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Reading Group Guide
This reading group guide for Five Miles South of Peculiar includes discussion questions and a Q&A with author Angela Hunt. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. Have you ever lived in a small town like Peculiar? What are some of the advantages of small-town life? Disadvantages?
2. The title, Five Miles South of Peculiar, is literal, intending to imply that Sycamores is five miles south of the town. But could the title also refer to any of the characters?
3. The story is told through the third-person viewpoints of the three sisters—Carlene, Darlene, and Nolie. Could you identify with one character more than the others? Why or why not? Did it help you to be "inside the heads" of all three characters?
4. In most novels, characters begin in one place and end up in quite another, usually the result of changes in their situations and/or their characters. Where did each of these characters begin? How were they changed by the end of the story?
5. Why do you think Nolie asked Henry to invite Carlene to Darlene's citywide surprise birthday party? Why did she show him that picture of the twins as infants?
6. Would your church (if you have one) hire a minister who had been divorced? Why or why not? How did you feel about Erik Payne's predicament?
7. Why do you think Nolie wanted to wear only white? How does color influence your mood? How does it affect the people around you?
8. Both Carlene and Darlene think of the tall sycamore trees as "sentinels," but Darlene thinks of them as malicious guards while Carlene sees them as benevolent guardians. Why the difference in perspectives?
9. When Carlene convinced people not to accept any more of Nolie's aprons, Nolie is upset, but takes comfort in the thought that "whoever started that nasty conspiracy" might have "broadened her horizons." What motivated Carlene to speak to people about Nolie's aprons? And what was the actual effect of her action? Were Nolie's horizons broadened? In what way?
10. Nolie gleans some wisdom about forgiveness and passes it to Carlene . . . and, inadvertently, the other principal characters. What sorts of things are difficult to forgive? Is it always beneficial to forgive those who have wronged us?
11. What have you taken away from this book?
A Conversation with Angela Hunt
Returning to Peculiar after a successful Broadway career was difficult for Carlene. Have you ever had a similar experience when returning home as an accomplished author?
Not really. Carlene and I have one thing in common—neither of us is world famous, so we're not likely to be mobbed in the supermarket. I have some friends who are true celebrities—folks who can't step out in public without being photographed or asked for autographs—and I'm actually grateful that I've never had to deal with that sort of thing. Neither has Carlene.
Do you have any siblings? How is your personal experience with—or observations of—sibling rivalry similar to or different from the rivalry between Darlene, Carlene, and Nolie?
I have two younger sisters, and we are quite different and spaced years apart, so we never fought over boyfriends or anything like that. Thank goodness! Because Darlene and Carlene were treated as "two of a kind" in their early years, it's no wonder they fell in love with the same man.
The scene where Nolie's dog gives birth to puppies is so vivid! Do you have any experience breeding dogs? Can you tell your readers more about your pet mastiffs?
I love dogs, but have had no actual experience breeding them—for one reason or another, none of my mastiff pups has been what I'd consider suitable for breeding (the breed is prone to hip and joint problems and I've encountered both in my pups). But I frequently watch Animal Planet TV and learn from other "dog people." Dogs are such an amazing God-given gift. I might consider breeding someday, but my homeowners association would frown on me raising bear-sized dogs in my tiny backyard. . . .
In Five Miles South of Peculiar, many of the characters have lost their way and are looking for a home. How do you define home? What makes a home—physically or metaphorically?
The saying may be a cliché, but it's true: home is where the heart is. Where your loved ones are. And, I think, where your history lies. Because the people who knew you growing up have memories of you stored away. For good or bad, they can tell part of your story. If you had amnesia, they could help you find yourself, and surely that's part of what makes a person feel rooted and at home. (Goodness, I think there's another novel somewhere in those ruminations. . . . )
Did you do any kind of research before writing Five Miles South of Peculiar? Did you learn anything surprising or unexpected while writing this book?
Writing any book requires at least some research, even if it's only learning what sort of flora and fauna grows in a certain geographical region. But I sewed several aprons before writing this book (getting into the mood) and bought more cupcake cookbooks than I'll ever use. I've been a singer, so I already knew a lot about vocal cords and performance, but I did do a bit of reading about the throat surgery that cost Julie Andrews her singing voice. And Leonbergers—they are a real breed, beautiful dogs, and I might just have to get one someday. When I'm back under my HOA's two-pet limit, that is.
On your website, www.AngelaHuntBooks.com, you have a special section for readers where you have reading group guides and information about scheduling a conference call to "Ask Angie." Are you in a book club yourself?
I started a book club in our little neighborhood about eight years ago, and it's been a marvelously rewarding experience. These women have taught me more about what makes a book appeal to a reader than any writer's class I've ever taken. And no, we don't read my books. We read everything from New York Times bestsellers to young adult novels, and we learn something from every selection. And from each woman who attends (we'd welcome men, too, if we could ever find any willing to come), I learn how to make a story appeal not to literary purists or other writers or academicians, but to readers. I love that.
How important are parables in your writing? Do you have a favorite?
I love parables—in fact, I'd say that's probably my mission as a writer. Some of my stories are more metaphorical than others, but nearly all of them have hidden meanings that relate to spiritual realities. When Jesus wanted to teach the crowds following him, he didn't speak in overtly religious terms, but usually told secular stories that related to common people's lives: stories of housewives and farmers and brides and grooms and poor widows and wealthy men. Those who were led by the Spirit caught his spiritual meanings; the others simply enjoyed the story. I learned long ago that the Spirit can speak through my stories in ways I never intended, so I'm thrilled to let him work as he will. As to favorite parables, I love the story of the lost sheep and the tale of the four soils. That one—no pun intended—is deep, and it took me a while to fully understand it.
The men in Five Miles South of Peculiar, with the exception of one, are strong, patient, kind Christian men. Were any of them inspired by individuals from your own life?
They are the kind of men my father was—not given to a lot of talk, but honest, loyal, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth types. They are more comfortable showing their feelings through action, not words.
You completed your master of biblical studies in theology degree in 2006 and completed your doctorate in 2008. What was the experience of returning to school like? How has your higher education influenced your writing?
I went back to school because I was writing about deeper theological topics and I felt a huge responsibility to "get it right." The things I learned not only deepened my writing but gave me several new book ideas. I'm still learning, and should complete my ThD this year . . . if I get my dissertation finished.
Which is more difficult for your characters in Five Miles South of Peculiar: forgiving each other, or forgiving themselves? What about for yourself?
Carlene and Darlene do carry burdens of guilt, but they also carry little scorecards marked with wrongs committed by the other. And while forgiving oneself can be difficult, I think human nature struggles to forgive others—we are so prone to carry grudges, nurse our wounds, and chafe under perceived injustices. In my own life, I've found that it's easy to say, "I forgive that offense," and then dredge it up again a few months later—what, did my forgiveness expire? I have to keep reminding myself that Jesus said he'll forgive as I do (Matthew 6:14), and I don't want him remembering my failings as readily as I remember others'.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- They're not peeved, mind you. Instead, they're baffled.
The Syracuse University softball team has been dismissed (kind of, sort of) as the parsley rather than labeled the steak. And those members of the club, which has won 20 of its last 21 games en route to a 44-11 record, have been left to wonder why.
"We're always 'just' Syracuse," Kelly Saco, the Orange's junior first baseman, said the other day. "But we're not 'just' Syracuse. We're one of those teams people should be looking out for. You play us, you better not be sleeping."
As Kelly suits up for a program that had lost 110 times in the four campaigns preceding this one, that sounds like fairly bold talk. But the fact of the matter is that the SU squad awakened this morning in College Station, Tex., where it will challenge Louisiana State later today in a first-round game of the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.
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And that gives her license.
"We're that team that everybody wants to overlook," said Saco, an import from Miami, Fla. "You know, 'Syracuse is a bunch of northeastern snowbirds.' But people shouldn't think like that about us.
"We played our first 27 games on the road, so we're used to this. We're used to the traveling. We're used to the 13-hour bus rides. We're used to getting off the plane and going to practice. We're pretty tough that way."
Amazing, isn't it? SU thinks so little of the possibilities in the male equivalent of softball (i.e., baseball) that it doesn't bother to field a team, falling back on Daryl Gross' mantra that the Orange will engage in no sporting activity that can't be won.
And yet, with that clear inference to be read between the lines, here is the Syracuse softball team . . . winning. And, despite having trotted onto its home tundra merely 13 times this spring, it is winning big.
Specifically, the Orange:
-- Competed in 11 states (Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia) before landing in Texas . . . and won in each of them.
-- Took on the big-time likes of Hawaii and Utah and Fresno State and Nevada and Fullerton State during the Cathedral City Classic in Palm Springs in February . . . and beat them all.
-- Claimed its second consecutive Big East Conference Tournament earlier this month . . . and nabbed, too, the second straight NCAA Tournament berth that came with it.
But . . . sigh.
"People still think we're a Cinderella story," said Morgan Nandin, SU's sophomore shortstop out of Cicero-North Syracuse High School. "They still think that if we win a big game, the other team must have had an off day. We just don't get the credit we deserve. We'll open some eyes, though, when we come out against LSU and play well."
As the Tigers, members of the strong SEC, are 38-16, the Orange will need to have eaten its beans this morning at breakfast. More to the point, SU's remarkable starting pitcher, Jenna Caira (34-9, 1.38 ERA, 305 strikeouts in 265 innings), will almost certainly need to continue to be remarkable.
Saco's take on all of that? Ho and hum.
"We will play up to the challenge," she declared. "We don't back down. We don't say, 'Oh, this team is supposed to be better than us.' We come up to them and we say, 'You know, we're going to give you a run for your money. We're going to beat you.' We know we belong. We know we should be in the Tournament. We know we're good."
They're just not sure why it is that, apparently, not everybody agrees.
(Bud Poliquin's columns, "To The Point" commentaries and freshly-written on-line commentaries, appear virtually every day on syracuse.com. His work can also be regularly found on the pages of The Post-Standard newspaper. Additionally, he can be heard Mondays through Fridays (10 a.m.-12 noon), on the "Bud & the Manchild" sports-talk radio show on The Score 1260-AM. E-mail: email@example.com.)

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I have never been overweight, my highest, non-pregnant weight at 5 foot 8 inches, is 150lbs (highest pregnancy weight = 161lbs); I am currently about 139lbs. I am aware that this is a healthy weight for my height, but it is not my "happy" weight of about 126lbs, which I was 2 years ago. I suspect that my lack of energy then was to do with my lack of protein and good fats, rather than my weight, as I have always hovered around the low end of healthy weights for my height.
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Brian Pierson (left) works on his spell casting with witch Hailie Harrison
AMHERST – Magic wands were made and spells were flying Saturday morning at Spring Street Academy for Maggie's Place and CAN-U's 'The Wonderful World of Wizards' literacy day event. Children and their parents joined in on the face painting, spell book making, and even some special magic tricks.
Curtis Smith was just one of the children in attendance for the event. He said he would definitely tell his friends about it.
"I like the little potions," he said. "They're really fun. I got to make a hat and a spell book."
Mallory Jury brought her daughter to the wizard-themed event. She said it was an instant hit.
"I told my little one about it this morning and she didn't stop talking about it until we got here. She was ecstatic, she loves coming to this stuff," she said. "A lot of kids don't all go to day care and don't have the chance to get out with other kids. This is what they need, they need the interaction with the other kids. This is an awesome place. I love when Maggie's Place does this."
Heather Matthews, the children's team co-ordinator for Maggie's Place, said the turnout was a little smaller than expected, but she was still pleased with the number of children ready to learn some magic.
"The kids that are here are having a great time and that's the main thing really," she said. Along with the magic wands and face painting, Matthews and some of the other witches helping put together the event, even had a special science table.
"We're blowing things up, which is a lot of fun and we're making potions," she said. "There are lots of fun things."


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Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- Academy award winning actress Patty Duke has dealt with her fair share of mental illness and on Thursday she shared her story with the Northland.
Patty says her acting was really a stepping stone to be a spokeswoman for mental health.
Patty has been bipolar for most of her life and says before her diagnosis when she was out in public people looked at her as a "goody two shoes," but behind closed doors she was much more like a wicked witch.
Patty is a two-time best-selling author with publications on her rise to fame along with her diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
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He's not the only person in America with more than one failed marriage. According to Divorcerate.org, 41 percent of first marriages, 60 percent of second marriages and 73 percent of third marriages end in divorce.
But Gingrich is trying to win the GOP nomination for president. Because of that, his failed marriages are fodder for his opponents, especially after his second wife, Marianne, said in a recent interview that Gingrich wanted an "open marriage," which would allow him to continue an affair with the woman who eventually would become his third wife.
The interview and the issue of Gingrich's infidelities didn't seem to bother voters in South Carolina, which Gingrich won with 40 percent of the vote, beating second-place Mitt Romney, who has been married to one woman for 42 years, by nearly 13 percentage points.
That brings up the question: Should marital infidelities matter to voters?
Meghan Daum of the Los Angeles Times believes it's become clear to voters that being a good spouse doesn't equate to being a good president, and they're tired of hearing about candidates' affairs. She also says Gingrich played a role in this with his relentless attacks on former president Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998:
It's not that we wouldn't prefer a leader whose family life fits the all-American myth. It's just that we have scandal fatigue. We may no longer have the patience or the appetite for the kind of politics that cares more about the sexual dalliances of consenting adults than the betterment of the people. And the orchestrator of this fatigue is none other than Gingrich himself. Gingrich's hammering away at Bill Clinton in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky affair played a role in getting the president impeached, but in the end it also won Clinton a generous dose of sympathy. The president left the White House with a 65 percent approval rating, the highest exit rating in more than 50 years (he even beat Ronald Reagan.)Clinton managed to survive politically despite several sexual indiscretions. He won the presidency in 1992 after revelations of an affair with Arkansas state employee Gennifer Flowers. He won re-election in 1996 after being sued by Paula Jones in 1994 on claims of sexual harassment while he was governor of Arkansas. And then, of course, there was the Lewinsky scandal.
But not all politicians find voters or their parties that forgiving. U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., resigned from Congress after he used Twitter to send a picture of his crotch to a woman ... less than a year after he was married. Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008 after revelations the married New York governor was involved with prostitutes. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to an affair in 2009 and was forced to resign as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, but he finished out his term in 2011. Most recently, Herman Cain suspended his GOP presidential campaign after several women came forward with claims of sexual harassment.
For now, Gingrich's marriage history and his ex-wife's claims are not hurting him. Why are GOP "values voters" cutting him slack? Commentator Peter Wehner weighs in:
For others, infidelity by a politician is a matter of indifference. We elect a president, not a preacher, and while infidelity may be a troubling personal characteristic, it has little bearing on a person's public duties. Many able public officials have also been philanderers. "Libido and leadership" are linked, Eleanor Clift argued during the Clinton years. There are plenty of sins that are considered problematic in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament; why focus on infidelity instead of, say, self-righteousness? And of course a person who cheats on his spouse might also embody virtues in other arenas (for example, battlefield valor). If the choice during World War II had been between an unfaithful Winston Churchill and a faithful Neville Chamberlain, who would you rather have had as prime minister?
And Wehner has a point: Some of this nation's greatest leaders also were unfaithful husbands. Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson all had mistresses. In fact, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist, argues that Gingrich's three marriages are an indication he would be a strong president (Fox News):
First, one note on what Mr. Gingrich's married life, including his history of infidelity does not mean: It does not mean that Mr. Gingrich would be unfaithful to the United States of America or the Constitution of the United States. You can take any moral position you like about men and women who cheat while married, but there simply is no correlation, whatsoever -- from a psychological perspective -- between whether they can remain true to their wedding vows and whether they can remain true to the Oath of Office. ... When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we'll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we'll want to let him go after one.
Gingrich's marriage history has always followed him, as the New York Times reports. He scored points with the GOP base in South Carolina with his defiant answer last week to a question about Marianne Gingrich's claims. It won't end the questions, though, especially from those who still wonder about Gingrich's character (Peter Bella, Washington Times):
Newt Gingrich is not a victim here. He is not the victim of a smear, he is not the victim of the liberal media, he is not the victim of a vast left wing conspiracy, and he is not the victim of a woman scorned. ... Character counts. You cannot stand up on nationwide television and tout family, Christian, or social values if you do not possess them. ... People deserve answers to questions on character, honesty, and ethics. Tantrums are not answers.


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CMU opens its football season at 7 p.m. Thursday against Eastern Illinois at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Who carries the ball for the Chippewas is anybody's guess.
"We all have different abilities, different talents," CMU tailback Ontario Sneed said. "It's not so much about individual statistics. We're all going to play."
Carl Volny, a sophomore from Florida, is the starting tailback heading into Thursday's game even though he gained just 100 yards on 29 carries last season.
"He deserves it," CMU coach Butch Jones said. "He had a great spring for us and has kept it going during the fall practice. We're happy with where he's at."
Even though he starts, however, he may not end up with the most carries or the most yardage.
Last year's top three tailbacks in rushing yardage return this year and are expected to also carry their fair share. Justin Hoskins gained 664 yards last season, with Sneed adding 486 and Marcel Archer 114.
"None of us got to 1,000 yards, but we don't look at that," Hoskins said. "We look at it as a group. As a running-back group, we gained over 1,000 yards. That's what we take pride in."
But there are more backs than last year, thanks to a strong recruiting class. Three true freshmen -- Jahleel Addae, Paris Cotton and Bryan Schroeder -- are also expected to play.
"They all have different styles of running and different strengths," Jones said. "We'll go with the one who's most successful for whatever circumstance we're up against."
Ironically, the Chippewas did have a 1,000-yard rusher last season ... quarterback Dan LeFevour, who ran for 1,122 yards in 2007.
The Chippewas haven't played Eastern Illinois since 1999 and have not lost to the Panthers since 1965. Jones is wary of the Division I-AA team.
"They are extremely talented," Jones said. "They've won the Ohio Valley Conference the past two seasons and have a strong program, probably one of the top five I-AA teams in the country. They have quite a few talented players who have transferred in."
Some of the top transfers are quarterback Bodie Reeder (Wyoming), tailback Chevon Walker (Florida), defensive tackle Jeff Sobol (Illinois) and defensive lineman Donovan Johnson (Arkansas).
"It's a good test for us," Jones said. "I only wish we had a better tuneup for this game. We're probably going to use 14 to 16 true freshmen. This is a tough game for them to start with. They've done well in camp, but you never know what to expect when the lights go on."
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Newcastle United entertain Stoke City on Sunday afternoon at St. James' Park (3pm kick-off) and will be hoping to build on their recent run of good form.
The Magpies have won half of their home games this season and also five of their last eight hosting middle-third teams.
Stoke are in poor form following a sixth defeat in eight games last weekend and tend to struggle on the road. The Potters have lost 13 - and won only one - of their last 23 away games and have failed to score in eight of their last 12.
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LSU running back Terrence Magee, offensive tackle La'el Collins and linebacker D.J. Welter will represent the Tigers at the 2014 SEC Media Days, the SEC announced Wednesday.
Media Days are July 14-17 at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham - The Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala.
Every head coach from the 14 SEC football programs will participate, along with three student-athletes from each school.
LSU will take center stage on Wednesday (July 16), along with Missouri and Arkansas. It all starts Monday with Auburn, Florida and Vanderbilt.
Last year's LSU attendees included quarterback Zach Mettenberger, safety Craig Loston, and wide receiver Jarvis Landry.
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The 'Federalism Five' as Supreme Court Nominees, 1971-1991
John Q. Barrett
St. John's University School of Law; Robert H. Jackson Center
St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, Vol 21, pp. 485-496, Spring 2007
St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-0063
This article looks back at the Senate confirmation hearing testimonies of the Supreme Court nominees who became Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas. As justices, they generally voted together in path-breaking federalism cases. As nominees testifying, however, they did not announce or for the most part even much hint at what came to be their consequential judicial views of national power and state sovereignty, although they did wrestle with "federalism" as much as they were asked and required to do.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 13
Keywords: federalism, 10th Amendment, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Senate confirmation hearings
Date posted: January 23, 2007
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Supporting your fellow Madison County residents may be the perfect excuse to indulge in something sparkly.
The Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program will host a Sip & Shop girls' night out at Loletta's on March 5 at 6 p.m.
"The event will feature private shopping at Loletta's jewelry, with discounts throughout the store," says Angela Rawls, MCVLP executive director. "It will be a great girls' night out – jewelry, wine and time to visit. There is no obligation to make any purchases or any donation."
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served, provided by Iberia Bank. The MCVLP will be accepting donations to support its work in the community. Everyone who donates will be entered into a drawing for gift cards.
"All funds donated to the MCVLP will help the program provide pro bono legal assistance to those who cannot afford help for major impact issues like divorce, protection from abuse, consumer protection and landlord/tenant issues," says Rawls.
Guests can also create a registry at Loletta's. Rawls says women can register for their Mother's Day gift and shop for the mothers in their lives as well.
"It's an easy, fun, free way to shop for pretty, sparkly things with your girlfriends," she says.
Sip & Shop begins at 6 p.m. Loletta's is located in the Village on Whitesburg shopping center, at the corner of Whitesburg Drive and Airport Road in Huntsville. For more information on MCVLP, connect on Facebook or visit the MCVLP website.
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So you think you can cook? Are you easy on the eyes? Sharp of tongue? Aspire culture-saturating fame?
Monday could be the first day of the rest of your life.
"Top Chef," the popular television series on Bravo, is holding an open casting call at Bayona on Monday (April 14) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"I bet it's going to be a packed house," said Bayona's co-owner Regina Keever. "We're getting a lot of calls."
Gentlemen, hold your horses: No word yet on whether Padma Lakshmi will be on the scene.
My colleague Dave Walker has more information here.
Bayona is at 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455.


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Living in Minnesota is a good reminder of the importance of flexibility in life. We were planning to drive a few hours west to spend Christmas eve with the Baron's family, but now the forecasters are telling us to hunker down and brace for a big storm.
Whatever happens, we'll have plenty of cookies and biscotti to get us through and my folks live so close that we could throw on our snow pants and hike over there if we had to.
Wishing you a warm and cozy holiday, where ever you are!


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Four ecological impacts of roads on animal populations and the time lag for their cumulative effect
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After the time lag (often in the order of decades), population size is smaller, exhibits greater relative fluctuations over time and is more vulnerable.
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Williams went down in what appeared to be some serious pain after a Derrick Green run in the second half, and was helped off the field with a rather obvious limp.
Afterward, coach Brady Hoke confirmed the injury was ankle-related, but didn't know the severity of it.
"A.J. had a little bit of an ankle," Hoke said. "He probably could have gone (back in), but not as effective as we'd have liked him to be."
Michigan wide receiver Jeremy Gallon, who hauled in 8 passes for a career-high 184 yards and 3 touchdowns, left the game with what Hoke described as a "muscle" pull situation.
Gallon didn't stay out of the game long, though, staying on the field throughout the duration of the contest.
Michigan tight end Devin Funchess was helped off the field in the second half, but he immediately returned. Left tackle Taylor Lewan also appeared to get poked in the eye at one point, but he never missed a play.
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well it supports collada for 3D models (which I usually export from Blender).
I forgot to mention the formats. I added them in the first post.
You can make a terrain using a array of ascii numbers or a gray scale image as heightmap.
The documentation is unfinished but you can take a look at the "Resources" folder that is delivered with the download and contains some examples.


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Cervelo P4, frame only, 51 cm.
Used for six months to train and race. During that time, ridden to VICTORY in St. Croix 70.3, Galveston 70.3, Ironman Texas, and the Alpe L'Huez Triathlon, not to mention 11th place in Kona.
$2300. Good juju included free of charge.
Contact Phil Skiba at coachphil at physfarm dot com, for more details or if interested.
- Kelzie
Don't let this juju go to waste - or worse, your AG arch-enemy.


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In addition to liability for cleanup costs, most state and federal environmental statutes impose liability for natural resource damages. For example, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) each provide that federal and state trustees, as well as tribal governments, may recover damages for injuries to natural resources and for the loss of human uses caused by hazardous substances, petroleum products and oil spills. As part of Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC's record setting $355 million settlement for the State of New Jersey in the Passaic River litigation, we secured $67.5 million in restoration projects that must be implemented in local, impacted communities to restore losses of human uses. By investing in parks, greenbelts, and access to the Passaic River, these restoration projects will also induce additional economic activity in historically underserved areas, thus benefitting the community and the settling parties.
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PLAINFIELD — More fire departments in New Jersey are turning to federal grants to maintain staffing levels during tight fiscal circumstances.
The SAFER grants, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pay the salaries of new firefighters for two years.
Departments that accept the grants are required to keep the hires on for a third year at their own expense.
The numbers of applicants have risen since the recession hit. In 2009, 63 fire departments in the state applied for the grant, compared with 52 in 2008 and 55 in 2007. This year, 69 departments applied. The winners of the grant will be announced next spring.
Some departments, like Plainfield, are applying for the first time. The city of 50,000 is seeking money to hire seven firefighters.
"It's pretty obvious that the major urban areas are in dire straits in regards to budgets," public safety director Martin Hellwig said, noting many current firefighters are near retirement. "This would be a way of allowing us to provide public safety without direct taxpayer costs."
Edison is applying for a second straight year, seeking to hire eight firefighters. It did not receive funding last year.
"Even a couple of years helps out," Mayor Antonia Ricigliano said of the money. "In the meantime, there's always the possibility of retirees, so then it wouldn't be an additional burden on the taxpayer."
But the grants do come with strings attached. Fire departments cannot lay off any staff members during the three-year performance period laid out in the grants. Departments that do not get waivers demonstrating financial hardship will also lose some of their funding if they do not replace retirees during this period.
North Plainfield was one of only two departments in New Jersey to receive a SAFER grant last year. The Somerset County borough got $460,000 to hire four firefighters, averting a staffing crisis that came from a budget shortfall.
Councilman Doug Singleterry said two years of federal money would be enough for the borough to figure out how to pay for the firefighters and deal with stiffer state restrictions on spending increases.
"At that point I'm certainly hoping that North Plainfield and the rest of the state will be in a better fiscal situation," he said.
A few municipal leaders are skeptical of the benefits of the grants. Cranford's fire department is seeking $410,000 in federal money to hire three firefighters. The department avoided layoffs this year by deferring some longer-term expenses. But township committeeman Dan Aschenbach questioned whether the town should be looking to the federal government for help.
"It's just another expense," he said, noting next year's budget process would likely be worse than this year. "We've had some of these programs where when the grant ended we've had to scurry around and find replacement funds."


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State budget boosts Greenbank Farm
They decided it was too early in the day to crack open the bottle of champagne waiting in the fridge, but the Greenbank Farm Board of Directors had reason to celebrate at their morning meeting Dec. 17.
The year 2002 was a good one at the farm, with more sales than the previous year, heat in the barn, and a special review district rezone declared for the farm property.
If that wasn't cause enough to celebrate, Gov. Locke's proposed 2003-05 budget has earmarked $1.5 million for the farm.
While the board expressed mixed feelings that the farm might get money from a state capital budget that contains heavy proposed cuts to education and health services, they felt it would be money well spent.
"We can do so much with this money," said Marcia Comer, the board's secretary.
The group has big plans for the money, including renovating the farm's 5,500-square-foot barn No. 2 to create more commercial space, replacing barn No. 3 with an 8,000-square-foot, two-story building with up to five new commercial spaces, improving the driveway and parking areas, and adding landscaping.
The projected cost of the improvements is $1.8 million. Any money needed above the amount coming from the state would be raised from local contributions.
The improvements are estimated to add up to 40 new jobs at the farm, which was a big selling point among legislators.
The farm money was advocated by Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano, as part of an Island County economic stimulus package that also includes $4 million for continued renovation of Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island.
"I'm deeply disappointed by the planned reductions to education and social services," Haugen wrote in a recent press release, "but these two capital projects are so critical to Island County. This state investment will help spur business growth and give us a badly needed economic boost when we need it most."
Laura Blankenship, the farm's executive director, said that even with Haugen's support, neither she nor the board expected to receive the money.
"This was a total long shot," she said. "I didn't think it was going to happen with all the cuts."
The governor's budget must still survive rigorous scrutiny during the coming legislative session, which convenes in January.
The news of the potential financial windfall came on the heels of the approval of a special review district rezone for the farm. The Board of Island County Commissioners approved the zoning as an amendment to the the county's comprehensive plan earlier in the week.
Blankenship compares the rezone to the way in which county residents, county, Port of Coupeville and the Nature Conservancy saved the farm from being purchased for residential development in 1997.
"This saves it in a bureaucratic way," she said.
With the new designation, the farm can move ahead with its master plan, which envisions developing the educational and economic possibilities of the farm.
Some of that enhancement has already taken place. Greg Osenbach, vice president of the farm board, said an earlier decision to focus the gift shop on wine sales has paid off, with those sales up 18 percent. Blankenship noted the loganberry wine chocolates were "flying off the shelves."
By renovating and heating the farm's 15,000-square-foot main barn, farm management has noted a doubling of event bookings. The barn also houses Whidbey Pies Cafe and is host to many social and community events.
Osenbach said the successful year was the result of the "wild and optimistic imaginations" of all who work year-round to make the farm's vision a reality.
"What a year," he said.
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Exelon Nuclear will begin a project next week to replace all 96 emergency sirens in the 10 miles around Three Mile Island Generating Station with sirens that include battery back up.
Completion of the project and removal of the existing sirens is scheduled for 2012.
"The sirens are an important part of our emergency plan, and they also benefit the five counties that are able to use the sirens for any emergency," said Bill Noll, TMI site vice president.
Contractors performing the first phase of the project will be from ANS Services, and individuals performing work will be required to have a company photo ID.
This $2.2 million investment around Three Mile Island is part of Exelon Nuclear's commitment to replace and upgrade the emergency sirens at all of the sites in the mid-Atlantic.
The warning sirens are among several methods used by county emergency management authorities to provide notification of emergencies. Individual counties may activate the sirens to warn the surrounding community of events such as fires, floods, tornadoes, hazardous material releases, or nuclear energy plant events.
The sirens are not a signal to evacuate, but to tune to the local emergency alert station.


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Getting at the Gothic, and Other News
November 12, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- In France, 40 percent of TV programming comes from America, which means dubbing is a major industry, and voice-over actors have enough work to collect a following of their own: meet the French Jennifer Lawrence and the French Daniel Radcliffe, for instance.
- The Brothers Grimm published seven editions of their famous tales—the last edition is best known today. But the first edition sounds a lot more fun: "Rapunzel is impregnated by her prince, the evil queen in Snow White is the princess's biological mother, plotting to murder her own child, and a hungry mother in another story is so 'unhinged and desperate' that she tells her daughters: 'I've got to kill you so I can have something to eat.' "
- In the nineties, Bob Dylan pursued a gutsy alternative career: "After binge-watching Jerry Lewis movies on his tour bus, Dylan came to the conclusion that slapstick comedy was where he wanted to put his artistic stamp … 'We finally wrote … a very elaborate treatment for this slapstick comedy, which is filled with surrealism and all kinds of things from his songs and stuff.' " HBO bought the show, but Dylan's interest waned soon after.
- The Gothic is "having a moment" now—and a new exhibition at the British Library explores 250 years of the Gothic tradition. But what does it mean to be Gothic, anyway? "The term suffers from its implicit pluralism: Are we talking about novels, horror films, flying buttresses, Alice Cooper, black-painted fingernails or a specific period in North-European history? On the one hand, it seems fair to say that John Ruskin's famous comments on the architecture—that most of us know Gothic when we see it, without being able to identify exactly what makes it so—still have something to say about the thing as a whole. On the other, the Gothic really does just mean the spooky and the titillating."
- "I'm not a cynic. I prefer irony, which depends on the ability to hold contradictory ideas, which probably springs from ambivalence. People confuse and conflate irony with insincerity and dishonesty; they believe an ironist isn't serious. But saying the opposite of what is meant allows for at least two meanings to fly. Irony couples and uncouples statements, while revealing the hidden agendas of language and its conventions."
Substituting Russian Literature for Sex Ed, and Other News
September 20, 2013 | by Justin Alvarez
- "Jonathan Franzen gripe" or "YouTube comment about saggy pants"? You be the judge.
- Forget condoms and turn instead to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Gogol, according to a Russian children's ombudsman. Says Pavel Astakhov, "The best sex education that exists is Russian literature."
- The little-known original ending of "The Frog Prince" (spoiler: there was no kiss) sheds insight on why the Brothers Grimm were so grim.
- A Stanford University study shows evidence that today's kids are actually writing longer and better essays than people in Twitter-less 1917. However, according to a recent Pew Research poll of teachers, children are also writing too informally.
- A defense of buying books and never reading them.
A Crime Writer Turns to Crime, and Other News
November 9, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Open Sesame
September 19, 2012 | by Joshua Cohen
A writer stands outside a story yelling, "Open Sesame!" and the story, as if a seed, opens. And treasure is found inside. That treasure, of course, is just another story, and it all begins again…
Or else, say the writer is no different from any other of his tribe—say he's actually a thief. And the story is no story, but really a mountain. "Open Sesame!" (this writer continues)—the mountain opens and my meaning is revealed.
A version of this nonsense—this magician's stage business—occurs in the tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," popularly known from the One Thousand and One Nights.
But Ali's tale is not to be found in the oldest manuscripts of that collection. Some scholars believe it to be the invention of one Youhenna Diab, known as Hanna of Aleppo, an Arab Christian storyteller said to have communicated it to Antoine Galland, the first translator of the Nights into French. Others argue for a purely Western source, and believe that Ali is the incorrupt fiction of Galland himself (though Richard Burton, the first translator of an unexpurgated Nights into English, claimed that Ali was to be found in an Arabic original, a mythical manuscript often forged but never found).
Documenta 13
July 11, 2012 | by Liz Brown
Michelangelo Antonioni was not happy with the grass. This was the summer of 1966, and London was experiencing an extreme drought. The director had shot the pivotal scene in Blow-Up where David Hemmings photographs an unconsenting Vanessa Redgrave and her lover, and maybe, or maybe not, a murder at Maryon Park. But the grass looked terrible, scraggy and yellow, so Antonioni had the crew spray-paint it green, and then shot the whole sequence again.
Antonioni would've approved of the grass in Kassel, though. It was incredibly green, food-coloring green. The leaves, too. The city, at the northern tip of the province of Hesse, in the middle of Germany, is known for having been nearly obliterated by Allied bombs in World War II and for Documenta, the hundred-day international exhibition of 150 contemporary artists that takes place every five years. I was there with my girlfriend, Liza, for the event's thirteenth incarnation, but at some point, everyone I met would mention the destruction—whether to explain the city's history of manufacturing weapons or the blocky postwar architecture.
The painter and professor Arnold Bode organized the first Documenta in 1955 in order to exhibit publicly the "degenerate" art that had been banned under the Third Reich. The work of prewar and wartime modernism was displayed in the ruins of the Fridericianum Museum, not just as an act of recovery but of testimony, too. This year, the director is Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and the exhibition spread beyond the renovated Fridericianum to the main square, the train station, the Brothers Grimm Museum, the sprawling Karslaue Park, and more. There were paintings, installations, films, performances, lectures, seminars, and, as described in the press packet, "periodic activity." I was there for three days, which is enough time to realize how little time that is, especially since this year Documenta extends beyond Kassel to Alexandria, Cairo, and Kabul, where ruins, recovery, and testimony are not distant concepts.
The Pilgrim Trail
April 25, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Literary tourism is as old as time (or at least as old as the Lake District), but, due to a combination of new technology and easy travel, we seem to be living in its Golden Age. Last year, Wendy McClure reported from the Little House pilgrim trail, and Oxford, Mississippi, has drawn fans of Southern Gothic since Faulkner's 1950 Nobel. On this site, you'll recall Margaret Eby's paeon to Eudora Welty's Jackson garden. If you want to reenact The Canterbury Tales, well, you can. In recent years, readers have flocked to the Pacific Northwest to get a taste of Twilight; lovers of The Help have tried to get a taste of the 1960s in Greenwood, MS; and now, you can even experience the survivalist thrill of The Hunger Games in North Carolina.
Over the weekend, the FT reported live from Germany's "Fairy Tale Road," on which one can walk in the steps of Pied Pipers (Hamlin), the Musicians of Bremen, and the sites where Grimm scholars believe Sleeping Beauty might have actually pricked her finger and Rapunzel let down her hair. (More easily verifiable are locales that figured in the brothers' lives.) Of course, in real life, all is not fairy-tale perfect. Explains Günther Koseck, the German noble who inhabits Dornröschenschloss ("Sleeping Beauty's castle") during the castle's weekly Sleeping Beauty reenactments, his enchanted princesses "have to always be young and beautiful, and that means they have to be replaced occasionally."


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Does DTV have quality control issues in the refurbishment shops? The first two replacement HR-20s they sent me last week had obvious deficiencies (popping/crackling audio on one, no audio on the HDMI output on the other - along with noticable system vibration I guess from the disk drive)
What kind of "testing" do they go through before they are sent out? Or does DTV just like keeping FEDEX rich?
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I have only gotten one referb, it is my old TiVo unit. What ever was wrong with it was fixed
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I would like to join the many islanders who have spoken out in favor of school board candidate Mike Spence.
I am in agreement with the oft-repeated descriptions of Mike's great communication skills and open door policy, his focus on innovation, efficiency, improvements and results.
However, in the last several years working on PTO Coordinating Council, I would have to say I am most impressed with Mike's ability to seek out all sides to a controversy, and approach issues with a degree of clarity and balance that is very uncommon. He is a great problem solver. He leads without a personal agenda or ego getting in the way, keeping the well-being of our children and their teachers as the top priority. He is a gifted collaborator and a team player who knows how to get the job done well.
I hope you will join me in voting for Mike Spence for school board.
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Pumpkin Scones
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 20 mins
The name says it!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 1⁄2 tablespoons butter
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 cup pumpkin
- 1⁄3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 dash cardamom
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Preheat oven to 450.
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Cut in butter until coarse crumbs form.
- Stir together wet ingredients.
- Mix with dry ingredients just until blended (Do not overmix).
- Turn out dough onto floured surface.
- Knead gently, press into circle and cut into 8 wedges.
- Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 20 minutes.
- Stir together milk and powdered sugar.
- Drizzle over cooled scones and sprinkle with cinnamon.
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So great! I used pumpkin pie spice instead of the individual spices. They were ready in about 16 minutes. My kids loved them, and so did I!
Amazing! I loved these! I doubled this recipe and made 12 larger scones. I used 3 cups regular flour and 1 cup wheat flour. Baked up beautifully in about 16 minutes at 450. Thanks for sharing!
This is the best pumpkin scone recipe I've come across so far. Though, I am still on a mission to find a recipe for one where the scone isn't as cake like in texture. I don't know if my oven is just kind of old, but I baked these in 450 and they were done in 10 minutes! I wasn't able to add the dash of cardamom as mentioned in the recipe because I did not have any on hand, yet the flavor of the scone was just fine. I would like to try adding some cardamom next time. Like the previous reviewer, I added pumpkin spice and ground cinnamon to the frosting to my liking. I am looking forward to making another batch soon- thanks for posting this recipe!


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Junk (song)
|Song by Paul McCartney from the album McCartney
|Northern Songs Ltd.
|17 April 1970
|February 1970
|1:54 ("Junk")
2:36 ("Singalong Junk")
|Paul McCartney
|Paul McCartney
|McCartney track listing
"Junk" is a song written by Paul McCartney in 1968 while the Beatles were in India.[1] "Singalong Junk" is an instrumental version of "Junk" that also appears on McCartney.
It was originally under consideration for The Beatles (also known as the White Album). It was passed over for that LP, as it was for Abbey Road. It was eventually released on McCartney's debut solo album McCartney in 1970. The version McCartney played for the rest of the Beatles, in May 1968, was among other songs demoed at George Harrison's Kinfauns home[1] before the recording of The Beatles, and was released on Anthology 3 on 22 October 1996. The song's working title was "Jubilee", and also known as "Junk in the Yard".[1] Take one appeared on the McCartney album as "Singalong Junk" and whereas take two was issued as "Junk".[1]
Besides the exclusion of vocals, "Singalong Junk" features mellotron strings and the melody is played on a piano. The song also features more prominent drums. This version of the song is said to have been the original instrumental backing to which McCartney was planning on singing, but he opted for a simpler arrangement for the vocal version instead.
"Junk" was included on an EP (along with "Another Day", "Oh Woman, Oh Why" and "Valentine Day") released only in Mexico.[2] This song has been dropped from his live setlist, but was included on McCartney's and Wings 2001 compilation Wingspan: Hits and History.[3]
McCartney wonders about why we leave things that were a part of our lives and replace them with others, because at the same time we leave memories attached with those objects, in a metaphysical way.[4]
- "Junk"
- Paul McCartney - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, xylophone, drums
- Linda McCartney - backing vocals
- "Singalong Junk"
Live versions[edit]
- McCartney first performed "Junk" live, in the Ghost Suite at the Royal Albert Hall, on 3 November 2006.[5]
- The song called "Junk" on McCartney's later album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) is played without vocals, thereby making it "Singalong Junk", but it is not listed as such on the album.
Cover versions[edit]
- Sandie Shaw recorded a version of the song which appeared as a bonus track on the 2004 re-issue of her 1969 album Reviewing the Situation.
- John Denver covered the song on his 1971 album Poems, Prayers & Promises.
- Cilla Black covered the song on her 1971 album Images which was produced by George Martin.
- After leaving The Inbreds, vocalist Mike O'Neill released a cover version of the song via his website in 2003. His version was never officially released on any of his solo albums.
- Jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek covered the song on her second album, Return to You in 2007.
- Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra covered the song on the 2014 covers album The Art of McCartney.
- Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau covered the song on his 2015 collection album 10 Years Solo Live.
Media appearances[edit]
- "Singalong Junk" was included in the soundtrack of the movie Hanging Up (2000).
- An instrumental version was included in the French film My Wife Is an Actress (2001).
- "Singalong Junk" was also included in the Jerry Maguire soundtrack.
- It also appears in the opening episode for Season 3 of Parenthood.
- ^ a b c d "Paul McCartney: Junk | The Beatles Bible". beatlesbible.com. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ "Another Day / Junk / Oh Woman, Oh Why / Valentine Day by Paul McCartney". rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ "Song - Paul McCartney". paulmccartney.com. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
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To the Journal editor:
This past Wednesday morning, a welcome back gathering took place at Beef-A-Roo in Marquette. The guest of honor was the former Northern Michigan University and NBA coach Stan Albeck, accompanied by his wife Phylis. The 30 to 40 old fans attending reminisced with Stan about his days at NMU.
Even though its been over 40 years since he led the Wildcats, that period in the 60s is generally considered to be the golden years of Wildcat basketball. Numerous All-Americans appeared on rosters, as well as frequent division one schools on our schedules. It was a great time to be a Wildcat fan and Hedgecock was usually packed.
A thanks is due to Bob Pecotte, a former Albeck player, and his wife Ann, for organizing the event and indeed hosting the Albecks. A thanks also to the management of Beef-A-Roo for allowing us to disrupt their morning business with our loud visiting and laughter.
Best wishes to the Albecks and thanks again to the Pecottes.
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J. Appl. Cryst. (2013). 46, 1665-1669 [ doi:10.1107/S002188981302606X ]
Abstract: Ternary mixtures of medium-chain fatty alcohols, water and a hydrotrope (such as ethanol), near the immiscibility gap, make stable single phases at constant temperature. Interestingly, in this `pre-ouzo region' these single phases consist of two distinct nanoscopic pseudo-phases, one octanol-rich and one water-rich. This domain of composition, which is known to produce strong light scattering and to separate under ultracentrifugation into two phases, has been studied using contrast variation in small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) combined with small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SWAXS). The existence of fatty alcohol-rich domains of well defined size of the order of 2 nm radius is proven. The scattering can be approximated by an Ornstein-Zernike function, which is close to the general expression of Choi, Chen, Sottmann & Strey [Physica B, (1998), 241-243, 976-978] with vanishing quadratic Porod term. Exploitation of the relative intensities at the vanishing scattering angle in SANS demonstrates that the distribution coefficient of ethanol between the octanol-rich and the water-rich domains is close to one. WAXS of the two coexisting pseudo-phases is compared with the corresponding binary water-ethanol and octanol-ethanol samples.
Keywords: small-angle X-ray scattering; wide-angle X-ray scattering; small-angle neutron scattering; detergentless microemulsions; alcohols.
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Margaret Andrews
Died: December 18, 2013
Margaret Andrews, 76, of Binghamton, was called home peacefully to God on December 18, 2013 after a long struggle with illness. She is survived by her cherished family, a daughter, Joanne Payne and her fiancee, Dave Foster of Port Crane; her son and daughter-in-law, John and Heather Andrews of Apalachin; 6 grandchildren, Corey Triantafillidis, Ariel Payne, John and Kaitlyn Andrews, Amber Smith and Daniel Moore; 2 great-grandchildren, Camaron and Cooper Smith; her sisters, Phyllis Radice of NJ, and Barbara King of MD; and a brother; Charlie Evanchyk of PA. She was predeceased by her husband, John, in 1979; her infant son, Daniel; brothers, Johnny and Michael; and sister, Marie. Family was the center of Margaret's life. She held an avid interest in all the school and athletic activities of her grandchildren. She took pride in decorating and taking care of her home and will be remembered for her excellent ethnic cooking and baking, especially her pirohis. She was a retired clerk from family court, where she made many friends. She enjoyed golfing and BINGO.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated 10am Monday at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1031 Chenango St. The family will receive friends 2-5pm Sunday at the Hopler & Eschbach Funeral Home, 483 Chenango St., Binghamton. Please view and sign her guestbook at www.HEFUNERALHOME.com.
I'm Spending Christmas with Jesus
I see the countless Christmas trees
around the world below
with tiny lights like heaven stars
reflecting on the snow.
The sight is so spectacular
please wipe away that tear.
For I'm spending Christmas
with Jesus Christ this year.
I hear the many Christmas songs
that people hold so dear.
Oh, the sounds of music can't compare
with the Christmas choir up here.
For I have no words to tell you
of the joy their voices bring.
For it's beyond description
to hear the angels sing.
I know how much you miss me,
I see the pain inside your heart.
But through our memories so dear
we're never far apart.
I can't tell you of the splendor
or the peace here in this place.
Can you just imagine Christmas
with Our Savior... face-to-face.
I'll ask him to light your spirit
as I tell him of your love.
Then I'll pray for 'one another'
as you lift your eyes above.
So please let your heart be joyful
and let your spirit sing.
For I'm spending Christmas in heaven
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Chris Parrinello tossed a four-hitter and catcher Lou Tormo homered as Staten Island Little League opened the District 24 12-year-old baseball tournament with a 2-0 victory over visiting Great Kills National Friday night.
"Great Kills is an excellent team and they have an awful lot of speed," said SILL manager Mike Colini, whose team hosts South Shore National Sunday at 5 p.m. "We knew we had to try to keep them off the basepaths, and Chris did a great job. He was terrific tonight."
Parrinello struck out nine, walked two, and started double plays in the third and fourth frames.
GKN right-hander Dylan Martinelli was nearly as effective, surrendering six hits and zero walks.
However, Tormo led off the bottom of the second and smashed a 3-0 pitch over the left-centerfield fence to make it 1-0.
"Lou is very selective at the plate, besides being a power hitter," Colini said of his clean-up man. "I gave him the green light at 3-0 because I knew if the pitch wasn't exactly what he wanted, he would take the base on balls. Obviously he liked the pitch."
SI added an unearned run in the fourth when Tormo laced a single to right, Steve Casparie dropped a sacrifice bunt that was misplayed into an error, and Pat Orlando beat out an infield single to score the second run.
Martinelli did well to get out of the frame without further damage, but Parinello had all the runs he would need.
The right-hander stranded two runners in the fifth when he recorded his seventh strikeout, then left Mike Tesoriero (lead-off triple) standing at third in the sixth when he struck out the next two and induced a game-ending grounder to first.


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Is it political, geographical or otherwise that the Syrah grape is the dominant grape variety in the northern reaches of the Rhône Valley, and falls to a lesser role in the southern region of the Rhône river?
—Ron, Wilmington, Del.
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Uh, is this part of the SAT test? Just kidding. Anyway, I checked with Wine Spectator senior editor James Molesworth, who covers the Rhône, and here's his response:
"Geographical. It's too hot in most of the Southern Rhône for Syrah. It's generally said that just around the town of Orange is the northern limit for Mourvèdre to ripen, and the southern limit for Syrah to maintain its freshness. Grenache is far better suited to the Southern Rhône's hot, Mediterranean climate."
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There are twelve major energy channels in our body and hundreds of energy points. Each of these points affects the balance and flow of our body's energy; however, only a couple dozen of these energy points are vitally important in helping us heal and in helping us experience and maintain optimal health and wellness. During a Qi~ssage session we stimulate these key energy or acupressure points in a specific order by using gentle pressure and small circular movements.
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Group B Strep Colonization and Pregnancy
Hi there Dr. T. I am 36 1/2 weeks and I just found out that I was GBS+ and I am very concerned about my baby. I wonder, why give antibiotics during labor? Why not now? I have also had many problems with yeast infections during my pregnancy and was wondering if that could have caused the GBS? I don't completely understand why I have it and what I did to get it. Is it caused from something, perhaps the heat? Not being clean enough? Please help me!
One of my very first posts here at "Fruit of the Womb" addressed Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections and pregnancy. The question from today's reader gives us good reason to revisit this issue since the concerns expressed in the comment are shared by many, many women....
GBS is a bacterium that colonizes the vagina and lower gastrointestinal tract in as many as one-third of all healthy reproductive age women. It is still the leading cause of serious bacterial infection in newborns and most babies contract the organism at the time of delivery. Indeed, 8,000-12,000 babies per year in the U.S. will develop complications related to GBS and approximately 2,000 infants will die from their infections. There are several well-known situations in which babies are at increased risk for developing a serious GBS infection including:
- Premature labor or rupture of membranes before 37 weeks
- Prolonged rupture of membranes (18 hr or longer) before delivery
- Fever in labor (100.4F or higher)
- History of GBS urinary tract infection during the pregnancy (4-fold risk)
- Previous baby affected by GBS disease (increases risk 10-fold!!!)
Some of the dilemmas we face in dealing with GBS in pregnancy are raised by today's reader. She appears to have had GBS detected at the time of recommended routine screening, 35-37 weeks. She didn't just "catch it" at this point; it is probably something she has carried with her through most of the pregnancy (and even before conception). We do NOT know why some people carry GBS and others do not, and we are not entirely clear why far more women actually carry the bacterium than are at risk for having a baby with a serious complication related to it, although the maternal immune response to the bacterium probably plays a key role (see below). But, we also know that if you are colonized with GBS and tend to carry it, even if treated, you have a very high risk of being incompletely 'decolonized' by treatment and a similarly high risk for becoming 'recolonized' in a relatively short period of time for whatever reasons you have it to begin with!
GBS may come and go, but a negative test within 5 weeks of delivery has a 'negative predictive value' of about 95%. This implies that only 5% of women who are negative at 35-37 weeks are likely to acquire GBS between the time of screening and delivery. Interestingly, if GBS is detected at routine screening, the 'positive predictive value' of the bacteria actually being found at delivery is only about 87%. This means that as many as 13% of women who were positive at the time of screening will not have the bacterium detectable at the time of delivery.
To answer some of our reader's concerns, these are reasons we do not treat everyone at the time a positive screening test is done unless they themselves have a significant infection (e.g., urinary tract), a previously affected baby, or are in one of the other risk categories noted above. According to the CDC, women who are GBS positive have about a 50% of having a baby who becomes colonized with GBS at delivery and a 1 in 200 chance of having a baby who develops GBS disease if antibiotics are NOT given, but only 1 in 4000 risk if they are given.
There are 5 major serotypes of GBS (Ia, Ib, II, III, and V). All are capable of causing both maternal and neonatal disease. Babies born to women who do not have antibodies to types II and III seem to be at greater risk for complications. Indeed, at some point, this may be one of the primary factors we can use to differentiate pregnancies at risk from those which are less so. About two-thirds of serious GBS infections are apparent at the time of delivery and 90% of babies who will develop complications do so within the first 48 hr after delivery. This is generally referred to as "early-onset" GBS infection and technically is used to define disease occurring in the first week of life. "Late-onset" disease, frequently associated with serotype III, affects another 10% of newborns, often presents as meningitis with septicemia, and rarely occurs after one month of age. Up to one-third of the survivors of GBS meningitis will develop long-term physical and/or neurological handicaps and in 1 of every 8 of these babies, the handicaps will be severe.
Unless you are in one of the high risk groups noted above, the goal of routine prophylactic antibiotic therapy during labor in those who are found to be colonized with GBS during their pregnancies is to deliver antibiotics to the mother early enough in the course of labor that sufficient drug can be transferred across the placenta to achieve protective levels in the baby prior to birth. The goal is not to cure the GBS infection. That means, the antibiotic selected must not only be able to kill GBS, but it must also be able to cross the placenta. Fortunately, GBS has not yet been found to have developed resistance to the antibiotic of choice, penicillin G, and this drug also readily crosses the placenta. It also has a long and proven safety record for the baby. Ideally, antibiotic therapy is begun, intravenously, at least 4 hr prior to delivery so that at least one or two doses can be administered before the baby is born. If a woman has a serious allergy to penicillin, other otions for therapy exist and the risks and benefits of these are discussed in our previous post on this subject.
Anyway, to close this out, I would only like to say to our reader that 1) I doubt the recurrent yeast infections "caused" the GBS, but they might reflect a subtle deficiency in your immune response to other organisms commonly found in the environment. (People with diabetes and autoimmune conditions frequently experience similar problems or, in your case, this may be simply the response your body has to pregnancy; 2) I don't completely understand why you have it either, but I doubt the "heat" is contributing to the problem and cleanliness is rarely a concern in people who would worry about that to begin with!
The important things are that your doctors did the right thing by screening you, they have identified a potential problem, and there is a well-proven means of significantly reducing the risks from that problem for both you and your baby at the time of your labor and delivery. Thanks for reading and for the good questions. Best wishes for the rest of your pregnancy!
Dr T on Aug 20, 11:32:00 AM 2007
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SAGINAW, MI — A 17-year-old has received a 17-year minimum sentence for an October drive-by shooting that injured two men.
Saginaw County Chief Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard on Wednesday, June 11, handed down that sentence to Dennis D. Poindexter Jr. for eight felonies.
Borchard sentenced Poindexter to 15 years to 28 years in prison for two counts of assault with intent to murder and the mandatory, consecutive two years in prison for possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Poindexter pleaded no contest to those three charges as well as five others in connection with an early Oct. 24 incident on Apollo in the Saginaw Community Villas mobile home community off Dixie near South 27th in Buena Vista Township.
His sentence agreement called for the 17-year minimum sentence, which was about three years shorter than one he would have received if he accepted a similar offer in March.
Poindexter received credit for 226 days, or more than seven months.
An 18-year-old whom police arrested in connection with the incident but later released testified at Poindexter's preliminary hearing that the shooting was the result of a dispute over a stolen cellphone, said Buena Vista Police Detective Sgt. Greg Klecker.
The teen testified Poindexter leaned over him in a car, pointed a handgun out the window and opened fire, Klecker said. The shooting, which occurred about 1:45 a.m., resulted in gunshot wounds to a 38-year-old man and a 20-year-old man.
The 20-year-old, who nearly was paralyzed in the shooting, and the 38-year-old both testified at the hearing. The 20-year-old needed the assistance of crutches, and the other man used a walker.
Both victims identified Poindexter as the shooter and having been at the home during the dispute over the phone, Klecker said.
— Andy Hoag covers courts for MLive/The Saginaw News. Email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @awhoag.


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Baton Rouge -- The Cal Poly women's basketball team is, their head coach said, a Faith-based ball club. Mustangs head coach Faith Mimnaugh said her team is comprised of many Christian believers, like herself.
"We are largely a team of faith-minded people so never bet against a coach whose name is Faith because anything can happen,'' said Mimnaugh, in her 15th season as coach at the school in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The 14th-seeded Mustangs will meet third seed Penn State in a Spokane, Wash., Regional first round game at 4 p.m. Sunday in Baton Rouge at the LSU Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Mimnaugh got her start in coaching while still playing. She was the player-coach of the Newcastle, Australia, Scorpions from 1987-89. She wanted to return to the United States so blasted out resumes to 50 different schools.
The coach that answered back shocked her, she said. It was longtime North Carolina State Coach Kay Yow, who died after a long battle with cancer in 2009.
"The one thing that Kay and I shared is our faith in Christ,'' Mimnaugh said. "I get a call from America from Kay Yow and she wanted me to come and be her coach, and I just - Kay Yow? Kay Yow? I get to coach with Kay Yow? I was going crazy.''
Mimnaugh said Yow not only helped her form her coaching philosophy but how to deal with her players on a personal level. Mimnaugh was an assistant at North Carolina State from 1989-93 then took the head coaching job at Evansville.
She went to Cal Poly as an assistant in 1996 then became the head coach the following season. But she's always tried to emulate Yow.
"She taught me about perseverance and keeping the faith and how to run a program,'' Mimnaugh said. "She really talked about the wholeness of a program, how to help students get jobs, how to make sure they have study hall arranged and get all the supports they need in place.
"(Yow taught her) it starts with loving your kids, and I think we got that in place.''


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Recent alums founded Pneuhaus, a contemporary art and design collective focused on making gargantuan inflatables and other breathtaking objects.
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RISD students networked with representatives from influential companies at Internship Connect, the latest RISD Career Center event.
Interim President Rosanne Somerson 76 ID hosts Critical Making: Making Critical Outcomes, a panel discussion at RISD by Design weekend.
Designer Morgan Selin 13 AP joins Guatemala-based Uxibal in an effort to improve the lives of women artisans one pair of a boots at a time.
RISD hosts a conference focused on art, design and manufacturing in Rhode Island and offers visitors a glimpse of Co-Works, a new interdisciplinary studio space.
Accepted to Pixar's summer internship program, Saad Moosajee 16 GD learned cutting-edge animation techniques.
Summer intern Jamar Bromley MFA 15 GD designs "sexy and elegant graphics" to help launch Lit Motors' curvy new two-wheeler.
Nicole Romano 00 AP has made a name for herself through a collection of edgy new jewelry manufactured in RI's traditional old factories.
Based on the strength of his portfolio, Daniel Giuditta 14 GD got a job offer from Facebook before he had even graduated.
Former scholarship recipient Joe Gebbia 05 ID/GD creates a significant endowed scholarship to support the next generation of art and design innovators.


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On Monday, Chief Michael Duyck of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue will address the Washington County Public Affairs Forum. He will provide an update to members about the last year of emergency response in Washington County. He will also highlight ways the Fire District is working to reduce risk in the community and employing response strategies to contend with rising call volume, traffic congestion and population growth. Finally, the Chief will provide an overview of the replacement levy that voters will consider next May.
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue provides fire protection and emergency medical services to approximately 450,000 citizens from a network of 21 fire stations. The District's 210-square-mile service area includes the cities of Beaverton, Durham, King City, Rivergrove, Sherwood, Tigard, Tualatin, West Linn, and Wilsonville, and unincorporated portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington County.
Citizens served by TVF&R benefit from the services of a large metropolitan fire department, while paying one of the lowest fire-protection tax rates in the region. TVF&R receives almost its entire funding from property taxes. This funding comes through a permanent tax rate and temporary funding sources such as a local option levy and general obligation bond.
Learn more about TVFR at this meeting and by visiting www.TVFR.com
The Washington County Public Affairs Forum meets from 11:45 am to 1 pm at the Peppermill Restaurant, located at 17455 SW Farmington Rd, Aloha, OR. Please note the new location.
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Iftikhar Ahmed accepted a Designer's Challenge for this year's Yard, Garden & Patio Show and came up with a space of serenity and meditation, complete with floating platforms, an unending pool and Zen garden.
"I wanted to create a sense of enclosure," says Ahmed, a Portland landscape architect who has designed private and public gardens in seven countries. "I wanted a place that alleviates stress, a place to meditate or have a cup of coffee and be protected from the weather."
The problematic plot is long and narrow, but didn't daunt him. He decided to make the space into rooms, one a traditional raked-gravel meditation area, the other a more contemporary style. Raised platforms with pillows float at different levels in both areas.
"Instead of sitting on a chair," Ahmed says, "you'll be looking into the garden as if you're part of it."
A large arbor and 4- and 6-foot white walls made of reclaimed wood reinforce the sense of protection so important to Ahmed, who is a descendant of the Mian family that took care of the historic Shalimar Garden in Lahore, Pakistan, for more than 350 years.
Art takes on a major role in the display, which will be installed by JSI Landscapes.
Most significant are the prayer wheels that will line the entrance. Made by potter Chris Moench of Axis of Hope in Bellingham, Wash., the vessels are his contemporary take on an ancient Buddhist tradition.
He carves pictures that signify stories, blessings and messages into the urn-shaped prayer wheels, which are mounted on poles and slowly spin.
In Ahmed's red-ribbon garden at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle early this month, people were mesmerized by the prayer wheels. At the Portland show, Moench will be on hand to demonstrate his work.
Another piece of art will be made of recycled glass tubes that Ahmed plans to fill with light bulbs and fashion into a sculpture to fit among the plants – including a 15-foot-tall monkey puzzle tree – selected for their architectural significance.
"We'll have a lot of large species without leaves so you can see their striking forms, the expressions of the trees," he says.
Ahmed's The Art of Tranquility garden is one of seven at YGP, which starts its three-day run Feb. 28.
-- Kym Pokorny
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The black bear that visited a Northeast Portland neighborhood Wednesday morning is not the only large wild critter to have made an urban appearance in the Northwest this week.
Folks on the east side of Boise, Idaho, wrangled with an agitated moose Tuesday afternoon.
The sizable cervid was spotted around an east-side golf course near a popular path used by walkers, runners and bikers.
Idaho wildlife officials eventually tranquilized the 400-pound, female yearling, which had been living on the city's east side but recently started moving downtown.
Wildlife staff will move the moose to a remote area.
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Meg Frazier will conduct "NOVA in Love: A Concert of Love Songs" Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. in Loyola's Roussel Hall in New Orleans. Admission is free, however, donations will be accepted. The singers of the NOVA Chorale will perform a variety of music from Brahms to the Beatles, with some Broadway, jazz, and opera thrown in.
GriefShare support group meets
The GriefShare support group meets each Tuesday at 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church in New Orleans.
United in Prayer
Household of Faith will hosts City United in Prayer on the first day of each month from 6 to 7 a.m. at the Superdome. Parking is free in Garage 6. The prayer service will commence at Gate C. Participants of all denominations are invited to pray for New Orleans, the economy, the school system, political leaders as well as each other. For more information, please contact Household of Faith FWCI at 504/347-0127.
Iris society meets
The Greater New Orleans Iris Society will hold a planning meeting in February for the Society for Louisiana Iris National Convention on April 3-5 and the Rainbow Festival on April 6 in New Orleans. The meeting will be held Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at Longue Vue Whim House, 7 Bamboo Road in New Orleans.
Volunteers are needed to assist with events. Society for Louisiana Iris judges will answer questions on Louisiana iris culture and judging. The convention, iris show and festival will be held at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The events are free and open to the public. For information contact Eileen Hollander at 504.866.2381.
Chorus welcomes new members
Crescent City Sound Chorus recently welcomed four new members into the chorus. They are Cookie Weinert, Anne Cafiero, Vicky Mifsud, New and Lilah El-Fakih.
Crescent City Sound Chorus Sweet Adelines is a women's a cappella, four-part harmony chorus. The group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Delgado Community College, City Park campus. Those interested in joining may call 504-982-6746.