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Aimed at introducing beginners to the sport, Try Sailing Day has been designed to encourage all Australians to participate in this fabulous outdoor activity.
From the Illawarra region, across the Sydney metropolitan area through to the Central and North Coast areas, clubs will welcome newcomers to sailing from 1000 hours local time onwards, operating with their own craft and tutors. In Western Australia selected clubs will be open from 0900 onwards.
Participants will have the opportunity to try all manner of sailing vessels, from catamarans to skiffs, keel boats to racing yachts.
Class yachts involved include Manly Juniors, Flying 11s, Herons, Hobie Cats, Sabots, Flying Ants and the famous VJs and VSs (Vaucluse Junior and Vaucluse Senior).
An initiative of the Sailing Industry Association, a sub-group of the Boating Industry Association of NSW (BIA), and supported by Yachting New South Wales, the programme over the past ten years has introduced hundreds of boys and girls, men and women to the thrills of boating 'under canvas.'
'The aim of the Try Sailing programme is not necessarily to unearth any America's Cup or Sydney Hobart competitors, but to provide access and the opportunity for people to actually try their hand at a past time that may have previously been beyond reach,' explained Domenic GENUA, the association's Marketing and Event Manager.
'Of course, some of the clubs involved just may discover some hidden yachting talent, someone trying their hand for the first time just may end up racing to Hobart aboard one of the awesome maxi yachts.'
Those intending to test their skills need no appointment, simply turn up on the day at the club of choice, register and 'go for it'. A parent or guardian must accompany children under the age of 18.
'Wear comfortable clothing, suitable footwear, such as deck shoes and take along some sunscreen and perhaps a bottle of water.' GENUA suggests.
For a list of clubs involved in the Try Sailing day in New South Wales go to the Yachting Australia website. For those in Western Australia go to the Yachting Western Australia website.


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Roasted Mushrooms with Tarragon Vinaigrette
The Fourth of July festivities are over, and it's back to the regular programming around here. Things are not quite back to normal though; I'm still babysitting two very cute young boys. The kids are quite impressed with the blog, Ethan is obsessed with the Statcounter map feature showing where visitors live. These kids are pretty tech-saavy, however, their taste in foods is pretty limited, especially when it comes to vegetables. These mushrooms are something they wouldn't even consider tasting, so we'll be grilling hot dogs tonight for Ethan and Mitchell when their older brother Jake comes for dinner. Jake is the nephew who made Bengali Red Dal Curry for me, and he's got incredibly sophisticated taste in food for a college kid, so he and I might be trying out a new recipe or two.
This recipe is really about the tarragon more than anything else, making it perfect for Weekend Herb Blogging, hosted this week by Chris from Mele Cotte. I wrote earlier about how it was a life-changing experience when I first tried fresh tarragon, and I shared a lot of tarragon information when I posted the recipe for Chicken Salad with Tarragon and Peas. Lots of good cooks consider tarragon to be the king of all herbs, and I loved how the slightly anise flavor complimented the flavor of the roasted mushrooms here.
Roasted Mushrooms with Tarragon Vinaigrette
(Makes 2 servings but can be easily doubled or tripled, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration for the tarragon vinaigrette from Appetites.)
1 lb. thickly sliced mushrooms (I used brown Cremini mushrooms, also called Baby Bella)
1 T olive oil
1 tsp. Spike Seasoning(or use your favorite spice blend, but I think Spike is great on roasted veggies)
Tarragon Vinaigrette Ingredients:
(makes 1/3 cup, so you'll have plenty left over to drizzle on tomatoes or other veggies)
2 T chopped fresh tarragon
1/2 tsp. chopped garlic (or use garlic puree from a jar)
1/2 tsp. Dijon Mustard
1 1 /2 T balsamic vinegar
4 T extra virgin olive oil
(I posted step-by-step instructions for roasted mushrooms previously if you'd like to see them.)
While mushrooms roast, combine chopped tarragon, garlic puree, Dijon Mustard, and balsamic vinegar in food processor or blender and blend a minute or two. Add olive oil and blend another minute or two. (I used the bowl attachment of my beloved Braun immersion blender for this, which worked very well.)
When mushrooms are well browned and liquid is evaporated, remove from oven, place in bowl and toss with 1-2 T of tarragon vinaigrette. Serve hot as a side dish or at room temperature.
I think these mushrooms could be used in an endless variety of ways. Here are a few things I thought of:
- Serve the mushrooms over grilled steak or grilled chicken breasts.
- Let mushrooms cool and use in pasta salad.
- Combine with olives, roasted red peppers, and artichoke hearts for an antipasto tray.
- Use mushrooms as an ingredient in a vegetable salad with things like marinated zucchini, olives, and roasted red peppers.
South Beach Suggestions:
Mushrooms cooked like this with "good fat" olive oil are a perfect side dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet. Serve with something like Very Greek Grilled Chicken or Chicken and Veggie Kabobs with Garlic and Basil, along with Mary's Perfect Salad for phase one. For phase two or three, add something like Brown and Wild Rice with Pine Nuts and Thyme.
More Mushroom Recipes with Tarragon:
Braised Chicken with Tarragon, Pancetta, and Cremini Mushrooms from Well Fed
Chicken Fricassee with Leeks and Mushrooms from A Mingling of Tastes
Beef Stroganoff from Simply Recipes
Chasseur Chicken with Mushroom Sauce from Kirsten's Home Cooking
Mushrooms on Toast from A Scent of Green Bananas

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EA Mobile has announced that it is well on the way towards releasing Need For Speed Most Wanted for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. To show us just how near it is, EA has released a teaser video showing what to expect when it arrives. Need for Speed Most Wanted has been developed by Firemonkeys and promises stunning graphics and online gameplay.
EA Mobile presents the first action-packed preview of the Firemonkeys developed Need For Speed Most Wanted -- coming this October. Need For Speed Most Wanted features stunning dynamic physics-based collisions, exciting cop takedowns, and realistic visual damage. Be the most wanted in incredible real-world cars like the Dodge Challenger SRT8 392, the Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale, the Porsche 911 Carrera S, and many more! Everything you do in the game will earn you Speed Points. Earn more than your friends to become the Most Wanted, and because everything's linked via EA's Origin, you can compete across platforms. It doesn't matter whether you're playing on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or iOS, you always earning and always competing.
The screenshots and video certainly make it appear that EA and Firemonkeys have a big hit on their hands. The graphics look pretty awesome to me and the fact that you can play online and compete across different platforms make this a very enticing proposition too; imagine playing a game on your iPad against someone on a PS3 or Xbox 360. All we know for now on the availability front is that it is coming in October. We will let you know as soon as it arrives in the App Store.
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SKILLMAN, N.J. – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) released its latest run of national and regional rankings recently, with Georgia College women's tennis (13-11) keeping a No. 19 ranking in the nation.
The Bobcats once again were No. 19 in the country, with a No. 4 Southeast Region ranking.
All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) honoree Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris) was listed as the No. 20 ranked individual player in the Southeast Region, while teammate May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) earned the No. 15 spot.
The Bobcats have wrapped up a 2012 season that saw GC go 13-11, earn the No. 5-seed in the PBC Tournament, and eventually fall in the Southeast Region semifinal. The Bobcats put Setyon-Ortenzio and Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) on the All-PBC second team in doubles and added a second team singles nod for Setyon-Ortenzio as well. The GC women have now made 18 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.
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.


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WATCH: Missing piano-playing pooch reunited with owners
A $1000 reward is being offered for his return
A $1000 reward is being offered for his return
A $1000 reward is being offered for his return
Missing pooch Finnegan is back with his owners. A "pet detective" tracked him to a nearby neighborhood and someone found him last night and he was reunited with his owner.
Finnegan is a Bichon Frise, an 8 pound, white dog.
Finnegan is also a dog who can play the piano.
"One day, I heard the piano going and I heard Finnegan barking and I thought, 'What's that?" said Finnegan's owner, Janet Shanley.
Shanley went into the other room and there was Finnegan, playing notes with his paws and singing (barking) along.
Shanley figures Finnegan must have learned by watching her and mimicking what she does.
"He's just a charmer," Shanley said. "He's a happy, happy dog and there's not a person I know of that doesn't love him."
Last week, she and her husband left Finnegan home alone with a houseguest on Saturday afternoon. The guest left the door open and Finnegan vanished.


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I am building an application that will be acting as a combined MUA/MTA on different networks. However, many of the networks are with ISP's that block port 25 for SMTP. Therefore I would also like to open up a secondary port so that some of the installs can communicate on that if port 25 is closed.
How do I choose a second port? I know some people use port 26 or port 2525. What is the correct way to choose a port that won't interfere with existing software?


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The Perils of GammaMarch 12, 2003
When designing for web, you keep in mind that everyone else will see your work differently than you. They may have more pixels or less, more contrast or less, and a completely different colour profile, guaranteed.
This is something that has been bothering me more and more. At home, I design on a 15" LCD monitor at 1024x768. This I find somewhat constraining, but I love my monitor and won't give it up for anything but a bigger LCD. At work I run a 17" CRT at 1600x1024 — an offbeat resolution, but it gives me the space I need.
My work display makes everything smaller. This is generally a good thing, since my tendency is to use fonts at a smaller size than many are comfortable with. I can pretty safely assume that if I can read it, so can you.
The difference that irks me though is colour. The LCD has a lighter gamma profile with slightly richer colour, resulting in flat, dull green–toned images when viewed on the CRT. There's a definite greeny–yellow tinge to everything I create on the LCD, so it displays richer blues than the CRT. When designing on the CRT and viewing at home, colours don't shift as much — images appear just a tad lighter.
I could tweak and adjust and try to bring these two profiles closer together, but I'd just be shooting myself in the foot. I can't predict to any certainty at all what the general public sees, since gamma can be so different monitor to monitor. The only acceptable way to deal with this, as with many other issues in web design, is to view your work on as many different system configurations as possible and just hope for the best. So my setup, while clunky for development, works.
But it's so painful. Take my recent redesign, for example. After laying out in Photoshop what I thought was a great new colour scheme, I made a point of sending a .jpg to work. Result? Ass. Complete ass. A few level/saturation adjustment layers later and I had what I wanted, give or take.
Not being content until it was just so I spent the intervening month tweaking on and off. What was once an elegant, multi–layer .psd file grew to about 15 different source files with rebuilds of different graphics. Every new change seemed to result in a new file or two, since the tweaks were local rather than global changes. All in the name of better colour–matching.
Some days I envy the print world. Other days I shrug it off and say hey, it's all good. At least I'm not stuck futzing with traps and bleeds and linked files and postscript rendering problems, right?


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Since this morning I am having issues. First, I could not download or update my listings. I clicked to download, and after less than a second the app would report that the download was finished. Obviously no information was downloaded.
Went to Settings and found out my subscribed channel list appeared as if there was no communication with the servers (the icons were three question marks). After exiting and entering a couple of times, I was finally able to see channel list with their icons (either the real one or generic), BUT every channel that I did not have active in my SD account appeared on the Available Channel List. That is, channels that are not selected as active in my SD account lineup, appear as available to use in TVBrowser. Up until today, those inactive channels did not appeared in any form in TVBrowser, as I would expect.
Then, seeing that at least there was some sort of communication with the servers, I tried to update my listings again. This time the update took longer, but as I found out after it finished, a lot of my channels did not downloaded any info. I have tried several times, even after deleting the downloaded data, and still cannot seem to download a whole set of listings for a week, exact same results every time.
Are there any issues with the servers? Anything you can point me to in respect to TV Browser downloads? Any help will be appreciated.
MacOS 10.12.4, TV Browser 3.4.4-95 and with
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Google Calendar Plugin
Provides an integration of a Google Calendar IFRAME into Trac
See also #2374
It is compatible with Trac 0.10 and 0.11 (tested with Trac 0.10.3 and 0.11.7).
For use with Trac 0.11 you have to install clearsilver as well.
Install like any other trac:TracPlugins.
This could be simply done by using the Web-Admin UI.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for GoogleCalendarPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the zipped source from [download:googlecalendarplugin here].
You can check out GoogleCalendarPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Note: In trac.ini you have to enable the plugin and configure it with the Calendar URL. This can either be the public URL (if your calendar is public) or the private URL.
Be aware that if you choose your private URL, you can usally see this in the About Trac > Configuration page (if you didn't adjust the permissions)
[components] googlecalendar.* = enabled [googlecalendar] calendar_url = http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=823sd8f7f87bgj67jhssd6f5%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Berlin&pvttk=92h3bfjgh2345gsah355hjh
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Applied permissions patch from email@example.com fixes #8512
- 7947 by StefanSimroth on 2010-05-14 13:11:57
inital import (moved project home from github here)
the source is compatible with 0.10 and 0.11 (0.12 not tested yet)
the source is in the trunk folder for now and will be separated as soon as necessary (when switching from cs to genshi)
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I am writing to confirm, if you received 'my previous e-mail' regarding you having the same Surnames with my late client/inheritance.I hereby request your assistance and delegate the necessary authority to you on behalf of my late client to carry out this claim. Who was a business magnate that lived in Europe for over a decade prior to his death. I got your detailed contact e-mail Address through your country data, while searching for any possible relative OR a last name similar to my late clients.
Prior to my late client death; He made a mutual investments deposit worth the sum of $7,400,000.00 (SEVEN MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) with a Financial safekeeping investment company (holding a client's securities or other assets on his/her behalf) here in Europe and declared it as a family-treasures. As the Attorney/Solicitor present during the deposit by my late client and family, the Financial safekeeping institutions has officially notified and instructed me to present heir/heiress to make Claims, so that he/she can be paid the outstanding deposit,which have been recorded by the company.Else the fund will be confiscated and taken to the Bureau of government treasury as unclaimed.
Further to extensive research, I decided to contact you; My suggestion to you is that I will like to present you as the heir/heiress to the Financial safekeeping institutions.Having a common Last Name with him is our ability to defend it and stand firm in other for us to achieve our goal;but I would like to assure you that I am proposing this project to you with the best of my intention.All I require from you is your honest co-operation; I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. Upon successful conclusion of this project, once the deposit is been release to you, we shall disbursed the content in the ratio of 50% /50% for me respectively as our benefit ($ 3.7 Million each).
Kindly confirm your understanding of this delegation by sign OR call my direct telephone number, via my office email address. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com as above you can equally send a fax with your Telephone /fax number for oral clarification.
Call at direct telephone number for effective communication on how to proceed next.
Contact telephone number : + xx xxx xxx xxx
We appreciate your assistance in this matter.
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Telephone Number: -----------------------
Kindest Regards,
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Oamaru, Waitaki
Oamaru, Waitaki District, North Otago - must visit town in New Zealand
Surrounded by stunning natural beauty and with some of New Zealand's best 19th century architecture, Oamaru has a welcoming and friendly environment with a huge range of experiences to participate in and enjoy.
Oamaru is the district's capital and has some of the most impressive architecture in New Zealand.
Explore the businesses in the Victorian Precinct or take a visit to Totara Estate and Clarks Mill for a piece of history. Around the harbour you can visit the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony and see them come ashore at dusk.
Oamaru is famous for its gardens, has four golf courses, an aquatic centre, library, museum and a range of galleries including the Forrester Gallery.
Taste award winning cheese at Whitestone Cheese and catch world class shows in the Oamaru Opera House.
There is a range of accommodation and Oamaru houses some of the best restaurants including the Cuisine New Zealand Restaurant of the Year for 2010 - Riverstone Kitchen.
There are heaps of reasons to go there and relax and enjoy some incredible hospitality and activities.


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The Samurai Warriors are back with a vengeance! This latest installment features six legendary samurai- each with their own storyline and powerful new weapons. With the introduction of Mercenary mode, the redesigned battlefields of "Okehazama" and "Shikoku", and new charge attacks, fans now have even more reasons to come back and join the fight. SW2XL introduces six new playable characters to the series, including Toshiie Maeda, Gracia, Motochika Chosokabe, Katsuie Shibata, Kojiro Sasaki, and Yoshimoto Imagawa.
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1996 protocol to Convention on Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes : message from the President of the United States transmitting 1996 protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the "London Convention"), done in London on November 7, 1996 ; the protocol was signed by the United States on March 31, 2008 [i.e. 1998], and was entered into force on March 24, 2006
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Date: 2007
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Texas is well-represented at tonight's state dinner for South Korean president Lee Myung-bak.
Among the seven attendees from the Lone Star State are San Antonio mayor Julián Castro and his wife Erica, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former Dallas mayor, and his wife Matrice Ellis-Kirk.
Also attending are June Jay Cho of San Antonio, who is attending with his son, Hollywood actor John Cho, and Peter and Lisa Kraus of Dallas. The Krauses recently hosted a luncheon fund-raiser for President Obama's re-election campaign at their northwest Dallas home that was headlined by Vice President Joe Biden. Lisa Kraus is board chairman of Planned Parenthood of North Texas.
San Antonio is well-represented at the dinner because the city has developed deep trade relations with South Korea. Two South Texas Democrats, Reps. Charlie Gonzalez of San Antonio and Henry Cuellar of Laredo, were the only members of the state's congressional delegation to vote in favor of the Korean free trade agreement and two other trade pacts that passed Congress overwhelming yesterday.
Kirk lobbied Congress aggressively to win passage of the long-delayed Korean trade agreement before tonight's state dinner.


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Jefferson County Commissioners proclaimed Oct. 7-13 as National 4-H Week in Jefferson County during their regular meeting Monday, Oct. 8, at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont. Members of the 4-H Club Jefferson County Youth Council visited Commissioners Court to celebrate the event. 4-H spokesperson Lairen Calhoun addressed the council on behalf of the group.
"For more than 150 years, the 4-H program of Texas has been engaging youth in activities that help develop skills for a lifetime," Calhoun said. "Regardless of the skills, the benefits gathered from the young person … are priceless."
Calhoun continued by thanking the Jefferson County Commissioners for the proclamation and the support of the community for the program. Members of local 4-H clubs around the area presented the commissioners with gift bags as tokens of gratitude.
Commissioners also proclaimed October 2012 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Jefferson County. Jefferson County Victims' Assistance Center Director Misty Craver stepped up to the podium to thank Jefferson County for continued support in the ongoing battle against domestic violence.
"I really appreciate the support, as always, of Jefferson County," Craver said. "I'm basically just here to let y'all know we are still going strong. … We're trying to take some additional strides in making sure that batterers were held accountable for their actions in court."
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February is almost done! But it's great we will have two days filled with new releases! Tomorrow we have several new kits from our designers and Saturday will debut the new Buffet items!
First up is from Amy Stoffel
These next two are with Amy Stoffel's kit and Pretty in Green Templates:
The next few are from a Volamoni kit and Pretty in Green Templates
We have even more sneak peeks of Pretty in Green's wonderful templates
Next we have new templates from Lissykay Designs:
with the new kit from Amy Stoffel
From Pixelily Designs, new templates:
From Seatrout Scraps:
And finally a sneak peek from Clever Monkey Graphics:
Have a wonderful weekend!


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The audience is shown two slates each being blank on both sides. The slates are tied together with a rope or ribbon and given to a spectator to hold. A chalk is waived over the slates as the spirits are summoned. When the slates are untied they now contain some writing. This may be the name of a selected card or any other forced prediction.
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Windows 8 might not be getting off to the start Microsoft had hoped for, but one major airline seems to be a big fan.
At the Windows 8 launch event in Dubai, Emirates announced that it has developed a Windows 8 app called Knowledge Driven Inflight Service (KIS) to help crews provide better service and will use it with 1,000 HP ElitePad 900 devices across its fleet.
The app will help record passenger data and preferences, upgrade Emirates Skywards members to better seats, note passenger feedback and see information about the crew itself.
Emirates will roll out 100 devices by the end of January 2013 and 1,000 devices total in 2013. Every Emirates flight will have a purser using KIS on an HP ElitePad 900 with Windows 8 by the end of 2013.
"At Emirates, we strive to deliver the world's best in-flight experience," Kevin Griffiths, senior vice president, Cabin Crew at Emirates, said in a statement. "We constantly invest in the best aircraft, products and service. To support our crew, we have created an application on Windows 8 that delivers a unique, personalized experience with the necessary information for our cabin crew to better serve the needs of customers. The Windows 8 platform running on HP ElitePad 900 devices gave us this option, allowing us to create the KIS app that enables our crew to offer an experience not available on other airlines."
Here's why they chose the HP ElitePad 900, as noted in the Microsoft blog post:
It was important to Emirates that the cabin crew be able to carry around a light and attractive device that could last without needing to be recharged on long-haul flights. They found HP's new ElitePad 900 business tablet running Windows 8 Enterprise to fit their needs perfectly – it's thin and light, optimized for Windows 8, and built specifically for business users. Windows 8's engaging touch user interface seamlessly surfaces the most important information, allowing the crew to spend more time interacting with customers than digging for details.
Emirates is one of the world's fastest growing airlines, operating over 2,500 flights per week to 126 cities in 74 countries across six continents.


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The Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building on Penn State's Berks campus recently won two new awards for its unique design and construction. The Construction Owners Association of America (COAA) granted a Silver Award from its Project Leadership Award Program at its national conference in Orlando, Fla. Within weeks, the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) granted a Project Achievement Award at its 2012 national conference in Chicago. Both the COAA and the CMAA recognized the steady leadership and detailed scheduling that led to this building's completion three months ahead of schedule and under budget.
Back in May, the building was awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold-level certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED is the nation's preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. This was the first project at Penn State Berks to pursue LEED certification and the first at Penn State, outside the University Park campus, to be awarded gold certification. To read the full story on the Gaige Building receiving LEED certification, visit http://live.psu.edu/story/59564.
Penn State's Berks enjoyed incredible success under the leadership of the late Frederick H. Gaige, the college's former dean and CEO Emeritus, during his tenure from 1984–2000. Known to many as a visionary leader, Gaige helped to transform the campus into a college with four-year academic programs and residence halls. He was also instrumental in significantly increasing student enrollment, the campus's endowment and its physical facilities. This tremendous growth placed incredible pressure on existing academic space, challenging the institution's ability to grow and develop.
The addition of the new Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building was a dream long in the waiting that began to take flight in April 2010. As the largest building on campus at more than 60,000 square feet, Gaige houses three extraordinary initiatives:
-- The Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
-- The Learning Factory
-- The Emerging Technologies and Business Intelligence Laboratory
This building will help make the campus an even more important leader for growth and innovation. The three-story Gaige Building, which house the college's Business; Engineering; Information Sciences and Technology; and Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management degree programs, was designed to complement the natural beauty and existing architecture of the campus, and the structure is as cutting edge as the learning and discovery that takes place within it:
-- Nine new classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art communications technologies
-- Nine new computer labs
-- Dedicated laboratory space for sustained and sophisticated investigations
-- 50 new faculty offices
-- A café with 36 seats indoors and another 36 seats on the adjoining patio
-- A two-story atrium lobby that links the sky-lit circulation corridors with exterior patio seating areas
-- A kitchen area serving as laboratory space for the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management degree program
-- A lecture hall
-- Conference rooms
-- Design studio
-- Student study areas
-- An installation by world-renowned sculptor Ray King
Ben Franklin once said "If you only have three hours to cut down a tree, I suggest you spend two hours sharpening your ax." Assembling a team of experts created a synergy that produced an effective process and a highly successful construction project. A partnering session initiated by Penn State at the project start developed an atmosphere of true teamwork so all energies were focused on productive measures resulting in a superior building. The partnering session included Penn State, all design professionals and the major prime subcontractors, which was integral to the success of this project.
The international architectural firm RMJM Hillier designed the facility, and construction was managed by Alvin H. Butz Inc., Allentown.
"We couldn't be more satisfied with the quality of work that went into constructing the Gaige Building," says Kim Berry, chief operating officer, Penn State Berks. "Receiving two national awards such as these is no small feat, and every member of the project team should be honored to receive them."
One common denominator in successful projects is a comprehensive Project Management Plan. Penn State clearly communicated to all stakeholders the expectations for quality, cost and schedule. A website was utilized that helped guide all team members through every phase of construction. The project was completed in 369 working days, from April 2010 to September 2011, more than two months ahead of its original schedule. It came in under budget and has become a benchmark for quality on all of our campuses.
Penn State had to overcome a number of challenges. Project managers had the foresight and good planning to pay for overtime to get the building enclosed by the end of January 2011. A challenge for the entire team was working through the winter weather. A change from a fully adhered roof to an asphalt-coated system was made to allow the material to be heated and installed during the middle of January 2011. That change allowed construction to continue through the winter making the building water tight for other trades. In addition, focus was put on enclosing the building so temporary heat could be provided to increase worker productivity and morale during the winter months.
The team was faced with ordering many specialized materials. The terra cotta tile used for the rain screen was manufactured in Germany, and the aluminum extrusions around all windows were so large that only a specialized die could be used to achieve the size. Materials had to be selected, approved and ordered correctly the first time because the schedule would not allow for a second production run and shipment from potentially half way around the world.
The building features a number of sustainable technologies and materials. It has one of the region's first exterior terra cotta rain screen cladding systems. The majority of the façade is curtainwall, and windows are glazed with 1 1⁄4-inch ECO-Insulating Glass with Heat Mirror SC 75, which gives the windows an amazing U- Factor of .11 maximum in the winter and .26 maximum in the summer. The building is served with three large Air Handlers with energy recovery. Two boilers produce hot water for the perimeter fin tube and variable air volume boxes. Two 35,000-gallon tanks collect rainwater from the roof with the capacity of providing 100 percent of the water needed to flush the toilets, wash the exterior of the building and water plants. Daylighting controls and occupancy sensors help reduce the lighting load, and natural daylight in most offices and classrooms provide sufficient lighting levels for most days.
Aside from the standard mantra of completing the building ahead of schedule, below budget and with the highest quality, the biggest achievement was the University's ability to use the construction project as a learning tool for students. The construction team volunteered their time to participate in many student functions and career days. Working with Penn State, a curriculum was developed for the spring semester class that held a competition to develop the wording and design of all the LEED signage. The resulting signage was spectacular and enhances the sustainability awareness of all those who enter the building.
In 50 years, time will erase from memory the grand feats achieved on this project -- the rain screen construction, challenging schedule and the difficult weather conditions. But the quality of the building is timeless and will remain evident to all the students and faculty who will use the Gaige Building in years to come.


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Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Although wombats are mostly solitary animals, the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is the most social of the three wombat species. This iconic Australian species is keenly sought out by both local and international visitors while at Melbourne Zoo.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats are classed as 'least concern' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (on the IUCN 'red list'). Nevertheless there are growing concerns about the state of these wombats in the Murraylands region, where many have been found to be affected by hair loss and skin diseases. The causes are not yet confirmed. Although the species is not considered to be vulnerable, most Australians are aware of the risks posed by deforestation, introduced predators and road traffic.
Melbourne Zoo's wombats want visitors to have guilt free bums. Wipe for Wildlife is a Zoos Victoria campaign promoting the use of recycled toilet paper in order to protect the habitat of native wildlife. Millions of trees are flushed down Australian loos each year, threatening the survival of animals like the wombat. Switching to recycled toilet paper keeps our trees in the ground and out of our toilets.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats are found in parts of southern Australia and southeast Western Australia in arid and semi-arid habitats.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats are similar in size and shape to the Common Wombat, with silkier fur, long ears and furry muzzles. The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is a brownish-grey colour on its back, and pale grey underneath. Its head is broad with narrow, pointed ears and brown or white fur on the nose.
The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is 70–94cm long, with a 2.5–6 cm tail. It weighs about 20–32kg.
Wombats are solid and stocky. They have short legs and large front feet, with bear-like claws. The second and third toes of the hind feet are fused, with a double claw used in grooming. Wombats' legs and shoulders are powerful and they use their front legs for digging burrows.
The pouch of the wombat faces backwards to prevent soil and dirt entering while digging.
You can help protect local species simply by switching to recycled toilet paper. Do you have a guilt-free bum?
- Werribee Open Range Zoo
- Healesville Sanctuary
- Melbourne Zoo


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If summertime is the offseason for classical music in Boston, someone forgot to tell the musicians. With opera, chamber music, contemporary festivals, revivals and - of course, al fresco performances - the warm months are positively steaming with music both in Boston and around the state.
Odyssey Opera is doing its very best to be unconventional. After its debut with Wagner�s "Rienzi" last September at Jordan Hall, maestro Gil Rose�s troupe went quiet for the entire concert season. But now they�re back.
This June (11-14), Odyssey Opera rotates three works from the rarities menu through the Boston University Theater: Verdi�s "Un Giorno di Regno," Mascagni�s "Zanetto," and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari�s "Il Segreto di Susanna." Then in September, Korngold�s once-proud "Die Tote Stadt" takes the Jordan Hall stage again, for the first time in Boston. To catch up on Odyssey Opera and find tickets and information visit www.bostontheatrescene.com or call 617-933-8600.
More opera takes place out west, when the Boston Lyric Opera reprises a chamber version of the compelling "Lizzie Borden," Jack Beeson�s work that was so convincingly staged this season, at Tanglewood. The July 31 performance is part of the 20th anniversary celebration of stately Ozawa Hall, with dozens of other performances including appearances by the Emerson String Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Sequentia, and a concert performance of Handel�s "Teseo" with Nicholas McGegan�s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Tanglewood�s annual Festival of Contemporary Music takes up residence in Ozawa Hall from July 17-21, and this summer�s directors, John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi, have curated a largely American series that looks backward on works by Bernard Rands, George Perle, Roger Sessions, Steven Mackey and others, and forward to new works by Gandolfi, Hannah Lash and Benjamin Scheuer.
Across the lawn at Tanglewood, in the Shed, the big band presents its usual mix of performances reflecting back to the past season and anticipating the next. The July 5 opening night gala features Ren�e Fleming singing Wagner excerpts. Newly minted music director Andris Nelsons� all-Dvorak program on July 11 stands out, with Anne-Sophie Mutter soloing in that composers� tortuous violin concerto. Nelsons leads two weeks� worth of concerts, with a July 12 performance of Richard Strauss� "Der Rosenkavalier," featuring the TMC orchestra and soloists that include sparkling mezzo Isabel Leonard, of particular note.
Among the many guests visiting the Lenox idyll this summer are conductors Christoph von Dohnanyi, Rafael Fr�hbeck de Burgos, John Williams and Marcelo Lehninger, and soloists like Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jeremy Denk, Leonidas Kavakos, Augustin Hadelich, Paul Lewis and Gabriela Montera. Garrison Keillor (June 28) and James Taylor (July 3 and 4) offer a lighter touch. Complete Tanglewood listings and ticket information can be found at www.bso.org or by calling 617-266-1492.
The Landmarks Orchestra always makes sure that the sounds of summer include good music in Boston. The orchestra�s free weekly Wednesdays (July 16-Aug. 27) at the Hatch Shell, under the director of maestro Christopher Wilkins, kick off with the popular "Carmina Burana." It�s the most family friendly of music events - think picnic (that�s you) with a soundtrack (that�s them). The orchestra also presents a series of community events in Charlestown, Jamaica Plain and elsewhere; check http://www.landmarksorchestra.org%20or call 617-987-2000.
The Rockport Chamber Music Festival has done nothing to diminish its international reputation this year. Opening night (June 6) features the Emerson String Quartet, with foursomes like Calder, Shanghai, Borromeo and Parker also appearing in the following seven weeks. The Claremont Trio returns, and pianist Jeremy Denk performs a major recital that includes Ives� Concord Sonata and Bach�s Goldberg Variations. Wu Han/David Finckel, Stefan Jackiw, Joyce Yang and the BSO Chamber Players also dot the schedule, which runs through July 13 (www.rockportmusic.org; 978-546-7391).
Chamber music moves to Cape Cod later in the summer, and this year�s Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, under the astute direction of Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse, also features the Emerson Quartet (July 31), as well as the Escher, Borromeo and Cypress quartets. The festival (July 27-Aug. 17) also welcomes the Boston Cello Quartet, a sterling foursome comprised of BSO cello section members. The festival rotates through multiple venues on the Cape; check http://www.capecodchambermusic.org%20or call 508-247-9400 for details.
The Monadnock Summer Festival has yet to announce its summer schedule, but artistic director Gil Rose has treated area music lovers to great music in July and August. Check http://www.monadnockmusic.org%20or call 603-924-7610 for information about the upcoming 49th season.
Pianist Heng-Jin Park directs the first Halcyon Music Festival in Portsmouth from July 24-Aug. 2, joined by artists like Ayano Ninomiya, Jan M�ller-Szeraws and Irina Muresanu. See www.halcyonmusic.org or call 617-651-1387. Further afield, summer festivals brighten up Putney, Vt. (Yellow Barn, July 4-Aug. 2; www.yellowbarn.org or 802-387-6637) and Killington, which features appearances by Philippe Entremont and Joseph Silverstein (from June 28-Aug. 2, also directed by Heng-Jin Park; visit http://www.killingtonmusicfestival.org%20or call 802-773-4003).
Arts Preview: A summer steaming with classical music
If summertime is the offseason for classical music in Boston, someone forgot to tell the musicians. With opera, chamber music, contemporary festivals, revivals and - of course, al fresco performances - the warm months are positively steaming with music both in Boston and around the state.


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A sneak peak of my IMATS haul coming up this week, lip product porn!
If you're in So. California, join Lipstick League members we heart this on February 10th at Beauty for The Beasts; an event they're co-hosting at Cristophe's Salon that benefits animal rescue. Book a service (like a $40 blow-out) or just come for the gift bag – they're worth $200! It's going to be a good time for a great cause.
Question of the Week – What is your favorite face cleanser – foaming, creamy, soap, whatever – and why?
Answer – Oh, the more bubbles the better for me!
Here's what's going on in the league this week…
Clumps of Mascara – hasn't been on the MAC Cosmetics bandwagon in a while and this mascara didn't help her regain her love for the brand either.
EauMG – It's happy hour! Pull a stool up to the bar and read this perfume review of Vince Camuto for Women.
Lipglossiping – continues exploring the brighter side of lipstick with the latest in her red lip series featuring a beautiful cherry red from Clarins.
Gouldylox Reviews – Pictures don't lie! You won't believe the before and after this mascara gave me. And it's under $10!
Nouveau Cheap – The new Nivea Lip Butters have finally landed in the US! Warning: you may be tempted to eat these with a spoon (but please don't).
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Prime Beauty – found a drugstore BB cream worthy of praise in Lumene's Vitamin C+ Illuminating Anti-Age BB Cream!
Phyrra – Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? Phyrra decides to be Good with the Urban Decay Disney Oz, the Great and Powerful, Glinda Palette.
Vampy Varnish – Urban Decay's new Oz The Great and Powerful Collection is fabulous. Check out lots of photos and swatches of The Glinda Palette and The Theodora Palette!
we heart this – We're co-hosting Beauty for The Beasts at Cristophe's on Feb. 10, beauty to benefit animal rescue. Salon services, champagne, gift bags – we'll see you there!
Beauty Junkies Unite – See why Amber absolutely loves MAC Party Parrot Lipstick, you won't want to miss this hot hue!
Guest Post of the Week, as chosen by Clumps of Mascara – Fellow beauty girl and mommy friend of mine is loving those Maybelline Vivids lipsticks as much as I am. Ishah Beauty has be wanting to haul that vibrant orange lipstick.
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When Bridgette Wiefling M.D. started at the Anthony Jordan Health Center, common wisdom had it that the federally qualified health center was on life support and soon would be unplugged.
Such centers are an outgrowth of 1960s-era activism. In exchange for federal money, they agree to provide primary care to the poor. Patients are a mix of Medicaid recipients on welfare, elderly Medicare patients, recent immigrants and working poor with inadequate or no insurance.
In the best of circumstances, such centers are fragile, Wiefling says.
In a statute intended to guard against corruption, federally qualified facilities are not supposed to do better than break even financially. Still, they are required to treat any patient meeting income guidelines whether they can pay or not.
Medicaid-which many private physicians avoid, complaining it fails to cover costs-is Jordan's biggest payer, accounting for 70 percent of revenues. Half of the center's Medicaid reimbursements come from Medicaid HMOs, which pay better rates than straight Medicaid to private and system-affiliated practices but less to federally qualified facilities. Medicare, which pays better than Medicaid, accounts for 10 percent of Jordan's revenues.
Twenty percent of the facility's patient population has no insurance. Uninsured patients are supposed to pay on a sliding scale, Wiefling says, which for some might mean token payments and for others no payment. Management of federally qualified centers by law is overseen by a board, more than half of whose members must be drawn from the center's patient population.
When Wiefling started at Jordan as a staff physician in 2005, the health center was unsound financially and losing staff and patients. Over the next two years, its situation deteriorated. When she was named CEO in 2007, Jordan had a $6 million deficit and was running an operating loss of $600,000 a year.
In the three years since Wiefling, 39, agreed to move from medical director, which she had moved up to in 2006, to CEO, Jordan has stabilized and even expanded.
Located in Rochester's northeast quadrant at Hudson Avenue and Holland Street, Jordan treats some 15,000 patients a year, roughly 6,000 more than it did in 2007. The deficit is gone. The health center, which has expanded services, has reached break even with an $8 million annual budget, she says. Its 135-member staff includes a stable core of some 25 providers, including physicians, nurse practitioners and dentists.
Richard Kennedy M.D. is a Jordan staff physician whom Wiefling counts among her closest allies. A family medicine doctor, he is employed by the University of Rochester Medical Center's Medical Faculty Group, which contracts him out to Jordan. He came to Jordan some six months before Wiefling was hired as a staff physician.
"When I started at Jordan in January 2005, I was told that it was about to close," Kennedy says. "It took about two years to get to the point where it was actually ready to shut down. It didn't look good then. People were leaving. I would look out my window and see strikers."
Kennedy had moved to Rochester from Saratoga Springs, where he had practiced in a "more or less regular family medicine practice." He was attracted to this area, as Wiefling had been, by the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry's biosocial psychological curriculum. He came to do a URMC fellowship concentrating on family medicine for the poor and underserved.
So certain did the Jordan Center's demise seem when he started there, Kennedy says, "the fact that I was really being hired by the university meant that I would have a job at Highland Family Medicine or somewhere else at UR was a big reason why I took the job."
The turnaround
Robert Thompson, a member of the center's foundation board, calls Jordan's turnaround "nothing short of miraculous." Its transition came in a series of gradual steps over some 18 months that "kind of snuck up on us."
Before moving to Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield as a vice president six months ago, Thompson ran the Rochester-based Monroe Plan, the biggest Rochester-area Medicaid HMO and one of Jordan's biggest payers.
What cannot be credited directly to Wiefling in the health center's turnaround is the work of "the really terrific administrative staff" Wiefling assembled, Thompson says. The Jordan CEO's accomplishments are even more remarkable given her relatively young age and lack of executive experience.
When the Jordan board tapped Wiefling for CEO, the previous CEO had resigned, leaving the financially troubled facility leaderless. In the breach, the director of another local federally qualified health center had agreed to jointly manage both facilities but had resigned after six months, with Jordan spiraling down financially at an accelerating rate.
"There was a (CEO) search committee, which had been looking for some time," Thompson says. "A couple of us went to them and said: 'You've got a gem right there; why don't you give her a try?' "
Debbie Ajewole, a Head Start program worker with Action for a Better Community, is the center's chairwoman.
"Dr. Wiefling is the best thing that ever happened to the Anthony Jordan center," Ajewole says. "It would not be here today if it weren't for her."
When Wiefling was named CEO, she had been medical director for a year. She had ascended to that position after a single year as a staff doctor, her first position after completing a two-year residency at URMC.
"I was a catalyst. Everybody's given above and beyond," Wiefling says. "What makes you successful is the community and being in the community."
Patient volumes improved partly because Jordan added dental and mental health ser-vices after community members told her they were needed, Wiefling says. Jordan also has added preventive health services at a women's infant and children program center it had been running on High Falls Boulevard.
Part of why Jordan has been able to add and expand such services is that Wiefling has made the facility an effective magnet for grant dollars, a supplemental source of revenue that has been key to pulling it out of its financial hole.
To pull in grant money from funders such as the Greater Rochester Health Foundation, which awarded a $600,000 grant to Jordan in 2008, Wiefling has used a streamlined method designed to get a maximum reward. That involves doing preliminary work, such as identifying funding sources and writing early proposal drafts in-house as much as possible, and hiring professional grant writers only to do final polishing.
The key to success in grant writing, Wiefling says, is less in how the grant is written than in the viability of the project. Her view is if an organization first identifies a need and figures out how it might serve that need and which foundations might see serving that need as their mis-sion, grant dollars will follow.
Another key to stabilizing Jordan was reaching an accord with Service Employee International Union 1199 Upstate workers. A lot of the financial ills that plagued the health center traced to Jordan's pension and contract obligations to union workers, Thompson says. Concessions were needed to stabilize the center's finances. But the 45 SEIU staffers were not inclined to give up hard-won benefits.
When the union workers' contract expired in 2008, negotiations lasted a year before an agreement was reached some 12 months ago. Wiefling speaks highly of the union staff, but past tensions are clearly a painful memory for her. The union agreement was a problem for the center that needed to be solved. In the end, concessions were wrung, Wiefling says, but she seems to have taken little joy in extracting them.
On the water
Wiefling is slight of build and wears her dark hair up. She has an easy smile and an enthusiastic manner. A wind-burned complexion is the product of hours spent sailing, her main non-work pursuit.
"I've always lived on water, but I started out small," Wiefling says. "I grew up on a creek and then built a house on a lake. Now I'm on a Great Lake."
Wiefling is married to Mark Schiesser, the president of Triline Automation Corp., a Henrietta-based maker of fluid power and control components. The couple lives on Lake Ontario in Wayne County and owns a 32-foot sailboat, which they sail for pleasure. Schiesser and Wiefling crew on a 42-foot ocean racing boat owned by venture capitalist Kenneth Johnson, Wiefling's former boyfriend and business partner.
Johnson's firm, Kegonsa Capital Partners LLC, grew out of Kegonsa Technology LLC, a technology transfer company Wiefling and Johnson started in the 1990s when she was working as a researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The company was named after Lake Kegonsa, on whose shores Johnson lived and Wiefling separately had a small house built.
"Bridgette has a couple of personal characteristics that I think made it possible for her to succeed in the way she has," says board member Thompson. "She's very smart, she's a quick study, and she has an innate sense of leadership."
Kennedy does not disagree, but adds Wiefling's ambitions were not initially in management.
"I don't think that being a CEO was the life trajectory she was looking for, but that's the kind of person she is," he says. "If there's a need, she'll fill it."
Into medicine
Wiefling meant to pursue a medical career from an early age. She grew up in rural Butler County in Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh, the fifth child and only daughter of a farm family whose cousins, aunts and uncles were, like her own parents, farmers with deep roots in the area.
Like many small, family farmers, her father, who raised beef cattle, also worked at a full-time day job, as an electrician. Wiefling is the only member of her immediate family to attend college. Her brothers followed their father into the electrician trade.
"My mother hammered into me that I had to go to college," Wiefling says. "She'd tell me: 'You have to go to college; you can't be dependent on a man.' If I ever said I wanted to be a nurse, my mother would say, 'No. You'll be a doctor.' My wanting to be a doctor didn't start out as altruism. I wanted to save my own family."
Though her father had health insurance through his electrician's job, doctors in the rural reaches where most of her family lived were scarce, Wiefling says. Her determination to be a doctor crystallized at the age of 13 when her mother's mother died as an indirect consequence of a doctor's misdiagnosis.
Her grandmother had been in generally poor health, Wiefling says. A bad reaction to a dye for a CAT scan-ordered by a
doctor looking for a physical cause for complaints Wiefling believes were due to undiagnosed depression-sent her grandmother into a downward spiral from which she did not recover.
"My mother had to pull the plug on her," Wiefling says. "It ruined Mom. She felt like she killed her own mother. What dawned on me was that my family didn't have good health care."
Wiefling went to college on scholarships and loans, including a small scholarship she got as a Junior Miss pageant winner. She started at the University of Pittsburgh but found inner-city living disconcerting and transferred to Slippery Rock University, a less urban setting an hour north of Pittsburgh.
She majored in biology as an intended premed course, but Wiefling did not immediately attend medical school. A three-year hiatus between graduating with a bachelor of science degree in biology in 1992 and starting studies toward an M.D. partly was due to lack of money. But Wiefling says she also was not confident she had what it took to be a doctor.
She investigated two possible research positions, one at a University of Southern California lab in Los Angeles and another at the University of Wisconsin.
She was set to take what seemed the more prestigious job, at USC, rather than the one at Wisconsin, which was working for a researcher who happened to be the father of her biology professor at Slippery Rock.
Her suspicions were aroused, however, when the USC researchers' eyebrows went up when she told them whom she had interviewed with in Wisconsin. They strongly downplayed the Wisconsin biochemistry researcher, Hector DeLuca, trying to give Wiefling the impression that work with him would be a bad career choice.
DeLuca, it turned out, is a legendary figure in biochemistry, the discoverer of the active form of vitamin D, meaning a form of the substance that the human body can use when ingested. Working in DeLuca's laboratory, Wiefling became an expert of sorts.
In Wisconsin, Wiefling started seeing Johnson, who taught her to sail. She credits her work with Johnson in starting the technology transfer company for giving her business experience that has proved invaluable in running the Jordan center.
"It was a great experience. I learned how companies work and I learned that anything is possible as long as it's done properly," she says.
Before attending medical school, Wiefling also studied German at the University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria, and soil chemistry at the Pushchino State University Institute of Soil Science in Pushchino, Russia.
Wiefling decided to go to medical school after she and Johnson broke up. She quit her job with DeLuca and was accepted at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She put herself through medical school, working jobs in a greenhouse and as a waitress and with financial aid. After earning a medical degree in 2001, she started a residency at UR.
She chose Rochester partly because it is within driving distance of her parents' home in Saxbury, Pa. But she also had not lost sight of her original aim of serving poor communities, Wiefling says. She chose UR because of the school's equal emphasis on the social and psychological as well as the biological aspects of care.
During her residency, Wiefling developed a program working with other residents to interest them in community-based care, and she worked at a clinic in Honduras. She also has worked as a member of an outreach team providing medical and gynecological care at a rural health clinic in Bolivia. Her work in Central and South America was strikingly similar to working with underserved groups at Jordan, she says.
Joining Jordan
At the end of her residency, Wiefling won a national award as that year's standout in public service from the American Association of Medical Colleges. The UR medical school also won an AAMC award that year.
Wiefling had looked locally for jobs without luck and was planning on relocating. She went to the AAMC dinner in Boston to collect her prize, taking her mother as a guest at the awards banquet. Seated at her table were then URMC CEO McCollister Evarts M.D. and other URMC dignitaries.
When they asked what her plans were, Wiefling told them she had been looking for a job in Rochester but was having no luck, adding she would not mind working at Jordan. The clinic soon hired her.
Wiefling is relentlessly upbeat about Jordan's prospects. She enthuses over the primary care preventive medicine program and past achievements, such as a successful implementation of an electronic medical records system, quelling the center's labor unrest and financially stabilizing the center. Yet she is hardly ready to rest on those laurels.
A disappointment to Wiefling-and to himself, Kennedy says-was the failure of the Rochester Children's Zone, an ambitious project modeled on the successful Harlem Children's Zone started and run by activist Jeffrey Canada in New York City.
The idea is to mark off an inner-city area in which organizers work to provide resources to participating families sufficient to see children through primary and secondary schools and college. Where Canada largely has succeeded, attracting millions in corporate support, the Rochester zone ran off the rails after promised state funding fell through and a key supporter, former Rochester superintendent of schools Manuel Rivera, left the area.
The project was not a Jordan initiative, but its goals were the same as Wiefling's, Kennedy says. As successful as the Jordan center might be, he believes, Wiefling sees it more as a means to an end than an end. Through the health center's programs, the community it serves could be bettered in ways that go beyond the purely physical well-being of residents.
"When she's out on the lake sailing, I think that's what she thinks about," Kennedy says.
It is a vision Wiefling does not deny. Still, she says, managing the health center remains a no-net high-wire act in which each step demands full attention.
"You're made to live on the edge," Wiefling says. "If you're not on top of it every minute of every day moving the coconuts around, you're going to go down."
Bridgette Wiefling M.D.
- Title: CEO, Anthony Jordan Health Center
- Age: 39
- Education: B.S. in biology, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pa., 1992; M.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 2001
- Family: Husband Mark Schiesser; stepsons, Eric Schiesser, 19, and Rob Schiesser, 24; stepdaughter, Krista Schiesser, 17
- Home: Ontario, Wayne County
- Activities: Sailing, crewing on an ocean-racing sailboat
- Quote: "You're made to live on the edge. If you're not on top of it every minute of every day moving the coconuts around, you're going to go down."


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Not Just Experiences, Rich Experiences
As I get ready to head to the airport to attend Cisco Live it has me thinking about the travel experience and how it relates to the collaboration experience. While some aspects of the travel experience can be quite pleasurable, there are many that aren't – security screening, delays, BYOF (bring your own food), among others.
The same is true for collaboration. Just like every airline promotes similar amenities, many collaboration vendors promote "rich experiences", especially for video, which sound very similar – HD, interoperability, standards, scalability. But the reality can sometimes be quite different: buffering, jitter, pixelization, dropped calls, and failed connections to name a few.
I believe experience matters and if we can provide consistent, predictable, rich experiences for users, then collaboration will flourish. This is what Cisco is focused on and I think we are far ahead of the competition. I encourage you to join me at Cisco Live on Monday when I talk not only about why Cisco is the better choice, but demonstrate live what it means for the experience and for you.
Come hear more at 3:30 p.m. PST on Monday, June 11 at my Collaboration and Video Solutions Keynote, Cisco Live!, San Diego, or in the Cisco Collaboration Virtual Experience on Tuesday, June 12 from 12:30-1:30 PST and available on demand afterwards.
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DeVos Art Museum
The DeVos Art Museum consists of two galleries: one for rotating exhibits including national, community and student works; and the other for the university's permanent collection, which ranges from Inuit and Japanese collections to a large native American collection to 20th-century illustration. The museum was made possible with support from the Dan and Pamella DeVos Foundation and the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundations.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday it would sell its 500.1 million General Motors shares, with the automaker buying up a chunk of them by year's end.
The plan that would divest the government of its entire GM holdings is to sell 200 million shares back to GM at $27.50 per share, the Treasury said. The rest of its GM shares would be sold within the next 12 to 15 months, "subject to market conditions," the department said.
The Treasury Department, which recently divested itself of its common shares of American International Group, is attempting to close the door on the Troubled Asset Relief Program through which bailouts were offered to banks, to AIG, and to GM and Chrysler.
The department said that "overall, to date ... the Treasury has recovered 90 percent [$381 billion] of the $418 billion in funds disbursed for TARP."
"The auto industry rescue helped save more than a million jobs during a severe economic crisis, but TARP was always meant to be a temporary, emergency program. The government should not be in the business of owning stakes in private companies for an indefinite period of time," Timothy Massad, assistant secretary for financial stability, said in a statement.
"Moving to exit our investment in GM within the next 12 to 15 months is consistent with our dual goals of winding down TARP as soon as practicable and protecting taxpayer interests," he said.
The department said "independent" analysis of the GM bailout concluded 1 million jobs were saved with the bailout that required $49.5 billion.
"Moreover, since June 2009, the auto industry has added a quarter of a million new jobs," Treasury said.


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Lady Antebellum star Hillary Scott is set to become a first-time mom.
A month shy of their first wedding anniversary, the "Need You Now" singer and her husband Chris Tyrrell announced they're set to become parents in 2013.
A statement from the 26-year-old mom-to-be reads: "Chris & I are excited to announce that our Christmas gift has arrived a little early this year! We are having a BABY! We feel so blessed!!!"
The father is a member of country band Love and Theft and he isn't the only member of the group with 2013 daddy dreams – frontman Eric Gunderson and his wife Emily are expecting a boy in May.


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Buford "Buck" Martin, 91
OWENTON, Ky. – Buford "Buck" Martin, 91, of Owenton, passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Florence.
He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Lillian "Curtie" Martin and his son, Buford Kemper "Kemp" Martin.
McDonald & New Funeral Homes are in charge of arrangements.
The funeral services were held at the Main Street location, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, with Bro. John Thomas presiding. Burial was in the Owenton Cemetery.
William Arthur Hamilton Jr., 92
WHEATLEY, Ky. – William Arthur Hamilton, Jr., 92, of Wheatley, died Monday evening, April 24, 2017, at his home in Wheatley.
Delmar Moore Jr., 68, passed away Saturday, June 8, 2013, at his residence.
Survivors include his wife, Mary; his mother, Alba Wilhoite; his sons, Jeffrey Scott and Jason Dale Moore; and his daughters, April Darrell, Angie Runyon and Tonya Moore.
The funeral services were held Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at the Main Street location of McDonald & New Funeral Homes.
Victoria Jordan McCallig, 64, of Peotone, Ill., passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at her home.
Survivors include her husband, Julian Paul Avelis; a daughter, Rachel Avelis of Peotone, Ill.; and a son, Peter Avelis of Peotone, Ill.
Graveside services were held Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at the Dallasburg Masonic Cemetery in Wheatley.
Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Franklin Woodrow Halfhill, 73, of Owenton, passed away May 29, 2013, at the Owenton Manor Nursing Home.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Dunn Halfhill; one son, Jonathan Halfhill of Owenton; and six daughters, Connie Smith, Debbie Agrue, Brenda Collins, Sherry Smith, Rachel Newby all of Owenton and Sharon Spaulding of Sparta.
The funeral services were June 1, 2013, at McDaniel Funeral Home in Corinth. Burial was in the Corinth Cemetery.
Horace Dawson, 77, of Versailles and a native of Owenton, passed away Monday, June 3, 2013.
Survivors include his wife Bonnie Dawson; his daughters, Becky (Gary) Hockensmith of Frankfort, Barbara (John) Boren of Versailles, and Heather (Eric) Schneider of Indiana.
The funeral services were held Friday, June 7, 2013, at the Clark Funeral Home in Versailles. Burial was in the Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Christine Nall Winkle, 89, of Owenton, passed away Monday, May 13, 2013, at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington.
She was the widow of Eugene Winkle.
She is survived by her son Barry Winkle; and her daughter, Wanda Price.
The funeral services were held Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Main Street location of the McDonald & New Funeral Homes. Burial was in the Owenton Cemetery.
William "Carey" Vannarsdall, 89, of Jonesville, passed away, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at the New Horizons Medical Center.
Born April 6, 1924, in Jonesville, he was the son of the late William and Susie Perry Vannarsdall.
He was preceded in death by his siblings, Agnes Noel, Olan, J.C., Frank and Joe Vannarsdall.
Carey was a devout member of the Concord Baptist Church where he served in the capacity of Sunday school teacher, deacon, Sunday school superintendent and moderator.
Stephanie Kaye Beverly, 40, of Paris and formerly of Owenton, passed away Saturday, April 28, 2013, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville.
Survivors include her parents, Buck (Pat) Beverly of Owenton and Sherry (Keith) Shelburne of Paris; and her son, Ethan Beverly.
The funeral services were held Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the McDonald & New Funeral Home. Burial was in the Owenton Cemetery.
Alice Frances McManama, 83, of Owenton passed away, Monday, May 6, 2013, at the Owenton Manor.
She was the daughter of the late Willie and Alma Rice Riddle.
Survivor include her stepson, Gary McManama of Fountain Run.
The family will receive friends Wednesday, May 8, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Main Street location of McDonald & New Funeral Homes. The funeral services will begin at 2 p.m.
Burial will be in the Owenton Cemetery.
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I occasionally go on, what is known in our house as, "The Shitty Food Diet."
The Shitty Food Diet is very simple and very effective - if what you want to do is lose a lot of weight very fast and don't really care about the impact on your health.
What you do is eat INCREDIBLY shitty food - but hardly any of it. So on the downside you get quite hungry, but on the upside, you've got some sort of disgusting, shaming treat waiting for you and the thing about diets is that they're all about morale.
So a typical day's menu might go like this:
Breakfast: 1 latte with chocolate croissant
Lunch: nothing
About 2pm: McDonald's double cheeseburger and small coke
6.30pm: 1 packet peanut M&Ms OR 1 Krispy Kreme OR 2 Jacob's cream crackers
Dinner: 3 small glasses of oaky Chardonnay and 2 handfuls of crisps
This is the kind of menu I find myself eating quite often and I am thin as a rake. People say to me "You are so thin, what diet are you on?" and I say "The Shitty Food Diet" and they go "Ha ha ha, no really."
Except next-eldest sister. She said "You are so thin, what diet are you on?" And I said "It's called The Shitty Food Diet." And she said "Ooh really - what does one do on that?" But my sister lives in Notting Hill - nothing surprises her.
So this is what I do on my own time, but on my husband's time, it's a different story.
But as it happens, we are getting a bit slack about provenence in this house. My husband's strict rules about what, exactly, one is allowed to buy and eat basically allow for us to eat almost nothing except kale and roast chickens. He doesn't want to buy, from a supermarket any fish that isn't mackerel or any meat that isn't produced by Duchy Originals. So if we haven't been to the farmer's market recently (where one can buy, guilt-free, anything one wants), the menu round here gets a bit samey.
I used to observe these rules faithfully but recently I've got a bit loose around the edges with it. The other day I just wanted some spare ribs, damn it. We'd just been to a restaurant called Sonny's Kitchen in Barnes, which was AMAZING - just the best food I've had for a really, really long time and worth a trip if you're anywhere near it.
You would think that being married to my husband I get to eat a lot of amazing food, but it isn't so. A lot of new restaurants we go to aren't very nice and if you order wrong, well: yuk. Sonny's Kitchen genuinely stood out.
So anyway we had these spare ribs, which were like, out of this world and I wanted to re-create them, although nothing like as spectacular. But I couldn't find any free range organic spare ribs in Waitrose so I just thought - fuck it - and bought the essentials ones.
And they turned out gorgeous, drowning in a barbeque sauce, which contained the following:
5 tablespoons tomato ketchup
3 heaped teaspoons English mustard
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1tsp chinese five spice
the zest of 1/2 an orange if you have it
2 cloves garlic, crushed
3 tablepoons veg oil to loosen
1 tablespoon vinegar, any sort
1 Mix together the sauce ingredients and leave the ribs to marinade for as long as you can - all day for preference but even 30 mins will make a difference.
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IMDb: 6.7
1h 21min
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn't real ...
Country: USA
Actors: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, Maria Bello, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Andi Osho, Rolando Boyce, Maria Russell, Elizabeth Pan, Lotta Losten, Amiah Miller, Ava Cantrell, Emily Alyn Lind
Swinging with the FinkelsHD
IMDb: 4.6
85 min
A suburban couple decide to shake up their marriage by "swinging" with another couple.
Actors: Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore, Jonathan Silverman, Melissa George, Angus Deayton, Daisy Beaumont, Paul Chowdhry, Jerry Stiller, Beverley Klein, Edward Akrout, Andi Osho, Tim Beckmann, Louie Spence, Kenneth Collard, Carolyn Tomkinson
Kiri - S01Eps3
IMDb: 7.6
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail ...
Country: UK
Genres: Crime
Actors: Finn Bennett, Paapa Essiedu, Steven Mackintosh, Wunmi Mosaku, Andi Osho, Charles Dale, Scarlett Brookes, Sarah Lancashire, Lucian Msamati, Felicia Mukasa, Brendan Patricks, Claire Rushbrook, Cara Theobold, Lia Williams, Lucy Russell


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I don't know of anyone that eat's eucalyptus,you try to eat sourwood & it is sour sure makes good honey.
I don't know of anyone that eat's eucalyptus,you try to eat sourwood & it is sour sure makes good honey.
there is eucalyptus in parts of california that has been introduced,it has also been introduced into alot of asia,i'm sure there are several varieties.back on the subject of locust,honey locust,(glediitsia triacanthos) is the locust that has thorns and is not a nectar source as far as i know,black locust(robinia pseudoactia) is a honey tree and doesn't have thorns.there are ornimental honey locusts that do not have thorns.both are good fire wood,and good for fence posts.
Yellow Box (Eucalyptus melliodora) and Blue Gum (Eucalyptus leucoxylon ) honey is from Eucalyptus
It is widley sold in Supermartkets and tastes
like normal honey.... very nice
Red Gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Iron Bark Eucalyptus crebra
are poplular here too
Update on the Simpson's Honey Plant. The bees seem to love it. It's not a particularly pretty plant, but good for addition of green to the perennial garden. I didn't think it would bloom the first year, but it did. The tiny little flowers are a rosy brown color, barely noticeable, but the bees think they are just great.
Nobody has mentioned the tulip tree (also called tulip or yellow poplar, although it has nothing to do with the poplar, a willow relative, but belongs to the magnolia family).
It is a beautiful tall tree that has an almost perfectly straight trunk and huge flowers that look like a tulip or lilly, The flowers produce and collect massive amounts of nectar at the base of the petals. You can in fact turn the flower over and drink a sip of nectar ... no wonder bees like it.
Found a site www.forestfarm.com that has all kind's of plant's. they have a listing they call Honey plants.>>>>>Mark
i've got a field near my house full of joe-pye weed,must be 8 ft tall.what a beautiful site,and how about how the brilliant goldenrod and the vibrant purple of the iron weed complement each other.
I'd really like to plant some Basswood (also called Linden) trees. But there are serveral varities and I'm not sure if they are all good honey trees. I know there was an article in the ABJ about Lindens maybe from the other year, but I don't know where I have that copy. If anybody can clue me in on the best basswood, that would be great!


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Image source: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
AUSTIN— Texas game wardens will conduct their second-ever virtual patrol ride-along via Twitter from noon until 8 p.m., Friday, March 14.
Through Twitter, the wardens will give the public a first-hand look at what happens on a typical bay patrol with wardens doing boating safety checks and enforcing fishing regulations among other duties. The digital ride-along will likely include some added excitement since it will be during spring break.
Throughout the afternoon and evening, the agency's technology game warden and another commissioned officer will join game wardens in Galveston County and continuously tweet what happens.
"Our water safety enforcement role is crucial," said Col. Craig Hunter, Texas Parks and Wildlife's Director of Law Enforcement. "Using this new social media technology allows us a way to show the public what our game wardens do."
To follow along, visit https://twitter.com/TexasGameWarden or search Twitter for @TexasGameWarden.
Source: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department


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Nobody makes cooking and food more fun and accessible than Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen. America's Test Kitchen Radio is filled with clear, practical information, without the gourmet fuss. The hour features insights, tips, and techniques that illuminate the truth about real home cooking. Kimball introduces you to an eclectic collection of test cooks and food experts from the Test Kitchen and people who have unique and useful perspectives with rich stories to tell about cooking and food.
Visit America's Test Kitchen's Website
What's Cookin', Kiddo? America's Test Kitchen Unveils Book For Young Chefs
October 21, 2018
NPR's Lynn Neary drops in on a cooking session with America's Test Kitchen Kids editor in chief and an 8-year-old chef to try one of more than 100 recipes for foods that kids love to eat — and make.
Breaking The Cranberry Mold: New Ways To Savor This Seasonal Berry
November 25, 2015
Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving tradition. But if you're ready for a fresh take on this staple, why not try cranberries in chutney or cake? America's Test Kitchen founder Chris Kimball offers ideas.
America's Test Kitchen Founder Chris Kimball Leaves Show
November 17, 2015
Wearing his trademark bow tie and round spectacles, Chris Kimball has hosted 15 seasons of America's Test Kitchen, one of public television's most popular programs.
Gluten-Free? Vegan? Thanksgiving Recipes For Alternative Diets
November 26, 2014
It's like the start of a bad joke: a vegan, a gluten-free and a paleo walk into a bar — except it's your house, and they're gathered around the Thanksgiving table. Don't panic — we've got recipes.
With Help From America's Test Kitchen, Why Buy When You Can DIY?
July 24, 2014
Morning Edition host Renee Montagne talks to America's Test Kitchen's Chris Kimball about foods that are easier than you'd guess to make at home. Fresh Nutella or kale chips, anyone?
Making 'The Science Of Good Cooking' Look Easy
October 12, 2012
Forget the room-temperature eggs and the tenderizing meat with a marinade, America's Test Kitchen host Chris Kimball tells Morning Edition. A little bit of science goes a long way in the kitchen, he says.


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Simplify availability of documentation for tools
Currently the documentation of tools and the tool itself are managed separately. The doc directory in the svn repositories provides an opportunity to create documentation along with the tool. When the tool is created or updated, the tool arcitecture should look in the doc directory for updates to the documentation instead of explicitly asking for separate documents to upload.


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The Wally Show recently returned from our offices in Asia where they witnessed child sponsorship in action.
We met a woman named Ko who was a sponsored child, and she now works for Compassion helping others. This is one time a vicious cycle is a good thing. She still has the picture of her sponsors from 30 years ago on her desk.
I asked her if there was anything her sponsor said or did that really made a difference in her life. She told me the fact that someone who did not know her would show her such love and tell her about Jesus inspired her to live the rest of her life serving God. That is a sentiment which is echoed throughout the lives of most of the Compassion kids.
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ABQ Trolley Co: Trolley of Lights
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Tis the Season for Christmas trees, luminarias, nutcrackers, egg nog and holiday lights! ABQ Trolley Co. presents: Trolley of Lights - a holiday lights tour! Join ABQ Trolley Co. December 17th-24th as we head out to see Albuquerque's holiday lights aglow. The Trolley of Lights departs from Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.
Tours last approximately 75-minutes. December evenings in Albuquerque are quite brisk; please dress for 30 degree weather as we will be riding in an open sleigh, er Trolley (blankets, long underwear, mittens, knit caps, wool socks, etc will be necessary).
Trolley of Lights Highlights:
- Old Town Plaza Christmas tree and decorations
- Rio Grande Blvd.
- Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
NOTE: There are no refunds for tickets. Due to the high demand for these tickets, there will not be any refunds for anyone who misses the tour. By the time the tours are upon us, we've turned down many riders who are interested in joining us because the tours are "sold out." Having a rider cancel the week of or the day of does not give us enough time to resell that ticket. Tickets are fully transferable. Thank you for your understanding.


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I guess the Rams want the second coming of John Elway, or maybe Johnny Unitas
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Nick Jonas Reaches Out to Demi Lovato After Her Dad's Death
While Joe was the Jonas Brother that Demi Lovato dated before her infamous meltdown and subsequent stint in rehab, it was his little brother Nick who reached out to the singer in the wake of her father's death from cancer.
Little Nicky J sent a nice, polite and totally thoughtful message into the Twitterverse, showing Lovato, who was estranged from her dad Patrick when he died, the love.
His good vibes tweet is below.
Patrick Lovato reportedly died after a bout with cancer. He had used the media as a way to plead with her to get in touch in 2011 and 2012.
Lovato broke her silence on Twitter and addressed all the people who've shown her support through this ordeal. She tweeted a note of humble thanks yesterday (June 24), and her full calendar of events appears uninterrupted by her father's passing.
Demi Lovato has been through a lot in recent years and we know she is strong as an ox and will pull through this difficult time. She's a resilient young woman and she will get through this period. It's a good thing she has Lovatics and Nick Jonas getting her back.


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The World Cup invasion has begun, and Puma is taking over the Big Apple this summer with their Puma City. We caught up with them yesterday down at the South Street Seaport and with a little persuasion from SampleSaleShop we were able to get an exclusive sneak peek. From June 11th-July 11th, it's gonna be football by day, and parties by night! The big Puma City launch is this Friday, June 11th and it's going to be a party you don't want to miss! Peep through our gallery to see the shots we took of Puma's soccer fields, merch, the photobooth, schedule, and more.
Stuff to do at Puma City:
- RED Bar – Puma's official beer garden
- PUMA Social Club will hosting ping-pong tournaments, Foosball games, darts, video games, athlete appearances and more, with DJ nights every Wednesday from 9 PM to 1 AM
- Suits and Boots – Puma invites business executives to challenge co-workers and friends in 30-minute soccer matches at the pop-up soccer field from 12 PM to 2 PM Mondays through Fridays. Games are free and everyone is welcome.
- Women's Professional Soccer Clinics and Viewing Parties – Sunday nights, watch the games on JumboTrons. Local and visiting teams will host clinics for players wishing to brush up on their soccer skills. Soccer superstar Marta will be making an appearance on Monday, June 14, and New Jersey's very own Sky Blue FC, the reigning WPS Champions, will host a meet-and-greet on Sunday, June 27.
- iCycle Bike Day – Puma and Hub Station will offer free bike repairs on Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20.
You can see all of our World Cup-related posts at http://su.pr/1Kyrhf .
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Roundup: 'India's Daughter' Was to Marry
The victim of the Delhi gang-rape was set to get married in February to her software engineer friend, who was also beaten during the Dec. 16 attack.
The two weren't engaged but the woman's friends say she was about to marry him, and had already started shopping for the wedding, which was supposed to be held in Delhi.
On the night of the attack, the couple had been to the cinema to watch "Life of Pi," reports say. They were assaulted later on a bus they had boarded in the south Delhi neighborhood Munirka.
Police say three men seated in the driver's cabin initially started harassing the couple, and when the man tried to resist, he was beaten on the legs, arms and head. The woman was then dragged to the back of the vehicle where she was raped as the bus drove around south Delhi for an hour, police say. Finally, the attackers robbed the couple, stripped them and pushed them out onto a highway. Six men, including the bus driver, are in police custody.
On Saturday morning, the 23-year-old woman died in hospital in Singapore, where she had been flown for treatment last week. Her body was brought back to India and cremated Sunday.
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With a 3" long cast aluminum handle, this cam clamp is suitable for most clamping applications. The steel cross-dowel nut can be used with any fastener with a matching thread (e.g., a bolt or a threaded rod and nut). Our T-bolts are ideal.
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auto_migrations plugin I knew I would never respect any Rails project which didn't use it.
Here's why: I just took over a legacy Rails app from a client who used the app to learn Rails. The migrations are absolutely full of "maybe I'll do this - no, wait, I'll do that." By definition, every Rails developer has to learn Rails at some point, which means that there are a lot of apps like this out there. Guess what happens when a new dev comes on board? They go absolutely freaking nuts trying to migrate your DB from its initial state to a working state, and most of the energy they spend doing that is wasted energy trying to figure out why they can migrate up only to version X and not any further than that.
Worse yet, if there's some bug in a migration, or some minor config detail is off, your migrations fail mid-migration - which means you can't even migrate down to 0 and back up again gracefully, because the migration's
up and
down methods only do their jobs in the event of no errors. When there's an error, if you've got an
up method which creates two tables, one of them is created and the other is not, and whatever the number in
schema_info is, it's wrong. So your migrations have a huge wow factor and microscopic usefulness, and you're back in the pre-Ant and pre-Rake days of manual builds and spending all day, or several days, just getting a database working.
What a ridiculous waste of time.
If you use
auto_migrations, you have one file to maintain, and either it works or it doesn't. It's nice, it's simple, it's plain, and if for some reason you've got a working DB but no files to generate it, you can get the file to generate it just by running
rake db:schema:dump. This is the type of architecture that brought me to Rails and made me a true believer. It's a real pleasure to use, and I'd say it's the most absolutely essential plugin there is. There's no excuse for not using it in any situation, ever.
Update: I really shouldn't speak so stridently - I know intelligent people can disagree. This even holds true on Rails core.


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Free Press Panel Blasts 'Broken' FCC
BOSTON, April 13, 2011 - Panelists at the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform railed on the Federal Communications Commission over the weekend, debating to what extent the Commission has been "captured" by industry and how to fix it. Joel Kelsey, Political Advisor at Free Press, moderated the panel, entitled "How to Fix the Broken FCC." The event included participants from the public interest, industry and government sectors. Keep Reading