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- Don't bring along your valuables. You've heard it before, but leave your valuables at home when traveling. If you bring expensive equipment with you on vacation, like a laptop, keep them in a hotel safe when you're out for the day.
- Don't carry a backpack. Thieves can easily unzip or even worse, cut the bottom your backpack without your knowledge on a crowded metro. Instead, carry a cross-body bag underneath your jacket or wear a money belt. If you must carry a backpack, wear it on the front of your body. You may look silly, but it will keep thieves from unzipping your backpack without your knowledge.
- Blend in. Avoid wearing anything that screams, "I'm a tourist!". This includes your newly purchased "I love London" t-shirt, white athletic shoes and baseball caps. These items will most likely attract thieves as they are known to target Americans.
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Metal Masters Clinic -- Hollywood, CA -- April 12th, 2012
This was the instrument clinic put on by a bunch of members of the Big Four. It was a ton of fun for everyone involved, and I pretty much had the coolest few minutes of my entire life tonight.
Adrenaline Mob started with a thirty minute set. They were okay I guess. Russell Allen actually sounded a lot better tonight than he did on the SX tour, I guess the break from the tour did him some good! If anyone has the setlist, you're more than welcome to post it. If not, I'll try to grab it from the stream.
Now this is where the review is gonna get weird because I straight up can't remember everything and every dude who played on each song (Help me Turtle!!). Frankie, Ellefson, Charlie (on guitar I think?) and Portnoy (again, I think) did a short Iron Maiden jam. Frankie had tech issues, so the rest of the band did Dawn Patrol while they waited haha. Then Frankie came out by himself and talked about growing up and how he got into music and his playing technique and such. He and Charlie did a bass and drums version of Got the Time, which was actually pretty fun. I'm drawing a blank for the rest of the bit right now, but I'm pretty sure there was a stream of the clinic online.
Then Ellefson came out and did the same thing as Frankie. Dude rips on bass, I had no idea he was so good. He played bits of Peace Sells, Devils Island, Hangar 18, The Skull Beneath the Skin, and Public Enemy No. 1. (Mechanix too maybe?). Then he brought out Chris Broderick, Benante, Bello (and maybe Portnoy?) and they did some classic rock/NWOBHM cover that sounded super familiar but I couldn't identify. Again, help me Turtle!
After that Dave Lombardo came out by himself. He didn't do much talking, he just did a drum solo and did parts of songs that people requested. He did Silent Scream, Ghosts of War, Criminally Insane, and one other song possibly. He threw in random drum jams throughout. Lombardo is God. He probably did some other cool stuff, but I was occupied by about half of his bit.
So before Adrenaline Mob, Charlie's drum tech went out on the floor and asked around for drummers. I said I played, and he asked if I wanted to join Charlie onstage. After realizing that I was not being messed with, I said yes and during Lombardo's set, he took me and another kid backstage. Charlie came down and filled us in on what we were going to do, and then we got to hang out for a bit. I had cool conversations with Charlie, Ellefson and Broderick, and got to meet Dave Lombardo. Frankie and Kerry King had to run somewhere, so I didn't get to talk to them. Out of nowhere Phil Anselmo ran over and pretended to punch us all in the face, and then shook our hands. and said what's up. Then Charlie's tech ran me around the back of the Key Club over to Lombardo's drum kit and we began the bit. Charlie introduced me and the other kid (well sort of, dude couldn't pronounce my name, so he gave up and just told us to come out haha!). Then the three of us did a drum duel, with Charlie starting, then other guy on Portnoy's kit, then me on Lombardo's kit doing fills. I was clearly the worst drummer (I've only had a few months worth of experience on a real kit), but I did okay I suppose. Charlie and the other guy did random fills, and I did my best to do cool stuff. I played the intro to Over the Mountain by Ozzy Osbourne, and some other random doodling. I also played a (by which I mean attempted) version of the intro to Blood by Anthrax, which Charlie seemed to recognize and he looked super happy, pointed at me and said "Hell yeah man!" Then the other two decided to do double bass. This was the first time I ever tried double bass, and I decided to try the intro to Overkill by Motorhead, but my double bass was super off kilter. Whoops! Then Charlie started a slow blast beat that me and the other guy joined him in, and it just got faster until the other kid and I pretty much started spazzing. After that ended, the three of us all took a bow. This write up might seem unenthusiastic, but this was pretty much the most awesome few minutes of my entire life, and I was smiling from ear to ear for all of it. After I went offstage Lombardo shook me and the other kid's hands and told us we did a great job. And then he tried to get me a pair of drumsticks haha! I don't care if he was just being polite, but getting to play on Dave Lombardo's drum kit while drum-dueling with Charlie Benante and then being complimented by Dave was the sickest thing ever.
Then the next bits were a bit of a blur because I was going crazy over what had just happened. Needless to say, my buddy and I were freaking out (and I also ran into Turtle right then haha!).
This is probably the most significant thing that happened when it comes to the show as a whole, but Kerry, Charlie, Frankie, Ellefson, Broderick, Lombardo, Portnoy and Phil Anselmo did a set of Pantera songs and a few other random tracks. This might be a little out of order. Oh and Geezer Butler came out to do Hole in the Sky. Charlie also played guitar on This Love. The whole set was really, really awesome.
1. Raining Blood
2. Angel of Death
3. Mouth for War
4. A New Level
5. This Love
6. Walk
7. Fucking Hostile
8. Hole in the Sky
So there's obviously a ton I'm missing from this show, but it was absolutely awesome and I'm never gonna forget sharing the stage with Charlie Benante.
Now that sounds like the most awesome show experience EVER. Kudos to having the balls to just go up there and do that.
1.23 Ash Borer / Volahn
2.2 Obliteration
2.7 Mayhem / Inquisition
Nice dude
I watched the live stream of it and thought Anselmo butchered the Slayer songs completely. Pissed me off a lot actually. Glad you had a lot of fun
As a drummer, you pretty much completed with one of my dreams. I really need to go to one of these
Dude, congratulations! That's really awesome. Im jealous that you got to be there let alone got to play on Lombard's kit, man! That disillusion in your (digitally typed) voice proves its real, because I felt the same way when my buddy Brock invites/forces me onstage to sing songs with his band when he comes to New York. He sings for 36 Crazyfists. I've known him since I was young because my father built his families house in Alaska and Washington when we were little guys. He brings me up to sing "Turns to Ashes" "Slit Wrist Theory" or "Ceramic" and most recently "The All Night Lights."and I know that feeling.
Totally not trying to assert my experience into yours or try to better you because yours kicks more ass than imaginable!! I was just trying to relate. Honestly man, you mist have to been freaking out when you got offstage, where you feel like everyone is looking at you bit you don't want to overreact like a fanboy lol. Congrats again, brother! Can't wait to watch it on the live feed.
How were Phil's vocals? He seems to rush them when he covers Pantera. Now im not bitching because its fucking cool as hell that he even does it, but just asking...
That's awesome dude! Cool to see that they did more with Phil this time than at the NYC clinic (which I was at). Would've loved to been at this.
Sir, I am extremely jelly of your experience since Dave Lombardo is one of my biggest influences. NOT FAIR... but super congrats at doing that. I cannot imagine how much of a rush you felt when you got up there.
HAILS \m/
Dalla Nebbia
Funeral Age
That sounds amazing.
I can't play a note of anything but air guitar and I even suck at that.
What a cool experience. Glad you had the balls to get on stage no matter how inexperienced you are. As you noted, you'll remember that for your whole life.
Sweet deal
The one thing I learned last night from Metal Masters is how much Adrenaline Mob sucks
Other than that it was cool
Awesome story dude ! I'm very happy for you, and yeah Dave Lombardo is the best drummer ever
Cheers !
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The use of molecular typing techniques to determine the relatedness of strains involved in the clonal spread of bacterial diseases. This form of bacterial fingerprinting relies on the discriminatory power of a variety of molecular methods such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PAGE), random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD), repetitive sequence PCR (REP), ribotyping, and others. These methods help to determine the likelihood that strains of a particular microorganism are either related or unique. Further studies in this laboratory are concerned with defining the relationship between typing methods and their ability to segregate bacterial isolates into relatedness clusters. Currently, these techniques are being used to further define traints that distinguish between community-acquired and hospital-acquired strains of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
Editorial Responsibilities
2004 - Present
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Editorial Board
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Service to the Department
Clinical microbiology laboratory, WUMSII Pathology course and WUMSI Molecular Microbiology course
Laboratory utilization committee
Director, American Academy of Microbiology-approved postdoctoral training program in Medical and Public Health Microbiology
Diagnostic Expertise
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Clinical Interest
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Laboratory and Genomic Medicine - Microbiology
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Muenzer JT, Davis CG, Dunne BS, Unsinger J, Dunne WM, Hotchkiss RS.
Pneumonia after cecal ligation and puncture: a clinical relevant two hit model of sepsis
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Atkinson RM, Lipuma JJ, Rosenbluth DB, Dunne WM.
Chronic colonization with Pandoraea apista in cystic fibrosis patients determined by repetitive-element-sequence PCR.
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Micek ST, Dunne M, Kollef MH.
Pleuropulmonary complications of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus:importance of treatment with antimicrobials inhibiting exotoxin production.
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Dunne WM, Hardin DJ.
Use of several inducer and substrate antibiotic combinations in a disk approximation assay format to screen for AmpC induction in patient isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter spp., Citrobacter spp., and Serratia spp.
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Dunne WM, Case LK, Isgriggs L, Lublin DM.
In-house validation of the BACTEC 9240 blood culture system for detection of bacterial contamination in platelet concentrates
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Burleson BS, Ritchie DJ, Micek ST, Dunne WM.
Enterococcus faecalis resistant to linezolid:case series and review of the literature.
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Warren DK, Liao RS, Merz LR, Eveland M, Dunne WM.
Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from nasal swab specimens by a real-time PCR assay
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Coopersmith CM, Stromberg PE, Davis CG, Dunne WM, Amiot DM, Karl IE, Hotchkiss RS, Buchman TG..
Sepsis from Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia decreases intestinal proliferation and induces gut epithelial cell cycle arrest.
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Kang HP, Dunne WM.
Stability of rep-PCR patterns with respect to culture age and subculture frequency.
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Dunne WM Jr., Pinckard JK, Hooper L..
Clinical Microbiology in 2025.
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Coopersmith CM, Stromberg PE, Dunne WM, Davis CG, Amiot DM, Buchman TG, Karl IE, Hotchkiss RS..
Overexpression of BCL2 in the intestinal epithelium and survival in a murine model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia-induced sepsis.
Pinckard JK, Kollef M, Dunne WM Jr.
Culturing bronchial washings obtained during bronchoscopy fails to add diagnostic utility to culturing the brochoalveolar lavage fluid alone.
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Dunne WM Jr..
Bacterial adhesion: seen any good biofilms lately?
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Hotchkiss RS, Dunne WM, Swanson PE, Davis CG, Tinsely KW, Chang KC, Karl IE..
Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia induces profound lymphocyte but not bronchial epithelial apoptosis.
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Dunne WM Jr., Kehl KS, Holland-Staley CA, Brueggemann AB, Pfaller MA, Doern GV..
Comparison of results generated by serotyping, pulsed-filed restriction analysis, ribotyping, and repetitive-sequence PCR used to characterized penicillin-resistant pneumococci from the United States.
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C.A.S.L.T./A.C.P.I. Conference Banquet, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - November 9, 2002
Bonsoir mesdames et messieurs, Good evening,
It is an honour to be here this evening to present the prestigious Prix Robert Roy Award to an incredibly committed educator, a woman full of life and love for languages, a good friend to many of us here this evening, a faithful friend to C.A.S.L.T.
Lilly Borges Oldham was nominated for this award in February of this year.
The selection committee felt that Lilly more than fulfilled the requirements
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The North West Territories were never the same after Lilly arrived there over twenty years ago to teach Core French. It is thanks to Lilly's vision, hard work and perseverance that the immersion program took flight in Yellowknife. Lilly, a gifted dedicated teacher, went on to become a vice-principal, principal and second language consultant at the government and school district levels.
She was a powerhouse.
She entered C.A.S.L.T.'s life as a National Council representative for the
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president, and I, as chairwoman, planned the 1991 Winnipeg C.A.S.L.T.
If you attended that year's convention you may remember several things. As a C.A.S.L.T. tradition, it seems, we ordered up snow for our delegates too - that time in May. More importantly, you may remember the incredible impressive North West Territories' room that Lilly had commandeered her husband, Stuart, to set up. They had brought down precious artifacts and originals from the North including an original tipi and all its contents, and most incredible of all, a magnificent white polar bear, standing over eight feet tall.
Avid world travellers, Stuart and Lilly, both transplanted Ontarians, were very proud of their northern home.
A warm, giving, no nonsense individual, a caring friend who took time out of her busy life for those she loved, a nurturing educator who gave to the teachers and students in her charge, Lilly gave and gave. She gave C.A.S.L.T. and second language teaching on the national level the benefit of her experience and dedication.
When last diagnosed with cancer, she e-mailed me and spoke glowingly of her wonderful family called C.A.S.L.T. When we last spoke in June, from her hospital bed Lilly mentioned the satisfaction she felt for having been part of C.A.S.L.T.'s growth. She mentioned the names of many in this room and she sent good wishes that our association and languages in Canada become even stronger.
If Lilly were present tonight, I know she would entreat us all to go forth and become even more passionate ambassadors for excellence in teaching, excellence in learning, especially second, third languages and beyond.
As of August 26th, a new, bright, enthusiastic star is travelling in the Northern sky.
Lilly may have left us, but we remain to honour her educational commitments.
In recognition of Lilly's outstanding work and dedication on the local, territorial and national level, C.A.S.L.T. asks Guy Paradis from the North West Territories to come and receive the 2002 Prix Robert Roy Award in loving memory to Lilly Borges Oldham.
Caterina M. Sotiriadis


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Any changes in a class will be automatically propagated to all subclasses. If a problem occurs in the subclass due to the changes, CUBRID resolves the corresponding subclass conflict and then displays a message saying that the conflict has been resolved automatically by the system.
Subclass conflicts can occur due to operations such as adding a super class, or creating/deleting a method or an attribute. Any changes in a class will affect all subclasses. Since changes are automatically propagated, harmless changes can even cause side effects in subclasses.
The simplest subclass conflict occurs when an attribute is added. A subclass conflict occurs if an attribute added to a super class has the same name as one already inherited by another super class. In such cases, CUBRID will automatically resolve the problem. That is, the added attribute will not be inherited to all subclasses that have already inherited the attribute with the same name.
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When an attribute is dropped from a class, any resolution specifiers which refer to the attribute by using the INHERIT clause are also removed. If a conflict occurs due to the deletion of an attribute, the system will determine a new inheritance hierarchy. If you don't like the inheritance hierarchy determined by the system, you can determine it by using the INHERIT clause of the ALTER statement. The following is an example of such conflict.
Suppose there is a subclass that inherits attributes from three different super classes. If a name conflict occurrs in all super classes and the explicitly inherited attribute is dropped, one of the remaining two attributes will be inherited automatically to resolve the problem.
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From summer-like temps to snow storm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Mother Nature's summer-like tease is giving way to a rare May snow storm in Minnesota.
The National Weather Service said today that a strong surge of colder air will produce moderate to heavy snow over parts of the state Wednesday afternoon through Thursday. A winter storm warning includes northwestern Wisconsin through the Twin Cities to Mankato to Blue Earth. Accumulations of 6 to 9 inches were expected in the region.
A winter weather advisory calls for 3 to 6 inches of snow along a line from Mora to Buffalo to Redwood Falls in Minnesota and from Cornell to Eau Claire to Durand in Wisconsin.
Snow started falling in the area early Wednesday morning, as residents from Garvin to Tracy awoke to about one-half inch of wet snow, which tapered off by mid-morning. The snow made for wet roads in areas south of Marshall, and some slush had accumulated on the roads.
The recent days of summer-like temperatures will return. Forecasters predict they will head back to the upper 60s by Monday.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (191 votes).
In short: Organisation was awful, will not run this again!In full: This could have been a good race, but poor organisation and overcrowding caused sever problems. The Birmingham half Marathon has potential to be good, but if they're planning to increase the amount of people taking part next year, this is one to be avoided!Date of review: October 26, 2010
In short: Unnorganised chaos...again!!!In full: I have run in all 3 of the B,ham half marathons now and thought that after last years mistakes that Birmingham council would have learnt from these errors. Unfortunately not. Yet again there was absolutely no marshalling around the start zones and I found myself surrounded by a whole array of different coloured numbers on vests, none of which should have been in my start zone which was the black zone incidentally. This led to congestion right at the start. After actually getting over the start line I thought "ok, now I can get going"..Not so fast....after only a few yards in all their wisdom, the organisers narrowed the course and we were forced to walk through a bottleneck of runners. That, with trying to get past runners who had clearly started in the wrong zones spoilt the first few miles for me. After this, I did have a decent run and didn't experience any problems at the finish line that some have reported. If Birmingham wants this to be a successful annual event, they need to spend a little more time looking at these issues and the organisational side of things instead of just getting as many entries in as possible to line their pockets and hope for the best on the day. I have supported this run 3 times now and unless there is some clear indication next year that the problems have been addressed, it will be the last time I do. Lets face it there are plenty of other, better half marathons around...and cheaper too.Date of review: October 26, 2010
In short: Shocking dissapointmentIn full: I've done plenty of half marathons and this was the worst organised. Basically I can agree with all of the negative comments I've read so far, the 3 mile hill at the end was no joke, the start was even more hideous and the lack of organisation was just unbelievable. Saying all that, if you want to really test your body and you're not after setting a PB, then this is the most gruelling course. I have to say the goodie bag was the best I have yet seen and the medal, well that was worth all the effort even though I will not do the race again.Date of review: October 26, 2010
In short: Greedily and lazily organised. Unsafe. In full: Negatives -Poor public transport to the venue - the race started 5 minutes before the first train from Coverntry for example.Non-existant signage and policing of start area lead to disorganised mix of abilities and runners constantly in each others way for miles and miles. A narrowing and 90 degree turn immediately after the start caused a complete standstill just after the startThe Pershore road section far too narrow, many runners ended up on the pavement dodging spectators, cones and signs.The finish area was so badly organised and cramped that people had to wait minutes to cross it.The wait between finishing and getting a blanket/water etc was 10 to 20 minutes - not ideal if you are in need of medical attention.Basically they had the facilities for 5000 runners but took the entrance fees of 15000 and hoped for the best.Positives -The water bottles were small.Date of review: October 25, 2010
In short: Wouldn't miss it! Great city atmosphere, I'm still on a high!In full: As other members have said, there were some organisational issues - last year (2009) was a lot better on that score. But still this event is new to Birmingham so I'm sure its a learning curve for the council. It is FAB as far as I'm concerned, - so keep up the good work Birmingham, I'll be there every year!Date of review: October 25, 2010
In short: Fast course if starting near the front. terrible organisation generally - organisers must consider different start/finish area Date of review: October 25, 2010
In full: BIrmingham city council please sort yourselves out!please do not even think of increasing the ammount of participants in 2011.There was a complete lack of direction at the start,this was my first half marathon and climbing over barriers wasn't in my training!Also at the end when it took me six minutes to cross the finishing line- priceless! must say thankyou to local residents for support though it really helped.This could be a great race if it was organized by runners and this feedback from participants was taken on board.Date of review: October 25, 2010
In short: Upsetting at the finish line had to wait 10mins to get over it!!!Date of review: October 25, 2010
In short: Yet again, the start and finish of the race admin wise ruined what could be a good race.In full: Start was not controlled. just absolute joke.Finish I was lucky and crossed the line ok, but friend running had to queue and missed his PB. It's an shame for Birmingham that after 3 years they still can't get the admin right. Bloody Clowns.Date of review: October 25, 2010
In short: Let down by poor organisationIn full: The whole organisation of this race was poor.First if this race was supposed to be the race against climate change then why pick a start time that made it very difficult to get there by public transport.The start was very congested especially at the first turn where the road narrowed and things were no better at the finish where you had to queue to get over the finish line.It appears that the increasing numbers at this event have not been considered during the planning, if Birmingham wants this event to continue to grow then they need to get someone who knows how to plan a major event.Apart from from the problems with the start, finish and general organisation, the actual race was enjoyable with good support in places and generally a good course even with the uphill section towards the end.I expect I will go again but only because it is my local event. Date of review: October 25, 2010
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Chiles toreados are a dish that you'll commonly find in taquerías in Mexico.
They're usually made with serrano or jalapeño chiles that are sautéed in oil until the chiles are blistered. There are many different ways to make chiles toreados—some people use the chiles alone, but I like to cook onions with them too. There are also a variety of ways to make the sauce, which is part of the beauty of this recipe. There's no wrong way to make them; it's just a matter of personal taste.
Rather than cook the chiles in vegetable oil, I've opted for a slightly healthier method by using coconut oil spray to cut down on the amount of oil used. No need to worry about your chiles tasting like coconut, though—the taste won't infuse into the chiles.


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BEIJING(AP) Kyle Shewfelt might have put on the most impressive performance of the day, just by showing up.
Less than a year after breaking the tibias in both of his legs, the reigning Olympic floor exercise champion marched into the National Indoor Stadium with the rest of his Canadian teammates for Wednesday's podium training. He sprinted down the vault runway without even the slightest limp, and tumbled across the floor with confidence and ease.
``Today was 'just another training,''' Shewfelt said. ``I was just here during my routines. But that's a good thing. I don't think the emotion of the journey I've been on will come into play until this is all over because I'm so focused on competing. Then when it's all over, I can look back and smile, and cry and scream and jump up and down.''
Shewfelt, the first Canadian to win a medal in artistic gymnastics, was expected to be a contender on both floor and vault at last year's world championships and here in Beijing. But last Aug. 27, he landed a tumbling move stiff-legged while training for the world championships. Both tibias were broken, and he damaged ligaments in his left knee.
``I thought the whole broken leg thing was an incredible setback for him,'' said Tony Smith, Canada's coach. ``He was at his best at the world championships; he was phenomenal.''
Shewfelt had no idea how serious the injury was at first, thinking he might be able to get away without needing surgery. Not only did he need surgery, it was extensive. To fix his broken bones, doctors inserted a screw in one leg and a plate and screw in another. The stretched ligament had to be stabilized, and a bone chip reattached.
He spent a month in a wheelchair, and it was several weeks before he could do anything gymnastics-related. It was January before he was doing some tumbling, and March before he vaulted. But slowly, surely, Shewfelt worked his way back.
``It was harder mentally than physically (to come back),'' Smith said. ``He even had some questions at Canadians (in June) about it, but he is so methodical in his training.''
Though the recovery from an injury is a personal thing, Shewfelt made his very public. The personal gymnast blogged about his comeback on his Web site, www.kyleshewfelt.com, sharing his hopes and his fears, his disappointments and his triumphs.
``It's where he vents,'' Smith said. ``He gets it out and says, 'Yeah, that's it.' He gets a load off his shoulder.''
There is no venting this week. Nor is there any pressure. Shewfelt is the reigning Olympic champion, but these Games - his third - are about far more than any prize that can be put around his neck. When he walks out on the floor Saturday, that will be his gold medal.
``For me, the journey getting here was my victory. If I'm able to win another medal, it will be gravy, the icing on everything,'' he said. ``I am very proud to be here, to represent my country and to show the world I came back from a serious injury. My strength of character is so strong right now and I have a lot of belief in myself.
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November 2, 2009 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: 2009 End of Year Billing is due December 10, 2009
SUBJECT 2: Participant Nutrition Education on the Web
SUBJECT 3: National WIC Association Spanish Calendars- Corrected Version
SUBJECT 4: Safe at Home Program
- 2009 End of Year Billing is due December 10, 2009: The FFY 09 end of year deadline for invoices is December 10, 2009. Expenses must have been incurred prior to October 1, 2009 to qualify for the FFY 09 funding year. The grant year will close the end of December and payments beyond this date are not possible.
September Invoice due 10-10-09
SUPP1 due 11-10-09
SUPP2 due 12-10-09 – ABSOLUTE DEADLINE
Please contact your District Technical Assistance Staff for assistance.
- Participant Nutrition Education on the Web: Thirteen Participant Nutrition Education on-line classes are now available on the web.
- The policy Alternative Methods of Providing Nutrition Education (Web based, Self-Paced Modules, Telephone and E-mail) (2.06300) is available to guide LWPs who decide to use this option for participant nutrition education.
- The LWP Nutritionist will review and follow the policy guidelines to ensure that web classes are appropriate to meet the participant's needs before they are allowed to use this method for nutrition education.
- The classes are designed to ensure that the participant actually takes the class with immediate feedback as they go through the class.
- A certificate can be printed and brought back to the LWP as proof the participant actually took the class.
- If the participant is not able to print they can write down the certificate number and take it back to the LWP as proof for taking the class.
- Please see the attachment for a sample certificate.
More classes will be posted on the website in the future. Attached is a list of upcoming classes for your reference. If LWP staff has other ideas or needs for additional education classes, please contact your district nutritionist.
- National WIC Association Spanish Calendars Corrected Version: The NWA Spanish Calendars have arrived at the DHSS warehouse and are being sent to those local WIC providers who have a large number of Spanish speaking participants. The warehouse began shipping the calendars October 23. If you have questions, please discuss with your District TA person.
- Safe at Home Program: For the last two years, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office has had the privilege of implementing the Safe at Home address confidentiality program to protect Missouri residents impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, rape and stalking. Since August 2007, Safe at Home has provided services to over 530 men, women and children statewide. Program staff has also trained over 400 Application Assistants who serve every county in Missouri, making the program as accessible as possible to potential participants.
Safe at Home can become a significant part of someone's personal safety planning if she or he is aware of the program and how it works. With your assistance, we can continue to spread the word about Safe at Home to people when they need it the most. It is important for state agencies to be aware of the program and how it impacts their customers. Agency employees may have a personal or professional need to make referrals to the program. When appropriate, we encourage employees to refer potential participants to our toll-free number at (866) 509-1409 or our web site at www.MOSafeAtHome.com. It's also important for agency employees to know how to interact with a Safe at Home participant as a customer since participants are authorized to use, and a state agency must accept, a substitute address when they might otherwise be required to provide a home address.
Secretary Carnahan's office always welcomes the opportunity to share information about Safe at Home and how it impacts Missourians. If we can be of any assistance to you in keeping your employees apprised of the program, please know our program staff is available for staff training or agency presentations.
Thank you again for your help in ensuring that Missourians feel safe at home. If you need any further information, please contact Brenda Sites, the Safe at Home Program Manager, by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling toll free (866) 509-1409.
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2008 MacArthur Fellows AnnouncedPosted by Galen H. Brown in Contemporary Classical
Congratulations to our pal Alex Ross, one of this year's 25 MacArthur Fellows. There were three other music-related "Genius Grants," as they're more commonly called, for 2008:
Violinist Leila Josefowicz, instrument maker and composer Walter Kitundu, and saxophonist Miguel Zenón.
According to the MacArthur Foundation website "There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work." Prospective fellows are nominated anonymously by a group of Nominators, and are selected by an anonymous Selection Committee.


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Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (June , 1998)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T19:03:11Z 2006-01-10T19:03:11Z 1998-06 Swara: East African Wildlife Society Nature Watch 6 (1998): 1-2 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2093 Perhaps more than any other region of the world, Africa's dependence on natural resources makes it especially vulnerable to environmental change. To confront the growing social and natural problems, many sub-Saharan countries are now turning to ecotourism, with governments and residents alike attracted by suggestions that ecotourism can simultaneously sustain communities and the natural environments which surround them. Indeed, the success of nature-based tourism in Uganda — now the fastest growing sector in the country — makes clear its potential for economic development. Such windfalls do not come without social costs, however, and the manner in which ecotourism develops directly affects the sustainability of local areas. Yet, tourism proponents throughout East Africa continue to stress upscale facilities and the desires of affluent international visitors over the quality of choice afforded indigenous people in conserving their natural heritage and traditional practices. The challenges and opportunities of such an approach are highlighted in this examination of sustainable tourism and wildlife protection in Uganda's newest protected area and former game preserve, Katonga. 140286 bytes application/pdf en_US Africa Ecotourism Uganda Environmental conservation Natural resources -- Management National parks Sustainable communities & ecotourism in Uganda: the Katonga Wetlands Conservation Project Article
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951-; Hall, C. Michael (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- Hall, C. Michael 2006-01-08T17:51:42Z 2006-01-08T17:51:42Z 2000 In Hall, C. M. & S. J. Page (eds) TOURISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST ASIA: ISSUES AND CASES, pp. 178-194 0750641282 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2068 The emerging Southeast Asian nations of Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma) are undergoing substantial change. Desperately seeking economic growth, these impoverished nations have been ravaged by decades of civil war from which they are now only beginning to recover. Tourism is a significant component of economic development which also has important political overtones in terms of the degree to which tourism is seen to give legitimacy to government, particularly with respect to Myanmar in which people have reported to have been forcibly used as labour for tourism-related developments. This chapter briefly outlines some of the key development issues associated with each country and the role that tourism plays in the economic and political life of residents and visitors. 1003711 bytes application/pdf en_US Butterworth-Heinemann Tourism Southeast Asia Cambodia Terrorism Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar: from terrorism to tourism? Book chapter
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (Elsevier, 1996)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T18:41:26Z 2006-01-10T18:41:26Z 1996 Annals of Tourism Research 23 (4): 950-953 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2091 International tourism is now the dominant force in the world economy and consequently, is heavily promoted as a source of funding sustainable community development. Developing and marketing communities as tourist destinations rarely comes without human costs, however, including a transfiguration of the inhabitants' social history and the dynamics of their place. As a result, there exists tremendous need for additional research on the long-term effects of tourism on emergent destination communities. In response, this study presents the preliminary findings of research among residents and visitors to the twin Alaska "ghost" towns of Kennicott and McCarthy and the implications for a new direction in tourism studies, one that recognizes a socially-defined landscape often overlooked in the traditional literature of tourism and outdoor recreation in protected areas in Alaska and worldwide. 263631 bytes application/pdf en_US Elsevier Alaska Tourism Environmental perception Cognitive images Wilderness National parks Kennicott (Alaska) Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve (Alaska) McCarthy (Alaska) Wilderness images of tourism and community Article
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The story of the adult life of Jesus as he preaches, does miracles, ruffles the establishments feathers and finally is condemned to death. Previous West End run finished in 1980 after 3,368 performances.


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It was an interview with Paul. Paul said that.
I personally know nothing about the copyright laws.
There was someone on Paul's board who had the same info and apparently is an copyright attorney and knew all the ins and outs.
I thought that John and Paul lost the rights in 69.
I thought it was when Dick James sold them down the river.????
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I had something like that happen years ago when I was a manager at Pizza Hut. We sold a four cheese pizza for a while. One box of cheese came in. It wasn't bad or anything. It just had a strange pungent smell. When it baked out the cheese had this odd consistency. No stringyness at all. Actually it tasted better than the regular stuff. Powerful flavor. Man I wish I could remember what the blend was. I think I am getting bored with mozzarela lol.


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by Anton Shilov
Nvidia Corp. has confirmed the evident price drop on the GeForce GTX 460 768MB graphics card. The board, which manufacturer suggested retail price at launch several weeks ago was $199 can now be obtained for $179 or even $169 in several online stores in the U.S. The move should further popularize the already successful product.
The back-to-school season traditionally increases demand for video games and various hardware and accessories for them, including graphics cards. As a result, in order to capture additional market share, address new markets and also get prepared for a roll-out of new product, Nvidia and its partners decided to lower the price onto the GeForce GTX 460 768MB graphics card, which performance level is between more expensive ATI Radeon HD 5830 and ATI Radeon HD 5850.
Until Nvidia releases new mainstream solutions based on another graphics processign unit with lowered performance and price, the GeForce GTX 768MB at $179 will be the most affordable graphics solution powered by a Fermi-class DirectX 11-supporting graphics chip.
The price drop not only shows Nvidia's aggressive approach and plan to recapture the lost market share, but it also means that the company now has more functional GF104 graphics chips and can initiate a price-war. Still, since the die-sizes of GF104 and ATI Cypress (which powers models 5830, 5850, 5870, 5970, etc) chips are pretty similar, it is clear that neither Nvidia nor ATI, graphics business unit of AMD, will lower their MSRPs too aggressively.
Nvidia GF104 graphics processing unit (GPU) powers GeForce GTX 460-series graphics cards with 1GB or 768MB of onboard GDDR5 memory. Called "the gamers' sweet spot", the GeForce GTX 460 graphics chip sports 336 stream processors (configured as 48 SPs per streaming multiprocessor), 56 texture units, 7 polymorph engines for tessellation as well as 24 (for 768MB version) or 32 (for 1GB ) render back ends. Just like the other members of the GeForce GTX 400-series family, the novelties support such proprietary technologies as CUDA-accelerated software, 3D Vision stereo-3D output and PhysX engine for processing of physics effects in select video games.


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look what i just picked
woozl wrote:If I order some warez does it come with some chammy???
woozl wrote:Be sure to check in several days to ensure dryness.
Herb_Master wrote:Impressive collection, my Chamomile attempts have usually failed, too many weeds, not enough growth.
But I have never tried them for processing.
I wanted a Chamomile Lawn, a Chamomile Path and if either of those were successful I was going to build a raised wall area with a recessed Chamomile Bench / Chaise Longue for lying down on in Summer evenings to release the scent.
But my first attempts produced straggly bolting Chamomile with lots of weeds in between - and I never started on my grand design.
In Meadieval times, Chamomile was preferred to grass for lawns and the like.
woozl wrote:Egyptian is the best strain
DJ3riple wrote:I have to say that this is by far the best chamomile I've come across...
It's so aromatic and smells AMAZING! It's like a spiced apple pie!
It's got a little bite to it, but mostly it's quite sweet and it's such a pleasant thing to drink.
This is something I could imagine buying at a farmer's market. Wish I had some of this growing here...
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Thales, Gogo Form Connectivity Partnership
Two of the biggest companies in the in-flight connectivity industry, Thales and Gogo, announced a new partnership this week at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany. The partnership will combine Thales' TopConnect in-flight entertainment cabin system with Gogo's connectivity solutions to offer line-fit solutions to carriers worldwide.
(Gogo's Test Aircraft. Photo, courtesy of Gogo.)
Thales should benefit from Gogo's current solutions which are powered by Inmarsat's Global Xpress Ka-band satellite service, Ku-satellite and Air-to-Ground (ATG) technologies.
Gogo President and CEO Michael Small said the partnership will help to expand his company's global footprint as they approach the 2014 launch of GX's full global coverage for its Ka-band network.
"It brings two best of breed capabilities together and will give airlines exclusive passenger experiences with an economical and global connection. This gives us the benefit of accessing satellite-based connectivity services through Gogo's reseller agreements with its satellite partners as well as Gogo's ATG network where available," said Alan Pellegrini, president and CEO of Thales USA.
Following the partnership announcement with Thales, Gogo announced a $113 million increase to its existing $135 million credit facility arranged by Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan in June 2012. The financing will help fund the company's international expansion plans, as it increasingly looks to offer service for carriers beyond the U.S.
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Asian giant hornet
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), including the subspecies Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica),[1] colloquially known as the yak-killer hornet,[2] is the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia. Its body length is approximately 50 mm (2.0 in), its wingspan about 76 mm (3.0 in),[3] and it has a 6 mm (0.24 in) sting which injects a large amount of potent venom.
The head of the hornet is orange and quite wide in comparison to other hornet species. The compound eyes and ocelli are dark brown, and the antennae are dark brown with orange scapes. The clypeus (the shield-like plate on the front of the head) is orange and coarsely punctured; the posterior side of the clypeus has narrow, rounded lobes. The mandible is large and orange with a black tooth (inner biting surface) which is used for burrowing.
The thorax and propodeum (the segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax) of the Asian giant hornet has a distinctive golden tint and a large scutellum (a shield-like scale on the thorax) that has a deeply-impressed medial line; the postscutellum (the plate behind the scutellum) bulges and overhangs the propodeum. The hornet's forelegs are orange with dark brown tarsi (the distal—furthest down—part of the leg); the midlegs and hindlegs are dark brown. Wings are a dark brownish-gray. The tegulae are brown.
The gaster (the portion of the abdomen behind the thorax–abdomen connection) is dark brown with a white, powdery covering; with narrow yellow bands at the posterior margins of the tergite, the sixth segment is entirely yellow. It is similar in appearance to the established European hornet, Vespa crabro.
Geographic distribution
It can be found in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan (where it is called 虎頭蜂; "tiger head bee"), Indochina, Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka, but is most common in rural areas of Japan, where it is called giant sparrow bee (大雀蜂 or オオスズメバチ).
The sting of the Asian giant hornet is about 6(10) mm (¼ in) in length,[3] and injects an especially potent venom that contains, like many bee and wasp venoms, a cytolytic peptide (specifically, a mastoparan) that can damage tissue by stimulating phospholipase action,[4] in addition to its own intrinsic phospholipase.[5] Masato Ono, an entomologist at Tamagawa University near Tokyo, described the sensation as feeling "like a hot nail being driven into my leg."[3]
An allergic human stung by the giant hornet may die from an allergic reaction to the venom, but the venom contains a neurotoxin called mandaratoxin (MDTX),[6] a single-chain polypeptide with a molecular weight of approximately 20,000 u,[7] which can be lethal even to people who are not allergic if the dose is sufficient. Each year in Japan, the human death toll caused by Asian giant hornet stings exceeds that of all other venomous and non-venomous wild animals combined, including wild bears and venomous snakes.[8][9]
The Asian giant hornet is a relentless hunter that preys on other large insects, such as bees, other hornet species, and mantises.
The hornets often attack honey bee hives with the goal of obtaining the honey bee larvae. A single scout, sometimes two or three, will cautiously approach the nest, giving off pheromones which will lead the other hornets to the hive's location.
The hornets can devastate a colony of honey bees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honey bees per minute thanks to its large mandibles which can quickly strike and decapitate a bee. It takes only a few of these hornets a few hours to exterminate the population of a 30,000-member hive, leaving a trail of severed insect heads and limbs. The European honey bees Apis mellifera have small stings which do little damage to hornets that are five times their size and twenty times their weight. The honey bees make futile solo attacks without mounting a collective defense, and are easily killed individually by the hornets. Once a hive is emptied of all defending bees, the hornets feed on the honey and carry the larvae back to feed to their own larvae. The hornets can fly up to 100 kilometres (62 mi) in a single day, at speeds of up to 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph)[10]
Adult hornets cannot digest solid protein, so the hornets do not eat their prey, but chew them into a paste and feed them to their larvae. The larvae produce a clear liquid, vespa amino acid mixture, which the adults consume; larvae of social Vespidae produce these secretions, the exact amino acid composition varying considerably among species.[11] The passing of nutrition to adult wasps by larvae is widespread in these wasps, and not restricted to the genus Vespa.
Native honey bees
Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the defenses of many individual honey bees, whose small stings cannot inflict much damage against such a large predator, the Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica) possesses a collective defense against them.
When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive it will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honey bees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so will gather near the entrance of the nest and set up a trap, keeping it open apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive or allow it to enter on its own. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honey bees surrounds it, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and the bees begin to quickly vibrate their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honey bee mass to 46 °C (115 °F). In addition, the mob of honey bees raises the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) around the hornet. At that concentration of CO2, the honey bees can tolerate up to 50 °C (122 °F), but the hornet cannot survive the combination of a temperature of 46 °C (115 °F) and high carbon dioxide level, so it dies.[12][13] Often several bees perish along with the intruder, but the death of the hornet scout prevents it from summoning reinforcements which would wipe out the colony.[14]
Beekeepers in Japan attempted to introduce the European honeybee in order to increase productivity. European honeybees, however, have no natural defense against the hornet and the colonies are rapidly destroyed.[15]
Hornet supplement manufacturers
Recently, several companies in Asia and Europe have begun to manufacture dietary supplements and energy drinks which contain synthetic versions of secretions of the larvae of Vespa mandarinia, which the adult hornets usually consume. The manufacturers of these products make claims that consuming the larval hornet secretions (marketed as "hornet juice") will enhance human endurance because of the effect it has on adult hornets' performance. Because these products are marketed as dietary supplement rather than pharmaceuticals, they do not have to support their claims. Some studies[16] have suggested that the vespa amino acid mixture itself may influence animal performance in minor ways.
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- ^ Backshall, Steve (2007). Steve Backshall's venom: poisonous animals in the natural world. New Holland Publishers. ISBN 1845377346. http://books.google.com/?id=qOyV7KnJRCYC&pg=PA147.
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- ^ Abe, T., Sugita, M., Fujikura, T., Hiyoshi, J., Akasu, M. (2000) Giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) venomous phospholipases – The purification, characterization and inhibitory properties by biscoclaurine alkaloids. Toxicon 38:1803-1816
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- ^ Hunt, J. H., I. Baker, and H. G. Baker. 1982. Similarity of amino acids in nectar and larval saliva: the nutritional basis for trophallaxis in social wasps. Evolution 36: 1318-1322
- ^ "Heat and carbon dioxide generated by honeybees jointly act to kill hornets". Naturwissenschaften. September 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/x083861n5x046322/. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ "Honeybee mobs overpower hornets". BBC News. July 3, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8129536.stm. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ Defensive Adaptations: Heat Tolerance As A Weapon, davidson.edu
- ^ Piper, Ross (2007), Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, Greenwood Press.
- ^ Effect of amino acid mixture intake on physiological responses and rating of perceived exertion during cycling exercise, PubMed


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TUPPER LAKE – The North Country may be on track to greening up its act in the coming years.
The Adirondack North Country Association unveiled a plan Wednesday afternoon at The Wild Center natural history museum to create a sustainable future for the Adirondacks and the area around it.
The plan was part of an initiative announced in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2011 State of the State address, called the Cleaner Greener Communities grant program. The state was broken down into regions, similar to the Regional Economic Development Council model that Cuomo started to guide economic development, and each area was directed to come up with a plan to move toward, as the grant name would suggest, cleaner, greener communities.
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Flora and E&E's Nicole Parganos, a senior environmental engineer, presented an overview of the plan to a crowd that mostly filled The Wild Center's Flammer Theater.
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Parganos explained the findings of a greenhouse gas inventory her group did on the North Country and how goals were developed from those findings. For example, the inventory found that 94 percent of the energy generated in the North Country is renewable, but 67 percent of that energy is exported, mainly in the form of hydropower and wind. So one of the goals of the energy category is to use more renewable energy here.
Transportation shows up as one of the North Country's biggest problem areas, because it makes up 42 percent of the region's per-capita energy consumption. Parganos said the plan seeks to encourage people to travel in ways other than a single person driving a car, like carpooling or using mass transit, and to revitalize downtown and main street areas, which would mean people would be less likely to drive long distances.
The plan includes a number of proposed green projects by groups around the area. That doesn't necessarily mean they will receive funding, Fish said, but if they apply for grants through the state's new consolidated grant application program, they might be likelier to win awards.
Fish said the North Country's Regional Economic Development Council co-chairs have already agreed to assign a working group to concentrate specifically on the sustainability plan.
A draft of the plan can be viewed online, and Flora said they want to hear more comments on it.
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(Editor's note: The 13th paragraph is this article has been corrected to reflect that when Parganos said 67 percent of the electricity generated within the region is exported, she said it was mainly in the form of hydropower and wind, not wood.)


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