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Laguna Beach began 2011 by digging itself out of the mud. Homes, art studios, businesses, the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter and the Anneliese School suffered damage and destruction in the December 2010 rainstorms.
Recovery was on everyone's mind.
Outgoing Mayor Toni Iseman joked as her term ended that John Pietig had been city manager of Laguna Beach about 12 minutes when the deluge hit. But he responded as if he prepared all of his life for the job. Hands-on didn't begin to describe it.
Downtown was cleaned up in a matter of days. Laguna Canyon took longer, but no lives were lost — God's gift to the city.
Here are some snapshots of what made the news in 2011, culled from the pages of the Coastline Pilot.
Jan. 7: Dede Westgaard-Pike wept as she relived the night of terror and anguish suffered by her Laguna Canyon neighbors Dec. 22. Westgaard-Pike was among the folks who attended a meeting at City Hall to identify, locate and determine the needs of families devastated by the storm. The council and representatives of the Laguna Relief & Resource Center listened.
Jan. 14: A Planning Commission request for a moratorium on artist live-work projects was approved by the council. The moratorium was requested to allow commissioners more time to address their concerns that some proposed projects do not meet the stated intent of the city's general plan and zoning ordinance. Six projects already in progress were exempted from the moratorium.
•The City Council discussed its 2011 goals and priorities at its annual retreat. Controlling the city budget, while maintaining essential services, was the top priority, although not the only one. Council members listed as short-term priorities the needed repairs to flood-damaged infrastructure, and public and private assistance for disaster victims. For the long term, council members listed public safety, emergency preparedness, viable infrastructure and the ubiquitous traffic and parking problems.
Jan. 21: The California Coastal Commission rejected a local zoning ordinance amendments that prohibited marijuana dispensaries in Laguna Beach. "It is still a valid local regulation, just not part of the Local Coastal Program," City Attorney Philip Kohn said.
Jan 28: President Obama declared the December rains a statewide disaster, loosening federal purse strings for recovery efforts.
•Proposed plans for Main Beach lifeguard headquarters were expanded. The Coastal Commission accepted the proposal because it provides beach and bluff restoration.
Feb. 4: Two Laguna Beach women escaped the uprising in Egypt. Carol Reynolds and her daughter, jeweler Patti Jo Kiraly, arrived home after a harrowing week holed up in a hotel in Alexandria.
•Emergency repairs to Main Beach Boardwalk were approved.
•The council approved skateboarding bans on some of Laguna's steepest streets despite overwhelming opposition from local skateboarders and many of their parents.
Feb. 11: The Small Business Administration opened an office in Laguna to process low-interest loan applications from home and business owners who suffered damage in the December floods.
•Pietig was the guest speaker at the Laguna Canyon Conservancy's February meeting.
•Casey Reinhardt set Valentine's Day for the grand opening of her store, Casey's Cupcakes.
Feb. 18: Aliso Creek Golf Course reopened with a fundraiser for folks who suffered damage in the December flood.
•The sculpture of a skateboarding chimp was stolen from Pamela Horowitz's North Laguna property.
Feb. 25: Tresor Properties sold a beach-front property home that came with a platinum LEED certification, honoring its sustainable design and materials.
•Some Arch Beach Heights residents thought the city was heartless to order the removal of a Valentine's Day display in their neighborhood. But Annette Wimmer-Huling was thrilled. "It is in my view corridor," she said. Other holiday displays on the same property also distressed Wimmer-Huling and her complaints eventually led to an ordinance governing holiday lighting.
March 4: The Police Employees Assn. asked the council to thaw the freeze on hiring for the department.
•Landscape architect Bob Borthwick, retired county official Eric Jessen, retired Temple City City Manager Karl Koski, retired engineer William Lawson, Laguna Canyon sculptor Louis Longi, retired civil engineer Carl R. Nelson, retired Marine Corps Col. Charles Quilter and one woman, Laguna Canyon businesswoman Susan Hamil, were named to join council members Verna Rollinger and Kelly Boyd and Planning Commissioner Norm Grossman on the Laguna Canyon Flood Mitigation Task Force.
•Mark R. Tawfiq and his wife, Carol Nakahara, who planned to move to Laguna Beach, made a $50,000 donation to the Laguna Beach Community Foundation.
March 11: Blue skies were shining on the Patriots Day Parade, and the mood was sunny. Al Roberts and Ken Jillson were the grand marshals. "Welcome Home" was the theme of the 45th annual parade, a salute to the veterans returning home from the Middle East. "To all of them we gratefully said by our actions and words: 'Welcome Home,'" parade committee President Michael Lyons said.
•Jason Farris had no idea what his job entailed when the Laguna Beach Police Department tapped him to work with the city's homeless population, nor did city officials. "You stepped into a really difficult situation, and I don't think we could have found a better person to do the job," said Iseman.
March 18: Mission Hospital Laguna Beach invited the public to attend an hourlong presentation Tuesday to hear about its long-term plans. "We look forward to seeing everyone there and seeing how in five, 15 or 30 years Mission Hospital will be committed to providing excellent care to this community while also being a good neighbor," said hospital spokesman Michael Beck.
•Verdun Fine Chocolates was among the new stores opening in Laguna.
March 24: The council split on the Quiet Zone parking permit plan, 3 to 2, with Mayor Pro Tem Jane Egly and Rollinger opposed. The program was triggered by complaints about lewd activities, alcohol use and excessive noise by patrons of the restaurant and bar who were parking their vehicles on neighborhood streets rather than use valet parking provided by Mozambique.
It was to be reviewed in September.
April 1: The Laguna Beach Visitors and Conference Bureau paid $3,000 for an editorial page in the Gay and Lesbian Travel Industry Directory, which listed Laguna Beach as a gay-friendly city.
•Top of the World Elementary School fifth-graders collected and donated $700 to the Laguna Beach Community Clinic.
•Laguna Beach Seniors Inc. honored retired City Manager Ken Frank at the annual Legacy Ball. Frank said the honor belonged to Susi Q volunteers. "There are a lot of people here who donated their time and they should be recognized," Frank said.
•A California Highway Patrol attempt to stop a speeding vehicle ended in a fatal crash at Broadway.
April 8: The owner of the Laguna Canyon Winery painted over a Laguna College of Art & Design mural, one of six and the largest public mural painted by students in 2003. The winery owner was to meet with the college officials and the property owner to rectify the error.
April 15: Mission Hospital Chief Operating Officer Peter Bastone resigned after more than a decade with St. Joseph Health System.
•Tales of woe flooded City Hall on April 9 as survivors of disasters in Laguna shared their experiences at a workshop led by council members Elizabeth Pearson and Kelly Boyd.
•The council approved at the April 12 meeting additional funds for the renovation of the Animal Shelter to shore up the creek in front of the shelter and rebuild the bridge, which were severely compromised by the winter rains.
April 22: Citizens for the Preservation of Open Space announced its intent to seek voter approval of a 20-year, $10-a-month parcel tax to raise funds to buy open space within the city limits.
•Almost 2,000 people attended the Kelpfest on Main Beach, coordinated by Nancy Caruso through Get Inspired Inc., her nonprofit organization.
April 29: Rotary went solo last year to sponsor Grapes for Grads, which raises funds for scholarships for Laguna Beach High School graduates and students at LCAD. "It was our most successful Grapes for Grads to date," said Rotary President Linda Saville.
•Elizabeth McGee took first place in the "Art That's Small" competition, which drew 126 entries. The program is funded by the Business Improvement District, hotel and motel owners' voluntary addition to the bed taxes to promote art-related institutions, programs and organizations that bring tourists to town.
•The council approved Municipal Code amendments related to the definition of hedges and provisions for claims of sun, air and view blockage that reduces the cost of filing a claim and refunds 50% of the filing fee if the claim is upheld.
•Police announced on April 22 that major crimes dropped 10% in 2010.
May 6: May is Heritage Month in Laguna.
•Three days after the reported death of Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, two metal beams salvaged from the destroyed World Trade Center Twin Towers arrived in Laguna Beach. The acquisition was a collaborative effort by the Laguna Beach Fire Department and the Arts Commission, funded by local arts patron Mark Porterfield. The beams were to be incorporated in a memorial sculpture.
• "LagunaTots" rehearsals were underway for May 13 opening.
May 13: Laguna Playhouse, the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, LCAD and the Visitors and Conference Bureau celebrated milestone anniversaries on May 10 at Main Beach. All of them are important to Laguna's tourist industry, which added an estimated $8 million to city coffers in 2010.
•Ladies who Lunch and Read showed off their best hats and shared their favorite books at the annual Laguna Beach Library fundraiser at Sapphire.
•The Business Assistance Task Force reported the opening of several dozen new stores in the past 12 months. No applications were turned down, announced Pearson, who co-chairs the subcommittee with Iseman.
•A beehive was installed at Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course, to be the home of more than 40,000 bees. Honey produced in the hive will be used by the inn's culinary staff.
May 20: The city's population dipped by about 1,000 people, according to the U. S. Census, from 23,727 in 2000 to 22,723 in 2010. Realtors conjectured the dip might be due to real estate prices in town and more property owners declaring their Laguna residences as second homes.
May 20: The council extended the BID for another year at the May 17 meeting. Laguna's hotels and motels will pour $1.33 million into the city's pool of art-related institutions, programs and organizations in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
•LCAD graduation was held. College President Dennis Power retired.
May 27: Tom Aherne closed the doors on Latitude 33.
•The Laguna Board of Realtors' 16th Annual Taste of Charity raised a record $50,000, with proceeds to benefit local nonprofits.
•Pietig was the guest speaker at the Laguna Beach Taxpayers Assn. luncheon at Aliso Creek Inn. His topic: the city budget.
•Three suspects were arrested in connection with the robbery of the U.S. Bank on Glenneyre Street.
•The city announced plans to host a California Preservation Foundation workshop on the identification and assessment of significant properties on June 2.
June 2: Laguna Beach police, firefighters and marine safety officers ran 5.5 miles along Laguna's Coast Highway to raise money for the Southern California Special Olympics.
•The cause of clothing designer Jonas Bevacqua's death was undetermined pending an autopsy report, but no signs of foul play or suicide were announced.
•Tight Assets owner Heidi Miller reopened World Newsstand on Ocean Avenue after storm damage was repaired at both businesses.
•Heal the Bay gave almost all of Laguna's beaches As for the summer months, but Aliso Beach received an F during wet weather
•The City Council stayed close-mouthed about regarding possible litigation about camping and sleeping on public property, which was discussed in closed session. The Brown Act allows discussions about litigation to be held behind closed doors.
June 10: After four years and about $140,000 spent to sell or even give away cottages moved from Third Street, the City Council approved their demolition by the Laguna Canyon Foundation.
•Coastline Pilot City Editor Cindy Frazier returned from a two-month medical leave for cancer treatment. She began to share her story with the Coastline Pilot readers.
•Former game show host and animal activist Bob Barker participated in the reopening of the visitors center at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, which was damaged in the December floods. Barker donated $250,000 toward the center's renovation.
•The city rehired the goats for another three years of munching a firebreak around Laguna. The South Laguna Civic Assn. opposed the grazing in some spots on the hillsides.
•Fred Karger announced a fundraiser at his Laguna Beach home to help pay for his presidential campaign.
•Regardless of any calendar, summer begins in Laguna Beach with the annual Exchange Club picnic, held on Memorial Day.
June 17: Visitors to Laguna often see migrating whales along the city's coastline, but one whale migrated from Third Street to Heisler Park. Jon Seeman's sculpture "Breaching Whale," created to fulfill the city's public art obligation for the senior and community centers, but the city council decided an ocean-front park was a more appropriate site than busy downtown street.
•Some Laguna Beach nonprofit organizations lost their state tax status, but the Laguna Beach Sister Cities Assn. was not among them, although a now-defunct organization of a similar name was.
•Police arrested Stephen Reginald McDow, 34, of Laguna on suspicion of failing to return a $110,000 tax return erroneously deposited in his account.
June 24: The city budget for fiscal year 2011-12 was approved, with spending expected to slightly exceed revenue, but city officials said the shortfall was covered. "Laguna Beach is in much better shape than other communities," said Pietig. However, future fiscal health is a question mark, particularly if the recession continues.
•Laguna pays some of the highest salaries in the county, but none were deemed to be overcompensation by the Orange County Grand Jury. However, the report dinged the city for its lack of transparency in making salaries accessible to the public.
•The annual Fete de la Musique drew more musicians and a bigger crowd than ever. Music ranged from opera to bluegrass.
•Two city electric car charging stations opened in the parking lot near Forest Avenue and Broadway.
•The Community Clinic kicked off a drive for a $10-million endowment fund with a $250,000 commitment from George Heed. Heed made the announcement at the clinic's annual Sunset Beach Party at Twin Points.
More to come next week.
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Tom Mankiewicz, a screenwriter and premier script doctor who made his reputation working on such James Bond films as "Diamonds Are Forever," "Live and Let Die" and "The Man With the Golden Gun," has died. He was 68.
Mankiewicz, who received a controversial credit for rewriting the 1978 film " Superman" and its 1980 sequel, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles after a brief illness, according to John Mankiewicz, his cousin.
Three months ago, Tom had undergone the Whipple operation, which is used to treat pancreatic cancer.
As a second-generation member of the Mankiewicz movie clan, he had often admitted he was intimidated by his family and its reputation. His father, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Oscar-winning writer and director of the 1950 film "All About Eve," was one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his era. His uncle, Herman J. Mankiewicz, co-wrote "Citizen Kane" (1941) with Orson Welles.
Trying to distance himself from his father in New York, Tom Mankiewicz headed for Hollywood in the early 1960s. Later, he said his last name made his journey both easier and harder — his phone calls were returned, but he worried that he got work because he was his father's son.
"So it took a while, until you suddenly started to realize that people were asking you because it was you," Mankiewicz told the Washington Post in 1985.
In 1970, Mankiewicz was hired to rewrite the script for "Diamonds Are Forever," the seventh film in the long-running series based on Ian Fleming's fictional spy James Bond.
In the Bond saga, Mankiewicz also wrote original screenplays for "Live and Let Die" (1973) and "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974) and polished "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979).
Known for a light and breezy writing style, Mankiewicz once said he had endured snickers for his association with the sexy Bond films. He told the Miami Herald in 1987: "I don't apologize for entertaining people."
Between Bond movies, he wrote and produced the 1976 film "Mother, Jugs & Speed," working with director Peter Yates, who called on him to rewrite "The Deep" (1977).
His most celebrated script doctoring may have been on "Superman," which starred Christopher Reeve. Director Richard Donner brought him in to rewrite the impossibly long script, and Mankiewicz stayed with the project for more than a year.
Donner called him a "creative consultant," and Mankiewicz's name appeared onscreen after the original writers'.
"The Writers Guild didn't want to give him a credit, but he definitely deserved a credit," Donner told The Times on Monday. "I probably wouldn't have made the movie if Tom hadn't come on to rewrite it."
"He brought a sense of reality to this comic book world," Donner said. "He created personalities, emotion and life" and gave the characters "a wonderful sense of humor. He did that in just about everything he did."
Donner also directed the 1985 film "Ladyhawke," for which Mankiewicz also received a screenwriting credit.
"He was one of the most enlightening characters that ever lived," Donner said. "He had an incredible, retentive mind.… He was one of the great storytellers of our industry."
Mankiewicz's nearly 20 writing credits include the screenplay for "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976). He co-wrote and directed the pilot for the ABC-TV series "Hart to Hart" and continued to have a hand in the series during its run.
In 1987, Mankiewicz debuted as a movie director with "Dragnet," which starred Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd.
Sheila Benson, then The Times' film critic, observed in her review that "there's real affection for the old show knocking around in this car-chase disaster movie."
Thomas Frank Mankiewicz was born June 1, 1942, in Los Angeles and grew up in New York. His mother was the former Rosa Stradner, an Austrian-born actress.
He was 7 when his father won writing and directing Oscars for "A Letter to Three Wives" and later recalled that "he always wanted to be in the business."
Mankiewicz majored in drama at Yale University and graduated in 1963.
For his first film credit, he went with Thomas F. Mankiewicz but decided it was too pompous and shortened it to Tom Mankiewicz, he later said.
He also wrote the book for the musical version of "Georgy Girl," which opened on Broadway in 1970. During its three-day run, "Bond" producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli had been in the audience, looking for a rewrite man.
For years, Mankiewicz maintained a home in Kenya. He also owned thoroughbred racehorses and was chairman of the board of trustees of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn.
His family was "quite close" but not necessarily "normal," he told The Times in 1987. "Our idea of affection isn't so much hugging each other as caressing each other with one-liners."
Since 2006, Mankiewicz had taught filmmaking to graduate students at Chapman University in Orange.
Most days, he ate lunch at the Palm in West Hollywood. As a memorial, the restaurant kept his booth open Monday night.
His father died at 83 in 1993.
Mankiewicz is survived by his brother Christopher, a producer and actor; his sister Alexandra; and his stepmother, Rosemary Mankiewicz.
Times staff writer Dennis McLellan contributed to this report.

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Restructuring a deal under the new cap would mean the player would make less money. Is that legal? When you sign a contract aren't you legally, never mind the sub-rules imposed by the NHL itself, obligated to meet the expectations of that contract? Both the player and the organization?
If the player stops playing before the terms of the contract are up (i.e. retires) then he is or is not paid, depending on how the contract is worded, but the team is still charged an amount towards the cap. The league did this to prevent teams from creating all sorts of stupid ass backloaded contracts which simply circumvent the salary cap. Were this not in place, teams like Philadelphia (no brains) or Toronto (bottomless pockets) could simply backload all the contracts they want and be a gazillion miles over the cap. How would that be fair to the other teams in the league that can't afford to do that? It's not and realistically you'd do immense damage to the league. I think you could expect the league to contract to about ten teams or less if you let them go freewheeling for salaries that are backloaded, maybe more.
All reports here r pens offering bout 7 n Letang countering 7.5 but wants no move which I can't see happening and seems to be bigger sticking point than money. :/
Still bummed to see Vinny headed elsewhere. I don't think it's really a given that he'll be back... if someone throws a few years at him for more money than he thinks he'd get taking a short deal...
I still think the Coyotes go to Seattle because QC and Toronto 2.0 will be more willing to pony up 250+ mil for the expansion fees than Seattle. Then, in a few years when you're ready for expansion, you'll see...- Colorado heads West to the Pacific group- Toronto 2.0 and one of DET/TB get dropped into central division- QC gets dropped into Division C to take the place of DET/TBThat way, with Toronto 2 in the West, they can dream of an all Toronto Cup final (or the much less likely all FL cup final with TB in the west and FLA in the east )
Does Letang have a brother in the NHL he wants to go play with instead, a la Staal last year?
Here's hoping we can sign our guys for some bargain deals and pick up some of the buy-out castoffs at reasonable dollar amounts. And maybe a Clutterbuck.
Cooke, god I'd hate seeing him go. Dude practically WAS our PK... ...Now, Cooke, please?
Don't have a direct link for you, but Lecavalier said directly that he would be back. He'll only go for a year because he has to under league rules, but his family (wife/kids) are settled in the Tampa Bay area and that's where he'll stay. You could of course be right though.
Quote from: Morgbug on June 28, 2013, 11:59 PMDon't have a direct link for you, but Lecavalier said directly that he would be back. He'll only go for a year because he has to under league rules, but his family (wife/kids) are settled in the Tampa Bay area and that's where he'll stay. You could of course be right though. Easy come, easy go... Maybe Philly will decide to cut him 20% of the way into his shiny new deal. Of all the teams to go to... the city Tampa fans generally despise the most. Ouch.
Well, you didn't get a Clutterbuck but you did end up with one slightly used former Shark/Wild. Hope you get more consistency out of him than we did. Enjoy 3-4 goals in four games and then nothing for another 12-15.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss. — Top quality horses and beef animals will move through the auction ring Nov. 20 as Mississippi State University releases 23 horses and almost 100 surplus cattle to the highest bidders.
MSU and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station will host the 21st annual Animal Production Sale at the Mississippi Horse Park, AgriCenter and Fairgrounds, which is located on Poorhouse Road south of Starkville, Miss. The horse sale begins at 11 a.m., and lunch will be served at noon. The cattle sale will begin around 1 p.m.
About 65 bred, commercial heifers from MAFES research farms in Starkville, Raymond and Prairie, Miss., will be sold with calving dates beginning in February. In addition to the heifers, 25 upcoming 2-year-old Angus, Charolais and Polled Hereford bulls will be auctioned.
Organizers of the sale are providing details about the animals on a Web site before the sale. A link to the sale will be located on the Animal and Dairy Science Department's Web page at http://www.msstate.edu/dept/ads.
For more information on the sale, contact Animal and Dairy Science Professor Mike Boyd at 662-325-2802.


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BELMONT, NC (January 13, 2007) – Belmont Abbey freshman guard Courtney Naquin led all players with 16 points, one of three Crusaders to reach double figures, and the Abbey limited Coker to 17.9 percent (10-56) shooting from the field as it posted an easy 71-28 win over Coker College this afternoon. The Abbey improves to 6-7 overall and 3-4 in the CVAC, while Coker falls to 3-10 overall and 1-5 in the CVAC.
Along with Naquin, senior guard Jeanette Johansson poured in 13 points to go along with six assists, and sophomore center Ebone Johnson recorded 10 points and a team-high six rebounds.
The Abbey, which shot 40.3 percent (25-62) from the floor, never trailed in the contest as it opened the game on a 9-3 run through the first 3:37. Coker only made five field goals in the first half as it never cut the lead to any fewer than ten points after the initial run. With the Abbey up 15-5 with 12:51 left, it outscored the Cobras 19-9 through the rest of the half to take a 34-15 lead into the break.
The second half was all Belmont Abbey, as it outscored Coker 37-13 in the stanza, including a 25-8 run through the first 12:01 to open up a 38-point advantage at 61-23 with 7:59 left. After five unanswered Coker points, the Abbey scored the final ten points of the game in the final 6:36, as it held Coker without a point in that span, as it cruised home with a 71-28 victory.
Naquin converted five of her 11 field goal attempts, including five three-pointers in ten tries to go along with five rebounds and one assist. Johansson and freshman guard Kelsey Daniel tied for the game-high with six assists apiece. The Abbey out rebounded Coker 47-39, including 16 offensive rebounds, with Daniel posting three of her five rebounds on the offensive glass.
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Yaws is a long-term (chronic) infection that mainly affects the skin, bones, and joints.
Alternative Names
Frambesia tropica
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Yaws is an infection caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria, Treponema pallidum, subspecies pertenue. It is closely related to the bacterium that causes syphilis, but this disease is not sexually transmitted. Yaws mainly affects children in rural, warm, tropical areas, such as the Caribbean Islands, Latin America, West Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.
Yaws is transmitted by direct contact with the skin sores of infected people.
About 2 - 4 weeks after infection, the person develops a sore called a "mother yaw" where bacteria entered the skin. The sore is a growth that may be tan or reddish and looks like a raspberry. It is usually painless but does cause itching.
These sores may last for months. More sores may appear shortly before or after the mother yaw heals as the person scratches or spreads the bacteria from the mother yaw to uninfected skin. Eventually the skin sores heal.
Other symptoms include:
- Bone pain
- Scarring of the skin
- Swelling of the bones and fingers
In theadvanced stage, sores on the skin and bones can lead to severe disfigurement and disability. This occurs in up to 1 in 5 people who do not get antibiotic treatment.
Signs and tests
A sample from a skin sore is examined under a special type of microscope (darkfield examination).
There is no blood test for yaws. However, the blood test for syphilis is usually positive in people with yaws because the bacteria that cause these two conditions are closely related.
Treatment involves a single dose of one type of penicillin, or 3 weekly doses for later stage disease. It is rare for the disease to return.
Anyone who lives in the same house with someone who is infected should be examined for yaws and treated if they are infected.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
If treated in its early stages, yaws can be cured. Skin lesions may take several months to heal.
By its late stage, yaws may have already caused damage to the skin and bones. It may not be fully reversible, even with treatment.
Yaws may damage the skin and bones, affecting the appearance and ability to move. It can also cause deformities of the legs, nose, palate, and upper jaw.
Calling your health care provider
Contact your health care provider if you or your child has sores on the skin or bone that don't go away, and you have stayed in tropical areas where yaws is known to occur.
Widespread campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s to wipe out yaws through penicillin treatment have dramatically decreased the number of cases worldwide.
Hook III EW. Nonsyphilitic treponematoses. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 328.


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Draw Something – Take A Guess?
I love the game Draw Something. I'm not the best artist, but I still have fun both drawing and guessing your masterpieces. Wanna take a guess what I drew here?
Sometimes on Draw Something you have the option to have one item, but to give yourself the challenge you decide to make it what others may not. For instance, the word of VENOM, but someone drew me a picture of Spider-Man's villain instead of drawing a snake with dripping fangs.
This word came up for me. It's a basic 4 letter word, something you see probably every day. Instead of drawing the word, I drew this.
Can you guess this 4 letter object? If you think you have the answer, guess in the comments below.


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Name: Lindsay Olson
Family: Walter the cat
Major & Minor: Geography – Resource Management (comprehensive, no minor)
Year Graduated: Jan. 2010
Current Employer: Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute (OEWRI)/Missouri State University (Graduate Assistant)
Length of Employment: 5 months – I began my GA and graduate education in the summer 2011 semester.
Interests and Hobbies: My academic interest is in assessing and restoring fluvial environments including watersheds, stream systems, and lakes that have been subject to pollution or other forms of degradation. Human-environment interactions, resultant problems, and human's approaches to solving these problems are topics I enjoy researching and learning about. Lately I have focused on the effects of excess sediment to river geomorphology as that is a major component of my thesis, which is based on the Big River, part of the heavily mined Old Lead Belt in Missouri. The best part is the field work – who wouldn't want to spend the hot and humid Missouri summer in the river staying cool and having fun while working, versus sitting at a boring stuffy desk for eight hours a day?!
What helped you decide what route to take after graduation (i.e. graduate school or type of job)? Although I was encouraged by my professors to apply to graduate school right away, I was unsure of what I wanted to do career-wise as I was nearing the end of my undergraduate education. I chose to accept a full time position with a local GIS firm I had interned for leading up to graduation. I worked full time for about a year before I decided I was ready to take on graduate school and set myself up for a career that I will truly enjoy. I am now pursuing a Master of Science in Geospatial Sciences in Geography and Geology at Missouri State University with a plan to graduate in May, 2013.
What do you think gave you to edge to get your current position? I have a full graduate assistantship at MSU which means that in exchange for 20 hours per week of research work for OEWRI my tuition is waved and I am provided with a living stipend. GAs of this caliber are very competitive. I definitely attribute the combination of great grades during my undergrad, a good GRE score, strong recommendations, my internship experiences, undergraduate research and presentations, and a strong application letter as reasons I was awarded this GA.
Describe your typical day at work: Graduate courses are much more self-paced than undergraduate courses. I currently have courses only on Mondays and Wednesdays, but devote time each evening and weekend to work towards the course requirements. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays I put in 20 or more hours doing research and/or field work for OEWRI. I also squeeze in a few hours per week to work on my thesis research, which at this early stage involves gathering data in the field, doing some preliminary GIS analysis, and reading 3-5 (sometimes more) relevant scholarly articles per week as I prepare to start writing my first few thesis chapters towards the end of this semester.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? In five years I see myself in a resource conservation position with a government organization such as a county conservation department, the DNR or USDA NRCS. I would like my job duties to include grant writing, field work, reporting and analysis, and working with the public to implement conservation efforts. Overall I want my career efforts to be focused on working towards a healthier and properly managed environment.
What advice can you give to those who are still in school?
1. It's not a race to finish school. Take your time, explore and develop your interests.
2. Get involved in undergraduate research – it'll take you far, especially if you decided to go to graduate school. You'll get real-world experience when you present it at conferences such as AAG or GSA and it also builds your repertoire with your professors, who provide you with recommendations and advice as you move forward with your career or education.
3. Try to do an internship or two to see how you enjoy working in an area of interest on a daily basis. You might find out that it's not something you enjoy doing in the long run, or you might discover you have an interest in an area you didn't recognize at first.
I am a person with a wide variety of interests in all sorts of disciplines, so I was never that kid who said "when I grow up, I'm gonna be a ______ (fill in the blank)" and it took me a long time to finally figure it out – and there is nothing wrong with that. When I was 18 I started out pursuing interior design. I switched to and finished an Associate's Degree in marketing, and then drastically changed gears to complete my Bachelor's Degree in geography. I learned the most about my interests through the three internships I completed in my undergrad – one with a planning commission as a GIS technician, one with a county conservation department as a resource inventory technician, and one with a private business providing web-integrated geospatial solutions to county governments and other businesses. These internships gave me the experience I needed to recognize what was going to make me happy doing every day. I couldn't have known that without the internship experience, so that is why I am such a huge proponent of them.
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The NSA (National Security Agency) has developed an Android phone that meets "Top Secret" criteria using off-the-shelf components. Dubbed the fishbowl phone, 100 units were built and deployed by IAD (Information Assurance Directorate) and division head Margaret Salter says that anyone can recreate the phones using the specs published at the NSA website.
The plan was to buy commercial components, layer them together and get a secure solution. It uses solely commercial infrastructure to protect classified data.
-- IAD Department head Margaret Salter
The new phones, which even have their own secure enterprise application store, mean that users no longer have to speak in code when talking about government secrets. Using IPSEC VPNs, and having voice sessions use Datagram Transport Layer Security and the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol means that calls are safe from prying eyes, and this was published because Salter thinks the voice application security specification would be useful to everyone. Voice calls are encrypted twice, and all go through the NSA enterprise servers to maintain control and keep communications safe between only the parties involved.
It appears that choosing the components was a bit difficult, and Salter urges her colleagues to "demand vendors improve unified communications interoperability". The parts weren't chosen by brand, and instead were chosen for the way they supported the required functionality. This means that a part from one vendor had to work well with a part from another vendor, which proved difficult. None of the compromises that had to be made reduced the security of the phone. In addition, a "police app" was designed to monitor all operations of the device in case any portion was compromised.
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Baltimore's Show Your Soft Side campaign has featured the likes of rock stars and pro athletes to convey its message of kindness to animals. But its newest and arguably most popular poster showcases an ordinary city beat cop.
The new ad featuring Officer Dan Waskiewicz was only released late Monday, but according to campaign organizers, it's already gone viral. The ad shows Waskiewicz, in uniform, getting a big, sloppy, wet kiss on the cheek from his dog, Bo. The accompanying copy: "When Officer Waz was called out to take down a dangerous dog in Baltimore City, he did the unthinkable. He adopted him."
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Then why you do that when you write software?
First, some misprints of the writerThanks to M. Barnett for pointing out the "mounting and dismounting broom" issue. It seems that I wrote this post too fast (or too late), and I didn't notice that "mounting a broom", in English is more something like this:
So I changed it to "assemble" and "disassemble" which is what I meant to write the first time, I promise… ;)
IntroThis post is about some very basic thoughts, about engineering behaviors students tend to forget… It might sound obvious for experienced people, so if you are one of them, better go get a beer with friends instead of reading it. So, back to what students forget. Among others, one of the most important things to keep in mind, one that will always guide you through the right path is:
Why is this misbehavior so usual in software?
The student counter part
- <<Weeks! then it is indeed better to duplicate code than loosing weeks>>
- <<Believe me, it's better this way. You will thank it, when you grow older…>>
Example 1: Duplication of work - Duplication of decisions
Chronicles of a bad developer
- Company "A"
- Project "B"
- You are the "Bad developer #1"
- A simple operation: obtain the concatenated name of a user, composed as: "Name" + "Second Name" + "Last Name"
Some months later, project "B" has grown, becoming "big", with let's say 150 sub-projects. Your famous name composition operation is scattered all around, in more than 1500 places. Now imagine that the worst happens (the worst always happens), and that your boss demands a change in the way you are concatenating names. Let's say, he wants it in the form: "Last Name, First Name", instead of the previous. You are screwed, easy as that.
As you are a bad bad developer, first thing you say is:
- <<Boss, are you sure we need that change? I like names in the way they are right now>>No prob, you are a bad, but clever developer, so you think:
- <<Our clients don't>> He replies…
- <<Visual Studio will fix this, I heard somewhere that there's a thing for these cases called Refactoring>>Then you try to Refactor a whole sentence, and of course, it doesn't work.
- <<Damn Visual Studio! Damn Microsoft! For things like these is why I prefer Linux! Sure that Linux knows how to Refactor a whole sentence>>And then, you end up making massive text replacements, investing one week trying to find all the instances of the operation, and in fixing the resulting compilation errors. Of course, you forget to change 3 or 4 instances of it. That's when you go to your boss again and say:
- <<Hey, not that bad. 3 out of 1500, that's a 99% of success!>>
- <<You are a 99% of an idiot>>… He replies…
Diary of the good developer<<Monday, 36 of October of year 2124
Today, I slept well. I had breakfast and went to the office. My job for today was changing the way names are concatenated in our software. As I was clever enough a couple of months ago, and I isolated this task inside a method, all my job for today has been done in 10 secs. The rest of the day I was in the beach, getting some sun… No phone calls from my boss. No phone calls from clients… No news is good news. Life is wonderful…>>
You learned the lecture?
What lecture?Pay attention Padawan to the following line of code:
|Remember: Duplicating work is bad, but duplicating decisions is one of the worst things you can ever do in software
Example 2: Duplication of ContentsAs we mentioned, duplication is not only a software development issue.
Copy-pasting files is slower than copy-pasting code, but for sure it's still faster than assembling and disassembling the broom ;)
That's why many dumb-asses still don't get it, making duplication of contents to be pretty frequent too. It's the same stuff. You make a texture, you use it in hundreds of 3D models, and then one day you need to change it. You are screwed again man!
How to avoid duplication in this cases?
You should think about having global repositories for contents that are shared between many entities: texts, textures, sounds, xml files, whatever. Remember, duplication is the source of all evil in the world. If you find yourself doing a Copy-Paste, ask yourself if it is really necessary or if there's a way to avoid it.
Example 3: Other, not so obvious, forms of DuplicationsImagine we have a game with the class Player, and with a property which holds his status. You know, things like "Dead", "Alive", "Running", etc. At design time, we need to choose how to store that status:
- The core C++ kings that want his player to be dead and alive at the same time (may be a zombies game?), will want his status to be an Hexadecimal Flag
- Those who want their game to be fast and "cross-platform with their toaster", will want his status to be an Int, you know: 0, 1, 2, etc
- A Visual Basic developer will probably want it to be a String, actually writing the value "Dead", "Alive", etc.
Speed vs Comprehensiveness
- << Who said to use strings? Oh yes, the VisualBasic people… Come on man, do you know how slow is to compare two strings? Player is a core class, that is used all along the game, even in performance critical parts. You cannot be serious… strings… The solution is to use an Int, or an Hex flag.>>As you probably already notice, one can stay like that forever, when there's a much better solution… Yes, you clever boy, we will use Enumerations. But, do you know why? And what is more important, are you aware of all the benefits (and cons) of an Enumeration? Will talk more on this later, by now lets get deeper in the cons of the other alternatives.
- <<Who said to use an Int or an Hex Flag? Of course! The native people. Why not we all just turn back into binary, you prehistoric monkeys? Will we need to check what "State = 0" is every time we need to use it? Man you cannot be serious… ints… The solution is to use strings…>>
Anyone said duplication again?We have seen duplication of work (bad), and duplication of decisions (very bad). What none of the contenders in the previous discussion have seen is that both solutions imply a new, hidden form of duplication. It's what I call: duplication of abilities.
Duplication of Abilities (also very bad)When you choose to store the status of your player as an Int, or as a String, with values like "Dead" or "Alive", you are delegating in all your developers the responsibility of writing that values correctly. In other words, you are duplicating the need for the ability to write it correctly in many many different places, and by many different people, instead of centralizing in a single point.
It's quite likely that, from time to time, someone makes a mistake. So if any of them misspells a string value ("Deaz" instead of "Dead"), or simply misplaces an int, writing "1" instead of "0", the compilator won't say a thing, and the application will seem to run just fine. But... What are the effects of setting the status of a player incorrectly in a single, deep point of your code? Absolutely unpredictable. That can manifest as any kind of error in the application, what makes it very difficult to debug, trace and fix.
You must try to avoid this kind of duplication too, centralizing decisions, and reducing the number of places where a mistake can be made.
Strong-type, babyWe said it before, but let's just analyze another alternative for storing the "State" of the player in our game. What about Enums?
- Enums are as fast at runtime as an Int or an hex flag
- Enums are as comprehensible as Strings at debug time
- Enums are convertible to and form Int, what makes cross-platform easy
- Enums are convertible to and from String, what makes printing information easy
- Enums are much more confortable to use, thanks to the Intellisense, you don´t need to remember the values, nor type them, just select them on the list
- Enums are strongly typed, which will:
- Minimize the so-called Duplication of Abilities. Since you select values on a list (thanks to the Intellisense) instead of typing them, you centralize the responsibility of making no mistakes in the enumeration
- Even if any one ignores the Intellisense, and types the values manually, the presence of "hard to find" errors is also minimized, as a miswritten Enum value will be detected at compilation
So… Use them!!!
An additional security shieldEven if you are already strong-typing, there's another thing you should always do, specially in big projects that cannot be tested completely too frequently… exactly, that's correct: UNIT TESTING.
Again, designing good unit tests can take weeks, and again, students will say: <<Weeks! The it's better not to use unit tests>>, and again you will have to tell no no no…
Unit test are the definitive way for giving big projects the robustness they need, going into places where the compiler can't go, and testing deeper that just syntax. A unit test can detect a wrong player State, but of course, it has to be well designed. If you want to know more about unit testing, please refer to the following article by Roy Osherove:
ConclusionEvery time you find yourself doing a Copy-Paste, ask yourself:
- Why are you doing it
- Is it really necessary to duplicate what you are duplicating
- Can it come to problems if something changes in the future
- Is there any way of avoiding that duplication
Finally, apply some common sense to all of this. Sometimes, you should do just the opposite to what I´m telling… ja ja… ;)
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South Sudan: Is Lasting Peace Possible?
Juba — The stalling of the "cooperation agreements", though not surprising, has disappointed many people. Much hope had been pinned on this suite of post-independence deals, on both sides of the north-south divide.
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With the peace process faltering and each side continually accusing the other of harbouring rebels antagonistic to it, there is – as was in April 2012 during the Panthou/Heglig crisis – mounting fears of all-out war. Thankfully, things have not yet deteriorated to that extent.
But Sudan has since then launched several provocative attacks on South Sudanese border villages, claiming it was merely engaging rebels inside its own borders. In the last round of talks, Sudan reportedly demanded that South Sudan disarm the Sudanese rebels. This has been described as impossible by South Sudan and other international players, as it would involve preparing a huge army and launching a risky military operation inside Sudanese soil.
Here in South Sudan, where people remain supportive of the government's earlier decision to suspend oil export through Sudan, there is suspicion that Sudan is still unwilling or unable to face up to the new reality in which South Sudan is a sovereign country. It is using the troubles in its Nuba, Funj and Darfuri regions to justify its continued hostility to South Sudan.
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It surely can't be so blind as to not see that, like conjoined twins, neither country can at this stage live without the other. It is as cash strapped as South Sudan and it must be secretly pleased with the oil deal. Under its terms, South Sudan, over the next three years, will pay Sudan $3.5 billion as assistance and a similar amount as oil transit and export fees.
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After 50 years of war, with the loss of millions of lives and immeasurable resources, Sudan failed to impose its will on the South Sudanese and eventually conceded to them the right for self-determination. South Sudanese were magnanimous in their victory and have commended the NCP for honouring the CPA and Bashir's personal role in it.
Sudan faces new internal problems and needs to tie up the loose ends of the CPA. It can choose the painful decision of embracing peace and shunning its tragic and tarnished legacy; or it can lumber forward intransigently, retracing old blind allies and recycling exhausted tricks with results that are all too predictable.
Mawan Muortat is a Juba-based IT professional and a contributor to the New Sudan Vision.
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Students Invited to MSU EcoCAR 2 Team Meeting- January 20thJanuary 16, 2014
The MSU EcoCAR 2 team will host its spring kickoff meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday [Jan. 20] at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems in the Thad Cochran Research Park.
The meeting will be an interest session for any Mississippi State students who want to learn more about joining the team.
The team will host representatives from Snap-On Tools as its guest speakers for the event. Snap-On is one of the competition's sponsors. The two representatives from Snap-On will give a product presentation, then hold an open Q&A session for the students present.
The event will provide MSU students with a chance to learn about the EcoCAR 2: Plugging into the Future competition, and also learn specifically about one of its sponsors and how sponsors work with the teams. Food will be provided for all in attendance.
More information and updates from the team can be found on its website, msuecocar2.com. The team can also be found on a number of social media networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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text: Dear Miltonists: Please circulate the following CFP to those you know who may be interested in contributing to this collection. Many thanks in advance! CFP: (Collection) Resurrecting the "First Five Hundred": The Church Fathers in Early Modern England In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Paul's Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the Church Fathers were the true architects of the Christian religion and that the English people would no longer be subjected to the sort of medieval tampering that had led the one true Church astray. "The first five hundred years of the church," he would argue, "are worth more than the whole thousand that followed afterward." For this collection, we are seeking essays that address the topic of the Church Fathers in early modern English culture. Topics addressed may include (but will not be limited to) the rhetorical, political, ethical, and material uses of the Church Fathers and the influence of the Fathers on education, rhetoric, science, philosophy, philology, the stage, book production, devotional and polemical writing, women and writing, the body, colonialist discourse, and the rise of capitalism. Please address queries to the collection's editors, Mitchell Harris (mharris at gustavus.edu) and Steven Matthews (smatthew at d.umn.edu). Essay proposals should be between 500 and 800 words. Completed essays should be between 4,000 and 9,000 words in text, approximately 16-36 double-spaced pages, and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003). Please use endnotes. Proposals and completed essays should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word document or PDF file. Mitchell M. Harris Department of English Gustavus Adolphus College 800 W. College Ave. St. Peter, MN 56082 mharris at gustavus.edu


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Standard fit.
TNF Apex ClimateBlock fabric wind permeability rated at 0 CFM
Fleece backer.
Napoleon chest pocket.
Two hand pockets.
Velcro adjustable cuffs with molded cuff tabs.
Hem cinch cord adjustment in pockets
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Fiber Content: 100% polyester.
Country of Origin: Imported
The North Face Apex Bionic soft-shell jacket sports windproof features, and its stretchy, comfortable fit is ideal for multiple activities.
|Avg. length:
|28 in.
|Back length:
|Back length (in.):
|28 inches
|96% polyester, 4% elastane.
|90D 351 g/m² (10.3 oz/yd²) plain weave polyester TNF™ Apex ClimateBlock.
|Hood Type:
|29 in
|Length from center back:
|28 in.
|100% polyester.
|Medium compactibility
|Removable Liner:
|Shell fabric:
|Windproof stretch polyester
|Shell lining fabric:
|Fleece backer
|Snow Skirt:
|650 g (22.93 oz)
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I bought this Jacket because I needed something a little warmer than the Apex Pneumatic Jacket I owned and use for train running early Spring/Summer/Fall. The Apex Bionic did the trick this is a great jacket if you are active outside on cold days (hiking, fall football games, walking around town etc.) You can feel the difference in the weight and thickness of this soft-shell compared to others.
However, This is not the jacket you want if you are sitting out in the cold (below 40) for long periods of time. It is build for action. It is also not a great layering piece so don't think you are going to warm it up with a sweater underneath. It fits true to size but there is NOT a lot of extra room for bulk underneath. I live in UpstateNY and I use this over my t-shirt or under armor for walks with the dog from 25-50 degrees and it is comfortable. It is also fine for walking into a store without sweating to death. I am happy with it's performance in the wind, the apex pneumatic definitely breaths better albeit for warmer temps but I still can't complain. This is a very comfortable and well made jacket.
Same great TNF Apex Jacket as always however, the TNF/Biking Red is Maroon and not the "Biking Red" pictured on the website. North Face should have recalled these jackets or directed their resellers to list the actual color. I am working in Afghanistan and needed the jacket for current temps. Attempting a return while waiting for the color I orderd was an uncomfortable option I chose not to exercise. Kind of like asking for a car and getting a bicycle, not exactly what you wanted but still transportation. Back Country could have done / should have done better. 3 stars for TNF Apex form, fit and function. 0 stars for getting what I ordered.
My first soft-shell. Good for around town or walking the dog on cool breezy days. I would not use this in the backcountry. Zero breathability - So if you're putting out some heat, you're going to quickly over heat and soak your base layers. This thing gets quite clammy when on the move. Not the warmest jacket, but good enough to keep you warm on your travels from the car to building.
As long as you're not buying this for backcountry use, you should be pleased. Fit is true to sizing chart, so make sure you reference that.


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