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The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods (Article by Marjan Colletti) in: Evoking through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture by Matias del Campo (November 2016)
Post-digital-Neo-Baroque - Reinterpreting Baroque Reality and Beauty in Contemporary Architectural Design (Essay by Marjan Colletti) in: Neo-Baroques - From Latin America to the Hollywod Blockbuster (October 2016, Postmodern Studies 55, Issue edited by Walter Moser, Angela Ndalianis, Peter Krieger)
Post-digital-Transdisciplinarity (Article by Marjan Colletti) in: Architectural Design Special Issue: Digital Property: Open-Source Architecture (September/October 2016 Volume 86, Issue 5 Issue edited by Wendy W. Fok, Antoine Picon)
The Sustainability of Aesthetics (Essay by Marjan Colletti) in: The Aesthetics of Sustainability: Systemic Thinking and self-organization in the evolution of cities (2016, by Itaria Di Carlo)
Pedagogic Poetics (Paper by Marjan Colletti) in: research based education 2016 Volume 1 (April 2016, published by The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL)
DIGITAL POETICS - An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture by Marjan Colletti, Ashgate Publishing 2013
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Wanuskewin Heritage Park
The main building at Wanuskewin Heritage Park in Saskatoon, Canada
Canada Geese
Canada Geese going out for a swim on the lake
Sunset over Lake
Red and orange glow of the sun over the calm waters of the lake at sunset
Ducks Hanging Out
Ducks hanging out on the deck of a calm lake in Arizona
Great Blue Heron
The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America.
Flamingo Resting
Pink flamingo sitting and resting on the ground
Canada Geese in Water
A couple of Canada geese swimming in the water.
Blue-and-gold Macaw
The Blue-and-yellow Macaw, also known as the Blue-and-gold Macaw, is a member of the group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws.
Scarlet Macaw
A Scarlet Macaw posing at Xel-ha Park in Mexico.
Scarlet Macaw Parrot
A portrait of a Scarlet Macaw posing at Xel-ha Park in Mexico.
Scarlet Macaw grooming his Feathers
A portrait of one of the most colorful birds in the world.
Scarlet Macaw Parrots
A pair of Scarlet Macaws posing at Xel-ha Park in Mexico.
Scarlet Macaw Portrait
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Macaw nodding his head.
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A pelican posing in the warm green waters of Mexico.
Pelican in Flight
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COLUMBUS -- While the eyes of Ohio are focused on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and the Nov. 6 general election, many eyes at the Statehouse are shifting their gaze to next year's biennial budget.
Gov. John Kasich has offered plenty of glimpses of that unfolding debate.
Earlier this month, he called the heads of the state's public colleges and universities to his ceremonial offices to announce a cooperative approach to funding higher education. They used a similar process earlier this year to hash out capital spending.
The governor also has been touting Ohio's economic turnaround, including during a speech at the Republican National Convention, with a laundry list of accomplishments: Balanced budget, closed budget gap, dropping unemployment, rainy day fund going from pennies to close to $500 million, lots of Ohioans finding work.
But Kasich has made it clear the state has a long way to go.
"People think we have all this money and we're out of the woods, and we're not," the governor told reporters last week. "A half a billion dollars in the rainy day fund sounds like a lot of money, but, boy, you chew that up in a couple of weeks. ... There are days when we spend almost that much in one day."
He added, concerning the next two-year budget, "There's not going to be a lot of money out there. We're not flush. Our economy is doing better, but it's anemic. We're not off to the races here. It's going to be another tough budget with priorities."
The latter likely will include another attempt at revamping the K-12 school funding formula, further Medicaid reform and tax cuts.
"It's going to be a heck of a budget," Kasich said.
The governor is continuing to push for an increase in taxes on oil and gas produced via horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Some Republican lawmakers have balked at Kasich's plan, which calls for upping severance taxes and using the proceeds to implement a corresponding income tax cut.
"We want the big out-of-state oil companies to pay more for what they take out of our state so we can all have a tax cut here," Kasich said, adding, "Plus we'll have additional tax reform that will come."
Lawmakers could address the issue during the lame duck session after the November election, or they could wait and deal with severance taxes in the new budget. Kasich is confident of the end result but not sure of the timing.
"We're pushing everyday," he said. "The sooner we can get it done, the better. I can't make a prediction now as to when it's going to happen, but it will happen."
All of this will make for an interesting and heated debate, and one that will dominate Ohioans' attention in the new year.
Or now, if they're tired of presidential politics and want to focus on something else.
"It's not easy," Kasich said of the coming budget cycle. "I wish we had incredible growth in America. That would solve so many of our problems. ... This is going to be another tough budget."
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Meeting of July 18, 2012 – Public Input into the Development of EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan
Reuben Daniels, Jr. is the District Director of the Charlotte District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He plans and directs Enforcement activities as well as Outreach and Educational programs throughout the District in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina in support of the Agency mission to identify and eliminate unlawful discrimination from the workplace. His service with EEOC has included work as a Trial Attorney, Administrative Judge and Supervisory Trial Attorney. During the seven years immediately preceding the Charlotte appointment, he was the Regional Attorney for the EEOC Milwaukee District Office where he directed litigation activities responsible for the recovery of benefits for victims of employment discrimination.
Since joining the Charlotte District Office in November, 1999, the office focus has been on improved customer service throughout the process from Intake to charge resolution. The Charlotte Office has worked aggressively to reduce inventory and processing times while greatly enhancing voluntary resolutions and benefits to victims. Outreach, ADR and Systemic litigation development are current program priorities for the District.
Mr. Daniels is a native of North Carolina with an undergraduate degree from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. He earned his Juris Doctorate at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


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J. Cheikh was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team of Cheikh Lam and Sophie Lin. Lin, with a BFA from The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago was working in womenswear when she teamed up with her husband, Cheikh to create looks that are inspired by his longtime appreciation of European streetwear. Based in Chicago, the brand focuses on modernizing the fundamentals of classic menswear. J.Cheikh draws inspiration from the unique mix of European silhouettes with American ease. Each season fabric and color combinations are unexpected and sleek making the line unpretentiously luxurious.
The James Chicago tapped J. Cheikh to create all of the uniforms for the front office staff at the hotel, combining elements of their signature style with the various facets of The James brand.


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Release 2.2.0.Final
This is the 2.2 release of ModeShape, and it offers an improved JDBC driver for accessing content in ModeShape through JDBC, an updated JBoss AS deployment, an enhanced JOPR plugin for monitoring ModeShape on JBoss AS, new sequencers for Teiid relational models and VDBs, several other features and improvements, and bug fixes.
ModeShape is a JCR 2.0 implementation that supports all of JCR 2.0 required features: repository acquisition, authentication, reading/navigating, query, export, node type discovery, and permissions and capability checking. ModeShape also implements most of the optional JCR 2.0 features: writing, import, observation, workspace management, versioning, locking, node type management, same-name siblings, shareable nodes, and orderable child nodes. The release also contains a host of other fixes and improvements.
ModeShape supports five query languages: the JCR-SQL2 and JCR-QOM query languages defined in JSR-283, the XPath, JCR-SQL query languages defined in JCR 1.0 (JSR-170), and a full-text search-engine-like language. For details, see the chapter on queries and search languages in the Reference Guide.
The 2.2.0.Final release has not yet been certified to be fully compliant with JCR 2.0. We've identified several issues in the TCK tests (see JCR-2648, JCR-2661, JCR-2662, and JCR-2663). Once an updated TCK becomes available, we'll get our certification.
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Research Driven Investing Provides Stocks Research on UnitedHealth Group and WellCare
Research Driven Investing Provides Stocks Research on UnitedHealth Group and WellCare
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Health Care stocks have been on an impressive run to start 2013. The Affordable Care Act will provide millions of Americans with access to healthcare, creating new revenue streams for companies across the sector. Research Driven Investing examines investing opportunities in the Health Care Sector and provides equity research on UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) and WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG).
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The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires every American to acquire health insurance by 2014 or be subjected to a tax. For those who can't afford health insurance they will be offered subsidies or Medicaid. Statistics from the Census Bureau show that approximately 50 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2009.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services total health care spending is projected to grow from an estimated $2.8 trillion last year to $4.8 trillion by 2021, an increase of 70 percent. "There's just a lot more money flowing into health care and we're seeing the markets react accordingly," says Invesco portfolio manager, Derek Taner.
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UnitedHealthcare serves more than 38 million people and is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 650,000 physicians and care professionals and 5,000 hospitals nationwide. UnitedHealth Group reported revenues for full year 2012 increased 9 percent year-over-year to $110.6 billion.
WellCare Health Plans provides managed care services targeted to government-sponsored health care programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. As of September 30, 2012, the company serves approximately 2.6 million members nationwide. The company is scheduled to release fourth quarter and year-end 2012 results on Wednesday, February 13th.
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Lately i've been doing quite an amount of work with Exchange and WebDAV access to it.
Documentation on WebDAV and Exchange server is ok for simple tasks but if you want anything concrete done examples are impossible to come by.
That's why I posted a lengthy article about WebDAV and my experience with it.
Two tools are indespensible when doing any kind of Exchange access development:
Outlook Spy and Exchange Explorer that comes with the Exchange SDK.
But neither of those help in any way with forming correct WebDAV XML requests. OK, they give you the name and namespace of the properites but that's it.
Well PFDavAdmin Tool to the rescue.
It is an Exchange administration tool that works by using WebDAV requests. So everything it can do (read the word document that comes with it)
can be seen by capturng the request with a network protocol analyzer and see how it's formed. I use WireShark and it's great.
Anyone who does any kind of WebDAV development will appreciate this tool.
Of course it's also great for doing real world Exchange administration :)
For doing that you have to meet these conditions:
- The computer running the tool must have .NET Framework 1.1 installed and running Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 2003.
I've read that PFDavAdmin is not supported but since it appears on the Microsofts dowload page i don't know if that's still true. Probably not.
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Ex-Major Leaguer murdered in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Former major league pitcher Pascual Perez, who had a troubled 11-season career that included two suspensions for drug use, was killed at his home in the Dominican Republic in an apparent robbery, police said Thursday.
Perez, who last played in the majors for the New York Yankees in 1991, was found with a severe head wound in a town west of the capital, Santo Domingo, and there was evidence at the scene to suggest that whoever killed him had been searching for money, said Joel Valdemiro, a prosecutor who is involved in the investigation.
No one was in custody and authorities did not reveal whether they had any suspects. Police said there were several assailants and that the house in the town of Don Gregorio appeared to have been ransacked.
"It's an act of criminality, unfortunately," Valdemiro said.
Perez's brother Carlos, a former pitcher for the Dodgers, confirmed his death.
Perez's ex-wife Maritza Montero found his body about 8:30 a.m. Thursday and investigators said he appeared to have been slain about eight hours earlier.
The precise cause of death has not been determined but officials said Perez, who had suffered severe kidney problems in recent years, had a fractured skull from a blow to the head.
Perez, 55, played 11 seasons of in the majors and compiled a lifetime record of 67-68 with the Braves, Pirates, Expos and Yankees. But he was in and out of trouble for much of his career.
"We were shocked to hear the news of Pascual Perez' death earlier today," said Braves president John Schuerholz in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during the aftermath of this tragic event. Pascual left his mark with the Braves organization and will always be remembered fondly by Braves fans."
Perez pitched for Atlanta from 1982-85. He was 15-8 in 1983 and 14-8 in 1984.
While playing for the Braves, he was suspended in April 1984 following his Jan. 9 arrest in the Dominican Republic on charges of cocaine possession.
He spent two months in drug rehabilitation in 1989 while with the Expos, after failing to complete rehab programs twice before, and avoided a suspension only by agreeing to accept a minimum one-year suspension if he tested positive for cocaine again.
In March 1992, the commissioner's office suspended him after a failed test the day he arrived for spring training with the Yankees. At the time, he was entering the final season of a three-year, $5.7 million contract. He never returned to major league baseball.


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Saint Anselm takes national lead with 'Look-Up Line' aimed at reducing hockey injuriesBy CASSIDY SWANSON
Union Leader Correspondent
September 02. 2014 10:31PM
GOFFSTOWN — Saint Anselm College made NCAA history on Tuesday, becoming the first college or university in the United States to install a "Look-Up Line" on the ice at the Thomas F. Sullivan Arena — a crucial step to reduce catastrophic injury for hockey players.
"For (Saint Anselm) to be the first school in the country to implement the line, that's a huge deal for us, and it's a testament to the support we have from the administration here," said J. Tucker Mullin, a 2013 Saint Anselm alumnus, former member of the college's hockey team, and recipient of the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award.
Mullin and friend Thomas Smith co-founded the Thomas E. Smith Foundation in 2010. The two met when they were in high school and both playing for the New England Bulldogs youth hockey team in Massachusetts.
Smith suffered two significant spinal cord injuries while playing hockey — one to the cervical region of his spine in August of 2008, and a second to the thoracic region in October of 2009 — that ended his career in the sport.
For two years, Smith was unable to even visit a hockey rink. Eventually, Smith said, he became focused on making the game safer and preventing other players from sustaining the injuries he did.
"Tuck and I… made this bond to one another, that we were going to found a foundation and work together to try to make the game of hockey safer, without affecting the speed, intensity, heritage, or adding any more rules to the game."
Mullin and Smith worked together for nearly two years on various initiatives on ways to modify the sideboards of hockey rinks to minimize risk for players. In August of 2012, Smith was watching a Red Sox game when he recognized that hockey could have something like a baseball warning track.
"The outfielder was running back for a fly ball, he never looked at the wall, but as soon as he saw the gravel, he put his arms up and he slowed down," Smith said. He realized a similar cue would be helpful for hockey players approaching the boards.
In their research, Mullin and Smith learned that football, basketball, and competitive swimming had also instituted similar cues for athletes, and that it is the most effective way to create a behavioral instinct within a sport to protect athletes.
"You can't speak to someone when they're playing, because the game's going so fast," Smith said. "All these markings that you see on the ice are for that visual cueing, because it's the only behavioral cueing that works when a player's skating in a game."
The Look-Up Line is a 40-inch-wide orange line painted around the circumference of a hockey rink. The idea behind the concept is that when players see the line, they know to pick their heads up, minimizing spinal injury.
Smith said that when the top of a player's head makes contact with the board, the player needs to be moving only 4 mph to suffer a spinal compression.
"If you have your head up, the way the vertebra's shaped, it's allowed to absorb the shock, and it kind of acts like a springboard," Smith said. "If you're able to protect yourself and you know where you are in space, you're less likely to get a neck or head injury."
Smith said the Look-Up Line will help protect players, but not reduce the aggressive nature of the game.
"We still want players to be slammed into the wall," he said. "Our big thing is we want you to get up. There's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to do it…There is, in my opinion, no excuse for catastrophic injury."
"As the game has evolved and gotten bigger and faster, we also need to protect our players more," Mullin added. "That's what we really see this as — a supplement to what we've been taught over the years, and a new way to teach moving forward."
Smith and Mullin credited Dr. Barth Green of the University of Miami School of Medicine, and especially Dr. Alan Ashare of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, for their contributions to the Look-Up Line. Ashare started the "Heads Up, Don't Duck" initiative in 1995 to educate the hockey community about the dangers of head-on collisions.
Within the college, the two also credited president Dr. Steven DiSalvo, class of 1974 alumnus, and hockey booster Tom Bullock, rink manager Ken Perkins, and men's hockey coach Ed Seney, for their help getting the Look-Up Line installed.
Smith and Mullin are happy that Saint Anselm is first in the NCAA to adopt the Look-Up Line.
"They're being a leader by example, and folks who don't have this down…we don't believe are following best practice," Smith said. "These people who are waiting and standing back — you're putting yourself at risk."
Both are hopeful that their idea will serve to improve the game of hockey overall.
"I believe this game is the greatest game in the world," Smith said. "It doesn't have to be like this, with catastrophic injury … There's never been a time other than now, in the last couple years, where players have been retiring more so because of catastrophic injury … We have to do something, because it's supposed to be a game that provides so much joy, and yet, it's providing so much sadness and heartache."
"This is our responsibility, to not only help those that are similarly situated to Tom, but to prevent that from happening and move forward," Mullin added. "This is our opportunity to do so."


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Bingo Winning Numbers With Bingo On The Go, watch Bingo drawings on your computer. Watch animated drawings or view winning numbers from the past year in a list.
Did You Know?
Bingo starts in Rhode Island on October 14, 2012. Rhode Island Lottery Bingo is sold at all retailers but a limited number of retailers have monitors that display the drawings.
In the U.S., bingo was originally called "beano". It was a country fair game where a dealer would select numbered discs from a cigar box and players would mark their cards with beans. They yelled "beano" if they won.
Bingo can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D`Italia," which is still played every Saturday in Italy. From Italy the game was introduced to France in the late 1770s, where it was called "Le Lotto", a game played among wealthy Frenchmen. The Germans also played a version of the game in the 1800s, but they used it as a child`s game to help students learn math, spelling and history.
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Object of Game
Players watch Bingo drawings as 30 balls are drawn and land on a call number. Players then match these call numbers to the numbers on their Bingo board to create Rhode Island Lottery Bingo patterns. A win occurs when some or all of the numbers on your Bingo game match one of the Rhode Island Lottery Bingo patterns.
Bingo Retailers are equipped with a television monitor that displays a new drawing every eight minutes.
How to Play
Mark the number of boards you want to play per game, from 1 - 3.
Select the number of consecutive games you wish to play: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
Your Bingo board(s) will be randomly generated by the lottery terminal.
A separate ticket will be randomly printed by the lottery terminal for each consecutive game.
The total ticket cost is equal to the number of games multiplied by dollars played per game multiplied by number of boards per game. (For example: If a Bingo game is played on a $2 wager with 3 boards for 5 consecutive games, the ticket would cost $30.)
The maximum wager for Bingo is $150 at one time.
How to Win
Watch the monitor as 30 balls are drawn and land on the appropriate call numbers. Use these call numbers to create one of eight traditional Bingo patterns and win cash prizes.
A winning line pattern can be located anywhere on the Bingo board (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) but must include 5 matching call numbers or 4 call numbers and the FREE space.
If more than one pattern is created on a Bingo board, the highest prize shall prevail.
Bingo Pattern Examples
* A winning Y or X Pattern must appear exactly as shown in the illustrations. No prize will be awarded for a Y or X Pattern in any other direction.
Only patterns recognized as the official Rhode Island Lottery Bingo patterns shall be entitled to a prize.
Bingo Prizes
If more than one pattern is created on a Bingo board, the highest prize shall prevail.
Claiming Prizes
Once any ticket is issued to the player by a Lottery Retailer, it is the player`s responsibility to immediately check that the numbers and wagering selected are what was requested, and then sign the back of the ticket for security. All winning tickets are payable to the bearer of the ticket, upon verification of their identification and signature. The Rhode Island Lottery and Lottery Retailers are not responsible for lost or stolen tickets or those incorrectly issued that were not reported to the Retailer immediately after purchase.
Prizes of $599 or less can be claimed at any Rhode Island Lottery Retailer. Prizes over $599 must be claimed at Lottery Headquarters, 1425 Pontiac Ave., Cranston, Rhode Island 02920. For prizes over $599, you must provide your valid, government-issued photo identification and your Social Security number. All prizes must be claimed within one year of the drawing date.
This website, www.RILOT.com, is the official website of
the Rhode Island Lottery. It is UNLAWFUL for anyone under the age of 18 to play the Lottery. Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy
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Presidents' Day: More Than Just a Day Off
If Washington's Birthday, often known as Presidents Day, is a vacation for your family, consider making it more than just a regular day away from work and school.
Celebrated the third Monday in February (Feb 17 this year), many stores offer sales on special deals on this day. But you can celebrate the holiday more thematically than by spending an afternoon at the mall.
Consider visiting a museum focused on American History. And it's a great day to take a trip to a National Park, as the National Park Service is commemorating the holiday by waiving entrance fees for the entire three-day weekend.
Or take a trip to the library in advance and stock up on presidential-themed books and movies. If the weather outside is frightful, curl up on the couch and watch a biopic or documentary about your favorite president. You can learn a lot from the comfort of home.
This President's Day, make your three-day weekend meaningful with some president-focused, educational fun.
How did George Washington turn a rag-tag group of men into a disciplined fighting machine? Find out in the video below.
Learn more about President's Day and watch videos about our former presidents and founding fathers at History.com.
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Salivary glands secrete saliva into your mouth through ducts. The salivary glands are found around the mouth and throat. The main glands are:
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This surgery is done to remove a salivary gland. There are different types of surgeries, depending on which gland needs to be operated on:
Salivary glands can become infected and blocked. They can also have a tumor, stone, or other disorder. Surgery is done to treat the problem by removing part or all of the affected gland. It may also be done to remove tissue for testing, like removing a tumor to test for cancer.
Problems from the procedure may occur. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
Before your procedure, talk to your doctor about ways to manage factors that may increase your risk of complications, such as:
Before the surgery, your doctor may:
Arrange a ride to and from the hospital on the day of your surgery
If you are having surgery on larger salivary glands, such as the parotid gland, general anesthesia may be used. This will keep you asleep and free from pain during the procedure. If smaller salivary glands are being removed, you may receive local anesthesia. Only the area that is being operated on will be numbed.
This procedure is often done in an outpatient setting. But, if your surgery is extensive or is on a larger gland, you may need to stay in a hospital.
There are 2 types of parotidectomy surgery. The type you will have depends on why the surgery is being done.
The facial nerve runs near the parotid gland. If you have a tumor and it is above the facial nerve, then a superficial parotidectomy will be done. The tumor and affected tissue will be removed without harming the nerve.
If you have a tumor that surrounds or grows into the facial nerve, a total parotidectomy will be done. The tumor, affected tissue, and parts of the nerve will be removed.
For both types of surgery, the gland will be reached by making a cut in front of the ear and into the neck.
A cut will be made in the neck below the jawline. The submandibular gland, and possibly surrounding lymph nodes, will be removed. If you are having the surgery to remove a stone that has grown in the gland, the stone will also be removed.
If you are having sublingual gland surgery, it is most likely because a type of cyst, called a ranula, needs to be removed. During this surgery, a cut will be made through the mouth to remove the cyst. If the cyst is large, a cut will also be made in the neck.
If you are having surgery to remove tumors from smaller salivary glands, the doctor will make a cut in the area where the gland is located. The tumor and any surrounding soft tissue and bone that is affected will also be removed.
For all surgeries, when all tissue has been removed, the area will be closed with sutures. In some surgeries, temporary drains may be put in place to remove any fluids from the wound.
Removed tissue may be sent to a lab for testing. This is often done if a tumor was removed, since tests will determine whether the tumor is cancerous. Knowing this can help the doctor plan for your care and treatment after surgery.
This varies depending on which gland needs to be removed. Simple glands may take less than an hour to remove. Complex surgeries may take up to 5 hours.
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Right after surgery, the staff may:
During your stay, the care center staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
When you return home, do the following for a smooth recovery:
It is important for you to monitor your recovery after you leave the care center. Alert your doctor to any problems right away. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
American Cancer Society
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Society of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
Salivary gland surgery. Cedars-Sinai website. Available at: http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Head-and-Neck-Cancer-Center/Treatment/Salivary-Gland-Surgery.aspx. Accessed May 13, 2016.
Salivary glands. American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery website. Available at: http://www.entnet.org/content/salivary-glands. Accessed May 13, 2016.
Last reviewed May 2016 by Michael Woods, MD Last Updated: 5/23/2014


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by Matthew Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
AIKEN, S.C. – With their postseason hopes on the line, the Georgia College softball team (14-33, 9-11 PBC) delivered in a big way, sweeping USC Aiken (23-13, 6-10 PBC) 6-5 and 2-1. The Bobcats saved their best effort for last, getting the season's first sweep in the final regular season doubleheader.
The Bobcats used a late rally to storm passed the Pacers in game one. Trailing 4-1 heading into the top of fifth, GC exploded for five runs en route to the 6-5 victory.
Georgia College used six hits that inning to plate the five runs, with the key hits coming from outfielders Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) and Kati Pickowitz (Keller, Texas) who both doubled.
Okvist was 3-for-4 on the game with a pair of runs and fellow freshman Lindsey Conway (Madison, Ga.) chipped in with a two-hit, two RBI performance of her own.
Freshman righty Chelsie Huffman (Powder Springs, Ga.) picked up yet another win in relief, improving her record to 3-4 on the year. Huffman shut the door on the Pacers, going 3 1/3 innings, allowing just one run on three hits.
Despite just three hits in game two, the Bobcats were able to prevail with the 2-1 win.
A stellar pitching performance from junior righty Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.) helped pace Georgia College, as she went six strong innings, allowing just one unearned run and five hits. Burnett improves to 2-14 on the season.
GC rallied yet again, plating the go-ahead run in the top of the last frame. Freshman Corby Holmes (Social Circle, Ga.) scored the game-winner after reaching base on an error to lead off the inning. After another error and a sacrifice bunt, Holmes was plated by a fielder's choice off the bat of Conway.
The sweep couldn't have come at a better time, improving GC's Peach Belt Conference (PBC) record to 9-11. The Bobcats are currently sitting alone in the sixth seed following tonight's PBC action, waiting for the rest of the league to finish their regular-season schedule this weekend.
Following this weekend's games, the Bobcats will find out their fate in the PBC Tournament. If Georgia College does make the eight-team tournament, their first game will take place on Friday, April 15 at the Freedom Florence Complex in Florence, S.C.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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|Hardware Specifications
|TVS-671-PT-4G: Dual-core Intel G3250 3.2 GHz Processor
TVS-671-i3-4G: Dual-core Intel Core i3-4150 3.5 GHz Processor
TVS-671-i5-8G: Quad-core Intel Core i5-4590S 3.0 GHz Processor (Turbo boost to 3.7 GHz)
VS-671-PT-4G/ TVS-671-i3-4G
1. When upgrading RAM, the original RAM module in the upgradable slot must be removed.
2. For the information of RAM module installation and compatible NAS models, please refer to the QNAP RAM Module Installation Guide.
|Flash Memory
|Hard Drive
|6 x 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s hard drive or 2.5-inch SATA, SSD hard drive
1. The standard system is shipped without hard drives.
2. For the HDD compatibility list, please visit http://www.qnap.com/i/en/product_x_grade/
|Hard Drive Tray
|4 x hot-swappable and lockable tray
4 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port
|LED Indicators
|Status, USB, LAN
3x USB 3.0 port (front: 1, rear: 2)
Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
|System: Power button and reset button
|Alarm Buzzer
|System warning
|Form Factor
|175 (H) x 257 (W) x 235 (D) mm
6.89 (H) x10.12 (W) x 9.25 (D) inch
|6.18 kg/ 13.62 lbs (Net)
6.9 kg/ 15.21 lbs (Goss)
|Sound Level (dB)
Sound pressure (LpAm) (by stander positions): 21.0 dB
|Power Consumption (W)
(with 6 x WD WD20EFRX hard drive installed)
|Relative Humidity
|5~95% non-condensing, wet bulb: 27?C.
|Power Supply
|Input: 100-240V AC, 50/60Hz Output: 250W
|PCIe Slot
|2 (1* PCIe Gen3 x8, 1* PCIe Gen2 x4)
|2 x quiet cooling fan (9 cm, 12V DC)
|Software Specifications
|Operating System
|QTS 4.1 (embedded Linux)
|Storage Management
|Supported Clients*
|Power Management
|Supported Browsers
|Access Right Management
|Multilingual Support
|myQNAPcloud Service
|File System
|Web Administration
|Powerful All-in-one server
|File Server
|Server Virtualization & Clustering
|File Station
|Surveillance Station
|Backup Station
|Notes Station
|Cloud Storage Backup
|Print Server
|Domain Authentication Integration
|Virtualization Station
|App Center
|Signage Station
|Mobile Apps
|iSCSI (IP SAN)
(1). Not all services are supported.
*The data encryption functions may not available in accordance to the legislative restrictions of some countries.
QNAP TVS-671-i5-8G 8TB (2 x 4TB) 6-Bay NAS Integrated with HGST NAS Drives
Product SKU: TVS-671-i5-8G-240NH
QNAP TVS-671-i5-8G 6 Bay, Quad-core Intel Core i5-4590S 3.0 GHz Processor (Turbo boost to 3.7 GHz), 8GB DDR3, 4 x 1GbE LAN, High-performance Turbo vNAS with 4K Video Playback.
RAM Installed: 8GB DDR3L
The TVS-671 is a powerful NAS storage solution designed for I/O-intensive tasks, mission-critical business applications and fast-growing data storage needs. Incorporating reliability and security, the TVS-671 delivers high performance with persistent throughput and provides a comprehensive storage solution for SMBs to build a reliable private cloud.
- Manage, share, and back up business data with Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR)
- 10GbE-ready, highly-efficient storage solution for 4K video playback, transcoding and on-the-fly editing
- Use the TVS-671 as a PC with exclusive QvPC Technology
- Supports VMware®, Citrix®, and Microsoft® Hyper-V and advanced virtualization features
- Full NAS encryption by volume-based technology
- Enhanced data security with high-performance AES 256-bit encryption and anti-virus
- Run multiple Windows/Linux/Android-based virtual machines with the Virtualization Station
Lightning fast performance
The TVS-671 supports 6Gbps hard drives and 10Gb Ethernet, delivering over 2,300 MB/s throughput and 151,000 IOPS*. The TVS-671 is powered by an Intel® Haswell processor with numerous options including Pentium®, Core™ i3, Core™ i5 and Core™ i7 for users to flexibly choose based on their demands, greatly enhancing the efficiency of CPU-consuming tasks such as running Virtualization Station, real-time 4K video playback & transcoding, and serving large numbers of simultaneous connections.
*Tested in QNAP Lab. Figures could vary by environment.
Testing Environment: 2 Client PC configuration: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU, 16GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 professional 64-bit, Dual-port Intel X520 10GbE Server Adapter, IOMeter sequential read and write. NAS configurations: TVS-671-i3, Plextor PX-256MPro SSDs with RAID 5 configuration, QNAP LAN-10G2T-D dual-port 10GBase-T network adapter*1
QTS - Simple and efficient
Thanks to the intuitive user interface of QTS, system operations of the TVS-671 are smooth and handy. Its intelligent desktop allows you to find desired functions quickly, create desktop shortcuts or group shortcuts, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, and open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently, bringing greater operating efficiency.
SSD cache acceleration
The TVS-671 supports SSD caching which can greatly boost IOPS performance of storage volumes to increase operational efficiency. It is perfect for improving overall workflow of IOPS-demanding applications such as virtualization, and allows the best of both cost and performance by combining SSDs with HDDs.
10GbE ready
The TVS-671 offers 4 inbuilt Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports 10 Gigabit high speed networks by installing a 10GbE network adapter. The 10GbE-ready TVS-671 delivers lightning-fast data throughput and coupled with the support for a large storage capacity is perfect for data centers to store big data and excel in fast data transmission, as well as editing 4K videos on-the-fly without transferring the videos between the TVS-671 and desktop computers.
4K Ultra-High-Definition ready
See even more detail with 4K! The TVS-671's high quality hardware allows you to smoothly play 4K videos on an HDTV with Kodi local display through HDMI without heavily consuming system resources. Featuring Intel® HD Graphics, the TVS-671 delivers superior real-time 4K (H.264) and 1080p video transcoding to convert videos to universal formats that can be smoothly played on PCs, mobile devices and Smart TVs. It allows for multiple devices to simultaneously view different videos stored on the TVS-671 with on-the-fly hardware accelerated transcoding, saving your time to convert videos into different formats for different devices.
With the benefit of offline transcoding, even when you can only connect to a low-speed Internet connection, you can still enjoy smooth video playback via File Station, Video Station, and the Qfile mobile app by selecting a pre-rendered lower resolution video, saving system resources of the TVS-671 for other applications. The TVS-671 also allows you to set a dedicated folder for automatic video transcoding.
Use your TVS-671 as a PC with exclusive QvPC Technology
QNAP's exclusive QvPC Technology consolidates a number of high-end technologies including VM integration, multimedia transcoding, HDMI output, cloud integration and NAS connection technologies, allowing users to operate the TVS-671 as a PC when they plug in a keyboard, mouse and monitor. With QvPC Technology, the TVS-671 is transformed into a cost-effective PC substitute for users to directly access stored data, run multiple applications using Windows/Linux/UNIX/Android-based VMs, surf the web on Google Chrome, enjoy 4K or 1080p videos with up to 7.1 channel audio with Kodi, monitor Surveillance Station in real time with local display, and much more.
Extend the functionality of the TVS-671 with virtualization
The Virtualization Station transforms the TVS-671 into a 2-in-a-box NAS that can function as an all-in-one NAS and a virtualization platform that supports multiple operating systems, fast virtual machine creation, virtual machine import/export, snapshot, and enables desktop operations on web browsers. With an easy-to-use interface, you can centrally manage all of the virtual machines created on the TVS-671 with minimal effort. You can also download VMs on demand from online VM markets and import them to TVS-671 without any complex procedure.
Full NAS encryption technology ensures data security
QNAP's full NAS encryption by volume-based technology effectively ensures data security by encrypting all of the files stored in the default shared folders on the TVS-671. Even if the TVS-671 is encrypted, all the files can still be accessible via Windows SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NFS protocols. Users without permission to access the TVS-671 will be unable to access the stored files, hence data security risks and privacy leaks can be avoided.
Intelligent Storage Manager
The QTS Storage Manager provides a secure and flexible way to manage volumes. This next-generation volume management offers powerful features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID group protection, thin provisioned volumes with Space Reclaim, block-level iSCSI LUN and online capacity expansion. The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage to simplify the process of NAS capacity expansion and QNAP storage expansion enclosure management.
Cross-platform file sharing, centralized data storage
The TVS-671 supports SMB/CIFS, NFS, and AFP protocols for file sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX networks. Data, logs and ISO images of CDs and DVDs can be centrally stored on the Turbo NAS and protected by an integrated antivirus solution. The Windows AD and LDAP services enable system administrators to configure user permissions by using existing Windows AD server, LDAP server or NAS build-in LDAP services. The TVS-671 supports SAMBA v4 and can act as a Windows domain controller to manage privilege settings.
Well-rounded backup solutions to secure data
The QNAP NetBak Replicator supports real-time and scheduled data backup on Windows including Outlook email archiving. Apple Time Machine is also supported to provide Mac OS X users with a solution to effortlessly back up data to the TVS-671. The USB 3.0 port on the front panel of the TVS-671 features a one-touch-copy function for you to instantly back up data on external drives to the TVS-671 with just one click, or alternatively to back up data from the TVS-671 to external drives. A wide range of third-party backup software such as Acronis® True Image and Symantec® Backup Exec are also supported.
Disaster recovery solutions brings peace of mind
The TVS-671 offers various data recovery options. RTRR (Real-Time Remote Replication) supports real time or scheduled data backup to a remote Turbo NAS or FTP server and synchronizes files to a remote folder from a local folder with better backup efficiency and reduced backup time. The TVS-671 also supports rsync protocol to back up data to another remote server on a scheduled basis. Data can also be backed up to and restored from a range of cloud storage services, including Amazon® S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft® Azure, ElephantDrive®, Symform®, Dropbox® and Google® Drive.
Comprehensive security options
In an open network environment, business data may be exposed in a potential hack. The TVS-671 provides numerous security options, such as encrypted access, IP blocking, and more. Besides, IT administrators can control the access rights of each user to different folders, preventing unauthorized access to important files. The TVS-671 is validated with military level FIPS 140-2 AES 256-bit encryption, preventing sensitive business data from unauthorized access and breach even if the hard drives or the entire system were stolen.
Storage for comprehensive virtualization applications
The TVS-671 supports VMware® and Citrix®, and is compatible with Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and Windows Server 2012, benefiting flexible deployment and management in the virtualization environments. The TVS-671 supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supports QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced efficiency of operations and management in virtualization applications.
Optimize IT assets management with the IT Management Station
The IT Management Station, powered by Mandriva® Pulse, provides a flexible service for managing multi-OS and multi-site IT assets for business of all sizes. By installing the IT Management Station on the TVS-671, you can centrally manage multiple IT resources with numerous business applications including comprehensive inventory, centralized software deployment & updates, imaging, remote management & support, backup & restore, and more tasks with greater flexibility and productivity.
File synchronization across multiple devices
The Qsync utility turns your TVS-671 into a safe data center for file synchronization with a large storage capacity. Any file uploaded to the TVS-671 will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops or mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers to manage files and always have the most updated files on different devices. Qsync provides multiple ways of file synchronization and group file sharing, greatly enhancing the flexibility of collaboration.
Comprehensive surveillance solution providing 24/7 security
The TVS-671's Surveillance Station offers a professional surveillance solution with a user-friendly management interface, a wide range of over 2,700 compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It supports real-time monitoring, video &audio recording and playback with a wide range of customizable settings. You can also install the Vmobile app on your iOS® or Android™ mobile devices to manage the monitoring channels anytime and anywhere to safeguard your office environment, or install the Vcam app to turn your mobile device into a network camera to instantly record any moment around you to your TVS-671.
Install-on-demand apps to extend NAS functionality
The TVS-671 has a built-in App Center that provides over 100 install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and much more. It is also a centralized location for managing & updating installed apps. In addition, QNAP's development platform embraces the open-source spirit to enable developers to create their own apps, adding potentially limitless potential for the TVS-671.
Additional SMB-ready features
The TVS-671 supports various business applications as an all-in-one Turbo NAS with cost-efficiency.
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Have you noticed that you haven't necessarily been eating more or exercising less but gaining weight? The truth is as you age unless you are eating less or exercising more you can expect to gain weight.
A Calgary couple accused of starving their 15-year-old son to death last year has been refused bail. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Beth Hughes on Monday concluded that Emil Radita, 62, and Rodica Radita, 51, should remain in custody until trial on charges of first-degree murder of Alex Radita, who was found dead in their home in May 2013.
Alberta should follow Ontario's move to better monitor motorists who don't control their blood sugar levels, says the sister of a Calgarian killed by a driver in diabetic shock. Ontario's transportation department has adopted several recommendations made by that province's ombudsman last week, including broadening the list of medical practitioners required to report problem drivers.
Can we all just agree that sugar, fat, wheat gluten, dairy, meat and salt are poisons that are killing us? If you read the newspapers, browse the Internet or watch television news, you could very well draw that conclusion. And there are large numbers of people who make the avoidance of one or more of those items a central element of their lives. We are becoming a nation of food tribalists, defined not by where we live or the language we speak, but by what we don't eat.
Is weight gain inevitable as we age, or can an active lifestyle keep the extra pounds off as the years march on?
Eat your medicine. That's the message in three recent books by Metro Vancouver authors who promote managing illness through diet.
Police found the dead teenager at a home on the 100 block of Citadel Drive N.W. in May 2013. Tests later confirmed the boy died from complications linked to neglect and starvation, due to his Type 1 diabetes.
What motivates a healthy, slim 20-year-old to spend a month on a detoxifying cleanse, drinking juice and eating nothing but raw nuts? "After the holidays I didn't feel like I had been eating well and had a fair amount (of alcohol) to drink," said Taylor Troll, a business student at Langara College who weighs a perfectly normal 158 pounds.
Two weeks ago, the American Heart Association released new guidelines for the treatment of high cholesterol. Already, there is controversy about what the guidelines mean. We'll take a look at some of the key issues.
We all know that physical activity is important for health. But did you know that sitting is killing you? Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym.
Like the number of double-doubles sold at Tim Hortons, the variety of weight-loss schemes that have come and gone over the decades is immense.
The Canadian Diabetes Association estimates that currently one in four Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes and that this number may rise to one in three by 2020. I am fortunate to work with registered dietitian Deb Lounsbury who is a certified diabetes educator and, over the past 25 years, has worked in areas such as diabetes, cardiovascular health and obesity management. She helped me clarify some of the most common myths about nutrition and diabetes:
For years, mothers-to-be have been carrying, literally, the burden of ensuring a healthy baby — eat the right things, don't smoke or drink, get moderate exercise like 30 minutes per day of walking. Now, it turns out dads-to-be need to do some shaping up, too.
Can a prescription for exercise do as much good as a bottle of pills? Steven Blair, the author of rafts of research on the medical value of exercise, says it definitely can be as effective, and he is at the University of British Columbia this week to tell newly minted doctors that very thing.
When Rob Gale, 55, began his "forensic sugar audit," he realized he had been consuming a staggering 10,000 grams of sugar a week. And this was after he thought he had done himself a favour by giving up beer and replacing it with vodka and grapefruit juice.
Summer camp is just not the place to worry about mobile device compatibility; it should be about play and kids having fun in a healthy environment.
A commonly prescribed antibiotic can double the risk of kidney damage, according to a study published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Researchers from Canada and the U.S. examined 10 years of health records from nearly 14,000 American men between the ages of 40 and 85. They found men who had taken fluoroquinolone antibiotics — ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and moxifloxacin — were twice as likely to end up in hospital with kidney damage.
Health Canada is receiving growing numbers of reports of serious complications in children taking powerful antipsychotics, including deaths.
Most doctors are ignoring evidence that proves surgery could cure Canada's growing epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes, according to a keynote speaker at the Canadian Obesity Summit wrapping up in Vancouver.
The federal auditor general says two of the government's key pillars meant to improve the lives of aboriginal peoples have gone awry because of infighting, poor co-ordination and lack of planning.


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Most Americans, even those who are wary of Obamacare, do not support shutting down the federal government as a means to block funding for the health care law. In fact, polls taken in the past couple of weeks show that the majority believes this tactic makes little sense and puts partisan motives ahead of the country's financial security.
Unfortunately, it is harder every day to make sense of Congress.
The Kentucky General Assembly met during the past week in special session to address the difficult issue of redistricting. The process of redistricting takes place every decade following the census to realign legislative districts based on population changes. This requirement is to ensure that each district contains a similar number of people and preserve the principle of "one person, one vote."
Without redistricting, some legislators would be representing far more people than others, and the impact of individual voters would be diluted.
You hear it in today's music and movies. It's used by musicians, professional athletes and even kids in our schools. It's what we typically refer to as the "N" word.
The word is used to express hatred and it's commonly thought of as the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in the English language, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
As we look for ways to increase Kentucky's competitiveness, we are also looking for ways to reduce excessive spending and keep taxpayers from being unduly burdened.
Last Thursday, the Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation heard how other states are using Public Private Partnerships as a cost-effective strategy to repair aging infrastructure.
According to a policy expert with the National Conference of State Legislatures, 33 states and Puerto Rico have laws enabling PPPs for highways and bridges.
Change is sometimes good, and we believe we are making some good changes to our website.
The Central Kentucky News-Journal's site, www.cknj.com, has always featured news, sports, advertising and other aspects of our printed edition. Now, we want to give even more to our website visitors.
You will notice a new format on our homepage, which includes some of our top stories when you arrive at our site. Before, one main story and a photo appeared on the homepage. Now, you'll see a larger photo, which will rotate and highlight a few of our main stories.
The past couple of weeks have been busy in and around Frankfort with joint committee meetings on a wide range of issues, including the DOD's planned forced brigade reduction at Ft. Knox, the possible ways to help SNAP recipients better balance their food budgets and the impact of impending federal regulations on coal.
While we realize the weekend verdict finding George Zimmerman not guilty of the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin is a lot more important than winning a sporting event, there do seem to be some similarities.
Fans, and aren't we all one of those, back the coach as long as the team comes out on top. It's like the old saying, "Coach, we're behind you, win or win" when it used to be "Coach, we're behind you win, lose or draw."
Coaches, like game officials, never win; they only lose.
Talk about your classic good news/bad news.
The good news is it appears the "pill mill" legislation passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2012 and tweaked in 2013 has made it harder to obtain pills.
The bad news is, as law enforcement officials, prosecutors and judges recently told State Journal reporter Lindsey Erdody, some drug users are simply switching to heroin.
Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate has been on the bench 14 years, during which time he said he had seen fewer heroin cases than you could count on one hand.
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield, who is Kentucky's health commissioner, recently told a legislative committee that a typical smoker in the state spent $2,237 last year on cigarettes.
Reporting to the Program Review and Investigations Committee in Frankfort, the commissioner also said 450 million packs of cigarettes were sold to about 962,000 Kentuckians age 18 and older, while children, who cannot legally buy cigarettes, are continuing to pick up the habit.
The tragic loss of Officer Jason Ellis recently has left our community, the Commonwealth and the nation grieving for this outstanding member of the Bardstown Police Department, who was passionate about his work and the people he protected.
As a seven-year member of the police force, Officer Ellis was well known to all of us. He was a dedicated public servant, a devoted family man and a wonderful resident. Without a doubt, the passing of this fine, brave man is a profound loss for all of us.
If what investigators have hypothesized about the death of Bardstown Police Officer Jason Scott Ellis is true, there is only one way to describe the still unknown killer: diabolical.
Ellis was shot numerous times and killed in the early hours of Saturday, May 25, at a ramp to the Bluegrass Parkway in Nelson County.
Investigators theorize someone put debris, the nature of which they have not identified, across the road. When Ellis, who was off duty and on his way home, got out of his car to try to clear the road, he was shot from an elevated vantage point.
I've shared with you many statistics over the last couple of years about Kentucky's prescription drug abuse epidemic.
At the time of 2012 legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable pain-management clinics or so-called "pill mills," 1,000 Kentuckians were dying each year from pain pill overdose.
I'm glad to report that 2012 and 2013 legislation is making a noticeable difference in the amount of narcotics being prescribed - and abused - in the commonwealth.
Even though his jersey hangs among famed University of Kentucky Wildcat greats along the rafters of Rupp Arena, the shine on former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer's legend and reputation is more than tarnished following his indictment on federal charges.
The leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases and stroke. Accidents rank fifth on the list.
Those accidents, however, are deaths caused by unintentional injuries, not by a terrorist incident such as the one that happened Monday, April 15, in Boston.
The three most common types of accidents that result in death are car wrecks, falls and unintentional poisonings.
As we walk through life on a daily basis, we, of course, know an accident can happen at any time.
Today in Kentucky, 68 people will be told, "You have cancer."
The American Cancer Society is in your community to save lives and create more birthdays by helping people stay well, helping people get well by finding cures and by fighting back.
The American Cancer Society, Taylor Regional Hospital, community partners and its legion of dedicated volunteers are all working together with the ultimate goal of eliminating cancer as a major health problem.
There is a lot to be proud of if you live in the Bluegrass State, especially this spring.
The University of Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team just won a national championship and the school's women's team played for a championship against a Connecticut team that has been a dominant force for the past 20 years.
Although they didn't advance as far, Kentucky's women's team also reached the Elite 8, finishing the season as one of the top teams in the nation.
Brianna Brucker is charged with murdering her 3-month-old son, Charles Brett Hayden Jr. So why would she be released with out posting any bond?
Brucker, 20, and her husband, Dale Brucker, 26, the boy's stepfather, have been charged with her son's death. Brianna Brucker was held in jail on a $100,000 cash bond, which was reduced last week to $50,000, unsecured.
Dale Brucker has requested that his $125,000 bond be reduced, but that request has been denied.
Everyone was smiling. In every photo from the event, you can see someone grinning from ear to ear.
And participants ran and walked in the event to bring smiles to other people's faces.
On Saturday, Donna Wise, Will Patton, Katie Irwin and Jenny Jessie hosted the first Color to Conquer 5K Walk and Run, with money raised going toward the annual St. Baldrick's fundraiser to support children's cancer research. Runners paid entry fees and donations were accepted.
When it comes to the city of Campbellsville and her adoring politics, one topic seems to raise the hairs of everyone in the city. I am of course talking about the sale of alcohol.
No matter what time of year or what side of the opinion you're on, this always tends to be the hot topic of central Kentucky politics.
Campbellsville is currently in gridlock on the subject. In a nutshell, alcohol can be sold only in restaurants and during certain hours of the day.
Congratulations are in order for our local schools. Taylor County elementary and middle and Campbellsville middle schools won multiple awards last Friday at this year's Kentucky Junior Beta Convention in Louisville.
TCES won first place in the Songfest competition, TCES fifth-grader Raegan Mardis won second place in the black and white photo category and fifth-grader Emma Sadler won third place in the color photo category.
TCMS won first place for talent, campaign skit and candidate speech.
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With an extraordinary record and breadth of public service, success and experience, Tom Ridge has become one of the most respected and top international security experts in the world.
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Chairman, U.S. House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI, 2011–2015); Member of Congress; Former FBI Special Agent; Trident Capital Cybersecurity Fund Advisory Council; IronNet Cybersecurity Board of Directors; CNN National Security Contributor; Host and Executive Producer, Declassified (July 2016)
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It is a majestic building, that beaux-arts box that occupies a full slice of Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets. Built in 1897, it was the city's first permanent library, and a library it remained until 1973, when the books were removed and it was transformed into the Chicago Cultural Center, where more than 1,000 events, programs and exhibitions take place each year, almost all of them free.
Another exhibition opened in late May in the Chicago rooms on the second floor of the building, devoted to the work of a newspaper cartoonist dead and gone for 60 years.
Curated by the city's cultural historian, Tim Samuelson, the exhibition is a gathering of dozens of drawings by John T. McCutcheon. No one in the opening night crowd had known McCutcheon, who died in 1949, and only a few remembered his work, unless it was his most famous drawing, "Injun Summer," which ran yearly in the Tribune Magazine until 2000, banished by those decrying its depiction of Native Americans.
McCutcheon had joined the Tribune staff in 1903, and so two years later was present at the birth of what was then a newspaper novelty. It was called the Tribune's "Worker's Magazine," subtitled, "For the man who works with hand or brain." As Lloyd Wendt tells it in his definitive history, "Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper," early issues of this magazine detailed the careers of some the city's notable and successful men, but "after a few do-it-yourself issues it concentrated attention on livelier subjects." Over the next few years it featured stories such as "The Widening Gap Between Husband and Wife"; "The Most Beautiful Women in Chicago," with photographs; "A Kentucky Wife Sells Her Husband for $1"; and "Mary and Her Little Lamb Brought Up-to-Date."
In 1914, the paper began the "Chicago Tribune Pictorial Weekly," a rotogravure publication. As Wendt related, it came with high ambitions, so lofty that Joseph Medill Patterson, then the co-editor and co-publisher, told an interviewer that "he wanted a Sunday magazine so excellent no one would feel an urge to buy one of the national weeklies."
Over the next decades, the magazines changed format and focus, changed names. New magazines, such as the Graphic in 1931, joined the fold. The magazine as you know it -- the modern Tribune Sunday Magazine, if you will -- was born Oct. 4, 1953, with the merger of the Graphic and the sepia-toned rotogravure picture section. Its first editor was the aforementioned Wendt, and it is likely that I first heard of the magazine as a baby. Wendt collaborated with my father, Herman Kogan, on four books, including "Give the Lady What She Wants," a history of Marshall Field & Co., "Lord of the Levee" and "Big Bill of Chicago," published in 1953.
I have been around the Tribune Magazine ever since and eventually started reading it, and watched it change in size and style and substance. For the last dozen years I have been a member of its staff.
You have no doubt read that this will be the last edition of the Tribune Magazine as a weekly publication. Your reaction to this news is understandable.
Disappointed? You bet. Angry? Not surprised.
When something that has been part of your life for decades vanishes, there is a void, a palpable sense of loss: What am I supposed to do with those hours I spent reading the stories and working the puzzle?
But the Magazine will continue to be published in special editions later this year and into the future. The long-form narrative journalism that was its hallmark will find other space in the paper. Beginning next Sunday, my Sidewalks column and the beloved crossword puzzle (along with other puzzles) will have found homes in a new section that joins the best of the House & Homes and Smart sections. The section will be called, appropriately, Sunday. I know you will let us know what you think.
A ruthless economy and changing tastes have no sentiment, no regard for history.
I was on the staff of the Chicago Daily News when it ceased publication March 4 (coincidentally, the birthday of the City of Chicago) in 1978. In his final-edition front-page story about the paper's 102-year-long history and its legacy, the great newspaperman M.W. Newman wrote, "The writer's newspaper ends as it began -- a momentous Book of Life. But that story isn't over, just the Daily News' part of it. A newspaper dies, but newspapering goes on. Life goes on, the sequel and all the tomorrows after that."
There's nothing quite as dire, as finite here. No need for poetic eulogy.
To wander through the McCutcheon show is to understand how much newspapers, specifically this one, which was born in 1847, have remade themselves over the years in response to events and currents and tastes. Like McCutcheon and his many contemporaries, we remain in the business of trying to provide, as the title of the exhibition states, "Chronicles of a Changing World."
That about says it. The world changes. So do we. And we move on.


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A friend of mine mentioned that he has a hard time remembering which pet families are strong against what other. I gave him this list and he thought it was awesome. So I thought I'd pass it on here. This is how I remember which is strong against the other, and I made this up because I have a hard time remembering lists without any reasoning behind it.
There seems to be a logic behind how blizzard set it up, which corresponds with the real world... well, real world logic anyway. The only one I haven't figured out the logic to yet is Magical Vs Birds. But as long as I have all the others down that one is easy to remember.
So for all the Left Brain thinkers out there...
- Birds eat Fish.
- Water puts out Fire. (Aquatic kills Elemental)
- Elements are bad for Machinery.
- Traps kill Beasts (Mechanical Vs Beast) .
- Cats kill Mice. (Beasts kill Critters)
- Critters eat Corpses (Undead).
- Zombies eat (Human) brains.
- Knights (Humans) slay Dragons.
- Dragons are made by magic and are therefor strong against Magical.
- Magic kills Birds (because I guess they have nothing else to do???)
Now I haven't worked out defense yet. Not beyond "water cleans filth" for Aquatic has strong defense against undead.


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HB-LED Makers Look at Alternative Substrates, Automation and especially Yield to Drive the Economics for Solid State Lighting
By Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole Développement senior analyst Eric Virey. And Asian producers see demand for general lighting starting to pick up as well, expecting general lighting—mostly replacement bulbs— to account for 10 to 30 percent of company revenues by the end of the year. "It's already becoming a commodity product— even before being popular," says Virey. "It's now so competitive with so many light bulb suppliers, though only a few are of good quality, that it's pushing prices down quickly, so margins are shrinking fast."
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"In a commodity market— and we think this is a commodity market— the guy with the lowest cost structure wins," no tes Jed Dorsheimer, managing director, equity research, lighting & solar, Canaccord Genuity. "And yield is by far the most important driver of costs." With best industry net yields still at some 75-80 percent, and the majority around 50 percent, there's plenty of room for improvement, particularly in automating the post epi processing, by using semiconductor industry style automation, steppers, and improving the liftoff, thinning, dicing and sorting processes. Last year's 50 percent drop in prices really focused people's attention on cost structure, and is speeding up the investment in automating these BEOL processes.
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The choice of substrate material is naturally the first driver of yield, where it may turn out that high-cost, homogenous GaN substrates with very low defect density and potentially high yield could turn out to be a low cost choice, argues Dorsheimer. Silicon substrates seem like a low cost alternative, but even if fully depreciated equipment brings the typical 20 percent capital cost to zero, and low substrate costs bring the typical 15 percent substrate cost to zero, lower yields could still make GaN on Si more expensive than sapphire or SiC.
The Potential for GaN and Si Substrates
LED devices made on silicon now look likely to be able to match the performance of conventional devices on sapphire, reports Virey, as work at a number of labs around the world is closing the performance gap. So the crucial issue is really the cost savings from being able to use highly efficient 8-inch silicon processing equipment. Yole cost simulations show a 50 percent reduction in die cost is possible, and some companies project as much as 75 percent savings, at least compared to smaller diameter sapphire, depending of course on yield, on how much the producer has to invest in new facilities, and on how much retrofit is needed to convert a CMOS fab to LED production. With the biggest impact on yields in epi now apparently not from dislocation defects but from bowing during the MOCVD process, fine tuning the thermal properties during epi could potentially bring significant improvement.
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But it does open the possibility of an almost fabless model for LED makers who could produce in CMOS foundries. And it could certainly change the industry supply equation. "One CMOS fab probably has enough capacity for the world's supply of LED die," notes Virey. GaN-on-GaN should have better yields from less bowing, and has advantages for being able to inject more current to get more light out of a smaller chip area, for high current density applications. But with the leading conventional LEDs on sapphire or SiC now up to 200lm/W efficiencies, closing in on the theoretical limit, the 5 to 10 percent increase in performance possible with the GaN substrate may not be worth the 10x higher substrate cost. Here again, it's just a cost game where yield is the critical parameter.
Lattice Power Pushes towards Mass Production with GaN-on-Si
Lattice Power reports it is now selling commercial LED die from volume production runs of several hundred 2-inch silicon wafers a day from its Jiangxi, China, fab, and aims to transition to 6-inch wafers within twelve months. "We're not in R&D mode anymore, we're pushing towards mass production," says CTO Hanmin Zhao. He reports performance, cost and yields in the 2-inch silicon are similar to 2-inch sapphire, and reliability and life test have so far shown results similar to sapphire.
Zhao says the company's solution for designing and then growing the multi-layer buffer layers to counter the lattice and thermal mismatch seems to transition fairly well to 6-inch wafers, where the advantage of silicon would of course be much more significant. It's looking at 6-inch because the tools would be affordable, while it needs a partner with an idle 8-inch IC fab to make production on 8-inch silicon economical with the more expensive tool cost, and there are not many idle 8-inch fabs in China. Zhao figures that except of course for the MOCVD equipment, some 70-80 percent of the CMOS tools could be used with only minor modification.
These speakers will join other industry leaders from Cree, Everlight Electronics, Soraa, Seoul Semiconductor, GT Advanced Technologies, EVGroup, Laytec and more to discuss the potential of disruptive technologies and best options for improving manufacturing yields in LED manufacturing at Extreme Electronics (South Hall) at SEMICON West 2012, July 11, in San Francisco.
For more information (including presentations) on the U.S. Department of Energy Solid State Lighting R&D Workshop, please visit: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/atlanta2012_materials.html
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The infamous Stuxnet worm was part of a U.S.-Israeli effort targeting Iran's nuclear program, started under the Bush administration and accelerated by President Barack Obama, according to a New York Times story adapted from a forthcoming book.
The revelation only confirms what many cybersecurity experts have suspected, but it does shed light on the broadening pattern of cyber espionage and attacks by the United States, China and other countries on each other. And it could renew questions about how ready U.S. cyber defenses are for an attack.
Starting in 2009, several versions of Stuxnet were introduced into Iran's Natanz nuclear processing plant in a series of attacks that Obama decided to continue even after the worm "escaped" into the wild, the Times reported.
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Stuxnet, designed to attack Siemens software in a specific type of programmable logic controller, caused centrifuges used in processing uranium to spin out of control, damaging between 1,000 and 5,000 of them and slowing down Iran's nuclear program, according to the report, which is adapted from David E. Sanger's "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," set to be published June 5.
Since Stuxnet was discovered in 2010, security experts have speculated, suggested and in some cases even claimed that it was the work of the United States and/or Israel. In an April profile in Smithsonian Magazine, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said, "I think it's pretty clear that the United States government did the Stuxnet attack," with some help from Israel.
The Times article, based on unidentified current and former American, European and Israeli officials, said it was part of a secret program, code-named Olympic Games, targeting Iran.
The article doesn't mention Duqu, an information-gathering Trojan horse that shares some of Stuxnet's code and was found roaming in Iran's nuclear facilities, among other places. But it does mention a "bit of computer code called a beacon" that gathered an electronic blueprint of the Natanz plant.
Security researchers also have found similarities between Stuxnet/Duqu and the recently discovered Flame spyware, which has spread in Iran, other parts of the Middle East and Europe and attacked systems in Iranian oil refineries in April. U.S. officials, however, said that Flame, parts of which date to 2007, was not part of the Olympic Games, the Times reported.
Stuxnet was introduced to Natanz via USB thumb drives — an article in ISSSource in April, quoting U.S. intelligence officials, said it was first planted by an Iranian double agent working for Israel — in 2009.
In 2010, it "escaped" and spread quickly around the world. And although it didn't do other damage because was designed only to attack the Siemens software, it caught the attention of security experts, who analyzed it and dubbed the first weaponized malware because of its potential to damage industrial systems.
They also concluded that Stuxnet's complexity likely made it the product of a nation-state. And because Iran was the target, speculation followed that the United States, which has opposed Iran's nuclear program, and/or Israel, which views it as an imminent threat, were behind the attacks.
Stuxnet's appearance has raised fears that similar targeted malware could be used to attack critical infrastructure — ranging from water and power plants to prisons — in this country and elsewhere.
Confirmation that the United States was behind Stuxnet could also raise the possibility that other countries could use it as justification for their own attacks. China and Russia often are blamed for attacks on U.S. government and industry, but a panel of technical and policy experts told a House hearing in late April that Iran was a more serious threat.
Iran has shown a willingness to attack the United States and is not bound by stable diplomatic relations, as are China and Russia. The latter two countries "aren't going to start a war just for fun," James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told lawmakers. "I don't know if we can say that for Iran and North Korea," Lewis said.
Clarke, for one, says the U.S. infrastructure, such as its power grid, is woefully ill-prepared for an attack.
In the Smithsonian profile by Ron Rosenbaum, he warned about the consequences of conducting cyber offensives without having an adequate cyber defense. But he said his biggest fear, however, isn't some kind of cyber Pearl Harbor but the "thousand cuts" of having the country's intellectual property stolen — something he said China is already carrying out.
Other experts have made similar comments recently.
At the RSA conference in February, cybersecurity pioneer Marcus Ranum warned that the country was not well-enough defended to launch cyberattacks. "It's not a good idea to initiate a response in kind by doing it to someone else," he said.
And at a talk in Washington in April, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves warned that the focus on cyber war was distracting from the real threat. "It's the economy, stupid," he said. "It is intellectual property that is the real worry."
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Espionage (and the sabotage of enemies) has probably been going on since the dawn of man. The Chinese (and others even our allies)have probably been attacking our computers for a long time now. And I would hope we have returned the favor. Of course, I would never have put the information out there as being on the record. We dropped the only atom bombs ever used in war. Of course we knew our enemies would one day get this same technology. Nothing has changed except the globalization of technology allowing even third world countries potential access to WMDs. How many of the Iranian scientists do you think have met untimely "accidental" deaths?
The US has been under cyber attack and other forms of espionage for many years from many countries. Iran has been activity attacking the US in ways it could get away with for many years as well. There is a worldwide information war that has been going on for over a half a century and will continue to go on. For those worried about retalliation or how the US might be percieved, you need to get back to reality. The moral high ground does NOT belong to those who sit back and do nothing but moan about all the nasty stuff going on around them nor does it belong to those who knock their own contries activities when their enemies are engaged in far worse actions.
I think the biggest take home message here is what they mentioned about cyber defense. If you pull your weapon out of your holster you better be prepared for your opponent to do the same. As soon as it's discovered, malware can be reverse engineered and eventually used against it's designers. Iran isn't some backward nation still using a slide rule. They are fully capabable of throwing this back at us and our current defence posture is standing upright with a bullseye on us.
What goes around, comes around.
It's only a matter of [short] time before the same poison turns around and kills us.
The assumptions we make concerning cyber warfare will most likely be our undoing. When we think that only Russia, China, the U.S. and Israel can develop advanced malware, we are at best making rash guesses and at worst being manipulated by much smarter entities. I think we should accept that Nation States will attack others to gain control of their networks whether they are political enemies or not.
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