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LAFAYETTE — A Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce task force is exploring a tweak to city-parish government that could give council members from the city more control over city affairs.
The move comes after voters in 2011 soundly defeated a deconsolidation proposal to undo the 1996 merger of the once-separate city and parish governments, with 63 percent voting against the measure.
The chamber had opposed the deconsolidation proposal but advocated for some arrangement short of separation that would give city council members more control over city issues, such as the budgets and oversight of the police department, the fire department and the city-owned utility system.
"We just think the public needs another opportunity to view the charter and how it applies to autonomy for the city of Lafayette," said chamber Vice-President Bruce Conque, referring to the constitution-like charter that lays out the structure of city-parish government.
Conque said he and four others on the task force have been looking at the issue since mid-2012.
He said the specifics of any recommendation that might emerge are still in play, but "the group is in no way considering revisiting deconsolidation."
The chamber's board of directors would have to approve any recommendation before it becomes a formal position statement by the chamber.
Any changes to the city-parish charter would also require action by the City-Parish Council, possibly the formation of a special commission and, ultimately, approval by voters.
Conque said discussions so far have focused on bringing a proposal to voters by the spring 2014.
The debate over consolidated government has been ongoing for several years, but the deconsolidation ballot measure in 2011 was the first time a proposal for a major change was sent to voters.
The consolidation of the governments for Lafayette Parish and the city of Lafayette was touted in the 1990s as a way to bring a more regional approach to government and to improve efficiency.
The once-separate councils, administrations and departments of the city and parish governments were merged, but the city has remained a separate legal entity, with its own taxes and a fire department, police department and utility system that serve only the city.
Critics of that arrangement, including City-Parish President Joey Durel and most of the council members with large city constituencies, argue that council members who represent mostly rural areas should not have a say over city-only issues.
Durel said that he believes most residents see it as an obvious problem that council members from outside the city limits have a vote on how the city spends its tax revenue.
"They all agree that it is un-American that Lafayette has noncitizens voting on how to spend city dollars," he said.
Durel said he would like to see a system where council districts are redrawn so that five of the nine members represent only city residents and the other four represent only residents living outside the city.
The full nine-member council would vote on parish-wide issues, he said, but city-related business would be decided only by the five city representatives.
"The four parish elected officials would leave, and the five city guys would conduct city business," Durel said.
That plan had been considered but rejected by a special commission that decided to put deconsolidation on the ballot in 2011.
"I don't like the concept very much," said City-Parish Councilman Jay Castille, whose Carencro-area district is about 80 percent noncity residents and 20 percent city residents.
Castille said redrawing the council districts to create five city-only districts would give the city representatives a voting majority to control all issues affecting the parish.
"I don't think that is fair to anyone," he said.
Castille said the present system offers at least some balance because most council members with large city-based constituencies still have to answer to at least a small contingent of rural voters.
"I do agree there are some changes needed, but we need to be careful," Castille said.


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Sky Combat Review
The title "Sky Combat" is a bit misleading. You don't just pilot a helicopter in this game– you also take command of a tank and heavily armed speedboat. It doesn't matter which vehicle you use, because Sky Combat is a fun little shooter from start to finish.
Taking a top-down view similar to flying games like 1942: First Strike and Siberian Strike, Sky Combat nails all of the important aspects of the genre. It looks great, controls beautifully, and has just the right degree of challenge. Sure, there's not much of a story, and you never actually learn who you're gunning down, but does it matter?
Don't worry, the rain will probably put that out.
The polished visuals are our favorite part of Sky Combat. The environments are beautifully detailed, from the finely textured sand and rock to the blue water capped with white waves. The game looks especially sharp on a Retina device, making it one of the best-looking top-down shooters you can buy for iOS.
Great graphics wouldn't mean much if Sky Combat didn't control well, but we weren't disappointed here, either. You can choose from a range of tilt and touch-based controls, and the one we found that worked the best was tilt. You can calibrate the tilt to whatever angle you're holding your device, and we almost always felt we had control over our vehicle, even in tight spots.
The one exception to this is the dodge button, which makes your helicopter lift straight up (towards you) to evade rockets and machine gun fire. Occasionally, this button wouldn't work, which led to a few needless wrecks.
The Love Boat soon will be making another run.
As we mentioned, you don't just pilot a helicopter in Sky Combat. The tank and boat missions are fun distractions, but they're tricky because you're unable to move up and down. Still, they add new challenges, like avoiding buildings in the tank and the shoreline in the boat, so we were happy to take them for a spin.
Overall, Sky Combat is a decent challenge, even if you've played a few top-down shooters. There are three difficulty levels, and each has their own online leaderboards through Chillingo's Crystal network. When you're done with the main game, you can take the helicopter through an endless mode, which we thought was a great addition.
Sky Combat is a well-polished gem in an App Store full of sub-par shooters. The most important aspects of a great shooter are all in place, so we just hope the developers continue to add even more content and modes. For example, we'd like a survival mode for the boat and tank as well. Pick this one up for a dollar– you'll be glad you did.

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DONALD HALL greeted me at the screen door, his dog Gussy cautiously inspecting the visitor. Like a boy enthusiastically sharing his box of treasures, he guided me through the rooms of Eagle Pond Farm, showing off the artifacts of his family's long generations in this countryside. Wicker prams, bed quilts patched from still-older dresses, a box of carded wool from his great-grandfather's first season of shearing. There is the shelf of photographs featuring the grandparents he so lovingly immortalized in books like "String Too Short to be Saved" and the new "Here at Eagle Pond." In stories, plays, essays, memoirs, children's books, and over a dozen volumes of poetry, this award-winning writer has excavated and explored the very idea of what it means to be of a family and to feel at home. Hall's own recent history makes such a compelling myth, it's easy to understand why book reviewers so frequently offer it as pure fact: Donald Hall, poet, professor, gives up tenure at a major university to return to the familial farmhouse; inspired by this homecoming, he is transformed as a poet and begins to write masterfully about family history and bucolic New Hampshire. This is closer to the truth: For a well-educated suburban boy from Connecticut, the summers spent working with his grandfather in the fields and hills around Eagle Pond helped give birth to a second self. Poetry and the life of the spirit were cultivated in this green territory. And for decades he has labored determinedly to explore that emotional landscape, to preserve the people and memories he - even at a distance - called home. In 1975, exchanging the staid security of academia for the invigorating r iskiness of the freelance writer, Hall and his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, transplanted their daily existence to the terrain he'd been homing in on for decades. It has been a bargain they have never regretted. Today Donald Hall writes in the room he once slept in as a boy. The physical presence of Eagle Pond has only magnified and accelerated the ripening of his talent. Reading through the recent "Old and New Poems," it is clear that his gift involves more than colorful family roots and glimpses of a vanishing rural culture. It is a musicality of language wedded to an uncompromising vision of how an individual explores, savors, and passes on the sense of being home. Within his poems, we begin to discover where we too are lovingly tied to the people, places, and tasks of our lives.
Steven Ratiner: Were you fearful when you decided to move to rural New Hampshire - away from academia, far from the literary scene?
Donald Hall: I had very good students at the University of Michigan.... But I didn't really like the way we all lived together at the university. I grew up in the suburbs, and the university town is like the suburbs.... People of the same economic class lived near each other and they drove the same cars. I went to school with kids who tended to be like each other.... This place was an alternative - my mother's peoples' place, my grandparents' place. I came up here where there was such a diversity. And I was met at the depot by an old man driving a horse and buggy. What could be more different? I knew when I came here from Ann Arbor, I wasn't going to be driving a horse and buggy, but I had the sensation that I was coming to a different culture, one that resembled the old one. The things had changed less than I expected and I really admired it. I was frightened of making a living, quitting tenure, quitting regular income for the rest of my life. But I, with the support of my wife, ... had the courage to do it, and it has worked out very well.... Writing about this place has been a sort of center for me ... a platform for me from which to view the rest of the world. Remember the poem by Yeats, "Lapis Lazuli," in which he looks at a piece of sculpture in which three Chinamen climb away from the world and look back down on it.... It's a way, not to separate themselves from the world, but to gain enough distance on it to see it clearly and to comment about it. It's a place of vantage point. And I think that, in terms of my writing, this landscape, t hese people, this place has been a vantage point from which to look at the place itself and at the rest of the world that I have known.
Aside from the financial insecurity, the new home must have involved a deeper emotional shift. In your long poem, "The One Day," there's a passage that reads:
The one day recalls us to hills and meadows, to moss, roses, dirt, apples, and the breathing of timothy - away from the yellow chair, from blue smoke and daydream. Leave behind appointments listed on the printout! Leave behind manila envelopes! Leave dark suits behind, boarding passes, and souffles at the chancellor's house!
Tell me about the interior change you must have felt.
Absolutely.... When I lived in Ann Arbor, my sense of time was so different from what it became here.... I was never content in the present that I lived in. Most of the time I remember thinking, "well, in just another year and a half, maybe I can take a year off and go to England," or I can do this and that. You know, there are so many people who live for retirement. "Five years from now ... , then I can retire and go where I want." One of the most important things of my life was the early death of my fa ther who had worked at a job that he did not love, and who planned to retire - and then died at 55. This is a common American story, probably a common human story, but I was determined it should not happen to me. When I lived here less than a year, I realized suddenly that I was living in the present for the first time of my life.... That I got up in the morning and I sniffed the wind and I saw where the sun was and I looked at things and I got to work - and I lived in that moment. And if I looked forward, it was looking forward to waking up to the next day. It wasn't looking forward to some trip I was going to make six months from now or some career change 10 years from now. I was where I wanted to be. This was an extraordinary change. ... It led to the biggest inward change. It was that sense of time. And of course, that's another way of speaking of happiness. Curiously, or frustratingly, the greatest happiness is not to know you are happy, is not to know what time it is, is to be lost in the hour....
Reading your memoir about your summers at Eagle Pond as a boy, it struck me that you had almost a Confucian regard for age and for the wisdom that is passed on through generations. It's remarkable in someone so young. Where do you think that feeling came from?
I was the only grandchild of two sets of grandparents.... In New Hampshire, the old people were the ones who were so attractive. The young people I met up there, the middle-aged people, were pretty quiet, rather dour. The old people were the wonderful storytellers and the repositories of so much that fascinated me.... When I was away from those old people, I dreamed up questions to ask them to prompt new stories. My grandfather was at the center of it, probably at the center of my life - my New Hampshire grandfather, the old farmer Wesley Wells. He was a great storyteller as well as a reciter of poems.... Most of the stories he told were just reminiscence, anecdote. And he told them with a wonderful sense of narrative, a wonderful sense of shapeliness. And he loved language - not like poetic language, but the good come-back, the witty turn of phrase. ... He just loved it that he had someone who was a good audience for his stories. ... So there was a kind of pattern in me of love for old people which I thin k has gone through the rest of my life.
So much of your writing is about "home-making in both the literal sense of "one's daily labors" and in the mythical dimension of human culture. Robert Frost certainly had his say about the idea of "home" in his New Hampshire poems. How does it shape your work and language?
Home is a comfort. Home is where you want to stay, where you can imagine yourself living in the ... present moment, just continuously canceling out time. When I was away from here, when I was in bad times, I had an image in my head [of "home"], a physical image, the topographical landscape of this place with all the associations of family, of history.... It invited me and comforted me.... I think I have "home" in a sense more than most people are able to - and maybe sometimes I am shy of speaking about i t. There was an old cartoon when Goldwater was running for the presidency in which Herblock had Goldwater saying to a beggar woman, "Why don't you go inherit a department store." I feel that way about my connectedness here. I have this, and I can't tell other people, "why don't you go have it." I'm just the lucky one....
Yes, but in reading the poems, isn't a reader pressed to look at his own home in a different way, maybe with a more attentive eye?
Yes, that's what I would hope. And I can try to make models of fitting into where you are, and leave it there for people in the future to take a look: This is how it was possible to live.
In all your books since "Kicking the Leaves," the landscape is treated as a presence that speaks of the tension between "home" and "time." The large cycles of time enrich the moments of our lives even as they're carrying the experiences away from us. The poem "Great Day in the Cows' House" is a perfect example where the sense of celebration and loss are inextricably coupled.
In that poem, I talk about the experience of canceling out time. That turns up in poem after poem. Part of that notion I took from the mystic and theologian Meister Eckhart who had the phrase, "God cancels the successiveness of men." Now the "Great Day," which is my own symbol of this ... cancels the successiveness of creatures, because I wanted to include not just men and women, but also Holsteins as well, and trees - so that the trees of the tie up are both ancient timbers and saplings that are still d amp. And I feel that, at moments, I can feel the coexistence, the copresence of everything, and I desire this sensation.
So in the same way you preserve the artifacts of past generations in this house, in your writing you try to conserve the links with history in order that we may envision a new life. There's a line in one of your essays that speaks of "the past hovering in dusty present like motes, a future implicit in shadowy ranks of used things, usable again." A cycle of endless regeneration and renewal. And through all your books, there is one force that continually binds us to this cycle - work! Work is the redemptive power - whether it's the days of haying with your grandfather or the early mornings at your writing desk. And in the poem, "Ox Cart Man," the whole of the man's existence is seen as the seasonal cycle of labor.
Work, work, work! ... And the exhaustion of everything he does. And you know, when I first published that poem or read it aloud, I was just astonished to hear many people say, "Ohhh, how sad! He does all the work and then he's gotta do it over again." Well, I never had that idea. It is not a misreading of the poem, of course.... It's a response to the poem. But I never thought of it.
It's a measure of where the readers stand in relation to their own work, the cycles of their lives.
I thought of that sort of total dispersement of everything. Everything that you have done goes out, gets changed into something else. Then you come back and start all over again, and that always exhilarated me. I can say that every day is like that year, that cycle of years, from the getting up in the morning all excited to get to work, till you're going to bed at night sleepy, in order to get up again, get going.
So you aren't one of those writers who will complain about the pain and the anxiety of writing. In the early mornings, when you wake to another day's work, the feeling for you is...?
It's bliss. I don't apologize. It's bliss. I get frustrated at my inabilities, like anybody .... I get stuck and don't know what to do next. But let me not exaggerate that. That is simply part of the context. It's part of the work.
And that pleasure comes across in the reading of the poems as well, along with a challenge: to look around at your own day and your own labor and see whether you are fed by the experience.
Indeed. I can't tell people to go and have grandparents like mine, go and have a farmhouse to move into like me.... But I can say: Find what you love, and do it. I'm happy to say that.


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What the Experts Say
Charlotte Berg, D.V.M., Ph.D.
May 4th 2007
To whom it may concern:
I have been asked by the US based organization "Mercy for Animals" to review and comment on a 10-minute video from a poultry slaughter plant in the US. My name is Charlotte Berg, and I am a veterinarian with many years of national and international experience in the field of poultry husbandry and poultry welfare. This includes working with developing guidelines and legislation in relation to poultry handling, stunning and slaughter at commercial slaughter plants. The comments given below are my personal only, and may not necessarily reflect the view of any organization to which I am affiliated.
The video has obviously been filmed using a hidden camera and it is partly difficult to establish exactly what is going on. Irrespective of this, several sections of the video is certainly clear enough to reveal unacceptable conditions and obvious maltreatment of live animals, such as throwing heavy birds in the air or deliberately punching them.
Most of the problems appear to be related to how the staff at the slaughter plant handles the birds. There are several examples of rough handling and there also appears to be obvious indications of deliberate violence directed towards the animals. In some cases there seems to be no reason whatsoever for these actions. In other cases it is unclear if the actions have been encouraged by the management of the plant for production reasons or if they are initiatives of the single employees. In any case, the actions are unacceptable from an animal welfare point of view, and are definitely far below the standard of animal handling that could be expected at professional slaughter facilities.
Based on current knowledge of bird pain perception and stress reactions, it can be concluded that the birds handled this way will suffer considerably. To a large extent, this suffering is unnecessary.
Suspending large turkeys by shackling them by their legs can be debated from an animal welfare point of view, as research indicate that this procedure is painful. Nevertheless, the procedure is widespread and generally accepted within the industry worldwide. Waterbath stunning also has some animal welfare drawbacks but can, when correctly handled, be considered quite acceptable from an animal welfare point of view. Like any other system for slaughter, the system shown in the video has to be properly managed to work. This certainly involves having skilled staff employed, with sufficient knowledge of animal welfare aspects of live bird handling and of the consequences when birds are not handled with proper care. The rough handling seen on the video is not only unacceptable from an animal welfare point of view, but is most likely also detrimental from a product quality point of view, which makes it even more difficult to understand. It is in the interest of the plant management to encourage careful handling of animals, both to improve their reputation from an animal welfare point of view and to improve product quality and thereby the monetary return. Deliberate violence is never acceptable and should be clearly discouraged by the management.
It is the responsibility of the slaughter plant management to ensure that every single employee involved in live bird handling, stunning and slaughter has received proper training and instructions in relation to animal welfare, and that these instructions are complied with.
Charlotte Berg
DVM, PhD, Associate Professor in Animal Hygiene
Skara, Sweden
Dr. Berg is a veterinary officer at the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency. She participates in expert groups on bird welfare for the European Union and is a member of the Working Group on Poultry Welfare of the European branch of the World Poultry Science Association.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Keith Urban was wrapping up a recent interview about "American Idol" when Harry Connick Jr. breezed into a backstage room, ready for his turn.
"He talks and talks and talks," Connick said, gleefully needling his fellow "Idol" judge. "Get out."
Urban replied in kind, telling Connick he'd answered a reporter's questions for him: "I said it would make for a better interview."
The musicians' good-natured digs suggest a fresh start for "American Idol" after a sour season in which the bickering between judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, with Urban stuck in the middle, was anything but entertaining.
Urban, newcomer Connick and Jennifer Lopez, who's returning after a season's absence, have the task of helping the singing contest find its footing and stop a ratings slide in its 13th season that begins Wednesday.
They have help from two new executive producers, replacements for the longtime team that guided "American Idol" through an unprecedented nine-year streak as TV's No. 1 program to the loss of that crown in 2013.
Besides the show's own missteps, other talent shows including NBC's hit "The Voice" and Fox's own "The X Factor," although struggling, have grabbed audience attention.
But the show's ability to rebound shouldn't be underestimated, say producers Per Blankens, who produced the successful Swedish "Idol," and Trish Kinane.
"American Idol" is "still the best format in the world. ... Our job is to go back to basics," Blankens said. That includes "a panel that's good, and like what they're doing, and could consider eating lunch together, because it all starts there."
The judges say they not only enjoy each other's company but also agree their role on the show is secondary.
"The focus should be in the front," Urban said, referring to the young singers he was assessing during a taping last month for the elimination stage known as Hollywood Week.
At a news conference Monday, the country star expanded on the panel's shared view of what is owed the contestants.
"It's a really daunting thing," Urban said. "You know, they've got no microphone, no audience, no band, no music, nothing, and they stand in front of us and sing. And all three of us have so much respect for that."
The judges also need to be educators, Connick said.
"This is my whole mantra for the show: If there's anything I can communicate, passion and education aren't exclusive. People say, 'I just want to play what I feel.' I play what I feel. But the definition of passion to me is learning everything about your craft," the jazz musician and singer said.
With what Kinane called solid "chemistry" in place for the panel, she and Blankens turned their attention to the production itself. The talent search was expanded to include outreach to people unable to get to big-city auditions, and an element called the "chamber" was added.
It involves a private room — save for a camera — in which contestants have a chance to ready themselves for their initial meeting with the judges, whether through rehearsal, prayer or just a grooming check, Kinane said.
Based on viewer comments, "Idol" has compressed the rounds between Hollywood Week and the start of the live telecasts into what's been tagged "rush week." Randy Jackson, stepping from judge into the role of mentor, will hold workshops to help contestants deal with vocal and other challenges.
The songs available for the contest, which have included a notable share of golden oldies, will have more current tunes that the young contestants — and presumably young viewers — can relate to, Blankens said.
The show, which hit a peak of 30.3 million viewers in the 2005-06 season, last year dropped sharply to less than half that, 13.2 million, according to Nielsen company figures.
That was still good enough to keep it comfortably among TV's most-watched programs, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly, while expressing optimism, doesn't underestimate the challenge ahead.
"There's a great vibe on the show. ... It feels good," he told reporters Monday, then added: "I anticipate we will be down, just statistically. But I also anticipate that it's going to be a really good season, and I hope we flatten out over the course of the year and have it be a great season for us."
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter@lynnelber.


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The New England Tech SOTA Club (Student Occupational Therapy Association) is hosting a fundraiser at Chili's Restaurant.
 Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Location: 1276 Bald Hill Road, Warwick RI 02886
Please click this link, print the flier, and bring it to the event.
Chili's will donate 10% of all food and beverage sales during the event time frame.Â
Proceeds from this event will be utilized to help the Club fund community service projects.


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N&H Page 13, Exercise 10 [A] - 13 [B]
1. We have come to defend the walls.
2. He went away so quickly that we never saw him again.
3. He is so brave that he does not fear the enemy, but loves battles.
4. He was sent to ask for peace, that the citizens might not die of hunger.
5. The laws which the Romans made were so good that no one wished to break them.
6. We defended the walls so well that the enemy retreated, and did not take the city.
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Police robbery detectives are probing the armed robbery of The Storefront Dispensary marijuana store on Voltaire Street on May 27.
Investigators said two men entered the dispensary shortly after 11 a.m. and pointed two handguns at the employees. They fled with an undetermined amount of cash and marijuana and were last seen getting into an older, white two-door Nissan.
One of the suspects was described as a Hispanic man in his mid-20s, wearing a black hooded jacket. The second suspect was described as a black man, also in his mid-20s, about 6 feet1 inch tall with a medium build. He was last seeen wearing a gray hooded jacket and jeans.
No injuries were reported.
5K walk for Boston bombing victims is June 1
Greg Sterner, owner of Fitness Together-Point Loma is organizing a 5K charity walk at NTC Park at Liberty Station on Saturday, June 1 to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in April.
Sterner and his wife, Kara, first met in Boston while attending college — one at Northeastern University, the other at Bentley College.
The couple said they still have many friends in the greater Boston area and that they hold the city and its residents near and dear to their hearts.
The goal of the charity walk is to raise at least $500 for medical costs and other expenses for the bombing victims. They said all donations will be distributed to One Fund Boston, Inc.
The participants will be asked to donate a minimum of $20.
The event will be held at 8 a.m. Participants will gather at the Fitness Together-Point Loma studio at Liberty Station, located at 2750 Dewey Road, #101. From there, participants will walk through NTC Park and Liberty Station. Walkers should bring their donations by check, wear comfortable shoes and bring the children and/or their dogs.
Coffee and refreshments will be served. To RSVP, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hostel earns certification for sustainability
HI-San Diego, Point Loma received its STEP gold certification for achievements in sustainability.
These accomplishments are above and beyond the bronze and silver certification requirements set by Hostelling International USA's (HI-USA) pilot sustainability program with Sustainable Travel International (STI), that included 15 hostels.
STEP, an acronym for Sustainable Tourism Education Program, is a gold standard in sustainable tourism management and education, and is among the first global standards to be formally recognized by the United Nations global sustainable tourism criteria.
HI-San Diego, Point Loma employed a number of innovative green practices to achieve its gold certification, including:
• offering a San Diego specific self-guided eco-tour created by a front desk staff member who writes the curriculum for the San Diego Natural History Museum
• using search dogs and high heat for pest control instead of spraying chemicals
• ensuring every plant on site is organic, including the vegetable garden
"We're thrilled to receive such a prestigious recognition and contribute to San Diego's sustainability initiatives as a whole," said HI-San Diego, Point Loma Hostel manager Jenny Wise of the 55-bed neighborhood hostel.
For more information about HI-USA hostels, visit www.hiusa.org. For questions about the hostel and its sustainability efforts, or to schedule a tour, contact HI-USA Southwest Regional Vice president Sue Schaffner at email@example.com.


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hvac wiz 79, still waiting to hear from you.
Put me in for a week later in the season
Is it too late to join the party?
The picture in my avatar is of the Houston Ship Channel and was taken from my backyard. I like to sit outside and slap mosquitos while watching countless supertankers, barges and cargo ships of every shape and size carry all sorts of deadly toxins to and fro. It's really beautiful at times.....just don't eat the three eyed fish....
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put me down for a week doesnt matter which one.
If you dont stand behind our troops, please feel free...........to stand in front of them.
This is off to a late start but at least it is started. Did I volunteer a week yet? I would like week 7 but if that is taken just asign me a week.
It will be something Made in America from Vermont.
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This is off to a late start but at least it is started. Did I volunteer a week yet? I would like week 7 but if that is taken just asign me a week.
It will be something Made in America from Vermont.
I will take a week also, a pocket knife, because they are easy to ship. Thanx Dice for reminding me to play this.... BTW why is this site so darn slow???
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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No luck with the hvac2011 username and hvac password. Anybody have a clue?
Hey Cooked, Go to Poolhost.com main page and sign up with a user name and password. Then go to user tools and click join a private pool. Click on Pro football pickem them enter Hvac2011 for user and hvac for password.
hey chadwick.............make your pics, game tonight!
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Okay dudes, signed up and made picks for week one, anything else to do?
Ummm, I cant log on.... who won week one???
really? Y'all dont even come here anymore?? Oh well. Can anyone explain why this is the slowest site on the whole internets? Takes about 4 minutes to get to this page.
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Wu-Tang Brand LTD Unveils Winter 'Iron Flag' Collection
After releasing a commemorative collection last year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wu-Tang's iconic debut album, Rocksmith has teamed up with the Wu brand once again for an "iron flag" themed set.
The winter looks draw inspiration from the 90's, channeling the militant Staten Island collective's energy. The collection boasts an array of apparel, stamped with the classic "W" emblem and the title of their hit record "C.R.E.A.M." Also included in the package are several Wu-inspired accessories, such as nunchucks, sofa pillows, backpacks, belts and a signature duffle bag.
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Stevens High School principal search to begin in ClaremontBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
January 19. 2014 7:47PM
CLAREMONT — The school district announced Wednesday its timeline to replace Stevens High School Principal Frank Sprague.
"Frank Sprague's announcement to retire at the end of the 2013-2014 school year was not welcomed news. In just two years, Frank has spearheaded many meaningful improvements at Stevens High School," said Middleton McGoodwin, superintendent of SAU 6.
The open position will be advertised this week and a Principal Search Committee will be established the first week of February. The search committee is to be made up of one Claremont School District administrator, three Stevens High School teachers, one support staff, three students, one secretary three parents and one Claremont community member. McGoodwin will act as the facilitator of the committee.
Applications to serve on the search committee are available online at www.sau6.k12.nh.us.
A staff forum on Feb. 10 and a parent forum on Feb. 13 will also seek input.
The search committee will then meet Feb. 17 to review the job description and information gained from the staff and parent forums and to develop questions and the candidate review sheet.
Candidates will be interviewed March 10, followed by finalist interviews with McGoodwin on March 17 and 18.
McGoodwin would then introduce the candidate to the Claremont School Board on March 19.
Stevens High School is the sole high school for SAU 6, which serves the city of Claremont and the towns of Unity and Cornish.


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Beaba BabyCook Food Processor Review
December 8th, 2009
Our youngest son, Hudson, is finally ready for solid food, so we cracked open the Beaba Babycook
You might be asking yourself why you'd shell out $149 for another version of the food processor you have sitting in your basement or tucked away behind the pots and pans in your kitchen. I know I did… All I can say is that it's worth the money and is much different than the blender you've already got.
Taking it out of the box, it's pretty easy to assemble. There aren't many parts to it, just the blade, splash lid, cover, spoon/spatula, and steaming basket. It took 2 minutes to put together. It comes with a cooking guide/Recipe book which is very basic, but gives you a good idea of how to steam and blend as well as some ideas on what to cook for your little one.
What makes the Beaba Babycook so unique is that it steams and blends your food in the same blending bowl. The steaming feature can be used to soften raw vegetables to prepare them for blending, or to defrost baby food that you have already made. Steaming time is determined by the amount of water you put into the Beaba. There is a chart in the recipe book to help guide you with that. We started by steaming raw carrots in our Beaba, then blending them…all with the flick of a switch! The Babycook has one dial, with 2 settings; "Blend" and "Steam", so it's hard to screw it up.
Beaba also makes the Multiportions Tray
Overall, this is a great machine. It will save you money by not having to buy all that expensive baby food. It's also much heathier for your child and comforting for you to know exactly what you're feeding them.
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Wisconsin State Fair opens gates for 11-day run
Gates opened promptly at 8 a.m. in West Allis as the Wisconsin State Fair officially got underway.
"This 11-day event is one of my favorite times of the year," Gov. Scott Walker said at the opening ceremony. "From the live music and cream puffs to Saz's barbecue and everything in between, the Wisconsin State Fair has it all. Come on out, have a great time, and celebrate Wisconsin. It's fun for the whole family."
The fair runs from Aug. 1-11 at Wisconsin State Fair Park, 6040 S. 84th St., from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day.
Tickets to the fair are $10 for 12 and older, $7 for seniors 60 and older, $6 for youth 6-11, and children 5 and under are free. Military personnel and veterans with a valid ID receive $7 admission.
Main stage acts this year include Heart, Weird Yankovic and Miranda Lambert. Here is the schedule of main stage performers:
Aug. 1 - Heart and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience
Aug. 2 - Weird Al Yankovic
Aug. 3 - Gary Allan
Aug. 4 - Happy Together Tour featuring the Turtles
Aug. 5 - Sail Rock 2013 starring Christopher Cross
Aug. 6 - Theory of a Deadman with Black Stone Cherry
Aug. 7 - Hillsong LIVE
Aug. 8 - YES
Aug. 9 - Austin Mahone with Jake Miller
Aug. 10 - Vince Neil of Motley Crue, with Stryper
Aug. 11 - Miranda Lambert
One of the State Fair staples is food on a stick. Seventy new food items are available at the fair this year.
Click here to view the new items, and click here to see the 21 new "on a stick" items for 2013.
To view all of WISN 12 News' coverage from the State Fair, click here.


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Behind the fun, serious technology at work
By Michael C. AndersonSenior Editor
Software developer Materialise (Plymouth, MI) had a great event on Tuesday at the co-located Big M event and RAPID conference at Detroit's Cobo Center: slot car racing on a huge four-lane track, using cars made via 3D printing. Check out the bright orange car in the adjacent image here: it looks like it was pressed out of strands of spaghetti rather than printed up from a polymer. The car could really move, though.
A few rows up and over from the track, engineers from rp+m (Avon Lake, OH) were flying a drone that featured a 3D-printed nylon mesh around its perimeter, which acts as a bumper around the outer edge of the toy's four helicopter blades in the event of a crash—and crash it did, though it was soon up and hovering again.
A little further past the slot car track in the other direction were objets d'art, including an arresting lifesized bust of Detroit's own RoboCop and a larger-than life, almost-human (if "human" is the word I want) bust of a character from the film "Avatar"—both made using additive technology by Legacy Effects (San Fernando, CA).
Behind them, artist Ioan Florea's full-sized "Liquid Metal" muscle car beggars description. (Close as I can come is to say it's what Aquaman would drive if he grew up under Lake St. Clair in the 1960s). It too was made through additive processes.
And as long as we've moved into the arts, it's a short step to the world of fashion—represented at this event by the young woman from Fisher/Unitech (Troy, MI) modeling Wearable 3D Printing over a little black dress.
This is a fun show, folks, though at first glance it might seem to be one that's drifting close to frivolity and far from the world of serious manufacturing. That's been the response to additive technology itself by a lot of people who are still completely emotionally invested in traditional subtractive manufacturing technology.
For these people, 3D printing is a gadget for hobbyists to make toys, not manufacturers to make durable products. For them, the technology comes freighted with connotations of do-it-yourself Utopianism, of "Maker Faires" crowded with techno-hippies dreaming of a 'maker' in every house and the end of factories, resellers and mass production itself.
These people may grudgingly admit that 3D printing may—may!—have a future in manufacturing, but, they'll insist, the technology and the price point just aren't there yet.
They're wrong. The technology is indeed "there" already, as is spelled out in "3D Printing Builds Up its Manufacturing Resume" by Tim Caffrey and Terry Wohlers in the June ME. And today PwC has released a report titled "3D printing and the new shape of industrial manufacturing," that says that two out of three US manufacturers are already using 3D printing in some way. "Manufacturers—from small job shops to multinational industrial products firms—are crossing the threshold from tinkering with prototypes to the production of final products," the report says.
Those who ignore the opportunity being presented by additive (literally presented: The Big M and RAPID events continue through Thursday) are doomed to join the scoffers of the Horseless Carriage and the Personal Computer on the wrong side of history. Wake up and smell the extrusion.
Anyway, that "frivolousness" of some the demonstrations described above are no more so than what you'll see in the aisles of IMTS next September. In both cases, an eye-catching display of what a technology can do is used for marketing—but behind the fun are serious applications. To take just one example, rp+m—those were the guys flying the toy drone—have grants from and are working with NASA, Honeywell, Boeing, and other manufacturers to develop materials for additive that can be used to make engine components for air and spacecraft. Materialise, Fisher/Unitech, and the rest too—they look like they're having fun, but they're also doing serious work, with serious, sober-minded customers and partners.
And why shouldn't they look happy? They have a joy previously seen in the computer industry, the composites industry, back further in the aerospace industry and, about a hundred years ago, seen here in Detroit: it's the joy of people who know they are the very front edge of the future—whether their contemporaries get it or not. The people at The Big M and RAPID get it. ME


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Santa brought me a Lego Mindstorms kit! Suddenly the time I'm going to have available for EclipseFP is greatly reduced (I joke). I'm having fun building my first little models and fiddling with the graphical interface for programming the little beasts, but I was wondering if I could use Haskell to control the robots. Things look bleak:
- the NXT library on Hackage looks good, but requires unix... Maybe getting it to work on Windows would be easy, but I wonder...
- the fantom development kit (fantom is the low level communication API for Mindstorms, if I understand correctly) comes with a Windows version that will only work with Visual C++. It uses C++ lib and dll files whose name mangling is not compatible with MinGW.
So as a Windows and MinGW user, I'm in a bit of a ditch. I'm wondering now about the Urbi platform, that seems to be open source and to have a module for Mindstorms. It seems to provide a C++, Java and scripting interfaces, so it may be possible to get a Haskell wrapper on top of it. I wonder has anybody worked on Haskell bindings for Urbi? Might be interesting...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Lego Mindstorms and Haskell?
Posted by JP Moresmau at 9:41 PM
2 comments:
- Justin said...
You might get more done faster by writing a native library for Windows. I bet you'd spend just as much time integrating (and porting) any of those libraries mentioned ...
- JP Moresmau said...
In fact, I have a port of NXT working on windows, it was surprisingly easy to plug in the serialport package and get it to work under windows.
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St. Louis Rams CB Jarrid Bryant, P Bobby Cowan, OT R.J. Dill, WR Jordan Harris, LS Jorgen Hus, FB Kadeem Jones, LB Johnny Millard, WR T.J. Moe, OT D.J. Morrell and LB Pat Schiller (undisclosed) Monday, Aug. 25. Schiller was waived/injured.
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|Rams | Sign three more
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The St. Louis Rams signed free-agents OT R.J. Dill (Chiefs), OL D.J. Morrell (Lions) and LB Lawrence Wilson (Bears).
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|Chiefs | Four signed to futures contracts
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The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free-agent RB Joe McKnight (Jets), OT R.J. Dill (Patriots), DE Brandon X. Moore (Broncos) and SS Jerron McMillian (Packers) to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Patriots | Make practice squad moves
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:19:10 -0800
The New England Patriots have signed OT R.J. Dill to their practice squad and released OT Patrick Ford from the practice squad.
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|Rams | Had Demetress Bell in for tryout
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:12:48 -0700
The St. Louis Rams worked out free-agent OTs Demetress Bell (Cowboys) and R.J. Dill (Patriots) in for workouts this week before settling on OT Max Starks.
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|Patriots | Three signed
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:27:49 -0700
The New England Patriots signed free-agent TE Matthew Mulligan (Packers), OT Jordan Devey (Ravens) and OT R.J. Dill (Jaguars) to the practice squad.
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|Jaguars | Release 20 players
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:01:56 -0700
The Jacksonville Jaguars have released WR Jeremy Ebert, DE Pannel Egboh, RB Jonathan Grimes, LB Brandon M. Marshall, WR Charly Martin, OT Pat McQuistan, OG Drew Nowak, CB Kevin Rutland, DT D'Anthony Smith, LB Julian Stanford, CB Marcus Trufant, WR Toney Clemons, DE Ryan Davis, DT T.J. Barnes, OT R.J. Dill, TE Ryan Otten, WR Tobais Palmer, QB Matt Scott, SS Steven Terrell and LB Michael Zimmer.
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|Jaguars | Sign 20 UFDAs
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:37:02 -0700
The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed undrafted free-agent DT T.J. Barnes (Georgia Tech), LB Maalik Bomar (Cincinnati), CB Marcus Burley (Delaware), OT R.J. Dill (Rutgers), LB Jeremiah Green (Nevada), DE Paul Hazel (Western Michigan), DT Arby Jones (Georgia), WR Cole McKenzie (Southern Oregon), WR Jamal Miles (Arizona State), OG Stephane Milhim (Massachusetts), OT Jeff Nady (Nevada), TE Ryan Otten (San Jose State), WR Tobais Palmer (North Carolina State), TE Kyler Reed (Nebraska), LB LaRoy Reynolds (Virginia), S Steven Terrell (Texas A&M), LS Carson Tinker (Alabama), OT Roderick Tomlin (Murray State), CB Trey Wilson (Vanderbilt) and LB Michael Zimmer (Illinois State). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - South Carolina two-sport standout Bruce Ellington is working out with the basketball team, a few days after catching two touchdown passes in the Gamecocks' 27-17 victory at Clemson.
First-year coach Frank Martin had said Ellington would not rejoin the basketball team until after the football team's bowl game. Ellington was the basketball team's leading returning scorer from last season.
This would be his second season playing both football and basketball. Ellington played only basketball as a freshman.
The Gamecocks (5-1) play at St. John's on Thursday night as part of the Big East/SEC Challenge. They return home to face Clemson on Sunday.
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Debbie F. Laswell, 49, of 443 Front St. Bushnell, passed away at 8:15 p.m. Thursday (April 25, 2013) at Countryview Care Center in Macomb.
She was born Sept. 16, 1963, at home in Smithfield, the daughter of Ward A. and Betty E. (Bender) Laswell.
Surviving are two daughters, Jessica Laswell and Kim Laswell; four grandsons, Landen, Domenic, Brycen and Dakoda; one brother, Ed Laswell; six sisters, Pat (Carl) Brown, Ruth Stanton, Ollie Shannon, Charlotte Church, Marilyn (John) Frank and Betty (Curt) Walters; aunt and uncle Earl and Sue Bender; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her birth parents and Arnold and Mary Laswell who raised her, and one brother, David Laswell.
Debbie graduated from Cuba Jr. and Sr. High Schools. She worked as a CNA for over 20 years for home health and at various nursing homes. Debbie later worked at NTN Bowers in Macomb. She enjoyed playing bingo, and going to the casino.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the Henry-Lange Memorial home in Cuba. Burial will be in Baughman Cemetery at rural Smithfield. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the memorial home.
Memorial contributions may be made to an education fund for her grandsons c/o First Bankers Trust in Macomb.
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Ha! That's Kim Kardashian laughing off claims that she left her 15-month-old daughter, North West, behind in a Paris hotel on Wednesday.
The story started when a now-viral video showed the 33-year-old reality star exiting her hotel solo and looking in her car before turning back to fetch her daughter prior to leaving for the airport.
"Are you kidding me?!?!?! LOL," the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star wrote in a series of tweets addressing the matter Friday morning. "I went to the car to make sure the car seat was in because the day before we had a car seat issue."
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The great forgotten Texas tenor John Hardee was active from the late 1930s through the early '50s, but left behind scant evidence of his genius. Influenced deeply by both Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry,Hardee recorded with everyone from Tiny Grimes to Earl Bostic and led his own bands. The eight sides he cut for Blue Note are all collected here along with alternate takes, as are three he cut with Grimes(again with alternates.) Sound on this collection is wonderful, and the music itself, strolling between balladic swing and bebop, is represented here by cuts like "Nothin' But Blue Skies," "Hardee's Partee," and the sprightly "Idaho," all which feature Grimes on guitar. For those who've only heard the Savoy sides, this Japanese CD is a true treasure.


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Clint Cary, the storied cosmic artist, raconteur and serial inebriate who was a mainstay of Ocean Beach from 1963 to 1993, hasn't been resurrected.
But 20 years after his death at age 84 in 1993, the Spaceman's legacy continues. He's being immortalized by Rick Bollinger in a screenplay titled "The Return of the Spaceman of Ocean Beach," being performed Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10 at the Ocean Beach Playhouse & Arts Center, 4944 Newport Ave.
If you ever met the "Spaceman," you never forgot him, said Bollinger, who hopes his screenplay and theatrical reading garners enough attention that, someday, Cary will be deemed worthy of a movie documentary.
The Spaceman's story is, well, far out.
Bollinger said Cary was an extraordinary artist, as well as an alcoholic, derelict and certified psychotic who became notorious and widely known as "The Spaceman of Ocean Beach."
Cary claimed to have been an alien abductee who was whisked away during a visit to Joshua Tree in 1957 to the planet Rillispore, where he was told Earth was doomed.
The spaceman "returned" to warn Obecians of the world's demise and to "save" those he deemed worthy of salvation on a departing spaceship by assigning them a number, either verbally or on printed cards.
"When I met him in 1991, he was blind. I helped him self-publish two books on his life story," said Bollinger, who also helped exhibit some of the hundreds of captivating canvases Cary painted and subsisted on during his time.
"He'd be drunk for months at a time, but then he'd sober up and start painting and that would be his commodity, his barter," Bollinger said. "He was an amazing artist, very detailed, very intricate metaphysical-type paintings."
One of the select few who were given a number to be saved by the Spaceman was local musician Richard James, who remembers Cary well.
Whatever else he was, James said Cary was a self-promoter par excellence.
Did Cary really believe his extraterrestrial spiel?
"Sometimes, salesmen take on the guise of what they're spouting," James said. "They start to believe what they're saying."
Noting Cary wasn't always "the most charming person," James said, "He had his followers. People were just crazy about him."
Is there something to be learned from the "Spaceman's experience?"
"He was another instance of someone who made a splash, had potential, perhaps could have done something more constructive," James said.
He said Cary, like so many others gifted artists who could have had "amazing lives for decades and decades," instead "burned brightly — and quickly."
Of how the Spaceman is woven into the fabric of Ocean Beach, Mike James, who knew him well and whose family ran The James Gang graphic-arts business for 25 years, said, "He added to the flavor of Ocean Beach, which has always been seen as a little bit nonconformist."
"He set the tone for me on the whole Ocean Beach culture," he said.
The screenplay tale of the Spaceman is a story about friendship and jazz musician Bob Oaks, who befriended the troubled Cary in 1963. Oaks created the Spaceman brand and promoted Cary's extraordinary art.
"All while trying to keep him out of trouble and jail as a result of his alcoholism and often psychotic behavior," Bollinger said. "My screenplay is a story about an alcoholic artist and his friends trying to save him, about their relationship as it was over those 30 years."
Bollinger's theater production on the spaceman will feature 10 cast members, augmented by the Richard James Quartet.
The production will also showcase Cary's extraordinary art work, dated as far back as 1958, illuminated by black lights. The show will also include historical photography by Ocean Beach's own Steve Rowell.
Asked if he'd gotten a number from the Spaceman to be on the last flight out of Earth to Rillispore to escape Armageddon, Bollinger replied, "I didn't. But I'm carrying the story forward. After all this time … I'm pretty sure I've got a spot on there somewhere."
To learn more about the Spaceman, visit www.spacemanofoceanbeach.com, oceanbeachplayhouse.com or Facebook.com/spacemanofoceanbeach.


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Zecuity is an active, single-use, transdermal patch in development for the treatment of migraine. If approved, it will be the first transdermal patch for the treatment of migraine. The patch actively delivers sumatriptan, the most widely prescribed migraine medication. In three clinical trials involving more than 10,000 applications, Zecuity offered patients fast onset and sustained relief of debilitating migraine symptoms including headache pain and migraine-related nausea (MRN) and vomiting. Because Zecuity delivers sumatriptan transdermally, it may be an attractive treatment option for many frequent MRN sufferers and those patients who experience gastroparesis, a slowing of gastric absorption. The patch utilizes SmartRelief™, NuPathe's proprietary transdermal delivery technology that allows the rapid yet tightly controlled transport of medication through the skin using a process called iontophoresis. As a result, in Zecuity clinical trials there was a low incidence of triptan sensations that include chest tightness, flushing and feelings of pressure and numbness.
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NuPathe Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on innovative neuroscience solutions for diseases of the central nervous system including neurological and psychiatric disorders. NuPathe's lead product candidate, Zecuity (previously referred to as Zelrix or NP101) is an active, single-use, transdermal sumatriptan patch being developed for the treatment of migraine. In addition to Zecuity, NuPathe has two proprietary product candidates based on its LAD™, or Long-Acting Delivery, biodegradable implant technology that allows delivery of therapeutic levels of medication over a period of months with a single dose. NP201, for the continuous symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease, utilizes a leading FDA-approved dopamine agonist, ropinirole, and is being developed to provide up to two months of continuous delivery. NP202, for the long-term treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is being developed to address the long-standing problem of patient noncompliance by providing three months of continuous delivery of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic. NuPathe is actively seeking partnerships to maximize the commercial potential for its product candidates in the U.S. and territories throughout the world.
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LONDON (AP) — Shares in newly-privatized Royal Mail soared on their stock market debut Friday, bolstering criticism that the company — which traces its five-century history back to King Henry VIII — was undervalued by the British government.
The shares were up 31 percent to 432 pence ($6.91) by midday, a hefty gain for shareholders who got them at 330 pence. Nearly 150 million shares, or 15 percent of the total issue, changed hands.
"One can only say that investors have clearly given their stamp of approval to the offering," said Brenda Kelly, senior market strategist at IG.
But the opposition Labour Party argues that the gains prove the government shortchanged taxpayers and could have gotten more than the 1.72 billion pounds ($2.75 billion) it received from the sale.
"The government has a lot of explaining to do," the Labour Party's business spokesman, Chuka Umunna, wrote on Twitter.
The privatization is symbolic for the Conservative Party, the main party in the coalition government. Much of its electoral success in the 1980s under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was due to the sale at the time of state assets such as British Gas PLC and British Airways PLC.
Business Secretary Vince Cable, who is a member of the Liberal Democrats, the junior party in government, dismissed claims the sale had been undervalued, telling BBC Radio that the sharp price rise was no more than "froth and speculation."
Big financial institutions, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, are trading the shares Friday in what is known as conditional trading. Smaller shareholders who tended for only 750 pounds ($1,200) and bought through brokers were able to trade, too. Those who bought shares directly, including postal workers who got free stock, will get their chance to trade on Tuesday.
Following Friday's surge, the company is now valued at nearly 4.5 billion pounds ($7.2 billion), which means it is easily in the top 100 British companies by market capitalization. As a result, it could be listed on the FTSE 100, Britain's main stock index, when the index is revised in December — that would attract further investor interest.
Analysts, however, say the company's share price could be weighed down by the possibility of industrial action by unions unhappy with the privatization and an unclear growth strategy.
Billy Hayes, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, described the sale as "a tragedy" and said that despite the free shares for employees, a ballot next week was likely to back industrial action.
"Vince Cable, one of the cleverest men in British politics, has made one of the stupidest decisions he is ever likely to make as a politician," he told the BBC.


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Vasquez, Anderson lead Hornets past Cavaliers
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After getting off to a slow start, Greivis Vasquez was challenged by his coach at halftime. Vasquez responded with a strong third quarter to lead the New Orleans Hornets to an easy victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Vasquez scored 16 of his 25 points in the third quarter and the Hornets beat the slumping Cavaliers 112-92 on Sunday.
After missing two of the previous three games with an ankle injury, Vasquez was held to five points and three assists in the first half.
"(Hornets coach Monty Williams) called me out in front of everybody (at the half)," said Vasquez, who also had nine assists. "When he calls me out I got to respond. I don't take it personally."
Ryan Anderson added 23 points for the Hornets to help the Hornets bounce back from a blowout loss to Miami on Friday night and snap a two-game skid. Anthony Davis had 17 points and 13 rebounds for his rookies-leading 17th double-double, Brian Roberts scored 15 and Eric Gordon had 14.
Kryie Irving returned from a shoulder injury and led the Cavaliers with 31 points and six assists. Cleveland, which lost its eighth straight, was 1-7 in Irving's absence. Tristan Thompson, Wayne Ellington and Mareese Speights each scored 12 points for the Cavaliers and Shaun Livingston had 11.
The Hornets trailed 49-48 at the half but scored a season-high 36 points in the third quarter to take an 84-73 lead. Vasquez shot 6 for 6 in the quarter and Davis added 13 points, including three alley-oop dunks, all off assists by Vasquez.
"I'm just trying to get in (Vasquez's vision)," Davis said. "Every time he drives to the basket I'm just trying to get in a spot where he can find me. He tells me he's going to get it to me."
The Hornets scored 15 consecutive points early in the third quarter to take a 65-53 lead with 8:07 remaining. Vasquez and Davis combined to score 29 points in the quarter.
New Orleans increased the lead to 20 midway through the fourth quarter.
"We came out soft (in the second half)," Cavaliers coach Byron Scott said. "I did not think we came out with the same intensity that we should have. I do not know if they were just tired or whatever the case may be."
Irving appeared tentative in the first quarter, missing his only attempt and scoring two points on two free throws, although he had three assists.
The Cavaliers' guard took control in the second quarter, scoring 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the period. During one stretch, he scored 10 consecutive points to rally the Cavaliers from a 39-35 deficit with 3:49 remaining to a 45-43 lead at the 1:54 mark.
"I feel good," Irving said. "My body is holding up right now. I hit a few shots bit I just wanted to win."
New Orleans overcame a turnover-plagued first half by shooting 54.5 percent from the field. The Hornets committed eight turnovers in the opening period, leading to six Cleveland points, and finished with 12 for the half.
However, Hornets shooters took advantage of a passive Cavaliers defense, making 18 of 33 attempts on repeated open looks. Anderson, the Hornets' 3-point specialist, was 3 for 5 beyond the arc and finished the half with a team-high 15 points.
He finished the game 5 of 7 on 3s.
"When (the guards) penetrate they make it easy for me," Anderson said. "They take their defenders into the paint and take my defender, which leaves me open. When they're aggressive it's easy basketball and they were super aggressive for me."
NOTES: New Orleans went 4-3 on its seven-game homestand that included wins against playoff contenders Boston, Denver and Memphis. … The Cavaliers entered leading the Eastern Conference in second-chance points, averaging 15 per game, but were held to six. … The Hornets held a 49-29 advantage in scoring by reserves.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered sympathy Sunday to the families affected by the murder-suicide involving one of his players, calling it "an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family."
Hunt spoke to The Associated Press on the field before the Chiefs' game against the Carolina Panthers. He said the Chiefs consulted with the league about whether to play the game as scheduled, but ultimately left it up to coach Romeo Crennel and the team captains to decide.
Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli were in the parking lot of the Chiefs' practice facility Saturday morning when linebacker Jovan Belcher shot himself in the head. Belcher had shot his girlfriend multiple times at a nearby residence just minutes earlier.
Hunt said Pioli called him from the parking lot immediately after the shooting, and said that Sunday's game would be "incredibly difficult for them."


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.
I had trekked out to isolated Neuquen province looking for Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, the constitutionally elected leader that Videla and his military cohorts had just toppled. Working for The Associated Press, I wanted to talk to her, her captors or anyone else to get the story.
As it turns out, I could have been one of the military junta's first victims that sunny afternoon.
The waters of the giant Nahuel Huapi lake, protected by the Andean mountain range, were rough and troubled, as I walked along its shores toward El Messidor castle, where de Peron was rumored to be held.
I was literally on top of the world. The sunlight reflected off the eternal snows capping the towering peaks around me.
Then a gruff, martial voice brought me back to earth, piercing me like a frozen blade: "What are you doing here? Who are you?"
An enormous officer headed a patrol of about a dozen angry-looking soldiers, all dressed in olive green, approaching from the castle.
I responded uneasily, "I'm a journalist."
The officer's response was quick and menacing: "We don't want journalists or Peronists; give me your documents."
On one side were the soldiers, on the other the castle.
Just hours after the coup, an iron lid of silence had already clamped shut on the whereabouts and condition of de Peron, and I knew trying to find her would be risky. Even before the coup, people were being killed or going missing during the back-and-forth between the military and leftist militants.
I was the only reporter anywhere near that lake, and in that era before cellphones, my only defense was my pen and notepad.
About 9,000 people were ultimately killed or disappeared during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, according to an official accounting after democracy returned. Human rights activists believe the real number was as high as 30,000. The dead were not only those who had been involved in armed conflict, but journalists, dissidents, unionists and citizens caught in the crossfire.
My life during the dictatorship quickly became a surreal and dangerous search for the truth in a country convulsed by violence.
At one point, I had to tour all the public restrooms in central Buenos Aires because the Montoneros and People's Revolutionary Army urban guerrillas left their communiques behind toilets, mirrors or inside spouts or pipes. A spokesman for the guerrillas would call the office and let us know which bathroom they had written their missive in, and I'd rush there to check.
At the center of it all was the lanky, mustached Videla, whom many dubbed "Panther," because his gait resembled that of the "Pink Panther" in the popular movies and cartoons. With Videla's death Friday at age 87, many Argentines are remembering those dark days.
We watched the "panther," surrounded by his fellow junta leaders, jumping in celebration and shouting "goal!" at River Plate stadium as Argentina beat Holland during the 1978 World Cup final. To improve his image, Videla was portrayed as playing a role in helping Argentina win the title.
Less than a kilometer (about half a mile) away from the stadium was the Navy Mechanics' School, the largest clandestine detention and torture center during Argentina's "dirty war." Thousands of people were taken there, never to be seen again.
I passed the school every time I went to the stadium, which seemed so placid and well-maintained, at least from the outside. I never suspected what was going on inside.
Among the people who were killed or disappeared after entering its doors were French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, Argentine journalist and writer Rodolfo Walsh and Azucena Villaflor, one of the founds of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group.
My AP colleague at the time, Oscar J. Serrat, was abducted for a day by soldiers and only released following intense lobbying.
I myself was targeted for sticking to the AP style of using the phrase "alleged guerrillas (or terrorists)" when writing about armed confrontations with soldiers. Videla didn't like the words "alleged" or "suspected." To him, they were guerrillas or terrorists, without qualifications.
I received unidentified threats, including once while I was at my mother's house. I later also learned that that my name had appeared along with those of other journalists considered undesirable in a book edited by the military regime.
All that horror, however, still awaited Argentina that afternoon by the lake and mountains.
My immediate challenge was getting by the soldiers, who were just launching their hunt for political enemies.
The officer had grown impatient with my repeated response to his questions, that I was a journalist and had traveled there to ask about the whereabouts of de Peron, the widow of leader Juan Domingo Peron.
"Weeeeell, weeeeell," said the officer, menacingly extending his words.
Then, in a slightly friendlier tone, he concluded: "I'm returning your documents and you can go."
But before I left, he shouted: "Go! Walk with your hands up, but don't look back. Do you understand me?"
He aimed his gun at me, which looked as big as a cannon.
I didn't walk, I didn't raise my hands, I didn't ask for mercy. I couldn't move for fear. I cursed my bad luck as my shoes sunk in the muck left by last night's rain or by floodwaters from the lake.
"I can kill you, throw you in the lake and no one would find you," he told me.
But then an expression that resembled a smile appeared on his face and he lowered his gun. He ordered me to take the next plane home and he walked away with his patrol.
I stayed two nights longer, though I kept away from the danger zone. I collected information and testimony that allowed me to confirm that de Peron was in the castle, an exclusive that was widely published.
I had survived my first days under Videla's brutal rule, but the nightmare had only just begun.


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Travel with your dog survey
A recent survey by Petplan Pet Insurance reports that over half of the 3300 people surveyed travel with their dogs.
68.8 percent travel over 200 miles with their dogs for vacations.
97 percent travel by car.
56 percent have traveled by mobile home.
28 percent have traveled by train. I found this interesting as Amtrak doesn't accept pets on trains. Does anyone have any ideas how these dogs traveled by train? I would be very interested to hear.
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Dream "Super Hulk" Videos: This Is What A Freak Show Looks Like
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If you sacrificed sleep to watch Dream.9 or even if you just read our liveblog, you already know what a completely predictable shit-show the "Super Hulk" tournament was. For the rest of you, behold the glory. Above is Jose Canseco vs. Hong Man Choi. Please take note around the 1:30 mark when Michael Schiavello has the balls to call Jose Canseco's performance up to that point "pretty cerebral." That's the dude in the long pants who's throwing overhand rights and then turning his back on his opponent that Schiavello is talking about. Apparently all you have to do to be considered cerebral at the "Super Hulk" tournament is not swallow your tongue.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is condemning the arrest and forced resignation of Mali's prime minister and threatening to impose targeted sanctions against those blocking a return to constitutional order and undermining stability in the west African nation.
The council said in a statement Tuesday that the arrest of Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra by Malian soldiers violates Security Council resolutions calling on the armed forces to stop interfering in the work of transitional authorities in the country.
The Security Council called on President Dioncounda Traore "to swiftly reappoint an inclusive government of national unity."
The council urged Mali's transitional authorities to expedite a political dialogue leading to elections and stressed its commitment "to authorizing as soon as possible the deployment of an African-led international support mission in Mali."


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky...
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Hopkinsville, KY, has recently repainted their parish hall (above photo).
I imagine that the terra cotta color was chosen to make the parish hall look more like its near neighbors. The red brick church sits downhill just a few feet from the front of the parish hall. Two vintage red brick homes owned by the church sit beside the parish hall. I think one of the homes may be the rectory, and the other is occupied mainly by the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop.
The red berries on the shrubs along the red wall look very red indeed, and even the bark of the shrubs takes up a reddish hue. It's an interesting landscaping effect.
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Cyberchase "Unhappily Ever After" Hacker, longing again for Wicked, devises a deliciously dreadful plan to impress her: He sneaks into Happily-Ever-Afterville, uncovers the Book of Unhappy Endings, releases them across the site and crowns himself king! Wicked, duly impressed, becomes his Queen and together they delight as unhappy endings unfold. To rescue the site, the CyberSquad must get the Book back from Hacker to recapture the unhappy endings, and seal it inside 3 nesting boxes with precisely fitting lids . all before sundown! Of course, Hacker has destroyed the lids, but the kids enlist the carpentry skills of one of the Three Little Pigs. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Long Glen Silver And The Pursuit Of The Golden Fetchie!" Ruff's nephew Glen has been playing a pirate-themed video game on the Go Get It! Web site. Through this game he's somehow gotten into the Go Get It! mainframe computer, and discovers that they're hunting for something called The Golden Fetchie. Ruff wants to find the FETCHie first, so he sends the kids off to the island. D
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That's some stinkin' good garlic sauce
I've been to wine tasting parties, cheese tastings and olive oil tastings, but a garlic tasting party? Never.
When veteran gardener Carol Schmidt invited me to her farm near Pelican Rapids, Minn., to sample some of the 20 varieties of garlic she grows, I immediately said yes.
A small basket of plump garlic bulbs sits on my kitchen counter at all times. I find the small nutritionally rich vegetable indispensable and I use at least a couple of cloves a day in my cooking. A member of the Allium family, which includes onions and leeks, garlic turns any meal into an aromatically bold and healthful culinary delight. It's a cooking ingredient I can't live without.
I was anxious to taste some of the several varieties of garlic Schmidt has been growing this season. I packed some mints into my purse and headed to Pelican Rapids with a couple of garlic-loving friends.
Metal hangers heavy with garlic in its curing stage are suspended from the ceiling in Carol Schmidt's front porch, an indication of her obsession with the stinking rose. Next steps led us to her dining room where she had prepared a table of garlic. Six plates held six different varieties of unmarked garlic. The tasters did not know what kind we were eating as we sampled each variety roasted, toasted on bread, minced and mixed with olive oil and raw cloves cut into slices. We examined each bulb, noticing differences in color and size and the number of cloves per bulb. And then we began tasting.
It was our job to jot down our thoughts regarding texture, first taste and finish as we moved around the table, continuously cleansing our palates with fresh apple slices, jicama sticks and celery.
We learned all garlic is not created alike. Some were buttery. Some were so hot they made our eyes water and our ears burn. Others were starchy and bland. One variety might be better for roasting, another best for making garlic crostini. Our favorite: a Rocambole that Schmidt brought from the Iron Range. She calls it Iron Range Rocambole. She gave each of us a hanger full of that variety to enjoy at home.
With my body diffusing the aroma of garlic through my house the next day (the mints didn't work), I decided to make garlic sauce reminiscent of the mixture I used to buy years ago at Morgan's, a Mexican and Lebanese food store in St. Paul. Made with just olive oil, salt, lemon juice and lots of garlic, this spread is not for the faint of heart.
Make this creamy sauce when you can spend 15 minutes on blending the mixture together with no distractions. Then start spreading it on your burger buns, on tortillas for fajitas, grilled vegetables and crostini. Use it as a dip for chicken and beef kabobs, chunks of chewy bread or fresh vegetables. And then, make another batch. It will disappear fast.
Schmidt says she will continue to experiment with new varieties of garlic as she strives to find the prettiest and tastiest of them all. She'll more than likely find some new varieties at the seventh annual Minnesota Garlic Festival Aug. 11 at the McLeod County Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.
You will find Schmidt heading up the first garlic growing contest ever held at the festival -- The Big, The Small and The Ugly. Any garlic grown in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa is eligible. You will find details of the festival and the contest at
sfa-mn.org/garlicfest. The festival is the perfect place to stock up on garlic that will keep your supply of Garlic Sauce always handy in the refrigerator. Don''t bother with the mints.
Not-For-The-Faint-Of-Heart Garlic Sauce
1/2 cup peeled whole (not smashed) garlic cloves
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 to 3 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Put the garlic cloves in the work bowl of a small food processor or in a blender. Add salt. Pulse until garlic is minced. Turn food processor on (or blender to high speed) and add 1/8 cup olive oil in a very thin stream. When that olive oil is incorporated, add 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. Continue this process until olive oil and lemon juice have been added and mixture is creamy. The whole process will take about 15 minutes. Turn off appliance and scrape down sides. Turn back on just for a few seconds to be sure the mixture is smooth and creamy. Scrape mixture into a bowl and refrigerate until needed. Makes about 1 1/4 cups.
Tips from the cook
--Locally grown garlic will produce the best-tasting garlic sauce. This time of year it can often be found at farmers markets and at the Minnesota Garlic Festival, of course.
--Use an olive oil with flavor you enjoy. That flavor will come through in the Garlic Sauce.
--Use only lemon juice you have just squeezed - not the kind from the plastic lemon.
--Garlic Sauce will keep well in the refrigerator for at least a week.
--I used the 4 1/2-cup capacity work bowl on my food processor. If you have a food processor, I would recommend using it instead of a blender. You can pour the olive oil and lemon juice into the feed tube plunger which has a small hole in the bottom, allowing the liquid to go through in a steady, threadlike stream, which is what you need for this sauce.


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Chicago Cut Steakhouse
300 N. La Salle St. 312-329-1800
This luxe steakhouse stands out from the others not just because of its iPad wine menu and double-cut steaks that are dry-aged on site, but also because of its riverside patio, warmed with heat lamps on chilly nights.
The Motel Bar
600 W. Chicago Ave. 312-822-2900
This throwback bar was one of the early embracers of classic cocktails such as the sidecar, gimlet and sazerac before the trend blew up citywide. The spacious front patio features retro orange-and-white lawn chairs and umbrellas for shade.
151 W. Erie St. 312-274-1111
In addition to a candlelit dining room and secluded lounge, this Spanish-inspired restaurant features a bustling bar called Barcito, with windows that open out to sidewalk seating on the corner of Erie and La Salle.
Bridge House Tavern
321 N. Clark St. 312-644-0283
Descend the elevator on the north side of the Clark Street Bridge to find this bar and restaurant hidden below street level. No question, the best feature is the killer riverside patio with a prime view of boats floating by.
The Kerryman
661 N. Clark St. 312-335-8121
Prefer your Guinness with a side of sunshine? Head to this Irish corner pub, where umbrella-covered tables crowd a plant-lined sidewalk cafe packed with business lunchers and people kicking off the weekend early.
Clark Street Ale House
742 N. Clark St. 312-642-9253
Hidden away behind this wood-trimmed tavern, you'll find a small, wall-bound beer garden perfect for sipping a beer or whiskey under the stars.
Bull & Bear
431 N. Wells St. 312-527-5973
Other bargoers may clamor for the table-tap booths inside, but the umbrella-shaded sidewalk tables along both Wells and Hubbard Streets make for prime post-work people-watching.