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NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard has interrupted shipping along the major artery for moving grain from farms in the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico over fears that the bulging Mississippi River could strain levees that protect hundreds of thousands from flooding. Already, thousands have sought refuge from floodwaters up and down the river. [Follow developments on nola.com]
The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area.
Several barges were idled at Natchez at the time of the closure, and many more could back up along the lower Mississippi. It wasn't clear when the river would reopen, but port officials said the interruption could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of millions of dollars per day.
The closure is the latest high-stakes decision made to protect homes and businesses that sit behind levees and floodwalls along the river. To take pressure off levees surrounding heavily populated New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the Army Corps of Engineers opened the key Morganza Spillway, choosing to flood more rural areas with fewer homes. Another spillway near New Orleans was opened earlier, but it doesn't threaten homes.
Most residents in the path of the Morganza's floodwaters have heeded the call to leave their homes. Bernadine Turner, who lives in a mandatory evacuation zone near Krotz Springs, La., spent a third day Monday moving her things out. Water from the Morganza opening was not expected to reach the town about 40 miles west of Baton Rouge for several days, but most residents were taking no chances.
"There's no doubt it's going to come up. We don't have flood insurance, and most people here don't. Man, it would be hard to start all over," she said.
Economic pain from the flooding could be felt far from the South because of the river closure. During the spring, the Mississippi is a highway for towboats pushing barges laden with corn, soybeans and other crops brought down from the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi river systems. Farm products come down the river to a port near New Orleans to be loaded onto massive grain carriers for export.
The Port of South Louisiana is the largest grain port the country, handling about 54 percent of U.S. exports. The port's operations director, Mitch Smith, said the extent of the impact from the Natchez closing will depend on how long it lasts and how many barges are trapped upriver.
"Definitely, if it is a long closure, we will feel an economic impact," Smith said.
At least 10 freight terminals along the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans have suspended operations because of the high water, said Roy Gonzalez, acting president of the Gulf States Maritime Association. In many cases, their docks are already at water level or going under, he said.
Vessels scheduled to use the terminals will either have to wait out the high water or divert to other terminals or ports. Additional costs for delaying any one vessel routinely run $20,000 to $40,000 per day, port officials say.
It's not clear how long it will take for normal operations to return at Natchez and other terminals. The river is expected to crest Saturday in Natchez at 63 feet, down a half-foot than earlier predictions, but almost five feet above a record set in 1937. It could take weeks for the water to recede.
All along the Mississippi River, a small army of engineers, deputies and even inmates is keeping round-the-clock watch at the many floodwalls and earthen levees holding the water back. They are looking for any droplets that seep through the barriers and any cracks that threaten to turn small leaks into big problems.


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The Devils will face the Dallas Stars in their 2010-11 home opener at the Prudential Center on Friday, Oct. 8.
On the next night, Saturday, Oct. 9, the Devils will face the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center.
The remainder of the 2010-11 NHL schedule will be released at noon Tuesday.
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Former Devils forward Danton Cole, a member of the 1995 Stanley Cup championship team, was named a head coach for USA Hockey's national team development program.
Cole, a native of Pontiac, Mich., will coach the U.S. national under-17 team in 2010-11.
Cole, who played in 318 NHL games, appeared in just 12 games (one goal, two assists) for the Devils in 1994-95, as well as one playoff game.
The past three seasons Cole was head coach at the University of Alabama Huntsville.


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The choreographer did his job once. Now the dancers have to do theirs twice.
That's because, in William Anthony's new piece for Verb Ballets' "Winter Series" program Saturday, the choreography is repeated.
First, the dancers perform to the original music, to the score that captured Anthony's imagination: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1, BWV 1052. Then they turn around and it do it again, to African drumming.
"The idea is to see how it goes together," said Anthony, a native of Cleveland Heights now living in Denmark. "It's the skewing of the structure that interests me."
That the two halves may be largely dissimilar is fine by Anthony. In fact, he said, that's precisely the point.
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What: "Winter Series," featuring choreography by William Anthony, Richard Dickinson, and Terence Greene.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22.
Where: Breen Center for the Performing Arts, 2008 W. 30th St., Cleveland.
Tickets: $23 and $28. Go to verbballets.org or call 1-888-718-4253.
As drummers Linda Thomas Jones, Sogbety Diomande and Baba Jubal offer their take on Bach, patrons of the Breen Center for the Performing Arts will experience a different version of counterpoint, with dance as the through-line.
"It'll be very typical of African drumming," said Anthony. "There'll be a lot of rhythmic voices going on. The important thing will be the pulse."
Longtime fans of Verb may recall an earlier work of Anthony's, a 2007 setting of music by Tom Waits, described by the choreographer today as "a strange European piece."
But that's far from the extent of his relationship to the company. No, Anthony and Verb director Margaret Carlson have been friends since childhood.
It was she, in fact, who encouraged Anthony to consider ballet, an art he eventually pursued all the way to a career in Europe. Thus, when she invited him to create a new piece for this year's "Winter Series" – which includes Richard Dickinson's new "Cowboy Soul" and a revival of Terence Greene's "The Gathering" – he was more happy to oblige.
"This is a labor of love," Anthony said. "The company really deserves support. I have the greatest admiration for them."
It's more than just a labor of love, however. In truth, it's a chance for the choreographer to scratch a very deep and very long-running itch.
A trained musician, Anthony said he's been intrigued by Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 for years. He's been listening to it everywhere and yearning for an opportunity to see it performed in three-dimensional space.
"It's all about the music," he explained. "It's a piece that I've just come to love. I've been listening to it all the time. It's in the car. It's on my iPod."
The choreography has been stuck in his head, too. All along, Anthony said, he's had in mind a handful of phrases and gestures to mirror Bach's music.
These the dancers will be mixing and matching, like vocabulary, to craft whole sentences and paragraphs, sometimes inserting asides created by them from Anthony's source material.
All told, Anthony said, the concept is going to prove either brilliant and insightful, or misguided. Middle ground, he said, probably won't exist.
"This is either my swan song or the beginning of a new career."


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Causality and Comovement between Tax Rate and Budget Deficits: Further Evidence from Developing Countries
This paper examines the relationship between increasing budget deficits and tax rate for Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger and Togo. This investigation is based on Johansen cointegration approach and Granger causality tests. The findings suggest firstly that these variables are not cointegrated for the countries under study, and the bootstrap simulations of the relation show more evidence for the robustness of the results to small sample size effects, and secondly that there is a bidirectional impact between tax rate and budget deficits. Given this bidirectional causality between these variables, variance decomposition and impulse responses are calculated to better understand the question of which effect is greater than the other.
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Delusional bug syndrome is associated with people who believe bugs, worms or other insects are infesting their skin, causing them itching sensations. Often, these people seek medical advice, bringing in samples of the insect and requesting a skin biopsy. However, new research has found that for the majority of patients, neither skin samples or biopsies show any evidence of skin infestation.
In a recent study, which was published online in the Archives of Dermatology, researchers at the Mayo Clinic tested 108 people with symptoms of delusional parasitosis (infection with a parasite). They found the majority of self-provided skin samples from patients were clean.
Of the 80 self-provided specimens, 10 were confirmed to be insects, but nine of those were not capable of infestation. One person brought in a sample of pubic lice. This lice is capable of infestation but does not cause head-to-toe body itching. The majority of skin samples were dead skin, plant material or environmental debris.
More than 60 percent of the people tested were diagnosed with dermatitis, a skin problem primarily characterized by inflamed, itchy skin.
Although no one knows how many people suffer from delusional skin infestations, researchers say it is a common skin complaint.
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Spitzer Is Back in D.C. -- in Real Estate
Eliot Spitzer is returning to Washington, D.C., but this time as an investor in the commercial real-estate market.
The former New York governor, who resigned in disgrace a year ago after getting caught patronizing a prostitute in a Washington hotel, has purchased a prominent office building blocks from the White House through his father's real-estate company.
The Spitzers are paying $180 million to buy 1615 L St. NW, a 13-story dark-glass building whose tenants include the public-relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, the Washington outpost of the Nixon Presidential Library and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
The move is part of the ex-governor's re-emergence into public life and a renewed interest in the successful real-estate business founded by his father, Bernard Spitzer. In an interview, Mr. Spitzer spoke about the investment, the economy and about his new life in business after "a detour along the way" as New York's attorney general and governor.
"Obviously it brought great joy for a great period of time," Mr. Spitzer said about his years in government. Mr. Spitzer declined to discuss the scandal that led to his resignation.
The purchase comes at an inauspicious time in commercial real estate, amid falling prices and high debt. Any deal of this size is getting a lot of attention for what's happening to values.
The Spitzers are buying the building from a distressed seller that defaulted on part of its debt. Private-equity firm Broadway Partners bought the tower at the end of 2006 for $209 million, according to Real Capital Analytics. Broadway's lenders have moved to foreclose on several buildings.
But the Spitzers aren't paying a bargain-basement price. While $180 million is well below what the previous owner paid, it's above what the building sold for five years ago, $124 million.
Mr. Spitzer said his family intends to hold the property for years and is unconcerned that values might fall further. "We aren't trying to time the global market," he said.
The building is one block from the Mayflower Hotel, the location of Mr. Spitzer's tryst, which led to his undoing. Asked if the proximity to the hotel creates mixed feelings, Mr. Spitzer demurred. "No. We are buying a great building. That's why we are buying it," he said.
Mr. Spitzer reflected on his new professional duties in light of his time in government, during which he often tangled furiously with Wall Street's titans. "There were folks in the market, on Wall Street in particular, who tried to challenge my dedication to the market and to market forces. I said to them repeatedly that I'm a capitalist who believes in the market, but also knows how to protect the market," he said.
Mr. Spitzer said his positive outlook for real estate despite today's troubles is girded by his father's 60 years in the business. "We are optimists," he said. As for the economy overall: "What we are facing is as much a psychological hurdle as a real economic hurdle," he said.
The family's company owns several prominent towers, including the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan. They rarely sell property. "We have a longtime horizon and little debt," Mr. Spitzer said.
The elder Mr. Spitzer built some of the largest and most expensive apartment buildings in Manhattan, including the 56-story Corinthian and several luxury buildings on Fifth Avenue.
This is the first major deal for the Spitzers in years, and represents as much Mr. Spitzer's first act after his fall from grace as a passing of the torch. Mr. Spitzer falls short of saying he's picking up the reins.
People familiar with the Washington deal say Mr. Spitzer worked closely on it. "Did I walk the floors? Yes. Talk to the tenants? Make sure the building was in every respect what we wanted? Yes."
The purchase was made possible largely because the Spitzers will inherit a $138 million existing mortgage and will pay the balance -- $42 million -- in cash.
Mr. Spitzer sounds content in his new career. "I love the vitality and the dynamism and the competition of the marketplace. Asked if it's better than government, he said: "They are different."
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The snow which began with a light rain in Grasmere around 11:15 a.m. Saturday has turned back to rain in places. The wintry mix is expected to continue through the evening hours.
The National Weather Service, which has issued a winter weather advisory until 6 a.m. Sunday, is warning that the mix of snow and rain will make for dangerous travel conditions in the region, Saturday afternoon and through to Sunday morning.
The rain has kept snow accumulations low. One to three inches is all that is expected.
Temperatures are expected in the low to mid-30s. However, AccuWeather is showing conditions turning freezing tonight with RealFeel temperatures dropping into the 20s and through the teens into the early morning.
Motorists are advised to watch for slippery conditions and black ice during the nighttime. Pedestrians are also urged to exercise caution, especially when crossing streets.


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MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama - A Mountain Brook man died early today in a single-vehicle wreck in that city.
A police officer on routine patrol was driving in the 3700 block of Old Leeds Road when he saw that a truck had crashed into a tree, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. Inside the car, police found 25-year-old William Bradford Kent, of Mountain Brook.
Authorities said Kent was driving his pickup truck southbound on Old Leeds Road when he left the roadway, striking a metal sign and a wooden fence. He re-entered the road, still heading southbound, veered off again to the right and struck the tree.
Deputy Coroner Phillip Russell said the Mountain Brook police officer found the wreck at 3:43 a.m. Kent was pronounced dead on the scene at 3:59 a.m. Authorities said the cause of the crash is still under investigation, but Kent was not wearing a seatbelt.
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What Happens if I Have a Valid License In One State, But it Gets Revoked in Another State?
Having your driver's license suspended or revoked can be a serious obstacle when you're trying to earn a living, raise a family, or just have a social life. But what happens when you move to another state? Does the suspension follow you, or can you obtain a valid license in the new state?
Reciprocity: The Driver License Compact
Thanks to the Driver License Compact (DLC), your driving record will follow you almost anywhere you go in the United States. The DLC is an interstate agreement that facilitates states' exchange of information regarding traffic violations, suspensions, and revocations. The compact's motto is "One Driver, One License, One Record."
Under the compact, any traffic offenses that occur in a different state are treated as if they occurred in the state where you're licensed. So, if your license is suspended in a member state, it will likely be suspended in any other member state to which you relocate.
Similarly, if you apply for a license in a new state, your suspension will likely prevent you from being issued a new license. That happens because when a person applies for a driver's license, the DMV (or applicable motor vehicle agency in the state) checks to see if the name appears on the National Driver Registration (NDR) -- a database containing the names of people who have had their license suspended or revoked.
The license compact isn't only interstate, but international in a few cases. For example, New York, Maine, and Florida all have special agreements with Quebec, allowing them to exchange information and take adverse action.
A Few Exceptions
While the majority of states are members of the Driver License Compact, there are a few exceptions. For instance, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, and Massachusetts aren't members of the compact. Your chances of obtaining a new driver's license in a non-member state are probably greater.
In addition, in order to be penalized for an out-of-state offense, the driver's state must punish the same conduct. For example, Colorado has a careless driving statute, while Arizona does not. So, if a driver from Arizona is cited for careless driving in Colorado, the citation won't affect his driving record in Arizona.


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51 Creative Elf on the Shelf Ideas
Are you participating in the fun holiday Elf on the Shelf tradition? At some point during the season, you may run out of fun ideas. From your elf's arrival to his departure after the holidays are over, we've got you covered! Be sure to click on the links below to see more photos of the poses we've created for our elves. Update: After you've read these ideas, see our new post 51 MORE Creative Elf on the Shelf Ideas. Post your own photos in our Elf Photo Gallery!
- Arriving via Elf-mail
- Arriving in Barbie's car
- Have your elf replace the photos in your frames with pictures of… himself!
- Put Rudolph noses on family members' photos
- Turn the toilet water green
- Elves like to use green shaving cream, too!
- Wrap your toilet with Christmas wrapping paper or plastic wrap
- Replace your screensaver with a photo of your elf
- Your elf can go "fishing" for Goldfish crackers
- Snow angels in flour or sugar on the kitchen floor or counter
- Taking a bath in mini marshmallows
- Lifting weights with large marshmallows on skewers
- Working out on the treadmill
- Making snowmen out of large marshmallows
- Bowling with marshmallows
- Turning the milk green
- Getting stuck in the cookie jar
- Using red and green M&Ms to spell out words or phrases
- Using Scrabble tiles to spell out words or phrases
- Playing Jenga
- Writing Christmas or "Elf-like" words in a crossword puzzle
- Playing with glow sticks
- Playing with your camera, taking pictures of himself
- Uh oh, the elf got stuck in the vacuum!
- Sledding down the banister or zip lining
- Rolling down the stairs in a toilet paper tube
- Playing dress-up with Barbie's clothes
- Having a tea party with stuffed animals and dolls
- Trying on Mom's jewelry
- Going on a movie date with Barbie (add popcorn, the DVD player remote control, and a movie case)
- Sleeping in the Kleenex box
- Reading a Christmas book to the stuffed animals
- Building something with LEGOs
- Playing Twister with friends
- Playing the piano (Christmas music, of course!)
- Hiding in the silverware drawer
- Building an igloo out of sugar cubes
- Playing with ice cubes in the freezer (make green and red ones!)
- In the freezer eating a bowl of ice cream with Christmas sprinkles
- TP-ing the Christmas tree
- Hanging underwear on the Christmas tree or on the mantle
- Having fun with the computer's printer…. copying himself!
- Going for a spin on the ceiling fan
- Roasting marshmallows
- Writing things on the shopping list (candy canes, Christmas cookies, etc.)
- Clipping coupons (for sweet treats!)
- Hanging from the rear-view mirror in the car
- Boosted up with a stack of pillows in the driver's seat and driving!
- Hanging Christmas lights on a houseplant
- Coloring in a coloring book (all red and green, naturally!)
- Playing with the iPad (changing screen saver to a photo of himself)
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Making a snow angel on a cookie pan of flour.
When I was a kid, I did something that my mother didn't know about, but found out about somehow. When I asked her how she knew, she said something along the lines that she had little spies to help her keep an eye on me. That screwed up my head for a long time, and gave me bouts of paranoia. Parents, do your kids a favor. Don't lie to them. Don't mess with their heads.
Put cotton balls on all of the kids beds, then have a trail of cotton balls going to the living room with elf sitting in a chair with a sign saying "LET IT SNOW, Let it snow, Let it snow" cotton balls all around the elf too!


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A state agency projects that Gloucester County will have 45,222 inhabitants by 2040, and Mathews County will have 10,067.
Each post office in question will remain open, though with reduced operating hours.
The fund drive received $11,249.78 as of the end of its first full week.
Crews were fortunate not to experience work delays because of Hurricane Sandy.
He has represented clients here since 1961.
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Their stadia are a stone's throw away from each other in West London, but in reality Chelsea and Fulham are worlds apart when it comes to their footballing prowess.
The Blues currently lead the way in the Premier League while their neighbors Fulham are rooted to the foot of the table, locked in a relegation battle.
On paper, Saturday's clash between these rivals should only go one way—a Chelsea win. But this is the Premier League and things never quite work out in the way we often expect.
Indeed, Fulham ran Chelsea close when they visited Stamford Bridge in September, eventually succumbing to a 2-0 defeat after frustrating the Blues early on.
With home support behind them, they'll be hoping to do the same at Craven Cottage, but can they?
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A week after "Insanity Saturday" - where seven of the top 13 college football teams bit the dust - No. 2 USC (by just one AP vote) and No. 5 Wisconsin both fell to unranked opponents, while miserable Notre Dame finally cracked the win column.
Oh yeah, and if the No.1 LSU Tigers didn't pick up a last minute touchdown, the polls might have been completely empty and the BCS computers might have caught fire.
But I don't want to focus on the chaos that was - but rather the chaos that is still to come.
I am a firm believer that no, and I mean NO, collegiate football team will finish the season unbeaten. After all, there are only 11 squads left with donuts on the loss side of the equation, and we're just six weeks into the season.
First, let's eliminate the pretenders:
Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida, Missouri and Kansas.
The five are all perfect in underachieving conferences, the Big East (for the first three) and the Big 12 (for the last two). There is no way the West Virginias, Louisvilles, Rutgerses (how do you pluralize Rutgers?), Texases (there's another one), Texas A&Ms, and Oklahomas of those conferences would possibly allow their little brothers to run off an unblemished campaign.
Then there's the over-rateds:
Ohio State, Arizona State, Boston College and California.
Here are four teams that should fall the way of the rest of their big-name brethren. OSU still has a rough Big 10 slate left, which includes, among other teams still searching for a defining win, giant-killer Illinois left on its schedule and a pretty ticked off group of guys over in Ann Arbor. ASU and Cal meet up in a Pac 10 showdown and then whoever wins will lose to the Trojans anyway, so there goes that. And there's no way that BC can possibly remain fresh with trips to Indiana (Notre Dame), Maryland, Virginia Tech and Georgia (Clemson) left. I don't know anyone that goes through that much airport security and that many airline meals, somehow maintaining his or her cool.
And finally we have the two contenders:
LSU and, say it with me now, Hawaii.
Those Tigers almost made this blog a great deal easier with their stumble against the Gators, but not to worry, they've got plenty of chances to screw this up left. After all, the second half of the season has plenty in the tank with upstart Kentucky up next and then SEC rivalry game against Auburn, 'Bama and Arkansas looming. My favorites, though are the Louisiana Tech and Mississippi meetings that have "Booby Trap" written all over them. And for the Hawaiians - who were all tied up with winless Utah State 10-10 in the first quarter at the time of this posting and could very easily render my point moot with a late night implosion of their own - perennial WAC powers Fresno State and Boise State are still on the docket. But more importantly, even if Hawaii did run the table - if a tree falls on a tiny Pacific island that has 12:01 a.m. EST start times for its home games, would anyone even notice? Confucius does not have the answer.
Either way, watching the BCS crumble when 14 one-loss teams are vying for a bid in the championship game should be just as much fun as watching the "Upset Alert" messages pop up on the bottom of ESPN every five minutes on any give Saturday. But for the time being, let's all just bask in the one truly great moment of the season and say, "Go Irish!"


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The last time I visited Kashmir, in November, I was struck by an apparent contradiction: it was more peaceful than it had been in years, at least in the capital Srinagar, and yet the overwhelming mood was one of gloom. With the peace process between India and Pakistan going nowhere, there was a sense that thousands of people had died for nothing in the violence that had convulsed the region since a separatist revolt erupted in 1989. Although the soldiers had disappeared from the streets of Srinagar, and tourists were flocking back, it retained the some of the same tinderbox atmosphere that I had known at the height of the violence. One spark, people told me, could ignite it again.
Pakistan: Now or Never?
Kashmir: is this a re-run of 1989?
After months of relative peace which turned Kashmir into a near-forgotten conflict, the region has exploded again with some of the biggest protests since a separatist revolt erupted in 1989. What started as a dispute over land allocated to Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir has snowballed into a full-scale anti-India protest, uniting Kashmiri separatists and reviving calls for independence.
Have India and Pakistan missed the moment on Kashmir?
Take two nuclear-armed countries which are not officially at war, yet whose armies shell each other on a near-daily basis. That is how it was between India and Pakistan before a November 2003 ceasefire ended their fighting over the divided former kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir. With that ceasefire now showing signs of fraying at the edges and India saying that its peace process with Pakistan is under stress, it is worth remembering quite what a dramatic development it was for two countries which had come close to war in 2001/2002 to tell their armies to stand down.


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Dr. Steinle is Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland and Interim Chief, Diabetes and Endocrine Section, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Steinle completed undergraduate training in nutrition and was credentialed as a Registered Dietician/Nutritionist prior to completing her medical degree. She completed an internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at the University of Maryland Baltimore.
Dr. Steinle's major research interests are directed at understanding the molecular and genetic aspects of blood-pressure regulation, obesity, metabolic syndrome and eating behavior. She published the first genome-wide scan of eating behavior traits, demonstrating that eating behavior is heritable and that there may be specific genetic loci that regulate eating behavior. Currently she is studying candidate genes that may regulate eating behavior. Her work focuses on the study of genetic variation in taste receptor genes and their role in eating behavior, nutrient intake, diabetes and obesity. She is currently collaborating with investigators in UMB's Institute for Genome Sciences to uncover mechanisms whereby dietary fiber impact gut micro-organisms and the downstream impact on host energy and glucose metabolism. Additionally, Dr. Steinle is involved in diabetes prevention research, and leads a diabetes prevention program at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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Step into the last armoured strategic offensive the Germans were able to mount in the east and whose defeat resulted in giving the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war. You take over the role of either the Russian or German battle group commander. Acting under direct orders of division commanders Ivan Chistyakov or Walter Hoernlein, players will control their troops in historical scenarios on precisely reconstructed authentic battlefields
Launch Operation Citadel representing the German"Grossdeutschland Kampftruppe" or choose to start"Fiery Salient" with the forces of the Soviet 6th Guards and 1st Tank Army. Each of these campaigns consists of up to 9 major battles putting the player in charge of one of these units. With each solidier having a unique personality and specific characteristics, it's down to you as the player to carefully plan and select your force before each battle.
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While First Class Simulations exclusively publishes flight and train simulator add-ons, Excalibur Publishing specialises in stand PC games and PC simulations such as UK Truck Simulator, Farming Simulator Gold, Theatre of War: Afrika 1943, Blood of Europe and Farewell to Dragons. Their titles can be found in all of the major UK retail outlets including; PC World/Dixons, Game, GameStation, independent stores and online at Amazon, and Play.com.
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|Bigamist fails in bid for stay of sentence
Holm's attorney plans an appeal of the decision
By Nancy Perkins
Deseret Morning News
ST. GEORGE — A request to stay the jail sentence of convicted bigamist Rodney Holm until his appeals are exhausted has been denied by a 5th District judge.
A jury convicted Holm on Aug. 14 of bigamy and two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor 16 or 17 years old, all third-degree felonies. He was sentenced to a year in the county jail with immediate work release, 36 months probation and to 200 hours of community service.
The conviction stems from Holm's religious marriage to his third wife, Ruth Stubbs, when she was 16 and he was 32. Stubbs was pregnant when she left Holm and sought custody of their two children. Holm, the father of 23 children, is legally married to Stubbs' older sister, Suzie, and has a second spiritual wife, Wendy.
Holm and his two wives are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which teaches polygamy as a sacred duty. The FLDS church is an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which denounced polygamy in the 1890s as a condition of statehood.
Rod Parker, Holm's attorney, has already filed an appeal of the conviction with the Utah Court of Appeals and said Friday he plans to file an appeal on this latest decision.
In denying Holm's request, Judge G. Rand Beacham shot down each of the arguments presented by Parker, saying he found no substantial question of law or fact likely to result in reversal of the jury's verdict. During an earlier hearing on a motion to dismiss the charges against Holm, which Beacham also denied, the judge said "the issues raised by the defendant's motion are substantial and his arguments are well-presented."
Holm, who lost his certification as a police officer for Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Washington County, began serving his sentence at Purgatory Correctional Facility in Hurricane on Oct. 13. Most of those who live in Hildale and nearby Colorado City are members of the FLDS church. The towns and their residents have been the target of interest by the attorneys general of Utah and Arizona, who hope to open an office there to help women and others who want to leave the isolated communities.
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A different theory about why tree was removed
In response to Paul Jensen's letter
(May 26)
explaining why the big cottonwood was removed from JB Instant Lawn's north field:
I am not sure if you realize that the cottonwood tree removed was an eagle-roosting tree. Up to four eagles have been observed using the tree at the same time, and until it was removed, it was used by eagles that are year-round residents in our area.
I find it interesting to discover the tree was unhealthy because of drainage problems. The area of ponding of concern was over 200 feet from the tree. How was the tree affected? The swale that had the ponding still exists. Watch--during the winter, the ponding will still be there.
The bulldozer doing the work was working from the southeast end of the field moving soil toward the swale. Removal of the tree did not create more soil to be moved into the swale. Removal of the tree just required more soil from the field.
If the tree was a safety hazard for employees, why did it not lose branches during our big storms this past winter? If it was a safety hazard, why did the removal operation not begin until 7 p.m. on a Friday night with no one around but the dozer operator? It must not have been a hazard to fall down, since the operator had to dig deep enough around the tree that the top of the dozer was almost below ground level before he could push the tree over.
As you may guess, I have a different theory of why the tree was removed.
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Happy with Bears first draft pick
April 29, 2013 - Terri Castelaz
The 2013 NFL draft is in the books. The Bears first round pick was Kyle Long, son of Hall of Famer Howie Long of the Oakland Raiders.
I know many Bear fans were shocked by them taking Long in the first round. Feelings of his inexperience as the reason why. Also many were thinking they would take Manti Te'o, who didn't get drafted in the first round.
Howie said there was no way that his son would be available down at 50 for the Bears either. He claims his son would never make it out of the first round. So was he just a proud dad boasting his son, or did he have inside information? Makes you wonder.
Many experts believe it will take Long time to mature and will probably start at first in a backup role.
I think Long will go into camp with every opportunity to win the starting left guard job. Looking at the players he has to go against, most notably Gabe Carimi, he should come out of training camp with the job.
Well this pick made Lynnie and I even happier that we could possibly run into Howie on our trip to Chicago this year.
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That could change in an hour or so. A large rain storm, which had been predicted to arrive hours ago but took its time getting here, is now expected to begin affecting the commute by 6 a.m.
The storm brings with it the usual flash-flood watch advisory from 6 a.m. through this evening. Low-lying areas and ponding spots on roadways are likely to be swamped as the storm passes by the New York City area.
The position of the rain storm is shown in this 5 a.m. National Weather Service radar image. The blue areas show lighter rain; green indicates heavier rain and the yellow areas show very heavy rain with possible thunderstorms. The whole event is moving in the general direction of Staten Island. Complete 5-day forecast for Staten Island


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A woman who was serving a 50-year sentence for her part in the murder and dismemberment of a Greenville woman was back in court Monday, asking for a reduction in her sentence.Video Transcript
A WOMAN KILLED... HER BODY CUT UP INTO PIECES. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC CRIMES IN GREENVILLE'S HISTORY. AND TODAY... THE STATE ASKED FOR ONE OF THE CONVICTED KILLERS... TO HAVE THEIR SENTENCE REDUCED. NEWS FOUR'S ANGELA RODRIGUEZ WAS AT THE HEARING. ANGELA-- THIS IS RARE? INDEED... IT'S ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME SOLICITOR WALT WILKINS HAS ASKED A JUDGE TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE OF A CONVICTED KILLER.... FOR COOPERATING WITH INVESTIGATORS. THE STATE MADE A DEAL WITH CARMAN JENKINS... TO CONVICT HER HUSBAND. C8 10;28:16 it is clarence jenkins, not my client, who killed mekole harris. TO SPARE HER LIFE... CARMAN AGREED TO BECOME THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS. Walt wilkins/solicitor 10:54:54 she was extremely important in giving the jury, that picture, that image, that story of everything that happened. CARMAN TOLD INVESTIGATORS... PRUNING SHEARS WERE USED TO CUT UP MEKOLE HARRI'S BODY IN 2008.. AND EVEN LED INVESTIGATORS TO SOME OF THE REMAINS. FOR HER ROLE IN THE CRIME... JENKINS AGREED TO PLEAD GUILTY AND WAS SENTENCED TO 50 YEARS IN PRISON. AND TODAY... AS PART OF THE DEAL WITH PROSECUTORS... THE STATE ASKED FOR LENIENCY. IN TURN... CARMAN JENKINS EXPRESSED REMORSE. C21 10:35:39 I didn't mean for any of this to happen to anybody or their family. I'm sorry that it did happen. JUDGE NED MILLER THEN REDUCED THE 50 YEAR SENTENCE TO 40 YEARS. C27 10:50:02 nothing's free in this world SOLICITOR WALT WILKINS... CALLED THE 40 YEAR SENTENCE FAIR. HE SAYS THE VICTIM'S FAMILY UNDERSTANDS... THIS WAS THE PRICE... OF ENSURING THAT CLARENCE JENKINS... WOULD SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE... IN PRISON. THE FAMILY OF CARMAN JENKINS... SAT BEHIND HER IN COURT TODAY. THEY WERE VISIBILY UPSET... WITH THE JUDGE'S RULING. HER ATTORNEY ASKED THE SENTENCE BE REDUCED TO 15 - 20 YEARS. ANGELA RODRIGUEZ WYFF NEWS
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Charlotte Mason Homeschool
Charlotte Mason was a British educator who lived 1842-1923. Although she did not have children of her own to homeschool, she taught governesses how to teach their charges. Her teaching philosophy is often called the Charlotte Mason (CM) method.
When I was studying education in college, I had to study various educational philosophies and write my own. At that time, I chose a classical approach which certainly did not evidence itself in my years of teaching language arts in public schools. But many years later when life's circumstances plunged me into homeschooling, I gravitated towards a literature based style. As I researched, I discovered that Charlotte Mason espoused a living education, full of living books. The more I read, the more I saw CM was a good fit for my daughter. Over the years, we have loosely used a CM approach to education. With Sprite now in 7th grade, I feel it has served us well and will take us into high school without any problem.
People often ask what books I recommend for learning about CM. To be honest, you should go straight to the source and read CM's Home Education. It is in the public domain and even has a modern day translation if you find the Victorian English difficult to understand.
When I blog about CM, I tend to lean towards the practical application of principles. If you are new to my blog or to CM, I recommend you start with my Charlotte Mason Q & A . That page lists my best CM blog posts, all of which offer a practical look at applying CM to a daily routine. Another good starting place is Charlotte Mason Basics which gives a broad overview of what makes up a CM education.
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Implementing a CM homeschool can see overwhelming at first. My best advice as you transition to CM is to start small. Choose living books and narration first. Master the use of those foundations first and then move on to a single other area (some options are listed below). Once it is established as a habit, add on another area, keeping the first, until you have converted your homeschool style to your satisfaction.
If you have questions about implementing the Charlotte Mason philosophy, please leave a comment below and I will do my best to answer it in a blog post.
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- February 17, 2012 at 11:05 am
Hi Jimmie. I have found your website an amazing help to me as a homeschool mom. I have found so many things that I have wanted to do, but wasn't sure how to go about it. I love many aspects of CM and wanted to know if the Five In A Row curriculum is something you would recommend?
- September 14, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Hi Jimmie. I've been following your blog for about a year now. I really love homeschooling the CM "way". We're working on our 3rd year of homeschooling and my girls are 12 and 9. I started this year trying to notebook — especially history and science — along with living books. The girls didn't do very well with just a "blank slate", so I began writing out questions from the reading. I try to use phrases like: "Describe ______. or Tell about __________. as much as possible, but sometimes I just write a question. It seems to help them get started. However, I'm finding they are using it like a worksheet and writing as little as possible to give an answer. I think notebooking is a wonderful learning tool, but I'm really having a hard time getting them to DO it. Any suggestions?
- October 26, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Hey, Jimmie! I have been looking into the Beech Retreat and found your link on the Facebook page. My husband and I are trying to decide if we can make this happen for us to go and enjoy this together, but the more I see things, the more I WANT TO GO! Then to come here and see that you do CM, too, is more than I can handle! I NEED TO GO!
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Archive » May 24, 2007
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By Gary A. Bartick
Cohabitation Raises Legal Issues
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the number of unmarried partner households rose 72% nationwide during the 1990s. Changing values and economic conditions have combined to make cohabitation a part of the national culture and raised important legal issues for those who choose to live in this manner.
Unlike married partners, those who cohabit do not share legal rights to property, inheritance, income and debts. And, if children are involved, additional issues of custody and support arise.
As unromantic as it may seem, a clearly written partnership agreement at the beginning of a relationship becomes the proverbial ounce of protection worth more than a pound of cure. The time to make these decisions regarding property ownership, inheritance and support is before any triggering events occur. To attempt to prove the existence of an agreement after the fact, and without a written contract, can be costly and time consuming.
Even without formal documents, traditionally married couples have certain rights to property, protected by law. Those rights, such as the right to inherit property upon the death of a partner, are not available to the unmarried couple, same-sex or otherwise. Executing an appropriate contract can protect these rights.
For a contract to be valid it must pass four basic tests. First, the parties to the contract must be capable of contracting. This rules out a contract involving a minor or someone deemed incompetent. Second, there must be valid consent. To be valid, the parties must agree without coercion, duress, undue influence or fraud. Third, the contract must have a lawful object, not an illegal activity.
And fourth, after the precedent-setting Marvin v. Marvin case of 1976, the contract between partners cannot be based primarily on the rendition of sexual favors. The Supreme Court of California held in the Marvin case that contracts between unmarried couples are not against public policy and are enforceable, as long as the contracts are not founded explicitly on the consideration of sexual services.
The major elements of a living-together agreement should include property ownership and property rights, inheritance rights and support. Like a business agreement, property ownership should address the issues of title and division of ownership interests, credit toward future property interests created by contributions to property, the rights of the parties in the event they choose to dissolve the partnership, and, equally important, inheritance rights.
Inheritance rights are a particularly sticky issue, since state intestacy laws have been written to favor a blood family member, never an unmarried partner. Therefore, a valid will and/or living trust are a must if the partners intend to pass on property to each other at death.
Partners can agree to pool their earnings for mutual support. Or, they may choose to treat income earned by each as that person's separate property. Or, as the Marvin case pointed out, one may be the breadwinner while the other provides non-income producing support.
Unmarried couples do have one advantage over traditional married couples, especially in community property states. They may transfer property between partners for the purpose of avoiding future creditor claims, something difficult to accomplish in community property jurisdictions.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Matt Hanlon, the former top radio executive for Citadel Broadcasting, has pleaded guilty to impaired driving.
Hanlon, 49, was arrested after an April crash that injured a Grand Rapids couple, records showed.
Hanlon, scheduled for a settlement conference later his month, instead entered a written guilty plea by mail, Grand Rapids District Court records showed.
He will undergo a presentence investigation next week before Judge Donald Passenger sets a sentencing date, records showed.
Hanlon, who left his job at Townsquare Media in April, was Citadel's Grand Rapids-based president for 85 stations in the Midwest. Those included WLAV-FM and WBBL-FM, "The Ball."
He left Citadel for Townsquare to become senior vice president for sales.
Its stations include WGRD-FM, WFGR-FM "Classic Hits 98.7" and WTRV-FM "100.5 FM The River" in Grand Rapids.
RELATED: See 2010 profile on Hanlon.
A preliminary breath test showed Hanlon's blood-alcohol level to be 0.14 percent after an afternoon crash on April 6 on Knapp Street NE near East Beltline Avenue, police reports showed. Hanlon, in a Land Rover, attempted a left turn into the D&W parking lot when his vehicle collided with an oncoming vehicle, reports said.
The occupants of the other vehicle were treated for minor injuries, reports said.
Hanlon was not hurt.
He accepted a plea deal.
Impaired driving carries a potential 93-day jail term. The original charge of operating while intoxicated carried a one-year maximum penalty.
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Authorities at a British airport had been using pre-recorded tapes of birds in distress in an attempt to deter the feathered pests from invading runways, but that plan hadn't been working out all that well. A staff member switched the feed to whatever tape happened to be nearby, and found that Tina Turner was just the ticket to get the flying freeloaders out of town. A researcher said he had no idea why Turner was an audio scarecrow, but noted, "Clearly birds and planes are not a good combination for either the bird or the plane. You want something therefore that's going to create a habitat that's not of interest for them."
Naples, FL police said a neighbor of Brandon Michael Perry said he argued with Perry and some of Perry's family members and Perry allegedly punched the neighbor later in the day while he was riding his bicycle! Police said they looked at Perry's Twitter account and discovered Perry, who described himself on the website as a "pill popping animal," had posted to his account about his intention to attack the other man and later bragged about having harmed the alleged victim.Perry was charged with battery and released after posting $2,000 bond.
A Florida man ended up channeling both Dopey and Sleepy after breaking into a house. Joseph Sherman LaCross jimmied his way into the residence through a locked garage door and scooped up a handful of things, including a bottle of nail polish and a Gatorade, which he guzzled before taking a siesta on the homeowners couch! LaCross was charged with burglary and larceny and transported to prison.


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This is a novel by Alisa Sheckley.
Book Blurb:
Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than she
has about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a
research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged
wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.
But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom,
Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is
what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory
underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving
eye, and his lack of humanity isn't entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.
This is one of the most awful books I've ever read - and I have read a great many books. I have never disliked a character the way I dislike Abra Barrow.
Abra Barrow has not seen her husband for 3 months when he comes home he is acting strange - very disrespectful. What does Abra do? Cry
Abra finds out that her husband was unfaithful in the 3 months they were apart. What does Abra do? Cry
Abra's husband tells her he needs time apart - for work. What does Abra do? Cry
Abra's husband takes her to dinner and tells her that he is moving 2 hours away to live in his childhood home in the middle of no where so that he can focus on his work - but Abra can come with him. What does Abra do? Cry. Tears of gratitude cause her jerk of a husband is willing to let her come along.
So Abra gives up everything that is important to her and follows her jerk of a husband to the middle of nowhere and what does she do when he blatantly flirts with a waitress at dinner? Cry
Finally in chapter 35 Abra tries to borrow a pair (cause goodness know's she doesn't own a pair of her own) - but it is too little, too late.
Who wants to read 35 chapters of crying just to get to a point where the female lead tries to stand up for herself? I don't! And note that I said tried - cause she didn't do it. She rolled right over and let herself be pushed out of town.
This was a waste of time and paper.
I give this book 0 stars.


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Charity golf day sponsorship opportunities
Businesses are being offered the chance to sponsor The Children's Centre's ever popular annual golf day which will be held at Douglas Golf Club on June 20. It is a major fundraising event for the Island's leading charity for families and children which has raised more than £45,000 since it was first held in 2007. There are a number of corporate sponsorship opportunities available starting at £50. Susie Cox, Community Fundraiser at The Children's Centre, said:
"Our Golf Day is a great event to promote brand awareness and there are a range of mini sponsorship packages available including the prizes for the winning team and runners-up, 18th hole official team photos, plus the longest drive and beat the pro competitions. Sponsorship includes brand presence in all media literature, online coverage and social media mentions, plus having the sponsor's logo featured on banners in exclusive locations, and a chance to participate in the prize presentation. Our annual Golf Day is a very important event on our fundraising calendar and all of the proceeds go to support our charitable projects which help thousands of families and children across the Island. But, in addition to raising funds for these vital projects, the day is also a lot of fun and we do everything we can to make sure it's a great day out for all those who take part."
The Golf Day – which also features a nearest the pin competition sponsored by MAC Financial – starts at 11am with breakfast baps, tea and coffee followed by registration which opens at noon. Teams will make their way onto the course at 12.45pm with the tournament starting at 1pm. The format is a shotgun start, four person Stableford AM-AM with the best two scores from each hole to count. Men will play from yellow tees, and ladies from red tees. Maximum handicap for men is 24, and 30 for ladies. The day finishes with a meal and prize presentation. The entry fee is £300 per team, or £500 for two teams. Closing date for entries is May 9.
For more information about sponsorship opportunities – or to book a place for a team to take part in the Golf Day – email Susie Cox at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 676076. Full details about the event can be found at www.thechildrenscentre.org.im
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The Final Score in Europe: Privacy 1; Copyright Holders 0
On November 10, 2010 By Donna Baldry November 8, 2010
Coming out of Europe this week are two apparently opposite movements: one seeks stronger protections for Internet users' personal information; the other, aims to relax intellectual property laws and allow the use of copyright materials without the owners' approval.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Today could be a historic day for the United States at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
With plenty of doubters ready to throw hot water on his icy path, Shaun White will attempt to win his third consecutive snowboard halfpipe gold medal and become the first American male Winter Olympian to three-peat in the same event. In keeping with the triple theme, much of the drama centers around whether White will attempt a triple cork. Qualifying begins at 5 a.m. EST and finals are at 12:30 p.m.
Halfpipe will not be broadcast live, but as with all events, it can be viewed live on nbcolympics.com, and updates will be posted on cleveland.com/olympics.
Four U.S. women also could be involved in Olympic history.
Alaskan Kikkan Randall seeks to become the first American man or woman to win a cross country gold medal, and the reigning World Cup sprint champion is favored in the 1.2-kilometer sprint free. Prelims are at 5 a.m. and finals at 8:20 a.m. No U.S. woman has ever medalled at the Olympics.
California teenager Erin Hamlin is positioned to become the first American to win a medal in singles luge. She was third after two runs Monday. The final two runs begin at 9:30 a.m.
After being stonewalled for years by the International Olympic Committee, women finally will compete in ski jumping beginning today at 12:30 p.m. on the normal hill. American teen and reigning world champ Sarah Hendrickson's ability to contend is in doubt because of a knee injury that continued to hamper her in training last week.
American Keri Howell is a strong contender in women's ski slopestyle, another new event that begins at 1 a.m.
Other medal events today include women's 10K biathlon pursuit, men's 1.4K cross country sprint free and women's 500 long track speedskating.
The pairs figure skating short program is at 10 a.m.
Among Tuesday's highlights, U.S. skier Julia Mancuso won a bronze medal in super combined (one downhill run, one slalom), the fourth medal of her career, and J.R. Celski was fourth in the short track speedskating 1,500 meters. In men's moguls. American Patrick Deneen placed sixth.
With Brooklyn Heights' Kelli Stack registering two assists, the U.S. women's hockey team cruised to a 9-0 win against Switzerland. The U.S.-Canada showdown is Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. in the final game of group play.


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Norwegian Star Cruise Review by brendasunam: Panama Canal
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Panama Canal
Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Los Angeles
We just went on the Panama Canal Cruise which began in Miami and ended in Los Angelos. We always wanted to go through the Panama Canal and it was well worth it. NCL was a great ship. Everything was immaculate and we liked the "freestyle cruising". We ate when we wanted to. The food was good. The dessert were okay, but could have been better. I enjoyed Costa Rica the best. It also seemed safer than the other ports in Mexico as they didn't have guards with guns all over the port. In Cabo San Luca , we went whale watching with one of the locals offering trips and it was very nice. I would go again. I highly recommend NCL.
The only two things that disappointed me was that my postcards, mailed in Huataluco never got to anyone and I have been home a few weeks already! The other problem was the photo shop set up in Cabo San Luco with the lion cubs where you have your picture taken with them. We gave them money and had out picture taken . Later we found out that this is a scam. They More tell you the baby lions come from a reserve and this is to raise money for the reserve. It isn't true and there is no reserve. Please don't give your money to these people who exploit the baby animals and then get rid of them when they're too big. If I knew this beforehand, I never would have had the picture taken. The whole operation should be shut down. This is no reflection on NCL at all. The cruise ship is great!
We did do a Shore Excursion in Costa Rica to the Poas Volcano. It was very cloudy and misty and we couldn't see the volcano but they did say this may happen. Less
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WEST LINN — State got revenge Monday night at the annual Oregon 6A State-Metro Senior All-Star Softball Series.
The State team, which was swept by the Metro squad last year, routed its big-city counterparts in both games of its afternoon double-header at Ridgemont Ridge Middle School. It took the first game, 6-0, and nabbed the second one, 8-1.
State dominated in every major statistical category. It blanked Metro through the first 12 innings of the two-game series; outhit its opponent 20-8, and tallied four fewer errors.
In the first contest, North Medford pitcher/first baseman Maryssa Becker proved why she's a two-time Gatorade Softball Player of the Year. The Louisville commit had two hits, an RBI, six strikeouts and four scoreless innings pitched.
And after a 30-minute home run derby, Roseburg pitcher Mikenna Akers helped maintain State's momentum with four scoreless innings of her own. Of course, it didn't hurt that she could lean on a balanced offense. Nine different State batters notched hits in the second contest.
But Monday wasn't about the numbers, players said. It was a chance to celebrate some of the state's top local talent.
"It's a lot of fun," Beaverton pitcher/first baseman Mackenzie Spencer said. "This whole thing is just special to be a part of."
-- Connor Letourneau


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Natural Balance recalled two varieties of dry pet food today that are potentially linked to massive recall that started in mid-March.
The Food and Drug Administration said the company has received complaints about animals vomiting and developing kidney problems after eating its Venison and Brown Rice dry dog food and Venison and Green Pea dry cat food. It said none of its other products was affected.
The only other dry pet food that's been recalled is Prescription Diet m/d Feline made by Hill's Pet Nutrition.
At least six companies are included in the recall of pet food and treats: Menu Foods, Hill's, Del Monte Pet Products, Nestle Purina PetCare Co., Sunshine Mills Inc. and now Natural Balance Pet Foods.
FDA scientists have found melamine in the wheat gluten of recalled products. Melamine is used to make plastics but it's also used as a fertilizer in Asia.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of animals have developed kidney disease after eating tainted food. Oregon's public health veterinarian has tracked 117 suspected cases, including 45 deaths.
For more information about the Natural Balance recall, visit its Web site. Go here for information from the FDA. Another good resource is the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association.


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In the aftermath of the Mumbai massacre, a lot of attention has been focused on the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba that has been blamed for the bloodbath. Simon Cameron-Moore, our bureau chief in Islambad, has written an interesting piece on what they've done in recent years. As a religion editor watching this story unfold, I was also curious to know how they think. What kind of religious views do they have? My Google search has turned up an interesting answer.
Richard Dawkins rips into Harun Yahya and Muslim creationism
This blog has given Harun Yahya a platform to defend his Islamic version of creationism, so it's time to show Richard Dawkins tearing him apart. I noticed this video because it's about the Atlas of Creation, a book that has fascinated me ever since I first saw it in Turkey two years ago. My blog posts on this have sparked amazed reactions from Westerners hearing about it for the first time, and indignant expressions of support from Muslims who agree with Harun Yahya (aka Adnan Oktar).
Where does religion have its strongest foothold?
The answer is Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. At least that was the conclusion of the latest Pew Research Institute survey of attitudes about religion around the world — a look at 24 countries based on thousands of interviews. Indonesia came in first with 99 percent of the population rating religion as important or very important in their lives — and it topped everyone else in the "very important" slot at 95 percent. Beyond that 80 percent of those surveyed in Indonesia say they pray five times a day every day — adhering to one of the five pillars of Islam.
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Kashmir's lost generation
One of the more troublesome aspects of the latest protests in Kashmir, among the biggest since a separatist revolt erupted in 1989, is the impact on the younger generation.
Telegram diplomacy, Vatican style
What do Albania, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia have in common?
Their heads of state all received identical or nearly identical telegrams from Pope Benedict as his plane was flying over their countries on the way from Rome to Australia to preside at the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Youth.
The telegrams said "FLYING OVER (NAME OF COUNTRY) EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA FOR THE CELEBRATION OF WORLD YOUTH DAY, I SEND CORDIAL GREETINGS TO YOU AND TO ALL YOUR FELLOW-CITIZENS, ALONG WITH THE ASSURANCE OF MY PRAYERS THAT ALMIGHTY GOD WILL BLESS THE NATION WITH PEACE AND PROSPERITY. BENEDICTUS PP. XVI.
That was the version received by heads of state of countries whose majority of citizens practice one of the three monotheistic religions. The others, where other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism are practiced, received a slightly different version in which the phrase "invoking divine blessings" replaced the phrase "that almighty God will bless the nation".
But one could not help but wonder why the telegrams were virtually identical (apart from the God/divine difference) even though the situation in the various countries hardly is. Current events in Greece, for example, are hardly similar to those in Myanmar or Afghanistan.
When he flew over countries, the late Pope John Paul would sometimes tailor his telegrams to reflect the situation on the ground, even if only obliquely. So, when reporters aboard Benedict's plane were handed out 18 telegrams, some read them expecting, or hoping, that a straightforward or diplomatically creative tea-leaves message might be found in those being beamed to hot spots such as Afghanistan, which is engulfed in war, Myanmar, which is still trying to recover from the devastation of Cyclone Nargis and whose human rights record has prompted concern by the international community, or Vietnam, with which the Vatican hopes to soon establish full diplomatic relations after decades of tensions.
Granted, telegrams are not the building blocks of any state's diplomacy. But of all the countries that were flown over, the pope has only visited one (Turkey) and perhaps this is the closest he will come to most of the rest of them.
And, a little old-style tea leaves reading would have helped reporters who clocked more than 20 hours of flying with the pope between Rome and Sydney kill a little time.
And maybe even have produced a story or two more.
Survey says world's top 10 intellectuals are Muslims
The bimonthly U.S. international affairs journal Foreign Policy has just published a survey of the world's top 20 public intellectuals and the first 10 are all Muslims. They are certainly an interesting group of men (and one woman) but the journal's editors are not convinced they all belong on top. In their introduction in the July/August issue, they wrote: "Rankings are an inherently dangerous business." It turns out that some candidates ran publicity campaigns on their web sites, in interviews or in reports in media friendly to them. So intellectuals who many other intellectuals might have put at the top — say Noam Chomsky or Richard Dawkins — landed only in the second 10 or in a much more mixed list of post-poll write-ins.
Hunting for heretics in the 21st century
"Popular imagination relegates 'heresy' to the Middle Ages…" says the Wikipedia entry on heresy. The Inquisition, the Salem witch trials and other excesses of religious zeal against dissenters also seem to be located comfortably far back in the past. But several news items these past few days have shown that hunts for heretics continue in the 21st century. Locations, religions and methods may be different, but the intolerance is the same.
Kissinger, Iraq and India's Muslims – a new domino theory?
Is Henry Kissinger trying to update the domino theory to fit what he fears in 2008? He had a "Lunch with the FT" interview in Saturday's Financial Times and surprised his interviewer, historian Stephen Graubard, by linking the war in Iraq and Muslims in India. As Graubard wrote:
Secularist slide in Pakistan as local Sharia courts proposed
One of the most interesting results in Pakistan's general election last February was the victory of the secularist Awami National Party in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) after six years of Islamist government in Peshawar. In a province where the Taliban and other Islamists had made heavy inroads, the vote for the ANP and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) seems to herald a turn toward some form of secularist democracy. "The greatest achievement of this transition to democracy is the rout of religious extremists who wanted to plunge Pakistan into anarchy," Najam Sethi, editor of the Daily Times, wrote in his post-ballot analysis. "It is the rise of liberal democracy … that will help solve the problem of religious extremism in Pakistan."
New York imam forges close ties with city's Jews
New York's largest mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) on East 96th Street in Manhattan, is getting applause from an unexpected quarter — the city's influential Jewish community … Much of the credit for the upbeat mood goes to Mohammad Shamsi Ali, the ICC's Indonesian-born imam who arrived here only 12 years ago and has been rated by New York magazine as the city's most influential Islamic leader.


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By DANNY COLVIN
Wagner College got itself back into Northeast Conference postseason contention with a resounding 67-50 beating of third-place Monmouth University on Saturday at the Spiro Center.
The Seahawks, coming off a season-low 25-percent shooting performance at Bryant Monday, shot a season-best 57.1 percent — a dazzling 59.1 in the second half — in stopping a three-game slide and ending the (15-7, 7-4) Hawks' two-game winning streak.
Ninth-place Wagner (10-12, 3-8), which used a 20-2 burst over a 13:04 first-half span and played solid defense to the finish line, hosts eighth-place Fairleigh Dickinson on Monday (7 p.m.) in a game that could have a bearing on the eighth and final tournament spot.
"These are the games you play for," said Seahawks coach Gela Mikalauskas. "The schedule happens to coincide with key (home) games against (4-7) FDU and (2-9) Mount St. Mary's."
Behind balanced scoring, the Seahawks went from a 17-17 tie at the 9:35 mark of the initial half to a commanding 31-17 advantage with 25 seconds left.
"We let up a little at the end of the (first) half, but we came out strong to start the second half and it was our defense that generated it," Mikalauskas continued.
"This was our best defensive effort of the year, it really energized our offense. But we have to remain consistent."
Center Kelly Clark scored 12 of her game-high 18 points after intermission, most of them in-the-paint layups, and Ashley Olsen (nine rebounds) was a force on the defensive boards.
NOTES: No droughts for Wagner. The closest MU got was 48-41 with 8:31 to go and Clark (two layups) and Stephanie McBride (two FTs) got the advantage safely back to double figures ... Monmouth finished shooting 30.9 percent from the field, its second-lowest NEC output this season. The Hawks took 13 more shots because of a 13-4 offensive-board edge ... Seahawks got a big lift with the return of point guard McBride (13 points) whose second-half leadership showed when Wagner went small to apply the defensive pressure ... Canadian soph deux of Veronick Fournier (11 points) and Marie-Laurence Archambault (10) also got into double figures ... Thanks to Clark's scoring, Wagner held a 30-16 edge in points in the paint ... Another no-depth outing. Six players accounted for 179 of Wagner's 200 minutes ... MU could help Wagner playoff cause. The Hawks play at the Mount on Monday and at FDU on Saturday ... Wagner honored 1,000-point career scorers at halftime. Joy Gallagher, Cindy Bonforte, Cynthia Quinlan, Grace Paterno, Chris Anderson, and assistant coach Maureen Hannafin were among the 22-player list. In a pre-game ceremony, Mikalauskas presented a basketball to the newest member, Megan Mahoney.


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This newspaper makes the following recommendations for the Feb. 6 ballot.
5th DISTRICT
Karen Carter Peterson
As a state House member for more than 10 years, Rep. Peterson has earned a reputation as a progressive, savvy and hard-working lawmaker. Rep. Peterson, a lawyer who is serving her second term in the House, is an intelligent lawmaker who has been a voice for positive change in Baton Rouge. She has consistently pushed for the reform of New Orleans schools and was instrumental in getting the House to pass levee board consolidation legislation after Katrina. She serves on some of the Legislature's most influential committees, including Appropriations, House and Governmental Affairs and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. She would bring the same leadership skills to the Senate, where she says she would focus on affordable housing, crime prevention, economic development, education and ethics.
She is a graduate of Howard University and earned a law degree from Tulane University. This election is to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Cheryl Gray, who resigned to move out of state. The district includes most of Central City, the Lower Garden District, the Garden District and the Uptown and Carrollton neighborhoods.
Arthur Morrell
Mr. Morrell, an attorney and former state representative, has served as clerk since 2006 and has begun to modernize the operation. Post-Katrina renovations are allowing him to make upgrades in technology and evidence storage. Evidence is being marked with bar codes to help make retrieving it and tracking it easier. The flooding after Katrina compromised some evidence, but the clerk's office has taken measures to protect it from damage going forward.
Frank Minyard
Dr. Minyard, the city's longest-serving elected official, is seeking his 10th term as coroner. He is a graduate of the LSU Medical School and was a practicing physician for 30 years. His operation is efficiently run, and he is overseeing the construction of a new, state-of-the-art home for the coroner's office-- which moved to temporary quarters after Hurricane Katrina. He hopes to create a consolidated crime lab to handle police forensic work, court-ordered drug testing and other services for the city of New Orleans in the new building.
Marlin Gusman
For the first time, New Orleans voters will elect a single sheriff rather than criminal and civil sheriffs. Mr. Gusman has served capably as criminal sheriff since 2004 and has made strides in replacing the jail facilities, which were severely damaged in Katrina. His plan is to consolidate what had been a sprawling jail operation before the flood, which should make the operation more efficient and secure. He has a good understanding of the duties on the civil side as well. Mr. Gusman has a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School of Finance & Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Loyola University. His combination of education and work experience is important to running an operation of this size and complexity.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Need help with your taxes? United Way's Kent County Tax Credit Coalition and the Steelcase finance department will host a free tax prep day on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
The Community Day for free tax preparation and e-filing will be held from 4-8 p.m. at Steelcase University, 901 44th St. SE, in Grand Rapids.
Appointments are not needed. Walk-ins are welcome.
Since 2002, The Kent County Tax Credit Coalition has generated nearly $61.5 million in tax credits for more than 50,000 taxpayers in the community. Tax clients often spend these tax refunds locally on basic necessities, such as food and clothing, home and car repairs, or medical treatment.
Financial literacy courses are also offered to clients to help them repair credit, reduce debt, learn how to budget and increase their savings.
For information on qualifications for free tax services and the resources for tax preparation, call United Way's 2-1-1.
Email Kyle Moroney at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her on Twitter or Facebook


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Military Information Session with School of Education
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Join us at a regional information session for an informal discussion on Regent University, your program of interest, and your educational goals. We'll provide a complimentary meal and/or coffee as well.
- Hosted by:
- Office of Military & Veterans Affairs and School of Education
- Location:
- Ruby Tuesday (Near Little Creek Naval Base), 4213 E. Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, Va.
- Cost:
- Event is Free
- Audience:
- Everyone
- Please RSVP at link below


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Justin Keenan made 14-of-15 free throws en route to 26 points and nine rebounds as the Ferris State men's basketball team beat Northern Michigan, 82-75, at home Thursday night.
Matt DeHart and Austin Randel added 12 points apiece for Ferris State (11-7, 9-4 GLIAC).
Marc Renelique scored a game-high 35 points for Northern Michigan (7-10, 4-9).
NORTHERN MICHIGAN 56, FERRIS STATE 54: Ferris State did not score in the game's final 4 minutes and came up short in Big Rapids. Becci Houdek scored 12 points for Ferris State (5-13, 4-9 GLIAC), and Tiara Adams had 10. Christa Erickson led Northern Michigan (13-5, 10-3) with 18 points.


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CAMDEN -- Police are looking for a man responsible for two assaults on children in Camden in the past month, according to Fox 29 News.
The first incident happened Oct. 16 at about 1:20 p.m. at 8th and Everett Streets. A 14-year-old girl narrowly escaped a man who tried to grab her and force her into a dark colored mini-van.
On Nov. 11, at about 7:09 p.m. on the 1900 block of Mulford Street, another 14-year-old girl was attacked. She also was grabbed and her assailant attempted to force her into a dark colored mini-van. This girl also fought and managed to avoid being abducted, but her attacker dragged her into a yard on the 1800 block of Mulford and sexually assaulted her.
The similarity of vehicles involved in both incidents has led police to believe one person is responsible. The victim in the first incident described her attacker as a black man, age 28 to 30, with a thick beard, uncut hair, wearing tan boots, red-and-white basketball shorts and a white T-shirt. The second victim also described a black man, about 5-feet-11-inches, wearing blue jeans, green sweater, a black hat and black gloves.
Anyone with information is urged to call Special Victim Unit at (856) 757-7451 or contact Camden Police Detective Ava Berry at (856) 757-7271.