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Residential Restoration Services
Emergency Services | Available 24/7, Day or Night
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Limegreen Restoration is ready to help 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week. No matter what the emergency, we have certified technicians and emergency equipment ready day and night. Whether you are experiencing a water, fire, smoke, mold, or storm emergency, we will be able to respond to your needs immediately. When your home is on the line, you cannot afford to wait for a restoration service that does not respond in the fastest manner possible.
We offer free estimates, and can begin work immediately.
Our service crews will be on the move within 15 minutes. It doesn't matter if its 9 am or 2 am. We are always standing by ready to tackle any size damage from water.
Why Choose Limegreen Restoration?
- We have an A+ Rating with the BBB
- We are IICRC Certified (quality control)
- You will speak with a live person – 24/7
- Our trucks are on the way within 15 minutes, often arriving within an hour.
- We work directly with your insurance company
- We stay in communication with you throughout the entire process
- Family owned and operated
Your satisfaction is our goal. As a matter of fact, when we arrive we will tell you that we want to earn a 5-Star rating for our remediation work. Thus, if you are not satisfied with our work at any time, we ask you to please let us know immediately. With respect to the cleanup process, we will be with you every step of the way through your restoration, from the initial emergency cleanup, to dealing with the insurance company.
Our Six Step Satisfaction Process
We genuinely want to do the best job possible with the goal of having you back in your home as soon as possible. To accomplish this, our restoration team observes the following process:
Step 1 - Stop The Leak
Our accredited technicians use the latest leak detecting equipment to moisture map & moisture read all potential areas. This technology allows us to identify any potential active leaks of water. It also assures we are able to find all point of water intrusion. The faster we can stop the leak, the less damage you will have with your building and its contents.
Step 2 - Extract The Water
Our crews will then extract & remove the water using our specialized extraction equipment. This may include a flood extractor, a hydro-xtreme extractor, a water claw or a wand. We will test and retest moisture levels of the affected areas. Contents that can not be saved, will be carefully removed from the building. The goal is to get the water out of your home as fast as possible.
Step 3 - Dry The Affected Areas
Once the majority of the water has been removed, Lime Green Restoration will use our commercial air movers and dehumidifiers to begin drying your premises. The key is not just which equipment you use, but how to set it up to ensure your home is dried properly. In this step, the humidity and temperature monitoring continues to be essential in ensuring that a flood job is dried properly.
Step 4 - Sanitize The Affected Areas
Sanitizing the affected areas is the final step in the mitigation process. We want to assure that your property is safe for its occupants to return. Depending on the intensity of the job, we may utilize antibacterial, disinfectant or antimicrobial solutions. The goal of this process is to remedy the home of any further exposure to bacteria, viruses or mold.
Step 5 - Help File The Claim
As part of our remediation services, we will help you file your claim with your insurance company. Damage from water is a common type of claim insurance experience. We help you through the process step by step to assure the insurance company compensates you for everything that needs to be done to keep your house clean and your family safe.
Step 6 - Recheck
Depending on the job at hand, we may opt to recheck the work after several weeks. We want to assure everything is in good order and that you are satisfied with the work we have done. Your satisfaction is always our biggest goal.
Common Restoration Questions
Is Damage from Water Considered An Emergency?
Yes. Unwanted water will cause considerable structural damage because many building materials like drywall, carpeting and wood soak up water. Ignoring the damage is a bad idea, as it will surely spread further and cause additional damage throughout your home. Even small leaks can lead to major structural damage over time. The presence of water also causes mold growth which can affect your health and your property. If the water comes from an outside sources, such as a flood or sewage backup, it will contain bacteria that can spread disease. We recommend addressing any damage immediately.
Is Damage from Water Covered By My Homeowners Insurance?
It depends. A standard homeowner's insurance policy usually only covers damage from water if it was sudden or accidental. Examples of this include burst pipes, burst valves, overflowing tubs or sinks, washer machine malfunctions, etc. Depending on where you live, normal homeowner's insurances do not cover any type of flooding which is caused by rising rivers, rain, or sewer backups. A homeowners must purchase a separate flood policy if he/she wants to be protected against such events.
We encourage all homeowners to be aware of the possibility of damage from water and to assure they know what to do if such an incident occurs. While it is not 100%, being prepared and maintenance prevention is the best defense against any type of water or flooding. In case of such an incident, you should always call a trusted restoration professional. You do not want to do the job yourself. The right professionals have the type of equipment that is designed to remove the water from your property and restore the damage to the affected furnishings the right way.
What Are The Common Causes Of Damage From Water?
Natural floods are the most major cause of damage. Natural disasters such as flooding and heavy rain, can contribute to the damage in homes and buildings. There are also many structural causes including roof leaks, burst pipes, leaking washers, tub overflows, or sewage backups. It is imperative to be aware of these potential issues so you can take preventative measures to avoid any costly repairs.
What Steps Should I Take After Experiencing Damage?
Time is of the essence. As soon as you realize you have a water problem, you must contact a licensed technician who will be able to mitigate the problem based on governmental health code standards. These restoration professionals will stop the spread of the water to impede further damage. Always shut off all utilities, as you don't know where live electrical wires may be conducting electricity in the water. After the water has been stopped, you should document all damage immediately. You should certainly not enter a flooded room if the electricity is still on or if the room may contain sewage water. Leave your home if you believe there is structural damage.
What Will A Restoration Company Do?
Our technicians begin by stopping the source of the excess water. Any professional must stop the flow of water before any cleanup can commence. Once the water has been removed, the Limegreen restoration crew would remove any of the affected furniture, carpeting, drywall, woodwork, insulation, etc. These building materials will either be dried, cleaned and restored or they will be disposed of depending on the severity of the damage. Following the packout, the technicians then set up specialized drying and dehumidification equipment to treat the affected area. If necessary, they will also clean and disinfect the affected areas to assure no mold will grow in the future.
Emergency Services include the following:
Water Mitigation
The process of removing water from a dwelling to stop the destructive processes of rotting of wood, mold growth, rusting of steel, de-laminating of materials, warping of plywood etc.
Fire Restoration
The process of removing burned structural components such as walls, ceilings, floor coverings, etc. Including the inspection of the structural framing to assure everything is safe.
Mold Remediation
The process of removing, cleaning, sanitizing, or other treatment, including preventive work, of mold or mold-contaminated matter that was not intentionally grown at that location.
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Free Software Foundation warns about the danger of computers becoming Windows-only, calls for signatures to defend the freedom to install free software
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Monday, October 17, 2011 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) released a statement open for public signing, titled "Stand up for your freedom to install free software."
Nominations are open for the 14th annual Free Software Awards
BOSTON, October 4, 2011 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 14th annual Free Software Awards.
Free Software Foundation re-launches its Free Software Directory, with over 6500 programs listed
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, September 29, 2011 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the re-launch of its Free Software Directory at directory.fsf.org. The Directory lists over 6,500 programs that are free for any computer user to download, run, and share. It was first launched nearly a decade ago, but the new version brings a host of new features designed to make it a more useful and current resource for users, developers, advocates, and researchers.
Android GPLv2 termination worries: one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3
Distributors lose their rights when they violate GPLv2, but the Free Software Foundation is more forgiving in its license enforcement to encourage continued participation in the free software community. GPLv3 has improved termination provisions to codify this approach, giving developers one more reason to upgrade.
FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator
The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded GNU/Linux systems administrator who enjoys learning and problem-solving. (S)he will be familiar with the free software community and how it works, and will be more interested in making a substantial contribution to software freedom and having employment consistent with ethical ideals than obtaining the highest salary.
Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
When OpenOffice.org moves to a non-copyleft license, there's a ready replacement for people who want a productivity suite that does more to protect their freedom: LibreOffice.
FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Stallman
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, May 6th, 2011 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just released in tandem the second edition of its president and founder Richard Stallman's selected essays, Free Software, Free Society, and his semi-autobiography, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution.
2010 Free Software Awards announced
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 -- Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual free software awards at a ceremony on Saturday, March 19th, held during the LibrePlanet 2011 conference at Bunker Hill Community College.
FSF announces new executive director
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, March 7th, 2011 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the appointment of John Sullivan as its new executive director.
Tell the USTR to reject ACTA
The ACTA drafting process is finished, and countries are beginning to turn an eye toward signing it. Help us stand against it!
Debian "Squeeze" makes key progress toward being a fully free distribution
Cheers to the Debian community!
Call for nominations for the 13th annual Free Software Awards
BOSTON, February 2, 2011--The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 13th annual Free Software Awards.
OSI and FSF Send Joint Position to Department of Justice
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Free Software Foundation (FSF) have sent a joint position statement to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), urging it to scrutinize Novell's proposal to sell patents to the newly-formed CPTN Holdings. Both organizations believe that CPTN Holdings may use these patents to attack free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) software. The full text of the statement follows.
No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM
We've signed up as a supporter of the WebM Project, and we encourage other foundations and organizations to join us—write to email@example.com to learn how. Today, we're also urging Web site operators to distribute videos in the WebM format, and abandon H.264
Fostering free software education: Free Technology Academy and Free Software Foundation partner to expand access to master's program in free software and free standards
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands -- Tuesday, October 26, 2010 -- The Free Technology Academy (FTA) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today their partnership in the FTA's Associate Partner Network. The Network aims to expand the availability of professional educational courses and materials covering the concepts and applications of free software and free standards.
Hardware we all want: FSF announces criteria for hardware endorsement program
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, October 14, 2010 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that it has published an initial set of criteria for endorsing computers and other devices. The FSF seeks both to obtain feedback on the criteria, and raise interest in the program among hardware manufacturers. Ultimately, the FSF plans to promote an endorsement mark to be carried on products that the FSF endorses.
Windows Phone 7: the best choice for Patent Trolls.
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 8th, 2010 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today issued a warning to consumers over Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 Phone Series. The software release is backed by a reported 400 to 500 million dollar marketing campaign that aims to distract consumers from its history of abusive behavior, and recent actions as a patent troll: attacking free software based phones like Android.
Free Form: Free Software News for September 29th 2010
Recently, in free software news, Richard Stallman protested representatives of the European Patent Office giving a presentation in Australia concerning software patents. Trisquel released their newest LTS version, codename: Taranis. The chief architect of Apple's compiler group answered a question about the upstream potential of their work on the GNU Compiler Collection.
Over 450 letters sent to the USPTO proposing guidelines to end software patents
Last week, we put out an action item asking people to write to the USPTO, and explain to them why software should not be eligible for patents under their forthcoming post-Bilski guidance. To answer the call, you all sent in more than 450 letters, offering the USPTO all kinds of legal and practical reasons why they should stop issuing software patents. This is a tremendous response, and we're very grateful to you all for participating. Thank you very much!
Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent applications will be accepted, and which will not. As part of this process, they are seeking input from the public about how that guidance should be structured.

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Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi was born in London to Nigerian and Ghanian parents. she holds a BA from Yale and an MPhil from Oxford. Selasi made her fiction debut in Granta in 2011 with 'The Sex Live of African Girls', which was selected for Best American Short Stories in 2012. Her first novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in March 2013. An avid traveller and photographer, Selasi lives in Rome.


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sparkart wrote:does a roll cage ala Aliens Power Loader count as an enclosed cockpit?
Igginz wrote:I'm excited about the new mecha contest, but I don't think its very ethical to pretend to offer prizes...
buriedbybricks wrote:How would a roll cage protect them from the objects power draining effect and radiation, Sparky?
Nope. Absolutely not. Thank you for asking though so we got that out of the way up front.sparkart wrote:Does a roll cage count as an enclosed cockpit?
Solo wrote:Of course they will. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ace has never not come through with a prize. He's just terrible with doing so in a timely manner lately. I know he has a few remaining to ship from recent contests but everyone else has been taken care of. If I'm wrong, and anyone out there was somehow forgotten, let us know and we'll make sure you get what you're owed.
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Is it possible for metric expansion to create holes, or cavities in the fabric of spacetime?
According to the Schwarzschild metric, the metric expansion of space around a black hole goes to infinity at the event horizon. Normally, when something expands, it thins out, so, this metric stretching seems to imply that the energy density of the vacuum goes to zero at the event horizon. In other words the implication is that the spacetime manifold comes to an end there; making the black hole an actual hole, or cutout, in the spacetime manifold.
I'm definitely not an expert in these matters but I can imagine the fabric of space being pulled apart by the explosive expansion of the early universe; empty bubbles opening up, imbedded regions devoid of manifold, devoid of vacuum energy, ... true voids, like what, presumably, lies beyond our universe.


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If you need a lawyer in Western New York, you may either call the Bar Association of Erie County's Lawyer Referral and Information Service at (716) 852-3100 or submit a Request a Referral on-line. It is a public service of the Bar Association, serving the Greater Buffalo metropolitan area. We referred approximately 7,200 calls last year!
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Bar Association-sponsored lawyer referral services have been in operation in this country for more than fifty years, and were first established in response to requests by middle income persons for assistance in obtaining appropriate legal counsel.
The Lawyer Referral and Information Service of the Bar Association of Erie County is designed to assist persons who are able to pay normal attorney fees but whose ability to locate appropriate legal representation is frustrated by a lack of experience with the legal system, a lack of information about the type of service needed, or a fear of the potential costs of seeing a lawyer.
The Service offers two important services to the public. First, it helps the client determine if the problem is truly of a legal nature by screening inquiries and referring the client to other service agencies when appropriate. The second, and perhaps more important function of a lawyer referral service is to provide the client with an unbiased referral to an attorney who has experience in the area of law appropriate to the client's needs.
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Why We Need the James Webb Space Telescope
Over the last 24 hours, the astronomy community has begun facing the possible cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee has recommended: "$4.5 billion for NASA Science programs, which is $431 million below last year's level. The bill also terminates funding for the James Webb Space Telescope, which is billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management." This is not the end of the game for JWST, as many other branches of government have yet to weigh in, but it's not good news.
Looking at it from the public's view, sure, cutting projects that are "billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management" sounds like a pretty reasonable action. But I'd like to try to take a few minutes to explain why it's not as simple as the committee would like you to believe.
First and foremost, in many fields of astronomy we are rapidly approaching the limit of what can be done scientifically without JWST. I recently finished teaching a graduate class on extragalactic astronomy, and I can't tell you the number of times where I brought the students up to speed on the state of a field, and then had to say "If we're going to push this to the next level, we need JWST". To demonstrate this, the plot below shows the brightness (i.e., flux) of an astronomical point source that can be detected with different telescopes in a fixed amount of time, as a function of the wavelength of light (along with a typical galaxy spectrum). The magenta points show that JWST is hundreds of times more sensitive than anything out there. In terms of scientific impact, this is like the difference between walking (4 miles/hr) and flying (400 miles/hr) for your ability to explore terrain on the Earth. This is not to mention the drastic increase in the angular resolution of JWST compared to any other telescope on that plot — JWST will be able to see fine-scale structure that has never been seen at these wavelengths.
Moreover, JWST will blow through limits that lie at some of the most exciting areas of astronomy, with some of the widest public appeal, including high redshift galaxies and extrasolar planets. The public rightfully adores Hubble for expanding our view of the universe, but it's not going to last forever. (Given funding constraints, the most likely fate for Hubble is the same as your 20 year old Toyota Tercel — it gets you where you're going, but at some point you stop paying the money to fix the heater, repair the cracked windshield, and deal with the oil leak, and accept that sooner or later you're going to be stranded on the side of the highway.) When Hubble expires — and it will within a decade or less — where is the system that will expand upon the wonders that Hubble revealed? Even Milky Jay knows that JWST is the future.
The demise of JWST would be a huge blow to american space-based astronomy as well. On the ground, the US has ceded much of its historical primacy to the Europeans. If JWST were cancelled, it would be a heavy blow to the US dominance in running true space-based observatories. NASA will continue to run "experiments" in space — i.e., targeted smaller missions focused on limited scientific goals, but they will be giving up their unique place in creating flagship facilities that literally anyone can potentially use. The impact of Hubble came in large part because it wasn't a specific experiment for one particular problem. It has broad capabilities, that were kept up to date with servicing missions, but using those capabilities was then essentially "crowd-sourced" to the entire world. Through on-going rigorous, and frankly brutal, evaluations of scientific proposals, the community identifies the single most important scientific questions to be addressed by Hubble. This process is carried out every. single. year., making sure that Hubble gets the most bang for the buck. The same process also applied to NASA's other "flagship" missions (e.g., Chandra, Spitzer), focused on other wavelengths, but these facilities too are rapidly running out of time.
To see what the loss of JWST would mean, look at the following chart of NASA missions. JWST is the only flagship observatory coming up. If we lose it, the person with the next great idea loses the chance to try it out.
So yes, JWST has cost more than was planned for. But the majority of the cost is now "sunk costs", and a huge fraction of the telescope and instruments actually exist. This is not just a hole that people have been shoveling money into, and not getting anything for — useful stuff is actually built! And working! I would of course prefer that JWST launched on time and under budget, but, given how close we are to the end, I much prefer to go for it. Canceling JWST is not going to usher in a golden age of other space-based science opportunities (the "crowding out theory", where once the shade of JWST is gone, a thousand flowers will bloom). The money will simply be gone from space-based astronomy, and instead of a single tree we can all climb, there will be some smaller pieces of shrubbery.
So to close, I'd like to leave with you with one of the finest bits of advocacy for JWST around.
(edit: Which I now realize Risa just posted! She has "how to contact your legislator" information, which is the single most important thing you can do at this point.)


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The Antarctic is a unique place in the modern world: it's the only continent that remains relatively untouched by human interference; it's arguably the only pristine wilderness left on Earth. Yet in the early 1980s, the threat of commercial exploitation of this delicate eco-system loomed large. There was strong evidence for the existence of oil and mineral deposits under the rock and ice, and governments and companies seemed to be lining up to start prospecting.
The prospects of stopping them looked slim: the Greenpeace campaign to protect the Antarctic started with little hope of success. Yet the campaign turned into a prime example of what can happen when daring action, solid science and political pressure meet another key ingredient – perseverance. The idea to plough resources into a campaign to make Antarctica a 'World Park' was first suggested by Greenpeace in 1979. As more research was done, it became apparent that the organisation would have to set up a permanent base on the ice if it was to have a voice at the Antarctica Treaty table where the continent's fate would ultimately be decided. Only a base would allow Greenpeace to challenge national territorial claims with an argument that Antarctica should be preserved as a global commons – belonging to none.
In 1987 the MV Greenpeace moored in the Antarctic (after the weather had halted the first attempt) and a few weeks later the 'World Park Base' was operational. Greenpeace stayed from 1987 to 1991. The team monitored pollution from the neighbouring bases run by the US (theirs was the size of a small town) and New Zealand and exposed scandals such as construction work that involved dynamiting the habitats of nesting penguins. The professionalism of the Greenpeace operation gradually earned the respect of other Antarctica Treaty Nations.
In the seven years of the campaign Greenpeace went from being perceived as an outsider, to a respected player in negotiations for the future of the continent. Greenpeace offices worldwide lobbied their governments to take a responsible position on protecting the Antarctic, joining forces with other non-governmental organisations and eliciting support from global personalities including Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Jacques Cousteau and Ted Turner. International negotiations on the issue were routinely accompanied by Greenpeace demonstrations. The campaign made it clear to politicians that they would be congratulated as heroes if they did the right thing – and they did. Antarctica became a powerful symbol for the responsible treatment of the planet and for successful international cooperation and it boldly underlined an old Greenpeace belief: nothing is impossible.
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Dating back to 1898, San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building is a transportation hub and a landmark location for the Bay Area's best food artisans, boasting three weekly farmers' markets and dozens of nationally-acclaimed vendors and restaurants patronized by over 300 of the City's best chefs and restaurants.
Join the original Ferry Building Tour established in 2004 with a food industry professional as your knowledgable and engaged guide. Guests will sample handmade chocolate confections from Recchiuti and French macarons from Miette, named one of the top ten pastry shops in the world by Conde Nast Traveller. An offshoot of the high-end Slanted Door, Out the Door's legendary Vietnamese spring rolls are a crowd favorite. Award-winning Mt. Tam cheese from Cowgirl Creamery, paired with sweet and sour loaves from Berkeley's Acme Bread are always a hit. Additional stops may include Frog Hollow Farm, Dandelion Chocolate, or American Eatery.
This tour also includes the history of the stunning waterfront building, and it's an ideal choice for guests with limited mobility or who don't want a lot of walking. With pre-arrangement, we can arrange for any special dietary needs.
All of Edible Excursions stops are subject to change depending upon availability. Dietary restrictions can be accommodated with advance notice.
Want to make this a private tour? Any time, any day, and for any group size, Edible Excursions provides private, customized food tours on your schedule. Use this itinerary, or let us craft a unique experience for you.


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Roxanne McKee (born 10 August 1980) is an English model and actress. After a successful modelling career, McKee was cast in the role of Louise Summers in the British soap Hollyoaks in 2005. She played the role for three years and had several major storylines to her name.
In Game of Thrones she plays the role of Doreah. She was confirmed in the role on 28 July 2010. She initially appeared as a guest star in the first season and returned in this role for the second season.
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|The Pointy End
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|The North Remembers
|The Night Lands
|What Is Dead May Never Die
|Garden of Bones
|The Ghost of Harrenhal
|The Old Gods and the New
|A Man Without Honor
|The Prince of Winterfell
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ARCADIA, Calif., April 8 (UPI) -- Flashback, runner-up to Goldencents in Saturday's Santa Anita Derby, has a bone chip and will miss the Kentucky Derby.
Trainer Bob Baffert said the gray colt is expected to recover after surgery on his right knee.
Flashback goes to the bench with two wins and two seconds from four starts. His injury leaves Baffert, a three-time Derby winner, without a first-line contender for the May 4 Run for the Roses.
Among Baffert's other 3-year-olds, Governor Charlie stands 10th on the points list toward a Derby start thanks to his win in the Sunland Derby in New Mexico. Den's Legacy is No. 19 and in danger of being bumped unless he runs well in Saturday's Arkansas Derby. Baffert also is expected to saddle War Academy in Arkansas but he would need a first- or second-place finish to get in the Louisville starting gate.


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In what may be the first attempt in California to unseat an entire school board, high school students and supporters who want to oust all five members collected enough signatures to put the issue before voters, the Tuolumne County clerk said Friday.
The students organized the recall campaign as a civics project after the board of the Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District voted to get rid of their popular math teacher, a former professional football player.
"We're pretty excited about it," said Tioga High School senior Billy Hilton, 17, one of the student leaders of the recall effort. "I don't think this has happened many other places. We were able to do it because our school and community are so small and tight-knit."
The school board is scheduled to meet next week to receive formal notice that the recall has qualified. The board will have the option of calling the election itself and allowing a vote entirely by mail. The election is most likely to be held May 5, said Tuolumne County Clerk and Auditor-Controller Deborah Russell.
The California School Boards Assn., which represents 95% of the state's school districts, does not keep election records, but staff members said the recall of a school board is uncommon if not unprecedented.
"We can't remember a time when a whole board has been recalled," said Susan Swigart, communications director for the 76-year-old association.
At Tioga High, where the recall campaign began, students were beginning to contemplate campaign activities, including putting together a voter pamphlet and holding a debate among candidates for the board.
Civics teacher Tim King, who helped the students turn their class project into political action, said he was proud of what the teenagers had been able to do.
"I don't think it's really sunk in," he said. "They don't realize what they have accomplished. When was the last time you heard about an entire school board being recalled?"
The sparsely populated district near Yosemite National Park is nearly as large in square miles as the Los Angeles Unified School District but has just three schools and fewer than 500 students.
School board President Lillian Cravens said the campaign to oust the board is in keeping with the community's quarrelsome style. Notorious for political bickering and personal rivalries, the district has run through seven superintendents in the last eight years and 15 school board members in the last five.
"These people are always fighting up here," she said. "They are always threatening a recall. This time they just followed through."
The latest controversy began in September after Supt. Mari Brabbin and the school board removed Ryan Dutton from his job teaching math at Tioga High over an allegation of plagiarism. He also lost his post coaching baseball.
Dutton, 31, who was studying for his teaching credential at Cal State Fresno, was accused of copying another student's homework in March. He denied the charge.
It is unclear how the allegation reached the school district. The university said the allegation was unfounded, but the school board has refused to take Dutton back.
After his removal, the entire student body staged a one-day protest that shut down the high school. Soon after, the students began organizing the recall campaign.
The students have appealed to the school board to rehire Dutton, but the members have declined, saying they trust the information about him that they received in private.
Most of the students are not old enough to vote or collect signatures, but parents and teachers joined in support of the effort. The campaign needed 910 signatures for each school board member and collected about 1,200, easily qualifying for the ballot.
Opponents of the recall have wondered whether the students were being used by some in the community to settle old scores.
School board member David Gookin took the qualification of the recall in stride, saying, "It's the right of the electorate in a democratic process to ask for a recall."
He said he stood by his record but had not decided to what extent he might mount a campaign to retain his post. He has no regrets about Dutton's removal, he said.
"I have no apologies for the action I took as a board member," he said.
Cravens, who was appointed nine months ago and elected president in December, said serving on the school board was a thankless job. Her husband, she said, will be the happiest man in town if she is ousted.
"If I don't get recalled, that's fine," she said. "If I do get recalled, that's fine. I don't see any reason to campaign. People who know me know the truth about me."
Cravens, who was the registrar at Aptos High School near Santa Cruz for 30 years, retired to the Groveland area five years ago. "The sad part of it is they do their best to ruin your reputation," she said. "Now people look at me like I am some kind of thief and monster."
Dutton, who hopes to return to Tioga High and resume teaching math, said he was overwhelmed by the support from the students and community.
"I knew that I had a good relationship with them, but you never think that the kids would rise up and do something of that sort," he said. "I can't say enough about their support. It reiterates for me that this is the right career for me."


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He's a superstar of the basketball court, a kid who finished high school as one of the most glorified players in history according to some sources. A reputation he carried into his adult career on the courts.
With a string of Most Valuable Player Awards, 3 NBA championships, 2 Olympic gold medals, selection on a dozen NBA All-Star teams and a reputation as one of the country's most popular, and influential, athletes, he hasn't disappointed anyone who guessed he'd become someone in life. His sporting prowess has also earned him a lot of money in endorsement deals.
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Have you often felt that building muscle is an almost impossible challenge?
We've assessed many 'trendy' muscle programs only to end up disappointed by the cost and the lack of real results. It's not that there is anything 'bad' about many of the programs. It's just that they impose on your daily life with often-unrealistic restrictions, particularly in relation to diet. Some programs emphasize the importance of eating a lot of protein.
Others stress the importance of carbs. Either way, it generally involves some pretty radical changes to your diet. Who really wants to have to do that?! So when we heard about these so-called LeBron James supplements we decided to take a closer look at them. What if they did even half of what they're purported to do? We could be looking at the start of a new and promising trend. One that is easy to use AND brings real results!
One of the things we discovered is that trainers are calling this new LeBron James supplement stack "nature's steroid alternatives". Steroids are a key component in building muscle and burning fat. So it's exciting news to find a completely natural product that does not have the bad rap of chemical steroids. Yet still works exceptionally well to achieve the same muscle building and fat-burning results!
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When it comes to losing excess body-fat and gaining action star muscle nothing works quite like XtremeNO. This muscle builder is very high in anti-oxidants and has some pretty powerful strength building properties which combine to make it a standout performer among muscle building supplements. XtremeNO is made from pure, high quality ingredients combined into a proprietary formula that is intended to provide the energy and additional strength required to do some incredible lifting. And even better, it revs up your metabolism and melts away body-fat at a rate of knots. When combined with HyperGH 14x, a testosterone booster bar none, the results are nothing short of an automatic muscle-building machine.
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However, one certainly understands if you're a little bit skeptical because, to be honest, so was our team. Everything about this muscle building/fat-burning combination absolutely screamed 'fad' to us when our team first heard about it. But despite the 'it's just a fad' radar blaring loudly, the numerous success stories just kept rolling in. From everywhere. That more than anything convinced us to take another look at this product that was causing such a furor. And our team found that they liked what they saw. Particularly the fact that people were getting awesome results without having to radically change their eating habits or their lifestyles. That's a huge win/win situation in our book. Another thing that impressed us is that both Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x are clinically proven.
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One guy our team heard about – Jeremy Evans from California, describes on his blog how he lost 8 lbs of fat and stacked on 20 lbs of muscle simply by taking the recommended daily dose of the Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x muscle building stack over a 5 week period. He wrote that he "really didn't believe it could be so easy. There were no changes to my diet or to my daily routine. All I had to do was pop two pills every day and the fat just melted off me like hot butter. At the same time all these muscles that were hiding underneath the fat appeared; most of them I didn't realize I had. And as for my new 6-pack… Well, suffice to say that the girls don't mind it at all."
So the upshot of all our research was that our team thought they'd try Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x for themselves just to see if this muscle building supplement stack really did do everything it was purported to do. I'd wanted to make some healthy changes to my body for a while now. I'd also entered a fitness competition so I put my hand up to be the guinea pig.
First up I contacted the manufacturers of Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x, introduced myself and explained that I was interested in trying their products with a view to writing about the results for you, our readers. Both companies were keen to help out and agreed to ship me a month's worth of free product. It duly arrived within a couple of days and the experiment was on……
For accuracy, I took my initial body-fat measurement and made a note of it at the start. I was a very unimpressive 150 lbs with a body-fat score of 14%. I needed to get down to 7 – 8% to get the results I was aiming for and for the fitness competition.
And so I began …
I followed a fairly simple routine. Just two pills each of Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x twice daily. On days that I worked out I took the pills before and after the workout. Otherwise I just took one dose in the morning and the other at night along with the Hyper GH 14x Spray. My diet and exercise regime did not change at all. At the end of the 15 weeks, I'd packed on 13 lbs of lean muscle!!
Lebron James Supplements Test – Week 1-5:
One of the things I noticed during the first weeks on the new regime was how quickly and dramatically the Lebron James Supplements kicked in. For a start my energy levels were noticeably higher. I also wasn't nearly as hungry thanks to the appetite curbing effects of the amino acids in Hyper GH 14x. All in all I felt unbelievable and I hadn't had to change my daily routine at all. When Day 14 came around I hopped on the scales and got out the caliper to measure my body fat. Unbelievably I'd gained 4 lbs of lean muscle!
The results were impressive. I still wasn't 100% convinced though. At the start of most muscle programs you tend to lose a fair amount of water. This unfortunately often comes without producing any lasting effect on the composition of your body. The tricky part would be seeing if I could sustain this amount of muscle gain over the remaining weeks. However, it was a great feeling to be weighing less than 190 lbs for the first time in years. I was keen to see how the next few weeks panned out.
Lebron James Supplements Test – Week 6-14:
My energy levels and focus continued to improve through the sixth week. I also found that I was sleeping much better due to the detoxifying effects of Xtreme NO, which in turn allowed more time for the muscles to recover and grow. As I shed another 6lbs of fat I could see the outline of the 6-pack starting to develop. Much to my girlfriend's delight. Now I started to believe! These Lebron James Supplements Supplements really are everything they are cracked up to be.
My muscle mass continued to develop whilst the body fat simultaneously continued to disappear. The fat around my stomach and hips was no longer and I was now sporting quite an impressive 6 pack. Energy levels were also staying consistently sky high right throughout the day.
By the end of week 14 I'd lost an impressive 14 lbs of fat. I gained 12 lbs of lean muscle. Amazing results considering that it was around about this time that previous programs I'd tried, started to peter out. And the water I'd lost during the first couple of weeks returned.
Lebron James Supplements Test – Week 15:
The results of the trial were now clearly evident. Since starting a mere 15 weeks ago, I'd built up an amazing 13 lbs of lean muscle mass. With the loss of a further 6 lbs of fat, the body-fat percentage was now in the single-digit figures! Watch out fitness comp, here I come! Needless to say, everyone else here is now trying to get hold of free trials of Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x….
Will I continue to use XtremeNO and HyperGH 14x?
Well, I think the results speak for themselves as to the consistent and amazing results of this product. So yes, I will continue to use them. All in all, I really could not be happier with how the trial of Xtreme NO and Hyper GH 14x panned out. In just 15 weeks I'd gained an amazing 13 lbs of lean muscle. All without any special diet and with no severe exercise.


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Making sense of antisense transcription in tree growth and development
I am interested in deciphering the functional role of noncoding RNA (ncRNA) in gene regulation network governing forest tree growth and development. One significant class of such ncRNA is natural antisense transcripts (NATs) which share complimentary sequence with protein-coding genes. Recent studies in direct transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) and whole genome tiling array have revealed that eukaryotic genomes including plant genome encode large amount of NATs transcribed either from opposite strand of genes (cis-NAT) or from different chromosomal locations (trans-NAT). The overwhelming occurrence of NATs represents an important gene phenomenon which has not been characterized in tree genomes.
To reveal these hidden transcripts of tree genomes, we employ a novel experiment method for systematic identification of NATs in Populus and Pine genomes. These identified NATs will be further tested with custom-made oligo DNA chips for its functional relevance in many aspects of tree growth and development under environmental adaptations such as nitrogen deficiency and low light. The biological consequence of characterized NATs will be finally confirmed with RNAi technology. The ultimate goal of my research is to uncover the regulation network mediated by NATs underlying forest tree growth and development. The results generated will advance our current knowledge base of tree biology for efficient grow, manage and genetic manipulation of "super" forest trees.
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- Identification and characterization of natural antisense transcripts in woody plants
- Alternative splicing and salicylic acid metabolism in populus
- Sequencing complex plant genome through gene-enriched methods
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- Yuan Y, Chung J-D, Fu X, Johnson VE, Ranjan P, Booth SL, Harding SA, Tsai C-J (2009) Alternative splicing and gene duplication differentially shaped the regulation of isochorismate synthase in Populus and Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 22020-22025
- Tsai C-J, Harding SA, Tschaplinski TJ, Lindroth RL, Yuan Y (2006) Genome-wide analysis of the structural genes regulating defense phenylpropanoid metabolism in Populus. New Phytologist 172: 47-62.
- Chan AP, Pertea G, Cheung F, Lee D, Zheng L, Whitelaw C, Pontaroli AC, SanMiguel P, Yuan Y, Bennetzen J, Barbazuk WB, Quackenbush J, Rabinowicz PD (2006) The TIGR Maize Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D771-6.
- Emberton J, Ma J, Yuan Y, SanMiguel P, Bennetzen JL (2005) Gene enrichment in maize with hypomethylated partial restriction (HMPR) libraries. Genome Research. 15(10): 1441-6.
- Lin, J-Y., B. Hass-Jacobus, P. SanMiguel, J.G. Walling, Y. Yuan, J. Doyle, R.C. Shoemaker, N.D. Young and S.A. Jackson. (2005) Molecular and cytogenetic characterization of gene-poor, heterochromatic regions of Glycine max L. Merr. Genetics 170: 1221-1230.
- Whitelaw,C.A.; Barbazuk,W.B.; Pertea,G.; Chan,A.P.; Cheung,F.; Lee,Y.; Zheng,L.; van Heeringen,S.; Karamycheva,S.; Bennetzen, J.L.; SanMiguel,P.; Lakey,N.; Bedell,J.; Yuan,Y.; Budiman,M.A.; Resnick,A.; Van Aken,S.; Utterback,T.; Riedmuller,S.; Williams,M.; Feldblyum,T.; Schubert,K.; Beachy,R.; Fraser,C.M.; Quackenbush,J. (2003) Enrichment of gene-coding sequences in maize by genome filtration. Science 302: 2118-2120.
- Yuan, Y., SanMiguel, P. and Bennetzen, J. (2003) High Cot sequence analysis of the maize genome. Plant Journal. 34 (2): 249-255.


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People matter in climate change models
Climate change does not discriminate among regions or their inhabitants, but the continued growth of the human population will most likely contribute to the ill-effects of climate change. US researchers writing in the International Journal of System of Systems Engineering suggest an interdisciplinary approach, recruiting expertise from the social sciences, is best for conducting the needed research and model development to move forward in the study of climate change.
Catherine M. Banks and John A. Sokolowski of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University in Suffolk, Virginia, re-emphasize that the consensus among scientists is that there has been and will continue to be an overall rise in global average temperatures. The Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) supports the scientific predictions that climate change will cause extreme weather conditions including more droughts, heavy precipitation, heat-waves, and hurricanes globally as well as rising sea levels as glaciers and ice shelves melt. The VMASC team points out that there is a significant gap in research regarding the nature of the human-environment interaction with water resources management on policy areas such as health, food security, and nature conservation.
There are many calls for urgent solutions to the problem of climate change itself including geo-engineering and carbon capture technologies which attempt to reduce concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The biggest obstacle in the path of such programs is that individual nations are unlikely to find a way to coordinate the significant effort and resources needed. Banks and Sokolowski concede that such suggestions obviously recognize the urgency of the situation, however, there could be underlying problems with these programs. For instance, localized geo-engineering projects might ameliorate a problem in one region but cause additional problems elsewhere. Thus, it is important to represent, or model, a community before implementing a program like geo-engineering.
The team has now suggested that the modeling of any aspect of climate change and the detailed modeling of the potential human effect on climate change must take into account the human-environment relationship as a complex system; i.e., models must fully characterize and represent the human behavior component on the environment. "Direct experiments on the real world system are not feasible," the team says, "[our] modeling methodology offers an alternative investigation as to how the complex systems found within the human-environment relationship might react to proposed efforts to reverse the effects of climate change."
"Assessing the human-environment relationship: a complex-systems methodology to modeling climate change" in Int. J. System of Systems Engineering, 2011, 2, 329-346
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Alcúdia is today one of the most celebrated towns of Mallorca. It enjoys a privileged geographic location: it lies in the North-east of Mallorca, 54 km away from Palma, in a peninsula that separates the bays of Alcúdia and Pollença. In its more than 30 km of coastline are pretty beaches with fine sand, steep cliffs and secluded coves of great beauty. This heavenly place did not go unnoticed to the cultures that inhabited the east corner and whose legacy can be seen even today. The Alcúdia of today is a calm place, equipped with the most modern infrastructures, inhabited by very diverse people and altogether build up a calm surrounding, ideal for resting.
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Internet Librarian 2013 – The New Library Patron
Internet Librarian 2013 – The New Library Patron
Lee Rainie
Rainie's slides are up at http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/2013/Oct/The-New-Library-Patron.aspx
Rainie summed up his presentation as 5 points (supported by a veritable butt-ton of statistics from Pew, as we have come to lovingly expect from Rainie).
1. Libraries are deeply appreciated, especially for their community impact.
91% of people say libraries are important to their communities and 76% say libraries are important to them and their families. People are significantly more concerned about the library's impact on their community than on their own family (when asked what the impact would be if the local public library closed). People have more confidence in us and think we're more important than the military, small businesses, the police, and the church (among a whole slew of other institutions including, interestingly, public schools). Firefighters and nurses are the only two institutions that rival the library's public reputation and trust. Rainie recommends having libraries challenge the local firefighters to tug-of-wars and trivia contests. We'd lose one and win one 😉 People like librarians a lot too. 98% of people who ever visited a library say that their interactions with librarians are very or mostly positive. 81% of people say we're very helpful. 50% of people got help from a librarian last year. No other public institution has that level of everyday interaction with the community. Our rebranding of ourselves as tech hubs has been slow going, but now 77% of people say free access to the computers and internet is a very important library service (compared with 80% who say the same things about both books and reference librarians). But then an equal number of people say that the library's function as a quiet study space is very important. 26% of people surveyed use in-library computers, and here's what they do with them: research for school or work, browse the internet for fun, use email, get health information, visit government websites, looked for and applied for jobs, social networking, online video, online retail, paid bills, and taking online classes. Libraries are a platform as well as a place for interesting people.
2. Libraries have a PR problem.
People don't know what we have and what we do. Half of people surveyed say they know some of what is going on at the library. 30% know not much or nothing at all of what libraries offer. Rainie says these numbers should distress us. There are ways for us to address this knowledge gap though. Library non-users are primed to listen. They like us, they read books, and they have at one point or another visited a library. We have to start selling ourselves in ways we never used to have to do, and perhaps are uncomfortable with.
3. Library patrons are diverse, but there are some groups who are quite removed from the library world.
Library users are largely women, are not 65+ (Rainie highlighted that seniors are less likely to have been a recent library user, something that runs counter to my own intuition—I want to know more about that…), have completed some college or graduate school, and are parents. Parents over-index on everything. They use every type of service than anyone else, they are more likely to say we're important, etc. Job 1 for us should be evangelizing to parents—find the mommy bloggers! Who uses library websites? Those same groups, but at a slightly lower percentage point. Rural users are somewhat less likely to have visited the library or used the library website. Top reason library use increased for people = enjoy taking their children or grandchildren. Top reason library use decreased for people = they can get books, do research online, and the internet is more convenient. Sometimes getting an eReader drives people to use the library more. There is a large detached population out there that should matter to libraries. 44% say no one else in their households uses the library, 39% don't have library cards, 33% say if the library closed it would not have an impact on them, 20% never remember family members visiting the library when they were growing up, 19% have never visited a library, 16% didn't read a book in the last year, and 9% don't know where the nearest library is. In early 2014 Pew will be doing a new library survey – What kind of library user are you? This survey will go beyond demographics and look at people as information and technology consumers. A quiz widget will be forthcoming to help librarians gather local data (look for that soon-w00t!)
4. Patrons' "wish list" for new services is extensive and pretty undifferentiated.
The most enthusiastic people for new tech-based services are women, non-internet users, African Americans, Latinos, Spanish-speakers, parents of minors, and urban residents. (Sarah's note: Umm, that's most of my population then….Right-o). People were asked if the library should move some print books and stacks out of public locations to free up more space for things like tech centers, reading rooms, meeting rooms, and cultural events. The response to this was mixed… The people who adore us and are our regular users said "NO!" while our non-users are the ones who are asking us to do it. As Rainie said, this is our biggest dilemma summed up in one sentence. It's difficult for innovators to abandon our customer base in order to innovate. Why screw around with our users? Disruptive sources…disruptive sources, son. Raine recommended two books: The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. The second book states that in order to truly innovate in institutions that have deep pockets of resistance to change, you have to set up a skunkworks, a separate parallel institution, in order to facilitate any real innovation. Word. Users would like the most from us (in terms of new servies): online ask-a-librarian services, cell phone apps for library services, tech petting zoos, GPS app to navigate the library, kiosks for library checkouts around town, personalized recommendations, classes on downloading eBooks, pre-loaded eBook readers, digital media labs, and instruction on using eReading devices. African Americans and Latinos are especially enthusiastic about libraries offering these new services.
5. Libraries have a mandate to intervene in community life.
These are big numbers! 77% of people think libraries should coordinate more closely with local schools to provide resources to kids. 77% also think libraries should offer free early literacy programs to help young children prepare for school. Part of this is the affection for libraries and librarians, but people also think the library has some "secret sauce" that the local schools don't (they trust us more). Libraries are at once people, place, and platform. Some examples of market and cultural shortcomings libraries are (and could) address: technology non-users/skills training in new literacies, pre-school programs, after school activities, English as a Second Language issues, lifelong learning opportunities and credentialing competency, fill gaps in local media ecosystems by performing community and civic information curation, help small businesses and non-profits, and be serendipity agents of discovery (as people set up more filters for information they miss out on serendipitous discovery…which we can help with).


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