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William Archie of Kinston will compete in Shakespeare competition Feb. 9 in New Bern
APA student to participate in Shakespeare competition
Seven Arendell Parrott Academy students recently participated in the school�s Shakespeare Competition. Each participant recited a Shakespearian monologue before an audience of teachers and fellow students.
Tracy Donahue, ECU associate professor of Theatre and Dance, was the event�s judge. She selected Parrott junior William Archie of Kinston as the school winner and sophomore Dai Jimenez-Zamudio as the first runner-up. Archie performed a comedic monologue from �Much Ado about Nothing.� Jimenez-Zamudio selected a dramatic monologue from �Henry VI, Part III.�
Archie will represent Parrott at the Shakespeare Competition Feb. 9 in New Bern, sponsored by the Colonial North Carolina Branch of The English-Speaking Union.
Donahue took time to give all the contestants notes on their performances before declaring a winner.
�I evaluate actors on concentration and risk taking,� said Donahue. �The crazier the character, the more intelligent you have to be with your actions. You are all doing excellent work and I am very impressed.�
The National Shakespeare Competition began almost 30 years ago with 500 students in New York City. It currently involves about 60 English-Speaking Union Branch communities nationwide. Annually, 16,000 high school students and 2,000 teachers participate, from Honolulu to Boston. Over the program�s history, more than 250,000 young people of all backgrounds have discovered Shakespeare�s writings and communicated their understanding of the bard�s language and messages.
The New Bern winner will advance to the national level in New York City on April 22, the Monday closest to Shakespeare�s birthday, which is celebrated on April 23.
Student named to Citadel dean�s list
CHARLESTON, S.C. � Charles Marion Parrott of Kinston has been named to the dean�s list at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, for academic achievement during the 2012-13 fall semester.
Parrott is a cadet seeking a bachelor�s degree in Civil Engineering.
Dean�s list recognition is given to students whose grade-point average is 3.2 or higher with no grade below a C for the previous semester�s work.
Founded in 1842, The Citadel is a public, co-educational military college in Charleston, S.C., that offers a classic military education for young men and women.


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Make: Asks is a new weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column will spark interesting conversation and that we'll get to know more about each other.
When using an XBee for the first time, I found that if I tried to run the "Hello World" code, I could only get my flashing LED to work if I unplugged one of my indicator LEDs, and vice versa. After going through what I thought was every possible troubleshooting measure, it turned out the culprit was a weak solder joint where the power was coming through. It provided enough juice for just a couple of LEDs, but no more than that. It took a while to figure out but it was one of my most maddening problems to fix.
This week's question: What was a bug or tricky problem on a project you've done, and what did you finally do to figure it out and get it working?
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[lastfm]Adele[/lastfm] will take the stage for her streaming Live on Letterman concert Monday February 21st, the day before her new album 21 comes out. With any luck at all, in addition to bringing the hits, Adele will give us a preview of some of the new tracks before they're available anywhere else.
To help get you ready for the new material, we've pulled together some videos about Adele's inspiration and creative process that went into her forthcoming album.
Watch as Adele tells us about how her ex-lovers and bus driver figured into the new album.
Here Adele tells us what inspired her to write her first happy song ever.
And finally, Adele delves into the inspirations we've been waiting to hear: dogs and heroin addicts.
Don't forget to watch Adele's free streaming concert from Live on Letterman presented by AT&T on February 21st at 9PM ET right here.


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I am sad. I have had a shitty year but I'm strong and will not let it overpower my life. When it comes down to it, sometimes life just SUCKS. From about two weeks after I got married my poor husband and I have been on this roller coaster of emotional heartbreak called LIFE.
We found out about a week after our wedding that my parents signed divorce papers while we were on our honeymoon. I had no idea they were even having problems. Two weeks later we found out I was pregnant.
Everything was normal until January when I was diagnosed with AIDS.
The shit continued in March when we were evicted from our apartment due to the price of my medications, and us not making enough to cover my medical bills, on top of rent, car payments, cell phone bills, yadda yadda.
We moved into a 2-bedroom duplex with 2 roommates, my brother-in-law and his best friend.
A newlywed couple expecting a baby, needing roommates to pay bills is a bit embarrassing. I had not disclosed our new health issues to everyone and found it hard to explain why we were moving from a 2-bedroom apartment alone into a 2-bedroom with 2 roommates when we were having a baby.
I loved our apartment; our son would have had a nice room.
In May my dad died from injuries he received in a motorcycle crash. I was 7 months pregnant with his first grandchild when he was injured and died.
We all (my brothers, mother, my husband, and I) flew in from different states and countries to see him in the hospital. My big brother, husband and I all flew into California from Seattle. My mother was in New York at the time for my uncle's funeral (he died of cancer the week before my father died), and my little brother flew in from Taiwan where he was living and teaching English.
My father was medically sedated with 4th degree burns on 80% of his body. He had internal bleeding and a massive list of broken bones and internal injuries. I had a personal nurse while at the hospital because I was so pregnant. We had to take him off life support once we had all said goodbye, since he had no chance of recovering.
We arranged his cremation and had a service; my husband and I flew home and back to work. Back to being the pregnant AIDS girl who now was fatherless. My brothers stayed in California in dad's house packing things, taking care of his dog and his fish. Trying to figure out what to do with a fully furnished 5-bedroom 2-story 3,000-square-foot home in a state none of us lived in anymore.
He was the most important person in my life. He was always there for support, comedy or just someone to talk to. He was gone. Way too soon, way too violently.
As time went on it just added to my list of silent, heartbreaking pain. I write to make it better; I talk to my dad and think he's still hanging out watching my son and me.
Some days I'm okay. Others it's still fresh and raw.
I'm sad and don't even know about what anymore. I'm not depressed, I don't think. I don't see why I'm not depressed.
He died just before my first column on TheBody.com was published. He knew they asked me to write and I was beginning to work on it. He knew I was diagnosed with AIDS; he knew I was having a baby boy.
He doesn't know my son was named after him, keeping with the Jewish tradition. Or does he?
I lost weight after I had Myles; I have gained it back. Is it medically related? Is it depression related? I have no idea. I eat the wrong things, and spend my whole day at work on the computer 5-6 days a week, then go home and play with my son till dinner and movie, then bedtime.
I need to exercise, Yes.
I need to eat better, Yes.
We are finally roommate free again after a year. It's nice to live together as a family again, and not in a frat house.
We are living on ONE income for 3 of us now. I am going to be in an article about HIV/AIDS in Glamour magazine in June of this year. I have to keep writing and fighting for us; I don't know what else to do.


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Now I am definitely a techy person I have a smart phone, a laptop, an ereader, and access to an ipad, desktop Pc and various other technical wizardry, and I definitely could not live without them. But I began to long wistfully for pen and paper when a colleague of mine pulled out her diary to document her life.
I have long be dissatisfied with the calender options available for my electronic devices but put up with them, I have however had a lifelong obsession with all things stationary and love a good fountain pen.
and that's when it all began. Every diary I picked up just did not suit me and my thoughts started to drift back to the Filofax my dad gave me in my 20's (Personnel Portland in Black) . I hunted it out thinking I would just have to by a diary insert for it but to my dismay all the inserts needed replacing and the rings weren't quite together. I turned to Google and and typed in Filofax and the rest is history.PHILOFAXY came into my life and I persuaded my husband to buy me the A5 Lyndhurst (he finds all this very strange so not a convert yet) which is stuffed to the gills with philofaxy inserts home made dividers and washi tape. The ring issue on the Portland has disappeared strangely??? so will be put to good use and I will add to my Filofax collection despite my husband's scepticism and a lack of funds. Looking to add colour in the shape of a blue or teal Filofax small enough to act as a purse.


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Groundbreaking For New Minnesota Vikings Stadium is December 3rd
The Minnesota Vikings have just home games remaining in the Metrodome in Downtown Minneapolis, before moving for two seasons to make way for a new stadium.
We now know when construction will begin on that building.
The official groundbreaking has been set for Tuesday, December 3rd
The $975 million facility has one hurdle left before the shovels go in the dirt - when the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority meets Friday to finalize the project's cost.
The Vikings will play in the new stadium starting in the 2016 season, after two seasons at TCF Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota Campus.


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I discovered Pets on Death Row on Facebook. They seem to be a group of volunteers who rescue and help cats and kittens get adopted in NYC. Their Facebook page puts out a daily list and album of cats and kittens that are to euthanized the next day, so a sense of urgency is pretty big. I find it incredible that a group of people would do this – it's a lot of work, taking pictures and surveying the euthanasia list daily.
Please go to their Facebook page to find out more or if you're ready to adopt a kitty. It's pretty disheartening to see all these cute faces. Sadly, most of them have been put down (shown in these pictures). You can really help save a life.
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Economic Factors on the Modern Photovoltaic Market
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Photovoltaic research is heavily driven by market demand and "green-energy" hopes of the future. Commercial and utility level thin film photovoltaic systems have almost reached grid parity worldwide, but the residential market, mainly comprised of crystalline and polycrystalline silicon, has been left behind. Because area is constrained in a residential system, these higher efficiency silicon modules are used to achieve desirable electricity levels. Despite higher efficiencies than industrial thin films, current technologies of crystalline Silicon (c-Si and Sanyo cells) residential systems need to be researched further or refined in order to reach grid parity. By surveying the current market and economy of residential photovoltaic systems, the capital cost was broken down into system parts and module manufacturing processes. A Levelized Cost of Energy calculator was used with these figures to find where research could be focused to bring solar energy costs down. With a 1% increase in module efficiency, it was found that the cost of energy was only affected by 1 cent/kWh. This is indicative that research into more cost efficient manufacturing is the key to cutting photovoltaic energy prices: particularly in wafer and module conversion. However, more significant cost reduction could result from research in cheaply increasing the operational time of the cell despite the slight increase in system costs.
Greg T. Forcherio is currently a NSF Grade Research Fellow at the University of Arkansas. This work was completed as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at Purdue University for the Network for Photovoltaic Technology under Dr. Mark Lundstrom.
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Gregory T. Forcherio (2011), "LCOE Calculator," DOI: 10254/nanohub-r11406.4. (DOI: 10254/nanohub-r11406.4).
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Jamie Oliver's Foul-Mouthed Tirade At "Junk-Food Parents"
Jamie Oliver has launched a foul-mouthed tirade at parents who let their kids eat junk food.
The celebrity chef, who has been on a mission in recent years to educate schoolchildren on the health consequences a poor diet can have on their development, was reportedly provoked while filming his latest show, Jamie's Return to School Dinners.
"I've spent two years being PC about parents, now is the time to say 'If you're giving your young children fizzy drinks you're an a**ehole, you're a tosser'," a usually genial Oliver exploded.
"'If you give them bags of crisps you're an idiot. If you aren't cooking them a hot meal, sort it out.'
"If they truly care they've got to take control."
The fiery outburst was sparked when Oliver was confronted, off-screen, by a mother who admitted to feeding her one-year-old Coca Cola and refused to make shepherd's pie because it was "too posh".
"I have seen kids of the ages of four or five, the same age as mine, open their lunchbox and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald's, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull," the award-winning chef continued.
"We laugh and then want to cry."
Oliver is now calling on the English government to allow teachers to confiscate unhealthy food from their students and to more closely monitor the contents of their lunchboxes.
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How to Attach an Image to a Contact Form
Wouldn't it be cool if your Wufoo users could attach an image to your contact form when they fill it out? Well, it turns out, they can, and it's simple to do.
First off, to have this feature, you need to have a paid account. (Paying accounts do have their perks, what can we say?) On the form, you'll see the File Upload field – this is where the magic happens. Here are the types of files users can submit:
- Wufoo allows almost all file types, except potentially malicious files – such as .exe or other files that may cause harm
- Each file upload field is limited to 10MB per submission
- Each form can only have up to 20MB submitted at one time
Once your users upload a file, you'll be able to view it in the Entry Manager. In the notification email you receive, you'll also see the file link there, and you don't even have to log in to retrieve it!


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Achieving proper registration at the front end of your production workflow is critical for reducing setup time and boosting profits. Trimingham discusses how you can reap the benefits of such a system.
Watching a new recruit trying to register a garment-printing job on a manual press is a lot like riding in a car with a student driver. Whoa! A little too far to the left…and then zoom! Too far off to the right. You're in for a long trip if the print is rotated and out of alignment. The process of quickly registering screens on press is commonly thought of as a printer's job and, for the most part, an activity that requires skill and experience. That may be true to a degree on a manual press without a registration system, but the more automated a shop is, the earlier we must address registration in the screenmaking process.
Proper preparation for screen registration ideally starts in the art department and should be managed there instead of in the screen-prep or production areas. The reality is that every screen-printing shop needs to take a serious look at instituting a clear and functional registration system for minimizing downtime on press. This article will discuss some of the methods you can explore in realizing the ultimate goal: to save money by streamlining press setup.
Manage variables, save time
The savings from an effective registration system become clear when you investigate the true cost of poor and inconsistent registration during job setup. Just time your setup on all jobs for two weeks and then average it. Establish the standard time and set a realistic goal for achievement using a registration system. You may already have a registration system but opt not to use it because you prefer to wing it. The challenge in that scenario is to pit the team against the timer. Have them time a typical average and then have some supervised setup test averages established using the registration system. The timer doesn't lie. When you add up groups of 15-minute intervals across a week, you'll find the time represents multiple jobs you could have put on press.
Failure to control the variables associated with using a registration system is a big reason why companies that have such systems don't use them and, therefore, don't see the benefit. The institution of an effective registration system requires that you have control of certain screen and press issues:
• Film positives can be printed out with acceptable registration relative to each other.
• Screens are in good condition with similar tension.
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Rob Zombie Offers 'Lords of Salem' Update
Director Rob Zombie is giving way to rocker Rob Zombie at the moment, but the talented multitasker took a few moments to update fans on the status of his upcoming film.
'The Lords of Salem' thriller is tentatively expected later this year, and while Zombie has been shooting for a good portion of the spring, he reveals in a new update: "For those of you wondering if 'The Lords of Salem' is finished, the answer is no. I had to take a break due to the Megadeth tour and a few other things. I will be returning to work on the film in July to finish it up." Zombie recently wrapped a U.S. trek with Megadeth.
However, the director decided to whet fans' appetites for the new film by offering up a four-photo slideshow taken from shots of the new movie. In the slideshow seen below, we see a grizzled looking Margaret Morgan in a hallway wearing an oversized fur coat. Another slide is the inside of a mostly abandoned apartment where the one glowing feature is a neon red cross that lights the vacant room. There's also a photo of a gathering in a field near a bonfire where it looks as though a ceremony is about to begin. And finally, Zombie offers a location still of a creepy looking older house that sits on a street corner in Salem.
While Zombie is taking a break from his movie for the time being, that's not necessarily a bad thing for his music career. The rocker recently stated in an interview with Loudwire, "I think we've gone through a long phase of the band that's made the record is not the band that's gone on tour, which is always a drag. But this is also the first time we've gone on tour leading into making a record. Usually what happens, for us and a lot of bands, is you tour, you take a long extended break and then you make a record, which usually means you make a record when you're at your rustiest."
Zombie says that's not the case this time around, and there's something about the vibe right now that feels like this could be one of his best albums in years. Stay tuned as both the music and movie projects are on the horizon.
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Ivory Coast's former president is calling for an end to fighting after he was captured on Monday by forces backing the country's president-elect.
Former president Laurent Gbagbo is calling on his supporters to lay down their weapons so the country's political crisis can come to a swift end and life can return to normal.
Mr. Gbagbo says "the fighting is over," so that is why he asked his chief of staff to "go out with a white handkerchief." Mr. Gbagbo spoke on a television station run by President-elect Alasssane Ouattara, hours after he was arrested by Mr. Ouattara's fighters.
French forces surrounded Mr. Gbagbo's compound, but they say they did not enter the underground bunker where Mr. Ouattara's fighters captured the former president, gave him a bullet-proof jacket and helmet, and then took him, his wife, and his son into custody.
Mr. Gbagbo is being held at Mr. Ouattara's hotel headquarters from where Mr. Ouattara addressed the nation on what he called "a historic day."
Mr. Ouattara said that "a white page opened before the people of Ivory Coast, white like the white in the national flag that symbolizes hope and peace." "Together," he said, "Ivorians can write a story of reconciliation and forgiveness."
Mr. Ouattara guaranteed Mr. Gbagbo's safety and assured the people of Ivory Coast that the former president will stand trial.
Human Rights Watch says Mr. Gbagbo should not be allowed exile in a country that would shield him from prosecution. At the same time, the group says Mr. Ouattara's forces have an obligation to treat him and others in their custody humanely, in accordance with international law.
Mr. Gbagbo's capture ends a four-month political standoff between the presidential rivals as Gbagbo troops slowly deserted their leader. Hundreds of members of his Republican Guard surrendered to U.N. peacekeepers on Monday. Mr. Ouattara met late in the day with several former generals from the Gbagbo army.
With Mr. Gbago's capture, the spokesman for the U.N. mission here, Hamadoun Toure, said that restoring law and order in Abidjan is now the top priority, especially as many members of Mr. Gbagbo's militant youth wing are still at large.
"During the fighting we witnessed an increase in banditry activities," said Toure. "Young armed people were roaming around breaking into houses, carjacking, snatching people's mobile phones and valuables. That has to stop of course. It is a challenge."
Ouattara officials say that they are searching for key Gbagbo supporters, including militant youth leader Charles Ble Goude.
Ouattara forces swept across Ivory Coast when international mediators failed to convince Mr. Gbagbo to give up power. They reached Abidjan 12 days ago, but they were unable to capture the presidential compound where hundreds of Gbagbo loyalists held them off with heavy weapons.
U.N. and French helicopters attacked the compound one week ago, but Ouattara forces could not fight their way in. U.S. and U.N. officials say Gbagbo troops used a brief ceasefire to regroup and rearm, and late last week they were regaining ground in Abidjan.
That momentum appears to have collapsed when U.N. and French attack helicopters again bombed the presidential compound on Sunday because U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Gbagbo forces were using heavy artillery and mortars to attack the U.N. base in Abidjan as well as Mr. Ouattara's headquarters.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mr. Gbagbo's arrest "sends a strong signal to dictators" in West Africa and beyond, and that they cannot disregard the voice of their own people in free and fair elections.
Detained Gbagbo Calls for End to Ivory Coast Fighting
Ivory Coast's former president is calling for an end to fighting after he was captured on Monday by forces backing the country's president-elect.


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J-Rich wrote:The W's need to trade MDJ and Foyle for some expiring contracts before that time comes to resigning them!!!!
I am pretty sure that the warriors will not sign pitrus or ellis this offseason. Beacuse no one is gonna take those garbage contracts that mullin has signed his boys to. Plus even if the warriors are able to get rid of a contract, they will need that money to sign AB.


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TEMPE, Ariz. — Devon Kennard is on the verge of earning a master's degree. His NFL draft stock is rising. And he leads a stingy USC defense that ranks among the best in college football.
He is not sure how much of that would have been possible had he not suffered a season-ending injury on the eve of training camp last season.
"I'm a firm believer in God always has a plan," Kennard said this week.
After surgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle, Kennard redshirted last season as USC slipped from preseason No. 1 to a 7-6 finish.
He agonized watching teammates struggle, but the year away provided Kennard an opportunity to make headway toward a postgraduate degree in communication management.
It also gave him a fifth season of eligibility. And when Clancy Pendergast joined Coach Lane Kiffin's staff, Kennard moved from end to a hybrid linebacker position in the new defensive coordinator's blitzing "52" scheme.
The result: Kennard is thriving on and off the field.
The 6-foot-3, 255-pound Kennard has five tackles for losses, including three of the Trojans' 16 sacks. He also has broken up three passes and hurried the quarterback three times.
"I can't imagine someone playing better," Kiffin said. "He's been a dominant force out there on the outside, whether it's against backs, tight ends, tackles, whoever it is. His film right now is really elite level."
Kennard, who graduated from Phoenix Desert Vista High, hopes to elevate his performance further when USC plays Arizona State in a key Pac-12 Conference South division game Saturday night.
The game will mark Kennard's third collegiate start before hometown fans at Sun Devil Stadium.
He's moved around on the football field too. Kennard arrived at USC as a defensive end. He played as a reserve for the first half of his freshman season before starting for the first time in place of injured Everson Griffen against Arizona State.
The next week, former coach Pete Carroll moved Kennard to outside linebacker and he started at that spot the rest of the season.
In 2010, with Carroll leaving to coach the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Monte Kiffin oversaw the defense and moved Kennard to middle linebacker. The bulked-up sophomore started eight games but finished the season as a backup. He underwent arthroscopic hip surgery after the season.
In 2011, Kennard returned to end, starting five games and playing as a reserve in the others. He was preparing for a final season and a shot at the 2013 NFL draft when he was injured lifting weights in late July 2012.
Instead of making tackles, Kennard watched as the Trojans defense suffered embarrassing lapses.
When Pendergast replaced Monte Kiffin last January, Kennard did not know what to expect from a coach who had been the Arizona Cardinals' defensive coordinator when Kennard was a local teen. But it did not take Pendergast long to evaluate Kennard.
"After the first few days of spring practice, I could see he was one of those guys that could give us a lot of flexibility," Pendergast said.
Under Carroll and Monte Kiffin, Kennard played end mostly out of a three-point stance. In Pendergast's scheme, Kennard stands up on the edge and he can either rush or drop into coverage.
"The position fit really has been good for him to be able to stand up and play outside and look inside at the ball," Pendergast said.
Kennard will be looking to create turnovers against an Arizona State team that is 2-1 overall and 0-1 in the Pac-12 after last week's 42-28 loss at Stanford.
USC is 3-1 and has won consecutive games against Boston College and Utah State since losing to Washington State in its conference opener.
Kennard was part of a Trojans victory at Sun Devil Stadium in 2009, and a loss in 2011. "There's definitely a little significance," he said of Saturday's game. "It's the last time I'm going to be able to play in front of my home city at the college level.
"I'm excited for that but for the most part I'm keeping an even keel. … I'm keeping my emotions down and just staying focused on the game."
And his future.
"I don't look back," he said. "I feel this situation is even better for me. Now I get to play in this defense my last year and show what I can do and finish my master's."
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No one ever said Mike Williams -- the former USC star wide receiver -- wasn't talented. He just couldn't come close to living up to the hype. Now, he'll have another chance, this time north of the border.
The Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts announced they signed Williams to a contract on Thursday.
Before coach Pete Carroll rehabilitated the entire Seattle Seahawks roster, he rehabilitated the career of Williams, whom he coached in college.
One of Matt Millen's many draft mistakes, Williams was one of the best stories of the 2010 NFL season, emerging from the wilderness after two years out of the league to catch 65 passes for the Seahawks. Williams finished second in that season's NFL Comeback Player of the Year voting to Michael Vick.
The rejuvenation was short-lived. Williams caught only 18 passes in an injury-plagued 2011 season and fizzled out of the NFL. Now, he's making one more try at professional football.
Despite his winding football road, Williams still only is 29 years old. Perhaps he's got another comeback or two left in him.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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Good evening loves! I hope you enjoyed the weekend and that you all are ready for a new week of work and new things that may come!
Today I want to present you a new dress. I have a similar one for more than one year but the difference stands in its lenght and color: short red vs long champagne :D Both are gorgeous but this time this is more me due to its shape and its color ( you know my crush on red lately ♥ )
As you may thinking, is that kind of dress that you can wear it as you please in the upper side, I`ve heard that are around 30 ways, which is wow!! The good thing is that if you like it you can also order it on your favorite color and you will be able to try it and maybe discover new ways of wearing it :D If you want to see more of my passion and work lately and more details about the dress I`m wearing, you`ll find them Here.
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Editor's note: This blog post is a summation of "Ecology, Behavior, and Reproduction of an Introduced Population of Red-vented Bulbuls (Pycnontus cafer) in Houston, Texas," written by HMNS Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Daniel M. Brooks and published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Invasive species are (unfortunately) nothing new to Texas. Defined as an "introduced species that adversely affect the habitats and bioregions they invade economically, environmentally, and/or ecologically," invasive species (aka invasive exotics or exotics) can have wide-ranging negative impacts on regions.
Species such as giant salvinia, feral hogs, zebra mussels and nutria constitute invasive species currently wreaking havoc on Texas wildlife, having decimated food sources and changing ecological dynamics, and even threatening other species' survival in their environmental niches. It's for this reason that many scientists have begun to study introduced species and their behaviors before they decimate their new habitats.
In light of this, Brooks initiated the Texas Invasive Bird Project in June 2008, a citizen-science study targeting six avian species invading the state. One of these is the red-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer). This species was previously unstudied in Houston.
The red-vented bulbul is native to Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka, but has become a well-established invasive species in parts of the Middle East, various tropical Pacific islands … and Houston. In its native and introduced regions, it can be found in a variety of habitats, including urban gardens. In the Houston study, we aimed to determine the ecology, behavior and reproduction of the bulbul through a questionnaire made available at birdwatching clubs, annual birdwatching festivals and circulated on internet list serves. Most of the respondents were either birdwatchers familiar with bulbuls or horticulturalists who maintain diverse gardens.
The results determined that the most frequent activities for the birds included foraging, perching or resting and calling. Ninety-six percent of the reports described residential suburbs as the primary habitat of the birds, with the highest concentrations being found in the Heights neighborhood. In these areas, they were observed perching on 35 species of plants, and feeding on 20. Forty-three percent of the plants they perched on are native to Texas, while only five of the 20 plants they fed on are native to Texas. The most common plants used for perching were also exotic plants (bamboo, crepe myrtle, fig and tallow), which are all found in the native range of the bulbul.
They are generally non-migratory birds. But the largest flocks appear at regular intervals between August and September, and then again from December through January, traveling in flocks of 12 to 22 birds. This matches their patterns in other regions, while their numbers are much smaller in Houston (with gatherings of 20 to 100 birds within their native range).
Ultimately, it seems that bulbuls are not currently a threat to Houston, but they should continue to be closely monitored. While they pose no current negative economic threat as they do in Pacific islands (such as Oahu, where they've decimated tropical plant crops), it seems that their largest potential threat in Houston remains through seed dispersal. In this area, they have great potential to disperse noxious weedy seeds, as they have done in Fiji with spiked pepper, guava, and prickly night-shade.
In the meantime, the birds seem to be enjoying their niche in previously untapped resources of other exotic plants brought to Houston and used in gardens, which other birds have not used with great regularity to eat or perch in. However, as the population continues to increase and spread through the region, we will have to monitor any changes that may occur which could negatively impact native species.


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Re: RPG: The Force Wars Of the Old Republic
(Ok discount all deaths except my masters death i just meditated at the temple then)
"Where do we go now?" aegob asked
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Role Playing → RPG: The Force Wars Of the Old Republic
(Ok discount all deaths except my masters death i just meditated at the temple then)
"Where do we go now?" aegob asked
(Well....If I had known that Mustafar was in a different galaxy....)
"We should leave, there might be Sith around."
"Wise words, Kharn. Captain?" Da'leshts looked at the capitan, who nodded. "Take us up." The pioltos responed and the ship lifted off.
"I say we go to manaan."
By the time he had reached Dantooine again the ship had fled its area and there was no trace of it ever being there, "Damn" hisuke cursed under his breath pounding on the controls and firing off a missile. "Whoops" He landed again same spot as last time. He then began to saerch the caves of dantooine for crystals he could give to the students back at the academy on Mustafar.
( I meant to say star system sorry bout the mix up)
"A good idea, its neutral, so we wont come to harm" Da'leshta said. "Mannan it is." The captain said. "I'm going to get some rest." Da'leshta said walking off. Kharn decided he to should get some sleep and headed to his room, Aegob remaining on the bridge. He had to pass Kirah's room to get to his own. He walked past her door, and her arm shot out and stopped him. She grabbed his robes and tugged gently, and he decided to go in. She locked the door behind him.
I better get some rest too aegob thought
5 hours later they came out of hyperspace
(you might want to delete your older post, as it just serves to confuse people now. its the red button with the white bar in the middle)
Kharn woke up. He didnt know how long he had been sleeping until he looked at the chrono on the wall. He got up, Kirah stirring slighty because of it. He found his robes on the floor and dressed, kissing her softly before leaving. He found Master Da'leshta, and greeted him, then they went to find some breakfast
Heading back to his ship with a load of crystals thismay have been the most he'd ever collected, almost halfway to his ship he saw another ship next to it. It must've been one of the other sith attempting to steal the glory by taking his kills."You're too late" "what" said the other sith, he was a Zabrak. "I realize your intention, sad part ios though, that ship of jedi has fled to someother system you won't be getting any props this time." he then headed to his ship and headed up into space to find a heat signature from the ship that had fled or someother trace of where they had gone leaving the zabrak dumbstruck on the planet surface, no luck. He then went backto mustafar.
he could see the planet
"We're here" the captain said
Kharn walked back to engineering, it did have a claming effect on him. He went to the same room, and watched the blue planet float lazily in space.
the ship landed and aegob decided to go for a walk
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Age: 27
Species: human
Gender: male
WOC: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Captain_shoot.jpg, also a keep sake blue lightsaber from the jedi he killed
Planet of exile: Tatooine
Astromech droid (if applicable):
StarShip: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Si … -NEGVV.jpg (Galaxy Raxor)
Current Planet: Nar Shadda
Appearance: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Cmdr._Keller.jpg
Personality: stern, not a people person
Force abilities: N/A
Additional Info: His who family was killed when he was just a boy. He raised hiself on the streets and at the age of 18 he became a bounty hunter.
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Beyonce Poses as Sexy Referee in New Super Bowl Photo
Beyonce is busting her bootylicious butt as she prepares for her Super Bowl halftime performance this weekend (Feb. 3). She has shared a photo of herself in rehearsals and an image of herself posing as a sexy referee, complete with a black and white striped top, Foot Locker-style, black under eye markings, blood-red lips and black, thigh-high leather boots.
We know, one of those things is not like the others. But Bey had to inject a whole lot of sexiness and fabulosity into a male-dominated, testosterone-fueled event, and this is just one of the ways the Queen is making the Super Bowl "hers." She is taking the job seriously.
Bey is sexy and sultry in one photo and working up a sweat in the other.
Considering both factors and elements, we're fairly certain that Bey will turn up the heat this Sunday during her halftime performance.
While we've got you here, who doesn't believe Michelle Williams' story that the Destiny's Child reunion isn't happening? She's just trying to throw us off the scent. Not buying it, sorry!
Who plans to tune in and watch Bey do her thang on Sunday night? That is so not the time for a bathroom break or a beer run, peeps!
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I know that there are all kinds of natural disasters around the world that we never even know about (Unless they are huge). Heck, there are some that are potential disasters right near us and we may not even know. Like me, I just found out there have been several small earthquakes not far from us and I had no idea. That is until they mentioned it on the news. (I never watch the news...I saw the mention on the news Facebook page).
Anyway, they had a link to a USGS Earthquake site that shows even some of the smaller quakes that people may not really feel from any distance away.
I figure that there is nothing I can do to stop a quake...I may not even have any warning but, I like to know what is going on. See, I am waiting for California to shake off into the ocean so, I can have beach front property.
Anyway, I thought I would put the link here so if anyone else would like to check it out...maybe you weren't going nuts...the earth was shaking??!!


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- A Minute to Learn It - Applying for Financial Aid
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- A Minute to Learn It - Federal Aid Eligibility
- How do I know if I will qualify for financial aid?
- I don't think I will qualify for financial aid. Should I still apply?
- I have a 4-year bachelors degree. Can I still receive federal financial aid?
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- What does the term EFC stand for?
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- How are students selected for Verification?
- Can my tax data be retrieved directly from the IRS?
- What tax information do I need to complete my FAFSA on or after October 1st?
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- What do I do with the Student Aid Report I received?
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- What are some of the reasons my FAFSA would be rejected?
- What do I do if I have a Social Security Number issue on my Student Aid Report?
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- What do I do if my Student Aid Report (SAR) indicates there is a conflict with the data reported on my FAFSA?
- If my FAFSA was rejected because it wasn't signed, is there a way to correct this?
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The Vienna Boys Choir concert taking place at Hope College on Thursday, Oct. 25, is sold out.
The choir will be performing in Dimnent Memorial Chapel through the college's Great Performance Series.
The Vienna Boys Choir was commissioned in 1498 by Emperor Maximilian I. During the last five centuries, the Vienna Boys Choir has performed with notable artists including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Anton Bruckner. Composers Jacobus Gallus and Franz Schubert were members of the group in their boyhood. Since beginning American tours in 1938, the Vienna Boys Choir has given more than 1,000 performances.
"The Vienna Boys Choir have definitely reconquered their reputation as an artistic institution of the highest order," said "Die Presse" of Vienna.
The group performs an eclectic program including everything from Viennese waltzes and polkas to works of the classical and baroque periods.
The choir has recorded several award-winning albums and contributed to multiple soundtracks. These boys are not made entirely of music; they also attend their own school in the Augartenpalais, a baroque palace in Vienna. They work around the clock to maintain their reputation for good discipline as well as fine musicianship.
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Bottom trawling
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When I was growing up, I used to spend most of my summers visiting my Grandmother in Olean, NY. If you have never heard of Olean, it is a great little community just over the New York State line from Bradford, PA. It was also a major bootlegging stop during Prohibition. In the 1920s, the press nicknamed the town "Little Chicago" because of its connection with organized crime, bootleggers and Al Capone; who often visited there.
My Grandparents were born and raised near Olean, before 1900. They married in Olean and raised seven children there. Unfortunately, Grandma was widowed young and had to obtain a position as a baker at The Olean House, an upscale hotel, to support her children; where she managed to get promoted to head baker. She was well-known in the community for her expertise at baking the best cakes and pies. Whether she ever baked an Italian Rum Cake for Capone, she never said. However, she always brought baked goods to family gatherings, her NSDAR ladies (Olean Chapter 1117), and often donated recipes to church cookbooks that were being produced for charity.
One could describe her as the Walter Staib of Olean - traditional recipes using original methods of baking.
I was her youngest granddaughter and she took me under her wing in the kitchen. It was a lost cause, however, because even a simple thing like cupcakes turned out like hockey pucks when I tried to make them. I remember once, she actually stood over my shoulder while she dictated a cake recipe. It was one of her famous orange Bundt cakes with orange glaze. Sure enough, it came out of the oven like a paper weight. It had risen less than an inch. I wrote an essay about it in my book, Sitting on Cold Porcelain, called "Thanksgiving Plans – Remember the Titanic."
I got married in Philadelphia, Grandma retired from the Olean House, and we visited regularly. She was still sharp as a tack at 90 years old. She managed to take several solo trips to Florida to visit her younger sister before she passed.
Somehow, during that time, a light bulb went on in my head and I learned how to cook. I never did get the hang of baking a good cake, however, but there was Duncan Hines and the box cake only turned out lop-sided once. That's when she put me wise to turning the tins upside down and icing the flat sides together.
I remember Grandma being very active at her Church. She was a member of the United Brethren Church and the Eastern Star. I think about her often during the holidays. So, it must have been ESP when I logged on to eBay just after Thanksgiving last year, and did a search for my grandmother's name and "Olean," because I found a church cookbook up for auction that she had contributed to almost 40 years ago. In it was a brown bread recipe with brown sugar, raisins, and nuts. I was thrilled. I'll make my girls one of Grandma's recipes for Christmas, I thought. Then, I groaned, remembering how it could turn out.
Surprisingly, not bad!
My daughters are grown now and have children of their own. Two of them only have a vague recollection of visiting their Great Grandmother in Olean, but they know all about her from my stories. This past Christmas, they had a special gift from Great-Grandma that I would like to share with you. You can make it anytime for sandwiches as a delicious substitute for whole wheat. It is not sweet:
Millie Chappell's Brown Bread
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3 cups buttermilk
2 cups flour
3 cups graham flour (order online, I can't find it anywhere else)
4 tbsp. shortening (melted)
4 tbsp. molasses
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
Add raisins, nuts, or dates as desired. I used raisins and pecans.
Mix all of the dry ingredients together, except the brown sugar. In a separate bowl, mix all of the liquid ingredients and the sugar. Combine them both making a batter. Grease two bread tins and fill them slightly more than half full with the batter. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for one hour. It makes two loaves… and all that jazz.
Yay! I'm Roxie Hart in the kitchen!
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Forum Post: How can socialists and capitalists agree on the 99% Conglomerate?
Posted 5 years ago on July 13, 2013, 4:31 a.m. EST by Kavatz
from Edmonton, AB
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
Here are some good points. I could go on and on.
Corporations generally think very short-term. They will see the Conglomerate as a competitive and efficiency advantage.
Culture will tell them that it's their corporate social responsibility to be a member and follow the guidelines of the current state of Responsible Capitalism. This is because consumers will understand what it does for society and the local economy, and will learn to easily boycott business refusing to join.
No loss of expected earnings, will occur for Subsidiaries. Actually, the sooner you become a Subsidiary, the better for the bottom line.
No increase in expenses will occur for Subsidiaries. Actually the opposite is true, even more so as we move through the phases. Many services corporations use, like accounting, legal, benefits, retirement savings plans, insurance, even worker placement for those who want it is going to be managed by a single entity called Essential Services, which is completely worker owned/directed.
They can understand that politics cannot help induce positive systemic change. Know your enemy.
The strategy will be known that if you have no other effective, non-violent, "legal" way to fight, you have to use the same system they use. You have to become a master of capitalism to control and end it. We have to use the power of the corporation against TPTB. Fire with fire.
The strategy is to become as politically influential as the elite capitalists, and then surpass any entity as the most powerful and influential entity ever. Rather than a few people pushing money through government, making the rules, it will be the Phase 3 Subsidiaries (democratic workers), plus all the Phase 2 Subsidiaries who drafted the Phase 3 Conglomerate Constitution.
Consumers will understand that by doing nothing out of the ordinary, they are supporting the shift from current capitalism, through Responsible Capitalism, to beyond capitalism.
Workers will know that it's better to work at democratic worker-owned enterprises.
Smaller employers and all employees these days care about their land and economy. They know that moving in this direction is necessary.
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Last week the recently released Pharoahe Monch album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) was number three on the Amoeba chart. This week the powerful, highly recommended release by the longtime emcee & former member of legendary early 90's hip-hop crew Organized Konfusion, who is currently on tour in Europe (he plays Sommercasino in Basel, Switzerland tonight), has the number one selling hip-hop album at the Hollywood Amoeba. Thanks to Ray Ricky Rivera for the latest chart, which also includes Zion I & The Grouch's latest collab, Lupe Fiasco, Far East Movement, and Gucci Mane.


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Dr. Diette earned his M.D. from the Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. He received his M.H.S. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His research interests include environmental impacts on lung disease, epidemiology of airway disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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- MD, Temple University School of Medicine (1990)
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania / Internal Medicine (1993)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (1998)
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Research Summary
Dr. Diette's research focuses on identifying factors that cause or provoke asthma. His team focuses on air pollutants (particulate matter, NO2, secondhand smoke) and allergens (including mouse) that are especially problematic in inner-city homes. They are studying the effects of these pollutants and allergens on inflammation and oxidative stress. More recently, they have begun examining how dietary patterns, especially a Western style diet, may increase susceptibility to inhalable pollutants and allergens.
He is currently leading two clinical trials at Johns Hopkins. The first examines the effect of air quality on the adult asthmatic response and the other examines how improving provider-patient communication can reduce asthma disparities.
Clinical Trials
The effect of air quality on the adult asthmatic response (INHALE)
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Tanner NT, Aggarwal J, Gould MK, Kearney P, Diette G, Vachani A, Fang KC, Silvestri GA. "Management of pulmonary nodules by community pulmonologists: a multicenter observational study." Chest. 2015 Jun 18. doi: 10.1378/chest.15-0630.
Sussan TE, Gajghate S, Chatterjee S, Mandke P, McCormick S, Sudini K, Kumar S, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Sidhaye VK, Biswal S. "Nrf2 reduces allergic asthma in mice through enhanced airway epithelial cytoprotective function." Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Jul 1;309(1):L27-36. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00398.2014.
Jaganath D, Miranda JJ, Gilman RH, Wise RA, Diette GB, Miele CH, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Checkley W; CRONICAS Cohort Study Group. "Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and variation in risk factors across four geographically diverse resource-limited settings in Peru." Respir Res. 2015 Mar 18;16:40. doi: 10.1186/s12931-015-0198-2.
Kolahdooz F, Butler JL, Christiansen K, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Hansel NN, McCormack MC, Sheehy T, Gittelsohn J, Sharma S. "Food and nutrient intake in African American children and adolescents aged 5 to 16 years in Baltimore City." J Am Coll Nutr. 2015 Apr 9:1-12. [Epub ahead of print]
Diette GB, Dalal AA, D'Souza AO, Lunacsek OE, Nagar SP. "Treatment patterns of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in employed adults in the United States." Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2015 Feb 24;10:415-22. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S75034. eCollection 2015.
McCormack MC, Belli AJ, Kaji DA, Matsui EC, Brigham EP, Peng RD, Sellers C, Williams DL, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Hansel NN. "Obesity as a susceptibility factor to indoor particulate matter health effects in COPD." Eur Respir J. 2015 May;45(5):1248-57. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00081414. Epub 2015 Jan 8.
Paulin LM, Diette GB, Blanc PD, Putcha N, Eisner MD, Kanner RE, Belli AJ, Christenson S, Tashkin DP, Han M, Barr RG, Hansel NN; SPIROMICS Research Group. "Occupational exposures are associated with worse morbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Mar 1;191(5):557-65.
Brigham EP, Kolahdooz F, Hansel N, Breysse PN, Davis M, Sharma S, Matsui EC, Diette G, McCormack MC. "Association between Western diet pattern and adult asthma: a focused review." Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2015 Apr;114(4):273-80. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2014.11.003. Epub 2014 Dec 15. Review.
Vachani A, Tanner NT, Aggarwal J, Mathews C, Kearney P, Fang KC, Silvestri G, Diette GB. "Factors that influence physician decision making for indeterminate pulmonary nodules." Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2014 Dec;11(10):1586-91.
Kaji DA, Belli AJ, McCormack MC, Matsui EC, Williams DL, Paulin L, Putcha N, Peng RD, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Hansel NN. "Indoor pollutant exposure is associated with heightened respiratory symptoms in atopic compared to non-atopic individuals with COPD." BMC Pulm Med. 2014 Sep 10;14:147.
Paulin LM, Diette GB, Scott M, McCormack MC, Matsui EC, Curtin-Brosnan J, Williams DL, Kidd-Taylor A, Shea M, Breysse PN, Hansel NN. Home interventions are effective at decreasing indoor nitrogen dioxide concentrations. Indoor Air. 2013 Dec 14. doi: 10.1111/ina.12085. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24329966
Okelo SO, Riekert KA, Eakin MN, Bilderback AL, Diette GB, Rand CS, Yenokyan G. Pediatrician qualifications and asthma management behaviors and their association with patient race/ethnicity. J Asthma. 2013 Dec 6. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24256071
Matsui EC, Hansel NN, Aloe C, Schiltz AM, Peng RD, Rabinovitch N, Ong MJ, Williams DL, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Liu AH. Indoor pollutant exposures modify the effect of airborne endotoxin on asthma in urban children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Nov 15;188(10):1210-5. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201305-0889OC. PMID: 24066676
Okelo SO, Butz AM, Sharma R, Diette GB, Pitts SI, King TM, Linn ST, Reuben M, Chelladurai Y, Robinson KA. Interventions to modify health care provider adherence to asthma guidelines: a systematic review. Pediatrics. 2013 Sep;132(3):517-34. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-0779. Epub 2013 Aug 26. Review. PMID: 23979092
Ahluwalia SK, Peng RD, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Curtin-Brosnan J, Aloe C, Matsui EC. Mouse allergen is the major allergen of public health relevance in Baltimore City. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Oct;132(4):830-5.e1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.05.005. Epub 2013 Jun 26. PMID: 23810154
Okelo SO, Butz AM, Sharma R, Diette GB, Pitts SI, King TM, Linn ST, Reuben M, Chelladurai Y, Robinson KA. Interventions to Modify Health Care Provider Adherence to Asthma Guidelines [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 May. PMID: 23805435
McCormack MC, Aloe C, Curtin-Brosnan J, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Matsui EC. Guideline-Recommended Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide Is a Poor Predictor of Health-care Use Among Inner-city Children and Adolescents Receiving Usual Asthma Care. Chest. 2013 Sep;144(3):923-9. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-3098. PMID: 23764806
Bose S, Breysse PN, McCormack MC, Hansel NN, Rusher RR, Matsui E, Peng R, Curtin-Brosnan J, Diette GB. Outdoor exposure and vitamin D levels in urban children with asthma. Nutr J. 2013 Jun 12;12(1):81. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23758744
Martin WJ 2nd, Glass RI, Araj H, Balbus J, Collins FS, Curtis S, Diette GB, Elwood WN, Falk H, Hibberd PL, Keown SE, Mehta S, Patrick E, Rosenbaum J, Sapkota A, Tolunay HE, Bruce NG. Household air pollution in low- and middle-income countries: health risks and research priorities. PLoS Med. 2013;10(6):e1001455. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001455. Epub 2013 Jun 4. No abstract available. PMID: 23750119
Jamieson DB, Matsui EC, Belli A, McCormack MC, Peng E, Pierre-Louis S, Curtin-Brosnan J, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Hansel NN. Effects of allergic phenotype on respiratory symptoms and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Jul 15;188(2):187-92. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201211-2103OC. PMID: 23668455
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If you get an alert saying "No SIM" or "There is a problem with your SIM card," remove your SIM card, then reinstall it. If you get the alert again, contact Apple Support.
Make sure that your iPad works with an Apple SIM. If you're not sure which iPad model you have, find out. Some iPad models can use an Apple SIM card in the nano-SIM tray, while other models have an embedded Apple SIM and a nano-SIM tray:
iPad models with eSIM
- iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi + Cellular
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
If you can't set up cellular service, or if your iPad can't scan the QR code that your carrier gave you, contact your carrier for help.
iPad models that can use an Apple SIM card in the nano-SIM tray
- iPad (5th generation and later) Wi-Fi + Cellular model
- iPad Pro (all Wi-Fi + Cellular models2)
- iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular model
- iPad mini 3 or later Wi-Fi + Cellular model
If you install an Apple SIM in a different iPad model, you'll get an "Invalid SIM" alert.
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Apple SIM lets you set up a cellular data plan with participating carriers around the world. If you don't see the carrier you want, make sure that the carrier you want to set up service with supports Apple SIM.
You might need to get a carrier-specific SIM card. Contact your preferred carrier1 for help.
To make sure that you're using an Apple SIM, check for a digital identifier called a chip serial number (CSN). On your iPad, go to Settings > General > About and look for CSN. If you don't find a CSN on the About screen, tap ICCID. If you still don't see a CSN (tapping ICCID doesn't do anything), you might not have an Apple SIM. Contact your carrier1 for help.
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Make sure that your iPad is activated on the carrier's network. To check, return to the screen where you set up cellular data service or added a new plan:
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- If you aren't sure which carrier to call, remove the SIM card and check the card for the carrier's name or logo.
- The Wi-Fi + Cellular models of iPad Pro support existing Apple SIM cards that have an active cellular data plan. If you insert an unused Apple SIM card into one of these models, you'll get a message saying that the SIM card isn't compatible and recommending that you use the embedded Apple SIM.


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HIV+ for 25 Years
Reflections on a Silver Jubilee
In 1981, I was 21 years old and living in New York City. I had just graduated from NYU, and lived in my own small apartment in an East Village walkup (next to the Hells Angels, but that's another story.) It was a decade into the sexual revolution, a heady time to be young in what felt like the center of the gay universe. I went out almost every night and rarely went home alone. When it became clear that the mysterious immune disorder that appeared that summer was spread by sexual contact, I suspected I would not emerge unscathed.
My brother was a medical student, and also gay. He almost immediately urged me to use condoms. My head told me this made sense, and yet I scoffed. It was so "straight," I told him. I see now that this was just a form of denial. If I'd admitted the necessity of safe sex, it would have meant confronting the potential enormity of what lay ahead. I needed to believe some explanation or cure would be found before too long. I could not wrap my head around the idea of an epidemic that might kill hundreds of thousands, not to mention most of my friends. No one could.
In 1983, a lymph node inflamed in the back of my head that made me think I had a brain tumor, but was no doubt the moment of my infection. That would mean this past fall I marked a quarter century of being HIV+. I would imagine less than 10% of the men who became positive when I did survive to this day. I'm 50 now, a battle-scarred veteran, an elder. I have become an expert on something no one wants to be an expert on.
Ironies abound. My brother not only used condoms, but could count the men he'd slept with on both hands. He died of AIDS in 1991. If life was fair, it should have been me. But life isn't fair, and neither is this disease.
Which doesn't mean it isn't a logical disease, even a brilliant one. The HIV retrovirus just happens to spread sexually -- it doesn't care what the sex or the sexual orientation is of its hosts. It is nothing to take personally. So I never experienced shame, nor had any issue with disclosing my status. If potential partners demurred, that was absolutely their right. Hell, I'd much rather be rejected for my serostatus than my personality.
I learned many wrong lessons from this disease. I was so realistic (i.e., pessimistic) about the likelihood of my demise that I didn't know how to deal with salvation when it finally appeared in the late 1990s. The logical reaction would have been joy and gratitude, but I felt disoriented. I'd expended a considerable amount of effort making friends with the prospect of an early death, and this profoundly altered my thinking. It was as if the part of my brain that made plans for the future had shriveled, forgotten how to function. I could no longer compute living a long life any more than I'd been able to imagine living a short one back in 1983.
The fear of mortality had provided me with a huge rationalization to seek out as much immediate gratification as possible. By the time the prospect of hitting 40 and beyond went from fantasy to reality, another disease -- addiction (camouflaged as the hunt for as much fun as possible) -- now defined my life.
One disease fertilized the other. Since I'd been spared death, I started to think of consequences as things other people suffered. This arrogance led to drug dealing, and eventually a nine–month stint in the California Institute for Men at Chino.
Prison taught me that the worst thing that ever happened to you can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you. It was the closest I could get to dying without really dying, so it gave me, at long last, closure. And the fear of returning to prison launched me into a lawful, sober life, where I've dwelt happily for over four years.
It's a terrible gift to survive when so many you loved have died, but it is a gift. This I'm clear on. And I'm also realizing that the fear that so marked over a decade of my life was not confined to me, or even to other long-term survivors. I'm actually convinced that AIDS, along with things like global warming and terrorism, have created a society-wide anxiety with far-reaching effects. For the first time in history, anyone watching the news was inflicted with a sense that the continued existence of the world could not be depended on.
From the hope for instant stardom on reality TV, to the emphasis on short-term profit on Wall Street or via housing speculation, Americans seemed to have become fixated on cramming all the rewards or excitement of a long life into a short time frame. It's as if everybody -- not just people with AIDS -- became afraid they wouldn't be around in another decade.
I've learned to think in terms of living a whole life again, and I'm hoping our new President is leading the country in the direction of that kind of thinking as well. Surviving AIDS and addiction has taught me the difference between living in the moment and living for the moment. I take things a day at a time, but I also plan ahead. I have my future back.
Mark C. Olmsted is an LA-based writer and editor. His blog can be read at www.makemarc.blospot.com.


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His distended beak swelling under an angry gash, the Calgary Flames defenceman simply shrugged at the souvenir from a routine training camp scrimmage at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
"Not broken," pronounced Sarich, clearly knowledgeable about such matters. "My nose has been broken long before this.
"It's just a skin flap. It's going to be an ugly one. It's going to take time to heal, I'm sure."
He laughed.
"Maybe I'll get sympathy at home," he said. "But doubtful."
Nasty cuts aside, the 33-year-old Sarich fully realizes his job description requires him to add physical punch to the Calgary lineup.
Otherwise, he could find himself watching the young pups in his midst surpass him on the depth chart.
"That's how I need to be noticed," Sarich said, of throwing his weight around. "It gets under the other team's skin, and it helps get your teammates fired up.
"So I'm just going to have to pick my spots. We're learning a new system and watching a little videotape this morning, I do have the tendency to run around a little bit. I'm going to try to make sure that's contained.
"I just want to play within the team structure, but whenever I can get a lick in, I like to,"
He got two significant licks in during Wednesday's scrimmage against two big names in captain Jarome Iginla and Michael Cammalleri.
The six-foot-three, 207-pound-Sarich took the worst of the collision with the five-foot-nine, 190-pound Cammalleri.
"I think it was my own visor," Sarich said. "I think our heads hit, and he wins that battle every time."
For his part, Cammalleri was glad to claim bragging rights over his friendly, neighbourhood stay-at-home defenceman.
"Did you see who came up bloody?" Cammalleri quipped. "I told him afterwards, 'that's what happens when you try to hit me.'
"He got lucky there. The legs were locked up on me there. They were a little tired, so he got lucky."
To put it politely, goalie Miikka Kiprusoff looked a little shaky Wednesday in surrendering a natural hat trick to centre Mikael Backlund in the afternoon scrimmage.
So no one seemed at all shocked when head coach Bob Hartley announced after practice that his starting goaltender has Thursday off.
"He's been in net since Day 1 of camp by himself," Hartley said. "So tomorrow, we're going to rest him, and we'll start thinking about who will be in net for Day 1."
The Flames open the season Sunday at home against San Jose. Barring an emergency, Kiprusoff will no doubt take his place between the pipes against his former team for his first of many starts in a condensed 2013 campaign.
Hartley also made a point of saying he planned to reach out to forward Jiri Hudler, who rushed back to the Czech Republic after the death of his father, Jiri Hudler Sr.
"Mornings right now, we're being blitzed from everywhere," Hartley said after practice. "There's not enough time, but as soon as we're done, that's one thing.
"I want to talk to Jiri."
Wednesday's Session
* Glencross-Tanguay-Iginla
* Baertschi-Backlund-Cammalleri
* Horak-Stajan-Stempniak
* Comeau-Jones-Jackman
* Begin/Byron-Street-Winchester
* Giordano-Bouwmeester
* Butler-Wideman
* Smith-Sarich
* Brodie-Carson
* Breen-McCarthy
* Kiprusoff
* Karlsson
* Irving
Scrimmage goals
* Backlund (3), Cammalleri, Horak
"I'm very happy," Hartley said of the Day 4 scrimmage. "We still have adjustments, but that's going to be the same thing for the 29 other teams. But I like the jump. I like the intensity. The execution is real good. Mikael Backlund, in that scrimmage, was basically by himself out there. So we're seeing good things. The veterans are pushing hard. The kids are improving."


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700 mb temperatures are expected to be
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Sunday night. This will drop snow levels down to around 6000-7000
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TMC wrote:migya wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote:I had a very good day and think I have the lead 7-2. JHoward was a beast on steals today TMC, got seven
Those 7 steals were the only good thing that happened to me last day. My guys haven't sucked, but have been very average so far...
It's gonna be tough to recover from the hole I'm in right now. Two categories are almost lost already (assists and, probably, rebounds) and I won't have an easy time recovering ground in the others.
It is not one week until Sunday, it is until next Wednesday when the regular season ends. Anything can happen and it is definately not over
Yeah, I know it lasts til next wednesday. And I'm not saying it's over, just that I can't see me recovering at those two categories unless some of your guys start missing games... but most categories are still up in the air, so it's not like I'm giving up or anything.
Yea, I thought I had the major advantage in rebounds, assists and blocks, so I thought I just needed another two categories. I see the percentages looking good for me as well as threes, but it is still early.
Looks like Pawno will indeed fall. Had he made the championship playoffs he likely would have been hammered first week


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It includes condition indicator data; legislative and
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Andra Fuller an actor on The L.A. Complex reported today via Facebook that the 13 episodes of season 2 of the show, will air on The CW beginning in July.
The CW has yet to confirm the news, but I don't see any reason to doubt it.
A summer airing of the show in the US is the best that could have been expected. Its US ratings during the past season were woeful, even for the CW, and we knew it would never see US air during the regular broadcast season again.
5/24 update: The CW has responded and declined to confirm the report, and notes that the show is currently not scheduled on their network.
6/6 Update: The CW will broadcast the first seven episodes of season 2 beginning on July 17.


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Mars Komagatake Single Cask Vintage 1989 23YO 57.9% American White Oak Cask #1041
Mars Komagatake Single Cask Vintage 1985 27YO 60.7% Sherry Cask #162
Mars Komagatake Single Cask Vintage 1989 23YO 63.5% Cognac Limousin Cask #1060
The picture attached is of the Cognac Cask with all bottles looking the same but obviously details on the label reflect the different casks. Prices in Japan are 15,750 yen for the two '89 bottlings and 18,900 yen for the '85 though this may vary slightly for different retailers. For those having these shipped from Japan to overseas, the prices are respectively 15,000 yen and 18,000 yen. As these are far rarer than say, Karuizawa, I personally think this is very fair. I have purchased all three and hope to have tasting notes on Nonjatta soonish.


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Eddie Murphy Named Most Overpaid Actor in Hollywood
Dec 4, 2012 1:11 PM EST
Eddie Murphy was once a beloved funnyman, known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Cop and a slew of family-friendly comedies that even adults would enjoy. But oh, how the mighty have fallen. Has your favorite show been cancelled? Che… Read more


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A director of the board and one of the founders of Sinovel, he replaces Han Junliang, who will keep the post of chairman of the board.
The news comes shortly after Sinovel reported a 96% profit slump, but Sinovel said the personnel change was to separate the roles of board chairman and company president, both of which were previously held by Han.
"This is a normal personnel change according to the corporate governance planning of Sinovel after its listing in the stock market," said Sinovel in a statement.
"Now, Sinovel has developed into a listed company, and we need to elevate corporate governance to a more scientific and modern level."
According to the company's new constitution, amended in August, Han, as chairman, will preside over shareholders meetings, convene and chair board meetings and oversee implementation of board decisions. Wei will take charge of production and operation management
Sinovel, established in 2006, realised extraordinarily high growth rates in the early years to develop into the largest wind turbine maker in China, and the second largest in the world.