMA website. People evacuated to the nearby places, however the height of the tsunami was beyond expectation.
Past earthquake and tsunami and its impacts: The affected area was hit repeatedly by major earthquake and tsunami: on 15th June, 1896, on 3rd March 1933, and also on the 22nd May 1960 Chile earthquake and tsunami. In 1896, more than 22,000 people died, a local culture of "tendenco" emerged from it. In 1896, many people wanted to look for their family, neighbors after the tsunami, and the tsunami arrived meanwhile. This culture has a deep meaning, which is built on the mutual trust. People were taught to be evacuated, with the trust and belief that their family members will also take proper shelter. This culture of "tendenco" saved many people's lives.
Infrastructure measures: Due to past several events in the same area, infrastructures like sea-dykes were built in several places. The 10 m high, 2.5 km long dyke in Taro, Miyako town in Iwate prefecture is a classic example of this. Although part of the dyke was damaged, and tsunami overflew the 10 m dyke, it surely reduced the impacts of the event. In Kamaishi, in Iwate prefecture, tsunami evacuation building was built with instructions, and people were safe who evacuated above 4th floor.
Evacuation drill and disaster education: Several areas performed regular disaster drills on 3rd of March [the day of 1933 earthquake and tsunami], which was just one week before the disaster. Disaster education was also performed in several schools, and the impact was that in Kamaishi, 5 out of 2,900 school children died. The middle high school students took shelter in the higher areas, along with the nearby elementary school children.
Strong Earthquake risk reduction measures: in spite of a 9 magnitude event, and with intensity 7 [in JMA scale, which is equivalent to XII in MMI], there was insignificant impacts on buildings and infrastructures. Although liquefaction was observed in the soft soil in reclaimed land, the buildings were safe in most cases. The destruction is mostly concentrated in the narrow zone of 4-5 km along the coast. If there were added damages on earthquake, the situation would have been worse.
Key Initial Learning
Linking hard and soft measures [combination of infrastructures and education]: it is of extreme importance that the risk reduction measures need to be locally customized, and there needs to be a balance approach of soft [education, awareness] and hard [infrastructures] measures. Based on the local topography and physical features, this balanced mix is required to be customized.
Early warning system is effective when it is properly perceived: Although there was an early warning issued immediately, people underestimated the height of the tsunami due to repeated occurrences of earthquakes, and a "feel safe" mis-perception prevailed. Proper perception is required to take necessary actions.
1 There would be lots of lessons learned in due course. This part summarizes some of the emerging learning issues, which appeared from the field survey.
Evacuation order and its effectiveness: although the evacuation advisory and evacuation order are issued, people usually take their own judgment. To enhance the proper decision of people, it is required to mention the expected height of the tsunami in the evacuation order and advisory.
Investment in risk reduction pays: This disaster shows that the investment in risk reduction pays to save people's lives, both in terms of preventive and educative measures. Japan has been a role model for earthquake risk reduction, however, it needs to incorporate more multi-hazard risk reduction measures.
Dissemination of information to future generations: In several areas in the affected region, dissemination of past experiences through storytelling to the school children from the old people. This is considered as an important educational tool. In Natori, there was the memorial stone to explain the past tsunami. For future generation as well as current generation, the experiences this time should be shared.
Customized information sharing: Community FM was working effectively to transfer government information to community. The need of customized information sharing between the affected people and government is very important, and this can be done through need survey and provide need specific programs through radio.
Importance of the government building: If government building is survived, the government can start response and recovery works earlier. In addition, the government can spare spaces for community.
Volunteer coordinator: In case of big disasters, many volunteers come to affected area from outside. Volunteer coordinator is necessary to distribute proper volunteers to proper area. This should be considered as a full-time specialized work, with access and knowledge to different mapping tools and social networking system.
Reconstruction and community development: several areas were completely devastated. Even if disaster did not happen, some of the local governments were in verge of declination, and several villages became marginal villages due to its higher aged population. Keeping this mind, it is necessary to integrate reconstruction and community development with new livelihood concept and looking at the far future, while serving the need of the near future.
Reduction of gap between affected and non-affected people: This time, damages by earthquake is not prominent. So people in higher areas were not affected much, while the whole coastal neighborhood in the same town or village has been destroyed. In the future, it is expected that there would be a gap between the affected and non-affected people. Reconstruction process should include non-affected people as well as affected people in order to make safer and comfortable society cooperatively.
Data back up and preparedness of temporary offices of local government: If local government had data of community, they can start recovery works earlier. Local government should prepare backup data and temporally offices so that they can use when necessary.


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A while ago I saw a Facebook friend of mine post this:
Which got me all riled up.
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What is slutty exactly? Please, dear male friend, inform us as to how to find the perfect balance between slutty and sexy. Because we all know you want to look at us, but then you blame us for giving you something to look at.
But, more importantly, our purpose is not for your eye candy. We don't dress to impress you. Some of us don't dress to impress anyone. We live in New Jersey, dear friend, where it has been in the 90s (or felt like it) for the past week. We're not used to this weather. We're fucking hot.
What do you do when you're hot? Take your shirt off, I presume? Wear shorts and tanks, maybe? Yeah. We do the same. We wear shorts and dresses and bikinis because it's hot and we want to be comfortable. Not everyone who dresses in small clothing does so to draw attention to themselves.
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But let's address those that do, shall we, dear friend? Women who dress provocatively to gain attention still deserve to be taken seriously. They still deserve to be respected. They still deserve to be treated like a human being. Do you not view them as such?
Are sluts not humans? I'm of the firm belief that if you do dress provocatively, you shouldn't mind when people look. That goes against a lot of normal feminist values, but it's what I believe. If I wear a bikini I don't care if men stare at my boobs. I just don't.
But I do care when they think they can come up and honk my breasts, or touch them in any way whatsoever, just because they're visible.
And I do care when people think I should only be treated like a slut instead of a human being simply because I'm comfortable with my body.
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Upon further investigation I've found that this "friend" has posted a slew of sexist remarks (and shared memes) over the past few months. Not years. Months. I got back to May and had to stop.
Here are twelve of his statuses:
- Seriously, we can't eat bananas now? Bananas are healthy and nutritious and keep your feet from cramping up, not to mention their deliciousness. What, would you rather I cut my banana up like a little baby to make you more comfortable? My eating habits are not even remotely sexual, I would kindly appreciate it if you could back the fuck off and let me enjoy my lunch.
- This one doesn't seem so bad, and should have been at the end, but if you think about it in context with all of the other posts it is bad. Women are not on this earth for your fancy. We are not art on display. If you get distracted when we're just trying to fucking live and keep ourselves healthy, that's on you. Don't try to put that shit on us.
- HOT MOMS? Are you kidding me? What in the hell does Mother's Day have to do with attractiveness? I'll answer that for you — Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Now, you may have meant that all moms are hot, but I sure as hell didn't take it that way. In my eyes, you're pretty much wishing every mom that you find attractive to have a Happy Mother's Day, but the rest to fuck off. I'm not even going to mention your looks, because I'm better than that.
- Really? That's what you just had to post on Facebook? You can obviously tell it's a woman, and although she might not be up to your almighty standards, she's beautiful. Because we're all beautiful, and publicly insulting someone does nothing but cause pain and/or hostility. Good job.
- Again, why the hell are you so obsessed with sex?! I really hope you mean this towards people you know and are comfortable enough with to talk about taking their pants off, because otherwise — and I'll say this again — women are not here solely for your pleasure. Guess what? We don't have to pleasure you at all, so get over it.
- I don't even know what to say to this one, but the thoughts that enter my head make me seem just as bad as you.
- This is by far the most offensive. First, the "shh, it's okay" seems rapey. Sounding rapey is never good. Even if it's not meant rapey, don't sound rapey because someone will take it rapey and there will be hell. This is why there is rape culture. Because people make shit like this seem okay. Plus, come the fuck on, man. You're saying a BABY sucking on a pacifier is practicing to SUCK YOUR PENIS?! You don't see anything wrong with that?
- All I have is a sigh for this one. Of course you would rather someone give you a blowjob if you were dying than save your life.
- Why is everything about appearance to you? If it were someone you deemed unattractive would it matter? Why does it matter in the first place? People get itchy. They have to itch themselves. Boobs are only blobs of fat, grow up.
- You wish a teacher had not only ruined her career, but literally committed statutory rape so you could get laid? THIS IS A CRIME. This is an article about how messed up the world is because adults are sleeping with children, and you wish it had happened to you?!
- Of course you are. Because BOOBS, amirite?
[All posts are from the same person, I just got tired of switching to blue and kept the boxes black after editing a few posts. The one comment is from someone else, another "friend".]
(Somehow, someway, I am not even going to bring up his grammar because ain't nobody got time for that.)
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In all seriousness, memes and comments and statuses and thoughts like these really worry me. I hate to stereotype — like really feel like a horrible, shitty person — but aren't these the same ideas Elliot Rodger had? Isn't this how so many misogynists started out, with increased sexual tension inside them and complaints about the other sex not being interested? Don't many men think rapey jokes are funny and then go on to actually rape and/or beat and/or mistreat women?
I commented on one of his statuses — the very first one in this post. I used all capital letters and told him clothing doesn't matter. What if, by some chance, this friend of mine is one of those people who snaps? Will he come after me because I stood up for an entire gender?
These are the horrible, cruel things that run through my mind. I know I'm late to the party, but #YesAllWomen matters, because I shouldn't have thoughts like these. And neither should he.
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Police: Gillette Woman Faked Kidnapping
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A 19-year-old woman who was found tied to playground equipment in a Gillette park has been ticketed for making a false report.
Police Sgt. Joe Baird tells The Associated Press reports the woman told officers she had been kidnapped by two men outside her apartment, was taken to the playground and tied up Jan. 18. But she later acknowledged making the story up to get attention from her mother.
The woman was taken to the hospital because she complained of a sore shoulder, but she was released a short time later.
Baird says it appears she was the only one involved.


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Mental Health Crisis
Anyone can experience stress associated with academic demands, family problems, social relations, work, finances and cultural experiences. The inability to cope with emotional distress can lead to disruptions in overall functioning.
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Students can seek help from the Counseling Center. Appointments can be scheduled by phone or in person. To schedule an appointment for individual counseling, call 704-406-4563 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Emergency services are available on a 24-hour basis. After hours and on weekends you can call Gardner-Webb University Police at 704-406-4444 or the on-call Counseling Center number, 704-406-2599.
Handling a Crisis
Sometimes a person's usual coping skills are overwhelmed. The signs can include:
- Highly disruptive or aggressive behavior
- Overt suicidal threats (written or verbal)
- Homicidal threats (written, verbal, or a history of violence)
- Inability to communicate (incoherent, garbled, or slurred)
- Loss of contact with reality.
If you have concerns that someone is experiencing such a crisis, call 4444 to request assistance.
While waiting for aid to arrive (if you perceive no threat to yourself or others), you should:
- Provide a safe, secure, quiet environment.
- Invite the person to stay until help arrives.
- Listen actively and show empathy.
- Maintain a straightforward, supportive attitude.
- Don't leave the person alone unless you feel threatened.
- Don't try to restrain the person if he or she wants to leave.
- Don't challenge or shock the person.
- Don't minimize the person's distress.


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Human, animal and flora all come together in harmony in this vibrant work by French artist Christian Pendelio. A bird is perched on a girl's head, who simultaneously holds a rose that she uses as a scepter to her new 'hat'. The girl's reaction to his gentle creature is good-natured, as she displays a pleasant and comfortable smile on her face. The intensity of the brilliantly coloured sky in the background heightens the sense of fantasy that is created by the whimsical scene depicted. The other worldly scenes of Pendelio's works capture the viewers imagination, and he creates visual poetry through his symbolic representations.
Self-taught artist Christian Pendelio was born in 1967 in Toulouse, France and began his artistic career in comic strips and water colors. His artworks are now presented in Art Gallery particularly in Asia, Hong kong & Singapore since 1994. Christian is famous in turning his canvas into a Magical World of Fairy Tale. He likes to provide a base for the viewer's imagination to expand upon. A stepping stone for us to develop our own story based on our past, present and even our dreams. His artworks has the power to take us into other places and to plumb the depths of our most hidden dreams. Most of his subjects are riding on something in search of love, faith & hope. He paints the scenery into an imagery of love and voyage spiced with witty allegories. The dreamy fairyland and stylized characters intrigue viewers to waves of thoughts. Whimsical and playful, Christian's paintings give a sense of humor and an intriguing after-taste. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries since 1994, and are now in private collections in many places around the world. They can be seen in art galleries, especially in Asia, Hong-Kong, Singapore and in France. Read More
On Childhood Tales by Christian Pendelio
Our childhood memories are invaluable. If we compare our lives to a kind of "gold rush", we as prospectors seek what is precious in life by shaking and turning gold pans in the water. Whatever enters the pans are mainly sifted out, but the prized treasures are always left behind at the bottom. To me, childhood tales are gold in our existence, and should remain throughout our lives. The memories of aged men and women are often summoned throughout time and transformed into an eternal come-back. What I attempt to find through the art of painting is to achieve something close to this: the enjoyment, the surprising, the marvellous aspects of life - with perhaps a special touch of fantasy. For me, a child's world is free of reality where the frontier between the real and imaginary world are completely abolished.
Through my most recent paintings, I have attempted to explore reality and fantasy as two distinct yet conjoined points on a roof. The brown and white colours represent memories of true existence, captured and eternalised in sepia photographs. The vivid, bright rainbows of colour symbolize a projection of emotions and fantasies of childhood flights of fancy. The creation of these images were inspired by Paul Klee's words: "Art does not reproduce the visible - it makes it." Some may find that attempting to 'catch' or preserve the flowers of my own childhood garden, as narcissistic. And perhaps in a way, it is; a common problem among artists. I simply hope this 'mirror of a narcissist' is large enough to project yourself onto; to discover merriment, figments of a child's imagination and most importantly, gold.
Selective Work Showcase, State-of-the-Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
The Michelangelo Effect, State-of-the-Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
Another Plane, State-of-the-Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
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Three Menchville baseball seniors will be taking their careers to Saint Augustine's College of the CIAA.
Outfielder Jordan Wright, pitcher/first baseman Malik Mitchell and outfielder/designated hitter Deshaun Hewitt have committed to play for the Falcons.
Wright, who transferred from Hampton Christian, is coming off a strong Peninsula District tournament in which he went 2-for-4 with four RBI. Mitchell, a left-hander, has won all five of his decisions. Hewitt had a run-scoring single in the Monarchs' 8-0 win over Kecoughtan in the PD semifinals.
St. Augustine's, coached by Charles Whitaker, finished 19-31 last season. Last year's roster included Luis Perez of Bethel.
Also, pitcher/outfielder Paul Ragaglia plans to play at Patrick Henry Community College. Ragaglia is one of Menchville's relievers and closed out the win over the Warriors.
Monarchs shortstop Josh Moore signed with Virginia Tech in the fall. All-District Pitcher Garrett Chrismon is headed to Christopher Newport.


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Abstract: Economists and other social scientists typically rely on gender differences in the family-career balance, discrimination, and ability to explain gender gaps in wages and in the prospect for advancement. A new explanation that has recently surfaced in the economics literature is that men are more competitively inclined than women, and having a successful career requires competitiveness. A natural question revolves around the underlying determinants of these documented competitive differences: are women simply born less competitive, or do they become so through the process of socialization? To shed light on this issue, we compare the competitiveness of children in matrilineal and patriarchal societies to show that the difference starts around puberty. Moreover, most of the changes during this period of life are within the patriarchal society, in which boys become more competitive with age while girls become less competitive. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8389
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A four-time Texas lottery winner's timing is priceless.Joan Ginther, 63, has been dubbed "the luckiest woman on earth," having scratched her way to four jackpots worth a total of $20.4 million.
Ginther, a reclusive, Stanford-educated math genius, has had winning tickets in 1993, 2006, 2008 and 2010. Now, Harper's magazine theorizes that the Lone Star legend skillfully charted when and where winning tickets might show up.
MOX fuel that was believed to have been kept cool at the bottom of one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after its core melted is believed to have breached the vessel after melting again, a study said Monday.The study by Fumiya Tanabe, an expert in nuclear safety, said most of reactor 3's mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel may have dribbled into the containment vessel underneath, and if so, the current method being used to cool the reactor will have to be rethought. This could force Tokyo Electric Power Co. to revise its schedule for containing the five-month-old disaster.
◆ Study says nuclear fuel at Fukushima reactor possibly melted twiceFuel inside one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima Prefecture, which was believed to have been kept cool at the bottom of the pressure vessel after its core suffered a meltdown, has possibly breached the vessel after melting again at the bottom of the vessel, an expert's study showed Monday.
In the past decade, America's pharmaceutical industry has knowingly marketed dozens of dangerous drugs to millions of children, a group that executives apparently view as a lucrative, untapped market for their products. Most kids have no one to look out for their interests except anxious parents who put their trust in doctors. As it turns out, that trust is often misplaced. Big Pharma spends massive amounts to entertain physicians, send them on luxury vacations and ply them with an endless supply of free products. As a result, hundreds of thousands of American kids—some as young as three years old—have become dependent on amphetamines like Adderall and a pharmacopeia of other drugs that allegedly treat depression, insomnia, aggression and other mental health disorders.
On his Twitter feed Monday, the Oscar-winning film director also blamed the 2008 economic collapse on Standard & Poor's — apparently because it and other credit-ratings agencies did not downgrade mortgage-based bonds, which encouraged the housing bubble and let it spread throughout the economy."Pres Obama, show some guts & arrest the CEO of Standard & Poors. These criminals brought down the economy in 2008& now they will do it again," Mr. Moore wrote.
Standard & Poor's, one of three key debt agencies, stripped the U.S. federal government of its AAA status Friday night and reduced it to AA+ for the first time in the nation's history.
Mr. Moore went on to note that the "owners of S&P are old Bush family friends," continuing a theme he has developed through several films about capitalism as essentially a crony system for the rich and Wall Street, especially the Bush family.
The hypocrisy of police trying to stop citizens from videotaping their public actions should be obvious in this, the Patriot Act Age. From warrantless wiretapping to data mining to the proliferation of red-light cameras, the Surveillance State is clearly on the march. And yet, when citizens occasionally exercise their constitutional rights and turn the camera on the Surveillance State itself, they increasingly face the threat of police retribution.
Well, this could pretty much rule out a marketing campaign touting BlackBerry as the smartphone of choice for rioters. Which is too bad, because Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) could use a new demographic stronghold to reverse its dwindling market share.Media reports since the weekend's rioting in sections of London following the shooting death of a local man by police have focused on the roles Twitter and BlackBerry's IM service played in stoking the mayhem.
Now RIM has officially responded. BlackBerry UK, the "official UK Twitter account" for Canada-based RIM, early Monday tweeted:
We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can.
So how can RIM help the police identify riot and looting participants? According to The Register, "RIM can pass over decrypted versions of BBM chatter."
The 34-year-old rapper known for his outbursts was the headline act at the Big Chill music festival Saturday night, where he ranted in the middle of his set about being misunderstood and underappreciated. "I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm (expletive) insane, like I'm Hitler," he said. "One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did."West received light boos from the crowd as a result.
Cyber attacks designed to knock Web sites off line happen every day, yet shopping for a virtual hit man to launch one of these assaults has traditionally been a dicey affair. That's starting to change: Hackers are openly competing to offer services that can take out a rival online business or to settle a score.An ad for a DDoS attack service.
There are dozens of underground forums where members advertise their ability to execute debilitating "distributed denial-of-service" or DDoS attacks for a price. DDoS attack services tend to charge the same prices, and the average rate for taking a Web site offline is surprisingly affordable: about $5 to $10 per hour; $40 to $50 per day; $350-$400 a week; and upwards of $1,200 per month.
Charges against a California mother have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder this week after evidence at preliminary hearings suggested that she knowingly endangered her infant's life by breast-feeding while using methamphetamine.Six-week-old Anthony Acosta III died last year after an allegedly lethal amount of the drug was passed to him when his mother, Maggie Jean Wortman, 26, continued to breast-feed despite her meth habit.
Battling an addiction to bath salts, Kish took his mother and two others hostage in his mother's Chestnuthill Township house Thursday afternoon. After he wounded a state trooper with birdshot and set fire to the house, police said, he ran outside with a gun and refused to put it down.
In the early days of Michael Moorcock's 50-plus-years career, when he was living paycheck-to-paycheck, he wrote a whole slew of action-adventure sword-and-sorcery novels very, very quickly, including his most famous books about the tortured anti-hero Elric. In 1992, he published a collection of interviews conducted by Colin Greenland called Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, in which he discusses his writing method. In the first chapter, "Six Days to Save the World", he says those early novels were written in about "three to ten days" each, and outlines exactly how one accomplishes such fast writing.
From subs to nuts, in wigs, sculpture, fruit and "wearable heroin," drug smugglers are finding more creative ways to conceal their bootlegged goods.
Aquarium staff have managed to wean a chocoholic giant fish onto a healthier diet after inheriting the gourami, raised entirely on Kit Kats by its owners.
The prosecutor said police seized $3 million worth of cocaine, $900,000 in cash, steroids, money counters and other paraphernalia from several locations. Also seized were eight vehicles, including a Mercedes-Benz and two Cadillac SUVs.Besides the secret compartments, the ring took extra precautions by placing the vehicles on car carriers ordinarily used by legitimate auto dealers. The car carrier companies weren't aware that drugs were being shipped inside the vehicles, authorities said.
Caleb admitted: "We would wake up at 3pm, soundcheck, have dinner and drink two bottles of wine. We would drink another before we went on stage, take a bunch of pills, drink another bottle on stage followed by a bowl of cocaine."
This is the most arcane of uprisings and the most modern. Its participants, marshalled by Twitter, are protagonists in a sinister flipside to the Arab Spring. The Tottenham summer, featuring children as young as seven, is an assault not on a regime of tyranny but on the established order of a benign democracy. One question now hangs over London's battle-torn high streets. How could this ever happen?
A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating.Now questions are being asked of whether the trader had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the futures market.
There were mounting rumours that investor George Soros, 80, famously known as 'the man who broke the Bank of England', could be involved.
Twitter users in the United Kingdom who posted inflammatory messages encouraging others to engage in violence could be arrested, according to Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh.Kavanagh told The Telegraph that officers were investigating messages posted on Twitter and would "absolutely" consider arresting users who helped incite some of the worst rioting in the British capital in years.
Using a hidden video camera, a Texas man filmed four naked, honey-drenched teenage girls while they showered at a church where he worked as a youth pastor.But since the statute of limitations has already expired, prosecutors today were forced to dismiss felony charges lodged against Thomas Fortenberry, who allegedly did the surreptitious filming in November 2007 at the Greater Harvest Community Church in Pasadena.
◆ China's New Lucrative Business: Dead Babies Turn into Stamina Booster Pills
Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics that are connected to the business immediately notify pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies, mostly because of a still birth or an abortion.The companies purchase the baby corpses and store them in some family's refrigerator to avoid suspicion. The next step in this highly secretive process is putting the corpses in a medical drying microwave and grinding them into pills. The ground baby powder is then put in a capsule, ready to be sold as a stamina enhancer, according to the SBS team.
Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India captured beautiful photos of these translucent ants eating a specially colored liquid sugar. Some of the ants would even move between the food resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs.
History always repeats itself, said Hegel. But he forgot to add, commented Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. What Marx meant in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is that history does not repeat itself at all. It only appears to, because human imaginations cannot keep up with the speed of change, so they dress it in costumes borrowed from the past. It is not the 2011 rioters who are dressing in history's robes – they appear to have modelled themselves more on recent zombie movies – but commentators, who are reaching for analogies of 1980s socialists to attribute these troubles to familiar causes.It is worth looking at images of London's violent weekend and asking how they make you feel. Far from fitting into any historical model, they seem to me to come from an imagined London, a horror scenario of the city as a blazing wilderness. Sci-fi nightmares of urban catastrophe resonate with these pictures because this is a city made strange.
The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water."When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out," says Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager's office in Big Spring, Texas.
Water for the town's 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.
"We're taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water," district manager John Grant told Discovery News.
Watch The Throne will be released first on iTunes before the Best Buy chain's exclusive deal to sell the album nearly two weeks ahead of other music retailers.The letter says the deal will do "great damage" to more than 1,700 record stores and calls for equal access.
Jay-Z's spokesman had no comment.
Posted by the organisers of Record Store Day, the letter has been signed by shops across the US and calls the release plan a "short-sighted strategy".
Three Mexican nationals attempted to illegally land their boat on California's Huntington Beach Sunday — about a mile away from where crowds were forming to watch a professional surfing contest.Lifeguards spotted the small fishing boat at around 8:30 a.m., but when the men realized they had been spotted, they turned back to sea and were seen throwing a package overboard, The Orange County Register reported.
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways is launching an investigation into pictures that appear to show a pilot receiving oral sex from a flight attendant while in a commercial airplane cockpit.Low quality photos of the act, featuring a woman in a red outfit not unlike those of Cathay Pacific's flight attendants and a pilot, have circulated through Chinese media. According to some reports, the two are a couple.
A witness on the scene during the Rawesome Foods raid has publicly stated that an agent of the Specialized Surveillance & Enforcement Bureau of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stole $9,000 in cash from James Stewart after placing him in handcuffs. The $9,000 in cash was about to be used to acquire food products (honey, watermelons, eggs and others) that are offered to club members of Rawesome Foods.During the raid on Rawesome Foods, $4,500 in cash was taken from the store and $9,000 confiscated from James Stewart, but only the $4,500 in cash was noted on the warrant. California law requires that all items seized at the raid are noted on the warrant, but the LA County Department of Public Health failed to note the $9,000, meaning there is no longer any paper trail for this cash that was taken from James.
A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden's studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled.
The installation opens fall 2011.
"To ban kebabs in Cittadella is like forbidding pizza in Paris or New York," said Abdallah Khezraji, a member of the Consulta Regionale Immigrazione for Italy's Veneto region.On Friday, the town council of Cittadella passed a law stopping to stop the issue of licenses to vendors wishing to sell kebabs in the medieval walled city in Veneto.
'Protecting tradition'
"This food is certainly not part of our tradition and of our identity," said Mayor Massimo Bitonci of the anti-immigration Northern League party, which shares power in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition.
Bitonci said kebabs were "not suited to our historic center [because of] the way in which the foods are eaten, the smell they give off."
He also justified the ban on health grounds, saying the ordinance targeted "dishes cooked and then left in the open for a long time."
What I am about to describe in this article are not "predictions" of any kind. Rather, they are forecasts based on available data and common sense projections of where the Global Power Elite are trying to take the world, why they are doing so, and what they hope to achieve. The more they keep the general public in the dark, the higher their chances of success.Doing this kind of forecast is rather like understanding the weather. If on a hot summer day you look out your window and see dark clouds and lightning on the horizon, and suddenly a strong, damp ozone-filled gust blows your way, it's basic common sense to say that you shouldn't be forecasting "sunny and calm today," but rather "drenching rain, thunder, lightning and hail."
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QuoteGoing back isn't Replacement. Romney and Ryan need to get on the same page or they will have big problems. it's not about the page. it's about the book. it's a big one and i don't think you quite have the plot yet. ;)
Going back isn't Replacement. Romney and Ryan need to get on the same page or they will have big problems.
the majority of the country in ideology is right of center and left of me. that's ok.
Bush's transcripts are available at ......Hillary Clinton's college transcripts are .......Swing era band leader Glenn Miller...... (sing sing sing)and the dean overlooked FDR's grades but not his families' large drug money fortune....Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was .... revealed to be a C student as well, earning four Ds his freshman year. The Republican is just much much more honest and forth coming besides having a better sense of humor. Now what was it you wanted to know Bee?
Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species.
you didn't read very carefully. i said right of center in ideology. they often don't vote their ideology. blacks, for instance, tend to be socially conservative yet they vote democrat. they do that because they don't know history and have believed the rewrite of it. southern whites tend to be quite conservative, but vote democrat because this is the party of southern apartheid. Catholics are social conservatives but they vote democrat because they don't get the difference between church charity and government charity. same with the Jewish population. both religions, having been governing bodies as well as religious bodies, have confused the two in our system. if you just talk to most of these people on issues, they should align with republicans more than democrats. like much of the population, they don't bother to educate themselves past the 6pm news and MSNBC.
The "Black Vote" doesn't all go for one side or the other
n Southern area's the black vote probably leans more heavily Democrat due to a culture of going against the establishment and in those areas the establishment is Largely Republican
I don't know where you are getting your Catholic leanings from, I have worked for Catholic Hospitals, I live in a Catholic area and most Catholics I know are Republican or Independent. Some of my closest friends are Catholic and they typically are in opposition of my views.
QuoteThe "Black Vote" doesn't all go for one side or the otherplease point out the word all in my post.
The Parties have changed greatly since then.
and what they did for the black community
Like I said before; our vote is an individual choice and we have the right to cast how we want. How you feel about the way any "group" votes, or why "they" vote that way doesn't advance your argument at all... because it is their vote, they can do what they like with it. "They" earned that vote with sweat and blood.
What it comes down to is that we each have our one vote... It is our choice to cast that vote the direction we think is best... Brainwashed by media or not... It is our vote and nobody has the right to question that vote.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at theUniversity of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of theAthenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is alwaystemporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanentform of government. A democracy will continue to exist up untilthe time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generousgifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majorityalways votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits fromthe public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finallycollapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by adictatorship."
Unfortunately, many politicians in the GOP look exactly like democrats.
The Obama camp will not touch it, they have more integrity than that...
Quote from: bluegrass on August 16, 2012, 09:03:08 am The Obama camp will not touch it, they have more integrity than that... HA HA thanks for the laugh I spit food on my computer with that oneLOL integrity and obama LOLKeith


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Pomegranate Piece Peace
A Moslem neighbor of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Djerba came to him with his tearful story.
"My beloved wife," he said, "insisted on paying a visit to her fathers home against my wishes. I couldnt budge her but I demanded that the visit be a very brief one. If she would not be back home before I finished eating the pomegranate I had just started, I warned her, she would be divorced. This apparently upset her and she intentionally came back much later. According to Moslem law, she is no longer my wife and the truth is that I want her back."
The rabbi, author of a commentary on Mesechta Meilah called "Meil Yaakov", came up with a brilliant idea.
"It is well known," he said, "that when one eats a pomegranate some of the pieces which make up its fruit fall to the floor. Go back home and search the floor under your table if there are any pieces there. If so, you did not complete eating that pomegranate and your divorce declaration is not binding."
The fellow followed these instructions and indeed found some of the pomegranate seeds on the floor. The local Moslem kadi absolved him of his vow to divorce his wife and praised the brilliance of the rabbi whose fame subsequently spread throughout the entire region.


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BAKER � It has been more than a decade since Baker School�s football team started a season 4-0.
BAKER � It has been more than a decade since Baker School�s football team started a season 4-0.
It has been so long that longtime Gator assistant coach and former Baker player Brian Wagner can't remember when the team was last undefeated at the point in the season.
The Gators (3-0) are coming off an open date after a 55-6 win over Holmes County. Baker travels to Destin Middle School on Friday to play Rocky Bayou Christian School in a 7 p.m. game.
The Knights (2-2) have won their last two games and they have the attention of Gator head coach Matt Brunson.
"They are on a two-game winning streak," he said. "Levi Derry (Rocky Bayou's top running back) is a very capable back. They have a very athletic quarterback and their running back is as good as any."
Brunson said the Knights will run a spread offense and line up in a five-man front on defense. Rocky Bayou's size up front is similar to Baker's.
Brunson said the Gator offense will line it up and see if they can knock some holes in the Knight defense.
Although the Baker bye week came earlier in the season than it usually does, it offered a welcome break.
"We got some bumps and bruises well," Brunson said. "We got some stuff done that we needed to work on. I felt overall we kept our regular game routine and just didn't have to get hit on Friday, so our guys should be rested and ready to go."
Brunson's biggest concern Friday night is that Baker will be Baker.
"We just have to get focused and do what we do," he said. "We have to take care of the football, open holes, run downhill and play good defense. We definitely want to keep this thing in the win column.
"Josh Childers (Knight head coach), who I coached there at Crestview for a short time, has done a great job with that program and they are much improved. I just hope we can play the brand and style of football that is Gator football and just do what we do and not turn it over."
What: Baker at Rocky Bayou Christian
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Destin Middle School
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After dropping two straight contests the Tigers returned to their winning ways Saturday with a 31-6 win over Austin Peay.
With the win Tennesee State (8-3, 5-2) claimed the Sargent York trophy, to become the first team to hold the title outright since 2010.
The TSU defense flexed their muscle Saturday afternoon holding Austin Peay (0-10, 0-6) for under 100 yards of total offense. APSU only managed 92 total yards on the day, which is the lowest total Tennessee State has allowed since before 2006.
Anthony Bass came into the weekend with 7.5 sacks, the second best total in the OVC. Bass finished the game with two tackles and 1.5 sacks, to improve his sack total to nine on the year. Detorious Shipley added two sacks for the Big Blue Defense. As a team the Tigers racked up five sacks the most since Oct. 19 at UT Martin.
On offense the Big Blue rushing attack was the story of the day, as the Tigers totaled 146 yards on the ground. Tim Broughton led TSU's two headed attack with 73 yards on 21 carriers. In the third quarter the senior went over 1,000 yards on the season, becoming the fifth running back in school history to reach the milestone. Broughton's season mark now sits at 1,029 yards.
Telvin Hooks provided the lightening to Broughton's thunder, as the sophomore tailback rushed for 66 yards on just nine carries, providing two touchdowns for TSU on the day.
Tennessee State started the game with a defensive stop of the Austin Peay attack, forcing a three-and-out on their first drive. The stand forced the Governors to punt the ball away, giving the Tigers good field position on their own 48 yard line.
The offense wasted little time getting on the scoreboard. Facing a third-and-five from the Peay 48 yard line, Ronald Butler connected with Devin Wilson for a 19-yard pass play which extended the drive. On the next play Butler found a wide open Chris Sanders-McCollum, the Tigers receiver cut to the outside and racing to the endzone to give TSU the early 7-0 lead, with 12:49 left in the first quarter.
On Tennessee State's next drive the Tigers marched down to the APSU 22-yard line behind 15 rushing yards from Broughton. The drive ended there with Jamin Godfrey connecting on a 39-yard field goal to push the lead out to 10-0.
In the first quarter the TSU defense held Austin Peay to -15 yards rushing and three yards total.
Offense proved hard to come by in the second period with five consecutive three-and-outs for both teams.
Austin Peay used a 3:35 second drive to get into the redzone for the first time on the afternoon. With APSU facing a first-and-goal from the TSU nine, the Big Blue defense stood tall pushing the Governors back nine yards to the Tigers 18. APSU settled for a 39 yard field goal from Chase Dunlap to get on the board and cut the Tennessee State lead down to seven, 10-3.
The road team used a surprise onside kick to get another shot at the endzone before the half. The Governors recovered at their own 44 with 2:27 left in the quarter.
APSU drove 35 yards to the TSU 31 to give Dunlap another chance at a field goal with just over 10 seconds on the clock. Dunlap connected from 48 yards out with 12 seconds on the clock, cutting the Tigers lead down to 10-6 heading to the break.
TSU opened the second half the same way they began the game marching the full length of the field to score. Telvin Hooks carried the offense gaining 47 yards on the ground including the final 45 yards on the drive. Hooks five yard run pushed the TSU lead to 17-6.
After an APSU three-and-out the Tennessee State was back at work. Starting at their own 23 yard line the Tigers marched the length of the field in 13 plays on the back of their two running backs Broughton and Hooks.
The duo combined for 47 of TSU's 50 yards rushing on the drive. Hooks ended the drive bursting through the line of scrimmage and racing to score untouched from 27 yards out. The drive ate up 5:37 of game clock.
Austin Peay used a long drive to close the third and enter the fourth quarter pushing to the Tennessee State 27-yard line. APSU capped the drive with a 44-yard field goal attempt from Dunlap, this time the kick was short, preserving the Tigers 24-6 lead.
Tennessee State tacked on another score in fourth. With 4:41 left on the clock Ronald Butler hit Wesley Samuels in the corner of the endzone for the second passing touchdown of the contest.
Big Blue closes out the season next Saturday at LP field when the Tigers play host to OVC rival Murray State. Prior to the 2 p.m. kick-off, the Tigers will honor the seniors for Senior Day.


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In January, Facci replaced a Pasta Blitz on Johns Hopkins Road. The practical differences were obvious -- a wood-fired oven, new design, and a menu titled towards house-made pastas and pizzas aspiring to live by the rules of Naples.
In several months of meals, Facci has never disappointed. Like Bon Fresco or Victoria Gastropub, this is a casual place that pays close attention to ingredients. So you just order what you prefer, and it makes for fun meals, whether you're blowing out with wine and three courses or you're splitting three pizzas among four adults just to escape your snow-bound homes for an afternoon.
Facci fills a valuable niche -- interesting food, affordable prices, and a decor that feels more like a date night than a shopping center restaurant. That makes it a restaurant that I want to visit again and again -- a weeknight with Mrs. HowChow, a "snow day" afternoon with neighbors, the Saturday night when my parents drive up from Virginia.
The problem is that I can't get inside. Facci is packed, and they take no reservations. Last night, we waited 20 minutes. The Saturday night when my parents were here, my father and I circled the parking lot for 15 minutes just to find a space, and the wait was still 75-90 minutes once we got to the hostess. We ended up eating southern Indian food instead of southern Italian that night.
In all seriousness, the hostess told us last night that the way to avoid waiting at Facci is to come before 6 or after 8. They're so packed at dinner time that they haven't offered takeout. They literally don't have enough people to stand around. If I can get this Wegmans open, I might bring my cordless drive to Facci and help them expand into the empty store next to them!
There have been a string of comments with detailed reviews on my initial post by Cathy and others and on my post about the opening by Stacy Lyn, Jason and others. They're a fine source for reviews of specific dishes, and you should read the Pizzablogger's comment about how Neapolitan pizza can be "wet" in the center. The PB talks about "tip sag" and suggests how to eat it.
In addition, the Hungry Wanderers blog has a bunch of photos and a detailed review, and Facci has had quick pieces written by both the Sun and the WPost.
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7530 Montpelier Road
Laurel, MD 20723
NEAR: The key fact is that Facci isn't in Laurel. It's in a shopping center on Johns Hopkins Road just west of Rte 29. This is the same shopping center as Kloby's for BBQ or La Palapa Too for Mexican, so expect the lot to be full at prime dining times. This sliver of land is south of Columbia and north of Fulton and Scaggsville, but it certainly isn't Laurel.


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Letter dated 03/11/10 - Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
March 11, 2010
Via Electronic Submission
The Honorable Ken Salazar
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C. Street, N.W.
Room 3156
Washington, DC 20240
Re: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Designation of Critical Habitat for the Bull Trout in the Coterminous United States(1)
Dear Secretary Salazar:
The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (Advocacy) is pleased to submit these comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on behalf of the small entities affected by the proposed designation of critical habitat for the Bull Trout under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Advocacy has reviewed the Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) published with the Draft Economic Analysis for this proposed rulemaking and commends FWS for providing small entities with an opportunity to comment on the proposal during the early stages of the rulemaking process. Advocacy is providing the following comments in order to assist FWS in its compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)(2) as this rulemaking moves forward.
The Office of Advocacy
Advocacy was established pursuant to Pub. L. 94-305 to represent the views of small entities before federal agencies and Congress. Advocacy is an independent office within SBA, so the views expressed by Advocacy do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA or the Administration. The RFA, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA),(3) gives small entities a voice in the rulemaking process. For all rules that are expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, federal agencies are required by the RFA to assess the impact of the proposed rule on small business and to consider less burdensome alternatives.
Prior to the current proposal for a revised Bull Trout critical habitat designation (Bull Trout CHD), FWS designated 20,980 miles of streams, 591,577 acres of lakes, reservoirs and marshes, as well as 985 miles of marine shoreline as critical habitat for Bull Trout.(4)The current proposal would replace the previous designation and designate 22,679 miles of streams and marine shoreline in the Olympic Peninsula and the Puget Sound area, as well as 533,426 acres of lakes and reservoirs as Bull Trout critical habitat.(5)
Because conservation measures for endangered salmon, steelhead, Klamath suckers, and other protected fish are already in place within the designated areas, FWS has concluded that the incremental economic impact of the proposed Bull Trout CHD will be small.(6) FWS indicates that the most significant economic impact will occur within the areas of proposed critical habitat that are not currently occupied by Bull Trout, but are necessary for the conservation of the species. Specifically, the proposed CHD would include 929 miles of streams that are outside of the geographical area occupied by the species at the time it was listed.(7)
As required by the RFA, FWS prepared an IRFA for the proposed Bull Trout CHD and has asked the small business community for feedback regarding the estimated impact of the proposal on small entities, particularly regarding the economic impact of designated previously unoccupied areas as critical habitat.(8) FWS estimates that 97 percent of the potentially affected entities operating within the proposed CHD are small entities.(9) The IRFA also concludes that the proposed CHD will have annual impacts between $4.97 and $7.13 million.(10) Small entities are also expected to bear between 93 and 100 percent of the estimated impacts.(11) It is unknown whether the economic impacts will be evenly distributed among affected entities or whether only a small proportion of affected entities will bear the majority of the costs of the proposed CHD.
Advocacy's Comments
Advocacy appreciates the efforts FWS has made to encourage small entities to participate in this rulemaking through the public comment process and through public meetings. Pursuant to the RFA, if an agency finds that it cannot certify that a proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities it must prepare an IRFA. FWS has prepared an IRFA for this proposed CHD, in compliance with the RFA.
Following review of the public comments submitted by small entities, the RFA also requires that FWS prepare a Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) for its final rule if FWS cannot certify the rule under the RFA. This FRFA largely mirrors the IRFA, but should also include a discussion of significant issues raised by small entities during the comment period as well as a discussion of any changes to the rule that resulted from small entity feedback. The FRFA that FWS prepares for its final rule should also describe the steps FWS has taken to minimize the economic impact on small entities, including a statement of the legal, factual, and policy reasons for selecting the alternatives adopted, and a discussion of the reasons why other alternatives were not adopted. Advocacy would be pleased to assist FWS with preparing its FRFA for the final rule.
Advocacy appreciates the timely manner in which FWS has asked for small entity input on its proposed Bull Trout CHD. Following the public comment period, Advocacy strongly encourages FWS to conduct further outreach with small entities to discuss the economic impacts of the rule and possible alternatives for reducing burdens on small entities before it prepares a FRFA for its final rule.
Susan M. Walthall
Acting Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Jamie Belcore Saloom
Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy
cc: The Honorable Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Douglas Krofta, Branch Chief, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1. 75 Fed. Reg. 2270 (January 14, 2010); RIN 1018-AW88.
3. Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-121, Title II, 110 Stat. 857 (1996) (codified in various sections of 5 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.) (SBREFA).
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November 07, 2011
Eggplant and lentil stacks
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oh wow, those are beautiful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful and appetizing!ReplyDelete
so simple yet so great!ReplyDelete
Mmmmm I love lentils! Always feel good when I eat them - like them in salad a lot. Good weekend, thanks! Saw a friend and then visited Richmond for shopping and a walk along the river!ReplyDelete
A really good idea. I love eggplant also, but never combined it with lentils. Should give it a try. Looks great.ReplyDelete
Looks delicious!ReplyDelete
We had a fabulous weekend in the sun too - swimming and BBQ on saturday and a leisurely walk around The Rocks and Circular Quay on Sunday :) I LOVE eggplants.. you got me craving eggplant parmigiana now but it's not quite as healthy as your option hehe..ReplyDelete
mmm love eggplants. this looks delish!ReplyDelete
beautiful photos! love the dish.ReplyDelete
Yummy. Eggplants are in season here on the Riviera so your recipe will be Tuesday's dinner. Thanks!ReplyDelete
anything with lentils and feta has my heart :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8 November 2011 at 09:33
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Have just swung on over from Sarah's blog - hallelujah - someone who is creating real recipes for us sugar free lost souls. Am now looking forward to trawling your blog, thank you, thank you, thank you.
So delicious! Perfect weather for it too :)ReplyDelete
Am hugely addicted to eggplants and always on the lookout for new recipes! This fits the bill excitingly and, methinks, will be on the menu tomorrow! Thanks :) !ReplyDelete
... looks tasty! Eggplants are at the end of season here, in the north of italy, but maybe I can find some and I still have some fresh rocket and shallot greens on my terrace... I think I'm gonna make it! :-)
mmmm....I don't cook enough with lentils, I need to work them into my diet a little more - as this looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Mmm, beautiful. I have to try this :)ReplyDelete
Yumm!!! These look amazing Maria, and those photos make we want to grab my fork and dive in!ReplyDelete
Yum! Our little eggplant plants are coming along nicely in the garden. Can't wait to get cooking them! I love the idea of your stack.ReplyDelete
woah - this looks absolutely delicious :-) I must try thisReplyDelete
great use for lentils--it's high time they were used for something other than soup! :)ReplyDelete
Both eggplant and lentils are constant addictions in my house. This is such a great way of combining them both. What a yummy recipe. Good to hear that your garden is blossoming. Enjoy the beautiful weather too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 November 2011 at 13:24
It looks so good!ReplyDelete
Looks great! Summer is definitely over here in Switzerland, but I do have an eggplant in the fridge and lentils are always in my pantry, so I'll definitely give it a try!ReplyDelete
Vegan-licious! Those wonderful combination really makes me crave. Yummy!ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous presentation. I am loving this recipe.ReplyDelete
Beautiful presentation and love how you put the eggplant on the gorgeous color of plate!!ReplyDelete
I just cooked this for lunch and it was sensational. I admit that i didn't have sherry vinegar so i just went without and it was still delicious. Thank you.ReplyDelete


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Since the Final Fantasy games have been so incredibly influential, it's interesting to see where FF's designers have looked for their own inspiration.
It's no secret that Final Fantasy has apparently been influenced by Studio Ghibli. The Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga, for example, most likely inspired Final Fantasy's Chocobo—those big yellow bird thingies. But that's not all.
Final Fantasy IX seems to pay homage to Nausicaä. While recently playing through the game, eagle-eyed Kotaku reader George noticed how FFIX appears to reproduce a slightly tweaked castle design from the manga in the game.
Final Fantasy IX, of course, was released after the Nausicaä manga wrapped up in 1994.
This might be a coincidence, and it might not be. There's nothing wrong with borrowing from other creations if you make something your own—and Final Fantasy certainly stands on its own two feet.
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Is anybody going to Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas this year? Or has attended in the past? This year will be my first time attending and I'm pretty excited. I love independent horror and weird cinema so this is completely up my alley. My wife, on the other hand, might have a rough go at it.
If anybody knows the area and has any suggestions for things to do in and around Austin, I'd love the input. We are doing the second half pass of the festival, but we'll be arriving a few days before to give us some time to explore.


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The Sports Club Co. confirmed that it is reviewing proposals from potential buyers, according to a release issued this morning.
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One of the fanciest restaurants we've ever been to is the Kronenhalle in Zurich, and we've been lucky enough to go there several times for business dinners. My favorite thing to get there is their avocado appetizer, which is simply an avocado halved, with red wine and shallot vinaigrette on top. It's ridiculously easy to make, and at $15, it's ridiculously expensive. I know, I sound like a chump for ordering it. When we came back from this recent trip, we recreated it at home, for less than $1 a serving. Delicious.
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If you missed it, Ars Technica's Dan Goodin wrote a fascinating article this week on why passwords have never been weaker — and crackers have never been stronger. Goodin explains the importance of unique, generated passwords for all of your accounts, tackling concepts like hashing, dictionary attacks, rainbow tables, and salting. The main take-away points:
- Passwords are less secure than even a few years ago, thanks to advancements in hardware and password-cracking techniques, including the sheer speed at which they can be executed
- Hackers have created rules and algorithms to cut through our "clever password tricks"
- It's critical to use a unique password for each site, and a password manager is the best way to achieve this
It's stuff you've heard us say before, but the data he uses to back up the above provides a really convincing argument (if you have the time, the article is worth a read in its entirety).
With a password manager like LastPass, you're well on your way to more proactively protecting your data – the security challenge can also help you identify weak and duplicate passwords, and the password generator can help you set long, unique passwords for each account. Data stored in LastPass is encrypted and decrypted locally, and is protected behind a whole lot of encryption technology, including salted hashes. But above and beyond that, LastPass is also staying far ahead of the threat landscape by implementing PBKDF2, which Goodin notes significantly increases the time and computation required.
A few other articles this week that caught our eye:
- 38% of us would rather clean a toilet than think of a new password << Apparently this study also showed 38% would rather do house chores than create a new username or password. Good thing LastPass can do the dirty work for you!
- Can you trust your browser with your passwords? << An interesting look at the options available for Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 14, and Chrome 21 – looks like Firefox wins, but Geier cautions that prying eyes, malware, and a crashed hard drive are still major risks, so using a password manager is recommended.
- 9 things you absolutely must do to keep your online identity safe << Great tips from the folks at Gizmodo, although we'd go with "diversifying" your passwords over "fortifying" them. Unique, strong passwords on all accounts = the best way to recover when an account is compromised, and prevents the compromise of multiple accounts.
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|Piece Name
|Keisei hangonkō
|Piece Alternate Name
Matahei the stutterer
(Translation) ,
Courtesan of the Hangon Incense, The (Translation) ,
Domomata (Title for individual scene or act of piece) ,
Meihitsu domo no matahei (Earlier title) ,
Tosa Shōgen kankyo no ba (Title for individual scene or act of piece)
|Creation Date
|Chikamatsu Monzaemon Playwright
|Associated Performing Art(s)
|Puppetry, Kabuki
|Associated Movement
|jidaimono (historical play)
|Language(s) of Creation
|Structure Divisions
|Three acts
|Characters in Piece
|Ukiyo Matahei , Otoku , Tosa no Shōgen , Tosa no Shurinosuke , Kanō Utanosuke Ukiyo Matahei
|Matahei, a disciple of ex-court artist Tosa Shōgen Mitsunobu, has been making repeated calls on his master in order to get permission to use the respected Tosa name. By chance Mitsunobu, Matahei, and his wife meet a group of peasants in pursuit of a tiger. Mitsunobu, saying there are no tigers in Japan, realizes it must be a creature from a different dimension. So, Mitsunobu calls one of his disciples, Shūrinosuke, and orders him to draw the tiger and make it take on life. Shūrinosuke does as directed. As Mitsunobu expected, the tiger in the grove disappears. Mitsunobu rewards Shūrinosuke for this achievement by allowing him to use the name Tosa. Matahei is, of course, completely humiliated. Following this, Mitsunobu calls on Shūrinosuke to lead a group of men to go to the rescue of another of the disciples. Matahei implores Shûrinosuke to allow him to join in the rescue, but in vain. As the others leave, Matahei and Otoku are left in the garden. Matahei's dream has been completely shattered. Otoku says that now there is no choice left but to die, but suggests that first Matahei draw a picture of himself on the side of a stone basin in the garden as a memento. She prepares the ink and brush. Matahei then draws on the side of the basin. To their surprise, as Matahei does this, an identical painting appears on the other side of the basin. Mitsunobu, who has been observing everything from inside the mansion, praises Matahei for his great work, which could only have been achieved through a great passion for art. Mitsunobu, his master, then bestows upon Matahei permission to use Tosa as his professional name.
|Kabuki jiten (p.158)
|A period peice (jidaimono) about an artist of Kano school, Kano Motonobu. It was first performed as puppet theatre in 1708. And then it was first performed as Kabuki in 1719. There are three acts but only the scene called "Do mata" is currently performed.
|Piece Published in
|Kabuki Plays on Stage Volume 1: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766
Associated Items
|Associated Productions
2006May01, Kabuki Za, Keisei hangonkō
1978Jul07, Asahi-za, Bunraku, Natsumatsuri naniwa kagami ,
1978Jul07, Asahi-za, Keisei hangonkō
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We are looking for a fun design that will be used to symbolize our research project. We are looking for something fun and fresh and brain or MRI related.
The study is a joint project between the Department of Pediatrics and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute on Child and Family Development at Wayne State University. Funding for this project comes from private grants and from the National Institute of Mental Health, the world's leading organization dedicated to mental health research.
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• Brains are cool, so we are open to designs that include brain shapes, and brain inspiration – both subtle brain forms & overt brain forms are of interest.
• We do brain imaging with the children with an MRI machine – this could also be a source of inspiration – to create a design that depicts the scanner, the brain and scanner, the child in the scanner – all would be interesting to us.
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• It should be family friendly.
• The color scheme is wide open - we have no prior materials we seek to match.
• Because the study is longitudinal (we track participants over years), we want to make sure that our participants have a strong positive memory about our study. Again, because we check in with them every year it is important that our brand is memorable and exciting.
• We intend to use the design on gift bags for the kids, coffee mugs for the parents, thank you cards, mother's day cards and birthday cards.
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