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- San-Frantsisko i drugie grafstva Zaliva= San Francisco and other counties of the Bay Area
This well-written, reliable and professionally published travel guide has quickly become a favorite of the Russian-speaking readers of the Bay Area and beyond.
- Russkaia rechka v doline Semi Lun= The Russian River in the Valley of Seven Moons
In his new book, Vladislav Dunaev, a well-known Russian journalist and orientalist now residing in the Bay Area, tells the history of the Russian presence in California, the southernmost point of the Imperial Russia's peaceful expansion. The topics range from personal to the historical, from the romantic encounter of the great Russian diplomat Count Nikolai Rezanov with the beautiful Concepcion Arguello (the daughter of Spanish Governor of Alta California) to Russian Hollywood stars Natalie Wood and Yul Brynner, as well as the life of the contemporary Russian-speaking community. The narrative speaks to the importance of the contributions made by Russian Americans to the United States, making the Russian culture a valid part of the broader American spectrum.
- Russkii San-Frantsisko= Russian San Francisco
This is a historical guide to the places associated with the Russian community in San Francisco and the Bay Area, with heritage spanning over 200 years. The narrative tracks the lives of Russian-Americans of various historical periods. It is based on facts gathered by the author in California over the past 15 years, as well as materials from various archives and repositories across the United States and Russia.
- Russkie v istorii Ameriki = Russians in the history of America
The first written accounts indicate that the first Europeans to reach Alaska came from Russia. Russian America was the name of Russian possessions in the Americas from 1733 to 1867 that today are the U.S. state of Alaska and settlements farther south in California and Hawaii. In this volume Viktor Petrov, an outstanding Russian American historian and geographer, describes the discovery of the "Russian America" by the Russian explorers and discusses their expeditions to California and the Pacific Northwest. He continues his overview of the history of Russian America through the end of the 19th century.
- Russkie v Amerike : XX vek = Russians in America : 20th Century
This volumes continues Russkie v istorii Ameriki focusing on the Russian American experience in the 20th century. The author discusses outstanding contributions made by various Russian Americans to the cultural and technological advancement of the American nation.
- Odnoetazhnaia Amerika = One Storey America
Based on Vladimir Pozner's sixteen-episode documentary mini-series One Storey America, this volume continues a long tradition of Russian intellectuals' travelogues about their trips and experiences in the West.
- Gorod moego serdtsa = The City of My Heart
This is a book about the two beautiful sea-facing cities that the author considers to be the two most romantic cities in the world – San Francisco, where she now makes her home and Odessa, where she came from.
- San Frantsisko : putevoditel', ocherki = San Francisco : travel guide, essays
This book consists of two parts. The first one is a detailed and reliable guide, complete with information and directions for walking tours of San Francisco and using public transportation for sightseeing. Essays comprising the second part elucidate history, culture and architecture of the City By the Bay.
- Kubanets v Kalifornii : zapiski zhurnalista = The Cossack of the Kuban in California: journalistic essays
This is a collection of essays about the history of the Russian diaspora of San Francisco and California of the "first" and "second" waves of Russian immigration into the United States. Most of these people had to escape their beloved country when it was being torn apart by conflict in the post-revolution and after-World War II periods.
- Fort Ross
In this new novel crafted in the genre of time-travel fantasy, the popular Russian author and TV journalist touches on some intriguing issues of Russian America's history. The dynamic plot and engaging characters make it is a fascinating and thought-provoking read.
- Russian San Francisco
Even before San Francisco was founded as a city, Russian visitors, explorers, and scientists sailed to the area and made contact with both the indigenous people and representatives of the Spanish government. Although the Russian commercial colony of Fort Ross closed in 1842, the Russian presence in San Francisco continued and the community expanded to include churches, societies, businesses, and newspapers. Today the 75,000 Russian speakers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area continue to pass on their heritage to their children.
- Fort Ross and the Sonoma coast
The Kashaya Indians made foot trails through the grassy mountain slopes of Sonoma's northern coast for centuries before colonists from the Russian-American Company arrived in 1812. These Russians, the vanguard of European settlement, built Fort Ross from virgin redwood on a bluff overlooking the sea. Although they stayed only 30 years, they left behind a heritage that includes the earliest detailed scientific and ethnographic studies of the area and California's first ships and windmills.


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Soy may not protect against stomach cancerURL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_120388.html
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Estrogen-like compounds that come with a soy-rich diet are sometimes linked to a reduced risk of cancer, but new research from Japan suggests that protection doesn't extend to stomach cancer.
In a study that tried to tease apart the effects of isoflavones -- also known as phytoestrogens -- found in soy, and other nutrients, like salt, Japanese researchers found no difference in gastric cancer risk between people who consumed a lot of isoflavones and those who consumed the least.
Azusa Hara and her colleagues from the National Cancer Center in Tokyo examined data on about 85,000 people in an existing Japanese study.
The researchers estimated how much isoflavone the study's participants ate from a list of questions they had answered in the 1990s, then followed the subjects until the end of 2006 to see how many developed stomach cancer.
During the follow-up period, approximately 1,250 of the study's participants got stomach cancer, but the researchers saw no difference in risk between those who ate the most isoflavone and those who ate the least.
According to Dr. Richard Peek, director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, estrogen is thought to protect against stomach cancer because the disease is much more common in men, at least until women are post-menopausal -- hinting that younger women's higher estrogen levels might be protecting them.
Peek told Reuters Health there are also studies on mice that suggest estrogen protects against stomach cancer.
The Japanese team, however, found an increase in stomach cancer risk among women taking hormone therapy who ate the most isoflavone-laden food, compared to those who ate the least.
The women in the study on hormone therapy were more likely to smoke, drink and have a family history of stomach cancer, the researchers note, which could explain the link.
Hara and her colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that their results are limited by the use of their questionnaire and the fact that they could not account for whether the subjects were also infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which is also linked to increased stomach cancer risk.
Still another well-known risk factor for gastric cancers is high salt intake.
According to the American Cancer Society, a person in the United States has a one in 114 chance of developing stomach cancer. An estimated 21,500 Americans were diagnosed with it in 2011 and an estimated 10,500 died from it.
Stomach cancers were once the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. until 1930.
"One of the reasons for decline is that people have fridges now, and they use less salt preservatives," said Khaldoun Almhanna, a medical oncologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/AuxWcS American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online December 20, 2011.
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Missing California Cyclists Found on a Boat in South America
(NEW YORK) -- A young California couple thought to be missing for a month while on a cycling trip through South America has been located on a boat and were surprised to hear of the search for them, according to Peru's tourism ministry.
The couple was found on a slow-moving boat and are expected to arrive at the Ecuador and Peru border Wednesday, where they will have access to a phone, according to Miguel Antezana, the communications director of Peru's Foreign Commerce and Tourism Ministry.
The families and friends of Garrett Hand and Jamie Neal, both 25, had been concerned about the couple ,who had not been heard from in over a month.
The couple was found on the Napo River at a place called Angoteros, according to Antezana. There, they spoke to the police and were surprised by all of the questions. They eventually asked what was going on and the police told them that they were considered missing persons.
The ministry is sending people with video cameras to the location where the boat is going to dock to show that they are alive and well.
Antezana said that it appears that the couple simply did not want to communicate with their families because they could have done so in Iquitos.
Earlier Tuesday, Hand's mother told Good Morning America that the family had checked his bank records and found there was no bank activity since Jan. 25, the same day as the couple's last Facebook post.
"How is my son traveling without getting any money?" Francine Fitzgerald asked. "How is my son eating?"
The couple embarked on their journey at the end of November, or early December.
As the couple cycled through the continent, they frequently posted updates and photos on Facebook, chronicling their journey. They posted photos of camping, the wildlife and the people they met along the way.
The last post was on Jan. 25 and said, "Finally found Kraft Mac 'n' cheese in South America! Stoked LOL." The couple had not been heard from since, which worried their families and friends.
"They would post sometimes several times a day, pictures telling us where they were and then we all noticed that his postings stopped," Fitzgerald said on Good Morning America.
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- The government's plan to close hospital services and expand private clinics is not supported by the evidence. In fact, there is a significant body of academic research showing poor quality, safety concerns, higher user fees, cream- skimming of the most profitable and easiest cases at the expense of local hospitals, higher costs and a host of other problems associated with the fragmenting of community hospital services into private clinics.
- The plan to cut our local hospitals and contract out to private clinics will destabilize our local hospital budgets. Private clinics take the faster, easier patients from whom they can make the most money, leaving the complex, expensive and hard-to-serve patients behind for our local hospitals to take care of with less staff and fewer resources.
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- There are already too few anesthesiologists, operating room nurses, radiologists, other specialists and health professionals in many areas of Ontario. High-volume, high-profit clinics will take scarce specialists and health professionals out of our local hospitals into private clinics where they will serve the healthiest and easiest population, leaving the hard and difficult cases for community hospitals with less staff to help.
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- Already the existing private clinics in Ontario have been plagued with serious safety and quality of care problems. In Ottawa, recently, the Ottawa Hospital cut thousands of endoscopies and privatized them to private clinics. In 2011, it was found that one of the private endoscopy clinics was not sterilizing its equipment properly. As a result 6,800 patients were warned that they had a risk of contracting HIV and hepatitis B & C. A study of private colonoscopy clinics showed that 13 per cent of the colonoscopies conducted in Ontario's private clinics were incomplete (the scope didn't make it all the way through the colon) leaving patients at higher risk for undetected cancers, and the standard of practice was well below that of public hospitals.
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The Aprilaire Automatic Humidifier Model 600 is the newest addition to the aprilaire humidifier line.It takes humidifier innovation to the next level and performs as good as it looks! It offers all of the performance benefits of Aprilaire's more advanced humidifiers including AutoTrack which automatically adjusts humidity based on outside temperature.The Aprilaire 600 is easier than ever to install because it includes a built-in bypass damper, which means fewer parts to install.Plus, the damper is conveniently labeled for summer and winter settings, allowing you to set it for the entire season with no guesswork involved.Includes humidistat controller, sensing bulb and transformer.Electrical: 24V-60Hz-0.5 AMPDrain Connection: 1/2 inch I.D. plastic hose direct to drain fitting on unit Plenum opening size is 9 3/4"W X 12 1/2"H This unit includes a 110v to 24v transformer. Maximum Coverage Area 4200 square feet Maximum coverage area means this humidifier will perform well for home sizes up to the square footage indicated, provided that the home is •tight•.A tight home is typically is one that is sealed well around windows and doors and does not leak air to/from the outdoors.Note that humidifiers will perform well for smaller homes as well since the controller regulates the amount of humidity automatically to adjust to home size Electrical Requirements 24V Humidifiers with 24 volt AC electrical requirements obtain such by connecting to either 24VAC from the furnace, or by adding a transformer to the furnace to create such.Most installations can use the 24VAC that is already accessible in the furnace.Humidifiers with 110 volt AC electrical requirements simply plug into a standard outlet (receptacle) and require no special wiring for this part.It is recommended, however, that the outlet/receptacle be dedicated for the humidifier, and that it can by shut off by the same power safety switch that turns off the furnace. Type Bypass: There are two basic humidifier types: bypass and power fan. Each simply uses a different method to move air through them. Power fan humidifiers use a 110 volt fan to move air through them. Bypass humidifiers do not have a fan, but instead require a 6• duct to be connected to the side and then to the opposite air duct system from the humidifier. That means for bypass models that if the humidifier is installed on the supply plenum, the 6• duct will connect to the humidifier and the return plenum, and if the humidifier is installed on the return plenum, the 6• duct will attach to humidifier and the supply plenum.Humidifier types: • bypass and power fan • will provide the same benefits to you. The only difference is the technology used to do so. The advantage to power fan models is since they do not require additional ductwork, they can be installed faster and in tighter spaces. The advantage to bypass models is that they cost a bit less. Remote Sensing Bulb Included A remote sensing bulb is a small (about •• round) sensor that mounts outside the home and connects by light gauge wire (18 to 22 gauge, 2-conductor) to the humidifier controller. This sensor provides temperature readings to the computerized controller which allows the humidifier to automatically adjust humidity levels in the home based on outside air temperature.Aprilaire brand humidifiers include a remote sensing bulb in the box with the purchase. Honeywell brand humidifiers do not include remote sensing bulbs, but offer such as an additional purchase option. Both brands allow for humidifier operation without the use of the sensor should you choose to not install such. Installation items not included: 1/4" copper tubing for water line, 1/2" ID plastic tubing for drain, 6" round ducting & elbow for bypass air, 2-conductor 18 to 22 gauge wire.CARAPRILAIRE600


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It is known that the nth term of the Fibonacci sequence can be found by the formula:
$F_n = \frac{\phi^n - (-\phi)^{-n}}{\sqrt{5}}$,
where $\phi$ is the golden ratio (1.618...).
- Would this be the best formula to generate large terms of the sequence (eg. $n = 10^{15}$)?
- How many decimal places of $\phi$ should be known to generate such a large term?
- How can this formula be reversed (ie. finding $F_n^{-1}$)?


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Here are a few of my favorite holiday prints we have in the shop right now.
Imagine a set of napkins or a tree skirt out of these funny reindeer.
I was trying to show the range in size one gets in a repeat of this print. You could make a set of gnome dome plush Santas from littlest to biggest.
Winterkist is the name of the line, here it is with some companion prints. The snowflake has great potential to go with all sorts of other things.
These deer are wonderfully whimsical. I love the symmetry of this print. I could see coloring in the lines or adding a touch of embroidery to highlight a heart or flower.
There are still lots of other holiday and winter prints to be had. We are closed today to celebrate some time with our families. We will be back tomorrow at 10am ready for holiday sewing season.


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The flagship of Argentina's navy has been ordered held in Africa by a judge answering a complaint from a U.S. hedge fund.
The Argentine foreign ministry describes the fund as if it were led by modern-day pirates, saying the seizure violates international law and that President Cristina Fernandez will not bend to extortion.
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The A.R.A. Libertad is a three-masted tall ship that stopped at the port of Tema, near Ghana's capital of Accra, while training hundreds of navy cadets.
That's where Elliott Capital Management, a $15 billion hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, caught up with the Argentines. The fund's lawyers have searched worldwide for ways of collecting on Argentine bonds bought at fire-sale prices after the South American country's record debt default a decade ago.
Most bondholders eventually agreed to cancel Argentina's bad debts for about 30 cents on the dollar, but Singer is among those holding out for the full promised value of those notes, plus interest. Courts in the United States and Britain have granted judgments worth $1.6 billion to the hedge fund, but it and other bondholders are still suing for billions more and Argentina has refused to pay.
A court in Ghana on Tuesday ordered the ship held in port until Argentina posts a court bond equal to its value, which could be $10 million or more. Singer would then try to collect that money.
The foreign ministry said Wednesday that Singer's hedge fund "is based in Cayman Islands, a fiscal hideout that is a colony of Great Britain, sheltering entities that refuse to submit to the laws of any jurisdiction." Singer also is the main financial backer of the American Task Force Argentina, a lobby in Washington that has spread false information about Argentina, the statement said.
An Elliott spokesman declined to comment Thursday.
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Earlier this month, the American College of Radiology (ACR) named Mass General Imaging in Chelsea one of the first imaging facilities in the country to become a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence (DICOE). The designation resulted from a comprehensive assessment of quality, safety and patient care.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Did Hawkeye Steal That Jeep?
HULK-like mad while trying to sort through where I may have left it. I don't like shopping which is essentially looking for stuff and then having to spend money on it when you find it. I absolutely hated "Where's Waldo". Just point me to Waldo, and tell the story as to why he's constantly in these crazy situations…I'm guessing psychedelics have a lot to do with it. Look at what he's wearing, no one in their right mind would wear those glasses? Wait a minute...
Lately, I feel like every Monday I'm stuck trying to look for the positives in the previous day's Packer game. This is getting tiring, frustrating, and frankly, I'm sick of it. That said, I'm giving it one final shot.
After Sunday's game the only thing I could think about was the injuries…the severity of them and the sheer number of them. The injuries Sunday reminded me of Korea three miles from the front (Damn, I love that movie. If you haven't seen it, stop reading, watch, and return; I'll wait.). Okay, so you get it, Packers =Mobile Army Surgical Hospital right now. Unfortunately, it is without the hijinks, hilarity, booze, fornication, and Hawkeye Pierce. Basically, it's just the shitty parts: the injuries, the wounds, and the general malaise. In an effort to further make this comparison and to lighten up the atmosphere at 1 Ranter Place, Rantersville, United Republic of Rant, I thought I would find some M*A*S*H quotes. Then I realized that I had to go look for them…aaaaand I'm back to being pissed off, so I just used one of the top my head that seemed most applicable:
"What kind of team is this? Everyone is dropping like dead flies."
Okay, that's depressing, and like I said, I was here to find and rip the positives out of the open chest cavity of a depressing loss. Here goes: the Packers backups played well. That's pretty simple and pretty positive. Desmond Bishop, Andrew Quarless, and Mike Neal stepped in and played solid games, Bishop being at the top of that group. If the goal of building your team is to have capable backups in the event your starters go down, then the Packers are in a good spot. Now, the problem Sunday is that the M*A*S*H filled up waaaaay faster than anyone could have been prepared for. At this point, we have to hope that reinforcements are on the way and the patients are healing quickly.
Just to be safe, we can also hope that in the future when McCarthy says, "I think it's important we go over the three basic principles: organization, discipline, and team work." Someone steps up like Dr. Oliver Harmon Jones and says: "Excuse me, but do you mind if we limber up first?"
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- Pashaww!!October 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM
Radar (in a letter): "As usual, I'm writing slowly because I know you can't read fast."ReplyDelete
Now I'm not one to say let's "Puss Up" the game, but a whole league of second and third stringers playing most of the season bores me. (Who really wants to watch Eli? But that's what you get when Payton goes down.)
I'm just saying we need tuffer players. (That's right Poneyboy, TUFF!) Fortunately I know a place where the athletes play through broken bones, shattered ankles, snapped noses, sprained everything, and missing teeth. . . ah, now it's becoming clearer. It's the NHL of course. Looking for a 6'5" 255lb grizzled athlete who will play at a pro level after being put through 70+ meat grinder games? May I suggest Adam Oats? He will take severe punishment and still send opponents to the hospital. I've seen the ambulance come for their broken bodies.
So man up and go draft some Russian monsters who will play like they are defending Stalingrad. Not One Step Back!
(It all comes down to war movies)
I can't believe you said "shitty." It's OK.ReplyDelete
Poopy? Crappy?ReplyDelete
No, I think shitty is appropriate there.
Fun Fact: M*A*S*H is the first movie to ever have the F-bomb in it.
is spearchucker jones available?ReplyDelete
The perfect argument as to why not to have a ban a steriods. We need more juice heads.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM
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Senate leaders nearing a deal
Senate leaders are closing in on a deal to reopen the government and extend the U.S. debt ceiling until next year, marking a major breakthrough in an impasse that has paralyzed Washington and struck fears across the globe.
In a furious round of last-ditch negotiations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were discussing a proposal to reopen the government until Jan. 15 and extend the national debt limit until Feb. 7. The plan would also set up bicameral budget negotiations over major deficit issues, that are to conclude by Dec. 13.
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There were still minor sticking points Monday evening, including over whether to change the law to prevent the Treasury Department from using "extraordinary measures" to go beyond the new Feb. 7 debt limit deadline, a change McConnell was pursuing. But the White House and Reid are strongly opposed to that idea, and several Democratic sources insisted such a provision would not be included in the final package.
( PHOTOS: 25 great shutdown quotes)
Indeed, there were growing expectations that a deal was imminent; Senate Republicans and Democrats are expected to meet Tuesday to discuss the proposal in separate closed-door caucus meetings.
The prospects for the emerging Senate deal in the GOP-led House are far from certain. And there's a risk that major fiscal decisions are again being punted to a later time.
While Republicans failed to win the adoption of any proposals to gut or delay Obamacare, a chief demand that started the shutdown fight, two other provisions to tweak the law remained in play Monday night.
Under the emerging deal, Republicans would win a provision to force Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, to certify that individuals receiving Obamacare subsidies meet the required income levels. The department's inspector general would later have to conduct an audit on the matter.
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But sources said Monday night that the GOP would only win that proposal if Democrats won the inclusion of a provision to delay the law's so-called "belly button tax" for one year. The tax, which was supposed to be levied against most insurance plans to help spread the risk for insurers who take on the sickest patients next year, would cost covered individuals $63 per year. Republicans were balking at the proposal they called a carve-out for big labor unions.
If the two sides can't agree on both provisions, it's possible both Obamacare-related proposals could be dropped from the final package.
After meeting twice Monday and speaking repeatedly through aides and by phone, Reid and McConnell both were hopeful a deal would reached when they adjourned the Senate for the evening.
"We've made tremendous progress. We are not there yet but tremendous progress. And everyone just needs to be patient," Reid said. "We're doing our best to make everybody happy but everyone knows we're not going to be able do that. So everybody understand we're doing the very best we can with all the frailties that we have as people and legislators."
( WATCH: Senators emerge from bipartisan debt limit and budget meeting optimistic)
"We've made substantial progress, and we look forward to making more progress in the near future," McConnell said.
McConnell is keeping in close touch with House Speaker John Boehner as negotiations with Reid continue. Boehner (R-Ohio) stopped by McConnell's office for about 25 minutes on Monday afternoon.
In a sign a deal was taking shape, President Barack Obama delayed a Monday meeting at the White House with the congressional leaders to give Reid and McConnell more time to finalize an accord.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors was at the Capitol on Monday evening and told reporters he's "optimistic."
"I'm not sure what the hang-up is but it seems Sen. McConnell and Sen. Reid are working well together," he said. "It feels like we're in a good position."
Under the plan, the government would be funded at $986 billion until Jan. 15, the same day that a $21 billion across-the-board sequestration cut is slated to take place. Indeed, by aligning the government funding fight with the date that the next sequester is supposed to hit, it all but ensures a heated fight over whether to continue the unpopular cuts in the new year. Doing so would lower 2014 funding levels to $967 billion, a level far too low for many Democrats.
And by extending the debt ceiling until the beginning of next year, it would put the issue in the center of the heated 2014 midterm elections. The plan also would give federal agencies more discretion to implement the across-the-board sequestration cuts in 2014.
House Republicans already seemed cool to the proposal Monday afternoon, as several aides said the chamber would consider amending any Senate proposal.
"If the Senate comes to an agreement, we will review it with our members," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner.
But meddling with the Senate plan could risk a default on the $16.7 trillion national debt, while prolonging a bitter fight over the government shutdown that has damaged the GOP brand.


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She bought a gift even for me. VS. She bought a gift for even me.
I am really sorry about dragging this question out, but if you do not mind, could you tell me if you can sense any difference between the two sentences? I think that there is not much difference to distinguish between them. What do you experts think? Thank you so much as always and have a good day.
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Even you should buy a gift for her.
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Interface and the Zoological Society of London have completed a pilot project collecting and recycling fishing nets in the Phillipines
The project entitled Net-Works aims to tackle the global problem of discarded fishing nets in poor coastal communities by setting up a community based supply chain for their reuse.
The project trialled in the Phillipines, is working to improve the lives of local fishermen whilst providing Interface with a source of recycled materials for their carpet tiles.
Discarded fishing nets can cause problems for both the environment and for marine wildlife as due to their material make up they do not biodegrade. Fishing nets are made from nylon, the same material used for carpet tiles and Interface have decided to tap into this.
In their trial Net-Works established the infrastructure to collect the fishing nets, working with local communities and NGOs. During the first month they collected 1,000kg of nets. This trial established that enough material could be gathered to make the project viable, and the intention is to begin making carpet tiles using recycled nets later this year.
Nigel Stansfield, chief innovation officer at Interface said: 'The collected fishing nets have a nylon that can be recycled directly back into our carpet tiles, which will help us reduce our use of virgin raw materials and, critically, create livelihood opportunities for local communities. We are now looking forward to expanding operations and delivering the first carpet tiles from our collaboration.'
Collection systems, like that used in the trial, are to be set up in 15 coastal villages across the Phillipines. During the coming year Interface and the ZSL will also be looking to expand the idea globally, producing a toolkit allowing other community organisations to establish Net-Works supply hubs.
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Career Highs
Kills: 14, DAR, Sep 24, 2011
Attacks: 33, DAR, Sep 24, 2011
Attack pct: .545 vs Towson, Sept 1, 2012 (7-1-11)
Assists: 2, at Brown, Nov 05, 2010
Aces: 1 vs Middle Tennessee State, Aug 31, 2012
Digs: 4, Yale, Oct 22, 2010 ; vs COFC, Sep 02, 2011
Blocks: 8, at Princeton, Oct 15, 2010 ; at Bryant, Sep 09, 2011
Block solo: 2, 5 times
Block assist: 7, at Bryant, Sep 09, 2011
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Averaged 1.36 kps and 1.00 bps over three matches at the Hokie Invitational ... Registered five kills and six total blocks against Middle Tennessee State Aug. 31 at the Hokie Invitational ... Hit a career-high .545 with seven kills against Towson Sept. 1 at the Hokie Invitational ... Hit .462 with seven kills and three blocks against Northern Kentucky Sept. 8 at the Harvard Invitational ... Registered two kills and two block assists at UConn Sept. 14 at the New England Challenge.
2011 (Sophomore)
Hit .379 with 13 kills and added three total blocks against Georgia State Sept. 3 ... Totaled 11 kills and hit .429 in 3-0 win against Holy Cross Sept. 9 ... Put down 10 kills and notched eight blocks against Bryant Sept. 9 ... Named to Bryant Invitational all-tournament team ... Hit a season-high .462 with eight kills against Holy Cross Sept. 16 ... Recorded a career-high 14 kills and six block assists against Dartmouth Sept. 24 ... Tallied 12 kills and five block assists at Penn Oct. 1 ... Finished with eight kills, a .350 hitting percentage and three blocks versus Columbia Oct. 15 ... Notched 11 kills, a .579 hitting percentage and three blocks at Dartmouth Oct. 22 ... Recorded eight kills and five blocks against Penn Oct. 28 ... Turned in 13 kills, four blocks and a .344 hitting percentage at Cornell Nov. 5 ... Finished the season with 10 kills and four blocks at Brown Nov. 12.
2010 (Freshman)
Led the league in blocks as a freshman with 89 total, was fifth in the league with 0.94 blocks per set and ranked 10th in the Ancient Eight in hitting percentage (.275) ... Picked up seven kills and five blocks against Eastern Illinois Sept. 3 in first collegiate match ... Recorded a team-high 12 kills, hitting .647 for the match, six blocks and accounted for 16 total points against Bryant Sept. 4 ... Led the team with six kills against Boston College Sept. 4 ... Collected seven kills and five total blocks against Fordham Sept. 10 ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll Sept. 13 ... Collected seven kills and four total blocks in Ivy League opener at Dartmouth Sept. 24 ... Hit .400 for the match and picked up nine kills and three blocks in 3-2 win over New Hampshire Sept. 28 ... Had eight kills against Dartmouth (Oct. 1) and Columbia (Oct. 8), adding five blocks (two solo) against the Lions ... Collected six total blocks against Cornell Oct. 9 ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week Oct. 12 ... Notched eight total blocks, including two solo efforts, to go along with nine kills at Princeton Oct. 15 ... Picked up six blocks and seven kills in 3-2 win at Cornell Oct. 29 ... Registered 10 kills at Columbia Oct. 30 ... Contributed eight kills and six blocks in 3-2 win over Princeton Nov. 13.
Before Harvard
Lettered three years on the volleyball team and four for track and field team … Helped team place first in Northern California Volleyball Association rankings in 2009 and 2010 and be ranked as high as second in the nation … Earned All-Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) honorable mention as a sophomore … Named team MVP as a senior and received All-SCVAL first-team accolades … Collected a bronze medal at the Junior Olympics in Miami in 2009 … AP Scholar … National Merit commended student … Served as an assistant coach for the freshman volleyball team during her senior season … Parents, Kevin Skelly '83 and Carrie Skelly '83, both attended Harvard and Kevin was a member of the varsity baseball and junior varsity basketball teams.


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The Orlando Magic played harder Tuesday and they played better. And they still couldn't beat the Boston Celtics.
So, even though all things are possible, some are more possible than others, and a comeback by the Magic isn't one of them. They're down 0-2 and going on the road against a veteran team of champions.
It's over.
You don't lose the first two at home in the NBA conference finals and come back to win the series. You can do that in hockey and baseball, but you can't do it in basketball unless you're a great, great team, and Orlando does not meet that description.
The only thing that can save Orlando now is a miracle, and it would have to be a good one, too, something biblical, and none of that New Testament stuff. No, this calls for a fire-and-brimstone, sun-standing-still-in-the-sky Old Testament miracle. Or two.
That makes an Orlando comeback as likely as Sarah Palin declaring her undying love of Keith Olbermann or a border collie swearing off chasing Frisbies.
It's too bad. This could have been a great series, the kind that goes seven games and demands your attention. The Celtics had the Big Three — Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen — along with point guard Rajon Rondo. The Magic had a team that could shoot the lights out from long range and destroy you inside with Dwight "Superman" Howard. It seemed like the stuff that highlight reels are made of.
Okay, so Orlando lost Game 1. It was understandable. They had hardly broken a sweat in beating Charlotte and Atlanta without losing a game in the first two rounds, then they had to wait for Boston to finish off Cleveland in six games. They were rusty.
All they had to do was win Game 2 at home, then find a way to steal a game in Boston and come back home tied 2-2.
So they came out Tuesday night ready to play. Howard had the huge game he didn't have in Game 1. Vince Carter had a terrific first half, and J.J. Redick got off the bench and scored 16 vital points.
And it wasn't enough.
The Celtics are great because they get contributions from everybody, and if one player is having an off night, another star steps up. Ray Allen was huge in Game 1 but not in Game 2. No problem. Pierce and Rondo simply picked up the slack.
The Magic are going to lose because they have no one other than Redick who stepped up. Howard had the big game he was supposed to have, but Carter was fairly dreadful in the second half. Late in the game, he had two free throws that could have made it a one-point game with less than a minute to play. He hit the front of the rim on the first one and bounced the second off the back of the rim. Carter's supposed to be one of the game's premier shooters, but he looked like Shaquille O'Neal on both pressure free throws.
The rest of the team was missing in action. Rashard Lewis, who averaged 14 points a game during the season, scored just five. Matt Barnes was invisible and point guard Jameer Nelson had just four assists and nine points.
Game 1 was a blowout Boston win that got close at the end. Game 2 was tight all the way. Twice, Boston built 11-point leads, but couldn't pull away. Orlando kept clawing its way back in, on occasion taking a sliver of a lead. But if Boston couldn't pull away, Orlando couldn't hold a lead.
"We fought hard, but we didn't play smart enough," concluded their coach, Stan Van Gundy. "We didn't sustain what worked offensively."
Instead, they kept running everything through Howard in the post. It gave him 30 points, but involved no one else. It almost worked — but not quite.
It failed because the Celtics are too good to beat with one man. Cleveland tried it with the best player in the league and got thrashed. The Magic can't expect to do any better. Howard's a great player, but he's a center. He can't carry the team and the game the way a swing man or guard can.
And so it's already over. Maybe Orlando wins one game in Boston, maybe not. Whatever happens, they're probably done in five. If they get that miracle, they may last six.
But they're not beating Boston, not after falling behind two games to none.
This is one time Yogi Berra was wrong. It's ain't over, but it's over.


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The Celtics officially announced the signing of Darko Milicic during today's media day, and Darko immediately demonstrated his ability to play the role of over-the-hill-veteran-who-doesn't-give-a-fuck-anymore with aplomb.
WEEI's Ben Rohrbach caught some quotes from Darko, the first being rather depressing:
And here's video of the "fucking animals" moment, via WEEI's Mike Petraglia:
(You can watch the full interview here.)
Petraglia also caught a picture of a noticeably chunky Darko sporting his brand new No. 99 jersey that will only ever be worn ironically by Celtics fans.
SBNation's Gethin Coolbaugh took a picture of Darko standing in the corner of the gym. Getting ready for a radio interview, or sulking? Probably sulking.
Do you like jokes? Darko can make jokes.
And so begins Darko's season as the Serbian Scalabrine. We can, however, expect to see at least one abnormal display of garbage-time effort during a game, at which point Tommy Heinsohn will dub Darko as the European version of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.


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Cablebolting in Underground Mines
What is a Cablebolt?
A conventional cablebolt is a flexible tendon consisting of a number of steel wires, wound into strand, which is grouted into a borehole. Cablebolts are normally installed in regularly spaced boreholes to provide reinforcement and support for the walls, roof and floor of underground or surface openings.
Cablebolting is a very versatile form of support, since the cable strands can bend around fairly tight radii, making installation of long bolts from confined working places possible, and because they can be fabricated using a number of different configurations of the steel wires providing a variety of performance characteristics. It is not difficult to place more than one cablebolt strand in a single borehole, to increase tensile capacity, if the borehole diameter is large enough. In addition, face restraint can be attached in the form of plates, straps and mesh. Cablebolts can be used in combination with other support systems such as shotcrete, mechanical bolts or grouted rebar.
The capacity of the steel cablebolt element is transferred to the rockmass through grout. Grout used in cablebolting applications is usually composed of Portland cement and water. At some mine sites additives are added to the mix to improve the pumping characteristics of the grout. Other grouts, including resin and shotcrete have been investigated for certain cablebolting applications. As well, alternative materials such as fibreglass have been developed to replace the steel itself. This handbook will focus primarily on cablebolts developed from the conventional seven-wire steel strand and on cement grouts.
In any mining or construction project, safety is of paramount importance. Different support methods such as mechanical rockbolts and screen, shotcrete or grouted rebar are normally employed in smaller span mining tunnels or drifts to protect workers from smaller blocks and loose rock which may fall from the roof or sidewall. For larger spans in major intersections, large underground chambers or in active mining stopes, cablebolts become an attractive support system due to the increased load capacity and the potential for increased bolt length. Larger spans in general mean greater potential for large free blocks or broken rock falls.This increased demand requires an increase in support system capacity which can be effectively provided by cablebolts to ensure adequate safety. It should be noted that in areas where areal restraint systems such as screen are used to protect miners from smaller pieces of loose rock and to prevent surface unravelling of poor rockmasses, cables can be used to supplement but not to replace this form of restraint. This form of demand cannot be accommodated by cablebolts alone. Chapter 2 discusses demand-capacity relationships.
Cablebolts can reach far into the rockmass and reinforce large volumes of rock to prevent separation along planes of weakness such as joints. By maintaining a continuum nature within the rockmass, the cablebolts help to mobilize the inherent strength of the rockmass, thereby improving overall stability. In addition, by supporting blocks of rock at the excavation surface, the remaining rockmass is prevented from loosening and weakening. Cablebolts thus restrict the dangerous and costly effects of progressive instability and failure.
Cablebolts can be installed remotely in long boreholes to reach the planned stope boundary and provide pre-reinforcement to the otherwise inaccessible walls and backs created by today's bulk mining methods. Cables are one of the only options for support of inaccessible rock faces for stability and dilution control.
Dilution control can have a very direct and large influence on the cost of a stope. The cost of dilution is many-fold: waste rock with little or no economic value is mucked, trammed, crushed, skipped, milled and impounded in a tailings disposal area, all at great cost. In addition, the mill works at effectively only partial capacity, despite producing at the maximum possible milling rate. The unscheduled delays required to deal with oversize muck, mucking waste rock and with consequent changes to the mining schedule are also costly.
Other examples illustrating the economic importance of rock dilution are given throughout the mining literature including Bawden (1993), Elbrond (1994), Pakalnis et al. (1995), Planeta et al. (1990), Planeta and Szymanski (1995), Stillborg (1986), and others. Many mining handbooks include calculations for tracking the progress of waste rock dilution through the mining and milling processes to determine its overall economic impact. A detailed treatment of mine economics, however, is beyond the scope of this handbook.
All modern mining will have some minimal dilution limit resulting from the smoothing of stope outlines to facilitate blasting or due to other sources of planned dilution. In many situations, particularly where there is a distinct ore/waste contact, unplanned dilution due to sloughing waste rock can quickly render the stope uneconomic. It is this unplanned dilution component which can be tackled through improved stope design and through the use of cablebolt support.
Many mines have found cablebolts to be effective in reducing or eliminating this sloughing and thereby reducing dilution. Alternatively, the use of cablebolts can facilitate the safe extraction of larger stopes normally resulting in increased productivity. Figure 1.2.3 shows theoretical dilution values as a function of span and sloughing depth for an unsupported stope of simplified geometry.
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Ok, so, this made me think of something . . . What's better? Keeping up with a show weekly? Or waiting for it to be over once and for all, so you can marathon it on a lazy weekend? recently, I noticed that I'm currently watching 6 ongoing anime, and only one that's already over. And while it's nice to have something new to watch every week, and maybe a little more if you forget, sometimes it can really drag things out :I Like when Kill La Kill and Golden Time had a hiatus, it took me longer than it should've for me to get back into those shows. So . . . what do you guys think?
Also, is it just me, or are the OPs from this season pretty cool?


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Exploring Swiss Wine Country
Touring the steep and ancient vineyards of Valais, Switzerland by e-bike
SWITZERLAND HAS a number of claims to fame. Watches. Cheese. Roger Federer. The Matterhorn. Every tourist wants to see the last two, in particular, but usually settles for the mountain. And the Matterhorn delivers—as long as you don't mind seeing it with the crowds.
But it's not the 14,692-foot-high behemoth in the rugged canton of Valais that most deserves attention these days. Nor is it the dozens of other massive peaks spread across Valais, or posh ski resorts like Zermatt and Verbier. It's what fills the region's overlooked valleys: Swiss wine country.
Most Swiss wines remain unknown abroad—understandably, since only 1% to 2% of production is exported. In fact, many wines never leave the villages where they're produced. But they're worth drinking. The Wine Advocate reviewer David Schildknecht, for instance, included four Swiss producers in his Best of 2012 collection, including one from Valais, Robert Taramarcaz at Domaine des Muses.
The alpine terroir is also ripe for exploring. The vertigo-inducing vineyards of Valais stretch for 50 miles, from Brig to Martigny, along the Rhône River. This is Switzerland's largest and oldest wine-producing region, with estates that date back to antiquity flanking both sides of the Rhône Valley. And fall, of course, is harvest time.
Trains are the preferred means of journeying around this steep region, but I decide to tackle it by bicycle—a battery-enhanced e-bike that helps me on the climbs yet is easy enough to carry on the train when I've had one too many glasses of Petite Arvine.
I arrive in Brig on a sunny morning to pick up my e-bike at the train station. I smile to the attendant and rattle off my best French, only to be answered in an unfamiliar Swiss German dialect, which quickly turns to English when my head tilts like that of a St. Bernard hearing a whistle. Valais is a divider, both physically and culturally. The line that separates the country's German- and French-speaking regions, the röstigraben ("rösti ditch," so named for the hash-brown dish beloved by German Swiss and scoffed at by French Swiss) cuts right through it. Valais also borders Italy to the south. Language here is a mashup of ciaos, dankes and adieus—but everyone speaks everything, including English.
Even though I'm surrounded by snow-smeared glaciers and using the e-bike's maximum setting, on these hilly roads I quickly work up a sweat. My first stop is the town of Sierre, founded in 515 and now home to a wine museum, Musée Valaisan de la Vigne et du Vin, and a center dedicated to German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who lived here until he died, in 1926. I don't make it to either—I'm busy sipping in the subterranean tasting room of Château de Villa, a 16th-century estate.
Valais makes great Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Merlot, but its unique varietals—whites like Amigne and Dôle Blanche and reds like Dôle, Humagne Rouge, Carminoir, Durize and Eyholzer Roter—are worth seeking out. I cool down with a flight of dry whites: Heida, Sylvaner and Chasselas. (Unlike in France, Swiss wines are not controlled by a centralized appellation council, so grape names vary from region to region, turning casual tastings into language lessons.) The first two wines have the stony, gunpowdery characteristics the region is known for, while the Chasselas—considered by Swiss to be the only wine drinkable with fondue—has the added pucker of lime and freshly cut grass.
I shuffle to the château's wood-paneled tavern—complete with a stone fireplace and gray-haired servers scraping melted raclette cheese onto plates of potatoes—and sop up the booze with a plate of regional specialties. There is barn-dried beef and a sourdough bread called pain de seigle, made with rye cultivated at high altitudes. Then I dig into raclette, Switzerland's "summer melted cheese dish." (Fondue is for winter.) Some nutty 2012 Heida Visperterminen seems like a good idea, but at the last sip, the tavern's grandfather clock chimes three times and I know I'm late, the most odious of offenses in Switzerland. I clamber back onto the e-bike and zip along the ice-blue Rhône.
" The tasting room offers views of the jagged mountain tips. "
The ride takes me past vertical vineyards and ruin-topped hills once home to Celts, who drank wine here long before the Romans conquered the area in 20 B.C. Recent archaeological evidence includes an inscribed ceramic wine bottle found in a 2nd-century B.C. Celtic tomb near Sembrancher, 15 miles away. Unlike the chalets of Gstaad and glitzy palaces of St. Moritz, this slice of Switzerland has an ancient, craggy feel, much like Scotland or Brittany. (In a letter to his son, J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that a visit to the Upper Valais and neighboring Lauterbrunnen Valley inspired the Elven outpost of Rivendell in his books.) The area is so old, even the wind has been named (föhn). I pedal into that wind, passing street signs that read like a survey of the Iron Age: Saxon, Isérables, Vex, Spitzhörnli, Theodula and San Leonardo. I glide past stone churches built atop Celtic holy sites and 2,500-year-old stelae built long before the Celts burned down their villages in 50 B.C. and migrated west along the Rhône, having been chased out by Caesar.
I beeline for La Cave Pierre-Antoine Crettenand in Saillon, whose old-world tasting room offers views of the jagged mountain tips called dents (teeth). Mr. Crettenand himself sets up a flight of whites, including a crisp Fendant and a melon-y 2012 Petite Arvine that won silver in the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse. But it's the reds that he's really proud of—Pinot Noir, Carminoir, Cornalin. We sample them from barrels in his cold cellar. As with several other Valais vintners, many of Mr. Crettenand's grapes come from vines that were handed down through decades, if not centuries.
I have one final vineyard visit in Martigny, but since my legs are aching, I cheat and haul the bike onto the train for part of the way. OK, the whole way. The transfer is stress-free and allows me to make up time lost during my boozy lunch. Minutes later, I arrive at Gerald Besse Winery, folded into the steep hills above Martigny. Mr. Besse is known as the "Syrah Whisperer." His young daughter Sarah is introducing new ideas to the family business—like marketing. "We have an excellent product that nobody's heard of," she says, pointing at the terraced hillsides I've been admiring for the whole journey. "Our wines require a lot of labor. The grapes must be harvested by hand on these steep terraces."
I pull into the homestretch toward Saillon, a cluster of medieval buildings stacked atop a green hill. The village, which is catching the bronze light of the sinking sun as I arrive, is surrounded by vineyards and crisscrossed with walking trails and bike paths. It is amazing that so few tourists come here. I check into the Hôtel des Bains de Saillon, which is attached to a network of hot baths, grottos, steam rooms and saunas, where I relax my aching muscles in a thermal bath.
The baths offer views of the Dent du Morcles, tonight illuminated with a peach-hued alpenglühen—a phenomenon that creates a glowing red band across the horizon from the setting sun. I float around lazily, looking forward to dinner and more wine. I can hear the cold rush of the Rhône below, beckoning me to continue on, as it did the Celts before they left Europe for the British Isles. But tonight I'm trading in migration for la dolce vita.
The Lowdown: Valais Canton, Switzerland
Getting There: The Valais (or Wallis in Swiss-German) is a two-hour train ride from the Geneva or Zurich airports, both of which can be reached via direct flights from the U.S. Trains depart regularly, at least twice an hour.
Touring There: Swiss train passes are a must, and offer a great way to get around the country (from $286 for a three-day second-class pass, plus a bike fee of $18 per day, sbb.ch). Several stations, such as the one in Brig, offer bike rentals, including e-bikes and kids' bikes. Self-guided rides are easy—roads are clearly marked and apps and online resources abound. The Vins du Valais app includes tasting-room hours, directions and maps (www.lesvinsduvalais.ch). Valais Tourism can help arrange for a guide, if you prefer (from $250 per day, valais.ch).
Staying There: Hôtel des Bains de Saillon is an affordable four-star hotel with a good restaurant and thermal baths and pools (from about $150 a night, including breakfast, bainsdesaillon.ch). For an upgrade, check out the Waldhotel Fletschhorn in Saas-Feerelais (from about $275 a night, fletschhorn.ch). Its restaurant has a wine cellar containing 45,000 bottles, many of them Valasian.
Eating (and Drinking) There: Château de Villa is a 16th-century estate where you can taste Swiss wines in the oenotheque before digging into a raclette in the cozy tavern (Rue de Sainte-Catherine 4, Sierre, www.chateaudevilla.ch). Gerald Besse Winery is located in the village of Les Rappes overlooking Martigny (Route de la Combe 14, Les Rappes, besse.ch). La Cave Pierre-Antoine Crettenand is in the village of Saillon, on a side street running parallel to the Rhône (Route de Tobruk, Saillon, crettenand-vins.ch).
What to Bring: Alpine weather is unpredictable, so in addition to sunscreen and a hat, bring rain gear and a sweater. Bottled water can cost upward of $5, but public fountains dispense Alps-fed water in every village—you'll see locals refilling their own bottles.
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The Respiratory System of a Chicken
The main job of the respiratory system of birds is to absorb oxygen and rid the body of carbon dioxide. In addition, the respiratory system also gets rid of excess heat, detoxifies some of the waste products of the body, and makes noise — most noticeably, crowing noise, much to the annoyance of our neighbors.
Like humans, birds have a windpipe and two lungs, but from there, birds are distinctly unlike mammals. Air flows into a bird's lungs during the intake of breath, it continues through the lungs into nine air sacs, and then it goes back out through the lungs again.
Birds get two doses of oxygen for the price of one breath! The air sacs are arranged around the inside of the chest and abdominal cavity, and they connect with some of the bones of the skeleton.
Humans breathe with the help of the diaphragm muscle, which divides the chest and abdominal cavities. Birds don't have a working diaphragm; instead, a bird moves its rib cage and keel (breastbone) to draw air into the lungs and force it back out.
Holding a chick or other small bird firmly around the body stops them from breathing, and it may quickly kill them. This is just one of several reasons why small children should be supervised when holding chicks.
The voice box in chickens is called the syrinx, located down in the chest cavity where the windpipe splits to enter each lung. Both male and female chickens have a syrinx, so hens can crow, too, if they feel like it. The syrinx isn't an optional piece of anatomy though. A rooster can't live with his syrinx removed.
The layout of a chicken's heart isn't so different from the layout of a human heart. It has four chambers and pumps blood through two loops: one loop through the lungs, and the other loop through the rest of the body. A bird's heart is relatively large for its body size, compared to mammal hearts.


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ThermoEnergy Corp. announced that a patent for issued for its ThermoFuel Process, a renewable energy technology for industrial and municipal wastewater treatment facilities that converts sewage sludge into a bio-fuel, giving plants the benefits of both environmental and economic savings...
LITTLE ROCK, AR, April 20, 2005 -- ThermoEnergy Corp., an integrated technologies company that provides cost-effective and environmentally-responsible solutions for problems associated with industrial and municipal wastewater treatment and air emissions from power plants, today announced that it has received notice from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that a patent for its ThermoFuel Process has been issued.
ThermoFuel is a renewable energy technology that converts sewage sludge into a bio-fuel with an energy value similar to that of coal. This bio-fuel can be used to generate power on-site or as a blending agent for utility power plants, municipal solid waste incinerators or cement kilns.
"The ThermoFuel process offers tremendous environmental benefits, as well as economic savings, to wastewater treatment plants looking to upgrade to Class A Exceptional Quality biosolids," said Dennis Cossey, CEO of ThermoEnergy. "A typical plant utilizing our process to upgrade their facilities can reduce truck traffic to and from the plant by 50% and tipping costs by up to 90%."
ThermoFuel uses either primary or waste activated sewage sludge as a feedstock resource. By integrating it with a plant's existing conventional temperature phased anaerobic digestion, it allows the plant to significantly expand its original throughput or lower the cost of new plant construction. Heat integration lowers the overall operating costs of wastewater treatment plants while improving overall water quality and removing ammonia, which is a leading cause of damage to marine ecosystems such as the Long Island Sound or Chesapeake Bay.
The fuel source created by ThermoFuel is a sterile, stable product that meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Class A Exceptional Quality biosolids requirements, as well as Kyoto Treaty requirements. ThermoFuel allows wastewater treatment plant operators to meet all water quality standards and improve process efficiency at a lower cost without increasing the size of the plant.
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Interviews in the University of Florida College of Law Oral History Collection discuss the history and growth of the University of Florida College of Law (now called the Fredric G. Levin College of Law), which will commemorate its 100th year in 2009. Previous law school deans, former and current faculty members, and law school graduates discuss their law school years and campus life at UF over the decades. Some interviews cover law school life in the 1920s and 1930s, the moot courts, and flaws in the curricula in those early years. Other subject matter takes on the first black applicants and the first female students, changing qualifications for entrance, effect of World War II and Korean War on the students, and the law school's impact on state judicial history and lawmaking. Among the more prominent graduates interviewed are Chesterfield Smith, Raymond Ehrlich, Stephan Mickle, and Fredric Levin.
The University of Florida College of Law Oral History Collection is part of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is an affiliated program of the University of Florida's Department of History. Its collections include approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country. The transcribed interviews are available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and other interested groups. Researchers have used our oral history material for theses, dissertations, articles, and books.
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CEO of chip maker Micron dies in plane crash
BOISE, Idaho – The image Steve Appleton cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road rally driver became the perfect metaphor for his wild, 18-year ride as the leader of Micron Technology Inc., where stomach-churning swings from billion-dollar profit to billion-dollar loss required the constitution of a business daredevil to survive.
Appleton, Micron's chief executive officer, died Friday morning when his experimental plane crashed at the Boise Airport, west of Micron's desert campus.
He was no stranger to plane crashes, surviving at least two earlier wrecks including one in 2004 that left him seriously injured. He was the only person aboard on Friday when the small Lancair crashed shortly after its second take-off attempt in Boise, according to safety investigators.
Appleton was known as a driven competitor in a volatile industry. Away from the office, he channeled that energy into high-octane hobbies, pursuing his passions as a stunt pilot, off-road racer and scuba diver.
"He lived life to the fullest, and while he enjoyed great success in business and in life, he never lost his intensity or his drive," Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter said in a statement.
In the wake of the 51-year-old's death, Micron's board of directors headed to Boise for a weekend meeting to discuss the company's next steps. Micron spokesman Dan Francisco said company president and chief operating officer D. Mark Durcan would take on Appleton's responsibilities until the board appoint his successor.
Corporate governance experts raised questions in the past about whether Appleton, as CEO, should be engaging in a hobby as risky as stunt piloting, but Micron's board accepted it as simply part of Appleton's work-hard and play-hard personality. The company's shares have traded between $3.97 and $11.95 over the past year, and shares were up 23 cents at $7.95 Friday before trading was halted for the announcement.
"Steve's passion and energy left an indelible mark on Micron, the Idaho community and the technology industry at large," Micron's board of directors said in a prepared statement.
Micron makes semiconductor chips for computers, mobile devices, cameras and other devices. It makes products under the Lexar and Crucial brands, and is one of Idaho's largest and most influential employers. In its latest fiscal year, which ended Sept. 1, Micron earned $167 million, or 17 cents per share, and had revenue of $8.8 billion.
Betsy Van Hees, an analyst from San Francisco's Wedbush Securities, always figured Appleton was the ideal persona to lead an upstart from the wilds of Idaho in the turbulent global memory industry. People must be thrill-seekers to be in the computer memory business, especially in recent years, Van Hees said.
"You look at what's happened in the industry over the years, its many ups and downs — more downs than ups lately — and Steve had stayed committed to that, and to staying in Boise," she said. "It's not a business for the faint of heart."
Crash investigators say Appleton hadn't filed a flight plan and by all indications planned to stay in the area for a recreational flight on a clear, sunny morning.
Air safety investigator Zoe Keliher with the National Transportation Safety Board said the crash happened during Appleton's second attempt to fly that morning. She said Appleton's first take-off ended abruptly — witnesses said the plane only got about 5 feet off the ground — when he re-landed and returned to a hangar for about five minutes.
Keliher said witnesses reported that the plane then returned to the runway to take off again, but Appleton almost immediately told the tower he needed to turn around and re-land. His plane was about 100 or 200 feet in the air before witnesses say it crashed and caught fire. Appleton's body was thrown from the wreckage.
Keliher said the remains of the pilot weren't immediately identifiable, but Appleton's wallet and other belongings were among the debris. She said the body was being fingerprinted by authorities.
The runway was dry and there were no indications that birds or weather caused the crash, Keliher said. Investigators planned to look for any evidence of equipment failure, pilot error or other problems.
Airport spokeswoman Patti Miller said the aircraft was a fixed-wing prop plane Lancair, which is built from kits.
Planes like the Lancair have caught the attention of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is in the midst of a study of their safety. Last year, the agency investigated 222 experimental and amateur-built plane accidents in which 67 people were killed. More than half involved planes that were bought used rather than having been built by the current owner.
In 2004, Appleton sustained a punctured lung, head injuries, ruptured disk and broken bones after his stunt plane crashed in the desert east of Boise.
He didn't immediately reveal the severity of injuries he sustained in that crash, and at the time a Micron spokesman described Appleton as only sustaining some "bumps and bruises." But in 2006 a corporate governance expert began questioning disclosures about the crash.
Appleton's death came one week after the company's president and chief operating officer, D. Mark Durcan, announced plans to retire in August. Mark W. Adams, Micron's vice president of worldwide sales, was named to succeed Durcan.
News of Appleton's death sparked an outpouring of homage from Idaho leaders, with Otter lauding him as a champion and visionary businessman who "understood the value as well as the cost of excellence."
Idaho's congressional delegation also mourned Appleton's death, with Sen. Mike Crapo and Reps. Mike Simpson and Raul Labrador saying that Appleton was to Idaho what the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was to America.
Appleton was the face of Micron for most Idahoans. The company was instrumental in Idaho's tech boom and is known for charitable giving, recently donating $13 million for a new building at Boise State University.
Appleton had his business administration degree from Boise State fresh in hand in 1983 when he took a graveyard job at the new high-tech startup, Micron. His starting wage on the chip fabrication line was just $4.46 an hour, but it wasn't long before Appleton was promoted, and promoted again — 11 times in all.
By 1991 he was the youngest-ever chief of a Fortune 500 company, serving as president and chief operating officer of Micron. In 1994, he was appointed to the position of chairman, chief executive officer and president, though he dropped the president title in 2007. He is survived by his wife, Dalynn, and four children.
Appleton owned several different types of aircraft, piloted in air shows and frequently flew the planes in the skies over Idaho. He had a penchant for other adventures too: In 2006, he won the 20-car Baja Challenge Class of the SCORE Tecate Baja 1000, completing the 1,047-mile run from Enseneda to La Paz in 25 hours and 25 minutes, 30 minutes ahead of his nearest competitor.
At the time, Appleton said he wasn't worried about putting himself and his executive team behind the wheels for the pounding, often brutal race over rough and remote terrain.
"I don't know what could be worse than being in the memory business for risk-taking," he said. "If we were in some stable, monopolistic business, I'd probably get objections from my executive staff about doing this, but they're all dying to go."
Micron shares were up 23 cents at $7.95 Friday before trading was halted in the early afternoon for the announcement. The company's shares have traded between $3.97 and $11.95 over the past year.
Associated Press correspondent Todd Dvorak and reporters Nick Jesdanun and Joan Lowy contributed to this report.


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Preparing for Global Down Syndrome Foundation's Hollywood Ball
If you're planning to attend a fancy ball, it goes without saying that you've got to have a knock-out gown to wear. And thanks to some very generous individuals, 50 women with Down syndrome are going to be all glammed up for the May 31 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Hollywood Ball.
They met at David's Bridal in Lone Tree the other day to enjoy tea and select gowns that were purchased for them with donations from Pat McDonnell and the McDonnell Family Foundation; Anna Sie; the Global Down Syndrome Foundation and Red Rocks Church.
The ball, hosted by the Denver-based Global Down Syndrome Foundation, will take place at Red Rocks Church Littleton campus, 9136 W. Bowles Ave.
"The dresses are theirs to keep," notes GDSF spokeswoman Anca Call.
The Global Down Syndrome Foundation also hosts the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show, a celebrity-studded affair that attracts such stars as Quincy Jones and Jamie Foxx. The 2013 edition is scheduled for Sept. 28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown.
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