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A 2009 graduate of Tennessee Tech and former Golden Eagle golfer, Carla Hazelwood is now in her seventh season as the assistant golf coach for the Tech men's and women's teams.
Working closely with both squads, Hazelwood has helped Golden Eagle golfers achieve much over the past four seasons, including four All-OVC honors, two OVC All-Newcomer honors and four OVC All-Tournament nods. Tech golfers have earned 30 All-Tournament accolades since her return to Cookeville and each team has captured a tournament title as well.
Both the men's and women's teams have placed in the top five of the OVC Championship twice during Hazelwood's tenure.
Additionally, since her return to her alma mater, Tech's players and teams have broken numerous school records, including the women's all-time scoring mark for 54 holes, both as a team and for an individual. Also broken were the men's team 18-hole scoring record and 54-hole scoring record, among others.
Hazelwood began her career at Tech in 2005 and was named Most Dedicated Player by legendary TTU coach Bobby Nichols. A team captain in 2009, she finished her playing career with two All-Tournament honors (2006 North/South/Jacksonville Beach Golf Course and 2007 TSU Triangular/Greystone Golf Course).
Prior to her return to Tech, Hazelwood served as the graduate assistant coach at fellow OVC school, Austin Peay.


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Right, this might need some explanation why this is such a huge deal for me...
Ever since I discovered Jim the Gentleman Crafter's blog I knew that he was my muse, my inspiration!
No kidding, his style is my style with the 1 big difference that I lack a lot of technique and have trouble gathering the right supplies for projects I have in mind.
The creativity is there, so are the ideas but the finished projects lack the perfect finish he has mastered and shows us with every single project he has shown us.
This time I was able to get my hands on the right supplies for a project I had in mind.
It's not as extensive as his projects tend to be and I didn't make the box myself, but it's a start.
The reason why this has been such a big deal for me is that, for the first time, I felt it all really came together when I finished the piece. It stands on my desk and every time I look at it I realize there is nothing I want to change about it and that is HUGE to me! Before this I always felt that I could have done better if I would just.. add, take of, have other supplies, better embellishments...
So, this is a milestone in my crafting journey and I have to thank Jim the Gentleman Crafter for giving me the inspiration to keep going and keep improving myself. So, thank you Jim for sharing your world with us all!
Here are some picture's :
The supplies I gathered included 2 sheets of Graphic 45 paper, Tim Holtz Ideaology Foundations, some basic paper that matches the colour of the Graphic 45 paper and later on I added some Bo Bunny paper from a 6x6 paper pad I used on a earlier project.
First I painted the box in a dark brown colour and then I started crafting and was so busy with it I forgot to make picture's!
So here is the end-result ;
|Front open
|Right Side
|Left Side
|The Lock
The colour is a perfect match with the foundations but in the picture it shows up a lot lighter.
|The Foundations
I LOVE these, they are so beautifull!
|Some distressing on all the paper edges
|Some more distressing
|A key I'm still working on.
It's a wooden Kaiser Crafts key which I don't want to attach to the box but keep is separate like you would any key.
I want to use some ribbons but I just haven't figured out how to attach them yet.
Work in progress!

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La Preferida, Inc. Recalls La Preferida Whole Pinto Beans 29 OZ. (Water & Salt)
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a nationwide recall of La Preferida Whole Pinto Beans 29 oz. (Water & Salt).
The manufacturer's preliminary inspection indicates 420 cans may not have been fully processed, which could result in product contamination by spoilage organisms or by pathogens, which could lead to illness if consumed.
Can Code: PINTO LP, BEST BY 01/03/2015, "Time" 3003.
The products were distributed for retail sale nationwide from January 7, 2013 thru February 6, 2013.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm344732.htm.


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Mitt: Ryan 'an intellectual leader'
Mitt Romney named Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate Saturday morning, touching off a frenzied new phase of the race as both sides rush to define the young House Budget Committee chairman known for his controversial proposals for restructuring Social Security and Medicare.
Standing on the U.S.S. Wisconsin, the historic battleship docked at Norfolk, Va., Romney called his new No. 2 "a man of tremendous character" who understands how to get things done in Washington.
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"With energy and vision, Paul Ryan has become an intellectual leader of the Republican Party," Romney said. "He combines a profound sense of responsibility for what we owe the next generation with an unbounded optimism in America's future."
He continued: "Paul and I are beginning on a journey that will take us to every corner of America. We're offering a positive governing agenda that will lead to economic growth, to widespread and shared prosperity."
In an apparent nod to Ryan's vulnerabilities on the issue, Romney pledged in a raised voice that his administration would give seniors no reason to fear for their entitlement programs.
"We will preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security and keep them there for future generations," Romney said.
( Also on POLITICO: Ryan speech: The Romney plan will save us)
In prepared remarks for the event, Ryan described himself and Romney as men who would lead the country to address "tough issues," using their complementary backgrounds in government and the private sector.
"Governor Romney is the man for this moment; and he and I share one commitment: we will restore the dreams and greatness of this country," Ryan said. "The commitment Mitt Romney and I make to you is this: We won't duck the tough issues; we will lead. We won't blame others; we will take responsibility."
From Norfolk, Romney embarks on a multi-day bus tour that takes him to North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, presumably with Ryan at his side. On a figurative level, Ryan will not leave Romney's side for the rest of the campaign, and the debate over his credentials and ideas could transform how voters view the man at the top of the ticket.
Romney's speech introducing Ryan was not yet over when the Obama campaign released a statement branding the lawmaker as a "radical" and an example of everything wrong with Congress, conservatism and the Republican Party.
"In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said.
"The architect of the radical Republican House budget, Ryan, like Romney, proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, and deep cuts in education from Head Start to college aid. His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors. As a member of Congress, Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes."
Ryan and Romney will fly to Wisconsin for a rally in Waukesha on Sunday night, and Ryan is then supposed to be in Colorado for a campaign fundraiser as of Monday.
Despite considerable pressure over the past week from the conservative media, both the Weekly Standard and Fox News reported that Romney had picked Ryan in early August, before much of the public lobbying campaign had begun.
Beth Myers, a senior Romney aide led the VP selection search, described Romney as "methodical" in leading the VP search, talking to people from all walks of life before making his decision.
"We got personal information from each of the potential candidates and at that point, again, we had some attorneys look through and go through everybody's record — to make sure — I didn't want to miss anything about them," Myers told CNN in an interview before the choice was revealed. "And then Mitt took these candidate dossiers and thought about them. He read them all of them word for word."


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Sunday, 10 March 2013
observer ONLINE
Roman Catholic cardinals will begin electing a new pope on 12 March,
the Vatican has announced after 115 cardinals gathered for talks.Pope
Benedict XVI stepped down last month after nearly eight years in office,
becoming the first pontiff to resign in 600 years.
The 85-year-old blamed his failing health for his inability to carry
on.Under the rules of the secret ballot, or conclave, cardinals will
vote until one achieves a two-thirds majority.Correspondents say no one
candidate stands out as Benedict XVI's likely successor.The vote will be
preceded by Mass on Tuesday morning, with the first ballot due in the
afternoon, the Vatican press office said.
Vatican staff have been preparing the Sistine Chapel, where the
conclave will take place, installing the two stoves that will produce
white smoke from burnt ballot papers when a new pope is elected.
The last election in 2005 took three days, and correspondents say the
number of meetings this time is being seen as a reflection of the many
challenges facing the Church.Despite the vows of secrecy, Italian
newspapers have been publishing what they say are leaked details of
debate among cardinals on problems faced by the Church.Reform of the
Vatican's bureaucracy known as the Curia - and the Vatican bank have
both been on the agenda, the reports say.Last year, European regulators
said the bank was not doing enough to combat money laundering, while
intrigue in the Vatican was revealed by documents leaked by Pope
Benedict's butler.
US Cardinal Timothy Dolan wrote on a blog that most of the
discussions covered preaching and teaching the Catholic faith, tending
to Catholic schools and hospitals, protecting families and the unborn,
and supporting and recruiting priests.Those are the 'big issues'," he
wrote."You may find that hard to believe, since the 'word on the street'
is that all we talk about is corruption in the Vatican, sexual abuse,
money. Do these topics come up? Yes! Do they dominate? No!"During
Benedict's reign the Catholic Church was wracked by a worldwide scandal
over the sexual abuse of children by priests.There are also tensions
between traditionalists and reformers over issues including priestly
celibacy, gay rights and the role of women.
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Last night, we had my favorite agnolotti (which is prissy for ravioli) for dinner. It's nothing too exceptional; just some frozen thing you can pick up at any old King or Queen Soopers for like $5.99 a package, but it's really good. It's filled with a blend of ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, Romano, and the very final moments of my marriage.
For the first 16 years of our life together, he'd been home for dinner, on average, one night a week. I'd never been able to cook dinners that included him, and I'd never had help getting the kids settled for the night, because that's just not how the restaurant industry, or addiction, works. We wives and children to chefs and GMs are widowed and orphaned by Open Table. Add vodka and wine to that equation, and we were lucky to see him at all from Tuesday morning through Sunday night.
The new job he had taken in 2011 had him home for dinner three or four evenings a week, which was new for us - and quite nice in a normal-life sort of way. It wasn't very good in the hide-the-drinking-while-the-family-sleeps sort of way, which - as these things are wont to do - caught up with us with a vengeance eventually.
The thing with co-dependency is that we want to believe so badly that we will twist and warp reality to make it believable to us no matter what pesky facts lie in our way. He had more late tables than any GM in the history of restaurant management, his drawers would never, ever balance, he'd have to work on national and corporate holidays when no one else is the entire company of hundreds was working, the makeup bags under my seat of the car were left by thieves digging through the car looking for change or ironic Robyn Hitchcock cassettes - and I'd find some way to believe it, always.
I'm still not sure if I believed it because I didn't want to face the reality of what he was doing to himself and by proxy me and my children, or if I didn't want to face him when and if I called him on it. I'm still not sure it actually matters.
So when he started working mornings, when he started coming home to us at night, I found a way to believe that we'd found the answer to our prayers. He was with us during the one time he could drink himself stupid; ergo, he couldn't drink himself stupid anymore. That's called science, bitches. It's logic. I beliiiiiiiiieeeeeved it.
And I had hope. For him, for us, for my children, for his insane dog, for all of it. There was hope for the first time in a very long time.
Because that's how addiction to addicts works.
So this one night - after almost a full year of pure hell in which I had watched, listened, and smelled him nearly kill himself with vodka, watched my kids realize for the first time that their father had a problem, saw him physically hurt one of our children while he was drunk, saw him repeatedly emotionally hurt another child, dodged fists that went through doors instead of my face, asked for divorce, was denied a divorce, endured his long bouts of depression followed by long bouts of rage, given up all hope of saving him or leaving him - after all of that he got this job that made him feel useful and challenged amd secure again, one that had him home with his family more nights than not almost like a normal person, one that I convinced myself could keep him from drinking even though it was a wine bar and he had every key to it, and this one night I decided to bury the hachet, be a nice human being, make him a nice dinner, wear something cute, and welcome him home like I always imagined wives welcomed their husbands home at the end of a long day in a world that I didn't live in, but wanted to.
So I made this dinner he'd never had before, this agnolotti (which is prissy for ravioli), and a big old salad that had all of his favorite salady-type-things in it. I put on a skirt and my nice makeup. I straightened my hair. I dabbed some perfume on. Then I waited.
And waited.
And waited.
He never came home because if he couldn't drink at night, he was going to drink during the day, dammit, and drinking during the day means drinking during work and drinking during work at a wine bar means blacking out at 11am and not remembering anything until 7pm that night, across town, with no idea how you got there, were your car is, or how you are going to fix this.
Because you can't fix this. Because this is your rock bottom. And it is mine, too.
I sat on my corduroy double-wide arm chair that I loved more than just about any other earthly possession, the one I had to leave behind when we made our abrupt exodus from Texas because we didn't have enough money to rent a truck big enough to bring it, or any of my living room furniture that, I was told, was "just stuff" I "need to let go of". I sat on that chair under the warm orange glow of the table lamp I also don't own anymore and most of everything inside of me died.
It's funny how quickly fear gives way to anger, then humiliation, then resignation.
By the time he came in the door, without a car or a job, I had already put all the children to bed sweetly and calmly, I had already cleared the table of his wilted salad and hardened pasta, and I had changed out of my skirt and sweater into the oversized sweats that had room enough in them for me and the waves of alternating panic and rage and sadness ebbing inside of me. It was over; the dream I had clutched in the palm of my foolishly-determined fist all those 16 years was finally over, and I'd finally, with finality, let it go.
He has no idea what happened to either one of us that night. I've never spoken of the details of that night with him, or with anyone for that matter. He never found the car he lost that night, and he never found the job he lost that night, and I never found the person I lost that night, the one inside of me that was willing, always, to give one last chance, to find one last reason to believe in him, in us, in that reality.
On January 25th of this year, I made that same dinner again for the first time since that night, this time just for me and my children. I wore a skirt, I put on some makeup, I dabbed on some perfume, and I quietly counted the distance between that place I was a year ago and the reality I ended up living, 365 days later.
Now we have it again on the seim-regular dinner rotation. It still tastes a bit like brown corduroy and grace, which will always be a bittersweet thing to swallow, but I think I am finally at the place where I like the taste of what is done, and what is becoming because of it.


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Stockbrokers Fail to Disclose Red Flags
WSJ Analysis Shows More Than 1,600 Stockbrokers Have Bankruptcies or Criminal Charges in Their Past That Weren't Reported
In less than two years, stockbroker Marcos D. Leiva racked up a personal bankruptcy, a tax lien, a court judgment for unpaid debt and a criminal guilty plea relating to a false report to law enforcement.
Each should have been promptly disclosed to investors. None was.
Mr. Leiva is one of more than 1,600 stockbrokers whose records failed...


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With more than 250 member locations in its nationwide network of residential and commercial/mechanical contractors, Excellence Alliance announced late last year that it would establish new alliance territories for plumbing, electrical, and refrigeration contractors and created the Contractors Advisory Board to service these areas. The integration of NTA and its members into EAI will serve as the foundation for the new EAI electrical and telecom alliance.


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The tiredness starts to take hold; but we press on toward Day 3! We've got dice! We've got minis! We've got mechs! It's Spiel!


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Nights of Azure Review Up
Needing some serious rest from the grindfest that is Bloodbourne I picked up a game called Nights of Azure, completely unsuspecting what it was about, but the cover art should have warned me. That said, it gave me the rest I needed and entertained me besides, proving itself to be one of the more interesting games I've ever played, though honestly it was basically a playable light novel. If you want more info, head on over to my review of it, and see if you'd like to try this thing out.
Though yes, yuri. So yuri.
Nights of Azure (Playstation 3/4/Vita, 2016)
Some time ago, a creature known as the Night Lord rose up to bathe the world in eternal darkness and rule forever in the shadow of the new existence. Armies rose to challenge him, but all were defeated in their turn until the great Saint defeated him in combat. However, his death did not come without consquence, and his blood rained down upon the world, and corrupted all it touched. Thus were born the beasts who devour the dreams and night time of the people, especially upon Rusewall Island where the final battle took place. Into this, comes Arnice, a woman who has not been corrupted by the blue blood, but instead has fused it equally within her, making her blood purple thus taking the blue blood's power, but keeping her human free will. Here she has been charged with defeating the beasts, and ensuring that the new Saint is protected until it is time for her to be sacrificed to seal what remains of the Night Lord once again. Problem is, the new Saint is an old and very good friend of hers, Lilysse, and Arnice will be damned if that one will be sacrified. Other options will need to be considered.


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DA 21 Mis-Focusing - A Design Problem?
Quite some time ago, I wrote here for the DA 21 Limited Front Focusing (FF) and Back Focusing (BF) problems as reported by some users, in my fourth article in my this blog (and actually the first time for me to talk about the issue on the net - the contents of the first three articles were actually talked about and discussed previously in three different posts at the Steve's Pentax forum which got me banned shortly afterwards overthere).
Later on, the famous professional fashion photographer, Mr. Benjamin Kanarek, who was a new Pentax user (as you know, he switched from Canon), found that his DA 21 Limited lenses as acquired from Pentax France/Germany were having back focusing and also front focusing problems and he finally got four copies of the DA 21 after that I have not seen that he reports again about mis-focusing of his DA 21 on his K10D anymore. Nonetheless, I'm not sure if his this copy really works for him now or he has just aborted to try as the problem might still persist.
So, reports of those FF and BF problems of the K10D, in particular for those associated with the DA 21 Limited which are even more frequently reported, either with the K10D or the K100D or both, just have been continuing to appear up till now (yet an recent example here, with comparison photos posted). Recently, particular German users have found that the mis-focusing actually associated and being affected by the aperture f-number as set by the user or as selected by the camera, which a German user summarises the case clearly and precisely in the following DPR forum thread:-
So, the reported strange phenomenon is that if the aperture selected is smaller than f/5.6 (i.e., f/6.3 and onwards), the AF accuracy will be better, even if the user set a f/8 value first, say, then performs the AF, and then change the f-number back to f/3.2 wide opened, say, and take the shot - the focus achieved is usually better than when the user uses the camera normally, e.g., f/3.2 is selected when doing the AF and then take the shot at f/3.2.
Indeed, the above finding really sounds very strange and odd and I could hardly believe that for the first time I heard about it. However, by following down the above DPR thread, one will not be difficult to see quite some different DA 21 users have confirmed the same phenomenon after they tried and tested their gear, no matter briefly or extensively with care. So, the strange problem, along with the yet clumsy and odd "workaround", have been confirmed.
Actually, I saw before from an issue (#116) of a local magazine that the resolution of the DA 21 lens on a K10D as tested and measured using the Imatest is rather low, with results not more than 1,600 LW/PH (Line Widths per Picture Height) at image centre and around 1,400 only at image corners, at best. To compare the figures, I checked the Issue 115 of the same magazine for the test results of the (just 6MP) Nikon D40 with (just) the Nikkor kit lens 18-55 II AF-S and was rather surprised to learn that at 18mm, it yields results at about 2,100 LW/PH at image centre and about 1,500 to 1,600 LW/PH at the image corners, depending on the f-stop used, which simply means that the resolution of the kit lens on the D40 just blows away the DA 21 Limited prime on the K10D fully and also throughout the whole picture frame as well !(?)
Well, the possible reasons for the low resolution as verified above can be two: 1. The inaccurate AF system of the K10D which gives mis-focusing which in turn decreases the effective resolution significantly; 2. Blurry in-camera jpegs of the K10D (first discovered and reported by Phil Askey) which are primitively having lower resolution than other DSLRs of the competitors or even the K100D (now it is worse than the D40, as verified in the mentioned tests above, in just two consecutive issues of the same bi-weekly magazine).
As a side issue, a poster who responded to the above DPR thread also pointed out that the final focus point achieved by the AF system of his DA 21 varied depending on whether the lens was turned from infinity or from the closest position, which this yet strange but surely undesirable phenomenon was first reported by me nearly two years ago in my this post in 2005. It was really rather disappointed that now the DA 21 on the latest Pentax DSLRs is still the same, with the same old problem, even after two years I had reported the issue.
Do note that in my above old report I had indeed fully tested my $180 MZ-30 (and my more expensive MZ-S too) that my FA 43 Limited did have NO such problem exhibited on these two film bodies whereas my *ist DS and D are having the mentioned problems obviously and do note also that I tested and compared the MZes and the *ist Ds at the same environment, with the same FA 43 Limited lens, for the same target(s) and at the same time. So, this case is really rather sad and absurd.
All in all, I really don't understand why the problem is still here and it seems that Pentax have not listened and still don't listen and the bug is still here! (but Why?) The Bottom line is: Don't forget that the MZ cameras do NOT have similar problems! (including the rather cheap $180 "bottom-of-the-line" MZ-30). So the key point still is: IF Pentax listens.. (and also if They didn't produce inferiorly performing systems in their DSLRs, namely, the AF and AE systems used, which they did do it right and were capable to make better stuff before, in their MZ line of film SLRs..)
See Also:-
AF's Dependency on Lenses and Yellow Light
Focus Calibrations of Pentax DSLRs and Lenses


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Fast N' Loud Returns for its Second Season
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February 15, 2013
One man's rust bucket is another man's treasure couldn't be more true for car fanatics Richard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufman of Discovery Channel's FAST N' LOUD. Dead set on finding automobile treasures in Texas junkyards and beyond, the boys are back on a quest to find some of America's junkiest cars, restore them into classic rides and turn a nice big profit. This season goes into overdrive when Richard sees an opportunity to expand Gas Monkey Garage and buy one of the rarest cars in the world, the Ferrari F-40. Start your engines for FAST N' LOUD on Discovery Channel Monday, February 18 at 9 PM ET/PT.
FAST N' LOUD motor mastermind Richard and mechanical prodigy Aaron are searching high and low for forgotten and neglected vintage cars to buy and restore at their Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas. Most assume these old classics, from '57 Chevys to '73 Trans Ams, are rust buckets - but to this crew, they're potential goldmines. Richard and Aaron need big projects - and, more importantly, big profits - to keep the doors open at Gas Monkey Garage. While Richard has the eye for spotting that rare find, Aaron is the master mechanic who decides if these relics are too far gone or prime for a Gas Monkey overhaul. Together, this dynamic duo travels the back roads of Texas and surrounding states, scouring barns, swap meets and open fields in search of these rare rides. Once Richard wheels and deals for a good price, the real work begins back at the garage, where the guys race against the clock to finish the job in time for auction. When Richard realizes his one-build-at-a-time business model is too risky, he decides it's time to grow Gas Monkey Garage. With Aaron and the rest of the crew on board for a bigger location, multiple projects can be tackled at once - giving Richard and Aaron more opportunities for finding and financing their next big flip. Richard comes across the opportunity to buy one of the rarest cars in the world, the Ferrari F-40 - and it could be the million-dollar sale he's been dreaming of. FAST N' LOUD returns to Discovery Channel with all-new episodes beginning Monday, February 18 at 9 PM ET/PT.
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Culture and well-being - make your views count
I have heard hollow laughter when the phrase 'evidence-based policy' is mentioned. Perhaps the 'dodgy dossier' that got us into the Iraq war has much to answer for here, but the fact is that all policy these days relies on statistical data about us and our lives. As a quick visit to the website of the Office for National Statistics will immediately confirm the amount and depth of data held by Government is stunning, and growing in sophistication with every year that passes. It is also very open to public scrutiny in a way that our personal supermarket shopping preferences are not.
The pursuit of a national well-being index is an important part of the picture for all policy-makers, who need to understand the connection between their decisions and the opportunities and challenges we face in daily life. How surprising it is, then, given the acknowledged importance of culture in all societies, that culture is not included as a domain in the draft index. Reliable indicators exist. Access to culture and opportunity to participate is measured robustly through the DCMS Taking Part survey of arts and cultural participation, and through questions within the Active People survey on sport and leisure.
Compare the omission of culture with the inclusion of the 'fear of violent crime' indicator from the British Crime Survey, which will certainly find a place in the index. What an upside-down view of well-being it is that defines it as a reduced likelihood of being murdered in our homes rather than an enhanced opportunity to express ourselves and our ideas in the company of others! Not surprisingly most of the groups involved in the consultation process to date also rank culture relatively high on the list of indicators of well-being making its omission seem doubly perverse. There is a full report of the responses to date on the ONS website. You can take part in the consultation yourself by completing a questionnaire by 23 January. This can be found at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/user-guidance/well-being/index.html
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The CAYA Program brings together high school students and adult mentors from countries across Central America to promote mutual understanding, increase leadership skills, and prepare youth to make a difference in their communities. Exchanges are primarily from Central America to the United States, but also include delegations from the United States to select Central American countries.
The program offers Central American youth from Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama the opportunity to experience and expand their knowledge of U.S. culture, society, and education. The overarching program goal is to increase mutual understanding among peoples of the Americas. The program will not only provide new knowledge and experience for participants, but also prepare them for a lifetime of leadership and community service.
This program has been designed for youth between 15 and 18 years of age, and for teachers and youth program coordinators who have shown superior leadership and entrepreneurship skills.It is funded by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is administered by the Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED) at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
NMU's International Education Services Office, along with Marquette business owners and community members, hosts the students and group leaders for the week-long program twice a year. The purpose is to deliver innovative academic, cultural, and community outreach programs for emerging global student leaders and educate them on entrepreneurship, leadership and volunteering skills. In the community, CAYA students visit local businesses and participate in cross-cultural learning activities with students from local High Schools. The CAYA group leaders also attend workshops and skillbuilders.
The International Education Services Office plans to host the CAYA program again in January 2018. For questions about the program or how to become involved, contact the International Education Services office at firstname.lastname@example.com or 906-227-2510. Visit the CAYA Facebook page for additional information, updates and photos.


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Yeah, you're seeing right. It's T-Dog from AMC's The Walking Dead. For those of you that are Walking Dead fans you know that T-Dog was killed by a walker when he was bit right on top of his shoulder bone. He was able to shake the walker that bit him, but in an effort to save Carol from being the meal to another walker, he sacrificed himself to let those flesh eating zombies feed on him so Carol could get away. T-Dog was always in conflict with himself because of leaving Daryl's brother Merle on the rooftop of a mall. This lesson will show you "how to draw chibi T-Dog", step by step from The Walking Dead. I know you will fall in love with this tutorial because so many people loved T-Dog. Have fun folks and be sure to let me know what you think. Peace people and keep an eye out for a walker near you.
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Every ECCC '13 badge holder will get a code to redeem this First Ever Digital Convention Exclusive created in Guided View™ technology available only on comiXology
Atomic Robo digital comic to go on sale to general public Wednesday, March 6th after ECCC '13
Febuary 25th, 2013 New York/Calgary/Seattle ComiXology, Red 5 Comics & Emerald City Comicon have teamed up to bring fans the first-ever digital convention exclusive Atomic Robo: Along Came a Tyrantula. Every ECCC '13 badge holder will find a redemption code on the back of their convention badge that entitles them to this digital only Atomic Robo comic. Fans at the show will be the first to experience this first of its kind convention exclusive that showcases how comiXology makes exciting new, immersive and innovative storytelling techniques possible by utilizing comiXology's Guided View technology that can only be experienced on comiXology!
For those digital comic fans not attending ECCC 13, dont fret! Atomic Robo: Along Came a Tyrantula will be made available for sale worldwide on Wednesday, March 6th across comiXologys entire cloud-based platform that includes iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web.
"This is not a paper comic adapted to digital. It was a from-scratch ground-up experiment with the boundaries of the comic reading experience. Without the tools that comiXology's Guided View provides, it would not have been possible," said Atomic Robo creators Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener. " We can't wait to hear the reaction from the Emerald City Comicon debut. Atomic Robo is an action scientist, and it was great to have the chance to more deeply explore his action side for this comic."
ComiXology is not only committed to making it easier to discover, buy and read comics and graphic novels, but also to evolve how stories are told, said comiXology co-founder John D. Roberts. Its been gratifying to see creators taking advantage of comiXologys Guided View reading technology to tell their stories over the last several years and its especially rewarding to work with Brian and Scott of the Atomic Robo team to really push forward what the digital comics experience can be.
ComiXology has been amazing in their support of Emerald City Comicon and were excited to offer this completely new kind of digital convention exclusive at ECCC 13 first! said Emerald City Comicon Convention Director Jim Demonakos. Each and every attendee will be able to get this free exclusive and we wont even have to worry about running out!
Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegeners Atomic Robo comic series from Red 5 exploded on to the comic scene in October of 2007. Garnering numerous Eisner Award nominations over the years since its debut, the Atomic Robo series follows the adventures of an automated intelligence machine named, what else, Atomic Robo, as he rids the world of evil and has fun while doing it!
ComiXology will be presenting at Emerald City Comicon 13 at booth #2101 while Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener of the Atomic Robo creative team will be at G-04.
ComiXology was most recently in the news this past January with the formation of comiXology Europe, a division of the company to be headquartered in Paris, France that will be spearheading the acquisition of international language content across the European continent. This news was followed shortly by the announcement of a distribution agreement with leading French publisher Delcourt Publishing Group.
Previously in December Apple revealed that comiXologys iPad app ranked #3 in Apples 2012 Top Ten Grossing list, and was the only app to make the Top Ten list for 2 years consecutively. In October of 2012, comiXology crested 100 million comic and graphic novel downloads with more than 50 million of those happening in 2012 alone continuing a trajectory of record-shattering growth.
With over 30,000 comics and graphic novels from more than 100 publishers, comiXology offers the widest selection of English language digital comics in the world. ComiXologys availability across the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web makes it the best digital platform for newly interested, current and lapsed comic and graphic novel fans worldwide.
About comiXology
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. With the development of the comiXology digital comics platform with buy-once, read-anywhere availability across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been turned into a comic book fan.
About Red 5 Comics
Red 5 Comics creates and produces cinematic-style comic book entertainment, debuting its first titles in October 2007 and earning the years Gem Award as Best New Publisher. It was founded by Paul Ens, former Director of Lucasfilms Lucas Online, and Scott Chitwood, co-founder of TheForce.net and regular contributor to SuperHeroHype.com. For updated information on Red 5 Comics and their titles, visit www.red5comics.com
About Emerald City Comicon
After more than a decade in existence, Emerald City Comicon has established itself as one of North Americas largest and well-respected shows of its kind and has become the premier event of its type in the Northwest. For more information, visit www.emeraldcitycomicon.com
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Electronics Projects: How to Use a Diode to Block Reverse Polarity
Although diodes look a little like resistors, they behave very differently in electronic circuits. Diodes have one ability that sets them apart: They let current flow freely in one direction, but block current if it tries to flow in the other direction.
In other words, a diode is like a turnstile gate that you can walk through in one direction but not the other. This characteristic turns out to be incredibly useful in electronic circuits.
This project demonstrates a diode's ability to conduct current in only one direction. For this project, you wire up a rectifier diode in series with a 3 V flashlight lamp and a pair of AA batteries.
You use a DPDT knife switch between the battery and the diode/lamp circuit so that when the switch is changed from one position to the other, the polarity of the voltage across the diode and lamp is reversed. Thus, the lamp lights in only one of the two switch positions.


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Robots used primarily for passive monitoring and measuring are not "smart," according to Joey Hartman, director of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Bridges and Structures. That is, they don't interrogate data or make decisions based on the data they gather.
Nevertheless, a new breed of robots is emerging that can reach out and manipulate its environment in routines so precise and synchronized that a form of electronic intelligence seems to be at work. Such robots, which have been used for years to assemble automobiles, have only recently been showing up in the public sector. The two tasks for which they have been deployed to a significant extent are surgery and handling hazardous materials.
The da Vinci Surgical System, a large device with three or four interactive robotic arms controlled by a physician seated at a nearby console, received FDA approval in 2000. The da Vinci offers 3D high-definition video, giving a human surgeon magnifications of up to a factor of 10. In addition, the robotic arms are capable of greater range and precision than human hands.
The da Vinci system is currently used for more than a dozen procedures, including those to treat bladder cancer, colon cancer, coronary artery disease, as well as prostate and throat cancers. More than 2,000 units have been sold, including several that have been in regular use at Veterans Administration facilities.
At the VA hospital in Charleston, S.C., the DaVinci system is used to perform minimally invasive surgery for complex procedures. "The robot has demonstrated decreased blood loss, shorter hospital stays, less post-operative pain and quicker recovery compared with open surgery," said Dr. Sandip Prasad. The DaVinci uses small incisions to introduce miniaturized wristed instruments and a high-definition 3D camera. Seated comfortably at the DaVinci console, surgeons view a magnified, high-resolution 3D image of the surgical site.
"The da Vinci spun out of our lab back in the 1990s," noted Richard Mahoney, director of SRI International's robotics program. Adding that the original funding came from DARPA, Mahoney said the research agency was interested in creating remote capabilities for surgeons who would log on to the robot and perform surgical procedures on the soldiers on the front line.
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The Defense and Homeland Security departments have been using robots for years for a different form of remote surgery: bomb defusing and disposal. And dropping costs and enhanced capabilities of robotic technologies are spurring new devices with more decidedly domestic benefits.
In 2012, for example, the Department of Homeland Security introduced the SAPBER, or Semi-Autonomous Pipe Bomb End-cap Remover. After a bomb-disposal unit, human or robotic, has retrieved a pipe bomb, SAPBER takes over to dismantle it and preserve forensic evidence.
SAPBER carries four video cameras, radio communications, a telescoping mast, cutting wheels, a twisting wrist and is powered by two 12-volt batteries. The robot is designed to carefully disassemble the pipe bomb and preserve both the explosive materials and the pipe itself as evidence.
According to DHS, SAPBER, which was designed and manufactured by RE2 Inc., was built from commercially available parts that are relatively inexpensive and easily replaced. The device currently has a price tag of about $12,000.
According to Tom Phelps, director of robotics products at iRobot, public safety agencies are not only increasingly calling for robots, they're specifically calling for smaller, more portable units.
"Part of what is driving that is they need better rapid response," Phelps explained. "They want to have robots that fit into smaller vehicles, whether it's SUVs or police cars, so they can rapidly respond to suspicious devices instead of having a big command vehicle or trailer."
That's why iRobot added the 110 FirstLook to its already relatively broad array of relatively small robots.
Weighing in at only 5.4 pounds and measuring 4" by 10" by 9", the 110 FirstLook is designed to be literally thrown into potential hazardous situations to scout the environment and send back video to its operator's control device from its four cameras. The FirstLook can move at up to 3.4 miles per hour, has a range of 656 feet and can automatically right itself if it tumbles in rough terrain.
And if manipulative capabilities are needed, responders can send in one of iRobot's other robots, such as the 710 Warrior. At 18" tall, 35" long and 30" wide (with removable self-righting flippers installed), the Warrior is significantly larger than the FirstLook, but it can also use its robotic arm for bomb disposal or to clear routes of objects.
And the Warrior's ability to climb stairs also suits it for tasks inside buildings. Duke Energy, for example, is using the Warrior at several of its nuclear stations in North Carolina to handle radioactive material, such as filters used to clean water in the reactor vessel.
"Before the use of the iRobot 710, personnel handled these filters manually by using a six-foot pole to remove and maneuver filters from a radioactive storage container and lowering them into another container used for the long-term storage of radioactive filters," said Valerie Patterson, spokeswoman for Duke's McGuire Nuclear Station.
"This manual process was challenging due to limitations in the ability to handle the filters and its movement with exact precision," she said. The manual process also resulted in workers' exposure to radiation. While the radiological dose is expected, Duke strives to identify ways limit that exposure, Patterson said.
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Economics Homework 5 - Model
Economics Homework - [1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12]
1. Suppose the cross elasticity of demand for goods A and B is +3.8, and for goods X and Y is -2.7. What can you conclude about the relationship of the goods A and B, and of X and Y (i.e., are they substitutes or complements)?
- The positive cross-elasticity for goods A and B mean that as the price of one good increases (and thus its demand decreases), then the demand for the other good increases. A and B must be substitutes because the demand for one good increases as the demand for the other good decreases. The negative cross-elasticity for goods X and Y mean that as the price of one good increases (and thus its demand decreases), then the demand for the other good decreases. X and Y must be complements because the demand for one good increases as the demand for the other good increases.
2. Suppose it costs you $500 to make each of your first 5 units, then $200 to make each of your next 5 units, and then $100 to make each of your next 5 units. Costs do not decrease further for you. What is the marginal cost for you to make another unit, after you have made 15 units? What is your overall average cost per unit after you make your 16th unit? Compare the two and comment on how whether they are equal, and why.
- The marginal cost for each of units 11 through 15 is $100. The marginal cost for the next unit, the 16th unit, is the same: $100.
- The average cost is the total cost ($500x5 plus $200x5 plus $100x5 plus $100) divided by the total number of units (16), which equals $4100/16 = $256.25 . Marginal cost is usually lower than average cost because average cost includes fixed costs, like building a factory, while marginal cost includes only the extra expenses for one more unit.
3. Suppose your annual income increases from $20,000 to $25,000. Suppose your demand for steak increases by 10% and your demand for fast food hamburgers decreases by 5%. Which type of goods are steak, and which type are hamburgers?
- Because the demand for steak increases when the consumers' income increases, steak must be a normal good. The opposite is true for hamburgers in this question: the demand for hamburgers decreased when the buyers' income increased, so hamburger must be an inferior good. This makes sense: as people make more income, they substitute steak for hamburger.
4. What does an owner do when his marginal revenue exceeds his marginal cost? Explain, including what will eventually happen to the marginal revenue compared with the marginal cost for the owner.
- An owner increases his output and keeps selling more and more, as long as his marginal revenue exceeds his marginal cost. Eventually his marginal revenue will decrease as his goods become less scarce (because he made so many of them). When his marginal revenue declines to the amount of his marginal cost, then the owner stops making additional product because he is not earning a profit on any additional units. He wants to avoid losing money from an oversupply of his own good.
5. What does the Coase theorem say about the desirability, and the effect, of government regulations that increase transaction costs?
- The Coase theorem says that transaction costs interfere with efficient levels of activity. When there are no transaction costs, then the free market attains the optimal use of a resource no matter who owns it. If transaction costs exist, then they impede the ability of people to deal with each other for the optimal result. Government regulations increase transaction costs, and thus are bad for the economy.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana athletic director Fred Glass must be ready for the game each time he goes out.
The minute he's recognized at the supermarket or the barbershop, he knows he'll be doing an impromptu news conference. He has learned to expect the sit-down interview if he shows up at his wife's optometrist's office. And when he sees that hand-written envelope from Libertyville, Ind., he realizes he better have a good answer for that 90-year-old retired schoolteacher, too.
In Indiana, seemingly everyone is a basketball expert and talking about it has no boundaries.
"My favorite story is this little old lady who writes me in longhand and says `I don't know much about basketball, but I really enjoy watching the boys play, and can you also explain to me why when we're playing a 1-3-1 zone, we don't push anyone out to the elbow?"' Glass said with not even a hint of a chuckle. "She says all this after she says she doesn't know much about basketball."
Here, basketball is treated like a king's sport. Stars are considered royalty and the Hoosiers still rule the state, especially now, just two wins away from their first Final Four trip since 2002 after one of the grandest comeback stories in its storied history.
Five years ago, coach Tom Crean took over a program that had just two returning players and had been sullied by scandal.
Over the next three years, the proud Hoosiers won just 28 games. Then came Cody Zeller's commitment, Christian Watford's buzzer-beating 3-pointer against then-No. 1 Kentucky, a trip to the round of the 16 and suddenly the Hoosiers were back.
But even during the bleak years, the passion for Indiana basketball never wavered.
The Hoosiers continued to be ranked in the top 10 nationally in attendance -- even as Butler reached back-to-back national championship games and rival Purdue contended for Big Ten titles while Indiana lagged at the bottom of the league.
There was no shortage in interest, either. People talked about it year-round on radio talk shows and message boards, at Little League baseball games and swim meets and certainly at local bars.
So when the Hoosiers hit it big last year, of course the eager fans went bonkers. Glass said from the 2010-11 academic school year to 2011-12, alumni donations increased by $1 million. That's up an additional 22 percent this year.
Merchandise sales have increased about 30 percent since last year, too, and the team's famous candy-stripe pants, which cost $75, have become all the rage in grade schools, middle schools and high schools around the state. They're so popular that some people who ordered the striped pants in October are still waiting for their Christmas gifts to arrive.
According to Glass, even some within the athletic department didn't realize Indiana was last ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll in 1979, had gone 20 years without winning an outright Big Ten crown or had earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament only two other times. And now that they're back in the regional semifinals, facing fourth-seeded Syracuse on Thursday night in Washington, Hoosiers fans are holding their emotions in check for something far bigger -- their first title run since 1987 when Keith Smart beat the Orange on that famous baseline shot.
"This year has been different because the expectations were so high. But I think it's harder to exceed lofty goals than to overcome milder ones," Glass said. "So we're not dancing and celebrating the Sweet 16, because that's what we want at Indiana and that's what we expect."
Basketball is the great unifier in Indiana, bringing together young fans and old, boys and girls, those from urban areas and tiny rural communities. For decades, of course, the state high school basketball tournament was up for grabs for any school, no matter how small.
Dan Dakich, a radio talk show host who grew up in the northwest Indiana, played high school ball at Andrean, near Chicago. He played at Indiana and served as a longtime assistant on Bob Knight's staff before taking the head coaching gig at Bowling Green, then returned to Indiana in 2008 and wound up serving as the interim coach when Kelvin Sampson was fired amid NCAA recruiting violations.
"The one thing that really demonstrated it to me was when Indiana was ready to get rid of Kelvin Sampson even though he had a good team and even though he was winning," Dakich said. "Don't get me wrong. I liked Kelvin. But the fans didn't just want to win, they wanted to win the right way and you just don't always find that."
Those who have gone beyond the borders understand.
"In Kentucky, high school basketball is strong, but the University of Kentucky is so strong, it's more about the university. The thing in this state is that it's about the sport," said Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel, who was a student manager for the Wildcats. "It's widespread. You don't meet people who don't understand the game, who don't appreciate the game."
Perhaps that's why the state has such a long basketball lineage.
Indiana, which ranks 16th in the nation in population, has 12 of America's 13 largest high-school gyms including the 9,325-seat New Castle Fieldhouse.
This is the state Hall of Fame coach John Wooden called home, that turned Knight, Gene Keady and Digger Phelps into household names, that remembers Butler Hall of Fame coach Tony Hinkle as the man who created the orange basketball. It's produced some of college basketball's greatest scorers -- Calbert Cheaney, Clyde Lovellette, Rick Mount and Adrian Dantley -- and where two of the greatest NBA players in history -- Oscar Robertson and Larry Bird -- honed their skills, one on a dirt court and one down on the farm.
It's where Bobby Plump and Milan created the real-life script for one of Hollywood's greatest sports movies, "Hoosiers," and where the sequel nearly came to life again during Butler's improbable tourney runs.
Over the years, only the names and faces have changed.
Of the 360 NBA players drafted over the past six seasons, 22, or 6.1 percent played either high school or college basketball in Indiana, a list includes 13 first-round picks with at least one first-round choice in all six years. And all this from a state that accounts for approximately 2.1 percent of the American population.
Still don't believe it?
Walk into a Pacers game where adult women are dressed in their players' favorite jerseys, or Assembly Hall, where Indiana students have adopted a new mantra "Banner Up," a clever play off the Boilermakers preferred chant of "Boiler Up" while incorporating the Hoosiers own measuring stick -- adding a sixth national championship banner. At Mackey Arena, students keep count of defensive plays.
"Even driving out to the country, you'll see basketball goals on barns or just stuck on a pole with a wooden backboard, so, you know it's a sport that everybody loves out here and again, there's a lot of hidden talent out here," said Paul George, the Pacers All-Star swingman who grew up in California. "The fans, they're real knowledgeable. They know the game. It's not like they're just fans of the players. They're fans of the game. They actually know the game, so I think that's what keeps them so loyal is that they just respect the game."
Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague can attest to it, too. He played high school ball at Indianapolis Pike before heading to Wake Forest for college and becoming a starting guard for the Atlanta Hawks.
"I think everybody grows up playing basketball here. There's a court on every driveway, a court in every backyard. It's just like a religion almost," he said. "They got into basketball (at Wake Forest), but here you go to an IU game and it's packed to capacity. At Wake Forest, you might not see as many fans, they don't get as loud, I don't think they're as passionate about it."
The passion for the Hoosiers in particular is passed down from generation to generation and keeps everybody talking, whether you're 9 or 90.
"Here, it's deep-seeded, more deep-rooted to the point that it's almost a birthright," Dakich said. "What you know is what your dad knew. I can still remember being at a friend's house in 1973, when I was 11, and his dad came in and knocked us the heck out of the way so he could turn on the TV when IU was playing."


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El Perro del Mar (The Sea Dog) is the nom de musique of Sarah Assbring, a Swedish pop thrush whose recordings are glorious aural confections that combine Brill Building pop and the influences of Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and Smokey Robinson with lyrics that speak with a sweet, ineffable sadness of the pitfalls of love and life. According to Assbring, the name El Perro del Mar came to her during an ill-fated vacation in Spain; she was alone, depressed, and out of sorts when a stray dog came up to her while she sat on the beach, and the dog's efforts to bond with her inspired her to express her feelings through songwriting. Assbring began recording her new songs on her own, playing most of the instruments herself as well as singing, and in late 2006 Sweden's Hybris label issued her debut release, a three-song EP. The EP earned enthusiastic reviews and respectable sales, and Assbring's next project was a split single with Jens Lekman, released in North America by the prestigious indie label Secretly Canadian.
A second EP, 2005's You Gotta Give to Get, was a hit in Sweden, thanks in part to a charming animated video for the title tune, and the disc helped spread the word about her music in England and the United States. Later that year, Hybris compiled El Perro del Mar's single sides and EPs into an album, Look! It's El Perro del Mar!; then, El Perro del Mar, a mostly reworked version of that first release, was issued in the U.K. by Memphis Industries in the fall of 2006, with an American version from The Control Group following shortly afterward. All of this was enough to get the singer signed to her fellow Swedes the Concretes' label, Licking Fingers, and she soon began working on new material.From the Valley to the Stars, her second full-length album of new material, arrived in early 2008. When she next returned to the studio, she signed up Rasmus Hägg of the group Studio as a collaborator. The album the duo created in 2009, Love Is Not Pop, was inspired less by her previous influences and more by disco and modern club sounds, though it still retained all the warmth and drama she had become known for.
2012 will see the release of El Perro del Mar's fourth LP, Pale Fire, released by The Control Group in North America.


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The Maine medical examiner's office says a Harvard Business School student's death was an accidental drowning.
Nathan Bihlmaier of Cambridge, Mass., went missing early Sunday after he was told to leave a waterfront bar for being visibly intoxicated. The 31-year-old's body was recovered from Portland Harbor by divers Tuesday, and the autopsy was conducted Wednesday in Augusta.
Bihlmaier was last seen when he was asked to leave the Ri Ra Irish Pub where he was celebrating his upcoming graduation with two friends.
Bihlmaier, who was married and whose wife is expecting their first child, was scheduled to graduate from Harvard Business School on Thursday.
He was a native of Osborne, Kan., and a University of Kansas graduate.


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Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Primary Peritoneal or Stage III Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003322
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 21, 2004
Last Update Posted : May 27, 2013
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|November 1, 1999
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|May 21, 2004
|Last Update Posted Date
|May 27, 2013
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|March 1998
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|January 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00003322 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
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|Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Primary Peritoneal or Stage III Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Phase III Randomized Trial of Intravenous Paclitaxel and Cisplatin Versus Intravenous Paclitaxel, Intraperitoneal Cisplatin and Intraperitoneal Paclitaxel in Patients With Optimal Stage III Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma or Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma
|Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug and giving drugs in different ways may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether intravenous two-drug combination chemotherapy is more effective than intravenous and intraperitoneal infusions of three-drug combination chemotherapy for treating primary peritoneal or stage III epithelial ovarian cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of intravenous two-drug combination chemotherapy with intravenous and intraperitoneal three-drug combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have primary peritoneal or stage III epithelial ovarian cancer.
|Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: I. Compare pathological response, recurrence-free interval, and survival in patients with optimal stage III epithelial ovarian cancer or primary peritoneal carcinoma receiving intravenous (IV) paclitaxel and cisplatin vs IV paclitaxel and intraperitoneal (IP) cisplatin plus IP paclitaxel. II. Compare the toxic effects and complications of these 2 treatment regimens in these patients. III. Determine the frequency and prognostic significance of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in these patients. IV. Determine the effect of non-genetic risk factors on the course of disease in BRCA1- and BRCA2-related ovarian cancer or primary peritoneal carcinoma. V. Compare the quality of life of these patients receiving these treatments.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to gross residual disease (present vs absent) and whether second-look surgery will be performed at the end of treatment (yes vs no). Blood is drawn for BRCA mutation analysis and DNA extraction before the start of chemotherapy, but after randomization. Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. Patients in arm I receive IV paclitaxel by 24-hour infusion on day 1 followed by IV cisplatin on day 2. Patients in arm II receive IV paclitaxel by 24-hour infusion on day 1 followed by intraperitoneal (IP) cisplatin on day 2, plus IP paclitaxel on day 8. Treatment for both arms repeats every 3 weeks for a total of 6 treatment courses. Following chemotherapy, second look surgery is performed if selected by the patient. Quality-of-life assessments are performed prior to randomization, prior to course 4, 3-6 weeks after the completion of course 6 and prior to second look surgery if selected, 6 months after treatment is completed, and 12 months after treatment is completed. Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years, then every 6 months thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 384 patients will be accrued for this study within 16 months.
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|Phase 3
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|January 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven primary peritoneal carcinoma or optimal (no greater than 1 cm residual disease) stage III epithelial ovarian carcinoma with the following epithelial cell types: Serous adenocarcinoma Endometrioid adenocarcinoma Mucinous adenocarcinoma Undifferentiated carcinoma Clear cell adenocarcinoma Mixed epithelial carcinoma Transitional cell carcinoma Malignant Brenner's Tumor Adenocarcinoma NOS Prior surgery for ovarian/peritoneal carcinoma required No epithelial ovarian carcinoma of low malignant potential (borderline carcinoma)
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance status: GOG 0-2 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times normal SGOT no greater than 3 times normal Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 3 times normal No acute hepatitis Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Cardiovascular: No unstable angina No myocardial infarction within prior 6 months Patients with abnormal cardiac conduction are eligible if disease stable for at least 6 months Other: No septicemia or severe infection No severe gastrointestinal bleeding No other invasive malignancy within past 5 years except nonmelanoma skin cancer Any previous cancer treatment must not contraindicate this protocol therapy
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: See Disease Characteristics No more than 6 weeks since prior surgery
|Sex/Gender ICMJE
|Ages ICMJE
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers ICMJE
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Canada, United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
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|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
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|Gynecologic Oncology Group
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|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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|Gynecologic Oncology Group
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|August 2012
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Release Date: 2013 |
Album Rating: 4.0I thought it was criminal that this album hadn't been reviewed, so I thought I'd finally quit lurking and contribute!
Nice review, everything was clear and made sense. IMO, this album didn't really hit it off first time I listened, though I did fall in love with Huge Hammers from the first one.
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks! I love both albums, but I honestly think this one is superior simply because of the variety. Though Huge Hammers hits so hard it's difficult to resist.
Album Rating: 4.0Finally a review for this. Good job.
Album Rating: 3.5Good review, pos'd. I liked their debut, so I need to get this album.
Album jams hard. Easily in my top 10 of the year.
i was gonna check this out later it's been on my wishlist for a while
Not bad, but I have no desire to listen to this after the first time.
Digging: Wire - Pink Flag
I love the album cover
Album Rating: 3.0dont lie, is this actually comparable to exotic animal petting zoo?
Digging: Crimeapple - Viridi Panem
Album Rating: 4.0Comparable? Not directly, but I took the "recommended by reviewer" section to mean something more along the lines of, "if you dig this, you'll dig this other album/band too."
Never before has Tommy Rogers sounded so bad as he does on his feature here. Holy hell, man. That production does him absolutely no favors.
Album Rating: 3.0Not a bad album, but the vocals for the most part put me off slightly. When the vocals are sung cleanly against quieter sounds they aren't too bad, but it's when the song gets heavier that they come across as rather weak to me. The same goes for harsh vocals, although the guest spot on 'Beware the leopard' is very suitable somehow. Musically this album is pretty nice to listen to, and makes the majority of the songs on here all the more consistent. The guitar work offers plenty of surprises, though at times the tone can wear a little 'thin'. All in all not a bad album at all.
Digging: Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Album Rating: 3.0Yea vocals bring it down a notch. Plus his name is McWeeney. That's just hilarious.
Album Rating: 3.0I normally don't listen to this style of music often but I'm currently enjoying this.
Album Rating: 4.0I like this a lot more than the debut
Album Rating: 3.5Destroys the debut, which I never liked that much. Digging this one, though
Album Rating: 3.5I still like their debut more, but this is starting to grow on me.
Album Rating: 3.5Can't listen vocals on the debut. Here they're bearable, less auto-tune or editing work on them
criminally underappreciated band
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Dawson: Cupcakes in bloom
Special to the Daily
Yes, the pretty blossoms decorating these cupcakes add to their appeal, but their tender, moist texture and sweet lemon taste define their real bloom. Think Mother's Day, bridal showers, or any event at which you want to serve a pleasing, eye-catching dessert and you'll know when to turn to this recipe.
The cupcake batter comes together quickly and easily without the need to cream the butter and sugar. Just be sure to follow the times specified for mixing and beating the ingredients; less or more time than the recipe states will alter the texture and structure of the cakes. Brushing the cooled cakes with a vanilla-flavored sugar syrup is an optional step but one that assures a rich taste and moist texture that is often missing in cupcakes baked in our high, dry climate.
The decorative blossoms and leaves that top the cupcakes are commercially made by Wilton and available on their website.
Vera Dawson, chef instructor with CMC's Culinary Institute, lives in Summit County, where
she bakes almost every day. Her recipes have been tested in her home kitchen and, whenever
necessary, altered until they work at our altitude. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com
Cupcakes in bloom
Adjusted for altitudes from 8,000-10,000 feet. Makes about 12 standard cupcakes or 24 2-inch cupcakes
3 large eggs at room temperature
1/4 cup of milk
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons of bleached all-purpose flour (spoon gently into measuring cup and level; don't scoop or compress the flour)
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoon of superfine sugar, preferably Baker's
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
13 tablespoons of unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into small pieces
Sugar Syrup, optional
3/4 cup of superfine sugar
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of water
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
About 1 1/4 cups of confectioners' sugar
Wilton icing flowers and leaves
01 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, with a rack in the middle position. Line the cupcake pan with paper liners; lightly grease the liners. Gently whisk the eggs, milk and vanilla in a small bowl until combined.
02 Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl and, using an electric mixer on low speed, blend them for about a minute until combined. Add the cut-up, room-temperature butter and half of the egg mixture and mix on low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened. Then, turn the mixer to medium-high (medium if using a standing mixer), and beat for about one and a half minutes. Scrape down the bowl. In three additions, add the rest of the egg mixture. Beat for 30 to 40 seconds after each addition and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
03 Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, filling the paper liners three-fourths of the way to the top. Place the pan in the oven and reduce the temperature to 325 degrees. Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Start checking at about 29 minutes for standard cupcakes, 23 minutes for 2-inch ones. Remove the pan from the oven when done and place it on a rack. Let it rest for about 10 minutes, then remove cupcakes and cool them completely on the rack. Once cooled, the cakes can be frozen for month. Thaw before proceeding to the next steps in the recipe.
04 Make the sugar syrup by combining the sugar and water in a small saucepan, bringing it to a boil while stirring constantly, and simmering it until it thickens (this takes about 4-8 minutes on my stovetop). Remove the pan from the heat, cool until the syrup is lukewarm, and stir in the vanilla. Taste and add more, if desired. When close to room temperature, brush over the tops of the cool cupcakes until a thin layer of syrup is visible on each cake (don't overdo; too much will make soggy cakes). Set them aside until the syrup sets up and is barely sticky.
05 Make the glaze: Place the lemon juice in a mixing bowl and gradually stir in the confectioners' sugar (you may not use the full amount) until the mixture is opaque, creamy, smooth and a thick-but-fluid consistency. Spoon about half a teaspoon in the center of the smaller cupcakes (a teaspoon for standard cakes) and spread to the edges. Add more if necessary. Place a Wilton flower and leaf in the center of each cake and set them aside for the glaze to set. Once it's set, store the cupcakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator for a day. Serve at room temperature.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Genealogy Musings
I have been seriously researching my family history for about 20 years. I have been interested in this topic for far longer. I remember an assignment in junior high (or maybe early high school) where I need to research at least some part of my ancestral history. I borrowed a book about the Hall family from my aunt and made a poster of my Hall line back quite a few generations. I think I still have the thing - I wish I knew where. I don't think I understood how to read that book and it would be fun to compare what I know now with what I thought I found then.
My father and I had a discussion just the other day about what year my grandmother, his mother, had died. He had received Christmas cards from some of his Canadian relatives (his parents both having been born in Canada). I looked at the cards and recognized the names but couldn't remember how they were connected to my dad. I went home and printed out a couple of generations of both his father's and his mother's lines and took them to him and told him to please indicate who the writers of the cards were. He did so and also changed the death year for his mother, from 1993 to 1996. When I looked at it I thought "Wow! have I had that wrong all this time?" I went home and looked at my family tree program, not the date he thought, checked an online social security death index, not his date, and then looked at my gravestone picture for her at www.findagrave.com. They all agreed with my date, not what my father remembered. I called him up and he said he was sure she died in 1996 at the age of 96. How could she have died in 1993 and been 96 if she was born, as we both knew, in 1900? I'm not sure he quite believed me and told me he had a copy of her death certificate and he would check it out (reminds me I need to get a copy of that!). He did call back and confirm that it was 1993. Guess she was only 93, he had thought her 96 when she died and had planted that firmly in his mind. Glad we have some good sources for checking these things out. This reinforces the truth that "facts" are easily forgotten and misremembered!
The whole discussion made me think about my grandmother. When I was in high school and college she lived with us on and off. I wish I had taken some time to listen more. She loved to tell tales about her past and was particularly proud of the fact that her relatives were Loyalists during the American Revolution. That is how she ended up being born in Canada, her relations having been forced out of the new America at the end of the Revolutionary War. I didn't even understand what a loyalist was when she was telling me and I didn't really have enough desire to find out. Miss you grammie.
So, I'll end this my first post. What did I get out of it?
Write it all down, and document it as best you can.
Listen to your elders ... while you can ... get all the stories (and write them down!!)
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Welcome to the genea-blogosphere, Kathy. You're gonna find this rewarding in so many ways! Thanks for stopping by Before My Time. I'm kind of excited--I don't think I've ever been anyone's first follower before. :-)ReplyDelete
Hi Kathy,ReplyDelete
I enjoyed your first post and look forward to
many more!
Welcome Kathy, it's great to have you here. Great first post and looking forward to many more.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed your post. You are so lucky your dad is still alive and able to help, even if he gets the dates wrong.ReplyDelete
I caught "The Bug" when I was going thru his papers after his death. There are so many things that I wish I could have asked both of my parents.
Welcome, Kathy! Great first post!ReplyDelete
Welcome, Kathy! I look forward to your second post. Enjoy working with your father... how lucky!ReplyDelete
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I'm fairly new, as well, and have found it most stimulating, especially the Daily Themes.
Keeping telling your ancestor stories!
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President Barack Obama has ordered an internal review to determine how the decision was made to send of one of his official airplanes on a low-flying photo op past the New York City skyline.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that deputy chief of staff Jim Messina will lead the review. Gibbs said the point is to determine "why that decision was made and to ensure that it never happens again."
Gibbs said Obama was "furious" when he heard about the incident. Obama Tuesday called it a mistake, vowing "it will not happen again."
On Monday, one of the Boeing 747s used by Obama and an F-16 jet circled the Statue of Liberty at the start of the work day, startling workers in lower Manhattan who feared a nightmarish replay of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine said he received no advance warning of the planned photo op.
He also said he has yet to find a New Jersey official who was told in advance about the Monday morning flyover.
A White House official has said the New York City mayor's office and other New York and New Jersey police agencies were told about the Boeing 747's flight.
A report surfaced Tuesday that an obscure deputy in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office failed to tell his boss about the plan, which caused the short-tempered Bloomy to blast everyone involved.
"I'm annoyed -- furious is a better word -- that I wasn't told," Bloomberg vented yesterday. "If I had known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to."


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- Infused Sea Salts
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Infused Sea SaltsSpicy Curry has a more complex essence that some of its counterparts. Try with eggs, chicken, pasta or tofu.
About Us
Growing up in Montreal, antiques were always a part of my life. My mum and dad had a beautiful antique store and in it were many objects of interest including salt cellars. We always had salt on the table in pretty containers but they did not contain the more colorful and healthy salts that are becoming more prominent today. As the years went by, my interest evolved into the culinary field which led me to George Brown College in Toronto. I apprenticed in many restaurants learning the skills needed to create a great meal. I spent 5 years as the owner/operator of my own restaurant where I had a free hand to create and modify recipes. I proceeded to get my teaching degree and taught the culinary arts at the high school level for many years.
This brings us to the present day Salt Cellar. We operate as a small team and pride ourselves on being local and producing the blends in-house. We make our blends in small batches ensuring freshness. We started by selling at farmer's markets and then expanded into retail shops. We also sell in bulk to restaurants. We have been selling online for about 6 months.