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PT6A-60A engines will be enrolled in world-class Gold Eagle Service(TM) Plan
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA--(Marketwired - Oct. 22, 2013) - Beechcraft Corporation and its aftermarket service and support organization, Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS), announced at the 2013 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition that it has signed a long-term engine service agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) to support the PT6A-60A engines powering the King Air 350i aircraft recently ordered by private aviation membership company Wheels Up. Under this renewable agreement, the Wheels Up King Air 350i fleet will be enrolled in P&WC's world-class Gold Eagle Service™ Plan (ESP® Program).
Wheels Up named GCS as its comprehensive aircraft maintenance services provider for North America and Western Europe as part of its King Air 350i order for up to 105 aircraft announced in August.
"We are delighted to partner with Pratt & Whitney Canada to provide this comprehensive engine maintenance services for our customer, Wheels Up, in support of the largest order of turboprop aircraft in the general aviation history" said Christi Tannahill, Beechcraft senior vice president, Global Customer Support, Beechcraft. "This elite program has a proven track record of optimizing costs and providing peace of mind, which will be beneficial for Wheels Up and how it will utilize its fleet of King Airs."
"We are very proud to conclude this service agreement with Beechcraft in support of Wheels Up's King Air 350i fleet," said Denis Parisien, P&WC vice president, General Aviation. "Thanks to its complete range of maintenance coverage, our ESP® Program will provide Wheels Up peace of mind and predictability."
Coverage provided under the Gold ESP® Program includes parts and shop labor for scheduled engine overhaul and hot section inspection, unscheduled engine and line replaceable unit (LRU) maintenance, rental engine support, trouble shooting and mobile repair team (MRT) support for unscheduled aircraft on ground (AOG) situations and required product support improvements at shop visits.
The agreement also includes an airframe-mounted Aircraft Data Acquisition System (ADAS®) and Data Transmission Unit (DTU®) and associated services for automated engine health management and trend monitoring. "The benefits of our engine health management system and Gold ESP® Program include cost optimization, increased aircraft availability, reduced pilot workload and higher aircraft resale value," noted Parisien.
Headquartered in Wichita, Kan., GCS is dedicated to improving the value of both Hawker and Beechcraft aircraft by employing products and services to simplify aircraft ownership, reduce operating cost and increase resale value. GCS is comprised of five functional groups that include Support Plus (cost predictability/warranty programs), Hawker Beechcraft Parts & Distribution (genuine factory parts), Hawker Beechcraft Services (factory-owned service centers), Technical Support (Field Support Representatives, Hot Line specialists and Technical Publications) and Global Mission Support (government business and special mission maintenance / training support).
About Beechcraft Corporation
Beechcraft Corporation designs, builds and supports versatile and globally renowned aircraft, including the King Air turboprops, piston-engine Baron and Bonanza, and the T-6 trainer and AT-6 light attack military aircraft. Its 5,400 highly skilled employees are focused on continuously improving the company's products and services which are sold to individuals, businesses and governments worldwide. In business since 1932, Beechcraft has built more than 54,000 aircraft and more than 36,000 continue flying today. It leads the industry with a global network of more than 90 factory-owned and authorized service centers. The company's headquarters and major manufacturing facilities are located in Wichita, Kan. For more information, visit beechcraft.com or follow us on Twitter @Beechcraft.
About Pratt & Whitney Canada
Founded in 1928, and a global leader in aerospace, P&WC is shaping the future of aviation with dependable, high-technology engines. Based in Longueuil, Quebec (Canada), P&WC is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation company (UTC). UTC is a diversified company that provides a broad range of high-technology products and services to the global aerospace and building systems industries.
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About Wheels Up
Wheels Up is a revolutionary membership-based private aviation company that eliminates fixed costs and provides unparalleled flexibility created and led by Kenny Dichter, the founder of Marquis Jet and innovator of the first 25-hour fractional jet card. Wheels Up has developed proprietary cutting-edge applications and offers unrivaled personalized service, providing members with a unique high-tech and high-touch experience. With a modest initiation fee and reasonable annual dues, Wheels Up is designed to appeal to individuals and corporations currently flying privately, as well as new entrants to private aviation. Wheels Up has forged an exclusive partnership with Beechcraft to offer members closed fleet access to Beechcraft King Air 350i for the first time redefining the entry point for private aviation. With an 8,760-hour culture (referencing the number of hours in a year), Wheels Up membership includes Wheels Down, a corresponding lifestyle concierge service engaging members off the tarmac, through exclusive offerings such as special programs around major sporting events (e.g. The Masters golf tournament and the Super Bowl), intimate concerts with top performers, culinary experiences with some of the world's top chefs, meet-and-greet opportunities with entertainers, politicians, and business luminaries. For additional information, please visit www.WheelsUp.com, or call 212-257-5252.


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"Learn how Volume Activation 2.0 supports new types of license keys and several new modes of activation for customers."
Presented by: Kim Griffiths, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Kim Griffiths is a product manager in the Genuine Windows Product Marketing group, focusing on commercial and public sector customers. Kim has worked at Microsoft for three years. She joined the Genuine Windows team after working for Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) where she was an infrastructure consultant specializing in Active Directory, security, and Microsoft Exchange. Overall, Kim has more than 15 years of experience working in IT with enterprise and government customers.
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Letter from the director
Dear friends:
I write to encourage those of you who are interested in combining academic learning with professional training in our nation's capital. There is no greater opportunity for those interested in national policy and career opportunities in either the public or private sectors than those afforded at the Aspin Center. Nearly 2,200 students have studied with us in Washington, D.C., and through our Europe and Africa international study programs. Many of our graduates are now in significant government positions, while many others have received graduate degrees and are making significant contributions in the business and nonprofit sectors.
I am very proud of our highly qualified and dedicated faculty. As the curriculum suggests, our educational model of experiential learning is rooted in solid academics and coupled with internship placements that are individually tailored to match the talents of each student. I view our program as a leadership training base that is rooted in Judeo-Christian values and underpinned by a sense of community building — allowing each student to develop his or her unique talents. The unique focus of this program, along with its care for the development of each student, is our hallmark.
We want the best students with us. The competition for admission is keen, class sizes are limited and, as so many graduates have said, "This is the finest educational experience of my life." Join us!
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Graduate Catalog
2014 – 2015
Office of Graduate Studies
McKelvie Hall, 102 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2943
Fax: 610-436-2763
Revised June 2018
The mission of graduate education at West Chester University is to provide high-quality, accessible graduate degree, professional growth, and certificate programs responsive to students' needs for professional development and educational enrichment. The offerings reflect a wide range of master's programs as well as a selected number of specialist and professional growth opportunities. The quality of programs is enhanced by the graduate students' access to and interaction with faculty and by the richness of the diverse student body. The graduate programs are integrated with the research, outreach, and development functions of the University. The faculty fosters excellence in teaching and promotes an intellectual environment that actively supports quality graduate education. The goals of graduate study at this University are as follows:
GRADUATE EDUCATION at West Chester has grown remarkably since its introduction in 1959. Approximately 2,200 students now attend during the fall and spring semesters; some 1,900 enroll for summer sessions. West Chester University's graduate program is one of the largest within the 14 Commonwealth-owned institutions of higher learning.
The University began as the West Chester Academy in 1812 and functioned as a normal school from 1871-1927. Since it became a four-year college in 1927, West Chester has grown steadily and is now one of the major comprehensive institutions of higher learning in the Philadelphia area.
Facilities for graduate education are excellent. The Commonwealth's extensive building program led to the Schmucker Science Center, a block-long complex of buildings including a planetarium, an astronomical observatory, and modern laboratories; the E.O. Bull Center for the Arts; and the Francis Harvey Green Library, one of Pennsylvania's principal university libraries. The Merion Science Center was added in 1995, the Swope Music Building and the Performing Arts Center in 2007, and the new Student Recreation Center in fall 2012. An undergraduate business center is in the planning stage.
The University offers the master of arts, master of business administration, master of education, master of music, master of science, master of public administration, and master of social work in more than 70 programs of study. In 2013 West Chester University began offering its first applied doctorate, doctor of nursing practice (D.N.P.).
Master's degree programs such as the M.B.A., the M.A. in communicative disorders, the M.P.A., the M.S. in computer science, and the M.S.W. are offered, as well as teaching certifications and graduate certificates in several areas, including computer science, counseling, human resource management, and public administration.
West Chester schedules most of its graduate classes during late afternoons and evenings.
Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended this program.
The provisions of this catalog are not to be regarded as an irrevocable contract between the student and the University. West Chester University reserves the right to change any provisions or requirements at any time.
Office of Graduate Studies
McKelvie Hall
102 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383-2600
Fax: 610-436-2763
E-mail: email@example.com
Web site: http://www.wcupa.edu/grad
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The University is located in West Chester, a community in southeastern Pennsylvania strategically located at the center of the mid-Atlantic corridor. The seat of Chester County government for almost two centuries, West Chester retains much of its historical charm in its buildings and countryside but offers the 20th-century advantages of a town in the heart of an expanding economic area. The University occupies 406 acres with much of the main campus situated within the Borough of West Chester while the south campus and other areas are located on tracts in adjacent townships. Five miles from the main campus is the Graduate Center located on McDermott Drive in West Chester. West Chester was settled in the early 18th century principally by members of the Society of Friends. With a population of about 20,000, the borough is small enough to have the pleasant aspects of a tree-shaded American town, large enough to provide essential services and the substance of a vigorous community, and old enough to give the student first-hand contact with America's early history. The heart of West Chester is its courthouse, a Classical Revival building designed in the 1840s by Thomas U. Walter, one of the architects for the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The Borough of West Chester is easily accessible from all directions both by car and public transportation. Route 3, the West Chester Pike, leads directly into town from center-city Philadelphia. From the Pennsylvania Turnpike, motorists traveling west should take Route 202 south from either the Valley Forge Interchange (exit #326) or the new E-Z Pass-only exit (#320), while those traveling east can arrive via Route 100 south from the Downingtown Interchange (exit #312). From the south, Route 202 from Wilmington and Routes 100 and 52 from U.S. Route 1 all lead to West Chester.


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... not just when wet, as the city council sign warns us, or when preparing for the season, or event ahead.
Yesterday, the ride was like that. No small or big ring, no heart rate strap around my chest and no hill repeats. I only took the computer because I wanted to plot the ride and show Toby where we went cycling - all this technology.
There was no need to wear the right socks, the snug jersey or the bike shoes on this ride, either.
I rode my road bike wishing I had another single speed to ride (Sandra would say, a fixie) but we rode everywhere and on everything. Bike paths, busy roads, little hills, footpaths, cycling highways... we just rode and we talked.
We didn't have a route or time to get anywhere. We got to the restaurant when we felt hungry. We stopped at the bike shop because it was there. We, then, rode more looking for another bike shop, just because it was also there, somewhere.
It was a good ride.
Cycling is a simple activity in essence. Sometimes we need to leave this technical, competitive side of it at home and just go riding for the plainness of things. Nothing else!


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Selling Cassava Beer in A Land Without Barley
SABMiller introduces a quaff to woo African drinkers from home-brews | Reaching "a market that wants to drink beer but can't afford to"
Ekow Dontoh and Janice Kew
Cassava, a tuberous dietary staple in parts of Africa, replaces much of the barley malt in some cheap beers
Eugene Shepherd admits he's no beer expert, but he'll tell you the bottle of Eagle Lager he treats himself to every week is a step up from the murky home-brews that had been his preferred tipple. He now saves his pocket money all week so on Saturdays he has the 1.20 cedi (61¢) for an Eagle, a beer brewed from locally grown cassava that SABMiller introduced in Ghana in March. "Eagle is my first experience with beers," the 20-year-old student says as he settles into a plastic chair at a roadside bar in Sogakope, a dusty town of 88,000 stretched along the highway 150 kilometers (90 miles) from the Ghanaian capital of Accra. "I really like this drink."
For SABMiller, Shepherd's new-found thirst for the clear, bottled beer proves the success of a strategic shift in Africa. To produce Eagle Lager, the world's second-largest brewer has replaced most of the barley malt in the brewing process with inexpensive, indigenous cassava. The producer of Miller Lite, Peroni, and Pilsner Urquell is counting on cassava and other local crops such as sorghum to fuel its expansion in Africa, where it estimates home-brews or cheap spirits account for some three-quarters of alcohol consumed.
Brewers in recent years have emphasized high-end brands to boost margins by getting drinkers to spend more on each beer they consume. While Eagle Lager is far from a premium product, it's still more than twice the price of popular home-brews.
Emerging markets are key for brewers. The three biggest — Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, and Heineken — are based in western Europe, where austerity and a prolonged economic slump have cut consumption. London-based SABMiller, which traces its roots to South Africa, gets more of its sales outside Europe and North America than the others, and more than two-thirds of its profit is generated in emerging markets. It launched its first cassava-based beer, Impala, in Mozambique in November 2011. Impala now accounts for more than 5 percent of its Mozambique unit's production.
"There is a lot of opportunity in Africa, but you want to be the first one in the market and entrench yourself as the dominant player," says De Wet Schutte, an analyst with Avior Research in Cape Town. "SABMiller has been largely successful in doing that."
Cassava, a tuber grown widely across Africa, is a staple food in many countries. While barley doesn't do well in the tropical climate, cassava is so easy to grow that Ghana and Mozambique have a surplus. The crop hadn't been used in beer because it starts to degrade within 24 hours of harvesting. But SABMiller uses a portable machine that does initial processing of the roots in the field, allowing them to be stored for weeks.
Ghana, where the economy is set to grow 7.7 percent this year, charges an excise tax of 47.5 percent for beers that have less than 30 percent local content. For brews with more domestic ingredients — such as cassava in Eagle Lager — the excise tax drops to 10 percent. SABMiller says that helps make the profit margin on Eagle Lager about the same as those on its other brews. "These lower-price beers make sense," says Wynand Van Zyl, a Macquarie Group analyst in Johannesburg. "It's very important for international brewers to demonstrate commitment to the local economy."
SABMiller, which sells 46 local brands across Africa, expects to spend about $300 million to $500 million a year on the continent outside of South Africa, building breweries and bottling facilities, says Mark Bowman, managing director at SABMiller Africa. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, the company already produces Eagle Lager using sorghum in place of some barley malt. The new beers have a more bitter taste than brews made from barley malt, and Bowman acknowledges that it's "not supposed to be quite as nice as mainstream beers." The difference will be a turnoff for some drinkers accustomed to smoother, more expensive quaffs.
Still, the newer localized brews helped SABMiller achieve a 9 percent increase in beer production in Africa, excluding South Africa, for the quarter ended in March. And sales of low-cost, locally sourced drinks could grow to "double or triple the size of the premium beer market as people move" from home-brewed concoctions, Bowman says. "These beers are a clear way to reach a market that wants to drink beer but can't afford to."
The bottom line SABMiller uses cassava in beer in Ghana, raising the local content and cutting the excise tax to 10 percent from 47.5 percent.


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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Library Journal With her third novel (after the acclaimed Sharp Objects and Dark Places), Flynn cements her place among that elite group of mystery/thriller writers who unfailingly deliver the goods. On the day of her fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne vanishes from her home under suspicious circumstances. Through a narrative that alternates between Amy's diary entries and her husband Nick's real-time experiences in the aftermath of her disappearance, the complicated relationship that was their marriage unfolds, leaving the reader with a growing list of scenarios, suspects, and motives to consider. Meanwhile, the police, the press, and the public focus intently on Nick, the journalist-turned-bar owner who uprooted Amy from her comfortable New York life to return to his Missouri hometown. VERDICT Once again Flynn has written an intelligent, gripping tour de force, mixing a riveting plot and psychological intrigue with a compelling prose style that unobtrusively yet forcefully carries the reader from page to page. [See Prepub Alert, 12/19/11.]-Nancy McNicol, Hamden P.L., CT (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Publishers Weekly There's the evil you can see coming-and then there's Amy Elliott. Superficially, this privileged Gotham golden girl, inspiration for her psychologist-parents' bestselling series of children's books, couldn't be further from the disturbingly damaged women of Edgar-finalist Flynn's first two books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places. But as Amy's husband, Nick Dunne, starts to realize after she disappears from their rented mansion in his Missouri hometown on their fifth anniversary-and he becomes the prime suspect in her presumed murder-underestimating Amy's sick genius and twisted gamesmanship could prove fatal. Then again, charmer Nick may not be quite the corn-fed innocent he initially appears. Flynn masterfully lets this tale of a marriage gone toxically wrong gradually emerge through alternating accounts by Nick and Amy, both unreliable narrators in their own ways. The reader comes to discover their layers of deceit through a process similar to that at work in the imploding relationship. Compulsively readable, creepily unforgettable, this is a must read for any fan of bad girls and good writing. Agent: Stephanie Rostan, Levine Greenberg. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Book list *Starred Review* When Nick Dunne's beautiful and clever wife, Amy, goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary, the media descend on the Dunnes' Missouri McMansion with all the fury of a Dateline episode. And Nick stumbles badly, for, as it turns out, he has plenty to hide, and under the pressure of police questioning and media scrutiny, he tells one lie after another. Juxtaposed with Nick's first-person narration of events are excerpts from Amy's diary, which completely contradict Nick's story and depict a woman who is afraid of her husband, has recently found out she's pregnant, and had been looking to buy a gun for protection. In addition, Amy is famous as the model for her parents' long-running and beloved children's series, Amazing Amy. But what looks like a straighforward case of a husband killing his wife to free himself from a bad marriage morphs into something entirely different in Flynn's hands. As evidenced by her previous work (Sharp Objects, 2006, and Dark Places, 2009), she possesses a disturbing worldview, one considerably amped up by her twisted sense of humor. Both a compelling thriller and a searing portrait of marriage, this could well be Flynn's breakout novel. It contains so many twists and turns that the outcome is impossible to predict.--Wilkinson, Joanne Copyright 2010 Booklist
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The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin serves up a deeply misleading column about the president's attempt to defend himself from baseless and vicious attacks by the likes of, well, Froomkin. The liberal MSM knew that Bush wouldn't take indefinitely the pounding it has been dishing out. So, when Bush finally responded the Post had its main talking point prepared — Bush is engaging in a political campaign. This allegation, in fact, was contained in the sub-title to its lead report on Bush's speech. As I noted on Saturday, this flagrant bit of spin represents not just an attempt to denigrate the president without addressing his arguments, but also a reflection of the MSM's greatest fear — that Bush will take his case to the public and deal the Post and like-minded partisan organs yet another defeat.
Froomkin parrots his paper's talking point, calling his piece "Bush's third campaign." You have to admire the MSM's arrogance and audacity. It gets to suggest day after day that the president misled the American people about matters of life and death, but if the president defends himself he's engaging in the low-down activity known as campaigning.
But Froomkin goes beyond arrogance and audacity when he reaches the merits of the pre-war intelligence issue. First, he asserts "Far from being baseless, the charge that [Bush] intentionally misled the public in the run-up to war is built on a growing amount of evidence." Froomkin points to no such evidence. Instead, he hides behind the story by Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus. But Froomkin knows that this story provides no evidence that Bush intentionally misled the public about WMD. In fact, Milbank and Pincus concluded that
The administration's overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and very few members of Congress from either party were skeptical about this belief before the war began in 2003. Indeed, top lawmakers in both parties were emphatic and certain in their public statements.
Froomkin lacks the integrity to mention this dispositive admission. If the overwhelming intelligence consensus was that Saddam had WMD, then Bush did not mislead the American people in making that claim. On this crucial point, Froomkin shows himself to be more partisan and less honest than Milbank and Pincus.
Milbank and Pincus did quibble with Bush's claims about what exactly the Democrats knew, and what exactly certain panels have concluded. But that's very different than suggesting that Bush intentionally misled anyone about the underlying issue of WMD. Moreover, Froomkin's discussion of the issue of the Democrats' knowledge when they voted in favor of the war is also seriously flawed and highly misleading. He writes: "Many of those Democrats did so because they believed the information the president gave them. Now they are coming to the conclusion that they shouldn't have." Well, yes. But Froomkin's suggestion that Bush fed them selective and misleading information is baseless. The main piece of information in question was the National Intelligence Estimate. This wasn't some hand-picked piece of information that Bush spoon-fed the Democrats in order to dupe them. This was the core intelligence document that any legislator would want to see before deciding how to vote. Froomkin's statement that the Democrats now wish they hadn't believed the NIE is as sophomoric as it is irrelevant. President Bush too may wish he hadn't believed the NIE. But Bush's point stands — both he and the Democrats relied on the same intelligence.
Except that the President also had the President's Daily Brief, which he did not share with Congress. It turns out, however, that (according to the Silverman-Robb commission) the PDB's were more alarmist about Saddam having WMD than the NIE was. The best Froomkin can do with this inconvenient fact is to sniff, "an interesting defense." A complete defense would be more like it. If the information that Bush "withheld" from Congress was more emphatic about Saddam possessing WMD than the information he shared with Congress, then Bush could not have been attempting to mislead Congress into over-estimating the strength of the case for believing that Saddam possessed WMD.
Froomkin, on the other hand, clearly is trying to mislead his readers.


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Sound Tigers win in shootout
This might not have been the way the Bridgeport Sound Tigers wanted to earn their fourth win in a row, surrendering a three-goal lead, but two points are two points.
Three Sound Tigers tallied in the shootout Monday, and Kevin Poulin was perfect in goal in relief as Bridgeport beat the Adirondack Phantoms 4-3 at Glens Falls (N.Y.) Civic Center.
"We kind of had the game in hand, and they put a little bit of a press on, pushed back hard against us," Bridgeport coach Scott Pellerin said. "They capitalized on their opportunities, but we were able to pull it out."
Matt Watkins scored 27 seconds into the game, the fourth in a row in which the Sound Tigers scored in the first two minutes. They took a 3-0 lead on John Persson's goal 7:06 into the second period.
But Adirondack scored three in the last 10:12 of the second to tie it.
Looking to spark the team's energy, Pellerin replaced Anders Nilsson with Kevin Poulin to start the third. Poulin stopped all 17 shots he faced in the third period and overtime, then was beaten only by Jason Akeson on four Phantoms attempts in the shootout.
The Sound Tigers killed all five Phantoms power plays, running their streak to 26 in a row. That's tied for fifth in the team's 12 seasons.
Johan Sundstrom scored on a power-play deflection early in the second for Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport 1 2 0 0 1--4
Adirondack 0 3 0 0 0--3
First Period -- 1, Bridgeport, Watkins 6 (Riley, DeFazio), :27. Penalties -- McGinn, Adk (kneeing), 1:40; Riley, Bpt, major (fighting), 4:05; FitzGerald, Adk, major (fighting), 4:05; Konan, Adk, double minor (high-sticking), 13:49; Schenn, Adk (cross-checking), 14:13; Niederreiter, Bpt (roughing), 16:58; McIver, Bpt (roughing), 20:00; Rinaldo, Adk, double minor (roughing, slashing), 20:00.
Second Period -- 2, Bridgeport, Sundstrom 9 (Donovan, Niederreiter), 1:38 (pp). 3, Bridgeport, Persson 11 (Landry, Cizikas), 7:06. 4, Adirondack, Dimmen 2 (McGinn), 9:48. 5, Adirondack, Couturier 9 (Wellwood, Ford), 13:18. 6, Adirondack, Manning 4 (Schenn), 18:13. Penalties -- FitzGerald, Adk (goaltender interference), 10:22; Hill, Bpt (interference), 15:23; Rinaldo, Adk (holding), 16:53; Watkins, Bpt (tripping), 17:11; McIver, Bpt (holding), 19:43.
Third Period -- No scoring. Penalties -- DeFazio, Bpt (high-sticking), 13:32.
Overtime -- No scoring. Penalties -- None.
Shootout -- Bridgeport, Niederreiter G, Ullstrom G, McDonald NG, Landry G; Adirondack, Schenn NG, Akeson G, Couturier NG, Wellwood NG.
Shots on goal -- Bridgeport 13-10-7-4-1--35. Adirondack 11-10-14-3-0--38.
Power play opportunities -- Bridgeport 1 of 6, Adirondack 0 of 5.
Goaltenders -- Bridgeport, Nilsson (21 shots-18 saves), Poulin 10-5-2 (start third, 17-17). Adirondack, Munroe (17-14), Heeter 4-9-1 (7:06 second, 17-17).
Attendance -- 3,438. Referees -- C. Brown, Knorr. Linesmen -- Emanatian, Demers.


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Bo, the dog, will get home after wreck
Bo, the dog, might have been thrown clear from the massive Thanksgiving wreck on Interstate 10 near Hamshire, but the plucky Catahoula ran up to perhaps the best people possible in dog lovers Blake Jones, a wrecker driver for Neff Brothers Towing and Recovery, and Jesi Courville, who was delivering Thanksgiving leftovers from Courville's Catering to the first responders at the scene.
Courville posted a picture of Bo - whose name she did not know when she did - to a local news website and almost immediately, people responded with connections to a story from a Houston television news website about a little boy who had lost his dog in the 100-vehicle pileup.
The little boy, Damien Ortiz, 5, had also taken the Thanksgiving turkey from his car - he and his mother, Dora, who was injured, were en route to Louisiana - and made sandwiches for people whose vehicles were in the pileup.
Courville said she contacted the KTRK-TV website in Houston and was able to locate the family.
She said the reaction was intense when she was able to find Bo's family.
"Oh my God! You found Bo, you found Bo!" Courville said.
Jones was the one who took in Bo, putting him the cab of his truck for safety "because he looked like he belonged to someone," Courville said.
"Blake said he couldn't leave him," she said.
Getting Bo reunited with his family will be take some effort, but Courville is fine with that. She plans to drive Bo to Louisiana where his family was going. Perhaps she'll be able to meet them halfway, but Damien, the sandwich maker who wanted to help people, will be reunited with Bo, who has an instinct for finding the most caring rescuers possible.


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"Comply or Close"- the New Reality for Industrial Facilities in China
Chinese Authorities are increasingly shifting their focus from permitting of industrial facilities to ensuring operational compliance.
Recent State Council reforms have pursued the parallel objectives of simplifying "green tape" associated with environmental permitting of new industrial developments while at the same time implementing supervision measures to promote operational compliance with environmental regulations for existing facilities.
These changes mark a significant departure from the Ministry of Environmental Protection's (MEP) long-standing policy of focusing on permitting and approvals for new facilities with minimal monitoring of environmental compliance over the operational life of industrial facilities.
Plant Managers at industrial facilities in China have long known that failing to abide by environmental standards set by MEP is unlikely to land them in hot water. With few resources available to monitor facilities themselves, local authorities have generally left industrial facilities to self-report discharges to the environment with minimal supervision. The result has been a steady deterioration in the environment that has accompanied China's industrial development. That changed earlier this year. Self-reporting is out and Central Government Inspections are in as China's MEP gets tough on polluting facilities.
ERM Insights: Managing Business Risks with Effective Product Stewardship
This collection of four white papers offers pragmatic insights into common challenges that can present substantial business risks. Regarding product stewardship, societal norms are driving the demand for safer, more environmentally sound products, and this trend is reflected in evolving global policies.
The recipe for ESG success: A survey by ERM demonstrates how ESG factors are being used to create value
Just how important are environmental, social and governance factors in driving value? Very, suggests ERM's latest survey of worldwide investors.
ERM Video: iSafetyCase Demo
ERM now offers the iSafetyCase, a web-based system that allows operators to manage, enhance and operationalize Safety Cases across multiple assets.
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Smartphones 2011: Top 10 Buying Guide
Year 2011 is coming to an end so the whole Smartphones 2011 year is behind with all the 2011 releases in our hand to prepare a top 10 list. Definitely Google Andriod & Apple iOS are the leaders among all Smartphones 2011 OS.
Top 10 Smartphones 2011 List
1. HTC Rezound
While it may have a hefty build, the HTC Rezound's beautiful display, commendable performance, and multimedia-rich features make it a top phone for Verizon customers.
Price: $299.99
2. Apple iPhone 4S
The iPhone 4S isn't the king of cell phones, but it's part of the royal family nonetheless. Even without 4G and a giant screen, this phone's smart(ass) voice assistant, Siri, the benefits of iOS 5, and its spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade.
Price: $399.99
3. Motorola Droid Razr
With its razor-thin design, jam-packed features, and blazing speed, the Motorola Droid Razr is easily one of the year's top Android smartphones.
Price: $299.99
4. Samsung Galaxy S II
With its dual-core processor, vibrant display, and great performance, the sleek and powerful Samsung Galaxy S II rises as AT&T's top Android smartphone.
Price: $484.99
5. Samsung Galaxy Nexus
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a big step forward for Android, but it's not the giant leap you may have been expecting. As impressive as it is, Ice Cream Sandwich can be messy, and without it, the Galaxy Nexus is just another Nexus device.
Price: $779.99
7. HTC Evo 3D
The 3D features are a fun addition, but it's the HTC Evo 3D's zippy performance and improved battery life that make this Android smartphone one of Sprint's best.
Price: $554.99
8. Sony Ericsson Aino
The Sony Ericsson Aino's luscious display and multimedia offerings make it one of the better unlocked phones we've seen this year.
Price: $599.95
9. Samsung Vibrant
Sleek and fast, the Samsung Vibrant is one of T-Mobile's top smartphones for entertainment, but its feature set takes a toll on the battery life.
Price: $369.97
10. LG Nitro HD
With its gorgeous display, high-def everything, and 4G speeds, the LG Nitro HD has what it takes to compete; however, a few flaws keep it from trampling the competition.
As shown: $249.99
With LG's Nitro HD our top 10 Smartphones 2011 list comes to an end. But lots more to come in 2012. So, stay tuned for our upcoming top 10 smartphones 2012 list.


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Grace United Methodist Church
Monday, March 25, 2019
To serve and unite those we touch with the Grace of God
Wednesday Supper
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Grace UMC Fellowship Hall
Wednesday's SupperPrevious Page
We will be serving a light supper from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The cost is $5 per person (children under three will be free) with a maximum of $20 for a family. Feel free to make any suggestions for future dinners.
Wednesday Night Programming Returns
5:30-6:30 p.m. — Supper, $5.00 a person or $20 for a family
6:00 p.m. — Youth Choir (grades 4-8) and Mission Adventures for K-3
6:30 p.m. — God's Kids choir (grades K-3) and Mission Adventures for grades 4-8
6:00 p.m. — Adult studies with Pastor Jen
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By Caroline McGraw Sep 06, 2012 3
A Study in Contrasts
When I saw the title at the library, I couldn't help but take pause. When I spotted "The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling," the slim volume by Jeanne Safer seized my attention. Though I cringed at the word "damaged," curiosity led me to check out the book and read. Safer's older brother was the "difficult" one in her family, and she writes with poignant pain about his isolation and the debilitating pressure she felt as "the favored child." She shares her highly dysfunctional family situation, and the disappointment of not being able to connect with her brother as an adult. Safer's story did speak to the importance of siblings, and I agreed with her that, until recently, neurotypical siblings have had few opportunities for sibling-specific support.
However, red flags began waving immediately. The text's terminology continued to trouble me; the term, "damaged" seemed to shroud the ways in which individuals like Willie can be whole, and wholly themselves. And as someone who has "left normal," I didn't like being put back into that category. (Throughout the book, "normalcy" is described as something to strive and sacrifice for, rather than an artificial, often-arbitrary construct.) Further, Safer's extreme pessimism was practically poisonous for me. Though I understood that the book was intended to reveal the hidden struggles associated with having a "special" sibling, it largely ignored—and even mocked—the idea of finding meaning within those challenges. For example, Safer quotes a sibling who says, "I'm trying to eradicate the "Hallmark Hall of Fame Special" myth—'How I learned the meaning of life by having a disabled sibling.'" Safer and the sibling she quotes seem to think that finding meaning in one's most challenging relationships necessitates a naïve denial of the difficulties therein. By contrast, I believe that moving through relational grief and pain into a place of acceptance and "meaning" shows strength and emotional fortitude.
Furthermore, I know from experience that siblings can take a very different path to freedom than the one that Safer suggests is their only option. She asserts that siblings must "forge an identity in which [the] sibling is peripheral." On the contrary, I've come to see that siblings can be central to one's identity in a healthy way. For example, by acknowledging Willie's importance in my life, I was led to serve at L'Arche, an experience I value beyond measure. There was a fatalistic tone to Safer's words that gave me chills: "No one with an abnormal sibling has a normal childhood …. Their success is always tainted by their sibling's failure, their future clouded by an untoward sense of obligation and responsibility." She goes to say that "[for parents] … disappointment and the loss of possibility are permanent." She notes that "A damaged brother or sister will never be a peer, a companion, or a confidant," and that "Being [a] sibling forever defines and confines [them]." Institutionalization is mentioned as a viable option more than once. Eventually, I had to skim the passages; I couldn't bring myself to continue close reading. The book was intended to serve as nourishment to siblings like me, but I felt a recurring taste of toxicity on my tongue.
What does real sibling support look like? For me, it appears in full form in another book I read this week (one I savored as an "antidote" to "The Normal One"): The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy by Priscilla Gilman. Gilman, a former Vassar professor, shares the story of her son Benjamin's development with courage and candor. "Benj" has hyperlexia and has "borderline Asperger's," but those labels do not limit his luminescent character. Gilman writes openly about the daily struggles of life with this "unexpected" boy, yet she celebrates his every achievement and ultimately arrives at a place of hard-won acceptance and gratitude. I didn't want this beautiful book to end, but as I turned the final pages I raised my arms in triumph at this line: "I will always resist mightily any orientation or approach that sees [my son] Benj as a problem or somehow "broken" rather than as simply and profoundly himself."


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Oblique was a science fiction fanzine by Cliff Gould.
Eight issues of Oblique were published between 1955 and 1956.
Contributors included Mal Ashworth (Rot), John Berry (Pot Pourri), Redd Boggs (Sky Hook), Gregg Calkins (Oopsla!), Terry Carr (Innuendo), Ed Cox (Altair), Richard Geis, Lee Hoffman (Quandry), Dave Jenrette (later co-editor of Tabebuian), Rich "Alex" Kirs, Vernon L. McCain (Wastebasket), Boyd Raeburn (A Bas), Charles Lee Riddle (Peon), Dave Rike, Larry Stark (Garage Floor), and Bob Tucker (Le Zombie).
A notable contribution was the first publishing of the Philip K. Dick essay "Pessimism in Science Fiction", published in issue 6, December 1955.
Artwork was by Dean Grennell (Grue), Dave Rike, Bill Rotsler, and ATom.
Letters came from Robert Bloch, Bob Coulson (Yandro), Dick Ellington (Metrofan), Georgina Ellis (Descant, Honque), Damon Knight (Snide), Larry Shaw (Leprechaun, Science*Fiction), Robert Silverberg (Spaceship), Benny Sodek, Neal Wilgus, and Walt Willis (Hyphen).
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There's often the choice of straight-sided (unsupported), or supported shells with internal reinforcing rings. The bearing edges should be perfectly level and cut with extreme care. Drums will most definitely be fitted with professional standard heads.
There should be a good range of colours, finishes (lacquers, waxes, quality wraps) and shell sizes. Manufacturers usually offer standard shell packs of the most common sizes at reduced prices, but you should also be able to make up the exact kit you want, without compromise, from any shell size on offer.
The company will encourage you to buy its top range of hardware, but there's no obligation - you may prefer the pedals of a different company, want lighter stands or prefer a rack. You will also, of course, have to choose cymbals separately to accompany your kit. Here are our top five picks to get you started...
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Zuma invokes Mandela, woos big business
A curious prayer kicked off the ANC's fundraising gala dinner in Mangaung on Saturday night. As ANC bigwigs prepared to sup with influential business people in an attempt to win party donations, the priest referenced another meal, calling to his audience's attention the moment when Judas betrayed Jesus during the last supper.
If it was a hint he was after it went unnoticed.
This year brought South Africans the horror of the Marikana massacre, where dozens of miners were shot dead by police.
It was a blood-curdling demonstration of how far the country's liberation party had fallen; losing touch with the working class that voted them into the power while being drawn into problematic and complicit relationships with big business.
But none of this existed on the night. Cabinet ministers and the ANC's top leadership rubbed elbows with enormously wealthy business people. Outside the venue Lindiwe Sisulu warmly embraced a member of the controversial Gupta family. Inside billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe sat at the table with President Jacob Zuma, the privilege of which reportedly went for R500 000.
Indeed, the dinner was carefully stage-managed to show the ANC's would-be benefactors just how well the ruling party was doing. Zuma pulled out all the stops to woo his wealthy audience and gloss over the ills plaguing the ruling party.
Even former president Nelson Mandela's name was invoked. "I'm sure all of us are wishing him a speedy recovery at the hospital," he said, referencing Mandela's recent illness which had the public in a tizz after a series of mixed messages emerged from the ANC about his condition and whereabouts. No matter, we were assured that Mandela was "very happy that his organisation is having a congress and happy that his country is a democratic country, and it will never go back".
Zuma fondly recalled how the iconic leader taught the party the ropes when it came to fundraising. The link made between greatness and giving the ANC money, the president moved on to tackle some of the regular criticism levelled at the party.
It was the ANC and its problems re-imagined, and it was almost believable. His tool of choice was a brand of logic that translated nearly every problem the party faced as a positive. Infighting in the ANC ahead of the conference was re-interpreted as the party's "vibrant internal democracy".
"We do things that people think are a problem. But we are very proud of our culture and beliefs. That's why you'll see very vibrant delegates singing and making songs with their hands," he said in reference to those pushing for his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe to assume leadership of the party. Not a word was said about the party's damaging court case and subsequent dissolving of the Free State leadership thanks to ANC infighting.
Yet the dinner wasn't entirely free of the hangover of the damaging factionalism. The party's money man, ANC treasurer general Matthew Phosa, snuck some of it into his opening address. "In challenging times we need leaders who will sacrifice for their values ... we need renewal and change," he called out from the podium. But his speech clanged with the death rattle of the change lobby, who are unlikely to see any return on their bet on Motlanthe with Zuma a certain winner at this conference.
Zuma's brand of logic continued to other criticisms facing the party. Corruption wasn't an issue, since the ANC had invented the fight against corruption. "Up until 1994 nobody spoke about corruption in this country," he noted. "It is us who said we must fight corruption and created the mechanisms to do so."
Service delivery received a similar treatment. People fought for it and protested because it was so good. "They know once they protest, delivery is coming as they have seen elsewhere; not because there is totally no delivery."
The volley of positive statements intensified towards the end. The ANC was composed of shiny, happy people who were just occasionally misunderstood.
"I wish I had the authority to make you all comrades!" he announced brightly in conclusion. "It is nice to join the ANC ... very nice. As you see, we are happy people." The odd titter from the audience was the only betrayal of any tension in the room. "You will see when we come out of this conference we will be united because we put the ANC above everything else."
And with that, the formalities were over and the roast chicken and vegetables were served. A band took to the stage, taking over from a collaboration between South African musicians Zwai Bala and brothers Cobus and Christo Snyman, dubbed the "Centenary Broers" for the occasion. They had earlier sung an acapella version of Bruce Springsteen's ode to the working class man, Factory.
Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
It's the working, the working, just the working life.
Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the working life.
Like the priest's story, the reference appeared lost on the delegates. Except perhaps for one. Across town, the quintessential ANC leader turned businessman, Cyril Ramaphosa, wandered the corridors of Mimosa Mall instead of being at the dinner. His potential chances at the deputy presidency were damaged by his complicit action on the part of mine bosses in the Marikana massacre. Money may flow into the ANC's coffers from the dinner but, as the capitalist maxim has it, there is no such thing as a free lunch.


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That's life!
It has been a good week. The weather has been close to perfect with temperatures dropping just a couple of degrees in the mornings. Still, during the days we can ride our bikes without any base layers or arm/leg warmers.
Training has been sort of OK. I finished the training week on Wednesday with a Mixed Effort workout. Not my favourite, I must say. Firstly, I left home just before 5 pm for the ride, a little late when I had to do 50+ kms. It meant taking lights and coming back just before 7. Secondly, those workouts are always frustrating! I can't get my HR high enough (E3) and I end up feeling like if I am not training hard enough, or that this is not the right type of training for me.
Going back a couple of years, when all I did was get on the bike and ride hard somewhere and then harder back home, race as much as possible and not do any recovery rides, I felt better and now wonder if that type of training works better for me. In fact, this type of training is recognised by some trainers as an effective way for some people to stay in race form all year around.
It did work for me, until I got burnt out and started loosing interest. I started a 12 week base training and gym in September 2006, started racing in November through to January and had a short break in February. Back racing in March, I raced over 50 races until September 2007. Then, I had enough. But I had planned a holiday overseas in October so that helped me thinking that it was OK to stop. But in reality, I was tired.
Now, I am doing this specific training program with expectations of peaking at the right time for a chosen event. Until then, it is like: is this working for me, I can't finish a race in top 5. I must admit, I also went up a grade and I am now racing the best Masters (35 +) in the SE Queensland region.
Well, too late to be having those thoughts as we have three weeks before the Tour de Tablelands, one of my main events for 2008.
I had an Easy session on the trainer last night, taking advantage of it by trying out my new shoes. I got a new pair of SIDI 5.5 with carbon soles, which has a different shape plate from my old SIDI, so fixing the cleats to them is a bit of a mission.
I still can't get into the pro look
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Tomorrow, we will drive to the Sunshine Coast for an Interclub road race with the local club and with the Ipswich riders. I will race A Grade on a hilly course which hopefully will give me a good indication on how my form is...
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50 Cent Tried Kissing Erin Andrews at Daytona 500
Rapper 50 Cent wasn't content just chatting up Erin Andrews. He went in for a kiss.
In the strangest part of the buildup to the Daytona 500, Mr. Cent brought back memories of Joe Namath's awkward attempt to plant one on Suzy Kolber when he tried the same move with Andrews on pit road.
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Freddy May needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 97 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Application Craft is an online service that allows non-experts to rapidly build and run rich web and mobile applications. Apps can be created both by using a pixel-precise drag & drop interface as well as writing Javascript in a cloud-based IDE. Applications are instantly published with a click of a button -- no installation or setup.
The web site will play a key role in Application Craft's go-to-market strategy. The AC product is delivered as a web service and the "marketing web site" (the project at-hand) is intended to help potential customers find AC (the solution they are looking for), quickly educate themselves on what AC is and how it works and be able to sign-up and get going with their first app within minutes.
Application Craft is intended for both experienced web developers, as well as novice developers or those who do not have extensive web programming and deployment expertise, including non-web programmers and web designers.
This audience tend to be in their 20s and 30s and are naturally very web and tech-savvy. They are also typically very design-conscious.
The web site must gain their trust that Application Craft can be a platform for them to build beautiful, rich and powerful applications.
The web site needs to excite prospects with how feature-rich and beautiful the applications build with AC can be, on the one hand, and how easy and fast it is to build and run these applications, on the other hand.
The web site should have the following characteristics and built on the following principles:
- Very focused and straightforward - clearly conveys what AC is, its uses and its benefits
- Visually convey both the richness and simplicity of the product
- Projects cutting-edge technology – a company that gets web and mobile development
- Have a distinct and memorable personality
We recently ran a logo competition on 99Designs. We have yet to determine the winner of the competition. We would like you to pick any of the remaining candidate logos for your web design. You can see all of the logos here: http://99designs.com/logo-design/vote-4yjrrb (feel free to rate and comment). Hopefully, this will give you more creative freedom and will help us choose the winning logo.
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To demonstrate the richness of the platform, this page walks through a "catalog" of features -- things you can do. Each feature has a short description and a visual (e.g., screenshot). See attached document with draft of content.
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Will contain a paragraph describing the company, bios and photos of team members, contact information - would like to see a sub-navigation bar on this page to these elements (contact, team, etc.)
http://applicationcraft.com. The current web site is going to be completely revamped both in terms of content and design. DO NOT use the current web site as a reference for your design -- only the materials in this brief.
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WINDERMERE, Fla. (Stockpickr) -- There isn't a day that goes by on Wall Street where some stocks trading near or under $10 a share don't experience massive spikes higher. Traders savvy enough to follow the low-priced names and trade them with discipline and sound risk management are banking ridiculous coin on a regular basis.Just take a look at some of the hot movers yesterday in the under-$10 complex, including Sino Clean Energy ( SCEI), which jumped over 41%; Acco Brands ( ABD), which ripped over 26% higher; Rambus ( RMBS), which soared more than 23%; and AirMedia Group ( AMCN), which added more than 17%. You don't even have to catch the entire move in lower-priced stocks such as these to make outsized returns when trading. >>7 Smaller Stocks Beating the Big Guys I'm not as eager to recommend investing long-term in stocks that trade less than $10 a share because these names can be very speculative, and the odds for picking the long-term winners aren't great. But I definitely love to trade stocks that are priced below $10. I like to view them as a trading vehicle with lots of volatility and lots of upside when the trade is timed right. When I trade under-$10 names, I do it almost entirely based off of the charts and technical analysis. I also like to find under-$10 names with a catalyst, but that's secondary to the chart and volume patterns. Here's a look at several under-$10 stocks that look poised to potentially trade higher from current levels.
China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources
Antares Pharmaceuticals
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Fort Myers Beach rentals are in high demand throughout the year. Not only the weekly and seasonal rental but also the long term annual lease properties. With tourist numbers up in the area for 2013 and due to the current lack of supply of quality homes for rent on Fort Myers Beach, rental properties – single family homes, town homes, carriage homes and condos – in fact pretty much everything are being rented out within days of being listed.
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Rental properties on Fort Myers Beach, southwest Florida are also a great way to try the area before deciding to buy a property. We have many clients who have found their feet in this manner as it allows you to savour the local communities and get a taste for which you like and which you would prefer to stay out of.
Snow birds from the northern states and Canada are well accustomed to the Fort Myers area and all that we have to offer in this wonderful area. The numbers of 'out-of-state-seasonal tourists are growing every year as more and more families and seniors head to south west Florida to escape the cold weather by renting a vacation condo on monthly contracts.
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Why don't people respond to posts?
Posted something on the Internet and did not receive any response? You are not the only one. Many like you are part of what is infamously referred to as the World Wide Wait. And yet, the laws of eliciting a response on the Internet aren't very different from that in the real world.
Much like your decision to read a book from an unknown author is partly based on the cover of the book and its title, the decision for someone to read your post depends to a large extent on how interesting the title of your post is.
Before clicking on a title, a person usually asks the following questions to oneself:
- Do I understand the title?
- Is it interesting? Is it compelling enough?
- If the author is inviting comments, do I have what it takes to contribute?
Keep your titles short but comprehensive
More effort must go into the title of your post than its content. Go through the body of your content and write down a working title for your post. Then keep shortening and simplifying it until you have an interesting title.
Working title:
Computer crashes immediately after updating to the latest version of Windows and opening the 2.1 version of XYZ software on my computer.
Final title:
Computer crash after latest Windows update | XYZ 2.1
Avoid generic titles like "Help", "I am lost", "XYZ software"
Such titles do not give any idea about the content of the post. Such titles could also be mistaken to be spam.
Do not capitalize all letters in the title, and avoid multiple exclamation marks
Even if you are frustrated, unleashing it on the whole world serves no purpose other than putting people off altogether. Keep your titles unemotional and relevant. Interested people will get to it ultimately.
And that's it. You have all that you need to get you going. All the best!


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Establishments – Disestablishments
During the 40th century BC, the Near East and southeastern Europe were in the Chalcolithic period (Copper Age), transitional between the Stone and the Bronze Ages. Northwestern Europe was in the Neolithic. China was dominated by the Neolithic Yangshao culture. The Americas were in a phase of transition between the Paleo-Indian (Lithic) to the Meso-Indian (Archaic) stage. Started in 4000 BC and ended in 3901 BC.
- Near East
- In Predynastic Egypt, the El Omari culture arose during this period.
- Start of the Naqada culture in Egypt.
- In Mesopotamia, the Uruk period began.
- the Linear Pottery culture gives way to the Funnelbeaker culture in the north.
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.
- Pit–Comb Ware culture.
- In the Pontic steppe, the Dnieper–Donets and Sredny Stog cultures flourish, according to the Kurgan hypothesis associated with Proto-Indo-Europeans.
- East Asia
- Liangzhu culture.
- Early Jōmon period begins on the islands of Japan.
Events and innovations
- 5.9 kiloyear event.
- c. 4000 BC, More than 100 dwellings surrounding a community center, a cemetery and a kiln are built in Jiangzhai, near modern Xi'an, China.
- Susa is a center of pottery production; c. potter's wheel in Mesopotamia.[1]
- approximate time of the construction of the Merheleva Ridge complex.
- Megalithic monuments are constructed in Brittany (Carnac), Portugal (Lisbon), central and southern France, Corsica and Great Britain.
- Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe.
- Domestication of the horse.
- Plough in use.
- Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes.
- Bede began his history of the world with 3952 BC.
- In their ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, Freemasons add 4000 years to the current Anno Domini calendar year and append Anno Lucis ("Year of Light") to the year (i.e., 2014 AD = 6014 AL). This alternative calendar era, which would designate 4000 BC as "year zero", was created in the 18th century (58th century AL) in difference to the Hebrew calendar's Anno mundi and other ideas regarding the year of creation at the time.
- ↑ Federico Lara Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: "La Civilización Sumeria". Historia 16, 1999.
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60-Second HIV Treatment Research Review From AIDS 2012: New Strategies, New Drugs
July 31, 2012
2012 has already brought us many changes to our strategies and options regarding the treatment of HIV. Just days ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the first biomedical intervention to prevent HIV infection. The FDA also approved the first at-home, over-the-counter test for HIV. The year also marks the emergence of two major themes: treatment as prevention (TasP) and the "cascade" of engagement in HIV care.
Here at the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, D.C., there were several important oral and poster presentations on antiretroviral therapies. Here's a quick synopsis of the highlights.
Strategies: When to Start; Tuberculosis Coinfection; Entry to and Retention in Care
The HTPN 052 study has already garnered acclaim in proving that antiretroviral treatment prevents HIV transmission. Here, additional data confirmed that early (rather than delayed) treatment for persons with CD4+ cell counts between 350 and 500 resulted in fewer AIDS events and tuberculosis (TB).
The ANRS group (France's National Agency for AIDS Research) presented encouraging data from their REFLATE study on the use of raltegravir (Isentress) for antiretroviral treatment of TB-coinfected patients who were receiving rifampin-containing anti-TB treatment.
Our group, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), hosted a symposium on the first-ever evidence-based guidelines on improving entry into and retention in care, as well as adherence to antiretroviral treatment.
Cobicistat and Elvitegravir
Previously this summer, a U.S. FDA panel recommended approval of the "quad" pill, which is coformulated with tenofovir (Viread), emtricitabine (FTC, Emtriva), the new pharmacokinetic booster cobicistat and the new integrase inhibitor elvitegravir. Investigators provided additional details of the quad's 48-week non-inferiority versus efavirenz (Sustiva, Stocrin) and versus boosted atazanavir (Reyataz), showing high suppression rates of the new combo in persons with very high viral loads (greater than 400,000 copies/ml).
Data from a Phase 3 study (Gilead 114) showed that cobicistat was similar to ritonavir (RTV, Norvir) in boosting atazanavir when either drug was taken alongside tenofovir/emtricitabine by treatment-naive persons.
The newest HIV integrase inhibitor dolutegravir was shown to be non-inferior to raltegravir when used with two NRTIs in a Phase 3 clinical trial among treatment-naive persons. The regimens were very well tolerated and there was little emergence of drug resistance.
In a press release last week, study sponsors also provided information on a companion study called SINGLE, which concluded that the regimen of abacavir/lamivudine (Epzicom, Kivexa) plus dolutegravir was superior to the industry standard regimen efavirenz/tenofovir/emtricitabine (Atripla).
Five-year data on the MERIT-ES study was presented here, showing continued similar effectiveness of maraviroc (Selzentry, Celsentri) versus efavirenz, when either drug was taken with zidovudine/lamivudine (Combivir) by treatment-naive people.
In a study that highlights the continued search for that elusive, successful NRTI-sparing regimen, a small trial exploring maraviroc versus tenofovir/emtricitabine (when either drug was taken with atazanavir/ritonavir) showed lower virologic response rates in the maraviroc arm (68% vs. 82%). A similar, single-arm pilot study looking at maraviroc combined with ritonavir-boosted darunavir (Prezista) showed a lower-than-hoped-for response rate, particularly among people with high viral loads.
The final five-year follow up on the important BENCHMRK studies (raltegravir with optimized background treatments) showed durable virologic suppression, with few treatment failures.
The 240-week analysis of the STARTMRK study also showed that treatment-naive persons who took raltegravir (with tenofovir/emtricitabine) had excellent long-term viral suppression and tolerability with better responses than those who took the efavirenz combination. Are we seeing a bar raising?
Results of the SPIRIT study showed the non-inferiority of switching patients on stable, boosted-protease inhibitor regimens to the fixed-dose combination of rilpivirine/tenofovir/emtricitabine (Complera). The data also showed a lower rate of virologic non-suppression in subjects switching treatment (1% vs. 5%). Not unexpectedly, those who switched had improvements in lipid parameters.
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News 12 First at Five / Friday, March 9, 2012
EVANS, Ga. -- We've had one of the warmest winters on record, and not breaking in that winter coat may soon be the least of your worries.
Experts say the warm temperatures may be good news to some unwelcome pests.
Since temperatures never really dipped low and stayed low, a lot of insects that typically die off during the winter cold are still going strong.
Tom Schiltz, a homeowner from Evans, recently noticed a few unwelcome house guests.
"They're very annoying. You just gotta get rid of them. I don't want them," he said. "Upstairs we had roaches and so forth. We had some flies, but we didn't know exactly what they were. And, outside, he had a pretty big ant problem."
Mark Gincerowski, an exterminator for Horne's Pest Control, said Schiltz had ants trailing all around his pool, concrete area and out near his trees.
He says ants are a problem we usually don't see until later in the year.
"Generally, this time of year, we find them [ants] deeper in the ground, but they've just been active all winter long from having no cold spell," Gincerowski said.
And ants aren't the only things to worry about.
"Termites can become a factor. We have already seen some swarming termites due to the warm weather, which isn't unusual, but the numbers we're seeing are unusual. We're getting more and more calls," he said.
Making folks like Schiltz, who like a bug-free existence, a little squirmy.
"Especially with the pool, I like to try to remain insect-less, if there is such a word," Schiltz said.
But there are a few things you can do to try to prevent creepy crawlies from finding their way inside.
"Where your plumbing lines go through walls there's usually a large opening and that's just a highway for any insect or even rodent to come in, so it's a good idea to seal them up with either a steel wool or an expandable foam product," Gincerowski said.
He said it's a good idea to keep your gutters cleaned out and seal up any cracks around windows or doors.
Experts are expecting to see a pretty big insect problem this summer. They are expecting ants to be the worst, but they also expect fleas, mosquitoes and termites to be pretty bad.
Gincerowski said keeping your yard cut well and not leaving a lot of debris lying around will help keep unwanted insects at bay. Also, make sure there isn't any standing water contained in outside items like wheelbarrows or old flower pots.
Also, mulch -- making sure it's several feet from your house and regularly cleaned out. He said adding mulch on top of old mulch is just a breeding ground for bugs.


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By Shawn Langlois
Chicks dig the bad boy. Until they realize that Steve from accounting might not have a nose ring and ride a motorcycle, but he's got a good job and loves his mother.
Same thing happens in the stock market. In cycles. Investors often can't resist the siren song of the glamor stocks, but at some point they just want to slip into a cardigan, cuddle up with a warm cup of Ovaltine and hitch their rides to the likes of General Electric (see below). Now is one of those times.
The momentum blow-off of 2014 continues to gnaw at some of this year's sexiest stocks, even as the vanillas hold up relatively well. We're looking at a flight to quality large caps that's been a long time coming. Market top behavior? Perhaps.
Complacency is running high, and there's no denying that the shift away from the gimpy "it" stocks signals a waning appetite for risk. Clearly, with all the jitters bubbling beneath the surface, the allure of potential is giving way to the security of the dependable. Er, more dependable. Somewhat dependable?
"A month ago, investors were paying sky-high premiums for companies that make no money now but have huge growth prospects, but those premiums are falling fast," a Bespoke blogger wrote, pointing out that 85 stocks in the Russell 1,000 /quotes/zigman/2759628/realtime RUI have a negative trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio. They averaged a 1.8% decline on Thursday and are off about 4% in the past month.
Think Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB , Pandora /quotes/zigman/5419837/delayed /quotes/nls/p P and Under Armour /quotes/zigman/388552/delayed /quotes/nls/ua UA . Earnings season is coming up next week, giving some of these profit-challenged companies a chance to defy the odds. Like many of them did last season.
But until then, it's all about today's jobs report.
Key market gauges: Post-jobs, futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/17899764/realtime YMM4 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/20258906/realtime ESM4 are trucking higher. Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW closed mostly in the red, with a mild advance in Shanghai /quotes/zigman/1859015/realtime CN:SHCOMP an exception. Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150/realtime XX:SXXP is also adding to gains after the jobs data.
Earnings: Chipmaker Micron /quotes/zigman/75433/delayed /quotes/nls/mu MU sold off a bit in the immediate aftermath of yesterday's report, but the stock is up 2.8% in premarket. Synnex /quotes/zigman/331289/delayed /quotes/nls/snx SNX shares are rocking, up 20% after the company trounced estimates with its results. Global Payments /quotes/zigman/273932/delayed /quotes/nls/gpn GPN is today's earnings loser, down more than 2%.
CarMax /quotes/zigman/311076/delayed /quotes/nls/kmx KMX , coming off a lukewarm coverage-initiation note from Wedbush earlier this week, disappointed on sales and earnings. It also boosted its buyback program. Shares are off over 4%.
The economy: The U.S. created 192,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate stayed flat at 6.7%. Economists had been expecting a 200K gain, so the numbers are a tiny disappointment. Average hourly wages dipped 1 cent to $24.30 after several months of gains. Also February and January data was revised up.
The buzz: Restaurant takeout website GrubHub /quotes/zigman/30071449/delayed /quotes/nls/grub GRUB is making its public debut later today, hitting the stock market at $26 a share.
The latest dispatch from the high-frequency-trading debate comes from Charles Schwab, who calls it "a growing cancer that needs to be addressed." Jack Bogle, on the other hand, says we're better off with it than without it.
A big marriage could be in the offing in the drug industry, with Mylan /quotes/zigman/75764/delayed /quotes/nls/myl MYL reportedly looking to buy Swedish pharma peddler Meda AB in a tie-up that could lower Canonsburg, Pa.-based Mylan's taxes.
The chart of the day: The recent batch of high-fliers has been getting absolutely gutted lately, and Chris Kimble posted this technical setup to warn of a "monster bearish wick" that is forming in the biotech sector /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB .
The call of the day: The way things are going, the old guard is looking more attractive than the fancy momos. Hence, it might be time to revisit GE /quotes/zigman/227468/delayed /quotes/nls/ge GE , says Shiv Kapoor of The Quant Report. "The stock is shunned by momentum, growth, balanced and by stock selection style agnostic investors allocating capital at industry level, and to growth investors allocating capital with no specific industry or sector capital allocation bias. For everyone else it is unexciting," he wrote. Read why Kapoor says GE is cheap, but mainly relative to an expensive market.
Random reads: Today is the big unveil … of George Bush's paintings.
Here's a good reason not to play hockey. Don't worry, you'll have to click another link inside this one to see what happens when a slapshot hits your mouth.
Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681/delayed /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA drivers apparently eat up Drudge Report.
Battles for food await. Thanks, climate change.
Help find this scumbag.
Driver who accidentally runs into a kid gets beaten by a gang of bystanders when he gets out to help. The kid will be fine. The guy is in critical condition.
So long, David Letterman. Check him out in this Playboy interview from 1984. Also, here he is at his best in an interview with Paris Hilton.
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Continuing their quest to sweep away the barriers between the world's electronic mail systems, Information Electronics recently announced the approaching 01-Sep-93 release of PostalUnion/SMTP for QuickMail, a new PostalUnion/SMTP gateway for CE Software's QuickMail.
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Military families across the country depend on discounted groceries at base commissaries, but they could suffer price increases if the federal government cuts the program's budget.
Among the critics of government-subsidized groceries is Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). He said commissaries, like the one at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, should be able to operate on their own.
"By getting the Department of Defense out of the grocery business here in the United States, Congress could increase military pay across the board and allow military members to shop at stores of their choice," Coburn said in a report.
Currently, the Department of Defense pays for the commissaries' staff salaries, utilities and other operating costs, permitting families to shave 30 percent off their grocery bill, and up to 50 percent for meat and produce.
At Camp Pendleton's main commissary, for instance, apples sold for about $1 a pound – about half the cost of what apples sell for at grocery stores in downtown Los Angeles, said Scott Hill, the store director. National brands like Pepsi and Uncle Ben's rice are sold at only 5% above cost. The profits go to renovating and expanding commissaries.
Depending on their size, military families can save $2,000 to $5,000 a year, Hill said. The Camp Pendleton commissary has evolved with the times, and tries to match customer demand, providing wholesale items similar to Costco. It even offers a fresh sushi counter.
"We don't operate on profit and we don't mark products up," Hill said.
Coburn and others who want to eliminate the federal subsidy for the Defense Commissary Agency's 248 stores say there is no reason why they can't be self-sufficient. Critics point to the military's version of department stores, known as military exchanges, receive little federal support.
Combining the commissaries with military exchanges could save U.S. taxpayers more than $1 billion a year, a Congressional Budget Office report indicated.
Funding for commisaries could also be decreased through automatic spending cuts known as sequestration that will go into effect next month unless Congress takes action.
But a group that represents businesses that work with military commissaries and exchanges say removing federal support is shortsighted. They say the Department of Defense saves money in the long run by allowing Uncle Sam to save on cost-of-living allowances to service members.
"Take a close look before you cut this program, because you are going to be basically eating your seed corn for a program that reaps benefits far beyond what it costs," said Steve Rossetti, director of government affairs for the American Logistics Association.
Commissaries and exchanges provide a $20 return in economic benefit to the nation for every $1 of funding given to both programs, the group said. The grocery savings also helps families save money for the future and allows them to spend those dollars at other businesses.
Budget cuts to commissaries could raise prices, force layoffs and shorten store hours, Rossetti said.
Camp Pendleton Marine Kenneth Keiser said he values the savings when he shops at the commissary for his wife and two children. He said he funnels the extra dollars into savings and taking his kids to nearby attractions like Legoland.
"It's more convenient," Keiser said.
The Defense Commissary Agency, which runs the military grocery stores, said no matter what happens, it will do "everything possible to minimize the impact of any budget decisions" on its customers, which include active, on reserve and retired military members, as well as their families.
The defense commissary said it has already stopped official travel for conferences and training that is "considered noncritical to the agency's mission."


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Penguins Roundup: Malkin Skates, Injury Updatesby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
Team USA coaches Dan Bylsma and Tony Granato and Russian center Evgeni Malkin were the first of the Penguins Olympians to return to team practice after the Games ended Sunday, skating on Tuesday at CONSOL Energy Center.
Team Finland members Jussi Jokinen and Olli Maatta were at the arena and spoke to the media during practice, but did not skate. They will likely return to practice Wednesday along with the other remaining Olympians, Canadian forwards Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz and U.S. defenseman Brooks Orpik.
The other participants remained the same: Chuck Kobasew, Tanner Glass, Brandon Sutter, Taylor Pyatt, James Neal, Craig Adams, Joe Vitale, Brian Gibbons, Matt Niskanen, Rob Scuderi, Deryk Engelland, Robert Bortuzzo, Simon Despres, Marc-Andre Fleury, Jeff Zatkoff, and Tomas Vokoun.
Bylsma provided a long list of Penguins injury updates following the skate. They are as follows…
"Paul Martin broke his hand at the Olympics. It will be put in a cast at this point in time and 4-6 weeks for Paul.
"Beau Bennett (hand/wrist) has had a setback in his recovery and rehab. More of a bump in the road than a wall, but his timetable is probably in the 3-4 weeks (range). He's been rehabbing and taking it careful here for the last seven days or so. More like 3-4 weeks for his timetable at this point in time.
"Tomas Vokoun (blood clot), as you've all seen, has passed his tests, been cleared to practice and has been practicing. There's no timetable at this point in time for his return to play. Still in that progress.
"Taylor Pyatt (lower body) and Joe Vitale have both returned to practice and should be full go's starting back up against Montreal.
"Chris Conner (broken hand) is out for approximately one more week before he can move to practice and onto a game.
"Pascal Dupuis (ACL) had surgery and it's gone well. He's rehabbing now. He's back there every day and his time frame is 6-8 months for a full recovery. That puts us somewhere between August 15 and October 15."