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For the first time since he seized control of Pakistan in a 1999 coup, Pervez Musharraf's presidency appears to be out of his hands.
The comprehensive defeat of the political forces that were loyal to him in Monday's election – coupled with his retirement as Army chief in November – means he is a man with no meaningful bases of support and only nominal powers as president, experts say.
The man so adept at surviving repeated crises now has few viable options, they say.
If he chooses to fight and use the powers of the presidency, opposition parties will create chaos in the country. If he reinvents himself as a conciliatory elder statesman, the parties might still reject him, not wanting to save an unpopular leader.
It means that the United States, which for so long has depended on Musharraf as "one-stop shopping," is now hastily trying to understand the levers of power in Pakistan's new and more diffuse political scenario.
"Musharraf and the US had reached a stable working relationship – his departure would raise questions in Washington about how to manage the partnership and where to go for assistance, both in a tactical sense and a longer-term one," says Daniel Markey, a Pakistan expert for the US-based Council on Foreign Relations, in an e-mail.
At the moment, Mr. Musharraf's departure does not seem imminent. Nawaz Sharif has demanded that he step down, and Asif Zardari has said he will bring the issue before parliament. As the leaders of the two biggest winners in Monday's vote, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), respectively, their positions are significant.
But Musharraf has refused, and Messrs. Zardari and Sharif are just beginning to try to form a coalition government together – a process that could take days. With only five seats remaining undeclared, the PPP had 88 seats and the PML-N 65 in the 272-seat National Assembly. The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), which supports Musharraf, had 37.
Musharraf strikes a cooperative tone
In the few public statements Musharraf has made since the election, he has struck a cooperative tone, suggesting he will work with whoever comes to power. He will have little choice, particularly if the PPP and PML-N succeed in forming a coalition.
"He has no cards to play," says Rasul Baksh Rais, a political scientist at the Lahore University of Management Science. If Musharraf uses his presidential power to defy the new legislature or dissolve it, the political opposition "could shut down Pakistan with one phone call, and he could not control that."
For now, the power shift is making American foreign policy officials scramble. In the long run, however, it could work to America's benefit, experts say.
"Putting together a bilateral relationship that is based on broader institutional ties is healthy, as is having a civilian government in Islamabad," writes Mr. Markey. "Only popular parties can mobilize support for policies that hit at the roots of extremism and militancy."
The remaining question is what will happen to Musharraf. Among those who have come into personal contact with him, there is a sense that he will understand the depth of his current predicament.
"He is an intelligent man. He will know he is not in a position to dictate things," says Mahmood Shah, who helped coordinate Musharraf's policies in the tribal belt as former secretary of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. "Even if he tries to cling to power, it will be very difficult," Mr. Shah continues.
The coming days or weeks will be a test of whether Musharraf's legendary survival instincts have their limits, say others. "He will first try to see if he has any future working with these political parties," says Ikram Sehgal, editor of Defence Journal. "If it is not tenable, he will lay out a plan to say good-bye."
"He knows very well that the Army will not support him" if he challenges the parliament, Mr. Sehgal adds.
Should Musharraf prove confrontational, however, Zardari has said he would not rule out impeachment. This is particularly bad news for Musharraf, since Zardari's PPP has generally been more tolerant of Musharraf than Sharif's PML-N, which has categorically refused to work with Musharraf, partly because Musharraf overthrew Sharif in his 1999 coup.
The process of impeachment is relatively simple, requiring only a two-thirds vote in the general assembly and the Senate. The Senate is still filled with Musharraf's allies, since it is not up for reelection until next year. But senators might be tempted to abandon Musharraf if his situation looks untenable. The Army, however, would be loath to see its former leader humiliated in such a way and could step in to convince Musharraf to go, if it came to that point, says Sehgal.
Credit for allowing a fair vote
Among Pakistanis, there has been some grudging respect for Musharraf after the election – offering him credit for allowing a vote that undermined his own authority.
"I think he should stay," says a man eating ice cream along a Lahore side street, declining to give his name. "If he had fair elections, he should be given a chance."
But this man is in the vast minority. For Sajjid Hussain, standing nearby, the results from Monday's elections were welcome news. But there remains unfinished business, he says: "I will be happy when Musharraf steps down."


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As the Kennett Symphony of Chester County enters its conductor search series, it began with an opening concert that had the audience giving standing ovations and cries of 'Bravo!'
The first conductor to lead the orchestra in this series was the exciting Michael Hall. His dramatic, emotionally involved style of conducting inspired the musicians to perform a performance that had hall absolutely grinning with delight at their performances. It was the first time I have ever seen orchestra members smiling en masses at the completion of playing.
Hall's conducting style varies from gentle hand movements to focused attention on one player or group of musicians to dramatic jabs in the air for precise emphasis. It was an exhilarating evening.
The orchestra played the 'Intermezzo from Hary Janos Suite' to such perfection, bringing out all the warm Hungarian influences, that Hall was obviously delighted at their performance.
The orchestra performed the Grieg 'Piano Concerto in A minor' with pianist Igor Resnianski, who has won numerous piano competitions. He has performed with numerous orchestras, teaches at several noted music schools including West Chester University. He was named Music Teacher of the Year in 2012 by the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association.
His playing was mesmerizing as he gave precise intonation and emotional balance to the sections of the piece. Part of the magic of his performance was the instinctive understanding and harmony apparent between him and the conductor who worked together so perfectly.
There was an amusing moment when the grand piano was moved onto the stage and then there was a long wait as the pianist did not appear. It seems the stage hand had not locked the brakes on the piano. As vigorously as Resnianski plays, he could quite easily have inadvertently moved the large instrument across the stage.
While the first half of the program was exciting, the orchestra was brilliance personified as they played Dvorak's 'Symphony from the New World.' The music was so incredible that the musically knowledgeable audience applauded enthusiastically at the wrong place simply because the music had been played so marvelously they couldn't resist showing their appreciation.
This is a real tribute to the musicians, several of whom had small solos that were done exquisitely.
This was quite a memorable concert. Conductor Hall raised the bar in this first concert in the conductor search series to quite a height. We can't wait for the other two. As Symphony Board President Paul Merluzzi said before the concert, 'You ain't heard nothing yet'.
Two towns The two historic towns of Delaware City and New Castle have joined to present festivals in each town and a 10-mile bicycle ride between the two towns on Saturday, Oct. 5, from noon to 5 p.m. The ride will be on the bike friendly Route 9. Competitive cyclists are encouraged to participate in the River Towns Time Trial for cash and prizes while recreational cyclists can pick their distance and ride for fun or to earn a distance medal.
Each town will have live music stages, rides, attractions, games, tours, vendors, pumpkin carving as well as food and drink. Speaking of drink, both towns will have craft beer with more than a dozen craft breweries participating. At Battery Park in Delaware City it will be available from 1 to 5 p.m., and in Historic New Castle it will be available at all the restaurants. For more information call Julie Miowenger at 302-545-8305.
Posters The Sunset Hill Fine Arts Gallery, 23 N. High St. in West Chester, will have a fascinating look back when they show the posters of Harry Dunn, made at a time when graphic art was done by hand. The show opens Friday, Oct. 4.
Acrobatics Cirque Eloize Cirkopolis, a combination of acrobatics, images, drawings and illusions will open the Broadway Season for the DuPont Theatre on Oct. 1 through 6. This is described as 'a vibrant imaginary world, pushing the boundaries of visual and audio innovation.' In the rest of the series the theatre will offer 'West Side Story',' Dancing With the Movies,' 'Man of La Mancha,' 'Million Dollar Quartet' and 'Stomp.' For tickets call 302-656-4401.
Winterthur Estate Historian Maggie Lidz and Associate Furniture Conservator Stephanie Auffret will speak at Winterthur on caring for outdoor objects at Winterthur. The talk will be on Sept. 26 at 12:15 p.m.
Brandywine Internationally acclaimed saxophonist Jonathan Wintringham, Astral Artists Winner 2013, will perform in concert with award winning pianist and composer Michael Djupstrom at the Brandywine River Museum on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $25. Full bar and small plate offerings will be available. Call 610-388-8326 for tickets. This should be a riveting performance as Wintringham was described as 'a major force in the saxophone world' by American Record Guide while Djupstrom's original composition, Walimai, is quickly becoming part of the American classical saxophone repertoire.
Civil War The Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford is holding a three-day celebration of the Civil War. On Friday, Sept. 27, from 5 to 8 p.m. there will be the opening reception with refreshments, music and a Civil War re-enactor dressed in an authentic uniform. You will see an exciting weapons demonstration and learn about his clothing and his equipment. It will make history very personal when you see a letter written by W.S. Hammer who lowered the Union flag at Fort Sumter and other personal items from the war Reservations are suggested (call 610-388-6545. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.
On Saturday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., there will be the recorded reading by Maya Angelou of 'Lil-'l Dan,' 'The Drummer Boy,' a Civil War Story. Children may make a replica of Li'l Dan's drum. On Sunday, Sept. 29, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. local author Bruce Mowday will tell the untold story about the decisive Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. There will also be a book signing of his latest book, 'Pickett's Charge, The Untold Story.' Signed prints by renowned artist Karl Kuerner will also be available.
Sunflowers Everyone loves sunflowers, and we lucky people have acres of them growing all around us. Myrick Conservation Center is holding a Sunflower celebration on Sunday, Sept. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. These beautiful flowers are locally grown, locally milled and locally sold. You will meet Charles Shattuck of Wild Birds Unlimited and James Hicks of Hicks Brothers L.L.C. for a personal tour while learning about these amazing flowers. You will travel by hay ride, which is the perfect vantage point for photography, and enjoy refreshments and sunflower snacks. Each family gets to pick their own sunflower souvenir. Admission is 5 for members and $10 for non-members.
Route 1 The acres of sunflowers at Route 1 at Route 52 has attracted so many visitors there have been police cars stopped to ease the traffic. The acres of flowers have been crowded with photographers and flower lovers enjoying the view. These plants appear to be the miniature variety rather than the tall variety, but they are still gorgeous sunflowers.
Small World Last week we were at the Rainbow Theatre in Lancaster, a dinner theatre that specializes in comedies and farces. A happy group at the next table turned out to be winners in the Mary Kay organizations. Most of them had won an evening at the dinner theatre, but one. Megan Kalbach of Mountville, had won that coveted pink Cadillac that Mary Kay suppliers work to win. To win it she and her team of 147 ladies had sold about $196,000 worth of cosmetics in six months. That's a lot of selling! One of the dinner theatre winners, Sarah Hauck, was from West Chester. So if you are in need of some cosmetics, give her a call at 646-291-7002.
'Rainmaker' People's Light & Theatre, 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, is presenting 'The Rainmaker' by Philadelphia playwright Richard Nash. Although the story revolves around the Currie farm family, suffering in a killer drought, and the sly, fast talking rainmaker, Bill Starbuck, it is really a love story. Starbuck is a dreamer, and he inspires plain talking and plain looking Lizzie Currie into believing in herself. The farm folk tend to be on the stereotypical side – the sullen brother, the stupid brother, the ineffectual father, etc. With these characters having been given a little too much verbiage, the first act does tend to drag a bit. However, the second act gets moving. The show runs through Oct. 13 with performances Tuesday through Sunday. For tickets call 610-644-3500.
'Hunger' Those who have enjoyed either the 'Hunger Games' best-selling books or blockbuster film have riveted audiences across the world. Now it is coming as a live stage comedy to the DuPont Theatre, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. The show is an unauthorized production and is not associated with author Suzanne Collins or Scholastic. It is suitable for ages 13 and up. For tickets call 1-800-338-0881.
'Annie' The Delaware Children's Theatre will present that heartwarming story about the red-headed orphan, her dog Sandy and Daddy Warbucks, Oct. 5 through Nov. 3. As this is a benefit for the theatre. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for seniors and children. For tickets call 302-655-1014 or mail to 1014 Delaware Ave., Wilmington, DE 19806. All performances are on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Doors open a half hour before show. Seats are first come, first served.
Caryl Huffaker lives in Kennett Township.

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Referee Gene Steratore spoke to the pool reporter about today's controversial call that was the difference in score between the Dolphins and Pittsburgh. The Steelers won, 23-22 on a field goal made possible when they kept the football following what looked like a fumble in the end zone that was recovered by Miami's Ikaika Alama-Francis.
The refs initially called the play a TD. Then they overturned the TD and said it was a fumble. But they didn't complete the job by giving the ball to Miami.
"Naturally, the ruling on the field was a touchdown by Pittsburgh," Steratore said. "After review it was confirmed in replay the ball did come loose and it was a fumble prior to the ball breaking the goal line. That's where we go into the second aspect of that. In order to overturn this and give another team the football, I have to have clear video evidence of that team recovering the fumble. So when a little short segment of what I said out there. That is what I explained. We did have a fumble, but we did not have video evidence and a confirmation on who recovered the football so we changed an aspect of the play by not awarding Pittsburgh the touchdown. Miami is not charged a time out because we changed an aspect of that play, but we could not award the defense in this situation the football because we don't have video evidence of the defense recovering the ball."
Steratore said officials could not determine who recovered the ball because, "it is a pile of bodies in there and you don't have a clear recovery."
Asked again by he could not determine who recovered the ball, he said, "We confirmed that there was a fumble and we not able to confirm a clear recovery by the defense."
Steratore, by the way, was born in Washington, PA., which is 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh. He still lives and has a business in the region.


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The following is a letter from AAA President Virginia R Dominguez regarding the association's long range plan.
Every so often an event or statement captures the attention of anthropologists on important issues for the profession, regardless of the intentions of those involved in sponsoring the event or formulating the statement. The past 10-12 days are an excellent example.
When such an issue presents itself, I hope we can use these moments of reflections and debate to strengthen our profession and our engagement with it. I have long been interested in who we are, what work we do, and how our commonalities and differences (past and present) are all still anchored in our shared interest in humanity in all of its aspects and diversity.
I urge you to read the statement issued by the four AAA officers yesterday and posted on the AAA Home Page along with a direct link to the document that sparked the recent discussion and public debate.
The document to which I refer is a revised AAA Long Range Plan. The plan, originally adopted and occasionally amended by the AAA Executive Board, is one element of the Board's process of planning for the future, our use of resources, and our stewardship of the association. The AAA Executive Board uses it as it fulfills its legal duty to the AAA membership to plan for a sustainable future.
Upon reading the revised Long Range Plan, if you have suggestions to strengthen and improve it, I urge you to forward them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com or post them here so that the AAA Executive Board can benefit from your wisdom and counsel.


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* AmEx to refund $85 mln to 250,000 consumers, CFPB says
* Company will also pay $27.5 mln penalty to federal regulators
* Problems include marketing, debt collection, late fees
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By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - American Express will refund $85 million to customers to resolve charges that three subsidiaries broke consumer protection laws across the credit card business, U.S. regulators said on Monday.
Subsidiaries misrepresented the perks consumers would receive if they enrolled in a credit card program, charged certain consumers higher late fees than were legally permissible, misled consumers about debt collection and committed other violations, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
In addition to the refund to about 250,000 customers, American Express will pay civil penalties totaling $27.5 million to the CFPB, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
"Several American Express companies violated consumer protection laws and those laws were violated at all stages of the game - from the moment a consumer shopped for a card to the moment the consumer got a phone call about long overdue debt," CFPB Director Richard Cordray said.
The consumer bureau was created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law and charged with overseeing credit cards, mortgage loans and other consumer financial products.
Since opening in July 2011, the agency has gone after credit card companies for violating consumer laws. Discover Bank, part of Discover Financial Services , agreed to pay $214 million to resolve charges of deceptive marketing. Capital One Financial Corp was fined $210 million in July on similar charges.
The latest probe identified marketing violations and other problems that occurred from 2003 to the spring of 2012 at American Express Centurion Bank, American Express Bank and American Express Travel Related Services Company.
Those companies are responsible for notifying consumers.
"From the moment we learned of the wrongdoing at American Express, we have been troubled by the range of problems that our examination process uncovered," said Kent Markus, assistant director of enforcement at the CFPB. "The legal violations we discovered span the lifecycle of a consumer's experience with American Express cards."
American Express is conducting an internal probe of the violations and has already counted a "substantial portion" of expenses related to the charges against its earnings, spokeswoman Marina Norville said.
American Express said in February that it was expecting regulators to bring enforcement actions related to late fees charged on certain card accounts.
Consumers are expected to receive payments by March 15, 2013, the CFPB said.
(Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz, Bernard Orr)
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|lolli socks mcn in colorway pink lemonade
|silk cashmere aran in colorway hippolyta
melissa's skeins can hold their own right next to madelinetosh so if you are a tosh addict you will not be disappointed by sweet fiber. trust me on that. gorgeous! i was lucky enough to get some of her adorable stitch markers as well that come in the cutest bottle evah! i squeal whenever i look at them!
i also finally found a skein of yarn to match my bright coral colored winter jacket so i could make some rathtrevor mitts. i love the colors in this yarn and the new rastita by malabrigo is so lovely to work and knit with! i saw many a pair of rastita rathtrevor mitts on our tour and couldn't resist knitting up a pair for myself in this slightly felted super soft yarn!
|malabrigo rastita in colorway piedras
i'm working on my next fat quarter gang project for art gallery fabrics using one of my fave peeps line - "color me retro" by the adorable jeni baker of in color order! i love that it matches all my pyrex!!! you rock jeni! i can't wait to sew with this!
i also ordered from one of my fave online shops (& our sponsor) fabricworm some of sarah watts new line "timber and leaf " and stocked up on my robert kaufman yarn dyed essex linen in denim and flax as well. i can never have enough of these. they are truly a staple in my fabric arsenal.
"luxe in bloom" it's so gorgeous and so pretty! this is going to be a quilt for me for sure! it's stunning and such a soothing and lovely palette! i am such a huge fan of sarah's work and can't wait for he new line coming out as well "indian summer".
and coming soon is a new tutorial of mine featuring some of pat bravo's new line - carnaby street! so bright, colorful and filled with prints that are stylish and happy! i will definitely be using this line in all sorts of fun projects! pat always does such a great job creating lines that are so interchangeable and exciting!
so what are you guys crushing on? any new fabric lines or yarns you just got or are saving up to get? i'm eagerly awaiting tsuru by rashida coleman hale for cloud 9 fabrics. i am buying the whole darn line. i luuuuurv it! grab a coffee and let's share our crushes! it's a great way to find new fabrics and yarns to spoil ourselves with! have a wonderful crush filled weekend <3


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These aluminum fuel tanks are designed to fit between the frame rail and rearward of the axle on 1948-60 Ford F-1 & F-100 trucks. By moving the tank out of the cab, you gain much needed room to allow for further customization, also increases fuel capacity and safety!
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Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is going to have to come up with a better explanation for why he failed a drug test than tainted meat.
The World-Anti Doping Agency (WADA) rejected the Spanish cyclist's claims that he accidentially ingested the banned supplement clenbuterol near the end of this year's race, reports Reuters.
"It's been raised before, it's been heard in a couple of cases and rejected," said WADA director general David Howman. "It's not unusual."
Contador was provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) last month after the positive test results were made public.
Howman said that Contador needed to provide actual evidence of his claim.
"The issue is, can you prove it? It's a pretty hard thing to prove that is where it (the banned substance) comes from," he said.
Contador has another problem in that plastic residues were reportedly found in his blood along with the supplement, suggesting that he may have undergone blood transfusions, which are also banned in the sport.
The three-time Tour winner announced that he will not attend the 2011 race's presentation in Paris next week due to his suspension.
Selected Reading: Reuters, Associated Press, Cycling Weekly


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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Neurointerventional surgery journal accepted into Medline
The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) and medical publisher BMJ Group have announced that the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (JNIS) has been accepted for inclusion in Medline, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). This will make the journal's articles searchable using PubMed. Indexing using the NLM's advanced MeSH terminology will be retroactive from Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal.
The Journal also received its first impact factor for 2010 (1.069) from Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge. Indexing by both Medline and Web of Knowledge will not only assure authors submitting their work to JNIS that it will be viewed and cited more widely than before, but also have a positive impact on manuscript submissions and international readership, according to the JNIS. In fact, the volume of submissions already being received by the Journal means that the frequency will be increased to six issues per year in 2012. All accepted content is published online within a few weeks of acceptance, but the increase in frequency means that articles can be assigned more quickly to a print issue.
"I want to congratulate Rob Tarr and his editorial team at JNIS for this wonderful accomplishment," said SNIS President Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, a Mass General physician who serves as Director of the Neuroendovascular Program, Chief of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Associate Vice Chair of Interventional Care. "It is hard to believe that in less than three years, JNIS went from being an Executive Committee concept to being indexed with a variety of academic databases and having a Thomson Reuters JCI Impact Factor. This most recent achievement furthers our societal mission of advancing neurointerventional care throughout the globe by fostering dissemination of knowledge and cutting-edge research. This is a great day for SNIS worldwide and our members should rightfully take great pride in being a part of it."
Rob Tarr, JNIS Editor-in-Chief adds, "This is certainly an important milestone for our Journal. Indexing in Medline helps lay the foundation for establishing JNIS as a highly respected scientific journal. I would like to thank all those who have supported JNIS in its endeavors thus far and look forward to your continued contributions."
Members of Mass General's neurointerventional team have played a key role in the success of the JNIS: Hirsch was a founding editor, Albert J. Yoo, MD, has served as a book review editor, and other team members have been prolific contributors and reviewers, Hirsch added.
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HOTSEAT- Bless the beasts: Kogut takes SPCA to no kill
In the recent neighborhood cat-shooting case, Susanne Kogut was one of the boldest voices calling for punishment; but as the director of the area's top animal shelter, her main mission has been mercy.
She took the helm of the Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA in March 2005. If some of the initial demands she placed on her staff set tongues wagging, the only wagging going on now is the tails of the animals whose lives she's saved.
"I thought we'd be where we are today in about three years," says Kogut, who recently celebrated achieving a "no kill" policy at the shelter.
After practicing as a lawyer in D.C. for more than a decade, Kogut says she decided two years ago that working with animals is how she wanted to spend the "second half" of her life.
Although Kogut had been offered a job at an animal shelter in Portland, Maine, she says when she saw the Charlottesville position advertised online, she headed south because Charlottesville had bigger challenges.
There was a new facility, a staff of 40, and dozens of volunteers. But many felt disenfranchised, Kogut says. Perhaps the biggest problem Kogut faced was the hundreds of stray dogs and cats coming in annually, many of which had to be euthanized because there wasn't enough space to house them.
The cat problem was "almost too overwhelming," Kogut says. So she first focused on saving the dogs.
"The answer is just to say no to euthanizing," she says. "You may have to put a dog in an office or in a bathroom with a baby gate until you can figure out what to do."
Kogut says her staff and volunteers worked overtime, trying to increase the base of foster homes that would take animals waiting to be adopted. They shipped dogs to shelters in the northeast, where there are fewer animals available for adoption, and they coordinated their efforts with various animal rescue groups. It worked.
"We were no-kill for dogs by December 2005," says Kogut. (The shelter still euthanizes animals deemed too ill or aggressive for adoption.)
Kogut says the success with dogs was so encouraging that by using the same methods, the SPCA achieved no kill status for cats a few months later. And that's brought some smiles.
"She's demanded only the best for the creatures," says longtime volunteer and SPCA board member Jenny Mead, "and in doing so she's brought out the best in the staff, volunteers, and the board."
Mead, whose mother, Sally Mead, directed the SPCA from the late 1960s until her death in 1989, says Kogut grasps the idea that pets have "evolved from working parts of households to companions.
"They're not just cute fluffy things that you own," says Mead, "they're parts of families."
It's that recognition that Kogut says keeps her motivated.
"When an animal comes in that door, its life depends on us," she says. "It's a huge sense of responsibility and obligation. To turn your back on that is impossible."
Age: 41
Why here? The job
What's worst about living here? I work more now than ever, with a high stress level, even more than when I was a young lawyer doing investment and securities transactions.
Favorite hangout? See above– I've been here slightly over a year, and pretty much go from work to home. I have no hangout in Charlottesville, yet!
Most overrated virtue? Patience– especially when you're trying to accomplish things very quickly.
People would be surprised to know: I was an incredibly shy child.
What would you change about yourself? Lately, my diet and exercise routine.
Proudest accomplishment? Graduating from law school at the top of my class. I was definitely not one of the most intelligent ones there, but I worked hard and studied all the time. It paid off in the end.
People find most annoying about you: I'm very direct and determined.
Whom do you admire? Oprah Winfrey, Kweisi Mfume, and Jimmy Carter. Really any people who overcome life's hurdles to make something of themeselves and then gives back to others.
Favorite book? Joshua, by Joseph Girzone
Subject that causes you to rant? Gossip– it's unproductive and unkind.
Biggest 21st-century thrill? I bought a trailer, took my two dogs, and hit the road to travel the US and Canada for about a year, no schedule at all.
Biggest 21st-century creep out? Brown recluse spiders that live in my house.
What do you drive? Toyota Landcruiser
In your car CD player right now: Casting Crowns, Third Day, and Mercy Me
Next journey? Just came back from Maine– I expect my next journey will be to Maine or Nova Scotia again.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Middle school trip– my friends thought airplane seat belts would make good souvenirs. The Federal Aviation department did not see it that way. It sounds pretty stupid now.
Regret: I wish I saved more money when I was younger.
Favorite comfort food: Mashed potatoes or chocolate
Always in your refrigerator: Lean Cuisine and Coke
Must-see TV: I'm too busy to stay home for the cable or satellite man, so I only receive NBC on my antenna. A friend tapes Grey's Anatomy for me, so I guess that would be my must-see TV.
Favorite cartoon: Dilbert
Describe a perfect day. At home, on my back porch, cooking out with friends, with my dogs running all over.
Walter Mitty fantasy: Having a gift and understanding of difficult dogs, like Cesar Millan.
Who'd play you in the movie? Sandra Bullock
Most embarrassing moment? Not sure if it's the most embarrassing, but I still remember it today. I was a young lawyer, on an important conference call with senior partners and some State Department attorneys (of course, I was trying to impress them). I messed up with the speaker phone and hung-up on everyone.
Best advice you ever got? Go with your gut.
Favorite bumper sticker? No Jesus, No Peace; Know Jesus, Know Peace
Susanne Kogut PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO


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Five new African world heritage sites were inscribed this year on the World Heritage List, including the first site for Chad (Lakes of Ounianga), Cameroon, Congo and the Central African Republic (Sangha Tri national). The additions include Morocco's elegant capital city (Rabat); the old colonial capital of Cote d'Ivoire (Grand-Bassam); a diverse "cultural landscape" in rural Senegal (Bassari, Fula and Bedik).
A series of freshwater lakes nestled amongst the dunes in the heart of the Sahara; and an intriguing rainforest where gorillas share salt-lick clearings with forest elephants. The process of getting each new site added to the World Heritage List is a long and rigorous one designed to ensure that only the 'best of the best' places achieve this coveted status.
We invite you to contribute to the development of the prestigious World Heritage List by making your own nomination(s) for consideration in 2015.


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Not sure you'd want to wear it in public though
While there is a certain drive at the moment for retro-styled cycling kit, the Course Superleggera jersey by Louis Garneau is all about technology and performance. It excels in both departments.
Part of Louis Garneau's Road Elite range which they brilliantly describe as being for 'any cyclist whose passion fringes lunacy' the Superleggera is designed to be superlight and super breathable. Pretty super then.
Fit & Construction
The bulk of the jersey is made from coldblack Mondo, an 86%/14% micro-polyester/spandex mix so called because the material comes with a finish which reflects heat rather than absorbing it. Not so much an issue with the white version we've got here for test but on the similar Course Race jersey it worked very successfully in strong sunlight.
Garneau kit is split into various fit styles from relaxed through form fitting. The closest fit is Next to Skin, and that's how the Superleggera is designed.
Louis Garneau uses a fabric called Mesh 1001 for the chest, arms and mid back to wick sweat away from the body. It is a base layer material so obviously works better next to your skin where perforations create a layer of air that retains body heat.
The remaining panels are Lazer Rev which is a compression style material designed to offer support to the muscles and keep the jersey shape.
As far as fit goes all three of the various materials are very smooth and soft to the touch. Thanks to the Next to Skin fit the jersey looks tiny on the hanger, like a kid's jersey. The material stretches to fit and then stays put thanks to the wide silicone band at the rear.
The Lazer Rev material at the arms uses the compressive properties to keep things in place as you move about. The shoulders are shaped so the jersey actually moves very little as you move from a standing to crouched position.
A full length zip enables more ventilation if needed but to be fair the way the mesh panels work it's going to very hot before that's necessary. You find the usual three pockets at the rear and they are certainly plenty deep enough with the two side ones being angled making it easier to get stuff into them while riding. There is also channelling for headphone wires up through the jersey.
How does the Superleggera perform and does it justify its £110 price tag? For the latter part of that question it's a resounding yes. Compared to the competition at this price point the mix of fit, performance and comfort are about as good as it gets.
From 20°C upwards the wicking properties are very impressive and the wicking mesh panels are positioned in just the right place. Your shoulders are always in the wind flow whether you're standing or seated and you can actually feel the heat coming off of your body as you're riding. The material also carries a SPF rating of 50 so you shouldn't get burnt through the mesh either.
Riding in chillier temperatures isn't really an issue either. Starting a long ride early morning when things are a bit fresh, say 10 degrees is still comfortable once you get your body temperature up after a few miles.
The Superleggera feels like a second skin and moves with you without bunching anywhere. The materials are very soft to the touch and feel great against the body.
There is an impressive range of eight sizes with chest sizes from 34 to 48 inches. The are two colour options of white/black or black/white both with red accents.
The quality is also top notch, it just looks and feels like a high end bit of kit and literally makes you feel good while you are wearing it. Although it's pretty robust Garneau does recommend you do your best to resist snagging it as like any knitted material abrasive surfaces will pull on the threads.
Overall the Superleggera is a top end jersey with a top end price backed up by top end performance with nothing in the way of sacrifice.
Top performing jersey with great fit and comfort while stacking up well on the bang per buck scale.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Louis Garneau Course Superleggera Jersey
Size tested: Medium, white
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Superleggera is aimed at performance riders who want something light and very breathable for hot days. The jersey is certainly both of those and an all round top level bit of kit
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
coldblack coated lycra to reflect heat (black version)
Mesh 1001 fro base layer breathability from a jersey
laser cut grippers
full zip
SPF50 sun protection
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
absolutely top notch performance, comfort and fit and the outlay of cash isn't going to be wasted
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
the fit and breathability on warm days
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
nothing really
Did you enjoy using the product? yes
Would you consider buying the product? yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? yes
About the tester
Age: 34 Height: 180cm Weight: 76kg
I usually ride: Ribble Winter Trainer for commuting, Genesis Flyer My best bike is: Sarto Rovigo
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, fixed/singlespeed,
Stu knocked out his first road.cc review back in 2009 and since then he's chucked the best part of seventy test bikes around the West Country, a couple of them quite literally! With three alloy and two steel bikes in his fleet he's definitely a metal man (that'll be the engineering background) but is slowly warming to that modern carbon fibre stuff along with fat tyres & disc brakes.
It's not all nostalgia though, after spending the last few years in product design Stu keeps banging on about how 3D printing is going to be the next big thing and he's a sucker for a beautiful paint job too.


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As I have not played a mission where a train is derailed, it must be in TLAD or CW (which I haven't played as I don't have a 360 or DS). What is the name of the mission so we can add a link. Thanks! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 05:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
- No Way on the Subway in GTA IV. It spawns as derailed, you don't actually see it derail.--spaceeinstein 06:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
- Heh, it was worded wrong. Thanks for fixing that! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 06:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
you forgot to add him even though he is supposed to be fake. user--Stephendwan 10:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Freight railway
A recent edit mentions old, abandoned railroad seen around the city. I doubt it shared the same railroad as the subway. Where should this info be placed?--Spaceeinstein 14:56, October 3, 2009 (UTC)
- I have also wondered if the trains shared the rail system with the subways. I'm surprised the page doesn't mention the freight train depot in Firefly Projects that is actually connected to the nearby elevated rails.--Thescarydude 15:11, October 3, 2009 (UTC)
Real-Life Picture?
What is a picture of the NYC Subway doing there? I mean, it may be based off of the NYC Subway, but it doesn't belong there.
- I'm re-reading the caption and it seems like the user misuploaded the image.--Spaceeinstein 05:26, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
Wanted Level for Stolen Vehicle
Didn't see any trivia or anything about it, so I thought I'd make a discussion to see if anyone else had encountered this. Today while boarding the C Train at the West Park station, I gained a one-star wanted level which the police scanner attributed to a 'stolen vehicle'. Given I was on the train and it was already in motion, I quickly lost the attention, but it was still a bit odd in my opinion. For reference, this was on the PC version.
Is this a unique occurrence, or a routine bug? 〆vonPreußen/talk


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35 Years Ago: Cheap Trick's 'Heaven Tonight' Album Released
In a span of less than six months, Cheap Trick released one of the all-time great debut albums and its terrific follow-up. The group then delivered a rock and roll triple play with the release of 'Heaven Tonight' in May of 1978.
In 1977, Cheap Trick hit the road with everyone from Kiss and the Kinks, to Queen and Be-Bop Deluxe, steadily picking up fans. Their Jack Douglas-produced self-titled debut LP was a raw, hard rock powerhouse; Tom Werman's production on their sophomore effort 'In Color' was more polished and less to the band's liking.
"We told him we wanted it to sound like the Sex Pistols' first singles," guitarist Rick Nielsen told Joe Benson on the radio program 'Off the Record.' "He said he didn't like the Sex Pistols, and I said, 'I don't care what you like!'" Werman won the battle in the end and, for better or worse, gave Cheap Trick their pure pop sound.
Werman was back for Cheap Trick's third album, but this time they met halfway, leaving the pop shine but adding some grit to the mix. "I think of myself as having popularized Cheap Trick," Werman told Record Review magazine. "Those are great productions, among the best things I have ever done. Then of course I ate s–t for all the work I did: 'Werman's slick production has taken the hard edge off the band' and all that."
This left the band's record company a bit confused about how to market the group, who weaved various influences until they got to a sound that was all their own. Everyone from the Beatles, the Move and Alex Harvey to the Pistols, the Yardbirds and the Who can be heard in Cheap Trick's music, which is why they were labeled as everything from power pop and New Wave to hard rock and straightforward rock and roll back in the day.
'Heaven Tonight' was stocked from start to finish with great songs, great performances and a great sonic charge. Songs about love, death, life, sex, suicide, weird parents and drugs made up the LP. And any album that kicks off with 'Surrender' has a head start to greatness. It's lyrically brilliant and musically unforgettable. Nielsen came up with a genuine classic in 'Surrender' that has lost none of its punch over the past 35 years.
The next song, 'On Top of the World,' remains one of Nielsen's finest, with a killer hook at its core. Robin Zander sings about sex, religion and ego — not your average Top 40 fare. A cover of the Move's 'California Man' follows, and it's a better version of the song than the original, even tossing in a riff from another Move tune, 'Brontosaurus,' for good measure. 'High Roller' is powered by a simple but dynamic guitar riff and a killer Nielsen guitar solo.
As side one comes to a close, Cheap Trick deliver one of their greatest moments: 'Auf Wiedersehen,' a top-flight hard rocker with a lyrical nod to Bob Dylan (via Jimi Hendrix) and a lingering refrain of "suicide" delivered by Zander in one of his most effective snarling vocals. Meanwhile, Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos drive it all home. Petersson's 12-string bass also adds a new sonic element that would figure heavily into the band's sound from here on out.
'Takin' Me Back' and 'On the Radio' get side two going in pristine pop form. Sweet melodies and great arrangements elevate Cheap Trick's pop game to new heights here. The album's title track takes the band somewhere else entirely; it's a brooding, psychedelic tour de force. Tom Petersson admits in the band bio 'Reputation Is a Fragile Thing' that they "tried to make it sound like 'Kashmir,' like a Led Zeppelin sound." The use of cello, harpsichord and Nielsen's mandocello helps create the song's haunting mood. "It's kind of an anti-drug song," Nielsen said in the same book. "I wrote about things I saw. I knew Tommy Bolin and Jimi Hendrix. You might never come down."
With 'Stiff Competition' — and its riff somewhat inspired by the Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' — we're back to hard-riffing terrain and Zander singing more of Nielsen's double- and triple-entendres. 'How Are You?' wraps the album in another moment of pure pop greatness. It's a bouncy little tune with an insanely catchy chorus that name-checks 'In Color"s 'I Want You to Want Me.' As the last grooves spin out, the band comes surging back with 'Oh Claire' and a powerhouse riff underlining the Japanese greeting of 'Konnichiwa,' the band's message to its rabid following overseas.
'Heaven Tonight' was released in Japan a few weeks before its US debut, since Cheap Trick were on tour there. Treated as superstars, their success in Japan would ultimately lay the groundwork for their stateside domination the following year.


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About The Event
The 30 Doradus or Tarantula Nebula region of the Large Magellanic Cloud is synonymous with many superlatives in astronomy, hosting as it does
- the most massive young resolved cluster, R136
- the most massive stars yet discovered
- the fastest rotating O-type stars
- the most massive runaway star
Its unique accessibility to detailed study covering the electromagnetic spectrum from X-ray, UV, optical, IR through radio is reflected in the many detailed surveys of this region with facilities such as HST, Chandra, Spitzer, VLT-Flames and VISTA. While it is certainly a challenge to understand this wealth of information for what is a very complex region it is one well worth addressing since 30 Doradus may have much to teach us about more distant unresolved starbursts and super star clusters.
The aim of this mini-workshop is to review recent results and outstanding theoretical issues and to examine the extent to which our knowledge of 30 Doradus can be used to improve our understanding of distant starbursts and star clusters. It will focus on five closely related themes:
- Formation
- Environment
- Content
- Evolution
- Relevance to Super Star Clusters and Starbursts
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Daniela Calzetti - University of Massachusetts
- You-Hua Chu - University of Illinois
- Paul Crowther - University of Sheffield
- Chris Evans - UK Astronomy Technology Centre Edinburgh
- Jay Gallagher - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Remy Indebetouw - University of Virginia
- Laura Lopez - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Hugues Sana - University of Amsterdam
- Leisa Townsley - Penn State University
- Hans Zinnecker - SOFIA
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Chelone Miller Remembered
MAMMOTH LAKES, CA (April 8) - Professional snowboarder Chelone "Chilly' Miller (Mammoth Lakes, CA) was known just as much for his optimism and kind personality he was for his fearless presence on Mammoth Mountain's biggest park features. He passed away early Sunday morning from an apparent seizure, stemming from a 2005 motorcycle accident that placed him in coma for 11 days. Chilly is the younger brother of alpine ski racer Bode Miller, but made his own name with his go-huge style at Loon Mountain, near his boyhood home in New Hampshire.
His return to competitive snowboarding was inspiring, and in 2010, he solidified his return with a superpark victory at Mammoth using this signature style. In recent years, he had been focusing on snowboardcross in order to qualify for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Just over a month ago, his Olympic dream showed promise as he finished fourth in the 2013 Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix at Canyons, UT and on March 12 he won the Rahlves Banzai Tour overall title with a victory in Sugar Bowl, CA.
"Chelone Miller was an aspiring elite athlete who had made great progress as a snowboardcross rider this past season. We are all deeply saddened at the news of his death and extend our condolences to the entire Miller family," said U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association President and CEO Bill Marolt.
His career also included both filming with Warren Miller and other companies. Information on services is pending.


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Nutraceutical Stock Scams—Don't Supplement Your Portfolio With These Companies
Want to lose weight, get an energy boost, improve potency, live longer or fight the common cold? Many of the products that claim to achieve these objectives are called "nutraceuticals," a term used to describe dietary supplements and food and drink products that contain additives purporting to provide health benefits. The financial reality, however, is that some of the companies associated with these products are likely to make your portfolio very unhealthy.
FINRA is issuing this alert to warn investors about potential scams related to everything from fortified foods and energy drinks to "natural" medicines. While some of the companies producing these products are legitimate, others could be bogus operations with the potential to harm unsuspecting investors.
Spotting Potential Stock Scams
Like many investment scams, those associated with nutraceutical products may arrive in a variety of ways—from phone, fax, email or text messages to webinars, infomercials, tweets, blogs or message board posts. Regardless of how you first hear about them, these ploys typically contain classic red flags of fraud.
In particular, fraudsters may try to lure you with very aggressive, optimistic and potentially false and misleading statements or press releases that create unwarranted demand for shares of some small, thinly-traded company that often has little or no history of financial success. The con artists behind the scam can then sell off their shares, leaving investors with worthless stock. This is what's known as a "pump and dump" fraud. For example, one company claimed to have acquired rights to "all-natural" medicines that treat maladies ranging from the common cold to kidney disease. While stating in a press release that the company "has the potential to capture 3% of the US market within a 3 year period" and "potentially generate "$100,000,000 in revenues," the company's unaudited financials reveal a firm with almost no cash on hand or track record of sales.
How do you spot potential scams and distinguish frauds from legitimate investment opportunities? Scam signals include:
- Price targets or predications of swift and exponential growth. One promotional mailer from a thinly-traded nutraceutical manufacturing company stated in bold typeface the company could produce "813% Short Term Gains."
- Unsolicited communications promoting the opportunity. These can include phone calls, faxes, emails, text messages, tweets and strategically placed "opinions" in blogs and message boards, usually related to a very low-priced stock. One health supplement company was the subject of over 50 email investor "alerts" put out by promotional entities in a 12-day period.
- References to well-known companies to justify growth projections. Promoters of one nutraceutical company claim the company's brand can "compete with the likes of Gatorade and grab mega talent like NIKE!" Another company compared investing in its stock to investing "in Pfizer in its beginning phases…"
To steer clear of potential scams, follow these tips.
- Consider the source. Never rely solely on information you receive in an unsolicited phone call, fax, email, text message or tweet—or in a blog post or online thread. It's easy for companies or their promoters to make glorified, unsubstantiated claims about new products, lucrative contracts, or the company's revenue, profits or future stock price.
- Always ask: "Why me?" Another tip-off that you're potentially being scammed is that the message is unsolicited, which raises the obvious question: Why would a total stranger tell you about a really great investment opportunity? The answer is that there is no such opportunity. In many scams, those who promote the stock are corporate insiders, paid promoters or substantial shareholders who profit handsomely if the company's stock price goes up.
- Exercise some skepticism. Scammers are very adept at making their pitches appear real, including the use of slick videos and websites. Be extremely wary of any pitch that suggests immediate pay-offs, especially if the investment involves a start-up company or a product or service that is still in development. Even technologies that show promise might be years or decades away from coming to market—let alone turning a profit.
- Find out where the stock trades. Most unsolicited spam recommendations involve stocks that do not trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ OMX), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) or other registered national securities exchanges. Instead, these stocks may be quoted on an over-the-counter (OTC) quote platform like the FINRA-operated Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) and the platform operated by OTC Markets Group, Inc., formerly known as the Pink Sheets.
- Generally, there are no minimum quantitative standards that a company must meet to have its securities quoted in the OTC market.
- Many of the securities quoted in the OTC market do not have a liquid market. They are infrequently traded and can move up or down in price quickly. This may make it difficult to sell your security at a later date.
- Read a company's SEC filings, if available. Most public companies file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Check the SEC's EDGAR database to find out whether the company files with the SEC. Read the reports and verify any information you have heard about the company. But remember that just because a company has registered its securities or has filed reports with the SEC does not mean that it will be a good investment. Also be aware that not all financial information filed with the SEC, or published elsewhere, is independently audited. Unaudited financials are just that—not reviewed by an independent third party.
- Be wary of changes to a company's name or business focus. Stock promoters often change a company's name, trading symbol and even line of business in an attempt to align it more closely with a current event or issue—a trick you will be able to identify by looking at the SEC reports described above.
- One corporation that purports to focus on "nutraceutical, physical performance enhancement and wellness products" was originally incorporated to "provide mailing & shipping services."
- Another company claiming to distribute "specialty drugs and over-the-counter branded multivitamins" only a few months earlier stated in SEC filings that it was "a natural resource exploration and production company engaged in the exploration, acquisition, and development of oil and gas properties in the United States."
- Check out the person promoting the stock or investment. A legitimate investment salesperson must be properly licensed, and his or her firm must be registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the SEC and a state securities regulator—depending on the type of business the firm conducts. To check the background of a broker and his or her firm, use FINRA's BrokerCheck. For an investment adviser, use the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website. Also, be sure to call your state securities regulator. You can find that number in the government section of your local phone book or by contacting the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA).
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Tennessee State Tree - Tulip Tree - Liriodendron tulipifera
Leaf: Alternate, simple, palmately veined, orbicular, 4-lobed with an entire margin, 4 to 8 inches long. Somewhat shaped like a tulip.
Flower: Showy, but high in the tree, 2 1/2 inches long, with yellow-green petals and an orange corolla. Present April to June.
Fruit: An oblong aggregate of samaras, deciduous at maturity. Each samara is 1-winged, 1 1/2 inches long, and 4-angled. Maturing August to October.
Twig: Red-brown in color, often with a shiny appearance or a waxy bloom. Stipules are large and encircle the twig. Buds are elongated and valvate, resembling a "duck bill". Twigs have a sweet, spicy odor when broken.
Bark: Light gray-green in color, often with white in grooves or in patches. Smooth when young, developing flat-topped ridges and furrows in diamond shaped patterns. On older trees sapsucker holes are common.
Form: In a stand, this tree is very straight with a limb-free bowl. Open-grown trees have a pyramidal crown when young, becoming oval in shape.
Photos courtesy: Michael Aust, John Baitey, Ctaude L. Brown, Bruce Bongarten,
Susan D. Day, Edward C. Jensen, Richard E. Kreh, Larry H. McCormick, Alex X.
Niemiera, John A. Peterson, Oana Popescu, John R. Seiter, David W. Smith, Kim
C. Steiner, James E. Ward, Rodney E. Will, Shepard M. Zedaker.
Text written by: John R. Seiter, Edward C. Jensen, Or John A. Peterson


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Also, patient care, such as hygiene and changing sheets, is facilitated if the patient can be lifted with a stretcher instead of manually. Furthermore, the open design allows other equipment, e.g., tubes for respiratory aid, to be connected during the entire transfer operation.
LikoStretch 1900 weighs only 19 kg (42 lbs.) and can be folded for convenient storage.
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Last week I had lunch with my mother. At 86 going on 66 she's remarkable, alert and energetic, in generally high spirits; in the last decade she's found the church, which I figure is fair enough for anyone who knows they must be somewhere near the end. Now this enters her conversation more, which I accept as well as someone can who has a higher opinion of God than of religion. Mom and I used to talk about politics a lot, something that always unnerved my wife, who didn't understand how our contentiousness could be so good natured. But starting with the Iraq War, which made me madder than anything in my political life (including the Vietnam War, when I was a potential draftee), and moving into the Age of Obama, we've tiptoed around the subject of politics, for reasons that became clear at last week's lunch when we skirted the subjects of Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly's Super Bowl interview with the president, health-care reform, and the weather. Mom is an O'Reilly fan; she requested a signed book of his for Christmas which I dutifully got for her, and the truth is there are lots of people I find more noxious than the voluble O'Reilly who, unless he's reneged on it, scored some credibility points with me a year or two back when he told his listeners to get over the fact that the president is indeed an American and not a Kenyan.
Mom was my first political mentor, beginning around the time I was 12 when she took me to hear Barry Goldwater speak in Downtown Los Angeles. But right there in that fact lies the difficulty of our relationship as it currently has to do with politics, because many of the positions that Goldwater held firm for years, having to do with the draft, voting rights, women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights, American Indian rights, the environment, and marijuana legalization just to cite a few, were well to the left of where the Republican Party is now, in the same way that even Ronald Reagan's politics were. That shift notwithstanding, the real problem for Mom and me, as I think is true for many Americans these days, and maybe many sons and daughters and their parents, is that we don't even agree anymore on the cardinal north/south/east/west of a common political compass. It's not that we don't talk the same language; we're not living in the same world, or maybe I mean universe. The matter of climate change is the most dramatic example. Not since acceptance of the earth being round and circling the sun has the science on something been so universal, but as the weather becomes more freakish, which by the lights of Fox News only disproves global warming—because, you know, it's really cold—my Mom rolls her eyes at the liberal conspiracy of it all.
A couple months ago, at the time of the health-care reform rollout, I got a phone call from her. "Boy, your president really has screwed things up," she said, then expressing motherly alarm that my family's coverage might be dropped, something she asked about again at lunch last week when she reiterated festering concerns that in the ongoing bolshevik takeover she'll lose her Medicare, which half a century ago she decried as socialized medicine. Suppressing the snappish retort that Barack Obama is her president as well as mine, I was at a bit of a loss on the occasion of that original phone call, wanting to be sure of the facts that I now tried to present over our chicken pot pies, that my wife and our family aren't losing our coverage and—echoing my attempts to offer many such assurances over the past five years—that Mom isn't losing her Medicare either, and that people are being dropped from policies not by the government but by insurance companies who don't want to update those particular policies to meet the same sort of regulations that the chicken pot pie in front of her has to meet before the restaurant can serve it to her, because those policies only are profitable for the insurance companies if they never pay out, as they're precisely designed to never do.
At such junctures, however, our conversations become not just futile but as loony as all the other discussions these days of so-called Obamacare. They're loony because they're about a law that's already passed and whose success or failure is already underway and will eventually speak for itself in defiance of any effort now to try and interpret that success or failure beforehand, and maybe even in spite of the concerted efforts of Republican governors to sabotage it. All of which is to say that, because Mom gets all her "information" within the bubble of Fox Nation, she missed the recent spectacle occasioned by a Congressional Budget Office report on Obamacare and jobs when the news story became not the report itself but rather the right's interpretation of it, concluding that the report said what in fact it didn't (which is that Obamacare would kill jobs rather than offer more senior workers, for example, the opportunity to leave the job force if they want, since they no longer have to keep a job simply for the health-care benefits). Politics always is about perception to some extent but Obamacare's outcome is beyond the politics of perception, something the right can't accept because it's too vested in a failure that, whatever you might think of the original policy, would be catastrophic, since even most of the right now begrudgingly acknowledges—as heard in the Republican responses to the State of the Union—that the earlier status quo no longer is tenable as it had to do with a health-care system that was on its way to consuming a quarter of the national economy.
Though I didn't have the intellectual honesty to admit this to my mother, in fairness it should be pointed out that the right isn't singularly guilty of such perverse investments. Progressives were similarly vested in the failure of the 2007 Iraq surge championed by Senator John McCain that more dispassionate observers later conceded had some success. But at the least in that instance some consensus existed on what the metrics of success might be—which was stabilization of the Iraqi situation—not to mention the terminology by which success might be defined. In the same way that my mother and I aren't even talking about the same Obamacare when we talk about Obamacare, we're not talking about the same Barack Obama when we talk about Obama. Mom remarked at lunch on how combative and aggressive the president was in his discussion with O'Reilly, that paragon of supernaturally even temperament, even as some of us have been waiting five years for the president's body heat to finally rise within 10 degrees of losing his cool: Get mad for once, why don't you? we wonder while Fox breathlessly monitors every incendiary outburst by the Hothead-in-Chief. I honestly don't know whether this applies to my Mom or not, but the mere fact of Obama—not what he says or does but the sheer existence of his presidency—remains more than much of the country has been able to wrap its head around. Obama's historicity has rendered our current politics one loose screw short of national insanity, of which there may be no more compelling evidence, even setting aside the nitwitted characterization of Obama as the most radical president ever (in which case you might want to acquire some passing familiarity with the administrations of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, either Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson), than that Mitt Romney clearly is running for president again. Let me repeat this for those still earthbound enough to find such a revelation nearly impossible to absorb. Former governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the worst presidential nominee by either party since anti-woman, anti-black, losing-in-a-landslide-even-after-the-Republican-Teapot-Dome-scandal 1924 Democratic nominee John W. Davis, has surveyed the collapse of New Jersey governor Chris Christie and the viability-challenged prospects of Jeb Bush and concluded, correctly and notwithstanding the torrent of demurrals he offered on Meet the Press this past Sunday, that there isn't a single other living Republican hinged enough to win the White House.
Now that I think about it, with the perspective of only a single week, I don't remember what Mom and I talked about at what I do otherwise remember to have been our very pleasant lunch. I seem to recall some comment about how good our government-regulated chicken pot pies were, how my work was going, my ups and downs in parenting her 16-year-old grandson and eight-year-old granddaughter—the stuff that maybe moms and their grown sons should talk about. And then, having flirted with danger at some barely stable nexus of our two parallel political universes, we retreated to other, much simpler matters, like God.


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Sometimes it's fun to take a step back from reality and imagine all the great gaming accessories you would have if the world were a perfect place. Take, for instance, the ultimate surface for table-top role-playing. Or even a keg that's built into a MAME cabinet. Those two things are only scratching the surface of what is possible, however.
First, you put a bar in your house. It's already sounding pretty good, isn't it?
Then, with a hinge and some skills at wiring, you create built-in arcade controls. Oh yes, it's getting even better.
And then you play your favorite arcade games, with your friends, while you drink all the beer you want.
All these images came without links in a Gizmodo post, so I'm thinking this is someone's uber-awesome custom rig, but I have to hand it to them: I've had dreams of the perfect gaming basement that didn't include anything this cool.
I might add a track ball and make the display a little bigger, but this is one of the best things I've seen... well, in my life.


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Some unscientific thoughts on cancer from the Greenhabilitator...
Cancer sucks.
That's pretty much my first reaction when the topic comes up. I'm no doctor, nutritionist, cancer survivor - heck, I was never even good at science in school. So when "environmental links to cancer" came up as the topic of this month's Green Moms Carnival I was hesitant to step up to the plate and write about it.
I watched my father-in-law die from lung cancer just a few years ago and a disgusting number of my friends have been impacted by the disease as well, so I'm no stranger to the subject. I just don't feel like I have a great answer...but I guess no one does quite yet.
It seems like everything these days has a link to cancer. Before we started living a more healthy and sustainable lifestyle, I would wake up and pour a cup of coffee which may give me pancreatic cancer, but could reduce my risk of breast cancer. Or not. Of course I wouldn't want to switch to juice which we found out this week is linked to cancer due to the plastic bottles it's stored in. I'd suggest tap water, but some think that's just as dangerous.
After my morning coffee, I would jump in the shower, complete with cancer-causing vinyl shower curtain liner, where I'd rub chemicals into my skin in the form of facial cleanser, soap, and shaving cream. I know now how much these chemicals are absorbed through the skin. After my shower, I'd put on deodorant (which may or may not cause breast cancer), rub lotion all over my body and put moisturizer and make up on my face.
The more I learned about the environment, chemicals, processed food, BPA, pesticides, plastic, e-waste...the list goes on and on and on...the more my head spun. Every single thing seemed to be linked to some form or another of cancer. But there came a point where I could worry about all of the things that I was doing wrong, or I could just keep working on doing things right. So here are a few cancer-fighting tips I've learned over the past few years~
According to a review by the American Institute for Cancer Research of almost a thousand clinical studies, it is believed that healthier lifestyle choices can reduce the rate of breast cancer rate by 40%. That doesn't mean you need to be a size 4, but those with a healthy BMI are less likely to develop certain kinds of cancer.
Cancers of the colon, breast, prostate, lung and uterus have all been linked to exercise-related prevention. The University of Iowa explains that, "Exercise can help reduce obesity, which is related to the cause of several cancers. It can also change the body's hormone levels, which might also have a favorable effect. Exercise, by speeding up metabolism, is generally believed to speed up the passage of ingested foods through the colon--thus reducing the time the colon mucosal lining is in contact with possible carcinogens."
A study in Cancer Prevention Research suggests that regular physical activity can lower a woman's overall risk of cancer – but only if she gets a good night's sleep. Otherwise, lack of sleep can undermine exercise's cancer prevention benefits. Your body does a lot of healing while you're asleep. Let it work its magic!
Some studies show that alcohol is linked to cancer, while others show that a glass of wine helps to fight it. Coffee may be good or bad. Sugar is bad, but we love it so much. I don't think there's a reason to deprive yourself of any of life's little joys, but enjoy everything in moderation.
These ideas are certainly are not guaranteed to keep you healthy and cancer-free, but they're all proven ways to at least reduce your risk.
May you all enjoy long, healthy and happy lives!


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RFC 5716 introduces the Federated File System (FedFS, for short). FedFS is an extensible standardized mechanism by which system administrators construct a coherent namespace across multiple file servers using file system referrals.
- Name: Jeff Layton
- Email: email@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: August 31, 2011
- Percentage of completion: 10%
Detailed Description
RFC 5716 introduces the Federated File System (FedFS, for short). FedFS is an extensible standardized mechanism by which system administrators construct a coherent namespace across multiple file servers using file system referrals.
A file system referral is like a symbolic link to another file system share, but it is not visible to applications. It behaves like an automounted directory where a new file system mount is done when an application first accesses that directory. The arguments of the mount operation are controlled by information returned by the file server.
Today, file system referral mechanisms exist in several network file system protocols. FedFS provides its namespace features by leveraging referral mechanisms already built in to network file system protocols. Thus no change to file system protocols or clients is required.
Currently, the Linux FedFS implementation supports only NFS version 4 referrals. More on NFS version 4 referrals can be found in RFC 3530. FedFS may support other network file system protocols in the future.
Benefit to Fedora
See detailed description. As this is an emerging standard, we want Fedora to be one of the first operating systems to support it.
Much of the work for this has already been done. Chuck Lever of Oracle has done an implementation of the required userspace tools for this, and I have an initial specfile to package them. There are also some relatively modest kernel patches required that should hopefully make 3.2. We'll probably also need to do some documentation and/or articles describing how to set up both the client and server for FedFS.
How To Test
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- set up fedfs domain and server(s)
- set up fedfs clients
- test that fedfs referrals work
User Experience
The casual Fedora user won't see any changes with this. This should only change the experience for someone who makes the effort to set up and use FedFS.
There are some kernel patches required, but they are fairly modest in scope, and are likely to make it into 3.2.
Contingency Plan
If this can't be completed in time, we simply won't ship fedfs-utils, or may just ship the client side pieces initially.
Alternately we could ship the packages and simply call the feature as broken until it can be resolved. There's little risk in any of these cases.
The package has a fairly comprehensive set of manpages, but we may also need to create some other "How-To" documentation.
Release Notes
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OROVILLE — California officials should conduct an earthquake safety assessment of a Northern California dam that is the linchpin of a major drinking water system in the state, according to a federal inspection obtained by a newspaper.
The Oroville Dam, the tallest in the nation, shows no significant flaws, but inspectors are recommending the assessment because of new information about earthquake hazards in the area, the Sacramento Bee reported today (http://bit.ly/18Mtze9 ).
The 742-foot-high dam on the Feather River forms the main storage facility for the State Water Project, which supplies drinking water to more than 23 million California residents.
The recommendation was included in a 2010 report by consultants working for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees hydroelectric dams in the United States. The Bee said it reviewed a copy of the report following a Public Records Act request.
But state water officials say they do not plan to conduct the review. The dam is sufficiently strong, and the cost of the review would not be justified, they say.
"Even with today's understanding of seismicity and ground motions, Oroville still would meet the criteria that would be set today," said David Panec, chief of dam safety at the state Department of Water Resources' operations and maintenance division. "The dam is essentially overbuilt."
The dam — completed in 1968 — has enough water to serve 7 million average households for a year. Its failure would flood numerous cities downstream.
The dam lies just north of a fault line first revealed after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake in 1975. That quake did not damage the dam.
At issue in the inspectors' report are two other earthquake sources in the area, the Foothill Fault System and the Prairie Creek Fault, according to the Bee.
University of California, Davis, civil engineering professor Ross Boulanger said the computer modeling the inspectors are recommending could cost several hundred thousand dollars.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or California's Division of Safety of Dams could still require the Department of Water Resources to conduct the study.
Dave Gutierrez, chief of the state's dam safety division, said he expects his agency will decide in January whether to order further earthquake studies.


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Sunday Sweets: Tim Burton Tribute!
We all have a favorite Tim Burton movie, be it Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, or Alice in Wonderland. (No one's favorite is Planet of the Apes. FACT.) So to gear up for Halloween, let's check out some ghoulishly gorgeous Burton-inspired Sweets.
How about we start with a little visit to Halloweentown?
Made by Making That Cake
The Nightmare Before Christmas characters were originally made from clay, so they're the perfect candidates for fondant!
Made by Celebra
Check out the hand-painted border on the bottom - so cute!
I love this giant Jack Skellington:
Submitted by Eri R., made by Bluebird Cakes
That's some talented sculpting!
I really like the abstract character designs on these more traditional cake tiers:
By Cake Central member tinazzzvikings74
What? No Zero?
These pretty packages are topped with some of the most realistic "fabric" bows I've ever seen:
Made by Chocmocakes
Ready to go under a Christmas Town tree!
What's this? What's this? There's cuteness in the air!
Uh oh... now I've got THIS stuck in my head.
Look! Lock, Shock, and Barrel!
Submitted by Liz and made by chocmocakes
This cake looks way too amazing to be edible. It's like a prop from the movie!
Moving from one claymation masterpiece to another, let's check out some cakes inspired by The Corpse Bride.
This boned beauty is a replica of the wedding cake in the film:
Photo by BrixtonCat, baker not listed. Anyone know?
The topper is different from the one in the movie, but this one makes me swoooon!
This baker gets bonus points for making two cakes: one for Victor and Emily, the Corpse Bride, and one for Victor and Victoria:
Made by All About Cake
I love those very Burton-esque details, and the fondant toppers are adorable! I'll take them all, please.
I squealed like a little girl when I saw this gorgeous Edward Scissorhands cake:
Made by Christopher Garren's
Every aspect of this cake represents the magic of the film: the ice sculpture, animal topiaries, brightly-colored houses, the hill to Edward's house, and of course... Edward's house!
Absolutely delightful.
Now, for the ghost with the most, for some laughter from the hereafter, for the slave to the grave... Get ready, because IT'S SHOWTIME!
Introducing Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJU....
Maybe I shouldn't.
This goofy ghoul is the spitting image of Beetlejuice's cartoon alter-ego.
And this is from one of my favorite scenes from the movie:
Made by Pixie Dust Cakes
I never would have believe the Beej could look that cute. And check out the busted seams on the couch, and that linoleum "floor"! To die for.
As a life-long Tim Burton fan, I'd be over the moon with any of today's cakes, but this final Burton-inspired beauty is my absolute fav:
Made by LaCaketiere
It's both creepy and whimsical. Creemsical!
Plus, those dingy details really make it look like stone; hard to believe there's soft cake under there!
Take a look at the back:
It only has eyes for you. [smirk]
You can see more detail shots here.
Oh, and in all the research I did for this post, I found NO cakes for Frankenweenie or Mars Attacks! I do believe I've just given you your next mission, bakers. Hop to.
Have a sweet to nominate? Then send it to sundaysweets [at] cakewrecks [dot] com.