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Using light worsted weight you can use this free crochet pattern for that little man in your life. Crochet this hat to keep his head nice and warm during the chilly A chic tile pattern of interlocking shapes embroidered in aqua blue and vibrant green brings a contemporary touch to your bedroom, den or living space. Noritake produced Blue Moon from 1969 to 1980. It has a white background and offers a blue floral pattern with green leaves. It was one of the Progression patterns.
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WHAT: As part of its fall worship service speaker series, Sisters Chapel at Spelman College will host Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ph.D., C'70, cultural historian and singer/composer/producer, as the featured guest speaker. Her topic will be "Song and Singing as 'Stance' in the Struggle Against Injustice and Evil."
In support of this worship service, Reagon will be joined by Joyce Johnson, D.Mus., professor emeriti and Spelman College organist; the Spelman College Glee Club under the direction of Kevin Johnson, D.M.A.; and members of Sisters Chapel Arts Ministry.
The event is free and open to the public.
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The Rev. Lisa D. Rhodes, D. Min., dean of Sisters Chapel and director of the Spelman College WISDOM Center
WHEN: Sunday Worship Service, Sept. 25, 2011, 10 a.m.
WHERE: Sisters Chapel, 350 Spelman Lane, Atlanta 30314
WHY: Sisters Chapel supports the Spelman College mission as a global leader in the education of women of African descent by creating a religious and spiritual community that nurtures thinking women of faith to become ethical leaders who promote diversity and engagement in acts of social justice. Sisters Chapel worship services provide opportunities for students to think critically about ethics and moral responsibility, share creative and artistic expressions of Black religious life and culture and grow in their ability to be liturgical and ethical leaders.
African-American women were pivotal leaders and participants in the Civil Rights Movement. This service celebrates their courage, creativity and strength.
About Bernice Johnson Reagon
For more than a half a century Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice. Born in Southwest Georgia, her activism began as a student leader during the Albany Civil Rights Movement. A powerful song leader, Reagon joined the original SNCC Freedom Singers formed in 1962 by Cordell Reagon, founded the Atlanta-based Harambee Singers in 1966, and while completing her doctoral studies in cultural history at Howard University, formed the internationally-renowned African-American women's a cappella ensemble, Sweet Honey In The Rock. She led the group for 30 years until retirement in early 2004. As a cultural historian, Reagon has been highly recognized for her pioneering public history scholarship and production in the history and evolution of African-American culture and music traditions.
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Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a highly selective, liberal arts college widely recognized as the global leader in the education of women of African descent. Located in Atlanta, Ga., the college's picturesque campus is home to 2,100 students. Outstanding alumnae include Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman; Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer; JPMorgan Chase Foundation President Kimberly Davis; former acting Surgeon General and Spelman's first alumna President Audrey Forbes Manley; Harvard College Dean Evelyn Hammonds; author Pearl Cleage; and actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson. For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.
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Human - Vampire - Dark/Twisted Romance
Elizabeth Ann Coleman pulled the earphones from her ears while pressing the top button on her iPod. Once the screen went black she started wrapping the earphones around the iPod, then tucked it into her back pocket. At the same time, she came upon the ruins of old, large colonial house. It was a few miles walk from her little town in the south, but she had always loved walking through the woods and exploring the ruins of the colonial houses.
With a deep breath, she took the three steps up onto the half standing porch. This was the most stable house left, as far as she had found. No matter how many times she walked through it, she could never get enough. Her mind would always start to spin with tells of carriages, balls and a dashing prince charming.
With a smile to herself, she walked through the doorway of the house. This time, the board that usually creaked with the weight of her step, finally gave way. Once it collapsed, several boards went with it, leaving Elizabeth to fall through the floor with a loud shriek. A few seconds later she landed with a thud. A small groan escaped her lips as she rolled over onto her back, blinking a few times to clear her vision. She had landed on the hard cement of the basement below, which she had never ventured into before.
Another groan escaped her lips as she pushed herself up into a sitting position, looking around. The sunlight filtered through the hole she fell through, just enough so she could see the overview of the basement. As she took in a deep breath, she pushed herself up to her feet, pulling her phone from her front pocket and turning the flashlight on. Her eyes scanned for a way to get out, but instead fell on a huge cement door. As she walked closer and shined the flashlight higher, she noticed the large pentacle chipped into the stone. along with strange symbols. It took a few moments of studying, but she recognized the symbols to be used to bind things- to keep something in. The handle to the door was chained. It was an obvious sign to stay out, but Elizabeth couldn't help herself. After glancing around, she spotted a large rock. She walked over, picked it up and went back to the door. She lifted it high, bringing it down on the lock. A large clank echoed and she repeated the action a few more times, until the lock broke and clattered to floor.
Elizabeth gripped the handle and pushed against the door with all her strength. At first it seemed as if her effort to move the door would be futile, but then the door shifted just an inch, breaking the seal. She took a quick breath and shoved against the door with all her might once more. It started to slowly push open. Once there was a gap big enough for her to fit through, she slipped inside and lifted the light up to illuminate two halls that split in opposite directions from each other. Without thinking, she took the steps forward and turned right, following the short hall into a medium sized tomb area. There was another entrance on the other side, which she assumed was the other hall she had seen that would lead back out to the door she just came through.
Her strange, black like eyes landed on a large stone like coffin in the middle of the room. Biting on her lip for a moment, she moved forward towards the thing, wondering what was inside. Halfway to it, she stumbled over something. She tried to catch herself, but instead found she'd once again landed flatly on the ground. This time she felt a sharp pain against her wrist and winced. "Damn it," She groaned softly, lifting her arm up to see blood oozing down her arm. Something had cut her. It wasn't enough to permanently damaged her in any way, but it had cut deep enough for the blood to flow freely.
Just as Elizabeth pushed herself up, she heard the sound of stone scraping against each other. It was the same sound she had heard when she'd been pushing the door open. She gave a quick glance behind her, wondering if someone had followed her down. Then she realized it was coming from in front of her. As her heart started to race, she glanced back to the stone coffin to see the lid being pushed away, falling to the floor and breaking into pieces. "What the hell?" She breathed out, pushing herself up to her feet and stumbling backwards.
[[ The plot is that Elizabeth has woken an ancient vampire that was sealed away in the late 1800s/early 1900's for whatever reason. Since he's woken her, there's a special attachment he has to her and she becomes his little toy, so to speak. Please play the role right; no pansies. ]]


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Police on search for Sears thief
Published 4:13 am, Thursday, March 31, 2016
Plainview police are searching for an unknown man accused of stealing tools from Plainview's Sears store. According to reports, a man described as a white male, around 25-years-of-age, bald with a goatee walked in the store and stole a Dewalt impact driver and a drill driver set with two batteries, valued at $250. The man entered the store at 5:29 p.m. March 23 in the 1500 block of West Fifth Street. The man was wearing a black baseball cap, black jacket and black pants with a tattoo on the back of his head.
Anyone having information on the above crimes or any other crimes occurring in Plainview or Hale County can contact the Crimestoppers Hotline at 293-8477 (293-TIPS). All calls will be confidential.


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Myanmar's parliament voted Tuesday to elect Htin Kyaw as the country's next president.
Htin Kyaw is not a member of parliament, but he is a close confidant of National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was among the first to vote in Tuesday's historic election.
Here is what is known about Htin Kyaw:
A timeline of Htin Kyaw's education, work:
1962: Graduated high school from English Methodist High School. Aung San Suu Kyi attended the same high schol, but Htin Kyaw was two years her junior. This Methodist missionary school later became known as Dagon High School No. 1 after the military dictator General Ne Win privatized all schools after his coup in 1962.
1962-63: Entered Rangoon University, majoring in arts.
1963-68: Attended the Institute of Economics and obtained his M. Econ (Statistics). He also taught as a tutor while attending his M. Econ (Pt. 2).
1970: Joined the Universities' Computer Center as a Programmer Analyst.
1971-72: Attended Institute of Computer Science University, London.
1973: Married Daw Su Su Lwin, who is currently chair of the Foreign Relations Committee in the lower house and a NLD MP from Thongwa Township.
1974: Attended Computer Studies in Asia Electronics Union, Tokyo, Japan.
1974-75: Obtained M. Sc Computer Science from Rangoon University.
1975-80: Named Deputy Division Chief, Heavy Industries Corporation, No. 2 Industrial Ministry.
1980-92: Named Deputy Director, FERD, (Foreign Economic Relations Dept, Planning and Treasury Ministry).
1987: Attended a course at Arthur D. Little School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1992: Resigned from Deputy Director post.
2000: Arrested on September 22, spent four months in Insein prison. He was detained together with nine activists at the Rangoon railway station while helping Aung San Suu Kyi, who planned to make a trip to Mandalay at that time.
2012-present: Executive Committee member of Daw Khin Kyi Foundation.
* Aung San Suu Kyi told her party MPs after the nominations of her party's two Vice Presidents that Htin Kyaw was chosen by her for his loyalty, his discipline and his educational background, which would befit him as the leader of a country.
This biography was compiled by the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charity established by Aung San Suu Kyi in 2012 in memory of her late mother, Daw Khin Kyi.


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Scheffer Appointed to Endowed Law ProfessorshipSeptember 12, 2006
CHICAGO --- David J. Scheffer, director of the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern University School of Law, has been appointed the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law.
From 1997 to 2001, Scheffer served as the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues. He led the U.S. delegation in United Nations talks establishing the International Criminal Court.
During his ambassadorship, Scheffer was responsible for negotiating and coordinating U.S. support for establishing and operating international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities globally. He also headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group.
During the first term of the Clinton Administration, Scheffer served as senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, and, from 1993 through 1996, served on the deputies committee of the National Security Council.
He recently has held visiting professorships in law at Georgetown University, George Washington University and Northwestern University School of Law. He will teach international criminal law and international human rights law this year.
Scheffer has published extensively on international legal and political issues in books, law reviews, journals and newspapers. He also has appeared regularly in the national and international media and is a CNN legal analyst.
Chairman of the board of directors of the International Law Students Association and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Scheffer is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars. Earlier in his career, from 1979 to 1986, he was an associate attorney with the international law firm of Coudert Brothers.


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text: I was walking home from work today thinking about this weekend and my upcoming fishing trip. It occured to me (not the first time) that I'd MUCH rather be retired already (I'm 23) and just fish. Then I thought there had to be other people like me that just put up with the week to get to the weekend, no matter what you like to do. At this point, it made me wonder what everyone else does and how they cope. I'm in the Navy and work/live on the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), a nuclear ballistic missile submarine homeported in Bangor, WA. This leaves me with only a few months a year to do what I really enjoy. It makes it hard to sit through work doing the same thing I do at sea wishing I could be outside casting to rising cuttthroat on a river in the mountains. So, what do you do and how do you cope with the week?


text: Business Investing Share 0 Tweet Photo HPE Unveils Largest Single Memory Computing System By Shoshanna Delventhal | May 16, 2017 — 6:38 PM EDT Palo Alto, Calif-based enterprise IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) continues on its mission to become a leader in the next-gen tech space with the hybrid cloud and computing at the core of its business. In 2015, HPE split from its PC and printing arm HP Inc. (HPQ), wherein after Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Meg Whitman helped transition the company away from software and enterprise services to core hardware sales and new investments. (See also: Analysts See 'Real Muscle' in HPE, Arista Alliance.) Debut of 'The Machine' On Tuesday, HPE released its latest product designed for "the age of big data," a new computer that holds a massive 160 terabytes. For reference, one terabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes, with the latest iPhone 7 Plus containing just 3 gigabytes of random-access memory. The prototype reportedly has enough memory to store and work with every book in the Library of Congress five times over. The prototype computer is part of HPE's new memory-driven computing project called "The Machine," intended to rethink how computers work. By using a new kind of memory, HPE expects to be able to build a machine which can hold up to 4,096 yottabytes, large enough to store 250,000 times all the data currently stored around the globe. Edging Aside Intel, Microsoft "With the exploding growth in data, computer architectures are hitting a wall with how to deal with all that data," said HPE's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mark Potter. As part of the new project, HPE is dropped its long-standing partnership with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and building a new operating system based on Linux to run the computer. The firm will also employ ARM chips as the computer's main processor instead of Intel Corp. (INTC) chips. Closing up about 0.6% on Tuesday at a price of $19.11 per share, HPE stock reflects an approximate 61.6% gain over the 12-month period and a 10.2% increase year-to-date (YTD). (See also: HPE Lowers Outlook After Completion of Spinoff.) Published at Tue, 16 May 2017 22:38:00 +0000


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Welcome to the Western Collegiate Hockey League!
After several successful years at the ACHA D3 level, The University of Arkansas was admitted to ACHA D1 beginning with the 2015-16 season. The Razorbacks will begin D1 play as members of the WCHL. Passionate fans fill the Jones Center for Razorback Hockey games each season and rattle opposing teams when Calling The Hogs.


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William Penn rival Grand View visited Oskaloosa Wednesday for a double header that didn't disappoint. The women made a huge statement at the start of the night
knocking off the NAIA's #22 ranked team, 68-62. The Lady Statesmen are now in sole possession of first place in the Midwest Collegiate Conference. Switching over to the men Penn had its work cut out for them as the Vikings tried to spoil a school tradition with an upset win over the #2 ranked Statesmen. CRI and OSP's Jason Madison visited with the team before the rolls rolled in the annual Toilet Paper Game.


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"I Can See You!"
This cute cartoon from 2003 gives one reason why a glass-topped table is not a good idea.
"Babysitter Feeding… Baby?"
Feeding the baby doesn't mean you have to miss your soaps. Unfortunately, the kid is missing his lunch. All food is dog food.
"What, no pipe and slippers?" "You're retired. I'm retired."
Okay, cats aren't the only pets with attitude.
"You know, it's about time you realize who's boss around here!" "Your wife?"
Fido knows. The wife. We told you dogs never miss a thing. This cartoon appeared in the magazine in 2000.
"Would you please tell us which room Mr. Markus is in?"
Admit it, this one makes you go, "awww!" Ever faithful, these dogs are bringing the master's slippers even to the hospital (unlike the "retired" dog above).
"Like me? Are you kidding? They collect my poop!"
And we thought cats felt like they were gods.
"Looks like old Ned finally caught one of those cars he's been chasing."
You always wondered what that dumb mutt would do if he caught one of those cars. Now you know. Old Ned wasn't so dumb after all! But I do kind of wish he'd bring me a sports car next time. I reached back to the Jan/Feb 1999 issue of The Post for this one.
"You have just one more wish. Are you sure you want another belly-rub?"
Three wishes. Three belly-rubs. Like there's any more to life?


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Happy Valentine's Day!
During my search for a Valentine's Day card to share with you, I came across an image that–what can I say?–it spoke to me.
I felt that little tug in my heart that whispers: here's a story.
So instead of sending you a valentine, I'm sharing this image with you. Do you hear its whispers, too?
Pretend with me.
Imagine your character is walking in a park, grateful for the warmth of a sunshiny day that promises spring is coming soon. Something shiny in the grass catches her eye, and she finds this ornate key and lock tied with slender ribbon to a ceramic heart. Deep inside she knows it's meant for her.
But what does it mean?
Does it symbolize a love she has found? Or a love she has lost?
Which story would you prefer to read? Or to write?


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"Murmel Murmel Munsch!" captures this storyteller as he performs 14 new and old stories, including classics such as "Mud Puddle," "Andrew's Loose Tooth," "Zoom! Something Good," "Makeup Mess," "Pigs, Boo!," "I'm So Embarrassed," "Murmel, Murmel, Murmel!" and many more.
The CD has also been nominated for a Canadian Music Week "Independent Music Award" and has been selected as a finalist in the 2007 Audies awards.
Robert Munsch's debut CD, Love You Forever - The Best of Robert Munsch, won a Parents' Choice-award.
Munsch is one of North America's best-selling children's authors and storytellers. With more than 30 million books sold and more than 40 books in print, Munsch has earned a host of awards and recognitions, including appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada, an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Guelph, and "Author of the Year" from the Canadian Booksellers Association.
He is the annual chairperson for Family Literacy Day each January and a supporter of many charitable events.


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Sony delivers Android 4.0 to Tablet S, offers $50 rebate to new customers
April 26, 2012 | by Andrew Kameka
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The Sony Tablet S is the latest device to gain access to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Sony announced today that the slanted tablet can get the newer software via an over the air firmware update. Device owners can make sure the tablet is at least 75 percent charged, connect to Wi-Fi, and then tap 'OK' when a prompt appears asking the user to update.
The new software has a number of improvements and feature upgrades. The new lockscreen can go directly to the camera app or to notifications, the camera app now features filters and adjustment options, and users can drag icons together to create folders on the home screen. These are common features of ICS, but Sony has added a few unique things to the software. There's now a "Small Apps" feature similar to the Mini Apps found in Samsung TouchWiz UX. Small Apps are floating apps to use the calculator, browser, or remote control without having to go into an app.
Sony has applied a bit of customization to the Ice Cream Sandwich design, but you can see a list of more highlighted features and a video below. But first, now would be a good time to let people who don't currently own a tablet S know that Sony is offering a $50 instant rebate and cradle accessory with purchase of Tablet S. From now until May 12, 2012, the 16GB Sony Tablet S sells for $349 and the 32 GB sells for $449 after rebate. Get more info on the deal at the Sony Store.
- Enhanced lock screen
- Direct access to Notifications
- Unlock direct to camera
- New panoramic camera mode
- Enhanced Gallery media viewer
- Direct SD card access + photo editing tools
- Exclusive "Small Apps' for multi-tasking
- Calculator, Browser, Remote Control
- Move to screen edge for reduced clutter
- New Home Screen actions
- Drag icons together to create folders
- Add names to folders
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Mount Olive 6 Ouachita Baptist 5
SAUGET, ILL. – Top-ranked Mount Olive used four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally from a 5-2 deficit against No. 4 ranked Ouachita Baptist en route to a 6-5 victory in a first round game that began Sunday night and concluded Monday morning at GCS Ballpark.
The Trojans improve to 55-6 and advance to play the winner of the Ashland and Tampa game Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., while Ouachita Baptist, playing in its first World Series, falls to 47-15, and will play the loser of that game Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in an elimination game.
Mount Olive's Josh Harrison singled down the right field line with one out and the bases loaded, scoring pinch runner Mike Kicia for the game winner.
"First of all, I'd like to congratulate our kids on battling," said Mount Olive head coach Carl Lancaster. "They just beat a really great ball team. I'm proud of our guys for coming out and not giving up and battling."
Jerry Helferich (6-5) took the loss for Ouachita Baptist, allowing four runs on three hits. He walked four and struck out two in two innings of work.
Mount Olive had jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning, but saw Ouachita Baptist score single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to the tie the game at 2-2. Then following a 73-minute weather delay Sunday night, the Tigers went up 4-2 on a walk and a wild pitch. After spending 11 minutes on the field following that delay, the game was officially suspended in the bottom of the seventh inning until Monday morning.
The Tigers tacked on one more run in the eighth before Mount Olive's rally.
"Mount Olive hung in there and battled," said Ouachita Baptist head coach Scott Norwood. "It was a long, drawn out game over two days. We just didn't hold on. Someone has to come through the loser's bracket and I plan on it being us."
Patrick Ball (3-1) garnered the win for the Trojans in one and two-thirds innings.
Mount Olive collected 11 hits in the victory with Harrison, Jesse Lancaster, Alex Vertcnik and Dylan Holton recording two each. Jason Sherrer notched two RBIs on a single to left center in the ninth.
Destan Makonnen paced the Ouachita Baptist with two hits, an RBI and a run scored. The Tigers finished with eight hits.
Ashland (OH) 6 Tampa 5
SAUGET, ILL. – David Quirog's homerun over the right field fence in the seventh inning lifted No. 16 ranked Ashland to a 6-5 victory over No. 3 ranked and two-time defending national champion Tampa in a first round game in the NCAA Division II Championships Monday afternoon at GCS Ballpark.
The game was originally scheduled to be played 18 hours earlier, but Sunday night rain storms forced the game to be moved.
The Eagles used four unanswered runs, including Quirog's blast, to rally from a 5-2 deficit in the fourth inning. The win moves Ashland to 40-16 on the season, while Tampa falls to 42-10-1. Ashland advances to play No. 1 ranked Mount Olive on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., while Tampa will play Ouachita Baptist Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in an elimination game.
"It was a great ballgame from our standpoint," said Ashland head coach John Schaly. "Jeremy Sloan (pitcher) came in from the bullpen and shut them down. We also got big hits when we needed to. We beat a great team and it's a big win for our program."
Tampa held a 5-2 lead after two-run home runs by Steven Broschofsky and Junior Meja, in the fourth inning before the Eagles came roaring back.
Despite the loss, the Spartans out-hit Ashland, 14-11, with Jesus Barroso going 3-for-5 at the plate.
The Eagles were led by Jeff Yates, who batted 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Jeremy Sloan collected the win for Ashland, pitching three innings in relief. He scattered just three hits and struck out three. Todd Schlenkerman garnered his second save of the season, working two and one-third innings.
"Sloan's slider was real sharp today," said Tampa head coach Joe Urso. "He threw fastballs on the outer part of the plate and that's what we were getting called out on."
Danny Keefe took the loss for Tampa, allowing two runs on three hits in one and two-thirds innings.
Shippensburg 9 Franklin Pierce 2
SAUGET, Ill. (May 26, 2008) – Shippensburg University, ranked 21st in this week's Collegiate Baseball magazine Division II poll, stayed alive at the 2008 NCAA Division II Baseball Championships and eliminated No. 14/15 Franklin Pierce University with a 9-2 victory in game five of the championships, hosted by Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, the Gateway Grizzlies Baseball Club and the Village of Sauget, at GCS Ballpark this evening.
Shippensburg (39-25) will face the loser of tonight's game between #7/11 University of Central Missouri (46-15) and No. 2/4 Sonoma State University (51-13) on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. (EST). Franklin Pierce, Northeast Region champions for the third-straight year and NE-10 Tournament winners two-straight years, wraps up its season with a 43-15 record overall, 20-10 in the NE-10.
"Obviously we didn't do as well as we would have like to out here," said Franklin Pierce Head Coach Jayson King. "We've been fortunate enough to be here three times (in a row), but we're trying to get to the next level and it just didn't happen for us this year."
Shippensburg rode the left arm of junior Matt Wright (McClure, Pa.), who scattered five hits while striking out 15 for the complete-game win (9-4). He allowed the two earned runs and walked four. Wright settled down to allow just one hit after the third inning, retiring 13-straight batters after a two out walk in the fourth before Franklin Pierce drew a leadoff walk in the ninth. He also struck out 8 of 13 Raven batters from the fourth through seventh innings and collected a strikeout in every inning, striking out the side twice.
"Early in the game they were hitting my breaking ball pretty well," said Wright. "Later in the game coach kept calling fastballs and it got me through."
Junior Tyler Redick (Fairfield, Pa.) paced the Raiders ten-hit attack, finishing 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs scored and two RBI. Sophomore Kevin Scholly (State College, Pa.) was 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, a double and three runs scored, while junior Kasey Kuhns (Three Springs, Pa.) hit 2-for-3 with two RBI.
"The guys played well tonight and Matt had a tremendous effort," said Shippensburg Head Coach Matt Jones. "We're happy to still be here and to get the University's first ever win at the World Series and stick around a little longer."
Sonoma State 6 Central Missouri State 5 (19 innings)
SAUGET, ILL. – Sonoma State's Kevin Asselin produced the game-winning RBI in the 19th inning in his first career at-bat, scoring Konrad Thieme from third and helping No. 2 ranked Sonoma State to a 6-5 victory over No. 7 ranked Central Missouri in a second round game of the NCAA Division II National Championships Monday night at GCS Ballpark.
Asselin's heroics came in a game that lasted six hours and 45 minutes. The senior also collected the win on the mound, improving to 9-2 on the season.
The win moves Sonoma State's ledger to 52-13, while Central Missouri falls to 46-17. The Seawolves will play in the national semifinals on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. against an opponent yet to be determined, while the Mules will face Shippensburg in an elimination game on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
A solo home run by Sonoma State's Dave Herman in the top of the 18th inning broke a 4-4 tie that stretched nine innings of play, but Central Missouri would counter with a run of its own in the bottom of that inning to continue the game. A fielding error by Asselin on a sacrifice bunt by Clay Weatherford sent pinch runner Jon Wegener home from third to knot the game at 5-5.
Nick Phillips (5-2) took the loss for the Mules, working two innings. Chris Matlock recorded 13 strikeouts on the mound for Central Missouri, pitching nine and one-third innings in relief.
The Seawolves scored two quick runs in the first inning before plating single runs in the third and fourth innings for a 4-0 advantage. However, the Mules would storm back in the sixth inning, scoring three runs on three hits and two errors by the Seawolves.
Weatherford then singled to second base in the eighth inning with two outs, sending Mike Hallam home from third to knot the game at 4-4.
Both teams combined for 32 hits and stranded 34 runners.
Ian Bridges went 4-for-8 with two runs scored and two RBIs for Sonoma State, while Weatherford finished 3-for-7 with two RBIs.


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Remember all those half-lazy / half-right pieces last year about Brooklyn music having a banner year because Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors all put out really popular albums? It seems like we can't be far away from a slew of really similar write-ups about Smell bands. And rightfully so. But this isn't one of those pieces. This is different. This is now a commentary on other music commentary, not the bands themselves. So just act accordingly, we guess.
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Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock.
During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each Friday.
In its latest earnings preview, BullMarket.com looks at several popular stocks, including Herbalife (HLF), Coach (COH), 3D Systems (DDD), Whole Foods (WFM), SodaStream (SODA), Mastercard (MA), OpenTable (OPEN), LinkedIn (LNKD), and Enterprise Products Partners (EPD).
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Mastercard has topped analyst EPS estimates each quarter over the past two years. During that period, the stock has risen the next session five of eight quarters. Seasonally, the stock has risen twice in the last four years.
Last quarter, Mastercard earned $766 million in the first three months of the year, up 12% from the same period a year ago. It equaled $6.23 per share, beating the $6.18 per share consensus estimate. EPS grew by 17% due to share repurchases in the prior year.
Revenue rose 8% to $1.9 billion, slightly less than the $1.93 billion expected by Wall Street.
Mastercard's worldwide gross dollar volume (GDV) was up 12% on a local currency basis. U.S. GDV grew 4%, with credit volume up 2%.
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Per quarter volume grew 16% on a local currency basis, including more than 20% in Latin America and APMEA and growth in the high-teens in Europe.
Cross-border fees grew 14% while cross-border volumes grew 16%. Management attributed the difference to a higher mix of intra-Europe activity, which carries a lower revenue yield.
Transaction processing fees grew 9%, driven mainly by 12% growth in processed transactions. The gap between these two growth rates can be attributed mainly to U.S. PIN debit transactions that deliver a lower-than-average revenue yield, the company said. ...
Outside of earnings, Mastercard has a long runway for continued growth as the global economy moves from a cash-based system to electronic payment.
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Marlins Owner Jeffrey Loria said that he "won't try to predict the attendance at Miami's home opener Monday at Marlins Park, but he hopes fans will give the team a chance." Loria said, "It's the beginning of a new era for us and it's exciting. People will look back two years from now and say, 'They did the right thing.'" In West Palm Beach, Joe Capozzi notes some estimates have Monday's crowd for the game against the Braves "in the 20,000s." But a source said that the organization is "expecting at least 30,000" (PALM BEACH POST, 4/4). In Miami, Clark Spencer notes Loria has "been on hand for the Marlins' first two games in D.C. and defended the on-field product following a turbulent offseason." Loria: "Give these guys a chance. Give us a chance. Watch them mature because they're quality" (MIAMI HERALD, 4/4).
TEA PARTY: EPL club Liverpool Managing Dir Ian Ayre on Tuesday appeared on CNBC's "Power Lunch," and the net's Tyler Mathisen said of Red Sox Owner John Henry also owning the club, "The English have not cottoned, as we might say here, all that well to some of the American owners. They're afraid that they're going to come in and do what they see American private equity guys do: Strip the club of its costs and make a big profit on the sale. Do you see that?" Ayre responded, "Not really. We've had fantastic support from our owners, from John and (Chair Tom Werner) and the others at Fenway Sports Group." He added, "If you've got something that's 100 years-plus old, globally recognized, then you need to treat it with respect and we get that respect and we get the right level of support" ("Power Lunch," CNBC, 4/2).
THAT'S THE TICKET: In Memphis, Kyle Veazey noted the Grizzlies average of 16,538 per game is "just 324 off of the franchise's best annual average" of 16,862 in '04-05 "when FedExForum was brand new and the team was good." It is up 5.3% from last year's season average. Additionally, it is up 30% from the team's "low-water mark," the '08-09 season (COMMERCIALAPPEAL.com, 3/29).


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WHY: Invasive/exotic plants and the pests associated with them degrade woodlands, threaten wildlife habitat, increase the risk of wildfire and alter the appearance of public spaces, including those set aside for the enjoyment and recreation of all Nashville residents. Without decisive intervention, these plants, insects and other non-native intruders will continue to adversely impact our city's ecosystem resources and services.
HOW: Funding for Weed Wrangle Nashville is provided by The Garden Club of America and by The Garden Club of Nashville, whose mission is to promote interest in gardens, their design, culture and management and to cooperate in the protection of wild flowers, native plants, trees and birds.
EVENTS: Friends of Warner Parks, Bells Bend, Cheekwood, Shelby Bottoms, Radnor Lake State Natural Area, Nashville Zoo, Owls Hill Nature Sanctuary, Ft. Negley, City Cemetery/Metro Historical Commission, Bowie Nature Park/City of Fairview,Harpeth Conservancy, Nashville A Rocha, Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation, Land Trust for Tennessee,Two Rivers Park, City of Belle Meade, Friends of Harpeth River State Park, Cumberland River Greenway, GROW Enrichment/Two Rivers Park.
OTHER PARTNERS: Invasive Plant Control, Inc., Greenways for Nashville, Lipscomb University Institute for Sustainable Practice, City of Forest Hills, Belmont University, Cumberland River Compact, Metro Nashville, Room in the Inn, Bates Nusery, TN-IPC, REI, Nashville Chew Crew, , Lets Move!Outside and Hands on Nashville.
To Volunteer: Hands on Nashville or Tennessee State Parks and Natural Areas.
Please visit www.weedwrangle.org or contact email@example.com with questions.
"Tennessee State Parks and the Division of Natural Areas are excited to announce their partnership with Weed Wrangle® 2017 and look forward to encouraging many parks and natural areas to partake in the fight against invasive species." Be a Weed Wrangle® volunteer at a Tennessee State Park.
Hands On Nashville works to address critical issues facing the Middle Tennessee community through volunteer-centric programming. Annually, HON connects thousands of volunteers to service opportunities supporting area nonprofits as well as its programs in urban agriculture, home energy savings, youth leadership development, and support of public education. Be a Hands On- Weed Wrangle®-Nashville volunteer.
Let's Move! Outside volunteer hours associated with this project support the "Let's Move! Outside" initiative, a nationwide effort to provide opportunities for young people to work, learn, play, and serve outdoors and on public lands. This effort is made possible through partnership between the YMCA of the USA, the Department of the Interior, American Express, the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, Nashville's Mayor Megan Barry, and Hands On Nashville. For more information about Let's Move, please click here.
Weed Wrangle®-Nashville 2017 and Radnor Lake State Natural Area present a Weeds in the Woods Hike, with Dr. Robert Loeb, Professor, Penn State University. Sunday, April 2, 2017. Come hike the trails of Radnor Lake State Natural Area led by Dr. Loeb. The hike at Radnor Lake will introduce the ecological place of weeds in the woodlands of a Natural Area. Through a hike around Radnor Lake, you will observe the common ecological positions of weeds in the diverse forests of the Natural Area. Scientific terms including, alien species, weed species, and invasive species will be contrasted in regard to the flora of Radnor Lake. Weed control efforts at Radnor Lake will be reviewed. Also, a spirited discussion will be held to give deeper meaning to the efforts focused on weeds in regard to woodland ecology. Meet at Radnor Lake, Walter Criley Visitor Center. Reservation Required.
Due to the success of the first Weed Wrangle®-Nashville, all of the other Garden Club of America, Tennessee clubs pleanned Weed Wrangle's of their own in 2016. The Memphis Garden Club and The Little Garden Club of Memphis planed Weed Wrangle-Memphis at the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, Overton Park Conservncy, and Wolfe River Conservancy on January 30, 2016. The Knoxville Garden Club hosted Weed Wrangle-Knoxville on March 5, 2016 at Ijams Nature Center, Knoxville Botanical Garden, Lakeshore Park-Knoxville and Wood Property Park (managed by Legacy Parks Foundation). The Garden Club of Lookout Mountain hosted a Weed Wrangle-Lookout Mountain on April 9, 2016 at the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Park.
Four cities, 25 parks, and 1 National Park on Lookout Mountain with over 1100 participants state wide. We are proud TN Volunteers!
This presentation was presented as a part of the National Association of Invasive Plant Council's National Meeting in 2016 by Steve Manning of Invasive Plant Control, Inc. Steve is the professional assocaited with the Weed Wrangle across the state of Tennessee. Attending the meeting are the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Environmental Law Institute, National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species, Nature Conservancy, Reduce Risks from Invasive Species Coalition, University of Georgia, Weed Science Society of America, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, Federal Interagency Committee on Noxious and Exotic Weeds, National Invasive Species Council and others.
Non-native invasive species are organisms that have been introduced by humans either purposely or by accident and that have become serious environmental pests. One reason for their success as pests is that they are typically introduced without the array of associated natural controls (herbivores, parasites, pathogens, predators) that occur in their native range. In addition to the great loss of biodiversity, habitat degradation and other ecological consequences, invasive species cause huge economic damages valued in billions of dollars annually and some pose a human health threat.
The Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States is a collaborative project between the National Park Service, the University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The purpose of the Atlas is to assist users with identification, early detection, prevention, and management of invasive plants. The focus is on non-native invasive plant species impacting natural areas, excluding agricultural and other heavily developed and managed lands. Four main components are species information, images, distribution maps, and early detection reporting procedures. The Invasive Plant Atlas is one step in the effort to combat invasive species, preserve our natural landscapes and the native plants, animals, and other creatures that inhabit them.
Inspired by National and International efforts now underway, Weed Wrangle®-Nashville, represents a fresh new push to stem the tide of biological pollution in local communities. The goal is two-fold: Restoration and Preservation. The Garden Club of Nashville, a member of The Garden Club of America, seeks to raise awareness of the "green scourge" before more of our native plants lose the fight for the light and nutrients they require to survive. GCN has worked hard to establish a corps of organized resistance to this blight on our environment. The first annual Weed Wrangle®-Nashville was held during the 2015 National Invasive Species Awareness Week. This event is intended to act as a template for other cities in the United States to engage local communities to pull together to learn about and manage invasive plants .Weed Wrangle Nashville, is a city-wide, volunteer effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from invasive species through hands-on removal of especially harmful trees, vines and flowering plants. These include bush honeysuckle, Chinese privet, autumn olive, English ivy and winter creeper.
The Uprooter
All life depends on the plant kingdom. The Garden Club of America, committed to preserving our worldwide system of richly varied habitats, places importance on protection of native plant biodiversity, the ecosystems that support them, and our own quality of life.
The Garden Club of America has been dedicated to preserving and enhancing the scenic
character of our communities and countryside since 1914 when the Committee on Beautifying
Settlements and Highways was formed. "The restoration, improvement and protection of the
environment through programs and action," is included in the mission statement of GCA.
Weed Wrangle®-Nashville Warner Parks 2/28/15 from The Garden Club of Nashville on Vimeo.
Green is not always good. Tennessee landscapes are encountering growing threats from some non-native plants. Invasive plants introduced in this region decades ago for agricultural or landscaping purposes are now a serious concern for our parks, our public green spaces, our own backyards. More and more, experts warn, this city's beautiful native trees, plants and wildlife are losing the fight against these aggressive plants, vines, trees and insects that consume nutrients, disrupt the ecological balance and disfigure the outdoor world where Nashvillians hike, bike, picnic, ride horses and mountain bikes, or just relax. Some invasive plants are quite beautiful with colorful flowers and pleasing scents. But make no mistake: They are quietly lethal. If left unchecked, future generations might never glimpse the forest floor, as alien undergrowth shrouds and chokes trees large and small.
Inspired by national and international efforts now underway, Weed Wrangle®-Nashville represents a fresh new push to stem the tide of biological pollution in our area. The goal is two-fold: restoration and preservation. Organizers seek to raise awareness of the "green scourge" before more of our native plants lose the fight for the light and nutrients they require to survive. The Garden Club of Nashville a member of The Garden Club of America and other planners are working hard to pull in other local groups to establish a corps of organized resistance to this blight on our environment.
Bioimages from Vanderbilt are:
- a collection of high quality images of living organisms.
- a set of tools for learning about plants and ecoregions.
- a biodiversity database
- a demonstration of biodiversity informatics best-practices.
The Bioimages website was created by and is managed by Steve Baskauf, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
TN Department of Agriculture Restoring Native Plants
As destructive as a plague or a pest, invasives alter ecological processes as it invades resulting in the displacement of native plants and sometimes disrupting entire food chains. Those introduced plants, non-natives (exotics), have no natural ecosystems to keep them in check. Exotics are plants out of place, some scientisit call it Biological Pollution.
Native plants within their natural range all have a place. They are elements with in a naturally evolving ecosystem but when they are removed from their native region and are planted elsewhere, they pose the risk of becoming biological time bombs. Plants out of Place are plants that displace our natural heritage.
To control future impacts, control future introductions.
If you want to host a Weed Wrangle in your city click here for more information and watch the Webinar below:
A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Develop a Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area Website
Landscaping with native palnts promotes biodiversity and endorses a land ethic that celebrates our natural heritage. Click here for suggestions for TN Native Plant Recomendations. from the Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council.
Center for Invasive Plants Management
Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health – Bugwood Network
Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health – Invasive.org
Center for Plant Conservation – St. Louis Declaration
Invasive Plant Control
National Invasive Species Council
Natural Areas Association
Protect Your Waters
The Nature Conservancy Invasive Species Initiative
The Nature Conservancy, Tennessee
University of Tennessee Herbarium
USDA National Invasive Species Information Center
USDA PLANTS Database
USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
Weeds Gone Wild Fact Sheets
Partners for Plants is a joint habitat restoration program of the Garden Club of America (GCA) Conservation and Horticulture Committees. Its purpose is to facilitate projects between local GCA clubs and land managers on federal, state, local and other significant public lands. Projects may include the monitoring and protection of rare, endangered and medicinal plants, the propagation and replanting of native plants and the removal of invasive plants.
Coordinated by a GCA member, each Partners for Plants project is as unique as the group undertaking the task. Volunteers work with professional botanists and land managers who supervise the work and share their knowledge and expertise. Work can be inventorying, mapping, monitoring, propagating, and transplanting endangered plants. Requiring a time commitment ranging from days to weeks, each project serves as a catalyst for accomplishing important endangered plant work that in many cases could not have been accomplished otherwise. As with many GCA initiatives, volunteers leave feeling they have gained more than they have given.


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Positive psychiatry is a growing phenomenon within the profession of psychiatry. And Dr. Dilip Jeste, a former APA President, seems to be the primary "evangelist" for the positive psychiatry movement. The theme for his year as APA President in 2012 was: "Pursuing Wellness Across the Lifespan." He said positive psychiatry was the future of psychiatry. In a Psychiatric News article for June of 2012, Jeste said: "I believe that, as the medical field begins to appreciate the value of positive psychosocial factors in the prevention and management of pathology, positive psychiatry will increasingly take a central stage within medicine and health care."
David Rettew, a child psychiatrist, wrote of his invitation by Dr. Jeste, to speak at a symposium on Positive Psychiatry at the 2015 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) held in Toronto. He was excited by the opportunity and sees positive psychiatry as an opportunity for his profession to become "physician experts in mental health," as opposed to their current emphasis on mental illness. Dr. Rettew noted that for too long, psychiatry has had two primary interventions: psychotherapy and medications. "Expanding our efforts into domains of wellness gives us so many more avenues to help children and families thrive."
Jeste is also one of the editors of Positive Psychiatry: A Clinical Handbook, which was just released in June of 2015. Dr. Rettew is one of the contributing authors to that work. Jeste, Barton Palmer (co-editor of Positive Psychiatry), Rettnew, and Samantha Boardman (contributor to Positive Psychiatry) coauthored an article in the June 2015 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, "Positive Psychiatry: Its Time Has Come." They noted how psychiatry has traditionally focused on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. However, trying to find what causes mental illness and developing "safe and effective treatments" has not been enough to fulfill "the enormous potential of psychiatry to promote human welfare."
The time has come to integrate positive mental health into psychiatric practice, training, and research and to expand psychiatric expertise to encompass the full spectrum of mental functioning.
Instead of an emphasis on managing mental disorders, Jeste et al. said positive psychiatry is a science and clinical practice that seeks to promote well-being through "assessment and interventions aimed at enhancing behavioral and mental wellness." As a branch of medicine, positive psychiatry is rooted in biology and seeks to decipher the biological underpinnings of positive psychosocial characteristics (PPCs). "And eventually promote health and well-being through psychosocial/behavioral and biological interventions."
Positive psychiatry traces its immediate influence to the positive psychology movement that was pioneered by Milton Seligman in the later 1990s. In his presidential address to the American Psychological Association in 1998, he called for "a reoriented science that emphasizes the understanding and building of the most positive qualities of an individual." These qualities include: optimism, courage, work ethic, future-mindedness, interpersonal skills, the capacity for pleasure and insight, and social responsibility. Similarly, Jeste et al. pointed to how a growing body of research shows that higher levels of PPCs, such as resilience, optimism, and social engagement are associated with objectively measured better health outcomes. You can watch a TED talk given by Seligman, "The New Era of Positive Psychology," where he describes positive psychology.
Possible biomarkers for positive mental health were noted by Jeste et al. They were: allostatic load, telomere length, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and immune function. The authors then ran through the "association" of several positive psychological characteristics (PPCs) with biological factors. Jeste et al. believed that by strengthening the development of positive traits through psychotherapeutic, behavioral, social and biological interventions, "positive psychiatry has the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce morbidity as well as mortality."
Instead of being narrowly defined as a medical subspecialty restricted to the management of mental illnesses, psychiatry of the future will develop into a core component of the overall health care system. Psychiatrists will thereby more explicitly reclaim their role as physicians in addition to their roles as mental health professionals. Clearly, much more work is needed to make positive psychiatry a norm in psychiatric practice, but it is time to start that process.
I'm troubled by the rhetoric of the so-called "positive psychiatry" movement. On the one hand, it is encouraging to hear an eminent psychiatrist like Dr. Jeste call for attention and research into positive psychological traits. Psychiatry has concentrated on the prevention and management of pathology, while it largely ignored positive psychological traits like resilience, optimism and self-efficacy and how important they are in preventing and managing pathology. This next quote, taken from the Jeste et al. article, succinctly captures both what encourages me and sends chills up my spine: "The time has come to integrate positive mental health into psychiatric practice, training, and research and to expand psychiatric expertise to encompass the full spectrum of mental functioning."
The time has come to consider positive mental health in psychiatry. However, the expansion of psychiatric "expertise" and the authority that will accompany such expertise in modern society is not a positive outcome for society. It has disturbing social and political dimensions that were foreseen and noted by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz over fifty years ago. In his 1977 work, The Theology of Medicine, he said:
In the scientific-technological concept of the state, therapy is only a means, not an end: the goal of the therapeutic state is universal health, or a least unfailing relief from suffering. The untroubled condition of man and society is a quintessential feature the medical-therapeutic perspective on politics: conflict among individuals, and especially the individual and the state, is invariably seen as a symptom of illness or psychopathology; and the primary function of the state is accordingly the removal of such conflict through appropriate therapy—imposed by force if necessary. (Thomas Szasz, The Theology of Medicine, p. 128)
If we value personal freedom and dignity, we should, in confronting the moral dilemmas of biology, genetics, and medicine, insist that the expert's allegiance to the agents and values he serves be made explicit and that power inherent in his specialized knowledge and skill not be accepted as justification for his exercising specific controls over those lacking such knowledge and skill. (Thomas Szasz, The Theology of Medicine, p. 17)
It seems that within "positive psychiatry," psychiatrists are seeking to not only maintain their hegemony over preventing and managing pathology, but expand it to "encompass the full spectrum of mental functioning." There has been a growing concern with the failed promises of psychiatry, such as the identification of biological or genetic cause in the "mental illness." Critiques of DSM diagnosis have come from within psychiatry from individuals such as Allen Frances and Thomas Insel. Frances was the chair for the DSM-IV. Insel is the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In Saving Normal, Frances's critique of the DSM-5 and the medicalization of everyday life, he said: "Unfortunately, the DSM approach has been far too influential—dominating the filed in a way we never intended." Insel announced before the publication of the DSM-5 that the NIMH would be "reorienting its research away from DSM categories" (see "Psychiatry Has No Clothes").
It was encouraging to hear Dr. Rettew acknowledge how psychiatry has been having an identity crisis. He alluded to the dominance psychiatry had as "skilled therapists" when it was ruled by psychoanalytic thought. But there is another way to see the consequences of the "explosion of neuroscience" and the "promise of medications." Just as the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnosis was effectively questioned, and from within and outside psychiatry, and psychiatrists faced losing their social status and power, they reframed diagnosis along purely biological guidelines and aligned themselves with the pharmaceutical industry.
As Rettew said: "Recent research has revealed that many of the risks of medications may have been under appreciated while the benefits somewhat overblown." He noted how neuroscience research has been impressive, but lacking immediate clinical applications. Despite the promise that these results may eventually help improve early identification and facilitate effective treatment with a variety of disorders, "in reality there remains a large number of dots to connect before that actually happens."
Positive psychiatry seems to be about maintaining hegemony in the face of another serious challenge to its authority. It is not humbly admitting the limitations of a purely biochemical explanation for human behavior, it's just "kicking the can" of research further down the road. The reductionism of the medical model is still at the heart of how positive psychiatry views psychopathology. Biology is still the "root" of positive psychiatry. Jeste et al. said:
As a branch of medicine, positive psychiatry is rooted in biology and seeks to decipher biological underpinnings of PPCs [positive psychosocial characteristics] and eventually promote health and well-being through psychosocial/behavioral and biological interventions.
Jeffery Liebeman, the president of the APA immediately after Dr. Jeste, has published a book, Shrinks, that purports to tell the story of how psychiatry overcame its dubious past. Lieberman seems more willing to acknowledge the still dominant medical model in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. With regard to the field of psychiatry, he said: "Ever since the very earliest psychiatrists began conceiving of disturbed behaviors as illnesses (and even long before), they held out hope that direct manipulation of a patient's brain might one day prove therapeutic" (Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, p. 160). With regard to diagnosis, he said: "The DSM-III turned psychiatry away from the task of curing social ills and refocused it on the medical treatment of severe mental illnesses." (Shrinks, p. 147)
Research into the impact of positive psychological characteristics on mental functioning and psychopathology is certainly a good thing, but it is positively NOT psychiatry that should have a controlling, leading role in that research. Its seemingly positive and hopeful view of the future is based upon seeing humanity as biological machines. While not I don't think this would lead to the dystopian future, like that portrayed in the Terminator movies, the rise of the biological machine would be just as apocalyptic. For an alternative way of doing psychiatry, see "Psychiatry Is Not Neurology."


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Twin brothers Craig and Jeff Smith opened Twins Ace Hardware in Fairfax, Va., in a 16,000-sq.-ft. store on Main Street.
The brothers have a combined 19 years experience in hardware retailing with the independent chain Strosniders Hardware.
The new store, which has no other connection to Strosniders, is located in the Main Street Marketplace Shopping Center next to a Walgreens.


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It has become Utah's premier event for advancing the states local and global economic position. This year, the Summit will focus on Executing the Fundamentals of Economic Development and provide business leaders and decision-makers from the business, government and academic communities the opportunity to learn more about strategic opportunities and challenges facing businesses today.
As Utah continues to be one of the nations top states for business, the Summit is designed to enhance Utah business across the local, national and global marketplace. Individual presenters and panels of knowledgeable state and national experts of business innovation, law, entrepreneurship, economic development, global expansion, energy, real estate, political process, economics and more will be conducting specialized breakout sessions in multiple tracks throughout the day.
Governor Gary R. Herbert will present the afternoon keynote address. We will also be privileged to hear from Clayton Christensen, a native of Utah and professor at Harvard Business School. He is regarded as one of the world's top experts on innovation and growth, and his ideas have been widely used in business and organizations around the world. Additionally, Richard Marriott, Chairman of the Board of Host Hotels, will be a featured speaker.
The Summit will also spotlight what some may say is the world's largest emerging market – those with disability. Professionals and talented employees with a disability are more common than you may think. And, as baby boomers age, "disability" will expand rapidly. Some of Utah's, and the Nation's, top companies are benefiting from the impact of talented disabled professionals.
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Can you disable the table? How much free disk space do you have? Is this a production cluster? Can you upgrade to CDH3u5? Are you running a capacity scheduler or fair scheduler? Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you could disable the table, alter the table's max file size and then attempted to merge regions? Note: I've never tried this, don't know if its possible, just thinking outside of the box... Outside of that... the safest way to do this would be to export the table. You'll get 2800 mappers so if you are using a scheduler, you just put this in to a queue that limits the number of concurrent mappers. When you import the data, in to your new table, you can run on an even more restrictive queue so that you have less of an impact on your system. The downside is that its going to take a bit longer to run. Again, its probably the safest way to do this.... HTH, -Mike On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Norbert Burger <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi folks -- we're running CDH3u3 (0.90.4). I'm trying export data > from an existing table that has far too many regions (2600+ for only 8 > regionservers) into one with a more reasonable region count for this > cluster (256). Overall data volume is approx. 3 TB. > > I thought initially that I'd use the bulkload/importtsv approach, but > it turns out this table's schema has column qualifiers made from > timestamps, so it's impossible for me to specify a list of target > columns for importtsv. From what I can tell, the TSV interchange > format requires your data to have the same colquals throughout. > > I took a look at CopyTable and Export/Import, which both appear to > wrap the Hbase client API (emitting Puts from a mapper). But I'm > seeing significant performance problems with this approach, to the > point that I'm not sure it's feasible. Export appears to work OK, but > when I try importing the data back from HDFS, the rest of our cluster > drags to halt -- client writes (even those not associated with the > Import) start timing out. Fwiw, import already disables autoFlush > (via TableOutputFormat). > > From [1], one option I could try would to disable the WAL. Are there > are other techniques I should try? Has anyone implemented a > bulkloader which doesn't use the TSV format? > > Norbert > > [1] http://hbase.apache.org/book/perf.writing.html >
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You learn a lot about a composer from the pieces they revere – and for John Adams what might have seemed like an unlikely opening gambit to kick-start this short stack of three concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra – Bartok's Dance Suite – began to make more sense as the rest of the evening unfolded. Of course, just loving a piece is reason enough to include it but as rhythm began to collide with rhythm and the sequence of folk-like tunes found unlikely singers (bassoon and tuba among the gruffest) the kinship with homespun Americana was inescapable, as was that wondrous collusion of earthy raw materials and the most sophisticated harmony.
Adams has grown more confidant and accomplished as a conductor over the years but if the shortcomings still showed anywhere it was here among Bartok's always challenging and often surprising juxtapositions. There were a few dropped stitches along the way and one began to notice how difficult Adams sometimes finds it to fill silent bars between one significant moment and the next. There were a couple of instances of "empty space" between conclusive chords of key cadences – most notably in the central panel of his post-Mahlerian wonderworld Harmonielehre.
But we were working gradually towards that, the evening's blockbuster and one of Adams' truly momentous pieces. First there were Debussy songs – Livres de Baudelaire – in Adams' own exquisite orchestral garb, and to sing, or rather to inhabit, these extravagant effusions of agony and ecstasy, love and loss, there was Dawn Upshaw, a singer whose warmth and generosity of spirit, whose whole demeanour, have made her one of the great communicators in the business. The voice – so instantly recognisable – seemed to have filled out for the occasion and she applied it to Baudelaire's seductive words like the "infinite kisses" of his first poem keeping it focused and true and always on the cusp of rapture (her speciality). Adams' orchestrations are extraordinarily effective, not least in the final "Meditation" on loss where dusky violas and cellos were blended into low winds and clarinets chimed with the tolling of the tam-tam. The final chord in lower strings spoke volumes.
Harmonielehre – or the "Not-Schoenberg piece", as I like to call it – takes its name but pointedly not its ethos from Schoenberg's famous treatise on harmony from 1911. It's a reaction to so much that was happening in music at this late-romantic juncture but most of all it's a reaction to why the cleansing revolution of Minimalism (of which Adams was initially a disciple) needed to evolve into something richer by drawing upon the complexities of that which it paradoxically sought to purge itself of. Harmonielehre is minimalism turned to maximalism and in its searching central panel entitled "The Amfortas Wound", after Wagner's Parsifal, it symbolically picks up where Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony left off and startlingly strikes a negative from the great stack on notes on which Mahler builds the seismic dissonance of its first and last movements, demolishing rather than building the chord but still bisecting it with that sustained note high in the first trumpet. It's a moment, a movement, which is entirely about building upon and reinventing the past – and isn't that when all is said and done the essence of musical evolution?
The outer movements are the essence of Adams pulsating through a galaxy of tuned percussion beneath a vivid blue beyond. The energy generated from this music and the LSO's playing of it was immense and as three piccolos sprinkled stardust over Adams' finale and, like ET (bless you, John Williams), we left the earth's atmosphere on the back of myriad pulsations and a retro-rocket of bellowing horns you could feel the audience experiencing that gravitational urge to leave their seats. And they did.


text: from this page, http://www.fruitfly.org/sequence/ it appears that about 112 MB have been sequenced. ("As of April 29, 2000, the BDGP has sequenced: 111.4Mb total of Drosophila genomic DNA (including clones in progress)") and, there are 1500 gaps. and, from this page, http://www.fruitfly.org/sequence/faq.html#when it appears that the estimated size of the genome is 180 MB. ("How big is the Drosophila genome? How many genes does it contain? The genome of Drosophila melanogaster is now estimated to be 180 megabases (Mb): the euchromatic genome is 140Mb in size, while the other 40Mb is heterochromatic (non-coding). ") so is it correct to say that there is still 28 MB of euchromatic genomic DNA to sequence (and 68 MB of total genomic DNA to sequence)? 28/140 is 20%. so 20% of the gene-rich regions hasn't been sequenced? 68/180 is about 37%. so 37% of the total genome hasn't been sequenced? am i in using the right numbers here? also, does anyone know what fraction of the previously cloned genes never showed up in the celera 12X coverage of the genome? or how many drosophila ESTs didn't get found in the Celera sequences? that might be another way of guessing how many more genes there are out there. thanks. rock pulak


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Two German archaeologists kidnapped in Nigeria rescued
Nigerian security agents have freed two German archaeologists kidnapped by gunmen at a remote dig, the governor of northern Kaduna state said.
The two academics are now at the German embassy in Abuja and are doing well considering the circumstances, according to the German foreign ministry.
Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai "commended the security agencies for their efforts in securing the release of the Germans", a statement said.
It did not say whether anyone has been arrested over the kidnapping.
Gunmen had been demanding a ransom of 60 million naira (£150,000) for the release of Professor Peter Breunig and his assistant Johannes Behringer.
The two were abducted at gunpoint on Wednesday and walked into the bush from an archaeological dig near Jenjela village in Kaduna state.
Two villagers who tried to help the Germans were shot and killed by the kidnappers, police said.
Prof Breunig, 65, and Mr Behringer, in his twenties, are part of a four-person team from Frankfurt's Goethe University.
The other two members, women, were not touched by the kidnappers.
The Germans were collaborating with Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments to recover relics of the Nok culture.
The early Iron Age people, considered the earliest ancient civilisation of the West African region that is now Nigeria, are famous for their terracotta sculptures.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in Nigeria, with ordinary residents and even schoolchildren targeted as well as foreigners.
Victims are usually freed unharmed after a ransom is paid, though security forces have rescued a few high-profile abductees.
Nigeria's acting president Yemi Osinbajo had summoned the federal police chief on Thursday for a briefing on efforts to find the Germans.


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I'm back! Sorry I wasn't back yesterday as promised but computer issues ate up most of the day.
So you may have been wondering where I've been. Well, hubby and I had been planning this trip for some time and we cashed in all our frequent flyer and hotel miles and headed off to London for a variety of reasons.
We visited our best friend in London and I got great inspiration for new stories and research one in particular.
We had a wonderful time and the break from legal and writing work did me a world of good. After feeling a wealth of frustration over a number of projects in the last few months, all the new sights, sounds and foods revived my flagging creativity.
I hope the sights and info will inspire you as well as over the next few months Tip Tuesdays become Travel Tuesdays as I share some of the 600+ photos that I took all over London and nearby environs.
Today's photographs are from some of the parks in London as well as the gardens in the area. The Brits love their gardens and it shows in the neatly manicured plots in front of many of the homes. In particular, the camelias caught my eye as they were in full bloom in an assortment of colors. I've always wanted to plant a camelia, but NJ is just too cold. Surprisingly, London which is far more North of NJ, has more temperate weather and because of this palm trees, camelias and other plants seem to thrive there.
The weather during our visit was a little drizzly, but not cold which made it just fine for the long walks we took through the various neighborhoods and parks. We even had two beautiful sunny and warm days and when that happened everyone seem to come out of their homes and offices and head to the nearest greens.
The photos in this collection are of three different parks:
St. James Park is located directly behind 10 Downing Street and Whitehall Chapel and in front of Buckingham Palace. It is a lovely park with a lake in the middle of it. Lush lawns, trees and flowers were all over and since this park was close to offices, Parliament, etc. it was mobbed when the sun came out.
Regents Park was right near our hotel in the Camden area of London. It's also right next to the London Zoo or ZedSL as they call it (ZSL in American Speak). Even bigger than St. James, Regents likewise had lovely gardens and an immense lake filled with an assortment of very interesting water fowl.
Finally, St. John's Wood Church Grounds was a smaller park along the route to the Tube (aka the subway). We passed by the park several times as they had closed our Tube line for servicing during their "bank holiday" (aka public holiday) over the Easter weekend. Take a moment to notice the very old tombstones scattered in the park and buried beneath the flowering camelias. It was rather creepy to walk past them at night, but it got my writer's mind going about what might happen in such a place in the dark!
We spent over a week in London and also did a daytrip to Stonehenge and Bath, so look for tons more photos in the coming weeks as well as some video.
I hope you enjoy!
If you can't see the slideshow below, you can click on this link to see the London Gardens 2010 photos!


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As a result of a brain tumor and its treatment, many survivors face learning challenges. They may have difficulty organizing their thoughts, their memory may not be what it used to be or it may take slightly longer for what they hear to be processed. Hopefully while they are in school they will have access to educational accommodations and be supported by teachers so they can excel in school. However when they enter college, they have to advocate for themselves. This means meeting with the Disability Services staff and helping them understand that while they are still smart, the way they learn has changed. In Cassie Nguyen's commencement speech she talks about her experience. Thank you for sharing Cassie and thank you for being so selfless in your volunteering and mentoring.
Hello fellow graduates,
Since our journey first started here at RCC, we have created and paved certain paths, each one different and unique for each of us to follow. Whether pursuing a nursing, culinary, or performing arts degree, we all have gone through and experienced positive and negative trials, but have all had one similar goal; to further our education and better our future. In that honor, we have this one special day to celebrate our journeys.
When I first started coming to Riverside Community College, I was eager to move ahead and forward with my education. RCC helped very much with that. It was exactly what I was looking for, someplace nearby that had a smaller amount of students. My first semester I only took a few courses, since I was unsure of what to expect and was worried that if I took too many classes at once that I might be too overwhelmed and not do as great. I wanted to take things slow to ensure I did well in all my classes. I also needed more time because of certain limitations caused by my surgery and treatment for cancer. My transition was much easier and more pleasant because I met and made wonderful, kind and helpful friends and had the support, compassion and encouragement of teachers and faculty members. I was taken under the wing of the Disabled Student Services (DSP&S) that helped me tremendously with services that I needed that would sufficiently increase my progress while I was at RCC. As time went by, I grew more familiar and accustomed to the "flow" of things here at RCC. I felt like I progressed more from year to year. I truly have enjoyed the classes I've taken here at RCC. With each of them, I've gained knowledge, experience, and the skills that will benefit me in the future. During my great years at RCC, I worked here on campus at the instructional media center for over a year. That was a exciting and wonderful experience for me. It was my very first job and I couldn't have asked for better bosses and greater co-workers.
Also during my years at RCC, I have been volunteering for the American Cancer Society and Children's Brain Tumor Foundation. I have been a volunteer, legislative ambassador, and mentot. I first learned of ACS when I was the recipient of their Young Cancer Survivor scholarship. I absolutely love what ACS and CBTF represent (the support of survivors and how to eradicate cancer and brain tumors overall) and will continue volunteering for them my whole life.
Thus far, I have completed my general education and all the lower division courses needed to graduate with honors for my Associates of Science degree in General business and transfer to University California of Riverside (UCR) for their business program. I feel confident that my advancement in education will help me to move forward and progress in life.
My years here at RCC have been truly fulfilling. To the kind and helpful people I've meet along the way the teachers, students, student services like DSP&S, EOPS, financial aid, the health center, and many more, thank you.
So supposedly 2012 is said to be the end of the world, but for us, it's just the beginning. Congratulations class of 2012. We did it!