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A retired police officer was selected from among 29 applicants to fill the new "success coach" job at Morenci Area High School.
Jay Nieman of rural Hudson was hired Monday by the Morenci Board of Education to fill the new position after a selection committee interviewed 13 candidates. He is the husband of high school science teacher Kerry Nieman.
Secondary principal Kelli Campbell described the new position as having two main components: to serve as an academic coach for students at risk of not graduating; to coordinate in-school suspensions. Campbell said that Nieman will also work toward behavior modification for students with discipline problems.
In addition to serving as a police officer, Nieman has experience working with at-risk students and serving as an athletic coach.
GOLF—Board members voted to change the boys spring golf program to an unsponsored sport. The program would continue to operate as it has in the past—eligibility rules are still followed and tournament opportunities continue—but the sport would no longer receive any funding from the school.
Board members discussed the future of the golf program at a previous meeting due to the low number of participants. Changing back to a sponsored sport would require only another vote by the board.
A combined golf program with Waldron was approved by other league schools. Morenci's returning golfer told the board during a committee meeting that several other Morenci students expressed interest in golfing and four or five Waldron students want to join the team.
As an unsponsored sport, students would have to come up with funds to pay greens fees, tournament entry fees and other costs, if needed, such as transportation and coaches salary.
Robyn Taylor, the mother of Morenci golfer Kendrick Taylor, said that some students would have difficulty paying the costs, especially after buying clubs.
"If the numbers are there," said personnel committee chair Phil McCaskey, "we need to rebuild the program."
Superintendent of schools Michael Osborne cautioned that some cuts in athletics will likely be needed as the districts works to leave a deficit financial situation.
Athletic director Phil Stark told board members that participation for wrestling and competitive cheer are both higher than last year.
BOWLING—The board voted to continue the bowling program as a club sport, with volunteer coach Bruce Hite. A club sport also follows all school athletic rules. Bowling doesn't take "unsponsored" status like the golf team because it has never been a sponsored sport in the past.
COACHES—Renae Schaffner was hired to serve as girls seventh grade basketball coach and Mitch Clark was approved as a volunteer wrestling assistant coach.
CONTRACTS—Three-year contracts were approved for bus drivers, food service workers and the elementary school custodian.
BUS—The board approved the sale of bus number 10 to Kalamazoo Metal Recyclers for $2,153. Transportation coordinator Devon Vernier stripped all parts from the bus that could be used on other vehicles.
The bus fleet received another 100 percent rating from the last inspection.
SCHOOL OF CHOICE—Audience member Peggy Decker asked if anyone follows up on students who leave the district to attend school elsewhere. She suggested that board members make phone calls to ask what could be done to bring the students back.
Supt. Osborne said there often isn't an opportunity to contact a family. He knows that some students have chosen a district with less demanding academic requirements.
DEFICIT—Osborne said that administrators are working on a Financial Recovery Plan to present to the state. Districts with a deficit have three years to get back into the black before state officials can step in take control.
Meetings with staff and community members will be scheduled before a final plan is brought to the board for approval.
CONCESSIONS—McCaskey said the outdoor concession stand is in dire need of improvements. The athletic booster group is willing to handle updates to get the facility ready for a class to operate in the spring and fall, however, the Boosters want some accountability from groups that sell concessions.
Campbell said she would create a schedule for classes and work with groups to make sure they know when to work. Board member Ivy Hutchison suggested creating a checklist for classes to fill out at the start and the end of a season.


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Simulated seeds help scientists explore how plants 'balance the books' between oil and protein production
Using a computational model they designed to incorporate detailed information about plants' interconnected metabolic processes, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified key pathways that appear to "favor" the production of either oils or proteins. The research, now published online in Plant Physiology, may point the way to new strategies to tip the balance and increase plant oil production.
The study focused on the metabolism of rapeseed, a crop grown primarily in temperate climates for the oil that accumulates in its seeds. Such plant oils are used worldwide for food, feed, and increasingly as a feedstock for the chemical industry and to produce biodiesel fuel.
"Increasing seed oil content is a major goal for the improvement of oil crops such as rapeseed," said Brookhaven biologist Jörg Schwender.
As a step toward that goal, Schwender and Brookhaven postdoctoral research associate Jordan Hay recently developed a detailed computational model incorporating 572 biochemical reactions that play a role in rapeseeds' central metabolism and/or seed oil production, as well as information on how those reactions are grouped together, are organized in subcellular compartments, and how they interact. They've now used the model to identify which metabolic pathways are likely to increase in activity—and which have to decrease—to convert a "low-oil" seed into a "high-oil" seed.
Such a switch would likely be a tradeoff between oil and protein production, Schwender explained, because with limited carbon and energy resources, "the plant would 'pay' for the increased cost of making more oil by reducing its investment into seed protein."
So far, efforts based on conventional plant breeding and genetics have had very limited success in changing the typical tradeoff of storage compounds in seeds.
"Behind the production of oil and protein in seeds is a complex network of hundreds of biochemical reactions, and it is hard to determine how this network is controlled and how it could be manipulated to change the tradeoff," Schwender said.
Schwender and Hay's computational model of 572 metabolic reactions turns the problem on its head to narrow the search. Instead of manipulating each pathway one by one to see which might tip the balance from protein toward oil, the model postulates the existence of seeds with different oil and protein content to see which of the many reactions are "responsive" to changes in the oil/protein tradeoff.
"This approach allowed us to narrow down the large list of enzyme reactions to the relatively few ones that might be good candidates to be manipulated in future experimental studies," Schwender said. "Our major goal is to computationally predict the least possible number of enzymes that have most control over the tradeoff between oil and protein production."
Of the 572 reactions included in the model, the scientists identified 149 reactions as "protein-responsive" and 116 as "oil-responsive."
"In addition, the model helps us evaluate how sensitive the reactions are in a quantitative way, so we can see which of these are the 'most sensitive' reactions," Schwender said. "This allows us to identify a relatively few possible targets for future genetic manipulation to tip the balance in favor of greater seed oil production."
Some of the reactions identified by the model confirm pathways pointed out in previous research as important for oil synthesis. "But some of the reactions identified by our model have not really been implied so far to be important in the oil/protein tradeoff," Schwender said, suggesting that this could be new ground for discovery.
"These simulation tools may therefore point the way to new strategies for re-designing bioenergy crops for improved production," he concluded.
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USDA Resources Include 30,000 Housing Units and $50 million in Food Assistance
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today issued two directives to further meet the food and housing needs of Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Johanns authorized states to pre-load electronic food benefit cards with $50 worth of assistance, which will enable displaced residents to immediately purchase food even before their application has been processed to receive complete benefits. These cards can then be distributed to displaced residents as they move from shelters to temporary housing. The food stamp program is administered by states and fully funded by USDA. States are being notified of the authorization and urged to take advantage of it.
USDA has earmarked $50 million dollars to provide emergency food assistance to Hurricane Katrina survivors. USDA is increasing the level of assistance available to current food stamp recipients who were affected by the hurricane, as well as providing assistance to hurricane survivors who have not previously participated in the food stamp program. Additionally, USDA will ensure that schools are able to provide free lunches to students who have been relocated because of the hurricane.
Johanns also directed USDA Rural Development staff to coordinate with the private sector to identify privately owned rental housing nationwide that is available to house displaced residents. The USDA Rural Development program currently has 30,000 available housing units across the country. USDA is coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and faith-based organizations to match residents left homeless by Hurricane Katrina with these homes and apartments. Eligibility requirements associated with the rural housing program are being waived to expedite the relocation process.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has dedicated the following resources to Hurricane Katrina relief:
- Personnel Deployed - USDA has deployed 2,760 Forest Service employees who are trained in rescue and response to large-scale incidents to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These teams have expertise in setting up logistics staging areas, distribution of food products and debris removal. In addition, the Forest Service has devoted aircraft to facilitate the airlift of 325 New York City Fire Department personnel to support the City of New Orleans.
- Food Assistance - USDA has delivered or has on the way more than 300 trucks containing over 12 million pounds of food (canned vegetables, fruits, cheese and meats) and baby food and formula products, with truckloads of additional supplies being prepared for delivery to affected communities.
- Housing Assistance - To ensure that displaced residents are able to move into safe housing as quickly as possible, USDA has established an expedited placement process that waives maximum income limits, security deposits, credit checks, streamlines month-to-month leasing procedures and institutes telephone background checks. USDA property managers will also be assisting these families by providing them with information on how to access additional government programs and services to assist them, like food stamp benefits.
Additionally, USDA Rural Development has announced a general debt service moratorium for a minimum of 90 days for all housing program borrowers in counties that are included in the Presidential Disaster Declaration issued in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. This action will help up to 50,000 low-income residents, as they work to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of the hurricane.
- Community Assistance - USDA will provide a 90-day moratorium on debt collection on electric, water and community facilities programs in the affected states. These facilities range from rural schools, libraries, childcare, hospitals, medical clinics, assisted living facilities, fire and rescue stations, police stations, community centers and public buildings. USDA has established a team to conduct assessments of these facilities with priority given to the hospitals and nursing home properties and is also assembling teams to go to the region to facilitate grant and loan applications for rebuilding.
Additional information and updates about USDA's hurricane relief efforts are posted daily on the web site. For more information about making contributions for disaster assistance go to http://www.firstgov.gov/ and http://www.disasterassistance.gov/


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|Are You Letting Too Much Information Ruin Your Resume?
by Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC
True or false? Including everything on your resume an employer will need to know about you will help facilitate the hiring process.
While it may sound like a helpful hint, the correct answer is false. In fact, including certain details on your resume can seriously damage your job search. From decreasing your chances of landing an interview to influencing potential salary, "too much information" on a resume can be detrimental for any candidate.
If your resume contains any of the following, you are putting yourself at a major disadvantage right from the beginning:
Your professional references should be always be listed in a separate document and provided when requested – and that usually doesn't happen before the interview. Since the primary function of a resume is to land the interview, sending your references as part of your resume is premature.
Some jobseekers think this is a good way to take advantage of networking opportunities by dropping the name of a reference or two to impress a prospective employer. Your resume is still not the right place to accomplish this. To emphasize your relationship with a professional contact, simply mention it in the cover letter. (Be sure to do so subtly, however. For example, "My former colleague from XYZ Company, Jack Smith, suggested I contact you directly because he felt my skills would be a perfect fit for your organization.")
Salary History & Requirements
The dinner table isn't the only place where talking about money is considered rude. A resume should not indicate compensation requirements or salary history. Aside from etiquette, doing so could literally cost you.
If you disclose your bottom line and it's less than what an employer was willing -- or even expecting -- to pay you, you've just inadvertently volunteered for a pay cut.
Unless a salary requirement is mandatory to apply for a position, do not surrender this important information, or you will risk compromising any leverage you may have in future salary negotiations. When a concrete figure is required to be considered for an opening, this information should be incorporated in your cover letter, not your resume.
If salary history is requested, it typically comes later in the process and should be prepared in a separate document.
Whether you spend your weekends as a Cub Scout Leader or enjoy skydiving in your spare time, extracurricular activities are almost always irrelevant to one's career, and therefore, do not belong on a resume. Since your resume is a professional piece of communication, reserve the limited space to present only information related to your professional qualifications, and keep leisure activities separate.
There are exceptions, particularly for professionals who engage in outside activities directly related to their jobs. An accountant who serves as treasurer for a local charity, an aspiring gym teacher who volunteers as a soccer coach, and a construction worker who donates his time and skills building houses for the poor and are good examples. When in doubt, if an activity or affiliation doesn't support your career objective, leave it out. Most employers are only interested in their employees' afterhours activities when they need staff to work overtime.
Educational Details
For mid- and senior-level professionals, detailed information related to your college years is not necessary. Unless you are a recent college graduate with little career history to offer, keep the emphasis on your professional achievements and the tone at a higher level. Your grade point average and past extracurricular affiliations are far less important than your recent work highlights.
Also be sure to omit your year of graduation unless you finished school in the past 5 years. Though age discrimination is certainly prohibited by law, volunteering your age can never help you.
Reasons for Leaving
Whether your former boss threw you a going away party or had security escort you from the premises, your reasons for leaving any job should be reserved for a job application. They simply don't belong on your resume regardless of the circumstances. If you wish to have an opportunity to explain a sticky situation like being fired, wait until at least the first interview so you've had a chance to make an unbiased first impression.
Overall Content
The most important issue to consider regarding the quantity of information is overall content. Employers do indeed want to know about important work you've done throughout your career – but they do not need or even want to know every detail. Summarize your best assets rather than inundating the reader with minutiae. You have literally under a minute to make an impression on a prospective employer, so you must be very careful choosing what content to emphasize.
Nothing will help land your resume in a "no" pile faster than making it too long, too cluttered, and too cumbersome to read.


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- 2 pounds new potatoes or other small potatoes
- 1 tablespoon crushed toasted caraway seeds (optional)
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Mash butter and 2 Tbsp. dill in a small bowl. Season dill butter with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 week ahead. Cover and chill.
Place potatoes in a large pot. Cover with cold water by 1 inch; season with salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium and simmer gently until tender, 10–12 minutes. Drain.
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North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota metropolitan area ranked ninth on list of best places to buy and quickly sell property.
Southwest Florida is one of the best real estate markets in the country for property flippers to make quick money with homes in demand and prices rising, according to a new study.
The North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota metropolitan area was ranked ninth of the 25 most profitable cities for real estate flippers to net profits — beating out other housing hot spots like San Francisco, Cape Coral and San Diego, according to a report by RealtyTrac Inc.
The practice of buying and reselling homes for profit after a short period largely evaporated during the prolonged downturn and Great Recession.
But with prices climbing again and buyers circling for deals, flippers are again flooding back into the market to capitalize on appreciation.
"A bunch of things have come together, and there's this window of opportunity right now for people who can buy homes in bulk, turn around and flip them," said Sean Snaith, an economist with the University of Central Florida. "It was really shifted toward a seller's market."
RealtyTrac analyzed more than 600 metro areas nationwide where single-family homes were flipped last year, selecting the Top 25 based on the gross profit as a percentage of the original purchase price.
Sarasota's ranking came as a result of 999 single-family flips last year, a 79 percent increase over 2011.
The average purchase price on those properties was $116,783, with a subsequent average sale price of $156,983. That netted average gross profit of $40,200 on those flips, for a 34 percent yield, RealtyTrac's data showed.
Just this week, a Tampa company managed by Thomas Goebel netted $43,000 on two quick Sarasota flips, while another local firm managed by Thomas Smola made $34,000 flipping a house in Bradenton's Heritage Harbour neighborhood, court records show.
Orlando topped the RealtyTrac list, with 1,912 flips for an average gross profit of $64,976, or a 63 percent return. It was followed by Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tampa.
Miami, Cape Coral and Lakeland were the other three Florida metro areas to earn spots on RealtyTrac's ranking.
"One thing that makes Sarasota particularly desirable is that foreclosure rates there are less than the rest of Florida," said RealtyTrac chief economist Jake Adger. "But the overall price level in the area is up."
Checkered past Flipping reached its pinnacle during the housing boom of the mid 2000s.
The practice was lauded by industry participants and reality TV shows alike until rampant issues of mortgage and other fraud were discovered statewide.
In Southwest Florida, more than a dozen people went to prison for their roles in a massive flipping fraud scheme that involved inflating property values to defraud banks and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of properties.
The concept fell off when home values in the area collapsed during the Great Recession, amid waning buyer interest and lender inactivity.
But unlike the housing bubble of the mid-2000s, when flipping was based purely on speculation and investor belief in future appreciation, real estate analysts say profits now primarily come from property repairs and improvements.
Because many foreclosures need significant repairs and would not qualify for financing, flippers buy them and fix them, before re-selling to buyers that rely on, and obtain, mortgages, said Drew Peterson, a foreclosure specialist with the Re/Max Alliance Group.
"What investors have figured out is there's a lot of money to be made by fixing these homes that need a lot of work and selling them to the end user," Peterson said. "That's what they're taking advantage of."
With an inventory of homes for sale that now stands at just 3.8 months' worth, however, some investors are finding it difficult to find suitable homes to fix and flip.
Competition has arisen, too, from market opportunists and from longer-term investors who wish to acquire homes as rentals.
At the same time, institutional buyers like Wall Street's Blackstone Group and Colony financial have dominated local foreclosure auctions, sometimes shelling out well above asking prices for single-family homes. At times, those large buyers have outmuscled smaller flippers, said Shannon Moore, broker and owner of Green Lion Realty, who represents flippers in North Port.
Most buy-and-hold investors today have a set formula for the homes they want — properties with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and covered parking built around or after 2000. But flippers have shown a willingness to break out of the mold and be more flexible in buying patterns.
Some economists believe flipping can be dangerous for a housing market because it often leads to — or causes — rapid price increases that can artificially inflate values beyond what is considered sustainable.
An overwhelming number of flips beginning in 2005 — many with fraudulent intent — helped fan the price run-ups that ultimately contributed to a historic decline in prices and record foreclosures.
Moore and others fear, too, that the rising popularity of flipping again could push Southwest Florida into another housing bubble.
"It's getting saturated," Moore said. "It's harder and harder to find properties. There's just not as many homes out there as there were last year, and my investors are starting to get a little gun shy when they see these prices go up so rapidly."


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The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday issued its first "Risk List" for the most significant downward trends in press freedom during 2012. It examined six indicators: fatalities, imprisonments, restrictive legislation, state censorship, impunity in anti-press attacks and journalists driven into exile.
Here are the 10 countries listed and the reasons CPJ gave for listing them:
- Syria: Now the world's deadliest place for journalists. At least 28 were killed and two others went missing between January 1 and December 10, 2012.
- Turkey: With 49 journalists imprisoned for their work as of December 1, 2012, Turkey emerged as the world's leading jailer of journalists.
- Iran: Authorities imprisoned 45 reporters and editors as of December 1, 2012. Imprisoned journalists are subjected to extended solitary confinement, deprivation of medical care, and torture.
- Pakistan: Seven journalists killed in 2012.
- Russia: President Vladimir Putin signed a series of bills seen as aimed at stifling dissent. Sixteen murders of journalists over the past decade.
- Somalia: Twelve journalists were killed in direct relation to their work in 2012.
- Vietnam: At least 14 journalists are behind bars.
- Brazil: Four journalists killed in 2012. Judicial censorship hampers press freedoms; public figures have filed hundreds of lawsuits to silence the press.
- Ecuador: Legislation bars news media from promoting political candidates "directly or indirectly" in the 90 days before an election. Three journalists fled into exile in 2012.
- Ethiopia: An anti-terrorism law is used to silence critics. In late 2012, six journalists were in prison. At least 49 Ethiopian journalists have been forced into exile since 2007.


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Montpelier, Vt — Arnold Schwarzenegger is not the only governor supporting children's fitness these days. Vermont Gov. James Douglas urged children and their parents in his state to stay fit through the winter with the "Stretch Your Limits" Fit and Healthy Kids Winter Challenge.
The program, which ran through March 15, is part of Vermont's Fit and Healthy Kids initiative, which addresses issues of childhood obesity, nutrition and physical activity. The initiative is coordinated by the Vermont Department of Health.
Vermont kids were encouraged to do such activities as sledding, ice skating, cross country skiing, building a snowman and indoor rock climbing. They could track their participation on a sheet that they could download from the challenge's Web site, www.vermontfitness.org/activities.html. In addition to fitness activities, children were encouraged to eat more fruits and vegetables and turn off their TV or computer.
All participants who turned in their tracking sheets by March 15 will receive an award and a chance to meet Gov. Douglas.


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Second-degree reduced to third-degree charges
RACINE, Wis. — Charges have been reduced for an emergency medical technician accused of sexually assaulting a patient in Racine County.
Second-degree sexual assault charges against Somers EMT Jodin Froeber have been revised to third-degree sexual assault. Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Arn said the reduced charge is "based on further investigation into the effects of the drugs that were administered to the victim."
If Froeber is convicted, the reduced charge knocks 20 years off his possible maximum sentence. The 37-year-old Froeber is accused of assaulting the then-20-year-old woman in the back of an ambulance in July 2011.
The Racine Journal Times said Froeber was placed on paid administrative leave after he was charged in August.


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Im trying to get up with Thomas Chin. Back in January he helped me with two excel functions to view / use surrogate pairs in excel. He provided two excel functions that work flawlessly in Win XP with Excel 2002 but which do not work in excel 2000 under win 2000.
The characters are there in win 2000 but you do not see them for some reason. I run the functions on a cell using the 5 digit hex for the character as input. The function pastes the character in the target cell. I then cut this cell and paste it into firefox and bingo the character is there.
Is this a problem with excel 2000 vs excel 2002 or is it a problem with win 2000 vs win XP?
As a side note I now have the entire unihan db in excel with characters but it only works in win xp (so far).
I have also edited the CTC and STC trigraphs into a CTC/STC extract from the unihan db. I have also indexed the CTC/STC with the Shou Wei Hao Ma indexing system.
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text: Monday, April 16, 2012 APTA Has Strong Presence at Safe Patient Handling Conference APTA members were prominent once again at the annual Safe Patient Handling and Movement Conference, held March 18-22, in Orlando, Florida. APTA member Kenneth Harwood, PT, PhD, CIE, welcomed the nearly 700 participants on behalf of APTA. A highlight of the conference was an awards presentation in which association member Marc Campo, PT, PhD, and research partner Amy Darragh, PhD, OTR, received the Bernice Owens Award for Research in Safe Patient Handling. In their presentation, Campo and Darragh reported that "… therapists are getting injured at work … and these injuries affect their productivity and quality of life. In addition, safe patient handling strategies were found to prevent injuries and may actually help patients." In addition to Harwood's presentation, other presentations were provided by APTA members Margaret Arnold, PT, CEES, Drew Bossen, PT, MBA, Judith Burnfield, PT, PhD, Patti Mechan, PT, MPH, CCS, Stephanie Radawiec, PT, DPT, MHS, Alexandra Rella, PT, DPT, and Kathleen Rockefeller, PT, ScD, MPH, MS. APTA cosponsored the conference, which has been held for 12 years, with the American Nurses Association, the Veterans Health Administration, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Comments Thank you for the information. Posted by Heidi Harris on 4/24/2012 7:00 PM


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There are two types of cancer that form in tissues that line the esophagus: squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma forms in the squamous cells, thin flat cells that line the esophagus. This type of cancer is most often found in the upper and middle part of the esophagus, but can occur anywhere along the esophagus. It is also called epidermoid carcinoma.
Adenocarcinoma begins in glandular cells, cells in the lining of the esophagus that produce and release fluids such as mucus. Adenocarcinomas usually form in the lower part of the esophagus, near the stomach.
At a very early stage, esophageal cancer may not show any symptoms and will only be detected during an upper endoscopy and biopsy.
At more advance stages, the following symptoms can be present:
A chest x-ray, barium swallow, esophagoscopy and biopsy are used to diagnose esophageal cancer.
After esophageal cancer has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the esophagus or to other parts of the body. The process used to determine if the cancer has spread is called staging, which is important in planning treatment. Some of the tests used to diagnose esophageal cancer are also used to stage the disease, including MRI, CT scan and PET scan.
A variety of treatments are available for patients with esophageal cancer. Some are standard; others are being tested in clinical trials. Surgery is the most common treatment for cancer of the esophagus.
With this endoscopic technique, the part of the lining of the esophagus
which contains abnormal or cancerous cells is removed. This technique is
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lining of the esophagus).
Part of the esophagus may be removed in an operation called an esophagectomy. Your surgeon will connect the remaining healthy part of the esophagus to the stomach to allow for swallowing of food.
Lymph nodes near the esophagus may also be removed and checked for cancer. If the esophagus is partly blocked by the tumor, an expandable metal stent may be placed inside the esophagus to help keep it open.
This approach is performed by making small incisions in the abdomen and in the chest for removal of the esophagus. The stomach is most commonly used for esophageal replacement.
To restore swallowing, the stomach is then connected to the remaining part of the esophagus in the chest or in the neck via a neck incision, a procedure called gastric pull-up. Studies have shown that this procedure can be performed with less morbidity and comparable oncologic results, compared to a standard esophagectomy.
Radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, involves the use of high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells. Radiation therapy is commonly used to reduce the size of a tumor prior to surgery. In patients with squamous cell carcinoma located in the upper part of the esophagus, radiation therapy in combination with chemotherapy is used for definitive treatment.
A plastic tube may be inserted into the esophagus to keep it open during radiation therapy. The procedure is called intraluminal intubation and dilation.
Chemotherapy involves the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy is commonly used to reduce the size of a tumor prior to surgery or to destroy any tumor cells in the lymph nodes following surgery. In patients with squamous cell carcinoma located in the upper part of the esophagus, chemotherapy in combination with radiotherapy is used for definitive treatment.
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We publish a restaurant guide, and for the next issue, we will be introducing 2D barcodes that will allow users to get additional information on their smartphones by 'scanning' the tag on the print pages.
We are also developing a web site and mobile site for the restaurant guide. We are a proponent of simple, beautiful design, and we expect this to be reflected in our work and in the illustration you'll provide.
We are targeting smartphone users who may be interested in eating out at restaurants. These people tend to be middle class with college education.
2D barcode technology is relatively new, and many people are not familiar with it. But it simply allows a smartphone with internet access to digitally connect to an image on a print page (the 2D) barcode.
In a very simple, intuitive, and straight forward illustration, I'd like people to understand what they need to do use the barcodes to get the information. In our case, we are using the Microsoft 2D barcode (called tag). The steps are as follow:
1) Download the application to your smartphone (Blackberry, iPhone, etc.) from gettag.mobi
2) With the smartphone camera, take a picture of the Microsoft Tag on the page for which you need more information
3) Information comes up on the smartphone
4) You can now interact with the information (video, text, image, etc.)
More info on Microsoft Tag and 2D barcode can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/tag
In your illustration, users should understand that the tag may be color or black & white, but the approach is exactly the same.
You may be able to use silhouettes, cartoon, or real images in the illustration (but do not mix the types). The illustration may also show only the hands, full body images, or anything in-between.
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One person was killed and four others were transported to a hospital after a wreck on I-40 Friday.
The wreck happened a little after 8 p.m. near the Beckwith Road exit at mile marker 228.
The eastbound lanes were closed for a time while crews worked the wreck.
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When, Praytell, Were The Days of Auld Lang Syne?
I'll admit it - I do not yet have plans for New Year's Eve. I'm sure I will be somewhere that will involve a ball and dropping and a hearty chorus of that forgetting your acquaintances song, but I can't yet tell you where that is.
Tuning in to watch the ball drop is perhaps the strangest of our New Year's traditions, mainly because the camera follows the ball down so it rarely looks like it's moving. And even if we could follow the movement, think about what this practice means metaphorically. To "drop the ball" means to screw up, so by dropping the ball on last year, we're admitting that it didn't go quite as well as we'd planned. But that's why we have a new year. And we can screw it up all over again until we're able to drop the ball on that one, too. Great message, huh?
I'm not spending New Year's Eve alone - I know better than that. I don't want to watch Dick Clark wading through balloons while he presents musical acts of which he's never heard. And I certainly don't want to do it alone. At least with other people there, I can make fun of the phrase "New Year's Rockin' Eve." But there's nothing sadder than making snide comments to your lamp. Especially if you've dressed it up to look like a person.
When Dick Clark finally does pass away in 50 or 60 years, no one will know what to do about New Year's. He's been the only New Year's Eve host for so long that television executives would be at a loss. "And now, some drunk we pulled off the street! He may not have TV credits, but there isn't anyone left in the world who has hosted a New Year's special, and all it cost us to get this guy was a bottle of Chivas."
And though there used to be other hosts, Dick Clark has obtained such a monopoly over crappy New Year's specials that other networks have given up. NBC and CBS have their usual lineups of Leno and Letterman, which are both taped much earlier than midnight. "3...2...1...Happy 5:30!" And Fox has a New Year's show, but it's filmed live in Las Vegas. It's airing from 11:00-12:30 Eastern Time, which means it will end at about 10:30 in Nevada. Happy 10:30!
There is a reason I'm not sure where I'm going for New Year's. It's the one night the entire year that you don't need to make definite plans; half the people you know are throwing parties. New Year's is not like a typical weekend, where it's hit or miss. New Year's is always hit. Every bar is full, there's a line for every club, and the crappiest restaurants are reserved months ahead of time. There's even a big space in New York where half a million people stand around in the cold for three hours, trying to catch a glimpse of Dick Clark rocking his eve.
I will probably go to one of two parties that my friends are having, or perhaps both since they're five blocks from each other. And it's quite possible that there are more parties in between those two that I just haven't heard about yet. But wherever I end up, someone is bound to wish me a happy and healthy new year. Which is nice, as long as I don't have a healthy New Year's Eve. That's not a night you want to be swimming laps and munching on lettuce.
I've never thrown my own New Year's Eve party and I don't think I ever will. The last activity with which I want to start my year is cleaning up my living room. But some people are obsessed with throwing New Year's parties, even if other friends of theirs have already been planning their own party for months. When you throw a New Year's party because your group of friends has nothing else to do, you're helping out. But if you're simply throwing a competing party, it's probably because you want to take the credit for people enjoying their New Year. But the party we go to has very little to do with whether or not we enjoy ourselves. The concept of a new year pleases everyone, regardless of his or her station in life. If you're successful at what you do, then the New Year is just another in a long line of happy times. And if you're unsuccessful, well, the New Year symbolizes a chance to turn things around. And when that doesn't work, you're allowed to drop the ball and wait for the New Year after that.
But no New Year's Eve would be complete without making a few resolutions that you break by the end of January. This year, however, I'm only making one, and I swear I'm going to stick to it. I'm going to outlive Dick Clark.
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March 7-16, 2014
- 5 sports, 7 disciplines
- 72 medal events (34 men, 34 women, 4 mixed)
- 5 athletic venues
- 692 athletes
- 9 competition days
Sochi was selected as the host city for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on July 4, 2007, during the 119th IOC Session in Guatemala City, defeating bids from Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Sochi Games will be the first Olympic or Paralympic Games (either summer or winter) for the Russian Federation, as the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow were in the former Soviet Union.
Sochi has a population of 400,000 and is situated in Krasnodar, which is the third largest region in Russia. The Games will take place in two areas: a coastal cluster in Sochi and a mountain cluster in Krasnaya Polyana, making for one of the most compact Games to-date with just 30 minutes of travel time to get from one to the other.
The newly constructed Sochi Olympic Park is situated along the Black Sea coast in the Imeretinskaya Valley and includes the Shayba Arena for sled hockey and the Ice Cube Curling Center for wheelchair curling, plus the Olympic Stadium (Opening and Closing Ceremonies), the Olympic Village, the International Broadcast Center and the Main Press Center. Meanwhile, the mountain cluster will be home to all alpine skiing (snowboarding), biathlon and cross-country skiing competitions, with an average distance of 2.5 miles between the mountain sub-village and the venues. There will also be a sub-media center in the mountain cluster.


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Ah Twitter, the blue-birded blogging birthplace of tweets and retweets, where brands, marketers and advertisers alike have staked their claim - all in an attempt to increase their bottom line via real-time engagement.
I actually just made up that definition off the top of my head but I must say, it''s not half bad. Not half good, either, but not half bad.
Now in case you just landed on this planet or were busy the last 5 years or so, here's some of the latest Twitter stats to illustrate just how popular and powerful Twitter has become in the world of social media.
Okay, most of you already knew all this, maybe not the specific stats per se, but you knew that Twitter is a very popular and powerful platform, as I previously mentioned.
So with all this popularity and power going for it perhaps you can tell me why that despite the fact that 90% of the top 50 retailers have a presence on Twitter, a mere 29% use it to actively engage with consumers?
What's even more head-scratching is the fact that while less of the top 50 brands use Instagram and Pinterest, 42% and 60%, respectively - they are much more engaged on these sites. Of the 42% who have an Instagram account, 80% of them are actively engaged.
As for Pinterest of the 60% with a presence on the platform, 70% are actively engaged.
What in the world is going on here?
Why are so many brands ignoring so many Tweets?
The results, which I read about on a story on prdaily.com, speak to a growing epidemic as I see it which is a combination of apathy and fear when it comes to brands and Twitter.
The apathetic side comes from the fact that far too many brands - and I do not think this is reserved for retails brands by any means, still feel Twitter can essentially run on auto-pilot. I'm showing my age here but who remembers the old Ronco Ron Popeil classic line of "set it and forget it?"
Remember that? I think the line was used for some rotisserie cooker or something like that.
Well, it is my belief that many brands just "set it and forget it" when it comes to Twitter. No not literally as in they don't literally forget it but more often than not they assign either an already over-worked marketer or young, inexperienced, entry-level person to man the Twitter account.
This person will do the obligatory Tweets during the course of a day without any thought to content or more importantly, engagement.
The fear comes into play when a consumer takes to Twitter to rattle off a Tweet complaining about this or that or ask specific product and service questions. If the person manning the Twitter account is not trained in dealing with product/service questions let alone dealing with a crisis, they will be more apt to turn the other Tweet, in a manner of speaking.
Sorry, bad joke.
The point is if the one responsible for being the voice of a brand on Twitter - which is unlike any other social media platform in many ways - is not adequately trained or comfortable or both in being said voice and is fearful of repercussions for saying the wrong thing, then the only thing left to do is ignore it altogether.
Lou Cimaglia, PR director at Grow Socially told PR Daily "A Twitter account is an official corporate channel of communication. It is a reflection of the brand. Imagine having a half-finished website up and running. It is unthinkable for a large company."
Rock on, Lou for it IS completely unthinkable for a large company or brand or any brand for that matter to not realize the magnitude of being the voice of their brand in the Twittersphere.
Brian Chandler, president of Commonwealth Public Relations said "Big brands should view Twitter just as they do customer call centers," adding that "in most cases, social media for retail companies should be considered a customer service communication tool, especially since a phone call is a one-to-one conversation, but social media creates a one-to-many conversation that everyone sees."
I would just add to Chandler's comments that social media for ALL companies should be considered a customer service communications tool.
Why do you think so many tweets go unanswered by so many brands?
Who do you think should be responsible for manning a given brand's Twitter account and why?
As a consumer do you take to Twitter to lodge a complaint, ask a question and if so, has your Tweet gone unanswered?
Sources: prdaily.com, edudemic.com
Named one of the Top 100 Influencers In Social Media (#41) by Social Technology Review and a Top 50 Social Media Blogger by Kred, Steve Olenski is a senior content strategist at Responsys, a leading global provider of on-demand email and cross-channel marketing solutions.


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I believe that Danny Gokey will make it to the top 2 for the final show.
I think Adam Lambert will also be a finalist. We've really only seen 1/3 of the singers with the band and backup singers. This is going to be a superb year for AI!
I think Scott MacIntyre will go far but I can't see him going to the end. (Could be wrong, I often am!) I'm wondering what they will do with him for the group songs which also require them to dance.
Maybe he plays the keyboard and sing.
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Oneida girls volleyball beats Watertown in Class A quarterfinal
Oneida >> Saturday's match against Watertown started out so well for Oneida's girls volleyball team. Mary Sheridan's hitting and Emily LaSalle's serving keyed a 17-4 run that helped the hosts take a 19-7 lead in the Class A quarterfinal match. Coach Cyndi Bobo's team faltered a bit down the stretch but hung on for a 25-20 win.
The same thing happened in the second game, but this time Watertown completed the comeback for a 26-24 win.
Oneida played even better in winning the last two games 25-21, 25-18 to earn a spot against Whitesboro in the semifinals, but it was not easy.
"We definitely played much better," said Watertown coach Robin Boomhower. "Mentally we got stronger as the season went on."
Nemesis Ruiz's play certainly did for the Cyclones (9-9) down the stretch. The senior had nine kills and eight blocks to lead the visitors at the net. But the hosts had better depth on attack, with Mary Sheridan amassing 14 kills to lead four Oneida players in double figures for that all important category. Summer Lancette was one of the others and her 12 kills not only helped the No. 3 seed advance but was a career-best effort, with the last kill ending the match.
"Overall I thought we played well," Bobo said. "We've been working hard on our defense and communication."
It showed the most when Watertown served. Only once did the Cyclones earn an ace while the hosts had eight with LaSalle's three leading the way.
All four games saw Watertown taking a slim lead at the start then Oneida surged. Down 3-2 at the start, Sheridan and LaSalle keyed the 17-4 run. Marissa Smith, Katherine Clarke and Taylor Armstrong had great hits to help Oneida withstand Watertown's rally at the end of the first game. Lancette had some of her best hits in the second game as Oneida went on a 12-2 run to erase a 6-3 deficit. Ruiz came alive at the net moments later and helped Boomhower's team rally then Stacia Wallace's hitting at the end evened the match.
Down 6-5 in the third game, Oneida used three kills by Sheridan and one from Katherine Clarke to go on a 6-2 run that gave it the lead for good.
But not by a lot.
Ruiz had her best play during the final points of the game, including two blocks that helped Watertown go from 22-18 down to 22-21. A net violation stopped the run then Oneida closed out the game with an ace and a kill.
Watertown went up 5-4 to start the fourth game then the hosts had a 7-1 run to take the lead for good. But once again the Cyclones stayed close by trading points for a while. Jenna Hibbard had two kills to complement Ruiz's play and Oneida led just 17-16. Watertown missed two serves to offset two hitting errors by Oneida to make it 19-18. Taylor Armstrong's kill off a block started Oneida on the 7-0 run that ended the afternoon match. Lancette had three kills around one by LaSalle for the other keys to capping the match well for the hosts.
LaSalle had 27 assists and Marissa Smith added 20 to help lead the Oneida offense and Kati Relyea and Sheridan had 21 digs apiece to spark the defense. Leah Rojas had 15 digs, Hibbard and Olivia Heiler teamed for 16 assists and Wallace had the lone ace to complement Ruiz's efforts to pace Watertown.
Watertown (9-9): Jenna Hibbard 4k, 9as, 1d; Natasha Ramos 1k, 7d; Olivia Heiler 7as, 1d; Maggie Finster 1k, 2as, 3d; Leah Rojas 4k, 15d; Alyssa Barrett 1d; Kaety Hanlin 12d; Porsha Gathers-Grossett 2b, 5d; Nemesis Ruiz 9k, 8b; Stacia Wallace 4k, 2b, 1ac.
Oneida (14-1): Mary Sheridan 14k, 2ac, 21d; Taylor Armstrong 4k; Summer Lancette 12k, 15d; Emily LaSalle 3k, 3ac, 27as, 8d; Marissa Smith 12k, 1b, 1ac, 20as, 9d; Kati Relyea 1k, 2ac, 1as, 21d; Katherine Clarke 10k, 1b, 2d.


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The Woven Oil Paintings of Alexi Torres
Cuban artist Alexi Torres lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. The subjects of his paintings appear to be formed from intricately woven fabric, a process I could imagine being even more tedious when created with oil paints than a loom. My works are an answer to my own appreciation of Earth's needs. I reconstruct iconic images that represent both classic and modern times from all branches of human development, including the arts, politics, science, education and military. I create this by changing the context of the initial forms into ecological, fragile, ephemeral and natural elements; leaves, weaving, feathers and other elements formed in nature. With each element carefully constructed, I create an image. See more from his 2011 show at Evan Lurie Gallery, Weaving Ephemeral Elements. (thnx, ben!)


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As a result of yesterday's post asking all genealogists to send in links to their favorite genealogy-related pages, groups and people on Facebook, I noticed a pattern: not everyone is taking advantage of obtaining a vanity URL from Facebook.
What Is A Vanity URL?
When you create your profile page or a fan page or a group on Facebook, the page is assigned a long number. Like this:
But when you create a vanity URL, the same link looks like this:
Vanity URLs make it easier to remember a link but it also is a good way to market yourself or your genealogy site – using a name is much better "branding" than a long number!
How Do I Get A Facebook Vanity URL?
- Getting a vanity URL is fairly easy. Go to http://www.facebook.com/username.
- You will be prompted to select a vanity URL name and check for availability. Warning: once you select a name you cannot change it! Choose carefully!
- If you have created a Facebook page for your business or organization, click Set username for pages and you can select a vanity URL for each page. Note: a Facebook page must have at least 25 fans before it is eligible for a vanity URL.
You can learn more about Facebook vanity URLs here. Consider securing your vanity URLs now as part of your overall marketing and branding plan.
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About SOS Kent
Welcome to SOS Kent, our campaign for smarter solutions to Operation Stack than spending £250 million on the proposed 150 acre lorry park at Stanford which, alarmingly, as of mid July 2016 we have now heard that this may be as large as 250 acres.
With no discussion whatsoever with local communities, it was announced that the UK's largest lorry park is to be built at Stanford, Kent at a cost of £250 million. This concrete monster will destroy 250 acres of countryside and blight the lives of local communities. We have offered the smarter options and we are being heard.
Eurotunnel says a giant lorry park won't fix stack.
The Port of Dover says a giant lorry park won't fix stack.
Existing lorry park operators say it won't work.
The British International Freight Association says it won't work.
For more information on exactly why it won't work, please see here.
And the Government's own Transport Select Committee has also said that 'the case for spending £250 million on a lorry park has not yet been made' and that 'way more needs to be done to demonstrate that a lorry park the size of Disneyland is better than the alternatives offered during the inquiry'. The TSC has received just a bland response from the Transport Secretary to their objections.
We have had no support whatsoever from those we have elected to represent us. We have been sold out by Shepway District Council, by Kent County Council and by our own MP Damian Collins. They seem quite content to destroy The Garden of England and risk killing nearby residents with deadly diesel emissions and 2.5 particulates that the world's largest lorry park could produce – if it were ever to be used…
Since the unprecedented events last summer, STACK HAS NOT BEEN IN FORCE ONCE.
Earlier in July the devastating announcement was made that the proposed 'west' site is to proceed to a 'formal' consultation. We have legal experts working for us and hope to mount a judicial challenge, so the fight is not over yet. Residents adjoining the proposed site are being seen on an individual basis.
Click the Smarter Options tab to discover the sensible approaches.
Below you will see four of the maps that have been published, but until recently there has been no confirmation from Highways England (who supplied the ultra-vague version with fading pink blobs and several errors) or anyone else, exactly what area is being proposed. The whole exercise has been clouded in secrecy for no good reason. Those residents who have met HE and their PR team (mid July) were shown a map, but not allowed to keep it. Finally, the truth was revealed in August, with the development even closer to homes than previously hinted and completely surrounding some houses.


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1. The Plush Club. The Tigers' late-night exploits at 380 Beale St led Coach John Calipari to institute an 11 p.m. curfew and no-nightclub policy. The first incident at the Plush Club happened in the early morning hours of September 2, 2007, when forward Shawn Taggart and shooting guard Jeff Robinson were charged with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot. The police report suggests that it was actually forward Joey Dorsey who got things going when he climbed up on the bar and "made it rain" (just whose money he was throwing is still undetermined). Dorsey had already left the scene before 20 police cars arrived to disperse the crowd. Charges against Taggart and Robinson were later dismissed. Despite Calipari's no-nightclub policy, Robert Dozier was involved in a second incident at the Plush Club on February 3rd. After an initial confrontation with ex-girlfriend LaParis Woods, Dozier followed her out of the club in his car before both pulled over and continued their argument on a downtown street corner. It was there that Dozier allegedly slapped her twice. Woods, a stripper at The Gold Club in East Memphis, has not filed charges but did take out a restraining order against Dozier. Dozier's current girlfriend, Andrea Brown, followed suit and took out a restraining order of her own against Woods, who allegedly had threatened her at the Plush Club and went to Brown's apartment later that night where she continued her tirade and warned, "I'll be back." Calipari, always the strict disciplinarian, suspended Dozier for one game, not for the alleged assault, but for breaking curfew. One particularly creative fan in Birmingham blacked out her eye for the Tigers' game the following week at UAB and wore a shirt that read "I dated Dozier." This is featured prominently in one of the greatest photos of the college basketball season. Backup forward Pierre Niles' blue-sleeved hand can be seen slapping someone resembling Larry the Cable Guy, though no disciplinary action was taken against Niles following the melee.
2. Blue and Grey. The Tigers' colors were established as a gesture of national unity to commemorate the opposing armies in the Civil War. Aside from the clichéd images of Elvis and Graceland, Tiger blue is emblematic of Memphis's long tradition of blues and soul music, made famous by artists like B.B. King, Furry Lewis, Booker T. and the MG's, Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes. Famous alumni of the Memphis Tigers basketball program include Anfernee Hardaway, Keith Lee, Elliot Perry, Dajuan Wagner, Rodney Carney, Lorenzen Wright, Shawne Williams and 1998 Name-of-the-Year finalist, Paris London.
3. Style of Play. Calipari describes the Memphis offense as "Princeton on Steroids." Based on the dribble-drive system pioneered by Pepperdine coach Vance Walberg, Memphis's offense utilizes the Tigers' superior athleticism and ability to exploit one-on-one mismatches to beat teams off the dribble for easy lay-ups. Most teams employ zone defenses to slow the pace of the game and force the Tigers to rely on their average outside shooting. Freshman phenom Derrick Rose has drawn comparisons to Jason Kidd given his speed and strength and is a potential top-5 draft pick, should he decide to go. Junior swingman Chris Douglas-Roberts is the top scorer and veteran leader of the team. CDR, a Detroit native, is primarily known as a slasher, but he has developed his outside shot in the past year (45 percent from behind the arc). When at his best, Joey Dorsey resembles a young Ben Wallace, a tenacious defender and shot blocker who averages 10.4 rebounds per game. Though he has the size and talent to dominate, Dorsey is prone to mental lapses and foul trouble. Memphis's superior defense and athleticism could carry them to the final four and the title, but success in the tournament will largely depend on role players like Antonio Anderson, Willie Kemp and Donneal Mack getting hot from behind the arc. Memphis's Achilles heel is their team 58% free throw shooting, but if you remove Dorsey's 33% rate from the mix, the team shoots a more respectable 62%. Rose (68% FT) will likely receive the inbounds passes toward the end of games, so the Tigers' hopes may hinge on whether the freshman has the mental toughness to hit free throws with the game on the line. — Jay Lewis


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NEW YORK -- ABC's newest "Bachelorette," Desiree Hartsock, says it's not hard to keep the details of her experience on the show a secret from her friends.
"Ironically, I'm kind of a private person anyway, so my friends know not to ask," she said in a recent interview.
Hartsock has some experience with the matter, although her last reality TV romance ended in heartbreak.
The 27-year-old competed for the affection of Sean Lowe on the last season of "The Bachelor." She was sent home after a disastrous date where he met her family.
"I think after all the questions they asked last season, they got an idea that I can't talk about it and it's best that they don't ask. They just let me be and I'm excited to talk about it once it's all over," she said of the new season.
Whether the bridal designer is excited to share some good news, Hartsock is also keeping that close to the vest.
"I can't give away if I'm happy or anything but this season I think is a little different because there are a lot of twists and turns. Everybody's gonna have to wait and see what happens," she said.
Hartsock marvels at how her life has changed in a short amount of time.
"It just blows my mind, to be honest," she laughed. "I wasn't even expecting to be on 'The Bachelor.' It was more of a 'hey, if this works out, it works out.'"
It didn't work out with Lowe, who's engaged to Catherine Giudici, his final pick on "The Bachelor." But Hartsock won over viewers with her girl-next-door looks, attitude and raw vulnerability when Lowe sent her home after meeting her family.
Although it seemed at first that her older brother was onboard with the relationship, he told Lowe in a one-on-one chat that he didn't think he was right for his sister.
Hartsock says there are no hard feelings over her brother's skepticism and stresses it was "very Sean specific."
"He's my brother! He trusts me and he supports me," she said.
The drama this time comes from 25 male contestants. Hartsock says they have "a lot of strong personalities" and she's looking forward to seeing what led up to their conflicts when she wasn't around.
"The Bachelorette," hosted by Chris Harrison, premieres Monday on ABC at 8 p.m. EDT.
Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar


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Austria has a winegrowing heritage stretching back over three millennia and produces some of the best wines in the world, of unparalleled quality, from grape varieties not grown elsewhere.
Today you finally find a couple Austrian wines in most shops, and in restaurants. A good start, but not enough, as Austria has so much more to offer!
We offer wines from all the regions and have picked from the best growers in each winegrowing regions. All of these - except Stift Klosterneuburg - are family run - And Stift Klosterneuburg is in a class of its own. All offer wines of individuality, character, and outstanding quality
We wouldn't be the champions of Austrian Wines in the UK if we didn't cover all of its diverse regions. They are all here from the white wines of Wachau, Kamptal, Kremstal, Wagram and Weinviertel, through the magic of Vienna and the Viennese hills in Carnuntum and Thermenregion, all the way to Burgenland and Styria in the south. Enjoy!
Blaufränkisch Classic Günter & Regina TriebaumerSpicy, dense and quite simply delicious.
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The sequel to one of the most popular PS2 games will be arriving on the Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 re-assembles Jin, Xiaoyu and the other brawlers of the King of Iron Fist tournament for a nother go-round, with a few new special features.
You'll still be able to play in the familiar two-on-two configuration but with a few changes. Pair Play Mode lets up to four players each control a character and, in other modes, one player can face off against a tag-team.
You'll also be able to customize the look and moves of Combot, the training robot you fight against in the new Fight Lab mode. Namco Bandai says that you'll be able to own your Combot, which seems to hint that you moght be able to use it as a partner outside of the Fight Lab.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will also feature online play when it comes out in September 2012. We'll bring you more news about the co-op fighter as it becomes available.


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Quantum Computers, Part 3: A Whole New World
Nov 4, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Quantum Computers, Part 2: Zeros and Ones, Both and Neither
At universities and companies around the globe, there are people plugging away trying to solve the myriad technological challenges of quantum computers. But that doesn't mean practical applications of quantum computing are some futuristic fantasy. Already, quantum technology is trickling into the real world.
One big leap happened earlier this year when security company Lockheed Martin purchased the 128-qubit "D Wave One," which Forbes called the first commercially available quantum computer. (This isn't certain because, as Bristol University's Jeremy O'Brien noted, "If it's that important that you're using this technology, you wouldn't want to advertise.")
D Wave refuses to let the perfect get in the way of the good, commented Geordie Rose, the chief technology officer at D Wave. Even if the prototypical quantum computer doesn't yet exist, D Wave is proof that the tools are in place to build infant quantum computers -- and an infant quantum computer can outwit the most advanced conventional computers.
"There is this feeling that quantum computing is this mystical thing," Rose said. "They're not. They're hard to build, but everything is difficult to build. The latest iPhone was really hard to build. So these things are hard to build, but you can do it with a concerted effort."
Communicating in Quantum
Seeing as it's a global security company, the details on how Lockheed Martin will implement the D Wave One are kept secret, as are the exact design specs of D Wave's computer. But that is not the only marriage of quantum technology and commercial enterprise.
The Bristol University research team led by O'Brien is working in collaboration with cellphone giant Nokia.
Communications companies will be huge beneficiaries of quantum technology, O'Brien said.
The analogy he used (after qualifying that such analogies are inherently flawed) was measuring a piece of paper with a ruler.
When we measure a piece of paper, it doesn't matter that "we have to rain photons down onto that piece of paper," he pointed out. The paper's properties are unaffected by the presence of an observer.
Not so in the quantum world.
"Because it's a quantum mechanical system, any information that a third party extracts is detectable," O'Brien said. "What this means is you and I could set up a communication link where we could guarantee, by the laws of physics, that the information isn't being disturbed."
This is important because there will inevitably be more and more information transmitted electronically, he explained. "In five year's time, it will be quite conceivable that your phone will be telling your doctor you have high blood pressure or telling your bank that you're buying a new home. We're going to be transferring more and more information, and we need to make sure it's protected."
Like 2 Protons in an Atom
More and more, quantum technology is breaking free from the shackles of the laboratory and diffusing into the commercial market -- be it in the name of national security or telecommunications. And this figures to be a self-perpetuating phenomenon: As companies invest in this technology, the technology will get better, more companies will invest and so on. This in itself is a departure from classical computing, noted IBM's Mark Ketchen.
"It used to be, back in the 80s or so, if you looked at the technology we developed on computers, we basically said, 'We gotta have it all. We gotta own this technology. We're going to do all this innovation and we're not going to let people know what we're up to too much,'" he recalled.
Now IBM is collaborating a host of partners -- from Princeton to the University of Wisconsin to BBN Technologies, said Ketchen. For its part, D Wave's investors include Goldman Sachs, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Business Development Bank of Canada, International Investment Underwriters and more.
"That whole notion of developing technology in isolation is gone," Ketchen said. "Cost is one factor, but I think another actor is man. There is no way one company or one institution is going to have the brainpower for this, no matter what. So we have a strong team ourselves, and we're very eager to work directly with other institutions, and in some cases other companies."
The Future Not Yet Decoded
Exactly what this cooperation produces, and when it does so, is anyone's guess. For the various groups and nations involved in this enterprise -- from private companies to universities, from Santa Barbara to Bristol -- there is a sense among those in the field that the exact impact of quantum computing is unknown.
To invoke another analogy: Quantum computers are today what telephones were in the 1950s. The basic technology is known, but where that technology goes, and how it gets there, is still something of a mystery.
"As more and more smart people start playing with it, the number of things a quantum computer can do will grow quite rapidly," Ketchen observed. "We know, based on history, that when such a machine actually exists, there will be a whole new range of things to do that nobody is even thinking about right now. There are things that are inaccessible now that will be accessible when it exists.
"A whole new world is going to open up."
That last part, it seems, has better than a non-unit probability of coming true.


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Both Bosch's waking and sleeping moments are haunted by the victims whose murders have not been solved.
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To become an honorable businessperson, then, requires not only technical training, but also an understanding of what the purpose of business is.
To achieve reform, it will not work simply to stuff in courses that come out of the English department's current offerings and call it a day.
Does the text of the Free Exercise Clause justify special judicial scrutiny of laws burdening religious freedom?
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New Title IX rules create barriers against the pressures of students, the enthusiasm of Title IX bureaucrats, and the pusillanimity of campus officials.
Why do socialists ignore the one story in Scripture that depicts real socialism?
Capitalism has brought greater economic wealth and cultural freedom to more people than any other system in the history of man.
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No, it's not just you. We're all—nation-states included—in over our heads.