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Posted on 10/08/2013 7:03:41 PM PDT by Zakeet
China as finally come out in very strong terms and told the U.S. to get its financial house in order. This is now in public. Their warning was straightforward as compared to previous warnings that were generally of the read between the lines type. They hold $1.3 trillion worth of treasuries and well over $3 trillion in dollar denominated assets. No matter what anyone says, China now has the ability to pull our strings in Washington.
Without going any further I should add that I believe that they certainly will pull our strings AND pull the plug on this whole Ponzi scheme on the very day that they are told there is no more gold left. This event could come to light at any moment as London has already bled over 1,300 tons of gold this year alone, GLD well over 500 tons and the COMEX now has more than 50% of standees in October for the dealers remaining inventory. December is a whole nother story as there are contracts open for 30 times of dealer gold and 3 times of total inventories. December is not far off and has the potential on its own to blow the whole fractional reserve game out of the water.
The spectacle in Washington has already had quite negative ramifications from a perception point of view. President Obama cancelled his trip to the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference. John Kerry did attend though, below is a picture taken at the end of the conference.
Does this look like ANY photo of ANY meeting that the U.S. has attended? John Kerry in the back row? On the end? Is there any significance to this? Is the Pope Catholic? You might also notice that Vladimir Putin is standing front and center. Apparently since Mr. Obama was a no show, he took the reign at this conference. How bad from a public relations standpoint is this? Our president didnt show up because we ran out of money? Because we need to vote on whether or not we can BORROW more money? And now another G-20 meeting is coming up.
Think this one through. Would you do business or partner with someone that you not only knew for a fact was having financial problems but aired their dirty laundry of insolvency in a public manner? Wouldnt you be a little worried about them performing or might you think once or twice about them taking you down with them? Please keep in mind that while this conference was going on, President Obama actually said that he will not negotiate on anything until he gets everything that he wants. What the heck is this? Once he gets everything he wants what is left to negotiate over? Was this type of action supposed to go over well with our creditors? Were they supposed to be impressed with this show of strength? Forget about how it went over with the U.S. population because we dont even matter anymore, its not like we have the ability to fund our own debt. No, it is (was) foreigners that funded our debt until the last year or two. Now that job rests squarely on the shoulders of the biggest hedge fund in the world called The Federal Reserve. Period, end of story.
Mark my words, this game will end on one single day. When the Chinese are told, Sorry, there is no more gold they will dump anything and everything on the dollar. China is like a prize fighter whos been told to carry their opponent until a certain round for pay. They get paid more and more (in gold) for each round that they wait for the knockout. But after some unknown round they are told they wont be paid anything more no matter how long the fight lasts. BOOM! One punch and the fight is over! In this case it will be one phrase, Sell everything dollar and the game is over. China has accumulated the gold and we have accumulated debt
which will be paid off in newly and massively printed dollars. Which one do you think the world will give more value to? This has become so beyond obvious that it pains me that so many Americans cant see it, dont want to see it and dont even have a clue that we are living the end game.
Everyone is admiring Lurch's new pajamas ... while Lurch is reminds them that it is not wise to look a gift horse in the face.
Both of their faces look strange indeed... to much botox ?
We are winning.
Putin's bodyguard looks like he has other ideas for Kerry.
Sorry, China, you will have to wait 'til we get our Red president to negotiate...
I once saw two maps of the world, representing gold reserves.
The first map was 1914. Huge amounts of gold in Britain. Lots of gold in France. More gold in Imperial Germany. Russia was no slouch at all. And, the US, a rising power had a decent amount of gold.
Second map was 1918. Just about every nation had spent all they had. We pretty much had it all by then.
China's economy is significantly based on foreign markets in 'Western' nations. They need us more than we need them. That doesn't mean we can't screw it up, and yes, we are trying hard to do just that, but as of now we still hold the cards.
1) None of the debt is payable in gold. Gold has nothing to do with this. But the link "blog.milesFranlin.com" is Miles Franklin Precious Metals specialist. So this is just spam for a gold salesman.
2) China makes noise whenever they can in hopes of getting the best deal they can. Chinese warnings are just so much hot air.
Family Guy had an hilarious (in it's sick way) "where's my money -——" skit.
Our future- thanks to Harry, Nancy, and Barry...
If we had a President, this would not mean squat. Instead, we have a community organizer.
And a bare majority of Americans deserve what is coming. Sigh.
I'd say that's about as cogent a summary as one's likely to read here on FR. Concur, Reid's going to be Obama's fall guy when he's forced to give concessions. Now here's to hoping Bohener keeps his wits about him and stands firm.
True dat.
But will Boehner press the advantage?
Probably a bad batch of puppies for lunch.
We will go bankrupt listening to the Free Trader Communists like Obama, Kerry, Clinton, Soros, Al Gore.....
Or you can handle Communist China by raising tariffs on them
Let the Communist Chinese stop selling products in the US. Good luck selling them elsewhere.
Only a Free Trader Communist fears the Communist Chinese....their stupid economic failure gets more and more exposed
1) None of the debt is payable in gold. Gold has nothing to do with this. But the link blog.milesFranlin.com is Miles Franklin Precious Metals specialist. So this is just spam for a gold salesman.
2) China makes noise whenever they can in hopes of getting the best deal they can. Chinese warnings are just so much hot air.
All good points.
The biggest fear the Communist Chinese have is the US telling them "we have raised the tariff to 25%". As long as the have Obama, Kerry, and GOP supporters...the Communist Chinese Charade will continue
China is mac daddies puppet master and he knows better than to f them like he does to American voters.
Come and get it suckers.
what kind of dorky shirts are those? Why are people who run countries dressed like 70s party hippies?
All of them are leaders of a Pacific nations, I guess this shirts has something to do with indigenous people in a Pacific region.
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A serious knee injury shelved their sixth man. An unusual heart virus sidelined their acclaimed transfer and a broken foot continues to nag a top frontcourt reserve.
Oh, and the program has made two NCAA tournaments in the last 20 years.
But those issues haven't tempered the expectations surrounding Virginia Tech this basketball season.
Nor should they.
With five starters returning from a team that finished 25-9, 10-6 in the ACC, the Hokies need only address one question: If not now, when?
Conference bigfoot and defending national champion Duke notwithstanding, if Virginia Tech doesn't contend for an ACC title this season, then when?
More to the point, if the Hokies don't advance in the 2011 NCAA tournament, then when?
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Those goals were attainable last season, but a soft non-conference schedule and ACC tournament loss to last-place Miami relegated Tech to a third consecutive NIT.
Greenberg fiercely defends last season's squad – beating Seton Hall without Delaney and Georgia Tech without Hudson were signature moments – but in the ACC, no one should define success by the NIT.
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Greenberg coaches the same way, portraying his Hokies as the conference's unwanted stepchildren. It makes for amusing one-liners, but only Duke, North Carolina and Maryland have won more ACC games in the last four years than Virginia Tech.
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The main reason we don't have a playoff system is because athletics administrators, university presidents and conference commissioners are on the payroll and VIP list of bowl executives. They're basically being bribed to keep the bowls active. That's really about it.
A more minor issue is that if a playoff were to come into existence (which it appears it now will), they want to avoid giving an automatic bid to the smaller conferences, but to give automatic bids to specific conferences while leaving the others out would trigger possible antitrust action. It's not necessarily that they want to avoid giving money to those conferences, as they already do with the BCS, but they enjoy sucking on the power teet and would like to put distance between the haves and have nots.
Personally I think an 8-team playoff is the sweet spot. Not big enough that it diminishes the regular season too much, but just big enough to be entertaining and incorporate enough of college football. However, they'll go to this 'plus-one' model in a seeded variety (a 4-team playoff, in other words) just because it continues to incorporate bowls.


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Rogers Communications – Competition
Rogers Communications has several competitors in their market. Telus and Bell Canada are the major competitors in communication market. Especially Bell Canada, since they provide the similar services in the market, like Internet Service, Home Phone, Cable TV and Wireless Service. Although there are several competitors in the market or some competitive disadvantages. Rogers is still the majority choice for the market, because Rogers has many dealers around the nation, it also offers diversification and provides the best network.
Rogers communications has respective competitive disadvantages in the market, like new entrant to the market and Bell and Telus as their competitors. First of all, Ted Rogers died has led the change of position between Rogers and Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE). Rogers has a controlled ownership with 15 trusts, and it is hard for 15 people to control the ownership of Rogers. Rogers will become "a less audacious, less aggressive, less adventurous company" (Wahl). Rogers would not face the immediate crisis, because of their brand name and the network. They are the most valuable assets for Rogers. Next, there will be new entrants to the communication market. Rogers' pricing is more expensive than the other. The new entrants put some price pressure on Rogers. This is because their target market is discount the brand Fido. The new entrants offer cheaper plan and without system access fees which attract low-margin consumers. "Rogers and Bell have lowered their prices on discount brands and dropped those services' system access fees" (Ramsay). The new entrants are not only Rogers' competitors, they are also Bell and Telus. Especially Bell Canada because they offer similar products and services. Bell has offer bundle services, as the customer will receive a discount if you combined all the service from Bell. Telus and Bell also have discount brand Koodo and Solo. Since the network Bell and Telus are using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), they cannot offer what Rogers could. They started and joined together to upgrade their network system into faster fiber network. This can led both of them "to catch up with Rogerss advantage in selling hot devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold" (Wahl). Telus and Bell tried to break through Rogers' iPhone Monopoly. Telus and Bell offer cheaper plan with more services, like data transfer. This gives pressure to Rogers, they need to price down in order to retain existing customers. Bell and Telus also focus on new range of smartphone. In addition, the most important is Bell and Telus have equal network system with Rogers. Not only Bell and Telus upgraded their system, but also other telecommunication wanted to upgrade and build a new network system. Rogers has these competitive disadvantages, as their price for the services are more expensive than other competitors.
Rogers also have several competitive advantages in the market, which are their system, diversification of service, and lot of dealers around the country. All the dealers are located in convenient location, easy for customer to access. Rogers also provide Chinese Dealers, which can attract more targets. Moreover, Rogers offer diversification on the market. They did not only focus on high margin consumers, they also concern about low margin consumers. Therefore, they have discount brand in the market, Fido, which give consumers alternative choices. Rogers understand in the market that there are price conscious consumers, and they know those consumers are not satisfy to their Rogers Plan. Therefore, Rogers co-operate with Fido, to attract the low-margin price conscious or consumers Last but not least, Rogers has the better network system than other competitors. Rogers is using the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM). Rogers is more advance on the network system compare with Bell and Telus as they are using CDMA. This is because "when all of the new handset manufacturers came out with the latest and greatest equipment, it came out for GSM first" (McClearn). And CDMA always happened in later situation or not at all. Most of the country are using GSM, and the consumers can use wireless service world wide. Because the advance of the network, they have already "earning more revenue, on average, from each wireless customers than either of its two major rivals" (McClearn). Although Bell and Telus have upgrade their system, but the market would not turn things upside down in one night. Bell and Telus only can earn little bit from the iPhone, because Rogers had already monopoly iPhone for two years. Rogers has already attracted of those who really want iPhone. Rogers is smart, as they need the consumer to sign a contract for 3 years, if they want their iPhone at the discount price, or they will need to pay the full price. At the end, these are the competitive advantages for Rogers, compare with other major rivals.
In conclusion, Rogers is still the leader in the telecommunications market. It is because Rogers has competitive advantages in the market. Although there are major rivals in the market and they have upgraded the network system. Since their network system of Rogers choosing have the advance, they already earn more revenue than the other. In order to keep the leadership in the market, Rogers need to upgrade their system and the technology to retain existing customers.
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The 23-year-old, who has been in good form for Sunderland this term, described his personal experience in Astana as a "f****n* joke" - a move that clearly did not go down with the Italian, who hauled the player in front of the squad for a public dressing down in London yesterday. Trapattoni only decided to retain the player for tomorrow's friendly against Oman after he made a grovelling apology, and the Italian admits had McClean been playing for a bigger country, he would have been axed.
"Another manager, English or German, would have said take your bag and go home, but I might need him in the game to score a goal," Trapattoni told a press conference. "He was mortified (when he was pulled up in front of the squad). If he could have, he would have eaten his words. He was very apologetic. "I said to everyone this is not about respect for the manager, this is about respect for everyone. I said the players are your colleagues. "If I don't play him, I can play others. There was Stephen Kelly and Kevin Doyle on the bench. They have many caps. "The matter is closed now. With the young we need to have patience. "Sometimes they say things they regret."
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plans to undergo hernia surgery in Pittsburgh and will transfer power temporarily to the lieutenant governor.
His office described the procedure being done Thursday morning as minor and said he was expected to be under general anesthesia for about an hour.
The laparoscopic procedure at Allegheny General Hospital's outpatient surgery facility is to repair an abdominal hernia.
Corbett press secretary Jay Pagni said Wednesday that Corbett will recuperate for several days at his home in Shaler, and his schedule is clear until Monday, when he will return to work.
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A three- car accident claimed the lives of two Reno teens Monday afternoon on U.S. 395 near the Mt. Rose Junction south of Reno, the Nevada Highway Patrol says.
The driver, Nicholas Parker, age 17 of Stead and passenger Jamie Fleischmann, 17 of Reno were killed in the accident.
The pair was traveling south on the highway in the area of Andrew Lane when their Dodge Stealth crossed over the centerline and ran into northbound traffic. There it hit the side of a four-door sedan, says Sgt. John Stewart.
The Dodge was then struck by a northbound Dodge pickup truck, Stewart says.
The driver of the pickup was injured in the accident and transported to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center for treatment. The occupant of the four-door sedan was not injured.
Whole the circumstance of the accident remain under investigation, Stewart says the victims were wearing seat belts.
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Boyle talked with former Rangers teammate Ryan Callahan to get the scoop on the Lightning, the team Callahan finished last season with after being traded in March.
After hearing rave reviews on the Lightning — not to mention living in Tampa — Boyle opted to join forces with Callahan once again and signed a three-year contract with Tampa Bay worth $6 million.
Boyle was on his honeymoon in Maui when he signed his new deal, and with wife Lauren Bedford, a model in consideration for the next Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, hailing from Orlando, it didn't take long to sign on the dotted line.
"It was always something I had my eye on if it came up, and me and my wife talked about it — if down the road, wouldn't that be a nice place to play,'' Boyle said. "Lucky for us, it happened two days later and we jumped on it.''
There was plenty of interest from other teams — Boyle had an offer on the table from the Maple Leafs — to sign the 6-foot-7, 240-pound center who helped the Rangers reach the Stanley Cup finals last season.
But after the endorsement from Callahan and seeing the direction in which Tampa Bay seems to be heading as a franchise, Boyle left more money on the table to sign with the Lightning.
"He was telling me about how great the area is and how fun it is and with the group what to expect,'' Boyle said. "He had a great time. He's real excited and I'm real excited not only to play with Cally again, which is something that is going to be fun, but with a whole new scene. It's tough to leave (New York). I have a lot of memories that mean a lot, but I'm excited for the change and Tampa looks good on paper right now, which is what a lot of people are saying.''
Defenseman signed
Though the Lightning did not make an announcement, Tampa Bay signed D Matt Corrente, a deal Corrente announced via his personal Twitter account.
According to capgeek.com, it is a one-year, two-way deal that pays Corrente $550,000 at the NHL level and $125,000 in the American Hockey League.
The 26-year-old was a first-round pick of the Devils in 2006 and has appeared in 34 career games, all with New Jersey.
The 6-foot, 205-pound right-handed defenseman spent last season with Charlotte in the AHL, Carolina's top affiliate.
Feaster returns
Tampa Bay officially announced the hiring of former general manager Jay Feaster to serve in a new role as executive director of community hockey development. The hiring was reported last week.
In his new role, Feaster — the GM when the Lightning won the 2004 Stanley Cup — will work with youth leagues, high school teams and local rinks to help boost participation and expand the team's partnerships in the Tampa Bay area.
Feaster most recently worked as general manager for the Flames before he was fired in December.
Community Heroes
Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and wife Penny will continue the Community Hero program this season, with $50,000 being awarded at each home game to a locally nominated individual for his or her respective charitable endeavour.
The first nominating window opened on Monday and closes on Sept. 2. Fans can log on to www.tampabaylightning.com/heroes for information and to nominate somebody for an award.
For the first time, first-person nominations will be considered.
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In a Nov. 26, 2013 revised order, the PSC approved the application of Entergy Arkansas, Inc. (EAI) to transfer functional control of its Missouri transmission assets to MISO but identified issues involving the effect EAI's integration into MISO would have on certain Missouri utilities.
Those issues involve Missouri's location along a seam between two regional transmission organizations (RTOs): SPP and MISO. Specifically the seam issues between SPP and MISO raised in the EAI case include: 1) Charges to transfer electricity across the seam between MISO and SPP; and 2) The methodology for evaluating, accounting for, and control of loop flows between Missouri RTO seams.
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Currently, NVIDIA is really missing out on the netbook market, which is dominated by all-Intel platform designs. NVIDIA has finally woken up to this reality, and the outspoken cofounder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang, has launched an all-out campaign to promote his company's Ion platform - and he isn't shy of flinging some poo to Intel and netbooks in general.
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Remi, Nobody's Girl
is it licensed ? cant find a lot of information on the net
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You could try alternative spellings like Homeless Girl Remi, but probably you won't find a lot of information about the series anyway.
It isn't licensed for R-1, but it was released in Italy (Japanese with Italian subs) under the title Remy - La Bambina Senza Famiglia. If you happen to be able to read some Italian, you can order the DVDs online (for instance at www.dvd.it).
I have those Italian DVDs, but they are in a long, long queue waiting to be watched.
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I think you are mistaking 2 series. While I don't have it, the Medusa Video release seems to be of Homeless BOY Remi.
Sans Famille, by Hector Malot, was twice adapted to anime form.
The first one (Ie Naki Ko, 家なき子), very well known and beloved in several countries is a 1977 TV series, where Remi is a boy as in the original novel. It was recently licensed in R-1 by ImaginAsian and will be released as Nobody's Boy - Remi. AnimeonDVD shows the cover of the first American DVD here
The second adaptation of Sans Famille was done as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater and they changed the main character to be a girl. The 2nd series, that appeared in 1996, almost 20 years after the original adptation, is called Ie Naki Ko Remi (家なき子レミ).
That second series is the one we are talking about here and it was released in Italy by Shin Vision, including Italian subtitles.
Here is a scan of the the part of the box that contains the tecnical data:
And here is the cover of the 1st Italian DVD I'm talking about.:
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Haha! That would be awesome and then other old unsubbed WMT titles, but for the time lets hope they finish what they're working on. Don't know if you noticed but they haven't released anything in over a month. I hope they come back and show us that they're here to stay.
For that we folks need to go to their website to give them some words of encouragement.
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One of my big clients did a seminar on aging gracefully. My little company was involved with pre-publicity, handouts for the seminar, and photographing the event. There were five speakers from a Texas medical school. Of the five, three were fascinating, one was interesting, and one disagreed with everything I believe about nutrition.
The first speaker was a doctor who specializes in eye diseases of the elderly. He encouraged the audience to put a piece of graph paper on the refrigerator door. He said to look at it every few weeks, with one eye at a time. If you notice a spot where the lines appear wavy or disconnected, it's time to be evaluated for macular degeneration.
I was shocked but delighted, to hear this doctor endorse supplements. He said that C 500, E 400, Beta Carotene, Zinc, and Copper would not prevent macular degeneration, but would slow its process. Some patients, however, have not done well on Beta Carotene and Zinc. Researchers have found that Lutein, zeaxanthin, and bilberry have much the same effect on the eyes, but without the difficulties. Lutein and billberry are two of the supplements that my research led me to take after the sudden appearance in my right eye of a large floater.
The second speaker talked about frailty. Two elderly patients can come to the doctor with identical complaints. One recovers in a few weeks; the other declines and drops to a lower quality of life because of frailty. A lifestyle that includes exercise for 30 minutes 5 times a week was her recommendation to prevent frailty. She also cautioned against being either underweight or overweight, saying there was danger in both. She urged the audience to find out their BMI and keep it normal.
Speaker three was about Alzheimer's research. I was taking pictures, so I could not take notes on the long words, but here is the big picture. Rapamycin is a drug that has been used for transplant patients, and shows promise in extending the lifespan of test animals. Recent tests have showed that it can reverse the progress of dementia in mice that are pre-engineered to get Alzheimer's. The videos showing mice before and after rapamycin treatment in a learning situation were incredible. This speaker is part of a team proceeding with further studies and they are very optimistic.
The fourth speaker was a dietitian who prompted the government diet. All I could think of as I listened and took pictures was that if I ate according to the chart that she had on the screen, I would have stomach inflammation and year round allergies. I felt sorry for her and wanted to say "I've been on the Blood Type Diet for ten years and don't take any prescription medications, how many do you take". But professional photographers are not wise to interject themselves into events in that way.
While this was a free event, registration was required. Part of the registration process was alerting the planners to any dietary needs. I said I was gluten free. Though I had helped design a lunch box for the event, I was still wondering how they would feed 350 people in the amount of time allotted for lunch. At noon a sliding panel in the convention center was opened and there were tables piled high with lunch boxes. All the boxes had sandwiches, fruit, and a cookie. There were four choices: turkey, ham, vegetarian, and gluten free. Another table was filled with bottles of water.
I grabbed my gluten free lunchbox and joined some friends at a table. I found a turkey sandwich on gluten free bread, a banana, and a gluten free brownie I wrote a blog last summer about suspicious ingredients in gluten free products. I haven't had a sandwich in five years, and this one tasted delicious. The bread had a good texture and flavor. The brownie was moist and chewy and wonderful in every way. I began thinking that I might reconsider my opinion about gluten free marketing. Two days later, as the bread and brownie worked their way through my digestive system, I became gassy. My poop (pardon graphic language, but if you are considering these products, you need to know) was sticky and hard to expel. I stand by my August blog. Dark Side of Gluten Free
The keynote speaker after lunch was the least technical of the five. He painted a picture of how attitudes and treatments for aging have changed over the years. He pointed to enormous advancements and hope for improving both quality and length of life in the future. Comments after the seminar were extremely positive. There are already discussions about this being the "first annual" event.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A bill that has passed the House would require criminal background checks for prospective employees of nursing homes.
The Democratic-controlled chamber approved the measure 56-40 Tuesday. Applicants' names and fingerprints would be run through state and national databases.
Midway Democrat Carl Rollins, who sponsored the bill, said Kentucky would get $3 million in federal grant money to initiate the program and fund it until May 2014. The program would then cost the state about $1 million a year.
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Doug Dixon of Pleasant Mount was determined to give the gift of life and he did.
-Doug Dixon of Pleasant Mount was determined to give the gift of life and he did.
He was part of a paired kidney exchange, which helped Charles Ripple of Poyntelle and Joanne Breckenridge of Elizabethtown, Ky.
The paired kidney exchange consists of two kidney donor/recipient pairs whose blood types are not compatible. The two recipients exchange donors so that each recipient can receive a kidney with a compatible blood type.
The Gift of Life Donor Program website, www.donors1.org, said that "once the evaluations of all donors and recipients are completed, the two kidney transplant operations are scheduled to occur simultaneously. In some cases, this type of exchange has involved multiple living kidney donor/transplant candidate pairs."
This is what happened between Dixon and Ripple. They weren't a match, but through the paired kidney exchange Dixon could still help out and Ripple still got a kidney.
"There are three separate churches in our charge," said Dixon. "I met Charles' wife and heard his story. I felt I needed to step up."
He said that he was told of the paired kidney exchange and opted to be part of it. Through the paired kidney exchange, Dixon was matched with Breckenridge and she received his kidney.
"For each person in the system to donate, there is one who will receive a kidney," he said.
Dixon and Ripple were in the system as a pair. When Dixon was matched, Ripple was guaranteed a transplant.
"Both of our surgeries were done at Geisinger Wyoming Valley," said Dixon. "Once Charles' kidney was removed then mine was removed, to make sure he got one."
Ripple received the first international kidney transplant in the history of the country. He was matched with a donor from Greece.
"The paired kidney exchange has been around for the last eight years or so," said Dr. Chintalapati Varma, director of transplant surgery and lead surgeon for Geisinger Wyoming Valley.
He said that Dixon is blood type AB and Ripple is blood type A, which can't be used together.
"If a pair isn't a match then donors can donate to another pair and it can complete a chain," said Varma. "Essentially multiple people can be helped in a chain."
For instance, Dixon's kidney went to Breckenridge in Kentucky while Ripple got his from Greece in the same chain. The kidney for Ripple was harvested in Toledo, Ohio then flown to Geisinger to be put into him.
Varma said that one person can stop a whole chain when matched.
"Chains can go on and on until a match is found," he said. "Some can go on to 15 and 16 pairs."
Ripple's match from Greece was initially going to donate to her husband, but they didn't match. He got another pair and found a match and he's "doing well." The recipient she would have helped was "too sick" for it to happen.
"She could have said no more but she didn't," said Varma. "She contacted us to help and was put into the database."
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) are coming together with different pilot studies to see if there could be one national database for the paired kidney exchange.
"There is power in numbers," said Varma. "I hope in a few years this will be a nationwide database. It will be beneficial and will help a lot of people get transplants."
He said that when finding matches, it is "purely blood type and tissue matching."
"There's a cross-match done before we can do the transplant," Varma said. "We take the synapse from the donor and the white cells of the recipient. If it kills the cells we can't put the organ in or the patient could reject it."
He added that the United States is the only country with the paired exchange database.
"We are pushing for one single, useful database that can help get donors faster," Varma stated. "We have to do it on a small scale before we can do it on a national scale. I'm very happy with it. As long as there are good surgeons involved it will keep running smoothly. Just from one person donating it can help 12 people," Varma said.
He said that if this becomes a single, national database, it will be complicated in finding matches, but that it will be beneficial.
"It still takes time," he said. "But through the paired kidney exchange program it usually takes under a year to find a match, depending on the situation. Once a person is in the database, it's checked every two weeks for matches."
Essentially, this program can decrease the wait time of a kidney transplant from years to months.
Varma said there's a lot of testing involved to find a match between blood type, tissue, antibodies and more. He also said they use tissue labs that are "really well known."
"There are usually no mistakes," he said. "We use very powerful medications and antibody preparation. Rejection isn't a big issue and isn't even thought of anymore. Infection is minimal and if there is any, we treat it right away."
Varma is pleased with the program and what it's doing.
"I want to help as many people as I can," he said. "God gave us two kidneys because he knew transplants are needed."
Geisinger has done a total of four transplants through this program. Two were are Wyoming Valley and two were at the Danville hospital.
Dixon said that he and the Ripples are "very close" and still keep in contact, adding "we became a family."
He said he was back home and doing well within a week.
"I would definitely do it again," Dixon stated. "I feel great about it. Sometimes we need to be the answer to a prayer."
He also said he would be willing to share his story at different churches. He owns a modular home company, Wheeler Hill Developing, in Pleasant Mount. For either of these inquires you can contact Dixon at (570) 448-2324.
In February the Gift of Life Donor Program held a ceremony to honor those who "generously chose to give the gift of life" as a living donor. It was during the annual "Gift of Life…Acts of Love" event and was held at the Sheraton Hershey Harrisburg Hotel in Harrisburg.
Over 100 people attended, including living kidney and partial liver donors and their recipients from this region. Special pins were bestowed for the donors and their recipients to present to one another, "honoring their relationship."
Dixon, Ripple and Breckenridge were among the participants.
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Now that it's known which college players will officially enter the NBA Draft the picture for the 2011 college basketball season is coming into focus. As expected Gordan Hayward who missed a desperation shot in the national final as the buzzer sounded has elected to stay in. Many have said the Boston Celtics assured him he would not fall past them, so that made his decision easier. While college basketball loses here, Hayward has elected to go out on top. This makes sense in that Butler would be hard pressed to equal their story book run in 2010. A player like Hayward is cashing in on being hot but had the Celtics not offered the supposed guarantee, he would have been better off returning. The Duke-Butler game will suffer as will the Bulldogs with his decision. His return would land Butler in the pre season top five but his loss means they'll likely struggle to remain in the top 25. Of course, who wants to sell them short?
Speaking of departures, UNC loses not only Ed Davis but David and Travis Wear to transfer. While some didn't see the Wear twins leaving, many who are close to the program had an idea. This means UNC is really thin up front but don't fret for the Tar Heels for they will be a team with a lot of potential scorers. Despite heavy rumors, UNC managed to keep it's other freshman and that will allow them a roster full of perimeter guys. If you think teams cannot regroup after losses, look no further than Duke who had no recourse when Elliot Williams transffered to Memphis. Duke came together and everyone worried about their guard depth and in the end Duke gelled and nobody saw them coming.
Enough with departures, let's talk about the returns starting with Malcolm Delaney to Virginia Tech. The Hokie Nation is smiling from ear to ear for there the 2011 Techsters should garner an NCAA berth. Look for Delaney and Duke's Kyle Singler to run neck and neck for pre season ACC Player of the Year per local media. Both are shoe ins for All ACC.
Delaney will put the Hokies in the upper division of the ACC but they'll have plenty of competition from their company. Duke will not only be the pre season choice for the regular season title in the ACC but the country as well. As mentioned earlier, expect UNC to rebound from a lack luster season by their standards. UNC will add a ton of scoring with the addition of Harrison Barnes and Reggie Bullock and they'll likely rotate Henson and Zeller down low while playing a quicker team than a season ago. The addition of C.J. Leslie in Raleigh will propel the Pack to the top of the conference. Sydney Lowe has a terrific, yet young starting line up and the excitement will rekindle rivalries in the Triangle area. The other two teams we see in the upper division are Florida State and Miami, but there is a lot of time between now and tip off, so we'll hold off on our official predictions.
Two Big Ten teams benefited by returns as well in Purdue and Michigan State. The Spartans are loaded with the return of Kalin Lucas and they'll be in the top ten all season long. In fact, rumor has it that Duke will face Michigan State in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Purdue got some great news when Ja Juan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore pulled their names out of the draft to join an rehabbing Robbie Hummel to form one of the nations top starting lineups.
I started working on an ACC Football preview for a group this weekend and the one thing which stands out is how many of the top teams return most of their starters. The Coastal division probably has the top four teams in the conference all in one division and any of them could be in the title game in Charlotte. Duke will be rebuilding and a leap beyond last seasons fifth place division finish will prove tough. A huge early season barometer will be when Duke travels to Wake Forest in the second game of the season. The Blue Devils have an interesting schedule where there appears to be some winnable games, but the conference structured it in a way when Duke could have used an off week later in the season. If there are must wins on the schedule I'd say that Elon and Army fall into that category. The bottom line is that Duke will be painfully young but quick and with a massive rebuilding job on defense they will lean on their offense while breaking in a new quarterback.
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Major automakers are joining an effort urging the Federal Communications Commission to hold off awarding part of the wireless spectrum that could be used to allow cars to "talk" to each other and avoid accidents.
In a draft letter, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers -- representing Detroit's Big Three automakers, Toyota Motor Corp. and Volkswagen AG -- asked the FCC not to act before a decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation on a connected-vehicle network "which could save tens of thousands of lives each year."
The FCC is considering making more of the spectrum available for wireless Internet access.
"We support efforts to identify spectrum that may be utilized to expand Wi-Fi applications. But with over 30,000 deaths on our nation's roads every year, we also believe it is critical that efforts to open up additional spectrum do not come at the expense of revolutionary life-saving technologies," said the letter obtained by The Detroit News. The letter is expected to be sent next week from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
Congress required the FCC to allow certain unlicensed use of the spectrum in the 5.4-GHz band as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, but a similar requirement for the 5.9-GHz band -- on which connected-vehicle systems are based -- was removed from the final legislation, which called only for a study. Automakers and the National Telecommunications & Information Administration are worried about the risks associated with intrusion on the 5.9-GHz band.
The NTIA said in its report that connected-vehicle technology could help avoid "80 percent of the crash scenarios involving non-impaired drivers." The letter notes that 10 major automakers and numerous technology and telecommunications providers have invested hundreds of millions of public- and private sector dollars on research and development under the auspices of the Department of Transportation's Connected Vehicle Research Program.
In August, the Transportation Department-sponsored a connected vehicle safety pilot program launched in Ann Arbor with nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and transit buses.
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Dozens of new charges have been filed against the man accused of secretly videotaping pepole inside a Tarboro fitness center's tanning bed.
Thomas Owens, 30, is facing 74 new charges after investigators discovered pictures on his laptop, according to the Daily Southerner. Owens was arrested in April after secret videotaping at B&G Fitness in Tarboro came to light.
Of the 74 new charges, five are for taking indecent liberties with a minor. The Daily Southerner says some of the pictures found on the laptop included minors.
Owens remains behind bars in the Edgecombe County Jail.
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New information this morning about a man accused of videotaping customers at a gym; he's now facing more charges and due to appear in court Wednesday.
29-year-old Thomas Owens of Speed was arrested last month on two counts of secret peeping. Court records show he's now charged with four counts of that crime.
The investigation began with a phone call to the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office about secret videotaping at B&G Fitness Establishment.
Owens is due in Edgecombe County court Wednesday.
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The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office says that a man was arrested for videotaping customers at a local gym.
Officials say that they arrested 29-year-old Thomas Owens of Speed and charged him with 2 counts of secret peeping. The Sheriff's office says that it received a call Friday regarding secret videotaping of customers at B&G Fitness Establishment.
Owens is being held in the Edgecombe County Detention Center under a $100,000 secured bond.
Officials say the investigation is ongoing, with additional charges pending.


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Oz organ recipient changes blood group
A 'one-in-six-billion miracle'
Posted in Science, 25th January 2008 10:41 GMT
An Australian teenager has been dubbed a "one-in-six-billion miracle" after her blood group changed following a liver transplant, Reuters reports.
Demi-Lee Brennan, now 15, suffered liver failure at nine and received a donated replacement. She subsequently became ill while on anti-rejection drugs, but her blood group inexplicably switched from O negative to O postive, while her new organ's blood stem cells "invaded" her bone marrow and took control of her entire immune system.
Doctors quickly took her off the anti-rejection drugs, "realising her blood type - and immune system - had taken on the characteristics of her organ donor", as Oz's Daily Telegraph puts it.
Mystified doctors from Sydney's Westmead Childrens' Hospital admitted they had "no explanation" for the teen's recovery. Pediatric hepatologist Michael Stormon said: "There was no precedent for this having happened at any other time, so we were sort of flying by the seat of our pants."
The hospital's former transplant unit head, Stuart Dorney, said Brennan's treatment could prove significant for organ transplant treatment, because "normally the immune system of recipients attacked the transplanted tissue".
He concluded: "We now need to go back over everything that happened to Demi-Lee and see why, and if it can be replicated. We think because we used a young person's liver and Demi-Lee had low white blood cells, that could have been a reason."
Ms Brennan, meanwhile, is understandably delighted with her one-in-six-billion transformation, which is reported in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. She told local media: "It's like my second chance at life. It's kind of hard to believe." ®


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The plan is intended to assist potential vendors considering doing business with the CTA, by making the business community aware of upcoming contracting opportunities.
"The goal of this plan is to increase the vendor pool by making it easy and convenient for potential bidders to get a full picture of upcoming contracting opportunities," said CTA President Forrest Claypool. The plan, he added, will help potential vendors prepare for upcoming bids and help increase opportunities for small businesses, competition that will ensure the CTA receives the best bids for goods and services.
In keeping with the CTA's efforts to increase transparency of the agency's operations, the plan lists expected contracting opportunities for the coming 18 month, many of them covering items related to daily CTA operations, from specialized parts and materials to services such as printing. It also includes materials and services related to construction projects, such as the upcoming Red Line South reconstruction, which is completely rebuilding the Dan Ryan branch of CTA's busiest rail line in 2013.
The plan also includes information on how to participate in the CTA's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Small Business Programs, along with other resources for both prospective and current vendors.
The plan is available on the CTA website at www.transitchicago.com/buyingplan.


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Glad to hear Wilson may be getting more touches soon. I believe we should go with the three headed monster approach from 08, in which bradshaw starts and gets most carries. Brown in for short yardage situations and 3rd downs, and wilson late in games to utilize his speed advantage against tired defenses, as well as screens to give him space in the open field.
But until Wilson can be counted on to block edge rushers and blitzing LB's this will not happen. The rook has to show he can consistently provide Eli with protection to get more playing time.
I believe he has he ability to do so, and I am not worried. Wilson will shine in time.


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can any of the other computers connect using the wep key? would it be possible for you to try usiung another computer to test this? and the inverse to this is can this laptop connect with wep to another wireless access point?
try using a different wep, make sure you are copying the ENTIRE WEP. IN SP2 there should be a checkbox that says "hide characters as I type" uncheck that and see if you are getting the correct WEP.
make sure you have the latest drivers for your card. Try unitnstalling and reinstalling the drivers. try using an older version of the drivers.


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32 CFR 326.13 - Procedures to appeal denial of amendment.
(a) Any individual whose request for amendment or correction is denied may request a review of the initial decision within 60 calendar days of the date of the notification of denial by appealing within the NRO internal appeals process. If a requester elects to request NRO review, the request shall be sent in writing to the Privacy Act Coordinator, National Reconnaissance Office, 14675 Lee Road, Chantilly, VA 20151-1715, briefly identifying the particular record which is the subject of the request and setting forth the reasons for the appeal. The request should enclose a copy of the denial correspondence. The following procedures apply to appeals within the NRO:
(1) The PA Coordinator, after acknowledging receipt of the appeal, shall promptly refer the appeal to the record-holding components, informing them of the date of receipt of the appeal and requesting that the component head or his designee review the appeal.
(2) The record-holding components shall review the initial denial of access to the requested records and shall inform the PA Coordinator of their review determination.
(3) The PA Coordinator shall act as secretary of the Appeals Panel. He shall:
(i) Consolidate the component responses and reasons for the initial denial.
(ii) Provide all supporting materials both furnished to and by the requester and the record-holding component.
(iii) Review the record.
(iv) Direct such additional inquiry or investigation as is deemed necessary to make a fair and equitable determination.
(v) Prepare the record and schedule the appeal for the next meeting of the Appeals Panel. The Appeals Panel shall recommend a finding to the Appeal Authority by a majority vote of those present at the meeting based on the written record and the Panel's deliberations. No personal appearances shall be permitted without the express permission of the Panel.
(4) The Appeal Authority shall notify the PA Coordinator of the result of the determination on the appeal who shall notify the individual of the determination in writing.
(5) The Appeal Authority will notify the PA Coordinator if the determination is that the record should be amended. The PA Coordinator will promptly advise the requester and the office holding the record to amend the record and to notify all prior recipients of the records for which an accounting was required of the change.
(6) If the determination upholds the initial denial, in whole or in part, the PA Coordinator shall inform the requester:
(i) Of the denial and the reason.
(ii) Of his right to file in NRO records within 60 calendar days a concise statement of the reasons for disputing the information contained in the record. If the requester elects to file a statement of disagreement, the PA Coordinator will be responsible for clearly noting any portion of the record that is disputed and for appending into the file the requester's statement as well as a copy of the NRO's letter to the requester denying the disputed information, if appropriate. The requester's statement and the NRO denial letter will be made available to anyone to whom the record is subsequently disclosed, and prior recipients of the disputed record will be provided a copy of both to the extent that an accounting of disclosures is maintained.
(iii) Of his right to judicial review in U.S. District Court.
(7) The Appeal Authority shall act on the appeal or provide a notice of extension within 30 working days.


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GOLDEN — Colorado is getting a boost in transportation funding to rebuild highways damaged by last month's flooding.
Instead of $100 million, Colorado can now access up to $450 million. Officials are touring areas on Monday to see the progress being made fixing those roadways.
Gov. John Hickenlooper and members of the Colorado congressional delegation fought for a provision in last week's budget bill to lift the cap on how much emergency transportation funding the state can use.


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In this episode, Lidia begins with a trip to Gilroy, California to learn all about the town's impressive Italian culinary heritage, and then crosses the country to visit Union Square Market in Manhattan, where she checks out the freshest vegetables to make the perfect Pasta alla Primavera. Together with Becco's Billy Gallagher, Lidia prepares three of America's favorite pasta dishes: Pasta alla Primavera, Fettucine Alfredo, and Spaghetti Aglio e Olio.
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Several dozen veterans, their faces reflecting several decades of U-S military service gathered Monday at the Sun Valley Community Center for a barbecue luncheon in their honor.
There were flags and other displays around the room. Representatives of Senator Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei read proclamations and the veterans and their families sat around tables and chatted..
This was the third year for this event, sponsored by the Sun Valley General Improvement District and Washoe County Senior Services.
It was just one of a number of celebrations, large and small, which have become common. We honor our veterans each year on this holiday, but do we remember them the rest of the year?
There are few complaints in this crowd and a lot of appreciation.
"We do a lot for veterans," says Vietnam era vet Oly Nelson. Nelson wears a hat that identifies him as a recipient of the Purple Heart. A former Army infantryman, he was wounded in action in the Mekong Delta.
Most like Nelson, quickly point out the good work of Reno's Veterans Administration Hospital. Some like Navy vet Richard Colliers even help out there.
He's not so sure as a country we do enough, however.
"Not as far as I'm concerned they don't. No, I'm sorry to say. There's a few but not very many. That's what hurts."
Still, others say it's getting better.
"i just feel like we're being recognized more now than we have been in the past," says Paul Gallo, a former Chief Petty Officer in the Navy and Merchant Marine and a rare World War II vet at this gathering.
James Jones, a former Marine wearing a cap that identifies him as a Korean War vet agrees.
"Riding the bus around town, I've had this hat on and people come up to me and say Thanks, Thanks for making our freedoms for us."
For some that recognition is as welcome as it is tardy. Nelson was one of the many from that war who returned to no parades and celebrations.
Does he still feel forgotten?
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I have a pretty general question and I'm hoping someone could help point me in the right direction.
Right now I'm a mechanical engineering student. My only programming experience is in C and it was a very basic class intended to introduce us to programming for my robotics minor.
I'd like to make a site/app that does a pretty basic task. All I need to do is scan formatted data from an excel file and make that info searchable from the site and app. In my C class the deepest we got into things like this was scanning data from a text file and putting into a linked list via structures. From there did the strstr() and made the info searchable. This was all strictly console application from code blocks though.
Could anyone point me in the right direction on software tools available, even books on some subjects I will need to versed in in order to go beyond. My goal here is to be able to do the basics to make it functioning from my console, design and all, and then hand it off to someone educated in the subject to execute the final product and make it usable on a larger scale. I interned with a computer engineering student over the summer who gave me a few tips. He told me that with all the tools out there that something like this can be accomplished with out knowing all that much about programming. Something about microsoft having what sounded like a drag and drop program maker. That you can use this program, select options you want it to do, then go in and edit your parameters from there. I'm a firm believe in too good to be true, so my guess is even if that does exist, it's not a one stop shop for linking the options I select to be executable by website and app.
Anyways, sorry for being long winded, just trying to cover my bases. Could anyone out there possible explain what I'm getting into, what I'll need to know/learn, and point me in the direction of some useful tools to accomplish the programming and design. I plan on reading up as much as possible and using mit's open courseware to fill in some blanks and learn some things I need once pointed in the direction I need to be heading.
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'We're literally watching the Internet be rebuilt'
A new company uses big-data capabilities to decode the inner-workings of the modern Internet.
What is the Internet?
It used to be simple. If you were a regular Internet user, you used a modem to commandeer your telephone line and you called into a service provider. Once connected, you'd enter the Netscape address and Netscape's servers would send you information over the network of networks.
Nowadays, things are much more complicated. Every time you load a web page, it calls out to dozens of other servers, which often dynamically send content to that original page. Meanwhile, service providers like Akamai and Edgecast hold copies of many websites' content close to users to speed up the delivery of that information. Add it all up and you are a far cry from the relatively simple architecture of yesteryear. It's hard even for the big bandwidth providers to tell what's going on.
Today, we met a company that can map out this new world of the Internet; Deep Field can decode the tangled web.
"We're in the second era of the Internet as we're seeing this massive influx of money and new services," said Deep Field's CEO Craig Labovitz. "Most of it is happening underneath the hood, but we're literally watching the Internet be rebuilt. It looks completely different than it did four years ago."
Read more at The Atlantic.


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Aren't K-Meleon using the same engine as Firefox (gecko), or did I misunderstand something?
Can anyone see what might be happening and how I might be able to fix it?
What is wrong there? Could you add a screenshot with comments? What version of KM do you use? Try to use latest available KM build like 1.6beta2dot5 or K-Meleon Twin or 1.7a...
You can use K-Meleon 1.6beta or K-Meleon 1.7alpha for a newer GRE that is more compatible with pages and applications that do not support K-Meleon 1.5.4 any more.
p.s. But that is about all You can try. Mozilla.org stopped to support applications that use its html rendering engine about a year ago. There will be no newer engine for K-Meleon than that of 1.7a.


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2010-11 Men's Basketball
Bluffton preparing to move back into HCAC tournament picture
November 8, 2010
With plenty of game experience to complement a wealth of youth, the Bluffton University men's basketball team will look to claw its way back into the upper echelon of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Although the Beavers saw their school-record five consecutive winning seasons streak snapped in 2009-10, the crowds in Founders were again treated to the competitive brand of basketball that has made Bluffton's home court the best atmosphere in the conference. A talented junior class that soaked up the bulk of Bluffton's minutes a year ago, coupled with a large group of newcomers, has given the Beavers cause to believe that a spot in the HCAC tournament is again within reach.


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GUEST COLUMN/Everette Hatcher: Could lightning strike twice for UALR in NCAA Big Dance?
Coach Mike Newell in the 1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament led his 14th-seeded University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans to a 90-83 victory over the No. 3-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish coached by Digger Phelps, who is now a college basketball analyst for ESPN.
Next, the Trojans took the North Carolina State Wolfpack, coached by Jim Valvano, to double overtime before eventually being eliminated from the tournament.
Again, as in 1986, both Notre Dame and UALR will be in the NCAA Tournament, and it appears they have a good chance of being paired up again, according to various websites. Could lightning strike twice?
There are two reasons I have been having fun with this bit of speculation. I am fan of UALR, my hometown team, and I have several good friends who are longtime Fighting Irish fans.
My son Wilson, 14, and his friend Kahry Wright attended the Sun Belt Championship game with me in Hot Springs on Tuesday night. My son Rett, 24, warned us about the potential for storms and lightning in the area, but we were determined to make it to Hot Springs. Besides, we personally know one of the basketball players for UALR and wanted to support him.
Logan Quinn is a red-shirt freshman guard who led the Arkansas Baptist High School Eagles to a state championship in 2009, and that game was also played in Hot Springs. Logan has many brothers and sisters that have played ball over the years at Arkansas Baptist. My son Rett played both football and basketball with his brother, Lancer, in 2004-5.
Logan's former coach at Arkansas Baptist, Steve Miller, congratulated him by phone after the game on Tuesday night. Miller noted that now Logan can say he was a member of two teams that won championships on that same floor. Miller is now head basketball coach and athletic director at Trinity Christian Academy in Wichita, Kan., and he watched the game on ESPN2. He said he got a kick out of seeing a former player in the huddles on the sideline.
Let me now tell you about my longtime Notre Dame Fighting Irish friends. Tim, Pat and Jim Monahan are brothers and have been running Monahan Inc. of Arcola, Ill., for many years. They sell handles and broomcorn, and since here at Little Rock Broom Works (my business) we need those items to make brooms, we have been a customer of theirs for many years.
Two of Tim's sons have actually played football for Notre Dame. Both fit the "Rudy" description. Out of high school they received many offers to play at the small college level, but they chose to walk on at Notre Dame. Tom Monahan got some playing time his senior year as a blocking back in 1986, and Mark Monahan did the same as a defensive back in 1995. Former Arkansas Coach Lou Holtz coached both players.
Why did they walk on at Notre Dame? Probably it had something to do with how far back the Monahan family goes with the Fighting Irish. These boys' grandfather Tom Monahan played for Knute Rockne from 1928 to 1931.
The Monahans still have in their possession a letter dated Aug. 2, 1929, from Rockne encouraging Monahan to put on 10 to 15 pounds. He went on to write, "I think you have the potentialities to make a good center with a little more experience, and you will get that this fall." (Unfortunately, Rockne's life was cut short at age 43 in a plane crash in 1931.)
On Tuesday, it looked bad for my UALR Trojans when we trailed North Texas by 7 points with less than 90 seconds left in the game. However, after stealing the ball a few times and making our foul shots, we were able to cut the lead to one point with 48 seconds left.
Then Josh White seemed to close the door on UALR for good when he hit a 3-point shot with 25 seconds left to give North Texas a 4-point lead.
A thunderstorm was raging outside at the time, and I don't know if lightning ever struck outside the building, but it sure did inside! In the final seconds, UALR's Matt Mouzy and Solomon Bozeman each made 3-point shots to steal the win from the Mean Green of North Texas.
The next day I heard UALR assistant coach and former NBA player Joe Kleine on the radio. Kleine said that the coaches have been telling the players all year long to keep focused on what the prize is.
Kleine said he went to four NCAA tournaments as a college player and "there is nothing like it. We just kept selling the dream to these players. We told them that they will never forget their experience in the NCAA Tournament."
UALR head coach Steve Shields and assistant coach Kleine are men of unusual size. Shields is a short guy and Kleine is a 7-foot-tall former NBA center. In 1998, KIeine played for NBA Champions the Chicago Bulls.
In 1986, the Monahan brothers saw me at a convention, and they all three shared the same basic thought: "We took the Arkansas Little Rock game for granted, and they just beat us."
Can lightning strike again in 2011? We will just have to wait and see.
Contributing columnist Everette Hatcher is the president of Little Rock Broom Works, which has been manufacturing brooms since 1900, and he writes a political blog at www.HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth.com. Everette and his wife, Jill, live in Alexander and have four children and two grandchildren.


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02-16-05 – Carman Hayes, the former girlfriend of Andre Thomas, spoke of Thomas' thoughts in the days leading up to the murders in day two of testimony of one of Sherman's biggest murder trials.
The conversations between Hayes and Thomas were the focus for most of the morning. Hayes testified the Thomas exhibited some bizarre behavior, often duct taping his mouth shut and responding in writing whenever spoken to for several hours a day. His said the reason for the strange behavior was that the "devil was in him."
The defense is trying to show that this is not the behavior of a sane person, but prosecutors say that drugs and alcohol, voluntarily taken, were the reasons for such actions.
Medical examiners who performed the autopsies on Laura Thomas and her two children also spoke. They told jurors the victims bled to death, and that all three were alive for some time after they were stabbed.
Thomas also listened closely as his father, called to the stand by the prosecution, talked about Andre's childhood. His father called him gifted, bright, and well-behaved and saw no signs of mental illness in his son until three or four months before the murders.
Medical professionals, dispatchers, and officers all testified that Thomas was "calm" after the murders and asked for forgiveness.


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Everybody grab a grandparent or grandchild and head to the Ashland Library the week of Sept. 1 to 6 to celebrate Grandparents Day with storytimes, crafts, letter writing and some very sweet books.
"We want to encourage grandparents and kids to come together, enjoy the activities and each other," said Amy Blossom library manager at the Ashland Library. She also adds that we should feel free to play fast and loose with the term "grandparent," as many of us have adopted grandparent figures. "We're using the term, 'grand-others' to describe all those wonderful people who take the place of grandparents," said Blossom.
When my husband and I moved to Ashland, we left our parents in other states. Our new neighbors, Bill and Connie, quickly became the grandparent figures we all longed for, sharing stories and baking cookies with our kids, giving us truly helpful advice and, yes, babysitting. There aren't enough days in a year to express our gratitude.
Blossom admits to having a personal interest in this year's celebrations. "I've become a grandmother recently, and it is so much fun," she said. "At the library, we want to celebrate these relationships and celebrate families," she added.
Although most of the action happens on Saturday, the children's library will have craft and letter-writing materials available throughout the week. The crafts will include simple projects such as creating small booklets within which grandparents and grandchildren can learn about one another, sharing information about their interests, foods and activities. Children can also draw pictures or write letters to grandparents.
"The idea is to spur conversations between grandparents and children," said Blossom.
On Saturday at 1:30 p.m., volunteers will help visitors of all ages make crafts. From 2 to 3 p.m., writer, teacher, and grandma Carol-Jo Petit will lead a letter-writing workshop for all ages.
"Carol-Jo is a great teacher and she'll get kids excited about letter writing," said Blossom. The library will supply everything needed, including envelopes and stamps. Pettit will offer a workshop on Sept. 15, at 5:30 p.m. at the Medford branch library as well.
"Last year, the Jackson County libraries held a similar celebration and it was a lot of fun honoring the people who enrich our lives and our children's lives so much," said Blossom. "And grandchildren — wow, grandchildren are amazing," she added.
The library will also have a display of books for all ages featuring and honoring grandparents. The children's library has a list of popular books for grandparents and kids to read together. Here are a few picks for young readers:
"I Love You, Grandpa" by Vivian French. When Grandpa cat visits the kittens for the weekend, he and young Stanley bond with snuggles and songs after the older kittens leave Grandpa all tired out. This is a sweet story with adorable illustrations.
"Thunder Cake," by Patricia Polacco. A grandmother helps her granddaughter overcome her fear of thunder by baking a special cake while a storm threatens. The book has lovely illustrations, and a yummy recipe at the end.
"Sweet Dreams = Dulces Suenos," by Pat Mora. Written in both Spanish and English, this book is like a lullaby with its repetitive text and simple story of a grandmother tucking in the children at bed time.
"Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion," by Mo Willems. Beloved toy, Knuffle Bunny goes on an international adventure when Trixie and her family fly to Holland to see Oma and Opa. This is a heart warming story about growing up and letting go.
The Ashland Library is at 410 Siskiyou Blvd. For more information about Grandparents Day activities, call 541-774-6980.
Angela Decker is a freelance writer in Ashland and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Jan 2013 16:29 UTC
ZTE will launch a Firefox OS smartphone this year. "ZTE is seeking partnerships to offer devices with the new operating system to reduce its reliance on Google's Android, which dominates the smartphone market with a 75 percent share of shipments, according to IDC. ZTE is expanding in mobile devices and cloud computing, where sales growth is faster than its traditional equipment business." The Google-reliance thing seems to be a common theme these days. It's also partly why Samsung is looking at Tizen.
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