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"Today we are able to share details on a number of new and improved features in each of the core applications for Office 15, thanks to several people with access to the early Technical Preview code. From Touch and Reading Mode to a Weather Bar feature in Outlook 15, we have exclusive details on Microsoft's plans." Looking good. Not fully Metro though. Bummer.
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Good question. Maybe it's going the way of Visual Fox Pro. Access is a handy tool and it would be a shame to see it thrown to the wayside. Who knows though, hard to tell what Microsoft is trying to accomplish these days other than avoid having to maintain multiple user interfaces by merging the tablet and desktop experience which deep down we all know we don't want.
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"Based on the results of the study, there are no concerns that Second Avenue Subway construction is causing any danger to the public's health," MTA Capital Construction President Michael Horodniceanu said. "We will continue to do everything we can to be a good neighbor as we complete this critically important project as quickly as possible."
The monitoring program collected data for a comprehensive list of ten pollutants to capture the effects of construction activities. Ten air monitoring stations along Second Avenue (six stations located between 69th and 73rd Streets, and four stations located between 83rd and 87th Streets) collected air samples during construction activities continuously for one month from September 12 through October 8, 2011. The monitoring stations and instruments used were selected under advisement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Measured pollutants were below air quality standards and guidance levels with the exception of some fine dust, sulfur dioxide and ammonia readings which did not coincide with blasting.
The report will also be presented at the January 26, 2012 meeting of the Second Avenue Subway Task Force Committee of Community Board 8.

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Cowboy Libertarian and ex-California Republican Party communications director Patrick Dorinson has a new book out just in time for the 2012 general election called "It's Nut Cuttin' Time America!"
For the uninitiated, "nut cutting" refers to that pivotal moment in a male calf's life when a bull becomes a steer. Or castration, if you prefer the more clinical term.
I haven't read the book yet but I've known Dorinson for years. And the book is almost certainly humorous in a Will Rogers fashion, that wry western common sense tone one finds in places where cowboys and cowgirls must rely on their wits if they hope to bring home the cattle in one piece.
Yeah, Dorinson dresses up real nice. I've seen him on numerous occasions dressed up in a spiffy suit and tie, schmoozing politicos and the press corps with his cowboy charm.
But since Dorinson left the California GOP — and the GOP entirely, to become an independent a few years ago — he has been tapping into his lengthy cowboy roots. He bought a ranch in Nevada City, writes columns, blogs and hosts a weekly radio talkshow on Saturdays near his home at Newstalk 1530 KFBK.
Liberal Bay Areaites may not agree with Dorinson's libertarian politics but you cannot help but laugh at his turn of phrase as he describes his journey from devout Republican to avowed independent.
"I have chased more false prophets than the ancient Hebrews in the Old Testament!" he wrote in the book description materials.
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Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - Alex Killorn registered a goal and two assists as the Tampa Bay Lightning doubled up the visiting St. Louis Blues 4-2.
Brett Connolly, recalled from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Thursday, broke a 2-2 tie in the third period. He tipped a Radko Gudas shot behind St. Louis goaltender Jaroslav Halak at 8:37, three seconds after a hooking penalty on the Blues' Vladimir Sobotka had expired.
Valtteri Filppula then scored on a backhand that deflected in off St. Louis defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk with 3:59 remaining.
Steven Stamkos had the other goal for Tampa Bay, which has won two straight and five of its last six games overall. Ben Bishop made 28 saves to improve to 9-2-0 this season.
The win was "huge," said Killorn.
"You look at their record and you know they've done very well," he said. "We played them in the preseason so we knew what to expect. It's nice to get a win over a team of that caliber."
Alex Pietrangelo and Jaden Schwartz both scored for the Blues, who were dealt just their second regulation loss (8-2-2). Halak stopped 21 shots.
"We have to control the puck a little bit better," said Schwartz. "We turned it over too much and they're a speedy group ... so they're pretty dangerous."
Pietrangelo extended his career-best goal streak to four games at the 7:50 mark of the first period. The defenseman's wrister from the right point found its way through traffic and behind Bishop.
Tampa Bay responded nearly three minutes later. Killorn had his first shot blocked, but he re-gathered the puck and beat Halak at 10:44.
Stamkos gave Tampa Bay the lead with his 11th goal of the season. The sniper dangled the puck with a toe drag before snapping a shot over Halak's glove 1:43 into the second period.
This time, the Blues quickly answered with the equalizer. Shattenkirk sent the puck airborne, flipping it forward from the St. Louis zone and down the ice. Schwartz collected the puck, cut to the middle and beat Bishop on the stick side from between the circles at 3:45.
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togelius writes: "Previous years have seen a number of car racing competitions where neural nets, rule-based systems and other fancy AI techniques have been put to the test by letting them drive on a track and seeing who gets the best lap time. Recognizing that finding the Michael Schumacher of AI is not enough, a team of researchers from University of Wuerzburg now wants to find the Mad Max of AI. Their new competition is called "Demolition Derby" and the goal is to "wreck all opponent cars by crashing into them without getting wrecked yourself". For this, they use the open-source TORCS game and a custom AI interface, allowing all and any AI researchers and enthusiasts (including you!) to submit their best and most aggressive controllers."


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Penn Medicine Physician to Co-Lead Stand Up to Cancer "Dream Team" to Fight Pancreatic Cancer
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Newswise — Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research in the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will be a co-leader on the recently announced Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)-Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Convergence Dream Team.
The new effort, titled "Transforming Pancreatic Cancer to a Treatable Disease," was announced here by SU2C and The Lustgarten Foundation, along with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), SU2C's Scientific Partner, at a press event during the AACR Annual Meeting 2014.
Armed with $8 million in funding over the course of three years, Dr. Vonderheide and investigators from Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and several other institutions will work together to develop new therapies to harness patients' own immune cells to treat pancreatic cancer. Dr. Vonderheide will work closely with Dream Team leader Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.
"Now is the time to bring new discoveries in immune therapy to our patients with pancreatic cancer," said Dr. Vonderheide, a medical oncologist who also serves as associate director for Translational Research at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center. "We have made great strides in better understanding pancreatic tumor immunology in the last few years, and a grant of this magnitude will help propel that research further. New discoveries will lead to newly-improved immunotherapies that we hope will have profound changes to the way we treat and deliver care to these patients."
The SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Convergence Dream Team consists of a multidisciplinary group of experts that includes laboratory and clinical researchers, young investigators and senior scientists in the fields of immunotherapy, genetics, and pathology, among others. Other institutions on the team include University of California, San Francisco, Oregon Health & Science University, Washington University in St. Louis, New York University Langone Medical Center, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Despite advances in treating cancers like leukemia and melanoma with immunotherapy, such clinical efforts for pancreatic cancer lag behind, making new approaches to fight the disease greatly needed. Today, people diagnosed with the cancer face a grim prognosis.
Based on initial, promising clinical trial runs, the Dream Team's goal is to "re-program" the tissue around patients' tumors to fuel immune responses that will spur destruction of the tumor.
Dr. Vonderheide and his team have specifically focused on activating immune cells including T cells and macrophages to invade the dense tissue surrounding the tumors in order to mechanize immune response. Publishing in the journal Science, the researchers found that treating the cancer with special antibodies shrunk tumors in combination with chemotherapy by activating the macrophages. Best described as a Trojan horse approach, the tumor still calls in macrophages, but re-educates them to attack – not promote – the tumor.
"This research pointed us to a new approach for drug development," said Dr. Vonderheide. "We learned that the immunology of the pancreatic cancer is very complex but also there are more possibilities to exploit. We need to explore this tumor environment further and develop better agents that will help improve treatment effectiveness."
The Dream Team also includes pancreatic cancer advocate Richard Vague, a Penn Medicine Board Member and managing partner of Gabriel Investments. Mr. Vague has put forth tremendous support for pancreatic translational research at Penn Medicine. In addition to endowing professorship at Penn for immunotherapy pioneer Carl June, MD, a professor in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of translational research in the Abramson Cancer Center, Mr. Vague has funded several of Dr. Vonderheide's research projects.
The new Dream Team, which is also being supported in part by a gift to SU2C from the Fox Family Cancer Research Funding Trust, will conduct combination clinical trials and preclinical studies that focus on new immune suppressive pathways and establish immune biomarkers and new multi-agent approaches. A pancreatic cancer biobank for tumors will also be established.
The project is estimated to start July 2014, with innovative clinical trials scheduled to open within the first year.


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Brian Boyle helped the New York Rangers reach the Stanley Cup finals last season, but he's changing teams next season. The veteran center from Hingham has a three-year contract with the up-and-coming Tampa Bay Lightning.
FOXBORO - He has been a good soldier for his entire career – never one to avoid responsibility or question an order, always ready for duty.
This summer, though, Brian Boyle had to become a little more mercenary.
An unrestricted free agent for the second time in seven pro seasons when his three-year, $5.1-million contract with the New York Rangers expired on June 30, Boyle chose this time to jump on a sure, attractive thing: The 29-year-old center from Hingham signed a three-year, $6-million deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
"I'm excited about the change," Boyle said after a recent summer league game at Foxboro Sports Center, "but it's not an easy thing to do. It's not something I've typically done in the past. Even (at Boston College), I stayed.
"I just thought maybe it was time to try to go some where else and see what we can do, for a number of reasons."
Boyle was a Ranger for five years, playing all 82 games in three of the last four seasons. His first chance to test the free-agent market came after a breakout year in 2010-11 when he set career highs for goals (21) and points (35), but he re-signed with New York.
A similar set of circumstances existed after last season: Boyle was a UFA and his stock was high: Adding important offensive contributions (3 goals, 5 assists) while continuing to excel in areas like penalty-killing, shot-blocking and faceoffs, Boyle helped the Rangers reach the Stanley Cup finals.
This time, though, New York didn't try to stay atop the list when it came to a new contract and several other teams cut to the front of the line.
"I think we talked with Dallas a little bit" during the pre-July 1 period in which teams can express and gauge interest in free agents, but not offer contracts. "Some teams out West were in the mix; Canadian teams were in the mix a little bit."
Notably absent: A firm offer from the Rangers, who held his rights exclusively through June 30, and contact with the Lightning, who were busy trading (Teddy Purcell, Nate Thompson, B.J. Crombeen) and buying out forwards (Ryan Malone) in order to free up salary cap space for free-agent acquisitions.
But Tampa Bay jumped in and locked Boyle up on July 1.
"We wanted to go to a team that was going in the right direction, but for the most part, we went into it with all options open," Boyle said. "When Tampa reached out, we were excited. They contacted my agent (Paul Krepelka), things went back and forth for about 45 minutes, and it was done."
The Lightning had some inside edges:
They were one of the great NHL success stories of 2013-14, finishing second to the Bruins in the Atlantic Division and third in the Eastern Conference behind first-year coach (and Jack Adams Award finalist) Jon Cooper and goalie Ben Bishop (Vezina Trophy finalist), despite losing goal-scoring star Steven Stamkos for more than half the season to a broken leg, and being forced to trade unhappy captain, Martin St. Louis.
Tampa Bay, which acquired Rangers captain Ryan Callahan for St. Louis, also signed New York defenseman Anton Stralman on July 1, so Boyle knew he wouldn't be a stranger in the Lightning dressing room.
The "we" to whom Boyle refers includes his new wife, Lauren. They met in New York, but she's from Orlando, Fla.
"She's ecstatic to be close to her family for the first time in a while," said Boyle, who was still on his honeymoon when he signed with Tampa Bay. "It all worked out."
The 6-foot, 7-inch 244-pounder still has to make it work on the ice for a team that wanted to bulk and toughen up after being swept by Montreal in last season's first playoff round.
"I'm trying to be physical, add a little size," he said. "My biggest contributions, consistently, have been killing penalties and trying to kill the clock when we have a lead at the end of a game – being hard on guys, and playing hard."
Boyle is also expected to add veteran presence to a team that used eight rookies for 41 games or more (no other NHL team used more than three), and he thinks he can be more productive: Since his 21-goal campaign in '10-11, he has scored only 19 over the last three seasons, although 2012-13 was lockout-shortened.
"I know there's more offense there," he said. "I've shown it in the past. Now there's an opportunity for me to try to prove it to a new team."
That's different for Boyle, who has had opportunities or cause to leave teams in the past. He stayed at BC for his senior year (2006-07), even though the Los Angeles Kings, who drafted him in the first round (26th overall) in 2003, wanted him to turn pro. He didn't balk when the Kings, who traded him to New York after 2008-09, tried to make him a defenseman while in Manchester (AHL) and re-mained in New York when his value was high three years ago.
"I loved everything about New York. I really did," said Boyle, but this offseason, "there was some back and forth (discussion), but I didn't really get an offer.
"If you're wanted, you (stay). But if you feel like they're saying 'Well, we'll take you,' then maybe, with all due respect, it's time to go."
Boyle, who brought skating coach Barbara Underhill to Foxboro to fine-tune his stride earlier this summer, is eager to start the next chapter of his career and his life.
"There's plenty of motivation," he said, "to get in shape, try to establish myself there and make this my new home."
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Here are the goals I set followed by a report on what I've done so far.
1. Follow up on researching my Alzo ancestors using information I obtained from my trip to Slovakia this summer.
Doing quite well with this goal. I've been finding quite a few records in various databases, old newspapers and more. I'll be writing more about specific discoveries in future blog posts
2. Publish revised editions (and electronic versions) of my books, Three Slovak Women and Baba's Kitchen.
3. Try to find out more about my grandmother's brother who stayed in Slovakia.
4. Publish a new book.
5. Explore genealogy in Second Life.
6. Book additional speaking engagements--including some remote/virtual lectures.
7. Blog more frequently and try to use Twitter more for genealogical purposes.
8. Continue to expand my freelance writing career.
9. Write for at least 15 minutes per day (about ancestors or topics not associated with assignments or deadline projects).
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Here's a photo from Opening Day:
The credit for all shots goes to my old pal and ex-roomie, the estimable Mr. R.H. Levine, who joined us in the nosebleed seats for the last half of the game. (T'anks a million, Rick!)
Next is the scene from View Reserve, Section 321, row 14:
Sure is a beautiful goddamn park.
No Giants photo gallery would be complete without Buster Posey, American Hero:
Fie upon you, foe! Buster shall vanquish you!
You get to party hardy when you win the World Series:
Remind yourself every single day that the Giants are the defending champs. Those guys in red know:
Check out Ol' Boch ambling in with the 2012 Trophy. Good times, man.


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MADRID (AP) — The doctor at the center of a major doping trial defended his record as part of closing legal arguments on the last day of the Operation Puerto proceedings in a Spanish court on Tuesday.
Eufemiano Fuentes told Judge Julia Satamaria, who is trying the case, he never in his career endangered the lives of those he treated.
"I just want to say that I don't understand about law, but that in my 35-year career I never endangered any of my clients' health," said Fuentes. "I protected their health."
Fuentes is one of five defendants on trial charged with endangering public health by improperly administering blood doping designed to boost professional cyclists' performances.
Fuentes' four co-defendants are his sister Yolanda — also a doctor — and former racing team officials Manolo Saiz, Vicenta Belda and Ignacio Labarta.
The trial's scope was limited to public health laws because doping was not illegal in 2006 when police began investigating the alleged blood-doping ring.
Spain has since passed anti-doping legislation and its Parliament is due to vote on an even tougher law this summer.
During raids on Fuentes' establishments, investigators seized around 200 refrigerated bags containing blood and blood plasma, each inscribed with coded references.
Spanish investigators and the World Anti-Doping Agency believe there could be evidence in the bags which could implicate more than the 50 cyclists believed to have been past customers of Fuentes' services.
His full client list, according to his own testimony in court, included athletes from sports other than cycling. However, their names have never been revealed and it will be up to Santamaria to decide what can be done with the evidence in the bags now the trial has ended.
The state prosecutor has said that although the bags themselves form part of a crime scene that should not be tampered with, there could be ways of making some of their content available for further analysis.
Ana Munoz, director general of the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency, has said she is likely to lodge a request to have the evidence within the bags examined with a view to taking legal action against those who cheated in sport or those who aided and abetted them to do so.
During the trial's 23 sittings over two months, Fuentes steadfastly maintained that the only services he provided were to help prevent athletes from endangering their health through over-exertion.
The prosecution argued some of his transfusion techniques endangered the health of his clients.
A date for the trial's verdict was not given.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - Ben McLemore had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 7 Kansas was tested by Division II power Washburn before easing to a 62-50 exhibition victory Monday night.
Elijah Johnson added 13 points and freshman Perry Ellis had 10 for the Jayhawks, who turned the ball over 24 times in their final tuneup before they open their regular season Friday night against Southeast Missouri State.
After that is a date with No. 14 Michigan State on Nov. 13.
Kansas has a long way to go before that early season showdown in Atlanta.
Despite returning three starters from the team that pushed Kentucky to the limit in last season's national championship game, the Jayhawks have appeared ragged and unpolished through their first two exhibition games against small, in-state schools Emporia State and Washburn.
They needed a 19-1 run to help put away the Hornets last week, and then used a 16-3 run early Monday night before coaxing the game toward its messy conclusion.
McLemore, who sat out last season as a partial NCAA qualifier, was one of the few players in coach Bill Self's lineup who managed to produce on offense. He combined with Ellis and Johnson to score 29 of the Jayhawks' first 34 points, allowing them to build a 36-24 lead by halftime.
Still, even McLemore gave Self plenty of teachable moments.
One of them came early in the second half, when he gathered in the ball on the wing. With only one smaller defender in his way to the basket, McLemore opted to take a midrange jumper rather than go to the rim, leaving Self to scream halfway across the court for him to attack.
Self wound up calling three timeouts in the first 10 minutes of the second half.
These are the kind of growing pains that Kansas will no doubt experience through the first part of the season, though. Despite being picked to win their ninth consecutive Big 12 title, the reality is they have nine freshmen on the roster, seven of whom could contribute.
How steep has the learning curve been at Kansas? Even the courtside announcer is trying to settle into pronouncing the newcomers' names, half the time calling Anrio Adams with his full name and half the time shortening the freshman guard's first name to simply Rio.
Seven-footer Jeff Withey, one of the nation's premier post defenders, struggled again to get on track. He only had seven points and six rebounds against Emporia State, and had nine points and eight rebounds against the Ichabods, even though he had a massive size advantage in the paint.
Will McNeill scored 13 points to lead Washburn, a school from Topeka, Kan., that went 25-8 last season and was voted No. 2 in the NABC Division II preseason poll.
McNeill was the biggest reason the Ichabods were still within 53-42 with about 5 minutes left in the game. But that's when Withey scored inside, and then made a block at the other to trigger a fastbreak, which Releford finished with a three-point play for a 58-42 lead.
Johnson added a 3 moments later to deliver the knockout blow.
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The Hazel Green Youth Football and Cheerleading Association, a nonprofit organization, is making plans for its 2nd Annual Touchdowns and Tiaras Winter Fling, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Tickets are selling for $100 each, which includes dinner for two, a concert, door prizes, thanks to generosity of sponsors, a cash prize of $5,000. The tickets are available from football players, cheerleaders and members of the association's board of directors.
Funds raised from the event will be spent on the development of the park, program and sponsoring children who can't afford to play.
For additional information, contact Anna Sumners at (931) 675-9096.


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Court prevents feds from enforcing abortion-drug mandate
'Tide has turned' against Obamacare demands
A federal court Friday granted a preliminary injunction to Hobby Lobby, preventing the Obama administration from enforcing the Obamacare abortion-drug mandate against the Christian-run company while the case is in progress.
The case brought by Hobby Lobby is just one of dozens pending in courts now over the Obamacare demand that employers provide abortifacients to their employees – irrespective of whether such actions violate the employers' beliefs.
The Becket Fund, which is representing the company, said the court found there is a "substantial public interest in ensuring that no individual or corporation has their legs cut out from under them while these difficult issues are resolved."
"The tide has turned against the HHS mandated," said a spokesman for the organization.
Matt Bowman, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said every American, including family business owners, should be free to live and do business according to their faith.
"We commend the court's ruling which is a victory for religious freedom and freedom of conscience," he said. "The Obama administration claims 'unwavering' support for religious freedom, but the only thing unwavering is the administration's tenacious opposition to that freedom."
ADF also is representing a number of cases challenging the federal plan to fund abortifacients for all.
ADF is working on cases brought by Geneva College, Seneca Hardwood, Sioux Chief Manufacturing, Annex Medical, Louisiana College, Grace Schools, Grote Industries, Tyndale House Publishers, Denver manufacturer Newland, former Sen. Bill Armstrong's mortgage company and Briscoe, which runs assisted-living centers.
Becket also represents Wheaton College of Illinois, East Texas Baptist University, Houston Baptist University, Colorado Christian University, the Eternal Word Television Network, Ave Marie University and Belmont Abbey College.
WND reported earlier this month a coalition of faith leaders – ranging from the president of the National Association of Evangelicals to an official for the Church of Scientology – reprimanded President Obama and his health care plan for infringing on the faith of employers by forcing them to provide abortion services to their employees.
"The government has neither a compelling interest nor the appropriate authority to coerce one citizen to fund or facilitate specific lifestyle choices of another," the group says in a letter to Obama.
"If the federal government can force morally opposed individuals to purchase contraception or abortion-causing drugs and devices for a third party, what prevents this or future administrations from forcing other Americans to betray their deeply held convictions?"
Under Obamacare, employers fund the abortion, contraception and abortifacient demands of their employees under threat of federal government sanctions. The requirement is in the rules for the federal health-care program, which was written with the input of leaders of the nation's abortion industry.
The letter came the same day the White House announced it was delaying the Obamacare mandate for businesses with more than 50 employees until after the elections in November 2014.
More than 100 prominent national religious leaders and scholars released the letter, called "Standing Together for Religious Freedom."
It calls on the Obama administration and Congress to start respecting conscience rights and religious freedom.
"Through its contraceptive coverage mandate, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services continues to breach universal principles affirmed and protected by the U.S. Constitution and other federal laws," the letter says. "While the mandate is a specific offense, it represents a greater fundamental breach of conscience by the federal government.
"Very simply, HHS is forcing Citizen A, against his or her moral convictions, to purchase a product for Citizen B. The HHS policy is coercive and puts the administration in the position of defining – or casting aside – religious doctrine.
"This should trouble every American."
The letter, released in both English and Spanish, was signed by National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson, Bishop Gary Stevenson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Bishop Andrew of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church of America, Randall Bach of Open Bible Churches, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention, Susan Taylor of the Church of Scientology, John Ashmen of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, William Estrada of the Home School Legal Defense Association, John Garvey of the Catholic University of America, David Nammo of the Christian Legal Society and dozens more religious leaders.
The Obama administration's insistence that it can tell the faith community which religious beliefs members may follow hasn't been well received.
One of the dozens of organizations suing the government over the issue, Belmont Abbey College, said it would not follow the government's mandates no matter what.
President William K. Thierfelder told WND: "We cannot go against our faith, and we are not going to do it. We will never accept something that is antithetical to what we believe. I think all of us have to have the commitment the martyrs [had]. Not that we are going to be martyrs, but we have to have that kind of commitment. Sometimes the faith is bolstered by persecution."
Hobby Lobby's status previously was before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
A district court had refused to allow the injunction, and even Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the company owners to start paying for abortifacients for their employees, in direct violation of their faith.
But the 10th Circuit said the store company has "established a likelihood of success that their rights under this statute are substantially burdened by the contraceptive-coverage requirement, and have established an irreparable harm."


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Microsoft Surface Tablet, Windows 8 PC Sales Failing To Impress
Despite garnering some positive reviews since its launch back in October, Microsoft's Surface tablet doesn't appear to be making much headway in the tablet space. In a note to clients, R.W. Baird analyst William Power reported that sales reps at Best Buy and Staples are seeing little interest in Surface.
While it's still early days, Windows 8 PC sales don't appear to be setting the world on fire either. Emmanuel Fromont, president of Acer's Americas unit, told the New York Times that Windows 8 PC sales have fallen short of expectations. "There was not a huge spark in the market," Fromont told the New York Times. "It's a slow start, there's no question."


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Applications are now open for fall 2014 classes in the Master of Science — Leadership and the Doctor of Philosophy Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Degree Programs offered through the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. The school provides generous financial support to all admitted fall 2014 students. This support is offered to committed, creative leaders who share the vision to transform health care through nursing education and research.
"Health-care settings desperately need leaders during this time of massive changes," said Deborah Ward, associate dean for academics. "It is essential for more providers to see where their expertise is needed and to respond. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is your first step in becoming a health-care leader."
Ward said the school seeks a diverse student population with varying backgrounds and work experiences; which is why the school is offering each admitted master's-degree leadership and doctoral student generous financial support for tuition and fees and additional expenses. This support is made possible by the founding $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and additional scholarship sources.
Setting this graduate program apart from others, the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Degree Programs prepare nurse leaders, researchers and faculty in a unique interdisciplinary and interprofessional environment. As with other graduate groups at UC Davis, this program engages faculty from across the campus with expertise in nursing, medicine, health informatics, nutrition, biostatistics, public health and other fields.
The Doctor of Philosophy program prepares graduates as health-care and health-policy leaders and nurse faculty/researchers at the university level. Entering doctoral-degree students receive $45,000 per academic year for four years. This support fully covers fees and tuition with the remainder intended as a stipend to help offset loss of income while concentrating on doctoral studies.
The Master of Science — Leadership program prepares students for health-care leadership roles in a variety of organizations and as nurse faculty at the community college and prelicensure education levels. Entering master's-degree students receive a $40,000 scholarship over two years to go toward tuition and fees. Out-of-state and international packages are individually examined and approved.
The general application deadline is Jan. 15, 2014, with acceptances announced in March. All admission slots are expected to fill during this period. Applications submitted from Jan. 15 to May 31, 2014, are reviewed on a space-available basis only.
About the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis was established in March 2009 through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is to transform health care through nursing education and research. The school's first programs, doctoral and master's degrees, opened in fall 2010. Master's degree programs for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, with a focus on preparing primary-care providers for rural and underserved communities, opened in summer 2013. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing the UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center and the UC Davis Medical Group. For more information, visit http://nursing.ucdavis.edu.


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App launched to help survive snake bites
A Tasmanian snake rescue group has launched a smartphone application designed to help treat animal bites.
The Reptile Rescue application includes an hour-by-hour treatment guide for victims until they can reach a hospital.
It also provides local emergency numbers and guides for snake identification and reporting sightings.
Reptile Rescue's Ian Norton hopes the application will help more people realise first aid is vital to prevent permanent organ damage.
"We have people presenting at hospital from snakebite. In the majority of cases, they've done nothing or inadequate provision for their own safety," he said.
"Now if we look at the long-term effects, you may survive seven hours.
"That's the average for survival without treatment."
The application was developed by students at the Launceston Polytechnic.


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- A woman is more likely to want to commit adultery during ovulation than at any other time in her cycle.
- Telling a convincing lie to someone is much more difficult when you find them sexually attractive.
- Minute quantities of over 30 different substances have been identified in human semen. These include nitrogen, fructose, lactic acid, ascorbic acid, inositol, cholesterol, glutathione, creatine, pyruvic acid, citric acid, sorbitol, urea, uric acid and Vitamin B12, along with various salts and enzymes.
- Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, the same feel-good chemical responsible for the ecstatic high people experience through sexual attraction and love.
- Women who have given birth have darker labia minora than women who haven't.
- The majority of women experience a peak in libido just before their period.
- -321°F is the temperature at which sperm banks store donor semen. At this temperature, semen can be stored indefinitely.
- The point at which the average man reaches his sexual peak is between the ages of 17 and 18.
- The earth could be re-populated to its current level using the number of sperm that could fit into an aspirin capsule.
- A chicken egg could accommodate the number of female ova necessary to repopulate the earth to its present numbers.
- During sexual intercourse, in addition to the genitals and breasts, the inner nose also swells.
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Editor's Note: Vivian J. Sanders of Petersburg writes in the following article her recollections of the Petersburg square in 1954. The third in a three-part series, the memoir was written as part of an almost 200-page book she compiled for her children and grandchildren, a gift she gave them this Christmas. At the age of 89, she said she feels compelled to share her family story.
By Vivian Sanders
Special to The Times
We mustn't fail to mention our early policemen. There were Bill Thornton, Tell Wells and Tom Bryant. They were the ones I remember when we first came here. I think Tell Wells was the night watchman. Mr. Thornton's wife, Lucille, worked at the City Hall, too. Someone had to be on hand to answer the phone in case there was a fire or other emergency. The fire truck was housed in the City Hall.
We had three good schools. There was the school for the black students, which at that time, we called the colored school. That building is now used as the Senior Citizen Building. It is located on what is now called Railroad Street.
Then there was the elementary school on College Street. When we came here Barnett Gamble was principal. Soon after, Thurman Cobb was principal for many years. Mr. Cobb was a good man and educator. My children went to school while he was principal.
One of my 50-ish sons told me an interesting story about Mr. Cobb. It seems there was a former circus performer named Joe Pack who probably missed his audience and would often come to the edge of the school yard and want to show the children how he could breathe fire. Mr. Cobb would send him away, but one day he said, "All right, you can put on your demonstration, and they can watch, but this will be the last time I want to see you here."
The school had plays, musical recitals, ball games and various activities to give the children opportunities to perform and proud parents opportunities to watch their children. The community also used the auditorium/gym for civic activities.
On the other side of town on Church Street, and across the county line into Marshall County was the high school. It was housed in the building that was formerly the home of Morgan School.
Petersburg High School took over that building in 1950. Mr. Oliver was the principal. I didn't know much about this school until 1956 when my husband started teaching there. Mr. Oliver's wife was the home economics teacher. Raymond Adams taught agriculture. Doug Watson followed by Frank Shubert, were the coaches, and Charles Sanders, after 1956, taught English, math, history and chemistry at various times. Not all of those at the same time, but he was pretty consistently in English.
Sam Bobo was the commercial teacher until he was killed in a wreck on his way home to Lynchburg. Katherine Adams finished out the year in that department. Mrs. Newsome Harvey taught English at the beginning of the school's transition from Morgan School to Petersburg High School. In addition to the athletic program, the community was entertained annually with a junior class play and a senior class play. There were talent shows from time to time. All of these things helped to hold the community together.
At the elementary school with Mr. Cobb, we had Helen Bowers as coach. (Helen is still living and is my one exception on writing about the deceased only.) Mrs. Calahan taught first grade and was loved by her students. Mrs. Lena Scott was the second grade teacher, and Mrs. Lilly Crabtree was the gentle soul in the third grade. Mrs. Sara Talley taught the fourth grade and is remembered still today as a strict disciplinarian. She lived on High Street across from the school yard and every Easter she took her class to her yard for an Easter egg hunt.
Mrs. Mildred Scott taught the fifth grade and was the school musician. She played for chapel and taught appropriate songs to the children. Mrs. Mattie Burns taught sixth grade until an injury caused blood poisoning and consequently her death.
Helen Bowers taught the seventh grade and established the school library. Her specialties were math and science. Mr. Gamble and later Mr. Cobb taught the eighth grade and filled the position as principal.
Petersburg had a very active Lions Club. They met in the community building on Church Street right behind what used to be Marsh's Store. The wives of the Lions were formed into committees and took turns cooking the meals for the men. I was on one of those committees, but I don't remember what the financial arrangements were, but we had the facilities to cook right in the building.
The building was also used for books from the Mobile Regional Library. Members of the Research Club took turns keeping the doors open on Saturday afternoons. The Research Club met once a month. Two women each month were in charge of the program and the refreshments. The club met in their homes.
In addition to these two clubs, there was a garden club, a Mason's organization, and an American Legion Post. In addition to the annual horse show, there was a colt show. This was held right outside of town on Highway 129 East across from the cemetery. This was a big social event. People packed picnics and spent the day sometimes. Several people who were part of the Colt Show organization are still living, but two of the very early ones were Warren Gill (Bill's father) and Cecil Ellis. The very first show, I have learned, was held in Mr. Gill's front yard on Richmond Road.
Petersburg still has the same churches that were here in the '50s and an added one. There are the First Baptist, the Primitive Baptist, the Church Street Methodist, the Caldwell Methodist, the Russell Street Church of Christ, the Water Street Church of Christ, the Cumberland Presbyterian and the First Presbyterian and a new addition, the Fellowship Baptist.


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Kate Buesser had the game-winning goal and an assist in Harvard's upset of Dartmouth (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's ice hockey team capitalized on two quick strikes in the second period to defeat No. 9/10 Dartmouth Friday night at Bright Hockey Center. With the score tied 1-1 in the second period, the Crimson took control, netting two goals within a minute of each other, an outburst that proved too much for Dartmouth to recover from.
Harvard (3-2-2, 3-2-2 ECAC) drew first blood at 7:42 into the first period when Kalley Armstrong found Marissa Gedman for a quick shot that ricocheted off the far post into the net. Ashley Wheeler also assisted on the goal. The Crimson limited the Big Green (6-2-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) to six shots while accumulating 10 on Dartmouth goalie Whitney Woodcox.
Dartmouth came out firing on all cylinders in the second period, knotting the score at 1-1, just 1:54 into the period when Jenna Hobeika scored on a deflection. Margaux Sharp and Lauren Kelly assisted on the goal. Dartmouth sustained its intense play for the entire period, racking up 11 shots. Despite this barrage and a two-man disadvantage, the composed play of Harvard's freshman netminder Lauren Joarnt kept the score at 1-1.
With 1:27 remaining in the period, Kate Buesser and Katharine Chute assisted on Liza Ryabkina's goal to put Harvard up 2-1. Less than a minute later, Elizabeth Parker earned her first collegiate goal on a breakaway set up by Lyndsey Fry and Gedman. Despite being outshot 5-11 in the second frame, the Crimson finished the period on top, 3-1.
The momentum continued in Harvard's favor in the third period with Buesser's breakaway goal at the 13:48 mark. Josephine Pucci, playing in her first game since representing the United States in the Four Nations Cup, and Kelsey Romatoski assisted on the goal. The nation's leading scorer, Sasha Nanji quickly answered for the Big Green with 12:29 left in the game, closing the gap to 4-2. Hobeika assisted on the goal, Nanji's eighth of the season.
With 2:23 remaining, Geneva Kliman's power play goal, assisted by Hobeika and Nanji, narrowed the score to 4-3. With under a minute remaining, Dartmouth pulled Woodcox for an extra skater, but failed to capitalize, as Katharine Chute added an empty-netter with 10 seconds on the clock to secure a 5-3 win for Harvard. Harvard outshot Dartmouth 25-23, with Woodcox and Joarnt making 20 saves apiece.
The Crimson completes the home-and-home series tomorrow afternoon when it travels to Hanover, N.H., for a 4 p.m. game.


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Or, it's all planned by Apple and Cisco. Big hooplah, they settle, both companies get a lot of free advertising.
Mmm, black helicopters...
Given that this news has negatively affected Apple's share price (which anyone could have predicted), I think such action would probably be illegal. Not that Steve Jobs seems to care much about the legalities of share dealing, of course.
Also, it's not like Apple need any more publicity for this thing: it was on the front of national newspapers here today, for goodness' sake. And this doesn't exactly make them look good.
Having thought about it, I think it's most likely that they expected to be sued, and will try to use the court case to extract some reasonable licensing terms out of Cisco. I don't know enough about US trademark law though to know whether a judge can force such a thing however.


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The monastery attracted so many students and monks from around greater India that its administration built an annex to house the seekers of enlightenment coming to meditate there, archaeologists at Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) have discovered.
Another notable finding was that the main compound of the monastery, located in present-day Badal Pur, is at least 300 years older than archaeologists previously estimated. The main compound, which consists of 55 "monk cells", was excavated between 2005 and 2012.
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the extension isn't mentioned as required on the housing manual or the 4 inch dome sheet, just mentions it as helping improve optics.
Just to clarify, in the lens chart for the Aquatica 4" Dome Port, 18410, no where does it say "helping improve optics" The chart is pretty specific on needing the 18456 Port Extension with the Tokina 10-17 alone or the 18453 extension if the lens is used with the teleconverter. If the Extensions were taken to be a "suggestion" then would the zoom gears that are specified also a "Suggestion"?
In page 6 of the D7000 Manual, Jean states: "The Dome Port may require the use of an extension ring to optimize the optical center to both the dome and the lens..." it goes on to say "A comprehensive list of the lenses supported and their REQUIRED (Caps are Mine) extensions and/or accessories is supplied at the end of this manual


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170. Spaceport Fear
Released February 2013
Behind the Scenes
OH BRING BACK MY Bonnie TO ME
After too long an absence from the Big Finish audio range, Bonnie Langford tells Paul Spragg how she feels about returning to the character of Mel
Hello Bonnie, and welcome back. You've been keeping us all fascinated with tales of your career in the green room today.
My anecdotals!
And it's an astonishing career. How old were you when you started off in Doctor Who?
Oh God, I don't know. Was I mid-twenties or something?
It would have been 1986.
Oh, don't do that, you're making me do maths now! Yes, I would be 22.
What's amazing is that you were already a household name by then.
I know, I know! And I didn't know that most people who did Doctor Who were not at that point. As far as I was concerned, it was another thing to do.
What brought you to it in the first place?
[Producer] John Nathan-Turner. I met him at a dinner and casually said, 'Oh, that sounds fun, I'd love to do that,' and little did I know I was signing myself up for an assistant job! I thought he would say, 'Come and be a little guest in one episode' or something.
You were in the unusual position of being a companion who bridged Doctors, working with both Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
Well, I knew them both previously, so it was interesting. Dear old Sylvester, I kind of feel like I… not helped him through, but I felt like I was there to support him when he first joined, because it was quite a step for him. I always felt that we were sort of the rep company and the guest stars would come in; we were like the hosts of a party, on the first day particularly, guiding people through. Tour guides, helping people through the world of Doctor Who and how it all madly starts!
Did you expect your Doctor Who experience to last this long?
Yes, I always knew. It's the best story ever told really, isn't it? It has no beginning, middle and end, it has no limits. So in that respect, as long as you've got your formula, which was that partnership and then good versus evil and the fact that good will always win through, however you dress that up is always going to be a recipe for success, really.
What they've proved now with the new series is that if you move with the times, and you put the budget behind it and the creative team behind it, then that's gonna make it very saleable. Whereas at the time I was in it, it was sort of floundering.
What I didn't know when I first joined the show was how massive it was globally. I had no idea. And that was quite daunting at the time as well. I was bemused by it all, quite frankly! And I think that's what I tried to support Sylvester with, the fact this is like no other job, you will be asked questions that you never knew you had to think about and will constantly get that for ever more!
Yours has been one of the most requested characters for the audios.
How strange! How very flattering! How sweet!
You seem surprised.
Of course I am! It's always surprising! It's nice. Why is that?
I think it's partly to do with the 'Big Finish effect'. Colin's said the audios have allowed his Doctor to become more than he was on screen, and I think the same's true for Mel. She certainly spends less time screaming on audio!
It took me a long time to get back into it because I did Doctor Who and then that was done. Like most jobs you do. That's done, now we go on to the next one. And you might get asked bits and pieces about them. With Doctor Who, it was always sort of there but I didn't really talk about it because I didn't feel that anyone really wanted to know.
Also, as you say, when I first started doing Big Finish, I didn't want to just be screaming every thirty seconds and I think one of the reasons I didn't stay with the TV show any longer was I felt there was really no purpose for me whatsoever and that I needed to get my teeth into something else professionally. I had no back-story, I had nothing to pick from. It was strange; whenever you play any kind of part, you know that there's something, whatever your character. Mine was just carrot juice and living in a TARDIS; it's all a little bizarre! There was nothing outside of that that one could pull upon that could perhaps beef it up a bit. So I found that quite limiting and just decided I didn't want to do it any more. I was worried that the audios would be the same thing, I'd be a spare girlie part going, 'But Doctor…' And so it's nice to do these because it gives me the opportunity to perhaps not be as stupid as I looked! There's more to do and say and just to feel that it's a positive input. It's much nicer to be able to feel you can be more of a partner than a stupid sidekick.
You also got the strangest introduction of any companion on TV, just heading off with the Sixth Doctor at the end of The Trial of a Time Lord despite never having actually met him. All we really know is you're a computer programmer from Pease Pottage.
The weird thing was, I never went near a computer! A person who is a computer programmer at that time would never have been away from some device. I think I pressed a couple of buttons on the TARDIS once but that was it. So to be honest, that in itself was pretty unrealistic, although when I first joined the show, I know I had lots of computer programmers contact me saying, 'You should talk to me, because I'll tell you about it all,' and they were right because it was complete gobbledygook to me, I had no concept whatsoever! However, I could have pretended. It didn't even get mentioned that I would use any kind of electronic device to zap any monster that was trailing me. All I would do was run like Fay Wray into King Kong's arms. That was it for me. The times have moved so fast, much faster than at that point Doctor Who was able to keep up with.
What do you remember about leaving the show?
I just went off to a supermarket in the sky with Tony Selby! I remember one thing I did say was, 'Please don't give me some kind of brain transplant' but it was a bit Brief Encounter! It's weird, isn't it? Someone told me the other day that I was supposed to have stayed. The mere fact that John never asked me was by the by. But I never outstay my welcome if I can help it, and I had been contracted for two series, so I didn't expect it to be any more than that. But apparently I was misinterpreting whatever vibes were being given out!
You started out as a child actor, so you must be very…
Well, that as well, yes! But I was actually going to ask how tricky it is to keep so much work coming in as the years go on.
Well, I like the job. It's playtime, isn't it? You do have to concentrate, but ultimately, it's about enjoying it as much as possible. Even when you don't feel like enjoying it, you find the way of enjoying it because that's what makes you do a better job. And it's what I do. I can't think of doing anything else, I wouldn't be employable to do anything else, and I'm just really fortunate that I've been able to keep going, really, and keep moving on and hopefully doing better and approaching things differently and better, and just growing. I am really lucky in this job that I have access to express myself in some respects. Even if it's through the voice of whatever part I'm playing, to be able to have that creative outlet is quite levelling. The industry's weird. Always has been. I do like it. And it still plays tricks on you and it's a business and you have to get used to that. But ultimately you have a really fun time.
Did you always have a soft spot for Doctor Who or did you see it as just a job amongst a lot of other jobs?
I think it was a job amongst a lot of other jobs, except for the fact that it's still there. It's still very alive. And it's amazing the interest other people have in it. And the fact that still, after all these years, it has such a soft spot for so many people in different countries, different levels, different generations – and it's a TV show. And yet it's more than that to so many people. So one has to feel quite humbled by the fact you're part of that history, bizarre though that may be.
First, when I joined, it was a job. Absolutely. But it is more than that. It's sort of a passport in some respects. It's fascinating how it has a key to unlock many doors at times. Even if just to have a fun conversation with somebody. I spend a lot of time in the States and they know it there, they like it there. They find it eccentric and fun, and to think that in that huge country and in the grand scheme of how much television has been made, it still has a place.
Have you watched the new series?
I haven't watched it for a long time, actually. My daughter used to watch it a lot and then she kind of got freaked by it. She's in that phase of believing it all, because we did go through a phase of it being a bit freaky and then we used to watch the 'making of' straight after so she could work out that it wasn't real. And then her imagination's taken over again. She won't even watch Harry Potter! She'll watch the most mature and adult thing – she's only eleven – but something like Doctor Who still gets to her. Isn't that funny?
Meanwhile, I see you're still keeping busy; I was channel hopping the other day and spotted you on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
I did alright on that! I won Weakest Link once as well. I've just done Pointless, which was so bizarre. I didn't know the rules! They take a long time to record and we had to keep asking in between the different sections, 'What are we supposed to be doing? What are the rules? So we can't say that but we must say that…?' It's like, 'Oh God, who ever thought of this game???' But we won it! That's one with Todd Carty, who I'm in [Monty Python-inspired stage play] Spamalot with at the moment.
My Mum recently saw Spamalot in Bristol; she said to tell you you were brilliant.
It's so funny because we do this thing where they go, 'You have to take this show all the way to…' and we used to say wherever we were. And when we were in Bristol, the guy who plays the Knight of Ni said, 'And you have to take it all the way to… Bristol!' and normally the audience would go, 'Oh!' or laugh or something, but somebody went, 'That's where we are!' Yes, that's the point! That's why we say that! They loved it in Bristol. They came dressed up as knights. It was very funny.
I'm coming to see it in a week.
Are you a Python fan? Do you know all the sketches?
Pretty much.
You'll be saying them with us.
I'll give you a wave from halfway back in the auditorium.
I might not wave back. Just because it's not appropriate; Lady of the Lake and all that. But you'll know that I mean it in my heart.
The Cast
Colin Baker and Ronald Pickup
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|May 22, 2010
|Los Angeles, CA
Workshop "Spontaneous Inspiration For Jazz Improvision"
Colors + Emotions + Sounds by Michael White & Leisei Chen
Jazz Violinist/Composer Michael White and Vocalist/Qigong teacher Leisei Chen, a musical and life partner lead the Michael White Quintet, created this workshop to explore one's originality through sounds, colors and energy.
Live Performance by Michael White violin, Leisei Chen vocals, Tim Young guitar, Danny Frankel percussion. CD "Voices"($15) & "Voice Of Brazil"($10) on sale.
Also Featuring The Cornerstone Kid's
This workshop/performance is sponsored by the Allegro Music Foundation benefiting Students with Disabilities.


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A racket is blaming, complaining, criticizing, griping, grousing, grumbling, moaning, plaintively crying, sobbing, wailing, whimpering, whining, wingeing and that is all.
Racket syndrome occurs when an individual resorts to one of these responses to problems or conflicts and does not move to the next step of exploring ways of solving an unwanted situation.
There are five steps of problem solving:
1. Identify the problem.
2. Define a specific, measurable goal.
3. Explore options to solve the problem.
4. Develop and work an action plan A with plan B, C, D developed as back-up plans.
5. Evaluate process outcomes ... am I moving from where I was to where I want to be?
If plan A doesn't work, move to plan B, then C, then D.
or redefine the problem, goal, options and/or plans.
Evaluate completion ... Have I accomplished what I set out to do? Yes? Celebrate!
You always have your guide with you; use your five fingers to remind you at what step you are :
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What you describe as racket syndrome sounds a lot like Eric Berne's "Poor Me" game in Games People Play.
The five steps of problem solving sounds like something that every child should learn.
Parents teach their children how to whine in grocery stores and how to manipulate and exploit. Children teach their parents how to give in, to acquiesce, and spoil them. Husbands teach their wives how to be dependent, subordinate, and submissive. Wives teach their husbands to control, dominate, and oppress. Life is a dance of interpersonal relationships that takes awareness, understanding and skills building to have healthy relationships.
Life in community requires skills that are learnable.
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The accident happened mid-morning of July 17, 2001. Forty-seven-year-old Barbara Traszka and her nine-year-old son David pulled out in front of a jeep driven by 17-year-old Francisco Ramirez.
23 News has learned Ramirez should not have been behind the wheel of the jeep when the accident happened. He was stopped two times prior to the fatal crash for driving without a license. A memorial now stands on the ground where 47-year-old Barbara Traska and her nine-year-old son David died on.
The two where hit by 17-year-old Francisco Ramirez as they turned through the intersection. Despite crash analysis reports showing Ramirez was traveling 71 miles per hour at the time of the crash, Ramirez received only one ticket, driving without a license.
The accident that has brought the Traska family so much grief, could have, and should have been prevented.
Prior to the accident, Ramirez was stopped not once, but twice for driving without a license. On both occasions, traffic tickets show Ramirez lied about his date of birth, and middle initial, lies that may have helped him evade police and that may have kept him on the road.
Elizabeth Earelywine prosecuted Ramirez on two felony counts of giving fraudulent name and birth date information to police. Even more surprising, despite hard evidence that Ramirez gave false information, a Winnebago County jury just Tuesday, acquitted Ramirez on all counts of obstruction of justice.
The law is too late to save Barbara and David. The Traska family says there is a loop hole in the system, and they fear hundreds, possibly thousands of drivers like Ramirez are on Illinois roadways everyday.


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Who really knows what spygate did to help them and at what level. Its all speculation, and jet fans love to use spygate to explain all of their success.
The bottom line is week after week, game after game, for a decade now when you knew the pats were playing your team, it caused major anxiety around the whole country. When the jets consistently go 3 and out, that polish tight end catches a wicked bullet from Brady for a crucial first down. Just look at their win/loss record. Thats the bottom line.
I love that they lost, but I'm not going to take anything away from them
Yeah, must be really hard to stomach being a Pats fan
Like everyone else on this board(minus the trolls ofcourse), I loved watching them lose last night. But let's not fool ourselves and start claiming they are a flawed team. Only one team wins it all every year and if it weren't for a few drops and some better red zone play, they would be back in the superbowl.
And Tom Brady's an *******.
Carry on.
Would you take the risk of cheating if it didn't help at a significant level?
NE fans like to say the normal defensive dumb sh*t that anyone caught cheating would say like, "Every team does it" or "it didn't give tham ANY benefit". That's a crock of sh*t.
Because while they are stroking their Patsies, they may eventually notice that their lying, cheating team hasn't won anything since getting caught. After all this time, do you honestly think it didn't have any benefit? If you actually believe that, then you are just as arrogant as you are stupid.
If Giselle had taught the Pats receivers how to catch Tom's balls.
This is most certainly a TREND.
They are becoming the Buffalo Bills of the 2000's.
The Pats are becoming the Philadelphia Eagles of McNabb. LOL
Maybe Bill will finally admit hes not quite the genius he thinks he is.. He must realize now he cant just keep building his high powered O and neglect the defense.. He had some great players on D when he won superbowls.. Has none having a weak defense.. Their secondary is still a problem.. I cringe at the thought of Revis signing with Pats in 14.. If Bill was smart enough to know he good easily be the difference maker..


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Is metal in the same crisis than the so-called "indie" rock and other modern "alternative" mostly-shitty stuff? "
As soon as you let the crowd in, wham, it becomes the same old shit disguised as something new!exciting!unique!
How to make good politics (mostly as ANUS sees it) then? Would anarchy be a solution or are we doomed?
I If there are no bands that are carrying the genre like youd wish, strap on a fucking guitar, get a band together, and quit your bitching.
This is why I stopped reading your posts, I think. Over and over you advocate things that have failed in the past.Open your eyes. Everyone has strapped on a guitar, and none of them understand the values behind the music, so they hash out the same crap that flooded the following genres:1. Punk2. Speed metal3. Death metal4. Black MetalIt all sounds the same!Every genre goes through this, but to different degrees. For example, indie produced a lot less of value than black metal or death metal, as did punk and speed metal.
I have often wondered why the ANUS staff doesn't make their own band and release music in the vein they'd like to see out now.
I didn't realize it was so easy.In fact, why don't we all just compose and play whatever music we want to hear?
I plan to. Anything wrong with making music for myself?
LLD seems to be taking initiative:http://www.hessian.org/sites/hiarctow/works.html


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destinyland writes "A technology CEO sees game artificial intelligence as the key to a revolution in education, predicting a synergy where games create smarter humans who then create smarter games. Citing lessons drawn from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, Alex Peake, founder of Primer Labs, sees the possibility of a self-fueling feedback loop which creates 'a Moore's law for artificial intelligence,' with accelerating returns ultimately generating the best possible education outcomes. 'What the computer taught me was that there was real muggle magic ...' writes Peake, adding 'Once we begin relying on AI mentors for our children and we get those mentors increasing in sophistication at an exponential rate, we're dipping our toe into symbiosis between humans and the AI that shape them.'"


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Rouse showing toughness but limited between the tackles
Kyle long is a player
Rouse showing toughness but limited between the tackles
Gillislee is a stud. From Deland Florida. His mom was in my shop a few days ago. She thinks he will go in round 3. Potential Jet pick.
Nassibs height problem shining through on that jump screen
Also just had a BAD pick
Dropped the shotgun snap, paniced, and tjrew into tripple coverage
Wilson with a swing pass, good placement but no velocity
Wilson throws deep left. Understrown almost picked
Swingbpass again, decent placement
All these Qb's suck thus far.
Nassib looking demoralized. Going through the motions
Ziggy has been everywhere today
Pass deep right incomplete. Good coverage
Nassib rolls right throws it away
Nassib over throws TE over the middle
Isn't Buffalol said to be interested in Nassib?
Nassib is Sanchez 2.0
Jones out there for the South
Jones trying to look athletic... kind of awkward
First throw is a throw away
Disappointing 1st series for Jones.
Jones out of shot gun misses the open receiver over the middle
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I'm not sure exactly how much of a v4l problem this is as I think that for the most part, it may relate to the program I'm using. I'm trying to use a sample video capture program to test a webcam using the Leeds Real Time Image processing library (www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vision), test-displayImage program with a Phillips webcam, which was detected as /dev/video0.
The program was set to use this as a video4linux source, but it only produces a grey screen or half grey, half black screen. Does anyone know what might be going on?


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McHENRY – Carl Vallianatos is proud to see how the St. Baldrick's Foundation fundraising events are shaping up for March.
"Last year, we had 381 people participate," said Vallianatos, assistant principal at McHenry High School West Campus. "I'm pretty confident we'll go past that this year."
The annual fundraising events for pediatric cancer research, scheduled for March 14 at West Campus, already are on pace to draw more participants throughout the McHenry community.
As of Wednesday on the St. Baldrick's Foundation website, "McHenry Community Shave" had 350 people registered to get their heads shaved for cancer research and support, raising $37,065 so far.
The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a national charity that supports pediatric cancer research. St. Baldrick's volunteers raise money for the cause by having their heads shaved bald for donations. And some donate long locks to other organizations that provide wigs for patients with hair loss caused by long-term cancer treatments.
This March will mark the third year for the communitywide fundraising effort, Vallianatos said. Local schools, civic groups and businesses in McHenry are teaming up to fulfill this year's theme, "Shaving a World of Difference," in which the community attempts to become St. Baldrick's "largest shave" in the world.
In 2009, McHenry West High School students helped introduce St. Baldrick's to the community, dedicating the first fundraiser to Jackson Grabow, a 2-year-old McHenry boy who had a rare brain tumor.
He died about a month after the fundraiser.
Since then, the annual event garnered wider support from various groups and businesses in McHenry.
"It's been really uniting," Vallianatos said. "Just about everyone in the community knows about St. Baldrick's."
McHenry Mayor Sue Low is set to get her head shaved for St. Baldrick's for the third time.
"When kids are doing something so right, I think it's our responsibility to support them and let them know that we're with them," she said.
To register for the community shave, go to the foundation's website, www.stbaldricks.org, and type "McHenry Community Shave" in the search box.


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What's worse than finding a dead mouse lying on your trousers?Half a dead mouse lying on your trousers!
I was a tampon applicator. Why did I think it was a party horn? partly the shape and partly because I could see 'lipstick' where some one had tooted it before me!
Quote from: Shoo on June 09, 2007, 10:14:52 PMerm - yep. That and more (I told you it was gross! ). Hospital said it was some kind of 24 hour flu-bug (they didnt really know), because I woke up the next day fine (a little weak, but ok). I had that a few months ago... I was up all night puking into the toilet when before I knew it, I had to clean up the floor behind me... I then switched to sitting on the toilet and puking into a bucket. My DH slept through the whole thing and I was too embarassed to wake him. I didn't tell him why I didn't want to take the bathroom rug when we moved...
erm - yep. That and more (I told you it was gross! ). Hospital said it was some kind of 24 hour flu-bug (they didnt really know), because I woke up the next day fine (a little weak, but ok).
At another job, I worked at the best place in the city for a certain type of cuisine. Unfortunately, the only soap in the place was the pink stuff for the coffee pots. It wasn't a good place to work for many reasons, but my gross out moment was when I had to pull vegetables out of the cooler. The fridge was in a room that had no light since the fuse blew years ago and there was no light in the fridge. He bought in bulk because it was cheaper, so putting my hand into the cooler in the dark was pretty gross. I learned there that tomatoes can grow three or more types of mold, all on top of one another and that lettuce can liquefy into a blue sludge. He would cut off the gross stuff and serve the rest. The health inspector would come in periodically and he'd pay the inspector off.
Um, please tell me this guy's not in business anymore...
As most of you may know, the local slug forces are attempting to push forward their frontier into our house.The other night, I heard the cat hacking in the living-room. I went in - cat was fine, but he'd been sick on the carpet. "Oh dear, poor baby, are you alright? Good! Eww...Mum'll just clean this up..."DF comes downstairs asking if he can help. I say no, bend down to the mess, and:"EWW! There's a WHOLE SLUG in here!" Well, that explains a lot. It gets worse.DF makes a move to get the cat litter (to pour over the mess to blot up the fluid element, so to speak, before sweeping and scrubbing), and suddenly says, "Sara, don't step backwards."I turn round.Inches behind my left foot is the largest dead mouse I have ever seen in my life. Broken neck, bloodied fur, the full works.I give vent to an ear-shattering squeal (look, I can handle live ones, just not...the other sort), jump with shock and ALMOST tread in the slug-vomit mess, DF jumps too at the noise, and cat leaps yowling out of window convinced we're crazy.Saint DF disposes of dead rodent and I clear up the slug. Cat slinks back shamefacedly 2 hours later.DF points out that it's good practice for if we ever have kids.I point out that if I ever have slug-devouring, mouse-slaughtering children, our priest will be on speed-dial for fast and rigorous exorcisms.
When DH and I first moved into our current home it took him a little while to adjust. In the middle of the night he wouldn't wake all the way up before getting up to use the restroom and he'd think we were still at our old place. One night he peed in a corner in the hall, another night it was the closet that got it. I was glad when he finally adjusted to the move.
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LAKE IN THE HILLS – The Lake in the Hills Police Department reminds residents not to drink and drive this Halloween and to "keep the party off the road."
The department plans to crack down on drunken drivers with an aggressive Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement effort, Sgt. Eric Decker, traffic unit supervisor, said in a news release.
Lake in the Hills police suggest planning a safe way home before festivities begin; designating a sober driver and leaving the car keys at home; taking a taxi, calling a sober friend or family member or using public transportation if you are impaired; and contacting local law enforcement if you see a drunken driver on the road.
For information, call 847-658-5676.


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By Tiernan Ray
Barclays Capital's SC Bae today reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of Samsung Electronics (005930KS), and a ₩2,000,000 price target, writing that 2013 operating profit next year could come 16% higher than consensus is expecting.
Bae raised Samsung's EPS projection to ₩186,711 per share from a prior 180,019 per share, mainly on the health of the display business.
The Street is far too skeptical of Samsung's profit potential in the smartphone business, writes Bae:
We believe that KRW33tn of the consensus operating profit forecast is implying almost flattish OP growth for smartphones for 2013 given the profit recovery at Display and SEMI. However, in our model, if we were to estimate flat growth in the operating profit for smartphones y/y, we would have to apply the following assumptions: The OPM for smartphones would have to decline to 18% for 2013E, which means about 15% for 4Q13 vs. 25% for 2012E. High-end smartphone revenue would have to decline by 10% y/y for 4Q13, which would imply a decline of more than 20% for the ASP. To us, neither of these assumptions is likely given the solid shipment momentum of the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note2. We would start to be concerned more seriously if we witnessed SEC having to launch the Galaxy S4 at a substantially lower price than the Galaxy S3. On the other hand, if our assumptions turn out to be too conservative and if SEC were able to deliver a similar OPM for smartphones for 2013 as we estimate for 2012 (this also assumes a margin decline for each segment given the additional product mix improvement), the operating profit of the IM (Telecom) division could reach about KRW26.3tn, which implies KRW1.8tn of additional upside to our forecast.
Bae also thinks the Street is too skeptical about the display business:
Consensus appears to underestimate display earnings for both LCD and OLED: Our latest channel checks suggest that Samsung Display's OLED output will increase much more (70% y/y) than the Bloomberg consensus estimate (40%-50%) due to the significant productivity increase for the existing production line. On top of this, we believe the commodity panel cycle is tracking much stronger on the back of tight supply due to size migration for TVs. We raise our operating profit forecast for display panels for 2013 to KRW4.96tn from KRW3.90tn and compared with our estimate of KRW3.17tn for 2012.
Bae's colleague Sunwoo Kim today opines in a separate note that another way to invest in the health of display is the entity known as Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (006400KS), or SDI, a company in which Samsung proper has held a roughly 20% interest.
Kim revised upward the projection for SDI's earnings per share this year to ₩15,363.7 from a prior ₩13,315.9, and revised up next year's projection to ₩18,276.9 from ₩17,402.7.
Kim argues SDI is the best way to ride the increasing estimates for Samsung's display output:
We continue to believe SDI is the best proxy play for SDC (15.2% held by SDI), which is likely to see significant earnings growth in 2013. We estimate SDI's equity stake in SDC to be W4.59tn at the end of 2013; with expected ROE of 16%, this should reflect in SDI's share price when the LCD upturn becomes more visible in the near future. Attractively valued at lowest P/E in three years: We note that the stock is trading at a compelling valuation of 9.7x 2013E P/E (vs three-year average of 22x) on the back of solid mobile battery business and huge equity earnings contributions from SDC. It is attractive on a P/B basis as well (0.9x vs three-year average of 1.2x).
Samsung SDI shares today rose ₩500, or 0.3%, to ₩149,000. Samsung Electronics shares rose ₩6,000 to ₩1,355,000.


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WOODRIDGE – Students at the Westwood Dupage Campus in Woodridge are mixing together community service and art this Saturday.
The Westwood Dupage Campus, at 71st Street and Newport Drive, is hosting a donation drive from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The drive will accept gently used electronics, art supplies, clothing, bikes, video games, books, shoes and household items.
After making donations, community members are invited to view the student art exhibit, featuring illustration, photography and 3D animation.
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 630-434-7655.


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Kathi Claywell of Fort Morgan traveled to the Red Cross shelter in Burlington, N.J. to offer assistance in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
Sue Trimble of the King's Christian School in Cherry Hill, N.J. reported meeting Claywell at the shelter and said she traveled to New Jersey alone, worked 12-hour shifts, slept on a cot and ate shelter food.
Trimble also noted that Claywell was turning 68 and that while she could be enjoying retirement she is working hard, serving others.
"She is truly a hero in our eyes," Trimble said.
Trimble and other people from the school threw a birthday party for Claywell.