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The Chevrolet Camaro, a high-performance muscle car, originally served as Chevrolet's answer to Ford's Mustang in 1967. It remains one of the fastest pony class cars available with superb handling and a sleek, attractive body design.
The early 1900s marked an exciting time in automotive history. Some of the biggest company names in car design and manufacturing opened their doors at this time, creating the products that would become the foundation for a rich and long history in U.S. automotive tradition. Of course, Chevrolet is part of that groundbreaking tradition and has been respected for its attention to detail and consistently superior products since the beginning.
Chevrolet originated from the partnership of Louis Chevrolet, a noted racecar driver and engineer, and William C. Durant. With financial backing from several sources, the two founders created a company and car line to compete with Henry Ford's company for the American public's devotion. The company eventually merged with General Motors Company in 1918. The name Chevrolet continues to be used for specific car and truck models with the same dedication to excellence as in the past.
Currently, Chevrolet offers a varied line of cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans to meet the needs and demands of its consumers. Every year new vehicles join the lineup and consistently rate high with consumers and industry leaders.
Chevrolet offers a wide variety of cars to American and foreign consumers, but few get the attention that the Camaro commands. While there have been updates and changes made to the original body, suspension, and other operating systems of the Camaro, it is still known for its awe-inspiring design and function.
The 2012 line of Camaros shows some exciting improvements over past years' designs and creates a lot of talk among muscle car enthusiasts. As in years past, Chevrolet has introduced several different model options for the Camaro, each one with new, improved features.
As always, the Camaro offers coupe and convertible styles in the SS and ZL1 trims. The SS coupe contains a pristine V-6 engine and some updated features such as a new steering wheel and improved cabin space. Camaro fans will also find a reorganized instrument panel and a revised suspension. The new suspension promises to provide greater maneuverability. This Camaro style continues to feature the RS taillights with chrome trim and dark lenses, as well as a standard rear spoiler.
The impressive 2012 Camaro ZL1 style offers a massive 6.2-liter, V-8 engine that supplies plenty of power to this machine. The motor provides 570 horsepower, making this year's model the fastest and most capable Camaro yet. A dual-mode exhaust; large, road-gripping tires; and adaptive suspension dampers help complete the package.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Camaro and Chevrolet has decided to go all out with a special edition of the car to commemorate the occasion. The special anniversary Camaro package offers 2SS and 2LT models. The package includes 20-inch wheels, accent stitching for the car's black leather upholstery, and high-quality flash paint in red with charcoal gray stripes for a look that can't be duplicated.
The Camaro has reached its fifth generation and has a long history of excellent workmanship behind it. The first generation Camaro came in coupe or convertible body styles and offered the then-new rear drive option along with its F-body platform. Generation two got attention for its heavier and wider body style that remained through 1981.
The third generation Camaros saw production from 1982 to 1992 and provided its drivers with up-to-date fuel injection systems, 16-inch wheels, and hatchback body styles. This generation offered the popular IROC or International Race of Champions body style. The fourth generation offered a choice of V-6 or V-8 engines and unique transmission options.
2019 Chevrolet Camaro
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2017 Chevrolet Camaro
2016 Chevrolet Camaro
2015 Chevrolet Camaro
2014 Chevrolet Camaro
2013 Chevrolet Camaro
A classic design, featuring a long hood and short rear deck with deep set headlamps and large wheels, the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro remains an impressive sight on the road, offering all the luxury and performance of its predecessors.
2012 Chevrolet Camaro
General Motors expands the Chevrolet Camaro lineup with the ZL1 model for those clamoring (and willing to pay) for a more powerful model. A 45th Anniversary appearance package is also offered as well.
2011 Chevrolet Camaro
Trumping Mustang's 305-horsepower V-6, the rating for Camaro's direct injection V-6 is up 8 horses, to 312 horsepower. All models are available with Synergy Green Metallic paint for a limited time, and Synergy Green interior panels are available on 2LT and 2SS. Heads-up display becomes standard on 2LT and 2SS. All models get six months of free OnStar Directions and Connections.
2010 Chevrolet Camaro
Coupe, Sports
2002 Chevrolet Camaro
The very first Chevrolet Camaro went on sale in 1966 for the 1967 model year, and with the launch of the 2002 models, this sports car is ending its almost 40-year run.
2001 Chevrolet Camaro
The 2001 Chevrolet Camaro is part of the fourth generation of sports coupes that have been in production since 1967.
2000 Chevrolet Camaro
The 2000 Chevrolet Camaro is a four-generation muscle car with a history that goes back to the late 1960s.
1999 Chevrolet Camaro
The 1999 Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most recognizable sport or muscle cars of any U.
1998 Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro originally debuted to counter the Ford Mustang.
1997 Chevrolet Camaro
The 1997 Chevrolet Camaro is an American classic.
1996 Chevrolet Camaro
The 1996 Chevrolet Camaro is a two-door sports car that is available as a coupe or convertible.
1995 Chevrolet Camaro
The 1995 Chevrolet Camaro is a fourth-generation version of GM's iconic sports coupe.


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USDA will cut October direct payments by 8.5% as a result of sequestration. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan Garcia said the reductions would "minimize disruption to farmers and ranchers who have already received and will soon be seeking disaster assistance through Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE) or Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program (NAP). It will allow producers who suffered disasters to be fully paid, and it will avoid having to require about 350,000 producers to refund 5.1% of the payments they have already received. It will also prevent the department from incurring a significant administrative burden that would be required to recoup these payments."
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I was commenting on txfarmer's very nice 30% rye sandwich bread that we use left over cream to make ice cream in AZ when it is scorching hot in the summer - instead of pechy scones like she does. The batch finished yesterday, after a 2 day process, came out better than usual because we managed to have most everything on hand to put it over the top.
The first day is used to make the ice cream base:
The second day you make everything else
16 oz of cream
16 oz of half and half
4 egg yolks
1/4 C cocoa powder
1/2 C sugar
1-100 g gram dark chocolate bar - chopped up
1/2 T of instant coffee or 1 tsp of espresso powder
1/4 oz of granulated gelatin
1 tsp vanilla
Brownie mix
Your favorite box of brownie mix
1/4 bag of chocolate chips
Put everything, except the vanilla, brownie mix and chocoalate chips, in a 2 qt sauce pan and bring to a near boil 200 F stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat and place in a large bowl of ice. Keep stirring until mix is cooled to 40 F. Add the vanilla and stir it in. Cover saucepan with the lid and put the base in the fridge overnight. In the morning you will have a wonderful Mocha Pudding.
Mix up your favorite boxed brownie mix, (we use the Mocha one but not required at all) or make your favorite from scratch that you would normally use for 9x13 pan. Divide the batter between (2) oil sprayed 9x13 pans. Add some chocolate chips sprinkling them evenly over the top. Bake at 350 F for 8 minutes, then rotate the pans and bake for another 8 minutes - we use Pyrex pans. This will make the top and bottom of the ice cream sandwich that are are little less than 1/2" high when baked. Cool completely.
Remove the two brownies trying not to break them, good luck with that but don't worry at all since you can easily press them back together. If you cut them in half lengthwise (6 1/2" if you measure like I don't) they are easier to get out intact with a long fish spatula. They are also easier to get out if you don't add the chocolate chips but that would be a crime :-) Wrap one side in plastic wrap and put the other one back in the pan, cover it and freeze them both. The pan will be the form holding everything in place after the sandwiches are made and they too are frozen.
Make your ice cream - we have a Krups that seems to work well. Place about 1" of ice cream over the bottom layer and cover with the top gently pressing the sandwich flat. Freeze until hard. You will have about a third of the ice cream left over for you and your apprentice to taste to make sure it isn't poisonous and saving your family much potential grief. Someone has to do it :-) We actually made a batch and a half of brownies and using all the ice creame for the sandwiches.
I'm thinking txfarmer's Peach Scones would go very well with Mocha Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Brownie Sandwiches and both are excellent for using up left over cream.


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Viewing the damage from the tornado that struck Moore, Okla. Monday is almost unimaginable for most people, but resident who lives there says to sit through the storm was even more treacherous.
Diane Brandehoff, a native of Ada, saidthe EF5 tornado is an event she will never forget.
At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed by the tornado, measured at 1.3 miles wide at parts, that went through the heart of the community. More than 230 people were injured by the storm and at least 100 have been pulled alive from the storm.
Brandehoff was relieved to be unscathed, but her voice revealed she was still shook up from the event.
Brandehoff, who moved to Moore for a job opportunity several years ago, was watching television at a friend's home at 2:59 p.m. watching funnel clouds form. She texted her sister and said she was getting in the closet.
"You always hear people describe it as sounding like a freight train," Brandehoff said. "That is exactly what it sounds like."
As scary as an experience as it was, Brandehoff said she is thankful after realizing how much worse things could have been.
While still being in the path, she had relocated from an apartment complex on 19th Street in Moore just days before.
Brandehoff, who had packed her belongings, was planning to move to Tennessee in just a few days after resigning from her job on May 2.
The apartments were at the center of the most powerful spot of the storm and are now little more than rubble.
"If I had still been working there, with the hours I worked, I still would have been sleeping," Brandehoff said. "I am thankful I was not still in my apartment."
Brandehoff said her family still lives in the Ohio area, but she had several friends and acquaintances in the most damaged areas.
A friend's home was likely destroyed, but the person was not home due to a trip to Texas. He has not yet been able to return and survey the damage.
Another friend's daughter lost her home and the friend's daughter was at school. They survived the storm but lost their home.
"Everyone is kind of numb around here," Brandehoff said. "It is not a fun place to be."
To help the storm victims such as Brandehoff, a group of Wapakoneta residents are collecting goods that will be trucked to Moore, Okla.
Judy DuBois, owner of Auglaize Embroidery, has spearheaded a local effort.
"I came to work Tuesday and we talked about it," DuBois said. "We tried to think of anything we could do."
DuBois was able to secure two local truckers, Rick Regula and Jake McElroy, who agreed to transport donated items to the area if someone could come up with a trailer.
Stephanie and Jay Fisher donated the trailer.
DuBois is inviting everyone who is able to volunteer to help in collecting good for the effort.
"We will be collecting from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday (today), 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday," DuBois said. "The truck will leave here at 6 p.m. Friday."
DuBois said the goods would be boxed up as they came in and loaded on the semi. She said Wapakoneta Redskins varsity football coach Doug Frye has agreed to enlist several football players to help out with the collecting and boxing effort.
"We are looking for anybody that can volunteer," DuBois said. "If you can help loading or taking donations it would help."
DuBois said items being collected include work and latex gloves, non-perishable food, formula, powdered milk, bottle water, soap, hygiene and first-aid products, toilet tissue and tissues.
She noted that nothing flammable could be transported.
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Researchers determined children of mothers with ETS exposure had 10 percent more prevalence of externalizing behavior problems than children of unexposed mothers
It is a known fact that active maternal smoking during pregnancy has negative effects on child health, such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, new research suggests that second hand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), may be just as harmful.
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing examined data from 646 mother-child pairs in China, where more than 70 percent of men smoke, and concluded that 25 percent children of whose mothers were exposed to smoke exhibited behavior problems compared to 16 percent of children of unexposed mothers.
"Such findings could inform public health efforts to reduce public smoking and underscores the need for including ETS avoidance as a potential component of prenatal care among pregnant women," said lead-author Jianghong-Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor at Penn Nursing.
Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), a widely used, 99-item scale for assessing behavioral and emotional problems in children, researchers determined children of mothers with ETS exposure had 10 percent more prevalence of externalizing behavior problems than children of unexposed mothers. The results took factors like parental education, occupation, psychological problems and marriage status into account. The full results were published online this week in the journal NeuroToxicology.
Externalizing behavior problems included attention problems and aggression. Children of passive smoking mothers demonstrated worse performance on tests of speech and language skills, intelligence, and behavioral outcomes (conduct disorders).
"Given the high prevalence of ETS exposure among pregnant women in China and the far-reaching effects of child behavioral disturbance on public health outcomes, it is critical to reduce ETS exposure in order to improve the health of not only mothers and their children but that of society at large," said Dr. Liu. "The key message for pregnant women is to protect their growing fetus from exposure to secondhand smoke."
While additional, more longitudinal, research is needed to validate the findings, the researchers agree that this study gives some clarity to the relationship between ETS and behavioral disturbance in children.
This study was based on data collected from the China Jintan Child Cohort Study, led by Dr. Liu, an on-going prospective longitudinal study with the main aim of assessing the early health risk factors for the development of child neurobehavioral outcomes. The study was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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5 C Old Fashioned Oats, 1 C walnuts and/or pecans, 1/2 C brown sugar, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1.5 tsp. nutmeg, 1/2 C maple syrup, 1 C butter (melted), 1/2 raisins and/craisens.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the oats, nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg together. Heat up the butter with maple syrup and blend. Pour over oat mixture and mix well.
Pour onto a well greased cookie sheet. Bake 30 minutes, but stir every 10 minutes to bake evenly. After 30 minutes, let cool completely. Break into pieces and mix with raisins and/or craisens.
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Friday, December 4, 1998 - 7:00 p.m. CST
STS-88 Commander Bob Cabana and his crew received their first wake up
call from Mission Control this afternoon at 3:36 p.m. CST to begin their
first full day of on orbit activities. The crew were awakened with the
song "Get Ready" by the Temptations, an appropriate description of the
full slate of activities the crew will be involved with as they get
ready for the important events of the flight by checking out the equipment
and tools that will be utilized during rendezvous, docking and space
walking activities.
A series of precise maneuvering burns in the early portion of the flight
will help Endeavour continue its pursuit of the Zarya control module.
The orbital chase between the two spacecraft is scheduled to conclude
on Sunday afternoon when Cabana maneuvers the Shuttle into close proximity
with the first piece of the International Space Station and Currie uses
the Shuttle's mechanical arm to grapple Zarya and dock it to the Unity
connection module which will already be mated to the orbiter's docking
Events onboard Endeavour during the first half of today's activities
have included the two EVA crewmembers - Mission Specialists Jerry Ross
and Jim Newman - performing a checkout of the SAFER or Simplified Aid
for EVA Rescue unit. SAFER is a mini maneuvering system that can provide
self-rescue capability for a spacewalker if they inadvertently become
separated from the spacecraft during a spacewalk. Also this afternoon,
the crew downlinked video taken inside the crew cabin during their ascent
to orbit.
Later today Ross and Newman will setup the Orbiter Space Vision System
equipment which provides the mechanical arm operator precise data on
the position and alignment of hardware located in the area of the payload
Also in preparation for the three planned spacewalks, the cabin pressure
inside Endeavour will be lowered from its normal 14.7 psi setting down
to 10.2. The lower cabin pressure will shorten the amount of time Newman
and Ross have to breath pure oxygen to prevent nitrogen bubbles from
forming in their blood stream, a condition commonly referred to as "the
bends" while they operate in the 4 psi environment of their spacesuits.
Other activities later today will have Newman and Ross doing verification
checks of the EVA suits they will use during their space walks as well
as preparing the airlock area that they will use to transition into
Endeavour's payload bay.
Currie will power up the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical
arm to make sure it is ready to support Unity module unstow and installation
activities on Saturday afternoon. She will also use the RMS arm to perform
a photo survey of the payload bay.
There are no issues being worked by either the crew or the flight control
team allowing all attention to remain focused on the mission objectives
of this first ISS assembly flight.
The STS-88 crew will finish their first full day of work early tomorrow
morning and will begin a sleep rest period at 5:36 a.m. Saturday morning
with their next wake up call coming eight hours later at 1:36 p.m. tomorrow.
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NEWS: World Food Program: Pakistan Flood Victims "Left With Nothing"
"We never knew this rain would make us homeless – we are literally left with nothing," says Shabbir Ahmed, a father of nine forced to flee the worst floods anyone in Punjab can remember. WFP is providing food to thousands of families like his as they wait for the waters to recede.
PUNJAB – With their homes and possessions swept away by the unprecedented floodwaters which have devastated Pakistan from north to south, Shabbir Ahmed and his family have taken refuge by a canal in Punjab's Rajanpur district.
Almost everyone in flood-affected districts of south Punjab has a similar story to tell. Widespread monsoon rains that struck Pakistan's north initially, are now playing havoc all over the country.
Around 15.4 million people have been affected by what the government says are the worst floods in Pakistan's history. Many of them live in Punjab, the country's breadbasket, where they have lost their crops, animals and food stocks.
Many districts in Punjab are under water and are difficult, if not impossible, to reach by road. People are completely cut off from assistance. Many are on the move, trying to find a safe place at least to stay dry.
WFP has started distribution of food in these affected districts by providing much needed monthly food rations, but the needs are enormous. Shabbir and his family were among those to receive food over the weekend.
The water came at night
"It's more than two weeks now, we have nothing to eat, no shelter. Rains which we consider a gift of God have turned into the anger of God. At least someone came to give us food, and some hope that we can now survive for few weeks."
"The water came at night and we didn't have time to save our belongings, we had to chose whether to save our children and ourselves or our property and assets, so we choose to save our kids. We left everything and ran to save our lives."
WFP is providing 80 kg of wheat flour, 4.5 kg of high energy biscuits and 4 litres of oil to each affected family. The assistance will continue for three months to help them rebuild their lives as the water recedes.
When will we go home?
It is a huge task with up to six million people in need of food and the situation still evolving. The road network is badly damaged and impassable in places, bridges have been washed away and entire communities are cut off.
But together with its local and international NGO partners, WFP has been able to provide one-month rations to around one million people and continues to scale up distributions every day.
"We are now left at the mercy of God," says Shabbir. "He has put us in this condition and we are hopeful He will give us relief too. But it is very difficult to survive in the open. Our kids are asking when we will go home, and we don't have an answer."


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Veto hurts effective local women's program
A line-item veto by Gov. Rick Scott has threatened the effectiveness of a decades-old program that has helped thousands of area women get the skills and self-confidence necessary to find jobs.
Scott's veto of $1.8 million in funding will affect the ability of the Women's Resource Center of Sarasota County to continue classes through the Displaced Homemakers Program. The veto came out of the blue, center Executive Director Janice Zarro said last week.


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Every once in awhile we come across a really innovative app that isn't just gimmicky but extremely useful. Today, that app is ReadyClick!
Built for Windows Phone 8, it allows you take a photo just by using your voice—perfect for getting those group shots and not having to worry about a timer. The app is both a Tile and Lens for the camera, making it quickly available for regular usage. Once launched you have a few options including snapping a photo instantly, using a standard (but configurable) timer or the voice activation.
It's of course the latter function that really makes this app.
The voice activation works by tapping the on-screen button (or pushing the shutter key). Once it is engaged, it listens for the command "Ready Click!" and then begins an audible 3-second countdown. Heck, with its robotic voice, it can even speak "Say Cheese!" before snapping the photo.
The program comes with quite a few options too, including if you want it to say "cheese", what to do with the shutter key, whether or not it should take one or two photos, etc. There were a few hiccups though as the LED light (aka flash) wasn't engaging on our Lumia 920 (neither did the AF lamp) and it's a bit annoying that you can't view your photos after snapping them. But those are just minor things for what is a really unique app.
Overall, ReadyClick! is quite fun and highly recommended. You can pick it up for $1.99 here in the Windows Phone Store and there is a fully functional trial.


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Apple's iMac boasts a pretty clean and clutter-free aesthetic, but if you prefer to elevate your iMac with a more rustic look for your workspace, you'll like what Understands has to offer. Featuring rustic urban wood designs, the company's lineup of stands for your iMac will not only raise your screen up but also provides a place to slide in the iMac's base, making the stand seamlessly blend into your desktop experience, and providing an uncluttered wood surface.Read More
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Following up on its previous high-tech standing desk, the Stir Kinetic Desk, the Apple-inspired design company Stir has recently released the Stir Kinetic Desk M1 ($2,990), a new option that drops the price while adapting a more contemporary, curvy design, with rounded waterfall edges. Available in a black or white finish, the desk is CNC-machined, providing a seamless finish, with a powder coat applied over the engineered wood. Like its sibling, the M1 packs in quite a high-tech suite of features, however, that go beyond mere aesthetic appeal, providing smart, cloud-connected features for adjusting the desk and integrating with your Mac, iPhone, and other accessories.Read More
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Even as technology advances, our tastes long for the past. Even though their materials differ, Apple's metal and glass devices can be paired with equally beautiful wooden furniture that reminds us of the way things were. The Jeremiah Collection Mid Century Desk ($1,750-$1,850) is a wood desk that complements the modern design of your iMac. Handcrafted in San Francisco, it's assembled in 6-12 weeks after the order is placed in your choice of three different sizes and two different types of wood.Read More
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Ikea's new PS 2014 line is all about taking advantage of small spaces without sacrificing style. Just because you live in a studio apartment doesn't mean you don't deserve to have nice things. Secretary ($189) is a perfect example of that ethos. A compact computer desk, it's functional when you need it, and gets out of the way when you don't.Read More
Artifox Desk 01
Just like iSkelter with its SlatePro, Artifox has a vision for a Mac-centric desk. Desk 01 ($1,199-$1,399) is a beautiful piece of furniture in its own right, but there are a number of touches that make it quite smart for Mac users. Available in walnut or maple, and for lefties or righties, it may cost more than an Ikea desk, but it looks like it's worth it.Read More
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Sure, you can put your Mac on any desk, but why not pick one that's made for an Apple lifestyle, such as iSkelter's SlatePro ($498+)? It's much more than just a flat surface and four legs. This desk is specifically designed for a modern workflow, with plenty of amenities for all your gadgets.Read More
Stir Kinetic Desk
With all the research coming out that says sitting is bad for your health, it's no surprise that standing desks are becoming more and more popular. The latest comes from JP Labrosse, a former Apple employee who worked on the iPod, and his new company, Stir. Stir Kinetic Desk ($3,890+). It's a fully mechanized, touchscreen-, Wi-Fi-, and Bluetooth-equipped beast, that actually learns as it goes. That's part of the reason you might choose this desk over a stack of phonebooks on top of your current one.Read More
Prepac Floating Desk with Storage
Your Mac is as minimalistic as can be; it only makes sense that your desk should be, too. That's why Prepac's Floating Desk with Storage ($250) is so appealing. Available in white, black, or espresso brown, the desk hangs from your wall rather than sitting on your floor, and has enough space to accommodate an iMac in the center.Read More
Re:form Designs Crunching Numbers G4
Devoted Mac users often keep their old computers around gathering dust, a reality that Re:form Designs has created a seriously cool repurposing business to address. Following up on an earlier version that used prior-generation Power Mac G3s, Crunching Numbers G4 ($600+) is the latest design from the company, turning two Power Mac G4 towers into one of the nerdiest tables around.Read More
Haworth My Table Foldable Notebook Table
Having a huge desk isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're not the most organized person in the world. It's easy to get lost in a sea of papers, gadgets, and coffee cups. That's part of the reason we like Haworth's My Table Foldable Notebook Table (£200/~$314); it's small, yet functional. Now popping up in Apple Stores all across Europe, this compact desk would look pretty darn nice in the States, too.Read More
Turnstone Office Sets
Whether you're working alone or in a group, a great office can make all the difference between productivity and lethargy. You could cherry pick each individual piece and assemble them together, or you can let a company such as Turnstone put it together for you. The company makes all sorts of nice office furniture and accessories, with four different pre-designed office sets available; packages range from Office for One ($1,865+) for the solo worker to Office for Four ($6,904+) for groups. The base model includes a handsome, Mac-ready desk, with larger versions growing in size and price from there.Read More
Biomorph Pro Desk
Anybody who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk—at home, at work, or wherever it may be—knows the value of a good work surface. Sure, it's easy to slap a couple of legs to a piece of wood, but that doesn't make it the right tool for the job. Biomorph's Pro Desk ($2,165-$5,080), is far more than just legs and wood. With a smart design, lots of room to work with, and adjustable height, it's a very practical solution that looks pretty nice too.Read More
Herman Miller Teneo Storage Furniture
No matter how uncluttered your workspace, odds are your Mac has acquired some peripherals while you've had it, and in some cases, those peripherals—printers come to mind—might need supplies of their own. Herman Miller Teneo Storage Furniture ($TBA) lets you stash your extra stuff in Mac-complimenting style.Read More
La Boite Concept LD 130
Not content with just giving you a surface to put your laptop on, La Boite Concept has unveiled its LD 130 (€1,480/~$2,054). The "LD" stands for laptop dock, and the "130" denotes the wattage of the speaker—yes, this desk has a built-in speaker system, and a powerful one, too. The desk itself is made out of high quality wood and leather, contributing to the sort of premium look and feel one would expect for the price.
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Apple's Jonathan Ive is a ridiculously talented designer, and like all great creative minds, his work has been inspired by outside influences. British furniture designer Frederick Scott is credited as one of them, having created System Supporto, a family of office furniture (£651 and up) that Supporto Ltd. says is amongst Ive's favorite designs, and is in heavy use within Apple's industrial design studios. If the black-on-silver and glass designs look familiar, that's no surprise: it's been speculated that Ive channeled Supporto's look into the current family of Macs.Read More


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Revolution signs Luis "El Lobo" Fangoso to one-day contract; retires as a member of the Revolution
FOXBOROUGH - The New England Revolution announced today that the team has signed forward-midfielder Luis Fangoso to a one-day contract. Fangoso immediately announced his retirement from soccer as a member of the Revolution.
"The hunger never dies," Fangoso said in a statement. "But there comes a time when it's time to move on - and now is that time. And I am going to lunch."
Known as "El Lobo" or "The Rock of Gibraltar" to fans, Fangoso remains one of the great enigmas of world soccer. Fangoso first signed with the Revs in April of 2004. After a promising start to his time in Foxborough, which saw him become an instant fan favorite, the Argentine-born Gibraltarian slipped back to his homeland on the Iberian Peninsula. Though never playing in a Revs first team match, he dazzled home fans and television audiences alike with his array of techniques and wolven hairstyles.
Fangoso again signed with the Revolution in April of 2007. But after a 1-0 loss to the Chicago Fire in the 2007 season opener, Fangoso missed the team bus to the airport and hadn't been seen again - until today.
"We're just glad he made it back from Chicago," said head coach Steve Nicol. "Three years is a long time to be waiting for a bus." Nicol went on to say that, "We're happy to have him retire as a member of this organization."
After beginning his pro career with a short spell in the Argentine lower leagues, El Lobo went to Paraguay to play for Ciudad del Este. Fangoso then moved on to fulfill his dream of playing in Europe by signing with Range Rovers in Guernsey. In Gibraltar, El Lobo became a legend of sorts, which led to his signing with the Revs in '04. Two years back in the Gibraltar League with Exiles F.C. only made Fangoso a more composed and experienced player.
When asked to give a final statement to the Revolution and their fans, Fangoso said, "Happy April fool's day."


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The regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in Texas and several other southwestern states, Al Armendariz, has resigned following a controversy over his videotaped comments in 2010 that the EPA should "crucify" oil and gas companies that violated environmental laws, the Dallas Morning News reported.
"This was not something that was asked of me by Administrator [Lisa] Jackson or the White House," Armendariz said in a letter he sent to EPA headquarters on Sunday. "It is a decision I made myself. I had become too much of a distraction, and no one person is more important than the incredible work being done by the rest of the team at EPA."


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Axelrod stung by 10th-inning HR in sixth straight loss
CLEVELAND -- The 2013 White Sox have gone from bad to worse to you've got to be kidding.
They actually entered that latter stage of grievous disappointment long before Cleveland's 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Progressive Field. But Wednesday's walk-off excitement for the Indians (59-48) reinforced the South Siders' futility.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- The 2013 White Sox have gone from bad to worse to you've got to be kidding.
They actually entered that latter stage of grievous disappointment long before Cleveland's 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Progressive Field. But Wednesday's walk-off excitement for the Indians (59-48) reinforced the South Siders' futility.View Full Game Coverage
Carlos Santana delivered the game-winning shot, with his 12th home run on a 3-2 fastball down the middle from reliever Dylan Axelrod (3-7) clearing the right-field fence by a few rows. But this game was lost in the ninth more than the 10th.
Jeff Keppinger's two-run, pinch-hit single with the bases loaded off of reliever Cody Allen broke a 3-3 deadlock and gave the White Sox (40-65) a 5-3 lead in the top half of what could have been the final frame. The ball was then handed off to Addison Reed, who has worked just five times in the last 18 days, which is understandable considering the White Sox have lost six in a row and nine of their last 10 contests.
Reed felt great, but the results didn't equal the feeling.
Long sacrifice flies from Michael Bourn and Jason Kipnis tied the game in the bottom of the ninth. It was Michael Brantley's double, pinch-hitter Jason Giambi being hit by a pitch and Drew Stubbs' bunt single that loaded the bases with nobody out and set up Reed's fifth blown save in 31 attempts.
"I didn't make things easy on myself, those first two, three batters," said Reed. "Leadoff double, hit batter, not fielding the bunt cleanly.
"When you let the first three guys on, it's never easy, no matter what the score is. I kind of put myself in my position to where those sac flies score easy runs. [If] those first three guys would not have been on, none of that would have been possible."
Jose Quintana started for the White Sox and battled through five innings of jams to keep his team down just 3-0. Quintana threw 109 pitches, allowing those three runs on seven hits, while striking out six and walking two.
Cleveland scored one in the first on Kipnis' RBI groundout, added one in the fourth on Brantley's double and one in the fifth on Santana's double. But Quintana emerged with his 14th no-decision this season when the White Sox scored three quick runs in the sixth off of Cleveland starter Corey Kluber.
Josh Phegley opened the frame with a single and came around to score one out later on Alexei Ramirez's double. Alex Rios brought home Ramirez with a single, and after Rios advanced to second on the throw home, Adam Dunn's single just to the right of second put the game in a 3-3 deadlock.
It stayed tied until Keppinger came through, Reed's ensuing hiccup and Santana's blast covering 361 feet. That home run gave the victory to Chris Perez (4-1) and was the Indians' third walkoff against the White Sox this season.
"[Bench coach] Sandy [Alomar] was high-fiving [me] when he hit it," said Cleveland manager Terry Francona of Santana's blast. "As soon as he hit it, I was thinking, 'OK, do we bunt him over?' Sandy knows this ballpark better than I do."
Jake Peavy stopped by the White Sox clubhouse a few hours prior to the start of Wednesday's eventual setback, and the way in which his former team lost seemed fitting on his last day before going to Boston. It was Peavy, during an earlier three-game losing streak in Houston, the worst team in baseball by record, who talked to reporters after one loss about how these sorts of losses happening to the White Sox couldn't be made up.
"There's no answer. When things are going bad, they're going bad. Something new every night," Reed said. "Tonight, it was 100 percent my fault. Just got to hang with them and get after them tomorrow. I don't think any of us have an answer for it or else we would have changed and figured it out.
"But it's part of the game. I wish I knew how to fix it or what to do about it."
General manager Rick Hahn took steps toward turning things around by moving veterans Matt Thornton, Jesse Crain and Peavy before Wednesday's non-waiver Trade Deadline, starting to develop a younger core and gain greater financial flexibility for future changes. While Ventura would never blame his team's season-long poor play on the pressure of trade rumors, he was hoping things would get better Wednesday.
"I'm not blaming everything that has happened on this just because of the Trade Deadline," Ventura said. "You hope that's the case, where they go out there and maybe they don't have that subconscious thought of they might not be here in a couple of days. Hopefully, it's better."
There's always tomorrow's series finale, which might be the new White Sox mantra in this forgettable campaign.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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It seems like everybody is celebrating anniversaries this year, what with Aston Martin and the Porsche 911 all hitting landmarks. We can also add McLaren, which hits the half-century mark this year.
To celebrate, they're giving you the opportunity to purchase one of 50 12C and 12C Spider models - that's 100 cars in total.
To set them apart from regular models, the front bumper has a colour-matched lower section, with carbon fiber framing the air intakes. The front floor is then carbon/Kevlar construction, while above the bumper, a McLaren F1-inspired badge is finished in black.
Carbon-ceramic brakes are fitted as standard, sitting behind Satin Black wheels that are 19" front and 20" rear, saving 2kg over the optional Super Lightweight wheels.
Inside, the McLaren 50 12C models are upholstered in full leather, with an anniversary plate on the driver's door.
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Stone steps wind through lush landscaping to 57 Louder Lane in Jamaica Plain, which is near the Arnold Arboretum.
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Mother Nature delivers for PCMR
November 13, 2012
On Saturday morning, Andy Miller hopped on a snowmobile and trekked up the freshly-powdered hills of Park City Mountain Resort to check out the snowstorm that enchanted much of Northern Utah.
Miller, the communications manager for Park City Mountain Resort, noticed that all the employees on the mountain had an extra spring in their step.
"The resort was coming back to life for winter and that snow got everyone even more psyched up for it," he said.
Park City Mountain Resort is scheduled to groom its runs and open its lifts for the first time in the 2012-13 season Saturday, Nov. 17, and thanks in large part to the winter storm nicknamed "Brutus," the resort was socked with just the right amount of snow. Miller said the PayDay, First Time and 3 Kings lifts are expected to be open for business Saturday morning. He said lift-ticket prices are still to be determined and will be announced sometime later this week.
Miller said by the time the storm had died down Sunday afternoon, 24 inches of fresh powder had fallen above the Bonanza Lift at PCMR near the Summit House. He said 30 inches fell near Jupiter Peak.
"The storm was huge. It was awesome," he said. "We made out really well with that storm."
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In addition to the natural snow, Miller said the freezing temperatures allowed the resort to begin snowmaking, which fired up Friday evening and have been going each day since.
"It's staying nice and cold for us," he said. "It couldn't have been much better than what we got."
The timing of the first significant snowstorm of the season was quite fortuitous for the resort, considering that last week temperatures in Park City eclipsed the low 60s. When asked if the resort had a contingency plan had the storm not delivered a significant powdery punch, Miller said, "I think we kind of saw this storm coming and were feeling pretty good. We knew it was going to bring some snow, and with that in mind, we'd been feeling pretty confident. We got the storm and we're psyched."
Miller said the resort's lifts are scheduled to begin turning around 9 a.m. Saturday and the day will feature entertainment for resort-goers. Members of the Northern Ute Indian Tribe are scheduled to visit the resort plaza to perform a snow dance. Following the snow dance, an après-ski concert featuring local classic rock band Muddpuddle is scheduled to take place at the resort plaza.
Looking forward, PCMR is scheduled to host the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix snowboard and ski halfpipe competition Dec. 17-22. It is the first time the resort has hosted a Grand Prix since early 2010 when the U.S. Olympic halfpipe teams were named during the event.
According to Miller, the newest addition to the resort this season will be Neff Land, a new terrain park at PCMR, which replaces The Ridge. According to http://www.irideparkcity.tv, the new park will be a progression park with stylistic features and overall atmosphere conceptualized by the Neff design team. Miller said the park is located at the top of the Eaglet Lift.


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Bone marrow culture is an examination of the soft, fatty tissue found inside certain bones. This tissue, called bone marrow, produces blood cells. This test is done to find out if there is an infection inside the bone marrow.
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Culture – bone marrow
How the test is performed
The doctor removes a sample of your bone marrow from the back of your pelvic bone or breast bone. This is usually done with a small needle inserted into your bone, which is called a
The removed tissue is sent to a lab. It is placed into a special container called a culture dish. Every day, the laboratory specialist will look at the tissue under a microscope to see if any bacteria, fungi, or viruses have grown.
If any bacteria, fungi, or viruses are found, other tests may be done to learn which drugs will kill the organisms. Treatment can then be started based on these results.
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You may feel pressure and pain as the marrow is being removed. (You may be given some numbing medicine, called anesthesia, before the procedure.)
Soreness at the site usually lasts from a few hours to 1-2 days.
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You may have this test if you have an unexplained fever or if your health care provider thinks you have an infection of the bone marrow.
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No growth of bacteria, viruses, or fungi in the culture is normal.
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Abnormal results suggest that you have an infection of the bone marrow. The infection may be from bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
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We all glanced at the schedule when it came out to see when Jose Reyes would return to New York with the Marlins. David Wright says he misses his friend, but remembers the dynamic Reyes from a different perspective than we do.
I'll always remember Reyes as a dynamic player with an electric smile, but also prone to moodiness, injuries and taking plays off. Such as not covering second base in a late-season game against Washington which led to a big inning and another loss during the Mets' historic 2007 collapse.
Reyes returns tonight and I wonder what the reaction will be. I doubt it will be as warm as the one Shea Stadium gave Mike Piazza when he returned as a San Diego Padre in 2006. There will be cheers, but I can't see there being overwhelming affection.
While Wright says he wants to remain and retire with the Mets, Reyes never said anything like that last summer. I always got the feeling Reyes already had one foot out the door. Of course, the Mets never did, or said, anything to indicate they wanted to keep him.
Maybe that's the feeling Reyes had when he bunted for a base hit and took himself out of the game to preserve his batting title in the season finale. That's his last moment with the Mets, and not a classy way to say goodbye. It reminded me how LeBron James left the court in his last game with the Cavaliers. Both looked like they couldn't get out of town fast enough.
I don't like that it is, but taking himself out to preserve his title will be my enduring image of Reyes as a Met. That, and hardly running in the second half. Clearly, the injury prone Reyes wanted to protect his fragile hamstrings and not damage his stock in the free-agent market. That was selfish and disrespectful to his teammates and fans. Your remembrances might be different.
Anybody who understood what was going on with the Mets last year knew Reyes was gone. The team was in financial distress – still is – and wasn't about to give Reyes a $100-plus million contract. With his recent injury history to his legs and declining base stealing totals, the Mets couldn't afford to go six or seven years with him. As a rebuilding team, they couldn't risk sinking that much money or years into a player who already had shown signs of breaking down.
That wouldn't be good business.
The Mets always treated Reyes well and gave him a long-term deal early in his career (2006) when they weren't obligated. They could have played the system and lowballed him. Reyes grew up poor, was a new father, and insecure about his money. The Mets helped him; it was an investment in the future.
Years later, Reyes had no intention of leaving money on the table. He knew the Mets wouldn't be the highest bidder. He was probably checking the real estate listings in Miami last August.
"It's sad what has happened there." Reyes said. "I loved New York. I loved playing for the Mets and I loved the fans, but there was no way it was going to work our for me to stay."
Well, there was. He never told the Mets what it would have taken to keep him and had no intention of giving a home team discount.
It was a business decision – by both parties.
Reyes is a sensitive guy. Always has been. When he said he couldn't wait to come back, you can take that a number of ways. And, you wouldn't be wrong to think it is to stick it to the Mets.


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Reviewed by Karlie H. (age 8)
I like how the author started off the book with CatKid talking. This the first line in my book. "The minute I step off the bus it is recess." My favorite part was when CatKid tried to get revenge back at Kristie. If someone tried to steal my best friend I would try to get revenge, too. In the beginning CatKid was sad because Maddie was always playing with Kristie. In the middle Cat Kid was happy because Maddie started playing with her again. I love the book CatKid, Three's a Crowd because it has so many emotions like sad, happy, and mad. In this book CatKid learned that your best friend can play with other people and still be your best friend.
I recommend this book for second and third graders. It is about a special friendship between two girls who are really, really good friends. So I recommend this book for girls because boys probably won't like it.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College softball team will play host the Lions of Mars Hill in a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader on Sunday (Mar. 30).
The Cobras are coming off a two game split with the Royals of Queens University of Charlotte. They took game one of the doubleheader 7-4, then dropped game two 11-9.
Offensively the Navy and Yellow are led by junior Katelyn Szupello and senior Sydney Weatherford. Szupello leads the team in batting average with a .365 average and in triples with four. Her four triples are also second best in the conference. Weatherford leads the team in RBIs and home runs. After her performance against Queens where she went 5-of-7 from the plate with three home runs and seven RBIs, she is up to 28 RBIs and five homeruns on the season to go along with a .326 batting average. Her 28 RBIs are good enough for sixth best in the conference.
Lauren Phillips leads the Coker pitching staff with a 7-6 record on the season. Her 3.92 ERA and 78.2 inning pitched are both team leaders.
Mars Hill comes into the contest with a 14-12 record. They are led offensively by Jamie Hockaday who comes to Hartsville with a .468 batting average and 39 RBIs. Both totals are in the top three in the conference. Jamie Booze leads the pitching staff with a 4-1 record on the season.
Game one of the doubleheader is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. at the Saleeby-Stokes softball field with game two slated to begin at 3 p.m. Live stats can be found at www.cokercobras.com
Story written by Sports Information Intern Aaron Beebe `15


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On Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Cedar Key Woman's Club will be filling holiday themed "Support Our Troop" care packages. The contents of the packages and the cost of postage is donated by CKWC members and members of the C.K. community.
The Cedar Key Garden Club is pleased to name the home of Caryn and Shawn Stephenson, 16550 Hodges Avenue, as the October Garden of the Month.
The 44th Annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival experienced another successful turnout this past weekend.
Ashley Thornton was there to capture the activities which included eating a veriety of seafood.
By Lisa Statham Posteraro
Pirate McFly of Clearwater battles it out with Hawkeye Jim of Tampa Bay on the shores of Cedar Key during the epic birddog sea battle, a part of the three-day Pirate Invasion festivities.
Look in the Multimedia section of our website for more photos from the weekend.
By Ashley Thornton
Levy County Sheriff Bobby McCallum was one of the jailbirds taken into custody at last week's Jail and Bail, sponsored by the Williston Rotary Club.
The fund-raiser brought in more than $4,500 that will be used for youth programs, including The Dictionary Project and The Black Stallion Project.
By Carolyn Ten Broeck
When it came time to wean calves from their mothers it was a drawn-out affair. First, you separated the bull calves from the heifers. We castrated the bulls, marked and branded both bunches and then put them together in a separate pasture behind the cow pen.
The Hidden Coast Paddling Festival has gotten to be such a celebrated event on the Gulf Coast – paddlers have already been registering for the October festival. After the town of Suwannee made a smashing success of the 2012 Hidden Coast Paddling Festival everyone wants in.
A group of seriously-interested science students from the Black Rock Forest Consortium of Cornwall, N.Y. spent a week at the Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory recently.
Eileen Senecal of the Cedar Key Woman's Club presents a check for $2,000 to Patti Fabiani, executive director of the Gainesville Fisher House Foundation. During 2012 and 2013 the ladies of the club have raffled off two quilts as a fundraiser for the soon to be built Fisher House. The first quilt to be raffled was made by several of the local
The Cedar Keys Light Station is nearly 159 years old. To celebrate its part in our history, the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge will host a lighthouse open house on August 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring your own boat or take a tour boat out into the Gulf to join in the fun.
Ted CoConis likes to keep things quiet, diligently working away in his island studio. Getting "away from the buzz of the fast lane" is one of the reasons he and his wife, Kristen, made Cedar Key their winter home 25 years ago.
Submitted by Bob Hudson
Special to the Beacon
Each branch of the Levy County Public Library System will have a series of fun, free summer library programs this year. All the programs start at 10 a.m. and will last about an hour. Each program will include a presentation, a craft, a snack and take home goodies. All materials are provided by the library and the programs are open to children of all ages.
Month of May
To earn funds for their trip to Washington, DC, the 5th grade class will be holding a fun event the whole community can enjoy. A delicious spaghetti dinner will be served, followed by a viewing of a great movie. The event will begin at 6 p.m. in the CKS auditorium and will include a silent auction and lots of great door prizes donated by generous area businesses.
The 2014 Old Florida Celebration of the Arts Festival is calling all artists for submissions to the Design Contest for the 2014 image for the festival.
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Consensus Report
Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future (2012)Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
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A new focus on glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of sugars, promises great advances in areas as diverse as medicine, energy generation, and materials science, this report finds. Glycans—also known as carbohydrates, saccharides, or simply as sugars—play central roles in many biological processes and have properties useful in an array of applications. However, glycans have received little attention from the research community due to a lack of tools to probe their often complex structures and properties. This report presents a roadmap for transforming glycoscience from a field dominated by specialists to a widely studied and integrated discipline, which could lead to a more complete understanding of glycans and help solve key challenges in diverse fields.
Key Messages
- Unlike DNA and proteins, glycans are not created by following a template. Instead, the reactions that link individual sugar units together are influenced by factors including cellular metabolism, cell type, developmental stage, and nutrient availability. These factors provide substantial diversity and allow for glycans with a wide array of properties, but also make glycans more difficult to study and manipulate in the laboratory.
- Glycans play roles in almost every biological process and are involved in every major disease. A better understanding of these roles could yield advances in medicine. For example, glycans inside cells help influence the expression of genes and proteins, forming part of a cell's response to biological signals. These properties mean glycans are useful as components of therapeutic drugs to help treat chronic and infectious diseases and as biomarkers to detect diseases like cancer.
- In order to produce biofuel in a cost-efective manner, a more efficient process to convert the energy stored in plant cell walls into fuel is needed. Glycoscience may be able to help develop enzymes and other catalysts to improve this conversion.
- Scientists are turning to the glycan-based polymers found in nature as alternatives to petroleum-based polymers. Glycan-based polymers can be purified, altered chemically to provide a range of new properties, or even broken down to their constituent sugar units to make chemical precursors for use in the chemical and engineering industries.
- While significant advances have been made in glycan synthesis, these technologies are only available in specialized laboratories and produce only small quantities of a specific glycan. For glycoscience to advance, widely applicable methods to generate both large and small quantities of glycans are needed. The development of transformative methods for the facile synthesis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates should be a high priority for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and other relevant stakeholders.
- A suite of tools analogous to those available for studying nucleic acids and proteins is needed to detect, describe, and purify glycans from natural sources, and characterize their chemical composition and structure. The development of transformative tools for detection, imaging, separation, and high-resolution structure determination of carbohydrate structures and complex mixtures should be a high priority for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Food and Drug Administration, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Continued advances in molecular modeling can generate insights for understanding glycan structures and properties. Robust, validated informatics tools should be developed in order to enable accurate carbohydrate and glycoconjugate structural prediction, computational modeling, and data mining. This capability will broaden access of glycoscience data to the entire scientific community.
- An expanded toolbox of enzymes and enzyme inhibitors would help scientists produce, degrade, and study the function of glycans of interest, driving progress in many areas of science. The development of transformative capabilities for perturbing carbohydrate and glycoconjugate structure, recognition, metabolism, and biosynthesis should be a high priority for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and other relevant stakeholders.
- A long-term-funded, stable, integrated, centralized database, including mammalian, plant and microbial carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, should be established as a collaborative effort by all stakeholders. The carbohydrate structural database needs to be fully cross-referenced with databases that provide complementary biological information, for example, Protein Data Bank and GenBank. Furthermore, there should be a requirement for deposition of new structures into the database using a reporting standard for minimal information.
- Although there is increasing recognition of glycans' diverse roles and uses, glycoscience is still seen as a niche research area. Integrating glycoscience into relevant disciplines in high school, undergraduate, and graduate education, and developing curricula and standardized testing for science competency would increase public as well as professional awareness.


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STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (March 26, 2012) – Powered by outstanding individual performances from sophomore Sian Evans (Gillingham, England) and freshman Gabriella Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany), the ETSU women's golf team posted its best single day of play this spring, finishing atop the team leaderboard following first and second round action Monday in the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate at the Eagle's Landing Country Club.
The Buccaneers lead the team competition by three strokes over Atlantic Coast Conference foe Maryland, after posting a team score of 9-over-par 585 (296-289) on the day. Third and final round action is set for Tuesday.
Individually, Evans posted her personal best for a single round with a 5-under-par 67 during the day's second round. She finished atop the individual leaderboard at 5-under 139 (72-67), and was one stroke better than Wahl, who ended the day alone in second place at 4-under 140 after carding back-to-back rounds of 70.
Both Evans and Wahl posted bogey-free rounds.
"The ladies were champions today in their body language and mindsets," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "They competed from the first hole to the 36th, and to say I'm proud would be an understatement. We have worked on our mental approach to the game and the girls really displayed persistence and composure today.
"I was really pleased with both Sian and Gabriella's play, and I think all of us are looking forward to playing tomorrow and competing."
Along with Evans and Wahl, other ETSU results included a tie for 29th by sophomore Larissa Steinfeldt (Eschweiler, Germany), a tie for 32nd by junior Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) and a tie for 43rd by senior Mayte Vizcarrondo (Cadiz, Spain).
Fans can follow Tuesday's third and final round by visiting Golfstat.com and clicking on the tournament's live scoring link. In addition, ETSUBucs.com will have a complete wrap up following the day's play.
For more on ETSU women's golf throughout the 2012 spring season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's golf link.


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Re: Solution to Loading XML bug
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:07 pm
SCross35 wrote:The problem with the unchanging "Loading XML" screen, at least for me, is that I deleted everything in the config file and pasted my link in there. However, before the default code is the line "rssURL=" and if that is deleted I got the loading screen. Give it a shot, I think a lot of these situations were simply caused by simple oversight. One suggestion I have for the program itself is heavier indication of ready games, perhaps a change in color or a sound blip which can be toggled. Also the speed at which the program checks for changes could be adjustable (if possible?). Perhaps even add an auto-login feature to make it an all-around CC tool.
Thanks, that information may help with the problem they're having.
Regarding your suggestions:
Both the Conquer Tell Notifier and the Tell Me Now Notifier offer a sound when it's your turn in a game. The first uses color to notify you: green for game ready, red for game waiting, and gray if you've been eliminated in the game.
As for the frequency of update, that is all determined currently by the frequency of update of the underlying RSS feed from Conquer Club which I believe is currently set to 5 minutes. The notifier can't be more up-to-date than the frequency of its RSS feed. Finally there is an Auto-Login script you can obtain from the sticky topic at the top of this forum which will automatically log into your CC account. If you use this with the Conquer Tell Notifier it will allow you to double-click the game that's ready and log you into the site and open the game window. It's very nice.


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A new type of net called the SafetyNet could help save millions of fish around the world every year. The innovative new fishing net is designed with reinforced holes that will allow small fish to escape the certain demise they face with conventional fishing nets. 40% of the world's population is dependent on a fish based diet and since industrial fishing started in the 1950's we've already depleted 90% of the Earth's supply of large fish. Much of that depletion is caused by the accidental capture of young fish, which are too small for fisherman to keep and sell — or unwanted species getting caught in nets, being killed and then being thrown back into the ocean. The SafetyNet promises to help solve this problem by allowing the little guys to escape and continue their lives as healthy members of the ocean's fish population. Watch a video about the new net after the jump.
The SafetyNet was designed by David Watson and it has been entered in Time To Care, a competition partially sponsored by Victorinox Swiss Army that focuses on celebrating innovative, responsible, and sustainable design. During research Watson discovered that small fish should be able to escape through the holes in conventional fishing nets, but the holes are pushed closed by the pressure of the trawl. He also discovered that fish can't see the net once they are in it, so even if there were holes to escape through they might not find them.
Watson's SafetyNet has holes that are reinforced to withstand the pressure of the trawl so they'll never collapse. They are also lit by LED lights that shine like beacons so the fish can find their escape route. The LED's are powered by tiny turbines that garner electricity from the constant flow of water through them – Watson calls this his "fit-and-forget-it" system. Watson's design could help immature fish get back into the ocean so they grow to help replenish our dwindling fish supply. Best of all, his rings can be fitted onto existing fishing nets, so there is no need to create a whole new world of plastic netting — we can retrofit what we have to work in a more humane and efficient way.
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Cady and Mu ruined the thread with their intellectual discussion of AA. The simple fact of the matter is AA would not be an issue if not for the poors and the womenz taking all the spots from the rich but under qualified white males. Thats the real problem, you have no one to blame but yourself for being born poor and not a white male.
http://www.oddee.com/item_95061.aspxIf both of these girls grow up exactly the same way and have exactly the same grades and LSAT than one will have a huge advantage over the other in terms of UG/Grad admissions and job prospectsI don't like discussing AA that much on the forums because it usually starts a flame and people aren't going to be persuaded from what they initially believe... but just had to post this after I stumbled on the article
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Quote from: TimMitchell on June 22, 2008, 08:16:10 PMhttp://www.oddee.com/item_95061.aspxIf both of these girls grow up exactly the same way and have exactly the same grades and LSAT than one will have a huge advantage over the other in terms of UG/Grad admissions and job prospectsI don't like discussing AA that much on the forums because it usually starts a flame and people aren't going to be persuaded from what they initially believe... but just had to post this after I stumbled on the articleI'll answer in a non-flaming way.It's important to keep in mind that affirmative action is predicated on the idea that black and white students don't grow up in exactly the same way. When you're growing up white, there are some things you just won't have to deal with. For example, your parents probably didn't have to tell you how to interact with the police so as to avoid getting shot. You don't have to worry about being followed around in stores to make sure you won't steal anything. You don't have to worry about every mistake or misjudgment you make reflecting on your race as a whole. I think that Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy is an excellent example of this. If she were black and had a pregnant teenage daughter, people would use it as an example of the how irresponsible black people are, but because she's white, it's off limits as a topic of discussion. There are all sorts of subtle privileges that come with growing up white and they add up to a lot in the end. The fact is that most black people in this country are inevitably going to face challenges and obstacles growing up - challenges that wouldn't even occur to white people to consider. And this even goes for blacks and whites of the same social class. I don't see it as at all unreasonable that law schools be cognizant of this when they make their admissions decisions.And that's related to the second rationale for affirmative action, which has less to do with merit than it does with the educational experience during law school. My constitutional law and criminal procedure classes would have been less interesting had there been no URMs in them because URMs often grow up having very different experiences with the police and criminal justice system than do white students. They often have meaningful insights on cases concerning race in constitutional law classes that white students are less likely to have.As an Asian American, I have grown up with a lot of advantages and privileges. More people worked harder to make sure I succeeded in school because that's what was expected of me. People assume I'm intelligent and hard working. I'm more socially accepted by white people than I would be if I were black, which in turn gives me more access to valuable networking opportunities than I would have if I were black. That's not to say that I didn't work hard, but it did mean that my hard work was also more likely to be noticed. I'm willing to accept that this translated to my having to work a little harder to get into good schools than a black or Latino student.That's not to say that there aren't reasonable arguments in opposition to affirmative action. For example, you could argue that its costs with regard to race relations outweigh the benefits to URMs. You could argue that only rich, well-connected URMs actually benefit from it in practice. You could argue that there are bad career consequences for URMs who get into a school for which they're unqualified. And there are definitely plenty of blacks and Latinos out there who, individually, don't merit affirmative action treatment as much as some individual poor whites. But the argument that affirmative action unfairly disadvantages white students who are equally situated with black students has little practical application because there are so few who are equally situated.
Quote from: t... on June 22, 2008, 09:37:34 PMThe problem with you libs is that you are always mocking instead of taking on the argument itself. The biggest irony is that after your post none of them took on the argument like you criticized.
The problem with you libs is that you are always mocking instead of taking on the argument itself.


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Two young children and a man died as a two-alarm fire swept through their Curtis Bay home early Saturday. A woman, who neighbors said was the children's mother, was in critical condition after jumping from a second-story window.
Neighbors in the 4100 block of Grace Court described a chaotic scene after the fire broke out about 4 a.m. Some criticized the response of the Fire Department, saying units took too long to arrive on the scene. They said firefighters did not show a sense of urgency until the woman, who had escaped by the time they arrived, told them children were trapped inside. Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Ian Brennan defended the department's response and said the first fire engine arrived in three minutes.
The victims have not yet been identified, but neighbors said they were a girl about 5 years old who attended nearby Curtis Bay Elementary School and a boy about 18 months old. The man was their father, who died trying to save his girlfriend and their children, neighbors said. Brennan said the woman who escaped was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Nathaniel Faison, who lives on the block, said he was awakened about 4 a.m. by the sound of yelling. He said he saw smoke coming from his neighbor's house and ran outside, calling 911 at 4:02 a.m.
The children's father, whom Faison knew as "Chop," was at the second-story window of the home, nudging his girlfriend to jump out, Faison said. After she jumped to the ground, the father's brother, who lives across the street, yelled at him to jump as well, but Chop disappeared back into the house, presumably to rescue the children, Faison said.
"He could have gotten out safely, but he went back for his kids, so in my mind he's a hero," Faison said.
Faison and other neighbors said police officers arrived quickly and were there first, and that some officers tried to break down the door of the house. But Faison said it took "20 minutes" for the first engine to arrive, and that the firefighters unrolled a hose and went back to their truck and started talking, only moving more quickly to fight the fire once they were told that children were inside.
Brennan said the 911 call was dispatched at 4:05 a.m. and that Engine 57, which is stationed at a firehouse a third of a mile away, arrived at 4:08.
"I understand that when someone is on the scene, 10 seconds feels like a minute and a minute feels like an hour," Brennan said. "I don't have any indication that [firefighters] did anything other than their job."
Flames had spread to both floors by the time firefighters arrived, Brennan said, and the cause of the fire and whether the home had working smoke detectors is under investigation. Adjacent houses were severely damaged by smoke, fire and water.
"The firefighters attacked it as aggressively as we could, but sadly we couldn't save the three victims," Brennan said. The Fire Department may open an investigation into the response if a formal complaint is filed, Brennan said.
City Councilman Ed Reisinger, who represents the area, said he has been friends with a next-door neighbor of the family for 20 years and that the neighbor did not fault the Fire Department's response.
Reisinger said that after talking with his friend, other neighbors on the block and the fire chief, he was satisfied with the department's response. "I don't know what else to say except that it's a tragedy," Reisinger said.
Detective Jeremy Silbert, a Police Department spokesman, said officers were passing by when they noticed the fire and called it in at 4:03 a.m., then went through the block knocking on doors to alert neighbors to get out.
Saturday's fatal fire is the second such incident this year in Baltimore.
The Curtis Bay home was a rental; the owners could not be reached for comment. The entire row of six attached homes was apparently damaged, and the American Red Cross said volunteers were working with residents who had been displaced from four other homes.
Neighbor Robin Gwin was crying as she watched firefighters work on the scene a few hours after the fire began.
"Those kids were like my grandchildren," she said as her own children hugged her.


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Hiking Volcan Baru – with the Mighty Quinn!
Our guest Marc wrote me prior to his Boquete trip: he was looking forward his stay and he and his 10-year-old son were especially excited about their hike up Volcan Baru. I promptly sent him a link to our Baru blog post.
It's borderline anti-Baru. In summary: if you only have a few days in Boquete, don't use up a full day climbing Baru—it's long, hard and the views fleeting (the mountain clouds up pretty fast—so both oceans are visible for a limited period of time, if at all). And heck, a 10-year-old can't climb Baru, right?
Both Marc and Quinn were determined to hike and didn't let the post dissuade them.
The father and son team are from Colorado, so they're used to higher altitudes and they do lots of climbing during their frequent hikes. In short: they're experienced.
They left before the sun rose. They paced the trip—stopping to drink water at signs that marked the trail every four kilometres. They took a total of three 15-minute breaks, including lunch. Quinn said the trail was really easy to follow, "It would be hard to get lost!"
Marc and Quinn did the entire hike from trailhead to top and back in 8 hours and 4 minutes (!!). And when they reached the top, they saw both the Pacific and Caribbean oceans just in the nick of time—it clouded over 10 minutes after they reached the summit.
Quinn's tips:
Climb when it's dry: The trail would be very difficult if wet and muddy
Be careful where you step: the trail is made up of rocks and your feet can slip in between them
Take breaks: refuel with food and water


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This is an easy craft recipe for salt dough clay. Made from kitchen ingredients, it is non-toxic and kids love to play with it.
Items needed:
- 1 cup of salt
- 1 cup of flour
- 1/2 cup of water
- In a large bowl, combine the salt and the flour
- Make a well in the salt/flour mixture and add the water
- Knead until smooth and shape into a ball
- When not in use, wrap in plastic or store in an airtight container
To get a softer dough you can add more flour. Adding more salt will lend a more granulous affect. To add color to your dough, add food coloring or paint. Knead to get an even color. Paint your ornaments and sculptures after they dry.