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Revere, Massachusetts
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Revere is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1846 and was previously called Chelsea. It can be found in Suffolk county. For more information, contact the county at City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere 02151. On the attached map, Revere is shown as 1 in Suffolk county.
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The Division of Orthopaedic Surgery has long been recognized for its high quality care and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and diseases.
The strength of our program arises from a multidisciplinary team of experts that includes more than 80 orthopedic surgeons on the voluntary and full-time faculty, many of whom hold national positions of leadership.
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Ice Tools
The best ice tools, reviewed and curated by the Trailspace community. Stores' prices and availability are updated daily.
Recent Ice Tool Reviews
Petzl Nomic
Great ice tool for waterfall ice and mixed climbing! Taken me from Rjukan to the Alps and back again! Great ice tool! I bought mine used though a friend (so I do not own the newest generation). It's been perfect for me, climbing WI 3-5 and mixed alpine routes. I can't think of much more to wish for in an ice tool. I was so lucky as to get different blades with the tool, so one for training, one for mixed, one for alpine, and one for water ice. Great swing, even without weights. The only thing I… Full review
Forrest Mjolnir
With skye pick, compares favorably with modern ice tools - best third tool ever While tube picks were a fad that was justifiably short-lived, and the "alpine" classic curve pick was nothing to write home about, the skye pick (pterrordactyl knock-off) is a gem of engineering that still compares favorably with modern ice tools (in my opinion). In the 2015 season, I'm still carrying one as a third tool, although the picks are becoming impossible to find. Anybody out there who has old mjolnir skye picks… Full review
Chouinard Equipment Blue Composite Shaft Ice Axe w/Curved Pick
This ice axe is ergonomic and balanced. This ice axe is well balanced and has an ergonomic curve to ease its use. Chouinard is an old and well known company which stays on top in tune with the times. I had a Chouinard/Frost bamboo handle technical axe since 1972; and I recently parted with it. Full review
CAMP X-Dream
Ice climbing dream. For pure WI these are my favorite ice tool to date. The slim pick usually is a one swing wonder, which makes steep climbs less tiring. With my Nomics I feel like I have to battle-axing in to the ice, but not the X-dream even with the "mixed" pick. The handle has two positions ice and Mixed, I keep mine on the ice setting. The difference is that the mixed sets the handle angle a bit more aggressive. My only gripe is the little adjustable plastic grip rest on the upper shaft,… Full review
Black Diamond Reactor
A great overall ice tool. A bit on the heavy side. Very versatile, leashless tool. Ease of Use: These tools are angled well and ergonomically help you with overhanging ice and help even the novice climber (like myself) get over ice bulges on vertical ice. They are well constructed and the tips are replaceable. There is a small eye near the top of the shaft that would allow a carabiner or leash to be used if you had to do something different with them. They are slightly heavy — go with the Grivel… Full review
Grivel X Monster
I've used these axes in mixed conditions and on ice and found they perform very differently. On ice they are the perfect level of aggressive and terrific for beginners as the price makes the sport a bit more accessible, and they are simple to use. Though a bit heavy, they have a good swing, and are very comfortable to hold. Grip tape on the upper handle is essential, but easily added. The picks are very durable, and can take a great deal of abuse. On mixed and rock these perform rather poorly. The… Full review
Black Diamond Fusion
This is going to be a bit of a comparison between the Petzl Nomic and the Fusion. I have been using both now for the last three years, these are my conclusions. For pure steep ice I prefer the Nomic. It swings less like a battle ax (Fusion being the battle ax) and the pick sticks more securely but yet is easy to remove. BD has some catching up on with their pick tech. The Fusion alway seem to take more effort to get a solid stick, and when it's in it takes a bit to get the pick dislodged. For mixed… Full review
Petzl Quark
New design works even better. Fully adjustable modular construction allows for a tool that works great in alpine, ice falls, snow. The 3mm tapered pick head seems to always find its place in the ice with often the first strike. Grips can be removed to plunge the snow better, if so desired. (550g) Has good clearance on steep ice to save you knuckles. Best ice tool I have ever used. Full review
Cassin X-Alp
I've bought my new Cassin X-Alp 6 mounts ago and they are great. I've tried them on WI 4-5 even on WI 6 and they were fabulous. I would put them on the same line with Petzl Quarks, just find the handle with finger guard and they would be just perfect for any type of climbing. Previously i had DMM Fly, Simond Naja, also used Quark and Nomic... but i can't compare it with X-Alp. For the money they give the most universal of these ice axes and i just love them a because of that. Although their usage… Full review
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Think typical cruise-ship food is just too healthy? Celebrity chef Paula Deen and her family can help with that. The 2013 Cruise with Paula, aboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas, sets sail from Galveston, Texas, and stops by Honduras, Belize and Mexico. Start the festivities with a dessert pajama party, then spectate at the annual Deen Family Olympics. Watch the Super Bowl with the Deen boys, Michael, Bobby and Bubba, and be sure not to leave the ship without your personalized photo op with the Queen of Butter herself. No word on whether The Lady's Brunch Burger will be on the menu.
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So You Want to Adopt a Dog? CROSSPOST FAR AND WIDE PLEASE PERMISSION GRANTED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS..( authors name must be shown)
For those of you wanting to adopt a dog, think carefully as to WHY you want to get a dog- is it for yourself , or because you want to get a dog for the current dog you have?? Or is it to please your spouse? IF you are getting a dog to please someone else DONT. IF you are getting a dog for yor current dog because you think they are lonely DONT. If you are getting a dog for companionship for YOU than ok.
Have you asked your spouse, parents or significant other who lives in the same house if they all agree to have a dog in the house? IF not, do not get a dog. There is nothing worse then getting a dog without asking the occupants of the house if you can have one, and getting the dog and finding out the dog must go?
Many people do NOT research the type of dog they are looking for..
Are you looking for a hyper dog? a mellow dog? a medium in between dog?
Have you checked with your state/town to see if the dog is banned? some states/towns now ban certain breeds of dog- rottweilers, doberman, great dane, akitas, german shepherds, american pit bull/staffordshire, etc..
How about fur? have you thought about how much grooming/vaccuming a long haired dog needs?
How about Food for the dog? Food will cost around $30 a month or so. What About collars, leashes too, as they get older they will need bigger collars. Figure on $20 for a good leash and $15 for a good sturdy leather collar.
Heartguard and Flea/Tick Medicine- this will run you $30 for a 3 pack of heartguard, and $34 for a pack of Frontline. Each box contains 3 items one for each month . You will need these for the rest of the dogs life.
How about vet care? a regular checkup at a local vet can run between $100-300 per dog each year.. Dont forget the emergency situations at the emergency vet- that could cost anywhere from $200-$5000 and higher depending on the situation per dog each time. Regular vaccines run $11 to $18 each. A dog usually gets 4 shots a year, with Rabies every three years. Licensing Fee- $7 - $10 per year for the life of your dog.
Time- do you have the proper time to spend with a dog? adult dogs need to go potty every couple of hours, while puppies have to go every hour to start. The dog needs to spend quality time with you, not 12 hours stuck in a crate and no attention at all. They need socialization, play time and bonding time with their new owner. You cant just leave a dog home alone all the time.
Forget about vacations, nights away from home, or long trips during the day. Think about it, can you hold your potty time for 8 hours or longer? I doubt it. The dog needs to be taken care of, and unless you have a nanny or someone to take care of your dog YOU are its primary caregiver. Kennels? sure, they are expensive too, they will watch your dog while you are away if they are not booked up. And, you want to find a reputable kennel, not a shady kennel that doesnt take care of the dogs. Kennels run between $10 a day up to $50 a day for daily boarding.
The dog itself- have you visited the local shelter/rescue group to see what dogs they have available for adoption?
Training- all dogs need obedience training, regardless of age. this strengthens the bond between you and your new dog, and it teaches the dog who is in charge. Most classes are 7 weeks long and cost $120 and up.
Can you really afford a dog ? have you sat down and figured in the food, vet bills, necessary maintenance of a dog?
How about your homeowners or renters insurance? Will they allow a certain breed of dog on the premises? Some insurance companies will discriminate against certain breeds of dogs and will cancel your policies if the dogs are on the premises.
Have you checked with your Landlord to see if they allow you to have a dog on the premises before you get a dog? If they allow it, get it in writing from the landlord.
If you have a resident dog, and want to adopt, what will you do if the new dog and your current dog do NOT get along? Are you willing to separate them 24/7 for the rest of their lives? Or will you return one dog to the shelter? Did you introduce your resident dog to the new dog on neutral ground a couple of times to see if they even get along?
Have you changed your will to include your adopted dog or animal? This way you can be assured your pet will not go to a shelter and be euthanized. Have you asked someone to take care of your dog when you are gone?
If you have done all the above, and still want a dog for YOUR companion, then take the next step.. Foster a dog. This way you can really see what it entails caring for another creature that you will be responsible for.. Many rescue groups and shelters are needing foster homes , sign up and become a foster home .. This way you can see if owning a dog is really for you, or not. By fostering you will be able to take care of a dog while giving it a temporary home and helping out the shelter/rescue at the same time. You will also be able to see different dogs and their temperments to see if a dog is really for you.
IF you go ahead and foster, and feel a dog is still for you, then start looking to adopt.
Just remember, its a lifetime commitment of AT LEAST 15 years ... and that doesnt mean if you get bored of the dog you can just give it up, or return it to rescue or the shelter.
Think long and hard before aquiring a dog, as regardless of what breed you adopt/rescue/buy, you are making that dog an example of the same breed that is out there with other owners. Do NOT jeopardize my right to own the dog of my choice if you didnt research the breed before you took the dog home.. I dont want MY dog to suffer because of your irresponsibility.
The following facts are verbatim from the Humane Society of the United States website:
For every human born, 7 puppies and kittens are born. (1)
One female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in 7 years. (1)
One female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in 6 years. (2)
An estimated 6 to 8 million dogs and cats are euthanized in animal shelters each year in the United States. Millions more are abandoned, only to suffer from disease, starvation or injury before dying.
In a study of relinquishment of dogs and cats in 12 U.S. animal shelters, 30% of the surrendered animals were purebred. (3) The same study indicated that 55% of the surrendered dogs and 47% of the surrendered cats were not spayed or neutered. (3)
Of all dogs reported in severe attacks on people in Texas during 1998 (where the reproductive status of the animal was known), unsterilized male dogs were 2.6 times more likely to attack than female dogs or neutered male dogs. (4)
It costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion each year to impound, shelter euthanize and dispose of homeless animals. (5)
Approximately 55% of dogs and puppies entering U.S. animal shelters are killed, based on reports from 1,038 U.S. animal shelters. (6)
Approximately 71% of cats and kittens entering U.S. animal shelters are killed based on the same report.
Facts provided courtesy of (and the HSUS webpage http://www.hsus.org):
1. The Humane Society of the United States Pet Overpopulation Fact Sheet
2. SPAY/USA "Did You Know" Fact Sheet
3. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Volume 1, Number 3, pg. 213
4. Texas Department of Health 1998 Severe Animal Attack Surveillance
5. USA Today, June 23, 1998, pg. 1
Maryellen Swiatek
AKC CGC Evaluator
Don?t Breed or Buy while Shelter Dogs Die
So You Want to Adopt a Dog?
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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I'm taking home a homeless pup sibling of seven other puppies. One of my reasons was for my other dog not to feel lonely after his mate passed on, but now he seems pretty ok just with us. Still he has seen the puppies and feels comfortable with them. My main reason its to give this pup a second chance. Keep him for a while until he finds an adoptable home.In the meantime, he will be part of the family.
Re: So You Want to Adopt a Dog?
I have been slowly thinking of getting another dog. Being a big decision and all I will wait until it is the right time. Currently, my boyfriend and I are living together and are trying to pay off some things. Once our finances are in better order I want to talk to him about it see if he thinks it may be a good idea. If anything our current guy could have a play mate. We play with him every day after work but sometimes I feel like I am not canine enough. He really loves other dogs too. Being winter play dates are hard to come by.
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Position Statements
The Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children promotes national, state and local public policies that support a system of well-financed, high quality early childhood education programs in a range of settings, including child care centers, family child care homes, and schools.
The following is the Call for Excellence in Early Childhood Education. It has been adopted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Early Learning Program Quality 2013
Hawai'i AEYC's mission is to promote, support and expand quality and professionalism in early childhood programs and service for Hawai'i's children (Birth-8) and their families.
Vision: HAEYC is the leading voice for high quality early learning opportunities for all children in the state of Hawai'i.
HAEYC supports for all children and families:
- Access to adequate nutrition, shelter, and health care
- Access to child development information and family support
Substantial research indicates that high quality early childhood programs are what make a lasting difference in children, especially children at risk. Quality: Excellence, superiority (Webster's dictionary)
Indicators of quality in early childhood programs:
- Have positive experiences in the setting they're in (center-based, family child care, family-child interaction learning)
- Have opportunity for PLAY indoors and out
- Have positive relationships with the adults in the program
- Build warm, responsive relationships with children and families
- Know child development information that they apply to their work
- Have administrative and specialist's support when facing challenging behaviors with children or adults
- Know the community resources available and refer families as appropriate
- Have access to ongoing professional development
- Are equitably compensated for their education, experience, and effectiveness
- Have access to child development information to strengthen their role as the primary influence in their child's life.
- Are kept informed, updated, and included on their child's progress
- Have access to community resources that can provide support in their specific situation
- Are acknowledged and supported as the primary influence in their child's life
Program administrators:
- Have access to financial and community resources that leverage and maximize impact on children and families.
- Have access to ongoing professional development grounded in best practices
- Understand and support the importance of the administrator's role in implementing high quality programs.
Early years are the learning years
The demand for early childhood care and education programs continues to increase not only in response to the growing demand for out-of-home child care but also in recognition of the critical importance of educational experiences during the early years. Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short- and long-term positive effects on children's cognitive and social development.
NAEYC members, most of whom work directly with young children and families, see daily the toll of ill-conceived policies on the lives of the children and families we serve. Existing programs have too often taken fragmented, piecemeal approaches to the complex issues facing children and families. Effective policies have seldom been funded at sufficient levels to provide adequate support to all families who might benefit.
NAEYC believes that our nation is at a crossroads. We must develop an integrated system of early childhood care and education that includes comprehensive approaches that directly involve families and communities in program design, implementation, and evaluation. We can invest now in our children and families and enjoy long-term savings, with a more vibrant nation of healthy, achieving children and more stable families.
Or, we can fail to make the investment and pay the price: increased delinquency, greater educational failures, lowered productivity, less economic competitiveness, and fewer adults prepared to be effective, loving parents to the next generation of children. Federal, state and local government, communities, parents, and the private sector must share in the responsibility of ensuring the well-being of children and families.
Our nation can and must do better to create opportunities that help all children and families succeed. The time for action is now.
A renewed call to action
Our goal is not to simply defend the status quo. NAEYC's convictions about early childhood care and education set forth a vision of a system that is still unmet.
That all young children deserve excellent early care and education.
There are a large percentage of child care classrooms and family child care homes that of mediocre or poor quality. An alarming number of infants and toddlers are found to be in unsafe settings. We know that children in schools with fewer resources, a larger percentage of teachers that are new or have emergency certificates, and lacking parental involvement in their education are not receiving the excellent early education they deserve.
That high quality early experiences make a difference in children's lifelong academic and social success.
Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short- and long-term positive effects on children's cognitive and social development. Specifically, children who experience high-quality, stable child care engage in more complex play, demonstrate more secure attachments to adults and other children, and score higher on measures of thinking ability and language development. High-quality child care can predict academic success, adjustment to school, and reduced behavioral problems for children in first grade. Studies demonstrate that children's success or failure during the first years of school often predicts the course of later schooling. A growing body of research indicates that more developmentally appropriate teaching in preschool and kindergarten predicts greater success in the early grades.
That these programs must be accessible to all families.
Access to child care, particularly high quality child care, remains out of reach for many families. Programs outside of K-12 public education have the greatest difficulty in meeting the criteria of good quality, equitable compensation, and affordable access. Unlike K-12 education—a publicly financed system with a relatively stable funding base—most early childhood care and education services operate in a very price-sensitive market financed primarily by fees from families and supplemented by public and private contributions. Many families cannot pay the full cost of quality care, and the ongoing commitment from public and private contributions is seldom guaranteed. For other children, there are insufficient numbers of child care providers trained in or connected to others who can help support their special educational or other needs to develop to their full potential.
That early childhood professionals must have excellent preparation, ongoing professional development, and compensation commensurate with their qualifications and experience.
A key component of quality programs is the quality of teacher. Recruitment and retention of child care staff is extremely difficult. The average child care teaching assistant earns roughly $10,500 a year and the highest paid child care teachers are paid roughly $18,000 a year. Turnover of staff averages 31 percent. In public schools, although salaries are much higher than for child care teachers, there is difficulty retaining talented teachers and recruiting more experienced teachers to troubled schools. Scholarships, financial aid, and loan forgiveness are insufficient to help many early childhood educators obtain excellent preparation and ongoing professional development.
That effective early education must be both challenging and appropriate to young children's ages, individual needs, and culture.
To guide their decisions about practice, all early childhood teachers need to understand the developmental changes that typically occur in the years from birth through age 8 and beyond, variations in development that may occur, and how best to support children's learning and development during these years. Children's development is best understood within the sociocultural context of the family, educational setting, community, and broader society. These various contexts are interrelated, and all have an impact on the developing child.
That everyone needs to work together to build a successful future for our youngest children.
An equitable and sufficient system of financing early childhood education is the United States is still elusive. Child care is financed through a patchwork of government, parent, and private sector resources. Families contribute roughly 60 percent of the costs of child care; federal, state, and local governments combined contribute 39 percent, and business contributes one percent. Public schools are financed largely through property taxes, which has created an inequitable distribution of resources within school districts and states, despite additional resources from states and the federal government. An equitable system of financing child care and early education requires a strong partnership between government, families, and the private sector.
A Vision for excellence
All states must develop a system of early childhood care and education with appropriate regulatory, governance, finance, & accountability mechanisms so that:
- All Children have access to a safe and accessible, high quality early childhood education that includes a developmentally appropriate curriculum, knowledgeable and well-trained program staff and educators, comprehensive services that support their health, nutrition, and social well-being, in an environment that respects and supports diversity.
- All Early Childhood Professionals are supported as professionals with a career ladder, ongoing professional development opportunities, and compensation that will attract and retain high quality educators.
- All Families have access to early care and education programs that are affordable and of high quality, and are participants in the education and well being of their children through family involvement in programs and schools, as well as opportunities to increase their educational attainment.
- All Communities are accountable for the quality of early childhood programs provided to all children, backed by the local, state, and federal funding needed to deliver quality programs and services.
To achieve these goals at the national, state, and local levels, policies and decisions must be guided of principles of Excellence, Access, Equity, Diversity, and Accountability.
The design, funding, and implementation of systems necessary to support best practices in all early childhood programs.
The absence of barriers for all children to attend high-quality programs.
Opportunities for all children, regardless of family status, income, disability, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, or race to attend high quality programs, with an emphasis on targeting funding to ensure that those families with the fewest resources are served.
Flexibility in the ways in which programs are provided and services are tailored to the needs of families and children. Responsive and supportive programs that recognize and respect the whole child and family, their cultural backgrounds, and the community's culture.
Clearly defined standards for program quality and personnel, with input from the early childhood professionals, families, and communities, with ongoing planning and evaluation processes, to ensure positive educational, health, and social outcomes for children.
Making the vision a reality
Early childhood programs have the potential for producing positive and lasting effects on children, but this potential will not be achieved unless more attention is paid to ensuring that all programs meet the highest standards of quality. As the number and type of early childhood programs increase, the need increases for a shared vision and agreed-upon standards of professional practice. Making this vision of excellence a reality will require a commitment from and a partnership among the federal, state, and local governments, business and labor, private institutions, and the public.
As we stand at the beginning of a new millenium, we must join forces to advocate and implement the policies at the appropriate federal, state, and local levels that will lead to excellence in early childhood education programs.


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Starting a chapter
Thank you for considering a chapter initiative! The initiative you are envisioning has been the starting point for much of the loyal support that Alabama A&M University receives from alumni and friends. Extensive alumni participation helps to establish a culture of philanthropy and is crucial to the success and sustainability of our university. You and interested alumni like you are the foundation for the Alabama A&M University Alumni Chapter Network and this network is the foundation for the National Alumni Association. The support provided by both these groups is vital to the University and its programs.
Alumni Chapters serve as the connecting link between alumni and the NAA. Chapters participate in a wide variety of activities that promote and build support for the NAA. These activities include hosting meetings, raising scholarship money and assisting in the recruitment of students to the University.
Our ultimate goal is to have strong effective chapters involved in membership development, student recruitment and the establishment of scholarships.
These activities are coordinated through the chapter development department within the National Alumni Association office on campus.
We are here to help you coordinate activities to serve the alumni, fans and friends in your area. The office of Alumni Welcome Center is located at 116 Chase Road, phone: 256-372-5287. We are open year round M-F from 8 am-5 pm. We are committed to helping alumni start local chapters of the Alabama A&M Alumni Association, Inc.
How to Start a New Chapter
- Contact the Office of Alumni Affairs to express your interest in starting a new alumni chapter. You will be provided with a list of alumni in your area, a chapter information sheet, and a draft of a chapter constitution and by-laws which you will customize.
- A minimum of five (5) members is needed to establish a chapter.
- Officers must be elected and information forwarded to the Office of Alumni Affairs (see Chapter Officers Sheet under Chapter Reporting Forms).
- A constitution must be written and forwarded to the Alabama A&M University Alumni Association for approval.
- Each member is required to pay $50.00 alumni dues to gain active status in the Alumni Association at the national level. Chapters are allowed to establish their own local dues requirements.
- A $50.00 chapter charter fee is required to be submitted with the group's application membership.
- Upon receipt of the names and addresses of members of the new chapter, payments of $50.00 alumni dues per member, and $50.00 chapter charter fee will be due. In addition to these payments, the chapter constitution and by-laws must be submitted. Upon approval, the Alumni Association will activate the chapter and issue the appropriate membership cards.
- Checks or money orders for alumni dues and a club charter are to be made payable to the AAMU Alumni Association, Inc., and mailed to the Office of Alumni Affairs, P.O. Box 1717, Normal, AL 35762.
In order to maintain a charter, the local alumni chapter must fulfill the following obligations:
- Hold monthly meetings at which business is transacted
- Elections for president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and other officer are held biennially.
- Terms of office shall be concurrent with the terms of the Officers of the AAMU Alumni Association which run biennially from January to January
- All officers and chairpersons must be active members of the AAMU Alumni Association
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The quintessential college dorm room is relatively small with blah cinder block walls and a pair of twin beds. And since this spartan space is going to be your home for the next year (or more), you may as well make it as comfortable as possible. If you're a tech nerd, that means geeking out your new living quarters with some of the latest and greatest gadgets around. From super powered gaming laptops to TV's that you can control with your smartphone, we searched high and low for the tech that will make your hallmates jealous. Just remember to leave your room on occasion.
Alienware 18 ($4,399)
Any properly teched-out dorm room is going to need a super-powered PC, and the Alienware 18 fits that description perfectly. This 18-inch gaming rig sports a gorgeous 1080p display, powerful 2.8-GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB of RAM and both a 512GB SSD and 750GB hard drive. We also love the customizable lighting. But thepièce de résistanceis the system's dual Nvidia GTX 780M graphics cards, each of which pack 4GB of video RAM. With that kind of firepower, you'll be a gaming god among mere mortals. And, of course, it will run Microsoft Office.
More: Alienware 18 Review
Sony PlayStation 4 ($399)
It may not hit stores until November, but Sony's PlayStation 4 will almost certainly be the must-have gadget for every college dorm room. The octa-core processor and next-generation AMD graphics will deliver silky smooth performance on such exclusive games as "Drive Club" and "Killzone: Shadow Fall." You'll also have access to NetFlix, Redbox Instant by Verizon, Flixster, Crackle, Sony Music Unlimited and Sony Video Unlimited. Best of all, the PS4 will support used games and won't force you to connect to the Internet once every day like the $100 more expensive Xbox One.
More: 12 Killer PlayStation 4 Games and Demos
Sennheiser Momentum Headphones ($349)
Dorm rooms can be loud, hectic places, especially if you have more than one roommate. To drown out the racket, pick up a pair of Sennheiser's Momentum Headphones. Available for $349, this headset packs a sonic punch and features an in-line remote for controlling your music and answering phone calls, though the remote will only work with iOS devices.
More: Sennheiser Momentum Headphones Review
Braven BRV-1 Rugged Speaker ($179)
If you want to rock out but don't want to worry about clumsy partygoers, check out the Braven BRV-1. This rugged portable speaker not only pumps out quality audio, but can also take a serious beating thanks to its sturdy design. The IPX5 water resistance rating ensures the Braven can stand up to the occasional water (or maybe beer) spill, too. The BR-V1 can even charge your phone.
Roku 3 ($99.99)
If you're college doesn't provide cable TV--or you don't feel like paying for it--the Roku 3 is the ticket. This pint-sized media streaming device offers access to content from Netflix, Vudu, Amazon, Hulu Plus and HBO Go. Sports junkies can get their fill from live streaming sporting events via MLB.TV Premium, MLS, UFC, NBA Game Time and NHL GameCenter Live. Plus, a remote control with headphone jack means you can watch your favorite shows without waking up your roommates.
More: Roku 3 Review
Samsung 32-inch F5500 Smart TV ($449)
Go flat and stay connected with Samsung's 32-inch F5500 Smart TV. This super thin set features Samsung's Smart TV app, which lets you access the Web and download apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Pandora. You can also wirelessly stream content to your compatible smartphone and check Facebook updates on the big screen.
More: Your Future Samsung TV May Bend And Twist
Satechi Touch USB LED Lamp ($24.99)
The Satechi Touch USB LED Lamp lets you make use of all of those empty ... er soda bottles laying around your dorm room. Users simply stick the Satechi into the top of a bottle or vase, plug it into an available USB 2.0 or 3.0 port, and you're set. Tapping the top of the Satechi lamp turns it on and off. And because it fits into most bottles, you can quickly switch out bottles to give your room a different look anytime you want.
More: The 10 Best Bargains in Tech Today
Anker Uspeed USB 3.0 7-Port Hub ($34.99)
With some many pieces of technology floating around your dorm room, chances are you're going to need a few USB ports. That's where the Anker Uspeed USB 3.0 7-port Hub comes in. The hub gives users seven additional USB 3.0 ports, meaning you can charge your smartphone, portable speaker and other USB-powered devices without having to use your roommate's outlet.
More: USB-Powered Notebook Shown at CES
NEC 24-inch MultiSync EA244WMi Monitor ($379)
If you don't have enough room for a 32-inch TV but still want an HD display, pick up NEC's 24-inch MultiSync EA244WMi desktop monitor. Sporting a 1920 x 1200 IPS screen, the NEC features a 16:10 aspect ratio and 5-millisecond response time. Available HDMI, VGA DisplayPort and DVI-D ports mean you can connect almost any media device to the monitor, turning your tiny dorm room into a media lover's paradise.
More: Top 8 Windows Tablet-Laptop Hybrids
Kenmore 4.9 Cubic Foot Beer Cooler ($524)
Want to have the best dorm room on campus? If you're of drinking age, you may want to pick up Kenmore's 4.9-cubic foot kegerator. With this bad boy, you'll be able to keep your beer cold and ready to serve at a moments notice.This cooler also has a reversible door and a flush back design to save space.


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- M6-1.00 USS coarse thread; measure 60mm in length
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Here's some ways to keep your pet safe in the sun
The Fetch email bag is filled to overflowing with tips about taking care of pets now that summer is upon us.
Since Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, it seems like a good time to share some of them.
First, here's some advice about avoiding hot weather problems from the American Kennel Club Canine Partners:
* Prevent overheating by making sure that your pet always has access to cool shade and water. If your dog seems to be flagging you can spray him with water from the hose.
* Dogs can get sunburned like humans, and can develop skin cancer. Put sun block on dogs that have hairless areas or have white fur on their noses or ears.
* Hot sidewalks and streets can burn an animal's feet. Walk him on grass instead. If you're walking on sand, which can also get hot, do it in the early morning or late afternoon.
* Keep your pet away from the barbeque gril to avoid injury. And barbequed food can be greasy and upset his stomach.
Here's a few more tips from Dr. Allison Diesel of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine:
* If you're bathing your hound outside, make sure that the water coming out of the hose is not scalding. Let the hose run a few minutes until you get cooler water.
* Too much sun can turn dogs' noses pink, she says – a condition known as discoid lupus. Most susceptible are Huskies, Malamutes, and other northern breeds and shepherds. Dogs affected need infant-safe sunscreen.
* Darker-colored animals may be more at risk for heat stress since their coat does not reflect as much light as lighter colored animals. Overheating and heat stroke need immediate care.
* If your pet has any skin conditions commonly associated with skin cancer, get him to a veterinarian promptly.
And I'll add one more tip from my own experience: Don't let your dog gorge on food and water immediately after vigorous exercise. It might come back to haunt you.
ANIMAL TRACKS – The Dumb Friends League and the Colorado Humane Society are contributing workers to
help the ASPCA's disaster response team in sheltering efforts and field rescues of animals displaced by the May 22 tornado that raked Joplin, Mo. A group of four people has departed Denver to join the effort . . .
Book a trip with Natural Habitat Adventures of Boulder and the travel company will donate $500 to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. Among the hundreds of offerings are polar bear tours and excursions to the Galapagos Islands. Visit Natural Habitat Adventures online or call them at 1-800-543-8917 for formation . . .
June 3 – City Bark (a dog daycare) and Duo Dogs (Duo Marketing & PR's dog social group) host their June Yappy Hour fundraiser. There will be hot dogs and beer. Benificiaries are Safe Harbor Lab Rescue and Big Dogs Huge Paws. The event will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at City Bark Denver, 2000 W. 8th Ave. A $15 donation is
suggested. Information:
www.citybark.com, email@example.com.
June 9 – The Dumb Friends League hosts Catfest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its Quebec Street Shelter. CatFest 2011 will feature adoptable cats and kittens, demonstrations, a purebred cat exhibition, advice from experts and more. Information: www.ddfl.org or (303) 751-5772, Ext. 1378.
June 11 – The 21st annual Fire Hydrant 5, 5K Walk/Run and Pet Expo will be held. The Larimer Humane Society is looking for volunteers to staff the event at Edora Park in Fort Collins. Volunteer coordination website: VolunteerSpot at http://www.tinyurl.com/firehydrant5 or contact Molly Ward, community relations coordinator, 970-530-2946.
June 13 – The sixth annual Mulligans for Mutts Golf Tournament will be held at Lakewood Country Club. It is a fundraiser for the Foothills Animal Shelter. The entry fee is $185 per golfer and there will be morning and afternoon flights. Online registration: www.MulligansforMutts.org.
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From blur to bokeh - Creative fashion lighting
Part 3 of 3 in the Fashion Lighting series
100% satisfaction guaranteed. We offer full refunds up to 14 days after purchase.
About this course
Study some advanced fashion lighting techniques and learn how to add creativity to your studio lighting, so your photos make an impact. Inject movement and energy into your shoot by combining continuous light and strobe during a long exposure. And control your light using grids and barn doors. Lastly, learn how to create the soft, hazy 'bokeh' effect, using gels to add color and express your creative vision.
Lighting skill level: Intermediate
Duration: 54 min
What you get in this course
- Online light shaping course
- Downloadable step-by-step guide
- Scenario based teaching from real life photographic shoots
- Unlimited access on all devices
Discover how to:
- Add movement and energy to images using continuous and flash lighting with a long exposure
- Control your lighting using grids and barndoors
- Use color and bokeh to help express your creative vision
- Photograph with grids and barn doors to control the of spill light
Essential information
Recommended gear
- 2 x lights for off camera use
- 1 x beauty dish with grid or similar light modifier of your choice
- 1 x barndoor
- 1 x color gel
Useful knowledge
- Lighting skill level: Intermediate
- Some understanding of artificial lighting and how it impacts an image
- Experience of working with additional lighting to achieve a specific look
- Camera skill level: Comfortable handling the camera in manual mode
Lindsay Adler
Frequently Asked Questions
A series consists of two or more courses from the same photographer. If you buy a series, you will benefit from a bundled offer for the entire package. Also, when you complete a series, you'll receive personal feedback from one of our instructors and become a Certified Light Shaper.
No. All our courses are designed to improve your photography, regardless of what equipment you're using.
As soon as we've received payment, you can view or take all your courses online - simply by logging on to the Profoto Academy website. You'll find your courses at the Profoto Academy start page.


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The boom in U.S. crude oil production could threaten China's access to as much as half the crude oil needed to support its economic growth, according to a published report.
Germany's BND, the nation's Bundesnachrichtendienst spy agency as its known, has leaked a "confidential" report concluding that soaring U.S. crude oil production could -- in less than a decade -- sharply lessen the U.S. need for imported oil, particularly Arabian oil that has to be shipped out of the volatile Persian Gulf and through the treacherous Strait of Hormuz, website Testosterone Pit reported Sunday.
The web site did not disclose details of how or when it obtained the BND report.
Whether the crude oil production boom in the world's No. 1 economy will make the U.S. the world's top oil producer, as the International Energy Agency recently predicted would happen by 2020, or simply mean that the U.S. will no longer need OPEC oil, the consequences for China could be severe.
China's growing economy will force the nation to import as much as 50 percent of its crude oil from Persian Gulf producers, including Iran and the Arab states, the BND report states. China's maritime access to that source has been secured by U.S. military forces, at massive expense expense to U.S. taxpayers. But if the U.S. no longer depends on OPEC crude oil, it would have no reason to spend billions on naval and Air Force assets to guarantee the free flow of oil from the Persian Gulf at market prices.
Without U.S. military protection, China's oil imports suddenly become vulnerable along their 10,000-plus mile maritime route from the Persian Gulf to Chinese ports. Further, China's military has no current ability to take the U.S. military's place in securing the sea lanes that must remain undisturbed for China to sustain its economic growth.
Further, China's vulnerability to disruptions of its seaborne oil imports would give the U.S. leverage in dealing with the world's most populous nation, particularly as U.S. allies clash with China in the eastern Pacific.


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ST. LOUIS - A monster storm was bearing down on the middle of the United States on Tuesday, with freezing rain and sleet pelting several states from Texas through Ohio.
Parts of nine states — Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio — were covered by a blizzard warning Tuesday morning, TODAY's Al Roker reported.
Early indications were ominous. Parts of southwest Missouri already had 6 inches of snow by 8 a.m. About 3,000 were without power in Ohio, 2,600 in Oklahoma. Roads were ice-covered and virtually impassable in several states.
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The storm cut a 2,100-mile swathe across the country and has the potential to impact about 100 million people, or one-third of the U.S. population, according to The Weather Channel.
The National Weather Service's national map of advisories and warnings was a patchwork of different color-coded alerts, showing a country under siege by the storm.
As the storm began its trek, it brought a bit of everything: ice, sleet and snow — even tornadoes in the South were possible. School districts, universities and legislatures closed; airlines canceled more than 4,500 flights; and residents rushed to gather supplies, anticipating they might have to dig out or hunker down.
Forecasters predicted a hodge-podge of brutal winter weather — 24 inches of snow in some places, up to an inch of ice plus snow in others. Making matters far worse was the expectation of shivering cold and winds gusting to near 60 mph.
"What really gives us nightmares is the prospect of widespread power outages," said Jeff Rainford, chief of staff for St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. "It's cross-our-fingers time."
When the snow finally ends, bitter cold will set in. Temperatures in some parts of the Midwest will dip well below zero. Gusty winds will blow all of that snow. Visibility will be virtually zero at times.
The system was also expected to cause disruption in the Northeast; more than 200 schools were closed in Pennsylvania, NBC News reported, and similar announcements were expected from the New York tri-state area and up through New England.
Airport travel chaos
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport closed for a short Tuesday morning due to an ice storm, then reopened one runway an hour later.
The freeze closed schools and snarled road traffic across much of North Texas. Dallas Area Rapid Transit has suspended rail service because of the storm.
In Oklahoma, Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City and Tulsa International Airport were both closed.
Across the country, airlines canceled more than 4,500 flights Tuesday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.com.
The total for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is already more than 7,700, it added.
Airports in Newark, N.J., and Chicago are the hardest hit, FlightAware said, with more than 600 cancellations in each. Chicago is a hub for United and American, and Continental has a hub in Newark.
JetBlue is canceling flights in and out of New York's JFK airport for the rest of Tuesday, with some flights to resume Wednesday afternoon. It plans to shut down its Boston flying Tuesday night through Thursday morning.
Delta said it canceled more than 625 flights for Tuesday.
Driving wasn't any easier. The Iowa Department of Transportation said most roadways in the state were partially or completely covered with a combination of ice and snow. Officials warned that drifts and whiteout from blowing snow make travel treacherous, if not impossible, in some areas.
Deadly wrecks were reported in Minnesota and Kansas. But accidents in Missouri were surprisingly few given the increasingly worsening conditions. Highway Patrol Sgt. Al Nothum said he drove along Interstate 44 in St. Louis County and went miles without seeing another car as people apparently heeded warnings to stay home.
"It was pretty deserted out there," Nothum said.
Storm predictions were so dire that public officials, street crews and utility workers have been in place since Monday in anticipation of the worst. The St. Louis-based utility company AmerenUE had nearly 500 of its own linemen ready to go and was bringing in another 800 from as far away as Michigan.
Massive amounts of ice predicted south of St. Louis, followed by strong winds, could cause a repeat of 2006, when the ice knocked out power in parts of Missouri for weeks.
Hardware stores were selling out of snow shovels, backup generators and ice-melting salt. Grocery stores doing all they could to keep supplied with the staples.
"I've never seen a prediction of what have you — rain, snow, ice, whatever — where people reacted so quickly to it," Jack Runyon, co-owner of Runyon Equipment Rental in Carmel, Ind., where customers snapped up all of the store's small emergency generators.
"Milk, bread, toilet paper, beer," said Todd Vasel of the St. Louis-based grocery chain Dierbergs, who said pre-storm crowds were more than double the norm. "It's been the equivalent of Christmas Eve, which is normally one of our biggest days of the year."
Chicago in for third-worst storm?
The storm brought the potential for some strange happenings — thundersnow, lightning, even tornadoes.
Forecasters said some regions could get up to 2 inches of snow per hour through parts of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Kansas City, St. Louis and Milwaukee all seemed in line for 12 inches of snow or more.
Even Chicago, where snow is common, could be in for its third-worst blizzard since record-keeping began, with up to 20 inches possible.
Paula Lawson, a 59-year-old community organizer from suburban Glencoe, said she remembered the big storm in 1967, which "really did stop the world for days."
Will the latest storm do the same?
"If we get 20 inches, maybe," Lawson said at a downtown rail station. "But around here, 12 inches, it doesn't stop us."
After burying the Midwest, the storm was expected to sweep into the Northeast, parts of which already are on track for record snowfall this winter.
A winter storm warning was in effect for New York City, with forecasters predicting a mix of snow, sleet and ice. Federal workers in Washington were given the option of working from home because roads on Tuesday were already slippery.
Governors in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois declared emergencies, even as the storm was just arriving. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon activated 600 members of the National Guard.
It wasn't just people getting ready for the weather. The Humane Society of Missouri urged people to bring pets inside. Farmers and ranchers prepared livestock.
Kevin Hafner, who works for Express Ranches' operation in El Reno, Okla., said workers prepared enough feed to last their animals for 48 hours. Workers were preparing to chop ice on ponds so the cattle will have adequate water.
"They are tough enough to handle it," Hafner said of the cattle. "They've got a good hair coat this year, but we have to have enough feed to give them energy to keep going."


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AN e-learning specialist who had battled with depression since being made redundant from a north-west college was found hanged by his wife after a night out.
Scott Anderton had been on medication for the condition since he was sacked by Hopwood Hall College as their e-learning manager, Burnley Coroner's Court was told.
The 37-year-old, who also had a young family, had become 'irritable' and was prone to aggressive out-bursts, an inquest heard, as he struggled with his 'work-life' balance.
He became a self-employed learning consultant, after being forced out at the college, and was also an e-learning advisor for a Lancaster University.
His wife Kelly said that he had spoken on a number of occasions about ending his own life, even raising the matter when they were out with friends.
"There was a point where everything got on top of him from work and he was really angry, to the point where I wanted to go," she said.
But just before his death he appeared to have been calmer, the inquest heard, and had carried out various DIY and gardening jobs around their home.
The court heard that on April 19 he had been out with friends for a night in Manchester, to a restaurant, and his wife said he appeared to be 'relatively normal'.
He returned to their home in Red Lees Avenue, Cliviger, and the couple had an argument around 2am, with the husband going off to sleep elsewhere.
She went downstairs the following morning and found her husband hanging. Kelly ran to her mother's nearby, and an ambulance was called, but Scott was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
His father Alan Anderton said that he had worked hard to establish his department at Hopwood Hall, but had lost his job when the college made a number of staff redundant.
Recording a narrative verdict, East Lancashire Coroner Richard Taylor, said: "He took his own life while suffering from a depressive illness."
Earlier Mr Taylor said: "It is impossible to say what was going through his mind at the time."


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This fact sheet summarizes recommendations for designing new office buildings that result in 50% less energy use than conventional designs meeting minimum code requirements. The recommendations are drawn from the Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small to Medium Office Buildings, an ASHRAE publication that provides comprehensive recommendations for designing low-energy-use office buildings with gross floor areas up to 100,000 ft2.
Designed as a stand-alone document, this fact sheet provides key principles and a set of prescriptive design recommendations appropriate for smaller
office buildings with insufficient budgets to fully implement best practices for integrated design and optimized performance. The recommendations have undergone a thorough analysis and review process through ASHRAE, and have been deemed an easily replicable combination of measures to achieve 50% savings in the greatest number of office buildings.


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Dispensing data - automatically
AstraZeneca assures product quality, maximizes production efficiency
When AstraZeneca set out to make the manufacturing process for its Turbuhaler product more cost-effective and to minimize variations, the global pharmaceutical manufacturer faced a major challenge: building a solution with enough capacity to handle all of the production-related data that was stored in so many unique systems. The company sought a rational way to merge and process the data as well as to eliminate the time-consuming manual process of analyzing production for obstacles, errors and irregularities.
AstraZeneca asked SAS to produce a prototype of a business intelligence solution with the capacity to store, analyze and generate reports for a large number of different user groups. The goal was to increase yield, improve quality, minimize variations and save time.
Instead of using our time to collect the data, we can focus on analyzing it.
Eva Nossborn
Process Engineering
Using SAS, AstraZeneca – which operates 26 plants in 18 countries – achieved quality-assured, cost-efficient Turbuhaler production by automating its vast data management and analytics efforts.
A major part of sales
Turbuhaler, one of AstraZeneca's biggest successes ever, launched more than 20 years ago. The device both measures and dispenses medicine – such as Symbicort and Pulmicort – that is inhaled and delivered to the lungs to treat asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease. Turbuhaler includes a counter that indicates the number of remaining doses and is easy to carry, making it simple for patients to administer the medicine themselves.
Products based on Turbuhaler are among AstraZeneca's most important, and they account for a major part of the total sales within the respiratory and inflammation therapy area.
Turbuhaler's advanced manufacturing process is divided into a number of process steps, each with many factors that affect product quality. The quantity of data produced in the manufacturing process is both complex and extensive.
Millions of rows
Eva Nossborn is a process engineer at AstraZeneca and a daily user of the SAS solution. "We had strict requirements for the SAS solution. Pure production data combined with supportive data sources, e.g., planning systems and quality systems, generate tables with enormous amounts of data. There are approximately 1,000 parameters in the system. The daily rate for an individual table was recently about 170 million rows, and the amount grows by 1.5 million rows every week."
AstraZeneca chose SAS after testing several suppliers. SAS produced a prototype, which structured the information, defined the user groups and determined the necessary security levels for different groups. The prototype covered all the steps in the production processes for both the drug and the Turbuhaler.
"SAS demonstrated enormous commitment during the pilot study, and we were able to identify a lot of additional benefits with SAS," says Henrik Åkerblom, a process engineer and one of those responsible for the implementation of the SAS solution. "They helped us understand the system's many possibilities."
"SAS works very well with the type of data we work with. Instead of using our time to collect the data, we can focus on analyzing it," stresses Nossborn.
High quality requirements, many users
The most time-consuming aspect of the project was building a system to collect all of the data in one database and ensuring that everything met the high standards demanded within the pharmaceutical industry.
Between 50 and 100 employees create or receive the reports from the system. The primary users are the process engineers, who are responsible for following up on daily production. They receive prepared reports and are also able to develop their own special reports. Other users include operators, statisticians, analysts and those responsible for quality assurance, as well as other managers within the company.
The primary advantage with SAS is the time saved. But saving time was only part of the original motive behind the system; streamlining production with one comprehensive plan was equally important.
"We work continuously to increase productivity," says Åkerblom. "This applies to increasing utilization level during production and increasing the yield and quality of the products. Using SAS, we have been able to minimize the variations in the production process and expand the contents of the analyses performed."
AstraZeneca plans to extend the SAS solution to other products and product groups.
"Originally, the system only managed Symbicort Turbuhaler, but now several other products in the same family which are produced in AstraZeneca's Swedish operations have been included under the system," says Åkerblom, "and we plan to use the same system for completely different product groups."
Quickly, easily analyze large amounts of production, manufacturing data to lower production costs and reduce manufacturing variations.
- Automatic access to the same quality-assured data throughout the process for analysis, evaluation and decision making.
- Unlimited possibilities for sharing knowledge.
- Automated data management for each production batch, allowing for quick analysis throughout the manufacturing process.


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Dean of Arts & Sciences
UNC-Chapel Hill
At large
Area of interest
Karen M. Gil, Ph.D. received research and clinical training in health psychology from West Virginia University (Ph.D., 1985) and from the clinical psychology internship and post-doctoral programs at Duke University Medical Center (1984-1986). Her research and clinical interests are in the area of coping with the pain and stress of medical illness. The goals of her research program are to develop more effective means to assess and treat pain and distress in individuals with diseases such as sickle cell disease, arthritis, pulmonary disease, and cancer. She has developed and tested the efficacy of several coping skills interventions that focus on the use of daily distraction, relaxation, imagery, positive self-talk and other cognitive-behavioral coping skills. In the cancer area, she has clinical and research experience with children and adults coping with cancer-related treatments. Since 1998, she has been involved in an active collaboration with Drs. Merle Mishel and Barbara Germino in the UNC Nursing School on NCI-funded studies focusing on the management of uncertainty in breast cancer survivors. She serves as the faculty sponsor for a Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award to Edward Morrill, graduate student in clinical psychology and a pre-doctoral fellow studying cancer survivorship and its psychosocial, cognitive, and neuropsychological correlates and interventions. Recently, she has begun a web-based daily diary study examining daily stress, positive mood, and benefit finding in cancer survivorship.
Awards and Honors
- Logan Wright Distinguished Research Award, 2003, American Psychological Association, Division 54, The Society of Pediatric Psychology.
- Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award, 1996
- American Psychological Association, Division 38, Health Psychology


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(CNN) -- A 14-year-old Pakistani girl who had faced life in prison for allegedly burning the Quran will have her case heard in juvenile court, the girl's lawyer told CNN.
A local court ordered the transfer on Monday, Tahir Naveed Choudhry said.
Pakistani police told CNN their investigation concluded Rimsha Masih is innocent and was framed by an imam.
"There was no legal evidence against Rimsha," officer Munir Jafri told CNN.
These developments could mark an end to the Christian teen's nightmare since she was accused of blasphemy in August.
"This is a precursor to the case ending, and that is quite unprecedented in the 25-year history of Pakistan's blasphemy laws," said Ali Dayan Hasan, the Pakistan director of Human Rights Watch.
Police have submitted the findings to the court. Pakistan courts usually go with what police recommend.
There is a lot of evidence implicating imam Khalid Jadoon Chishti for framing the teenager and for himself tearing pages out of the holy book, Jafri told CNN.
This is significant, said Human Rights Watch's Hasan, because "never before has a false accuser been held accountable."
The teen's case sparked international outcry against the Pakistani government, some saying the blasphemy laws are used to settle scores and persecute religious minorities.
Blasphemy laws have been a part of life in Pakistan for 25 years, first instituted primarily to keep peace between religions, Hasan said.
But a military leader in Pakistan in the middle 1980s tightened the laws, introducing amendments that "essentially made blasphemy a capital offense," Hasan said.
"They were vaguely worded ... and became an instrument of coercion and persecution," he said. "The laws were disproportionately used against the weakest and most vulnerable in society -- religious minorities, women, children and the poor."
There have been 1,400 blasphemy cases since 1986, according to Hasan. There are more than 15 cases of people on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan, and 52 have been killed while facing trial for the charge, Hasan said.
Rimsha was arrested on August 16.
She and her family spoke to CNN in early September from an undisclosed location, in hiding after Rimsha was released on bail -- a move that appeared to be in reaction to the global condemnation of her jailing.
The teen said she was happy to be with her family, but feared for her life.
"I'm scared," she said by phone. "I'm afraid of anyone who might kill us."
The teen spoke in short sentences, answering "yes" or "no" in a shy and nervous voice.
In Pakistan, people accused of blasphemy are often attacked and sometimes killed by vigilantes.
During CNN's interview with her, Rimsha said, "No, no," when asked if she burned pages of the Quran.
She wouldn't answer questions about what happened on August 16.
Pakistani investigators said Rimsha's neighbor accused her of burning pages of the Quran to use as cooking fuel. The neighbor began to shout in protest, drawing a crowd that grew angry. Some neighbors said the teenager was beaten. Others said she ran back home and locked herself inside. When police arrived, they arrested her.
Rimsha's lawyers said the neighbor wanted to settle a personal score with the girl because the two didn't get along. They said it's likely that he liked the teen and she didn't feel the same.
While the latest turn in her case this week appears largely positive, her ordeal is far from over.
The next hearing in Rimsha's case is set for October 1 in juvenile court.
Most victims of Pakistan's blasphemy laws belong to minority Muslim sects like the Ahamadis, who many of Pakistan's majority Sunnis perceive as nonbelievers, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Human Rights Watch.
Rimsha's father, Mizrak Masih, is a Christian. He paints houses for a few dollars a day.
He was adamant that no one in his family would dishonor the Quran.
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A family representative said that aid groups in the United States, Italy and Canada have offered to the teen and her family a home outside Pakistan.
But no matter how her case pans out, it's unclear what kind of life she might be able to have. She told CNN in September that she wanted to stay in her home country.
People will believe what they want to believe, no matter what the courts or police say, Hasan said.
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Soft tissue sarcoma is a disease in which cancer cells are found in soft tissue in the body. Soft tissue includes muscles, tendons, connective tissue, fat, blood vessels, nerves, and joint tissue. There are many types of soft tissue sarcoma.
Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Eventually these uncontrolled cells form a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths can invade nearby tissues including the lymph nodes. Cancer that has invaded the lymph nodes can then spread to other parts of the body.
It is not clear exactly what causes these problems in the cells, but is probably a combination of genetics and environment.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your risk of soft tissue sarcoma include:
Exposure to certain types of chemicals such as:
- Chemicals in herbicides and wood preservatives
- Polycyclic hydrocarbons
- Dioxin
- Exposure to radiation, including therapeutic, diagnostic, and accidental
- History of angiosarcoma of the liver
- Suppressed immune system
Certain inherited diseases, such as:
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Gardner syndrome
- Retinoblastoma
- Werner syndrome
- Gorlin syndrome
In the early stages, a sarcoma is small and does not produce symptoms. As the tumor grows, it may push aside normal body structures, causing symptoms.
The most common symptom of a sarcoma is a lump or swelling that may or may not be painful. Symptoms vary, depending on the part of the body that is affected. For example, tumors found in the following areas of the body may develop these symptoms:
- Arm, leg, or trunk—uncomfortable swelling in the affected limb
- Chest—cough and breathlessness
- Abdomen—abdominal pain, vomiting, and constipation
- Uterus—bleeding from the vagina and pain in the pelvis or lower abdomen
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Imaging tests that evaluate bodily structures include:
A biopsy can confirm the diagnosis.
The physical exam, combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the type and stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. Like other cancers, soft tissue sarcoma is staged from I-IV. Stage I is a very localized cancer, while stage IV indicates a spread to other parts of the body.
Treatment depends on the stage of the cancer as well as the type.
Treatments may include:
Surgery requires removal of the cancerous tumor and nearby tissue, and possibly nearby lymph nodes.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. When a sarcoma is aggressive, the surgeon will remove as much of it as possible. Adding radiation will significantly reduce the chances of the cancer coming back. Radiation may be:
- External radiation therapy—radiation directed at the tumor from a source outside the body
- Internal radiation therapy—radioactive materials placed into the body near the cancer cells
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy may be given in many forms, including: pill, injection, or by catheter. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel through the body killing mostly cancer cells, but also some healthy cells. Chemotherapy is generally reserved for only certain types of sarcomas. In some cancers, it may be used as treatment that leads to a cure. In other types, it may be used to slow the spread of cancer and ease symptoms without leading to a cure.
There are no current guidelines for preventing soft tissue sarcoma because the exact cause is unknown.
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Jam on it.
Like just about everyone who has ever held an instrument in their hands, I had
dreams of being in a rock band. Following in my grandpappy's
footsteps, I spent a lot of time practicing on my guitar. It was a beautiful
instrument, made of a finely-crafted tub of whipped cream and only the highest
quality rubber bands. Unfortunately, my 5 year-old self was never able to nail
down a record contract. I must have been ahead of my time.
I still like to make music, and hey, if I can combine it with video games,
then that's all the better. Amplitude, the follow-up to Frequency,
offers some light remixing, tuned up gameplay and more robust online features.
As far as musical rhythm games go, this is one catchy little number.
Frequency, eight different musical tracks were arranged in a tunnel shape,
ala Tempest. Amplitude rolls these tracks out into a flat musical
highway. Each individual track corresponds to a different component of the music,
such as drums, bass or vocals.
Sitting atop these tracks are little capsules containing locked bits of music.
You must shoot these capsules using a little flying ship known as the Beat Blaster.
Time it right and music will play. Keep the streak going and the score will
go up. Screw up and your energy drains.
To help keep that energy healthy, Amplitude offers several new power-ups.
In addition to a score multiplier and an auto-catcher that clears one track
out of the way, a new slowdown power-up momentarily makes it easier to keep
up with the rhythm.
Originally, Freestyle mode was attained when tracks were cleared. Amplitude
changes Freestyle into an obtainable power-up. The Beat Blaster temporarily
lifts above the different tracks as you scratch out a free beat to the music.
All of these power-ups are critical towards maintaining a streak and building
up your score.
Frequency offered a customizable avatar called a FreQ. Amplitude
does it one better, modeling the little guy in 3D. While the Beat Blaster zips
down the musical highway, the little FreQ jams out on a micro-instrument to
correspondent to the track. When you complete songs in the single-player mode,
additional FreQ's are unlocked.
Besides the solo game mode, Amplitude carries over the Remix mode of
Frequency that allows you to arrange music using the same interface as
the main mode. Tracks can't be interchanged – you are only working within the
bounds of what is already there. While it isn't quite like real audio mixing,
if it piques your interest, it gives back as much as you are willing to put
in. Completed songs can even be uploaded online for judging and play.
The multiplayer and online modes place one to four players on the same highway
as they compete for a high score. Normally the tracks are color-coded to match
the musical component. In multiplayer, however, the tracks are color-coded to
match the players. It gets a bit confusing. I wish they stuck to the component
colors and delivered the player color information in another manner. Theirs
is also another game mode that plays out like H-O-R-S-E, where one players sets
out a pattern to be copied by the second player.
I've found that the online players tend to be really good; in a way, the solo
mode is just a training ground to eventually go against the zealots with lightning
fingers. Amplitude is really a game of practice, as you repeat and repeat, building
up a strategy for each song. It can therefore get repetitive grooving out over
and over again to the same songs.
enough, when Brian reviewed Frequency, he said, "Don't expect to find
blink 182 or any other mainstream bands in here." Well, that's exactly what
you will find in Amplitude. Recognizable bands such as Garbage, Slipknot
and even Pink sit next to underground groups like BT and Komputer Kontroller.
Musical styles are a matter of personal choice, but the game works best for
me with styles I already like. My tastes are pretty broad, but in terms of the
game, Quarashi, P.O.D., Bowie and the trance selections work best. The choices
of Mekon, The Baldwin Brothers, and some of the metal selections don't really
work well.
I suspect that most people will find their tastes split across the different
songs, but at least there's an attempt at variety to meet everyone's needs.
Some of the selections offer up less recognized selections from some big name
talent, which is cool as it doesn't pound a smash hit into your head.
The psychedelic mind-stream of colors is pretty heavy on the eyes and senses.
Swirls of color hammer at you as you cruise down the musical highway. In the
background, images of the band and your FreQ bounce about as a neon-cityscape
takes form. After a few hours of it, I could still feel it banging around inside
my brain. The visuals fit the game to an appreciable yet occasionally overwhelming
degree. It would have been nice if the visuals changed depending on how well
you played; as it is, it's pretty much the same thing every time you play through
a stage.
At times, Amplitude really draws you in. You won't be thinking so much
as grooving – your fingers just race through the key presses on their own. It's
worth checking out if your music interests lie within the song list , but even
genres that you might not normally take an interest in suddenly offer a different
experience in the game. If you enjoyed the first game or like other musical
games along the lines of the Beatmania series, then Amplitude
deserves an audition.


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A future in robotics is goal for Boys & Girls Clubs' Youth of the Year
And what do you want to be when you grow up?
Ask Manuel Anchondo and the answer is "robotics." Anchondo, who in May was in the top six percent of his Adams City High School graduating class, plans to learn all he can about robotic technology when he enters Colorado State University this fall as a mechanical engineering major.
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Barring the people from the land
By Vin Suprynowicz
Who could be against "protection"? Parents are expected to "protect" their children. Everyone wants to "protect" a litter of helpless puppies.
But the word can have other meanings. If the head of the household has died and the property tax payments aren't being made, the authorities may eventually decide to "protect the asset" on which they have filed their liens. Such a gentle way to describe the process of evicting the tearful widow and her kids, setting their belongings on the public sidewalk, changing the locks and securing the place with yellow police tape till auction day.
It's this latter use of the word "protect" we must keep in mind as we read that U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell ruled June 25 in favor of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Sierra Club in their suit against three counties in southern Utah, in a case concerning county roads through the so-called Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
In the waning days of the late Clinton administration, the president decided to override the objections of local states and counties -- paying off his supporters on the extreme fringes of the environmental "protection" movement (as well as any supporters who might have controlled, say, Indonesian coal deposits, hardly anxious to compete with high-quality coal newly scheduled to be mined in southern Utah) by waving his magic executive pen and declaring a great swatch of southern Utah off limits for productive use ... possibly including coal mining.
(You remember coal. We burn it to make electricity, and Utah's is particularly hard and clean-burning. Try telling the residents of California now suffering rotating power blackouts they're being "protected" from the over-hasty development of Utah's coal reserves.)
At any rate, the three counties in question decided to make use of an 1866 federal law which provides them ''the right of way for the construction of highways across public lands not reserved for public uses.''
Congress repealed that law in 1976, but existing rights of way were "grandfathered in" and thus still protected. So the Utah counties went in and re-graded the roads they intended to keep open through the new "monument," around which the green extremists now planned to wrap the legal equivalent of yellow police tape -- "protecting" vast acreages against any trespass or productive use by the people of the United States.
In their lawsuit, the environmental groups contended the roads in question were not protected under the law because they were not actually "built"; did not access particular destinations, and in some cases were on land already "reserved for a public use" ... coal development, oddly enough. The counties responded that the roads were important transportation links and had been in use since the 19th century.
A federal court ruled in 1998 that the counties' maintenance of rights of way would not constitute trespass onto federal lands, but then stayed its decision pending a ruling by the Bureau of Land Management on whether the rights of way were valid (an odd measure of deference for an independent branch of government to show mere appointed regulators.)
Not surprisingly, the green-infiltrated BLM concluded in 1999 that with one exception, the right-of-way were not valid.
Judge Campbell's ruling now upholds the BLM's determination that the counties did not have rights of way on 16 of 17 routes -- a precedent which could affect control of tens of thousands of routes and trails on public lands.
Thus are effectively barred the hunters, the shooters, the hikers, the fishermen, the rock collectors, the off-roaders -- thus is the human-hating agenda of the Green Extreme made flesh.
"No more will the counties be able to undermine the protection of national parks, Bureau of Land Management lands and wildlife refuges with the blunt edge of the bulldozer," crows Heidi McIntosh, an attorney and "conservation director" for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ... using that interesting word "protection," again.
Significantly, Judge Campbell said the goal of Congress in repealing the 1866 law, "that federal lands be governed in accordance with national interest, would be undermined if the interest of the various states, rather than the interest of the federal government, governed the validity."
In fact, the only way the federal government is authorized by the Constitution to control any lands within the several states is to "purchase by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, (places) for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings."
Has the Utah state Legislature consented to sell the federal government this "Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument"? Does the federal government need all this land for "Forts" and "dock-Yards"? Has the federal government, in fact, ever attempted to buy this land from the state? How much did it offer? Cash or check?
Judge Campbell here vacates, violates, and eviscerates the 10th Amendment (an integral part of the Constitution which she has sworn an oath to protect and defend) -- the amendment which informs us that in fact it is the powers and prerogatives of the states -- not the sharply limited interests of the central government -- which must take precedence, since "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to state states respectively, or to the people."
Of course, Judge Campbell is not the first federal functionary cynical enough to look at the return address on her paychecks and promptly turn this vital "default setting" of the constitution upside down.
But she's still wrong.
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Subscribe to his monthly newsletter by sending $72 to Privacy Alert, 561 Keystone Ave., Suite 684, Reno, NV 89503 -- or dialing 775-348-8591. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at 1-800-244-2224.
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