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Delaware River and Delaware Estuary Nutrient Criteria Plan (pdf 327 KB; December 2013)
A nutrient is any substance assimilated by living things that promotes growth. The term is generally applied to nitrogen and phosphorus, although it can also be applied to trace nutrients like silica and iron. While nutrients are good at certain levels, high concentrations can overstimulate the production of plants and algae, which utilize dissolved oxygen as they decompose, therefore reducing oxygen levels in the water. This leads to poor conditions in streams and reduced water quality. According to the U.S. EPA, "High levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in our lakes, rivers, streams, and drinking water sources cause the degradation of these water bodies and harm fish, wildlife, and human health."
Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution comes from fertilizers, animal waste, septic systems, storm runoff, and sewage treatment plants. This type of pollution is reported to be a problem in more than half of the water bodies in the nation, including the Delaware Estuary which has an area of reduced dissolved oxygen in the urban river corridor. Elevated levels of nitrogen have been identified as a potential cause.
DRBC serves as the lead coordinating agency among the U.S. EPA and the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware for evaluating nutrient conditions in the shared interstate waters of the Delaware River and the Delaware Estuary. The DRBC also is the lead agency in determining the nutrient criteria or nutrient-related criteria, if appropriate, that are needed to protect aquatic life, public & industrial water supplies, and recreational uses of these shared resources.
DRBC is currently working to identify appropriate levels of nutrients and necessary measures to take, especially in relation to dissolved oxygen. To address both nutrients and dissolved oxygen, a process has been initiated to measure the point sources of nutrients and oxygen-depleting materials and to build a water quality model to integrate this information and forecast future scenarios for the Delaware Estuary. Although the results from such efforts are not yet available, the goal is to select an appropriate path towards a healthy, functioning ecosystem in all parts of the Delaware Estuary.
In August 2008, the DRBC's Water Quality Advisory Committee tasked its Nutrient Management Subcommittee with the following:
- Evaluating and recommending interim protective measures
- Determining designated uses to be protected
- Reviewing current monitoring and identifying needs
- Reviewing options and approaches for establishing effects-based nutrient criteria or other management options
Current Major Nutrient-Focused Initiatives Include:
- Point Source Nutrient Monitoring in the Delaware Estuary (see below)
- Non-Point Source Loading to the Delaware River & Delaware Estuary (see below)
- Delaware River (Non-Tidal) Bioassessment (see below)
- Creation of an Expert Panel to advise the WQAC and the DRBC on the development and use of a Delaware Estuary Eutrophication Model; authorized by Resolution 2012-07 (pdf 31 KB)
- DRBC Resolution 2010-5 Authorizing Point Source Monitoring Requirement (pdf 9 KB)
- Fact Sheet on DRBC Point Source Initiative in the Delaware Estuary (pdf 122 KB)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Point Source Facilities and DRBC's Answers (pdf 210 KB)
- EPA-Approved Methods for Analytical Parameters
- Data Submission: The Electronic Data Deliverable Template (xls 90 KB)
Related DRBC Publications:
Nutrients are a natural and an essential component of aquatic ecosystems. A key step in evaluating nutrients and their effects in the Delaware River & Delaware Estuary will be the quantification of the background rates of nutrient loading from the landscape, both from natural weathering processes and from enhanced anthropogenic sources.
This effort is expected to combine empirical measurements with large-scale models to determine both the absolute and relative contributions from different sources.
The ecological condition of the aquatic communities within the Delaware River is expected to be the river's most sensitive indicator of nutrient enrichment.
The Delaware River Basin Commission has been working since 2001 to develop a system-specific method of evaluating both the benthic macroinvertebrate communities and the benthic periphyton (algae) communities of the Delaware River to assess the ecological health of the river. Learn more.
Bioassessment Work Products:
- Matlock Periphytometer Study – 2009
- Interim Invertebrate Biocriteria (pdf 345 KB; 2009)
- Periphyton Pilot Study (pdf 1.7 MB; 2007)
DRBC Ad Hoc Workgroup's Recommendations for BODultimate (November 2013; pdf 67 KB)
Among the worst possible symptoms from elevated nutrient conditions in streams, lakes, and coastal systems is the depletion of dissolved oxygen from the water column. The Delaware Estuary has a long history of dissolved oxygen issues, with a complete lack of oxygen in the estuary near Philadelphia extending for months each year during the 1960s. This dissolved oxygen sag in the estuary's urban corridor has traditionally been attributed to point-source loading of oxygen-depleting compounds, which are grouped into two main categories: CBOD (carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand) and NBOD (nitrogenous biochemical oxygen demand). To address the severe conditions of the 1960s, the DRBC adopted a wasteload allocation for CBOD in 1968. With the support of the states and the federal government, in part through Clean Water Act grants, the implementation of this CBOD allocation has resulted in a remarkable recovery in dissolved oxygen conditions in the Delaware Estuary's urban corridor.
Despite this remarkable recovery, the dissolved oxygen levels in the estuary at times remain far below equilibrium saturation values and may create stressful conditions for the fish and other aquatic life of the estuary. Yet the relative roles of nutrient enrichment, point source loading of CBOD and NBOD, and the background non-point source loading of oxygen-demanding materials remain unclear. The nutrient monitoring program as a whole begins to resolve this uncertainty through quantification of the point source loading, which will be combined with other efforts into a quantitative model of the estuary dynamics. This "eutrophication model" will allow the separation of the relative importance of the various components that depress oxygen levels. One of the key parameters for such a model is the long-term, or "ultimate", biochemical oxygen demand (BODultimate). Yet BODultimate has not been a traditional parameter for effluent monitoring, and no labs in our region currently perform this test. Nevertheless, because short-term measurements of BOD and CBOD can underestimate the long-term oxygen demand, and this bias can vary substantially among facilities and through time, the resolution of the current dissolved oxygen issues in the Delaware Estuary require evaluation of this long-term, or ultimate, biochemical oxygen demand.
BODultimate Requirements:
BODultimate monitoring will be required for the 20 largest CBOD allocations in Zones 2 through 5 of the Delaware Estuary; these facilities account for 95% of the estuary's CBOD wasteload allocation. Monitoring will be required twice during the two-year monitoring window: once during summer conditions (scheduled for summer 2015) and once during winter conditions (expected in winter 2015-2016).
Because no laboratories in the Delaware Valley region currently conduct the BODultimate test (see Standard Methods 5210C), the Water Quality Advisory Committee recommended - and the DRBC convened - a working group to identify the necessary steps for this monitoring effort. The Workgroup's Recommendations (pdf 67 KB) provided the additional specificity needed to complement Standard Methods 5210C, and both documents have been used to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for consistent application of the test.
These BODultimate data will be used in conjunction with the 2-year nutrient monitoring data to lay the foundation for a Eutrophication Model of the Delaware Estuary.
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P.O. Box 7360, West Trenton, NJ 08628-0360
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Tosca by Giacomo Puccini is probably on almost every opera lover's Top Ten list; it's certainly on mine. Right now, Saturday October 12 2013, fresh from attending last night's opening performance of West Bay Opera's 58th season, it's #1 on that list. Here are some of the reasons why:
1 Puccini's tightly knit melodic and dramatic music. Right now, 12 hours after leaving the Lucie Stern Theater, Tosca's poignant Vissi d'arte (I lived for art), Mario's lovely O dolce mani (Oh gentle hands), and Scarpia's doom-threatening motif are competing for attention in my head.
2 Three of opera's most complex characters: Mario Cavaradossi (David Gustafson) – lover, artist, patriot; Baron Scarpia (Philip Skinner) – power-driven, lecher, sadist; Floria Tosca (Stacey Stofferahn) – diva, lover, and deeply religious. One of the reasons I love seeing different productions of the opera is that they differ in the relative importance each protagonist gives to his/her different defining qualities. I'll say more about this later.
3 One of opera's most dramatic story lines. Almost all operas have a climax at or near the end; many operas will also have an earlier climax, usually at the end of Act II; I count five climaxes in Tosca. At the end of Act I the chorus is singing a sonorous religious Te Deum, and Scarpia is singing a profane aria of how he is planning to kill Mario as a traitor and then rape the beautiful Tosca. Each of these themes is captured and skillfully interwoven by Puccini's music. Many otherwise brilliant productions miss this climax completely by over-emphasizing one theme over the other; Conductor José Luis Moscovich, Chorus Master Carl Panle, and Baritone Philip Skinner succeed in balancing their efforts to produce an unusual musical tension. The contrast is helped by having Scarpia sing from the artist's platform so that he is literally singing over the chorus.
Act II has a first crisis when Mario, bloody from torture, is led off stage to imprisonment and imminent execution, cursing Tosca for having revealed the secret hiding place, and exultantly singing, "Victory" in celebration of the news that Napoleon has defeated the reactionary regime that has supported Scarpia. Events then proceed rapidly to the primary climax of the opera: Tosca's stabbing of Scarpia.
Even after the intermission, I am still under the influence of that highly dramatic ending. In an act of genius, Puccini helps us fully unwind by inserting the lovely off-stage shepherd's song (sung last night by 12-year-old Brian Ho who will alternate with 11-year old Joseph Cudahy in future performances). We soon get back to the main story. After some of the most beautiful singing in the entire opera, the "fake" execution turns out to be a "fake fake" which evokes the fourth climax – Tosca's anguished cry of "Mario!" when she discovers he is really dead.
Almost before we can absorb this climax a mob enters seeking revenge for Scarpia's death, and Tosca leaps off the parapet to crash to her death on the jagged rocks a hundred feet below as the orchestra blares a final reprise variation of the Scarpia motif (of course whereas Tosca falls to her death out of sight, her portrayer Stacey Stofferahn is safely caught by stagehands just barely hidden behind the parapet and will shortly reappear in a curtain call).
4 Puccini and his Librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa have put all of these wonderful ingredients together in a tightly woven intertwined whole with music, words, and actions each supporting and supported by the others.
And that's why any production of Tosca is worth seeing. For this particular WBOpera production, add the exceptional Artistic Direction & Design Crew and the extraordinary Cast listed at the end of the review.
As their final production last season, WBOpera presented Verdi's Otello, starring David Gustafson and Philip Skinner as the male leads, Otello and Iago. Well, guess what? The male leads in Tosca are David Gustafson and Philip Skinner as Mario Cavaradossi and Baron Scarpia! As I mentioned under #2 above Mario is patriot, artist, and lover, in that order. Gustafson shows all three attributes in singing and in acting. As I watch and listen I am convinced that the music dictates that as the only possible order. In Act I he tries his best to minimize the conflict, gently trying to shoo Tosca away before she discovers the hidden Angelotti, but back-tracking a bit to allay her suspicions of another mistress – and giving her non-committal nods when she insists that he changes Magdalena's eyes from blue to black. In Act II he loses his temper and curses Tosca, but in Act III there is no conflict and he is pure lover. All with a gorgeous forceful tenor voice.
There's no question about Scarpia's priorities: power and sadism with lust a distant third. When Philip Skinner first strides on stage in the middle of Act I, he hasn't sung two words before you know, "this man is trouble." His unsmiling face and uncompromising stance tells you this is a man of near-absolute power which he enjoys using – doubly so if it causes pain to others. His total dominance over his henchmen Spoletta (Nadav Hart) and Saciarrone (Mathew Pierce) is unbelievably arrogant. He snaps his fingers without looking, one or more of them appear and need at most a subdued gesture to divine what he wants done, do it, and silently withdraw.
Scarpia really gets his kicks from using his power over an individual to make him/her suffer physically and emotionally. His disproportionate hatred of Mario is because the painter refuses to give in mentally but defies his power to the death – literally. As for Tosca, he is blatant. "Nothing will give me greater pleasure than to look down on your face and see that expression of utter hatred in your eyes." Skinner's powerful and dramatic voice do full justice to Puccini's powerful and dramatic music. His final words as he lies dying don't portray sorrow or regret, but shame that he has been laid low by a mere woman.
Last night was Stacey Stofferahn 's debut with WBOpera- I hope we'll see her many times in the future. She has a lovely soprano voice, and held her own in her duets with each of the two men. She was all of diva, lover, and religious, and played them with a minimum of conflict. In Act I she was a marvelous jealous lover, and her love duet with Mario in Act III was sheer delight. She sang Vissi d'arte in Act II with all of the religious intensity that the aria deserves.
Her most dramatic moment was during the stunning climax at the end of Act II. She has whispered her feeble "Si" to Scarpia's unspeakable demand, and accepted his insincere promises. As he is bent over his desk writing the safe-conduct pass, she is hopelessly trying to accept her shameful fate when her eye spots the sharp knife on the table. She instantly sees the possibility it offers; her body springs to attention as she grabs the knife, and gives a half-turn so her back is toward Scarpia. She is no longer sweet religious Tosca, lover of Mario; she is Action-Woman, operating on pure adrenalin. As Scarpia rises from his chair and comes toward her, she shifts her grip on the knife to hold it in stabbing position. She holds that pose, silently heaving with emotion. Scarpia approaches her with the pass in his hand. She senses he is about to embrace her.
She whirls about with arm rising, faces him with a yard gap between their bodies, and drives the knife into his chest. Scarpia falls to the ground. He twitches helplessly. She taunts him, knife at the ready. He gives a final twitch. Both arms fall limply to the floor. She checks him closely to be sure. The adrenalin drains from her body.
"é morto" (He is dead), she sings. "Now I forgive him." She is again gentle, religious Tosca. She places candles at his head and a crucifix on his chest and slowly walks out of the room as the curtain falls.
See why I love that opera? It is now Sunday evening and I have just returned from seeing it a second time and enjoying it even more. And I'll probably get even more out of it when I go again next Saturday, October 19 at 8 pm. And if you live anywhere near Palo Alto, you owe it to yourself to come then or to the final matinee on Sunday October 21 at 2:00. There are a handful of good seats left, but don't waste any time before getting your tickets.
WEST BAY OPERA 221 Lambert Avenue
Lucie Stern Theatre 1305 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto CA 94306 650.424.9999
Except as noted, all photos by Otak Jump – arrangement and cropping by Philip Hodge.
Artistic Direction & Design
General Director: José Luis Moscovich
Conductor: José Luis Moscovich
Director: Richard Harrell
Set Designer: Jean-François Revon
Costume Designer: Lisa Lutkenhouse Lowe *
Lighting Designer: Lucas Krech
Make-up Designer: Rande Harris
Properties Designer: Shirley Benson
Angelotti: William O'Neill *
Sagrestano: Carl King
Mario Cavaradossi: David Gustafson
Floria Tosca: Stacey Stofferahn *
Baron Scarpia: Philip Skinner
Spoletta: Nadav Hart
Sciarrone: Mathew Pierce
Jailer: Jay Iness


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I've been asked a few times via Instgram followers to do a post about how I do and take care of my hair. It's funny because I really don't do anything super special. I am pretty blessed with my mom's thick hair (by the way, her hair is still crazy amazing at 60-something- we should ask HER what SHE does). My hair was always my safety blanket, even when I felt horrible about every other part of how I looked. Even when I was sick, my hair stayed pretty great. So when I had a majorly awful coloring (and corrective coloring) incident with a new colorist four years ago that left me with such damaged hair that started breaking and falling out, I absolutely lost my shit (pardon my French, but it's true). It took that to realize how much of my confidence was wrapped up in my strands. The more I stressed about it the worse it got, a vicious cycle. For over a year I was so self-conscious and depressed (even though everyone said they couldn't tell much of a difference). Long story short, I skipped coloring it for a very long time, did lots of masks and worked on my stress level and it got better. So now when people compliment my hair it makes me happy again! While I'm not one to do photo-shoots of myself doing my hair, here are my favorite products and how I get my messy waves:
Left, happy waves in the early fall Right, miserable waves in the winter.
(That is not a duckface, that is a "I hate the cold" face")
1. & 2. I am so obsessed with this L'Oreal shampoo and conditioner. It's works wonders for such a good price. Better than some I've tried that cost six times this much!
3. Once in a while I love using this peppermint shampoo to feel like I'm really cleaning my scalp. I lather it up and leave it for a few minutes to get a good tingle on.
4. I put a pump or two of this awesome oil through the ends/ middle of my wet hair and then brush through. This big bottle has lasted me over two years so for the price it's worth it!
5. Another oil I use sometimes is this L'Oreal one, I'll spray on my ends if I'm out of Absolue. I also use this on my dry hair (sparingly) to calm frizzies! It's genius!
6. I love to air dry my hair as it has natural wave- when it's not 194 degrees below zero I'll spray this sea salt spray on my hair from roots to mid-shaft and let it air dry for good slightly tacky texture.
7. If it's freezing out (like now) I'll put a little bit of this mousse on the roots and blow dry with my head upside down for some lift and volume. I'll use a large round brush here and there but I don't dry it straight because the more texture there is before I curl the longer the waves last!
8. I use this 1″ super hot (i.e. I've branded Andrew with this when he's come into the bathroom at an ill-advised time) curling iron. I section my hair with clips so I can get the underneath part first and holding the iron with the wand pointed down I take 1-2″ sections and wrap them around the barrel away from the face. Wrap fro root to tip- don't start at the bottom! Hold for a few seconds and release. Repeat over entire head.
9. I flip my head over, tousle everything so it's not so perfectly curled and sometimes blast the root with a little Oribe Dry Spray (amazing dry shampoo/ texturizer). A lot of times I skip this and do it the second day when I don't wash it. P.S. this stuff is AWESOME for updos as it adds a lot of grip to the hair!
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yet again - the end of a "career"Since the security guys in New Haven the previous night had given me such a hard time as Bono was trying to pull me up to dance, I think he made certain I would not have the same problem in New York. At this point, I was well-known by the band as a real ham on stage. I was a student at Columbia at this point, and a large portion of the audience here was from CU. After we did our customary twisting, I was brought back to the wings, where the wife of Paul McGuinness helped me re-hook my bra, which had come undone in the crowd. I watched as the band gathered in a prayer circle between encores. My friends went back up to Morningside Heights, where I was an instant legend, while I got invited to the after-show. Bono introduced me to some Canadian journalists as "part of our act" (!) and I hung out with the Butler brothers (Psychedelic Furs). Thus ended my "career" as "part of the act" - I ran into the band in L.A. in 1986, but didn't see them live again until the PopMart opener in Vegas. (if you don't count the "Streets Have No Name" rooftop mini-gig. :)


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XO Laptop as PDF eBook Reader: A First LookJanuary 7, 2008
The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is a distinctive little machine. It invites children to come and play with its whimsical form: big rounded corners, bright colors, personality-laden rabbit ear (wi-fi) antennas and kid-luggable handle. With tools ranging from musical composition to writing, painting and programming, it's intended to foster learning-by-doing and collaboration. But along with these active modes, it also is designed to be an effective ebook reader, promising inexpensive or free reading content for developing world areas where print books are often considered too expensive and rare to entrust to children's hands.
I recently took a first look at the XO in the book-reading realm, viewing several WOWIO non-DRM'd PDFs to get a general sense of its display quality, performance and usability. Along the way, I also compared the little green guy against some of the other ebook-capable devices, including laptops, the Sony Reader and the iPhone.
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The XO uses a specially-designed twist on the standard LCD technology found in laptops. This variation combines high resolution, very low power consumption (the laptop is designed to run on alternative energy sources, including a human-powered hand crank), full color and low cost. The laptop seamlessly transitions between two display modes — standard backlit color (like a laptop LCD) and unlit monochrome for use in bright ambient light (similar to the E-Ink used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, but with an even higher pixel density).
As you can see from the photo above, the XO's screen actually fares pretty well in comparison with a MacBook Pro and its designer-grade display (a machine which costs about 10x more than the XO). While the XO's screen can't match the Mac in brightness, crispness or color fidelity, it still does a very respectable job in rendering the PDF's text and graphics. Typography is clear and well formed and images display with good detail. I've seen much more expensive laptops with far inferior displays. I suspect that the XO might actually outperform the Mac in bright light outdoors, thanks to its special screen — stay tuned for that test in a later post. From what I've seen so far, the OLPC team did a great job in hitting its multiple design objectives with this display.
PDF Performance
Given its modest, power-sipping hardware specs and child-like form, I didn't really expect blazing speed out of this cute little machine. It lived up to those expectations and exceeded them in some ways.
Launch of the various task-oriented apps generally took a bit of patience, with load times taking many long seconds. Once loaded though, performance of apps including the PDF reader were quite acceptable. Scrolling and screen update performance were reasonably peppy, even for a large 310-page document with many embedded photos (like Letters from St. Petersburg, pictured above).
The fully variable (and responsive) zoom and scrolling controls, selectable display orientation and Transformer-like adaptability (from standard laptop configuration to a tablet-like reader) together make a very functional package for reading a PDF ebook. As with the iPhone, the ability to zoom in on PDF pages is particularly useful, since it allows the book text to be enlarged to fill the screen. This is in sharp contrast to the limitations of the Sony Reader, which has a very limited zoom that leaves some books with uncomfortably small text by wasting valuable screen real estate on blank margins.
Interestingly, XO's reader software actually seems to be more compatible with some PDFs than that in the Sony Reader and the iPhone. For example, the latter devices (as well as other third-party PDF readers on the Mac or Windows) choke on displaying certain embedded images while the XO renders them just fine (just as Adobe Reader does).
As I mentioned above, PDF paging and navigation are fairly snappy. Several options are available for navigating including physical buttons for scrolling and paging along with on-screen equivalents and a jump-to-page control. In keeping with the multi-purpose nature of the machine, the physical buttons aren't specifically labeled. As with the rest of the interface and applications, these functions are best determined through learn-by-playing-with-it trial and error, and that's a mostly straightforward process. Bookmark functionality is notably absent. Oddly, there appears to be no way to control the cursor when the machine is in tablet configuration, so many of the onscreen controls aren't accessible without unsnapping the screen and fishing around on the trackpad. Perhaps more experimentation will glean a more usable approach to cursor control, but in the meantime, the hardware buttons accomplish the essentials.
Head-Scratching GUI
I tried to view the XO's interface in terms of its intended audience — young children unburdened by the baggage of established OS conventions. Perhaps it's impossible for me to reach such a state of innocence, but even after many of the required trials and errors, I found that the seemingly simple act of opening a PDF file was still terribly obtuse and required too many steps to accomplish. I hope to find a more direct method, since this complexity is the single biggest bump in using the XO as an ebook reader. Once the file was actually open, the reader software was easy enough to use and seemed to work well.
Closing Bits
I haven't yet had an opportunity to read full books on the XO. In my initial play, though, it's clear that a tremendous amount of design and thought went into creating a machine that is physically well adapted for use by children in the developing world. The biggest weaknesses are in OS usability — the all-new paradigm for a simple, task-oriented system needs some rethinking and refinement. As an ebook reader, though, the XO shows enormous potential and I'm looking forward to future developments.


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In Hyalite the public will be allowed back into the West Fork of Hyalite Creek all the way to Hyalite Peak. This means Chisholm and Hood Creek Campgrounds, Maxey and Window Rock Cabins, as well as the Crescent Lake Trail and Palace Butte Trailhead that leads to Hyalite Peak and Grotto Falls will be open.
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Here comes the black box a.k.a. the IR transmitter that is the other major part of GeForce 3D Vision. This small black box allows you to start and stop the 3D Stereo mode by just pressing the front button with nVidia's logo on it. This device sends an infrared signal to the glasses that is being used to synchronize the image displayed on the screen and the shutters of the glasses so that each eye sees just half of the frames displayed on the monitor.
On the back side of the transmitter you'll find a mini USB connector that is used to connect the device to the computer, along with the scroll wheel used to set the level of depth when you tun on a 3D stereo mode. The scroll wheel is very convenient, because you can change the depth in every 3D application when you turn the 3D Stereo mode in real time. The level of depth is also controllable from the Stereo Drivers, but you need to go to the control panel of the video drivers in order to be able to modify it (the default value is 15%).
The connector on the right you see is only needed for synchronization when using a compatible DLP TV set as a display in combination with GeForce 3D Vision.
And now for the fun part. The image above is shot in infrared mode and thus the camera actually sees below the normally visible as black external surface of the transmitter. This is possible, because the cover of the transmitter has been made from a special type of plastic that blocks only visible light (appearing black in color), but at the same time passes all infrared (IR) light. This is done, because the transmitter sends infrared signals to the glasses and this type of light rays needs to pass through the external walls of the device. And all the bright lights you see inside the transmitter are actually infrared LEDs that are used to send the synchronization signal to the glasses. As you can see they are placed all over the inside of the transmitter which is needed to provide the best "connection" between the glasses and the transmitter, because infrared light transmission requires direct line of sight. With this design you don't need to place the transmitter in a special location to get the best results, you can simply place it somewhere around the monitor and everything should be fine. Just be wary of some other devices transmitting infrared signals that may be active around you and the computer, because that might bring some interferences and break the synchronization of the glasses and the transmitter.


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Thanks for coming to the 2011 National Poetry Slam!
We did it!
The 2011 National Poetry Slam has come and gone, and we at the host city committee owe a great debt of thanks to all of you who attended, volunteered, watched, and judged our events. We are especially thankful to those of you who waited so patiently in line for our sold-out events; this year's crowds were unprecedented in the history of the National Poetry Slam, and although it represented an inconvenience for many of you, your patience and tolerance are deeply appreciated. The ultimate meaning is clear: slam is gaining in popularity in a way it never has before, and we are honored to have hosted so many of you at our nearly 100 events.
The winning poem belonged to Tony D. He entitled it: An Ode to the Cloud:
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Why do you mock thee,
Wow I really suck at this.
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Congratulations to the 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion: Slam Nuba from Denver, Colorado, as well as our other finalists: Nuyorican Poets Cafe (New York City, NY) in second place, Providence Poetry Slam (Providence, RI) in third, and Writing Wrongs (Columbus, OH) in fourth.
The Spirit of the Slam winner for NPS 2011 is Sonya Renee, who has worked tirelessly to keep our community open, safe, and understanding for all our members.
For those who expressed concern about the poet with medical concerns at the YMCA on Friday night: the poet has asked us to pass on that he is 100% fine and grateful for everyone's support. That poet did perform both successfully and beautifully the next day at the make-up semi-final in the Old Baptist Church.
The 2011 National Poetry Slam Host Committee worked extremely hard with Poetry Slam, Inc., to bring you this amazing week of poetry. Congratulations and thank you to all of our artists, volunteers, hosts and bout managers, and audience. We are so happy to share poetry slam with you.
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From Pope to Politician, When Do You Know It's Time to Go?
Feb 13, 2013 | CNN
Choosing to step down from a top job can be an extraordinary decision, whether the person is a pontiff or a politician. But George Pataki, former governor of New York, says making the switch from public figure to John Q. Public wasn't difficult for him.
"I made up my mind that I was never going to let my public title become my personal identity," he says. He embraced what he calls a sense of normalcy after he left office, going to movies and basketball games.
A year or two after he left office, Pataki went to Madison Square Garden with a group of friends to see the Knicks play. And he wanted to stand in line to get himself a hot dog -- something elected officials tend not to do.
"I loved it," he says. Even though fellow fans recognized him and offered to let him jump the queue, Pataki waited in line for his hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut. "I felt really good about the fact that it was just comfortable for me to be on line with the rest," he says.
Pataki decided in the middle of his third term in office that he would not seek a fourth term. He left office in 2006, after 12 years as governor. "I had no doubts that this was the right decision for me, for my family, for the team that had worked so hard with me, and for the state," he says.
Pataki now practices law at Chadbourne & Parke in New York, where he focuses on energy and environmental issues. He has enjoyed his return to the private sector. "The transition for me was really not that difficult, to be perfectly honest," says Pataki. "But it was time."
Deciding when it's time to leave can be tough, especially when top jobs are hard to find. In the corporate world, stepping down from a leadership role by choice is uncommon.
"It's almost unheard of," says Patricia Cook, CEO of the executive search firm Cook & Company. "It's a very unusual event."
Experts in the business world wonder why an executive would relinquish a leadership role. Cook says she can't think of an instance when a CEO stepped down because he or she didn't feel up to the job. But health concerns can change the game. Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world Monday when he announced he would resign at the end of this month. He cited his age and his deteriorating strength in his statement: "I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry." A Vatican spokesman said on Tuesday that Benedict is not suffering from a specific ailment.
"I was very surprised," says David Perry, associate professor of history at Dominican University. Even so, Perry knew resignation was possible -- even for a pope. "From my perspective as a medievalist, it's not surprising that popes can resign," he says. Papal law makes clear that pontiffs can give up their roles.
But that hasn't happened in nearly 600 years. Whatever Benedict's motivation for choosing to step down now, experts say that his legacy could depend on whether there will be an orderly succession.
Career expert Nicole Williams stresses the importance of a clean exit in the corporate arena. "Departing is what ends up being a very monumental and usually public occasion," she says.
Regardless of an employee's years of loyalty and service, the final stretch is often what defines the person. "What they remember is you leaving," says Williams. "You're going to want to be remembered by this departure, so you want to control it versus it controlling you."
Geoff Hoffmann took over as chief executive officer of the search firm DHR International from his father. As someone who recently went through the transition process, and who advises companies on their plans, he says a leadership plan is the key to success.
"One of the most important duties of a CEO is to make sure that the succession plan is in place, really from Day One," he says. "Some of the best-run companies are really thoughtful with their succession planning."
Health and circumstance can contribute to a person's decision to step down from a job in any field.
If a leader doesn't feel up to the task, experts say retirement makes sense. "If we look at the corporate world, it really is about: Can the CEO execute the job at the level it needs to be done?" says Susan Battley, founder and CEO of Battley Performance Consulting.
From mental sharpness to memory, leaders need finely tuned skills to be at the top of their game. "Effective leadership is all about being able to execute brilliantly," says Battley. Whether the person is in charge of a Fortune 500 company, or the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, leadership is exhausting.
Since leaving office, Pataki and his wife spend as much time as they can at their farm in the Adirondack Mountains. He's still playing sports, like basketball, and watching them; he calls himself a long-suffering Jets fan. And he still appears on the political stage. He says: "I do want to try to help out with advancing policies that are right for the future of the country." As for the pope, a Vatican spokesman says he will likely retire to a monastery, where he will spend his time focused on prayer and reflection.


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No. 6 Tigers to Host Regional Round of NWCA National Duals
COLUMBIA -- After an astounding 43-3 romp of SIUE on Wednesday night, the fifth-ranked Tigers look ahead to another night at the Hearnes Center wherethey will be hosting the Regional round of the NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Dual Meet Championship on Sunday, Feb. 17.
The action will kick off at 10:00 a.m. CT with Mizzou facing off against Maryland. A win over the Terps would set the Tigers up for a match against either No. 16 Purdue or No. 20 Wyoming for the chance to advance to the Finals the following weekend at the University of Minnesota.
Maryland is 12-7 on the season coming into the Regional. The Terps faced seven teams that were ranked in the top-25 this season and went 2-5 against them, one of those wins coming overPurdue. The last time the Maryland wrestling team hit the mat they were able to defeat two conference foes on the road and close out their Atlantic Coast Conference record at 3-2.
The Terrapins stomped the Duke Blue Devils 38-3, and then were able to squeak by the North Carolina State Wolfpack 22-19. After getting off to a 10-0 losing start behind the Wolfpack, the Terps were able to come up with decisions by John Asper and Dallas Brown, two consecutive technical falls for Jimmy Sheptock and Ty Snook, and a forfeit win at 133 pounds to secure the victory.
No. 16 Purdue was named the No. 2 seed for the Regional, marking the highest-ever seed for the Boilermakers in the Nationals Duals. Purdue will meet up with No. 21 Wyoming in the openinground of the Midwest Regional hoping to defend a 2-0-1 all-time record against the Cowboys. The Boilermakers are bringing in some big names on Sunday withfour of their ten starters being named in the top-20 of the NCAA Coaches' Panel rankings, and eight of them being in the top 30.
With Camden Eppert (21-8) at 125 pounds, 133-pounder Cashé Quiroga (7-1), 149-pounder Ivan Lopouchanski (21-1), and Braden Atwood (21-6) at 197, the Boilermakers are going to be tough to beat. Purdue's squad is coming into the NWCA Regionals with its first winning Ben Ten record since 1998 after toppling archrival Indiana at home on Feb. 11. The Boilermakers took the dual 28-13 with help from a forfeit at 174 and 197 pounds along with decisions by Camden Eppert, Cashé Quiroga, Ivan Lopouchanski, and Brandon Nelsen. After taking the dual Purdue improved their record to 14-5,with one of the losses coming from the No. 5 Missouri Tigers earlier in theseason.
Wyoming (8-4) is also coming into the NWCA Regional Round after a big conference victory against Northern Colorado on Jan. 30. The Cowboys were able to grapple to a 34-10 victory after taking seven of the ten match-ups, six of them ending in a major decision or a fall. The Cowboys have two wrestlers in the latest national rankings and five of their starters have won at least 19 matches. Wyoming looks to be a threat with sophomore Tyler Cox (26-7) at 125 pounds, sophomore Andy McCulley (24-6) at 157 pounds, senior L.J. Helbig (19-8) at 174 pounds, sophomore Shane Woods (21-11) at 184 pounds, and with senior Alfonso Hernandez (27-1) at 197 pounds.
The winner of Missouri/Maryland will take on the winner of Purdue/Wyoming at 12:00 p.m. CT. The losers will battle in a consolation match at 12:00 p.m. CT.


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BURNT TOAST AND GODDIDNOTDOIT: Atheist Sees Image of the 'Birth of Earth' in Burnt Toast
Yes it's true.
This genuine picture was photographed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England by atheist scientist Dr. Terence Meaden earlier this month.
He could barely withhold his excitement.
"I was having breakfast when this piece of ciabatta toast got burnt," he said. "Suddenly I was aware that the pattern of light and darkness across the toast resembled what could have been a visible manifestation of primeval events at the time that planet Earth was forming four and a half billion years ago.
Genuine unretouched photograph, copyright G.T. Meaden
Physicist Dr. G. Terence Meaden from Oxford University continued, "I feel humbled that I should have been chosen to receive this vision and expression of non-godist reality in this unexpected way. It is plainly a subtle manifestation of the high principle of atheism that goddidnotdoit."
It is likely to make national headlines as this sensational story spreads through the rationalist community of nonbelievers in godism. Goddidit followers may be unhappy about it though, but after all—if one imitates their sloppy use of the word 'theory'—then "goddidit is only a 'theory', seeing that gods are mere constructs of the human mind".
"It is exciting because this piece of toast was absolutely genuine. No trickery. It happened, just like that", said Dr. Meaden—a Tommy Cooper fan.
"You can see a representation of the birthing planet taking in asteroid-size spherical fragments as Young Earth spins and grows into the big planet that we know today."
We may expect the story to go worldwide as non-acceptors of godism take note. "All I can say is you gotta believe this, because it happened. I have always concurred with the scientific truths of the Aged Earth theory because proven scientific facts are right. Some years ago* a worthy atheist reported an image of burnt toast as depicting the Big Bang, but no photograph was ever produced—so perhaps that account was satirical. Mine is not. I have the picture to prove it."
So can we see the toast, this remarkable vision?
"I'm afraid the photograph is all that remains. The experience so overwhelmed me that, stunned and unthinkingly, I photographed it, buttered it and ate it. But I do have the negative of the original photograph, and the satisfaction of having actually eaten a piece of a nongod."
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* namely http://www.satireandcomment.com/0208toast.html where a pictureless image of the Big Bang was reported some years ago.
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yes - sell it on ebay - someone will buy it.
Ummm, Terry? You know that little dial on the front of the toaster. Try turning it DOWN ... say about an eighth of a turn.
Oh, and don't forget your meds! [grin!]
*sniff sniff*
Wait, no, that's my grilled cheese sandwich. BRB.
I think we should pay more attention to patterns that appear on slightly burnt toast now. To achieve this we need to move that dial or slider UP a little more often in case others of my friends get to be honoured with a revelation like me.
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English-language learners (ELLs) are best served when provided with the same authentic literacy experiences as their English-speaking peers. Aimed at ELLs and also appropriate for students in third through fifth grades, this lesson will help all students develop an understanding of the experiences students bring from their native communities. A read-aloud of When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant triggers memories and helps students discover the appropriate use of the past tense. Students then explore the story further by researching the author before writing and sharing their own stories based on the same format.
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Mohr, K.A.J. (2004). English as an accelerated language: A call to action for reading teachers. The Reading Teacher, 58(1), 1826.
- English-language learners (ELLs) are best served by accelerated language instruction in both the context of the regular classroom and during sessions with ESL teachers. Teachers should have the same expectations of ELLs as of other students, but should scaffold their learning and differentiate their activities to give them the support they need.
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This adorable Bear Mancala set is a stimulating game for adults as well as being educational for children. The perfect solution to rainy days spent at the cabin, this strategic game's name is an Arabic word that literally means "to move". This set includes 48 color-coded game marbles with a cinching pouch for convenient storage. Also comes with instructions.
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Selleton Carries over 85 different types of products. One of our product lines are the NTEP Floor Scales. NTEP Floor scales are required to those scales that are used in a trade or commercial applications. Only 4 U.S. states are NOT required NTEP certificate of conformance to place on weighing or measuring device into commercial service, Those states are ( Tx,Nd,Vt,Ri), All other states are required!
NTEP approved (Legal for trade) scales can be used for all operations, Perfect for Recycling centers or if you are simply shipping out products. In addition, NTEP scales are much stronger than regular scales, since there is more tubing at the bottom of the scale.
Every NTEP / Certified scale will be equipped with NTEP load cells, junction box & indicator. you also can fight back disputes from logistic companies with NTEP scales!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
Architectural firm that specializes in the custom design and construction of high-end residential projects. Majority of clients spend between $1million to $10million on the construction of their homes. Each project is handled with a custom design team of architects, engineers, and contractors to meet the clients specific needs in quality and budget. Logo should embrace the merge of historic traditional style architecture with modern influences and environmental consciousness.
Logo should embrace the merge of historic traditional style architecture with modern influences and environmental consciousness. The colors and image created should be appealing to the young client as well as an older client. This logo should be versatile as an acronym (LDG). The clients spend a lot of money for custom services and usually the first image of the firm is on a yard sign at a project in progress or a business card passed on by an associate. The image has got to be compatible with the services provided, value of residence received, and cost of the custom process.
- Item 1...design must be iconic or have the ability to stand alone as an acronym (LDG) but have a clarity level to be written out as LOGAN DESIGN GROUP
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- Item 1...I am open to the letters reading all caps or just the first letters being capitalized
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It's a challenge to anybody less worthy but for someone with a formidable sweet tooth, it's a fantasy come to life.
The guys behind Sebastian's Ice Cream Studio are making another one of their sweet dreams come true: the opening of their first ice cream shop. So tonight, there are about 20 people "" read: willing guinea pigs "" who've been chosen to taste-test 12 ice cream creations, the popular ones of which will land on the menu.
With admonitions to "… eat lightly or not at all!", (I choose the latter because I want maximum stomach space), we sit at tables and are furnished with rating sheets. We start with four "Timeless Classics," the stalwart standbys of which every ice cream shop is built around.
It begins innocuously enough with a Classic Sundae straight up and frankly, just as forgettable. Sebastian's is known for its "bigness" of flavors and this sundae may be a bit too genteel.
The Brownie A La Mode, which resembles the sundae before it, is one better because of its additional scoop and 3×3-inch brownie. Murmurs around my table of "Perhaps a saltier brownie will work?" are heard as well as the consensus that "… everything's better with a brownie!"
The Giant Hot Fudge Sundae comes and goes, seemingly a super-sized version of the classic sundae. But when the Double Banana Split debuts, there are giggles and guffaws and little titters from the more conservative ones. Inspired by Serendipity, New York's iconic ice cream parlor, Sebastian's banana split has a whole banana sticking out of either side of the goblet, effecting an impression of overflow and mischief. "God, it's phallic," I mutter to myself but those at my table overhear which starts another round of side-splitting laughter. As we soon discover however, there's a reason why banana splits are served in boats: with all that stuff, it's hard to eat a split the way it should be "" moving from one ice cream flavor to another and back, each spoonful capturing ice cream and its subsequent toppings blitzed with a bit of banana.
Another split, this time a Mango Split, ushers in the second portion of the tasting, Sebastian's Ice Cream Originals. "The mango is a perfect fruit," Ian explains in his preamble. "It doesn't need much done to it." A curd made from the golden fruit drapes over scoops of vanilla bean ice cream; it'd be perfect except that the mangoes are sour. "Make this a seasonal offering," I write in large letters on my rating sheet. Meantime, I overhear Katrina telling her seatmate about a famous home-baker who "…tastes each mango she uses in her desserts."
The cheekily-named Chocapocalypse "" "how do you spell that again?" "" doesn't have to scream to be noticed. Roaringly eye-catching on its red plate, its massive scoop of chocolate ice cream is littered with chocolate shavings, their brown hue overtaken only by the deep midnight of the languid hot fudge sauce, a chocoholic's wet dream come to life.
So far, I treat the tasting the way I've been trained to do as a food writer: eat little, eat slow, tasting (each dessert's) components and understanding how all their details work (or not) together. In between alternately scribbling on my rating sheet and personal notebook, there's not much time nor ice cream left for me; which is fine. I don't like sharing my food "" especially dessert — so if I can't have my own, a spoonful is good enough for me.
But all that flies out the window when Dessert for Breakfast (cover photo) arrives, a genius combination of waffle crowned with a scoop of butter-pecan ice cream and a splodge of whipped cream, glittering with maple syrup. One bite and I'm hooked. Unfortunately, so is everyone else at my table. Cold, nutty, and sweet provides a backdrop for the utter crispness of the hot waffle, it shatters, followed by a gush of sweet cream. I've always advocated soft waffles but after this, I'm doing a turnabout. Swooning as we write on our rating sheets, eyeballs rolled upward in memory of each delicious spoonful, I hear Kris, the girl sitting across from me exclaim, "I can't believe you just did that!" Attention piqued, I ask, "Did what?" Kris points at Fran, who sits beside me, a goofy grin on her face. "She had sauce dripping down her arm and she just licked it off like it was the most natural thing in the world!" Says Kris, bug-eyed. "Well what was I supposed to do?" Fran good-naturedly shoots back. "It would've gone to waste!" Ah, the power of a well-executed dessert.
We're also served a similar waffle creation, a Black & White, that elicits the same amount of head-bowing-eyes-up-to-heaven adoration. A mammoth scoop of white chocolate macadamia contrasts with the black cocoa waffle finished with a trail of glimmering chocolate sauce. Come hither, it seems to say.
At this point, the weak begin to fall. Muffled protests of defeat are heard and one girl at our table looks like she's been hit by an ice cream truck. (She has been, sort of.) Glazed eyes and smeared mascara, she's chanting, "I can't take anymore, I can't take anymore," like a mantra. Our table, compared to the others, has proven its steadfastness in dealing with rushes of sugar, strengthened in part by nibbles of potato chips and swigs of lukewarm tea.
Tastings are severely limited now to mere spoonfuls, a shame really, for the Coffee & Donuts, a donut a la mode, and the Burger & Fries, a witty parody of the famous pairing made this time with a brioche bun ensconcing a scoop of chocolate ice cream (the burger) and chocolate covered pretzels (the fries). Caramel and chocolate sauces stand in for the ketchup and mustard conveniently placed in color coded squeeze bottles. Genius.
Meanwhile, Katrina, who's as stalwart about dessert as I am and I, have all but demolished the Pizza di Sebastian's, an ice cream pizza holding a treasure of cookie dough nuggets gamboling over sweet cream ice cream on a cookie crust. The table agrees that it's a non-threatening dessert for those who are incapable of taking on Sebastian's more flamboyant creations. "But no one can beat Katrina and maybe even you, Lori," says Sam. "You guys can really hold your sugar." The others at the table nod in mute, sugar-shocked agreement, while the rest express desires for non-sugary, salty foods like chicharon or sisig.
However, even the sugar prowess of Katrina and I is sorely put to the test when Battle Royale is rolled out. Eight gargantuan scoops of ice cream join the cacophony of a big-ass brownie, four bananas, and enough whipped cream to last to kingdom-come. Eek. Too much of a good thing and worthy competition for Peninsula Hotel's Pen Pals.
Sebastian's Cold Comfort
Opening AUGUST 2009
2/F Mall of Asia, opposite IMAX exit
Other Sebastian's Ice Cream Studio posts:
Ian the Ice Cream Man
Chillin' With A Chilly Burger


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Sheriff Alan Cloninger keeps tightening his belt.
That isn�t a metaphor for a limited budget at the Gaston County Sheriff�s Office. It�s a necessity for Cloninger, who�s lost 72 pounds in five months.
Cloninger made a big decision in 2012. He got gastric bypass surgery. He said it wasn�t a difficult choice.
�Not hard when the doctor says to do it,� he said.
Before surgery, Cloninger weighed 310 pounds. His blood pressure was through the roof and he developed diabetes.
The weight gain was a gradual progression. But when the doctor ordered him to take two insulin shots a day and five pills related to high blood pressure, Cloninger got concerned.
For two years Cloninger saw a physician monthly in an effort to lose weight. The attempts were unsuccessful.
In September, Cloninger took a drastic step � he checked into Mercy Hospital in Charlotte for gastric bypass sleeve surgery.
A short recovery later and the pounds started falling off.
On Wednesday morning, Cloninger weighed in at 238. He�s gone from a size 44 waist to a 40.
Cloninger said the last time he slipped into a size 40 pants was in high school.
The doctor has taken Cloninger off all diabetes medications, and his sugar levels are in the healthy range.
His blood pressure medicines have decreased from five to two.
�I�m in a lot better health than I�ve been,� he said.
Cloninger ultimately wants to weigh 220. He plans to exercise more and alter his thinking about food.
He no longer wants to be a member of the clean plate club.
�I�ve always cleaned my plate and somebody else�s,� he said. �You just change your mind about eating.�
Cloninger and his wife, Cathy, now split a plate when ordering out at a restaurant. Sometimes they still have leftovers.
Cloninger laughed about what he called his �last supper.� For the final pre-surgery meal, he gobbled up a 32-ounce steak, a potato and salad and part of a large lobster.
He admits he loves food, but Cloninger said he�s accepting that he can live on healthier, smaller portions.
The 55-year-old elected official has gotten mixed reviews when people spot him in public. Some shower him with compliments while others ask if he�s sick.
To that Cloninger said he�s anything but.
Not only has he enjoyed spending less cash on food, Cloninger said his newfound form saves money on medication. And for the first time in years he�s happy to shop at standard stores rather than specialty shops for big and tall men.
�It�s hard to find clothes, and your selections are limited,� he said.
Though he has more clothing choices, Cloninger said he�s not exactly fashion forward. He still likes black clothes, and hasn�t given up his oversized 3X Sheriff jacket.
Cathy Cloninger said the change has boosted her husband�s energy level, and she�s thrilled at his success.
Cloninger said surgery was the right decision for him, and he looks forward to his new lifestyle.
�To me it�s been very much worth it,� he said.
You can reach reporter Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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Calico Corn Cakes
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 25 min.
Makes3 servings
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup 2% milk
- 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1 tablespoon diced pimientos
- 1/2 cup salsa
- In a small skillet, saute onion and green pepper in oil until tender; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, oregano, baking powder, cumin, egg and milk just until combined. Fold in the corn, pimientos and onion mixture.
- Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray; drop batter by 1/4 cupfuls into skillet. Cook for 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Serve with salsa.
Nutrition Facts2 each: 135 calories, 3g fat (1g saturated fat), 54mg cholesterol, 308mg sodium, 23g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 2g fiber), 5g protein.
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Nov 9, 2013
These were a super hit with my family. I made a mistake in making them, by not cooking the veggies first, but they loved it still. It was very tasty and will be making them again.
May 30, 2013
When I said it sounds wonderful, I had been reading posts where other folks improvised some of their own ingredients. I am glad this is a flexible recipe. The original way is the way I tried it and loved it. But now I want to add other ingredients to it, too.
May 30, 2013
sounds wonderful! Can't wait to try it again.
May 2, 2013
I thought I'd try something a little different. Tasty and I love the color! Goes great with sour cream. The batter didn't go quite as far as I had hoped, next time I will double the recipe.
Oct 7, 2012
LOVED these! I left out the green peppers by preference. The flavor was amazing and we will definitely make again!
Oct 7, 2012
LOVED these! The flavor was amazing and we will definitely make again!
Nov 7, 2011
I made these tonight to go with Black Bean Enchiladas & we loved them together! I used orange pepper not green. They were easy to make, tasted great & presented well in the meal. Served them with light sour cream & salsa. Will make again!!
Apr 30, 2011
Very good, unique recipe. I made them this morning for a savory breakfast- delish. Would also be great topped with an egg for a Huevos rancheros type meal. I ate mine with some spicy salsa and dollop or sour cream- heavenly! I would also serve these for dinner as a side dish or even how you serve corn bread. Thanks, nice "new to me" recipe!
Apr 22, 2011
I added chipotle and a tad more flour then made them in the Belgium Waffle Maker!! MAde a green chili & rotelle sauce... OMGosh!!!
Mar 11, 2011
Very good side for a Mexican dish! They were easy to make and my picky kids loved them!


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MEDINAH, Ill. – Jose Maria Olazabal squeezed his eyes shut as they filled with tears, overwhelmed and overjoyed that the Ryder Cup still belongs to Europe.
His players wore the image of Seve Ballesteros on their sleeves and played their hearts out Sunday at Medinah, filling the scoreboard with European blue as they chipped away at a four-point deficit until completing a comeback even more remarkable than what the Americans did to them at Brookline in 1999.
This one was on the road, where Europe didn't have the advantage of a flag-waving crowd carrying them along. All they had was a message from their captain to "play your socks off," and the spirit of another Spaniard whose name didn't need to be mentioned in the closing ceremony.
"Seve, Seve, Seve," the crowd chanted when Olazabal bowed his head to compose himself. "I'm pretty sure he's very happy where he is today," Olazabal said.
The Americans were simply stunned.
Three times they came to the 17th hole with a chance to win a match, only for Europe to deliver the key shots that win the Ryder Cup. Ian Poulter won the last two holes, and so did Justin Rose, a birdie-birdie finish to beat Phil Mickelson. Sergio Garcia won the last two holes with pars to beat Jim Furyk.
Even at the very end, this Ryder Cup could have gone either way until Martin Kaymer of Germany stepped forward to erase another bad memory. He stood over a 6-foot par putt that he needed to make to assure Europe would keep the trophy. If he missed, Tiger Woods was in the fairway behind him, ready to take the final point the Americans needed.
Kaymer poured it in to beat Stricker, and the celebration was on.
"What you did out there today was outstanding," Olazabal said. "You believed, and you delivered. And I'm very proud that you have kept Europe's hand on this Ryder Cup. All men die, but not all men live. And you made me feel alive again this week."
He hugged all 12 players, saving the longest embrace for Westwood, the only European who played on the 1997 team with Ballesteros as the captain.
Woods missed a 3 -foot par putt on the 18th hole, and then conceded a par to Francesco Molinari of about that length to halve their match. That extra half-point made it a clear-cut win for Europe, 14 -13 . Woods and Stricker, the anchors in the lineup, didn't win a single match at Medinah.
"This one is for all of Europe," Olazabal said. "Seve will always be present with this team. He was a big factor for this event for the European side, and last night when we were having that meeting, I think the boys understood that believing was the most important thing. And I think they did."
Ian Poulter was the first to embrace Olazabal, which was only fitting.
It was Poulter who gave Europe hope Saturday evening when he made five straight birdies to turn a loss into a win and swing momentum in Europe's favor. Poulter was up to his fist-pumping, eye-bulging tricks again on the final day, winning the last two holes in his match against U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson.
And he had plenty of help. Europe's top five players in the lineup all won, including Rory McIlroy, who was lucky to be playing.
McIlroy thought his match was at 12:25 p.m. – it was listed in Eastern time, not Central – and needed a police escort to get to the course with 10 minutes to spare.
Then, he came up with key birdies to hand Keegan Bradley his first loss of the week.
The biggest match might have belonged to Rose. He was on the verge of losing to Mickelson when Rose holed a 12-foot par putt to halve the 16th, made a 35-foot birdie putt from the back of the 17th green to win the hole, and then closed out Mickelson with a 12-foot birdie on the last hole.


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I am hoping to become a physicist focusing mainly on the theoretical side in the future. I am trying to decide whether to go for a physics or math undergrad course.
Assuming that I am capable of doing either, what are the pros and cons of either route?
I know that mathematics is essential to doing physics, and in most math courses, there are applied math modules that are very much related to physics. Also that many research physicists have math degrees. But surely there is a reason why people choose the physics course over the math course and vice versa?
Thank you.