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Charley Drayton wants you to know he produced Fiona Apple's latest album, The Idler Wheel….
The Brooklyn-born drummer assumes you weren't aware of this, given the fact that his name doesn't appear anywhere on the album cover. It was mysteriously left off the liner notes when the album went to print. After Apple received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Alternative Album some publications even named her as the sole producer, which she called to apologize about.
But Drayton isn't speaking out now to brag or boast about the role he played on Apple's fourth album. Instead he wants fans to know the full story behind the making of the singer's "crazy, beautiful" album.
Drayton actually hadn't heard a single piece of Apple's music until 2005, right after she released Extraordinary Machine. A friend told him he needed to take a listen so he started with "O Sailor," and never stopped listening. Drayton had previously worked with Mike Elizondo, the producer of Apple's record, and by happenstance Elizondo called him asking if he wanted to join Apple's band for an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman. During rehearsal Drayton didn't speak much. "We played music and we connected and we came to New York and we did the show," he said. But the following day he received a phone call from her management who told him, "She won't let you go."
After Apple's year-long tour in support of Extraordinary Machine ended, Drayton stayed in touch with the singer. It wasn't until 2010 that he got an opportunity to play with her again. She had been working on a few new songs, all of which now appear on the album, and she wanted him to come up with a few ideas on how to incorporate rhythm.
"It was a lot deeper, more involved in her playing the piano, and the stories were of course intense," Drayton explained. "At first listen, I thought, honestly, this could be a solo record. This could just be piano and vocal. But the question she asked was, how would I incorporate some rhythm to it."
He continued, "At home I would work out some rhythms that I thought would be interesting to her, but she didn't give me any clues, that's what makes it a little bit of a challenge. I like to hear melody or something, something." Apple left her directions wide open: she asked that it be from A to Z whatever you're feeling, any tempo.
After listening to the songs for two weeks Drayton went to California to share some of the unconventional ideas that had been stirring in his head. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to recreate the sounds he had been toying with, but on the first day he realized she was willing to be a little weird. The first song they worked on was "Regret," which features Apple mimicking the sound of a drum using just the pedals of her upright piano. From that moment on the two swore they would make Apple's vocals the focus on every song, but punch up the percussion with unusual objects. They wanted fans to listen to each and every song over and over again, just trying to decipher what object they used.
"We walked around for months tapping on anything," he explained. "Picking something up off the street, seeing if it makes a sound you like, just being conscious to everything."
When talking about the percussion-filled "Periphery," Drayton has to take a second to recount every weird object they incorporated. There were the metal plant holders, the couch pillow, the bag of microwave popcorn he happened to be snacking on and the pick-up truck Fiona's brother owned. "Fiona got up on the hood of the truck and went to town," he said.
The scratching sound that dominates the song was just Drayton and Fiona dancing on the sidewalk in front of the studio. "We did the dance one morning beginning at five am and realized that is the right sound," he said. "Some people say it's so minimal, but I don't think you have to hear a big drumbeat all the time to know that the right rhythm is there."
After ten days of just playing around in the studio the two decided they were going to make a record, but thought it would be best to keep that news to themselves. The duo finished the album in three months without every letting her record label know.
"We almost felt like we were chosen to be in this bubble," he said. "To go on this little journey and lock ourselves away and be on a certain path. She wanted to be more hands on this time around and you can tell that was necessary in order to get the results that we did."
Whether or not The Idler Wheel… takes home the GRAMMY, Drayton says will take pride in the album that he made with Apple.
"There's nothing, not a moment on that record that I wished I had done something different," he said. "I don't have to live with regret, it's all there."
Watch the GRAMMYs this Sunday on CBS to see if Fiona Apple and Charley Drayton can take home the prize for Best Alternative Album.
– Shannon Carlin, Radio.com


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- 4.0.1
- Some tweaks/bugfixes to the MrTrader API.
- Bug fix when dealing with linked tradeskills on higher population servers.
- A new feature to let the user collapse the window to be more compact by hiding the filter list.
- More tradeskill window cleanup, it now uses Blizzard templates for the window, making it easier to maintain going forward.
- Bugfixes on some buttons appearing when they shouldn't.
- Fixes a bug with updating Categories and Inventory Slots
- Link behavior is closer to the official UI (can whisper the owner of a linked tradeskill).
- Search behavior is closer to the official UI (can search linked tradeskills and guild lists).
- Support for new guild functions, letting you look up who can craft certain guild recipes.
Cataclysm Support
Cataclysm is around the corner. 4.0.1 is already on the PTR. MrTrader is ready.
Revised Tradeskill Window
First, MrTrader introduced a Tradeskill Window replacement. Now it's been made even better. No more having to scroll through two different panes in order to see what reagents you need. Basic profit estimates have been added as well, feeding off of AuctionLite, Auctioneer or Auctionator for auction pricing.
The Tradeskill Window now includes an API for other addons to extend it. Add information to the window itself in the form of text lines, add information to a recipe's tooltip, or even badges.
Improved, Refined, Polished
- Major optimizations which make windows faster to open, respond to the server faster, and behave better when the client can stream data from the server.
- The tradeskill window can be made movable by selecting the "Undock Window" configuration option.
- New "Clear Search" button makes clearing a search faster than before.
- /mrt and /mrtrader takes you straight to the configuration window without arguments.
- Bugfixes reported by users.
BETA Notes - Known Issues
- Profit Estimation only supports AuctionLite, Auctioneer or Auctionator for auction data, for now.
- Profit Estimation doesn't yet support a vendor DB for purchase pricing on reagents for more accurate estimates.
- Engineering loves to use a lot of tools and long names. This is causing some layout problems in the GUI.
- There is currently no way to sort or disable plugins for the tradeskill window (tools/cooldown and the profit plugin).
- Tooltip plugin interface isn't implemented.
- Cleanup of the configuration window isn't quite complete.
- Fixes a bug that would interrupt crafting.
- Fixes interactions with the chat window after 3.3.5 changed the API.
- TOC update for 3.3.0
- Reverts back the change from 0.5.1 where we block the Blizz UI from loading. Instead we just hook Blizz UI, and only override its display.
- Tradeskill windows should use the tradeskill icon for its portrait rather than the player icon. This makes a bit more sense in a world where tradeskills can be linked, and we won't even be able to get the portrait of the character with that tradeskill.
- Moved the tooltip when hovering over a recipe so it is more visible when browsing.
- Library cleanup
- Ackis Recipe List support (Requires r2509 of Ackis or later).
- Fixes for DockingStation for the menu
- Fixes in the Tradeskill UI to remove some script errors.
- Minor tweak to the positioning of the drop-down tradeskill menu to match the old DewDrop positioning.
- Fixes so that MrTrader can load correctly when everything else is disabled.
- No longer hook TradeSkillFrame_Show before the blizzard add-on is loaded. Should lead to causing fewer problems with other addons that hook this API.
- Convert drop-down menus to UIDropDownMenu and remove dependency on DewDrop-2.0 for more memory savings.
- Removal of debug spew.
- Fixes for the 'remember selected category' feature which was broken with regards to category/inventory slot filtering.
- MrTrader-side support for LilSparky's Workshop
- Ability to whisper back more than 1 version of a tradeskill at a time (if you have multiple characters with the same tradeskill). Has a privacy option of also whispering back the character name, which is disabled by default.
- Ability to remember which category on the left side of the window was selected by the user.
- Fixes on the hooks to make them a bit more robust in more uncommon situations.
- Fixes for the search bar to make it a bit more robust when switching tradeskills.
- Fixes a stupid bug introduced when making the tradeskill window independent from Blizzard's.
- Fix for some refreshing issues (bag related and so on) with the tradeskill window.
- Fixes an issue where trying to use Market Watcher's tradeskill filtering wouldn't work.
- The tradeskill window is now a module and is loaded on-demand. MrTrader will also prevent the Blizzard UI from being loaded at all if you don't want it to be used.
- Big new functionality: A replacement Tradeskill window. Comes with the following features:
- New filter selection UI based on the Auction House
- Difficulty Filtering
- Custom Groups
- Context menu support for manipulating filters and tradeskills
- Search as you type for all filters
- Blizzard UI-parity
- Can be turned off in the configuration to remain compatible with other Addons
- Partial translations for French and Simplified Chinese (Thanks for submitting localizations guys!)
- Fix for a bug with !link and alts without any tradeskills to track.
- Cleaned up Config GUI.
- New icon for menu.
- Some more fixes so that certain combinations of addons don't cause MrTrader to fail.
- You can now configure MrTrader to also respond to commands over guild, or raid/party chat. It is off by default and must be enabled by the user.
- You can now turn off secondary skills (Cooking, First Aid) and unlinkable skills (Runeforging, Smelting) from showing up on the list of tradeskills for your alt's. The character you are logged into will always show all your tradeskills.
- Fixed the AceLibrary dependancy... really.
- New logic for matching partial skill names. Any part of the full name can be used, as long as it is unique to the skill 'black' or 'smith' will both match Blacksmithing. 'alch' will match Alchemy, as well. The name of the skill matched is localized.
- Removed some debug code which would spew text into a chat window if you had linking alt's tradeskills turned on.
- Supports '!link' in addition to '!full' to get a skill link.
- Responding to whispers can be turned off in the options.
- Cleanup of the localizations, removing old phrases.
- Support for German and Russian translations.
- A fix that should address errors when someone doesn't have AceLibrary.
- Support for '!full <skill name>' as a whisper command, to be similar to CraftList2
- Options for turning off showing opposite faction alts, and for having '!full' search your alts skills when responding.
- Fixes to adding a link, so that it won't fail if you don't already have the chat editor up.
- No longer claims to be incompatible with 3.1
- Items in the menu now have better tooltips
- Characters of the opposite faction will now show up in the menu, tinted red.
- You can now ignore characters and remove them from the list until you decide otherwise. For now you will need to log into the ignored character and select 'Unignore' from the menu to undo this.
Due to changes to the DB in 0.3, you might run into the following issues:
- Tinting of characters won't work until you login.
- You will need to log into characters of both factions before the DB is properly merged so that you can see both factions at the same time.
If you run into issues with links not working, login to the character whose links aren't working to refresh them. Changes to skills in 3.1 make links saved before the patch not work.
- Allows removing a character from the menu, so you don't get deleted characters clogging up the menu.
- Cleanup of the code to make WoWAce and lib owners happier.
- MrTrader should use spellIDs now, so we can let WoW localize skill names for us.
- Fixed a debug spew issue.
- Initial release. View and link skills. Whee.

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Website: Prescott Park
Prescott Park Arts Festival
Prescott Park
Portsmouth, NH
Ph: 603-436-2848
Located along the Piscataqua River and across from the Strawbery Banke Museum, Prescott Park is a popular waterfront park featuring extensive flower gardens, including large demonstration beds where many varieties of flowers are shown each summer. There are benches to sit, fountains surrounding by magnificent landscaping and a quiet, peaceful atmosphere.
The park is also home to the Prescott Park Arts Festival, which features a number of musical and theatrical performances as well as food festivals throughout the summer.
For over 34 years, the Prescott Park Arts Festival has successfully presented music, art, theatre and dance on the banks of the Piscataqua River to over 3 million people. The festival has featured more than 9,000 productions with no fixed admission ($5-$8 suggested donation), becoming one of the favorite summer traditions of our beautiful Seacoast!
The goal of the Festival is to provide quality family entertainment, promote artistic excellence in the community and maintain quality presentations of both entertainment and educational events.
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Kale Pick has gone through all the twists and turns and ups and downs of a human roller coaster during his four-year stint with the Kansas Jayhawks.
Kale Pick has gone through all the twists and turns and ups and downs of a human roller coaster during his four-year stint with the Kansas Jayhawks.
Groomed to be a starting quarterback for the Jayhawks, it taken away from him after only one start at the position. Instead of sulking, Pick turned the negative into a positive by becoming one of the top receivers the past two seasons for the Big 12 squad.
Add to that having to deal with changes among the program's coaching twice during his four-plus year stay showed one thing about the kid.
But it's best to let him say it in his own words.
"I don't even know if I could come up with one word, but it probably sums up the passion I've had for the game," Pick said. "I've always loved football and kept up with the hard work. All of us seniors have had to go through a lot of hard work and dedication to go through this program and the three coaching staffs."
Pick and the other seniors prepare for Saturday night's Big 12 home contest against Iowa State, the last time they will wear the blue jerseys on the field as competitors.
"I'm pretty excited. It's kind of crazy to how time has went by, but I'm looking forward to it," Pick said.
Pick said he had positives with each coaching staff, but that the situation with current Jayhawks head coach is unique. Although it hasn't shown in wins on the scoreboard, it has brought what seems to be the foundation of future success in the program.
"Many of the coaches brought in players who they had recruited before, but they treated everyone as if they recruited each of us as their own," Pick said. "This coaching staff showed their dedication to the game and how many hours they put in to try to turn this program around."
With his desire to one day be a collegiate coach, Pick admits he has been studying what coaches do in certain situations and how he plans on taking some of what he has seen to building his style of coaching on the field.
"With three coaching staffs, there was a lot I picked up along the way," he said. "There were things I enjoyed and I was interested in when it comes to being a coach. There were other things I didn't agree with. I think dealing with the coaching staff has helped me in the long run when I am through with football as a player.
"The experiences that I have had on the field and off the field has definitely helped."
Pick said his character as a player comes two-fold when it comes to his collegiate career. Many could have thrown in the towel and just sit on the sidelines for the final two years of his career.
Instead, when Pick realized that his days as a quarterback for the Jayhawks were over after the release of Frank Mangino and the hiring of Turner Gill — who brought along a different set of schemes that wouldn't fit the type of quarterback Pick had grown up being — the quarterback just moved his passion over to the other side of the passing equation to catching the ball.
In 2011, Pick was second in receiving and yardage for the Jayhawks. This year, going into Saturday night's game against the Cyclones, Pick is leading the team in both categories.
"That kind of came along with the different coaching staffs," Pick said. "Mangino and his staff told me they were going to move the offense towards my strengths and how I was going to be the next guy in line, then a new staff came and they might have pulled the trigger a little quick and asked me to move to receiver.
"I just stuck with it and being a receiver kind of became natural to me. I'm really glad I kept working on it and improving every day. I would have never guessed when I came to Kansas that I'd be on my 25th start as a receiver coming into my last home game as a senior."
The other part of where his character came from was from the constant work and support Pick got from his family.
Pick was in third grade playing pee-wee football as quarterback against players who were fifth and sixth graders. His father, Mark, was Kale's coach and his mother, Janna, was always filming the games from the sidelines.
After the games, Kale and Mark would go and watch the game and discuss how the younger Pick could see where he was doing well and what mistakes he was making to help him become better as a quarterback.
That helped Pick as he grew into a starting quarterback for the Dodge City Red Demons. Pick still holds a number of DCHS passing records he broke during his junior season, despite playing only one half of the first game and the final game of his senior season.
"My father has been my biggest influence by far when it comes to football," Pick said. "We still continue to discuss what I'm doing in college when we have the time."
The only thing that the Pick men aren't completely on the same side comes one final time Saturday. Mark Pick spent his college playing days as a member of Iowa State, so there is a little fun-hearted trash talking going on between the father and son.
"Every year when we play Iowa State, I give him a little talk either Sunday or Monday and that we are going to beat the Cyclones," Pick said. "I think it's probably me doing most of the smack talking because he wants the best for me. I know he'd rather see us come out of the win Saturday."


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Both the women's and men's Hannibal High School alumni basketball games on Dec. 29 had exciting fourth quarters, with the women's ending 24-21 and the men's being even closer at 78-77.
Both the women's and men's Hannibal High School alumni basketball games on Dec. 29 had exciting fourth quarters, with the women's ending 24-21 and the men's being even closer at 78-77.
The teams were listed by odd or even years of graduation. The even-year grads won the men's game.
The women graduating in odd years won, after leading 15-8 at half time and being tied at 17 in the third quarter. The majority of the women graduated in the 1990s.
Players and their years of graduation were Jenny Hibert, 1984; Monica Williams, 1986; Cherrie Allen, 1994; Audrey Clark; 1994; Deanine Brinkley Haynes, 1995; Angie Garner Lynch, 1996; Amanda Muehring Echternacht, 1997; Amber King Riefesel, 1997; Natalie Brinkley Oswald, 1999; Shelby Ortwerth Moneer, 1999; Lydie Mays, 2011; and Ashley Stevenson, 2012.
After the game, Moneer explained she is a health educator for a non-profit foundation in Washington, D.C. She enjoyed beach volleyball while attending college in Florida.
During half time, Clark won a 3-point shootout. Later she said she is an assistant director on the "New Girl" television series in Los Angeles. Her current sports are running and bicycling.
Allen, who had scored 10 of her team's points, left Hannibal to follow her husband's military career. She returned four years ago and teaches fifth grade at Holy Family School. She runs for exercise.
Oswald now plays sand volleyball when not busy as an attorney in Quincy, Ill. She first played basketball at age 5, when her older sister, Deanine, taught her. Their parents are Ralph and Marcia Brinkley, and their dad coached their youth basketball teams.
Williams, of Hannibal, now would rather kickbox than play basketball, but she enjoys the alumni games. She added that "the Booster Club helps kids. It was behind us (when she was at HHS). Somebody did it for me." As a HHS student, she won both athletic medals and band honors.
Between games, two teens won prizes in shootouts, after their tickets were drawn for the contests. Dylan Powell won dinner for two at Fiddlestiks by winning the free throw shootout. Jack Richards won six dinners for two at Fiddlestiks in the 3-pointer shootout.
Grads from '71 to '12
on men's team
Alumni players and their years of graduation in the men's game were Glenn O'Briant, 1971; Steve Wagner, 1985 (who played on the even-years team); Stacey Strickland, 1993; Enos Johnson, 1995; Jarred Johnson, 2001; Wayne McPike, 2003; Ian Griffen, 2007; Randall Mosley, 2008; Zachary Lewis, 2008; Logan Hicks, 2012; and Jordan Ingram, 2012.
The odd-year team quickly led by 10-0 in the first quarter and remained ahead at half time with only a 1-point lead, 63-62.
The even-years team went ahead for the first time at 4:42 in the third quarter, at 54-53.
This was followed by an exciting fourth quarter, with the score tied at 75 near the end. Next, McPike made two free throws for the odd-years team.
Then Hicks made a 3-pointer for the even-years team, giving his team a 78-77 lead, which was the final score.
After the game Hicks said he felt relief after making the 3-pointer, adding "it was a battle the whole game." Hicks recently transferred to Truman University, where he plays football.
Lewis, a senior at Hannibal-LaGrange University, now competes in track and field.
Calling the alumni game "lots of fun," Ingram said he still plays basketball, as he attends Moberly Area Community College.
O'Briant, a 1971 grad and the oldest player, still plays basketball, reporting he "used to play two or three times a week, but now it is a couple times a month." He lives in Quincy, Ill., where he will soon retire as a railroad switchman.
During half time, the HHS Glitter Girls danced and McPike, (who is also HHS freshmen basketball coach) displaying his skill with special shots.
Next, a 30-second, 3-pointer contest among the players was won by Johnson, by breaking a 15-basket tie with McPike.
A 50-50 ticket drawing by the HHS Booster Club, sponsor of the games, was won by Sherry Ingram.
Later Booster Club member Tammy Heimer, who co-chaired the games with Deanine Haynes, said she "appreciated the people that came to watch and that came to play."
Announcer John Ryan announced the 2013 alumni games will be on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013.


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Racist and Homophobic Tee Shirts Still Hanging Around Wrigley
You can't walk within five blocks of Wrigley Field without seeing them: the homespun tee shirt vendors. Sometimes funny, sometimes offensive, and always in your way.
Unfortunately, the worst of the shirts remain – an example photo, at right from the Huffington Post – which sadly means, there's a market for them.
As the Cubs played their first home game of the 2010 season, fans gathered in and around the ballpark to stock up on merchandise. Unfortunately, the racist and homophobic t-shirts sold outside of Wrigley Field have not gone anywhere.
In 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on the hottest selling item from a stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across the street from the ballpark: a Kosuke Fukudome shirt that the Japanese outfielder did not find funny. The shirt featured a Cubs cartoon bear face with slanted eyes, wearing oversized Harry Caray-style glasses and was accompanied by the words "Horry Kow," scrawled in cartoonish "Japanese" script. Fukudome's name and number were on the back.
The article sparked outrage over the offensive shirts sold around Wrigley Field, and as WBEZ pointed out Monday–the Fukudome shirts may have been discontinued and replaced with a "toned down" version, but the racist and homophobic shirts have not gone anywhere.
"We have free speech," Wrigleyville street vendor Joe Sienkiewicz told WBEZ. "This is not the only avenue that people sell that type of shirt. You can go anywhere in the city of Chicago and you'll find negative T-shirts, funny T-shirts…Some call them racist T-shirts, but it depends on how you look at it. But if they're going to kick us out for that, then they better get rid of them all over the city of Chicago, all over the state of Illinois." Huffington Post.
Ah, free speech. Good old misunderstood, and misapplied free speech.
Back-up argument? Er, well, everyone else is doing it, so it's ok if I do it, too.
But in the end, I'm not going to lambaste these guys. They have discovered a niche in the tee shirt market where their product sells. Good for them. I am, however, going to lambaste the tee shirt buyers. Are you kidding me? Green Gay Fudge Packers? What is this, 1985? The kind of 1985 where everyone is perpetually in middle school?
In what universe is it acceptable to wear that shirt? I really can't wrap my head around someone who sees that shirt and thinks: "That is precisely the sentiment that I have been seeking to share but haven't found the words to express. Finally, I can wear it loud and proud on my chest!"
For my part, might I suggest a humorous take on these kind of insensitive shirts:


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What'd I'd planned to write about was music, specifically live music.
As I sit down to write this my sister is sitting behind me whining about her "poor banana" — it turns out she'd attempted to go grab one as a quick snack but when she went to twist it off the bunch, it snapped in half and ended up looking like fruit jingo. So, if this small bit of writing doesn't come out right…it's her fault. Seriously.
What'd I'd planned to write about was music, specifically live music. Though I have not had the chance to attend as many live concerts as I could (or should) have, there is a special place in my heart for hearing music performed in person as opposed to simply spinning an album over and over.
Granted, I still do that. A lot.
This May, health and weather permitting, my wife and I are planning to go see Fleetwood Mac when they roll into Little Rock. Even though the tickets required us to take out a second and third mortgage on our house respectively we thought that the odds of this band ever touring anywhere near us again was so remote that we would always regret not trying to attend.
The way, for instance, I still regret not seeing Pearl Jam play Oklahoma City when we were living about an hour and a half away from the arena. Finances were much much tighter then as we were thinking we would soon have to pack up everything and move soon to follow where the job winds were blowing.
We were right that we couldn't afford it as the cost of those tickets went into the moving truck we drove that carried us here to Arkansas, but still… I'm still pouty about it.
Pouring salt into the wound I think Pearl Jam played in Little Rock about a year after we moved here, when we still couldn't afford tickets as we were renting and (go figure) that's amazingly expensive here in Arkansas.
My mortgage — first, second or third — is still cheaper than my monthly rent those first years here in Arkansas.
My wife has no such regrets for any live concerts, by the way, as she's only ever been to two concerts in her entire life and she had to be seriously cajoled into those. It turns out that only AC/DC and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have the ability to get my wife to say "yes" to the idea of going out into the unfamiliar waters of live music.
If you ask her she will tell you that she would rather listen to an album she knows and loves 99 times out of 100 rather than go see that artist performing live in concert. Nothing wrong with that, of course. To judge from her experience during the Chili Peppers concert I think the whole visual extravaganza of a show as well as the noise and joyful chaos of a crowd took away from her enjoyment of the music itself.
I'm sure she loved the experience and the concert itself but it wasn't until a week later when I'd purchased the live "official bootleg" of the concert we'd attended that she could actually listen and "hear" the songs she'd experienced in person. It was as if she were finally getting to completely enjoy that night.
As for me? I love the loud chaos of it. One of the most memorable concerts I went to was also in Little Rock, where Sevendust played so hard and loud that my sister thought she was having a heart attack as the music was vibrating throughout her ribs. I loved it.
I've loved all the concerts I've seen. I'm sure I'll be able to add Fleetwood Mac to that list of 100 percent enjoyment, but we'll see. Who knows? Maybe I'll see some of you out there and we can all share that experience together? I hope so. Until then, though, there's always my iPod.
"Listen to the wind blowwwwwwww…"


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Statistical Reports
CSU Off Campus Center Enrollment
1. This report is based on data submitted by campuses in the Enrollment Reporting System (ERS) and is
identified as Enrollment Reporting System - Off Campus Centers (ERSO). ERSO is linked to the Enrollment
Reporting System - Students (ERSS); for additional information see the ERSS report.
2. Each off campus or branch campus center of the California State University system has been identified in
accordance with official recognition by the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
3. Appropriate year, term and campus codes are as defined for the regular ERSS report. The off campus center
report (ERSO)must have the same census date as the ERSS report. The ERSO records are linked to the regular
ERSS file for the corresponding term.
4. Student credit units reported in the ERSO files are for center units only. These units exclude audit units
and units in International Programs abroad.
5. Reporting of the number of units attempted at the off campus center of the CSU for which the student is
actively enrolled at the census date by: lower division, upper division, and graduate level courses.
6. Data other than enrollment counts and full time equivalents were obtained by linking and extracting data
from the ERSS files from the reporting campuses.
7. Student information on the ERSO file also has been included in the ERSS file for those reporting campuses
for the corresponding term without identification as off campus center data.
Table 1. Total Enrollment by Sex and Student Level, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 2. Total Full-time Equivalent by Sex and Student Level, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 3. Undergraduate Transfer Students, Student Level and Sex by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 4. Undergraduate Enrollment by Enrollment Status and Sex, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 5. Postbaccalaureate Student Enrollment by Enrollment Status and Sex, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 6. Graduate Student Enrollment, Enrollment Status and Sex, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 7. Undergraduate Transfers by Segment of Origin and Sex, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 8. CSU Enrollment by Campus with Percent by Ethnic Group, Number and Ratio to Total, by Campus, Summer 1994.
Table 9. CSU Systemwide Undergraduate Enrollment by Age and Ethnic Group, Summer 1994.
Table 10. CSU Systemwide Enrollment by Ethnic Groups and Student Level, Number and Ratio to Total, Summer 1994.


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We know how much creativity, skill-building, problem-solving and strategy go into playtime. That's why Good Housekeeping Research Institute staff spent the past year selecting 135 promising new toys and games before turning them over to 140 kids, ages 3 to 13, for testing in our labs and in their homes. GHRI took 1,000-plus surveys, subjected toys to the "Drop Tester" and checked safety data to find the some of the best toys out there.
Cowabunga, Dude!
Pack the Playmates Shellraiser ($35; ages 4 and up) vehicle with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ($10 each; sold separately) and send the reptiles on a wild, imagination-fueled crime-fighting spree. A new TV series is now attracting another generation.
Good Fortune
With Moose Toys Fortune Cookie Maker ($25; ages 5 and up) young bakers can mix and roll real dough, heat it in the microwave and form it around the fortunes they write. The best part: devouring their own creations.
Buggin' Out
The portable Hexbug Hive Habitat Set ($35; ages 3 and up) lets kids customize a bi-level maze, then see the mechanical bugs run amok. Its 35 easy-to-assemble pieces link with other sets to create an arena that will amuse for hours.
Drawing Room
Techno Source's Glow Crazy Doodle Dome ($20; ages 3 and up) gives little Picassos magical privacy as they sketch on the tent's walls using a green light wand. When the mess-free art fades, it's time to start all over again.
Training Wheels
An affordable alternative to die-cast models, Jakks Pacific Power Trains Auto Loader City ($40; ages 5 and up) had boys and girls assembling 18 realistic-looking feet of track for a five-train motorized locomotive.
Do the Twist
Puzzle fans got a kick out of creating critters from Techno Source Codee ($8; for ages 7 and up), a twistable chain of interlocking blocks that, when kids followed the coded formula, formed a bright flamingo, scorpion or robot, to name a few.
Leaving their Mark
Crayola Marker Airbrush ($25; ages 6 and up) uses markers to create spray-paint-style art while giving kids a serious workout operating the manual pump. Includes 12 markers and four stencils.
Motor Skills
Constructing a motor home replete with two dolls, bikes and a surfboard made Lego Friends Adventure Camper ($30; ages 6 to 12) a popular pick with our testers. They were also fans of the Lego Creator Street Rebel set.
Futuristic Fun
Older kids adored Playmobil E-Rangers Headquarters ($130; ages 7 to 12), a command center with a swiveling LED spotlight for imaginary scenarios. A working solar panel (it operates a fan) instills eco ideals.
The Amazing Racer
The Moose Toys Micro Chargers Loop Track ($20; ages 6 and up) is perfect for superfast freewheeling fun. Tiny collectible cars, charged in as little as nine seconds, shoot to incredible speeds for thrilling play.
Cruise Control
Hardly a standard remote-controlled toy, the Silverlit Porsche Carrera ($80; ages 8 and up) is hyper-detailed (it's a 1:16 replica of the coveted sports car) and can be steered via iOS devices (download the Silverlit app first).
Seeing the Sights
A Revensburger 3D Building Set ($26; ages 10 and up) may trigger the travel bug as young ones dexterously join curved, hinged and flat puzzle pieces to form a famous site (other kits make the Empire State Building, Big Ben and Tower Bridge).
Give More, Stress Less
Helping a friend — or even a stranger — is better at relieving time-related stress than spending an equal number of minutes chilling out or doing something just for yourself.
Researchers from the Wharton School of the University Pennsylvania, Harvard and Yale reported these findings in a series of four studies. "Long to-do lists can make you feel stingy with your time," said lead author Cassie Mogilner, Ph.D., but "if you're more generous to others, you'll feel capable, effective and less time-constrained." In the studies, participants were assigned an act of kindness, such as writing an encouraging note to a sick child. But caroling at a nursing home, taking a friend's packages to the post office and shoveling out your neighbor's car can all make you feel time-rich, too, said Mogilner.
The following products and vehicles were recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Unless otherwise indicated, discontinue use of the products immediately and return them to the store where purchased for a refund. For more information about the products, call the manufacturer or CPSC's toll-free hotline, 1-800-638-2772. Only some cars or trucks recalled are affected. Contact a dealer for your model to see if it is included in the recall. The dealer will tell you what to do.
- Dream On Me Bath Seats, sold at small retail stores and online retailers including Amazon.com and Wayfair.com from July 2012 through September 2012 for between $25 and $40.
The bath seats fail to meet federal safety standards, including the requirements for stability. Specifically, the bath seats can tip over, posing a risk of drowning to babies. Consumers should stop using the recalled bath seats immediately. Dream On Me is offering a free replacement bathtub to consumers. Contact: Dream On Me toll-free at (877) 201-4317 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online at www.dreamonme.com (click on "Recalls" for more information).
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Accusoft has released the Prizm Content Connect v8.4 document viewer. Said to be scalable to environments of any size, this tool enables users on almost any system or device (including mobile devices) to view hundreds of different file formats through a browser.
Arguably most interesting among the enhancements in version 8.4 is a new API for the HTML5 document viewer, enabling developers to integrate the viewer into their web applications by responding to newly exposed events, and to customize the viewer's appearance, with a few lines of code.
Also featured here is improved processing of medical DICOM images to enhance applications for eDiscovery, such as in areas like medical recordkeeping (EHR, EMR).
The viewer's collaboration facilities present the user with a menu of annotations made to a document, and drawings from all AutoCAD versions through 2014 are now displayable by the viewer.
Prizm Content Connect enables viewing and collaboration for hundreds of file types (including Microsoft Office files, PDFs, CAD files, and email messages) through a consistent viewer that requires no software installations on user devices.
According to Accusoft, "The versatile server component is scalable for environments of any size or platform, integrates easily with any programming language, and features a web API conforming to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture that has been optimized to deliver lightning-quick response times. A version of the viewer customized for integration with SharePoint 2013 is also available."


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November 11. 2013 10:33PM
Jail: $215,000 paid to female officer
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
Commissioners call Valley Street jail 'safe, secure'
'The Hole' at Valley Street jail cost taxpayers thousands
(Third in a series)
MANCHESTER — Shannon Oakes was hitting her head on the wall and floor, and she refused to follow corrections officers' orders when brought to Valley Street Jail on Sept. 5, 2006.
What followed later that day resulted in lawsuits that cost Hillsborough County $222,500 in settlements — most of that money going to a female corrections officer disturbed over what she had witnessed.
While strapped to a chair, Oakes was subject to derogatory remarks from male corrections officers about the size of her breasts, according to lawsuits filed against Hillsborough County and the jail. One squeezed pressure points behind her neck as she cried in pain. And a corrections officer head-butted her.
A female corrections officer of five years, Doris Sanabria received a $215,000 settlement in a suit claiming sexual harassment and retaliation when she spoke up about what she saw.
Sanabria is also on retirement disability that pays her $27,200 a year. Oakes received a one-time, $7,500 settlement.
Sanabria did not want to comment for this article or have her photograph taken, fearful that doing so might upend her settlement. Efforts to reach Oakes at a previous Londonderry addressed proved unsuccessful.
Jail Superintendent David Dionne acknowledges that an incident with an inmate did take place.
"But the way she (Sanabria) said it, it did not happen," Dionne said. "Her story was not even consistent with the inmate's."
Dionne will not discuss suits in depth, citing agreements reached in the settlement of claims.
According to Sanabria's court case, Oakes was placed in the restraint chair after banging her head on her cell wall. Her wrists and legs were fastened, and a nurse checked her circulation.
Corrections officers placed straps on her torso, and Sgt. Vincent Williams put his foot on the straps to tighten them. Doing so caused Oakes' breasts to become prominent, the suit read.
"Sgt. Willaims made sexually derogatory remarks about inmate Oakes, including 'Look at those melons,' referring to her breasts," the suit reads.
Williams, who is now a corrections lieutenant at the jail, repeated the remark, which generated laughter from other corrections officers. "You guys are animals," said Sgt. Ryan Levierge, laughing, the suit reads.
Williams next placed his thumbs behind Oakes' ears, purposely squeezing pressure points, which caused Oakes to say, "OK you are hurting me, let go." He continued, and she yelled for him to let go. Williams then forced her head to the left and right as Oakes cried in pain, the suit reads.
Eventually, Lt. John Sullivan brought out a safety helmet, and Williams head-butted Oakes three times, the suit reads.
"You like head-butting? How's that you b****," the suit quotes Williams saying.
After about an hour and 10 minutes, Oakes was removed from the restraint chair, and she said she would cooperate.
That evening, Sanabria called her union steward to say she had witnessed abuse. Three days later, her supervisor asked her about what she saw. The supervisor warned Sanabria that things were going to get bad for her, the suit reads.
In the following days, corrections officers downplayed the incident. They told Sanabria not to include Williams in any report and accused her of targeting him because he is African-American.
They said Oakes, who was mentally challenged, would probably forget it. When Sanabria sat at a table in the employee cafeteria, her fellow corrections officers would get up and leave.
Her union representative wouldn't fill out a grievance because he was friends with Williams and another officer who participated, Sgt. Carl Brown.
Dionne, then a captain, told her there would be an investigation with taped interviews, lie detector tests and terminations. None of that happened, Sanabria said.
"I do not believe he investigated the incident in an even-handed way," she wrote in an affidavit.


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NHIAA Div. II Girls' Basketball Championship: Lebanon holds off Portsmouth
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Senior guard Emily Kehoe scored 20 points, and the Lebanon girls completed a perfect 2012-13 basketball season by defeating Portsmouth, 48-41, in the Division II championship at Southern New Hampshire University on Friday night.
The top-ranked Raiders (24-0 overall) took a four-point lead into the fourth quarter and held off No. 2 Portsmouth (18-4) as four-year varsity players Kehoe and Moriah Morton each had key baskets. Christina Jones hit a pair of free throws with 3:20 remaining as Portsmouth cut the deficit to 44-39, but Morton quickly went to work on the low post to hold off the Clippers.
High-powered Lebanon established a 25-7 lead before the Clippers battled back in the second quarter, trimming the deficit to 28-24 by halftime. The Raiders, entering the contest, had won every game this season by at least 15 points. Portsmouth's Alicia Brown and Lebanon's Heather King traded baskets at the end of the third quarter, and the Raiders took a 37-33 lead into the final stanza.


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LAWA staff presented the results of the Part 161 study and recommendations for follow-up actions to the Board of Airport Commissioners (BOAC) on May 3, 2010. That presentation is provided here . The consulting team completed the technical analyses associated with the nine noise and access restrictions proposed in the VNY Part 150 Study and VNY Master Plan. The analyses led to the following primary conclusions, which were reported to the BOAC and the VNY Citizens Advisory Council (CAC):
Measures designed to ban or phaseout noisier aircraft operations; i.e., the incentives/disincentives in rental rates or landing fees, maximum daytime noise limits, and a Stage 2 aircraft phaseout; would produce benefits that exceed costs and would comply with the six statutory conditions for approval.
Extending the curfew hours or the types of aircraft to which the curfew would apply would incur costs that significantly exceed benefits.
A cap or phaseout of helicopter operations also would incur significantly greater costs than benefits; in fact, under Part 161 they would produce no benefit, because operations and noise would shift to other airports.
Analysis of the existing voluntary "fly-friendly" program reveals that it has produced significant, measurable noise reduction, leading to the recommendation that LAWA adopt lower noise targets and continue the program on a voluntary basis; FAA cannot approve a restriction under Part 161 when it can be demonstrated that the benefit can be achieved through a non-restrictive approach. In addition, FAA considers this type of rule "unsafe," so is highly unlikely to approve any mandatory "fly-friendly" type restriction with fines for violations.
The Stage 3 aircraft non-addition rule also would incur costs that significantly exceed benefits, similar to the helicopter proposals. This rule would produce no benefit under FAA accounting practice, because operations and noise would shift to other airports.
Based on these results, the curfew, helicopter, and Stage 3 proposals would also likely fail to meet the "burden on commerce" condition because costs would exceed benefits; the jet and helicopter curfew, helicopter cap or phaseout, and the Stage 3 aircraft non-addition rule would likely fail the "nondiscriminatory" condition, because the rules are based on non-noise characteristics.
Additionally, the FAA's ruling on the proposed night curfew at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank indicates that the FAA is likely to the find the diversion of operations under the proposed VNY curfew, helicopter cap or phaseout, and Stage 3 aircraft non-addition rules would "interfere with safe and efficient use of airspace" and create an "undue burden on the national aviation system."
While the proposed Stage 2 aircraft phaseout in the shortest possible time via the Part 161 process would produce benefits that exceed costs, and would comply with ANCA's six statutory conditions for approval, LAWA's analysis determined that it would take a longer time period to complete the full phaseout of Stage 2 aircraft from VNY via Part 161 than the ANCA grandfathered phaseout ordinance enacted by City Council, which is now in effect.
The voluntary "fly-friendly" program has been shown to be an effective program that's produced a measurable reduction in noise around VNY. The Part 161 Study's analysis recommended updates to the program including the addition of new aircraft types, new target levels, and a new Friendly Fliers Awards program. You can access the new Fly Friendly/Quiet Departure Program page on the VNY Noise Management web page by clicking on the link.
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Former Alabama Chief Justice Chuck Malone is one of the three attorneys Gov. Robert Bentley will consider to fill a vacant Tuscaloosa County circuit judge position.
Former Alabama Chief Justice Chuck Malone is one of the three attorneys Gov. Robert Bentley will consider to fill a vacant Tuscaloosa County circuit judge position.
The Tuscaloosa County Judicial Commission met Monday and agreed to submit the names of Malone and private practice attorneys Allen May and Daniel Pruet for the governor's consideration.
The attorney chosen will replace Scott Donaldson. Bentley appointed Donaldson to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals in January.
May is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Law. He served as referee for Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Court between October 2009 and February 2012.
Pruet graduated from the University of Alabama and Jones School of Law. He worked as a Tuscaloosa County deputy district attorney between August 2006 and August 2011, when he began his solo practice.
Malone, a UA and Cumberland School of Law graduate, practiced law in Tuscaloosa from 1981 until his election as a circuit judge in 2000 and again 2008. Bentley appointed him to serve as his chief of staff in January 2011 before appointing him chief justice in August 2011.
Malone ran for a full term as chief justice, but was defeated in the March 2012 Republican primary. Roy Moore won the primary and the November general election.
Presiding Circuit Court Judge Brad Almond said that the nine-member Tuscaloosa County Judicial Commission selected the three names from a pool of attorneys who submitted their resumes. Committee members considered experience, character and temperament during the selection process.
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The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
Accenture Technology powers our clients to achieve high performance. We combine business and industry insights with innovative technology to drive growth for your business.
We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful alliance ecosystem of market leaders and innovators to provide our clients the best specialized skills and tailored solutions.
Accenture Technology is about powering the future with technology. We are at the heart of shaping and driving technology disruption and digital transformation for our clients.
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You will be joining the Accenture UK / I Test Practice which supports multiple industries and a broad range of services from strategic test consulting advice through to test delivery across all test disciplines.
Test and Quality Assurance are some of the highest growth areas within the IT service market, and are critical capabilities for delivering business change to support our clients.
Our Test Practice is at the forefront of driving new IT delivery methods such as agile and dev ops, and collaborates with many advanced technology vendors to utilise the latest tooling, AI and automation capabilities.
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The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Your Role : Quality engineering professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement quality initiatives to ensure solution quality throughout delivery.
As an Automation Engineer, you will define and implement quality engineering strategies that support rapid application development with world-
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Lawyer says Northern Pass in 'a corner'By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 17. 2013 11:58PM
CONCORD — Opponents of the Northern Pass hydroelectric project on Friday released a legal opinion supporting their view that the state cannot authorize use of its easement in the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters conservation area for the 1,200-megawatt power lines.
In a 15-page opinion posted on the website of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, attorney Thomas N. Masland, with the firm of Ransmeier and Spellman in Concord, writes, "the express terms of the conservation easement deed prohibit the penetration of the Northern Pass project into, on or under land protected by the easement."
The easement consists of 146,400 acres in Coos Country, with large tracts in Stewartstown and Clarksville, two communities near the Canadian border where Northern Pass has been trying to acquire properties and the forest society has been acquiring easements to block the project.
Two parcels acquired by Northern Pass in Stewartstown appear to touch each other on a small-scale map, but they are actually separated by a small strip of conservation land.
Jack Savage, spokesman for the forest society, said the passage through the conservation area separating the two Northern Pass parcels is "a very short distance." Northern Pass partners may not have even realized the two parcels did not abut when they were purchased, he said.
"Northern Pass has yet to announce its intended route across Coos County, but recent land acquisition patterns indicate that a potential route approaches land that is subject to (conservation) easement," wrote Masland.
The land is now owned by the Forestland Group, a forestry management company with holdings in the United States and internationally. The easement was granted to the state in 2003 by the Trust for Public Land, which was then the landowner. It's managed by the Department of Resources and Economic Development.
The easement was purchased with private and public money, including federal funding through the Forest Legacy Program, and state funding through the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and a direct appropriation of the Legislature in 2002. Private funding included grants from private foundations and charitable organizations.
The Trust for Public Land worked with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the Nature Conservancy of New Hampshire and a coalition of supporters to raise about $42 million for the conservation project.
Widespread speculation
Savage said the forest society obtained the legal opinion and posted it now as a preemptive strike to an anticipated request from Northern Pass to DRED for a right of way, either above or under ground.
"There's been widespread speculation that Northern Pass may make such a request, and we wanted to make it clear that there are no conditions under which the state could consider such a request," he said. "We fully intend to defend that easement, and so this is part of our research and preparation, should Northern Pass attempt to penetrate the easement in some fashion."
Savage said such an attempt is likely.
"If you look closely at the map, it's their only option to make use of the $40 million they have spent on an intended route," he said. "It's the only possible way they can get out of the corner they painted themselves into."
In his opinion, Masland cites portions of the 42-page easement deed that require the property to be maintained in perpetuity as open space "without any residential, industrial or commercial activity, except forest management."
One of the use limitations in the deed specifically references towers, Masland wrote, while another prohibits any excavation.
Masland acknowledges that a section of the deed outlining the rights of the easement holder states that "No rights of way ... utility lines or other easements shall be constructed .. on, over, under or across the property without the prior written permission of the easement holder."
That suggest the state could give permission for the power lines, although it could do so only if "the proposed construction is consistent with the purposes of the easement."
Since one of the purposes is "benefit of the general public," that could be interpreted to mean almost anything.
Michael Skelton, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities, declined to comment on the legal opinion or on any aspect of the proposed route until it is announced.
"We can say, however, that our new route was specifically designed to address the visual impact concerns with our original proposal," he said. "We have always maintained that any new proposal will be respectful of property rights, legal restrictions, or easement agreements governing the land we are seeking to use."
The landowners would need to make a formal request to the Attorney General's office to evaluate the use of the state easement by Northern Pass, said Marc Goldberg, spokesman for Gov. Maggie Hassan. "Our understanding is that no such request has been made," he said.
A spokesperson for the Attorney General's office said they had not received any request from DRED regarding the easement.
The Forestland Group would not comment on whether a request for an easement by Northern Pass had been received or discussed.
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The fall itself may not be preventable, but there are easy steps to decreasing the likelihood of a fall: sitting down when tired, moving through a house slowly and carefully, turning on the lights before getting out of bed, installing grab bars and leveling out the walking areas. However, even with these precautions, falls are still a fact of life and they happen with young and old. The only difference is, younger people are able to pick themselves up and are much less impacted by the actual fall. Elderly often go into a state of shock or do not have the strength to stand back up. When this happens, they can be lying on the ground until they are either able to reach a phone and call for help, or someone notices them (both can take hours).
Medical alert systems conceivably enable older folks to live in their homes even without companions and in case an emergency arises, all that must be done is to press the button of a gadget attached to parts of their body. This will transmit a signal to the control base which in turn will dispatch emergency medical personnel to their residence. Some devices are even fitted with the sophisticated monitoring contrivance called the Global Positioning System or GPS.
The gadget can come in the form of a medical alert necklace which resembles that of a daily accessory. In fact, this necklace is said to be a deterrent for people who have diabetes, allergic reactions to specific medicines or food, uncommon blood groups, extraordinary blood diseases like Warfarin Syndrome (Defined by a medical dictionary as a fetal condition caused by the administration of warfarin to a pregnant woman and resulting in bleeding, nasal hypoplasia or fetal death), autism and other medical conditions.
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The medical pendant can be designed from precious metals – gold or silver. At a glance they do not appear to be health care systems but designer accents. The units are etched with the person's home phone number as well as other details together with his or her healthcare needs. On the other hand, they are equipped with alarms that switch on the built in transmitting device that links to phone lines and/or radio frequencies get in touch with family and the individual's doctor.
Wearable medical alert systems need to be picked carefully as these aren't affordable. You cannot afford to stake your life with questionable and inexpensive systems or go with a system which is not guaranteed. Commonly these products are donned as necklaces, watches, as well as charms. Looks can be significant but it is important to choose one with exceptional alert devices. It should furthermore have a back-up battery power in the event of an electric outage.
If connected to the monitoring center, the dispatcher immediately communicates with the person who pressed the button. The console has a loud speaker and a sensitive microphone for communication. The dispatcher determines the need of the user and acts accordingly. The monitoring center will charge a small monthly fee for this service.
Some of the models come with built-in accelerators, which automatically relay a distress signal. These models are useful in situations such as when people are incapacitated by a fall.
Personal medical alert systems mainly consist of pendant transmitter, medical alarm console, and a monitoring center. The pendant transmitter is small in size, wireless and water resistant. It is usually worn on the wrist, around the neck or on the belt. A medical alarm console is an electronic device usually connected to telephone lines. The monitoring center is the place where services are offered. The center charges some amount for its services on a monthly basis.
Personal medical alert systems work by pressing the button in the transmitter. Once the button in the transmitter is activated, the console that is connected to the telephone line receives the signal. The console in turn calls the monitoring center, where the dispatcher responds within seconds and converses with the user through the console. To accomplish this, the console includes a supersensitive microphone and a powerful loud speaker.
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Medical alarms for Seniors allows them the independence and freedom of living alone. It also gives their family members a piece of mind knowing that their elderly loved ones have access to immediate response in case of a medical emergency. The medical alert products that come in the form of a bracelet or necklace have a button pushed by the individual when they have an emergency or feel a medical problem is beginning. Within a few moments, a live person is on the line talking to them, ready to respond by requesting emergency personnel be sent if necessary.
These types of emergency systems have many benefits associated with them. One of the main benefits is that they provide help to individuals when they cannot get to a telephone to call emergency medical services. Since the medical alert devices are worn on their wrists or around their necks, all they have to do is to reach up and hit the designated button and they will be contacted with the alert company right away. This convenience is one benefit of the medical system.
Another benefit to the medical system is that it provides independence to individuals who may not have been able to live alone without such a device. By having this type of system in place, if the individual is a senior citizen they will feel confident in living alone as will their family members who know that a medical alert system is right by their side.
One of the first things that you need to consider is why the system may be utilized in the first place. The vast majority of the time, the home medical emergency alert is going to be used in the home where elderly people are being looked after by their younger children, but they still want the ability to be able to live on their own. Most of them operate in much the same way, but there are going to be variations in these different systems which would cause you to want to look at them a little bit more closely.
The basic home medical alert is going to be a pendant that is worn around the neck of the individuals that live in the home. If they should happen to start to feel sick or if they should fall and are unable to get back up again, they can simply push the button on this pendant and the emergency personnel are immediately notified. This typically takes place through a third-party that is actually responsible for the home medical alert system and will staff somebody who will be available, 24 hours a day.
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The basic system operates under the scenario that the elderly person falls and is unable to get up to reach a phone to call for help. By pushing the panic button on the pendant or wristwatch transmitter a coal box is activated in the house which connects the caller to the monitoring station. The monitoring agent speaks with the user to determine how to best help remedy the situation. If the user is coherent and able to give instructions to the monitoring station those instructions will typically be followed. If the caller can't be reached or understood, the monitoring station will then follow a predetermined emergency call protocol which may include calling 911 responders, relatives, friends and next-door neighbors.
The worst-case scenario is that an elderly person falls and becomes unconscious, or they suffer a stroke. In this state they are unable to push a panic button. That's where an auto fall detector can be the difference between life and death. A senior monitoring system with a fall-alert feature should, in theory, create an alarm at the monitoring station which will prompt an operator to contact the user to see if everything is all right.
Many elderlies in NY are hesitant to use the system because of various fears and concerns. Perhaps it doesn't feel very convenient, or they don't like being classified as being physically less capable as they used to. Whatever their reasons, don't try to force it upon them. Try to take a step back and see where the real objection is in order to neutralize it.
Medical alert systems are good tools, but the children and relatives have to ensure that it's actually worn by their loved ones. There have been cases where the senior fell but was not able to ask for help because the button was just hanging by the bed rail, or left on the kitchen table.


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NU Posts 197.050 to Claim Masters Classic Title
Lincoln, Neb. - The ninth-ranked Nebraska women's gymnastics cruised to victory in the 23rd Masters Classic on Friday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, taking a 197.050-194.850 win over Iowa State. Three Huskers (6-1, 4-1 Big Ten) swept all four event titles and the all-around to lead en route to their sixth win of the season. The dual win over the Cyclones (3-6, 0-2 Big 12) in front of a crowd of 1,421 marked NU's 17th-straight Masters Classic title.
"Last weekend at Arizona, we didn't break a 49 on any event," Head Coach Dan Kendig said. "This week, we broke 49 on all four--and the girls earned and deserved it. We warmed up much better today, too. We learned from last weekend, we practiced better this week and it paid off."
Emily Wong paced Nebraska's rout of the Cyclones, winning or tying for three event titles to take the all-around victory. Wong tied for the beam title (9.90) and won outright awards on bars (9.925), floor (9.925) and in the all-around (39.600). Jennifer Lauer tied with Wong for top honors on beam (9.90), and Janelle Giblin captured her first vault title of the season (9.75).
NU got the evening off to a solid start on vault, posting a team score of 49.175. Giblin led the way for the Big Red, earning a meet-best 9.875 to tie her season-high. Wong added a 9.85, while Hollie Blanske and Jessie DeZiel picked up identical marks of 9.825 to boost NU.
Iowa State posted a 48.70 on bars in the first rotation of the evening. The Cyclones were led by Camille Santerre-Gervais, who earned a 9.825. After one event, the Huskers took a 49.175-48.700 lead over ISU.
NU carried the momentum onto bars, posting one of their highest totals of the season at 49.325. Wong paced the Huskers with a 9.925, her highest score since late January. Giblin aided NU's efforts with a solid 9.875, while DeZiel picked up a 9.85. Blanske added an identical 9.85, tying her career-high on the event.
Iowa State picked up a 48.60 on vault in their second event. Alex Marasco paced ISU with a 9.750. Following the second rotation, NU extended their lead to 98.500-97.300.
A pair of stellar closing performances anchored Nebraska's efforts on beam in the third rotation. Jennifer Lauer bumped up the intensity with a 9.90, her highest score since earning a 9.95 against Michigan in NU's season-opener. Wong followed up with another 9.90 to push the Huskers to a 49.175 on the evening.
The Cyclones took to floor in the third rotation, earning a 48.925. ISU was led by Henri Green, who picked up a 9.85. With only one rotation remaining, the Huskers held a solid 147.675-146.225 lead over Iowa State.
Nebraska took to floor in the final rotation needing a powerful performance to break the 197 mark overall. The Huskers delivered five strong performances to pick up a 49.375, led by a meet-best 9.925 from Wong. DeZiel anchored the event with a 9.90, and Stephens and Jennifer Lauer earned identical career-best marks of 9.85.
The final rotation saw ISU on beam, where the Cyclones finished with a 48.625. Michelle Shealy led with a 9.775 overall. Iowa State wrapped up the evening at 194.850 overall, their second-best score of the season.
NU had three all-around performers on the evening, led by Wong's meet-winning 39.600. DeZiel took second with a 39.350, and Brittany Skinner picked up a 38.650.
Nebraska will host their final home meet of the season on Monday, March 4 when they welcome conference foe Iowa to the Bob Devaney Sports Center for Senior Night. The meet, which is slated for a 6 p.m. CST start, will honor seniors Janelle Giblin, Kassandra Nathe and Brittany Skinner as they compete in their final competition at home for NU.
Name Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around
Jordyn Beck --- --- --- --- ---
Hollie Blanske 9.825 9.85 9.575 (ex.) 9.85 ---
Jessie DeZiel 9.825 9.85 9.775 9.90 39.350
Janelle Giblin 9.875 9.875 9.70 --- ---
Kailyn Hawkins --- 9.75 (ex.) --- --- ---
Amanda Lauer --- --- 9.775 (ex.) --- ---
Jennifer Lauer --- 9.70 9.90 9.85 ---
Ariel Martin --- --- --- --- ---
Madison McConkey --- --- --- --- ---
Kassandra Nathe --- 9.725 (ex.) 9.775 --- ---
Jamie Schleppenbach --- --- --- --- ---
Brittany Skinner 9.775 9.825 9.825 9.225 38.650
Desire' Stephens 9.80 --- --- 9.85 ---
Emily Wong 9.85 9.925 9.90 9.925 39.600
Team Score Vault Bars Beam Floor Total
Nebraska 49.175 49.325 49.175 49.375 197.050
Iowa State 48.600 48.700 48.625 48.925 194.850


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The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Eddie Cepeda as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Cepeda, 44, is wanted on warrants from the state Parole Board for parole violations stemming from convictions on one robbery and two burglary charges.
Cepeda, also known as Eddie Perez, Eddie Perez-Cepeda, Carlos Rodriguez and Carlos Sepeda, is described as 5-feet-10, 306 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair and a tattoo on his left arm. He was last known to be living in Manchester, where he has family and associates.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive, who should be considered armed and dangerous. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632 or call 1-877-WANTED-2 or text "NHTIP" with any information to TIP411.
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February known as month for meteorsBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 15. 2013 11:24PM
DURHAM - February is usually a month associated with cupids, but to space experts, it's a time of increased threat from meteorite fireballs like the one that rocked Russia Friday.
Fireballs the size of the one seen in central Russia are relatively rare, but are more expected when February rolls around.
"Smaller meteor fireballs are actually quite common, and curiously enough, the frequency of meteor fireballs is typically 10 percent to 30 percent higher in February than in other months for reasons that are unknown," said Dr. Jody Wilson, a research scientist at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center.
The so-called "Fireball February" phenomenon has been known since the 1960s, Wilson said.
It proved frightening Friday when countless video cameras and others mounted on car dashboards captured stunning images of a 10-ton meteor streaking across the Russian sky. The fireball that left a white trail hanging in the sky created an intense sonic boom that blew out windows and caused other building damage, leaving more than 1,000 people injured.
The meteor mayhem came on the same day that a 150-foot-wide asteroid passed dangerously close to Earth at 2:24 p.m. The asteroid was not believed to be linked to the Russian meteor.
"Simply based on the direction the fireball was traveling over Russia, which was approximately north to south, it had to have been in a very different orbit from (the asteroid), which is flying by the Earth in an approximately south to north direction," Wilson said.
The Russian meteor created panic and renewed fears of an end-of-the-world event just like one in 1908 that hit Siberia, flattening trees over 800 square miles and sending people running to holy shrines and monasteries to pray.
Wilson said the amount of damage caused by impacting meteorites depends mostly on the size of the meteoroid.
On any given night, Wilson said one can see several harmless meteors in the sky per hour caused by falling objects that are smaller than a grain of sand.
"At the other extreme, a 10-mile wide asteroid hitting the Earth can cause a global mass extinction such as the one that killed the dinosaurs," he said.
Wilson said 10-foot-wide objects - roughly the size of the Russian meteor - hit the Earth about once every year.
Life-threatening impacts are rare, and while they do happen, "there is so much uninhabited land and ocean on the Earth that it's more likely they will hit where nobody even sees them."