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- Esmolol hydrochloride has the empirical formula C16H26NO4Cl and a molecular weight of 331.8. It has one asymmetric center and exists as an enantiomeric pair.
- Esmolol hydrochloride is a white to off-white crystalline powder. It is a relatively hydrophilic compound which is very soluble in water and freely soluble in alcohol. Its partition coefficient (octanol/water) at pH 7.0 is 0.42 compared to 17.0 for propranolol.
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|BREVIBLOC PREMIXED Injection (Esmolol Hydrochloride)
|BREVIBLOC DOUBLE STRENGTH PREMIXED Injection (Esmolol Hydrochloride)
|BREVIBLOC Injection (Esmolol Hydrochloride)
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|20 mg/mL
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|Q.S. to volume of 10 mL
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Siddhartha Srinivasa
doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2005
|Manipulation is the art of moving things. At the heart of the problem, an object needs to be moved from start to goal by a robot that is in contact with the object. The contacts serve two purposes: they transmit forces and impose motion constraints on the object. Even if a robot can precisely control its own motion, it is constrained by the interactions at the contacts for control of the motion of the object. Contact interactions are governed by the laws of Coulomb friction and are nonlinear and non-Newtonian.
Current solutions to the manipulation problem decompose the problem into first solving for the forces required to produce a desired object motion and then commanding the robot to apply the requisite force. This imposed decomposition assumes that the robot is capable of producing the commanded forces and velocities required for manipulation. However, this assumption is broken in dynamic manipulation, where the robot operates close to actuator saturation.
In this thesis, we explore the planning and control of dynamic manipulation subject to actuator constraints. We describe a mapping of the Coulomb friction constraints and actuator constraints into a common space, obtaining a unified contact acceleration constraint. We propose two techniques for using this constraint to generate analytical trajectories for the dynamic manipulation problem. In the first technique of time-scaling, we decouple the problem into computing a feasible path followed by selecting the speed of motion along the path that satisfies the constraint. In the second technique of task and shape decomposition, we recognize that the constraint resides in a low dimensional subspace of the system state space and project the system dynamics onto, and orthogonal to that subspace. We use a feedback controller in the constraint space and plan for the orthogonal unconstrained freedoms. Finally, we demonstrate our techniques on two dynamic manipulation tasks and a constrained, nonholonomic system.
Associated Center(s) / Consortia:
Center for the Foundations of Robotics
Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Manipulation Lab
Number of pages: 141
|Text Reference
|Siddhartha Srinivasa, "Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation," doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2005
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title = "Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation",
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school = "Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University",
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address= "Pittsburgh, PA",
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possession limit is 3x the daily bag limit here.
I know all 4 warden here, and fixing to get to know res l/e.
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Well Mark how was the hunting? You're going to have to let us know how you did.
No permit yet.
They are on Navajo time.
Was told they are being sent up from Window Rock, Az.
The safety gun went down Friday for a meeting with fish and game in attendance.
Haven't heard anything yet.
Went scouting Wednesday. Most corn is still standing with harvesting going on. But oh the wheat fields, and winter wheat sure looked great.
Glad I have a layout blind. The fields are huge and no cover.
Know of 2 ponds now, plus was told to find low spots in the canals that hold water when they stop the water for the winter.
permits are in!
Gonna try to get up there after work to get mine!
Was told the season is going to go thru February.
Stay tuned for factual update.
Most reservations work that way. Season pass for hunting. Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming etc all have reservations with the same program. I've used them
Well good news, bad news and other....
I paid my money, and got my NAPI permit.
Bad news is, is Napi's season is but from November 26 thru January 30, so only 2 months long.
Nm season ends January 24, so I can still hunt up there a week longer.
Navajo Nation season ends December 18, iirc..
Plus side is It's 72,00 acres of prime agricultural fields.
Now I got a question for you duck experts.
When I was leaving the field office at dusk, I saw a flock of over a hunert ducks fly over me, then another, and another.
I turned around and started following them, more were flying over.
They hooked left and I backed up at full throttle to watch them, and I turned into a cut corn field access and just held my mouth open as thousands of ducks were circling and landing. Eric, the safety guy had seen me and pulled in behind and we watched hundreds more circle and land. We had the biggest grins.
So why were all these ducks landing in a cut corn field right before dark?
How long would they stay, and do ducks return to the same field come daylight or do they stay all night.
Oh come on November 26th!!
And the major migrations haven't even got here yet!
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There are hundreds of uncut corn fields up there right now. They have just started harvesting. There is an endless supply of food there.
Just never thought ducks fed or roosted on dry land in the dark.
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Remember, dear, the day we wed?
Do you love me now as you did then,
or is your love for me now dead?
We've been through a lot in 26 years,
and faced some very stormy weather.
But I don't mind if you don't, dear.
Shall we try another year together?
Paul, a merry Christmas to you, dear,
and thank you for your kindness during my illness.
With all my love from your wife, Marceline.
Remember, I love you always,
and I'm sorry I had to be sick during this time,
but you understand, I'm sure.
Remember, I love you always.
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Paul, this is also for you.
Thank you, God, for keeping us together,
helping and loving in dark and clear weather.
May all the future years
be filled with joy and cheers.
May he love me always as he did the day
he held me and whispered, "I love you, dear."
Thank you, God.
May his troubles and sorrows be part of mine,
his love never turning cold on the morrow.
Just love me as he did the day he whispered,
"You're mine, sweetheart, forever,"
Does that bring back any memories to you, darling?
It does to me. Remember, I'll love you always.
I'm pleased to be able to share my Auntie Marceline's 1955 Christmas message to her husband Paul during this holiday season 54 years later. I was so excited a few weeks ago when I found this record in my mom's old 78 rpm collection. I hadn't known it existed. I listened to it using an old record player at my dad's house, but wasn't able to get a good digital recording. My nephew, Demian Krentz, volunteered to do it for me, and I so appreciate the great and timely job he did.
I was only seven years old in 1955, so I'm not sure what illness Auntie referred to. I think she may have had a stroke. (She was only 57 when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962.)


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Some time back, 18 months or so, I purchased a couple of bottles of Ken's syrup. The 1st one was good, but I thought it a waste to use a product of that quality on pancake mix that was not also conceived in the same manner. If you doubt what I say, read the ingredients on your next batch of pancake mix. So I looked around for some thing appropriate to use the 2nd bottle with.
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Mind and Mater (10.10.11)
As Rooth notes, the bridge is both conveyance and barrier: "Heaven and Earth were united in the beginning before they were separated by the event of manifestation.... So the bridge represents both the way across as well as the fact of their separation, and in this respect it is equivalent to the axial pillar which both connects and keeps separate." The vertical bridge back to God is the residue, or mysty coontrail, of the Creator's involution into spacetime.
I am intrigued by this implicit idea of "female pope." What could it possibly mean when we combine -- or play with -- the archetypes of pontifex and female? To put it another way, what does female connote in its vertical aspect? I ask this because female is usually associated with all of the words and concepts derived from mother or mater, including matter, meter, mara, maya, mattress, measure. There is the Father Principle, or "pure form," which "fertilizes" pure materiality in order to bring about the manifestation (e.g., the play of purusha and prakriti, or Shiva and Shakti).
Genesis treats this subject in mythological terms, as the woman represents the descending tendency who is seduced by the snake, the ultimate principle of earthbound horizontality. Conversely, Mary is the shadow of Eve (or rather, vice versa), in that she gives birth to the ultimate pontifex, or to the principle within the manifestation. Thus, Mary-Matter-Maya is "pregnant with God," not just 2000 years ago, but for all time. We don't have time to go into Eckhart's many fruitful ideas about the feminine aspect of divinity, e.g., that God perpetually lays on a maternity bed giving birth. Creativity -- which is often seen as a more masculine activity -- is actually far more feminine, both because of the birth motif, but also because true creativity is fertilized "from above."
It can also be fertilized from below. But enough about popular culture and the fallen bastard children of Eve.
UF goes into a lovely little soliloquy on the "gift of tears" which are a sort of fluid membrane between the above and below, a certificate of authenticity of most any encounter with the God of Love. In contrast to the "dry" experience of depersonalized oneness, UF writes that the soul who experiences the miracle of divine love is moved to tears. Only humans cry tears of joy (although our jester will no doubt provide a link to prove to himself otherwise; but this will be a horizontal link, when the only way to actually prove the point is to have the personal experience of the vertical link, i.e., to shed these real tears of joy and/or repentance).
Now, man is in the image of the Creator. The most quintessentially human "faculty" is the intellect, or nous, which actually shares in a part of the "uncreatable" substance of God. Again, it is a purely passive, or "female" principle, as it is a reflection of the light of the Father. This is none other than Sophia, or wisdom herself: "Pure intellect is that which reflects; love is that which acts." (Interestingly, this implies that the solar principle is located in the heart, the lunar principle in the mind; more on which later. But you can well understand why so many so-called "intellectuals" become so pathologically feminized, as they are detached from the solar principle above as well as its manifestation below in the heart, or higher mind.)
UF notes that "the intellect is the feminine side of the soul, whilst the fertilizing imagination is the masculine principle. The intellect that is not fertilized by the imagination guided by the heart is sterile." Here again, we can see why I keep our scientistic jester on the playroll, as he teaches us so much. One thing he teaches us about is the purely feminized mind, which is "all maya," or all quantity. Why would any of us want to return to that cold and dry crone-world?
Back to the Priestess. I won't get into all of the details of UF's reasoning, as I would prefer to focus on the principles. And the main principle embodied in the Priestess is the descent of the word through the stages of reflection, memory, word, and writing. For example, think of the descent of revelation, only the last stage of which is "The Book." In other words, religion begins in the world of principles, or at the center, and moves out to the periphery.
Science, on the other hand, begins with facts -- "the book of nature" -- and attempts to reason from the periphery to the center (which is strictly impossible, as the very conduct of science presupposes the human center). Put another way, the "last stage" of God's involution is the material world, whereas the latter is the starting point of science.
Mysticism is the science of "spiritual touch," and it must be at the heart of all religion. As UF writes, spiritual touch -- or intuition -- "is that which permits contact between our consciousness and the world of pure mystical experience. It is by virtue of this that there exists in the world and in the history of mankind a real relationship between the living soul and the living God -- which is true religion." It is only because of this faculty of spiritual touch -- which is obviously a subtle sense that needs to be nurtured and developed -- that God is something "more than an abstract notion."
But after mystical touch comes gnosis, or the spirit of understanding; and after gnosis, the magical sense, or the ability to put knowledge into action (or non-action, to be precise); and after magic comes the book, MOTT being as fine an example of the latter as one could imagine. As UF writes, if the God-knower "wants all that he has experienced, understood and practiced to be not limited to himself and his time, but to be communicable to others and transmitted to future generations, he must develop the Hermetic-philosophical sense, and in practicing it he will 'write his book.'"
And how eternally grateful we are that so many of these illustrious pneumanauts left their living books for us! For it is only through the very organicity of the living book that the totality of tradition may be "held together," from the top to the bottom, from the center to the periphery, from the vertical to the horizontal. To not have this experience of the living whole is to be possessed by a demon, whether it is the demon of Marxism, or of metaphysical Darwinism, or of materialism, or of scientism. Each of these results in the soul being possessed and ensnared:
"Yes, autonomous philosophical systems separated from the living body of tradition are parasitic structures, which seize the thought, feeling and finally the will of human beings. In fact, they play a role comparable to the psycho-pathological complexes of neurosis or other psychic maladies of obsession. Their physical analogy is cancer."
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by Jeff Ratcliffe, ChildFund Grants Compliance Coordinator
I just returned from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I witnessed a magical moment with children.
ChildFund has been supporting partner organizations on the ground in Haiti since shortly after the destructive earthquake in January 2010. The country is working to recover, but the day-to-day reality for children remains harsh. Most children lack safe places to play. In Port-au-Prince, any open spaces are filled with rubble and children must play in concrete lots, often near busy streets.
As I arrived at our partner's office, I watched as the children were lined up. Something was up, but they were not sure quite what. As is common for 5- to 8-year-old children, they were restless. Suddenly, the children screamed with delight as two of the instructors emerged from the building carrying a big blue rug. Many of the children began to dance with excitement. The soft blue rug was spread across the hard concrete, creating a space for the children to play. They wasted no time removing shoes and scampering onto the lush carpeting. They could play freely, without thought to getting scraped or bruised. The smiles were almost instant.
From an Early Childhood Development perspective, the rug provided three benefits:
The ecstatic reaction to this rug reminded me again of the importance of play in a child's life. Playing freely without fear of being harmed is important to healthy child development.
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Spring Gobbler is about to close, sure has been one of the strangest season's I've experienced in many years.
I'm still trying to get one to the gun, vacation tomorrow and will hunt Saturday plus a short hunt Monday.
Good luck to anybody else still hunting, remember those that gave their lives for us to enjoy these freedoms.


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Concert series should appeal to carillon lovers, July 21-Sept. 1
Posted July 1, 2002; 04:28 p.m.
Bells will ring out from Princeton University each Sunday from July 21 to Sept. 1 as part of the 10th annual Summer Carillon Series .
The free concerts at Cleveland Tower of the Graduate College will begin at 1 p.m. and will feature seven carillonneurs.
The dates and performers are:
- July 21 -- Marcel Siebers, Cuyk, the Netherlands.
- July 28 -- Scott Parry '54, Princeton University.
- Aug. 4 -- Robin Austin, Princeton University.
- Aug. 11 -- Melissa Moyer '05, Princeton University.
- Aug. 18 -- Ellen Espenschied, Yale University.
- Aug. 25 -- Lisa Lonie, St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh, Pa.
- Sept. 1. -- Carlo van Ulft, Centralia Carillon, Centralia, Ill.
The carillon is a set of cast bronze bells played on a wooden keyboard; foot pedals play the lower notes. Each key is connected to a wire that activates a transmission arm attached to the clapper.
Installed in 1927 as a gift from the class of 1892, Princeton's carillon was refurbished and rededicated in 1993. With 67 bells, it is the fourth largest in the nation.
The concert series is organized by the University chapel music office and made possible by an endowment established by the class of 1892. For more information, call Penna Rose at (609) 258-3654.
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- This article is about the conqueror, Chin the Great. For other similar uses, see Chin (disambiguation).
|"A horrible tyrant, Chin was expanding his army to all corners of the continent. When they came to the neck of the peninsula where we lived, he demanded our immediate surrender. I warned him that I would not sit passively while he took our home. But he did not back down."
|— Avatar Kyoshi to the people of Chin Village.[1]
Chin the Conqueror, known in Chin Village as "Chin the Great" or "Emperor Chin", was a ruthless earthbending warlord native to the northwestern part of the Earth Kingdom. During the life of Avatar Kyoshi, he launched a largely successful conquest of the Earth Kingdom and aimed to overthrow the authoritarian 46th Earth King. As an extremely stubborn and proud man, Chin even tried to force the Avatar to submit to him. Eventually, the conqueror was indirectly killed by Kyoshi when he refused to move out of the way as she defended her home by splitting it from the mainland.
War for dominance
Chin was a highly capable and tyrannical leader who successfully took advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the reign of the dictatorial 46th Earth King in order to launch a military conquest of the Earth Kingdom. He launched the campaign from a small island in the northwestern part of the kingdom, unifying the nation under his control. Amassing a large and formidable army, he managed to gain control of the entire continent, with the exceptions of Ba Sing Se and a small peninsula in the southwest, which Avatar Kyoshi called home.[1]
Final duel and death
In 270 BG, Chin and his army approached the peninsula, determined to conquer it by any means necessary. When Chin demanded that the inhabitants submit to his rule, Kyoshi disregarded his command. Chin assumed an offensive position at the mouth of the peninsula, as his stubborn nature did not allow him to accept failure. Kyoshi acted in defense of her people by entering the Avatar State and splitting her village from the mainland, thus, creating Kyoshi Island. In the process, Kyoshi's airbending blew away Chin's clothes, bitterly humiliating him. However, Chin's expression did not change and he refused to retreat.
As the landmass eventually parted with the mainland, the ground on which Chin stood became an unstable cliff over the ocean. Even though defeated, Chin did not move and instead screamed in frustration and anger. Moments later, the cliff collapsed beneath him and the warlord fell to his death. Although it appeared that Chin was murdered by Kyoshi, this was not the case; his obstinance was the ultimate cause of his demise, as he had been given sufficient time to move to solid ground before his fatal fall to the ocean below.[1]
Because of Chin's death, the Earth Kingdom civil war eventually ended with the victory of the Earth King's government. The 46th Earth King was able to restore his reign over the whole Earth Kingdom. However, his continuing tyranny eventually caused another open revolt, this time in Ba Sing Se. The peasants of the city, instigated by the notion that the Earth King's rule was outdated and that he did not represent their interests, tried to establish a "new government". Many of Chin's former supporters participated in the revolt as well, determined to avenge their leader. Nevertheless, Avatar Kyoshi eventually solved the problems peacefully and ended the uprising.
However, Chin's war and the following peasant uprising massively weakened the Earth Kingdom monarchy. The power of the Earth King began to decline, a development that ultimately made both the Conspiracy of Ba Sing Se as well as the successes of the Fire Nation during the Hundred Year War possible.[2][3]
After his death, Chin's army also founded a settlement in the southern Earth Kingdom. This settlement, named Chin Village in his honor, was located at the point where Kyoshi Island split from the mainland. The locals still referred to Chin as a great hero over 370 years after his death and a statue of him was erected there in his honor. However, this statue was later destroyed by the Rough Rhinos in 100 AG.[1]
Chin was a highly controversial leader, as even 370 years after his death, there was still considerable debate regarding his righteousness and heroism. While his foes, especially Avatar Kyoshi and the inhabitants of Kyoshi Island, called him "a horrible tyrant", the descendants of his followers idolized him as a "glorious leader".
A proud yet aggressive warlord, Chin's actions were often cruel and evocative. An example of this is when he killed an innocent emissary with his earthbending only to show his power. Nevertheless, the army of his loyal followers numbered in the thousands. The sheer size of his army and his successes during his campaign proved that Chin may have been cruel and ruthless, but was also a very charismatic person and an effective strategist.
However, it was his final moments that best showed his true character. When Chin prepared to invade the Avatar's peninsula, he gathered his massive army to intimidate Kyoshi, a plan that failed completely. Rather than wasting the life of his troops to deal with the fearless Avatar, he faced Kyoshi himself. This was a unique, respectable, and almost honorable decision for a leader. Chin apparently cared for his men, since he knew that they were no match for the Avatar. However, this action also proved that he overestimated himself such that he believed he could defeat Kyoshi in a duel. Due to this enormous pride and his obstinance, Chin died shortly afterward, unwilling to accept defeat after Kyoshi's victory.
Overall, he was admired by his followers as successful and honorable, but due to his mercilessness and obstinance, he was hated and feared by his foes.
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- 205. "Avatar Day" (flashback, no lines)
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- The Chinese characters carved on the lower part of the statue in ancient Seal Script read 秦帝, which means "Emperor Chin". His name and actions in conquering the Earth Kingdom bear strong resemblance to Qin Shi Huangdi (秦始皇帝), the first Emperor of China.
- In Mandarin Chinese, the "Q" in "Qin" is pronounced like the English sound "Ch", which is probably why Chin is spelled with a "Ch" instead of "Q", like his namesake. This spelling is also more similar to the form according to the older Wade-Giles form of Chinese romanization, which would be "Ch'in".
- The design of Chin's armor resembles that of Song and Ming Dynasty armors, commonly worn by generals and commanders. His hat, called a Tong Tian Guan, is often worn by the highest-ranking military officer.
- Some people believed that Chin sought to conquer the Earth Kingdom simply to compensate for his short stature,[4] a phenomenon known as the Napoleon complex.
- Napoleon and Chin both hailed from small islands located in the periphery of their eventual empires, namely Corsica and the northwestern islands respectively.
- Including Tui's death in "The Siege of the North, Part 2" and Aang's fatal injury sustained in "The Crossroads of Destiny", Chin was the third of eight characters to have been observed dying or being murdered in the original series. In chronological order, the others were Tui, Yue, Jet, Aang, Roku, Fang, and Combustion Man.
- According to Avatar Kyoshi, Chin's death brought "a great era of peace".[5] Although there was no open warfare for the next 233 years, this statement was not entirely correct, as Chin's death caused the Peasant Uprising in Ba Sing Se and a time of civil unrest in the Earth Kingdom.[6]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 O'Bryan, John (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (April 28, 2006). "Avatar Day". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 5. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Hedrick, Tim (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (September 22, 2006). "City of Walls and Secrets". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 14. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Hubbard, Matthew (writer) & Filoni, Dave (director). (March 25, 2005). "Imprisoned". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 1. Episode 6. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Avatar Extras for "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters" on Nicktoons Network.
- ↑ Ehasz, Aaron (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (July 19, 2008). "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 19. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch (writer) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). (October 26, 2007). "The Avatar and the Fire Lord". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 6. Nickelodeon.


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BOONEVILLE – After posting almost 10 wins in the last two years, a handful of Northeast Mississippi Community College football players chose to play at the next level during the mid-year junior college signing period.
Punter Jonathan Harrison of Belmont, defensive end Lavon Hooks of Atlanta, Georgia, tight end Logan Stokes of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, running back Jay Jones of Horn Lake, linebacker Nick Thomason of Muscle Shoals, Alabama and offensive lineman Johnathan Braddock of Ripley each signed with a four-year school over the holiday break.
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Harrison's long on the year came when the sophomore blasted a 60-yard boot against Holmes Community College during the third week of the season.
Lavon Hooks – OM (DE, Atlanta, Ga.)
Hooks was honored as an National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) honorable mention selection after his second year in Booneville and was selected as the Most Valuable Defensive Lineman in the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC). Hooks was tied for second in the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) and National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII in sacks the 2012 season when the Atlanta native finished with 9.5 sacks for the Tigers.
On the year, Hooks tallied 51 tackles – 18 solo stops and 33 assists. Hooks' 6.4 tackles per game were second on the Tiger roster.
With his 9.5 sacks on the year, Hooks tallied 51 yards against the opposing offense and came away with three fumble recoveries and three forced fumbles for the Tigers.
Hooks' 20.5 tackles for loss on the year saw the Northeast sophomore finish second in the nation in the category.
In a November 28 story on JCGridiron.com entitled, "JUCO defensive tackle list is best ever," which featured the top defensive tackles across the country, Hooks was named the top defensive tackle in not only the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) but in the entire country.
Jay Jones – South Alabama (RB, Horn Lake)
Jones became the Tigers leading rusher for the 2012 season amassing 504 yards and three scores. Jones' 500-plus yards on the season placed the Tiger sophomore in the top 50 nationally in rushing and the Horn Lake native was a dual offensive threat for the Tigers hauling in 11 catches for 150 yards and a touchdown. Jones opened the 2012 season with an 83-yard rushing performance against Copiah-Lincoln while also catching three passes for 23 yards but it was his week two performance that helped the transfer solidify himself in the Tiger offense. In a 30-21 win over the Jones County Bobcats, Jones carried the ball 29 times for a 157 yards. Jones also had a 126-yard performance against Holmes Community College and tallied his season-long rush against East Mississippi – a 51-yard scamper. Jones was an National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Region XXIII second team selection.
Nick Thomason – LA Tech (LB, Muscle Shoals, Ala.)
Thomason was a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Region XXIII selection and a Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-State selection his sophomore year in Booneville and led the Tigers in total tackles with 61. The Muscle Shoals, Alabama native finished the year with 30 solo tackles against 31 assists while averaging over 10 tackles per game for the Tigers. Thomason also had one sack for six yards and had a fumble recovery on the season. Thomason's break-out game came in week three when the Tiger sophomore had 17 stops including 3.5 tackles for loss against Holmes.
Logan Stokes – LSU (TE, Muscle Shoals, Ala.)
Stokes transitioned his role from a pass-catching tight end into a blocking tight end for the Tiger offense and helped open up holes for a Tiger offense that rushed for almost 900 yards during the 2012 year. However, Stokes was also pivotal in the Tiger passing game hauling in 10 passes for 80 yards – including a season-long 17-yard pass against East Mississippi on October 11. Stokes averaged nearly 10 yards per game receiving from his tight end position. During the 2012 season, Stokes was selected as a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Region XXIII Second Team selection and an Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-State honoree.
Johnathan Braddock, OL, 6-4, 275 (Ripley)
Braddock will join former Delta State University head football coach Ron Roberts at Southeastern Louisiana as the Lions signed 11 players during the mid-year junior college signing period. Braddock clocked a pair of years in Booneville and helped lead the Tigers to almost 10 wins while manning the offensive line for Northeast. With Braddock on the offensive line, Northeast's offense pieced together almost 900 yards of rushing while breaking the 1,000-yard plateau passing. Northeast averaged 235.1 yards per game while scoring 12 touchdowns with Braddock on the offensive line.


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The Losers - AKA The A-Team lite.
Clash of the Titans - there has to be a good version of this film somewhere with at least 30-45 minutes of cut footage laying around somewhere.
Batman/Superman: Apocalypse - Another solid DC animated flick...with the correct Batman (Kevin Conroy). I don't see why they don't use him in every animated Bat flick - Under the Red Hood was really good, but Batman and Joker's voices weren't perfect (especially when every animated Batman and Joker will be compared to Conroy and Hamill).


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Via the purchase contract the breeder gets to decide that. Buyers options are to follow contract, negotiate terms, or keep looking.
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Wow, call me naive! I wrote a letter to the breeder of our chessie asking permission to use the name! I am proud of the dog and his heritage and certainly wanted to acknowledge the breeder's efforts. But I agree, the answer to the original question is just ask. I bet any of the respected breeders would agree that if you don't want the name, there is no need to push it. I bet most breederrs would still sell me a pup as long as I promised to provide the best life for it and had every intention of some sort of competition. Even if I wanted to name it with my own kennel name even though I am not and never ever intend to be a breeder.
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We bought a 3k pup last year from a very good breeding. The kennel never mentioned using their kennel name and we had no contract other than my deposit to hold a pup. After receiving the pup we had to make numerous phone calls to receive the registration papers. When the papers did finally show they had already written their kennel name in the box?? I made 2 calls to the kennel about this as we have our own name and wanted to use it. We never received a return call and I figured since this was not mentioned via contract or verbally I went on line and registered with my name, especially after spending 3k.
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Using a breeder's kennel name is a good way to be able to track down where a dog came from when doing research on pedigrees, etc. It also helps to "honor" (so-to-speak) the breeder for producing a fine specimen of the breed. To me, removing the name when obviously the breeder prefers it is used (having already filled it out on the registration forms) is like a slap in the face to them. Not something I would personally feel comfortable with after they have trusted me with one of their pups... If you purchased your pup from a breeder you are proud to have a pup from, why would you not be proud to display their kennel name in the registered name of that pup?
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New UTSA team to research stuttering treatments
By Lesli Hicks
Special Projects Writer, M.A., '07
(Sept. 27, 2007)--Two of the world's top researchers on stuttering are building on 15 summers of research in San Antonio by seeking participants for clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health. The team will investigate a treatment for stuttering in adults and adolescents.
Janis Costello Ingham and Roger Ingham, both professors at the University of California, Santa Barbara, combined their teaching and research with colleagues at the Research Imaging Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). They now join UTSA as research professors.
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In collaboration with the director of the UTHSCSA Research Imaging Center, Peter Fox, M.D., the Inghams have focused their research on developing treatments for chronic stuttering in conjunction with brain-image techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
The treatment under investigation is a computer-based program designed to teach individuals to control precise aspects of their "phonatory behavior" and then gradually learn to do so regularly in order to achieve normally fluent speech. With careful evaluation of the effects of this program using PET and fMRI, the Inghams aim to learn if the known neurologic abnormalities associated with stuttering can be normalized.
"We believe San Antonio can become a hub for this kind of research as we continue to evaluate its efficiency and efficacy as a treatment," said Janis Costello Ingham.
She and her husband met years ago through a shared interest in speech sciences. They have worked together for more than 20 years in UCSB's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences.
Daniel Gelo, dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, said UTSA's affiliation with the Inghams has practical and positive long-term implications.
"Research is at the foundation of what UTSA educators do, and this is one more example of that," he said. "This work has the ability to change lives. Communication is the crux of the human experience."
For more information, contact Robin Selman at (210) 567-8172, or visit Roger Ingham's Web site or Janis Costello Ingham's Web site.
Misconceptions about stuttering
James Earl Jones, Bruce Willis, John Stossel, Carly Simon and Mel Tillis... The two actors, television personality, pop singer/songwriter and late country-and-western musician share an irony, given their public professions -- all stuttered. Or maybe it's not ironic at all. Their stuttering could be precisely why they emerged as great communicators.
Among stereotypes about stuttering are:
"We don't know the cause of stuttering; nobody does," said Roger Ingham, a scientist conducting research with brain-imaging techniques at UTSA/UTHSC that could result in life-changing positive treatment effects. "The answer may emerge within critical neural components, maybe even genetics, because stuttering does appear to run in families."
Stutterers are found all over the world, with some estimates indicating 1 percent of human beings manifest it. They are more commonly male children. Some 4 percent of the world's population will stutter in childhood, and many grow out of it.
Stuttering can be severe to mild; it often manifests with the speaker prolonging consonants and vowels such as "ss," "mm" and "oo" sounds or repeating consonants such as "t-t-too g-g-good." Sometimes these interruptions to the smooth flow of speech are accompanied by facial grimaces or bodily movements of which the listener may be more aware than the speaker.
Fortunately, treatment has no language barrier. For instance, if a patient is multilingual and receives behaviorally based therapy to minimize stuttering in one language, the fluency of speech improves in every tongue.
Of course, there are those who emerge from the teasing that often characterizes their childhood believing they are not impaired and that their peers can easily adapt to their speech -- and, in fact, should. Even so, Ingham and his partner in life and research, Janis Costello Ingham, say their research has shown that the lives of many people who stutter and who want to be relieved of this impediment, have been enriched by the treatment being investigated in this project.


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On Fox News this morning there was quite a discussion on the fact that a bill has been introduced in Congress to grant a $3,500 tax credit for pets to offset the cost of providing for the pets.
Personally, I don't think it will pass ... and, frankly, I hope it doesn't. If each of the 52 million pet owners received the tax credit of $3,500, it was mean an additional $3.5 billion loss to the U.S. Treasury when we are facing the largest deficit in history.
But to be honest, that is not my major reason for fear of this bill. I honestly believe if one digs deep enough you will find it is being sponsored by H$U$ supporters. I don't know for a fact and have not had a chance to verify my feelings.
The timing, the amount, the guise of "helping" pet owners does not ring true to me. What does ring true is that after a Federal Court reiterated that dogs are personal property (Louisville Kennel Club recent ruling), H$U$ has found a way to circumvent the Courts and presented a potential for removing pets as personal property and make the owners "guardians". The amount is high enough to be attractive (especially when you consider a parent of a child can only take a $1,000 credit per child) to garner support of the public and owners of pets, in particular.
Once a tax credit is established, the next step would be for H$U$ to claim we should all be named "guardians" to protect the investment of the US Government in our pets I can see this "gift" opening all kinds of doors, each of which will come with it's own "string" probably suggested by H$U$ to one of its friends in Congress.
Please take the time to tract down the bill and speak to your Senators and Representatives to understand how they see the bill. Give them your input after studying the proposal.


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12.24: Natural Resource Conservation
Can you make a difference?
Yes! You can conserve natural resources every day with every decision you make. Should you recycle that can? Yes! Should you buy a bottle of water or drink from the water fountain? Fountain! Should you walk or ride your bike to school or ask for a ride? Walk or ride - it's good exercise too!
Conserving Natural Resources
How can we protect Earth's natural resources? One answer is conservation. This means saving resources. We need to save resources so some will be left for the future. We also need to protect resources from pollution and overuse.
When we conserve resources, we also cut down on the trash we produce. Americans throw out 340 million tons of trash each year. We throw out 2.5 million plastic bottles alone — every hour! Most of what we throw out ends up in landfills. You can see a landfill in Figure below. In a landfill, all those plastic bottles take hundreds of years to break down. What are the problems caused by producing so much trash? Natural resources must be used to produce the materials. Land must be given over to dump the materials. If the materials are toxic, they may cause pollution.
A bulldozer crushes a mountain of trash.
The Three "R"s
You probably already know about the three "R"s. They stand for reduce, reuse, and recycle. The third "R" — recycle — has caught on in a big way. That's because it's easy. There are thousands of places to drop off items such as aluminum cans for recycling. Many cities allow you to just put your recycling in a special can and put it at the curb.
We haven't done as well with the first two "R"s — reducing and reusing. But they aren't always as easy as recycling. Recycling is better than making things from brand new materials. But it still takes some resources to turn recycled items into new ones. It takes no resources at all to reuse items or not buy them in the first place.
Reducing resource use means just what it says — using fewer resources. There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources.
- Buy durable goods. Choose items that are well made so they will last longer. You'll buy fewer items in the long run, so you'll save money as well as resources. That's a win-win!
- Repair rather than replace. Fix your bike rather than buying a new one. Sew on a button instead of buying a new shirt. You'll use fewer resources and save money.
- Buy only what you need. Don't buy a gallon of milk if you can only drink half of it before it spoils. Instead, buy a half gallon and drink all of it. You won't be wasting resources (or money!).
- Buy local. For example, buy local produce at a farmer's market, like the one in Figure below. A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances. Products bought at farmer's markets use less packaging, too!
Buying locally grown produce at a farmer's market saves resources.
About a third of what we throw out is packaging. Try to buy items with the least amount of packaging. For example, buy bulk items instead of those that are individually wrapped. Also, try to select items with packaging that can be reused or recycled. This is called precycling. Pop cans and plastic water bottles, for example, are fairly easy to recycle. Some types of packaging are harder to recycle. You can see examples in Figure below. If it can't be reused or recycled, it's a waste of resources.
- Many plastics: The recycling symbol on the bottom of plastic containers shows the type of plastic they contain. Numbers 1 and 2 are easier to recycle than higher numbers.
- Mixed materials: Packaging that contains more than one material may be hard to recycle. This carton is made mostly of cardboard. But it has plastic around the opening.
These types of packaging are hard to recycle. Could you reuse any of them?
Reusing resources means using items again instead of throwing them away. A reused item can be used in the same way by someone else. Or it can be used in a new way. For example, Shana has a pair of jeans she has outgrown. She might give them to her younger sister to wear. Or she might use them to make something different for herself, say, a denim shoulder bag. Some other ideas for reusing resources are shown in Figure below.
Do you reuse products such as these? Can you think of other ways to reuse resources?
Many things can be recycled. The materials in them can be reused in new products. For example, plastic water bottles can be recycled. The recycled material can be made into t-shirts! Old phone books can also be recycled and made into textbooks. When you shop for new products, look for those that are made of recycled materials (see Figure below). Even food scraps and lawn waste can be recycled. They can be composted and turned into humus for the garden.
This label shows that the product was made from recycled materials.
At most recycling centers, you can drop off metal cans, cardboard and paper products, glass containers, and plastic bottles. Recycling stations like the one in Figure below are common. Curbside recycling usually takes these items too. Do you know how to recycle in your community? Contact your local solid waste authority to find out. If you don't already recycle, start today. It's a big way you can help the planet!
Are there recycling stations like this one where you live?
- Conservation is a very effective way to help us to have useful materials in the future.
- To conserve follow the three R's. They are reduce, reuse, recycle.
- Reduce means to just use less.
- Reuse means to use something again, pass it on to someone who will, or change it so that it can be used in another way.
- Recycle means to have it recycled in your community. This is great although it does take energy.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Play the game to answer these questions.
- What are energy hogs?
- List 3 ways to save energy in the living room.
- List 3 ways you can conserve energy in the kitchen.
- List 2 ways to save water in the bathroom.
- List 2 ways to conserve energy in the bedroom.
- How can energy be conserved in the attic?
- Why is conservation a good thing?
- What are the three R's? What do they mean?
- Give an example of each of the three R's that you could do in your own life.
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It feels funny to say, but I've been using and advocating the use of Debian for well over six years now. Its distinction as a completely volunteer-driven distro is something I find very appealing, and I have a lot of respect for the people that make that possible.
This is much more than merely the hundreds of developers across the world, this includes QA people, documenters, translators, advocates, and donators of bandwitdh and hardware. And it includes bug reporters.
So, when the behavior of some developers in this bug report comes to my attention, I get fairly pissed off.
Now, I'm not dilluted enough to think that just because evrybody's contributing to a greater good means that they'll get alone or be civil to one another in the process. Quite the contrary, some developer lists are home to some of the fiercest arguments I've seen. It pretty much goes with the territory that anyone who cares enough to donate their time to Debian has some pretty string feelings about how they think Debian's future should look, and won't hesitate to defend their views. I can appreciate that. However, there are forums where some degree of etiquitte is required. I consider a bug database to be one such forum.
One of the core ideas behind the success of free software projects is peer review. More eyeballs, and all that stuff mbp was recently talking about in his diary. When we talk about having more eyeballs, some of those are the eyes of other developers reviewing code. But most of them are the eyes of users submitting bug reports. This is what sets us apart from the properitary world. A user see something they think isn't working right, or something they simply think could be better, and they have the means to tell the developers. And they get a response. That response is a voice from somebody who has the authority to represent that project publically.
Put another way, developers who respond to Debian bug reports are representing Debian, all of it, in their words. Users are told that their report has been seen, and a problem they reported fixed, or a suggestion they've made noted for consideration. And, if the response is a good one, the user is thanked for their time to fill out the report.
So, now that I've rambled for several paragraphs about what I think things should be like, allow me to be somewhat crass.
Daniel Stone, your response to that bug report was utter bullshit. I'm disgusted that you had the nerve to reply to someone who was volunteering their time to try to make Debian a little better in their eyes with such behavior. Now, perhaps I'm being too harsh, or perhaps you were trying to be funny in some odd teenage way that escapes me. But I think, in the future, you should take a moment of pause before corrosponding with bug reporters in the future. Think about how your actions will be viewed by the person on the other end of the message, and the people observing from afar. People like me, who have a lot of pride in what Debian has grown into, and don't like seeing this kind of shit from someone who is supposed to feel the same way.


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Hendrickson Group, Grace Kennedy win Observer Business Leader Award
KINGSTON, Jamaica -The Hendrickson family and Grace Kennedy are the 2011 recipients of the Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award.
In an unusual move the Award Selection Committee chose two winners this year as the achievements of the companies made it "difficult to choose between the two".
According to the committee, the historic decision resulted from the fact that both companies could not be separated by the scope, depth or quality of their impact on the Jamaican economy over the past 50 years.
The two were awarded for their continued contribution to the economy since Independence at a gala awards ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston Sunday night.
Known for their exploits in baking, through National Bakery, the Hendrickson family is involved in a range of industries spanning tourism, manufacturing, agro-processing, farming, to packaging.
Meanwhile, the name Grace Kennedy has been a staple in Jamaican households for decades. Starting in foods, the company has diversified and is now a strong force in the financial sector.
To be considered for nomination, all companies had to be at least 50 years old, or be able to trace their roots to 1962 or before.
See full story in Monday's Daily Observer