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MOBILE, AL. -- Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said today that though he is considering internal candidates for the vacant job of personnel chief, he might wait to fill the position until after the April draft, when contracts would expire for candidates from other organizations.
In a wide-ranging session with Daily News and Inquirer reporters between today's Senior Bowl practices, Roseman left the whole defensive coordinator situation to head coach Andy Reid, but addressed several hot-button topics.
"Just like with players, if there was an opportunity to improve ourselves, we'd look at that," Roseman said when asked about the personnel spot vacated when Ryan Grigson was hired as general manager in Indianapolis. "We're gojng to try to look there at all the options and not make any rash decisions ... We've brought in some people (over the past few years who are candidates) and we're looking at some people who can help us in the short term as well."
Former Browns and Ravens exec Phil Savage, who works with the Eagles more or less as a consultant, is in Mobile as part of the Eagles' party.
Asked to reflect on all the changes the Eagles made in last year's truncated off season, Roseman said: "I think that when you're 8-8 and you're at the Senior Bowl (instead of the Super Bowl), you obviously look back and think that there are things you could have done a different way - draft picks you'd like to have back and some signings you'd like to have back. But when you step back and look at the core of the team, the blend of youth and experience and talent, we have an opportunity to be competitive and be competitive for a long time."
Roseman hinted that the Eagles tried to address the linebacking situation during the hectic August free agent period after the lockout ended, but were unsuccessful. "It's not a buffet" where you can just pick out everything you want, he said.
Roseman said the Eagles "still have high hopes" for 2010 first-round pick Brandon Graham. He said the team wasn't surprised that Graham, a defensive end, struggled in 2011, coming back from a torn ACL and microfracture surgery. "There is a huge sense of urgency for Brandon Graham (this year). He knows that," Roseman said.
Roseman's two drafts since taking over the GM title from Tom Heckert have been widely scrutinized. He indicated he was willing to second-guess them himself, wondering if he pushed players too far up the rankings to fill needs. He said the fact that so far the Eagles have gotten more help from the bottom of their last few drafts than the top might mean they need to adjust their evaluation process.
Asked about the fact that the 9-7 Giants are in the Super Bowl, Roseman said he didn't think it was productive to wonder whether the Eagles could have mounted such a run, if they had gotten into the playoffs. He said the Giants are succeeding with the formula that has brought them success in the past -- strong quarterbacking from Eli Manning and a fierce, relentless pass rush.


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Corinthian Yacht Club holds Ladies Day Luncheon
The Unqua Corinthian Yacht Club Annual Ladies Day Luncheon and Fashion Show was held Wed., Aug. 20 and hosted by Karen Whalen, Gail Ferrari, Judy Hughes and Lisa Gilbrandsen. The event was attended by over 190 guests. The fashions were supplied by J. Stack of Bay Shore and the children's fashions came from Omni Girls of Babylon.
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Hi moms,
Hoping to get some feedback regarding some new behaviors that I am just stumped about... my son is 3 months 8 days (to be exact). First of all, he is drooling, a lot. If I don't put a bib on him, I have to change him several times a day just from drool. Second is his new tongue movements. Sometimes when feeding, DS will play with the nipple with his tonguge. Other times when feeding, he will pull away, sometimes crying, turn to/ from the breast, and when I try to give him the nipple again, he just pushes it out with his tongue- is he telling me he is done? His feedings have become much shorter, so I feel like I have a hard time telling when he is finished. He will get upset if I keep trying to feed him. In the past, he used to fall asleep nursing, or at least give me a closed mouth/ tight lips look so I would know he's done. He rarely does that anymore, but instead pulls off either crying or just turns away and starts looking around. There are also an increasingly number of times that he appears to be distracted when I try to nurse it him and it takes numerous attempts before I can get him to latch on cause he just keeps looking around. Finally, in the past, I would know he was hungry because he would put his hands in his mouth. Now, his hands are always in his mouth and sometimes he is hungry and will take the breast, and other times he does the behavior I decribed above (turns away, pushes nipple out with tongue or just cries) when I try to feed him. What is my DS trying to say? I feel so bad because I feel like I can't figure him out lately (just when I started feeling confident that we are on the same page ). Could he be teething this early? Any ideas as to what's going on? Thank you!!


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1. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCvbaderks Jan 10, 2012 3:13 PM (in response to Dominicus)
There was a discussion on this forum about the fans on the DZ68BC:
The main answer was:The Usage indicator that you can change in the BIOS is strictly a labeling capability. The parameter is picked up by applications like Intel(R) Desktop Utilities, which will use it in displays and alerts. Changing the Usage indicator has no affect on the fan control capability.The chassis inlet (front), outlet (rear) and (if present) auxiliary fan headers are currently set to respond to changes in the PCH and Memory temperatures.
There was also somewere else on this forum the remark that if you rename the labels, the settings of the intel monitoring app need to be reset otherwise the readings will not correct anymore.
It seems that your are using version 0021 of the BIOS. There is already version 0027. The BIOS release notes provide an overview what Intel has fixed:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/20538/eng/BC_0027_ReleaseNotes.pdf (actually a substantial list)
On my DZ68BC version 0027 runs fine.
2. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCspearson Jan 11, 2012 1:32 PM (in response to Dominicus)
I have discussed the label issue separately; this is a BIOS bug (changing the Usage label should NOT affect fan control or monitoring ability) and it is getting fixed.
Regarding your other question, you have to understand that the SIO being utilized provides only 3 fan speed controllers and we are providing connection points for 4 fans. Obviously, two of these fans have to share a fan speed controller output. In this case, it is the Rear (Outlet) and Aux fans that share a controller. Thus, the answer is it's-by-design. As for the settings, you should notice that, if you change the settings in the Aux fan's configuration page, the settings will also change in the Rear fan's configuration page (though, in some cases, it may take a reboot to see this)...
3. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCDominicus Jan 11, 2012 1:58 PM (in response to spearson)
Thank You for the responses.
Understood about the Exhaust and Aux headers sharing PWM control. However, the behaviour you describe, about being able to change BIOS settings on either Exhaust or Aux and the setting impacting both is not what I experienced with BIOS BCZ6810H.86A.0021.
I reset the settings of the Aux and rebooted several times, upping the AUX Min Duty Cycle from 20, to 35, to 45, to 65, to 100, and this caused no change in the speed of either fan (Rear Exhaust or Aux).
Only when I went to the Rear Exhaust fan control and upped that one to 100%, did I realize both headers were being lockstepped.
So my experience is the AUX Duty Cycle settings are just ignored (at least in Auto mode...didn't try manual control).
A prior poster recommended I update my BIOS from BCZ6810H.86A.0021 to the more recent BCZ6810H.86A.0027.
After doing that, my PC goes through POST, and only begins loading Win7-64 before throwing a BSD, and cycles back to BIOS restart...endless loop.
Win Boot Repair or Restore are no help.
The BSD flashes for such a split second, I'm unable to even read what it says. I may record it with a sports camera, see if I can slow-motion and read its content.
I'll also try creating a BIOS CD-ROM to attempt to take the MB back to BIOS BCZ6810H.86A.0021.
Oh well...building your own PC is certainly not for the faint of heart!
4. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCDominicus Jan 11, 2012 9:38 PM (in response to Dominicus)
I tried reverting my BIOS back to 0021, by attempting to update directly from the BIOS [F7] update with no success. It kept reporting the "Engine....is blacklisted. Fail!"
After several attempts I recorded the BOSD on a high-speed camcorder to read the text of BOSD. It was up for only 3 frames at 60fps. Windows telling me to check for virus or to remove any new hardware, as disk drive.
BSOD seems to have been caused by the BIOS update process.
Updating to version BCZ6810H.86A.0027 using the .exe windows BIOS update app, seems it reverted the SATA settings to default, which created BOSD at boot.
After setting back to RAID (I use SRT functionality), Win7 was able to boot...BUT:
The BIOS update utility reports the BIOS update was "unsuccessful".
The BIOS version is reported correctly: no longer 0021, and now 0027, and the PC is booting OK now.
Any suggestions are appreciated if corrective action is needed.
On my original issue of the fans, I'll reconfigure the headers such that case intake fan is plugged to the Aux fan header. This way when Exhaust revs up in response to higher board temps I have better airflow in & out. Once the new corrected BIOS is out, I hope to update all the labels appropriately.
5. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCvbaderks Jan 13, 2012 12:22 PM (in response to Dominicus)
Sorry to hear that you had so much trouble with the BIOS update. The .exe update mechanism also failed on my system, but as I am running Window 8 preview I just ignored that and switched to the F7 method. I was even positive surprised that with F7 it is possible to load the bios image from a NTFS internal harddisk, I always misplace my USB memory sticks :-).
The AHCI\RAID mode has also biten me twice:
- After my initial system build and configuration I wanted to add some hard disks and then discovered that I needed to reinstall the OS my primary SDD boot disk when you change this setting (at least it is documented..).
- When you reset the BIOS settings to default then this setting is also reset to AHCI as this is the BIOS default value, causing the system to fail booting. Very confusing if your are busy in an overclock session.
6. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCrseiler Jan 13, 2012 2:01 PM (in response to vbaderks)
Reinstall? Normally you can just flip a setting in the Registry, then enable AHCI in the BIOS, and that's it.
7. Re: Help Figuring out Fan Control on Z68BCvbaderks Jan 14, 2012 7:34 AM (in response to rseiler)
Thanks for the link. That would have prevented the reinstall.


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The aging Landmark Shopping Center in the heart of downtown Somerville had long been seen as an ideal site for redevelopment, a place that could anchor the West Main Street with a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly mix of commercial and residential space.
So when the economic recession in 2008 threatened to stall an effort that already had endured years of planning and litigation, local officials were at a crossroads.
"The borough was faced with a decision point — to keep pushing forward or to kind of retract and lick our wounds," Somerville Mayor Brian Gallagher said. While he believes most towns statewide "sat back and waited," the borough pressed on — working with developer Jack Morris and tweaking the project to make it more economically viable.
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The 14-acre site today is home to a 70,000-square-foot ShopRite that opened in 2011, filling the void left by a Pathmark that closed on the property more than five years ago. It's also home to new retailers such as Chase Bank and Starbucks, with more shops and more than 100 rental apartments scheduled to come online later this year.
The project is certainly not the largest in Somerville's pipeline, but Gallagher believes it's the most important, he said. While the Somerset County seat went decades without major construction, the effort is now serving as a catalyst and showing what's possible in this rail-connected town of 12,000.
Borough officials envision a renaissance for its already-busy business district, one that reverses the suburban sprawl of the 1980s and creates "a place that nobody else has" in the area, Gallagher said. It has three other major redevelopment zones aside from its "West End" section, including a 157-acre former landfill that abuts the NJ Transit station, plus two other areas toward the eastern end of the 2.4-square-mile town.
But if those sites are to be revitalized, the mayor said one key is to get this message out to the development community: "If you want to come to Somerville, we're going to work with you."
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Doing so has entailed several important steps over the past decade. In 2006, the borough hired a consultant to serve as its economic development director. The idea was to give builders the ability to "pick up the phone and get one point of contact," Gallagher said, while giving the borough a liaison to other government agencies.
"Without somebody focused full-time on economic development, you start to get lost in the shuffle of government," he said. "And we didn't want that to happen."
Somerville also has a redevelopment committee made up of members of the governing body, the planning board and other officials, giving developers a forum to discuss a project or idea before spending money on consultants and late-night hearings.
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While it may be years until Somerville's vision is fully realized, it took another small but important step forward just last week. NJ Transit on March 3 started its "one-seat ride" service to Manhattan on the Raritan Valley Line, though for now it's only on weekdays during off-peak travel hours.
Borough Administrator Kevin Sluka said that pushes many Somerville-area commuters to stations such as New Brunswick and Princeton, which have vibrant downtowns that reap the benefits from those commuters.
But he hopes that will change if Somerville one day gets a regular one-seat ride.
"We want that to be Somerville," Sluka said. "We want to have the ability (so that) when people get off that train, they go to our restaurants, our Main Street and so forth. So I think that's going to be big."
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Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources
Constance Smith
For scholars of African history, anthropology offers a number of valuable and invigorating methodological avenues, from engaging directly in ethnographic fieldwork to analyzing anthropological data compiled by others. Given the asymmetries of written documents and the biases of archival material for Africa, anthropological methods and sources offer a different type of access to those who, for various reasons, tend not to appear in other forms of documentary record. The materials of past ethnographic research—texts and material objects, produced and collected by anthropologists and their assistants as well as by missionaries, government officials, travelers, and others—constitute one of the largest categories of written source material. However, the contexts in which such research was conducted can present certain challenges when using these materials as sources. For example, the complex entanglements between colonial governance and the making of anthropological knowledge make it imperative for historians to be aware of the discipline's intellectual history and how its ways of seeing and ordering have shaped portrayals of Africa's diverse cultures.
Methodologically, historians are also experimenting with field methods that draw heavily on ethnographic techniques. The emergence of historical ethnography has developed a rich, syncretic approach, in which communities' own relationships with, and understandings of, the past are brought to the fore. Although ethnography is known for its immersive and long-term fieldwork, elements of the technique can also be incorporated into other historical methods. This is in part a matter of approach, rather than of different source material. For example, engaging ethnographically with archives can offer different insights into issues of governance and the production of knowledge.
Business Records as Sources for African History
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Business records are documents routinely produced by employees and management of commercial businesses. They may be part of internal processes or produced to communicate with stakeholders or to meet legal requirements. They usually include a mix of qualitative (reports and correspondence) and quantitative (detailed accounting data) material. Depending on how complete the material is, documents may relate to: strategic management; accounting and financial data; operational matters; legal issues; trademarks; marketing; personnel files; and labor and welfare issues. Business records add a different dimension compared to information from government and colonial office sources by providing a private sector perspective on key episodes of colonial and postcolonial history, including strikes and protests, the relationship between the (colonial) state and business, and decolonization. Historians have used business records as sources for histories of business and trade in Africa, for studies on industrialization and development, and also to inform studies on colonialism and political history, as well as economic, social, and labor history. Business records may be kept in company archives, where they are not always easy to identify or access, kept in public repositories, or privately held. Many business archives have been weeded, whereby documentation relating to special activities, challenges, and crises has been retained, while routine documentation of interest to economic and social historians has been destroyed. Other collections appear to have disappeared altogether when companies went out of business or were taken over by others.
Communism in South Africa
Irina Filatova
The history of communism in South Africa began with the formation in 1921 of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). The party was entirely white, as was the majority of organized labor—its main constituency. The CPSA attempted to fight for equality of black and white workers, but white labor refused to desegregate, and the party's support among Africans was practically nonexistent. In 1928, the Communist International (Comintern), of which the CPSA was a member, sent it an instruction to work for an "independent native republic." This slogan helped the party to attract a black membership, but resulted in much infighting.
The CPSA's position strengthened during World War II, but in 1950, after Afrikaner nationalists came to power, the party was banned. It re-emerged in 1953 as the underground South African Communist Party (SACP). Since then, the party has worked closely with the African National Congress (ANC). Many of its cadres were simultaneously ANC members. In 1955, communists helped to formulate the Freedom Charter, the ANC's overarching program. In 1960, the SACP launched the armed struggle against apartheid. The ANC took the nascent liberation army under its wing in 1963. In the early 1960s, many party members, including Nelson Mandela, were arrested or forced into exile.
The party had a deep ideological influence on the ANC: from 1969, its ideas on South Africa as a colony of a special type and on the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) have become part of all ANC programs.
After the end of apartheid, communists occupied important positions in all ANC governments. Despite this, many in the SACP have been unhappy with the direction the ANC has taken. However, the party has not contested elections on its own, trying instead to influence ANC policies from inside. This has cost it its reputation as a militant revolutionary party.
Ethnicity in Africa
Gabrielle Lynch
Among today's scholars there is a near consensus that precolonial African identities were relatively fluid, permeable, overlapping, and complex; that ethnic identities are socially constructed; and that a colonial order of delineated control encouraged Africans to rethink group identities and heightened a sense of socioeconomic and political competition along ethnic lines. There is also growing consensus that ethnic identities are nevertheless the subject of ongoing (re)negotiation and that, to find resonance, the politicization of ethnicity, while instrumental in motivation and opportunistic in character, must be rooted in linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic similarities and communal experiences of marginalization, neglect, injustice, and achievement. Many scholars also emphasize how the realities of ethnically delineated political support reflect pragmatism and expectations of patronage in the context of difficult and unequal socioeconomic contexts, as well as the significance of remembered pasts and associated narratives of justice and strategies of acquisition. Such realities and discursive repertoires provide a list of grievances that elites can use to foster a sense of difference and mobilize local support bases, but that also provide nonelites with a means to question and counter intra- and intercommunal differences and thus social and spatial inequalities. Ethnic support then strengthened by a reinforcing cycle of ethnic bias and expectations of greater levels of assistance from co-ethnics. According to such arguments, ethnic identification and political support are rational, but not for the simple reasons that classic primordial, instrumental or neo-patrimonial accounts suggest.
The History of Agriculture in Ethiopia
James C. McCann
Ethiopia's highlands and their lowland peripheries offer a distinctive and, in many ways, ideal setting for human habitation and the evolution of agricultural ecologies. The ranges in climate variability by season and over time framed a sophisticated set of crops, agricultural practices, and local political ecologies. Chief among these was the development and use of the single-tine ox-plow (i.e., the ard or scratch plow) that integrated endemic annual crops with secondary crop introductions and, in some areas, cultivated or intercropped with perennial crops such as ensete and coffee. Animal husbandry to sustain animal traction and pastoral livelihoods in regional ecologies was essential, over time, to regional economies and their political ecologies.
Agricultural patterns existed at the heart of cultural diversities and periods of political conflict and accommodations. In some areas of the south (Sidamo), southeast (Harar highlands), and southwest (Jimma), coffee cultivation complemented annual grain cropping. Yet the plow in its current form as a dominant tool appears in rock painting dating as far back as 500
While Ethiopia's plow agriculture dominated the region's political ecology over more than two millennia, in the late 20th century Ethiopia's agrarian economy began an inexorable set of changes. New crops (such as maize), urbanization, and global migration of peoples and commodities (oil seeds, fibers, and grains) brought new seeds, inputs, and pressures to adapt to change, particularly for smallholder farmers and new enterprises. Heavy investments in dams and irrigated agriculture also foretell new agricultural landscapes of riverain areas that will need to coexist with the classic highland smallholder farms. The story of maize in Ethiopia's agricultural history is emblematic of the struggle between pressures for change and the inertia of tradition felt by farmers. Their agrarian adaptation to new methods, new materials, and a new climate will play itself out in existing geographies and natural contours.
The History of Islam in East Africa
Felicitas Becker
The history of Islam in East Africa stretches back to around 1000 CE. Until the mid-20th century, it remained largely confined to the coast and closely bound up with the history of the Swahili towns situated on it. The Swahili language remains central to many East African Muslims, hence the occasionally heard phrase, "Swahili Islam." East African Muslims are mostly Shafiites and some belong to Sufi orders, especially Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya. Since c. 1850, Islam, with many variations in ritual, has become the religion of speakers of a multitude of languages across the region, second only to Christianity. The region's independent nation-states initially promised equality for all religions within a secular order. Since c. 1990, though, the minority status of East African Muslims has fed into a multitude of grievances related to the region's economic and political impasses. This situation has led to growing movements of Islamic preaching and activism, supported by increased contacts with congregations elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. At times, they have influenced electoral politics, especially in Zanzibar, where Islamic activism resonates with fear of marginalization by the mainland. In Kenya, Somali-influenced Islamist terrorists committed a series of atrocities in the 2010s. East African governments, in turn, have been proactive in tracking and disrupting such networks, and in Kenya, the government engaged in targeted assassination. Nevertheless, peaceful coexistence between Muslims and adherents of other religions remains the norm in East Africa, and its dynamics are often poorly understood.
History of South Africa's Bantustans
Laura Phillips
With the passing of the Bantu Authorities Act in 1951, the apartheid set in motion the creation of ten bantustans, one of South Africa's most infamous projects of racial ordering. Also known as "homelands" in official parlance, the bantustans were set up in an attempt to legitimize the apartheid project and to deprive black South Africans of their citizenship by creating ten parallel "countries", corresponding to state designated ethnic group. The bantustan project was controversial and developed slowly, first by consolidating "native" reserve land and later by giving these territories increasing power for self-governance. By the 1980s there were four "independent" bantustans (Transkei, Ciskei, Venda, and Bophuthatswana) and six "self-governing" ones (Lebowa, Gazankulu, KwaNdebele, Qwaqwa, KaNgwane, and KwaZulu).
While a few bantustan leaders worked with the anti-apartheid liberation movements, the bantustans were largely rejected as political frauds governed by illegitimately installed chiefs. They acted as dumping grounds for surplus cheap African labor and allowed the apartheid government to justify large-scale forced removals from "white" farmlands and cities. But the bantustans were also incubators of a black middle class and bureaucratic elite. Despite the formal dissolution of the bantustans in 1994 and their reincorporation into a unitary democratic state, the rule of chiefs and the growth of this black middle class have a deep-rooted legacy in the post-1994 era. As several contemporary commentators have noted, South Africa has witnessed the "bantustan-ificaton" of the post-apartheid landscape.
Indigenous Peoples in Africa
Renee Sylvain
Moringe ole Parkipuny addressed the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (UNWGIP) in 1989 and, for the first time, opened up discussion of the idea that certain groups of hunter-gathers and pastoralists in Africa merited the status of indigenous peoples. Local activists and international organizations took up the cause in the following decades. Several international conferences resulted in new forms of activism, the reformulation of local identities, and a growing body of scholarship addressing African indigeneity. As NGOs built solidarity among relatively scattered groups of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, often skeptical state governments initially resisted what they saw as demands for recognition of status and claims to "special rights." Disagreements between state interests and newly organized indigenous groups were expressed at the United Nations during the process of adopting the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP); but as the idea of indigeneity evolved through such discussions, African governments gradually came on board. International activism and work done by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights play significant roles in convincing African states to accept the concept of "indigenous peoples." The issue of developing a definition of "indigenous peoples" appropriate for Africa remains unsettled and continues to present challenges. Mobilization among marginalized groups on the African continent itself, however, has presented NGOs, activists, states, and courts with the opportunity, through well-publicized struggles and several landmark legal cases, to refine the category to better fit with African contexts.
Interactions between North Africa and Spain: Medieval and Early Modern
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
Arabic-speaking Muslim polities existed in medieval Spain and Portugal where they were superseded by Christian empires that gradually disavowed cultural connections to this past. Hebrew and Arabic were largely expurgated from homes and libraries. Jews and Muslims who refused to convert were expelled. And while an incipient study of that past existed, echoed even in popular literary forms, the need to disavow kinship prevailed, at least publicly and officially. The Maghrib, for its part, separated by a mere fourteen kilometers of sea from the southern tip of Spain, experienced Portuguese and Spanish imperial expansion firsthand, receiving the bulk of the displaced and interacting with fortified settlements and encroachments along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Later European colonization of North Africa completed the galvanization of a Maghribi culture of resistance to and disavowal of European, Latin, and Christian cultural forms and connections. Spain and North Africa came to be conceived as separate worlds; domains of inimical faiths; divided by culture, language, religion, and a history of mutual hostility. This sense of separateness is deceptive, however, as the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa are bound by deep and extensive commercial, material, and cultural contacts. They share inextricable histories in which alternating movements of commerce, conflict, and migration have played fundamental roles in shaping recognizably Western Mediterranean societies. They should be thought of as areas of a unified region with a common culture, or at the very least, as areas sharing a common region, in which they interact regularly, creating extensive ties and parallel forms of cultural and social organization.
Mahdist Omdurman
Robert S. Kramer
It is tempting to seek an auspicious beginning for the Sudanese city of Omdurman, given its eventual significance, but there is none to be found. From its humble origins as a watering place for local pastoralists on the west bank of the Nile, and a mere hamlet and waystation for travelers by the early 19th century, it grew rapidly in the 1880s into a crowded market center, an administrative capital, and even a holy city: all due to the tumultuous events of the Sudanese Mahdist movement (or Mahdiyyah) of 1881–1898. And while it was not the intention of Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi to found anything—he considered Omdurman just another "spot" (buq'a) among the many he had camped at—the policies of his successor and the devotion of his followers enlarged and ennobled the place, transforming it into the dominant urban center of the Nilotic Sudan.
As a holy city, Omdurman can hardly be compared to such places as Jerusalem, Rome, or Mecca, with their centuries or even millennia of existence; and although it resembles Shaykh 'Uthman dan Fodio's city of Sokoto in northern Nigeria as the capital of an expansionist jihadist state, it also differs from it in some important ways. Ultimately, whether one considers its messianic or economic importance, its military or administrative functions, its planned or spontaneous origins, Omdurman is remarkable for becoming, in just over a decade's time, one of the most important cities across Sudanic Africa. Moreover, the experience of the Sudanese people in so tribally and ethnically diverse an urban environment, under such concentrated and extreme conditions, both impelled by the policies of the state and inspired by fervent Mahdist belief, helped to accelerate ongoing social changes, which ultimately led to the formation of a more coherent national identity.
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Judge Approves Hawker Beechcraft Plan
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Friday approved the joint plan of reorganization submitted by Hawker Beechcraft -- pension plan agreements were approved earlier. The judge had asked Thursday that a slight modification be made before issuing a final order regarding reorganization. The plan should become effective by the end of February. The court has approved pension plan agreements involving the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the International Association of Machinists. The company estimates that very close to 100 percent of participants will see "the full amount of normal retirement pension benefits that have already vested." The court also approved exit financing plans.
Under the agreement accrued retirement benefits for hourly/union plan participants will remain the responsibility of Hawker Beechcraft. Base and salaried workers will fall under PBGC. The company will retain J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse to arrange $600 million in exit financing. The money will consist of a term loan and a revolving line of credit that will be used to repay claims and fund ongoing operations. The company has begun the process of naming a new board of directors, saying Bill Boisture will become chief executive officer of Beechcraft Corporation and Steve Miller will become senior advisor to the board.


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Patients Upset Over Loss of North Country Hospital Oncologist
NEWPORT - In December 2006, Dr. Leslie Lockridge, MD, was hired by North Country Hospital to organize a fulltime oncology department. At that time, oncology was a one-day arrangement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, NH. Lockridge was hired to provide full-time oncology and hematology services to patients suffering from cancer in the Northeast Kingdom. Patients would not have to travel to Hanover (about 110 miles each way from Newport) to receive their chemotherapy treatments, which are usually three times a week.Dr. Lockridge got right to work, even helping to design, along with his staff, the present oncology department. In the last six years, patients have made thousands of visits to those rooms, had treatments, and lived much longer that they would have without the good doctor's help.Last week, patients received letters stating that, as of Feb. 10, Dr. Lockridge would no longer be seeing patients at the NCH Oncology Clinic. Instead, two doctors from the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth have been hired to see patients two days a week, with 24/7 back-up services from oncologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock."We believe that partnering with this nationally recognized cancer institute will improve the coordination of cancer care services with Dartmouth-Hitchcock and provide our community with the widest range of care and treatment options available," North country Hospital CEO Claudio Fort wrote in the letter. He went on to say, "Should you have questions or concerns about this change, please do not hesitate to contact me."Fort also included a sheet describing Ronald P. Kubica, MD, formerly of New Mexico, and Seregy Devitskiy, MD, formerly of Kursk, Russia. Both men are now at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and are slated to take over the oncology department at North Country.In a telephone interview Thursday evening, Fort noted that compensation is not the main reason Dr. Lockridge was asked to leave. Fort said he had nothing but the highest regard for Dr. Lockridge and his abilities. He went on to say that the model abut to be in place would be to give the patients a direct hook-up with a major hospital and cancer center.Fort said there would be a qualified nurse practitioner working in the clinic five days a week to administer chemotherapy treatments when the doctors aren't there.As a result of the decision to replace Dr. Lockridge, a North Country Hospital Facebook page received hundreds of comments from Dr. Lockridge's patients expressing their outrage that the doctor was being 'forced out,' in their minds. As of Wednesday evening, the comments had been removed from Facebook.Fort said his people had done that because, in many instances, desparaging remarks about the hospital had been included with the comments.In a telephone interview from Montpelier, Senator Bobby Starr, D/Orleans-Essex, who has been a patient of Dr. Lockridge for the last four years, noted, "I was shocked and furoius when I got news that Dr. Lockridge had been asked to leave." He went on to explain that when he called Mr. Fort to get information, "He said we can't afford to keep going with only 25 patients. When I asked him about which two days the new doctors would be at the clinic, he said maybe Tuesday and Thursday. So I asked him what about the patients like me that can only come in on Monday. He said, well maybe Monday and Wednesday."Starr said that, with his particular cancer, both Dr. Lockridge and Dr. Brent Tatum were treating him together. They were baffled, according to Starr, "So they sent me to the National Health Institute of Bethesday, MD. After much testing, they concurred with the diagnosis the two North Country doctors had come up with!"Starr said the doctors in Maryland told him he was very lucky to have two excellent doctors in the Northeast Kingdom who were able to spot the cancer. "I told them that I already knew that," he noted with a chuckle."When you have cancer, and you have a doctor like Les Lockridge, it certainly makes the journey easier," Starr said. "This is a huge disservice."He also noted that when he received a call from board chair Kathy Austin about Lockridge leaving, Starr received the same answers to the same questions he had discussed with Fort. "I knew that story had been rehearsed," he added.There is a formal protest planned for the hospital's annual meeting at the Eastside Restaurant in Newport on Thursday, January 19, at 7 P.M. Many of Dr Lockridge's patients and friends plan to be there to let their wishes be known.


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The Neurobehavioral Clinical Research Section examines the interplay between genes and the environment in shaping the development of brain and behavior. A major focus of work conducted in the section is on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most common and heritable childhood mental health problems. ADHD affects around 5-10 percent of all children in the United States and the rates of diagnosis are increasing. While about a quarter of children with ADHD still have the disorder in adulthood, others will experience complete remission, yet we understand little of the factors driving this variable outcome. By combining tools from neuroscience, behavioral and social science, the group is addressing these questions. Their study is based in the Clinical Center of the NIH, and more than 500 children - 300 of whom have ADHD - are assessed every two years at the Clinical Center as they grow into adulthood.
The research of the section focuses on three primary areas. Firstly, researchers aim to identify factors that cause ADHD and contribute to its variable course. By imaging the brain, they identified variable patterns of brain development in adolescence that underpin different clinical outcomes in adulthood. They are now exploring how genomics contribute to these distinct brain trajectories. Secondly, they aim to unravel how the multiple social contexts in which a child is embedded, such as family and schools, interact with neurobiological and genomic factors in ADHD. Finally, they investigate how behavioral and pharmacological treatments for ADHD work in the brain and how treatment response is affected by a child's genotype.
These studies are designed to inform clinical translation. Delineating the genomic and neurobehavioral factors which drive clinical course provides the foundation for tools to predict adult outcome in children with the disorder, allowing the focus of resources to be on those at risk for poor outcome. Understanding how treatments work in the brain could help the researchers develop new, more effective interventions.
Philip Shaw is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Neurobehavioral Clinical Research Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, United States. His main interest is in the genetic and environmental factors that influence the development of brain and behavior. A focus of his work is the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He has degrees in experimental psychology and medicine from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in psychological medicine from the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He completed residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry in England, and is a member of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatry.
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The 2012 University of South Carolina Lancaster baseball season has been one of glowing proportions on the diamond.
The Lancers, who are in their fourth year of play in National Junior College Athletic Association Region X, are having a landmark campaign.
The Lancers started off strong, winning eight straight games to open the season.
It was obvious coach Steve Williams' team was going to be a force to reckon with this season.
Any doubting Thomases about the prowess of the royal blue and gold soon saw how strong the Lancers were.
Big Thursday of Lancaster Inc. brings together area University of South Carolina and Clemson supporters.
When they leave, as strange as it may seem, both groups of backers are likely sporting smiles – toothy grins worth of a good day.
The Big Thursday Scholarship Committee has produced plenty of big smiles over the last few years.
The committee works to help county students who attend the University of South Carolina Lancaster and Clemson University.
It's been quite a senior year for Indian Land High School star athlete Rondreas Truesdale.
The record-setting quarterback produced a stellar football season, leading the Warriors to a 7-4 mark and a second straight home berth in the Class AA Upper State playoffs.
He led the state in rushing 2,210 yards and scored 37 touchdowns this season.
Truesdale also became the fifth Warriors' player to earn selection to the annual North-South All-Star football game at Myrtle Beach last December.
Come mid-December, Buford High School head football coach Mike Wells is in for a real gridiron treat.
Wells, a veteran of 28 years in prep coaching, will experience one of the top benefits of being a high school football coach in the Carolinas as the Whare Shoals native will serve as a coach on the S.C. Shrine Bowl staff.
The Shrine Bowl is the annual all-star football game, which features the top senior players in the Carolinas.
To turn a tragic event into something positive can be a catharsis. Sharon Furr knows. April 4, 2009, was a tragic day for Furr and her family.
Furr's sister, Cindy Furr, and her 2-year-old niece, McAllister "Mackie" Furr, were on their way to church when one of two vehicles racing on S.C. 49 in the Lake Wylie community crashed into Furr's car. Furr died on impact and Mackie not long after. Also killed was 13-year-old Hunter Holt, a passenger in the car that crashed into Furr's vehicle.
Lancaster native Mike Oliver knew years ago as a mere teen he wanted to work in law enforcement.
He just didn't know his love for enforcing the law would lead him to the top of his profession in the Palmetto State.
It has, as Oliver is now commander of the S.C. Highway Patrol after being named to the elite post in December by Leroy Smith, director of the S.C. Department of Public Safety.
"I never dreamed that I would one day be the colonel," Oliver said. "I'm honored. I know it's a great responsibility."
Are you a warrior or a victim? That was the question Maj. Matt Shaw, undersheriff at Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, presented to those at a personal safety awareness class. A need for such a class was necessitated by the recent rage of violent attacks in Lancaster County.
Just days after Christmas, Kershaw resident Hope Melton was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat. Her body was thrown in a desolate area known for coyotes and other animals.
The death of Buford junior varsity football player Seth Muennich rocked the eastern Lancaster County community.
A promising life was cut short by a car accident near the school last fall.
But Muennich's name and the life he lived won't soon be forgotten.
Buford High School officials want to make sure Muennich's memory is always prevalent in the minds of Yellow Jackets' fans.
According to CNN's Moni Basu, the plight of folks living in Lancaster is likened to Tom Joad's family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Steinbeck documents the misery the Joads experience as they leave their foreclosed, dust-covered farm in Oklahoma to find work in Depression-era California.
"In hard-hit S.C. town, faith and finances fuel political decisions," Basu equates the aftermath of Springs Industries' demise to the Joads' struggle as migrant workers.
2011 has passed, but University of South Carolina Gamecocks fans will long savor it for the sweet memories.
OK, some did spill over into 2012, which USC backers won't moan about because it was a grand start to the new year.
But 2011 was a watershed year with a flood of fond memories.
Of course, the USC baseball team provided many thrills with its second straight national championship run.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Art Show: States (of Mind)
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Beautiful work.ReplyDelete
- Linda P.8:13 AM
Wow, love those, Miggy! I can totally relate to the feeling of not always being excited about starting a new artistic endeavor. Then when you throw yourself into it, it's like, "Yay! The ideas are coming. Hey, I really am enjoying doing this!" At least that is how it often is for me. I am so glad that you enjoyed your time. What a hubby.ReplyDelete
I am just curious. Do you go in a room and shut the door and paint? Do you paint out with the family, but your hubby remains in charge of your girls' wants and needs? Do you hafta cook during art-a-thons? Gasp! Here's hoping not! Ha! I was just curious.
Thank you so much for sharing, and this Texan hopes that one day we will see a painting entitled "Texas"!
- Anonymous10:04 AM
I live in San Antonio now, but I grew up in Nebraska. Graduated in Lincoln, but spent a lot of years in Scottsbluff. Your painting captured the Nebraska horizon wonderfully. It makes me homesick! You probably have seen the paintings of Keith Jacobshagen. He does Nebraska landscapes with a whole lot of sky. Beautiful work!ReplyDelete
They are all really great, but I especially loved "Utah"...can't quite describe why but I really really loved it.ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone!ReplyDelete
Linda P. well in Cincinnati I had an actual room that was a closed off studio space. Here it's partitioned off with a wall of shelves, but not a space I can actually close a door to. It's not ideal, but it works. And B did a great job of keeping the girls occupied and out of my hair so I could work.
Laura--That's crazy! I lived in Gering during my childhood. Not many people are familiar with the greater Scottsbluff/Gering area.
And seriously, thanks to everyone for your kind comments.
Beautiful. I love New York too! They are all gorgeous.ReplyDelete


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In 1999, the British Y2K Taskforce predicted some major remediation efforts wouldn't be completed by the deadline, "given the abysmal general record of IT in delivering large projects on time".
For once, IT underwhelmed us for the right reasons. Perhaps some projects weren't completed, but it didn't matter. Italy's devil-may-care measures had only begun the previous September but the sky didn't fall, and in Belarus and the Ukraine (where little remediation was undertaken), officials could afford to be smug on 1 January 2000.
Whether or not there were as many rollover dates as Peter de Jager - author of the first widely publicised article about the Y2K bug, published by Computerworld in 1993 - and other programmers had suggested, most decision-makers had chosen to believe the programmers.
In Italy, the authorities seemed not to care. "The countries that did very little Y2K work did not choose that path after careful consideration of the issues," said de Jager. "They chose that strategy by default."
IT's finest hour?
In an MIS Y2K roundtable in May 1999, Readiness Commission special advisor John Good was upbeat about New Zealand's prospects, but commented, "Unfortunately, we won't be able to avoid the economic impact of whatever goes wrong globally."
Some international glitches were reported post-rollover, but impacts were negligible. The Guardian cited a handful of almost comical incidents: A weather centre in Aberdeen, a tide gauge in Portsmouth, the payroll of the German Opera.
Do CIOs and IT commentators still believe doing nothing would have had significant consequences for New Zealand organisations?
Aaron Kumove, managing director of Horizon Consulting and former NZ Post CIO, has a warning for those who think it best to forget all about the year 2000. "People will get bitten again, and I think it's generational to some extent: When new bodies move into the key roles, their memories will not be fresh. Y2K galvanised people because of common fear."
Terry Hartmann, director of secure identification and biometrics at Unisys Asia Pacific, reminds us that for many organisations, Y2K was a blessing in disguise. "Everyone thinks Y2K was a waste of time and effort, but it gave a lot of organisations a reason to change their platform."
Denis Orme, now chief executive of IBANZ (Insurance Brokers Association of New Zealand), was involved in Y2K projects at Wilson and Horton, which separated infrastructure upgrades from remediation to nip extravagances in the bud. "If there was a business case for new technology, we looked at its return on investment. We had other systems that we needed to remediate that were still good, workable systems. For every one of their publications and printing companies, we went through that process and saved quite a lot of money."
For the many organisations that took Y2K seriously, such as Taranaki District Health Board where André Snoxall (today general manager of HealthIntelligence and CIO of Capital and Coast District Health Board) was IT chief, Y2K was an opportunity to take stock. "It was a salutary lesson in how to run an effective project," Snoxall says.
Garth Biggs, former Gen-i CEO and now on the board of trustees of IT advisory body the HiGrowth Project, believes the outlook appeared bleaker to the public than it really was because of legal caution over compliance.
"I was in the supermarket business. We took over stores and changed all the systems to 31 December, ran them, clocked them over night, and came back the next day. We tested ourselves almost to distraction but the lawyers wouldn't allow us to say, 'We don't have any problems.'"
Critics would say not only was the legal profession over-cautious but that the entire IT industry was duped. Anthony Finkelstein, professor of software systems engineering at University College London, and a leading Y2K sceptic, said in The Guardian in 2000, "The bug wrote itself."
Historians may still be arguing about that one when the next millennium rolls over.


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September 26, 2012
By: Meghan Mohr, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University volleyball team returned to Heartland Conference action against Manchester University and came out on top with a three-set victory (25-14, 25-20, 25-19) on Wednesday night in Founders Hall. With the win, the Beavers evened their record at 9-9 on the season and 1-1 in HCAC play. Manchester slipped to 9-8 overall and 0-1 in the conference.
Leading the Beavers on the attack was freshman middle Jenny Brown (St. Marys/Memorial) with eight hammers and right on her heels was senior Heather Schierer (Crescent Springs, Ky./St. Henry) who delivered seven bombs. Brown did not commit an error while hitting .500 for the match.
Sophomore Kristyn Hovest (Pandora-Gilboa/Gilboa) and freshman setter Mackenzie Lauber (Mansfield/Madison) both knocked down six kills for the Beavers. Lauber hit .667 with no errors on nine attempts to along with her 23 assists.
Junior Lindsay Krohn (Marysville, Ind./New Washington) picked up 10 shovels, while Lauber racked up another double-double with 10 digs as well.
This weekend the Beavers head to Anderson, Indiana, for a Heartland Conference showdown against the Ravens before a non-league matchup with Goshen College. The first contest is slated for 1 p.m.


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Heal your fractured veterinary team
Perhaps conflict strikes like lightning at your practice, with sudden flashes that scorch the earth, blinding you and your co-workers to the tasks at hand. Maybe it begins as a slow simmer of resentment, bubbling up through the cracks as snarky comebacks or silent glares that eventually boil over to lay waste to the entire practice.
While the details of your conflict might differ from practice to practice, the tools are the same. There are three common forms of conflict:
1. Leadership conflict. These confrontations often occur over issues of authority—who's in charge or possesses the power.2. Operational conflict. This conflict crops up in practices when everyone isn't on the same page about practice operations.
3. Interpersonal conflict. In these cases, personalities clash.
Let's look at examples of each and discuss whether these busted teams can be repaired.
Fractured leadership
Beth has been the manager for We Care Animal Hospital for several years. Dr. Cares delegates human resources and financial responsibilities to Beth, but when the conflict involves a favored team member who broke a practice policy, Dr. Cares intervenes, undermining Beth's authority with the team.
The prognosis when the conflict involves issues of power is fair to good. It's fixable if lines are drawn. The owner may want the manager to take charge, but he needs to set boundaries so he's not undermining or avoiding issues with Beth.
Conflict can occur at different levels of leadership in the practice—for example, disagreements between the practice manager and lead technician or head receptionist. A lack of clear boundaries creates the conflict.
This type of conflict only becomes difficult to fix when one person is insecure or feels threatened by changes when you establish new leadership roles. To manage this conflict successfully, you must possess communication skills to create conversations between the leader and the team member so both team members possess a clear idea of the practice's vision and goals. If those elements aren't in place and a power struggle occurs, then people begin to fight with one another instead of working together to accomplish tasks. Eventually in a power struggle one person can pull the, "I'm in charge, so I win" card, and this is the beginning of the end of a work relationship.
What to do: Talk with the practice owner and draw lines about who's responsible for tasks. Then the practice owner must practice stepping aside. Work together to develop a proper mission statement, practice vision, and values you live by. If your boss can't stick to boundaries, it may be time to move on.


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2011-12: Will look to crack the team's top lineup during his sophomore season.
2010-11: Saw action for eight rounds, totaling an 82.9 scoring average ... shot a 79-80--159 to tie for 33rd overall at the season-opening Bridgewater Invitational ... tied for 44th at the Transylvania Invitational (83-83--166) ... tied for 43rd at the Wynlakes Wynter Nationals with an 81-84--165.
High School: Earned four letters as a member of the golf team at Amherst Central High School ... served as a team captain as a senior ... finished third in the Erie County Golf Rankings as a senior ... earned All-Western New York Scholar-Athlete honors from the Buffalo News as a senior.
Personal: Undeclared major.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – The Los Angeles Galaxy got a first-half goal from Alan Gordon and benefited from yet more set-piece failures by the Colorado Rapids to eke out a 1-0 win on Wednesday night.
Watch: GARY SMITH POST-GAME COMMENTS
With the victory, the Galaxy won their first-ever match at Dick's Sporting Goods Park and continued their unblemished start to the season.
The loss snapped the Rapids seven game undefeated streak at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, dating back to August 1, 2009.
Veteran LA striker Alan Gordon was left wide open on the left hand side of the penalty area in the 21st minute to head home Landon Donovan's free kick for the only goal of the game. The Rapids have conceded seven goals this season, six of them coming off set pieces.
Once the goal went in, the Rapids began to dominate the game after LA had been by far the more threatening team in the opening 20 minutes. In the second half, despite the occasional chance for the ever-dangerous Edson Buddle, LA rarely threatened other than a couple of counterattacks.
With World Cup spots up for grabs, the game was billed as a battle between Buddle and Conor Casey, but it was Omar Cummings who time and again revealed himself as Colorado's main attacking threat.
Running with confidence at the LA defenders all night, the Jamaican created a number of chances for himself and his teammates but none of the Rapids could finish. Cummings' battle with Gregg Berhalter in particular was contentious.
Buddle was, for the most part, extremely well-shepherded by Julien Baudet in central defense but still managed to get a number of shots in on goal. It was credit to both players that Buddle got in as many shots as he did while Baudet was doing such an excellent job. The Frenchman was also an offensive threat at times.
Again, Claudio Lopez was called into action off the bench to try and be the game-changer, but even his mercurial skills weren't enough to break the strong LA defense down. The Rapids mounted a late charge in the dying minutes but couldn't find the target. Their last chance was a Jeff Larentowicz free kick in injury time, which sailed over the bar.
With the win, the LA Galaxy move to 7-0-1 on the season, further stretching their lead in the Western Conference. LA are now nine points ahead of both Colorado and Houston, who also lost 1-0 Wednesday in their game against Dallas.
Scoring Summary:
LA -- Alan Gordon 1 (Landon Donovan 6) 21
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Los Angeles Galaxy -- Donovan Ricketts, A.J. DeLaGarza (Bryan Jordan 81), Omar Gonzalez, Gregg Berhalter, Todd Dunivant, Michael Stephens, Christopher Birchall, Juninho (Jovan Kirovski 62), Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle, Alan Gordon (Clint Mathis 71).
Colorado Rapids -- Matt Pickens, Danny Earls, Marvell Wynne, Julien Baudet, Drew Moor, Mehdi Ballouchy (Claudio Lopez 71), Pablo Mastroeni, Jeff Larentowicz, Wells Thompson (Colin Clark 46), Conor Casey, Omar Cummings.
Subs not used: Ian Joyce, Scott Palguta, Michael Holody, Quincy Amarikwa, Ross LaBaues
Attendance: 9,882
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2 lb. fresh green asparagus
2 tbsp. butter
3 cups vegetable broth
2 cups heavy cream
3 cups California wild rice, cooked
1⁄2 tsp. salt
1⁄4 tsp. ground white pepper
1 tsp. lemon juice
10 fresh chervil leaves, for garnish
1. Cut off asparagus tips, blanch 1 min. in boiling salted water and drain; set aside. Cut
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2. Sauté asparagus pieces in butter 2 min. Add enough broth to cover; simmer until tender. Puree in blender.
3. In a soup kettle, combine puree mixture, remaining broth, cream, wild rice, asparagus tips, salt, pepper, and lemon juice; heat through.
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UC Davis School of Medicine received a $25,000 innovator award from the American Council on Education (ACE) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support national efforts aimed at increasing career flexibility for faculty at medical schools nationwide. UC Davis is one of seven schools in the U.S. to receive an award at ACE's board of directors meeting in Washington, D.C. today.
"Our colleagues at the Association of American Medical Colleges note that the United States is facing a looming crisis: a serious doctor shortage," said ACE Senior Vice President Gretchen M. Bataille. "If our medical schools aren't retaining the right faculty, then that shortage will only be exacerbated. These seven institutions are taking bold steps to keep the best and brightest teachers, which helps attract future doctors. We are grateful to the Sloan Foundation for their continued support of these efforts."
The award recognizes the School of Medicine for its innovative policies, practices and programs that foster work-life balance among faculty physicians and show promise as models for other medical schools nationwide. It also recognizes the importance of current studies funded by the National Institutes of Health under way at UC Davis that are evaluating attitudes, awareness and use of career-flexibility policies among faculty and their effect on careers in the biomedical sciences.
Faculty development leaders directing these studies include Lydia Howell, professor and chair of pathology and laboratory medicine, Amparo Villablanca, professor and Lazda Endowed Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Medicine, and Edward J. Callahan, associate dean for academic personnel and professor of family and community medicine.
"UC Davis has a long history of commitment to career flexibility and has pioneered a number of family-friendly policies for faculty at all stages in their careers," Howell said. "We have resources to inform and support medical school faculty as they strive to integrate and balance their professional careers with their personal, home, family and community lives. But we recognize that much more work still needs to be done to achieve a culture of flexibility for academic physicians. This innovator grant award will help us expand and improve policies at UC Davis and beyond."
The School of Medicine's career-flexibility policies support institutional efforts to hire and retain a first-rate team of innovative, dedicated and motivated scientists and physicians. These policies, which help faculty accommodate the dual commitments of home and career, cover a wide range of needs for leaves and flexible scheduling, including having or adopting children, spending more time with family, caring for aging parents or one's own illness or disability, and extending the time to achieve tenure.
"While our studies have shown that UC Davis faculty of both sexes and across generations know family-friendly policies exist, we identified high-risk groups -- younger men and older women -- who may be experiencing work-life balance challenges that we need to understand better so that we can meet their needs," Villablanca said.
Innovator grant award funds will be used to create workshops for faculty and school leaders to broaden acceptance of career flexibility and raise awareness of common work-life conflicts that reduce faculty satisfaction. It also will be used to raise awareness of unconscious biases such as the need for "face time," which may interfere with the use and effectiveness of existing flexibility policies, and to create new policies that meet the needs of high-risk faculty groups and the school's diverse faculty.
"By attracting and retaining the best of the best, these winning medical schools are able to put themselves on a path toward excellence," said Kathleen Christensen, program director, Alfred. P. Sloan Foundation. "They do this through targeted efforts to address the unique work/life challenges faced by faculty. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is proud to partner with ACE to honor these winners and is deeply appreciative of ACE's leadership on these issues."
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Selig expects vote next week on his successor
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig expects baseball owners to vote next week from a list of three candidates for his successor.
"Yes, there will be a vote in Baltimore," Selig said Wednesday, referring to the owners' meeting next week.
Selig said the seven-member panel appointed earlier this year, and headed by St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr., worked independently to get to this point.
"I told them at the time that the job was theirs because, after all, they have to live with the commissioner. I'm going to be gone," said Selig, who is retiring in January.
"I've been very well-informed and briefed and so forth, but they've been independent and they've come up with this list on their own, and I'm grateful for that. They did what I asked them to do."
The reported finalists for the job are Rob Manfred, MLB's chief operating officer; Tim Brosnan, MLB's executive vice president for business and Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner.
When asked about those names, Selig said "the list is accurate."
The commissioner has refrained from publicly endorsing anyone as his replacement after 22 years on the job.
Selig spoke to reporters after addressing the opening luncheon for the 2014 Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series, which will feature about 300 players ages 13-18 with 16 teams playing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this week.
The gathering came a day after the former clinic owner accused of selling performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez agreed to plead guilty in what prosecutors called a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute steroids to both major league ballplayers and high school athletes.
With potentially more legal proceedings related to Biogenesis, after former owner Anthony Bosch and six others were charged, there is always the possibility of additional names being revealed.
"I'm really not concerned," Selig said. "We did what we had to do. We'll be very thorough. ... I don't really have any knowledge if there's anything else coming.
"Look, I'm proud of where we are," he said. "We have the toughest drug testing program in America, and certain American sports."
It was a year ago this week that Rodriguez was among 13 players disciplined by Major League Baseball as a result of the Biogenesis scandal, two weeks after Ryan Braun had already accepted a 65-game penalty. Most of the other penalties were for the final 50 games last season, though Rodriguez appealed his much longer suspension and is out for all of this season.
Selig planned later Wednesday to visit the Rangers' ballpark in nearby Arlington on his tour of the 30 franchises. He also planned to visit with Dr. Bobby Brown, who practiced cardiology in the Dallas-Fort Worth area before serving as vice president of the Texas Rangers and later the AL president from 1984-94.
"I've been so busy and things have been so hectic that I haven't really had a chance to focus on (pending retirement). Next November, December and January, I'm sure I'll do a lot of that," Selig said. "I try not to think about that, I really don't. Yeah, there are a few times when I've said to myself, well, this is the last time you'll do this. And this is the last time I'll do this. I think the emotion will come later."


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Ravens coach John Harbaugh made a smart move this week by cutting safety Michael Huff and defensive end Marcus Spears.
You're never happy when someone losses their job, but Harbaugh set the tone going into a very big week. He gave out a warning after the Ravens lost to the Steelers that the team was willing to make changes or do whatever necessary to win. That in itself kept the players on edge over the bye week, and those announced cuts on Wednesday sent a message and created a sense of urgency.
With two weeks to prepare, I expect the Ravens to win Sunday. I expect them to show some new wrinkles, some new things to catch the Browns off guard. I believe their offense will continue to get better after modest improvements against Pittsburgh.
It's going to be a tough game, because Cleveland is much better than it was a year ago and the Browns play good defense. But they don't have a lot of firepower on offense, and the running game is limited.
Plus, Browns cornerback Joe Haden calling out the Ravens this week probably works in the Ravens' favor. He is right, they aren't the Ravens of old, but that is something you keep to yourself. You don't call out the defending champs.


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- Users must check and reset their USER PREFERENCES to be sure Virginia Western is in the INSTITUTION box and the TERM is the current one.
- Former VWCC students who have not enrolled in classes within the last 3 years must complete a new online application prior to enrollment. this also applies to students who applied within the last year but did not take classes.
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McArdle earns the distinction for the second season in a row, garnering the highest individual honor ever bestowed on a lacrosse player in St. John's history in back-to-back years after also being named All-America honorable mention as a sophomore in 2012.
"Kieran's contributions here have been well documented," said St. John's head lacrosse coach Jason Miller. "It's hard to put it into words. He is clearly one of the best players, if not the best, in the history of this program and one of the elite players in the country."
"This is such a great way to end my four years at St. John's," said McArdle. "None of this could have happened without the help and hard work of my great teammates and coaches."
McArdle, a starter since his freshman year at St. John's who played over 55 games for his University, is one of two players in St. John's history to be recognized as an All-America selection.
Over the last four seasons, McArdle has cemented his place as his era's elite offensive threat in the Big East Conference and one of the most feared attacking weapons in the country.
This season, after tallying 80 points on 40 goals and 40 assists, he repeated as Big East Offensive Player of the Year and for the second year in a row was named one of 25 finalists for the coveted Tewaaraton Award.
McArdle put together a historic season in 2014, becoming St. John's all-time career leader in points, assists and goals in three separate games, all Red Storm victories.
The attackman became St. John's all-time career points leader on March 18 when he scored six goals – including the overtime winner – to go with two assists in an 11-10 home victory over local rival Hofstra to take his career points tally to 222.
Just four days later, McArdle added another program record to his resume, scoring six goals in a comeback victory at Stony Brook to take his career tally to 110, the most ever at St. John's.
The senior reached the program "triple crown" on March 29 when he dished out four assists in a 14-7 victory at Providence, becoming St. John's all-time career assist leader with 124.
McArdle scored a total of three game-winning goals this season, including one in his final game at DaSilva Memorial Field in an 11-10 overtime victory over Villanova on Senior Day, and marked his final Queens campaign by becoming the first player in program history to record 200 points, 100 assists and 100 goals in a career.
McArdle ended the season as the owner of the nation's second-longest point scoring streak, as the attackman recorded at least one point in 52 consecutive games, a streak which began as a freshman in a 9-4 loss to Stony Brook on March 15, 2011.
The senior also graduates with the second-most assists among the NCAA's active members while his 264 career points rank him fourth in Division I among active players.


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As a sophomore (2014): Competed with both the varsity four and second varsity four during her second season with the program…raced three times with the varsity four, sitting at stroke twice, and once in the two seat…also stroked the second varsity four at the Lake Natoma Invite…missed the final month of the season with injury.
As a freshman (2013): Competed in seven races with the novice eight, and four races with the varsity four during her freshman season…with the novice eight, she sat in the six seat four times, the four seat on two occasions, and the two seat once…also sat at two in each of her races with the varsity four.
High School: A 2012 graduate of Antioch High School in Antioch, Calif…a four-sport athlete for the Panthers, she competed four years of cross country, two seasons of both soccer and softball, and one year of track and field…was an all-league selection in the 1,600 during her lone season on the track and field squad…helped the cross country team to a Bay Valley Athletic League championship in 2009 as the lone freshman on the varsity squad…was anointed a North Coast Section Scholar-Athlete on seven occasions during her high school career…recipient of the school's Distinguished Female Athlete Award as a senior.
Personal: Parents are William and Tomi…a kinesiology major…has a 2,000-meter ergometer time of 7:37.1.


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This week, PBS will air "The Abolitionists," a movie about people who during the 19th century spoke out against the evils of chattel slavery. The Abolitionist Movement has been subject to historical revisionism and an attempt by white America to pick our heroes. African Americans must become experts in the field of their own history, as no other racial group would dare trust the interpretation of their culture to others.


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Relax on a private and peaceful 3 acre forested setting, near the pristine Slocan River in Winlaw. Our deluxe vacation rental has an open plan living & kitchen area and sleeps 8. It has 3 bedrooms, a sleeping loft, 2 large full bathrooms and a veranda. It has a large fenced yard with a private brick patio, BBQ, waterfall, fish pond and gardens. The home is complete with excellent kitchen and laundry facilities and free Wi-Fi. It is great for groups and families ! All you need to bring is your groceries.
Check out our excellent website! It has slideshows of the home and area, rates, reviews and an availability calendar. Winlaw has: 4 good restaurants, 2 grocery stores, biking trails, live music and a beautiful river to swim in. It's a great place to find some peace and quiet, and explore nature's beauty.
We live on the property and have provided excellent service to our guests, since 2012. You can expect genuine Canadian hospitality and no booking fees. We offer wheelchair accessibility and extra amenities for children and the elderly. Call Pam or David at 1-250-226-7647 to book ahead. We accept: credit cards, cash and e-Transfers.
Established in 1898, the Hume is a restored historic, full-service hotel located on the corner of Vernon and Ward Street in Nelson, BC. All guest rooms have been tastefully renovated and are equipped with modern conveniences while paying homage to our rich history.
Inside our walls you can expect to find Aura Spa & Salon, the General Store Family Restaurant, Mike's Place Pub, the Library Lounge, the Spiritbar, Banquets & Catering and our Liquor Boutique. Our greatest asset? Our team of dedicated staff of course. We are Nelson's unique, character property with something for everyone. You can expect wide hallways, spacious rooms, extraordinary woodwork and that special sense of nostalgia that has defined our town over decades of history. Come and enjoy an authentic taste of Nelson's hip heritage as we celebrate over a century of hospitality excellence. The Hume Hotel & Spa – Antique. Chic. Boutique.
This full-service hotel features a free full hot breakfast for all room guests every morning that earned the 'Best Hotel for Breakfast' award by Ski Canada Magazine. In 2015, we completely renovated the 2nd Floor into brand new deluxe guest rooms as well as the introduction of Aura Spa & Salon. All newly renovated rooms feature air conditioning and other modern conveniences while maintaining that heritage charm the Hume is known for. At the Hume Hotel, no two rooms are the same. You can expect wide hallways, spacious rooms, extraordinary woodwork and that special sense of nostalgia that has defined our town over decades of history. Our facilities include 45 decorated guest rooms befitting our theme, the General Store Restaurant, the Library Lounge complete with its original fireplace, Mike's Place Pub, the Spiritbar entertainment venue and a Liquor Store. In 2005, the hotel underwent a major exterior facelift bringing back its look from the 1920's. Our greatest asset? Our team of dedicated staff of course. Come and enjoy an authentic taste of Nelson's hip heritage as we celebrate over a century of hospitality excellence.
The Best Western Baker Street Inn & Convention Center is historic Baker Street's newest and only full-service hotel. We are highly ranked on TripAdvisor and just underwent a major interior renovation in 2011.
Business travelers will be pleased to know that we offer free high speed internet while families should make note that kids stay free. Besides 70 comfortable guest rooms, other amenities include banquet facilities, Jacuzzi suites, hot tub, fitness room, flat screen TVs, microwaves, fridges, guest computer, room service and plenty of parking. Visit our website or call for more detail on the excellent ski and golf packages we have to offer.
Our own dining facility, the Baker Street Grill, is a restaurant that is sure to please the heartiest of appetites. Our dinner menu features our signature rotisserie chicken and ribs, grilled steaks as well as a great selection of seafood that includes wild BC salmon. Served every Sunday between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm, be sure to visit our Sunday Brunch when you're in town. Experience the many great services we have to offer at the BEST WESTERN PLUS Baker Street Inn & Convention Center.
Scout prides itself on offering Nelson the most current fashions and trends. If you are looking for a local shopping experience, whether for yourself or for others, Scout strives to have everything you need. Scout is an independently owned and operated boutique, located in the eclectic downtown area of Nelson, B.C. From humble beginnings, under the name Global Underground, the huge supporter of local designers evolved organically to become the trendy lifestyle brand it is today. Drawing inspiration from unique Kootenay characters and bold styles, Scout offers a one-stop shopping for flirty fun fashion in clothing, gifts and accessories. Whether you're going for a boho beach vibe, or a splashy-sporty style, Scout is quintessentially distinct. Come visit the Scout family and support the locals!
We are a contemporary boutique for women. Strutters buys and sells gently used, quality clothing.
While we are not a consignment store we do buy and re-sell lightly loved clothes, shoes and accessories. This gives us the ability to curate our collection making it effortless for you to find something new, something fun, something special and affordable each time you visit.
We LOVE helping you find the perfect fit and when asked – will always offer an honest opinion, helping you find clothes that compliment your beauty.
You'll find the latest styles for both men and women. We carry all the best names in fashion, including Joseph Ribkoff, Bianca Nygaard, MEXX, Guess, Sandwich, Second Yoga Jeans, Dex, PJ Salvage, Mavi Jeans, and so much more!
Open 9:30 – 5:30 Monday thru Saturday
10-4 on Sundays
The Capitol Theatre's calendar is full of community music, dance and theatre as well as Canadian and international touring performances. The restored theatre is an experience in itself, recapturing the atmosphere of its earliest days as a silent movie house.
The Capitol Theatre Society rents the facility to community groups for dance, theatre, music and film events, presents great touring performances, produces Summer Youth Theatre, a wine-tasting festival and an annual Christmas pantomime, and houses a large costume collection.
The Capitol's Box office does far more than sell event ticket reservations – it is a gold mine for community arts resources, with friendly staff who go more than the distance to assist folks with their entertainment choices. The Capitol Costume shop may be messaged by calling 354-1510 for fantasy dress-up and show needs.
The Teahouse's eclectic setting feels like you've been invited to Alice in Wonderlands private Tea Party! Known for their famous British style Afternoon Tea, and their extensive range or loose leaf teas & bite size delights such as cupcakes, cake balls & french macarons. Other popular favourites include their Chai smoothies, paninis, gelato & crepes.
Lasca Natural Trading Company is a well-established granite/marble countertop fabricator and installer in Nelson B C. We also deal with high-end imported items from home decor to jewelry and much more. We are local granite/marble countertop company, been service community for two years. We import unique gifts and ceramic arts from over seas with very competitive price. We set up our company on the base of excellent customer service and unique items for home decor, home reno service , and gifts.
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We know our stuff. We sell all major brands of sporting goods. We test everything we sell. Canadians know their hockey. We have been selling ski's and boards for 25 years. We know the latest in sports and street fashions for youth, ladies and mens.
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A micro-brewery and 55 seat taproom located in the heart of Nelson on Baker Street. Stop in to have a pint or grab a growler to enjoy a beer wherever you like.
Nelson Banking Centre
CIBC Branch with ATM
Fax (250)352-7175
Toll Free 1-800-465-2422
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Monday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday Closed
Blue Sky Clothing Company, Comfortable Elegance Sized for REAL Women XS to 4X. Blue Sky offers locally designed, natural fibre clothing in styles and sizes for all women. We also have summer fun wear for the whole family. Balfour, Nelson and Vancouver locations.
Five locations:
511 Baker St. in Historic Nelson
Balfour Ferry Landing (seasonal)
1312 Commercial Dr. Vancouver, B.C. 604-566-9976
1533 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver B.C.
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Serving Nelson since 1950, we offer a full range of accounting, tax, auditing, and related business advisory services.
"West Kootenay EcoSociety is a non-profit, community-driven organization, that works to bring together local residents to protect the natural environment while building just, equitable, healthy, and livable communities in the West Kootenay region. The three main pillars of our work are: taking action to reduce the crisis of climate change, promoting sustainable local food systems, and preserving wild places, ecosystems, air and water for future generations. If you're looking to get involved in the community, EcoSociety's a great place to learn about local issues and how make a tangible, positive impact in your community."
The Pinnacle PAC promise:
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We believe that accounting is about much more than the numbers, and that to grow local businesses and economies, we must support and encourage culture and community.
Pinnacle PAC wants to help our community prosper economically through successful enterprise and spiritually through artistic endeavour. We believe our own business can contribute to the economic and social well-being of our community by nurturing start-up enterprises, coaching existing businesses, providing low-cost services to non-profits, offering secure, well-paid and meaningful work to our team members, setting a good example of best practices and technological innovation and supporting local artists and food providers.
Our passion at Pinnacle PAC is helping people succeed. Our clients tell us they value our relationship because we translate technical matters into plain English they can understand and use. We believe the accountant should be a coach, cheerleader and peer rather than simply the scorekeeper. We believe professionals should charge a fair price for the value provided to the client and that value is not a function of time spent. We believe an accounting office can be a fun and creative place for the team members and an open and non-threatening environment for clients.
A successful enterprise is one that exists to serve the objectives of the proprietor. Too often, the proprietor ends up chained to her own business with a lunatic for a boss. How does this happen? Can it be avoided? Can it be changed? We can help small business owners to identify their personal objectives and then take action to achieve them through the operation of their businesses.
We want to empower small business owners to help themselves – to understand their business, understand their financial position, measure their growth, interpret their financial results, build their operating systems, improve their teams and make themselves better leaders and community members to the enrichment of our whole region.
Formerly a member of the Skogstad Shkooratoff law office, Jolene Shkooratoff have been serving the Nelson area for over 4 years. Our legal team prides themselves on their ability to deliver peaceful solutions in a timely manner. If you are seeking honest and upfront representation in a family legal matter, contact us today.
Family Law, Divorce, Marriage / Common law agreements, Child Custody, Child Visitation Rights, Child Support, Spousal Support, Property Division, Common Law Separation, Enforcement of Orders, Grandparent Rights
Hall Printing is the largest commercial print shop in the West Kootenay area. We specialize in commercial printing, colour and black and white photocopying, and much more.
We specialize in: Colour & BW copies, Business Cards, Brochures, Greeting Cards, Post Cards, Rack Cards, NCR forms, Letterheads, Envelopes, Large Format Printing & Mounting Lamination, Graphic Design Services and much more!
Fine quality kitchen accessories and many unique gift ideas. Competitive pricing with excellent customer service.
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CIBC World Markets Inc. and ISI are both Members of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. CIBC Private Wealth Management services are available to qualified individuals. The CIBC logo and "CIBC Private Wealth Management" are registered trademarks of CIBC.
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