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Mayans Wrong
Thought that was worth noting about now.
Thought that was worth noting about now.
Wrong time zone?Patterico (1cc817) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:03 am
stupid mayanshappyfeet (ae4c7f) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:16 am
I'm thinking the Mayans accurately predicted the reelection of Barack Obama in the only terms they had available to them.Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:21 am
Guess I shouldn't have cashed that line-of-credit at the Wynn.askeptic (2bb434) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:26 am
I'm thinkin if the Mayans were any good at predicting the future, there would still be some Mayans.Ghost (2d8874) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:45 am
Eh, this was only the rollover of the largest number in the Mayan calendar, anyway — much like January 1st, 2001 (NOT 2000) was the first day of the 3rd millenium in the Gregorian calendar. Neither one was an occasion for apocalypse in the actual beliefs of the people who set up the calendar system. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#2012_and_the_Long_Count for lots and LOTS of details on this one.Robin Munn (f56ca4) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:50 am
5.I'm thinkin if the Mayans were any good at predicting the future, there would still be some Mayans.
Comment by Ghost (2d8874) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:45 am
I believe there are modern decendants of the Mayans.
But more to the point, if they were all that good at predicting things they could have predicted electricity, roads, the internal combustion engine.
Sort of like if I was really good at predicting things, I'd be rich from all those bets I'd be placing on the ponies.
Instead of grousing about how the gringoes stole all the good crap.Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:51 am
But hey, the Mayans can still prove to have been right in general.
Who's going to be laughing at the Mayans as they go shuffling off the mortal coil between now and the end of the year smug in the knowledge that Armaggedon didn't happen exactly on the 21st?Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:57 am
Well they did get one thing right, their calendar ended.Rob (b91127) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:59 am
I'm afraid the world did indeed end yesterday. Obama picked Kerry as SecState. We are now in the wind-down to the energy death of the universe.Brian Epps (2f898a) — 12/22/2012 @ 2:48 am
The Mayans were a depraved civilization who left nothing value added to humanity's existence. No innovative scholars or texts, just sacrificial implements in their nasty ruins.
Scarred. bones, and Mexicans.wiggins (d76606) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:02 am
I'd bet the Mayan forgot to carry the one.
A common mistake in EOTW calculations.rinardman (f24385) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:18 am
Isn't this a funny little ball of mud on which we live?
The Mayans NEVER predicted "the end of the world," yet no doubt a majority of people that have heard about this story believe that they did.
Since the Spaniards burned most of the Mayan records we will never know what really happened but I suspect it was years of massive deficit spending, plus socialized health insurance followed by government mandated and subsidized religious human sacrifice that finally brought them to the tipping point.
If you can't predict the end of your own civilization, you probably will get the end of the world wrong too.
By golly, this is sounding more and more like Obama's "Amerika".WarEagle82 (97b777) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:37 am
One account, is they drilled too far into their aquifer,narciso (ee31f1) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:48 am
The Mayan calender expired yesterday, ours expires 10 days later. That's it, no big deal, do what they would have done and get yourself a new calender.
The Mayans no more thought the world would be destroyed when their long solar cycle ended than we expect galactic catastrophe on New Year's Eve.
Chicken Little alarmists will make idiot assumptions, it's what they do (remember Y2K?) but don't get caught up in their foolishness.ropelight (1a0d79) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:52 am
R.I.P. Lee Dorman, bass player on "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"Icy (tehGr8) (a81517) — 12/22/2012 @ 7:00 am
Greetings: especially "Icy" @ 17
"In a Gadda Da Vida" was my introduction to what I hoped rock would become. I still have a serviceable LP of it, the 17-minute whole side of the record version. Truly a rock masterpiece but, these days, sadly neglected.
Now, as for the Mayans, where's a guy going to have to go for a decent human sacrifice now ??? No more cracked sternums or extracted still-beating hearts ??? No more bodies bouncing down all those steps of all those magnificent pyramids ??? Is Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" the best a guy can hope for ???11B40 (84617d) — 12/22/2012 @ 9:35 am
Speaking of predicting, around 10 years ago I looked at buying Priceline stock and didn't.
More accurately NOT predicting. I still can't figure out why I didn't buy it.Gerald A (f26857) — 12/22/2012 @ 9:58 am
I think there's some quibbling about the exact date, according to "Mayan Time" and we actually have to get through the weekend for a Mayan Calender Rollover. So maybe not till Sunday or something.SarahW (b0e533) — 12/22/2012 @ 11:28 am
Uh oh. Spent all my money Thursday.Patricia (be0117) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:55 pm
Mayans still exist…as do all the rest of us.Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 12/22/2012 @ 1:02 pm
where's a guy going to have to go for a decent human sacrifice now
Who knows, perhaps the nuttier elements promoting Aztlan will bring back the rituals that the Spanish found in Tenochtitlan?
They really don't seem that divorced from what we witness from the Mex-Cartels – soon to be in a neighborhood near you.
Of course us 'bitter clingers' had a bit more insight with Matthew 24;36.narciso (ee31f1) — 12/22/2012 @ 2:04 pm
All things will be explained to he who has faith.askeptic (2bb434) — 12/22/2012 @ 2:08 pm
Tillman still wrong!Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (721840) — 12/22/2012 @ 3:08 pm
21. Uh oh. Spent all my money Thursday.
Comment by Patricia (be0117) — 12/22/2012 @ 12:55 pm
No joke; every time that nutcase in Oakland CA, Harold Camping, predicts a rapture some of his followers really do quit their jobs, sell their homes, and spend everything their kids' college fund.
Not that Camping does; he holds onto his stuff.
Then when his predictions fall through the kids are screwed. Not Camping's kids; just his flock's.Steve57 (b64cdf) — 12/22/2012 @ 3:39 pm
Just for fun, to you, what announcement of impending disaster would spell global doom by what suitably authoritative body? Me, I think I'd be genuinely freaked out if ads started appearing everywhere looking for bees.ignatius (e706b3) — 12/22/2012 @ 4:39 pm
Oops, sorry, I meant to add, posted by ConAgra. Not that they'd ever admit it to the public directly.ignatius (e706b3) — 12/22/2012 @ 4:41 pm
"I'll believe it's a crisis, when the people who are telling me it's a crisis, start acting like it's a crisis."askeptic (2bb434) — 12/22/2012 @ 5:01 pm
About 25-30 years ago I took an interest in the Mayans and Aztecs, and read everything I could about them, including their calendar. And I noted that we were coming to the end of a Great Cycle, and that was an interesting trivium for calendar fans, but not more than that. I certainly never read anything back then that suggested the world would end when the cycle did! What happens when your calendar runs out? You throw it out and buy a new one!
On the other hand, if you were looking at the Mayan calendar for a clue to when the world would end, it's very easy to spot: not the end of the Great Cycle, but the end of every year! They believed that at the end of the year the old sun died, and a new sun had to be born to serve in the next year, and that the only way this could happen was if human hearts were offered up to it. So the world should have ended the first New Year after the Spaniards put a forced end to human sacrifice. Since it didn't, the theory is disproven. But that happened in the 16th century, not yesterday.Milhouse (15b6fd) — 12/22/2012 @ 5:09 pm
"I'll believe it's a crisis, when the people who are telling me it's a crisis, start acting like it's a crisis."
Comment by askeptic (2bb434) — 12/22/2012 @ 5:01 pm
Mostly, me too, but sometimes they don't act like it's a crisis until it's too late for everyone but them.
#31 Comment by Milhouse (15b6fd) — 12/22/2012 @ 5:09 pm
Those wacky Mayans. Of course, one day, in the not too distant future, our progeny will look back on our customs and beliefs and think how quaint, too. If we're lucky, that is.ignatius (e706b3) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:10 pm
Since I am in Guatemala at the moment, (and something more than just a casual observer) it is worth pointing out that almost nobody here(including the Maya) really thought the world, per se, would end. It was generally considered the beginning of a new period of time, and a moment for celebration–though there were the requisite number of semi-"New Age" nutcases from abroad running around with chants and incense. The local take on the matter was that, in fact, a flash of light yesterday morning would occur and the local Maya population (sizable in number) would simply disappear; only to reappear several moments later at all of the local fried chicken franchises named "Pollo Campero", which the indigenous population seems to relish if not outright worship.Expat (02723e) — 12/22/2012 @ 6:36 pm
Just for fun, to you, what announcement of impending disaster would spell global doom by what suitably authoritative body?
The Electoral College of the United States made just such an announcement early last month.Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 12/23/2012 @ 3:58 am
Maybe its just a ebb tide marker.
Dog re-elected, Madonna on Tour, Coldest Muscovite winter in 70 years, Arab Spring, Global Depression, Armageddon, …, a confluence of general DOOM.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/23/2012 @ 6:39 am
I am really inspired with your writing abilities as smartly as with the structure on your blog. Is this a paid subject matter or did you customize it your self? Anyway keep up the nice quality writing, it's uncommon to see a nice blog like this one today..Mark dog tips (7be2b1) — 12/23/2012 @ 7:47 am
(7be2b1) FOAD!askeptic (2bb434) — 12/23/2012 @ 8:43 am
No Rapture
No Mayan End of Civilization
Who's Up for the Zombie Apocalypse?daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/23/2012 @ 9:04 am
Nature, in due course, is purging itself, washing the effluent out to sea:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9763813/A-sodden-Christmas-for-thousands-as-homes-roads-and-railways-lie-under-water.htmlgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/23/2012 @ 10:56 am
Confucius, as I remember it, spoke of "Losing the Mandate of Heaven", and how that presented itself to the people by natural disasters.
Perhaps England (United Kingdom) needs to rethink its retreat from the pews into secularism, and try to regain God's favor?
The MOST! BORING! Apocalypse! EVER!!!A. C. (c77050) — 12/23/2012 @ 1:46 pm
Just for fun, to you, what announcement of impending disaster would spell global doom by what suitably authoritative body?
"The Electoral College of the United States made just such an announcement early last month.
"Comment by Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 12/23/2012 @ 3:58 am"
Ok, besides that one.ignatius (e706b3) — 12/23/2012 @ 2:52 pm
They weren't wrong about Newsweek.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 12/23/2012 @ 5:38 pm
December 21, 2012 was not the end of TIME. It was merely the end of Newsweek. (give or take a day or two)Sammy Finkelman (7b1b59) — 12/23/2012 @ 5:53 pm
Jack Klugman died. Doesn't that count as the end of an era?CrustyB (69f730) — 12/26/2012 @ 10:09 am
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Evgeni Malkin's goal in the third round of the shootout lifted the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday at Scotiabank Place.
Sidney Crosby and James Neal each scored to start the shootout before Malkin slipped a backhand under the pads of Ottawa goaltender Craig Anderson to send the Penguins to victory.
Neal recorded the lone Pittsburgh goal in regulation, while Marc-Andre Fleury turned away 31 shots to help the Penguins halt a two-game skid.
"It was a little sloppy at times, but you've got to win them like that," Neal said. "It's going to be like that at times this year. Fleury was big for us tonight."
Colin Greening tallied Ottawa's only goal and Anderson registered 33 saves in the setback, the Senators' second in a row.
"Tough loss tonight, but the boys were solid in front of me and every point counts," Anderson remarked.
An Ottawa turnover led to Neal's tally in the latter stages of the first, as Malkin intercepted a pass at the red line and danced past a defender at the blue line before sliding a pass through the slot to the right circle for Neal, who one-timed a blast past Anderson for a 1-0 edge at the 13:31 mark.
The Senators then pulled even at the 13:44 mark of the second when Jason Spezza ripped a wrister from the left circle that Fleury turned aside, but Greening recovered the rebound and pushed the puck past a prone Fleury to knot the game at 1-1.
Neither offense managed to break through from there, as Anderson and Fleury stopped 11 shots apiece over the final 25 minutes to send the game to a shootout.
Game Notes
Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson (sick) did not play ... Spezza has registered one point in every game this season ... Fleury improved to 8-8-1 in 21 career games against Ottawa ... Malkin now has 324 career assists, tying him with Rick Kehoe for seventh on the Penguins all-time assists list.

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The defense began its case Tuesday in the murder trial of Jodi Arias who is accused in the gruesome slaying of her ex-lover Travis Alexander in Arizona.
On Tuesday, Arias' ex-boyfriend took the stand. Darryl Brewer and Arias were together for four years.
Brewer testified that Arias was a very responsible, caring and loving person.
During the cross examination, Brewer admitted that Arias changed when she started working for pre-paid legal services, which is where she met Alexander.
"I saw a lot of changes in Jodi. She became a different person than I had known previously," Brewer said on the stand.
[Watch live streaming video of the trial on cbs5az.com]
Arias was adamant at first that she knew nothing about Alexander's death, that she didn't slit his throat, stab him nearly 30 times or put a bullet in his forehead.
Then she offered a different story: Masked intruders killed Alexander and she escaped.
Arias finally settled on a third version: She had slain her abusive, on-again, off-again boyfriend in self-defense.
Her different stories will pose a formidable obstacle as her attorneys present their case in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix in a trial that has become a cable TV news sensation.
A number of legal experts agree the primary goal for the defense will be to spare Arias the death penalty.
Arias is expected to take the stand and testify on her behalf.
Stay with cbs5az.com and CBS 5 News for updates in the case.
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Impacts of Soil and Water Conservation on Land Suitability to Crops: The Case of Anjeni Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia
Soil loss in Ethiopia due to water erosion is a serious economic and environmental problem. Soil and water conservation (SWC) practices provide multiple onsite and offsite benefits. Thus, the present study was carried out to examine the long-term impacts of SWC measures in improving ecosystem services in general and land suitability to crop production in particular. Land suitability classes (LSC) were accounted using the multi-criteria analysis (MCA) on bio-physical variables of the environment. LSC were sorted by combining the FAO framework of land evaluation with GIS tools. Thus, LSC for teff (Eragrostis teff), maize (Zea mays L.), barley (Hordeum vulgaris L.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were found S2 and S3 in 1984 and 1997 whereas in 2010, some areas were transformed to S1 classes for wheat and teff. Suitable land allocation for these crops was made and 50% of the watershed is found to be S1 class for wheat while about 40% is in S2 class for all crops. In 1997 barley and teff covered 29.2% and 28.9%, respectively. While in 2010, 19% of the area was covered by teff, 18.9% by maize, 16.9% by barley and 15.6% by wheat. Wheat and maize showed significant spatial expansions that are best indicator crops for the betterment of the land quality or soil improvement.
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What is in this article?:
- Label know-how
- Energy bars (also cereals, cookies)
- Step 1→ Ingredients
- Step 2→ Sugars
- Step 3→ Protein
- Breads (also chips, crackers, pasta)
- Step 1→ Ingredients
- Step 2→ Dietary Fiber
- Step 3→ Trans Fat
- Yogurt (also other dairy products)
- Step 1→ Total Fat
- Step 2→ Sugars
- Soups (also pasta sauces, frozen meals)
- Step 1→ Serving Size and Servings Per Container
- Step 2→ Calories
- Step 3→ Sodium
I confess: I'm afraid of nutrition labels. Partly because I'm loathe to learn that the box of crackers I intend to buy (and promptly eat) is actually a bomb of trans fats and sodium, but more so because a label can be a confusing, time-consuming read. The latter is why I made a brave move and recently hit the store aisles with Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD, nutritionist and owner of Essential Nutrition in Boulder, Colorado, and talked with Sue Moores, RD, a nutrition consultant in St. Paul, Minnesota, and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.
Both encouraged me to break down the Nutrition Facts panel found on packaged products into manageable chunks. "Don't get paralyzed by it all," Moores says. The plan: Start with one type of food, such as energy bars, and get to know the most pertinent information on those labels. Settle on a few go-to brands. Next tackle breads. Then yogurt. And so on. Armed with this method, I discovered that interpreting nutrition labels and making healthy choices isn't such a complex undertaking after all.
10 quick tips to get started
- Ingredients are listed highest to lowest by weight, so the items at the top of the list make up the bulk of the food. Look for ingredients lists containing predominantly unprocessed, whole foods.
- A lengthy ingredients list may be a sign that the product has unneeded extras like artificial preservatives, particularly if you don't recognize the terms. (To learn the names used for additives and preservatives, go to CSPI's Food Safety Website.)
- When considering serving size, keep in mind that packages often contain more than a single serving. You may have to double, or even triple, the amounts of everything on the label to get an accurate picture of what's in a single container.
- Meals should add up to approximately 600 calories. Snacks should be around 200 calories.
- The recommended daily value (often shortened to DV) is 65 grams of fat for a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet. If a food has 20 grams of fat per serving, consider whether it's worth eating almost a third of your daily fat allotment in one serving.
- Don't just look at the trans fats number. Avoid all products containing shortening or any kind of partially hydrogenated oil in the ingredients list.
- The upper recommended DV for sodium is 2,400 mg a day. Look for low-sodium versions of your favorite foods.
- The food should have a minimum of 2.5 grams of fiber per serving. To maximize intake, look for whole grains in the ingredients list: "whole" (as in whole-wheat flour) or "oat" (as in oatmeal).
- Divide grams of sugar by four to get the number of teaspoons of sugar in one serving — a clearer visual. No more than 10 percent of your daily calories should come from added sugars.
- Know your daily protein needs: Divide your weight in pounds by 2.2 to get your weight in kilograms. Multiply that number by 0.8. For a 150-pound woman (68 kilograms), that comes out to about 55 grams.
Confused by label acronyms such as DV (daily value) and RDA (recommended dietary allowance)? For a complete explanation of these and other dietary acronyms, read "What are Daily Values?"
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Release Notes: New "Rainbow" technology decouples the U++ GUI from the host platform. It is now possible to develop a new GUI implementation without changing the core U++ files. The "Framebuffer" package uses Rainbow to implement a GUI for a trivial RGBA framebuffer (with keyboard and mouse inputs). The command line utility "umk" (a GUI independent U++ package builder) has been added. The docking package was adopted to the main source tree. There are many other changes in TheIDE and libraries.
Release Notes: Many improvements were made in the packages TheIDE, Core, Draw, Painter, plugin/gif, CtrlCore, CtrlLib, RichEdit, GridCtrl, Sql, and Web. In Bazaar, many packages have been added and improved: Scatter, DeEncrypter, CMeter, Protect, Tree, Dispatcher, Gen, SDLCtrl, PolyXML, PlotLib,PlotCtrl, SysInfo, Media, MediaPlayer, Functions4U, plugin/portaudio, Sound, SoundExample, AutoScroller, CtrlFinder, CtrlProp, LogPosCtrl, PointCtrl, PopUpC, RectCtrl, Styler, ValueCtrl, Docking , TabBar, SysExec, Protect, Updater, SysExecGui, OfficeAutomation, Dispatcher, Styler, Cypher, ProductVersion, Uniq, SplashSV, and HelpViewer.
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Release Notes: The update system in CtrlLib was parameterized. Handling of active file type in FileSel was improved. There is a new static method Ctrl::GetEventId to help identify individual GUI events, intended for use in caching schemes. PdfDraw got support for fill patterns. Splitter now has WhenSplitFinish. [W]String got a new variant of the ReverseFind method. TheIDE now has QTF designer. Bazaar changes were made in the packages SysInfo, Functions4U, Controls4U, MtAlt, Form, Scatter, Docking, ExpandFrame/ExpanderCtrl, and AESStream.
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Release Notes: TheIDE in Win32 now has improved installation with support for the latest Win32 SDK. The FileSel class got networking support in Win32. TheIDE helpsystem has improved searching capabilities. The build process now supports new link options. Posix releases now use the "gc-sections" linker option to dramatically reduce the size of resulting binaries (up to 40%). The painter image rescaling algorithm was improved for better downscaling. TrayIcon in X11 now supports notifications. TopWindow in X11 now supports SetAlphs. Core containers now have a new debugging utility to resolve pick semantic errors.
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New Mexico State University's next president is set to be announced next week. Regents plan tentatively to reveal their pick on Monday.
Finalists include NMSU business dean and former Gov. Garrey Carruthers, former Texas Tech University president Guy Bailey, former University of Nevada, Las Vegas president David Ashley, former Texas A&M University president Elsa Murano and University of Colorado Denver Dean Daniel Howard.
Regents chair Mike Cheney says the bulk of deliberations about the candidates will happen Friday.
NMSU president Barbara Couture abruptly stepped down last year following a mysterious administrative leave and less than three years in the job. The school's executive vice president and provost Wendy Wilkins also stepped down.
Information from: Las Cruces Sun-News, http://www.lcsun-news.com
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FOXBOROUGH — In the days leading up to the game against the Texans, Patriots coach Bill Belichick was asked if the prime-time matchup felt like a big game.
"Yes, it does," he said. "It's December."
Normally, that short an answer from Belichick might frustrate the person asking the question.
But in this case, those five words encapsulate what he believes about late-season football. No need to elaborate.
Belichick wants his team playing its best football toward the end of the schedule, as it heads into the playoffs. He stresses to his players that the next game is the most important one.
He says that in September and October, too, but as the calendar turns to December, Belichick ramps things up and gets players to heighten their focus.
However he does it, it certainly works.
After the 42-14 undressing of the Texans, Belichick has a 45-7 record in December as Patriots coach. Considering he's been here for 13 years, you can do the math on how many December losses that works out to per season.
New England's last loss in December was Dec. 6, 2009, in Miami. The Patriots lost to Houston in the 2009 regular-season finale, but that game was in January.
As if that streak wasn't impressive enough, it has been a decade since the Patriots lost at home in December.
The Houston victory was their 20th consecutive home win in December, going all the way back to 2002, the year Gillette Stadium opened. It was the hated Jets who were the last team to leave a December game in Foxborough victorious, on Dec. 22, 2002, when they won, 30-17.
The early part of the season is often for working out the kinks. The late part of the season is for solidifying playoff position and possibly claiming a first-round bye.
"I think we're trying to focus on playing well, and I think the better you play the better your home-field advantage is because the crowd is into it," Tom Brady said recently. "I think the mark of our teams over the years has been we've improved as the season has gone along. December is the last month to really improve.
"Coach [Belichick] puts pressure on us in practice every day to improve, to get better, and not to make the same mistakes, and learn from our mistakes. I think we as a team have responded to that and played well.
"That's what's important this time of the year, to not make the same mistakes we were making in September and to play our best football."
It isn't a knock on the Patriots, but at times they have had some easy competition in the final weeks of the season.
The Texans came in at 11-1, but they are the exception and not the rule. Last year, the 0-12 Colts and 5-9 Dolphins were December visitors to Gillette, while in 2007, the Dolphins, Jets, and Steelers were a combined 13-22 when they came to town, helping the Patriots close out an undefeated regular season.
In total, 13 of those 20 opponents had sub-.500 records when they arrived, only to become yet another visiting victim in what has become Decembers full of them.
This week, the 49ers will be the eighth team with a winning record to play the Patriots at home down the stretch, the second straight prime-time game at Gillette Stadium, and another team with big postseason aspirations that will be looking to make a statement.
San Francisco is 4-2 on the road this year, having lost their last game away from Candlestick Park, 16-13 in overtime Dec. 2 in St. Louis.
The Patriots knows they face a challenging opponent, but history says they will rise to the occasion. After all, it is December. The playoffs are right around the corner, and a bye is within reach.
"It needs to come together now," Brady said. "This is the perfect time for it. We can't wait any longer than this. We've got three games to play — the three most important games of the year."Shalise Manza Young can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.
Correction: Because of a reporting error, this story mistakenly stated that the Patriots' last December loss was in 2006 in an earlier version. The last December loss came in 2009.


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The TextLayout Framework API has had quite a few changes since it was released on Adobe Labs last November. And the documentation is being updated, as well, to reflect these changes. While these changes are still in progress, the TextLayout Framework overview has been updated and incorporated into the "Working with Text" chapter of Programming ActionScript 3.0. You can find instructions on how to access and review a PDF of that chapter on Francis Cheng's blog.
The API reference is availabe as part of the Flex Gumbo API Documentation, which accepts comments. Look for the flashx.textLayout.* packages
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Jury Awards $5.42M to Woman Raped in WeHo Nightclub
A Santa Monica jury awarded a female news producer $5.42 million for a West Hollywood nightclubs' negligence, after an employee allegedly raped her in the restroom.
The LA Times reported that the 43-year-old woman sued the Here Lounge and worker Victor Cruz for sexual assault on March 23, 2009. After a 15-day trial, jurors found that Cruz was responsible for 60 percent of the crime, and that the lounge was negligent and responsible for 40 percent of the harm.
"This club turned a blind eye to sexual activity that was allowed to occur in the restroom area," attorney John Taylor told the LA Times. "Although they had a stated policy of security guards being present in the bathrooms, they weren't present at the time of the attack. The guards abandoned the place where most problems go on."
The woman had been drinking with a friend on the evening in question. After he took a cab home, the woman went into the Here Lounge at 696 N. Robertson Blvd. shortly after 12:30 a.m., got a bottle of water and sat on the patio.
When she visited a unisex bathroom ten minutes later, Cruz allegedly stormed in and sexually assaulted her. She ran out crying and yelling that she had been raped, and a stranger called 911. She was taken to the Santa Monica/UCLA Rape Treatment Center. During the trial, an expert from the Center said the woman's injuries were among the worst they had seen.
After DNA evidence was taken, Cruz was arrested in December 2009. After the woman identified the employee in a police lineup, he told sheriff's deputies that the woman approached him and asked for sex, but he refused her advances. He later said that he may have masturbated by the woman.
An initial criminal trial resulted in a hung jury; a later trial acquitted Cruz. The woman now suffers from PTSD. The ABC Department closed Here last December because of alleged violations.
WeHoVille also reported that last year, two women filed charges against the Abbey, a gay bar and restaurant next door to Here Lounge, alleging that Abbey employees had raped them in 2011. They are seeking $10 million in damages in a suit that has not yet come to trial.


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Bono Brings Blind Guitarist From Crowd Onstage at U2 Concert [VIDEO]
[/caption]Adam Bevell is a huge U2 fan. He's been to a dozen of the Irish band's concerts, and danced with his wife to U2 favorite 'All I Want Is You' during their wedding.
The 32-year old father of four is also blind. At the U2 concert in Nashville, Tennessee he attended last Saturday he held up a sign advertising his services as a "blind guitar player."
For the band's first encore of the evening, Bono took him up on his offer.
"It took me a second," Bevell said of being lifted on stage by the security guards. "I had no idea what was going on because in my mind they had left and walked off. I had no idea Bono was still there . . . Before I knew it, I could hear Bono's voice saying, 'What do you want to play, man?'
He wanted to play "All I Want Is You," of course, for his wife. Bono was more than happy to oblige. When the the song was over, and Bevall tried to return to Bono the green Gretsch Irish Falcon guitar he had given him to play, Bono insisted he keep it, before helping him off the stage.
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The latest precompiled binary version. New users should download this first.
Version: 0.07.2
The latest version(s) of the Blender exporter can be downloaded from here.
The latest version of the 3dsmax exporter can be downloaded from David Baker's website.
The latest version of the Maya (6.5, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5) exporter.
The latest version of the XSI exporter can be downloaded from Michael Gangolf's website.
This is just a quick update to report on development progress. The forum has proven to be quite popular and development of the Blender exporter has been moving at a rapid pace. The latest version is now being checked into SVN regularly. I have updated the link on the right to point to all versions. Blender users should upgrade as soon as possible. Of course please stop by the forums and let us know how to make the exporter even better!
The Maya exporter is also under heavy development. I will make an official release along with the next release of Sunflow, but we already have Sunflow working as a third party renderer and integrating with the Maya render view (special thanks to Fredrik from Mad Crew for these improvements).
Finally, as far as Sunflow itself is concerned things are moving along too. The main focus of the next release will be the new API and a new scene file format that mirrors it exactly. This should simplify exporter writing, but also makes the renderer much more extensible as the janino shader concept can now be applied to all programmable types in Sunflow. The new file format comes in ASCII and binary flavors for efficient exporting/loading of complex scenes. I have also rewritten the bitmap reading/saving portion of Sunflow to support new image formats more easily. I hope to introduce object motion blur in the next release as well as a new progressive rendering mode. Stay tuned!
P.S.: There's an official png/svg logo pack in the download section - and don't forget to check out the updated gallery!
At the request of many of you, I opened an improved phpbb style forum. It is being hosted here on Sourceforge. Please let me know if you run into any problems. I will keep the old sourceforge forums open for a little while until all the useful information has been transferred.
I have also uploaded a few new images to the gallery. Be sure to check them out!
I just released a new version. This is a small update which fixes a number of minor issues with the last release. The major new features include:
I have also updated the sidebar links for the 3dsmax and Cheetah3D exporters which are making rapid progress.
I have just added the first piece of documentation! Check out the new docs section in the menu. This first tutorial explains how to install Sunflow, creating a batch script for convenient launching and how to install the JDK to get the best performance possible. Thanks to Artur Brinkmann for writing this up. Please drop us a note on the forums if you find any errors or have any suggestions that could improve the tutorial.
Many brand new exporters have appeared as well!
I have gotten great responses from many people about the new release. Thanks to everyone who has e-mailed me and posted on the forums! Stay tuned for more updates and tutorials.
The new version is finally here! Grab it from the download section now!
This release contains many improvements and many aspects of the core have been completely overhauled. Brand new features include:
I have received several questions recently about exporters/plugins for other platforms. If you develop an export solution for any of the major 3d packages (3dsmax, Lightwave, Cinema4D, modo, etc ...) please let me know and it will be listed here as well. Many users are looking forward to these!
I know documentation/tutorials are still lacking. Please be patient as this will be one of the main focuses of the next release. If you are willing to contribute anything in this area, your help will be most welcome. In the meantime, enjoy the new release and please share your renders with us on the forum!
Thanks to Kris Berg from MUX Medialab, we have a brand new logo and website for the new year! I've also updated the gallery with some great new images and animations created with the soon-to-be-released new version.
This page now features a proper Atom feed for all news items. This should help you keep up to date with the latest Sunflow development. Please let me know if your favorite feed reader runs into any problems.
I've just added a couple new features to the Sunflow core. It is now possible to bake lightmaps using Sunflow. This makes it possible to take any object in your scene and render it's shading in UV space. The resulting image can then be applied back to the model as a texture for realtime use. The lightmapping works with any of the image samplers, so you may render them at high quality with the bucket renderer, or get a quick preview with the progressive renderer.
I have also added a new surface type which allows efficient rendering of many millions of particle spheres. I have used this feature in particular to generate some images for the CGSphere.com website. The aggregation images were inspired by the beautifull work of Andy Lomas.
Also of interest, the open source jReality project is making use of Sunflow to provide high quality rendering embedded in their application. The tight level of integration was made possible by the programmable and embeddable design of Sunflow. The developers were even able to add a few new features which I hope to port back into the Sunflow core soon.
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I have no concerns about Sanchez. I have concerns about Hunter at RT and Vlad at LG though.
ESPN is for fratboys who sleep in. That network is a joke.
Was talking about the Jets QB's and basically said they don't have anyone who can throw the ball. Neither QB is a good passer…
They spoke about Sanchez/Tebow going a combined 2 for 14 yesterday and basically Carter said, you almost never see guys who practice poorly perform great in games. Said that there are exceptions to this, but generally if you are uneven at practice, you are uneven come game time.
I agree with this.
Sanchez, despite all the talk about how his body has changed and also by Rex on how he looks great throwing, is still playing/practicing the way he always does. Uneven, throwing picks, not consecutively completing passes. No consistency.
I also was watching ESPN last night and they were talking about Bradford and pretty much said is he going to be the same guy as last year and be like Sanchez or is he going to be another Stafford. Just shows you the lack of respect Sanchez gets outside of Jets forums.
And finally, I heard Luck in his first practice went 27 of 32.
In 3+ years, Sanchez never has had one practice where he played that well.
Does anyone else have concerns?
I have no concerns about Sanchez. I have concerns about Hunter at RT and Vlad at LG though.
ESPN is for fratboys who sleep in. That network is a joke.
Chris Carter probably only saw 1 practice and that happens to be the one where the passing game struggled. Chris Carter also failed to mention that Sanchez is facing a great pass defense, best CB tandem in the league.
Jaws says he sees some improvements in Sanchez, sees hes improved his mechanics.
He went 6-10 today, so he improved....but CC has a point...Sanchez going 1-whatever it was in the first real practice doesnt exactly scream confidence.
As far as Luck- did he complete 27 passes in pads? Sanchez looks good without pads on too.
We already know this teams way to make the playoffs is via great defense and a potent running game. That won't change this season.
I think all Jets fans are concerned about Sanchez -- the ones that aren't are in denial.
That said, practicing against the Jets defense isn't exactly the same as practicing against the Colts defense.
He's right. Yeah, he's going up against a good defense in practice but that should just make him better.
Just looking at this, can't help but to think back on those dline INT's from last year. And yet we're still seeing it in practice again this year.Jenny Vrentas @JennyVrentas
Pace drops INT of Sanchez in 11-on-11 drills.
I wouldn't worry about what Chris Carter has to say.
By most accounts Sanchez is having a quality camp so far. If he had a bad day, it happens. We also don't know if the Jets were trying something new...Camp is when it's okay to make mistakes.
Did Chris Carter say that good QB's don't have bad practice days in the first week of camp? That's ridiculous! If they're as good in the first week of camp as they are when they play games why do they practice?
Any Jet fan who claims he's not concerned about Sanchez's growth as an NFL QB
Is either blinded by his GQ good looks or doesn't watch the same game as the rest of us. Mark at times has played great and at big moments. He also has played as bad as any one could play. This season for Sanchez will most likely be the deciding factor for the Jets to invest major long term dollars into their QB.
against our defense last year the avg. completion % of opposing QBs was 54.2%, 4th in the league, with a passer rating of 69.6, 3rd in the league. true it's only training camp, but our defense is playing on a high level and they bring it everyday.
a better frame of reference (if there really is one) would be schaub in houston, flacco in baltimore, and palmer in Oakland. good QBs practicing against top defenses.
The team will need all of camp offensively to put things together, it won't be done in 3 days.
This seems to be the trend so far this year: rag on the Jets. Steve Serby is an especially egregious perp of this dooshbaggery this season.
I have my concerns about our QB and they will be answered one way or the other during the season. If he went 10-10 with 3 TD's in yetserday's practice would it make a difference? Not one. Its a new offsense, geez, give them a little time. He's all we got, lets just hope he takes the next step but the media coverage of the Jets QB and the negativity of Sanchez is over the top and I decided to avoid it. I am not letting 1-7 in the first practice upset me, its actually funny


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Marisa Drake could have grown up being seen as a parasite. Instead, she was adopted and grew up loved. Now, she wants to help orphans from her native country of Paraguay.
Marisa Drake, 19, could have grown up being seen as a parasite.
Instead of that life, she was adopted and grew up loved. Now, she wants to give a bit of that hope and love to orphans from her native country of Paraguay.
Drake was adopted at the age of 4 months old. Her parents, Sylvia and Gary Drake, travelled to Paraguay to pick up their second child, a baby girl they named Marisa. Two years prior, the couple had adopted a boy from Peru and named him Michael. The family of four was mismatched in race but for them, it worked. But Drake admitted there were sometimes questions and comments about her skin color that hurt.
"Children would ask me why I look different than my parents," Drake explained. "People ask me where I'm from when I tell them I'm adopted. People think I'm Hawaiian, African-American and white mixed and Mexican."
But Drake is not from any of those places. She was born in the country of Paraguay.
"I used to tell people that my parents hand-picked me. I was special," Drake said, laughing.
She may laugh and smile now about past questions about her race, but she confessed there were a few times the remarks stung.
"I do get racist comments. The first one I ever got was when I was in first or second grade. Someone told me to go back to where I came from," Drake said, quietly. "I hate it when people make comments even if they appear to be joking. It still hurts."
Growing up, Drake never considered going back to her native country. That changed when she received an assignment at Davidson County Community College this past semester. She had to write a paper on a different country, and she chose Paraguay because of her ties. Through her research, she discovered that 35 percent of the country's population is 14 years old or younger. Half of the population is homeless or living without a job, and the children are often thought of as parasites or pests.
"That information killed me. I was like 'holy guacamole!' I don't see how children, so innocent, could be viewed that way," Drake said.
So Drake went in search of a mission group she could help. She contacted Morton Missions, which operates Hogar Ganar Orphanage and Itaugua Christian School. While serving in Paraguay, Drake, an art and music major at DCCC, will teach art, crafts and songs.
Drake has watched online videos about the children she will be helping at the orphanage and is trying to learn each of their names and faces by memory. There are over 30 children in the orphanage, and 174 registered this year at the Christian school.
"We had been looking for a place to serve for months. When we found Morton Missions everything came together. It was like bread and butter; it goes together well. It was just a God moment," Drake said.
Not only will this be Drake's first mission trip, it will be the first time she has left the United States after being brought to Lexington.
"My biggest fear is the children will wonder 'why was she chosen (to be adopted) and not me?'" Drake said, adding that after talking to numerous people in missions, she was assured her circumstance was one that would give the children hope.
Drake will leave in mid-May and travel with her adoptive mother. While they are there, Drake is going to see if she can find her birth mother. While Drake said her real mother is the woman who raised her, it would be nice to know her history.
"There's a difference between a mother and someone who gave birth to you. A mother is something you can't describe; it's an emotion, and it's someone who has been there for you. I just think it would be cool to see what I would look like in a couple years!" she said with a laugh.
The mission trip will be for three weeks, and the cost of the trip is almost $2,200. While Drake's mother is paying for her portion, Drake is attempting to raise the funds for her trip from her artwork and a silent auction fundraiser.
The silent auction fundraiser will be held at The Perfect Blend from 6 to 10 p.m. April 26. In addition to that event, Tommy Davis of Missions Pottery is also allowing Drake a space to sell her Sharpie Shoes, which are brown or white Keds or Toms that she decorates with colored Sharpie markers. Drake has worked part time for Davis for almost two years.
"Tommy (Davis) is one of my biggest supporters in this mission trip," Drake said.
Because of her experience being adopted, Drake would one day like to adopt children from around the world. But that is years away, and after the details discovered in her research, Drake began to feel an urgency to help.
"I want to do something now," she said. "So many children don't have the things I had as a kid."
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As Kristen Stewart steps out of the shadows to promote her latest flick, tongues have inevitably been wagging over how she and Robert Pattinson will handle the promotional blitz for the final Twilight movie.
All shades of awkward? Undoubtedly. But Stewart doesn't think it'll be a problem for her.
The 22-year-old actress made her first post-cheating scandal public appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival last week while promoting On the Road, a big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1950s Beat Generation novel.
The Twilight star spoke to the Associated Press at the festival on Saturday about hitting the promotional treadmill with Pattinson by her side for the Saga's final installment, Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
In November, Stewart, Pattinson and the rest of the Twilight gang are expected to attend a smattering of premieres to promote the movie, but according to the actress, she isn't predicting a trainwreck.
"We're going to be fine," Stewart told the news agency. "We're totally fine."
As for her appearance at the On the Road premiere in Toronto last Thursday, the typically press-shy Stewart admitted that although she was nervous at the prospect of facing the media, she never thought about skipping the festival.
"We have been waiting for this thing to be unleashed for so long. It was sort of one of those situations where you just have to put yourself in your body and go appreciate the moment," she said.
"I was a little nervous, obviously. I'm always nervous before a red carpet," Stewart continued. "To be honest, I was just kind of telling myself, like, just don't black out. Be there, don't just figuratively put your head down and barrel though it. Be there, appreciate it. Luckily, very, very much I was able to do that."
'I'm doing fine'
Stewart was supported by hoards of enthusiastic fans, yelling, "Kristen, I love you!" as she rocked the red carpet at the movie's premiere last week, People reports.
When asked how she was doing on Thursday night, the actress replied, "I'm doing fine," AP reported.
The starlet, without referring to the cheating scandal, also told Reuters the support from fans was "amazing" and said she was thankful "to know that everyone is here".
"You expect a lot of people at a Twilight premiere, but showing up at an On the Road Toronto film festival screening and seeing that amount of people is absolutely, disarmingly amazing," Stewart echoed to the AP on Saturday. "It felt pretty cool."
Speaking of her latest movie release, she said: "The great thing about On the Road is that it really can crack open your shell, and I definitely realised things about myself that I didn't realise before. That I can let my face hang out and not be too aware of it, and stop questioning myself and not be afraid of strangers, and stop being judgmental."
Stewart suffered a widespread public backlash in July after she admitted cheateding on Pattinson with her married Snow White and the Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders.
"I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected," the actress said in a statement at the time.
"This momentary indiscretion has jeopardised the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob," Stewart continued. "I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry."
Sanders, 41, is married to British Vogue model Liberty Ross, 33. They have two children together.
Last month it was claimed that studio execs are quietly hoping that Stewart and Pattinson will get back together before the promotional blitz for the final Twilight flick kicks into gear.
According to the New York Post, Summit Entertainment hasn't fully mapped out promotional plans for the movie.
"The studio's holding out to see if they get back together. But I don't think anyone is banking on that happening," a source said.
"At this point, the press strategy would have been mapped out. It's usually very organised, but at this time it's undecided."
Insiders also said that Stewart and Pattinson could attend premieres separately if they don't reunite, claimed the website.
Summit, on the other hand, said it was moving "full steam ahead" on promotion for the movie.
"While it is studio policy not to comment on the personal lives of actors, Summit is moving full steam ahead and looking forward to this November's opening of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," president of worldwide marketing, Nancy Kirkpatrick, told Entertainment Weekly.
"We are confident that the film delivers amazing entertainment for our passionate fans and general audience alike."
Watch the latest trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 below:
Meanwhile, a source has called BS on a report that Stewart was spotted "flirting" with none other than James Franco at the Toronto International Film Festival.
According to website HollywoodLife, the pair was supposedly spied together during a party at Soho House over the weekend.
"I watched [Kristen and James] chatting for about 20 minutes. Kristen was surrounded by bodyguards, but I could clearly see how excited they were, laughing and flirting. James invited Kristen for a dinner that night, and someone [said] that James thinks Kristen is beautiful, and an amazing actress," claimed a source.
Another source added, "Kristen and James Franco chatted for like 10 minutes in a corner [at Toronto's Soho House], looking flirty.
"Kristen went to a mysterious third floor and James followed her."
There's no Scooby-Doo mystery here, folks. A source close to Stewart has called cobblers on the report, telling Gossip Cop that Stewart and Franco "never saw each other".
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 hits New Zealand cinemas on November 15.
Fast gossip
And finally...
* Liberty Ross back on the catwalk after Kristen Stewart cheating scandal.
* Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds? Yep, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively get married in secret ceremony.
* Daniel Craig to hold on to 'double-oh' status for a while longer; new Skyfall featurette released.
* Jennifer Lawrence says she nearly passed on Hunger Games.
* Check it out: Rihanna performs with Jay-Z, Coldplay at Paralympics closing ceremony.
* Heidi Klum says she "never looked at another man" while married to Seal.
* Peaches Geldof gets married for a second time.
* Man with scissors arrested outside Miley Cyrus' Los Angeles home.
* Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie wedding plans? Not yet.
* Rihanna gets tattoo tribute to late grandma.
* Christian Bale flies young cancer patient to Disneyland.
* Elvis Presley's bible snapped up at auction, soiled undies remain (surprisingly) unsold.
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LONDON — Video sales in the U.K. were overtaken by vidgames for the first time in 2011, according to the Entertainment Retailers Assoc.
With all sections of the market shrinking, video sales dropped 15% to £1.8 billion ($2.85 billion), while games sales shaded down by just 0.7% to £1.9 billion ($3 billion). Music fell 11% to just over £1 billion ($1.6 billion).
Figures are based on data from the Official Charts Company, GfK Chart-Track and IHS Screen Digest.
The relative strength of the games business is powered by digital sales worth £504 million ($797 million) in 2011. Digital music sales hit £333 million ($527 million), while digital video sales remain in their infancy at £97 million ($153 million).
Online and mobile delivery now accounts for 31% of the U.K. music market, 26% of the games market, but only 5.4% of the video market.
But ERA notes that video has fought back strongly in the first 11 weeks of 2012, with sales on physical formats worth more than twice those of games. Even when digital sales are included, video is still ahead so far this year.
"It is a historic development for the games sector to have overtaken video last year," said ERA director general Kim Bayley. "Video has long been the biggest entertainment sector. Sales so far this year, however, suggest video is not going down without a fight."
With physical formats generally in decline, the only ones to register an increase in 2011 were vinyl albums (up 44%), Blu-ray (up 18.5%) and Xbox 360 games (up 3.3%).
Bayley said, "Online and mobile are doing very well, and this reflects the huge investment, much of it by retailers, in producing new products and sevices. Physical formats still account for the vast majority of entertainment sales — 80% of albums are still sold on CD — but lack of investment and innovation in physical product means it is increasingly under pressure."
Online retailers, led by Amazon, are grabbing an increasing share of the home entertainment market. Digital and physical product bought online or via mobile now represents 32% of the video market, 45% of games and 51.4% of music.


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Provides storage and methods for retrieving facet information.
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The National Weather Service has canceled a winter weather advisory scheduled to expire at 6 p.m. for much of the Chicago area.
A chance of light snow and drizzle is possible this afternoon, according to the weather service. Between 3 and 4 inches of snow fell throughout the county overnight. Snow continued to fall this morning, tapering off around 1 p.m.
County crews started work 10 p.m. Thursday night.
Workers were split into two groups, with the 10 p.m. shift working until 2 a.m. Friday, and the 4 a.m. shift scheduled to work until 8 p.m. today.
"The roads are in great condition," said Mark DeVries, maintenance supervisor for the McHenry County Division of Transportation. "Everything isn't perfect, but the roadways are in pretty good shape."
Snow began to fall between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Woodstock appears to have gotten the worst of the winter storm, with 5 inches of snow being recorded as of 5:45 a.m., according to the weather service. Most areas received 3 to 4 inches of snowfall.
The impending snow prompted officials from District 300 to cancel Friday classes.
Each District 300 principal will send a separate message before noon today telling parents whether afternoon practices, performances and competitions will be canceled.
For more information, visit www.d300.org.
Today's forecast calls for a high of around 33 degrees with some breezy easterly winds in the morning with gusts of between 20 to 25 mph in some places, Deubelbeiss said. Those winds are expected to shift south as the low-pressure system heads north toward Wisconsin.
Those 10 to 15 mph southwesterly winds will help temperatures hover around freezing. Winds are expected to die down this afternoon.
Saturday's forecast is calling for a 20 percent chance of precipitation, mostly cloudy skies and a high of 28 degrees. Sunday's high could be 34 degrees.
— Lawerence Synett
CARPENTERSVILLE – The impending snow storm is already impacting schools tomorrow.
District 300 schools, including Jacobs High School, will be closed tomorrow.
Each District 300 principal will send a separate message before noon tomorrow telling parents whether or not tomorrow's after-school practices, performances and competitions will be canceled, Superintendent Michael Bregy said in a statement on the district's website.
McHenry County is under a winter weather advisory tonight until 6 p.m. tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow was expected to begin falling at 9 p.m., but by 10 p.m. not a flake had dropped. Snow accumulations of 3 to 5 inches of accumulation are possible, according to the weather service. The snow could fall at a rate of an inch an hour during the height of the overnight storm.
Precipitation is expected to change into a wet, wintry mix with light freezing tomorrow morning. The heavy wet snow could make shoveling difficutl.
Wind gusts up to 30 mph will make for whipped snow and reduced driving visibilities.
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The Central Lafourche Ambulance Service District is asking voters Saturday to renew its tax for ambulance service.
The Central Lafourche Ambulance Service District is asking voters Saturday to renew its tax for ambulance service.
The district's 8-mill tax would be renewed for 10 years beginning in 2014. The tax is projected to bring in a little less than $1.1 million annually and is used to pay Acadian Ambulance Service. A mill is $1 in tax levied on every $1,000 of taxable property.
Acadian's agreement with the district provides two 24-hour ambulances based in central Lafourche. One is based at Ochsner St Anne General Hospital in Mathews, the other just south of Lockport, said Robert Barker, the district's board chairman.
The district runs from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway north to Lafourche Crossing.
Though the district is asking voters to renew the full 8 mills, it rarely levees the maximum authorized, Barker said.
"It does bring in more than we need each year. ... But we want to keep one to two years ambulance cost in the bank," Barker said.
The parish tax assessor is tasked with reassessing property values through the parish every four years. State law dictates that if a taxing body, like the district, does not levee the full amount authorized by voters once in those four years, the maximum authorized tax will be rolled back to the highest rate charged to taxpayers in those years.
Barker said the district charges the maximum 8 mills only once in that four-year period.
While that brings the district about $1.1 million, it only takes an average of $400,000 to pay for the district's contract with Acadian Ambulance.
To compensate, Barker said the district only levees 1-2 mills the other three years. This brings in less than it takes to operate the agreement with Acadian and draws down the district's reserves.
The goal, Barker said, is to have enough for one to two years of ambulance service in reserves.
The district's reserves are at about $500,000, he said.
"We are not looking to have our little empire here," Barker said.
Barker said the growing area the district serves isn't large enough to support such an ambulance service without contracting with a private company.
"In a heavily populated area, like Thibodaux, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, they sell memberships. We are not that populated of an area to sell memberships," Barker said. "We may get there because the central part of the parish is growing, but I don't think it's there yet."
Election Day polls will be open in regular polling locations from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Election information and polling locations can be found on the Louisiana Secretary of State website at www.geauxvote.com.
Early voting closed Saturday.


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PowerObjects, a Minnesota-based solution provider tailored to business customer relations, captured the Microsoft award for CRM.
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In January 2008, Rebecca Haines wrote a feature on Ron Tuller for the Horizons page. This well-known and well-liked member of the community passed away Thursday, Feb. 21.
NOTE: In January 2008, Rebecca Haines wrote a feature on Ron Tuller for the Horizons page. This well-known and well-liked member of the community passed away Thursday, Feb. 21. As a tribute to him, and as a compliment to his family, this same writer will recognize his contribution to the Carthage community.
FROM THE WRITER: I was still fresh out of college in 2008, working for my hometown newspaper, The Carthage Press, when I meandered into Ron's Mug & Brush Barber Shop. I was looking for a story on a neat person I could fill a page about – and Ron Tuller gave me a smile and said he would help me out. I plopped down in a chair in that barbershop just off the southeast corner of the Square and ended up spending most of my afternoon there.
My story ended up something like this, and to this day, it hangs in a frame in his shop.
Just off the southeast corner of the Carthage Square, Ron Tuller has set up shop.
Ron's Mug & Brush Barber Shop is in its seventh year, providing the community with haircuts, shaved necks and trimmed sideburns. Though the people in the area have only known Tuller for seven years, his barbering career goes back much further. He earned his first barber's license in Los Angeles, Calif., at the American Barber College. For six months, he learned not only how to give a shave and a haircut, but anatomy as well.
"They want you to be smart," he said, back in 2008. "To be honest, it keeps the wrong people out."
Growing up, Tuller bounced between Carthage and Kansas City, until he was 17 years old, and joined the Navy during the Vietnam War. He received an honorable discharge when he broke out into a rash from an allergic reaction to wool.
It was then when Tuller decided to barber, and attend school for the trade. He said he chose the American Barber College over the Moler Barber College for several reasons.
"To me, it was a better college," he said. "It was cheaper, I liked the way it looked, I liked the instructors … It was full of students, so that was a good sign."
In Tuller's early years, he said he was a bit cocky.
"I got those feathers smoothed out over the years," he said with a grin.
After barbering in California, Ron moved to Missouri to be closer to family. In the eight years he wasn't barbering, he worked at Schreiber's, Marble Plant, Fred's Frozen Foods, and by that time, he wanted to get back to his barbering.
He obtained a Missouri barber's license in Blue Springs, Mo., in 1981 to take a test. Then, he set up his first shop in Diamond, Mo.
"It was slow at first, but I built it up," he said.
Life's circles brought Tuller to set up shop again in Carthage in 2001, and he said in that time, he has developed several regulars. Customers' ages do not matter as Tuller said they're all across the board in ages. Another wave of customers came in when Les York closed shop. Now, there are two barbers in Carthage, with the other being Bud's at Main and 5th streets.
"I'm doing the work of two shops," Tuller said. "I keep busy all day long."
The number of barbers went into a decline when long hair became the fad. However, Tuller said times are changing back.
"If someone wanted to get back into barbering, now's the time," he said.
Even though the art of a barber's haircut has not been lost, Tuller said the straight razor shave is becoming less and less popular.
"There's not much call for it," he said. "You have to keep in practice for it, and men just shave themselves these days."
Additionally, there are dangers in this traditional style of shaving.
"If you cut yourself with a straight razor, you've done something, and you're going to have a scar," Tuller said.
There are, however, other precautions barbers must take. Tuller said as he trims, small hairs can fly so fast they can get under his skin.
"I get them all the time … couple times a month at least," he said. "I just remove them with tweezers. It's so hard because they're so small. People don't think about how dangerous those infections can be."
But that's not all. For health precautions, Tuller keeps his tools in desensitizing solutions to rid diseases that can be spread through the trimmers and razors.
"It keeps my customers and me safe," Tuller said.
Two of Tuller's several visitors Friday afternoon were Tom Rogler and Leaford Green. Rogler has been visiting Tuller for four months.
"Ron does a nice job," Rogler said. "I'm just glad he's here. There aren't many (barbers) anymore."
"I like my hair short," Green said looking in the mirror after his haircut, "still got my sideburns – what's left of them, yup, that's the way I like it. Couldn't ask for a better haircut."
Tuller is married to Rayma, who is known as "Cricket," and they have one daughter, Christina Wells; and one son, Matthew, and five grandchildren. Tuller says he enjoys his occupation.
"As long as I can do it I will," he said.
A Courageous Battle
Nine years ago, Ron Tuller was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and was treated in Little Rock, Ark.
Last summer, his family noticed some slurred speech and he suffered from uncommon headaches. In September, his wife, Cricket, took him to be treated in Fayetteville, Ark., and they found he had brain cancer. After two surgeries, one that month and the other in January 2013, the aggressive disease had not backed down. When pneumonia set in, that was what was declared the cause of Ron's death on Feb. 21, 2013.
"He was still cutting my kids' hair in December," said Ron Tuller's daughter, Christina Wells. "He never gave up. Even when the doctor came in to tell him he had brain cancer, he said 'wow, that must be hard for you to tell people that.' There he was, thinking about the doctor and not himself."
Remembering, Moving On
"He loved being a barber," said Wells. "He had such an affect on everybody. He always treated everyone well, knew his customers by their name and was just, to me, a great person."
For Cricket, who had loved Ron for 42 years, moving on will be difficult.
"He was my best friend," she said. "We had been together since I was 17 and he was 22 … He had a good heart."
Ron's Mug-n Brush Barbershop is open again after shutting its doors for four months, this time continuing Ron's love for the trade with Brock McManis. Originally from Lamar, McManis says some of Ron's loyal customers have returned to the shop.
"I've been trying," McManis said. "I've had no complaints so far, everyone who has come back has left happy. The Tullers are a great family, and they've been great to me."
The barbershop is located at 213 E. 4th St., on the east side of the Carthage Square. Hours are Tuesday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m.-noon. To reach the shop, call 358-4454.


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DENVER – The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have placed left-handed pitcher Drew Pomeranz on the 15-day disabled list with left bicep tendinitis (retroactive to July 23). In addition, the club have recalled outfielder Corey Dickerson from Triple-A Colorado Springs. Dickerson (#6) will be available for tonight's game against the Milwaukee Brewers (6:40 p.m. MDT) at Coors Field.
Pomeranz, 24, had made four starts over two stints with the Rockies after beginning the year at Triple-A Colorado Springs. He went 0-4 over 16.2 innings, while allowing 15 runs on 24 hits in four games with the Rockies. In his most recent stint with Colorado, he made two starts and allowed 6 runs over 8.1 innings. The Ole Miss product has made 30 career Major League starts and has gone 4-14 with a 5.40 ERA (131.2 ip, 79 er).
Dickerson, 24, will be making his second stint with the Rockies. In 15 games with the Rockies before being optioned on July 11, he went 7-for-33 (.212) with 4 doubles, 2 RBI and 5 runs while appearing in all three outfield positions. He made his Major League debut on June 22 at Washington and went 2-for-4 with 2 doubles and a RBI. Dickerson has batted .371 (117-for-315) with 21 doubles, 14 triples, 11 home runs, 50 RBI and 61 runs at Triple-A Colorado Springs. He currently leads the Pacific Coast League in average, triples, slugging percentage (.632) and OPS (1.046) and is fourth in on-base percentage (.414).
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Is there a way to search as follows:
1) generate a verse list from an original language search;
2) search that verse list in an English text?
I want to search on ???? in the Psalms, gather all of the verses, and then eliminate those verses that the ESV translates ???? as "rule."
Is there a way to do this with Accordance?
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Piece of cake! (English slang for easy as pie, that's American for it's easy!)
The only ways you have to get word by word comparisons of texts are
- Keep the window with your original search, say BHS-W4.
- Open an ESV window, set it search for Words
- Enter the [CONTENTS] command with your other window name and the rest of your argument so it looks like this:
[CONTENTS BHS-W4] <NOT> rule
- Click OK!
The only ways you have to get word by word comparisons of texts are
- to use Key numbers in a text that has them such as the NAS95S e.g.:
[KEY H4941]@-rule
which finds all words with this key number except for the word rule
- or to compare the Hebrew with the LXX using the MT/LXX Parallel text, which has its own chapter in the Grammatical Supplement.
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UVM College of Medicine Announces 2013 Medical Alumni Association Award Honorees
- 05-03-2013
- By Jay Goyette
The University of Vermont College of Medicine has announced the winners of the 2013 Medical Alumni Association Awards to be presented during its annual Medical Alumni Reunion, May 31, 2013, on the UVM College of Medicine campus.
John J. (Jack) Murray, M.D.'63, is the 2013 recipient of the A. Bradley Soule Award, established in 1983, which honors an alumnus/a whose loyalty and dedication to the College of Medicine most emulate those qualities found in its first recipient, A. Bradley Soule, M.D.'28. Dr. Murray has a long history of dedication and service to the University Of Vermont College Of Medicine. Returning to Burlington, VT in June 1968, having served two years in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Murray worked as a pediatrician in private practice and as a clinical instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine from 1968 to 2007. During his clinical teaching years he was privileged to help educate residents and medical students. He developed the Pediatric Senior Sports Medicine elective in 1983, serving as its director until 2005. As a member of the UVM Admissions Committee from 2007 through July 2012, Dr. Murray has helped to select an impressive group of candidates for admission to the College who best display its values. His dedication to excellence in medical practice is reflected in his service on that committee, and in the wisdom acquired from his many years of working as a pediatrician. He has been a class agent for the Class of 1963 since graduation, ensuring that the members of his class remain engaged with the College and one another. Dr. Murray also earned the Medical Alumni Association's Service to Medicine and Community Award in 1995.
Alumni honored with this year's Distinguished Academic Achievement Award, established in 1985, which recognizes outstanding scientific or academic achievement, include:
Richard H. Feins, M.D.'73, Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Dr. Feins is a thoracic surgeon. He trained in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Rochester, where he served on the faculty until 2005. He then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Professor of Surgery and head of General Thoracic Surgery. Throughout his career Dr. Feins has demonstrated creative leadership and innovation in thoracic surgery education. He has served on the American Board of Thoracic surgery as a director for eight years and then as Chair from 2007-2009. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Joint Council for Surgical Education, the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education, and the General Thoracic Surgery Club. e is the co-director of the national Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Boot Camp and the Executive Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery "Senior Tour," a nationwide organization of retired cardiothoracic surgeons who volunteer in the training of cardiothoracic surgery residents. Dr. Feins is recognized nationally as a "go-to-guy" on matters pertaining to the education of future thoracic surgeons and for simulation based training. In addition to having compiled an extensive bibliography of publications and prestigious awards, Dr. Feins, with his wife, Ceil, somehow managed to find time to devote their energies to a competitive collegiate rowing program they co-founded on the Erie Canal, which has become on the premier such programs in the U.S.
Edward P. Havranek, MD ' 83, Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Cardiologist, Denver Health Medical Center; Director of Health Services Research, Denver Health
Dr. Edward P. Havranek is a Denver, Colo., cardiologist with a long-standing interest in measuring and improving the quality of care for cardiovascular disease, particularly heart failure. His current funded research focuses on causes and solutions to the problems of health disparities based on race and ethnicity. Dr. Havranek currently serves as chair of the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Annual Scientific Forum Program Committee and is a member of the Database Steering Committee for the American Heart Association and the Technical Advisory Committee for Colorado's Regional Health Information Organization. He was a clinical coordinator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-sponsored National Heart Care Projects from 1999 to 2005, chair of the Care Standards Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America from 2002 to 2006, and a member of the governor's Health Information Technology Advisory Committee for Colorado in 2008 and 2009. Dr. Havranek serves on the editorial boards for several major cardiology journals.
Douglas W. Losordo, MD '83, Interventional Cardiologist and Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Losordo is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. His major research interests encompass angiogenesis/vasculogenesis, progenitor/adult stem cells, tissue repair/regeneration, and vascular biology. Working with the late Jeff Isner at St. Elizabeth's Medical in Boston, Mass, he developed a program in therapeutic angiogenesis and cell-based tissue repair and executed the full "translational medicine" paradigm: identifying novel therapeutics in the laboratory, developing these strategies in small and large animal models and designing and executing first in human clinical trials. Dr. Losordo previously served as director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and as the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research at Northwestern University's School of Medicine and director of the Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The College's Service to Medicine and Community Award, established in 1984, is presented to graduates who have maintained a high standard of medical service and who have achieved an outstanding record of community service or assumed other significant responsibilities in addition to their medical practice. The 2013 recipients of this award are:
Joyce M. Dobbertin, MD '98, Family Physician, Corner Medical Office, Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital
Dr. Joyce M. Dobbertin has been a dedicated and active member of her local community in St. Johnsbury, Vt. As a physician, she has been tireless in her involvement with patient care as well as the coming of age of medicine as regards electronic health records, community outreach and epitomizing what a "community doc" should be. She is the physician champion for the Vermont Blueprint at NVRH, Corner Medical helping with the design and implementation of the Blueprint in the Northeast Kingdom. Dr. Dobbertin was named Physician of the Year in 2012 by the Vermont Medical Society and Medical Director of the Year in 2008 by the Vermont Health Care Association. For the last several years, Dr. Dobbertin has served as Volunteer Medical Doctor for two weeks a year at the Hillside Medical Clinic in Punta Gordo, Belize and performed similar volunteer work in Kingston and throughout Jamaica. In addition, she served on the Board of Trustees of the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury from 2007 to 2010.
Omar Khan, MD '03,Medical Director, Preventive Medicine & Community Health & Director, Global Health Residency Track, Christiana Care Health System; Chair, Global Health Working Group, Delaware Health Sciences Alliance; Section Editor, Global Health, BMC Public Health
Dr. Omar Khan has made extensive contributions in the realm of global & community health, including experience working with USAID and serving as faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Vermont, where he helped start the Global Health electives in the Department of Family Medicine. In addition to his appointments at Christiana Care and Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, both in Delaware, he holds faculty appointments as clinical associate professor with Drexel University's College of Health Sciences and as clinical assistant professor with the Departments of Family Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, and the University of Vermont. A reviewer or editorial board member for a number of prestigious medical journals, including JAMA and The Lancet, he has authored or co-authored five books in the area of global/community health. His most recent book, Megacities & Global Health, co-authored with Greg Pappas, was published in 2011. Dr. Khan has authored over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and in January 2012 was appointed as a Reviewer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). In 2009 he was named a "Top Doc" by Philadelphia magazine.
The Early Achievement Award, established in 2000, recognizes early-career physicians for outstanding academic achievements or contributions through community or medical service. The 2013 award recipient is:
Halleh Akbarnia, MD '98, Attending Emergency Physician, St. Francis Hospital of Evanston, Ill.
Dr. Halleh Akbarnia joined the medical staff of Saint Francis Hospital (SFH) in 2007, and is an active member of the SFH Critical Care, Sepsis, and Graduate Medical Education Committees. She served as the Chair of the Performance Distinction Committee, representing SFH at the System level, and a member of the Medical Executive Committee 2010-2011. She was awarded the "Non Medicine Specialist of the Year" for the 2010-2011 year by graduating 2011 Internal Medicine Residents and the 2009-2010 "Teacher of The Year" by the Resurrection Emergency Medicine Residents. Prior to joining St. Francis Hospital, she was assistant Medical Director at her residency program, VCUHS/MCV in Richmond, Virginia and was named "Teacher of the Year" in 2005 by the residents there. Dr. Akbarnia is class agent for The Class of 1998. She is an "outstanding leader within her class" and "has continued to unite our class" years later, writes one of her nominators.
For awards information, go to the 2013 Medical Alumni Association Awards website.
Images of the recipients are available for download here.


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Lake Tangipahoa at Percy Quin Park is flooding. Its spillways are working, but nearly 10 inches of rain from Hurricane Isaac created two slides on the side of the dam.
"You don't have as much earth there to keep the water back, essentially and so that's a real threat," says Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Dam Safety Engineer Dusty Myers.
Louisiana National Guard helicopters are placing boulders on the dam to help ensure it doesn't fail. The Mississippi National Guard is also on the scene with bulldozers and trackhoes.
A breech is scheduled to begin Friday and could continue into Saturday.
"We'll remove some of the roadway and allow some of the pressure of the high water to simply go into the fields, lowering the threat," explained Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant at a Thursday press conference.
"We want to control that. We don't want to open up a breech and cause more problems that we do good. So, we have to take our time and do that, and depends on how much rain fall we get coming in and I think the lake level has pretty much stabilized now," explains Myers.
Pumps are also being used to take water out of the Pike County lake, which could breech at any moment.
Bryant says he has talked to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal about the dam. Precautions are being taken to protect residents downstream from the 700 acre lake and near the Tangipahoa River should the dam fail.
"Our immediate flood plain would help control that flow. It would not be a wall of water moving toward Tangipahoa parish in Louisiana. As it moved under the bridge, it would then dissipate within the low lying areas that we have designed in Mississippi," explained Bryant.
About 20 nearby homeowners were strongly advised to leave until the controlled breech was completed sometime Sunday. Pike County EMA says some residents did leave their homes.
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