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If a patient begins to feel pain and stiffness anywhere in their body or to have trouble moving around, it could be arthritis. Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in the joints. Over time, a swollen joint can become severely damaged. Some kinds of arthritis can also cause problems in the organs, like the eyes or skin. Osteoarthritis is related to aging or injury. Rheumatoid arthritis can occur when the immune system, which is supposed to protect the body from infection, attacks its own tissues.
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[$$?. a struggle with a fish abventcre of a skowhkoax atht-ktk at tiik skashollfc tlte wager lh made with an old fisher man—a fish that wouldn't be lifted a deer island me letter to the new york sun tells this humorous story of a young athlete's adventure with an elec tric fish : you look like a likely hefter said an old fisherman iu oil skins who was unloading a dory fui of mackerel to a lusty young man in knickerbockers and a white flannel shirt yes replied the young man i'm called pretty strong iu the skowhegan athletic club did you eyer lift much fiuh asked the old fellow throwing a huge netful of tinkers on the dock and looking his com panion over with a critical eye i never saw the fish i couldn't lift the fisherman thrust his hand into his pocket from which after a violent strug gle and much invective he hauled out a very fiat light leather pneketbook that was closed with a strap aud a piece of rope yarn he took out a clean ten dol lar hill and said : i'm going on eighty one year old next muster day but i'll bet ten dollars even you can't lift a fish that i can where's your fish asked skowhe gan well i'll tell you here's a fish and lie poked among the mackerel and pointed to a large solid skate like fish iu the bottom of the dory let's see it's about five foot up to the dock i'll bet yon the ten dollars you can't toss the fish up there i don't wan't to take your money replied the young man magnanimosly as a number of spectators drew around j lint if you've got half a dozen of the fish stiing em all together and give me some thing worth doing i've lifted 500 pounds before h leak fast oh yes i've heard on you said the old man somewhat warmly you're the man that ate a piece of rubber hose for breakfast and didn't find out it wasn't sausage till somebody told you see that thumb nail t he asked holding up a cari ous-looking stub with a horny substance upon it well i sarved prentice once to a boxmaker and used to put in all the screws with that nail and pull em out when they broke out with my teeth you know me and i'll stick to it that you can't heave the fish up to the dock and there's the money the skowhegan athlete thus called upon deposited 10 with the owner of the mackerel canning shop who had joined the party nnd went down the ladder into the boat while the old fisherman climbed up on the dock to watch the feat stand hack there !" shouted the fish tosser rolling up his sleeve this fish might hit you old man aud knock some of the blow out of you heave away said the man in oil skins tipping a wink at the crowd in general r i he young man now stepped into the dory and poked away the tinkers small mackerel that were sliding about standing on the edge of the boat he stooped down grasped the skate-like fish and lifted raising it about a foot then uttering a yell he staggered a moment and fell with a resounding splash into the water nearly capsizing the boat in accomplishing the feat which was re ceived with shouts of laughter from the dock the old fisherman fairly dancing a hornpipe on the rail what's the matter with you he shouted as the unfortunate athlete scram bled into the dory agaiu swearing like a pirate trying to upset the boat aro you ?" who struck me some one avegine a knock ou the head just as i was lift ing nonsense said some one in tho crowd you wasn't touched i'll take my oath i felt something hit me if this is a skin game i want to know it braciug himself firmly in the boat he again grasped the fish iu both hands ami raised it three feet and then fish athlete and all went over backward among the tinkers man lish oars and balers were mixed up for a moment at last the skowhegan lifter made a break fur the dock and once upon it sank down ou a pile of hoards he was as white as a sheet and covered with scales from head to foot send for the apothecary he gasped as the men crowded round why what's the matter with you i've had a stroke whispered the vic tim the minute i stooped to lift i felt it a a-runnin all over me it's in our family bat i've got it bad aud here he rubbed his arms and legs it knocked me clean off my feet he added and my limbs felt like sticks send but here a roar of laughter broke from the men and one of them seizing him by the arm and jerked him to his feet you're all right my lad only next time don't go finding around old amos he's a hard nut here's your money sonnv said the old mau holding out the bill you've earned it what do i mean ?" he continued why jest ihis vou havn't had a shock of paralysis you tried tew lieft one of these torpeders they'll knock a horse i if yon take em right the athlete looked vacantly ahead ! took b«ick ids money and left amid the renewed laughter of the el'owd he'll have a yarn to tell the skowhe | gaif folks said the perpetrator of the joke but i do hate to hear a man blow and thought i'd take him down injured no sir-ee he'll feel stiff for nn hour or so but it won't harm him i've been | struck by em a hundred times and it's no fun i can tell you it's just like being i struck by a mild stroke of lightning i don't generally touch em but a man j gave me a dollar to fetch one iu so i kept i it in the boat they'll shock you right through the net when i was hauling in i the tinker seine thia morning i knew i j had a shock fish from the jerking of my arms the shocks come right up the wet cording so that sometimes you enu't hang ; ou anyhow i've seen a mau who struck j one with an iron harpoon thinking it a skate knocked down so quick he never knew what hit him governor jarvis at louisville on governors day at the louis ville exposition the governor of north carolina spoke as follows : ladies and gentlemen — it is with peculiar pleasure that i greet you here this evening i stand i believe as near the spot that divided the two sections of our country twenty years i ago as any spot that could be selec ted across the river were those who wore the blue o.i this side of the j river rested those who wore the gray ' and whatever the differences were that kept us apart then i am glad to hear the governor of missouri and ] the governor of indiana say here to -, day that they and their people have buried the past and now we have j but on country one flag and one destiny applause the unity of feeling has been brought about and , accomplished by many circumstances we have had different efforts at recon j struction congress took its hand at it | and without any comments upon the success of its plans whatever i pass ' on patriotisms then took took its hand at it with its beautiful centen nials of the great battles through which our common ancestors passed i one hundred years ago and mere then business laid its hand upon the ' reconstruction of our country aud whatever may have been the success ( or failure of other plans of reconstruc tion business has made it and acconi plishod it and to-tlav the american i j people in this grand ol i state or in i any other state in the south or the . fair north upon the sores of the at lantic or upon the shores of the pacif ic can meet together as american citizens can meet together as breth ren workino together for the prosperi ty of a commo country and the har ness of all the people applause this exhibition here is one of several that we have had in this business of the reconstruction ofthe country and it is with peculiar pleasure that i am permitted as governor of one of the southern states to meet here with you this evening and rejoice with you at the business prosperity of the country as exhibited here in this great exhibition that you are now conducting the great north has grown rich and prosperous the great west has grown up with unequaled rapidity two great sections full of wealth and prosperity of both these sections of our common country but we invito the people and the capital of the north and the people and the capital of the west to oume down south and if they come we will promise to give them a different reception from what we did twenty years ago ap plause but ladies and gentlemen it only remains now fop me to thank you for your attention ; it only remains for me to say that north carolina is in sympathy with this exposition and in sympathy with the great industries that the south is rapidly moving for ward within the path of prosperity while we feel that we have many advantages as a manufacturing people and while we may think that manu factures will prosper in the south there is one thing i would not have the southern people forget and that is that by nature the south is pecu liarly an agricultural seel ion and that it becomes us while we encourage the great manufacturing interests not to neglect the great agricultural interests of the south applause upon the agricultural interest chiefly depends the prosperity of the south it is the agriculturist that supplies the teem ing millions of the earth and upon agriculture ofthe south every section ofthe country is more or less depend ent the manifold looms and facto ries and spindles of new england the great factories of the east are us ing the material that comes from the south they are dependent upon our prosperity and i now have seen witn mine eyes and witnessed with mine ears that you are in symj ay with the increasing prosperity of the south the the increasing lines of railways and the business ramifications that con nect and make one the various sec tions of the country it is for the ! good of our country that no one sec j tion of it is entirely independent of j the other but that we are mutually dependent upon each other and make helps and supports to each other with such a country and people and such a union of interests and senti ments who can tell iis future its future may be boundless its people happy if we will only regard the great lessons that nature has taught us my friends once the people of this country neglected these great les sons when we come to look at a dividing line to divide this great coun try we can find none we find no great mountain cutting the country from east to west no great river di vides it from the east to the west but all the great ranges of mountains and rivers flow and run north and south god in his wisdom intended that this country should be one nature in its every-day lessons teaches us that it should be one let this people be one not only as american citizens living under one flag,butone in sympa thy with each other from one bound ary of the country to the other tluirninii interviewed ex-senator thurman of ohio who is in washington in attendance upon the supreme court was inter viewed by a reporter : how about politics in ohio queried the reporter i know nothing more than every body else docs about politics and less than many people but there is one thing democrats should keep in mind whilcpeople are hunting around for outside causes for tiie result of the oiiio election that is that the real reason is lost sight of this in a nutshell i that the people are tired ofthe rule of the republican party that same cause will carry pennsyl vania new york aud new jersey how will the result affect the presidential election ?" as a matter of course favora blv and thes-natorsliip that i have nothing to say about except that i am not a candidate for that or any other place — except a quiet place to rest and enjov my self how do they feel in ohio about the civil rights decision just ren dered r i don't know how others feel but i made the longest speech i ever delivered in the senate against the bill taking much the same ground the com t took 1 am satisfied what we owe x y herald twenty-eight cents was ihe per cap ita proportion ofthe national debt in 18*38 in 1sg5 the cost of the war had swollen the per capita to more than seventy-eight dollars and the an nual interest per capita was four dol lars and twenty-nine cents then the payment of the debt began and on the 1st of jufy last tho per capita principal was only twenty-eight dol lars showing an average reduction of nearly three dollars per capita for each ofthe last eighteen years the in terest charge per capita is now ninety five cents the elaborate analysis made by the treasury department from which these figures are extracted shows that there was less cash in the coffers of the government in 1861 than in any other of the twenty-seveu years embraced in the document the amount then being less than three million dollars as against three hundred and fifty-five millions cash in the treas ury to-day the monthly interest charge which in 1857 was only one hundred and thrity-nine thousand dollars had nine years later grown to the maximum uf twelve and a half millions und is now down to four and a quarter millions a bad practice it is reported that the man hanged in new york yesterday was given stimulants be fore the execution this is only an other way of seeing that he was allow ed to become gloriously drunk he also had a hypodermic injection of morphine administered if such stu pefying processes are to be permitted it might be as well to give the convict chloroform at once thus saving his neck and his feelings — phila lie cord hunters bitten messers jno f anthony and bob hiuson went possum hunting saturday night while trying to keep the dog from bruising the possum mr anthony was severely bitten on the hand a few minutes later the dog while try ing to get the possum bit the end off mr hiuson thumb in a few min t.tjs more the dog had a fit and con tinues to have them since the hands of both gentlemen are very sore and painful — lincoln press a majority over all the full returns from the ohio election show that hoadly democrat [ not only has a majority of 12,520 ! over foraker republican but he has j a majority of 1,383 over his republi can greenback and prohibition op i ponents combined and this despite the fact that the republican vote i shows an increase of 50,000 over that | of last fall the total vote this vear is 721,464 nearly 3,503 less than was j ca9t at the presidential election in " 1880 at that election garfield's majority over hancock was 34,227 the late election thus showing a dif ference in favor of the democracy of 46,956 in the state senate the dem ocrats have elected 22 democrats against 11 republicans and in the house 60 representatives against 45 republicans giving a democratic majority of 26 on joint ballot civil rights 4n indignation meeting — an insult to our iiuce a chicago telegram dated oct 25 says a well attended meeting of col ored citizens was held last night for the purpose of protesting against the recent decision of the supreme court on the civil rights bill rev w polk pastor of the church in which the meeting was held said in the course of his remarks : this decision is an insult to our race i have al ways been a good republican but now i believe we should give our allegi ance to that party which will give us our rights even if it runs devils tickets or ken butler surprised by weal tli an irishman named peter mcen erney died in birmingham conn a short time ago he had come over from ireland but a t'aw years before he left a family of seven children the oldest of whom is 21 he kept a small grocery store keep • up sonic show of respectability yet living ap parently on almost nothing at all at his death he left no will and the widow and orphans expected to fare but poorly as the administrator went to work however he revealed new wonders a every step first a large amount of real estate belonging to mveiieriiey aud amounting to about 100,000 in value was discov ed hardly was the surprise at this over when word came from fish & hatch in new york that they held 150,000 in bonds for mcenerney how the man ever collected so great an amount of property is a mystery to his family as much as to everybody else grafted spanish chestnuts — at the recent fair in cecil county maryland some hue spanish chest nuts were exhibited by mr george balderston of colora who grafted some of our native trees with this va riety a few years ago and this fall raised a few quarts pf them they ripen some weeks in advance of our native chestnuts and sell iu our cities for twenty-five cents per quart which is about five times the ordinary price of our native fruit when it ripens a few weeks later farmers and others so situated as to be able to give their attention to raising chestnuts would do well to plant this variety or pro bably what is better graft their native trees with cuttings from the spanish chestnut — cecil democrat david davis ahead — the chi cago j\ews says the well-known drop game recently tried with success on a brooklyn bank depositor develop ed an anecdote that is told judge da vid davis the judge was making a deposit at a washington hank and stood counting a large pile of money at a desk a well-dressed young man stepped up and with a bow and a smile said : judge you have drop ped a bill sure enough there lay a clean crisp genuine 2 hill at the deposior's feet thauk you bland ly answered the judge placing his ponderous right ft o over the bill an the floor and calmly resumed his counting the sharper taken aback by the coolness ofthe proceeding dis appeared and the judge was 2 ahead by the transaction crazed by reuqiox — xuah al exander aged aboul $) years from the west end of the county was lodged in jail last week he is violently in sane and was so dangerous that the sheriff found it necessary to roofiiie him in an iron cage he calls for blood and breaking a glass from the window would crush it in h:s hands and watch the blood flow his songf cries and curses could be heard over the west end of town his insanity is said to have been occasioned by religious excitement at a protracted meeting he attended a short time ago within the last few days he has become more quiet.—lin coln proa scenes iu holland w a croffnt in a letter from holland , says : i rode a hundred miles across the 1 j country yesterday ii i about a mono j tonous as the jersey flats i don'l see j how ou earth it is thnt dutch artists nld , i and new have succeeded in expressing . so much beauty and sentiment in iheir i pictures of these level lands nhirh pos • sets intrinsically bo little of seutimeut 1 or beauty most of oar way lay through the polders-land which was once the bottom of the sea no fences any where along the railroad on the land c'ulv was a broad deep ditch level full of water and at right angles with his other ditches at intervals of a few rod flowed level full of water and disappeared in the grass far inland on the ocean side ofthe train a huge embankment rose and sails were visible above it and foamy waves leaped up here aud there aud peeped over jeal ously at the fertile acres and the broad backed bundle cows grazing on the embankment windmills with tremendous wings like the sails of a merchantman worked their pumps in lu^yi.-h confi dence of victory every fifty rods above the ditches wooden gates rose to cover small bridges set there for convenience about the only object except the cows to break the vision attempts are being made to grow trees and at rather distant intervals a little house is set and the oc cupant has carted on enough dry vegeta ble mold to make himself a garden all that i have ever heard abmit ihe neatness of theso dutch people seems justified he who rises early \\ ; i see the inhabitants swarming like bets arm ed with the implements of renovation men are on their knees 011 the sidewalks women with scrubbing brushes cling to the windows with violent gestures the knockers shine like gold at the church door lies a mat of sewed rays and by the side of the mat stands a man his brow furrowed with anxiety and when i pans without seeing it he clatters at me a word or two of gut tend expostulation and pointing to the mat turns me back to wipe my feet oil it then i not a speck of mud in the streets but theie is a little dust and the care-woru guardian knows that dust is a subtle enemy thai loves to fly up and roost on the stained glass oriels and the cai veil pulpit i have not 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|5' 9"
|Asuncion, Paraguay
|Immaculec Conception
2005-06: Compiled a 19-13 singles record...went 5-2 in conference play�was an unanimous selection for the All-Conference first team�defeated No. 29 San Diego�s Thomas Liversage, 6-3, 6-4�posted a 5-5 singles record in fall tournament action�defeated Jordan Delass of Georgia Tech, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, before falling to No. 86 Strahinja Bobusic of Georgia 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 at the Southern Collegiate...earned a first-round bye in the ITA Regional Indoor Championships�defeated Liron Strauss of Wake Forest, 6-3, 6-2 before falling to No. 88 Peter Rodriguez of Duke, 6-3, 6-0�advanced to the semi-finals at the Las Vegas Invitational, after defeating Sergui Modoc of Fresno State, 6-1, 6-1 and Kaden Hensel of Tennessee, 6-3, 6-2, before falling to Ryan Rowe of Illinois, 6-2, 6-4... was paired with Lisandro Picardo in doubles, the duo compiled a 14-9 overall doubles record and were a perfect 5-0 in conference play.
2004-2005: Posted a 14-4 singles record in the fall ... won eighth of his last nine matches heading into the spring ... made the semifinals of the Southern Intercollegiate Championships ... fell one match shy of the qualifying round at the Icy/Hot ITA All-American Tournament ... won the A-1 consolation bracket at the USC Fall Invitational ... won the flight two finals match against Andrew Eklov of No. 2 Illinois, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, at the UNLV Fall Invitational ... went 1-5 in doubles. Posted a 18-4 singles record in the spring...defeated No. 22 Ockie Oosthuizen of Tennessee, 6-4,6-4...earned SoCon player of the week for his performance during the week of March 9, winning matches against College of Charleston and The Citadel...named SoCon athlete of the month after posting a 5-1 singles record in the No. 2 position during the conference tournament and a perfect 5-0 doubles record with partner Lisandro Picardo...named Most Outstanding Player at the tournament and was a first team all-conference pick in singles and second team all-conference selection in doubles.
2003-04: Joined the team in the spring of 2004 ... compiled a 15-5 overall record and a 9-1 record in the conference playing at No. 6 ... won matches against opponents from No. 54 Tennessee and No. 53 Louisville ... recorded an 18-6 doubles record playing primarily at No. 3 with teammate Fernando Fiuri ... won his No. 3 doubles match 8-5 at the NCAA tournament against No. 16 TCU with partner Fiuri ... named to the All-SoCon Second Team in both singles and doubles.
Prep: Insaurralde was ranked No. 1 in singles in Paraguay between the ages of 12-18 ... participated in the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg in 1999 ... member of the Paraguay Davis Cup Team in 1998, 1999, and 2001 ... attended high school at Immaculee Concepti�n ... transferred from the University of Mexico in Monterey.
Personal: Born on July 1, 1982 ... major is business ... son of Mirtha Concepci�n Ag�ero and Anastacio Insaurralde.


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Anyone who is over the age of 18 --- other than you --- can serve the respondent. There are 3 ways service of process can be completed:
(a) By Process Server: Hire a process server. Find them in the Yellow Pages.
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(b) By Personal Service: have a friend or relative over the age of 18, who has no involvement in the PPO request, personally hand the PPO paperwork to the person being restrained; or
(c) By Mail: serve the person being restrained by registered mail (return receipt requested) with delivery restricted to him/her. The registered mail package should include a copy of the notice of hearing (if it is for a Hearing Motion), a copy of the entire packet you filled out and filed with the clerk as the PPO, and a copy of the order.
Can the Respondent be given oral notice of the PPO?
As of July 1, 2000, a law enforcement officer or clerk of the court who has knowledge of the existence of a PPO may serve the PPO on the Respondent or give oral notice of the existence of the PPO. After doing so, he/she must file a proof of service or proof of oral notice with the court.
What happens after the person being restrained is served with the PPO?
Once the respondent is served, you must file separate "proofs of service" that your agent has handed both the Petition for PPO (either Form CC 375, CC 375M, CC 377, or CC 377M) and the Court's PPO Order (either Form CC 376, CC 380, or CC 380M) to the respondent. The proof of service forms for each are virtually the same, and are located on the back sides of the Petition and PPO forms. The proof of service requires information on the date, time and place where service occurred. File the completed forms with the Circuit Court Clerk.
When does the PPO go into effect?
The order goes into effect as soon as the judge signs it. The PPO can be enforced immediately. However, if the Respondent has not yet been served with a copy of the PPO, he will be orally informed of the terms of the order by the responding police officer and given an opportunity to comply with the order.
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CLE ELUM, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters employed every weapon they had Wednesday to battle a stubborn wildfire east of the Cascades that has destroyed dozens of homes across roughly 35 square miles.
Helicopters made regular drops of water on hot spots. Firefighters dug lines with hand tools and bulldozers and cleared wood piles and dry brush from around homes to protect them.
And at the fire's troublesome north flank, where massive plumes of smoke soared skyward, heavy tankers repeatedly dropped retardant on thick stands of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir — some of the heavy timber that fire crews had hoped to keep the Taylor Bridge Fire from reaching.
New evacuations were ordered Wednesday evening on the north flank, fire spokesman Glenn Kohler said. He didn't know how many people were affected. Hundreds have already left their homes.
Retirees Dave and Jan Stambaugh eyed the massive fire behind their home warily Wednesday, as they loaded treasured artwork into their cars.
The home sits on a rural lane in a meadow just below flaming forested hills.
"It's one thing about the house, but my yard, oh my garden," Stambaugh said, pointing to her lush new landscaping with ponds, shrubs, stepping stones and a putting green. "Do you think it'll make it?"
Next door, 81-year-old Joanne Blanchard wondered the same thing after stuffing her trunk with photo albums.
Minutes later, sheriff's deputies began knocking on doors to notify residents it was time to flee. Blanchard's daughter came up the street from her own home to make sure her parents were ready to go. Others quickly finished filling up campers with prized possessions.
"I think the houses are fine, because we've got open space all around here," said Eric Wulf, as he began loading up six horses to evacuate. "It's just a pain more than anything else."
In better news, fire management officials said the fire is now 25 percent contained, up from 10 percent.
Since Monday, the fire has burned across more than 22,000 acres of tinder-dry grass, sagebrush and timber in rural areas east of Cle Elum, about 75 miles east of Seattle.
More than 800 people are working to suppress the blaze. Kohler said one firefighter suffered a minor facial burn.
Authorities say at least 60 primary residences have been destroyed, but conditions are still too dangerous to come up with an exact count.
The acreage estimate was down from earlier estimates of about 28,000 acres, due to more accurate mapping, according to incident commander Rex Reed. Reed also said conditions were still too dangerous to get an exact count on the number of homes burned, but confirmed at least 60 homes had been destroyed.
The Kittitas County sheriff also has said that at least 10 additional homes had burned in a subdivision on the southeast corner of the blaze.
"Frankly it's not safe yet to get to the interior of the fire," Reed said.
Gov. Chris Gregoire declared a state of emergency for Kittitas and Yakima counties in response to the blaze. That provided air support from the Washington National Guard.
Fire crews also were keeping a wary eye on weather conditions later in the week, with hotter, drier conditions expected Thursday and Friday.
Meanwhile, a brush fire not far from Grand Coulee Dam in Eastern Washington has burned nearly 8 square miles and an old barn outside of Elmer City.
Cathy Moses of the Colville Tribe said the fire was threatening nine homes in the town near Grand Coulee Dam. The fire broke out Tuesday evening and has closed Highway 155 near Elmer City.
— Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities
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An accredited college or university is one which has available the necessary resources to achieve its stated purposes through appropriate educational programs, is substantially doing so, and gives reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Institutional integrity is also addressed through accreditation.
Accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities is not partial but applies to the institution as a whole. As such, it is not a guarantee of every course or program offered, or the competence of individual graduates. Rather, it provides reasonable assurance about the quality of opportunities available to students who attend the institution.
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Accreditation Reports
Seattle Central College's recent accreditation reports:
- Regular Interim Report, April 2010
- NWCCU Regular Interim Evaluation Report, May 2010
- Annual Status Report, 2009–2010
- Year One Self–Evaluation Report and Appendices, March 2011
- Comprehensive Self–Evaluation Report, March 2012
- Year One Self–Evaluation Report, March 2013
- Mid–Cycle Evaluation Report and Appendices, March 2015
Seattle Central College is also a member of the League for Innovation, a prestigious group of community colleges nationwide who have been selected for membership based on education excellence.


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Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19 June 2013 (IUCN) – East Rennell in the Solomon Islands has been added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN, the official World Heritage advisory body on nature. Lake Turkana National Parks in Kenya and Virgin Komi Forests in Russia were not added to the Danger List, against IUCN's advice.
According to IUCN's report, the ongoing logging on the western part of Rennell island – only 12 km from the World Heritage site –threatens major damage to the forest's ecology. The introduction of invasive species by logging and container ships also constitutes a serious danger to endemic wildlife. Black Ship Rat (Rattus rattus) has already been observed on the western part of the island. IUCN has advised for an emergency action plan and the government of Solomon Islands has committed to deliver an urgent study on the impacts of logging on Rennell Island.
East Rennell, declared a World Heritage site in 1998, is the largest raised coral atoll in the world and its dense forest has a canopy averaging 20 metres in height. The World Heritage site makes up the south-eastern half of Rennell Island, the southernmost island in the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific.
The Virgin Komi Forests, Russia's first natural site added to the World Heritage List in 1995, has not been inscribed on the 'danger list' by the World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. IUCN had been recommending danger listing for the area since 2011, after a joint IUCN/World Heritage Centre mission identified plans for gold mining.
The World Heritage Committee decided also not to add Lake Turkana National Parks to the List of World Heritage in Danger, for second year in a row. The site is threatened by a dam construction on the Omo River in Ethiopia, which provides 80% of lake's freshwater.
Last year, IUCN's recommendation was overruled to allow more time for a monitoring mission to visit Ethiopia. Although necessary action was not taken as requested in 2012, both Kenya and Ethiopia expressed their willingness to address international concerns.
"Adding East Rennell to the list of World Heritage in Danger is a positive step in the face of major challenges to this site and IUCN sees it as a chance to marshal international support and join forces with the Solomons on a clear action plan to conserve the island's unique values" says Peter Shadie, Deputy Head of IUCN's delegation to the Committee.
With the inscription of East Rennell on the danger list, the total number of threatened natural World Heritage sites climbs to 18, almost 9% of all natural World Heritage sites.
This year's Committee also discussed action required to prevent danger listing the Great Barrier Reef in 2014. An IUCN/World Heritage Centre report revealed that coastal development, port infrastructure and poor water quality pose serious threats to the reef ecosystem, its plants and species such as sea grass, the green turtle and the dugong. Australia was asked to increase its commitment to reef protection and the site will be re-examined by the Committee in 2014.
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
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LONDON, Ontario (Reuters) - Olympic and world ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will enjoy home ice advantage this week as they defend their world championship crown but the Canadians will do their best to try and pretend they are somewhere else.
Having grown up in Ilderton, just minutes from the 7,000-seat London arena that will host the championships, it is unlikely the Canadian pair will be able to forget where they are with a sign declaring "Home of Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, Olympic and world ice dance champions" there to remind them.
"We feel like we're the luckiest kids, we got a home Olympics and now we're getting a hometown world championships which is virtually unheard of," Moir told reporters. "Our job as athletes is to treat it as a normal worlds as much as possible... we're going to try to do little tricks to make us feel that we are not at home in London, Ontario.
"But we'll definitely feel that support when we're on the ice and we'll try and use that in a positive way."
Competing at home represents a double-edged sword for the Olympic champions, who know they will have to be razor sharp if they are to see off the challenge from their long-time American rivals and training partners Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
On one hand, Virtue and Moir are sure to get a boost from a hometown crowd that will be squarely in their corner but on the other must deal with the distractions of family and friends while trying to maintain their routine.
While there may indeed be no place like home, this week Moir and Virtue will not sleep in their own beds or enjoy home cooked meals.
"We're not staying at our homes even though we are just 15 minutes down the road," said Virtue. "Staying at the hotel, taking the bus to the rink, eating in the skaters room at the hotel, those kind of things all make a difference, just separating ourselves from our family and friends so we can get in that competition zone we tend to get in."
Virtue and Moir have certainly enjoyed success on the road, winning medals at five successive world championships dating back to 2008. They captured gold last year in France and in Italy in 2010. They also picked up silvers in Russia (2011) and Sweden (2008) and a bronze in Los Angeles (2009).
But they also know how to get the job done on home ice after taking top spot on the podium at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and collecting five national titles.
"There is pressure to perform and be at your best in front of your home country let alone your home town but Tessa and I pride ourselves on being professionals so we can rely on our experience and the experience of the Vancouver Olympics where we had to kind of get into our bubble," explained Moir.
"We want that title, we just have to think about doing our job and hopefully the crowd will enjoy it as much as we do."
Virtue and Moir and Davis and White have dominated the ice dance scene taking the top two spots at the last three worlds and Vancouver Olympics.
While the Americans had to settle for silver behind the Canadians at the 2010 Winter Games and again at last year's worlds, Davis and White have had the better of their good friends this season finishing in first place ahead of their training partners at the Grand Prix final and Four Continents.
If Virtue and Moir are to extend their reign at the worlds, it is likely to hinge on their innovative free dance that judges have yet to totally embrace.
Putting their own unique spin on the Italian opera Carmen, the Canadians have pushed the ice dance envelope with the smoldering routine and paid the price with mixed marks.
"We really did set out to make an ambitious program this year and I think we were very successful achieving that goal but it can be frustrating when you push it early in the season," said Moir. "I guess one of the signs of a really tough program, a good program, is that it might not get rewarded right away.
"It can be trying on your patience because you are not getting rewarded... but this is the time of year when it starts to pay off."
Editing by Pritha Sarkar


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Craniofacial Research
Fever blisters and canker sores are two of the most common disorders of the mouth, causing discomfort and annoyance to millions of Americans. Both cause small sores to develop in or around the mouth, and often are confused with each other. Canker sores, however, occur only inside the mouth--on the tongue and the inside linings of the cheeks, lips and throat. Fever blisters, also called cold sores, usually occur outside the mouth--on the lips, chin, cheeks or in the nostrils. When fever blisters do occur inside the mouth, it is usually on the gums or the roof of the mouth. Inside the mouth, fever blisters are smaller than canker sores, heal more quickly, and often begin as a blister.
Both canker sores and fever blisters have plagued mankind for thousands of years. Scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, one of the federal government's National Institutes of Health, are seeking ways to better control and ultimately prevent these and other oral disorders.
In ancient Rome, an epidemic of fever blisters prompted Emperor Tiberius to ban kissing in public ceremonies. Today fever blisters still occur in epidemic proportions. About 100 million episodes of recurrent fever blisters occur yearly in the United States alone. An estimated 45 to 80 percent of adults and children in this country have had at least one bout with the blisters.
Fever blisters are caused by a contagious virus called herpes simplex. Them are two types of herpes simplex virus. Type 1 usually causes oral herpes, or fever blisters. Type 2 usually causes genital herpes. Although both type 1 and type 2 viruses can infect oral tissues, more than 95 percent of recurrent fever blister outbreaks are caused by the type 1 virus.
Herpes simplex virus is highly contagious when fever blisters are present, and the virus frequently is spread by kissing. Children often become infected by contact with parents, siblings or other close relatives who have fever blisters.
A child can spread the virus by rubbing his or her cold sore and then touching other children. About 10 percent of oral herpes infections in adults result from oral-genital sex with a person who has active genital herpes (type 2). These infections, however, usually do not result in repeat bouts of fever blisters.
Most people infected with the type 1 herpes simplex virus became infected before they were 10 years old. The virus usually invades the moist membrane cells of the lips, throat or mouth. In most people, the initial infection causes no symptoms. About 15 percent of patients, however, develop many fluid-filled blisters inside and outside the mouth 3 to 5 days after they are infected with the virus. These may be accompanied by fever, swollen neck glands and general aches. The blisters tend to merge and then collapse. Often a yellowish crust forms over the sores, which usually heal without scarring within 2 weeks.
The herpes virus, however, stays in the body. Once a person is infected with oral herpes, the virus remains in a nerve located near the cheekbone. It may stay permanently inactive in this site, or it may occasionally travel down the nerve to the skin surface, causing a recurrence of fever blisters. Recurring blisters usually erupt at the outside edge of the lip or the edge of the nostril, but can also occur on the chin, cheeks, or inside the mouth.
The symptoms of recurrent fever blister attacks usually are less severe than those experienced by some people after an initial infection. Recurrences appear to be less frequent after age 35. Many people who have recurring fever blisters feel itching, tingling or burning in the lip 1 to 3 days before the blister appears.
Several factors weaken the body's defenses and trigger an outbreak of herpes. These include emotional stress, fever, illness, injury and exposure to sunlight. Many women have recurrences only during menstruation. One study indicates that susceptibility to herpes recurrences is inherited. Research is under way to discover exactly how the triggering factors interact with the immune system and the virus to prompt a recurrence of fever blisters.
Currently there is no cure for fever blisters. Some medications can relieve some of the pain and discomfort associated with the sores, however. These include ointments that numb the blisters, antibiotics that control secondary bacterial infections, and ointments that soften the crusts of the sores.
Currently there is no vaccine for herpes simplex virus available to the public. Many research laboratories, however, are working on this approach to preventing fever blisters. For example, scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have developed a promising experimental herpes vaccine. In tests on laboratory mice, the vaccine has prevented the herpes simplex virus from infecting the animals and establishing itself in the nerves.
Although these findings are encouraging, the scientists must complete more animal studies on the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine before a decision can be made whether to test it in humans. The vaccine would be useful only for those not already infected with herpes simplex virus.
If fever blisters erupt, keep them clean and dry to prevent bacterial infections. Eat a soft, bland diet to avoid irritating the sores and surrounding sensitive areas. Be careful not to much the sores and spread the virus to new sites, such as the eyes or genitals. To make sure you do not infect others, avoid kissing them or touching the sores and then touching another person.
There is good news for people whose fever blister outbreaks are triggered by sunlight. Scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research have confirmed that sunscreen on the lips can prevent sun-induced recurrences of herpes. They recommend applying the sunscreen before going outside and reapplying it frequently during sun exposure. The researchers used a sunblock with a protection factor of 15 in their studies.
Little is known about how to prevent recurrences of fever blisters triggered by factors other than sunlight. People whose cold sores appear in response to stress should try to avoid stressful situations. Some investigators have suggested adding lysine to the diet or eliminating foods such as nuts, chocolate, seeds or gelatin. These measures have not, however, been proven effective in controlled studies.
Researchers are working on several approaches to preventing or treating fever blisters. As mentioned earlier, they are trying to develop a vaccine against herpes simplex virus. Several laboratories are developing and testing antiviral drugs designed to hamper or prevent fever blister outbreaks. Researchers also are trying to develop ointments that make it easier for antiviral drugs to penetrate the skin.
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug that prevents the herpes simplex virus from multiplying. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for use in treating genital herpes, and is considering its approval for use in treating oral herpes. Researchers have found that acyclovir taken in pill form reduces the symptoms and frequency of fever blister recurrences in some patients. In one study, 50 percent of patients who took four acyclovir pills daily for 4 months had no fever blister outbreaks. Before taking the drug, they had an average of one recurrence every 2 months. In separate studies, pills taken at the onset of symptoms or acyclovir cream applied to the blisters or to areas of the lip that tingled or itched were found to be only minimally effective. The long-term effects of daily oral doses of acyclovir are not known, nor are the effects the drug might have on an unborn child.
Basic research on how the immune system interacts with herpes simplex viruses may lead to new therapies for fever blisters. The immune system uses a wide array of cells and chemicals to defend the body against infections. Scientists are trying to identify the immune components that prevent recurrent attacks of oral herpes.
Scientists are also trying to determine the precise form and location of the inactive herpes virus in nerve cells. This information might allow them to design antiviral drugs that can attack the herpes virus while it lies dormant in nerves.
In addition, researchers are trying to understand how sunlight, skin injury and stress can trigger recurrences of fever blisters. They hope to develop methods for blocking reactivation of the virus.
Recurrent canker sores afflict about 20 percent of the general population. The medical term for the sores is aphthous stomatitis.
Canker sores are usually found on the movable parts of the mouth such as the tongue or the inside linings of the lips and cheeks. They begin as small oval or round reddish swellings, which usually burst within a day. The ruptured sores are covered by a thin white or yellow membrane and edged by a red halo. Generally, they heal within 2 weeks. Canker sores range in size from an eighth of an inch wide in mild cases to more than an inch wide in severe cases. Severe canker sores may leave scars. Fever is rare, and the sores are rarely associated with other diseases. Usually a person will have only one or a few canker sores at a time.
Most people have their first bout with canker sores between the ages of 10 and 20. Children as young as 2, however, may develop the condition. The frequency of canker sore recurrences varies considerably. Some people have only one or two episodes a year, while others may have a continuous series of canker sores.
The cause of canker sores is not well understood. More than one cause is likely, even for individual patients. Canker sores do not appear to be caused by viruses or bacteria, although an allergy to a type of bacterium commonly found in the mouth may trigger them in some people. The sores may be an allergic reaction to certain foods. In addition, there is research suggesting that canker sores may be caused by a faulty immune system that uses the body's defenses against disease to attack and destroy the normal cells of the mouth or tongue.
British studies show that, in about 20 percent of patients, canker sores are due partly to nutritional deficiencies, especially lack of vitamin B12, folic acid and iron. Similar studies performed in the United States, however, have not confirmed this finding. In a small percentage of patients, canker sores occur with gastrointestinal problems, such as an inability to digest certain cereals. In these patients, canker sores appear to be part of a generalized disorder of the digestive tract.
Female sex hormones apparently play a role in causing canker sores. Many women have bouts of the sores only during certain phases of their menstrual cycles. Most women experience improvement or remission of their canker sores during pregnancy. Researchers have used hormone therapy successfully in clinical studies to treat some women.
Both emotional stress and injury to the mouth can trigger outbreaks of canker sores, but these factors probably do not cause the disorder.
Women are more likely than men to have recurrent canker sores. Genetic studies show that susceptibility to recurrent outbreaks of the sores is inherited in some patients. This partially explains why the disorder is often shared by family members.
Most doctors recommend that patients who have frequent bouts of canker sores undergo blood and allergy tests to determine if their sores are caused by a nutritional deficiency, an allergy or some other preventable cause. Vitamins and other nutritional supplements often prevent recurrences or reduce the severity of canker sores in patients with a nutritional deficiency. Patients with food allergies can reduce the frequency of canker sores by avoiding those foods.
There are several treatments for reducing the pain and duration of canker sores for patients whose outbreaks cannot be prevented. These include numbing ointments such as benzocaine, which are available in drug stores without a prescription. Anti-inflammatory steroid mouthrinses or gels can be prescribed for patients with severe sores.
Mouthrinses containing the antibiotic tetracycline may reduce the unpleasant symptoms of canker sores and speed healing by preventing bacterial infections in the sores. Clinical studies at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research have shown that rinsing the mouth with tetracycline several times a day usually relieves pain in 24 hours and allows complete healing in 5 to 7 days. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns, however, that tetracycline given to pregnant women and young children can permanently stain youngsters' teeth. Both steroid and tetracycline treatments require a prescription and care of a dentist or physician.
Patients with severe recurrent canker sores may need to take steroid or other immuno-suppressant drugs orally. These potent drugs can cause many undesirable side effects, and should be used only under the close supervision of a dentist or physician.
If you have canker sores, avoid abrasive foods such as potato chips that can stick in the cheek or gum and aggravate the sores. Take care when brushing your teeth not to stab the gums or cheek with a toothbrush bristle. Avoid acidic and spicy foods. Canker sores are not contagious, so patients do not have a worry about spreading them to other people.
Researchers are trying to identify the malfunctions in patients' immune systems that make them susceptible to recurrent bouts of canker sores. By analyzing the blood of people with and without canker sores, scientists have found several differences in immune function between the two groups. Whether these differences cause canker sores is not yet known.
Researchers also are developing and testing new drugs designed to treat canker sores. Most of these drugs alter the patients' immune function. Although some of the drugs appear to be effective in treating canker sores in some patients, the data are still inconclusive. Until these drugs are proven to be absolutely safe and effective, they will not be available for general use.
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Tony Bibbs points out the latest release of the Geeklog_Generator PEAR package today, version 1.0.0.
What is Geeklog_Generator? It's a package that compliments the great ORM implementation, Propel. What's missing from Propel, you ask? First and foremost, it's always annoyed me that Propel (more concisely, the Propel Generator) doesn't generate pure PHP model objects...objects that don't need to include a bunch of persistence level code.
Geeklog_Generator gets around this by building minimal, pure PHP models (called Data Transfer Objects or DTO for short) that can not only be passed around easily via web services but it also but they can be quickly turned into the persistable Propel objects.
Changes made for this release include "massive updates in preparation for GL2 GSoC and scafolding". You can grab the latest version of the package from its PEAR repository.


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Last season, the Warwick and Cranston girls' hockey teams were battling each other for the final playoff spot. Warwick got that spot thanks in large part to two hard-fought victories over the Cranston squad, the first a 3-2 overtime win and the second a 3-1 victory.
With a veteran club, Warwick is thinking bigger this year.
The results of a weekend set against Cranston are another sign that the Lady Titans have every right to be thinking big.
Warwick blitzed Cranston for a 6-0 victory on Friday at Thayer Arena then capped the solid weekend with a 6-4 win over Cranston on Sunday in Smithfield.
"There are a few areas of our game that we still need to work on, but overall, we're playing well," head coach Dave Tibbetts said after Friday's win. "This was good to see. Last year, we were kind of neck-and-neck with them for the last playoff spot. It was nice to see a really good performance tonight. Hopefully, this can separate us from the pack a little bit."
The victories improved Warwick to 5-2. Its only losses have come against Bay View and La Salle, who are in the Emma Division, the higher of two D-I subdivisions. Warwick is now just a game behind the Barrington/Mt. Hope/Portsmouth co-op for first place in the DeCosta Division.
Heading into the weekend, the Titans knew they'd be in for a challenge. They were coming off a 2-0 loss to La Salle, and they were facing an improved Cranston team whose co-op now includes East Greenwich. The Thunderbirds came in with a 2-2 record and had lost to Barrington/Mt. Hope/Portsmouth by just a 2-0 score.
But Warwick was up for the challenge – and then some.
The Titans out-shot Cranston 11-2 in the first period and lit the lamp with 4:25 left on a goal by Emily Fox. Julianna Mollo had the assist.
In the second period, Warwick really surged.
Cranston picked up a penalty with 5:37 left, and 43 seconds later, Abby Ellis took a pass from Fox on the breakaway and buried a shot for the 2-0 lead.
Just 49 seconds later, Warwick struck again. Ellis slipped a pass from behind the net to Claudia Collins, who punched in a shot to make it 3-0.
Then, 28 seconds later, Fox made a short crossing pass to Casey McCormick, who tucked a shot inside the post for the 4-0 lead.
"I was really impressed actually," said Collins, a senior. "Last year when we played them, we had a close game – 3-2 in overtime. We kind of blew them out of the water this time. I was really excited about it."
The key to the second-period surge was a slight adjustment. Though Warwick had the edge in shots it wasn't breaking through for most of the period.
"We were just kind of coming down and shooting the puck," Tibbetts said. "We realized we had to work around the net better, and that's what we did."
The Titans made it 5-0 on McCormick's second goal of the night, which came just 23 seconds into the third period. Jaime Given scored with 1:42 left in the game for the final margin.
"We've improved so much since last year, so I wasn't surprised," said senior Jaime Claeson. "Some people didn't expect it, but I knew what we could do. It was good."
Fox led the Titans with three assists, while McCormick and Ellis tallied two assists each. Given and Savannah Hersey each had one assist.
In addition to the offensive outburst, the Titans got a good performance in goal from sophomore Arielle Frank. A forward last year, Frank moved to goalie this season and is one of three Titans pushing for time. Friday was her first full game in net, and she ended up with a shutout.
"I was really, really nervous and I was in a bad mood all day, but it all worked out," Frank said. "It's really exciting."
In Sunday's rematch, the Titans got a tougher test from the Thunderbirds but still found a way to come out on top. After taking an early lead, the Titans fell behind 3-2 in the second period and 4-3 in the third. But Mollo, McCormick and Ellis scored three unanswered goals to seal the 6-4 victory.
Fox had another big game for the Titans, scoring three goals and dishing out two assists to finish the weekend with four goals and five assists. Collins added two assists in Sunday's game, while Ellis, Hannah McGuirl and Jacqueline Lyman had one each.
The Titans will return to action with a tough doubleheader this weekend. They'll play two-time defending state champ Mount St. Charles on Friday at 9:30 p.m. at the West Warwick Civic Center before taking on Barrington/Mt. Hope/Portsmouth on Saturday at 9:30 p.m. at Lynch Arena in Pawtucket.


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National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
(CNN) — Ice is back with a brand new … food holiday: July 23 is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day!
Vanilla has historically been the favorite ice cream flavor of Americans. Here are some ice cream facts from the International Dairy Foods Association:
Approximately 1.53 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen desserts were produced in the U.S. in 2011.
The U.S. ice cream industry generated total revenues of $10 billion in 2010, with take-home ice cream sales representing the largest section of the market, generating revenues of $6.8 billion or 67.7 percent of the market's overall value.
The central region of the U.S. led production of ice cream and related frozen products, producing 726 million gallons in 2011.
Frozen dairy production follows a clear seasonal pattern. Summer is the unchallenged season for eating ice cream and other related products. Production kicks up in March and April to fill retail and foodservice pipelines in the late spring and early summer. June is the highest production month of the year, but production remains strong through August to satisfy summer demand.
The best part about vanilla ice cream, though, is that it lends itself extremely well to toppings. What's your favorite way to spruce up the old favorite?
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JCMT Spectral Legacy Survey (SLS)
This is the web home of the JCMT Spectral Legacy Survey (SLS). This is one of the surveys making up the JCMT Legacy Survey Program.
Stars form in the densest, coldest, most quiescent regions of molecular clouds. Molecules provide the only probes which can reveal the dynamics, physics, chemistry and evolution of these regions, but our understanding of the molecular inventory of sources and how this is related to their physical state and evolution is rudimentary and incomplete. The Spectral Legacy Survey (SLS) proposes to use the unique spectral imaging capabilities of HARP-B/ACSIS to study the molecular inventory and the physical structure of a sample of objects spanning different evolutionary stages and different physical environments in molecular clouds and to probe their evolution during the star formation process. The SLS will for the first time produce a spectral imaging survey of the content and distribution of all the molecules detected in atmospheric window from 320 GHz to 375 GHz towards a sample of sources.
Talk about the current status of the SLS. Given at High Temperature Astrochemistry, Galway 7-8 January 2008. A meeting of the Astrophysical Chemistry Group of the RSC and RAS. (pdf file, Jan 2008)
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Nov 2006: HARP-B test image of the Orion Bar in HCO+ J=4-3. (Courtesy of Jane Buckle, John Richer and Bill Dent.)
Here's the poster we presented at the ALMA Conference in Madrid in November 2006. (Click on the image to retrieve the full size pdf.)


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Christopher Fish Byers was born in 1843 in Kentucky. He died in 1899 in Arkansas.
Christopher married Barbara V. in 1864 in Kentucky. Barbara was born about 1847 in Christian County, Kentucky. She died in 1906 in Arkansas.
They had the following children:
Mary Esther Byers was born in 1866 in Tennessee. She died in 1898 in Missouri.
Rose Barbara Byers was born in 1868 in Tennessee. She died circa 1921 in Des Moines County, Iowa.
Ann Byers was born on 16 Mar 1872 in Tennessee. She died on 29 May 1955 in Audrain County, Missouri.
Christina Frances Byers was born on 3 Jun 1875 in Tennessee. She died on 12 Jul 1916 in Mississippi.
Frank Abraham Byers was born on 27 Jul 1878 in Gibson County, Tennessee. He died in 1929 in Taney County, Missouri.
Edith Byers was born on 6 Nov 1881 in Tennessee. She died on 3 Jan 1963 in Cass County, Nebraska.
Joseph Byers was born in 1885 in Gibson County, Tennessee. He died on 5 Jul 1955 in Hall County, Texas.
Nancy Cora Byers was born on 13 May 1885 in Tennessee.
Mark Rufus Byers was born on 27 Mar 1888 in Tennessee. He died about 1918 in Illinois.


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On June 21, 2004, I joined twenty seven thousand other people to watch the launch of SpaceShipOne, the first private-venture craft to attempt to leave the earth's atmosphere and enter space, defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles). I and the other afflicted technophiles gathered in the pitch blackness of Mojave airport in California sometime after 3 AM, to await the 6:30 AM takeoff. As you can see from this photo, our particular religious devotion has its own special rituals and posturing. Various luminaries such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governator of California, John Travolta (a long-time fan of aeronautics) and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin were also on hand - but you can be sure they weren't slumming it with the rest of us!
The object of our devotion duly appeared, the rocket-powered SpaceShipOne slung below the twin-jet White Knight carrier aircraft. Both were specially designed by Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites company. Rutan is absolutely no stranger to weird and wonderful aircraft - his most famous effort to date is Voyager, which flew around the world in 1986 without refuelling.
Look closely in this shot and you'll see the pilot of SpaceShipOne waving his hand through one of the portholes. He's 63 year old Michael Melvill, a veteran test pilot.
These two aircraft are really like no other planes you're ever likely to see, unless of course it's something else that Rutan has cooked up!
Before the White Knight and StarShipOne took off, a couple of chase planes got into the air, including this executive transport manufactured by Beech Aircraft. If you're thinking that it looks seriously weird, that's because it was designed by none other than - Burt Rutan! He worked on the Beech Starship in the early 1980s when Beech approached Scaled Composites to do some work under contract. Although very innovative, the Starship never took off (if you'll pardon the pun) and only 50 or 60 were ever built.
But back to the main event - here's White Knight and StarShipOne on their takeoff run.
In this photo you can clearly see the twin tail booms of White Knight, and the twin tails of SpaceShipOne.
The White Knight drops SpaceShipOne when they reached an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15 kilometers), and it takes 30 or 40 minutes for them to reach this altitude. Along the way they levelled out for some time while they checked all of the onboard systems.
Here's the StarShip chase plane doing its thing as they continue climbing.
As they spiralled higher above the desert, it became harder to even see where they were; eventually, though, they got high enough for contrails to start forming. Finally, around 7:50AM and 47,000 feet (14,250 meters) the White Knight released SpaceShipOne, which glided for about 10 seconds then lit its rocket engine.
The Air Force were doing the official altitude measurements using their equipment at Edwards Air Force Base, some miles east of Mojave. This made it necessary for the launch to be made in that area, which caused a serious problem for the crowd who came to view the spectacle - at release time, the crowd had to look directly towards the sun, and the two aircraft were directly below the sun, which meant that they would pass in front of the sun and make viewing and photography impossible.
However, 100 kilometers is an awful long way up, so shortly into its 80-second burn, SpaceShipOne climbed above the angle of the sun into clear blue sky.
We didn't realize it at the time, but there were a couple of serious malfunctions as the craft accelerated to more than Mach 2.9 (2150 mph or 3460 km/h). About 7 seconds after ignition, a 60 knot (70 mph or 110 km/h) wind shear caused an unintended 90 degree rotation, which the pilot corrected. Just 10 seconds after starting its climb it reached Mach 1, and the rocket continued burning for another 66 seconds before automatically shutting down. Late during this powered phase, one of the motors which control the trim adjustment malfunctioned and although Melvill quickly swapped to a backup system the ship wasn't quite at the right angle as it climbed. The combined anomalies put it 20 miles off course and ultimately cost about 30,000 feet of altitude. This very nearly resulted in the failure of the test to reach its initial goal of 100 kilometers, in fact SpaceShipOne ended up getting to an altitude of 100,124 meters - only one tenth of one percent above its target altitude, and quite a long way short of the intended altitude of 108,000 meters..
SpaceShipOne was at 180,000 feet when the last nitrous oxide oxidizer on board was applied to the 600 pounds of rubber-like fuel, but it continued coasting and eventually reached 328,491 feet. The pilot was weightless for three and a half minutes and used this time to float some M & M candies around the cabin, all in the name of Science, of course.
There might have been problems, but the outcome could have been a whole lot worse than this; the pilot even said afterwards that he had contemplated aborting the flight and bailing out, a very risky procedure in itself.
Live transmissions of radio communications between the ground controllers and SpaceShipOne were supposed to be broadcast throughout the flight, but in the end this didn't materialize, perhaps because of the problems on the way up, and everyone on the ground was left wondering what was happening. As the descent began there was another serious problem, a loud bang which the pilot Michael Melvill later said left him "pretty scared". The crowd heard a bang, too - in fact two bangs, which were the sonic booms caused as SpaceShipOne re-entered the atmosphere, eventually experiencing 5Gs of force and accelerating again to Mach 2.9. Then we started to see a tiny dot glinting in the sun high above us, and then coming lower with several chase planes around it to record the event.
Having burned all of its fuel, SpaceShipOne was now just a glider, but a pretty good one, doing a couple of circuits before quickly bleeding off speed to land on the same runway it had taken off from an hour or so earlier. If you look at the next three closeups of StarShipOne landing, you can see the damage which caused the pilot such concern as he descended; underneath the rocket nozzle there's a kinked section of the outer skin. This was the first time this larger nozzle was used, so it looks like it's back to the drawing board for a while!
It's interesting to see that it doesn't have a front wheel, only a skid. This is done to conserve weight, which is also the reason why the rear wheels are so tiny. There's a very fine line between engineering this sort of thing so that it's "just good enough" rather than "not quite good enough"; on its first powered flight, the left landing gear collapsed during the landing and SpaceShipOne ended up veering off the runway into the dirt, though fortunately not much damage was done.
If you look closely you can see the phrase "A Paul G Allen project" on the tail boom. Paul Allen is the co-founder with Bill Gates of Microsoft, and he's sunk over $20 million into this project. The initial goal is to win the $10 million "Ansari X Prize", which will be awarded to the first privately-funded group which launches a pilot and two passengers (or the equivalent in ballast) into space, and then repeats the feat within two weeks. In the longer term, though, Rutan and Allen hope to start a space tourism industry, which will pay its own way and perhaps lead to further private ventures in space.
Having all of that money backing him up has allowed Rutan to do very thorough testing before he finally goes for the X Prize. For instance, today's flight into space is actually the fifteenth flight that SpaceShipOne has made, most of them as a glider, but others under its own power (it broke the speed of sound during its first powered flight, while climbing at a forty-five degree angle).
There are many different companies vying for the X Prize and several of them are using Scaled Composites as a sub-contractor. I was lucky enough to see some other early experimentation with rocket propulsion when Burt's brother Dick flew a rocket powered Long-EZ kitset aircraft designed by Burt at the Oshkosh airshow in 2002.
SpaceShipOne's large tails pivot out during the descent from the top of its flight, in order to produce drag and so angle the craft correctly for re-entry. At the top of its trajectory there isn't enough atmosphere to use normal aircraft flight surfaces to control the attitude of the craft, so cold gas jets are used to push it one way or the other.
A well-deserved victory pass by the StarShip chase plane; from this angle you can see how truly unusual it is.
Not to be outdone, the White Knight also does a victory pass.
A truly remarkable aircraft!
Coming in to land with that bizarre quadricycle landing gear and crazy portholes, which must give much less visibility than regular windshields.


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Worldwide Network of Servers
The Worldwide Network of Servers is located throughout the world. They are servers whose activities are inspired by the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom based on the books of Alice Bailey.
The work that the Tibetan Master asked disciples to do in preparation for the reappearance of the Christ and the approach of the spiritual Hierarchy includes the following objectives:Read More
Units of Service
A unit of service is composed of individuals who share a common vision, and recognise their responsibility in bringing about a future based on spiritual values and principles.Read More
Notes from the Field of Service
The following are expressions of co-workers' efforts to carry out the objectives outlined by the Tibetan Master, as described in the Introduction to this section.Read More