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The Carlton named one of America's 100 best wine restaurants
The Downtown landmark is the only restaurant in Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania to make the Wine Spectator's 2017 list.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board wants to set up a statewide network of 100 satellite wine kiosks.
The agency is soliciting proposals for a five-year contract to operate and maintain the kiosks, requiring that it be done at no cost to the state or PLCB. Each temperature-controlled kiosk will stock about 500 bottles for sale.
Such vending machines selling alcoholic beverages have been in use in Japan, Singapore and some European countries, but security issues and restrictive liquor laws have made their development and use elsewhere very limited.
The PLCB is addressing these issues in the requirements for contractors. According to guidelines posted on its Web site at www.lcb.state.pa.us, all transactions will be monitored "via remote video and audio links" and the successful contractor must ensure that the kiosks will prevent sales to minors and intoxicated people.
Also, because the kiosks will be in public settings, "the PLCB is seeking a solution that prevents the viewing of wines in the wine kiosks by minors."
PLCB spokesman Nick Hays said he could not provide more specifics because of a "quiet period" that's required during the submission and evaluation of proposals.
One of those briefed on the proposal was Wendell Young IV, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, whose members include state store clerks. Mr. Young said the kiosk "looks like a giant institutional Sub-Zero refrigerator" with high-tech security identification measures such as fingerprints and biometric readings.
First-time users would have to register to use the kiosks, and purchases would have to be made with credit card, debit card or PLCB gift card .
Mr. Young foresees the kiosks being set up within grocery stores or malls. "You're not going to put these up at bus stops, or on a street corner, like a Coke or Pepsi vending machine."
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It's not far fetched to say that the Republican party is out of touch with the African-American voter. The party has alienated the black vote so much that blacks vote democratic at a disproportionate number. The demographics in the US are changing and the Republican party can no longer depend on the white vote to win the presidency. The party has to begin a courtship of the black vote. I believe that the core values of the Republican party appeals to blacks. Before I'm accused of being a traitor or Sambo, allow me to explain my position.
First, the Republican party must effectively communicate our core values which are God, family, a strong community, and education. Secondly, tone down the rhetoric and adverse speech.
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The Lakeland Police Department will hold the next Chief's Chat on Monday, February 2, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the Community Room of the Lakeland Police Department, located at 219 N Massachusetts Avenue.
This month, Lakeland PAL Director, Tim Abram will be the guest speaker.
Have you seen Liliany Martinez? If so, please contact LPD Investigative Aide Charlene Ali at 863-834-8974.
Liliany Martinez left her residence in the 700 block of Hull Street the evening of January 18, 2015 and has not returned. Lakeland Police are looking for any information on the whereabouts of Liliany.
Ms. Martinez is 16 years old, 5'5" tall and weighs approx 120 lbs. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black jacket. She has black hair with highlights and wears blue contact lenses.
On Sunday, December 7, 2014, three suspects concealed several hundred dollars of merchandise from the Ulta Beauty store, 919 Lakeland Park Center Drive #344 in Lakeland. Management from Ulta advised that the suspects may be connected with a larger retail theft organization that is responsible for thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise. The group is believed to target larger markets specifically in Orlando and Tampa. The suspects are described as two Hispanic females and one Hispanic male.
Anyone with information on the identification of these individuals is asked to contact Lakeland Police Department Detective Nicholas Pollice at (863) 834-8958, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-8477. To remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward, you must contact Crime Stoppers.
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On Monday, December 29, 2014, at 11:12 a.m., the Lakeland Police Department responded to 1935 Crystal Grove Drive #53 to assist PCEMS call of a child not breathing. The baby, Princeton Graham, 5 months old, was in the custodial care of his biological father, Robert Graham and Graham's girlfriend.
Graham was in apartment #61, babysitting other children and his baby. Graham advised he was attempting to feed the baby formula and the baby began to choke. Graham said he turned the baby over and administered several back blows to the baby's back to stop it from choking. Graham then took the baby to apartment #53 were the resident there called 911.
On December 31, the baby, Princeton Graham, succumbed to his injuries at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
On January 2nd, an autopsy was performed and the findings of the medical examiner were that Princeton Graham died as a result of "Shaken Baby" caused by blunt force head trauma from assault.
Detectives stated that the father had admitted to overly rough playing with the baby on December 28th by slamming the baby on the bed, bouncing it on his knee and shaking the baby for about four minutes.
The father, Robert Graham knowingly and willfully abused the baby which resulted in his death. He was arrested on January 8th, without incident at his residence and charged with Aggravated Child Abuse, F1 and Manslaughter, F2.
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It's not surprising that a conservative outfit like NewsBusters would take a pro-Sarah Palin stance. And it's not surprising that they'd sometimes go a little overboard in their Palin adulation -- as much as the right loves to complain about irrational hatred from the left, its own worship of the half-term governor who quit to spend more time on Facebook does tend to get a little out of hand.
Then there's Noel Sheppard.
The NewsBusters associate editor has never made any secret about his admiration for Palin. For a while now, he's been serving as her unofficial press office, dutifully republishing every single message the ex-governor posted on Facebook, frequently appending them with a rousing "Hear, hear!"
But in the past couple of days, things have become a little ... weird.
Here's how Sheppard began his blog post this morning on Palin's "Tonight Show" appearance last night:
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continued her historic climb into the hearts of Americans Friday by appearing on NBC's "Tonight Show" in a small cameo role.
And here's his opening paragraph from a December 10 entry on Palin:
Showing the sense of humor millions of Americans fell in love with last year, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Thursday that critics of her previous day's op-ed in the Washington Post "kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers."
Yipes ... Perhaps not quite to the same level of Rich "Starbursts" Lowry, but still ...
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My family loves snorkeling and diving in the Florida Keys. We know some
incredible dive sites, including an underwater statue of Christ called
"Christ of the Deep," sunken shipwrecks, and stunning coral reefs. Some
of these places are five to ten miles offshore in open, unmarked seas.
We find these amazing underwater treasures using a GPS [global
positioning system], which pinpoints the exact location of the dive
I've often thought how nice it would be to have a
personally programmed, internally wired GPS system that could help me
navigate my life. [Biographical note: I'm somewhat notorious for being
an airhead when it comes to directions. I'm one of the only people I
know who can get lost driving to McDonalds…even with the Golden
Arches in sight!] While most of you are not as directionally
challenged as I am, I'm sure many of you would love to have a
personalized GPS that could pinpoint who you are, where you're going,
and what your purpose is in this life.
Discovering our vocation and life purpose is a critical concern for
single people. In his book Single Focus, George Barna, founder of the
Barna Research Group, writes: "about half of single adults, regardless
of their faith commitment, say that they are still searching for the
meaning and purpose of their life" (p. 112). Unfortunately, this
journey of discovery can be as difficult as trying to find the "Christ
of the Deep" dive site without a GPS or compass fix. Many singles
attempt to find their life path without directional assistance, and end
up feeling stressed, burdened, or lost in murky waters.
Our Heavenly Father did not leave us helpless on the journey of
discovering our life purpose. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to offer
us a roadmap with lost-proof directions for our lives. It's a
navigational tool we often take for granted or forget to use, but the
Eucharist, God's supreme gift to mankind, is an indispensable GPS for
single Catholics seeking to discover their life purpose.
Finding our identity in Christ
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that "the Eucharist is the
source and summit of the Christian life" (section 1324). For us single
Catholics, this means that the Eucharist is the focal point, the
foundation, and the purpose for everything that we do, everything that
we are, and everything that we will become in this life.
It is through the Eucharist that Christ most fully reveals Himself to
us, and in turn teaches us who we are–the sons and daughters of God,
and sharers in the divine life. The Eucharist is a life compass because
it joins our lives right now, in time, with our eternal destination:
Heaven. The Catechism states: "[T]he Holy Sacrifice identifies us with
his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life,
makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in
heaven" (section 1419).
Made for Communion
Each human being possesses a deep, ravenous hunger for something more
in life. While we all share this same thirst for meaning, for love, and
for a desire deep within our hearts to be fulfilled, we all choose
different ways of trying to fill the void. Some will turn to fame,
fortune, sex, alcohol, drugs, or some other addiction. Others will try
to drown out their souls by overdosing on media noise, or just by
getting caught up in the overloaded busyness of life.
No matter what we try to fill ourselves with, the truth is that all of
us are searching for something more, something deeper. That's because
this desire in our hearts is for our Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ,
to come and dwell with us and in us. St. Augustine once wrote: "You
have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until
they rest in you." Jesus is the answer to our hunger for meaning,
purpose, and fulfillment in life, and He is most fully united with us
in the Eucharist. Pope John Paul II wrote in his Encyclical on the
Eucharist: "The gift of Christ and his Spirit which we receive in
Eucharistic communion superabundantly fulfils the yearning for
fraternal unity deeply rooted in the human heart" (paragraph 24).
Thus, if we want to have a purpose-filled life, we must turn to the
source and summit of all life–Jesus Christ. When we're going through
hard times in our jobs or relationships, dealing with some form of
temptation, or just feeling the need to be near a good friend, we
should turn to Jesus in the Eucharist to be our soul fuel.
Our understanding of the powerful reality of Christ's real presence in
the Eucharist will transform our entire way of thinking and living. Our
career choices, moral decisions, relationships, daily thoughts and
actions will be transformed when we understand that the King of the
Universe wants to dwell in our souls and bodies each day. St. Irenaeus,
an early Father of the Church, wrote: "Our way of thinking is attuned
to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of
As we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi (Feast of the Body and
Blood of Christ) this month (on Sunday, June 10, 2007), seek union with
Christ in the Eucharist as a prayerful step in discerning His will for
your life. Since you know who you are (a child of God and heir of His
Kingdom), and you know where you are going (Heaven), you already have
the two pinpoints for your compass fix. Armed with these directions,
your discernment of what work God has called you to accomplish in this
life will become much, much easier.
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and
he who believes in me shall never thirst … Truly, truly I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the son of Man, and drink his blood, you
have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:35,
Stephanie is the coordinator of
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Family Life Center International
She has been a frequent guest on several Catholic programs, including
EWTN Radio's Faith & Family, which she currently co-hosts with her
father, Steve Wood, and EWTN Television's Life on the Rock and The
Journey Home.
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How much does a Referral Specialist make? The median annual Referral Specialist salary is $36,824, as of May 30, 2017, with a range usually between $34,001-$41,013, however this can vary widely depending on a variety of factors. Our team of Certified Compensation Professionals has analyzed survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at companies of all sizes and industries to present this range of annual salaries for people with the job title Referral Specialist in the United States.
This chart describes the expected percentage of people who perform the job of Referral Specialist in the United States that make less than that annual salary. For example the median expected annual pay for a typical Referral Specialist in the United States is $36,824, so 50% of the people who perform the job of Referral Specialist in the United States are expected to make less than $36,824.
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Dave -
Although the smoking could be caused by the usual reasons of worn rings or worn valve guides, this seems unlikely on a low-mileage engine. The cause is more likely "normal vehicle operation". On the "classic K" engines, which sit horizontal in the frame with the cylinder head on the LEFT side, when you park the bike on the sidestand, the cylinder head is LOWER than the crankcase. It is a very common issue with these classic K's that sometimes a little oil leaks past the rings when the bike is parked on the sidestand, and when the engine is started it smokes for a little while until the oil is burned off. My K75S does this periodically. Not all K-bikes do this to the same degree. Converting to Mobil 1 could tend to make the issue worse because it would leak past the rings easier.
Try parking the bike on the centerstand for awhile and see if the start-up smoking goes away, or is reduced. This will be an indication of the common start-up smoking. If this is what you have, there is not much you can easily/cheaply do other than park the bike on the centerstand. Also, have someone follow you when you are riding, and once the start-up smoking goes away have them watch for smoking when you accelerate and engine brake, but not when you are cruising at constant throttle, which will be an indication of worn rings or valve guides.
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Bacteria that are able to survive every modern antibiotic are cropping up in many U.S. hospitals and are spreading outside the USA, public health officials say.
The bugs, reported by hospitals in more than 20 states, typically strike the critically ill and are fatal in 30% to 60% of cases. Israeli doctors are battling an outbreak in Tel Aviv that has been traced to a patient from northern New Jersey, says Neil Fishman, director of infection control and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists.
The bacteria are equipped with a gene that enables them to produce an enzyme that disables antibiotics. The enzyme is called Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenamase, or KPC. It disables carbapenam antibiotics, last-ditch treatments for infections that don't respond to other drugs.
"We've lost our drug of last resort," Fishman says.
Carbapenam-resistant germs are diagnosed mostly in hospital patients and are not spreading in the community. They're far more common nationwide than bacteria carrying a gene called NDM-1 that made headlines this week, Fishman says.
Those NDM-1 bacteria, named for the city of New Delhi, are rare in the USA and have been found mainly in people who obtain medical treatment in India, Arjun Srinivasan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.
Although KPCs are most common in New York and New Jersey, Srinivasan says, "they've now been reported in more than half of the states." A decade ago, only 1% of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria reported to CDC by hospitals were carbapenam-resistant. Today, resistance has spread to more than 8% of these bacteria. No one knows precisely how many people have KPC infections because cases aren't routinely reported to the CDC.
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Making his Arsenal debut has helped William Gallas 'move on'.
The defender left Stamford Bridge for Emirates Stadium on transfer deadline day in a swap deal with Ashley Cole. He played his first game for his new club as a left back in the 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough on Saturday and felt at home immediately
"It was good to play with Arsenal," said Gallas. "And I thought we were unlucky not to win.
"The players were all very kind to me when I arrived and the atmosphere in the club is very good. Everybody laughs. It was easy to adapt to Arsenal.
"For me, the past is the past," he went on. "I am just focused on my future, and my future is with Arsenal. That is it. Anybody can say what they want, I do not mind.
"I wanted to come here. Now I have to play, to enjoy it and do my best to try to win something."
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PPs, yes, my fear that something will happen to my child and everyone will think it is my fault (because most people are a brick wall on this issue, esp in my family) is matched/exceeded ONLY by the fear that some adverse event (like seizures/a coma/neurodamage) will happen to my child and I will know what caused it and NO ONE will believe me.
Of course this is all centered on me wanting to make the safest possible decision for my child, independant of the 'wisdom' of the times I live in. That is why I feel like I have to find the solution based on the facts as I know them, because I can't justify putting him at risk because of a fear I have . . . I've even been fantasizing about making videos of him prior to any vax so that if something happened, no one could tell me he just spontaneously developed it. But I can't feel good about experimenting with him or taking that risk.
Before what happened to my son, before I researched BOTH sides, I could not understand how a parent could not vaccinate and not feel guilty if their child got sick witha VPD. Now I understand. I get it! I get that the vaccine might not have prevented anything anyway. I get that, if they could do it all over again, they would still know that the vaccine was the bigger risk. Yes, their child got sick, but that doesn't mean that it wasnt more likely for them to have a bad reaction to the vaccine. Not everyone thinks that way after doing the research, and that is okay too. I think a lot of people (like me before what happened to me son) THINK they have researched it, but all they have really done is trust in other people who researched it for them, without adding in skepticism towards the source. If one day you change your mind, those vaccines will still be there (unless of course they DO prove they are ineffective and dangerous - more dangerous then the diseases they are vaccinating against). Once you vaccinate though, you can't take it back.
~paraphrased from "Forrest Gump"~
Here are some thoughts, opinions, and information that I'd like to share after reading this thread:
"You can't take back the vaccine." True. But the same would be equally true if your child suddenly came down with a life-threatening disease that you had decided not to vaccinate him against. You wouldn't be able to take back your decision not to vax that lead to his condition.
"Assuming again that these vaccines work, which hasn't been proven." 100 years ago, we weren't sure exactly how vaccines worked, we just knew that vaccinated people got the disease far less. Shortly after WWII vaccination rates shot up and the infection rates shot down. There is really no other way to interpret these closely correlated historical events other than to say that vaccination simply works.
Diphtheria is a perfect example. It was one of the most feared of the childhood diseases up to the early 20th century. Throughout the 1920s, the US saw about around 150,000 cases per year with an approx 10% fatality rate for an average of about 13-15,000 deaths per year. That's more Americans than will die in gun homicides THIS year!
For a graphical interpretation of what the vaccine for this disease did to infection rates, see this chart of reported diphtheria cases by year from 1940-2007: http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-diphtheria-cases
At the very least I think an objective reader would agree that if one wished to argue that the diphtheria vaccine was not the cause of this disease's sudden disappearance, one would need to at the very least propose a compelling alternative cause. And improved hygiene and/or diet is not compelling because diphtheria affected people equally up and down the socio-economic spectrum.
Also, as far as MMR causing autism, consider the following from the Mayo Clinic's general info page on autism:
"Some children show signs of autism in early infancy. Other children may develop normally for the first few months or years of life, but then suddenly become withdrawn or aggressive or lose language skills they've already acquired."
Since MMR is typically administered at 12 months, and autism can present suddenly anywhere in the first few years, it is therefore a statistical inevitability that occasionally a child's autism will present very soon after the MMR vaccine is received just by sheer coincidence. This is to be expected. Here is some rough math on that: there are ~4 million babies born per year in the US. A common figure to see quoted for autism rate is 1 in 88 children. That would be 4M/88=45,454 autistic kids born annually on average. Very commonly, autistics first show symptoms from age 12 to 24 months. If you assume for argument's sake that every single day within that one-year period is equally likely to be the first day that the parent notices symptoms, then that means there are 365 different days this could happen on. If all these kids go and get an MMR vaccination sometime around 12 months, then that means that of the 45,454 autistic children within a particular 12-month age cohort, there will be roughly 45,454/365 = 125 kids that first present symptoms on the VERY SAME DAY that they received their MMR shot. Now you could push and pull my numbers around a bit here and there, but whether you come up with 125 or 12.5 or 250 kids within two days after the MMR instead of one day, the same idea remains clear: with 45,000 autistic kids diagnosed a year, it is guaranteed that there are going to be at least a handful that will present symptoms right after their MMR shot just by mathematical probability. In fact, if there WASN'T a single case of this, THAT would be astonishing!
Now, suppose that the parents of, say, 12 of these children find each other on autism websites and decide to form a class action and sue the pharmaceutical company that produced the vaccine. They don't have to look too hard to find a crack team of sharpie plaintiffs lawyers. At say $2M per family, times 12, times the typical attorney's fee of 1/3 the settlement, that would be a lawyer's payday of $8 million dollars. And the lawyer might not even be above commissioning a less-than-rigorous researcher to produce a study designed to help them win the case. The scenario I'm painting here is precisely what occurred in England. The researcher was the now-infamous Dr. Wakefield, who it later came out was paid $750,000 in "consulting fees" to help them win by ginning up his findings and basically going on a whirlwind media tour with them.
We have our own domestic version of Dr Wakefield, btw. His name is Mark Geier. He is one of the principal authors of a study published by the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons that concluded a strong link between thimerosal and autism rates. Like Wakefield, Geier is a professional expert witness in vaccine suits. Except in Geier's cases, often the judges themselves have openly reprimanded him for lacking the expertise or clinical knowledge he claims. He has had his medical license revoked in all 50 states because, among other things, he claims he can successfully treat autism by administering the chemical castration drug Lupron---a service for which he charges desperate parents tens of thousands of dollars.
Lastly, the Am Assoc of Physicians and Surgeons in which Geier is not a respected medical or scientific organization, such as the Lancet. It is a politically conservative PAC that was formed in 1943 to lobby against socialized medicine. Their publications are neither peer-reviewed nor indexed by the big scientific journal databases. Basically, their publications are for general consumption, like Time or Newsweek. This doesn't mean that Time and Newsweek are bunk, it just means that they have different audiences than serious academic peer-reviewed journals in which people report scientific findings. What makes the J of Am Assoc of Phys and Surg bunk is that it's a general consumption periodical that goes to great lengths to appear to LOOK like a respectable scientific journal, which is inherently deceptive. And actually, if you dig deeper, you'll find that they're bunky for even more fundamental reasons, like still to this day failing to retract their thoroughly discredited leprosy-caused-by-illegals story---something that Time or Newsweek would never do.
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Detailed Accident Report
Submitted By: Knox Williams, CAIC
Place: Tenmile Range (West side), CO
State: CO
Country: USA
Fatalities: 1
Summary: 1 snowmobiler caught, buried, and killed
Avalanche Accident Report (Knox Williams, CAIC)
Investigated by Nick Logan, Scott Toepfer, and Lee Metzger of CAIC, and
Summit County Sheriff Office and USFS Safety Officer
Date & Time: April 3, 2001, at approximately 9 am
West side of 10 Mile Range along Highway 91 and Tenmile Creek in Summit
County, approximately 2.5 miles south of the "SKY" Chutes (just east of the
Copper Mounatin Exit) and 2.5 miles NE of Mayflower Gulch in a narrow unnamed
drainage off the NW side of Crystal Peak. [We will update this map late on
4/5/01.] The accident is east of the Copper Mountain Ski Area.
Elevation: 10,900 feet, below timberline
Aspect: North
Slope Angle: 40 degrees
Avalanche Data
The avalanche was classified as SSAV20 (soft slab, artificial-vehicle
trigger, small size, running on old snow layer). Fracture was 1-1/2 ft deep,
80 ft wide, widening to 180 feet at the bottom. Vertical fall was 100 ft.
Investigators found the snowpack to be very weak and caused several collapse
failures and saw evidence of other collapse failures the last few days plus
several other small avalanches.
Total snow depth at the crown was 90 cm. This consisted of about 50 cm of
faceted snow with a grain size of 3 6mm and about 40 cm of soft slab on top
(4 finger hardness). Stability tests caused easy column collapse failures.
Contributory weather factors
About 36" of snow fell from March 25-31, and strong winds caused blowing snow
from March 28 to April 1. Blowing snow was much heavier at elevations above
timberline and above the avalanche site. From March 29 to April 1, 80
avalanches were reported from around Summit County, with several being
reported on the west side of the 10 Mile Range.
Accident and Rescue Summary
The victim--a 22-year-old male--was a guide for a local snowmobile company.
At 0830 he rode alone up a gully, apparently trying to establish a trail to
the bowl on the west side of Crystal Peak. Evidence showed that he probably
got stuck near the bottom of the gully about a mile from the highway. He may
have been trying to dig his machine out when the avalanche released.
Several hours later a group of snowmobilers went to look for him and followed
his trail to the avalanche. They found a jacket on the snow and saw part of
the snowmobile sticking from the avalanche debris. They probed uphill from
the machine and located the victim who was 4-5 feet under. He had been buried
about 4 hours and was not alive when uncovered.
This was the fourth avalanche death in Colorado this winter. There have been
28 deaths in the US this winter.
Willams 4/3/01
Here is also the newspaper story from the Summit County Daily News:
Snowmobiler dies in avalanche
By Jane Reuter
SUMMIT COUNTY ? A 22-year-old snowmobile tour guide died Tuesday in this
winter?s first Summit County avalanche fatality.
Chad Jones, a native of Australia who has lived in the area for three years,
was riding on National Forest land east of Copper Mountain on the back side
of Peaks 9 and 10 when he apparently triggered the slide that killed him.
Jones had worked the past three seasons as a snowmobile tour guide for Timber
Ridge Snowmobile Tours, but he was not leading a tour or on Timber Ridge
property when the accident occurred.
"He was free riding, and we allow our guys to do that, but he was exploring
territory we don?t dive into," said Gregor Vaule, a manager at Timber Ridge
Snowmobile Tours who describes Jones as "one helluva dude."
"He was riding in a fairly narrow drainage on an unmarked trail and he
apparently collapsed some snow at the bottom," said Summit County Sheriff?s
technician Joel Cochran. "He wasn?t doing anything crazy besides traveling
Jones reportedly triggered the slide at about 10 a.m.
"It looked the first attempt on the hill," said Search and Rescue coordinator
Joe Ben Slivka said. "It wasn?t a long slide, less than 75 yards and about 10
feet deep. He was right at the toe."
Jones was reported missing at about noon, Slivka said.
Searchers spotted his jacket, which was at the edge of the debris. It
appeared Jones had taken it off and left it there before he made his fatal
attempt. Slivka said Timber Ridge employees had already found Jones by the
time they got to the scene.
Summit County Coroner Richard Eaton said Jones died "very quickly."
"It was a typical avalanche death, which is usually caused by suffocation,"
he said.
An autopsy will be conducted, Eaton said, most likely sometime today.
Rescuers said the death saddens them because it could have been prevented.
"He wasn?t wearing a beacon, and he was riding by himself," Slivka said. "If
someone had been riding with him, it?s possible they would have seen it
happen and been able to rescue him," said Tom Healy, law enforcement officer
for the Forest Service.
Summit County?s rapid deployment team, a group of rescuers who are called out
only in the most dire of circumstances, was summoned for Tuesday?s rescue,
but some of them were called off before they got to the scene. Flight For
Life pilot Rod Balak, with Copper Mountain rescue dog Hasty on board the
helicopter, said he was told the helicopter would not be needed and was
turned back.
Timber Ridge Tours will be closed for the next two days in Jones? memory.
Tenmile Range (West side), CO
April 3, 2001
1 snowmobiler buried and killed
A snowmobile guide--travelling solo--was buried and killed in an avalanche on Tuesday on the West side of
the Tenmile Range. The accident occurred in a drainage off the NW side of Crystal Peak.
The 22-year-old victim left early in the morning to snowmobile up an un-named drainage in the backcountry to
the East of the Copper Mountain Ski Area. The drainage is two valleys to the North of the popular Mayflower
Gulch area. When he failed to return his fellow guides set out and followed his tracks.
The snowmobile tracks ascended up the narrow valley and ended in an avalanche. They found his jacket on the
debris surface and then found part of the snowmobile sticking out of the snow. The men were spot probing
around the machine when they found their buried friend. He was buried about 6 feet deep and for an estimated
time of 4 hours.
Nick, Scott and Lee will be visiting the accident site on 4/4 and will post additional information on 4/5.
This is Colorado's 4th fatality of the season and the 29th in the United States.


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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:29 am
Post subject: Coles will be a Cowboy
This is plan and simple. When and if he does get cut by Skins Coles will think back when he played the Boys and remember that guy name Roy Williams. I dont thinks he will want to play againts him again. What do you think. This will also keep from drafting a WR. Picture this Johnson,Gleen,Coles, Witten. Damn thats good not to mention JJ the juice man himself. What do you guys think of that.
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He is going to be to expensive. plus i'd would rather have Plaxico Burress(who might also be to expensive). lets draft a WR with our # 1 then focus on D. I wan't a big phisical WR (MW 6'5'', BE 6'3'', Plax 6'5'', not 5'11'' 195 Coles) Ya Coles is fast, but so is BE and Plax and they are bigger.
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I think we have other, more pressing needs to address in FA. Upgrading WR comes after our needs at CB, FS, DE, NT, LB, RG in my humble opinion. I think this need is about as pressing as backup rb. Important, but not deseperate for a starter now.
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Coles won't be cut. He'd cost over $9 million on the salary cap if the Redskins cut him. They'll try and trade him first.
If they can't trade him, they'll still look for a free agent WR and still look to trade down in the draft because they've officially entered salary cap hell.
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The report out of Washington is that Coles needs toe surgery similar to the one that Dion had years ago. Apparently, Coles is refusing to have the surgery and that is why the Skins are considering to cut him even though they would take a huge cap hit.
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ahh... yikes, that ingury plagued deion for a while.. turf toe
Last pass was a TD against the EAGLES!
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They can't afford to cut him. It would send them over the salary cap.
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I don't see the attraction to P. Burress. He is an under-achieving version of K. Johnson.
We need some speed at the WR position.
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they're are reports that coles doesnt want to get the surgery because if they(doctors) mess up...it could end his carreer...they're gonna cut coles because coles wants out...hes doesnt like the way gibbs runs the offense
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I heard on ESPN radio that the Cowboys are showing no Interest in getting Coles. That Parcells does not want to take a chance on him.
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The only WR that we should be showing interest in is Mike Williams.
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How can anyone say that the ONLY WR the Cowboys should be showing interest in is Mike Williams and be serious about it? The guy is very talented and would have been a top pick LAST YEAR. He has sat out a year and might be rusty. Braylon Edwards is more polished and would contribute a lot more right off the bat than Williams would.
Besides, ONLY means that they would have tunnel vision and not look at anyone else. That is just not good football sense.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:21 pm
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Isn't Plax a very fast, high yds per catch, downfield threat (pretty much the opposite of the "possession" receiver that Keyshawn is)?
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought Plax averaged 20 yrds per catch last year.
I think he'll get alot more $ than he's actually worth though.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:24 pm
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htfryar wrote:
How can anyone say that the ONLY WR the Cowboys should be showing interest in is Mike Williams and be serious about it? The guy is very talented and would have been a top pick LAST YEAR. He has sat out a year and might be rusty. Braylon Edwards is more polished and would contribute a lot more right off the bat than Williams would.
Besides, ONLY means that they would have tunnel vision and not look at anyone else. That is just not good football sense.
I think the only reason no body really considers Edwards is because he's almost a lock to go to the Bears at #4. So unless we trade that high, highly unlikely, there's no way we'll get him.
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Post subject: Burress a Boy? I hope not.
Burress averaged over 20 yards a catch last year for several reasons (very few of them have anything to do with him being a stud). First, the Steelers had the best line in football & were a dominant running team. Second, their other two recievers weren't too shabby (Ward & Randle El). It reminds me of Michael Irvin & Alvin Harper. Harper looked pretty awesome with the Boys back then, but when he went to a team without the other pieces he stunk it up & was out of the league in 2 years. Look at the Boys current receivers - do you see Irvin or Novacek or a dominant O-line - nah, me either. Burress is going to want a mint to come here & there are other more pressing needs. Just a thought.
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The first Xbox-enabled version of Fruit Ninja launched shortly after Windows Phone 7 itself way back in December 2010. As the months rolled by, the iOS and Android versions received a number of updates while the Windows Phone game did not. Developer Halfbrick released a Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 version in 2011, and an Xbox Windows 8 version in 2012 – but still no update to the original Windows Phone game.
Things finally took a turn for the better this month when a Windows Phone 8-specific version of Fruit Ninja finally showed up to the party. The decrepit Windows Phone 7 version simultaneously got partially delisted from the Store, though Windows Phone 7 users can apparently still download it. The new Windows Phone 8 Fruit Ninja is identical in features to the Windows 8 version, so we'll review them both and point out the improvements to the original game.


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Parenting-inspired invention aims to test online baby sleep coaching program by February
Using experience and ingenuity to help new parents reclaim their precious sleeping hours, West Linn mother and entrepreneur Suzanne Hansen has been awarded a $15,000 grant through the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program to develop an online baby sleep coaching program.
The MomInspired Grant Program was launched in 2010, providing mothers with inventive ideas of how to make parenting easier with seed money and business resources to further their products and start-up businesses. It is, essentially, a sleep coach for your baby. And if the baby isn't sleeping, neither is the mother.
This year's nine winners - chosen from a pool of 500 - include FDA-approved acupressure wristbands for the relief of nausea caused by morning sickness, travel, chemotherapy and anesthesia; magnetic-fastening infant wear; a 'colic cradler' - a fully adjustable chair and carrier with an automated massager design to imitate a two-handed colic-cradle hold - and Hansen's online baby sleep coaching program.
'I took a tremendous amount of time filling out the application and sharing with (Huggies) the need for the program in that, nothing like this exists,' she said of what she called an 'exhaustive' entry process. 'They want some things that are really unique that aren't really out there.'
Hansen, who has worked as a high-risk labor and delivery nurse, a childbirth educator and a postpartum doula, is also the author of the New York Times best-selling book, 'You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny,' which chronicles her time served as a nanny in several Hollywood homes, including that of Michael Ovitz, the once-president of the Walt Disney Corporation.
'My children were really poor sleepers, and I thought I was going to lose my mind (on) sleep-deprived days, and I had a lot of friends having the same experience,' she said. 'As my children got older … I just really saw the need for the sleep coaching, because parents were really needing help with sleep issues.'
Drawing on these professional and personal experiences, she's worked as a sleep coach for nearly five years through her practice, Ruby Sky Coaching.
For part of her application, Hansen interviewed some of the mothers she's worked with so they could explain how frequently families have this problem and how serious its effects can be.
'I really want it to be able to help virtually any family to know that they don't have to live sleep deprived,' she said. 'I want my product to essentially help every family, because everyone can't afford to have one-on-one coaching and there's only one of me.'
Hansen said that, in her work as a sleep coach, she's always wanted an online product that was interactive and could be personalized. Instead, most information available online is generalized, and 'You're saying, 'But my toddler's not doing that. OK, I did that, but what do I do next?''
Users of Hansen's online baby sleep coach program will input their personal information to receive an initial plan, and then report what happens after each night just as they would if they were seeing Hansen in person.
The program will then take users through a decision tree to find a method to try the next time around.
'I really believe every family needs their own program because every baby is different and every family,' Hansen said. 'I used a hodge-podge of different (techniques) for myself, and that's what I do for my clients now, too.'
She said her program will support a variety of family dynamics, ranging from families who choose to co-sleep to those looking for the quickest solution and anyone in between.
Hansen said she will use her Huggies grant to finance her programming and development phase and her goal is to have the program ready to test by Feb. 10. While she concentrates on developing the program, she'll be taking on new in-person clients in a limited capacity.
'Sleep deprivation does not have to be an unavoidable sacrifice of motherhood,' she said. 'That's kind of been the general thought… We've always thought, 'Just laugh about all of the sleep deprivation and how wacky you're getting from lack of sleep.'
'I just really want to share that it doesn't have to be that way.'
For more information about Hansen's baby sleep coaching, visit www.babysleepcoaching.com.


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I came to my home a scared pup. I had lived with about 14 other dogs in my last home and then in a shelter. My people skills were rusty, but my shelter mom, Nancy, saw through them and knew I was a good pup. She loved me and cared for me, and reached out to all she knew to try to find me a loving home. On Dec 1st, I started my journey to Pennsylvania (I am a KY boy). I arrived late at night, tired and scared of my new home. But I kinda liked my new mom. I took treats from her and started to come to her a bit when she called. In less than a week, I was housebroken, playing with toys, going outside with my brothers and without parental supervision, and coming in when called. I love treats and all the toys they bought me, and I even love my crate I sleep in. Mommy tried to get me to sleep on the bed with her, dad, Cooper, and Houser, but it was kinda crowded and I dont quite get the concept yet, so I sleep in my crate with Houser laying next to it. Cooper sleeps with us until I fall asleep and then he goes to snuggle with Mom. I have found my bark and I never stop talking now, it makes mom laugh because Houser's bark is so manly, and mine is like a little kids. Apparently, I am a funny dog, because Mom always laughs at what I am doing and has to reach down and pet me or give me kisses. She said the rusty social skills were ok because I made up for it by keeping the other two boys busy; they used to rely on her for entertainment. We just celebrated something called Christmas. I got to meet my grandparents for a half hour, but mom didnt want too many people over. Then, I woke up and Houser was all excited for some reason. Something about goodies and gifts coming. They handed all three of us something wrapped in paper and it smelled like peanut butter. I let Houser open mine, he is good at it, then we all ate peanut butter out of our brand new kongs. We all got a second present and this time I opened it before letting Cooper take it from me. We got a new tennis bone, beef puffs, and a GIANT rope bone. I like chewing them all to pieces. Since Christmas, I have realized that mom is keeping me. I cuddle with her on the couch and come every time she calls. I had an accident the other day and she only told me no once and put me outside to pee. I like it here. We go for walks and I am by far the best walker. I have met most of my family now and they all say I am so pretty. I must agree, I look at my reflection any chance I get. I love laying in front of the fireplace and I beg for mom and dad to turn it on for me. I am a good pup and I really like my new home.
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Nike's Venture Capital Fund To Back Green Startups
The sportswear brand shows its commitment to innovation and sustainability by helping up-and-coming businesses.
Sports brand Nike's venture capital fund is going to invest in startups that promote eco-friendly, healthy lifestyles and are working in the areas of green innovation and technology or alternative energy sources.
The Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab is also looking for ways to make Nike's approach to manufacturing more efficient and reduce their production costs. A job posting for the lab's Operations Manager, gives more insight into its role:
The Sustainable Business & Innovation (SB&I) Lab is a new strategic investment program to enable and accelerate Nike's disruptive growth and innovation through sustainability. The Lab will invest in two portfolios to simultaneously accelerate Nike's sustainability vision and long-term business growth:
(i) Closed loop – a vision for zero waste of natural resources in a product's journey from raw materials to finished state to post-consumer stage, and
(ii) Activating the inactive – motivating and inspiring inactive populations to lead more active and healthy lives.
The SB&I Lab will use multiple tools, primarily equity investments in early, mid and growth stage businesses.


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@blulite - With a signature like that, I'm not shocked that it happened
If you know how to get in a network, then you should know what to do to stop a cracker.
As linux is getting more popular, the virusboyzz will write evil code for linux to.
Thats also the reason that there are'nt that many of evil-code for linux.
Because windows is a more used os, it will give the most damage if you write a virus.
@blulite - With a signature like that, I'm not shocked that it happened
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"The goal of every man should be to continue living even after he can no longer draw breath."
I will be happy to be proven wrong by you, but feel like your statement goes against all previous information on the topic I have read.
-Monkeys are like nature's humans.
EDIT: I should ad that perhaps "virus" was used incorrectly in my previous post. It would have been more accurate to say that there are as many, if not more, security concerns including viruses for Linux as there are for Windows....
"The goal of every man should be to continue living even after he can no longer draw breath."
What does that have to do with Backtrack, or even Linux?
I have 5 computers, 1 running XP. No AV. Why? I know what I'm doing. I don't download random executables or other stupid stuff. It's common sense. I do run a scan every 6 months or so. Results? No viruses.
Would you take candy from a stranger, if the stranger said it was okay?
Point proven.
There will never be an end to ignorant users regardless of their OS of choice. Nor will there be an end to the users that care to exploit said users.
With that said, I think the linux community is near sighted in that fact because they do not suffer the amount of users ignorant of security concerns like Microsoft does. Yes linux is harder to exploit, but that's because the majority of linux users know what they are doing as apposed to the majority of Windows users not knowing what they are doing.
Given that, if the number of ignorant users running linux multiplies exponentially, so will the attempts to exploit these users.
It's a prevalent human trend regardless of the system being exploited.
Nevertheless, I do believe that the way that Windows is built does make it easier for inexperienced users to hurt themselves by accessing malicious content than Linux. The article that you linked to, although 5 years old, does also seem to share my view that Windows by default is a more insecure platform than Linux, which your claim "that there are as many, if not more, security concerns including viruses for Linux as there are for Windows" seems to contradict.
The last part of the article, quoted below, sums up the general view expressed in it as a whole quite nicely.
EDIT: Actually, Sindustry's post probably managed to mirror my view better than this one made by myself.Originally Posted by Linux vs. Windows Viruses
-Monkeys are like nature's humans.
Oh I agree entirely with both of you, please don't get me wrong. What I was referring to as far as ReckaH's post was that Microsoft's being widespread really has nothing directly to do with the number of viruses/exploits written specifically for the Windows platform. It has everything to do with horrible architecture, and even worse security conscious developers. Linux is very resilient, we know this, but that does not remove the human factor in the least. I found more ways to break Gentoo when I started out than I ever did with Windows, just because it was new to me and I wanted to see what I could do.
Windows, on the other hand, has a very typical stencil stigma. People enjoy doing one or two things, exactly the way they were designed, over and over and over again because it's known to them, and the masses generally hate change. Social engineering plays a HUGE part in why windows is so insecure. However, it still remains that Windows and Linux are both vulnerable and are becoming more so every day. It comes down to poor architecture and lack of fundamental security knowledge among the general user populous.
"The goal of every man should be to continue living even after he can no longer draw breath."
Just this week, I found that the PA state DEP site was pushing a virus through one of their older subsites. You may think you know what you're doing, but the people who write the malware and are able to get it injected into 100,000 websites around the world, know more than you do.
You have been lucky so far, but eventually, you'll get hit.
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.


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NGF delivers independent and objective market intelligence, insights and trends to support the best business decisions for its 4,000 members.
NGF conducts primary research, analyzes secondary data and then communicates the conclusions employing an unbiased point of view. The organization's published work is available exclusively to members via NGF's live responsive customer service, 24/7/365 at www.NGF.org and also disseminated via the monthly "NGF Dashboard" E-magazine (formerly "Inside the Ropes"). NGF's reporting areas include, but are not limited to: golf participation, consumer spending, facility development, travel, retail and consumer confidence. NGF continually examines golf supply (counts, data and analysis of courses and facilities) and demand (number of golfers, segmentation, demographics and behavior) and provides timely information and trends that will impact golf businesses.
The NGF members who rely on our resources represent every facet of the industry:
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Business members have similar access points to NGF resources as described in the Facility Membership text above... however, NGF's business members receive the additional benefit of a company profile (and the invitation to contribute your expertise via best practice articles) on the www.GolfBizWiki.com website. This is a free promotional platform for your business that will be seen by leading professionals in the golf course operations business. NGF.org/Golfbizwiki.com is viewed by an average of 24,000 industry visitors every month. NGF gives its business members what they need to stay ahead of the game.
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While many anti-Japan protesters are turning the streets in China into battlefields by tearing down every Japanese car or store in sight, some others are thinking about a more serious question – who should be sent to the front line should China declare war against Japan over Diaoyu Islands?
This weekend, unrest can be felt in the air all over China. This weekend, chanting of "Long live Chairman Mao" once again can be heard all over China. This weekend, pictures with Mao started to be censored on Weibo.
While the Japanese embassy reminds silent on Weibo amid heated dispute between China and Japan over Diaoyu Islands, Japanese porn star Sora Aoi has made her efforts in easing the tension between the two countries.
So far, China's strategy to defend its sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands remains very peaceful. The 3-step strategy includes weather report, Photoshop and media lip service.
More telling than waves of anti-Japan protests and discussions of patriotism is a poll started on Sina Weibo. The question is "If your kid is born on Diaoyu Islands, which citizenship would you choose for her?"


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Why don't eCommerce platforms behave like blogging platforms?
So what do I actually want from an ecommerce platform? Well, there's all the obvious stuff like good integration with fulfillment, stockholding and accounting; really flexible merchandising; easy addition of new SKUs and lines; outstanding usability and accessibility and so on…
Then, what I'd really like to see, beyond all that, is:
This is a work in progress, based on what I'm learning here at King of Shaves (mainly from customer care/IT/web site guru Nicky Springle). I guess I'll add to it as I go along.


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LAHORE, (The News): Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif late Saturday declared victory for his centre-right opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party and invited other parties to work with him.
"We should thank Allah that he has given PML-N another chance to serve you and Pakistan," he said in a speech to jubilant supporters at his party headquarters in Lahore.
The crowd shouted "prime minister Nawaz Sharif" and chanted "lion", Sharif's nickname, as they danced and waved flags and toy tigers, the party's election symbol, said an AFP reporter.
A PML-N victory will hand Sharif a historic third term as prime minister. According to the unofficial, partial results it appeared that no single party would win a simple majority of 172 seats in the national assembly, raising the prospect of protracted talks to form a coalition government.
"Whatever promises we made with our youth, I assure you that we fulfill each of them. Results are still coming but there is a confirmation that PML-N will emerge as the largest party," Sharif said, surrounded by his close family.
"I appeal for all parties to come to the table and sit with me and solve the country's problems," Sharif said.
"I'm doing this only because of you. If it had been only myself, I would not talk to them but it's for you and for the survival of your future generations," he added.
Sharif served as prime minister from 1990-93, when he was sacked for corruption, and from 1997-99, when he was deposed by the military, although his family say he is a changed man who will this time govern more successfully.


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March 1, 7 & 9, 2017
What is Link Up?
In Link Up, students in grades 3–5 are invited to join the Symphony in an interactive and engaging program. Students learn to sing and play orchestral repertoire through the hands-on Link Up curriculum, then perform along with the Seattle Symphony from their seats in a highly participatory concert at Benaroya Hall.
The Orchestra Sings
During the 2016–2017 season, Link Up will feature The Orchestra Sings, exploring melody as one of the universal elements of music. Students discover how melodies are made and how composers and orchestras use melodies to sing. Exploring a range of orchestral repertoire, students will sing, play the recorder and/or violin, compose and perform in a culminating concert at Benaroya Hall in March 2017.
Repertoire highlights include: Dvořák's "New World Symphony, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and Stravinsky's "Finale" from Firebird Suite.


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A Positive Business Environment
Promoting a positive business environment is a critical responsibility of our Government. When businesses prosper they create more jobs and reduce the strain on government resources through reduction in payouts for unemployment benefits and welfare benefits. Prospering businesses also increase government coffers through their own taxes as well as the employee taxes created by added jobs.
When businesses suffer government resources become strained at the same time that taxable income is going down. Without a sound and prosperous business environment, Government lacks the resources to tackle important issues such as education, affordable housing and research into alternative energy. We must make the needs of our businesses, especially our small businesses, a top priority of Government.
During my two decades of operating my own independent law firm, I experienced first hand the challenges and travails faced by small business owners. All four of my children have owned successful small businesses, three of them in Hawaii. My youngest son, Greg Thielen, has been recognized as having one of the 50 fastest growing businesses in the State for two years running and was one of Pacific Business News' class of Forty under 40 in 2006. We are a family of entrepreneurs who understand the commitment and effort made by small business owners through out our state and country. This real life experience has taught me practical lessons that I have employed in my 16 years of legislative experience.
Every year that I have been in office, I received either the highest or second highest ranking given out by Small Business Hawaii. I am a recipient of Small Business Hawaii's Legislator of the Year Award and I have been consistently endorsed in my legislative races by Paychecks Hawaii. I have earned these honors by consistently voting in favor of small business measures to slash government bureaucracy, provide regulatory relief, cut taxes and promote a business friendly environment.
In the 2006 legislative session I supported the suspension of business payments to the State Unemployment Fund and opposed the rate hike in the General Excise Tax. When I get to Washington, I will maintain this strong commitment to small business and use my position as Senator to promote a prosperous business environment. This will be a welcome change from the anti-business representation provided by Senator Akaka.
Senator Akaka is consistently ranked near the bottom of the Senate by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We can't afford to have his views continue to hold back our small businesses. We need independent and energetic leadership for Hawaii that understands first hand how important our business community is. Once elected, I pledge to continue to be a strong advocate and accessible representative for Hawaii and our nation's small businesses.


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to all you disbelievers out there visit Google and type in "strawberry in tomato"
When I took the photo of the open tom I tried to get closer in so as to show the external seeds on the strawberry. The size is an optical illusion but it did weigh in at just under one pound.
I can understand people being sceptical. I would if I hadn't been there.
All I want is a horticultural expert to tell me how and why
I've got Kew Gardens on the case. Will report back
I know it looks like a fake but believe me it's real. Take a look at the attached photo taken the day before when I picked it.
I have grown some Spanish Monserrat toms in the greenhouse. I have also had a few strawberries in pots in the greenhouse.
Today I cut into one of the large tomatoes and what was inside......a perfectly formed strawberry. Red with all the external seeds on it but tasting like a tomato!!! Never seen anything like it. Explanations please!!
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I have several clematis growing up trellis and garden fence. I prune them each year almost to ground level and they grow prolifically. However no flowers are produced until they are about 6 ft high. How can I get them to flower nearer the ground??
Thnx for this. Maybe I had them too close together. I watered them evering evening - about two pints per plant. I did this because I understood if they flopped that would cause blossom end rot.
As a precaution I intend to spray the whole greenhouse with Jeyes fluid in the early spring
PS door and roof vents always open during this hot summer
I grerw them from seed starting off about the beginning of April. Transferred to 3 inch pots early May then into the greenhouse in bottomless pots sitting on growbags.
I sprayed once when they were about 2 ft high with an fungicide. The early fruit grew flattened with the black patch on the blossom end.
Hope this helps
Can anyone give me some advise on tomato fungus attack. My moneymakers have had a lousy year. First they succumbed to blossom end rot even though they were watered regularly and evenly. Then the fruit that survived started dropping off because there was mould/fungus on the stalk end of the tomato.
Is there a more disease resistant strain with the same cropping abundance as moneymaker or what should I do to deter the diseases next year.


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For the first time in Schillings career he has gone to free agency. Officially it happened Tuesday October 30th. Curt Schilling is 40 years old. And in baseball today it hardly seems old at all. He still has a competive edge and even when he only throws a 83 mph fastball he still has the smarts and guile to figure hitters out and eat innings. The Red Sox remain his first choice but there is a long process in between where he is now, fresh of a World Series win with the Sox, and making a decision on a team and contract.
He listed 12 other teams he's interested in, including: Cleveland, Detroit, Anaheim, New York Mets, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A., S.D., Arizona, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis, Milwaukee.
For a little more insight and detail here are Curt's own words from 38pitches.com
Hard to believe that after 21 years in professional baseball, the first day of free agency would come when I was 40 years old. I've not been a free agent for one day of my career before today……
Filing for free agency is weird. I never knew or thought about how it happened. Representing myself I rounded up the legal details and figured out exactly how it works. For the next 15 days I can speak with other teams, and they can contact me, but no details can be discussed. They can only express interest. For the next 15 days the team that remains my first choice, the Sox, have exclusive rights. I guess I'll find out how closely teams follow rules…..
So this huge thing, free agency, was accomplished by doing the following.
Place a phone call to the MLBPA, tell them you want to become a free agent, hang up.
Weird. Something that can be so life altering was pretty much a 48 second phone call. They file a letter with the commissioners office "A letter of intent" that lists all the players filing that day, and it's official.
The list of teams that our family has talked over, that we think would be a fit for next year, should we not come back, are pretty much teams in cities we agree would be ok for our last year, and teams I think have a legitimate shot at being in the post season and/or World Series. Teams we didn't include aren't for any one reason. There are a million little things that go into this from stadiums to school districts to travel to spring training to etc. etc. etc. but the list represents the teams after Boston that have some of the off the field things that are big to us, plus the potential to go into October next year.
Cleveland, Detroit, Anaheim, New York Mets, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A., S.D., Arizona, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis, Milwaukee
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