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Hyperbaric Chamber Treatment in St Petersburg Fl
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a safe method of delivering more oxygen to the body at the cellular level.
- HBOT provides the optimal environment for the body to carry out vital cell processes, thereby increasing the capacity for the body to heal itself.
- HBOT utilizes filtered pressurized ambient air to dissolve oxygen directly into the plasma, cerebral and spinal fluids, flooding tissues and vital organs with oxygen.
- Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy allows for healing at the cellular level, which is critical for changes to be made which in turn affect healthy tissue formation, making it possible for healthier organs and ultimately a healthier body overall.
So How Does It Work?
The mild hyperbaric chamber is filled with compressed ambient air at 4.5 pounds per square inch. (1.5 ATA). This is the equivalent of being 15 feet below sea level. The patient breathes 100% concentrated oxygen for the duration of the therapy.
The increased pressure allows the blood plasma and other liquids of the body to absorb additional oxygen thus greatly increasing oxygen uptake by the cells, tissues, glands, organs, brain, and fluids of the body.
The resulting uptake of oxygen allows for increased circulation to areas with swelling or inflammation. At the same time, the increased pressure decreases swelling and inflammation.
Normally, when we breathe air (usually at sea level), in order for the oxygen contained within that air to be absorbed by our cells, it must travel from our lungs to our bloodstream; however, our cells are only capable of absorbing about 25% of that oxygen. Therefore, to use it, the organelles inside of our cells, called mitochondria, create energy in the form of ATP which is what our body uses during everyday functioning.
When inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, however, the pressure of the chamber not only forces oxygen into our lungs, but into our bloodstream and cells, which increases absorption rates from 25% to 40-50%. When this happens, there is an increase in the load of available oxygen to our cell's mitochondria, which enhances overall energy production. In fact, only 50% of our energy comes from the fats, carbohydrates and protein that we eat on a daily basis. The rest comes from energy stores in our body, so in order to make this stored energy useful, our cells must be able to convert it into molecules of ATP by using oxygen. Therefore, with an influx of oxygen available, our bodies become more efficient at converting those energy stores into something which can be used for enhanced performance.
Who Does It Help?
It's not just about healing damaged tissues or increasing oxygen to the brain and tissues. Many athletes use HBOT for athletic advantage pre and post competition. More oxygen to the tissues equals better performance. It's also used for enhance recovery time from training thus helping to prevent chronic over training injuries. It's used for stress reduction, and for faster recovery from acute injuries. Research has demonstrated increased collagen synthesis in tendons post hyperbaric therapy.
There is a strong need for treatments which allow athletes to return to competition faster than they would with regular rehabilitation alone. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides faster recovery from injuries, sharper performance, and longer, more intense training regimens. Additionally, it has been recognized by clinicians, professional athletes, and world-class trainers as a safe way to help athletes achieve peak performance levels.
Some of the conditions that patients in St Petersburg, Fl experience accelerated healing with mHBOT:
- Sports Injuries
- Post Surgical
- Concussion
- Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Stroke
- Soft Tissue Tear
- Sprain/Strain
- Fracture
- Optimal Sports Performance
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Neurological Disorders
- Migraine Headaches
- Disc Herniation
- Diabetic Complications
- Autism
- Cancer
- Non-healing Wounds
- Thermal Burns
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Cerebral Palsy
- Anti-Aging
- Allergies/Asthma
- Fibromyalgia
- Alzheimer's
- Inflammatory Conditions
- Arthritis
- And more
While obviously beneficial for those suffering from various ailments and injuries, there are huge benefits for everyday people simply looking to lead a more complete life. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is great for body detoxification, and it helps people dealing with fatigue, stress, insomnia, and chronic illness improve their overall well-being. Many of our patients frequently use this service and consider it an integral part of their healthy lifestyle.
Are There Any Side Effects?
No dangerous side effects have been reported with mild hyperbaric therapy; however, there are a few things to keep in mind when preparing for your first session in a chamber:
- Some people experience a mild discomfort in the ears during hyperbaric chamber pressurization in St Petersburg Fl, which is not unlike what you might feel when ascending in an airplane.
- Following their first few sessions, some people experience slight fatigue and sleepiness. This is considered a normal reaction and is simply a result of the body ridding itself of built-up toxins.
- We advise our patients to wear comfortable, loose clothing as pantyhose and other tight garments may contribute to feelings of claustrophobia.
What Can I Expect During A Session?
The hyperbaric chamber will seem smaller when deflated than when it is when fully pressurized; however, within a couple minutes, the chamber will inflate completely and allow enough room for an adult to sit upright or lie fully extended.
After the chamber inflates, it will begin to pressurize. For this reason, we ask that our patients refrain from drinking large amounts of fluid before beginning a session since a trip to the restroom will require the chamber to be completely deflated.
Additionally, we ask that our patients do not wear perfume or cologne when coming in for a hyperbaric session because we may have other people scheduled at a later time who are sensitive or allergic to certain fragrances.
To equalize the pressure in your ears, simply swallow or close your mouth and firmly clamp your nose shut with your fingers and thumb. Blow, as if you were blowing your nose, but keep nose and mouth closed. You will feel the air come out through your ears when you have done this procedure correctly, and this should relieve the pressure.
How Long Does Each Session Last?
The standard length is 60 minutes; however, longer sessions may be required for certain conditions.
What Can I Do While In The Chamber?
- Listen to music
- Talk on your cell phone
- Play handheld games
- Watch movies on a portable DVD player
- Work on iPad or laptop
- Read books or magazines
- Relax and power nap
Are There Any Reasons Someone Should NOT use HBOT?
Yes. You should NOT go into the chamber if you are inebriated (drunk), if you have ear canal problems or an ear infection, or if you are experiencing flu or cold-like symptoms. Additionally, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not for people with pace makers, certain lung diseases, or women who are pregnant.
How Frequently Should Someone Use HBOT?
We will make a recommendation for you based upon your needs after an initial evaluation.
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Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, exclusive leasing agent for Sylvan Corporate Center in Englewood Cliffs, consummated nearly 100,000 square feet in new leases at the property.
According to the announcement, the leases involved long-term renewals with LG Electronics U.S.A. for 67,000 square feet, Unilever for 27,000 square feet and COFCO U.S.A. Inc. for 4,000 square feet. The four-building multi-tenant space totals approximately 260,790 square feet and is owned by New York City-based developer The ANDALEX Group.
NGKF executive managing director Frank D. Recine and managing directors Blake J. Goodman and Kenneth N. Porreca, with the firm's Rutherford office, serve as long-term leasing agents for Sylvan, also home to tenants Whole Foods, IBM and LG Chemical, the announcement said.
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NJBIZ announces list of Best Places to Work in N.J.
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A Coldwater Reunion Music Festival, set for this Saturday, Aug. 25, is expected to bring together former classmates from Coldwater High School (CHS).
Event details
1 Over a year ago, a number of former CHS graduates banded together to begin planning the first-ever Coldwater Reunion Music Festival. Their hope was to gather together classmates, while at the same time help raise funds for the Tibbits Opera House and the Irma English Music Scholarship Fund.
2 Roughly 250 performers, all alumni of the Coldwater Schools system, will travel between 2,000 and 3,000 miles to return to Coldwater to play at the festival. Musical talents include a number of well-known local acts — Delbert Walling and Haley Smith, Those Three Guys, Greg Brayton and more — as well as the Reunion Balladier Chorus, the Reunion Coldwater Band, the Reunion Coldwater Sweet Adelines Chorus and many others, who are all coming together to benefit these local causes.
3 The festival will run throughout the day on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with outdoor performances beginning at 11 a.m. in the Tibbits Plaza and inside acts starting at 1 p.m. at the Tibbits Opera House.
All-day pass
One ticket price of $15 — $10 for ages 12 and under, free for kids under 2 — will get a guests a bright red wrist bracelet, allowing them to come and go as they please for the entire day. Food and drinks will also be available for purchase.
All proceeds from the event will be divided between the Tibbits Opera House and the Branch County Community Foundation on behalf of the Irma English Music Scholarship Fund.
The details
What Coldwater Reunion Music Festival
When Saturday, Aug. 25, all day
Where The Tibbits Plaza and Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater
Why To raise funds for Tibbits Opera House and the Irma English Music Scholarship Fund
Cost $15 for adults; $10 for ages 12 and under; free for kids under 2
For more info Call Patsy (Feller) Meiser at 864-888-2512 or email@example.com.


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An ordinary small town family is forced to grapple with an extraordinary, almost unbelievable phenomenon in the movie "Heaven is for Real," which is based on the No. 1 New York Times Best Seller by the same name written by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent.
Four-year-old Colton Burpo was unexpectedly stricken with a near-fatal illness requiring surgery and a 17-day hospitalization. Though extremely serious, Colton fully recovered.
To the family's amazement, singing angels commanded their attention. It happened four months later when the family traveled through the area where the hospital is located. Colton's father, Todd, a pastor and volunteer fireman, jokingly asked his son if he'd like to go back to the hospital. Colton said he'd rather not but paused a moment to reflect and said, "That's where the angels sang to me."
Hearing Colton speak about the angels forced Todd to genuinely begin to more earnestly piece together the previous bits of descriptions that Colton had understatedly disclosed after his life-threatening illness. Everything seemed to indicate a visit to heaven.
In addition to making sense of Colton's compelling, yet mind-boggling story, the family had to deal with the townspeople's reactions as well.
"Heaven is for Real" will hit theatres April 16. It is a true story about one family's incredible journey, which ultimately affected their entire town and, possibly, the world. Our Sunday Visitor recently spoke to Colton's father, Todd Burpo.
Our Sunday Visitor: How did you feel, and what did you do, when your son started sharing bits and pieces of his visit to heaven?
Todd Burpo: At first we were in healing and recovery mode. My son was 17 days in the hospital ... and all those nights I didn't get much sleep. ... You just can't go to sleep if you don't know if your son is going to be alive the next day or not. As he would share things ... it took his mom and me so long to recover from — to heal ourselves. We were so exhausted — spent. He'd make little comments. We were not healed spiritually, emotionally and mentally. So his comments just weren't sticking. But it wasn't until four months later when we were traveling back through North Platt, Neb., where he was in the hospital for so long.
Finally, I felt healed enough to kind of joke about it, and I asked Colton if he wanted to go back to the hospital. Colton said he didn't want to go back. He then said, "But you know, Dad, that's where the angels sang to me." That was kind of the moment that we were kind of healthy enough to listen. That was the statement that caught our attention.
We asked what he meant about angels, and from there he started to unpackage that and tell us what the angels sang to him, and that he sat on Jesus' lap, and that Jesus told the angels to sing to him because he was scared.
Then what really grabbed my attention was when he told me, "Dad, I could see you when I was in the hospital. You were in a room by yourself yelling at God. Mom was in a different place and praying and she was asking people to pray." He was giving accurate information about stuff I didn't tell anybody. He told me, "I rose up above you and was looking down and I could see you."
I could come up with no earthly explanation.
OSV: Where did you find the courage to come forward with your son's amazing story?
Burpo: The movie accurately captures that. Colton talked about it in bits and pieces. Being in a small town, everybody has access to everybody. So my son was not only talking to me, he was talking to his friends, his babysitters, other people in the church. I wasn't the only one having conversations with my son that were heavenly. One night we went out on a date night and when we came back the babysitter was crying. She told us that Colton told her all about his other sister in heaven.
OSV: Could you share what happened after you decided to come out with the story?
Burpo: It was a small church in a small town, and there was no place to hide, and I wasn't going to tell my son to hide. ... It came out in bits and pieces. The big reaction to Colton's experience came when the book was written and all of a sudden people discovered the book. ... It was old news to Colton's friends ... but it really got people's attention when people saw the success of the book more than it did as it came out when we shared. Most of the feedback we got was very positive and gradual because we shared gradually. ... There were seven years between the book and Colton's hospital surgery and three years between the book and the movie.
OSV: Was there a particular reason why you felt compelled to share your family's personal story?
Burpo: If God is answering your prayer or doing something for you, I think as Christians, we need to tell people about that.
OSV: You must be excited about getting your story out.
Burpo: What we are really excited about is that the movie does a good job of translating Colton's story from the pages of the book to the screen. (Director) Randal Wallace really did a masterful job of creating characters, creating a town similar to ours. ... I had huge concerns up front, but at the end of day it stayed true to Colton's story and told it in a way that mirrors the book; they complement each other very well.
OSV: You mentioned earlier that 10 million books have sold. Why do you think your book is read much more than other near-death experience books?
Burpo: It's the story of a child. Plus his memories of it are so specific; they are not vague, and he describes details that a child cannot pretend and that are not only incredible but Scripturally on target.
OSV: What are your hopes for this movie?
Burpo: I think one of the biggest things for me is the peace I found, especially from my son's innocent and childlike descriptions of his experience. When we found out about our daughter in heaven — this healing that we experienced that we never thought we would find after we miscarried that child — incredible!
Learning about what my granddad looked like in heaven and what others might look like, and how people connect with each other. ... I think that God just knew that the world needed a kid to describe heaven to it.
This movie has a great family message — an uncompromising message of hope and peace — but it's not preachy, plus it's entertaining. I hope that when people come out of this movie that they say, "Wow!" (and) that they have that same experience as they go through this journey with us.
Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle is an EWTN TV host and author of numerous books including "Mother Teresa and Me: Ten Years of Friendship." Learn more: www.donnacooperoboyle.com.
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Bobby Darin Makes a Splash
By: Legacy Staff
6 years ago
Singer Bobby Darin first made a splash thanks to a goofy wager.
When radio DJ Murray "the K" Kaufmann's mother suggested to him and Darin that there should be a song that starts with the line, "Splish splash, I was takin' a bath," Kaufmann bet Darin that he couldn't follow through and write the song. Twelve minutes later, Darin had created the song that would make him famous.
Bobby Darin followed "Splish Splash" with the chartbusting – and not at all silly – "Dream Lover."
And Darin's star continued to rise – his next hit, "Mack the Knife," won him a Grammy for Record of the Year.
The multi-talented Darin also enjoyed some success on the big screen (he won a Golden Globe co-starring with wife Sandra Dee in Come September). And as the '60s progressed, so did Bobby Darin. He actively campaigned for Bobby Kennedy in 1968, and became more political in his music as well, recording the folk classic "If I Were a Carpenter" and forming his own folk and protest song record label.
But it is for singing the standards that Bobby Darin is best remembered, and we can't resist sharing one more classic, "Beyond the Sea." Produced by Atlantic Records legends Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, it's no novelty song – but Darin could still make us laugh when he performed it.
Bobby Darin would have turned 76 today, if he hadn't died, much too young, in 1973. His death stemmed from the weak heart he had suffered since childhood – but we think his music proves that he had a lot more heart than doctors gave him credit for.


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Friday, February 25, 2011
IRD Defiant Cranks (Triples/Doubles) In The House
Interloc Racing Design (IRD) is company that started out in the mid-80's doing the mountain bike components, however recently they are better known for their 11-34 road cassettes, quality freewheels and other knick-knacks that larger manufacturers don't care to make anymore.
When we visited American Cyclery back in November, they had a test sample of one of these Defiant "Touring Triples" on a black Double Cross frame. It definitely caught our eye. Thought it was their track crank at first. We now have a few of these ourselves to sell on the Soma Shop. The arms are cold forged before the fluting details are added. The retro design does come with some old school eccentricities: These cranks need a wider BB than usual. For most bikes, it would be 115mm spindles for the doubles (53-39t or 50-36t) and 122mm for the triple. Not a huge issue. IRD makes those, too.
The chainrings are CNC'd, ramped and pinned for modern 9/10-speed shifting and buff-polished to match the crank arms.
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New research indicates she married Rollin J. Limbert on 23 Nov 1910 in Summit,OH. He was b:10 Nov 1891;d:c1960 Norristown,Chester co. PA. The following children have been identified for this couple:
1.Grace Limbert b:1912
2.Rollin Maxwell Limbert b:1913
3.Lawrence Limbert b:1915
4.Marian Limbert b:1918
5. Donald Limbert b:1920
There is a birth record found on Familysearch.org database, but the transcription contains errors
her Father is listed as Edward vice Edgar and the mother is listed as Maggie Hott vice Holt. The transcription indicates her given name as Marie, later USC census records with her father show her as Macy Weatherwax. Even later USC records with her husband list her as Maisie Limbert.
Macy died1984 in Norristown,montgomery co. PA.


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Yesterday I dealt with the returning Seattle clouds in the only way I knew possible -- I decided to cozy up with a drink and a cocktail and watch a DVD. I popped in a preview disc of Dante's Cove 2 -- thinking it'd be a quick pass and I'd move on to old episodes of Arrested Development.
Dante's Cove is a gay-themed drama series on here! tv. Episodes swing somewhere between supernatural and gay softcore flicks, and follow the supernatural goings-on in this beach community. Taking up residence in the resort town are a dueling witch and warlock, as well as others just discovering their powers and the events going on around them.
Now, it's not something that I'd sit down and watch with Mom (Sorry Mom, you can borrow the disc if you really want to see this stuff) but seems like great fodder for our Boy's Night gatherings. Normally I'd keep such guilty pleasures to myself, but the eye candy in this series can't be denied.
The bevy of starring hunks are toned up and tanned, and not afraid of shucking their shirts at a whim. (Their pants come off with an almost equal frequency.) And the (almost entirely) straight hunky actors aren't afraid of playing gay.
Chalk this one up in the guilty pleasure column... Dante's Cove Season 2 is on DVD today, pick that up with Season 1 and then prompty hide it away until your better half goes out of town for work.


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No figure on the American left knows more about the American right than Thomas Frank: columnist, editor, and hawkeyed observer of conservatism high and low.
In "What's the Matter With Kansas?," his scathing 2004 classic on the politics of the American heartland, he shone a klieg light on the strange triumph of the right in what was once the epicenter of the American populist movement. In the Kansas of those days, wedge social issues from abortion to flag-burning served as the grease that helped the rich and powerful ram through spectacular tax cuts for themselves, normally at the expense of the very voters who'd put them in office.
But in Pity the Billionaire:The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, his new book, Frank shows how thoroughly conservatism has mutated in the past few years. Coastal observers of the Tea Party phenomenon often assume that the tacky tri-cornered hats and elevation of the Constitution to holy writ function as a cover for the same old right, obsessed with the traditional God-guns-gays trifecta. In fact, as Frank saw during months on the road, "the fog of the culture wars has temporarily receded" – and in its place, the foot soldiers of the right now focus their energy on the defense of radically free markets, exhorting capitalism at its most rapacious and government at its least effective.
What makes this new "hard-times conservatism" truly bizarre is that it arose in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the greatest failure of free market principles most Americans have ever lived through. Three years ago, every laissez-faire warrior from Alan Greenspan on down prostrated himself before Congress and the press, conceding that the system was broken. And yet from the ashes of the crisis arose not a third way, but a shrill, purified movement of hardcore anti-government activists. For Frank, it's as if "the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear power plants in the wake of the Three Mile Island disaster."
Until Obama's election, this kind of purist market worship was the preserve of political and economic elites – "propaganda," to use Frank's blunt term, to keep
wealth in their own hands. Who knows if even they believed it? And yet in 2009 and 2010, a whole swath of Americans turned to "the sole utopian scheme available" to them, with effects that can only be called perverse. It's one thing for a CEO to declare that "corporations are people," if such an obscene claim leads to greater profits or power. Now, amazingly, the same line could be heard from ordinary voters. Even more strangely, middle- and working-class Americans were defending precisely the multinationals that had triggered the crisis and received the universally reviled bailouts. In the trough of the 2009 recession, Americans whose livelihoods had been destroyed by far-off bankers were actually rallying "to demand that bankers be freed from 'red tape' and the scrutiny of the law." At one surreal moment, Glenn Beck urged his followers to give away their cash to the US Chamber of Commerce, "the biggest, baddest business lobby in all of DC." They donated so much that they crashed its servers.
How on earth did this happen? For Frank, you can see "the movement's most essential obfuscation" in the division of all Americans into two groups: "ordinary people" and "intellectuals." This latter category includes everyone from professors and bureaucrats – "or that unholy cross of the two, President Obama" – to the entire media and publishing industries, whose influence the Internet has almost totally negated. (If you wanted to learn about the Great Depression you once went to the library to read Arthur Schlesinger; now, your first Google results will teach you that the New Deal was an utter failure and that "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is a Hooverite screed against government handouts.) By this binary logic, everyone trying to make a buck is united against big bad Washington and its attendant elite institutions. The absurdity that such elite figures as bank CEOs, four-star generals, and Alaskan governors are somehow men and women of the people goes unmentioned.
Frank is not afraid to call this victory of Wall Street and big business a "swindle," and like many liberal critics he faults the president for fighting too little and
compromising too much – for, in sum, "choosing the path of Herbert Hoover." But I'm not sure it could have been otherwise, at least not immediately. What was
required was not just the right policy – Christy Romer, the now-departed chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, largely laid that out in 2009 – but an ideological frame in which to advocate them. The Democrats, incapable of discussing class or even society, thought that expertise was enough. The right gave us "movements and ideas and manifestoes" instead, and they won.
After 30 years of Reaganism, you can't just effect an epistemological shift in a day, not even when it's the day Lehman Brothers collapses. But something of the sort has begun. The Occupy movement and other protesters – the sort of people Frank dismisses as "the world's teenaged anarchists," a snide digression that marks this book as already dated – are transforming the terms of American economic discourse more profoundly than any Tea Party hallucinator, while Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have faded into obscurity with surprising speed. In this election year, "Pity the Billionaire" has the virtue of describing how we got to this grim pass in our political and economic system. But it does not describe the state of the nation. Not anymore.
Thank heavens.
Jason Farago is a Monitor contributor.


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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Happy 101 Award
The Happy 101 Award has made it to Desperately Seeking Surnames thanks to My Nola Heritage. Thank you Felicia for thinking of me!
In keeping with the theme of this award I will list 10 things that make me happy as well as choose 10 blogs that bring a smile to my face.
The biggest pieces of my happiness come from family and friends. Even though they generally do not "get" my genealogy hobby, most will humor me and listen for a while before their eyes glaze over. My hobbies also greatly add to my happiness, I love genealogy and reading and probably spend too much time on both. The remainder of my happiness circle is filled with such randomness it's funny: Starbucks Venti White Mocha, technology (blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Ancestry.com, Smart Phones and iPods), vacation, Mr. Sushi (Lee's Summit roll), Oh! Henry candy bars (so hard to find these days) and last but certainly not least this very welcoming, supportive, informative, hilarious and sometimes outlandish genealogy community!
Now for the hard part, narrowing my choice of blogs that make me happy down to just 10. Of course, these are in no particular order.
1. Kathy's Kampground Kapers
2. Kinfolk News
3. Two Sides of the Ocean
4. Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter
5. Family Tree Writer
6. The Graphics Fairy
7. Acadian Ancestral Home
8. Life From The Roots
9. Tonia's Roots
10. Kindred Footprints
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Leesville Road edged Broughton for the Conference 4 boys lacrosse title this year led by Defensive Player of the Year Ryan Moreno and Coach of the Year Jeremy Fullbright. Wakefield's Marcus Abrams was named Offensive Player of the Year and Matt DiRocco was named Assistant Coach of the Year.
First team
Attack: Zach Burgess, Broughton; Carter Durling, Millbrook; Drew Ferrell, Leesville Road
Face-off: Davis Sampere, Leesville Road
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Midfield: Cody Close, Leesville Road; Walker Rice, Broughton; Trey Sterling, Millbrook
Long stick midfield: Zach Irwin, Heritage
Defense: Harrison Clayton, Millbrook; Hayden Lovett, Broughton; Jonathon Tine, Wakefield
Goalie: Luke Tine, Wakefield
Second team
Attack: Josiah Carr, Millbrook; Tanner Hudson, Enloe; Davis Weaver, Broughton
Face-off: Drew Hinton, Broughton
Midfield: Kendrick Ballard, Heritage; Troy Jones, Broughton; Mitchell Snyder, Broughton
Long stick midfield: David Pryor, Enloe
Defense: Conner Boneham, Leesville Road; Justin Magin, Enloe; Joey Moore, Broughton
Goalie: Graham Holmes, Leesville Road
Honorable mention
Broughton: Austen Bell, Max Hardin, Paxton Massarelli
Enloe: Caelan Eckard, Dan Izatt
Garner: Michael Mason
Heritage: Adam Kayarian, Ryan Varner
Leesville Road: C.J. Cox, Peter Marino, Griffin McNamara, Conner New, Ethan O'Neal
Millbrook: Anthony Florian, Clay Million
Sanderson: Jake Morris
Wakefield: Logan Goss, Jackson Hudson, Casey McKaskel


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This site presents spiders commonly found in and around homes and gardens throughout
Victoria, Australia. The descriptions have been designed to allow easy visual identification
using characteristics such as web, colour markings and body form.
To identify a spider you can visit the Spider Gallery,
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This column originally appeared at SeattleWeekly.com
David Thompson was 29, had started in the NBA All-Star Game the season before, and should have been at the height of his SkyWalking powers when he took a literal fall from grace in 1984. During a melee with a nightclub employee, he rolled down the stairs at New York City's famed Studio 54 and right out of professional basketball, his knee a wreck.
Many have argued that Thompson once was basketball's greatest player, better than his contemporary, Julius Erving, and a precursor to high-flying NBA royalty such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Truth is, by the time the Seattle SuperSonics acquired him in 1982, Thompson was on the decline because of struggles with alcohol and cocaine. He'd sworn them both off, but such was their hold that he and five teammates, after playing a game in Philadelphia, took a cab from New Jersey to chase the high life in Manhattan.
That season was the first of many I spent covering the Sonics for The Seattle Times, so I remember it vividly. Which is why, in another lifetime and another sport, I hope Jack Zduriencik has a Plan B—not just in case the Seattle general manager doesn't sign Josh Hamilton as a free agent for the baseball Mariners, but in case he does.
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ISRN Artificial Intelligence
Volume 2012, Article ID 628496, 10 pages
Prediction of Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Cohesionless Soils Using Soft Computing Techniques
1Department of Civil Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kerala, Kollam 691005, India
2Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kerala, Calicut 673601, India
3Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore 575025, India
4Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram 695016, India
Received 31 July 2011; Accepted 7 September 2011
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This study examines the potential of two soft computing techniques, namely, support vector machines (SVMs) and genetic programming (GP), to predict ultimate bearing capacity of cohesionless soils beneath shallow foundations. The width of footing (), depth of footing (), the length-to-width ratio () of footings, density of soil ( or ), angle of internal friction (), and so forth were used as model input parameters to predict ultimate bearing capacity (). The results of present models were compared with those obtained by three theoretical approaches, artificial neural networks (ANNs), and fuzzy inference system (FIS) reported in the literature. The statistical evaluation of results shows that the presently applied paradigms are better than the theoretical approaches and are competing well with the other soft computing techniques. The performance evaluation of GP model results based on multiple error criteria confirms that GP is very efficient in accurate prediction of ultimate bearing capacity cohesionless soils when compared with other models considered in this study.


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Gary Tyrone Fields was a lifetime resident of Liberty, NY. He departed this life on Sunday June 9, 2013 at home after a long courageous battle with cancer. His loving wife and family were by his side. He was born on June 19, 1965 in Liberty, NY to Sarah Fields and the late Joe Fields Jr.
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Tyrone received his Honorary Bachelor in Theology from Ellenville Bible Institute on June 8, 2013. He was an active member of the Friendship Baptist Church in Ferndale, NY, where he was a Minister in Training.
In 1989, Tyrone met the love of his life, Deuria "Dee". During their 24 years of being united, they blessed their love with four children and they joined his other loving children.
Left to cherish his memory are his mother, Sarah of Liberty; his wife, Deuria "Dee-Dee" of Liberty; his Godfather, Robert "Beasley" Atkins of Liberty; brothers, Joseph (Michelle) of Middletown and John Merchant of Middletown; sisters, Phyllis (Eric) of Middletown; sons: Devon (Amber) of Albany, Dasmond, Yovanni, Damian, Marques, all of Liberty, Tyresse of Las Vegas, NV, Tyrell of Florida, Dior Jackson of Monticello; daughters: Jesenia of Liberty, Yazmin of Monticello and Iyana Taylor of Brooklyn; grandchildren: Tierry, Yailani, Jasiah, Jechael, Marques Jr., Griffin, Scarlett and Gabriela Prosperity; nieces, Latisha (Chris) of Monticello, Kameko and Kayla of Middletown; close family members, Kendall of Virginia, Artie of Liberty, Shawna and Cierra of Middletown; special friends, Rev. Willie Smith of Liberty, Rev. Eddie Miller of Liberty, David Velasquez of Middletown, Pastor Yolanda (Bishop Ray) King of Middletown and Beloved Delma(John) Laurel of Middletown; Goddaughter, Jacqualyn Ivory of Liberty; Godson, Anthony Velasquez of Middletown and a host of uncles, aunts, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, cousins and friends. He was predeceased by his father, Joe Fields Jr.
The Fields family would like to express their thanks and gratitude to the staffs of Orange Regional Medical Center, Hudson River Health Care, Catskill Regional Medical Center, Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties and Crystal Run Health Care for their excellent service and support.
Visitation will be held on Friday, June 14th from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Ramsay's Funeral Home, 275 S. Main St., Liberty. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 15th at 11 a.m. at Liberty Presbyterian Church, 81 S. Main St. Liberty. Burial will take place at Liberty Cemetery following the services.
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003
Posts: 85
Location: Boston, MA
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:24 am
Post subject: 5X7 Press Shutter Rebuild Underway
Hello all - Long time incommunicado on the fate of the Press 5x7 that suffered curtain failure a few years ago. Bert, you may remember that I was not sure if the curtain had torn or if the straps had let go. As it turns out, after a top to bottom lube on the shutter mechanism/rollers, the shutter was a bit too free wheeling. First time I shot it, the curtain straps parted and the shutter lost tension, shall we say, rather dramatically.
Fast forward a few years. Tonight I disassembled the camera and along with the above diagnosis, came up with a few observations and a few questions as well.
In the observation department: the shutter curtain in this camera is beautifully finished, much more so than the curtain in my Series B. The curtain edges are nicely folded over on themselves in order to provide reinforcement. The spars that keep the slits on their best behavior are quite a bit larger than the spars on my 4x5. They are pinned or riveted at the ends. They look as if they might actually lend themselves to reuse, which is not something I felt inclined to do when rebuilding my 4x5. The fabric is hopelessly aged. No amount of Pledge or wishful thinking is going to bring it back. The shutter spring survived the explosive decompression with no apparent ill effects. (Bert, it really is like the clock spring you mentioned years ago.) It still coils patiently inside the mechanism.
On the question side, the top roller of the curtain came right out of the camera. The bottom won't quite slide over far enough to allow one side to lift out. It just misses. Does anyone know if there is a trick to popping it out? Or must the mirror box be moved out of the way? Or can the new curtain be put on without taking the spool out completely?
In the interest of saving time and effort, I would be willing to buy a prefabricated curtain. Does anyone know if they are still available anywhere?
I will keep you posted on progress.
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Location: Bakersfield California
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:50 pm
Post subject: Press curtain
Had no problems removing the bottom roller in my (2) Press cameras, did you remove the roller bushing on the release lever side??
Have a nice day....Bert
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:06 am
Post subject: Re: Press curtain
Hi Bert - I unscrewed and removed the female part of the bushing assembly from the release lever side of the body. I removed the hardware from the other side of the camera also. My instinct is to slide the roller away from the release lever side and thereby allow that end of the roller to pop up and out. However I cannot slide the roller quite far enough over to get enough clearance to lift the end up and out. Is it safe to assume the roller comes out as one piece, without needing to first remove one of the male projections on the roller?
Thanks, John
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Had no problems removing the bottom roller in my (2) Press cameras, did you remove the roller bushing on the release lever side??
Have a nice day....Bert
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:35 pm
Post subject: 5x7 Press problem
I have one of mine torn down, and to refresh my memory on the problem I had removing the bottom roll, I dug out the curtain and the body........as with all SLR models, the first thing I did was.....roll the curtain onto the top roller! (Body has no hardware in place)!
Next, with the back of the body facing up, I pulled the roll to the right....thru the opening on the hardware side, until the roller was free on the release side.....release side raised straight >up< and >out< at about a 45 deg angle, until bottom of the flange clears the long inside panel on the hardware side......hardware end will then clear the body cavity, and voila........success at last!
Probably easier said than done, but that is the way I had to do it with both of mine!
Have fun.......and have a nice day..........Bert
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:59 pm
Post subject: Press roller removal
Semi and I have exchanged several photos trying to find a reason he cannot remove the bottom roller from the body of his press....have come to a solution, .....have determined that he has not removed enough parts from the inside of the body.....the one part he needs to remove is on the hardware side...the piece is a triangular shaped mirror support....2 screws at about a 15 deg angle holding the piece in place, the support is inset 3/8" from the back of the body (and parallel to it)....at the top a 3rd screw in a strap that attaches on the flat above the mirror shaft!
If anyone else is interested in the photos we have taken, I will be glad to share them with anyone interested! Not to many press cameras floating around, so maybe all the responce I get....will be silence...
Hope you are all enjoying this Holiday weekend....Bert
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:03 pm
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I'd be interested in the photos. I've sent you a PM with my e-mail address.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:30 am
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I'd be interested in the photos too.
As you know, my Press is in Process and I'worry about this refurbishing parts
Many thanks
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:10 pm
Post subject: press roll removal photos
My computer crashed last month, please drop me a note so I will have your email address in my book again!
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:57 pm
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Hi Bert - I grabbed some time this weekend and cut out the shutter blank. In my Press the shutter had two tapes of shutter material running right along the entire length. There is still some trace of adhesive at the edges of the tapes. The work looks factory to me. Two quick questions:
Do your presses have the tapes?
If the tapes belong there, do you think contact cement is the way to put them on? Or would some high-powered permanent stuff be better?
Thanks, Semi
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:57 am
Post subject: 5x7 Press curtain
The original curtains had no reinforcing along the edges! Never use contact cement on the curtains! (It is not flexable and it can crack when bent)! If you do need to re-inforce the edges, I suggest that you use rubber cement....apply a light coat on both surfaces.....let it dry until it takes on a dull glossy look....then carefully lay the pieces together.....carefully....because you now have a flexable contact cement, just like the original contact cement.....it is very tenacious......
It will come apart, but you must do it slowly.....Suggest a tite weeve cotton or bellows material!
Have a nice day.........Bert
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:07 am
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Hi Bert - what did you think of the photo I sent with the edge tapes? Do you think they might be replacements or original? Does anyone else have a Press that they can look at for comparison?
Here (hopefully) is a photo of the original shutter (on the right) from my Press.
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Location: Southern CA
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:29 am
Post subject: Press Curtain
I just checked on my Press, and it didn't have any reinforcement tapes.
What year is your Press? Does it have the drop-down rear door, or the
flip-up style?
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:36 am
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Hi - It hinges at the bottom, so I guess it would be drop-down. And yours?
PS: Are you able to view the photo?
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:58 am
Post subject: Press Curtain
I have the flip-up door, just like an Anniversary Speed. My Press
dates to 1921.
Yes, I can see your curtain photo just fine.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:59 am
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Maybe another member can comment on the significance of the rear door style.
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Successful tape-out of test chip using ARM SOI libraries on UMC's 65nm SOI process signifies foundry technology readiness for designers
UMC [(NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303)] and ARM [(LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced that a test chip built with ARM® SOI (Silicon On Insulator) libraries was taped-out successfully on UMC's 65-nanometer (nm) SOI process. The test chip consists of a set of ARM physical IP that uses a standard cell library, an I/O library and a single-port SRAM memory compiler. This tape-out at UMC represents the next step towards mainstream adoption of nanometer SOI technology for improved speed and power in complex system on chips (SOCs).
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Gene therapy is one of several avenues being explored by researchers hunting for a way to beat HIV once and for all. But to many of us, even within the health care community, the science being conducted in this area is a black box: We periodically read about study results, be they encouraging or discouraging, without understanding much of the effort behind them.
Let's see if we can peel back the lid on this black box a little bit.
At CROI 2014, a major HIV research conference that recently took place in Boston, I met David Harrich, Ph.D., an associate professor at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Queensland, Australia. He was at CROI to present a poster on a potential form of HIV gene therapy that has been in development for the better part of two decades. It goes by the name of Nullbasic.
Before we get deeply into the study, take me back to the beginnings of Nullbasic. How was it discovered? How did you all realize what it was capable of?
This project began about 1987. I was a research assistant working for Professor Richard Gaynor at UCLA [the University of California-Los Angeles]. He had the idea that you could make some mutations in a virus protein, and that [it would have] a dominant effect, or be able to inhibit, the wild-type protein. An idea of fighting fire with fire, as some people like to describe it.
It works. But when we started those studies, we didn't have all the tools. We didn't exactly know all the things that we know today.
By "works," I assume you're referring to within lab cultures, right?
Yeah. In an in vitro laboratory setting, we could show some inhibition. But that got put onto a back burner.
I kept working on it over the years. About 10 years later, I made some discoveries that a protein had additional activities to help the virus grow. And I thought, "Can we do the same trick? Can we mutate the protein and inhibit the virus?"
It turned out to be the same mutant that my mentor discovered, only we changed the protein in other ways, made it more stable so that there was more of the protein around. In a nutshell: We took these Tat mutants, and we call this Nullbasic -- "null" in that it doesn't have a basic domain; they're the mutations in this part of the protein that is called the "basic" region. It lacks the basic domain.
Lo and behold, when we put this protein into human T cells, we find that HIV will no longer grow.
What's the significance of the Tat mutant?
The significance is that normally, this Tat protein is critical for the virus to replicate. What Tat has to do is interact with other cellular or viral proteins. It's sort of like a helper: It goes around in the cells, says, "OK. We need this to grow." It grabs it and uses these cellular proteins.
What this mutant [Nullbasic] does is, it's able to grab onto these cellular proteins that HIV requires, but it can't complete the job. In other words, it squanders all the things that HIV would normally require and therefore HIV stops growing. In addition, this protein actually targets one of the virus's own proteins; this is called reverse transcriptase. It targets reverse transcriptase and it stops that enzyme from doing its job.
You guys are looking into developing this as a potential gene therapy.
That's right.
Why not an antiretroviral?
Well, we think investigation of some of these roles that it has, some of these mechanisms that it uses to inhibit HIV, could lead to new drug discovery. And we are pursuing that. But as an antiviral, this is a very dominant phenotype. In our hands, it seems to work each time.
By each time, you mean ... ?
I mean, it doesn't matter. Each experiment we try: We introduce this protein to human T cells; the virus no longer grows in those cells. We cannot detect virus replication, virus production. Normally, HIV gets into a cell and it produces virus. When HIV gets into one of these changed cells, protected cells, we can actually not detect virus being made.
No RNA shows up?
We see no virus particles. There's probably some virus RNA in the cells. We're still looking at that. We haven't finished those studies. But we know the virus particles are no longer produced.
How do you tie this in to the generalized research that's going on right now when it comes to gene therapy?
I think this is at a much earlier stage than some of the things that you've heard at CROI, which are further developed. It fits along the same lines; it fits into the avenue that treating a patient with Nullbasic gene could lead to a functional cure for AIDS. In other words, a person would still be infected by HIV, but they would have a repertoire of T cells that were no longer susceptible to infection, or would die from HIV infection.
This is the thing that fascinates me: the last sentence of your conclusion. You're saying here, "Our data suggest that Nullbasic can protect cells from infection as well as suppress the reactivation of latent HIV," which is the opposite of what several paths of the research toward a cure are trying to do -- which is activate and then destroy the latent HIV.
Absolutely. This is the flip side of the coin. And it's not the only one: There's another group in Australia, led by Tony Kelleher, that has another method of gene therapy that can essentially achieve the same thing, by silencing HIV directly in infected cells.
These are strategies that if -- once you have these cells -- should they see HIV, and HIV gets into the cells and integrates, it simply won't be able to produce any more virus.
Could this therapy get into reservoirs that already exist? I'm thinking about this in the context of a person who is already infected with HIV, who is maybe chronically infected. So HIV is already hiding out somewhere.
The difficulty is targeting this kind of a therapy to those cells. It's difficult to go in with a laser beam and, say, only into latent reservoir cells, and shunt the virus to there. I don't know that we have that technology, to go in with that fine-toothed comb.
The gene therapy being explored by other researchers in early human trials: That's all systemic, right?
It's all systemic. And the idea: Most of the gene therapy that is being proposed is to produce HIV-resistant cells. This is along the same line.
You've heard about CCR5-delta 32 mutations, and the gene editing to make CCR5-negative cells? [Nullbasic] does it in a different way. Instead of making them not infectable by HIV, these cells could become infected -- but then the HIV could do nothing. It would get into these cells and take up knitting. That's about it.
This is supposed to be the "towards-a-cure" section [of the poster exhibition hall]. Did you know that?
I did not. Based on the title hanging from the ceiling, "HIV Persistence," it suggests it's not precisely toward a cure.
If you look at where we're at, from here down to the end [of this row], these posters are about "towards-a-cure." Many of them are about reducing the reservoirs, and how hopefully you can then eliminate them. I'm the only one that's [on] the other side [of the issue].
If HIV gets in and can't do anything, can't make any virus, who cares? The whole idea is to stop making virus. That's the idea. And you either do that by eliminating the reservoirs so you can stop making virus, or you just create cells that are resistant to virus. [Nullbasic-treated] cells will not make virus.
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Panama football team seeks three-game winning streak Thursday night at Hugo
The closing line of the opening to the epic television series "Star Trek" says, "... to boldly go where no man has gone before." That can also be used to describe the Panama Razorbacks football team right now.The Hogs won their second straight game last week with a 34-6 home win over the Quinton Savages Friday night at George Ollie Stadium."It's the best I've seen us play in the two years I've been here," said Brandon Ellis, Panama's coach. "Everything clicked. The biggest improvement I saw last week was our offensive line in the way we hooked up with our blocks."Needless to say, there's buzzing about town when it comes to the Razorbacks."The people are excited," Ellis said. "It's only two games, but it's two games we haven't had in the past two years. It's a big thing. Those two wins have accounted for so much, confidence wise."By stepping out of District 2A-6 play as the Hogs did last week, it meant an easier chance to keep this momentum going."I don't like having off weeks," Ellis said. "It just gets us out of rhythm. The kids look forward to playing after a week of practice."Now, the Razorbacks (2-5 overall, 1-2 in district play) return to District 2A-6 play this week as they make the long trip to meet the Hugo Buffaloes (2-5, 0-3) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.— — —District 2A-6 StandingsTeam District Overall +/-Hartshorne 4-0 5-2 +60Vian 3-0 7-0 +45Wilburton 2-1 4-3 +12Pocola 2-2 4-3 -14Panama 1-2 2-5 -24Hugo 0-3 2-5 -31Antlers 0-4 0-7 -48— — —To Get There — Take U.S. Highway 271 south to Hugo.


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The Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Roundup: All 29 Pies!
Visit us over the holiday weekend to see the things we're most thankful for, and to talk about your turkey and your leftovers.
The Entries
- Caramel Apple Crumb Pie
- Cherry Berry Pie
- Martha's Apple Pie
- Pumpkin Pie Tarts with Dark Chocolate Frosting
- Bean Brulee Tart
- Classic Apple Pie with Pâte Brisée Crust
- Chocolate Pecan Mini Tarts
- Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust
- Pie of the Vine
- Low-tech Korean Bulgogi Mini Pie
- Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Pie
- Chocolate Bourbon Truffle-Turtle Tart
- Pumpkin Pie Cups
- Quiche Oignon & Cumin
- Almond Cream Pie
- Banana Cream Pie
- Apple Ginger Pie Bars
- Buckeye Pie
- Candy Apple Pie
- Chocolate Truffle Tart with Vanilla Crème Brulee
- Creamy Adsuki Bean Pie
- Pumpple Pie (Pumpkin & Apple!)
- Apple Cranberry Galette with Stonewall Kitchen Apple Caramel Butter
- Rustic Pear Custard Pie
- Jack-O-Lantern Tartlets
- Pear Gruyère Pie
- Edith's Sweet Potato Pie
- Pecan and Date Pie
- Pumpkin Pie
The Winners
Here are the pies that go home with a prize. We wish we could have given everyone a prize - all of your pies were wonderful!
Best Classic Pie
by reader vote
• Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Pie
Best Original Pie
by reader vote
• Pie of the Vine
Most Unusual Pie
editorial pick
• Bean Brulee Tart
Best Story
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• Edith's Sweet Potato Pie
Best-Looking Pie
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|Parana, Brazil
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|Centro Universitario Maringa
2011: Named NEC Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and First Teamm All-NEC..First SHU player ever named NEC Player of the Year...Scored a team-high six goals, along with one assist for 13 points...Went 2-3 in penalty kicks...Scored a team-high four game-winning goals...Named to NCAA Men's Division I All-North Atlantic Team by the NSCAA.
2010: Started at center defense in 17 games for the Pioneers...Selected as the Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year...First Team All-NEC selection and honored as a member of the NEC All-Tournament Team...Named adidas/NEC Player of the Week for the week ending September 13...Led SHU in scoring with 12 points, on a team-best five goals and two assists...Notched a point in each of the team's first four games of the season...Headed in the game winning score in the season opener against Holy Cross (9/1)...Scored in back-to-back 2-1 non-conference wins against Siena and Adelphi...Found the back of the net on a direct free kick from just outside the box against Saint Francis-PA (10/15)...Tallied the lone goal of the game in a 1-0 road win at Central Connecticut (10/24).
2009: Started 16 games as a rookie...Led the team in goals with three and took 16 shots...Netted first collegiate goal in 4-0 win over Yale (9/29)...Scored game winning goal in 2-1 victory at Long Island (11/1).
Personal: Marcello de Souza Castro. Born: 12/25/88. Parents: Carlos, Elaine. Siblings: Mariana, Fernando. Major: International Business. Hobbies: Playing the Guitar. Favorite Team: Palmeiras. Favorite Athletes: Kaka, Ronaldo, Pele. Plans for after graduation: To be a professional soccer player.


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Matilda's Bold Postage Stamp Sized Room
Name: Matilda (2.5)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
When we bought our current home we realized our daughter would have to live in a postage stamp of a room. Even though it was small I still wanted it to be bold!
Matilda is a vivacious kid and I wanted her room to reflect that, but also be something she could grow into. I decided to do chevron stripes on two walls. I feared that chevron was a fad that has passed but I have always loved chevrons and think they are super kid friendly.
On the opposing walls we went a bit more minimal to balance out the space. We also decided on a bird theme, hopefully I did this subtly! The rug from IKEA was really the inspiration for the whole space. When designing the room I decided to let this awesome rug be the centerpiece!
Thanks, Patti!
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A funny thing happened to comedy writer Tom Leopold when he was heading for his parked car in New York City. He had just met with a psychic who pretty much told him nothing, when he saw Father Jonathan Morris, a popular writer and TV news consultant who, as it later turned out, led him to what he was seeking.
Leopold recognized the priest from the news and also because he had a copy of his book, "The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts."
"I said, 'Father Morris! I have your book on my nightstand,' and he looked at me and smiled and came over," Leopold told Our Sunday Visitor. "I wasn't a religious person, and I don't know why I said it, but I asked, 'Do you think you might have time to talk to me?' He said, 'I don't know. Did you pay full price for my book?' No, wait, that's a joke. What he said was, 'Absolutely. You can find me right here.' And he turns around and points to St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. I have been on Mulberry Street 100 times and never noticed it. It was like it just appeared when he pointed to it."
Nudged toward the Faith
A coincidence? Not to Leopold. Meeting Father Morris was only one of several incidents that he has come to accept as God's plan to nudge him on the journey to enter the Church.
To learn more about Tom Leopold and his one-man show, visit tomleopold.net.
Leopold, 63, is an actor, author, performer and comedy writer whose name has rolled on the credits of television's "Cheers," "Will and Grace" and "Seinfeld." He wrote and produced the sitcom "My Family" and launched "The Muppet Game Show," both on the BBC. He has written comedy for Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Lucille Ball, Chevy Chase and others, and writes comedy speeches for politicians like retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
"I was a secular Jew," Leopold said. "You don't get this funny without being a Jew."
That all changed — the faith, not the funny — when Father Morris shook his hand and Leopold felt something that told him there was no turning back.
He entered the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2011, and the night before, his friends threw a "Tom's Last Day as a Jew" roast with guests that included his close friend Paul Shaffer (music director and David Letterman's sidekick on "The Late Show"), comedy writer Harry Shearer who came dressed as a Hasidic Jew and tried to perform an intervention, and singer Loudon Wainwright III, who wrote a song for the occasion.
Now in addition to his usual projects, Leopold has been touring with the show, "A Comedy Writer Finds God." It's a mixture of his original music, laughs and touching stories about his professional and personal journeys. In another evangelization effort, he and Father Leo Patalinghug are on "Entertaining Truth" at 1 p.m. (Eastern) Thursdays on Sirius' Catholic Channel.
Prayers for daughter
Leopold also presents programs for parents whose children have life-threatening diseases, especially anorexia, the illness that affected one of his two daughters. A connection with the pain of her suffering brought the first of the "coincidences."
It began one night after he and his wife Barbara visited her at a hospital in Arizona, and back at the hotel, he prayed like he had never prayed before.
"I prayed like people pray on TV, like the wagon train master looks up at the night sky and says, 'Lord, I'm not a praying man.' I prayed for real and in such pain. I said, 'Lord, if you are up there, please help my daughter, because I can't.'"
When the couple went to walk in the desert at dawn, an old man on a motorcycle pulled up and popped a wheelie. He said his name was Shepherd and that when he was 33, his wife brought him to Jesus. The sun was coming up behind his head in a perfect halo.
"He peels off, rides a circle and comes back," Leopold told OSV. "He looks me right in the eye and says, 'God is watching you.'"
But Leopold's biggest push toward the Faith, was that night he met Father Morris on the street. Leopold had gone to see a psychic that he had consulted 35 years earlier, and who had predicted many things that seemed to come true. He didn't know at the time that the Church frowns on fortune telling, but he was desperate to know what was going to happen to his daughter. The psychic had no answers, but Father Morris did, as he showed him faith that trusts in God.
Leopold found support when he announced his conversion, and his wife, a lapsed Catholic, rekindled her faith when she became his sponsor.
"I told my mother, 'Mom, your hair looks great and I'm going to become a Catholic,' and she didn't hear anything beyond the hair," he joked. "No, what she said was, 'Do you really believe all that? OK, if it makes you call me more often.'"
Expanding his repertoire
Converting didn't hurt his repertoire of Jewish jokes, and his favorite is an oldie about a Jewish lady who takes her grandson to the beach and a big wave comes and sweeps him out into the ocean.
"The old lady falls to her knees and folds her hands," Leopold said. "She prays, 'Please God, bring my grandson back.'"
When a gentle wave pushes him back to shore, she looks heavenward and says, "He had a hat."
Now he tells Catholic jokes, too, and between the laughs, and sometimes with the laughs, he tells the serious side of his life, the painful struggle with his daughter's health and the realization that, he said, "We all have pain and you can't live a life of any length without getting your butt kicked a little."
Conversion gave Leopold new insight into Jesus.
"I never really thought of him as the Son of God," he said. "I always thought he had this James Dean or Bob Dylan rebel kind of thing about him. Then when I took the RCIA classes, I knew that if I had been around then, I would have followed him. There might not have been room for me at the seder table, but I could have sat at the cousins' table. It was like this was written on my heart in advance. I just didn't know it.
"One guy asked me why I converted, and I said that when I prayed for the first time in my life, Jesus was the one who showed up. That's why."
Has Leopold the jokester thought ahead about what he might say to St. Peter when he gets to the Pearly Gates?
He laughed. "I had a hat," he said.
Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller writes from Pennsylvania.
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I must admit that my inspiration was failing when faced with a "Free for All" choice of theme. I clearly need the photo prompt to get my brain buzzing. All I could think of were themes I had already featured.
Eventually I decided this was the opportunity to show for the first time the friendship photographs from my Great Aunt Jennie's collection.
Was it the custom to exchange such photographs? Perhaps faced with a household of all those brothers, Jennie was especially grateful for the company of her female friends.
Annie Jolly was a popular subject amongst Jennie's photographs.
|Nellie Jolly
|Any Dodd
|Landgirl Becky Bennet
|What on earth was the occasion for this very glum looking group?
|Billy Hopkins with Lizzie and baby.
|Billy Long
|Granny Jolly & Grandchild
|Young Jacky Threlfall


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Motorola is utterly fashionable on the lawsuit catwalk, filing several complaints at the US International Trade Commission, accompanied by infringement lawsuits covering a total of eighteen patents. Most of them appear to be hardware patents, which makes it slightly more palatable than, say, Microsoft's and Apple's suits which focus solely on software patents.
The patents cover wireless communication technologies like WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, as well as smartphone technologies like wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services, and multi-device synchronization.
"Motorola has innovated and patented throughout every cycle of the telecommunications industry evolution, from Motorola's invention of the cell phone to its development of premier smartphone products. We have extensively licensed our industry-leading intellectual property portfolio, consisting of tens of thousands of patents in the U.S. and worldwide," said Kirk Dailey, corporate vice president of intellectual property at Motorola Mobility, "After Apple's late entry into the telecommunications market, we engaged in lengthy negotiations, but Apple has refused to take a license. We had no choice but to file these complaints to halt Apple's continued infringement. Motorola will continue to take all necessary steps to protect its R&D and intellectual property, which are critical to the company's business."
I am slightly milder towards companies like Nokia and Motorola (compared to, say, Microsoft and Apple), because these two have genuinely helped develop and create the hardware backbone of mobile telephony, a true gift to the world that has made the lives of many people easier and safer - it's an invention that truly changed the world, contrary to, say, coming up with slide to unlock or some other idiotic software patent.
Like with Nokia, it would seem that Apple was unwilling to pay for licensing Motorola's patents. Still, it is important to note that in the Nokia case, it is said that Nokia wanted access to Apple's patent portfolio in return - it could be that Motorola was asking for the same thing. I guess both of them are coming from a world where licensing each other's patents is perfectly normal, while Apple comes from its own world where nobody gets access to its patents - but it does want access to everyone else's, and if it doesn't get it and gets sued accordingly, it always has its army of followers to claim that it's okay for Apple to disregard the broken patent system, but not for anybody else.
The bad thing for Apple is that both the Nokia and Motorola patents are part of numerous patent licensing deals all over the globe, and as such, most likely have a far stronger initial position than a bunch of relatively new software patents. Then again, the US patent system is about as effective and fair as Zapp Brannigan, so this stuff could go either way.
So, what does the mobile legal landscape look like? Well... It ain't pretty.
As you can clearly see, the patent system is totally working.


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Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family. Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. A mature electronic health record connects a comprehensive network of 13 hospital campuses, two research centers and nearly 1,600 Geisinger primary and specialty care physicians.
Geisinger is an integrated health services organization widely recognized for its innovative use of the electronic health record and the development of innovative care delivery models such as ProvenHealth Navigator®, ProvenCare® and ProvenExperience®. As one of the nation's largest health service organizations, Geisinger serves more than 3 million residents throughout 45 counties in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania, and also in southern New Jersey at AtlantiCare, a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital became the newest members of the Geisinger Family. The physician-led system is comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan, all of which leverage an estimated $12.7 billion positive impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Geisinger has repeatedly garnered national accolades for integration, quality and service. In addition to fulfilling its patient care mission, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.Back to top


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THURSDAY, May 28, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Each year, 219,000 to 246,000 babies conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) are born worldwide, says an international study that also found that the number of ART procedures increased by more than 25 percent between 2000 and 2002.
Researchers analyzed 2002 data from 1,563 clinics in 53 countries but noted data were missing from a number of countries, mostly in Asia, Africa, Oceania and the West Indies.
"There are several important points to highlight," said Professor Jacques de Mouzon, a public health specialist at INSERM in Paris who led the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology that wrote the study.
"There has been a constant increase in ART activity: it increased by more than 25 percent in the two years since the previous report for the year 2000. This is due not only to an increase in the number of countries participating in this report but also to an increase in ART activity in most individual countries," de Mouzon said in a news release.
"However, there are wide variations between countries in the availability and quality of ART. There are several reasons for this, such as fertility rates, women's age, insurance cover, the national economy, but the most important is certainly inequality in access to health care and ART. In Western Europe it is easier for people to access good health care, and funding for ART tends to be more generous than in developing countries," de Mouzon said.
Among the other findings:
- Between 2000 and 2002, the use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) -- as opposed to conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF) -- increased up to 61 percent in North America, 54 percent in Europe, 76 percent in Latin America and over 92 percent in the Middle East.
- Even with a decrease in the number of embryos transferred, pregnancy and delivery rates have increased for both frozen and fresh embryo cycles. In 2002, more than 601,250 ART cycles resulted in delivery rates per aspiration (attempt at egg retrieval) of 22 percent for IVF, 21 percent for ICSI and 15 percent for frozen embryo transfer. In 2000, those rates were 19 percent, 20 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
- When fresh embryo and frozen embryo cycles were combined, the global cumulative delivery rate per aspiration was 26 percent.
- There was a decrease in transfers of multiple embryos, which resulted in a small decline in multiple births. The percentage of transfers of four or more embryos decreased from 15.4 percent in 2000 to 13.7 percent in 2002. The percentage of twin pregnancies decreased from 26.5 percent to 25.7 percent, and the rate of triplet pregnancies decreased from 2.9 percent to 2.5 percent.
A 47 percent increase in the proportion of frozen embryo transfer cycles was notable because it led to improved cumulative pregnancy and delivery rates and decreased the number of multiple embryo transfers and multiple births, de Mouzon said.
"Our report shows that delivery rates per aspiration increased in 2002 even though the average number of embryos transferred was reduced. For example, in Australia, where a mean average of 1.8 embryos were transferred, the delivery rate per aspiration was 19.5 percent for fresh cycles and 29.4 percent for fresh and frozen cycles together. This should encourage countries to implement embryo transfer policies that reduce the risk of multiple births," he said.
The study was published online May 28 in the journal Human Reproduction.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about ART.


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For example, I've chosen "14 px" as my default font size in my profile (always has been). However, the forum is all displayed in 10 px size (same size as a visitor).
It does display the larger font when composing or replying.
I'd appreciate getting this resolved. My poor eyes can barely make out all the rants against GM!