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By MACKENZIE HALPIN
Ohhhhhhhprah Winfrey!" was the exclamation I cried when I stubbed my toe fumbling around the endless racks of clothes and shelves of shoes and handbags in the fashion department at O, The Oprah Magazine.
Having spent the previous four months living and studying in Salzburg, Austria, finding a summer position was not an easy task.
After endless tweaking of my resume, numerous emails and cover letters, through some personal contacts I eventually managed an interview with the assistant editors at O.
Finally, I landed a summer internship.
Upon my return from Europe I had two days to move into my New York City apartment and find my way to the Hearst Building on 57th Street and 8th Avenue in the Big Apple.
From day one in the fashion closet, my time was spent among Jimmy Choo shoes and Calvin Klein dresses organizing, inventorying, and pulling clothes and accessories for the stories in the upcoming issue.
These stories could range from creative director Adam Glassman's fall favorites to chic looks for under $100; all with the common theme of everyday looks for every kind of woman.
Once the final cuts were made, I had the opportunity to assist on a photo shoot for the newest issue.
Although my fellow interns and I never got to assist Oprah herself, Gail King, editor at large, was in and out of the fashion closet looking for her fashion statements for upcoming events.
Working with five other interns from from Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, and Louisiana, an assistant accessories editor, and assistant fashion editor, all under the age of 30, it would seem there were more than enough people ready to take on anything thrown at them.
However, this fast-paced, 10-hour workday hardly lent us enough time to catch our breath, let alone stop for lunch. Throughout these long days, not only was I making friends, but I was learning things that could never be taught in a classroom.
As interns we gained valuable knowledge of the fashion industry including current designers, the newest season's trends, and the ins and outs of how a lifestyle magazine works.
We were not only working with clothing and accessories, but helping where it was needed; whether it was in picking up 25 Tiffany's handbags, taking a model to the dentist, or running around Manhattan grabbing boxes of samples from every nearby designer imaginable.
No text book could have fully prepared us for the New York City, multi-million dollar magazine work experience we received. Once my summer came to a close, one by one, I said good-bye to the friends I'd made and thanked my bosses for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime.
Lastly, I cleaned out the shelves and racks of the closet for the newest group of interns next in line for a whirlwind experience.
I packed up my bags to head back to Wagner College on Staten Island where I am currently a junior.
I plan to graduate in 2012 with a business administration degree and a concentration in management and marketing.
Every now and then, I turn to page 12 of O and the list of fashion interns contributing to the November issue and think back with a smile at my time spent at The Oprah Magazine.


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Bayonne Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell has opened an office in the city.
The office, at 447 Broadway, opened to constituents in mid-October, about two weeks before O'Donnell beat out three competitors in the Nov. 2 general election.
O'Donnell was appointed to the post in July to replace former Assembly Anthony Chiappone, who pleaded guilty to filing false campaign finance reports with the state.
The 31st District, which O'Donnell represents, takes in all of Bayonne and a southern part of Jersey City.
The office is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. On Tuesdays, the office is open 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
For more information, call the office at (201) 436-0961 or e-mail email@example.com.

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Family Planning Spurs Development In Asia
Family planning is central to national economic development in Asia, writes Amy Tsui, Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute of Population and Reproductive Health.
Amy Tsui | May 6, 2013 | Features
AsianScientist (May 6, 2013) - Some five to six decades ago, between 1951 and 1965, a rather remarkable chain of events took place in Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East: countries began to use family planning programs to address rapid population growth, and many subsequently experienced extraordinary economic growth.
India, Pakistan (then including Bangladesh), the Republic of Korea, China, Fiji, Egypt, Singapore, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and Turkey all implemented family planning programs. By 1976, the governments of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Nepal had also declared their population growth and fertility rates too high and provided direct support for contraceptive access.
Government after government declared support for national family planning programs, and formed inter-ministerial coordinating boards, councils, and commissions to address population concerns and organised the top-to-bottom provision of family planning services. The supervising boards or commissions were frequently administered under prime ministers' offices.
Family planning efforts were linked to fertility reduction and in turn to slowing population growth - policy goals that aimed to enhance a country's prospects for economic development. As well as attempting to control fertility, governments sought to lower child mortality, eradicate infectious diseases, increase education levels, improve nutritional status and food security, modernize agriculture, and expand their economies with manufacturing and industrialization.
Not many now see family planning as a central element to national economic development. Rapid population growth is no longer considered a global or local risk, fertility reduction is not politically correct, and family planning has been absorbed into a larger pantheon of reproductive health needs for human, rather than economic, development.
The Millennium Development Goals - first adopted in 1990 - only addressed family planning when universal access to reproductive health was adopted as a target for maternal health in 2005. But for Asia, the development perspectives that prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s saw family planning and fertility decline as necessary steps to facilitate economic growth.
Fertility declines across Asia
At that time, the region saw robust and in some places quite rapid fertility declines - particularly in China, South Korea, and Thailand - and, as a consequence, changed population age structures.
With fewer births, higher ratios of persons of working age (those aged 15–59) to those of dependency age (those aged 0–14 and 60-plus) emerged. Take South Korea as a typical example. There the proportion of the population under 15 was 42 percent in 1970. It dropped by half to 21 percent in 2000, while the proportion of working age people (15–59 years) rose from to 52 to 68 percent in the same period. The ratio of workers to youth went from 1.24:1 to 3.24:1. The total fertility rate dropped from 4.5 to 2.4 in this time and the proportion of childbearing-aged married women practicing contraception rose from 24.5 percent to 79.3 percent.
This scenario was replicated in many countries, and as a result the region began to experience the 'demographic dividend'. This term, coined in 2003 by David Bloom and David Canning, refers to the economic growth that results from changes in population age structure as a result of a fertility decline. Lower fertility rates produce smaller youth cohorts, and the government is then able to spend relatively less on basic health care, education, food, and housing for the young, and invest relatively more in business, infrastructure, job skills training, and the economy.
Estimates by economist and demographer, Andrew Mason, co-director of the National Transfer Accounts project, suggest that in the mid-2000s the demographic dividend in East and Southeast Asia contributed as much as 1.9 percent of an annual growth of 4.32 percent in GDP per consumer (weighted for age-related consumption).
For South Asia, he estimated that the dividend contributed 0.79 percent of 1.88 percent of actual economic growth. The economic growth resulting from balanced age structures has been substantial. Moreover, the demographic dividend's economic benefits have been enduring. While it is popular to despair of countries' aging populations, Dr. Mason and his NTA colleagues show that with proper financial mechanisms encouraging worker savings and investments in property, businesses, pension funds or other assets, the demographic dividend can continue to pay out as Asia ages. If private, especially family, transfers to the elderly can be built up, people will rely less and less on government support.
Today, partly thanks to the demographic dividend, 49 percent of women in Asia are in the labor force, compared with 80 percent of men. In 2010 the per capita GNI (by purchasing-power-parity) in East and Southeast Asia ranged from US$3,070 in Vietnam to US$31,110 in South Korea, and to US$58,700 in Singapore. The average human development index value is a strong 671 out of 1,000 for the region. The average number of children expected per childbearing-aged woman is near or just below 2.0 and three-quarters of couples use contraception.
In the late 1960s, when India established its Ministry of Health and Family Planning, or in 1970, when Indonesia established its National Family Planning Coordinating Board, it was impossible to foresee a day when contraceptive use would become routine health behavior, much like vaccinating children. Today, while some couples may obtain their contraceptive care from government clinics, most seek private sources and pay for these services through health insurance or out of pocket.
Such a situation of contraceptive security, enjoyed at the individual couple level, is one that remains out of the reach of some 222 million women and their partners in low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia. The 2012 London Summit on Family, co-sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development, declared a goal of ensuring 120 million women and their partners, in 69 low-income countries, have access to contraception by 2020.
The lessons of Asia's economic development plans and benefits of the demographic dividend in the region may be a source of inspiration for these countries. As the UN begins to frame global development goals for beyond 2015 they would do well to consider demography and family planning.
Amy Tsui is Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute of Population and Reproductive Health.
Source: East Asia Forum; Photo: Rajesh_India/Flickr/CC.
Disclaimer: This article does not necessarily reflect the views of AsianScientist or its staff.


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SPRINGFIELD – The developer of the former school administration building at 195 State St., accused of breach of contract for failing to convert the site to housing, also owes the city more than $12,000 in delinquent real estate taxes and interest, according to tax records.
As of Wednesday, the developer, 195 State Street Real Estate LLC, is listed as owing the city $12,724 in back taxes and interest from fiscal year 2014, according to the Tax Collector's office.
A demand notice was sent to the company for payment of the back taxes, as an initial step in the tax-taking process, said Peter Sygnator, the city's deputy tax collector. The annual tax bill is $15,871, and the company owed the final three quarters of the fiscal year, and interest, according to city records.
On Monday, Mayor Domenic J. Sarno announced that the city had filed a breach of contract complaint against the company in Hampden Superior Court, and is seeking to take back ownership of the State Street property.
The city had sold the building to the developer for $1 in October 2011, for a planned 35-unit market-rate housing project.
The developer failed to finish the project within an 18-month deadline, and was granted an extension until April 2014, missing that deadline as well, according to the Law Department.
David Nyberg, a partner with 195 State Street Real Estate LLC., said Tuesday that he hopes the city will extend its patience, and grant his company additional time to complete the housing project. He could not be reached Wednesday for comment on the back taxes.
Sarno rejected the idea of another extension on the housing project, saying the developer had ample opportunity to move forward with the work and it was "too bad" he wanted more time. There was asbestos removal work done and some framing work within the building, according to the city and Nyberg.
The building was constructed in 1905, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The School Department vacated the building in July 2010, relocating to the former federal courthouse building at 1550 Main St.
City officials said the sale of the building for $1 was due to significant costs faced by the developer including asbestos removal and the need for a new heating-ventilation-air conditioning system, elevators, windows and construction costs.


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Ralph Atkins, of Southern Fish & Oyster Co., expressed frustration that so many consumers have remained leery of Gulf seafood despite the best efforts of the industry and the government to ensure the safety of the products. Atkins noted that fishermen dutifully obeyed government prohibitions against fishing in waters that officials closed as a precaution shortly after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion.
"No one ever fished it," said Atkins, chairman of the Seafood Task Force. "But all of that has stopped now and we have got to get back into production so we can keep our market share."
Nan Steedley, a seafood specialist with the Alabama Department of Public Health, said large seafood processors that shut down operations during the height of the spill have been unable to return to normal activity.
"They can't open their doors," she said. "They're sitting idle because they don't have the market demand. ... Once a processor loses a client, it's very hard to regain that client."
Atkins and others said a sustained marketing campaign is needed to counter the deluge of negative publicity.
Some suggested getting University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban and other celebrities to publicly endorse the product. Some said top officials in the federal government need be seen publicly eating Gulf seafood. Others cautioned that because of general public mistrust, the government should not take the lead.
"You have got to have people eating the seafood," said Scott Dekle, general manager of VersaCold Atlas, which operates 120 temperature-controlled warehouses.
Bob Dickey, director of the Division of Seafood Science and Technology at the Food and Drug Administration, said repeated testing by the government has shown some Gulf fish to have elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons but still well within safety limits. He said the government has met a skeptical audience, however.
"One part of your equation might be to get together and hire an independent lab to verify and certify the results we've found," he said.
Dickey said it is important for the public to understand that PAHs are found naturally throughout the environment.
"There's context that is missing," he said.
Ditto the concern over the chemical dispersant, Dickey said. He said the component that the government measures to detect Corexit is present in hundreds of consumer products, from makeup to detergent.
Dickey said that the chemical poses not risk to seafood in the concentrations it was used and that the government has conducted extensive testing just in case.
"We were really surprised we were getting such a volatile reaction over Corexit," he said.
Whatever seafood industry supporters do, they need to do it fast, cautioned the head of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. LaDon Swann, the organization's director, said the danger is that the views and altered consumption patters of seafood eaters harden.
"The window of opportunity that we talked about a few months ago is closing," he said.


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MPhil/Ph.D Research Seminar
Second Semester, 2008
Linguistic Nativism Reconsidered
Shalom Lappin
Department of Philosophy
King's College
Arguments from the poverty of the stimulus (APS) have been used to motivate a strong
form of linguistic nativism. They have been invoked as justification for positing a richly
endowed language faculty, or Universal Grammar, that imposes elaborate constraints on the
set of possible natural languages. The language faculty is presented as a biologically
determined cognitive device which drives language acquisition on the basis of exposure to
linguistic data that is, in itself, insufficient to support grammar induction through domain
general learning procedures. This variety of linguistic nativism has played a defining role
in linguistic theory and cognitive science over the past five decades.
In this seminar we re-visit leading versions of the APS and subject them to critical
evaluation in light of recent work in computational linguistics, computational learning theory,
psycholinguistics, and theoretical linguistics. We consider what these arguments achieve, and
we explore possible alternatives to the claims that they make concerning language acquisition.
The result is a far reaching revision of long dominant views concerning the nature of the
grammar induction process and the object of knowledge acquired through this process.
The seminar is based on a course that Alex
Clark (Computer Science, Royal Holloway,
and I co-taught at the LSA Linguistics Summer Institute in Stanford in July 2007. This course,
in turn, developed out of advanced graduate seminars and research that Alex and I have been doing
jointly and individually over the past several years. We are in the process of writing
a monograph on the issues addressed in the seminar, and the feedback that we receive from
participants will be helpful to us in formulating and revising some of the leading ideas of
the book.
Day: Tuesday
The seminar will meet weekly from
January 8 until
(reading week) and March 4 (RAE Linguistic Panel meeting)
Location: Seminar Room, Department
of Philosophy, King's College
Room 605,
The seminar will approach the issue of grammar induction and the cognitive foundations of
natural language from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is intended for MPhil and Ph.D
research students, and interested faculty in philosophy, linguistics, computer science,
psychology, and cognitive science. Everyone is welcome.
1. Laurence, S. and Margolis, E. "The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument", British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science, 2001, 52, 217-276, June.
2. Chomsky, N. (1981), Chapter 1, Lectures
on Government and Binding, Foris,
pp. 1-16.
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus
2. January 15: A Debate about the Evidence
1. Pullum, G. and B. Scholz (2002), "Empirical Assemssment of Stimulus Poverty Arguments",
The Linguistic Review 19, pp. 9-50.
2. Legate, J. and C. Yang (2002), "Empirical Re-Assessment of Stimulus Poverty Arguments",
The Linguistic Review 19, pp. 151-162.
A Debate about the Evidence Part 1
A Debate about the Evidence Part 2
3. January 22: Negative Evidence I:
1. Chouinard, M. and E. Clark (2003), "Adult Reformulations of Child Errors as Negative
Evidence", Journal of Child Language 30, pp. 637-669.
2. Marcus, G. (1993), "Negative Evidence in Language Acquisition", Cognition 46, pp.43-85.
4. January 29: Negative Evidence II
Guest Talk
Testing Assumptions about the Input: Empirical Evidence about Negative Evidence
Matthew Saxton
Department of Psychology and Human Development
1. Saxton, Matthew (1997), "The Contrast Theory of Negative Input", Journal of Child Language
24, pp. 139-161.
2. Saxton, M., C. Houston-Rice, and
Requests as Corrective Input for Grammatical Errors", Applied Psycholinguistics 26,
pp. 393-414.
5. February 5: Grammar Induction through Machine Learning
1. Clark, A. and R. Eyraud (2006), "Learning Auxiliary Fronting with Grammatical Inference",
CONLL X (http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/papers/conll2006clarkFinal.pdf).
2. Klein, D. and C. Manning (2004), "Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models
of Dependency and Constitutency", Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics,
3. Bod, R. (2006), "An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Learning", Proceedings of the
ACL-COLING 2006, pp. 865-872.
6. February 12: Reading Week
7. February 19: Computational Learning Theory I
1. Gold, E.M. (1967), "Language Identification in the Limit", Information and Control 10,
pp. 447-474.
2. Lappin, S. and S. Shieber (2007), "Machine Learning Theory and Practise as a Source of
Insight into Universal Grammar", Journal of Linguistics 43, pp. 293-427
3. Peirera, F. (2000), "Formal Grammar and Information Theory: Together Again?",
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, Royal Society,
Computational Learning Theory 1
8. February 26: Computational Learning Theory II
Guest Talk
Formalising Learnability for First Language Acquisition
Alex Clark
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway College, University of London
AAAI Spring
Symposium on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Learning,
2. Clark, A. and Franck Thollard (2004), "Partially Distribution-Free Learning of Regular
Languages from Positive Samples", Proceedings of COLING 2004, pp. 85-91
3. Nowak, M, N. L. Komarova, and P. Niyogi (2002), "Computational and Evolutionary Aspects of
Language", Nature 411, pp. 611-617.
Computational Learning Theory II
9. March 4: No seminar (RAE Linguistics Panel Meeting)
10. March 11: Parameters in Strong and Weak Bias Language Models
1. Lappin, S. and S. Shieber (2007), "Machine Learning Theory and Practise as a Source of
Insight into Universal Grammar", Journal of Linguistics 43, pp. 293-427
2. Newmeyer, F.
(2005), Possible and Probable Languages,
Parameters in UG and in Language Models
11. March 18: Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition
1. Weiss, D. and
a Comparative Approach", Infancy 2, pp. 241-257.
2. Thompson, S. and
Probability", Language Learning and Development 3, pp. 1-42.
Wonnacott, E.,
Structure: Distributional Learning in a Miniature Language", Cognitive Psychology.
Special issue of the Linguistic Review (2002), volume 19, pp 1-223.
Abney, S. (1996), "Statistical Methods and Linguistics" in The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic
and Statistical Approaches to Language, edited by Judith Klavans, Philip Resnik, pp.1-26.
Baker, M. (2001), The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar, Basic Books,
Bresnan, J., A. Cueni, T. Nikitina, and H Baayen. (2005), "Predicting the Dative Alternation",
to appear in Royal Netherlands Academy of Science Workshop on Foundations of Interpretation
Charniak, E. (1997), "Statistical Parsing with Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics",
Proceedinsg of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 598-603.
N. (1957), Syntactic Structures, Mouton,
N. (1986), Knowledge of Language,
N. (1995), The Minimalist Program, MIT
Chomsky, N. (2005), "Three Factors in Language Design", Linguistic Inquiry 36, pp. 1-21.
Clark, A. (2003), Combining Distributional and Morphological Information for Part of Speech
Induction", Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Computational
Linguistics, pp.59-66.
Clark, A. (2004), "Grammatical Inference and First Language Acquisition", Workshop on
Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition,
Cowie (1999), What's Within? Nativism
Diessel, H. and M. Tomasello (2005), "A New Look at the Acquisition of Relative Clauses", Language 81,
pp. 882-906.
Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, and S. Lappin (2007), "Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue:
A Machine Learning Approach", Computational Linguistics 33(3), pp. 397-427.
Gibson, E. and K. Wexler (1994), "Triggers", Linguistic Inquiry 25, pp. 407-454.
Goldsmith, J. (2001), "Unsupervised Learning of the Morphology of a natural Language", Computational
Linguistics 27, pp. 153-198.
Z. (1951), Structural Linguistics,
Jurafsky, D. and J. Martin (2000), Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle
River, NJ.
Klein, D. and C. Manning (2002), "A Generative Constituent-Contex Model for Improved Grammar
Induction", Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, pp. 128-135.
Lappin, S. (2005), "Machine Learning and the Cognitive Basis of Natural Language", Proceedings of
Computational Linguistics in the
Netherlands 2004,
Lasnik, H. and J. Uriagareka (2002), "On the Poverty of the Challenge", The Linguistic Review 19,
pp. 147-150.
MacWhinney, B, (2004), "Multiple Process Solution to the Logical Problem of Language Acquisiton",
Journal of Child Language 31, pp. 883-914.
MacWhinney, B. (2005), "Item-Based Constructions and the Logical Problem", Proceedings of the Second
Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition, Association of Computational
Linguistics, pp. 53-68.
Manning, C. and H. Schuetze (1999), Foundations of Statistical Language Processing, MIT Press,
Newmeyer, F. (2004), "Against a Parameter-Setting Approach to Typogical Variation", Linguistic Variation
Yearbook 4, pp. 182-234.
P. (2006), The Computational Nature of
Language Learning and Evolution, MIT Press,
Perfors, A., J. Tenenbaum, and T. Regier (2006), "Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach",
Proceedings of Cognitive Science 2006.
Pinker, Steven, 1979 "Formal Models of Language Learning", Cognition 7, 217-282.
J., R. Aslin, and
274, pp. 1926-1928.
Scholz, B. and G. Pullum (2006), "Irrational Nativist Exuberance" in Robert Stainton (ed.), Debates
in Cognitive
Science, Blackwell,
Tomasello, M. (2003), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition,
Wexler, Ken (1991), "On the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus", in The Chomskyan Turn,
ed. Kasher, Asa, Blackwell,
C. (2002), Knowledge
and Learning in Natural Language,
Yang, C. (2004), "Universal Grammar, Statistics, or Both?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10,
pp. 451-456.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The University of Alabama has named Richard Swatloski the school's new director of the Office for Technology Transfer.
The OTT assists innovators with bringing to market technologies created at UA, such as through helping inventors navigate the patent process, find funding or license technology to off-campus entities. It also collaborates with the university's Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneur Center to help start-up companies incubating there.
Swatloski's appointment will begin June 1. He's worked at the OTT since it was established in 2006 and has been interim director since September 2011, when former director Bill Gathings died. From 2006 until taking his current position, Swatloski worked as a licensing associate in the OTT, and before that worked as a staff scientist at the university's Center for Green Manufacturing.
"Tech Transfer has become an increasingly important aspect of what it means to be a University of Alabama researcher and innovator," UA Vice President for Research Joe Benson said in a prepared statement. "Rick brings both scientific expertise and an entrepreneurial spirit to this position, and I look forward to seeing him and our campus innovators move forward these efforts in ways most beneficial to the public we serve."
Nearly 190 invention disclosures were submitted to the OTT from fiscal 2007 to 2011, according to a statement announcing Swatloski's new position. Those disclosures resulted in 68 patents, including 13 in the U.S. The university now has 13 active licensing agreements with external entities, according to the OTT.


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Though Eisenbraun and his daughter flew to Michigan, he said some members of their team from Rapid City, S.D., chose to make the 20-hour drive to the U.S. Youth Soccer Association Region II championship tournament, which started Saturday.
"This is the top competition that you'll ever get," he said.
The team Eisenbraun's daughter plays for, Rushmore Soccer Club, is one of 216 teams that qualified for the Midwest regional championship, an event that is expected to draw an estimated 4,700 players and 3,500 other visitors into the region, according to officials.
Visitors had positive things to say about the soccer association complex, 3575 McCarty, which houses 22 fields in a single location.
Carol McKee, from Sioux Falls, S.D., said she enjoys the convenience of having everything in one complex, unlike other host sites that need multiple locations to fill the required number of fields. The single location is beneficial for allowing college coaches and scouts to see a large number of players in a short time, she explained.
Having been to several regional championship games in the past, McKee said the grounds were "beautiful" and the event was well organized.
"It's nice to have everything in one place so coaches can see everything throughout the day," she said. "It's been a great tournament overall."
This is the first time the tournament has been held in Michigan since 1986 when Kalamazoo hosted it, said Bob Hart, chairman of the US Youth Soccer Region II Championships. Since then, the tournament has been expanded to include more age groups.
Hart makes the decisions as to where the tournaments will be held each year. Soccer associations from throughout the Midwest make bids to host the tournament, present them to the regional board of presidents and Hart makes the decisions roughly three years in advance.
In 2009, a group of organizers from Saginaw Township, the soccer association and the Great Lakes Bay Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau presented an offer to host this year's tournament and was successful.
The announcement started a three-year organizing process that drew upon the efforts of the township, the soccer association, the visitors bureau and more than 400 volunteers, said Bob Sonntag, vice president of the Saginaw Township Soccer Association.
Sonntag said one of the ultimate goals is to host the event again in the future.
"I don't know if I can talk for our team as to what the No. 1 goal is, but that should be one," he said. "We want to promote the community, 1-A, but getting it back (is) 1-B."
Hart said he could not guarantee whether Saginaw Township will be chosen to host the tournament in 2015 — the next available year — but he said this year's tournament has demonstrated some of the characteristics he looks for when making his decision: Quality of venue, organization and community support.
"Once an area has proven itself that they can do a good job then they certainly have a leg up on getting it to come back," Hart said.
Sioux Falls and Indianapolis are the only other venues Hart recalls having similar sized complexes. Officials will have to notify Hart by mid-August if they plan to submit a bid for 2015.
Wendy Scott, sports sales manager for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, said she would like to see this event and other similar sporting events come back to the Saginaw area in the near future.
Scott said the bureau already is gearing up to make a bid for the national tournament sometime in the near future. She said the complex already has garnered attention from organizations such as the National Office of Lacrosse, which will be examining the complex as a potential site for its national tournament.
"We want to build a reputation in the Great Lakes Bay area as being the best to house sporting events and meeting and conventions," she said. "We have everything."
Greg Barks, of St. Louis, Mo., said the Saginaw Township Soccer Association Complex is a "top notch facility."
Barks has traveled to tournaments throughout the Midwest and he said this year's tournament is one of the best he has come across.
"It's very well organized and the facilities are in fabulous shape," he said. "The competition has been great and I'm just really enjoying it."


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Anthony Gerardi, on the other hand, knows only to take food Mommy gives him. The 2-year-old from Richmond Valley will sweetly pronounce the complicated name of the disorder that affects him and Juliana: Eosinophilic esophagitis (Ee-uh-sin-uh-fil-ik Uh-sof-uh-JI-tis).
The condition, known as EoE or EE, is characterized by elevated eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) in the esophagus.
When persons with the disorder eat something causing an allergic reaction, it can injure their esophagus. Symptoms include vomiting, difficulty swallowing, reflux that doesn't respond to therapy, poor appetite and growth and abdominal or chest pain, according to the American Partnership For Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED).
The kids' parents work hard to give them the typical tastes of childhood. Juliana currently can only eat 10 foods, and Anthony, 12, so going out to a restaurant and food shopping are daunting tasks.
"My goal is just to have enough foods for him to be like every other child, or for me to make it so he doesn't feel left out," said Nicole Gerardi, who has learned to make goodies like ice-cream and cupcakes her son can eat.
An estimated one to five in every 10,000 children have EoE and the numbers are increasing as it becomes more prevalent and better recognized, said Dr. Glenn T. Furuta, a member of APFED's medical advisory board. The disorder can begin at any age and is more common in boys.
EoE can become severe, with a small number of children unable to eat any foods, and instead living on a nutrient-rich formula or dependent on a feeding tube.
Like Juliana and Anthony, most children with EoE can eat some foods, Dr. Furuta said. Research suggests eliminating the six most common food allergens — peanuts, soy, wheat, egg, milk and fish — may eliminate symptoms.
"The problem is that the diet can be difficult to manage," said the director of the Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program at The Children's Hospital, Colo.
Nicole and Anthony Gerardi and Tanya and Michael D'Esposito know first-hand. The parents worry about their children's future — What will they do at birthday parties? How about sleepovers? Will they ever need a feeding tube? — and work tirelessly to make sure their kids can manage eating a few foods in a society that revolves around the next meal.
The families came together earlier this year after the D'Espositos learned of a fundraiser for APFED headed by the Gerardis. The two moms talked on the phone beforehand and bonded over their similar experiences.
They met in person on March 4, during the fundraiser at the Historic Old Bermuda Inn in Rossville that raised around $45,000 for APFED. Together, they are planning next year's event scheduled for March 9.
"It was an instant connection," Mrs. Gerardi said. "She knows what I go through."
Spending time together is easy for the tots, who can both eat several of the same foods, including pears, apples, bananas, chicken and potato. Both also take EleCare, a formula that helps provide nutrients needed for growth.
Unlike Juliana, however, Anthony also has environmental and pet allergies and must take medications like Allegra, Xyzal and Pulmicort as well as use a nebulizer each day.
Their journeys to diagnosis were also different. Juliana vomited since birth, sometimes 30 times per day. She was diagnosed with acid reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and her parents switched formulas in hopes she would keep food down.
But the vomiting became so bad that at 7 months, Juliana began choking and stopped breathing. She was rushed to the hospital, where an endoscopy was performed and she was diagnosed with EoE.
Anthony didn't show clear signs of EoE until around 18 months when he vomited for 13 days straight. Doctors told the Gerardis he had acid reflux or a gastrointestinal virus, but it wouldn't subside. His parents took him to the hospital, where an endoscopy found elevated white blood cells in his esophagus.
Although it's not known what triggers EoE, research has identified genes that can cause the disease, said Dr. Furuta. Family members may have symptoms and not know it.
"It's often misdiagnosed as reflux disease," he explained. "People may ignore it, say it's something in their head. There are many ways that it can be confused with other things."
Dr. Simon Rabinowitz, a Castleton Corners pediatric gastroenterologist who treats both Anthony and Juliana, has seen multiple cases on the Island and expects to see more as the disease becomes more well-known and researched.
To identify which foods children can tolerate, allergy tests are performed, he explained. Anthony and Juliana go to an allergist for patch testing — in which the potential allergen is placed on a pad attached to the skin to watch for a reaction.
A common treatment is steroids, Dr. Rabinowitz said, which help control the inflammation in the esophagus. The other is an elimination diet, which means removing foods that are deemed unsafe.
"It takes more work and effort of family and doctors to determine the appropriate food restrictions, along with schools, teachers, baby-sitters and friends' moms to make sure they stay away," said Dr. Rabinowitz, who is affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton.
"It's easy to give them a steroid," he said. "However, there's the potential for side effects."
The Gerardis and D'Espositos are sticking to the elimination diet and with the hope that their children can eat enough foods that the disorder doesn't become too limiting. They are also starting a support group this summer for parents of children with EoE with the help of Dr. Rabinowitz and are planning other awareness and fund-raising events.
The parents continue to worry about how their children's social lives will be affected in the future. But Juliana and Anthony are learning early on that life doesn't have to revolve around food and with loving family and friends, you never have to feel left out.
"We say they look normal, act normal and play normal," Mrs. Gerardi said. "They just can't eat normal."
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Animal Species:Collett's Snake, Pseudechis colletti
One of the most spectacularly-coloured snakes in Australia, the Collett's Snake is a shy and rarely seen inhabitant of Queensland's black soil plains.
Standard Common Name
Collett's Snake
Alternative Name/s
Downs Tiger Snake (local name) nb. despite this common name this snake is not closely related to the tiger snakes (Notechis).
Collett's Snake is a strongly built snake with a robust body and a broad blunt head barely distinct from its body. It has an irregular banded pattern of reddish to salmon-pink patches on a darker brown or black background. The top of the head is uniformly dark although the snout may be slightly paler. The iris is dark brown with a reddish-brown rim around the pupil. Ventral scales are yellow-orange to cream.
Midbody scales 19 rows, ventral scales 215-235, anal scale divided, subcaudals single anteriorly, divided posteriorly.
Size range
The largest measured specimen was a male with a snout-vent length of 1775mm, although the average total length is around 1.5m. Adult males are significantly larger in mean snout-vent length than females.
Similar Species
May resemble a reddish-brown form of Blue-bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis guttatus), however the known distributions of these two species do not generally overlap.
Drier areas of central inland Queensland.
Distribution by bioregion
Terrestrial Bioregions: Mitchell Grass Downs - QLD
Distribution by collection data
Biomaps map of Collett's Snake specimens in the Australian Museum collection.
Collett's Snake inhabits the warm temperate to sub-tropical blacksoil plains that are seasonally inundated by monsoonal rains. They shelter in deep soil cracks, gilgais (sinkholes), and under fallen timber.
Habitat type
Terrestrial Habitat: subtropical, temperate
Vegetation Habitat: grassland, low open shrubland, low open woodland
Feeding and Diet
In the wild Collett's Snake will feed on mammals, lizards, snakes, and frogs.
Feeding Habit
Other behaviours and adaptations
Secretive and rarely seen. Diurnal, may also be active on warm evenings.
Life history modes
crepuscular, diurnal, terrestrial
Mating and reproduction
Most of what is known about the breeding biology of Collett's Snakes comes from observations of captive animals. Male combat has been reported in captivity, but no specific details are available. The peak season for courtship and mating appears to be between August and October. An observation of courtship involved the male following a newly introduced female, crawling over her back and making rippling and jerking motions while hooking his tail under hers for intromission. Copulation may last up to 6 hours.
Approximately 56 days after mating the female will lay 7 to 14 eggs (October to December), which hatch up to 91 days later (depending on the incubation temperature). The hatchling makes a series of longitudinal slits in the shell and may stay in the egg for up to 12 hours before emerging. Pseudechis colletti hatchlings are unusually large compared to other Pseudechis hatchlings.
Conservation Status
Listed as Rare (Queensland).
Danger to humans and first aid
Collett's Snake is relatively placid, but will defend itself if provoked. Firstly it inflates and raises its forebody in a low curve while giving out loud short hisses to deter the offender. This display is repeated until the snake tires and backs away; however if pressed further the snake will strike out and attempt to bite. The venom is considered to be highly toxic, and anyone suspected of being bitten by a Collett's Snake should seek immediate medical assistance.
- If bitten call emergency services: Mobile phone: 112 Landline: 000
- Apply pressure-immobilisation bandage over the injury and along the limb or affected area to prevent the venom from spreading throughout the body:
- Wind the bandage around the bitten arm or leg, starting from the bite.
- The bandage should not be so tight that it restricts blood flow.
- Wrap the entire limb, then apply a splint to prevent movement.
- Keep the victim as still as possible.
- Do not remove the bandage.
Seek medical attention as soon as possible.
First aid guidelines were correct at time of publication however these guidelines change over time. For up to date first aid information consult medical professionals such as St John's Ambulance.
- Species:
- colletti
- Genus:
- Pseudechis
- Family:
- Elapidae
- Suborder:
- Serpentes
- Order:
- Squamata
- Class:
- Reptilia
- Phylum:
- Chordata
Cogger, H. (2000) "Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia", Reed New Holland
Greer, A.E. (2006) "Encyclopedia of Australian Reptiles : Elapidae", Australian Museum
Ehmann, H. (1992) "Encyclopedia of Australian Animals : Reptiles", Australian Museum, Angus & Robertson
Mirtshin, P. and Davis, R. (1991) "Dangerous Snakes of Australia", revised edition, Ure Smith Press
Wilson, S. and Swan, G. (2008) "A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia", Reed New Holland
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If you like high winds the Trinity-Conception-Placentia region had everything you needed on Feb. 16.
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This trailer was overturned on top of Columbus Drive in Carbonear just before the 'Welcome to Victoria' sign.
For most of the day, winds peaked between 100-150 kilometres an hour causing havoc for some in the region.
Houses shook, windows rattled and trees lost some branches as the wind pounded into the early morning hours.
A barn in Bay Roberts had its door blown off, while a couple of houses lost pieces of siding.
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The social-networking arena is red-hot. Rupert Murdoch looks like a potential genius for purchasing MySpace.com for just $580 million in July 2005 -- especially when you consider that Facebook, a much smaller site, turned down an offer for $750 million and is reportedly looking for $2 billion.
Ah, the college years .
Facebook.com is a popular website where college and high school students gather, exchange information, and generally hang out and have a good time. Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and some college friends started it up two years ago, and within a few weeks it consumed the Harvard campus. It's available only to college students who have an educational email address -- that is, an address ending in ".edu." By forcing this requirement on users, the site collects only highly valued users in the 18-22 age range, tapping into a key demographic for advertisers. It quickly grew to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet; Facebook ranked seventh, with 5.5 billion page views, in February 2006, ahead of Internet luminaries such as Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) .
For advertisers, the site has developed into a new outlet to reach young adults and teenagers, who spend up to an hour a day posting messages, blog entries, and photos, and adding new friends to their lists. Advertising comes from locally focused text ads (i.e., targeting one specific college), national banner ads, or sponsored advertising. Currently, the website supports 2,100 colleges and 22,000 high schools.
The loyalty and dedication of Facebook's users is staggering. The site has about 85% penetration into the colleges it supports, and it boasts more than 6 million registered users. Of that sizable base, 60% log in daily, 85% once a week, and 93% once a month.
The real value that Facebook offers to advertisers is the ability to see relationships and shared interests between users and their friends. Effectively, a company could look at what your friends like, then recommend those same products to you, knowing that you might be predisposed to purchase them. That's worth a considerable amount to advertisers.
So, what VC firm hit the latest grand slam?
The company raised about $12.2 million from Accel Partners in May 2005, with a rumored valuation at the time of about $100 million. In addition, in April 2006, the company completed another round of funding with Greylock Ventures at a rumored valuation of $525 million.
And now it's trying to sell for $2 billion!?
Yep. So whom do we blame for this near insanity? Try Rupert Murdoch and a little site called MySpace.com. A casual visitor checking out MySpace.com might wonder why Murdoch, of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS ) fame, sank $580 million of shareholders' money into such an unusual site, a vast collection of blogs from teenagers and twentysomethings looking to hang out. Here's why: The social-networking site is hugely popular, with about 23.5 billion page views in February 2006, second only to Yahoo's 30 billion, according to comScore data. It also has about 37 million unique users. Despite the incredible popularity of the site, though, it is estimated to have brought in only about $30 million to $40 million in revenue in 2005, and it's expected to double that amount in 2006 to the range of $80 million to $100 million.
Murdoch effectively paid a price-to-sales ratio of 14.5 to 16.5 for MySpace.com -- hefty, to be sure. But because Facebook is a much smaller site, and if page views and registered users are in any way indicative, we might expect its revenue to fall in the $5 million-to-$10 million range. That means a buyout at a price of $2 billion would place the company at an eye-popping price-to-sales of 200.
Now, to be fair, valuation in these rather nascent spaces is not necessarily based on straight sales. A hefty doze of buzz and continued high growth are often built into the acquisition price. After all, MySpace is now growing by approximately 250,000 users daily, up from just 100,000 users daily last summer. Since there is little actual financial data available, we cannot ascertain advertising profitability or margins, but one thing remains -- these prices are rich by my standards.
Who is going to be crazy enough to pay that price? (And, boy, do I have an idea to pitch to them!)
A lot of me-too players, led by Viacom (NYSE: VIA ) and Sumner Redstone, according to industry analysts. Unfortunately, Facebook, much like the Skype acquisition, is being valued as if it were already highly successful and its risks minimal, which is hardly the case. While old-media companies like New York Times (NYSE: NYT ) , Washington Post (NYSE: WPO ) , and the like have all made fairly expensive new-media acquisitions, a $2 billion deal has the potential to blow them all out of the water.
I think it'd be far easier, and probably a better return on investment, to spend the $2 billion on developing online social networking properties that would allow current offline media to transition users from traditional media to the Web, despite the premium associated with an established name and property. Frankly, if this deal goes through at this price, I'd say it should be a clear indication of the acquirer's desperation to get into the social-networking game.
The 2006 version of Woodstock?
It's clear that social-networking sites are here to stay in one form or another, and there is vast potential for marketers to be able to target very specific demographics. What's more, marketers have a Holy Grail of sorts on their hands -- they can use the data publicly available in a profile and from links to friends to target products on an almost one-to-one relationship. But more innovation needs to happen before advertisers can be encouraged to pay higher ad rates and be more confident in the new channel. For example, MySpace recently launched a new site for short films and video clips, building on the site's success as a launch platform for new and unsigned bands.
MySpace and Facebook do face risks as they go forward. User backlash and eventual mass exodus in response to becoming more "mainstream" is a genuine risk. To be sure, I'd wager that these companies need to sustain hearty growth if they're to maintain their current valuations. The sites need to improve communication patterns and tie themselves into the continual networking between peer groups. This is key to long-term value creation for the social-networking sites, and it must happen in order for their acquirers to obtain a respectable return on their investment.
After all, new competitors will surely enter the market, creating further pressure on ad rates. Maintaining and strengthening ties between users is crucial to retaining them and improving the value proposition to advertisers. It may seem a simple task, but when sites are adding 7.5 million new users in a month, as MySpace.com is, it becomes amazingly difficult. Buyer beware.
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Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, Snoqualmie Valley School District's school bus routes will be listed geographically with estimated bus arrival times for each area.
During the first couple of weeks of school, the bus stop times will become more precise. Students are advised to be at the stop five minutes before the listed time. Morning route estimated times are listed below.
The district's transportation department will be available by calling (425) 831-8020 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays to assist with bus route questions. School office staff will also be available to answer questions beginning Aug. 24 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each route is grouped by the school to which it transports students, including Opstad Elementary School, North Bend Elementary School, Snoqualmie Elementary School, Cascade View Elementary School and Fall City Elementary School.
Middle and high-school routes were published in last week's Valley Record. A correction to Route 21 is also included this week.
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Alpental 8:23
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464th Way and Southeast 174th 8:20
453rd Avenue Southeast 8:24
Southeast 162nd and Southeast Edgewick Road 8:32
Southeast 159th Street 8:34
Southeast 153rd Street and
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Southeast Middle Fork Road and
75th Avenue Southeast 8:20
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Britton to make first rehab start Saturday
Orioles pitcher Zach Britton threw five innings in extended spring training this afternoon, going five innings and allowing two runs on four hits with five strikeouts. Britton, who has been on the disabled list since the season started, said his stuff was the best it's been since he started throwing and the pair of runs came in the first inning when he had some early command issues. He threw around 80 pitches, including 10 in the bullpen to finish up and his fastball was in the 90-92 mph range.
The next step for Britton is to go out on a rehab assignment, which will likely be with Double-A Bowie, and he will make the first of what is expected to be two starts on Saturday. He would probably get up around 90 pitches in that outing and –given that all of the Orioles' affiliates are on the road after that — where Britton makes his second start is still pretty up in the air.
Britton, who received two rounds of platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy at the end of March, has been working in Sarasota, Fla. with Chris Correnti and Rick Peterson during his rehab and has praised the efforts of both additions to the organization.
"I feel strong," said Britton, who is on the DL with left shoulder impingement and hasn't been 100 percent since August. "We've been making some adjustments, just kind of smooth things out a little bit. [Peterson] thought there was some things I was doing last season in my delivery to compensate [for shoulder discomfort]; trying to get me back in the good mechanics I had at the beginning of last year.
My breaking ball is back, which I didn't have at the end of last season. My changeup has been there and the velocity is starting to creep back up."
Britton, who is aiming to be back the first week of June, said his progression went quicker than he thought and he will approach his two rehab starts like the final two starts of Spring Training in trying to win a rotation spot.
"I got to earn my way back on the team that's for sure," said Britton, who has watched every Orioles' game he can while in Florida. "It's a first place team and I got to put myself in a spot to win a spot, they aren't just going to throw anyone out there. I got to show I'm ready to perform in the big leagues.
So, I'm pretty excited about these next two starts and getting a chance to do that."
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What type of competition is there in Extended Spring Training? Lineups a mix-mash of very young guys and folks rehabbing?
Britt, thanks for the update on Britton. I'm sure the O's will find a spot for him if only as a long reliever till a spot opens up.
I am concerned about 3rd base and if Tejada really can do the job. Do you know what kind of physical condition he is in and what the O's are thinking in reference to full time or part time player. I am a little concerned because the last I saw of him he looked heavy and slow. He also didn't want to play 3rd. What can you tell us.
Very good news. Hope he can return to the Big Club soon!


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The No. 3-ranked Rams earned a 72-54 victory over B.C. Rain in today's Class 5A South girls regional title game, earning the region title and a trip to next week's state semifinals in Birmingham.
They will be joined in Birmingham by the Faith boys, who got 24 points from tournament MVP Dylan Brown and beat Eufaula 60-48.
That was followed by day's shocker as the Blount boys rallied in the final minute to stun No. 4 McGill-Toolen 45-44 and join the girls in the state semifinals.
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I hope that you can help me as I don't know too much about wheel alignments. Today I replaced all 4 tyres (New Michelin MX2 205 65 15R) on the car, and I had a wheel alignment completed at Tyreplus.
The car was driving straight before the wheel alignment with the warn tires, now seems to pull a little to the left with the wheel alignment and the new tires. I have the specs of the before and after from the alignment readout and have attached to this message. Can someone knowledgeable let me know if they did a good or bad job?
I drive a VT2 Commodore Berlina Sedan, made in 2000 V6 3.8L with LPG tank in the boot.
The final results are fine. Some tyres are known to have "radial pull".
Just take it back to where you got it done, and let them know. They will swap the front wheels side to side. Then if it pulls to the right, it is in the tyres. If pulling left still, could be in the front end suspension.
They should look after any problems you have, seeing as you did buy 4x top of the range tyres and a W.A.
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+1, explain the problem, they'll take it for a test drive- maybe go with them and point out the problem as it occured for you. They should fix it, given it's what you asked them to do originally.
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most cars will slightly pull to the left, nearly every commy ive been in has, from like vl to vx
Yeah most cars should pull to the left, my understanding of this is just in case you faint or fall asleep at the wheel it will drift away from on coming traffic. I'm yet to own a car that doesn't do it.
i agree with very nice, there is enough split betwen the camber and the caster to stop the car pulling left, its in the tyres, get them to rotate the tyres on the front left to right and it should fix it. we find a lot of michelins have a radial pull in them.
Agreed, swap the front tyres left to right and it should fix your problem.
Cars should drive straight when set up correctly, but they will tend to follow the camber of the road when it gets bad enough to overcome the alignment settings to compensate for it. On a dead flat road, they should pull right. From factory they are set up neutrally, so most cars will pull left until an alignment is done to compensate for the camber of the road.
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I got 4 new tyres on mine the other day and the shop wouldn't do a wheel alignment coz my inner control arm bushes were rooted, he said he could of done one but it would of been a waste of time and money. Maybe go over ur suspension and look for worn bushes?
I'm not sure how true it is that all cars pull to the left automatically.....most of it is prolly due to the angle of the road.
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(April 13, 2012) Ireena Keeslar, 49, a certified professional midwife (CPM) announced today that she will no longer attend homebirths in Indiana.
In Indiana it is a felony for certified professional midwives, like Keeslar, to attend homebirths.
"We have defined the delivery of babies as the practice of medicine," said Representative Tim Brown, M.D., 56, an emergency room doctor who is chair of the Public Health Committee in the Indiana House of Representatives, and who currently opposes the bill to license certified professional midwives.
"That's the law," Brown said.
Like many doctors in Indiana, Brown believes CPMs are not qualified.
"I don't think they have the training and expertise that at this time renders them qualified that we should license them in the state of Indiana," Brown said.
"The delivery of a child in a hospital or at home is the practice of medicine and the lay midwives do not have the educational training required in the event of an emergency," agreed Mike Rinebold, director of government relations for the Indiana State Medical Association.
"Even in the most routine births, things can go wrong in a heartbeat," Rinebold said, "You have to have the education and equipment necessary to be prepared for an emergency."
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I don't usually comment on things I don't see, so I won't this time either. BUT, I'm sure every producer wants something that will get attention. Here in NC all tower people must be licensed and I think you'd be hard pressed to get gypsies onto a commercial site. I could be wrong, of course, but it's my understanding that using unlicensed crew will put big liabilities on the tower owner, as well as fines if the operation is discovered. I have no idea what would happen if a friend or gypsy fell off a ham tower. It's scary to contemplate. Just think of calling the friend's wife! I have encountered three crews lately. 1. Change top guys on an AM tower, 200', and mount frame and some cell ants. The crew arrived in a crewcab pickup that must have cost $40K, with a 20' trailer AND an big newish van full of gear. I'd bet none of them were $10/hr workers. 2. Tower light work at a little over 200'. Lone wolf, nice guy, ham, arrived in shiny Hummer. Nice to work with, did good job. Do you really think he gets $10?? 3. Guy work, erection of new 200' Rohn for AM. Family crew, in the field for years, do good work. No $10 people there! SO, maybe NC is a leader in this area? I have shopped for people to take down towers offered to me. NONE would do it for less than I could buy the same tower for on the used market. The lesson there is that standing towers, especially 25G, are worthless unless you and a friend can take them down! Does anyone on the list have personal experience with this stuff?? Wilson W4BOH _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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Cast, creators of TV's 'Walking Dead' shuffling to Riverside
Three stars and an executive producer of AMC's horror hit series "The Walking Dead" will be live and in person at the Riverside Theater on Feb. 16.
Norman Reedus, who plays the crossbow-wielding outcast Daryl, and Steven Yeun and Lauren Cohan, who portray the romantically involved Glenn and Maggie on the apocalyptic zombie series, will join Greg Nicotero, a co-executive producer, special-effects makeup artist and episode director, for a live panel discussion. They also will answer fan questions, provide an inside look behind the scenes of the show and screen never-before-seen footage. »Read Full Article(3)
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Maybe NASCAR should scrap the points system all together and allow a computer to pick the season champion, like what happens in college football. NASCAR has tried every other silly scheme to juice up the way it crowns a Sprint Cup champion, with its Chase playoff system and all the changes it has made to it.
The Associated Press reports that NASCAR will introduce a new formula in which points are distributed each race, and NASCAR president Mike Helton has confirmed that the sanctioning body is pursuing a simpler formula than the current one in place since 1975.
While an official announcement could come Wednesday, the plan being floated calls for the race winner to collect 43 points. One point would be subtracted for each place behind the winner, with the last-place driver earning one. The Chase would remain intact, and Helton added bonus points will be offered in the models they are exploring.
Why has NASCAR made everything so difficult in recent years?
They say they want to make the points distribution system easier to understand. Well, we have managed to survive just fine with the current system for the past 35 seasons, and considering how the TV people update the point standings every five minutes during the weekly broadcasts, it's really not a problem.
Let's wait and see what the new system is before we break it down, but this appears to be another attempt by NASCAR chairman Brian France to win back viewers. Oh, to be a fly on the NASCAR office wall.
"You know why we are losing viewers?" France might ask Helton. "No one can figure out the points. Let's dummy it down."
The reason NASCAR is losing viewers is because you keep coming up with crazy ideas like the Chase, the Car of Tomorrow, the Lucky Dog Rule, along with the new hair-brained idea to be introduced this season -- Cup regulars can't race for the Nationwide championship.
I don't mind change. I never liked the NASCAR points system because the emphasis always has been on consistency more than winning. The system was whacked way back in 1985 when Bill Elliott won 11 races and still finished second to Darrell Waltrip, who won three times.
If NASCAR wants to introduce this new 43-point system with some bonus points to go with it, I will still watch. But it won't bring back viewers. We still have the Chase, and that's the biggest challenge.
NASCAR is so concerned about improving the final 10 races and creating a thrilling finish that it has done so at the expense of the regular season.
That's where the Chase has caused the most harm. The season's first 26 races don't have the significance they once had when it comes to the championship, so there's no need to be glued to the television every weekend.
Let's say Jeff Gordon blows an engine at Pocono in June and drops from third to sixth in points. That would be a devastating hit without the Chase. But with it, you know Gordon is going to be just fine come September.
NASCAR has tried so hard to become the NFL but it has instead turned into the NBA, where the only time anything counts is the playoffs. Doesn't every team make the NBA playoffs?
We all know who is going to make the Chase, too. Every year you get a surprise such as Brian Vickers or Kasey Kahne, but normally it is filled with the usual suspects.
So, what should NASCAR do?
No way is NASCAR going to dump the Chase, so let's leave that alone and continue to run under the same old points system.
But I would make one addition. If a driver wins one of the first 26 races, he automatically qualifies for the Chase. That would make each race worth watching, especially if your driver is outside the top 12. They all still have a shot.
What I wish NASCAR would do most, though, is decide on a system and stick with it.


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and what is primal but a marketing concept itself?
Argh! We are being co-opted! Somebody do something!
see: Primal Strips - Meatless Vegan Jerky - Primal Spirit Foods - Home of the Primal People for all of your soy and canola oil based non-foods made to taste like meat.
An abomination that they use Primal concepts to market an industrial product with purely industril ingredients.
and what is primal but a marketing concept itself?
Mark has the copyright on the term "Primal Blueprint" but he does not own the word "primal".
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I got really excited when I saw them on the shelf at my local organic grocery store a few months ago. Then I picked them up and realized there was no meat in that "jerky". However, primal is just a word, not a copyrighted concept, and if a vegan company chooses to use it, well, that's up to them. It's up to us to make sure we look at foods to see if they actually are what we think they are, including some things that get marketed as paleo foods specifically to this community. Just because something's labelled as paleo/primal, that doesn't mean it's something you should unquestioningly eat.
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It would be a trademark issue, but since mark is in the diet business and they are in the food business it might not be applicable though with the supplements business it would be something to look at. They have been established since 2001 so it might be more likely it could go the other way. All in all the Primal Blueprint with grok vs their name and label could be construed to be much different.
I suppose it comes down to money, apple corp owners of apple records sued apple computers when they first started for trademark infringement and they were in completely separate industries. The logos were closer though: http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/unc...vs_apple_1.jpg
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you know what's freakin' organic, you drunken mother,s'? it's this crazy stuff, man, just take it easy.
plant some veggies and chill back, buy a little meat;
what the...?
i grew up where meat was meat, where bulls or cows, or whatever gender the animal was, was, slaughtered before me at age 5, do you understand? it is a unique connection with a dead bovine-- you see the death and you eat the testicle; do you understand??
just relax, all right?


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United Way of Northern New Jersey is seeking the help of volunteers and donations of new school supplies for its fourth annual United Way Stuff the Bus drive, allowing children to start the school year with the basic tools needed for success in school.
The drive will benefit more than 2,200 children who qualify for the federal free-and-reduced lunch program at 23 Warren County schools.
United Way is again making it easier to make donations by partnering with YouGiveGoods.com, which allows donors to make an online purchase of supplies that will be delivered automatically to United Way. Donors can choose to help children within their community as well as those in other areas served by United Way.
"Many students start off behind their peers from the first day of school because they show up without the notebooks and pencils needed in order to do school work," said Sarah Brelvi, chief professional officer of United Way of Northern New Jersey. "Together, we can give students the basics to start off the school year on the right track."
Based on the needs expressed by local educators, United Way is collecting the following school supplies: backpacks, lunch boxes, binders, 3-ring notebooks, book covers, filler paper, pocket folders, composition and spiral notebooks, index cards, calculators, pencils, pencil cases, pencil sharpeners, erasers, pens, highlighters, crayons, markers, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, tape, rulers, and scissors. In addition, school nurses have asked for personal care items such as toothbrushes, deodorant, band aids, soap, and kindergarten and first grade-aged children's underwear and socks. Gift cards that can be used to purchase items such as shoes and clothing are also appreciated
Donations will be accepted at Taylor Street School, 16-24 Taylor St., Washington, on Aug. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In addition, United Way of Northern New Jersey, 699 Washington St., Suite 102, Hackettstown, is accepting donations from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Aug. 21.
This year, on average, families with children in K-12 in the United States are expected to spend $97 on school supplies such as backpacks, notebooks and pencils, according to the National Retail Federation. That doesn't include electronics, clothing and accessories.
Meanwhile, United Way research shows that more than 30 percent of Warren County families can not afford the basics of housing and food, let alone school supplies. United Way Stuff the Bus seeks to lessen the strain on already strapped household budgets.
Last year, with the help of nearly 40 volunteers, a total of 17,200 school supplies, valued at nearly $36,400, were distributed to more than 2,200 Warren County children.
For more information about making donations, holding a United Way Stuff the Bus drive or to volunteer with sorting supplies, visit UnitedWayNNJ.org/StuffTheBus or email email@example.com or call 908.835.3550, ext. 303.
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I've seen this method used a lot around the web and I've recently been working on a website where I wanted to incorporate it. After finding zero results in about a minute of research, I thought this would be a neat topic to write a post about.
So my main concept here is to have a sidebar that would stick to the top of the page once the window was about to pass it by while scrolling. This could be used for dozens of reasons. Perhaps you want to ensure your advertisements are being shown the maximum amount of time possible; or maybe you want to offer your visitors an area of quick-links so they wouldn't have to scroll to the top of the page to navigate somewhere else. The site I'm working on is e commerce, so it will be an area to up-sell other products relative to the page the user is viewing.
In the code below, I have two DIVs floating that represent the main content area and the sidebar. Sidebars are usually shorter than the main content area, so this is where my sticky DIV will be. I give it an id of "sticker" (original, huh?). With some jQuery, I'm able to fire off a function every time I scroll on the page. This function calculates my current position, or viewport, or distance from the top. It also calculates how far from the top my "sticker" div is. Then, there's an IF statement that's fired off…
IF my current position is greater or equal to the "sticker" position, give the sticker div a class of "stick". This changes the CSS of the div to have a FIXED position as long as the viewport is lower than the position of the sticker.
HTML – Nothing crazy going on here – a mere 2-column setup

...start scrolling to watch me stick

CSS – Again, nothing super high-tech – just not the styles applied to div#sticker and the class ".stick"
div#wrapper { margin:0 auto; width:900px; background:#FFF; } div#mainContent { width:560px; padding:20px; float:left; } div#sideBar { width:230px; padding:20px; margin-left:30px; float:left; } .clear { clear:both; } div#sticker { padding:20px; margin:20px 0; background:#AAA; width:190px; } .stick { position:fixed; top:0px; }
jQuery – Calculates the position of the sticker div and makes its position fixed if the page has scrolled that far
$(document).ready(function() { var s = $("#sticker"); var pos = s.position(); $(window).scroll(function() { var windowpos = $(window).scrollTop(); s.html("Distance from top:" + pos.top + "
Scroll position: " + windowpos); if (windowpos >= pos.top) { s.addClass("stick"); } else { s.removeClass("stick"); } }); });
Conclusion – I used to think these sticker DIVs were annoying, but I'm coming across more and more ideas to implement them to help the visitor. I have also thrown a demo page together if you want to see it in action. Download zipped source code
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Event will be held in the Youth Services Area.Enhance your child's love of reading through the use of therapy dogs! Trained therapy dogs will be available on Mondays beginning September 23, 2013 from 6pm-8pm. Children can pick a book and read to the dog of their choice. These dogs provide a non-judgmental audience for children struggling to improve their reading skills.For more information call the library at 607-754-4243 or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/vestalpubliclibrary


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The St. Bernard Parish Council meeting at 1 p.m. tops today's serving of public gatherings in the area. The Council Chambers are at 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette.
In other places:
The New Orleans City Planning Commission is hosting 6:30 p.m. meetings to get neighborhood input on the city's new comprehensive zoning ordinance in Mid-City and Algiers. Mid-City residents can head to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 1222 N. Dorgenois St., while Algiers residents can head to the Behrman Center, 2529 Gen. Meyer Ave. Call 504.658.7033 or visit www.nolamasterplan.org for more information.
The Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the Red Cross kicks off its annual meeting at 8 a.m. It runs for two hours at chapter headquarters, 2840 Canal St. Call 504.620.3105 or visit arcno.org for more information.
In Metairie, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance holds a 7:30 p.m. gathering at Tulane-Lakeside Hospital cafeteria, 4700 South I-10 Service Road. Speaker Karen Fuqua plans to discuss employment issues and balancing talents with mental health. Visit dbsaneworleans.org or call 504.286.1916.
The governments of St. Charles Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish host routine meetings, meanwhile.
St. Charles' Library Board gathers at 6 p.m. inside Council Chambers, 15045 River Road in Hahnville.
The St. John Parish Council sets its agenda at 2:30 p.m., 1801 Airline Highway in LaPlace; the Tourist Commission gathers at 1 p.m., the St. John Parish Community Center, 2900 U.S. 51 in LaPlace; the Recreation, Health and Human Services Advisory Committee meets at 6 p.m., LACE The Reception Place at 516 E. Airline Highway in LaPlace; and the Community Development and Neighborhoods Advisory Committee meets at 2 p.m. inside Belle Terre Country Club, 111 Fairway Drive in LaPlace.


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BOSTON (AP) — When Chrystin Ondersma arrived at Harvard Law School, the Michigan native wasn't sure what she wanted to study until Elizabeth Warren took her under her wing and persuaded her to immerse herself in bankruptcy law.
"A lot of the issues she was talking about were very personal to me," said Ondersma, who graduated in 2007. "She convinced me that teaching bankruptcy was a way to make a difference."
Ondersma, an assistant law professor at Rutgers University, is part of a network of professors and researchers who have formed deep professional ties to Warren, a Harvard professor and Democratic running for U.S. Senate.
Now Warren is tapping into that network as she scrambles to raise campaign money for her bid to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
Warren, a Democrat, has received nearly $124,000 from teachers, researchers and others working at dozens of universities including Princeton, MIT, Yale, Columbia and Stanford, an Associated Press review of campaign finance records found.
That's nearly 9 percent of Warren's itemized donations reported to the Federal Election Commission. Warren has collected more than $3 million in total donations, about $1.4 million of which are itemized.
Some of the biggest donations came from Warren's colleagues at Harvard University, where she's taught law since 1995. She's collected nearly $29,000 from professors and others who listed Harvard as their employer.
In contrast Brown, a Republican, received less than $24,000 from university and college employees. That's less than 1 percent of Brown's more than $4 million in itemized receipts for the election cycle.
For Ondersma, there was little question she'd support Warren. So far, she's contributed $256.
Ondersma said Warren's encouragement struck a chord because her parents lost their home after taking out what Ondersma described as a "bait-and-switch" second mortgage to help cover her sister's medical bills.
Ondersma said her parents and other ordinary citizens are no match for the political and financial clout of banks.
"Bank money is incredibly powerful and has resulted in a political system that doesn't look out for the interests of ordinary people," she said.
Warren isn't the stereotypical academic ensconced in an ivory tower, said Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor who counts President Barack Obama among his former students.
"She's terrific at explaining how investment bankers and their allies rip the country off," he said.
Tribe, who donated the maximum $2,500, said Warren would be "a worthy successor to Ted Kennedy and a tremendous improvement over Scott Brown."
"She is not particularly theoretical as a professor; she is enormously practical," Tribe said. "She will be excellent in navigating through the shark-infested waters of Washington."
Warren's reliance on the financial backing of fellow academics may play into the hands of Republicans who have worked to portray her as a member of the out-of-touch liberal elite.
"In Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren — who said Tuesday she 'provided the intellectual foundation' for the Occupy Wall Street movement — the radical left has found one of their own," Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett wrote in a recent fundraising email.
Barnett was referring to an interview with The Daily Beast, in which Warren said her work over the years provided the intellectual groundwork for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.
"I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do," she said in the interview. "I support what they do."
Warren later sought to qualify the statement.
"What I meant to say was I've been protesting Wall Street for a long time now," Warren said following a campaign appearance Thursday. "The Occupy Wall Street movement is organic, it is independent, and that's how it should be."
Her campaign has tried to counter the image of the Harvard elite by pointing to Warren's modest upbringing in Oklahoma, where she taught elementary school and was a mother by age 22.
"It's pretty common that current and former colleagues would support a candidate they have worked with or known professionally," said Warren spokesman Kyle Sullivan. "Elizabeth appreciates their support."
Whether Warren can make the leap from the rarified world of Harvard's ivy-covered walls to the partisan halls of Congress is an open question.
She deserves credit for wading into political waters that haven't always been friendly for academics, said Katherine Porter, a professor at the University of California-Irvine School of Law and a former student of Warren.
"It's exciting and rewarding to see someone who has studied a problem deeply and thought about a problem deeply take those ideas out of the academy and into the real world," said Porter, who donated $250 to Warren.
Others point to the years she spent advocating for the creation of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
"She's just so blisteringly intelligent. Academics like me like the idea of people like that in Congress," said John Pottow, a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School who's written a bankruptcy paper with Warren and contributed $2,500 to her campaign.
"Her brand of scholarship is basically listening to people and learning stuff. She's not a philosopher. She's not mathematician. She goes and acquires information and synthesizes that," Pottow added. "That's what a legislator is supposed to do."


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ovember 2, 1998
BPW names Woman of the Year
Anne Alberg
was awarded the Helen Thayer Woman of the Year Award by the Woodinville Business and Professional Women's (BPW) organization at their October meeting.
BPW is a national organization that promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.
In recognition of National Business Women's week, the Woodinville local chooses a woman that exemplifies women helping women by mentoring to young professionals, actively promoting BPW and who has additional community recognitions and achievements.
The Woodinville Award is named after one of their members, Helen Thayer. Thayer is a world explorer and an author. For further information, call 425-483-3659.