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Traveling Luck for South Fork Granite Creek Washington, United States
The timezone in South Fork Granite Creek is America/Whitehorse
Morning Sunrise at 07:28 and Evening Sunset at 16:31. It's light
Rough GPS position Latitude. 48.7000°, Longitude. -117.0281°
Morning Sunrise at 07:28 and Evening Sunset at 16:31. It's light
Rough GPS position Latitude. 48.7000°, Longitude. -117.0281°
Weather near South Fork Granite Creek Last report from Nelson Automatic Weather Reporting System , 45.2km awayTemperature: 1°C / 34°F
Wind: 6.9km/h Southwest
Satellite map of South Fork Granite Creek and it's surroudings...
Geographic features & Photographs around South Fork Granite Creek in Washington, United States
stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- South Fork Granite Creek (0km)
- North Fork Granite Creek (0km)
- North Fork Granite Creek (0km)
- South Fork Granite Creek (0.1km)
- Zero Creek (0.4km)
- Packer Creek (1.5km)
- Athol Creek (2.6km)
- West Fork Packer Creek (3.1km)
- Cache Creek (3.2km)
- Dusty Creek (4km)
- Tillicum Creek (4.6km)
- Sema Creek (5km)
- Jost Creek (5.2km)
- Blacktail Creek (5.4km)
- North Fork Tillicum Creek (5.8km)
- High Rock Creek (6.1km)
- Indian Creek (7.6km)
- Orwig Creek (8.1km)
- Indian Creek (8.5km)
- Diamond Creek (8.8km)
- Tobasco Creek (9.1km)
- Fedar Creek (9.2km)
- North Fork Willow Creek (10.6km)
mountain an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Indian Mountain (4.6km)
- Reeder Mountain (4.9km)
- Dusty Peak (5.4km)
- Boulder Mountain (7.1km)
- Orwig Hump (7.2km)
- Granite Mountain (7.5km)
- Little Grass Mountain (7.6km)
- Blacktail Mountain (8.1km)
- Nickelplate Mountain (8.2km)
- South Fork Mountain (8.7km)
- High Rock Mountain (9.2km)
- Diamond Peak (9.4km)
- Watson Mountain (10.2km)
Local Feature A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Granite Creek Campground (3km)
- Indian Mountain Lookout (4.7km)
- Nordman Campground (7km)
- Orwig Hump Lookout (7.2km)
- South Fork Lookout (8.6km)
- Stagger Inn Campground (8.9km)
- Petit Lake Access Recreation Area (9.2km)
- Petit Lake Campground (9.2km)
- Bismark Work Center (10.2km)
flat a small level or nearly level area.
- Packer Meadows (3.1km)
- Sema Meadows (4km)
- Mountain Meadows (7.5km)
- Boulder Meadows (8km)
lake a large inland body of standing water.
- Huff Lake (5.9km)
- Petit Lake (9.1km)
- Playa Lake (9.5km)
- Kerr Lake (9.9km)
overfalls an area of breaking waves caused by the meeting of currents or by waves moving against the current.
- Granite Falls (9.1km)
- LaSota Falls (9.7km)
gap a low place in a ridge, not used for transportation.
- Beaver Pass (7.2km)
- Granite Pass (10.6km)
valley an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.
- Packrat Gorge (8.9km)
reservoir(s) an artificial pond or lake.
- Reeder Lake (7.4km)
forest(s) an area dominated by tree vegetation.
tower a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- Indian Mountain Lookout Tower (4.7km)
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Airports close to South Fork Granite CreekCastlegar(YCG), Castlegar, Canada (90.3km)
Felts fld(SFF), Spokane, Usa (131.2km)
Spokane international(GEG), Spokane, Usa (143.4km)
Fairchild afb(SKA), Spokane, Usa (147.3km)
Cranbrook(YXC), Cranbrook, Canada (153.9km)


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A mistake from Blackpool goalkeeper Dean Lyness gifted Crawley a 1-0 win in a tight and edgy game at the Broadfield Stadium.
Midway through the second half, Crawley defender Mark Connolly bundled the ball home from close range after Lyness had failed to deal with a cross that deflected onto his goalline.
The 'keeper, and his manager Gary Bowyer, both appealed for a foul but their shouts fell on deaf ears.
The two sides had exchanged a number of chances in what was an end-to-end yet scrappy first half, with both sides wasteful in front of goal.
The hosts were almost ahead inside the opening minute of the game when Billy Clifford volleyed just wide of Dean Lyness' goal from inside the area.
Blackpool then created their first opportunity of the game, Kyle Vassell nodding narrowly wide when well placed at the back post.
On eight minutes, Crawley's Adi Yussuf fired wildly over the bar after the ball fell fortunately for him and he found himself through on goal.
The two sides continued to exchange chances as Danny Philliskirk disappointingly headed straight at 'keeper Glenn Morris after a superb cross from Jack Payne.
Billy Clifford, who caused plenty of problems for Pool's backline, again turned provider for Yussuf, with the striker seeing his header palmed wide by Lyness.
Frenchman Armand Gnanduillet then saw a header from Jack Payne's lofted ball fall wide of the post.
Midway through the opening period, Andy Taylor was forced off after suffering a nosebleed following an aerial challenge.
His replacement Colin Daniel found himself straight into the action, providing a teasing ball across the six-yard box that went begging, with Armand Gnanduillet and his strike partner Vassell waiting for the pull back.
Good hold-up play from Gnanduillet allowed Brad Potts the chance to break down the right, only to see his pull-back blocked with a last-ditch tackle.
After a slight lull in the game, Daniel was caught on the edge of his own box by Yussuf who fired well over.
Crawley's James Collins then curled inches wide of Lyness' bottom corner.
A priceless chance for Blackpool to take the lead in first-half injury time went begging as Philliskirk's left-footed shot sailed inches wide of the post following superb skill from Vassell in the build-up.
Blackpool began the first half on the front foot, pressing high up the pitch and condensing the midfield.
Kyle Vassell's good work saw Mark Connolly booked after being caught in possession by the Pool front man.
Winger Enzio Boldewijn found himself through on goal after evading Kelvin Mellor's last-ditch tackle, only to fire straight at Lyness in the Pool goal.
Gnanduillet thought he had broken the deadlock when his curling effort from outside the box looked to be heading for the top corner, only to be turned away by Morris.
But it was the hosts who opened the scoring just a minute later, when defender Mark Connolly nodded in virtually on the goalline after Lyness failed to deal with a deflected cross.
The Blackpool 'keeper claimed to have been fouled but the referee stood motionless as the ball was bundled into the back of the net.
Blackpool reverted to going a lot more direct in the final stages of the game as they pressed for an equaliser, but Matt and Gnanduillet struggled to strike up a connection.
With ten minutes left on the clock, Potts headed wide at the far post from a Jack Payne free kick.
The away fans behind the goal were appealing for a penalty in the dying stages when Bright Osayi-Samuel when down in the box, but nothing was given.
The Seasiders launched plenty of long balls, free kicks, corners and throw ins into the Crawley box but the hosts dealt with them well, seeing out the game for a 1-0 win.
Crawley: Morris, Young, Connolly, McNerney, Blackman, Smith, Djalo, Boldewijn (Bawling), Clifford (Davey), Yussuf (Banton), Collins
Subs: Beeney, Arthur, Davey, Banton, Bawling, Tajbakhsh, Pappoe
Blackpool: Lyness, Mellor, Aldred, Aimson, Taylor (Daniel), Philliskirk (Osayi-Samuel), Payne, McAlister, Potts, Vassell (Matt), Gnanduillet
Subs: Boney, Cain, Daniel, Yeates, Osayi-Samuel, Cullen, Matt.
Referee: Brett Huxtable
Attendance: 2,300


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Margaret Bolsterli will be at Nightbird on Saturday afternoon, June 20th, reading from her newest book, Kaleidoscope: Redrawing and American Family Tree. After the reading, Bolsterli will be available to sign books and visit individually.
In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grand father was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis's name and race had never been mentioned. With further exploration Bolsterli found that when Chavis's children crossed the Mississippi River between 1859 and 1875 for exile in Arkansas, they passed into the white world, leaving the family's racial history completely behind.
Margaret Bolsterli grew up on a cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta during the Great Depression. She is the author or editor of six previous books.


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Midfielder Lewis McGugan is urging his Sheffield Wednesday teammates to show togetherness as they look to turnaround their faltering Championship campaign.
Stuart Gray's troops were booed off after Saturday's goalless home draw to Brighton and Hove Albion, a result which leaves them in 11th position and a whopping 13 points adrift of the play-off placings.
Despite their six-match winless streak, McGugan, who rejoined the club on transfer deadline day a fortnight ago, is confident they will soon rediscover a winning formula.
"It's important everyone sticks together," he told The Star. "We are 11th in the table. It's very tight in the league.
"There are a lot of teams below us and we are still looking up and a few more wins will put us in a better position.
"We have to stick together, keep doing what we are doing and hopefully it will turnaround.
"Brighton is another point on the board so we will take the point and move on."
McGugan, on loan from Watford until the end of the season, has defended Owls' mis-firing attack after they failed to score for the ninth time in 16 Hillsborough fixtures.
"As a team and squad, we can't let them take all the heat," he admitted. "They are there to score goals and, at the moment, they are not going in but they are getting in the right areas.
"While I've been here, I wouldn't say there is a lack of confidence in the squad. Everyone is positive. Maybe it might take for someone to shoot and for it to go in off somebody's backside to start the ball rolling.
"We might be snatching at things. If we weren't creating chances and getting in the positions to score, then it would become alarming. Hopefully they will start falling for us."
Owls head coach Gray has confirmed captain Glenn Loovens is unlikely to return to action until April after damaging his ankle in training last week.
McGugan said: "It's massive to lose Glenn but injuries are part and parcel of the game. They come when you least expect it. It is a blow but there are people ready to step in and they now have an opportunity to show what they can do."
Wednesday are awaiting scan results on Will Keane, who suffered a medial knee ligament injury last weekend. The Manchester United loanee was forced off at half-time and replaced by Atdhe Nuhiu.
Gray said: "Will left the ground in a brace and we'll see what the scan shows."
Another player receiving treatment from Owls' medical staff is the influential Jose Semedo.
The midfield grafter came off versus Brighton because of an ankle problem.
"He got an infection in the toe and the swelling has gone into the ankle and he had two knocks on it against Brighton," revealed Gray. "It's as big as a balloon so he couldn't carry on."
Wednesday's Under-18s, meanwhile, recorded a 1-0 triumph in their friendly with Swedish side IFK Gothenburg at Middlewood Road courtesy of a Fraser Preston strike.
READ MORE: Click here for all the latest news from Hillsborough


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Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Devon Bound
Just a quick post, after returned from a fab weekend with the girls scrapping, all 14 of us stayed in a lovely converted barn in Needham Market arranged by June from Scrapbags. I created a few pages and cards.
This card I made using CBS stamps and dies for my sister who has had an operation on both her feet. I am off to Devon tomorrow to visit her and mum for a few days.
Here are the Scrapbag girls a couple missing, they went home early as Dotty Di lived up to her name by leaving her suit case back home!!
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Changing educational culture
"Digitalization of education is a highly complex process. An obvious, yet nontrivial step is to produce high quality online learning contents, e.g., online textbooks, presentations with audio explanations, video tutorials, animations, and interactive learning contents like simulation tools and automatically assessed exercises. Moreover, another set of challenges is introduced when transforming current practices in the teaching/learning processes (communications, team working and grading into a digital form) for online learning settings. Both areas include considerable learning curves for the university staff with a varying range of ICT skills." [1]


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Your dental practice has been hard at work marketing itself to potential patients. So has every other dental practice in your area, and now all of your efforts are starting to look alike. You all have beautifully-designed websites, active blogs, and social media pages.
What can you do to make your campaigns more memorable? The answer is simple: be creative.
For a dentist, email marketing, social media, and other basic online marketing tactics are enough to raise awareness of your practice, but not enough to differentiate it. If you're a dentist, advanced marketing tactics might seem complicated or unnecessary, but they'll give you what you're looking for: more patients.
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Call 888-601-5359 to speak with a strategist about how WebFX can help your practice grow, or keep reading for a few ideas you can incorporate into your marketing strategy.
If you're a dentist, email marketing is an effective way to both keep in touch with your patients and attract new ones. Of course, it's hard to gain traction unless you send emails with something valuable to your subscribers.
This dental marketing idea is based on delivering helpful information right to people's inboxes so they can learn more about dental hygiene. And, at the end of each email, you can remind your recipients to schedule their next appointment with you right away.
Fill your email newsletter with information that patients have asked about in the past. Headlines such as "The Best Foods for Dental Health" or "How to Get Your Kids to Brush" are sure to get attention.
You can also use the newsletter to announce changes in business hours, events you're sponsoring, or new staff. Try to come up with four or five stories per issue, and send out an email once a month or so — whatever you feel is best for your patients.
Is a local reporter writing an article about dental health or new products? If so, give him or her an authoritative quote. This is a great way to build new relationships with the press and get your practice mentioned in local media.
One of the things you want to communicate in your marketing strategy is your expertise. A quote in a local website or newspaper is a great way to accomplish this. The most obvious topics concern healthy teeth, but you could extend it to other related topics, such as sports safety, oral conditions like halitosis, or the importance of a healthy diet.
Dentist marketing ideas can include anything tangentially related to oral health that answer customer questions. If you feel you could offer valuable insight and information, you can turn any relevant newspaper article into a helpful marketing tool.
Once your quote is printed, you'll also have something new to post on social media or write in your email newsletter! Don't be afraid to show off a little bit — it will make you seem more knowledgeable to potential patients, and that's never a bad thing.
After all, one of the biggest parts of running a business is earning the trust of your customers. That's why offering your expertise is one of the most effective dental marketing ideas you could have — it shows customers that you know what you're talking about, and that makes you easy to trust.
As it is with every other dentist, social media marketing is a new and necessary part of marketing your practice. One challenge is finding things to share. But an even bigger challenge is coming up with ideas other people will share.
You can give this to them by providing free services to those who are unable to pay for them. Many people can't afford to visit the dentist, and they suffer major health problems as a result.
With that in mind, you can spend an afternoon volunteering your services for children, the homeless, or other people who don't often have opportunities for professional dental hygiene. Plus, you could also get a lot of publicity from an event like this, making it one of the most potentially-lucrative dental marketing ideas you could have.
You could even organize the event with other dentists for even more publicity. You'll get great press and you'll be working for a good cause. This kind of event is bound to spread quickly on social media, especially if you share plenty of photos and quotes from the event!
Offering services for free is a nice thing to do. For dentists, offering coupons and discounts is a good way to generate more business. This can also be done on any marketing channel, whether online or in print.
If you want to find new patients, try enticing them with a special discount. There are lots of ways to frame these incentives, including:
Promote these deals on your website, Facebook, or any of your other marketing channels. Also, be sure to add a special code to each coupon or notice. That way, you can measure the response rate and find out which incentives or specific marketing channels are the most popular.
This is one of the most common dental marketing ideas out there right now, and you can capitalize on it by offering lower rates (or more free checkups) than your competition. It may not make you as much money as charging full price, but it helps you get more customers over time.
While your primary goal might be finding more patients, you'll be more successful if you build credibility along the way. Whether you're a new or experienced dentist, video marketing and other tactics for dental organizations and other industry sites is a great way to achieve that.
In fact, one of the best dentist marketing ideas is simply offering information to other dentists — that way, they can link back to you on their website and establish you as an authority.
Don't just produce one piece of content and share it with everyone. You should customize your content to the target audience. For instance, a technical blog might be appropriate for the American Dental Association, while a how-to video would resonate on a site dedicated to kids' dental health.
Other dentists may not be your target audience for marketing, but earning their respect, endorsements, and online links can pay off in big ways. With all that working in your favor, that makes your website's content one of the best dental marketing ideas on the market.
You're looking for new patients in your community, right? Hosting a special event helps you meet them. Visit area schools and give a presentation about the importance of healthy teeth, or get together with other medical professionals and organize a seminar about staying healthy from head to toe.
You could also invite people to take a tour of your facilities and meet your staff. Any opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential patients is an opportunity to market your practice.
That approach can really help with children as well. If they're afraid of the dentist or getting their first checkup, you can introduce them to the smiling faces of your staff to show them you're not scary at all — you're helpful! That can also help parents relax since they won't have to convince their children to get their teeth cleaned. All in all, it's a solid dental marketing idea.
WebFX can help. We have years of experience creating custom strategies for our dental clients, and we'll work with you to help your practice grow.
Contests are a great way of increasing exposure and encouraging engagement. People love sharing contest updates on social media.
This could be something like "best smile," or "most improved smile" contest over the course of X months. The winner could receive a free teeth-whitening session, a free electric toothbrush, or something similar.
You could get even more technical with the blue-tooth enabled toothbrushes that have been increasing in popularity recently. Set a specific time period, and compare brushing "stats" at the end to determine a winner.
Another example is hosting a contest geared towards a specific demographic. For example, if you're largely a family dental practice with lots of young clients, put together a coloring (or Lego-building, painting, etc.) contest for them.
Contests are also great excuses to hand out branded goodies like t-shirts, gym bags, and mugs as prizes.
You could set up a scholarship for students pursuing a degree in dentistry. It doesn't have to be big – even $100/semester to help out with living expenses shows that you care about giving back to your community.
This one is a great opportunity for continuing PR, as well. You could put together a photo album using periodic pictures as your sponsored student goes through school, all the way to graduation and beyond.
Creative marketing strategies like these will help you get results and attract more attention for your practice. We hope you have success with some of these ideas, but if you need more help, WebFX is here to come up with even more dental marketing ideas, and we can provide the tools and expertise to bring them to life.
Our experienced marketers, designers, and writers will identify innovative ways to promote your practice, or take your ideas and optimize them for even better results. We offer a variety of services to develop and implement ideas for dentist video marketing, email marketing, search engine optimization, and other tactics that generate clicks and bring more patients through the door than you ever thought possible.
Ready to push your dentistry marketing into high gear? Call 888.449.3239 or contact us online today to find out how we can help market your dental practice.


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Breakfast with the bikes
>> 8.31.2008
No, I don't ride a Harley, nor have I ever touched one. But I heard plenty of them this weekend, thanks to living in close proximity to events for Harley's 105th anniversary. I also found some creative routes home from work to avoid traffic logjams.
I did get invited to dine with the riders on Saturday, leaving my car safely ensconced in the garage, where it stayed most of weekend. Our neighbors were kind enough to include us, probably to make up for all the bikes parked on our street. Here's what it looked like in one direction:


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Top; Forever 21
Boots; Bugis
Sunglasses; Thrift shop
Arm candies; Bugis, Cotton on
Hype this look at chictopia and lookbook.nu
I instagram too! @shermieloves
Oh how I love coral, what's even better, it came in a comfortable form, jeggings! It's a bright neon piece, to tone it down some, I paired it with a dulled green, and a muted grey blazer along with a neutral coloured boots. It's my first time wearing neon clothing, how do you girls pair yours?


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Games 'Wild West' for music, says Journey composer
The composer behind the music for Thatgamecompany's award-winning Journey says he feels priveleged to work in what he considers the "Wild West" that games offer musicians.
Austin Wintory's Journey score is the first complete game soundtrack to recieve a Grammy nomination.
Christopher Tin, whose song Baba Yetu from Civilizaton IV was the first song written for a video game to receive a Grammy, was the first to congratulate Wintory.
"When he won that Grammy two years ago, it was the first time ... the game itself wasn't being acknowledged, it was the piece he had extracted from the game," Wintory told Gamasutra.
"So it was really wonderful that of all the people, by chance the trailblazer would be the one to call me... how perfect."
Wintory first began working with TGC founder Jenova Chen when the latter was working on flOw as part of his master's thesis, but the colaboration between the two for Journey set new heights for what games could do with music.
"Jenova and the designers of the game went out of their way to make this... almost soul to soul contact," said Wintory.
"I never in a million years saw people imagining those kinds of experiences, living in the game in that sort of way."
For Wintory, even without all the critical acclaim Journey "would have still been the most gratifying experience of anything I ever worked on before, because of those responses from people. I just don't know what an artist could possibly hope for in their life more than that."
Part of the reason Journey flows so well with its score is that both start from a similar place in the creative process.
"Jenova doesn't start with some cool new technology; it's always, 'what's the emotional takeaway that I want the player to have,'" said Wintory.
"It's remarkable that's sort of unique among game developers."
"Among composers... you don't start typically with, 'okay, I have strings, what do I want to do with them?'" he explained.
"It's the old saying, that if you just walk around with a hammer, then everything in the world looks like a nail. If it's all about your tools, it's different than looking at a scenario and asking 'what tools do I need in order to deal with that scenario.'"
While this sort of similar approach between design and composition helps Wintory when it comes to matching the tone of the game, the biggest challenge of writing game music is one of time.
"I didn't create an album to stick into a game; I had to create a game score, and then figure out how to reverse-engineer it into an album,' he said.
"That is what took three years to do, that's what I desperately wanted to happen, that it would feel like I am sitting right behind you composing in realtime and matching everything to your experience.
"That's why I get so excited about games, it throws everything you know about music up in the air.
"Music is one of those art forms, like theatre and only a couple of others, that is bound by time; you're at the mercy of the passage of time. So to create music for a game is to apply a nonlinear aesthetic onto something that is fundamentally linear, and it's like... holy shit, this is really kind of insane.
"To think of not just having the audience's emotional input, but to have them directing the flow of events in the music is as far from traditional classical music as possible."
Exposing more people to the unique musical forms that come from meeting these challenges is difficult, but Wintory says it's getting easier.
"A week ago in Colorado, the Boulder Symphony played a piece of mine from Journey in a concert of otherwise all classical music - it wasn't a game night or a pops concert," he said.
"I got up and spoke to the audience before they played, and as I was explaining the thrill of nonlinear music and why, as a composer, that's so exciting... the audience was the expected orchestra audience, but they were really interested."
"That dismissing, as soon as they hear the word 'video game'... I didn't sense any of it. The idea that they were receptive to what they were going to be hearing, to me, it was one of those humanity-affirming moments."


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Designing your house should all be about expressing your style, personality and taste .if you don't want to be one of the people who follow each and every new trend preferring to stay comfortable and safe with design choices, if you would rather stick with the traditional classic taste then you must read the following tips that will help you design a flawless classic and cozy style for your kitchen!
Wood is the main item that you should consider while designing your traditional classic kitchen. Almost every classic kitchen is designed of wood, from cabinets to hardwood floors. The basic color palette for classic cabinets is white, beige or cream .this gives you many options while deciding how to decorate the surrounding with a wider range of colors, vases, wallpaper..etc.
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Campbellsville Elementary School students are studying germination.
In their science classes, third-graders are learning about what helps plants, animals and people grow.
To see the stages of life firsthand, students recently planted lima beans.
But, to determine what helps the lima bean grow, the students planted four beans and adjusted some variables for each.
One bean was put inside a Ziploc bag with water and placed in the sun.
Another was placed in the sun, but not given any water.
The third bean was placed in the dark and not given any water.
And the last was placed in the dark, but given water.
Students will check their beans each day and record any changes they see.
CES third-grade teacher Patty Haley helps her students seal their lima beans in Ziploc bags.
CES third-graders Joseph Greer, at left, and Angelina Babbs tape their Ziploc bags to the windows so they can grow.
CES third-grader Luke Adkins tapes his Ziploc bag to the window so his lima bean can grow.
CES third-grade teacher Patty Haley places her students' Ziploc bags away from sunlight to see if their lima bean will grow.
CES third-grader Cayton Lawhorn places his group's lima bean inside a wet paper towel and then inside a Ziploc bag.
CES third-grade teacher Marcia Sharp helps Adam Edmonds plant his lima bean, which sprouted.
CES third-grader Stephen Green records the progress of his lima bean plant in his journal.
CES third-grader Annabelle Brockman holds her journal, in which she recorded her lima bean's progress.
CES third-grader Jayden Moore looks at his lima bean plant.
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CES third-graders planted these lima beans, below, and are experimenting to see which elements create the best environment for the beans to grow in the bags above.


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March 11, 2009
ROBERT ATTEBERY AND STEVEN PROE, PLAINTIFFS,v.PLACER COUNTY; CITY OF ROSEVILLE; SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA; AND DOES 1-10, INCLUSIVE, DEFENDANTS.
Robert Attebery and Steven Proe (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), brought this action against Placer County, City of Roseville, and the Superior Court of California ("Superior Court") for violations the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., violations of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701, et seq., and various state law violations. The Superior Court filed a Motion to Dismiss the Complaint under Rule 12(b)(6). Plaintiffs opposed the Motion. For the reasons stated below, the Superior Court's Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED.*fn1
Plaintiffs are disabled individuals who require the assistance of a cane, walker, wheelchair or other device. Compl. ¶ 12. Upon visiting the Superior Court of California, Placer County, located at 300 Taylor Avenue in Roseville, California ("Courthouse"), Plaintiffs encountered problems with travel to, through, and within the building. Id. ¶¶ 13, 18. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that there was a lack of accessible parking spaces, lack of an accessible path of travel to the courthouse, and deficient entrances, service counters, courtrooms, and public restrooms.
Rule 12(b)(6) allows a court to dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. To bring a claim for money or damages against a public entity in California, a party must make a claim to the responsible entity as required by the California Tort Claims Act ("CTCA"), Cal. Govt. Code § 810 et seq. "Compliance with the CTCA's filing requirements is mandatory." Hernandez v. McClanahan, 996 F.Supp. 975, 978 (N.D. Cal. 1998).
Plaintiffs admit that they did not present a claim to the Superior Court. A claim against a superior court must be presented by "[d]elivering or mailing it to the court executive officer." Cal. Gov. Code § 915(c)(1). Instead, Plaintiffs presented their claim to the Office of Judicial Counsel of California, Administrative Office of the Courts.
Plaintiffs argue that although they did not present their claim to the proper party, they substantially complied with the CTCA. However, the doctrine of substantial compliance does not apply when the claim is addressed to the wrong entity. Jackson v. Board of Education, 250 Cal.App.2d 856, 860 (1967). Plaintiffs cite Jamison v. State of California, 31 Cal.App.3d 513 (1973) to argue that they substantially complied with the CTCA because the Office of Judicial Counsel of California had a duty to forward on the claim. However, the Jamison decision has been specifically overruled because California courts found it to be at odds with Cal. Gov. Code § 915(c). Del Real v. City of Riverside, 95 Cal.App.4th 761, 770 (2002); see also Life v. County of L.A., 227 Cal.App.3d 894, 900-901 (1991).*fn2 Because Plaintiffs presented their claim to the wrong entity, they did not substantially comply with the CTCA.
Plaintiffs further argue that even if they failed to comply with the CTCA, they were not required to present a claim because they primarily seek injunctive relief. In support of this proposition, Plaintiffs cite Independent Hous. Servs. v. Fillmore Ctr. Assocs., 840 F.Supp. 1328, 1357 (N.D. Cal. 1993), which held that a party did not need to present a claim under the CTCA when plaintiffs' "request for an injunction declaring that the [defendant] is in violation of the handicap access laws and must comply with them in the future is of great weight and not just ancillary to the request for damages." However, this case is distinguishable from the present matter. In Independent Hous. Servs., organizational plaintiffs sought a determination that a building project did not comply with handicap access laws. The organizational plaintiffs' primarily sought declaratory and future relief to bring the building project into compliance for the benefit of a wide class of disabled persons. However, in the instant matter, individual Plaintiffs primarily seek redress for a lack of accessible facilities they encountered based on past visits to the Superior Court. See Gatto v. County of Sonoma, 98 Cal. App. 4th 744, 762 (2002) (distinguishing Independent Hous. Servs. from cases where an individual sued on his own behalf). The Court finds that Plaintiffs claim for damages is not merely incidental to its claim for injunctive relief. Therefore, Plaintiffs were required to present a claim to the Superior Court under the CTCA. Accordingly, because they failed to do so, the Superior Court's Motion to Dismiss is granted with respect to Plaintiffs' claims for damages.
Plaintiffs also seek injunctive relief under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act. However, the Courthouse which is the subject of Plaintiffs' Complaint is no longer in use by the Superior Court. See Durfee Decl. ¶ 4. "[A] claim for injunctive relief is moot if 'it is absolutely clear that the allegedly wrongful behavior could not reasonably be expected to occur.'" Pickern v. Best Western Timber Cove Lodge Marina Resort, 194 F.Supp.2d 1128, 1130 (E.D. Cal. 2002) (quoting Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Enviornmental Services, 528 U.S. 167, 190 (2000)). Because all of the accessibility issues described in the Complaint are tied to the specific Courthouse location and are not general practices of the Superior Court, they are moot. Plaintiff alleges that the sidewalks and parking lot around the closed building are still in use, permitting them to seek injunctive relief. However, Plaintiffs have failed to allege that the Superior Court has any control over any structure outside the Courthouse. Accordingly, Plaintiffs claims against the Superior Court for injunctive relief are dismissed.
Furthermore, because Plaintiffs can allege neither that they presented a claim to the correct party under the CTCA nor that the Courthouse is still in use, granting leave to amend would be futile. Accordingly, Plaintiffs' Complaint is dismissed with prejudice with regards to the Superior Court.
For the reasons stated above, Defendant Superior Court's Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED with prejudice.
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Members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the development of Bluetooth over 802.11, giving Bluetooth a boost in data rate transfer and helping to quench consumer demand for added speed. Consequently, the Ultra-wideband (UWB) market worries that this announcement may slow down or even suspend its relationship with Bluetooth; however, ABI Research does not believe this will be the case. Mike Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG, stated, "We are taking classic Bluetooth connections—using Bluetooth protocols, profiles, security and other architectural elements—and allowing it to jump on top of the already present 802.11 radio, when necessary, to send bulky entertainment data faster. When the speed of 802.11 is overkill, the connection returns to normal operation on a Bluetooth radio for optimal power management and performance."
So where does this leave UWB?
"The Bluetooth SIG announcement will not have an impact on the timing of the UWB market," says ABI Research senior analyst Douglas McEuen. "UWB remains set to be delivered as a viable radio to wireless handsets during the 2009/2010 time frame." Moreover, the utilization of 802.11 is meant to fill a short-term role to the extent that UWB is being developed further, with UWB expected to be quite common in the future. Additionally, a combined Bluetooth/UWB WiMedia radio effectively opens the door to companies like Alereon, Wisair and WiQuest for entry into the Bluetooth market. The inclusion of 802.11 inside the realm of Bluetooth can only attract more customers, thereby setting the stage for UWB's implementation to attain its full potential in the coming years.
"Ultra-wideband Connectivity" analyzes critical UWB market conditions—from drivers and obstacles, to global regulations and standards. Key market semiconductor vendors are profiled, and the study concludes with an in-depth market forecast that traces both positive and negative market forces numerically.


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Hong Kong: Last Christmas anybody asked if they wanted a "tablet" probably thought they were being offered a pill to ease indigestion caused by a little bit of festive over-indulgence.
But this year, millions of people around the world will be glued to their iPad or other tablet computer instead of watching yet another re-run of a movie on TV.
Samsung Electronics says it has sold over 700,000 of its Galaxy Tab device in the six weeks since its launch and believes at least a million will be in people`s hands by the end of the year.
But that`s still miles behind the iPad, which only went on sale in South Korea -- Samsung`s home turf -- for the first time on Tuesday.
Apple has sold more than eight million of the gadgets since it went on sale in April but could have sold more, experts say, were it not for problems making enough to meet demand.
Sony, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Dell, Asus, Acer -- most of the big global brand names in the technology sector have a tablet computer on the market or in the pipeline.
Technology research firm Gartner last month said sales of tablet computers are expected to soar from nearly 20 million units this year to 55 million next year and over 208 million in 2014.
The Galaxy Tab has a seven-inch (18-centimetre) touch screen -- significantly smaller than the iPad`s nearly 10-inch display. But Samsung says it will introduce "new tablets of different sizes in the near future".
Apple`s first generation iPad does not have a camera, does not function as a phone and the company does not allow the Flash video standard on the gadget.
These are all big advantages for Samsung, the company says.
"The Tab sets itself apart from other similar smart media devices by featuring optimal portability, Flash support, dual cameras and phone-call functions," Samsung Electronics spokesman Nam Ki-yung told AFP
"Owning a Tab is like having your personal library, entertainment system, office workstation and e-learning resources rolled into one device -- that snugly fits into your pocket."
While Apple has its own App store where iPad owners can buy software and games to run on its array of gadgets, Samsung and most other tablets run on Google`s Android, with apps available from the Android Market store.
Sales in tablet computers should see exponential growth in the next 12 months, analysts say.
"Tablets are basically new creatures," Young Park, a tech analyst for South Korea`s Woori Investment and Securities, told AFP.
"So this is a brand new market which is set to grow substantially. It will be interesting to watch how the market evolves over the next year or so.
"As more and more tablet devices come onto the market, that will inevitably eat into Apple`s lead."
Sales of tablet computers, Hong Kong-based Young believes, will remain steady during the run up to Christmas but will not increase significantly.
"A tablet computer such as Apple`s iPad or the Samsung Galaxy Tab is hard to give as a Christmas gift," Young said.
"The main problem is most of them require a subscription with a network and you have to sign a 12 or even 24 month contract. That makes it difficult to give as a surprise. Plus, they`re not cheap."
The cheapest iPad costs 499 dollars in the US while the top model is priced at 829 dollars. Samsung`s Galaxy Tab costs around 600 dollars, when bought without a subscription to a network.
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One of the issues regarding readability control is that readability is a subjective concept and thus difficult to rely on a general guideline plus devs' self governing to control. Some code review process has been designed to mitigate such risks and in my other post "Another way of coding explained" I also tried to establish some more objective standards for readability. The most effective way of controlling readability, however, is probably pair programming with regular pair switch while both devs in the pair always focus on readability.
Pairing means constant code review, but for readability control purpose, this is not enough. By definition, readability cannot be reviewed by the dev that wrote the code, because obviously if you wrote the code, you don't really need to read it. You already know all the rational behind the code and everything just makes sense to you. This why regular pair switching is also critical for readability control in pair programming.
By regular pair switch, I mean pair switch every 1-2 days so that most medium and plus size stories got implemented by more than 2 devs. Each switch means a little ramp up for the new dev that gets switched into the pair. The dev that remains on the pair needs to explain the story and all the existing code and design decisions with the new dev. This is a great opportunity to put the readability of the code under test. The new dev raises all readability issues he noticed when reading the code. The old dev does (or should do) the same thing when s/he finds some code more difficult to explain than others.
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Gold Coins Are A Better Option With The US Money Reserve
The US Money Reserve has made gold coin ownership the best option for investing, and they have made it very easy for people to get the results they want just by buying a few gold coins.
Philip Diehl runs the US Money Reserve, and he wants to make sure that people understand how the gold coin market works. Gold coins should be easy, and that is why Philip Diehl talked to EPNS Radio about it. He wanted everyone listening to know that it would be much easier to own gold coins. Learn more about US Money Reserve: https://www.youtube.com/user/usmrwebvideos and https://about.me/usmoneyreserveinc
Gold coins are a really stable investment because of how they have been designed. Gold coins are very basic, and they have a price that anyone can figure out at any time. They can look up the price per ounce, and they can easily figure out how much their coins are worth.
Philip Diehl has a lot of great designs coming out of the US Money Reserve, and he wants to make sure that all the people who come to the US Money Reserve can find something they like. The design of the coin has a lot of value inherent in it, and that also means that these people can trade these coins or collect them for the design.
Someone who is trying to invest their money the best need to make sure that they are using gold coins on their timeline. Some people will buy and sell all the time, but other people will just keep the coins until a time long in the future when they will sell them to retire. Read more: US Money Reserve | CrunchBase and US Money Reserve TV Commercials – iSpot.tv
The choice is up to the owner of the coins, and there are so many options with gold coins that it makes investing easy. The US Money Reserve is the best place to buy gold coins, and it will help anyone who is ready to invest their money simply.


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This vampire syndicate garnered 30 percent support in January; it is unlikely that this number can grow as pensioners socialized in the communist era that make up the balk of their voter base start dying out. And young people hate this globalist crime network other than the sons, grandsons and granddaughters of former communist apparatchiks.
Jobbik garnered 14 percent in January; however, the radical nationalist party has significant growth potential especially among young voters, as the party already the most popular in this age group. Jobbik is also the most popular party among expats.
The survey has also found that 24 percent of voters are indifferent and probably won't vote.
51 percent of respondents said it was unimaginable for them to vote for the globalist alliance under any circumstances.
Politicians' popularity list is lead by President János Áder by 53%, followed by PM Viktor Orbán by 45% support. Jobbik President Gábor Vona 11th on the popularity list by 32% support.
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Welcome to the latest research round up from the Addiction Research Group based in the Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool. We have been working very hard over the winter months (because typing keeps hands warm in badly heated offices), and this is what we have produced…
We have published three review papers covering a broad range of topics in addiction.
The first by Pawel Jedras and colleagues, published in Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics (open access) examined the role of drug anticipation in addiction and reward. They examined the available evidence, discussing the necessary role of drug expectancy in conditioned responses to drug-related cues, the role of impulsivity and the underlying neural circuitry of anticipation. Finally, they provided a discussion of how perceived drug availability can lead to poor treatment responses and what might be done to mitigate this.
Our second review was by Margot Peeters (who visited us from the Netherlands) with Matt Field. They conducted a narrative review, published in Alcohol and Alcoholism, summarising the evidence base for cognitive impairments in heavy drinking adolescents, with an emphasis on elucidating any causal relationship(s). They examined both cognitive impairments and impulsivity as risk factors for alcohol use in youth, but also the possibility that heavy drinking may cause further cognitive impairments and impulsiveness due to neurotoxic effects on the brain.
Our final review paper was by Andy Jones and colleagues, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry (open access). The aim of this review was to identify the psychological and environmental variables that may cause state changes in (dis)inhibition leading to increases in drinking and drug use. Some of these variables include stress, self-control depletion and exposure to cues. They concluded that identifying these variables and targeting them for treatments may help reduce the risk of heavy drinking, drug use and relapse.
We have also published some interesting original research:
Paul Christiansen published a paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence demonstrating that individualised stimuli may increase the predictive validity of attentional bias tasks. Using a Stroop task containing words related to the individual's favourite drink, they found performance predicted variance in drinking above and beyond performance on a Stroop using general alcohol words. This paper was a direct follow up to a commentary Paul and Matt published in 2012.
Abi Rose and colleagues published a paper in Psychopharmacology, investigating the relationship between alcohol-induced risk taking using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) and urge to drink. They found that alcohol increased risk taking and urge to drink. Furthermore, it was found that risk taking after alcohol consumption mediated alcohol priming, suggesting that those susceptible to alcohol-induced risk taking may be more likely to drink excessively, due to an increased urge to drink.
In other news, we have been travelling around the country to disseminate our research.
The addiction group is a core member of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS), a leading centre of tobacco and alcohol research and policy excellence. The inaugural meeting of UKCTAS in York in September was attended by Matt Field, Abi Rose, Eric Robinson, Jay Duckworth, Lisa Di Lemma and Inge Kersbergen.
Matt Field attended the Society for the Study of Addiction conference in York in November and gave an invited talk on the contributions of basic science to our understanding of addiction.
Andy Jones, Eric Robinson and Matt Field also attended the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM) in Oxford in December. Andy gave a poster and short oral presentation discussing 'Response Inhibition in everyday life. Validating a mobile version of the Stop-Signal Task'. Eric gave an oral presentation entitled 'GPs don't know what obesity looks like and this reduces their likelihood of initiating treatment'. Congratulations to Eric, who was awarded a prestigious early career award at UKSBM.
We also attended the North West Alcohol Conference, at the Hilton hotel in Liverpool in November. Jay, Inge and Natasha did an excellent job of summarising the conference highlights here
Finally, Matt is working as an advisor for Alcohol Concern's Dry January campaign. If you are taking the challenge yourself and finding it a bit of a struggle, you can log on to the Facebook page or follow the Twitter feed for advice, details here
That is a wrap for this research roundup. Thank you for reading! As always, if you would like to get in touch about anything featured here please contact Prof. Matt Field, and if you are interested in taking part in our research please contact Andy Jones.


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WRC-2007 Proposal Could Limit Emissions in Several Microwave Bands
One of the topics being addressed at the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-2007) is protection of the Earth-exploration satellite service (passive) from unwanted emissions in several microwave bands, including 1,350-1400 MHz, 1427-1452 MHz, 22.55-23.55 GHz, 30-31.3 GHz, 47.2-50.2 GHz and 50.4-52.6 GHz. In the United States, these bands are allocated for several radio services, including Part 25 (Satellite Communication), Part 27 (Miscellaneous Wireless Communications Services), Part 87 (Aviation), Part 90 (Private Land Mobile Radio), Part 95 (Personal Radio Services), and Part 101 (Fixed Microwave Services).
A proposal from the executive branch agencies includes specific, mandatory limits on unwanted emissions for transmitters in portions of the bands listed above. The FCC is seeking comments as to the impact of the proposed limits in terms of performance, cost, weight, size, and the like on systems in the specified frequency bands. Also sought are comments concerning the possibility that the systems could operate without significant modifications to current system design within the limits proposed in the executive branch agencies' proposal.
The FCC also wanted to know if the differences between these limits and the limits in the FCC rules are "significant enough to have an impact on the provision of current and future service applications in the affected bands?"
The Part 101 frequencies in the executive branch agencies proposal are 31-31.3 GHz and 51.4-52.6 GHz. Part 25 frequencies include 22.55-23.55 GHz, allocated for intersatellite communication, 50.4-51.4 GHz, 47.2-50.2 GHz (Regions 2 and 3) and 49.44-50.2 GHz (Region 1).
For details on the U.S. position on this WRC-2007 item, including proposed emission levels, see Public Notice (DA 06-2262). There are several attachments with the notice that contain the preliminary proposals for WRC-07 Agenda Item 1.20 developed by the executive branch agencies.


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|Callie Sunrise--colors so much more beautiful in person
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|Double Impatiens -- like little roses
|My friend Barbara gave me a Rex Begonia start and I picked up a grasstype plant on a walkway
|Water cans always at the ready --- no rain in weeks
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|And these fellas are a few houses down devouring some dead critter. Anyone know what they are? buzzards? vultures?
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February is all about love and day two of the self loving project brings us to #whatslovely FRIENDSHIP. If you missed what I am talking about then click HERE for details on the week of self loving, brought to us by Fitzala.
Friendship …
Having friends is so crucial to our well being.
Friends will be authentic
Friends will not judge
Friends will be happy for our success
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Friends will tell us the truth {hard as it may be} but the truth
Friends will love us in ugly times and beautiful moments
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Friendship goes both ways, it must be a shared road. I have many acquaintances, but only a very small handful of "friends". I have learned hard lessons in life about friends. Sadness and heartbreak have come along more than enough times. Trust has been broken. I have been much more careful and conscience of making friends. Coming across new friendships is rewarding as I get older. I find that connecting with women who truly are happy for one another, are the one's that I choose to let into my life. A friendship that is not a competition is key. A friendship that lifts one another up and even helps one another find success and happiness is to be treasured.
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Two men died after being shot at while cutting down trees in the Siyambala Wewa Sanctuary in Karuwalagaswewa earlier today.
Investigators say that the two men may have been shot at by a mob who assumed that they were hunters.
The two individuals succumbed to injuries after being rushed to the Puttalam Hospital.
The two deceased individuals, aged eighteen and thirty one, were residents of Siyambala Wewa and Karuwalagaswewa.
Post-mortems examinations will be conducted today.
Suspects are yet to be identified.
Karuwalagaswewa Police is investigating.


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Tom Felton Remembers What D-Day Is All About - It's Not Donuts
Tom Felton pulls off his hoodie after stopping by a local shopping center in London on Friday afternoon (June 6).
The 26-year-old actor paid tribute to D-Day on Twitter: "Never forget. Those who gave their lives for us to have freedom in ours. We have so much to thank them for #DDay70."
A quick lesson in history: D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated in the military. June 6, 1944 is the best known D-Day, when troops from the Western Allied effort landed on the Normandy shores during World War II.
Just the night before, Tom and girlfriend Jade Olivia stepped out for an after-party following the premiere of Tom's newest film, Belle.
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Rat pups whose mothers consumed a folate-supplemented diet before and after conception had almost a three-fold lower risk of experimentally induced colon cancer compared with pups from females that had a standard diet, Karen K. Sie, of the University of Toronto, reported at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting here.
Postnatal folate supplementation did not affect colon cancer risk.
"This study provides important insights into the critical role of timing of folic acid intervention in colorectal cancer development and progression," said Sie.
Epidemiologic evidence has suggested that dietary intake and blood levels of folate have an inverse correlation with the risk of de novo colorectal cancer. However, preclinical and clinical evidence has indicated that folate supplementation may fuel the growth and transformation of existing preneoplastic colonic lesions into cancer.
"Total intake and blood levels of folate in North America have dramatically increased over the past decade owing to mandatory folic acid fortification and to the estimated 30% to 40% of the population taking multivitamins containing folic acid," said Sie.
"Whether high intrauterine folate concentrations affect colorectal cancer risk in offspring is unknown," she added.
In the current study, Sie and colleagues fed female rats either a control diet containing 2 mg/kg of folic acid or a supplemented diet containing 5 mg/kg of folic acid, beginning three weeks before breeding and continuing through pregnancy and lactation.
After weaning, male pups were randomized to the control or supplemented diet.
At five and six weeks of age, the pups (55 in each group) received two weekly injections of azoxymethane, a colon cancer inducer.
At 34 weeks, investigators examined tumor incidence, count, and size, as well as plasma folate and homocysteine (which correlates inversely with folate status).
Plasma and liver folate concentrations accurately reflected dietary folate intake (P<0.001), and investigators observed significant interaction between maternal and pup diets (P=0.02).
Homocysteine levels were significantly lower in animals fed the supplemented diet (P=0.038).
Maternal folate supplementation was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer (P=0.003). Offspring of female animals fed the control diet had a relative risk of 2.78 for colorectal cancer compared with pups exposed in utero to higher levels of folate (95% CI 1.41 to 5.50).
Tumor count and the sum of tumor diameter (burden) differed significantly by diet (P=0.014, P=0.006, respectively).
Pups that received folate supplementation postnatally but not in utero had more and larger tumors compared with other groups (P=0.03).
"The potential long-term benefits and adverse effects of the drastically increased folate status in North American populations needs to be closely monitored," said Sie. "It is critical to determine safe and effective doses and timing of folic acid intervention for colorectal cancer prevention."
|Dr. Sie reported no disclosures.
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Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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American Association for Cancer Research MeetingSource Reference: Sie KK, et al "The effect of in utero folic acid supplementation on colon cancer risk in the offspring in a chemical carcinogen rodent model" AACR Meeting 2008; Abstract 2098.


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This lesson plan teaches how to select the landing site for a planetary surface investigation, using the 5E learning cycle. Students will be able to determine a landing site for their Mars rover; work with their team to summarize information and... (View More) identify important details in non-fiction writing; research Gale Crater through an online interactive module; use Google Earth Mars to learn about Mars surface features; gather and analyze data to conduct a scientific experiment; collect and record data in a science notebook to draw logical and scientific conclusions; define and identify the role of controls and variables in teams' scientific or technical questions; and differentiate between weather and climate. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 8 of the elementary school version of the 6 week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
In this concluding activity, learners will use notes from an earlier lesson to write a nonfiction piece about Saturn or Cassini. These final projects provide a way for children with varying learning styles to consolidate and share their learning.... (View More) This is lesson 12 of 12 in the Mission to Saturn Educators Guide, Reading Writing Rings, for grades 3-4. (View Less)
This is a lesson about spacecraft design. Learners will hear the NASA solutions to the problems they wrote about in an earlier lesson. They will then write a nonfiction piece comparing their spacecraft to Cassini, and share their writing with the... (View More) class. This introduction to design prepares students for the task of trying to design a working model of a probe to land on Saturn's moon, Titan. This is lesson 7 of 12 in the Mission to Saturn Educators Guide, Reading Writing Rings, for grades 3-4. (View Less)


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NEW YORK (AP) If time spent at the bargaining table indicates progress, the NHL and the locked-out players' association finally could be on their way to making a deal to get hockey back on the ice.
A second straight day of marathon negotiations took place Wednesday, when the two sides spent more than five hours hammering away at the most contentious issues separating them. Coupled with the more than seven hours they spent negotiating on Tuesday, owners and players have been together about 13 hours and are ready to get back to it on Thursday.
Neither side tipped its hand about what was discussed or if the talks were successful, and the location of the meetings is still being kept secret.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Darrell Royal, the former Texas football coach known as much for his folksy, simplistic approach to life as for his creative wishbone offenses and two national championships, died. He was 88.
University of Texas spokesman Nick Voinis confirmed Royal's death. Royal had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and recently fell at an assisted living center where he was receiving care.
Royal, who also starred as a defensive back and quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners, didn't have a single losing season in his 23 years as a head coach at Texas, Mississippi State and Washington. During his 20 years at Texas (1957-1976), his teams boasted a 167-47-5 record - the best mark in the nation during that period.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California says it has fired a student manager who intentionally deflated game footballs below NCAA-mandated pressure levels for the Trojans' loss to Oregon last week.
USC announced the dismissal of the unnamed student manager on its website late Wednesday night.
The school says it was reprimanded and fined by the Pac-12.
Underinflated footballs are thought to be easier to catch and throw. The Ducks had little trouble throwing or catching throughout their 62-51 win, the worst defensive performance in USC history.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Andrew Luck has joined the shaved squad, too.
Nearly three dozen players on the Indianapolis Colts have shaved their heads in a show of support for head coach Chuck Pagano, who is undergoing treatment for a form of leukemia.
Luck became a new member of the no-hair club Wednesday morning. Players and coaches were not available for comment because they were headed to Jacksonville, but a team spokesman confirmed that Luck will indeed look quite different when he takes off his helmet Thursday night.
``Buzzed heads and orange locks in honor of Chuck,'' team owner Jim Irsay tweeted. He also included a link to a photo showing many of the players who had gotten buzzed.
Reggie Wayne wore orange gloves against Green Bay, the ribbon color used to raise awareness for leukemia.
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The NFL fined the San Diego Chargers $20,000 because a member of the equipment staff failed to immediately surrender towels when ordered to do so by a game official against the Denver Broncos on Oct. 15.
The NFL also said in a statement that after investigating the Chargers' use of towels that included an adhesive substance, it was determined that San Diego did not violate any rules.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) - Rex Ryan has found the positive side of being voted the most overrated coach in the NFL.
A poll of 103 players in The Sporting News had Ryan with 35 votes, beating New England's Bill Belichick, who had 16.
``My first thought was I looked and saw who was second,'' the New York Jets coach joked Wednesday. ``Hey, I finally beat Belichick. I got him. I knew it would take time, but I finally got him.''
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) - In between trade talks and early negotiations with free agents, baseball general managers considered some wide-ranging changes that include broader use of instant replay by umpires, changed roster limits for September and protective headgear for pitchers.
On the first day of the GM's annual three-day session, the Colorado Rockies hired Walt Weiss as manager Wednesday and the New York Mets announced they had reached an agreement to terminate outfielder Jason Bay's contract with one guaranteed season remaining. The Los Angeles Dodgers finalized a deal to hire Mark McGwire to be their first base coach.
Arizona general manager Kevin Towers said he'd listen to trade offers for two-time All-Star right fielder Justin Upton but thought a swap was not likely. And Texas GM Jon Daniels said the Rangers remained interested in re-signing All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton.
NEW YORK (AP) - Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera is one of five finalists for the AL MVP award in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
The Detroit third baseman is joined by Texas' Adrian Beltre and Josh Hamilton, the New York Yankees' Robinson Cano, and Los Angeles Angels rookie Mike Trout, who also is one of three nominees for AL Rookie of the Year.
For the first time, the BBWAA announced finalists for its awards. The winners will be revealed next week live on the MLB Network, beginning Monday with the two rookies of the year and concluding Thursday with the MVPs.
NEW YORK (AP) - San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal was suspended for 50 games because of a positive test for testosterone, with the ban set to begin at the start of next season.
Grandal made his big league debut this year. He hit .297 with eight home runs and 36 RBIs in 60 games. He turns 24 on Thursday.
Oscar Robertson's jersey from the 1960 Olympics and his 1964 NBA MVP trophy are among the items available in an online basketball auction.
Memorabilia from fellow Hall of Famers David Thompson and Sam Jones also will be included in SCP's auction that begins Nov. 14.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana needs to find a long-term replacement for Danny Granger.
Team officials announced Wednesday that the one-time All-Star forward is expected to miss up to three months after receiving an injection in his left knee to treat patellar tendinosis.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was arraigned and released on bail at a brief court appearance on charges he lied about and concealed child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, accompanied by his wife, signed paperwork after his bail was set at $125,000, but he was not required to post any of that amount. He was ordered to forfeit his passport and be fingerprinted. He didn't enter a plea.
LONDON (AP) - In what is shaping up to be the new top rivalry in tennis, Novak Djokovic held off Andy Murray at the ATP finals.
The top-ranked Serb got the big break when he needed it late in the third set and beat Murray 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 at the O2 Arena.
Despite the win, Djokovic still hasn't advanced to the semifinals at the season-ending tournament for the top eight players in the world. Tomas Berdych beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 in the late Group B match, keeping all four players alive in the tournament.
On Friday, Djokovic will face Berdych, while Murray will take on Tsonga.
ROME (AP) - Barcelona lost for the first time since August, and Manchester United and Chelsea needed late goals to win in a wild night of Champions League action.
Barcelona had been unbeaten in 12 matches since the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid before falling 2-1 at Celtic, which is two points behind the Spanish power with two matches remaining.
United came back from a goal down to beat Braga 3-1 and qualify for the second round in a match that was stopped briefly because of a light outage.
Defending champion Chelsea needed a header from Victor Moses four minutes into injury time to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Robbie Keane scored two goals and Mike Magee added another as the Los Angeles Galaxy beat the San Jose Earthquakes 3-0 to complete a 3-1 aggregate victory in the teams' Western Conference semifinal series.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - The Houston Dynamo held off Sporting Kansas City after Seth Sinovic scored his first career goal in the second half, falling 1-0 on Wednesday night but advancing to the Eastern Conference finals with a 2-1 aggregate-goal result.
CHORLEY, England (AP) - Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins was recovering in hospital Wednesday after being hit by a car while riding his bike in northern England.
Team Sky said Wiggins will be kept in the hospital overnight for observation, but that ``the injuries he sustained are not thought to be serious and he is expected to make a full and speedy recovery.''
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Carmen Basilio, the genial onion farmer's son who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic, razor-edge rematch six months later, died Wednesday at age 85.
Edward Brophy, executive director of the Boxing Hall of Fame in upstate New York, said Basilio died at a Rochester hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Imitating Cam Newton's Superman celebration caused one Charlotte prep football player to be ejected from a state playoff game.
West Mecklenburg quarterback Jalan McClendon was kicked out of last Friday's 45-10 win over Hough High in the first round of the state 4AA playoffs after pretending to rip open his jersey following a touchdown run like Newton, Carolina's popular second-year quarterback.


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Yelp is turning 10 years old, and has announced it has accumulated 57 million reviews filled to the brim with colloquialisms and verbal memes. It is dropping a new tool to explore all of those ideas and fads it calls "Trends." For all of its ideas and accomplishments, Yelp is still a niche website. The Trends tool is a new addition to their formula, but can it find an audience outside of their core power users?
Yelp Trends
Yelp puts a lot of effort into helping users identify what's popular in their local areas. The site already publishes a weekly list of what's hot in one's local area, based on local reviews. It's also provided heat maps and emailed newsletters. Yelp Trends represents a new way of looking at all of the data the company has. It harkens back to Yelp's true purpose: finding what's hip in your area.
You use Yelp Trends like any other search engine, except you can compare multiple search terms in the context of one city. The examples Yelp gives include terms like "CrossFit" and "craft beer." The site gives the user a visual line graph with some rough numbers that are meant to indicate popularity. Not great for any level of precision analysis, but good enough to tell someone what's trending.
Yelp's Unreliable Data
In order to power Trends, Yelp draws upon the data it has accumulated from user reviews over the past 10 years. Yelp is utilizing reviews from 98 cities spread across 20 countries, so there is a wealth of information to play with. The question is how much of that information is viable.
Yelp is infamous for faked reviews, regardless of whether they allow it consciously. Then there is the question of user reliability.
If Yelp is using user reviews to judge popularity, is it applying any kind of scrutiny to this process? For example, say we have two users. The first user says "I love CrossFit," the second says "I hate CrossFit." Is Yelp ranking CrossFit as a trending term in both cases? If so, this presents a problem with the conclusions Yelp Trends comes to.
Possible Uses
When Google unveiled its Trends search engine, SEOs quickly embraced it as a tool to figure out what was happening within a specific niche. That tool is far more robust than Yelp's current offering, so don't expect a lot of related data to help you uncover hidden gems.
Instead, Yelp Trends will help you identify when something is in decline or demand in your local area. For example, food trucks are in decline in Los Angeles but up in Chicago. If you wanted to franchise a food truck portion of your growing restaurant chain, you might consider expanding to Chicago instead.
Yelp Trends can also help a business owner expand into related territory to try and keep up with the changing trends. For example, searching for "Boba" and "Smoothie" in San Francisco would show both trends are high in the city, but smoothies far eclipse boba as San Franciscan's drink of choice.
Yelp has also challenged students to find innovative ways to harness this data, sponsoring a contest worth $5,000. With Yelp's Academic Dataset, it hopes that students will be able to predict how many stars a business will receive, or how often a local business gets foot traffic. In addition to the $5,000 prize, Yelp is offering an additional $1,000 if a student's work is published in academic papers and up to $500 in travel expenses to present that research.
Final Thoughts
I believe that smart business owners with an eye on Trends will find great value with this tool, but it's important not to bank one's business on the ideas Trends gives. Remember that Yelp is full of unreliable user information, and is likely guilty of censoring reviews (both fictional and real). Yelp hasn't publicly stated if that "compromised" data is part of Trends, but there is already a level of unreliability based on how Yelp uses its own data.
Yelp Trends might be a nice celebratory pat on the back for the company in a time of PR crisis, and it has some value. Given the company's current track record, however, it's wise to be skeptical about basing your business around what Yelp says is trending.
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