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Legg-Calve-Perthes disease occurs when the ball of the thighbone in the hip does not get enough blood, causing the bone to die.
Coxa plana; Perthes disease
Legg-Calve-Perthes disease usually occurs in boys 4 through 10 years old. There are many theories about the cause of this disease, but little is actually known.
Without enough blood to the area, the bone dies. The ball of the hip collapses and becomes flat. Usually only one hip is affected, although it can occur on both sides.
The blood supply returns over several months, bringing in new bone cells. The new cells gradually replace the dead bone over 2 to 3 years.
The first symptom is often limping, which is usually painless. Sometimes there may be mild pain that comes and goes.
Other symptoms may include:
During a physical examination, the health care provider will look for a loss in hip motion and a typical limp. A hip
The goal of treatment is to keep the ball of the thigh bone inside the socket. The health care provider may call this containment. The reason for doing this is to make sure the hip continues to have good range of motion.
The treatment plan may involve:
Surgery may be needed if other treatments do not work. Surgery ranges from lengthening a groin muscle to major hip surgery, called an osteotomy, to reshape the pelvis. The exact type of surgery depends on the severity of the problem and the shape of the ball of the hip joint.
It is important for the child to have regular follow-up with the doctor and an orthopaedic specialist.
Outlook depends on the child's age and the severity of the disease.
Children younger than 6 years old who receive treatment are more likely to end up with a normal hip joint. Children older than age 6 are more likely to end up with a deformed hip joint, despite treatment, and may later develop arthritis.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if a child develops any symptoms of this disorder.
Canale ST. Osteochondrosis or epiphysitis and other miscellaneous affections. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 32.
Sankar WN, Horn BD, Wells L, Dormans JP. Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 670.3.
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dccstl.....You said the fish store recommended the goldfish, not that you went there to get them because you wanted them. Fish stores will often recommend goldfish simply for cycling purposes.
Yes, you can cycle with them but will have to keep up with testing daily, water changes and adding a bac booster may help the fish along. It will take longer to cycle the tank, however, because it's an unheated tank. So, what may take a month in a heated tank, may end up taking twice as long in an unheated tank.
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This cycling is a mess....
Here is the latest. None of this is going as planned:
I had to use the ammolock as an emergency. I don't know if it worked or not, but a day later the tank smelled like rotten eggs, was thick and almost slimy and was so milky you couldn't see through it.
My goldfish almost died, I was able to rescue them. They are doing well and it has been about 1 1/2 weeks. The tank they are temporarily in is far too small so I am hoping I will be able to move them out soon.
The tank still looks the same although the eggs smell is no longer there. The guy at the fish store keeps telling me to wait it out, however it has been almost a month since we started this. I am not an expert but something is most definitely not right. I quit adding ammolock (although they kept telling me too) because I don't see how that is allowing this fish tank to cycle. Please see results below
5 days ago (using API test kit)
Ammonia is so high it is off the charts
0 Nitrite
0 Nitrate
I upped the PH 2 days ago. Readings as of today
Ammonia is so high it is off the charts
0 Nirtite
5 Nitrate
Does anyone know what is going on:) ???
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'Iolani Palace 364 South King Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Completed in 1882, 'Iolani Palace functioned as the official residence of Hawaii's monarchy. It was first known as Hale Ali'i meaning house of chief. However, Kamehameha V renamed it in honor of his brother. Io' translated means Hawaiian hawk an...
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Adair, Parman fill girls basketball coaching vacancies
Two Union County girls basketball coaching vacancies were filled Monday night with the hiring of Trent Adair at Ingomar and Shelley Parman at East Union, both bringing excitement and a connection from Hatley to Union County.
Parman joins the Lady Urchins after stints as a junior high coach at Dorsey Attendance Center and Iuka Middle School. Helping to rebuild the tradition at East Union is what excites the first-time high school coach.
"I know Union County has a rich tradition in basketball, and I'm interested in helping build back this program, starting with the junior high and taking that into high school," she said. "I'm very excited for the opportunity."
Parman graduated from Hatley in 2003 and played college ball at Itawamba Community College before completing her undergraduate work at Mississippi University for Women.
Planning to meet with the team this week, Parman is ready to start working her young squad, which lost two seniors in Dezjarna Bryant and Chelsea Kuhn.
"We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores, so it's very exciting to get in there and build something with those girls," She said. "We have a few older girls, and I'll definitely be looking to them for leadership."
Another thing she looks forward to is the friendly family competition she will face, as her husband, Chris, coaches at Thrasher and her father, Terry Walters, at Hatley. The Lady Urchins will face both next season.
"My husband and I are very competitive," she laughed. "No matter what it is, tennis, cleaning the house, we're going to compete, and we have this little trophy from the NBA Monopoly game. That's what we play for, but I'm pretty sure the stakes will be higher when our teams play, like washing dishes or something like that."
As for her father, Parman has always looked to him for coaching support, and will remain to do so, but the conversations may change some with the two now division opponents.
"I've always had a close relationship with him, and we talk about games and stuff," she explained. "I'm sure those conversations will change a little, but I'm excited about the chance to compete against both him and my husband."
Adair shares a coaching connection to Hatley, where his uncle, Harry, led the Lady Tigers to seven playoff appearances, five state championships and four grand slam titles. A 1999 graduate of Ingomar, the younger Adair continued his playing career at Northeast Community College and later earned a bachelor's degree from Mississippi State and master's degree from Ole Miss.
After working as an assistant and eventually head coach for the boys team in Ripley, Adair spent this past school year as a middle school teacher in Tupelo and looks forward to returning home to coach the Lady Falcons.
"I felt like it's what I needed to do," he said. "I've enjoyed the year away from coaching, having the freedom to go to games and just watch, but there's that part of me that missed it. When the opportunity opened up and I saw I could come back home and do something good for Ingomar, I pursued it because I want to see them do good. This is my chance to help Ingomar."
Adair hopes to meet with his team within the next two weeks and looks forward to seeing what he has for the 2011-2012 season.
"I watched them play a couple of times over the last year, and I know Coach (Richard) Byrd did a good job, and I think a lot of him," Adair said. "Hopefully we'll be able to get together and see what's coming back, get in a couple practices and start working on what we can do with the materials we have next season."
Editor's note: Parman has announced a meeting for all girls interested in playing for the Lady Urchins next season.
The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 13 in the East Union gym. Any girl from grades 7-12 and their parents are invited to attend.
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Manchester Target has c3po and yoda deluxe. 1 each when I left.
Manchester Target has c3po and yoda deluxe. 1 each when I left.
Bridgeton Target: Deluxe 3PO & Yoda - one 3PO left. Also had one Hoth accessory left from last week, which I broke down and bought.
West Florissant TRU has Landspeeders. They had 5 on the shelf at 6:00.
Manchester Wal-Mart received 12" Dooku, Zam, & Super B.D. I only purchased one Dooku, so there was still a slew left.
Walmart Manchester: I bought the only Republic Gunship
Walmart Chesterfield Valley/Boone's Crossing: 2 Gunships, I left both on the shelf.
I got the last Gunship at Fenton Walmart the other day, I opened it and all I can say is its awesome, I would recommend it to anyone, its worth the 40 bucks and that has been hard to say for alot of the SW stuff.
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Chesterfield Toys R' Us: two 12" Luke/Taun on the floor. Both in great shape.
Manchester Wal-Mart has the R2-D2 droid.
KB Toys - new West County Mall - finally Ki-Adi and Teemto!!!!!!
also picked up the KB exclusive Jedi Starfighter.
This was yesterday during the opening, so this info is probably useless now, but there were units of each still available.
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OK, Episode 3 Essentials and Wish List:
Anakin - longer hair, scar, perhaps interchangeable heads for mean looks, nice guy
Obi-Wan Kenobi -short hair, a pretty plain figure, but cool and necessary
Padme - pregnant? Could be a very unique and original sculpt for a 12" - but she'd be a great appology for her AOTC figure which is probably the worst 12" in history.
Mace Winduthey could do a re-release if they needed to, but I saved an extra TPM (good one, as opposed to the AOTC TRU one) just because I knew I'd need one one day. So I doubt I'll buy a Mace given that.
Yoda - I guess I'll need yet another one - I bought 3 of the AOTC release... but Yoda always sells. They still could articulate him more and refine his clothing and accessories a little bit. It wasn't perfect, but re-releasing the AOTC version wouldn't be a disaster either. We just need more arm articulation at the very least.
Count Dookuhis AOTC figure is one of the best in the history of the line, in sharp contrast to Padme. I saved an extra one (I even got at clearance price) for E3. So I won't be buying another Dooku unless they figured out a way to make him even more awesome (enraged look or something? Dooku doesn't loose his cool though)
Storm-Cloner - the crossing of the Clone Trooper and Stormtrooper. OK here I can see Hasbro definitely releasing something. It's a given if the 12" line continues for E3. They might milk it with Jungle, Desert, Urban, Underwater variations. I'd likely buy them all, and perhaps 2-3 of each kind depending upon how I might want to do scenes. A very expensive figure for us - but very profitable for Hasbro. Especially if they keep the higher price point like their V-OTC 12" collection is running at now. That'll be like $240 - 300 they get out of each of us for essentially one mold! Well, hey - they're in this business to profit and it's not like I don't want the figures...
General Grevious - this could be an awesome figure. They HAVE TO make him. He'll be an E3 icon and hardly a spoiler since everyone watched CW Animated and knows who he is and what he looks like - and he'll be on a ton of promotional material. I will buy maybe 1-3 figures of him for various scenes I could assemble. I'm even thinking I would buy another Dooku to have a Separatist Club Boardroom Tea Party scene with all of them they might make.
A 12" Grevious might be the best 12" ever made.
Nute Gunray - it was once going to happen for TPM and then never did. Nute is essential Prequel SW now and turned out to be a fun character. Since he doesn't use accessories like blasters, I think he should come with Eps 1,2,& 3 hats. Here's to hoping his costume doesn't change too much so they can just do the hat thing and we finally get Nute as a 12".
Palpatine - again a Ep1 unfulfilled promise. Obviously as Supreme Chancellor it'd make more sense, but I'd wanted a Senator one as well. Hopes are dimming that I'd ever get that. But Palpatine would give the sculpters a great chance to do a very unique face.
Darth Sidious - well if spoilers have been warned, a Palpatine figure released later in the E3 line, with the dark cloak and changeable heads to "shape-shift", would be all it takes, as Palpatine couldn't have a lot of accessories (a throne chair might be nice, as would a camera droid - while Sidious having Dark Side Lightning could be cool) but unless they release a super-deluxe 12" ultimate version... -but wait a minute! They did with Jango Fett. Palpatine would be awesome to be the E3 figure released this way!
Darth Vader Removeable Helmet - it remains to be seen if they use red herrings or tricks of interpretation to make youngsters think Anakin has died or if they'll do this figure just for the collectors. A Vader RH with Anakin's face. I suppose it all depends if you see Hayden this way in the movie. It could be cool as the Sebastian Shaw Vader RH 12" is my favorite 12" figure to this day.
Destroyer Droid - it'd be about time. Who knows if they are even in this movie, but at this size there's no reason the makers of Transformers.. well you get the idea. A DD would rock!
OK that about sums up what we're suppose to HAVE TO GET above....
Now Secondary Characters we'd be lucky to get:
Plo Koon - widescale re-release. Can't figure they sold enough of him last time with the fan club collapsing, etc.
Bail Organa - would be very nice to have.
Niemoidan Soldier - very cool looking. I'd like one of these.
Wookiee Warrior - hopefully they can figure this out and also give us a nice Chewbacca: sculpt or use the vintage KENNER Chewie figure - articulate it more - stick a nylon over it VERY TIGHTLY - have all the real fur sewn into that. The '99 Chewie was a disgrace, but they got the durability and height right. The '97 Chewie actually was furry. Now activate some brain cells Hasbro - put the ideas together. Maybe come up with this to balance the cost: a Wookiee Warrior 2-pack. Includes a warrior with armor, and Chewbacca as we've always seen him. They use the new technique and charge $50-60 retail to cover all the cost and give us something of value. To replace Chewie in our classic collections with something that looks good and can carry 3PO on his back, we'll buy more than 1 of these, while at the same time creating a 12" Wookiee army - and a need to buy more Storm-Cloners to fight them. A win for us, a win for Hasbro. A win for Chewbacca finally! Give someone the Yavin Medal!
Anything else?
Jedi of course:
SaeSee Tiin
Eeth Koth or Agen Kolar
Adi Gallia or Stass Allie
Aayla Secura
Bariss Offee
Luminara Undulli
These'd make the best of the bunch unless Sora Bulq is going to appear as a Dark Jedi (or if he changes sides again because Lucas' extra-casting crew doesn't know any better or says "all Weequays look alike."
Anyway, what do you think
- of the likelihood of my list?
- of their price point?
- of what you'd buy?
- of anything I might have missed?
- of what quality they'd be?
- what Hasbro should do? Raise the price point and make them really good - or do the slop job so often see for mass movie release marketing?


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Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.
Otherwise you're forced to level up a lot more, and that just becomes a chore easily when you're doing the main game story...
I mean, Druddigon is terribly slow, Cinccino has horrible defenses, and Swanna is mostly kept around as death fodder and HM slave. But I liked them, and I used them.
Magnezone really is the only competitive Pokémon there... OTOH both Lucario and Arcanine are strong competitive Pokémon with high BSTs. Nothing wrong in liking them (I like them too), but hey, don't judge!


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"Yo, it's pretty fucked up, man, I couldn't believe it," she said before quickly shaking it off with a grin and shrug. "Hey, whoever took it, I hope they're at least playing the shit out of it, ya know?"
Raskin is one of the most affable and upbeat artists I have encountered on the local circuit, and her genuine love for the Rhody music community shines through each and every time we cross paths or meet up for a margarita (or three). Talk turns to the big Monster Man EP release and video premiere next weekend at Firehouse 13. Raskin and her mates, Casey Belisle and Justin Foster, sought financial help via the Kickstarter fund-raising site.
"We were shocked and truly moved by the amount of backing we received," she told me. "Our initial goal was $800, but we made that in the first day, so we increased the goal to $2000 and eventually hit that too, from people all over.
"It was so rad to see how far our music has spread."
The video for new single "Magma," shot a few brutally muggy weekends back (Raskin: "Shout out to Nice Slice and Ground Round for sponsoring the shoot!"), includes a bunch of friends and family being chased by an enormous monster (operated by Foster and Belisle, with guidance from friend and Disney puppeteer Brett Sylvia) — "a sort of symbolic representation of the lyrical content of the song," according to Raskin.
"The Monster Man album concept surrounds an idea of the downfall of humanity, with a glimmer of hope as well," she said. "I think the energy is consistent throughout, with sort of an immense sorrow.
"Yet there is still a sense of humor about it, and a positive outlook on what the future could bring," Raskin continued. "A song like 'Gore' is blatantly pessimistic, while 'Magma' is sort of ironic in the way the music feels positive yet the lyrics are quite dark and disturbing."
Monster Man follows last year's Feel Like Human EP, both recorded in a Central Falls studio that Justin Foster and friends built from scratch, though Raskin is no stranger to the DIY route, having cut her first record when she was 17 with help from close pal Ben Knox-Miller of the Low Anthem. The trio also decided to play musical chairs this time around, with drummer Belisle sliding over to bass and keys, while Foster jumped behind the kit. The multi-talented Raskin helms the keyboard and glockenspiel, along with some bass and guitar duties.
"It keeps things interesting and challenging for us," said Roz, who was particularly pumped about incorporating three-part harmonies on the new record, as well as having Belisle provide some lyrics for the first time. The sound remains totally unique, from the stirring, ice cold effect of "Gore" to the jazzy 90-second jam "Hate," while "Everyone" and "With a Monster Man" are two of the best yet from the Rice Cakes collective.
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Family: Delphinidae, Ocean Dolphins view all from this family
Description Our only slender, beaked dolphin without a dorsal fin. All other dark dolphins have blunt faces and obvious dorsal fins. Dark color is broken up by white on lower jaw, chest, belly, and under the fluke. Calves are grayish brown or cream-colored. Jumps with low-angle leaps.
Dimensions 2-3.1m; / 2-2.6mm, 60-113kg
Habitat Offshore waters
Range California, Northwest, Western Canada
Discussion Dive up to 200m in search of fish and squid, and capable of speeds up to 34km per hour. Widely distributed and relatively abundant in deep waters of the Pacific, where they form herds of hundreds or even thousands of individuals.


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I'm not really into these music awards shows. All I want to see during these shows is if someone has an oops moment that I can talk about but so far, during the 2008 American Music Awards held at the Nokia Theatre in L.A., no celebrity had one. Sucks. But anyway, here are some pictures from some of the performers that night. Check 'em out, especially Christina Aguilera's outfit.
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Frist showing women's soccer Final Four game, Dec. 3
Posted November 28, 2004; 01:55 p.m.
The Princeton women's soccer team's NCAA Final Four game against UCLA will be televised in the Frist Campus Center's 100-level lounge at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. Refreshments will be provided.
Princeton is the first Ivy League team ever to advance to the national tournament semifinals in women's soccer. The Tigers won four straight NCAA tournament games at Lourie-Love Field, running their home winning streak to a school-record 19 straight. Princeton is 19-2 overall -- the most wins ever for an Ivy women's soccer team.
The Princeton-UCLA game will be held at the State Capital Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., and also will be shown on ESPN2. Santa Clara will face Notre Dame in the other semifinal game at 4:30 p.m. Friday. The national championship game is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5.
The Frist showing is co-sponsored by the Department of Dining Services, Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and Department of Athletics.
More details are available on the Princeton Athletics Web site.
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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By Ben Levisohn
Shares of Baidu (BIDU) have plunged 7.7% to $85.20 in after-hours trading after the company said it missed earnings forecasts.
Baidu reported earnings of 95 cents a share, below analyst forecasts for $1.02. Revenue also came in shy of analyst expectations at $961 million versus the consensus forecast of $966.96 million. The company said it would meet guidance for the second quarter, but revenues would come in between $1.187 billion and $1.216 billion. Analysts had predicted $1.2 billion.
Investors are clearly unhappy with the numbers and are likely to be focused on two area: mobile and margins. Baidu had this to say about its mobile business in a press release:
"We saw healthy financial results in the first quarter of 2013 as we continued to invest in establishing China's leading mobile ecosystem." said Robin Li, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu. "Our mobile offering is making exciting progress, with our flagship mobile search product having now surpassed 100 million daily active users, an over 25% increase from the end of the fourth quarter."
And this:
Jennifer Li, Baidu's chief financial officer, commented, "We remain committed to investing aggressively, particularly in marketing and R&D. By deploying resources in the most strategically important areas of our business, we're confident we can build exceptional long-term value for shareholders. For the quarter, we also recognized a whole quarter consolidation of iQiyi."
Meanwhile, costs rose across the board, and Baidu's margins will likely be a focus of its conference call. The cost associate with acquiring traffic represented 10.2% of total revenues, up from 7.8% a year ago and 9.6% during the last three months of 2012. Bandwidth costs ate up 6.8% of total revenues, up from 5.2% a year ago. So-called selling, general and administrative expenses jumped 77.2% from a year ago, while R&D expenses rose 82.9%.
Baidu had gained 4.8% to $92.34 today, but was still down 7.9% this year.


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The Mellon Mays Fellows Professional Network (MMFPN) provides formal and informal networking and mentoring opportunities to Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) alumni in every profession and in every stage of their career path, adhering to the unofficial motto: "Once a Mellon, always a Mellon."
With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation is developing an alumni association of MMUF Fellows, with the ultimate goal of sustainability. Unlike the other programs which the Mellon Foundation has generously funded for MMUF Fellows, MMFPN does not exist to provide financial support for MMUF alumni. Instead it is an organization which provides alumni with the opportunity to support each other.
Currently through MMFPN, Mellon alumni can connect with the 3,400 MMUF alumni worldwide, keep abreast of MMFPN news, find and announce jobs and fellowships, post articles, participate in a mentor/mentee dyad, and discuss critical issues. Do you have a suggestion for some other areas which should be included? Please send us an email. The active participation and frequent input of MMUF alumni will allow MMFPN to maintain and sustain each of its current program ventures and continue to grow to its fullest potential.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Concerns expressed by some state leaders that revenue collections through the first quarter of the fiscal year were less than the same time period for the previous year apparently can be explained by a computer conversion by the Mississippi Department of Revenue.
A summary of revenue collections for the month of September by the staff of the Legislative Budget Committee revealed than between July 1 and Sept. 30, the state collected $22 million, or 2.2 percent, less than during the same time period in 2011.
For September, revenue collections were $37 million less than for the same month in 2011.
"Since revenues for the current fiscal year are lower than the state collected a year ago, agencies should prepare for additional budget cuts and look for more efficient ways to provide services," Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves warned when asked about the revenue report.
Gov. Phil Bryant expressed similar concerns.
"The economy is still down," Bryant said. "It is not growing in Mississippi. Unemployment continues to creep up."
While unemployment has continued to be a problem in Mississippi, state leaders have been able to take some solace in a rebound in state revenue collections, such as the tax on income and the tax on retail sales. For the past fiscal year, revenue growth was 5.9 percent, though, still below the level reached in the 2008-09 fiscal year before the full impact of the national recession was felt in Mississippi.
After strong revenue collections for July and August – the first two months of the fiscal year – it appeared the state was poised to reach new heights in revenue collections.
But then the September report came in showing collections trailing where they were a year ago.
According to Kathy Waterbury, a spokeswoman for the Department of Revenue, that drop might have an explanation other than a slowdown in state tax collections.
"During the 'time-out' for conversion to our new system, tax returns were not posted to taxpayer accounts," Waterbury explained. "Revenue is not recognized until the return posts, even though the money was in the treasury. All of the returns posted within the first few days of October and that revenue will be reflected in October collections."
In other words, unless there is a real major drop in tax collections, October should be reflected as a strong month.
And unless there is a major downturn, the October report should show collections again exceeding what was collected during the same time period a year ago.
Interestingly, despite the slow September caused by the conversion, collections still were above the estimate by $9.2 million, or 2.4 percent, not counting $35.2 million deposited in the treasury by Attorney General Jim Hood as a result of settlements of lawsuits with pharmaceutical companies over allegations of overcharging the state for drugs for Medicaid recipients.
The estimate – developed by the legislative leadership upon advice from the state's financial experts – is important because it represents the amount of money appropriated by the Legislature.
When the legislative leaders developed the estimate this past April, the slowdown in September collections caused by the conversion and the uptick in October were factored into the equation.
For the first quarter, collections are $22.6 million, or 2.3 percent, above the estimate – not counting the deposit by the attorney general.
Bryant will meet with legislative leaders and the lieutenant governor to adopt a revenue estimate on Nov. 12 to be used by the Legislature in developing a budget during the 2013 session. While the estimate is adopted in the fall in advance of the start of the session, the legislative leadership normally changes the estimate near the end of the session just before passing a final budget.


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Summer of Code Summary
Almost two weeks ago was the deadline for the projects of the Summer of Code program, but I haven't wrote a single line on this blog about this. It is time to give a summary of what was done, and what may be done in the future.
My project for Summer of Code 2006 was KDEPIM Google Calendar synchronization using OpenSync. The scope of the project included both writing a Google Calendar plugin for OpenSync and improving the OpenSync and KDE integration.
Work Done
The work accomplished during the program includes:
- OpenSync ipc-branch merge to trunk. The ipc-branch work was needed to allow the kdepim plugin for OpenSync work while inside a KDE application (such as Kitchensync).
- OpenSync ipc-branch fixes and improvements (before and after the ipc-branch merge to trunk).
- General bug report handling and bug fixing on OpenSync.
- Kitchensync testing with the kdepim plugin.
- Google Calendar plugin for OpenSync. The plugin allows synchronization of calendar data with other OpenSync plugins.
- A single bugfix commit to KDE 3.5, due to a bug in the kabc locking code
- Help on packaging of OpenSync and its plugins on the OpenSUSE Build Service (thanks to Daniel Gollub, Christopher Stender and Matthias Jahn, who were working on this, also).
OpenSync 0.19
OpenSync 0.19 is planned to be released soon, including the ipc-branch code.
The Future
There is much that can be done regarding OpenSync and KDE integration, yet. Things worth mentioning:
- Some plugins need additional code to work with ipc-branch code. Some plugins that use their own data formats need serialization and deserialization functions to be implemented. This is needed because the data need to be sent between the plugin processes and the sync engine process.
- Recurrence support in the Google Calendar plugin. Translation of recurrence rules from the Google Calendar XML data to the OpenSync internal format (and to vCalendar) isn't implemented yet.
- Support for more fields from Google Calendar entries.
- Kontact integration. Support for running Kitchensync inside Kontact is not supported yet.
- Demonstration of Kitchensync and Google Calendar plugin. I need to write a text with some screenshots of Kitchensync and using the Google Calendar plugin. :)
The Code
Below are the pointers to the code written during the program, for the final evaluation for the Summer of Code program.
- Google Calendar plugin:
- OpenSync trunk (including ipc-branch merge and other fixes):
- Kitchesync opensync-integration branch:
- Small fix on kabc locking code:
- OpenSync package on openSUSE: http://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=OpenSync
Many thanks to:
- Kátia, my wife, for her patience while I was working in the project
- Google, for running the Summer of Code program
- Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn, from Google
- Cornelius Schumacher, Tobias Koenig, my mentors during the program, from the KDE project
- Armin Bauer, for bringing OpenSync to life
- Daniel Gollub, Christopher Stender and Matthias Jahn, for their work on OpenSync
- Many others that aren't mentioned here, but contributed to this. The contributors to OpenSync and KDE projects


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Tri-City rallies to beat Chiefs, 6-3
KENNEWICK, Wash. - In the 23rd New Year's Eve meeting, the Spokane Chiefs gave up 4 third period goals as the Tri City Americans rallied for a 6-3 win on Monday night in Kennewick. Spokane lost for just the second time this season when leading after two periods, as they carried a 3-2 lead into the third.
Tri City jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a Marcus Messier goal 3:20 into the game. Chiefs captain Brenden Kichton evened the game at one on his 10th goal of the year at 5:43 on assists from Liam Stewart and Riley Whittingham. The Americans would regain the lead on a Parker Bowles power play goal at 17:59 of the period to lead it 2-1 after one. It was the first power play goal surrendered by the Chiefs to the Americans in 7 games this season.
The Chiefs Blake Gal would tie the game at two at 9:51 of the second period with his 5th goal of the year on assists from Mike Aviani and Reid Gow. Mitch Holmberg would notch his 24th goal of the season at 19:07 from Collin Valcourt and Kichton to give Spokane a 3-2 lead heading into the third period. Spokane outshot Tri City 17-6 in the second period.
Bowles would score his second goal on the night on a tip just 2:06 into the third period to tie the game at three. Drydn Dow and Connor Rankin scored goals 14 seconds apart to give Tri a 5-3 lead, then Beau McCue capped the scoring on a partial breakaway at 12:28 as Tri City won their second straight from Spokane.
Spokane will continue their 4 game road trip at Everett on Friday night, January 4th at 7:35pm.


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By Tiernan Ray
R.F. Micro Devices (RFMD) this afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, and a better-than-expected outlook for the current quarter as well.
Revenue in the three months ended in March rose 49%, year over year, to $280.6 million, yielding EPS of 6 cents per share.
Analysts had been modeling $252.8 million and 5 cents per share.
RF's gross margin, on an adjusted bases, came in at 34.4%, down from 35.5% in the prior quarter.
RF's CEO, Bob Bruggeworth, remarked that "RFMD won share across a broad customer set and outpaced our industries' underlying growth rates," while CFO Dean Priddy added that "We expect to drive substantial margin improvement through multiple activities, including the migration of our 2G product portfolio to our lower-cost, best-in-class RF CMOS technology, the addition of internal assembly capacity to increase the percent we insource, the completion of our exit of our UK facility, and the resulting improvement in utilization in our Greensboro GaAs fab."
For the current quarter, the company expects revenue in a range of $285 million to $290 million, and EPS of 7 cents to 8 cents. That compares to a consensus for $266 million and 7 cents.
RF Micro shares are down 20 cents, or 4%, at $5.25 in late trading. Shares of competitor Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) rose 10 cents, or half a percent, to $20.90 in late trading.


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Australia will develop a new national strategy [2]to tackle the nation's diabetes epidemic, announced Australian Minister for Health. This initiative has been made as part of the Opening Ceremony of the World Diabetes Congress 2013 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The International Diabetes Federation President, Sir Michael Hirst, and Professor Paul Zimmet, who will co-chair the strategy Expert Advisory Group will be available for comment at 8am tomorrow as part of the World Diabetes Congress opening press conference in room 104 of the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Statement from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
"The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) welcomes this powerful initiative. We would like to congratulate The Hon Peter Dutton for his commitment to set up this Diabetes Task Force.
This is one of the first governments to make such a such a public commitment to attacking the pandemic of diabetes. It will place Australia as a firm ally to IDF and the thousands of healthcare professionals, researchers and their patients who live with diabetes every day.
Professor Paul Zimmet and The Hon. Judi Moylan who will co-Chair the Advisory Group for the strategy are outstanding experts in their field and will play an invaluable role in strategy development.
Coming at the start of our Congress in Melbourne with over 10,000 delegates from more than 200 countries, including many parliamentarians and representatives of governments, it sets an example that many countries should follow.
This is a tribute to the unstinting work of those in Australia who have raised the disease and the issues at very possible opportunity.
IDF on behalf of the world diabetes community will watch the progress of this taskforce. We hope that we will learn lessons that can be used in other countries. The eyes of the diabetes world will be on Australia."


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The Changes of Time
Do Old People Have Old Cells?
So as you grow older your body changes, we all know this, but do all parts of you get older? This is a slightly different question. Our cells divide and we heal wounds. Certainly some of our cells are new even if we are old. But, other cells, like those in our heart or brain, don't seem to change. Are they as old as we are? And what about the stuff in the cell--the DNA, the RNA, the proteins? Are they as old as the cells? Are they as old as us? This isn't an easy question to answer, but researchers are working on it, and here's some of what they are finding.
- New Insight Into Cell Aging And Neurodegeneration from Salk Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH80WhU3KTs
Extension Investigation
Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- Are non-dividing cells more vulnerable to damage than dividing cells? Why is this the case?
- What is the average age for most proteins in the body? Does this surprise you? Why or why not? How does this situation benefit organisms by recycling elements?
- Do you think the fact that some proteins last longer than others means that some proteins are more important than others or is how long a protein lasts just a reflection of its function in the body? Explain your thinking as thoroughly as possible.
- How do researchers hope to understand healthy aging by the study of proteins?
- What are ELLP's? Where have they been identified to occur in a rat's central nervous system? Why does this suggest they may have unique importance in organisms?
Resources Cited
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH80WhU3KTs
- http://salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=540
- http://www.salk.edu/faculty/hetzer.html
- http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6071/942.abstract
- http://ageing-research.blogspot.com/2008/01/long-lived-proteins.html
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425445
- http://homepages.bw.edu/~mbumbuli/cell/ublec/
- http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20120213/savas.html


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What if a poem were a social force? Forget for a moment everything you know about poetry: forget the marooned beatnik at the open mic, and the tiny thoughts tattooed on white space in the New Yorker, and the voice reading something nice about apples on NPR. What if a poem had the power to heal loneliness — to leap between people in a kind of curative, relational flash? Imagine. Your average Red Line car at 4 pm is a laboratory of human estrangement: what if poetry could do something about that?
Boston poets Rafael Campo and Franz Wright are divergent, even contrasting, poetic animals. One is a doctor; the other has been, for significant stretches of his life, a patient. One writes metrically, with an appetite for form; the other brings up chunks of almost-unphraseable psychic experience. One is a lapsed Catholic; the other is a Catholic convert.
But both of them, through their work and their relation to the world, have laid bare a live wire between poetry and isolation — physical isolation, social isolation, spiritual isolation. Campo practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, specializing in HIV-related conditions. As a gay man, he has trodden the stations of suffering from fearfulness to compassion, right through "the body's caves and slums."
"The AIDS ward where I worked was like a shipwreck," runs his poem "Night Has Fallen," "on some lost, quarantined island . . ."
Wright, a veteran of mental illness, delivered himself in part by mounting his own low-key ministry among the saddened and the lost. Who are, lest we forget, everywhere: "Someone in Hell is sitting beside you on the train./Somebody burning unnoticed walks past in the street" ("The Choice").
Tonally distinct, their poems are united in a common attempt to abolish separateness, to identify wholly and indivisibly with the other — be that other Jesus Christ, a homeless man with AIDS, or both. Campo, the physician, does it with expertise and quiet self-revelation; Wright, the patient, does it via a sort of reckless, illuminated hazarding of the ego. The un-heroic designation "local poet" is appropriate to neither of them — in our city, these two are a couple of medicine men.
The patientFranz Wright buzzes me out to the Lincoln woods in his jaunty black Honda Civic Si, the car he bought with the Pulitzer money he won in 2004 for his collection Walking to Martha's Vineyard. "I don't do interviews anymore," he says. "Things always get distorted. But I like the Phoenix. I've always liked the Phoenix."
We park, take a path through tall pines, and find ourselves a couple of friendly boulders overlooking Flint's Pond. The water trembles with afternoon brightness. A rich silence settles around us, nature's old tick-tock, and Wright — thick-jawed, heavy-browed — attains immediately the force of a philosophical emblem. Here he is on his rock, il penseroso: "the only animal" (as one of his poems has it) "that commits suicide."
Wright has poetry in the DNA — not necessarily a good thing. His dad, James Wright, was a copper-bottomed mid-century maniac of an American poet, a prodigious talker, reciter, gasser, up-all-nighter (and fellow Pulitzer winner), companion to the great and doomed of his day — Berryman, Roethke, Lowell. They came thrashing at intervals through Wright's childhood, these mad old eminences. What was it like to be around them? Does he remember? "Well everyone was so drunk all the time. I just thought all adults were fuckin' nuts."
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The trend line for cybersecurity crimes continues to increase, with no signs of a meaningful decrease on the horizon. Is there anything an organization can do to stop these attacks from occurring and protect their critical information systems from intruders? Business leaders need to understand the risks that face their organization if they are to effectively mitigate them.
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About Me
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in couple and family therapy. I help individuals, couples, or families who are struggling with difficulties in communication, decision-making, conflict management, or in coping with the general strain brought by illness. As a psychologist and family therapist, I provide oversight of our Family Therapy Clinic, housed within the Memorial Sloan Kettering Counseling Center. The clinic consists of a multidisciplinary group of social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists who specialize in couple and family therapy. I work with this team to advance support of the family throughout the cancer journey. In addition, I provide supportive and cognitive behavioral therapy to individuals distressed by cancer-related issues.
The impact of serious illness often affects not only the patient but also those close to them who face the difficult task of both supporting the patient and simultaneously managing their own emotional responses to illness. Illness can bring patients and their loved ones closer together but at the same time can place considerable strain on the family, prompting changes in roles, routines, and relationships. In my work with couples and families, I help patients and/or their loved ones strengthen their capacity to work as a team, communicate comfortably with one another about cancer-related concerns, make decisions together, and address longstanding conflicts that are magnified in the setting of illness.
I also serve as Associate Co-Director of the psychotherapy laboratory, which develops and investigates novel counseling interventions for cancer patients at all stages of disease and cancer types, as well as couples and families. My research goals involve the development and testing of couple- and family-based interventions in the oncology setting. I have a particularly strong interest in understanding what components of family therapy work best and how to disseminate this understanding and train others to deliver these interventions in multiple settings. I have published several chapters and presented workshops in this area, and am a member of the American Psychological Association and the International Psycho-Oncology Society.
- Clinical Expertise: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families
- Languages Spoken: English
- Education: PhD, Temple University; Advanced training in couple and family therapy, Ackerman Institute for the Family
- Residencies: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Fellowships: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Board Certifications: Clinical Psychology
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what I am worried about it do I need to remove power/hold reset button when changing the DIP positions?
V->10K resister->pin2 set as input->N/O switch->GND --- resister here is pull up
V->10K resister->pin2 set as input->N/O switch->GND --- resister here is pull upThis is the most common, mostly because the Arduino microcontroller has built-in pullup resistors that can be enabled so you don't even need the external resistor. Make sure "V" in your hookup is 5V and not some arbitrary voltage.
pinMode(10, INPUT); // Or whatever pin...doesn't have to be 10...digitalWrite(10, HIGH); // Pin 10 now has a pullup resistor enabled
What are the drawbacks/dangers to having a low pull down, say 1k? I don't think I can use pull ups 'cause my switches have diodes in front of them...
There is no fundemental advantage/disadvantage of pull-ups Vs pull-down, it's just whatever is easier to interface what your wiring to.
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Swaffy, I got your money order today, if you haven't received your Starspeeder today, it'll be tomorrow. I slapped tracking on all the packages because I have a hard time trusting the USPS, but I don't mind spending extra on you good folks (I know VT, that's not very spendthrift of me ). I don't have the numbers on me, but I know where they are if I need them.
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Description Typically brown-backed with a whitish or yellowish belly. Although its coloration is not particularly distinctive, its shape is easily recognizable. It has a broad head with wide-set eyes, and a pair of distinctive lobes on its subrostral fin. It also has a set of dental plates designed for crushing clams and oyster shells. There are a series of canine teeth that are hidden behind the dental plates. Cownose rays grow rapidly, and male rays often reach about 35 inches (89 cm) in width and weigh 26 pounds (12 kg). Females typically reach 28 inches (71 cm) in width and weigh 36 pounds (16 kg).
A cownose ray has a stinger, called a spine, on its tail, close to the ray's body. This spine has teeth lining its lateral edges, and is coated with a weak venom that which causes symptoms similar to that of a bee sting.
Dimensions Up to 3' (91 m) wide.
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Range Most of the western Atlantic and Caribbean, from New England, USA to southern Brazil.
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Keystone Pipeline, a partnership between TransCanada and ConocoPhillips, will measure 2,148 miles from Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing, Okla., and Patoka, Ill. The Canadian portion of the pipeline, from Hardisty to the Canada/U.S. Border, entails converting 537 miles of existing Canadian pipeline from natural gas to crude oil transmission service and constructing 232 miles of pipeline, pump stations, and terminal facilities at Hardisty, Alberta.
The U.S. portion of the project calls for constructing 1,379 miles of pipeline and several pump stations along the route.
The initial capacity of the pipeline will be 435,000 barrels per day and will increase to 590,000 barrels per day. Ultimately, TransCanada would like to increase the capacity to 1.1 million by 2012. Commercial operations for the first phase began in June 2010.
Keystone has contracts with shippers totaling 495,000 barrels per day with an average term of 18 years.
The new pipeline will be 30 inches (76 centimeters) in diameter from Alberta to Illinois. The diameter will increase to 36 inches (91 centimeters) from the Nebraska/Kansas border to Cushing, Okla. While the industry standard of buried pipeline is 24 inches, the Keystone Pipeline will be buried 48 inches underground.
The pipeline expansion and new construction is expected to cost $7 billion, but the total Keystone Project investment will be approximately $12.2 billion.
TransCanada is developing, constructing, and operating Keystone.
On Sept. 13, 2010, TransCanada launched a binding open season for Keystone and Keystone XL capacity geared toward producers in the growing Bakken Shale play in the Williston Basin. TransCanda has proposed allocating 100,000 b/d of contract capacity on Keystone from Baker, Montana, to Cushing, Okla., and on Keystone XL from to Port Arthur, Texas. In effect, Bakken producers would have a direct link to the Cushing, Okla., oil storage hub and to Gulf Coast refining facilities.
TransCanada proposes building piping, booster pumps, meter manifolds, and two terminals -- one at Baker and another at Cushing. Two of the three storage tanks at Baker would each be capable of storing 250,000 barrels of oil from third-party pipelines and terminals. The third, 100,000-barrel-capacity tank at Baker would be used for operational purposes. The two tanks at the Cushing terminal, each a capacity of 250,000 barrels, would be used for delivery batch accumulation and would link to third-party pipelines and tank farms.
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I only have to make it through three days of work until I can refresh my spirit in the woods Thursday and Friday, and help a Gobbler meet his maker! OF course I am so pumped up that it will take forever for Thursday at 4:00 AM to get here!
I already packed and re-packed my pack twice, practiced setting up my mini blind. Practiced the calls till my wife got mad. I am seeing strutting gobs in my dreams. I think I am ready!
Also, to toot my own horn, I did so well at my Hunter Safety class (Even though I am a semi- old guy and didn't need it, I'm glad I took it because I really did need it! Learned a ton!) that the lead instructor is recommending that I get certified and become a instructor! I think am going to do it.
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I spent the summers I was 16 and 17 just outside Québec City in Ste-Foy. I stayed in a college (CEGEP) residence, attended fun French lessons every morning and went on field trips most afternoons.
My friends (old ones from St. John's and new ones from all over) and I gallivanted on the Plains of Abraham, shopped on la rue St. Jean and went on bus trips to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and Montmorency Falls. We got to see concerts like David Bowie and Elton John at the Québec Coliseum. And one night we cruised the St. Lawrence aboard the Louis Jolliet and viewed the Chateau Frontenac from the water.
Sitting atop Cap Diamant, the iconic building looked like a fairy tale palace rather than a CP Hotel. When we got off the boat in the lower city, we ascended the cliff by the Funiculaire, an outdoor elevator built into the steep rock. We walked along the Terrasse Dufferin next to the Chateau on our way to take the bus back to residence.
Eager to converse with any teenage boy willing to lend an ear, we spoke more French out and about than we ever did back at residence.
We — all of us Catholic townie girls, anyway — agreed that the Summer Language Bursary Program was the best summer experience ever. We were so smitten with the cute Québécois boys that we vowed to improve our French so we could say more than "Bonjour" by the following summer.
So, that fall, upon our return to Holy Heart, we studied hard under the tutelage of Mme, Rice (we had no choice actually: can anyone spell les Champs-Élysées?) and returned to College Saint-Charles-Garnier the next July ready to practise our new and more extensive vocabulary.
A few years ago, my eldest spent five weeks on the same program. Although the program has a new name — Explore — it was like déjà vu.
Like my friends and I decades before, No. 1 got to walk on top of the walls surrounding le Vieux Québec; he visited the Martello Towers where I once worked as a tour guide; and he screamed along roller-coasters at les Galeries de la Capitale amusement park.
One weekend, he took a bus trip to Montreal and for a pittance he could buy a pass that allowed him to attend outdoor concerts by groups like Santana. Not only that, except for the weekend excursions and a bus pass, all he had to pay for the whole shebang was a small registration fee and his plane fare. Everything else was free.
He boarded at Laval University campus in Ste-Foy just on the outskirts of Quebec City. His bed linens were provided, but he was responsible for his own towels. He could do laundry within the residence for $2 per wash. Once the program started, he was provided with a loaded meal card that he simply had to swipe in the cafeteria.
He had an 11 p.m. curfew. His program ran from the first week in July until the end of the first week of August. And when he came back home, he had a beautiful understanding of la belle langue and cruised through his final years of Gonzaga French.
I know some of you might worry about getting put in a class with students more advanced than you. But don't get your knickers in a knot; you do a placement test upon arrival so you'll be in a classroom with people at your same level.
So, if you want to hone your French skills this summer and take advantage of the best bursary program the government has to offer, get on the ball and apply.
Why am I telling you all this now as the snow is falling like marshmallows outside my window? Because the deadline for French summer bursary programs is fast approaching.
The deadline for the aforementioned Explore program (five-week immersion program for Grades 11 and 12 and post-secondary students) is Feb. 28. Call 729-2741 (Brigitte Allain), website www.myexplore.ca.
Similar three-week programs are available for Grade 9 and Level I students. But once again, you have to be quick off the mark and apply while there's still snow on the ground.
The summer program for Grade 9 students is at Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy, St-Augustin-de- DesMaures, (15 minutes outside Quebec City). Students who have completed Grade 9 are eligible to apply for this three-week French second language program.
The summer program for Level I students is at College St. Charles Garnier, Québec City. Students who have completed Level I are eligible to apply for this four-week French second language program. The deadline for receipt of applications is generally late March.
Application forms for the summer program are not yet posted, but are expected to be at: www.ed.gov.nl.ca/edu/k12/french/bursaries.html by mid-February.
The final French language program I will mention is called The Odyssey Program, very similar to what we used to call the Monitor program. It is for post-secondary students who are interested in travelling and discovering other regions of Canada. Odyssey is a full-time paid work experience where anglophones and francophones travel and work in a province where the other official language is spoken. Online applications are now open via the website: www.myodyssey.ca. For info: 729-6041 (Susan Forward). Application deadline: Feb. 28, 2013.
Loblaw feedback
Jay writes: "Past city councils, including the present mayor, gave the chain supermarkets carte blanche to engage in a land speculation war. Those on council who opposed these developments were bullied into submission. In the process they practically gave away prime real estate to these outside investors who put little or nothing back into the community. We are now reaping what those councils sowed.
Sean writes: "Now, when are we going to get a reply to the questions you sent to City Hall? If their new communications strategy is not to reply, I think we need a major overhaul down there!"
Tax Payer writes: "There are many great topics here. My opinion: only if there is a dwelling that is in dire need of repairs, it should be taken care (of), If condemned, it should be torn down, if it was my home, the city inspectors would be on my doorstep every day just because the building is vacant. No, they should not get a break in taxes …
"As for Churchill Square, yes there should be a shopping centre there — most students from MUN do not have cars or transportation to get groceries"
M writes: "The suggestion that council or anyone else should be able to force a private property owner to use their land in any way to disadvantage themselves is ridiculous and wrong. Stick to the 'My family went hiking today' stories, Sue. You are obviously not a business or rental property owner which has left you clueless with regards to these matters."
Sean replies: "M — your comments are outrageously off base. Susan tried (unsuccessfully) to find out whether taxpayers are subsidizing vacant commercial premises through tax breaks to commercial property owners while their properties are vacant. I certainly want to know the answer to that — don't you? Or do you support government subsidies for large corporate property owners who wish to leave their properties vacant for whatever reason?"
Mail carrier feedback
Doug Barton of Coquitlam, B.C., writes: "I just read your article, 'Devoted workers deserve a nod,' and I loved every bit of it. …
"I have worked for Canada Post for 26-plus years, just over seven of those years as a letter carrier. Back in 1995, when I transferred back to being a driver, a letter carrier's job was still a tough one, but in an enjoyable way. You got to work at about 6 a.m., you sorted all of your mail, tied it out and sent it with a driver to drop off at those grey boxes you mentioned. Our routes were built around a measurement system that gives everything you do during your work day a time value; add up 480 minutes and you had a route that included sorting time, coffee and lunch breaks and delivery time. These time values are all based on averages — average pace, average height, average reach, and the list goes on. If you were tall, you made better time because your pace was longer than average; if you were short, you either worked longer, or ran your route.
"Over the years, these time values have slowly changed and have increased the workload on the carriers, making this once healthy job into a back-breaking one. With this new delivery system rolling out slowly across Canada, machines sort the majority of your mail (in theory), and this creates a longer delivery time for each carrier, and of course fewer carriers doing the work. The forced way of carrying your mail is unhealthy and has led to increased injuries on the job (as you mentioned), later working hours and, due to the increased absences, it has also increased the incidence of forced overtime.
"I don't know if you can imagine that second wave carrier getting back to the office and being told they have to go out and complete a portion of someone else's route because it wasn't covered that day. As the number of injuries climbs, the pressure on the remaining carriers is increased, as they are forced back more often and the chances for injury increases with fatigue.
"This is not a nice situation to be in at all. The thankful part to me, is that I'm no longer carrying the mail, I just get to deliver it to the postal stations where the carriers work."
"Canada Post keeps telling us and the public that mail volumes are down. They don't mention that they're talking about only one type of mail in the system — premium letter mail — which would be the letter to mom, greeting cards and that sort of mail. Yes, they are correct; this type of mail has declined. What they don't tell everyone is that parcel volumes are up, second class, or magazines and catalogues, are up, third class, which is all the addressed advertising mail (or, as you would call it, junk mail) is up. Then to top it all off, the volume of unaddressed ad mail is up in huge numbers. …
"The fact that you took the time to look into this aspect of our jobs, and gave a nod to your carrier for doing this job to the best of his or her ability, (deserves) kudos in my mind. … I have never seen an article of yours before; if they are all half as good as this one, I would wish you were in my local paper."
Greg writes: "I read your article concerning 'Mail must get through.' I believe I am the letter carrier you are referring to for considering working in the dark to be unsafe. … I just read … today's Telegram with the comments from the original article. It's good to see support for us carriers! So, I just thought I'd give you a recent update. I showed up to work yesterday morning … to be approached by my supervisor advising me that I was suspended for 5 days without pay! Because of my second incident of bringing back mail one night that I thought walking the snow covered sidewalks in the dark was unsafe! The original incident occurred Dec. 5, and the second Dec. 17. I received a copy of a letter yesterday, informing me of my suspension, which was dated Dec. 19! Like your article mentioned, I am a single father with 2 children! Without getting into too many details (fearing I may lose my job), I just wanted to thank you for your article. …"
Mike (shop steward) and letter carrier writes: "I have been with Canada Post for 15 years now and this is the worst that I have seen this. The employee (about whom) you were talking about in your story who brought back the mail due to health and safety concerns received a five-day unpaid suspension today for bringing back the mail. I am a single parent and have asked for assistance on my route on the weeks I have my kids and have been told no, that I am expected to finish my route and to arrange alternate day care for my kids. The bullying and harassment that goes on in our workplace is unbelievable and something has got to give. …"
Luciano Ramirez: "Nello Molinaro is a postman in Canada. He does his job with love and I am proud of him. He is my friend-brother. From Dominican Republic."
Rawlin's Cross feedback
Dee writes: "I grew up on Prescott Street. I guess I grew up with knowing the signs up there on the Cross. … And you are right — it is very confusing, even as a child walking to the park it was hard to get across the street without getting run over. But you will still be amazed how many people still fly though the Queens Road yield sign thinking they have the right of way. …"
Paul writes: "You're right about the Rawlins Cross confusion; my approach is to always enter slowly, have a good look around and hope to come out the other side without a dent or a ticket. …"
Derrick writes: "I've often wondered what it must be like to be a driving tourist here. Imagine renting a car and trying to figure out how to get downtown and back from the Sheraton parking lot. Not exactly intuitive. Good luck with the kids (driving)."
Ban writes: "I enjoyed your article today and I agree that Rawlins Cross is complicated. In fact, I think that you still may not have it exactly correct: the way I see it, Flavin Street intersects with Prescott, not Queen's Road. So, if you are driving up Flavin, you stop and give way for traffic on Prescott and then enter Prescott when it is clear, then proceed as for Prescott. … Obviously, this is just my opinion, but it seems clear to me when I look at the intersection. For the record, where did you get the information which you published?"
Susan's Note: I got the information from City Hall's information officer and confirmed it with the RNC.
Dragonfly feedback
Father Frank Puddister writes: "Thank you for your article in The Telegram on Dec. 4, 2012. I was away at the time, but my secretary kept it for me until I returned. The dragonfly story is the best I've heard — and I've heard many — that refer to eternal life. …
"I knew your father Dee for many years, and your mother, too, and have long admired and respected them both.
"I'll continue to enjoy your column in future. Perhaps I'll pick up a story from you to use in church!"
Susan writes: The name of the book By Doris Stickney that deals with dragonflies and the afterlife is called: "Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children."
Susan Flanagan's summers in Quebec led her to attend CEGEP and work five summers as a bilingual interpreter with federal parks. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Well, the Cubs won their first series of the year. Today at 3:50 central time, J.J. Putz was able to salvage one victory for the Diamondbacks. I guess I should feel better about taking a series but I really felt this opening home stand was a good way to get off on the right foot this season. Before we preview, let's recap. For Arizona in Game 1 it was a tale of too many men left on base. Will...