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CARY, N.C. (AP) � Kay Yow didn't ask one of her famous friends to speak at her funeral. Instead, the longtime North Carolina State women's basketball coach had a message for them.
"And now I say farewell," Yow said. "And it's been a wonderful journey, especially since the time I accepted Jesus as my lord and savior."
In a video played to the hundreds of fans and colleagues who gathered Friday at a suburban Raleigh church for Yow's funeral, she thanked the legion of supporters who guided her through a two-decade long fight with breast cancer and recounted with passion her deep Christian faith.
"It has changed my life," Yow said. "It has changed the life of every person who has accepted him."
Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, yet went on to lead the U.S. Olympic team to the gold medal the next year. She won more than 700 games in her career and was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2002.
But for many, Yow was best known for her unwavering resolve while fighting cancer, which recurred during the 2004-05 season and had lingered in the years since. She raised awareness and money for research while staying with her team through the debilitating effects of the disease and chemotherapy treatments.
She had to take a four-game leave in December due to what was described as extremely low energy. She announced shortly after the new year that she would not return this season. She soon entered a hospital for treatment and spent about a week there before she died last weekend. She was 66.
"Her battle with breast cancer was never about herself," said Megan Smith, an employee at the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer fund in Atlanta, before the funeral. "She was such a courageous and humble person at the same time."
UConn coach Geno Auriemma, North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell and Miami coach Katie Meier stopped at a viewing for Yow, while Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie and her team, Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer and Texas coach Gale Goestenkors, the former coach at Duke, arrived early for the service.
Others paying respects included former N.C. State football coach Chuck Amato and current coach Tom O'Brien, and N.C. State alumnus and former NFL coach Bill Cowher. Yow will be buried Saturday in her hometown of Gibsonville.
But none of Yow's famous friends were slated to speak at a service she designed.
"She did not want to show any kind of favoritism because there was just none in her heart. None," the Rev. Mitchell Gregory, her pastor at Cary Alliance Church.
Retired professor Janie Brown, the former chair of the physical education department at Elon University, remembered speaking to Yow a couple of years ago for a project on the history of women's sports. She said Yow spoke about balancing teaching, academic advising and even the little things like taping her players' ankles.
"I think that was always her attitude. Whatever the situation, you deal with it. That's what she's done," Brown said. "I'm a good friend, but I'm also a great admirer of what she does. And I think we would hope we could live a life with that kind of influence."
Friday's events are part of an emotionally draining week for the players and coaches she left behind at N.C. State. On Monday, the team went to an area mall to pick out clothes for Yow's funeral, a task that interim coach Stephanie Glance said was easier to do together than individually.
The team returned to practice Tuesday, then attended the campus tribute ceremony at Reynolds Coliseum, home of "Kay Yow Court," Wednesday night. The next day, the team played its first game since her death, falling to Boston College 62-51.
At each public event, there have been numerous fans wearing pink � the color of breast cancer awareness � and eager to share their stories of how Yow inspired them while battling the disease.
She spent 38 season as a coach, 34 with N.C. State. She won four ACC tournament championships, earned 20 NCAA tournament bids and reached the Final Four in 1998.
Yow took a 16-game leave to focus on her health during the 2006-07 season. Her return that year sparked an emotional late-season run to the NCAA tournament's round of 16.
She also served on the board of the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which was founded by ESPN and her friend and colleague, former N.C. State men's coach Jim Valvano, who died of cancer in 1993.
NC State's Kay Yow affirms faith in funeral video
CARY, N.C. (AP) � Kay Yow didn't ask one of her famous friends to speak at her funeral. Instead, the longtime North Carolina State women's basketball coach had a message for them.


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imSEO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We are a fresh start-up consultancy company specializing in internet marketing and search engine optimization. Currently, we consult with small and medium–sized businesses on everything from email marketing campaigns, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, website usability, landing page optimization, social media and, of course, search engine optimization.
Our core value proposition for clients' is to improve a) website lead generation and/or b) website Ecommerce revenue figures. The brand name, imSEO, is an acronym for the services that we provide – internet marketing / search engine optimization.
Our client base is currently located in Canada, although US expansion is seen as the next step. Our previous clients have ranged from workplace safety consulting companies to remote-location power generator vendors to vehicle dealerships – and everything in between!
Our perfect client is one that recognizes the need to improve the web presence of their business (website revamp, leverage social media etc) but have not yet acted on this inclination.
1. We need a logo for imSEO AND also a version of the same logo which has 'Internet Marketing / SEO' below the primary logo
2. We like the idea of the lower case 'im' and the upper case 'SEO' but feel free to be creative
3. Incorporating a person type design as the 'i' (IE the head is the dot on top of the 'i' and the body is the line of the 'i') has also been discussed as an idea, but this is in NO WAY NECESSARY
4. We'd like to use a font that expresses a modern & dynamic flair while communicating experience, professionalism and trust
5. Not sure about the colour scheme, but needs to be suitable in black and white and also colour
6. The 'im' and 'SEO' can be either the same font and colour or different font and color or a combination.
7. All rights of use for the logos generated will be ours alone.
Logo and files for use
-on printed material: business cards, invoices etc (files as .eps or other vector format)
-in electronic media: website, email signature etc (files as jpg/gif and layered .psd (RGB))
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All this being said…be as creative as you would like to be! We are not set on any one format or theme, just follow the general guidelines and show us what you got!
If you need more info, please feel free to contact us. We very much appreciate your efforts and look forward to seeing your designs!
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Nursing director thinks she was target of California shooter
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- An administrator at a small Christian university where seven people were killed this week said Wednesday she was the alleged gunman's primary intended target after she rejected his repeated requests for a refund of his tuition.
Ellen Cervellon, director of the nursing program at Oikos University, said she wasn't on campus Monday when her former student, One Goh, came looking for her then went on his rampage.
Two days later, in an interview with The Associated Press, a shaken Cervellon said the slayings are haunting her.
"I have that weight on my shoulders and I don't know what to do with it," she said, her voice quavering. "Every single one of those students were going to be an excellent, excellent nurse. They're in my heart, and they always will be."
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan confirmed Cervellon was the apparent target. Officer Johnna Watson, a police spokeswoman, said later that police are looking into the possibility that other administrators had been targeted.
Goh, 43, was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, plus a special circumstance allegation of committing multiple murders that could make him eligible for the death penalty.
Shackled and showing little emotion, Goh said nothing during a brief court appearance other than a soft "yes" when the judge asked if he understood the charges. He did not enter a plea.
In a police affidavit, Officer Robert Trevino said Goh acknowledged going to Oikos on Monday with a .45-caliber handgun and four magazines of ammunition.
"He admitted to kidnapping a woman and forcing her from her office into a classroom at gunpoint," Trevino said in the statement. "He admitted to shooting and killing several people inside the classroom, before taking one of the victim's car keys and fleeing the scene in the victim's car."
Police arrested Goh about an hour after the shooting spree at a supermarket a few miles from campus.
A student wounded in the rampage said Goh burst into the classroom shouting and quickly began firing his weapon. Ahmad Sayeed was shot through the shoulder as he scrambled to get out with other panicked students.
The 36-year-old immigrant nursing student from Afghanistan said he did not understand what Goh was yelling, though he did hear him order students to line up in front of the classroom.
Sayeed said he has been this frightened once before -- when the Taliban attacked his high school in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
"The exact thing happened at my school," Sayeed said. "The Taliban came in and killed five students. I was very afraid then, too."
Cervellon said Goh dropped out of the nursing program at the tiny private school around November but returned numerous times to ask her for a full tuition refund.
Goh got angry when she told him the school could not refund all his money because he had been enrolled for nearly half of the program, she said. Cervellon said she did not know how much Goh had paid in tuition.
Police have said Goh was seeking a female administrator when he went to the campus Monday. When he was told she wasn't there, they said, he began shooting in classrooms, killing six students and a receptionist and wounding three others.
Jordan previously said Goh was angry after being expelled from the school, but Cervellon said he was never expelled and decided to leave on his own.
"He was never forced out, he showed no behavioral problems, and he was never asked to leave the program," she said. "He decided on his own to leave the program."
Police said they made contact with Cervellon after seeing the AP story. Jordan said investigators plan to interview her soon, and that many details were still unclear.
"We were told by witnesses that he was kicked out, but there could be some facts that he wasn't," Jordan said. "I do know that he was trying to get his down payment or tuition reimbursed."
During previous meetings with Cervellon, Goh also said he felt his classmates were picking on him at the school, which was founded to help Korean immigrants adjust to life in America and launch new careers, she said. Goh is a native of South Korean who became a U.S. citizen.
Jordan has said Goh also was upset because other students had teased him about his poor English skills.
However, Cervellon and nursing professor Romie John Delariman said they never heard about or witnessed Goh being ridiculed for problems with English. Delariman said Goh was a good student who didn't seem to struggle with his second language.
"He was a full-time student and was really motivated. If I taught something he would be the first person in line to do it," Delariman said.
Still, Goh appeared to be the aggressor in exchanges with others at the school, according to Efanye Chibuko, whose wife Doris Chibuko was among those killed in Monday's attack.
Chibuko said his wife, a native of Nigeria who was elected president of her nursing class, felt Goh was unstable.
"My wife was afraid of him," he told the AP. "She was afraid he would do something like he did. She knew the other victims, and they talked about it. They were afraid that he was going to come back and do what he did."
Chibuko said he's angry with school officials for not doing more to protect the students.
"They were all living in fear. My wife told me the guy had been violent toward the school staff and had kicked the walls and stuff like that," he said. "So they knew. They should have had security in place."
Delariman said he noticed that Goh had problems, in particular, dealing with women in his predominantly female nursing classes.
"He can't stand women," Delariman said. "He said he never used to work with women, or deal with women in a work setting or a school setting."
It's unclear how Goh earned a living before he became a nursing student at the school of about 100 students. His instructors and a former employer said he previously worked in construction.
Chong Sik Hwang, owner of C.H. Trading Co. in San Mateo, said he hired Goh as a deliveryman at the Asian grocery importing and distribution operation in 2009. Goh was fired a few months later after Hwang heard Goh had gotten into an argument with a customer.
After making an initial impression as "upbeat," Hwang said Goh turned out to be a "very stubborn" worker who didn't take direction well.
"He had to do it his way," Hwang said. "He was always right."
During the job interview, Hwang said Goh told him he had left a wife and 12-year-old daughter in Virginia. Goh was evicted from an apartment in Gloucester County, Va., in 2009 and left a string of debts behind, including back taxes owed to the federal government.
Hwang said Goh told him he ran a construction company on the East Coast but that the business had gone under.
Online records in two Virginia localities where he lived show that, while Goh was there, he racked up tens of thousands of dollars in liens and judgments, including a $10,377 debt to SunTrust Bank in 2006.
Burke reported from San Francisco and can be reached at http://twitter.com/garanceburke . Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Paul Elias and Marcus Wohlsen in San Francisco, Tracie Cone in Fresno, and Matthew Barakat in McClean, Va.


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Scott free: Bundoran could take LLC loophole
Amid huge fanfare last spring, gentleman farmer Fred Scott and New Hampshire developer Bob Baldwin announced the impending sale of Bundoran Farm, 2,200 acres of pristine Albemarle County property in North Garden.
"Wow!" people exclaimed. "How much?"
"We're not revealing that at this time," said Baldwin, president and CEO of the buyer, New Hampshire-based Qroe Farm Preservation Development. Baldwin added that the deal "wouldn't actually close until May."
Well, the deal didn't close in May, and Baldwin and Scott may not have to reveal the sales price– ever.
On June 29, two days before a law went into effect closing a popular property tax loophole, Scott transferred title to 1,829.159 acres in North Garden to "Bundedge LLC."
While Scott could not be reached for comment, Baldwin insists that Qroe has not yet purchased Bundoran Farm. "That transaction has nothing to do with me," he says. "It's not something I can address."
Curiously, however, the deed of sale gives the address for Bundedge LLC as 40 Lane Road in Derry, New Hampshire– the address Qroe Farm lists as its own.
By transferring the property to an LLC, or Limited Liability Company, Scott can escape paying Albemarle County recordation and transfer fees. In addition to providing the County and state with revenue, the amount of those fees– which might have topped $100,000– can be used to reveal the price of a transaction that sellers and buyers would otherwise like to keep private.
Baldwin says Qroe's purchase of Bundoran Farms is set for mid-August, "when all the paperwork is completed."
If Qroe is an owner of Bundedge, however, no deed will need to be recorded to shift the LLC's ownership, and there may be no record of the transaction.
"It will be recorded," Baldwin insists. "We'll announce the sale, and we'll be happy to talk about it then."
In contrast to this Bundoran maneuver, the buyers and sellers of Castle Hill, a 1,200-acre Keswick property that changed hands one day earlier– and was just as eligible to take advantage of the loophole– did not go the LLC route. Consequently, that $24 million deal delivered $176,886 in various recordation taxes and fees for the county.
Another problem with transfers via Limited Liability Corporations– and one reason Del. Mitch Van Yahres sought successfully to end the tax dodge– is that such secret transactions deprive the County assessor– and owners of property in the neighborhood– from determining the true market value of a piece of land.
Baldwin says that a Qroe representative, David Hamilton, is already living "off and on" at the Bundoran site preparing plans for the development. Baldwin also promises that Qroe's traditional preservation philosophy– leaving undeveloped at least 80 percent each property it has purchased in the past– will prevail at Bundoran.
While that means that as much as 1,465 of Scott's North Garden acreage might remain untouched, that leaves 365 acres that may soon be covered with roads and houses on one-half to one acre building sites.
Bundoran Farm is located in North Garden.
Qroe vows to keep 80 percent of Bundoran pristine.


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I think it was somewhere in the end of 2012 when my co-authors and I received an e-mail from Greg Francis pointing out that a study we published on the relationship between physical weight and importance was 'too good to be true'. This was a stressful event. We were extremely uncertain about what this meant, but we realized it couldn't be good. For me, it was the first article I had ever published. What did we do wrong? How serious was this allegation? What did it imply about the original effect? How would this affect our reputation?
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief. Denial ('This doesn't make any sense at all'), anger ('Who is this asshole?'), negotiation ('If he would have taken into account this main effect which was non-significant, our results wouldn't be improbable!'), depression ('What a disaster'), until, finally, you reach acceptance ('OK, he has somewhat of a point').
In keeping with the times, we had indeed performed multiple comparisons without correcting, and didn't report one study that had not revealed a significant effect (which we immediately uploaded to PsychFileDrawer).
Before Greg Francis e-mailed us, I probably had heard about statistical power, and knew about publication bias, but receiving this personal criticism forced me to kick my understanding about these issues to a new level. I started to read about the topic, and quickly understood that you can't have exclusively significant sets of studies in scientific articles, even when there is a true effect (see Schimmack, 2012, for a good explanation). Oh, it felt unfair to be singled out, when everyone else had a file-drawer. We joked that we would from now on only submit one-study papers to avoid such criticism (the test for excessive significance can only be done on multiple study papers). And we didn't like the tone. "Too good to be true" sounds a lot like fraud, while publication bias sounds almost as inevitable as death and taxes.
But now that some time has passed, I think about this event quite differently. I wonder where I would be without having had this criticism. I was already thinking about 'Slow Science' as we tended to call it in 2010, and had written about topics such as reward structures and the importance of replication research early in 2012. But if no-one had told me explicitly and directly that I was doing things wrong, would I have been equally motivated to change the way I do science? I don't think so. There is a difference between knowing something is important, and feeling something is important. I had the opportunity to read about these topics for years, but all of a sudden, I actually was reading about these topics. Personal criticism was, at least for me, a strong motivating force.
I shouldn't be surprised by this as a psychologist. I know there is the value-action gap (the difference between saying something is important, and acting based on those beliefs). It makes sense that it took slightly hurtful criticism for me to really be motivated to ignore current norms in my field, and take the time and effort to reflect on what I thought would be best practices.
I'm not saying that criticism has to be hurtful. Sometimes, people who criticize others can try to be a bit more nuanced when they tell the 2726th researcher who gets massive press attention based on a set of underpowered studies with all p-values between 0.03 and 0.05 that power is 'pretty important' and the observed results are 'slightly unlikely' (although I can understand they might be sometimes a bit too frustrated to use the most nuanced language possible). But I also don't know how anyone could have brought the news that one of my most-cited papers was probably nothing more than a fluke in a way that I would not have felt stressed, angered, and depressed, as a young untenured researcher who didn't really understand the statistical problems well enough.
This week, a large scale replication of one of the studies on the weight-importance effect was published. There was no effect. When I look at how my co-authors and myself responded, I am grateful for having received the criticism by Greg Francis years before this large scale replication was performed. Had a failure to replicate our work been the very first time I had been forced to think about the strength of our original research, I fear I might have been one of those scholars that responds defensively to failures to replicate their work. It would be likely that we would have only made it to the 'anger' stage in the 5 steps towards acceptance. Without having had several years to improve our understanding of the statistical issues, we would likely have written a very different commentary. Instead, we simply responded by stating: "We have had to conclude that there is actually no reliable evidence for the effect."
I wanted to share this for two reasons.
First, I understand the defensiveness in some researchers. Getting criticism is stressful, and reduces the pleasure in your work. You don't want to spend time having to deal with these criticisms, or feel insecure about how well you are actually able to do good science. I've been there, and it sucks. Based on my pop-science understanding of the literature on grief processing, I'm willing to give you a month for every year that you have been in science to go through all 5 stages. After a forty-year career, be in denial for 8 months. Be angry for another 8. But after 3 years, I expect you'll slowly start to accept things. Maybe you want to cooperate with a registered replication report about your own work. Or maybe, if you are still active as a researcher, you want to test some of the arguments you proposed while you were in denial or negotiating, in a pre-registered study.
The second reason I wanted to share this is much more important. As a scientific community, we are extremely ungrateful to people who express criticism. I think the way we treat people who criticize us is deeply shameful. I see people who suffer blatant social exclusion. I see people who don't get the career options they deserve. I see people whose work is kept out of prestigious journals. Those who criticize us have nothing to gain, and everything to lose. If you can judge a society by how it treats it weakest members, psychologists don't have a lot to be proud of in this area.
So here, I want to personally thank everyone who has taken the time to criticize my research or thoughts. I know for a fact that while it happened, I wasn't even close to as grateful as I should have been. Even now, the eight weeks of meditation training I did two years ago will not be enough for me not to feel hurt when you criticize me. But in the long run, feel comforted that I am grateful for every criticism that forces me to have a better understanding of how to do the best science I can do.


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Symmetra has 2 types of Bypass modes:
Automatic Bypass - controlled by the Symmetra, initiated by the MIM or from the PowerView
Maintenance Bypass - manually set by switching the Maintenance Bypass Switch on the Power I/O section to the up / on position
There are 3 possibilities when using Symmetra 3:1 in bypass
1. With the APC Bypass transformer (part no SY-BPXFMR - for use with Power Array only)
2. Without the APC Bypass transformer
3. Use a separate feed
If the Symmetra is in Bypass it will behave as follows:
1. Without the APC Bypass transformer
When in Bypass mode the Symmetra 3:1 will draw all the current from one dedicated phase. This particular phase must have a circuit breaker rated at 100 Amps due to the fact that it will be used to provide power to the whole load. This is only applicable for loads above 12 KVA. For loads below 12 KVA you can use a 60 Amp Circuit breaker.
2. With the APC Bypass transformer (SY-BPXFMR)
When using the Bypass Balancing transformer you will not need to have a 100 Amp circuit breaker on phase one. The Bypass transformer will draw current from 2 (L1 & L2) of the 3 phases, but no more than 60 Amps per phase. This allows the user to rate their 3 phases with 60 Amp circuit breakers.
See Symmetra Users Manual for wiring instructions of Bypass Transformer
3. Separate feed
The user can have a 100 Amp separate feed for the bypass. (100 Amp is necessary to provide for current protection). If the source of the separate feed is different from mains, there is a possibility of asynchronous transfers causing the load to reboot. This solution is possible but not recommended.
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BlackBerry For Dummies Paperback / softback
by Robert Kao, Dante Sarigumba
Just what you need to know to take full advantage of your new BlackBerry smartphone The popular BlackBerry is used by millions of office workers and executives and has become an essential business tool.
Now with an even faster and more efficient 6.0 operating system, the newest BlackBerry devices have the potential to become pocket-sized replacements for the laptop.
This fifth edition of the most popular BlackBerry guide explores all the features of the new BlackBerry and its upgraded OS.
It covers setting up the device, organizing and managing your appointments and to-do list, accessing the Internet, handling e-mail, working with multimedia, synching your BlackBerry with your desktop, adding apps, and much more. * The BlackBerry is the most popular handheld device for business users; an updated 6.0 operating system is being introduced for new models with an upgrade available for certain older models * This edition of the popular BlackBerry guide covers the new OS, setting up your BlackBerry, organizing and managing your calendar, handling e-mail, and accessing the Internet * Explores working with multimedia and taking great photos with your BlackBerry * Offers tips and shortcuts plus information about managing power usage, synching your BlackBerry to your desktop, and taking advantage of the expandable memory, as well as great apps you can add Wise advice from BlackBerry experts makes this the guide you need to get the most juice from your BlackBerry.
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VININGS, Ga. -- A family is thankful things didn't take a turn for the worse after their toddler was served alcohol at a local restaurant.
The Smith family went to the Vinings restaurant Sunday after church for lunch and an apple juice was ordered for 18-month-old Aaliyah to enjoy with her meal.
"Everything was normal," Alexis Smith, Aalyiah's mom said.
After lunch, the family got up to leave and Aaliyah's dad noticed that something was wrong with the juice.
"We were about to leave, my spouse got the juice, it was in the kid's cup, he tasted it and his chest started burning," she said.
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Alexis, also took a sip and knew she was not drinking apple juice. They suspected it was alcohol. The family notified the manager on duty who then took the drink and later returned with an incident report.
He told the family that an apple juice container was mislabeled and that the child had in fact been served alcohol.
"I started crying at the restaurant. As a mom, it was very emotional alcohol is something serious. You have to be 21 as an adult to drink it," Alexis said.
She said the owner of the restaurant was very upset about what happened and the manager insisted on paying for their meal.
Alexis said her daughter was "not her usual self," when she stood her up to check on her after realizing what happened.
"She was a little off balance."
They went to the doctor. When she observed her, about two and a half hours had passed since Aaliyah had her last sip. The doctor found no abnormalities but Aaliyah's mom said she's thankful because things could have been worse.
Alexis said the server at the restaurant initially asked if they wanted Aaliyah's apple juice poured in her sippy cup. They declined but had the drink been inside her sippy cup "She would have been sipping on alcohol all day and possibly died," Alexis said.
"I'm just lucky that my daughter did not consume the whole cup because she probably would not be here now."
The Smith's think Aailyah took about three sips of alcohol at lunch. 11Alive's Latasha Givens spoke to Poison Control who said the amount could equate to about three teaspoons. When Aaliyah's weight is factored in, her blood alcohol level could have been 0.065.
To put that number into perspective, the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration in Georgia is 0.08%.
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What does Google Now have in common with the Large Hadron Collider, the Toyota Prius and the Curiosity rover currently blasting rocks with lasers on Mars? All four have won Popular Science's prestigious Innovation of the Year designation after Android's eerily predictive virtual assistant snagged the title this year, besting a bevy of contenders that includes Windows 8 and Udacity.
Google Now's ability to learn your behavior, predict your needs and pre-emptively provide information that you are likely to find useful earned the software the vaunted award.
"Google Now draws a distinct technological line," Popular Science's Jacob Ward writes. "On the side you're on now, you tell your devices what you want to do. On the far side, the devices do the telling. Google Now is waiting for you over there. It's the first virtual assistant that truly anticipates your needs."
The Google team responded to the honor by posting a short interview with Google Now architects Baris Gultekin, Andrew Kirmse and Ben Gomes on the Android Google+ page. The trio explains how Google Now took root — as yet another "20 percent project" — and talk about their favorite aspects of the program. One choice quote, from Baris Gultekin:
When you've got a context-aware phone and thousands of computers working for you, you shouldn't have to worry about getting information you may need, like the traffic between here and your next meeting, or the fact that there's an awesome photo spot three blocks away.
The initial version of Google Now had a fairly limited scope, as we noted in our review of Android 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean. The Android 4.2 update found on new Nexus devices expands its reach with a bevy of new card types, including events, packages, restaurant reservations, and flight and hotel info.
Congratulations to the Android team! Now, it would be nice if phone and tablet makers would get on the ball and start pushing out Android 4.1 or 4.2 updates to bring Google Now to the world. According to Google's most recent stats, only 2.7 percent of all Android devices rock a Jelly Bean version of the operating system, which is needed to run Google Now.
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Join us as we celebrate Geography Awareness Week with National Geographic and friends. This year's theme is "Geography: Declare Your Interdependence."
A country that shares a border with the United States, Mexico often has a cost of living similar to the U.S. but with fewer income opportunities.
This presents challenges for families living in poverty. The National Council on Evaluation of Social Development Policy estimates that 46.2 percent of Mexico's total population (52 million) lives in poverty.
Families, however, are working to overcome these challenges through our projects in Cuernavaca, Guadalupe and Merida.
Violence is a part of everyday life for many families in the Guadalupe and Cuernavaca projects. In a few communities, this violence has driven some families from their homes and changed the way we interact with families when our staff cannot visit neighborhoods.
Families meet with staff in other, safer locations. Our Hope for a Family program conducts activities for families that reinforce healthy values and teach conflict resolution.
Our work also supports parents in their efforts to educate their children. Hope for a Family sponsorship in Mexico helps offset the cost of supplies, fees and uniforms.
CFCA's Mexico programs encourage active community participation. The sponsorship program is implemented by committees made up of mothers from the community. The mothers are deeply committed to the program's success, often overcoming tremendous obstacles to participate.
CFCA scholarships provide extra financial assistance for service-minded high school and college students, and CFCA programs provide positive outlets for youth to keep them away from gangs.
One example of a sponsored friend creating positive change in his community is Gregorio. He lives in Cuernavaca and takes care of sick and abandoned animals. He's cared for more than 60 animals in his lifetime!
"I've had 24 birds, 12 cats, six turtles and four dogs," Gregorio said. "At one point I had to stop adopting animals because there were too many and I had time for nothing else."
Through the Hope for a Family sponsorship program, Gregorio meets people and makes friends. He is able to socialize during CFCA celebrations and during weekly meetings with other sponsored aging friends.
Through these weekly meetings, the elderly can enjoy the company of others. Many of them lack supportive relationships, but interactions with CFCA staff members and one another, along with letters from sponsors, can help them build new friendships and increase their self-esteem.
"I enjoy how I interact with other sponsored elderly. … I just love when we celebrate a birthday and they ask me to sing the 'MaÒanitas' (a traditional Mexican song)," Gregorio said.


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Remember those nights you spent memorizing irregular French verbs into the wee hours of the morning wondering why no one ever thought of a simpler language? Actually, someone did.
Remember those nights you spent memorizing irregular French verbs into the wee hours of the morning wondering why no one ever thought of a simpler language?Actually, someone did.
In 1887, a Polish doctor, Ludwig L. Zamenhof, created the Esperanto language based on simple grammatical rules with very few exceptions. Zamenhof hoped because the language was easier to pick up than most others and because it was not aligned with any specific country, it could be used as a politically neutral second language to foster simpler communications between foreign nations.
Today, the language is still alive, and by some estimates is spoken by about 2 million people worldwide.
In Acton, members of the local chapter of the Esperanto Society of New England meets about once a week at Acton New London Style Pizza on Route 111 to bone up on their Esperanto and chat with other speakers. Both newcomers and fluent speakers are welcome. At its peak, the group had about 50 members, but it now only has a few active members.
David Wolff, a 52-year-old software engineer, started the local Acton chapter about 10 years ago.
Wolff, his 7-year-old Black Lab Tucker at his feet, spoke to The Beacon recently about the value of the language, its simple format and the local Esperanto speaking community.Q: Does Tucker know any commands in Esperanto?
A: Yes [laughing]. He knows "sit," and "come," but actually he's watching the hand signals as well.
Q: Can you start by telling me a little bit about the Esperanto society and the local chapter?
A: Esperanto has groups at local, national and international levels. The local group the Esperanto Society of New England is not very active at the moment. Like any group you need at least a couple of active people to make it work. Three of our most active people have moved out of the area in the past few years. I was one of the most active people but I also ended up as president of the national organization [the Esperanto League for North America] for six years, so I'm kind of burnt out for any more activity support for a while. We do have meetings in Cambridge, Northampton or Amherst, and we have a weekly meeting here in Acton at New London Style Pizza on Route 111. We get — depending on who's busy — two, three, four people. Some people come, some people go. It's a chance to get together to practice, to learn a little, and just to chat.Q: And what happens at the meetings?
A: At the Acton meetings that depends on who's there. If there are new people we have lessons. We have some short stories that are easy and amusing. We might review some of the more complicated parts of grammar when we trip over them. We do a lot of just chatting and we'll discuss politics or sports or life … whatever happens to come up, mostly in Esperanto.Q: How hard a language is it to pick up?
A: Ah, that's one of the key features of Esperanto. It's a lot easier to learn. You can probably learn it four times faster than other languages. Esperanto has a number of features that make it a lot easier to learn. First is that the grammar is very simple. Instead of having a lot of declensions for nouns, Esperanto has a very stripped down set. Instead of having a lot of verb endings, Esperanto has a very simple and completely regular set. So, for example, once you learn the present tense verb ending, it works for every verb, it works for every noun that you turn into a verb, for every adjective that you turn into a verb. It's always the same, so you don't waste a lot of time worrying about exceptions. Another thing is that it has a bunch of prefixes and suffixes that you can stick on words to create new words. So you might not know the exact right word for something, but you could probably put something together. And in many cases, these put together words are what people use all the time. So for example, the word for "hospital" is "not very healthy person place."Q: How did you first get interested in Esperanto?
A: I first got involved in Esperanto after college because I wanted to learn a foreign language. I'd never learned a language well enough to actually use it and I thought it was something I wanted to do from an intellectual viewpoint, something to expand my horizons a little bit. I was thinking about this for a while and I remembered I'd heard about Esperanto and it was supposed to be a lot easier. Being a very lazy person, I said, "This is a good idea." And that's how I got started. I kept on going because it is easy, it is fun. I was actually able to start learning and using this language. Also, it seemed like a way to make the world a better place. If you can break down the language barriers between people, instead of everyone having to learn my language, or me having to learn 30 different languages for 30 different countries, Esperanto was intended as a second language that could be shared by everybody, and it was clear to me that it definitely could do that so I became interested in helping the organization grow by spreading the word.
Q: What are some of the advantages of Esperanto over other languages?
A: The advantages are first that it's much easier to learn. It's politically neutral, so it doesn't belong to any single country or any single group so we find very little prejudice against it or people who say "It belongs to this country so I don't want to learn it." It's a politically neutral language, or as close as you can get. Another advantage is that you can talk to about 2 million other people, so it's not just a few people in Acton, or a few hundred people in the United States, it's a couple million people across the world who speak it, who have experience with it, so there's a lot of what I call social capital invested in this movement that you can reach into and use. I think one of the other advantages is that it's fun. It's a fun language to learn and a fun language to use. You don't get bogged down in memorizing exceptions. You learn some grammar and some vocabulary and you can start using it. And, yes it will take time to learn. It's not like other good causes where you can just write a check. It's an intellectual challenge, but it's not one that will take you years and years to succeed at.
Christian Schiavone of The Beacon (Acton, Mass.) can be reached at 978-371-5743 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Frank Quattrone Has a History of Selling to H-P
A central figure in Hewlett-Packard's disastrous purchase of Autonomy is legendary Silicon Valley banker Frank Quattrone.
Quattrone, who founded boutique Qatalyst Partners after years of fighting regulatory charges, was Autonomy's lead banker during its sales process. The deal is the second-biggest Qatalyst has advised on, behind only Motorola Mobility's $12.9 billion sale to Google.
Releases from H-P rival Oracle nearly a year after H-P acquired Autonomy highlight the role Quattrone played in shopping the U.K. company.
Oracle claimed that Quattrone and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch met with Oracle president Mark Hurd, the former H-P CEO, in attempt to sell Autonomy to Oracle. Oracle then published on a website it set up — called PleaseBuyAutonomy — two slide presentations on Autonomy that are stamped with Qatalyst logos.
Oracles's releases followed Lynch's denial he had attempted to sell Autonomy to Oracle.
The software giant rejected the deal because it felt Autonomy's market value of $6 billion was too high, Oracle said at the time. H-P ended up scooping up Autonomy for more than $11 billion.


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What Haitham al-Maleh told the television before he was arrested
Posted November 13th, 2009
Al-Maleh pointed out that all actors in the political and social fields in Syria are moving peacefully. For example, the Damascus Declaration calls for peaceful, democratic, and progressive change. No one believes that violence or revolution leads to change. He stressed that the state has huge potential in terms of intelligence, police, weapons and means of repression, but that they barricade themselves behind laws, beyond any concept of rights or justice.
He gave the examples of decree no. 14 of 1969 which permitted members of state security to commit crimes without being held accountable, the Muslim Brotherhood's law no. 49 and, above all, the state of emergency declared based on the Emergency Law.
In answer to a question about the possible link to Internet campaigns such as the mobile phone boycott, he said that the link was spontaneous and the result of people's distress from the tragic state of their lives - not just regarding public freedoms and human rights, but also the huge divide between the rich and the poor. In Syria, the poor are becoming poorer while the rich become greedier, public funds are looted, and corruption widespread.
He said that Baath party member Amran al-Zu'bi, who previously denied any intention to release the Damascus Declaration detainees, described the actions of the Damascus Declaration to be wrong in timing and content. Al-Maleh said that al-Zu'bi could not however enter the brain of the authorities to know whether they have any intention to declare an amnesty.
"The laws we have only exist in books, and books have been on the shelf for a long time," he said of the political, economic and civil laws in his country today.
He said that Syria is being run by orders and instructions, and that no one in the country is protected from an aggression by the state or its security forces. He added that the Syrian constitution had been disabled under the state of emergency, as state security was now issuing orders to seize people's homes.
He said that the Baath party is a mere front. Some of its members are powerful and benefit from power, while others rule the country from behind the scenes. He said that he did not know who was responsible in the country or who held the key to its future to ease its people's problems.
Al-Maleh did not see in the foreseeable future a repeal of article 8 of the constitution, which states that the Baath party heads both the state and society. He said that president of the Syrian Parliament Mahmoud al-Abrash had disregarded the minds of the people when he had stated that a new party law was not necessary as the country was a forerunner in the application of democracy through the National People's Council and the Progressive National Front.
As for the Syrian slum crisis, al-Maleh said it was a planned and systematic destruction of Damascus, giving the example of how the government had neglected all the useful Syrian regions and pushed people to migrate to Damascus. He added that the state turned a blind eye on the slums, due to rampant corruption in all parts of the state. For example, the governor in rural Damascus had turned a blind eye to deforestation and building against regulations.
He also talked about the pumps installed in the Barada river to use all its water for drinking, after the state had pushed people to migrate from all regions of Syria to Damascus despite it not being able to accommodate so many people. He added that the state had no right to prevent the flow of the Barada river, and that it was a crime against Damascus.
"Damascus is moving towards desertification, and nobody is lifting a finger!" he said.
He said that the alternative to all these wrong solutions lies in improving the region of the Al-Jazīrah where there is oil, water, and wheat. It also lies in the establishment of many projects to counter migration.
He talked about many projects that could be established around cotton and wheat, instead of exporting these raw materials. The solution, he said, would be to encourage the construction of agro-industry manufacturing installations, establish service centers everywhere, and ensure fast means of transport. He added that the solution exists, but it needs will - and will does not exist.
In the context of the slum crisis, al-Maleh said that Syria is a rich country, plagued by the the looting and waste of public money, as each official has 10 to 15 cars at the expense of the people and the state treasury. He also refered to the lack of control in the country as, since the revolution of March 8, there has been no final budget in parliament because ministers are not held accountable.
"How could anyone, even with a salary of a minister, live in Syria where one kilo of meat is 1,000 Syrian pounds in Damascus? How can regular employees live?"
Regarding the state of law in Syria, al-Maleh said that the law is only applied to the weak, while the strong have several ways to do whatever they want. He also commented on the arrests of corrupt people still ongoing as being the weak cases.
But al-Maleh remained optimistic, saying that the future depended on the people who should defend their interests. Every citizen should be aware of his rights and defend them. At the end of the interview, Al Maleh added that Syrians should not renounce to any of their rights, and avoid the country's destruction.
Haitham al-Maleh was arrested by political security in Damascus on Oct. 14, 2009. He was transferred on Oct. 27, 2009 to the military court in Damascus where he was accused of "spreading lies," "weakening the spirit of the nation", as well as "abusing the President of the Republic and the Syrian judiciary." He faced charges of up to 15 years in prison.
Al-Maleh was imprisoned from 1980 to 1986 for his political beliefs, and has reportedly been prohibited from traveling abroad since 2004.
Haitham al-Maleh is aged 78 and suffers from diabetes and an overactive thyroid gland, according to Front Line, an international foundation for the protection of human rights defenders calling for his release.
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Local Group Unsuccessful in Attempt to Cancel GODSMACK Show at Jackson County Fair
Godsmack and Pop Evil are gearing up to perform at the the Jackson County Fair in Jackson, Miss. on Aug. 5, but the show did not come without a bit of controversy throughout the community.
A group of approximately 40 Jackson residents including a local parish, attended a fair board meeting on July 23 to try to get the Godsmack show cancelled. According to pamphlets distributed at St. Mary's Parish Godsmack lyrics are "evil, strewn with obscenities and violent."
Michigan Live reports that Rev. Timothy Nelson was also offended by the band's name, providing this conclusion, "If you look at the name Godsmack, what does that mean? Do you smack God? The name is irreverent and when you look at the lyrics it's less than edifying."
Nelson also took issue with openers Pop Evil, claiming, "It leaves the suggestion that evil is not that bad. Evil is very bad."
Billie Buda, another local resident, feels that the fair is going against their own beliefs, explaining, "Their (fair board) mission statement says it is a family oriented venue. This goes against their own mission statement." She continued, "There are a lot of bands that are good and some that are into witchcraft and the devil."
Good news though – fair organizers have confirmed that the show will go on as planned. Additionally, ticket sales have been on the rise. "We had a lot of input on the different types of music they wanted to hear," said Jackson County Fair operations director Denise Opens. She also confirmed that ticket sales for Godsmack have been "really good."
Upon hearing the news, Nelson said he will pray for Godsmack, Pop Evil and the members of the country fair board.


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I've Just moved again and this time my dog Oso has not been eating and is throwing up and not gaining weight like he did before when we moved at first he just didn't eat but after a week he was back to normal and I Just move to my new house so at first I thought it was just going to be the same as before but this time he's throwing up and has lost some weight and I don't know what do do to help him nor cheer him up because he's been sad and not walking around and just sleeping in the same spot all day.
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If it were me, I'd take him to the Vet to have him checked just to be sure there is nothing medically wrong. I've had Chows that have gone 4 days without eating when upset with a move or a big change in circumstance but it would be a shame if it is medical and it didn't get fixed in time. The throwing up bit is what would be the deciding factor for me. If he isn't eating then why would he throw up???
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Please take Oso to the vet as soon as you can. A chow not eating? Plus vomiting? One of my chows would chew twigs while he was outside, and developed a blockage from the wood. Not that that's what happened to Oso, but Chows love to eat. BTW, they're so smart that after that incident, he never gnawed on twigs again. Good luck.
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Prepare yourselves for Jennifer Morrison's "Once Upon a Time" swan song. The actress took to Instagram to announce she is leaving the ABC fairy tale drama after season six.
"As I reached the end of my 6 year contract on Once Upon a Time, I was faced with a significant decision. ABC, Eddy Kitsis, and Adam Horowitz very generously invited me to continue as a series regular. After very careful consideration, I have decided that creatively and personally, it is time for me to move on," she wrote on Instagram.
"Emma Swan is one my favorite characters that I have ever played. My 6 years on Once Upon a Time has changed my life in the most beautiful ways. I am absolutely blown away by the passion and commitment of the Oncer fans. I am so honored to have been a central part of such a special show," she continued.
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"I will be forever grateful to Adam, Eddy, and ABC for giving me the gift of playing Emma Swan. As I move on to other creative endeavors, I will continue to attend the fan conventions whenever my professional schedule allows. I always look forward meeting the fans," Morrison continued on Instagram. "If ABC Network does in fact order a season 7, I have agreed to appear in one episode, and I will most certainly continue to watch 'Once Upon a Time.' The creativity of the showrunners has always inspired me, and I cannot wait to see the ways that they continue to develop and reinvent the show."


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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 secondsThe Time. We will start with the months. You recognise the names, but mind the pronunciation of some. [DUTCH SPOKEN] januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december. And a few phrases with the months. [DUTCH SPOKEN] In augustus. In August. [DUTCH SPOKEN] 10 maart. March 10th. [DUTCH SPOKEN] op 2 april. On the 2nd of April. Notice the names are not written in capitals.
Skip to 0 minutes and 59 secondsThe names of the days of the week are also not in capitals. [DUTCH SPOKEN] maandag, dinsdag, woensdag [DUTCH SPOKEN] donderdag, vrijdag, zaterdag and zondag. And, again, some phrases. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Op maandag. On Monday. [DUTCH SPOKEN] In het weekend. In the weekend. [DUTCH SPOKEN] komende zondag. Next Sunday. [DUTCH SPOKEN] volgende week Next week. Let's move on to the parts of the day. [DUTCH SPOKEN] de ochtend or de morgen means the morning.
Skip to 1 minute and 42 secondsSo this is from 6:00 to 12:00.
Skip to 1 minute and 46 secondsThe "middag" is the afternoon from 12:00 to 6:00.
Skip to 1 minute and 52 secondsThe "avond" for the evening is from 6:00 to midnight. De "nacht" is the night. It's from midnight to 6 o'clock in the morning. Of course these times given are approximate.
Skip to 2 minutes and 10 secondsThe Dutch method of time differs from the English. The principal reason for this is the fact that the half hour is treated just as important as a time as the hour itself. Whereas in English the minutes are reckoned in relation to the hour, in Dutch they are reckoned in relation to both the hour and the half hour. So [DUTCH SPOKEN] het is tien uur. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Het is elf uur. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Het is half elf. And we look ahead to the next hour. And more. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Een kwartier. That's a period of 15 minutes. "Kwart" is used in time telling. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Het is kwart over tien. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Het is kwart voor elf.
Skip to 3 minutes and 1 secondHere you see more detail. Look at the following phrases while I read them. Over. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Kwart over drie. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Vijf over twaalf. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Tien over half zes. Or "voor". [DUTCH SPOKEN] Kwart voor vier. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Tien voor elf. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Vijf voor half drie. And some phrases. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Hoe laat is het? What time is it? [DUTCH SPOKEN] Om tien uur. At 10 o'clock. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Tien over zes.
Skip to 3 minutes and 36 secondsTen past 6:00. [DUTCH SPOKEN] Om half zes.
Skip to 3 minutes and 41 secondsAt 5:30. Notice that in Dutch we do not use PM or AM. The context makes it clear what you mean. Another point to notice is that the word "uur" is dropped if one does not indicate a round hour.
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4/13/09 @ Miller Park
As my wife and I walked up to the stadium, I spotted this…
just lying on the ground.
So, I bent down, picked it up and placed it into my left front pocket.
When we were allowed to enter Miller Park, I found the Brewers still on the field for BP. I spotted Brewers relief pitcher JORGE JULIO shagging baseballs out near the left field warning track. I asked him for a baseball and he tossed one up for a quick BASEBALL #1.
I ran over to take a peek into the Brewers bullpen for any glove trick opportunities. When I arrived, I spotted one. I pulled the necessary equipment out of my bag and pulled it up for BASEBALL #2.
Now you see it…
Now you don't…
That's me in action with my wife as the photographer.
I love finding easter eggs.
Brewers pitcher MITCH STETTER was shagging baseballs in left field. I yelled down to him for a baseball and he lobbed one up to me for BASEBALL #4.
Four quick ones and the Reds hadn't even taken the field, yet.
When the Redlegs did finally start to hit the field, I moved over to right because I knew the big lefty sluggers would be starting things off.
I must admit, Batting Practice is not as fun without Adam Dunn on the Reds, but young sluggers JOEY VOTTO and JAY BRUCE both did their part to make up for his absence. It didn't take Jay Bruce long to hit one out. When he did, I ran over and caught it on the fly for BASEBALL #5. Hitting in the same group was the aforementioned stud Joey Votto. Joey cranked one out in my direction, too. In the same fashion, I gloved his BP homer on the fly, too! That was BASEBALL #6.
I was cruising right along.
I looked down to the field and Reds pitcher AARON HARANG was shagging some BP right below my seats in right-center field.
You can't really tell by the picture…
but, take my word for it…that's Aaron Harang.
So, I politely called down to him. I asked him if he would be willing to sign a baseball for me. He made a "toss-it-down" motion with his glove. So, toss-it-down I did.
Here's a picture of Aaron Harang signing one of my game balls…
Here's the finished product…
He really took his time, which is rare nowadays.
Reds pitcher JARED BURTON was standing out in right-center field shagging some BP. When he fielded one close to the warning track, I told him that if he left it on the track that I could pick it up. He asked me if I had go-go gadget arms. I said, "not exactly, but close to it!" He took the baseball he had in his hand and tossed it up to me for BASEBALL # 7. I was a little surprised that he even tossed it, but what the heck…I'll take it. I thanked him for the toss-up and then I told him I wasn't kidding about picking i
t off the warning track. He said, "next one."
A minute later, another ball was hit out toward him. He fielded it and lobbed it back toward the wall where I was standing above. I had the glove trick ready to go. He walked back toward it and kicked it closer to the wall below. I lowered my glove down and picked it off the track for BASEBALL #8. I thanked him for the opportunity and for being cool. Cool dude.
That concluded the BP portion of my day.
Before the start of the 5th inning, Brewers CF MIKE CAMERON was warming up with Brewers LF RYAN BRAUN. When Cameron was finished warming up, I let go one of my famous whistles. He turned, took two steps toward me and let it fly from shallow centerfield. The throw was going to be low so I had to lean way out over the small railing and make the catch. Of course, I made the catch…for BASEBALL #9 on the day.
When the 9th inning began, I scampered down to the box seats near the Reds dugout. I wanted to get my 1st ump game ball of the regular season. It worked in Spring Training for me a bunch of times, but that was exhibition. I wanted to do it when things counted. So, after the last out was recorded, I was in place. I ran down to the front row and called out to home plate umpire MIKE REILLY. He turned in my direction and reached into his ball pouch. He grabbed one and fired a strike to my waiting glove for BASEBALL #10.
I was glad to get that 1st ump game ball out of the way on this young season.
About 20 seconds later, the players and coaches were exiting the field. I scanned everyone's mitts and hands. I spotted Reds 1B Coach BILLY HATCHER walking off the field. Billy had a ball in his hands and you could see he was scanning the crowd for a fan in Reds gear. I was decked out in my Griffey, Jr. #3 Reds jersey and cap. I yelled out "Billy, Billy Hatcher" and held up my glove. It was too easy…we made eye contact and he tossed me BASEBALL #11 on the day.
That concluded a pretty good day of hawking at the yard…
11 baseballs (10 are shown-1 was given away) Ump ball bottom middle/Coach Hatcher toss-up bottom right. I do not # mark game balls.
- 11 total balls 4/13/09
2 caught on fly (hit)
1 easter egg (hit)
6 toss-ups
2 device
4/7/09 = 5 baseballs
4/8/09 = 10 baseballs
4/9/09 = 10 baseballs
4/10/09 = 3 baseballs
4/11/09 = 5 baseballs
4/12/09 = 5 baseballs
4/13/09 = 11 baseballs
49 baseballs (7 games)
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Convicted of starting the 2012 Roatcap Fire, Roger "Bucky" Stratton was instructed to never use fire again. Ever.
"I'm taking fire away from you," District Court Judge Todd Plewe told the convicted arsonist.
At a sentencing hearing on Thursday, Jan. 23, the 54-year-old Dolores man was placed on supervised probation for five years. The "most important condition" of the probation order, according to Plewe, bars Stratton from ever attending an outdoor fire, permitting an outdoor fire at his residence, burning trash, disposing of ashes or using a wood stove for warmth.
"We live in arid country," Plewe said. "Your behavior is reckless and endangers the lives and properties of others."
"You're the type of person that shouldn't have fire," he continued. "That's it."
Facing more than four decades in prison, Stratton pleaded guilty to both felony and misdemeanor arson charges on Nov. 21, 2013. The Oct. 24, 2012, Roatcap fire scorched some 400 acres and forced the evacuation of 30 homes. No injuries were reported.
As a result of the plea deal, Stratton will not serve time behind bars. He was instructed to complete a mental health evaluation, refrain of any drug or alcohol use and ordered to pay more than $4,000 in court fines and costs. Stratton was also ordered to pay restitution that totals more than $45,000 for losses sustained by private property owners.
But Plewe questioned the total restitution amount last week, and ordered District Attorney Will Furse to amend the request to include public funds that were spent to battle the blaze. Following a defense counsel request, a restitution hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m. on April 14.
"It's my duty as a judge to make all victims whole," Plewe said.
While delivering his sentence, Plewe told Stratton that he was incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions. Stratton immediately interrupted Plewe, telling the judge that his assertions were untrue.
"This has been a pure nightmare," he said. "The accusations are wrong. It's just unfair."
At Plewe's recommendation, public defender Amy Smith quickly advised Stratton not to make any further remarks. In her opening statement, Smith claimed that her client did not intentionally cause the fire.
"Mr. Stratton sincerely does not know how this fire occurred," she said.
Furse didn't agree, stating that Stratton's reckless conduct not only placed the community in danger, but it also destroyed the natural landscape for decades to come. Despite the harm caused, Furse said he thought the sentence was appropriate.
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Leonard J. Balcao
February 5, 1922 - March 13, 2013
Leonard Balcao, age 91, was born in Oakland, California to Abilio and
Beatrice Balcao. He moved to
Stockton when he was nine years old, where he
resided until death. He passed away on March 13, 2013. After high school,
Leonard joined the Army Air Corp, where he helped service airplanes during World War II. Upon his discharge from the service, he went to work at Californian Clothiers. Soon after that, he met the love of his life, Linda, whom he married and enjoyed 55 years of marriage.
His lifelong passion was selling automobiles. After working for 17 years at Chase Chevrolet, he opened up his own used car
business along with his wife.
They ran The Balcao Company
for a number of years in both Stockton and Lodi.
Leonard was preceded in death by his parents, brothers: Joe Silva, Jack Silva, and John Balcao, and sisters; Mary Balcao and Belle Bianchini. He is survived by his wife, Linda Balcao, son Greg Balcao (Melody), and daughter Jennifer Bednarek (Pete). In
addition, he is survived by 6 grandchildren; Stephen, Kathleen, Kaylen, and Will Balcao, and
Vincent and Ava Bednarek.
The Balcao Family takes comfort in their faith in Jesus Christ and the word of scripture "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord".
A Memorial Service will be held at 11 am Monday, March 25, 2013 at Quail Lakes Baptist Church, 1904 Quail Lakes Dr., Stockton. Inurnment will be held privately at Cherokee Memorial Park, Lodi. Memorial contributions may be made to Quail Lakes Baptist Church - Missions, 1904 Quail Lakes Dr., Stockton, CA 95207 or Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888
Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95204. Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home is honored to serve the Balcao
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Pyrimethamine to Treat Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00065390
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 22, 2003
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2008
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This study will examine whether the drug pyrimethamine can shrink lymph nodes and spleen in patients with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS). In this disease, lymphocytes (white blood cells) do not die as they normally would. As a result, patients have enlarged lymph glands, spleen, or liver, and other problems that may involve blood cell counts and autoimmune disease (overactivity of the immune system). Pyrimethamine is an orally administered antibiotic that has been used to treat or prevent malaria and toxoplasma, and may be effective in shrinking lymph nodes and spleen.
Patients with ALPS who are between 2 and 70 years of age and have had lymph gland enlargement for at least 1 year may be eligible for this study. Candidates will be screened with a medical history and physical examination, blood tests, and possibly a bone marrow test. Females of reproductive age will be screened with a urine pregnancy test. Women who are capable of becoming pregnant must use an effective method of birth control during the entire study period, because, taken during early months of pregnancy, pyrimethamine can cause birth defects in the fetus. Women who are pregnant or nursing are excluded from the study.
Participants will undergo the following tests and procedures:
- CT scan: For this test, the patient lies still in the CT scanner while images are taken of the neck, chest, and stomach area. A contrast dye is injected into a vein to brighten the CT images. Very young children will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine whether a CT scan will be performed.
- Bone marrow biopsy: Participants undergo this test to rule out underlying bone marrow disease if they have not had a bone marrow test done in the last six months prior to enrolling in pyrimethamine study, as pyrimethamine can affect bone marrow function. Under local anesthesia, a needle is inserted into the back part of the hipbone and a small amount of marrow is removed. (Children are sedated for this test.)
- Leukapheresis: This is a procedure for collecting a small proportion of circulating white blood cells while conserving the majority of blood cells. Specifically, blood is drawn from a needle placed in an arm vein and is directed into a cell separator machine, which separates the blood cells by spinning. A small proportion of circulating white cells are removed, and the red cells, platelets, plasma and majority of white cells are returned to the patient's blood circulation. Only patients who are 7 years of age or older and weigh at least 55 pounds undergo this procedure. Other participants who choose not to have apheresis will have about 3 tablespoons of blood drawn instead.
- Pyrimethamine administration: When the above tests are completed, participants begin taking pyrimethamine. The dose is determined according to the individual's weight and is gradually increased during the study period. Patients take the drug twice a week for a total of 12 weeks.
- Blood tests: Blood samples are collected during weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 after beginning treatment, and 2 weeks after the last dose of pyrimethamine. The purpose of these blood tests is to check for possible drug-related side effects. Patients who develop a skin rash, mouth sores or other side effects may have one or more doses of the treatment drug withheld. When indicated, the patient will be directed to stop taking the study drug. If needed, drug side effects will be treated with a vitamin supplement, folinic acid, taken by mouth, 3 times weekly.
- Evaluations at the NIH Clinical Center will comprise of a pretreatment visit, one end of treatment visit at the end of 12 weeks and an optional post-treatment visit 3months after stopping pyrimethamine therapy.
Patients who respond well to treatment may be asked to return to NIH for additional visits at 3, 6, and 12 months after the treatment has ended for repeat evaluations. If their lymph glands or spleen become much larger after stopping pyrimethamine, they will be offered treatment for another 12 weeks. If they respond to the second course of treatment, they will return to NIH again after 3, 6, and 12 months. If the symptoms return again, patients will be asked to resume treatment for an additional 6 months or more. They will have blood drawn periodically by their private physician and will return to NIH for evaluation every 12 weeks.
|Condition or disease
|Autoimmune Disease Lymphatic Disease Lymphoproliferative Disorder
|Drug: Pyrimethamine
|Phase 1
The Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) is an inherited disease associated with a defect of lymphocyte apoptosis that leads to lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity. Although, there are treatments for many of its complications, there currently is no safe and effective therapy for this syndrome itself. Recently investigators in Europe serendipitously observed that some children with ALPS showed reductions in spleen and lymph node size while in pyrimethamine/sulfadoxine (Fansidar) for Pneumocystis carinii prophylaxis. Our own subsequent pilot clinical trial of Fansidar (Protocol #01-I-0132) was terminated after failure to recruit well-defined ALPS patients who lacked histories suspicious for allergies to sulfa drugs. Our own in vitro studies, however revealed that pyrimethamine and not sulfadoxine induces lymphocyte apoptosis and this observation has suggested to us that pyrimethamine may be beneficial alone, thus avoiding the added risks of allergy and hypersensitivity associated with the sulfa drugs. However, potential bone marrow toxicity that may result from an escalating dose schedule of pyrimethamine should respond to the addition of folinic acid (Leucovorin) to the regimen.
We propose to conduct a pilot study on the safety and efficacy of the drug, pyrimethamine for the treatment of ALPS. Six to 8 individuals, with ALPS will be treated for up to 3 months, initially, with twice-weekly pyrimethamine (Daraprim) at escalating doses adjusted by weight, with the addition of folinic acid when needed to aid management of marrow toxicity. The effects of pyrimethamine treatment on lymph node and/or spleen size will be assessed by CT scan. The effect of treatment on other laboratory features of ALPS will also be assessed. Evaluating the effects of pyrimethamine on these clinical and laboratory parameters will allow us to determine if this drug demonstrates sufficient activity to warrant study in a larger randomized controlled trial.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|8 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pilot (Phase I-II) Study of Pyrimethamine (Daraprim) for the Treatment of the Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS)
|Study Start Date :
|July 2003
|Study Completion Date :
|June 2005
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
All subjects must fulfill the published criteria for the diagnosis of ALPS (documented nonmalignant lymphadenopathy and/or splenomegaly of at least 1 year duration; greater than or equal to 1% TCR alpha/beta(+) CD4(-)CD8(-) T cells in the peripheral blood and defective apoptosis by in vitro assay). This must include clinically documented lymphadenopathy involving more than two nodes in more than one regional group of nodes measuring greater than 1 cm in size and/or a palpable spleen.
Age greater than 2 years and less than 70 years.
Must have a personal primary care physician.
Women of reproductive age and potential must have a negative pregnancy test at study entry and commit to using an acceptable method of barrier or hormonal contraception (e.g. condoms, diaphragms, oral contraceptives and long acting progestin agents) if sexually active during the study and for 3 months after the last dose of pyrimethamine.
Must be willing to sign a consent form.
Patient will be excluded if any of the following is present:
Weight of less than 10 kilograms (22 lbs).
Patients receiving and requiring anti-folate drugs such as sulfonamides, trimethoprim, pyrimethamine and methotrexate for any other purpose. They should be off these medications, including Bactrim, for at least 7 days prior to enrolling in this protocol.
Megaloblastic anemia, folate deficiency or a mean corpuscular volume greater than 125 in last three months with evidence of megaloblastic changes in the bone marrow.
A hemoglobin concentration of less than 8 gm/dl, a platelet count of less than 50 K/mm(3), or an absolute neutrophil count of less than 500/mm(3), at study entry or during the study period.
Liver disease determined by an ALT, AST or bilirubin 3 times above the upper limit of normal.
Renal dysfunction determined by a calculated urine creatinine clearance of less than or equal to 70 ml/min/1.73 m(2) in children and less than or equal to 60 ml/min in adults or using the Schwartz formula or Levy formula based on serum creatinine.
Patients on immunosuppression (eg: corticosteroid, azathioprine, cyclosphosphamide, etc) are eligible if the dose of the immunosuppressive drug has been stable for at least 3 months prior to enrollment and their hematologic parameters meet the criteria outlined in item 4 (above).
Pregnancy. Women of reproductive age and potential must have a negative pregnancy test at study entry and commit to using an acceptable method of barrier or hormonal contraception (e.g. condoms, diaphragms, oral contraceptives and long acting progestin agents) if sexually active during the study and for 3 months after the last dose of pyrimethamine.
Lactating mothers who are breast feeding their babies will not be eligible.
ALPS patients who have been treated with bone marrow toxic chemotherapy regimens for Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma or other malignancies are not eligible for this pilot study.
Unwilling or unable to comply with the need to have periodic blood tests to monitor possible side effects of treatment, or other major requirements of this study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00065390
|United States, Maryland
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|July 22, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2008
|Last Verified:
|June 2005
Folinic Acid
Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
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Antiprotozoal Agents
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Folic Acid Antagonists
Enzyme Inhibitors
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