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Sandra Davids saw them running – women with babies, men carrying blankets, clothes, identity papers, anything they could save from the mob. The next day she did the only thing she could think to do: she went to church. She has been here ever since – sorting baby clothes, laying out rows of tiny shoes, and guiding dazed, uprooted mothers.
Local school principal Neal Lochenberg sprang into action last week, organizing a task force of churches and mosques, nongovernmental organizations, and community leaders to set up a relief distribution system for thousands of foreigners who had been chased from their homes.
This area east of Johannesburg has been the site of some of the most horrific violence against foreigners living in South Africa, a country-wide explosion that has left more than 50 people dead and tens of thousands on the run. But at St. Vincent's Anglican Church, local volunteers are showing a different side of Reiger Park – a different side, really, of South Africa. Here, in a grass-roots effort, hundreds of volunteers are giving foreigners food, clothes, and care. When asked about the violence, they express a mixture of sadness, shame, and resolve.
"Reiger Park is an impoverished community," says Mr. Lochenberg. "Despite that, the people here respond to their ethical, moral instincts to care for their displaced brothers."
It is a sentiment that has been repeated across South African in recent days – a counterpoint to the images of burning shacks, shell-shocked refugees, and, at its most gruesome, "necklacings," a method of execution in which fuel-filled tires are put over victims and set alight.
Solidarity with foreigners
Over the weekend, thousands marched through downtown Johannesburg, carrying signs in support of immigrants and equating xenophobia with apartheid. On Sunday – Africa Day here – President Thabo Mbeki publicly decried the violence, saying the holiday would be marked "with our heads bowed."
"The shameful actions of a few have blemished the name of South Africa," he said. "Never since the birth of our democracy have we witnessed such callousness."
Although foreigners are often scapegoats in South Africa – blamed for everything from committing crimes to stealing South African jobs – and although xenophobic attacks have occurred in the past, the intensity and breadth of this month's violence is unprecedented.
As it spread from Johannesburg's Alexandra township to other impoverished areas around the city, and then to slums in Durban and Cape Town, some in the government theorized about a "Third Force" behind the unrest; a shady element intent on destabilizing South Africa.
On Wednesday, Mr. Mbeki called in the Army to help quell the attacks.
Since then, however, most government officials have reversed course, saying that the trigger for the violence was likely socioeconomic – a misdirected outburst in communities long frustrated by poverty and horrendous living conditions.
The Ramaphosa settlement, named for a hero in the fight against apartheid, is one such community.
A dense, treeless expanse of shacks built of cardboard and aluminum sheeting, Ramaphosa is the picture of South Africa's continuing struggle with unemployment and impoverishment.
Last weekend, gangs of South Africans roamed the maze-like dirt streets, shouting that Africans of other nationalities were the cause of their problems, and that it was time for revenge.
"This was something that was building up," says Ms. Davids, who has lived in Reiger Park for 16 years. "Still, I'm just shocked that it happened like this."
Jean Louw got a call on Saturday. Father Hobby Kekana was on the other end of the line, asking her to come to the St. Vincent's Anglican Church complex.
He told her that hundreds of exhausted, terrified foreigners were camping on the church grounds – their only place of refuge from xenophobic violence consuming Ramaphosa.
He needed his parishioners.
Heeding the call to help
For a week, she has been cooking porridge, vegetables, ground beef, anything to feed the shell-shocked crowd – she's not sure whether to call them refugees or neighbors.
"Our hearts are just so sore," says Ms. Louw, taking a break from cooking in the church's small kitchen.
She says that she has recognized acquaintances in the crowd seeking refuge at St. Vincent's – a gardener from down the street, for instance, and the man who used to pick up the church's garbage. "You just don't know what to say."
The church courtyard today is a surreal calm; people sitting on plastic chairs, chatting quietly, playing cards, watching children make castles in the dirt.
Piles of belongings – blankets, big plaid plastic duffle bags stuffed with clothes, the occasional television or electric heater – form a hilly landscape.
Laundry hangs from the metal fence around the church property.
It as if everyone is waiting – although for what is anyone's guess.
A beat-up white Mazda drives to the back of the church and offloads a man struggling with a box and a battered suitcase. His eyes dart around, and he makes his way to one edge of the courtyard. The number of new refugees has slowed, volunteers say, but there is still a constant trickle – people who have tried to return to their shacks, only to find them burned or occupied.
At this point, local authorities estimate that few if any foreigners remain in the Ramaphosa settlement.
In the church sanctuary, Lucinda Baloyi perches on the back of a pew, clipboard in hand, asking questions of Nohlahla Norgeit, a young Zimbabwean woman grasping a tiny baby.
It's Baloyi's job to take details of the newcomers – name, country of origin, number of children, possessions lost. She has been at it for three days – taking off time from her work as a nurse.
"I'm struggling today," she says with a sigh. There are so many people milling in and out it's hard to keep track; and now the stories are blending together.
Ms. Norgeit's experience seems typical: she and her husband ran from their home of three years when crowds started roaming the streets last weekend, burning shacks and looking for foreigners to kill. When she went back a few days later to collect her belongings, she saw that everything was gone – their television, their clothes, even their bedding.
"I have nothing now," she says. "I want to go back home. To Zimbabwe."
Grace Dekoker, another volunteer, walks over with some baby clothes and a few skirts.
"Do you like any of these?" She asks. Norgeit smiles, and takes a yellow frock.
Next Baloyi talks to Pasqual Pacwele, and copies his details from his passport. Mr. Pacwele is Mozambican, and has lived in South Africa since 1975. His wife and five children lost their home and all of their belongings, he says. He came to St. Vincent's because he heard he would be safe until he could find a way to return to his home province. On Friday, the government of Mozambique declared a state of emergency to better cope with the estimated 15,000 Mozambican citizens who have fled South Africa in recent days.
"I am thanking God for these people," Pacwele says, nodding toward the volunteers. He tries to smile, but looks desperately weary. "My life was here. Only God knows why this happened."


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The SQL Developer news is that Oracle SQL Developer 1.5 Early Adopters 1 (EA1) is out. If anything that should have had me straight on the blog, but I am tracking feature issues and feedback on the forum and so didn't. Then one of the team sent me this tip and it was just too good to lose:
You can use alt-shift-# (where # is a number) to create a "editor bookmark", then use alt-# to navigate to it.
So, if you have a number of worksheets open, you can create a bookmark selecting alt-shift-1, which assigns an alt-1 navigator shortcut to the active editor. You'll see a small numbered icon on editor's tab. If you repeat that for each open tab, then you can then navigate between tabs using keyboard strokes, alt-1, alt-2, etc.
A Few Other Keyboard Strokes:
- To use code editor templates you have created (in the preferences) use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+T.
- The keyboard shortcut for the SQL History is crtl +up or ctrl + down. This replaces whatever is in the worksheet with lines from your history.
- To create a new, unshared worksheet, use the keystroke ctrl+shift+N. This creates a separate, unshared worksheet. The unshared worksheets are labeled as follows: HR_ _<1>
So it seems there are lots of tips about, which you might like to know about or which you have discovered on your own and wished someone had told you. I'm going to try to tell you more and often as I can. If you have some for me, I'd love to hear about them.


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The Soil…It's Alive!
by Margaret A. Hill
How do desert plants survive baking heat and constant drought? With the help of cryptobiotic friends!
Cryptobiotic? It sounds like something out of a graveyard horror movie. Actually, the word means "hidden life" (from the Greek words kruptos and biotikos). Invisible to the casual observer, dense mats of cryptobiotic organisms, including cyanobacteria, lichens, mosses, green algae, and microfungi, mix with sand and clay to form a life-sustaining soil in desert regions. Without it, a lot of desert plants wouldn't survive.
Imagine yourself as a desert plant exposed to constant heat that threatens to bake you dry and wind that blows sand out from under your roots. You would have a hard time making it. Desert heat and sand are not hospitable to vegetation that needs stable, moist soil for root growth. But weave together a combination of tiny organisms, sand, and clay, and you get a mat of living soil that resists erosion and holds on to water like a sponge—enough to make a difference to a lot of desert plants.
The tiny organisms at work in this cryptobiotic soil range from single-celled bacteria and algae to multicellular lichens, mosses, and fungi. Cyanobacteria, sometimes called blue-green algae, are one-celled microbes that often grow in long, thin tube shapes called filaments. As they grow, their stringy cells push through sand and clay, binding these particles in a crusty mat. Likewise, lichen, moss, and fungi put out tiny root-like projections that do the same thing. This crusty mix is ideally suited for dealing with the ups and downs of water availability in the desert. During wet spells, water is soaked up and held by both the organisms and spaces within the crust. During dry spells, evaporation is slowed because the crust tends to hold on to its bound water.
Take the pinyon pine and Utah juniper, two evergreen shrubs that grow abundantly in the desert region of the U.S. Southwest. It's not just the seedlings of these shrubs that germinate easily in the shelter of their cryptobiotic crust—their vulnerable young roots also get a strong start. This same protection allows the growth of an amazing array of unusual plants like the narrow-leafed yucca and Mormon tea plant. The cryptobiotic ground cover helps these plants by acting like a layer of mulch to prevent their roots from drying.
These same plants depend on their cryptobiotic friends to keep from starving. All plants obtain nitrogen-containing compounds from soil. Since deserts don't have much natural fertilizer, their plants have to rely on the soil organisms for help. Cyanobacteria and certain lichens are able to carry out a series of reactions that convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. Called nitrogen fixation, this process allows these organisms to act like tiny fertilizer factories, spewing out ammonia and related compounds into the soil, where plant roots can take it in.
Plants aren't the only ones to benefit from this arrangement. Cryptobiotic organisms also profit from their plant pals. As pinyon pines, Utah junipers, and other plants grow, their root systems spread deeper and wider and act as stabilizers. By providing root structure to soil, shade from sun, and protection from wind, they promote cryptobiotic growth.
You can find this amazing living soil in deserts worldwide. In the United States, it is estimated that the bumpy crust covers up to 70 percent of deserts stretching from Mexico up through most of the Southwest and Northwest. If you travel in any of these areas, look for it—you can recognize it by its ridged, lumpy appearance.
It's a good thing to recognize, too, since this crust is quite fragile and is easily destroyed by hikers, off-road vehicles, cattle, and anything that crushes it. Once crushed, the cryptobiotic crust breaks up and blows away, leaving exposed the sand beneath. It can take more than 50 years to replace the damage done by a few minutes of careless hiking. By recognizing and protecting these hidden cryptobiotic creatures, you can make the "friendships" come full circle—you included.
- algae:
- Various chiefly aquatic, eukaryotic (containing a membrane-bound nucleus) photosynthetic organisms, ranging in size from single-cell forms to large kelps. They are not considered land plants because they lack true roots, stems, leaves, and embryos.
- What makes up the crust described in this article?
[anno: The crust is made up of a mixture of tiny organisms, sand, and clay.]
- What kinds of activities harm this crust?
[anno: Hikers, off-road vehicles, cattle and anything else that crushes this crust harms it.]
Why is it important to preserve this crust?
[anno: The crust helps other plants grow by providing the plants with nutrients. If the crust is destroyed it can take 50 years to grow back.]


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Whistler was most interested not in subject matter in his paintings, which he considered only a means to an end, but with the formal qualities of the painting itself--colours, composition, tonalities, values, textures, and the pigments themselves. His 1862 painting of his mistress, entitled The White Girl, a woman dressed in white on a white background, he subtitled Symphony in White. His most famous work, the painting of his mother, further illustrates this tendency. It was entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black. In later years he moved to London and became fascinated by the work of J.M.W. Turner and the abstract, painterly qualities of his work, which he quickly integrated into his own.
In London he painted a number of nocturnes (night scenes) including Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. This painting depicts a fireworks display over the Thames River and can only be termed an "adventurous use of pigment." Never one to accept criticism easily or take rejection lightly, the artist was outraged when the English critic John Ruskin wrote that Whistler had flung "a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler sued for libel, and won the case after a much-publicised trial, but was awarded only one farthing in damages.
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CHICAGO — An ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and a wave of missed financial reporting deadlines are swirling around Bally Total Fitness as the health club operator actively seeks a buyer for its nearly 390 health clubs. While walking the show floor at the International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association convention (IHRSA), CEO and Chairman Paul Toback declined to speculate on the strategic sales process, but according to a SEC filing, Bally authorized its advisors, JP Morgan and the Blackstone Group, to take the next step in selling Bally by setting up strategic discussions with interested parties.
Bally is widely circulating its pitch book, a comprehensive report detailing the market conditions, Bally's debt, historical financials, and breakdowns of financials at the club or regional level, said Consultant Rick Caro of Management Vision. According to the New York Post, Bally handed out these books in early March and the first round bids were due in mid-April. Once these bidders advance to the next round, they gain access to a data room and most likely will visit a smattering of Bally clubs nationwide. As is the case with many large companies up for sale, the next step is for Bally's advisors to organize an auction to get the best price for the company, Caro said.
Many private equity firms, other health clubs and real estate investment trusts are interested in scooping up Bally, according to the March 21 article in the Post. At the IHRSA show in Las Vegas, however, the name of one potential buyer spread like wildfire through the show floor — Virgin Active, which has 700,000 members worldwide and owns 25 clubs in the United Kingdom, 77 clubs in South Africa and 12 clubs in Europe. Several Bally employees dropped by the Virgin Health Care booth at the IHRSA show to verify the rumor that the Virgin Group, owned by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, is eyeing a takeover of Bally as a way to grow its health club business in the United States. Unnamed sources in the Post article said executives at Virgin Active were reviewing a pitch book created by JP Morgan Chase & Co. and the Blackstone Group, Bally's advisors.
Bally shares soared to a four-year high when the Post article stated Bally could be sold for $1.2 billion or $12 a share and Virgin Active was among the list of the potential buyers. Acquiring Bally could be a fast way for Virgin Active to quadruple its number of clubs, said Consultant Michael Scott Scudder of Fitness Focus.
"If (Richard) Branson does want to expand Virgin into the United States, a billion dollars would be a cheap entry point," Scudder said. "Bally has four million members, and they could buy a lot of branding at a relatively cheap price."
Lori Levine, a Virgin spokeswoman, said she was not aware of any discussions between Virgin and Bally about a possible sale, but that didn't preclude the company from taking a close look at Bally down the road.
"We have very successful health clubs in England and South Africa, and it wouldn't be far fetched for us to do something in America," she said. "We haven't been approached by Bally, but that doesn't mean we won't have some interest in them in the future."
While Bally operates mid-priced clubs, Virgin Active runs high-end clubs overseas, and the two companies wouldn't be a good fit, said Caro, who has visited Virgin's clubs in England. The Virgin clubs have a strong emphasis on children's programming, trendy cafés and strong relationships with insurance companies. Health club members can earn points toward Virgin products and services or pay lower health insurance premiums simply by working out.
A more likely scenario would be for Virgin to open up their own clubs in the United States rather than rebranding Bally's existing operations, Caro said.
"Virgin has a unique brand and the image of being very cutting edge and service-oriented, and it would be hard to translate other clubs' size and shape into their culture," he said. "It may be better for them to create their own green fields as they go forward."
Caro predicted that a financial firm will be the most likely buyer of Bally.
"They are experts in restructuring and financial engineering," he said. "There may not be a lot of synergy for Bally as a whole with any other club company. If Bally were to split up in pieces and sell off clubs in small markets or regions, it could be a strategic buyer in the club industry, but if they intend to sell the company as a whole, the most likely party would be a financial firm."
Bally's buyer should try to restrict debt, invest fresh equity, create an attractive pricing model and consolidate the number of regions served by the health-club chain, Caro said. The new owner will most likely take a close look at how the company is being run, he said.
"They could make sweeping changes from the outset as a sign to the public markets and the outside world that life at Bally will be different going forward," he said. "There's nothing to say that a financial firm won't take this company private and run it in a way that information will not be available on a quarterly basis. They could also have a smaller board of directors and select people who are already well known to the financial firm."
Pay Day
In addition to hanging a "for sale" sign on the company, Bally Total Fitness is also working on filing delayed financial reports. The March 16 deadline for filing Bally's 2005 annual report slipped by, and the fitness operator plans to file the 10-K a month late. Bally delayed the filing of its audited financials for 2004 and restated financials for prior years, which led to difficulties in updating legacy systems and testing and managing the company's internal controls, according to a report from the company.
Once the company files the 2005 annual report, Bally will award a $200,000 bonus to Toback and a $100,000 bonus to Carl Landeck on top of the $1.535 million in 2005 bonuses the company has already awarded its top executives. Toback earned a $700,000 bonus for 2005 compared to $400,000 for 2004 (see chart on page 32). When setting the amount of the bonuses for the fiscal year 2005, Bally's compensation committee selected company-wide earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) as the financial performance goal as well as the executives' personal performance goals.
Granting Bally executives exorbitant bonuses in the wake of delaying its 2005 annual report is a slap in the face of Bally's shareholders, Scudder said.
"It's an absolute abomination that at a point in time when they're trying to sell the company, they would take $1.535 million out of Bally when there are no earnings," he said. "Bally still has a negative cash flow, and it appears they paid out the bonuses before they got to the bottom line."
While the bonuses were ill timed, Caro isn't sure Toback didn't deserve the bonus.
"In our industry, that sounds like a lot of money, but Bally is a billion-dollar company," he said. "It may be that the board is satisfied with the work that has been done up to this point, and they see it as an accumulation award."
By the Numbers: Executive Compensation at Bally
|2004 Bonus
|2005 Bonus
|Paul A. Toback
|Chairman, President and CEO
|Carl J. Landeck
|Senior Vice President, CFO
|Marc D. Bassewitz
|Senior VP, Secretary and General Counsel
|William G. Fanelli
|Senior VP, Planning and Development
|Harold Morgan
|Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer
|John H. Wildman
|Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
|*Paul Toback will earn an additional bonus of $200,000 upon filing of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005.
|**Carl Landeck joined Bally in April 2005 and will be eligible to receive an additional bonus of $100,000 upon filing of the annual report for the year ended Dec. 31, 2005.
|***Carl Landeck and Mark Bassewitz were not employed by Bally in 2004 and therefore didn't receive bonuses during that time.
|****William Fanelli served as the senior vice president and acting chief financial officer in 2004.


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Basketball: Boomers name six rookies in 12-man squad to open three-match China series
The Boomers have selected a 12-man squad featuring six rookies for Friday night's basketball clash with China at Perth Arena.
With Australia unable to consider a host of its overseas stars, new coach Andrej Lemanis has been forced to pick the majority of his squad from NBL ranks.
The Adelaide 36ers are the best represented of the NBL clubs despite finishing last on the table, with 2012 London Olympian Adam Gibson joined by team-mates Jason Cadee, Anthony Petrie and Daniel Johnson.
Petrie, who turned 30 on Monday, is in line to make his Boomers debut along with team-mate Johnson, Cairns sharpshooter Cameron Gliddon and Tigers guard Chris Goulding.
College duo Cameron Bairstow and Igor Hadziomerovic are also in line for senior debuts.
The likes of Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Brad Newley, Aleks Maric, Joe Ingles, Matt Nielsen, David Andersen and David Barlow were unavailable for the series.
In contrast China's 16-man squad consists of 10 players who featured at the London Olympics.
Five-time Olympian Zhizhi Wang, a 214-centimetre centre who spent time with NBA outfits Dallas, Los Angeles and Miami, headlines the squad, while Yue Sun also boasts NBA experience after a short stint with the LA Lakers.
The match will be the first in charge for new Boomers mentor coach Lemanis, a three-time NBL championship-winning coach who beat out former Wildcats manager Rob Beveridge for the top job.
China also features a new coach in the form of Greek legend Panagiotis Giannakis.
The Boomers will take on China in Perth on Friday and Sunday, before the series switches to China for the final two games of the series.
Boomers squad: Adam Gibson, Jason Cadee (Adelaide 36ers), Ben Madgen (Sydney Kings), Chris Goulding (Melbourne Tigers), Clint Steindl (Cairns Taipans), Jesse Wagstaff (Perth Wildcats), Anthony Petrie, Daniel Johnson (Adelaide 36ers), Luke Nevill (Townsville Crocodiles), Cameron Bairstow (University of New Mexico), Cameron Gliddon (Cairns Taipans), Igor Hadziomerovic (Boise State University)
China squad: Zhizhi Wang, Zhaoxu Zhang, Peng Zhou, Jinhui Ding, Fangyu Zhu, Li Yi, Yue Sun, Wei Liu, Shipeng Wang, Shuo Han, Jianghua Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Bo Zhang, Zhe Ji, Mugedaer Xierlijiang, Xiaoxu Li.
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In his tractor, Kent Fann is like any number of family farmers trying to overcome obstacles and succeed from year to year. It's not until you see how he got there, however, that you start to appreciate his story.
Involved in a life-changing accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down in 1985, Kent had to relearn how to farm, relying on a big dose of faith, using innovative methods and learning "how to make the most out of what you can do."
Today, he runs the day-to-day operations of Fann Farms in Salemburg, N.C., farming with his father, Kenneth, mother, Virginia, uncle, Keith, brother, Bennett, and other family members, including his wife, Terri, and their son, Robert. Kent and his wife's daughter is a senior at North Carolina State University. They grow 3,946 acres of cotton and 200 acres of flue-cured tobacco in Sampson County, N.C.
The 17 years since he broke his back in a go-cart racing accident have been ones of growth, both for himself, his family and the farming operation.
Hoisting himself into the passenger seat of his four-door pickup, Fann pulls off the wheel of the lightweight wheelchair and drags his legs into the passenger side as he scoots behind the steering wheel and off he goes to tend to the management of a family farm.
Fann had already been farming for about seven years after high school when he broke his back at his belt line. The accident did more than affect him physically. It left him asking questions about his future on the farm. "I thought farming was out of the question," he says.
So, he focused his attention off the farm.
He had more than a year of vocational rehab studies at Sampson Tech in eastern North Carolina and was leaning toward pursuing a degree in engineering at North Carolina State University following rehab at the Sheppard Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta.
There was just one problem. He could never shake "that love of farming."
Coming across work at Purdue University with handicapped farmers and ranchers, Fann began to see that there could be a place on the farm for him.
He bought a manual that showed how equipment could be modified "to put handicapped farmers back to work. It made me aware that I could get back in the farming game." His father and uncle modified combines and tractors that allowed him to operate the controls with his hands, and it wasn't long after that was in the field doing the same chores he had done when he could walk.
Fann remembers those early times in a wheelchair as anything but certain, and day-to-day at best. "One of the hardest things I ever asked myself was, 'What am I supposed to do with my life?'"
Add the 1980s farm crisis to his already challenging situation and Fann started to think that selling out might be the answer. With that thought, Fann began to realize how much farming meant to him. "When I thought farming was taken away from me, I then realized how bad I really wanted to farm."
The epiphany of sorts gave Fann back "his desire to farm and helped me become more determined to keep on farming and work those things out."
"A lot of drive and determination" is how his wife, Terri, describes her husband.
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since those early days after the accident. Fann is out of the day-to-day fieldwork and in a managerial role today, a move brought on by an expanding farming operation. The farm has moved away from small grains to completely cotton and tobacco.
Speaking at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences this past January, Fann drew delighted chuckles from the crowd when he told of his brother's innovative on-the-go soil sampler.
A four-wheeler was beating Bennett Fann to death as he went about his soil sampling duties following cotton harvest. Earlier, he had suffered a heart attack at age 39. So, instead of turning the job over to another person, he cut a hole in the passenger-side floorboard of a Geo Tracker. "He came up with the idea," Kent says of his brother.
"Our innovation was one of the reasons we were selected to go to Beltwide," says Fann, who was on a panel of growers from different parts of the Cotton Belt.
Fann credits his father, Kenneth, with the innovative spirit on the farm. Kenneth Fann put in his 51st crop of tobacco this spring. "We learned our innovative ways from him, but he also taught us to be practical about it. My father has always been one to start welding on a piece of new equipment even before he got it in the field. He continues to teach us to be innovative, but in a practical way. He says, 'don't bet the farm on one idea.'"
Ideas abound on the Fann farm. Seldom a year goes by when something isn't tweaked or changed outright for the better.
"This year we totally changed what we had done from last year with strip-tillage," Kent says.
Keith Fann modified an Unverferth ridge-strip rig. He straightened the blades behind the ripper and replaced the rolling basket with a solid-steel, Teflon-coated roller. Kent calls it, "rip, roll and Roundup.
"We're trying to rip the residue and mash it back down," Kent says. In between frequent rains this spring, the rye cover crop had headed out by the time the Fanns could get in the field for burndown. "We put a bar behind the roller to knock down the rye as we sprayed Roundup. We got as good a kill as with any boom sprayer that we ran. I won't say this will work every time, but with all the rain we've had, we were looking for anything we could use." The Fanns made a methodical switch to strip-till in cotton over the years when they saw the problems associated with destroying the cover crop residue and the benefits of leaving it in the field. "I'm a big believer that you have to do something to save your soil structure," Fann says. A cover crop works well in the Coastal Plain soils of eastern North Carolina.
About three years ago, high micronaire was putting a damper on high yields. Out came the innovation.
The Fanns started mixing two varieties in their hoppers at planting. They plant Delta and Pine Land 451 BG/RR and Delta and Pine Land 501 BG/RR. "We had some high micronaire problems with the 501 on sandy land, but when we mixed the seed with 451, we got the best of both worlds: lower mike and higher yields," Fann says.
"It seems to us that on sandier land the 501 would out yield the 451," Fann says. This season, he planted about 2,000 acres of Delta and Pine Land 555 or "Triple Nickel" as it's popularly called. He planted six bags of the variety last season. "Yields were a third more than other varieties." He uses Delta and Pine Land 5415 RR to fill in the refuge requirements.
Sitting in the farm office with his wife at another desk, Fann sees two forces at work in cotton: First, prices are lower than he'd like; second, the farm bill is going to be a tremendous help as long as "we keep the payment limitations the way they are right now."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has re-introduced his payment limitation bill again in Congress. "Payment limitations would be devastating for us because we're a family farm," Kent says. He points out that last year's double whammy of low yields and low prices would have been exacerbated under the payment limits that are now being proposed.
"Hopefully this year, we will have this new farm program and yields will be better," Kent says.
He markets the crop with the Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative in Garner, N.C. "I've been well pleased with the Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative," Kent says. "It takes a lot of the burden off us. It takes so much time to produce a crop that it's hard to be there every day and analyze what's happening with the crop and make decisions."
Fann acknowledges that focusing too much on the farming scene today can lead to depressing thoughts. "Faith has got to be very special for a farmer, especially a cotton farmer."
He tells a story of a friend in Salemburg whose father owned a hardware store and grew cotton. When the friend got out of college, he did the numbers and told his father there was no money in cotton.
"Cotton is the worry crop, insects, boll weevils and weeds — something to worry about all year long," Fann says. "If a man or a woman doesn't have faith, I don't see how they get through the year without faith in the Lord. People will spend millions of dollars a year to get the crop to harvest and then could wind up with nothing."
Faith was important before his accident, but it became even more so in the years after.
"When I had my accident I learned to depend on God," he says. "I had to believe that God was going to make everything alright," Fann says, while paraphrasing Romans 8:28 in the Bible.
The accident also taught Fann the importance of communication. "I had learned to communicate with my wife," he says. "I had to get good at it or I was going to lose my marriage. Before, I had the tendency to withdraw and hold things inside."
"We had a good marriage before the accident," says his wife, Terri. "They (at the rehab center) told us that 80 percent of the couples who had to go through the trauma of an accident like the one Kent had would divorce. We decided we would be in the 20 percent that stayed married."
Fann has been a deacon at the Freedom Baptist Church in Salemburg for the past 17 years. When the Southeast Farm Press visited him, he and another deacon had conducted the funeral service earlier in the day for a church member who had passed away. Their pastor was in Honduras on a mission's trip. "The family had enough confidence in us to carry out the funeral."
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With Manchester United's new manager David Moyes coming in, we take a look at what deals he may do in the summer to strengthen the Premier League champions.
Having worked with the England left-back at Everton, Moyes will be keen to link up with Baines at Old Trafford. Even though Patrice played well last season, he continues to be linked with a move away from Manchester United. Monaco are reported to be showing an interest and if Moyes decides to allow Evra to go, then surely Baines will be his number one pick to replace the Frenchman.
One of David Moyes' top targets will be a midfielder, after Paul Scholes retired. Fellaini is a player Moyes knows well and could be a target. His ability is clear to see but he may be further down the list of preferred midfielders that Moyes wants to bring in. A Scholes-type player would be the sort of player he will be looking for but a big physical player, like Fellaini, is still a possibility.
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
This would be the deal of the summer, and may well break the world transfer record. If Moyes wants to bring Bale to Old Trafford it is reported he would get the money to do so. Reports are saying an £85 million bid will be made and that Bale would prefer to stay in England. That would make United favourites to sign the Welshman and it is unlikely Tottenham would reject such a big bid. He would be the type of signing that would make United favourites for the Premier League title and would surely make them one of the favourites to lift the Champions League.
Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)
A top European striker who knows how to score goals - every team's dream. And the fact that Dortmund have come out and said they will not sell Lewandowski to Bayern Munich and the striker has just one year left on his contract means a deal will probably happen.
A top player who has not reached his potential, Anderson would be a good signing for any team. There is only a small chance he could stay at Manchester United but if he does he will have to have a good season to earn a future at the club.
With only a year left on his contract it is likely Nani will be sold. He continues to frustrate when he plays but when he is on top form, he can destroy full backs. He has been linked with a move away and several teams are showing an interest. If Nani wants to stay, he needs to convince Moyes by hitting top form early next season.
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Bleeding esophageal varices are enlarged veins in the walls of the lower part of the esophagus that bleed. The esophagus is the tube that connects your throat to your stomach.
Scarring (
The extra blood flow causes the veins in the esophagus to balloon outward. Heavy bleeding can occur if the veins break open.
Any type of chronic liver disease can cause esophageal varices.
Varices can also occur in the upper part of the stomach.
People with chronic liver disease and esophageal varices may have no symptoms.
If there is only a small amount of bleeding, the only symptom may be dark or black streaks in the stools.
If larger amounts of bleeding occur, symptoms may include:
- Black, tarry stools
- Bloody stools
- Paleness
- Symptoms of chronic liver disease
Vomiting Vomiting blood
Exams and Tests
Your doctor will do a physical exam which may show:
- Bloody or black stool (in a rectal exam)
Low blood pressure Rapid heart rate
- Signs of chronic liver disease or cirrhosis
Tests to find the source of the bleeding and determine if there is active bleeding include:
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (
EGD), which involves-the use of a camera on a flexible tube to examine the upper gastrointestinal system
- Insertion of a tube through the nose into the stomach (nasogastric tube) to look for signs of bleeding
Some doctors recommend EGD for patients who are newly diagnosed with mild to moderate cirrhosis. This test screens for esophageal varices and treats them before there is bleeding.
The goal of treatment is to stop
If massive bleeding occurs, a person may need to be put on a ventilator to protect the airways and prevent blood from going down into the lungs.
To treat acute bleeding:
- The health care provider may inject the varices directly with a clotting medicine, or place a rubber band around the bleeding veins. This procedure is done using a small lighted tube called an
- A medication that tightens blood vessels (
vasoconstriction) may be used. Examples include octreotide or vasopressin.
- Rarely, a tube may be inserted through the nose into the stomach and inflated with air. This produces pressure against the bleeding veins (balloon tamponade).
Once the bleeding is stopped, varices can be treated with medicines and medical procedures to prevent future bleeding including:
- Drugs called beta blockers, such as propranolol and nadolol that reduce the risk of bleeding.
- A rubber band can be placed around the bleeding veins during an EGD procedure.
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (
TIPS). This is a procedure to create new connections between two blood vessels in your liver. This can decrease pressure in the veins and prevent bleeding episodes from happening again.
Emergency surgery may be used (rarely) to treat patients if other therapy fails. Portocaval shunts or surgery to remove the esophagus are two treatment options, but these procedures are risky.
Patients with bleeding varices from liver disease may need more treatment for their liver disease, including a liver transplant.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Bleeding often comes back with or without treatment. Bleeding esophageal varices are a serious complication of liver disease and have a poor outcome. Placement of a shunt can result in a decrease of blood supply to the brain, leading to mental status changes or encephalopathy.
Possible Complications
- Encephalopathy (sometimes called
hepatic encephalopathy) Esophageal strictureafter surgery or endoscopic therapy Hypovolemic shock
- Infection (pneumonia, bloodstream infection,
- Return of bleeding after treatment
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider or go to an emergency room if you vomit blood or have black tarry stools.
Treating the causes of liver disease may prevent bleeding. Preventive treatment of varices with drugs such as beta blockers or with endoscopic banding may help prevent bleeding. Liver transplantation should be considered for some patients.
Related:Cirrhosis – discharge, Liver disease, Bloody or tarry stools, Shock, Hypovolemic shock, Esophageal stricture – benign


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second, i liked lucidinthe sky's idea:
lucidinthe sky wrote:I suggest adding a topic called "Dream Science" for those who wish to discuss engage in discussing the purely scientific aspects of dreaming. It would kind of be a counterweight to the "Paranormal Activities" section which I think is also good. Some of the more scientific minded people on the forum would probably appreciate it.
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Saint Michael's College is a 4-year university that offers top-level academics and an excellent environment for learning and living. It's a great university for success in career and life.
Saint Michael's College is consistently rated among the top 10% of universities and colleges in the United States.
After receiving a Bachelors degree from Saint Michael's, over 95% of our students enter the work force in a variety of careers or continue their education in a (post) graduate program. Our most prominent graduates have found fame in politics, business, the arts, and other fields. More recent graduates are profiled here.
Each year we ask our new students why they selected Saint Michael's over all the other universities in the United States. Their top-5 answers are: academic excellence, good relationship with faculty, size of Saint Michael's, location in Vermont, and a social conscience.
All kinds of students attend Saint Michael's, but if we had to provide a general profile, it would look like this:
What does this mean? Liberal Arts do not constitute a course or a specific program. It is an educational approach that teaches skills as well as critical thinking, leadership, communication, and how to succeed throughout one's entire life. Famous graduates of liberal arts universities include U.S. presidents, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and famous writers. Barack Obama graduated from a liberal arts school.
Undergraduate students may receive valuable work experience with any one of a multitude of employers throughout Vermont. The Office of Career Development helps international students to identify and receive suitable internships. Because Saint Michael's is well-known throughout Vermont and New England with an excellent reputation, students are welcomed in all kinds of jobs, including banks, businesses, theatres, newspapers, television studios, non-profits, and others.
Saint Michael's beautiful campus is located just moments from downtown Burlington, a great university town and the cultural center. Burlington was recently named the "safest and healthiest city in the United States" by the US government. The state of Vermont is home to some of the best outdoor activities on the east coast of the United States, including skiing, hiking, mountain climbing, biking, and sailing. We are a two hour drive to Montreal, three hours to Boston, and a short flight to New York City.
Few universities know how to take care of international students as well as Saint Michael's. International students are supported throughout their stay, starting when they are met in person at Burlington International Airport (BTV). All students are supported by international advisors throughout their tenure at Saint Michael's.
Saint Michael's College is a "residential university," which means that most students live on campus in close proximity to fellow students, faculty, and all university facilities including the library, dining halls, athletic facilities, theatres, and club meeting spaces. Residential universities provide a supportive and friendly environment without the concerns of having to shop for food, arrange home repairs, commute to school, etc. Generally, the costs for living on campus, once meals are factored in, are quite reasonable compared to living on one's own.
Because Saint Michael's College is a residential university, on-campus housing is not available for undergraduate students older than 23.


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Andy Little claimed a hat-trick as Rangers secured a 4-2 victory over Berwick on Saturday
Andy Little claimed a hat-trick as Rangers secured a 4-2 victory over Berwick in the Irn-Bru Third Division on Saturday.
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David Templeton was also on the scoresheet, while Ross Gray and Fraser McLaren briefly provided hope of a comeback for the visitors.
Francisco Sandaza and Dean Shiels both started for Rangers, while captain Lee McCulloch missed out with an ankle injury and Ian Black was suspended.
Little was on the scoresheet when Rangers were fortunate to escape with a 1-1 draw at Shielfield and he was on target again in this match to open the scoring after just nine minutes.
Sandaza did well to force his way into the congested box but was unable to produce a clean shot and the ball fell for Little to stab over the line from an acute angle at close range.
Berwick's hopes of staging an Elgin style comeback began to fade when Little added to his earlier strike just two minutes after the restart when he volleyed home a Templeton cross from the left.
The former Hearts winger grabbed a goal of his own after 53 minutes. Little released Sandaza down the right flank and he whipped an inviting ball into the box where Templeton connected with an acrobatic volley, leaving Ian McCaldon with no chance.
There was a blow for Rangers when Chris Hegarty pulled up in the middle of the park and the defender was quickly replaced by Sebastien Faure.
But it was a Berwick substitute who had an immediate impact on the match.
Gray pulled a goal back for the visitors after 66 minutes when he lashed home from a Kevin McDonald cut-back with his first touch of the ball.
McLaren then dispatched a bullet header into the back of the net from a Lee Currie corner after 73 minutes to claim his second goal of the season against Rangers.
Just when a tense finale appeared to be on the cards for the home side, Little completed his hat-trick with a cool finish from the edge of the box a minute later, before Templeton struck the post late on.


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Women's Tops
Sometimes it's hard to find geeky ladies' shirts that are on-trend. We know. We're geeks, too. That's when we hop in our TARDIS to source women's apparel from Star Wars (and other) galaxies far, far away. You'll find all sorts of tops here: cardigans, raglans, racerback tanks, hooded pullovers. And we source for all shapes of geek, too, with fitted, plus-size, and even maternity options. Geeks come in many flavors. So should their clothes.


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lukeohea needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 140 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Reciprocal Talent
Hi, my name is Luke. I'm a husband, father and lover of sport and technology. I have a background in recruitment and bookmaking (working for an online sports betting website) and I'm looking to combine my passions and provide an executive search service to the online gambling sector to the APAC region.
The company will focus on high end search and selection and will need an exclusive/high end corporate feel to it.
Desired audience will be those working in the internet gambling sector which covers a wide section of the workforce. Will need to not rub anyone the wrong way, yet have an executive feel to it.
We are looking for a logo to represent Reciprocal Talent, a company working towards becoming the leading search and selection company in the iGaming sector within Australia and Asia.
Looking for a clear, simple typeface
Nothing tacky like like dollar signs or anything although some sort of icon could work well
I like blue, white and black (as these will probably be the main colours used in my wordpress theme)
Like and respect the below companies
Not in the recruitment space but I like the logo on this website;
Needs to be sharp, corporate, and show an appreciation for technology without being tacky, too funky or "wannabe". - please view http://www.respectsearch.com.au/ for an example of what not to do.
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Classic Waterer, W2 (0.4 gal/1.6 qt)
For watering chicks and small scale poultry flocks. Simple design that's easy to use and clean.
- Capacity: 0.4 gallon (1.6 quarts)
- Approx. size: 8"H, 8" pan dia, 0.5" pan depth
- Suited for: chicks
- Number of birds: 15
- Waterfowl: yes
- Can it hang: no
- Designed to be shallow and narrow lipped to help prevent chicks from drowning.
- Coned top prevents birds from roosting.
- Push fit top.
- For indoor and outdoor use.
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PLAINVIEW- Dealing with the public has enough challenges of its own. Throw in the dynamics of dealing with different cultures and values and the challenges rise.
According to Debbie Stennett, director of the Community Classroom at Wayland Baptist University and a longtime educator, the culture of poverty is one many overlook as having its own issues and challenges for those who work in the public sector.
Stennett will lead two workshops in Lubbock to help teachers and agency personnel understand the behaviors of the poverty culture and help clients who fall into that category.
The first, Poverty Training for Teachers, will be held Jan. 30 – Feb. 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Region 17 Education Service Center, located at 1111 W. Loop 289 in Lubbock. The registration fee is waived for all SDFS SSA school districts, and the fee is $75 for participants in non-member districts. Three workbooks are provided for the training, which provides 18 hours of professional development.
The second workshop, Poverty Training for Agencies, is slated for Feb. 20-21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lubbock Campus of Wayland Baptist University, located at 801 N. Quaker. The fee is $25 per person.
Based on the work of Dr. Ruby Payne and Phillip DeVol, the workshop provides information on helping clients in poverty develop stabilizing resources. Participants will learn about the causes of poverty and community sustainability, the hidden rules of families in poverty, the role of language, family structure and resource development. Instruction will be provided through small-group activities, PowerPoint presentations, Web site reviews, class discussions and video clips.
The session for teachers deals specifically with issues faced in education when developing intellectual capital in children of the poor.
"We're missing a lot of that capital in children because poverty issues often hinder their growth and progress in school," Stennett explained. "Schools build communities by developing that intellectual capital. They're facing so many other issues at home and then we expect them to step up to learn."
Teachers will learn about interlocking resources in poverty and classroom implications; the roles of language, story structure, and discourse patterns in poverty; discipline in poverty and classroom interventions; and cognitive and affective strategies for improving performance in students from poverty.
The workshop content is much the same for agencies, though Stennett notes the shorter duration and the more generalized content.
"The poverty framework for agencies is about developing a shared and informed perspective among social service professionals who daily serve the poor. Participants will learn about behavioral patterns common to families in generational poverty that often puzzle the middle class," Stennett said. "They can expect to learn, too, about building resources within their clients to help them help themselves."
Stennett said the information is vital as communities work to improve the work force and the commerce of this area.
"It's about social change that starts deep within individuals and about connectedness and relationships with the poor whose increasing numbers threaten community sustainability in rural areas," she said. "It's also about breaking the cradle-to-prison pipeline. There are some states that predict how many prison beds they will need by third-grade test scores. How stunning is that!"
Registration for the teacher session can be made by calling Region 17 offices at 792-4000. To register for the agency session, or for more information, call Stennett at the Community Classroom at (806) 291-3650.


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It seems as if every presidential race carries with it the title of "The Most Important Election of Our Time."
It seems as if every presidential race carries with it the title of "The Most Important Election of Our Time."
Welcome to the 2012 presidential election.
While other elections have carried that weight of hype, voters in the Poconos seem to think this election is different. This one actually may be The Most Important Election of Our Time.
"It absolutely is," said Dennis Jeter, a 43-year-old Republican (leaning Democrat) and Bartonsville business owner. "It's the most important in terms of direction of our country that I've ever seen. If we put the wrong guy in office, the damage could be irreparable."
As part of a six-week reader panel that will take us right through Election Day, the Pocono Record hosted a round-table discussion of voters in the Poconos Monday.
The panel of 14 voters hit on pre-election topics such as the direction of the country, voting for policies instead of candidates and why this is The Most Important Election of Our Time.
"My son told me, 'It has to get worse before it gets better,'" said Leigh Stelzer, 69, a Democrat from Mount Pocono and a retired business professor from Seton Hall University. "If it doesn't get better, in four years, there will be a revolution."
And if the panel discussion was any indication, that revolution will be about money — how much the government has, how it spends it, how much the country's population has and how much it should have.
The sputtering or rebounding economy — depending on who you talk to — is at the forefront of every conversation about this presidential election.
The secondary effects of a vibrant national economy — more jobs, more businesses, more EVERYTHING — still are rooted in one of the most important questions of the election:
Who can turn this economy around?
"What kind of person would you want leading (the economy)?" asked Jonathan Maula, 24, of Henryville, an Independent and a commodities trader. "The guy (Romney) who invested funds into franchises like Toys 'R' Us, Burger King or Staples, or the guy (Obama) that subsidized dozens of energy companies that never got off the ground?"
Panelists spoke of the great and still-growing divide not just between the parties, but of the class of its citizens on both sides of the argument.
"The middle class is doomed," said Linda Zak, a 65-year-old Democrat from Saylorsburg. "There are people that don't even want to keep it. The middle class is getting sucked down, and we're looking at the realistic possibility of a two-class system, just like a two-party system. I really believe the middle class is so endangered, it's going to disappear in my lifetime."
Some of the other issues in the race most important to the panelists — energy, the environment and foreign policy — are closely tied to the country's economic status.
Panelists are worried that America can't progress until the economy shows some signs of turning around, and some believe that can't happen until the government starts owning up to its financial obligations.
"As a small-business owner, I can't keep my business of 24 years open if I spend more than I take in," said Rick DeFino, a 51-year-old Republican from Snydersville who owns the Original Pocono Pub in Bartonsville. "The government needs to get its house in order like the small-business owner does."
There is a definite disconnect between the panelists and how the candidates are speaking to them.
Most said they either don't believe or don't trust what the candidates say on the campaign trail, making it too easy to tune out from the real message.
"I'd like to ask the candidates what kind of (stuff) they're going to show us on (television) in that last month," said Lance Mirkin, 50, a Republican and owner of Pocono Motorsports in Pocono Lake. "What kind of lies are we going to hear? Because it's all preseason until the World Series starts in October."
"Both parties are guilty of selling the presidency to the highest bidder," said Ray A. Williams, 65, a Democrat from Stroud Township. "I think it's up for sale. Neither candidate is addressing us. They're prostituting themselves."
There's enough frustration to go around at the system itself and how the two major parties have divided the country.
"In the '60s and '70s, it used to be an ideological divide," said Joe Ashcroft, 65, a Democrat and a professor at East Stroudsburg University who was once a candidate for a local state representative seat. "Now that idealogical divide has become strictly a party divide, right through the country."


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RH 1041 fishing reel handle silver with white knobs
This is a USED product. NOT NEW.
Rods1 sales used parts that are as shown in picture. View picture before making purchase. Sometimes the only way to get a reel working is to find a good use part. We sale use parts as an alternate way to repair a reel for your customer or your collection. Used parts can be cleaned and polish without hurting the collection value in more modern reels. (This may not be true with older reels). The part shown in picture can be enlarged for a better view. Rods1 will take returns on all parts, ( no question ask). You just have to pay shipping and handling. On some older reels a good use part is all that is available. These parts are no longer manufactured, so the only resource we have is finding a new part in some shop some where. Or find a good use part.
Unknown. This means Rods1 has not identified the maker or manufacturer at the time of posting. There are many items in reel collecting that are unknowns. This is where as a community we can help each other identify these products and share the information with others. Rods1 hopes if you have information on a part or product you will contact us so we can show the right information. This is also true if you see that Rods1 has made a mistake about a product. We would welcome the correction of such information.


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- article number: 99004568
A children's shirt with a round neck and long sleeves. The shirt has a green and blue striped pattern and a text print on the front.
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Design-Projects needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Ostroff Injury Law
Ostroff Injury Law is a Pennsylvania personal injury law firm specializing in personal injury and car accident cases. With 20 years experience in personal injury OIL is one of the most established firms around Plymouth Meeting.
Website is http://www.ostroffinjurylaw.com/
Audience are people who have been in a car accident ( or serious accident) in the past year. We would like to have one of our lawyers talk with them about helping them get a fair settlement.
Here are the 3 advertising ads which have worked well. We will be running both a Leaderboard (728 x 90) and a Medium Rectangle (300 x 250); Will contract the winner to create the 2nd design after we agree on a winner.
Jon Ostroff Injury Lawyer
A "20/20" lawyer with 20 years experience on over 20,000 Personal Injury Cases!
Ask Jon about your case, call 800-681-8620 for a free consultation
Been In A Car Accident?
Speak to a personal injury lawyer about it now!
Call 800-681-8620 for a free consultation
Free Accident Injury help
Consult with a top winning PA lawyer
Free home or hospital visits.
We would also like to incorporate the company logo, possibly the image of Jon Ostroff the senior partner, possibly an image of a car accident.
I will leave regular feedback on the designs we see to find a winning ad we can run with!


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I want to update my current web-site.
This contest is for design only. Conversion to Joomla template and populating with content will be done separately.
Home Electronics
Please see existing web-site at http://www.home-electro.com. The content will change a bit, but will remain mostly the same. So the design must support all elements of the existing web-site. I want to keep the blue as the main color, otherwise I'm flexible.
General requirements
Pixel width: 800 min, 1024 max.
I want to have flexible width page, like this one:
So that it extends from 800 to 1024 if the window allows.
Top level menu will remain the same as on the current web-site.
On the home page I want to have a moderate size picture that allows to
quickly grasp what my products are doing. It will have my device, remote control, PC, TV or other device and
signals going in various directions. A very poor sketch of the picture can be seen here:
To get an idea of the size of the picture that I want, take a look at this one:
All standard fonts: Arial and whatever other fonts everybody has.
Navigation elements (menus, buttons) will use graphics only for background. On our current web-site you can see all menues are made of GIFs. On the new site they won't be. The menus will be texts over graphics or solig bg color.
I hope that does not sound very confusing.
So please no effects on the texts anywhere, other than what could be achieved by using CSS. The only place where effects are allowed are title with the company name.
The current logo could be taken from here:
Please submit design for home page and for tira2 page
NOTE: from the logo file only take text. It does not need to be on thesame background as we currently have, and we don't need the icon either.
- Flash.
- Pictures of smiling people and/or handshakes


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PHILADELPHIA – When Superstorm Sandy doused the lights along coastal New Jersey nine months ago, it laid the groundwork for a summertime baby boom that has hospitals jumping.
"It was a crazy time," said Dr. Steven Morgan, who practices obstetrics and gynecology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. "A lot of people were home, a lot of people didn't have TV, and obviously a lot of reproduction was happening."
Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch is on track to deliver about 500 babies this month, up from 371 delivered at the same time last year, said Dr. Robert Graebe, who heads the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center expects about 200 births this month, up from 160 in July 2012.
Both hospitals said they were bringing in extra staff to cope with the baby boom.
Sandy slammed into the area on Oct. 29, causing more than 200 deaths and $50 billion in damage along the East Coast.
Many Jersey communities were without power for long periods of time.
"There is something about that heightened arousal, that sense of emergency and danger that does seem to cause people to form this physical connection, to kind of compensate in some way," said Dr. Christine Tintorer, a psychiatrist at Monmouth Medical.
"It almost sounds like psychobabble kind of stuff, but I think it does tap into this kind of primitive instinct, like to preserve the species."


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...Out-of-competition urine tests actually dropped 47% from 2012. Urine tests are often, but not exclusively, used to screen for prohibited substances such as the blood-booster Erythropoietin (EPO) and testosterone.
[Stuart] Miller said that the decline in urine tests was not necessarily a trend and "reflects the balance of the type of analysis that we feel we wanted to focus on in 2013."
[Don] Catlin, who heads the Catlin Consortium and is best known for uncovering the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ring (BALCO), remained skeptical that athletes were not somehow tipped off to out-of-competition testing.
"These data are interesting but they do not provide the key data," he wrote. "Were the athletes informed when the test would take place? Of course they say 'no.' "
Taking a close look at doping control in professional tennis. How stringent is it? We also look at other issues related to the integrity of the sport.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Not necessarily a trend...
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this is very disturbing, it is in German but can be translated.ReplyDelete
at least he has the balls to admit his guilt. Others come up with lame excuses, like over-the-counter medications, and their b.s. is accepted by the authorities, and their sentences are reduced.ReplyDelete
Steroids, Stem cell therapy, Transhumanism, Cyborg athletes, where do we go? Armstrong got caught because a team member finally blew the whistle, not because of effective doping controls. How many other Armstrongs are out there? Or should I ask, how many other whistle-blowers are out there? I feel like giving up on Nadal. There will never be a whistle-blower in his case. The tennis business has absolutely no economic interest in bringing down the Spanish Bull, much the opposite. And the stuff Nadal is using / doing is probably not even illegal yet, because it's so new that the controllers don't even know about it. Everything about Nadal feels so wrong, so obvious, yet there seems little outcry beyond a few blogs on the internet crowded by Fedfans under suspicion of being sour losers. Or am I just one of them, and my imagination about Nadal went off board????ReplyDeleteReplies
It is a sad state of affairs, and it's true that any fans of Fed accusing Nadal of anything are simply labelled as 'sore losers' due to the H2H. They seem to ignore the fact that the gaping chasm in class, sportsmanship and level of suspicion regarding illegitimate actions is more than adequate justification for having some bias.Delete
After the AO final, I accused Nadal of severe gamesmanship either faking or grossly exaggerating his 'injury', which is what I believe we witnessed. I got called a sour loser about this, which I found quite funny, given the fact that Nadal did not win the final. My point is, the guys who got caught in Sochi are: Latvian hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs, Ukrainian cross-country skier Marina Lisogor, German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Italian bobsledder William Frullani and cross-country skier Johannes Duerr. All world-famous and extremely rich sport celebrities, isn't it!? :-) In tennis, they catch the real 'big guns' like Nuria Llagostera Vives, Viktor Troicki and Marin Cilic. Is there a level of stardom and top money maker where you become 'untouchable' for the anti-doping agencies?Delete
@Manas: Regarding the question of 'untouchable' athletes: I don't think so. It is more likely that the 'stars' only became 'stars' due to their ability to trick the doping authorities, while the less famous athletes are either not smart enough to avoid being caught or not willing to use PED's in the first place.Delete
@cdcd: all those rumors about silent bans indicate that some athletes are 'untouchable', meaning that they will be protected no matter whatDelete
@Manas you forgot Niklas Backstrom.Delete
We have seen with Lance Armstrong (who paid to have a positive test covered up), and Carl Lewis (who had a positive test covered up before the 1988 Olympics), and Agassi (who had a positive test covered up by the ATP, because of a lame lie that he drank someone else's drink) that the athletes with the most fame are untouchable . Not to mention Serena, and Nadal, who are brazen, and obvious dopers.ReplyDelete
There is almost no doubt that the higher ranked athletes are treated differently. There is NO WAY Nadal will ever be caught by the ITF, or any Spanish authority. If he is caught, it will be by some third party that has no interest in protecting his "hero" status.Replies
and if he is caught it's swept under the rug and he's allowed to use one of his many body parts as an excuse for either losing early or pulling out of tournaments. I'm still baffled that this guy took 7 months off for a knee injury and came back winning almost everything in sight including a tournament he had never been able to win before (Cincy) and three other hard court tournies.Delete
Dear THASP, can you please, please, produce a 'Curious Case of Rafael Nadal - Part II'? Since you published this in 2011 it made its way through the internet like no other article about Nadal and Doping, and people start to be suspicious (booing the guy in a Grand Slam final, that is already something!). But how many new curious things have happened since 2011, which make this guy even more ridiculous?ReplyDelete
Athletes are apparently using xenon for boosting EPO and testosterone levels in a process that was not only undetectable by current processes but also unknown to doping officials (I wonder if the second part is actually true). At any rate, given that this seems to have been going on for at least a decade, I don't see any rational argument that current anti-doping is even close to making an impact.ReplyDelete
Not only Xenon, but apparently experimental medication against anaemia: http://cyclingtips.com.au/2013/04/oxygen-in-a-pill-the-next-big-thing-in-sports-doping/Delete
From the article: " Drugs such as these are most effective for their therapeutic uses and any uses in sport would likely be very hit-and-miss. I can only see it being effective at the high end of sport."
I think we can all be sure that doping is a sad, undeniable truth that's here to stay in elite tennis.
Training in changing alttitudes and gluten-free weight loss has been Djokovic main strategy for increasing his stamina, I suppose. I don't know how CVAC compares to Nadal's blood doping.
I was always curious about the effects of CVAC. The following indicates that they are far less than doping: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0184034.htmlDelete
No where near the "double what is seen in doping" that the manufacturer claims. The studies indicate a 4.7% increase in red blood cells and a 5.3% increase in hematocrit. However, these results were after administering CVAC "40 minutes, 4 times a week, over an 8 week period."
So, assuming you are a "typical" male with a HCT of 40%. After 8 weeks, you achieve 42.12% -- a 5.3% increase. This is no where near as much as dopers would expect to achieve. Certainly, it doesn't hurt -- and it does indeed improve performance, but I don't think that CVAC alone explains the phenomenal endurance of some of today's tennis players.
Nadal has a close call with Stepanek in IW so of course he says the back is still bothering him - even though he won a tournament in Rio a couple weeks ago.ReplyDelete
For 2014, back is the new knee!Replies
'He says the back is now "healthy," bad news for his opponents in the California desert.'Delete
Apparently not.
He says here (French press) he has no confidence in his serve because he's scared of hurting his back again if he goes full throttle. He adds it's not as bad as in Rio (where he won), though: http://www.eurosport.fr/tennis/masters-indian-wells/2014/indian-wells-nadal-toujours-perturbe-par-son-dos_sto4166252/story.shtmlDelete
The "beauty" with Nadal is that he always sets up a potential loss by invoking a potential injury. Rafael Nadal = the only player in ATP to be unbeaten*.
*When 100% healthy
It's so hard for me to understand how a former pro can say something like that, in the steroid rage era of Nadal and Co.: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/tennis-henman-believes-doping-significant-tennis-142833776--ten.htmlReplyDeleteReplies
"When you see what's happened in cycling, for example, it's a catastrophe for the sport. We've got to make sure that isn't going to happen in tennis and I don't think it will."Delete
Nor do I, Tim, don't worry. What are we wishing for, that no one does what Lance did, or that no one gets exposed like Lance did? The latter would satisfy Tim's wishes and is far easier to control.. And honestly, the defensive, somewhat desparate posture of the sentiment makes it seem he doesn't want tennis to 'get caught' because it will ruin tennis. Players doping isn't a catastrophe for tennis - People love watching tennis even with suspicious behaviour throughout the season - Players doping AND GETTING CAUGHT is catastrophic for tennis.
Again, tennis is being chalked up as a skill sport and therefore not one that would facilitate advantages from doping. Is he really proposing this tired argument again? Is this actually a Stuart Miller piece that's had his name replaced with Tim Henman?
I know this has been beaten to death but if there are two players of similar skill level and one of them dopes, then they likely hold the advantage. The amount of extra possible training, recovery between matches, recovery between points, speed and endurance during matches, longevity throughout the year will all increase. Every single one of those is advantageous. Skill being a big component of tennis is a red herring. Even if you were to somehow argue that tennis is 90% skill and 10% athleticism, manipulating that 10% would certainly prove advantageous, especially when we consider both the fact that physical recovery aids lengthier training/practice. In this era of slow courts, baseline ball bashing, running and retrieving I doubt very much 90/10 would be a responsible ratio to decide upon. Even players with reasonable skill can perform well through physicality (like Ferrer).
I concur with the above. Tennis is now more a 50/50 game where skill and physicality are concerned. You can have all the skill you want, but just being able to continue serving at the same level in a best of match requires tremendous physical strength and stamina. Anybody who says otherwise has no clue as to what the game is.Delete
Heck I think the game was at least a 65/45 in terms of skill and physicality back in the Sampras era. Pete even mentions in his book that handsy (players who had very skilled hands) in tennis rarely got anywhere, and it was the harder workers who got their bodies into position and performed the stroke using the entire physique who usually won matches.
Of course the fact that Sampras says now that he believes tennis is doping free is probably PR. Good publicity is one of the things the bodies governing tennis has worked on tirelessly over the years; so it is unlikely that you will see a break from this culture and see a Nadal, Djokovic or Federer get caught doping.
It's a little off topic but I would like to express my opinion about something. Are you - Roger fanatics, really that dumb or you just like to act as dumb people? Which one describes you better? Has anyone of you fanatics watched the Indian Wells final? Ok, maybe you're right about one thing. Doping. perhaps, gave Nadal a big edge over opponents at the beginning of his career, speculating that it was only him at those times that juiced up for big tourneys (smth I don't beleive in). And yes - Nadal has always been the most suspicious guy on tour considering his "injuries", drastic differences between performances at different tourneys, etc.... But hey, this is how doping affects Rafa and only Rafa. He's obviously the guy who benefits the most from juicing and maybe nature does play a significant role in his case. But it doesen't mean that Roger has never doped. Everybody dopes nowadays, unfortunately, in big sports. I am European and my even bigger pain is that doping is to same extent crucial for success in soccer, as it is for tennis. The last evidence is the Indian Wells final. Come on, guys. Are you for real blind to admit that your hero is also a cheat (as everybody else from the big guns). Your hero was at least equal to Djokovic, both physically and menatally. And it has always been funny to me reading posts here complaining about Rafa being bigger, stronger and faster. Well, in my opinon, doped or not, that is again nature - Federer has technical advantage, better serve, etc, and Rafa is simply bigger, stronger and faster. What is so weird about that? My point is that it is at least unethical to devote such a brainwashing blog to Rafa. (whatever you say, most of the posters here are Fed fans and number 1 cheater is always mentioned to be Rafa).ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm a Federer fan. Is this proof that I'm dumb? No. I accuse Nadal of most probably being a serious doper. Is this proof that I'm dumb? No. I consider it a possibility that Federer is doping as well. Is this proof that I'm dumb? No. Based on the typical indicators, I think that Nadal is more likely to be a doper than Federer. Is this proof that I'm dumb? No. I demand for more serious doping controls, and drastic public punishments (not silent bans) for those who are guilty (no matter if they are Swiss or Spanish). Is this proof that I'm dumb? No.Delete
But let's be fair, you not only ask if I'm dumb, you also consider the possibility of me acting like dumb. You might actually be right on this one. I still care about tennis and watch the matches, like if there was no doping involved. Long time I stopped caring about cycling and the winners of the tours. That continuous interest in tennis, assuming that there might eventually fair conditions for all players, is in fact an effort of acting like dumb, against all better intuition.
Rafa is mentioned frequently because he's the most suspicious case by far. Way more than Federer, Djokovic... Actually, if you visit this blog frequently, you can assess that the suspicious here is pretty much against everyone. Even Federer and Djokovic. So, you can stop that strange argument you got there.Delete
Some comments by Nadal about doping at about 3:15. Does he look like he is lying ?
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Nadal lost early in Indian Wells. This gives him plenty of time to "prepare" for a run in Miami. Who wants to bet his goal is to win Miami for the first time? I'm so sceptical of this guy that every time he loses early I just assume there's a plan. Nothing against Dolgopolov but let's be realistic.ReplyDelete


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Chris Rainey <3
Chris Rainey <3
Comon Pope you gotta come down with that one
Were gonna score alot of points this year...
in class, need a good feed PLEASE
Punt on now.. line blocking not so good that time.. just get the starters out
hampton looking pretty damn good so far
Yeah, wuz really gettin tired of the 1 or 2 point wins.
He sure as hell is trying though.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a rare show of support for President Barack Obama, Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday they would work with the White House to address the crisis in Ukraine and vote on legislation offering financial aid soon.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the Republican-led House will consider a $1 billion loan guarantee package for Ukraine and look at measures to "put significant pressure on Russia to stop the flagrant aggression to its neighbor in Ukraine."
"The world community should stand united against this invasion, America should be leading and we'll vote soon on legislation to aid the Ukrainian people," Cantor told reporters.
House Speaker John Boehner also said that the House will work in a bipartisan way with Obama, a Democrat.
A bill to assist Ukraine, backed by both Republicans and Democrats, is also making its way through the U.S. Senate.
That legislation could be introduced as soon as this week, with a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as early as March 11, said an aide to Senator Bob Corker, the top Republican on the committee.
Senators have been discussing ways to aid Ukraine's new government and isolate Russia. Among other things, the Senate legislation would also authorize funds to provide at least $1 billion in loan guarantees to support Ukraine's economy.
But the Republican leadership also had some harsh criticism of Obama's foreign policy.
"With regard to Ukraine, the steps that have not been taken over the last three or four years, (by Obama) frankly, allowed Putin to believe that he could do what he's doing without any reaction from us. But given where we are, we're here, in a bipartisan way, trying to work with the president, to strengthen his hand," Boehner said.
He said this includes the loan guarantee bill as well as consideration of a "toolbox" of sanctions authority that is similar to those used against Iran in recent years to persuade it to rein in its nuclear ambitions.
Boehner also criticized Obama for failing to approve liquefied natural gas exports, which could help lessen the dependence of European allies on Russian gas.
But since 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy has approved six proposals to export liquid natural gas, most recently on February 11. Supporters of U.S. energy exports have pounced on the crisis in Ukraine to pressure the Obama approval to speed approvals of LNG.
Cantor said it was important that the costs of the Ukraine loan guarantee be offset with other savings, but the House will proceed to a vote on the measure without a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office to move it quickly.
Any dispute in Congress over how to pay for the measure could slow its progress.
Editing by Eric Beech and G Crosse


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A WITNEY man was found hanged just a week before Christmas.
Sam Kiff, 25, took his own life on December 18 last year, Oxfordshire Coroner[s Court was told yesterday.
He was living at his girlfriend's house in Station Road at the time of his death.
The court heard he had been to the doctors in November complaining of headaches and a year previously told his GP he had felt depressed.
Coroner Darren Salter said: "The conclusion is one of suicide."