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The St. Louis Blues are in need of a spark as they try to salvage the finale of a four-game homestand.
The return of goaltender Jaroslav Halak may just be what the club needs.
Halak is expected to get the start for the struggling Blues on Monday evening as they take on the visiting Los Angeles Kings.
Halak has missed the past three games with a strained groin suffered in a 5-3 loss versus the Detroit Red Wings on Feb. 1. He gave up two goals on 11 shots before departing, while Brian Elliott stopped 17-of-19 shots faced in relief.
That loss, though, was the first of what has snowballed into a four-game skid (0-3-1), with Elliott getting charged with each defeat. He has given up 14 goals in his last three starts, including five on 23 shots faced in Saturday's shootout defeat to the Anaheim Ducks.
Elliott was also beaten four times by six skaters in the shootout, falling to 3-4-1 in eight games this season with a 3.51 goals against average and .853 save percentage. The 27-year-old went 23-10-4 a season ago with a 1.56 GAA, .940 save percentage and nine shutouts.
"Not playing very good. Not much I can say ... not playing very good," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said of Elliott's play. "He'd be the first to tell you too. He's got to play better."
He won't get the chance to improve on Monday as Halak was activated from injured reserve the previous day and is expected to start versus the Kings. He is 3-0-0 in five games this season with two shutouts as well as a 2.10 GAA and .889 save percentage.
Halak will try to get a Blues club that opened the season with wins in six of seven back on track, though at least the offense found its form in Saturday's loss after notching just two goals combined the previous two setbacks.
Alexander Steen and Chris Stewart had a goal and two assists each, helping St. Louis build a 3-1 lead in the first period that it failed to hold. David Backes had a goal and an assist, but the Blues had a game-winning goal with 22.2 seconds waived off due to incidental contact with the goaltender by Patrik Berglund.
While the Blues remain winless in February, it has been a season-long struggle thus far for the defending champion Kings. They are tied for the fewest points in the Western Conference with eight and are just 1-3-0 on a five-game road trip that ends on Monday.
Los Angeles seemed on the verge of at least a point on Sunday versus Detroit, potting a game-tying goal with 52.8 seconds left in regulation off the stick of defenseman Alec Martinez, but the Red Wings' Jonathan Ericsson scored with just 4.5 ticks left on the clock to hand the Kings a 3-2 setback.
Ericsson ripped a slap shot from the right point that squeaked by Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick and trickled across the goal line.
It was a heartbreaking loss for a Kings team that was all over the Red Wings, who were saved by a stellar performance from Jimmy Howard. The Detroit netminder made 45 saves, including 23 in a scoreless second period.
Anze Kopitar also lit the lamp for the Kings, who have lost two in a row and four of their past five overall. Quick stopped 28 shots and was on the bench when Martinez backhanded home a rebound.
"Certainly not the finish that we wanted. I thought we gave it a good go in the end, got the tying goal," Kopitar said. "We arguably played one of the best games this season and didn't come out with the result that we wanted."
The Kings certainly had solid results last season versus the Blues, winning three of the four meetings with a pair of shutouts at home. However, they were bested 1-0 in their most recent trip to St. Louis, where they have dropped nine of their last 12.
Halak posted a 22-save shutout in a Feb. 3, 2012 meeting in St. Louis and is 6-2-0 in his career versus the Kings in eight starts with a 1.70 GAA, .935 save percentage and two shutouts.


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Dance your Ph.D. winner scores with 'The romantic revolution of Lightness & Strength'
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Australian scientists have won this year's Dance your PhD competition, an event boffins who explain their work with interpretive dance.
Material scientist Peter Liddicoat, from the University of Sydney, took out the competition with a performance of A super-alloy is born: The romantic revolution of Lightness & Strength, describing his research quest to create materials that have high strength and low weight.
Liddicoat's no dancing dilettante – his work has made it into Nature, which in 2010 saw fit to publish his Nanostructural hierarchy increases the strength of aluminium alloys.
The winning dance tells the tale of a collaboration between and engineer and a scientist. The latter finds that "when force is applied to the perfect crystal structure of Lightness the bonds break and the atoms slip along a straight line" before ""applying torsion to redesign the atomic architecture. He applies this revolving force to the crystal, dividing it into multiple smaller parts, and creates interfaces that might block slip."
That process works, the engineer proves it, and waltzes off into the sunset with the new material in hand, as depicted below.
Other entries to this year's competition, there were 36, are available here. ®

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Doctors in the Netherlands have replaced a 22-year-old woman's skull with a plastic one made using a 3D printer.
It took doctors at the University Medical Center Utrecht 23 hours to perform the surgery.
The Dutch patient had a condition that caused her skull to thicken.
"The disease manifests itself in the beginning with severe headaches," neurosurgeon Bon Verweij said in a press release.
As the skull thickens, it increases pressure on the brain. In this case, it started to affect the woman's motor skills and her vision.
"It is now almost three months later. The patient has her sight back entirely, is symptom-free, is back to work and it is almost impossible to see that she's ever had surgery," Verweij said.
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LEOMINSTER -- Only one thing that could cool off the recently red-hot Leominster Post 151 American Legion baseball team: several bouts of stormy weather.
Leominster is hoping the layoff caused by rain in the last week does not make for rusty play.
Post 151 is one win away from clinching a playoff spot and returns to action today on the road against Grafton Hill.
Monday's doubleheader at home against Northboro and Wachusett was rescheduled to Wednesday to conclude the season due inclement weather.
"This is our third rainout in the last week," Leominster head coach Jeff Dedeian said. "We just came off five days off which is good and bad. I'm a little concerned about the layoff because we showed it the other night against East Side. I'm concerned because we have the playoffs starting at the end of the week, we have to get on the field and play, and we need to practice, too."
The odds are looking good for Leominster clinching a postseason berth. Out of the three remaining games, Leominster defeated Northboro and Wachusett in their first meetings of the season. Grafton Hill defeated Leominster handily, but that game took place prior to Leominster High players joining the team.
"Grafton Hill and Wachusett are both in the playoffs and Northboro is not," Dedeian said. "We hope playing two playoffs teams will be good preparation for the postseason, but they're in the same boat and will probably save pitching for later days. It should be a good test for us, though.
The games will feature a balancing act, as Leominster will focus on getting wins but also have an eye to the future with the postseason likely around the corner.
"We want to win the games, but we also need to make sure that our pitchers are ready to go for the playoffs on Friday," Dedeian said. "We have to use some sense to make sure we don't burn out our pitchers. Our goal is always to win, but we also want to get some kids some playing time and we want to get better."
Post 151 split its two games last week and fielding problems have starting popping up after looking like a thing of the past. Having a handful of rainouts will likely not help this issue.
"We just have to play better defensively. We just don't play good defensive baseball," Dedeian said. "That's been happening here and there throughout the year. The last couple of games, we've been making bonehead plays and bonehead errors and we've just got to play better to be successful."


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The Military's Nutrition Conundrum
Our Armed Forces are going to have a difficult time improving the diet habits of Americans in uniform
There was an interesting story recently in the North County Times, a daily newspaper serving North San Diego. Entitled, "Food Choices Explode At Camp Pendleton," the article talked about all of the food outlets available at this U.S. Marine Corps base. The article caught my eye because we're always on the lookout for articles about military foodservice, and because I had just read last month about First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to expand her Let's Move campaign to military bases. I wanted to see how the efforts at Camp Pendleton mesh with Mrs. Obama's nutrition push. The short answer is, they don't.
According to the article in the Times, there are more than two dozen retail restaurants on the base, many of them fast food establishments such as McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts and Sonic. These units are, of course, exempt from the Pentagon's recent initiative, led by the first lady, to improve the nutritional value of meals served in military dining halls.
The article went on to quote several base personnel about how much they crave fast food and little they enjoy the food in the dining halls.
"I only go to the chow hall when I'm low on money," said one Marine. "I'm just not a chow hall fan," said another.
To be fair to the foodservice personnel at Camp Pendleton, a reporter can choose which comments and quotes he or she includes in a story, so we don't know whether positive comments about the base's own foodservice program were made—or even solicited, for that matter. But there is no denying this fact: the Department of Defenses estimates that it spends more than $1 billion a year on medical costs related to the weight-related problems of military personnel.
This is going to be a tough nut for the military to crack. Military bases are really a hybrid: part college campus, part corporate office. A college campus does have the luxury of controlling what foodservice comes onto campus, and students have the ability to go off campus when they crave something that isn't offered within the university boundaries.
Many soldiers, sailors and airmen, while of college age, are actually holding down a job, and they seldom have the luxury of going off base for a meal when they are on duty. So, the base brings often the food to them, so to speak.
"We have 50,000 to 60,000 people here a day," a representative of the Marine Corps' Community Services office was quoted as saying in the Times. "They need food choices."
Let's Move is gaining a foothold in school districts, where federal, state and local governments can work together to mandate the type of food made available to elementary and secondary school students. The government's power over the dining choices of its own military personnel, however, is much more tenuous.
I'm not suggesting the government ban unhealthy food from military bases. But I do believe Michelle Obama is going to have a much harder time improving the nutritional health of our men and women in uniform.


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I've noticed that whilst developing on a Windows XP machine with WAMP, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns "/dir/path/". However, on my Unix servers it returns "/dir/path" (no trailing slash).
This becomes a problem as something like the following:
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Works on the Unix server, but not in Windows...
Is this a commonly known difference and what's the best way to get around it?
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I was walking along the corridor at the back of Te Papa the other day and spotted these boxes….
You see some quite strange things out the back of Te Papa (it could be a blog all of its own "Out back Te Papa" ) but this was one of the better ones.
Further investigation revealed that the dinosaurs had escaped from their boxes and were now living in the workshop next door. Some staff got to meet them…
Since then the dinosaurs have been on the move. If you look carefully you'll see their heads poking above the barrier in the Awesome Forces exhibition on Level Two.
From tomorrow you'll be able to get a proper look at these scary looking raptors, which are part of a makeover of this exhibition. The two dinosaur models come from Germany and are of a dromaeosaur species, Deinonychus.
No one has found fossils of Deinonychus in New Zealand … yet. But they have been found in Antarctica, Australia and other parts of Gondwana so it's likely that they did live here once.
Did I mention the unusual packing that the dinosaur models arrived in? – nicely padded bra inserts to protect those sharp claws…


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Earlier this summer, triple digit temperatures had horse owners and their animals sweltering. Now owners remain hot under the collar as they worry about hay and feed availability with the persistent heat and ongoing drought.
In late June and early July temperatures rose to 100 degrees and higher in the Midwest, the Tennessee Valley, Kentucky, and elsewhere. Though rain began to fall in some areas in the Midwest since then, the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sees little long-term relief. On July 16 NOAA reported that drought conditions continue to increase in both extent and intensity across much of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, the Corn Belt region, the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, and much of the Great Plains.
Brian Fuchs, spokesman for the National Drought Mitigation Center, said 60% of the lower 48 states are under drought conditions. What's more, he said, the combined hot and dry conditions have already taken a toll on corn and hay crops and have left pastures parched.
"Pastures that got good (rain) soakings in the spring are brown and have gone dormant," Fuchs said. "It's doubtful that hay producers will get a third cut, and the corn crop will be reduced."
That's not news to Frank Bowman, executive director of the Horseman's Council of Illinois. According to Bowman, the Illinois corn crop has already failed due to high heat and scant rain. Meanwhile, hay fields and pastures are rapidly turning brown, he said, and the combination makes for high feed and hay prices for horse owners.
"Last year we (in Illinois) were sending hay to Texas," Bowman said. "Now, people who don't already have their hay up will have a hard time finding any."
Conditions are a bit better in south central Kentucky where several days of rain brought some relief. But Wayne County barn operator Kari Sullivan says she can only hope to get another cutting of hay.
"The rain made everything look like spring again, but we're still not sure we'll get more hay in," Sullivan said. "Other counties didn't get the rain we did and they're really worried."
Fuchs agrees there's reason to worry: "There may be small rain storms throughout the drought area, but it's doubtful that they will have any real effect. It does not look like either the heat or the drought will end soon."
When forage is expected to remain in short supply, Alessandra Pellegrini-Masini, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, clinical assistant professor of large animal internal medicine at the University of Georgia, previously told The Horse that horse owners should consider making adjustments. She suggests they supplement their animals' diets with Dengie Hay, a commercially produced heat-dried, short cut grass and alfalfa product that provides calories and proteins similar to high-quality hay. Introducing beet pulp and alfalfa cubes can also stretch hay supplies, she said.
"Bran can also be used, though I never recommend feeding a lot of bran because its calcium to phosphorus ratio can cause bone problems in horses," she cautioned.
Whichever fiber alternatives they use to stretch hay supplies during the persistent drought, Pellegrini-Masini reminded owners to bear their horses' sensitive systems in mind.
"Whenever you make a change in a horse's diet you should make it extremely slowly," she said. "Many of the problems we've seen have been the result of rapid changes in horses' diets because of the scarcity of local hay and forage."
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CHANNAHON — Channahon District 17 — and all other Illinois public schools — will likely see the percentage of students meeting and exceeding state standards decline.
The dark prediction, however, is through no fault of the schools involved.
Instead, beginning with this spring's Illinois Standards Achievement Test, the bar for "exceeds" and "meets" scores will be higher.
"This is going to be a huge difference," Channahon District 17 Superintendent Dr. Karin Evans told the school board this week. "The state just gave us a drastic change on cut scores on the ISAT, which will make a difference on meets standards and exceeds standards."
Evans gave an example of third-grade reading scores. Previously, students had to score 191-226 to meet standards. Now, they will have to score 207-235 to be in that category. For a student to be in the "exceeds" goals category, the old requirement was a score of 227 or above. Now it will be a 236.
That may not look like a large difference, but Evans said it could be around 20 percent. It could mean, for example, going from an 86 percent of students meeting standards to 60 percent of students meeting standards.
E-mails went out to parents of students in District 17 last week regarding the new cut scores. Teachers will also be available at this week's Parent-Teacher conferences to discuss with parents the implications of the changes.
It's all due to a new set of common core standards established by the Illinois Board of Education, Evans explained to the board.
"The assumption is that students who score proficient on the assessments will be on track for success in college and the workplace," she wrote in the board packet. "The new assessments will be. . . better aligned with higher education demands."
The new word is "rigor," she said, and higher expectations of the students.
Evans said she's not sure what the situation will do to AYP, or adequate yearly progress, demands by the state as of yet.
The board this week also approved some personnel items, including hiring Janice Selfridge as a substitute bus driver at $35.70/run; hiring Carol Koran as a Three Rivers School cafeteria server for $9/hour; hiring Stacy Odegaard as a substitute cafeteria server for $8.50/hour; and accepting the resignation of Three Rivers School cafeteria server Peggy Hyalka.
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CHANNAHON — Channahon District 17 — and all other Illinois public schools — will likely see the percentage of students meeting and exceeding state standards decline.


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Saturday, April 22, 2006
How Dumb Do You Have to Be?
A 76 year old man was arrested after he went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering, we're not making this up, free breast exams. He was charged with sexually assaulting two women in their 30s who accepted the offer.
According to investigators, one woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a genital exam without using rubber gloves.
THAT is when she became suspicious?! Really?! The free door-to-door breast exam didn't raise any alarms? Are you serious?! I get suspicious when people show up at my door selling magazine subscriptions. So I'd think I might be more than a tad wary if somebody suddenly showed up on my porch offering free prostate screenings.
This is so sad on so many levels.
6 comments:
- nico said...
Florida is home to so many sexual deviants it isn't even funny. I think the transient nature of the population attracts them.
When I was living there, it seemed like there was a story in the papers every day of some teacher molesting a student or something else that is at least rarer in other parts of the country.
I worked at an apartment complex for a while and there must've been two dozen sex offenders living in the place.
- April 21, 2006 3:42 AM
- Dezzi13 said...
It's only sad because it seems that he would've gotten away with it if he only stayed with examining the breasts....
- April 21, 2006 7:08 AM
C'mon lady...he was 76!!!!!!!!
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. urp
- April 21, 2006 10:53 AM
Another idea poached, rat bastard, I guess I'll return the speculum when it comes in the mail next week.
- April 21, 2006 6:13 PM
I wonder why this is assualt, fraud yes, but assault?
They agreed to let him in their homes and do the examination.
- April 22, 2006 1:50 PM
You better have some good Reggie Bush and his house content.
This is going to be worse than Michigan's Fab Five hundreds of thousands of $$ scandal.
Last news reported is that Reggie's mom was seen packing up and leaving in a white Bronco with an unidentified man wearing USC paraphanalia.
- April 24, 2006 1:19 AM


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Cape Coral City Council can become heroes
January 12, 2013
To the editor: The Cape Coral Council has an opportunity to demonstrate to the citizenry of the city and to all those across the nation, who value Democracy and morality, that this is a body of......
Actually, I find myself in agreement with Kalfus the Magnificent. I really, truly believe there should be prayer, a long, sincere prayer throwing ourselves on God's mercy and begging for His help. Why, you ask? For the simple reason that, given the morons who are running this place, we need all the prayer we can get. So, pray away, Brother Kalfus. This poor, sad city needs it.
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@Schizzle...the sting still hasn't gone away since the election of 2011 has it? Well, just wait until the election is held this year...OUCH! You'll be seeking professional help. Bawhahahahaha!
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Face it Dick, fewer and fewer people are buying into the lie of religion.
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The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. (George Carlin)
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Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money. (George Carlin)
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Irving Kristol stated "it is crucial to the lives of all our citizens, as it is to all human beings at all times, that they encounter a world that possesses a transcendental meaning, a world in which the human experience makes sense. Nothing is more dehumanizing, more certain to generate a crisis, than to experience one's life as a meaningless event in a meaningless world."
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6.The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history. [Robert Heinlein]
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1Sandy you stated you were moving away and intimated you would not be heard from again. Well I am here to tell you welcome back. We missed you and as in most cases I still do not agree with you on this and most other interpretations by you. Religion has established mankind with a moral code to live by like it or not. Happy 2013!!!!
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Sandy, two questions. Did you actually read my comment? And, do you have a dictionary? Look up "sarcasm." Sigh.
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Kalfus once again shows his true self as a hypocritical heretic who should read the bible with his eyes open this time. Why does he feel the need to judge others when his own house is in need of some salvation. Thank whoever you pray to that our leaders see both parties as extreme radicals and dismisses both as they council has stated. Dick knows that his only ear on council is mumbles and he only has 9 months until full retirement. The only difference between Kalfus and the Taliban is Dick can't make a bomb!
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Dick, are we talking just your God? Or other taxpayers Gods they believe in? Which god are we talking ? I personally would like to see Mayor John Lead us in a Rastafarian prayer every week. I will bring some cookies for him.
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If Dick Kalfus would have his way this country would become a Christian theocracy. He needs to read the US Constitution and understand it.
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Love your suggestion, Packer. Just wondering what kind of cookies you'd bring.
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Disgusted1, nothing but the finest for his majesty. I would probably do better than cookies. I would probably bring some fresh Colorado brownies... Only the finest for a man who appreciates working people so much.
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If you were a true Christina, Dick, you'd know that God can't be removed from a physical space. Evidently, you've forced Him from your heart.
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Well, shucks. Came to this thread to see if there was more detail on the demise of the missus and the rise of the mistress and the post is gone, baby, gone.
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Mr. Kalfus writes always this kind of article. It sounds to me like some "witch hunter "from mid evil time came back from the graveyards? Or is it some mental sick******that is spilling his brain ***** into public? I don't know and I don't know how old this person is but to me it sounds like he is "too old"? I hope and I will not believe that ANY democratic thinking person (whatever party member) pays any kind of attention to this fanatic written grease that comes out of his religious? grease gun? Sometimes you would think to sad that we have such unregulated freedom of speech? You just open your newspaper to get some news and information and then accidentally you read this kind of "trash". If this Dick K. would represent only 1-10% of public opinion, I would suggest it is time for major changes here. I hope and expect that he is just one miserable person that tries to force his fanatic guidelines over other people free spirit and freedom. We shall not be quiet and we will not let
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Norman LaVigne
Norman S. LaVigne was born at the family home in Chewelah on Nov. 30, 1923. The son of Cyrille and Vera LaVigne, Norm graduated from Jenkins High School in 1942 and went on to earn his Electrical Engineering degree from University of Min¬nesota in 1945. He married his high school sweetheart, Irene Gunning, on June 29, 1945. Norm was an avid skier who represented the Chewelah Peak Ski Club as a racer and instructor for many years. He served in the US Navy during WWII, then went on to open LaVigne Broth¬ers Sporting Goods in Chewelah. Later, his work in Satellite Communication Systems took his family around the world to Hawaii, Hong Kong, Korea, Guam, South Vietnam, and the Philippines. He returned to his native Eastern Washington as a Real Estate Broker for The Lake People in Spokane. Norm was a great outdoorsman throughout his 89 years and shared his love of fishing, hunting and skiing with many. He and Irene retired to their Black Lake home to enjoy the lake year round. He was preceded in death by his parents, Cyrille and Vera LaVigne and by his brothers, Gordon LaVigne and Joe LaVigne. He is survived by wife, Irene LaVigne; children, Sherry LaVi¬gne Addy; and Ron LaVigne, Colville; grandchildren, Christa Zamora (Karl) and Craig Post (Amy); great-grandchildren, Cam¬eron, Connor and Carter; sister, Yvonne LaVigne; sister-in-law, Betty Lou LaVigne; nephews, Randy and Steve LaVigne. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Chewelah United Church of Christ. Memorial service to celebrate Norm's life will be held at the Chewelah United Church of Christ on Feb. 2 at 11 a.m.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Buses, trolleys and subways in Philadelphia will continue to operate for the time being after thousands of transit workers said Friday they would stay on the job when their contract expires at midnight.
The statement released by Transport Workers Union Local 234 came several hours after officials for the regional transit agency announced contingency plans for a possible walkout.
"We're willing to go the extra mile to reach a fair agreement," said union president Willie Brown. "We're not willing to sign on to a lengthy contract extension or make hasty decisions having a long-term effect on our members' family finances."
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority held a news conference Friday morning after the union didn't show up for a planned bargaining session. The contract for 4,700 employees in the city transit division expires at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
However, union leaders noted that pacts with two other SEPTA branches are in force until April. The statement says any work stoppage would involve all three bargaining units. A union representative did not immediately respond to a request for further details.
It's unclear when negotiations might resume. SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams said the agency has not received a response to its request for a three-month extension.
"When they're ready to meet with us, we'll make ourselves available," Williams said.
SEPTA, the nation's sixth-largest transit operator, serves Philadelphia and its surrounding counties and has annual ridership of about 337 million.
The agency received a contract proposal from the union earlier this week and sent back a counter-proposal Friday, Williams said, though she did not disclose details. Employee benefits and wages account for about 70 percent of SEPTA's $1.3 billion operating budget this year.
According to the union, points of contention in bargaining include discipline, use of surveillance cameras, pensions and the effect of the new federal health care law.
A walkout would have shut down transit lines within the city of Philadelphia, including buses, trolleys and two subway lines that provide about 825,000 passenger trips on an average weekday. Thirteen regional rail lines that serve the suburbs would have continued operating.
A strike by transit workers in 2009 lasted six days.


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'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is played with blaring speed. "O Christmas Tree" is sung as a proud first solo.
The fourth holiday CD by the Plummer Home For Boys in Salem is a mash-up of Christmas carols, original songs, and a poem written and performed by a dozen teenage musicians who live at the group home on Salem Harbor or who take part in OnPoint, an outreach program for at-risk youth.
"It's all us," said Levaughn Fussell, 21, a drummer and the only Plummer musician to play on all four CDs released since 2009. "We have a lot of kids playing on it — guitar, keyboard, drums. We put our own influence on it. . . . . This is us."
The boys have put their own spin on old holiday songs. For the first time, some of them sing.
"It makes this CD very, very exciting," said Aaron Z. Katz, music director at the home. "A lot of them are quiet, and they don't like to be put on the spot. But when you put an instrument in their hands, you lead them in a very gentle way toward finding themselves."
Copies of the CD were sent to more than 1,500 donors who support the home. It is also for sale for $5 in coffee shops around Salem. "This is just a way for us to give back and say, 'Happy Holidays from The Plummer Home Family,' " Katz said.
The home is a nonprofit residence for males age 13 to 22 in the state's foster care system. A group home houses younger boys, while residents 18 and up live in apartments.
"The kids have a lot of trauma in their lives," said Katz, who founded the music program in 2007. "But if you give them a pair of earplugs and let them just rage on the drums, they have a way to deal with the energy they're feeling in a positive way."
Fussell loved the feel of drumsticks in his hands, the thrill of creating his own vibe. "If there were no music program, I don't know how I would have moved forward and developed myself," he said. "I really didn't talk."
Now he is the new drummer for The Ivy League, a Salem-based band. "I would love some day to be a professional drummer," Fussell said. "Maybe play in Boston."
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His work has been published in Halifax's The Coast, Exclaim!, Wedding Bells, Canadian Art (Magazine) and many other publications across Canada.
As a professional photographer I take lots of gear on shoots; big bodies, lots of lenses as I never know what might inspire me. I always take my X100S with me wherever I go and whatever I do.
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Nick Berardis, 12, who will be starting seventh grade at Gorton Junior High School in September, enjoyed his first day of summer vacation last Tuesday by riding his bike in the Warwick Beacon parking lot. Here, he popped a wheelie for the camera.
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i figure a battery pull will fix the issue, wrong. now all of the app has disappeared, even the contact that was present before. in the applications list, bbm5 is still listed. i have .151 installed as the base and used lyricidal b6v10. i have never had this issue with previous builds from lyric. thanks in advance!


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ROCKFORD — Rock Valley College, 3301 N. Mulford Road, will host "30 Years of Growing and Managing Native Plants" from 7 to 9 p.m. May 15 in the Woodward Technology Center.
Jerome Johnson, executive director of Garfield Farm Museum, will share his experiences of growing and managing native plants during this free event.
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If you're a C5 owner, there's a good chance you like to put your foot down every once in awhile. After all, driving a 345hp sports cars sometimes calls for a little speed.
Let's assume you've waited for the perfect moment. You look around, and the coast is clear. Your fingers grip the steering wheel a little tighter, and your right foot is primed to slam down on the Vette's rubber-covered loud pedal.
But this time, things are different. Instead of locking onto the rapidly blurring scenery ahead of you, your eyes are glued to the oil-pressure gauge. Rather than its usual reading of around 40 psi, the display has climbed into the 80-psi range.
As your foot instinctively comes off the gas, the obvious question forms in your mind: What broke?
The good news is that the problem is most likely ascribable to your Corvette's oil-pressure sending unit (or "OPSU," in mechanic-speak), which commonly fails on the '97-'04 models, and not to some major underhood catastrophe.
"Every time we've had a [C5] Corvette in here with the oil-pressure reading high, the cause has been the sending unit fouling out," says a tech from Jim Phillips Automotive Service in Lubbock, Texas. "So we just replace that to start, and if it doesn't fix the problem, we go from there. But in every case it's worked."
With the shop gearing up to perform yet another C5 OPSU replacement, we grabbed a camera, a pen, and a pad of paper, and set out to document the job. Follow along as we take you through the process, which should consume around two-and-a-half hours using standard hand tools.


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Unico American Corporation (Nasdaq: UNAM) ("Unico," the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $1.00 per share of common stock. This cash dividend declared on November 15, 2012, is payable on December 14, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 30, 2012. The Board of Directors declared this cash dividend after taking into consideration the Company's current liquidity and financial position. Headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, Unico is an insurance holding company that underwrites property and casualty insurance through its insurance company subsidiary; provides property, casualty, and health insurance through its agency subsidiaries; and through its other subsidiaries provides insurance premium financing and membership association services. Unico has conducted the majority of its operations through its subsidiary Crusader Insurance Company since 1985. For more information concerning Crusader Insurance Company, please visit Crusader's Web site at www.crusaderinsurance.com. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Certain statements contained herein that are not historical facts are forward-looking. These statements, which may be identified by forward-looking words or phrases such as "anticipate," "appears," "believe," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," and "would," involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Such risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause actual results to differ materially include underwriting actions not being effective, rate increases for coverages not being sufficient, premium rate adequacy relating to competition or regulation, actual versus estimated claim experience, regulatory changes or developments, unforeseen calamities, general market conditions, and the Company's ability to introduce new profitable products.
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A Diocese of Scranton priest accused of inappropriately touching a teenage girl in 1998 told investigators he searches the Internet for depictions of women being strangled, chloroformed and sexually assaulted.
The information, contained in a search warrant application filed by Scranton police, added to the disturbing picture of the Rev. Philip Altavilla that has emerged since his April 3 arrest.
Father Altavilla, 48, is charged with providing alcohol to a 13-year-old girl he drove home after a Christmas Eve Mass at St. Patrick's Church in 1998, and then fondling her feet and moving his hand up her leg. The Times-Tribune does not identify victims of sexual assault.
The priest, who has been suspended by the diocese, faces a preliminary hearing April 30 on charges of indecent assault, attempted indecent assault and corruption of minors.
In seeking a warrant to search the contents of Father Altavilla's computer, iPad, iPhone and any storage devices, Detectives Jennifer Gerrity and Vincent Uher said Father Altavilla told them the day of his arrest he struggled with a fetish involving feet, pantyhose, chloroform and strangulation.
The investigators said in their affidavit that Father Altavilla admitted he had taken photographs of the victim's feet, as well as the feet of other teenage girls, and kept the pictures in a bag in his residence.
In addition, the affidavit stated, Father Altavilla acknowledged "that he uses the Internet to research videos and images depicting women being strangulated, given chloroform and then sexually assaulted."
The affidavit also makes a reference to a cryptic message sent to the priest's cellphone.
According to the detectives, Father Altavilla gave them permission to search his residence, where they seized his computer and iPhone.
After the phone was taken, according to the affidavit, a message appeared on the screen in plain view of Detective Uher indicating the author has been "haunted for years" and adding, "I still remember waking up with you."
"Nothing further was visible, but based on the training and experience of Detective Uher and Detective Gerrity, the content indicated possible sexual abuse," the affidavit stated.
Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer McCambridge confirmed the individual who sent the message is not the woman Father Altavilla is accused of assaulting in 1998.
Investigators are still awaiting a state police analysis of the contents of the computer and other devices.
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A Diocese of Scranton priest accused of inappropriately touching a teenage girl in 1998 told investigators he searches the Internet for depictions of women being strangled, chloroformed and sexually assaulted.


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An anonymous reader writes The experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered evidence of a targeted attack against the clients of a large European bank. According to the logs found in the server used by the attackers, apparently in the space of just one week cybercriminals stole more than half a million euros from accounts in the bank. The experts also detected transaction logs on the server, containing information about which sums of money were taken from which accounts. All in all, more than 190 victims could be identified, most of them located in Italy and Turkey. The sums stolen from each bank account, according to the logs, ranged between 1,700 to 39,000 euros.


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***** Announcing EVERSON MONO 10646 *****
After more than a year in development, I am pleased to announce
the release of the first batch of Everson Mono, a font supporting
Everson Mono is a simple, elegant, monowidth font. I designed it
primarily to make glyphs available in support of _all_ the non-Han
characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane of ISO/IEC 10646-1
(BMP = Unicode, if you prefer), though I hope that users may find
it a pleasant alternative to Courier and Monaco for general
purposes, e-mail, and so forth. I have found it quite legible at
sizes as small as 4 points. It is lighter and a bit looser than
At the present time, these glyphs are available in 8-bit font
modules. However, I have configured the font editor I use (Altsys'
excellent Fontographer) to output TrueType fonts with correct
16-bit hex addresses, and the PostScript fonts with name unique,
unambiguous aliases to 10646. The first half of each fonts is
ASCII (Table 1, Basic Latin); I have had to resort to this
(arguably wasteful) method of encoding because many applications
display a font in its own face, rather than simply by name,
potentially rendering the font name illegible. As 16-bit
compatible technology becomes more available, I will be reencoding
these glyphs to more convenient formats. (On the other hand, you
could consider all these to be micro-subsets of 10646, and since
subsets have to include Table 1, they're all conformant....)
Everson Mono is also available in all Macintosh character set
formats, suitable for use with Apple's WorldScript technology.
Everson Mono is available as PostScript and TrueType fonts in
Macintosh and PC formats, and as PostScript fonts in NeXT and Sun
formats. Hand-tooled bitmaps for alphabetic characters are
available in 9-, 10-, and 12-point sizes; hand-tooled 12-point
bitmaps only may be available for some of the symbol characters.
Everson Mono fonts are available by anonymous ftp at:
dkuug.dk /CEN/TC304/EversonMono10646
midir.ucd.ie /mgunn/everson/EversonMono10646 (soon)
ftp.nada.kth.se /i18n/ucs/EversonMono10646 (soon)
The most current version will always be on the Danish server.
As of this announcement (1995-06-05) only the Macintosh (TT/PS),
NeXT (PS), and Sun (PS) formats are available. The PC (TT/PS)
fonts are not yet available because I am still trying to figure
out just how the draconian xxxxxxxx.yyy naming conventions are
supposed to work for all these outline and bitmap files. I will
upload them as soon as I can. After that then each set of new
Everson Mono fonts will be uploaded in all four formats.
This is an enormous project. So naturally not all the fonts
are available all at once. In the table below I have marked
all the ones which are now available, all of the ones for which
the outlines are finished but the screen bitmaps still need
to be corrected, and all the others which it is my intention to
make available as soon as possible.
Some other scripts (Cherokee, Ogham, Runes, Canadian Syllabic,
Burmese) are also available but they are not yet encoded in 10646
so they aren't on this list.
Currently available Everson Mono Tables for 10646
(*) means that the font has been put on the server at dkuug.dk in
the directory CEN/TC304/EversonMono10646.
(-) means that the font has been made, but that I am working on
the bitmaps and haven't uploaded it to the server yet.
( ) means I haven't begun to design this Table yet.
Yet means as of 1995-06-04.
(*) Table 1 - Basic Latin
(Everson Mono Latin 1)
(*) Table 2 - Latin-1 Supplement
(Everson Mono Latin 1)
(*) Table 3 - Latin Extended-A
(Everson Mono Latin A)
(*) Table 4 - Latin Extended-B
(Everson Mono Latin B)
(*) Table 5 - Latin Extended-B
(Everson Mono Latin C)
(*) Table 6 - IPA Extensions
(Everson Mono IPA)
(*) Table 7 - Spacing Modifier Letters
(Everson Mono Modifier)
(*) Table 8 - Combining Diacritical Marks
(Everson Mono Diacritic)
(-) Table 9 - Basic Greek
(Everson Mono Greek A)
(-) Table 10 - Greek Symbols and Coptic
(Everson Mono Greek A)
(*) Table 11 - Cyrillic
(Everson Mono Cyrillic A)
(*) Table 12 - Cyrillic
(Everson Mono Cyrillic B)
(-) Table 13 - Armenian
(Everson Mono Armenian A)
(-) Table 14 - Hebrew
(Everson Mono Hebrew A)
(-) Table 15 - Arabic
(Everson Mono Arabic A)
(-) Table 16 - Arabic
(Everson Mono Arabic B)
(-) Table 17 - Devanagari
(Everson Mono Devanagari A)
( ) Table 18 - Bengali
(Everson Mono Bengali A)
( ) Table 19 - Gurmukhi
(Everson Mono Gurmukhi A)
( ) Table 20 - Gujarati
(Everson Mono Gujarati A)
( ) Table 21 - Oriya
(Everson Mono Oriya A)
(-) Table 22 - Tamil
(Everson Mono Tamil A)
( ) Table 23 - Telugu
(Everson Mono Telugu A)
( ) Table 24 - Kannada
(Everson Mono Kannada A)
(-) Table 25 - Malayalam
(Everson Mono Malayalam A)
(-) Table 26 - Thai
(Everson Mono Thai A)
( ) Table 27 - Lao
(Everson Mono Lao A)
(-) Table 28 - Georgian
(Everson Mono Georgian A)
( ) Table 29 - Hangul Jamo
(Everson Mono Jamo A)
( ) Table 30 - Hangul Jamo
(Everson Mono Jamo B)
(*) Table 31 - Latin Extended Additional
(Everson Mono Latin D)
(*) Table 32 - Latin Extended Additional
(Everson Mono Latin E)
(-) Table 33 - Greek Extended
(Everson Mono Greek C)
(-) Table 34 - Greek Extended
(Everson Mono Greek D)
(*) Table 35 - General Punctuation
(Everson Mono Punctuation)
(*) Table 36 - Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols
(Everson Mono Currency)
(*) Table 37 - Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
(Everson Mono Currency) (also)
(-) Table 38 - Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms
(Everson Mono Letterlike)
(-) Table 39 - Arrows
(Everson Mono Arrows)
(-) Table 40 - Mathematical Operators
(Everson Mono Math A)
(-) Table 41 - Mathematical Operators
(Everson Mono Math B)
(-) Table 42 - Miscellaneous Technical
(Everson Mono Technical)
(*) Table 43 - Control Pictures, OCR
(Everson Mono Control)
(-) Table 44 - Enclosed Alphanumerics
(Everson Mono Alphenclosed)
(-) Table 45 - Box Drawing
(Everson Mono Boxes)
(-) Table 46 - Block Elements, Geometrical Shape
(Everson Mono Blocks)
(-) Table 47 - Miscellaneous Symbols
(Everson Mono Miscellaneous)
(-) Table 48 - Dingbats
(Everson Mono Dingbats A)
(-) Table 49 - Dingbats
(Everson Mono Dingbats B)
(-) Table 50 - CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana
(Everson Mono Kana A)
(-) Table 51 - Katakana
(Everson Mono Kana B)
(-) Table 51 - Bopomofo
(Everson Mono Bopomofo)
(-) Table 113 - Alpha Presentation Forms, Arabic Pres. Forms-A
(Everson Mono Restricted A)
( ) Table 114 - Arabic Presentation Forms-A
(Everson Mono Restricted B)
( ) Table 115 - Arabic Presentation Forms-A
(Everson Mono Restricted C)
( ) Table 116 - Arabic Presentation Forms-A
(Everson Mono Restricted D)
( ) Table 117 - Arabic Presentation Forms-A
(Everson Mono Restricted E)
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The Bears apparently want Brian Urlacher back. The question is at what price? Both parties moved a step closer to a resolution on the matter when Urlacher's agent submitted a contract proposal to the Bears on Thursdaya league source confirmed. The 34-year-old middle linebacker just finished the final year of his contract and made $7.5 million last season. He wants to play at least two more seasons and likely wants a new deal in the $5 million-per-year range on par with recent contracts earned by veteran linebackers Ray Lewis (since retired) and London Fletcher. If a deal is not reached, Urlacher becomes a free agent at 3 p.m. Tuesday. His agents can negotiate with other teams starting at 11 p.m. Friday as part of a new three-day negotiating period. General manager Phil Emery has said Urlacher would not be "slighted'' in contract talks. Urlacher's camp has viewed Emery as a "straight shooter'' throughout the whole process. Bears coach Marc Trestman has reached out to Urlacher and the new Bears defensive coaches have made it clear they want Urlacher in the mix. His reputation for being a coach on the field would come into play more than ever as new defensive coordinator Mel Tucker plans to keep the same system intact — with some tweaks expected, of course. The proposal, first tweeted by WFLD-Ch. 32's Lou Canellis, indicates Urlacher wants to remain with the Bears as he continues to work out daily in Arizona in preparation for next season. Urlacher believes his knee is fine now and he's over the hamstring strain that prematurely ended his 2012 campaign. It has allowed him to condition his body this offseason rather than focus on rehabbing an injury.
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RENO, Nev. - Former Wolf Pack point guard Ramon Sessions will host a basketball camp in Reno next month at the South Reno Athletic Club.
It's the sixth year that Sessions will host the four-day camp. It begins on June 10th and runs through June 13th, running from 9am to noon each day.
It's open to both boys and girls, ages 6-17. Those interested are encouraged to call the South RAC early to sign up. Their number is (775) 853-4050. It costs $100 per person.
Sessions just wrapped up his sixth season in the NBA with the Charlotte Bobcats. He averaged 14.4 points, 3.8 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game. He also received a pair of votes for the NBA Sixth Man Award.
Sessions was a three-year starter at Nevada. He left after his junior season for the NBA.


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MELBOURNE'S Old Treasury is a work of immense skill. The building (pictured), which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2012, is the most distinguished work in the 63-year career of the architectural prodigy John James Clark and it exemplifies his genius for synthesis, the characteristic that above all others distinguishes his work. It is also the finest example of the Renaissance Revival style in Australia.
These qualities make the Treasury a riddle because it almost defies belief that something so accomplished could be the work of someone so young and because the inspiration for the building is unknown. We can speculate endlessly but we cannot point to any one building anywhere in the world as its definitive source. The story of the Treasury is also baffling because it is not clear when a fundamental change in its design occurred and under whose direction this happened.
In 1857 the Public Works Department was under pressure following criticism in the press about the eclectic and uninspiring nature of public buildings. There were calls for open competitions to raise standards. The head of Public Works, Captain Charles Pasley, responded by appointing one of his youngest officers to design the most important building undertaken by the department to date.
Clark was still 19 when he signed drawings for the first stage of the basement and ground floor on 22 December 1857. But, in February 1858, just as construction was getting under way, Clark set sail on a nine-month grand tour of Europe. It is not clear whether plans for the entire building, including Clark's original vision for an imposing attic and balustraded parapet, had been fully developed before his departure. Nor is it clear exactly when these were dispensed with. Either way, Clark's travels must have been significant in the formation of the Treasury.
As the plans and departmental records leave so many unanswered questions, the search for architectural sources takes on added meaning. Perhaps by recreating his grand tour, we can get closer to understanding the Treasury's origins. But this is no easy task, because there are no known records and Clark appears to have drawn widely from Roman antiquity, the Italian Renaissance and some of the Renaissance-inspired styles of the nineteenth century, as well as other sources which do not fit neatly into these categories.
The grand tour was a well-established rite of passage for any ambitious architect and in Clark's case would certainly have included the cities of Florence, Rome and Venice. So this is where we should start our search for the Treasury's sources. The Argus reported on its construction in March 1859 and may have had inside information from Clark himself, as it concluded "The style of architecture selected by Mr JJ Clark, the architect, is the Florentine, the front being what is technically termed as a 'recessed arcade', formed by a number of semi-circular arches spanning between two columns."
There are similarities between the Treasury and at least two prominent Renaissance palazzi in Florence. We know Clark was thinking about the palazzo form because at some point he sketched a three-storey palazzo with a grand cornice and a hipped roof in the margin of his main Treasury drawing.
While in Venice Clark would have studied the High Renaissance style of Jacopo Sansovino, whose rich architecture inspired much of the highly decorative work of nineteenth-century Britain. He would have paid particular attention to St Mark's Library (1537-88), as his early drawing for the Treasury had many similarities. But there is another building by Sansovino that is even more convincing as a precedent for the Treasury. To find it Clark would have travelled from Venice to Padua and then south through the countryside to Pontecasale. The Villa Garzoni (1536-40) has a hipped roof and a central loggia of five arches, flanked on each side by three plain bays. Although it is only two storeys in height, it is very similar in form to the Treasury.
Clark's grand tour would have included a visit to England. He would have made it his mission to visit Pall Mall in London to see the work of Sir Charles Barry, who popularised the revived Renaissance palazzi in England in his Travellers Club (1830-32) and Reform Club (1837-41).
The sequence of events and the sources Clark used are still a mystery, but I imagine it went something like this. Clark went to Europe with his initial elaborate concept for the Treasury partly on paper, but really still forming in his head. In Italy he saw two contrasting but related traditions in the rich and imposing works of Sansovino and the simpler but elegant palazzi of many others. I suspect his attitudes changed while he was abroad and that a taste for a simpler form developed. In London, the clubs of Charles Barry confirmed that an important civic building could have stature without an attic and parapet. I suspect that he returned to Australia ready to change his design and converted it without much prompting. His task was to amalgamate and adapt all those influences, while adding the many other elements that helped make Australia's finest Renaissance Revival building.
Edited extract of John James Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance by Andrew Dodd, published by NewSouth Publishing. This book is published in collaboration with the State Library and shows elements of the library's unique pictures, maps, manuscripts and rare books collections.


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As I research more about SMP..
There are many variables that can change the result of the procedure.
However, I think most of the people here are mostly curious about is it detectable and how long can you use your hair. Joe had made a comment about it in previous threads and here is what I think ;
Beauty Medical, Milena Lardi says that her work achieves sort of "3-d" look and the best result of her work can be seen between the length of 0.1-0.5 mm. So this means that her SMP does not require razor shaving, I use a clipper with 0.1 mm length and shave my head once a week.
When I look at Milena's results on italian forums , i noticed that many of the clients had their treatment with their natural hairs relatively longer than other SMP companies (I am talking about full blown nw6-7's) and I see that the treated area and the sides have a contrast difference. My question is, Is this her trick to make her work look more 3-D based? I mean if the patient shaves his head with 0.1 mm clipper , it looks the best. However, when it comes at 0.5 mm , it doesn't look "weird" but looks like a diffuse thinner. Is this what Spex and Joe excited about Milena's work rather than others? I mean when you look at other companies such as HIS , GLI , NHI it looks good with a certain length ,with HIS it is razor shaved. After 2-3 days when your real hair grows, it is impossible to hide your "tattoo" because it becomes evident.
I may sound silly or stupid but I just like to understand the procedure and what can be accomplished with it.
i feel the same way , alot of unanswerd questions about smp,would a stand alone smp look good ,or would smp with fue combination work better ,i never scene a person with smp in person ,so i have no idea what it would look like,will the ink pattern blend with your regular hair .when shaved down, this is a silly question but would it be possible to have smp,and if you diddnt like it you could wear a hairpiece untill it fades away, would it be safe for your scalp , i know its a far fetch idea but , i want to look at all options 1st hairtransplant 2nd smp with fue 3rd hairpiece,
The difference I saw when I first witnessed results in person was that it wasn't as fake looking at the work I'd seen from other clinics. During our last trip to Europe in March, 2012 I saw the work of several leading clinics and I was not only unimpressed but my overall feeling of SMP at the time was only reinforced in that the results look like a bunch of ink splotches on the scalp. But then I saw some results that looked pretty good and it got me curious. This is before I had met Milena (on the same trip) and when I asked the Italian patients who did the work they told me "Beauty Medical".
As far as a 3D effect goes, there is no substitute for hair so skin bald guys will still have the limitation of "only" having a 2D effect. It can look good but never overestimate what this can do else you will be disappointed when you run your hand over your scalp and you still don't feel stubble.
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Thank you for the quick and honest answer. Hope you are well by the way
Now , i'd like to tell to you and both spex how i feel about this and need to correct myself if im wrong;
İ have been looking for the option of smp for 3 years now and i have seen many pictures and read many articles about it. İ got in contact with 2 of the major clinics and saw one of their practioner who had the procedure (HİS clinic in London). İ was always seeking the question of to have a look of a diffuse thinner with a good hairline, not for a skin head razor shaved too much densty look, subtle and non noticable change that no people can recognise but makes me happy in myself. Until you guys mentioned Milena , i could not get what i want from other clinics.
The first time i saw the results of her i really didnt like it. Procedure seemed very "yelllowish" and it looked like the pigments does not match with the follicles on the sides. But more and more results i have seen and especially after yesterday that spex put skr's result , i am nearly sure that Milena is doing something slightly different from other smp companies.
She creates sort of a "depth" on a bald scalp. İ am not saying dots are 3 dimensional , but the area she worked on ( i am talking for a nw6 completely bald cases) gains a perception of depth. İ guess she is doing it by not trying to match the exact replication of the real follicle on the sides. So with this, her results are best seen between the length of 0.1- 0.5 mm. Maybe its not "straight " and sharp looking as the other companies results , but between those lengths , it does not look " awkward" . Maybe thats why all the results in italian forum the patiens have slightly longer hair on sides. She wants to see the average color in the lengths of 0.1- 0.5 mm and trying to match it.
İ may sound stupid and crazy or i am just making some conspiracy theories but from my observations , i really like to believe that this is the fact that you guys liked about Milena's work.
So the question is, am i right????
Ps: the lengts that i mentioned are on one of the milenas post s in italian forum . İ google translated it, feel free to translate my post to Milena if she is still in US.
I'd like to apologize for not responding sooner. I've been quite busy of late with travel and an overload of patient interest.
I'm not sure where you saw results that looked yellowish as I have never seen this myself, in photos or in person. I think your observation about requiring longer hair makes sense. If we have a patient that offers to shave their head before surgery, all over their scalp and not just on top, we ask them not to so we can see the characteristics of the hair before we do the procedure. This is something that is preferred for SMP as well because it is very difficult to see the actual color if the patient's hair is shaved. We can tell if it is dark or light but that is about it.
I know Milena doesn't just apply "dots" to the scalp. She does have a specific "flick of the writst" so to speak for how some of the ink is applied. I don't understand it fully but this is what I believe is responsible for your observations of the not quite 3D but better than 2D effect you mention.
I hope this answers your question.
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Without commenting on the pros and cons of any particular clinic, can you tell us which clinics you have seen SMP work from thus far (i.e., GLI, HIS, Beauty Medical, NHI, etc.)?
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B.B. King's daughter a headlining act at Round Barn Blues
Claudette Robinson King is trying to carve out her niche and gain respect. A daughter of legendary blues musician B.B. King, Claudette isn't trying to use her father's name to make a name for herself. What she hopes to do, however, is use the talents she said God gave him and he passed down to her to spread her sound across the world.
"I can never be B.B. King," she said. "But I can be his daughter."
She'll continue to make her way in the music business Saturday night as one of the headlining performers at the Round Barn Blues show in Kirksville. She's the latest in a long line of talented acts brought to northeast Missouri by Round Barn and Wooden Nickel owner Dan Vogt.
King has been singing with others since the 1980s, but didn't release her debut album, "We're Onto Something," until 2010. Her varied history that includes folk and gospel music gives her sound something that blends blues, soul and R&B, which King hopes comes across as original and appealing to audiences.
King is the youngest of 15 children of B.B. King, and she said none of her siblings share the same mother.
"Growing up around dad was very difficult," she said. "I don't have a real close relationship with my father. When he comes to town, I've been able to go see him at his concerts and afterwards I can only get 15-20 minutes of time with him, and when I get that time it's with my other siblings."
But King doesn't seem to harbor ill feelings toward her father, instead speaking respectfully about the man, what he's accomplished and what he's taught her.
"There is a lot of determination as far as what my dad is doing and he looks out for his family, tries to take care of his family, but is also following his dream," she said. "He shows me anything you want to do in life, you can do with determination.
"I'm trying to uphold B.B. King's name, to show the talent is a gift I received from God. The music and the talent my father received that he passed on to me, I'm able to put out there not just as a child, but as a Christian."
King said she's been performing at many festivals across the country, while also working on performing in a play, "First Love," written by her friend. She said there are similarities between acting and singing.
"When you're on stage and you're performing a song, you're acting. You're portraying the song you're singing about and trying to help the audience receive that message," she said.
But she said to those coming out Saturday, the performance will be nothing but genuine.
"The smiling, the giggling you hear, that is me," she said. "Expect a good show. A lot of energy. I love doing what I do."
Gates open at 3 p.m. Saturday at the historic Round Barn (located on Route P just east of Kirksville, past the U.S. Highway 63 bypass). Music begins at 4 p.m. with a lineup that includes King as well as Miss Major and Her Minor Mood Swings, Wayne Sharp & the Sharpshooter Band, and Larry McCray. The menu for the night includes hickory smoked barbecue and the popular MO'Taters.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - We have an alert for people living in one Lexington neighborhood.
Police have received reports of a suspicious person on Turkey Foot Road, near Ecton Park.
With Christmas right around the corner, you probably have some nicer things than usual in your home. One man is scoping out those goodies which is why one councilman and police say you should be on alert.
He's going door to door claiming he's selling Tide laundry detergent. But people in the area are onto him and his scam including Councilman Bill Farmer.
"When somebody comes and they're trying to case your house for what cars are in the driveway, how many cars are parked there, what kind of electronic goods, and they're there to sell you something that you can get at the grocery anyway, don't do business that way," said Councilman Farmer. "Just don't answer the door to begin with."
Councilman Farmer tells us police asked for his office's help in getting the word out. Instances like this one are when he says social media comes in handy.
"You don't have to be at home sitting at their laptop or base computer. It comes to their hip, and they can become very aware on behalf of themselves, their spouse, and their children," said Councilman Farmer.
Kim Risner, who has lived in this neighborhood for more than 40 years, says she's shocked by the news of something like this happening in her backyard.
"A lot of people live in the neighborhood that are just like me. We grew up here and stayed in the neighborhood, and we're pretty open with each other," said Risner. "So yeah, it's kind of scary, especially this time of year."
Being smart and alert and watching out for your neighbors are what Risner encourages everyone to do.
"Keeping the blinds shut, not answering the door, and maybe keeping your lights on when you're not there looking like someone is home. Maybe even keep your television turned on," said Risner.
The suspicious person is described as a white man with an average build standing at about six feet tall driving a blue SUV similar to a Tahoe or Suburban.
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Hey everyone, I need a little advice:
There are two very adorable dogs that live with me – Lola, a one-year-old AmStaff Terrier about 50 lbs. The second is Bach, a one-year-old St. Bernard weighing about 125 lbs.
The problem: Lola is going into heat and I imagine they will try to make puppies.
Neither dog is fixed, and although it would be cool if it were my decision, I don't have the final say for either of them.
The question: Is Lola likely to die from giant puppy fetuses? Is it possible for her to get pregnant with puppies so big they would kill her? :(
I don't know of this is an irrational fear and nature will take it's course, or if this is a legitimate fear.
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I've heard a few sides – If the male dog is too big the female will naturally deny him. The larger the puppies will be, the less of them the female will have. But are these really true?
I guess I am just scared she will get hurt.
What do you guys think? Please list your sources – especially if it is something like 30+ years experience with breeding dogs lol :)


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FAU Receives NIH Grant to Study Recurrent Rate of Breast Cancer Metastasis in Patients with Asthma
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Newswise — Researcher from FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine Receives $433,500 Grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to Study Breast Cancer Metastasis -Project Focuses on Recurrent Rate of Breast Cancer Metastasis in Patients with Asthma
Vijaya Iragavarpu-Charyulu, Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University received a $433,500 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for a project titled "Role of CH13L in Accelerating Breast Cancer Metastasis: a Mechanistic Approach." Chitinase-3-like protein 1 or CH131L is a secreted glycoprotein in humans that is encoded by the CH13 L 1 gene and is implicated in inflammatory diseases such as asthma and cancer progression. Iragavarapu-Charyulu and her Ph.D. student, Stephania Libreros, are focused on two specific aims in this project: to determine if inflammation associated with CH13L1 in the lung alters the pulmonary environment to attract circulating breast tumor cells and accelerates metastatic growth; and to determine if inhibition of CH13L1 by either chitin microparticles, anti-CH13L1 neutralizing antibody or combination of these two decreases tumor metastasis. The researchers hypothesize that CH13L1-induced pulmonary inflammation generates the proper environment for recruiting circulating breast cancer cells, thereby increasing the rate of metastasis to the lung. They anticipate that inhibiting CHI3L1 will reduce metastasis.
"Metastasis is responsible for a majority of breast cancer deaths," said Iragavarapu-Charyulu. "Our studies show that the rate of recurrent metastasis of breast cancer is significantly higher if there is preexisting lung inflammation such as asthma."
Asthma and pulmonary diseases are characterized by increased expression of CHI3L1. Rates of pulmonary inflammation due to pollution, allergies and smoking have been steadily increasing. Iragavarapu-Charyulu's research will provide a greater understanding of the role of CHI3L1 in enhancing metastasis and the tissue-specific molecular signals that act to exacerbate metastasis under conditions of chronic inflammation. Moreover, limiting inflammation by use of molecules that block the activity of CHI3L1 in vivo has the potential to decrease metastasis for many cancer patients also suffering from inflammatory diseases. Combining immunotherapy (anti-CHI3L1 antibody) with the natural bio-product chitin particles could provide novel modes of treatment options for inhibiting metastatic diseases.
"We have recently shown that chitin microparticles, the biological binding partner for CHI3L1, decreases pulmonary metastasis and increases survival in mammary tumor-bearing mice," said Iragavarapu-Charyulu. "It is our hope that through this research we can determine if changes in pulmonary tissue due to inflammation provide the necessary 'soil' for the circulating breast tumor cells."
Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of all cancer deaths despite significant improvements in diagnosis and treatments. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed among women, and approximately 39,520 women are expected to die from breast cancer this year alone.
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About Florida Atlantic University:Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of three signature themes – marine and coastal issues, biotechnology and contemporary societal challenges – which provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU's existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.


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Hello everyone!
It's been a while! I hope you're doing fine and that your Christmas baking is going well! Great news, I'm now an official Ph.D. candidate! My thesis project was approved and I'm moving forward with it 😀 This explains the long hiatus in posting 😉
If your holiday baking is over, I'm very sorry, because you'll certainly want to add this dessert to your table! In my family, no Christmas would be complete without delicious Nanaimo Bars. As far as I can remember, my mom brought them to every holiday party we had. Normally, we go with the classic custard-cream filling. But this year it was time to try something new: espresso filling. Let me tell you that I have no regrets at all! Anyway, it's hard to go wrong when you mix chocolate and coffee!
Don't hesitate to do the bars in advance. They freeze well and the flavor gets better over time!
I wish you a merry Christmas. I hope it's filled with joy, laughter, love and good food 😀
Espresso Nanaimo Bars
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Yield: about 40 small squares
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder, sifted
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup chocolate cookie crumbs
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 5 tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons vanilla pudding powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons espresso powder
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 4 oz. semisweet chocolate
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease an 8 inch square pan and line with parchment paper leaving an overhang on two opposite sides.
- Beat the butter and the sugar until creamy. Sift in the cacao and mix well.
- Beat in the egg and the vanilla.
- Add the graham and chocolate cookie crumbs and the coconut. Mix well.
- Press into the pan and bake for 10 minutes.
- Let cool for about 10 minutes then refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
- Beat all ingredients together until well combined and smooth.
- Spread over base. Refrigerate.
- Melt chocolate and butter together over low heat. Cool. Spread on top of filling.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 min.
To serve
Remove the bars from the pan using the parchment paper overhang. To cut the bars without cracking the top layer of chocolate, run your knife under hot water before cutting. Using a very thin knife is helpful too. Clean the knife with paper towel after each cut to get clean squares.