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Some of the things that were sent were things the kids had never seen. Many of us spent extra time with the orphans, explaining to them how to use some of the things they received in their bags. One thing that caused David and I to really laugh about was the dental floss that one of the teen girls received. She opened the small box and noticed the minty smell, so assumed it was chewing gum. After she chewed on it for awhile, some of the other girls noticed her and asked us if she was using it correctly. We explained to her what it was really for and had a good time realizing how "simple" these kids really are.
One advantage to treating the orphans exceptioinally well is that we are winning over the heart of the orphanage director, Elena. David mentioned that he would like for the children to be in church on Sunday for our "Christmas Sunday," and she responded matter-of-factly that she would have ALL of them ready. Normally, for lack of vehicles, we are only able to pick up two car-loads of children each Sunday. This past Sunday, though, we had to find a BUS to pick up all of the kids. Then, we had to have a "game plan" so as to keep our church services orderly since we had as many children in church as we had adults (once you counted in our regular-attending children as well)! We asked our church people to each sit between two or three children, and the services went GREAT! An unexpected advantage to bringing all of the orphans to church is that their social workers have to be with them on outings. So, we had one of their workers in church for the first time, and he received the Gospel and a free Bible for being a first-time guest! To God be the glory for the way He is working in "our" orphanage!


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Brogues were originally developed in Scotland, with their characteristic perforations allowing water to drain out of the shoes after walking on wet Highland bogs. These days the style is favoured more for aesthetics than practicality, although brogues are still ideal for wearing in the countryside because of their durability
Each pair of shoes are handmade in a process that can take up to eight weeks, and entails more than 250 manual operations. The brogues are fully leather lined, and have leather soles with rubber heels. The laces pass through eyelets that are reinforced with metal rings, while the leather is hand-polished
Church's has been manufacturing in Northampton since 1873, with traditional methods still employed by the craftsmen, many of whom work at the factory for life. Church's was acquired by the Prada Group in 1999, ensuring that the brand's heritage and high standards of production have been retained
In common with all fine English shoes, the Goodyear welting method of connecting the top of the shoe to the inseam and leather sole has been used. The sole and the upper are stitched on to a 'welt', a strip of hand-cut leather, which is then in turn stitched on to the bottom of the shoes in the early stages of manufacture
Regardless of where they were purchased, a pair of Church's shoes can be returned to the manufacturer for repairs or for a 'refurbishment', in which the same diligence and high-quality materials employed in the original manufacturing process are used. With proper care, a pair of Church's shoes can last a lifetime
Church's was founded in 1873 by Mr Thomas Church, although the family had already been hand-making men's shoes since 1675. Quality, craftsmanship and innovation have always been cornerstones of Church's business, and in 1881 the company was the first manufacturer to introduce differently shaped 'left' and 'right' shoes (previously both tended to be cut from the same last). Still based in Northampton, a region of the UK that has been the centre of the footwear industry since the Middle Ages, Church's uses only the finest leathers and still hand produces its shoes, ensuring that the timelessly stylish end products are steeped in heritage and craftsmanship.


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March 19. The crocus are blooming. The hyacinth have buds. The day lilies are already six inches high. The tulips and daffodils are next. Hard to believe it was April 8 last year when I blogged about spring arriving in upstate New York's Finger Lakes. It really did hardly feel like we had a winter though.
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Jeanne Austin, 84, the matriarch of a tennis playing family that produced four professional players, including two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin, died Tuesday of heart failure at Torrance Memorial Medical Center after a long illness, daughter Pam Austin said.
From 1962 to 1977, Jeanne Austin managed the pro shop at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates, where her five children learned to play tennis. Besides Tracy and Pam, sons Jeff and John played on the pro circuit, while her other son Doug was a top college player.
The most successful of the Austin children was Tracy, who earned the No. 1 ranking during a career closely supervised by her mother.
In 1977, at age 14 in Portland, Ore., Tracy became the youngest player at the time to win a pro event. She beat Chris Evert to win her first U.S. Open title at 16 in 1979, then defeated Martina Navratilova to win the U.S. Open again in 1981. In 1980, she was ranked No. 1 and teamed with her brother John to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. Chronic injuries cut short her career a few years later, and subsequent comebacks were unsuccessful.
Jeanne Austin grew up in Beverly Hills and attended UCLA, where she met her future husband, George. The family moved to Rolling Hills Estates after he completed military service and went to work for TRW as a nuclear physicist.
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Gerald Roush, 68, a Ferrari expert and newsletter publisher who was dubbed "the Dear Abby of the vintage Ferrari world" by the Wall Street Journal, died May 21 from complications of a heart attack at a nursing home in Atlanta.
A meticulous researcher of the Italian sports cars, Roush took interest in Ferraris after seeing one on the cover of a 1958 magazine. While in college, he began collecting information about individual cars based on serial numbers.
Born in 1941, Roush earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history at Auburn University. He was teaching history at Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Ga., when he started the Ferrari Market Letter in 1974, which continues to publish. It carries articles about certain cars or collectors along with classified ads about vehicles for sale.
In 1976, he quit teaching to devote more time to the newsletter. Today, the monthly print and online newsletter boasts nearly 5,000 subscribers. He and his wife, Carol Jane Whitley Roush, compiled the publication in their home.
He also was a consultant whose clients included lawyers, law enforcement officers, car dealers, investors and collectors.
Roush once owned a couple of Ferraris but sold them. That made him more reputable among clients because he didn't have a vested interest in the cars, according to a 1997 article in the Wall Street Journal.
"They don't really make good investments," he told the Wall Street Journal. Vintage Ferraris, he said, "are just old cars."
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New Tribune mobile app creates 'playlists' of streaming audio news.
SAN FRANCISCO: A new smartphone app developed by the Tribune will read aloud a personalized "playlist" of news articles along with weather and traffic updates, as the media organization looks for new ways to reach consumers.
The free Newsbeat app released on Thursday is the first product developed by the year-old Tribune Digital Ventures group headed by former Yahoo Inc executive Shashi Seth.
The app uses text-to-speech technology and recordings of humans reading news articles to produce a daily catalog of roughly 7,000 articles about everything from world news to sports. Similar to the way digital music streaming services such as Pandora Media Inc operate, the Newsbeat app determines the stories most relevant for different users based on their preferences and habits.
Seth said the app, which is available for iPhones and Android smarpthones, is good for commuters. The streaming news playlist is customized for the length of each user's commute, based on the addresses they enter into the app. "There is a very large amount of people's undivided attention that you can get," said Seth.
The news articles include stories produced by Tribune's newspapers, which include the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, as well content from websites and publishers that Tribune has partnered with. The customized playlists of news stories include audio ads about every 10 minutes.
Tribune Co is preparing to separate its slow growth newspaper assets from lucrative broadcast TV properties later this year. Newspapers across the United States face challenges including shrinking advertising revenue and readers who prefer to get their news on mobile devices.


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Silvestre Varela scored in the dying moments for Portugal to salvage a 2-2 draw against the United States at the Arena Amazonia on Sunday, keeping all four teams in Group G alive.
The Americans took a 2-1 lead into stoppage time after Clint Dempsey scored in the 81st minute to put them in front, but Cristiano Ronaldo's cross picked out Varela in front of goal and he turned home a header on the final play of the match to deny the U.S. a place in the knockout round.
Nani put Portugal up 1-0 in the fifth minute after a failed clearance from Geoff Cameron, but the U.S. battled back to take the lead with second-half goals from Jermaine Jones and Dempsey, only to see the three points snatched away at the death.
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U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says
U.S. military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating in the abuse of prisoners during interrogations after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, an independent study concluded on Monday.
"These practices included designing, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of detainees," concluded the study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers.
The panel is made up of 19 military, health, legal and human rights experts who studied public records concerning the role of health professionals in detainee operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, at secret CIA prisons and at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. Navy Base in Cuba during the last dozen years.
They said that in the rush to obtain information that could prevent future attacks, the Defense Department and the CIA improperly demanded that medical personnel violate their ethical obligation to "do no harm."
A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, said detainees receive humane medical care and that the allegations in the report were not new.
"They have been subject to numerous investigations over the years, and those investigations – which had access to more information than the authors of this report – have never substantiated these claims," Breasseale said.
The report, titled "Abandoned Ethics," said mental health professionals advised interrogators on how to exploit detainees' fears and anxieties and when to increase the harshness of interrogations.
They used medical records and psychological profiles to help interrogators create feelings of dependency and dread, and to strip away detainees' will to resist, the report said.
It quoted former CIA prisoners as saying medical doctors monitored them during so-called enhanced interrogations - checking oxygen levels while one was waterboarded and measuring the swollen limbs of another who was shackled in a standing position for long periods. Sometimes the doctors intervened, the report said.
"The role of physicians at CIA sites, then, was not to prevent pain, suffering, or harm to the detainee, but only to avoid severe harm," it said.
The task force called for a full investigation.
"We have a responsibility to make sure this never happens again," said task force member Gerald Thomson, a doctor and professor of medicine emeritus at Columbia University.
After the hijacked plane attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, the Bush administration authorized interrogation techniques that have been characterized as torture.
The CIA no longer holds prisoners and President Barack Obama has prohibited the use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, the report notes.
But it said ethical violations were still occurring, such as the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners at Guantánamo.
The report's authors included Albert Shimkus, a retired Navy captain who was the commanding officer and chief surgeon in charge of detainee health care at the Guantánamo base in 2002 and 2003. He now teaches at the U.S. Naval War College.


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I've milked heaven knows how many cows over nearly a lifetime and never in a million years could I ever have predicted what is happening now. I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes, but the dairy industry claims that it now has robotic milking units that milk the cows without any human intervention at all. Mrs. Cow is trained to saunter into a "robotic" milking stall on a giant turntable when she has the urge to be milked, eats her grain nonchalantly while electronic sensors wash her udders, attach the milkers, empty her bag, and detach the milkers. Other electronic sensors monitor her health while she is milking herself. I suppose her cholesterol and blood pressure could be checked too. This would probably be a good time for a glowing reporter from the Happy Factory Society to interview her about how wonderful are giant, consolidated, animal confinement systems these days. She might have something interesting to say about health care, since hers is subsidized almost as completely as that of our Senators. Then she wanders out of her stall and lolls beside the manure lagoon on her robotic spa until she feels the urge to be milked again.
I have to conclude that today's Mrs. Cow, while probably giving more milk than my Betsy in the days of yore, is not nearly as smart. Betsy would have learned how to beat the Happy Factory system in about four days and started frequenting the "robotic" stall every twenty minutes to get more grain which she loved dearly. In six months of robotic milking, she would have gained 500 pounds. Five thousand of her ilk would have bankrupted the Happy Factory and sent the price of corn soaring even higher than the romantic dreams of robotic farming.
It is not the notion of robotic milkers than amazes me so much. Our cars and trucks are being put together mostly by robots, so I suppose robot milkers are on the way too. It is the smarmy and naive felicity with which the press reports this kind of progress that floats me off into a dreamy world of make-believe. Reports, which are written by people who sound as if they have never seen a cow until yesterday, let alone ever milked one, inspire me to imagine the days when electronics will take care of everything. In just a year or two, it appears, electronic sensors will make the manure that follows Mrs. Cow around disappear magically into thin air. Electronic sensors out in the fields (often hundreds of miles away from Mrs. Cow) will protect the corn from insects, diseases and weeds and will turn on gentle rain showers as needed. The corn will yield 400 bushels per acre anyway, and be spirited out of the fields and into the cow factories by unmanned Drones. Electronic sensors will dry the corn properly, grind it into meal and sift it away to Mrs. Cow's robotic milking stall. Nothing will ever break down. There will be no need for farmers. They will all be working in factories, making robots that never wear out.
At the very end of these winsome reports comes the real shocker. One (just ONE) of these robotic milking units costs $200,000. And a large dairy will need two or three.
By the time robots take over farming, I imagine the cost of milk will be in the neighborhood of $120 a gallon. Nooooo problem. Just increase the size of your milking herd by another 300,000 cows or so.
Tractors have gone robotic too. This is good news for us wordsmiths, strange as that may seem. I happened to look inside the cab of one of the tractors that can drive itself across the field without benefit of clergy or anyone else. The cab resembled the console and cockpit of a 747 jet.. Right there beside the air conditioner was a stack of magazines, not all of them necessarily the kind you leave out on your living room coffee table. The farmer grinned sheepishly. "Gotta have some way to stay awake," he explained.
"Why's that?" I asked. "If the thing runs itself, why do you have to stay awake. Why even be there at all?"
He grinned again. "Well, they haven't figured out yet how to get the tractor to know precisely when it should turn itself around at the end of the field."
Then, after swearing me to secrecy as to the person involved, he told me what he claims is a true story. To appreciate it, you have to understand the lay of our land here in north central Ohio. Much of it, as in this case, is fairly flat with lonely single-lane country roads creasing across it every mile. No fences, no trees, no nothing. Such roads are no challenge at all for today's monster robot tractors. So the guy I am sworn not to mention by name fell asleep as he and his rig groaned across the trackless fields. When his monster came to a road, it barely shivered as it crunched through the roadside ditch and chisel-plowed half way across the thoroughfare before its master awoke and got it stopped.
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Julia Osborne wrote a great review of Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater's star-studded fifth anniversary concert at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts on May 29. The show included works by such choreographers as Ulysses Dove, Lorenzo Rennie Harris and LVCDT artistic director Bernard Gaddis, among others. The article has some nice interpretations of the choreography and Osborne gave the show a sparkling review, noting that the concert was excellent despite a few technical malfunctions.
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Social recruiting is no longer something for the future—it is playing an important role today. The use of social media to attract active and passive candidates presents new opportunities and challenges for talent acquisition professionals. Most progressive talent acquisition executives realize it is important to use social media effectively to fill their talent pipeline; many admit, however, that their recruiting organizations are not getting the results they expect or desire.
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The Niagara University Campus Programming Board (CPB) is the primary campus activities programming organization on campus. We provide opportunities for students to take part in social, educational and cultural activities. Students gain valuable leadership experience through the planning and implementation of all of our events!
CPB members do not only plan activities at Niagara, they are part of a dynamic group of students who work as a team. They coordinate the marketing, production and supervision of events such as: Open Mic Nite, magicians, bingo, Late Nite Niagara and various off-campus trips (Buffalo Bills & Buffalo Sabres games, theater outings, Medieval Times, and many more).
As with many student organizations, those who participate in the CPB do so year after year. This provides the student body with continuity in programming and provides the CPB members with a unique learning and leadership opportunity. It is a rewarding experience and when all is said and done, members enjoy participating in the events and activities.


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In most cases, community engagement means more than listening, especially when you're getting kicked in the gut, says Grayling San Francisco's Alan Dunton.
With a single tweet, Kylie Jenner – who sells crazy amounts of lip kits online for gobs of money – caused major problems for Snapchat this week, shaving off a significant amount of the social media company's market value: $1.3 Billion to be exact. Granted, Ms Jenner is a bigly influencer, amplified astronomically by being a card-carrying member of the everything-we-touch-turns-to-gold-Kardashian family, but this level of influence is next-level bigly.
In parallel, Snap is also getting pounding by more than a million of its users, who through a Change.org petition, are desperately pleading with the company to undue a recent overhaul of its UI.
Though Snapchat has had no shortage of well-documented bumps in its relatively short road – Spectacles anyone, anyone? – this week's damaging headlines underscore a larger, potentially existential problem: The company doesn't see to really listen to its users. And as a social media company, it should know better.
Okay, to be fair, Snapchat does listen to its users, though it just doesn't seem to care too much about what they have to say. Their response to the Change.org petition essentially said, "We hear you loud and clear. We love your enthusiasm. Deal with it."
While this response will immediately drive a deeper wedge between its vision for Snapchat and what its customers want, the company missed a longer-term opportunity to seize their passion and translate into positive engagement that could have helped dampen, deflect, or distract – or downright prevent – from Jenner's tweet – or whatever the next calamity might bring.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but companies who actively court their diehard fans, organize them into an official community, and engage with them regularly are in a much better position to navigate around crisis situations all together and/or mitigate backlash quickly.
This doesn't mean companies always have to do what their customers say. Companies rarely make snap decisions about their products and services, and sometimes they have to stay focused on their ultimate goal, as Snapchat is doing in this case. Omelets and eggs, you know?
But equally rare are opportunities where a little ground can't be ceded, a feature dialed-up or down, or to tweak the UI made to prove you're not only listening to your fans but taking them seriously, too. Actions speak louder than words.
Companies must contend with feedback from their customers across all issues, not just the technical variety. Nearly a decade ago, Gap was eviscerated by its customers over a logo re-design (which it cancelled a week later). The point is, communication between brands and their followers is, for better or for worse, a two-way street. Smart companies figure out how to work with their customers to advance their products and services. It's not always clean and perfect, but when achieved the benefit pays exponentially more than the cost of doing so.
Don't worry, about Snapchat though. They had a decent quarter and its co-founder, Evan Spiegel, just got a $638 million payout. That amount of moolah buys him a jumbo jet load of Jenner's cosmetic products.
Alan Dunton is managing director of Grayling San Francisco.
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This guide has outlined a series of instructional strategies that have proven to be successful in educating children with ADHD. However, it should be emphasized again that these techniques are also highly useful for all children. The three main components of a successful strategy for educating children with ADHD are academic instruction, behavioral interventions, and classroom accommodations. By incorporating techniques from these three areas into their everyday instructional and classroom management practices, teachers will be empowered to improve both the academic performance and the behavior of their students with ADHD. In doing so, teachers will create an enhanced learning environment for all students.
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beyerdynamic celebrates the world's first wireless ribbon microphone. The RM 510 interchangeable ribbon capsule for Opus 9** and Opus 600 wireless systems is a giant leap forward in ribbon technology and brings a new dimension to live vocal performances.
German audio specialist beyerdynamic is very pleased to debut the world's first wireless ribbon microphone at this year's AES Convention in San Francisco. The RM 510 interchangeable ribbon capsule for beyerdynamic's Opus 9** and Opus 600 wireless systems is a giant leap forward in ribbon technology and brings a new dimension to live vocal performances.
The RM 510's sophisticated capsule design features an ultra-light, barely 3 micrometre thick aluminium ribbon that delivers exceptional frequency response and excellent transient behavior. A unique sound channelling technology provides the capsule with its cardioid polar pattern making the RM 510 the very first ribbon capsule perfect for use on stage with wireless microphone systems. The capsule's treble resonator delivers rich high-frequency reproduction and also serves to protect against "plosives." In keeping with beyerdynamic's manufacturing philosophy, every RM 510 wireless microphone head is handmade in Germany.
By employing a sound labyrinth on the rear of the diaphragm and using an advanced acoustic fabric, beyerdynamic has succeeded in improving not only the sound characteristics but also the technical specifications of the RM 510. A subtle attenuation in the 6 kHz range effectively suppresses sibilant sounds and supports the balanced and unobtrusive sound of the RM 510.
The RM 510's forerunner is the legendary M 500 ribbon microphone, famous during the 70s and 80s. The lineage is especially noticeable from the original, elegant design of the housing, stainless steel mesh basket with multilayer metal gauze, and the use of robust, high quality materials throughout. This combination of delicate engineering and precision build quality provides a new standard for ruggedness and reliability for the stage.
RM 510 offers a spectacular, colouration-free sound with the same exceptional treble reproduction that characterizes all beyerdynamic ribbon microphones, and the capsule's design delivers significant rear attenuation resulting in feedback suppression ideal for live vocals on even "loud" stages.
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It was just two weeks ago that I explained why OMB directors in general are seen as good White House chiefs of staff by the presidents they serve.
In a very strong piece in today's The Washington Post, Ezra Klein explained why one particular former OMB Director — Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels — was never going to be the strong presidential candidate some were saying he would be and is not the savior some in the GOP are looking for.
Ezra's analysis about Daniels can easily be broadened to OMB directors in general: With very rare exceptions they're just not right for today's presidential politics. The top five reasons are:
1. A Very Bad Track Record. OMB directors almost certainly have to take responsibility for a budget situation that got worse…and in many cases much worse…while they were in the job. It may not have been their fault, but it happened on their watch.
Jack Lew, who just left OMB to become Obama's chief of staff, is the only OMB director since Robert Mayo in 1969 who can say that the budget was balanced while he headed the agency. It's hard to be convincing that you'll fix what for many voters is THE hot-button issue when you can be tagged with failing miserably at it the first time.
2. No Friends. Face it: OMB directors have to say "no" to most of the people they deal with. That's not a great way to get people to support your candidacy.
3. You're A Geek. As someone who falls into this category, please understand that I say this with the utmost respect: More often than not OMB directors are or become policy nerds who get in the weeds of most decisions. As I said two weeks ago, OMB directors are familiar with the full scope and breadth of everything the federal government does and that would seem to make them ideal candidates for president. But they generally focus more on the micro than the macro. That makes them great staffers to presidents rather than the presidents themselves.
4.Not Great Communicators. You can count on one hand (and maybe just one or two fingers) the OMB directors who have had the ability to connect with mass audiences.
5. Not Known Beyond The Beltway. OK…this is a little strong: Some OMB directors have not been Washington insiders (Anyone else remember Bert Lance?). But even the few that were known outside the beltway were not household names when they got the job and then had to focus their attention and energies on a vary narrow group inside.
Even the former members of Congress who moved to OMB like Leon Panetta (D-CA), Jim Nussle (R-OH), Rob Portman (R-OH) and David Stockman (R-MI) didn't have much of a national constituency when they took the job and even less of one when they left.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Senior May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) of the Georgia College women's tennis team has been named Bobcat Athlete of the Week for her performance on the court during the week ending March 24.
Johnson lost a total of four games in her three singles matches this week while playing in the No. 2 slot for the Bobcats.
She made quick work of Tanye Timko from IUP, winning 6-1, 6-1. Johnson then faced off against Ivana Krommelova from Clayton State University and cruised to another 6-1, 6-1 win. The senior finished the week with her most impressive win, blanking Lola White-Baer of Luther College 6-0, 6-0. Johnson was also 2-1 in doubles play, with wins against Clayton State and Luther College.
Johnson and the rest of the women's tennis team returns to the court Friday, March 29 for Peach Belt Conference (PBC) match against UNC Pembroke at 2 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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LOS ANGELES — The infants who get the rotavirus vaccine aren't the only ones who benefit. New research shows that older children and even adults were less likely to be hospitalized with the gastrointestinal virus after the vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 2006.
Rotavirus causes "severe watery diarrhea, often with vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before the RotaTeq and Rotarix vaccines came on the market, nearly all U.S. children became infected with rotavirus before their 5th birthday. Worldwide, more than half a million children under age 5 die as a result of rotavirus each year, the CDC says.
Among the youngest group of hospital patients — those under the age of 4 — the incidence of rotavirus dropped by 80 percent between the pre-vaccine years of 2000-06 and the post-vaccine years of 2008-10. In addition, there was a 70 percent drop for children ages 5 to 14 and a 53 percent drop for patients between the ages of 15 and 24.
The researchers also saw fewer hospitalizations for cases of gastroenteritis of unspecified cause after infants started getting the rotavirus vaccine. However, these reductions were smaller.
The research team, from the CDC's Division of Viral Diseases, analyzed data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which tracks a nationally representative group of hospital patients. The researchers did not include figures from 2007 in their analysis because it was a "transition year" with limited vaccine coverage, they wrote.
The CDC experts gave the infant vaccine credit for reducing rotavirus hospitalizations in children and adults, and they cited several reasons. For starters, the biggest reduction in hospitalized patients came in March and April, which are usually peak months for rotavirus. Also, the more the vaccine was used in infants, the less likely older children and adults were to be hospitalized with rotavirus. By 2010, the last year in the analysis, "significant reductions" were seen in people of all ages, they wrote.
"These results point to the primacy of children in the transmission of rotavirus and illustrate how indirect benefits may amplify the effect of the U.S. rotavirus vaccination program," they concluded.
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Coldplay? Or maybe just Eye of the Tiger on repeat? Whatever they listen to, they can now stream those favourite tracks on Spotify's brand new BlackBerry app. A Premium subscription is required (£10/month), but all the usual features are included. No love for Torch 9800 owners, mind you. [Spotify via Gizmodo UK]
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This enormous cylinder made of LEGO may look like a Katamari wad that rolled through Hoth, Naboo and the Death Star, but it's actually a drum driving a synthesizer, player-piano style, that plays the main Star Wars theme.
As you can see, the middle section and its structures are what appear to be driving the keys, so it's not like the gungans and speeder bike troopers below and to the sides are the ones playing the notes. Still, it's a fantastic diorama.
Built in collaboration with "certified LEGO professional" Rene Hoffmeister, the barrel organ was showcased earlier this year in Europe. A video documenting its development hit the Internet on Thursday. The one above was released in February.
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[Verse One] [Homeboy Sandman]:
I don't buy new clothes to wear
I don't shave, don't bathe, don't cut my hair
If it was up to me I'd walk around naked and bare
I don't barely care enough to even look in the mirror
I wash Chinese food store Tupperware
Played out boobs and butts and blunts and beer
I'm ungroomed, got guts, make grunts ya hear
I got two big nuts and nothin to fear
I got loose screws wit a screw face to match
I don't about-face I ain't got a taste for that
If I really want something I'll pray for that
I don't worry 'bout how I'm gonna pay for crap
Ain't no pavement where I ain't good at
And ain't no place where I'm gonna stay put at
My home base, where the forsaken at
I caped crusade for the sake of that
Hooray for that
I get major dap
I'm in the matrix reppin where a agent at
I'm in your face like Flushing where the Asian at
I don't brush shoulders, that's where my angel at
I heard you cook 'cane sucka where your apron at?
I heard you serve 'cane/cain sucka where was abel at at?
They like "you're worldwide homey where your label at?"
Oh snap, you unsigned, how did you finagle that?
While everybody else was busy trying to get on the guest list
I was busy trying to be ambidextrous
Meant I's well rested and whippin' up breakfast
Earlier than the rest of the homo erectus
The world don't stop
Doesn't nothin affect this
I won't go pop
Thought that I should address this
I'm loco lots
Both a writer and leftist
So y'all go cop
Right away, any questions?
[Verse Two] [Homeboy Sandman]:
Shout out to my moms and pops and
Whoever it was decided calling oxes "oxen"
'Fore I spit a ac' I be weighing my options
Kempo, Kung Fu or drunken boxing
Columnists constantly calling me conscious
Cause I'm straight out of comp' not straight out of Compton
No labels on my cloth necessary for confidence
Only the table cloth on my table of contents
Ain't no comfort we ain't already accomplished
We go hard regardless
Lotta stiffing Con Ed, livin' as a starving artist
Gotta break some eggs makin' omelets
Uncle Thomas ain't my target audience
Thank you captain obvious
I don't swear except for solemnly in my songs and sonnets
Ain't no greater dishonor than being dishonest
Enough ballin', bollocks
You need only seek the sun to find solace
Let me show you quick fast how I move masses
Plasmas and gasses liquids and solids
Radio p-noid cause I'm unpolished
Air me on delay, Speedy Gonzales
I'm the modern day William Wallace
Always on the go, grinder, globe trotter
Tariq Trotter, scholar
'Sup wit my medulla oblongata
I don't hear no Fendi, Gucci, Prada
All I hear is yada yada yada
All I hear is nada
And it's gettin louder
So I made a vow to
Do something about it
Head up in the clouds
I'm incredibly grounded
When I'm getting down it's incredibly crowded
[Verse Three] [Fresh Daily]:
I'll be honest, I ain't make it to college
But I make raps, so I'll make you a promise
To give you the bomb-est rhymes, beyond his time
Something for the momma's and poppa's
Something for the toddlers in Pampers wit caca
Somethin' for them gangsters packin' them Llamas
Somethin' for them llamas and the alpacas
Spittin' saliva, gettin' em higher
Inventor of the venom that'll kill 'em in one dose
Know when you with friends and when you among foes
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
In the studio & I'm chillin' with Sosa
Not there yet, get the feelin' I'm closer
Til my face in the mags and my name's on the poster
This ain't a game and I ain't a jokester
I mean what I say and I say what I mean
I remain on the scene, say I'm no poser
I remain composed, something like Mozart
Stayin' in my lane, got drive like a chauffeur
All I really know is that my flows doper
I don't know weed and I don't know coka
I do know Hennessy mixed with the cola
My man Benamin got beats that'll fold ya
Where's A.O.K., y'all brother's fold up?
Close up shop and then get ghost huh?
2 Hungry Bros still cookin' up dopeness
Where's P.So yo? I don't know brah
I just flow brah
Tryin' to stack paper till my papers like Oprahs
Oh yeah, I go dumb like my tongue went numb
Bed Stuy Brooklyn's where I'm from
If I can't say just what I want
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Major carving project to replicate Rotorua tourism icon
A unique carved entranceway is being replicated at the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute at Te Puia in Rotorua.
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A carved waharoa (entranceway) that is widely regarded as one of the historic symbols of Rotorua and cultural tourism is being expertly replicated at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute (NZMACI) at Te Puia in Rotorua.
The work is being undertaken as part of the 50 Year Celebrations to acknowledge the Act of Parliament that established NZMACI and Te Puia in the form that they are today.
The original waharoa was carved by Tene Waitere a renowned Te Arawa carver, as one of two that were exhibited at the New Zealand International Exhibition in Hagley Park, Christchurch, in 1908.
Following the close of the exhibition, one of the waharoa was transported to Rotorua where it was erected in Te Whakarewarewa Valley. It became a symbol of cultural tourism, with generations of visitors having their photos taken beside it. The second waharoa is on permanent display on level two of the National Museum, Te Papa, in Wellington.
NZMACI director, Karl Johnstone, says replicating carving requires a special set of skills in order to recreate the piece as closely as possible to the original. He says the project is made even more complex as the waharoa is double sided.
"This is an extensive and complex project that has a very strong connection to the Whakarewarewa Valley and Rotorua. The original waharoa is an iconic symbol of the development of tourism in New Zealand, and the replica will continue that story for many years to come."
The work will be undertaken by senior carver Albert Te Pou, who will carve the waharoa with the wood standing in a vertical position. The waharoa will be carved from a five metre high, three tonne piece of bush-felled Northland kauri.
The carving work is taking place behind the pātaka (food storage house), which is located on Rotowhio Marae at Te Puia. Visitors will be able to watch the carving work underway as the project progresses in the coming months. It is hoped that the replica waharoa will be complete by September, for the key 50 Year Celebrations events.


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J how do you remove the air out of the coil? You each time have an upper part in each turn?
What was the reason you installed it this way and not in a flat position?
In residential systems like this the circulation pump pack comes with purge ports. These ports isolate the heat pump and provide means to connect the ground loop to a purge cart. Essentially it is a open water vessel that pumps water into the loop and the return line dumps back into the open tank, therefore you get a solid water column in your ground loop.
The pump in the purge cart moves the water at high velocity and gets all the air out.
We used a trash pump mounted on a two wheeler with appropiate fittings, valves and quick connects. Add a plastic barrell.
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Easter reflection
There are many reasons people walk. Some walk out of choice, others, out of necessity. Along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:15-35), we meet two people who walked simply to get away. The one in whom they had placed their hopes had just been executed as a criminal, and now his friends ñ and theirs ñ were hiding in fear. Believing that nothing was left for them in Jerusalem but danger and disappointment, they decided to leave.
On the road, they met a stranger. The temptation to wrap themselves in fear and reject the stranger must have been strong, but instead they invited him along. And, as they continued walking, an amazing thing began to happen. Step by step and mile by mile, these two wounded travelers found restored hope in their encounter with this remarkable new companion.
The stranger was really the resurrected Jesus ñ a fact that the two disciples only discovered at the end of the day when they shared a meal. But once they did, they couldnít get back to Jerusalem fast enough, for such was their desire to share the good news.
In life, sometimes we feel as if we are walking toward something, and sometimes we feel as if we are walking away. But when the dust settles, the reasons we walk arenít nearly as important as the fact that we do, indeed, keep walking. For, like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, it is only in the journey that we continue to encounter Christ in traveling companions.
For the next two years, hundreds of sponsors will join CFCA President Bob Hentzen at points along the Walk2gether route from Guatemala to Chile. Like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, they, too, are discovering a new and glorified face of Christ in the faces of the poor. And, again, like those disciples, they canít wait to take that good news home with them.
As we enter into this beautiful season of Easter, may each of us be blessed with fresh legs and renewed spirits. May we walk as happy wanderers, intent on savoring the blessings of the journey. Whatever sorrows we may be leaving behind, and whatever dreams we may be moving toward, may we always hold onto the joy that comes from knowing that the one who defeated death is our constant traveling companion.


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Two lawmakers who both believe government should stay out of the doctor's office discussed their views at The Austin Club on Tuesday, the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortion.
West University Place Republican Sarah Davis joined state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin on stage during a Texas Tribune "Trib Live" discussion revolving around the new Texas Women's Health Program which replaced a similar Medicaid program except for the fact that Planned Parenthood is excluded from it.
Davis reiterated her long-held stance that while she opposes abortion and could not ever choose that option for herself, she doesn't think it is lawmakers' job to manage a woman's doctor office visit.
"I wouldn't want anyone to make the decision for me," she said.
Davis also countered criticism about her vote in 2011 against requiring women to have a sonogram before an abortion.
She said her vote was consistent with the party's belief in a limited government. Davis said she finds that Republicans' opposition to Obamacare is "inconsistent" with their support for the sonogram measure.


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|System: Xbox 360*, PS3, PC
|Dev: Digital Extremes
|Pub: Namco Bandai Games
|Release: April 23, 2013
|Players: 1-2
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Animated Blood, Language, Violence
by Joshua Bruce
Typically, games created directly from movie licenses are total garbage. You would think that with a strong license it would be easier to create an engaging world within the confines of a video game. But time and time again, developers struggle to make anything of value, even though a lot of the creative legwork has already been done for them. This sad reality plagues licensed games as a whole.
However, Star Trek has attempted to break that mold. It doesn't succeed completely, nor does it fail entirely. It lands squarely in the middle, which is kind of an achievement for a licensed game.
Star Trek starts out trying to separate itself from other licensed games with an original story. The narrative takes place somewhere between the two films, which is much better than the regurgitated movie plots normally created from a movie license. Although, it does tie into the events of the first film rather well.
If you've seen the film, you'll probably remember that Spock's home planet was obliterated, leaving what was left of his race celestially homeless. With the Vulcan race on the hunt for a new home world, they create the Helios Machine, designed to speed the process of developing a planet dubbed "New Vulcan" into a place the Vulcan race can call home. Unfortunately, it seems the Helios Machine has an unfortunate side effect; it creates small rips in the fabric of space and time. This, as you can imagine, is quite a problem.
To make things worse, the Gorn - a race of aggressive, lizard-like, space thieves - come through the rift and attack New Vulcan for the sole purpose of stealing the Helios Machine. This prompts Vulcan leaders to shut down the solar energy collection station that powers the device and the crew of the Enterprise begins investigating the faltering power station.
While on the power station, many of Star Trek's gameplay mechanics are introduced. The game is structured around cooperative gameplay and wastes no time getting this point across. As either Kirk or Spock, you will need the assistance of your companion to open doors, hack consoles, and solve puzzles. There's no need to worry if you don't have a co-op partner though, you can easily assign tasks to you're A.I. controlled counterpart with the push of a button.
The controls are sufficient for the most part, but you can occasionally find yourself struggling to complete the easiest of tasks, especially during platforming and puzzle-solving sequences. These bits of gameplay can be frustrating to say the least, but the game makes up for it in other areas such as combat.
Unfortunately, Star Trek's combat system isn't really anything new. And if you've played Gears of War or Army of Two, you won't run into any real surprises. The cover based movement works relatively well and killing the Gorn is satisfying enough, but even though it is one of the game's best qualities it never really seals the deal. The obligatory weapons all make an appearance - pistols, rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, and grenades - in some form or fashion. Even though we don't see any combat advancements in Star Trek, the game executes existing mechanics well enough to make the combat fun and enjoyable.
However, the shining attribute of Star Trek's gameplay is the implementation of trademarked gadgets and a collection of mini-games that come along with them. The Tricorder is an invaluable tool and can be used for opening locked doors, scanning for enemies, and hacking enemy terminals and turrets.
Sometimes, while using your trusty Tricorder, you will be prompted to decode a signal or complete a circuit to achieve your desired effect, which spawns a mini-game. These can inspire bouts of nostalgia for the Mass Effect series, so be careful. But even though these are very similar in presentation, they work well and function to vary gameplay effectively.
Even though the gameplay succeeds to some extent, it is counter-balanced by the game's lackluster graphical performance.