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Letter: Texting invites disaster
Whether it is sending a text, reading an email, or changing stations on the radio, it only takes a moment of distraction to cause a tragedy. In fact, research shows if a driver takes their eyes off the road for just five seconds at 55 mph, they will travel the entire length of a football field. When you think about driving that far, that fast, without paying attention, it's not hard to see the potential for disaster.
Unfortunately, drivers are taking that risk, and the numbers are staggering. In fact, a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly half of all U.S. high school students admitted to texting or emailing while driving. Every day, nine people die and more than 1,000 are injured due to crashes involving distracted driving. In 2012 alone, there was an estimated 421,000 people injured in crashes involving a distracted driver.
But these numbers don't tell the story of the real people who have lost their lives and whose families are still suffering. Take the Logan family from Byron, Minn., who lost their daughter Deej to distracted driving in 2012. In the afternoon on the first day of her senior year, Deej was killed when she looked down to send a text and ran into the back of a school bus. She was just 17 years old.
Tragedies like this are occurring in Minnesota, North Dakota and across America. They are a reminder that putting a stop to distracted driving is a matter of life and death. It is also a call to action and why we have introduced bipartisan legislation that would bring resources to states taking a stand against distracted driving. The Improving Driver Safety Act would expand access to an existing grant program that provides funds to states to boost enforcement laws and educate the public on the dangers of distracted driving.
Too many states are being prevented from receiving this important funding. In 2013, out of 38 states that applied for grants, only seven qualified, leaving more than 50 percent in funds unused. This year, only one state benefitted from the program and 70 percent of the funding was left unused. This makes no sense.
Our bill would expand access to these distracted driving grants by adjusting the requirements to ensure more states, including Minnesota and North Dakota, that are taking steps to curb distracted driving aren't prevented from receiving funds. For example, if a state passes a law that bans text messaging and makes it a primary offense, that state would be rewarded for moving in the right direction. Without our bill, that state would receive no support at all.
While these steps are important, there is no single law that will end distracted driving. Instead, we need to start changing attitudes and raising awareness. It has been done before – in 1970, fewer than 15 percent of Americans used seat belts. Following a comprehensive education campaign by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, that number is now near an all-time historic high of 84 percent. That same progress can be made with distracted driving.
To be successful, we each need to take responsibly and realize there is no text message worth dying for. We must reaffirm our commitment to paying attention behind the wheel and improving safety on our roads. Together we can help ensure no one will have to face the same tragedy the Logan family has had to endure.
Klobuchar, D-Minn., is in her second term in the U.S. Senate. Hoeven, R-N.D., is in his first term.


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Britney Spears was working it in her white Alaïa-designed white dress as she made her grand entrance into the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday (June 8) for the city's first day of auditions for The X Factor. Despite a near stumble while exiting her SUV, the pop star managed to regain her balance and never once lost composure.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni
Oper Stuttgart, 2012
Antony Hermus, Andrea Moses, Shigeo Ishino, Simone Schneider, Atalla Ayan, Matthias Hölle, André Morsch, Rebecca von Lipinski, Pumeza Matshikiza, Ronan Collett
ARTE Internet streaming - 25 July 2012
You've got quite a few masterpieces to choose from - Die Zauberflöte and Le Nozze di Figaro to name the two most likely candidates - but in Don Giovanni I think you have perhaps Mozart's richest work of opera. Musically and in terms of the range of characters and the arias composed for them, it's certainly one of Mozart's strongest compositions. Added to that, Lorenzo da Ponte's libretto is one of the most brilliant, containing universal sentiments in witty yet incisive writing and strong psychological observations. A 'dramma giocoso', the opera is however much wider in its reach, comedy and tragedy, love and lust, cynicism and romanticism all coexisting in the work without conflicting, expressing so many different and contrasting facets of human nature. This is why Don Giovanni is the one Mozart work most amenable to variations of interpretation and modernisation. The 2012 Stuttgart production - broadcast on television, to outdoor screens and via internet streaming in a new initiative to reach out to a wider audience - isn't the most consistent of concepts, but it's strong and ambitious enough to meet that outreach, and it comes through most successfully through some fine singing performances.
By and large, the setting developed by Andrea Moses for the Stuttgart State Opera is modern present-day. The set, designed by Christian Wiehle, is based around a hotel owned by Don Giovanni - one that seems to be going through difficult times in the current economic climate, with a Sale sign stuck up in what appears to be his own personal living room. The hotel proves to be a good all-purpose set for the opera, with its compartmentalised spaces and, crucially, bedrooms. There's also a bar there where Don Giovanni can pick up Donna Anna during the opera's overture, leaving Leporello to get her fiancé Don Ottavio drunk while he attempts to have his way with her. The modern touch is used also when the uninvited guests come to Don Giovanni's party wearing sunglasses instead of masks, but it's most effective in Leporello's use of a smartphone to catalogue his master's conquests, the images projected on a backdrop for Donna Elvira.
For most of the characters, the dress is also fairly generic modern, the wealthier characters of Donna Elvira and Donna Anna wear designer dresses, Don Ottavio is always seen in a smart suit, while the lower classes wear modern casual, Leporello in jeans and a leather cap, Masetto and Zerlina in more glitzy urban street clothes, Masetto in a Puffa body-warmer and with lightning-strike tattoos down his arm. The one exception to the modern-style dress is Don Giovanni, who wears a white suit with panama hat and fur coat and carries a gun, looking like a gangster from the 1930s, and with his unreconstructed attitudes, it is perhaps intentional that he appears to be an anachronism in this world. The distinction between the class of the characters is a feature in the opera - not an important feature, but it has relevance in a work where the sentiments of love, betrayal and revenge are shown as universal.
Distinctions of class however mean something different to Don Giovanni, who doesn't care whether he beds a servant or a countess, as long as they are female. It's his position however as a nobleman - or in this case, a gangster who owns his own hotel - that allows him to abuse his position of authority. There's that and there's the actual magnetic charm of his personality itself, which allows him to get away with much more, though perhaps not murder. This production however doesn't seek to place too much emphasis on a traditional interpretation of Don Giovanni. It neither characterises him as a heartless demon or a misunderstood romantic seeking love and affection but unable to commit to just one woman. What does come through uniquely here, mainly through the performance and the singing, is the idea of Don Giovanni as the complete egotist. He's not interested in the social class or distinctions of personality in who he beds, he's only interested in what he can get for himself. As we well know from his behaviour towards his faithful servant Leporello.
It's the betrayal of this relationship and Don Giovanni's egotistical self-importance to the exclusion of the feelings of everyone else that play an important part then in how the normal course of events play out in this Stuttgart production. The Commendatore isn't actually killed here by Don Giovanni in the opening scene then, but wounded and pulled aside by Leporello who uses him to get his own back on his boss after more grievous mistreatment that almost gets him lynched. There's no talking statue here then either, but rather an attempt to put the fear of God into Don Giovanni for his crimes, Leporello ensures that Don Giovanni is quite drunk when the apparition appears. The complete egotism of the Don is carried through brilliantly. There's no wavering of doubt, no remorse, no fear of retribution in the afterlife - he's above it all. What appears to be some regret over his treatment of Donna Elvira, pointing a gun at his head while he uses Leporello to seduce here again, is nothing more than his own self-pity, and it's appropriate then that his death at the finale is by his own hand. It's a smart interpretation that works well, with enough ambiguity to leave it open to other interpretations.
It's the performances however that are crucial to making this work, particularly the principal role of Don Giovanni. Shigeo Ishino is simply terrific, singing marvellously, credibly presenting an air of complete arrogance and self-importance that is based on Don Giovanni's justifiable sense of self-belief. There's never a waver in the voice or the characterisation. André Morsch isn't quite as strong of voice, but fills the role of Leporello appropriately. There are good performances also from Pumeza Matshikiza as Zerlina and Ronan Collett as Masetto, but Matthias Hölle's Commendatore is rather weaker than he should be, particularly in this context where he is very much alive. Other than the Don, the strengths in the casting are best placed in the roles of the three avenging angels, and all are excellent here. Simone Schneider is an outstanding Donna Anna. She has a lovely tone of voice that is able to push her character's anger to the limit with strength and conviction yet still retain a melodic quality that reflects the purity of her nature. That's not something that is always taken for granted with this character (does she lead the Don on in Act I or is her naivety taken advantage of?), but it's emphasised here in her relationship with Don Ottavio. Atalla Ayan is also strongly characterised and well sung so as not to appear the weak figure that he is often portrayed as being. Rebecca von Lipinski 's Donna Elvira remains a worthy opponent for Don Giovanni, although she's not quite as strong a character here as the production's Donna Anna.
Conducted by Antony Hermus, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart give a fine account of Mozart's scintillating score that hits all the emotional and virtuoistic high points of the work, the pace and tone suiting the production and supporting the singing very well. In every respect, this was a production that rose to the challenges of Mozart's great work, finding something new to draw from its rich endless source of inspiration, while at the same time making sure that the wider audience it was reaching out towards would find plenty that was memorable and entertaining in its traditional musical and dramatic strengths.
The production reviewed here was viewed via Internet streaming on the ARTE WebLive site but was only made available for viewing for a week after the live broadcast.


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DALLAS, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Low T Center opens its 8th location at 4300 133rd St, Leawood, KS 66209 on March 1st 2012. Focusing on helping revitalize men who have lowered testosterone levels, the Low T Center will be the only all-male testosterone therapy clinic in the greater Kansas City Metro Area.
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ESTHERVILLE - Funeral services for Minnie V. Edwards, 95, of Estherville will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, March 1, 2012, at the United Methodist Church in Estherville with Pastor Lynn Elrod officiating. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel in Estherville. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Estherville.
She died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at Rosewood Manor in Estherville.
Minnie Viola (Wiebel) Edwards, the daughter of Christofer Henry and Kathryn (Symens) Wiebel, was born April 28, 1916, in Lennox, S.D. Kathryn died when her three children were very young and the children were then raised by an aunt and uncle, Abbie and Albert Ertmoed.
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Minnie V. Edwards
Minnie attended country schools at Lennox. After that she worked as a maid and a nanny for a family in Sioux Falls. S.D. While working for them she spent summers at Lake Okoboji and it was there at the Roof Garden that she met her future husband, Marvin Edwards.
They were married on Nov. 18, 1942 at Canton Methodist Church Parsonage in Canton, S.D. by Rev. Wendell Johnson, one day before Marvin was sent overseas.
While her husband served in World War II, Minnie lived in Glendale, Calif. with her sister-in-law, Alyce Elwood. For three years she worked for southern California airports and Lockheed, joining thousands of other women at the time as "Rosie the Riveters".
Following Marvin's return, they lived briefly in South Dakota before moving to Estherville, Marvin's hometown.
They owned, and operated together, Estherville Mattress Works.
In 1970, they moved to Mesa, Ariz. where Minnie worked for Motorola.
In retirement, they lived in Arizona and South Dakota before moving back to Estherville in 1992. Minnie was a member of the United Methodist Church in Estherville.
Left to cherish Minnie's memory are her children, Kathryn Iverson and her husband, Stephen, of Lake Mills, Jim Edwards and his wife, Suzanne, of Redwood Falls, Minn. and Bruce Edwards of Phoenix; five grandchildren, Marc Bartels, wife, Emily, and children, Levi and Cale of Berthoud, Colo., Jessica Brandt, husband, Kevin, and children, Hayden and Harper of Vienna, Vir., Deidre Edwards of Dallas, Nathan Edwards, wife, Michelle, and children, Tyler and Shelby of El Paso, Texas, Lissa Edwards of Mesa, Ariz. and brother, Donald Wiebel, and his wife, Evelyn, of Hanover Park, Ill.; sisters-in-law, Doris Jensen of Spirit Lake and Alyce Elwood of Simi Valley, Calif. and special nieces and nephews.
She has been preceded in death by her parents; husband; step-mother, Lettie Wiebel; sister, Engeline Grayson; brother, Lawrence Wiebel and son-in-law, Daryl Bartels. Online condolences may be sent to www.henryolsonfuneral.com


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Perched at a tiny table in his daughter's playroom, Rex Pruitt leans over the board game Operation.
He and seven-year-old Reagan can't help but giggle as a loud buzz puts a jolting end to his tries remove the "dog bone" from the foot of the patient on the well-loved toy.
Just a month earlier, the 51-year-old Sioux Falls man found himself at Sanford Heart Hospital, but this time the "operation" saved his life. Less than a day after walking into his doctor's office with what he thought was an ear infection, Rex had an almost fully blocked artery cleared in his heart.
"My doctors' instincts and their knowledge saved my life," says Rex. "We truly believe that it was a miracle, that God worked with these incredible doctors who have the intelligence and the gift to heal."
Looking back, Rex realizes that he had ignored some early signs of problems. Starting this spring, the fit, otherwise healthy man, would sometimes have trouble keeping up with his wife on their regular walks. He had even talked to his doctor and scheduled a stress test for his heart, but then cancelled the appointment because he was feeling better.
Then in September, the analytics expert was out of town for a conference when he thought he was coming down with a cold. Walking with a colleague, he felt a burning feeling in his chest and he was exhausted, all things that he thought were due to the stress of the schedule of the event.
Rex returned home and dragged himself through meetings until mid-afternoon, when he decided to go to his doctor's. He felt edgy and irritable and the burn in his chest had gotten worse. He thought he might be fighting off an ear infection.
"It was like I had just run a 40-yard dash in the cool air," he says. "I was still sure it was just that I was run down from the conference."
But at Sanford 69th and Minnesota Family Medicine clinic, Dr. Wallace Fritz knew better. After Rex began to describe his symptoms, the family practice doctor insisted that his patient go to the hospital right away.
In fact, Dr. Fritz intended to call 911, only relenting after Rex explained his wife Kathy could make it to the clinic to drive him to the hospital in less than five minutes. The couple laughed about his symptoms, not realizing that Rex was in serious danger.
At the Sanford Emergency Center, Rex's doctors hooked him up to a heart monitor, but nothing looked out of place. A blood test showed that his troponin levels, an enzyme that is released into the blood during a heart attack, were slightly elevated.
Rex's emergency room physician, Dr. Robert Harms decided to admit Rex to the hospital for monitoring. Plans were made to do a stress test the next day to determine his heart health.
But a quick visit from cardiologist Dr. Adam Stys early that morning changed those plans. The doctor quickly examined Rex and decided instead to schedule him for angioplasty later that day. That decision saved Rex's life.
As his wife waited outside, Rex went into the Sanford Heart Catheterization Laboratory. During the imaging of his artery, Dr. Stys determined that Rex's "widow maker" artery was 99 percent blocked with plaque. The cardiologist placed a stent in the artery, using a balloon to expand it and press the plaque blockage against the arterial wall.
When the doctor came out to update Kathy on her husband's progress, he explained that Rex would never have made it through the stress test. In fact, his artery was so blocked that he could have dropped over with a heart attack at any moment.
"He told me, 'To be honest, I can't explain why he is still here right now,'" says Kathy, placing her hand on her husband's shoulder. "I realize that it's science, but we also know that a doctor relies on those gut feelings. I can't say how thankful we are that the doctor listened to those feelings."
Rex returned home, happy to have a second chance at life. He also learned when talking to father that one of his grandfathers had died of a sudden heart attack at age 48.
He says his family history truly brought home to him the reality of how close his own daughter came to growing up without a father.
"I feel so blessed that I had doctors who could see beyond just the immediate situation and really put the pieces of the puzzle together," says Rex. "They could see the whole picture in a way that I couldn't."
Just weeks after his hospital stay, Rex has learned that his experience may have already saved other lives. He knows of several men who went to their doctors to get their hearts checked after hearing his story. One of his co-workers even ended up going through the same procedure to clear an almost completely blocked artery.
"I tell people that they need to pay attention to what their body is telling them," Rex says. "If my story can help one person, I'm happy to tell it. Listen to your body."


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The courtyard at East Ridge Elementary is blooming with recent renovations. After the portable buildings were removed from the area between the two classroom wings, the courtyard was left with dirt and a bit of grass. The PTO decided to use proceeds from the students' fall fundraising efforts to make the courtyard a more useable and inviting space.A PTO committee, consisting of school moms Jana Hall, Brenda Valdez, Aubrey Turnbow and LaDawn Daniel, was put together to survey the teachers - to see what they would like in a courtyard space - and put together a plan. The survey stated that an outdoor reading area with trees and shade was desired. From this, a design was created which is now coming to fruition. The design includes a gazebo, over 12 tons of limestone rock from nearby Lueders, about 1,000 square feet of new walking paths, four outdoor picnic tables, a half dozen new trees and a variety of native plants that will attract wildlife. The gazebo from Golden Rule Gazebos (with interior seating for holding a class) and concrete pathways (formed and poured by Triple A Construction of Sweetwater) are already in place.Anyone interested in volunteering for the project or donating funds to be used for a tree or bench in honor of loved one, may contact Jana Hall at 236-6281 or Sheila Martin at East Ridge at 235-5282 ext. 406. The students are excited about their new spot for reading, eating and old-fashioned play.


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Softball players, coaches, parents and car enthusiasts came together at Bern Grove in Leesport on July 12 for the sixth annual Diamond Cruise Car Show benefiting the Schuylkill Valley Girls Softball Association.
�What a great day today and what a great turnout this year,� the group posted to their Facebook page following the event. �First we would like to take the time to thank all the volunteers that helped this year and Bern Church for letting us host our event there again. We hope everyone had a great time.�
Attendees were able to walk among the trees as they took a look at the cars in a variety of classes and were able to speak with the car owners who were more than willing to speak about their car. Just after noon, Flamin� Dick and the Hot Rods performed to a full audience seated in lawn chairs by the stage and concession stand.
Due to a fast approaching storm, the show was cut a little shorter than originally planned, but awards were given out before any rain began to fall. One of the unique parts about the show is that the softball players give the winners their awards. The players also vote on their favorite vehicles for the players� choice award of which three are given out.
Even with a hot day, the threat of rain and a shortened event, the attendees at the packed grove were full of smiles helping support a good cause with the SVGSA. Perhaps even more importantly the players appeared to have a fun time as well.


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FORMER Victorian galloper Satan's Chariot, the half-brother to Whobegotyou, continues to amaze trainer John Sprague with his progress as he readies the horse for Friday's $17,000 Coca-Cola Cup (1206m) at Port Macquarie.
"Every time Gabby (apprentice Gabrielle Coleman) or Peter (Graham) ride him in work they come back and tell me he has improved further," Sprague said.
"He is one of those horses that is a dream to train. He is so relaxed and laid back and nothing worries him."
Satan's Chariot, raced by the locally-based Bucking Brumbies syndicate, has been impressive in winning his only two starts for the stable, both at Port Macquarie. He was bought after seven runs in Victoria with his best effort a second at Ararat.
Satan's Chariot is a half brother, by Strada, to the former multiple Group winning galloper Whobegotyou who amassed more than $3.4 million in earnings and won the 2008 Caulfield Guineas.
"We are not kidding ourselves that he will live up to those deeds but I think he is going to become the stable star," Sprague said. "Horses of this calibre don't come into country stables every day.
"I nominated him for a Class Two at Gosford but he would have been meeting horses of a similar calibre to the horses he is up against on Friday.
"I thought it better to keep him at home walk him across the road for this race rather than haul him down to Gosford in the heat.
"Friday's race is a test to see how he measures up to this harder company.
"If he runs well and pulls up well then we will head for either Wyong or Gosford."
Peter Graham, who has ridden the horse to his two wins, retains the ride. The cup has attracted 21 nominations with acceptances declared this morning.
More coverage of the meeting, plus fields and selections, in Friday's Port News.


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Today the liturgy permits an Optional Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession "peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue" (Decree of May 4, 1944).
The attention of Christians was early attracted by the love and virtues of the Heart of Mary. The Gospel itself invited this attention with exquisite discretion and delicacy. What was first excited was compassion for the Virgin Mother. It was, so to speak, at the foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary.
Simeon's prophecy paved the way and furnished the devotion with one of its favourite formulae and most popular representations: the heart pierced with a sword. But Mary was not merely passive at the foot of the Cross; "she cooperated through charity", as St. Augustine says, "in the work of our redemption".
It is only in the twelfth, or towards the end of the eleventh century, that slight indications of a regular devotion are perceived in a sermon by St. Bernard (De duodecim stellis). Stronger evidences are discernible in the pious meditations on the Ave Maria and the Salve Regina, usually attributed either to St. Anselm of Lucca (d. 1080) or St. Bernard; and also in the large book De laudibus B. Mariae Virginis (Douai, 1625) by Richard de Saint-Laurent.
In St. Mechtilde (d. 1298) and St. Gertrude (d. 1302) the devotion had two earnest adherents. A little earlier it had been included by St. Thomas Becket in the devotion to the joys and sorrows of Mary, by Blessed Hermann (d.1245), one of the first spiritual children of St. Dominic, in his other devotions to Mary, and somewhat later it appeared in St. Bridget's Book of Revelations.
St. Ambrose perceived in her the model of a virginal soul. St. Bernardine of Siena (d.1444) was more absorbed in the contemplation of the virginal heart, and it is from him that the Church has borrowed the lessons of the Second Nocturn for the feast of the Heart of Mary. St. Francis de Sales speaks of the perfections of this heart, the model of love for God, and dedicated to it his Theotimus.
In the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, ascetic authors dwelt upon this devotion at greater length. It was, however, reserved to St. Jean Eudes (d. 1681) to propagate the devotion, to make it public, and to have a feast celebrated in honor of the Heart of Mary, first at Autun in 1648 and afterwards in a number of French dioceses.
In 1799 Pius VI, then in captivity at Florence, granted the Bishop of Palermo the feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary for some of the churches in his diocese. In 1805 Pius VII made a new concession, thanks to which the feast was soon widely observed.
Such was the existing condition when a twofold movement, started in Paris, gave fresh impetus to the devotion. The two factors of this movement were first of all the revelation of the "miraculous medal" in 1830 and all the prodigies that followed, and then the establishment at Notre-Dame-des-Victoires of the Archconfraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Refuge of Sinners, which spread rapidly throughout the world and was the source of numberless graces. On 21 July 1855, the Congregation of Rites finally approved the Office and Mass of the Most Pure Heart of Mary without, however, imposing them upon the Universal Church. [--Excerpted from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 edition]
DIOCESAN FEAST: 163rd of the Diocese, 124th of the Archdiocese
Les Soeurs de la Visitation Monastery were special guests at this year's diocesan feast as they mark 100 years since their arrival in Canada, on Richmond Road in Ottawa.
These last four contemplatives will leave the Archdiocese in early July to take up reside on a floor in the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Pembroke. They have given me consolation by the fact that, after the move, they will still be in the Ottawa Ecclesiastical Province (dioceses of Hearst, Pembroke, Ottawa and Timmins), will keep their civil name (Soeurs de la Visitation d'Ottawa) and will continue to pray for the needs of the Archdiocese.
Besides a substantial gift to support the needs of the Archdiocese and the Priests Pension Plan, they presented me with a beautiful chalice and paten in gratitude for the ministry countless priest chaplains have afforded them over these ten decades. The chalice was used in the Mass on Thursday evening.
The Diocesan Feast begins with a review of the parish banners which are carried in procession, preceded by a KofC Honour Guard
Four brothers from St. Bernard's Parish (Blossom Park) carry their parish's emblem
Ottawa's Holy Spirit Chinese Catholic Community was well-represented
St. Hyacinth Polish Parish brought two banners
The Eucharist was concelebrated by a large number of priests, marking the close of the Year of the Priesthood
The reception after Mass in the cathedral parish hall allowed greetings to be exchanged with many of those attending, here Soeurs de Charite d'Ottawa
Representatives of Annunciation of Our Lord Parish, Gloucester (Associate Pastor Father Jonathan Blake, who served as Master of Ceremonies of the Liturgy, is in the background)
Members of the German-speaking parish, St. Albertus Pfarrgemeinde with pastor Fr. Ernst Schoenhammer, OMI, the archdiocese's longest-serving pastor
Photo credit: Heri Riesbeck
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Immaculate Heart of Mary - Photos of the Diocesan Feast
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LODI - Wine tasting in downtown Lodi will soon have a little bit more sparkle to it.
LODI - Wine tasting in downtown Lodi will soon have a little bit more sparkle to it.
Sparkling-wine maker Weibel Family Vineyards received approval from the Lodi Planning Commission to open a tasting room at 13 N. School St., adding to the list of wineries that have established a presence downtown.
Owner Fred Weibel said his family's winery has been operating in Lodi since 1996 but has never had a tasting room.
With the success of other wineries downtown since the city urged a trio of vintners to open the Cellar Door, Weibel said he feels it's time for his winery to establish a greater presence in Lodi.
"We're looking to be on the heart of School Street," Weibel said. "It's a great area with a lot of energy from the (weekly) farmers market."
Weibel said his winery sells a variety of sparkling wines, including flavored Champagnes such as almond and raspberry.
Weibel Family Vineyards will be the 13th downtown tasting room, which includes more than 20 wineries, City Manager Rad Bartlam said.
Commissioners have wondered out loud if Lodi is starting to hit a saturation point for wineries; however, they agreed Wednesday night that the scene just continues to thrive.
"You wonder if there's too many, but we haven't seen anyone close," only applications for new rooms to open, Commissioner Steve Hennecke said.
The Planning Commission also approved an application by Riaza Wines to open a production facility at 1023 E. Vine St. in an industrial zone near the Lodi Unified School District office.
Riaza, which specializes in Spanish varietals such as tempranillo and albarino, has been producing its wine in Amador, owner Erin Taylor said.
Taylor said the move to Lodi is a way for her and her husband, Richard, to take better control of their operation. The couple lives in Lodi and sells their wines online at riazawines.com and at their Elm Street tasting room in downtown Lodi, which was approved one year ago Wednesday.
"We have had a ton of support. It's such an awesome community. We have 120 folks in our wine club, and we're trucking along," Taylor said.
Taylor said the move to Lodi will help Riaza increase its production from 1,000 cases in 2012 to 1,250 cases this year.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or email@example.com his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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This week's episode certainly gave us a lot to talk about -- and yet again ended in a cliff hanger!
The show seems to be pulling itself together -- finally getting rid of a few characters and unnecessary storylines -- and even though Declan hasn't been written off, his screen time was pretty minimal.
My first sighting of him wasn't until halfway through -- and that was for the #GiftofRevenge miniseries! Of course a collaboration between Target and
Not quite sure what exactly was going on, but I can't help but wonder if those present, and Nolan's line about just managing to survive the year is any sort of hint to how the next few week's episodes will be. Or, if they are just the lesser paid actors and are more willing to participate in a regular old commercial.
Emily certain showed her softer side in this episode, a tender moment with Nolan, telling Amanda to "choose her family", and trying to get her mom as far away from the mess (and towards help) as possible. It is no longer part of her plan, and it is leading her to lose control.
I'm glad she shared her secret with Mason Treadwell, while simultaneously showing him her power, so he guarantees never to share her secret. And she and Aiden finally kiss! Yay! Now, hopefully he is not up to any funny business and is as true to his words, because who doesn't love their own personal James Bond?
Kara is one of the more intriguing characters of this show (or was, if we are too believe she is gone for good). I know she was in love with super sleuth Gordon Murphy and all, but does she really have the tools at her disposal to crack the code of the Graysons mansion?
Emily was able to, but only with the help of Nolan and all of her resources, Kara just waltzed in one day and suddenly was able to? Between this and the fact she continues to appear everywhere, I think the Graysons need to check in with their security team. Yes, she is a house guest, but she is a house guest in the "keep your enemies close" category, so you'd think they would have someone keeping an eye on her.
I think all of the characters need to request that whoever is writing Nolan's lines write the rest of theirs, he continues to have the best lines ("This one time, at revenge camp, this fellow revenger and I..") and most of the characters this week sounded more like they were giving monologues than engaging in actual dialogue.
The scene on the beach with Victoria and Conrad was especially painful -- it's like they are being paid by the word and need to make everything as long winded as possible, they can't even managed to stay interested. And don't even get me started on how they were both wearing long sleeves and long pants on the beach in the middle of the summer.
And how can we forget the big mystery: Nolan! Or, as we should start calling him, Mitchel. I'm leaning towards thinking he might be David Clarke's son -- and Emily's brother.
He's really managed to put up with a lot from Emily, and though he says his reasoning is because he made a promise to her father, it could also be is protective older brother instincts which are the reason he lets her boss him around to such extent (even if he is her older brother, still hard to believe some of the things he has put up with).
Unfortunately I can't even begin to guestimate Nolan's age -- since the actor who plays him is 40 (yes, you read that correctly). If Nolan's mother and David were separated maybe the "father" who just passed away was really his step father, and David may not even have known about the child until later in his life.
The tender moment Nolan and Emily shared this episode reinforces this suspicion. But, as we've learned with "Revenge," there is no way to predict where the writers will take things.


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Water Sports - Indian Ocean and Mida Creek
"While the tide is lowering, the Mida Creek is the ideal place for kite surfing and the two beaches are outstanding places to kite as well."
Water Sports
The Temple Point Resort is Kenya's ultimate El Dorado for water sports enthusiasts — and those who want to become such! Because of the unique situation in-between the Indian Ocean and the Mida Creek lagoon, we are able to offer you the most varied set of activities in all of Kenya:
Having been one of the scene's top insider's tip for years, Watamu has recently risen to fame as one of the best kite spots in the entire world. While professional riders enjoy the region for its perfect winds, newcomers are more than welcome to learn the basics of this trendy and spectacular sport in the nearby kite school.
We also offer water skiing, sail boarding, canoeing and kayaking as well as any other water sports our guests could desire — there's nothing you can't do off the coast of our resort!
Also note our snorkelling, diving and dolphin watching options in the Watamu Marine National Park.
Catamaran Sailing
The Temple Point Resort is proud to be the only hotel on the north coast to offer the services of our own catamaran to our guests. On board of the "Gulliver" you set sail along the Kenyan coastline, accompanied by our experienced crew. Lonesome islands, paradisiacal beaches and the historic harbour of Mombasa are waiting for you!
Big Game Fishing
The waters around the Temple Point Resort enjoy an excellent repute among international big game fishers and are the ideal fishing grounds for various species of game fish like the blue and black marlin for example. There are charter boats of all different sizes with professional equipment and crew, available in the local harbour.
We'd be happy to help you with booking the boat and will send you your tailor-made offer.


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Atzinger awarded McKnight Fellowship
May 14, 2012
Associate Professor of Music Christopher Atzinger recently received a $25,000 McKnight Fellowship for Performing Artists through the McKnight Foundation Arts Program.
Atzinger plans to use the grant for two recording projects — one featuring piano works by American composers and the other pieces by Johannes Brahms — and for concerts in the United States and abroad. Atzinger has won medals at numerous international piano competitions for his artistry, including the New Orleans International Piano Competition and the San Antonio International Piano Competition.
Four performing artists, including Atzinger, were awarded McKnight fellowships for 2012–13. St. Olaf Associate Professor of Music Justin Merritt received the same award last year.
The McKnight Foundation provides about $1.7 million in grants each year for outstanding Minnesota artists from all disciplines, including the visual arts, theater, dance, writing, and filmmaking.


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From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is on the road today in Texas, and said he hasn't seen the report by Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Afghanistan -- but will see it in the next day or two.
Over the past few months, McChrystal has pretty much laid out what he thinks needs to be done in Afghanistan, but Gates said he had a couple additional questions he wanted the general to answer.
Strategy assessment
"There is no question we have a tough fight ahead of us in Afghanistan, a lot of challenges. By the same token, I think a lot of positive things have been happening -- in terms of getting more American troops into place, there are more European and partner troops in place now, 37,000 partner-nation troops in Afghanistan. The elections took place in a country torn by war for more than 30 years. The fact those elections were able to take place I think is an important thing."
"The fact that we're going into areas where the Taliban have basically been unchallenged for a number of years means that are casualties are going to be higher. I am concerned we haven't discussed this with respect to the assessment. But I am concerned about getting assets into Afghanistan to help us deal with the IED problem. I expect the all-terrain MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) will begin flowing into Afghanistan in October, and we are in the process of putting significant intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in there as well. It worked well for us in Iraq in dealing with the IED problem and we're all hoping it will help us in Afghanistan as well."
Overall assessment
"While there's a lot of gloom and doom going around, I think Gen. McChrystal's assessment will be a realistic one and set for the challenges we have in front of us. At the same time, I think we have some assets in place and developments that hold promise."
More U.S. troops?
Gates said he has not seen any request for additional American troops from McChrystal. President Obama authorized sending an additional 21,000 U.S. forces into Afghanistan this year. So far, about 16,000 have gone and another 5,000 remain to be sent -- which would bring the total number to 68,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
"We have been very explicit that Gen. McChrystal should be forthright in telling us what he needs in order to accomplish the mission he has been given. We will look at his assessment and then look at the resource recommendations that me makes. I think there are larger issues. I have expressed some concerns in the past about the size of the footprint, the size of the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan. And, clearly, I want to address those issues. We will have to look at the availability of forces, the cost, a lot of different thing we'll have to look at once we get his recommendations before we make any recommendations to the president."


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Kansas education commissioner Diane DeBacker says the department will seek an attorney general's opinion on implementing a new law that would allow school districts to be named innovative districts.
The measure was signed by Gov. Sam Brownback last month. It allows up to 29 of the state's 286 school districts to apply for innovative district status, which would make them exempt from certain state laws and regulations. Supporters say the goal is to improve student achievement.
DeBacker told the State Board of Education Tuesday that there are many questions about which laws and regulations would be included as possible exemptions.
The law takes effect July 1. State staff is developing the innovative district application.


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2001-02 Men's Basketball
founders turns 50
Founders Hall set to turn 50 years old on February 5By Tim Stried, SID
January 28, 2002
|Did you know...
Bluffton defeated Ashland 61-59 in overtime on Feb. 5, 1952 in the first game ever played in Founders Hall.
Bluffton has won 278 of the 531 games they've played in Founders Hall heading into the 2001-02 season for a winning percentage of 52.4%.
Picture timeline of the construction of Founders Hall.
February 5, 1952 was anything but a normal day on the campus of Bluffton College.
That night, a crowd of 1,800 spectators, nearly three times of the enrollment of the school at the time, jammed into Bluffton's newest building on campus for the grand opening of Founders Hall.
As the men's glee club sang and the pep band played, Bluffton Mayor Wilbur A. Howe tossed a basketball through a crepe paper hoop over one of the baskets and the history of Founders Hall had begun. That night the Beavers upset Ashland University in overtime 61-59 for the first of many wins for BC in what remains the center of campus athletic and recreational activity.
Built at a cost of $300,000, Founders Hall took nearly three years to build as funds trickled to replace the college's former athletic building, referred to as "the Barn," which was the home to BC basketball between 1916 and the early 1940s. For nearly a decade the Beavers played their home games in the Bluffton High School gymnasium after the Barn, which was built by BC students who raised $2000 for materials, was declared unplayable due to heaved up sections of the floor.
Construction on Founders Hall began in May of 1949 and was not completed until June of 1952, although the gymnasium portion was finished enough to begin hosting games in late January. It was heralded as the finest of its kind within a 65-mile radius and has hosted a variety of events in its history, including graduation ceremonies, special speakers, musicals, conferences, family reunions and wrestling matches (college and professional). High School basketball tournament were held there for over 20 years.
The open house program from that day in 1952 shares a glimpse at the excitement of the campus. "We know you will hardly believe that you are in a gymnasium on the campus of Bluffton College, but it is a fact. We hope you are pleased and that you enjoy this evening and many more pleasant evenings here on campus," the program states.
Construction specifications share interesting facts about Founders Hall. Steel was the largest expense of the building, costing $31,304, and the largest steel girder weighed 18 tons. Once again, students contributed to the construction efforts of their new gym, both in manual labor and through financial gifts, this time totaling $7,000.
Longtime BC sports information director Ron Geiser shared some of the most memorable games to have been played in Founders Hall.
- Rio Grande 117, Bluffton 71 in Founders Hall's second season. Rio Grande star Bevo Francis scored 82 points (then a national record) in front of what remains the largest crowd to ever see a game at BC. Francis averaged over 50 points per game as Rio Grande defeated several Division I schools during the season.
- Bluffton 91, Findlay 89 in 1957-58. Bluffton guards Abe Mast (35 points) and Ron Kalb (30 points) combined for the third-highest scoring duo in BC history to snap a 30-game losing streak to the Oilers that spanned 17 years.
- Bluffton 108, Malone 87 on March 5, 1973 in the first round of the NAIA District 22 Tournament. Bluffton won their first-ever post season game as Clair Recker scored a school record 44 points (broken in 1995 by Jamie Yount's 46 points against Goshen).
- Manchester 78, Bluffton 76 on February 15, 1995. Led by head coach Steve Alford, Manchester was undefeated at the time and went on to the Division III Final 4, but barely escaped Founders Hall as Bluffton's Jeremy Best scored 27 points and Jamie Yount added 25. Bluffton led 40-35 at halftime but saw Manchester sink a shot at the buzzer to take the win in front of a huge crowd.
Founders Hall was built with a full-length stage on one side of the gym, which was a building style in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly for financial reasons that made the facility multi-dimensional. The stage soon became home to the BC students and has remained as a Bluffton tradition ever since, creating a unique home court atmosphere.
And now as Founders Hall celebrates its 50th birthday, Bluffton College is beginning to prepare for what will be its replacement. The design and funding process for a new athletic and recreational facility is currently in the initial planning stages.
Special thanks to Ron Geiser and current BC staff member Paul Jackson, who hit the winning shot in overtime against Ashland in that first game, for contributing to this article.


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Degenkolb scores!
Today's stage two of the Vuelta a Espana was won by the Argos-Shimano German sprinter, John Degenkolb.
Second day of high heat (late 30s C), the riders kept the pace relatively low until the last few kilometres when Degenkolb drove passed Allan Davis (Orica-GreenEDGE) and Ben Swift (SKY) for the honors. Degenkolb commented that the team's minimum goal was to win a stage ... mission accomplished. No change on the GC as Jonathan Castroviejo has the Roja Jersey.
And, with the Vuelta certain to have another scorcher stage... can there be relief for the riders? The answer is Yes! Today, organizers allowed the riders to drink towards the end of the stage.
Here's the always entertaining Orica-GreenEDGE Backstage Pass with tips on how their riders cool off before and after Saturday's team time trial. Many teams used the smart ice vest. Let's hope the ice machine doesn't break down!
Tomorrow's stage 3 will be extra entertaining, test for the climbers, the first mountain stage a 155km adventure from Faustino V to a summit finish in the Basque town of Elbar.
Full Results.
41C in Pamplona!
Neil Stephens with special guest... Big Mig!
Neil Stephens with special guest... Big Mig!


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Xavier's Sister Rose Ann Fleming is being honored by the Cincinnati Sports Professionals Network
Fleming is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work advising Xavier athletes | May 6, 2013
Sister Rose Ann Fleming, athletic academic advisor at Xavier, is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cincinnati Sports Professionals Network 2013 awards dinner on Wednesday, May 8.
Since she became Xavier's academic advisor in 1985, Fleming, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, has helped every men's basketball player, who has reached his final year of athletic eligibility, to graduate. In 1991, then-coach Pete Gillen named Fleming the men's basketball team's Most Valuable Player. In 2000, she was inducted into Xavier's Athletic Hall of Fame.
"I try to make sure each student feel he or she is a special individual," she says.
Fleming came to Xavier in 1982 after serving as the president of Trinity College in Washington. She joined the Xavier faculty so she could also work toward an MBA and a law degree. She also has a PhD in educational administration from Miami University, which helped her in her counseling role.
The Skyline Chili Crosstown Classic has been named Sports Event of the Year. The annual game between the Xavier Musketeers and the UC Bearcats was known as the Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout until last year when it was renamed the Classic after an altercation between players on both teams broke out in the final seconds at Xavier's Cintas Center in 2011. The game was also recast to show how it benefits all of Cincinnati. Proceeds from the first game, played on Dec. 19 at a neutral site at U.S. Bank Arena, went to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Prior to the game, a collaborative team of students from each school participated in the Bridges Walk for a Just Community, an annual 5K event in October celebrating the rich ethnic and cultural heritage of the Cincinnati region. That was followed in November by an XU-UC Day at the Freedom Center for students, staff and alumni of both schools that included displays about community engagement, service and collaboration at each school and a tour for members of the both schools' basketball teams.
University of Cincinnati head football coach Tommy Tuberville is the keynote speaker at the banquet, which is at the Sharonville Convention Center. A reception starts at 6:00 p.m. and dinner is at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $75 each or $700 for a table of 10. VIP tickets also are available by contacting the Greater Cincinnati Sports Corporation at 513-345-3054.
Other awards will be given to Reds announcer Marty Brennaman, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services, Bob Castellini and Walt Jocketty, Dave Lapham, and the area's 2012 Olympians.


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Dave Clements
I work on the Galaxy Project for Emory University, where I organize meetings and courses, prepare training materials, and improve Galaxy's documentation, wiki, and web presence. I'm also hoping to touch the (Python!) code.
Prior to working on Galaxy I ran the GMOD Help Desk from 2007-2010, where I did similar work. I am still involved in the GMOD community as a representative of Galaxy, and in planning GMOD Americas 2011. I telecommute from the Phillips Lab in the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CEEB) at the University of Oregon.
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My background is in computer science. I have been working in biological databases since 2000.
Prior to working on Galaxy, and for NESCent and GMOD before that, I worked as the database manager at the European Renal Genome project (EuReGene), as a member of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP). This project studied kidney development and disease. My work focused on gene expression patterns, and anatomy ontologies.
Prior to EuReGene I worked for ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database at the University of Oregon for 5 years as a database administrator and software engineer.
My pre-bioinformatics career included
- 4 years at an artificial intelligence lab at the University of Oregon,
- 6 years at database management system vendors,
- 2 years as a database administrator at General Mills,
- Temporary positions (6 to 12 months) working on
- teaching database courses at the University of Oregon
- a data warehouse for inventory control in semiconductor manufacturing (HP),
- a test harness for a network controller OS (IBM), and
- query tools for credit unions (EDS)
- A master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. My research focused on transaction management in federated databases,
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.
- Organization of the pronephric kidney revealed by large-scale gene expression mapping; in Genome Biology, 2008, 9:R84. Daniela Raciti, Luca Reggiani, Lars Geffers, Qiuhong Jiang, Francesca Bacchion, Astrid E Subrizi, Dave Clements, Christopher Tindal, Duncan R Davidson, Brigitte Kaissling, and André W Brändli
- A high-resolution anatomical ontology of the developing murine genitourinary tract; in Gene Expression Patterns, 7(6), pp. 680-699 (June 2007). Melissa H. Little, Jane Brennan, Kylie Georgas, Jamie A. Davies, Duncan R. Davidson, Richard A. Baldock, Annemiek Beverdam, John F. Bertram, Blanche Capel, Han Sheng Chiu, Dave Clements, Luise Cullen-McEwen, Jean Fleming, Thierry Gilbert, Doris Herzlinger, Derek Houghton, Matt H. Kaufman, Elena Kleymenova, Peter A. Koopman, Alfor G. Lewis, Andrew P. McMahon, Cathy L. Mendelsohn, Eleanor K. Mitchell, Bree A. Rumballe, Derina E. Sweeney, M. Todd Valerius, Gen Yamada, Yiya Yang and Jing Yu
- The Zebrafish Information Network: the zebrafish model organism database; in Nucleic Acids Research 34:D581-585 (2006); Sprague, J., Bayraktaroglu, L., Clements, D., Conlin, T., Fashena, D., Frazer, K., Haendel, M., Howe, D.G., Mani, P., Ramachandran, S., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E., Song, P., Sprunger, B., Taylor, S., Van Slyke, C.E., and Westerfield, M.
- The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN): the zebrafish model organism database; in Nucleic Acids Research 31(1):241-243 2003); Sprague, J., Clements, D., Conlin, T., Edwards, P., Frazer, K., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E., Song, P., Sprunger, B., and Westerfield, M.
- The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN): a resource for genetic, genomic and developmental research; in Nucleic Acids Research 29(1):87-90 (2001); Sprague, J., Doerry, E., Douglas, S., Westerfield, M., and ZFIN Group, (Conlin, T., Clements, D., Edwards, P., Frazer, K., Schaper, K., Segerdell, E.)
- Squeaky Wheel Optimization; in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 10, 353-373 (May 1999); D. Joslin and D. Clements. This material was covered in less detail in Squeaky Wheel Optimization; in Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).
- Cyclic Scheduling; in Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), D. Draper, A. Jonsson, D. Clements, and D. Joslin.
- Heuristic Optimization: A hybrid AI/OR approach. at Workshop on Industrial Constraint-Directed Scheduling, held in conjunction with CP'97, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria (1997); D. Clements, J. Crawford, D. Joslin, G. Nemhauser, M. Puttlitz and M. Savelsbergh.
- Myriad: Design and Implementation of a Federated Database Prototype; in Software - Practice and Experience, 25(5), 533-562 (May 1995); E.P. Lim, S.Y. Hwang, J. Srivastava, D. Clements and M. Ganesh.
Presentations, Tutorials, Workshops, Demos and Posters
- GMOD Sustainability and Organization at September 2010 GMOD Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2010.
- Help Desk Update at September 2010 GMOD Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2010.
- GMOD for Evolutionary Biology, presentation with Rob Buels at iEvoBio 2010, Portland, Oregon, June 2010.
- Help Desk Report, presentation at January 2010 GMOD Meeting, San Diego, January 2010.
- GMOD Project Update, presentation with Scott Cain at PAG 2010, San Diego, January 2010.
- Comparative Genomics Tools in GMOD, poster with Sheldon McKay, Ken Youens-Clark, Ben Faga, Scott Cain, at PAG 2010, San Diego, January 2010.
- Database Tools for Biologists, workshop at Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, December 2009
- GMOD for Comparative Genomics, presentation at Information Systems for Insect Pests (ISyIP), Rennes, France, November 2009
- Database Tools for Biologists: A Half-Day GMOD Workshop, at Bioinformatics Australia 2009 (BA2009), Melbourne, Australia, October 2009
- Visualizing Next Generation Sequence Data with GBrowse and SAMtools, poster at Bioinformatics Australia 2009 (BA2009), Melbourne, Australia, October 2009
- Visualising NGS Data in GBrowse 2, presentation at August 2009 GMOD Meeting, Oxford, UK, August 2009.
- Seeing the forest and the trees: visualizing next generation sequence data, presentation at Next Generation Genome Analysis in Non-Model Organisms, University of Connecticut, June 2009
- Using GMOD for evolutionary genomics and next generation sequence data, presentation as a part of Database Tools for Evolutionary Genomics: An introduction to GMOD software for managing, annotating and visualizing genomic data workshop at SMBE 2009, Iowa City, IA.
- Visualizing and Integrating Next Generation Sequence Data using GMOD, workshop at Evolutionary Genetics - the impact of next generation sequencing technologies, Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany, April 2009.
- Comparative Genomics with GBrowse_syn: A hands on workshop for visualizing your syntenic data with GBrowse_syn, workshop with Sheldon McKay and Scott Cain at PAG 2009, January 2009.
- Managing Next Generation Sequence Data with GMOD, poster with Scott Cain, Paul Hohenlohe, Nicholas Stiffler, Eric Johnson, and William Cresko, at PAG 2009, January 2009.
- GMOD: Managing genomic data from emerging model organisms, poster with Hilmar Lapp and Todd Vision at ISMB 2008, July 2008.
- GMOD: Genomics Resources for Emerging Model Organisms, poster with Hilmar Lapp and Todd Vision at American Genetic Association Annual Symposium, upcoming, June 2008.
- Chado - A Database Schema for Integrating Biological Data, workshop with Scott Cain at the 2nd Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium, April 2008.
- GMOD: Database Resources for Emerging Model Organisms, poster with Hilmar Lapp and Todd Vision at the 2nd Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium, April 2008.
- GMOD Tools for Comparative Genomics, poster with, David Riley, Ben Faga, Hervé Tettelin, Sam Angiuoli, and Jonathan Crabtree. Presented at the IGERT Symposium on Evolution, Development, and Genomics, April 4-6, Eugene, OR. Highlights GMOD components particularly useful for comparative genomics: CMap, Sybil, SynView, SynBrowse and GBrowse_syn.
- GMOD: Informatics Resources for Evolutionary Research, poster with Hilmar Lapp and Todd Vision. Presented at the IGERT Symposium on Evolution, Development, and Genomics, April 4-6, 2008, in Eugene OR. Highlights GMOD tools particularly useful for evolutionary research: GBrowse, Apollo, Pathway Tools, and Chado.
- Digesting the Genome Glut: Promoting the Use and Extension of GMOD To Emerging Model Organisms, poster with Brian Osborne, Hilmar Lapp, Xianhua Liu, W. Owen McMillan, Nassib Nassar, and Todd J. Vision, at the 2007 Genome Informatics conference. An overview of GMOD highlighting components, the new web site, and using GMOD for evolution research.
- Gene Expression Databases: Where and When, presentation given at NESCent in April 2007. Describes common issues with gene expression databases focusing on anatomy ontology issues. Uses 4 websites to demonstrate different ways to deal with these issues.
- Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner, demonstration with Charles B. McVey, and Andrew J. Parkes at the 16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99).
- Squeaky Wheel Optimization, demonstration with David Joslin at the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).


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The PWA would like to share the exciting news that after 28 years of working on the beach in Sotavento, that the Rene Egli Center is building a new, bigger and better center in Sotavento. The new Rene Egli Center "Playa Barca" will be located near the old center (around 100m) and closer to the hotel Meliã Gorriones. The new center will boast an area of 1100m2, spread over two levels, and it will provide all the amenities that you may require for a great windsurfing holiday.
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6. Other sports you enjoy? Golf, NFL, NBA, NHL, College Basketball. In that order.
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I have no real input other than I like the NFL much better so Madden 10 (and it's a good iteration)
My favorite PS3 games: LBP, Uncharted, Infamous, KZ2, and Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction.
My favorite game on the PS3 was Uncharted, and by the way I am psyched for the sequel in 6 days. I also liked Infamous, Little Big Planet, Arkham Asylum, and Dead Space.
I also liked Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, but thats just cause I am a huge Gundam fan.
I'm getting uncharted 2 and brutal legend on Oct. 13, but I would also reccomend Borderlands and modern warfare
I don't follow football but I've played some of each one over the years, yes there are some differences in game play in the different Brands, I tend to prefer college (NCAA) over NFL
I don't buy them new each year (my friends do) I end up with their older versions sometimes.I have to add they've started to doubt the value of a new $60 each year.
God of War Collection, if you havent played any of the GoW games like i have this would be the perfect collection for you. Everything will be be in HD 720p and a GoW3 demo to boot!
I don't know what game to get on my PS3 from this list COD Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, or Uncharted 2 Among Thieves. Could you guys help me pick the best game from this list!
Probably COD Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward has experience at creating epic single-player experiences. So, if you have only single-player, go for MD2. IW is also good at creating balanced multiplayer and the unlocking system will keep you playing for far longer than normal. Multiplayer goes to MD2 as well.
I'm back. (Original Username: TheDarkKnigh7
Want to play League of Legends?
Well if you want single-player and multi-player, get Call of Duty, but Assassin's Creed 2 is going to be an awesome single-player experience, probably the best out of the three you want IMO. Uncharted will be good too, but personally I'm a bigger fan of Assassin's Creed.
You should get both COD MW2 and Uncharted 2 ! Save your money do whatever you got to do to get those games ! One of those games would be a really good choice because both will have alot of replay value ! = )
Well the top choice for me would be Modern Warefare 2. But to tell you the truth I'm getting all 3. So just think about it, your taste is different from ours.
Theres 2 great games coming out, Assains Creed 2, And ModernWarfare 2. But what one should i get.
Both simple as that

Get Your Portable ID!
Modern Warfare 2, Brutal Legend, Uncharted 2 (Which got a 10 out of 10), and Assassins Creed 2. They are all coming out in the October-November Range. I can't wait.
It depends, if u have an xbox or a ps3, modern warfare 2 or Assassins Creed 2, if u have a ps3 only, Uncharted 2, if u have a wii, than that sux for u.


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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation have opened a hunting season for gray wolves on their reservation that sprawls across 1.4 million acres in northeast Washington, saying wolves have reduced the number of deer and elk that tribal members hunt for food.
Meanwhile, Washington state wildlife officials are working with ranchers in the region to take proactive steps to avoid conflicts between livestock and wolves, after the state garnered criticism for killing a wolf pack that had been preying on livestock in the state's northeast corner.
The tribal hunt opened two weeks ago, though no wolves have been killed yet, according to tribal chairman John Sirois.
"We just believe we may have a few too many," Sirois said. "So when we authorized the hunt, we wanted to find an appropriate way to manage wolves and keep a balance for fish and wildlife."
Under the Colvilles' hunting regulations, up to three wolves may be killed in each of three regions on the southern half of the reservation northwest of Spokane. The season closes Feb. 28, 2013 or when all of the wolves allowed to be killed are taken in a given zone.
The tribes are continuing to develop a management plan for wolves going forward, Sirois said.
Gray wolves were eliminated as a breeding species in Washington by the 1930s, but they have since migrated to Washington from Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia. They are listed as endangered throughout Washington under state law and the western two-thirds of the state under federal law.
A wolf management plan approved late last year requires 15 successful breeding pairs for three consecutive years to remove endangered species protections. Four breeding pairs would be required in eastern Washington, the North Cascades and the South Cascades or Northwest coast, as well as three other pairs anywhere in the state.
There are currently eight confirmed wolf packs in the state -- five of them in the state's northeast corner. Four other packs are suspected but not yet confirmed.
Earlier this year, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife hired marksmen to shoot and kill members of the Wedge Pack, which was believed to have killed or injured at least 15 cattle from the Diamond M herd that grazes in a large area near the Canadian border.
Dave Ware, the agency's game division manager, said Tuesday that state officials have been attending meetings with livestock producers to give them technical advice and offer expertise about avoiding conflicts with wolves in the future.
Ware also said hunters have been calling in numerous sightings of wolves in recent weeks, and wildlife officials will be working to survey wolf populations and capture and collar wolves this winter.
At least one wolf in seven of the eight confirmed packs has been collared already, allowing wildlife officials to better track their movements. The Lookout Pack in Okanogan County is the only pack without a collared wolf.
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|2012-04-08, 19:00
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Man I agree with Gene098 am still a little pissed at the baster ,
but like Fallen3dge that sugou guy got beat up in both VR and the real world by a kid and is in jail or dead I dont just get over a little.
2 Q" first Q have asuna and kirito had sex in the real world yet or has been any talk about it ? I know they kissed as soon as they meet in the real world and they had sex in the SAO VR but have they done it in the real world.
Is asuna staking kirito ?
What does NTR mean again I kinda forgot ? I am trying to remember but well I cant.
|2012-04-08, 19:18
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Thank you joshuafaramir. That's obama as your avatar huh.
|2012-04-08, 21:52
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hi everyone, i just saw this commercial for a google project
maybe it wont be long until they can make a nervegear ...
|2012-04-08, 23:20
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When you said " I dont just get over a little." did you mean you will not get over it or you can get over it because it's a small thing?
And NTR is the worst thing humanity has created.
|2012-04-09, 01:27
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What I trying to say was bro that even I got mad and pissed about that whole thing with that bastard sugou but I got ever it . I think you can too. or at least try. If you get mad about this much it then I can only imagine how mad you get when this gets animated.
And yes I understand what NTR is.
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|2012-04-09, 14:46
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Yui interview:
Spoiler for Yui interview::
the other interview are pretty easy to understand mostly if you google translate, most of the interviews (Asuna and Kazuto) are about what they usually do on their date and some sensitive question about their sensitive body part and asuna favorited underwear color
Talking about 16.5 there are other Six IF chapters:
1_yuri stuff between 2 lord in ALO
2_yuri stuff between 2 lord in ALO (real)
3_ecchi stuff with Lizbet as main heroine
4_echhi stuff with the nurse in the hospital ("kazuto-kun is really good with ecchi stuff ne")
5_Tentacle with Asuna - from volume 3 or 4 when she got discovered by ... tentacle avatar
7_Asuna and lizbet little ecchi experience ( Lizbet: I 'm a pervert, doing those thing with Asuna).
I will try to translate the interview to check on my Jap skills since I last looked at them 6 months ago
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|2012-04-09, 17:16
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2)What do you mean from
"6_Tentacle with Asuna - from volume 3 or 4 when she got discovered by ... tentacle avatar"
-All that happened in the volume itself was enough, are you trying to fuck with me saying those tentacle fucks did more?
3)In vol 4 Sugou...
A)"Mmm, a good fragrance. It was a struggle to reproduce the scent of the real world's Asuna-kun. I wanted you to appreciate the effort of bringing the analyzer to the hospital room."
-Did the fucking hog shit scan Asuna's body in RL by bringing a fucking machine in?
B)"While shouting, he grabbed the red ribbon at the collar of Asuna's dress with his right hand. As he pulled, the cloth stretched and tore. The thin blood-red ribbon fluttered through the air without a sound and landed on the ground before my eyes.
From the torn dress the pure white skin of her chest was greatly exposed. Asuna's face was distorted in humiliation and her eyes shut so tightly she shook.
Sugou bent back, laughing with a smirk while stretching his right hand out to Asuna's bare skin. His lips opened in the shape of a crescent moon and he stuck out his vivid red tongue. While making a sound of dripping mucus, he licked from below Asuna's cheek up. "
B1)When he pulled off the ribbon did it show the upper part of her chest(not including breasts since he wrote chest instead of breasts) or was she plain naked and he saw everything?(Because it never stated anything more than the ribbon coming off and a torn dress, so i am hoping that it meant that the ribbon only came off?)
B2)Did the fucking dipshit lick the side of Asuna's cheek up or did he fucking lick the front of her face up(which isn't where the cheek is located *facepalm* but I just want to make sure, the dipshit did not touch her lips.)
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Hey guy's here is something to think about asuna initiated the relationship with kirito right, BF and GF thing and intimate and physical relationship with kirito. The sex to put it simply.
Here the Q I want to ask yui when your mama and papa make love in ALO who is the one that ntimates it your mama or papa ?
Yui's most likey to sayYui: mama does.
Asuna is a the more ecchi one the couple.
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A)I Believe it is to analyze the air to give enough smell data
B)I believe it is in the VR world
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Armored Car Clash!
|Armed Car Clash!
|Trey Welsh
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|Omnitron, Downtown District, Anywhere City
Armored Car Clash!, also known as Armored Cars!, is a mission in Grand Theft Auto 2 given to protagonist Claude Speed by Trey Welsh, leader of The Zaibatsu Corporation in the Downtown District, in Omnitron, Downtown District, Anywhere City.
Trey Welsh informs Claude Speed that Doctor Cubana, a Latin biologist who works for The Zaibatsu Corporation, has been kidnapped by the Yakuza and is being tortured in a Yakuza Miara being driven around the Downtown District. Welsh tells Claude Speed of the two vehicles he needs destroyed, as he does not want Cubana to squeal. Claude Speed then locates the two Miara's and destroys them, killing Cubana.
Trey Welsh: Hey, Gecko! Our Latin Biologist Doctor Cubana is being tortured for information in one of two Yakuza cars circling the city. Destroy the cars before he squeals.
(Claude Speed locates and destroys one of the two Yakuza vehicles)
Trey Welsh: That was resourceful, Gecko, but one car's still at large!
(Claude Speed locates and destroys the second of the two Yakuza vehicles)
Trey Welsh: People can always be replaced but secrets cannot. Excellent work, Gecko - well worth $60,000.
Trey Welsh: (If time runs out) Doctor Cubana talked and the Yakuza gained many pharmaceutical secrets. You were tough, Gecko, but not tough enough.
The reward for completing this mission is $60,000.


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his personnel peeps are mike tannenbaum and co. they said this at the presser, so it's not new news. that said, i think odrick, hughes and cody are all strong candidates at 29. i can't see them going cb in the first again.
Some interesting stuff....Of course who are his "personnel peeps"? If he has any....What he says is primarily what Tannebaum said the other day that Rex and Pettine feel they don't need high DE picks that they feel they can develop DEs..
Another look into the crystal ball
April 17, 2010 9:42 AM
By Rich Cimini
A couple of weeks back, we unveiled the first draft-watch list -- five candidates for the Jets with the 29th pick in the upcoming draft. This is the 2.0 version, and we have some big changes.
Dropped from the list: USC S Taylor Mays, Northwestern DE Corey Wootton and Oklahoma State WR Dez Bryant.
Obviously, the acquisition of Santonio Holmes greatly reduces the need for a wide receiver.
Mays probably will be gone by the 29th pick, but as some personnel people around the league pointed out to me, safety isn't a value position in Rex Ryan's defense. The value positions are nose tackle (good ones are hard to find), pass rushers and cornerbacks. Lots of cornerbacks.
At first glance, defensive end would appear to be a need position, but the feeling among my personnel peeps is that Ryan and D.C. Mike Pettine can get by with ordinary talent at end. In a 34 front, the ends are table setters, tying up blockers so others can make the plays.
Obviously, there are always exceptions (the Ravens once drafted some safety named Ed Reed in the first round), but you get the idea. With that, our updated list:
DE Jared Odrick, Penn State, 6-5, 304: I know what you're thinking: "He just said they're not going to draft a defensive end." Well, you're right, but Odrick is a versatile player who can play end in a 34 front and tackle in a 43 front. One GM told me Odrick is one of the safest picks in the draft. Unfortunately for the Jets, he probably won't make it to 29.
OLB Jerry Hughes, TCU, 6-2, 255: Arguably the best pure pass rusher in the draft. Ryan is looking for his new Terrell Suggs, and we all know it isn't going to be Vernon Gholston. The one knock on Hughes is that he's a bit undersized, which could hurt his ability to play the run. The Packers (No. 23) are looking hard at Hughes.
NT Terrence Cody, Alabama, 6-4, 354: Yes, Mt. Cody. He caught a lot of grief at the combine for being so out of shape and so slow, but this dude can play football when he's in proper condition. Nobody -- repeat, nobody -- ran on the Crimson Tide. Cody is rising on draftboards and probably will be chosen at the bottom of Round 1. The Chargers (No. 28) are interested. Kris Jenkins is doing well in his rehab, but he's going to be 31 and never has been the most durable player. Maybe Ryan envisions a Cody-Jenkins tandem in the middle of his D, a la Tony Siragusa-Sam Adams from back in the day.
CB Devin McCourty, Rutgers, 5-11, 196: When the Jets traded for Antonio Cromartie, everybody figured they didn't have to draft a corner in Round 1. While it may be a bit of overkill, take a closer look: The nickel and dime backs are Dwight Lowery and Drew Coleman. Clearly, they need another corner. A nickel back can play 50% of the snaps on defense, so there is value there. If the big fellas and the pass rushers are gone, don't be surprised if the Jets grab another corner.
G Mike Iupati, Idaho, 6-5, 331: Just a hunch. The Jets would have to trade up, but we all know Mike Tannenbaum can do that in his sleep.
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In off-the-field news: WR David Clowney, who recently returned from a good-will trip to Haiti, is planning to go to Ghana in July to host a football game and visit an orphanage and a hospital. To make the trip possible, he's hosting a fundraising event.
Check it out: On May 18, Clowney and some of his teammates will be at the Applebee's in East Hanover, N.J., taking orders and mingling with the customers. Proceeds will go to Clowney's foundation and its efforts to raise money for the trip. For more information, go to www.davidclowney87.com or call 1-866-958-9991.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jet...#ixzz0lMuoK7nO
his personnel peeps are mike tannenbaum and co. they said this at the presser, so it's not new news. that said, i think odrick, hughes and cody are all strong candidates at 29. i can't see them going cb in the first again.
I think the pick will be either McCourty or Odrick. But a trade up for a guard is a laughable scenario
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I'd be pleased with Kindle, Hughes, or Cody.
I might be the only one, but I really want no part of Odrick. Safe pick means just that, he'll never be anything special.
Can't really explain it, but he doesn't do it for me at all. He'd be a waste of a pick at 29 IMO.
What makes him better than Lamarr Houston, other than 6'5" vs. 6'3"?
I would pull hard for Cody...Him and Jenks in the middle would be unstopable
Odrick will be a JAG if hes lucky.
I would go with Hughes. He is the best passrusher in the draft. Then either take a CB or OL in round two, and Austen Lane in rd 4.