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History Of Konkapot Lodge
The family started the plans for building Konkapot Lodge on the back of a napkin. What started as a 8 bedroom family home, ended as a 28-room hotel near Shawano, WI. Our architect, Gary Sobeck, who also designed the White Tail Inn in St. Germaine, Wisconsin, took these rough ideas and created the existing building.
The handcrafted log work was done by Arrowhead Log Homes, owned and operated by tribal member, Jeff Miller. Jeff had recently opened his log building business nearby. Arrowhead is the first log builder to be classified as a "sustainable harvest" builder and Konkapot Lodge is the first such categorized log structure. Considering the ever increasing demand for building materials pitted at odds with environmental concerns, Konkapot Lodge was built with every effort to maximize efficiency and minimize waste.
The greatest challenge to building the Lodge, was the enormous logs needed to support the building. They were generally too large for skidders to pull out of the woods here or on the Menominee Reservation. We were going to have to have them shipped from Montana.
Several weeks before ordering the logs in August, 1997, we had a large storm pass through Shawano County. Several large tracts of older growth forest on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation were blown down in the storm. These logs were all salvaged from the blow down and were used to build Konkapot Lodge. Many of these logs were well over 100 years old. The logs were individually scribed on site and the log work took over six months to complete.
Once the log work was finished, Gil-Hur Builders of Sun Prairie began the stick built portion of the building and completed the project in August of 1998.
We are sincerely grateful to Mr. Sobeck, Paul Nooyen, the project coordinator for Gil-Hur Builders, and Jeff Miller of Arrowhead Log Homes for working with us to create our dream lodge. No one seemed the least bit intimidated by our insistence on a full log great room with a traditional built hotel and we are delighted with the results.
We are encouraged and grateful to all our guests who not only recognize the effort to build sustainably and use green practices, but who wholeheartedly enjoy and appreciate it as well.


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The Design Committee is responsible for enhancing the downtown's physical environment by capitalizing on its best assets, such as historic buildings, and creating an inviting atmosphere through attractive window displays, parking areas, building improvements, streetscapes, and landscaping. The Main Street program also focuses on instilling good maintenance practices in the commercial district, enhancing the physical appearance of the commercial district by rehabilitating historic buildings, encouraging appropriate new construction, developing sensitive design management systems, and long-term planning.
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The county's only wildlife rehabilitation center for mammals faces more resistance as a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month seeks to shut down the center.
Second Chances Rehabilitation Center founder Brigette Williams is one of three licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the county, but the other two people only treat birds.
The lawsuit, filed by the Buckeye Trace Homeowners Association, lists 27 individual residents as plaintiffs in the case. Those people account for 15 of 25 properties in the Buckeye Trace subdivision. One partner in the Buckeye Development Company, Arthur Mengel, is also listed as a plaintiff.
In the filing, Williams and her husband, Bruce, are accused of violating the Buckeye Trace subdivision's deed restrictions. The homeowners association seeks for a judge to rule the center violates deed restrictions and needs to be closed.
The lawsuit alleges the Williamses operated a business on a residential property, built structures on their property without approval and house animals other than household pets.
Chad Soard, a wildlife biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, oversees licensing rehabilitation facilities.
Soard said this is an unusual situation, and the first civil lawsuit against a rehabilitation facility that he's seen.
"Rehabbers provide a valuable public service," he said, adding people typically appreciate having a place to take orphaned, injured or otherwise displaced wildlife.
"It's a labor of love," he said.
Williams hasn't been feeling the love, though.
She said she is "not completely shocked" by the lawsuit after Oldham Planning and Development officials issued her a citation in July for building cages without a building permit.
In November 2010, Williams received a $25,000 grant from Pepsi to build the cages, which needed to be enlarged to meet state regulations.
Construction on the cages began in May, but Williams had not applied for a county building permit or permission from the homeowners association. She said she didn't know a permit was necessary.
Williams worked with Planning and Development Assistant Director Brian Davis to bring the structures into compliance.
The Oldham County Board of Adjustments and Appeals ruled in July that a wildlife rehabilitation center is not a permitted use for property in a residential area.
The wildlife center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization on 10 acres in Buckeye Trace.
Williams' attorney, Deborah Kent, argued in July that the center could be classified as a "game farm," which she said is a permitted use according to the county's zoning restrictions.
Williams, who was named Conservation Teacher of the Year in 2010 by the Oldham County Conservation District, said it will come down to a matter of community support if the center is to stay open.
"People have the impression that it was over (in July)," she said. "But it's not."
The case has not been assigned a court date as of press time.
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Malmö Arena can be found at Hyllie Stationstorg at Malmö Hyllie Station. Local buses run from Malmö Central Station. Bus routes: 6,8 and 33 run to Hyllie Stationstorg. Regional bus routes, 170, 250, 300 and 346 run to Hyllie.Read more on Skånetrafiken's website
By bicycle to Malmö Arena - via Kroksbäck and Kroksbäcksparken. Follow the signs for Hyllie and on to Malmö Arena.Read more: how to get to Malmö Arena by bicycle
By car you can use the major entry points to Hyllie from Annetorpsvägen in the North, from Pildammsvägen in the East and from Lorensborgsgatan in the West. These take you to the main streets, Hyllie Boulevard, Hyllie Allé and Hyllie Stationsgata.Find Malmö Arena
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I recently discovered that your custom master page may affect the Gantt view of a SharePoint list. I have seen the colored task bars extend past the framed container of the chart when a custom master page and CSS is applied to the site. If this happens to you, you can try the following:
- Systematically strip out the CSS and HTML to identify what code is causing the problem. Be sure to make backups of your files first.
- Adjust the DOCTYPE tag that you are using. When this happened to me, I had to go way back and use the following DOCTYPE to get the Gantt view to show correctly: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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Obama's MLK moment
When President Barack Obama looks west across the national mall from the Capitol on Monday, his panorama will include the spot to the right where contractors are building the National Museum of African American History and Culture by the foot of the Washington Monument.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial will be to his left, obscured from sight but not from mind.
And, directly in front of him — across a sea of people who come to hear his second inaugural address — Obama will have a view of the Lincoln Memorial, the Doric tribute to the president Obama most identifies with and the backdrop for King's most famous civil rights speech.
As he takes the oath of office on the federal holiday marking King's birthday, Obama will place his left hand on a bible once owned by King, an explicit consecration of the often implicit connection between the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement and the first black president.
(Also on POLITICO: Obama sworn in to second term)
The comparison between the two men will be inescapable Monday, as will the debate over Obama's treatment of the black community — a motif that has resurfaced again early in his second term over diversity in the upper ranks of his administration.
Sill, supporters of both Obama and civil rights may find this inauguration even a bit sweeter than the first, and that Obama's tie to King is now stronger.
"If you look at what they're struggling to do," says Hilary Shelton, the director of the NAACP's Washington Bureau, "in many ways it is the same vision, that vision and commitment to help America become all it promises to be."
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Greg Carr, chair of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, said Obama's reelection "accentuates" the historic nature of his presidency for the African American community because it validated his time in office.
"What may have had a sense of an insurgent victory four years ago now has more of a national consensus flavor," he said. "With the first inauguration there was almost a sense that … we did it against improbable odds, but now it's the norm of sorts."
But Obama is still taking the Oath of Office amid criticism that there is not enough diversity among his Cabinet and White House staff. It's the latest round in attacks that Obama hasn't done enough for the black community. His campaign was forced to launch a drive to hire black staff, some African American leaders felt that he paid too little attention to black unemployment rates in his first term, and others worried that he spoke too infrequently about major civil rights issues. Often, the complaints came from black elected officials.


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I'm usually a pretty good barometer for how the majority of moviegoers feel about an upcoming film, but in the case of Transformers 3 I'm mystified. There's been such a divisive split between those who hated Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen and those who think they loved it, that now I don't know how many of you want to see a third installment (if only hoping one last time that it's done right) - and those of you who cringe at the knowledge that Revenge of The Fallen made so much money Transformers 3 is going to happen no matter what.
Either way, one guy who already has his mind on Transformers 3 is Michael Bay, and he's wondering how to outdo himself by actually proving that he can do more than make glossy, explosive, senseless sun-tanned spectacles for the screen. Buried in the special features of the Revenge of The Fallen Blu-ray, Bay talks about his early thoughts for the next chapter in Transformers.There's a video of Bay's whole spiel from the Blu-ray feature up on YouTube. I won't post it here, but if you want to get the gospel from the preacher's mouth (wow, I might be going to hell for saying that) just check out the vid OVER HERE.
I want to believe Bay's words in that video, really I do. He drops a few buzz words that I definitely wanted to hear - 'smaller-scale,' 'darker,' 'more about the robot characters,' 'less exposed,' 'more undercover,' 'emotion' - he seems more intent on telling an actual story (even if it is the Sam/Bumblebee bromance, pt. 3), and I genuinely think the crazy (and chaotic) scope of Transformers 2 was too much even for Bay's liking (if that's possible). However, right now I'm one of those people who is skeptical about this franchise's ability to deliver a truly all-around good movie; I just love Transformers too much to give up all hope.
What do you think about Michael Bay's early thoughts about Transformers 3? Is he going in the right direction (does he even have direction)? Are you already excited for the next chapter, or are you taking this next installment to be a true omen that the end times are nigh?
Transformers 3 will be in theaters on July 1, 2011.
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A soldier said to have escaped serious injury more than 15 times will be awarded the Military Cross by the Prince of Wales today.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Patrick Hyde has been nicknamed "bomb magnet" following his close calls with improvised explosive devices (IED) laid by Afghan insurgents.
The soldier from The Rifles is being recognised for an incident in July last year when despite being injured when an Afghan soldier stepped on an IED, he still helped direct operations and arranged for troops to be removed by helicopter.
Also being recognised during the Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony is veteran stage producer Sir Michael Codron who will be dubbed a knight for services to the theatre.
Sir Michael recognised the talents of Harold Pinter early on and put on his play The Birthday Party when the playwright was virtually unknown.
Matthew Searle, chief executive of the organisation Missing Abroad, set up by the Lucie Blackman Trust, will be awarded an MBE for service to British citizens overseas.
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I know that developing new software takes time, and if things are happening -we'll wait..... but it would be nice to know if things are indeed happening in the background - or is it not happening??
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I note that the firmware for ALL testes shows a "Last Modified" date of today, but the "Date Added" is still 7/2/11 and the revision level is still 28t for the Europa Plus.
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By Melanie Hick
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Could the moon hold more secrets than we previously thought?
Nasa has shared two amazing new photos of what appears to demonstrate strong gravity on the moon.
Two shots of a boulder, and the tracks it left behind on the lunar surface as it took a tumble through the dust around 100 million years ago.
The rock that rolled was found in the Schiller crater, which it tumbled down to its final resting place.
The boulder nine-metres in diameter, is about the length of a mini van, and, to the eye, left the kind of lurching trail you'd expect from a pebble dashed across sand.
Nasa spokesman James Ashley says: "The lonely journey of this large boulder is apparent from its track in a sloping regolith surface. A casual glance might suggest that it happened last week, or even that its rolling might resume at any moment."
Because of the moon has less atmosphere than a Wetherspoons on a Tuesday morning, the surfaced if often pummelled by showers of asteroids, meteoroids and comets which leave marks across the surface.


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US employers added 157,000 new jobs in January, an unexciting but solid total that helped to push the Dow Jones Industrial Average above the 14,000 level Friday morning.
A twice-monthly indicator of consumer confidence also rose Friday.
All this is welcome news, but it raises a question: With just about four weeks to go in high-stakes talks on fiscal policy, will these marketplace signals give politicians in Washington a false sense of security – a kind of license to engage in brinkmanship or do nothing?
It's an important query, because the economy remains in a fairly fragile condition, and the potential impact of the fiscal decisions on the economy are significant. In recent years, both America and European nations have seen some political standoffs resolved only after the marketplace sends signals of urgency.
If the sharply divided Congress can't agree to an alternative plan by March 1, then automatic federal spending cuts are scheduled to go into effect. Many economists believe this would weigh on job growth.
This comes as the economy is already moving slowly. Gross domestic product failed to grow in the fourth quarter (declining at a 0.1 percent annual rate), the Commerce Department reported this week. Economists are forecasting a slender growth rate of 1.6 percent for the current quarter.
American workers have been hit this month by a roughly 2 percent pay cut, due to the expiration of a temporary payroll-tax break at year's end. And despite employer job creation in January, the unemployment rate ticked upward a notch, to 7.9 percent, as more people joined the labor force.
The positive news is that the private sector has shown enough strength to keep chugging along in the past few months, despite lots of uncertainty surrounding whether federal taxes would rise (an early-January deal kept the tax hikes to a minimum) and whether the federal budget will face meaningful cuts (still to be determined).
In fact, the Labor Department said Friday that job growth was actually stronger in the final two months of 2012 than had been initially reported – a fact that helped to push stock prices higher even though the January job total didn't exceed forecasts.
But here's where the risk of complacency comes in.
The economy may not have fully felt the impact that the payroll-tax hike will have on consumer spending – since that change in take-home pay is only a few weeks old. And the "sequester" (automatic spending cuts) could shave as much as a percentage point from the pace of GDP growth in the second and third quarter.
Investors and the general public breathed a justified sigh of relief early in January, when Congress and President Obama reached a deal that averted many of the tax hikes scheduled to hit US consumers.
But Robert Dye, chief economist at the banking firm Comerica, warns that many fiscal issues are still outstanding, with Congress seeking a difficult balance between sustaining growth and putting the federal budget on sounder footing by reducing future deficits.
"Right now it is reasonable to assume that a significant portion of the $110 billion sequester will happen," he wrote in an analysis published in January by Blue Chip Economic Indicators. "It is reasonable to assume that the total fiscal drag from increased taxes and reduced spending will be in the neighborhood of 2 percent of GDP, primarily felt in the first half of 2013."
The result, Mr. Dye says, could be an economy that grows very little (perhaps at a 1 percent pace) or not at all for the first half of the year. That would leave the economy much more vulnerable than usual to the risk of recession.
If more optimistic economists are correct, the outlook may be brighter. In the Blue Chip survey of more than 50 forecasters, some see the economy growing at a pace higher than 2 percent in the first quarter, rising to 3 percent later in the year.
That outlook banks on a continuing steady rise in activity within the private sector (which accounts for about 84 percent of all jobs) outweighing the braking effects of tighter fiscal policy.
Moreover, some economic analysts argue that the sequester, cutting federal spending by about $100 billion a year, doesn't pose a risk to the job market. The conservative editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, for example, opined Thursday that the spending cuts "will help business and investor confidence by finally showing that government can restrain itself – at least a little and however crudely."
Many Republican lawmakers appear ready to allow the spending cuts to go forward, in part based on similar reasoning that the economy would benefit more from government restraint.
Even some conservative economists, however, warn that spending cuts could hurt GDP in the short run. "Congress and the president need to avoid excessive austerity with respect to changes in fiscal policy this year," John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute argued in a recent report.
The sequester could result in job cuts on both federal and private-sector payrolls, as the government would cut back on procurement from defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin.
That doesn't mean long-run deficits should be ignored. Mr. Makin and many other economists argue for taking steps now to reform entitlement programs, in a bid to head off a dangerous rise in national debt.
All this leaves policymakers with a bit of a tightrope to walk.
If Congress does too little to address the debt risk, and there is too much partisan gridlock, credit rating agencies could downgrade the quality of US Treasury debt. But the 2013 spending cuts, if they happen, could dampen job growth that's not exactly robust.


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Whether you are heading to the airport to head off on vacation or negotiating a tight schedule of visits to family and friends, chances are your car is going to be weighed down with more luggage, passengers and gifts than usual over the festive season
Nobody plans to have a breakdown and few think it likely to happy to them, but thousands of motorists are caught out each year and have to put the festivities on hold while they wait for help from recovery services.
One of the most common causes for these unwanted breaks in the journey is tyre-related issues.
In twelve days over last year's Christmas and New Year holidays, Highways England attended nearly 700 tyre-related incidents on the motorway network alone*, with over 100 on Christmas and New Year's Eves.
TyreSafe is reminding Britain's motorists that this type of misery could often be avoided by carrying out some quick and easy checks before setting off.
Tyres need higher air pressures when the vehicle is fully loaded with the whole family and their belongings. If they are left at the normal pressures, the car's braking and handling will be less effective, it will use more fuel and make the tyres more vulnerable to damage, such as punctures.
In the vast majority of cases, the correct pressures can be found in the door sill or filler cap, and do not be surprised if a substantial increase is advised. To check your own pressures, use an accurate gauge when the tyre is cold.
While adjusting air pressure, check the general condition of the tyre. Any stones or objects which can be removed from the tread, should be taken out, and if you notice lumps, bumps, cracks or cuts, have it examined by a tyre professional.
As you're likely to encounter cold and wet conditions, it is critical to ensure you have adequate tread depth, which can be easily checked using a 20p-piece.
The border of a 20p can be used as guide to assess how close tread depth is to the minimum legal limit – 1.6mm. When the 20p is placed in the tyre's grooves at numerous points the border should always be hidden, if you can see it, you may well be close to the legal limit and should have it checked.
And do not forget the spare – if you have one – just in case you need to use it.
Stuart Jackson, TyreSafe chairman, said: "The holiday season should be spent enjoying the company of friends and family, not sat by the roadside waiting for help. Of course, the unexpected happens but a lot of tyre-related breakdowns are avoidable if the driver carries out a few simple checks before heading out on the roads. TyreSafe urges motorists to takes a few minutes to ensure their tyres are roadworthy and wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable Festive Season."
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Pulse Digital Ltd needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I need a logo design that will work on both sides of the world! Company is in the UK and NZ and I need a logo that works in both places
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It may be a virus, try this, can't hurt. Turn it off, turn it back on and hold the F8 key down while windows is starting up to get into safe mode (IT guys correct me here if that's the wrong key, been a while since I had to do this). Then run your anti-virus software and hopefully find and kill that bug. But please give me a call before you kick it to the curb, I need parts for a linux machine
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Daniel Howard, my my, what flavour of Linux you gettin into man?This is great. I didn't know we had so many techies here We WILL get you a solution Spin. just keep answering our questions!Side note: if any of you would like to volunteer your time to technology and disc golf, bring it on! There is such thing as a Technology Team for the KCFDC. We'd love your thoughts, skills, time or even some .php coding if you've got it. Tech + Disc Golf = mo'betta. seriously though, has anyone made any bag mods, or found the perfect recipe for taping lights on?


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AN ELDERLY jogger from Stinchcombe paints a grisly picture after she was smashed into by a speeding road cyclist on Saturday.
Jill Holloway, 74, suffered severe facial injuries, including splitting her top lip in half, after she hit the floor following the collision on Church Lane in the village.
After managing to pick herself up, blood pouring from her face, a passing good Samaritan stopped and drove her straight to Vale Community Hospital in Dursley.
There she was patched up but had to be transferred to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital to receive specialist treatment for face, including stitching to both the inside and outside of her mouth.
The former Rednock School maths teacher was enjoying her regular morning jog on the road at around 8.30am, wearing a high visibility jacket, when the road cyclist failed to spot her in time after coming fast down a hill.
Her husband Russ Holloway, a former dentist, told the Gazette that she does not remember much about the incident, including whether the cyclist was able to help her or had been injured himself in the crash.
"As she was jogging round the lane somebody came down the hill at a far lick and the next thing she knew she knew she was face down on the road," he said.
"She remembered picking herself up off the floor and feeling for her teeth. She found they were alright but blood was pouring off of her face."
Mrs Holloway, who is now resting at her home on Echo Lane, said she wants to find out the identity of the young man who took her to hospital to thank him and to piece together what happened.
"My injuries are still very sore and very limiting, different parts of my body start aching at different times," she said.
"It's sad really. I have always been very careful on that road. I always wear my high visibility jacket. It is hard to believe I wasn't being careful on Saturday.
"They do come down at a heck of a speed. They think they are coming down a hill in the Tour De France. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Mr Holloway, 76, said that the accident had been coming, as the route is popular with road cyclists at the weekend, and has requested his wife does not jog on the lane anymore.
"It is a worry," he said.
"The majority of them are fine and keep out of your way but others keep their head down and do not look at where they are going."


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Parents of the couple are Roger and Mary Tirevold of Armstrong and Mark and Helen Fries of Rhinelander, Wis.
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To make a discovery and get to name it is just about every scientist's dream. For one graduate student at UC Riverside that dream already has come true.
Allison Hansen, a doctoral student in entomology, has discovered and named a new bacterial pathogen that could be responsible for "psyllid yellows," a disease that infects and kills tomato and potato plants. The disease is spread from plant to plant by the psyllid, a sap-sucking insect. This psyllid commonly is called potato psyllid or tomato psyllid, depending on the plant affected.
Hansen, who joined UCR in 2005 and expects to graduate next year, discovered the bacterium serendipitously through her research on the "symbionts" of the tomato psyllid. (A symbiont is an organism that has an intimate relationship with another organism of a different species.)
She named the pathogen "Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous." Liberibacter, she explained, is the genus – a category of biological classification – in which the bacterium is nested; psyllaurous means psyllid yellows in Latin.
"Allison has a special gift of looking at questions from new perspectives and recognizing relationships that others have either overlooked or missed all together," said Timothy Paine, Hansen's advisor and a professor of entomology. "This ability has enabled her to make a couple of key breakthroughs as a graduate student that have stumped other scientists for decades."
In tomato alone, psyllid yellows resulted in yield losses up to 85 percent and 50 percent in commercial tomato crops in western North America during 2001 and 2004, respectively.
"One symptom of an infected tomato or potato plant with this bacterium is yellowing of the foliage," said Hansen, whose co-advisor is Richard Stouthamer, a professor of entomology. "The saliva of the tomato psyllid has been known to cause yellowing of tomato and potato leaves. The cause of this symptom has been a mystery for over a century."
Hansen's discovery has the potential to help plant breeders develop resistant cultivars of potato and tomato.
"What we know is that the bacterium is vectored by the tomato/potato psyllid into their tomato and potato host plants, subsequently causing yellowing and death to the plant," Hansen said. "This knowledge may help growers come up with alternative strategies for controlling this pest. We're now working in the lab to confirm whether Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous is the psyllid yellows-causing bacterium."
The new bacterium is closely related to huanglongbing or HLB disease, also known as citrus greening disease, so named because the disease causes the citrus fruit to retain some green spots even when the fruit is ripe.
"Huanglongbing is Chinese for yellow dragon disease," Hansen explained. "Chinese farmers call the young, infected yellowing shoots of citrus 'yellow dragons' because of the symptoms this disease causes in the plant."
To date, three other HLB bacteria have been identified, all of which primarily infect citrus. Hansen mentioned that a huge scientific effort currently is underway to study HLB of citrus, a disease that is threatening to destroy Florida's citrus industry.
Hansen, Stouthamer, Paine and John Trumble, a professor of entomology at UCR, reported the discovery of the new bacterium in a research paper published online, ahead of print, on Aug. 1 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
"Liberibacter psyllaurous could be a good model system to come up with methods for combating citrus greening disease," Hansen said.
Currently she is looking at symbiont and psyllid interactions with host plants as well as other susceptible host plants of the bacterium. She also is trying to sequence the bacterium's genome.
Her research is funded by UCR's Department of Entomology.
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Sorry if I misled you Dave: I though the email I answered was an outcome of the F2F rather than an input. My bad. It seems to me that tool and version could be easily encoded in a URI without end-point. But can that be done for MT confidence as well? It seems there are 3 information for that data category: tool, version and some engine identifier. I suppose that could be encoded. But I haven't seen examples. -yves From: Felix Sasaki [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:54 AM To: Dave Lewis Cc: Jirka Kosek; email@example.com Subject: Re: [ACTION-256]: Compile and circulate itsTool examples togehter with proposal text 2012/11/7 Dave Lewis <email@example.com> Hi Felix, Yes, the URI pointer work in most cases, but this is to address the case where we want to embed the target of the pointer in the file (based on the case linguaserv brought up in Lyon, where they may be able to ammend file but can add new ones to a client's CMS, so it problematic to mandate an external file only) and it is HTML file, so a simple element fragment URI won't work. Why? We are also, I guess, trying to make the solution a similar as possible to the stand-off markup case to ease implementation. That means that we require the "end" of the URI to be XML. I would oppose to that. Either we say "anything can be on the other end of the URI", or we speciy what is here. About the Linguaserve case: as Jirka noted, we can leave that use case implementation defined - it would simplify a lot about the HTML processing. Best, Felix cheers, Dave On 07/11/2012 11:26, Felix Sasaki wrote: Hi Dave, all, apologies, I'm behind things. I thought we'd agreed at the f2f meeting that there is just an URI pointing to tool information, nothing else. See http://www.w3.org/2012/11/02-mlw-lt-minutes.html [ Felix: You could have a seperate script element for each standoff item. … pitty Yves cannot be on the phone. He has raised concerns: anything possible, tool with element it in, or define a schema. There is a drawback that you restrict people to xml processing, what about the case of RDF or audio. Does everyone who needs the element need XML? ... <fsasaki> "Disambiguation|file:///tools.xml#T2" > "Disambiguation|http://enrycher.com/v1.2/language-en" Felix: Paste proposal into chat, from Yves, this URI itself is just a URI, no further information, self-contained in the URL. This tool is X, in Lang Y, in the URL where each tool can create the tool itself. But in a large document this is the list of annotation with URI = tool1, URI = tool2. Dont restrict the URI being retrieved and XML removes this restriction. Dave Lewis: Naoto has interest in this. … any other comments else I'll take this on board, update text, get feedback from Tadej and Yves. Try to update and send off today (2nd Nov). Tadej: I like felix's suggestion on URI encoding. All people will not be able to encode in a common format but good to provide best-practices. ] So why do we discuss the toolinfo element and id resolution in "script" at all? Sorry for the additional loop, Felix 2012/11/7 Dave Lewis <email@example.com> Hi Jirka, Thanks for that. So to check, does the solution suggested by Yves, i.e. reflecting the toolInfo id in the script id, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Nov/0019.html and only having one toolInfo element per script as discussed in. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Nov/0038.html solve this problem? cheers, Dave On 05/11/2012 15:59, Jirka Kosek wrote: On 2.11.2012 14:29, Dave Lewis wrote: For HTML this works when the tool info is external to the file. However, it doesn't work when the tool information is held with the file. Here we could use the XML in htm:script element solution that we use for mark-up in some of the data categories (e.g. Quality Issue). In this case we would need to specify in the spec the element type the IRI refers to. So we would need the following wording: "Where the IRI in not used in a its:toolRefs attribute in an XML document or not for pointing to an external resource in a its-tool-refs attributed in a HTML document, then it MUST refer to a its:toolInfo element." This is not technically possible. In HTML its:toolInfo inside <script> element and is not exposed as a markup, it's just plain text inside <script> which doesn't have ID and can't be directly addressed. Jirka -- Felix Sasaki DFKI / W3C Fellow -- Felix Sasaki DFKI / W3C FellowReceived on Wednesday, 7 November 2012 13:10:44 UTC
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RockyShark needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
A regional chamber of commerce needs a new skin for a standard wordpress blog.
Supporting growth for Rockhampton small business
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modern, professional
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Being a chamber of commerce, we need something professional, but I'm looking for a very 'modern' version of professional rather than a sedate or traditional version of professional.
The blog will also use a couple of pages (About Us, Members, Contact Us) aside from the standard blog Categories and Archive menus, so please include that.
One thing I like is the post date formatted into the little calendar block thing (hope that makes sense!)
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It is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, so I will do my own little thanks post.
First, thanks to everyone reading. This time last year, my subscribers and viewers was OK but it has grown steadily and now several hundred people will get to read my occasional utterances. My best ever single day was for a long time the day In the Pipeline added the blog to its blog roll, but that mark was exceeded by my 10 Nitrogens in a Row post. Mental note: include more stuff that blows up.
That brings me to another thank you: everyone and anyone who gave me the seed for a post. A couple of my co-workers in particular are often giving me ideas, including the 10 Nitrogens post and the series on the unidentified white powder. One lab mate will be telling me something and Will add "you should blog about that!" OK I will and thanks for the tip.
Thanks also to those who have commented or forwarded on the link to the blog. Beyond the odd tweet, I don't really work that hard on drawing attention to it, relying on word of mouth (or tweet) to bring people here. So I really appreciate those who take the time, including Stuart Cantrill, Mr Nature Chemistry himself, as well as the irrepressible ChemJobber who has featured several of my posts on his own blog, all while somehow maintaining an impressive post regime of his own. Thanks, CJ for the links and all your efforts for the chem blogosphere.
Now it looks like it is time for dessert, so I will thank you all once more and hope to see you all tuning in for the foreseeable future.


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) posted disappointing quarterly results and cut its 2013 profit forecast on Monday to reflect a drop in demand for heavy equipment from its mining customers.
But the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment said it believed the pullback in spending by miners was temporary, and its shares rose on news it was reviving a buyback program and would purchase $1 billion in stock this year.
Caterpillar, whose shares have been weighed down for months by concern about the mining sector, is encouraged by "stability" in the construction markets in both the United States and China, said Chairman and Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman.
"We have been watching relatively flat but slightly increasing sales to users for a number of months," he told analysts on a conference call.
Mining equipment is Caterpillar's most profitable product category. Sales to the sector have been hurt in recent quarters because miners, facing investor backlash over unpopular takeovers, budget overruns and falling metal prices, have slashed capital spending, slowing development on some projects and shelving others entirely.
"Investors knew it would be bad, but wanted some quantification from the company," said Adam Fleck, an analyst At Morningstar.
Caterpillar's revised outlook reflects an expected 50 percent decline in sales of its traditional mining trucks and loaders and a 15 percent decline in sales of the draglines made by Bucyrus, the mining equipment company it purchased in 2010.
The delayed and cancelled sales from mining companies are hardly a surprise. Caterpillar has warned investors about the weakness in the sector several times, most recently this month, when it laid off 11 percent of its workforce at the Decatur, Illinois, plant that makes mining equipment.
In January, the company also specifically warned that results for the first quarter would be "well below" those posted during the same period last year as dealers, awash in product, tried to sell off existing inventory before placing new orders.
Robert Wertheimer, a principal at Vertical Research Partners, said the drop in mining orders that Caterpillar was experiencing was "in line" with what rivals were seeing. "We met with several competitors last week and they all seem to be having similar experiences," he said. "It's not a (market) share issue at Caterpillar."
The Peoria, Illinois-based company said it now expects to report a 2013 profit of $7 per share on sales of $57 billion to $61 billion. That was down from a previously estimated profit of between $7 and $9 a share on sales of $60 billion to $68 billion.
The news came as the company reported a weaker-than-expected first-quarter profit.
Caterpillar said it earned a profit of $880 million, or $1.31 a share, down from $1.59 billion, or $2.37 a share, in the year-ago quarter.
Analysts had expected the company to report a profit of $1.40 per share. Sales during the period fell 17 percent to $13.20 billion.
Alexander Blanton, a senior analyst at Clear Harbor Asset Management, said Caterpillar's 9-cent EPS miss was "well within the usual plus or minus 10 percent range," typical for the company.
Caterpillar also said on Monday that it would resume a share buyback for the first time in five years.
Larry De Maria, an analyst at William Blair & Co, said Caterpillar's decision to resume the "mothballed" repurchase program was a "positive factor" and probably was contributing to the market's sanguine reaction to the disappointing results and outlook.
Under that plan, which was approved in 2007, Caterpillar could buy back as much as $3.7 billion of its shares before the repurchase authorization expires in December 2015. The company said it would buy $1 billion back in 2013.
Oberhelman told analysts during the call that for the first time in three years the company was seeing relative stability around the world.
"We don't want to be overly optimistic but it certainly feels better than the last two springs," he said.
The decline in first-quarter sales was led by a drop in revenue from mining products, which plummeted 23 percent. Sales of construction equipment fell 17 percent and sales of gas and diesel power systems declined 12 percent, the company said.
With mining orders falling, Caterpillar needed a strong rebound from other customers, including residential construction, to offset that weakness.
But that increased demand from builders has not materialized fast enough, in part because some jumped the gun last spring when unseasonably warm weather, combined with signs of the nascent economic recovery in the United States, prompted many construction equipment customers to place orders for new machines.
In the end, the optimism proved to be a little premature, said Eli Lustgarten, an analyst at Longbow Securities.
Clear Harbor Asset Management's Blanton said Oberhelman's optimism about China seemed to be borne out by the company's sales there, which were higher in the first quarter of 2013 than they were in the comparable quarter last year.
Caterpillar shares were up 2.5 percent at $82.42 on Monday afternoon, after dipping 1.2 percent to $79.50 in the morning. The shares have a 52-week high of $108.79 and a low of $78.25.
Additional reporting by Julie Gordon in Toronto; writing by Patricia Kranz; editing by Maureen Bavdek and Matthew Lewis


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"I have read the bill and can't find the spending cuts, even with an electron magnifying glass," complained Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, a Tea Party Republican, to the New York Times after Congress passed its fiscal-cliff-averting legislation. Gowdy might have fared better if he'd used an electron microscope, but he was certainly on target with regard to Social Security and Medicare. Other than some minor technical adjustments to Medicare spending, the compromise deal doesn't include any broader reforms that might slow the growth of the two major retiree benefit programs. Instead, the bill enacts higher tax rates on individuals earning $400,000 and couples earning $450,000 – and reinstates a Social Security payroll tax that will hit people at all income levels.
Policy-debate masochists needn't worry: Entitlement reform won't be out of the headlines for long. The new bill puts off a wide range of automatic spending cuts — agreed to during the 2011 debt-limit debate — for just two months, and deficit hawks are saying they plan to press for bigger structural changes when the wrangling begins over those cuts. Social Security and Medicare together make up about 37% of federal spending today, and Medicare's share of the budget in particular is growing fast, so if there's ever to be a grand budget bargain, something will eventually have to give here.
That Social Security payroll tax hike, however, is not insignificant. The employee share of the tax will rise two percentage points, to 6.2% from 4.2%--discontinuing a tax cut that was passed as a stimulus measure in 2011. All wage and salary earners pay that tax on the first $113,700 of their income (up from $110,100 in 2012); the Wall Street Journal estimates that the tax increase will amount to about $200 a month for an individual earning the cap maximum. All in all, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the payroll tax increase will reduce workers' paychecks by about $115 billion in 2013.
Some reformers will be glad to see that tax cut die: Encore contributor Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, is one of many who've argued that making the tax cut permanent would make Social Security's long-term financing shortfall look much worse. Of course, unlike many other changes in the bill, the payroll tax restoration will eat into lower- and middle-income paychecks. Some of those households may get some consolation from the fact that the new deal also extends the earned-income tax credit and the child tax credit for lower income families


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Week 11 of the high school football season will be far from a ho-hum night in Southwest Virginia, but there will be almost no big-picture drama on the final night of the regular season in Region C, Division 1.
With all six playoff spots already locked up, the only thing left is dotting the I's and crossing the T's. That, and working out little details such as who plays whom in the first round next week.
One thing is for certain – Galax is not only in the postseason for the first time since 2002, but waaaay in, either as a No. 2 or No. 3 seed.
(As an aside, there is this guy down in Grundy who is either a football/mathematics whiz or has too much free time on his hands, or both. Maintaining a Web site under the screen name of VHSL Helper, he is profoundly helpful to sportswriters, coaches and fans near and far this time of year with clearing up possible playoff scenarios in regions C, D and IV, going as far as mapping out possible point totals for every team, win or lose, in the final couple of weeks of the season. Helper calls it his 'Cheat Sheet.' Though unaffiliated with the VHSL, his phone calls to Charlottesville often correct mistakes made by the official folks up there. All playoff scenario information herein is credited to VHSL Helper.)
With the top spot locked up forever ago by Eastern Montgomery, Galax and Bath County will decide tonight who gets the No. 2 seed and the first-round bye that goes with it. In a virtual deadlock with Bath (the Chargers are percentage points ahead after nine games), Galax (6-3 overall, 2-1 district) has the easier path to the second seed with a Mountain Empire District game tonight at Narrows (2-7, 1-2). Bath County will need at win on the road at Pendleton County, W.Va. (7-2) to hang on to the No. 2 position.
Galax will enter the playoffs seeded no lower than No. 3 and would host either Covington, Craig County or Rural Retreat should that be the Maroon Tide's fate, but a No. 2 spot would be more than worthwhile as it would put off a meeting with EastMont until the region championship game.
While Narrows will be closing the curtain on its 2010 season, Galax will be tuning up for the weeks to come. The Maroon Tide has ripped off two impressive wins since a 20-16 setback at Fort Chiswell and is returning to full strength, with runningback/linebacker Jordan Vaughan cleared to play last week after suffering a broken foot on Sept. 24 against Craig County.
If anything good has come from the injury it is the fact that the Tide has discovered remarkable depth at the runningback position. Both Jacob Fisher and Steven Peoples have had 100-yard rushing efforts during Vaughan's absence, and Deion George has taken up some of the slack by emerging as a serious big-play threat at wideout with 33 catches on the year for 666 yards, including 16 receptions for 305 yards in the four games since Vaughan's injury.
All that could be disconcerting to Narrows, which continues to struggle defensively. The Green Wave has allowed an average of 44 points in its seven losses, including a season-high 54 last week against Grayson County. Narrows surrendered nearly 300 yards on the ground in the loss to the Blue Devils.
Traditionally a little on the porous side itself on defense, Galax has made serious strides on that side of the ball in 2010 and has given up more than 20 points just three times in nine outings. After allowing an average of about 25 points per game over the past five seasons, Galax has whacked that average to just 14 points per game this year.
Galax (6-3, 2-1) at Narrows (2-7, 1-2)
Friday, 7:30 p.m., Ragsdale Field
Radio: WWWJ 1360AM
Internet: www.wwwj1360.com
Last week
Galax defeated Bland County 32-7
Narrows lost to Grayson County 54-14
Last meeting
2009 (Galax won 35-6)
Last Narrows win
2008 (27-8)
Common opponents
Eastern Montgomery
Galax lost 38-26 Sept. 10
Narrows lost 48-6 Sept. 3
Craig County
Galax won 30-21 Sept. 24
Narrows lost 34-6 Sept. 10
Galax won 34-6 Oct. 22
Narrows lost 36-20 Oct. 1
Fort Chiswell
Galax lost 20-16 Oct. 15
Narrows lost 48-8 Oct. 22
Grayson County
Galax won 23-14 Oct. 8
Narrows lost 54-14 last week
The season
Galax Narrows
D Northwood 45-0 8/27 L to JmsMonroe, WV 46-8
D Alleghany NC 35-0 9/3 L to EastMont 48-6
L to EastMont 38-26 9/10 L to Craig Co. 34-6
L to Radford 27-21 9/17 L to Giles 42-14
D Craig County 30-21 9/24 D Auburn 20-14
Open 10/1 L to Covington 36-20
D Grayson Co. 23-14 10/8 Open
L to Ft. Chiswell 20-16 10/15 D Bland Co. 20-13
D Covington 34-6 10/22 L to Ft. Chiswell 48-8
D Bland County 32-7 10/29 L to Grayson Co. 54-14
at Narrows 11/3 Galax
The series (since 1970)
1970–Narrows 14-7
1971–Galax 21-14
1972–Galax 15-12
1973–Galax 35-0
1974–Galax 35-10
1975–Galax 18-6
1976–Galax 53-14
1977–Tie, 20-20
1978–Narrows 48-6
1979–Narrows 34-12
1980–Narrows 30-20
1981–Narrows 27-6
1982–Galax 24-0
1983–Narrows 16-6
1984–Galax 34-7
1985–Galax 36-0
1986–Narrows 25-22
1987–Galax 17-7
1988–Narrows 26-12
1989–Narrows 44-0
1990–Narrows 34-20
1991–Narrows 30-8
1992–Narrows 42-0
1993–Galax 15-13
1994–Narrows 51-14
1995–Galax 30-0
1996–Narrows 24-6
1997–Galax 28-20
1998–Narrows 16-8
#1998–Narrows 8-0
1999–Narrows 21-20
2000–Galax 49-0
2001–Galax 32-14
2002–Galax 47-36
#2002–Narrows 27-6
2003–Narrows 49-6
2004–Narrows 36-7
2005–Narrows 34-14
2006–Galax 35-12
2007–Galax 21-13
2008–Narrows 27-8
2009–Galax 35-6
#Region C playoffs
Narrows leads 22-19-1
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The drop in the unemployment rate in September -- from 8.1% to 7.8% -- should not have been a gigantic surprise.
As we reported before, the number is consistent with a lot of other September datapoints, including monthly auto sales, which came out earlier this week, and were at the highest level since the crisis, at nearly a 15 million annualized adjusted rate.
And as you can see from this chart, there is a LONG history of the unemployment rate (red line) moving in tandem with car sales.
And that makes total sense. People don't buy cars if they don't have a job.


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1st February, Cambridge
In April 2017 we proudly unveiled our new distillery in Grantchester, Cambridge. Here you will find not only the world's most innovative distillery, but also our exclusive tasting room in which you can meet with our multi-international award winning Master Distiller to have a gin tailored to your own individual palate.
Grantchester is a beautiful village just three miles from Cambridge city centre and train station, easily accessible by car, bicycle, on foot, or even by river from the city. There are four excellent pubs within a stone's throw of the distillery, and the delightful Grantchester Orchard Tea Garden is just around the corner.
Although easily accessible by car, we kindly request that anyone intending to sample any alcohol whatsoever does not drive to the distillery. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like our help in making travel arrangements.
Our Gin Tailoring sessions are always private and by appointment only, not group sessions. You will have the undivided attention of our Master Distiller.
You are most welcome to invite another person to accompany you during the tailoring (must be over 18). If you would like the second person to join in the tasting there is a surcharge of £50 – you can select this from the drop-down menu below.
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- In a Single Tailoring one person creates a single recipe and receives a single bottle
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If you would like to create multiple recipes during your session, order further bottles in advance, or involve a greater number of people (for a corporate event, for example), please email firstname.lastname@example.com with your requirements.
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What are the qualities of a teacher who enjoys project-based learning?
Another snippet from my "survival guide" book draft. Your comments are welcome.
If you as a teacher want to enjoy and get the most benefit from project-based learning activities, you will need to:
- Be comfortable with a loss of control over time, the final product, and "correct" answers. If some parts of the curriculum don't get "covered," if conflicting evidence causes confusion, or a controversial solution to a problem is suggested, these teachers roll with the punches. They have the intellectual confidence to handle ambiguity.
- Accept active students rather than passive students. They have developed new rules of behavior that stress student responsibility, and have trained their principals to differentiate between active learning and a classroom out of control.
- Believe that given enough time, resources, and motivation, all students are capable of high performance. It's not just the talented and gifted student who can make choices, solve problems creatively, and complete complex tasks. These teachers know that most students rise to the level of performance expected of them, and that great ideas can come from anyone in the class.
- Recognize that your expertise must be in the learning and research process not just in a subject area. No longer are these teachers just information dispensers, but guides for information building students. The happiest teachers are co-learners in the classroom, especially when learning new technology tools. Students get the satisfaction that comes from teaching as well.
- Understand your personal enthusiasm is more important than ever. The best projects I have seen have always designed by teachers who are enthusiastic about what they are doing and how they are doing it. The downside to this is that it is very difficult to create recipes for or give examples of specific projects that can be easily adopted by other teachers. A project, no matter how well designed, is going to work for every teacher and every group of students.
- Know that any project may not always work the first time. But these teachers keep trying.
What would you add?


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Addison's disease (the common name for hypoadrenocorticism) is caused by a decreased production of two hormones from the adrenal gland. These hormones are cortisol, a stress hormone, and aldosterone, a mineralocorticoid hormone that regulates the body's water balance through its effects on sodium and potassium.
Amyloidosis occurs when proteins called amyloid are deposited outside of cells in various tissues and organs, causing tissue and organ dysfunction.
Antibodies are specialized proteins, also called immunoglobulins that are primarily found in the bloodstream. They are produced by specialized white blood cells called plasma cells, a form of lymphocyte.
An aortic thromboembolism results when a blood clot is dislodged and travels through the aorta, becoming lodged in a distant location. This causes severely reduced blood flow to the tissues receiving blood from that particular part of the aorta, leading to decreased oxygen in the tissues. Sudden paralysis and pain, usually in the rear legs, are the most common clinical signs of aortic thromboembolism.
Atrial fibrillation describes very rapid contractions, or 'twitching', of the heart muscle, confined to the atria, or the top chambers. Most of the time, atrial fibrillation in cats occur secondary to heart disease.
The bile acid test is a very useful test that helps to determine if the liver is working properly.
Bone marrow is the soft material found in the central core of many bones. Bone marrow is vitally important for the production of blood cells, specifically red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Although many bones contain marrow, samples are collected from three main sites in cats and dogs: hip bone, top of thigh bone, or the forearm below the shoulder.
The first step in processing a blood sample is centrifugation. The blood is placed in a centrifuge, where it is spun in a small circle at high speed (much like a spinning ride at an amusement park).
Coagulation is the series of events that result in the formation of a clot. In the body, coagulation occurs after any injury to a blood vessel or tissue, in order to stop bleeding.
A Coombs' (or direct antiglobulin) test detects the presence of immunoglobulins (antibodies) on the surface of red blood cells. Immunoglobulins are proteins made by white blood cells (specifically plasma cells).


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Upward Bound provides fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in pre-college performance and ultimately in higher education pursuits. Upward Bound serves high school students from low-income families, high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelors degree, and low-income, first-generation military veterans who are preparing to enter postsecondary education. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rates at which participants enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
The CSULB Upward Bound Program offers its services to students year-round. The program is broken up into two major components plus special events:
Both the academic and summer components are designed to assist participants in successfully matriculating to postsecondary education. Curriculum emphasis is placed on reading, mathematics, laboratory sciences, composition & literature, computer application and foreign language. Centered in the areas of study skills development, career planning, health education, physical education and multiculturalism will be supplemental instruction and workshops. Instruction and tutorials will also focus on PSAT, SAT, and ACT test preparation, skills which are necessary for college admission. Additionally, career exploration, work experience, and mentoring will be an integral component to assist participants in deciding on potential college majors and career options.
Students in the Upward Bound program are four times more likely to earn an undergraduate degree than those students from similar backgrounds who did not participate in TRIO.


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Don't panic: That Amy Schumer, J. Law movie is still happening
Remember that glorious summer when we realized Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence were friends?
Fans cheered when the duo revealed they were writing a screenplay together, and planned to star in it. "Amy and I were creatively made for each other," J. Law toldThe New York Times in August 2015. "We play sisters. We're almost done writing. It just flowed out of us."
But without photo evidence of the two hanging out in recent months, worry built about their friendship. "My brother asked me the other day, 'Everybody online thinks you and Amy aren't friends anymore,' " Lawrence told Vanity Fair in the magazine's December 2016 issue. "And I said, 'Oh, really, because everything online is always true.' "
Rest assured, it's very much still on, Schumer tells USA TODAY.
"We wrote it and we're just trying to find a window when we're both free," Schumer said Thursday while chatting about Snatched, her latest comedy with Goldie Hawn.
True story: Up next, Schumer is shootingI Feel Pretty (after announcing she could no longer star in the live-action Barbie film) while Lawrence is currently working on the thriller Red Sparrow, playing a Russian ballerina turned seductive spy.
"I feel real lucky to be busy, but I really hope we do it (soon) — I'm booked the next year and so is she. So in a little over a year, I think that's when we'll film it," says Schumer.


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Growing up, our family summer meals often included a simple, classic cucumber, onion, and tomato salad. The flavors were simple - cucumber, onion, and tomato soaked in a light briny dressing of rice vinegar, sugar, and dill. I adored this salad, and often made it once I had a kitchen of my own. Each bite made me think of childhood summers spent topping fresh green beans with my mom, husking corn on the cob with my grandpa, and picking tomatoes out of the backyard.
I've really missed that salad since cutting out most vinegars, sugar, and tomatoes from my diet. Over the last couple years I have tried playing with different ways to recreate it in a me-friendly way, but never really found the right combination. I finally hit the jackpot last weekend. This salad has a fresh and complex flavor and great texture; it is salty, sweet, tart, crunchy. I used a dressing of lime juice and umeboshi plum vinegar, which isn't really a vinegar at all, but a salty brine leftover from the fermentation and pickling process of making umeboshi plums. I added little dill, a pinch of mustard, and just a bit of my favorite local raw honey, and poured it over farmers market cucumbers and onions. Then I let it sit overnight for the flavors to meld, and the next day revealed an amazing salad at the 4th of July barbeque! My friends really liked it, as evidenced by the photo...
The leftovers were even better after a couple days of sitting in the fridge - the flavor had intensified, and the cucumbers were still nice and crisp. I think I like it better than the original salad because it isn't so gosh darn tooth-achingly sweet. I think that this is my new favorite way to eat cucumbers, next to the rockin' lacto-fermented cucumber dill pickles I just made (recipe soon to come, they are good). This also marks my first lime juice-containing recipe in about two years, which is very exciting. I seem to be tolerating small amounts of lemon and lime again, so I'm taking full advantage of it and keeping my fingers crossed that my tolerance will continue. If you aren't so fortunate, go ahead and use vitamin C crystals to create that "citrusy" bite.
Enjoy, and happy summer!
Cucumber Onion Salad, version 2.0
Depending on which sweetener you use, this can easily be either vegan, raw, ACD-friendly, or all three! I used lime juice; if you do not tolerate lime juice use vitamin C crystals dissolved in water for the acidic element; it will not have the "limey" flavor but will still be delicious.
4 large thin-skinned burpless cucumbers or European cucumbers (if using regular cucumber, you may want to seed and peel them)
2 medium spring onions (or 1/2 small sweet yellow onion)
1/2 cup umeboshi plum vinegar
3 limes, juiced (or 1 1/4 tsp vitamin C crystals dissolved in 1/4-1/3 cup water)
2 Tbsp minced dill
1/4 tsp ground dry mustard
1 Tbsp raw honey, raw agave nectar, maple syrup, brown rice syrup, yacon syrup, or 5 drops plain stevia liquid, to taste
Thinly slice cucumbers and onion with a very sharp knife or a mandoline, or the slicing attachment on your food processor (I used a mandoline, and it worked great). Place in a large bowl or wide, shallow dish.
Whisk together remaining ingredients in a small bowl or and pour over cucumber and onions. Toss to coat, then cover dish and marinate for at least 4 hours, or for best flavor, marinate overnight. While marinating, stir occasionally and re-cover - this will allow for an even distribution of flavor. Serve cold or at room temperature, using a slotted spoon to drain out dressing when serving. Enjoy!


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Stewie Griffin wrote:Now then, I'm going to do something I call the "compliment sandwich", where I say something good, then talk about where you need improvement, and then end with something good.
Pens at Red Wings, a 7-6 overtime win
Something good: Not quitting. Down 4-2 after 2, Detroit added to their lead with an early 3rd period power play goal. It would have been easy to call it a night, but the Pens kept battling and got back to 5-4. The sixth Detroit goal could have been a dagger, but again, the Pens kept after Detroit. They not only salvaged a point that seemed pretty unlikely, they got two, finishing off one of the more memorable regular season comebacks in overtime.
Where they need improvement: Penalty trouble. Against a team like Detroit, you need to stay out of the box. The Pens gave Detroit 5 opportunities, and got burned on 3 of them. A 40% kill rate is not something you can expect to overcome most nights. Part of that is just Detroit has a good power play. Perhaps another is just how important Rob Scuderi (only took 3 shifts in the 2nd before shutting it down for the night) is to that unit.
Something good: Jordan Staal. The goals were great to see and bode well for him going forward. The play he made to body block a defender from grabbing a puck that had gone up into the air was great, and allowed Matt Cooke to gain possession and get it to the net for one of Staal's goal. However, the steal from Pavel Datsyuk to set up Ruslan Fedotenko was my play of the game. Datsyuk is normally on the other side of plays like that and to see the tables turned was a thing of beauty.