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The sodium blood test measures the amount of sodium in the blood.
Sodium can also be measured using a urine test.
Serum sodium; Sodium - serum
A blood sample is needed.
Your doctor may tell you to temporarily stop taking medicines that may affect the test. These include:
Do not stop taking any medicine before talking to your doctor.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing or slight bruising. These soon go away.
Sodium is a substance that the body needs to work properly. Sodium is found in most foods. The most common form of sodium is sodium chloride, which is table salt.
This test is usually done as part of an electrolyte or basic metabolic panel blood test.
Your blood sodium level represents a balance between the sodium and water in the food and drinks you consume and the amount in your urine. A small amount is lost through stool and sweat.
Many things can affect this balance. Your doctor may order this test if you:
The normal range for blood sodium levels is 135 to 145 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L).
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Abnormal sodium levels can be due to many different conditions.
Higher than normal sodium level is called hypernatremia. It may be due to:
Lower than normal sodium level is called hyponatremia. It may be due to:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Pincus MR, Abraham NZ Jr. Interpreting laboratory results. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 8.
Shorecki K, Ausiello D. Disorders of sodium and water homeostasis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 118.
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Hepatic vein obstruction is a blockage of the hepatic vein, which carries blood away from the liver.
Budd-Chiari syndrome; Hepatic veno-occlusive disease
Hepatic vein obstruction prevents blood from flowing out of the liver and back to the heart. This blockage can cause liver damage. Obstruction of this vein can be caused by a tumor or growth pressing on the vessel, or by a clot in the vessel (hepatic vein thrombosis).
Most often, it is caused by conditions that make blood clots more likely to form, including:
Hepatic vein obstruction is the most common cause of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
One of the signs is swelling of the abdomen from fluid buildup (ascites). The liver is often swollen and tender.
Tests include:
Treatment varies, depending on the cause of the blockage.
Your doctor may recommend the following medicines:
Surgery may be recommended. This may involve:
Hepatic vein obstruction can get worse and lead to liver failure, which can be life-threatening.
Call your health care provider if:
Hauser SC. Vascular diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 145.
Stevens WE, Patil A. Vascular disease of the liver. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 83.
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"Science: Facts and Frictions" will be discussed during a dialogue at noon Thursday, Oct. 16, in 1010 East Pyne.
Participating will be Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature magazine, and Charis Thompson, a bio-ethicist and associate professor of rhetoric and women's studies at the University of California-Berkeley.
The event is part of the "Critical Encounters" series, which brings together like minds from unlikely disciplines for a dialogue followed by a question-and-answer period. Campbell and Thompson are expected to discuss cognitive enhancement, bio-politics and the ethics of science in the public sphere.
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I have an open source project now: stagefright, a playlist generator/randomizer. Certainly it's nothing new, but I wrote my own because I had specific requirements in mind, and because I wanted to write and maintain some perl code. The script is presently driving my icecast stream. I also spent quite a bit of time profiling the script with smallprof, because the script needs to run fast, or people will be stuck listening to silence. My typical usage cases currently execute in under 0.5 sec. O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook has also been immensely helpful.
Putting my project on sourceforge gave me a cvs repository with viewcvs, a place to release files, and a place to track bugs. While I could set all of this up on my own server, sourceforge also provides the possibility of finding users, and possibly the occasional suggestion or patch.
A couple features I planned to do, which I thought would take a week or more to finish, got done in 1-2 days. Somehow, the thought of others watching my project, wondering why it would take me so long to implement a simple feature, prompted me to work much faster.
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Sony is a gigantic Japanese conglomerate, one of the shadowy, family-based megacorporations that the Japanese call gin-su and the Americans call "Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO)." Its subsidiaries dominate the following industries:
- Consumer electronics
- Movies, through Columbia Pictures
- Computer viruses, through its BMG music label.
It also has its tentacles into animation, and tentacle-animation.
Sony is best known for a line of livestock-management devices, the PayStation I, II, and III, and for personal entertainment devices based on the same technology: the GameBox I, II, and IV. Sony has branched out to fill many other technology niches, including automatic pet feeders and nose hair trimmers.
Founding; the company name
The company's founders Hikaru Sulu, Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka named the company after extensive study of slang in English and Latin, followed by the common Japanese knack of not imitating it just right. "Sonny boy" was a phrase borrowed by Japanese in the 1950s that described dashing young businessmen--who, at the sound of the factory whistle, were "dashing" to one of Tokyo's beer vending machines in hopes of already having a buzz on when they and their coworkers arrived at the tavern, at which time they would discuss their plans for a venture called "Sony"--or, a few rounds later, called "Shony."
Traditional products
In what Japanese now refer to as the "good old days," Sony manufactured electronic oddities such as transistor radios and stereo components. On the latter, the reader can only imagine an iPod that occupies an entire closet--or the difficulty listening to its music while bicycling. Sony also made Tape recorders, which at this point cannot be explained at all.
Although lucrative, sales of these products were like a night with your high-school sweetheart, now married, after the class reunion: Feels good, but now you're done. Corporate executives began hungering for ways to turn the sale of a product into a continuing income stream--or better yet, a river. "The gift that keeps on giving" became a Sony product slogan--long before it was applied to herpes.
Movie studio
The executives became enamored of owning a movie studio. Cinema-goers who want to see the picture a second time must pay again, and there are no quantity discounts or trade-ins allowed. Charging twice for the same thing perfectly realized the corporate strategy, and so, in 1989, Sony acquired Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola. Continuing the Japanese knack for not getting foreign expressions exactly right, the fact that Sony executives thought they were purchasing Colombia is lampooned elsewhere.
Sony Pictures developed game shows and movie franchises such as Ghostbusters. Executives still longed, however, for a way to game the customer and put ghosts in their machines.
Technology, however, was going in the opposite direction: Consumers were acquiring the ability to own movies and never have to pay Sony again to see them--first with videotape, then with LaserDisc, then DVDs, and whatever they foist on us next.
Incompatible media
Sony's board room resolved that, if it could not keep the customer from owning the product, it would at least try to get him to own it in a form that was utterly incompatible with what the rest of the world was doing. The first expression of this wonderfully evil strategy was Betamax, a videotape format whose only service to the customer was to train him to be a wise purchaser of VHS tapes, with which to replace every Betamax movie he ever bought.
Sony's next attempt to lure the customer away from the world, the MiniDisc, never caught on--nor did the Hi-MD and Really-Hi-MD. Nor Sony's alternative to DVDs, the MMCD. Nor Digital Audio Tape. However, there are a lot of technology museums being built, and every one of them needs examples of these products.
When it got to BluRay, the rest of the industry went Sony's way, much as children wrestling or playing tug-of-war on the playground "go limp" to see if their opponent will fall backward.
However, for newer electronic devices, Sony's advice is for you to throw away all your chips, cameras, and players, and buy Memory Sticks. Then throw them away and buy Memory Stick Duo, then throw them away and buy Memory Stick Micro.
The virus days
But it got worse. Not only could people own albums and movies, they could copy them, raising the risk that they would not just not pay twice for the same thing, their neighbor might not pay at all. By the time of CDs and DVDs, this was as easy as popping the disc into a computer and copying files.
Sony's most brilliant strategem was music CDs that modified any computer they were put into, to keep the owner from copying files or even figuring out what had happened. But Sony forgot the "Hugo Chávez rule": Before you try to take over a country, always remember to pack the courts. Sony neither replaced nor bribed any U.S. judges, and a few of them ordered Sony to remove the bug (then to remove the remover, which was phoning Japan for unlimited future mischief), then to pay fines.
However, executives had studied Abraham Lincoln's many defeats before being elected, and resolved to soldier on. If they could not force users to pay twice for the same thing, they could at least force users to pay twice when the first thing became boring. Thus the most audacious move of all: into video gaming.
The PayStation line
PayStation 1
Sony entered the technology market in the late 1980's, bringing a dash of beige into what had been a sea of beige, with the original PayStation 1 (PS1). Where most technology firms chose beige for their product specifically to utterly destroy every lingering trace of joy within the workplace, Sony chose beige because it "matched pleasingly with the copious amounts of pay the average PayStation user comes in contact with every day." This design choice directly resulted in the Great Depression, as all PayStation users became depressed after one week of contact with the gaming device.
PayStation 2
Sony tried to remedy the PayStation 1 crisis with the PayStation 2 (PS2). Engineers worked for a year developing the correct shade of pink to restore joy to PayStation users. By 1990, PS2 cartridges combined the superior livestock-management functions of the PS1 with the most cloying shade of pink possible using matter. While this did solve the loss of life-force that PS1 users experienced, after a time the color of the PS2 started to induce explosive projectile vomiting, though Sony later managed to devise game cartridges that played off this feature. Three deaths were recorded at a Spitting Cobra farm in South Angola.
The PayStation 3
By the year 2000, Sony had completed enough research and weathered enough lawsuits to release the PS3, This bulky device features a PS2 strapped onto a Blu-Ray player, typically with duct tape. It was barely capable of connecting to WiFi, playing Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and floppy disks, holding up to 12 MB of MP3s, making food, overheating, becoming self-aware, getting pwned, digesting human flesh, instigating the technological singularity, and dispensing hay. These myriad functions supposedly justified the $599 price. Its only important liability is that there are no actual games that can be played on it. Unfortunately, PS3 fanboys will always deny this fact, like the 6-year-olds who still believe it's Chuck Norris filling their guns on Christmas.
The Gamebox Line
Sony's Gamebox line was a less successful venture than the PayStation. A recent theory that sitting indoors and pushing little buttons could be more fun than going outside did not resonate with consumers.
This didn't stop Sony from making two initial editions of the GameBox, the GameBox I and II, which suffered from the same problems as the PayStation 1 and 2. Upon Development of the Gamebox III, early focus group testing revealed that poor sales were not in fact a factor of color, but of the intense desire of people to go outside and be productive members of society. As a result, Sony quickly released the GameBox IV, which doubled as a frisbee.
In 2003, Sony was plunged into controversy--which is like saying Flipper was "plunged into" the Atlantic Ocean--when it tried to market a robotic pet to simulate all the functions of a real pet with, like the video games, none of the life and joy. The Cyber Woof 3000 was marketed as "the world's most advanced pet robot," which could even expel chemically simulated dookie out of a rear-mounted hatch. However, the product had to pass (UL), whose testers found the product to be nothing more than a Yorkshire Terrier with a tiny helmet. A technical marvel (by the same duct-tape engineers responsible for the PS3) but a sure public-relations disaster. However, Sony deftly sold the entire stock of Cyber Woofs to the RSPCA, which released them into the South Downs.
A comparably ethical maneuver was the creation of David Manning, a movie reviewer who wrote unfailingly glowing praise of any dookie expelled by Columbia Pictures. Manning turned out to be nothing more than a Cyber Woof, custom-programmed to spew the company line. Sony issued a heartfelt apology to the fictional newspaper Manning supposedly wrote for and (as above, under gentle judicial supervision) paid out $1.5 million to whining Americans bold enough to claim that a Manning review drove them to overpay to see a crappy movie.
Sony has also worked on more functional robotics projects to perform human functions. While still in development, Sony has successfully made robots walk, dance and pick things up. In 2007, Sony introduced an egg-shaped automaton called the Rolodex, which dances better than most Americans and has more contacts than any of them. Technology theorists have suggested that with Sony's recent advances, we may no longer need to walk, dance, or pick up things by the year 2027.
The future
Sony's original dream--getting the customer to pay twice for the same thing--could soon become reality. There are computers in cars, televisions, blenders, and coffee-makers, and four or so computers inside each computer. In a Utopia called Digital Rights Management (DRM), these computers are all connected, and before letting you, say, brew that next cup of coffee, they phone the mother ship to see if you need another charge on your credit card. Permission can be based on any number of factors, including the phase of the moon, or legal theories, such as that the fine print on that bag of coffee beans says you can't drink it after noon unless you pay extra.
The brief but disastrous experience when Wal-Mart set up a DRM server to do nothing but annoy customers, followed by the realization that they could never dismantle it without committing outright theft, did not dissuade Sony. Shareholders at the recent Annual Meeting were promised that music and movie fans around the world would pay to replace their entire collections whenever they spill Coke on their player.
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Halloween is coming and my kid wants me to be Darth Vader (for the first time!) He's going to be Anakin*. So I need some good quality costume for the occasion. Any suggestions from the folks here?
I heard Don Post has a pretty good mask/helmet and the Rubie's Costume Company made a few versions of the vest and cape.
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This is a creative process thread. The objective is to come up with a brand new 7 member ensemble cast, one character at a time. Star Trek has always been a great expose on multi-ethnic, multi-gender, even multi-species casting. We want to use casting characteristics never seen on Star Trek before, so I made a list of all the never-seen-before variations on gender, ethnicity, and extra-terrestrial origin for each role.
Let's start with the Captain. And we're ONLY discussing the Captain, though I hope this thread will go on to choose the rest of the crew as it evolves with the characters we pick for the other stations.
So for Captain of the new Star Trek series, we have had 4 men and 1 woman in the past. We've never had an alien. That leaves us with these choices:
Alien Female
Alien Male
Hispanic Female
Hispanic Male
black Female
Asian Female
Asian Male
Keep in mind that this is the show's lead character.
I kept it in mind that we'd have had an all-Klingon show by now, if they appealed to just the OLD fans. But to real in new viewers, they've always starred attractive humans in the leading roles.
That being said, I am supporting a woman captain again, and in "test crews" I've listed, those with
a black female captain (mid-thirties to lowest 40's)
an Asian female captain (mid-thirties to lowest 40's)
would seem to be the most different, viable, and never-seen-before.
For some reason I pictured someone like news reporter Connie Chung as an appropriate image for an Asian female captain.
Someone like Alfre Woodard (from First Contact) might be a great black female Captain.
What do you think?
I forgot: let's only discuss the Captain for right now, and let's not use old Star Trek characters (like giving Sulu his ship, etc.)
We don't know what time frame our new Star Trek will take place in, so Sulu might not've been born, and Riker could have died of old age.
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The lecture by Joseph Damond scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, in 16 Robertson Hall has been canceled.
Damond is a Woodrow Wilson School alumnus who has served as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative. His lecture, "A Practical Guide to Trade Negotiations: What I Learned After I Left WWS," has been rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, in 16 Robertson.
Damond spent 12 years as a trade negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington. He currently is associate vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
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The Princeton University Art Museum will present a new exhibition of Chinese and Japanese art in recognition of the career of Princeton art historian Yoshiaki Shimizu from Saturday, March 28, through Sunday, Aug. 2.
Titled "Memorable Encounters From Hōnen to de Kooning: In Honor of Yoshiaki Shimizu," the exhibition features works from the museum's permanent collection as well as recent gifts and new acquisitions in Shimizu's honor. Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology and a 1975 graduate alumnus, plans to retire this year.
An important work of Japanese art acquired by the museum in 2007, "Illustrated Gleanings From the Legends of Past Virtues (Shūikotokuden-e)" (ca. 1310-20), will be re-credited as a museum purchase in honor of Shimizu, who has taught at Princeton for 25 years. A pivotal scene of an illustrated biography of Hōnen-bō Genkū (1133-1212), founder of Japan's Pure Land School of Buddhism, it suggests parallels with Shimizu's roles as a leading scholar and a mentor for generations of students.
In his teaching at Princeton and at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as his time as curator of Japanese art at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Shimizu has helped define and expand the field of Japanese art history and the exhibition of the arts of Japan.
"Memorable Encounters" celebrates Shimizu's contribution to the field of East Asian art history and his wide-ranging scholarly interests, which cross the boundaries between the arts of Japan, China and the West, between traditional and contemporary art, and between artist and art historian. Two of Shimizu's own paintings will be included in the exhibition. The works on view -- ranging from Buddhist sculpture and ink painting to modern ceramics -- reveal an artistic dialogue between different cultures and mediums, and different ways of seeing.
The Department of Art and Archaeology also is honoring Shimizu with an exhibition titled "An Accidental Tourist in Post-World War II Japan." The exhibition features photographs taken by Egbert Giles Leigh, a 1925 Princeton alumnus who served as an economic and financial reconstruction official during the occupation of Japan by the United States and its allies after World War II. Leigh's photographs from his time in Japan from 1947 to 1950 were given to the Department of Art and Archaeology by his family and were in Shimizu's care for many years. These images are on display weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the first-floor lounge of McCormick Hall through Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Also accompanying the museum exhibition will be a two-day symposium in his honor, titled "Friends at a Brushwood Gate," from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19, in McCosh 50. The symposium has been organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and cosponsored by the art museum, the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Program in East Asian Studies. For more information, visit the symposium website.


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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Smith-Lever Act, which formally established the national Cooperative Extension Service system.
Across Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service is celebrating ways that extension has helped clients change their lives for the better.
A memorial service will be hosted on Monday, May 26, to honor all veterans of the War of 1812 and to unveil a replacement stone for the late Stephen Harding.
Harding, who served in the 3rd regiment of the Kentucky Detached Militia, died in Taylor County on Nov. 24, 1880. He was married to Lydia Carlisle and they had four children, James Harding, Nancy Harding Puryear, Sarah Jane Harding Cox and Elizabeth Harding Wright. He later married Jane Knifley and they had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harding Taylor.
Those who are expecting a child now or plan to expand their families in the future are invited to attend the Taylor Regional Hospital Baby Fair on Thursday, May 22, at the hospital from 5 to 7 p.m.
Car seat safety checks will be performed performed by certified professionals from the Kentucky Department of Transportation. The inspections will begin at 4 p.m. on the day of the event.
There will be a variety of educational booths at the fair, as well as speakers such as local physicians.
Goodwill is partnering with the local Red Cross organization to raise money to help families.
For every pound of items the public donates to Goodwill on behalf of Red Cross, the organization will donate 23 cents to the local Red Cross. The money will be deposited into a bank account and Red Cross organizers will use the money to issue Goodwill certificates to families they help in emergencies. Those taking items to Goodwill on behalf of Red Cross must mention the group when donating.
All donations to Goodwill are tax deductible.
Kasey Ricketts
Campbellsville University
Campbellsville University will display entries in the annual juried student art show through Wednesday, April 30.
The entries will be on display at the Pence-Chowning Art Gallery. Entry is free.
Works of painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, graphic design and other media will be on display.
The juror for the competition was professional artist Page Candler.
Campbellsville University Theater and Town Hall Productions recently announced its summer series. Featured shows will include Hamlet in the Park, Hansel and Gretel and Fiddler on the Roof.
Auditions for the Fiddler on the Roof performance are April 24, 25 and 26 at Russ Mobley Theater on the CU campus.
Auditions are open to anyone in the community and will be from 5 to 8 p.m. April 24 and April 25. Callbacks are April 26.
The sixth annual KY 55 yard sale is scheduled for April 25-27.
There will be more than 100 miles of sales along KY 55 in Taylor, Carroll, Trimble, Henry, Shelby, Spencer, Nelson, Washington, Marion, Adair and Russell counties.
Residents and businesses are welcome to join in the three-day sale. Those who would like to rent booth space can call Cherie Bleemel at (270) 465-2068. Cost is $36.
Taylor Regional Hospital will host its annual community health fair on Saturday, June 14, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at Taylor County Middle School's gymnasium.
For $15, those attending will receive several test results, including a complete blood count, a comprehensive metabolic profile, a coronary risk profile with cholesterol levels and thyroid stimulating hormone levels. A prostrate screening test will also be available for men at $10.
Those undergoing blood testing should fast for 14 hours before their blood is drawn.
Lindey Young
Campbellsville University will host its sixth annual Derby Rose Gala on Monday, April 14, with live TV and radio production as well as live streaming through www.campbellsville.edu.
"The gala is an important scholarship fundraising event, generating close to $106,000 for scholarships in the past five years," Benji Kelly, vice president for development, said.
The gala is a black-tie optional event with a guest speaker, gourmet meal and silent auction.
Taylor County Bank will host its annual American Heart Association Heart Walk on Wednesday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Miller Park walking track.
The first 50 participants will receive a free goody bag. There will be various booths to visit and door prizes will be given to participants.
All donations will go to the American Heart Association.
For more information, contact Katie Stamps at (270) 465-4196.
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In room facilities:
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Small room, relatively little daylight, but clean and well maintained with private bathroom. Cute landlord. Well suited if you mainly looking for something to sleep.
Kleines Zimmer, relativ wenig Tageslicht, aber sauber und gepflegt mit eigenem Bad. Netter Vermieter. Gut geeignet, wenn man etwas hauptsächlich zum Schlafen sucht.
I enjoyed my stay at this place very much, as it has given me a "coming home" feeling. Place is clean and has free wifi which has allowed me to connect with the outside world conveniently.especially when I traveled independently this time.
I highly recommend this place to other travelers.
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Really budget, the room is small but is able to sleep three pax. There were two of us so we use the single bed to put our luggage & stuff. Mattress & pillows are thin. Otherwise circulation space would be too pathetic. Don't find it cozy at all. What irks me most is the floor is so dusty. Towles are not that clean either (so better to bring your own). I would not recommend (espeically ladies & families) as the building is old & has many corners or long corridors, as well as a mix of residential & commercial use which I am not comfortable with. Convenient location is its plus point thou.
I did not get the room I booked. The landlord was kind enough to find me a better room, but I was disappointed at the downgrade. The location was very good though, only a few minutes away from Ladies Market, Langham Place and MongKok station.
We chose to stay here as it is in a convenient location within Mong Kok. What we didn't expect was the hard beds, sticky floor tiles and strangers' hairs on the bedding and pillows. I'm sure that Mr and Mrs Ying undertook all the necessary procedures to get this boarding house registered as a guesthouse but just prior to our stay here, we saw the news of a fire that broke out in a guesthouse which was of a similar arrangement, i.e. flats converted into guesthouses with a maze of corridors connecting the different units and rooms, and couldn't help but notice that there were no emergency evacuation routes displayed and emergency exits with indicator lights marked. To be frank, I expected a homestay instead of a commercial beehive like this.
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Office of Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) – Washington, D.C.- Novemeber 30, 2012 – Yesterday, Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) secured inclusion of the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act (S.2234) in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (S.3254). Earlier this month, Portman and Blumenthal launched the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking. The caucus will bring Senators together to combat human trafficking by promoting awareness, removing demand, supporting prosecution efforts, and providing appropriate service systems for survivors.
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KathyChung, Wednesday April 25, 2012 - 10:53am
It's mid-week. How's your writing going? Post here in the comments or on Twitter using #thisdaywewrite and let us know!
The random presenter introductions continue today with two writers who both happen to know more than a little about keeping readers on the edges of their seats.
First up today, say hello to Grant McKenzie:
Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing American thrillers, Grant likes to wear a toque and kilt with his six-guns. His debut novel, SWITCH, earned fantastic reviews internationally when it was published by Random House UK and Penguin Canada, plus in translation by Heyne Germany, Spring International Publishers of Taiwan and AST Russia. His second novel, No Cry For Help, surprised even his newfound fans by being even more nail-biting, and his third, K.A.R.M.A., cemented his reputation as "Harlan Coben on speed," as author Ken Bruen labelled him. His short stories have been featured in the First Thrills anthology edited by Lee Child from Tor/Forge, plus Out of the Gutter and Spinetingler magazines, and his first screenplay won a fellowship at the Praxis Centre for Screenwriting in Vancouver, and is currently under consideration by an Australian movie company. As a journalist, Grant has worked in virtually every area of the newspaper business from the late-night "Dead Body Beat" at a feisty daily tabloid to senior copy/design editor at two of Canada's largest broadsheets.He currently resides in Victoria, B.C., where he is Editor-in-Chief of Monday Magazine.
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Always an energetic presence with great stories to share, Michael Slade is back!
MICHAEL SLADE is a criminal lawyer and the author of 14 dark mystery thrillers, from HEADHUNTER (1984) to RED SNOW (2010). He was Guest of Honour at Bloody Words, Canada's crime writing convention, in Victoria in 2011, and was Guest of Honour at the World Horror Convention in Seattle in 2001. He has acted for both the defence and the prosecution in more than 100 murder cases. He argued the last death penalty case in the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been the subject of three documentaries by the CBC, including "Gzowski's People" and "The Fifth Estate." The Mounties invited Slade to their Red Serge Ball. He was guest speaker at three RCMP Regimental Dinners; the Canadian Librarians Convention; the Vancouver Magistrates Dinner; the Romance Writers of America's Convention; the Canadian Booksellers Convention; and this fall will speak to the Canadian Federation of University Women. For the past three years, he's taught "How to Write a Mystery" and "How to Write a Thriller" at Simon Fraser University and the Mystery Writers Retreat. For the past eight years, he's taught at the Surrey International Writers Conference, where he presents "Michael Slade's Shock Theatre." In the Morgue at the Slade Website - http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotnet/morgue.html - he performs an autopsy on each of his novels to show how he plots. In researching those plots, he's climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, almost lost his life on safari in Zimbabwe and Botswana, and descended into the secret cannibal cave of the Cook Islands.
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Description ADULT MALE Has gray-brown back, rump, and wings, grading to blackish on head and neck. Note striking white "eyelids"; throat white with black streaks. Tail dark brown and underparts are mostly brick-red to orange-red, but white on belly and undertail. In flight, note reddish underwing coverts. Legs dark; bill yellowish. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but with paler gray-brown upperparts, paler throat, and less colorful underparts with pale feather fringes creating slightly scaly look. JUVENILE Recalls pale adult female, with bold white teardrop spots on back and dark spots on otherwise washed-out underparts.
Dimensions Length: 9-11" (23-28 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Sep) to Canada and northern U.S., favoring a wide range of habitats. Present year-round (numbers boosted in winter) across much of southern U.S.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range Eastern Canada, California, Southwest, Florida, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Texas, Alaska, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Plains, Western Canada, New England, Northwest
Voice Song has rich, whistling phrases, with pauses between phrases; calls include a sharp puup; flight call is a high, sibilant wee-wheep.
Similar Species Clay-colored Thrush T. grayi (L 10 in) Mainly Central American species, now regular in southern Texas. Has mainly gray-brown plumage, warmest and palest on underparts; throat subtly paler with dark streaks. Song recalls American Robin; calls include a slurred whistle. Favors wooded parks.
Discussion Our most familiar thrush. Feeds mainly on invertebrates, particularly earthworms. Forms flocks in winter. Sexes are separable.


text: It's a sad day for me. I drove to the snow line today but barely made it through the mud on a 4×4 quad to get there. I am sure there is still awesome riding in the hills but I am not willing to drive through so much mud to get there. Although I am looking forward to getting out on the river again I am sad to be putting my sled away. Some friends and I have plans for Taylors Brook next weekend but by the look at what's going on there weather wise it is doubtful….maybe Lewis Hills. The same thing happens every year….we plan to go to the West Coast when the season is done here by that always ends up being the same weekend. The season is always the same with the exception of an earlier start over West for some areas. This year at Hodges the season really started with decent riding on the day before New Years. Although we were riding since the 22cnd of December. Its always been a difficult task convincing people not only how much snow is so close to the chalets even when there is nothing on the highway but equally as difficult convincing people of the quality of technical riding here. The truth is I look for the same kind of terrain on the West Coast and as soon as I find it I see no need to go any further in. For those of you who never rode with me I like steep hill climbing between trees, jumps and drops (although not too high LOL). Fortunately this April , I managed to convince some diehard West coast riders to allow me to show them around. They loved it and have been returning and spreading the word ever since. I also had some Sledworthy crew here for the first weekend in January. The evening of the 4th a few of them arrived early and questioned the fact that there was only a few inches here at the chalets. Later that weekend they admitted to having discussed leaving and heading further West…thinking there was no snow here. The next day were were able to pick our way to the other side of the highway on machine. Within 4 km, one of them got stuck in powder on the side of the road! We were not even to the snow yet! Needless to say they will never doubt my blog again. For those of you who continue to drive by assuming we don't have snow on the side of the highway you are missing out! In only 41/2 hours from the Avalon you can getting ready to ride the fun stuff. You can dart into the powder from the chalets in 20 minutes! It so close you can come out to the chalets for lunch! Not knocking the West coast as I love to ride there too. The riding is awesome there and I always have a great time if conditions are good. The number of trailers full of sleds passing by the chalets all winter is astounding! Now we are already busy from the last two weeks of January until late March already. But we have some of our best riding, particularly weather wise during late March and April….always! Thanks so much to all of you who came out this winter and we will see you next year. By the way, I expect there will be at least one riding course based at the chalets next year. If you would like to increase the fun factor in sledding, I strongly suggest you take one. Thanks to Sledworthy and Rugged Edge, you no longer have to leave to get professional riding lessons. My sled is not yet winterized and I already long for next winter!


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its somewhat amusing and somewhat sad how some would make fun of President Reagan some thirty years after his presidency,people tend to forget that thirty years ago RR is exactly what this country needed coming on the heels of the incompetency of the Carter administration, what other Pres would have stood up to the Soviets, stood up to the air controllers, gotten our hostages back from Iran...NO ONE
maybe by today's "standard" RR may not look conservative enough to the purist, but a Reaganesque type of man is what this country needs right now
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Ronald Regan's Conservative Principles
1. AmericanExceptionalism
2. SecureBorders
3. StrongMilitary
4. EnergyIndependence
5. IndividualRights
6. IndividualResponsibility
7. LimitedGovernment
8. LowTaxes and Fiscal Constraint
9. SupremeCourt 0 Bound to rule based on a strict interpretation of the U. S.Constitution
10. ReligiousFreedom
11. Respectfor Life
12. Rightto Bear Arms
and FTR you arent the only one who has ever criticized RR or his presidency
As far as defining what a true Conservative or a true Liberal for that matter is, is the problem. You can't be pure and that lack of purity is what would have Reagan labeled as a RINO. There seems to be little wiggle room in today's Conservatives when it comes to being labeled a RINO. I would assume this is true amongst the so called ultra Liberals also. I think that it is a matter of not being able to see the forest for the trees for those that are so quick to end a political career over what is perceived to be an insult to ones purist ideology.
In regards to being pigeon holed by the media, you are right. I don't gather news from the likes of Rush or Rachel so I pay attention to it. What I do see ( and pay attention to ) is groups and individuals who thrive on tearing people down without any amount of clear or rational thought. They are operating on emotion that is fueled by a great amount of misinformation from the media whether it is MSNBC or Fox.
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Franco, are you sure there were some good things about him? One wouldn't know by the content of your post! But then again you seem to be a rabid supporter of obama. I almost forgot, "Ron Paul for President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Franco...as always your opinion is nothing more than 'your opinion'.....if you would ever check facts on legitimate sources of information, you would find a brave new world out here......History has Judged Reagan and it is all good.....history will judge Obama and it will be below the line, he already stands out as the worst of the worst...Jimmy Carter finally, has someone worse then him.....!


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Every year at this time — even in the good years — Levy County's unemployment starts to creep upwards. It starts in May and continues through June, July, then starts to level off or go down by September.
And this year is no different.
In May, Levy County's labor force increased by 210 to 16,982, employment went up by 165 jobs to 15,445 and the number of unemployed rose by 45 to 1,537, according to figures released by Workforce Connection, the state's employment and career agency serving Levy, Marion and Citrus counties.
The Greater Chiefland Area Chamber of Commerce met on Friday, May 25, at noon in the Community Room of the Have Hospice of the Tri-Counties Care Center at 311 N.E. 9th St, Chiefland.
New members of the organization inculde: Gentiva Home Health of Trenton, HardisonInk.com, Nature Coast Insurance, Inc., Uniques Furniture & Collectables and Mya's Noodle House.
Jason Kennedy, center with scissors, cuts the ribbon at Complete Sleep & Furnishings as the Greater Chiefland Area Chamber of Commerce welcomes the business's investment in the Chiefland community. In addition to bedding and furniture, the store also sells locally crafted swings, rocking chairs and tables suitable for spending lazy afternoons on the porch. Kennedy also has a store in Williston.
• Monday June 4, 11, 18 and 25 (every Monday of each month) from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bronson Library, 600 Gilbert St.,Bronson
• Tuesday, June 5, 12, 19 and 26 (every Tuesday of each month) from 12:30-4 p.m. at the Williston Library, 10 S.E. First St.,Williston
• Wednesday, June 6 (first Wednesday of each month) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Annie Johnson Senior and Family Services Center, 1991 W. Test Court, Dunnellon
WHIPPANY, N.J. — Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. announced April 26 that it has reached a definitive agreement with Inergy, L.P. Inergy GP, LLC and Inergy Sales & Service, Inc.,which operates Tru Gas in Levy County, to acquire the sole membership interest in Inergy Propane, LLC, now owned by Inergy.
Workforce Connection, the agency that helps Levy County residents find employment, has released the numbers on its work by the mobile unit that visits cities and towns in the county.
TALLAHASSEE—Attorney General Pam Bondi is asking the public to make suggestions on how best to distribute approximately $300 million recovered on behalf of Florida's consumers in the national mortgage servicing settlement. Through Monday, May 14, at 5 p.m., the public can submit suggestions to the Attorney General's Office by visiting MyFloridaLegal.com.
The College of Central Florida will offer a Certified Nursing Assistant course at the Levy Center beginning in May.
This program prepares the individual for work as a nursing assistant in nursing homes and prepares students to take the Florida CNA exam. The course consists of classroom instruction as well as lab practice and clinical experience.
Levy County residents has some success finding jobs in February as the unemployment rate for that month was 10.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in January, according to a Workforce Connection press release.
If history is to be believed, the unemployment figures for Levy County have not been this good since early 2009 when they started climbing, and again in April 2011 when they started trending down from 12 percent mark to January's 10.5 percent.
Levy County's jobless rate for January, which was released by the state on Tuesday, was 10.5 percent, down from December's revised 10.6 percent rate. The last time it was 10.5 percent was April 2011 and February 2009.
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The Mirage preceded the revolutionary EPS and EPS-16+ sampler workstations in the Ensoniq line-up; in fact, the Mirage was Ensoniq's first commercial product. Historically, the Mirage was also one of the earliest affordable sampler/sequencer workstations, originally listing under $1,700. Compared with the much more expensive Fairlight CMI and Synclavier samplers of the time, the Mirage was a bargain!
The Mirage was an 8-bit sampler capable of a maximum sampling-rate of 32kHz with a limited 128Kb of RAM. Those are pretty old-school specs by today's standards and while it does mean your sounds will be somewhat lo-fi, that does not mean low quality. A built-in 3.5 inch DD disk drive was used to load and store samples, sequences - even the operating system. Each disk could hold up to 6 samples and 8 sequences. The keyboard is split in to two independent halves for an upper sound and a lower sound - great for playing two instruments at a time. Unfortunately, sample editing is done via hexadecimal-code manipulation which is not a simple to concept to master. Most users will just load-in sounds from the Mirage's extensive sample library, or look for computer programs that can edit or convert Mirage samples.
While the Mirage's limited sampling specs, limited polyphony (8 voices) and limited sequencer (333 notes) may seem to knock it off anyone's list when looking for a keyboard sampler, the Mirage still has a few hidden goodies under its hood. Most notably, it has analog filters...a true, analog VCF with low-pass filtering and keyboard tracking. In addition to that it has five-stage envelopes for the VCA and VCF and a nice LFO. Most models also featured a weighted, velocity sensitive keyboard.
Mirage DSK-1
Speaking of models, there have been several versions of the Mirage during its lifetime. The DSK-8 was the original model and it featured a black steel chassis and a weighted Pratt-Reed keyboard. Later DSK-8 models were updated with a dark gray chassis and an improved Fatar keyboard as the original Pratt-Reed did not have very good feel. These later DSK-8 models are identified by smaller gray+yellow buttons and a solid yellow Mirage logo. In 1985 the DMS-8 rack-mount version of the DSK-8 was released. Then, in 1986 the DSK-1 appeared with a newer lighter plastic chassis, a relocated disk drive, an un-weighted keyboard action and the addition of stereo outputs. The DSK-1 is easily identified by the solid red stripe on the front panel.
Mirage DMS-8
Most people searching for a classic Ensoniq sampler/synth would probably first look towards the EPS and EPS-16+. After all, their specs, design and quality are superior. However, there is a certain amount of nostalgia concerned with the Mirage, particularly with its sample library which still stands the test of time. It has been used by Skinny Puppy, Vangelis, Jimmy Edgar, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
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- Polyphony - 8 voices
- Sampler - 8-bit, 32kHz (up to 6.5 seconds sample-time at 10kHz)
- Filter - Analog low pass filter with 5 stage envelope
- VCA - 5 stage digital envelope
- Keyboard - 61 keys (velocity)
- Memory - 16 internal patches, 128 kb sampler memory, 3.5 inch diskette
- Sequencer - 333 Note capacity
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1984 - 1988
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Henne sucks!!!! It's been a while
After reading that, there are so many options that Miami could take. In an ideal world, i would love to have both Mingo & Austin, but i think the trade up cost would be far too much. I dont like the idea generally of trading next years picks away, but I think those two players could turn Miami's fortunes on its ear, and it would probably be worth it. If we gave up our 2nd & 1st of our 3rds, I dont know if that would be enough to trade back into the low 20's to pick again.
Great effort.
My only disagreement is I do not see Mingo as a fit. At 230 plus pounds, he is not going to make the adjustment as quick as you say he will.
Thanks for the time and effort.
Great write up hoops.
As you know im really with you on Swope, he has everthing he needs to be a high end slot reciever, plus he has the trust of Tannehill.... the concussions are worrying but for me hes a good second round player.... I will be upset if he is not a Dolphin this time next month.
Im also with u on Mathieu, really nice nickle CB, I think he could learn a lot from Grimes. What do you think about about his personality, is he a bad kid or was it just a drug issue he may well be over now?
I think you have Slay a round too slow, id be happy with him in round two.
Great shout on Woods, I see him as a slightly lesser Greg Jennings in a few years.
I quite like the idea of brining in Barrett Jones as a long term replacement for incognito, smart player and a leader. Would you be ok with him as a starting guard?
I would be interested to know, in terms of the passing game how big is the difference between Eifert and Ertz?
Awesome write up Hoops.
to me if you're gonna draft someone with a top 20 pick you should be playing to his strengths and what you graded him so high in the first place with...not asking him to be something else...i think that's where you can get yourself in trouble...so much projection with a position switch...
guys that are no brainer stand up olbs in a 34 are dion jordan...who has played so much standing up and dropping etc there is no projection there...it's plug and play...
Great write up Hoops. Not high on Mingo at 12, I am all about adding Austin. If Austin is not the pick, Johnson, Eifert or Hayden would be a good consolation prize. Armstead is a guy that I hope that draft. Everything I am reading on him makes sound like him a perfect fit. Lattimore is another guy I really hope they land. Terrific work ethic, smart, great ball skills and very humble. I do think they need to draft another back and he would be my choice.
It seems that in this draft the picks from 6-32 are pretty damn close. I can't see getting a bad pick at 12, at least on paper.
barrett jones lack of strength really shows over his face lined up at center i think guard might be the best fit but there isn't much upside here...so over the long term are you gonna like him as a starting guard for you???? ehhh...i don't know...i like him most as a active on game day swing backup...solid depth
as for slay probably does go round 2 tape says to me no earlier than round 3...sweet feet sweet everything at the combine but i don't quite see that on tape...wouldn't surprise me if he went top 50 off his combine stuff...
as for eifert because i believe you can line him up in line off tackle and provide kick out blocks in the running game and motion him across the formation to the backside and take on guys as your #1 te and also flex him out and run him to the boundary without giving away your intentions in the huddle his value is more than ertz...you're more likely to see the defense keep base personnel on the field with eifert than ertz and there is where i think you can take advantage of his mismatch potential more on early downs and in the red zone etc...
ertz strikes me as the te you want next to a solid in line guy a 2nd te type that lines up sometimes in the backfield like an h back or off set formation type stuff and also flexed out...he's not a guy you want to depend on as a blocker...he's polshed though and been coached quite well...in some regards i have a hard time seeing a fit for him in our o with dustin keller already here...but then i think about the fact that ertz is so tall 6 ft 5 plus and i feel like i can find ways to get him on the field and take advantage of his skill set especially in a spread out offense...


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When I lived in apartments, I never had a problem with anyone. but then again, I've always respected my neighbours. There was never any need to get harsh with anyone, let alone wish an old lady would drop off a balcony...
awesomely entertaining and revealing thread.
No one here wished an old lady would drop off a balcony either. I get along with all my neighbors, too, which surprised me when she insisted I was sawing lumber after I told her 3 times I was not.
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the closest to an apartment i've lived in was at college a house that you rented out rooms. i was the only female in this house. on the weekends i'd get up and cook breakfast for everyone. and the bathrooms were only cleaned once a month (there were 3) the one in the basement that i used i'd clean every wednesday, cause it was black. no joke black. when i moved in, and none of the guys cared. yucky.
the most weirdest crazy things that happened from my neighbors there was the stoner across the hall. we were friendly and would talk and sometimes go do laundry together or watch a movie. i came home from classes once to find him sitting on my bed watching tv. and i lock my door and double check it when i leave. i asked him what he was doing and he just said watching tv. my reply was ok. i have home work. he said ok and left. another night i woke up to find him sleeping next to me in my bed. i'm a heavy sleeper so waking up to this was a bit perturbing. i kindly woke him up and told him he was in my room and i'd like if he'd go sleep in his room.
still don't know how he kept getting in. cause i know i locked my door. nice guy just did weird stuff when he was stoned.
sometimes it doesn't help to much to be kind to neighbors if they are crazy. they might get a little to cozy and friendly for you.artist page: http://metal-otaku.deviantart.com
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kcdyer, Sunday March 10, 2013 - 11:13pm
The members of the Surrey International Writers' Conference Society would like to wave a fond adieu to two of our community who retired at the end of the year.
Ursula Maxwell Lewis was one of the founders of SiWC and has been a part of our community ever since those long-ago days. While we all love the energy and verve Ursula brought to the conference, her fellow conference founder Carol Monaghan perhaps knows her best of all. Carol says:
One of the essential elements of SiWC is making connections and one of my best Conference
connections was meeting Ursula. I first worked with Ursula twenty years ago when that magnetic fella named Ed Griffin drew several of us together to help plan a writers' conference. As soon as I met her, I knew she was a woman who combined her business acumen with a heap of common sense. After the first conference at Johnston Heights Secondary, Ursula knew the event was headed for even greater success and promoted the idea of a larger venue. And of course her advice was dead on as our 19 years' tenure at the Sheraton Guildford has proven. She's a no-nonsense kind of person as I discovered when she sussed out a smooth talker who had wheedled his way into a private gathering of conference presenters. It took Ursula to realize that this entertaining charmer was a phoney – and out he went!
Our friendship has grown through the years and our conference connection has been special. During the time we've spent as "roomies" at the Sheraton, we've shared laughter and even a few tears over remembrances of each conference and the wonderful people who have been a part of SiWC. When Ursula announced she was stepping down from the board, I was saddened at the thought of losing that unique bond with her … so you can imagine my joy when it was announced that Ursula had been appointed director emeritus for her twenty years of service on the board. I'm already looking forward to SiWC 2013, October 25 to 27.
"Meet you at the Sheraton, Ursula … I'll make sure the wine is chilled!"
Ingrid Roeske Good has brought her own wonderful energy and enthusiasm to the conference. I have a special bond with Ingrid, as she worked as my conference assistant in the years I stood as Conference Coordinator. She handled everything I threw at her with great aplomb, and presenters, attendees and volunteers all enjoyed her magnetic presence. Her long-time friend [and Society Director] Carmen Merrells notes:
Wow, talk about Miss Organized! Ingrid can pull anything together and make it tick like clockwork. But I'm not talking about cold efficiency; rather, she connects on a personal level with almost everyone she works with, trying to make sure everyone pulls together and moves forward as one. And when everyone is giving 110%, Ingrid is giving 150%. We will miss having Ingrid on our Board!
We will miss both these lovely ladies on our Society Board of Directors, but know that their hearts will remain always with us. Thank you Ingrid and Ursula for all you have done for SiWC!
Society Director
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East Texas authorities need help finding the person who hit and killed a Smith County motorcyclist.
Not only did someone hit him, but they dragged his bike for nearly a mile and then left the scene.
DPS says early Sunday morning, the driver of a dark-colored truck hit the motorcyclist on Highway 64 East, just six miles outside of Tyler.
Joey Allen took us to the place his friend Jacky Jonston died early Sunday. It's the same place the two met 13 years ago.
"I ran out of gas in front of his house one night on the bike, and I walked across the street," says Allen, "I asked him if I could borrow some gas and his wife, Sharon, she stuck her head out the door and said, 'You want some breakfast?' and we were friends ever since."
Jonston was 65-years-old and nicknamed "ZZ" by friends for his ZZ Top beard. Though, they say sometimes he was called grumpy, "He always had something to say about something and he was grumping about it," says Allen.
Allen runs Smith County Cycles and built the bike Jonston was driving. He says Jonston's wife had passed away and he was just starting to get out and about again.
"He was a member of our club for many years. He was a good guy, no doubt about it. He'd do anything for you if he had the means and ways to do it," says Allen.
In Valero gas station surveillance video, a truck can be seen pushing Jonston's motorcycle down the highway. That video is what little evidence authorities have to track down the driver. DPS says the truck slammed into the back of Jonston's bike just as he was turning in to his driveway.
"You can see where they came back on the right side of the road, and you can see the skid marks from his bike tires sliding all the way over the hill," says Allen.
"The unidentified vehicle continued on down the road, and at some point stopped, realized something and dislodged the motorcycle," says DPS trooper Jean Dark.
Allen says he's not a vindictive person, but he's angry and wants to know who did this to his friend.
"I really truly wish somebody could man up and say what they did because the real disgrace in it is not owning up to what you did," he says.
Allen has driven up and down the road looking for clues, and with his eyes peeled for the truck that could have killed Jonston.
Authorities are asking anyone who may have seen the wreck or noticed a dark blue or black Ford heavy duty truck with front-end damage to contact them.
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Two people were killed last night in a three vehicle crash on Loop 49 just North of Highway 64 in Smith County.


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Well, I ask you: why shouldn't we stick a bunch of PHP code into a UniConf tree, eval() it in weird ways, use the same tree for storing meta-information and state, and call it a webconfig GUI? Is that so despicable?
That's exactly what Peter and I did with Mich and Adam the last couple days, and how did people react to our technological marvel? They called us names. Bad names.
I think it was a pretty successful contest, though. We removed much of the competitive nature this time, and I think it was a good idea. All the groups churned out some impressive stuff in a pretty short time. And even the horrifying stuff that Peter and I produced at least worked.


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Back to work today, after a week of holidays.
A little announce
It's now official : Nathalie, my girlfriend, and I are living together :-). Last week we repainted the bathroom with the help of her sister Claire and moved most of her furniture to my (well, our) apartment... and my back is now hurting because of carrying around heavy stuffs this week end :-|.
Anyway I'm sure it's for the best :-)
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Speaking of Nathalie and Claire, I must do a little ad for their band, Meeting Quotations. I know I cannot be objective, but believe me it rocks !
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The noise of my computer was driving me crazy, so I installed this heatpipe on my hard disks. The result is impressive, and the price worth it. I should have done it much sooner !


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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Defeat didn't come as suddenly this time, and Mississippi State actually left the floor feeling better about itself.
The Bulldogs refused to fold but ultimately came up short, falling 64-56 to Alabama at Coleman Coliseum on Wednesday night. It was the 11th consecutive loss for MSU (7-18, 2-11 SEC), tied for the second-longest in school history.
This losing streak began on Jan. 16, when Alabama took a 32-point win in Starkville. In that game, the Crimson Tide blew open a close game with a blazing start in the second half.
This time, MSU kept hanging around, cutting a 12-point deficit in the second half down to four on Jalen Steele's 3-pointer with 5 minutes, 20 seconds to go. But Alabama (18-8, 10-3) converted some late turnovers into points to seal the win.
Still fighting
First-year MSU coach Rick Ray said he had been worried about his team's mental state during this skid, but he liked what he saw in this game.
"The thing I was most concerned about tonight was having our guys go out and compete and fight, and I thought they did a great job of that," Ray said.
Steele, a junior, returned from a three-game suspension and led MSU with 15 points. Colin Borchert had 14 points and nine rebounds.
"We're definitely going to build off this," Steele said. "The intensity picked up."
After Steele's big 3-pointer, the Bulldogs reverted to some old habits and started turning it over. It was 52-45 when freshman Craig Sword committed back-to-back turnovers, leading to a pair of fast-break baskets for Alabama to effectively ice it.
"I was going too fast, and that caused turnovers," said Sword, who committed five of State's 23 turnovers.
The Bulldogs were playing without suspended forward Roquez Johnson, leaving them with just two true post players. But MSU won the rebounding battle, 33-31.
As in the first meeting, Wednesday's game was close most of the first half. Alabama used a 12-5 run to close the half and take a 31-20 lead into the break.
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MSU shot 54.5 percent in the second half, and its defense started to really give Alabama trouble. The Crimson Tide committed nine of its 14 turnovers after halftime.
"I thought when our defense was set, we did a really good job against Alabama," Ray said. "But toward the end there when we turned the basketball over and we're trying to run them down on fast breaks because of our turnovers, our defense is obviously not very good."
Rodney Cooper led Alabama with 20 points, while Trevor Releford added 17. The Tide shot 39.2 percent for the game, including 3 of 15 from 3-point range.


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What an extraordinary display of ****uppery. I like Golden. I respect him as a recruiter and a figurehead, but he needs tighter reins on that bull****. I'd love to see a modicum of discipline on that team. D'Onofrio has to start being held accountable. I don't give a damn that he's Golden's bff. That defense is getting plowed by ****ty offenses. That drive we allowed at the end of the half was such a ridiculous debacle. We put our corners on the ****ing moon.
I didn't expect to win that game, but I hate getting annihilated. Dorsett was a complete goat. Those drops were brutal. He played like he'd just ****ed oprah. Oh well. The ACC blows and is wide open so maybe our assbackwards team can stumble into a conf championship game.
About the only thing I'll defend OhNo on is that we have the worst DL in football. Our DL is an absolute embarrassment. No pressure whatsoever, and get pushed off the ball at will on every single run play. Golden ran a 3-4 as the DC at UVA so I don't think this is his scheme, but I'd say he should know enough about defense to know this is an absolute embarrassment, and can't happen. Trying to blitz while giving the QB the easy dump off for gimme 1st downs because CB's are lined up in a different stadium and nobody covers the flats on any play, it has to go. OhNofrio has to go.
FSU game is at 8
Wow this backup QB is a ****ing idiot...Who takes a sack with under 40 seconds and 1 timeout to go...
Come on now...
This team is pretty much screwed if Morris can't play. Ryan Williams' pop gun arm might make our offense even worse than our disastrous defense.
Seriously bummed. Defense and Coordinator are horrible. Dropped passes are continuing and Golden doesn't seem to have a grasp on either. He may be an excellent recruiter, but I'm losing faith in his ability to coach and/or game plan.
The door was blown open with that loss and most likely going to hurt us....Went to the Dolphins game today and met Lamar Miller
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