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Well, as long as he's taking responsibility…
I mean, I suppose that's how his fans would defend it, right? There's one in particular. She's been writing to me for a year. It's very endearing her loyalty to Ryan Phillippe. She feels that the way I've been commenting on his, um, dating patterns is unfair. She doesn't believe that Phillippe ever cheated on Reese Witherspoon. She denies that he was ever a douche player with lame moves and cheese texts lancing on several waitresses at a time who worked at the same restaurant in Vancouver during their marriage. And of course she refuses to acknowledge the allegations that Phillippe was unfaithful to Abbie Cornish even after their acrimonious split, as her publicist released a very telling and informative statement about her moving out and tersely would offer only a "no comment" when asked if Phillippe cheated on her. Still, some people you have to slap in the face. Where these kinds of people are concerned though, even a baby isn't enough of a slap in the face.
Last year Ryan Phillippe dated an actress called Alexis Knapp for about 5 minutes. Not surprisingly, Alexis is 26, in the upper scale of his target age range. By fall, he was spotted with Amanda Seyfried and Alexis had receded. Not that it means anything, but Amanda's resume is way stronger, much more in line with Witherspoon and Cornish.
Well now it appears that Alexis is pregnant. They say it's 7 months. She was photographed the other day out and about. Since you people are bump experts, you decide how far along she is. Whatever the timeline though, Us Weekly broke the exclusive yesterday that she's telling people the baby is Ryan's but they could only specify 2nd trimester. And other outlets are now following that lead, as even People.com is echoing the same story from their sources and his publicist remains silent on the matter. Without a DNA test it's the smart thing to do.
Phillippe supporters however are stepping forward anonymously to defend his character. They explain he's aware of the situation and claim that if the child is his, he will take full responsibility.
"He's a good guy. He loves being a dad and takes being a dad really seriously. If this kid is his, he will do the right thing. He takes his responsibility seriously." – from a source to Us Weekly.
Well no kidding. It's not the right thing to do, it's the ONLY thing to do. How did we come to this when people expect acknowledgement for behaving as they SHOULD? Taking responsibility for fathering a child doesn't mean he's a "good guy". It means he's a HUMAN BEING. Don't ask me to stand up and applaud him for being a "good guy" because he's going to properly love his own child. Are those the standards we're setting for ourselves these days? Is that how low they are?
As for Ryan Phillippe…
Well I guess they wait for a paternity test. And I guess we're not to speak of the apparent overlap between Alexis Knapp and Amanda Seyfried? Why is there so often overlap between his significant relationships? That means nothing, right? The aforementioned superfan would insist it means nothing. I've reprinted one of her recent emails below. As already noted, she's an ardent supporter.
You have to know that what you post about Ryan Phillippe is exaggerated bullsh-t. Either that or you are really really really stupid. It wasn't reported anywhere that he "HAD A FIGHT" with Amanda at the Weinstein party simply that they had a serious discussion and were separate for most of the night but E reported when they were done with their conversations (which were probably business) they were cuddling. They arrived and left separately so you're pathetic attempt to make something "telling" from that fact is more fiction and a testament to your stupidity.
He was driving a Rolls because he was filming a Funny or Die with it that ONE day. But you know that you stupid bitch. But keep trying to make it something else.
He's broken up wth "two women" in ten years. In your crooked head This makes him a "douche". He's no different than any other actor but you also know that you stupid bitch.
He was never doing anything more than dating Amanda casually. They have probably both been seeing other people. She was with Dominic at the Golden Globes parties. But you also know that you stupid bitch but it doesn't fit into your "Ryan is a big douche" theory so you ignore it.
Why don't you write about Canadian actors? Isn't that why E Canada exists? Why are you so stupid?
And here's Ryan arriving at Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday, all smiles, to promote The Lincoln Lawyer.
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With civil unrest spreading from the Middle East to other countries around the world with the help of social networking, it seems that no authoritarian ruler is safe. With this in mind, the question is who's next?
The sudden disintegration of the multi-decade rule of leaders like Hosni Mubarak suggests that other long-standing dictators could go.
Although Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and North Korea's Kim Jong Il draw the world's attention, the list of rulers considered to be dictators is a long one.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, dictators generally hold complete autocratic control, often hoarding wealth for themselves while leaving little for their people. Inflation, the rising cost of food, wealth disparities and poor standards of living have been at the heart of unrest in the Middle East, and these leaders have been the focus of blame.
To illustrate how dictators often enrich themselves at the expense of their people, gross domestic produce (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is compared to each country's Human Development Index (HDI) rank and score.
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The United Nations Development Program's HDI statistics reflect the average living conditions and future prospects of a country's populace. It is comprised of average life expectancy, access to education and gross national income (GNI) per capita of each country.
Large discrepencies between GDP per capita and HDI statistics demonstrate how a dictatorship has affected the general populace and is also indicative of whether a leader can retain power.
Also included is information from Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which measures and ranks the perceived level of corruption in a country, based upon surveys of the populace.
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Options discussed for old county records
Options for storing Auglaize County's old paper records are being discussed going into the new year.
In a meeting with representatives of the Clerk's of Court's Office, Common Pleas Court and Informational Technology Department, the Auglaize County commissioners this week sat down to develop a "game plan" for short- and long-term storage of these records.
Commissioner Doug Spencer said the commissioners wanted to help however they could in the process, which includes different scanning and imaging options, microfilm or continuing to store the paper records in boxes.
"We have a couple of options," Auglaize County Common Pleas Judge Mark Spees said. "I think we ought to explore all the options and see which ones fits best."
County officials also planned to look again, as well as more in-depth, at companies that can be hired to image the records, which date back to the mid-1840s.
The advantages and disadvantages of each were discussed, with plans to get more details on each. Cost is expected to be high, which is likely be a major factor, as well as the amount of time, which is expected to be lengthy.
Spees said in the past, he had inquired about imaging and then destroying all paper documents from 1960 to present, as any paperwork before that would need to be approved by the Ohio Historical Society before it could be destroyed.
With another company scanning the documents, Commissioner Don Regula said he was concerned about moving them off-site and something happening to the records in the process.
No matter where they are being scanned there were concerns of mistakes being made due to the monotony of the work and the confidential material the documents contain being compromised.
"It's a careful, tedious job and requires someone with some understanding of the papers they are dealing with," Auglaize County Clerk of Courts Jean Meckstroh said.
For a company to do the imaging, commissioners anticipated it costing between $250,000 and $300,000 based on previous estimates, while hiring someone to do the imaging part-time at a rate of $10 an hour would cost $60,000 over five years.
Spees favored the quickest route of imaging the documents as the sooner that can be done then the sooner the system would be available to the public.
"The whole idea is to get to the point where we don't have paper at all," Spees said.
Planning to take all options into consideration, commissioners said they would like to find one that would allow for all the records to be imaged within five years.
Meckstroh said with an employee continuing to do other work, it has taken more than a year to image a year's worth of documents and get them into the system.
"It takes time," Meckstroh said. "We have 1,095 boxes. I can't imagine the number of pages we have."
Common Pleas Court Deputy Clerk Sue Foote said Probate Court has another 600 boxes and Juvenile Court has more than that.
The county stores records in several different locations and pays for part of the 1,000-square feet needed to store materials off-site.
Auglaize County courts moved toward a paperless system in 2011 at a cost of $81,265 for software, training and support. Work began toward the move in 2008, but was delayed when courthouse offices were moved temporarily during renovations. At this time, all current records are being imaged daily and older records imaged as well — as time allows.
Former Clerk of Courts Sue Ellen Kohler said at the time the paperless system was implemented that she expected the new system to lead to financial savings and better public service.
Someone requesting a document under the existing system may have to wait a few days to access it, whereas under a new system, where all images are documented, they could have the record they need within minutes.
Auglaize County Computer Operations Manager Cameron Ruppert also recommended that the imaged records undergo periodic conversion updates to keep up with changing technology.
"We've got to stay on top of this," Spencer said requesting county officials to check into costs and time frames and bring them back to a followup meeting, which has not yet been scheduled.


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By Maryknoll Father Michael J. Snyder
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tananzia — It has been two and a half years since my return to Tanzania after 10 years of service in the U.S. I had 20 years previous experience in this country. This present assignment has brought me to Dar es Salaam and a new experience as chaplain at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, the national medical university of Tanzania.
This medical school at Muhimbili Hospital was once the only one in Tanzania. Formerly the School of Medicine of the University of Dar es Salaam, it had a student population of just 400 in the 1970s. Today with a student body of 1,600 it stands alone. Nearly 50 percent of the students are Catholic, a tribute to an historical emphasis placed on education by the Catholic Church.
Serving among them has been a privilege. For some 60 students the day begins with Mass at 6:30 a.m. at our chapel. Classes begin at 8:30 and continue right up to 5:00 p.m. with an hour and a half break for lunch.
I had heard that this is the cream of intelligentsia for the country and have come to learn how true it is. The Catholic community at Muhimbili engages 40 students in different facets of leadership. They take responsibility for accounts, banking, distribution of salaries, and organization of events and activities. They are intelligent and mature yet maintain the spark and enthusiasm of youth. If they are able to cope with the temptations that lead to corrupt practices and the lure to abandon Tanzania for lucrative jobs outside the country, these young people can make a tremendous contribution in the medical sector.
Maintaining the ideals and positive motivation of service is a major challenge facing them. Perhaps the singular most interesting challenge for me as their chaplain can be described with a question: How can the message of Christ alive within us nurture and prepare medical students for the sacrifices needed so that God's hand may touch the thousands who seek them out for healing in a country where poverty prevails?
For the most part, the students are committed and want to help. But they also have a right to a decent living. They are smart and can see what is happening around them. They have questions and they wonder how they will reconcile their faith with the desire for a decent living. Salaries are low and resources scarce. So, medical professionals are tempted to inflate their salaries by hoarding available services and charging patients extra for them.
Medical ethics is a major question. In the classroom they are taught how to scientifically deal with illness. They are given procedures that sometimes conflict with church teaching and wonder how they will be able to function as faithful Catholics in a medical system that promotes policies that are contrary to the church's position.
I hope this gives you a little feel for what medical university campus ministry is all about in Tanzania. Let me end with some comments from the students themselves when asked what the Catholic community at Muhimbili means to them:
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I'm participating in the activities of my church because first I believe it is my responsibility to make my church active, and as I receive blessings from God everyday I also need to do something in return. In addition to that, it gives me a sense of really belonging to the community. I am happy to work with other members, as in doing so, I learn a lot about understanding myself and others and obtain skills on how to work well as a group anywhere in serving God.
— Cecelia Ngatunga (third-year medical student)
Praise the Lord! The Muhimbili Catholic Community has enabled me to understand the meaning of love and humility in action, especially on Saturday evenings when we visit patients of different religions in the wards seeking to comfort them. At our chapel people of different ages and medical professions are united together as the Muhimbili Catholic Community!
— George Alcard Rweyemamu (third-year medical student)
The advantage I see for being a member of the Muhimbili Catholic Community are the spiritual services offered, such as daily Mass. I also value the church activities, especially the seminars and volunteer opportunities such as visiting the sick. Finally, I enjoy socializing with different people that build me spiritually.
— Valeria Rugaiganisa (third-year nursing student)
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Fr. Michael J. Snyder is a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, commonly known as Maryknoll. A native of New Jersey, he was ordained in 1979 and assigned to work in Tanzania, East Africa. In addition to various parish assignments, Fr. Mike served as the regional superior for the Maryknoll priests, brothers, and lay missioners working in Tanzania (1989-1995). In 1996 he returned to the U.S. to serve on the General Council for Maryknoll until 2002. Fr. Mike also served as vocation director for Maryknoll for seven years. In 2007 he returned for missionary service in Tanzania where he resides today.


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The second iteration of Strangefolk has officially parted ways. The core lineup of guitarist Jon Trafton, bassist Erik Glockler and singer/guitarist Luke "Patchen" Montgomery have performed together since 2000, when original frontman Reid Genauer left the band. Russ Lawton has been Strangefolk's steady drummer since 2004 while keyboardist Don Scott has performed with the band since 2001.
After Trafton and Glocker reunited with Genauer and classic drummer Luke Smith as the Original Strangefolk Reunion in early 2012, the latter day version of the band continued on for a few months. Trafton and Glocker have now decided to focus solely on the band's classic lineup as well as their solo projects.
A note from the band reads:
Dear Friends,
Since May 2012, when we last took the stage together at the Strange Creek Festival in Greenfield, MA, our musical and personal lives have gone in different directions. Recently we decided to go our separate ways and wish each other well.
We want to make an especially heartfelt thank you to Russ Lawton. You would be hard pressed to find a better friend and musician to share the stage with. We would also like to thank our families, friends, and fans of the band for all their love and support over the past eleven years we played together as Strangefolk. They've been amazing years and we feel fortunate to have been able to share so much music, friendship, and fun during that time.
The music will continue. You can catch Russ on the road with Trey Anastasio Band and Soule Monde, Erik and Patchen are always adding more Dirigo dates, and Strangefolk Reunion will continue to play. We hope to see you out on the road.
Don, Erik, Jon, Patchen


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Jammu and Kashmir [1] is the northernmost state of India.
British India's princely state of Jammu and Kashmir is now divided between the Republic of India and Pakistan. India claims the entire area of the former state, whereas Pakistan regards the same area as "territory in dispute" awaiting a plebiscite. While some Kashmiris hope for an independent and unified Kashmir, the majority seem to simply want peace. It is a mountainous region of great beauty and diversity offering much in the way of outdoor activities and sights for the tourist. The unrest had pretty much completely shut down what was once a thriving tourist industry in Kashmir, and it's now only starting to make a slow comeback. As a rule of thumb, the western area remains unsafe, while the eastern area (Ladakh) is fine - see "Stay safe" below. Today, Jammu and Kashmir remains the only Muslim-majority state in India. It has an area of 39,179mi² (101,473.1 km2).
The inhabitants of J&K belong to three religions, with Kashmir being mainly Muslim, Jammu being mainly Hindu and the Ladakhis divided almost equally between Buddhists and Muslims.
The state's official language is Urdu. However, the main languages spoken are Kashmiri in the Kashmir Valley, Ladakhi in Ladakh and Dogri in Jammu. Most people speak at least a little Hindi and you may even hear Punjabi.
As elsewhere in India, English is fairly widely spoken among the educated classes and those involved in the tourist industry.
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By plane
Flights operate to Srinagar and Leh. Try Indian Airlines [2], Jet Airways [3], Kingfisher [4] and Air Deccan [5].
By train
The last stop on the railway line north is Udhampur, where you can catch onward buses and hire SUVs/MUVs (Tata Sumo / Toyota Innova/ Mahindra Scorpio). However it is better to get down in Jammu and catch a taxi from there as these are more readily available.
The Kashmir Railway is a railway line being built in India to connect the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of the country. The Project officially coded USBRL (Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla Railway Link) starts from the city of Udhampur, 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of Jammu, and travels for 290 kilometres (180 mi) to the city of Baramulla on the northwestern edge of the Kashmir Valley. The route crosses major earthquake zones, and is subjected to extreme temperatures of cold and heat, as well as inhospitable terrain, making it an extremely challenging engineering project.
By bus
There are two ways to get in by land - via Jammu and up to Srinagar or via Manali in Himachal Pradesh and up to Leh.
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Gulmarg is well known for its amazing natural beauty and it is counted as one of the unique tourist destinations in the world. Gulmarg is surrounded by dense forest. This place is famous for its golf hikes and beautiful highland golf course.
The way to reach Sonamarg or the Meadow of the gold is from the sindh valley. This valley also shows more amazing facet in kashmir. Sonamarg is located at an altitude of around 2730 meters from the sea level; it has Snow Mountains as its backdrop against the sky.
Raghunath Temple:
Raghunath Temple is dedicated to the Hindu Lord Shri Rama. All the inner walls of this temple are covered with gold, on three sides. Galleries of this temples are covered with ' Saligrams'. The other surrounding temples are related to other gods from the Ramayana. This temple is located in the centre or we can say in the heart of Jammu.
Bahu Fort:
Bahu fort was modified and improved by Dogra Rulers of jammu but first built it was built by the Raja Bahulochan. This fort is located at a distance of around 5 km from the main city and perhaps is the oldest edifice in the Jammu. This fort is facing the Tawi River. There is a temple of goddess kali in the fort.
Mubarak Mandi Palace:
Mubarak Palace was built with the touch of three different styles, Rajasthani, Mughal and Gothic. Most famous part of this Palace is the Sheesh Mahal segment. There is a Dogra Art Museum, which is a treasure house of miniature paintings from various hill schools.
Peer Baba: This is of the holy places for Muslim saints. Here, people from all the religions comes in large number to pray, on Thursday.
Chadar Trek
Zanskar is located at a very high altitude in Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of the best trekking destinations around the world. In Winter, Zanskar river freezes up, and get converted into an amazing adventures trek called Chadar-The Frozen River Trek.
The traditional name for the Zanskar Trek is Chadar Trek as the river becomes a snow sheet during winters due to heavy snowfall. It boasts of some of the lowest temperatures making it a challenging trek for the adventurers. The most isolated and inaccessible for nearly eight months in a year due to heavy snowfall resulting in closure of all the access passes; Zanskar has the distinction of being the least interfered with microcosms of Ladakh, and thus one of the last few surviving cultural satellites of Tibet. This geographical isolation together with the esoteric nature of Buddhism practiced here has enabled its ten thousand inhabitants to preserve and perpetuate their cultural identity.
Stay Safe
The situation in the province is far from stable. Outbursts of politically motivated violence are possible, especially around Srinagar. Demonstrations and rallies can rapidly turn violent. Western citizens might be a potential target of hostility and anti-Western mob violence. It is vital for travellers to maintain good situational awareness.
Ladakh is removed from the tension and can be considered safe.


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In bacteria paradise, the temperature in your backyard pond would never fall below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. When water temperatures drop below 50 for any sustained period of time, the bacteria call it quits for the season.
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Nessie has a good life, living in Forks with her family. She is engaged to Jacob Black, and has a house. It seems like nothing can go wrong until people start suspecting things about the Cullens, and they are forced to move away from forks. Will the move harm Nessie and Jakes new relationship, and what other problem are going to get in their way?
This story is completely writen in Nessie's POV and tkes place 18 years after Breaking Dawn started. I own nothing. Stephanie Meyer owns all. I only own my major obsession with Jacob Black.
1. Chapter 1
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I woke up to the opposite side of the bed being empty. Where did he go? Then I was hit with the most sickly feeling imaginable. I ran to the bathroom sink and threw up. I was feeling awful lately. I felt something warm pull my hair back from my face and hold it. It scared me until I realized it was the one-oh-eight degree touch of Jake's huge, warm hands.
"Are you having a good morning?" He asked with a chuckle.
"Just lovely," I said in an irritated tone, after I finished emptying the contents of my stomach in the sink.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to irritate you!" He said while putting his hands up in front of him and backing up against the wall. He laughed jokingly.
I laughed and turned to him, "Sorry, I haven't been feeling right this past week, where were you this morning?" I started walking to him until I bumped his chest.
"I went to go check in with the pack. I just woke up 10 minutes before you did." Jake made up with the whole pack a while ago, and got his rightful place as pack leader, or Alpha after Sam decided to start a family with his wife Emily. Now Leah was now second in command, as he put it.
"Well..." He started, as he grabbed me and pulled me into his warm strong hold, "I can think of only one thing that can fix a sickly woman."
I giggled and asked playfully, "And what would that be?"
"FOOD!" He yelled as he grabbed me, and barreled into the kitchen, and set me down into a near by chair.
I laughed at him, got up and poked him in the chest, "Thats not what I thought you were going to say!" I managed to get out because I was laughing so hard.
"Oh, I know," he said. I started laughing some more. "So... What would the soon to be Mrs. Renesmee Carlie Black like for breakfast?"
I looked down at the amazingly gorgeous engagement ring, on my finger, as I thought about my wedding in a month that Alice was crazily busy planning. I was relying on Alice so much that I didn't even get a dress or announce the brides maids. I will have to check in on Alice about that. Woah, am I ever behind!
I suddenly put on a serious face and looked at him and said," I want... eggs." I went over and sat in the nearest chair looking up at him.
"Okay!" he said, probably happy that I had chosen the easiest thing in the house to make, even though he will probably ruin that, too.
I giggled at the thought as he looked at me questionably, "What? Are you laughing at me?"
"No!" I said too fast. Then I bit my lip. Thinking he would be mad at me, but he didn't notice.
"I think we should go to the main house after we eat and get dressed. What do you think, Hun?" I asked in my sweetest voice possible.
"I think thats a great idea, I haven't seen Seth in a while, and-" BEEP BEEP BEEP The smoke detector went off. "Damn!" He yelled as he threw out the eggs.
I started laughing at him, and said, "Maybe Esme can make us something. We can go to the house in a few minutes, you can even bring Seth if you want." Seth was the only werewolf other than Jake, that can put up with the smell. They don't even notice it anymore.
"Yeah, I guess." He said as he gave me a fake pout.
I laughed at him, as I told him, "Don't worry honey, you'll learn how to cook sometime," I smiled at him, then added under my breath, "maybe..."
"Hey! I heard that!" He told me with a crinkle in his brow.
I smoothed it out, and said, "You know, it is really hard living with a werewolf."
"And why would that be?" He said, "Is it because I am SO hot?"
"In more ways than one, but thats not what I meant," I told him it my most serious voice, "It is because you hear EVERYTHING!"
I laughed as he grabbed my waist and pulled me into him with his inhumane strength. I am not as strong as him but I managed to squirm my way out.
"Later," I said as he started to complain.
I ran to the huge walk-in closet, that Alice gave me as a present along with the house when we got engaged,she said it was going to be a tradition, as she did the same for my mom. Even though there will most likely be no one to carry on the tradition, but we don't want to disappoint her.
I was just throwing on a sweater as the phone rang. It was Alice.
"Nessie!" She said with her sometimes-annoying-way-too-perky tone.
"Yes, Auntie Alice?" I said in my perfect little Niece voice. I had to suck up to her. She was planning my wedding.
"Nessie, get over here, NOW!!
"I will be there in about 10 minu" -CLICK
I ran down the hall and yelled toward the kitchen. I expected he was there cleaning up his mess, or he would be in for a yelling when I got back, "Bye, Jake. Love you!"
"Love you, t-" SLAM
I wasn't that worried about Alice's frantic phone call because of how she started the call in her perky voice, so I wasn't going to rush, but I was wondering what she wanted me for, maybe it was important, so I started heading through the woods a little faster than usual.
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Jim is always great on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Just wondering if anyone has a copy or link to the show when Jim talks to Stephen Hawking? It was May 27 2003. This show had me in laughing the whole time!!! Jim also spontaneously gets up and plays with the band too!!! Brilliant stuff!!


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The shadowing experience allows prospective students the opportunity to sit chair-side while a third or fourth-year dental student treats patients. Students may shadow in the general clinic or specialty clinics within the school when available.
Students must arrive for shadowing by 1 pm for the afternoon session. You will not be able to shadow if it is past 1 pm.
For local students: In order to best serve all shadowing students, local students can only shadow 2 shadowing sessions per week for 3 consecutive weeks, and then must take at least 3 weeks off. After 3 weeks, a student can then schedule for another 3 week rotation.
For out-of-town-students: Students travelling from out-of-town may set up consecutive days shadowing during their stay in Kansas City. This must not exceed 5 days.
The dress code is business casual. No open-toed shoes or jeans are permitted. Socks are required. Long hair must be pulled back. Scrubs are also acceptable.
Parking passes are available for non-UMKC students. Parking passes can be aquired from the Office of Student Programs on the 4th floor, suite 420. It is the first office to your right when you come off the elevator.
Visitors should park in the surface lot at 25th & Charlotte (#28A). UMKC students with student parking permits should park in parking structure at 24th & Charlotte (#28). It is the visitor's responsibility to pay the meter if they choose to park in a meter spot.
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Todd Publications has announced the release of the 16th edition of its respected Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian.
The Reference Encyclopedia was nominated for the Anisfield Wolfe Award for Race Relations in 1968 and is considered the main source for information on present-day Native Americans. Content: Lists and describes the activities of thousands of American Indian organizations, institutions, government agencies, tribal nations and communities, public schools with Indian education programs, colleges with Native American studies departments; museums, libraries, media, casinos & resorts, book publishers, film/video producers; a 250 page bibliography of over 6,500 books; and a 350 page biographical section containing biographies of more than 2,000 Native Americans and non-Indians active in Indian affairs. Also includes a Canadian section with First Nations, organizations, etc.
Key information: 972 pages ISBN 978-0-915344-710. Price: Contact publisher, Todd Publications, P.O. Box 1752, Boca Raton, FL 33429, (561) 910-0440 Fax 218-4012; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Christy Hemme is the latest WWE Diva to grace the pages of Playboy magazine and her pictorial is in the April issue. She was once a roller-skating Hooters girl, cheerleader, and a trampoline girl on The Man Show. She almost was a part of the Lingerie Bowl until she won the Diva search, then she dropped that promotion like a hot potato.
"I won the Diva search with WWE and after that they (Playboy) asked me if I wanted to pose and represent the WWE Divas," said Hemme. "I got approval from my family and decided it was a good idea."
The sassy redhead owns a Harley Dyna Low Rider, which shows that she has a wild side.
"I've been riding bikes since I don't even remember," she said.
She will be taking on six-time WWE Women's Champ Trish Stratus at Wrestlemania 21. In a recent episode of RAW Stratus beat her up, dragged her to the centre of the ring and spray painted the word "SLUT" on her back. Was the paint was easy to clean off?
"No!" she shouted. "I had to scrub that stuff off my back. Wasn't that mean the way she dragged me?"
And now the stage is set. She is the girl next door taking on the veteran Stratus. Lita is in Hemme's corner and she is helping to train her.
"I am training with one of the best wrestlers ever, and that's Lita," Hemme said. "I am so excited and amped up and ready to go. I think it's going to end up being a great match and I'm just ready to take Trish on."
This is an evolving storyline that is sure to reach a head in Hollywood California on Sunday, April 3rd. Is that enough time for this go-getter to be able to take on a wrestler as experienced as Stratus?
"Everyday we are getting in the ring and learning every aspect of the business as far as wrestling goes. I am starting from ground zero and I am going to work my ass off to learn as much as I can before the match," said a confident Hemme.


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Viewing webpages with non-roman characters
Viewing webpages with non-roman characters consists of matching the encoding that your browser is using (variable) with that of the page itself (fixed). Your browser has built-in tools to display all languages properly.
Frequently a browser will convert pages automatically. If this doesn't occur, in the menu bar, go to View > Character Set (or Encoding) and choose the auto-detect feature if there is one for your language. Intenet Explorer offers an autodetect for Japanese only, while Mozilla Firebird has an autodetect for all languages with non-roman writing systems taught at Colby, and the default setting of Safari also works well in multiple languages.
If the browser has more than one encoding choice for your language, toggle though them until one works satisfactorily. You can see exactly which character set any given page is encoded with by looking at the source code from the page. Even if you are not terribly familiar with html it's not difficult to spot; look for the charset attribute near the top of the page.
This code was extracted from Yahoo! China:
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You can see that charset is defined differently, but most browsers will display them both properly by default. Any Colby faculty having trouble reading webpages can contact Qiuli Wang for a consultation.
As more pages are written in Unicode, dealing with different character sets will become less troubling. It is an official recommendation of the LRC that webpages written by faculty utilize the Unicode character set. To change the encoding of your own page, open the html file in Dreamweaver, and click Modify > Page Properties. In the dialog window that appears, select UTF-8 (a pared down version of Unicode) from the Document Encoding list. Click Apply, then OK.


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This beaded medallion necklace is made with blue, black and yellow-colored beads and cowrie shells. It was made by Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail to wear in the Sundance Lodge, a three-day ceremony of fasting and praying. The necklace has the three colors of the Sacred Sundance Ceremony. Blue signifies the sky and air, black is for the earth, and yellow is for the sun. Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail (1903-1981) was one of the United States first Native American registered nurses. She was a member of the class of 1927 at the Franklin County Public Hospital of Nursing in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
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Veljko62 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Pokerasi.rs is web site with articles about poker, poker strategy, video tutorials on online play, review of various online poker rooms etc.
We are looking for a logo that could fit our current design which is combination of Green and Black colors.
You can see example page here http://pokerasi.rs (with temporary logo)
Poker players (it could be any age or gender) with slight accent on online poker.
- Logo should contain brand name and slogan:
vaš vodič kroz svet pokera
take a look at example logo here: http://pokerasi.rs/category/strateg…trategije/
- Brand name is not required to be written in all caps.
- Slogan should be above or below logo.
- Logo has to convey a high sense of professionalism
- Logo has to translate easily to a business card.
- Logo should be easily recognized when resized to small sizes.
- We prefer colors Green / Black / White but we are open to other colors.
- Be creative
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— Polls have now closed in the 2013 elections throughout Morris County, and the results are being counted. Stay with NJ.com throughout the evening for the latest returns in local, county and school district races. In the local election results below, vote totals are not included in uncontested races. Vote totals in some towns might not include absentee ballots or provisional ballots. Please refresh this post frequently to get the latest results, and add your comments at the bottom of this post.
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Zeocin™ is a formulation of phleomycin D1, a basic, water-soluble, copperchelated glycopeptide isolated from Streptomyces verticillus and shows strong toxicity against bacteria, fungi (including yeast), plants, and mammalian cell lines. The blue color of the solution is due to the presence of copper and the copper-chelated form of Zeocin™ is inactive. When the antibiotic enters the cell, the copper cation is reduced from Cu2+ to Cu1+ and removed by sulfhydryl compounds in the cell. Upon copper removal, Zeocin™ is activated, and binds and cleaves DNA, causing cell death. A Zeocin™ resistance protein of 13,665 Da, has been isolated and characterized. The protein is the product of the Sh ble gene (Streptoalloteichus hindustanus bleomycin gene), binds stoichiometrically to Zeocin™ and inhibits its DNA strand cleavage activity. Expression of this protein in eukaryotic and prokaryotic hosts confers resistance to Zeocin™.
Note: Basic information on using Zeocin™ is described in this insert. For details including Zeocin™ structure and photographs of Zeocin™ treated cells, download the Zeocin™ manual from www.invitrogen.com.
Contents: 100 mg/ml solution in deionized, autoclaved water.
Shipping/Storage: Shipped on blue ice. Store at -20°C.
E. coli Selection: 25-50 μg/ml in low salt LB medium*
*(NaCl concentration should not exceed 5 g/liter.)
Yeast Selection: 50-300 μg/ml in YPD or minimal medium
Mammalian Cells Selection: 50-1000 μg/ml in suitable medium (varies with cell line).
Handling Zeocin™
- Always wear gloves, a laboratory coat, and safety glasses when handling Zeocin™ containing solutions.
- Zeocin™ is light sensitive. Store the antibiotic and plates or medium containing the antibiotic in the dark.
- Reduce the salt in bacterial medium and adjust the pH to 7.5 to keep Zeocin™ active as high ionic strength and acidity or basicity inhibit Zeocin™ activity.
- Store Zeocin™ at -20ºC and thaw on ice before use.
Zeocin™ Selection in E. coli
Host: Must not contain the Tn5 transposon (i.e. TOP10, DH5, DH10).
Medium: Use Low Salt LB Medium (10 g Tryptone, 5 g NaCl, and 5 g Yeast Extract) at pH 7.5 to prevent inactivation of Zeocin™.
Selection: Use 25-50 μg/ml of Zeocin™ for selection in E. coli.
Zeocin™ Selection in Yeast
Yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia pastoris
Medium: YPD with 1 M sorbitol (electroporated cells); YPD or minimal plates (chemically transformed cells). Test the medium adjusted to pH values ranging from 6.5-8.0 and select the pH that allows you to use lowest Zeocin™ concentration.
Transformation Method: Use electroporation, lithium cation protocols, or EasyComp™ Kits. Do not use spheroplasting for yeast transformation with Zeocin™ containing plasmids as it results in complete cell death.
Selection: Use 50-300 μg/ml of Zeocin™, depending on the yeast strain, and media pH and ionic strength. Perform a kill curve to determine the lowest Zeocin concentration required to kill the untransformed host strain.
Note: Allow the cells to recover for 1 hour in YPD medium after transformation. To obtain efficient Zeocin™ selection, plate at low cell densities (use 10, 25, 50, 100, and 200 μl of transformation reaction).
Determining Zeocin™ Sensitivity
- Plate or split a confluent plate to obtain cells at ~25% confluency. Prepare a set of 8 plates. Grow cells for 24 hours. Remove the medium.
- Add medium with varying Zeocin™ concentrations (0, 50,100, 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 μg/ml) to each plate.
- Replenish selective medium every 3-4 days and observe the percentage of surviving cells. Select the concentration that kills the majority of cells within 1-2 weeks.
Selecting Stable Integrants
- Transfect your cell line and plate onto 100 mm culture plates. Include a sample of untransfected cells as a negative control.
- After transfection, wash the cells once with 1X PBS and add fresh medium to the cells.
- Forty-eight to 72 hours after transfection, split the cells using various dilutions into fresh medium containing Zeocin™ at the pre-determined concentration required for your cell line. To have a better chance at identifying and selecting foci, we recommend using different cell dilutions.
- Feed the cells with selective medium every 3-4 days until cell foci are identified.
- Pick and transfer colonies to 96- or 48-well plates. Grow cells to near confluence before expanding to larger wells or plates.
Selection Tip
If your cells are more resistant to Zeocin™, split cells into medium containing Zeocin™ and incubate the cells at 37ºC for 2-3 hours to let cells attach. Place the cells at 4ºC for 2 hours. Remember to buffer the medium with HEPES. Return the cells to 37ºC. Incubating the cells at 4°C stops the cell division process for a short time, allowing Zeocin™ to act, resulting in cell death.
Maintaining Stable Cell Lines
- Maintain cells in the same Zeocin™ concentration used for selection
- Reduce the Zeocin™ concentration by half or to a concentration that just prevents growth of sensitive cells but does not kill them (refer to the kill curve experiment).


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Windows Vista
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New Features
- BitLocker
- Search integrated in operating system
- ReadyBoost
- SuperFetch
- Transactional NTFS (TxF)
- Transactional Registry (TxR)
- Shadow Volumes; the volume-based storage of the Volume Shadow Copy data
- $Recycle.Bin
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX)
- User Account Control (UAC)
File System
The file system used by Windows Vista is primarily NTFS.In Windows Vista, NTFS no longer tracks the Last Access time of a file by default. This feature can be enabled by setting the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate value to '0' in the Registry key
Note that this feature has been around since as early as Windows 2000 [1].
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From Brandeis University Athletics
Despite trailing 8-1 after two innings of play, the Brandeis University softball team battled back to force extra innings, where they pulled out a 12-11, 10-inning victory over Case Western Reserve University on the third day of the University Athletic Association (UAA) tournament.
The Judges, who went to extra innings for the third time in five UAA contests, improve to 8-3 overall, 2-3 in the UAA. Case suffered its first conference loss and falls to 9-4, 4-1 UAA.
After Brandeis got on the board in the first on senior Melissa Nolan's (Windsor, Conn./Loomis Chaffee) RBI double to left-center field, the Spartans answered with five in the bottom of the frame. Case RF Ashley Parello provided the big blow with a grand slam, her third home run of the tournament. They increased the lead with three more runs – two of which were unearned – on four hits, taking an 8-1 edge into the third.
The Judges quickly regrouped, getting a big chunk of the runs back in the third when sophomore Danielle Novotny (Milford, N.J./Delaware Valley) hit a grand slam of her own to knock CWRU starter Rebecca Taylor from the game. It was the first career home run for Novotny, making the score 8-5.
Case added single runs in the bottom of the third and fourth innings to go ahead, 10-5, but Brandeis rallied again in the top of the fifth. Rookie SS Liana Moss (Agoura Hills, Calif./Agoura) homered to left with one away, her fourth round-tripper of the season. One out later, sophomore 3B Madison Sullivan (Dover, N.H./Dover) doubled and senior 2B Leah McWilliams (Billerica, Mass./Billerica Memorial) singled. Sophomore catcher Jordan Buscetto (Old Lyme, Conn./Old Lyme) followed with an RBI double, and junior CF Amanda Genovese (North Haven, Conn./North Haven) followed with the team's fourth extra-base hit of the inning, a two-run double to right-center field, bringing the deficit to 10-9.
Brandeis rookie Melissa Soleimani (Somerset, Mass./Somerset Berkley Regional) retired the Spartans in order for the first time in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Judges a chance to tie the game. Case brought Rebecca Taylor back to the circle to start the sixth. With one out, after getting the first out, Taylor hit Nolan with a pitch. Another pop-up later, Novotny singled up the middle to move Nolan into scoring position. Pinch runner Nathasha Quiroz (Bronx, N.Y./IN-Tech Acad.) came in for Nolan, and when Sullivan singled to right, Quiroz scampered home to even the game at 10-10.
The tie was short-lived, however, as Parello struck again. Facing Judge rookieSamantha Wroblweski (Bronx, N.Y. / IN-Tech Acad.), Parello led off by belting her fourth home run in the last two games to right field, tying the UAA record for homers in a single tournament.
Not willing to go quietly, the Judges rallied again in the seventh. McWilliams led off with a bunt single. After a strikeout, Genovese bunted McWilliams into scoring position. Sophomore 2B Madison Gagnon (Westlake Village, Calif./Westlake) then drew a walk to put two runners on with two out. Junior RF Anya Kamber(Sammamish, Wash./Skyline) grounded a ball to second, but it was booted, allowing McWilliams to score another tying run.
Case got another hit off Wroblewski with one out in the bottom of the seventh. Spartan Catcher Amy Taylor singled up the middle with one away, but Sullivan started a nifty 5-4-3 double play to get the Judges into their third extra-inning game of the UAA tournament.
Both teams went in order in the eighth and ninth, getting to the international tie-breaker rule in the top of the 10th. Brandeis benefited from having Genovese placed on second to start the frame, and she promptly stole third, her 15th swipe of the season. After Gagnon grounded to short too hard to get the run home, Kamber also hit an infield grounder and Genovese hesitated but slid around the tag at the plate for the go-ahead run. Brandeis was unable to add to the lead, but Wroblewski got a strikeout and two grounders to second to close out the game and earn the win.
In a game when the teams combined for 23 runs and 31 hits, including a UAA-record tying 10 for extra bases, it was Wroblewski's five innings of relief that made the difference. After Case pounded out 16 hits in the first five innings, she allowed just two hits over the last five, striking out three and walking one. The earned run she allowed on Parello's home run was her first since the Judges' first game of the season, a span of 20 innings. Wroblewski improved to 4-1 with the win, and lowered her ERA in UAA games to 0.33.
Offensively for the Judges, Novotny (2-5, HR, 4 RBI) and Genovese (2-5, 2 RBI, 2 R, 2B, SB) were the leaders, though six players had multiple hits, 10 different players scored runs, and seven drove them in.
Case's Rebecca Taylor started and finished the game, though three other relievers made an appearance. Taylor tossed six innings and allowed five hits, four runs (two earned), with two Ks and a walk. She falls to 2-3 on the season. Parello was the story of the day for the Spartans at the plate, going 3-5 with five RBI, three runs scored, two homers and a double. She finished the day, including a win over ninth-ranked Emory, with four homers and nine RBI.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Frozen" Disney princesses were toppled from the top spot on the weekly Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday by the latest installment of the "Now That's What I Call Music!" compilation franchise.
The 50th edition of "Now...Music!," which features hit songs from Pharrell, Katy Perry and Bruno Mars, sold 153,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
The "Frozen" movie soundtrack from Walt Disney Co, which has dominated the Billboard 200 chart this year with 13 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, dropped to No. 2 this week with 99,000 in sales.
Other new albums in the top 10 this week include country singer Hunter Hayes at No. 3 with "Storyline," Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan at No. 4 with "Shine On," and rapper Tech N9ne's collaborative album "Strangeulation" at No. 5.
Rap group Atmosphere's "Southsiders" debuted at No. 8, and guitarist Carlos Santana's Latin rock band Santana entered at No. 9 with "Corazon."
For the week ended May 11, overall album sales totaled 4.1 million, down 17 percent from the comparable week in 2013, Billboard said.
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June 10, 2011 - The United Way of Northern New Jersey and Montclair State University have joined forces to collect and distribute food and personal care items to needy area families. Beginning on June 11, when students will set up drop-off locations in the area, and running through June 21, students will collect items for distribution through the First Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Montclair. Summer is an ideal time to bring attention to reduced availability of food pantry supplies, when there is less attention paid to community needs.
Each year the United Way celebrates June 21 as a Day of Action, which focuses volunteers in a day of service that contributes to community needs. June 21 is the summer solstice, and the longest day of the year, making it ideal for a day filled with outreach and giving that positively impacts local families and friends in need. This is the first year that Montclair State has participated in the United Way's Day of Action. It is being organized by an Environment, Education & Community Outreach (EECO) AmeriCorps student, who coordinates the Montclair State Community Service and Volunteer Resource Center, located in the Center for Student Development in the Student Center.
Montclair State students will collect unexpired, non-perishable food and personal care items to be distributed through the First Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Montclair (address below). They will begin setting up drop-off points throughout Montclair, and will have a drop off on the Montclair State campus in the Center for Student Involvement, Student Center Annex 104.
The Service-Learning and Community Engagement program helped promote and organize this event, which brings together students and community partners in a joint effort to draw attention to a critical community need.
Examples of necessary items:
- Dried pasta
- Special K cereal (any healthy cereals)
- Peanut Butter/Jelly
- Canned tuna
- Mac & Cheese
- Instant oatmeal
- Toilet paper
- Toothpaste
- Pasta sauce
- Canned vegetables
- Canned soup
- Baby food
- Soap
- Toothbrush
To make a donation, stop by the Center for Student Involvement on campus, or the First Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Montclair, or be on the lookout for other local drop-off points as students designate them beginning Saturday, June 11. You may continue to make donations by contacting the Service-Learning and Community Engagement program at 973-655-6831.
Montclair State University
Center for Student Involvement
1 Normal Ave
Student Center Annex 104
First Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Montclair
15 Elmwood Ave
Montclair, NJ 07042-4507


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The Sleepy Eye Post 7 Legion played host to the Upper Midwest Tournament on July 5-7 and went 0-for-4 on the weekend.
The Sleepy Eye Post 7 Legion played host to the Upper Midwest Tournament on July 5-7 and went 0-for-4 on the weekend.
The first game was on July 5 against Post 307 Renner, S.D., where Sleepy Eye lost 2-12 in a quick five innings. Sleepy Eye struggled on the field, as the team committed five errors which hurt it from the start. Mike Zinniel pitched four innings and threw one strike but allowed seven hits and nine runs.
David Surprenant led Sleepy Eye at bat, going 1-for-2 with two RBI, but it wasn't enough to catch up to the power house hitting team of Post 307.
Another grim scenario played out for Sleepy Eye a few hours later, when the team took on Wayzata. The only recorded hit for Sleepy Eye was from John Mangen, and four errors were made on the field which Wayzata took advantage of.
Sean Mathiowetz threw six strikeouts over six innings to lead Sleepy Eye on the mound, but also allowed seven hits and six runs. Wayzata won 6-0 after seven innings.
Sleepy Eye woke up at bat for game three on July 6 when they faced Pierre, S.D. Brandon Helget and Matt Schroepfer had two RBI apiece to lead Sleepy Eye.
It was a hard fought battle on both sides as each team showed great determination to win. So much in fact, the game went into 11 innings. Sleepy Eye tied the game in the seventh inning but couldn't manage to get the key hits in order to win. Sleepy Eye lost 5-7 in their closest game of the tourney. Mike Hirsch threw two strikeouts, three walks, six hits, and three runs over eight innings in the game.
Finally, Sleepy Eye lost 0-3 against Eastview for the team's fourth and final game of the weekend. All three runs for Eastview didn't come until the sixth inning after Sleepy Eye made two errors which allowed Eastview to get the 3-0 lead. Mitch Neid threw an excellent game, only allowing three walks, one hit, three runs, and no earned runs. Meanwhile, Mangen went 2-for-3 at bat with one double.
Although Sleepy Eye lost four games in a row, the team redeemed itself on July 8 when it defeated New Ulm Gold 7-3 on the road.
Sleepy Eye scored a run in the first inning to start the game, but a two-RBI hit in the bottom of the second gave New Ulm a 2-1 lead. Meanwhile, Sleepy Eye's Jordan Anderson struggled on the mound and gave New Ulm another run after hitting a player and walking another.
But Anderson eventually controlled his pitching and the rest of his team controlled the offense. Sleepy Eye scored multiple runs in the fifth inning and didn't stop there. The team scored even more later in the game after a two-RBI double by Brandon Helget and a hit by Neid. Sleepy Eye moves its record to 6-4 overall.


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As promised, here are the highlights from my week in Sonoma. Two oldies and two newer places.
Juanita Juanita
Practically everyone who's lived in Sonoma for more than a decade has a story about the original Juanita, the mysterious, somewhat scandalous proprietor who first opened a restaurant in Sausalito in the 1960s, then moved to Glen Ellen before landing on Arnold Drive in Sonoma in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Juanita is long gone but the restaurant is still some of the best Mexican food in Sonoma, beginning with their addictive, fresh chips and salsa. The al pastor, prepared on the traditional spit, is the highlight. The pork is crispy with a good flavor but not overwhelmingly seasoned, you can get it on tacos or, covered with salsa verde in the chile verde.
Juanita Juanita
19114 Arnold Drive
Sonoma, CA 95476
(707) 935-3981
The Girl & The Fig
The Girl & The Fig, which first opened in nearby Glen Ellen in the 1990s, is probably one of the restaurants most responsible for making Sonoma a culinary destination. There were good restaurants before it, including the Sonoma Hotel's restaurant which previously occupied the current Girl & the Fig location on the Sonoma Plaza, but the Girl was one of the first to win wider regional, and even national acclaim.
The formula has changed very little since those early days, though there are more figs on the menu (I remember thinking on one of my first visits that the menu was surprisingly unfiggy) and they have a bit of an absinthe obsession (I appreciate the sparing use of absinthe in cocktails but any more than a half ounce and the drink just tastes like absinthe). Still, the duck confit is some of my favorite anywhere with a crispy but not greasy skin and moist meat, there is a nice selection of local cheese and home made charcuteries (though they could be more generous with the charctuerie) and both the chocolate desserts and those using seasonal fruit are very well done. The Girl & the Fig chocolate pot du creme is one of my favorite desserts anywhere and I regularly make it on holidays, but the night I was there they had a wonderful chocolate caramel tart with a few crystals of salt on top. Equally delicious was a stone fruit crumble with a creme fraiche ice cream.
It may not be as innovative as it once was, but the Girl is still one of the best dining choices in town.
The Girl & the Fig
110 West Spain Street
Sonoma, CA 95476
(707) 938-3634
La Michoacana
This ice cream/paleta stand on Highway 12 in Boyes Hot Springs was our top new find of the trip (well, new to me; it's been there for two years now). Sonoma never really had great ice cream, but this shop changes all that. The familiarly named Mexican stand has creamy ice cream with punchy flavors, smooth ice cream pops and popsicles with fresh fruit. The ice cream flavors included caramel, Mexican vanilla, guanabana and many others, all tasting of fresh ingredients and not too sweet. My favorite, though, was the chongo, a Mexican custard with a mild, sweet flavor and little custard bits in it.
Along with ice cream there is a freezer full of what I'd estimate to be about twenty varieties of of ice cream bars, popsicles and frozen bananas. The ice cream bars were particularly good. The strawberries and cream bar tasted intensely of strawberry, like a great, creamy strawberry ice cream (the bar was, in fact, better than their regular strawberry ice cream). I would have liked to try more, like the arroz con leche and the rum raisin. Popsicles included chili with mango or pineapple and other fresh fruit combinations. And to top it off, they have a selection of fresh aguas frescas.
In one week, I visited this place three times. It's a keeper.
La Michoacana
18495 Hwy 12
Sonoma, CA 95476
(707) 938-1773
Studebaker Cheesecake
Studebaker Cheesecake has been making cheesecakes for sale at local grocery stores for a few years now, but just a few months ago, they opened their first retail shop on West Napa Street. The cheesecakes are the specialty, and they are quite nice, but the highlight of this shop was the small selection of baked goods. I loved the huge scones using fresh, seasonal fruit (raspberry and blueberry when I was there), dusted with sugar, rich and moist. The chocolate chip cookie was another winner, a whole wheat cookie made with Valrhona chocolate, made fresh that morning. I'm keeping my eye on this place.
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248 West Napa Street
Sonoma, California 95476
(707) 933-9224
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Sonoma Highlights
2 comments:
Awesome lineup, and a great set of reviews. I'd love to visit La Michoacana sometime...
Still living vicariously through you!
- July 11, 2011 at 5:57 PM
- sku said...
Thanks Sam. If you ever make it out to California, we will hook you up!
- July 11, 2011 at 7:29 PM
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Few physicians and probably fewer patients are happy with the fee-for-service payment model for medical care, but a lot of work needs to be done to initiate any kind of change. That's according to panelists who spoke during a recent forum on primary care hosted by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care.
Robert Berenson, M.D., an Urban Institute fellow, discusses the flaws in the fee-for-service payment system for medical care.
The forum addressed issues related to physician payment that ranged from the continued emphasis on fee-for-service to alternative care models and the overall complexity of primary care.
Robert Berenson, M.D., a fellow at the Urban Institute, discussed the continued reliance on the fee-for-service model and how the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee's (RUC's) determination of Medicare payments for services is distorting outcomes of care. Berenson said the committee's methods are flawed because the payment system rewards tests and procedures over evaluation methods and patient results.
Although family physicians and others remain highly critical of the RUC's methods, Berenson is skeptical about the potential for success with alternative payment models, saying that they adhere too closely to the existing fee structure.
"If we're going to move to a new payment model, then let's move to a new model," he told AAFP News after the forum. "A lot of these tests are being built on the fee-for-service model, and that's not a recipe for success."
Story highlights
- At a recent health policy forum, one policy analyst said alternative health care payment models must diverge from fee-for-service to succeed.
- Another speaker reported on CMS-supported demonstration projects that support comprehensive primary care efforts to reduce costs.
- Finally, a researcher studying the relative complexity of medical care provided by different specialists related his findings, including that primary care is one of the most complex medical specialties.
Berenson noted a lack of political will to take on powerful medical subspecialties that are unlikely to accept lower reimbursement rates for the sake of lower health care costs.
He supports a capitated payment system, which has been widely used in California and parts of Massachusetts without negative results. Other payment models are being explored, but thus far, their outcomes still are unclear. Insurance companies will be using fee-for-service for the next five years, Berenson predicted.
Although some alternative payment methods have left out select specialties, a new payment model is likely to provide some semblance of equity for primary care, Berenson noted. "Eventually, there will be some redistribution of revenue to primary care," he said.
Innovative Care Models
In an attempt to identify new ways to deliver and pay for primary care, CMS is sponsoring demonstration projects nationally with the hope of achieving better care at lower cost.
Jay Crosson, Ph.D., a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, is evaluating two of those projects. One effort, the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, is being undertaken by CMS and 31 other insurers to determine if a more comprehensive patient care model in primary care can improve health, lower costs and enhance patient satisfaction with care.
In this initiative, CMS pays each of the nearly 500 primary care practices involved in the project an average of $20 per month for each Medicare patient. The private insurers in the effort offer similar monthly payments. A shared savings program is being developed whereby practices that can demonstrate cost reductions will receive a portion of the savings.
The practices must change their methods of providing care to remain eligible in the program. Practices are required to improve access to care, provide care management to higher-risk patients, and offer care coordination across the medical community. Patient surveys are used on an ongoing basis to capture feedback.
Besides monthly payments, the practices receive technical assistance from CMS contractors, online learning programs, use of a collaborative website where best practices are shared and feedback from insurers.
For patients with more severe health conditions, CMS is testing another concept called "Independence at Home" that provides comprehensive care for patients with multiple chronic conditions. To be eligible to participate, patients must have two or more chronic conditions, have received rehabilitation and had a hospital admission within the past year.
"They are very ill patients who are unable to get out of their home and cannot go to a doctor without great cost or effort," Crosson said.
The Independence at Home demonstration is targeted to a much smaller group of patients. There is no upfront payment to practices, but they are eligible to receive incentive payments if they reach at least three of six designated quality measures that are tied to hospital readmission rates and inhome treatment.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act included provisions that support demonstration projects and provides support for programs that are shown to be effective in delivering better care and reducing costs.
Crosson said it is too early to determine whether overall health costs are lower or if care is improved. An initial progress report on both studies will be presented to CMS by the end of 2014.
True Complexities of Care
Primary care is often considered the most basic form of medicine. The notion of its simplicity may explain, in part, why primary care services are valued at a rate lower than that of other specialties. But one researcher measured complexity among various specialties and found that the opposite is the case: Primary care, based on a range of factors such as treatment variables, is more complex than surgery or oncology.
David Katerndahl, M.D., from the University of Texas Health Science Center, is conducting a study for the Graham Center on the relative complexity of various medical disciplines. The general assumption is that surgery and cardiology are the most complex, but Katerndahl's findings reveal that it is, in fact, family medicine and internal medicine that hold this distinction. Patient encounters with family physicians are much more diverse than visits with an oncologist.
Acknowledging the difficulty of ranking medical fields based on a qualitative standard, Katerndahl included several factors while conducting the research. Using a range of measurements he categorized as "inputs," such as reasons for a physician visit, examinations, diagnosis and testing, Katerndahl uses a "complexity burden" as another measuring unit. Family and internal medicine patient encounters are three times more complex than ophthalmology, orthopedics or psychiatry.
In his final rankings, family medicine and dermatology increased in complexity. Most other specialties remained the same, except for nephrology, which was graded as significantly less complex. The research has not been published yet.
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Apple Inc's Greg Christie, who led the company's "human interface" team that designs software for its products, is leaving the company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an internal email.
Apple did not immediately respond to an email from Reuters seeking comment.
Christie helped develop many of the functions of the iPhone, and his name is listed on the patent for the "slide to unlock" function. That patent is one of more than a dozen at issue in Apple's lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, now being heard in a federal court in California.
Christie is listed as an inventor on nearly 100 Apple patents and has 31 more applications pending with the patent office, the newspaper said.
Christie's departure was first reported by Apple enthusiast website 9to5Mac, which said that Christie's upcoming exit stems from a falling out with Senior Vice President Jonathan Ive.


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by Hugh Gilmore
Editor' Note: Part one appeared in the May 5 edition.
About two months ago a local realtor called me in relation to my "old & rare" bookselling business. She represented a widow of a year who was selling a house in Villanova. Her client's husband had been a prominent scholar who'd owned thousands of books that now had to be sold before she could move.
Might I help?
I said yes and we hung up, agreeing that the professor's widow would call me in about a month. I started worrying immediately. It was entirely possible that, despite my desire to be helpful, the books would be of no commercial value to me. I might not want to buy them, thus stalling the sale of the house.
For 11 years I ran a bookshop here in Chestnut Hill. When I had the shop I could always accommodate a fresh infusion of several thousand books of nearly all kinds. But I closed the store two years ago and now operate out of an office and storage space in my home. Sometimes it gets quite crowded with books. I must be selective in what I buy.
I wondered what kind of books the professor had kept at home. I Googled him and was greatly impressed, slightly awed, and a bit worried. His faculty photo showed a handsome 68-year-old man with a full head of hair only partly grayed. His smile looked confident and friendly. True to his occupation, he also looked like he couldn't wait for the photographer to finish so he could take off his tie and get back to work.
He'd held an endowed chair at the University of Pennsylvania, being the E. Dale Saunders Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He was also a professor in the Religious Studies Department, a poet, and a philosopher.
Quite impressive, but I still did not know what kind of books I'd be seeing. More often than not, people in the teaching professions have large libraries, but not necessarily saleable ones. As scholars should, they buy books for reading, not as investments. They don't mind if their books look worn-out from being read so often.
Sometimes, though, professors keep extensive professional libraries at work, while they also build a complementary rare book library at home. If that was the case here, could I competently handle a possibly rare and valuable library of works related to Asian history, culture, and philosophy? I couldn't know till I saw them.
Time did its slow/fast magic and the much-anticipated viewing day arrived. The door of the modest split-level ranch home opened and I met the professor's widow. A lovely, gracious woman, she'd been born in Japan but is thoroughly comfortable speaking English and teaching Japanese in a suburban high school. I saw a small cluster of shoes in the entranceway, so I removed mine and followed her through the sparely furnished house up to the professor's study.
My first impression: "No way." Too new, and too many of them. Probably 2500 books, mostly trade paperbacks or hardbacks with dust jackets. Shiny, neat, organized, published in the last thirty years or so. Without a store any longer, the only selling outlet would be the Internet and the Internet eats up this kind of book, originally priced at 15 to 30 dollars, and spits them out "used" for a few dollars each. It's very hard to make money from modern books. And the hauling was equally daunting. Over 100 boxes of books. And steps. And a long walkway down to the carport.
But then, like all booksellers everywhere, I thought, "Well, I came this far, I may as well roll up my sleeves and look for a few books that would justify the time and effort it took to get here."
Nearly all the books were in excellent condition. Their subjects included Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Sanskrit dictionaries, poetry anthologies, literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, and sociology. Most of them, fortunately, were printed in English. (Foreign language books are very hard to sell in America, even on the Internet.) About 10 percent were written in Japanese. I did not see anything I suspected was a rare book, though one never knows.
I kept going. A closet's top shelves held stacks of books, mostly paperbacks. Upstairs, I saw four more bookcases. Downstairs, the dining room housed another large case. All all levels of the house the books were modern.
I returned to the study. I was fairly certain this was not a library I wanted to buy for commerce. Common sense told me to leave.
And yet, an urge, a strong feeling I couldn't define, had been tugging at my heart the whole time I'd been there. I decided to give the library a second, slower look.
To be continued.
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