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About two weeks ago, it was all but a forgone conclusion that the Murry Bergtraum girls' varsity high school basketball team would capture an eleventh consecutive PSAL Girls' Varsity Class AA city championship.
Although nothing is ever certain in sports, it was difficult to argue that any team could possibly challenge a Murry Bergtraum team which hadn't lost in nearly three years, including a 20-0 start this season that extended the Lady Blazer's winning streak to an incredible 73 straight games.
However, that was all before Murry Bergtraum's February 11th meeting with The Manhattan Center For Science & Math and the Lady Rams' China Crosby, in a Bronx/Manhattan Class AA regular season game at the Murry Bergtraum Gymnasium.
Crosby, Manhattan Center's leading scorer, scored 16 points and grabbed 9 rebounds to lead Manhattan Center to a shocking 61-54 upset of Murry Bergtraum.
The Lady Blazers (20-1) still won the Bronx/Manhattan Class AA regular title by a game over the Lady Rams (20-4), but in the bigger picture, Manhattan Center's victory served notice that maybe Murry Bergtraum's road to yet another PSAL city title isn't as automatic as previously thought. Crosby is a big reason for that sudden change in thinking.
An athletic 5-foot-5 senior guard who can shoot the three and go either right or left with a nice ability to change speeds, Crosby is considered one of the top point guards in the nation for the class of 2009, and was named a MacDonald's All-American last week.
Upon graduation from high school, the talented Crosby will remain One To Watch as she plays next year for the University of Virginia. But, before that, now that they've stopped Murry Bergtraum's streak, Crosby's Lady Rams are also ones to keep an eye on in the 2009 PSAL Class AA playoffs.
Top-seeded Murry Bergtraum awaits a second-round matchup on March 3rd with either sixteenth-seeded Cardozo or 17th-seeded Madison. Meanwhile, Crosby and third-seeded Manhattan Center will also play a second-round game on March 3rd against either fourteenth-seeded Clinton or nineteenth-seeded Frederick Douglas.


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Wamidan, Wabash's World Music Ensemble, celebrated its sixth anniversary with another stunning concert Wednesday night in the Salter Concert Hall at the Fine Arts Center.
Click here to see photographs from the performance.
Led by artistic director James K. Makubuya, Wamidan again performed a variety of music, from East African folk dances to the popular South African Gumboot dance.
Joining Wamidan in concert was the Whole Person Ministry Steel Orchestra, which performed awe-inspiring music from the Caribbean on a range of steel drum-inspired instruments. Members of the orchestra even invited the audience on stage while they performed the distinctive calypso sounds.
And once again, the sons of Wabash faculty stole the limelight with a performance on the akogo (thumb piano). Brian Thompson, son of mathematics professor Peter Thompson, and Robin Morillo, son of history professor Stephen Morillo, played Serindan, a very difficult piece of music from northeastern Uganda.

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The LLETZ (Large Loop Excision of the Transformation Zone) is a surgical excision, which should be about 90% effective in clearing up the abnormality. We typically recommend waiting until one or two normal Paps are achieved after treatment before attempting pregnancy.


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Establishing cultures of toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis species and their prey
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The dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis is of significant scientific and social importance. Many species in this genus produce toxins that accumulate in shellfish and cause diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) – a syndrome that heavily impacts public health and fisheries resources in many parts of the world. Interestingly, there is a large disparity in the areas of the world that are affected – while North America is virtually free of this poisoning syndrome, it is a major problem in Europe, South America, and Asia. Key aspects of Dinophysis physiology, toxicity, biogeography, and genetics have remained intractable due to the inability to grow and maintain these organisms in laboratory cultures. However, as a result of a recent breakthrough, this obstacle has been partly removed - cultures of a Woods Hole strain of Dinophysis have been growing at high rates in the PI's laboratory for over one year at this writing. The key was the discovery that a three-stage culture system was needed – a cryptophyte alga is grown in unialgal culture and then is fed to the ciliate Myrionecta, which is in turn fed to the Dinophysis cells. Now that cultures are possible, a host of questions can be addressed, one of the most important being the reason behind the general lack of toxicity of North American strains of Dinophysis compared to other parts of the world. Some obvious experiments are needed – to grow North American Dinophysis with ciliates and cryptophytes from toxic areas of the world, and vice versa – to grow toxic strains of Dinophysis (from Europe, for example) on ciliates and cryptophytes from Woods Hole. To explore this issue, the PI has submitted two proposals to NSF that have been declined for one major reason – our inability to demonstrate that we can culture toxic Dinophysis strains from outside the US. In effect, we have one part of the experimental system needed to advance this research, but lack the full complement of cultures. In the interim, we have spent considerable time and effort having plankton tow material shipped to us from Ireland, Sweden, and Chile, in hopes that the organisms we need to isolate will survive, but this has not worked. The NSF panel was correct – it is not a trivial undertaking. We thus propose a modest project that will provide funds for a member of the PI's laboratory to travel to Europe to spend several weeks isolating cells and ciliates, after which the isolates can be carefully transported to the US. Once we have these cultures established, major funding from NSF is highly likely. There is thus considerable leveraging potential.
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When I gave the talks that (at least I suspect) kicked butt... They were all short on data and they only had one idea. ... I intentionally pared back on the data and the overarching research agenda. I just wanted to speak to an idea and wasn't too concerned about how it made it me look. And, it turned out, the result was that people thought I gave a really good talk.
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"Never give in: Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -Winston Churchill
So the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is going to stick with the 11-hour driving time limit and 34-hour restart provisions that got thrown out by the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit back on July 24. Not much of a surprise there, for the agency long thought these two parts of the revised hours of service (HOS) legislation it put in place back in 2004 worked well for truckers. And it's prepared to go to the mat for them, too.
"The people who have litigated in the past against these rules will most likely do so again," John Hill, FMCSA's chief administrator, said in a phone conference with reporters this week. "We are prepared to go to court to defend these rules."
And to court they shall be going, I guarantee you, for the rhetoric is already thick and heavy in the air over this.
"FMCSA is continuing to allow large trucks to roll like time bombs on our highways," said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, in a press release responding to the agency's decision. "With its action today, the administration has shown that it is willing to risk carnage on the highways to boost the bottom line for big corporations. We urge the agency to draft a rule based on science instead of industry politics - a rule that will protect truck drivers and those of us who share the road with them. To do otherwise is the height of insanity."
"It's clear the Bush administration has more loyalty to its corporate supporters than to the men and women who actually drive on our roads," said James Hoffa, the Teamsters' general president, in a similar statement. "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in particular is showing that it is held captive by the trucking industry."
OK, so we all know these rules are incredibly divisive ... but are they truly unsafe? At the end of the day, do they make more sense than the old rules?
I asked a couple of longtime industry veterans this question and here are some of their thoughts.
"In regard to highway safety, while I don't believe the rules will do anything to make the industry less safe, more needs to be done by both trucking management and their customers to encourage practices that will ensure drivers are better rested," said David Sparkman, a veteran journalist and public relations expert that's covered trucking for decades. "That should be a factor for consideration at a time when more exacting demand-driven supply chains are rapidly reshaping drivers' daily reality."
So I looked at some of the safety statistics compiled by the Feds used to support their contention that the 11-hour drive time limit and 34-restart provisions don't lead to unsafe driving conditions.
For starters, truck-involved fatalities decreased 4.7% last year - from 5,240 in 2005 to 4,995 in 2006, the largest percentage drop in truck-involved fatalities since 1992 - and the number of truck-involved-crash injuries decreased by almost 2,000 in 2005 and dropped another 8,000 in 2006. Over the last seven years, the fatality rate per 100 million miles dropped 13% - so at a time when trucks are logging more and more miles on the rate, fewer people are being killed.
Bob Inderbitzen, another industry veteran and long-time safety expert, added that there are a lot more positives than negatives in these revised rules - positives that many are ignoring.
"The best change is that you can no longer abuse drivers and put them off the clock even though they are still responsible for the vehicle - waiting in line, waiting to unload, etc.," he told me. "We are also closer now to a 24-hour clock which matches the circadian rhythm of human beings [14 on and 10 off] and I also like the 34-hour restart since it allows a 'weekend effect' of two full rest/sleep periods that also ... allows you to bring a driver home after a restart."
Inderbitzen also believes that safety rates are improving precisely because of the HOS change. "You have to communicate with drivers, run some training sessions, provide logbook examples, and generally pay more attention to them than you might have been doing," he explained. "Even an owner-operator had to study the changes, to see what effect they had on his/her business and adjust accordingly. All these things help to refocus on safety and take people out of their routines and comfort zones. Call it a wake up call, if you will; but I believe awareness is heightened when you are adjusting to change."
He added that the benefits of this "wake up call" are being felt especially with new drivers. "If you select well, a new driver is usually safe for the first 18 months to two years while getting used to the new company, new routes, new products, new supervisors, and much more. Then, as things get more routine, accidents would start to happen," Inderbitzen said. "It is no accident - pun intended - that HAZMAT retraining is required every three years. It keeps drivers on their toes."
Here's what really gets me about the war of words and legal challenges over HOS today: the so-called safety advocates got 90% of what they wanted when the feds revised the regulations.
Under the old rules, a driver looked at a 15-hour workday that could be indefinitely extended by logging breaks. Now, they work a 14-hour day - one hour shorter than before - and the clock CANNOT be stopped. Drivers used to face five hours of non-driving on-duty time - now they only face three. They used to get just eight hours off; now they get 10, a full two hours more. But by just adding one extra hour of drive time, going from 10 to 11, the so-called safety groups are willing to throw the whole smash out and go back to the old rules - rules created way back in 1933, when they didn't even conduct sleep studies, much less envision global supply chains.
Many drivers aren't happy with the revised rules because they feel they can't take a break: that with the clock running, they need to drive or risk losing pay if they stop for a rest break. FMCSA's John Hill is aware of this - I asked him about it and he said the agency would address it once they get some sort of finality to the basic HOS rules. "We must have a final framework in place before we start looking at breaks," he told me. "So our focus right now is getting a final rule done."
Still, to my mind at least, the HOS rules the industry is working under right now seem to be working - they provide good building blocks from which improvements to the driver's working life can be made. "I know there has been a lot of rhetoric around one size not fitting all, but I think there is enough flexibility to satisfy most: You'll never get them all," said Inderbitzen. "And I agree - [fatality and injury] rates are going down. I don't think you can argue with success."


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Spot or Not: Airport Gap
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I gave a little info out about this gap awhile ago in a blog, and now its time for the real deal. This little spot has been dubbed the airport gap. Ya it isn't massive and maybe you might get arrested and interrogated by the FBI if you play here, but it is still a fun spot. The 2 foot drop allows you to think more about your tricks rather than worrying about sticking the drop. That means you can get pretty tech out here. When I fist saw this spot I figured it would be a perfect place for a beginner or someone who wants to lose their gap virginity just because of how easy the drop would of been. It turns out that beginners aren't the only ones who like these types of gaps. Im sure if you asked Reed Hansen how much fun he had im sure he'd tell you "it was fun with a capitol F". This spot is pretty much a canal that runs from the airport in to the narcoossee swamps. This is good because you can get a nice straight line. If you want more room you can just walk the rope out further. Simple as that. O did I mention the no trespassing sign and barbed wire fence you have to go around? It's like the ones you find at most winch spots except this one has greater consequences to pay up too if you get busted, just because its government property on the other side of that fence. We were asked nicely to leave the one time we were kicked out, and luckily we have been able to time it correctly every time since then and havnt had any problems.
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Très petite piscine , plage imbaignable que des rochers , bungalow tout juste propre , additions des repas est à se prendre la tête repas d, un côté boisson de l, autre. Je ne recommande pas
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1. Nice bungalows. We booked small fan bungalows but got big with ac. Ac was switch off coz we didn t pay for it. 2. Food - we ordered chicken burger. Very small and waiting time for one burger was 1 hour. So we never came back to this restaurant. 3. Owner very rude. We ve been toldthat as a guest of resort we gonna get cheaper price for hire scooter. Owner gave us price like everyelse. When we agreed he wants my passport I refused to leave with him. Also we ve been told that everywhere we need leave passport as a deposit, which was not true. We found rental company just around the corner and we left old different document as deposit. 4. Can t swim on the beach coz is lot of rocks.
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Lanta New Coconut Bungalow sets up right on Klong Khong beach at the central area of Ko Lanta.
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:: Fan Bungalow Bamboo - 6 Units ::
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This bungalow features a private balcony with a hammock and local hand-made furnishings. It is fitted with a fan and a private bathroom with hot shower. The bungalow is 26 sq.m. and it comes with a choice of double bed or two single beds. The balcony is facing the gardens.
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This air-conditioned bungalow features a private balcony with a hammock and local hand-made furnishings. It is fitted with a TV, fridge and a private bathroom with hot shower. The bungalow is 30 sq.m. and it comes with a choice of double bed or two single beds. The balcony is facing the gardens.
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This air-conditioned deluxe bungalow features a private balcony with a hammock and local hand-made furnishings. It is fitted with a TV, fridge and a private bathroom with hot shower. The bungalow is 35 sq.m. and it comes with a double bed and a single bed. The balcony is facing the gardens and the pool is just steps away.
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Although we haven't seen this problem at all on our 920, our HTC 8X on occasion has spontaneously reset. And judging by our forums, users of all Windows Phone 8 devices have had some stability issues, although it's a seemingly small percentage.
Now, according to All Microsoft, via All Things D, have said they think they have identified the issue hope to have a hot fix update deployed over-the-air next month. No details on exactly what the issue is but we can bet is has to do with memory allocation or execution of specific code that causes the phone to spontaneously restart itself.
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Many years ago our oldest son determined in second or third grade that there was no Santa Claus. This really was a terrific loss for him.
"Well," he concluded, "maybe there is no God either."
When I shared this with some Sisters of St. Margaret, they were horrified. But it is a little boy's reasoning things out. It shows an intellectual curiosity. At the time, I answered that some things last and others pass away.
I was thinking of Psalm 103, our days are like grass in that they pass away, "but the merciful goodness of the Lord endures forever … and his righteousness on children's children." Now I didn't cite chapter and verse but conveyed the general idea.
As I consider our son's loss of belief and intellectual struggle now at some remove, I recall the famous passage about love from Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians: "Love never ends … When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways … And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
What lasts or abides is not the wonderful story of Santa Claus but the even more wonderful story that reveals a love and goodness that is at the heart of all that is and is greater still, what we know as God.
More than 100 years ago a little girl named Virginia wrote in a letter to The Sun newspaper in New York, "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus." It would not have been current then as it is now in the 21st century to admit some of my little friends say that there is no God. This is not to belittle but to explore our children's intellectual curiosity.
One of the things I like about the Godly Play ministry at Saint Paul's is that it engages children's imagination and wonder. The reporter Francis Pharcellus' response in The Sun is still interesting. He begins with the importance of humility. We seek mastery over our universe and well we should but we need to take stock.
The writer Walker Percy advised, "We ought to stop, every once in a while, and ask ourselves who we think we are. I'm not just talking 'existentialism' here; I think I'm talking about moral self-examination – as in exactly who do you think you are?! There are times when we get so full of ourselves – we've lost all modesty."
Pharcellus, in his response to Virginia's query, next argues how dreary the world would be if all were reduced to sense and sight. We would lose the sense of mystery and transcendence that draws out the best in us and gives us joy.
I have been reading the French paleontologist and theologian Père Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I like to think of him as bilingual. He speaks the language of science and he speaks the language of mystery and can shift language to talk about the same thing expressing it more fully and understanding it more deeply.
There is nothing dreary in Teilhard's world. He writes, "After harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, (humanity) will have discovered fire."
Our children may struggle with loss at the passing of Santa Claus. In 1897 Virginia wanted proof. She wanted to see it in The Sun newspaper. Today, our children may want to see proof of God. But God is to be found more in relationship than in proof. We discover relationship in community.
God is the love that abides, the goodness that endures. God is the one before whom every once in a while we give ourselves moral pause. We may need more than one "language" to understand God and ourselves. We are that deeply layered.
We sit with our children and as the days draw near we ask, "Wait. Something is missing! I wonder what it could be?" A baby is born, the Christ child who embodies the love and goodness of God. Some things pass away, but the "merciful goodness of the Lord endures forever."
The Very Rev. E. Clifford Cutler is the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill.


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Blaise the Holy Martyr of Sebastia
February 11
Saint Blaise was Bishop of Sebastia. Divine grace, through which he healed the diseases of men and beasts, and especially of infants, made his name famous. He contested for the Faith under Licinius in the year 316. Saint Blaise is invoked for the healing of throat ailments.
Apolytikion of Hieromartyr Blaise
Fourth Tone
As a sharer of the ways and a successor to the throne of the Apostles, O inspired of God, thou foundest discipline to be a means of ascent to divine vision. Wherefore, having rightly divided the word of truth, thou didst also contest for the Faith even unto blood, O Hieromartyr Blaise. Intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.
Kontakion of Hieromartyr Blaise
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O unfading bloom, thou godly shoot and fruitful branch of Christ God the Vine, O holy and God-bearing Blaise, do thou fill with thy joy them that with faith observe thy memorial; and unceasingly intercede with Christ our Redeemer that we all be saved.
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Just moved to Berkeley a month ago, trying to find a hitting partner in the area. Evenings and weekends work best for me as I get back from work around 5:30 on most days.
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Hi Kevin. I'm actually hitting with someone else Monday. Does Tuesday or Wednesday work?
Hi Chris, I just moved in to berkeley and also am looking for a playing partner... are you down for Saturday around 2?
Hi Aaron, unfortunately I will be busy all weekend. Maybe sometime next week?
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- Books, books, and more books: I received review copies of two books. Best of Game Programming Gems is as it sounds, certainly cheaper than buying the seven books in this series, no real review needed (look inside). Game Engine Architecture is about just that, how to make a professional-grade game rendering system, from soup to nuts (you can look inside). Eberly's two books are the previous notable works in this area, but are quite different than this new volume. While they focus almost exclusively on algorithms, this book attempts to cover the whole task of developing an engine: what to use for source control, dealing with memory management and in-game profiling, input devices, SIMD, and many other practical topics. There is also algorithmic coverage of rendering, animation, collision detection and physics, among other areas. Naturally, the amount of information on each area is limited by page count (the book's a solid 860 pages), but in my brief skim it looks like most of the critical areas and concepts are touched on. You won't become an expert in any one area from this volume, but it looks like you'll have some reasonably deep understanding of the elements that go into making a game engine. Quite an impressive work, and I know of nothing else in this area that is so detailed. I hope I get a chance to read it (who am I fooling? Though I do wish I had the time…) – well, at the least, it's a place I'll first go if I want to learn about a topic in game development that I know little about. If you'd rather wax nostalgic about great game engines you have known, as well as what the state of the are is, this article is for you (oh, yeah, the author of this new book works at the company that made #3).
- Looking around for titles I'd like to look over at SIGGRAPH, I found these: Game Graphics Programming, Programming the Cell Processor: For Games, Graphics, and Computation, Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10, Ultimate Game Programming with DirectX, 2nd Ed., Advanced Game Programming, Game Coding Complete. Which all sort of sound the same (except for the Cell book), but I'd be happy to page through each and see if it looks promising.
- There's a worthwhile comparison of average vertex normal computation methods on the MeshLab blog. He gives the nod to Thürmer and Wüthrich's method. You can try each of the three using MeshLab itself.
- Sure, Spore didn't light the world on fire as many of us hoped, but a lot of cool technology was explored. Chris Hecker has a worthwhile rundown of some of the great stuff they worked on.
- There are some surprisingly affordable 3D stereolithography objects available on Shapeways. I bought Spiral Cage (tiny, but impressive, and so cheap), Clematis (looks delicate, but is quite springy), and Gyroid (pricier, but more sizeable and a fun form). It's great to see so many people exploring such areas; here's a detailed summary of resources. Even if you never plan on getting involved, the Flickr area dedicated to such techniques is worth a browse.
- This one amused me: a cloud computing company had a contest that was meant to show off Ruby and cloud computing strengths. It was won by people brute-forcing the problem with GPUs: 16 used by the first-place winner (plus 117 CPU cores, which had less performance total than the 16 GPUs), 4 by the second. Steve Worley and others talk about the GPU approach on the CUDA forum (his program, shared with the community there, was used to win second place).
- I admire the dedication.
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Miguel Torres said the Tristar Gym where he's gone for virtually every fight camp in his recent career is usually packed.
These days, it's a traffic jam. He estimates there are at least five fighters training for the upcoming UFC 154, which takes place Nov. 17 in Montreal, and another 10 fighting in gym head Firas Zahabi's new event 13 days later. Another 10 or 12 are competing elsewhere.
Hence, Zahabi wasn't available to corner Torres for his next fight, which takes place Saturday at World Series of Fighting 1.
Torres (40-5) meets Marlon Moraes (8-4-1) on the five-bout main card of the event, which takes place at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and airs on NBC Sports Network.
Torres said upcoming Bellator lightweight title challenger Rick Hawn will pick up the slack in addition to two trainers who have helped him every day in preparation for the fight.
Torres previously briefly trained with Moraes at the Blackzilians camp in South Florida. Moraes comes into the bout with two recent wins under his belt, and said winning is just a matter of staying smart.
Attempts at a more tactical approach to fighting have met with mixed results for the ex-WEC champ. Torres' UFC debut against Antonio Banuelos ended in a lackluster decision win, and he split a pair of bouts before suffering a vicious knockout against Michael McDonald, which preceded his exit from the promotion.
Torres has excelled at submissions earlier in his career, which might give him a basis to take Moraes to the ground. But the veteran said he doesn't necessarily need to do that to win.
"I'm going to stand with this guy," Torres on Thursday told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I'm going to fight smart. I just can't run and try the takedown. He knows I'm going to try to bring the fight to the ground. But for sure, I'm going to stand with him and engage him standing.
"(I'm going to be) a lot smarter than my last fight. I'm not going to bring out the old, crazy Miguel Torres. I've trained with him before, so I know where he's dangerous. So I've just got to avoid those things and be make him be impatient and press forward. Then he makes mistakes that way."
For more on World Series of Fighting 1, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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A major upgrade to the state's unemployment insurance computer system delayed benefits to thousands, but new information reveals the state knew about, yet underestimated, how many would be affected.
Officials overseeing California's unemployment insurance program were celebrating the completion of a major computer system upgrade over the Labor Day weekend when an employee in a Southern California call center sent headquarters a worrisome note.
"Don't pat yourself on the back don't congradulate (sic) yourself nor others," the employee, Adolfo Jimenez, told Employment Development Department Deputy Director Sabrina Reed in an email a day after new system went live.
The computer system, he said, "does not work."
Over the next month, a problem converting old unemployment claims into the state's new processing system would overwhelm EDD, delaying jobless benefits for nearly 150,000 Californians and focusing attention on yet another state information-technology breakdown.
Publicly, EDD apologized for the delay and said on its website that employees were "working around the clock and through the weekends" to process backlogged claims.
EDD may have been surprised by the severity of the problem, but officials knew the new computer system was vulnerable before they initiated the upgrade, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Bee in response to a California Public Records Act request. They badly miscalculated how many claimants would be affected by a glitch in the data-conversion process, going ahead with the upgrade because they believed it would affect only a small number of people whose claims they could approve by hand.
"The UI (unemployment insurance) program knew this situation would occur, however, they believed the number of claims that would be routed for manual processing would be much less, so they planned on handling it as a manual workload," Gail Overhouse, EDD's deputy director for information technology, told state IT officials in a Sept. 11 email. "Well, it turns out we have a high number of claims getting routed into the queue."
Overhouse estimated the number of affected claims at 270,000 to 300,000, though EDD officials said some of those claims had not been backlogged longer than 10 days, the period after which they would be considered delayed. Other people may have had more than one claim in the queue, and some claims were held for manual review for valid reasons.
The officials Overhouse notified appeared to recognize the potential fallout. The state has had difficulty for years with big technology projects, including the abandonment of a quarter-billion-dollar upgrade to the state payroll system earlier this year.
Carlos Ramos, director of the California Department of Technology, asked Overhouse, "Do you know if the Governor's communications people have been alerted to the media attention this has or may receive?"
By early October, when EDD announced it had finally cleared the backlog of claims, the state estimated 148,000 Californians had unemployment checks delayed at some point over the previous month, representing about 19 percent of all Californians receiving jobless benefits. The problem was so significant it skewed reporting of initial jobless claims by the U.S. Department of Labor, and residents complained of running out of money.
"Knowing there was a problem, why didn't they fix the problem ahead of time?" said Michael Krigsman, an industry analyst with Boston-based Asuret Inc. "It's an issue of poor judgment."
Loree Levy, an EDD spokeswoman, said tests conducted in preparation for the computer system-conversion over the Labor Day weekend suggested the problem would be manageable and that if any test suggested otherwise, the department would have backed off.
However, she said, "You can only simulate so much."
Confident in the new system, EDD administrators went into the Labor Day weekend in high spirits. On the Friday before the holiday, James Duckens, a project director, wrote EDD administrators in an email that "all is ready" for the conversion, and EDD Chief Deputy Director Sharon Hilliard replied, "Let the fun begin!!! Can't wait."
EDD officials had been working for months to overhaul the department's 30-year-old unemployment insurance system -- part of a nearly $188 million system upgrade designed to let Californians submit certifications for unemployment insurance benefits online or by telephone -- and the switchover appeared initially to be a success.
On Labor Day, Hilliard told colleagues in an email, "I think we all have very big smiles on our faces today," and she wrote to a former EDD director the next day that "the conversion weekend could not have gone better."
When state offices reopened on Sept. 3, Reed wrote unemployment insurance staff, "Today marks a major milestone in the history of the Employment Development Department (EDD) with the implementation of the California Unemployment Benefit Services (CUBS) system."
Problems with the computer system became apparent within days, but administrators initially minimized them. In an email to branch staff on Sept. 6, Reed said, "As expected, we have
experienced a few bumps, but nothing that cannot be overcome with time and commitment."
Ten days later, with reports of problems becoming increasingly negative and more public, Reed told branch employees that "while the CUBS system is working, there is a transition period that comes with any automation upgrade of this magnitude."
She said, "Unfortunately, the complaints and media focus continue."
It would be another eight days before the Brown administration ordered EDD to begin paying backlogged claims immediately, putting off a determination of whether they are eligible for payment.
But the governor's press office became involved earlier, including in an effort to "start pushing messages" about the effect of federal funding reductions on staffing at EDD, according to Levy.
In one email, Levy told Overhouse the governor's "Comms team" wanted cost estimates for employee overtime used to address the delayed payment backlog.
"They think the info will help us start pushing messages about the funding part of our problem," Levy said.
Jimenez, a front-line employee at a customer-service center in Buena Park, said in his email to Reed that the new computer system had left employees unable to open new claims or help claimants and that "everyone is having problems." He said he raised the issue in an email to Gov. Jerry Brown.
Reed forwarded the message to Maria Rutherford, a division chief.
"Who is this guy?!" Reed asked.
The next morning, EDD's Donald Owens apologized to Reed for Jimenez's email and said he had been "counseled regarding the nature of the email and the proper chain of command regarding concerns or issues with CUBS or any other work related items."
Owens said Jimenez had been asked how he was doing and "he stated he was fine with CUBS."
Jimenez did not respond to a request for comment, and Owens declined to comment.
As EDD moves forward with the new computer system, Owens told Reed, "the Buena Park Office morale is high."
This article originally appeared in The Sacramento Bee.


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Hello Everyone! It's me, Jennifer Overstreet from Gable House Quilting and Designs and I could not be more thrilled to introduce to you today my All Purpose Caddy. Why??? Because I absolutely love how it all turned out. Not to mention that this caddy was originally designed with long term hospital patients in mind. I will get more into that story on my blog. What is so great about this caddy is that it can be used for anyone and it has a wonderful bonus for any stitching crafter in mind. The removable Sand Pouch will not only keep the caddy in place it will also keep your pins sharp too! Got to love that! Another thing to love about this caddy is the pocket space. The front pocket has four slots to keep small electronic devices, eyeglasses or small stitchery items. The second pocket has two slots for note pads and what not. Lastly the third pocket is just one big opening for whatever you need. I happen to put my sketch book and Moda Bake Shop's Fresh Fabric Treats book in there! Pretty neat right?! Did I also mention that this tutorial is written for ambitious beginner and up? Well it is! So give it a go and have fun!
- One Charm pack – Reunion by Sweetwater
- 2 yards of #5476-13 -Reunion collection by Sweetwater
- 1/2 yard of Grip Stop or Jiffy Grip
- Foundation paper for paper piecing
- Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding
- A small funnel
- Children's play sand
- Painter's tape
- Safety pins
- Marking tools
- Batting and thread
Nothing fancy just patience and understanding.
This tutorial is very picture heavy. Plus it is also a quilt as you go project.
Cutting Directions:
From the Grip Stop or Jiffy Grip, you will need to cut the material 18 inches x 4 1/2 inches
From the Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding, measure and cut 3 pieces 18 inches long.
From the 2 yards of fabric you will need:
1- 7 1/2 inch x wof for the first pocket backing and second pocket front
2- 11 1/2 inch x wof for the second pocket backing and the third pocket's front and back.
Each of these cuts will be needed to be cut on to the fold line for each individual pocket piece.
For the Main piece you will need to cut 21 inches x wof. You will then measure 4 1/2 inch away from the fold line. Cut lengthwise and save the folded piece. You will need this for later on in the project.
What you will have remaining is two 16 1/2 inches x 17 inches (ignore the photo on the 17 1/2 inch) pieces for you main piece. Refer to photo below for a visual.
Binding will need to be cut 3 inches wide instead of the normal 2 1/2 inches. Binding will also need to be 70 inches long.
This photo below is a reference of all the pieces you will need before the final assembly.
Let's Begin!
*All photos go from left to right and top to bottom. Refer to all photos below the instructions for a better understanding of this project.
All seams are 1/4 inch unless indicated!
- Print out both paper-piecing sets x 2 and cut out the paper piecing templates. Set aside. You will have two different set sizes from the printable version of this pattern. Sizes are: 7 1/2 inch x 5 inch and 3 1/2 inch x 5 inch Make sure you are using the paper foundation for all the paper piecing.
- Open your charm pack and separate into like colorways. Choose 20 different charm squares of your choosing.
- Take all 20 charm squares and cut them into 1 1/2 inch strips. Then organize them so they will be easy to coordinate while you assemble your paper piecing.
- Bring back your cut out paper pieces and start coordinating your 1 1/2 inch strips onto the paper pieces. *Any paper pieces with the HST/HSR markings on them will need to be placed face down. Do not piece the 1 1/2 inch strips on the HST/HSR marked side.
- Organize the rest of the 1 1/2 inch on the remaining paper pieces to your liking.
- When finished organizing with all the paper pieces, you will need to gather 17- 1 1/2 inch strips that remain from your all ready cut charm squares. Sew them together lengthwise and press seams as you go. This will not have to be paper pieced! When finished stitching this together you should have a 17 inch x 4 1/2 inch piece. This is your topside to the main piece of the caddy.
Paper Piecing:
This will be done for all of your prearranged strips that are on your paper foundations that you already have organized.
- Place the first strip on the end of your foundation piece.
- Take the second strip and place it on top of the first strip, right sides together.
- Stitch on the inside of the paper piece.
- After stitching open and press.
- Add the next 1 1/2 inch strip and place it on top of the second 1 1/2 inch strip, again right side together and stitch along the inside. Open and press.
- Repeat the following for all your paper piecing.
Half Square Rectangle (HSR) Assembly
Example shown is the 3 1/2 inch x 5 inch HSR.
- You will need a plain HSR back and a marked HSR piece of your choosing.
- With right sides together, leave the plain HSR face up and place the marked HSR from corner to corner
- Stitch on each of the outer marked lines
- Cut the center with a rotary cutter or scissors
- You should have two HSR
- Open and press
- Repeat the process for all your HSR's
HSR Line up Assembly
Again using the 3 1/2 inch x 5 inch HSR as an example.
- Align the coordinating HSR's to your liking
- Stitch on the length sides
- Check your work!
- Remove the paper piecing
- Repeat the same process for the 7 1/2 inch x 5 inch HSR's
*Something that I did not have pictured is the piecing of the second pocket. Make sure you take the 3 1/2 inch x 17 inch HSR strip and sew it to the length of one of the 7 1/2 x wof pieces. Make sure right sides are together before stitching.
The Quilting Process
You will need all material pieces for Pockets #1, #2, and #3. You will also need the 17 inch x 4 1/2 inch Top Side strip, painter's tape, safety pins, batting, and some kind of marking tool. *I use a Strait Line tool aka: a chalk line.
- Match the front pocket to the remaining 7 1/2 inch x wof
- Take one of the 11 1/2 inch piece for the backing of the second pocket
- Take two 11 1/2 inch pieces for the third pocket
- Use the remaining 11 1/2 inch piece for the top side piece.
Step One: Basting
Example is of Pocket 1.
- Take the backing and place it onto a smooth clean surface.
- Grab the painter's tape and place a piece on each corner of the backing. Make sure to stretch the material just slightly from one corner to the other for full smoothness of the material.
- Place the batting over the backing.
- Grab the painter's tape again and place a piece of painter's tape onto each corner. Again make sure to stretch the batting just slightly from one corner to the other for smoothness and full usage of the batting.
- Place the pocket top piece on top of the batting.
- Pin all three piece together with the safety pins
- When finished pinning remove the painter's tape from the batting and backing.
- Set piece a side and repeat the process for the remaining pockets.
Step Two: Marking and Quilting:
Example is of Pocket 2 and the top side piece.
The way I mark my quilts for quilting is by using a Strait Line tool that can be found in any hardware store.
- I open up the Strait Line by pulling the hook and string/line and place it to something that it can catch on to. I then find a heavy object to place on top of the hook.
- I then take the Strait Line and line it up in the center of my quilt top as evenly possible for a straight line marking.
- Once the line is centered, I then take the Strait Line housing and pull slightly so that the line its self is tight. I then lift up the line and let it snap onto the material. By doing this you will have a marking line to start your straight quilting. You will only need to do this one time on each piece.
- To start quilting: Make sure that you have your walking foot on and line up your Strait Line mark to your needle. Start stitching from one side to the other.
- To continue quilting, line up your walking foot to the last stitched line and use it as your guide for your next quilted straight line. Repeat this process until you reach the edge of the quilt top.
- Since I start my quilting from the center of my quilt top. I will quilt one side and then start on the other. I do not alternate sides. I just simply roll my piece for easy flow through my machine.
- Once done with all the quilting to this point square pockets and top side off. All pieces should be 17 inches wide. You will have one more piece to quilt before you are done.
Top Side and Main Piece Assembly
You will need the 4 1/2 inch x 18 inch grip stop piece, the top side piece, and the two 16 1/2 inch x 17 inch pieces. You will also need painter's tape, batting and safety pins.
Step One: The Grip Stop and Top Side
- Take the grip stop piece and measure width wise to 13 inches. Cut at 13 inches on the length. This should give you a 13 in piece and a 5 inch piece.
- On the length side of each piece fold over one time 1/4 of an inch and pin.
- Stitch a 1/4 inch seam across the folded edges. Remove pins as you go. *Best to keep the gripper side up and to use your walking foot.
- Take your quilted top side and place it back side up. Place the 5 inch grip stop on top of the topside, gripper side facing up. Then place the 13 inch grip stop on top of the top side, again gripper side facing up. Make sure that both of the 1/4 inch seams are over lapping each other.
- Stitch width wise on one side of the entire piece, remove pins as you go. Open and keep one pin in to maintain the 1/4 inch edges together.
With your open Top Side, place one of the 16 1/2 inch x 17 inch pieces on top of each side, pin and stitch. Make sure that you are stitching with the width of the 17 inches to both sides (the grip stop side and the quilted top side).
After stitching both pieces together fold the over the top side and main piece so that they are one piece.
Stitch along the bottom of the top side. This creates the pocket opening for the sand pouch.
Prepare main piece for quilting. Repeat the same process as for the pockets. With the exception of starting your quilting guide from the seams (bottom) of the Top Side, stitch and work your way down to the end.
Sand Pouch Assembly
You will need the folded 4 1/2 inch x 17 inch cut away piece that you cut from the main piece. *Make sure you backstitch all your stitches on this piece!
- Make sure the right side of the fabric is folded together so that you see the wrong side of the fabric when you start stitching.
- Start at the fold and stitch starting length wise about 1 1/2 inch and then stop.
- Lift up your foot and needle, move the piece down to make a 1 inch opening. Place needle and foot back down and continue to start stitching.
- When you get to a corner lift your foot up pivot the piece. Then lift your foot down and continue stitching. Repeat for the process for the next corner.
- Clip all four corners.
- Turn the sand pouch with the right side of the fabric facing out.
- Then take a thin rod and gently poke out the corners for pointed edges/corners. (I realize that the photos are switched around in this process. My apologies!)
- Take a small funnel and place it in the 1 in opening.
- Hold funnel and pouch while pouring sand into the funnel.
- Fill the pouch half way to 3/4 full. But do not fill it all the way. The sand pouch will not fit into the top side if it is completely full. Plus you have to close the opening.
- You can either hand stitch the opening or machine stitch the opening. If machine stitching use a zig zag stitch on the opening edge of the sand pouch.
- Since sand can hold moisture, place the sand pouch in a warm dry area of your living space. This will take a couple of days to dry.
Adding the Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding
You will need the 3 – 18 inch cut Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding for Pockets #1, #2, and #3.
- Add the Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding to the top of each pocket.
- Bind as you normally would bind you entire quilt.
- If you have never used Wright's Double Fold Bias Tape Binding before you can refer to my tutorial page on my blog.
- Clip off the excess ends of the binding.
Pocket Assembly
- Take Pocket #1 and place it on top of Pocket #2. Pin pockets together.
- Stitch in the ditch of the first seam and the third seam of Pocket #1. Do not exceed past the binding and make sure to back stitch at the binding.
- Take the stitched together Pocket # 1 and Pocket #2 and place that on top of Pocket #3. Pin pockets together.
- Stitch in the ditch of the second seam of Pocket # 1 and Pocket #2 aka: the middle. Stop at Pocket #2's binding and back stitch.
- Place the completed stitched pockets and place them on top of the main piece and pin. Make sure the pockets line up on the bottom of the main piece and the main piece and top side are facing right side up.
Finishing Touches
- Bind the entire caddy together (I opted out on machine stitching the entire caddy).
- Place the dried Sand Pouch through the opening of the Grip Stop.
- Once Sand Pouch is tucked into place distribute the sand in the pouch evenly for better support.
In the end you will have a caddy that has great pocket space and can be placed nearly any where in the home. Not to mention it can hold a fair amount of weight too. It is also a nice must have for long term hospital patients who do not have a ton of room to keep small things stashed away in. Or better yet with the use of the sand pouch as a pincushion you can use it too.
If you have any questions or concerns please email me or refer to my blog where I have tutorials, helpful hints, and of course a design blunders page.
Thanks all and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
Jennifer Overstreet


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Dr. Victoria L Johnson has the following 8 expertise
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- Root Canal
- Veneers
- Crown
- Cavity
- Extraction
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We are slowly getting settled back into the groove of Bellingham. As I sit here, mid afternoon a storm is blowing in, the rain is doing what it does best here, raining. I always have loved this time of year. The leaves stating to change from green to gold, the sweet smell of precipitation soaking the dry summer earth, the fresh apples and autumn vegetables satisfy my deepest hungers for something comforting. The temperatures have not dropped and I am not bitterly cold, a walk in a windstorm is a novelty this time of year.
As the weather tuns and winter blows in, I settle into the kitchen. I bake breads and make pots of soup. I crave big hearty red wines, candles and books. Seriously you would think it is December, not the last pieces September with this talk. I know what is about to happen to the next six months and I am just preparing my body.
I welcomed this challenge from the Bread Baking Babes for the month of September. Soft pretzels were a great treat and one that I would love to make for our next winter party.
Salt 'N Pepper Soft Pretzels
- 1 package dry yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 cup warm water (100° to 110°)
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided (about 14 1/2 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 cups water
- 2 tablespoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cornmeal (I used semolina sprinkled on parchment paper)
- 1 teaspoon water
- 1 large egg
- Flaky salt
- Fresh cracked pepper
- Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water in a large bowl, and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
- Add 3 cups flour and 1 teaspoon salt to yeast mixture; stir until a soft dough forms. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes). Add enough of remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands (dough will feel slightly sticky).
- Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray (or oil), turning to coat top.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 40 minutes or until doubled in size. (Gently press two fingers into dough. If indentation remains, the dough has risen enough.) Punch dough down; cover and let rest 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Divide dough into 12 equal portions. Working with one portion at a time (cover remaining dough to prevent drying), roll each portion into an 18-inch-long rope with tapered ends.
- Cross one end of rope over the other to form a circle, leaving about 4 inches at end of each rope. Twist the rope at the base of the circle.
- Fold the ends over the circle and into a traditional pretzel shape, pinching gently to seal.
- Place pretzels on a baking sheet lightly coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise 10 minutes (pretzels will rise only slightly).
- Combine 6 cups water and baking soda in a non-aluminum Dutch oven. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer.
- Gently lower 1 pretzel into simmering water mixture; cook 15 seconds. Turn pretzel with a slotted spatula; cook an additional 15 seconds. Transfer pretzel to a wire rack coated with cooking spray. Repeat procedure with remaining pretzels.
- Place pretzels on a baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal. (I used parchment paper sprinkled with semolina.) Combine 1 teaspoon water and egg in a small bowl, stirring with a fork until smooth. Brush a thin layer of egg mixture over pretzels; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Bake at 425° for 12 minutes or until pretzels are deep golden brown.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool.


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Suggesting a dramatic shift in Washington's counterterrorism strategy, the State Department and the Pentagon want to beef up training of foreign militaries and paramilitary troops. The proposal comes as US military trainers are preparing to train Pakistan's paramilitary forces this summer.
In a proposal to Congress this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $750 million to train troops around the world who are engaged in counterterrorism operations. That would constitute a 250 percent increase, The New York Times reports.
Mr. Gates said that rapidly building up the armed forces of friendly nations to combat terrorism within their borders was "a vital and enduring military requirement."
The additional funding is designed to augment the Global Train and Equip program, created in 2006 to assist foreign militaries, The Times reports.
"The current program has paid for parts and ammunition used by the Lebanese Army against terrorist threats in a Palestinian refugee camp as well as for helicopter spare parts, night-vision devices and night-flight training for Pakistani special forces fighting suspected members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda along the Afghan border, Mr. Gates said."
Funding for the program expires in about five months, The Washington Post explains. But Gates and Ms. Rice hope to make the program permanent.
Gates and Rice seek to increase funding authority for the program from $300 million a year to $750 million, make it permanent and expand it to allow assistance to police and paramilitary forces. The program is to expire at the end of September.…
A third facet of the proposal would make permanent a program that allows U.S. Special Operations Forces to spend $25 million annually to pay or supply equipment to indigenous forces that support their clandestine operations.
The proposal comes as Washington is preparing to send military trainers to Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, an area near the Afghan border where Taliban troops and Al Qaeda have been on the upsurge, CNN reported last week.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed deployment orders that will send U.S. military trainers to Pakistan this summer, CNN has learned.
Their mission: To teach Pakistan Frontier Corps units counterinsurgency skills critical to fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda.
The U.S. trainers will begin by training key Frontier Corps units to become trainers themselves so the program can quickly expand. The Frontier Corps is drawn from tribes in the border area and is considered vital in the fight against militants. In July 2007, The Christian Science Monitor reported that the intention of such training "would be to turn the corps against Al Qaeda, much as the US military in Iraq has forged alliances with Sunni tribes to take on Al Qaeda in Iraq."
Pakistan's Frontier Corps, as well as the Pakistani Army, have come under increased attack in recent months, suffering several hundred casualties in a spate of suicide attacks. And in a battle with Taliban militants in Swat Valley last fall, poorly trained Frontier Corpsmen were killed in large numbers or fled without fighting, prompting alarm from many observers, including the editors of Foreign Policy magazine, who wrote, "Desertion is becoming a serious problem in the ranks of the Frontier Corps, the locally recruited paramilitary force that has been on the front lines of Pakistan's fight against insurgents in its tribal areas."
US military trainers on Pakistani soil is not a new thing, The New York Times explained in an article last month. But their numbers are set to rise significantly.
For several years, small teams of American Special Operations forces have trained their Pakistani counterparts in counterinsurgency tactics. But the 40-page classified plan now under review at the United States Central Command to help train the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force of about 85,000 members recruited from ethnic groups on the border, would significantly increase the size and scope of the American training role in the country.
United States trainers initially would be restricted to training compounds, but with Pakistani consent could eventually accompany Pakistani troops on missions "to the point of contact" with militants, as American trainers now do with Iraqi troops in Iraq, a senior American military official said. Britain is also considering a similar training mission in Pakistan, officials said.
But American troops stationed in Afghanistan's border region appear to harbor suspicions about the Frontier Corps, The Washington Post reported.
"The Frontier Corps might as well be Taliban.... They are active facilitators of infiltration," said a U.S. soldier who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Many Pakistani analysts and leaders have warned that a larger US military footprint could lead to a backlash from the public in Pakistan, the British newspaper the Guardian reports.
"They are making a big mistake. With the Frontier Corps they are going to put people to fight against their kith and kin. It will create a greater problem," said General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, the country's spy agency.
But some Pakistani observers see the proposed new training program as a welcome and vital change, writes Haider Ali Hussein Mullick, a Pakistani scholar and US foreign policy researcher, in Newsweek's PostGlobal blog.
The current U.S. plan to increase the training of Pakistani troops – paratroopers, Pakistani Special Forces, and Frontier Corps – is a step in the right direction. U.S. training programs must be supplemented by U.S. military hardware and intelligence exchange across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. A unilateral U.S. attack on Pakistan's rustic tribal areas, however, will be devastatingly unsustainable and counterproductive.


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Key Takeaways:
Evolution of the mortgage industry
Four most common origins of residential mortgage loans
Characteristics of subprime loans
Factors affecting mortgage fraud
Causes of the subprime market implosion
Preview Course
ACFE Ordering and Return Policy
Table of Contents:
Lesson 1: The History of the Mortgage Industry
Lesson 2: Loan Market Offerings
Lesson 3: The Evolution of Mortgage Lenders and Brokers
Lesson 4: Factors Affecting Mortgage Fraud
Lesson 5: Legislation and Regulation in the Mortgage Industry
Lesson 6: The Mortgage Fraud Problem Today
Lesson 7: The Impact of Mortgage Fraud
Lesson 8: Trends in Mortgage Fraud
Lesson 9: Mortgage Fraud in the Future
Lesson 10: The Perpetrators of Mortgage Fraud
Lesson 11: The Property Seller
Lesson 12: The Real Estate Listing Agent
Lesson 13: The Borrower
Lesson 14: The Real Estate Buyer's Agent
Lesson 15: The Lender
Lesson 16: Third-Party Originators (TPOs)
Lesson 17: The Loan Originator
Lesson 18: The Loan Processor
Lesson 19: The Underwriter
Lesson 20: The Appraiser
Lesson 21: The Title Insurer and Escrow Agent
Lesson 22: The Notary Public
Lesson 23: Servicing and Secondary-Market Investors
Lesson 24: Mortgage Servicing Companies
Lesson 25: Loan Resolution
Lesson 26: Mortgage Fraud Schemes
Lesson 27: Property Flipping
Lesson 28: Builder Perpetrated Schemes
Lesson 29: Foreclosure Rescue Schemes
Lesson 30: Deceptive Short Sales
Lesson 31: Chunking and Shotgunning
Lesson 32: Identity Fraud and Theft of Property Schemes
Lesson 33: Churning (Loan Flipping)
Lesson 34: Common Misrepresentations in Mortgage Fraud Schemes
CPE Information:
You Will Learn How To:
Recognize the ways the mortgage industry has evolved and influenced the market
Assess current and emerging trends in mortgage fraud
Identify the legal aspects of mortgage fraud, at both federal and state levels
Identify the players in the mortgage industry and the frauds they perpetrate
Recognize mortgage fraud schemes and common red flags for each
Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge
Last updated: February 2016
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BURLINGTON — On Thursday, the Middlebury Union High School boys' hockey team lost to a Division II team for only the second time this winter.
But this time that setback came at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse in the D-II final.
No. 2 Stowe improved to 18-4-1 by rallying for a 2-1 victory over the 17-6 Tigers, in the process avenging the Raiders' 3-2 loss to the Tigers on Jan. 31 and their 2-1 loss to MUHS in the 2011 D-II title game.


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How the body thinks
Reverse Therapy is part of a movement, bringing together neurology, the psychology of emotion, information science and therapy, in which are revising the very idea of what it means to be intelligent. We are showing that intelligence doesn't show up very much in the head – but much more so in the body.
In a way we are only redressing a wrong turn that was taken with Descartes and other seventeenth century writers who argued that only Headmind, or 'Reason', can think. Intelligence, for most philosophers and scientists, means thinking logically, scientifically and rationally. A disembodied mind that deduces the cause of something and predicts what will happen next – and can decide on the right or wrong way to do something. Even funnier than this, some writers think that only Reason can decide between good and evil, right and wrong. Try asking a computer if it is better to risk your own life for the sake of a child!
Our new take on intelligence is something like this: An intelligent response occurs when a) one piece of information is translated into something else b) the information is evaluated c) a response is emitted d) the results are evaluated e) information about the result is stored f) learning takes place.
A single-cell organism like an amoeba can do a), b) and c) when it changes the direction it swims in according to the amount of protein that is available to it. But it can't do d), e) and f) because it doesn't have a body (more than one cell) or a brain. But a dolphin, for example, can do all of these. Plus – like most human beings it can also do g) communicate what it has learnt to other people.
The evaluation bit takes place because mammals are capable of having emotions, unlike computers. It is Bodymind that does the evaluation – deciding whether something is important/not-important, good/bad or right/wrong. And this is why, in many respects, Bodymind is more intelligent than Headmind.
Bodymind translates what it senses into energy, into emotion, into passion and into alarm signals of various kinds. Here are some examples of the way in which Bodymind 'thinks'.
• The body can 'read' other people and simulate an emotion that person is having so that you or I can empathize with them. In that way a mother can quickly tell what mood her child is in. This is also the basis for the human quality of compassion for others, even animals. Our intuitions about other people work in a similar way. Using sensory information, the brain picks up signals from the other person's body language and – using a process that works in less than a tenth of a second – pattern-matches those signals against information stored from past experiences. That is why we can have a gut feeling that someone is not trustworthy within two minutes of meeting her without knowing why. The body is using coded signals to alert us to a potential problem.
• In collaboration with the thinking centers the brain can decide what is important or not important. If something is important to us we might get an adrenalin rush. If it is not we will feel nothing at all. Research into people with damage to the frontal areas of the brain (which decode emotion) show that they are unable to make decisions because they don't have a good or bad feeling that tells them the right decision to make. Knowing what is important also helps Bodymind conserve energy. We can go without sleep if we are trying to achieve something really important. Conversely, if there is little for us to do, Bodymind can send us to sleep early. Or it could turn on the emotion of boredom to signal that it's time to do something more interesting.
• The body can strengthen a relationship by creating emotions connected to love. Sometimes this is automatic, as when a a child is born. Sometimes it comes with time as we learn more about the other person. The emotions of love are, as almost all of us know, powerful and sometimes overwhelming.
• The brain uses sleep time to organize memories from the day just gone. It stores what is important and deletes the rest. It also creates dreaming states in order to work through the emotions that come with different experiences. This is one reason why insomniacs have poor concentration – they are overloaded with undigested experiences.
• Bodymind grounds us to life. It does this firstly through our moods. At any given moment the body is monitoring where we are, who we are with and what we are doing, and providing us with a running commentary on our relationship with the environment. Moods aren't emotions but they are feeling states which work closely with our thoughts. The most well-known mood is the depressed state, which goes with discouragement and sadness. But others include exhilaration, calm, determination, discontent and the feeling of being 'under pressure'. Most often, moods are hardly noticeable and form a kind of background hum which is constantly shifting as we go through the flow of the day.
• Another way the body grounds us to life is through the sense of awe: we are connected to nature, to the divine, and to life itself by the unspeakable sense that we are serving a purpose higher than ourselves. In that way Bodymind intelligently motivates us to make the best we can of our abilities and to serve others.
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Round 1 Cook of the Week Challenge
The 1st Cook of the Week Challenge recipes are posted! Over the next three weeks multiple phases of round one competition will be taking place. Round one of the Cook of the Week challenge consists of two competitions between four contestants. The winners from Round 1 competitions will advance to Round 2.
This weeks round 1 competition had Diane Hagopian facing off against Oscar Menoyo. The other competition was TerrieAnn Jones versus Jamie Andrade. Each competition had separate mandatory key ingredients the culinary artists must utilize in his/her recipe.
Next week the mandatory ingredients are:
1. Fisher Nut Chef's Natural Walnut Pieces, turkey breast, figs and quinoa
2. Fortune Fish tilapia, cherries, butternut squash and brown rice
Excited to see what the next round of contenders will create with these key ingredients!
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Due to a ruling by the Librarian of Congress, come tomorrow it will be illegal to unlock a new, on-contract iPhone -- or any phone -- in the U.S. If you bought your iPhone before tomorrow, or if you bought a factory unlocked iPhone straight from Apple, or off-contract, full priced iPhone from carriers, or your contract is over, you shouldn't be subject to any restrictions. Doing it on your own via Jailbreak, however, will be strictly verboten, and likely subject to prosecution by law enforcement and the Batman. Michael Gowen of TechNewsDaily reports:
In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it. That window closes on January 26.
No doubt oligopoly networks built on public airwaves appreciate your understanding. Know your laws, your rights, and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.


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Top Rated Tube Grinding In Muskegon MI
Sturdy Grinding offers custom tube grinding parts for your business!
At Sturdy Grinding, we've been performing centerless end-feed, in-feed, or plunge-feed grinding for decades around Metro Detroit. Our skilled team of operators have a great deal of experience grinding multiple diameters, grinding shoulders, and grinding radii. We deliver top quality products with tight tolerances of up to .0002".
With every project and product, we have made a commitment to provide quality grinding services from the very beginning. We've been ISO certified since the early 1990's, well before other manufacturing companies our size. Over the years we have invested in the expansion of our Quality Control department, including purchases of advanced data gathering equipment along with the necessary software to analyze our quality over time. On average, our customer based quality rating is 4.85 our of 5 throughout the last 5 years.
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End-feed grinding is a type of centerless grinding in which the part does not pass through the machine. In end-feed grinding, the work piece rests between a fixed blade and a regulating wheel. As the regulating wheel spins the part, the grinding wheel comes in from the opposite side and grinds the steel. End-feed grinding is ideal for smaller parts with heads or multiple diameters that can't pass through a grinding machine.
Bar Stock Grinding in Muskegon MI
Study Grinding offers a great deal of defect-free bar grinding experience. Our equipment can grind bars and tubes as large as 11" in diameter and as long as 40' in virtually any sort of metal used in modern manufacturing. In addition, we can supply heat treated rolls and shafting.
Similar, to through-feed grinding, bar grinding is a type of centerless grinding in which the bar passes through the machine. The bar rests on a fixed blade which is spun by a regulating wheel. While that's going on, an abrasive wheel grinds the work piece. Long bars ground in this fashion are supported by rollers on both ends of the machine.
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OD grinding is a type of grinding in which the part is suspended by centers. A driver spins the part and a grinding wheel comes forward to machine the work piece. A large portion of today's automotive drive and shafting components are ground this way. Sturdy Grinding has some of the leading CNC OD grinders and inspection equipment to fill both high and low volume OD grinding orders.
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"The Decider" now has his very own library and museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Dedicated last week on April 26th in a ceremony attended by US presidents and global leaders, the center opens to the public on May 1st. Dedicated to freedom, responsibility, opportunity and compassion, the George W. Bush Presidential Library was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and has earned a LEED Platinum certification. Surrounding the center is a sustainable, native Texas landscape created by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
Each president gets a library and museum to house his collection of material, gifts and artifacts received during his time in office. The George W. Bush Library is housed on the edge of SMU, which is the alma mater of Laura Bush. Designed by New York firm Robert A.M. Stern, the center complements the Georgian architecture of the surrounding campus and makes use of locally-sourced brick and Texas Cordova Cream limestone. The centerpiece of the library is the tall, lantern-like Freedom Hall, which pulls daylight into the heart of the building and at night glows like a beacon. Inside, the center features public exhibition galleries, a replica of the Oval office, a library, an auditorium, meeting rooms, a cafe and a Texas Rose Garden. One of the main attractions is an interactive exhibit where visitors learn about the presidential decision making process and have a chance to step into the shoes of "The Decider."
The George W. Bush Library is the first of the presidential libraries to earn a LEED Platinum rating. Besides the use of local and recycled materials, the center also features shaded balconies and brises-soleils on the south and west facades, green and highly-reflective roofs to reduce energy use for cooling. There are also rooftop photovoltaic arrays, rooftop solar hot water panels, rainwater harvesting, and highly-efficient building systems. The surrounding landscape is a living exhibit of the Texas landscape in a 15-acre public park that features native prairie grasses, wildflowers and trees that work to soak up stormwater and minimizes the use of potable water for irrigation.
The center was dedicated on April 26th, 2013 in a ceremony attended by all the living presidents and their wives. The George W. Bush Presidential Library opened to the public on May 1st.
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Riley Nickerson wins 2013 Rails 2 Riches at Killington, Vermont
Before Saturday night, Forest Bailey was the only men's rider to win two of Killington's Rails 2 Riches back to back (2008,2009). Now Riley Nickerson is part of that company, winning last year in 2012 and defending his title in 2013. (Niko Cioffi has won 2, but took a year off in between wins.) For Vermont natives, New Englanders, Quebecois, and all, Killington's Rails 2 Riches is a big deal. Not only does it have a substantial cash purse($25,000 in total), a win here puts a rider on the map, or in a case like Niko, Forest, and now Riley, solidifies their presence as a certified G.
2013 Killington Rails 2 Riches Results
1. Riley Nickerson
2. Jeremy Cloutier
3. Tim Majors
1. Norah Healey