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Screenwriting has a very strict format that Microsoft Word cannot fully match. Are there any good screenwriting word processors out there that are free?
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I highly recommend Celtx. One of my friends and I decided to write short plays last summer and this was the program I used and I loved it. I found it very easy to use and figure out and I had never really written plays before then. http://www.celtx.com/index.html
I'm not sure if you're interested in writing in the "cloud" by using online browser based software, but if you are, here are some of the top free online solutions:
The benefits of using online writing tools is that you won't lose your work to computer theft or malfunction...almost every keystroke is automatically saved as you write. The corollary is that you aren't tied to any particular computer...you can login to ANY internet enabled computer to access your screenplays...and some of them (for an extra monthly fee in most cases) will allow you to collaborate in real time with other writers if you grant them access.
Since no one else has suggested it, I would suggest LaTeX for this.
You probably haven't heard of it. (Hipster pose; TeX is over 35 years old and is guaranteed to be bug-free, where the current bounty for any bug is $327.16, that is, 2^15 cents.)
Simply put, LaTeX is a way to create content that allows the writer to forget about format. This separation of content from presentation helps me focus on the actual creative process itself, rather than worry about how it will look. There are infinitely many 'looks' LaTeX can take on, and a great many are already made. For example, there is a 'template' for writing professional-grade screenplays (and another!). Here is a link (PDF) to what becomes of a work written with
LaTeX produces the most beautiful documents and is easy to work with and control. Should you ever need help, there are mounds of experts in LaTeX. (If you don't believe me, head on over to TeX.SX. I can tell you from personal experience that these are the most personable people I've ever encountered on the SE Network, and they are always happy to help you.)
Best of all? LaTeX is absolutely free.
I feel like I've done a poor job of advertisement, but I would challenge you to look into it and explore for yourself. TeX.SX is a great place to start (in my biased opinion) - look around for examples of what (La)TeX can do (and for why I keep 'switching' from TeX to LaTeX! XD).
Any text editor can be made completely functional using a Markdown-like syntax called Fountain (info at fountain.io), which is similar to the formatting standard used here on *Exchange.
The simple markup language was designed by a team including Stu Maschwitz (who made Han Solo step on Jabba's tail in Star Wars for crying out loud) and John August, screenwriter of Go, Big Fish, Charlie's Angels, Titan A.E., Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie.
Long story short, it was designed by people in the industry for people in the industry. The comparison of the raw text and the resulting PDF output of the screenplay for Big Fish on the Fountain website shows how it works.
Somebody already suggests but I'm really satisfied with Latex.
It's distraction free, can be used in ANY text editor you want and has the BIG advantage of separating formatting from content. In my case, I just created my own class to have the final document formatted as I want.
Another huge advantage is that, since it's plain text, you may threat it as computer code and use repositories to track reviews and share your writing efforts with editors and other writers.
http://github.com is great if you want to write something public, and bitbucket.org offers private hosting if you want to keep it private. It's all a matter to understand how it works.
The big disadvantage is that you will have to spend some time to learn the basics but, in my opinion, it's worth.
Yep - Page 2 Stage is available for free. You can even download the source code to it. (Disclaimier - I wrote P2S. But it's 100% free with no hooks or anything.)


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what is the best way to increase the traffic of my stie ? Apart from blog, Articles and classified how can we increase the traffice ?
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I have checked the link given by shabbir. He is right. There is so many helpful and good way in that list.


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Rheumatoid Arthritis Health Center
Azathioprine for Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Azathioprine is taken orally in pill form.
How It Works
Azathioprine is an immunosuppressive medicine, which means that it decreases the action of your body's immune system. By interrupting the immune process, azathioprine reduces inflammation and slows joint damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis. But lowering your immune function may make you more susceptible to infection.
Azathioprine is a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), which means it slows the progression of the disease. DMARDs are also called immunosuppressive drugs or slow-acting antirheumatic drugs (SAARDs).
Why It Is Used
Azathioprine is used for severe rheumatoid arthritis that has not responded to other treatments.
How Well It Works
While azathioprine has been found to reduce inflammation and slow disease progress in some people with rheumatoid arthritis, it does not appear to be as effective as some other DMARDs.1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
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- Lower back or side pain, especially with painful urination.
- Signs of unusual bleeding or bruising, such as black and tarry stools or blood in the urine.
- Unusual tiredness or weakness.
- Yellow eyes or skin.
- Severe belly pain.
- Aching joints, a headache that won't go away, or a fever.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
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These medicines can stop your immune system from fighting infection. When you are taking this medicine (and even when you have finished taking it), try not to be around people who are sick. And make sure you talk to your doctor before you get any vaccinations.
These medicines may increase your risk for cancer, including lymphoma.
Do not drink alcohol when you are taking these medicines. Combining alcohol with these medicines can increase your risk for liver damage.
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Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
Women who use this medicine during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Walker-Bone K, Fallow S (2007). Rheumatoid arthritis, search date June 2005. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence. Also available online: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.
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If your garbage gets picked up on Yom Tov are you allowed to bring back into your property your garbage pails on Yom Tov?
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A garbage pail that contained garbage at the onset of Y"T is muktza because it is "basis" to a muktze.
If emptied on Y"T by city sanitation, you are not permitted to return it to its place. This is because it was muktza at nightfall (bein hashmoshos), and that renders it muktza for the remainder of the day (known as "migu dIskatzoi").
However, on the second day of Y"T, it is permitted. The rule is that which is muktza due to its state during the previous nightfall does not renew during a subsequent nightfall.
As always, consult your rabbi. It is possible that your rabbi would consider a (dirty) garbage pail intrinsically muktza.
AFAIK, at least in general, something considered muktze at the start of yom tov is muktze for the entirety of yom tov [1]; something like garbage for which there is no use (or which is maus or which is specifically set aside for non-use) is AFAIK generally muktze [2]; and a basis (base, or container, or support) for only muktze things is generally AFAIK muktze [3]. Putting those three things together would seem to imply that a garbage can cannot be brought back in on yom tov. But, as always, CYLOR!
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Boreas Inn's Wild Mushroom Celebration weekend is October 11th-13th, 2013.
- The special weekend at Boreas Inn includes a four-course Wild Mushroom and Wine dinner on Saturday night, October 12th, at Pelicano Restaurant. Boreas Inn's traditional Wild Mushroom Celebration Brunch on Sunday is 6-courses and a chance to have breakfast with Veronica Williams, our "All Wild" expert mushroom forager.
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This 3,000-seat venue is home of the SIUE track & field and soccer programs. The complex, which has hosted the NCAA Division II Championships on three occasions, is completely lighted and has a seperate throwing area for field events.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Vadalabene Center
The Vadalabene Center on the Division I campus at SIUE is a flexible venue with seating for 4,000. The main gym can be configured for several different court setups: three full-sized basketball, six volleyball or five badminton. The center is also home to the SIUE wrestling program.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougar Field and SimmonsCooper Baseball Complex
These newly constructed additions to the sports facilities at SIUE serve as the home of the softball and baseball teams, respectively.
Timber Lakes features an 18-hole, par 72 course.
This well-established, hilly nine-hole, semi-private course has many mature oaks, small greens and one water hole. The club also offers a swimming pool, tennis court and snack bar.
Fox Creek features an 18-hole golf course.
One of the oldest colleges in Illinois, founded in 1837. Blackburn is also one of only seven colleges in the U.S. where students work in exchange for tuition credit, and the only one whose Work program is student-run. This keeps Blackburn's tuition among the lowest of all private colleges in the United States. Over the years, students have literally built Blackburn, brick by brick; the only college campus in the United States to be largely built by its students.
Oak Brook features a 27-hole golf course.
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Greenville College's H.J. Long Gymnasium, a 2,000-seat venue, houses the varsity volleyball and basketball programs, and is capable of being configured for two additional courts. The Crum Recreation Center features a fantastic gym setup, and can handle two basketball, tennis or volleyball courts.
The Glik Complex features four baseball/softball diamonds, five soccer fields and two football fields. The park also has a basketball court, skate park, concession stand, and a 2.7-mile walking trail spread over 50 acres.
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I was in the mood for something small and simple. Half an hour later, I had a few trays of these mini chocolate cupcakes sitting on my kitchen counter.
I found that even grown men get all childishly gleeful if you hide mini cupcakes in their apartments while they're away. Still others start drooling and manage to polish off a whole box of these in a single evening.
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Salinas child sex offender shot in Salinas outside his homeUPDATED 9:22 PM PDT Aug 12, 2013
A registered child sex offender, Donald Wayne Crisp, was shot multiple times outside his Salinas home.Video Transcript
WATCH: A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTOR IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION TONIGHT.. AFTER BEING SHOT OUTSIDE HIS HOME .. IT HAPPENED ABOUT 10:30 THIS MORNING AT HYLAND DRIVE AND HIGUERA LANE JUST OUTSIDE SALINAS.. ACTION NEWS REPORTER FELIX CORTEZ IS LIVE IN SALINAS WITH THE STORY.### DAN/ERIN.. SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES NOT SAYING WHAT A MOTIVE MIGHT BE FOR THE SHOOTING.. THEY'RE NOT SAYING IT'S A CASE OF VIGILANTE JUSTICE.. BUT HAVEN'T RULED IT OUT EITHER.. neighbors say 58 year old donald crisp, a convicted child molestor has lived in this home on hylad drive for years.. Never bothered anyone they say.. But monday morning.. Crisp was found shot in his driveway.. 2:01 we know him because of the neighborhood but he says hi to me I say hi to him that's about it I don't know anything about him, he's a convicted sex offender? Yeah that's his history we can't really judge person by book, but you don't think be a reason someone would target him? I have no idea :21 neighbors report hearing nearly half a dozen shots.. Sheriff's deputies say crisp was hit multiple times.. detectives at a loss as to why someone would target the registered sex offender.. 8:16 at this point in time we're still early into the investigation :21 I cant tell you why this would occur I can't provide motive reasoning, rational, I have no idea :27 deputies say a man seen speeding away from the scene in a white car was detained and is being questioned.. it's unknown what his relationship is to donald crisp who was convicted of molesting kids under the age of 14.. Everyone we talked to in this neighborhood was aware of his past.. 3:56 his past is his past and if he's recovered was doing good and helping people out but you never know it could've been for somebody else and he got it sometimes we're at wrong place at wrong time :13 SHERIFF'S DETECTIVES HAVEN'T RELEASED ANY MORE DETAILS REGARDING THE PERSON THEY DETAINED AND QUESTION.. DONALD CRISP IS LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION IN A BAY AREA HOSPITAL.### MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES WANT TO HEAR FROM ANYBODY WHO MAY HAVE INFORMATION REGARDING DONALD CRISP OR THIS MORNING'S SHOOTING.. ###
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Saving the world, one child at a time.
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We are currently collecting school supplies for refugee children with special needs, as these young people don't have any opportunities to attend school. One of our staff members does an amazing job at working with the kids every week to develop their skills, however this is the only formal education these children receive. In hopes of furthering their education, we would like to send some school supplies to the refugee camps in time for Easter this year. We would love any donations (new items only) of the following:
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October 15, 2010
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Recent research shows that American teen girls have caught up with boys in their rates of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, which hasn't always been the case. Read More »20 Comments
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Amid rumors that the actress will make a bid for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's seat, other crossover celebrities give the would-be political star advice.
Ashley Judd hasn't uttered a public peep about running for the Senate in Kentucky, but she is already starring in two political ads put up by her potential opponents that mock the idea of the Democratic actress unseating longtime Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader.
A highlight reel of celebrities in politics shows Republicans may have reason to be nervous rather than amused. Actors do pretty well when they decide to go out on the stump.
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and California Rep. Sonny Bono didn't exactly play Abraham Lincoln onscreen, but they got elected regardless. So did TV stars Fred Grandy of TheLove Boat and Ben Jones of Dukes of Hazzard, who both served in Congress. President Reagan needs no mention. It's harder to think of actors who've lost — like Nancy Kulp, who starred in the Beverly Hillbillies but lost a bid for Congress in central Pennsylvania in 1984.
Actors and athletes who have run and won say Judd's celebrity has a political payoff: She'll have no problem with name recognition, she'll be able to raise a lot of money, and voters won't suspect her of going into politics for personal gain. Then again, as Judd already knows, actor-candidates likely have a video trail that can be sliced and diced for attack ads. And their well-established persona may be at odds with what voters want.
"The advantage of being well-known was that when I started to run, it meant that very few people hated me, even if they couldn't support me," says Bill Bradley, who became a basketball star on the 1964 gold medal Olympic team and played 10 years with the New York Knicks before he ran for the Senate from New Jersey in 1978. "If I was going somewhere to speak, 100 people would show up as opposed to 25. Which only means that it gave me a chance to succeed or fail to four times as many people."
Money and the megaphone of fame can help overcome a bad image or a perceived lack of gravitas from years playing a goofy cruise ship purser named Gopher.
Grandy was still acting in The Love Boat when he started running in Iowa's 1986 congressional election, reading the Farm Bureau Spokesman newspaper in his trailer on the set.
Winning required closing "the Gopher gap" with voters, he says. While his celebrity "pulled people into the tent, what got them to vote for me was 18 months of absolutely grinding retail politics, (going) to every bean feed and pork princess festival and nut fry that would have me."
In California, opinion surveys initially showed that voters saw action star Schwarzenegger as "a thug in a leather jacket," says George Gorton, a political consultant who worked on Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor in 2003. "Even though (they thought) he was a likable thug, we had to undertake a pretty massive effort to change that image. ... (Voters) loved Arnold, but they just weren't going to vote for him for the longest time."
The good, the bad, the ugly
Celebrities and athletes have to clear a "take-me-seriously threshold," says Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, co-author of the 2002 book Celebrity Politics. "But it's not that high. Voters don't know that much about public policy — so you have to be conversant with the major policy issues, but you don't have to be a brain surgeon to persuade voters that you're a serious candidate."
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was the lead campaigner for Proposition 49, a successful 2002 ballot measure which funded after-school programs. As such, he gained support from crucial groups in law enforcement and education and developed a public policy profile before he entered the recall election for governor against Gray Davis the following year.
Franken, the former Saturday Night Live cast member, had to overcome not just his self-absorbed characters on Saturday Night Live, but a salacious 2000 Playboy article called "Porn-O-Rama" that his campaign said was satire. Franken squeaked into office after a seven-month recount process.
Sometimes it takes more than one election to clear the bar. Singer and comedian Sonny Bono ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1992 before he won a seat in Congress two years later. For Bono, his celebrity was a mixed blessing — by the time he ran for office he had spent years being the butt of jokes by his then-wife, Cher, on their TV show.
His widow, former congresswoman Mary Bono Mack, who won his congressional seat after his death in 1998, says that had an impact at the start of his political career. "Sonny being in comedy or the straight man was harder than had he played Moses parting the Red Sea," she says.
Judd, however, "is always playing great strong female characters," Bono Mack says. "She's schooled herself on what she's going to be in for and is known for being very bright — and I think Sen. McConnell could have a fight on his hands."
Judd's past comments — opposing certain types of coal mining, in favor of starting a family through adoption rather than procreation, and critical of the patriarchal aspects of Christianity — have already been unearthed and criticized by conservative online media. There will likely be comments about Double Jeopardy, her 1999 hit film, Tooth Fairy, a 2010 box office success, or Missing, the now-canceled TV show for which she was nominated for an Emmy in 2012. Judd is also part of a famous family — mother Naomi and sister Wynonna are legendary country music performers.
Bono Mack points out that because of the Internet it's not only actors who have a searchable history. "In the era of super PACs, whether you said something foolish as a celebrity or something foolish as the guy next door, it will be exposed," she says. "And it can backfire, as we all know. You can hit that funny bone that constituents have of sympathy if you play it. More so if they like the (actor's) character to begin with."
A Bluegrass battle looms
Kentucky has already elected a crossover politician: Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, the Hall of Fame pitcher, retired in 2010 after 14 years in Congress. On the other hand, Nick Clooney, father of movie star George and brother of singer Rosemary, failed in a 2004 race for Congress that his opponent, Geoff Davis, called "Hollywood vs. the heartland."
Judd has not made a decision on whether to run or even decided when she will make a decision, her spokeswoman Cara Tripicchio says. On Friday, Judd avoided the question when she spoke on public health at George Washington University in Washington. But she has been consulting state and national Democratic leaders in private.
Judd, who announced in December she is divorcing race car driver Dario Franchitti, was raised in Kentucky but lives in Nashville — though she continues to be a high-profile sports fan of the University of Kentucky, her alma mater. (A 1998 calendar photo of Judd in a UK hockey jersey and little else would probably pop up during a campaign, too.) She has met with prominent state Democrats to discuss the race, and is seeking to talk to more: the speaker of the Kentucky House said last week that Judd had called him for a meeting.
One of her biggest boosters is the state's sole Democratic congressman, John Yarmuth. "She will get millions and millions of dollars' worth of earned media. She will be able to draw a crowd wherever she goes," Yarmuth says. "She has the ability to galvanize most of the energy that is out there to unseat McConnell, and there is a lot of it."
But McConnell's opponent will need to be a good fundraiser, as former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann learned when he went up against an incumbent in the 2006 Pennsylvania governor's race. Swann got out-raised $10 million to $30 million and walloped at the polls, by Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.
McConnell already has more than $7 million on hand, and American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-founded PAC that ran an online ad against Judd, appears willing to spend money on his behalf as well. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has also targeted the race.
"My expectation is Kentucky per capita will probably be the top state as far as spending by super PACs on both sides," says state Democratic chairman Dan Logsdon.
The end of 'celebrity'
Those who've been there say that if Judd makes it to Capitol Hill, she'll be in demand as a fundraiser again — this time for colleagues. Franken, for instance, has raised more than $32 million since 2008; through his Midwest Values PAC, he gave $1.6 million to other Democrats in the 2012 election.
Actress and activist Ashley Judd spoke at a women's health forum at George Washington University addressing women's reproductive health issues and violence against women. VPC
Grandy, in the pre-PAC era, appeared at candidate fundraisers "almost every weekend for the first couple of terms that I was a member," he says. "And to be perfectly honest with you, I had an ulterior motive in mind, which was to get on the Ways and Means Committee." He succeeded.
Otherwise, celebrities have made sure to keep their heads down both with the public — Franken stays out of the media except for Minnesota news organizations — and their colleagues.
"Being a freshman is a great equalizer," Bono Mack says.
Bradley says he waited five months before making a speech on the Senate floor. "I made sure I didn't talk about basketball for the first three years," he says. "(If) somebody asked me a question, I answered it. I wasn't reminiscing about the old days, even though I knew people were interested. I waited for them to initiate it."
Winning an election is the beginning of the end for stardom. After the first success, you're a politician, not a celebrity. Bradley's presidential campaign did not last beyond the early primaries. Grandy lost a governor's race. Tom Osborne, the winningest football coach in University of Nebraska history, easily won election to Congress in 2000. But six years later, he lost a GOP primary challenge to incumbent Gov. Dave Heineman after Osborne said he would support a bill offering in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.
"There's a certain honeymoon period," Osborne says now. "But at some point they really want to know what you can do, what you know, and what you can deliver."
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Agriculture & Food
Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
The reality is that most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. Hunger is a crisis when disaster ruins the harvest. It is a cycle when families cannot grow or buy enough to lead healthy, productive lives, and when the effects of malnutrition are passed on to the next generation.
When food shortages occur due to drought and conflict, Mercy Corps helps prevent hunger and treat malnutrition in the most vulnerable — children, pregnant women, the elderly and the displaced. We distribute vouchers, cash or emergency rations, working with local suppliers to speed delivery, save money and boost local economies.
In addition to emergency responses, we focus on long-term solutions that build future food security.
Mercy Corps helps farmers manage their land, increase their harvests and diversify crops to produce a larger, more nutritious, and stable food supply. By teaching nutrition and hygiene, we ensure families can utilize their resources to boost their health. And we connect farmers with new markets and introduce more efficient methods of tending productive livestock and processing and storing crops to increase incomes for years to come.
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Kyrgyzstan: The Apple Project Video
This nine-minute documentary shows every step of the Apple Project, Mercy Corps' program to help farmers grow better varieties of apples and to increase their financial independence in one of Central Asia's poorest countries.
North Korea: Seeing for the first time
For many years, I was privileged to hear firsthand stories of the people of North Korea from my husband, Mercy Corps co-founder Ells Culver.
Colombia: Room to Grow
Bogotá, Colombia — Greenhouses are not a common sight in Colombia's crowded capital. But on the southern edge of town, a rocky hillside hosts a half-dozen covered gardens that are offering nourishment for both the body and soul of people like Marleny Yara.
Afghanistan: Life in Shashtepa Takes a Turn For The Better
Indonesia: Precious Seedlings
Kyrgyzstan: Seedlings of Change
Nearly one million families in Kyrgyzstan tend home gardens. Most of these families grow apples. And many rely on the income they get from the round fruits — which originated in modern-day Kyrgyzstan and its northern neighbor, Kazakhstan — for life's basic necessities.
West Bank and Gaza: A Growing Despair
Honduras: Conservation that Benefits Families
There aren't many places in the world where, from a single vantage point, you can get a clear view of Mercy Corps' work. I am fortunate that a 6,600-foot mountain in Honduras' Blue Mountain National Park offers just such an opportunity.
Kosovo: A liberating chain
Reqane, Kosovo - What do you get when you put together a dairy owner, a veterinary pharmacist and a woman with a cow? A new economy that works.
Mongolia: The Rich Yellow Desert


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• Convening of regional governors: As this crisis is not only facing Massachusetts, but also other states in New England and across the nation, Governor Patrick will meet with New En...
• Convening of regional governors: As this crisis is not only facing Massachusetts, but also other states in New England and across the nation, Governor Patrick will meet with New England governors on June 17 at Brandeis University to discuss a regional response to the opioid epidemic.
• Expanding and streamlining access to services: In order to meet the escalating demand for treatment, ensure a comprehensive continuum of care and facilitate access to coordinated care, DPH will expand community-based and residential treatment programs for underserved populations, including adolescents, young adults and families with children. DPH will also develop a central navigation system that will maintain a real-time inventory of available services across the state to assist individuals in finding appropriate treatment.
• Enhancing opioid education: DPH will launch a statewide awareness campaign for youth and parents to promote more openness and public dialogue about issues of addiction and recovery. The state will also help enhance education for medical professionals on best-practices in identifying and treating individuals with opioid addiction.
• Addressing insurance practices: DPH and the Division of Insurance, in consultation with the Health Policy Commission, will conduct a comprehensive review of insurance coverage for opioid addiction treatment. The agencies will consult with clinical experts to develop minimum criteria for opioid abuse and addiction treatment services that will be considered medically necessary for all patients. The task force found that gaps in coverage were impacting services for individuals in need.
• Expanding correctional system treatment: The state will work to provide individuals with enhanced support and treatment for drug addiction when they leave correctional facilities and integrate back into society. The report recommends additional funding to expand the use of injectable naltrexone (Vivitrol), an opioid antagonist, to help individuals in the custody of the Department of Correction and Houses of Correction to continue their recovery as they re-enter the community.
• Strengthening safe prescribing and dispensing: DPH will work with the boards of registration to consider regulations to minimize diversion and misuse while ensuring safe prescribing and patient access to medication.
• Expanding peer-support networks: The administration will work with communities to expand peer support networks comprised of individuals in recovery who provide guidance to those navigating pathways out of addiction. The task force recommends adding new Recovery Support Centers and expanding the hours of existing Recovery Support Centers to provide places for people in recovery to spend time involved with safe, drug-free activities in the community. The task force also recommends adding a recovery school in Central Massachusetts.
SOURCE: Office of Gov. Deval Patrick
Community leaders gathered at a forum in Taunton Monday night to reassess the spread of the city's heroin epidemic.
On Tuesday morning, those fighting addiction in the Silver City received a little help from Gov. Deval Patrick, who announced a series of actions to address the opiate addiction epidemic in the state.
"These actions will help enhance our network of treatment and recovery services to help communities and families struggling with addiction," Patrick said. "I hope this work results in more families talking openly about issues of addiction in order to spark the process of healing and recovery."
Patrick's office said that the measures "will strengthen the state's ability to respond to the opioid crisis with a focus on prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery."
A spokesman for Patrick's administration also said the actions proposed "will have impact on the Greater Taunton area and the commonwealth as a whole. As the recommendations are implemented over the next fiscal year, the impacts on specific communities will become available. "
Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr., the host and an organizer of Monday's forum, welcomed the news from Beacon Hill. He also served on Patrick's Opioid Task Force.
"It is certainly good news that the Patrick Administration as well as the Legislature has stepped up to meet the opiate addiction crisis," Hoye said Tuesday. "Prevention, intervention and treatment for addicts as well as social supports for families are being augmented, which in turn gives those in need hope."
Patrick has proposed and scheduled a meeting of all New England governors on June 17 at Brandeis University to discuss a regional response to addiction.
Other actions called for by Patrick's office include expanding and streamlining access to services, enhancing opioid education, addressing insurance practices, expanding correctional system treatment, strengthening safe prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications and expanding peer-support networks.
Taunton has been particularly hard hit by 2014's wave of overdoses. The city lost 10 residents to fatal overdoses, and emergency services responded to at least 138 more ODs since Jan. 1.
"We took action here in Taunton bringing this issue to light and my hope is our region directly benefits from the governor's opiate task force's findings," Hoye said. "I am proud to have been asked to serve on the task force, and pleased with the finished product. Now it is time to put the ideas into motion."
Over the past two months, the governor's Task Force met with families and stakeholders from across the state and worked with the Department of Public Health. Their goal was to develop a set of findings and recommendations designed to improve the Bay State's opioid abuse prevention and treatment systems, prevent opioid misuse and addiction, and to increase the numbers of persons seeking treatment and recovering addicts.
Page 2 of 2 - "Members of the Task Force have put forward strong recommendations, and I thank the governor for committing to these actions that will help improve treatment services and fill any gaps in our recovery system," said DPH Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett. "Massachusetts already has a strong treatment system, and I look forward to working with our partners in the Legislature and across the Commonwealth to create a national model for recovery."
Patrick announced the Task Force's findings Tuesday morning at the Ostiguy Recovery High School in Boston, one of four recovery high schools in the state.
Patrick declared a public health emergency on March 27 and gave the DPH the authority to take immediate steps, including the formation of an Opioid Task Force within the Interagency Council on Substance Abuse and Prevention.
"We, at Learn To Cope, a support group for families struggling with the disease of a loved one, have seen our membership grow for 10 years," said Mary E. D'Eramo of Learn to Cope. "We appreciate the efforts of this task force, engaged by Gov. Patrick to develop solutions to making things better for all of the citizens of the Commonwealth. We hope these solutions from this task force take direct aim at the causes, the barriers and make the difference to turn the tide in Massachusetts."
The task force, chaired by Bartlett, a registered nurse, was charged with developing additional policy recommendations to strengthen the state's response to what was now classified as a "public health emergency."
Patrick's emergency steps made overdose antidote Narcan widely available to first responders and in pharmacies and accelerated the mandatory enrollment of prescribers in the Prescription Monitoring Program.
Patrick also took aim at what many consider the root cause of the epidemic: prescription painkiller abuse.
"It is reassuring to those of us on the front lines to know that Governor Patrick has the courage and conviction to tackle this issue head on," said John McGahan, a task force member and President of the Gavin Foundation in Boston. "Governor Patrick understands that addiction is a complex issue that must be addressed through a broad spectrum of governmental agencies. The approach announced today addresses a public health crisis without compromising public safety, one that supports communities, families and the persons seeking recovery."
Another task force member, Paul Kusiak, a board member of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery, praised Patrick's efforts.
We cannot thank Governor Patrick enough for his unwavering support for substance abuse services."
"I am grateful for Governor Patrick's leadership, which brought together organizations, families, and individuals from across our state," Kusiak said. "Everyone's input was valuable and needed to better address an opioid epidemic that's like no other that I've ever experienced. Much needed funds, resources, and focus will save lives and help more families heal."
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Health & Pregnancy
Birth Defects Testing - Topic Overview
What are birth defects tests?
Birth defects tests are done during pregnancy to look for possible problems with the baby (fetus). Birth defects develop when something is wrong with genes or chromosomes, an organ, or body chemistry. A birth defect may have only a mild impact on a child's life, or it can have a major effect on quality of life or life span.
Birth defects include:
- Genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome and trisomy 18.
- Diseases passed in a family, such as Tay-Sachs, sickle cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis.
- Structural problems, such as heart defects and neural tube defects, including spina bifida.
What are the types of tests?
There are two types of birth defects tests: screening and diagnostic.
- Screening tests show the chance that a baby has a certain birth defect. It can't tell you for sure that your baby has a problem. If the test result is "positive," it means that your baby is more likely to have that birth defect. So your doctor may want you to have a diagnostic test to make sure. If the screening test result is "negative," it means that your baby probably doesn't have that birth defect. But it doesn't guarantee that you will have a normal pregnancy or baby.
- Diagnostic tests show if a baby has a certain birth defect.
Screening tests for birth defects are blood tests and ultrasounds. The blood tests are used to look for the amount of certain substances in your blood. The doctor uses an ultrasound to look for certain changes in the baby. Diagnostic tests involve taking some of the baby's cells to look at the genes and chromosomes.
No test is 100% accurate. A test may be negative even when the baby has a birth defect. This is called a false-negative test result. It's also possible that a test will be positive-meaning the test result is abnormal-but the baby does not have the problem. This is called a false-positive test result.
You may have only first-trimester tests or only second-trimester tests. Or you may have an integrated test. This test combines the results of tests you have in your first trimester and second trimesters.


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A Phase III Trial Comparing Whole-Pelvic (WP) to Prostate Only (PO) Radiotherapy and Neoadjuvant to Adjuvant Total Androgen Suppression (TAS): Preliminary Analysis of RTOG 9413
Heather Jones, MD
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Last Modified: November 6, 2001
Presenter: M. Roach III
Presenter's Affiliation: Radiation Oncology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Type of Session: Plenary
Many unanswered questions await definitive resolution in the treatment of prostate cancer. There has been significant controversy in the field of radiation oncology regarding the optimal field size and ideal integration of hormonal therapies. This particular trial tests the hypothesis that: 1.TAS and WP radiotherapy (RT) followed by a prostate boost improves the progression-free survival (PFS) by at least 10% compared to TAS and PO RT. 2. This trial also test the hypothesis that neoadjuvant (NHT) followed by concurrent TAS and RT improves the PFS compared to RT followed by adjuvant TAS (AHT) by at least 10%. Secondary objectives included comparing treatments with regard to local control, time to distant failure and overall survival (OS). This trial is an initial report of RTOG 9413.
Materials and
Author's Conclusions
This preliminary analysis demonstrates that Whole Pelvis RT is associated with an improvement in PFS compared to Prostate Only RT in patients with a risk of lymph node involvement >15%. The failure to see an early advantage in PFS with NHT compared to AHT may result from the fact that the time from the date of randomization to discontinuation of TAS is two months later on the AHT arms. Further analysis suggests that WP RT+NHT may be best in terms of PFS (p=0.011) and OS (p=0.12). Longer follow-up is required to confirm the trends seen in this preliminary report since the median survival is not likely to be reached for several years.
Clinical/Scientific Implications
This study attempts to tackle two issues in the treatment of prostate cancer 1. the treatment volume and 2. the use of hormones neoadjuvantly versus adjuvantly. Early results would seem to indicate that neoadjuvant HT and whole pelvis irradiation as an advantage over adjuvant HT and prostate alone RT. However, the followup in this study is too short to make sweeping recommendations. When the data does mature, we can hope to gain some insight into the whole pelvis vs prostate only volume issue. A major question remains: Is it treatment of the lymph nodes that improves the outcome or just the treatment of the periprostatic tissues with the larger pelvic fields. Also, the definition of PSA failure used in this study is not the currently endorsed recommendation and may influence the reported PSA failure rate in this study. In RTOG 9413, we have yet another study that demonstrates that the addition of neoadjuvant androgen ablation to definitive radiation therapy is associated with a highly significant improvement in local control and freedom from disease progression; its impact on survival remains an open question.
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Iran's Reformists Get Pre-Election Surge
Opposition Consolidates in Final Days of Campaign for Friday's Presidential Ballot, Drawing Renewed Voter Support
BEIRUT—A ray of hope for the candidate backed by Iran's political opposition breathed new life into the presidential race ahead of elections Friday, with opinion polls pointing to a runoff between the remaining reformist on the ballot and the conservative mayor of Tehran.
Hassan Rohani, a 65-year-old cleric aligned with reformists, was leading several polls, with Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a 51-year-old conservative former military commander, close behind. The two are among the six candidates on the ballot, all of whom were vetted by the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The other four contenders, all conservatives, trailed in polls on the eve of the election, including nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Ali Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister. Both men are seen as close to the supreme leader and, as conservatives, loyal to the views of Mr. Khamenei and his regime.
The apparent gain in support for Mr. Rohani was partly due to reformists—who seek gradual democratization and increases in social freedoms—consolidating their votes behind with the withdrawal from the race of the other reformist candidate, Mohamad Reza Aref.
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Mr. Rohani also invigorated the campaign with speeches in which he has sounded more like a radical reformist, calling for a free press, the release of political prisoners and more liberal university campuses.
He has also heavily criticized the economic and foreign policies of the Iranian government and pledged to reset Iran's relations with the world.
Former Presidents Mohamad Khatami and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, both of whom can command a strong voter base, publicly endorsed Mr. Rohani this week.
Many supporters of the opposition Green Movement who had been undecided about whether to boycott the election appeared newly resolved to cast their ballots in support of Mr. Rohani to challenge the regime.
"At the very least by voting we can show that the reformists still have a strong power base. We can make it difficult for them to engineer the elections," said Alireza, a 35-year-old voter from Tehran who declined to give his surname. He said he signed up as a volunteer for Mr. Rohani's campaign after a last-minute change of heart to vote.
In the final days of the campaign, conservative newspapers warned that lack of unity could cost them the election.
Resalat, a pro-government newspaper, reported that last-minute efforts to convince the four conservative candidates to consolidate had failed. A majority of over 50% is necessary to win outright, otherwise a runoff will be held between the top two finishers.
The last time Iran held presidential elections, in 2009, the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced while people were still lined up to vote, fueling allegations of fraud that sparked large-scale demonstrations.
Mr. Khamenei, who has the last word in all state matters, hasn't openly endorsed a candidate. Mr. Khamenei's representatives have said the next president of Iran should be someone who is fully loyal to the supreme leader and does nothing to challenge his views or policies.
"Even if you are against the regime, vote for your country," Mr. Khamenei said in a televised speech on Wednesday, in a rare public acknowledgment of the opposition.
The festive mood typically associated with Iranian elections arrived in the final hours of the race as people packed streets in Tehran.Iranians, mostly young men and women, blasted music from cars, honked horns and chanted slogans for their candidates. "There is a surge of election participation that is definitely not as significant and polarizing as 2009 but it's still notable," said Sadegh Zibakalam, a political analyst in Tehran.
Campaign posters and literature covered the streets like confetti. Occasional arguments broke out, but there were no reports of major clashes, according to witnesses and media reports.
ShabakeIran, a conservative news website affiliated with the government, reported on Thursday that their polls showed Mr. Rohani leading with 43% support, Mr. Qalibaf had 21% and Mr. Jalili at 10%.
Polling data from the independent Virginia-based consultancy service IPOS showed Mr. Rohani leading with 31.7%, Mr. Qalibaf at 24.1% and Mr. Jalili at 13.7%. The IPOS poll was conducted by calling random landline and mobile numbers of over 1,000 Iranians in cities and rural areas every day for the past few weeks, with a 3% margin of error.
Mr. Jalili's lackluster campaign and hard-line views unsettled many voters. He repeatedly used clichéd vocabulary during televised debates and appeared out of touch when he defended the country's "glorious resistance" with the rest of the world at a time when most average Iranians are eager for better relations and easing of sanctions.
Reformers used the threat of Mr. Jalili's presidency as a way to rally supporters to the polls on Friday. One voter, Azin, a teacher in her 40s who declined give her surname, said she changed her mind about voting after she heard ex-President Khatami urge voters to back Mr. Rohani.
"We don't have a perfect democracy but we have a little window and we like to use it to challenge the conservatives," she said.
Some Iranians still said they wouldn't vote because they don't trust the process—saying that voting would be a betrayal of the many victims of the regime's brutal crackdowns on the 2009 postelection uprising.
"I don't feel like being a part of their game again. By not voting I'm showing them that I'm angry and disappointed over every thing that has happened in the past four years," said Samira, a 26-year-old graduate student who withheld her surname.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, whose victory sparked charges of fraud four years ago, warned on Thursday against meddling with ballots.
"If people are valued and they are the ones who determine [the election outcome] then we shall see some good things happening," he said, according to Iranian media reports.
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Hassan Rohani is the one reformist left on the ballot.
A selected résumé:
- Member of National Security Council since 1989.
- Since 1999, served on influential clerical committees
- Two-time deputy speaker of parliament.
- Top nuclear negotiator under reformist President Mohamad Khatami from 2003-2005
- Holds degrees in law from Tehran University and Scotland's Glasgow Caledonian University
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Gov. Steve Beshear has vetoed a bill sponsored by House Speaker Greg Stumbo that would have set up a process to resolve payment disputes between medical providers and Medicaid managed care organizations.
The measure would have set up an appeals process in the Department of Insurance to speed up resolution of payment disputes.
Beshear told reporters at a Capitol press conference the bill could have led to excessive costs to state government and interfered with contracts with doctors, hospitals and the managed care groups.
Stumbo had proposed the legislation because of complaints that Medicaid payments weren't always being made promptly. Beshear said a review found that most clalims over the past year had been approved and paid.
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Over the years, I've had many people label me as a marketing guy just because I help build brands. I don't like being labelled, but I particularly don't like that marketing label. Why? In my view, traditional marketing sets up an adversarial relationship, a battle of wills pitting seller vs. buyer... Read more
I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend much of my time these days doing something I love—helping clients position and manage their brands. My experience helping build the Red Hat brand over ten years had a profound impact on the approach I take to brand positioning.


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Terryville Library group's 'Booktique' continues to thrive
In this season of thanksgiving and optimism in the new year, the Friends of the Terryville Library wish to express its deepest gratitude to the many patrons and volunteers who have made the first four months of the Booktique's opening a success.
When the Booktique opened in September 2012, the many volunteers who prepared the Friends' used book store hoped for humble success after all their hard work. We have seen, instead, wonderful success through a growing interest in our enterprise. In the last four months, we have truly enjoyed meeting and helping the many wonderful and generous patrons who have supported our efforts through their purchases of books and fundraising tickets, and their generous book donations. Because of these many patrons and the volunteers who have enthusiastically worked during our fall sales, the Booktique has thrived. The Friends remain forever grateful for all their patronage and help.
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Previous: patch and POSIX, Up: Merging with patch
The current version of GNU patch normally follows the POSIX standard. See patch and POSIX, for the few exceptions to this general rule.
Unfortunately, POSIX redefined the behavior of patch in several important ways. You should be aware of the following differences if you must interoperate with traditional patch, or with GNU patch version 2.1 and earlier.
Also, traditional patch simply counted slashes when stripping path prefixes; patch now counts pathname components. That is, a sequence of one or more adjacent slashes now counts as a single slash. For maximum portability, avoid sending patches containing // in file names.
Conversely, in POSIX patch, backups are never made, even when there is a mismatch. In GNU patch, this behavior is enabled with the --no-backup-if-mismatch option, or by conforming to POSIX.
The -b suffix option of traditional patch is equivalent to the '-b -z suffix' options of GNU patch.
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Still no answers on Benghazi
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton put on an unsettling performance last week when she spoke to two congressional committees about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Mrs. Clinton, who has served since the beginning of the Obama administration in January 2009, is expected to step down tomorrow.
Famously, the Obama administration claimed for weeks that the attack, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube video. Of course, it later emerged that the intelligence community knew almost immediately that the attack had been planned by Islamic militants sympathetic to al-Qaida.
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I want to install Debian Unstable alongside Maverick but I don't want to lose my data.
Also my CD drive is Broken.
Installing Debian without a CD drive
If you have the partition space to install Debian along side Ubuntu as a dual boot setup (as mentioned in previous answers), then as you have a broken CD drive you can install Debian (and other Linux distributions) from a USB memory stick.
Using the System > Administration Startup Disk Creator you can create a USB memory stick from any of the Ubuntu CD images, the .iso files. You may be also able to use debian .iso files with the same startup disk creator.
Alternatively, you can use unetbootin which will create live and install USB sticks from a wide range of distributions (it will even download the the .iso files for you for some distributions).
Installation from a USB memory stick is exactly the same as from a CD, however for some PC hardware when first switching on the PC you may need to press the escape key when you see the manufacturers logo to bring up a boot menu allowing you to select the USB memory stick as the boot device.
The normal process would be to reparition your HD (if you don't have another one), install Debian into the new free space, don't install a new grub, edit Ubuntu's grub to boot to Debian and you're done.
However, I've just found Lubi which gets its name from Wubi. It basically allow you to install a linux to a file in your existing filesystem and then just loopback-mount it and chainload into it from Grub. I've made it sound more complicated than it is... But it looks like it should work.
It certainly seems a lot less destructive than repartitioning could be.
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Sheriff Edward N. Bonner
Physical Address:
2929 Richardson Dr
Auburn CA 95603
2929 Richardson Dr
Auburn CA 95603
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 6990
Auburn CA 95604
P.O. Box 6990
Auburn CA 95604
Lobby Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday - Friday
Office Phone (Non-Emergency ): 530-889-7800
Fax Number: 530-889-7899
send email
Services Available:
The Placer County Sheriff's Office Colfax Substation is staffed primarily by volunteers from the community who are interested in assisting the Sheriff's Office in a variety of areas. To inquire about how you can become a Sheriff's Office volunteer, please call the number below or send e-mail by clicking the link below.
10 Culver St
Colfax CA 95713
Business Hours: Please call for hours or appointment
Business Phone (non-911): 530-346-2256
Fax: 530-346-7056
The City of Colfax contracts it's law enforcement needs through the Placer County Sheriff's Office. The city currently has a population base of 1500 residents and numerous businesses, with more growth predicted in the near future. The Sheriff's Office also services the outlying County area with an additional 5000 residents. The Colfax Substation is manned by a Sergeant, 4 City dedicated deputies and 2 resident deputies, who handle the area between Colfax and Donner summit. The Colfax Substation also enjoys the services of senior volunteers.
The entire staff of the Colfax Substation requested this duty station and is very dedicated to providing excellent law enforcement services to the community.
From I-80 follow signs to Main St, Colfax. Take South Auburn St. eastbound which then turns north across railroad tracks to stop sign at Main St. Turn left on Main St - 1/2 block to Colfax City Hall and Sheriff's Substation. Located next door to Colfax Cinema.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office Service Centers are managed by a full-time employee. They are staffed primarily by volunteers from the community who are interested in assisting the Sheriff's department in a variety of areas. To inquire about how you can become a Sheriff's Office volunteer, please call the number below or send e-mail by clicking the link below.
24580 Main St
Foresthill CA 95631
24580 Main St
Foresthill CA 95631
Business Hours:Please call for hours or appointment
Office Phone (non-911): 530-367-4444
Fax: 530-367-4744
From I-80, take Foresthill Rd exit and continue East. Merge onto Main Street to and continue east to Service Center.
6140 Horseshoe Bar Rd
Suite D
Loomis CA 95650
6140 Horseshoe Bar Rd
Suite D
Loomis CA 95650
Lobby Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm M-Th 8:00am - 4:00pm F
Office Phone (non-911): 916-652-2400
Fax Number: 916-652-2424
The South Placer Substation is located in Loomis and covers the area from Newcastle to Sacramento County line. The communities served by the substation include Newcastle, Ophir, Penryn, Loomis, Granite Bay, the West Roseville/Dry Creek area, Sunset Estates, Rural Lincoln and Sheridan.
The South Placer Substation is commanded by a Sheriff's Office captain. Staffing of the substation includes 33 patrol positions, 3 detectives, 4 patrol sergeants, 1 Community Services/School Safety sergeant, 4 D.A.R.E. officers, 4 schools resource officers, 1 community services officer, several reserve deputies, numerous volunteers and other professional staff.
The Town of Loomis contracts for its law enforcement services with the Placer County Sheriff's Office. Some of the advantages of contracting law enforcement services include:
They do not have to duplicate a dispatch center.
The resources of the entire Sheriff's Office are brought to bear on any major event or crime.
The substation and the entire staff for the south county area are housed in Loomis. A greater law enforcement presence is provided as patrol units for other areas serviced by the substation travel through Loomis.
Community Services are based in Loomis. This allows for greater attention and access to the department volunteers.
The Air Support Unit includes the Town of Loomis in their routine patrol operations at no extra cost to the Township.
In addition to the listed services, there is also a full-time traffic enforcement officer for the Town of Loomis. The Loomis patrol car and the traffic car are equipped with radar and lidar to assist in the enforcement of traffic laws. A Critical Accident Response team is based in Loomis and responds to any major or fatality vehicle accident to professionally investigate and prepare a report. Participation in this unit entails a higher level of training and dedication on the part of the deputies in order to attain the level of expertise necessary to investigate major traffic accidents.<
A collateral assignment of some deputies is to work bike patrol. The bicycles are used for special events and during the summer months to patrol concentrated population and commercial areas. They are a highly visible presence to local merchants and neighbors but they often have the advantage of silently and unexpectedly approaching suspects.
In addition the office volunteers, The Sheriff's Team of Active Residents or S.T.A.R.S., is based at the South Placer Substation. The S.T.A.R.S. are used throughout the county to provide a myriad of additional services to residents and communities. S.T.A.R.S. volunteers conduct vacation checks of homes and abandoned vehicle abatement, work traffic details at parades, festivals and other events, supervise inmate worker car wash crews for county vehicles, and provide other assistance when and where they are needed most .
Substation is to immediate north of I-80 in business complex.
Physical Address:
2501 N. Lake Blvd
P.O. Box 1710
Tahoe City CA 96145
2501 N. Lake Blvd
P.O. Box 1710
Tahoe City CA 96145
Lobby Hours: 8:00am - 4:00pm Monday -Friday
Office Phone (non-911): 530-581-6301
After Hours: 530-581-6300
Fax Number: 530-581-6366
The Placer County Sheriff's Tahoe Station is located about 1 ½ miles east of Tahoe City on Highway 28. It is slotted for 48 positions and commanded by a Sheriff's captain. Staffing includes 1 field operations lieutenant, 18 patrol deputy positions, 6 patrol sergeants, 4 detectives, 1 detective sergeant, 1 problem-oriented deputy (neighborhood disputes and Placer County code violations), 1 administrative sergeant, 2 jail deputies, 1 evidence technician, 2 community services officers and 5 professional staff.
Some of the services provided by the Tahoe Station include:
Robert Montgomery Watson came to Tahoe in 1875 as a logger and became the town's first constable in 1906. After Constable Watson's death in 1932 he was replaced by Swedish immigrant Harry Johanson, known to the locals as Harry Jo. After taking over as constable, Harry Jo also became Tahoe's first deputy sheriff, deputy tax collector and deputy coroner, covering his beat in the summer by horseback and by dogsled in the winter. The Tahoe station opened on September 30, 1960 in anticipation of the growth that would be created by the 1960 winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Harry Johanson retired as Constable in 1967. He remained in the area until his death in 1983 and is buried in the Tahoe City Cemetery.
The Tahoe Station covers the largest portion of Lake Tahoe, from the California/Nevada state line on Highway 28 west to the Nevada County line in Truckee and south on Highway 89 to the El Dorado County line in Tahoma. The station also covers Highway 267 from Kings Beach to the Nevada County line in Truckee as well as a small portion of Donner Lake. The communities covered by the station include Kings Beach, Tahoe Vista, Carnelian Bay, Cedar Flat, Dollar Point, Tahoe City, Sunnyside, Pineland, Homewood, Kingswood, Northstar, Martis Valley, Alpine Meadows, Olympic Valley, Lahontan, Timilick, Sierra Meadows, Ponderosa Ranchos and Murphy Meadows.


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Please report any bugs here. It will be helpfull if you'll tell us your browser version.
I suspect huge memory leak.
but then again, I'm using flash on chrome on linux64 which I think making the effect more apparent.
Yes. We have memory leaks in Chrome ver. 18 and it's reported bug of current version of Chrome when working with HTML5 apps. We're trying to fix this issues from our side, but we think this problem will be totally solved only after new release or update of Chrome…
Thanks for reply.
I should try running this on firefox instead then.
just FYI, the mem leak eats up to 3GB in my case.
And wait does this mean it's for ALL chrome, no matter what platform?
Not entirely sure if I'm bugging or not, but I'm playing from Safari on a MAC OS and I'm fairly sure that I'm missing some pop ups.
I get the messages appearing now and then about governors, but I seem to have missed bits of the tutorial until I restarted my browser (resulted in me putting a land in a daft place lol, but that's fine)
More worrying lots of people talk to me about in-game chest drops – I don't seem to be getting these (though it is possible I'm getting the reward without any pop-up to inform me of it I guess). Again I seem to occasionally get a belated tutorial pop-up or new day item, but feels like it's not always appearing when it should.
Also no sound atm.
Ah also forgot. New friends I add aren't appearing in-game, though those that add me seem to be able to offer me governships which I can accept – I just can't return the favour. Have a feeling this may be a Kong issue rather than a Bytex issue though, as experienced similar with another game.
GKZhukov, thank you for your report. We're testing this in MacOS Safari at this moment.
Hey, not sure if you guys did something or not, but just to let you know when I logged in today I got blitzed by a bunch of the pop-ups I was missing including level up and mission rewards – lands whoop! Booster pack openings (I had received the cards previously but had to check my cards tab to work out which ones were knew since I didn't get the opening pop-up), secret chests, achievement rewards (again I think I'd got the rewards before but had to figure it out as didn't get a message until now).
Thank you for the good news :-) We've fixed this problem.
i seem to have the same problem as GKZhukov, and also having a similar issue with other games. this issue seems to affect both my google chrome and firefox. can't add new friends, but still can get governships invites
You have problems with friends because of private profile – game couldn't use it to check your friends.
oh, ty
Hi there,
i recently purchased booster packs (1 of each) on the 50% special using ounces however the amount of ounces deducted was the full amount as opposed to the advertised discounted amount.
Appreciate any help in looking into this
Perpeptual battle from the Thug-Bal terrain has a card description saying it would work for cards, but only works for creatures, not for items. Maybe the description should be changed.
Didn't played all day loaded the game my mana is empty wtf?
Cheers, Alex, for the previous fix. Much appreciated – I didn't even realise I was missing out on campaign stories etc. before this!
I'm afraid I'm now getting the odd refresh (Safari again). Not catastrophic as it's only periodic, but still, I'm guessing it shouldn't be happening at all?
@d0kta – I think for me the friends thing is because one of my friends has a private profile (I don't). Might take a while to figure out who unfortunately.
invited to play about 20 friends, but did not receive even a beginner claudron, why?
and I have a problem with mana does not regenerate, why?
Hmm, I got rid of everyone with a private profile from my friends list, but all the recent friends I've added still don't appear in-game. This means most of the active top-end players who weren't on my list beforehand I can't interact with, not to mention I've run out of governors and can't add new friends in order to add new governors :S
After getting both a daily mana potion and a random mana bottle drop from a fight, I leveled with a lot of extra energy, when I did my energy went to my max for the new level, actually making me lose all the extra mana.
When I start a battle it Kongreagte sets a new highscore before the battle is done. E.g. when I start a battle and kongregate sets a new weekly highscore for wasted mana, I know already that I have lost. Maybe you should update the kongregate highscores only after you finished a battle or build in some delay as you know the max time a battle can take anyway.
The text for flight says: Immune to melee attacks from non-flying creatures. Even so, in a fight between a Wyvern (basic strike, flight, regeneration 2) and a Gveor (shot, mountain ally 2, flight, immunity to throw) the former couldn't hit the latter. I think that's not supposed to happen.
tiago3105: Are you sure there wasn't a card with the catch ability? It removes flight so then the Wyvern wouldn't be able to hit the Gveor.
I suspect there is a concurrency bug:
2 players A & B is invading player C's island.
(I'm 'A' on the invading side.)
It's shown that I've conquered a particular piece of land.
Then I went to invade another piece.
When come back to C's island map again. it's shown that B has conquered the island.
Of course, this could mean that C liberated the island from A. Then B conquered it.
But I doubt that is the case here because of the following:
- C doesn't seem to be liberating other island pieces at all.
- C's garrison deck is a beginner's forest deck and the island is small. implying he should be a beginner.
which shouldn't be able to so quickly liberate the island against me (with 350+ cards at the time.)
So I guess it could be that the game's system allow 2 player to start conquering the same piece of land at the same time?
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Airport hotels
Manchester Airport has a range of hotels of all levels and types, all with easy access. Many offer courtesy shuttle services to and from the terminals. Hotel reservations can be made at the Lastminute.com desk, located in the Terminal 1 Arrivals hall.
Radisson Blu Hotel Manchester Airport is located between terminals 1 and 2 at the airport, and is linked via a covered 'Skylink' conveyored walkway. The hotel offers a fitness suite with pool, secure parking, and free Wi-Fi for guests. Chicago Avenue Manchester M90 3RA United Kingdom Tel: (0161) 490 5000. Web:www.radissonblu.co.uk
Bewley's Hotel Manchester Airport is located within walking distance of terminals 1 and 3 at Manchester International Airport, and provides a complimentary shuttle bus service to the airport. The hotel offers short- and long-term parking services as well as on-site dining options. Outwood Lane Manchester M90 4HL United Kingdom Tel: (0161) 498 0333. Web: www.bewleyshotels.com
Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport is located within the Manchester International Airport site and offers a free shuttle bus service to/from all terminals and the airport's train station. The hotel provides currency exchange services and has an on-site fitness centre, business facilities and a range of dining options. Ringway Road Manchester M90 3NS United Kingdom Tel: 0871 423 4876. Web: www.ichotelsgroup.com
Manchester Airport Hilton is a five-minute drive from the airport and is linked by a complimentary shuttle bus service. The hotel has a range of on-site dining options and meeting facilities. Ringway Outwood Lane Manchester M90 4WP United Kingdom Tel: (0161) 435 3000. Web: www.hilton.co.uk
The 18th-century Etrop Grange Hotel is just a two-minute drive from Manchester International Airport and provides free transportation to/from the terminals. The hotel offers complimentary Wi-Fi Internet access throughout the building, as well as free parking for the duration of the stay. There is also an on-site restaurant. Thorley Lane Cheshire M90 4EG United Kingdom Tel: (0161) 499 0500. Web: www.etrophotel.co.uk
Manchester Airport Marriott hotel is located less than 2km (1 mile) from Manchester International Airport and provides a shuttle bus service to/from the terminals. Hotel facilities include an on-site restaurant, fitness centre, spa, and meeting/event space. Hale Barns Hale Road Manchester WA15 8XW United Kingdom Tel: (0161) 904 0301. Web: www.marriott.co.uk
Travelodge Manchester Airport is located 1.5km (1 mile) from Manchester International Airport and offers a shuttle bus service to/from the terminals and the local railway station (for a fee). The hotel also provides Wi-Fi Internet access and on-site parking. Runger Lane Manchester Airport M90 5DL United Kingdom Tel: 0871 984 6181. Web: www.travelodge.co.uk


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6 Jun 2012 5:40 PM #1
SIO SDK 0.3.3 ReleasedWe just updated the SDK and the documentation.
This update includes some example applications, and improvements to the API documentation and to the guides.
The release notes include a list of changes since the last release.
Post to the forum, or email me, if you experiemce any problems. email@example.com
21 Jun 2012 4:21 AM #2
Compatibility Error with Sencha 184.108.40.206
I just downloaded 0.3.3 io and using sencha touch 18.104.22.168
Get the following error:
ERROR: The Sencha.io SDK requires either the Sencha Touch SDK or the Sencha Ext JS SDK. Version 184.108.40.206 of the Sencha Touch SDK and this version of the Sencha.io SDK are not fully compatible. in Overides.js:121
I added the following lines to app.json
"js": [ <snip> // Added this section for Sencha IO { "path": "sencha-io-0.3.3/lib/socket.io.js" } ],
// Added for Sencha.io Ext.Loader.setPath({ 'Ext.io': 'sencha-io-0.3.3/src/io', 'Ext.cf': 'sencha-io-0.3.3/src/cf' }); Ext.application({ <snip> io: { appId: "XXXXX", appSecret: "XXXXXXXX", },
21 Jun 2012 5:37 AM #3
126.96.36.199 is not in the version compatible list check yet, i guess they will at it with the next versiontrainings / workshops / consulting: Sencha Touch / Ext JS
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21 Jun 2012 9:31 AM #4
Yes, SIO checks for ST 2.0.1. We haven't certified SIO with ST 18.104.22.168 yet, but very little changed, so it should work. You can edit the code that checks. Search and replace 2.0.1 to 220.127.116.11.
15 Jul 2012 6:51 AM #5
So it's 24 days later and you still haven't validated your product with your other product it is required to use? IO is beta, so it is acceptable to have bugs. So which is the better course:
1. Release your Beta product that is expected to have bugs and allow it to work with the shipping version of the sdk that "should work".
2. Release your a Beta product that refuses to run at all.
Instead you ask all of your users to edit your source code so that your products work and play well together?
The least you could do is change the check to a Warning instead of stopping all execution.
Come on guys. When you had 2 products there was a lot of quality, but the 8 you have going now are all suffering...
Oh and it also doesn't work with the current ExtJS...
24 Jul 2012 2:25 PM #6
Hello James,
We just released SIO SDK 0.3.4, which includes supports for all versions of Sencha Touch from 2.0 through to 2.1.


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Any paintball lovers out there?
Just wondering. I myself play a good bit and have since I was 10 (now 24). Currently shooting an Ego.. Actually my last 3 guns have been Egos. Plan to pick up a DM one of these days.
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Up until mom took ill last year, I played tournament ball (mostly 7-man, some x-ball) for the last 5 years. My son & I have played in tournaments together. I have tried everything, from Timmies (custom-bodied 06 alias), to Matrices (Proto & DM). My current lineup: Sand & Black 07 SL74 (Avalanche) w/ rotor & Crossfire 45/4500. Backup is My 03 rip-framed Shocker SFT (everything upgraded except body) w/ a 70/4500 crossfire.
At 05 World Cup, my kid bought the 1st 06 Proto Matrix to be sold retail. All of SD Legacy signed the box. Sadly, he wanted a gloss red 07 Ego, so we sold it on ebay.
I had a SL74 a couple years back. Loved it. I ended up selling it to a guy so that I could buy the new Ego and make a few bucks on the side. I run the same same setup. Rotor/crossfire. Ive been wanting to get into x-ball but just havnt had the time. Ive done many 3/5man CFOA/GFOA tournaments. Never any x-ball though. I had actually planned on opening up a field last year. I went and purchased 54 bunkers (way toooo expensive) and then before I could purchase the netting/compressor, something came up. So now I have 7k worth of bunkers sitting in a shed, never used. Maybe one day.
@xskoad: are the bunkers new? if this trend continues, PB as we know it, may whither & die. i hope not. its an expensive sport with a dwindling number of avid players (myself included). maybe this yoga thing i am doing will allow me to continue diving and taking all the physical abuse associated with tournament ball.
also, it seems the only good ballers (teams, actually) on the west side of the US is actually in SoCal.
@rlapid2112: Yep. Bunkers are brand spankin new. Havnt even been blown up once. PB has gone up and down over the years since Ive been playing. Its been rough the past few years because of the economy. You are right about it being an expensive sport. I was easily spending $100+ a day when playing. If I enjoyed woodsball I could save a lot of money, but like you, tournament ball is where my love is. Which includes the massive amount of paint that is generally used on a full day of playing. Im on the East coast and the closest field to me (speedball fields) is a 1.5hr drive. Which I made every weekend. I havnt played as much over the past year due to finances, but when I do play, Im making either a 1.5/2 hour one way trip to do so.
@xskoad: i guess i am lucky. i was my field's gun tech. i haven't paid entry for at least 2 years (so a total of 3 years, now that I haven't played for a year). also, our field paint was good and i paid cost + $5. typically $30-$35 per case. its a 10 minute drive from my house.
i played corner before i retired. when i was playing well, i played mid/insert. my kid is a snake player, but he may be getting too tall for that position.
i am thinking about coming back just to scrim. help the team get ready by playing the opposing.
Sounds awesome. Luckily Im good friends with the guy who runs the paintball store in my town and we play on a team together so he gives me paint at a few dollars over sale price as well. Still had to pay the $10-15 field fee for wherever we went though.
I use to play back/mid when I was younger. Over the past few years Ive been playing snake. Im 6'1 and my height is definitely a disadvantage but I enjoy it and Im a good bit faster than the rest of the people I generally play with, so it helps.
Ive been trying to get my college interested in starting up a team. If it ever happens Ill be gone by then (next year), but I have still told them I would be interested in coaching.
Cant wait until I have kids and he gets old enough to hold a gun. I saw an amazing 7y-8yr old team play a few years back. Was highly impressed. I bet its even more fun to them because the bunkers were so huge, they could stand straight up behind the tiny bricks without exposing themselves.
@xskoad: my "kid" is 20
i started him playing at 8. his first marker was a tippmann pro-lite. he got bunkered his 2nd game. on a no bunkering field. i almost killed the guy.
By the way you were talking I figured your kid was at least in his teens. I would have done the same thing in your situation.. Or at least I hope it would stick at "almost". Ive been in games where 18+ guys will bunker 10-12yr olds in no bunkering games. Generally any game that has kids under 13, we try to stick to no bunkering. Unless of course the kid has a lot of experience and doesnt mind getting shot. Even in those cases, parents dont enjoy picking up their little kids to find nasty paintball whelps on their sons necks/heads.
My first gun was a Tippmann Carbine. When it comes time, Ill try to continue to the tradition.
Hope your son stays fit and continues to play. Ive been getting out of shape for a few years, and even in my last couple years playing snake, I can fell the toll it takes on my body.
Back in the day I use to sling an Autococker 2000. I bet there have been tons of advancements in markers since. Would love to take it up again but the sport wasn't cheap then and I doubt it is now.
@loosecannon67: I have been playing since 1986 (woodsball in AZ). I feel it is cheaper now. You can get an electro-pneumatic marker now in the $500 range (http://www.pbwarehouse.net/plecet3ltpag.html). Good paint can be bought at Sports Chalet for $50/case of 2000. Jump back in, but your AC should get converted to a Stock-class or sniper (both are pump conversions). Kids are walking their triggers at 12-18 bps, EASILY.
I used to play woodsball with my friends growing up (13-18) I used a Spyder Imagine. I'm also 6'5" so I sucked. It was fun though. We would play "Revolutionary War" where you get 3 paintballs, no hopper and start out in lines walking towards each other. It was amazingly awful.
@killswitchdh: we have done a similar thing. We called it Pioneer-style. You went onto field with 1 paintball and no hopper. You needed to scavenge for paint on the ground. Since our field was/is outdoors, you had to be careful for swollen paint and almost all of it you had to wipe dust/dirt off if you wanted to shoot straight. Nothing like shooting Dirt-Paint, one ball at a time, in a $1000 electro set up.
I actually closed out a game, when I was out of paint, by doing this. Good Times.
I love paintball... I am too old cause I would be that 'creepy old guy' that hangs with young kids.
I did take my son out... we both had Tipmann 98's.
I would go more but people my age are lame in my area.
I tried to get something going with the olders but it would not happen. The area we go is a wooded area. It is also restricted (the law will break it up).
@caffeine_dude: I was supposed to play on a Masters Division team in 2009 at World Cup. Masters Division is for players over 40 years of age. Not as much diving but really disciplined lane shooting & bumping. Also, these guys LOVE to bunker.
My son and I started getting really serious about paintball when he was 13, though, we were playing a bit when he was only 8.
I never judge anyone by there age. Ive been playing with guys over 40 since I was a little kid. Everyone has a place on the field. Of course a 50 year old isnt going to want to play snake, but he could be a good back/corner player.
So, I've never been to the tournaments, except to watch a few friends... But I guess I'd consider myself a fan, and I do like pick-up matches just between friends. My marker of choice is the Tippman A-5, with a long barrel - all the better to snipe you with! I don't know a whole lot about the various levels of seriousness, but I do know that I've liked every gun I've used that runs on compressed air also, not just the common CO2.
One of my favourite bouts was with a friend of a friend, who was visiting from the Ivory Coast, and he was an airsoft team leader there... :) That kid was amazing! He'd pop up out of nowhere and light up anyone who wasn't quick enough to realize that he was being hunted.
I played paintball for roughly 3 years. Last marker was an eTek 2. Sold everything about a year ago, but kept a CCI phantom (Stock Class) in case I ever feel the need to head back out there.
Unfortunately the outlaw ball locally is better than speedball. The field is full of 16-ish year old kids who shoot hot which ruins a lot of the fun.
Never fun to walk off the field with giant bloody welts.
@xskoad: there's a guy at the field. He's over 50 and is a hair dresser by profession. He typically plays home or mid-insert. He's awesome.
BTW, he has also earned several black belts in various martial arts.
Go out, shoot people, talk about it afterwards, HAVE FUN!
@bogie21: If you even think a kid is shooting hot, you need to bring it up to a ref. Every field should have a ref with a hand held chrono. When kids are shooting hot, we fix it. If they are caught doing it again, their gone.
I should clarify. I would double+ the age of everyone else. We are trespassing on government land... and some of the under age kids smoke.
Some how I think the only person there that is not a minor would get blamed.
2.5 hour drive to the only course I know...
We almost had a small indoor paintball field in a large basement. It was done, bunkers were built cages over lights. Black lights and regular lights were installed. (the idea was you could load your gun with regular paintballs and "tracer rounds" that would glow under black lights. The owner could not get the insurance to open it to the public...but
he showed us around... it ... was ..... awesomesauce!
@caffeine_dude: agreed, AWESOMESAUCE! In PB vernacular AGG!
I miss paintball like a friend :(