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Eight To Be Recognized as 2013 Stars of OceaniaUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Director, Pacific Business Center Program, Pacific Business Center Program
Renata Matcheva, (808) 352-8043
Business Development and Research Manager, Pacific
HONOLULU, HI (November 25, 2013) – The University of Hawai'i Pacific Business Center Program's planning committee announced that eight women of and from Oceania will be honored at the third "Stars of Oceania" recognition dinner December 3, 2013 at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The keynote speaker for event is Deputy Director Esther Kia'aina of the Hawaii State Government Department of Land and Natural Resources. Ms. Kia'aina is also a presidential appointee currently in the confirmation process in Washington D.C. as Assistant Secretary of Insular Affairs to the U.S. Department of the Interior. Leslie Wilcox, PBS Hawaii president and CEO, will be the master of ceremonies for the evening. Reverend Dr. Fran Palama will chant the oli to commence the evening and the UH ROTC will present and retire the colors for the event.
"Primarily we wanted to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Pacific Islanders and residents not born and raised as such, but whose heart and service is testimony to their love for the islands they call home. Their impacts are felt in and from Hawai'i as well as other parts of the Pacific, the nation and the world. Each represents multiple dimensions of leadership to overcome challenges with Aloha, courage, faith and perseverance in their fields of endeavor," stated UH Pacific Business Center Program Director, Dr. Tusi Avegalio, the primary organizer of the event. These women inspire us to look forward to the flowering of a vision where everyone is a Star of Oceania and committed part of the vast constellation of hope, faith, courage and Aloha that will restore alignment, balance and harmony to a world so lacking in it.
The "Stars of Oceania" was inaugurated in 2006 with the intent to continue every three to four years. This year's recognition dinner is not an award or reward ceremony for distinguished service, but to recognize and acknowledge these outstanding women for doing the right thing. All have been rewarded and awarded on many occasions and deservedly so. The "Stars of Oceania" recognizes that the attributes of service and sacrifice to raise the common good is much like Aloha, not an attribute of a particular culture, ethnicity nor geographical boundary. The event honors one's sense of humanity.
2013 Honorees
1. Dr. Sela Panapasa Rotuma, Fiji
Health Leadership. Conducting research, analysis and reporting from the University of Michigan that is impacting the Pacific region and the U.S. regarding elderly care and policy development for health and nutrition for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
2. Dr. Diane Ragone Virginia
Humanitarian Leadership. Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens Breadfruit Institute. Her work on breadfruit to feed the hungry of the world has impacted disaster stricken areas in the Caribbean and Africa where mass planting of trees from Hawai'i have fed hundreds of thousands over the decade.
3. Dr. Tin Myaing Thein Myanmar
Compassionate Leadership. Executive Director of the Pacific Gateway Center where she leads programs that help refugees, the destitute and victims of human trafficking where many of the victims are young girls and women. Although her work often places her in at risk situations, she continues to help locals as well as immigrants from the Pacific and Asia with social and economic adjustment needs.
4. Beadie Kanahele Dawson Hawaii
Community Leadership. Community activist, attorney, business woman and entrepreneur who stood bold and resolute in the protection of a legacy of promise by Ke Alii Pauahi Bishop for Native Hawaiians, her knowledge, wisdom and Aloha secured the legacy for her people for generations to come. She leaves behind a legacy of courage, cultural stewardship and economic development initiatives that seek balance between traditional wisdom and modern knowledge.
5. Vaimasenu'u Zita Martel Samoa
Courage Leadership. Mother, diplomat, traditional leader and fautasi long boat skipper, successful business woman and entrepreneur. Overcame tremendous challenges and shattered the gender barrier by entering a traditional, men's only long boat race as the first women ever to do so, and winning the 50th anniversary celebration fautasi race of her country. Her acceptance of victory with traditional respect, humility and salutations to the chiefs and spiritual leaders of her country endeared her as a standard of excellence for the youth of her developing island nation.
6. Susan O'Connor Montana
Spiritual leadership. Social and global activist for world peace and harmony. Facilitated national and international gatherings in Hawai'i, established programs to support the social, economic and spiritual needs for native Hawaiians in Hana and built a retreat area as a portal for peace and harmony with Aloha and Hawaiian values at the core to all who seek a peaceful place for reflection, balance and harmony in life.
7. Dr. Takiora Ingram Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Regional leadership. Regional environmental leader, Coordinator of the Pacific Regional Ocean Partnership, promoting health and stewardship of the Pacific Ocean's resources, and former Executive Director of the All Islands Coral Reef Committee Secretariat based in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Provides effective leadership and coordination of the U.S. Pacific Islands and the Federal government to sustainably manage ocean resources and promote stewardship of the Pacific Ocean.
8. Angela Williams Virginia
Empowering Leadership. Retired U.S. Department of the Interior senior policy analyst who established the Pacific Business Center Program and a high impact internship program that has made significant contributions to local capacity building, and economic and small business development throughout the U.S. Territories, particularly Micronesia. Graduates are serving in leadership positions throughout the U.S. Territories in the Pacific as vital building blocks for developing U.S. island Territories in the region.
General tickets for the event are $75.00. Students are $50.00. Sponsored tables: Kalo tables of 10 are $750.00; Niu tables of 10 are $1,500.00; and Ulu tables of 10 are $2,500.00. Sponsored tables and seats that are donated will be extended to women of Hawai'i who could not attend otherwise or as designated. Checks should be made out to the University of Hawaii Foundation and reference "Stars of Oceania" and mailed with the registration form to Stars of Oceania, c/o UH Pacific Business Center Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business, 2404 Maile Way, A413, Honolulu, HI 96822
For more information about the 2013 Stars of Oceania Dinner visit http://pbcphawaii.com or contact the Pacific Business Center Program at the University of Hawaii at (808) 956-6286 for Dr. Tusi Avegalio (email@example.com), Renata Matcheva (email@example.com) or Michelle Clark (firstname.lastname@example.com).
"The Planning Committee composed of Cha Thompson, Leslie Wilcox, Crissy Gayagas, Wendy Loh, Jensin Sommer, Ramsay Taum and Renata Matcheva have been hard at work," said Avegalio. "As I reflect on the Year of the Women 2013 Stars of Oceania and efforts towards making it happen, I'm reminded of a quote by Margaret Mead, 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.'"
The University of Hawai'i Pacific Business Center Program was established in 1979 to provide entrepreneurs, businesses, non-profits, and government agencies with economic and business development technical assistance by utilizing the resources of the University of Hawai'i. PBCP's mission is to help indigenous island economies help themselves by adapting the scientific and technical resources of the University of Hawai'i to support Pacific island economic, business and community development in a manner that is holistic, responsible and builds local island capacity. PBCP also operates the Honolulu Minority Business Enterprise Center (HMBEC), which is part of a network of Centers fostering the establishment and growth of minority-owned businesses in America.
Major funders of the PBCP include the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration and Minority Business Development Agency, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs, the University of Hawai'i, the UH Shidler College of Business, and some of the governments of the American Affiliated Pacific Islands. The Center serves Hawai'i and the American Affiliated Pacific Islands, including American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands. (www.pbcphawaii.com)


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Consensus Report
Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods (2006)Ocean Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Recreational fishing in the United States is an important social and economic component of many marine fisheries, with an estimated 14 million anglers making almost 82 million fishing trips in 2004. Although each individual angler typically harvests a small number of fish, collectively these sport fisheries can take a significant fraction of the yearly catch, and the large number of anglers and access points makes monitoring recreational fishing much more difficult than monitoring commercial fishing. This report reviews the types of survey methods used to estimate catch in recreational fisheries, including cooperative state and federal programs, and finds that both telephone survey and onsite access components of the current monitoring systems require improvements in design or implementation. This report recommends the establishment of a comprehensive, universal sampling frame with national coverage to facilitate data collection and the improvement in statistical analysis of the data and in the ways the data are communicated to recreational fishing groups.
Key Messages
- ??The statistical properties associated with data collected through different survey techniques differ and often are unknown. The current estimators of error associated with various survey products are likely to be biased and too low.
- A greater degree of coordination between federal, state, and other survey programs is necessary to achieve the national perspective on marine recreational fisheries that is needed.
- A large number of complex technical issues associated with surveys of marine recreational fishing remain unsolved, and a significant investment in intellectual and technical expertise is needed.
- Anglers need to have a basic understanding of the relationship between a statistically based sampling scheme and the frequency with which each of them is (or is not) contacted by a data collector.
- Catch and release fishing (release of fish that survive capture) is increasingly common in many marine recreational fisheries. Although some fish survive capture and release, mortality may be high, in some cases exceeding 50 percent.
- If anglers believe that their input is influencing the design and use of surveys, they are more likely to be satisfied with those surveys than otherwise.
- If anglers understand the basic purposes and decisions to which recreational fishing survey data are being applied and how those data are interpreted and used, they are more likely to feel confident that the approaches used are legitimate and are more likely to participate willingly and provide valid information
- Many of the independent surveys conducted by the states, as well as state-run surveys that are components of the MRFSS, are different from each other and from the central MRFSS in important ways, including sampling, data collection, and preparation of estimators.
- Marine fisheries management goals, objectives, and context have changed since the MRFSS was begun in 1979. Management decisions are often made at finer spatial and temporal scales than they were earlier, the mix of recreational and commercial fishing has changed for many areas and species, and stock-assessment models now make greater use of data from recreational fisheries.
- Marine recreational fishing is a significant source of fishing mortality for many marine species and that adequate scientific information on the nature of that mortality in time and space is required for successful management of those species.
- Offsite sampling methods that rely on telephone interviews are complicated by the increasing use of cellular telephones, especially in surveys of residents of coastal counties. This is because cellular telephones are not restricted to a geographic region as are landline telephones.
- Onsite methods fail to intercept anglers who have private access to fishing waters or intercept them only sporadically.
- Some states have more complete information than others, and in the states that have no saltwater license, there is no list of saltwater anglers. The lack of a universal sampling frame (registry or license requirement) for all saltwater anglers is a major impediment to the development of a reliable and accurate survey program.
- The MRFSS is in need of additional financial resources so that technical and practical expertise can be added to assist in a major overhaul of the design, implementation, and analysis of data from the MRFSS.
- The MRFSS was not designed with human dimensions data (i.e., collection of social, behavioral, attitudinal, and economic data) in mind.
- The committee concludes that users' concerns about the use of the MRFSS in fishery management are justified by the above mentioned weaknesses, but they also result from inadequate communication and outreach on the part of the MRFSS managers at NMFS.
- The correct identification of fish species, especially in places with diverse fish faunas, is a difficult challenge, both for many anglers and for those conducting surveys. Incorrect identification obviously has the potential to lead to incorrect conclusions from survey data.
- The current methods used in the MRFSS for sampling the universe of anglers and for determining their catch and effort are inadequate.
- The designs, sampling strategies, and collection methods of recreational fishing surveys do not provide adequate data for management and policy decisions.
- The estimation procedure for information gathered onsite does not use the nominal or actual selection probabilities of the sample design and therefore has the potential to produce biased estimates for both the parameters of interest and their variances.
- The existing random digit dialing (RDD) survey suffers in efficiency from the low proportion of fishing households among the general population and may allow bias in estimation from its restriction to coastal counties only.
- The for-hire sector of marine recreational fisheries (i.e., charter, guide, and head boat operations) is more like a commercial sector than it is like the private-angler sector.
- Unless anglers believe that the survey is well designed and implemented and that it is being used intelligently to address appropriate management issues, they are unlikely to participate.

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New logo on Blackberry building. #bb10 @ctvnews @ctvkitchenertwitter.com/nicolelampa/st…— Nicole Lampa (@nicolelampa) January 30, 2013
With the announcement today of Research In Motion officially changing its name to BlackBerry, we're already starting to see the buildings in Waterloo getting new signage! Nicole Lampa of CTV News tweeted the above image, showing off the new logo. What do you think of the change?


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Target: ObamacareDAN TUOHY
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 18. 2014 8:10PM
Immigration, national security, foreign policy, the economy — remember when the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire was all about "Obamacare?"
Republicans running for their party's nomination and the right to face U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., in November have explored numerous other hot topics over the past two weeks.
And yet, the mid-term election question looms: Will the Affordable Care Act make or break this race?
The three most prominent Republican candidates, Scott Brown, Jim Rubens and Bob Smith, are trying to make it a decisive issue.
Smith refers to "Obamacare" as a kind of anti-American piece of legislation that is moving the country toward a single-payer, centralized health care bureaucracy.
Brown says it is also an economic issue, that business people are worried about the employer mandate to provide coverage.
"It's not an American solution," Rubens said. "It's not consistent with fundamental American beliefs."
Shaheen, in an interview last week, said the health care law is one of several important issues in the campaign. She said it needs to be worked on, not scuttled.
"It's not some bogeyman that it's been portrayed to be," she said.
Brown, Rubens and Smith are three of 10 Republicans on the ballot in the state primary Sept. 9.
The other GOP candidates are: Gerard Beloin of Colebrook, Robert D'Arcy of Keene, Miro Dziedzie of Windham, Mark Farnham of Lebanon, Bob Heghmann of Wolfeboro, Walter Kelly of Lancaster, and Andy Martin of Manchester.
Not all of them want to repeal "Obamacare." Heghmann, for example, is proposing a reform that involves restoring the "community health plan option," which he says would allow people with plans under the marketplace exchange to stay with those plans as needed.
Health care remains a go-to topic for the three top candidates, but they have zeroed in on illegal immigration and foreign policy of late. They criticize President Barack Obama for the flood of illegal immigrant children spilling across the southern border. Each has portrayed Shaheen as a rubber stamp for the President. Smith, a former U.S. senator from Tuftonboro, says he is the true conservative in the race, and the only Republican with a track record of opposing abortion.
Rubens, a former state senator and businessman from Hanover, is trying to stake a claim as the Washington outsider.Brown, the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts who is now a resident of Rye, calls himself an "independent voice for New Hampshire."
Brown says he was inspired to run for Senate from New Hampshire because of "Obamacare."
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 40,262 Granite Staters enrolled in the Affordable Care Act in the first enrollment period, which concluded March 31, 2014.The government reports that 30,920 residents, or 77 percent of those enrolled, had some financial assistance in the form of tax credits.
Critics of "Obamacare" in New Hampshire point to lack of choice and access. (The President's comment, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor," is a common line at many GOP campaign events in New Hampshire.)
New Hampshire's narrow insurer network, with just Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, aggravated enrollees, as 10 of the state's 26 hospitals were excluded from the Anthem network
That will change in 2015. New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny announced earlier this year that consumers would have access to Anthem, Assurant Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England, and two co-ops, Minuteman Health and Maine Community Health.
Shaheen said the Affordable Care Act would continue to improve and meet consumer needs.
"Do we need to keep working on it? Absolutely, like any other major program, like Medicare Part D — it took a while for that to get worked out and for people to see the difference that it made, and this is the same thing," she said.
Shaheen said thousands of people with pre-existing conditions in the state can now get health care and seniors are getting help with their prescription drug coverage.
"Those people who want to repeal it have no plan to replace it," Shaheen said. "Their plan is — let's put people back at the mercy of insurance companies who are going to deny coverage if they have pre-existing conditions, who are going to put limits on their care, who are going to discriminate against women again. I don't think that's a system anybody wants to go back to."
Rubens supports a "repeal and replace" option that makes use of "market forces, innovation and consumer choice." Part of his plan proposes increasing access by creating more community health clinics, as well as an interstate market for insurance. Any replacement, he says, would not impose state or government mandates, and it would seek to lower costs while expanding access.
Smith said the law should be repealed to make way for health care reform that is free from government interference. He said states should be allowed to pursue their own market-based solution to meet their needs.Brown wants a full repeal, and he said he believes the coverage should be addressed at the state level. He notes that he has already voted to repeal "Obamacare," when he served in the Senate from Massachusetts.


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Nun among 3 charged with illegal voting in SW Ohio
CINCINNATI (AP) — A southwest Ohio nun who voted on behalf of another nun who died before last year's presidential election has been charged with illegal voting.
The Hamilton County prosecutor in Cincinnati said Monday that Sister Marguerite Kloos (kloos) was among three people charged with voting illegally.
Defense attorney Ralph Kohnen (KOH'-nihn) says Kloos was trying to fulfill the wishes of a friend who died before absentee ballots were mailed. He says she'll plead guilty.
Prosecutors say a man faces the same count after he cast a ballot in November for his late wife.
A poll worker also has been charged with eight illegal-voting counts. Prosecutors say she's charged with voting twice in November and voting for other people in various elections.


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Maryland lawmakers reach compromise on medical marijuana
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The House and Senate have reached a final agreement on plans to make medical marijuana more widely available.
Both chambers passed a bill Monday that creates 15 licenses for growers. A medical marijuana commission will be allowed to issue more licenses after two years, if it's necessary to meet demand.
The House had originally planned to allow just 10 growers, but senators said keeping the number too low could foster a monopoly. A conference committee reached this compromise last week.
The adjusted version would allow patients to obtain medical marijuana from dispensaries all over the state, and it would let growers sell the drug directly. Patients would need recommendations from specially licensed doctors.
Sen. Jamie Raskin said Monday he considers it the best medical marijuana legislation in the country.


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RFF's Nigel Purvis makes case for executive agreement on domestic, int'l policy
In his new paper, "Paving the way for U.S. Climate Leadership: The Case for Executive Agreements and Climate Protection Authority," Nigel Purvis, a former U.S. climate negotiator and current visiting scholar at Resources for the Future, explains why he believes the United States should negotiate a congressional-executive agreement on climate instead of a treaty. He also urges the United States to jointly negotiate domestic and international agreements. During today's OnPoint, Purvis discusses his paper and gives his take on current climate negotiations.


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In an era when vampires, werewolves, serial killers and other forces of the underworld freely prowl the television airwaves, "The Walking Dead" stands alone as the series that best combines genre fiction with deep character study. Now in its third season, AMC's zombie plague survivor series, which initially drew fans of the graphic novel it is based on, has exploded in popularity, becoming the top drama series in the coveted demographic of adults ages 18 to 49 and drawing an average of 10 million viewers — an unheard-of high for basic cable.
Still, the show has had its bumps in the road — fans complained last season that its adrenaline level had dropped precipitously, and this year, perhaps in response, the gore factor has been amped so high as to spawn complaints that the series has gone over the top. But as the levels of head chopping and brain stabbing get worked out behind the scenes, what keeps fans tuning in every week are the relationships and developments among the small band of survivors at the heart of the show.
They've lost more than their share of members, and the dynamics have shifted among the remainder. One character in particular has stepped up to new heights of leadership and attachment, which makes one thing in this bleak world of survival clear:


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Material and finish choice help dictate grit progression.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 79-81
From the October 2007 issue #164
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The objective of sanding wood is to remove mill marks, which are caused by woodworking machines, and to remove other flaws such as dents and gouges that may have been introduced in handling. The most efficient method of doing this is to begin sanding with a coarse enough grit of sandpaper to cut through and remove the problems quickly, then sand out the coarse-grit scratches with finer and finer grits until you reach the smoothness you want – usually up to #150, #180 or #220 grit.
This is a very important concept because it gets past all the contradictory instructions about which sandpaper grits to use. Conditions vary.
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Your baby starts out as a fertilized egg, no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. The baby will change and grow almost every single day and your body will change and grow, too. It will take 280 days (9 1/3 calendar months or 40 weeks) before the baby is fully developed and is ready to live outside your uterus (womb). Pregnancy is often divided into three periods called trimesters. Each trimester is roughly three months long.
|It is important to seek medical attention as soon as you think you might be pregnant. It is best to start prenatal care before you get pregnant. By doing so, you increase the chances of having a healthy baby - your health care provider can identify problems and issues that need to be addressed prior to conception.
|It is best to start prenatal care before you get pregnant
You can also buy do-it-yourself (sometimes called home) pregnancy testing kits in the drug store. These tests also use a urine sample to determine pregnancy. It is a good idea to see your doctor regardless of the result of the do-it-yourself test. Another test done in the laboratory can double check your result and, if you are not pregnant, help the doctor find out why you missed a period.
Whatever your initial reaction, it is normal for your feelings to change many times over the course of your pregnancy. As you talk and plan and learn about pregnancy and parenting, you will be better able to deal with your concerns. Therefore, it is important to learn about pregnancy and the birth process as you are experiencing it. Join prenatal classes, share your feelings with others, and continue to do the things you enjoy. There are a number of wonderful books available dealing with the topic of pregnancy. They can help you understand what is happening to your body and assist you in maintaining a healthy pregnancy.
During the first 3 months of pregnancy, your body and your emotions will go through many changes. Your temperament will return to normal as your body adjusts to the pregnancy. However, during the last weeks of pregnancy you may feel uncomfortable, unattractive, a little nervous, and have trouble sleeping.
|Nutrition is an important factor in your pregnancy. Studies show a direct relationship between the mother's pre-pregnant weight, the amount of pregnancy weight gain, and the weight of the newborn. The Institute of Medicine - National Academy of Science has published new guidelines that show the risk of low birth weight can be decreased if the mother gains the proper amount of weight. Underweight women should try to gain 28 to 40 pounds; normal weight women, 25 to 35 pounds; and overweight women, 15 to 25 pounds. Women carrying twins or triplets should gain 40 pounds or more.
|The risk of low birthweight can be decreased if the mother gains the proper amount of weight.
Birth defects have been associated with an inadequate diet that does not include enough vitamins and minerals. Even if you are eating regular meals each day, you and your growing baby may still be inadequately nourished.
According to the U.S. Public Health Service, all women considering pregnancy should supplement their daily diet with multivitamins. To reduce the incidence of spina bifida - the number one disabling birth defect - and other neural tube defects (NTD's), take 0.4 mg of folic acid (one of the B vitamins) every day. It is recommended that folic acid supplementation be started prior to pregnancy. Nutritional considerations are part of the reason you should start prenatal care prior to conception. Such care is known as "preconception counseling".
Infections of particular concern to pregnant women include: hepatitis A and B; rubella (German measles); influenza (flu); chlamydia (the most common sexually transmitted disease in women); gonorrhea; tuberculosis; herpes simplex; varicella (Chicken pox); toxoplasmosis; syphilis and AIDS. In most cases, a simple blood test can tell you if you have an infection.
Use good hygiene. Frequent hand washing, careful handling and disposal of diapers or cat litter, and wearing gloves for gardening can reduce the risks of infection.
Only a handful of the sixty thousand chemicals used commercially are tested for their effects on pregnancy. Among those identified as causing reproductive harm are lead, mercury, iodine, ether, hydrochloride, carbon monoxide, nicotine, and ethyl alcohol.
|...smoking harms more fetuses and causes more complications than any of the above listed chemicals and household products.
|Do not smoke, and encourage others not to smoke in your presence. It is important to realize that smoking harms more fetuses and causes more complications than any of the above listed chemicals and household products. Smoking during pregnancy may cause prematurity, lung disease, crib death, and other complications. Therefore, if you are a smoker it is best to stop. You should also encourage others not to smoke in your presence.
Prolonged, intense exercise can raise body temperature; therefore exercise in moderation during pregnancy. This is not the best time to participate in vigorous, competitive sports, or to start a new exercise program unless specifically designed for pregnant women.
Dehydration is a common problem in pregnancy. Therefore, drink plenty of fluids, especially water. Report any elevated body temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It may indicate a fever, which should be investigated by your health care provider.
Pregnant women should avoid long periods of sitting in a car because this can increase the risk of forming a blood clot in the legs. Walking every 1-2 hours and doing isometric exercises with the legs, such as toe-lifts, are good ways of improving circulation in the lower body.
If at any time, even during the last trimester of pregnancy, you detect a change in the pattern or lack of fetal movement, call your health care provider.
|Don't be afraid to make a change for better care. Remember that you are the most important member of the healthcare team.
Pregnancy can be a very exciting time of life - it is a time of new beginnings. Try to make the most of an occasion that can create so many fond memories. Accept the inconveniences and enjoy the precious moments, while they are here.
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Erosions Complete Set$365.00This series features seams of eroded pockets, ranging from shallow two-finger seams to deep pinches and sinker pockets. The Erosions combine unique functionality with striking aesthetics for a versatile series good for all angles and grades. The following 7 sets are included:
- Erosion Small Set
- Erosion Medium Set A
- Erosion Medium Set B
- Erosion Large Set A
- Erosion Large Set B
- Erosion XL Set
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Silverado Cobbles Complete Set$261.00A series of cobbles, molded directly from actual granite hand-picked by master shaper Louie Anderson from Silverado Canyon. The hold texture is a perfect simulation of natural granite, and is one of the most realistic hold series on the market. These skin-friendly pinches are great for moderate to advanced routes on vertical terrain, or advanced problems on steeper walls. The following 3 sets are included:
- Silverado River Cobbles Set
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Limestones Complete Set$1,284.00One of our best-selling and most popular series, the Limestones are characterized by a series of fingertip-sized divots that allow for a wide variety of options in how each hold can be used. This series has everything from crimps and jugs for basic setting, to beautifully carved massive features to make a problem truly stand out. Good for the full range of routes and boulder problems, from easy routes on the vertical wall to extremely difficult on steeper terrain. The following 19 sets are included:
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Crater Complete Set$461.00Another beautifully designed dual-texture series, the craters are the best tendon-friendly set of pockets and pinches on the market. The following 5 sets are included:
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Rings Complete Set$733.00The Climb-It Rings series are series of massive handles, from our big XL set all the way up to the massive 6XL. These unique shapes are fantastic for setting moderate routes on absolutely any terrain or angle, are great for dynos and long roof routes, and can make for some extremely creative setting options. Arguably the most innovative series of their style on the market, the Rings' one-of-a-kind appearance makes them the center of attention on your wall, and a must-have for any gym with a lot of steep terrain. This series includes the following 4 sets:
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Huecos Complete Set$814.00One of our most popular hold lines. This series was designed with a similar type of feel and aesthetic as our limestone series, with a vast multitude of setting options for each individual hold. All holds in this finger-friendly series range from positive to juggy, and are ideal for setting anything from easy topropes, to moderate and difficult routes and problems on steeper terrain. The following 9 sets are included:
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Weathered Sandstone Complete Set$724.00This series features a layered sandstone texture on rounded pinches, massive jugs, and crimps. Generally geared towards more advanced problems, the subtle layering provides friction from a wide variety of angles of use for multiple setting options for each hold in the main series. The crimps are great for extremely technical routes, and the jugs are huge and beginner friendly. The following 13 sets are included:
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Coastal Sandstone Complete Set$408.00This sandstone series has deeper grooves for aggressive pinches and featured jugs, emulating the more eroded style of sandstone often found in more temperate climates. This versatile set can be used on any angle of terrain, for moderate to advanced problems and routes. The following 8 sets are included:
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Powertools Complete Set$585.00A classic retro series for climbers looking to get a little bit of everything. Complete with specialized hold sets for specific training fuctions, such as our popular Refiner Crimps, Sliders, or Slots, the Powertools offer a wide variety of options at a great price, and are ideal for routes of any angle from moderate to extreme difficulty. The following 10 sets are included:
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Granite Complete Set$805.00The Granites are a classic series of textured shelves, pinches, and crimps. These holds can be used to set moderate to difficult routes, and the subtle texture on these holds gives just enough extra grip to make these holds great for the harder grades on steeper terrain. The following 9 sets are included:
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Being healthy doesn't mean you need to give up your favorite dishes or cocktails. You just need to give them a healthy twist! With these simple tips and tricks you can make any of your Latin favorites healthier, better for you and taste better too.
First off, the basics: Keep fresh fruits and vegetables accessible, front and center. Stay hydrated by drinking lots of water, minimize your salt and sugar intake and don't keep junk food at home. If you have piroulines you can bet you are going to eat them.
As for recipes, the first step to making them healthier is as easy as swapping ingredients.
1. Healthier Meals: Whole Grains
Swap white flour for whole wheat or whole grain.
From your tortillas to your bread and flour, opt for whole wheat and whole grain. You get more of a nutritional punch, increased fiber and lower sugar.
2. Healthier Meals: Egg Whites
Swap whole eggs for egg whites.
Your huevos rancheros will be just as delicious with egg whites, and better for you too. Egg whites are low cholesterol, high protein and low calorie.
3. Healthier Meals: Milk
Swap whole milk for low fat milk, soy milk or coconut milk.
These alternatives are lower calorie and have the same if not better nutritional value. They will perk up your morning cafecito, and can be used in any recipe you would use regular milk.
4. Healthier Meals: Oils
Swap canola, corn and vegetable oil for olive, coconut or avocado oil.
All oil is high calorie, but some of them are better for you than others. Olive oil, coconut oil and avocado oil contain healthy fats which help lower your cholesterol, fight heart disease and can even help you maintain your figure. Use them for salad dressings, sautés and baked bites.
Making a favorite dish one you can enjoy while working towards a healthier lifestyle is easier than you might think. Simple tweaks can make our beloved Latin cuisine even more accessible.
5. Healthier Meals: Oven
Instead of using your trusted frying pan stick to the oven.
Miss your fried churros, papitas and plátanos? You don't have to! Churros are delicious baked, and papitas lightly sprayed with olive oil come out crisp on the outside and soft on the inside every time. A misting of olive oil makes oven fried plátano as delicious as the original.
6. Healthier Meals: Portions
Watch your portion size.
Latin dishes are notoriously enormous. Keep your portions in check and invest in measuring cups. Fill up on a simple salad before the main course and employ the half rule. Eat and enjoy half of your meal and save the other half for your next meal. This way you don't over eat and you get to enjoy that delicious meal more than once!
7. Healthier Meals: Vegetables
Increase your vegetable intake.
The Latin diet is full of fresh produce, so take advantage of it. Panquecas de Zanahoria are full of carrots that add color and nutrition, and your next batch of rice can have shredded broccoli, carrot and sweet peppers adding more flavor and fiber. Ground meats can follow suit with some added shredded vegetables keeping meat moist and tender.
8. Healthier Meals: Lean Meat
Use leaner cuts of meat.
The Latin diet is based around meat evidenced by delicious dishes like lomo saltado and pabellón. Using a leaner cut of meat and trimming off visible fat, as well as incorporating my other tips and tricks, will make your dish lighter and healthier overall without sacrificing flavor.
9. Healthier Meals: Wine
Have a glass of wine.
When you want to party with a glass in hand choose wine. Wine is low calorie, and has no cholesterol, fat or sodium. If you want a mixed drink opt for calorie free mixers like diet cola and tonic water. For you beer lovers try low calorie options and watch your serving size. As the choice with the highest calorie count, it's easy to lose track.
Living a healthier Latin lifestyle isn't difficult if you have a few tips and tricks up your sleeve. Try these out and enjoy your favorites with all the flavor and none of the guilt.
Have tips of your own? Sound off below and stay tuned for more healthy tips, tricks and swaps to come!


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2013 Golden Globe Awards
Julianne Moore accepts the Golden Globe for actress in a miniseries or TV movie for her role as Sarah Palin in "Game Change." "This was one of my favorite jobs ever," Moore said, also thanking Tina Fey and Katie Couric for "making a significant" difference in the 2008 presidential election.
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A Collective Story. There is a saying: Names may change, but the true nature of things remains the same. Room 313 tries to depict this re-occurrence: man in confusion, trapped in a box, "travelling through Time" - the place happens to be Berlin.
Room 313 is also a very small archive. As such, wishing to grow, it invites those that spend the night or more to add their own history to its walls and so make it in effect a living story. Rm.313 is an invitation to a collective story.


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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has filed a $92.7 million building permit application for an addition to the Chili's Care Center, 315 Danny Thomas Place on the hospital's campus.
The application, filed with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement, lists the scope of work as a nine-story addition to the center, with Flintco LLC as the general contractor.
The state Health Services and Development Agency in August 2011 approved a $190 million tower next to the Chili's Care Center. The tower, which is currently under construction, includes patient rooms, research facilities and a proton-beam therapy center used to treat inpatient and outpatient pediatric cancer patients.
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Memphis-based Monogram Food Solutions LLC has acquired Hinsdale Farms of Bristol, Ind.
Hinsdale becomes the fourth processed-meat manufacturing plant owned by Monogram. That includes plants in Muncie, Ind., Martinsville, Va., and Chandler, Minn.
Hinsdale bills itself as one of the largest corn dog manufacturers in the world. It also does co-packing for other manufacturers and manufacturing for retail private label customers.
Monogram owns the King Cotton, Circle B and Trail's Best brands of meat products.
The company was founded in 2004.
– Bill Dries
Delta Air Lines is looking into buying cheaper North Dakota crude oil to feed its new refinery near Philadelphia, instead of the more expensive overseas crude that has fed the refinery in the past.
Delta bought the idled refinery at Trainer, Pa., in June. Like most East Coast refineries, it has previously been fed mostly with North Sea oil that arrived by ship and is priced in London. That Brent crude has been consistently more expensive than the West Texas Intermediate crude that governs pricing for oil from North Dakota.
North Dakota oil would come by train to Delta's refinery, Delta President Ed Bastian said at an analyst conference on Thursday. Delta is already in discussions with railroads about getting oil to the Trainer refinery.
Delta is working "24-7" to get the refinery running by the end of this month, Bastian said.
The airline spent $11.8 million on jet fuel last year. It's hoping to slice that bill by $300 million – and Bastian said the savings would be higher with North Dakota crude.
North Dakota oil production has more than tripled in the last three years, according to the Energy Information Administration, and it is now the country's second-biggest oil-producing state, behind Texas.
Much of the North Dakota crude is already moving by rail because of limited access to pipelines. The number of rail cars hauling crude oil and petroleum products jumped more than 38 percent during the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the Association of American Railroads.
– The Associated Press
ArtsMemphis has launched its new website, ArtsMemphis.org, where hundreds of arts organizations will be able to post events, making ArtsMemphis.org the go-to source for engaging with the arts.
With a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the ArtsMemphis.org redesign includes detailed information about ArtsMemphis' grant programs and services. It provides more visibility for local videos and the ArtsMemphis TV Web series, as well as providing an updated version of the Artsopolis arts calendar for finding cultural events.
The calendar can be customized for personal preferences and has social media plug-ins. The website is also mobile-device friendly.
ArtsMemphis.org's website was redesigned following an email survey of frequent users. Since January 2008, ArtsMemphis' arts events calendar has featured thousands of arts events and hundreds of arts organizations across Memphis and has attracted more than a million visitors.
– Sarah Baker
The Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County has announced the start of a $1 million capital campaign to raise funds for what the organization says will be Memphis' first mobile spay/neuter unit.
The $1 million in funding includes the purchase and customization of a trailer with two surgical bays, and the coverage of the unit's operating budget, including personnel costs for five years.
Humane Society executive director Alexis Amorose says 16,000 to 17,000 animals are euthanized in Shelby County each year, and that the housing and euthanizing of thousands of animals in local municipal shelters is far more expensive than proactively spaying and neutering.
The mobile spay/neuter unit's goal will be to make spaying and neutering extremely accessible to members of the community. It will target low-income neighborhoods, staying in the same area for several days and completing as many spay/neuter surgeries as possible during that timeframe.
The privately funded organization hopes to spay or neuter around 20 to 30 pets per day, operating the unit four days per week, with the ultimate goal of completing 4,000 to 6,000 spay/neuter surgeries annually. Organization leadership estimates the daily cost to operate the unit will be about $1,000 per day.
The society is accepting donations for the mobile spay/neuter unit at www.memphishumane.org.
– Aisling Maki
Darden Restaurants violated federal labor laws by underpaying thousands of servers across the country at Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Red Lobster and other eateries, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the workers.
The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court seeks to collectively represent current and past employees who worked for Darden from August 2009 to the present. It seeks potentially tens of millions of dollars in back pay and other compensation, plus interest and attorney fees, said lead lawyer David Lichter.
"Darden has a companywide pattern and practice of paying its employees below minimum wage and less than what the law requires," Lichter said. "We're seeking not only to correct the wrongs that have occurred at Darden, but hopefully this will stimulate change across the country."
A spokesman at Darden, the nation's largest full-service restaurant owner and operator, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Orlando-based company's website said it has more than 2,000 restaurants in North America that employ about 180,000 people. Darden does not franchise its restaurants.
The Department of Labor has found violations similar to those claimed in the lawsuit in several individual investigations, including a 2011 probe in which the company agreed to pay more than $25,000 in back wages to Olive Garden workers in Mesquite, Texas. Darden was also assessed a $30,800 fine in that case.
There are similar lawsuits pending in Illinois and New York, but the one filed in Florida is the first seeking to represent all Darden workers at its four major brands: Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse and The Capital Grille. Its named plaintiffs are two Darden workers in Florida and Virginia.
The lawsuit was filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Drought conditions are improving in Arkansas, thanks to last week's downpour of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows that 12 percent of Arkansas is in exceptional drought. That's down from 45 percent a week ago. Almost half the state is still in extreme drought.
The map shows that the worst conditions are in northern Arkansas counties, while the drought is beginning to recede in southern and eastern Arkansas.
The National Weather Service says Isaac dropped more than 10 inches of rain in places as it moved through Arkansas last week.
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When it comes right down to it, I'm hard-pressed to write a review about this game because its just such a shallow concept that there's hardly anything to write about. The entire game is written out in a few paragraphs on the game's hub page, and all that's left is to see how far you can get.
Fun Factor
If you're the kind of person who likes puzzle games that test you to see how far you can get, then you might like this game. I believe every play through is randomly generated as far as obstacle placements go, so there's at least a little variety. But is it fun? Well, the game really doesn't have a lot of depth. There are only four obstacles that you'll ever encounter, and once you've encountered them all there's nothing left to discover (that I'm aware of). So your only goal is to get as far as you can so as to record ever-higher scores.
Control and Gameplay
The controls are very basic - you don't need your keyboard, you only need the mouse. You can click on any tile adjacent to where you are located, and it'll move you to that tile, and move everything else on the map at the same time. If your move caused you to run into one of the obstacles on the map, the game is over. Which means that you'll have to quit the game and reload it if you want to play again, incidentally.
There are four obstacles that you'll encounter as you progress through the game, namely, Arrows, Blocks (pits), Random!s and Halos. Arrows move each turn in the direction that they are pointing. Blocks, or pits as I prefer to call them, just sit there, so you need to go around them. Random!s take a random step in any direction each turn. Halos are very similar to Random!s, except they will only enter unoccupied tiles.
Taking a quick look at the screenshots will immediately give you the idea that this is not a glitzy game. In fact, it doesn't even have color - the whole game is drawn in shades of gray. If you're looking for pretty pictures, steer clear, folks!
This game is dead silent. No sounds to speak of. Best have your own background music handy.
As I said earlier, the arrangement of the obstacles for each level appears to be random. Given that, you can play through as much as you want and it'll always be somewhat difference. However, given that you'll essentially encounter the same thing every game, it doesn't really make that much difference.
Geekdash might be fun for a few minutes at best, or if you're one of those die-hard strategy/puzzle gamers, you might be inclined to strive for a high score that will take you a few play-throughs. Personally, I think I'd have a headache if I played this game for more than an hour.


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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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I would like the napoleon please.ReplyDelete
You don't have to bake to have vanilla pods! I look at it like aroma therapy. To inhale its essence is to feel wonderful! (with zero calories) The site of Epices Roellinger is fantastic. How wonderful to be so intensely into spices & to be surrounded by them & to tell their stories! Best of luck on all your Missions!ReplyDeleteReplies
The spice shop is an Aladdin's treasure trove.Delete
I never thought of the aroma therapy angle
OH WOW.. I can smell the vanilla. Yummmm.. when I was young my parents used to buy napoleons from a little french restaurant when we went to visit my Grandmother who lived in LA and I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I ate them. That vanilla cream in it was to die for. :)ReplyDelete
oops. that was a bakery not restaurant.ReplyDelete
Why bake, when you have all those beautiful patisseries on your doorstep.... la creme de la creme.ReplyDelete
The only thing that equals my love of vanilla?ReplyDelete
Lovely watercolors:-)
C'est beau Carol...
I am hooked on the pods and the paste:-)
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I put mine in my hot chocolate mix. They have become very dry...must go make some hot chockie to see if it's infused..Delete
You did not know Vanilla pods come from orchids? ;-)ReplyDelete
And I read "after surviving crush hours" - be still my heart, Carol knows how to take the most delicate pastries on a ride all over town!
You know my newest kitchen gadget: a Vanilla pod mill!
Fantastic, a few turns and, voila', the tiniest Bourbon vanilla specks on my yogurt!Replies
Now you are talking my passion! Vanille over chocolate any day. When we come back, I want to visit Epices Roellinger. And don't forget Shalimar with its wonderful vanilla top notes.ReplyDeleteReplies
I plum forgot I'm wearing Guerlain Ode de Vanille!Delete
Indeed - why on earth 'plain vanilla'? A friend asked for vanilla macarons apologetically this week, saying 'even just vanilla'. It's one of my all time favourites! And so is your opening dreamy watercolour, Carol.ReplyDelete
- Vicki1:45 PM
I have had a love affair with vanilla since childhood (and the fascination of how something can smell so delicious and yet taste terrible right out of the container...an experiment with yucky results!).ReplyDelete
I grew up on gingerbread and oatmeal cookies so vanilla is exotic for me...Delete


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'Coolhunting' was conceived by the author/futurist William Gibson in his novel "Pattern Recognition." 'Cool hunting' is now an active research area at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. If past is any indication, 'coolfarming' can change everything. Jared Diamond (author of "Guns, Germs, and Steels") identified a single catalytic event where civilization increased productivity ten to hundred times - when humanity emerged from hunter gatherer society to agrarian society. Are we soon about to witness an evolution of the same magnitude in the field of innovation? This panel will share insights from the academic research of the mastermind himself, Peter Gloor. We will also hear from corporate leaders where the rubber meets the road, and shed some light on recent acquisitions and emerging opportunities. New head of products at MySpace, CMO of Badoo, and the founder of W4 will provide a balanced view on projecting trends and impact on advertising.
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A team of Okanagan College students proved they have a head for business, after coming in third place in the Certified Management Accountants-BC Case Competition up against 30 teams from colleges and universities around the province.
Ben Ankenbauer, Cam Bailey, Jordan Innes and Meng An Chao took home a $1,000 cheque for their performance in the challenging two-day competition held in Vancouver Nov. 2 and 3. Only 10 teams made it to the final round.
The team was one of two from Okanagan College that took part in the event, which started Friday evening with students preparing a case on strategic leadership that they presented before the judges on Saturday.
"The presentations were all so great this year," said CMA-BC business development officer Katie Hensrud.
Camosun College took first place, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University came in second.
Other teams taking part in the finals were from UBC (both the Vancouver and Kelowna campuses), Simon Fraser University and Capilano University.
Matt Podewils, Amanda Wright, Benton Calder and Julia Ufimzeff comprised the second Okanagan College team.
Okanagan School of Business professor Karen Matthews, who coached the two accounting teams, said the case was demanding, but the students were up for the challenge.
"Their analysis was good, the flow of their presentation was good, and their presentation was good," she said.
"The students were all great ambassadors for Okanagan College."


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MADISON, Wis.—Cornell coach Bill Courtney was hoping to speed up Wisconsin's offense to force the Badgers into an uptempo game.
It worked for a little while before before the No. 22 Badgers pulled away to a 73-40 win Sunday night.
"We were hoping to speed them up a little bit because they're such an execution based team, such a good passing team, a precision team," Courtney said. "We wanted to take them out of some of their stuff and hopefully make them put it on the ground, jump in, take charges and speed them up a little."
The Big Red (1-3) did succeed in forcing Wisconsin (2-10) to be uncharacteristically slopping with the ball. But Cornell just couldn't find the offense to hang with the Badgers.
The Big Red started just 1 of 11 and Cornell found itself down 27-8 with just less than 8 minutes to go in the first half. Cornell then went to a trapping defense that had some success in forcing Wisconsin turnovers and cutting it to 27-14.
But the pressing defense also left Wisconsin shooters open, and the Badgers hit 3-pointers on three straight possessions. A Sam Dekker steal and dunk on the breakaway pushed the lead to 38-16 with just more than 3 minutes left in the first half, and Wisconsin largely cruised from there.
"That kind of broke our backs a little bit right in the beginning of the game," Courtney said. "Our guys continued to fight, but I think we were just a little bit overmatched tonight."
Wisconsin allowed No. 10 Florida to shoot 75 percent in the first half and 62 percent for the game on Wednesday in losing 74-56. But it was clear from the start on Sunday there would be no repeat performance.
Cornell shot just 26 percent and was outrebound 54-31, the most boards a Wisconsin team has turned in under coach Bo Ryan.
Devin Cherry led the Big Red with 13 points.
"What we did do a good job of was chesting up and not leaving our feet and not getting out of position, and that accounts for the shooting percentage of the other team, Cornell," Ryan said. "I thought we stuck to our rules a little better."
Meanwhile, 6-foot, 1-inch guard Ben Brust turned in a double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds, while Jared Berggren scored 18 and Ryan Evans had a double-double of his own with 12 points and 10 boards.
Brust averaged 2.2 boards a game last season, but is now averaging eight a game early in the season. The 6-10 Berggren joked after Sunday's game, "I am just sick of it because he's stealing all my stats."
But Brust said it was simply a matter of opportunity with Cornell shooting poorly. With Florida shooting so well on Wednesday, Brust grabbed just two boards.
"That's why there was so many chances for rebounds because we actually got them to miss shots compared to Florida," Brust said. "There wasn't a lot of opportunities for rebounds (against Florida) because we didn't force them into enough tough shots."
It could have been worse for the Big Red, but Wisconsin committed 16 turnovers. That snapped a streak of 69 straight games with 13 or fewer.
Ryan believed inexperience hurt the Badgers in dealing with the pressure and said his players sometimes put their teammates in a tough spot that led to the turnover.
"It was just one of those things under the lights, we've got some guys who didn't have a lot of experience," he said.
The game was the first of four in seven days for Wisconsin as part of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational. After hosting Presbyterian on Tuesday, the Badgers head to Las Vegas to face No. 15 Creighton.


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Ben Affleck: Violet is Sprinkles Sweet
Ben Affleck spends some quality time with two of his favorite girls — his daughter Violet Anne and his mom Christine Ann — on Sunday (September 6) in Boston, Mass.
Ben took Violet for her bi-annual check-up at the dentist followed by a cup of vanilla ice cream with ranibow sprinkles.
Jennifer Garner was on the other side of town taking Violet's lil sis Seraphina for a walk.
Ben has been busy in town directing and starring in his new movie The Town.
15+ pictures inside of sprinkles sweet Violet Affleck…


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Onorato Conquers Scarlino Edition of 2017 Melges 20 World League
14 May 2017
Marina di Scarlino, Italy (May 14, 2017) - Congratulations to Achille Onorato and crew members Cameron Appleton on tactics and Stefano Ciampalini aboard Mascalzone Latino, Jr. — they are 2017 Melges 20 Scarlino Champions!
Additional kudos go to Marina Kaverzina and her Marussia crew consisting of Sergey Peshkov and Valery Zatsarinskiy. They overtook the lead from Emanuele Savoini's Evinrude on the final day to win the Corinthian Scarlino title.
An additional three races were held on the final day with Onorato winning the first heat, ultimately helping seal the deal on his very first major win of the 2017 season.
The big move the day, and certainly the event, goes to second runner-up Krzysztov Krempec on Mag Tiny. Overnight, he along with crew members Tomislav Basic and Ivan Ivankovic were seated in tenth. Today, with a very profitable 2-1-13 performance, Krempec sits on the podium in second place.
Porto Venere overall Champion Vladimir Prosikhin on Nika remains on the podium, but this time in third. Igor Rytov's Russian Bogatyrs had a great event to finish in fourth, followed by Manfredi Vianini Tolomei's Maolca in fifth.
A tremendous round of appreciation and gratitude go to all the competitors, as well as the Race Committee, Marina di Scarlino and Club Nautico Scarlino for their great support and partnership.
The Melges World League, European Division counts on the valuable support of: Helly Hansen as the official clothing sponsor with its Melges World League Race Loft dedicated to both sailors and all fans of the sport of sailing. Garmin Marine is the official timekeeper, and Lavazza keeps the Melges World League fully fueled with the Italian taste of its signature coffee. Toremar shares Melges' DNA in which binds it to the sea. All official photo and video images are from the creative and driven talents of Barracuda Communication.
The next Melges 20 World League event takes place next weekend in Akiya, Japan for the Melges Spring Regatta on May 20-21. In Europe, the fleet looks ahead to Zadar, Croatia on June 9-11, leading up to the European Championship in Sibenik on July 12-15. In North America, the fleet prepares for some fantastic summer sailing at the Sail Newport Regatta on July 7-9 as the lead up to the U.S. Nationals on August 17-19 and the the Worlds in early October!
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL - After Six Races, One Discard)
1.) Achille Onorato, Mascalzone Latino, Jr.; 3-1-2-[9]-8 = 15
2.) Krzysztof Krempec, Mag Tiny; [33/UFD]-5-1-2-1-13 = 22
3.) Vladimir Prosikhin, Nika; 2-[15]-3-3-6-9 = 23
4.) Igor Rytov, Russian Bogatyrs; 1-3-20-[33/UFD]-3-2 = 29
5.) Manfredi Vianini Tolomei, Maolca; 6-7/RDG-7/RDG-6-[10]-6 = 32
6.) Alexander Ezhkov, Pirogovo; 4-12-4-7-[21]-11 = 38
7.) Rodney Jones, Cars 167; [18]-7-5-9-4-14 = 39
8.) Matteo Marenghi Vaselli, Raya; 14/RDG-2-[25]-11-7-7 = 41
9.) Oleg Evdokimenko, Kotyara; 5-[14]-7-13-13-5 = 43
10.) Tina Plattner/Tony Norris, TNT; 9-[22]-12-17-12-1 = 51
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TOP FIVE MELGES 20 WORLD LEAGUE RESULTS (After Four Events)
1.) Igor Rytov, Russian Bogatyrs = 50 pts.
2.) Drew Freides, Pacific Yankee = 37 pts.
3.) Liam Kilroy, Wildman = 32 pts.
4.) Rob Wilber, Cinghiale = 31 pts.
5.) Jim Wilson, Oleander = 29 pts.
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Automatic updating of neuronavigation with intraoperative high-field MR image data
Automatischer Update der Neuronavigation mit intraoperativen Hochfeld-MR Daten
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To establish a neuronavigation update procedure based on intraoperative high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
A 1.5T Magnetom Sonata (Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany) in combination with a NC4-Multivision microscope (Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) and a ceiling mounted navigation system VectorVisionSky (BrainLAB, Heimstetten, Germany) enables microscope-based neuronavigation with intraoperative high-field MRI. Pre- and intraoperative image data are registered by a semi-automatic rigid registration applying an intensity based pyramidal approach using mutual information (ImageFusion software, BrainLAB). The registered images are then transferred to the navigation system without altering the initial patient registration file, updating neuronavigation.
Between April 2002 and mid-November 2003 258 patients underwent intraoperative high-field MRI. In 102 of the 123 craniotomy cases microscope-based neuronavigation was applied, in 39 with integrated functional data. In 31.4% (32/102) intraoperative imaging revealed some remaining tumor that could be further resected. The remaining tumor was segmented and the navigation system was updated with intraoperative image data by restoring the initial registration file. Landmark checks proved ongoing clinical application accuracy. No intraoperative patient re-registration was necessary, improving surgical workflow. The tumor remnants could be localized reliably in all cases. Registered pre- and intraoperative images could be navigated simultaneously, improving the interpretation of intraoperative image changes.
Updating of neuronavigation systems with intraoperative image data is possible without repeated patient registration. Tumor remnants depicted by intraoperative imaging can be localized reliably, and brain shift can also be compensated for.


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I'm considering working on porting the ScummVM to the Access Garnet tools (prc-tools) so that CodeWarrior isn't required to build it.
The first step would be converting the scummvm.mcp project file to a Makefile. ARM has a free mcp2make utility that reads a CodeWarrior exported XML file (but that requires CodeWarrior to generate).
Chrilith, do you have any thoughts on whether this is feasible and what issues might arise? Could you export the project file from CodeWarrior as an XML file?
-- Chris
I think email would a better way to contact Chrilith and find out about this. In fact, I am not even sure whether Chrilith has an account on the forum...


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DOVER — For some, votes were based on candidate profiles, their stances on issues and where they believe the direction of the country's future should go. All of those reasons, however, were influenced a bit by a particular number — a voter's age.
Ralph Atkins, 66, of Newmarket, said the economy matters most for citizens in his age group.
"If you put everybody to work you wouldn't have a problem," said Atkins.
Atkins said he is unhappy with ObamaCare, and said his Medicare check one month was $134 short. Although the mistake was fixed by the following month, he suspects that the unexpectedly low check had to do with the Affordable Care Act passed under Obama.
Twenty-seven-year-old Mario St. Remy, of Newmarket, said residents in his age group care about access to funds for education as well as the national debt. He, and other people his age, he said, are also concerned about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and how the country will pay for those programs down the road.
"The larger the bill is, the more everybody is going to have to pay," said St. Remy.
"I'd like to see the deficit get taken care of," Paul Chabot, 81, of Somersworth, said. He believes the current burden will be too much for future generations to bear. "I'd like to see some action in order to get that down as soon as possible."
Lisa Roseberry, 51, of Somersworth, said paying bills was on her mind, only because, at a certain point, it shouldn't have to be.
"Being able to live — not having to cash in everything you've saved for retirement just to pay the bills," she said is what she believes voters her own age are thinking about.
Stephen Brown, 43, of Rochester, said the economy is the biggest concern when it comes to residents in their 40s.
"I need to have a job," said Brown. "Obama is making it increasingly harder for me to do that."
"I think Medicare for when we get older is definitely an issue," said Dorothy Urrutia, 36, of Rochester.
Those same issues were on the minds of many voters throughout the Seacoast.
Stephen Schaefer, 60, of Newmarket, said "Social Security, health care, Medicare, Medicaid. Those are all considerations for people that are heading in that direction."
"Right now, I think it would be Social Security, insurance — affordable insurance — and jobs," Tom Duffy, 54, of Dover, said Tuesday.
A few years younger than Duffy and the others, it was employment that took priority with voters as well.
Jonathan Swiger, 24, of Dover, said people shouldn't necessarily be looking toward this election as the answer, either.
"Jobs, I really think. I think people are looking at the economy and thinking, 'I just got out of college,' or, 'I'm at that stage of my life where I should just be starting a job,' and some people have and some people haven't," he said.
Casey Brooks, 34, of Dover, echoed Swiger's remarks.
"Jobs, and being able to pay for houses, and make money and have a future," she said.
But some are looking ahead to their future instead of what's needed right now at this point in their life.
Grace Ayer, 19, Dover, was thinking about what she'll need when she's much older.
"I think I had to make up for years worth of experience considering I don't pay taxes and I'm not concerned, but will be, with my retirement. I didn't want to make a rash vote because I was so young and wanted to think about things if I were 75. Just because, people who have worked their whole life, have a better idea of what is important. I think that being young, you get caught up with idealism, too, so I tried not to do that."
Some didn't even consider issues on the ballot or raised during the election and had their own set of priorities when voting.
"Get plenty of exercise and run a lot," Martin Paradis, 75, of Somersworth, said.
And for others, age was nothing but a number at the polls, and wasn't a deciding factor in their voting.
"Age wasn't a factor really in my voting today," Joe Horne, 23, of Dover told Foster's Tuesday.
Age plays big role in issues voters think most important
DOVER — For some, votes were based on candidate profiles, their stances on issues and where they believe the direction of the country's future should go. All of those reasons, however, were influenced a bit by a particular number — a voter's age.


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Engagement Announcement for upcoming marriage July 6, 2013, at Crapo Park in Burlington, Iowa. Shelby Brumbaugh, daughter of Kim Brumbaugh of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa and Craig Brumbaugh of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, is engaged to be married to Zachary Davis, son of Monte Davis of Washington, Iowa, and Shelley Greiner of Washington, Iowa.
Shelby graduated from the University of Northern Iowa, and currently is a legal assistant at a law firm and a bartender at The Other Place in Clive, Iowa. Zach is also a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and is currently employed by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in Des Moines. Shelby and Zach both live in Grimes, Iowa, where they will reside after the marriage.


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Hi people. I have heard that you can pause the new tamagotchis for when you're at school or even at night time so that you can sleep in. I can't find the pause feature. Could somebody please tell me where it is and how to do it. Also, if you pause the tamagotchi at night time and unpause it in the morning so that you can sleep in, when does the tamagotchi have its night sleep? Or do you pause it when it goes to sleep? Thanks.
Pausing tamagotchi connexion
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I have the Connection, so it may or may not be the same. To pause, hold down the A button (left), and while holding it, press the B button, (middle) and it pauses. Use the same to unpause it. The time, I've heard, progresses when paused, but your Tamagotchi doesn't. I could be wrong on that part though. (And I probably am) =)
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I'm not sure either- my tama ages a year even when it's paused, but I'm worried it won't be disciplined enough


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Safeco Field: The Effect Of Moving In The Fences
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (September 19, 2006) - A week and a half after sweeping Furman in Brooks Gym, the Lady Bucs were pushed to a fifth game on the Paladins court, but in the end the result was the same; ETSU prevailed over Furman in a grueling five games, 21-30, 30-27, 30-27, 27-30, 16-14. It is the Lady Bucs second victory over the Paladins this season, marking the first time ETSU has defeated Furman twice in the same season since 2001. It was also the Lady Bucs first victory in a fifth game in three chances this season.
"Winning in five was huge for us at this point in the season," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "We've struggled in fifth games this season, but tonight we kept pushing, our middles did a phenomenal job, and we executed at key moments."
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The Paladins (5-7) blitzed ETSU in the opening game, jumping out to a 16-8 lead en route to hitting a blistering .459 for the game and coasting to the nine-point victory. The Lady Bucs could not manage much offense in the opener, hitting .200 and mustering just eight kills for the game. Furman's offense also ran roughshod over ETSU as the Lady Buc defenders only collected two blocks in the frame.
The Lady Bucs (10-5) battled back in each of the next two games, hitting .243 and pounding out 34 kills as they took a 2-1 match advantage. The defense asserted itself as well, blocking 12 Furman attacks through the second and third games.
Kiselich accelerated her game considerably in the pivotal third frame, hammering a game-high seven kills and hitting for a .538 percentage.
In the decisive fifth game, Kiselich was perfect, tallying a kill in each of her four attacks for the game, including her 20th kill for the match, coming on ETSU's second match-point at 15-14.
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4 tips for technical SEO
Ian Lurie Apr 30 2012
We're all talking a lot about content and social media these days. But visibility boils down to technical SEO: Ensuring that search engines can easily find and categorize every page of your site. These are the top 4 I look at first when I'm auditing a site:
1: Check server response codes
You can use our server response code checker for starters. Just make sure your server is delivering a 404 for a broken link, a 200 for a page that's just fine, and a 301 for a redirect. You can learn about server response codes in this post I wrote a couple years ago.
2: Seek and destroy duplicate content
Duplicate content hurts site quality and crawl efficiency. You need to get rid of it. We have our own crawler for testing this, but you can use Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Distilled has a fantastic article that includes detailed instructions on using Screaming Frog to find duplicates.
3: Find unreachable pages
Site owners find all sorts of ways to make pages on their site vanish. They orphan pages; they break links; they remove all possible ways of reaching a specific page. You need to find those.
There's no one fantastic way I know to do this. But some of the tricks I use are:
- Search the server log files for every unique URL loaded over a 6-month period. Compare that to all unique URLs found in a site crawl. People have a funny way of stumbling into pages you've accidentally blocked or orphaned. Chances are, blocked pages will show up in your log file, even if they're blocked.
- Do a database export. If you're using WordPress or another content management system, you can export a full list of every page/post on the site, as well as the URL generated. Then compare that to a site crawl.
- Run two crawls of your site using your favorite crawler. Do the first one with the default settings. Then do a second with the crawler set to ignore robots.txt and nofollow. If the second crawl has more URLs than the first, and you want 100% of your site indexed, then check your robots.txt and look for meta ROBOTS issues.
4: Look for spider traps
Content management systems like WordPress have lots of extra little snippets of code they use to schedule tasks, deliver content via AJAX, handle searches and generate navigation. That's fine, but if a search bot starts beating the poop out of some of these snippets, they can suck the life out of your server.
Here's an example: A few weeks ago, RandFish was kind enough to tweet about a post we'd written on this very blog. That same day, I had an article go live on TechCrunch. As a result, we got about 5x our normal traffic. No big deal.
Unless, of course, you've already got GoogleBot rattling around between a WordPress AJAX script and a database scheduler every 15 seconds or so. Then your server coughs, sputters and flips over on its back, waiting for a tummy rub. It also locks up so badly that no amount of cursing or talking nice will get it to let you log in and fix it, by the way. In case you were wondering. And I know you were.
When I looked at our log files for the last month, I found two URLs that GoogleBot kept hitting: wp-cron.php and admin-ajax.php
'Kept hitting' means 'latched onto like a leech at a blood bank'. GoogleBot hit these files 4-5 times per minute.
We disallowed them, and voila: No more crashing server.
That was a classic spider trap: Pages or scripts no bot should find, but did.
Check your log file BEFORE your site crashes and you can avoid our embarrassment.
Lots more
These four tips are just for starters. You can check for broken links, work on site speed and clean up your code, for example. But once the really easy stuff is addressed, the four ideas above should keep you busy for a while.
What do you all look for in a technical site audit?
Ian Lurie
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Ian Lurie is CEO and founder of Portent and the EVP of Marketing Services at Clearlink. He's been a digital marketer since the days of AOL and Compuserve (25 years, if you're counting). He's recorded training for Lynda.com, writes regularly for the Portent Blog and has been published on AllThingsD, Smashing Magazine, and TechCrunch.Ian speaks at conferences around the world, including SearchLove, MozCon, Seattle Interactive Conference and ad:Tech. He has published has published several books about business and marketing: One Trick Ponies Get Shot, available on Kindle, The Web Marketing All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies, and Conversation Marketing.Follow him on Twitter at portentint, and on LinkedIn at LinkedIn.com/in/ianlurie. Read More
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Good to know. First time I heard about spider traps. I have already dissallowed /wp-admi, which has admin-ajax.php and the wp-cron.php file too :D
Thanks for the advice.
Great tips on some technical SEO practices that largely fly under the radar. I'm all about focusing on developing and sharing great, value-adding content, but these structural and technical fixes set the stage for that content to garner the SERP ranking it deserves.
I appreciate your willingness to share!
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this. I've have to tell you, you are right on. Do you mind if I reference to this blog from my newsletter?


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FALL RIVER — Thomas Jeffreys of Taunton will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted Friday for his role in the 2009 drive-by shooting on Route 24 in Freetown that killed 29-year-old Troy Pina of Taunton.
"There will be no more fancy cars, multiple girlfriends or pockets full of cash for you," Kris Frates, Pina's first cousin, said to Jeffreys during her impact statement in Superior Court.
"You'll never comprehend the magnitude of what your actions have rendered," Frates said.
After a three-week trial, a jury convicted Jeffreys, 35, of first-degree murder, as well as three counts of armed assault to murder, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a firearm without a license.
The first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh called it a "fitting punishment."
"Clearly, there are no mitigating circumstances," Garsh said.
Prosecutors said Jeffreys acted in a joint venture with two other Taunton men — Marcus Mitchell, 25, and Jose Fernandes, 28 — in targeting Pina and Francisco Monteiro, 32, of Bourne, in the early morning hours of May 17, 2009.
Prosecutors said the trio — allegedly calling themselves the Supreme Team — drove in two separate cars on Route 24 southbound and shot at a vehicle driven by Monteiro. Pina, who was sitting in the passenger's seat, was the only person struck by gunfire. Pina was pronounced dead after being driven to Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River.
The trio, prosecutors said, had obtained six handguns — a 9 mm, a .45-caliber and four .40-caliber weapons — from someone who bought the guns from stores in New Hampshire. Prosecutors said the suspects were on the lookout for Pina and Monteiro, and that just before the shooting on Route 24, the defendants had shot at, but missed, Monteiro and Pina's vehicle on Whittenton Street in Taunton.
A witness testified during Fernandes' murder trial in March 2013 that she saw two vehicles near the Pioneer Club, 332 Whittenton St., Taunton, and shots being fired.
First Assistant District Attorney William McCauley said Friday that it was "a miracle" that nobody else was injured or killed in the drive-by shooting, which was said to have stemmed from a feud between the two groups of men that began in May 2008.
The breaking point, prosecutors said, was when Monteiro beat up Jeffreys during a fight.
"This was a senseless tragedy," McCauley said.
Frates alleged that Jeffreys and his two co-defendants — whom she called "low-lifes" — bragged about "their despicable deeds" and that they never showed any remorse for Pina's murder during the two years leading up to their arrests in 2011.
"This was a well-investigated case," McCauley said. "Witnesses stood up for what was right, and testified what they knew, in standing up against the culture of silence. They are to be commended for their courage."
Last year, a superior court jury convicted Fernandes of first-degree murder. Fernandes is serving a life sentence in state prison without the possibility of parole. Mitchell is still awaiting trial.
Two days before his death, Pina, relatives said, had gone to Florida to support his young daughter, who was taking part in a national swimming competition.
"Troy was a loving father. He would always light up a room with his wonderful smile, personality and sense of humor," said Miguel Martinez, Pina's stepfather. Martinez said his stepson's murder had a "profound emotional impact" on his family.
"I try to stay positive but a part of me is gone forever," Martinez said. "Troy did not deserve to die at someone's else's hand. He had a heart of gold."
Frates described her cousin as "a kind, social, affectionate man who embraced life." Though adding that Jeffreys' conviction will not bring her cousin back, Frates said she hoped Jeffreys will experience "a small percentage" of the suffering Pina endured in his final moments.
"May you rot in your cell and be haunted by the sight of Troy's face and the sound of his laughter," Frates said. "Good riddance."